Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD - Regular School Board Meeting - 4/3/2025

001it is 6: PM and I call this premating briefing of the Carolton Farmers Branch ISD Board of Trustees to order this briefing is to conduct a session with administrative staff regarding posted agenda items for the regular board meeting scheduled at 700 p.m. on April the 3 for the record board members present are terara herbach Kim Brady Marjorie Barnes Caroline Benavides Ilana garar roas Cassandra Hatfield and I'm Randy shackman we do constitute a quorum first item on our agenda is audience for guests and I've been advised that we have no one who signed up for audience for guests so we will skip through that and go directly to our administrative reports Dr Eldridge yes we have two administrative reports tonight um item five R and it's about the natatorium Bobby Shaw and then Bobby Shaw will

002also do 5s on the elevator replacement so well good evening can you'all hear me okay well thank you Dr Eldridge members of the board for considering uh these two options we're bringing before you uh first first one is for the natatorium resurfacing uh typical lifespan for Natatorium surface is about 8 to 10 years with proper maintenance you can stretch it out to about 10 to 12 uh we're topping up since 2010 so we're about that 15year Mark now um so it's starting to become a a safety issue there's some deterioration in some of the lanes there's some exposed rebar uh there's issues with the light brackets as well as some of the starting block damages to that uh so we do recommend proceeding with the attached proposal from sunbo pools uh is scheduled to begin

003as soon as school's out and continue through most of the summer to be ready for when the kids come back in the fall uh now this will impact some Community swim uh majority of our members are usually those at the The Legend club um so they don't usually pay for the service so we won't lose any funds there but there are options in the community such as the Farmers Branch Rec Center the core and Cel and then I think Carolton has their own couple pools so they won't miss out on summer swim uh but we will be shut down for the majority of the summer uh we will be used in the 2018 residual funds which was discussed at previous board members uh meeting for this uh funding so I'll be glad to answer any

004questions on the nitorum if you guys have any board members any questions thank you Mr Shaw um is there a communication plan for our community members that do use the pool in the summer not just the organizations but anybody else are we providing sufficient notice of the clo shutdown and another place to exercise you know any communication kudos to Grace Parker she runs an auditorium along with Renee and they've already made communication say this is coming potentially uh and then they'll put notice on their website and their calendars as well okay thank you go ahead do you have another question yeah but does anybody else have anything okay and I just want to confirm because the document in our agenda I want to make sure it said it was good through um the pricing was

005good through March of 2025 vendor has extended that same pricing through tonight's meeting yes ma'am we reached out to them prior the last board meeting and they said they would accept it okay thank you okay thank you I believe we're ready for the next it which is the the mar elev elevator very similar to swimming pools elevators have a like life expectancy too uh there's a little bit longer 20 to 25 years uh unfortunately the one of mar hu is from 1990 so it's already stretching at that 35y old Mark um at this time is difficult to get equipment parts replacement are getting more expensive more scarce uh we've had a number of work orders with people being stuck in the elevator issues with it uh we've had a couple different contractors come out and

006give us estimates and their best guess of what needs to be replaced uh so we did select iron seal elevator Services uh they will come out install a new g g door package including operator clutch interlocks closer and rollers not an elevator guy so I can't tell you what that means but non-proprietary microprocessor based controllers uh is something that any company can come work on if you get proprietary it's usually one contractor but this one allows multiple elevator contractors to come out and resource those then it also includes some upgrades inside the car with some self-leveling fire service new ADA Compliant features and led Vandal free uh what was it lighting system so uh we do recommend this proposal to iron seill similar timeline they will start as soon as School's Out we've already talked

007with the special ed staff over there Sarah Roland and her team kudos to Patty Gonzalez uh she's been helping coordinate getting folks moved out to that building because they're going to get HVAC replacement and now elevator replacement potentially uh so there'll be a house at Perry for a majority of the summer so we can get that work completed so they can get back in there for start of school uh as same as the natatorium this will be funded from 2018 bond funds as you guys have discussed in previous meetings questions on Marie huei elevator thank you any board members any questions Ben thank you um so it's just refurbishing bringing it up to par yes ma'am okay so as far as a new shaft and all that we're not going to do that'll say the

008same it'll be new equipment inside yes thank you I don't see any other questions Mr sha thank you very much thank you that concludes the administrative reports board members are there there any questions uh regarding the consent agenda yes ma'am Miss Brady I have a question on 5G which is the hospital agreement with field Middle School my question basically is how much is that costing the district and are we using it our families using it sorry 5G the hospital agreement with field Middle School oh Chris is that Chris I'm sorry that's okay feel like I'm eating the microphone I I don't have that figure but I can get that for you prior to the meeting and just using it our familes using it yes ma'am yes ma'am it's um we we've been in agreement with

009them for several years um and that um it actually helps specifically with attendance there at field uh they work with Sandra leak a lot and her health services staff uh but they uh it's on that portion that would be the northernmost section of the building um and the uh they utilize that it's for families it's for community members as well but it's it really benefits the uh the families there in that specific area with with field Farmers Branch uh they work in patients um students uh regularly there as they come in so we can get them into class and out of class over there to the clinic and medicated and back into school but I can get you that figure thank you yes ma'am any other questions thank you Mr Moore yes sir Iana has

010a question Elana go ahead I just needed to oh I'm sorry about that I needed to pull uh agenda item oh I just had it oh my gosh oh here it is it's 5 V it's the work study minutes for March 10th I was not here okay that was five Z is in zebra V okay any other comments if there are no other comments I believe we have reached the conclusion of our pre- meeting briefing uh the agenda is complete and we are adjourned from this pre meeting at e e e good evening everyone I call this regular meeting the Carolton Farmers Branch ISD Board of Trustees to order at 7 p.m on April 3rd 2025 uh board members District staff members and members of the audience uh you are free to join me in

011standing as Arthur Mendes uh from Valley Ranch Baptist Church provides us with the message uh followed by Kim Brady leading the pledge to the US flag and Ilana garca Ro the pl Texas pledge good evening everybody would you bow your heads with me Heavenly Father we come before you with hearts full of gratitude for the families teachers and administrators of Caron Farmers Branch IST we thank you for the gift of education and for the dedication of those who serve in this District shaping the minds and hearts of the Next Generation Lord we ask you for blessings over every family in this District strengthen parents and Guardians as they guide and support their children fill their homes with peace love and encouragement may they find joy in the Journey of learning and growing together we lift

012up the teachers who give so much of themselves every day grant them patience when challenges arise creativity to inspire their students and endurance to continue the incredible work they do let them feel appreciated and encouraged knowing that the their efforts make a lasting impact for the administrators and staff who work behind the scenes we pray for wisdom and discernment May their leadership Foster an environment of growth safety and opportunity for every student give them clarity in their decision making and in a heart of service specifically Lord we lift up superintendent Dr Wendy Eldridge asking that you continue to streng strengthen and equip her with wisdom Grace and endurance needed to lead this District well in moments of difficulty be her source of peace and guidance surround her with wise counsel and bless the work of

013her hands as she steered the district toward a future filled with hope and opportunity father we ask that you would continue to pour out your favor upon cfbisd may this District be a place where students Thrive Educators feel valued and leaders walk with with integrity and purpose keep them United encouraged and inspired as they work together for the good of this community we pray all of this in the name of Jesus our source of wisdom strength and peace amen amen I pledge allegiance to of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Texas flag I pledge allegiance to thee Texas one State under God one and indivisible thank you you may be seated Mr Mr Mendes thank you for

