001understand the uh you the events that take place. Back in February, he performed for a judge, adjudicated him on a solo that was memorized. We have uh class 1, two, and three, which class one is is is the most difficult level. So being memorized, he was uh uh given a first division and that qualified him to perform at the state solar ensemble contest in Hendrickson uh high school influgerville. So the judges uh you're looking at over 10,000 students that perform, they only select about 3% that they feel that each judge will say this kid is clearly above everyone else. And so this young man uh under the tutelage of his percussion director, Mr. Stevie Sanchez, earned the equivalent of being named a state champion. So he received his gold a drape gold medal equivalent to
002what a first place finisher in track or individual events, etc. That's what he earned back in May. So Donovan, congratulations to you, Miho, and your parents as well that are here on outstanding performer. I did have do you have the letter or okay that's okay but there is a letter that was addressed to him from Dr. Kent director of music UIL congratulating Donovan for his accomplishment on what he did individually so congratulations Don congratulations y'all [applause] Next for high school, I want to recognize three individuals. I see one here though. They were selected by the UT professors out of their cohort to present their summer research. The one y'all presented. Correct me if I'm wrong. The one y'all presented during uh this summer's geoforce and uh they will be presenting in Louisiana, the American Geoysical
003Union. Um I think we've had one before. Yes. So congratulations. We have three individuals. First one we're gonna present, Stephanie Ortiz. [applause] Again, they're advancing to Louisiana in December. I don't know if they need an administrator to travel with them, but if they do, give me a holler. The others, Elena Eskel and Alex Chapa were the other two that Congratulations >> [applause] >> So from my understanding they will be presenting in front of like 30,000 people. So, best of luck. December 17th. If y'all need an admin, let me know. Thank y'all. >> Okay. Next, we have the Lonear Governance presented by Dr. Roelawa. Good evening board members. Looking forward to sharing some of our state assessment data. Um it comes at a good time as we met with our district leadership team throughout the day
004to really discuss next steps. So please let me know at any point um if you'd like me to stop for questions. So we will start each of our presentations with our mission and vision inspiring lifelong learners and to provide every child a quality education in a safe environment. Some of our bright spots and you'll see this evidently in our slides. We're going to focus on the meats category as that is our goals are based off of our students being at grade level. You'll see that we have much to celebrate in third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth grade RLA. Lots to celebrate for RLA. When we're looking at our meets category for third, fourth, sixth, and eighth math, we will see that eighth grade surpassed the state average. We are also noticing as a trend that
005we are beginning to recover see recovery uh based on those prepandemic scores in grades three through five reading and six through seven are above prepandemic averages as well. And lastly uh one point that we really want to highlight is that we maintain a significant number of experienced teachers highlighting our retention um and certified in our content areas. So something that we're looking forward to celebrating for this past school year and moving forward into 2526. So I will begin with 3 through 8. We are looking at RLA. So if the area is highlighted, it signifies an increase. And as I mentioned, we are looking at the meats. Um so notably the greatest increase was at our CSI campus. So kudos to our fourth, fifth, and sixth that saw double-digit growth at the meets for RLA. When
006we look at our math, um we can also see differences um and highlighted are the increases. So notably our grade six saw the greatest increase at 18% which is significant. it is difficult to grow anywhere from three to 5% um in any given year. So kudos to any double digit growth and then we'll see our eighth grade um as much of a jump as as 28%. So it is important to highlight that we did test our students a bit differently um this school year. So our eighth grade data shows not only our eighth grade general education but also our seventh grade advanced testers. When we look at our science and social studies outcomes, so much fewer tests, notably here, um we do celebrate an increase in 7% at our eighth grade science. Um while we
007saw decreases in fifth and eighth grade social studies, moving forward to our EOCC's. So, we did have more increases in our elementary level and middle school um designations. When we look at our at our EOCC outcomes, we see decreases in our meats with the exception of biology indicating a 4% growth. And that summarizes our outcomes for STAR. Another large component that I would like to draw your attention to is our STAR growth. Um the district for RLA as an average had 62% growth. Areas that we would like to highlight our fourth and fifth. We saw those large increases in meets and we get to celebrate um the growth that was also attained at these grade level bands as well as our seventh and eighth grade. So great growth for ROA. And if you look at
008our average of 62 for RLA, it is slightly lower for math at a 58%. So we have our highest here at 86 and 83 um both residing at our eighth grade. So eighth grade math general ed and our algebra one with the greatest growth across the district. So next steps, what has the data informed us and what are our conversations up to this point? So over the summer um and currently it's it's been a daily conversation really. Uh we were able to get a really good uh summary today of the Wildcat way. The curriculum and instruction team curriculum specialists Mr. Salamantis and myself um have really put a lot of effort into ensuring that teacher voice and administrator voice is being heard and that we are really emphasizing strong tier one instruction aligned at all
009of our four campuses. Uh another large um initiative this upcoming year is cluster meetings which is PLC professional learning communities that we are familiar with but really emphasizing how we are ensuring that we are aligned and calibrated at our four campuses and making sure that we are looking um and expecting looking for what we expect. And lastly we noticed um and we've this has been a trend and a pattern for a couple years now in our math data. we've seen our math scores uh remain a bit more stagnant than our RLA. So, the Blue Bonnet math initiative and the K through 12 alignment um is something that we're emphasizing uh throughout the school year at all four of our campuses and three of our campuses will be more vertically aligned um with that curriculum. So,
010a really strong push especially for our elementary campus. So with that um as part of the lasso grant we were we did receive funding and decided to partner with the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. They've been providing supports. We will be meeting via Zoom weekly and they will be coming to do learning walks and really guide and ensure that we're following all guidelines. We have emergent tree which is a multi-tered behavioral support um to address SEAL for every student. and of course our lonear governance which has been a wonderful collaboration with you all uh to ensure that our goals are aligned and make sense that we're all speaking the same language uh moving forward so to address the needs and really to emphasize what we're doing uh we also have teacher incentive aotment coming
011up I know Miss Pearson's mentioned that we are very um happy that we've you know gotten that in that that application approved and we're looking forward to aligning our our t test um walkthroughs and ensuring that the growth that's acquired from our assessment data um is aligning and that we're able to spread that wealth throughout um our four campuses. As far as resources and practices uh for tier one instruction, blended learning, we had a wonderful blended learning cohort that has really been um the pioneers into differentiating and tailoring instruction to each individual student. So, we're looking forward to to um getting more teachers in our next cohort and really emphasizing this as an instructional practice. And then, of course, we have our adaptive programs um which really lend themselves to supporting all of our students
012where they are. So, we have our age of learning which is my reading and my math academy um and character strong for SEAL. And then our outputs will be our assessment data. So we have our NWA map growth which we speak of often. We have our unit assessments and of course our benchmarks. Thank you very much for your time. Any questions for me? >> Thank you. Okay, we're going to go to uh item item six, public comment. Okay, we don't have we don't have any public comment. Uh uh next will be announcements. Um a superintendent briefing, student recognition, staff recognition. >> Thank you, President Frankle. So in the summer we also highlight our students and teachers [clears throat] because when our teachers grow our students grow and boy did our teachers grow. So with the
013Wildcat way in mind with the uh priorities that were listed as far as strong tier one instruction and PLC's our teachers attended some wonderful opportunities. Our kinder teachers attended the elevate conference uh and they brought back lots of technology ideas that they'll be sharing with the whole campus. Miss Garcia has a very strong plan for teachers to share their learning. Teachers learning from teachers. We also had a group of teachers that went to ISTY. Uh Isty is a national conference and it was in our backyard in San Antonio, Texas. This is also innovative technologybased uh adaptive programs and so again these teachers will be sharing. this was our blended learning pilot teachers and so we did see significant data increases with the blended learning and so we really want to uh push that uh in
014the district this year and we have teachers that are excited about it. Uh we also attended a uh solution tree PLC conference. This was all of uh teacher leaders, principles, assistant principles and uh some of our directors and uh they said that they left inspired and ready to the professional learning community clusters where our teachers are discussing data. They're discussing high yield instructional strategies and student uh evidence artifacts of student work. All of these will be um shared across all the districts at the campuses. They all had representatives. And then we had a a small group of teachers from CSE and CSI that attended region 3 literacy retreat. This was a uh uh focused on writing and on uh doing the short answer response. So we are excited and anxious to hear everything that they
015learned uh at that conference. We have had our students back on campus. We uh the mean purple band students have been showing up and working. They have a a full schedule preparing for our uh kickoff of UIL season and also football. So we're excited to see our band students back. We had our football camp uh that our coaches put on and uh we also had our volleyball camp that the coaches put on yesterday and today. So, we have some nice pictures of that. We had our cheer camp, our mini cheer camp that was full of many young uh Wildcat cheerleaders and they packed the house last Thursday for their finale. So, that is the superintendent briefing. Thank you. >> Thank you. We'll go on to um the reportsformational items uh financial briefing the we have
016the general fund financial statement child nutrition financial statement debt service fund financial statement and the construction financial statement test. Oh, you need me to go through uh the briefing like like I usually do, correct? Okay, because it's under consent. I would Oh, never mind. I apologize. Okay, so our executive summary for June of 2025, um we are we have two months left in our fiscal year. So, we're 83% uh past where we are as far as time that has passed. Uh, in the general fund, we have collected $60,113,670, which is about 95% of our collections that we were expecting to collect. Our year-to- date expenses as of June of 2025 is $25,89, leaving our revenue over expenses of 34,309. Uh, and of course, we still have our chapter 41 payment to pay. We pay that
017in August. For the food service, we have collected so far 1,75318. Our expenses are 1,904162 as of June. Uh so the general fund transfer at this moment uh is estimated at 150,844. Now in July, we don't expect a lot of expenses because they're going to get paid out of their uh summer fund. So I think they're doing well at this time. For the debt service, we have collected um the INS taxes of 11,42660 and our first bond payment that was paid in February was 4.4 uh 4,465,300 leaving uh 6 million 960760 as of this moment. And we have um the next bond payment will be due August the 15th. If we look at the next page, we have a summary of the uh by fund. So we have the general fund which again can show
