Regular Board Meeting April 15, 2025

001Good evening everyone. We're going to go ahead and start. The time is 601. I'm going to go ahead and call the meeting to order. We'll start with roll call. Oscar Wilbur Cruz. No, Anita Franco. We have a quorum. If we everybody will please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. Thank you. Do we have any public comment? Where is she? Where is she? I don't see her. No. No public comment. We'll go on to item five, student staff recognition. We're starting with uh star students from Cariso Springs Junior High. She said that he had let us know he wasn't coming. So she is let us know. probably Mrs. Franco, members of the board, Mrs. Pearson, and guests. Good evening. I'm Angie Do, and I have the honor of serving as

002the director of special education for the school district. And this evening tonight, I come to you to celebrate and recognize our special students who went and participated in Eagle Pass for Special Olympics. So, please give my staff and my students a big round of applause. So, at this time, I'd like to call all the students to come on. Come up. Let's go forward and take a big picture with everyone. [Applause] Okay, I have uh quite a list. I'm going to start with uh the our staff that goes above and beyond. Uh all of our junior high staff is absolutely amazing, but um I do have to say that these individuals are coaches, mentors. Um they do everything that we can possibly ask of our teachers and they're phenomenal. Um I'm going to start off with

003Coach Gabby Gonzalez. [Applause] I have uh coach Roger [Applause] Diaz. We have coach Sedvantes and also our junior high teacher of the year. Woohoo. [Applause] and coach [Applause] Iso. We have Mrs. Bullard. I know she's here somewhere. I don't know where she is. Mrs. Bullard, she's our UIL coach, mathematics, number sense, and calculator. And then I have to talk about two very special individuals because they started later in the school year. And I'm going to tell you, they fit right in with the junior high family. They hit the ground running. They're team players. They're resourceful. They're helpful. And it's our secretary, Miss Jackie Santos, and our attendance [Music] clerk. Our attendance clerk, Miss Janette Mendoza. [Applause] And we're lacking one person. She's our UIL coordinator. Um, and that is Miss uh Katie Helman. She's not

004here today, but these individuals, please, they deserve a round of applause. They're going to stay up there because we have some students that they're going to recognize. Um, our coaches with our coaches, we have our um, give me a second. Sorry. We have our district track uh qualifiers and medalist first through third. Right. Okay. For boys and girls, if you are an eighth grade boy or eighth grade girl, seventh grade boy, seventh grade girl, track, please come up and take a picture with your coaches. These kiddos are amazing. They did a great job representing Kiza Springs Junior High. [Music] Now, I want to recognize um our TMSCA state competitors that represented Ciso Springs Junior High and Mrs. Bullard. If you will please come take a picture with them. We have um are you okay? Yeah,

005there we go. If you competed at TMSCA, please come up with Mrs. Bullard so that we can get your picture. These kiddos stayed after school for practice. They were up on Saturday weekend mornings to go and compete. left at 5:00 in the morning or 5:30 in the morning and they made an all day um event and representing at Arzo Springs Junior High in San Antonio. Great job. And now we have our band. Mr. Stevie Sanchez is here. Hello, school board uh superintendent. Oh, thank you. Uh gold uh gold band, if you are part of the gold band and participated, could you please come up so we can take a picture? All of you. Adam, don't forget the photo. uh sub school board superintendent. Uh we the the students have been uh practicing since January getting

006ready for our concert and site reading and fortunately for us we received superior rating from six judges. The students performed incredibly and it was a fun time and I'm so excited. This is the second uh consecutive sweep stakes that we get uh from 24 and 25. are super proud of our gold band kids and uh yeah and I need to thank of course my my father Mr. Sanchez, Mr. Talentino and Mr. Anstein as well. So thank you guys so much [Music] [Applause] That's special. just test just test. MPB wind ensemble if y'all could come on up everybody. Wind ensemble. Thank you so much for we have our high school MPB wind ensemble that earned a grand sweep stakes. Uh, somebody had a poster. The uh, the kiddos earned their first division in marching, concert, and

007sight reading this year, earning them the grand sweepstakes award. Thank you to my son Stevie, Mr. Brian Tentino Woodwin, Mr. Joinstein, brass, and everything else. And, uh, Mrs. Pearson, the trophies on the way. They didn't have enough. So that's in the mail. So but congratulations and and also uh kiddos raise your hand. MPB if you're involved in another activity. Most of them are involved in one act UL academics uh sports you name it. So we're super proud of everything that they do as well. They excel at everything that they do. Mrs. Pearson board of trustees thank you for all your support. Everybody congratulations MPB. We'll You know what? Maybe it'll It'll cool down now. So go ahead and continue. No, we did have a finance, right? There's a finance committee. which I think Oscar was

008gonna read it. Oscar said he was going to make Okay, we're going to go ahead and continue to item six, announcements, communication, presentations, starting with the board committee reports with the finance committee first. Mr. Mr. Morones. Yes, ma'am. Uh, a while back we met and Mrs. Diaz reviewed the middle of the year alignment by budget code and the other thing that we focused on was taking a look at the staffing model for the next school year 25 and 26 and those are the focuses for now. Thank you. Then we had curriculum and instruction committee Mr. Zarate. So back on April 7th, uh, Mr. Rias, Mr. Mr. Moronus and myself met along with Mr. T, Dr. Rava and the IO's. We went over some of the changes that are to come, especially within the new curriculum.

009Um, we were informed that we'll be going forward with fully adopting K through six and mathematics with Blue Bonnet as well as three through five, but it's going to be a fall adoption for the ROA. The they did inform us that they had visited over in Cula and La Prior and that with speaking within those campuses and watching those students grow, there's been improvement with them. especially they notice improvement within their I have it here within their bilingual and their sped kits. There's been a lot of growth in just implementing this new curriculum. They did mention that the reason we're going through with three through five on ROA is because there is not yet a implementation for anything K through two. But we did notice I mean we did we were informed that blue bonded

010is just the new Eureka for mathematics and amplify for the ELR portion. They also mentioned we also discussed the school ratings and what is to come. the leading school I remember being the junior high which had a B rating and so we're still waiting for more results to see how we're going to end up at the end of the year and I know we're still waiting on leg legislation whether we're going to go through and um get our final score not knowing what that is yet but we're on the right path too so far. Mr. U did I miss anything? No sir. And to well we're preaching to the choir to add to that the the litigation what was the word Mr. Talamontes the litigation was dismissed or as far as was that the correct

011wording dismissed at the state level. There you go. Correct. Okay. That Thank you. That's what I wanted to segue to. Thank you for bringing that up. Yes. Thank you. Item number seven, superintendent briefing, student recognition, staff recognition, and the bond update. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next slide. We have uh we are in full uh star testing. We started uh actually uh last week and so we have had our elementary and our immediate and our junior high and our high schools have all had pep rallies really getting our students excited our teachers excited of the work that they have been doing with learning their tees their Texas essential knowledge of skills standards and we're we're very proud of them. uh UIL academics as was recognized this evening uh with Miss Bullard their sponsor uh qualify

012for the 4A state TMCA showcasing academic excellence and their competitive spirit. We're so proud of our students and our teachers and then again our gold bag that was recognized for sweep stakes which is the highest level that you can achieve with straight ones. Uh it it's equivalent to getting an A rating on uh the STAR test and so proud of them. Uh we have our region 4 area qualifiers. Uh Karisa Springs High School celebrated their victory. They're pictured here. They will be going at the end of the month uh to um Kingsville to participate and we can't wait for those results. Uh we also have our boys here that are also qualifiers and will be heading at the end of the month to Kingsville to qualify in the track meet there. And then we have

013our uh by district champions for our OAP and advancing to area that again will be at the uh end of the month on April uh 25th and we're excited to see the results of our UIL one act play. Congratulation to these students with their high achievements. And we have again our UIL district championship for the fifth year in a row. Our U 4A UIL district champions. They're they're doing so well and we're we're very proud of our UIL students who also helped participate and uh present at many of our star pep rallies. They really are winners and student leaner leaders across the district. And we have our uh 4A golf regional qualifier, Hunter, who uh did make it uh to region. They had high school just celebrated him with a a little walking pep rally

014at the high school and he will be moving on with his dedicated skills. So proud of Hunter. And then we have our Skills USA state championships. Uh Joe Rodriguez and Abel Haram who took first place at the Skills USA state competition. We're we're proud of them that they competed and also for their sponsor who took them through Yondell. And then our special Olympics at Eagle Pass. Uh that really showed up uh very much with a lot of spirit. Our teachers, it was it was a great day. We had so much fun. And then we have our attendance winners from Gadis Springs Elementary with 91.68 for the fifth six weeks. This is their second time to win this year and uh we celebrated them with a lunchon. See all those big smiles. We are very proud

015of our attendance comparison from last school year 2023 24 to this year. Uh you can see that at Gadiso Springs Elementary in K through third grade there's a a jump of 67%. This is comparing from the beginning of the year till right now the u end of the fifth six weeks. And then our prekinder jumped 1.110%. You can see the percentages there. Corizo Springs Intermediate. It's a huge celebration from 90.42 at this time last year to 92.10% this year. A 1.68% jump. Uh junior high maintaining about the same, a small tiny decrease. And then Ciso Springs High School, big celebration, jumping from 87.89% to 89.39%, a 1.50% increase. And then overall as a district a 1.1 uh 1.11% increase. We continue to uh really emphasize attendance because when our students are here, our students win.

