001Wilbur Cruz, no Aldor, Michael Orgas, Jeffrey Ortiz, Anita Franco. We have a quorum. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. Thank you. We'll start with public comment. Okay, we don't have any public comment. Uh item five, student staff recognition. Uh superintendent student ambassadors recognition is first. Uh yes, earlier this evening we uh recognized the student ambassadors. This is a group of students from fourth grade through 12th grade who have been part of the uh group that meets monthly. Uh they represent all of our campuses and they're able to share all the wonderful celebrations we have and the great things going on with instruction, extracurriculars, but they also get to voice their concerns. Uh it's a way to build student leadership and to build student voice. And so we did
002recognize them earlier uh 44 of them. And so I just like to take this opportunity to let the board know that we appreciate their support in uh all of the different committees and councils that we've created this year in order to bring unity for us in the in the district. So thank you board. Is there any student ambassador who's still here? Yes. Okay. So please come up and let's get a picture with the board please. Hello, I'm Joey Gandu. I'm the principal at Ciso Springs High School and I we want to recognize some students first. So, will our culinary students please come up? up there. We have Laya, Cassandra, and Lexi. So, they have two certifications to begin with. They have the food science and the meat science, right? But the reason I'm I'm going
003to recognize them is because throughout the entire year this year and last year, they fed the district, right? They they were the main three seniors for culinary arts and every every time um an event happened, they were the ones that were serving. So, if you ever got served by our culinary arts department, them three were the ones that did it. So, give them a round of applause. Thank y'all. We're gonna miss y'all. So, I I I did ask uh Miss Himenez to come and she wanted to do a speech. She said, "No, I'm going to get all teeyed." So, she didn't want, but she's already gone through that with them. So, thank you, Miss as well. So, thank you. Moving on, somebody I do want to recognize is uh Miss Martha Medina. She will be
004retiring. She will be retiring after 40 plus years. 33 at Ciso Springs High School. 40 44 years, Miss Medina. Who's counting, right? Miss Yes. And Miss Medina was the brains of our library. She had kept it decorated. She kept up with the books. Uh we even have a Christmas tree that's been up for like 10 years, but every year changes themes like like spring break, um even graduation. So, we're going to miss that tree, Miss Medina. We're going to miss you. Thank you for everything that you've done. [Applause] Do you remember me? I got my ear pulled a few times and I deserved it. I'm not going to lie. I deserved it. But she pulled my ear a few times. [Applause] tonight and she keeps reminding me of that. So, congratulations on that, too. And
005mom. Okay, I want to call a few teachers up now. There's there's a few, but I'm going to divide them into two categories. Okay. First, um, San Juanita, go ahead and go up there. Uh, Guadalupe Himenez and Darien [Applause] Alvarado. Miss Hera is everywhere. If you go to our events, she's there. Uh, sometimes it's 6 o'clock and I'm about to leave. She's there. She's asking, "What can I do to help you? What What do you need? Can I help you? I'll do it. I'll do it." Thank you, uh, Miss Himenez. A lot of us have gained weight. Thanks to Miss Himenez, she h she feeds the district. She feeds us. Anything she'll say, "I'll do it. Don't worry about it. I'll do it." A lot of it might come from her pocket and she doesn't
006mind, but she's told me, "I don't care. I love what I do. I love it. This is a passion. I'll feed whoever if there's the district." She does that. Miss Alvarado, any extracurricular things that we need to do? I got it. I got you. I got you. Facebook, that's that's who runs Facebook. She runs our Facebook. She's making our school look great with all the posts and all that. So, she great job on all that. We have uh awards on t on Thursday. She said, "I got it. Don't worry about it. You do what you need to do. Let me take care of it." Thank you, Miss Alvarado, for all that. [Applause] The next bunch, Margot Gonzalez, Christina Variel, Tiana Chaidz, Cassandra Gonzalez, [Music] Aurora Nahiraa, and Victoria Gyos. There was some things that happened
007that I can't get too specific on, but there was some things that happened throughout the year that I had to make changes. And I say through the year, but but and Miss Miss Gyos is walking way over there. So, there's things that happened throughout the year that I had to make changes in January. talking to our superintendent, talking to our HR, these guys automatically jumped and said, "I got you. Don't worry about it. I got you." And not once did they complain. Not once did they ask why. Not once did they say, "Are am I going to get paid more?" Not once they said, "We'll do it." Thank you for stepping up to that leadership role. That means a lot for Cariso Springs students, our kids. That's what it's about. Thank you for taking that
008leadership role. Thank you for all that. You guys are awesome. Thank you. [Applause] And here comes Miss Gyos. Same thing Miss Gyos also picked up in January and helped us out. And this is all at January, guys. At the last minute, January, February, these guys jumped and and and assisted. So, thank y'all. [Applause] Thank you guys. That's it for Ciso Springs High School. If we can call up our UIL who's presenting our UIL team, Miss Garza. I guess we are. I'll talk. So if you receive the certificate, come go ahead and come up. Any UIO participants, please come up that. Yeah. Any UIO whether you have a certificate or not. [Applause] Ladies and gentlemen, this is our district champion UIL team. Five pete. Five years in a row. If they're seniors, they did it four
009years in a row. If they're juniors, three years in a row, they're going to do a So, these are our five pete district champions. These are district champions UIL team. [Applause] Let's take another picture. AI was not in the picture. anyone else in UIO? No. UIL champions. Five Pete, five-time district champions. We look for a six, right? You guys that are juniors carrying a team, six feet, is that is that a such thing? If not, we're going to make it a such thing, right? Um, academic excellence, all the hard work you put behind it. Thank you. Going above and beyond representing Cariso Springs High School or Cariso Springs CISD the correct way. Thank you very much. And and a testament to the parents, too. Thank you all parents for that. [Applause] Yeah. Yes. Can we
010have Annette Guerrera come up, please? Gera, I'm sorry. Gera, come up. Okay. Good evening, board president Anita Franco, board member, Superintendent Rose Pearson, to all guests, staff, and administrators. On behalf of Workers Compensation Solutions and Curiso Springs City ISD, I want to thank you for the opportunity to honor one of our employees who has made the outstanding contributions to our organization's culture on safety. This year, the safety the safe employee recognition campaign or SERC again gave us the opportunity to recognize and reward employees who demonstrated safety on the job. It is my great honor and privilege to recognize our outstanding member of our team today, Miss Annette Gera, as the recipient of the SCC Honor Role Award. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you very much. Okay. and coach Gonzalez couldn't make it today. So, on behalf
011of Coach Gonzalez, um we're going to call out first of all uh Mr. Karinas to introduce the golf regional qualifiers. Thank you, Mr. Kinas. Round of applause. I can't hear you. I'm waiting for the clear the room to clear out. Makes it easier to talk in front of all of y'all. Um, I have a couple of kiddos to recognize for tennis. I'm not sure if they are here. Well, I have tennis, too. Okay. Mr. Ku has a tennis. I'll take care of the golf. Uh, we had 10 individuals come out. We had one of them advanced to region. I'm so proud of the young man. He worked all summer. He's still working now. He asked me if he had to come to the meeting because he wanted to go practice golf. I said, "Yes, we
012have to be there." So, uh, he's just that he's that individual. I'm proud to have him and I'm so glad to have him for one more year. This award goes out to Abraham Hunter Urenda. [Applause] Thank you, Hunter. If you need tips, Mr. Hudrigas is pretty good at golf, too. To present the track regional qualifiers, Mr. Coach Valerio. Thank you, sir. In the area of track and field, we have uh on the boy side. Um they qualified in the four by 400. We have Julia Cypo, Harry Bberto Puente, JC [Music] Carisales and Wayne Perez. On the girls side regional qualifiers, we have Sophia Reyes in the 400 meter dash. And we have Ariana Rivera, our mile uh district and area champion as two and two mile district and area champion as well and regional qualifier.
