001Thank you. Okay. Item four, public comment. Okay, we have one. It's probably put a timer for Okay, go ahead and read this. Do I want to read this? Okay. Um for the we shall since at the regular board meetings uh the board shall permit public comment on any topic. Uh we will we were going to give you uh three minutes which will start when you're ready. Who is where is he? timer. Okay. Okay. I'll start whenever you begin. Just your public comment. I'd like to thank my parents. That's it. I'd like to thank my parents. They supported me throughout this and got me to make a reach that I wasn't able to give. So, all right. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Okay. Item five, student staff recognition. Starting with a star students for the Wildcats
002Academy, CSI. Hello. We wanted to recognize several of our well our uh student council representatives. We're very proud of them uh for this is the first time we've had a student council at intermediate and um we're very proud of all the things they have done. They've come forward. They've voted. Um they actually did the um what was it? The whole campaigning and everything. And I mean yes, they've they've gone over and beyond for uh for our campus. So, we wanted to recognize Gary Chitis as our student council [Applause] president. Delaney Martinez is a student council vice president. [Applause] Jacob Vanovea as our student council treasurer. Ryan Aranda as our student council historian. [Applause] Andrea Lopez as our student council secretary. Isla Costilla as our student council fourth grade class [Applause] representative. Aliana Duran as our
003student council fourth grade class representative. Lean Cruz as our student council fourth grade class representative. Toby Avula is our student council fifth grade class representative. Avery Ivy is our student council fifth grade class [Applause] representative. and Amber Dennis as our student council sixth grade class [Applause] representative. Congratulations to all of our students. It takes a lot to campaign in front of um well for the for the entire school body and then and then their speeches they did them during lunch. So we're very very proud of them. [Applause] What are you doing? [Applause] Now, we want to recognize two staff members um that have helped us tremendously this here. Uh first one is going to be one of our pair of professionals and this is going to be April Alfaro. [Applause] April April always goes over
004and beyond for everybody. So everybody knows April on our campus. Thank you. There's a lot that we are able to do because of April. April never says no and sometimes I have to tell her it is okay to say no, April, but she will try to help everybody and so we're very very fortunate to have her on our campus. Our next person is um this is one of our professional staff. This is uh Mrs. Miss Clarissa Perez. She is our sped pathfinder. Clarissa has gone over and beyond for our campus. She she is a fairly new teacher and has taken on the role of of our pathfinder which is a department head for special uh special education. She has a lot of responsibilities and she's done it gracefully. I'm very proud of her. I depend
005on her a lot. So, um, again, thank you for to Clarissa for everything. [Applause] Not easy. Unfortunately, they're not here because they are at work. So, uh we would like to celebrate their them and their parents. Uh the first one is Alana Vaughn. She got back on track this year from August. She was not on track. We had a lot of talks and she's very very happy. She's a very proud mom that she's going to graduate in May. So, she got back on track with her credits with her cohort. The second student, it's amazing, is amazing. She jumped up several grades. She's supposed to graduate next year in 2006 and she's going to graduate in May with passing all her star and get and earning all her credit. So that's just amazing that she's doing
006that. And hopefully by May we will have three more students that are supposed to graduate in 2006 and they're graduating this May. So we're working diligently, not only us, but the parents. The parents take them there every day. They make sure they go to school. They make sure that they pick them up that they take them to work. So this is an amazing program that I think it could help just about any student as long as they know that this is the goal that they want and they reach it. Thank you. [Applause] And now we have test test. Hi everybody. I'm I'm Mr. Sanchez WB director with my assistant directors Mr. Brian Tolantino Woodwin director and my son Stevie Sanchez doing percussion. So what we had back in February was GIL solo ensemble contest district
007level. So what our kiddos have to do is prepare you solo or perhaps work with an ensemble which would contain three to four to maybe six people and we bring an adjudicator in that judges them for their for their um uh performance. And if they earn a superior rating, which is the first division, that qualifies them for the state solomo contest, which will take place in Austin, uh, May 24th or 26th. So they don't know the days yet until April 1st. So people that we're recognizing today, uh, on Bflat clarinet earning a first division, Jose Gara Congratulations buddy. Uh we also have on Sax Quartet earning a first division um Philip Doria Fixto Ortega Giovanni Costa. Congratulations guys. And then also Wesley Allen earned the first division on his tener sack solo and also with
008the quartet two [Applause] medals on flute. On flute we do and I don't I don't know that I see her here but we all we had on a flute trio um Alexandra Chapa but I'm don't see her. I know she was out yesterday and today. Congratulations Alex. And part of that trio, we have Hannah Murray earning a first division honor solo flute solo memorized freshman and trio. And also Josh Sartuche, first division solo and [Applause] trio. Really hope I don't leave anybody out. And then these next kiddos with our percussion section uh earned a first division on their solo and their percussion ensemble. And those are well Luis Ga Jr. Sorry. Uh, Kaden Sanchez. Cadence [Applause] Mita River Hall. And I know that Joselyn is in softball, so she's not here. Josyn Deluna, but her
009sister will be picking her medals up. Victoria Deluna and Donovan [Applause] Garcia now. I think I think that's everybody. Yeah, it should be everybody. So, Mrs. Pearson, school board, thank you so much for all your help and support and getting our kiddos where they are. So, May 24th, 26, we'll see whether they're earning their first division gold medal, silver medal, or whatnot. Thanks everybody. Moms and dads, papas, everybody that takes care of them. Thanks to you too for being in the practice. Thank you. [Applause] Are you comment That's okay. Okay. I'll the certificates for you. Um, my name can you hear me? Okay. Uh I'm coach Mos uh head coach of the powerlifting team. Uh boys and girls team. Uh this year we had an exceptional year this year. Uh the kids went way and