016Uh we will continue to uh prioritize it. We're very grateful to our families, to our teachers and our students for uh really joining us uh in attendance. As we all know, attendance is really important for academics, but is it equally important for uh funding because we get funded through average daily attendance and our funding helps us maintain our salaries for teachers, our facilities, our buildings, and so we we just want to champion the increase in attendance. The next slide is our uh teacher of the year uh nominees and recipients. They won. Jennifer Vega from Cariso Springs Elementary, Mary Gonzalez from Cariso Springs Intermediate, Regina Cervantes from Cariso Springs Junior High, and Amanda Santos from Cariso Springs High School. They are going on to the next round for us to select our uh district elementary uh

017teacher of the year and our secondary teacher of the year. So, very proud of these fine teachers. And then our TA accountability uh as stated earlier from our board members through their CNI uh uh board committee meeting uh we were a part of the uh litigation through our attorneys O'Hanland and Castillo. Uh they argued that it was unfair and illegal under Texas law that the um uh accountability was changed midway and so we did get into litigation. uh the courts uh in in October the courts or actually just recently the courts did uh go ahead and dismiss that case. But what did we achieve is the most important thing. Uh this comes from our attorneys. The trial court agreed with us and issued a temporary injunction to block the release of the ratings. And and

018even though it didn't carry forward, it was a significant step. It showed that our concerns were valid and serious enough to halt the commissioner's plan. We brought broader attention to the issues of transparency and fairness in the rating process. During the case, we highlighted that the new standards were not finalized until after the start of the 22 23 school year. Districts were not provided with sufficient time to adjust to or respond to the changes before being rated. The STAR exam changes had not been independently validated as required. Sounding the alarm helped ensure the accountability system is now more closely scrutinized moving forward. appropriate changes are now being seriously discussed to improve the accountability and testing system. So, we are proud that we were a part of joining over a 100 Texas school districts in the

019litigation. So, what's next? The district will u will get their scores on April 17th through their teal account and then there will be a public release on April 24th. This is the 2023 TA accountability uh scores. So while we did not have ratings in Kadiso Springs CISD, we did have our district star scores and they have been shared at board meetings and to our board members and we have been working with our campus leaders and our teachers to address the gaps in students learning and put a plan in place to ensure that all students are growing every year. And our April bond update. So as of right now, our design team uh has met and we have reviewed our schematic plans. We've move we've met with our focus groups and we remain on schedule uh

020and we are going to be proceeding to the district uh to the bringing then the district designs uh to the board. The other thing that we've been working on is a traffic study reviews and next steps. So again, we've met with our teams to look at traffic patterns and the traffic study is complete along with the traffic uh flow. And so there will be a board workshop on April 24th where the trustees will be informed of the TRA traffic study along with the traffic flows uh on the uh site of our new schools. The third thing is a geotechnical report also is completed and it's under technical review. And so uh the full report is uh being worked on right now currently with our geotech engineer, our civil engineer, our structural engineer and architect architecture

021team and they will be ready to uh present uhformational to the board at the end of May through a board workshop as well. Uh we maintain staying on track and on timeline with the construction of our new schools and we plan a local contractor outreach event on June 10th. We will communicate this via our social media channels and via local newspaper and surrounding area newspaper so that we can uh make sure it gets far and wide that we would like local uh contractors to to come to that to work with uh Butler Cohen, our construction managers. And that is our April bond update. Any questions? Are they here for are they is um Can you take any question? Yep. Nick Good even good evening board president Franco superintendent schools Pearson board of trustees I'm uh

022here on uh to answer any questions run the bond or you might have good evening I I just I had a question because I know that um I saw it on on an update about that we're still and this is not about the the new schools just about the junior high high school situation. I'm still questioning have questions on that on I know that y'all did a had you all you had your team had done a preliminary walk through of that and I was just wondering like um what you had found and what what is your professional opinion as a contractor? I mean in construction. Okay. Off that of what you saw. Yes, ma'am. Uh it was uh it was after E3's presentations. We felt that we could learn some uh things from those two

023builds over there. So uh we uh our MTR, our civil engineer took their uh in in-house geotech technical uh engineers over to both campuses in order to walk uh both sites. Um they did have with them uh a report that was done on those facilities um through an architecture firm back when I guess litigation was going going on. Um it seems that the um if you could imagine building a building and and underneath it you're supposed to have there's a specific code to keep all the uh vapors underneath underneath. So, if we were like underneath the building right now, we would have like a spray on uh some some type of barrier to keep us inside uh keep whatever vapors or moisture in here. So, that moisture goes up and in that sense it gets

024humidified and then condensed into your floors and that's what's causing some of that wetness out there um to where you'll have to keep those uh units running 24/7. Um so, uh the vapor code is one thing that we will probably recommending from our report uh to be uh updated and make sure that uh your whole underneath of your facilities are are up to code in that sense. Um as far as uh the foundation and the and the flooring there's like uh at the junior high in specific there's um it looks like a desert in a sense and that tells us that uh the cracking from that desert there's water that comes up and down from from that area. Uh and um over at the high school, uh there's some erosion on some of the uh

025foundation there. That's that they I think the geotech took a little sample from the concrete of the pier there uh to take an evaluation just to see what what was going on and the softness because there's so much humidity down there. Um, and so, uh, they're still running their reports and gaining some data, but as far as the preliminary, uh, pieces, uh, it just validated some of the thought processes we we found when between your HVAC systems and and the vapor, uh, coming up and and creating that condensation. That's going to help us in our design out here with the new junior high in a sense of of uh making sure that we uh we abide by those codes and develop systems to where those uh those vapors don't intermix. Would new HVAC systems have

026any impact on anything else that's going down there? change it whatsoever or Miss Pearson help yeah Miss Pearson's brought in E3 um to this district in a sense to uh get y'all up to date I believe in their uh and I think she tagged them to say hey we need an inventory of all the what we have and some of the dated items that you do have over 11 years were recommended I believe to be replaced. So kudos to your superintendent to get someone in here to actually do the inventory and check the wheels and check everything going on with those uh units. But I believe everything 11 years and older right now is was recommended to replace. Um anything after that you would have to do basically a case by case basis. But it's

027good to have that so you can develop your equipment replacement plan like your bus replacement plan uh and your vehicle replacement plan. It's good to throw your HVAC systems in that mix so every year you're not spending so much amount of money um in that sense. So kudos to y'all for doing that. But I believe it is recommended by E3 to replace 11-year uh units if if feasible to the district. But as far as them going 247, there's, you know, there's a lot of that would still have to happen if even if it was a new system. Yes, ma'am. Okay. So, it's not a fix. I have a request and I don't know if I don't know if y'all have seen it. Have but have y'all the rest of any any member of the board

028actually gone to see the schools and what the foundation down there? No, ma'am. Is that something that we can actually go down and see ourselves? Yeah, absolutely. Y I would like to do that. I don't know about and I shared the timeline with y'all all from the civil engineer uh Bri Bill W excuse me not Bill Brian watch Holtz that's a civil engineer who is currently doing uh in the timeline I shared with you all I believe that work will be done in May and then there would be a June presentation to the board and so uh um that work there's really not any other update on that right now because it takes a while for the civil engineers should do a full thorough uh look what what um Nick did with Raymond the civil

029engineer and Nick please correct me if I'm wrong. It was a very surface level view. Yes. Yes. Very high level to see. Yeah. What Miss Pearson's talking about is that that team is going to go comb it actually pull the testing from your peers. uh they were supposed to use geotech to go inside of your foundation, measure the water and all that good stuff to provide. I think you're right, Miss Pearson, June, July, we were supposed to come back and bring recommendations. So, that will be a full presentation to the board, but I I I can share that timeline again with you, but we are on timeline with that. And that civil engineer is Brian Walsh Holtz, uh civil engineer, and I can ask him any questions. So if you guys have any questions, I

030have his number and we can call. But they're actively working on analyzing both foundations at this time for the junior high and high school. And then it will come back as a presentation to the board. And that cost of of that team that's doing that, is that part of of the bond? It is not part of the bond. It's part of the e with the E3 work. So, uh, depending on what they find and they recommend, then they give you the board a menu of different things they can do, whether that's, uh, work with the foundation, whether that's work with, uh, HVAC, whether that's work with roofing, and then the board will have to make decisions based on the presentation on what they want to do, what they want to tackle first. We've already and

031we've already kind of seen that menu. Correct me if I'm wrong. Anyone else? We have an idea of what needs to be uh prioritized, but then now it come like you said, we're waiting for for numbers for dollar figures. Not yet. We're not there yet. The foundation piece is probably the highest priority of those items. So, you got foundation, uh HVAC systems, roofs, and then lighting. So, the what E3 provided was your HVAC, roof, and lighting systems. Those three things were given on a presentation. Yeah. The foundation. of the foundation um uh was a concern to them. Uh so uh that kicked off a whole investigation evaluation. Okay. Where those because they all tie it together, sir. So the presentation that is to come is to provide what the findings were uh some possible estimates

032a high high level worst case scenario and be able to provide the board uh some that allocart list in full. Okay. Have a question. Okay. Uh you said the the moisture barrier is what we're lacking at both facilities, the junior high and the high school. By putting that moisture barrier, is that going to eliminate the problem or is it just going to hold it? It's a great question, sir. As far as the evaluation and the investigation, um that was one of the items that was caught firsthand that there was no moisture barrier there. So there might be some other items. Uh but as our first high level, as Mr. Pearson said, just coming into the surface, that was one of the biggest things that we noticed right off the bat. Uh so it will help

