Arlington ISD Board of Trustees Meeting 05/20/2021

001[Music] so [Music] fun [Music] um [Music] so [Music] foreign [Music] now [Music] i know i say [Applause] [Music] why don't we just break up this is [Music] oh is [Music] broken hearts how we stay together is to fall apart [Music] oh is fights like animals [Music] i can't [Music] bye oh is [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] that's right yes [Music] there um [Music] good afternoon ladies and gentlemen i would like to call to order this meeting of the arlington aisd board of trustees on may the 20th 2021 at 5 00 pm due to health and safety concerns related to the coven 19 coronavirus members of the public are encouraged to participate by watching the school board meeting online at www.aisd.net seating in the boardroom will be limited in order

002to follow the cdc guidelines for social distancing all persons in attendance will be required to wear a mask one or more trustee may participate in this meeting via electronic means consistent with the texas open meetings act and the governor's disaster proclamations related to covet 19 through proclamations executive orders and suspensions of texas law at least a quorum of the board will be participating in person by video conference or telephone conference in accordance with the provisions of section 551.125 or 551.127 of the texas government code that have been suspended by the order of the governor members of the public may access this meeting via aisd website at www.aisd.net so the first thing on our agenda is the swearing-in of our school board trustees and presiding over that swearing-in is honorable judge carrie walker judge walker please

003come to the podium all right i've been told i need to use this microphone if i can figure out how to use it yeah i guess i turned it on first all right the first order of business for this is i need to call up miss sir mcmurray do you solemnly swear do you solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the duties that i will faithfully execute the duties of the office of trustee of the office of trustee place one place one arlington independent school district arlington independent school district of the state of texas of the state of texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect protect and defend the constitution and defend the constitution and all of the united states of the

004united states and of this state so help me god and of this state so help me god congratulations now that you've signed that would you like to introduce or say anything to anyone out in the audience i would love to so i'm joined by so many questions the precious friends oh the mike sorry hello i'm joined by so many precious friends and colleagues and former students this afternoon and they surprised me by being here one of the best surprises ever i'm also here with my precious family tonight my father-in-law joe mcmurrow my mother-in-law karen mcmurrow and my sons danny danny wave to everyone danny mcmurray henry mcmurreau and my husband chris mcmurrow as you can see i am pretty outnumbered my boys are my why um i could not be here without them and i'm

005just so excited to give back to the district they gave so very much to me as a student and as an educator so thank you all for being here each night thank you dr cavazos president mays and the board for this opportunity i'm so very excited to join your team of eight thank you all right the next young lady i need is melody fowler ellen how are you doing it's great to see you all right you'd raise your right hand and i should have said repeat after me before but anyway if you repeat after me i'm melody fowler i'm melody fowler do you solemnly swear do you solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the duties i will faithfully execute the duties of the office of trustee the office of trustee place two place two

006arlington independent school district arlington independent school district of the state of texas of the state of texas and will to the best of my ability and will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect protest and defend the constitution and defend the constitution and laws of the united states and laws of the united states and of this day so help me god end of this state so help me god all right congratulations yeah i always try to lick my thumb through my mask and that doesn't work it's like at the grocery store with you yeah yeah thank you very much all right congratulations melody i think it may be off i'll just use my teacher voice no no no thank you there we go i want to thank everyone so very much it's such

007an honor to be re-elected and to be able to serve again i want to thank my friends that are here chandra and presley thank you for being here my son brennan his girlfriend lindsey my friend stacy and my husband larry thank you so much for being here and i truly could not have done it with all of your support i appreciate you so much i'm anxious for another three years we're ready to work so thank you for being here and keep supporting us we're working hard to do what's right for the teachers the parents and the students so we appreciate your support so very much thank you all right andy dr aaron raj all right aaron if you'd raise your right hand and repeat after me uh aaron reich aye aaron rice do you solemnly

008swear do you solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute the duties and i will faithfully execute the duties of the trustee of the trustee place three place three arlington independent school district arlington independent school district of the state of texas state of texas and will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect and defend the constitution and defend the constitution and the laws of the united states the laws of the united states and of this state and of this state so help me god help me god congratulations officer and the hallway is full of people they want to come in what's up with that this is america all right there you go dr thank you very much would you like to share some words please uh sure thank you president mays i am so

009honored uh to be serving another three-year term for everybody in this community i i do not have any family here to introduce they are all out of town during this maybe they're watching i i don't know i hope they are uh they'll probably tell me that they were uh but uh no without my family's support there's absolutely no way that i could do this and i just want to say thank you to the community thank you to everyone for for really having trust in me to continue to serve in this capacity we as a team are doing great things and we can't do it without the community support and uh i look very forward to continuing to serve it's an honor it's a privilege and it is a very heavy responsibility to govern this district

010to make sure that all of our children are prepared as best they can be to be amazing citizens when they graduate from arlington isd so thank you everybody appreciate it well congratulations thank you very much walker it's nice to see you again well thank you very much for uh having me and i just want to say i had two kids who went through the aisd and they've been very successful thank you all for very much for what y'all do appreciate it thank you so i would like to thank everyone for coming out today to watch the swearing-in of our newly elected trustee sarah makura and our re-elected trustees melody fowler and dr reich we have such a great opportunity in arlington to elect individuals that the citizens believe will represent them well in making decisions

011that impact the lives of our precious children the board of trustees on may 20th 2021 beginning at 5 11 pm will convene in a closed session pursuant to sections 551.071-551.084 of the texas government code in accordance with the texas open meetings act for the topic set forth on our agenda we will reconvene in open meeting at approximately 6 30 pm [Music] do [Music] my [Music] oh [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] now [Music] so [Music] i don't know why i say too much [Applause] [Music] why don't we just break [Music] oh is [Music] broken hearts how we stay together is to fall [Music] i get more [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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016with liberty and justice for all you may be seated and now if you would please join me for a moment of silence thank you very much so one of the items which preceded this meeting was the swearing-in of our trustees sarah mcmurrow melody fowler and dr aaron reich congratulations to the three of you on your election your re-election your election so now we move to the next items on our agenda organization board of trustees which is the election of board officers it is our policy each year at this meeting in which we seat trustees for new terms the election of board of officers be placed on the agenda and at this time the gavel is handed to the superintendent for the purpose of beginning our elections this is the only time this happens and is

017for the purpose of beginning our elections dr cavazos thank you miss mays and we'll start this process do we have a motion and a second for president thank you superintendent cavazos which is always weird to have you call on us for this um at this time it's my honor to nominate miss keisha mays to continue serving as president do we have a second second we have a motion by mr hogg a second by ms fowler named keisha mays the board president at this time please vote all those voting in the affirmative congratulations ms mays president mays here's your gavel thank you do we have a motion for vice president dr raj [Music] oh he came up to dr rush i apologize president mays i'd like to nominate mr hogg as vice president and miss fowler

018as secretary do i have a second for the nomination of vice president and secretary so we've got a motion by mr wilbanks a second by mrs mccoral i'm going to get this continued right any questions seeing none please vote all present vote in the affirmative congratulations mr hogg vice president congratulations mrs fowler as secretary dr cavazos anytime you have to add another reason to hand this over so the next item on our agenda is our program and our presentation our presentation is recognizing our outgoing student leadership advisory board this will be done by dr christie buell she and mr hogg have worked with our slab students this year would you like to come to the microphone and say something so good evening president mays members of the board and dr cavazos i've had the honor

019of working with this group of slav students during this school year in conjunction with trustee hogg and this is our student leadership advisory board tonight we will be recognizing these students for their hard work and their accomplishments on the advisory board this group of students is made up of the junior class presidents from each of the traditional six high schools in arlington and one from arlington collegiate high school this group is led by a student who served as a slab member during the 2019-20 school year and was elected to serve as this year's president by the outgoing slab members in the prior year the slab president is here today and she served this year it's izzy perez and she's from arlington high school so she's been on slab for two years the purpose of this

020group of student leaders is to represent aisd students opinions and provide the voice of students to the board of trustees slab members assist in building relationships between students the board of trustees campuses senior staff and the superintendent of schools they also are assigned a partner board member and they meet regularly with the board of trustees slab members have no official voting rights regarding the official board of trustee business since they are just in an advisory role it is my honor to recognize the following students that served on slab during the 2020-21 school year students if you could please stand when i call your name we have president from arlington high school izzy perez [Applause] arlington collegiate high school student william macfell [Applause] he's joined by his proud mom tonight and seguin high school student radonna

021fatell we also had some additional slab members that couldn't be present tonight that i'd like to recognize arlington high school student julia laswell bowie high school student yes sorry we'll do that bowie high school student tyler brown lamar high school student karina laura we have two from martin high school they're co-presidents we have brittany voe and carson mcguire [Applause] and our sam houston slab member is veronica orocha congratulations again we're very proud of you and we appreciate your student leadership here in arlington isd thank you [Applause] thank you very much dr buehl mr hogg would you like to say a few words and thank you once again for assisting dr buehl this year with our slab students thank you president mays and dr bill thank you and i know it's dr bewl's first year also

022taking over this group and izzy and to the groups that there and those at home um like many things this year it was more than challenging right and and in full disclosure um their slab get to do as much as they've done years past no in full disclosure another um say victim of the pandemic from where it came but but i can tell you you know my couple of zooms with karina my student and numerous they helped the student feedback and this all came from an original strategic plan design where we had very strong student focus groups and making sure the board had leaders on each campus and that's where slap came from these are young men and women that are leaders that were elected by their constituency within their high school to work with

023us and work with our constituency and some of the insight these students have brought about remote learning this year things to change it helps us make decisions it helps us get a really strong leader on that campus to give ideas and insights so while we may not again see you as much as we'd like this year or even talk as much as we'd like this year i can tell you it may have been some of the most important discussions i can tell you karina in one of my discussions changed my mindset over a couple of different things of what she's done and how she works and so i can't thank you guys enough um i thank you for your work on this and i thank you for being a leader and stepping up and leading

024within your campus and the network thank you thank you mr hogg once again thank you very much you slap students thank y'all for being here this evening and thanks for being such a great representation of what our isd students are thank you okay now we come to our open forum for agenda items as shared before all persons in attendance are required to wear a mask speakers who are addressing the board in person please keep your mask on unless you have already presented and had approved a medical reason as stated on the posted agenda members of the public who desire to address the board regarding an item on this agenda are required to register by sending an email to the superintendent of school secretary l-b-e-n-j-a-m-i aisd.net no later than 3 p.m the day of the board

025meeting mrs benjamin do we have any requesters registered to address the board regarding agenda items yes ma'am we have several our first requester is armandina guerra okay i will make one more just come on up i will make one more uh statement this is for everyone who will be speaking this evening this is a routine part of the school board's agenda for regularly scheduled meetings this segment of the meeting provides citizens with an opportunity to share their views with the trustees on items that are on the agenda tonight it is not intended to be a discussion or a debate and trustees will not reply to the speakers derogatory comments aimed at an individual will not be tolerated personnel matters are not appropriate subjects for open forum you will have five minutes to speak mrs benjamin

026will notify you when your time is up and please end your presentation at that time your time starts now i urge the public at large of what i'm about to say don't take my word for it do your own research connect your own dots using critical thinking of words and events that have come to pass and what is happening in the present time look at movies and documentaries of the past and present which tell half-truths to laugh at our face see where you find history has been rewritten or whitewashed do you know what the burning of books event is today parents are taking a stand because the government wants to use our children as their guinea pigs but folks you might not have kids today but you could have them tomorrow and still the government

027is experimenting on you if you let them come and join us in the fight and learn the movement early on for future generation that will one day be making decisions and policies in your old age we must stand up for our children in humanity now the cabal those that own all the money in the world are are gauging our pushback for them to see what their next 4d chess move should be are they going to make are they going to bring the end of times in faster or are they going to ease up a bit what they want to do is get rid of the middle class they want population control they want to have it where they are the masters and we are at bondage to them they do not want you to merely

028think you still have some control they want you to know you have no control over yourself and the state slash them makes every decision for you you we cannot wait till this comes to our doorstep by then it will be too late wake up america and world and hear what parents of children have to say because this affects you to childless people the government your government my government have worked in kahoot sometimes to experiment on the public in the past and it continues in the present with this nanotechnology of of chemical fluid once this technology is injected into you you cannot spit it up poo it out cough it up or anything there are honest doctors and folks in the field of medicine that can explain it to us elementary style because of what pages

029i read i cannot keep up with the order and names of how the fluid injection begins to activate in the body i will not allow our government to experiment on our children with a nanotechnology of fluid that not even members of the cdc fda and some in government officials who will not take it in photo ops how do we know that some politicians were not just given a batch of sane water i do not trust government that supports a group of folks that are okay with abortion and murder of a full-term baby born they say and scream like lunatics my body my choice a government that uses our tax dollars so that they get a discount to carry out their abortion and murder yet these are the kind of folks in federal state and local

030that have the nerve to tell us to wear a mask or you cannot enter and we urge you to take the vaccine but it is not mandatory they say yeah voluntary today but mandatory tomorrow or else you're not able to uh participate with society i do not trust government folks which have hardly hardly to none work today in as in the public sector i do not trust government officials that wake up every morning making decisions depending on which way the wind blows or of what their handlers tell them to do like a dictatorship i do not trust a government that dismisses americans needs like the homeless and children in foster care to put illegals first they come in droves because corruption in government expects and finds it easy to manipulate them to carry their water

031by redistribution of wealth from hardworking americans like my parents it makes me sick what our government has done in the past to our children and continues to do have y'all ever heard of a group called nambla the north american man boy love association did you hear what i just said i said man boy love the government turns a blind eye to what they are complicit to but go and investigate a president of the united states for mere hearsay as a child growing up in the late 70s and 80s i often wondered why adults were so mindless and blind that all the evil around us just to sit on their hands as a parent now i understand much better and so i am here i do not need federal state or local government to tell me

032what choice in my life i must take i do not appreciate the insult of the next thing that will come if we do not stand up now such as the government telling us who we can sleep with how many children we can have in their genders we are not cuba china germany or china of the past or present folks so much of what our government reacts to or not is by design stop thinking the government has your best interest at heart because they do not we are just an experiment to them they make their backdoor deals on tax dollars and children's lives thank you mrs benjamin if you don't mind can you maybe just state the names of the next two or three so everybody can kind of just be prepared and come up if

033your name has been called what's the speaker yes yes ma'am thank you the next speaker is micah ordway after that is blanca martinez and then eduard mason micah's first thank you for allowing this time to address my concerns and actions being taken by this board i have multiple concerns first being your voluntary active involvement in advancing an effort to vaccinate our children i do not understand when before a body of educational elected officials has been involved in a vaccination effort your roles did not change during the election nor did they change during the pandemic yet you're using our funds possibly our transportation system you're announcing preliminarily that a vaccine may be forthcoming for my 12 year old yet in this announcement i did not see from this body or from this school district advisory information

034on its safety for me as a parent to evaluate you did not include links to the arlington information tracking system or tarrant county's tracking system to show me where is the emergency what is the reason to vaccinate children as young as 12 in this area what is the reason for aisd your funds my tax dollars to be utilized for this effort i as a parent have insurance i can take my child to my doctor i do not need your educator involvement in what vaccinations my child receives when they receive it or advance notice three days prior that it was forthcoming none of this information was provided you say your goal as a body and your priority is to your community and to educate our children you did not find it even possible in this notice

035to give parents an educational opportunity to evaluate this for themselves and you've got this data nowhere was that fed to anyone i object in your involvement in this effort you are not our health administration you are not our public health safety system you are educators you have nothing to do with the vaccine rollout you will not be responsible for monitoring it you're not going to be responsible for reporting adverse events and since your partnership utilizes the fire department emts and non-medical staff and personnel guess what four it also doesn't get reported to the cdc for adverse event reporting you don't have officials following up with parents who are getting vaccinations i know three three who went to this effort at the beginning of the week not one health official has been in touch with those

036parents to ask them how their child is doing do you care or is it more important to jump on the bandwagon of popularity and administer and encourage and yes your announcement conveys your encouragement to get this vaccine to every parent and some of those parents do not have or maybe don't know where to look for this information is it not important to educate is it not important to provide fair information to your community this mask i can't even read what i wrote but i am a fairly good public speaker and know what my objections are here for tonight but because of this stupid thing i can't even read what i've written you're not a legislative body and you're still forcing my child to wear these five weeks ago i took my eight-year-old out of school