013Thank you, Ariana. to go take a picture. While they're taking that picture, I I also want to congratulate Mr. Coach Valerio. He will be retiring this year, too. He's Give him a round of applause. Thank you, Coach. We've been We've been I've known Coach Ala for a long time and we've coached together a few times and um he's always been a great person. He's always been a a great mentor as well. So, thank you, Coach Valerio. On behalf of Coach Medina for tennis, we're going to recognize Melody Gammon and Logan Ernnandez Jr. who are not present today. And that concludes our students. Thank you. Thank y'all. She's doing a lot better. So we are on we're on announce then we're around six. Okay, we are on item six, announcements, communications, presentations. We have the Zonda
014demographic study presentation by Mr. Paul Cash. Okay, thank you. Can you hear me? Okay. Oh, it's good. Just closer. Okay, good evening, Miss Pearson, board president Franco, board members, administrative team. I am Paul Cash with Zonda Demographics, and I want to kind of go through a a demographic report that we did for you guys. I hate being back this far. As an old math teacher, I'm probably going to be drawn to the board at some time, but uh that should be okay. Too many things for me to operate here. And so, um w thanks for having me. Uh I do represent Zonda Demographics. Zonda Demographics. We've been uh doing uh demographic reports for almost 20 years. Uh we used to be Templeton Demographics. Bob Templeton started the company and uh we're the the number one
015demographer in Texas. And so uh I'm excited to be with them. Just some fun facts about Ciso Springs in general. Uh over 8,000 population. Uh it looks like the median age is about 38.9, median home value 89,000. And then we start talking about uh the the populations, the generations that represent your population. And you can see here the baby boomers are about 20.4%. You have our Gen Xers. Gen Xers are 45 to 60 year olds. They make up about 18.7%. You have millennials, you know, they get roughed up pretty good when everybody talks about millennials, but they're almost 20% of your population. And then Gen Z, that's age 9 to 26, they represent about 25%. And so that's just some fun facts that came from the census. One of the measures that we use to
016kind of look at the economic conditions of a of a area is unemployment rate. and your unemployment rate uh in Demick County uh has risen over the past year from 5.4 to 6.4 um which is still lower than it is in Eagle Pass. Um lower than Eagle Pass but higher than the San Antonio area. So um 6.4 is is you know it's it's it's rising which is never good. When we look at the growth across the state of Texas in regard to school enrollment, uh there's a a weird uh phenomena going on here. And if I can go over here, you can look two years ago, there were almost a 100,000 students two years after COVID. But these last two years in the state, there's only been 12,700, then 13,000 new students. uh the population
017of public schools growing, but it's not growing at near the rate that it has been in the last couple years. And then and that's before, you know, the vouchers and all that stuff uh gets uh got passed. Region 20, which is what you guys are in, uh it has a lot of orange color. A lot of orange color means that there's not really that much growth in the region at all. And it shows here um that region 20 has seen a 5-year enrollment decrease and and so has CISO Springs recently. But let's talk about one reason for that. Uh this slide. We we just added this slide and one reason we do that is because the state of Texas does offer uh Texas virtual school for students. And so you can see this last year,
018this current school year, there's over 57,000 students that have elected not to go to their home campuses and attend a virtual school. And that doesn't count the independent virtual schools that are not associated with the Texas virtual school. One strength of you guys economy here is the Eagle Eagle Ford Shell. You know, it's a big economic boost for you guys. And then also another great addition to the community that's supposed to open next school year is the Demick County Sports Complex. You know, any these kind of these kind of extracurricular uh facilities um have a tendency to bring you know economy to the district to the to the area. When we talk about housing in the Ciso Springs CISD, um last year there were 59 homes that were sold and those were all existing homes.