033tremendously in a sense of keeping all your moisture underneath the building. Um like you can take this room and lock it up. That's what we do to the underneath of the building. So Okay. And now in regards to the site here for the new school, uh we did the soil samples. Did we take any soil samples near our main office? Uh were they all taken towards the baseball field? Yes, sir. We uh did, I believe, 22 samples and they were spread out through the baseball field into this area into the road uh the new road that's going to be done. So um I could get you the map and show you exactly where. Uh but I do believe there were some in this in this back area right here. So u but uh as M

034Pearson stated in at the end of May we'll have a a solid presentation informative presentation of the findings and uh uh the design where we're uh looking to uh design underneath the building there. Uh one more. Um yes sir. If we decided not to build here, did we do the soil samples at the elementary and at the CSI area? No, sir. So, we didn't do any soil samples over there? Yes, sir. If we decided not to build here, how long is it going to take for those soil samples to come around? How far would it put us back? Usually, a sole sample, we like to provide three months for each each uh sample we uh we take. uh depending on how many borings we take. Uh here we expedited everything because of the sensitivity of

035of uh moving this project forward. Um so if we were to you know knock that out then you're looking at a six months maybe eight month delay um in the sense of where we are now in moving this project almost a GMP1 and DD you'll get in June uh and then construction documents going to be right after that. So if it delays us six to eight months, we're looking at 2027, August, September because we're projected a finishing by December, January of 2027. So if there is a delay that we don't build there, it's going to that's how much it's going to delay us. The preliminary results of that geo test have come back and and come out really well is what I can provide to the district right now. hints that we're a feet from

036from the administrative building and considering no not really some major crackings here. Our preliminary results from that test in this area came out really really well. Uh what has helped is the 15t drop that we're doing over there. And we're also going to put a detention pond for rainwater to ensure that none of that water goes into the erosion area or your tennis courts or your new uh your new softball and baseball field turf. So, we're putting all those designs together for that presentation here in May and moving us forward so that we could just keep this ball rolling. Uh, the results came back actually pretty fantastic. Pretty fantastic as in 16 out of 22 had water. I mean, what do you mean by fantastic? When you uh you you notice Gadies Springs, we got

037water all over this area to sense. uh when you go down and and we know that we're going to have to take some of the sublevel off already, right? So when you do that, you're looking at putting French trainings in certain areas to push water around so that area remains remains dry. What about the rain water from the roof and then from the sky, Nick? Well, that that comes down and we're able with our design to push it where we need to be pushing. Hence the detention pond, right? So if there is water underneath, uh our design will tell us where we will need pierce and where we will not pierce to absorb that that uh that weight, whether it be the gym or the cafeteria. So that's why it takes so long um in

038a sense that we're uh doing it in two months to provide our test results to where we like staircase it. You can imagine, you know, if you if you imagine a staircase and the stairs going down, how strong do you need those staircases in certain areas of that area considering there's water there? And that's what our experts are doing right now. They're evaluating and uh getting together and making sure that we set the district up the taxpayer up for success. So, for some reason, we decided not to build there and we go back to the other sites, it's being delayed eight months, which would be January 2027. Is there a penalty that we would pay because we did not finish by a certain time or is there no penalty? I'd have to talk with Miss

039Pearson regarding that in a sense to your bond uh bond council and see where uh what uh parameters you have with that. Um but in doing so, you know, uh slow it down and also cost a little bit more, you know, because we we estimated it to be to be completed by the 2026 which was given us the three years that we had projected to complete the project and that's why I'm you know wondering if we if you delay it now how much are we paying every month if we delay it by eight months that and then you have the cost of equipment right your your chillers now are eight months delayed uh to where now you know we're we're looking at how we're the tariffs are going to impact this thing if we host

040we hold bit more. Those are going to add additional costs on top of our uh Butler Cohen estimate of saving almost 10 to 11 million just doing the site here. With our geo test where it was, we feel very confident now that it's all going to work out this area. Thank you, sir. Appreciate. Yes, sir. Thank you. I have a question. But is it a penalty or is it just a higher cost for the delay? Is there a penalty? Possible of both, sir. The possible of both. uh Miss Pearson will have to call your attorney and your bond council. That's cost right there. Uh uh the costs that go up, you know, every year in the sense of equipment, labor and all those pieces that's going to, you know, go up. Uh your equipment is

041coming in from different areas of the world. So those terrorists might be costing up the biggest pieces, you know, moving the the the kids around in portables and hindering the learning environment there to where u you know, we feel that we come in fresh right after a build and we're good to go. Uh so that was one uh pro. The other pro was just the 10 million from savings of of not having to do a site setup and all those pieces over there. So um that's I think why we kind of move forward with this the site right here. And like I said the geo test right now uh that'll be presented in May uh look pretty good for our design. off the top of your head, uh, the samples that were taken. Do you

042remember if the results were consistent and consistent and didn't include this area right where we're standing right where? It's a great question. 22 boards. I think 13 were over here specifically on this site specifically where the heavy parts of the buildings are, which is your gyms, your kitchen, that area. Right. So, we know we got some uh consistent borings there and samples there. Now, the other eight, I know we saved two just in case we needed to go get two more. Um, they were all spread out here in the back of this area. Um, I think when we do the geo uh reveal of the results and where we're going, uh, we can, uh, go back to see where exactly or if, uh, I can send the results to Miss Pearson to make sure that

043you have them on where exactly were the borings taken. They were all GPS taken here on the site. We might see those in May. Uh the I believe the last week of May is our is our board workshop for the geo test and civil uh uh results just like our traffic study. It'll be informational. This is kind of where we feel uh traffic study here's their grade ABCDE EF right we're going to do the same thing with the geo test and civil engineer uh here in May. Thank you sir. Miss Franco just not so much a maybe a question but or more so a and it was open and I sure didn't want to go there. But tariffs, are you guys hearing any numbers yet? Are you working with anyone currently that's already feeling it

044or we're not there yet? Quite there yet. We are not quite there yet, but our radar's been beacon uh since uh November of last year. So um uh right now your main equipment for your chillers and your uh mechanical equipment is is is looking to get a get a hit um in a sense of a upward spike. Um have we been prepared for that? Now do we have contingency for that? Yes, we do. Um we're just hoping that it stays at a level where it's manageable. Um but we it is on our radar, sir. Um along with labor um and all those pieces that come along. I'm I'm only speaking as one board member, but if that's if we're going to continue to discuss that possibility, we need to do it quickly. If that's something

045we want to because the cost of everything's it's on it's going to be on the rise. I would I would Yeah. Labor also, sir. Shortage of labor and what's been going on in the in the cities. Yeah. All right. Thanks. Thank you. Any other questions? Martinez. Okay. Item eight, reports,formational items. We'll start with the financial briefing. The general fund financial statement, the child nutrition financial statement, the debt service fund financial statement, and the construction financial statement. Thank you. So, I'll start with the executive summary. We are seven months into the fiscal year which is about 58% of the time has passed. In the general fund we've collected 92% of what we had expected to collect. Um and our expenses are at about 52%. So that's you know under under the uh percentage of you know

046how much time has passed. On the food service, we our expenditures are about 61% of what we budgeted uh for food service. And in interest and syncing, we've made our bond uh payment for the first half. The second half will come out in August. So, we're at 37% uh as far as expenditures are concerned. As an overview for the fund balance, if you look at the bottom section on the right, you'll see general fund. Uh our fund balance last year was 24 million. Our revenues collected through March are 58 million. Our expenses are 17 million. So we have a net difference of 41 million. Of course we have not made our chapter 41 payment. Um that'll be made later in the year. So currently we're at 65 million you know as of March. for food

047service. Uh our revenues collected to date are 1.3 million. Our expenditures are at 1.4 with a difference of 61,000. So that's not not too bad at this point. Um at on the debt service side, our collections are 11.1 million. Our expenses are 4.4 with a difference of 6.6. And of course we have not made u the rest of our payments there. So that is a brief overview and update uh on all the funds. On the next page you'll see the general fund update. Here you can see I have updated our budget. So you can see the original budget and the revised budget. And then you'll see our collections. Now I've already reviewed the collections but here you'll see uh local, state and federal collections. Uh the 58.4 4 million year-to- date collections and expenses of

048about 17 million. On the next page, you'll see our food service update, which of course we already reviewed. And again, you'll also see here the uh revised budget column uh that we had discussed and so we have that update for you there. The revenues are 1.3 like I mentioned, expenses are at 1.4. So, you can see uh the difference there. So, that's doing pretty well. And then on the next page, you'll see the debt service fund. Again, that's our bond payment. So, I don't have anything to add than what I've already mentioned for that. On page seven, you will see uh the board budget amendments just as a tally of of you know, what's been coming through and where where we're at. On page eight are the special maintenance projects. We are following up with

049staff to make sure that we have uh the items that were appropriated here that you know following through making sure everything has you know projects have been completed and so forth. So this is uh the the budget that the board had approved for special items should emergencies arise throughout the year. So the board had approved 350,000. We're at 95,000. Uh so that leaves 254. So since this is appropriated just just as per discussion any of the things that we've discussed if anything could be you know we we could use this money currently that the board has appropriated should anything um be needed at this point. We also have u on the next page our year-to- date uh interest for the year. So on the very top half is by fund. So we have general fund

