Regular Board Meeting September 16th, 2025

001uh the time is the time is 6:04. We're going to go ahead and start. We will have a couple board members coming in late. So, um I'll I'll I'll let you know at the time when they come in. We'll start go ahead and start with uh roll call. Oscar Morunes, >> Anita Franco, >> Michael Urigas. >> We have a quorum. >> Pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the standy for all. Thank you. >> Thanks, sir. >> Thank you. >> Item four, public comment. >> Where's Roxy? Okay. three minutes. We do have one. >> Okay. Jeffrey Or came in at 6:05. >> Okay. Do I read this? Okay. At regular board meetings, the board shall permit the public comment on any

002topic. Uh at all of the board meetings, public comments will be limited to items to the uh on the agenda posted with the notice of the meeting. All public comments are limited to three minutes. >> I'll start the time and then you may begin. >> Board members, uh >> Madame President, uh Superintendent Pearson, thank you for allowing to be here. It's been a while since I've been to a school board meeting. I've worked for the school district good number of years, but uh I still enjoy what you're doing and how you take care of the kids and the district in in whole. Uh my concern right now is the limited hours of our bus driving. The school district has three retirees to retirees. And I've noticed at the end of last year and the start

003of this year, uh, we're getting limited trips and, uh, limited routes that we're doing. How we figure the hours for a TRS retiree is the number of days in a month. If there's everyone has at least 22 times four or is half a day's work is 88 hours per month allowable. Some days have 23 up to 92. What I've noticed that we're getting one trip couple of routes and we wind up with 30 or 40 hours for the month. We're not being utilized to the best of the district. We have at least two other people that are non-retirees and they come in and do their hours, but they're also complaining about not get enough hours on the field trips. That's my concern. The uh I'll bring it out and I won't mention any names. Uh

004we do have full-time employees that are used for field trips, routes, whatnot that's uh available to the district. We're going to cover all the routes. We're going to cover all the field trips, but it seems like there's three or four full-time employees that are getting more trips than the retirees that's out there. Uh, superintendent person, could you check into this, please? Okay. We're dedicated as it can be. We like the kids. We like to drive in. We want to take the kids all over the place to compete. But when you're limited hours that it's hard to come by and cover all your routes and trips. The board is advertising for drivers to come in, but when you only get 10, 12, 15 hours a week, you're not going to find anybody to come off the

005streets to come in and help us fill in those slots that are out there. The retirees that we have right now need to be maxed out. Mrs. GarcA was the is the transportation secretary. She's out on leave right now, but she was very strict on the number of hours we could put in in a particular month. If we max out at 90, she would cut us off at the 80 85 to leave a few hours extra so we could cover a route for that particular end of the month. There's a lot of trips. Sometimes we max out in three weeks and we have to be cut off. We understand that. We don't want overtime. We just want hours that are kind of designated for us. Let us use those hours on those retirees to the

006maximum. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. >> Luter. Next, we have Lonear Governance. We have the 24 2024 2025 A throughF accountability rating update. and also well this is Dr. Rulawa. >> Good evening President Franco and school board members. We are excited and to share and showcase our 2025 um district accountability ratings with you all. So we'll begin with our CSCISD mission to provide every child a quality education in a safe environment and our vision to inspire inspiring lifelong learners in a safe and supportive environment. So, as a as a quick summary, um the purpose of the Texas A throughF accountability system is to ensure that school districts and campuses receive an annual performance rating that's determined the parameters which are determined um by TEA. So, the metrics um that are taken into

007consideration are really done in order to reflect three main objectives. So rigor for students, fairness for districts and campuses and transparency for parents and the public. So to calculate our overall ratings um which we will share here here shortly the 70% of our rating will come from the better of achievement or progress. Achievement is defined as what students know and can do um which is determined by our star scores. School progress is determined by academic growth, which is also growth in our RLA and math scores, or relative performance, the higher of the two. And our relative performance is our student achievement, taking into consideration our economically disadvantaged percentage at our campuses. The 30% of our rating that comes from closing the gaps is really looking at our subpopuls of students. So looking at our students

008and ensuring that they are making progress um specifically within the populations of special education, emergent bilingual um foster mckin vento etc. And together that will make up our overall grade. So in summary, you'll see our district and campus ratings. So here you will see our 2025 rating as a district which remained a 69 over the course of 2024 and 2025. If you look at our high school campus um you'll see a decreased rating from a C to a D. Um however it is important to note that we have submitted appeal an appeal um as of September 12th um because what we found in our calculations is that our CCMR rating um was missing four students. So with those four students it would actually move the high school to a C to a 70. The TEA

009opened up the appeal window because many districts had this same coding error. Um, so we have submitted that and we'll find out if our appeal was approved in December. Our junior high, no change, remained a B for 24 and 25. Our Ciso Springs intermediate um showed an improved rating which is something that uh we're definitely celebrating um from AD a 66 to a 71 and our elementary and improved rating as well. So from a 58 to a 62. So very um happy to see that progress at our elementary campuses. So our areas of strength um as I mentioned both elementary schools increased a letter grade um which is phenomenal work and very difficult to do. So kudos to both of our elementary campuses. Um additionally our junior high which is our highest rated campus um

010at an 83 as a B received two distinction designations which are very hard to achieve. So our junior high received top 25% in comparative academic growth. So showing that growth from our star reading and math scores. Um as well as top 25% in closing the gaps which is ensuring that our subopuls of students are meeting those achievement goals. Um so very very uh proud of our junior high campus for receiving those two designations as well. Our areas of opportunity are to provide a targeted support for our intermediate, elementary, and high school. Um, with that being said, developing a local improvement plan to address areas of needs. U Mr. Talamantes has led these efforts. Um so we do have plans in place for our three campuses that fall under um this parameter and really sharing best

011practices um amongst our four campuses and amplifying the strength of of working collaborative collaboratively excuse me. Okay, that is the accountability presentation. Any questions for me? Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next we have the National Institute for Excellence in in Teaching Update. Thank you, President Franco. That is me again. Um so excited to give you all a support um of the work that we've done up to this point in the school year. So what we would like to showcase um in this summary as as you all know as part of the lasso grant we've partnered with the national institute of excellence in teaching and what that support has looked like thus far um is really has really been has really been a team effort in strengthening our instructional practices aligning curriculum and and instruction

012um building leadership capacity um our administrators curriculum specialists um have had to put in a lot of a lot of really a lot of work in learning the product with our teachers. So, it's been really nice to see how the alignment um with learning the product uh and the systems that we have in place. Um and the fourth point being developing sustainable systems. So, the work that we've been doing in partnership with a technical assistance provider is for the long term, right? It's not just for the time being while they're here to support us, but it's really to enhance um the systems that we have in place to support our four campuses. So, what we would like to highlight um in partnership with NIT, we've developed a Wildcat way dashboard so our principles and curriculum

013team have access to all of the important documents that we have to align ourselves with um in order to stay organized. So it is a lot of information and the dashboard continues to grow. Um but what we house here are support dates and agendas. Um so everyone has access to everything in one place ensuring that our elementary school can access um high school's plans um in order you know to build capacity in that regard. So it has been a good process because maintaining access to all of these things um is difficult without a a dashboard to house this. So what's significant with our NIAT support? Uh we have two consultants, one specialist for RLA and one specialist for math, but they do support our our four campuses in our structures. So, we have our um

014our ILT, our instructional leadership team, as well as our cluster PLC where our teachers plan accordingly. So, we've been um aligning those systems um in the weeks that we've been doing this work. And there's a a long calendar that goes out to the rest of the year. It's colorcoded to highlight support, but it is a landing page, so we can very quickly see um what's happening at elementary, at intermediate, at high school, and junior high. And the beauty of it is that our curriculum specialists and principles have jumped to other campuses um to gain insight in what's happening at elementary, intermediate, um and so on. So here you'll see some photos. Um believe it or not, on the third week of school, which I believe was last week, um we began our first round of

015product observations. So as a team uh we went into our elementary, intermediate and high school um campuses to review the product and learn and see um how our students are engaged in their learning. And what was really beautiful to see is the vertical alignment that occurred, you know, from K all the way to sixth grade. Um but even horizontally when as we were looking at different classrooms, you can see that the students were engaged in very similar work. Um and what was more impressive was in the teachers discussions of this um there was so much collaboration and how should we teach this piece um how do we increase our students engagement and the focus was on the how um more so than the what. So it was a really um wonderful thing to see our

016students so engaged and immersed. Um you'll see this is a first grade classroom and we have a first grade kiddo um teaching the class and showing her process. Um, we have another first grade classroom where the kiddos were using dry erase boards and they were excited to answer. They'd hide their answers um and then show them to the crowd. And then we have a third grade classroom um in the center. I know it's hard to see um but the teacher created a protocol um and the kiddos get to go in different stations and they really had a good time um showing their work and showing us what they were doing. So, we also uh you'll see we have dry erase tables. Um this is a third grade classroom and kiddos were working independently. Um and

017they love to write on the tables. Uh they really had a good time doing this. And we have a fifth grade classroom um that was doing a read aloud and students were able to annotate um within their text. What's what I'd really like to point out as part of this slide is you'll see here um how many individuals. So you'll see a mixture um of curriculum team, administrators um and Mr. Talamantes all going through and calibrating what we are seeing in the classroom. So formulating a common language um behind what that strong tier one instruction looks like. Um so while it's been a heavy lift on our part, um we've really been able to see the fruits of our labor. Uh we sat in PLC with teachers and they were excited and the shift um

018we began a lot of this work in April of last year to so to see what it is now and what it looks like in front of students um has really been a phenomenal experience. Thank you. Any questions for me? Great work. It looks it looks it's a great thing seeing all the engagement. We look excited to hearing more throughout the year. We have one question from Mr. Zarate. He's watching live right now until he gets here. So, he had a question on the on the accountability rating. His question was if the appeal gets uh accepted, will it change the overall rating of the district? >> That's a wonderful question. Unfortunately, it will not. Um there is a there there's four domains and because we fall under three of those uh three the 3D rule

