001ESSA application and tenative plans for the use of funds. Okay. Good evening once again. So, as the federal programs director, I have to put out a public comment for uh parents to review uh how much funding we're getting, uh if they have any recommendations for um how we want to spend the money. So we do that every year and I know that we have Mr. Morones, Mr. Sarate and that's it. Everyone else has been here. So this is already the 10th year we've been doing this and sometimes we get you know five or 10. This time when I looked at thought thought exchange there was 50 that had potentially responded but um they didn't complete the survey. So, the one comment we did have, and Miss uh Pearson had shared this with us earlier, was
002I feel our school is doing everything they possibly can for our low-income families and their needs. So, apparently, when we have uh we have meetings with our parents, what we call the DPACK and some of we were we had invited some of you to come or all of you to come and we let them know how we're spending the money, like what are we doing with our funds, what's happening. So, I'm going to kind of go through the grant application and I'm going to share with you um what we've done previously and what we're going to continue to do. So, as a federal grant application is there's a a law a local law in the state government code that states we have Can y'all see this? Are y'all able to see this? But y'all have
003the PowerPoint, right? Because I know it's facing me. Can I y'all want me to turn it a little bit? Tell me when. Right there. Okay. So, we by law I have to come to you to explain um what we're doing with the funding. So, that way you're aware of how we based on a needs assessment conducted by this staff here, our campus administrators and their cap meeting, they kind of say this is where we want to go. You know, our ELAR results showed this and this is how we want to spend it. So, this just tells you that we are adhering to our board policy by coming to you with a public comment. Um which are the grant applications? These are the three grant applications that we have. But today we're going to focus on
004the ESSA uh consolidated federal grant which is title one, title two, title three, and title four. So in order to meet compliance, this is our local policy CBB. So we're going to go through this that we submit our grant application. So I won't submit it till like the end of June, but I have to present this information prior to submitting it. Okay. So what do we do with our funding? So, we get funding for all of these grants um through title one, title two, title four. What do we do? So, title three, title one part C, which is a migrant, we only get about u 40,000 and it's in here. So what we do with that is I do what's called a shared service arrangement with region 20 and they handle all everything for us
005because it's really difficult for us to have a two recruiters on hand, a migrant counselor, a migrant coordinator, you would have like three or four positions for 40,000. So what would that mean to the district that we would have to put in from local funds to pay for those positions? So when we do a shared services arrangement where region 20 does all that for us. They recruit, they counsel, they they take them to visit colleges and and they've give them those opportunities. But the other ones, title one, title two and title four. What we do, I transfer it what's called we transfer and it all becomes part of title one. What does that mean? That means that even though it's title two, which means that principles and teachers, there's certain things that they can do
006with title two funds, I move it into title one, 100% of it. And why do I do that? Because it makes it easier for our folks, our principles, our administrators to spend the money. It's not tied to, oh, I have to send principles to training. Oh, I have to do this and now I'm held accountable for doing these things. Title One opens the door like that. It's a big wide door and we can spend money because we're called schoolwide and we have so many other ways we can spend the money and it's not tied to title two regulations. Does this make sense? So, I'm opening the door for our staff and their needs and making it um giving them more opportunities to bring in specific PD specific uh training. Um we we pay for in
007the curriculum specialist. So, we're opening the door for a bigger opportunity of how to expend the money. So, that's called funding transferability. Allows us to redirect the funds into title one. So, that's an allowable. We've been doing that for about four or five years. And here it tells you what the title one part A, what are we supposed to do? Provide supplemental resources to to our campuses. They're all schoolwide. So we we Miss DS is going to be really good this year and we're doing a per student uh allocation. So that's how we're going to allocate the funding. So those are the things we do with title one. Well, how do we pay for? So you'll notice here the lowincome students. So in reality the funding CSI should get a big portion of the funding,
008but you notice that everyone is over 70%. So those are the schools we're supposed to target, campuses that are over 70%. But look, all our campuses are over 70%. So we pretty much spread the wealth. Okay. So what do we do with the title one funding which is called our 211? We pay for our district and campus level staff contract contract services and supplies. Title 2 part a we received 120,957,000. 100% of that is once again redirected to title one. What do we pay for out of this? Contracted services and supplies. And if you're asking what is contracted services, we have Mr. Damontes can help here. We have uh NWA. Um Miss Pearson can help. We're going to go into emergent tree this year. We have we're going to we're doing something new with Mills
009Rogers. It has to do with uh positive reinforcement. Oh my gosh. I'm What else? Mr. T. Um, we're going to pay for so any supplemental programs that you can think of that they I have requests. Okay, our our data showed this in math and we really want to get excel. Can we do it? And I said, well, did you go through your CAT? The funding is there. You let me know. I appropriate the funding based on the campus need. If whether it's math, ELR, whatever it is, I appropriate the funding and they get to spend it. And of course, I help them with whatever federal requirements are need to be completed. We do that. Title four, this is $77,790. Um, this funding we use for travel. So, we're sending all our staff this summer is
010going somewhere. We've given them the opportunity. We have teachers going to Okay. East. I always mispronounce it. East. They're going the I think the curriculum specialist just went to TIKSCON, right? But uh they just came back from there. Um we're going to send a a big group, five a minimum of five per campus to pro the company's called Solutions Street, but they're attending PLC public uh professional learning community. Sorry, I'm thinking about the public. So we we're spending I was looking at Bria and I were trying to figure out it's about 50 60,000 that we're sending staff this summer including from the principal to any teacher that wanted to attend. We've given them the opportunity. In fact CSE is sending some teachers Miss Garcia to a writing uh seminar I think in Victoria and we're