014your thought as a district we dedicate all of our efforts and resources to our goal of high expectations for all the board uses this goal to guide all delion uh deliberations decisions and actions you will get to see all of the deliberations decisions and actions of the board in our open session here this evening uh with the exception of a few items which may be discussed in the closed session as stipulated Texas government code section 551 commonly called the opens meetings law these items typically deal with Personnel matters consultation with our attorney or real estate for the record board members present are terara herbach Kim Brady margorie Bryan uh Carolyn Ben V Ilana Gara Ross Cassandra Hatfield and I'm Randy shakman we constitute a quorum and may conduct business on behalf of the district the

015next item on our agenda is uh special recognitions and I'm going to turn this over to Karen Rodriguez good evening president shakman Dr Eldridge and Este team members of the board every month through our partnership with Chick-fil-A at Trinity Mills we honor individuals who demonstrate Excellence with the CFB Champion award the April CFB Champion award is being presented to Daniel Harper security specialist at pulk middle school for his heroic efforts at an athletic event while attending a track meet his daughter was competing in a coach was struck by a shot put that was accidentally thrown too early from the stands Daniel saw that she fell instantly and was seriously injured bleeding from a head wound he immediately jumped into action applied direct pressure and contact at 911 the coach is now recovering thanks to Daniel's

016quick response please join me in congratulating Daniel Harper for his courageous actions and Noble character thank you so much so for our student recognitions tonight um in CFB we have the privilege to serve talented and exceptional students a shining example are the following students who received the Texas music educators Association Allstate music award students received this prestigious honor through a competitive process held across the state at District region and area levels this year's tmea Allstate music award recipient are from Creek View and forgive me if I mispronounced your name from Creek View Lucas Trang um All State syona Orchestra from Newman Smith Diego Jones All State symphon ex Orchestra from Ranch viw Jaden Samuel Association of Texas small school bands all state band Kazan Kellan Association of Texas small school bands all state band asul

017Picasso All State small school mixed choir Cameron Canan Canan correct me Canan okay Cameron kunanon All State small school mixed choir odavi swiy or is it swiny swinny odian swinny all state small school mixed choir congratulations to these very talented students we're so proud of your accomplishments congratulations once again you can leave this way that concludes tonight's recognitions thank you Mr Rodriguez the next item is uh president's report and uh I'd like to begin by uh offering hearty congratulations to our our good friend and service partner Metrocrest Services as today was their 20th anniversary keyholder breakfast they are such a helpful asset in our community as they help student families with housing food resources job and financial literary support and much more we just again offer great congratulations and thank you to Metrocrest Services some

018of you may not be aware that this year CFB has begun hosting a truancy tribunal it is proving to be a huge success in helping us to deal with absenteeism uh the in uh intervention process engages students and families and redirecting chronic absenteeism together with identifying and support for numerous Social Service needs and it's a great program and we're excited to see that going forward uh having played some baseball in high school and college I am always excited uh by cfb's successes on the diamond and congratulations to Creek View High School's Cameron lanberg on being star local media's athlete of the week uh congratulations Cameron lastly I want to speak to an inaccurate rumor that's been making rounds on social media claiming that CFB raised property taxes in the last few few years that is

019simply not true between state required compression and good fiscal management the CFB tax rate in the last decade has gone from a138 per 100 in property value to this Cur Year's current rate of 98 cents per 100 so while assessed property values have risen due to inflation our district doesn't have any control over this we're not the uh assessment agency cfb's part of our community's property taxes are down 28% 40 cents over the last 10 years and that concludes my president's remarks for tonight uh committee updates is next uh board members I know we have some committee reports uh marchy which you love to start so on March 25th um we had a Safety and Security committee and meeting and um lots of good things happening there one of the things I wanted to highlight

020was the Sentinel of Safety project is going to be happening again this year um it is a little program that all the different um schools will do in conjunction with their safety and security officers um where they will find a problem and then they identify different solutions and they come up with a fun way of showing that last year one of the highlights was an elementary school came up with a wrap to um on a security issue I think it was roseme um really cute different ideas and all the elementary schools this year will be participating in it and then there's a little contest um at the end of the school year to determine everyone's favorite I guess or the best ones um so I was excited to hear about that and that concludes my

021thank you M Ross I have a legislative committee update so on Tuesday Miss Brady Miss Barnes Miss Hatfield Dr Aldridge and I took a day trip to the Texas capital in Austin the purpose of our visit was to meet with House Representatives and senators and their staffers um a huge thank you to representative ania's office for coordinating our schedule for the day because of their efforts we were able to get a meeting with five of six offices while we were there we also want to thank raise your hand Texas Matthew Hall for accompanying us throughout the day answering our questions and guiding us through reflective questions CF cfbisd is represented by several House Representatives Cassandra Garcia Hernandez Ben Bumgarner Mitch little and Rafael enia as well as two senators tan Parker and Nathan Johnson the

022focus of our time time with each office was to thank them for legislation legislation they personally filed in support of public education and our board legislative priorities we asked them to consider co-author or sponsor bills filed with others that relate to our board legislative priorities additionally for some bills we advocated for amendments to be filed to enhance the bill to further align with our priorities finally we provided each one with a list of underfunded mandates and the financial impact those have on our district we returned from our day trip with a list a follow-up task which includes sending thank you and follow-up communication to each office monitoring and advocating for bills to cross the finish line the session and providing some additional data to representatives in an effort to support them in advocating for amendments

023we also have an update on the bill to support temporary certification for our out ofate teachers that we discussed last month two bills were originally filed with the same language we have confirmation that the bill will be moving forward is HB 1178 the bill was authored by Cunningham who's a member of the House public education committee please join us in signing up for Bill alerts for this bill and others related to public education Texas legislature online thank you Mr gohar Gara roas and thank you to all of the members in Dr Eldridge for making that trip that such an important important item other yeah next Who's me okay um budgets and operations committee we met um Miss Barnes Miss garoh house Miss SLE and myself um they went over some strategies that we're looking at

024as we look through the budget to make um adjustments uh we talked about uh doing of course the enrollment plan that we work with student services with to increase our enrollment which is a number one um changing the middle and high school schedules back to an8 period day um which actually saves us quite a bit of money but if that were to happen it wouldn't happen until 2627 so high school principes don't worry yet um um looking at overtime hours for our custodial and um transportation staff looking at longer replacement schedule for technology and ATP ATB fully moving to YMCA as we are currently running at a $600,000 loss every year so that's the update from the budget committee all right thank you and now um I'm going to provide an update on the governance

025subcommittee with which is um myself uh Mrs Hatfield and Mrs Barnes um we've continued our work uh on several items we've met on March 7th uh with Administration we met on March 12th March 23rd March 28th again with Administration and um this evening April 3rd before our um our uh meeting um in these we've um completed the review of the policy update 124 which is in our consent agenda this evening and we continued work on our review of CV 2030 and our strategic priorities um we are almost um nearing the end you know our overall intent when we started um this when the board collectively decided that we needed to review and refresh you our intent was the DIC committee meeting in April to get that re- reviewed and we could get it approved and