019applies we would remain at a D of a 69 even though our high school does carry 40% of that. That one point wasn't significant enough to move it. It's a great question. >> All right. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you Crystal for the information. So you you were touching on some of what uh the group picture there with admin and and uh instruct curriculum um officers when after the observation is is completed by that group. I'm going to back up. Do the do the teach the teachers understand it's not in there to gotcha. It you're coming in to to see what >> so we're going >> what are we looking for? Yeah. >> Yes. Yes, they do understand. And we have um we as we start at these learning walks, it is in

020the third week of school. Um so really our our input and our desire to get into classrooms is to learn the product um and the the cadence of how the lesson is being taught. So we're very um transparent in that that we're learning it with them and we're just attempting to be there from an angle of support and our observations and part of the protocol. So we go in to observe and calibrate but a requirement is that we coach and discuss with teachers afterwards. >> Okay. >> Yes sir. >> When does that discussion take place? >> The recommendation is 24 within 24 hours. So what's really neat again I mentioned that this is a process that we're learning. So what's neat is that we did this um throughout the day together and then our NIT

021um consultants actually uh they pulled two teachers in and showed us what that coaching conversation should look like. So we're growing in that capacity as well. >> I had another question. >> So the Okay. So after that is done is who who's providing the feedback? I mean you mentioned the NIT folks, but is it is it the campus principal? Is it all is everyone as a group meeting with that teacher? Say NIT is not on >> in camp on in the district that day. Who's providing that feedback to the teacher? So it varies but yes it does fall to the administrator and the curriculum specialist. So this was a group um calibration walk but the expectation for the weeks which we're not doing it in a group is that the individual that goes in the

022classroom then provides that feedback. >> Okay. How often you are these going to be done? >> The recommendation is within every two weeks we're going through these. So, we're setting those schedules currently to ensure that we have a full scope um of our teachers, right? We want a full scope of the grade level >> and and again, not not to, you know, I respect all our teachers in what they do in the classroom. I can certainly relate. Um is say you're you're observing particular teachers. Is there protocols or plans or Okay, teacher teacher Michael, uh, we're we've been noticing this going on or or we're not seeing enough of this or is is that, you know, to to let them know what's missing and how they can improve or what is there is there a

023script for that or is there >> There is there is a script for that. We're following very similar to our tests um post observation protocols, but the expectation and is that there is a refinement and a reinforcement. So, a glow and a grow um at every coaching conference after >> that would be those crucial conversations with the principal and the teacher to help that teacher grow. >> Yes, sir. That's correct. And our our goal in getting a full scope is to have that baseline data to see our trends, right? And to be able to see where we're performing higher. um and where we need more support. Um and NIT is working through cluster that's the weekly PLC. We we noticed a trend um I'll give you an example of learning targets. Okay, so learning targets

024is is is one of our um our main focus one of our one of four and we noticed in one classroom it was highlighted extremely and in three other classrooms that was an area um to really reinforce. So the next cluster goal um is how do we implement iteration of that learning target so students know the objective. >> Thank you. >> Yes sir. >> Ma'am I have a couple of questions. I'm curious how is the curriculum working out students? I know it's very early in the year and I'm sure there's some type of campus improvement plan. I'm curious on each campus's plan >> curriculum and what can we do if there's anything that we can do from our behalf because I see your accountability scores, but what can we do to help to be part

025of that work to make it better? >> I'm glad that you mentioned that, Mr. Moronis. um as a board and I I'll speak for the group and anybody's welcome to chime in. Um I know as we're discussing the product walks and going into classrooms and being visible I think visibility and just having the conversation of data and being familiar with the curriculum that we're using on campus familiarity um and really just engaging in conversation with folks because perception varies and what you hear uh might vary as well. So just being in the loop of what we're doing. Um, we do have I I showed the schedule. Um, we have that schedule all the way to December. So, if at any point y'all have the availability to come with us into classrooms, um, and see what

026that looks like. Hearing a cluster and seeing what teachers do and discuss and the amount of effort they put into planning and executing the lesson is phenomenal. I I can't say enough words um to really showcase that. Um so as often as we can see you at our schools um you are always welcome and we'd love to show you the work that we're doing. Um this alignment and this campus planning and going as a group into classrooms is something that we we weren't able to do last year until second semester. So it really is phenomenal that three weeks into school we've built the culture in which we can do those things. Um and I felt very comfortable doing that. I believe our teachers um did as well. Maybe on our next opportunity we can take

027a closer look at their each campus improvement plan so we can see how we can help. >> Yes. Uh those will be presented in to the board in October. The campus improvement plans you'll get an executive summary sheet from the each principal for the campus improvement plans and then there is a plan to uh have a structured walk with the board uh so that we have we don't have a quorum obviously. So we have some walks that will invite you know, two to three board members to come with us to get into the schools and see the see the instruction that's occurring. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. Thank you. >> I know. I look forward to to that. Miss Pearson has mentioned it. I look forward to that. So, please know that we're I'm

028coming around and anybody else we're coming around just support. Okay. Just support. Uh 627 is when Noi came into the meeting. >> Thank you. >> All right. Any other questions? >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. >> If I can just add something um um on the because there's some very good questions and very insightful. I'll come back to Mr. Yu's um Mr. Diegas's question in a minute. But to answer uh Mr. uh uh you know I've been meeting with the with the principles because you know three of our campuses were designated targeted school improve uh improvement and I've been speaking uh with Miss uh Pearson on what work we're doing and so the the our campus principles had we had already reviewed the data in the summer so even before we got notice from

029TA they were already working on strategies and activities to address what they felt were the most uh pressing needs which when TA A gave us official reports. They just happen to align. And so you are going to see these um in the uh campus improvement plan. Um um and um so you know what can you do to support our us uh making sure you know that that you know you're helping and going with the walkthroughs. You have any questions you know ask us hey how is it going? Now uh Mr. Canude had a foresight in uh when when I met with him uh earlier in the week um um his his um because you know we all had uh you approved board board goals. So um we also came out with the growth progress measures.

030So what he did is he knew what he needed to focus on. So he put those as c as as goal progress measures. So what you're going to see what and we're going to report uh in a monthly basis between now and next year is what he has in his campus improvement plan. So that is good. So that was uh some insight and hindsight by Mr. Ku. And then going back to Mr. Odas's um question about you know what happens if if we're not seeing that uh fidelity. So one of the protocols uh when we met with our with our technical assistant provider is fidelity of implementation. So this is a protocol. So we were having um conversations um just uh real uh I believe it was yesterday with our with um with one of

031our technical assistants and so they were suggesting about maybe uh reviewing every 3 weeks that that implementation and seeing if that integrity is there. But I know I I I stepped up and I mentioned to our team and our principles that were there at that time that maybe we need to do this um monitoring more closely because we're just starting it. So um so um we did uh shorten that uh monitoring to two weeks instead of three. So like that we can get that and you know we if there's nothing something not going right or we feel we need to pivot we can do it uh quickly instead of later when it may be too late for us to to to catch it and and make um make the um the moves that we wanted

032to. So okay >> Thank you Mr. Montes. >> Next we have student staff recognition. We have our star students from cse and our above and beyond service staff recognition cse. Can I turn? Good evening, board president Franco, Superintendent Pearson, and members of the board. Today, I would like to recognize three individuals that are above that go above and beyond at our campus. Uh first I'd like to take a moment to recognize Miss Joanne Ortiz for her outstanding support at Cariso Springs Elementary uh during this transition to our blue bonnet curriculum. [Applause] As as many of you may know, this curriculum is has been very different for our teachers. they it it requires them to do different types of planning that they had to learn which is called lesson planning internalization. So it's it's different from

033from years past where one or two teachers did the lesson plans for the whole team and then everybody met and they shared them. This year every teacher has to internalize her own lesson plans and it it was a change. It was tough. um our teachers it was very different for them. So Mrs. Mrs. Ortiz in preparation for that she internalized every grade levels right before the first week of school she went through all of the kinder curriculum internalized those lessons first grade curriculum the second grade and the third grade. Uh she she checked out to see what we needed as far as manipulatives. we met. She trained our our instructional aids to help us create some of those manipulatives. And then we even she even role modeled with the teachers. So she said, "Okay, pretend

034I'm the student. How are you going to teach it to me?" And I think that really made a big difference in helping our teachers feel that they were ready for the first week of school and ready for starting this new blue bonnet curriculum. So thank you, Mrs. Ortiz, for going above and beyond. come up Thank you so much. Today we're also proud to recognize a very special member of our Wildcat family and that is one of our very dedicated pair of professionals, Mrs. Maria Gastro. Uh Mrs. Gastro has been employed with the district for over 30 years. I believe you told me 36, Miss Castro. But what has been amazing, and I didn't know this until last year we were talking, in these 30 some odd years, she's only been absent a handful of times.

035I would say maybe three I want to say I tried to go check the records but didn't go that I couldn't go that far back but she only has about three absences which I think is unbelievable for her dedication and I really wanted to highlight that today. Um not only does she show up every day but she's there by 7:15 uh willing to help us with our morning duties welcoming our students. And so thank you Miss Gastra for your count the countless ways you've invested in our children and in our district. Your loyalty, your de dependability and heart for service are an inspiration to us all. If you could please give her a big round of applause. [Applause] >> Really? And she was also an aid when I was in prek, I believe. So this

036is my aid. So she was my prek aid. So yes, thank you, Miss all of us. She was a teacher to all of us. Thank you. And last but not least, I want to take a special moment to recognize one of our youngest heroes. es here at Caris Springs Elementary and one of our very own Tik Tok sensations are our very own kindergartenner, Milo Garza. Milo Milo shines every single day with his exceptional behavior and his kindness towards others. He always greets us every morning extremely respectful to us all. Uh he reminds us that being a Wildcat means not only working hard but also treating everyone with respect and care. Ma Mil Milo also made our community shine recently when he represented the Ciso Springs community and the CSC community uh in several news media

037outlets for his incredible showmanship uh with his with his beloved goat. Uh so talk about talent. Thank you, Milo, for showing us what it's like to be a true leader. Thank you, Milo. We all got to meet a movie star. >> Better share some cake. I want cake. >> Next superintendent briefing. Thank you. So, we'll start with our first day of school with our senior sunrise. Thank you for our parents who went completely out with decorations and games and all kinds of activities to kick off the year for our seniors. An incredible, incredible, incredible day. We're so excited to have a wonderful year with our seniors. Thank you to our amazing amazing school board and our staff for such a warm welcome to our students on the first day of class. Uh we've just uh