011going to try we're figuring out how to fund that also. So, we're we're trying to stay away from local funds and giving these teachers an opportunity. And this is the first year um that teachers have had the opportunity to travel that much, including as a as a team. They're taking teams to the PLC. So, it's really a great opportunity. And we're planning the same thing. We're planning to use this funding for and and administrators. Administrators this year went to ladies, gentlemen. Where did y'all go to? Garcia. Oh, kinder. All the kinder teachers, all eight of them are going to the Elevate conference. So, I mean, it's exciting because this is really the first year that you have a big group of teachers attending um staff during the summer and I think the principles are really
012excited. What else? Y'all went to Midwinter. So, they're going to solutions tree. Some went to the what's that one in November where they go for the testing testing conference. They went to that. So, we're using federal funds to pay for all of this, plus any programs that our students need. Anything else? The mentor program, the mentor program that we have with uh we have a contract with Jamie and Marie, we pay for that also. We provide services for our parah, our par professionals. I bring in uh Jamie and Marie and they provide training for them. So, I mean, anything you can think of that's supplemental that's not required by the state, we take care of it. This year, we're doing a little bit differently with summer school. We use state comp to pay for it,
013but that's I mean, we are providing services. We uh we came up with leads the there's two leads this summer that you approved. Title One funds is paying for that. So, we're trying to do some new things and helping our administrators because we know how busy they are. So, that's why we're here. I'm presenting to you what we're going to we're probably it's the same thing. We're not taking anything away from any of our campus. There's nothing that we're going to be removed unless they find data that shows that that program wasn't working. At that point, we they make it they make a decision, not me, not Miss Pearson. They make the decision. Hey, it's time that we not use this program and try something new. Okay. And that's all I have. Any questions for
014um the public comment and how we spend our funds? No. Okay. Miss Oh, I'm looking. Mr. Dory, those are all federal federal grants, right? Mhm. So, how how do the federal government determines how much? It's based on that number, the number of the low the 70% 79% 78% and they do a per student allocation. We have a worksheet that we're supposed to follow. It went down a little bit this year because you know everything going on with how they were going to cut our funding, but it didn't go down massive. Maybe 1% we lost a little bit of funding, but it wasn't massive. I don't know if it's coming or is that all we're looking at? Yeah. The higher those numbers are, those percentages, the more money. Yes. It's not. Yeah. I remember before we
015we were not able to utilize all the funds, right? They roll over 15%. They allow for 15% to roll over and if I go over like the 15% I have to send them a reason. So, we're hoping this year because we did it last year. We went over the 15%. We had to explain to them that summer school was split and we didn't have this year. We're paying for a lot more staff than we did like they weren't I wasn't able to do things before that I'm I'm allowed to do now. So like now I think our our our professional is like a million. I think we're in Michelle, right Michelle? We said about a million. We're looking at a million of that title one that's going into staff. Whereas before it was like 300,000
016400,000 but we can pay for like the art teacher, the PE teacher, the music teacher. As long as they're certified, we can pay for them because they're extra. They're supplemental. I'm not required. Miss Pearson's not required that she has to give art. She has to have those aren't required positions. So, we can supplement them by using title one funds. That's how how we're paying for the music and art teacher. So, as much as possible, we we produce them first before we use the Yes. Yes. I know that what you're going to hear a lot of uh what's reclassification because you can't I don't even know. Miss needs to explain this a little bit more. I can't say, "Oh, I'm giving you the title one funds first. We can't appropriate it." That's not the right word,
017but we use local funds and then we reclassify. But I was just looking at all the travel right now and Bria and I came up like it's going to be 43,000 this summer for everyone's travel. So they're really spending this year. We're really good at spending money. I don't know if that's good, but it's good for me. Yes, it's good. Yeah. So it's we can't allocate what is it? She can explain it. Okay. So on the travel, we cannot expense it if it's in in advance. So if you're going to a travel in the future, we can't expense it because it hasn't occurred. So we put it in a in a prepaid account. That's all we do. And then after the travel has occurred, we then at that point expense it. It's just an accounting
018uh item. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, it's not a problem. Can I add one thing, Mr. Doria? That was a very good question. Our economically disadvantaged percentage because we are a community eligibility program and all of our students receive free breakfast and lunch. We really rely on our families filling out the finance question during registration because the economically disadvantaged percentage is what we need data. And what's important to the families, all the families that are here and all the families that are listening is that our students benefit tremendously from this these funds. the students are able to get extra technology, adaptive programs, the age of learning that some of them are doing at home right now with reading and math. Many of those things are paid from this money. So, it's really important that we gather
019that data. So, please help us by doing the return. Even is based on these numbers for our technology. And one thing that you're going to be hearing now, now that I'm doing both special ed and federal programs, we did pick up CSI was really strong about their teacher, Miss Bettis, uh wanting a special ed program, like a curriculum program because they didn't have anything. But um somehow we're going to figure this out that we get it for everyone. Not CSI only, but Title One paid for it this past year, but we're going to make sure that we figure out how to pay for it for CSE and for our resource classes because um I have some special ed teachers that are already calling and Miss Pearson and I are going to we already put a
020uh I had asked her if we could do a survey. I want to survey our special ed teachers and our special ed paras to find out what they need because um one of the things they told me is we haven't had training. We haven't had paris said I haven't had any training. I said but I bring training. Yeah, miss but you bring it for general ed. And I'm like oh my gosh. So when Marie and Jamie come, we're going to do half a day regular and half a day only for special ed because they said they feel like they're not getting anything. So, there's some things that are going to change and I hope they're for the for the best for our staff. So, any questions? Special edition. Oh, and the special ed, just to