010beyond. You know that that's our expectation for everybody. And uh this year uh we set multi-records as far as personal best records totals and also that the number of people uh that we uh qualified for the regional meet. Uh last year we had qualified seven or eight on the average on the boys. Uh this year uh we had surprised that by 10. So we had 10 uh 10 10 lifters this year. Uh the girls normally like seven or eight also we had 14 and I had 16 girls on a team. So that was pretty good average. Uh so uh out of the girls uh we came out with three original champions. Uh five of the young ladies went on to the state. Uh three of them finished and uh so it was a great a
011great year for them. Uh Right now, I'd like to Natalie [Applause] Medina, regional and state qualifier. Uh, Leila Castro, regional qualifier. Nelly Rosas, regional [Applause] qualifier. Leila Jitzworth, regional [Applause] qualifier. Is there any other girls here? Oh, okay. Evelyn. Mata Gomez, regional qualifier. Yeah. And this young lady uh was a double winner this year. Yeah. We'll miss her. Uh so uh she she was a regional champion at a 105 and a state champion. [Applause] Uh we've got some of the other girls uh participating in softball game and stuff. So uh at least we were represented. Sure. [Applause] And and finishing up on the boy side, uh like I said, we qualified 10 individuals, okay? Uh two went on to state. Uh they were Michael Rees and uh and Julio Himenez. At this time, we're going
012to start with our regional qualifiers. Uh, Carlos Carlos Salasar, Rayundo Falcone, Julio Himenez. [Applause] He was also one of our state qualifiers and finished uh six this past weekend in Abene. [Applause] and Keith [Applause] Taylor. Hold on. Hold on. We have They're all scattered. Andrew Thor is regional [Applause] qualifier. [Applause] How's your off coach basketball? All right, we're still on here. All right, I want to thank you for this pleasure because this means I get to spend time with these kids again. And it has been a terrific journey ever since they stepped in here on 9th. And of course, we got some young guys coming in anyway uh to follow up. So, from ninth grade on, it's it's always been a pleasure because they've always been around. They showed up again. Every time I ask
013them to show up somewhere, they're willing. They're they got a good attitude and it just makes life really really simple and a lot of fun. So, that that's my first thank you is thank you guys for always being there. Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you for making the season so much fun. Thank you parents for raising wonderful kids, wonderful basketball players, and getting them everywhere they needed to get to. Uh thank you school community. It it takes everybody to get us where we needed to go. And these guys took it uh all all the way in a sense. Uh they they battled through the the height discrepancy. They battled through a tough district. And we managed with the same group pretty much to come out with two by district championships. And once again,
014thank you guys. Thank you for taking me along on that ride. And yes, I'm going to miss you. Maybe we'll have another get together and I won't have to cry too soon. Uh well, let me go ahead and announce these uh these kids and we can get them on up here and and we can name a couple of the honors. Uh Golita, [Applause] pretty much our uh our offensive uh threat here. And he was also named defensive player of the year for district. Matt Quente, believe it or not, he's our center. He's our big man. And he stepped up big a lot of times. And uh I believe you second team all district, right? Nice job. Jamari, come up here. Mr. Malone. Such a pleasure to watch. and I didn't get to watch him except
015a couple practices this year, but he was my assistant coach for many of the times. Jamari, thank you. And you were much a part of everything we did, man. Appreciate it. Christian Diaz been helping us out since he was a sophomore. earned first team honors last year and this year and just a wonder to coach to have around and I am going to miss him. Matt Titzworth. Matt has worked hard the whole time, does everything I ask. Uh made all the phone calls, made all the contacts, kept everybody in touch. Thank you, Matt. Jonathan Davila, I guess he's out doing something else. Uh, wonderful kid, ran the point guard for us as a a sophomore, as a junior, and we look forward to big things from him. Uh, Anthony Sura, baseball, I believe. So, uh,
016does a little bit of everything. So, uh, stepped on as a senior and and really helped us out on the big man side. Yeah. And also Adrien Moreno is also in baseball which he came in as a senior and and helped us out numberwise and and everything else. Okay. Then we kind of get to the younger guys. Deacon, we got Deacon ID kind of anchored my uh juniors and and JV until he was asked to step up as a big man and he did a wonderful job. Thank you, Deacon Julius. Mr. [Applause] Ciple, Mr. Defense, Mr. Speed. Waiting on big things for him next year. Appreciate it. Gian. Gian. I'm really gonna push him because he's he's a good talent and I'm waiting on him also. Appreciate it. And then we got the big man
017coming up. We got Hayden Hyman and he stepped in a role that need to be stepped up with a young kid and we appreciate that. And Raymond, I didn't forget you. Raymond Deion, he provides many laughs for me. Plays hard, plays his heart out, and fills roles that we need every second of the game. Appreciate it, Raymond. All right, before I pass this on, did I miss anybody? We got everybody here. Thank you for your time. Good morning. They're all gone. That's the fun part. Oh, okay. Okay. Okay. Next, um item six, announcements, communications, presentations. Uh we'll start with the board committee reports. the construction operations committee. Mr. Rodriguez. Good evening. For those of you still with us, thank you for being here. I'm going to give a a a quick brief update on our
018last construction meeting and that was held actually here in in our boardroom. Uh for those of you that weren't present at that meeting, perhaps you watched it online. Uh there was discussion about the location of our of our future schools I should say which will be located right here in our old baseball field. Uh there was discussions and questions concerns brought up about water possibly being on site. Those questions were answered by our uh our experts in the field who did some testing on that and we're still waiting for further results on that. So, uh, as I shared and I I am I'm speaking on on behalf of myself and perhaps the rest of our board, if we see that there are any other concerns, uh, brought up with water, we will definitely talk to
019those folks that we've employed to team up with us and see where that's going to lead. We, as a board, we definitely want to have this project um, and and everything that goes along with it. uh is we want to be as transparent as possible to the public so that you understand so that the public understands that we're not overlooking any corners. We're look over we're we're looking we're dotting every eye and crossing every tea and I can speak for myself and if any other board members want to chime in please feel free to do so. So that was one of the major talking points. The other talking point at that meeting was a traffic study and we're still waiting on the results of the traffic study. So that should be coming soon as well.