038completed the third week of school. We're on to the fourth week of school and it's been a strong start. The next uh football season opener. We kicked off uh against our opponents and we are excited to see our Wildcats continue to thrive. They did have their win last week with Heville. We continue to see them thrive. Congratulations to our Wildcats. And then we have Miss Falina Lita who had her 500 career kills. So a huge congratulations to our senior on achieving her 500th career kill during uh the game against Honda. And then like we heard this evening, our blue ball bonnet inter blue bonnet internalization express. We're very proud of our teachers. They are embracing this change because of the need for us to continue to grow our students and we just couldn't be more

039proud of the work that they're putting in. As you can see displayed in the pictures, it's just all hands on deck. Thank you teachers so much. Our grandparents day, we were excited to have amazing celebrations at our Ciso Springs Elementary. Thank you so much to Mrs. Garcia and to Mrs. Gamba for the wonderful grandparent day activities, breakfasts and lunches that you have planned. uh our first at CSI and it went very very well. So, thank you both for your dedication. Thank you to our grandparents and our community for showing up. It was a tremendous event. And then of course our junior high, thank you Dr. Dubakala, Mr. Dalamantes for recognizing and our accountability uptake. Thank you, Principal Gavvada uh for your leadership. The the two distinctions do not go unnoticed of the hard work of

040our teachers at the junior high. It's a team effort and we know that you're going to continue to thrive. I love your target. I love your target, Mrs. Gada. We're headed for that A at the junior high. Great work. Thank you. And then our uh district enrollment. Uh actually on Friday, this was uh uh put in place a little bit early for the board, but we were actually at 1820 on last Friday. So, you can see the numbers of our enrollment. We are slightly down from where we ended uh the school year. We are still working hard on recovering students and hope to see that come up just a little bit. As far as our construction update, we are on target. We have our color scheme coming up here in the next few weeks and

041then we will move over to our furniture fair in October. We will have teachers and uh administrators involved in that in that process and then we will to the board in October for our regular board meeting. We will come with our next uh project deadline which is going to be to start the demolition. So that will be coming to the board in October as a presentation. That's our construction update. Thank you. >> Anything y'all want to add? I know y'all are here. All here's here too. Thank you. go on to reports andformational items. Uh first one, discussion and review of the quarterly delinquent tax activity report for Mr. Cavo. Okay, thank you. The first item I report is mass mailing. Uh the last mass mailing we did was in May. We mailed out 3,477 letters

042and that was the first mailing that included the tax year uh 2024 taxes on it. The second item, the final notice letters. This past quarter, we did mail out 18 new final notice letters that represent 47 delinquent accounts. And those uh letters are represented there on pages one and two by the taxpayer name, a brief property description, account number, and the taxes due to the school district at the time that the letter was mailed. So those final notice letters are on pages one and two, which carries on page three, item number three, tax suits. This past quarter, we did file six new tax suits uh which represent 15 delinquent accounts. And those suits there are listed on page three by suit number, defendant name, a brief property description, the account number, and the taxes due

043to the school district at the time that the suit was filed. Those six suits are listed there on page three. Carries on to page four, item four are tax dockets. We did have three dockets this past quarter. We had a docket on May 6. We had a docket on May 7th. We also had a tax docket on July 17th. The May docket May 6 is listed on page four by the suit number, taxpayer name, property description, account number, taxes due to school district at the time the suit was filed and the status of the case at that hearing date. And the May 6 docket is listed there entirely on page four. The May 7th, the May 7 docket on pages four and five carries on to page six. The July 17th docket on pages six

044and seven. There were one, two, three, five cases on July 17th, which takes us to page seven, item number five, our next tax dockets, our future dockets. Our next docket set are for September 11th and for October 7th. The September 11th docket cases are listed on pages seven and eight. The October 7th docket cases are listed on pages 8 through nine. And they're listed there by suit number, defendants name, a brief property description, and property account number. That carries on to our last item number 11 on page nine. Our delinquent collections. The base tax collected this past quarter for both the M fund and the INS fund total $27,48322. And that very quickly is a summary of the report. If there's any questions in regards to the report, I'll I'll do my best to answer

045your questions. I just want to be u like uh educated a little bit regarding the collection process. So um um property taxes are are the last day of payment is January 31st, right? the the current taxes come out in October. Yeah. >> And they stay current till January 31. >> Yes. >> On February 1, they do go delinquent. Yes. >> Consider the past due and delinquent. >> That's correct. So, if you can walk us through through the process like uh when you first uh send the the notices, the letters and then the uh the last uh how long does it take to to send the last uh notice and then um how long does it does it take for the for the hearings and how long does this take for the judgement final judgement? Okay.

046Well, let me just tell you, let me just get to the end first. It it it all varies. It all varies. Uh, as you said, the current year taxes go delinquent on February one of the next year. And like I had here in item number one or mass mailing, that mass mailing in May is the first notice they get from my office in regards to their delinquent taxes for that current year. In May, we give them that notice. It's a statutory notice and in the notice we tell every taxpayer in the notice that their tax is delinquent and if it stays delinquent by July 1, at that point my attorney's fees get attached on to that tax bill. So they're given that notice in May all the way through June 30th or July 1. So

047on July one, if it's not paid, there's an additional penalty added onto that tax bill, which are my attorney's fees, attorney's fees, which of course don't get paid until the taxpayer pays the account. So in July one is when the current year tax, which went delinquent in February, gets turned over to my office. And July one is when we start working on those current year taxes. And and July one, we send out notices. uh we go and and we try to get those accounts that are delinquent one year, the most recent year that just went delinquent, uh that are the larger tax amounts. So, we attack those first and we go after those. If they don't, we send them a letter. We we sent final notice letters, which are also my report. We send them,

048you know, July, we send them every month, July, August, September. and and those that don't come in and pay or call or or work on some type of arrangements, then we start working on title the title search on them to get suits filed. So that that's the process and and uh there there's no specific deadline. I can't tell you like we sent out letter July one, we file suit August one. Uh, it depends. Some some people may call say, you know, I need a little more time. So, we work with taxpayers or or some that do not even uh reply or or I'll tell you the letters we send out that come back with a bad address, return address, those go to the top of my list. I if there's not a good address in

049that account, I do go look for a good address. And if not, then th those go to the top of the list uh to try to get those worked out. So from there, once we file suits, it's then it's a question of trying to get service, trying to get the sheriff to get locate the the taxpayer to serve them with papers of the suit. And that's true whether it's in Dimit County or it's a uh Otto County county. We have to send citations to those counties and and and and you know for the sheriff to try to get them served. And so that's the trickiest part, the service, getting the sheriff to get service, whether it's our county or another county. But once that's done, then they're set. They're ready to get set for court.

050And unless they have a payment agreement or some type of a hardship that we're aware of, other than that, then they're ready to get set for court. So that that quickly um quickly in a little bit of a nutshell it's the process how it starts from February 1 through July one to to how we we attack the account. So we don't we don't have um uh like a particular date for the judgment or collection from from the time you file the suit? >> No, no, there's no particular time period because once we do file the suit like I can tell you and once we do get service on the defendant and there's no reason why we cannot proceed like there's not a payment agreement or hardship, then the next step is to check with the

051district court, see when their next court dates are and then we set it on on whatever court date we have next that's available. uh there's some time limits we have to give notice to the taxpayer or if there's an attorney on the other side we have to give them basically 30 to 40 days notice. So once we do have service then we check with the court to see when the next available date is. That's why I when I report next docket dates they're they're out in the future because we do have to there's some time limits there we have to meet. up. So, so it all depends when we get service on the defendants because there's usually more than one and then when the next court date is. >> Thank you, Mr. Cado. I asked

052this question because when we do the the the budget as much as possible, we have a basis to u as much as possible have a realistic budget. Thank you. >> Yes. Yes. It's just a question honestly of of getting the site uh citation served by the sheriff's department and just just to tell you another thing just sometimes we cannot locate the defendant. We cannot then we have to put it on bulletin board. We have to post on a bulletin board and that stays on the bulletin board for at least 42 days minimum 42 days and then after that we have to have an attorney appointed to represent those people who are cited on the bulletin board. So that that adds more time to the process. But as soon as all that is done, then like

053I said, we do look for the next court date available for us. >> I have a question sir. How many open cases do you have and how old are they? >> They vary. They vary. Uh let me just say in age, they vary. Uh, how many cases we have pending right now? Um, my just I'm probably thinking right now we probably have about 70 70 to 90 in that area right there. About 70 to 90. And that includes those that have just been filed. That includes those that we have filed and we don't have service. I mean the whole process and includes those that have payment agreements. You know, we try to work out if people uh want to come in and talk about a payment agreement. We do discuss a payment agreement with them.