018you the recap for local revenue,146 for the uh 11,ion4266,146 for the uh 11,ion42660. Okay. On the next page, you'll see a list of the uh bud board approved budget amendments. I've listed them from the beginning of the fiscal year to now as an ongoing um list. We do not have any board amendments presented at this time. As a recap for the special maintenance projects, we do not have any requests at this time. and then a recap on the interest earned. You'll see the totals by general fund, INS, and construction fund and a total for all funds. So for the month of June for general fund, INS and construction altogether, we've collected 620,000 in interest. Okay. Okay. And then after that, I have the construction fund financials and a check register. So for 2425 through June,
019we've collected 3,616,890. And our expenses so far for this year is 2 million. And then I'm also showing at the bottom the recap for the previous year. Uh, and that's all I have at this time. Any questions? Thank you. Now we have the first reading of the TASBY initiated local policy update 125. Good evening members of the board. President Franco, uh you have in your board packet a listing of numerous um legal and local policies that require updating in our uh local and our excuse me board policy. And just for an overview of the the difference between legal and the and local um in legal policies as you know I don't think it's not known that we had a legislation has ended uh a legislative session ended and so as a result um it reflects
020the everchanging the legal policies reflect ever changing legal context for governance and uh management of the district. They're there to inform local decision- making and um are not required to be adopted. They will be a part of our policy uh our board policy. But local policies of course require close attention by the uh both administration and the board. They must reflect the practices of the district and intentions of the board and may only be changed by board action. So those local policies in uh the update 125 do require board action. Again, Miss Franco, this is the first read of of the numerous uh local updates that require action on on behalf of the board. Are there anything that I can clarify or I think TASBY does a really good job of of giving you a
021a good overview of what is required to be acted upon and approved or considered and approved. Any questions? Anything I can clarify as far as any of the uh policies. Okay. May I can All right. Great. Thank you. So again, first read of the update 125. And then also for uh for your first read, we have um local uh updates to local FD, local policy FD and FM. Uh both of these policies um have to do with opting out of allowing homeschool to participate in UIL activities. Um, Curiso Springs CISD has previously opted out of participating in this and we still have the same stance except for now legislation with again with legislative updates. Now legislation requires the board to act upon these particular uh items and so and to put them into into board
022policy. Therefore, that's why we have the updates for again uh FD local which is regarding admissions and specifically students not enrolled and specifically homeschooled students and then uh polic local policy FD in reference to uh extracurricular activities and eligibility. Any questions on those? >> I would like to add board. I know this is just the first read. It'll come back to you in August. But this was Senate Bill 401. Uh that was in legislation. Some of you may recall a couple years ago it was an opt in. If you wanted the homeschoolers to be in UI, you opt in. So what legislation did is now it's an opt out. And so the board must have action before September 1st. And so that's why we'll bring it back to our August 26 meeting. Uh and it
023is the recommendation of administration that the board approve and opt out. from the UI from the home allowing homeschoolers to participate in our UIL. Uh we have talked to our AD uh we've talked to our principles uh at the high school and really this puts a an extra burden on the teachers and allowing our homeschool students to participate through our legal council and the uh what we sat through yesterday. There is no checks and balances. So students potentially could be failing or have no grades at all and be able to potentially take a spot of school that's of a student that's attending our school. It also puts a burden on us if if you know uh for space and team and so it is a recommendation that we not move forward and that we opt
024out of allowing homesooled students to participate in UIL. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Okay, we're going to pull one of the items from the u from the consent agenda items. So, uh on the on the approval of the payment of 65,340 to provision for purchase of bus, cameras, licenses, and installation removal services. And they're going to present on that. Okay, Chief Ramirez will be presenting on the the bus cameras. Apologize. So, we'll go into uh specifics. Jerry will explain exactly what uh camera systems we're looking to equip the buses we currently have on route. and then we'll go more into detail once he shows you the slides. >> Hello, good afternoon board members. Um so just an overview of our bus cameras in our district. So we have 25 buses, right?
025So majority um uh would say that out of 25 there's like 22 of the bus of the buses that camera are either the camera is not working or the DVR is not working. Right. So with this um initiative always safe pro provision it will it will allow us to um upgrade the infrastructure of the bus cameras and with that said it has a cloud capability of can you let the next slide please so next slide so with this one it has the capability of the live view with the bus cameras so with that said when there's event or something like something like going on with inside the buses. Instead of waiting for the bus to like arrive in the bus bar, it has capability to view directly what's going with the buses. And not only
026that, um when something's going on like in the highway, on the streets, we can um uh view right away what's going on outside perimeter of the buses. So with that said, with this infrastructure upgrade, it will allow us to see what's the ex where's the exact location of the buses because on the platform uh next slide, please. So this slide right here, um this is the quality of the cameras right here. So each of the buses we're going to install five camera. So it's going to be like four is going to be like for the students and one will be facing the dashboard like on the road for the bus. Um next slide please. So this is like the the quality of the camera. Uh next slide. Uh okay. So this is like sample pictures
027of the the infrastructure upgrade for the bus camera. Uh next Gilbert. So this one right here on the dashboard, it will tell you the exact location of the the buses. So with that said, um we can give this permission to our security officers whenever there's like um out of town games or whatever it is and we have the visibility of where's the the the bus is right now. And with that said with this like something's going on like hey um can you check on the camera because we're having emergency the SRO will have the okay um we'll check on the the bus through the live view and we they can see in real time what's going on inside the on the buses and for this initiative um it will give us like um the uh
028the five years the contract and I'll have Richard to discuss on that one for the the funding. So, this is a five-year uh commitment here. The first year would be at the 65,000 that would be taken out of the safe cycle 2 grant. So, it is safety funds that we'll be uh paying for this. The second year would be the second half of that, but it would cover for a five-year. Uh after the fiveyear, we do not have to opt back into it. We already have the equipment. Uh the only thing we would need to do at that point is uh for the cloud server. All right. So roughly about 700 a month, but that's after year five. Okay. So for those five years, uh we have the company who can come and service. They
029will send us a new camera if we need it. Uh we'll be able to replace it. Everything can be done in house with Jerry and his staff. So after the initial um uh input of the system, uh Mr. uh Jerry here and his staff will be able to work on anything on those cameras. If it is something uh that the camera is not working properly, like I said, the company will just send a new camera in. They'll be able to plug and play. So, um that's for five years. So, uh safe cycle 2 will pay for this first half. Next year's uh safety money will pay for the second half. Did I miss anything? >> This is going to cover 22 buses. Uh we have a total of 25 buses right now. So the three
030buses that will not be equipped. They currently do already have a camera system. It is a little older. So for us to retrieve that video, it does take a little more u little more steps to do that, we can still do it, but the 22 out of the 25 will be cloud serverbased. And like like Jerry said, it's live video. We can pull that immediately if we need to. It has cameras that cover the outside. So it it will serve as a deterrent as well for vehicles that are trying to pass. We're not when they're not supposed to pass. We now have video of that that we can utilize to investigate everything inside. Um we we it's it's great quality video. So any questions on these cameras? >> Madam President, I have a question. >>
031Yes. Um first of all, I like the idea. It's great. I just have two quick questions and I'm only asking because of previous um areas that I've been in. One, how how long about how many days back can the DVR storage go for the cloud and at what point that if does that footage get deleted? >> It's 60 days if I'm mistaken. 60 days after the event. Um but with these if there is an incident that is reported it it's immediately um it can immediately be tapped in remotely so we don't have to wait no longer than a week. I mean it's it's as fast as when it's reported to us. >> Great. >> So it's um 60 days retention and we um this system has the capability to lock it in. So, if we
032have this footage that we need to lock it for evidence purposes, we can lock that in and we we can stay it as long as we want. >> Great question. >> I got a couple questions. >> Yes, sir. >> So, our new buses that we're getting or the ones we purchased in the past couple years, those do not have cameras. >> Those um the new buses that we purchased though uh they have the cameras in place. The the thing is um they have on-prem so we physically go over there to extract the um the the footages so we can keep that one. So we have 25 buses, right? So um the the main priority of this uh infrastructure upgrade is the cameras uh the buses that the cameras are not working. So, uh, with those
033new buses, uh, we're still going to keep the camera, uh, in place except that we don't have the features of the live view. >> Uh, second question on the program that we're talking about that we got paid. So, we got paid 65,000 each year for five years. >> Uh, no. So, basically we you so we uh cut it in half. So basically 65 this year and then 65 for next year, but that covers five years. So we didn't have to pay like 65 every year. But once after the five years where we're just going to only pay $770 to be exact for uh cloud service. >> And with this 65,000 they'll provide all the cameras that we need. >> Yes. Five cameras. Four cameras for bus. >> Yes. Including training, installation, training. After the five
034years, do they take those cameras back? Do we opt out or do we keep the camera? >> No, we keep the camera and we just going to pay unless if we want to like, hey, we like your service. Come down, renew the the money, but we have the um what's it called as um option to like just get the cloud service because we have the cameras in place already. Third question I guess um besid we opt out is your department IT department is there something you can build capable of running this camera system or the geo fencing or the GPS on the buses as far as your department build software for this >> um company >> um this one we don't have the capability of like Uh correct me if I'm wrong if I get
035your questions right like like it department to like mimic the setup or something like that. >> Yes. >> The only reason I'm referring to is because >> at my company we deal with that truck. We were going to go with a third party and it was outrageous expensive, right? >> Our guy >> build this program and mimic the same program >> that we're going to purchase and now we're going to implement that system. >> Yeah. >> And it has a dealing GPS. >> Yes. >> We know that similar to this question. >> No. Um that's a that's a great question. So with this one um of course um we don't have one is that domain power to install like the wires and everything and second is that um with um um what we can mimic