020There were some great questions that were brought up by the public and some great observations brought up by the public as well and um it was great to have that type of session uh with the community and show that we as a board are transparent when it comes to to building brand new facilities for our kids uh and our and our teaching staff. Uh board, anything else I'm missing in regards to construction? Those are those were the keys that stood out to me. Anything else you might want to add in the area of construction. I think you summed it up. Okay. Well, and like I said, uh more meetings to come uh with with th with that wonderful team we work with. Uh more information to be shared with with us and when that becomes
021available, by all means, we will share with you. And don't forget to visit our website cuz that's where you can get a lot of answers to any questions you might have about water and traffic and how how we're coming along with the project. Uh where we're at, what phase we're in. U still we got we got a a ways to go. Uh but it's an exciting journey and by all means I'm speaking again as myself. Feel free to reach out to me any questions or concerns you want to share with me as a board member and I'm sure my colleagues uh will will say the same. So, thank you all for for allowing me to share that information with you. Thank you. Okay, next superintendent briefing. Thank you. Yes. So, um next slide. We have
022uh the CISO Springs High School baseball and softball fields that we celebrated the ribbon cutting. Uh thank you for our newly renovated facilities to our uh board for approving this. the the fields are are beautiful and we've been able to already play on them and we love celebrating our our students and and our staff with us. The next uh slide is uh an incredible learning and collaboration for Gadiso Springs CISD's first ever Wildcat Momentum Teacher Symposium. It was hosted at all of our campuses. We're so proud of our teachers. We had several teacher leaders that presented. This is an exciting uh opportunity for us to learn and grow together and uh we just celebrate all of our teachers for participating and having such a a positive outlook in growing and learning together. And then our
023next slide is CSI had the highest attendance for the fourth six weeks which ended on February 14th. It was their second time in a row. So they had it for third six weeks and fourth six weeks. We are very proud of the work that they are doing with attendance continuously encouraging our students to be at school. Our next slide. Our next slide is congratulations to our high school UIL one act play for advancing at their district meet with their performance of rabbit hole. It was incredible. I got to watch it and they did phenomenal. They also won first place. They will be competing at by district uh actually tomorrow in Somerset. And then the Sound of Music uh filled the air on March 10th for our community uh first ever music in the school event.
024We had a tremendous turnout of our uh community and families and our students who all performed. Uh thank you for all of our students and our uh music directors, band directors, and our music teacher at the elementary. Our next slide is Miss Jennifer Celer, a third grade teacher at Ciso Springs Elementary who wrote a grant to have some uh bicycles donated and Alamo Classroom Solutions delivered them to her in Ciso Springs Elementary and we are excited to continue this momentum with teacher grants uh and and more to come on that. Next slide. celebrating our incredible CX debate compet uh com competitors Luis and Jose as they headed to Austin and uh participated in the debate meet over spring break and we are so proud of them. And then again our uh next slide is our
025powerlifting team on a great season and congratulations a very special congratulations to our senior Linda Garcia on winning the state championship in her weight division. Then the next slide, again, another first for Gadiso Springs, the McKenna Legacy Therapy Farm that came to visit the Friday before spring break. And uh we are just excited to collaborate with the McKenna Lee Lrod uh memorial. Uh this was a student that lost their life in the Yvald school tragedy and to have this petting zoo and farm continue her legacy and bringing so much joy and love and comfort to our children was a very special event for Gadiso Springs. And then our next slide on uh we had a a tremendous read across America. We celebrated lots of students, lots of teachers. They got books and we had our
026city manager come and read, Miss Urigas, our director federal programs safety and security. Uh we had Miss Gonzalez, our HR director, and myself read in the classroom to students. It was a very special event. And then the next one is just a quick legislative update. As you all know, we're in legislative session. We will continue to monitor this closely, but one that is a special uh interest to us is House Bill three on uh vouchers and uh Senate Bill Two. This is a sidebyside look on what is being uh uh presented. Uh it is still in conversation. There has been a lot of testimony, open testimony. There's not been a decision that is made at this time, but you can see the sidebyside difference on what it would do as far as vouchers for private
027schools or for homeschooling and what the requirements would be as far as whether there would be any type of testing that would be required. We also see the uh school finance. This is another one that is a specific interest to us. Uh there has not been an increase in the student aotment since 2019. And so this one would presect uh increasing uh the student aotment from 6,160 to 6380. So we're watching very closely. There's also a compensation for teachers uh to also uh raise a basic allotment earmarked for compensation. So you can see the side by side on this on the Senate bill 26 there's putting more money $750 million for the teacher incentive aotment. There's been lots of public uh comment on that one. Lots of positive public comment for that one. So again,
