Meeting of the Board - February 20, 2025

001e e e that doesn't I think they use the Stream andam e e e we are back in session at 6:22 we will now have our public hearing Dr Allen good evening Madam president good evening to our bman ISD Community tonight we will be sharing the district's annual report or the Texas Academic performance report Dr Frank is going to lead off our discussion and several additional team members will share information but this is our academic performance from the 23 24 school year it consists of several components but at this time I'll turn it over to Dr Anita Frank thank you Dr Allan good evening everyone tonight we will present bman isd's 2324 annual report which includes data from the 2324 Texas academics performance report also known as the tap r this is a required report

002to be presented to the board and the public after the tap all report is released and the report was released in December of 24 there are eight sections to the district annual report they are posted on the screen in front of you we will have key team members to come and go over each section for you we will begin with the tap r report which is compiled by tea for every district and campus using our P's data and also student assessment data it gives us a wide variety of information on the performance of our students and we will share that with you tonight we'll start off with student information when we look at our student ethnic distribution our enrollment that is reported on tap r was 16,803 students out of that group of students 60%

003were African-American 27.6% hispanic 6.9% white those were our three highest subgroups you can also see our data compared to the state's data that is on the right when we look at our student membership by demographic percentages 83% of our students are economically disadvantage which means they uh qualify for free or reduced lunch or other public assistance 16.1% of our students are English language Learners 2.6% of our students received a disciplinary placement and then 55% of our students are at risk this means that they are are coded at risk of possibly dropping out of school when we look at our staff information I do want to highlight that when we look at our beginning teachers and our teachers with one to five years of experience for our district that is 48% of our teaching staff compared

004to the state at 36% of the teaching staff our uh second largest group of teachers would be 11 to 20 years of experience teachers by ethnicity you can also see this compared to the state our largest group would be African-American then white then Hispanic and then Asian teachers by program when we look at this particular area it tells you the full-time equivalent count of teachers that are characterized uh categorized by the type of students that they serve so you can see the percentages that are here for you now we will go into our star performance when we think about star again this is data from last school year 2324 school year so this data is data that we are already taking action on we actually take STAR Assessments in five weeks so the data that

005you see we are preparing to make sure that it looks better than it is uh being being reported tonight so when we look at our students for the star assessment and academic achievement students are put into uh performance uh categories so either the student did not meet the assessment they will approach which is considered to be passing the assessment they will be at meets grade level which mean they are performing at grade level and then Master's grade level which means they are performing above grade level so the assessments are given at all grades and all subjects and we will begin looking at our star performance for grades 3 through eight in Reading English one and English two the chart shows you it breaks down just like the Tapo report will give you information on all

006students and how they perform so these are the passing percentages at approaches grade level means these are the percentages that pass the assessment at each one of the grade levels and then it also breaks it down for you by looking at the sub pops so we as a district make sure that we are targeting all students at all subps and this information is helpful as we teach and plan and prepare for students so the line that you see that is highlighted in yellow will tell you the percentages for every grade level I won't read it off to you but it it is before you to see I do want to pinpoint that of course we know that the star assessment was changed or revised star 2.0 so um for students especially in Reading they had

007to do some things that were different some extended responses um with writing and I do want to highlight that fourth grade did have an increase from 66% to 68% this chart shows you star performance for 3 through eight in math and Algebra 1 so again you can see highlighted in yellow how our students performed overall this is the percentage of students at approaches grade level or above I will pinpoint and highlight because I'm sure you're pinpointing also seventh grade is an area that we're focusing and targeting on as well as all grade levels when we look at our star performance in science at approaches grade level and above science is an area that we continue to work on we know that 39% of our fifth graders and 47% of our eighth graders is not where

008we want to be for science um even though I will mention that our eighth graders did perform they had an increase in performance from the prior year and biology at 84% also had an increase in performance from the prior year for our social studies performance again at e8th grade is an area that we're targeting and concentrating on even though the students maintained from the prior year US History was an increase from the prior Year from 81% to 86% Dr Frank can I interrupt you just for a second I just want to call call attention to the fact that we in Bowmont ISD and in fact throughout the state of Texas do teach history I'm not promising you the children remember it but we teach it yes ma'am we do may not be their favorite subject

009but we teach it the next set of slides that you will see gives you the performance of our students this is our students from all grade levels okay so this first slide shows you reading performance at meets grade level or above and this is how many if I take all of my students from third grade all the way through 12th grade that took a reading assessment how many of the students scored at meets grade level remember approaches is passing meets is where we want to be so 34% of our students at meets grade level and 9% at Master's this shows you math performance at meets grade level for all all us all grade levels and then we have 23% at meets grade level and and then 6% at Masters again science for every student that

010took a Science assessment no matter what grade level they were in 24% of them scored at meets grade level 5% at Masters and then for social studies again any student that took a social studies exam 21% at meets grade level and 9% at Master's and Miss cheetah will now come and continue with the star performance and talk about school progress and academic growth good evening board this second domain School progress and academic growth what Dr Frank presented was of course that domain one score overall achievement at the approaches meets and Master's level this second domain for School progress evaluates how well our students are growing academically year-over-year aside from just the meet or Masters it shows whether or not they're making progress in both reading and math compared to their prior year performance so it's

011strictly a growth measure of proficiency so for example I was a did not meet student in one year did I move to approaches approaches to meets and so forth so that is our annual growth accelerated instruction is where we capture data on students who did not meet in the prior Academic Year but then received the accelerated instructional hours required by the state and then met or approached standard in the following year and that combined makes our academic growth score or our domain two just as Dr Frank highlighted the yellow row is where we've designated for all students overall performance and growth so again this growth score is calculated by the percentage of students who improved a full performance level year over year so you'll see that again fourth grade 56% of students improving year-over-year and

012that's respectively across all grade levels and again as highlighted in the first domain seventh grade math sixth and seventh grade math are areas of focus but alternatively we also saw where in English 2 and Algebra 1 66 and 67% of students improved a full performance level year-over-year students who demonstrated progress at performance level in both subjects for all grades were 23% and 24% for all grades all subjects 3 through eight the next segment of the report focuses on our annual Dropout graduation and attendance rates as you know this is again lagging performance data and we have shared and discussed um activities aligned with improving our graduation rate and our attendance this board and team have taken action on addressing attendance rate so these numbers you see again are of course from 2122 and 2223 so

013what's represented in this segment of the report are both attendance and chronic absenteeism and then our annual drop out dropout rate and graduation rates on the 456 year longitudinal so for 2223 attendance data the district ranked at 89.6% with those with chronic absenteeism reported at 35.4% and again um we've taken action to really address absentee rates and we are seeing our attendance rates rise the four year longitudinal graduation rate measures the number of students who graduate on time with their cohort all students graduated 84.4% with a dropout rate of 14% And remember this was from 22 school year again the class of 2022 The Five-Year graduation rate at 85.1% and the six year at 86.7% so that 5ye and sixe longitudinal rate demonstrate our ability to address credit recovery and uh special programs and interventions

014for students who are not ontime graduates the four-year Federal graduation rate without exclusions also represented here for that class at 81.4% similarly to the former slides our 2022 23 graduation profile so you see it broken out here by high school campus out of 100% of our graduates you'll see some places to highlight Foundation high school program distinguished with distin uh distinctions uh 98.6% of students at Early College 78% at bont United and 72 at Westbrook keep in mind Paul Brown is credit recovery so that's why you see the majority of those students graduating on a foundation high school program next we have our CC Mr r related indicators our college career and Military Readiness in this portion of the report we will cover again lagging data from 2122 graduates and 2223 graduates we know that

015college ready indicators include our tsia test results students who complete AP or IB exams or also those who receive College Prep courses our College Bridge or there SAT and ACT performance we'll also talk about postsecondary readiness indicators like dual credit and enrollment in GPA following High School graduation so for college career and Military Readiness for the 2223 cohort College ready graduates were at 35% 35.2 and career and Military ready students at 34.6 you'll probably recognize this is something that we've been tracking through our board outcome goals the target for that particular Academic Year for 2223 was 50% and we're measuring out at 56% overall so met Target and we are excited about the progress that the ccmr programming is making the 2022 23 average SAT and ACT scores for all students are also represented here

016out of the 1600 possible points for sat our average annual score was 874 for all students and act 19 of 36 M Hernandez will take over the financial part for me thank you m cheet the financial information reported in this taper report is from 2223 the actual financial data that was submitted in January of 24 and when this report is posted on our website if you click on the tea website the the different color it'll actually bring you to Tea's website where you'll find the district's actual financial information included in this report are budgeted financial data for 2324 this is our fall submission with tea and it reflects that we receive or we budget about $9,800 in Revenue per student in the small funds that includes the debt service and the Child Nutrition budgets so

017we have budgeted in Child Nutrition about $13 million in federal reimbursements that we receive in um lunch and breakfast reimbursements as well as our debt service of just about $40 million where we Levy the tax and pay our debt the expenditures are reported um we spend about 7,400 per student in payroll and um our operating expenditures are about 10,439 budgeted and this is after we've made budget amendments and we've adopted the budget and then we've made budget amendments and this is reported in October to the um State we also um have expenditures broken down by instruction uh guidance and counseling General Administration and those are also reflected on here in a per student as well as the overall expenditures that we've budgeted our operating expenditures we receive additional funds in addition to our basic allotment

018of $6,100 per students we receive additional allotments for um special education students atrisk students or bilingual n ESL students Career and Technical students and they have spend requirements on them so those monies that we receive in addition must be spent on those students and those are reflected as a program intent code so these are reflected as the percentage as well as the per student that we been in those areas Career and Technical students with disabilities State comped and such like that and then our um also this is just a total of our dispersements for operating expenditures as well as intergo intergovernmental transfers and our debt service and then the accrediation status do you want to do that one or okay so we were not assigned because there's um some struggle between um the test scores

019and how they're being reported so we do not have um a a status but in 22 23 we were accred the next section covers our campus performance objectives and our campus Improvement plans so each campus has developed and is currently implementing a campus Improvement plan it's also called a sip we brought the campus Improvement plan to the board for approval uh last semester and the princip quarterly go in with their uh cic teams campus educational Improvement committees to see if they are making progress towards those plans the plans are posted online if you go to our research planning and evaluation department where you can pull up the district plan and also all of our campus plans we are actually getting ready to look at our board outcome goals for the next five years and when

020we start working on plans for next year they will be with new board outcome goals next we will have special education determination status presented by Miss Brooks thank you um so for special education determination levels the state assigns each district a performance uh based on four determination levels uh determinate determination level one is meets requirements and then it goes all the way up to four which is need substantial intervention so the goal is always to have a lower determination level this past year for our um special education star and of course passing rate we made significant Improvement um particularly in Algebra 1 where we went from a level three to a level two um in biology we went from a level two to a level one and then in history from um we're in now

021a performance level zero the same Improvement was made uh for our special education students being in the general education setting more time 80 more than 80% of the time and so we went from a pl2 to a pl1 we made some improvement in our out of school suspension and expulsion rate we are still not where we want to be um we're still higher than the state um Benchmark but we are actively working in that area and expect to continue to improve and slow and incremental but we are making Improvement there is a link uh to the chart that compares the RDA rate for the past three years if uh linked to this presentation and then our next section will be the violent and criminal incidents good evening um the state statute requires that each district