036like right now is we can only get the GPS like we can install a device over there in the buses and we can get the exact location but as far for installation running the wires for the buses that we don't have manpower. No, no, I'm talking about the program. >> Yes, the program. Yeah, we can only get the the GPS. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Excuse me. I have a question. Couple of questions. >> Yes, sir. >> So, if I remember correctly, the total cost is 30 something >> 130,000. >> Correct. >> Total for years. Is this internet service or what how are you uh how does it receive signal? >> So, uh thank you for that quick question. So each of the buses they have a 4G cellular. So all of the cameras are
037tied into the NVR and the NVR is connected to the 4G cellular 5G cellular and then that's the what's it called is that's throwing the um the internet and it's going to receive by the cloud. So it's basically the DVR itself has a SIM that uh what's it called? It's connected to the cloud service. They communicate and that's how we can um log into the dashboard via web. So we don't have to install any additional application. So just to the web and we can see like the example for the live view for the cameras. >> So this company owns the cloud and this this fee you'll have it uh you'll buy the service for five years. Once you have all the equipment if we don't commit again then you have a lot of equipment but
038no access to that cloud. You won't have service right? >> Um >> we will continue service by paying the 7 Yes. So if we opt out for the cloud service, so we going to go to the traditional, it's still going to be stored locally on the DVR NVR, but we have to get to the we have to wait for the bus to to arrive at the bus bar to extract the video with this cloud service is that not only we can extract it remotely, but we can also view it like a live view for the buses if something happens. >> Their cloud. >> Yes. >> Service with their cloud. >> Yes. What about reception? Does it have any dead spots? >> How are you are you talking about just local transportation, the kids getting home
039or trips, out of town trips? >> Yes. >> Is there dead spots or will it work all over Texas? >> I would assume there's certain location here in Texas that have dead spots. So, that's a great questions. And um for that one, I'll um I'll reach out to Brian. That way before committing to this contract, we have to make sure we have those um like um uh situation like hey um we have this right here like really low service. So um we're going to reach out to the the vendor. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt, but I remember when he presented to us because it's served on the I think what's important to know is that the cloud is live, but it's recording all the time whether it has Wi-Fi or not Wi-Fi. It
040comes it's with like a box. Can you go back to the picture that had the box? So, the box is right there. >> It has the actual disc and it's recording there. So, no matter what, we're get the recording. The only thing that the cloud does that is >> in my opinion pretty cool, it's live. So when we can, we can live into the buses at any time and monitor them that way. But as far as the recordings, we'll always have the recordings that are recording 247 if we want to in that tape in that box and then we can remove it from the box and we can download it when we're on our Wi-Fi in our bus bar. >> Yes, ma'am. Recordings, but I'm talking signal in a perfect world in a big community
041your signal your base is going to be very strong we live in South Texas that our kids will be taking on trips >> have you done any or anybody else who's using this company having that lack of signal problem >> so far I've asked the um the the how many ISDs have been he has couple not only in Texas but a couple in the different uh states too. So far, it's um the one that um before I went with this uh company, I asked our uh the technology group in San Antonio and they referred me on this one. So, with that said, um thank you for that, Miss Pearson. So, it's going to record if we don't have that. Let's say there's a dead dead spot because we can do a live view, but at
042least it's recording. So, with that said, we can just extract the um that DVR and pull out the images. So it doesn't transmit. >> Yes. >> And then um if there's certain I'm pretty sure there's going to be a nearby town where there's like sil signal from there we can live view it. >> Yeah. >> Did you do any shopping comparison? >> Yes. >> Are you comfortable with this and this price? >> Yeah. um before we came up with this um with this vendor we we did and then there's like so much difference in the um same specs, same number of buses, same um EVR and but this is the one like um the the the least expensive but it doesn't mean that it's it's it's less it's it's like oh it's what's it called?
043doesn't have any features. But then again, this has like more money from the book for investing this one. And um we compared it to the other vendor. I was like, this is like um what we're looking at and this fits with our district. >> Question I have, do they provide all the technical support and uh say something is damaged? Is that all that covered for the five years of the >> Yes, ma'am. So, so this one um the camera itself um should last for 10 years and then the contract is only five years, right? So, with this one within the contract they um whenever the the pro the cameras like let's say we need to replace they're going to send it out and then if we need for them to come down because it's so
044advanced for the troubleshooting, we can also request for them to come down. >> Thank you. >> I got another question. Um, my next question, do we have a timeline of what it would take as far as installation of cameras 22 buses? >> So, for this one, I've asked, thank you for that. A great question, Mr. Ortiz. So, that one I've asked if it's going to take them like two weeks. So, they have going to have a team to come down to install the the bus cameras and then um yeah, that's uh usually the turnaround. buses. >> Yes. >> Not not so much Thank you guys for this information. Not so much a question but a comment and any fellow board members please uh recall my memory if I'm and and again this is not to
045put you on the spot and Mario maybe you can help with this too. At one time did we receive board a presentation on also in the area of safety where students would wear a an ID where we would track their their location. At one time did we ever receive a >> a uh a presentation on that. If we did not I apologize but I thought that was something that was brought to us also in the line of safety while students are on the bus. We know okay little Johnny is at highway 277. Baba you know he knew the exact location at one time will we ever presented that >> I don't remember >> if not please look into that Mr. Mario or or here let's look at our old minutes just also in the line
046of safety so this is good >> but uh if there's other other measures we can take while students are on the buses >> let's look into it >> m I guess no you are correct uh when Mr. Gonzalez was managing transportation um in first semester. They piloted some of the scan cards, correct? >> And to see if it was something we wanted to do. Mr. Reese actually did. We just met on that. They tried it with the high school students and they didn't have a lot of success because the high school students didn't really want to keep up with the card. And so Mr. was setting up another call with them to see if we could pilot with our elementary because we wanted to get a good idea if it was something we wanted to
047do because obviously we're going to have to invest some money on buying the cards and the software. But Mr. Reese, I don't know if you have any more information you want to share. >> Well, the reason is that the high schoolers didn't want to do it and they would get on without swiping the card or anything like that. So, we weren't getting a a good um data report on it. So, as Superintendent Pearson said, we had this conversation possibly giving it to the elementary because the elementary kids, they will do that. >> Of course, >> they will do that. So, this is this is a plan for us to do that so that way we can see how that works. >> Okay. >> And you're right. That's what >> And again, I apologize for getting
048off topic, but again, it's in the area of safety and just if it's something we need if you need to be brought back, by all means, let's let's look at it. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> There more questions. Make a motion to approve. >> No, it was pulled. It was It was pulled. It was pulled out of action. >> Okay. Okay, we have a motion made by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Aldoria to approve the payment of 65,340 to provision for purchase of the bus, cameras, licenses, and installation removal services. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you. Okay, we're going to go back now to the approval of consent agenda items. President Franco, I I only had one question and and I I did get to
049visit with Miss Diaz before this. Miss Diaz, could you again just for for my colleagues up here, give us a u a breakdown of item I consider approval of tax refund request from Lewis Petrol Properties, Inc.? Thank you. >> Yes. So, we received a uh refund request for payments that were um that were a request to refund an amount that was paid by for penalties and interest that were under protest. And so, uh we did verify with the appraisal district and they did uh execute a settlement and waiver agreement with them. So, now they're going back to all the entities to get the approval for their portion. Now, our portion may not be the 92692. I apologize for that, but we would be uh responsible for our portion of that request. Um, so we did
050we did ask for additional information from the appraisal district. And so I I supplied that to you, which was their application and then the uh the worksheet that the appraisal did to settle on that protest. Um, do you need more information than that? >> Yes. Thank you for for sharing that with. So if if we are refunding this corporation, that money is coming from where? >> From the taxes that we've already collected. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes. So we'd be refunding them. >> All right. From there. Yes. >> You're welcome. >> Madame President, I have a question. >> Yes. >> Uh on item item M. consider approval of district district fixed assets capitalization threshold park. I believe uh this will uh been uh increased from 5,000 to 10,000. >> Yes. So in this regard
051the federal rules have incre Yes increased the threshold from 5,000 to 10,000. Now this doesn't mean that we're not going to track our assets. It just means that we would not have to depreciate them over the life of that asset. So there there's uh basically the way the law is reading it is now if an item costs 6,000, we don't have to book it in our fixed assets book and depreciate it for the life of that asset. It would be only for those items above um 10,000. Now this did come into effect on July 1, but I'm requesting that the board approve it effective 91 instead of July 1. The reason for that is because I don't want to do 10 months of capitalization at this level and then two months at this level. It
052would be an account accounting nightmare for us. So that I want to align it with our fiscal year. So it's okay for us to be more stringent which is 5,000 for those two months and then if you do uh approve that to increase to 10,000 we would implement an effective 91 if you approve. And so this uh recommendation is to align with the federal the federal guidelines. Any other questions? >> If there are no more questions, I I'll make a motion to approve uh the consent agenda items. >> Motion made by Aldoria to approve the consent agenda items. >> Seconded by Oscar All in favor? I >> I opposed. >> None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> We'll go to item 11, discussion and possible action items. uh consider approval of a resolution approving a
053contingent fee contract for Mont Council Legal Services considering those matters provided in the district public notice and approval of other matters related here too. We have Mr. Ombberto Aguilera. How are you? >> Good evening board president Franco, school board members, superintendent Pearson. Uh name is Ombberto Aguilera uh with the law firm of Esam and Panic. It's a pleasure to be here this evening. Uh we're we're very grateful for the board uh taking consideration of potentially engaging our our law firm Esamian Pondic to serve as the district's bond council. Uh wanted to talk just briefly a little bit about about our firm and what our our services would entail. So again uh law firm of Esam Ponic founded in 1991. Shortly thereafter, since about 1992, we've been providing uh public finance services, so bond council services.