054And a payment agreement puts a suit on hold uh while they're making their payments. >> Can you remember how old is your oldest case? >> Uh we probably have an old one. Uh uh currently still pending. Um, I I'm I'm going to say it's probably about 15 years old. Probably about 15 years old. >> How many of those do you have? >> How many of those do you think we have? >> I don't think there's that many. I mean, there there's a couple. Um, and some of those like here on my report, there's one that's a uh well, it's eight years ago. It's eight years ago, but uh yeah, there's probably a couple that are about 15 years old. Um, and those may be I'd have to check each one, but uh probably they had

055payment agreements at one point and or maybe there's a tax deferral. Sometimes if you're over 65, your homestead, you do have a right to file a tax deferral at the appraisal district. Some of those may have tax deferrals on them, too. A tax deferral means I have to hold off everything on my collection process. >> I guess my question is along the lines of Mr. Doria is the time frame, the process. If you file by June or July of that previous year, How long does it take before we close that case? >> Well, I mean, that's what I'm saying. It I can't give an exact answer for every case because like I said, it all depends on service. Service is the hardest thing uh is to get service. And once you get service, then the

056next thing is that some people do come in. We do discuss payment agreements. uh and there's a payment agreement. We honor the agreement and allow them to make their payments. So that puts a hold on the suit. So I mean I'm sorry but I just can't give you an exact time frame other than July one when the accounts get turned over to us. We start working on those new year's accounts um on those. >> Thank you sir. >> Yes. Thank you. Any other questions? No. >> Thank you, Mr. Cabo. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Next, we have financial briefing. >> Good evening. So on the on our financial update, this is for the year ending August 31, 2025. It's our fiscal year end report. And keep in mind that

057these are unudedited figures. Uh our auditors are here actually this week and our audit will be done uh probably by the January board meeting date. So just so you're aware, you know, these are not final numbers. But at this time our August 31 reports uh these are this is what has been collected for general fund we have um collected 61,995960 and our expenditures are 66 million 6,841. This does include the um I'm sorry. This does include the chapter 41 payment. I was like that that's really big, but that's what it is. The 65,092 uh other year-to- date resources, those are the ASVA numbers that we've talked about, which is the um long-term lease agreements. And then the net revenue over expenditures are in the deficit of 3.9 million 3,945789 which this is uh something that

058we had expected you know there were some projects that the board had approved throughout the year. So with the fund balance at 831 of 2024 of 24,45,453 when we net this our current unodudited fund balance is 20 million 999,664 at this time for food service we've collected uh for the revenue 1,853 our expenses are 2,6 67422 leaving a deficit of 213 639 uh for the year at this time. And for the debt service, our bond payments are all paid through August. August is our last uh payment that we make. We make them in February and in August. So our fund balance at the end of 8312024 was 3,613129. Our revenues collected to date for this year are 11,520,574 and we've paid 11 million689650 which means we paid $359,76 from our fund balance which is what

059we had expected. That's what we had budgeted. uh and uh our unodudited fund balance at this point is 3,254053. So what that means is in the future when the board is ready on the defecence this is you know would be available at when the time comes but that's where we are at this moment. On the next page for fund 199 you can see uh in the various columns for the revenue you'll see our original budget our revised budget what we spent for the month of August and then our year-to- date actual at this point and so that's where you'll see the 66 million995 and then uh the other resources that I mentioned uh which is the Asvita and then on the expenses you'll see them by instruct by uh function code instruction for example uh

060function 12 13 and so forth which is the 66 million 6,481 at this point. So it's just a more u view a better view by department and so forth for food service on the next page. So here we're breaking down the local revenues, the state and the federal programs which is uh 1 million 853783 and then the expenses and where we are at this moment uh as of 831 2025 which is the uh the deficit of 213639 which is definitely an improvement from the prior year. So we're we're good there as well. And then on the final page, you'll see our um uh interest and syncing the debt service fund. And then you can see our local revenue, the tax collections and so forth, including our interest is uh 11,482438. We do have state um

061state revenue of 38,000 uh bringing that total revenue of 1.5 million. Our expenses are at 11.8 million. Okay. And then on the last page, uh a recap on our construction. So on the bottom part, I'm showing you where we started last year at the 20 324 year and then currently on the 2425. So on construction, we've collected um year-to- date 4,33850. The current month local um interest is 399,480. And our expenses for the month are 683,796, but our year-to- date total is 3,219129. So currently we are still above revenues over expenses by 1,118921. That's all I have. Ma'am, >> questions. question Madame President. So this uh will be the year end uh report right? So uh if you look at the appropriations um the total uh expenditures actual expenditures is less than our revised budget.

062That's 3 million um 3.2 2 million less than our revised revised uh uh budget. So uh I would assume that there are still a lot of uh payables like approvals. Okay. So most of our the majority of the larger projects have already been paid for. Uh so the only thing we have right now like we're doing our end of year payroll acrals which we've already estimated that and booked it. It's being reviewed by our auditors. It might be about 500,000. Um, other than that, we I think we're pretty near done um spending. I mean, we've we've done a much better job of trying to close out the year and so, but could something come in in the next month? Of course, you know, we're still running and and making sure that all of our invoices

063are submitted and so forth. And we've done uh we report every month to our principles and directors and make them aware of anything that's outstanding, purchase orders that are outstanding, um travel that might be outstanding. So, we're we're closely monitoring. So, I feel like, you know, we don't have a long way to go on bills, but we do get some bills that come in, you know, like your your um say your water bill, you know, sometimes it's 30 days later and it'll still be for August. So, we still have to book it to August if it's for that period. Uh, but I will definitely give you another update, you know, as as the months pass to see where we are as we move along. >> So, how about uh our revenues? Are we expecting uh

064more revenues that >> um receivables? >> We still have to look at anything for example on our summary of finance because You know how I've mentioned to the board that during the year TEA will update our summary of finance. So we still have to go through our nearfal summary of finance booking those adjustments which we're doing that with the auditors currently. So that has not booked yet and I don't have a figure for that quite yet but we could possibly recognize some more revenue as well. Uh but all our regular normal cash deposits are already booked. Uh, for example, one of our endofear audit letters that we send out, we send out for example to the tax office. And so if in September, for example, there are still items that are collected for August, they

065will be recorded in August, but it is part of our endofear procedure and they get letters directly from our from us through our auditors saying, "Send us the final end of August number." So yeah, we could still uh see some additional revenue. I just don't have a figure. >> Yeah, because uh if you look at uh our investment uh portfolio summary by fund for the general fund, we only have uh 16,563,873. So, uh I would assume that if there are not there are no significant receivables, this will likely be our uh fund balance at the end of the year. >> It it could be. Yes, sir. I mean, it could be except for, you know, these final audit adjustments that we do at the end >> 500,000 more or but not not that much. So

06624 million fund balance will go down by a lot, right? >> Yeah. I'll I'll keep the board updated monthly as we progress through the audit, sir. Yes. >> Thank you, Miss Diaz. >> Yes. >> Okay, we're going to go to to approval of consent agenda items. I did want to point out to the board that um you did receive a little a slip of paper that has like a pink line across it. I wasn't sure if it was in your board book, so I wanted to make sure that you had it. and it's the vendors above 50,000 for the entire year through August. So, if it's not in your board book, it it should have been. I just want to make sure you have it. So, I I gave it to you in a paper

067handout. So, this is our end of year August vendors that exceeded 50,000. Okay. On the consent agenda items, the the consent agenda items are presented to the board as a single bund bundled action requiring only one motion for approval. These typically include budgeted purchases over 50,000, annual contracts, routine matters that require board authorization. The administer the administration thoroughly vets all consent items. >> Do we have any questions on any of that? >> I I just have a comment on item C, approval of quarterly investment report. I noticed that um uh meter is investing like 9 million um investing for uh the the money market which which has uh an interest of 4.1% uh compared to the investment for uh the Lonear. They're both uh overnight overnight investment and the Lonear uh investment pool has like

0684.4% so If you can check with me because they've been investing this uh 9.9 million uh with uh with the money market. >> Yes sir. I will definitely uh bring that up. >> Thank you. These are I'll make a motion to approve. >> We have a motion made by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Aldoria to approve the consent agenda items. All in favor? >> Opposed? >> None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Can I have something? >> Um um good evening madam board president and the school board members. Thank you for approving this one. This would help greatly with the students especially at the high school because um we have like um like new teachers and we wanted to support also the um what's it called as their program. So with this initiative, it will greatly

069help us with their studies and all and all the resources they need. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Welcome. >> Thank you, Mr. Jerry. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, sir. And happy National IT Day. >> Oh, thank you, sir. I appreciate it. >> Yes, sir. Um, so my team, let me just like add into that. So, my team does, we're working on a background. So we would be uh we'll uh we try possible like as much as we can like the teachers needs and all of that and also my teams like for the live stream and all that. So I want to thank um Gilbert, Michael, not only them but I have Rolando and have Consuel. They're doing the best that they can to handle the campuses. >> Get up guys. Get up. Get

070up. Get up. >> And Mar [Applause] cake. I'm just kidding. >> Thank you. Okay, next we have discussion and possible action items. Um, a consider approval of budget amendments as presented. Okay. So, um what we're presenting here is a request for the board to approve a similar um funding for special maintenance projects up to 20 I mean I'm sorry up to 200,000. Uh last year we had requested 350 which the board had approved and we did not use all of it. So we felt like reducing that to about 200,000 and you know it would require superintendent's approval before using and then we will report to the board should any of those funds be used. So that is our request for emergency or anything like that and that's that's the recommendation. If no questions, President Franco,

071I make the motion to approve item A, approval of budget amendments as presented. >> Second. >> Motion made by Michael Uriga, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve the budget amendments as presented. All in favor? I >> I opposed. >> None. Motion carries. >> B. >> I want Miss Funk, I'm sorry. I just want to thank the board. Thank you so much. This allows us to act swiftly. These just this year, I know you know board, you were kept closely in the loop, but it was mainly for our AC and we had that one electrical with that one storm where it took down the whole pole. We were able to move very quickly. So, thank you board. B. Consider approval of a plan of finance to issue one or more series of tax notes authorizing district

072staff, bond council, and financial adviser to proceed with such financing and approving other matters in incident and related there too. And we have Mr. Deerina on Zoom. >> Yes. Hello everyone. >> Hello Mr. Miss Pearson, members of the board, I am going to discuss actually this is the different presentation. Let me see if I can pull it up another one. Let's see here. Bear with me. Pricing. Let's see. Let me see if I can I believe and and correct me if I'm wrong. Does everybody have a copy of the presentation? I'm having a bit difficulties >> getting that. I'm sorry. >> Yes, we all have a copy. >> Okay. And then I will go straight into the preh presentation. and I'm having a few difficulties pulling it up on my end and I do apologize

073for that. Again, Miss Pearson, members of the board, for the record, Robert Theina with Theina Financial Consulting. Uh here to discuss the maintenance tax note series 2005 plan of finance. And what the board is considering this evening is just allowing the consultants to work with Miss Pearson and Miss Diaz uh to put a financing package together and then come back at a later date where the board can consider approving the financing as final. So if you turn to page one of the hard copy, we have the projects stated from roofing, the crawl space, HVAC, uh there to the high school to the junior high and building automation system LED. The total project cost is estimated about 4,912,750. And below that we have the estimated cost of issuance uh plus rounding about $87,250 for a total