028we're watching these very closely because these would impact us directly uh here in Gadiso Springs, CSD. And then there's also the House Bill three on property tax relief uh with an increased funding of 3.5 billion. And you can see it side by side with the Senate bill for property uh tax relief also increasing the homestead exemption from 100,000 to 140,000. Again, no decisions have been made. These are still in session. uh it it could be through the summer before we know how this would impact us. And that's the end of my uh superintendent briefing. Thank you. Thank you. Now, before we go on to reports andformational items, we're going to we're going to skip to the um consider approval for the Kiso Springs CISD academic calendar for the 2025 2020 2026 school year. You have
029enough for everybody. Let's see. district also. put out forth to to the um put forth to the um to the district uh a calendar a survey to see what they would want to see on on uh the school calendar for the upcoming school year. So through these discussions and incorporation of that input uh we uh it spanned about five sessions we ended up uh developing two options and so uh so what you see here is just a particip a breakdown of our participation. So, our non-eing staff, which includes our support staff and auxiliary, we had about uh 25% or 59 uh uh staff members uh uh vote for the uh for the new calendar. Parent participation was 36%. Uh students was uh 1% but the students that was limited to secondary students only. And then
030our teaching staff was 37% or 88 of our teaching staff out of 120. Okay. So then the uh the results of of of this was um we had 58% of of of the participants select uh option A and 42% uh select um option B. And so one of the things that um through this survey that we're able to do is drill down and see and you know we asked specific questions. One of one of the things we were curious is okay uh we know we know this whole the whole um um school community voted for a but how did our teachers just if we just look at our teachers how did they vote and so um because this is an an academic instructional calendar um that we're voting that uh that we are reviewing to
031tonight and so if you can see here this is just the teachers so the teachers overwhelmingly voted for option A almost in a ratio of 2 to one. Okay. And so I also have some of our members here tonight. We had our campus principles and then we also had some as I mentioned some teachers and uh parents and staff. Okay. And I think Miss Bullard was also part of it. Okay. All right. Um so that is all necessary. You have any questions? What is the recommendation? Okay, so yes, so the recommendation is um for your consideration is that um is um that we go with uh option uh calendar A uh for the 24 2526 school year. And that's the calendar that you see on the last page of your packet. Mr. Can you hear?
032I I just have a question. Um when when I was looking through it when the both options were presented to us and I'm just thinking outside here, I'm thinking of our dual credit kits. Does this spring break line up with the junior college spring break? Because I know that's going to be difficult having some of the kids who are trying to enjoy vacations with their family, but then they're still having to worry about their studies and then they have a whole week off when there's really there's a lot of downtime for them. I'm just was that I mean and I know it's hard especially if the junior college or southwest calendar isn't out yet, but was that taken into consideration? Yeah. No. Uh that's a that's an excellent question and yes we did uh that
033was a discussion and that was I I believe one of our early uh work work sessions I think either our first or second one and so we were able to confirm uh and align our um spring break with the junior college. So this year if you notice we just came back from spring break. Next year it'll be a uh a week earlier which is basically how we've normally had it which I think is like on the 9th or something. So thank you. Thank you. Miss Franco of MA question. President Mr. T. Good evening sir. Hope you're doing well. Again the the total number of teachers how many total teachers do we have in our district? Again please remind me about 120 120 teachers total teacher teaching staff teaching staff. Correct. That's more more or less
034number. Yeah more or less. That's how many total teachers. I'm sorry. 300. I'm sorry. I'm trying to get the number in my head. No. Teaching staff. No, teaching staff. Teachers teachers. I think it's about 120. 120. 120. And did all of them vote? You said that some of them that did not vote. Uh, yes. They all voted. Is 88 voted? 80 out. And again, I'm I'm we can't force anybody to vote, but why why did not everyone vote? That's kind of my question here. It was sent out several times. I sent it out personally to all email three times total. We sent it out on Parent Square uh three times and we posted it on our social media accounts. Yeah, we we opened it up uh before spring break, left it open till spring break
035and we actually it just clo we just closed it yesterday. But yeah, there was uh uh numerous um number almost 90 which what would be the percentage of 90 teachers? It's about 90 teachers out of 120. Yes, I I have it here. Good percentage. It's a good percentage. Does anyone again if if I'm out of bounds here, does anyone foresee any of the people that did not vote? I mean, principles, please answer if respond any concerns that might come from people who said, "Well, I didn't have time to vote." Okay. Yeah, I understand that. But I I'm just I don't want it to come back to where those teachers you I'm not if they didn't I respect their their decision why or why not. But I'm just I just want to ensure that Okay. Okay.