019Um and so that's down from the last two years. And when we look at pricing home prices, the average existing home sale price last year was right at $160,600, which was down by almost 10% from 2023. And then this year, there's been a few houses that have sold that have averaged a little higher, uh, but but it's still pretty pretty obviously young in the year. Well, we're in May. It's almost halfway through. Um, but the housing prices have actually gone down last year. Right now they're they're a little bit high. One of the things that that Zonda does is they're they own all the housing market ac uh housing data. And so one of the ways there's two ways that we really make enrollment projections is we look at what what is the what homes
020are being built in the area and what um plat submitted for future building. And then we also look at kindergarten uh and birth rate. So when we look at so we're going to look at both of those. The first we want to look at is um there is not any current building of homes or future build building of homes in the Ciso Springs area. The only uh construction that we found were three duplexes. So that totals six. And so um that you know that that's not So there there's we don't expect a lot of growth in regard to that. But one thing I do want to look at is where um some areas that where your students are is we have this multif multif family yield analysis. And so if you look at this picture
021here, you have the red um the red color. You have West Westwood Village, which is red, and you have Ciso Springs Apartments, which is red. Both of those areas have a 0.75 or more student yield. Here's what that means. That means for every 10 occupied homes in those two, Westwood Village and Ciso Springs, you have seven and a half students. So really 75% of the occupied units there uh have students involved. Then when you look at the orange and I have two of those red sand springs and then the SB RV park they are between 0.5 and 7. So if you just took the low end for every unit that's occupied there half of them have students that are involved that live there. And so that's just kind of how the multif family works. When
022you look at manufactured homes um in 23 you guys had 17 that were installed. In 2024, there were 18 installed and then there's been seven multif manufactured homes that have been installed in your area this year. So, one of the things we like to look at is we take the student data that you guys send it to send to us and we geocode it so we know where every student is in your district. And and so I think Miss Pearson actually had a chance to use this slide. So, where are your students coming from? 1521 students or almost 82% of them reside within the city of Ciso Springs city limits but then you have 177 students that reside in Big Wells and then you have 107 students that reside in Asherton and so the bulk
023of the students that attend uh CSCISD are still coming from the city of Ciso Springs. This slide here kind of shows you the uh this is a tea report and this is simply students that reside in Ciso Springs CISD that go to school somewhere else or students that reside somewhere else and come to school in Ciso Springs ISD. And you can see here this school year 22 students actually attend from outside the district and 24 uh attend schools outside of the the district. But I want you to know that Hallsville ISD, in case you Googled where is Hallsville ISD, it's actually in East Texas. Uh Hallsville ISD is a virtual school, online school only. And so half of the students that don't attend uh Cariso Springs ISD that live here are are are taking classes
024online. So just briefly, I want to talk about private schools. You know, that's the big thing with the vouchers passing of of how that's going to impact Ciso Springs uh doesn't really have a a big impact of of private schools. Uh but there are uh this last year there were 30,000 students just in region 20 uh that attended private schools and that's mostly around just around the city the city of San Antonio. So I told you that we look at housing market but we also look at birth rate when we start talking about making enrollment projections. So what we do is is obviously five years ago uh in the county of dem hospitals had so many births that happened and so we actually just use a formula that says five years later how many of
025those are going to be in kindergarten and then that is a big factor that drives the really drives the projections for the for the rest of the time. When you have a big kindergarten class it affects you for 12 years. And so you can see here from the graph uh that we tried to just keep the uh next year uh this year next year it's going to be a bigger kindergarten class we're projecting then it's going to be down a little bit and then it starts to level out. But this is something that we certainly watch for the ne each year to see how that's going to impact us. So let's look at the let's look at the enrollment for this year. So you can see that you guys uh in October present uh submitted
026that you had 1851 students. The two largest classes were fifth and sixth grade. That's unusual. Typically your largest class is your ninth grade class because you have some that have four and a half credits and needed the fifth credit and didn't quite to be get to be a 10th grader. But if you notice, one reason that ninth grade was smaller is because 8th grade was a really small class of 120. The smallest class in all of the district last year was eighth grade. So consequently, when they go to ninth grade, uh they also remain a fairly small class. The two largest groups, um the biggest gains were from 8th to 9th grade and then from kindergarten to first. So let's look at what does that look like. So we start making projections here. We had
0271863. Uh really my enrollment projections keep it pretty flat for the next 10 years. It goes up a little bit. It goes down a little bit. But if you look at this, this is how one way to look at it. You went down 52 students this year, but you graduated you only graduated 109 12th graders. Okay? And then you brought in 125 kindergarteners. So that's really good is the kindergartens need to be what that's really uh has the greatest impact on their enrollment projections. And you can see here, you know, I talked about that uh kindergarten class that we're projecting to be large next year. Look how it'll impact. It'll be one of the largest groups uh and really all the way through for 10 years. it'll have a positive impact on on their projections.
028So when we look at the campus u you guys your campuses have a a great functional and um maximum uh capacity with the projections that we've put together no schools are even within 80% 85% of of reaching capacity and so really what I want to summarize is um economics seem to be fairly good here in regard to the the the eagle forge shale Um there's not housing developments that are happening yet. And so the in five years enrollment projections to be about 1,856 and then in 10 years to be about 1860. So really to remain fairly level for the next 10 years. So if you guys have any questions, I'll be happy to entertain any questions that you may have. question. I have a question, sir. Uh I don't know. Uh if you did a
02910-year study, does this give us any any indication for more than 10 years? What what just off the top of your head? What do we look like past 10 years? Well, um 10 years forecasts are really pretty tough to make to begin with. Um it's all going to depend on uh if they're continues to not be any housing growth in the district. Uh then it's all going to be related to birth rate. uh because because uh you know last you the last two years you've kind of lo gone down in housing sales and so it it's hard to make a prediction. Uh it's really hard to even project past five years. Uh really gets more difficult when you do that. Um you know it's just going to be important to to pay attention to how
030the birth rate in the kindergarten and the elementary kinder and first grades look in regard to enrollment. uh if they start to dip, then they're going to have, you know, the same way that we're projecting next year's class to have a 10-year impact that's positive. When you have a small class, the same thing happens. The same thing, you know, with that eighth grade class that was small last year, consequently, you have a small a smaller ninth grade class, which is which is very unusual. So um I really can't say you know um I really can't make any real projections beyond what 10 years and and really even 10 years it's difficult. Sorry about that. No sir, not at all. Thank you. I enjoyed your presentation. Well, it's a lot of numbers and and and I
031tried to go pretty quick, but you guys can read through it and and any questions that you have, Miss Pearson can always uh follow up with me as well. Any other questions? Not so much, not so much a question, but a a comment here. What kind of stands out or stood out to me, 160 of our students reside at 612 multif family units across the district. So, if we need to go out and spread messages and knock on doors, we know where we can find our majority of I mean, a good chunk of our kiddos. That That was a a good Yeah. good numbers there. Great observation. Well, almost 82% of them aren't very far from uh they're all within the city limit, so they're they shouldn't be that hard to find. Thank you, Mr.