074amount of $5 million. And I believe we had discussed a different amount, a larger amount uh several weeks back, but I applaud the board and wanting to go ahead and do some projects with existing uh bond funds and maybe even possibly uh some general fund proceeds. So, the amount that we're looking to finance on page two is a total of $5 million. If you turn to page three, we're estimating uh the maturity on the maintenance tax note payout for 5 million about 15 years. And right now we're expecting the first payment to occur in fiscal year 2007. We're currently in fiscal year 26. So the first payment will be sometime in February about February the 15th of 2007 followed by August more or less 15 2007. So the first total principle and interest payment will

075be in fiscal year 2027. And we do have a 15-year maturity on page three going out to 2041. the estimated interest rate that we're expecting about 4.75% and I believe everybody uh the board members everybody in the audience knows that the Federal Reserve system will be meeting tomorrow. They met today and will be meeting tomorrow and there is a good possibility of the Federal Reserve system cutting interest rate 25 basis points. Now, we're hoping that trickles down and it also impacts the school district financing as far as we're estimating 4.75% on page three. We're hoping that the interest rate will be lower than that. And again, we won't know until if you turn now to page four, we won't know when the bids are due. We won't know the interest rate until the bids are

076due on October the 21st and that is also a regular board meeting and at that time the bids will be due on Tuesday October the 21st. I will contact Miss Pearson, Miss Diaz, present the lowest interest rate, and then be in front of the board, Miss Aguileretta, who's also on the call, and myself, uh, to present the final terms, which is the interest rate and the 15-year maturity and anything else that the lender, the bank, uh, may have incorporated into the bid document. Now, what we're wanting to do with this maintenance tax note financing again is be able to structure it where the district can pay it off at any time without a penalty or a premium. So, if you want to pay it off, you come into a windfall or interest rates continue to

077drop, you can refinance it, pay it off with no penalty if it's two to three years down the road. So again, that is our goal and that's what we're hoping to uh receive on October the 21st. Now on October the 21st at that board meeting is when the board will consider the financing as final. The interest rate will be locked in. The maturity structure will be locked in and so is everything else. And the closing will occur on page four if it is approved on October the 21st. The district will receive the funds at closing on November the 13th. Now, if you turn to page five, what we have here is the working group. We have the issuer, Gadisa Springs CISD, uh the financial advisor, bond council, Mr. Aguilera Vameic, who's also on the call,

078and we'll discuss the next agenda item, the reimbursement resolution. the placement agent, FHN Financial, the purchaser and the paying agent will not be determined until October the 21st when all the banks submit their bids. So, we will choose the lowest interest rate, the best financing opportunity for the district on the 21st and recommend that to the board. I know it's a lot of information, but uh Miss Pearson, members of the board, any questions for myself? questions. >> No questions. Do we have a motion? >> Any questions? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Second. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Oscar Morones to approve a plan of finance to issue one or more series of tax notes authorizing district staff, bond council, and financial adviser to proceed with such financing and approving other

079matters incident and related there too. All in favor? >> I I >> I >> opposed. None. Motion. >> Thank you. Thank you members of the board allowing us to present the information this evening and we will see everyone on October the 21st. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Item C. Consider approval of resolution 2025-15 declaring an intention to reimburse certain expenditures with borrowing proceeds. >> Uh yes. So, can everybody hear me first of all? >> Yes. >> Thank you very much. Uh, my name is Juana Gilletta with the law firm of Eskam and Panic and we have the uh the pleasure of representing the school district as your bond attorneys. Uh, so what we have today is a before you is for your consideration is the adoption of a reimbursement resolution. Uh this is a resolution

080that we uh utilize with uh a lot of our our issuers and this would allow the school district uh to be able to reimburse itself from proceeds from the notes that will be issued in the future uh for any expenses that are that are related to the to the purpose of of the notes that Mr. Theina mentioned uh that are made uh uh prior to the the district receiving funds. Now the uh state law the government code provides that you can be able to reimburse yourself for expenditures uh again related to the purposes. And then we also have federal tax laws that when we issue when the district issued tax notes as tax exempt bonds, you also have the um the ability to be able to reimburse yourself. The uh the IRS code requires certain

081things. One of them being that a formal declaration must be made and if you decide to adopt this resolution, you are then um are making a formal declaration. The uh the federal tax uh laws also state that expenditures and and again related to the purpose uh that are made no long no more than 60 days from the adoption of this resolution can be reimbursed with uh note proceeds that you will receive at a later time. So uh by adopting this resolution that you have before you will give you the maximum flexibility to be able to if again the district wants and the board wants to reimburse yourselves then you could be able to do that from the note proceeds. So number one, the uh the resolution does not obligate you to issue anything. So that

082if you decide down the road you don't want to issue any debt, any additional debt, you don't have to do that. The other thing is that you do not have to reimburse yourselves uh for any expenditure made. However, if you do want to make your uh make a reimbursement from uh note proceeds, you cannot do that under federal tax laws for tax exempt uh obligations unless you adopt this resolution. So again, uh this is uh something that is makes a lot of u economic and business sense to have in place in the event that the district wants to reimburse itself for expenditures that will be made now and uh and before you you receive funds. Are there any questions? >> Madame President, >> yes. I move to approve uh resolution 2025 oh 2025-15 declaring an

083intention to reimburse certain expenditures with borrowing proceeds. >> Motion made by >> Okay. Go ahead. >> Did you want to say something? >> No, no, no. I I thought that was a question for me because I I'm I'm having difficulty. My connection is not very very good. I'm having some difficulty in hearing what the board is is saying. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a motion made by Aldoria, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve of resolution 2025-15 declaring an intention to reimburse certain expenditures with borrowing proceeds. All in favor? >> Opposed? None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Well, thank you very much. And as Mr. Deina mentioned, u Mr. the hide and I will be back uh in the near future after bids are presented and we will then at that time have the

084u the necessary legal uh financing documents that are needed so that we can then proceed and and submit on behalf of the district to the attorney general's office for final approval. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. D. Consider approval of resolution 2025-16 authorizing participation in the Mo Casey Interlock Purchasing Cooperative. We have Mr. Juan Galvan. >> Hello, uh, board superintendent. Uh, thank you guys for having us. Uh, my name is Juan Galvan. I'm the chief operating officer for the education energy initiative for Mo Casey. uh what we have in front of you guys is to join uh our interlocal purchasing cooperative to do business further down the line not today. Uh there's some great programs that we have. I know that we were you guys were discussing right now um some HVAC and roofs.

085Well, some of the things that we started the initiative with Mel Casey was what do school districts need and one of the first things that came up where they need funding. They don't have money. So one of the great things by coming with us and what part of the the interlo purchase cooperative has energy. So you purchase your energy which you normally would the price would be competitive everywhere else but the difference between joining Mo Casey and joining uh Kavalo who you guys currently have the the GLLO is that we have different options for you guys. So we would be able to finance different projects for you guys similar to what they said where you guys are borrowing the money. We can go ahead and kickstart those projects for you and you'll be uh build

086on your your actual electricity bill. it' be a line item on there. So essentially we're financing it for you guys. Now there is a small administrative fee roughly similar to what with the loans coming out to about 3 4% but we've done projects up to $51 million just to just to let you guys know that. So that's with uh with our partner Next Etera. Uh one of the other great things that we had we were like what else do districts need? Well, how can we actually help people save money at their personal residence? So we're able to work together with our partner at Next Era and with Bo Casey. We're able to create what's called the infinity program and that all that stuff's in this packet I gave you. So what that is that the

087lowest possible rate in the state for you for the faculty and staff here. We've done case studies. We've had multiple districts uh in Ferris ISD. We did five different case studies. Uh the highest being uh $2,800 savings and the smallest being 600. Now they had a bond at the time they needed uh assistance with the taxes were going to go up $18.37. So that that was the benchmark we got. We far exceeded that by by far. Um during Edinburgh CISD, we did their case studies and that was equivalent to a 4% raise for teachers and 10% raise for uh for support staff. Uh like I said, this is all part you once you sign the commodity master agreement and you come on with uh Moates. This is all part of the the agreement. These are

088multiple things that are available with the with joining the co-op. Today we're not joining any of that. just to join the co-op to do future business. >> I know I went really fast. Sorry. I used to be a debater in high school and college. So, sorry I go really fast. Sorry. Other questions? >> Yes. I had a question. Yes. You said that this is just to sign up for the cooperative. That's correct. The the the fee that you talked about is for >> zero. The 0% zero to join the cooperative. Zero. No, there's just different options. I know you guys have you guys are in a crunch because it's going to be on October 21st, but uh you come on the cooperative, we can do some I'm sure they everything's already put forth. We can

089send it to our engineering team and they can look at it for you guys and just give you a different option as well. And this all like I said it'd be financed through your electricity bill. So the difference would be instead of having to borrow the money externally, you'd borrow it. It'd be borrowing through your electricity provider. I said those are just different options that we're able to create for that. Today we just joined the co-op. I just wanted to give you guys some different uh perks and advantage to join the co-op if you guys decide to purchase electricity from us. >> So then later if if like you're saying if we were to purchase the electricity then we could go into further detail. >> Yeah, that's correct. That's correct. >> All right. Thank you.