037and had her stay home virtually because the hostage-taking of the trade for her friends and her social life made her develop headaches every day to wear this she was getting sick they made her run around in school in gym while her big fat gym teacher yelled at her told her to keep her mask on and my eight-year-old is saying i can't breathe you know what his response was you should probably sit out and not enjoy yourself so instead of being empathetic as an administration he punished her do you not recognize that as parents does that not seem cruel and unusual to you would you stand for that for your child yet my concerns in this many letters to this board have been ignored these letters were sent to my local principles ignored not one single

038response but i did get your covet announcement i did get your vaccine announcement i did get your announcement of a survey that i completely objected to [Music] it is very lucky for the board i don't have two more minutes okay i don't see our next speaker coming up mrs benjamin martinez is blanca here okay after that will be ajwa mason hello board members superintendent president we're here on behalf of the children that don't have a voice we're being a voice for the voiceless you're made an agreement to transport these children to get vaccinated during school hours at our tax dollars my concern is that that vaccine they may be paying you maybe that's a question that you can answer how much are you getting per vaccine or per cent or what is the incentive for

039doing this however there is no incentive that's worth the lives of our children i know we're a little upset most of us are and i just came back from from talking to some of the parents near the site where they will be vaccinated on saturday to find out that they didn't even know they thought it was mandatory they don't know any english the letters were not informing them they didn't understand it why are we doing this without having at least a meeting like this where the parents can come and sit down and let's tell them the risk let's tell them that it's from fetal cells let's tell them the plans that and the deaths that are going on 4 000 deaths so far this is with adults that have died and that's only one percent

040of the total is what's estimated and yet we're bats we're lining up our kids and busting them in to take a vaccine where 4 000 people that's more than the covet cases so-called covet cases because we don't have any flu anymore a broken hip died of the covet but yet we're sending our children which are supposed to be trusting us i'm i'm a social worker by profession and a minister of the gospel and my life has been to to support to help to be an advocate for the ones that don't have a voice these children do not have a voice you must be their voice you must vote for them you're here you chose an educational i hope profession because you care about the kids you love the kids you will be an advocate for

041the kids let's get back to the basics why are we here this is about the kids how dare us forget that little bit which is everything that this is about the kids they are our future they are innocent they are pure they look up to us and if they send a letter home to go and get vaccinated guess what that especially the latino families they're holding it up and say well you know melody so it's got to be true they're thinking that they're trusting all of our parents because there's no color in the eyes of god i'm just saying for an example that these parents don't know and we should be back in them because we're back in the children first i want you you want to be a vaccination site the first thing i

042say is oh what vaccine let me see some data and not the data that that that that uh bill gates is putting out or that big pharma is putting now because it touches their pocket i want to see the data that shows how many depths what's going on who's who's putting it out there how can i and back look at the tuskegee project that really happened that really happened not too long ago and the cdc is the same agency now responsible for this so-called covet vaccine which is not even a vaccine it's not even a vaccine and we're injecting it into our children we're we're bussing them for heaven's sake it reminds me how they loaded the trains during the holocaust they didn't fight it the guards and the and the and the police they

043all said [Music] not my job i'm just doing my job thank you and nobody spoke for the jews who's gonna speak for the children today please i beg you i hope it's you thank you thank you and god bless adrian mason do we have ajwa mason and after that will be rebecca rogers and marisol fritz hello everybody hi sarah i want if you remember me um congratulations to your uh your victory when um i remember seeing you when you were um out campaigning and one of the questions that i asked you was uh your thoughts on critical race theory so that's one of the reasons uh why i'm here um critical race theory um teaches students to demonize an entire group of people solely on the base of race it's a it's a psychological form

044of manipulation brainwashing and ultimately it's child abuse critical race theory also weakens society and breeds hatred critical race theory creates racial tension and it has absolutely no place in public schools and hopefully it has absolutely no place in that in the aisd can you just hold time i don't want to take up our time um i just wanted to remind you that this part of the open forum is for things that are on the agenda do you have anything else to talk about that's on the agenda if so we will restart your time i have a question for you when did the schools become the public health safety what happened on monday was absolutely appalling and it was very disgusting and it was very disturbing [Music] who approved of a holiday such a holiday for

045this non-fda experimental drug to be administered by firemen on our children who approved it and it's still on it's still being researched we also know that there are risks that are involved we know that there that there has been ultimately uh the sacrifice of of life which is uh death that has been caused by this experimental drug we know this now the other day i was in fort worth at the tarrant county commissioner's court i spoke with uh the county judge b glenn whitley and i had a few questions for him and hopefully you guys can answer this question because he couldn't seem to answer it for me so i'm going to ask you the same question i i asked him who is responsible for if a child is injured the school board will they

046be responsible if a child is injured the hospitals the medical facilities will they be held responsible if citizens are injured by this non-fda approv this non-fda approved experimental drug the state of texas will they be held responsible for texans that are injured by this experimental drug will the government be held responsible for americans that are in that are injured by this non-fda approved experimental drug can any of y'all answer that question for me because not only do i have these same questions millions of citizens and americans have the same question thank you [Applause] rebecca rogers fritz is after here's my name is rebecca and i'm here to discuss several critical issues occurring here in arlington isd for over a year arlington isd has been complicit in experimenting on our children's emotional psychological and physical health

047the district has unnecessarily kept our students mask impacting their physical and mental health on tuesday may 18th governor abbott issued an executive order prohibiting government entities and schools from mandating mask an executive order that should have never been and should have never have been issued since it violates constitutional rights although the mandate states school has until until june 4th to comply it is time to take them off of our students and stop requiring them in schools if the mask hasn't been bad enough now the district is using taxpayer-funded facilities and partnering with tarrant county to host vaccine clinics further experimenting on our children's physical health by making them test subjects this gene therapy is an emergency use only and parents are not getting full disclosure to the harm this vaccine is causing what i just

048passed out to you guys is the visor fact sheet that you guys sent in an email to parents i have some things highlighted there and we'll get to that in just a moment the pfizer fact sheet that the district sent out has should have stopped each of you in the tracks and raised red flags enough for you to halt such an experiment on our children the fact that it didn't show just how comple the fact that you didn't shows just how complicit you are in harming our children the fact sheet on page one specifically states the pfizer bio intact coven 19 vaccine is an unimproved vaccine that may or may not prevent the spread of coven 19. so if it doesn't prevent it why are you giving it to our children especially since they are

049not really harmed at all by cloven 19. page 3 of the fact sheet that you have that you sent out continues to state it is an ongoing clinical trial i've highlighted that for you on that page which means you're experimenting on our kids and they are test subjects according to federal trade commission truth in advertising promotional materials and especially materials involving health related products cannot mislead consumers emit important information or express claims all of this falls under the rubric of deceptive advertising whereby a company is providing or endorsing a product whether whether presented in the form of an ad on a website through email on a poster or in the mail although that email sent to parents had a fact sheet attacked attached with some of the information the district chose to host and encourage

050parents to get their student vaccinated and did not specifically state in the email itself that coven 19 injections are unimproved eua vaccines that won't necessarily make campuses safer and could in fact harm them this district chose not to be forthcoming in this information the fact sheets were only provided in english reading and speaking parents and do um and and not in any other language format providing a disadvantage and a written language barrier to ethnic groups that do not read or speak english just because you are parent partnering with the fire department does not dissolve the district of any liability if a student suffers for an adverse event if you are not aware you should be that a student or family could file a civil suit against the district should the student suffer an adverse event

051or death it is neither the district nor the city or county job to immunize the populace if a parent wants their child to get a vaccine they are more than capable to take their child to this child's medical provider if they are unable to go to their provider they are offering the covet shot at every corner from walmart to walgreens and every place in between the arlington school district should not be participating in experimenting on our children and should be ashamed for doing so i'm asking that the district halt all in any upcoming future vaccine clinics thank you for your time [Applause] and following ms fritz will be james fritz and then heidi fritz is my time starting now when i spoke on april 22nd you miss mays and aisd attorney dennis stated to me

052personally you may not criticize or attack the character of any school official or employee during public forum and that if you do you will be deemed out of order and your time will immediately expire would like to inform you of the updated law effective september of 2019 for texas government code section 551.0 public testimony which states a governmental body may not prohibit public criticism of the governmental body including criticism of any act omission policy procedure program or service with that being said we decided to speak in person this time since the last time mr wilbanks was on his laptop and mr reich was on his phone during our presentations when my daughter tearfully spoke to you all about the harms and what she has gone through this school year which was extremely disrespectful i have

053been an er nurse for 23 years and i have never seen such corruption in all my career i am exercising my first amendment rights and speaking on behalf of my children and not my profession or my employer i would like for everyone to know that aisd has thrown out my sick at least six of my formal grievances and they continue to try and intimidate our family by having their attorney dennis address my concerns let me inform everyone of some of the countless laws which aisd has broken this year governor abbott's original mass order stated that children 10 years and under did not have to wear a mask yet arlington isd mandated via their code of conduct that children in grades 1 through 12 wear a mask since march of 2020 both of our children have

054been denied a free appropriate public education fake as provided in section 504 and the individuals with disabilities education act our daughter was denied equal opportunity to soccer tryouts two days in a row in november of 2020 all because she can't breathe wearing a self suffocation device our children have not been allowed to have equal access to education on campus all year long because of an experimental unlawful mask mandate aisd has rejected our religious exemptions twice violating our first amendment rights on april 20th aisd refused to allow our children to take the star test they made my daughter go home because of their unproven experimental tyrannical muzzle mandate violation of aisd board policy 220-901 entitled educational philosophy specifically the education philosophy states the mission of the texas public education system is to ensure that all texas

055children have access to a quality education that enables them to achieve their full potential and fully participate now and in the future in the social economic and educational opportunities in our state and nation violation of the texas constitution education code 1.002 equal educational services or opportunities you have violated that an educational institution shall provide equal opportunities to all individuals within its jurisdiction or geographical boundaries pursuant to this code the texas education code is a statute passed through the texas state legislature and enacted as law as such no mandate safety protocol governor mayor or county judge order can supersede this law aisd has also censored and removed appropriate public comments from their facebook page moving forward aisd has fraudulently referred to mr vinnie tenesia from the tarrant county health department as a medical doctor on multiple

056occasions and have misled the public on october 6 2020 mr tunisia blatantly lied about his mbbs degree from another country being equivalent to a medical doctor here in the united states during commissioner's court both are on video on may 17th you injected our children with an experimental mrna technology supposed vaccine the email that dr cravasso sent to parents had two data information links one to the fda website and the other was to pfizer website those links only went to the data it went to the data that was in english aisd consists of 46 hispanic students and these forms were not translated in spanish for them therefore they were not fully informed about the side effects and the risk involved involved the fact that there are no long-term studies the fact that this is an unapproved

057experimental injection they were not informed that the fact that their children are now part of a medical experiment who from aic approved this act of negligence who from aic translated the risk and all the information to those with a communication barrier on-site before they received this injection for us code 360 bbb3 titled authorization for medical products for the use in emergency states conditions of authorization for unapproved products are designed to ensure that individuals whom the product is administered or are that they are informed of the significant known and potential benefits and risk of such use and to the extent to which these benefits and risk are unknown did you all do that i don't think you did and that they also have an option to accept or refuse administration of the product and that is

058for anybody that works for aisd or any business you do not have to take this experimental whatever it is [Music] james twits and then heidi fritz i want to read an excerpt by a gentleman by the name of robert greenleaf he published an essay called the servant as a leader he wrote that the servant leader feels a sense of duty to lead which stands in sharp contrast to traditional leadership where some may assume a leadership position purely out of a desire for privilege or power servant leaders understand that they intend to serve others public servants embrace the following qualities of servant leadership so being mindful of and caring for the underprivileged in society prioritizing the growth and well-being of individuals in their communities and displaying awareness empathy and foresight public servants are often expected to

059be inspirational individuals who motivate their teams or communities i'm a public servant i've been a firefighter paramedic for 22 years i do what's best for the public regardless of age race religious beliefs economic status criminal doesn't matter i work for the public they deserve my best every day i go to work just imagine if you were a patient of mine in the ambulance and i decided to do a treatment or give a medication i knew wasn't in your best interest i did it anyway for personal gain or for some reward thankfully none of you are in emergency management i leave my family for 24 hours to take care of people i don't even know they get my best regardless if i've eaten or slept during the night i do this because i know someone may

060survive the worst moment of their life based on decisions i make our kids have suffered because of your decisions the arrogance disrespect and total disregard you have shown parents is sickening you have all failed as public servants we deserve better and i want to say that i totally against giving vaccinations i would never do it in my job my department has participated in that i would never give such a poison i never support that i certainly wouldn't give it to adults i wouldn't give it to kids and it's appalling that any fire department for that matter would even engage in that especially in this city we deserve better heidi fritz cancel gym that will be dylan briggs after heidi pritz hi uh i'm heidi i go to lamar high school and just yesterday or the

061day before after being denied soccer tryouts two days in a row i wanted to try out for soccer once again for my sophomore year in high school my the head the head soccer coach for the girls told my counselor that i should be removed and then i was told that it's because i didn't make the team i didn't make the team specifically because i wasn't allowed to try out because i can't breathe in the mask you took away my opportunity to play soccer after i couldn't play for eighth grade and my off-campus soccer team disbanded i haven't gotten to play for a whole year so i don't know how i ended up being for soccer and i honestly when my mom told me that the mask stuff was hopefully going to end up stopping and

062june 4th was going to be that day where aisd would end up paying for what they were doing if they continued after that day that gave me hope that i could actually go and enjoy my sophomore year and not having taken away from me like my freshman year which anyone who's entering high school would enjoy freshman year of high school you only get that once in a lifetime you can't get that back you took that away from not only me but a ton of other children a ton of other students and there's plenty of teachers that don't even get to see their students faces they or they don't get to see them at all it's it's it's appalling it's awful it's terrible it really shouldn't even be happening honestly but i have hope that i

063will have my sophomore year without all of this nonsense going on because i'd like to enjoy that instead of having to once again not have my sophomore year just like my freshman year i'd like to enjoy high school i'd like to live my high school years and be able to tell my future children oh hey this is what i got to do when i was in high school instead of having to tell them oh yeah you know what i got to miss most of most of my high school years and it wasn't because of me it was because there were people making decisions that they shouldn't be making they don't have the right to do that they don't you don't get to decide for students what you think is best for them that's up to

064their parents that's up to my parents you don't get to decide that for us we're not your kids and i'm sure you would unlike if someone forced things onto your kids as well i'm sure you would hate it i'm sure you would stand up for your kids and if not then that's just terrible really so hopefully next year things will be better and we won't have to deal with this and i if this didn't happen i wouldn't be standing here right now i'm speaking on behalf of every other student who whose lives have also been ruined there's lives that have been taken there's children who have to spend every day with their abusers at home there's children who are committing suicide because of all this it's terrible i don't get to see my friends i

065don't get to play soccer i didn't get to enjoy my freshman year and i didn't get to see my teachers this by far has been the worst year i've ever experienced and i only have my parents and the people who are actually standing up for the students i only have them to think that i haven't even been able to get up out of bed and do my school work and be able to move on with the day i have them to think i don't have the school board to think or the school you claim to care about children you care about children so much that you're going to ruin their lives that's not how that's all caring is it's not what it is it honestly i'm surprised i've been able to even get out of

066bed it was hard and it's still hard i hate having to sit at a desk all day to do school work that for one i should be doing at school because school is for learning it's not for injecting students or teaching them about uh different races and making them think oh yeah well you know my friends are black or my friends are hispanic or my friends are muslim do you think that i go up to people and say oh yeah i have a muslim friend i know i just say i have a friend students are being taught this when i was 10 years old i never ever looked at color i didn't look at your race i moved past all that and said this is my friend this is who i hang out with we

067shouldn't be talking about different races you should you can be who you are that's not the school shouldn't be teaching that they shouldn't be showing kids that everyone's different that's not how school works you should be going to school to learn to be taught things that you should be learning in adulthood to be ready to move on to college to be ready to just move on with your life not learn about different races and where you come from and yeah dylan briggs we have a dylan briggs in the room frank do we have a dylan briggs online okay we'll move on to zulkis carmen and then kim worley zulkus carmen i have a question is is there a chance that my son who we did not sign up and speak and take one of those