026then um for the next school year and so we're on we are on schedule um our next steps is we will do a final uh review um and our work study to ensure we've captured our intent of what our priorities are going to be from a direction of the district um and then we will submit to DIC and the original CV 2030 committee uh for review and feedback um on that um with the intention of um presenting to the board uh the priorities indicators and measures um at the May 1st um board meeting and then continue the work prior to the 2526 school year uh for Baseline data and future year metrics excent on there so Weis say excellent thank you thanks any other committee reports I see none so District announcements Dr Eldridge well

027it's been very busy so um want to thank all of our Board of Trustees for coming out to our Special Olympics we celebrated 25 years of Special Olympics and we couldn't do it without lesie hich she's amazing she organizes it she was she was recognized for her 25 years of service so I'm just so thankful for our um special department and all that they do for our students it was such a blessing um and it was a beautiful day so we can't ask for better um our Perry robotics um Middle School they qualified their robotics Club qualified for the 2025 um world championships I mean that is amazing our middle school kids are so um excited about competing and they earned the highest award for design at regionals so wow just pouring into our kids

028um I have to brag on our student Nutrition department they are doing taste testing so uh we are honoring what our students want so they got to taste a um a traditional Mexican noodle soup and they're Gathering data to see if that's something we want to expand for our students and they really enjoyed like having the taste test and and getting to be a part of that we had a great event at the Nancy Waton Center a couple Saturdays ago um I want to thank Victor Johnson Katrina and Amy Johnson um and the um King's accountability group we gave our students in middle school and high school there were 35 students there and they've received brand new suits and I want to thank RL Turner for being there their design Department because they were were

029tailoring the suits for our students it was amazing to see that when they got to walk down the runway in their new suits um people donated brand new shoes ties and so it was I mean I was overwhelmed I was like wow you when our students were putting on those fancy suits they were so excited so it was a great day um and I also want to congratulate our ranchview principal who is now Dr Miller and she's here so congratulations that's amazing so that's all I have dror aldrid President shakman and the esteem board um I am daa M um the third VP of programs for Council PTA let's start with our PTA motto to make every child potenti every child's potential and reality by engaging and Empowering Families and communities to advocate for all

030children I want to thank everyone who came to our big Community program for this year petrol stories which took place last Saturday Council PTA gave away 131 tickets to District staff and Patrol stories stories sponsor 10 First Responders and their families care Carlton fire department brought one of their newest engin for our children to see the show promoted student safety by fostering a positive Community relationship with our First Responders as first place finisher for ticket sales laita Elementary has won the free petrol stories event next year at their school mcoy elementary and mlin streetland place second and third respectively and one popsicle parties for their schools sponsored by Council PTA Mrs car's class from mlen Strickland won a pizza party with petrol stories characters for being The Home Room to purchase the most tickets life

031member ceremony is on April 23rd at Nancy Wen center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. uh please add your life members um to the Google form so that they can receive their special invitations please the council PTA will be host hosting a Schoolboard candidate Forum in Partnership partnership with AAW North Texas North Dallas I'm sorry on April 15th at the Nancy Wen Center at 700 p.m. and the doors will open at 6:30 p.m. more information is available on our website uh cfpp pta.org and our Facebook event including a link to the prese submit uh questions um another one another reminder is for the scholarship the council pts scholarship deadline is April 8th until midnight please go to our website and um apply as a council we are around 200 members short of having member increase

032over last year please go to our website CFB pta.org to join one or multiple ptas to help pushes push us push us over the top now is for March Mar challenge we asked schools to send us their programs for Texas Public Schools week and read Across America one Elementary School had their annual open house on Tuesday March 11th the open house coincided with the Spring Book Fair in addition they librarian Miss Davis put together a book walk as part of the open house so students and their families could interact with a story together and explore the entire school so congratulations to Ros mid Elementary for being our March challenge [Applause] winner Secondary School wants to win you have to apply exactly so secondary schools don't forget to submit entries in April stay tuned for details

033on our a April challenges uh how do you show appreciation as always thank you for supporting [Applause] PTA thank you so much of course PTA is a valued partner uh our final presentation and recognition comes from our Education Foundation Miss wall [Music] good evening president shakman Dr eldrid and his team board members we are thrilled to be before you this evening uh with some exciting updates and an announcement you know I always do that since our last report we've been busy with grants and with scholarships and more including the CFB teacher of the year ex uh celebration event uh this year the Educational Foundation will host the teacher of the year event uh which is sponsored by the Credit Union of Texas and El Ren con restaurant along with 33 other enthusiastic and passionate individual

034and corporate sponsors on the evening of April 17th we'll celebrate and honor each of our campus teachers of the year the event will conclude with the surprise rise announcement of the district's elementary teacher of the year and the secondary teacher of the year the finalists go on to represent the district regionally uh for the title for the teacher of the year title with the possibility of a State title and more thanks to our sponsor support proceeds from the event will go toward our great start campus grants for the upcoming school year and you'll remember last year we provided each one of our campuses and centers with a grant that they could use that was unrestricted our annual scholarship initiative is well underway with an increas in applicants from years past and our hope is to

035exceed the number of scholarship recipients from last year uh just a a pen in it last year may 2024 the foundation awarded 9 $6,000 in scholarships to CFB seniors and one lucky Junior the foundation continues to invest in literacy initiatives and we are simply determined to get book vending machines to all elementary and middle school campuses several CFB alumni are giving back and they are surprising campuses uh with machines that include good Elementary Stark Elementary and just last week Vivian field Middle School the foundation is so excited to get more machines to campuses that we have a new Grant opportunity we're announcing tonight beginning next week campuses can apply for a book vending machine Grant from the Ed Foundation the selected recipients will be notified before the end of school the school year and machines

036will be on campuses by Fall the Education Foundation is not uh limiting that to one book vending machine no we're offering two book vending machine grant opportunities we are just that committed and that excited uh for our campuses and for our students principales School principles will receive information via email from me next week it's been a busy spring for us and we know we'll have more great news to share next month um the Educational Foundation I just feel like I have to say this and I know you know but I want everyone to know the Ed Foundation is completely committed to CFB and and our goal our whole purpose is to make a difference in the lives of our students we are so grateful and we are so thankful that you all provide us with

037this opportunity and uh that concludes my report for this evening thank you Miss Wald and the Ed Foundation continues to grow and continues to do great things for our students in our district thank you we love it thank you the next item on our agenda is audience for guests I have been advised that there is no one who signed up uh for audience for guests tonight so we're going to skip right through this and go to item four on our agenda um this is non-action item uh that will be held for discussions first uh summer school update and and turn it over to miss Hulk good evening president um sheckman Dr Eldridge and distinguished members of the board I am excited to report to you the summer programming for the summer of 2025 uh which

038we are referring to as the CFB Future Ready summer program so we have quite a few things uh to share with you this a or this evening hold on let me get the right clicker here okay so the focus of our um summer programming are focused on the areas that you see on the screen we're focusing obviously on student achievement um obviously we are also working towards um growth measures and closing instructional gaps um we are also focusing this summer on academic enrichment through Hands-On learning and this is something that will be new uh for CFB this Summer that we're very excited about including exploration and critical thinking um targeted support for our atrisk students and then we are also excited to have some increased Community Partnerships with what we were able to um do