090President. >> Yes. >> So um you offering services just for energy strategic uh planning integrated efficiency solutions and property and casual insurance at prenegotiated price. >> That that's correct. That's all that's being offered currently for the co-op at this moment. >> This partner, >> excuse me. >> Can you explain uh the services? >> Yeah, the services. Uh well, I'll let Dr. we explained uh strategic planning but uh energy uh that were able to with the property and casualty insurance we're able to create a a tower with uh with Lloyd of London that was able to come at a much cheaper rate than anybody else was a able to offer. So that's uh it was similar to pyramid and we were able to go ahead and make sure and sure the buildings for the entire value

091of the buildings. I know we had one in Port Isabel where um they were only being the coverage was only 15 million. We're able to cover the whole 127 million uh for the building. So that's on property and casualty and on energy with uh some of the things I explained with energy really it's going to be competitive wherever you go. If you go with TASBY you go GLLO you go with us you go with it it's going to be competitive the differences the different perks that we're adding for you guys. That'd be the big difference on energy and I and I'll pass the mic over to Dr. V so explain the strategic planning. >> Hello madam president members of the board. Thank you for having us here today. I'm Dr. Miy with Mo Casey. Uh

092one of the other services that we do offer is the strategic planning and this helping districts pull together and get feedback from all stakeholders looking together and deciding on the trajectory of your school district. Right? How we pull all that together to create that strategic plan for the next four to five years. >> Any more questions? How is this uh different from buy? >> Um well it's different. It's it's essentially the same thing. It's a cooperative. So you're purchasing with direct. That's the same thing. So but the difference from byboard from us from an energy perspective is the different programs that we're adding for the district for faculty and staff and we can actually extend it to members of the community if you guys would like. We can go ahead. What we'll do, we'll create

093a URL code or a QR code that we can put on your scoreboard and people can scan it and they can sign up and get a discounted rate at home. I believe the current rate uh you guys are a current rate right now 7.3 cents. So if you look at your bill at home, if you have a cheaper rate than that, you're doing a great job, but uh probably about 95% of people do not have a cheaper rate than that. So that would be your current rate at home. That that's one of the biggest advantages of joint signing with us. the rate's going to be competitive wherever you go, but the difference will be the added incentives. >> I was I was going to add that as far as uh relating that to buy board

094that would mean that the procurement piece of it is done. You know, we wouldn't have to bid it out and so forth because that that competitive competitive bidding would will have already been done. >> That might have been what you were asking, sir. So with this uh we are we are exempt from the uh competitive procurement requirements. >> That's correct. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Correct. Yes. Yes. >> And your fees compared to by board or >> our fees for our service are zero. We also have a Mr. Castile here is the next superintendent for a uh any outages you guys have any lights that are outdoor lights anything like that. We come in and we do audits and we fix those as well. Those that's free of charge as well. Our fees similar to everybody

095else. is going to be one 1 millise a tenth of a cent that's going to be what everybody else charges. That's if you sign our electricity contract. Obviously the joining part of the consultants that's all free of charge for you guys. >> Okay. >> Any more questions? >> There are no more questions. I move to approve resolution 2025-16 authorizing participation in the MO case inter interlocal purchasing cooperative second. >> Motion made by Aldoria, seconded by Oscar to approve resolution 2025-16 authorizing participation in the Mo Casey Interlock Purchasing Cooperative. All in favor? I >> opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Item E, consider approval of the addition to the compensation plan for for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh, the diagnostician, SLP, hourly extra duty, $80, the special education teacher, and special education paraprofessional.

096Good evening, President Franco, board members, Miss Pearson. Um, Mrs. Udyaggas is here as uh she is our special education director to present her information regarding the amendments to compensation regarding special education. >> Good evening. Good good evening all. So in front of you you have the list of um initials reads that are um needed to be completed. Um this is something that didn't occur with us this year like we you know most of us are new in the special ed department. So within the last year or two, these have been adding up and um now it's hitting us here in the phase. So we're asking that um because either way we have to contract services out and we pay $80 to $100, but the difference is is that our diags would do uh would complete

097these reads in these initials of assessment part and it would be $80. We wouldn't be compensating them for the travel here and the travel there. And um one thing you have to remember is these are from the past. So there's new ones that are going to come up during this date and I have two or three and our SOP they're very work oriented and they want to get it done. They want to get this done and then start the year fresh because we're not we haven't started our year because we have these that we owe. So, we're asking that we compensate them at $80 an hour. Um, they are willing to work Saturdays and Sundays because they want to complete, as you can tell, there's 34 reads and there's 17 initials. This was as of

098when did we do this? Two weeks ago. Now, we've had about three. We met with ECI. Now, we have three to five more that we call initials that you would add to this list. So, I don't know where they're coming. I keep telling them to put the the sign on the door that says we're closed no more. We can't accept any more students, but they're still coming. So, I mean, it's a good thing um for our district, but it adds a burden of even if it's a transfer student in special ed, we have to have a hard meeting. It whatever the the situation is, it adds a little bit more work to all of our staff. So, we come before you to ask if um you would approve uh this rate. And it's going to

099come it's not uh it is part of our budget because it's what we had already last year we we didn't know we were going to we hired the diagnostician in May or June. So we had already put in the budget all the funding that they had used the previous year for contracted services. So this year we're not contracting with like six. We have one uh LSSP that we have to have because we don't have one in the district and then the DAS are doing most of the assessment. So it is part of the budget. I just will have to move it over uh do a budget amendment to move it into personnel for extra duty pay. Any questions? >> Okay. I know you said this is the same budgeted amount you budgeted from last year

100from the >> contracted services. It's part of that funding. >> So would you do you see that do you have like an estimated amount of savings that you'll you'll save by keeping it here? Well, for example, in one day when the diet comes, she's here uh four or five hours that she works with either assessment uh getting uh the the data uh written up and stuff. But that five hours turns to two hours before and two hours after because they drive from San Antonio. So that's five, six, nine hours total times 100 is their their day is $900 versus say uh Mrs. Estada came in for five hours. That would be 80 * 5 is what? 400. So you're look, even if you go 80 * 8 is what? 8 * 8 64. So there's

101a saving of about 400. 3 to 400 because we're not paying them for the drive and they're charging a hundred while we're going to pay them a supplemental pay of $80. So there's a 20 20 to $25 difference. And they're writing their own reports. The reports will be done during their work time. right now they need to assess the students. Like we have to get them in to get them to assess those students. And if parents are willing to come in on a Saturday, like we would plan all this. We're going to put a timeline together and say, "Okay, on this date we're going to bring four students and we're going to have times. We're going to call the parents to make sure they're in town and if we can do it." So, we're just

102really worried about getting the assessments done because, you know, special ed has timelines and these timelines have to be completed. So, um they're I mean I trust them and I know it'll happen. Um we've been working really really well together and uh it's h it's it's amazing. I'm I'm really surprised with what we're doing. So, >> and it's all going to be done Saturdays for your >> it it would have to be done either Saturday or a Sunday because So, remember this is extra stuff that we didn't plan for because not we just didn't plan for it. So we were ready to go with the year and they had all they had all their calendars completed like for the whole year man. Linda came in and we got our new diagon. She said start putting

103all those dates in the calendar. This is a read. This is done for 2526. They were planning for 2526. Well now when this popped up all 2526 wasn't going to start in August anymore. It wasn't going to start till December. So, they were four to five months now that they had backup work. And so, they're like, Linda is just they're both um all three of them. Valeria, she's really young, but they're I sat in one of her arts and I was so proud of her. I was like, "Oh, I was like smiling." And um they're workaholics. Uh, I've never I don't know, Miss Pearson can tell you a little bit, but I get chills because um it's a lot of work, but I know my team, all of them. A Melissa, Chelsea, Carmen, Bertha, Evelyn,

104U, Miss Zuniga, we're all working so hard. I mean, you should see them. They they're working hard. Um, we celebrate our um our our events. Like today, we had a lunchon. We were all there. We all dressed up and to thank them, you know, just we bring them all in and we had lunch together and uh we're just we're just going we're moving come one o'clock Chelsea and Alyssa were running out like they knew they needed to get back to campus and work. So um I don't know. I'm excited and I would they really want to they want to get this done as soon as they can so they continue with their 2526 calendar if that makes sense. Does that make sense? question. So, Mud, so when when the testing is done on the weekends,

105that'll be done here. >> Yeah. >> At central office. Okay. >> So, we're all going to schedule our dates around to make sure that either Carmen or Bertha can help us out like making sure the the par the child comes in and um the three uh the two DAXs and the SOP will be testing. Each one of them might have kids going on, one kid each. >> Okay. So, it would be of like a three adults, one student. Okay. >> Three to four because we'll have a secretary here to make sure. Let me call the parent to ready to pick up and things like that. >> Good. Thank you, >> ma'am. So, it sounds like not only are we trading apples for apples because we're still giving the student every service that he needs, but

106there's an advantage to having it locally available. >> Yes. Yes. Yes, sir. That's correct. It's going it the funding is going to our staff >> all the time. consult our uh other special education uh team on the campuses or a principal. They're readily available versus an outside contractor who would have to, you know, go through all the motions to try to get in touch with these folks prolonging the whole process. This is going to be not only a a a savings but effici efficient uh process >> and at less cost to us. >> Yes, exactly. Yes, sir. >> President Franco, are we doing one, two, and three at the same time or is it item by item? >> B1, B2. >> Did we do one? I thought we were discussing one. My apologies. >> Oh,

107okay. Do you want us to go on with the next uh two and three? >> Do you want to do >> Oh, I'm I'm asking. >> I'm asking for voting purposes. >> Okay. >> Move on to number two. >> Number two is the teacher. >> There's no more questions. I apologize. >> So, we met, Mrs. Pearson and I met with Miss Garcia because um like I said, we were trying to close the door. We didn't if you look at our numbers, we didn't realize that we were getting these other students. Uh, for example, we had one student that was going into kinder or first miss Garcia, but had never come to school. He was at home um hadn't been enrolled and then they decided to let me bring my child back. So, if you look

108at the numbers 2 4 6 7 8 9 10 10 students just at CSE, brand new to the district that we didn't account for last year. and she can give you more of an idea, but I know like our early childhood kids, the the prek and first and the second and you're they're busting at the seams. They're 15 to 16 kids in each classroom, 14 in each classroom. And that's a and we're talking about our life skills classrooms, not our regular, you know, resource or anything. We're talking about our life skills. And uh that's a lot of students to have. And this we weren't accounting for this. We didn't you know they these are kids that were somewhere else and we're not going to come to Ciso Springs CISD and now they're coming. So um

109we didn't account for this. We didn't budget for this. So that's why we're coming uh to you. Mrs. Garcia, do you want to say something? So at the elementary we sometimes we have students that are three years old and when they are at three and they're identified with some type of disability that may qualify them for uh attending camp attending school on campus at the age of three. And that's what she's she's also talking about. We have some three-year-olds that were not in school last year that we didn't know were were going to qualify this year. now they turn three and they might be they will be attending school at CSC. So those were some of those and then we had others that are coming in for the first time kinder first grade and they