068spots i let him have my spot oh no no what everybody if he wants to oh no did you ask me the question if he would like to speak he can speak for the amount of same amount of time dylan you may speak his name is hayden okay aidan you may speak if you would like to come up to the microphone that way everybody can hear you if they're watching online last year i was planning on having fun or going to seventh grade but i never got a chance to because this whole vaccine started my sister was so excited to go to her into her high school this year but she never got to go hello either so after that's okay so right now we've been trying to make things more happier for us but

069that hasn't been working out as well as i wanted it to i know i've missed my friends so a lot and i wanted them to see them all again when i wanted to go back to seventh grade but i don't get to see anything any of them apparently i can't even i i can't it's so hard for me to get in contact with them too i have one friend that i get to hang out with but that's not in person like i thought my seventh grade year was going to be great but this year i haven't i've i barely learned anything because it's just so it's just so hard to understand what to do like to what to learn and zooms and everything i mean it'd be easier to learn if i was actually in

070school even for my sister like no one understands like like there's people out there that are also turning against each other and leave it like leaving and you know like my sister said commit committing suicide and um like i'm just missing i'm missing everything that i want that i wanted to happen like i missed all of it like i never even got it i never got a chance and so i hope this year we get to go back to school and have fun again and be a normal kid i don't i we don't want to wear these masks anymore or like we just want to we just want to be ourselves like we want to go out and just you know go places and but apparently that that can't happen but it needs to exactly

071we need to end this today what email you can end this okay okay thank you [Applause] that will be kim morley and then kelly joel with all your respect i like to play dr hasting steve hasting and many doctors like him are telling us all the same hello i'm dr steve hodzy founder and ceo of the hote health and wellness center in houston texas the so-called covid19 vaccine is not a vaccine at all it's a dangerous experimental gene therapy the center for disease control the cdc gives the definition of the term vaccine on its website a vaccine is a product that stimulates a person's immune system to produce immunity to a specific disease immunity is the protection from an infectious disease if you are immune to a disease you can be exposed to it without

072becoming infected this so-called covet 19 vaccine does not provide any individual who receives the vaccine with immunity to covet 19 nor does it prevent the spread of the disease it does not meet the cdc's own definition of a vaccine that's why it's a deceptive trade practice under 15 u.s code section 41 of the federal trade commission for pharmaceutical companies who are producing this experimental gene therapy to claim that it's a vaccine these pharmaceutical companies are lying to the public the government health bureaucrats are also lying to the public by calling this treatment a vaccine this covet 19 experimental gene therapy is only designed to minimize your symptoms if you were to be infected with the coven 19 virus let me re-emphasize that this covet 19 experimental gene therapy does not meet the cdc's own definition

073of what a vaccine is it does not provide immunity or prevent the spread of the disease by referring to this therapy as a vaccine the pharmaceutical companies are attempting to shield themselves because vaccine injuries or deaths are exempted by law from any product liability lawsuits the united states health bureaucrats initiated operation warmth speed to fast track the so-called covid vaccine on december 11 2020 the fda approved the pfizer vaccine and modernist vaccine was approved just a week later now these so-called vaccines were approved without any published animal studies and without any long-term human studies this means that individuals who get these so-called experimental gene therapy vaccine treatments are the guinea pigs that's right humans will be the guinea pigs these so-called vaccines which are manufactured using cells derived from human babies that were aborted in

074the 1970s should more accurately be called experimental gene therapy they are untested unproven experimental gene therapy that poses a much greater danger and risk to your health than the covet 19 moderna is a company pharmaceutical company a biotech company located in cambridge massachusetts it was founded in 2010 as mode rna therapeutics that's where they got the word moderna it has been developing experimental kim kim wurley then kelly joel and jody mueller miss worley is there miss worley here and not online waiting okay miss joel kelly joelle good evening first of all emergency use authorization is only used if there's not a preventative and there is a preventative for coven 19. is spudesinide ivermectin hydroxychloroquine antibiotics vitamin d zinc dr bartlett in odessa he he treated over 8 000 cases with budesonide ivermectin and antibiotics and

075it works i know for a fact because my boyfriend got it and he he he was better in three days and the vaccine is not a vaccine until the safety has been proven and this one has not and the most alarming thing is they don't know what it will do and you are giving this to our children and you are making it like it is something special for them to get and these kids i was there monday this little girl is just so proud of her little you know injection she she doesn't know what it's going to do to her pubescent years she doesn't know what it's going to do to her reproductive system because they don't know what it's going to do they don't know what it's going to do if you guys if

076any of us have gotten it and all the all the test animals have died and you want to give it to our chill our precious children i i don't understand this i was at commissioner's court on tuesday and they were in the tarrant county fauci what's his name vinnie was talking about how they're going to put up little pop-ups in our schools so the kids can go during their during their lunch break and you know they don't even you know what if they have an adverse reaction at lunch are you going to be responsible for this and he's also talking about giving free having scholarships to college if you get this vaccine bribery against the law and he's talking about a lottery system and you know they're the open so so vaccine adverse events reporting

077system you can go on openveers.com so less than one percent has been reported we've got 4057 deaths five hundred 11 seventy two hospitalizations twenty five thousand six hundred and three urgent care visits a hundred and twenty five thousand thirty two thousand eight hundred three office visits and nine hundred and forty at anaphylaxis that is just one percent reported let's say 20 reports that's five times you're talking about over 20 000 deaths that sars coveted vaccine that um i think the swine flu after 25 deaths they pulled it and you're wanting to give this to our children you're taking responsibility for our children i it just it is just it's just unconscionable and you know it is it's crime against humanity i don't understand this i mean i don't know if you you want your kids

078to get this i'm praying for everybody i'm praying for all y'all that got if y'all got it but you know sarah i i talked to you during the election you know and and i i've already voted for you and you'd say i'd asked you about the vaccines for our children and you said well not now but eventually and you know what i'd like to have my boat back thank you very much jody mueller that's our last speaker for right now hi there my name is jody and i've spoke at the tarrant county commissioners i believe as of tuesday 15 times um i took a break for a little while it's obvious they weren't listening and then i came back this last tuesday to talk about this harmful injection so i'm going to read part of

079what i read that day the collateral damage of the recent unlawful mask orders and now the threat of harm because of this jab has been immense and an exponential this is actually causing division between family members and even lifelong friends even in the schools like you just heard and it's confusing to innocent innocent children that are being injured if you are all about education all of you had better know what the ace study is by kaiser permanente and if not you need to look it up ace stands for adverse childhood experience and that doesn't just mean the harm in their homes it's harmed by anyone that they're in contact with so they have a score of one to ten that these children can get and half of you probably came from divorced families because usually

080there's about fifty percent of us that did you already have a score of one okay you get emotional harm now you got a number two you got parents that have lost their jobs because of this fake coven now you got a number three it goes on and on up to ten school shooters are a score of eight to ten my children were harmed because of a pta lady that drove my children to the airport in the middle of the night to help my abuser kidnap them not from this school but another school so i don't trust anyone on a school board because they didn't give a damn about my children that were kidnapped and given to an abuser so this does not shock me at all it might shock everyone else behind me doesn't shock

081me at all i know where this is headed okay i know is to divide and conquer and to harm our children that's what this is all about all right this will phone intentional harm to do to those that cannot wear this device that don't like to wear this device or that are against this injection is the most vile and inhumane of anything i've ever witnessed from the freemason and cabal controlled corporations such as the schools the absolute worst of all is what it has done to children of all ages the mass the isolation the segregation in their own classrooms by a piece of plastic and especially the narrative that they can now be responsible for the killing of grandma and grandpa if they don't take the harmful injection with ingredients most normal educated people wouldn't

082want their worst enemies pet the live exercise from the agenda 21 playbook has not surprised any of us back here that knew it was coming what i didn't foresee though was how easy it would be for all of you to manipulate parents into marching their children in to be used as an experiment ironically the same people you probably worship the infamous national institute of health share this historical information on their own site right here quote children as guinea pigs experimentation involving children is not a new phenomenon children have been used as research subjects in a diverse set of experiments including the trials of new vaccines and efforts to understand normal pediatric anatomy and physiology concern about child participants in research is also not a new development that's why we're here for more than a century

083critics of medical research have called attention to the fact that children in other vulnerable populations pregnant women prisoners the mentally ill have too often served as the unwitting and unwilling subjects of medical experiments when you say that these parents are giving consent are they really because you are not giving them full disclosure i was out there also monday we got nine car loads of children turned around we saved about 16 children pretty proud of that one one father couldn't believe he said it was a god thing that we were out there and he took his three children back home and their mother's a nurse and he won't be coming back to get those kids vaccinated or injected what's happening is they're not getting the full disclosure there's they're not getting even the right um language

084in these inserts and i even went to go ask for an insert i was threatened to be jailed because i asked for an insert what if i want what if my children were out there and i want to know what was in it i'm threatened with jail because i'm asking what the ingredients are this is ridiculous but the coercive control of fraud and manipulation that's not consent that's deceived consent thank you okay next on our agenda our action items our first action item is to consider motions to address covet 19 protocols dr kvassers thank you president mays and at this time we'd like to present our covert protocol review for your consideration i'll invite dr hill to lead us in that presentation dr hill [Music] thank you good evening president may's board members and superintendent

085cavazos again here to discuss the uh covet protocols as we've uh been discussing internally for a few weeks it's just a little background information uh an alignment with state and local authorities uh protocols were put in place to mitigate the spread of code 19. uh asd students and staff have done a diligent job at uh following those protocols and and doing what's been asked of them uh to to help mitigate that spread local and state uh kobe 19 cases are trending favorably for the district and and and for the area the vaccine is widely available for students and staff and uh staff opportunities for the vaccine has been there and they've been taking advantage of that student opportunities for the first dose were on may 17th and we continue to uh provide those opportunities throughout

086the summer modifications for protocols are being considered at this point i hope you guys are also aware that the uh proposed modifications for the covenant 19 protocols effective may 26 include uh what you'll see on the left column dr hill i'm sorry just one moment yes ma'am um i appreciate y'all's passion i really do we did give you all the opportunity just to make sure that we can hear everything that's being presented to us if you just please remain quiet while at least a presentation is going i would appreciate it thank you thank you sorry present nice so the left column shows the current protocols and the right column shows that proposed modifications to the protocols uh that are in place and i'll go through this line by line uh for us just for clarity

087so the health screener that's currently in place including temperature checks and other questions would no longer be required the wearing of mask would no longer be required contact tracing will no longer be required isolation of a confirmed kovid 19 case will still be required and we will be posting notification of those hand washing will go back to normal operations as well as cleaning and sanitizing we will discontinue the use of physical barriers and the covet 19 testing center will remain open is the one set of the proposals we would again uh uh go back to normal operations with regard to limited or no in-person meetings normal operations with regard to limited uh or no volunteers or visitors normal operations for appointments will go back to normal operations for closed campus lunch token 19 leaves would

088return to the standard lead process that was in place prior to covid and other protocols and measures that are not listed in here because again they were pretty extensive we would return to normal operations recommendation from administration is that the board approved these proposed protocols effective may 26 and then we would continue to monitor what happens in the area with regard to that and then reserve uh at least the thought to come back and discuss uh at that point so with that we'll take any questions or discussion thank you dr hill do i have any trustees with questions and or comments dr reich thank you president mays thank you dr hill for the information and the presentation i'm happy to see the end of this coming my question so this is on the the 26th

089six calendar days from now to two and a half school days so not much at the end of the year here what would be the harm in doing it effective immediately instead of waiting until the 26th so i'll start that address that so i think that some things to think about and to put into context as was presented in this brief presentation one the protocols have been effective in our schools to mitigate the spread they've been effective throughout the time that we've had them we were very mindful of what we were implementing and adapting and so they have mitigated the spread over time the other is that as we look to the end of the school year students have had the opportunity to get vaccinated their first vaccination staff has received their opportunity to get

090vaccinated march the eighth and so as that continues then we're making that progress to this normalcy which is why we're presenting this tonight but i do think that as we haven't completely achieved the vaccination for opportunity for students just started that that also plays a part in this path that we're following and finally i think that we have encouraged and been successful quite frankly at having students return so just to remind us a context march the 8th when staff got vaccinated we said that was a big piece of that puzzle to return to normals we also waited for the effects of the continued spread of covet and things like that the numbers all these things work together and then we undid our hybrid schedule so we've made those adjustments as we've progressed but quite frankly

091we've made a commitment to our staff and our students and our families to join us back at school for face-to-face instruction and we've been successful at that with the uh assurance that we will follow our protocols and so with uh three days left of school two of those are half days or early release for high schools one is for elementary that we're getting close to the end of school and it would be appropriate to continue the protocols till the end of school may 26th we would undo those protocols we wouldn't have these protocols in the summer school we won't have them in august and i think we fulfill our commitment to continue the progress to return to normalcy as we've made it so that's some of the rationale for why we would do it on

092the 26th well it's been it's been a long time coming to get to this uh juncture i'm happy that we're finally there [Music] and i i don't plan on on pushing to have it done effective immediately if that's the will of other colleagues that's fine but we are talking just a few days here when we're on the back side of more than a year long a 14th month long pandemic so we i support you as our district ceo on the operations side i respect what you have to say and uh you are absolutely correct that as much as i don't like this thing either it has been one of the mechanisms along with the rest of the protocols to have a large number of our families and student body population to come back uh that

093that is essential and i do get that uh that this would be uh potentially turning our backs on them and i don't want to uh stand in in the way of that we are at the end of this this is a recommendation to do away with it all i'm so happy that we're here uh to do that uh i'm in full support of that thank you thank you dr raj are there any other trustees with questions and or comments mr hogg i rejected you i'm sorry okay thank you president mays thank you for that question dr reich and thank you dr losses mr hill let me ask a question when you say just to make sure i'm fully fully clear when you say normal operation you were talking about pre-coped standards correct that's that's the

094landscape thank you i want to make sure on that um you know from the start i wish we'd opened earlier it's pretty prevalent on this board to try and get us to open earlier i wish we'd gone through some certain things you know we can always look back on things we could do better right and and and i think we all know these are tough decisions and and sometimes they're not the right decisions in full transparency we know that um no one's dealt with anything like this before from where it's coming um dr boss or dr reich i agree with you like i'd like to see it effective but also look at the bigger picture of the end in sight i'm glad to be having it end because that's the key factor we hear from

095in full disclosure parents and students on both sides of this never had more parents cry to me on the phone because their child is suffering every single day wearing a mask it's heartbreaking i also have parents crying out of pure fear from this and it is split two things i do have a question on and i still don't know if it's why are the city still offers a covet 19 testing center correct for people to be tested that's to my understanding and the county has some and there's a couple at one point it seemed like every corner had a testing center i don't understand i talked to our class a little earlier about this i'd like to know more i don't understand why we have a covid19 testing center i think everyone has access and

096i'm all for i'm a big talk to many parents and i'm a big fan of choice of people being able to choose and and and my question hold on a second folks my question is they have a choice to get that i don't understand why we are spending staffing on that to offer that for a covet 19 testing center dr crossfield give a little more clarification absolutely vice president hogg so just the context on our testing the testing was offered and an opportunity for all school districts in texas by the state and and that was offered and free the testing kits itself and as we talked earlier and mentioned to dr raj that was also a piece of that puzzle is that we would provide testing that opportunity so that we would mitigate the spread

097in our schools now albeit the reason we're having this discussion is because the numbers continue to trend down we're seeing the end of this in terms of protocol so absolutely appropriate but it has been an important piece of that puzzle to mitigate the spread in our schools students and staff are not required to take a test they're not required uh there it's optional it's their choice they can go take a test it also helps people understand if they need to seek medical attention and that's a service that we feel is important uh for that so there's two reasons one is to continue to mitigate the spread continue that piece of the puzzle that we know quite frankly has been effective in our schools um because we have come to the other side of this and