054Um we are based in San Antonio, headquartered in San Antonio. Uh our uh with me this evening is also Juan Aguila, the head of our public finance practice. We are based in San Antonio ourselves and we also have our tax council also based in in San Antonio. Our our law firm is a a general practice multi- area multi multiple areas of practice but they have a a specialty and a focus in school law and we too uh our public finance practice we represent a whole host of of public entities including as large as the state of Texas multiple cities counties school districts including Dimit County here locally and also uh the city of Kadiso Springs we've been fortunate to to represent both of those entities for for multiple years, but we too have a a
055specialty and focus on school districts, have a number of school district public finance uh bond council clients uh throughout the state of Texas, but you know, particularly also South Texas. We represent uh in the San Antonio area, San Antonio ISD, uh Komal ISD, Southwest ISD, more locally here, uh Eagle Pass ISD, Crystal City ISD, uh Cula ISD. So, lots of experience in the area. Uh bond council, what what we do is we uh help and assist the district with the issuance of bonds. And that's the only time that that we actually get compensated is when there is a sale of bonds. Um, so that's helpful in that our fee would not come out of your M budget. It is it's capitalized or rolled into your bond offerings. So that's a unique feature of how we're
056we're compensated. But what we do is we help the district in calling the bond election. And of course, we are in a a unique environment these days where I think there's heightened scrut scrutiny on school districts in particular with the issuance of bonds and bond elections. So, we'll help the district walk through those uh those various election requirements. Once the bonds are are sold, we present the bonds to the attorney general's office. We prepare a host of documents, um host of legal agreements that's that's reviewed by the attorney general's office. So we'll we'll help advise the district on a variety of state law issues. As you know, most of these bonds are issued on a taxexempt basis. So we have tax counsel and will help advise the district on the various federal tax law rules.
057These bonds are sold in the open market. So there's a whole host of SEC Securities and Exchange Commission rules that we assist the district in. And again, you know, we are really in a a unique time where I I believe there's just a heightened sense sensitivity and heightened uh scrutiny rather uh on these school district bonds. And we've seen examples across the state of the SEC having enforcement actions against school districts uh bond elections being challenged and overturned on on really technicalities. And so we we pride ourselves on staying at top on top of all of these issues and a breast of all the various uh issues that that uh need to be uh complied with to ensure successful delivery and issuance of of bonds. But I I could talk about bonds all day, but
058I know it's not necessarily the most uh fascinating or enlightening topic. But I did want to make ourselves available to to answer any questions that the board may have uh about our firm or about the the role of bond counsel general in in general. questions. Yes. Would you like to entertain a motion? Anyone? >> We have a motion by Wilbur Cruz. seconded by Oscar Moronis to approve uh a resolution approving a contingent fee contract for bond council legal services uh considering those matters provided in the district's public notice and approval of matters related here too. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> I also wanted to take the opportunity to say thank you. U my name is Juan Aguila and um that's my son.
059So it's a uh but we do have a host of attorneys that work with us. I I uh also wanted to point out and I'm glad I'm going to do this after you vote because I'm from Eagle Pass originally. I I don't want you to hold that against me. As a matter of fact, I came played football here. Well, played bench against the Wildcats, but I'm very we're very familiar with the area. Uh uh as Ombberto mentioned, we represent the county. We rep We've been representing them for a number of years. We also represent the city and done some work and I know uh I've known I I've done some work with with Miss Diaz in in the past. So, we really welcome the opportunity and and uh we're looking forward to working with you
060all. >> Thank you. >> Okay, we'll go to B. Consider approval of the design development for Ciso Springs Elementary and Cariso Springs Intermediate. >> Good evening, board. uh for President Franco, Superintendent Pearson, thank you for having us. Uh going to run through a few slides and have a couple of people step up and uh give their updates. But uh I do want to say just from a bond management standpoint, uh there's a we've got a good team. Uh I I have to thank ERRO and MTR who are here. They're going to be presenting tonight. We've pushed really hard on on those guys and girls to get us moving as fast as we can. You're going to see kind of where we are in the process, but there is uh a healthy amount of friction in
061our group which makes things go forward. I think that uh we couldn't have kind of put together a better team for for this group and and what we're doing. So, I want to say thanks to them and and and thanks to you guys as well uh for being supporters of what we're doing here. Let's see here. So, just going to give you a few highlights uh in the, you know, the first uh first year that we've been here. So, we're about 60 days ahead of schedule. Um why does that matter? That matters because we don't know how things are going to be affected in the pricing markets and the commodity markets in particular of construction products. As you can tell, uh every other Friday there's a guy that gets on the news and says he's
062raising tariffs and uh things like that. And so it it makes things a bit confusing and can causes uh unstability in the markets. So being ahead, I'd rather be able to have the opportunity to sit on our hands if we want to uh to to see before we purchase. So that's good for us. Um kind of our our goals right now uh as we if we can get approval on DD is to break some ground uh on civil and site work uh in December. uh if we can get get done any faster, we will. What does that look like for the community and for you guys? It's going to be setting up the site, you know, so you're going to see paint markers and a little bit of movement there. There's not going to be
063a building there yet, but it's going to be the start of that work as we as we get ready to to kind of meet our end goals. Um in a in a few months, we'll be be bringing to you our GMP number one, which is guaranteed maximum pricing on a few of the items. Um, so expect to see that. Um, over this time we've we've met with the the Texas State Safety Center. So safety and security was part of this bond. What are um kind of the experts saying about what's the next level of ISD security? So that was a a big achievement. And then, you know, we've had 21 focus groups of admins, staff. Um, so we've brought folks in uh from the maintenance department, we brought in teachers, principles. Um, we're talking to
064as many people as we can to get their understanding of what we're uh what we're trying to accomplish here and take their input. In addition, we've had six community events where the community itself has been allowed to to come in and give us their voice. Um, we're trying to engage contractors in the area and we're going to continue those things as we move forward. And then we've had three student engagements, right? Ultimately, these kids are going to be in this school um when the doors open in in 27. And so, uh, understanding what they're saying and and what they like and and don't like, I think is is healthy to the process, especially for Kariso as you decide maybe in the future to bond again. This is, you know, we're kind of laying the groundwork
065for u the next bonds if if that is something that that you guys choose to do. Um, so this is our road map. It hasn't changed since we started. Um, you know, again, kind of shows us that we were going to be going to you guys in September uh for DD, but we are here today. Um, I was really happy that we were actually ready probably or pretty close about a month ago. We took that time to go through our drawings again. Um, and ensure that we had, you know, the the massing and and the scope of what we were doing down uh down to where we wanted it to be. So, I'm really happy with the set where it stands now. Um, so yeah, so that's that's great. Two of the things that we
066that we had to do as we started to figure out what this these schools were going to be is, you know, tea kind of makes you um pick one of the two approaches. A quantitative approach or a qualitative approach. This is something that the board voted on very early in the process. You guys might even might not. Uh but what this does is it it sets the the sizes um and the design of the instructional spaces, right? There's there's multiple levels. Um, this gives us by going into the qualitative space that we believe gives us the most flexibility to be honest. Um, and that's that's evident in kind of where we've end up in in our flexibility level selection. So, we're sitting between levels three and four in most of our spaces. What that should
067mean is that one is kind of the most restrictive. That would be a teacher standing in front of their students right here with and not moving at all through the whole lecture. Right? So, we've gotten into to levels three and four where there's more flexibility. We can move things around. You know, we were saying that this is a 50-year school. We want to have enough space um and flexibility as you grow or or you know, how things happen that you can move things around. So, I'm really excited to say that this DD set gets us into into these promises that we kind of uh made early on in the process. So, with that said, we're going to get into uh we're going to let the architects uh speak a bit about uh what what we
068have put together so far and and then at the end we'll ask some questions if you guys want to. >> Thank you. >> Good evening. >> I want to echo a little bit what Chris said with regards to the staff and the input that they've provided. Uh we've only gotten to this point because of the input that we've received from everyone and their contributions. Um it's truly been a really great process u going through those and getting input from everybody so we can develop these two schools for Kiso Springs. So, if you all recall, you all seen this plan before. Um, it indicates the CSI and the CSE. Um, they are adjacent to one another, but they are two truly two individual schools. Uh, so we got two separate schools with two identities, and we
069got two libraries there. um they share some spaces uh without interrupting each other's functionality and schedules. And we got individual parent pickups uh for each elementary school and we got a uh safer longer drop offs. To just go over real quick, this is a summary of the spaces within the individual campuses. The elementary school there on the left and the intermediate school there on the right. You can see we've got administration suites at both schools. We got two security offices at each uh with library at each school, cafeteria and stage for each individual school, music and art rooms for both. Each school has their own courtyards. Each school has their own playground spaces. Uh we've got work centers and collaboration spaces uh distributed throughout both campuses. We've got some interior gardens and then you can
070see there the count of the classrooms. And then we've got spaces for the sped programs. With that, I'm going to kind of just go back a little bit. We started at schematic design. That's where we kind of go and gather some of the information and and start to formulate how we're going to move forward and kind of process all of that to be able to create these two schools. Then we move into design development, which is the point at which we're at right now. And then what we move in move past that, we move into construction documents. Here's where we start to really develop everybody to this point. There's a set around here somewhere probably 350 pages if not more of drawings. U they they kind of outline everything in two-dimensional spaces and that's what
071everybody's seen to this point. We've shared the plans, we've shared the elevations. Um but we're going to start moving past that a little bit as we do construction documents. We're going to start to really kind of embellish everything and get it to its final uh destination where everything's going to sit. So you all have seen the exterior. This is a a rendered exterior. You can see the CS on the left and the CSI on the right. They have their individual entries, right? They share that drop off in the front. U but that's not the main drop off. There's one on either side for each school. So that gives you an indication of kind of what the exterior in the front of the school looks like. Um you see the little cats on the top. Those
072right now are indicators of where we can provide some of that kind of graphics and identity. Um as we move forward with um construction documents, we'll have further dialogue as to what those want to be and how they develop and what they become. Uh but those are kind of placeholders, right? So we want to provide an identity for each school and those are opportunities to do that. We've talked about courtyards in between. So this isn't a traditional school where kids play outside of the school. They play on the inside of the school. So we've shared that with everybody, but up until now I if anybody's really kind of in from 2D been able to kind of envision what that might be. So, you kind of see here, this is a CSI side. Over here on
073the right, what you have is uh the porch coming off of the library which opens down to some outdoor learning space on the outside. We have a playground area in the front and we have a playground area in the back. Right? So, you can kind of start to see how everything comes together in three dimensions. Opposite on the other side of the wall is a CSE side. Kind of a mirrored effect, but its own identity and separate from this one. And you got a shading structure there in the center uh to provide some shade. So, uh heat has always been a big concern. So, we're trying to provide uh some areas with shade and respit from the sun. Uh you see some fans there. We'll be adding some additional ones to help circulate some air.