039this summer um I wanted to start with kind of where we um have to begin which is where our tea requirements kind of um give us the guidelines for summer programming and some things that we have to do but then we're also able to go outside of those um areas for additional enrichment so in 2021 postco house bille 1416 kind of changed how School handle summer school um and with that um pretty much they mandated summer school for students who did not meet grade level expectations in reading and math as well as connected to our star assessments so a few areas that are connected to that house bill um are related to star in summer school and so if they don't pass these specific tests that they've outlined we do have to have either summmer

040School opportunities for them or also opportunities that we do during the school day also uh it provides flexibility for districts to be able to determine how we want to provide the summer opportunities and the interventions that are necessary for our students so with House Bill 1416 there were some changes which were actually stemming from House Bill 4545 and they call this accelerated instruction an accelerated instruction is something that we are required to do um 15 hours 230 hours depending on the number of subject areas that they need to do remediation in in relation to reading and math so a couple of the areas that the state qualified that students um that we have to adhere to is that students can receive the interventions if they are assigned to a TIA designated teacher those areas are

041then remediated really throughout the school year by being in a master teachers class and so one of the things that the house bill did which was really great was it put a focus on core instruction not just what we're doing in summer school because really we want to see those academic enrichment opportunities throughout the whole year in addition to what we do for extended school year um in the summertime so with that we have of course a lot of Tia designated teachers um we also um are required to provide supplemental instruction um to students in the targeted grade levels third through 8th grade and then High School EOC um and it's limited to just the two subjects a year so it doesn't exceed the 30 hours so some areas that I wanted to kind of

042focus on in connection to this is what we have done and what you have done as a board in supporting us with our work at tier one um so some things that we did that were actions that connect to what we're doing for Accelerated instruction uh for the 2425 school year are um on the screen here the first one is that we have increased the number of Tia designated teachers to 312 teachers and that is across all of our campuses and so that is an excellent opportunity for our students to be then scheduled into Master Teachers classes in addition we have protected devoted time in the master schedule this year uh that is for the K through 8th grade uh we will continue that through the 25 26 school year um but that protected time

043on the master schedule is specific to our elementaries and then through the ele uh the middle schools as well um this year we had a minimum of 50 minutes and some up to 60 Minutes in our elementaries and so that provided time for that accelerated instruction to happen throughout the school year um Monday through Friday we also um have provided high quality resources at tier one as well as the data monitoring uh so that was of um course connected to what we did with our new adoptions with hmh for reading as well as for science um the nwaa map program and also progress learning which was our adaptive curriculum programming um we have streamlined the intervention resources to to connect to our district Diagnostics and with that it aligns then to the intervention areas that

044are needed for our students and it keeps them from having to work in areas that they may have already mastered and it really targets the areas that they need to accelerate in so these are all areas that we have been working really diligently on with staff development for our teachers as well as monitoring the progress to see how they're doing throughout the year um we developed a strategic plan this year uh for RTI and we are kind of uh doing a restart and that was something that we started last summer um and we've devoted some resources resources in professional development to that as well and then um we have been doing a lot of progress monitoring and differentiated support um that has been um very important as we are working through um learning one of

045our new programs um I don't know if you remember but about last this time last year we asked for approval for our branching Minds program and it was going to be our data Hub and kind of our centralized source of all of our data to come into one area for us to identify where we're doing well where we need to accelerate grouping kids appropriately and then progress monitoring over time and so with that um that has been something I'm going to show some evidence of because it connects back to how we are closing gaps for students in addition to our um restructure with our RTI timeline um you might remember we talked about solution tree the last couple of uh years we've provided some targeted supports for campuses around professional learning communities which is something

046we do to analyze data and student growth and then also additional staff development um with um Dr Andrea okonowski who is one of the leaders in the field around RTI so with our progress learning program we had talked a little bit about um how we're using that program to identify um skill gaps and then also accelerate instruction to um close gaps and so we watched this all year long and we've had some fun with this um our department has um taken this on and done a March mathness um or a March Madness and they are doing leaderboards and so our math department uh Madison bottoms is um our coordinator for secondary math and he creates a uh digital platform and shows the leaderboards we have brackets and they're really working to compete with one another

047I say that because it makes me really excited because we've been watching this every month and fourth grade math has been leading the district the whole year and so they've got some bragging rights around that well this past month third grade math edged them out and they are like oh oh what's happening and so with that I always like to check the data look and see if that evidence of data is showing are we really closing gaps for students is that connecting back to our map growth data and the things that we're doing with diagnostic assessments so this is a snapshot of what you'll see from our branching Minds program which is our brand new data platform that is the data hub for all of our data this is one of our campuses that was

048the leader in the fourth grade math because I want to pick a leader for fourth grade math and a leader for the fifth third grade math so with this one uh this was a highly atrisk campus and you'll notice with the red there on the pyramid that shows their beginning of year data connected to map so it breaks down the percentage of students at tier three or at tier two or at tier one so with that the pyramid on the right hand side is the middle of year and it's connecting our scores from beginning of year map to middle of year map and how we are growing students and the one thing you'll notice there is that our growth measures have eradicated not every atris student but it's showing there's no red on the right

049side and so the growth measures are so high we're growing students Beyond a year um worth of growth in one year they're exceeding some of those those progress measures so that was very excited to see um but then also um in our third grade we had another campus and you notice it's very different um this campus is a higher performing campus and there's more green to begin with but they also were our leader in our usage of the program and they have grown and increased their growth measures that they you can see there the green is just much much higher so with that it's it's showing equitableness in how we're growing students at all of our campuses and so that is a very this is like Beyond exciting because we didn't have data rich like

050this to analyze in this manner and so I want to thank you for what you've done to support us and the things that we're doing to bring high quality programming into the district so with that um that leads me to what we're doing this summer um so we've done a lot of great things at core and that is again a part of what we do with accelerated instruction um but for this summer um the first thing that we will be offering is the learning the language program which is at Carolton Elementary this is our language program for our current prek and kindergarten bilingual students um it is May 30th through June the 26th um we will uh probably serve somewhere between 6 and 700 students and that is um already up from what we served

051last year the enrollment right now is almost um 500 and I believe we had 550 last year so we're anticipating a lot more this year so we're very excited about that um if we need to go to a second site we are going to move the second site to Farmers Branch so we have a backup plan if we need to uh for growing that program uh we will also be offering through special services our extended school year which is called esy that is for elementary and secondary students that will also be at Carolton um and that is overseen by our special programs Department June the 2nd through June the 26th and you might notice those dates are a little bit different and that is because with the learning the language program we have to go

052a certain number of of days and minutes to meet the requirements and so that is the reason that the dates are a little bit different on those two we will also be doing do be doing a lot of things with high school um we will be continuing High School Credit Recovery we will be doing EOC preparation and also acceleration that is something that's been very popular with our students to be able to accelerate through courses uh like health and some of the other common ones we will continue to offer acceleration at the um at Smith High School this year and we're thankful to Dr Jimenez for her um willingness to open her doors to all of us coming to her this year um and so we are very excited we will run two summer sessions