032Cash. Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, we'll go to item seven, superintendent briefing. Okay, so here we have our career ready and college prepared congratulations to our Southwest Texas graduates and we are very very excited that we had uh over 30 uh graduates of at Southwest this past Saturday. Very proud of them. And then the next one is from our the next slide is from our award ceremony where we were able to um recognize many of our students that are have made their decision and are going to be attending uh the colleges of their choice. The next one is also a picture of our graduate seniors at their awards ceremony. U this is our honors that received their honor cords that evening. And then the next slide is our 10 top
03310% students. Uh that also includes our next picture which is our validictorian Christian Diaz, our saludiatoran Tristan Navado and Donovan Garcia, our historian. And we're very proud of their high academic achievement. Then the next slide is our student ambassador seniors that received their cords. Uh Kenya Chong, Andrea Dieolita, and Christian Diaz. And then for the superintendent uh award which are students of service uh is Diego Lita and Sasha Rodriguez. And uh Diego would be going into the workforce. He's looking into going into the studying the border patrol and Sasha will be joining the Air Force. And then the next slide is our retiree banquet. Thank you Mr. Odrizz and Mr. Morones for joining us. our our uh retirees. We we calculated the years and it was over 200 years of experience in the district. We
034had a pleasure recognizing these fine educators and we wish them the well. We wish them the best in their next uh chapter. And then we had our uh elementary district teacher of the year, Miss Vega, who we were able to surprise on Thursday of last week. And we're very proud of Miss Vega. She does our arts at the elementary and just spreads a lot of love, goes above and beyond and uh representing our district. Then the next picture is Miss Amanda Santos who is our district secondary teacher of the year. We were able to surprise her also last Thursday. Uh she teaches at the high school and also coaches and we're very grateful for her leadership as well. And that concludes the U superintendent updates other than the bond update. And I do have a
035bond update. We uh did our traffic study and you can find all of our information on our traffic study on our website. On May 29th, we will be holding our um geotechnical report. The geotechnical report will cover the highlevel review of geo report findings. It will also cover the civil design revolving around the geo report. This will have discussions around what type of pillars are recommended by the architect and why, what type of slab and what type of grade the architect is representing recommending and why. And all of that will be at the May 29th geotechnical presentation. And that is the update uh for the bond at this time. Thank you, Mrs. Pearson. We'll move on to item eight, reports,formational items, starting with the financial briefing. Mrs. Diaz, thank you. Uh, so for April 2025
036executive summary, uh, we show that for the general fund, we have collected 93.89% of our revenue, uh, and 28.64% of our expenses at this point. The reason that that is low is because we make our chapter 41 payment uh in August. However, if we were to exclude the chapter 41 payment, we're at about 59.97% of our of our budgeted expenses at this point in time. So, we're 66% of the year in food service. We have collected 79% of our budgeted revenue revenue and our expenses are a little bit higher than where we are as far as time that has passed. We're at 71.01%. Uh and for interest and syncing we are at 99% of realized revenue. We do have a budget amendment to present to you later in on the agenda where we are realigning
037that. So we re-evaluated that. Thank you Mr. Dory. uh and we are 37% of budgeted expenses there because we've made one bond payment, the second bond payment will be in August. Also want to add that although food service is at 79% at this point uh in revenue and 71% in expenses, uh Miss Karen Marin has brought forth a a budget proposal to Miss Pearson in regards to uh paying our summer staff from the summer fund a grant 242. So it is an allowable expense and so we should be uh recognizing a reduction in our expenses this summer from general fund compared to what we've done in a few in the past few years. So good job on that side. Uh for the general fund revenues collected to date is 59,46,718. Our expenses as of April
038are 19,691 I mean 19,691,166. So revenue over expenses we have um 39,500 I'm sorry 355,552. Uh so that's where we are as an overview for general fund. On food service we've collected year-to- date 1.5 million. Our expenses are 1.6 6 million at this point. So the revenue over expenses for food service is under by 160,000. So at this point this is the amount of the general fund transfer. Um of course we still have couple months more to go for the end of the year. On the next page is a detailed uh well actually in it's a generalized listing of the revenues and expenses for the general fund where I'm breaking down the 59.046 5946,718. So here you can see that the local revenue which includes our local tax collections interest and so forth uh you'll
039see the 57.8 8 million, the state at a million, and then uh federal at 31,906. And then on the expenditure side, you can see by function code, you can see what our expenses are. Uh I'm not going to go through those line by line. You have those uh for your review. And then you can see that our uh what our recapture payment is budgeted at if you wanted to take a look at that number there. Okay. And we'll move on to the next page. The next page is the detail for food service. Uh local taxes, that's alle cart sales, local sales, adult sales, 66,628, state at 38,000, and the federal revenues at 1.398. And then the expenses like I mentioned earlier is 1,664. Okay. Uh the next page is the detail for debt service. Our
040debt service collections on on our taxes are 11.2 million and our um expenses for the first part of the bond payment for this year is 4.4 million. For the board budget amendments, this is basically an ongoing listing of board approved budget amendments that have come forth to you for approval. And so we will at the very bottom you'll see the ones that we'll be presenting later uh later today on the agenda here in a few minutes on the special maintenance projects. There's no change from the last time the board approved 350 at superintendent approval and so our subsequent report to you as a board we have not had any changes since February. So our balance out of the 350,000 is 254. I just wanted to add that that's been uh extremely helpful as far as
041us being able to react quickly to emergencies. So, thank you for that. On the next page, you'll see our year-to-date interest earned. So, uh on the first part, we have uh totals by fund and then also by month. You can see through the year. So we're collecting, you know, between five and 600,000 every month across the three the the various funds which is general fund, interest and syncing and construction. So in April we collected 631,000 in interest. So you can see that total and then on the bottom part I'm showing you by year. So last year at this point we collected 772,000. This year through April it's 631,000. So it's a running total so you can just have a comparison. On the next page we go into the construction financials. So in construction like I
042mentioned before in in the previous month the bottom part is the subtotals for 2324 and the this fiscal year 2425 we've collected uh 2.9 million in revenue which that would be attributable to our um interest and then on the bottom you can see that we've already made a payment on our uh transportation the vehicles or the buses that we had ordered the 108 I think it was uh vehicles and then on capital building and construction which are our expenses uh 1.1 million and that 1.1 million is identified on the next page and you'll be able to see the two years the listing of 2324 and then 2425 and that's the conclusion of the overview. Okay. You want to continue to the Yes. discussion and review of monthly tax collection report. Yes. Thank you. So, uh
043on the top part on maintenance and transportation on maintenance and operations, this is our uh M tax collection. And you can see here that we projected to collect 56,445 215. This includes the current and prior year and penalties and interest. Um, for the current month we've collected 107,000, but for the year-to- date we've collected 55,845,000. On the bottom part of the report, you'll see our interest in syncing fund 511 report. I made a note on the side that we are uh presenting a budget amendment to you uh in a few minutes on that. But uh we have collected so far 10,96,732 Okay, I'll proceed to vendors over 50,000. Um, for the vendors over 50,000, we're reporting to the board any vendors that have exceeded the 50,000 threshold. We start the year by presenting to you