021give you a heads up, our special ed population is going up. I'm not What was the uh dollar amount this year for title one? Um so last year it was 1041 a million41686 uh this past year it was a,237 and change it was may that make I don't know what the difference would be maybe 100 it was 1,ion41 last year it was 1,167 100 something 76 176 Any other questions? Thank you. Okay, thank you. Okay, item five, student staff recognition high school. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for allowing us to recognize our students. I want to call up Mr. Scama so he can assist me with this one here. You want to come help me, sir? Good evening everyone. I would like to invite Mr. Scamya. Thank you. Um Mr. It is a pleasure
022to recognize one of Curiso Springs's most outstanding students and today I want to recognize Alexandra Chapa. So, Miss Chapa, if you want to come up or to the front. It is a pleasure. Um, this year, Alexandra proudly represented our school at the UIL State meet in poetry interpretation, placing eighth in the state of Texas. Eighth in the state of Texas. [Applause] What's more impressive is this is her second consecutive year representing Cariso Springs High School at at the state level and she's only a junior. Even in the face of personal tragedy, her dedication never faltered. Instead, she has carried herself with resilience and grace and continues to rise. In addition to her involvement in UIO academics, Alexandra is also an active member of our cheer team band, Mean Purple Band, NHS. We're proud of you,
023Alex. We can't wait to see what next year brings. Your senior year [Applause] You want to say something real quick? Thank you. Okay, we'll go to item six, Lonear Governance. I'm going to give you a summary what that is. Uh, Lonear governance is a framework developed by the Texas Education Agency designed to support school boards in improving student outcomes through focused governance. Over the past several months, our board has actively engaged in this continuous improvement process by reviewing student performance data, reflecting on governance practices, and identifying key areas of need aligned with our students I mean with our district's vision and values. As part of this effort, the board has collaboratively developed draft board goals that are specifically designed to increase student outcomes. In addition, the board has established board guard rails and superintendent guardrails
024to clearly define the boundaries and priorities that will guide decision-m and keep our work aligned with what matters most, student success. These efforts reflect a commitment to focus our leadership around what our students need to thrive. Our goals and guard rails have been informed by community input, ensuring that the voice of our families and stakeholders remains central as we move forward. Um, we're going to discuss the discuss and possible action for the board of trustees to consider approval for the Lonear Governance Board goals. These are the ones that we did with the percentages of of the star. I make a motion to approve the lonear governance board. Motion made by Aldoria to approve the Lonear governance board goals. President Franco are we are looking at we're not looking at superintendent goals. We're looking right now
025at the drafted board goals. Board goals. Okay. Goals. I apologize. Thank you. Okay. Motion seconded by by Oscar Mores. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Okay. B. Discussion and possible action for the board of trustees to consider approval of the Lonear Governance Board guard rails. If there are no questions, President Franco, I'll make motion. Motion to approve. Second. Motion made by Michaela, seconded by uh Jeff Ortiz to to approve the the approval of the Lonear Governance Board guardrails. In favor? I. Any opposed? None. Motion carries. Item C, discussion and possible action for the board of trustees to consider approval of the superintendent guards. Yes. It's possible for us to make some amendments. Yes. Yes. I believe on these we want to we want to go down to five. I want to make an
026amendment for item three. The superintendent shall not shower any treatment upon any relative employed by or seeking employment in the school system. I just want to include not only relatives but employees. My amendment starts from this will be my this will be the amended motion. The superendant shall not show favoritism toward nor confer any preferential treatment upon any relative or employee in matters related to hiring, promotion or assignment to high positions within the school system. So that's You want to amend number three? Do I have a Anybody have any questions? Any questions on this amendment? The amendment is the superintendent shall not show favoritism toward nor confer any preferential treatment upon any relative or employee in matters related to hiring, promotion, or assignment to higher positions within the school system. Everyone's okay with that amendment
027for number three. Does that need to be put to a vote? The amendment. We're going to vote on all on all of them. Yeah, we just we need to narrow down, but this is a change for number three. Thank you. Do you need a motion to recommend five specific items here? Yes. So, we need to narrow it down to I'm going to make the first motion, if I may, M President, I'm going to make the motion to remove number one, two, and five on this list in regards to Superintendent Gargo. And with that being said, um perhaps not not tonight, but we definitely need to I think as a board would need to discuss on how those three could be managed. Okay. For further discussion. I I would like to bring that back for further
028discussion. That is my recommendation. Items one, two, and five. To remove But but either way, we'll be keeping these five. So, um those will still be the remain the guards. I'm saying that the you want to continue the discussion, but these will be the five that we're going to keep the after dropping one, two, and five. Correct. And amending three. And you're right, the five, if we are to narrow down to five, I would say three, four, six, seven, and eight should remain. I'm making that recommendation or motion. If there's further discussion, by all means. I am in favor of Mr. I think Number one. Number two. Yes, sir. Number six. I'm recommending number five, sir. Number five. Okay. Thank you. Everyone's okay with removing one, two. So the motion was made to remove one,
029two, and and amend number three. Motion made by Michael by Michael, seconded by Cruz. All in favor? I just before I go to a vote, the motion is going to be to approve the five. So, I'll need I need a motion to to approve the five. I I'll make a motion to approve the four guard dark guard rates plus the one amended amended. Motion made by Mr. Doria to approve the guard rails plus the amended the amended one. Seconded by Oscar. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Uh, item seven, public comment. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Ruben Escamian. I'm the UIL academic director retiring of course. As my retirement begins, I want to express my sincere gratitude to the administration, faculty, and CISO Springs CISD school board uh past and present.