050interest this year is at 1 million yearto date collected for this year. Interest and syncing which goes towards our bonds the bond payments 181,000. And then for construction we have two they're separated into two categories but you know combined together is all uh construction funds uh 75,000 and 2.6 million. So total for the district and interest earnings are 3.8 million almost four million for the year. On the next page uh I'm showing the just the construction update. I I have I included both the 2425 year and the 2324. So at the top you'll see our um interest collections currently at 2.7 million of interest and then the expenses so far through date is 929 and the detail of the 929 is on the next page on page 11. And so there you'll see, you know,

051the categories uh for the bond issuance cost, the project manager, architecture, and construction listed in column. So you could, you know, have a running tab on on where we are on are on our expenses for construction. Okay. Any questions on the overview? We have a question real quick. Mas, you said the construction fund expenditures. Yes. Total that we've spent is 1,915 819. Mhm. Let me get to that page. Hold on. Okay. Uh yes, that's that's the total that we've spent. Yes. The construction part. Yeah, we have two fiscal years. Yeah. Last year the original was the bond issuance cost and so forth. So that's about I think uh 766,000 was at the beginning. Mhm. If you're on page 11. Yep. And then you see at the top is the 2324 school year. And then you

052see the 2520 2425 school year right now. Which is a total of 1,915 81942 for both years. Yes sir. Okay. Thank you miss. Yes. based on our as of today. Oh, thank you. Our revised uh budget is uh 62.8 8 million and our um revised uh expenditures or appropriation for the fiscal year is um 68.7 million. So um at the end of the year we are looking at uh uh a budget deficit of about 5.8 million. So uh should should all the ex should all the entire budget be completely spent? Yes, but we do not anticipate that. Is that what you're asking? Yeah, but um do we have uh are we expecting um revenues other than the MO taxes because as of as as of this month we are like 99% uh collection of the

053MO taxes. So we don't expect much. Yeah. And we have been exceeding the what we projected to to to collect. I did a middle of re middle of the year review at what we were thinking we were going to be collected and so we adjusted to that. Uh and I do think that we probably will continue to collect more. It's just really difficult to gauge but I did do that review. Uh I did also send our information to Moch and Casey and they helped us analyze that. Uh but you know the money still keep coming in so that's that's good. But based on what we have projected, you know, we we do think that we probably will still continue to collect. The part that's difficult to collect is the the delinquent. We're going to go

054over the tax report in a little bit. We can look at that. I think that's not um it's like u relatively um small amount to offset the 5.8 million uh projected deficit deficit. So uh do we expect um other revenues like the solar solar power solar company? I can double check on it. Um I let me get back to you on the solar panel update because under the the revenues on your uh spreadsheet. Yes, I saw like a 351,000 and where is that coming from? Let me look. Which one are you looking at specifically? Where's the spreadsheet? The revenues. Okay. What page are you on? On on the um it's on the second uh where where we have local, state, and federal. Yeah. The revenues and appropriation. [Music] There there's like other sources there. 351,000.

055Oh, the 315. Okay. Yes, sir. on that one. If you'll notice that 3:15, that was something that I explained in the in the middle of the year budget amendment, which was for the ESBa, which is where we um have to record for the end of the year for the leases and so forth. But you'll also see 315,500 under function 71 debt service. You see the 315. So that 315 is going to be a wash. That is not true additional. It's like a in and an out. So you'll see that uh other resources 315 but if you look down at function 71 you'll see it under expense also 3155. Yeah. Um as of this month we have um like uh collected uh revenue for uh 450,000 900 and but but the the tax collection for the

056M is only 222,000. So where where did the the the balance uh come from? I'm going to tell you that right now. The monthto-day collection it's like 450,000. Hold on just a second. Let me So part of that um would have been the interest. I'm looking at the interest that we earned. So if I look at the uh like uh 200,000 I guess. Yeah. So we have tax collections and we have interest also and both together uh come into that line item of local revenue. So we got local tax and then we have uh interest. So in your um u projection for the revenues for the balance of the year did you include the the the um projected uh investment earnings for the balance of the year? This will be about 1 million. I'd have

057to double check to see um what what we did exactly project. I didn't bring my projection sheet with me, but we did we did do a thorough review of each line item and so, you know, but we can double check that. I'll definitely make a note. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. I'll double check uh solar panel and uh interest and the tax Do I move on to accounts payable? Go ahead and go on to the uh the next section is uh the accounts payable. If you have any questions on that, I I don't have anything to add other than the listings been provided. questions. No questions. No questions. So, you can go on to the vendors. Okay. Sorry. Uh the next category that we have is vendors over 50,000. Uh again, this is a board

058update where we provide you with a listing of vendors that are exceeding 50,000. at the beginning of the year or or sometimes throughout the year we come to you with the procurement list of the vendors that we we seek your approval and then we follow up and subsequently report to you who are actually reaching reaching the above 50,000. So is this is our follow-up uh information for you as far as vendors above 50,000 No questions. Okay. All right. So then uh on the tax collection sir, I will follow up and review this further for the next board meeting. Uh but currently for maintenance and operations we've collected um 55 357960 of the budget. We uh increased our budget to 56727 for the year. Uh in the prior year's taxes uh we originally had budgeted 245,000.

059We increased that to 245,000 and we're at 220,000. penalties and interest. At the beginning, we had budgeted 296,000. We increased that to 342 in the middle of the year, increasing that um budget and we've collected 160. And total for the year, we went from 56.4 million to 57.6 million to 55837 roughly leaving a budget balance of about 1.8 for the remaining uh months. We will we will review that again. On the interest in sinking, we've collected 10.945 and so we have already exceeded that collection as of this month. So you make a good point there. On the um prior years we've collected 35,000 and total for the year 10 uh 10.9 million. So we will look at that again sir and bring something back to the board. questions. No questions. Thank you, Miss DS. Okay.

060Thank you. Item E, Lonear governance discussion on drafted board goals, drafted board self guard rails, and drafted superintendent guardrails and they're they're posted up there. These are these are the these are the goals that were that we um that we decided upon as a board and we have to we have to um I'm not going to I'm not going to read the I know we have the the drafted board goals which was four of them which we are good with those and then we have the the board selfguard rails which we uh there were seven that were that were um that were draft that were um that were that we came up with and then the superintendent guard rails and there's also seven. Right now we're going to concentrate today on this on this meeting

061is on the on the seven and I'll go ahead and read these uh these uh the board rest of the members. We have seven and we need to get down to five. We need to choose five that we want to adopt in in coming up on next meeting, April meeting. I mean a May meeting. Okay, these are the I'm going to go ahead and read these. Number one, the board shall not attend board meetings unprepared to engage in informed decision-making and productive discussions. Number two, the board shall not undermine the collective decision-making process by failing to uphold the principle of agree to disagree or by actively working against the decisions of the governing body. Number three, the board shall not engage in disrespectful, adversarial, or unconstructive behavior, often referred to as gotcha governance, that undermines

062collaboration, transparency, or the district's effectiveness. Number four, the board shall not prioritize adult convenience, personal interests, or political considerations over student well-being and academic outcomes. Number five, the board shall not bypass the established chain of command or interfere in the administrative roles and responsibilities. Number six, the board shall not prioritize personal agendas, individual recognition, or self-interest over the collective governance, board goals, and superintendent constraints. And number seven, the board shall not deviate from established board policies, state laws, or legal requirements in governance, decision-making, or district oversight. So my question to the board members is, are there any Are there any comments, any language that you feel we need to change? Any suggestions or anything you'd like to Miss Franco if that may after reading these if we need to get down to five. I'm going

063to say number seven should be remove our consideration for removal. Okay. Because I believe as a board we we are pretty much we're already doing that going to follow. Yes. one through six if they're open for discussion. Those are all pretty good. Okay. But seven for sure in my opinion. Uh I think uh we should remove uh number one because uh I think uh it's uh expected of us to be always prepared. Yes. Before we attend a meeting. I agree. So it's going to be one and seven. One and seven. Any other comments? Comments from anybody. Easy, I think. Anyone else? Everybody, are we agreement? Are we all in agreement? One and seven should be removed and everybody's okay with the language of the others that we read. Okay. Yes. Okay. Okay, I think we're

064all in agreement that one and seven we will remove. Thank you. Now, these we will these are going to that we're going to continue to take on later to another meeting to be adopted. Correct. Correct. And then later to be taken to the community. Correct. Okay. All right. Thank you. So now we can go to uh where are we? Item nine, approval of consent agenda items that are a district initiated revisions made to DCE local policy employment practices and other types of contracts. B and B. TASBY initiated local policy update 124 affecting local policies CAA, CDA, C Y, DH, EHB, EHB, FFG, GKA. You shared these with us in in our March meeting, correct, Miss Gonzalez? I'm going to make the motion to approve consent agenda items as presented, items A and B. I I

065I had one question. Okay, go ahead. I had one question on one of these. Well, on some of these uh where it was read that the superintendent and then it said or designate and or designate was marked out as a change. Is there What was the reason for that? It was uh the contention of TASBY to make those policies more uh and and of course all these policy changes come as a result of law of laws that have been updated. And so that was just something to make it more uh to clarify it more succinct so that the superintendent would be responsible for that. or designate or designate. It said superintendent or designate and or designate was struck meaning only the superintendent. If if I may, I I I believe what that does too, Miss