044uh vendors that may exceed 50,000 and the procurement of how they've been procured. And uh we're required to also submit to you subsequent reporting should we have any other vendors. But this is our ongoing list as of April 30th and vendors that have been approved. Any that are not on the list we bring to the board for approval to exceed 50,000. We don't have any of such at this point other than these are our vendors that have exceeded at this point in time. On the next uh few pages are are the check register. I will not go through those in details, but if you have any questions for me, I can either try to answer or make note and and get back to you if you have any questions. Okay. You want me to continue,
045ma'am? Anybody have any questions on that? No, you can continue. Okay. No questions. Okay. Do I do I keep going or are we going to go to consent agenda, Miss Pearson, on the agenda or are you me to take care of the rest of my items? It's up to you. As far as following the order of the board agenda, which we're going to go to nine. We'll go to nine. Okay, we'll go ahead and go to item nine, the approval for consent agenda items. Uh a consideration of minutes, the minutes of the regular board meeting of April 15, 2025. Madam President, there no more questions. Uh I'll make a motion to uh approve the minutes of the regular board meeting on April 15, 2025. Okay. Second. Okay. Okay. A motion made by Aldoria, seconded by
046Jeff Ortiz to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting of April 15, 2025. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Okay. Now, item 10, discussion and possible action items. A. consider approval for the Kisa Springs CI CISD staff development minutes waiver for 2025 2026 school year. Uh good evening uh board members uh Superintendent Pearson. So, uh, what you have before you is a request for staff development minutes waiver that allows districts the flexibility to use up to 2100, uh, instructional minutes annually for job embedded high-quality professional development without reducing the required instructional uh, operational minutes. This flexibility supports education educator training during the school year to improve student outcomes while still preserving the our current or adopted instructional calendar. So we have designated uh four days October 3rd 2025, November 10th, January
0475th, 2026 and February 13th as these days. Uh with the board's approval, an expedited waiver will be submitted to authorize these days for professional development days for our teachers. I'll make a motion to approve. Okay. Okay. Okay, we have a motion made by Michael Origas, seconded by Oscar Moronz to to approve for the Kisa Springs CISD staff development minutes waiver for the 2025 2026 school year. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. B. Consider approval of budget amendment for the final 2023 2024 recapture payment of 544,396. Thank you. So, um, every year we go through a process, uh, in paying our chapter 41 payments to TEA. And so this request and and requesting funding from our general fund fund balance is 544,000 $544,396. U this is for the final
048settle up payment for the 2023 2024 school year. I have a question, Madame President. So, this this amount will be uh reflected uh on the 23 24 uh expenditures, right? You're asking if it'll be reflected in that year. It'll actually be recognized and reflected in this year. This year? In this year. Yeah. So, it won't be uh deducted from the beginning balance uh beginning fund balance of 24 million. It'll be part of the current year. Yes, sir. Mhm. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Do you want me to go over the process? Yes, please. Okay, sir. All right. So, uh, if you look on the following page, you should have a payment ledger that that has a whole, you know, a bunch of numbers and dates on it. That is that is our TEA uh foundation school
049program payment ledger. It shows how the recapture amount has changed throughout time for the 2324 school year. And I'll give you some key points here. If you look at the very beginning in June of 2023, the the TEA initiates the initial chapter 41 payment. So it'd be like basically almost like next month we should get an estimate of what we should be or what they in their in TEA's eyes views as what we would be owing them based on their calculation. So it starts in June with an initial uh state funding amount. It's an estimate and it's usually based on the April preliminary value. So you know how we get the preliminary values from the from the from the uh demit central appraisal district and so they have that information and they initiate this first
050payment in September when we certify our July values. You'll see that it went down from 58.7 million to 49.4 million. And so that happened in September from the July certified values and any other PES data that we might be submitting. And then the next big significant change happened in about um February of 2024. And you'll see right around the middle of the line of the page, it went from 49 million to 41.8 million. At that point, uh that's uh probably in a reaction to additional information and the PES snapshot information that goes out in in the fall, which is in October. And then if you'll notice, we make the payment at the end of the year in August. and we settle it at that point and that's why you where you see that zero dollar
051on that page. So that's at the end of the fiscal year just like this year in August we'll make the payment that we uh owe based on all of these assumptions and then in September as soon as we think we're done tea will uh send us a survey for the tax information. That t tax information survey is a survey that we put together as a board uh right right before you adopt next year's tax rate. We're required to do that before you approve the tax rate. And that's where we take our collections usually through June and then we project what we think we're going to collect for the next two months which is an estimate. And then TEA will then uh send us another nearfal report based on that tax collection estimate. And we usually
052pay that in in October. And you will see that this year we paid747,702 which was brought to the board at that time. And now um on or about April after our audit is done. Our audit is done in January, February. We submit it to the federal clearing house. TEA gets their report of our audit report. At that point in time, they can see what we truly collected in taxes and any final ADA or uh student information. All of that information is settled at TEA and they send us a final bill. We'll receive the communication from them. And at this point, they're saying, "Okay, your final settle amount for all true figures um is 544,000." So, if you'll if you pay attention to the process here, it's really important because right now we're entering budget season,
053right? And so, we've gone through our budget workshop. We'll go over it again in our next budget workshop on June the 24th. And I want to say that I was so glad that our demographers presented that information because they took a big load off of me trying to project where we will be with students. So, we know that that's fairly flat and we know that we're presenting a conservative budget to you. But during that part, we are estimating what we think our chapter 41 payment will be based on the TEA um numbers that they send us. And then remember also we uh also take our summary of fund summary of finance template through Moch and Casey and they help us estimate as best as possible these figures. But we'll get changes throughout the year because
054budget is one thing then the reality is another. budget is our best most educated guess that we can project in revenues and student attendance and enrollment and then every year we you know we start to monitor how are we doing with attendance how are tax collections and we continue throughout the year. So that's a brief update on how and why are are we at this point. Okay. Thank you. Second. Okay, we have a motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Noi Zarate to approve the budget amendment for the final 2023 2024 recapture payment of $544,396. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Item C, consider approval of the 2024 2025 mid-year budget amendments. Okay. So, on the first page, uh, you'll see where I'm moving 89,600 from one function code to
055another. And on the page right behind it, you'll see a working copy for reference. The working copy for reference is what the board approved at the March meeting. And I inadvertently coded 61 that should have been a 53. So, this is a correction uh to that function code. So it does not change uh anything from fund balance or anything like that. I'm just I I should have typed a 53 there where we had a 61. So that was my error. On the next one, the budget amendment 2521. That is a cross function a amendment which is internal from within our own uh approved board budget but again crossing from function 36 to function 81. And this is to pay a secondary uh another portion of the invoice that we received from Hela's regarding the boring