030Your ongoing support has been instrumental not only for me as a UL academic district director, but for the countless students whose lives have been touched by this program. For the past 35 years, I have enjoyed the privilege of watching our students push themselves, grow academically and creatively, and represent Ciso Springs with pride, poise, and passion. It's been more than a job. Believe me, it's been a calling. Our journey began with a vision in the late 1970s when Superintendent Enrique URA and the first appointed UIL director Hector Zamia dreamed of a strong and competitive UIL academic program. That dream became a legacy and yes, a dynasty. Students and coaches have remained steadfast in their dedication to academic excellence. Each generation has passed the torch to the next, each more eager than the last to rise up
031to that challenge. In the past 10 to 15 years, that spirit of excellence has expanded even further with the growth of a theater program and that is thriving. One that now stands as a powerful force of creativity, discipline, and school pride. This program has helped to shape leaders, storytellers, and lifelong learners. And it deserves every ounce of support and protection that we can offer. At the heart of that program is a place many see as just a structure. But for those of us who have spent countless hours within it, believe me, the that auditorium is a leave living breathing thing. It's a part of our theater program. That space is sacred. And I urge well, I beseech the board and this district to continue to care for it. We have already taken steps. Quotes have
032been gathered and thoughtful planning has been done. Now, all we need is a date, a commitment to move forward with preserving the very heartbeat of our arts in our district. Now, I know that often we look we look to districts similar size and demographics to guide our decisions and at times this might be necessary. I understand. But I say this with conviction. Ciso Springs should not follow the lead of others. We should be setting the standard with our successful programs. Others should aspire to reach the level of commitment, quality, and success that we have definitely reached. As I close, I offer one guiding principle. If success is happening, don't make a radical change to the formula. What we've built in UIL academics and theater is working. It's producing strong students. Right there is the proof.
033Miss Alex Chapa, also proud alumni and a program that others strive to emulate. And I know change is inevitable, but it should always be thoughtful, intentional, and in the service of continued growth, not disruption. Thank you for allowing me to walk alongside so many talented students and colleagues on this journey. It has truly been the honor of a lifetime. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Madam President, I know we're not supposed to respond to, but if I may, I'm so allowed. I can speak and I spoke I shared this with Mr. Esia at his retirement service here. It is a I mean, I can speak as a parent, as an administrator, and now a board member of this district in attending various meets, you know, from elementary all the way to high school. It's
034an awesome feeling and it's awesome to see how our kids perform academically. They're using their brain power, as you put in those several messages, Wildcat brain power. um when you go to those meets and you and you're there as a parent or administrator, however, and you know, we got this. We are, you know, I'm not going to mention the other schools that we like to beat every year, but it's we got this and we know we're coming home with medals and hardware. So, kudos to you and your staff, your teachers, your students. Fantastic job. Thank you so much for all you do. [Applause] It's definitely some hard shoes to fill um um with your with your retirement district. Okay, we'll continue to 8A child nutrition summer feeding program. Miss Good evening, President Franco. Sorry, can
035you hear me? Good evening, President Franco, members of the board, and Superintendent Pearson. Uh, thank you for this opportunity uh for me to share an update with you about our summer feeding program, our seamless summer option. Um, as I just wanted to give you a quick update on the numbers that we have for this year. Uh we have served as of today 7,550 meals uh to our children here in Ciso Springs, Big Wills, Asherton, the church. Um we have had less participation this year than we did last year. We have we are trying very hard to try to entice the children to come. Uh we've gone as far as uh bringing music to the different sites Ashton and Bigwells especially. Uh we have uh brought books thanks to Mrs. Garcia for supporting some of the
036books that we have been reading to the children trying to again entice them to come that you know it's just not for feeding them but also so that they can have a cool place to come for the summer. good meal. Um, we've extended our invitation to the students attending the summer school as well as those involved in extracurricular activities such as athletics and band. And I would like to commend um, Coach Gonzalez for making sure that his students, his athletes all come in and get their breakfast, their lunch, I'm sorry, it goes for all athletics and band. uh that has really helped us at the high school. Um our summer feeding program is open to all students under the age of 18 and we have we have five sites. We do like I said both
037summer school uh high school and elementary and big wells and the Catholic church. Um I am sorry to report that at Big Wills and Ashton has not been very successful this year. Um we're trying everything we can to bring them in. I have heard that some of the parents are complaining because the children have to they must be served and they must eat on campus and I don't uh the parents don't want to stay there you know for a number amount of time with the kids um the way our application is filled out is that we must be congregate and so we must serve the students there we have encouraged the parents to bring their own meals with them to sit there and you know have some quality time with their children. So you know
038we've done that as well. Um I wanted to say um for next year we I have spoken to Miss Pearson and Mrs. the and we hope to be able to open it up um and partnership with the city of Ciso Springs, maybe we can uh bring meals to the civic center and possibly the Westwind apartments to try to uh get those children. Um so that's one of our goals for next year. I do want to say that the church um Father Jersey sends his uh gratitude to the board and Mrs. Pearson for allowing us to come out there and uh feed these children and um I just want to say that we're grateful to the board's continued support of this vital program. We ask for your help spreading the word. Um, I also would like
039to thank Mrs. uh, Claudia McDaniel. Every time I send the articles to her, she'll put them in the paper for us. Uh, thanks to Mrs. Pearson, Rolando, and Gilbert. They put it on our website. Uh, we I have gone to Ashton and Bigwells, left advertisement cards, anything to try to bring the students in. So, at this time, um, that's all I have to report to you. Thank you. Any questions? Thank you. Item eight. Sorry. Item nine, superintendent briefing. Thank you. So the end of the year brought lots of special recognition. We had our secondary teacher of the year, Miss Amanda Santos, and she is being recognized. And then for our elementary secondary elementary student teacher of the year was Miss Jennifer, our teacher over at CS. We're very proud of these teachers. They do a