053uh the first summer session begins June June the 2nd and runs through the 12th and the second session will begin the very next week on the 16th and run through the 26th um we do have a school holiday on June 19th so none of our campuses will be open on that day we will also then wrap up our EOC retesting on June 23rd through the 26th so we are excited to um offer our reters another opportunity as well the um another part of our summer school is at our d as well as our new program Mind Over Matter Miss Gillan has done an amazing job with this program and so we are going to continue that uh s that service over the summer um at Salazar on the same dates as we're running summer school

054for the other schools additional offerings this Summer that will be new we are excited about the YMCA that will be held at Riverchase and the Child Development Academy will also be open although they will be re relocated due to their projects with their hbac on their roof this summer so they will be housed at Carolton so we do believe the opportunities for teachers to be able to bring their students to the CDA at Carolton and also serve at the learning the language program will be be a really great benefit and very convenient for them in addition we have a newcomer summer program Elementary uh for elementary students this is strictly focused on language acquisition as well as student achievement that is also held at Carolton um we also have a newcomer summer program at the

055secondary at Smith and so that newcomer program will be offered um with the other high school programs at Smith and so but wait there's more we are so excited about this because my understanding is the last time there was real um enrichment programming was probably a little bit before covid um and we wanted to really work on Community Partnerships and to continue to close gaps and and to mitigate the summer slide they often refer to which is that loss of the academic skills during the summertime and over the break so we are going to be providing some summer enrichment opportunities where students can learn and explore and have fun and it's aligned to our Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills so the first camp that we will be promoting um and I'm working with the Junior

056Achievement um group with Miss krina spotsville she's have been amazing and helping with this partnership um it will be a math entrepreneur Camp so this is going to be focused kind of like a shark tank they will be doing a sales pitch they will be designing what they're going to do for their business and they will be working on that throughout the the week and it'll be focused on third through fifth grade uh we are working on locating the best um site for this and I'm working with Chris and Bobby on the best locations with our bond projects that are happening over the summer we have some limitations but we do have other places that we can host the camps and so we are trying to um Locate that so we should have that finalized

057by the end of the week and then we will be putting out marketing uh for the community on exactly where the camp will be um housed the other camp that we are going to be working with oh and that camp is free to our students it is free to our families and there's no cost to the district and if our teachers want to participate as the teachers they will get paid by the Junior Achievement group and it's all funded through uh businesses and um the businesses in the surrounding Community the businesses also come into the camps and they do some things with the students and they will um have a big showcase on the last day of the camp and the parents get to come up and see the Showcase of their other their business

058products so we are super excited about that because that's a great partnership um in addition to that um we will be doing a Hands-On stem summer camp and this is done with the national inventure hall of fame um this again we're determining location of this Camp kindergarten through sixth grade will be able to register for this camp and then 7th through 12th graders have an opportunity to serve at the camp as Camp leaders and they also get like 40 volunteer hours to put on their resumés for college and they also get um some opportunities for scholarships and so that's an opportunity for our 7th through 12th grade students to assist with the camp um the K through six students will be going through the curriculum and the modules and so what this is focused on

059is pretty much um inventors and then they integrate all of the other academic pieces that are the te alignment to our standards so there will be things focused on engineering physics um quite a few different areas but it's all kind of centered around stem there are four modules that they will go through for the entire week they will be doing something called in control the illusion Workshop claw and then the penguin launch and so not being able to go through all of those in detail I wanted to at least highlight one of them this is an example of what they would do in the illusion workshop and so this Workshop is focusing on Neuroscience bioc pychology electronic electrical engineering Optics and physics and it's connected to the Hall of Famer inventor Mr Lanny Smoot and

060Lanny Smoot was this was all inspired because he was Walt Disney's imagineer who invented the theatrical Technologies and all the special effects so some of the rides at Disney were all created and invented by him and so with that they have created this illusion workshop and the students will be going through and learning about the mechanics uh they will be blending science as well as the spinning animation and they will be making a device and doing moving props and all kinds of entertainment connections with the with theater so it's a really fun kind of cross-curricular um modules that they'll be going through and at the end of the Camp they will have a product from each one of the modules some of them have more than one and they get to take all of them

061home so each one of the students gets to go home with like five to six different um Creations that they invented and so that's very exciting um communication for our families um we have a website that we post um and we have a kind of button and a drop down for all of these areas so there will be one for elementary middle high school and learning the language we will be refreshing that with um we've already been working with Karen and her team on some of the new pieces that we are finalizing and then this will go live very soon as well as the marketing that will be going out in relation to the camps if they want to sign up for the enrichment camps so um the campuses will also be promoting these on

062their social media we'll have them of course in English and Spanish and we'll have them on our district website as well as on our social media channels and that is a really fast rundown of the overview of the summer programming and I'm happy to answer any questions thank you for that rundown uh sounds like yall haven't let much moss grow under your feet uh in terms of uh one of the things we've struggle with with the uh board is budgeting something like this how is this shaping up in relative to past Year's budget it is much reduced although I will say it has been very strategic in us being able to utilize funding sources uh that are designed for atrisk students through our federal programs and um we don't have the same grant that we

063used to fund summer programs you might have remembered two years ago uh the Esser Grant you heard a lot about the money that we were um basically remediating the summer um in the summertime the learning loss from covid uh when that Grant ran out we then of course the summer programming kind of went back to what the budgets could handle at either the local or the federal level and so this summer we have been able to reduce our um amount of outgoing to be able to do these Community Partnerships for the enrichment so we're not we are able to offer high quality programming but we don't have to expend the same amount of money that we did before um so the quality of what we're going to be doing is Rich uh but the financial

064commitment to the district will not be as great and so that is going to be a a super a blessing we also had some um uh roll over money with our federal uh programming and that is to be put into atrisk programming and that is something that we are going to utilize and capitalize on this summer okay thank you board members I'll start now with Miss Barnes first of all it's very exciting you guys have been working really hard and that's really neat I'm excited to see what happens with that I had a question about the newcomer program you had mentioned Elementary and you'd mentioned the program for high school is there one for middle school did I miss it so the newcomer programming that they've been doing in the past for secondary has been

065focused on the high school and it's very focused on our high school seniors and the ones that are working for graduation uh credits and requirements um it's not exclusive to only that they can expand that opportunity um but they look at the numbers the needs and then they kind of work from there um the elementary one is incorporated with our pre and kindergarten um learning the language program and they um will be they invite the students that qualify for the newcomer and then it is a different type of curriculum that we are able to provide that's strictly on that language acquisition so it helps that acceleration in the summer okay great thank you Hatfield thank you for the update lots of exciting things um so in looking at house Bell 1416 I fully understand the

066requirements and how um it's shifted a little bit from the state's perspective of putting a TIA teacher in the classroom and with our high quality tier one um we're seeing gains and seeing changes um however as we start to really expand our legislative um reach and we're starting to monitor things into the legislation I'm just wondering because it is a shift that there was so much summer school for filling in gaps and then now it's like well you have all these different options are we able to track the diff like is that change in legislation that allowed for that flexibility um then actually reaching the same outcomes in the end so I'm just wondering if we're able to monitor the kids that were at risk by are they in a TIA classroom or are they