074And you may ask um how big the space is. I mean, we've got the space in the back of this building from that library wall to the admin is about as wide as that space is in the back. So, we got plenty of room and we were kind of trying to figure out what we could use to kind of use it as an example to give everybody a sense of space. I think Nick at one point you said it's like threequarters of a football field. So, it's a it's a relatively large space. U so that's that's the outdoor. Um this is just an overhead view. You kind of see the shading structure there. It's uh there to provide some some shade. We got some sails in the back that cover up some of the playground
075areas. So, there's some additional shade uh being proposed back there. CSE ele U playground on the left, CSI on the right. So, they're age appropriate. They're uh ADA accessible. And then what you see in the back is an exterior dining common. So, the kids can eat inside or outside. So, there'll be an area for that to happen. Also, there in the center you see the gym. So, we got windows on the north side. Uh, that's where we get the best light that doesn't, you know, interfere with people running up and down a quarter or things like that. We've talked a lot about collaboration spaces, right? And everybody's kind of like, what is a collaboration space? Going back to Chris's point of flexibility levels, we're between a three and a four, right? So, instruction can happen
076in multiple places. They can happen in the classroom. they can happen out in a collaboration space and this is what we envisioned for a collaboration space. Now I'll caveat that with that's our vision. We haven't had the input from all the focus groups and such. We'll go through that process and we'll layer that on top of this. The imagine right there on the wall that's a placeholder. That's a graphic wall. We're calling that a graphic wall and what that graphic ends up being at the end. It may be imagine. It may be something completely different. But it's meant to be inspirational. give the kids a place that they can come out and and continue their learning. On the opposite wall, there'll be a marker board. Um, so these are the spaces that happen for collaboration
077in the corridors and in between classrooms. The next space we're going to go to is dining commons. We've talked a lot with Miss Finen about kitchen and dining commons. Uh, we've separated the serving and such. And we mentioned two stages earlier. So, we've got some clouds in the ceiling, right, to attenuate some of the sound. We got some additional ones around the perimeter. That's looking at the stage, right? And then the circles in the ceiling are all lights. These colors are what we've started with. We'll go back through the process of solicitating soliciting input and then we'll refine those. But we have to start somewhere so we can start to illustrate what something might look like. Um over there on the side, you've got access to the outside courtyard. This is the elementary side. Uh
078that's that exterior dining comments. And then that door there adjacent to it where you got the yellow, that's the uh door into the gym or the activity room. So that's our dining commons. Now we walk into the gym. This is what the gym looks like when it's completely open, when both spaces are combined into one. Right? You see the windows on the north wall over there. And then you'll see kind of right in between the karis and the springs. There's a there's a partition there, right? So in the normal operation of things, this is going to be divided in two. One for the elementary school, one for the intermediate, right? But in the event that you need a bigger space, you're able to retract that wall and make it into one complete competition size gym.
079We've talked a lot about flexibility, giving you all the option to be able to use the spaces in multiple different ways. This is one of the one of the things that came out of that discussion. So, we've managed to be able to go from two individual activity rooms into one that allows you to use it in its full capacity for other items if if they should arise. Uh, you see a couple graphics on the wall. Again, the continuity of of the identity, right? So, we've continued on with the little wildcats. Um, if those become something else, we'll that's where they would be placed, right? So, this gets everybody an indication how we can dress up the space. If we move into the uh elementary school classroom, this is one of the elementary school classrooms. Um
080this is one of the lower grades with their individual restrooms. Beyond the arched opening there, you'll see the the door to the restroom. The sink is outside uh to be able to monitor and and have visibility. We've got the cubbies there in the corner. Um we're showing some uh some some tables and chairs. There's a furniture fair coming up that's going to help with some of that selection. Again, we start somewhere. We start the dialogue. we get the input and then we incorporate it. So this is um looking at the exterior wall and then if we look at the other side of the classroom you'll see we've got some case work there some uh teacher wardrobes plenty of storage um marker board on the left side there and then the the mobile touchcreens. we continue
081on to the intermediate side and you'll see that the furniture kind of changes a little bit more age appropriate. Um but the same basic concept right here we don't have a restroom but it starts to kind of continue to develop with the age and then the final one is just the other side of the classroom. You can see the markboard on that side and again just some furniture to spur the discussion as this furniture fair comes up and stuff and we'll offer assistance with selection of colors. They all coordinate and work together. >> Thank you. >> So thanks Octavia. So a lot of this is you have to think about the design development phase as the number two pencil on paper, right? There's no colors out. there's no uh you know real creative thinking about
082how you know what images are on the walls or what has a marker board and all those things. So again, we're talking about design development. I think this is the as we get into CDs post uh this meeting. This is when it starts to get really fun. It gets really interactive with the teachers and the and the kids and the staff as they get to uh kind of make their vision come to life. And so um thanks to Octavio and his crew for for giving us some renderings, but obviously everything is going to be uh discussed as we move forward. So, next we're going to have MTR come up uh and we are going to talk a bit about some of the work that they have done. And here you go. >> Appcate. >> So,
083good evening. Um we're going to talk a little bit about the site. Um just discuss some of the things we've talked about before, but just kind of go over those again just to refresh everybody's memory. So, we did have a traffic study that was done uh for the streets surrounding the campus area. That's all of the facilities combined. So out on 85 and then the the roadways in front of the high school and also the junior high. This image um demonstrates in white you've got the footprint of the new campus where the uh elementary and uh intermediate campus are going to be. The yellow um and forgive me if I get the colors wrong. Color vision is not my thing. Um but off of 85 NPAL, you've got the entry coming in to the elementary
084side. It's going to come in off the roadway. There will be a deceleration lane there off of 85 uh for cars to pull out of the roadway to be able to turn right into the facility and then they're going to have a loop essentially around the front parking area that's going to take them down around the side of the building uh on the side where the elementary school is for drop off that then will allow for the parents to exit back toward 85 again. Um we've also got on and separating the traffic out. So I guess one let me back up. One of the first things that we did in looking at the traffic study was optimize the best way to handle the traffic. And so when we went through that process, we determined that
085separating the elementary from the middle school from the junior high from the high school, separating the buses from parent drop offs was going to optimize um the traffic maneuvers, movements, and also uh promote the best safety. Um, so we separated the elementary on the right hand side with the entry coming in off off of 85. We have the middle school or I'm sorry, the uh intermediate school coming in off of the the roadway in front of the high school and coming in uh from the leftand side toward the campus and then turning down to the area in front of the field and then coming in the front drop off area for their drop off. So they'll be dropping off on the lefthand side as we're looking at the image and then exiting back out to
086the left again. So we're still keeping that separation between the elementary and the intermediate school students. The blue in the back um that is the proposed route that we have for the buses circulating. So we'll bring them in off of the roadway in front of the junior high. The uh the new bus transportation facility is going to be at the back end of the junior high. So, we'll have the the buses staging and exiting and entering from that location and then being able to drive to the back of the new campus uh for the bus loop that's going to be on the back side. So that allows us to bring buses in, stack about 12 buses on the back of the campus so that when uh school ends, we can have the kids leave and
087directly go onto the buses and then from there um staying separate from the parents that are entering and exiting the campus be able to circulate between the junior high, the new intermediate and the high school pickup areas. So we can bring them in, loop them around, and then take them back out uh to the roadway in front of the junior high without ever interacting with any of the parents that are picking up and dropping off at the junior high or the intermediate or elementary school or even the high school. So we'll keep all of that separate. The other thing that we've had um good progress on is we've got the completion of the geotechnical study that was done for the campus. We did uh determine that uh the soils here at Kiso Springs are very
088very good soils. Actually, some of the best soils I've ever worked with anywhere. You've got a uh the way that we measure that is a potential for vertical rise. Essentially, how much will the soil swell when water is introduced to the soils? The soils here are right at a 1 inch PVR. Um that's usually a design criteria that we establish. So, if I've got a soil that has a 6-in PVR, meaning that it has the potential to rise 6 in over time with moisture, we try to mitigate that soil to get it down to a 1-in PVR for ideal structural um loading conditions for the soil. In this case, we can build right on top of soils you have here without any mitigation. Uh so, again, great soils to work on. We've got a slab
089on grade design, which is going to save you money in the long run. We don't have to do, as I mentioned, anything to really mitigate the soils that are here. We're able to build directly on top of the soils as far as bearings capacity as far as the potential for vertical rise. Um, so that's going to be the bearing capacity and the amount of movement that we can expect from the soils. The other thing that we look at a soil to try to determine and work a design for is the amount of water in the soil, moisture, right? um groundwater that's moving through the area. Uh so what we've done uh here is this is uh depicting French drains that we've talked about the entire process. So they're further developed. Now we've got kind of
090alignments identifying where they're to be placed in a grid style beneath the location uh underneath the building. We've also got a section here identifying how that works. So as we've talked about before, we've essentially got a gravel trench that's built or or trenched into the ground. A pipe is inserted at the base of that that is perforated to allow the water to flow into that pipe. We then backfill that trench with a gravel that is permeable or has a lot of openings, very clean gravel that we wrap in a fabric that is also allows for water to pass through it. So that lets the water go through it, but it keeps the soil in place so the soil does not migrate into the drainage system. We wrap that trench, fill it with gravel, put a
091pipe at the bottom, get the water out of there essentially, and then we are going to drain everything that we're going to try to hard tie into drainage systems around the campus that's going to feed into the drainage system between the high school and the junior high. So, that flood plane that's in the middle there is going to be where all of our drainage is going to go. We're going to have French drain systems to pick up all of the subsurface water in the groundwater. And then we're going to have surface drainage systems to pick up everything that comes in from rainwater. All of your roof systems will be tied in with down spouts to a drainage system that's going to go directly to the flood plane. All your groundwater systems are going to be