040tremendous job and our students and our learning community. They were recognized at our year ceremony as well as well. This year we also introduced rookie teacher of the year. This idea was born by Miss Gonzalez curriculum specialist and we were just happy to see the expression of some of our first year teachers. We have Garcia who is a music teacher over at the elementary and then we have Rodriguez teacher at CSI teacher and then Gonzalez over at the junior high and then over at the high school for our new teachers. They're very coachable and continue to learn and grow. Then we had our service recognition over in the auditorium. Had a great time with that recogning all of our of service. Then we celebrated our student ambassadors for a full year of student leadership and
041participation. We also had our teacher leadership group that we also acknowledge and many of these teachers have been working continue to work with our curriculum design team this summer. Lots to celebrate our auxiliary council. We were able to finish a year of feedback on how we can continue to support our district and And then we have our purple band ensemble that just recently went to the entire entire area. They placed fifth in marching band and 12th in concert to the amazing progress of our program. And then we also very well. And then we have our ad and also our head football coach who was just recognized from Dave Campbell Texas football head coaches across Texas with over a thousand school districts. This is quite a recognition for coach Giovani Gonzalez for going over going the
042extra mile on and off the field and we can't wait to see what's next. The person for the game changing coach award will be named later on. There'll be a competition out social media so that we can vote for our very own tremendous accomplishment with over 10. Thank you for TWWs. Mr. and Mr. Nick Martinez for being there. Also, Butler Cohen who are our construction managers that attended we had about eight or so subcontractors from the area surrounding area join us. Here you have a screenshot of our web page. If you go to our web page, you can click the join here and it will take you to a page where you can fill in information if you would like to consider as a subcontractor. And that's our people is monitoring and so is far
043update as well. We have been working on our design development. We are about at almost 100% we met with our directors with our principles. We will be reviewing the plans one more time and plan to bring them to the board for consideration of approval in our July 29th board meeting. And then our legislative update. These are just a few. There's quite a few, but one of them is House Bill 1481 with a cell phone policy that requires prohibiting students from using cell phones and smartwatches on school property during the school day. We did already have this established as procedures on our school. So, we will we have a draft currently that we're working on. We'll be bringing that to the board for approval and our July meeting where students will have to phones and watches,
044smart watches away. House bill is a big one. This one is the one that is allowing the teacher retention pay increase. And so we will be working with that because we're a small district under 5,000. It is $8,000 for base pay for teachers that have five plus years of experience and teachers that are three plus three or four years of experience 4,000. This also allows for as an eligibility now for all certified teachers. Certified teacher is a definition from Texas Education Agency. They must teach students for at least four hours a day. The bill also allows for other funding for special education for CT also some nonadministrative pay increases. So those are things that we'll be bringing to the board at our plan later this month. And And also there was money allocated to it
045also by $55. And then we also for the next on the next screen we have bill 23 which was homeless for homestead. They did raise that from 140,000. They are also doing a homeless for districts this year because they lost revenue for that. And in House Bill 33, this one has quite a bit of compiance for safety. It requires every campus to have a breaching ballistic shield. So these are some things that we'll be looking to bring to the board in the future. There's quite a few legislative updates that are going to requ We'll go to item 10, reports information items, financial briefing. MS, thank you. Uh, good evening. I'll start with our executive summary for uh year-to- date expenses as of May 2025 are revenue and expenses. On that first page where you have
046your summary for the general fund um currently as of May we're 75% of the year passed uh as of May. So we have three months left. Yep. Uh general fund we have our revenue. We've collected 94% of our revenue for the year so far. Our expenses are 33% and the reason is because of the chapter 41 payment which goes out in August. Um but net of net of uh chapter 41 I I did my own calculation. We're about 68% of where we thought we would be. So that's good considering that we're 75% of the time has passed. In food service, we've collected about 80% of our revenue for the year. Our expenses are are lower than that amount. We're at 71%. And for interest and syncing again on that fund, we we don't pay our
047bond payment till August. So we've collected 99% of our revenue so far for the bond payment and we're at 37% of expenses because again we made those payments in February and then we'll make the next part in August. on that bottom section for fund balance for general fund we have our audited balance of 24 million revenue collected to date as of May is 59.6 6 million. Our expenses are 23 million. So our revenue over expenses for the current year as of May is 36.5 million. Of course from that part we will pay the chapter 41 payment. Uh regardless at this moment then what we have in our unodudited fund balance is 60.6 million for the general fund. In food service, we've collected year-to- date 1.5 million. Our expenses are 1.6. So revenue over expenses right
048now were 160,000, which is really well. Uh and then our debt service, we have 3.6 in our fund balance. We've collected 11.2 million. Uh paid 4.4 so far on our bond payments. And so our uh revenue over expenses now is at 6.7. And so that's where we are in the overview. On the next page for board review uh on general fund, you can see our local collections which includes our tax dollars of course and then state and federal collections and and there's the breakdown of the 59.6. And then um on the bottom half you'll see our expenditures by function. Uh just so you can have an overview of where we are budgeted and where we are for the month and where we are year-to- date actual. And you carry on down to the bottom you
049can see our total expenses. Okay. And uh you can see that our roughly our fund balance I mean our general our uh sorry chapter 41 payment is about $35 million. So just as a rough so you can see where we are there. On the next page for food service uh like I mentioned earlier 1.5 in collections for revenue and 1.6 on the expenses. So we're doing really well there at a shortfall of 160,000. So that's pretty good for this year. and then the debt service page like I just mentioned a bit ago. So, I don't have more detail information to add to that. I'll continue on to the board budget amendments. We're not presenting any board budget amendments at this board meeting. That page there is a recap of what we've done this year so
050far as far as any board approved budget amendments. So, that's a just an ongoing um ledger there. On the special maintenance project, at the beginning of the year, the board did approve 350,000 for emergency purchases, and we really appreciate that. We've uh allocated 103,000. So, we're doing well as far as maintaining. Uh our balance for that 350 is 246,000 and we have no budget amendments or requests uh pending at this time. On the next page you'll see our interest earned so far. So last month in April we collected across all funds general fund interest in syncing and construction uh 625,536 in interest this month 579,557 in interest and so there you can see a side by side uh and at the at the very bottom. So general fund for the year 1.4 4 million interest