098also to continue offering that service i will say that we will evaluate that and as as demand or interest for testing diminishes which i do anticipate by the way mr hogg said that we'll see less interest or less demand for testing we'll continue to evaluate that and as we make appropriate decisions like we have we'll discontinue the testing if there's no interest there's no point in having staff there available for one or two tests a day and things like that i completely agree with you uh so that's the rationale uh understanding that we would continue to evaluate unless it's appropriate we would discontinue that testing if for whatever reason there's high demand then we would continue that testing and and continue to offer that as a mitigation strategy thank you dr frasos and listen the

099kobe 19 testing center served a very strong purpose for this district when it was able to allow people to get that test it was their choice to get the test and it worked fast i don't believe with school ending we need that going in you know i know we're doubling in essence our summer school i appreciate this board not falling to the idea of not opening school early and seeing some of our colleagues around neighboring districts that are going to june 18th or later for the regular school year because they did not open um when we did or they delayed their initial opening by a couple of weeks um i i do think you know that coveted testing center is not the best use you know is we have school going out over you know

10060 70 percent of our staff is going to be out for the summer by us still providing that i just don't see the the push on that and then the last clarification we are not posting the cobit 19 numbers for the whole district on the what i guess the web page the the dashboard that we're posting we're not doing that but then the clarification the points will be made how are we required by law to notify when someone sticks for i think the example you and i talked about earlier was measles or anything like that what what are the rules we have to by law follow for that yeah there are some situations where by law we have to notify parents of a case in the school this notification that we're talking about for kovit

101is one that we have done throughout the whole process if you will and that's posting a letter that says there's a case at the school site or at a department et cetera um we want to continue that so that people have that information it's not contact tracing it's not quarantining it doesn't lead to any of that it simply leads to information that we feel is important for people to have the other point in that is that as we move forward these letters or these notifications will be just that there won't be any action that's required by the school district now if it's a positive case it's a different story there has to be some isolation to that and mitigation of that but just as dr hill mentioned we will not be doing the health screeners

102the temperature checks the things that would lead to maybe more notification and things like that so it simply is an opportunity to notify an individual family or campus that there is a case we've been doing that all along but to your point the dashboard that reports all this information and quarantine all that that will be discontinued may the 26th as well because there won't be any contact tracing or quarantining and all that so all of that will will be discontinued thank you dr fasos and and the last question um i appreciate the dashboard going away i had questions about how we notify if we're doing this is it really in the best interest you always have concerns does it create a scarlet letter do people start hunting which they did early on in covid for

103who that young man or woman is that has it i've heard the stories of other parents blaming other kids for bringing it in so sometimes well i think by law we do have to have some notification i do think we have to be very cautious over our notification um since we've started making some of these protocols and in place um what has our percent in person gone back up to uh of students correctly and i'm okay with the ballpark yeah that's what i was gonna say yeah totally okay so um that attended and this it gets complicated but i'll try to make it really simple the last six weeks that have attended at least one day okay and i know that that sounds weird but let's just at least come to school one day i

104think we're up to what michael knight is over 80 80 close to 90 that that have actually come now do they have perfect attendance no do they come every other day and all that kind of stuff that we run into that but they'd have actually stepped foot in the building that's a that's i think a big accomplishment because it's returning to that normalcy perfect thank you and i think we all know up here the more we have in person uh the better students are learning because they are suffering and while remote learning works for a small portion of our students i do not think it works for a majority so while i don't agree with all these items i do agree with lifting the protocols and i appreciate staff for working on this and getting

105to that point um and lifting this protocol because that's where we need to be thank you thank you mr hogg dr reich thank you president mays and had uh follow-up and just uh to add on to that the the baseline we were looking at less than fifty percent uh so it's it was very effective a dramatic dramatic increase in getting kids back in person with the protocols and the choices so i think that speaks volumes so to be clear uh regarding masks that's one of the things uh that will go away as a mandate they will still be optional right if if teachers staff children choose to wear them they'll still be allowed to it's optional that's correct it's optional it will not be required and so what uh i i think that's the appropriate

106way to go but there's different comfort levels as we've seen just everywhere in society so for those that are choosing and come back in the fall or summer school choosing to still don a mask [Music] what what are we looking at as far as a district from a a disciplinary standpoint a caring standpoint empathy standpoint of potential bullying uh either direction because this is something that is a different category than what we've had specifically so if you could just speak to that just a little bit yeah so i think we would uh attempt to it's really about educating the kids and getting a comfort level and with kids and staff and so i think that's the approach that we would take initially is to really educate continue to educate and get kids and others to

107understand that that's just a preference uh beyond that we would just handle it normally with direct the way we handle student code of conduct violations and keeping the lens that this is all new to all of us right and and i i'm obviously a little bit biased being in in this position for the school district but i think our our kids will be just fine with it i think they will treat uh each other uh selflessly and compassionately um i think our faculty our staff they they will as well i think in general kids do it better than adults so i'm just putting that out there thank you very much thank you thank you dr raj mr chapa uh thank you president mays i don't have any comments on the presentation at this time i'd

108like to move to approve the proposed modifications to the copa 19 protocols effective may 26 2021 okay got a motion by mr chapa a second by mr hogg any discussion seeing none please vote all present vote in the affirmative motion passes thank you dr hill okay the next item on our agenda for action is considering the 2021-2022 student code of conduct dr cavazos thank you president mace and so tonight we also bring for your consideration the 2021-2022 code of conduct we've had an opportunity to visit with our governance committee on this and we had its schedule for last board meeting and we moved it to this board meeting but there are some routine type of changes that were recommended by our legal department by changes in rules and laws and and so it's it's for

109your consideration tonight dr hill has a brief presentation to take us through the code of conduct for the following school year dr hill yes thank you so we'll continue so just a little bit about the process before we get into the specifics the campus administration central administration including teachers parents students meetings had several meetings over a couple of months to review the current code of conduct as we do every year uh it was reviewed by the various departments as well to see which changes uh would be recommended for the document as we move forward those reviews always look through the policy a lens of ae local which states that the board believes that the school environment truly impacts student achievement and so that was a lens through which we looked at all of the modifications

110to the documents the four categories that uh if you could summarize the changes or the recommended changes would be addressing virtual slash remote setting uh threats threat assessments and social emotional learning safety protocols and just addressing some definitions and other cleanup in the document some of the adjusted uh recommended changes uh include uh rules uh applied to campus-based alternative and remote learning and so if we're in the remote setting again those rules would apply we're recommending adding language to impact that students are responsible for content contained on their devices found during legal searches uh changing the word school to campus and then changing the word handbook to rules uh for more alignment and uh just more clear clarity uh defining clearly what a threat assessment is because you know that that came on the scene

111a few years ago and we're just clarifying what that definition is determining when to conduct a threat assessment and then adding social emotional learning staff to assist as a corrective action before we go to remove student or take take further action depending on what the offense is but adding the sel staff as a part of that corrective action we recommend deleting language referring to the requiring of mask and face coverings at all the locations in the document that were added uh recently uh just again those recommended changes are reviewed by administration and reviewed by legal office and again the board governance committee has had an opportunity to uh to review those those changes of that being said the administration recommends the approval of the 2021-2022 student code of conduct as it's presented and discussed thank

112you dr hill mr chapa i think thank you president mays as dr hill discussed that this has come before the board before we've gotten feedback on this but this is part of our annual process of reviewing the code of conduct and as mr hill or dr hill described the changes are are mostly highly technical changes some wordsmithing the most substantive changes i would put in the category of now aligning the code of conduct uh to the the rolling back of protocols that the board just voted on um as the trustees uh will remember most of the uh many of the uh protocols that we put into place during kovid were made through changes to the code of conduct including masking and a few other uh protocols and so those um are being uh deleted effective

113uh to effectuate the action the board just took effect effective for the next school year um from the governance committee's perspective that's that's all that i have i don't know if there's uh further discussion um and then i'll turn it back over to you okay i don't see any lights um dr reich yeah thank you president mays you might be able to answer this mr chapa if not dr hill i just don't recall i apologize we we in the committee we were discussing rules as the term uh uh related to district policy campus policy campus procedures did we get the clarification on that that we were looking for there was an email i believe that was sent clarifying that dr hill can you speak more to that uh yes let me try to i can

114summarize it but i don't want it to uh to misspeak it was uh well it was switching out handbook for rules yes and we examined that and determined that rules is appropriate and not handbook so if the switch the that we made on committee or that we discussed on committee is the same one we're recommending tonight okay thanks uh there's no further discussion i would move that we uh adopt the code of conduct as presented okay got a motion motion by mr chapa second by mrs fowler any other discussion seeing none please vote all present vote in the affirmative and motion passes thank you very much next on our agenda we move to our discussion action items first considering consider moving june 15 2021 board of trustees meeting to june 17 2021 dr cavazos thank

115you president mays and this is uh an item that we bring before the board the board calendar was set with anticipation there would be sli and board training and things like that and we had moved it originally to a tuesday we're recommending that for your consideration to move it back to a thursday june the 17th as appropriate so that's our recommendation okay this is a discussion action item is there a motion or any discussion dr rice uh move to approve the meeting change date a second okay got a motion by dr reich just second by mr wilbanks any discussion seeing none please vote okay all affirmative all present vote in the affirmative and the motion passes thank you mr will banks on one second you are hot okay there we go so our next discussion

116action item is considered 2021 2022 board of trustees meeting calendar dr cavazos thank you president mason we bring the next school year 21-22 board trustees meeting calendar we sent that out and had an opportunity you all have had an opportunity to review that as with any board calendar just like we did right now just the previous item we can always adjust those we bring them back to the board for changes to the calendar but we recommend that the 2122 board of trustees meeting calendar that you have be adopted thank you dr cavazos mrs fowler thank you president mays i move to approve the 2021-2022 board of trustees meeting calendar as presented okay second so i've got a [Music] got a motion by mrs fowler a second vitamin explorer congratulations on your first second any discussions

117[Music] okay um motion passes majority six yes one no motion passes i said no voting there you go okay mrs benjamin motion passes in the affirmative all seven voting okay our next discussion item is our 2020 2021 school operations update dr cavazos thank you prison maze and i think i'll i'll start this presentation by saying that as our previous item with may 26 being the end of of the protocols and things like that this is the last school operations that we'll put on as a normal item on the board meeting i know i know it's heartbreaking but this is this is an important moment uh of also that closure that next step there's we've done this now for well tracy we know exactly how long we've done it but we've done it for about a

118year and and so this is the last school operation report of this sort um that we'll be presenting so dr brown oh yes i'll come i'll actually come take that after we're finished uh good evening president mays members of the board and of course dr cavazos thank you for the opportunity to present in this fashion our final school operations update um for the school year and as we have begun every um since the summer of last year our guiding principles we've ensured that we prioritize these as we've made decisions um for the district um throughout the course of the pandemic so today at a glance we're going to just provide an update on aisd and tarrant county cova data we'll also talk about the vaccination event and partnership with the arlington fire department and then

119share some information on arlington isd's kit the care clinic um which is open and it's a great opportunity for our teachers and students and then dr wertz will close out with a summer learning update for the board the first part of our covet update is our self-reporting cases by month and as you can see we continue to trend downward as it relates to reported cases and so this is when someone either has covet-like symptoms they've been exposed to someone who tested positive or they themselves have tested positive for covid and as you can see midway through may we've had only about 70 stuff reports so far and our dashboard was updated just this past tuesday on our dashboard we have one staff case resulting in at least 40 who are quarantined not because of that

120case but 40 who are quarantined uh 16 students and almost 500 students who are currently actively under quarantine and you can see those the data continues to trend downward as it relates to our data dashboard just had a slight increase in quarantine students that we reported on tuesday so since the last board update we do have some additional data for you we've had a total of 45 reported cases since our last board update six were asymptomatic and resulting in a little bit more than 400 quarantined staff and students so it's just a couple of other additional district data to share i'm a rapid testing center of course our site is still up and running and we have administered 84 tests since our last board meeting none of those have resulted in a positive case so

121far however over the past seven weeks we've been pleased to see that we've reported fewer than four cases per week which is really a great trend and our staff-to-student ratio used to average one staff member to two students now it's one staff member to 10 students so it shows you those vaccinations with our staff did shift that ratio as well so as we talk about tarrant county metrics for safer in-person instruction won't go through those we pretty much know these right now um that seven-day moving average positivity rate has gone down it's now at four percent uh the virus spread um 1123 cases which also has gone down and then our covet-like illness and covet hospitalizations have remained steady at two and four percent respectively our vaccination event with the arlington isd in arlington fire

122department 2.0 was on monday may 17th and just to share a little bit of an update about that process we had that of course was for 12 years students who are 12 years and older their parent had to be present with them and of course parents were invited as well as any of our staff members who chose to get vaccinated and that was held at the athletics complex and so it was a a great partnership with the fire department and staff in our schools excuse me staff in our district who were able to put our clinic together so the fire department did vaccinate almost 1400 students staff and or parents during that event and that second dose will be administered on june 7th and we plan to support that vaccination event as well so we've

123shared a little bit about the culture of care during this pandemic and our our team has worked fervently to really make sure that we provided additional supports to students um and to their families as they were experiencing the pandemic and so we're really really pleased about the care clinic being open um here in arlington the counseling team has worked diligently to really be able to try to secure licensed professional counselors and that would be able to provide those mental health therapeutic services for our teachers and for our students and so it is now open these are free counseling sessions and really just helping individuals develop you know self-awareness maintain healthy habits just improve their overall physical or mental health that care clinic is open through january excuse me through june 30th and then we'll reopen

124the beginning of august for the 21 22 school year and students can be referred to the care clinic and teachers also can suffer for self-refer as well so this can be a virtual session or it can be in person which right now we're temporarily housing at the pdc with that i'm going to go ahead and pass the baton over to dr wertz our chief academic officer good evening president maze members of the board dr cavazos i'm here this evening to share with you a brief update about our summer programming and really primarily to share with you specifically about how the enrollment trends are kind of happening in terms of planning for that program so tonight i'm going to talk specifically about pre-k through 12 as you know we're offering summer programming services for students in

125all those grade levels and on this slide you can see specifically how the enrollment is looking at each of the designated campuses both for the elementary and junior high levels as a reminder not every single school is hosting the programming we have we have multiple schools that will go to one specific site but the where each of those sites are are notated the the total number of students that are registered or who have applied to participate this summer are notated on the right-hand side of the name of the school the locations the numbers that you see there represent both the bilingual esl kinder first grade programming as well as pre-k and also remote numbers and we do not expect to have to shift or reduce any of the number of campuses that will be offering

126services based on the the enrollment trends that we're seeing there are some campuses that have higher enrollment trends and so student campuses where there are 300 or more students that are going to be attending the summer programming we will be hiring an assistant principal to support the programming at the school this is just a breakdown for you to see what the numbers look like by grade level bands and specifically the environments and programming sessions in which they will be participating so as you can see uh we have about a little over 6 200 students that have registered to participate in the elementary levels about 1600 for junior high and about 455 for pre-k four um this total is a little around 8326 you may be asking yourself why is there some discrepancy between that number

127and the other two numbers um and the reason being is because there's some duplication in some of the numbers in the registration the the team is in the process of correcting that we believe it's about 126 something like that so um they will be reconciled but the number really hovers around 8200 total um what you'll notice in the sessions is that they're broken down by what we're offering so for example on the right hand side where it says grade seven eight only we have a ten day grade recovery program for students that goes between june 17th and june 18th and there's about 98 students that are wanting to participate in that and as you go through each of those different um each of those different uh rows you'll see specifically which program um is being

128offered and the number of students that intend to participate and how that all breaks down in terms of the total number of students in a of 8200 you'll also notice that the great majority of our students will be participating in person we do however have a few that prefer to participate in a virtual environment which we will continue to provide um for grades three through six that's about 500 students grades seven and eight it's a little over close to 350 and then we do have some primary grade students who will be participating remotely through our our lms known as seesaw and that's a little over 120 students applications and recommendations to participate in summer programming increased significantly since even last friday the numbers i'm providing with you tonight are current as of the closing of

129that process we had 2 000 students register or be recommended for participation between friday last week and wednesday yesterday so yesterday was the final day to make the recommendation and so the numbers that you're seeing today are the reflecting reflect all all that up to the current place we will be focused on making sure that we provide services to the students who have the greatest needs and if if there has to be a determination about volume based on staffing we will get priority students who have the greatest need first and any decisions about students who won't be eligible to participate um those notifications will go out at the same time so what what what this actually update should say we actually alter the date this afternoon it's at may 24th we will we will we

