School Board Meeting | April 6, 2026

001show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that this notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the check Texas Open Meetings Act, Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. Just a reminder, we we are here for what is best to promote and encourage achievement for every student in our district. At this m at this time, we will have an invocation. You'll please rise. We'll move on to item number three, communication from citizens. We appreciate you being here this evening and we always welcome communication from citizens of our district. Individuals who wish to participate during the portion of this meeting designated for public comment shall sign up with the presiding officer or designate no later than 100 pm the day of the board meeting and

002shall indicate the agenda item or topic on which they wish to address the board. Mrs. Branch, do we have anyone who wishes to speak to the board? No, we do not. Thank you, ma'am. Item four, Miss McFaulner. Do were there any questions called in regarding the consent agenda? Uh, yes, Mr. Board President. There were a couple. Uh, one was in regards to the quote for train equipment and uh, did we receive bids and we actually are buying it straight from the manufacturer and so we will be saving money by uh, direct uh, buying. The next one uh was are we approving anything that is in that is needs to be purchased with the uh Centrics um quote or uh action item and the answer is no. Nothing is being approved for Centrics prior to approving

003uh Centrics. Uh, also within that there was a roofing um item and so that item had an inaccurate amount. Uh, it said 1,500 and it was actually 1.5 million. So I will be talking to the board president about pulling that item. It's 10. It's part of the consent agenda. We'll pull that. Yeah. Yeah. 98. Yeah. We'll pull that out and get that correct. So, so just a clarifying question. I'm having computer issues today, so I couldn't really read all the consent agenda. Um, so my question was about Crics. Did they have any input is way I should have worded that question about the consent agenda items. It's separate because it's part of the nothing is related in the uh consent agenda to centrics. Okay, great. All right. Thanks. Now we'll move on to presentation items.

004Item 5A, district improvement plan update, third grade reading and math. Yes. At this time, uh, Mr. board president, uh, Kristen Smith, third through fifth grade ELA coordinator, and Whitney Harper, our lead elementary coordinator, will present an update on the 20, uh, 25 26 district improvement plan priority 8, which is our third grade reading and math scores as we've just completed our third benchmark. Sorry. Good evening, President Toiver, members of the board, Superintendent Smith Faulner. Thank you for having us here tonight. It is a pleasure to share this update on third grade reading and math. Tonight, I will be covering the reading portion of our district improvement plan update, and Mrs. Harper will do the math. We will begin with third grade reading. Our district improvement plan goal is goal two performance objective one which aims

005to increase the percentage of students meeting expectations on star reading from 36% measured in June of 2025 to 40% by June 2026 combining both Spanish and English scores together. This goal is created from our final district and campus accountability data. The final accountability includes uh only students enrolled on snapshot day which is the last Friday in October and is reported in the fall ps and it also includes students who take the star alt which is an alternative assessment designed for students with significant cognitive abilities. So, as you look at the data on the following slides, please keep in mind that this data includes all the students who are currently enrolled in Castleberry, which is a broader population than what's used in the final uh accountability and does not include STAR alt scores. Okay. So, here

006we're going to look at our STAR performance from benchmark 3 compared to STAR 2025. With those context points in mind, let's look at our data broken down out by English and Spanish separately. First, the dark blue bars represent the 2025 STAR test, and the light blue bars represent our most recent benchmark. It is important to note that benchmark 3 is the exact same assessment as the 2025 star, which makes our comparisons apples to apples, and it makes it a firm progress marker for our goal. Below each assessment, you will see the number of students that's included in that data. The first pair of bars shows the English set and you can see we have already surpassed the goal of the 40%. The second pair represents the Spanish data where you can see we have grown

007from last year's star and we're now sitting at 33% meeting expectations. We are continuing to work towards reaching that 40% mark before the upcoming STAR test. Here's where we combine them. So, this shows English and Spanish scores, which is as it's done for accountability. Um, we see that our goal for third grade performance is is surpassing the 40% here. Um, this is an encouraging sign and as long as the test is similarly presented and there's no major curve balls thrown, we are currently on track to meet our goal. That said, it's important to remember that the final accountability number does take into consideration that snapshot day and the star alt scores. Okay. Um, that our trajectory, as you can see here, is a strong indicator that our work is currently moving in the right direction.

008Um here you can see the changes happening at the district level for third grade. These strategies were addressed in a in much greater detail in the November board meeting in those slides. This year we rec restructured our literacy blocks to intentionally address both sides of the reading rope, strengthening both the word recognition strand through structured literacy, but we're also deepening the language comprehension through focus comprehension instruction. And we have intentional fluency practice. So the reading becomes uh increasingly more automatic for students. One additional note uh there is at the bottom it's the red line. It represents a star prep countdown that was added to strategically review high priority and frequently assessed TESS in the weeks that are leading up to the assessment. I will now turn this over to Mrs. Harper so she can dive

009into the math data with you. Good evening everyone. If you'll go to the next slide please. So um our district improvement plan is that uh same performance objective two and the percentage of third grade students that score meets on STAR will increase from 27% to 34% by June of 2026. On this slide, this shows um the highlights that I presented back in December. I do want to draw I'm not going to read through them, but I do want to draw your attention to the red sections. In January January, we we added, excuse me, a daily practice countdown to star which focuses on all of the TEACS that the students will be tested on in third through 5th. And we just took our benchmark last Wednesday and we've been looking at data since Thursday and now

010we have our board meeting here tonight. So, I wanted to let you know that we do have plans in place. Um, our math instructional coach has been working with our students all year long, but I will be starting to work with students in small groups. So, are our CLS, our campus academic leaders, and our innovation coordinator is also going to be um pulling some groups as well to to really help us out to get those numbers up where we need them to be. So on the next slide, this is the same slide that we looked at previously, but now it has the benchmark 3 data on it. So we previously talked about the navy blue arrow was our fall benchmark one and it related back to our fall benchmark one last year. The red data

011is what we talked about in um December or I'm excuse me in January and it shows that we were about the same um from this December to the past um spring benchmark. But what we looked at for benchmark 3, just like Miss um Schmidt talked about, it was an applesto apples test. So our benchmark 3 was exactly the same as our star 2025. So on that our star 2025 showed the district at 27% and our goal this year is to increase to 34%. So right now we have data that shows our district which is shown in red, the red bar, we are sitting right at 33% one percentage point below our goal. Um the light blue is AV KO. It shows the same as the district at 33%. Castleberry Elementary is um exceeding the goal