051in sinking 258,000 construction. We have two sources where we um put our money into two sources. So it's 90 uh 95,744 and then um 3,164 in interest collected so far. And then on the bottom I'm just showing you yearbyear where we are on interest. On the next page, you'll see our construction fund financials for May. So for the current month, uh I already covered the interest, but on our expenses, we have paid 440,955. And then right after that, you'll see a breakdown of that amount by school year and also by vendor. Okay. And that's the uh financial briefing. Thank you, Miss. Yes. Go to no questions. Item 11, approval of consent agenda items. Ma'am, if you have any questions for Mr. Cavo, he's here on the quarterly delinquent tax report or any of the items,
052I'm I'm available. Any questions for Mr. Mr. Cabo, since you're here, did you have any anything you needed to present? U it's just my normal report. Uh I I I don't have it I mean I have it here but the first item I'm just briefly it's the first thing we did uh anything different this quarter was that in May we have to do by law we have to send out a delinquent notice to every taxpayer um that's on the tax roles. So, we mailed out approximately u 3 thou 3,470 letters uh for that mailing. But other than that, the report goes on to the final notice letters that we mailed out, the taxes we filed, the tax dockets we held, we had two tax dockets last quarter. Uh we had two more that were already
053held in May, and we have another, it's not on, it's not on the report, but we have another one already set for August. And then last thing would be the delinquent collections. The base tax, thank you so much. I appreciate that very less. And the base tax collected for the whole quarter totaled um $82,9720. And that amount is broken up there by each uh month of the quarter and by the two funds, the Mino and INS fund. So that's basically the same report every every quarter. It just only really really different was that the the mass mailing that we had to send out in May. Thank you. Thank Thank you. Thank you. I do have a little extraordinary item on the uh Beth Page Consulting. Are there any questions on that? The reason I say
054it's extraordinary is because um I want to bring that in compliance as we move forward into the next month into August. We need board approval to exceed 50,000. And so that's what we're requesting. We're also requesting to change contracts from our existing contract into one with GSA, which is which will uh that's like the procurement is already done. Like you hear by board, it's the same thing. General services administration. So, I'd like for us to uh convert our contract from the existing contract to that and continue with the services, but asking also for your approval for that and also to exceed 50,000 because um when we get to the August games, we'll be at the point where we're going to exceed it. President Trump, thank you, Miss Das, for bringing that. Um so, in in
055specific to to um it's under labor category. Shall we save those questions for for our next meeting when there's further discussion? I I only had one question on that on that specific section, labor category. Are we going to be bringing this back as a discussion item? No. I apologize. So in that area of labor category, are are we are we are are we paying for each of these uh services? I guess that's the right word looking for. And if you don't have the answer today, I apologize. We can look into that. What we're uh the services that we're paying for are the athletic trainer services. That's the category that we're really utilizing. But athletic trainer lead, athletic trainer one, athletic trainer two. Correct. We just have one athletic trainer. One athletic trainer. Okay. Yeah. In
056new year, we may be looking at two. I'm not sure. But right now for current year, it's one. We're not looking at two. We're just looking at one trainer. I visited with Mr. Gonzalez. always only been one trainer and we actually have the trainer right now. His name is Mr. Lee Knox. Okay. He joined us in during baseball season in May and he's the one that's scheduled to continue with us. Okay. Thank you. We have not had a fulltime trainer uh with this contract. We had to have different trainers. That's why we never exceeded because we weren't able to fill the position. Now that we have Mr. We hope to be able to have him full time. So full time, what that means is from the morning, the start of the school day through the
057whole school day and then if there's a game, they can stay for the game. Okay? And it would be a consistent trainer, which is a great benefit for our families and our students because if we have students who are injured, then having a consistent trainer that's here can do some of the conditioning, strengthening, some of the training that we want to players don't have to come to the doctor every day or even weekly. Some of it the athletic trainer is certified and trained to be able to do with them some of their rehabilitation. Okay. Thank you. It's really hard for us to even get the one. We did not even have one consistent one this year. So our hope and really our prayers for Mr. to stay with us for the full year. Okay. Thank
058you. I wasn't aware of that. Thank you. Thank you. I just would like to remove it from the agenda. Approval of the central district item for our next meeting. We need to take out this. I'm sorry. I can't I can't hear. Do we know what the cost was for the previous contract and what the cost will be for the new contract? Okay. The cost we're not expecting to change. It's because of the number of uh events. By the time we get to August 31, we'll exceed the 50,000. So, it's under that amount. For new year, we'll we'll discuss we'll review that and propose it to you for new year budget. So, right now, this proposal is is to hold on. Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on. Hold on. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Um, well, that that
059is where I had that uh indication for Mr. Giovanni, Miss Pearson. Uh, when we met originally, we were looking at at the one. If we continue at that rate, it'd be right around I mean, we're going to be right above 50, maybe 65,000. Now in the new year uh depends again if we go with one or two then when we adopt that budget uh you know we can we can discuss if it'll be one or two for the new year depending on the availability uh through Beth Page Consulting. So the previous one was 55 or 6,000 the one that we're in right now. Yeah, the one that we're in right now. In fact, I have it right here. Yeah, the one that we have right now is not to exceed 50,000, but in calculating where
060we're at right now, and we were estimating where we're with the few games in August, we were going to exceed the 50,000. So, does that answer your question where we're at right now? Yes, ma'am. Yes. If there's a big difference, how much is it going to change? Well, right now I'm not proposing anything different other than than continue the services now for new year, which will exceed 50,000. So, uh roughly it's about 65,000. What was the start time? This was uh July 1 of 2024 to 6 uh 30, but in the new year, we'll go for the whole uh period through August 31. So it'll align with our fiscal year. Okay. Yes. I have a question on on the quarterly report. Mhm. As of May as of this month our investment for us US US
061treasuries amount was like 17.4 million. Uh this is one of our long-term investment and other investment we did in US agencies 21 million but these two investment the the value or the original value was for US treasuries 2.9 million US agencies. So there was 7 million. So what happened to this investment? Are they mature some of them or did we do like we draw some amount? These are long-term investments. Yeah. So, we had a meeting with uh Barry Bower. He's our consultant with Meter. And so, at this time, we do have um like a ladder. You can see them. I'm not sure which page it is exactly, but some of these will be expiring. And so, we need to be discussing if we're going to be renewing them or how we're going to reinvest, especially