056and testing. It was a geo study that was done. It's another subsequent piece. So we're just moving it to the right account code under construction under 199. Not the construction fan fund out of the 199 construction. Okay. The next board budget amendment number 2522. Uh this is what I was alluding to earlier when we were reviewing the interest and syncing fund tax collections. Uh we reanalyzed and I'm showing you uh the worksheet where we projected. We used the May and June, July and August projections from the previous year with the exception of June of last year. We used May for two years in a row because we actually collected a million dollars in June last year, but that was due to some settle up with uh with an a company that made an adjustment with
057um w with our demit central appraisal district at that time. So based on our projections, we did our best and we estimate an additional 165,664 in tax collections for interest and syncing. And that is a summary of the uh budget amendments at this time. President, I'll make a motion to approve. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. Just quick. I'm sorry, Miss Diaz, if you could with uh 2519. Yes. I'm sorry. Could you reexlain 2519, please? The budget amendment. Thank you. Yes. I see the information here. I just I might have too zoned out. Thank you. Yes. So on 2519, if you look at the page after that, you will see the budget amendment that I presented at the middle of the year. In the middle of the year, I had presented to the board that we
058would be analyzing our budget at midpoint to make sure that we don't have such drastic changes at the end of the year. We want to periodically monitor where we are in the middle of the year. And I made a typo on function 61. I outlined that on the second sheet that says working copy for reference only. So what I'm presenting to you now is if the board could consider an approve to actually uh I'm changing the code from function 61. It should have been 53. So, that was just a typo on my uh budget amendment that I presented to the board in March, but it does not change our fund balance. Okay, maybe let me let me re repose my question. Okay. Technology and community services. So, did I not not ask that correctly? I
059apologize if I did not. Okay. So function function 53 is technology and function 61 is community, right? So when I realigned the budget based on on whatever expenses we had at that point and projections to the end of the year, for example, if we had a vacancy that was budgeted at the beginning of the year or any other certain expenses, I was evaluating those in the one that reads working copy for reference only. So this is based on that analysis that we did in March. And so I inadvertently Okay. took it from the wrong spot. Yeah. I think I was going more of the community services encompasses what what are we covering? Yeah. Uh so community services um Miss Sudas, can you help us a little bit on the community services function 61? Those are
060meals um some certain supplies um anything that we can't justify. Okay. So, the areas that we're not paying through the federal programs for federal for family. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss. Thank you. Yes, sir. Sorry. But for clarity, Miss Diaz, that was the wrong code. It should have been technology. Correct. Correct. And then I have a question on the on the 2522 where he says just to understand like you said it's a reduction from fund balance and it's an it's adding to the revenues. So that was that amount came from for the uh let me go there ma'am. Yes for the interest and syncing that will increase fund balance in the interest and syncing because we're expecting to collect more. If you look at our tax collection report from interest and
061syncing, our budget balance is already negative because we're collecting above what we had projected. So this is to realign that for the remaining months. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? President, I'll make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 mid year budget. Okay, we have a motion by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Aldoria to approve the 2420 25 midyear budget amendments. All in favor? I I opposed none. Motion carries. Thank you. Now we'll go to D. consider approval to release the final payment, excuse me, of Helis Construction in Inc. in the amount of 104,450 for completion of turf installation at the district's baseball and softball fields. Yes, ma'am. Uh our board policy requires that uh board approval for prior to the final payment for construction projects. Therefore, uh it is our our recommendation for your consideration.
062to approve. So this is just the final payment to be done with with Yes. Yes. Uh and so we're presenting uh you can see the the certificate for payment. You know, we will make sure that everything is properly properly signed and documented. Uh we also have a waiver that they should be notorizing which they did submit but we're going to ask for their submission uh for with the signature on that. So but once you know we'll make sure everything is executed but uh we do need your approval for final payment and yes we have a question. uh everything that we that our AD and Mr. Reese was also here very heavily involved that we pointed out was all fixed and repaired. And then we also have the warranties which I also shared with the board
063as well. And um there was one particular spot on the baseball field that they were kind of watching. They said that they felt that it would kind of even itself out. And when I last talked to AD Gonzalez, they felt that it was it was good that that Mr. Reese, is there anything else that you would like to share? Yeah, we did several walkthroughs uh with them and and they came out and fixed each one. They did a total of four different walkthroughs and they've been very responsive with this with this past rain that we had a lot of rain. Was there any issues? Not that I was made aware of of any issues with the rain, Mr. Reese? You had a kickball tournament there today. Thank you, Mr. Re. Thank you. I had a
064pres a question. Miss Franco, I'm sorry. U Miss Pearson, you mentioned there warranty. Without going into fine print details, what can you what does the warranty what does it cover? How many years if you can recall some of that? I'm just just curious. Oh my gosh. I It's 10 years. Okay. And uh it will um if anything pulls up because right now like there's certain parts that are in sections because they're meant to be repaired, right? And so if anything pulls up uh they told us how to properly properly care for it and do the proper maintenance. So anything that was on our fault for not doing the proper maintenance because we do need to roll the rake on it regularly. But those type of things that and they're they're very responsive. They'll still even
065come out to our uh football field. Okay. So, it's been a good partnership. Thank you. And and like if any of those things are not done, does that void the warranty? I'd have to look that at that, Miss Von. I don't know off the top of my head. I'm sorry, but I can I can find that answer for that. Motion made by Wilbur Gus, seconded by Oscar Moronis to approve to release the final payment of Helis Construction Inc. in the amount of $104,450 for completion of the turf installation at the district's baseball and softball fields. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Okay. Item E, consider approval of resolution regarding weather related closure of school. Uh yes, thank you board. So, uh, as you'll recall, uh, on May 8th, we had
066a, uh, severe thunderstorm that had heavy rains and hell, and it resulted in physical closure of our schools and our facilities on Friday, May 9th. So, I'm coming to the board uh to uh approve a resolution uh because employees through the district were ordered not to come to work on that uh totally circumstances beyond their control. uh and uh we did call upon our maintenance departments uh technology department for emergency related services and repairs. And so I'm asking uh the board uh to recognize the need uh to address the wage payments for employees who were idle and were not able to come to work during the emergency closing. Uh and that we pay the employees who were called upon to um work at straight at their rate at their straight rate as permitted by DEA
067local. And this would be for all contractual and non-contractual employees salaried and non-salaried during the emergency closing which was caused by the caused by the inclement weather questions. Okay, I'll second. Motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Michael Origas to approve of the resolution regarding the weather related closure of school. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Item F, consider approval of tuition rate for 2025 2026 pre kindergarten program for ineligible students. Uh yes, school board members. Uh as you know in Texas, the free full day pre kindergarten is mandated for eligible four-year-old students uh that have to meet the criteria that is outlined by the Texas Education Agency. And districts are allowed to offer a tuition based program for students who do not qualify for the free pre kindergarten program. And this districts