022publish as part of its annual report a report on violent and criminal incidences that occur at our campuses um this report includes the number rate type of incidences and and um information concerning prevention intervention and procedures used by the districts I know this chart is quite small but um I'm glad to report that BISD did not have a reportable amount of incidences so um this shows some asterisk but um not to the port that to the amount that has to be reported so BISD continues to address safe and Drug free schools and Community goals objectives of the district and campus Improvement plans involving students parents Teachers Community rest um restorative discipline practices social and emotional learning Specialists Behavior interventionists and the student code of conduct in Schoolboard policies miss my Cube this section of the

023report covers again high school graduates postsecondary uh performance this again is for graduates for fiscal year 2023 who enrolled in higher ed fiscal year 2024 so when they leave our system so student performance is measured their GPA for 2022 23 high school graduates who attended a public four-year or 2year Institution of higher ed in 2024 they take their GPA for fall spring and summer to average to determine the GPA that is reflected here and this report is also available on the TCB Texas Higher Education College uh Coordinating Board website so for each high school you'll see them represented on screen their first year in a public 4-year or two-year institution or independent college and university you'll see that many of the students are identified as not trackable as well if we um don't have the

024information or do not receive reports on where they enroll immediately following their graduation so for Early College 34 graduates uh attended fouryear Public University that were tracked toe public College 10 for Paul Brown and remember these are our non-traditional high schools a four-year Public University one graduate for a four-year six graduates for a two-year public college but we also know many of our students return to their home campuses for um graduation with their home school bont United 98 total graduates attended a 4-year Public University from this cohort 58 a 2-year Public University 27 not represented similarly for w Westbrook 221 of those students not found in a public institution but 157 students from the cohort registering at a four-year Public University immediately upon graduation in 94 in a two-year public college or university the last

025section in the annual report measures the progress the district is making toward meeting its board outcome goals in early literacy early math and college career military Readiness so our board outcome goals are uh presented to you on this slide and of course every time that we meet uh with campuses also every time we meet as a board we look at these goals because by June 2025 our goal for early reading is that our third grade students will perform uh at 55% of them will meet grade level or score meets grade level on the star reading assessment and for math our goal is 50% of our students scoring at meets grade level in math and for 65 p uh percent of our students to be college career and Military ready when we look at where we

026are you see yearly targets uh in a minute when I go over cabinet report we'll look at ouri data for early literacy and early math last year 27% of our students scored at meets grade level in reading and 21% of our students scored at meets grade level in math I will say you know you've noticed that we kind of went we changed one time with covid and relooked at our goals when the star assessment changed to Star 2.0 we did not revisit the goals we are still aiming for 55% in reading and 50% in math as we look at our board outcome goes for the next 5 years we we will be able to take into account where our students are performing and set new goals when we look at college career military Readiness our

027goal last year was 55% and we did meet that Target we actually exceeded it with 56% and we are aiming to hit the 65% for uh for this year as I sum up our report I do want to remind uh the public that this report will be available online by March 6 so you will be able to go in there are links that we referen that you will be able to go in and click on the links and be able to pull up the different documents you can also receive a paper copy from any campus here at the district office and again at the tea website are there any questions yes ma'am thank you madam president um I have a question or maybe seven but um so first can we go back to the well

028maybe not on the E economically disadvantaged slide um it's one year the first or second ones quicker for you to click huh took you all the way back thenight it's it's at the beginning here we go all right so can you talk to me a little bit about what exactly it means to be economically disadvantaged in terms of where do that place our district as far as the status and and different resources that may be allocated to to our district and what happens with those student what happens with our students because so many are in that category when you look at the ta's definition of economically disadvantaged you will also hear it uh stated as being educationally disadvantage these are students that qualify for free or reduced lunch they receive other resources from the state

029um and these are students that need extra and so we do receive funding for students to be able to work with them and provide the additional resources that are needed and if you notice our district is way higher than the the state's percentage correct so to add to uh what Dr Frank is sharing Mr Evans when you think about our students being educationally disadvantaged they are School dependent so we have more students who really depend on our schools to meet their basic needs so when you compare that 83% to the 62% that's a 20% Gap with more students you know possibly from single parent homes who just have a difficult they don't have the same level of support at home so of course when they come to school it's more challenging for them and we

030have to put in more resources to support them I hope we're answering your question yes yes ma'am and I appreciate it two two more things in this section so the next is students with disciplinary placements does that mean alternative C campuses if they were removed and they go to an Al Alternative Center so that could be um Minnie Rogers it could also be our uh Pathways placements yes and then the last one in this section can you explain the at risk portion one more time for me yes when we think about our at risk students these are going to be students that are deemed at risk of dropping out and so there are several indicators that will put a student as being at risk if they're ever retained uh that is one indicator for at

031risk if you have a kindergarten student we give them the mclass assessment which you'll in a minute I'll give scores for uh percentages for that if a student is in tier three they're considered to be at risk uh if they're homeless uh there SE several indicators I could go through that if they you know if they uh if they fail one or more portions of the star test they are deemed at risk so it's several factors okay all right um so the next one has to do with AB absenteeism um does that factor in all of our campuses including the partner campuses absolutely we we do see on our part campuses that the absenteeism is higher but I think for the absentee data that's reported in this report Mr Evans is lagging so it is

032not last year's data year before it's the year before all right all right thank you and then next um was the ccmr portion um so that was from two years ago yes and so the 55 or 56% is current like today or from last year it is always a lag in the ccmr data MH so is it safe to anticipate even higher than 56 because because 30s was disappointing yes because if you're not ready for college you're not ready for the military to graduate what are you ready for yeah our team is working really hard we actually they they track our students and so we are tracking to be higher and we're we're excited to to see that on the aort couple more thank you uh so the next has to do with the the

033budget the amount budgeted per student what so I saw that number kind of described twice what's the actual amount that we budget per student per you know per year not what we get but what we budget so so like how much do you set aside per student per year we don't really set aside per student okay um or that's not how we budget we budget um how many students are at a campus and we allocate funds and FTE to the campuses and then departments have budgets as well typically um we've done budgeting different ways we've done zero balance budgeting but we've also gone to you've you've got this much money this year we we need to balance the budget you're going to have to reduce your budget that kind of thing we try not to

034impact the classrooms but and we have uh Staffing formulas that we utilize to to staff campuses and allocate funds at the same way depending on the number of students that they're serving so so maybe I'm asking this wrong and I and I'll just tell you what I'm getting at so the state gives or allocates 6,000 plus dollars that's the basic allotment that's the basic allotment and then you receive additional funds depending on the type of student that you're serving okay we there's different um I guess uh different allotments that you receive if you're educating a a special needs student typically it costs you a little bit more to educate that student because there you may have to have an aid in the classroom and and we also this this is just our general fund and

035our debt service and our Child Nutrition the budgets that we are required to report through PS it does not include any of the federal funds that we receive based off of those same students so we typically get around $9 million in our title funds over um almost $4 million in our idab funds and and um other grants so those are also impacted into the student learning so those dollars are targeted towards those students all right thank you makes sense and and the next two things are just more or less comments um one to Miss Brooks uh it looks like we for the second year have continue progressing games and special education so I tell people all the time special ed is really really really serious business so I appreciate your hard work and your team's

036hard work so keep keep it up and then lastly Miss cheum on one of your slides my in the board book it says 2022 and on your slide it was 2023 and our numbers are just a little bit different uh back over in High School something or another let's see and we can get that updated information it was just received today all right and uh where's Miss Menendez Miss Menendez when I tell you she's on top of the data as soon as she received it she let me know and I told her please update the slides and we should have provided you a copy of that we apologize no problem super thank you thank you Dr Miss anine has anyone signed up to address the board for this hearing no ma'am thank you Bo do

037you need a minute can we go into the next into the regular meeting we're okay right in that case please stand and join us for the pledges to the US and Texas flight I'm going give the microphone good evening tonight's Color Guard is presented by the Westbrook High School Navy junor RTC it is commanded by Cadet inen kresna Manata Cadet chief petty officer Carter deer hog Cadet petty officer first class Kaden Mitchell Cadet petty officer first class Christian tario Rios under the direction of Commander Mitchell Norman US Navy retired the pledges will be led by Aubrey Adams fifth grade student at Guest Elementary she is the student council vice president a member of the guest flag team as well as a pegasus student maintaining AB Honor rooll I pledge of allegiance to the flag of

038the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one State under God one and indivisible ready Hur we will now have our recognitions Miss Jackie Simeon director of community and media relations good evening president Hickman board trustees Dr Allen and audience members our first group to receive recognition tonight is the family career and Community leaders of America Westbrook chapter the FCCLA is a national Career and Technical student organization dedicated to making a positive impact on families careers and communities by addressing personal work and societal issues through family and consumer Sciences education among the students present tonight are members who have demonstrated outstanding leadership and commitment to advocating for import important

039social causes over the course of the past year these students have worked diligently to promote awareness and drive change through a variety of community outreach projects the Westbrook FCCLA chapter has partnered with local organizations such as the GTH house Casa Southeast Texas Food Bank and sleep in Heavenly peace among others in addition to their impressive Community efforts this chapter has consistently represented bite ISD at both the regional and state leadership conferences earning honors in students taking action and recognition events for their projects on human trafficking the fentel crisis domestic violence school shootings Drunk Driving Child Abuse and suicide awareness board members Dr Allen and audience we invite you to join us in celebrating these dedicated students and their remarkable accomplishments speaking on behalf of the group is chapter advisor Kelsey jwac and student Kaylee Maddox

040[Applause] good evening uh I just want to start off by saying thank you for recognizing FCCLA not a lot of people know about our organization and the benefits that come with it and I feel that it's played a huge role in our high school career and it's a huge highlight so thank you we just want to thank you so much it's such an honor to be here tonight and to be recognized and the only reason that we're able to be recognized is because we're so successful and the reason as to why we're so successful is because we have a district that fully supports and encourages us to go out and do these things and gives us the opportunities to provide um engaging activities and projects and things like that for my students to do to

041go out and represent BISD and so we are really grateful so thank you so much [Applause] than guys our next group to receive recognition tonight is the Bowmont United High School chapter of distributive education clubs of America or Deca Deca is to Business program what Future Farmers of America or FFA is to the agriculture program it is a Career and Technical student organization that teaches business Concepts to Career and Technical education students helping them apply their learning through organizational participation Deca prepares students for careers develops leadership skills and enhances career readiness and business skills the Bowmont United Deca chapter was established in 2022 and since its Inception the chapter has made impressive strides including traveling to Orlando Florida after earning allocations to the international Career Development conference or ICDC in 2024 three students Advanced to

042the state competition in marketing Communications and this year 47% of the team will attend the state competition in Dallas from March 6th through March 8th reflecting a 35% increase from last year additionally this chapter has secured four allocations to ICDC which will take place in Orlando this year and they anticipate earning at least four more spots a significant achievement for this chapter was having its first student run for district office while Geraldine Hernandez did not win the popular vote she distinguished herself by being one of the final six candidates out of 35 schools to reach the final round this experience provided a remarkable opportunity for her and the chapter board members Dr Allen and audience we invite you to join us in celebrating these dedicated students and and their remarkable accomplishments and speaking on behalf

043of the group tonight is Geraldine Hernandez good evening uh I am sorry uh to start I want to thank every single one of you that are here tonight um being recognized for our accomplishments in DEA is an incredible honor uh on behalf of the team I want to extend my heartful thanks to our adviser Miss Carr uh she she's the greatest person from be uh thank you Miss Cara for guiding us every step of the way as well as uh our Administration uh this experience has not only helped us grow as individuals but also as a team we couldn't have done it without your support thank you these look like they're ready to go into bu today we National School counseling week is recognized during the first week of February and this year's theme with