012at 42%. And Joy James um at 19% we have um a little bit of an outlier, excuse me, an outlier, but we do have a plan in place. I was over in PLC's today. I was talking with the teacher as well as the campus academic leader, the principal and the assistant principal was in there as well as the special education teacher that services those students. And I think moving forward we do have a great plan in place. Our instructional coach um will be working with them uh one day a week every excuse me five days a week um every day as well as the um campus academic leader Miss Greer. She is going to be pulling a group every single day. And then there will be times where um additional people will be helping with

013that as well. So I wanted to make sure that you knew we did have a plan moving forward for that um particular school. So I just wanted to kind of go over these immediate actions. Just like I said, last Wednesday, April the 1st, we took our benchmark 3. Um on Thursday, we started turning the data. We did have a few students that had makeup tests um Thursday and then we did have a few today that took it. um very few so it didn't really change the percentages. Um we have our schoolboard presentation right now as we speak and those small groupoup interventions will begin tomorrow. Um this Wednesday we will be meeting with Superintendent Smith Faulner as well as all of the campus leaders from third grade through 12th grade to talk about our progress

014monitoring for math and science moving forward as well as social studies. And during those progress monitorings, I just wanted to remind you that we really hit and talk about those low um those low performing but highly tested tees. We determine um and we talk about those student groups that we're actually going to be starting tomorrow and then planning that target in instruction. And that's done through small groups during the day during uh their RTI time as well as um ACE after school, that high impact tutoring as well as Saturday school. We do have two Saturday schools left. One coming this Saturday and then the 11th and then the 18th. And so we will be able to work with those kids at a at a really intensive level for um that time. So and then next

015steps this actually um includes both reading and math. We wanted to reiterate the fact that um the school board did approve our adoption for next year in reading. We're moving to Blue Bonnet for 3 through 5 only, but we will be moving math K5. And the district and campus leaders have been going to trainings at region 11 this year starting back in the fall. We will be doing uh teacher introductions to the curriculum this spring and the students will actually be experiencing this new curriculum kind of just kind of getting their feet wet after STAR. So they will actually be able to do some practices and kind of get familiar with a few things before we even start next year. This summer we will have our uh professional learning for both reading and math. And

016with that full implementation next year, we will have coaching and classroom uh implementation visits throughout the year as well as um very um a lot of support from region 11 next year. So they will be coming in and helping us do walks and making sure that um you know everything is going smoothly that the implementation is done with fidelity and so that we can really get a robust program going and make sure that everyone is on the same page. So that's all I have for you tonight. Does anyone have any questions for myself or Miss Schmidt? I do. Thank you so much. Yes. How much longer before you have to take the STAR test? So star for math. So, actually next Tuesday is the reading star the for 3 through 5. Um the next Tuesday

017is um the science star for fifth grade only. And I'm I'm just speaking elementary right now. And then math will be taken on April 28th. So we've got three weeks. So thank you. On to item 5B, the budget workshop three. Mr. Wooten. All right. Good evening, Mr. President, uh, board of education and superintendent. Uh, tonight I'll walk you through the our current year financial position and how we are building next year's budget. Um let me begin with the key discussion points for tonight. Tonight we're going to talk about the current year in budget estimates. Remember that's a point in time. Uh those are not final numbers. Uh next we're going to talk about the next year budget assumptions. Those assumptions include enrollment ADA property values and then next we're going to talk about ne uh

018next year's budget estimates and obviously next steps. So this is important based on on current year collections and current year spending. The key question becomes where do we expect the district to end the year financially? To answer this question, I'll walk you through our current year end uh estimate based on the information we have today. The very best information. So as of uh uh the end of March, we we are anticipated uh anticipating collecting 99% of our adopted budget, which is $48.6 million. Um and then uh we're we're going to spend almost 100% of of our expenses. So it's a very tight budget. Uh our net change is going to be about $399,000. But remember last month it was it was almost $500,000. So the numbers are breathing, the numbers are getting stronger. As we

019get closer to to May, June, we're going to uh uh really uh have a good set of uh numbers to work from. All right, next slide. So, this is this is a a very good slide. We've have not had the chance to talk about the the INS bucket. We've always talked about the M bucket. And so, the INS bucket behaves a little bit differently. Uh, as you see, this slide shows our interest and syncing, which is the INS budget. This is our voter approved debt service fund. Uh, just to level set the conversation here, the INS fund is used only to pay principal and interest on voter approved debt. uh for example the $98 million and it's funded by the the INS tax rate. Currently our tax rate is set at 50 cents. Um it

020is separate from the general fund and it does not impact operations. So you you can't mix funds. We don't commingle the INS funds with the with the M funds. So as this chart says we expect to collect 95% of our budget collections. That' be approximately 7.4 uh 7 uh4 million. Um, an expense says we're uh we're planning we're going to expenses are at 100% of planned debt payments and that's about $8.2 million. So, we know exactly what our debt debt obligation looks like. Uh, these are fixed obligations. We pay these in full. Uh, the neg the negative net change is about $775 $755,000. Uh, which reflects a planned use of fund balance. So last last uh June when we adopted the budget we had planned on using the fund balance because we have an accumulation

021of fund balance. Uh we have built as we said before we have built an accumulation of funds. We are now using a portion of those funds to support the debt payments. And so this is good news. This is a positive and and we expected this outcome. So we're are using the excess INS fund balance as debt obligations are managed. So we're not uh co-ming the funds. We we have a INS fund balance of about 6.5 million and so we're eating down on that on on that fund balance. Next slide. These are some uh next year's budget assumptions. We plan for TS active care to increase about 10%. Um and we'll find out more u at the end of this month, no later than May 1st. And so that looks like uh it it could increase

022anywhere from 200 $300,000 on our budget. And so we're having to manage that as well. Uh these are the the projected state funding drivers. Uh you know, the budget is built up on student count. Right now, we anticipate having 3,658 students show up to to Castleberry next year. Our property value growth, we don't anticipate the property value growth exceeding uh more than two and a half%. Because if it does, if it exceeds two and a half more percent, two and a 2.5% or more, we're going to uh experience what's called compression. And so that's going to impact our Mino side. Uh so I we're our district attendance rate is 92% and so we're going to make assumption to say that our tax rate is going to be flat. So this is the good news here.