092tied in and piped in directly to those same systems that's going to direct the water back out to the same flood plane. Uh so this is an image showing you exactly that, the flood plane. Uh so with recent um news and consideration of flood plane and wanting to be sure that we're um taking a look at those things to make sure we've got good plans for that. The uh area that's in blue along the middle of the site is the FEMA flood plane that separates the school campus at the high school right now with the junior high and also shows where the new intermediate campus is being constructed. This is only in here to demonstrate that we have done the studies. We've done the modeling. The uh flood plane is contained outside of the campus
093areas. All everything you've got on the campus is going to be unflooded. Um areas that are currently in use or improved. And then the new roadway that we're putting in between the campuses will also be uh designed or is currently actually designed to pass the 100red-year flow. So the 100year storm event flood event that does occur in the flood plane which is about um 8,000 cfs quite a bit of water um is actually uh this roadway system is being designed so that that water will flow through and under the roadway without going over the roadway. So, somebody in a hundred-year event could drive between the junior high and the intermediate campus in the high school and not be driving over anything other than what's falling from the surface, right? Not any of the flood waters
094going over the road. Thank you. And then just to point out as we we talk about testing soil and there that was one of the big things that that we wanted to address uh in the beginning stages of of design. Um the typical how many bore samples did we do? We did over 20 typicals closer to 14 about 10. Right. So, we did a significant uh amount uh of more bore samples than we typically would on a normal site just because it was such a concern uh for the district and for the for the uh community as we decided uh and help the the district pick a place to to build these two schools. So, um with that said, there's a couple other things as we uh start to move forward uh kind of what's
095next, you know, what's next. So, we've we've already talked a little bit about uh furniture fair, right? This is this is when the fun stuff starts to happen. So, we're going to continue these focus group meetings uh in September. Um we need to um although we we haven't talked about this yet, we need to start talking about a facilities assessment to address all of the remaining Prop A renovations. Why is this important? Um, as we start to price things out and understand the actual cost of the uh the building, we have a general idea now because we've already gone out and and talked with the market. But you really need to look at all the facilities you have and and then get a priority priority uh order of what should be kind of first up
096on the list to fix versus last up. Right? The last thing you want is to put two new schools in here and then you've got an AC that's down in the high school or you've got something else happening at another school. Uh and also uh I would suggest that we're also looking at the buildings that will then become vacant and how you secure those moving forward um to ensure you know whatever the district wants to do with those and they don't become dilapidated or uh hazards. Um so we'll we'll be talking a little bit more about that in the future. uh guaranteed maximum price one for sight and civil work. We're we're kind of aiming for the November uh board meeting. So, what does that mean? That means we're going out and actually getting prices
097on on what we believe we can procure the things that we need for sight and civil work. Um and and we hope to bring that to you in November. Uh the furniture fair we already talked about. It's going to be the last week of September. Uh and then groundbreaking, right? So, what does groundbreaking mean? Groundbreaking means that we're going to be out there with a bunch of equipment and the the civil work will be will be started. It's not sexy. It's not uh you know the the walls up. What it is is the first turn of the dirt, right? That's what a groundbreaking really is uh in a sense, but we hope that once we have that whatever date that gets decided, the work is continuous throughout until the the school opens, right? So, uh
098that's something to start to look forward to. something we talked about really really early in the bond planning process as well as you know when we're going to start moving those things and then we're off into CDs right so CDs again is where the buildings start to come to life this is where all of the detail gets done this is where the colors are chosen this is where the themes for the buildings are chose um and we hope to have CDs wrapped up uh for board approval in December oh no all right we hope to have those wrapped up in December mber for you guys to review. Uh and then we can move into also getting our GMP2 which will include a lot of the bigger ticket or not a lot of the bigger ticket
099items but other items that that we'll need to procure and uh that way we can we can get to uh just continuing the construction process. Ribbon cutting, we're still looking at January 2027, which means we'll be moving furniture. Our goal is to move furniture in by June 27th of 2027 and then open for students in August of 2027. Um so overall this is kind of the the next steps coming up. We want you guys to be aware and um if there's any real questions that you guys have, I'm here to answer and we can we can bring anybody up that needs to answer as well. >> Question. >> Okay. right off the bat, you you you um you threw uh you mentioned the word safety and security and and something came to my mind. So
100say like in the areas of cameras where we're where we're and our current schools where we're dealing with vendors, are we going to be working with the with vendors on that on your end or does everything that we have, you know, need to match up if that's the right if I'm look if I'm asking that correctly? >> You're perfectly fine. Um so we've already had started to have those conversations. We've got preliminary replacements and cam camera types. Jerry was a part of that. Chief was a part of those conversations. Yeah. So, we started early on that. Um, we do have some RFPs and RFQS that might be coming out to actually pick vendors. Okay. >> Um, but from consultant standpoint of where camera should point, what areas are we covering, what options of cameras kind
101of exist, we we've had those conversations with Chief and Jerry already. And so, you know, we're we're confident we have a high level of confidence that we'll be able to tie into to the systems that the district has right now. >> And and and again, I apologize on my part. I know I haven't been to some of the meetings with you guys and and bond and with the teachers, but will there be uh and maybe you have already emphasizing safety and security from the bu in the building? >> Oh, absolutely. where where their eyes are on it, where they're seeing, you know, where we're telling the public this is what we're putting in place to reassure them and reassure the public. >> Absolutely. So, we've had chief in a lot of those discussions. Um, one
102of the things that we didn't cover, you saw a little bit of the traffic flow. there's optionality on what gates to have open when. Um what gates will be uh remote controlled, what will be physical uh gates that can be moved and and and so and that that includes in regular school time and event time and all those things. So yes, we have had those conversations. Um they are in the the DD uh package that we have. That's why I think that this this is an amazing DD set that they've put together, especially in the amount of time that they've had to put this together. uh we were very thorough in making sure that we were talking with the experts on how we're going to control these things. Obviously, safety and security was part of
103the bond. So, you're looking at cameras, you're looking at controlled access, you're looking at vestibial locations. >> All of those things have been accounted for in our DD set. Now, it's just the how do we dress them up, right? We we went as far in the safety and security as to plan out how many screens they'll need to monitor the cameras that are on in each location. So, yes. >> All right. Thank you. You're welcome. >> I have a question. You mentioned on there that you said uh on the what's next that you uh >> you said a facilities assessment needs to be done. Is that something that's going to be done by by y'all or who is >> Well, so we we can give you options, right? So, uh we can obviously handle it
104uh with TWWs. We there's other uh companies out there that do it as well. Um that can be up for the board to decide or we can handle it as a professional service or add on to our contract. But you the the the thing that you don't want to happen is you don't want to create inequity through new schools, right? So if if you have a brand new school or two new schools that are coming up and everything works there and then we're having deficiencies in like the high school or the junior high, that's what you're trying to avoid there. But also give yourself a maintenance plan over the next 10 years, right? So um what what should you be accounting for or thinking about or working on as you go through this process? So
105again, uh, tons of optionality there. Um, it just we just need it needs to get done, right? It's it's also part of of what TEA asks to be done as well. >> Okay. >> And that's something that's done for the whole district or just the campuses? >> Uh, it should be done for the whole district in my opinion. >> Yeah. Your vacant buildings and everything, right? Because if not, you're just you're just leaving yourself blind spots. So, anything else? >> Okay. >> And again, if you mentioned it, I apologize. That was a lot of information. >> How you started again right off the bat again tariffs. How and when do we start seeing dollar figures? >> When do we start, you know, We know everything it's going to be a a bid here, a bid
106there, but when what what is that going to look like in a timeline? >> GMP1. So, anything guaranteed maximum prices when we're looking at pricing, right? That's when you start to see the actual cost of the schools being built, right? So, I think the first one, November, see, let me go back to the actual it was there. I'm going back into this uh GMP1 December. Yeah. Uh gonna try and get to you earlier. That's when you start to see the main cost of the buildings. What you've already seen from a bond standpoint is you've seen contracts being written. And so if you want to talk about kind of uh savings overall, so uh through the contracts that have been written, we've got a uh anticipated savings of 2.7 million. and the next board meeting or
107our next uh uh chance up here, we'll let you know how much we've already seen actualized. So, as we can continue to like in the contracting phase of writing these contracts, getting the best protections and negotiating fees, uh that's where you'll you're seeing your savings now and costs right now. So, yeah. So, GMP is always looking for those. Um there may be I I just want to put this on the radar in case it it goes. There may be a need to break up GMP one and GMP2 uh maybe into a couple of subsets. I I wouldn't expect more than three, but that has a lot to do with the pricing that we're seeing and lead times on big things like chillers and all that. We're already having those conversations. We've talked to Train, which
108is seems to be kind of is going to be the preferred vendor uh with what the maintenance guys want to see. So, um so yeah, that's when you'll start to see the hard cost and and then we'll start talking about, you know, are we are we going to meet our budget? We've we've seen some preliminary numbers as of right now. We we believe that we're in budget, right? So, um but until we purchase things, I I don't want to throw a lot of guessing. I will say this, I want to point out, uh back in, let's see, June of 24, we had a bunch of architects come in and they they pitched their services, right? And you guys probably don't remember, but I I wrote it down. It was the numbers were from $380 a
109square foot to $450 a square foot. Okay? That was kind of the range that the architects were saying and I and I would say I I was with them. Right. Right now we're seeing 500 to 525. Okay. So, we're just going to continue to monitor it. You know, my my uh kind of last words before we came in here today was I want to have the availability to sit on my hands if I want to sit on my hands before we go to purchase, right? just to see if there's any movement in the market, if there's anything that's give us some leading indicators or anything that's telling us, hey, buy now and you'll be better off in two months. So, we're trying not to wait till the very end. I think it's uh I think