044School counseling helping students Thrive here's a look at how Bowmont ISD counselors do just that [Music] a [Music] the counselors will be signing autographs after this meeting please help me welcome Lydia Sylvester bont ISD director of guidance and counseling to honor our counselors good evening good evening board president uh Miss Hickman Bard Dr Allan I'm truly honored you know every time I get around my team I get so giddy uh because they're just wonderful wonderful Department to work with and you know over the past few years we've been blessed to have not just school counselors under your leadership but also Wellness coordinators and so that addition has allowed us to serve and to help more students than ever before and so to the entire team I want you all to know from the bottom of

045my heart uh that I love each and every one of you stand up stand up so you can be recognized stand up so they're just amazing so I have Miss Chavis who works at the district level with me as our AIS coordinator former counselor Senda Miss shavis see you sitting and to to our ccmr coordinators every single school counselor our Wellness coordinator a lot of the work that you do is done in private and so tonight we want to publicly love on you and honor you for the work that you do because it truly makes a difference in our students and it makes makes a difference in our district so thank you thank you thank you thank you and besides being wonderful they're shy not really thank you thank you thank you have to apologize

046for my daughter inlaw stays on the phone thank you thank you SL oh for e finally tonight the department responsible for coordinating recognitions each month has earned some recognitions of its own the Bowmont ISD community and media relations department is hot off the highway from San Antonio where this year's Texas schools public relations Association 2025 annual conference was held and ended just this morning last night your com Department picked up awards for all eight submissions made to the competition that is one Bronze award two silver Awards and five gold Awards we are most proud of the Bowmont ISD midyear report which received the Star Award meaning it was the best in the entire state of Texas in the annual report category for districts with 15,000 to 40,000 students so congratulation goes out to our videographer

047James Euro Moore our photographer and graphic designer Todd Madden and my right hand and assistant director Chantel Mangum who has our Star Award please stand up and let everyone see our Star Award and if you go on her Facebook page you'll see a very interesting picture of her biting the Star Award and we thank all of you for making it possible for us to attend these events we learned a whole lot and can't wait to share with you all of the new things that we gathered from that event thank you very much going to take a photo man oh we we get to take a picture who's going to take it and we have Debbie back congratulations congratulations you need to come too Ladi down all right so we close tonight with invitations to two

048exciting Events first the BISD interg egg drop competition at bont Early College High School this Saturday from 11: until 1 and make plans to attend our fifth annual Multicultural night a week from today at Regina how Elementary and as always you can get more information on those and other events in Bowmont ISD by visiting our social media platforms subscribing to our new YouTube channel and exploring our newly enhanced website bmtisd.com thank you so much thank you Miss Simeon next we will hear the superintendent and cabinet rep report and we will then have public comments Dr Allan good evening again Madame President and to our school board and Community I will begin tonight's presentation with our vision and mission statement if you could please join me in reciting our vision in collaboration with the entire Community

049we will create an inclusive environment of academic Excellence that supports the diverse needs of all learners and our mission statement we will inspire and prepare all students for lifelong success by providing an exemplary education in a safe learning environment our vision and Mission is founded on six core beliefs and tonight's presentation focuses on core belief number three every classroom will have an Effective Teacher and every school will have an effective principal and we will be fiscally responsible to the public tonight I'd like to provide to our community our board two brief updates one on third future schools as well as a legislative update just to give our community an update on where we are and the status with third future schools Who currently operate fail Price Elementary School Jones Clark Elementary School and Smith Middle

050School just to go back a little bit in March of 2023 around March of third future schools assured bont ISD when we were in contract negotiations that they could successfully implement the model that we actually visited earlier that year within the current Financial structure that we actually outlined in the agreement and the contract so they assured us we felt confident that they could implement the model they signed the contract that was actually for a three-year term so the term should expire at the conclusion of next school year the 25 26 school year the terms were very clear they fully understood what the revenue that was projected for each of the campuses as well as what the expenditures or the fixed costs would be operating the buildings however before completion of the first year there were

051concerns third future shared concerns about needing additional funding so in good faith you know we made a decision I made a decision and made concessions or financial concessions that resulted in increased revenue for third future on February 3rd third future sent an email to me claiming that they would exit the contract a year early and they were planning to announce it that particular day which was a Monday so the reason that they were going to exit the contract or plan to exit the contract is because of the funding they could not continue to operate under the current terms of the contract so I quickly asked that they not make an announcement what can we do you know can we meet somewhere we were having a special meeting which was actually last week so I wanted

052to share you know with the board talk to the board about about the concerns and really ask them to wait before making an announcement and share with the board the financials well we reviewed all of the financial data I presented that to our board last week including third Futures financials the reason and rationale for the request and what third future is actually demanding to remain in contract with the district for the 25 26 school year the dispute is about holdbacks so we retain 23% of the revenue generated for the campus in order to actually essentially pay the bills at the school to pay for the transportation of the students to pay for the you know Child Nutrition to pay for the maintenance to pay the utility bills what they are actually requesting is for the

053district not to withhold 23% but to only withhold 10% when you calculate what that equates to it equated to an additional $1 million that we would have to pay this year and an additional $2 million next year explain and share the information and the board met and deliberated and just discussed it and made a decision last week not to move forward with even with amending the contract meaning the expectation is that third future would continue to operate the school Under the terms of the current contract but to be clear and to make certain our community understand understands that BISD is not and will not withhold funds from students we have amended the contract twice and under each of those amendments their Fusion was able to receive additional revenue and the most recent one assured us

054if you make these concessions then we'll be able to operate the schools so we've offered mediation that has continue to be rejected and different Alternatives so that possibly we could come with the middle ground this past Friday the superintendent announced to all of the staffs at each of the schools that unless the board makes a different decision tonight that third future would not operate the schools next year and I want to say to our to our uh Community You know despite some of the concerns that we've had with discipline and the suspension of students at these schools which is much higher than other campuses despite the attendance rates at these schools which is much lower than compared to the other campuses in the district I've been very clear when I've said that third future has

055done and implemented their model with Fidelity better than any of the other partners that we've ever had in bont ISD they've been very consistent with implementation of of their model there has been some growth they presented multiple times every year they're required to present student data and they presented this past fall they presented data to our board and community on the academic progress and students are making progress however Bine ISD we had no intention of not continuing the partnership we had no intention of not continuing and it's very frustrating that we have been you know placing the position where in order to meet these demands we would have to take from our other campuses when in fact there was a contract that was in place it was it was very clear what the expectation for

056revenue and expenditures and the fact that we hadn't been able to come to Middle Ground has been very frustrating but I want to ensure assure our community that you know Bowman ISD is prepared and ready and if the decision is that we resume operations of these campuses we are going to Res Zoom operations of these campuses when the decision was made when the announcement was made last Friday we started our work you know my team was in place on all campuses we started you know answering questions I I made a video and submitted to all the staff at each of the campuses we send a letter and a survey out we've had I think about 51 responses from employees on those campuses you know with the expectation that hey we have opportunities right here on

057those campuses next year should we operate them we've already EST established our transition team which met this week and we're going to meet every week in preparation to you know get the campuses ready so I know ultimately third future is waiting for the board to make a different decision so before I dive into the last part of my presentation is there any feedback and comments from our board about this issue right now yes ma'am uh I'm sorry sorry Mr I I just want to say um Dr Allen you obviously you have our support you have my support definitely but and this may be my Battle Cry for lack of better terms through this process to the community and I just want to be on record telling the community and begging the community and ask in

058the community whatever I need to do to convey the fact that we need your support we need your help we need you behind us on this and we need the community to prop bont ISD up and rally around us like we haven't seen in a long time uh we need retired teachers we need volunteers we need all of the above to make sure that this transition does not cause us to digress I guess um so please Community Reach Out for the facts reach out to board members reach out to the superintendent and her office to get the facts and we need your support we need your help and we're begging you to Rally around us on this particular issue Mr Sig my statement is rather simple um I don't think we need to no negotiate

059with them anymore I think we need to go ahead and allow them to continue through the rest of the year and then from there I don't think we should reduce down to 10% because we've already negotiated with them several times and I don't want them to be able to hold this over our head and continue to come back to the table because no other school in this District that's operated by BISD can get away with what they're getting away with we couldn't function the way they function so I don't think we should negotiate with him again at all Mr D thank you madam president I just like to let the community understand and and and know that please do not listen to to misinformation okay we have a contract we're trying to follow the contract

060we make concessions with these people and uh they're basically trying to hold us hostage we don't have an extra $3 million in petty cash that that that we can give them so we have negotiated in good faith and it hasn't been reciprocated so the bottom line is you hearing the truth tonight no matter what you hear out there in the public appreciate it Mr re thank you president and um someone has to educate our children the uh third future has done I think we have a rating of C at the Smith campus and the other two campuses are D so no ratings have officially been you know that there's a um accountability lawsuit occurring right now so there are no official ratings for any of the campuses they have made they have made academic growth

061which has caused potential letter ships in Smith's uh previous performance as well as I think uh Jones Clark so with that as a board um I think I I would rather around the decision of our superintendent based on what board members say and I say that I guess I've negotiated a long time in the Postal Service 43 years and nine months and some battles that I won but most of them uh you know very few did I lose but that is just dealing with what you have uh from the state of Texas uh tea um offer your best offer and in the end someone has to give and I don't I don't think we're at that point yet but we may be getting there but I support the superintendent in the final decision because this

062is this involves our children and they have began to learn with third future um but and that's all I really got to say about it I put it in I Su in his hands thank you we haven't made any decisions I think we're leading in a direction we will continue discuss it because it is a contract issue in close session so we may be here a while tonight with that said I just had a couple of more slides that I wanted to uh address tonight just a reminder to our community that we are currently in a legislative session right now bman ISD has several legislative priorities number one of course saying no to vouchers which we are all familiar with the current legislation that's proposed the Senate bill that's proposed regarding the vouchers our our

063second priority funding Public Schools increasing the basic allotment so that we have flexible opportunity to utilize those funds to meet the needs of our students a fair accountability system you know bman ISD is in a unique position especially with these partners because of the current accountability system and the way that it is designed that I feel like unfairly targets uh school districts that are high poverty and minority districts so we're advocating for a fair accountability system and investing recapture dollars back in education instead of having to push your money back to the state those dollars staying with in the public schools and in within the school district including we want to make certain that we have resources for mental health support for our students and then empowering our school resource officers or our police officers

064so this is our these are our legislative priorities we are planning to travel to Austin for Golden Triangle days which is March the 4th 5th and March the 4 3 fourth and 5ifth where we will be meeting the board and myself will be meeting with our legislators talking about about what these issues are it is important that our community understands what issues are important to Bowmont to your community but I thought this was interesting as I was reading a daily today some of the major issues that were outlined by the House of Representatives during the last legislative session I mean the legislative conference I think which was held last week the education chair or the house education chair uh Brad Buckley discuss several issues and one of them being school funding so both the Senate

065and the house of course are proposing funding bills the house bill possibly would have an increase to the a slight increase to the basic alotment I think the commissioner shared that in his side by side today and the commissioner's call with a small increase of a couple of hundred dollar to the basic alotment Now remind you that the basic allotment is the basic amount that we receive per student $6,150 it has not increased since 2019 team it has not accounted for inflation one of the things that we did as a district with the support of our community last uh November was to do what we passed a voter approval tax rate election so that we could give our employees an increase and have to have a few more resources but again it's still not enough