067getting a a special pullout program like can you tell me a little bit more just thinking for the future because um I know this board has been advocating at the state level and when we met last week they specific or we met this week they specifically said can you bring us back data that says this because then I can put a bill in and they're even talking about the next legislative session and so I'm just wondering if there's a tracking mechanism that you guys are using to determine is that Tia teacher that are amazing all of our teachers are amazing and clearly we're filling gaps um in multiple ways just tell me a little bit more no that's exciting actually to think about and um thinking about the collaboration with the work you're doing as

068a board that's really exciting actually to think about the opportunities um tracking yes we can definitely track those um areas and I will go back to kind of something you mentioned we have a maj amazing teachers and there is amazing things happening at tier one across the district and one of the things with our restructure with RTI this year has been a super huge focus on you know we really can't remediate and it we can't if tier one is not right we can't what we call RTI our way out of core instruction that's not where it needs to be so work the work has to start at tier one and so that's where we've been really pouring in our time our professional development with our teachers to try to see and track and monitor monitor

069the growth one of the slides I was going to put in but it it tends to be a little bit small on the screen and in here is and I can send that to y'all in a follow-up board memo report which I think you'll really like but it shows a a matrix of each campus or I can group the top five campuses that are on our progress learning report to kind of see if that's connecting to growth I can customize it however um and it puts it in a grid where it has that broken up by their profile of their percentiles of their achievement but then also the progression of their growth so we can see if they're moving beyond a Year's worth of growth are they hovering just under or are they down in

070the bottom quarter so we can track and monitor that data now with the new program in ways that we couldn't do before and so now I kind of nerd out on the data and so I get excited about that and I start plotting in different things and you see every dot on this kind of um scatter plot if you will and each of the dots is a student and we can even hover over the student to see who they are that are trending we can look at all kinds of different things from uh demographic breakdowns to students to teachers to programs in fact Miss Rolan and I were kind of nerding out on that earlier today looking at our special ed students and got very excited because we tracked some of our students who were

071in our special education program who were at above a Year's worth of growth it gives me chills to think about so it's fun to see um I believe now with our capabilities of our programming we can track it better than we we did before but layering in that Tia piece would be another piece to see how is that then trending um we can definitely track and monitor the RTI pieces that we're doing through the school year the harder part is the summertime because Summer programming is about 16 to 17 days um but we can track and monitor if that extended school year how that might have accelerated learning from when they left at the end of year of our testing to then when we test out at the end of June so there's a lot

072of things we can do I think on that note um and so I will go back and look at a couple of things and see if I can follow up a board Mo maybe with some ideas that would help yeah I think the main thing is when we're considering the budget for next year and we know we want to keep our resources as close to the classroom as possible um these are ex it's exciting the work that we're doing and the opportunities we're providing but if there is something else we need to do and we need to strategically allocate in that way um any help you can give us in helping to know that no actually we need to look at this in a different way because of the data you're seeing would be helpful

073I do think the more that we increase our enrichment programming um um that's really going to pay off because students are basically learning through a passionate area of interest and they're learning but they don't really realize what they're doing is we're kind of doing physics but they don't really know that yet and so that is really what's fun because the students wheels are spinning and they're exploring and they're critically thinking and they're doing the things that we need them to do and I think that will pay off in big dividends down the road um which is why we love uh the Future Ready summer programming that that's not summer school necessarily it really is what we're doing to prepare them for the future it's pretty very exciting and it's very exciting that you had it

074paid for um that's very exciting um on the enrichment programs what how many students can we allow to enroll in that it's a great question so um Junior Achievement has committed to however many kids we can get in the door they are committed to getting the teachers if we have um a low interest let's just say and we don't have enough teachers that want to sign up to do it which I don't think we'll have that problem but if we did um they have another Outsource of teachers that they can bring in to serve our students so that is incredible um with the stem programming that's done with our teachers they don't necessarily provide the teachers but we do that with in-house they are paid uh they also get a scholarship for a student to

075attend the camp for free so they don't have to pay for their own student to come uh we have one person that will oversee is called the camp director and they get a stiens and the more students that come the higher the stien actually is and so that's also exciting so we can continue to offer more spaces um there are many districts around us that are doing this National inventure camp in fact I think Lewisville does like 12 of them uh we also have had like doodo Birdville I think South Lake Carol many others around us have and so we're hoping to grow this one to multiple sites um as we kind of move down the road and so um there is an early bird sign up so once we get the marketing out we

076do highly encourage parents to sign up before April the 30th they will get a um discount we're going to receive a $40 discount on programming because we're a new District to their company and they're offering a $30 discount for like an early bird sign up and so that is going to be something to take advantage of so um yeah so we're very excited about growing that program excellent and then the other programs that you mentioned like the um learning a language High School Credit Recovery those are going to be by invitation correct or no learning the language is By Invitation in the sense that it's every prek and Kinder student that is in our um emergent bilingual programs so every one of them has offered an opportunity to come I think we sent out 1,200

077letters um we've already had like I said over about 500 returned already so that's exciting um at the high school level we do have um projected seats that we run off of our course failures and or High School EOC reters um and so those students we have projected numbers that we can serve in the programs or at the at the campuses um acceleration we tend to have a lot of students come in for acceleration and so we can host quite a few students I know when they do the marketing for those programs they will highly encourage the students to sign up quickly um and to get a spot in those programs if that's something that they um are interested in um I think from what I was told as far as our last couple of

078years we have not had a problem with the students who want to come we don't turn a lot away um and so we always have potentially more opportunities than what may or may not come sometimes students show up or students sign up but they may not show up and so we also off offer seats for students who um who need to come and you know if if this class doesn't make for example we will continue to fill the seats you know if there students not coming thank you yes ma'am Mr bik um thank you um would it be a correct assumption that um of mine that some of these uh programs or changes are just now being are announced tonight for the first time the only ones that were new that were confirmed this week

079were the two enrichment programs because we were not able to meet with them virtually until this week all the others have been in planning for the last four to five months um the principles were notified of the programming today and more definitive terms but we've been talking about the offerings for the last I would say couple of months I think I'm just um on when we're solidifying our our plans for summer that have a direct impact on our staff and maybe what they have done uh in Summer's um past um you know I've already communicated this to Dr Aldridge but it is it is my expectation and I cannot speak on the rest of the board that you know if if there's been plans or programs in the other summer in past summers and there's

080a change um about our staff and our families but our staff deserve to know as soon as possible what those plans are and to get a final answer um they a lot of times are dependent on some of these uh programs for um you know supporting their families and I just I I cannot express enough that um our staff need to be communicated to that and then as well on any kind of Summer offerings you know finalized sooner rather than later so that they have the information to make their summer plans yes ma'am I agree with you and we will definitely get it out as quick as we can I think one of our challenges this year in comparison to last year were the facilities that we're going to be able to get in and

081out of with our um we got a lot of bond projects going on and then I believe there's a pro uh the city is also doing some work around Sheffield and so that was going to be a site that we had to then change because there was some things that came up and so we've kind of had some moving Targets this summer um and also then of course working around our other um rezoning and consolidation pieces um we are committed to getting this out very soon in fact we will next week have things for the public but we will get it out to our teachers um as soon as possible Miss benavites thank you I'm I was going to ask about the newcomers is are the classes taught in their native tongue or how do