066Franco, it it gives the um it gives the superintendent I don't want to use the word authority, but maybe what is the right word I'm looking for? Oversight. Oversight. Oversight. Instead of saying if it's say say it's an a a a um a fraud investigation that deals with finances instead of referring it to our finance director our CFO the superintendent because of the severity of such actions it it it holds more weight that our superintendent um take whatever steps or or their responsibility the responsibility falls under that under our superintendent correct me if I'm wrong anyone are seeing it in a different way. I just took it as like and it's assumed of course superintendent will make that decision. Correct. But in case I mean if there's ever situation where there's no superendent there's no

067superend. If I may just read directly from task it says the phrase or designate is recommended uh for deletion throughout policy except in places where the designation of another individual could be in place of the superintendent. There you So it's just it's just clarifying policy to so that if there's certain policies that are under the oversight of the superintendent then then that is the person that there cannot be a designate for that particular policy if there has if that has policy has to be enforced and that's a TASBY recommendation. Yes ma'am. Yes. So, in the event that we have an interim superintendent, that will be the person that will be playing that role. Correct. Yes, sir. I was thinking I understand what you're saying, but I was thinking along the lines of in case of

068someone's absence, are we putting ourselves in a difficult position by not having that opportunity to protect ourselves just in case of an absence? If I may where it is the is one of the particular policies is CA local which is in regard to fiscal management goals and objectives financial ethics like Mr. alluded to that particular phrase or designate has been deleted from that policy. Again, as TASBY has recommended, it's all in line with um again recommended revisions to local policy at federal awards disclosure particular to CAA are to align text with updated rules regarding federal grants found in the Code of Federal Regulations. All going back to laws that have been put in place and the recommended language that goes in policy reference laws and regulations. It this guidance became furthermore became effective in October

069of 2024 and is it is in reference to CBB legal so legal policy that updated as a result of laws being updated. Hope that makes sense. Yeah. No, no, I was just wanting clarification on what specifically that meant. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. If there's no if there's no further discussion, I'd like to go ahead and uh second the motion that was entertained by Mr. Okay. Okay. Motion was made by um Mike Guras, seconded by Wilbur Gus to to accept the revisions made to the DCE local policy employment practices and other types of Oh, wait. Is that where we're at? Yeah. In contracts and the taskb initiated local policy update 124 affecting local policies CAA, CDA, CY, DH, EHB, EHB, FFG, and GKA. All in favor? I opposed. None. Madam President, I have a point of

070order. Um, I think we failed to include the um the minutes of the previous meeting, last month's meeting. So, for the record, uh we need to include uh approval of the minutes of uh last month's meeting. Thank you. We don't have the minutes right now because the uh executive secretary that oversaw those minutes was absent from work due to an emergency with the family. So, we will bring those minutes to our uh special board meeting on April 24th. Okay. Um so, the the minutes to the last meeting will be brought on the special meeting April 24th. Okay. Uh all everybody was in favor. No opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Item 10, discussion and possible action items. A, consider approval of 2025 2026 aotment antiques certification. Good evening board members. Um I just um what you have

071uh present before you is the annual provision of instructional material certification survey acknowledging our district's adopted and supplemental materials for core subjects that address all of the uh Texas essential knowledge and skills which are the TEICSS and affirmation of compliance with the children's internet protection act also known as SIPA which protects uh students from harmful internet content while at school. It is recommended uh that the board of trustes consider and approve the recommendation of certifying the provision of instructional material survey for submission to the state board of education for the purposes of accessing uh the instructional materials and technology alignment funds. If no question, Miss Franco, I'll make the motion to approve item A, 2020. 25 26 aotment antique certification or are we going item by item for this? Okay, I would I'm making the

072motion to approve item A. Second. Motion made by Mike Grigga, seconded by Aldoria to approve the 2025 2026 aotment antique certification. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. As a backup to that, Miss Franco, a what's what's helped with us is is our curriculum meetings. We've heard quite a bit about Blue Bonnet, so that definitely is the route we're going to. Yes. Thank you. We'll throw that in there. Thank you. B. Consider approval of resolution 2025-02 bank depository depository agreement extension with the first state bank of aald for an additional two years extended term to expire August 31st 2027. Yes ma'am. So our uh current depository agreement uh we have had in place from 2021 through 2023 was the first extension. The second one is from 23 2020 2023 through

0732025. And our final allowable extension before we go out and do an RFP is one more year from 2025 this coming year through August of 2027. And that is what we are recommending and we're proposing uh to you for approval. There are no more questions. I I'll make a motion to approve resolution 20252 bank depository agreement extension with first state bank of the body for an additional two years extended term to expire 31 2027 motion made by Aldoria seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve the resolution 2025-02 bank depository agreement extension with first state bank of for an additional two years extended term to expire August 31st, 2027. All in favor? I opposed? None. Motion carries. C. Consider approval of Gara Gonzalez and Associates LLC letter of engagement for professional auditing services for the fiscal years

074ending August 31st, 2025 and August 31st, 2026. Yes, ma'am. Um, as we prepare for our next audit, which we're required to have, um, we are proposing and recommending Garza Gonzalez for approval for an additional two years. Now regarding RFP, we're not required to do an RFP or an RFQ which is request for qualifications. Uh this is a professional service. So the board can consider approving uh such services and we recommend their services. They are you know they've proven to be experts. They have a good reputation based on on our working relationships as well. Uh that is our recommendation. and I did review it with the superintendent and um so we bring it to you for approval so we can begin our work of course this summer and moving into the new year. Miss Diaz, do

075you recall how long we've been working with with these folks? Uh give or take give or take a few years. Ruben is here. Let me let me ask him. Oh, okay. Yeah. Thank you, sir. Just curious. How many years have we been partners? Thank you sir. Uh we've been the external auditing firm for since fiscal year 19. 2019. Yeah. 2019. And that was procured at that time. And uh just for the record uh we just our firm just went under a change of ownership. Uh so I am a principal uh in the firm now. And uh the only thing that changed is is the the the lead partner Mr. Gonzalez. He's fully retired and myself and three other partners own 100% of the firm now forward. So, well, pleased to be here and answer any

076questions that you may have as well. And uh clarification, you are charging us the same amount as you charged us last year, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And we're not proposing an increase even for fiscal year 26. Thank you. I had a question. So of all the 430 hours that says you um estimate all those are done here in Cariso. Uh most of them are done on site. Correct. It takes about 430 hours to do the tire audit. Uh and we are me and my team I lead the team. I am here on site uh for about two weeks two and a half weeks with my team working in the finance office. Oh, our feet on the ground here. Okay. Can I add also my own comment and that is that uh he and his

077team are always available for a quick call, quick clarification. I think we use up a lot of hours beyond the time that they spend on the audit that I'm just adding. They they're very responsive and they're always uh ready to answer and help us look up certain things that we might need. to add to uh the comment. Any other questions? Okay, if there are no more questions, I I make a motion to approve um Gara Gonzalez and Associates LLC letter of engagement for professional auditing services for fiscal years ending August 31, 2025 and August 31, 2026. Motion made by Aldoria, seconded by Oscar Oscar going blank up here. Sorry. Um to approve Gara Gara Gonzalez and Associates LLC letter of engagement for professional auditing services for the fiscal years ending August 31st, 2025 and August

07831st, 2026. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I never know. Okay. Uh item D. Consider approval for the National Institute of of Excellence in Teaching Net Strong Foundations Planning for Math in the amount of 98,000. Good evening again board members. Uh so uh present before you is the um national institute uh for excellence in teaching uh statement of work for math planning in the amount of 98,000 and this spans uh coaching prof uh professional learning for um teachers in the district researchbased instructional uh uh training uh strategies training for for them and also uh the deliverables which is going to be the built of the uh math framework and also also uh professional learning communities. And so it is recommended to the board of trustees to consider

079and approve the recommended uh payout to the National Institute of Ex for Excellence in Teaching in the amount of $98,000. Question. Miss Frank, you guys, will you please remind me how much were are we being awarded with a lasso grant? [Music] Yes sir. Um for the strong foundations uh planning which is the math portion that the total was 140 uh,000 and then I know the next item is going to be the uh strong foundations implementation which is reading language arts and that was 200,000. So these are amounts on what they are charged to and what they provide the services they provide. Yes. Uh uh Miss Bravo I have a question. This is uh part of uh the total grant uh like for lasso three a total amount of 300,000 right? Yes sir. It's a 340,000

080I think income. Yeah the lyso lasso cycle 3 included uh the strong foundations planning and then strong foundations implementation. So it's like u 98,000 for uh is it for math and 140,000 for reading language uh arts they're separate right? Yes they're separate. So oh so out of the 300,000 we are uh we have uh contracting NE for 240,000 right? So it'll be left of uh how much um 398. So we will have the it will be a total of 238,000 for uh NIAT. Yes. for you will be left with uh 102,000, right? Yes. So um so this uh um uh 9 98,000 is for is it for uh um planning or um it includes implementation? It's just for planning. Yes. The 98,000 is for planning. Just for planning. Yes, just for planning. Uh, and that's

081going to be for math. And the, uh, the 140,000 is going to be the implementation for reading language arts because we've already gone through the planning for um, Mr. T. I'm sorry. I don't mean to interrupt, but the math is planning and implementation. Yeah, I'm sorry. I think I think Yes, we've already I just don't I wanted to be clear because we will be implementing the math curriculum. And M. Doria, if I may, there's a breakdown here on page 235 of our Yeah, it provides a breakdown of every for your record, sir. Because it says here is just for planning, but when you look at the breakdown, it's like it includes uh implementation. Correct. There's several areas. Yes, sir. So, uh, with, uh, 102,000 that, uh, will be left for the school, what, uh, when