066to meet the needs uh of our students and to keep up with inflation so the house is proposing of course an increase in school funding the house is also proposing there will be chapter 37 legislation potential laws coming down to change how discipline is handled and I highlighted to give teachers more control in the classrooms and not have our hands tied so much with students and some of the behaviors that we actually see in schools early childhood education would be addressed possibly through bills for early uh childhood literacy and numeracy getting attention I also thought chronic absenteeism we've been talking about that a lot we're funded based on the percentage and the amount of students that our the amount of time our kids come to school and not having any more teeth are the teeth

067that we used to have to help increase uh average daily attendance has been a concern so chronic AB absenteeism is something that is expected to be addressed and of course education savings accounts the house is going to propose a bill a voucher bill now whether it will look like the voucher bill from the Senate I'm sure it will not but there will be another voucher bill proposed and they also mentioned he also mentioned uh doubling or increasing the school safety alignment as you recall we required to have an armed security Personnel on every campus and it's preferred that we have police officers we're in the phase in process with level three security officers at our elementary campuses but we are working toward being able to have a police officer on site at every campus but

068this this would be possibly be additional funds to support that so what's happening we want our community to be educated people ask well what can I do or what should I do during a legislative session I don't know well one thing you can do and know is understand your school districts are our school district's priorities they're posted on the website you can pull the copy down be informed about the major issues that are going on everything that is the the major issues right now funding for public schools and education savings account and of course you know for us accountability those are major issues that you should be in informed about know who your legislators are and know who represents you individually so that you can contact them when bills are coming down and critical votes

069are coming that you can email them and you can reach out to them to share your concerns and how you want or expect them to vote and ultimately every time there is an election whether it's a general election where it's off where a national election whether it is a primary election everyone needs to exercise their right to vote because we're making choices on the individuals who represent us right now so do they truly represent our our values in our communities so those are some things that I want to make certain our community understands to do we are planning to train I'm planning to train our ambassadors next week did we send the invitation I know the Comm teams okay great so next uh my slide is gone somebody took my slide oh no here it

070is Wednesday next Wednesday at 4M we're calling all ambassadors and really I invite anyone who wants to attend who was hearing this message next Wednesday at 4:00 where I'm going to do a training to equip our ambassadors on these key areas much more in-depth than what I'm sharing today and how it impacts bman ISD so that they can understand and they can really understand what their role and what our role and responsibility is in advocacy right now we are all responsible for advocating myself and the board of course we're going to be talking to legislators we're going to be telling them about the concerns but man it's powerful when others in our community I'm going to be in Austin Saturday and Sunday and Monday advocating with the Texas PTA on some of these same issues

071where individuals all across the state are going to be at the capital sharing concerns about education savings account about the accountability system about funding so we need our community to be informed and to be ready to take action when when these decisions are being made and they will be made throughout the course of this whole session which is normally until June it'll be over in June so certainly need uh your support any questions I have one Dr Alan do we have our state senator and senators and representatives who represent us listed on our web page with your contact information well I'll tell you where you can go to get them this is on our website the priorities that QR code so if you scan that QR code that takes you and Miss Mangan we may

072need to make some adjustments but this is posted B my isd's priorities if you scan that code you put in either by your county or your address it shows exactly who your state who your local representatives are because we have a we have a mix you know we have Christian manual as our representative we have Dave feling our state senator is Senator Nicholls uh and uh kraton are our state uh Senators so depending on what part of the city you live in because Dave feeling might be yours but he but Christian Manuel is mine well Christian Manuel might get my email just as much as D Fen might get my email so if we have all of them where we can anybody can see it it makes it more likely that people are going to

073actually do let's just do that let's just put let's just cuz you if you scan that QR code right now it is live and you'll just type in and it'll tell you who it is but we can add that as a landing Point Let's just add that yes sir I I just wanted to make a comment because you you had the slide up there about The Chronic absenteeism uh that's a lot of money guys that that were actually losing every every year I me in 2015 when the legislature changed uh to no longer hold the parents and Guardians accountable for the children coming to school we lost a lot of money We are continuing to lose a lot of money so those are one of the types issues that you need to be addressing with

074the legislators look this we we can't continue to do this you are holding us accountable for educating your children but you won't make them come to school this is where our dollars come from so we need some help thank you Mr Lewis I just want to piggy back on that uh chronic ABS absenteeism um one of the biggest issues I feel that comes along with that is one is just the sacrecy of Education when a student comes to school on Monday and then misses Tuesday and Wednesday that child has missed a whole week worth of lessons not only that social emotional learning as well that goes and plays a part in that but also as kids develop when they become adults they are more prone to come to jobs leave jobs right they don't have

075a stability or a Home of keeping things intact so that's why chronic absentee uh absentee is so important more Beyond just the funding but we're also talking about the development of the human being as well you know a kid cannot have any obligations in life if that child doesn't have routines and coming to school is just like coming to work that is a normal routine that they must have Works into their development thank you cabinet reports Dr Frank good evening again tonight's School Board outcome goals progress monitoring report provides an update on the progress the district is making toward reaching its early literacy and early math targets as stated earlier we are working to reach our goals in early literacy and early math again we want 55% of our students to score meets grade level

076on the star reading test this is our third grade students yes ma'am I think Mr Evans has a question yes real quick before we get started and I I should notice by now after being on the board for wrapping up my first term but can you explain before we even get into the tears just give me a short review please yes so I know it because I kind of know but I you know please you'll see tiers in the report so tier one is where we want students to be that means they are on grade level tier two you'll see those students coded in yellow these are students that are below grade level they have gaps that we need to close okay when you see tier three those are students in red those are students

077that have severe gaps so we have to work even harder some of the students that are in tier uh tier two may be months behind when we look at academic progress students that may be in tier three could be years behind any other questions before we we get started you know my continuing I guess complaint not question is that we look so good in Pre kindergarten and we look so bad in kindergarten that it that I find it really disheartening that we don't have tests that are aligned yes ma'am yes ma'am and we we talk about it often um and circle of course is approved by the state for pre and that is why we utilize at M Class also approved by the state for K5 so for reading again we are aiming to have

07855% of our students score at meets grade level on star reading for third grade and in math third grade again we want 50% of our students to score at meets grade level going back to the tiers before I jump into the report that's why it's so important that we always talk about moving kids to tier one that means they're on grade level they can access the uh the information that they're learning so that when they do test they're able to apply critical thinking and be able to answer questions so we need them solid at tier one so that's always our goal the sources of data will be CLI engag for prek and that will be reading and math for reading for grades K through five it is our mclass assessment and then for math NWA

079a map assessment so we will start with pre kindergarten and you you notice that in Reading you see lots gains right 54% were at tier one at the beginning of the year when we tested them recently 74% are at tier one and that's what we want to see our goal this year is to have 82% of our students when we take the assessment or when they take the assessment at at the end of the year to be in tier one kindergarten we started off the year with 37% of our students in tier one I am happy to say that we are again making progress 51% of our students scored at tier one fori our goal is 56% so I'm I'm expecting for us to surpass that goal but we can do 14 uh percentage points

080we can keep that up for first grade for 40% of our students at Boi were in tier one Moi 47% of our students at tier one again making progress our goal is to have 55% of our students in first grade at tier one when we test for eoi second grade 40% of our students were at tier one in boii 45% of our students so again tracking and making progress our goal is 55% so we still have a little ways to go but we're going to continue to make progress Target students so that we can move more of them into tier one for our third grade students 42% of our students were at tier one for boyi 46% of our students four percentage points is a gain and we will take it if you notice the

081gains kind of decrease easier to close gaps sooner I get kids in school the more I can work with them and close gaps it gets a little harder the older that they get but the fact that we are making progress here is what we want to see for fourth grade 39% of our students scored uh in tier one or or in tier one or were in tier one for Boi they we have 46% fori again seven percentage points our goal is 50% again we're going to keep pushing we want to meet or exceed the goal fifth grade 42% of our students scored in tier one for boy and 44% for moi so again an increase of two percentage points we are aiming for 50% also for fifth grade I am pleased to say that when

082we look at our data prek through five I believe this is the first time I've been able to sit and say and I said this to principles when with PLC we had increases at all grade levels and I that is something to celebrate when we look at our math data we are seeing gains as well here in prek at the beginning of the year 74% of our students were in tier one and we have 83% so a gain of nine percentage points and we're aiming for 90% kindergarten Here we had a regression so 63% of our students scored boy tier one Moy 62% so we're looking for that 1% and and the uh campuses know we're identifying who are the students that slipped okay we don't want them going backwards we want them to hop

083over to Green we don't want them hopping over to yellow or to Red our goal is to still aim for 73% first grade we had 50% of our students when we look at Boi they were in tier one now 46% so again here we have four% that we're looking for that we need to get them back to tier one and then continue to move students into tier one our goal is 58% for second grade 44% of our students Boi in tier one 49% Moi so we did see gains here and our goal is 52% which we are aiming to exceed as well we're already at 49 we need everybody to maintain and to move over to Green when we look at third grade 44% of our students started off in tier one 44% of our

084students are still in tier one okay we did not regress but we still have to find a way to close the gaps and again like I said the older that they get the gaps are harder to close so we're maintaining the students but we still need to get them over to tier one our goal is 50% for fourth grade 43% at Boi in tier onei 44% we did have a 1 percentage Point increase and we are aiming for 50% as well for fourth grade fifth grade 41% of our students started off in tier one for boy 45 % are now in tier one afteri that is a gain of four points and we're aiming for 50% again at fifth grade our assessment the NWA map is an assessment we began administering to students last year

085we were setting goals and looking at map and saying we want our kids to meet their projection their growth projection we now know that guess what meeting the growth projection is good we have if we look at percentages at grade levels 60% or better meeting their growth projection but meeting it is not enough to move them a tear because they're behind so our goal is to make sure that they exceed their growth projection for many of our kids we have to grow them more than a year and that's what we're working on so what are we doing we are doing some things that are working and I'm going to to put our supervisors on the spot if I could have Miss Macklin which is our prek through 2 uh rla supervisor Miss sharp which is

086our three through five supervisor and then miss Will who supervises all of math for elementary to come on up because these ladies are boots on the ground okay I want you to see their faces because the gains that we are making is because of the proog programs and the strategies that we are implementing with Fidelity and I say that and I know it's happening because these ladies are on campuses in classrooms coaching and supporting our teachers so what do we have going on in Reading we have Saxon phonics okay Saxon this is our second year or third year I I lose track our second year of implementing with Fidelity do you see the gains that you saw in the lower grades for reading that's axent our kids need explicit phonics instruction and they are getting

087it we are also using amplify and small groups we added on a mirror this year that is also making a difference we are constantly training our teachers so we just had PD on February 18th where we pulled teachers at every grade level prek through two to make sure that we were empowering them with the strategies that they need to go back and Implement in classroom for third through 5th we have phonics for reading and Upper Elementary when I tell you when I was going over data just interim data star data with our team our third graders this year just on interim have scored higher than third graders did last year on real star and I know it is because we're closing the gaps if I can read then guess what I'm going perform better okay

088so that is happening and it is happening with Fidelity because Miss sharp is going around and she's checking and we love it okay uh we also have small group instruction with amplify and a mirror at those gr levels Dr Frank I have a question yes ma'am and this may be a Miss Angelo answer um I know last month I asked you how many kids read over the the holiday challenge but if I had to guess my guess would be that most of those books came from a few schools are we using our libraries and getting kids in the library and putting real honest to goodness books in their hands a lot or barely and they are when I go on campuses even today I was at a million kids are in the library and they're