036They had ample time to vote. Okay. Perfect. Okay. All right. I will tell you and but Mr. Telant is you might want to go over the side by side that was sent out also. I know you didn't put it in this packet, but the principles did an outstanding job presenting to their staff. And maybe that's why Miss Judy, I guess, I just they all presented both options face to face with their teachers. And so maybe that that was an element that I know is different, you know, maybe from previous that they they did take the time to share both calendars. I'm not sure, but I'm just saying I know they did. Thank you. Yes. Yeah. It's good. we had a um a side by side where it broke it down instead of just looking at
037the calendars. And so um and that was also part of the um the information that was shared on the actual survey. So Mr. Uh because you were asking uh in the teaching staff when we break it down 67% uh chose option A uh 33% of our teachers option B. So the total was about 75% participation. Thank you for clarifying. And on the side by side again, it's in your board packet, but one of the things I do want to emphasize and Mr. Dalamont has put it in there is that this is a 182 calendar uh for teachers, which is a five days less uh that was part of a Senate bill that allows us to proportionally give uh the teachers days compared to the students instructional days. And uh we felt that that was a
038positive because uh it allows us to uh again proportionally have the teachers come in to the number of days that the students are instructionally. A couple of the other positives also that was noted in the survey that I just think is important to me mention is uh overwhelmingly there was a concern about the long hours at elementary and at CSI and through this calendar adoption process we were able to address the hours also. And so I think that was a a big positive in in the um in comparison to what the survey data was that we received for the calendar. Also uh um Mr. Gonzalez, Coach Gonzalez isn't here anymore, but we don't have the out of town FAR games this season coming up like we did this time. So we were a able to
039eliminate some of those uh half days where we have very low attendance. Uh there was also feedback on the 4day weeks and that there was a bunch of them close together. So we were able to spread them out to do a balance of wellness for teachers and students and to be able to balance the the holidays. So I I think all of those were some really good positives and I don't know if the principles want to share any other or Mr. T. If I recall also mentioned that this spring break time would align with the other districts that we compete with as well. So that I think there was also a discrepancy there where some were practicing and ours were Correct. Okay. And then one of the other things I'll I'll mention also because it
040was part of the survey input as Miss uh Pearson was mentioning is uh to include some cushion uh what they call cushion time in the in the calendar. Meaning if we have an expected emergencies and we have to close we may not have to make up that time. So, so uh on uh option A we have uh uh uh at least 5 days of cushion which is more than enough. Could could you please explain the uh the two purple in November that week of Thanksgiving? Oh yes. Um thank you. Yes, that is um uh what we referring to as compensator compensatory time because um um compliance day is what it says. Excuse Teacher compliance day. Yes. Teacher compliance. Yes. Teacher compliance. Um so uh as you know um uh you may or may not be
041aware our teachers have to every year have to go through compliance training, right? And it's a series of videos. So normally uh usually we would give them time during the day, but because we want to focus on staff development and instruction, uh this this year we're going to or this coming year we're going to do something a little bit different. They'll do it uh out of their uh uh out out of normal work hours, but uh they're uh they're going to be meeting with their principles. If they can show that they've completed those videos by Thanksgiving, then they'll they'll be offered those days. If not, they would be required to come in and just to complete the videos, okay, on those days. But we will make sure that that does not happen. Okay. We'll have
042plenty of opportunity and reminders to finish the videos. Thank you. Okay, we have a motion by Wilbur Gruz to to um to uh consider the approval of the academic calendar option A for 2025 2026 school year. Do I have a second? I second. Seconded by Noarata. Noarat. I'm sorry. Oh my gosh. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Sorry. Thank you, Mr. Okay. And we're going to move one up before we go to the reports. We're going to uh go to uh item D, discussion and review of monthly tax collection report. Mr. Cababo. Thank you. These are not in here. No. Okay. Thanks. [Music] Yes. Uh good good evening. The first item on my report is the final notice letters under number one. This past quarter, we did mail out 33
043final notice letters uh on 44 delinquent accounts and all those are there are listed on pages one and two by the taxpayers's name, a a brief property description, account number and the amount of taxes due to school district uh when that letter was smelt out. On page number three, item number two are tax suits. We did file four new tax suits and they're listed there in the top half of page number three and they're listed by tax suit number, defendant's name and brief property, the account number and amount of taxes to the school district when that tax was filed. Bottom page three, item three, tax dockets. We did have two tax dockets this last quarter. One docket was on November 21st. The other one was on January 9th. The docket for November 21st are listed
044at the bottom pages three, four, and on page five. And they're listed there by the suit number, the defendant's name, a brief property description, account number, the taxes to the school district when we're in court, and the status of that case on that docket date. So, the November 21st docket goes on pages 3, four, and five. the January 9th docket are on pages six and seven and they're listed also by the same information. Going on to page seven, item number four are future tax dockets. We do have two tax tax dockets set in the future. March 6, which was held a couple weeks ago, and also April 17th. And those dockets are listed there on pages seven and eight. and at the top of page nine and they're listed by suit number, defendant, property description,
045and the account number. So those two dockets, March 6 and April 17th, which get gets us to item five of page nine, delinquent collections. The total base tax collected for the past quarter, November, December, and January totaled $86,488.33. And that base total is itemized there by month and by fund for that base tax. That very quickly summarizes the report. If there's any questions on the report, I'll I'll do my best to answer your questions. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Cabo. Okay, thank you. Have a good evening. Thanks, Jimmy. Thank you. Okay, now we're going to go to item eight, reports,formational items. We're starting with a financial briefing. Okay, here we go. Uh, thank you. So for our uh general fund for the our executive sum summary as of February 2025, we're at 50% of the