082are where are we going to spend that? Yes. Um, we have the project manager here, so I'll have her explain a little bit more about it. Good evening, board members. So, as we mentioned, the total award was 340,000. You see it separated into two. So 70% is going to NIT for both planning and implementation and the remaining 30% will go to salaries and stipens for our teachers that will be implementing. You mean u uh part of the 102,000 will go to stipen for the teachers? Correct. And how much are you planning to give? We anticipated 1,000 a $1,000 stipen and we're that currently is allocated for approximately 60 56 to 60 teachers. Oh, it's just just uh math and RLA teachers. Yes. 56. Yes, sir. So, we will be implementing and using the blue bonnet

083curriculum for K through six uh math and 9th grade algebra 1 along with 3 through 5 rla. And I do just want to add that we are required to pay the technical assistance provider which is National Institute of Excellence in Teaching 50% but we've allocated an additional 20 so we can get that additional support um in the classroom and so they are here physically with us um as we are implementing this new curriculum and y'all are choosing the NIT due to like their training and their the what do you call it the support that you're going to get from from them. Yes. And we did visit Cotula ISD who's used them this entire past year. So, we've had good conversations and we've actually seen it what that looks like in place. It's it won't just

084be support for our curriculum, but through for our professional learning communities, K through 12. So, a lot of vertical alignment work that we plan to do, they will be supporting that. You had also mentioned La Prior had implemented this, right? Yes, sir. And you had seen progress within their sped and their ESL students. Yes sir. What was the total of the grant again please? So it's separated into two amounts. The total is 340,000. We received 200,000 for math planning and we received 140,000 for RLA implementation. Thank you ma'am. Yes sir. Miss Franco, we apologize for not sharing that with you in our curriculum update. Mr. Zadat, it was mentioned in our curriculum committee meeting. My my apologies, Matt, for not I make the motion to approve. Second. Motion made by Michael, seconded by Noi, who

085was who said it first? No to approve the National Institute of Excellence in Teaching and Iet Strong Foundations Planning for Math in the amount of 98,000. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Okay. The second one uh is the consider approval of the of the National Institute of Excellence in Teaching NIET strong foundations implementation for reading language arts in the amount of 140,000 to approve. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz to approve seconded by Oscar to approve the National Institute of Excellence in Teaching Net Strong Foundations implementation for reading language arts in the amount of 140,000. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Last one last comment if I may with the board and I didn't share this Mr. Zarata either. Will will these uh Mr. T and

086and M and Dr. are these going to begin in the summer? I know we asked that question at our session last week. The trainings for these teachers will begin this summer. Yes. Um yes. Um um Dr. Bakawa already uh created a calendar. We were collaborating and I were sharing with uh with our executive team and Miss Pearson earlier this week. Uh we have four dates in June, but we're actually going to uh do um some lessons in May because our teachers were eager to let's go ahead and try try it out with our students before we actually get into the training stuff just to see how it feels. So So we already ordered the materials. Um, I was able to get that in uh before uh EMAT uh because they do maintenance uh between uh

087around April. So I was able to get that uh in and so I already got notification of the shipment uh for April 5th and April 21st so our materials can get here. So like that our teachers uh in May uh are going to look at a lesson and then going to implement it. And so just to let you know uh board members uh Dr. you know, some of this money is set aside for siphons and we did include our sped uh teachers with this training and with the siphons and to share with the with my colleagues here that that was exciting when when I heard I I'm speaking when I heard teachers are ready to hit the ground running. you know, they're going to get through testing, be done, and then those last six weeks

088or so, we'll start implementing some of this blue bonnet and see how their kids uh react to it and and how they it'll help them going into the next school year so they hit the ground running and have a a better understanding. So, that's going to be interesting to see. Can I add to that really quick? Yes, sir. The other thing that's exciting about it is when we had our curriculum meeting is hearing how I mean I I spoke to it earlier, but just hearing about how those teachers are excited. I know there's a lot of teachers that were nervous about implementing this in the beginning, but after going to I want to call it our sister school and talking with them and how their students are actually growing. I mean, it gives it gives

089a lot of hope and it it brings excitement to see what we can do here in Kariso with it all. So, I'm looking forward to it and thank you guys for everything that you've done with it. I'd like to just add also that with the approval of the board this evening, uh, uh, Dr. Dagava and Mr. Talamontes have talked to NIT and they are ready to visit with our teachers at the end of April, uh, through a PLC and meet with our teachers. And, uh, the fact that NIT is so vested, just waiting for board approval on this to go ahead and come and meet our teachers already, I think speaks volumes of the value they have in the partnership. So, thank you, Dr. Mr. Dubakalva and Mr. Talamontes for putting that together and also

090putting a visit on May 12th for teachers to go and we hope that some board members can join us for that as well. Thank you for your good work. And uh just want to say one thing. Thank you board uh for supporting our uh department and uh this endeavor because I think it's going to have a real impact uh with our students because that's why we're all here for our kids. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you. exciting news for our students and teachers. Thanks. Letter F, consider approval of resolution 2025-03 regarding summer work schedule. Uh thank you. Yes, board. I will present this one. So, uh GISO Springs CSD. Uh it's been a a very long tradition to work a 4hour summer work week for employees contract and non-contract four day work day, excuse

091me. Four four days. 4 day work schedule. Sorry about that. This Yeah, not four hours. Sorry. That'll really get him excited. They're like ice rolling. This schedule has worked very well for our district in reducing uh overhead and other costs and also boosting employee morale. So, uh I come to the uh board with the recommendation to approve resolution 202503. This would allow for us to run a summer schedule Monday through Thursday from 7:30 to 4:30 and then employee compensation would remain uh unchanged. The regular work week schedule will resume prior to the start of the instructional calendar. And then except for summer school operations, campuses will follow the same summer schedule as the administration building. and the superintendent shur that the community in informed of the district's fourday work week summer schedule. We anticipate that

092this would start uh the first week of June and then end uh at the uh end of July. Uh so back when when August back the regular first week of August, we would be back on regular schedule. President Frankl, two questions if I may. First question, uh, Miss Pearson, and and remind me please. It will apply to maintenance staff as well. Correct me if I'm wrong. Correct. Okay. Second question. Where will summer school be held this summer? Uh, we will hold it at C uh, Caesar Springs Elementary, uh, for K through 5th grade and then sixth grade through, uh, 12th grade will be at our high school. Uh those are the two campuses we also used last summer. Primarily for the elementary, it's because we do provide summer school for our kinder first and second.

093And uh while CSI is, you know, would would be a nice change, we we feel that it would not accommodate our youngest learners. So that's why we stay at the elementary and it gives maintenance time to work in those buildings. Correct. Correct. Yes, sir. How about summer? Uh, is there a summer lunch schedule as there had been in the past? We will. Yes. And Miss uh Mokin will be uh presenting that, getting those flyers out for the summer lunch uh uh program and uh have the sites available for our community. Any child under the age of 18 will have free. When you get that, please share with us. Absolutely. She has Yeah, email will be fine. Yes. Yes, sir. Thank you. I make a motion to approve item E, consider approval resol Oh, oh, I'm

094sorry. Item F, consider approval resolution 253 regarding summer work schedule. Motion made by Michael Urigas, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve the resolution 2025-3 regarding summer work schedule. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. G. Consider approval of resolution 2025-04 regarding creation of Ciso Springs Education Foundation. Uh yes board. So, uh, we come with a great enthusiasm and just excitement for the district to, uh, form a nonprofit education foundation that will assist in promoting and supporting public education. We believe the uh formation of the education foundation will be dedicated to advancing GISO Springs CISD's mission of educating empowering all students to achieve their full potential and can provide long-term benefits to our students, our staff and our whole district uh community. The Ciso Springs Education Foundation will function as an independent, duly incorporated nonprofit

095organization under the laws of the state of Texas to operate with its own governing board, mission, and taxexempt status. It will be dedicated to advancing and supporting the educational opportunities and programs for the benefit of district students. uh they would create their own uh board of directors and the uh superintendent uh would work as a liaison and we would also work on creating aou a memorandum of understanding so that the uh education foundation could uh we would work in partnership with them using our facilities and uh uh things to that nature. our attorneys did uh help us draft our um resolution and they would also assist in drafting uh helping us draft also theou. And so we we come to you uh asking uh for your really for your uh blessing in this resolution to

096move forward with the education foundation that we feel will be of great uh benefit to our community. question. Miss Franco, if I may, but uh Miss Pearson, please um I know there's several ways this can be applied. Give us some ideas on how this Absolutely. Yes. So we would really like to uh instill u many grants again where our teachers can u uh ask for um innovative type practices uh passion projects maybe a garden that they want to work to have some hands-on science. Uh recently we did have a teacher over at the elementary that wrote a grant uh for some bikes that were really like sensory bikes to get our students moving and get some of that energy out. and we had a uh Alamo Furniture from San Antonio that sponsored that. Having our