110are diagnosed with some with some type of disability that may need them to be in a self-contained special ed classroom. So that will increase our numbers significantly in in those those two classrooms. All right. >> No questions. >> Is this for A, B, and C? >> Yes. >> If these items were approved, what is the u the selection process >> at this at this point in time of the school year? It's going to be tough. So, what selection process do you have in mind? >> We if if it's if it's approved, we would have to post the positions. So, if so approved, we'd have to make sure we advertise and post positions. It you're right, it might be a bit of a challenge to find a certified special education teacher, but um we'll we may

111have we've got some candidates we could reach out to. Um >> do the best we can with what we have. >> Yes, sir. Absolutely. That's our That's what we do and that's the Wildcat way. Anything else? I was just telling the pair professional part of course uh right in hand with a teacher we would need a pair professional also supporting that that that uh case load of students in the classroom. So we are asking again for one additional uh special education teacher and an additional special education pair professional. >> If there's any more questions I make a motion to approve. >> Second. Motion made by Jeff Or, seconded by Oscar Mones to approve of the addition to the compensation plan for 2025 2026 school year for diagnostician SLP hourly extra duty $80 for the special

112education teacher and special education pair professional. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. >> That all was all together. >> Thank you'all. >> Thank you so much. F. Consider approval of the amendment to the compensation plan for 2025 2026 school year bus driver. >> Madame President, if no questions after reviewing this item, I make the motion to approve item F compensation for bus drivers. I spoke with two bus drivers yesterday and by all means >> motion made by >> we can ask u Mr. Rubies I have some questions. >> Okay Mr. Ree, you want to come this way? >> Answer questions. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. >> Yes, sir. Um, I just want to know how many um um part-time bus drivers do you have? >> Part time. We have about um

113eight or nine. >> So, how many are are doing uh both uh routes and trips and how many are just doing the trips? >> Um we have most of them doing both. In fact, uh with what we have right now, we have to use everyone because we don't have enough as it is. But, uh routes like I said, even myself. So, um all of them pretty much. So uh >> it would be a problem if we we apply this uh uh pay increase to drivers that that do routes. They must do routes so they can avail of this uh um pay increase right because the routes are more important. Yeah, it's uh it's a minimum of four hours. >> Uh two two in the morning, two in the afternoon. >> All right. Thank you. >>

114Yes, sir. >> Mario, Mr. >> Do do you with this proposed increase, do you see >> are there any potential drivers out there? >> Uh yes, sir. uh because of the amount some of them are making less as bus drivers than what they're actually making being here for so many years as uh custodians and drivers. >> This will help get our numbers up of driver. >> Yes, sir. I I >> Yes, sir. Uh we have drivers that are here that go out of town to the other districts. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. And this uh this increase will only uh be for driving. For example, you are a driver uh custodian, you will only get the increase with the with the driving hours and not for the custodian hours. >> Correct, sir. That's just it's

115just for the bus driving. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. And we had a motion by Mike Diegas, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve the amendment to the compensation plan for 2025 2026 school year for the bus driver. All in favor? >> I >> opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you so much for the president. Before we go on, um I think it's uh we need to put some signs, not just the the not just the website, just like San Antonio is doing the signs like along the streets because probably the reason why there there are no applicants that they don't know that we are uh hiring drivers. So, it's important that we put signs >> maybe on the on the buses. >> On the bus, too. >> Yeah. >> And

116we put uh the the starting salary in there, >> which will be uh $20 an hour >> you're describing like when they uh put banners on the side of buses and park them outside. >> Yes. They have done here. Yes, that was done here also. >> Yes, sir. That's a good idea, too. >> Thank you, Mr. Reese. >> Thank you, board members. >> Okay. Item G. Consider approval of a resolution certifying compliance with the Texas Education Code 11.001 and 28.0022H 0022h regarding prohibitions on diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI duties and to authorize the superintendent to submit the required annual certification to the Texas Education Agency on or before September 30th, 2025. >> Good evening again. Um so before you you have um uh it's recommended that the board of trustees approve the superintendent certification of

117compliance. This is an annual compliance. So um uh this resolution you'll see again next year um for the Texas Education Code 39.008 confirming alignment with uh education code 11.005 and education code 280022H. [Music] Approval authorizes the superintendent to submit the certification to the Texas Education Agency by the required deadline which is September 30th >> questions. >> Question Madam President. Thank you. So Mr. T and Miss Pearson it's a hot topic. It's a it's all over the news. Has has this been a concern at any campus brought to you guys within the district? Just out of curiosity? I'm not >> No, nothing's been brought forth by >> No, not that I'm aware of. >> Teachers, students. >> No. Okay. >> No. I've had dis uh I've had uh discussions with uh Miss Pearson and our principles

118and nothing has been brought to our attention. No, we all watched u our legal counsel with a webinar and um you know the counselors in the past if students wanted to have conversations regarding um some of these topics they they did it do that and they would meet with the families in the past through parent permission and what this law is now saying is that we cannot do that. So it's illegal uh from the legislation that we're not allowed. So now our counselors and our teachers and everyone has been made aware that we we cannot have we can't do this basically and uh this by the certification is required by the Texas Education Code for the district the school board to acknowledge that we have let everybody know that we have put it in our

119handbook and that everyone knows if for some reason they violate that there could be disciplinary action. Yes, sir. Any other questions? Do I have a motion? If no f if no further questions, madam president, I make the motion to approve item G. >> Second. >> Motion made by Michaela, seconded by Aldoria to approve uh the resolution certifying compliance with the Texas Education Code 11.001 and 28.0022H 0022H regarding prohibitions on diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI duties and to authorize the superintendent to submit the required annual certification to the Texas Education Agency honor before September 30th, 2025. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Item H, consider approval of the Watchfire Sign LLC proposal for a digital scoreboard for 294,800 294,894 and approval of the accompanying budget amendment. >>

120Yes. Good evening. How's everybody doing tonight? Good, good, good, good. So, yes, it's for a scoreboard that would go at Frank Carter Stadium that would play. Um, I think I guess dimensionwise we could look at it. Uh, it is right there about 28 ft width. Uh, the height itself would be roughly somewhere around the 16 about 19.6 in. So, it's pretty much standard to the same size we have now. Uh but with this new scoreboard coming in, we would get the video board that would now uh be displayed during the actual games uh during the actual um time that the kids are out there playing um halftime as well for the band. This scoreboard is not just going to be utilized for football. Um it is going to be utilized for track events. It'll be

121utilized for band uh competitions that we now have here currently year in and year out. uh because it does come with instant replay as well. Um so the opportunity so that more kids and the community could gain a better experience during those activities of when they arrive. Uh same thing for our track when we do host tracks. Same thing for all our field days as well as well as all our elementarymentaries um and our intermediates. Uh we could definitely broadcast the actual track meet as they're up there. Um there are many other venues that would be uh utilized there or used during that scoreboard meaning even graduation. Uh it could be actually used to promote the graduation while it's up there. I guess the biggest thing for us most importantly is the outright cost of

122what that initial deal is. Yes, it is highly, but we have probably set up for a five-year plan that would give us the advertisements that we could go out and get from our community members. And with that being said, it is a year in and year out advertisement that would continue to draw in and bring back the uh the initial cost and recoup those funds from the beginning. So just like that, with that being said, I believe that we would sell packages that would allow us to do that. We could start out by selling uh selling platinum packages. It would be lifetime members. Uh and that way we would not have those boards who have now become outdated because in that video, you can actually change those ads as the game is even being played.

123So you would be able to pretty much dissect the board by a quarter or even halfway on the bottom, still display the game as it's happening, plus run the ads the entire time. So those ads itself would recoup and re uh replenish those funds that we initially wait uh expended to purchase the scoreboard. Um so again, we could sell platinum packages that would allow lifetime um advertisements. We could go down to the gold packages that would sell for say the yearly uh advertisement for the year. We could go into a silver and even a bronze package. So that's what we would come together uh Miss Pearson, myself along with the board so that we could find uh a great selling point um I guess I might say a good amount that would allow us to

124recapture that money within that five-year plan. And I know that it's something that the community itself would definitely share interest in. So because we can tell as we have our posters in the beginning of the season, there are plenty of advertisement that goes out in there. Same thing when uh they sell the actual game flyers uh before the game and that way they could actually put their children up there. And I know that like I said, cheerleaders alone, band members alone throughout the competition would definitely be paying to um put up there for advertisement. Of course, we we would go with the actual bottom of the part of scoreboard in case there were any difficults uh or any I'm so sorry, difficult. there was any type of uh something that went wrong with the video

125board at that particular time, we would still have our vid our digital board on bottom that would allow us to continue to have the game. We do have a five-year warranty no matter what a two-year service. Um I think another great initiative that we would definitely spark is that with with what we said this does come with a board itself that would require our IT department to be trained. But I believe this is something that we in the future could get our CTE department to start getting our kids to get into the broadcasting and would allow them to actually run the boards during the game, actually run the camera systems during the game. Kids that would actually be trying to um look at getting into the future of video broadcasting. Yeah, that's a it's a

126great one, ma'am. You're absolutely right. The uh video messaging it and system would uh definitely display any type of emergencies or anything that might want to be displayed on that video screen. Again, these video screens are meant to remain on. They're not meant to be turned off every time. Uh so it can definitely be be displayed for a long period of time. Um, I know I've seen other schools in itself too for say the seniors or project grad, you know, you can actually host or put a video or a movie out there for those kids. It's something to be able to capture those kids in an environment that would keep them safe. >> Question. I got a question. >> Yes, sir. >> Coach Gonzalez, so you have >> you reach out to businesses. I've seen

127this in other communities, right? where they advertise, >> you know, dealerships and or vice versa. >> So, you'll come up with the package plan as a platinum like, you know, $5,000 or $10,000 for a year or >> whatever it might be and recoup some of that money back >> if we were to approve. >> Yes, sir. That is the game plan after year, right? >> For sure. and and with other people who have done it in years past is that sometimes they even received a large donor that they put which we do not want and I'm just speaking out loud but a large donor that would put their name on the top that we would never be able to get rid of. So that's kind of what we're trying to avoid. So that way the