023The new electricity agreement rate uh effective June 2026. We anticipate uh our no we anticipate we know that based on contractual agreement that our rate would drop from 3.99 to 3.4 kilowatts per hour. Um, as of now, it's an estimate savings of about $40,000 annually. So, the these are some of the the drivers that we we're constantly retooling this budget with. Student counts, as we said before, we intend to lose about 100 students. Um, local property values. We do anticipate local property values increasing more than two and a half%. Uh, and then for now, we're going to leave a a tax rate flat. uh at the end of this month, April 30th, uh by law, we're going to receive what's called a preliminary certified uh tax role. So, we're going to use those numbers to

024true up the local property values. And because of the the property values go up, it doesn't necessarily mean we get more money. Uh in fact, it's that correct that compression that I talked about. Next slide, please. So, this slide is very good slide. just tells you exactly um how much money we anticipate collecting and from what source. So as we look at property taxes uh collections that's 24% of our budget uh which is 10.7 million. Uh state aid is a large percentage of what we collect and that's driven by students. Um and and so we collect about 75% from the state. And then federal aid collections. Uh we're not getting very much uh federal aid from our charge program. And so the the total um anticipated uh funds we anticipate collect is about 47.2 million

025which is uh which is about a million dollars less than what we collect last year. Next slide. So this slide is our non-payroll budget. Uh right now we anticipate uh last year we adopted a $7 million budget. This year we anticipate that uh the 2627 estimates about 7.2 million. And so that variance is the u between the campuses and departments the budget went up $224,000. And so as we go through this month uh this month here is a very critical month for us because we're going to be adjusting this budget. Uh and you'll see more more later. Uh next slide. So, this is a um u May 4th. Uh these are things that we have to get done uh before we get to the board. We need to shore up our operating budget. Uh we

026need to adjust our non-payroll numbers and salary and benefit uh numbers. Uh because compensation is going to be tough uh in a budget that's already uh not as flexible. Uh we're we're um we're we don't even at this point um haven't even had the discussion about uh giving raises because we don't know exactly where we're going to land um in the grand scheme of things. There's a lot can happen this month with with state reporting and and things such as that. Uh the next thing that we're going to show up is proposed infra infrastructure investment. Uh I believe you guys are already talking about that. We're estimating annual payment of 533,000 over 15 years at five and a quarter and a financial advisor is going to talk more about that conversation. Next slide, please. So,

027this is uh what we plan on doing um up until June 30th right now. I'm sorry, August 17th. Uh next big ticket items, uh we're going to receive our preliminary taxable values April 30th by law. We need to get those because that's going to help me um uh you know project my taxable assess values. Uh and then the preliminary budget uh is going to be May 4th and that budget I anticipate having a draft budget for the board uh to to look at and so um we're pending any questions from uh this this work session? Mr. President, that's all I have. Yes, ma'am. And thank you again for such a clear report. Um, you you talked about uh SHAR as being our federal aid money. Do we get any money from the federal aid uh

028government for our child nutrition? We do. Absolutely. Okay. Uh we we do that. We're part of the uh C program. We do get funding for for child nutrition. Uh and um I I will present that budget uh next on on May 4th as well. Okay. Just because $300,000 seems such like a small amount, I thought, well, surely we get more money from the federal government than just and that that's a good point. So that's uh let me just So there's three legal budgets that that the board approves, general fund, I know you know general fund, debt service, which we just talked about, and then the child nutrition. I I haven't shown you child nutrition. Typically they we kind of short the end But May 4th, I will show that as a draft budget as well.

029That's right. Sorry, I forgot that that was No, that's right. You you hadn't seen it, so it was a good question. But I do want to clarify it would not be part of this overall budget uh to spend back on uh what Mr. Whooten is talking about. It would be a it has separate uh guidelines. Okay. And then you answered my question about the raises conversation if we're having that yet. So we'll have that soon. It's going to be a tough one. Yes. Yes, ma'am. We don't know if we can get razors at this point. So, we need to refer a friend with electricity. I like that one. Thank you, sir. Board. Thank you. Item 5 C, 2024, Casper High School bond program construction update. Mr. Hollowman. Okay. Good evening board, Board President, Superintendent Smith

030Falner. Dive right into it. Angela, please. Uh, again, 3.22. Uh, we want to do three things. We want to stay on schedule. We want to stay in budget. and we want to meet all our safety guidelines in order to build a modernday uh learning environment for our students. Uh a little bit of the overall big picture project. Uh as far as infrastructure, we're moving right along. We were able to get the transformer two months ago and then the uh power lines moved. Uh in the renovation, we're continuing with media center and um we'll have that uh opened up. uh all of those renovation areas, the uh drama um coming this next school year and new construction area B and C moving right along. Uh we were able to complete the parking lot and the fire

031lane areas um and we are in the process of uh having furniture delivered June July and installed ready for school to start. Okay. Now, the specifics on the project, um, moving down to kind of end of March, April, uh, the our ceiling grids, um, above ceiling inspections done, ceiling grids put in. Um, so I've got a photo or two in there. It'll be the last time in area B and C that you see above ceilings. So, that'll be pretty cool. U, A, B, and C, exterior brick. I'm sure a lot of you have seen this driving by the site, but uh, a lot of our brick veneer is done. I think it looks awesome. We also have a lot of our metal panels going in on area C. And the three things combined uh look

032amazing. It looks modern. It looks clean. Uh it's a it's a beautiful combination of colors. Um guard shack, front drive, all of those areas are continuing uh around the edges of the building and uh our FFN will be uh delivered this summer. Okay. Uh financial report. Uh moving right along. I expect we're about 65% complete with construction overall. Uh some of that will slow down after we open up school because we'll be focused just on area A, but uh we've all we still have about 41% of our finances remaining and that's including a big payment we made this uh last week. Uh, and then we have about 62% uh, Lindy and I work daily on uh, and Miss Smith Faulner of course on um, all of those soft cost items. So really healthy budget. Uh,

033again, a lot of those expenditures will come through uh, this summer when we're opening up the building and putting the FFN into the building. Yep. And a few glamorous shots. Uh, we do have our emblem up. Um, sorry for the uh the bridge in the front, but um that will go away this summer. Look a lot cleaner. And if you can see right underneath there are the metal panels and the sophet. It is pretty. It has a wood grain uh uh look to it. So when that's complete, it's really going to look nice and pop. Uh classroom area. So you can see some of the classrooms already have ceiling tiles in. Um we've got our accent walls in. Uh it's kind of hard to see, but this is actually a cloud ceiling. So right on