089checking our books yes ma'am when we look at reading as well we're continuing to work with tier two and those tier three students to make sure that we are coaching and supporting intervening we also had training where we are working on our extended uh constructive responses and short constructive responses because it all ties in when we look at a reading and and writing and of course we had staff development and here you can see what was covered on staff development day 4 335 when we look at math I'm excited because we've implemented some things for reading that we can see we've implemented with Fidelity and it is making a difference math we now have an intervention program for our K through fifth grade students Delta math that we have started on campuses and I I'm

090really you know I hear great things coming from our our um principes I know the teachers have embraced the program and they are seeing that it's already working so I can't wait until eoi to see uh where we are when we test and again we had PD for our teachers on the 18th any questions and the ladies are here to help yes Dr Frank excellent report and to the team can you all give us an update on where we are with partnering I know we have World of Color and I I tell you it's a passion for all of us but definitely a passion for Miss Hickman and myself uh looking at our scores and I know we continue to want our students to be in that Mastery area that we're doing a variety of

091thing things so I'm I'm looking forward to seeing those percentages rise but we know it starts with the foundation and so getting those babies uh at the even daycare stage is so important so just tell tell us tonight I know we've talked about this several times and then we Revisited just let let me know where we are with that thank you so currently we are partnering with World of Color and of course we also have a combination because we have our Paul Brown lit group that goes in as well so it's kind of beautiful to see like today especially uh because you had World of Color you had Paul Brown and then you had our prek we have a book study going with Lamar so you had all of that working we still are looking

092to partner um our focuses I'll be honest with you have been on getting our children up to par and implementing programs but we are interested in still looking to partner I actually have a meeting next week with Texas Workforce to talk about next steps for us to look at partnering and extending something to the two-day cares that we really wanted to look at um for the fall coming up we know that it's too late right now for anou for something for this year but there is next year and so we are very serious about looking at those daycares and expanding because you know that they are a pipeline into our classrooms and our children do very well having a certified BISD teacher at the particular site you know we track those children and they are

093doing very very well as they go through the school so we are looking to partner we plan to partner we have a meeting with Texas Workforce to talk about what are the next steps what do we need to do on our end what is funding going to look like for next year because that's also a big uh concern that they have right now and that they're talking about however we still would like to offer Partnerships to several of the dayc carees just to be able to increase the number of children who are able to have that you know opportunity for enrichment and academics before they actually go to the big school that's what they call the big school the big school thank you Miss Macklin and another thing too uh there is been an entrance

094in the shy Center also due to that will enhance our special need students so are you all tapping into she actually one of the other yes she's actually the other partner that we are looking to extend an to as well okay all that is buzzing just wanted to know so when I'm out and about I'll have the right answers yes ma'am thank you thank you very much ladies thank you for all your hard work Miss cheum talk about the extracurricular code of conduct I'm just reading my notes good afternoon again president board I am pleased to present tonight our extracurricular code of conduct the intention behind our extracurricular code of conduct is to bring some continuity across all of our programs clubs and organizations and create Equity I want to recognize uh Dr Jackson from

095Athletics Mr Murdoch from Fine Arts if those gentlemen would like to join me tonight the team has put in quite a bit of work and effort to make sure that we can res olved some issues with a lack of consistency in disciplinary actions and rules that are applied as you know different organizations and clubs have different bylaws and constitutions and rules um which they govern Dem Merit systems and those type of things so what we found is that there were some Equity issues and how we responded to student infractions and so again we wanted to level the playing field so again Mr murd do and Dr Jackson along with Student Activity directors from each high school principals from middle school and high school all participated to help us to codify the document that you see

096in front of you tonight so in the extracurricular code of conduct again we have addressed both in school and out of school infractions and instituted what we think is a progressive discipline approach to all infraction but that clearly outline how we will respond across all organizations and remove some levels of discretion to be able to accomplish that so I'll give these gentlemen opportunity to add on if there's anything that I didn't share that you wanted to highlight and I'll take any questions that you might have but this has been a work in progress for over a year so we don't have the copies there are no copies you should okay let me remedy that for you I'll get it okay let me um and I'll also reshare the digital copy for the group if that

097will will also make it easier for you um let me see for apolog yes he's going to display my apologies I send it to him I'll get see her to do it well while they're waiting to load it Mr tudum will the the organizations go back and amend their constitutions to be in line with this yes so they will amend and our goal is to make sure that even all of the incoming clubs so we are about to enter tryouts and and all of the new appointments for cheer and dance and those type of things and so we want to be able to roll this out now in this season to be in effect for all programs and organizations for the 25 26 school year yeah so Ryan if you could scroll up good evening

098board uh School uh board president uh Dr Allan also miss Higman uh What uh the extracurricular Fine Arts and athletic department uh on our website when the student athletes fill in for rank one get their physicals everything has to be signed by their parents the parents are also going to have to check the box and make sure that they've read this or acknowledge that they've received this uh information I'm gonna ask Ryan to uh scroll up to the next section where there is prohibited conduct um and the progressive discipline for that those are the major adjustments so conduct expectations were norming across and so all of their handbooks and guidelines will have to align they can add to but they cannot um go below this minimum expectation if you could scroll a little bit further

099there we are so non-school related misconduct is specifically outlined so that includes technology related things so sometimes we experience where they're post on social media or different things that come up and contribute to um confusion or instances at the the school so those are addressed here we did not have U policy or consistent on that prior to Ryan scroll just a little bit more if I knew how to control it myself I would I'm sorry so prohibited conduct are the severe infractions that we wanted to address so drugs Alcohol Tobacco stealing anything that happens that's unlawful conduct so that behavior will automatically result in dismissal that was not consist before so dismissal from programs for the full school year and if you can scroll up more just a little bit more on page eight and

100nine I want to show so here when we start thinking about um the leveled behaviors and infractions just a little bit more Ryan there we are so where you see the first offense for a non-school related infraction will for all organizations result in rehabilitative activity assigned by the sponsor or coach that might include community service leadership training some type of for athletics it might be a conditioning activity they may have to run a certain number of labs they may have to complete some leadership models for student council so on a first event there will be rehabilitative activity assignment by the coach or the sponsor those activities that disciplinary action must be completed before the student can participate in their Club organization or event again you might recall that some clubs and organizations had those kind

101of interventions others resulted in immediate dismissal so again all clubs now will have Progressive discipline the second events again the rehabilitative activity however you're also suspended from the next scheduled event and on the third event suspension from all extracurricular activities for the full calendar year but again those are for prohibited misconduct off-campus prohibited misconduct those were those severe infractions I told you about tobacco alcohol those type of things School related misconduct is a little bit more common for us or a lot more common for us so in school and out of school suspension or crd assignments is also addressed in this document on a progressive scale so for the first infraction of ISS OSS or crd placement the student will complete that placement before they can uh join or rejoin participate in any activity for

102their Club so they must be complete with all of their disciplinary assignment before rejoining the activity on the second offense again the student completes their ISS OSS or crd but then they must also be removed from the activity for the equivalent number of days so if I am ISS or crd for three to five days I'm also removed from the program activities for three or five days beyond my in school suspension on the third offense again the student will complete their disciplinary assignment and their removal following the completion of their disciplinary assignment results in a removal for double the amount of time that they were serving ISS so same example if I was assigned three days of ISS I'm removed from my extracurricular programming six school days after the completion of that disciplinary assignment and

103again we wanted it to be Progressive um and responsive where all clubs and organizations were on the same page if you scroll just a little bit Ryan some other major infractions that lead to Da again being consistent with level defenses on the First Defense the student will complete the Dae da assignment and then they will will be removed from those clubs and activities for 14 days 14 days on the second offense 30 calendar days upon their return and on the third da placement they are removed from clubs or organizations this is cumulative you might be asking yourself who goes why do you give one two three times to go to Da before removal this is cumulative for their High School career on the da removals so that means I might go as a ninth grader

104I might go as a 10th grader in my junior year I could I could be removed permanently from that particular club or organization doesn't reset with with the Academic Year ISS OSS CD do reset with the Academic Year have I missed any other highlights that we want to include I think I think those are the major things that this board would probably be interested in as far as our response to disciplinary infractions how the technology related offense is one that concerns me I know the Supreme Court has weighed in on particularly girl nastin that is protected as First Amendment right how are you massaging that to hold girl particularly girls accountable we talked about a little bit about that we had a lot of a lot of big conversation about that and we actually sought

105out legal advisement on that because of the nature of the free speech and so I'll let um Sierra kind of share her advisement to us on that the the first part is that we do make technology offenses here subject to regulation that said the regulation has to demonstrate some kind of impact on the actual organization the case that you refer to one of the biggest issues in the facts of that case was the lack of evidence to demonstrate that the conduct online actually diminished the effectiveness and ability of the organization to operate um The District's not not in the business of running down every single thing kids do online unless we can show that the conduct really does impact the way that we are going to perform and act as an organization and so we

106tailored it that way uh in addition as this gets rolled out everyone's going to be trained on how it gets rolled out and Technology offenses aren't implemented without acknowledgement we want to see your evidence of how did what was put online actually demonstrate keep in mind also that case included the use of profanity it's limited to profanity your extracurricular code of conduct does prohibit profanity but it doesn't make it a removable offense in the Supreme Court case you're ciding the student use the FW and a post and as a result was dismissed as a cheerleader your conduct code of conduct does not contemplate that level of consequence for a single post Mr spon I don't have my microphone on what is the rationale behind the non reset on the DAP the non reset yes when

107you said it's not you mentioned uh cumulative cumulative yes ma'am so when we thought about uh D or Pathways placements we thought we don't um arbitrarily like that's a heavy disciplinary assignment for us it takes um an extreme Behavior or a strong pattern of behaviors to be assigned to Da so we thought we needed to be a little stiffer so if you go dap once we'll restore you even twice in your academic career but we thought at the point of three da placements that it would be in the best interest to remove students from those particular programs or activities permanently in order to maintain a high expectation because remember this is not just our student code of conduct this is for our extra extracurricular clubs organizations student council athletes cheerleaders people that you expect to

108be leaders on your campus so we wanted to maintain a heightened level of expectation and we thought this was really generous um to say you get three attempts or three chances so to speak for being completely removed from the campus and still get to participate in those orgs it's just trying to maintain a high level of expectation okay well I just wanted to hear the rationale and how is this information going to be disseminated to our parents I know we have everything online but this is a big one no that's a great question so um Dr Jackson kind of started with it so all of the students have to participate or have to log into rank one that is um our check to make sure that we have sign off on it but we are

109asking all clubs organization sponsors at their parent meeting and upon accepting students into their program that they go over and review this in their parent meeting and have parents and participants sign off on this you cannot begin um participating in the activity until you have signed off that you've received and acknowledged that these are the standards for the programs anything in addition as she was saying with those parents meetings for every curricular organization or activity or or sports team uh coaches uh organization sponsors are required to have a parent meeting before the first day of practice or before the first game and at that parent meeting they will share this information with the parents are require those parents that sign off that they've received this meeting and keep a sign in sheet along with agenda