110we're doing a really good job. Again, we're pushing them at a at a crazy pace right now. Um, and they're picking everything up, both the engineers and the architects, uh, really fast. So, I'm happy about that. So, Anything else? Slow. >> Yep. >> Question. And maybe I've missed it in some other meetings, but I enjoyed this presentation because you gave >> I'm sorry. I I can't I'm deaf in this here. >> You gave the results of uh for example traffic studies. We got results for uh soil samples. And so how do we make this transparent so that others can see this particular presentation because uh there's a lot of concerns from members of our community if we're doing the right thing >> and to bring peace of mind >> to answer those questions to those
111people out there and saying uh are we using the right location? Is it safe to to use this area the location because of the soil? >> Yes. >> Um can we be transparent and bring all those questions and show this not only to us >> I don't know put it on the website. >> Yeah. So we have a bond website >> gain the support >> the peace of mind >> so that we can all be on the same page to move forward >> because there's a lot of questions on the results. Yeah. >> How do we get it to everyone in the community? >> So right now we're using kind of one method which is the Kiso Springs bond website. Right. That's that's one area that that these types of results sit. Uh, one thing
112that we could do better is we could maybe host a town hall and go through it. There's there's a whole there's a couple other mechanisms that we can use. We are trying to get the community involved, right? So, when we did core samples, we had a learning beyond the classroom exercise. There was a video. So, that exists on the internet. I think it part of it it's two-part, right? Driving people to where the information is and then figuring out what other mechanisms we should use to continue to drive the message home. So point made and and we can we can work on >> example some of the pictures that you used in this presentation I'd never seen before. Okay. >> We're using a graphic design drawing >> to sell it to our community but these
113were more live pictures. >> Perfect. >> We want more. >> Okay. >> I would like to see more. >> Absolutely. >> To be transparent with the community so that >> perhaps the teachers can see exactly >> what we're looking at. Absolutely. >> How can we get more to the >> Okay. public. >> Yeah. And and we'll we'll uh by the next board meeting, you'll you'll start to see some of that. And if we if we need to, we can go through the bond website and and those types of things. >> Absolutely. We get closer. >> Yeah. >> This idea so that everybody is informed. >> Yeah. And Superintendent Pearson made a a great suggestion. You know, normally when we go through Well, not normally, sometimes when you go through furniture selection, you do it like
114a regular RFP, right? So you uh put it out uh they the the furniture folks fill out a form and they say hey this is this is what we can do for you guys and then we sit and we say okay are these guys any good and who's first second third and then we pick one. Uh Superintendent Pearson was like why don't we get them to come in and let us put our hands on the furniture right it's a great point. So this the teachers and the staff that's the direction we're going right. So I'm with you. >> I think it's important for teachers, students, parents to see >> especially the people that use this facility. >> Absolutely. And and we'll we'll work on that, too. Thank you. It's a great point. >> You mentioned
115a number. You said 2.7 million savings. >> Is that something that is >> Yeah, we can we can show you that. >> Okay. Now, how how do you to come about that if like you're saying if we're not really looking at numbers we don't know what this is going to cause we don't know what this >> contract negotiation >> right so if we think back to our first board meeting in June >> you know the there was a number that came in and we negotiated that number down >> okay >> that's part of the forecasted savings and then actualized is every single month that that number is less that's how the actualized savings so 2.7 is forecasted in contracts so far right >> do you foresee more savings Uh we have a few more contracts
116coming up. I think there's opportunity for sure. Facilities assessment is going to be one. Uh as we've got audiovisisual uh security and uh access control, that's going to be another. So those are going to be all places that we're going to look to push uh to push down and help in those negotiations. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? President Franco with no questions. I make the motion to approve consider approval of the design development for Ciso Springs Elementary and Ciso Springs Intermediate. >> Motion made by Michael Origas, seconded by by Noi Zarate to approve the of the design development for Kiso Springs Elementary and Kisa Springs Intermediate. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Next, we have consider approval of procurement method and contract authorization for the renovation of
117the maintenance and transportation building. Yep. So, um during our meeting that we had uh earlier this month, we discussed the options and you know, we recommend it is required that we get board board approval on how we would like to proceed with that item because it is a construction item and uh so it does require your approval. We recommend to release an RFP. We get the quotes and you know and and we evaluate and and proceed that way. That's our recommendation is to re to move forward in that method. >> President have a question. >> Yes. >> So uh what uh what kind of procurement method are we considering here? Uh we could also do like like uh contract manager at risk. If it was something small, we'd have to pay other fees for that
118sort of contract. Uh we could also do sealed bid proposal. Uh we could, you know, there are other avenues, but we feel like if we put a proposal together and do an RFP and score it with our team, you know, we'd have an evaluation team to look at the bids that come in and then bring back to the board and say, "Hey, here are the options that came in. These are the pricings." and then you would agree or not agree with our recommendation, but we would want to put it out that way we get bids on it. >> Oh, so Misty is it so um we start the process and please remind me how how long what would be timeline >> um for all this? >> Oh gosh. >> So we have to put it
119in the paper for two weeks. Yeah, we have to put in the paper for two weeks and then if there's any we'll set a timeline for questions. Um I think it would probably be back at the board possibly at the September board meeting. >> Okay. >> Um we looked at a timeline earlier today for some of the items that we were looking at on the construction side um as well. So we're targeting for that date because we already have the uh scope ready to go and and so forth. So yeah, I think we would be able to finalize evaluations and so forth around September the 11th and put it on the September board meeting. So since uh we haven't determined what kind of uh procurement method is uh to be used so I think we
120we don't have to uh consider this item. >> I I couldn't really hear >> uh Miss Diaz I think uh Mr. Doria asked what was the recommendation when you went through all of them. He asked what was the recommendation >> to to release a request for proposals. >> But which which kind? >> RFP. Yes. Correct. >> The sealed proposal was what you put in your memo. The sealed bid proposal, >> right? Correct. Sorry. So do we have to amend this item like uh specify what kind of procurement method? >> I do I do need I do need your approval so that I can release it put it in the paper you know proceed with it because the potential costs could be um you know oh the verbiage. Oh, okay. >> There is um like a
121contract authorization here. Are we going to authorize this superintendent or as um >> or you are uh you're going to present whatever um RFPs to the board? >> Yeah, they're going to consider this. Okay. So, the the recommendation of the board is to select the sealed bid proposal method of procurement and approve contract authorization for the superintendent to approve the contract. Or if you'd like for those bids to come back to the board, we can bring them back to the board. Do we have Correct. >> No way. Madame President, uh I'd like to amend uh item B. >> Item C, consider the amendment shall follow. Consider approval of RFP seal bids procurement method of the maintenance and transportation building. >> Board approval. Pres President Franco, I'm I'm fine with the language that the language does
122make sense. I do have other questions though if I'm allowed to before we move on. >> Okay. >> All right. >> Are we good with the language? >> You can amen. >> I'm not amending it. I just have another question. Side side side note question. >> You want to give us your question first before >> Okay. Yeah. Before we go ahead and move. So guys, please remind me and again I apologize for I'm maybe we've had these discussions before and I'm all for for us utilizing that building. Have we have we inspected is that does that need to be another uh brought back to us in a different as an item? Is it a sound building? Is it good to move into? Is it good for remoding? Do we need to bring that back? And
123I apologize if we've had that meeting before. >> We're recording. >> Yes, we're recording. Please remind me if it's not if if we're not allowed to discuss at this time. I I I'll ask to bring it back as an item for discussion. By all means, I'm ready for us to utilize, but may >> Okay. >> May he All right. Thank you. Go ahead, Mario. You got >> Okay. On the building. Yes, it is sound. >> It is a sound building. It just needs to have uh the electrical u just kind of >> Yes, >> just kind of repaired. Okay. Okay. I'm sorry about that. >> That's all right. >> Uh and this is why we're I'm asking and Miss Diaz is helping me so that way we can get that repaired and we're not getting
124the whole building repaired. >> Right. Right. >> Just half of it because the other two sides we can work on those later on. >> Okay. Now, the I don't want to say the urgency, but the reason that uh that I would like the board to consider this and give us this is because we have to move out of the bus bar. >> Correct. Correct. Again, like I said, I'm all for that. Let's go. Let's get this roll. >> Because the bus barn is has to leave in order for the schools to be built. >> Correct. >> And all of those things. So, yes. And we've already started moving some things out. Okay. Okay. >> And we've already started cleaning it and everything on there. >> But if we can get that done, we can move
125out quicker. >> You see, and I know that the groundbreaking is just around the corner. >> And once they start that, then they will have to put the perimeter of the fence around there and we have to be out, >> right? >> So, um, that's all there is to it. There's not anything else to it. Would would down the road are or would would you say it's ready it's ready to be remodeled and and ready to move in after remodel? Do we need as part of this contract? Do we need folks to come in and give it another set of eyes? Okay. You know, hey, there's a leak up here on this roof. Hey, you know, would that be part of our of what we're looking at as far as uh contractors coming in or
126workers coming in to >> Well, uh right now >> I' I've been out to the building. I've seen it. I haven't been on top of the roof, but I'm just I just want to make sure that >> it's like anything else. It probably has a leak here and there. >> Yeah. >> But nothing over, you know, that would keep us from working on there. Okay. It's kind of the same as the one that we're in right now. Sure. Sure. >> Every time it rains, it floods. >> Sure. >> But this one would probably be a place that wouldn't flood because it's up on a little ridge. >> Better ground. Okay. >> So, uh but but that's the that's the reason why >> and it's a lot bigger. It has offices already in there. It has
127everything on there that we need. All we need to do is just out there. >> Okay. All All we need is just to remodel it. That's it. >> Okay. >> And fix the electricals and it'll be great. And then the buses would be out there also. In fact, we've already started putting some of our our vehicles up there on on that side. >> All right. >> So, that's the reason why we're asking for this. Okay. >> Okay. >> Uh to help out also and and make sure that that >> nothing gets in the way of >> course. I'm all for it. >> Thanks for the clarification. >> And I think with a facility study that would be included in that that they're going to >> That's all I need to hear. Thank you. All right.