130will on may 24th and notify those who are being admitted as well as those um where there if there is not space and then finally i wanted to give you a sense about what's happening in high school um we of course have two sessions like we always do session one and two uh high school programming um offers opportunities for kids to recover credit where there was a failure or to accelerate meaning take courses so that they can kind of get ahead in terms of their graduation plans the numbers you see in front of you kind of give you the breakdown of which students are trying to participate in which type of program in each of the two sessions and then of course we have summer dual credit where students can take courses in conjunction with

131tarrant county college to earn college credit and high school credit at the same time and this just lets you know the volume of students in each of the high schools and about percentage of those that are actually participating in dual credit um high school numbers are pretty consistent to where they've typically been and we're still evaluating that drop number tonight actually we started we were working on that actually this evening uh but for pre-k 8 you can see there's a significant difference from prior years typically we have about 1200 students that participate in summer programming and right now we have about 8 200 so it's quite a big jump so any questions i can answer for you or dr brown thank you thank you dr works before we ask questions can you just please repeat

132that last that last sentence so usually summer programming our average enrollment summer programming for pre-k 8 is usually around 1200 students and this year it's right now we have 8 200 that are expressing interest in attending thank you yes okay uh thank you president maze um i guess since you're you're there i'll uh i'll start with you dr wurtz i do have some questions for you as well dr brown so can you help me understand is there a a distinction and difference between those that applied versus those that were recommended for summer school is that true well process or is it kind of the same well there it's it's very similar in terms of criteria that we're looking at it's just that there's multiple pathways that students could actually be recommended some can be from

133parents some can come from teachers but the criteria that we use to identify the most students the most that need are the same and i don't just as a reminder we had several indicators that we use to kind of assign point values towards students based on how they've been performing throughout the school year including their screeners just a variety of information points that we can use to triangulate where the most struggling students were and that list of students we provided to the school so that we made sure that the students are really at need were being invited but that did not necessarily mean that a parent couldn't also their own volition choose to ask to send their child if we have space for everybody and we have the staff to have everybody come we have

134every intention on having everyone come if for some reason there is a challenge around that area then we and we have to make choices then we're going to choose to preserve the students who are of greatest need and that's a good segue to one of my other questions on on the issue of space availability uh coming off of covid we've talked a lot obviously about uh remediation efforts and and coveted slide etc so and the ramping up of summer school to try to circumvent that mitigate that so why would we have it would it just be the availability of staff as far as the space availability because to me i'm thinking we take everybody possible right it's it's not had doesn't have anything to do with the physical space it has to do with having

135teachers to teach students so we are we've worked closely with hr to recruit um as you know you've you you've approved a higher pay rate but um recruitment is still an effort that we're trying to work through it's still a challenge so the only reason why there would be any kind of change in terms of letting allowing all students to come would be the number of staff that we can have to serve students so can you tell us where where you are in that process now as far as what your initial target and goal was versus i don't have that number on me but i can share that with you okay we're value right now and and i uh i mentioned i worked my team today to try it now that we have the final

136numbers because it just closed yesterday to try to evaluate with what the gap actually is and so um i don't have that completely finished yet but we started that process okay yeah i didn't know if you had um the uh the the crystal ball in motion a few weeks ago as far as targeting uh potentially versus you just had a flood of 2000 in in a couple days which obviously changes whatever crystal ball you had i will say we planned around a cert we planned um based on the numbers that we knew that we're going to qualify for inviting but um i'd have to go back and look and see what the gap is so i'm happy to get you the information okay okay yeah i'd be curious um yeah we've got to make sure

137that our any and all kids if possible or are taken care of um and with that that's a good segue into another question which is dr raj i'm sorry dr kavos just wanted to input i just wanted to add something because i think it's important we may not have mentioned this just to set the context because i think the context is important this is one piece of the effort and so summer school is important it doesn't fix all the problems of the world never has summer school right but it is an important offering and opportunity for students and so if we have to because of staffing or otherwise limit i don't we don't want to limit that but we also know this will be a multi-year effort so i anticipate this will be another summer

138school discussion this time next year approximately but there's a whole slew of different strategies that we really are going to have to implement throughout the this this next school year really right so i just want to kind of set that context because we we get i do too by the way ask a lot of questions and hyper focus a little bit on summer school when in reality it's just a piece of the puzzle right and it does it it i think put it in the equation of recovery it's just the beginning right yeah absolutely and i know we're all very interested in what type of slingshot strategies you'll have for the fall i know you're already working on that how to how to differentiate that how you take a a kid that is wanting to

139go into pre-cal maybe didn't need summer school i wasn't identified as summer school but in fact they're not going to have the algebra skill set that they probably could have had had it not been covered to get them up to pace right away in pre-cal and so that they're not just blown away and set up for failure in pre-cal so looking forward to all of that your job is absolutely not easy and thank you for everything that that you do both of you putting into it so i have spoken at just about every meeting regarding the mental health and social emotional aspects and with the lens of summer school as well that we've got to get our kids right and make sure they're right in the head and at home so is there a mental

140health check a component of that in woven into summer school or is it summer school as usual is it a 2.0 no there's an sel a social emotional learning programming that's going to be embedded into the coursework that kids will participate in as part of their schedule so that will be available and then as dr brown mentioned for students who need therapeutic services um we will have the care center open for quite some time that's consistently about 41 licensed therapists that we have in the district that will be free services to students as well outside of this whole thing awesome stuff so so those that the sal that is woven in uh will uh the teachers will have the ability at that point in that process it'll be pretty much a an embedded process that

141if they identify a child in that process that they can do that referral if it's beyond their scope as an educator we're also hiring counselors to assist in the summer programming and so there will be services that a normal counselor would provide a school counselor there will be sel programming that will take place in the classroom as part of their daily schedule and then of course there's services at therapeutic services that are available should a referral need to be made okay that's great and this is uh the last one i have um for your part of the presentation it's actually a little bit of a tangent uh i'm i'm curious though because i'm sure you've got not complete numbers but pretty close what are we looking like as far as uh kids that aren't able

142to graduate compared to previous years because of their slippage i i don't have that number on you right on my right now and the reason i say that is because this last week of school a lot happens because of um the committee work that takes place so students for example only pass three of their star exams and they're missing an exam or two we can go ahead and pass them through um through a committee and all that work is happening now and that's very typical so usually this is the moment where high schools kids are literally crossing the finish line right um i can get you updated numbers and send them to about where we're sitting today um but every day it's more kids so um i'd have to compare it to last year and

143i haven't pulled that number okay okay yeah i i'm curious i know that there's been uh at the high school level a lot of educators that have as said i sure hope it's not like last year and i hope there's going to be mutiny to use one in particular's words so i i was just curious what that looks like and um thank you uh dr wurtz dr brown i do have a couple of uh questions um so on the uh the cares program which is wonderful um and uh obviously so needed on that student referral process that you were talking about um that the staff can self-refer so can students self-refer as well or does that have to come through the parent first or how do what does that look like from my understanding of

144steven correct me if i'm wrong that the student um the parent or the staff member can refer a student is that correct so the only thing that we have to keep in mind is um because it's a therapeutic service there are hipaa laws attached to it right and so students that are underage their permission from their parent will have to be provided because it's a therapeutic service right but that referral can come directly from the family or it can come from a teacher or staff member okay and um i i a theme that i have heard uh over the course of this year for those that have been struggling is well i didn't know about that our survey that shows that we're really trying to get a handle on this and we care for these

145kids i've had several say i didn't know that i've talked to a lot of students and that aren't in a good way and they've said i didn't know that that existed and i really don't know what that process was and i couldn't tell them that but my point is to communicate this which is gold what are we doing to communicate to make sure that everybody is aware of this and has the access for this opportunity i can i can say we're full uh we've had a overwhelming response i we have we can serve up to 120 cases and we have had lots of people registering to enroll and we work closely with anita's department the communications department to get that out and we can still put that out there because just because a student receives

146services from someone from a therapist for example or a counselor one or two sessions doesn't mean that then a space doesn't become available and things like that um but uh yes we we've actually had a pretty we're actually very happy with the response it's it's been it's filling up so that's that's the positive thing that is um in response to your question though we do want to make sure that every student knows it's available yeah um and so we will continue to work with the um anita's department the communications department and with counselors and campuses to make sure they have the flyers and the information that goes home to families and um i'm happy to visit within with um miss foster again about maybe you know sending out another notification about it and and obviously

147in in anything that we've we've tried to do from a governance level and i think that you have done from an operational level very well is building capacity what is our what is our ceiling for this right now uh well before we have a wait list and we have way more which i'm fearful of uh more demand than we have supplies it's very possible that we might have more demand we have 41 staff members who are licensed practitioners who can actually offer services and it's offered during certain hours certain days of the week that that students can participate um we we don't have the staff that have the actual licensure that makes it possible for us to have it open all day every day and have if we're not that we don't have that kind

148of service our intent be behind the design was not to um to supplement it was to supplement services that are available in the community not to supplant them so to speak right um so if we do not have cert if for some reason we come to a place where student needs services and we don't have the slot available then we will refer them to a place where they can actually get assistance but yeah the volume as you know is is pretty significant and our efforts to open the center was to try to mitigate that and that's available to families for free right you know is typically not the case but um there is demand yeah and and i'm sure contracting is something that has been in your conversation um and obviously it's a great use

149of those federal dollars that are coming but with that we're not the only district and i know from the supply side there that the resources are are limited as well so hopefully we'll be able to tap into those kind of things i thank you very much i'm i'm i'm hopeful and would like to hear you know just updates on on what those numbers are what they're looking like as well as you know without violating any kind of hipaa things getting into and not necessarily at the full board level uh here at the meeting but maybe just through memorandums or something information related to kind of stratifying what those cases look like to see just in trends that might be something as a district we look at in presenting out to the state at the national

150level as well what um what the impacts of code 19 have been uh specifically and what what the needs are in social emotional because i think we could be if we if we build it that way on the front end we we can be able to articulate what that looks like and be an exemplar for other districts and maybe guide achievement not just for us but for others so i would recommend that okay that's all i have thank you very much no problem thank you dr raj mrs mimura okay i also have a question about the cares clinic which i'm very excited about as well um i think this is a huge step in the right direction with prioritizing mental health not just for our students but for our staff and my question is in

151regards to that so we've got summer school going on um you know this has been a year like no other well our teachers and staff have ample time outside of school hours for these sessions i'm assuming that you know that's going to be worked out right so the so when you say teachers you you're referring to them as patients or as providers well you said that this is going to be offered to teachers students i just want to make sure that they will have ample time outside of school hours for a session yeah sure we um so the all the session times that will take place they'll be available for teachers if if the session's available after hours that's definitely a possibility as well as students so they're not having to make a decision between

152whether i need to be in class or have a session um the thing that we have to keep in mind is that the sessions are being provided by the licensed practitioners that are actual aisd employees we're really blessed we have 41 in our system i think 41 or 42 so those those those individuals have volunteered to participate and provide their service um they were of course compensating them but at the at the same time it's able to able to do their day-to-day work and then help in the evening as well great thank you and i also want to know that our campus counseling staff is phenomenal everyone has had to really repurpose themselves this past year um in regards to our roles and how we spend the school day and i'm really hoping you know

153and all the talk that we've had tonight about normalcy this fall i'm really really hoping that we can let our counselors truly be counselors this year because as we've learned it is a priority that's it thank you miss mcmurray mr wilbanks thank you president mays and um i think dr rice covered a lot of my questions um dr works um but you know just to be clear make sure i've heard everything quickly um the windows cl the window was closed as of yesterday i guess for signing up for summer school or recommendations and you know looking at your chart on by campus especially in the elementary there's a wide variety and you said non-acceptance letters will go out tomorrow the 24th the 20th that that slide is incorrect we updated it before the meeting you

154said it was the 24th that was the 24th okay okay all right so all right that clears up that clarification but um so if you're before you send out a non-acceptance letter or we do anything like if they're not accepted into x say john's elementary because it's full but a nearby campus is not are we doing what are we doing to kind of level the demand at each campus so that we can serve the maximum number of students possible we will offer space to any play any student wherever there's space there um that that the only issue that we have to work through is transportation because of the way that it's designed at certain schools are transported by hubs to the campus where they're going to be attending because it's like uh you might have

155three campuses that are near one and they all go to the same one but we won't deny services to a student who's eligible or whoever we have space for it we have to we'd have to mitigate that challenge should it present itself right but the um i i'm really not anticipating that that's probably going to be the issue it's really going to be about staffing and placing staff at the right location so for example if i know that at school x i have more kids there than i do teachers but i have hired a teacher and there's not i don't really need them at another campus we can transfer them to a location where the students are there because the physical space is there's plenty of that okay yeah so it's more that's obviously right

156the better strategy when you move a teacher around the level versus having a bus but in rare cases of a parent was denied and then offered to transport their children to another oh yeah that's not no problem um and you mentioned staffing concerns um and i think your question was or the reply to dr reich was that you're still working through that and wouldn't have a good idea of where we are but um is there any additional insight you can say on where which grade levels or which type of resources you're having trouble trying to staff i i and i i'm not trying to articulate that how grave or anything that it is i'm all i wanted to articulate is that if there's a reason why we had to reduce numbers of students it would

157only be because of teachers and staff hiring we're in the process of now that we've closed registration we're in the process of comparing registration numbers against staff hiring that's already occurring which we're still in the process of doing to understand where there's a gap but um don't necessarily um i don't want to articulate this idea that it's it's a big problem yet because i that we don't necessarily know because we're still in the hiring process i just wanted to articulate that if there was a reason why any kind of reduction or if someone wasn't accepted which is was in the presentation the reason that would ever exist is because there wasn't staff to do it and we would have to focus on the most that needs students because as i said while we while we

158tried to articulate who which students are probably the most ideal candidates for summer programming we do know that there are parents and uh that really feel like their students could benefit from time in school in the summer time and we didn't want to not offer that opportunity but if we have to pick and choose because of staffing reasons we have a process that we'll do that with but i'm not i couldn't tell you exactly how bad that gap is yet or if it exists significantly until i do the until we analyze it and where my team's actually doing that as we speak so i can share that with you once we once we know yeah yeah yeah and and once you have that settled uh giving you more insight onto that um so my final

159question is you know going back to the overview presentation you made about the strategy um i have no doubt that you're putting together an awesome plan that puts together current best practices and as dr provost was mentioned this is just one small piece in the overall arching plan that you shared with us last time and the thing i understand is you know for those of us familiar with summer school programs across the country often times in the past they've been maligned for not being something akin to sending a kid off to the corner to do a worksheet obviously this is not that um so can you share a little bit more if it's um not tangential to this conversation of at the elementary school level what that entails one of the concerns i have is

160you know kids you know this isn't going to be um what's the hours four four hours six hours it's not six hours of intensive academic work the kids are going to be having fun correct oh yeah so there's a there's um 90 minutes of literacy 60 minutes of math they also have social emotional learning component and they also have a i almost want to call it a free hour but it's not really three hours it's like special so they're going to be engaged in enrichment um with their teacher around topics that they're naturally inclined or interested in doing it will be differentiated by the each classroom because teachers will be able to lean into their own ideas and talents and it will happen also as part of that schedule so yeah we want to engage

161kids and it's summer and so we want them to feel inclined to come for their academics but we also want it to be enjoyable and have them engage in enrichment opportunities as well so that's all part of the the schedule yeah so it's not sitting in a classroom they'll be outdoors actively learning and be about you know the cycle of a plant uh or the parts of the you know the science-based or the teachers design what the experience will be for the kids um we provide the curriculum and the lesson plans and things to help them but it's the teacher decides those kinds of makes those decisions professionally um they'll definitely be learning in the classroom but there's nothing to stop a teacher from taking kids outside and teaching them traditionally like they would in

162an environment where they can leverage the world around them to teach it's not designed to be a worksheet driven kind of summer school it's teaching it's small group instruction guided reading all the things that we would normally want to see during the school day but focused around standards that build the blocks to help them accelerate some of their learning and to close some gaps that may exist so um that's the that's the way we've kind of designed it it's um but we are we will encourage and allow teachers to what i call the art of teaching versus the science of it let them leverage the art that they that they're good at to connect with the kids that are sitting in front of them well given the numbers we already have it sounds like it's