034the edges where the exterior wall is, there's a little bit of an al cove. So it it has a cloud uh appearance for that ceiling, that drop ceiling. And last will be floors, and that will probably start next month. Yes, ma'am. Here's a hallway. So about 90% of our wall tile and Wayne's coat is in very clean. I think these are actually uh 12 full 12t hallways. So, that's a little bit wider than what they're used to walking in the uh the current high school building. Uh so, looks clean there. And those ceilings will be going in this month. Here's our learning stairs. Um I think we're just about halfway complete. It's hard to get a good picture with the elevations here um without uh a drone uh photo. So, I'll have a current one

035of that next month, but it's coming along really fast. Um and then looking ahead um continuing to stay diligent with our funding. There are small opportunities within the GMP to make adjustments. BTC and um and have done a great job of coming to us in a timely fashion so that we can make good decisions for the district. I think they've paid off to this point. Um, and our idea is not only with the uh the advanced technologies that we're putting into the current building, but throughout that high school building, so it is contingent uh or continuous throughout the building. We're going to spend less on utilities and repair in those areas and create the most optimum classroom environment possible for our students. At this time, I will entertain any questions that you may have. So

036easy. It's not me. I promise. This might be the hardest part for me. Thank you, sir. On to item five D. And I think that is Miss Miss Faulner. We do have a couple of presentations in this area. There were several questions uh that are received by our school board. So, I just wanted to start it off and uh clarify a few of the uh questions to everyone. Uh, of course, we're looking at uh the implementing of the Texas Education Code 44.901 to update district infrastructure for the purpose of decreasing long-term operational costs. We're looking at how can we pass on uh some savings uh to the district, especially on the M side. Um in addition in this code you will see that it says the board of trustees of a school district shall establish

037a program to reduce energy consumption uh by the district. So why consider uh implementing uh Texas Education Code uh 44.901 now? Well, we certainly need to look at ways that we can decrease long-term uh operational cost on our M side. And we know that uh our biggest part of our budget like 85% of the 48 million is in payroll cost. And so after we look at our payroll cost, we know that the second largest operational expense after our payroll is basically energy consumption. And so we've already taken one step uh by securing a new contract that is lower that's going to be uh saving the district uh some money. So now what we need to do is establish a plan uh or a program to reduce uh the energy uh consumption for some overall cost

038to the district. Uh because we know uh most likely we're all competing for the same students. So we've created a budget uh some budget assumptions and we'll be building the budget next year knowing that uh approximately uh we'll have approximately maybe 100 less students as an estimate for now. we could be shoring that up a little bit. We have no new money coming in the district. There's not a legislative session right now. Uh we know that we're operating off of the same uh budget. And we're also looking at inflation. And in the last leg legislative session, uh the money was earmarked uh for our teacher raises in which they are welld deserved, but there was not any money that was put in to really adjust much for inflation and operational costs. So, we're trying to

039squeeze as much money out of everything that we have so we can continue um to ensure that our teachers uh and our staff are paid well. So uh why are we implementing it now and what are we looking at? So over the last uh several months, we had Centrics uh conduct an energy audit and they kind of looked at, you know, where are all of the campuses uh what type of energy are we using? Where maybe could we improve some of these things? And so here's um some of the items that in a minute Zach Christensen from Centrics will go into more detail about the inventory of what they found uh when they did the audit. So right now we know that although to me when I think of Cbury Elementary and AV KO and

040our new schools I think of them as new but I'm old so uh time does go by quickly and uh they're really beginning to age and one thing that we found is when we built our schools we the the standard was not really the LED lighting and so we do not have those fixtures and we know that it would be in our best interest to replace with LED LED riding light lighting so that we could again uh save uh money. HVAC controls we need to standardize our equipment. I know um right now we're operating with three different uh HVAC controls and that impacts personnel cost and also if we can get around to some of the facilities you know some of them we have to uh handcode to change uh the temperatures in the room

041there is a reliable controls there is here there's honey well in which I even have a log on that I can come in and change uh in this facility, some of the time, the temperature, uh when if we have a holiday, when do we schedule it so that our air is not on when we're not here, thus saving money. But right now when we have standalone equipment where it takes a physical person going in and ch making some of these changes and programming, we know that there's time there are times when we are probably using our HVAC equipment or heating equipment when we're not occupied in the building, thus wasting electricity. And so by standardizing the equipment, we uh we could save money. For example, at the high school in the new bond program, we

042are putting uh placing these controls. We already have researched a standard. We've selected through bid process uh a company and the district gave input with BTC and uh selected um a brand that we are using that will help at the high school and this plan would help uh take that same standardized equipment and place it throughout the district so that all rooms and spaces uh could be uh controlled. In addition to that, uh during go back, Angela, in addition to that, during um the end of ESSER funds, we when we uh finished up our ESSER funds, the HVAC equipment replacement plan, um money was cut from our replacement plan and some of the HVAC equipment uh was not um replaced. And so we looked at the usage of HVAC equipment, the age of some of

043it, and looked at the energy audit on what equipment is maybe not efficient, uh, not utilizing up to standard um, freon and what do we need to do to get that back in compliance and ensure that our HVAC equipment is uh, working uh, for our students. We know that when we replace HVAC, sometimes we have to replace the roofing before we can put the HVAC in place. So, all of these items were considered uh in the energy audit of where do we need to upgrade? What do we need to do so that we can ensure we're energy efficient? Why? Because we need to lower our utility bills. As I said, number two, what is the most uh expensive other thing that we can control besides personnel costs? our electricity, uh, gas and water. We want

044to redirect savings back into our classrooms, keep our teachers paid. If you look at that UEA, we're doing really well now in the top five uh, of the districts. We want to be sure that we can uh, pay everyone uh, at that rate or and uh, redirect savings back to classroom staff and our student programs in which they're being very successful uh, in this year. so much. We're looking for money for all of this postseason that they're going to, which is exciting, but we're like, uh, this is more than what we planned, and we want to be sure we have the money for that. We want to stabilize our budgets against rising energy costs, and we also want to minimize those unexpected uh costly repairs. And you can go forward, Angela. So, we don't have

045to dip into fund balance in the middle of the year and make a costly knee-jerk reaction on uh some unexpected repairs. And many districts save hundreds of thousands of dollars over time uh through energy efficiency uh upgrades. And we haven't looked at this in uh quite some time. The law takes into energy savings performance contracts. they look at upgrade uh usually this uh looks at upgrading our HVAC, our lighting, even insulation sometimes so that we can um use that savings to pay for improvements using the guaranteed energy savings. And I think this is really confusing and Zach can address this a little uh further and that's by engaging an energy management company to take the risk of ensuring that we're going to get the savings back. that is their job is to uh create a