046time passed for our fiscal year. Uh I'll go through the percentages and then I'll go through the the the numbers for the general fund. We've collected 80% of our taxes so far. Our expenses are at 17.5%. And the reason is because we have not paid the chapter 41, which that'll come later in the year. Um food service, we're at 44% of collecting our uh projected revenue and at 39% of budgeted expenses at this point. And interest and syncing, we've collected about 84% of our budgeted taxes. In big picture view for the general fund, our audited fund balance as of 83124 is 24 million. Our current year revenue collected is 56.9 million. Our expenses are at 17.1 million. Of course, not having paid the chapter 41 payment. So, our net revenues and expenses right now are
047at 42.7 million for this year 2425. For the food service, our current year-to- date revenue collected is 1 million. Expenses are 1.2 million. They're under at about 131,307. And for the debt service, we have a fund balance at the end of the fiscal year of 3.6 million. Our taxes collected are 11 million 11,92 and our expenses which are our our first half of the bond payments are 4.4 million. The second half will be paid in August. Uh so revenue over expenses for debt services is uh 6.6 million. On the next page you'll see your the general fund overview which again this outlines basically what I just discussed but it gives you in detail uh in in summary for each area. So for revenue you have your local your state and federal revenues. You know uh
048for example for the current month of 7.4 million and year to date of 56.9 million. And then the expenditures are outlined for the board by function uh instruction library you know and all the various uh categories or departments and the expenses for the month of 2.1 million and year to date of 14.1 million which are the numbers that I had just provided. Uh on the next page, you're going to see a recap of the interest in syncing and then we'll do food service and debt service. Uh the year-to- date interest earned by fund for the um all funds for February for general fund interest in syncing and construction all funds is 545,000 for the year it's 3.2 million. And so I'm just providing a recap there. On the next page, you'll see a recap of
049the board budget, board approved budget amendments. It's just an ongoing listing so we can, you know, keep track of of uh the board approved items. And we'll be reviewing later on the agenda the middle of the year review of our revenues, our collections, and where we are on budget. On page the next page, you'll see the special maintenance projects. Out of the 350,000 allocated for special maintenance project, we have appropriated 95,000. So, we do have a balance of 254 that has not been spent. So, that's we're doing pretty good there. On the next page, you'll see um fund 101, which is our food service fund. And uh for the month, the collections were uh 16,400. Our year-to- date actual is 1,99. And expenses at this point, you'll see uh the food service category or the
050function code 35, it's 1.2 million. And so at this point, they're short about 131, which is under the amount that we uh projected for the year's 451,000. So that's where we are there. for interest and syncing which is our fund 511 debt service. On the next page, our uh local collections of taxes are 11 million for the current month for February was 1.6 million and our bond payment like I mentioned earlier is at 4.4 for the payment there. On the next page, uh as a brief overview for construction, I am providing two years worth of data. We have the 2324 year, but for the current year 2425, our current expenses are 2.2 million. I'm sorry. Our uh revenue, which is all of our interest so far for the month, was 342,908. Year-to date 2.2 million
051in interest has been earned for 2425 only. Last year, we earned 1.7 million in interest. So that's a a comparison there. Uh as far as expenses so far, 747,396 for 2425 school year. Okay. And that is a brief update. Let me know if I I can move forward to accounts payable. Okay. So for accounts payable, um we provided a check register. I don't have um much to add to that unless you have something that you want to ask or I can research for you. Miss Franle question. Uh um Miss Pearson, in in your notes to us, you mentioned something in the area of uh food service uh in regards to um staff. C can you rem remind or just kind of Yeah. So, uh currently right now we uh have five custodians that are paid
052from our uh fund code for um food service food service. And what we would like to uh do is next school year for the 2526 move those uh to the general fund because we're continuously in the deficit in our child nutrition. Uh, we want to move the budget code to to be able to give us more flexibility so that those custodial staff can still assist in the cafeteria, but they can also assist in other areas because right now the budget codes are important with the location in the area. And when we use that budget code, they're tied to just that location. Okay. Yes, sir. Thanks. And that's roughly about 200,000 as far as what that would be. Okay. Yeah, I saw that number done. Thank you. If there are no questions on the accounts payable,
053uh, also we provided a list for the vendors above 50,000 as of February 28, 2025, just for your review, so you can see where we're miss Pearson again with um do we still utilize Ohanland de Marathan Castillo as legal? We do. Yes, sir. Okay. And we've we have used them. Yes, I recall. Okay. Just just following. Thank you. Yes. Regularly. Yes. Okay. And then um Oh, can I move on to the tax collection report? Any other questions? Yes. Go ahead. Okay. So, uh, on the tax collection report, um, I think there were some questions earlier about where we are percentage-wise on the collections. Uh, for the M operations, we our budget was 55.9 million and we've collected 55.1 million so far. So, we're exceeding expectations there. We've collected 98% so far of what we had
054expected. When we bring in the prior year taxes, penalties and interest and and all of it together, it's 56.4 million and we've collected 55.5. So when you bring the whole total together, we're at about 87% collection. And on the interest and syncing side, uh for current, we're we're exceeding we're at 101% of what we uh expected to collect. I don't have anything else to add to that report. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, honor. Okay. Brings us to item to item E, first reading of the TAZBY initiated revisions. Thank you. Is it on? Yes. Good evening, Madam President, board members. You have in your packet information in regard to TASBY localized policy updates update number 124. They refer to the general areas areas of uh fiscal CAA local fiscal management goals and objectives financial ethics.