110and they turn that into the athletic office or to Mr Murdoch so that would have been in person meetings uh prior to the season or extracurricular activity starting as well as when you fill out your physical form sign all the documents you have to sign to participate in next curricular activities that next box you have received or you acknowledge that you've read this uh extracurricular handbook for student athlet i' I'd like to add just one thing first of all thank you so much to the team I'm really glad I know we've worked on this project for quite a while so I'm I'm extremely happy to see it come to fruition I would like as we roll this out and and educate our sponsors and coaches that we maintain our documentation because it's important that you

111know sometimes we put things in place and everybody doesn't always read it or they don't understand it so it'll it's very important the consistency of implementation and expectations across the board so because this is new I just want to ensure that we go the extra mile with training our all of our team members so that they really understand and that they sign off and know because they are expected to follow this like there's no you don't have an option and you no longer have that same level of flexibility that you've had before so I want to make certain that we ensure that they're trained and that they sign off the training yes maam Mr hey I think this is a much needed document I'm glad you guys uh presented this uh we have one question

112one topic is of concern I'm not sure how transfer students who transfer out of District how that process works but I do want to know like I didn't see when I was glancing through this that how will we uphold that for a student who may go through any infraction and then decide well they may be looking to get into an open School District so so that way they can play in or be a part of any other Sports organization that same year or later in the season I want to make sure I understand your question you're saying if a student transfers out like does this carry and follow them to their new District or Organization no try to make that try to make transfering an option you know being that let's just say hypothetically speaking

113student does something here TR tries to transfer because they have to sit out for an extended period of time try to sit uh go to a neighboring School District because it may have open enrollment right so this is governance for our district internally so these infractions and those records would not go along with the student this is our governance of students in our clubs and organizations but does not become a part of like their permanent record to go along with them to the new District definitely understood I don't know like that's why I said I don't know how the transfer process works I don't know if there is like a sign off or anything else like that if if it's on the school record if it's a school disciplinary issue it goes with T-Rex there

114there's two there's two okay what you're referring to is a PF form previous athletic participation form when a student leaves for example bont United or Westbrook high school that student and parent has to initiate the process of a previous athletic participation form with the U online it goes to U Porter that information goes to the the the school district that they're transferring to and on that form they they ask is this student athlete in your opinion to the coach or the sponsor as well as that U administrator on campus are they leaving for um Athletics check yes or no and if you check yes then there has to be an investigation from the dec District executive chair that's the committee and the chair schools that they participate within that particular District also if that students

115was sign da in our district now that goes with that student to that student and that student has to still serve that dap they can't Lo leave bman ISD and go to another district and try to get out of the DAP they still have to serve their dap either in Bowman ISD or to the district that they're transferring to so will there be any way of putting it I don't know if as a information because I mean that's the first thing that you know most people going to try to do they're going to try to look for a loophole you know and being the fact that whether it's dap or whatever is in a code of conduct well if I can hurry up and try to transfer somewhere else with the da that follows you

116we had a and I'm not I'm legally I'm not saying the student's name we had a student last week try to come from one District to another District to bont ISD to circumvent da the the uh the administrator on campus realized they were assigned DAP in that previous District met with the parents and said if you're coming to Bowmont ISD to this High School to circumvent the DAP let me advise you we can't do that so you're going to either serve it here in Bowman ISD at this high school or you going you can go back to you know the district that you're trying to transfer from so that is caught immediately okay and I will just add to that that those transfer restrictions really only apply to the Athletics programs Fine Arts and academics

117are not going to be uh they're not going to deal with that type of transfer it's just going to be the school records that come across like the DAP if there no other questions we appreciate your feedback thank you very much public comment it is now time for public comments Miss Antoine do we have anyone sign sign up to address the board yes ma'am the board will now hear comments from those persons who have signed up to speak this portion of the meeting is set aside for parents students employees and community members to speak to the board about any matter of interest to them pertaining to the school program each person who signed up by 4:30 p.m. yesterday may speak for no more than two and a half minutes those who signed up after that

118time and prior to public comments today will be allowed to speak for one and a half minutes during public comment the board will listen but is forbidden by the Texas open meetings act from discussing any topic raised or making any decision unless the matter is already on the agenda for this meeting the board reminds speakers that public comment is not the time to bring the board compl complaints about a particular program employee or student should a speaker's remarks include complaints directed at a particular student employee or program I will respectfully ask that the individual stop speaking and utilize the board's adopted grievance procedure as a reminder your time is being monitored when your time to speak is up you will hear a buzzer that will indicate that your time has ended m Fisher board members

119um Zach kraic the superintendent of third future schools submitted a written public comment and so I will read that to you he says third future schools Texas thanks Bowman ISD for the opportunity to partner with the district for the operation of Smith Middle School phel Price Elementary School and Jones Clark Elementary School we hope the board acts tonight in a manner that supports the flourishing of those campuses for the 2025 2026 school year Larry go good evening board president miss Hickman superintendent Dr Allen board members and staff I came across something while on my computer it's called understood school vouches what you need to know by Kate Kelly there was some very helpful information and one of the things is that public schools Grant you a lot of leadway private schools don't have to they

120can turn around and say okay like the one of the problems that was addressed here was about cell phones y'all made way to to address that and try to work with the students and what have you as to cell phones private schools don't have to do that also besides that there was different things that public schools do that private schools don't and that was concerning the individuals with disability Education Act a free and appropriate public education due process the right to an individual education proc program even testing children to see where they fit in the school system and the results that they get wish I had more time than a minute and a half because it was a lot of things important things that I read about in this little report and I was blessed

121and happy uh I attended private school blessed Sac uh wish I could tell you the rest of it but I I'll I'll tell you if you know off the refence time thank you very much we appreciate you thank you that concludes the request for public comment thank you information items Mr Samuels good Madam president members of the board um you have in front of you uh the hiring separation report for the month of January as you review that report I just want to remind you uh that uh Saturday uh March 29th at Westbrook cafeteria we have our educated job fair from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and then uh on May the 22nd uh Thursday uh evening we have our retirement uh banquet and we're actually changing the venue this year to the event center

122any questions thank you M Hernandez thank you Miss Hickman for the month of January the tax office collected just over $53 million for us in maintenance and operation taxes and almost 14 million in debt service and we are 76. 71% collected for um our general fund we had 130 m783 1822 collected in Revenue you can see we're finally in the black because tax collections are coming in we had expenditures of 95,4 19,4 and outstanding purchase orders of 4 almost $4.3 million any questions our campus activity funds collected 228,000 we had a number of monetary donations this month Christian faith Missionary Baptist Church donated to B bont United $200 sidet and Charlene dolphine Foundation donated $5,000 to bont United BASF donated to the Korean Technical Center of $10,000 Marcus Castile to Dishman Elementary $100 the Cades

123Corporation to Calwood ele $452 and 100 black men of great greater bont gave $2,000 districtwide and to purchase backpacks and books so we are in the process of ordering those and hopefully they'll be in soon um we had a number of um donated items um Anthony wils donated a iPad in the to odm Academy dogit Auto Group donated an iPad to odm Academy Mr woodro Reese donated some hats to Charlton Pard Elementary East tec's Urgent Care donated to our health services department some zipup jackets and then North North End Baptist Church donated a number of items to guest Elementary uh boxes of Kleenex pencils Sharpies Expo pin and bottles of hand sanitizer any questions thank you thank you Dr Allen compensation and hard to fill stiens I don't I don't have to make a report

124on that tonight I think I have my direction Miss Hickman thank you okay chief districtwide Intruder report good evening board president Dr Allen and Board of Trustees um after the tragedy at udal our governor along with tea in the Texas School Safety Center implemented what is considered to be the Intruder detection audits as of to date of course we've had 18 audits of our campuses and we have eight more campuses left to go again these things were done to help ensure that they were keeping our students and our staff safe in the event there were deficiencies of course the campuses were required to do correction action plans uh we have completed all our corrective action plans uh and the district is in good standing do we have any questions thank you Chief thank you Mr

125re update from the facilities committee thank you president and uh for for the committee members if uh you have something to say about some one of these just like the chillers and electrical panel vandalize that uh PA Brown if you have anything on that Mr Deval R Mr Ron or Mr Maxwell and now the facility committee met on Tuesday February the 11th at uh 2025 the following members were present president Tilly Hickman W dra Reese Robert dun Dr Allen Randall Maxwell Cheryl Hernandez Dr run Jackson and Mr Alan debal following items were discussed Central auxiliary gy vand vandalized options uh Chiller in electrical panel and vandalized and is considered one of the event associated with the Paul Brown ization for insurance purposes uh damage to the central auxiliary air handles and electrical wires upstairs is

126deemed a separate event cost of the event 1.2 to $1.4 million to repair the damage there there was another option if uh the gentleman coming up would like to talk about that it' be fine uh and that is the district cost is a $250 uh $250,000 deductible if the insurance covers the event another option is to consider demolition for $80,000 gentlemen so we had a a secondary incident with vandalism where uh some criminals got upstairs in the mezzanine cut out copper piping and wire going to electrical panels uh service connection boxes uh and did an extraordinary amount of damage U as Mr ree said from 1.2 to$ 1.4 million is the estimate to make any repairs and that's beyond it's a second uh Insurance claim and our deductible of course on that is 250,000 so

127uh we we're looking at any and all viable options one of which would be to demo the building the we went reached out to the company that uh demoed uh Central in Old price and they gave us uh an an estimate of $80,000 to be able to tear that building down U and get rid of the the chance of it happening again there's we looked into ways to secure the building um there's no real viable solution to securing that building 247 and it's kind of away from the rest of the buildings on the campus now uh so we we decided to present multiple options talk about the fence I'm Sorry Miss hick talk about the fence a little bit because that's an obvious attempt to secure the building and what happened so the there is

128an 8 foot chain link fence around the property um back when they they damaged Paul Brown's Chiller the fence didn't stop them they took a pair of wire cutters and just cut the chain link fence and helped themselves so the the fence is not it's a deterrent and it may buy a couple of minutes of extra time in a security situation but it's not going to prevent a thief that wants to get in and take things you're scratching your head Mr Evans why do we keep it in the first place why why didn't we get rid of it when we tore down everything else was it is it I think that was the feeling of this of the sub of the committee that we can't secure it we really aren't using it it'll cost a

129bunch to fix it and the odds are that two weeks later they'll come get the copper pipe again no to your point um at the time we let the contract the electrical and the copper and all that and the AC were still working at the auxiliary gym so during all of the demolition of the old Central Building those things were functioning right then that building goes down we have the incident at Paul Brown with the chiller we have the incident at Central auxiliary gym with the chiller then we find out going back looking with the engineers what are we going to do to have to fix the gym we go upstairs and now we find the thieves have completely stripped everything out of the the boxes and everything so it's it wasn't um an issue

130issue when we were initially doing the the demolition of Central so so to add to what Mr Maxwell is saying the last event we hosted there was the farewell Central I don't know if you were able to attend that that was the last event that we hosted there and we would host some oneoff events we utilized it not consistently every week we were allowing Community folks to rent and utilize that facility we thought it was a good it's a good it was a good facility and it was good to have it we utilized that facility several times when you know we had hurricanes you know the Red Cross set up shelters there instead of using our campuses we could utilize you know this gym that was still operable at the time so you know to

131just you know not have it is it going to hurt us no it's not going to hurt because we weren't using it consistently I think uh maybe Dr rice and some of the kids how were y'all using in consistently okay so it's utilized at least weekly by Paul Brown but again that's why we gave the options this evening for y'all to think about basically moving forward with millions of dollars worth of work and are the demolition is on the other far spectrum of $80,000 how much time we have for you know before before we have to make something happen honestly well that there's not really a a deadline I don't believe on the the project meaning meaning that if we didn't do nothing for six months talking about potential dur um deterioration or anything of