163um that's a propitious sign for the success of this program and um if we can continue to serve even more than the what was the number 8200 um great um and i think that's a good start to what's going to be a long hard effort to counteract and prevent the lifelong uh um generational loss that could occur because of it and um kudos to your team thank you mr wilbanks this is fowler thank you president mays um dr wertz talking about the summer school do we have any kind of a wait list for students who want to be accepted that there's the spots are filled or they're they're waiting no there's not at this point because we haven't sent any we haven't told anybody they couldn't come yet really what we're trying to do is

164invite everybody so once we identify how if there is a gap and how large it may be in terms of staffing what the what the projections are in terms of filling those slots or where to mr wilbank's point is where we could shuffle um staff or students to fill in all the space that we have then we'll then we'll be able to answer that question but frankly our goal is to say yes to everybody um i i just i'm the only reason i'm even a little bit hesitant is because i i really want to see what the gap is and i i really don't know what it is yet yeah and what about do we have like requirements um let's say a student signs up for summer school and comes a couple of days and

165then disappears for a while what what do we do about that so as part of the process we do have parents make commitments around it because we want them to come to school we also are trying to create a scenario where they go to the environment that they're actually in there isn't going to be going back and forth and the reason that is is because teachers will not be teaching simultaneously in both environments so if the parent signs up for their child to be in person their attendance will need to be in person or vice or online if that's their choice um but yeah that we we actually included that as part of our process wonderful and then uh skipping over to the social emotional um do can a child or can a student sign

166up and talk with someone do their parents have to be notified since they're a minor they can always go to their school counselor and talk to their teacher or school counselor school counselors can interact with students that they do in their in the regular school day without notifying a parent because it's not a therapeutic service where parents have to get involved is when it becomes more therapeutic in nature um because there are other laws attached to that and the licensure that's required by the person providing the service is different than a school counselor a school counselor can't do that so the during the school day or at summer programming if there is a school counselor available and a student wants to see them that's totally normal and allowed but if they do need something beyond

167that that's more medical nature or therapeutic and nature then then a parent will have to get involved okay and is there any chance that we could have these specialized clinics on on campuses rather than just at the pdc no that's a good that's a good idea um and i will share that with the team with the reason why it's at the pdc right now and we have to think about where it is is because the hours in which it's being provided it's in a centralized location so people can go to it it's not necessarily happening in the middle of the day in the morning um and you you might place it accidentally in a part of town where the majority of the referrals at that particular time aren't happening and people are having to drive

168away across town pdc is kind of in a centralized location that's the reason why it's there but as dr brown mentioned it can happen virtually or in person but um i can share that with the team you know we can we can always look and see where the referrals are coming from and which parts of town it's it's heavier or not and if we can have remote sites that's not there's nothing to keep us from doing that a week the staff is going to be able to provide the service anywhere as long as the environment is private and secure and confidential because it is a therapeutic service but yeah i i think that's a good idea and could we could we entertain maybe the idea of maybe using some uta interns that are in the

169social work or psychology department i mean would that would that help us if we had interns um so when it comes to uh therapeutic services usually people who are in that in the environment are allowed who are earning hours towards a state licensure usually have completed their coursework and are in a place in their programming where they are supervised by a licensed practitioner all of ours have the licensure if we were trying to extend that we would have to seek special permission that allowed them to be supervised and earn hours under someone who is allowed to supervise someone who hasn't don't doesn't have the licensure i can share that with my team and we can investigate that just to expand services um i just don't i don't know the answer to that question yet but

170that that's kind of what our boundaries are a little bit but i'll share that that might alleviate you know i know we have the 41 and we're grateful for those but that may help to have just those extra backups that may be able to see even more students because i feel like when we get back in the fall we're going to see a lot of referrals and a lot of self-referrals right and it's just an opportunity to have a partnership where it's a win-win hours and it's possible i don't think we're opposed to exploring that in any way i just don't want anyone turned away or we can't see you today but we can see you thursday of next week yeah i just i don't i i want to try to avoid that yeah okay

171thank you sir thank you mrs fowler dr reich thank you president mayes i apologize i i forgot uh one of the questions that i didn't write down um the the high school numbers for summer school you said are essentially the same and that really is strange to me uh why do you think it is like that i would expect to be much higher yeah i asked that question and they're they're still evaluating the numbers that's why i didn't bring them to you tonight because i didn't have them on my desk before i came into the meeting um but they said um my the team that manages summer school um indicated to me that the numbers are pretty consistent with previous years for high school so i don't know the answer to the question you're asking

172but i think it's a good one that i am still looking into i think the difference between elementary in in junior high versus high school is it's it's credit based it's not necessarily skill based um we we do have a bridge program that we will be initiating in the in the in the summer around algebra 1 allow kids to really prep themselves for that course to help do exactly what you're describing earlier but in terms of general summer school it's acceleration or credit recovery and so depending upon how students have been navigating through the credit recovery process during the school year and our grade recovery which is new for many students where they can continue to work with a teacher where they fail the six weeks and they can recover that grade without going through

173a credit recovery process that number may be mitigating some of it so i'll know more definitively what you're asking because i have asked that question already i only don't have the detail because it wasn't on my desk right before i walked in but i did ask this evening um so i had the same thought that you were but i really think it has to do with the nature of the programming being not skill based which really exacerbates the number of kids we want to come versus high school if you earn credit you move on to the next course and then we have to do the process that i described in the last meeting which is accelerate to close gaps as they're moving into their next course even though they've earned the credit well i appreciate

174it and uh sorry miss fowler that's one more as as secretary i'm making her write so many things tonight i like homework i'm getting lots of it thank you very much i appreciate it thank you dr raj i see no more questions um dr word dr brown thank you very much for your presentation dr covases our next item is considering emotions do we have any emotions thank you president mason we do not have any motions to consider tonight under this item okay thank you very much so next on our agenda are items to be withdrawn from the consent agenda are there any items to be withdrawn okay singing none next uh dr cobases thanks president mason so as customary we'll have a statement about our consent items so uh ms moss thank you president may

175trustees dr pavasos we bring for your consideration tonight several consent items including two bids thirteen purchases greater than fifty thousand that are exempt from bid and item f a resolution of the board regarding s or three and policy cb local state and federal revenue sources with this resolution the board adopts text as recommended by tasby for inclusion at cv local state and federal revenue sources administration recommends approval of the consent items is there a motion to accept the consent agenda okay got a motion by mrs fowler second by mr wilbanks any discussion yes dr reich just to clarify uh we typically would do a resolution as a separate standalone item we don't have to we're not required to read the resolution or anything like that it's okay the way it is embedded in consent okay

176okay i've got our district attorney a thumbs up i got a board attorney here saying yes thank you very much appreciate it thank you dr raj okay so we've got our motion we've got our second please vote all present vote in the affirmative and the motion passes thank you very much mrs moss okay next on our agenda our discussion items dr cavazos thank you president mason this evening we bring a legislative update uh for the board's information and we have uh david anderson our legislative consultant um ready to go i believe david are you there i'm here all right so i'll turn it over to david anderson good evening uh it's been it's been fascinating to listen to uh to everything tonight and congratulations on hanging in there on everything so we have a powerpoint

177that will keep me on track tonight and certainly be ready to answer any of your questions but i think someone is going to drive that for us there see if i can get rid of that light a little bit there so if we could go on to the next slide uh there we go so i really want to start with a couple things for you when we when we last talked about the legislature we mentioned several things that characterized this session and certainly the the uh those circumstances haven't changed a bit one of the things that has been in the news a little bit this week is redistricting and that of course is something that is characteristic of every session that in a year that begins in one that ends in one this time redistricting

178is not being addressed because of the delays with the with the census data and so i did want to tell you that the latest we have from the from the offices of the two chairs of this is that the census data will be to the states by september 30th there will be a special session almost immediately after that the governor spoke to that special session again today when he talked about some federal funds we'll get to that a little bit later but the the critical issue here of course is what happens with with the districts the house districts and senate districts and i would expect as we look at some of the boundaries and where the growth has been when all is said and done arlington isd may have a little different look it may

179be a significantly different look in terms of how the legislative districts that serve you your delegation and where they are it certainly will will be monitoring and staying very involved with that when we're back here in in october the other wrinkle on this is that depending on how quickly they're able to do the redistricting in october we may see some delays in when the spring primaries and the runoffs occur if the committees are efficient over the summer and in the interim we're back in for a few days to get everything finalized a week two weeks even we'll be on the same schedule we anticipate right now for spring primaries and runoffs if it takes longer those will bump a little bit later in the spring accordingly and if they don't get this done until december

180or january it really does affect it affects the primaries in a pretty significant way that's the one big issue that has not been addressed that we anticipated this session so if we may frank let's move on to the next slide redistricting hasn't been done what is almost done is appropriations uh the two bills that are worth noting are senate bill 1 which is the general appropriations act the conference committee report is finalized but not finished and today that caused that cause to stir in the capital because several important important um amendments to that bill that were offered in the house were removed in conference and for the most part those amendments have to do with what is done with the second and third round of federal funds and the governor in response to some of

181the concerns announced that with regard to the overall circumstances of federal not just education that he is absolutely committed to having the legislature have some level of engagement with this and if necessary that would be addressed in the special session in october when redistricting is done and that that action alone certainly will help reassure a number of people whether it's enough to reassure all of the decision makers remains to be seen on appropriations specific to senate bill 1 trustees the funding is there for the foundation school program the funding is there for all of the changes in education that were incorporated into the huberty taylor act house bill 3 in 2019 all of the funding is built in for enrollment growth or money is built in to reflect enrollment growth so when we get to

182our scorecard at the end you're going to see that from my perspective right now i think the financial situation with state budget looks very very good and of course this doesn't really doesn't really take into account the third round of the of the federal funds that are coming from washington to help education the second bill the supplemental appropriations bill is the bill that really does get us through the rest of this biennium and that also is very promising economic circumstances in texas as all of you are very well aware are much better now than they were in january january was better than what they appeared to be in november the announcement by the controller a week and a half ago about the revised revenue estimate and adding some additional funds certainly help wrap up the

183budget in a in a pretty clean way but supplemental appropriations bill is in senate finance that has a hearing tomorrow and so by the end of the day tomorrow i think we'll have a much better sense of where that supplemental appropriations bill is so frank if you would let's go on to slide number three public education selected issues and based on some conversations that trustees that you have had with me in some of our prior meetings leading into the session and since the session began conversations with dr cavazos and his staff i identified several things for us to talk about very quickly one is house bill 1525 which is the cleanup bill for the huberty taylor act house bill 3 from last session this bill right now is in the senate to say that this

184has become a uh a beach ball being knocked around on the beach would be an understatement the bill really has had a number of different iterations most of what is in the bill is more significant for smaller and mid-sized districts and for fast growth districts but there are some things in there that are very positive for the overall circumstances of school districts in texas that bill uh has been has been linked pretty significantly uh to another bill that we'll talk about in a minute in terms of without one we likely will not get the other and with house bill 1525 i'll say that chairman huberty uh not sharing public head this session but but share when the bill was passed in 19 it has done a pretty amazing job in pulling together all the disparate

185concerns that have come up over the implementation of house bill 3 and has done a good job of addressing that the bill really has has been a roller coaster but if we can get this passed without a lot of amendments in the senate i think that i think that it will be a positive bill to help with some of our school finance and program issues when we were together last time we talked about one of the other big issues of the session and that's broadband house bill 5. and that bill is in conference right now uh the the two people who have steered that through the session representative ashby in the house representative ashby from lufkin senator nichols from jacksonville have done again a very impressive job of bringing together all of the disparate pieces

186related to getting the state of texas into the 21st century with our statewide broadband the one of the issues that remains is where the administration of this initiative will take place over the next few years but i think that will be resolved and when we see the final bill which which i expect to see uh early next week i i think we'll be very pleased with what uh senator nichols representative ashby and their their committee has done with this another issue that we have talked about and i know this is very significant based on conversations that your constituents had earlier during public testimony virtual education and we have talked about this before house bill is the keith bell bill this is the bill that i think the great majority of school leaders feel is the

187most appropriate bill moving forward because it addresses the concerns that school districts have about control over their virtual program within the district to deal with students who are living within the district boundaries and to be able to have that level of program control so that and without the financial penalties that would currently exist and it would in essence empower school districts to make decisions about what do we want to do with virtual ed do we want this to be an important part of our program for some students do we want this to be an option for some students how do we want to deal with it the critical point here is that bells 1486 makes this very much a program that would be directed by independent school districts the senate counterpart to that bill that

188senator taylor had senate bill 27 is dead so the real opportunity for for virtual education is going to be 1486 and that's going to be heard tomorrow morning in senate education the other bill that we keep an eye on is ken king's house bill 3643 which would create a virtual education commission that is on the senate intent calendar it was on today did not get a vote we'll roll over to senate intent tomorrow the commission that that bill creates is structured very similar to the school finance commission in 2017 it worked in and their work led up that commission's work led up to uh house bill 3. so i think this is an important bill the idea that 1486 and 3643 are mutually exclusive is is absolutely incorrect you can have one without the other

189but in many ways i think they complement one another 1486 would mean that we get something immediately with regard to virtual well 3643 gives us an opportunity to work with the legislature and take a a longer more thoughtful look at the research about virtual education and how we best utilize that so frank if you would take us forward one more slide i did pick a few bills that are important bills dealing with significant topics that we have right now and we're dealing with on a day-to-day basis and i want to give you a quick update on those bills as we go forward i mentioned earlier 1525 well senator betancourt's which is about governance accountability speaks very directly to the due process that districts may have in a uh in a campus or district takeover that

190bill is like 1525 and it has gone back and forth and back and forth friday a group of house members worked very diligently with a group of representatives from the public ed leadership community and i think we've reached a point with that bill that we're pleased with it texas school alliance of which arlington is a member uh texas association of school boards have all signed a joint letter with several other of the superintendent-led organizations supporting that bill and that is in that's in the house right now the other bill i wanted to uh mention is senate bill 2094 which is a taylor betancourt bill that's also in the house public education committee pending that is a governance related bill senator representative dutton's house bill 4465 is a bill that started out as a troublesome bill

191for us but has has improved as it went through the process and currently that bill which speaks to grants to help with disaster relief in times of disasters is much better because the funding for that is not coming out of money that would have gone to schools otherwise instead those grants will be funded out of the commissioner's share of the federal funds you recognize that the commissioner has 10 percent of the funds that are coming to the state to use for his statewide initiatives that's where the funding would be in the current iteration of that the other bill that i wanted to touch on is house bill 3970 steve toths bill it's the companion bill to uh to senate bill 2202 and i've got a typo typo there please excuse that brandon creighton's bill this

192is the social studies bill that was heavily debated and amended on the house side a week ago it went to the senate the senate restored the original language and they're sending it back to the house one of the critical points there from my perspective is the provision in the bill it would say that a teacher may opt out of uh teaching a controversial topic or controversial current event and certainly there are other points there to be concerned about and i look forward to working with dr wertz and dr cavazos is if if this bill does pass in terms of how we work with the administrative code language as that's implemented with the state board but the concern about what about a teacher opting out is one that really is a fundamental governance issue in public

193schools trustees it undermines that hierarchical structure that's so important with a campus with departments department chairs that report to the principal the principal reports to the central office and the central office reports to the trustees for policies uh so that's that is a bill that i think almost every school leader has has concerns about and that bill is likely to pass based on how it's gone back and forth house bill 547 is james frank's bill that would allow home school aged children to participate in uil activities in the district in which they are eligible to enroll that bill has failed for four straight sessions it was stuck in the education committee until represented frank opted to make it permissive to the school district and the way the bill is written right now and the way

194i think the bill will pass if it passes that permissive nature will stay with the bill so at some point if it passes over the next four to five months you'll have to begin to develop policies and procedures for how you determine if first if you want home school students home school aged children to participate in uil academic and athletic activities in arlington isd and if you do what are the procedures you'll follow for those students to to apply and to play that bill is in the senate it's on the senate intent calendar for tomorrow it requires a 9 16 vote to bring it to the floor and then of course it needs just 16 votes to pass in the senate and then the last bill i want to mention in a specific list is