055CDA local other revenues investments. CY local intellectual property. DH local employee standards of conduct. EHB local curriculum design special programs specifically EHB local special programs gifted and talented students FFG local uh student welfare child abuse and neglect and GKA local community relations conduct on school premises. Each of those have uh recommended TASBY revisions for language updates and updates regarding different rule changes and legislation that have taken place. Are there any questions that I or concerns or anything that I can clarify in reference to that? This is the first reading. We will bring these for your approval at the April board meeting. Any any questions? Thank you. You can go on to this one. Okay, Matt. Yes, you can go ahead into the first reading of the district initiated revisions made to the DCE local policy
056employment practices and other types of contracts. Thank you. Yes, this revision recommendation is a locally initiated uh recommendation. uh I had the uh opportunity to attend a TASBY training uh along with my colleagues Miss Diaz and Mrs. Urigas and at the training we were given information in regard to uh uh who is employees that are eligible and not eligible for chapter 21 contracts. And so our the language in DCE local indicates um very specific positions that are entitled to non uh chapter 21 contracts. we've outlined them specifically. Um those positions are for example executive director for finance which we no longer have that position. We have a chief finance officer maintenance and transportation director and food services director. So the recommendation is to revise and update that policy to read um non-chapter contract shall be
057provided for positions included on the list approved by the board. A non-chapter 21 contract shall not be governed by chapter 21 of ed of the educational code. What that means in a nutshell is employees, professional employees that are entitled to a uh excuse me, a a chapter 21 contract are those who are certified and licensed and that their position requires such said certified certification or lensure. So, we're just going to make our policy cleaner, more succinct. So, that way we don't have to, you know, when you when you put something specific, you have to, you know, adhere to that. So, this way it gives us gives the board of the opportunity to approve uh non-chapter 21 contracts that apply. Then you don't have to keep coming to the board for those uh specifics. you when
058you and this also applies to um to teachers that we have under contract who are employed and uh we utilize this school district teaching permit SDTP. They are not certified um through ESPEC. They are have a local teaching permit that is approved by the school board and that that local permit is only um uh effective here at the at this district. Any questions? Any I'd like any clarification that you'd like. We're not approving this. This is the first reading. That's correct. Correct. Okay. Yes. That has been our process. It'll be a first read so that you can get the information, take it back, re take it back, read it. uh if you have questions next month when we bring it for your approval, you know, if you read and think about it or hey, I
059need to ask this question in reference to that then that we can do that. So it's not thrown at you all at once this and uh you have uh time to to digest it as it were. Okay. Any other any other questions or concerns I can address? Other questions? No. No more questions. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Next item, approval of consent agenda items. Uh letter A, consideration of minutes. Minutes of the regular board meeting of February 18th, 2025. Madame President, there are no more questions. I I make a motion to approve the minutes of regular board meeting of February 18, 2025. Okay. Motion made by Aldoria to to uh approve the I'll second and seconded by President. Thank you. Seconded by Michael Urigas to approve the consideration of minutes of
060the regular board meeting of February 18th, 2025. All in favor? I I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Uh item 10, discussion and possible action items. A consider approval of resolution regarding weather related closure of school. Yes. Thank you. Um, the inclement weather that predicted potential ice and snow on January 21st, 2025 resulted in the physical closure of all schools and facilities in Ciso Springs, CISD. The superintendent uh myself, Rose Pearson, recommends that the board considers approving the resolution of the Kiso Springs Consolidated Independent School District Board of Trustees regarding weather related closure of school, thus granting the superintendent authority to carry out the directives of the board resolution. The res resolution allows for us to play all of our employees that in no uh fault of their own uh through circumstances completely beyond their
061control were instructed to not report to work uh or other employees uh some through our maintenance were called upon to provide emergency related services or repairs. And so the resolution is attached and I am asking the board to approve so that uh all employees uh can be compensated for the day. President Franco, I'll make the motion to approve the resolution regarding weather related closure of school. I have a question. All right. Sorry, Mr. Dory. Um uh this resolution uh uh says that all employees, right? Yes. Regardless of whether um regular, permanent, or or u part-time. So all all of our employees that are employed either uh full-time or part-time through the employee. So not our substitutes um and not our uh temporary employees. Oh, okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. That all of our hourly employees.
062And it's important to note that uh I didn't bring this forth in February because I was under the impression that we were going to have to make up the day and therefore it would have been an an equal because they would have have come to work on a day that potentially they would have been off. But in uh in reviewing our um our minutes, we were able to use our waiver minutes. And so we were uh are not having to make up the day, which was going to be April 21st. We do not need to make up that day. Thank you. Okay. The motion was made uh by Michael Origas, seconded by Wilbur Cruz to consider the approval of the resolution regarding the weather related closure of the school. All in favor? I I opposed.
063None. Motion carries. Thank you. Item C, consider approval of the mid-year budget amendment to realign projected revenues and expenditures across functions for the 2024 2025 school year. Thank you. So, um, one of the things that we discussed during the adoption of our audit was that I would come back to the board more or less at the middle of the year and we are we are at the 50% mark uh, right now. And so what I did to prepare for this was to ask Smoke and Casey to redo our summary of finance because that's who we we outsourced to uh to help us project our tax collections for the year. And so I reached out to them around March the 7th. They provided an update. I also looked at our TEA summary of finance which was
064last updated when I looked at this was on March the 10th. We reviewed this in our finance committee uh meeting today as well. And so I did a comparison. I we we took these revenue projections and then we you know we we compared them to what we adopted at the beginning of the school year and we do have some variances uh that we are updating. Now the reason for the variances is is a couple of things. One, when we're adopting the budget budget, we're projecting as with the best information that we know. But now that we're at the middle of the year, we know more information. We know what our student ADA is. We know what our property values were, uh, certified and then they go through the appeal process and they continue to update.