046formula in which they can show that there's going to be savings back to the district and then they or actually we hired another third party who verifies if what the formulas they're using is actually valid and Cameron will follow up because we did receive that today to show the validity of the numbers that have been shared uh with us and we want to avoid large upfront capital cost or bond elections in some case. So, we're putting this in M general operating so that we are planning for long-term um savings for the district. This is how districts modernize their uh older facilities so that they can be more uh efficient. So when we look at facility efficiency and the longevity and the life of all of our facilities, we have some really beautiful buildings that it's

047time that we start to look at how do we become more efficient because energy uh conservation measures that we put in place. We need to extend the life of Hback. If they're running less, it's going to extend the life. Uh but if they're running non-stop all the time and we're not really programming them, then they're they're not going to last for their full lifetime. Uh we want to in uh reduce the maintenance costs. Instead of having three HVAC employees, uh why not have one that can use programming to control um our system and make those adjustments for our classrooms? We want to improve reliability. I don't want the call at the first of school. What's wrong with the air conditioning system? It's hot in this uh room. We want fewer breakdowns and I want to

048be sure there's um unexpected expenses do not happen uh due to planning and not looking at our equipment. We want to also ensure we have a great learning environment. It's not the paint on the building and the roof necessarily uh that we always look at and how it looks, but we want to be sure the air quality is good for our students for health reasons. We want the temperature to be consistent uh for our classrooms and we want to be sure that there is good lighting quality uh for our students so that when they are studying and uh they're working in the classroom that um they have that good quality light. So districts implement I hope this explains a little more about districts implement Texas Education Code 44.91 because it saves money over time. It

049improves your bu our buildings and it supports better learning environments by operating smarter and stretching those limited resources that we're seeing in our operating budget. And um we have utilized prior uh E3 and Ideal Impact. Uh we've had experiences with them, but we've engaged a new company to see if maybe our experiences can be a little improved. And so we've looked at two other vendors. We're going to check back with the qualifications uh of other vendors. We've been very happy with um the assessment that we've uh received from Centrics and um today we received the third party independent engineering review that confirms uh some of the numbers that they have provided for us. So that is a big broad overview that I think based on the questions I received I said let me let me

050go back and kind of put it all together and so I hope that helped. So at this time I know Zach is in the audience and I'm going to have him come up he can give you a few more details about the equipment and then Cameron will follow up uh with the third party review. Okay, Zack. Thank you, Miss uh Superintendent Smith Faulner for that wonderful intro. Couldn't have said it better myself. Board President, board members, good to see you again. Thank you again for having us. I'm joined by our president, Adam Corbin, in the audience. And as uh as the superintendent said, I get to kind of do the fun part of this now, which is to hone in on what the final project is rounding into form to look like and then uh

051talk about the benefits therein and then answer any questions that you might have. So, we'll go ahead and jump into that. Oh, uh, we'll flip over to mine. Uh, there were a couple specific questions, too, about the lighting, uh, scope that I wanted to address while I'm up here, uh, that I believe came from, uh, some of the board members as well. If that's okay, I'll do that at the end. All right, perfect. Okay. So, uh, in the four scopes of work that we just talked about here, uh, what what I wanted to show tonight was a reminder of kind of where we were before. Okay. And so as we did this assessment, really the the goal was to look at everything possible that we could with the main focus on okay, what are the

052things that are about to cost the district a lot of money. Okay, these things are coming. They're coming soon. So let's identify those things first. What do they look like? How can we remedy them? And then on the other side of that coin, this is really the the thread that goes through the whole thing. How do we find savings from those and leverage those savings to pay for it? Okay, we're not here to come and say, "Hey, you just need to do all these things and you need to find the money for it." We're here to find that money as well. So, in terms of lighting, really, it was kind of a mixed bag across many of the schools that we uh well, all of your buildings. And so, that was a real, you know,

053easy easy choice there. We want to go LEDs. Um, saying it out loud kind of helps put it in context, but you you won't have to mess with your lighting until the late 2030s after this. Okay, there's a 10-year warranty. The average useful life of this asset is 17 years. So, that kind of bleeds into the 2040s. And how nice is it that you won't have to worry about one of the the aspects of your buildings until then? So, that's really the lighting. Um, I wanted also to just, you know, double click on some of the benefits. That's, uh, those are the buildings up top where we're going to be implementing all the lighting retrofits. Um, the numbers that, uh, Superintendent Smith Faulner talked about. The guarantees are are there. Okay, you can you can

054see those broken out. you'll save that much in utility savings every year, that much in uh avoided M cost, maintenance and operational cost, and capital cost avoidance uh projecting out into the future. So, that's what those look like. I'll do that for every one of these uh scopes of work. And then on the bottom, you can kind of see some of the they're not ancillary benefits, but they're uh other benefits that that come along with that. Okay. We also looked at your building automation system, your controls, and as uh Miss Smith Vagner did mention a mixed bag there as well. Uh by replacing these and standardizing them with the ones that you chose already uh at the high school in the bond project, you'll not only save electricity, go ahead and go to the next

055one. uh that much electricity utility savings every year avoided M costs and that's just that you don't have to walk around programming the temperature into each one uh turning them off when the space is unoccupied you have one person who could theoretically realistically do that from a single point of control uh and so that's uh that's also one of the no-brainers. Okay, roofing. Okay, this goes this does go handinhand with HVAC replacement since much of your uh HVAC inventory are rooftop units. Uh we took on this one we we cheated a little bit. You guys had done a roofing assessment. You you guys have a great roofing company here by the way. Uh on the next slide you'll see in the corner there I just pulled a screenshot. Don't don't worry about the seeing it

056the details, but I pulled a literal screenshot from uh that roofing assessment that you did. And I think see now I'm gonna wish I could see it, but I think that's at Joy James. Uh and the red the red sections are the worst sections, the ones that are failing now or imminently failing. And then we have some yellow sections which uh could be, you know, patched up and uh I guess kind of, you know, waited till later to to uh address. And instead of a full-blown replacement roof, we're going to remedy those sections of the roof there. And so we're going to do that at Joy James and Castleberry Elementary. There are savings associated with that as well. And you can see those there. Okay, last one. Uh, and I know I made this joke