097own education foundation that's supporting our district, they could do those type of things more broadly. They could also support uh teacher of the year. Uh they could support our convocations. Uh they could support um us with u being able to get our community involved uh into our schools even more so that than we already have now. So those are just some ideas where the education foundation could partner with the district. Uh we know that uh any organization whether profit or nonprofit require requires funding. So it's expected that the school district will fund this uh uh no they would work through uh fundraisers. And so uh uh currently right now we do have a golf tournament uh that we are going to be hosting and uh we would like for those funds from that to become

098a yearly kind of golf tournament and that would be one big fundraiser for the education foundation because they're a nonprofit and they're able to apply for the nonprofit status. They could apply for grants that are only given to nonprofits. They also co-solicit uh donations from our local uh oil companies that are looking for ways to donate specifically to someone that has the 403 C 501c3 503. Yeah, say it Anna. 501c3. And that's what I was going to comment. We do get a lot of uh inquiries about donations, but they want that tax receipt and we cannot offer it as as a Caris Spring CISD because we are not a 501c3. We're a member of government, but this would establish that. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Diaz. So, of course, uh uh there will be a

099like a board of a board, right? board of directors and who will be um what will be the composition of the board? So it would be a community members right now. uh during the initial frame phase when I was g getting interest on the educ education foundation I did talk to a a member of the community who's extremely active uh um you all may know her she was actually on our bond committee as well Rachel Means and she has taken interest on helping to lead uh the charge with getting some community members uh involved also region 20 has support in creating an education foundation So, uh, we could partner with region 20. It's a a free service that they provide so that, uh, all of the good qualities of creating a very well-rounded education foundation,

100uh, are followed, Mrs. Yes sir. When would this initiate? When would it take place? Start. Yeah. As soon as soon as possible with the board's approval, we would um the board would convene and then we would start to um hopefully be able to support our teachers and maybe even have some mini grants that can come out uh in May potentially where they can apply over the summer and maybe get some of that money in August and they could help us kick off convocation as well. So right away. Right away. Yes, sir. We would want to benefit from it as soon as possible. Yes, sir. Any more questions? I'll make a motion to approve. Motion made by Jeff Ortiz, seconded by Noisarate to approve resolution 2025-04 regarding the creation of Ciso Springs Education Foundation. All in

101favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. H. Consider approval of resolution 2025-05, Mental Health Wellness Day. Uh yes. So our board has been uh extremely generous. Uh our instructional calendar this year had two mental health days that were identified. Uh the first one was in December and the second one is on May 28th uh 2025. This is following uh a a work day for for teachers. Uh and so we would like to propose that the board approve with uh making this uh mental health day one where our employees have the opportunity to engage in a mental health activity of their choosing tailored to their individual needs. So participation in these activities will take place outside of the workplace allowing employees to prioritize their mental wellness in a way that best suits them. Uh we believe that

102this initiative reinforces a district's dedication to fostering a positive work life balance and ensuring the long-term well-being of all staff members. And so we come to the uh board recommending that the board of trustees approve resolution 20225 uh for the mental health wellness day being a paid day, but employees would not physically report to work on that day. Question. Yes, it is May 28th. Is that the last week of school? It is the last week that the it is the last day that teachers or employees uh that work a a regular calendar are expected to be at work. I know we have graduation around that time frame, right? If I'd like to approve this, I'd like everybody to be involved back. So graduation will be the Friday before on the 23rd. Okay? And then we'll

103have a Monday will be a holiday and then we would come to work on the 27th and on that day of the 27th we would have our end of year celebration in the morning like we traditionally do at the high school auditorium. All of our employees come uh and then they would finish their checklist out on their campus. Anything that they have to do with turning in materials, keys, all of that would happen on the 27th. And then we're proposing that the 28th uh they would have their mental wellness because they have would have been working so hard. I mean really those the end of the year with students and testing and turning in materials. Um we thought asking them to come back another day after we've already asked them to shut everything down um

104and then come back on the 28th. You know, it's a lot to ask and and of course we would do it, but we feel like there since it's a mental health wellness day, allowing them to celebrate it on a on a way that fits their needs would would show them um the dedication we have to to their work life balance. And was this shared with employees? Yes, sir. It's in our calendar already. Yes, sir. Absolutely. It's already marked on the calendar. How is it marked on the 28th? It's marked as a work day. It's marked as the mental uh dashwellness health day. Okay. So, and I did get input also from our cabinet. So, our leaders, uh, our directors and our principles all meet and I took a a a vote on, you know, is

105this something that you all feel would be in the best interest of our employees, uh, or would it or or planning events here on, you know, where we have different events going on around the district and the consensus was that, you know, uh, they they believed that this was the best way we could, you know, honor our employees. principles will ensure everyone's complete their task by the 27th. Yes, it's going to come. It's going to come up. I know. Yes. I said and if said employee says, "May I come in on the 28th because I still have things to do that." Are they free to do that? I'm I'm just I'm talking real now. The Say that again. You'll still be there. Why? Working or admin will be there. Okay. On your mental health day.

106Can I add one more? I'm just playing I just want to make sure we're playing both sides of this. Go ahead, Mr. Zarat. So, I just want to add on um over at the high school, I know Dr. Guzman and Mrs. Rodriguez, they hold a mental health awareness day for the students. As a part of Dixon, we've participated and a part of DR the past few years that they've done it. It's a great they do these activities. They have different stations. It's something that the kids really get involved with. But the one thing that I got approached within this last year was I saw a lot of teachers also participating in these little stations and they were asked when are they going to do this for us? We want this. We would like it. I

107know I'm just speaking for the high school because that's an event that takes place there. But hearing that, getting that feedback from the teachers and these are just crocheting bubbles. We did um I think they did basketball in the gym. Mr. Kunto, am I mistaken? Um, this is something that I know that they would be excited to partake in, but it's something pretty cool. Oh, yeah. It is actually employees can choose their mental health wellness day activities and do not need to report to the workplace. That's what it is. Mr. Kent, too, for clarification. Political clarification, Mr. Ku. And that's why I'm sorry. That's why I wanted to get into the to the other side of it because you're going to have those employees who are going to ask you, I need to come in

108because I'm not done with with my grades. I'm not done with my cleaning my class. I'm just if that's all if you guys going to manage that, by all means, I'm I'm in favor. Motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to approve the resolution of of uh 2025-05 mental health wellness day. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Item I, consider approval of tuition rate for 2025 2026 pre pre kindergarten program for ineligible students. So, uh, yes, and we do have Mr. Talamontis here, Miss Garcia, if they y'all want to come up to the podium in case there's any questions. Uh right now uh the state of Texas TA requires that we uh provide a four-year-old uh program for students that qualify. Uh and the qualifications are e economically disadvantaged uh foster

109care, military, uh um Mckin Venta, which is our homeless, and uh also what am I missing, Miss Garcia? On the on the free So the SNAP they receive SNAP awards. Yeah. So these criterias are on uh the website. We're required to validate the uh criteria through the registration process and if they qualify then they are able to be eligible. Uh currently in Gadiso Springs, we do have students who are not eligible for the prekinder program. Uh when they are not eligible for the prekinder program, we receive no funding for the students uh for their attendance. So they're uh they're in membership but with with no uh no funding attached to it. We have historically allowed students who come to register who think they may qualify uh but don't qualify. Uh we have allowed them to

110be part of the program. And so uh we love that because we believe in early childhood and we want to have all of our four-year-olds in the program, but it it does come with a cost. Uh this year we did have one full classroom of pre kinder students that did not qualify. And so uh in uh getting that data to the board uh as requested uh we came to uh discussion on whether we would like to offer a tuitionbased. What this does for us it's lets us be very transparent with our entire community because we're able to advertise it and widely communicate it. Right now, it's basically been the families who just kind of come and test the waters to see if maybe they'll qualify and then uh they they kind of, you know, we've

111let them in the program. As you know, board earlier this year, I came to you to allow us to hire the extra teachers so we could have those students in the program. So, uh, in order to be, uh, more transparent and widely advertise that there may be some other families out there that could would be interested in the four-year-old program at a tuition base, um, then we could uh, solicit to Commissioner Morath at TEA to request our approval to charge a tuition rate of $4,000 per year per ineligible student for a full day pre kindergarten program for the 2526 school year. Uh currently right now um just with a teacher salary and uh minimal instructional materials it's about 4500 4,500 per student. That does not include uh other costs uh uh such as the meals

112or any any anything else that goes into what we pour into the tuition prekinder uh program. So, if the board would like to consider uh doing the tuition uh base, then uh I've also included uh many districts around uh Texas that uh charge a tuition rate. Uh $4,000 is a is a very low uh a low rate. Uh it could be paid in one lump sum or it could be paid in a monthly uh $400 per month for 10 months. Uh or uh we could choose to to do nothing. So, it really is the uh the board if they would like to consider the prekinder program for the ineligible student tuition rate. Question. have 76 currently this year and out of those 15 were not eligible. Last year we only had I believe two. So

113the numbers had been low previous years and this or at least in the last four years that I've been here last three but this year kind of jumped up to 15. So, we were in a different um situation this year than we've been in the past. Now, um M. Pearson said that we had had to have hire another teacher, which in reality we let go of a prek teacher because we had five teachers and one was switched to another classroom leaving four teachers. Am I correct? So we were at the beginning of the year we were we did have more teachers last year but then our with our calculations we said we would only need three but when we when we did include the new the ones that we did let in that were not