065So, uh, we all that information is put into play again to recalculate to see where we are. And so, now we're realigning that. And so, my intent with the board, what I what I had explained when we adopted the budget was that we would look at it at the middle of the year. We're going to look at it again maybe in in May or June, probably June, look at that again to see where we are and and how to close the year. And then at the end of the year, we're required to align for the whole year. So last year, well, as you know, I started in July, so we just did one and and I missed the mark on a couple of areas. And so I'm looking now that that was my um it's
066not a corrective action plan because it was not a finding. It was just more in our management letter saying, "Hey, look at it a little bit more often." So, that's what we're doing here is we're looking at our numbers. Sorry about that. I didn't realize that you couldn't hear me there, but hopefully you heard most of that. So, for the general fund, um, our revenues that we're projecting for local, state, and federal programs are an increase of 1,27 275,000. And we did look at all areas, not just what the summary of finance template uh results are because that gives us the tax revenue, but we looked at all of them. We looked at the state, the federal and the local uh all the gate receipts and you know the uh oil and gas and the
067chapter 313 everything that we we could look at we we did. And so at the same time we also looked at our expenses. We projected what the payroll would look like uh now that we're at the middle of the year projecting into the end of the year. We looked at outstanding purchase orders, contracts that we have in place, board approved projects, you know, as much as we ca could. We did our very best to project by function. So, when we look at this function code, we're realigning. We're putting funds into the summer school. We're looking at uh a few things that we needed for the health services uh that that were requested. Um and then we're also putting we're covering some areas that are that are audit uh resulted. For example, you'll see a um
068a transfer in which is considered like a revenue of 315,000 for um the leases, long-term leases. We're required to capitalize them and expense them. But then you'll see them in the expenditure decreasing by 315, which is a net a net zero impact. But the the important thing here is that out of the 1.2 million 1 point I mean out of the 1.275 275 total revenue increase uh 1,252,000 will be going to chapter 41 payments. So it's like a in and out but we are realigning. Uh the other thing is the net of all of the increases and decreases at this point appear and we're projecting it's a budget uh that we would be increasing fund balance by 407,000 when we net all of this at this point. Uh I did uh include in my packet
069the uh the comparison from Moch and Casey back in August the 26th and then now on March the 7th, you know, for your review and and and to read into it. And then also uh the TEA summary of finance update that was last updated on March the 10th. So that's included in there as well. When uh when we look at food service, I know we already uh discussed some things as far as the current year where they are. Uh revenues are a little they're higher in some of the um uh food service activity by 10,000. But we do have a grant that was applied for that did not come in and that was for um summer SS what was it? The supply chain grant and it and that uh was not awarded. So that was
070a decrease. When we net all of it together, we're looking at a net uh decrease for revenue of 51,141. Uh we are not looking to to fund that at this moment because we're just a middle ofear review. What we're looking at is hoping and working very hard to reduce our expenses between now and the year end. And so for example, when we move um some of the food service custodians, we'll move them before the beginning of the year. So that'll take effect in August. So we'll have about a month there. It won't be that whole amount, but you know, so we're looking at at how we can bring it in and hopefully uh take take that uh within. But we did analyze it. We did spend a lot of time on it and uh we
071we are reviewing that. And then the last one that I have is for interest and syncing. As you saw, I mentioned in the tax collection report, we're collecting higher than expected. So we're projecting uh to increase that by 45,000. And the appropriation for that would be just to allow that to flow through to fund balance within the interest and syncing fund. Um other than that I don't have anything else to provide unless you have any questions for me. We will come back again in about uh for the June meeting to re-evaluate you know where we are. Any questions? I do miss Frank. Thank you, Miss Anna. On a letter from Oaken Casey in regards to, if I may read this, am I allowed to read this? Based on your current data, the TA projection is
072about 1.52 high. That line could Could you clarify that line? 1.52 high. It was a letter. Yes. Yeah. May March 10th. Yes. So the TEA projection is that summary of finance that I'm putting in there uh for the the TEA update. So when he's when they're talking about 1.5 uh it appears that when you when you compare that let me go to it. Is that $1? No no what is what is 1.5 1.5 million million. Okay. Yeah. So of course we went with the Moch and Casey more conservative. Okay. Uh, and because we submitted our data to Moch and Casey, we sent them our current ADA, we sent them our property value, we sent them uh, you know, a number of things that they requested. Send me all of this information so we can update
073it and we reviewed it. And so, but I just wanted you to know that we did look at TEAS as well, but TEA will eventually settle into our numbers every time we upload uh, PE's information or the property values that get, you know, up updated. any updates that we provide that are required to EA reporting. What happens after that is a summary of finance update and then a year later we settle up for the year. Gotcha. Yes, sir. And then on um on the summary of finance, it's page eight. Uh LP and DPE. What are those initials then? Okay. So, LPE is local planning estimate and DPE I thought it was um I just went to a training s and I forgot what it was. Okay. It's alphabet soup. I'm just Yeah, I got you.
074Okay. Yeah. But but they um they they give us they're usually very close together. Uh but sometimes we have information that we submit and so we'll be able to adjust to a local planning estimate. Okay. But at the end of the day when the dust settles with all our submissions, the audit report being complete, all the PE's updated information, we end up, you know, either getting a bill from TEA or a refund, but we've never gotten a refund. No. Yeah. Okay. But yeah, so they're they're just tracking any submissions that we have based on their estimates or our estimates. Thank you. Mhm. This is the uh I just want to mention that um uh the data coming from the TEAA is the official one and not the moch and Casey. Okay. So TEA is uh
075what we owe TEA will be from TEA's template but the Moch and Casey is our submission of our data to Moch and Casey and them running the numbers for us. So we feel like our numbers are more accurate than the the summary of finance from TEA and the reason is because we we have more information than they do at this point. TEA updates the summary of finance at intervals like um for example I when was whatever the last PE submission was u they'll update at that at that point. there's several um reporting dates that come up from the district and so they only update the summary finance when those things come up and we don't we know what our data is so we know what our ADA is we know what our enrollment is and
076so we're submitting true numbers so TEA will eventually settle up with what our numbers really are sometimes it lags you know into the into the later of the year by the time everything settles that answer your question Mr. Dorian. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Does this need approval? We need approval. Yes, please. Okay. That was item C. I make a motion to approve midyear budget amendment to realign projected revenues and expenditures across function for the 2425 school year. Second. Okay. Okay. Motion made by Michael Origas, seconded by Aldoria to to approve of the midyear budget amendments to realign project projected revenues and expenditures across functions for the 2024 2025 school year. All in favor? I opposed. None. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Yes, sir. Thank you, ma'am. Okay. Item 11, executive session. Okay.
077Discussion authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code section 551.001 U. A551.074. Personnel matters. Discussion of resignations, retirements, leaves of leaves of absence, reassignments, new employment, new personnel position, duties, responsibilities of employees. Time time is 7:29. We are in executive session.