068are required to submit the proposed tuition rate to the Texas Education Agency uh Commissioner Mike Morath for approval annually. And so the district does believe that offering a tuition based pre kinder uh garden program for ineligible students will assist our community in providing a high quality education for our young our young learners as these are certified teachers. Currently we have four teachers uh staffed for the 2526 school year. And so we believe that this also could help a lot of our teachers take advantage of this program as well as families uh in Gadiso Springs who would like to have a high quality prekinder program for their four-year-old. And so uh what you have is a drafted letter for uh Mr. for Mike uh Mike Morra, our commissioner, if the board should want to consider a
069tuition rate for the 2526 school year. The numbers we currently have right now are 28 students who have qualified through pre- early registration, 11 students that did not qualify with the criteria and one student that is pending evaluation. And so in total that is uh students currently right now. Uh at 22 students times four teachers we could take 88 students. So um I have heard anecdotally that you know the the district has taken a different stance in some years they will accept non-eligible at no cost and sometimes and other times they will send them away. Uh, and so I don't know if Miss Garcia has anything to add to that, but uh, right now our recommendation is a $4,000 um, for the school year of 2526, which works out uh, where they could pay monthly
070for the 10 months or they could pay the four full thousand, but it's that's the total amount for the whole entire year. Any questions? But right now, you said there's only 40 current students that have Right now 40 total that have applied of of the ones who have applied. Total of the 40, 28 qualify, 11 do not qualify or meet the criteria for the free pre kindergarten program and one is pending evaluation. President Franco, not so much a question, but comment. I know at our prior board meeting, we we did have a lengthy conversation on this an executive session. May I may I may may I ask that we take this back to executive session for just follow-up discussion before we make a decision. Unless unless there's any dis, you know, if if there if
071anyone's opposed, I understand. But if I think Or if we're going to discuss teachers, see, if we're going to discuss the teachers regarding the prek, then we can take it to executive. Well, the language states we're discussing the tuition rate, right? Are we going to are we going to talk about staff in particular? I'm I'm not only if we're going to discuss staff would we be able to take it to executive is what I'm saying. Okay. I think we would talk about staff if we don't have enough kids. What happens to other teachers? Right. And my only reason for asking is just so that that we make a um an an educated decision here. I I want to make sure that everything has been clarified amongst ourselves because I know we had a lot of
072discussion on that and we really hadn't followed up. So that that's my only reason for asking to if if so allow if allowed. Okay. If not I understand. So currently right now we have four teachers uh staffed. If you do the 22 students that would be 88 students. So, if the board uh wants to discuss uh the staffing for these for this position, if that would help the board make a decision, then staffing isn't allowable for close session. Okay. I have a question for Miss Garcia on like I guess when would you know more or less a more accurate count as far as how many prek students? Would that be like until August, would you say, or Usually these are our numbers during the first roundup and when we return in July we start our
073second round up. So then by July we get that other influx of parents that u that register students. So I would say when we return back from July that first week is usually our our second roundup. So Okay. And and and again excuse me I I believe this is what information we were waiting for as well. I I don't I don't want to I again I'm not I'm not for or against. I just want to make sure we make a an ed a wellrounded decision here so that we have all the information needed. I'm sorry. Oh no. I was just saying you mentioned doing another roundup in June. Were you still thinking about doing an additional roundup in June? Yes ma'am. It's been my experience the last three years that we usually get about 30
07430 some odd students that register that first round and then the second round we get even more students. So I I'm I was hoping to do a second round up as well. So when is the last date that gives us the best indication of the number of students that are going to register? I would say when we return in July if we recapture those parents that did not come in during the first roundup session, but we'll even have students I mean we even have parents sometimes that register as far as like the weeks right before school starts. But normally our numbers are pretty set during the summer when we get that second that second group of parents. During the summer, not today in May. No, generally we get about 30 30 some odd every year
075during the April session. And I'm not sure why, but then we'll get the other half usually comes in during the summer. Was it said that our numbers are 40 right now? 40 applicants. Uh we had 40 applicants, 28 qualified based on the eligibility criteria. Uh 11 uh six I want to say six did not eight did not qualify at all. And then there were four that were pending. Of those we had four that um were pending a language assessment. Three did not qualify for the language assessment and we have one student that is still pending their language assessment. So a total of 11 that did not qualify. That did not qualify. and the 28 28 that did and then one pending. So that's that's two classrooms probably. Um yes currently. Yes. right? They didn't meet
076the um the income guidelines or any of the other eligibility which was the language or uh military connected and they didn't meet any of those uh any of those criteria. And if they do meet the criteria of the language but they don't meet the criteria of the income, do they still qualify? Yes, they only have to meet one of those. Uh I believe there's 10 criteria. They only have to meet one and and they're eligible for prek. So let's say they didn't meet the lang the income but they met the language then they qualify. Okay. And by language what do you mean by language? They get tested um in English and if they don't have a good understanding of the language the English language then they qualify. Like if the parent says my child speaks
077another language, then we give them a a language assessment. Thank you, Miss How many? Another question. How many pre-K students were there are there this year? 79, I believe. Yeah, 79. We had a larger group this year than we've had in the past. And of those 79, I believe 15 didn't qualify. Okay. So, as of now, pending, we're looking at two classrooms, right, with the current numbers, but we will get more people that come in in the summer. I'm not sure why they don't come in in the spring, uh, but in the summer they they tend to we tend to get more people coming in to register. How many more? It's just been the pattern the last three years that we usually end up with about 30 and then we bring them all, you know,
078we open it up again and they they register or I'm not sure, but I'm sure we're getting more just based on what we we had our counselors call all of the daycarees. Mrs. DeLeon called all the daycarees and we had a really good number of about maybe 60 students that were going to be coming in to either kinder or first grade. PreK, kinder, pre-K or kinder. So, we're we're expecting more students. Can I add a comment, please? Yes. Um, I know this is very, it's secondary to our important question regarding the education of our students. I just want to add the timeline piece of it. We want to make sure we budget correctly and so I'm just adding that in as far as you consider when to make the decision. Thank you. What is your
079timeline? I mean when when would we have to Well, we have budget workshop on June the 24th for some of those uh expenses, but we will be presenting as we progress more. Okay. We put our final budget in the paper around August the 5th. So sometime in June, we start finalizing our budget with the campuses and principles and through the superintendent. And then in July, we'll make another presentation where we're kind of wrapping up the figures, giving you the overview of total budget revenues and total expenses. And so we would want to be able to consider this should it mean whatever it means regarding budget. Okay. Thank you so much. And and again to my colleagues, I I don't want to push this any further than we have to. I just want to ensure that