062with the construction expenses that are ongoing now. So we probably need to do an an evaluation of that cash flow. So we can do that. It's like 330 days investment and 310 days for the other investment. So right now Yeah. and and we also discussed um investing into the Texas Connect. Remember that new vehicle that we discussed? We talked about that as well. So, we'll follow up on that and maybe if we have a finance committee, we can discuss it. That would be good. Yes, sir. Any other questions? a motion. Correct. For item 11, I make the motion to approve item 11, approval consent agenda items as shared or as reviewed. Motion made by Michael, sir. And that was excluding item H. Correct. Okay. Excluding item. Yes. Motion made by Michael, seconded by Aldoria to
063approve the consent ag consent agenda items A through G with the removal of H. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Item 12 12 A cons. approval of enrollment procedure for non-eligible pre kindergarten students. Thank you board president and trustees if you come up just in case. Thank you. So, Miss Gia and I worked on on this in light of House Bill that has expanded kindergarten eligibility criteria introducing funding funding structures to ensure access for qualifying students. That does include the children of certified educators that is teachers that are defined by Texas Education Agency as they instru for the district to refine its enrollment practices while remaining in compiance with the state mandates. You also recall one of the reasons we were previously wanting to potentially maybe have a tuition based as an opportunity
064for our teachers. So kind of change our recommendation. So we are at this time recommending that we allow for not only our teachers who are now eligible for for us to also allow noneligible students up into the max of the four current teachers we have staffed at the prekinder classroom. So Senate Bill 2081 allows our class at classizer. We also have one pair professional in each class which makes it an 11 to1 ratio. And so we would like to propose that we continue to offer the the required state defined eligibility for our students that qualify with limited proficienc economically disadvantage homeless status foster care protective services or those recipients of the Texas award. So we want to recommend that we allow noneligible students as well if seats remain available within the staffing limits of the
065allocated certified teachers during the staffing process. We believe that this does align to our board goals progress measure towards having our third graders perform reading on grade level and math instruction. And so allowing the seats to be filled first faces using a timestamp registration system to ensure fairness and transparency. No additional sections or teachers will be added beyond the currently allocated position. This would still allow the district to be in compiance with the student teacher ratio and also ensure that each classroom has the instructional a1 ratio. So in order to imple implement the intent of House Bill to prioritize students most in need while also still offering flexibility to our families seeking the pre kindergarten opportunity. We're requesting that the board's approval to allow us to communicate clearly with our families and efficiently manage our
066pre kindergarten program enrollment. Any questions? I got a question. What is the max students? Current uh 78 88 78 78 78. No, the current amount we can have for the Oh, the current I'm sorry. Yes, sir. I'm sorry. I misheard. Yes. 88. Yes. Four teachers, 22 students. Correct. And this year, Miss Gia, we had about 76 students. Is that correct? Yes. 78. I believe at one time we were up to 78 and we ended the year in SE at 76.6. And when registration again July 21st will be our next round. So right now our numbers are the same as last time, right? So we um we assessed two of the students. We were at 28 and two of the students did qualify under language. So that put us at 30. We have two students that
067were teachers uh children of teach of current teachers. So that would be 32. We have one student pending his military the military paperwork. So that would put us at 31 eligible and about eight that did not qualify that we could bring into the program tomorrow. As we have 78, 78 students, correct? So, it will be only 10 more. Right. Correct. But during the last three years, the these are the numbers where we've been at during our first roundup and then for some reason second roundup we get everybody else. Um, so I I don't foresee them staying at this number. How many certified teachers of currently we have four and each teacher has one paraprofessional so that we have that 1 to1 11 ratio. So I guess my next question would be since the nonable students
068so we'll say you have eight right now don't qualify right yes sir so if we for some reason to the max that qualify register right now not if we vote today right to allow them fill our max capacity of 88 students that student register now will be here right only six remain available so well that's why I'm saying so if you have eight kids that didn't qualify right now just just say you get 88 kids so eight kids right now possibly but we haven't had eight at least in the last years that I've been here. We We haven't uh been at capacity with prek. No other question. Motion made by Wilbur Cruz to to approve the enrollment procedure as presented by Miss Pearson for the non-eligible prek students. Second. Seconded by No Zarate. All in
069favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Um 12B consider approval of employee health insurance benefits, voluntary products, and contribution strategy for the plan year 2025 2026. Oh, there we go. Green light. Good evening, board president Franco, Superintendent Pearson, and members of the board. My name is Liz Bibo and I am here with Hub International, your employee benefits consulting firm and I also have my colleague Patrick of Avala with me as well. We're going to discuss tonight the health plan briefing and uh make recommendations for your approval for the health plan coverage for the plan year which starts in September of 2025. Just as an overview relative to your medical and pharmacy plan, you have a fully insured plan. So, you pay a premium to Blue Cross Blue Shield uh for the coverage. Um the experience period
070that we'll be looking uh at this evening, uh your loss ratio is running at 125%. Which means that your premiums are not covering the expenses of the plan. A target loss ratio for Blue Cross Blue Shield would be 85%. So again, that 125% is higher than target. Um I did note a couple of the items that are contributing to the loss ratio. One is higher than expected utilization of the plan. You do have several highcost claimants over $50,000. That has been year-over-year increase of about 19%. And then uh year-over-year increases in your u medical in your specialty medications, which are medications that are typically infused or administered by a physician. Um if you think about um maybe chemotherapy or something like that uh that has increased 32% in the plan years. When we look at
071the renewal uh the experience period as I mentioned is April through March uh April 24 through March of 25. they're using 85% of that experience and then some of your 23 24 experience. Your medical trend um for this experience period is 11.5%. That's a little bit higher than the national average. And then your pharmacy trend at almost 14% while a little bit higher than expected. um is um you know falling in line with what we're seeing uh for pharmacy trend in this year. Your plan is considered uh 92% credible meaning that your claims experience can be used to predict future claims experience with an application of about 92%. your plan is running higher than the Blue Cross Blue Shield book of business. Um, so you do get a little bit of favorability in your renewal