057before, but it's good, so I'll do it again. Pictorial evidence of Cameron actually working right there in the top left. He was showing us around and we uh while we were looking at the HVAC inventory that you have in some places you have uh temporary cooling which obviously is an M expense that we want to eliminate and leverage back into you know getting actual equipment. Uh the one on the right I included that's one of your chillers and so we actually don't recommend that you replace that now which you you may question why it just doesn't need to be done quite yet. Okay, those are still going and with a little bit of good maintenance there, they should continue to go and so we don't think you need to do that yet. We've honed in

058on um Go ahead, Angela. Eight units at Joy James and one at Irma Marsh. Okay, so not a ton. And I think I said this in in previous in months past, you know, we expected to see a lot worse situation there. And what we actually found was it's it's not as bad as as we feared. And again, with a little remediation, the the balance of your HVAC portfolio, I think, is going to be just fine for a while. So, that's what uh that's what we landed on there. I wanted to break out the relative costs of each one of these scopes of work uh to the whole of the the project and what it looks like. And so, you can just kind of see that at a at a glance. Okay. And then the project

059benefits. We've talked a little bit about these before, but having consistent controls across all campuses saves you money and makes a lot of sense. Uh the operational and financial guarantees for this project are guaranteed for the whole term. And so this bears saying many times, I think, because if I was sitting in your seat, I'd want to hear this. Uh the the numbers that you saw associated with each one of those scopes of work, the savings numbers are contractually uh backed by us. Okay? Okay. And so if you save even a dollar less per year on any of those, well, take them as a whole, then we have to write you a check for a dollar. If it's a dollar, if it's $100,000, whatever that is, we are contractually bound to make sure that you

060are whole because that those savings numbers are paying for the project. Okay, that's super important. That's the whole reason we do projects like this. uh phasing out the obsolete uh refrigerants as you said superintendent um these scopes of work and you you'll hear this from your your financial adviser I think next these scopes of work do line up really well in terms of life cycle and and uh you know duration of the assets uh to the financing mechanisms the funding mechanisms and uh we're still looking at that project timeline to coincide with your ribbon cutting because we all love a good ribbon cutting uh in January with the high Okay. Okay. I think I have perhaps a final slide there. I did want to address some of the spec specific lighting questions. Um and these

061are great questions. So these came uh these came to us uh recently. When will we start seeing savings in this project. Okay. So the guaranteed period starts when we cut the ribbon essentially. So when all the scopes work are installed. But you might be wondering, okay, what if you what if you start putting in new lights, you know, next month? When do we see those? So, you actually those are icing on the cake. Savings. I would say they're not included in the whole year of performance guaranteed savings, but you do get those and we choose to quantify those for you guys. A lot of vendors don't don't bother with that, but we want you to know what those look like. I can't imagine not having good news and wanting to share it. So, uh we

062do quantify um those savings. We call them pre construction period savings. Okay. So, those are uh reported to you. Uh number two is the lighting proposal for retrofitting or replacing fixtures is another great question. In 95% of the square footage, we're talking about retrofitting instead of replacing, ripping out the whole fixture. And that's okay because uh with the regular 4 foot lamps that you have across most of your district, we we do rip out the the the ballast. We rip out the you know the the the wiring stays, but we reconnect it. We put in a driver, an LED driver, and those tubes go into the fixture. The when we say retrofit, all we're really leaving is like the hole there, right, with the with the frame that we put the tubes into. But all

063the technology is our are new LEDs. And that represents about a 30% savings to do that rather than rip the whole thing out. And so again, the whole point of this is to find as much savings as possible. We just don't think it's a good idea to use that savings in ripping the whole thing out when you get the same lighting output by doing a retrofit. And so the standard, this is too much I know, but the standard um industry standard is between 30 and 50 foot candles for classrooms. Okay, we're we're limiting that to 40 to 50 and that's exactly what you get in a retrofit. Okay, is this is the appropriate lighting for that space. So, another great question there. What is the comparative pricing for replacement versus retrofitting? I kind of addressed

064this before. It's about a 30% difference. 30% uh savings in uh retrofitting. Next to last, retrof retrofitting gives you an old fixture designed for fluor fluoresence. Uh sticking a retrofit unit in an old light fixture doesn't give you the light output. Uh it uh from the old fixture and is still the old fixtures. Replacement gives a new fixture designed for LED and its light output. And so in the 5% of lights that we are ripping out, that is true. But in the retrofits, again, it is the same appropriate lighting output. You don't lose any any at all. Okay? We want to reassure you of that. And then, what warranties come with retrofitting versus replacement? Good. Great. Last question. Again, if I was sitting there, I'd want to know when I had to worry about those

065lights. So, they come with a 10-year warranty for all the retrofits. Uh the replacements, which are 5% of your project, would be in like can lights, for example, and those come with a fiveyear warranty. Okay. And again, the useful asset life, expected asset life of these is 17 years on average. Okay. I think I got all through all the questions. Uh I am now open for any questions you may have. Oh, wonderful. Yes, ma'am. warranties of course and you have to think about those types of things. So, so thank you so much for answering those questions. So, just to replace them is would only it'd be a 30% to retrofit them is a 30% savings. Is that mainly in labor or is that in product? Uh, it's both. It's a mix of both. Yes, ma'am.

066It is quite labor intensive to rip the whole thing out. So, could we have could we buy any longer time than 17 years in adequate lighting? So that's an that's an average that we feel comfortable saying. So whether we retrofit or replace say whether we retrofit the lights or replace uh about the same. Yep. It'd be about the same. Yes, ma'am. Thank you so much. Very welcome. Thank you for the questions. I have a quick question. Yes, ma'am. These savings are over the course of the contract or these savings are every year? Every year. Yes, ma'am. And so I come back I'm I'm compelled by the law and I love to come back also uh to come back every year and give you a report on how that previous year went visa v the savings.