114eligible we brought back that teacher at the beginning of the year. We had moved one teacher up to pre or two teachers up to kinder and we brought that one teacher back down. Correct. So we did have the staffing though. We we had the staffing the previous year. Yes. at the five. So, we really didn't like I mean it was just moved up forward, right? We just moved them to a different grade level, but we brought her back down when we added those students from the roundup that y'all had this past week. How many did you get any fe feel of how many would be in the high bracket? Well, we had a transition night which is uh where we gave them it was anformational night and we gave them um information and then we

115did a tour campus tour. We let the uh we let the parents walk the campus with the entire with their children and we went into all the areas of the school which is really neat. Some of them had never been into our library or our gym. Um we had about uh 45 people that came in. Out of those half were prek, half were kinder, but we didn't get a feel for for their they didn't bring in their their proof of income. We'll start next week with that. But it's been steady about 60 to 70 students that qualify per year. And we have about we did reach out to all of the um daycarees and the Head Start this uh last couple of weeks. And we had about 65 students that are in that fouryear-old range

116that will be most likely transitioning into elementary next year. So it's just going to depend on what what month their birthday comes in. So if they're still four, they turn five from now until September 1st. So they'll go into kinder and if not they'll be in in prek. So we have a lot more this year than we've had in the past. So we've only had or this year was just about 15 students that Right. But in the past we've had one or two um that were not eligible. This year we just had a lot more that did did uh that we put on the waiting list and we called back once we agreed to let them let them come in. Do I have a question? Do parents kind of already know that uh this is

117a consideration for the prek students for next year? No, we did not tell them yesterday. We wanted to wait until today. So, how u how many students are we looking at uh in order to to at least uh break even with the expenses? Well, the ones that are eligible, we do get funding for. We get half day funding for. It's the ones that are not eligible. That would be the 4,000. The ones that are not eligible because they're going to pay like 4,000, right? So, how how many are we looking at? So we can at least uh break even with the expenses, hire a teacher and everything at 88,000 which is what we put for a teacher with uh all of the u benefits at that's 88,000. Um that would be 22 students at $4,000.

118So we probably wouldn't break even with the teacher. We we probably would not break even. So, if we don't uh get the 22, are we still pushing through with it? Yeah, we we we wouldn't break even either way. We would we would just be getting some money. Yeah, we would get be getting some money towards the cost of it, but we wouldn't be breaking even. They would be subsidizing. Yeah, subsidizing. Yes, sir. That's a good word. Yep. Ma'am, in comparison to other schools in our area, that would be very low, very low cost. Yes. Um uh there was only one other district on the list that TA printed that had a tuition at $4,500. Um the rest were closer to 6,000 or above. So Chris, yeah, Crystal Cities is on there. It's the last one

119that's quoted and their tuition, I believe, was 6,000. Le Prior is on here as well. Yeah. Now, I I I do want to tell the board that this is uh really just for full transparency. We want to allow to know all our community to know if we're going to offer ineligible students. So, the board can also uh move to allowing at no cost. I mean, it really is up to the board. Like I said, and I will stand firm on. It is awesome for us to have early childhood for any child that's four years old that wants to come to our school. And I think as a community, it makes us very strong to have that foundation for our students. Um it's just the there is a cost to it and and we do not

120get any funding for it uh at all. So it's just being very upfront and transparent with the with the process. Mrs. Are we one of the few perhaps not to be on board with the tuition? Uh yes, based on the TEA report, that's why I provided to you around the state that yes, most districts do charge a tuition for ineligible students. Uh just to help break uh the cost a little bit, to subsidize the cost a little bit. Uh you know, especially with the way the state is funding public schools right now, uh it's you know, challenging times. So most districts do charge a tuition. Yes. The the districts I'm seeing in our Jordan, Crystal City, La Prior, Divine, just to name a few Lidle, Pleasanton. Correct. I don't see Charlie on here. Uh Kula

121Kula. If I'm not mistaken, there's more of an average of 7,000 higher 8,000 of the ones I remember. Yes, sir. Yeah. But I think Happy Days are charging 450 used to charge 450 a month. And for a bright uh bright future, they're charging lower than happy days. And uh it's up to I think 5:30 in the afternoon. So charging 4500 is really on the low side. Yes. 4,000 4,000 4,000. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. That's uh up to 5:30 in the afternoon, right? Yeah, because uh there are u kids you're going to be getting out at three be a normal school day. Normal school day. Normal school days they have to um take their child to the to the daycare after after school. They're going to pay 275 up to 530 more. Mr. Cruz Cula ISD

122$8,548. when page 261 for the record. When we first started uh allowing the high income students several years ago, uh it was based that we wanted to attract more kids to the school even if it cost us because an education to a student should not have a price number on there. And if we're charging 4,000, it's only affecting 15 students. That's about 60,000. We've spent more money on other stuff such as out of state board trainings that have cost us more in the past. So I mean I don't see why we even have to charge you know the students now it's only a small amount it's 15 student from what we had in the previous we had two four you know it wasn't that many so absorbing that cost is not now when it's not

123feasible which I can see Salvala County which is Crystal City or La Prior they don't have those funds that we're having right now that we're getting yeah at one point it might end but at that point when we assess that maybe we trim it down. You know, you know, we're going to put a cap, you know, if we're really spending that much more money. I mean, we're only going to be picking up 60,000. I think we can afford the 60,000 for those few students. And I'm pretty sure that those parents normally would donate to our space. So, that's that's my take on it. Yes. How much time do we have to report this? Uh we we can submit the letter um at any time before we start the before we start it. Yes sir. The

124only reason I uh if the board wants to consider this and it's not an administration does not have an opinion one way or another. Uh it would just be to give the families plenty of opportunity. Uh but again as Mr. Cruz stated if the board wants to support three uh prek for everybody then we would advertise it that way for everyone. Second question by Miss Garcia by when will we have any number you think starting registration next Monday? We start registration next week by um by Thursday we'll have numbers because our last day will be Thursday. Uh we do have a u registration night on Wednesday and we'll be able to verify eligibility right then and there. We can have numbers by next Thursday or I'll update Mrs. Pearson throughout the week. That way um

125you can have them as we register. May we bring it to May to know the numbers back? Is that too late? Is May too late? I don't think I don't think so. Well, one of the other things that I did want to point out is just a while ago we did uh pass a resolution to create a spring education foundation, the Carial Springs Education Foundation. I mean, now we're looking just might take well the point is about the about the budget. remember we came how we came in with a deficit budget and ways that we're trying to bring that down to help us alleviate that so we don't have that amount for the following school year. Correct. And that's why this was part of the proposal. But at 60,000 I don't think it's hurting our

126budget that much. If there's no other questions, I'd like to make a motion to I guess would be the word deny the tuition the increase in the tuition or asking for the tuition rate. I'll second motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Jeff Ortiz to deny the approval of tuition rate of 2025 2026 prek kinder program for ineligible students. All in favor? I opposed. I I I'm not opposed or either. I I I was thinking we were going to bring it back in May for further discussion, but we need to Yeah. Then he made a motion. Well, only because I'd like to hear numbers. I would kind of like to hear numbers, too, and then make a better educated decision. I'm only speaking for myself. Over the last 20 years, how many how many kids

127have we had? 60 to 75, more or less. Am I correct? Over the last uh three years that I've been there, we've had about 60 70 students. Um but our ineligible numbers had been really low until this year. And I'm not exactly sure why. It could be. We do base it on um income guidelines. So if the brackets changed a little, that might have accounted for that. I'm not exactly sure. Um but yes, we've had about we've maintained about four classes throughout the years. Is there any way we can wait for the number? So it's so we can make it better. What was what was the vote? What was the the motion was to deny and how many voted to deny? Two. Uh yeah, but uh I think there's a a pending motion here. Okay,

128sir. So we need to act on the pending motion which is approval of rate and then if this is disapproved we make another motion. Are you making the motion Mr. Doria? We have a pending motion unless you want to amend it. Pending motion would would and please anyone correct me would pending motion be I'm I'm making the motion to table this item to our May board school board meeting in order to receive numbers and information from principal Garcia and further discuss this matter I don't know if that's the right wording but that will supersede this motion table the tableabling of this item okay then I so I make the motion to Table item I in regards to approval of tuition rate for the 20256 second precard prek kinder program pay for an eligible ineligible students

129until our May school board meeting. Okay. Motion was made by by Michael Udriz, seconded by Oscar Morones to table to table this item until into our May until our May meeting next our regular May to our regular May meeting. School board meeting. School board meeting. Is that correct? All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Ortiz. Thank you. Okay. Executive session discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code, section 551. A 551.074. Personnel matters. Discussion of resignations, retirements, leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees administrator contracts, renewals, professional contract renewals, uh consider approval of revision to the 2024 2025 compensation plan. Uh, we have Ciso Springs High School bookkeeper, Ciso Springs Junior High School Curriculum Specialist, Ciso Springs Elementary Student Success

130Specialist. Time is 8:19. We are in executive session. and the professional contract renewal. I'll second. Motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Michael Reges to approve the administrator contract renewals and professional contract renewals. All in favor? I. I. Any opposed? None. Motion carries. On uh on a consider approval of revision to the 2024 2025 compensation plan. I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve the 202425 compensation plan as discussed in executive session. Second. Motion made by Wilbur Gruz, seconded by Michael Orrigas to approve the revision to the 2024 2025 compensation plan as discussed in executive session. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Item 13, adjourn. I'll make the motion to adjurnn. I second motion made by Wilbur Cruz, seconded by Nois Zarat to adjurnn. All in favor? I meeting adjourned. 11.