082you communicate with them yes they are taught with our bilingual um staff and they are centered around predominantly language acquisition but then of course aligned to student achievement and these are teachers that typically have worked with the prek and kindergarten group but then we also have a lot of interest from our Elementary staff uh that may be with our bilingual program as well that sign up to be a part of the newcomer program we do staff quite a few teachers um in that one in particular close to I think 40 40 teachers as well as AIDs that help assist with that program and so we do um employ a lot of our of our teachers that's great what about our do we have newcomers from Asian and India uh yes we certainly can and so

083um the teachers that we have hired in there of course we predominantly use the ones that we have again in the in the campuses now and so if they sign up and they want to come and do the summer programming then of course we try to align them to their you know native I mean they're doing their uh language acquisition pieces which doesn't have to be in their native uh tongue but they definitely have that uh teacher that is skilled and certified in that area to effectively teach the language acquisition that's wonderful um regarding the camps is that large groups or small groups that um that will be the AR en that yes um they they didn't actually say there was a cap necessarily on the number I know there was a cap in not

084going too high um but I think there're around a size of a classroom we didn't actually get that detailed yet um like I said we were finally able to connect with the group um I wasn't sure that we were going to be able to get the commitment from the two companies um but that did come um this past week and so or this week and so um we are finalizing those details uh Katrina and I and then also two of our directors are going to be overseeing as the camp kind of Liaisons for those and I can get more information on that that's wonderful well I think with all the consolidation going on this is a very positive program and it'll really help our children thank you thank you thank you Miss hulum wow exciting

085times are coming this summer yes thank you appreciate your report next on our agenda is the annual announcement of board training credits um the state of Texas requires a certain amount of continuing education uh for for all members of the board uh that is done and then the state requires that once a year we have a report that explains what's been achieved by the various board members I have asked our vice president miss Tera Habachi if she would review the report with us this is fun uh under State uh Board of Education rule completing required continuing education each year of service is a basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member we are required to announce the name of each member who has completed the required continuing education has exceeded the required continuing education

086and who is deficient in meeting the required continuing education the requirements for training are measured as of the first anniversary of the date of the trustees election or appointment or 2-year aniversary of his or her previous training as applicable there are eight training areas for board member continuing education Local District orientation orientation to the Texas Education Code post legislative update to the Texas Education Code team building additional continuing education evaluating student academic performance and setting goals identifying and Reporting abuse trafficking and other Mal treat M of children and school safety to the extent applicable to each board member I will announce the completion or deficiency as to required training at the conclusion of this announcement I will announce any board members training in excess of the continuing education requirements Local District orientation required for new

087board members the following first year board member has completed the Local District orientation training margerie Barnes orientation to the Texas Education code required for new new board members the following first year board member has completed the orientation to the Texas Education Code training margerie Barnes post legislative update to the Texas Education Code no board members were required to complete post legislative update to the Texas Education Code training for the time period covered by this announcement team building the following board members have completed the annual team building training Tara herbach Kim Brady marjerie Barnes Carol Benavides Ilana go Garza roas Cassandra Hatfield and Randy shakman additional continuing education additional continuing education of 10 hours is required for first year members and five hours for subsequent years the following board members have completed additional continuing education requirements

088Tara herbach Kim Brady marjerie Barnes Carolyn Benitas Ilana Garza roas Cassandra Hatfield and Randy shakman evaluating student academic performance and setting goals the following board members have completed the bial training on evaluating student academic performance and setting goals marjerie Barnes identifying and Reporting abuse trafficking and other maltreatment of children the following board members have completed the bial training on identifying and Reporting abuse and trafficking Marjorie Barnes Kim Brady school safety the following board members have completed the banial training on school safety Tara herbach k K Brady marjerie Barnes Carolyn benavites Ilana garer roas cassandre Hatfield exceeding required continuation continuing education um board member Tara herbach exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 16 additional hours board member Kim Brady exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 21 additional hours board member

089margerie Barnes exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 19.9 additional hours uh board member Carolyn Benitas exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 15 additional hours board member Ilana Garza roas exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 23 additional hours board member Cassandra Hatfield exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 19.75 um additional hours board member Randy shakman exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by 15 additional hours Mr shackman that concludes the announcement of the annual board training credit report I hand the meeting back over to you thank you Miss herbach uh let me add on to that uh it is almost honorous in some ways the amount of extracurricular training that as board members we are expected to do and you my colleagues have

090uh not only done it you have surpassed it and I am proud of you and uh congratulations before we move on board members would you like to just continue or would you like to take a short break power through okay we will power through next we will deal with our consent agenda which is number five on our agenda list uh board members do I have a motion relative to our consent agenda Mr shakman in the um pre- meeting I said I needed a poll item five V V 5 V okay so may I assume that you're willing to make a motion to approve the consent agenda with all items except 5 V that is correct okay is there a second second Miss Brady any discussion board members in favor please raise your hand that is

091unanimous okay so I believe we're ready at this point to move on our agenda to item six items for discussion or action there was one item pulled from the consent agenda so is there a motion to deal with five V Miss Hatfield I move that we approve 5 v as presented okay the second Miss Brady all in favor five in favor one abstention up quickly I got we're six with one asend you okay all right then we'll move on our to uh letter B we will uh consider the amendment to the construction manager at risk contract we're going to turn it over to Mr Blackburn good evening president shakman Dr Eldridge members of the board um if I may I'd like to just give a brief synopsis of uh item 6B this is work at

092roseme specifically this will be a phase renovation uh they'll take small portions of the building over the course of the year starting this summer and working through next summer most of the U older section of the building's classrooms will be affected not the entire thing but most of it and they'll just work their way through the building as a phased renovation so I'll be happy to entertain any questions about this one uh my question is uh are we needing Temporaries how are we going to handle the we will not need Portables at this site uh because we're only taking a small group of classrooms at a time will'll be able to um move folks around okay any other questions yes Mr bik um I would just like clarification um in the information it indicates all

093available funding sources will be used for this purchase what is included in this item that's outside of um Bond 2023 the only thing that's not uh funded by 2023 funds was uh a small item uh permanent walls and doors that was um not cost efficient to do earlier so we rolled a small amount of funds over to include it in the larger scope to where we wouldn't have to pay in unnecessary amount for the scope of work that it is meaning it was inefficient to do it before because you would have to redo it with this new scope of work yes okay yes okay okay thank you that that's all for me Mr sh any other questions board members do we have a motion then for this agenda item Miss Hatfield I move that we

094approve item 6B the amendment number two to construction manager at risk contract 20231 05 with Jackson Construction is there miss Brady there's a second board members all in favor that is unanimous and then I believe that uh Mr Blackburn you're still up and we'll let you tell us about the next item the next item is a major renovation at bleac middle school again this is going to be a phased renovation we'll be moving throughout the core academic core of the building um it's really going to be a I think you're really going to be excited by the change that it's going to make um I've really been encouraged by the plans that we've gotten from our Architects um it will take U it will begin this summer it's planned to begin this summer plan to

095complete the summer of 27 so this again is a big renovation it's going to take a little while but we'll slowly work our way through the building and it's it's really going to feel very different when we're done and and again we will have Portables at this campus okay sir that was my question yes sir board members any other questions b um I'm looking at um the agenda in uh board book and um I had submitted this question I didn't get an answer but I need to confirm 6B is an agenda item that references amendment number two to cont contract number 2023 105 6C says consider approve amendment number two to construction manager same contract number is this so the description I'm sorry the I had a note to say something and I didn't um