132the facility like well that so in in terms of the condition of facility with it having all environmental controls off of it uh we will see further deterioration you'll see mold probably in there you'll see rotten uh floors uh for the gym area uh you've got carpet in the band hall and choir areas that will mold and Milo so the longer we wait the more damage that that potentially is going to be there from not having environmental controls Mr dun you were a thought Mr Evans I guess also if we wait too long we risk more vandalism people probably living in there or who knows what so I unfortunately I think we can't wait too long uh only become more of a eyesore and potential safety hazard and all those not so good things and

133we did uh we did everything we could in maintenance to be able to secure the facility we put some heavier uh locks on the doors and we plywood it up all the glass doors to try to keep the vandals in and we went over there one day to check on a couple of things and they had already busted off the heavier locks so I I just see them keep going and going till there's nothing left in there and there's just one last thing to add um you know I'm looking at this but is there anything that's a comparable uh mediation in the meantime I mean I don't I don't know when in your world may be able to work with the air like something that we could do in the meantime until we make something

134happen no not at this time because the main electrical service to the building is down the chiller is down every air handler is down and all the electrical wiring in the building has been compromised so that you couldn't put temporary units or anything on that building thank you there there is no electricity to the building anymore so Mr $80,000 to demo it versus $250,000 deductible on a $1.2 to14 million expense I got it any more any more questions hearing none thank you gentlem okay Early Childhood uh College um name students will be given the an opportunity to input of the naming of the campus with the understanding that both ECS and Dr Martin Luther King's name become part of the official campus name the district has explored a new roof material that will save s

135Sly on cost of new roofs uh Westbrook cafeteria cafeteria electrical issues which was discussed temporary repair was made to keep the kitchen oper operator until the permanent repair is completed permanent repair is scheduled for the week of spring break the cost is approximately $35,000 uh Dr Jackson has presented the need for equipment at each middle school with industrial washers and dryers a disc discussion about the cost was held Price Elementary 3350 wavery a resolution declaring intent to sell is on the agenda tonight anyone have any questions excuse It's not a question uh Mr ree if you will restate I I heard you uh the suggestion from the facilities committee was to keep Early College High School Incorporated also with the Martin Luther King Dr Martin Lu Luther King Jr named together is that students we'll

136be given an opportunity to input on the naming of the campus with the understanding that both uh EC HS and Dr Martin Luther King's uh name become a part of the official campus name okay they will be given input on that input yes the idea is that the students would have input but the bottom line would be that both uh the Bowmont early college name and Dr Martin Luther King Jr's name have to be within that naming of the building they can't change the name somehow without having Early College in there and Dr Martin Luther King's name in there thank you Mr mwell thank you than Dr Allen I think looking at nods around the table that I'm he I'm seeing that people would like to see a uh resolution on the agenda next month

137that we can take action on the central auxiliary gym am I correct and I'm seeing lots of nods okay thank you we're now ready for the consent agenda does anyone wish to pull any items from the cassette agenda for discussion Mr Evans yes ma'am item number 10 please are there any others in addition can I bring the board's attention to you have a single sheet there's an amendment to item E9 approve mou with Lamar and the request is that the board approve theou between Lamar and bman ISD to provide work study students as tutors on the campuses the contract is not completed yet so the request is that the board delegates authority to the superintended to finalize and execute the terms but essentially Lamar University students could serve as tutors being paid by Lamar that's

138what this is about but we're not quite done with the contract do we have a altered amendment that we can present in a minute to authorize you to yes you should have a copy and alter you should have a copy of this amended consent agenda item discuss I see but you don't have to amend the consent agenda you don't have to amend the consent agenda because the item is still uh appropriately named on the consent agenda Mr D uh number three the delegation of hiring Authority okay we are then ready to see the consent to uh vote on the consent agenda items one two four five six seven eight 9 11 12 and 13 so move to approve second it has been moved by Mr Le seconded by Mr Dunn to approve the identified U

139portions of the consent agenda all those in favor raise your right hand signaling I those oppose same sign motion carries 70 uh let's do item three consider delegation of hiring authority to the superintendent pursuant to board policy DC local from February 1st 2025 to September 30th 2025 Mr D okay we we as a board gave our superintendent um the authority to do all hiring which is definitely what we should do but uh in certain circumstances I was considering having uh a board member on some of these hirings like uh the community's ask me about these Sports uh like these football um coaches um that's to be the campus coordinators and I know that you have to have your principal in there because that's going to be on her his campuses and uh you have to

140have some kind of control over that and their input is definitely uh very important but uh that there was there was some question about some of the hires that we have and one of the the statements that was made was because you from bont does not mean that you would make a good coach not to say that we haven't had any it's just that it should have been some more input uh coming from the community uh through one of the board members Mr dun would you like to get with Miss fiser and form a motion to that effect sure do that I would advise I think we're plan on going back into close session and so I would I would like to give you guys some advice with regard to this structure and compliance with

141the law okay then let's move on to 10 pul Mr Evans you pull that one yes ma'am thank you um uh Dr Frank I believe I understand this uh particular item but I but I really want to be on record just just to be clear on a few things and I also have a question too uh regarding how will parents actually know which district they're zone for I just want to be on the record just getting just some clarification as to what exactly we we're asking parents to do in regards to rezoning yes sir prior to rezoning students could apply for a transfer and if awarded that transfer then they would be able to stay at that particular campus if it were Elementary K5 if it's Middle School 6th 8th all the way until the

142last grade level and then High School 9th through 12th grade uh what we are proposing with the amendment is that transfers will be limited to one year that will give us the opportunity to be able to re-evaluate uh enrollment on the campuses make sure that we don't have overcrowding of course the parent would have the option to be able to fill out the transfer and then be uh you know awarded again if we had the space available so it's changing to where you you're not um there for the the whole entire time for that that campus but for one year at a time we also looked in this policy where we have students that move out of the Zone we have allowed students to remain at that particular school if they provide transportation this will

143no longer be allowed as well if a student moves out of a school zone then they will be required to attend their uh newly Zone campus to answer your question about when will uh parents know we have been working we've been meeting weekly uh happy to say that Transportation has Maps up and running we are working on um with student services being able to get information uploaded but we plan our goal is to right after spring break release the lookup tool where parents will be able to put in their address and see where there's their Zone we are also going to send out notification to parents okay thank you I appreciate that uh Dr Frank I may be having a moment but you're saying that the uh one year applies to only transfer students is

144that yes ma'am so if you are granted a transfer and let's just say I'm in kindergarten normally okay prior to rezoning you could stay at that campus with that particular transfer all the way until you got to fifth grade now we're saying if you're granted a transfer kindergarten on that campus it is only limited to that year okay all right thank you any other questions any discussion those in favor of approving amendment to board policy FDB local oh we need no we we pulled that one we didn't vote on it I need a motion so move to approve Mr Evans has moved and Mr sige oh Mr ree to approve amendment to of board policy FDB local those in favor signify by raising your right hand those oppos same sign the motion carries 70 I

145believe that takes care of all of the uh items let's move on to action items we do not have an action item from close session at this point approve budget amendments Dr Allen Madame President I recommend that the board approve budget amendments from the general fund 8 and accept amendments for special Revenue 23 24 and 25 someone approve second it has been moved by Mr Lewis and seconded by Mr dun to approve budget amendments Miss Hernandez thank you Miss sikman we uh budget amendment gf8 increases Revenue by $ 7,986 for Insurance Recovery for some claims that were filed against some um damage to some veh vles from accidents and then we're also asking to increase the budgets of the Departments of the that were responsible for the vehicles for replacement and or repairs to those

146Vehicles we're also asking the board to um allocate an additional $150,000 to purchase new student desk and teacher desks for Early College High School we um received a quote to move the furniture from Early College to uh the new location and it was over $90,000 so instead of asking the board for the 90,000 we thought it best to purchase the new furniture and then use the furniture at Early College to to move into some of the needs at the middle school area at a later date that we could do that moving ourselves and it wouldn't cost us anything so it's kind of like um getting the best bang for our buck and then also we're asking for um an increase of $249,100 Grant through title and then um title all of them are title to

147um move funds between the functions are there any questions hearing none those in favor signify by raising your right hand those oppose same sign motion carries 70 now we're ready to spend money approved purchases over 50,000 Madam president our recommend that the board approve purchases over $50,000 from the general fund in the amount of $399,450 so move to approve second it's been moved by Mr Lewis and seconded by Mr Dunn to approve purchases over $50,000 thank you miss yours thank you um $150,000 and3 is with Mannings for the purchase of the new furniture at early college and then uh $249,100 that Miss Hickman just really briefly for the board that the purchase is for the pouches starting at 6th grade so the research and the data that we collected of course was for high school

148but when you look at implementation especially the other districts as well as getting the kids ready and trained we want to start at the sixth grade level so that's why the purchase is for more board president miss Hickman board members and Dr Allen this is Mr Luke stals with the Yonder company um he has been with us before a couple of years ago but he is the um person that could answer many many questions that potentially I can't so we'll tag team but please go ahead and fire the questions if there are any oh yeah question okay yes sir Mr sigi I was under the impression that the pouches were about $120 each but I see a cost of $30 each and when we first came to the board probably two and a half three

149years ago uh there was a a cost of $18 to19 uh at that time also there was an fee a yearly fee yes so that whole structure has changed now uh what we are purchasing for the $30 fee along with the the trainings hey Maxwell I got something sorry talk to me oh okay I'm sorry I'm sorry absolutely um when I Mr Maxwell said when we were here a few years ago we had an annual plan this would require your District to budget for this as an annual cost we've since then transitioned to this being a onetime purch where your District's only obligation is the maintenance of this so while our standard pricing is set at $30 through by board The Cooperative purchasing agreement I believe we're offering it at 2550 a pouch um again

150onetime purchase um for your District sorry so you said a one-time purchase so two years from now what do we pay to maintain it yeah uh so built into this proposal is about a 15% buffer of Reserve pouches to account for students that either lose or damage those typically when we work with districts that's the maintenance that they make sure is reserved year after year thank you okay just just one question here uh is it easy to jailbreak these things nothing in the hands of a determined teenager is going to be indestructible um that being said uh our product and development team has developed this pouch to be a very strong deterrent um it's going to be and we will be training each individual campus to be able to identify a damaged pouch it's going

151to be very obvious if a student damages that pouch uh if a student uh as far as uh getting some other means to open up these pouches like a uh a thirdparty magnet the magnets and I can demo I brought some of that here and Mr Maxwell has that as well uh but these magnets are not uh these magnets for one are very safe with technology I could put my phone directly up against it without risking damage to it I've had students in other districts that attempt to get high-powered magnets only to learn the hard way that magnets and electronics don't really go hand inand and they end up destroying their phone in the process part of that communication this is more than just the pouch I really want to reiterate that this whole thing

152is so much more than the pouch it's really coming down to a policy that sticks and is easy to enforce this is where our program steps in to really support your District in developing a policy that's long-term and sustainable uh the pouch is merely the tool that makes it easier for your principles to enforce that policy paired with that is also going to be the communication which is equally as important with this so that way we're communicating not only to the students what the expectations are but also to the parent community so the parents feel safe what about an emergency situation how do I get in touch with my child if I need to reach them during the school hours what's the appropriate Communication channel but to the students the parents and also to your