195senate bill 2015 which is paul bettencourt's bill that would have established an office of inspector general at tea with subpoena power and that bill failed to get a uh a favorable recommendation from house public ed today i think we can say that that bill that bill is dead for this session is a standalone bill so frank if you'll take me one slide forward in in summary of the notes i prepared for this trustees uh i want to go back to your legislative priorities as we did the last time we were together and of those seven large priorities appropriate funding i think not only do you get a get a check does legislature get a check on this i think they really get a check plus because of what they've done to uh to financially support

196the foundation school program and the programs that were created or extended in house bill 3 2 years ago and fund enrollment growth and again that doesn't take into account the federal dollars house bill 3 support continued tax relief yes in many ways they go hand in hand i do think that there are a couple provisions as we begin to dig into the appropriations bill in which you may see some additional tax relief not not a whole lot but i think that you may see some additional tax relief in the second year of the biennium tax compression because of what's uh happening with property values and with with enrollment and again that's projected right now we'll know a whole lot more about that when the budget passes uh implementation of house bill 3 again a check

197and those first three items as we said very much linked now with regard to trs and increasing access to affordable health care the verdict is still out on that we have uh senate bill 1444 that is still alive that would provide some flexibility for you there's some other things in there that i think raised a little concern to some of the school districts around the state the provision that bill would eliminate the uh the um districts of innovation opt out provision some people call it a loophole but it it has certainly been used very advantageously for some districts around the state so the verdict is out the jury is out on that one the accountability recalibration and star reliance reduction i think when all is said and done we're going to see some marginal improvements

198in accountability there are a couple opportunities particularly with the military readiness that could pass that make a lot of sense including credit for military readiness if the student completes two years of junior rotc in a school district but the star reliance reduction not so much the the house has been very committed to that your representative matt krauss has a bill that could help there the problem with this has really been in the senate where the senate has been extremely reluctant uh to do anything to relu to reduce the reliance on the star exam we've had a lot of help from senator powell but the numbers in the senate that continue to support the use of star are just they're just too high right now and then the improved funding for mental health needs uh we'll

199be able to answer that in a more in a more in-depth and thoughtful manner for you after the session when we get to dig into the budget we do know that there's some legislation that would regard it would help with a commission to look at this going forward but the actual budget numbers we're just not able to tell yet until we dig into uh senate bill one once we have final copies of all of that and then the last item governance uh i think that's going to end up as is almost a stalemate this session my concern reflects the concerns that you have expressed about more authority being given to the state education agency at the expense of local school districts i'm not sure we have really seen a lot of pushback on that but

200i think we've been able to hold the line in some places on this to maintain that balance between what the state education agency does and what the role of an independent school district is and again i've got to give that an incomplete we'll give you a much better picture within the next three weeks when we get all of the bills together and can look at that in a as a matrix and and determine exactly what the effects of this session have been so frank if you would uh go on i'll tell you here's our final slide we have 128 29 days behind us we have 11 days ahead uh they are going to be long days the house adjourned today in a surprise move and they have adjourned until sunday at one o'clock they're going

201to take off tomorrow and saturday the senate is working today and may have a calendar on saturday and then off sunday but next week is a critically important week as it is at the end of every session because we have calendar deadlines each and every day and those calendar deadlines will determine whether uh contents of a bill or an entire bill move to the finish move toward the finish line or fall to the wayside as we get close to signing die on on monday may 31st so there is a rapid fire look at some of the issues that i think are important to you let me be quiet now and see if there are any questions or comments that you may have about this thank you very much mr anderson mr wilbanks thank you president

202mays and thank you again mr anderson wow 11 days hopefully uh you've got a great vacation planned a day after signing day uh because it's been a crazy session um or a session like no other i should say um i agree with you but you know as far as public head goes i don't think we can complain too much if you look to our left and to our right to other big areas of the budget health and human services and transportation in other areas a higher ed we've pretty much came out unscathed up to now versus some of those other areas so we should count our blessings i mean a huge win is the maintenance of hb 3 the esser funds and i guess i didn't realize that sr2 there's talk about releasing those funds

203now so there'll be even more money for us um to help remediate the coverage loss so all good things favorable trends they're not dead as you're well experienced with the texas legislature you can't count anything out there's been a number of zombie bills that keep resurrecting themselves but for the most part vouchers um extension and uncontrolled expansion of charter schools i'm not opposed to charter schools but i don't think you know we uncontrolled expansion has not been a good thing for a public ed loss of local control um we fought the good fight there um and speaking of that um in uh bell's bill was that hb 1525 uh 1526 i believe in the launch of the virtual education bill oh wait i know i'm getting that confused uh hold on i got my cheat

204sheet here okay um 1486 is the virtual bill that keith bell has hold on hold on hold on uh oh i'm sorry i'm not sb 1365. um you say right now that um sp 1365 that we were opposed to it that was the one that would give uh the commissioner final say in taking over of boards to kind of counter what's going on in houston right now um my question to that um so the way i read it there were still problems with it but evidently those have been cleared up to the point that we've signed up what's what exactly has changed that kind of moved our position and moved us from opposition to support uh mr wilbanks let me tell you i agree with you on not many complaints the the money that is

205so important is very positive and i also agree with you on the zombie bills never have i seen language from a bill get voted down two or three times and have it appear again in another bill that has been one of the hallmarks of this session not necessarily a good one 1365 the chairman huberty and three house members uh keith bell from forning gary vandeever from new boston and brad buckley from colleen pulled together a group of school leaders last friday representatives of a number of the management groups and said we want to we want to figure out what we can do with this and so the two areas that were that were the greatest concern to us looking out for the arlington isd interest texas school alliance tasby tatsu they were all in these

206in these conversations but the two areas were accountability particularly the the way d's and f's are calculated and then the second area was due process because the bill is originally drafted and the bill is revised it absolutely knocked the props out out from under the notion of due process for school districts that are that are engaged with tea over low performing campuses over a period of time so on friday those members asked the the collective school group to work on those two issues and so i think a lot of you know dee carney who works with me here at hillco partners i think the top accountability person in the state someone uh that the arlington folks are very familiar with dee came back and relied on the uh the accountability experts who are in the

207texas school alliance districts including arlington to help go through this and prepare the the draft language for the members at the same time david thompson with thompson horton was asked to to look at the due process and he consulted with several other people who are familiar with this and those recommendations were taken back now not every thing that we took back has gone into the uh the bill that we'll see on the floor sunday most likely but we were certainly pleased with it enough that we could say this is a better bill than status quo and so that's where this is yesterday the bill was due to be heard and acted upon on the house floor or today rather excuse me today's thursday you have to bear with me the week has gotten long it

208was supposed to be on the floor today chairman huberty postponed it until tomorrow and explained there was a ledge council drafting error in the bill and he was getting that fixed and he was very clear he called he called me this morning i helped communicate that to uh to a number of the organizations and there's no doubt he is acting in good faith on this we would have had it on the floor tomorrow but now with house adjourned that calendar pushes till till sunday so we'll see it on sunday long answer to your question short answer improvements with accountability particularly the df sequence and improvements with due process to protect the governance interests in the appeals process for school districts that might be going through that okay no thanks i was very helpful in clearing

209it up i'm glad we keep moving the needle even if some of these bills pass we keep making them better um or less um i i think everyone's been working overtime to to really come to compromise in in room especially the house it seems like has been very active in protecting our interest not so much the senate i think this is um a case in point right here uh let's move on to house bill 45 45 and sb 2094 i know this isn't one of our legislative agendas but i personally have an issue with school-based um school funding based on star and um that one it keeps getting one of those that keeps ping-ponging back and forth we keep striking it i think right in the house and the senate keeps trying to add it

210back in where does it stand right now so that's a bill that we will be spending some time with over the weekend uh 45 45 the provisions of that bill the last draft that we saw on that are very similar to what we just discussed improvement not necessarily to a point where we say this is this is good we can live with it but mr wilbanks i think what we've got here is an issue in which we've got to look at what does the bill do to change the situation relative to the status quo if nothing happens are we fine with the status quo and so to use the virtual as an example the answer is if nothing happens with virtual and we get the status quo then really the the interests of arlington isd

211and every other school district that is not in the virtual school network is contingent upon decisions made by the commissioner with regard to waivers and so in many ways we have some issues right here with this with the grant program and accelerated instruction this makes some modifications um is are some things better than status quo yes are there concerns in the bill yes okay um and then like so many things a real mix a mixed bag in 45-45 the bill compared to where it was when session began it was filed it's improved tremendously but it was pretty bad when it was filed yes in my opinion yeah it was a it was a pretty bad bill um on hb 1525 which had a provision in section 25 i believe um for uh requiring us to

212hold back esser funds over five years up to 40 percent i believe that's been placed on the intent calendar and in the senate um what's the chances of that i mean is it pretty much dead or could that still crop up and yeah so so the that section in the bill uh is a non-starter for the house members and so if that bill stays in there when it comes back it clearly will go to conference because that's that's unacceptable uh to the house side and that that's the issue that whole notion of the direction about the funds is is what created the conflict today with with senate bill 1. that the provisions that the house wanted in are not in there right now i think the governor is trying to reassure the house is very

213committed to this money the federal funds going to the schools having the authority to spend those within the guard rails that were created at the federal level when the funds were appropriated we know they're going to be distributed via title 1 formulas and so uh dr cavazos and his team uh ms moss and others have a real good idea of what the amount of money that we're looking at and based on the the federal information we should have a real good idea of how we can spend those funds and the senate i have no doubt that someone was well intentioned when they said this they're trying to figure out a way to give you more time with those funds basically take three years the three years you haven't spread it over five but you you

214get into a governance question there and as as your advisor on governance my advice would be it's not a good trade that that the control of these these funds and how you're going to utilize them to address learning loss and the other issues they're intended to do should be made with the administration the trustees the feds intended you to have three years there are ways that you may be able to get a bit more out of that but i'm not sure that the the state recommendation of well we're gonna we're gonna force this into uh a circumstance in which every district has to do this over five years again that that flies in the face of governance of school districts so my my recommendation to you is that we hang on and that we continue

215to talk to your delegation about keep that out and your house delegation is very strong on that they they do not want that and the education leadership in the house does not want that well i mean we've already had discussions on how we're going to stretch that out and what best meets our needs and in terms of that and a one-size-fits-all for the state is just ridiculous and gets into that local control issue which um don't get me started on again um we'll save that for conversation in arlington sometime uh after the session yeah and i'm gonna try to go fast so my other colleagues can go but i've got a few more here oh real quick 17 sb 1716 which is the special ed grant that is one of um which now allows the

216district's art committees um to direct how that grant which used to be called a credit or some would call a voucher is used um is that another one in that bucket of it was really bad and onerous and now it's acceptable i think it's gone to a neutral position with those i think so and specifically the notion that the regional education service centers become the conduit adds a level of accountability for those funds that wasn't there originally and it's a little different role for the regional service centers but one that clearly they have the expertise to deal with so the dollars are not going directly to uh to families but the families have some say about what sort of services and and to some extent i think in most cases there will be consultation with

217school districts but uh again it's it's better i don't see that as a voucher bill at all based on the changes that have been made so far yeah and uh the only other bill um that i had to talk about was to make a comment on the uil bill the tim tebow bill is it true that one of the last minute amendments was not only allow home school students which i'm not opposed to as long as it's controlled in a way that we can control and not game the system but one of the amendments also included uh students from instructional um insta correctional institutions to be able to play on sports teams within our district and i think it was already problematic in that we have uil rules for eligibility if that if a kid

218makes a 69 in one class they're ineligible to play on the football team how are we going to police that eligibility for students coming from correctional institutions and home school and i'm not saying our coaches would do this but it seems right across the street for other coaches to game the system so it just seems problematic in a number of areas but specifically the eligibility issue well i could certainly go on for for quite a while about what is wrong with that bill the fundamental concept behind it is wrong in my opinion um i would never begrudge any parent's right to educate their own children if that's what that's what a parent wants to do they in texas they have that flexibility and they have that with very few really no no strings no oversight

219from the state but when a parent opts to waive their right to a public education they really they're they're waiving the privilege that goes with that public education also and that's that's uil among other things the there was an amendment on the house floor that added a requirement for the uil to uh to include texas youth committee commission facilities tyc facilities and it was if you remember the movie the longest yard both iterations of it basically this was the longest yard goes to uh goes to high school those facilities those five facilities would be able to field their own teams and would be what would be forced well i'd say force uil would if uil recognized them in districts uh would if they placed them in a district then all the schools in that district

220would have to play them and that's that's the issue there on the senate side angela paxton from plano is the senate sponsor of the bill and she's been quite clear that she has no interest in keeping that in the bill and the senate version that is on the intent right now does not have that provision now we understand that representative frank is uh uh is concerned about losing that and and may have uh i may take the bill to conference he may have an amendment that he wants senator accident offer but i don't believe senator paxton has any interest in including tyc in this and it's so ironic that the day that we're talking about this in the senate they passed eddie lucio the third bill which has already been passed by the house that

221prescribes how a student who assaults a referee uh will not be able to participate and it's one of those things that if a student if an arlington isd student i know they never would but if they did if if they're moved to a a daep because of a disciplinary issue they're not able to participate in uil activities while they're there because of this but a student youth commission could have could have assaulted someone with a knife for a gun and that provision would allow them to participate in uil academic and athletic activities and so i don't think that will will be in there certainly we're doing what we can to uh to keep that bill from passing uh there is a boundary requirement in there um mr will banks it says right now that says

222a student a home school a school-aged child who's being home-schooled could participate in activities in the district in which the student is otherwise eligible to enroll what's really not addressed very well though is the transfer provisions and i think that what we would end up with is a circumstance in which whatever your transfer rules are for students right now from outside the district you'd probably probably be looking at a parallel circumstance for students who are homeschooled but but it's it's rife with problems of school shopping on on the part of a family who is homeschooling and recruiting on the other side and it is permissive that was the only way the bill came out of house public ed when represented frank made it permissive the vote went from um five in favor to eight against

223to seven in favor six against and there's a swing of seven votes on the house floor so this is a bill that is hotly contested and one of the two large homeschool coalitions the homeschool freedom network or the homeschool freedom group is opposed to the bill they don't like it and they've been very adamant in their opposition so it is a controversial bill to say the least yeah absolutely well um again thank you i've got one final comment not a question to you but i think a shout out needs to go out to a representative matt krause they're carrying hb 764 it's i think the furthest that a bill limiting the use of star has gone um but it's not going to going to make the finish line unfortunately again this year but each session

224it seems like we get a little further and a little further and a little further but again i want to thank representative klaus for fighting the good fight and i would never correct you in public and say that you were talking about hp 14 86 and that was really 1468 so i'll just leave that i've hogged the mic enough so let me turn it over to my other colleagues including mr hogg thank you mr wilbanks mr chopa thank you president mays mr anderson uh we we meet with you regularly in governance committee and i know you've got a lot to do and it's late i don't want to want to keep you i know it's a lot of fascinating stuff going on in the legislature right now but the thing that you said that intrigued

225me the most is and i know you're a man of careful words on senator bettencourt's uh tea inspector general bill you said that you think that uh the the prospects of the bill passing is a standalone bill um are pretty low does that mean that that there's a possibility that this gets tacked on to something else there is it's a great question the bill really died today uh and i will tell you i smiled when when it came up in house public ed and they they didn't vote on it because that in essence killed it for this session i i don't think that that a that amendment to add another to create that office of inspector general i think the possibility of it getting on a bill is very very very low but believe me

226when i say that is something that is is uh high on my watch list and we're going to do everything we can to keep that from passing i don't object to inspector generals by any means i don't think you do either if it's done correctly in this case the bill didn't have the bill contained none of the standards for inspector general that are recognized at the national level none of them the inspector general would have subpoena power would be appointed by a report to the commissioner of education and have the authority to investigate waste fraud and abuse in school districts regional service centers charter schools and other local education agencies but not the state education agency the bill is is tremendously flawed and i was very pleased today when uh when it did not come

227out of house public yet okay thank you for that mr anderson that's the only question i have thank you mr chapa dr raj uh thank you president mays mr anderson i only have about 10 more questions beyond what mr wilbanks had for you just kidding so i appreciate everything and i know these 11 days are going to feel like 50. so thank you for what you do with us and for us and other districts as well i just uh clarifying question or curiosity on the home school uh uil uh issue uh frank's bill is there as far as us being able to uh if it goes somewhere uh putting rules down promulgating all that out um what uh what does that look like as far as our our autonomy and being able to do that