128Thank you, Martin. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Okay. So, so I I'll make a motion to approve the RFP silids procurement method for the renovation of the maintenance and transportation building. >> Subject to board approval. >> I'll second. Okay. Motion made by Aldoria, seconded by Michael Origas to approve the procurement the procurement method RFP seal bids for the renovation of the maintenance and transportation building subject to board approval. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. Okay. Thank you. Okay. D consider approval of the cell phone ban policy. Thank you, President Frankle. So, Texas House Bill 1481, effective starting the 2526 school year, mandates that Texas school districts and open enrollment charter schools implement policies to restrict student use of personal wireless communication devices during the instructional day. The a the law aims to
129reduce distractions, safeguard student privacy, and improve the learning environment by limiting limiting the use of devices like cell phones, smartwatches, and tablets during the school day. So, uh this is required for us to do by law. The good news for Gatiso Springs CISD is that we were already having our students power their cell phones and put them in their backpacks. So, our recommendation to the board is to uh continue with that policy of the cell phone should remain out of sight and turned off from the time the student enters the building until the end of the school day. Students must put devices away upon entering the school building. Devices are prohibited in restrooms, locker rooms, or any other space where privacy is expected. Students will not record or post still or movie images or voices
130recordings of students or teachers online without their permission. Smartwatches are not to be used for texting or calling during the instructional day. Students will adhere to the school and district rules regarding cyber bullying. The law does have three exceptions. Necessary to implement a special education IEP individual education plan through an AR meeting or a plan created under section 504. Also another exception would be uh in limited basis a documentation of a need issued by a qualified physician. And so uh we have put together a p a one pager that was in your board book so that we would communicate well with our families. We have already sent out communication to our families so that they were aware that this is a policy that the board has to look at and that we have to adopt
131based on the new law for Texas schools. We also are required to bring to the board what our consequences would be at this time because we have had great success with our students being responsible and putting their cell phones away in their backpack. We want to start with uh phones being turned into administration and picked up by a student at the end of the school day for the first offense. Parent and guardians would be notified via our parent square. The second offense would be for the phone to be turned into administration and then at that time picked up by a parent or guardian at the end of the school day and parent and guardians are notified obviously through the parents square notification. On the third offense is when we would issue an inschool suspension along
132with the phone being turned in and parents picking it up. On the fourth offense, the student would serve two days of inschool suspension and the parents would pick up the phone. If there was a fifth At this time, we would recommend that the students serve the three days of inschool suspension, but that also at that time for the remainder of the school year, the students would be required to turn in their phone to the front office and to be stored in a secure pouch for the entirety of the instructional day. So, they would not be able to then have it in their backpack. Those are the recommendations at this time from administration to start the 2526 school year. Uh this was debriefed with our uh principles and uh at any time we could bring back
133a different recommendation to the board if we were to see that there was a need to be more um maybe punitive in our consequences. But since our students have shown maturity and responsibility, we feel that this is a good approach at this time. Any questions? question. Thank you. If if so allowed uh any input from our principles regarding this >> principles, >> any feedback regarding this? >> Do you foresee any issue? >> Come on up, please. I want we want to hear from you, please. Thank you. If I I think um at the junior high campus, we're going to have very limited I mean very few issues uh just because that has been our policy or and I announce it during breakfast, I announce it during lunch. We see a phone, we take a phone.
134So students know that they can't carry it in their pocket. It has to be in their backpack. We can't see it or we're going to take it. Uh, so we really haven't had cell phone issues all year. And um, and so I mean I I really don't think it's going to be an issue for the junior high campus. >> I agree. >> Students that have been walking into the high school have already been discussing it. Like we've been talking about it. They're they're aware. They know. Sometimes I'll see them at HB and they joke around about it. Say, "Hey, I got my phone here." And >> but um I I think they're aware. They know as long as the the just the way Miss Pearson discussed it. I mean, we've all discussed it already several
135times. We've discussed it all summer since but >> Okay. >> Do you do you have any of the uh And again, please excuse my How about the kids that any of those that wear the glasses? What are those called? >> No. No. I'm ser no no they're the Ray Ben. The Metaquet Metaquest. Any problems with those? >> I don't think that anybody I don't know. I I know at junior high they don't bring them. I I don't think they do at high school. My son only uses it for roping. >> They're neat for um activities, you know. I know my boys have them for roping when they're roping the the proposed 2526 student dress code. Please note that there are minimal changes to last year's dress code and this year's dress code. Um there is
136there are two bullets I would like to point out to you that u in reference to the minimal changes. Uh jeans with holes are allowed. No visible skin above the knee. Um this is something that was monitored throughout the year and um our students followed the dress code and the administrators were able to address any violations of that. And then the other thing is that uh we added um the leggings with the long shirt uh shirt or blouse covering to mid thigh. Um and this is really due to affordable clothing options. We want our families to um you know we're working with our families to make sure that they've got options. um to maintain an appropriate uh dress code and so we we made an amendment or an update to that particular area of the
137dress code. Everything else remained the same and so it is our recommendation um it just also as was discussed um as the cell phone policy uh ban was discussed with campus principles and leadership as was the uh dress code this updates to dress code. So therefore, it's our recommendation that the board approve the dress code as presented. >> Excuse me. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I have a question on the shorts because now it just says shorts. That can mean um like athetic shorts. >> Yes, ma'am. And then there are stipulations for uh you know the bottoms that there no sagging pants or shorts and you know no pajama or sleepwear that still remains in place. But yes again in and uh as the stance is to offer more options to our families and and again
138uh our administration does a really great job of enforcing as well as our teachers of enforcing the dress code. Don't bend the Crocs. >> I'm sorry. >> Don't ban the Crocs. >> No ban the Crocs. Okay. Footwear must be worn. So, [laughter] got to have shoes on. As long as there's not steel towed Crocs, you're in good shape. >> No more questions. President, I make a motion to consider approval of the 2025 2026 student dress code. >> Okay. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz to approve the 2025 2026 student dress code. >> Seconded by Noi Zarate. All in favor? >> I opposed. None. Motion carries. >> Thank you. >> Okay, Madame President. >> Yes. Uh before we move on, did we approve consent agenda items? I apologize. I might have blank. Did I blank out? I
139apologize >> asking too many questions. I apologize. Thank you. >> Okay. Next item, executive session. Uh discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code, section 551.001. Um personnel matters, discussion of resignations, retirements, leave leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees, and we have to consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation for curriculum specialist. The time is 8:12. We are now in executive session. I see the time right. Okay, time is 9:50. We are back from executive session. Do we have a motion on the >> Okay. I have a motion by Wilbur Cruz to to approve the superintendent's recommendation for a curriculum specialist Dr. Guzman seconded by Aldoria. All in favor? >> I I >> opposed. None. Motion carries. Ajourn. >> Motion made by Wubber Cruz, seconded by
140Nois Zarat to adjurnn. All in favor? I >> I >> we are ajourned. Time is 9:51.