128scoreboard becomes timeless so that way we can keep it up for many years to come. >> Yeah. It's kind of like we do now, right? We had some names there. Correct. Those companies no longer here >> no longer exist. still getting advertised >> and they're still being advertised and we've never taken them down. Of course, within time >> even if they were like paid like a huge majority of it, you wouldn't want their name >> and that's why we're saying like the platinum ones that we're saying that would be a continuous yearly deal. So that one would be there every time the scoreboard is on. It's going to function. Now, >> the opportunity with those types of ads is that you can manipulate that scoreboard as the game's going on. So if somebody were to

129sell, we sold ads for $25. You could say, "Hey, we're going to broadcast it one time." And now you're broadcasting so many of those $25 sponsorships because that ability is in that scoreboard. But for sure, the bigger the more contributions you would want that name out there. >> So, it's more for advertising, not necessarily that you want companies to buy it for you like, right? Because you want it to be continuous. I think it's going to be the advertisement for the kids because most of our public and community and our our kids alone and parents are the ones going to be putting up all those advertisements. Now, if we went out for the bigger company, then those would probably become those lifetime members that we would be asking for an X amount and say, "Hey,

130we're going to put you up every single time that scoreboard is on." And this is what it's going to buy you. >> Every event. Every event. question. Coacher, >> sir, >> doing all right? >> I'm doing fine, sir. >> Nice win the other night, man. Congrats to >> Well, we appreciate it. Not not the best one, but we'll take it. >> Hey, you take it. Hey, talk to me about um and I know are are there any companies that we know of that that would want to invest in this right now? >> For sure. What would a platinum deal look like? What would a, you know, gold, silver? Have you put any of those together? You got anybody that can this company help you put >> I mean, I think I might have come up

131with some of the ideas, but it's not that I've pitched them to get the actual approval on what we think we want to go with. Okay. So, I would not want to say those out loud and then have to backtrack. Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> Cuz certainly, I mean, we have a fantastic facility. No doubt about that. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh, and the scoreboard is outdated. That's for sure. >> Yes, sir. >> But, you know, I would like to see, okay, if you got some ideas on on what those >> bring those numbers to us, show us, sir. Can we get some people to invest upfront >> for sure >> and and then, you know, down the road, >> you know, I'm not definitely not against this, but I'd like, you know, to see

132some dollars where we could have folks help us with this cost upfront, >> the initial cost out of what we got here. >> Okay. >> I'm for it. But I want, you know, if that's a possibility, if we know some folks out there that are willing to do that. >> Yes, sir. >> And we certainly will run their ad. You know, >> I know folks that would >> all all year long. This guy some energy. >> Yeah. >> I mean, they'll do it. There's people that do it. >> Absolutely. And I mean, like I said, I mean, I know that we could venture to say and I would just throw a rough number out, but if we went to a lifetime member, speaking of a company like that, I do not see or disry to

133think that they wouldn't be able to say, "Hey, here's $20,000 for a lifetime membership of what we're going to do for the five-year plan." And that would not probably wink an eye for some of those people. And they would definitely go jump in on board. That would be our platinum memberships. and then we could work ourselves down down that list and would give them opportunities for do so. >> And um and speaking with this company, what what is what is the timeline to to get something like this up and running? >> So timelinewise is uh mo all these parts are made here in the states. So then that meant that they said they could probably have that board up by two and a half weeks and then for them to actually come and install would

134be one week. If they could have five to six days because all our pier and beams and concrete has already been um >> they will utilize what we've already paid for in years past because it's the same company. Spectrum would be the same ones that would come in and do that. I think I I agree and I hear you. I just don't know if going out and being able to sell that to them on a product that is not yet bought, >> right? >> That they would somehow be like, "Well, how am I going to guarantee you you're going to get that board up if I only give you 25,000?" >> Yeah. >> Where's the rest of it going to come from in order to get this bought? >> Instead of saying, "Hey, the board

135is bought. Now, I want to sell you a platinum package for $20,000. Someone else would say, "Sure. I I think I it's there. Why not?" >> Coach, >> yes, sir. >> My thoughts are kind of the same as >> we're going to make an expense this big. >> Uh it would be nice. I know it's difficult. Yes. >> To see those commitments time >> to see if if we got those commitments to support this for the kids. I don't problem with the product. Product is amazing. I want the best for our kids. >> But um if we could see the commitment of those people that would be willing to contribute, that would help us make this decision because uh here recently, I don't know if we've been transparent enough to uh our community that we're

136about to face a huge expense with the school of the school. >> Correct. >> So to sell this idea, we said, well, we're getting a great deal. It's a great deal >> for sure. So, with that in mind, I would think that more of the long-term uh forever lifetime members are the ones that we would definitely want to sell to because it's going to be really hard to sell to the ones that'll be like, "Sure, I'll do it this game or I'm going to do it for my child for all year long." You know, those are going to be of the smaller amount. So, it's going to be hard and it's going to be relatively every day, every year, they're going to keep buying those ads. But for the lifetime members, I think is what

137we're kind of expressing to go out and reach. Correct. The ones that would be contributing the larger amounts and I think that would definitely help the decision is what we're is what I think I'm understanding. >> A few other thoughts coming to mind right now. How how could the uh athletic booster club help you with this? >> For sure. I mean, that's something that we >> get the word out. find some folks that you know with those deep pockets that were >> Absolutely. For sure. Those are all the avenues that we would definitely attack. Yes, sir. >> And then when we're talking about money, tell us a little bit about that money that was announced uh Friday night, the $5,000 from T-Mobile. >> For sure. >> What What is How do we That's great. >>

138What What's the What's the background behind that? >> So, that is a program that they took off last year. It is a Friday 5G Friday nights T-Mobile and uh that program started last year and the school that actually won the final uh $1 million makeover was a school out of Oklahoma. Wow. And so what 5GT Mobile has done on Friday Night Lights is they have approached all the rural school areas and pushed it out. They don't attack the cities because those have more of options with money. And so what they've done is they pushed out that program again and it looks like it got even bigger. And so this year I wrote a letter explaining to them some of our needs that we needed. Um and then we were in the running to win the

139$5,000. So this week is the last week for the 5,000 and if we continue to it it's a long process as far as uh for the it Mr. Rolando does a great job on that, but we have to post a lot of things and hashtag okay, T-Mobile. And so that's why I had put up signs that were on the walkway for the ones who went to the game and it had the QR code there. And so those people if they keep hashtagging all the school spirit we have, then we have the chance to run and win the 25,000. >> 25,000 would be the next for 45 schools. >> But you did get the 5,000. >> But we did get the 5,000 >> towards the athletic program. Where does that money go towards the >> I

140I believe Miss Pearson would have to make that decision and I was just curious. Okay. Thank all right. Well, that's great though. Yes. Good job in that end. >> Absolutely. >> When we get it, it'll have to come to the school board. So, Miss Frank I mean Miss Diaz, excuse me, will bring it >> donation. Correct. >> Correct. Correct. And then Miss Diaz will bring the budget code that it would be deposited to. >> Yes, ma'am. Again, again, we are well taken care of from the school board and Miss Pearson. So, we do a excellent job when it comes for our kids. Um, I am not uh by no means going to say that we don't do a great job. So, regardless, wherever it is that the money goes, it's for the school and it's

141for the kids. And if it doesn't go back, we are fine. We are fine and we appreciate it. >> When I heard the announcement, I thought it was geared towards the athletic department. >> It is. It is because of what I wrote for them. Yes. But it clearly great for sure. That's what the idea is for. Yes, sir. >> Any more questions? >> Nope. >> Hopefully we go win the 25,000 to go toward the scoreboard. >> Yeah, that would be excellent. So, that million dollar one would help to purchase things like that. Absolutely. And what I wrote it to was, you know, for for our help with the the fieldhouse. And so that was where I wrote the letter. >> I have no doubt by going out like to the community and looking for sponsors

142that you'll get it. I mean, I think we'll get a big a big chunk. >> I agree with you, Miss Frank. I agree with you. I believe in >> getting it now and then pay itself back, you know. I mean, just look at >> a great example is the sport complex. >> How many companies and donors didn't donate to that complex? >> So, there's people out there that want advertisement >> and they're from this community. So, I think making buying it up front now, it'll pay for itself later. >> I I believe believe that because there's people out there, we got a lot of people in this area that likes advertising and be a lot of advertising for their companies or even parents. >> Even parents, you know, but >> I think >> there's a

143lot of resources out there that >> Yes. >> Yeah. You know, but it's like co said get it in there. Get it in. You can say, "Okay, we got it now. >> Here we go." Instead of going to them, well, it's going to depend on you. We get it. So, I mean, there's any question. With that being said, I make a motion to approve. I'm sorry I didn't. >> Okay. Motion made by Jeffrey Ortiz. Second. A second. Jeff motion. Motion made by Jeffrey Ortiz. seconded by myself uh to approve the watchfire proposal. >> All in favor? >> I >> opposed. >> I So was 33. So the motion dies. >> There you go. Okay. Thanks. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Executive executive session discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code

144section 551.001. Personnel matters. Discussion of resignation, retirements, leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees. Consider recommendation of CSCISD lead nurse. Uh B, considering the deployment specific occasions for or implementation of security personnel or devices, Texas government code section 551.076 and 551.089. Consider approval of personnel to be commissioned as reserve officers for the Kiso Springs CS ISD police department by Ciso Springs CI CISD Police Department. Swearing in of the Ciso Springs CISD Chief of Police and authorization to administer oath to officers Ciso Springs CISD Police Department. The time is 8:22. We are in executive session. Okay, time is 9:30. We're back from executive session. Executive uh possible action in open session for executive session items. Madam President, I'd like to make a motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation for the

145lead nurse, Yarinz Gomerano. >> Second. >> Motion made by Nois Zarate, seconded by Michael to to uh approve the recommendation for the CSC lead nurse, Yari Gomerano. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. B. Consider the deployment specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Second. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Noi Zarate to approve of personnel to be commissioned as reserve officers for the Ciso Springs CISD Police Department by Ciso Springs CISD Police Department and swearing in of the Ciso Springs CIS CISD Chief of Police and authorization to administer oath to officers Ciso Springs CISD Police Department. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. Adjourn. Motion. >> Motion made by Oscar seconded by Jeff Ortiz to adjurnn. All in favor? I

146>> I. >> Motion carries. We are adjourned.