072rate because of that manual uh application. Uh as we look at the projected um cost for claims, we can see that is about $768 per employee per month. We also then have um pool uh stop loss or pooling um premium which is paid to protect the plan over claimments of $115,000. Uh we do see as we're looking at um looking at the claims experience expectations for next year. We do see that seven claimants large claimments that you have today in your plan do have diagnosis which are considered to be ongoing and will impact the claim the the plan for next year. Um we did see a slight increase in administrative expenses and then the underwriters at Blue Cross did give um a small decrement just to make the um just to as an discretionary um
073adjustment. So, Blue Cross Blue Shield suggested renewal was a 42% increase. We know we reviewed the renewal um made some suggestions relative to the pooling increases, the administrative increases, and we were able to get the increase down to a 29 a.5% increase from the 42% that Blue Cross had proposed on your uh just as you're looking at current rates and contributions. ions. So these are the um per employee per month contributions that the district makes towards the premium for the health plan for your employees. On the PO plans, the district contributes $563 per employee per month towards that premium. And then on the HSA plan, which is your qualified highdeductible plan with the savings account attached to it, the uh district contribution of $513 per employee per month um is lower than on the PO
074plans, but the district contributes $600 per year into the health savings accounts for your employees that participate in that plan. So that the district can help with those first dollar claim uh coverage nature of the high deductible plan and also encourage employees to contribute to those savings account for future uh for future medical expenses on the uh HSA plan. That is a um triple tax advantage. So employees can put money into the account pre-tax. Any interest earned on the monies in that account are pre-tax and then when employees use those funds for medical expenses, they don't pay taxes when they take that money out. So it is a a very good benefit um for employees to participate in that plan. On the uh renewal rates and contribution page here, our proposal demonstrates what the impact
075to employee contributions would be assuming that the district does not um uh increase the current contribution level. So really what happens here is the uh employee contributions increase uh the 29% and we can see on the exhibit um we can see on the exhibit the changes here uh to what the employees would pay both on a monthly basis and then um what the percentage changes is from the current contributions. The only plan that would have a slight increase in the funding from the district would be the uh high deductible HSA plan because on the employee contribution there there is no employee contribution. It's all district contribution on the voluntary benefits. Um we had originally based on the benefit committee recommendations we had asked for a dual option vision plan. Uh these plans are paid for
076by the employees. There is no district contributions. However, the bene the committee met yesterday and they decided that they're going to go with the one vision plan but with the enhanced benefits. In summary, the recommendation or the proposal that you have before you is that the uh district contribution uh remains at the current level for the employees premiums. Um we do know from working with the committee there's been four meetings this year that employees are very happy with the change to Blue Cross Blue Shield. Um and that we would continue in the next year to promote the programs that are available under your Blue Cross Blue Shield plan to help employees manage chronic disease illnesses and then also make uh coste effective choices when they're seeking medical or prescription coverage. Uh we also recommend that
077the district continue to make that $600 contribution into the health savings account. Again, this helps to um helps employees with the first dollar coverage nature of the high deductible health plan. Uh it also um it also helps to promote savings in those uh bank accounts. The one difference to the recommendation that we're making this year from last year is last year there was a $600 contribution at the beginning of the plan year. Our recommendation is is that you make a $300 contribution at the start of the plan year and then uh $50 per month from March to August. That just helps with if you have employee turnover because those accounts are are portable for employees. So when the district puts in money for those accounts, they they go they can take that money with them.
078It's not like the um it's not a use it or or lose it uh type of savings account. Um and then finally the employee pay the employee voluntary benefits those are uh paid for by the employees. There are no changes to rates on those plans. So, we recommend that you um um renew those plans as it as is with the exception of the vision plan uh which is going to see enhanced benefits for the next plan year. And with that, if there's any questions, I'm happy to try and answer them for you. questions. No questions. Well, thank you very much. Have a good evening. Thank you. This is an action item. Do I have a motion? I'll go make motion made by Wilbur Ruth to uh approve the employee health insurance benefits voluntary products and
079contribution strategy for the plan 2025 2026 seconded by by Jeff Ortiz. All in favor? I I any opposed? None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. I would like to pause us for just a moment of silence, please. Giso Springs ISD did have a student, our beautiful Miss Ava Aila, who passed and um we love Ava and we would like to honor her with just a moment of silence, please. Thank you. Uh item 13, executive session, uh discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code, section 551.001. Um, a personnel matters, discussion of resignation, retirements, leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees. Discussion regarding third party audit in connection with the varsity cheer and student council group accounts and former CSH CSHS teacher and cheer sponsor and matters
080related there too. and consider superintendent's recommendation for elementary assistant principal. Uh B uh student government code will take a will take place for deliberation regarding safety and security including safety personnel systems andor devices or security audit. We have discussion regarding purchase of emergency law enforcement equipment and vehicle for Kisa Springs CISD Police Department and matters related there too and consideration of future board meeting minutes. Time is 7:38. We are now in executive session. time is 9:54. We're back from executive session. Do I have any motion? Do I have a motion for the uh to consider superintendent's recommendation for the elementary assistant principal? Motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Aldoria to approve the superintendent recommendation for elementary assistant principal Alyssa Rodriguez. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries on the discussion regarding purchase of
081emergency law enforcement equipment for vehicle. Wait, sorry on the discussion. Okay. on the discussion of the purchase of of law enforcement equipment for the Karisa Springs CSD Police Department. Do I have a motion? I go to make a motion to approve the purchases the purchase of the safety equipment for the law enforcement. Second motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Noise Zarate to approve the purchase of emergency law enforcement equipment for the Ciso Springs CS CSC Police Department as discussed in executive session. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Item 15, adjourn. To adjourn. Motion. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz. Second. Seconded by Noisar to adjurnn. All in favor? I. We are journed.