067Yes ma'am. What is the year of the contract? How many years of the contract? 15. Mhm. Zach I was just wondering how long have you worked uh in with this company with Centrics? Three and a half years. Okay. Just one more question and of course I want to abide by your recommendations but I was just wondering is this something that we is need to outsource this isn't something we can do in house because it's too large and as far as the salary of having someone do this so I think the part is we need someone who's going to guarantee uh the savings to take advantage of that because we could but where would you know the funding come from at the time that we're looking at in the M side and then how do we

068guarantee uh the savings take advantage of that? Yes, ma'am. Can I add to that answer? Uh it is everything that you just said there. Additionally, if the savings and you could, you know, try to internally calculate the savings on your own and do the math. Uh, one of the benefits of using a company like ours is that if the savings don't appear, one, we're writing you a check, but it's also in our best interest to go and fix whatever the problem is, uh, immediately and kind of own, you know, the the term of the project. So, that would be the other one. Yes, ma'am. Every year, are there other districts around us that are using you guys? And what have their reports looked like? Is it usually they they they're good. They are Yeah, you

069guys are writing a check. Like I love that question. We haven't written a check yet. Um the closest uh neighboring district to you guys is Northwest ISD up in uh up in Justin and uh so far clean. And how long? Two years. Two years. Yep. Uh the most recent one was Madagorta ISD. the same exact contractual uh mechanism you guys have same savings all that stuff and I'm due to go present their first year savings in two months and so far it's clean and I think what the reason that we're proddding so much with these questions is because it's a it's a large uh contract number and so and that's a yearly contract number is that correct what is is a 15 I mean it's for 15 years for the $5 million Yeah. So really

070$5 million in 15 years is not that much, is it? Yeah. $5 million. I just wish $5 million went further than it used to. Like what I would think, uh, Miss Gleman, one thing that we were thinking about is when we had earmarked the money in the budget for our capital assets, this is kind of the thinking that we've done so that we're frontloading it and uh, paying it through the savings instead of having to pay for it. You know, you had asked, you know, we were we had money set aside for this. Well, I was thinking, how can we make that possible? And so, this is kind of our recommendation so that we're back on track again. Yeah. I have one quick question. Okay. We've asked about who's with you and who's close by,

071but what district has been with you the longest and how long is that? Bowmont if I'm not mistaken. Bowont ISD and I think four and a half years. Five years. Almost six years. Six years. Yes ma'am. Okay. Very good. Thank you. How old is the company? Six years old. Let's get the 15 mark. Not yet. But Bmont is doing well and they're satisfied. Bont is very satisfied. Yes. Um, yeah. Thank you. When did they pass this legislation? Uh, I believe in the 90s. Okay. Yes, sir. I can find out the exact year for you because I I want to know. This is a time time span how long it the planet that type of plan by the state had been in operation. I'll find out for you. Yeah. I'm just curious if that that's part

072of what used we used to call the part of the facilities is that would that be different facilities and you don't have to explain I was Thank you sir. Thank you. for any questions. I know that Cameron uh I think if you can just show the contract then we have our advisor who maybe can answer even some of the questions that they had. This will be quick. So part of this process is it's required for us to go to an independent uh engineer and just basically we're reviewing the savings that they've presented in front of us. This is a contract between us and a an engineer. Uh it took them two weeks. They go line by line to every unit, every light bulb, everything. And they've given us a certified letter letter as of today

073uh that guarantees or they provide the guarantee. They've reviewed it and accepted that all of their savings are true. So, I just wanted to add that because that's the last piece that the district will provide for you guys until the financing comes through. Sure. Well, because uh so their job is to engineer and guarantee everything, but that wouldn't prevent someone from entering into a contract and a year down the road not meet the savings and the company's not there to uh provide support or their guarantees. So this was this has been part of the process since this began in the '9s. And I will tell you that um as districts and the um state budgeting and funding and school districts have gone through periods of you know good times and rougher times uh this is

074why it was created in the 90s and it has been around for 30 years. Uh and right now we're facing one of those periods in the state of Texas. So these type of products will become more prevalent. But this is just a third leg that allows the district to reach out to an engineer, a certified engineer that goes line by line and guarantee or I'm sorry that supports the savings that they've presented to us in the proforma because the next step is to uh get the funding and the bank is going to want to see the third party engineering report before they provide the funding. Like you said, that's a significant amount for a school district to uh utilize. Cameron, just like with our um materials, right? Like TEA has a list of approved people.

075Yes. Does this exist for this particular company and this type of work? Yes. Okay. And we wanted to utilize someone in the state of Texas obviously because weather is going to play a part in how much we're utilizing HVAC and how much the roofing is going to save over time. Moving on to item five. Oh, sorry. Yeah, it is. Is it 5e? Yeah. Good evening, board president, board, superintendent. My name is Adrien Galban with Baker Tilly. It's always a pleasure to be in front of you guys. I'm I'm here to talk about the financing part of this project. Yeah, we can flip to the the next page, please. So, these are the items that are proposed to be put into place for the energy efficiency. Um, page one of three, what's on the screen, totals

0765.449 million. The useful life is a column to the far right. And if you see there, it's 15 years, 15 years, 20 and 15 for an average useful life of 16.54 years. So our borrowing is for 15 years. It's going to last 16 years. So the we're not borrowing for longer than the life of the of what we're doing. So that's one of the checks that we do. Next page. There's a lot of numbers on this page, but this is a recreation of what's in the documents that Citrix is doing. Uh, our job as as your financial advisor is to fill in column G. That that is the proposed maintenance tax notes issue, which would be the bond financing mechanism that we would use to fund this project. You need to fund 5.4 million of

077projects. Columns C, D, and E are the guaranteed savings that that were talked about before I got up here, but so I I don't have any control over those column. That's information that's provided to me. I drop those into a spreadsheet and they total up to column F. And if you notice a big bold line I put there in the middle of the page. Everything to the left of the bold line is information that I'm relying on Centrics and the third party to provide. That's the total benefit. And from that, I got to compare it to what's the proposed financing? What does that look like? And I with everything that's going on with the war, it's hard to to pin down an interest rate. I've been given a range between four and a quarter and

078five and a quarter for a 15-year borrowing. We won't know until we get into the market. What I'm showing to to you here is a worst case 5.25% to borrow over 15 years. It kind of it stresses out the model to see if that we're getting savings even at that high rate. Uh if you look at column G total, you borrow 5.4 million. You're going to pay over 15 years 8 million with principal and interest. That column G is going to be you is going to be used to compare to the total benefit to find out how much you're saving. The future value net annual benefit projected is column K. And I put that in yellow. As you can see there, it's where it's negative on the front end. That's where you're paying a little