153staff this is going to remove largely remove the weight off of the teachers plates from having to be the phone police and that goes right back to the consistency of enforcement if we can create that consistency across all the teachers and really put that weight back on the administrators we're not creating that antagonistic relationship between teacher and student so this is more than just the pouch this is about really a culture change for your District that's going to improve improve on a tremendous amount of different factors for your District okay some some of the concerns from the parents that I uh spoke with was besides the fact I won't be able to call my baby which you're not supposed to be doing in the first place uh getting ready to get out of school is

154this going to hold up where we got long lines of kids trying to unlock these things on the way out yeah that's a great question in fact and and that's a common misconception when in fact the opposite tends to be true of an expedited dismissal process Mr Maxwell you've seen firsthand in several different schools what that dismissal process looks like uh I was part of the visit with Lake Highlands High School at Richardson high school they have uh just over 3200 students and it takes roughly five minutes to empty out that entire campus with everyone's phones opened up uh that doesn't happen by accident we have an incredible team that supports each individual campus on their implementation so that way we can strategically place these magnets in places where students have quick and efficient access

155to those magnets okay one last question here one of the concerns was um have an active shoot on campus uh and uh once the kids are in a safe place where they can uh the parents I me receive calls from the parents how how many different areas on campus are we going to have to uh for them to be able to do that because obviously we can't have one in every classroom where for sure uh so how many areas are we going to have to do that yeah um I have the itemized breakdown of how many magnets will be included in that okay essentially you know once the students are safe and secure it's up to the principal's discretion to open up those pouches after they've communicated to the parents and um to communicate that

156their students are safe we include handheld magnets uh as part of that uh so there'll be Select Staff members that will have those access points we also have a new product that I don't know that Mi Mr Maxwell knows but we have lock boxes uh that can be mounted in evacuation zones so that way we're not worrying about grabbing magnets we can make our way to the evacuation Zone where we can have a magnet place there and the PO does not stop any Transmissions of information coming into the correct Mr R thank you president uh my question and make an answer tonight if not I'll put it on agenda for the next meting how are we doing with cell phones now um confiscating as well as students doing the right thing yes if we were

157to present and I did not have that ready I apologize but if I were to tell you that today if you looked at the numbers the numbers have increased every single month on the number of kids not only uh getting suspended which again going back back to the number of minutes it's costing us money and time and educational you know just the ability for a kid to be in school because they're choosing not to give their phone up so we suspend them but also the ones that do give the phone up then they pay a fine so every single month according to the statistics that we've been keeping since September it has gone up and I don't have the actual numbers in front of me but it's gone from say 200 to a th000 so

158it's gone up significantly thank you for your answer Mr Le just a question I know there's going to be more to follow with this but what would be the fines assess assess if and or when a student damages one of these pouches and do we anticipate I understand you said the 15% is the buffer but do we anti ipate that first year like going into second year and third year that does that number ever go down or because I'm I'm pretty sure there's GNA be a high Spike to start for sure year one uh just to brace you is going to be the bit of a culture shock as students get adjusted to this year after year as we do have this be a part of the cultural norm as their daily habits we do

159see that tend to drop off uh one thing to um add is that these pouches are reusable your outgoing students can also Supply incoming students we give you um it's meant to be reused year after year you can wash and repurpose those for your incoming students so they're leaving with the pouches students no so are on a daily basis yes but going into summer uh vacation no that will be collected going into summer again those are those are things what we have to do and this is why we asked for a longer Runway considering that y'all would um allow us to use these then we begin using students the community parents creating a committee so that we could come up with the the different rules the different findes the different things that we want to

160do so that it is very clear when we start in August that this is what going to happen if you damage the the pouch this is what's going to happen if you bring an extra phone this is what's going to happen and we do have models we have all the high schools we visited uh we have their information so we can Model A lot of what we want to do after what is being successful right now but I think it would be prudent for us to get kids together uh high schoolers uh parents um and whoever else wants to join and then we brainstorm what we want it to look like in Bowmont Texas my personal op my personal opinion I believe that just based on the numbers that you presented in the previous months

161that I believe there'll be a great number of students is going to be trying to book the system and I have concerns that I don't want to spend more money I'm telling you I don't want to do that however I'm concerned about 15% being a buffer with so much of the accountability being solely on the student I know we going to take care of our business when they get to school with the Locking but if they're taking pouches home because even if we just did a soft study about you know how many students come back with their laptops or their Chromebooks charge and things like that those a little bit of just my concerns I'm for this it's just that is an element that I have some reservations on and that doesn't necessarily have to

162be the model that uh campus goes with we have different models that we work with um of course we've been speaking at uh what this would look like at a very high level our team meets individually with each campus to determine what is going to be the best implementation where we do have that compliance we have the accountability But ultimately what's not going to completely disrupt what the school is doing High School certainly is going to look different than the middle school so we will work with that we do have schools and different models where uh pouches are distributed at the building entrance or classroom uh Home Room to Home Room kind of model so we will work with that to maintain that compliance and this like I said goes right back into the policy

163enforcement and the communication your students should be sick and tired of hearing about the Yonder expectations from their principles we're going to ingrain this as part of that communication plan so this like what Mr Maxwell said they will know what the expectations are are and ultimately what the risk is if they choose to violate those uh those rules there you know one of the schools that just implemented it this year uh what they did is they didn't even pass out the Pat the pouches the first day they went over all the rules they talked about it they let then they pass the pouches out let the kids look at the pouches how to open them close them taught them all these different things and then after week one they passed out out the pouches so

164you know there's a lot of different ways we can do this we just need to you know get all the kids together and our our parents and our community and figure out what's the way we want to do it you think that would be great doing running start I think the information has to go out before running start but I but I think running start is a great place to start having the the devices out having the parents looking at them having the kids touch and feel them um if we if we decide that's when you want to get your pouch um because there are models where like a sixth grader gets the pouch and they keep it tell that it's 12th you know their senior year so there's a lot of different models out

165there but again if we're talking about legisl I think it's Bill 515 where they're talking about kicking around the idea that the whole state students in schools have to have pouches so that is being talked about right now we know there are seven or eight states already we know different countries are doing this I think you're working with Arkansas the whole State's doing it correct are we happy thank you so much I do have one comment it's not for y'all it's for the president principles out there I appreciate the fact that this is the case for one in a 100 but we hear the one so please remind your clerks to have a tradeoff plan so that the phones are always answered because the first thing PE parents are going to complain about is well

166I can't get anyone at the phone to an I mean at the school to answer the phone so if I need my child anyway Please be aware of that because that may be the first thing we need to make sure is happening before we even tell people we're doing it thank you those in favor signify by raising your right hand those opposed same sign the motion carries 70 Madame President I recommend that the board approve Associated Mechanical Services Incorporated for the chiller replacement project so Mo to approve second motion has been moved by Mr Lewis and seconded by Mr dun are you g to tell us more about it Miss Hernandez I sure will we issued a a competitive seal proposal and we received three responses back and we are awarding to Associated mechanical for

167the chiller replacement at Paul Brown any questions is there any are there any questions any discussion those in favor signify by raising your right hand those oppose same sign the motion carries 7 Madame President I recommend that the board approve the annual investment report so move to approve second Mr Lewis moved to approve the ual investment report Mr sige seconded M Hernandez we saw this last month didn't we we saw the quarterly investment report we're required to do quarterly investment reports and then an annual um each year by the public funds investment act and our board policy so this is the annual investment report and it is a calendar year report from January 1 202 24 through December 31 of 2024 and at December 31 of 2024 we had m688 n003 in loone store and

168then Tex poool we had 4,587 79034 those are the only two um investment avenues that we have currently for the district and the rest of our funds are in our depository at PNC bank and then we also um show that interest earnings for the year were considerably higher than they were in 2023 for the general fund we earned 3 mil 3152 and that contributes into our general fund operating budget and then in The Debt Service fund we earned 995,000 $5 5788 so comparison to those interest rates they are consider they were very high at the beginning of the year but as things have gone they are declining again but with that you know the cost to borrow money will eventually go down hopefully as well are there any questions hearing none those in favor signify

169by raising your right hand those oppose same sign motion carries 70 I believe that takes care of what we're doing but unfortunately it is not time for adjournment we are headed back to Clos session I don't need that I don't need that e e e all right we're going to take our business in opposite order of what we did uh Dr Allen the reason we asked you to leave was that it is the board's intention to nominate you as superintendent of the Year there will be a res uh there will be a resolution for us to approve next month because we have to do it officially but we'll let you get to work on all the stuff you have to do to do this right away so everybody y'all are in this too okay so

170the first order of business is to finish the uh consent agenda to approve the amendment of board policy FDB local oh we're doing three sorry I had one checked and then one not okay consider delegation of hiring authority to the superintendent pursuant to bir board policy DC local from February 1st 2025 to September 30th 2025 is there a motion Stacy Mr Lewis he who eats gummy bears has trouble talking it's been moved by Mr Lewis and seconded by Mr dun to consider uh delegation of hiring authority to the superintendent Pursuit it to board policy DC local from February 1st 2025 to September 30th 2025 is there any discussion hearing none those in favor signify by raising your right hand those opposed same sign the motion carries 70 is there any is there an action item

171from close session yes ma'am Madam president uh on the agenda item related to 1882 Partnerships I move the board approve the district's Council to proceed as discussed in close session is there a second it's been moved by Mr Evan seconded by Mr sige that we give our attorney authority to pursue uh discussions on the 1882 partnership as discussed in closed session is there any discussion hearing none those in favor signify by raising your right hand those oppos sign same sign the motion carries 70 and I can't brag about how early we got through tonight however we are now basically through uh Mr sige do you have closing remarks I have absolutely nothing Mr ree Miss uh Spooner thank you president Hickman it's been a wonderful productive meeting as we normally have speaking to our audience

172I want to wish everyone out there a happy Black History Month that's a there's a lot I could say about it but we are thankful for uh history the history that has been formed through the years and lives with us as the foundation of the present and I would be remiss president Hickman uh last month we had such a beautiful time celebrating School Board appre appreciation month I stepped up here tonight and I saw some more things I think it was you Dr Allan I've been trying to figure it out but I said is it continuing oh my God it was so wonderful but to all of you that uh gave us various things here in administration the various schools uh I know we're all thankful and I just want to thank you all again

173Mr Evans uh I just want to say congratulations to you Madame President for um not receiving an opponent and I want to thank the city of Bowmont and the good people of district one for allowing me another four years to serve as well so uh thank you and uh congratulations to miss Hickman that's it nothing Mr Le Dr Allen just thank you so much to the board for all of your support and thank you for the unexpected nomination I really appreciate you know our team and the passion compassion and dedication that you have to our students I really hope that our community appreciates our school board for everything that you do because I know it's not an easy job and you are faced with making tough decisions every single day but you're making those decisions

174with the best interest of our children at heart and that is so important so thank you very much thank you uh Jackie has left us so is she there so so you need to start the campaign to tell the world how wonderful wonderful Dr Allen is we will make it official next month but there's nothing that would hurt the runup thank you all for everything you do I appreciate you I particularly appreciate Dr Jackson for putting up with my granddaughter which is no small task uh well she's now decided she's a three athlete a three sport athlete until Pat Thomas let her on the court last year she never picked up a tennis racket so uh to be on the varsity tennis team is an interesting experience but thank you all for putting up with

175us and for them and we appreciate you we are a jerk