228versus tea being able to step in or even uil having something to say that no you can't do that you can do this is there anything like that that we have to be concerned about should this thing pass dr reich i think what we want to pay attention to is the university interscholastic league and uh tea really doesn't ta has indirect rulemaking with regard to some of the extracurricular but the procedures for this would be with the university interscholastic league um jamie harrison at the university of scholastic league has been a resource witness on this and his uh i know met regularly with all of the interested parties from my perspective and i think this would i can't put words in his mouth but i think that that he would certainly have a similar observation

229the bill is effective if it passes the bill's effective september 1 2021. and so i would be willing to uh be willing to bet right now that if the bill pardon me if the bill does pass dr cavazos office will start to get calls from homeschoolers as early as june first about how how arlington is going to handle this the uil rulemaking process is a very thorough one i think you're familiar with this with the governing board and the vote by the superintendents and all that they have to go through a really a more appropriate way to deal with this would be to have a one-year lag from the time the bill becomes effective september one to win the homeschool students would be able to engage that would give the university scholastically time to develop

230procedures it would give trustees in school districts across the state time to develop their procedures as well and and my prediction on this is that if the bill passes and we don't have that time it's going to it's really going to be a train wreck and all of the concerns that we have about this will be magnified because we don't have the time to be thoughtful about it and this is an issue that does require thoughtfulness because you're it's not just a matter of the student coming in and and participating with debate or with the with the sports team there's so many other questions about liability and about cost the bill speaks to that in a fairly general way but it does require i believe thought on the part of districts and the uil and

231i feel certain tasby will play an important role in this in providing some model uh model guidance for this i would hope they would that's you know they have the great expertise to help do that so yes you will have a lot to say about it but to a great extent we're going to need some guidance from the university class scholastically to make sure that what you do in arlington is consistent with the uil rules that would relate to this if if the bill passes thank you i appreciate it that's all i have thank you dr raj i don't see any other lights yes i do mr hogg thank you and mr anderson thank you so much and you touched on senate bill 1444 by taylor about trs you all know up here i'll talk

232about trs all day and what poor insurance we have and what we need to do um to really help you know the other one that comes in is hb 1342 by leach that's allowing districts to get the data in summary from that and it's an intent calendar is there any that's right traction on that is that is that gonna process through because for districts to truly opt out you have to have that data to be able to follow yes sir uh so that is that's an interesting circumstance because this is a bill that um it went to local calendar on the house side it was it was passed their strong vote for that and um it's been recommended for local and uncontested calendar in the senate side but it was placed on senate intent which

233is a little bit different senate intent gives people an opportunity to to slow it down in a in an easier way but also to uh to amend it but the bill this is a bill that should pass but it's also a bill that could get caught up in the uh in the tension between the two chambers because the tension right now between the house and the senate we all we know it this time in the session the tension is always high but but there's there's a level to that tension that we don't we don't see very often there's a lot of a lot of hostage taking one chamber to the other with bills bills that are on send intent one day and then they're not the next because of uh some issue that perhaps the

234bill author had with the senate bill so this is a bill that by all measures should pass and because it's in the senate there's time for it to pass we're not we're not looking at deadlines on this until until uh midweek next week so um mr arg if i had to predict on this one i would edge on on the passive on the side of passing on this bill perfect thank you mr anderson i'd encourage our legislative committee and you like anything we can watch and do on senate bill 1444 because while we're not considering that option right now and our work from last session has been amazing with trs active care they've done a lot more and i must thank dr crossos and mr kale over there for truly changing somewhat a system that

235manages 400 000 lives um it's still good to have options just in case so i appreciate it thank you mr engine i will i'll echo what you said my hat is off to scott kale he has he's accomplished some things with the trs staff that 24 months ago 26 months ago i would have said it's not going to happen and just uh through his sheer perseverance and his his great insight and skill there you have made progress and i think that the relationship is very positive and and there are a lot of school districts going to benefit from the work he's done there thank you mr hogg thank you mr anderson i'm sorry i just have to say it i'm just a bill that that will never go from my head as a child learning

236that from the gps and it shouldn't mr anderson thank you so much for what you do thank you again for helping to summarize helping us to understand the movement of so many of these bills that impact public education we really appreciate your time and effort and just stay awake for 11 more days yes thank you and i look forward to our post-session debriefing at some point first with staff and then of course with you trustees thank you for all you do we certainly saw great evidence of the of that tonight in the meeting thank you we're we're honored to be uh to be your voice here in in austin at the state capitol thank you very much thank you okay so now we move to our open forum for non-agenda items as shared before all

237persons in attendance are required to wear a mask speakers who are addressing the board in person yes oh yeah okay are we prepared okay so um prior to that being next on our agenda is we have our very important 2021-2022 preliminary budget update thank you president mason at this time we we will provide a brief presentation related to our budget uh planning because this is really a continuation of what we have already presented and then a preparation for what is coming in june the 10th as early as that as we move towards recommending a budget and adopting a budget at some point in june so i'll turn it over to miss moss okay thank you um so dr vasos is right this will be a brief update uh basically on a couple of items that

238relate to our current year's budget and then i'll follow up on some of the taxable values that we talked about uh last month and share kind of show you what that will do as far as our tax rate uh first item which is current year's budget is our whole harmless and i'll just go over this again for you we've shared it with you before but the first two six weeks we are automatically held harmless the third two six weeks we were required to offer in-person learning and we did that we were also required to complete an attestation and submit that to tea and we completed that in january the final semester requires at least 80 of our students attend in person or that the percent of in-person attendance is greater than the 38.1 percent that

239we turned in in the fall submitted in the fall as of today we are at 55 percent so we have reason to believe that tea will approve us and hold us harmless uh so in doing that we've calculated uh that information based on that you may recall that back in january i shared an update with you and i showed you uh this slide where we were looking at some projections based on vatr e passing whether or not we were held harmless and i shared with you those totals those items uh highlighted in the the yellow or the orange there were items that were not adjusted at the time that we shared that out in january so this is a look at those items that are actually adjusted the middle column comes directly from that previous

240slide in january where we were looking at if we were held harmless for the whole full year we would uh our bottom line would be about 10.9 million if you look at the right hand column that's where we have forecasted it out as of march of this year and the bottom line shows that we have a surplus of 32.5 million dollars and again that is as of uh of march so we will see some other adjustments as well there if you look at the variances there uh part of them are a result of the va tre that passed uh the whole harmless calculation is added and included in that as well and then our annual payroll savings that we see as a result every year for positions that are not filled that are vacant for

241the year uh that's part of it as well and that 32 and a half million dollars i would say it seems like a pretty large amount but it's really not if you take into consid into consideration that uh if we did a general pay increase of one percent that would cost us about four and a half million dollars right around so if you do the math there uh that kind of makes it not as significant as it really looks at 32.5 million it is a swing going from 31.5 million deficit to a 32 million dollar surplus though the next slide federal assistance we've talked about that a little bit tonight i just wanted to share out with you again that esser won 15 million dollars is what we've received as for two uh we're estimating

242that to be 64 million and then esther iii uh million of course they've already allocated two thirds of that which is that 89.7 million that you see here's a look at the budget timeline i share that with you uh each time and we are on may the 20th just a really brief update tonight and we'll share those numbers and how they affect the proposed tax rate next so you also saw this live the last time and we talked about um if those taxable values increased greater than the two and a half percent then we would be required to compress that tax rate and so we received those values and i'm going to share those out with you tonight there's a lot of numbers on this page but what i want to share with you is

243um the amount that we received for our april estimate on the on the 30th if you look in that last column that uh for the april estimate for 2122 it's 36 and a half billion and if you look at the column right next to it 2021 it was 34.9 billion our calculations is are that we are going to look at a 5.96 percent increase and we had to estimate that number you'll see there in the yellow as well um and uh and in most cases i'm accustomed to that april estimate being very conservative and then that uh amount decreasing by the time we get to july here in arlington you can see the pattern it typically uh that amount typically decreases here so that's why we're looking to see where we might land at july

244certified uh that 35.1 billion is what we're estimating based on the historical data that we're looking at here and what tea does is they take that july certified estimate compare it with last year's july certified estimate to to determine what our maximum compressed tax rate is going to be and i'll show you what we're calculating that based on our projections here so it shows you 1920 what our tax rate was when house bill 3 first came out and we were compressed to 97 cents and then in 2021 the va tre passed and we were able to get those additional 13 pennies and we were at 1.0864 our current 2122 estimate and i say current because it still may change we're looking at a compressed rate for tier one of 0.8865 we still keep those golden

245pennies and copper pennies so that would be 1.0565 for the new m o tax rate for us this year if all of those estimates and projections were to hold true and then our budget priorities i wanted to share those out again of course our competitive compensation our stipend review and adjustments um when you look at item cd and e those are things that we're looking at considering using some of our esser dollars for as well so we're looking at reducing the general operating budget and spending some of those esser dollars for these items our next steps uh on june the 10th we will be sharing some preliminary numbers with you on our general operating budget our food and nutrition budget construction fund budget as well as our natural gas and debt services budget that is

246our next step we will have to actually uh propose the tax rate [Music] i don't know dr provisos if you want to talk about what we're recommending yet or just just wait on that okay so that's our timeline to uh adopt that tax rate it's not adopted until august but we do have to propose one on at the june the 10th meeting i'll be glad to ask answer any questions thank you very much mrs moss do you have any questions or comments from any trustees dr raj uh i just wanted to say thank you very much for putting this together i know we will be in lots of communications between finance committee and and you and and your department the it is interesting that things look good but they're not really necessarily good it just

247depends on where things go and regarding the tax rate compression so we're looking at about three cents difference right now i know you're not you don't have a formal recommendation on what to do with ins and emino but uh moving forward if whatever happens this year say it's at five or six whatever that is it's over that two and a half percent trigger uh so what happens the following year if again we're at that two and a half over that two and a half we keep compressing and compressing correct yes okay and that's something i just want everybody to be aware of with with us coming out of covid the projections uh are already greater than what they were thinking they would be i think we're going to see even a larger rebound and that's

248just something for us to be cognizant of as a board uh that that we're we're going to get squeezed and that revenue is not going to be what we would hope that it would be from the increase of the property values and i mean that hasn't changed in this legislative session and so that's when we're preparing this budget when we're moving forward we've got to keep that in the forefront of our minds that for you what you're looking at and forecasting it's uh where it's going to be shrinking uh and house bill 3 of course uh they're buying down that tax rate basically right where we see the decrease on the on the tax side we should see an increase on the state revenue side right right okay thank you very much appreciate it thank

249you dr raj mr wellbanks not a question thank goodness uh just a request so um one of my concerns is if in the scenario that dr reich mentioned and i'm sure every school district is in this um that really effectively puts a cap on how much our budget can grow and 90 our budget is salaries um and i'd like to see some scenarios in the future and kind of work offline and i know you're busy but how that would affect um if we had a similar growth over the next five years the tax rate and what would be available all things equal to provide a cost of living adjustment because it seems like at some point we get capped at only increasing our budget 2.5 percent now i know with our tre we've got some

250room with the additional copper pennies in the golden pennies but i'd like to see those kind of scenarios play out in terms of what that really means to us going forward in terms of if we're kept at 2.5 percent going out for the next five years what that would really mean impact wise into the budget and how we could maintain our our competitive pay going forward yes and um mr wilbanks that's our plan is to share some preliminary forecasts for the next three years hopefully we have those numbers for you on on june the 10th as well and so when we do that we'll do different scenarios because we'll be estimating what we think student enrollment will be where will our ada be so we can calculate that revenue so we could do the same

251thing uh with the scenarios as far as the taxable value and the tax rate as well so when we're calculating that revenue we can say well if it's two and a half percent if it's three percent if it's 15 percent growth that we're seeing we can do different scenarios yeah and again for that exercise just to understand is keep everything constant but assume that our our tax basis our property tax revenue grows by about whatever it was this year projected into the next five years and what would that mean everything else being equal in terms of what's available absolutely absolutely and if you'll recall last month when we talked um the tad was saying we would be zero percent or a negative and so that's not what happened again surprise surprise and i will say

252also uh this is an anomaly year so what we're seeing between april and july could change this is just our estimate right now yeah so no thank you thank you mr wilbanks i don't see any other likes once again thank you mrs moss i tried to make it more brief but it didn't work thank you so much okay now next on our agenda is our open forum for non-agenda items as shared before all persons in attendance are required to wear a mask speakers who are addressing the board in person please keep your mask on thank you mrs benjamin do we have any requesters registered to address the board regarding non-agenda items president mays we had one registered requester for this portion of the meeting jesus mendoza he was on the zoom line but he is

253no longer our webmaster has informed me he did send a handout so since he was not able to stay on this late hour to speak to us on via telephone i will share these and and we'll make a note of that in the minutes that we shared his handout even though he couldn't speak thank you thank you very much mrs benjamin okay next on our agenda superintendents report dr cavazos thank you president mays and we've referenced it over and over tonight but uh we are reaching the end of our school year and so i thank our teachers again and our staff for the wonderful work they've done this year looking forward to graduation as well and i want to especially thank our campus principals for their efforts in all of the end-of-year activities and all

254the implementation of that and making them special for our students principals and staff so thank you to them and that's my report thank you very much dr cavazos um do we have any trustees with reports mrs fowler thank you president mays i wanted to give a shout out to our very own frank sack our webmaster frank was instrumental in helping with the open arms clinic virtual gala this year we weren't able to have one you know in person but um frank was able to set up a zoom with gosh i don't know how many we sold 200 boxes so we set up a zoom for all the people to participate had us during the dining area i uh dining time then he even kept us when we were doing a virtual scavenger hunts and everyone

255at open arms clinic was just so impressed with frank and have said so many times that there is no way we could have pulled off a virtual gala had it not been for frank sacks so frank we appreciate you so much for volunteering your time it was even on a sunday he gave us its day off to help us with the virtual events so open arms and myself we're very grateful for you frank thank you so much thank you very much mrs fowler any other trustees with reports okay i would like to just to give a very quick report that this month of may is and i want to say it correctly is our asian pacific american heritage month um please go out do some research look at some of the art look at some

256of the culture look at some of the food look at the mass area that covers this group of individuals and what i looked at what i thought was interesting is why did they choose the month of may to make this recognition and what i learned was two reasons one on may the 7th of 1843 the first japanese immigrant arrived in the united states then more than two decades later on may 10 of 1869 the golden spike was driven into the first transcontinental railroad which was completed mainly by using chinese labor so please go out do some research once again um very thankful to be able to say we've got another opportunity to learn about our diversity not only within our school district but within our community so take some time to learn some more with

257that being said uh dr reich and thank you president maze i just wanted to add on to that as far as an opportunity there's uh something called the it's the first time the inaugural event the nation fest uh or festival uh that uh asia times square matthew lowe is putting on i'm a proud sponsor of that event um and that is occurring uh tomorrow and saturday so that's just one of those opportunities i just want to put it out there for everybody to look that up and and participate in that opportunity thank you very much mrs fowler is it time for my report oh my goodness she's so ready okay we have no other board report so miss secretary do we have any items to consider the same thing dear president mays thank you all

258right so let's see if i did this right so david and erin would like to know the numbers for summer school in high school uh the numbers of graduate those that are graduating this year compared to previous years uh aaron would like to know the numbers that will be attending the social emotional clinics the numbers was that correct it's it's close um so it's not just the numbers but also to uh uh look at uh stratifying what that looks like as far as the different populations and what they're uh if there's trends in what they're looking at in their emotional and social needs and the counseling needs okay so that we can look at that as a district and and just to clarify on the numbers for the high school it wasn't what the numbers

259are but why the numbers are what they are why they essentially you're doing great and last one david you may have to help me with this you want to see the scenarios of different scenarios of property tax increases over five years and how those impact the budget we have this exact same growth and property values over the next five years all things equal in the budget how that affects um our bottom line in terms of what's available for um a budget yeah yeah it'll be included by the forecast yes okay and i think that concludes my report well thank you very much mrs secretary it is now 11 19 p.m and this meeting is adjourned you