096the description is correct the agenda item should read amendment number three okay my apologies okay other questions do I have a motion I'll it um I move that we approve amendment number three to the base construction manager at risk contract 2023 1050 with Jackson Construction for the Final Phase of their contracted so scope of work on package number two okay I have a motion is there a second Miss Gara roas second any discussion questions all board members in favor please raise your hand that is unanimous Miss Canada and Mr Blackburn will'll continue with you up you you're doing such a good job item 6D is for an early release package for the renovations at Turner High School again this is going to be a major renovation um we've got a very ambitious schedule planned uh

097just 20 months for an occupied High School which is unusual uh but we I think we'll be able to um we'll be able to pull it off uh but this is to allow us to be able to have uh key trade contractors available to start and under contract and insured right at the beginning of the window for suor construction which begins uh immediately imately after Memorial Day so um the full um GMP will be approved we plan to have that before the board in the June board meeting so we would lose a week right there not to mention the time to actually get the contracts written so this is meant to allow us to be able to hit the ground running in the first summer and uh maintain our 20 month plan schedule okay board

098members any questions do I have a motion um I move that we approved amendment number two to the cons no sorry they're all in here um starting over amendment number one to the construction manager at risk contract 2023 1050 with Hill and Wilkinson general contractors for early release scope at Turner High School board members I have a motion now I have a second from Miss Brady any questions discussion seeing none all in favor please raise your hand okay Miss all right so we'll continue on to letter e all right this is amendment number four uh to the contract with crosland to support the engineering program uh at Ranch viw High School this will provide some customized classrooms that will support uh the engineering program there at Ranch viw including um space for their uh Machinery

099to uh support the the um fabrication work that they do they've got a CNC machine and a few other fairly heavy machines that we want to be able to uh provide good space for for that program so that's what this is for all right any questions board members this item is marked for also for possible action I is there a motion Miss Brady I I make the motion that we approve amendment number four to construction manager at risk contract excuse me 20231 d050 with crosslane construction to support engineering program at rvw high school thank you I have a motion is there a second second by Miss Hatfield any questions or discussion see none I'll ask in all in favor please raise your hand thank you all right next item on our agenda is consider and

100approve a resolution for emergency closure due to winter weather I'm Mr Marsh president shakman Dr Eldridge Este steam members of the board as you'll recall on March 4th DFW area experienced extreme weather with Winds of up to 80 miles an hour which caused extensive damage and power outages of approximately 3 35,000 this impacted 10 of our campuses so they were closed on March the 4th on the following day on March the 5th there were still still two campuses that did not have power so as per policy DEA local compensation and benefits the board May authorize the payment for those individuals that were unable to work due to the emergency closure so it is recommended that the board approve the proposed resolution so that those individuals can receive their regular compensation for the time that they

101missed okay um I have a question um does this compensation apply to all members who are related to work for those campuses that is correct it's not just teachers or it is all members everyone that Miss due to the emergency closure that's correct thank you the question yes um I know this is about staff what about makeup time for students that is something we were looking at today and uh we're just not ready to roll that out we're still planning that and we'll have that by next week okay thank you but we will have to take action on it okay board members any other questions this is an item uh we need a motion and with the motion then we also need to read we've been given language yeah if you'd like to miss Hatfield

102would let you make the motion and read all right I move that we approve the resolution for the Emergency closure due to winter weather and it reads resolution of the Board of Trustees of the Carolton Farmers Branch Independent School District April 3rd 2025 payment of employees during emergency closure whereas the recent inclement weather resulted in the closure of B Salazar bleac Middle School Carolton Elementary Creek View High School Davis Elementary fno elementary long middle school pulk middle school Rainwater Elementary and roseme Elementary on March 4th 2025 glac middle school and fno Elementary were also closed on March 5th 2025 these campuses are part of the Carolton Farmers Branch Independent School District cfbisd and the closures were due to power outages and for the safety of students and staff and the community as a whole and

103whereas through through circumstances completely beyond their control cfbisd employees were forced to miss part or all of regular Duty schedule due to the closure of school facilities and operations and whereas board policy DEA local requires that the district to continue to pay employees for their regular Duty schedule during an emergency closure as further provided by this resolution and whereas the board determines that a public school purpose exists for forgiving or excusing the the absences of an employee on days when the employee is not able to work due to the closure of school facilities or operations and now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Trustees of cfbisd that number one all employees will be compensated for their regular Duty schedule during the emergency closure except for those who were required to work during the

104closure were already scheduled to be off or were absent for reasons unrelated to the closure this includes employees who were on leave or any employee who previously entered a scheduled leave day those days will not be reinstated and number two the board hereby authorizes the superintendent to take steps deemed necessary and appropriate to fulfill the purposes of this resolution could be adopted okay thank you very much for reading that so we have a motion do we have a second Miss is a second any questions board members all in favor please raise a hand that is unanimous you see that okay I think we've come to letter G U update approval updates for edit to the board operating procedures and uh it's been being worked on by an excellent work by the committee and Miss herbach

105if you would like to deal with this sure thank you so again um on behalf of the governance subcommittee myself um M Hatfield and M Barnes uh this was one of the other things uh tasked under our responsibilities is the review and update of our operating procedures um this is the final approval of the edits that you have seen um prior um what we discussed at our work study um nothing in the body has been changed from that time um I do want to mention that we adjusted the um last appendix uh which is the new board member checklist uh we cleaned up some references um you out of date or out of that's not the right word they were old references they just we didn't we uh missed it in the initial edits and

106reviews and so we got down to that appendix so that's been um changed had some clarifications on who would be responsible for guiding any new board member on on that so that's the only change um in this tonight of what you was presented um or what we discussed uh in our work study okay board members any questions again thank you to the committee for your hard work this item is marked for possible action does the board wish to take any action Miss Brady I move to approve item G the updates and edits to the board operating procedures I have a motion on the table is there a second miss garer seconded any final questions or discussion see none all in favor please raise your hand that passes unanimously all right next item on our agenda

107is closed meeting as authorized under Texas government code including but not limited to section 551.071 consultation with attorney 551.071 real property 551.074 Personnel matters 551 076 security devices 551.071 point0 1821 personally identifiable student information and 55108 for investigation uh the board is going to recess into uh the conference room and uh we plan to discuss the Intruder D detection audit Bings report and then discussions reging concerns related to superintendent and consultation with legal councel regarding legal matters to solve the same the next item is authorized by the Texas government code and the board will now move into closed session members of the audience you're welcome to remain in the boardroom uh as the board members recess into the conference room for deliberation the time now is 8:29 I'm not rushing you I'm just my legs

108were stretching e e e call this meeting back into Open session at 10:06 p.m. uh board we have been in closed session for a while uh is the board is there an any action that we want to take coming out of that is there a motion that we would make Miss garer Rosas I move that the board appoint legal counsel to proceed us discussed and closed session in accordance with board policy ffh have a motion is there a second I have a second from Miss Barnes all in favor it is unanimous it is a just six uh Miss Benevides was called away in a family emergency Bo they final item on our agenda is uh any discussion about items on the agenda seeing and hearing none I believe we've reached the end of our agend

109and I call that this meeting is now adjourned at 10:07