080we're making a a a quality decision with all the right information. Yes, I'd say we just I mean if we're going to get about the same numbers I mean and or if we want to wait and look at the numbers, you know, to be sure that we make the right decision, I'd say we just table it for the next month when she after right after she has her uh her round up, the second round up, whether it be the second week or the third week, you know, if we can't have it during the regular meeting and we have to, then we'll just do a special meeting. still it's still going to give us some time. I mean, because we can crunch the numbers with what we have already, right? Because we're kind of estimating about
081the same. Uh could be less that are that are that don't qualify, could be more. I mean, but it'll be about the same. Yeah. Which is still the same amount. I just say table the item for the next month and let's see what she gives us. present for the second round of the of the round. The next The next meeting is June. Oh. Miss Garcia, the next meeting is June 16th. When is the what is the date for your roundup? Oh, until July. Oh, until July. So, Miss Udas, Mrs. Udes and I were talking right now. We could we could potentially three classes. One class of the non-eligible students and then two cla the other 28 split up between two teachers which would be about 14 each. And and we know we're going to get
082more eventually. But to answer your other question about uh the uh prek roundup, we usually do a second one right when we come back from our break. Um so once we're out those two weeks and then the next week we usually do another all call. That gives us a month to go back and advertise it in the paper and we open it up again. Did you say 14 class? So we had 28 eligible. We could divide those between two classes. So 14 and 14 plus uh we're expecting more. Uh so I don't I don't foresee those staying at 14 and then another class of the ineligible students. Looking at three classes, right? Correct. So then more than likely it'll get the four classes by your by your July round up. More than likely it'll get
083the four classes. It has based on the last three years. Yeah. I know my first year here I was I was really shocked with the numbers and we'd advertise it, we put it in the paper, we send out flyers, but during the summer we had another influx of of students. And so that's that's just been the trend the last three years. June June 16th is our regular board meeting and then we have a budget workshop on June 24th. Yes, we moved it to the Monday the 16th. Yes. Yes, sir. Yeah. She believes we'll get the numbers. Yeah. Or potentially three eligible and one non-eligible. So, the question is we just don't know how many will be non-eligible of the of the four classes. Correct. And and the other thing that the board could consider is
084Um, I'm not sure how how the board is feeling about the the rate, but they could also just to give us direction if they if the board uh would like to consider, you know, just that we don't go over. So, capping it and then, you know, it's it's kind of first come first serve on the spots, if you will, that are available of ineligible students. I just wanted to put that out there. If there if you're having if you're wanting options We do have a budget workshop on the 24th. Yes, sir. The president, is there any other discussion now we need to do now before you you want to you say you want to bring it to the next meeting, but any other discussion that would help you till then? But uh uh since uh
085uh this proposition there's no uh um pending motion, nobody made a motion. So this proposition like dies natural death. So we can schedule whatever uh date we want without further discussing this one because there's no motion. It's just a proposition. So we can skip this uh item. Okay. Well, if I may. Well, I thought we were still asking question. Yeah. Yeah. I certainly don't want this to I'm not proposing that we do away with this item. I I just wanted to What motion will will we make? Will we table the motion? Table this item. Well, this would mean that this motion would just be it's just a proposition. If this one dies, then things would just stay like they are. Correct. But no motion has been made. Yes. So, we we cannot vote on this
086one. There's no I thought we weren't finished. So, we can just schedule another discussion. Madam President, one one thing on on the uh when you turn the kids away by charging them because some of them will not are not going to come and they'll go to other look for other avenues, right? Another I guess Head Start or maybe a daycare or something. You also have to take into consideration that those um entities don't do the same curriculum or implement the same curriculum that we do. So maybe I that might help you all out also as far as whether to charge or not. We want them to be all on the same page because as we as y'all see I mean we want to this smooth transition. I mean that's that I that I know and
087to support what you're saying there Mr. Cruz that that's that's where my thoughts were. Should we discuss this further in executive or if we're not allowed to understand because I want to hear that. I want to make sure to reassure that I'm hearing that those kinds of messages the financial side of it. I want to make sure and hear that before at least me make a decision on on this a sound decision. I mean again I'm not for or against. I want to have all the numbers and details just like kind of like what you said there and I know Miss Diaz and there's money involved and the money folks were talking if there's some stuff you can items information you can give help us with this that that's that's what I'm asking personally unless
088everyone here is comfortable making a decision but I would like to discuss it further if so aloud so we can come back and make a decision if not I'll make a I will I will make a motion to table for the June meeting, but I'm not doing that yet. But if we're comfortable making a decision tonight, I'm I'm all for it. But I want to have some facts kind of like what Mr. Cruz just said there that I mean that if we discussed that back in April, sir, I apologize, but that's a good a good observation you made right there. So I agree. I want to have some more numbers. Uh if I may um uh I suggest mi miss Diaz uh make uh like a physibility study on how many kids and how much
089if how many teachers we hire so we can more or less compare right the cost the cost to the the cost to the district. Mr. along the same lines as you were saying being on the same page um curriculum if the parents choose to go somewhere else uh daycarees whatever to in all fairness to everybody um cost I would say we do some research on the cost so that we can be uh fair to the other businesses at this age level so that we come up with a price if necessary just like you said I want to hear more if I if so that we research percent. Yes, sir. The cost and be in the same line uh as far as a cost a price and and I recall in our I I believe it
090was our April meeting, Miss Pearson brought us some numbers or maybe Miss Diaz did of all the different surrounding districts. Correct. So, so that the math is fair to everyone. Yes, sir. Parents have the choice. Yes. can choose. I'm with you, sir. Which facility you want to pick? So, we need a motion. Well, only we need a motion only if you want to put it back for discussion or it will just die and it'll just correct. If if I'm so allowed to make a motion, I make the motion to to table this item until into our June meeting as we gain further information to make a more informed decision. But then you cannot make this proposition. There's no pending motion proposition. So if uh there's a motion to approve question and then you make an
091amendment proper the proper way to approve Well, I apologize. The words aren't coming to me. Maybe we need to write this out. Okay. Okay, I understand now, sir. There's no I just say okay. So, um there's no motion on that one. We're going to go on to executive session discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code section 551.001. A uh personnel matters discussion of resignations, retirements, leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees. consider approval of revisions to the 24 2020 2024 2025 compensation plan. Uh Cariso Springs Junior High Junior High School curriculum specialist, student success specialist, summer school cafeteria staff pay rate and consider superintendent's recommendations for 2025 2026 positions. the speech speech language pathologist and diagnostician. The time is 7:40. We're now in executive session.
092Okay, time is 10:08. We're back from executive session. Possible action in open session for executive session items. Do I read? Do I have a motion? Okay. [Music] President Franco in regards to Item A, personnel matters as dis I make a motion to to approve as discussed in in reference to items as discussed in executive session. So I just say as discussed or read it all. Do you want me to read each one or um individual? Motion made by Michael Origas, seconded by who's seconded first? Aldoria to to [Music] approve to approve the personnel matters as discussed in executive session. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. adjourn. That's it. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz to adjurnn. Seconded by Noisarate. All in favor? I. We are adjourned. Time is 10:11.