079you're paying a little bit more uh than you're saving. It's a for instance a first year uh you're paying 67,000 more uh than the benefit and that but that that number decreases and flips to positive in 35 where you start going positive on the savings. The bottom column K shows what the what the uh future savings are with the assumed five and a quarter interest rate totals up to 37,144. you're you're able to accomplish all these improvements. You're taking some of these pay as you go projects the the that might hit you on any particular year. You're you're frontloading it by putting into a financing and so you don't have the surprises and you're still able to pull off some savings at the bottom. the um I'll I'll stop for questions there because I know

080there's a lot of numbers on this page and I want to make sure that we're on the everybody that we're tracking on benefits on the left, right is the cost and the yellow is the net benefit for you. I have a question. Um because of the uncertainty of the market, at what point could we go out uh to get a a lesser interest rate? So the the plan that that we that's included in here is is to come to the mark to go to the market with the competitive bid process, show it to 30 to 40 banks and spend about three weeks explaining the deal, getting getting the bid spec specs out there, generating interest and locking in the well getting the bids on May one, which is a Friday before your next meeting, May

0814th. And we the plan would be on May one we find the lowest bid the lowest interest rate. We'll be in communication with with the district. We'll pick the lowest rate pending official approval on Monday the 4th. So on May one we'll know uh the final version of of this slide. We have to get it approved on an actual board meeting. So that's why we're waiting until May one to lock it in. But uh it's really hard to try to time the market yet. I wouldn't. So I guess my question would be can it be refinanced later at a later date if all of a sudden the market goes and we have lower interest rates available? Yes. Mo most of these private placements come with a a call feature callable at any time. Sometimes it'll

082be a five-year call feature, but there'll be a call feature built into it. That's a good question. I have a quick question and maybe this is a dumb question, but so where does the $5 million go? Does it go to Centrics? Does it go with us? And we have like this pot of money like for instance like the bond election. Like how does that where does where's the five million going? I guess my understanding is it goes straight to CricS and they you want to come back up, Zach? Okay, come on. It it does it goes straight to you and then uh we we bill you kind of like a construction progress payment. I guess I guess the question is if we're not going to use the whole 5 million at one time, but the

083whole point is to get the 5 million at once, but we're paying interest on the 5 million. No. Yeah. My my understanding is that the projected uh completion date is January 1 of 27. So it's you you borrow the money June 6 months construction period uh for installation of of the of the equipment and uh so that's your that's why you borrow up front because you're going to need to spend it within six months. All right. So, I'll any more questions on the the the complicated sheet? I have a out of the pocket question really. Uh, and it it it alludes to our state finance system and how they're wanting to change it. Do you see any trends coming up? Uh there's been talk of all sorts of politicians like to say a lot of

084different things about uh funding schools and property tax which is uh 25% of our funding here in Cbury 50% average over the state. So question they're really wanting to change the way our taxes are paid to us school districts where they're collected from us. And so do you see any changes in that? Because we're talking about M really. We're not talking about INS, which is bond stuff. So that's it's sort of open-ended. Sorry. Yeah. It's u they're trying to move it to just elections on on November is one of the things. They're also tying uh audits. If you don't have your audit submitted on time, they're they're trying to put limitations on borrowing. In that in that sense, we do know that this particular uh instrument, the maintenance tax notes are available for you. It's

085eligible financing and it should be available for us to lock in in May. But they are they're coming after us uh to try to limit uh voting options for for debt. M. Yeah. So, if we're clear on this one, I'll flip it to the the timetable, the next page. So, in blue is um today we're here presenting the plan of finance. If you if uh my I'm just advising you of the option that you have for financing this project. If you tell me this is something you want to move forward with, then I I will start the process tonight um and work the deal between now and May and uh May the 1st. On May the 1st, a district financial adviser, bond council, your finance staff, superintendent, we'll all get together, fill fill out this

086sheet, uh point out the winner, and get prepared for the meeting on May 4th. May 4th, I would I would come back present that sheet with filledin numbers with the real locked in savings and the results. And it at that time it's your choice to to approve it or not. Uh so April 6 is today. If you guys decide to move forward, the steps in between, you don't have to worry about that. That that's the FA and bond council and your and your financing staff working to get the best deal for you guys. and then the hard work uh May one tabulating the bids May 4th bringing the same presentation with locked in numbers pending your approval. Nothing's going to be locked in until we present you guys see the results and you say, "Hey,

087this is something we want to do or we don't." And uh the typically you you approve and then four weeks later you close. That's when funds are received because we have to get this approved by the attorney general's office. That's usually a four-week period. So, so fund, you would receive the funds on June the 2nd is what I've got projected on the timetable. That's when you start paying interest is when you get the funds. Any questions on the timetable? I I guess my only question is it's not the timetable, but I think it's not the question isn't can we afford this, it's can we afford not to do this is I think that's the question I'm looking for. The answer I'm looking for. Do Yeah. But I mean, as our advisor, is this something that

088we really Well, if you go back to the the sheet that's labeled page 203 that's got the yellow column at at the uh conservative high interest rate of five and a quarter, column K, which is the your bottom line number is a positive $37,000. So, you're the debt's covered and you're 37,000 better. It's at that point it's a it's a wash, but it's stuff that you needed to replace anyway. And it if it goes out, it's going to hurt you a lot more having to replace it all at once and really hit your fund balance. That's the one that you're you're saving. You're smoothing out your uh these operating costs over a 15-year period versus an emergency happening. My goal is to get you a better rate than a five and a quarter. And uh

089we're we're that's where we market it to the to the 30 40 banks and answer all their questions and provide all the information that they asked for. But this really is the the lowest cost financing mechanism that you can use is is putting the property tax behind it. Even though you're not going to use it, you're planning to use the savings. Thank you very much and we're looking forward to the gayla. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gman. Thank you. Good seeing you guys. Item 6A. Oh, what time is it? You're right. We're going to jump to item seven. We're going to skip 6A and 6B and come back to that later. Uh item seven, close session. At this time, the board will retire to close session under Texas government code chap section 551.071 through 551.076 and

090551.08 through 551.083 to discuss the items listed on the agenda. The time is 7:19 6 p.m. And I'm going to jump around to item eight. I call this meeting back to order after our recess. It is 7:46 p.m. As we continue tonight's meeting, we welcome all who have joined us. As we keep asking how we can best promote and encourage achievement for every student in our district, the mission of Casper Independent School District is inspiring and empowering to be all students to be innovative thinkers in the global community. At this time, we will begin with the pledges of allegiance. Yes. Uh Mr. Board President, at this time we have Natalie Zavala, a CHS student who will lead us in our pledges. And if we may stand for the pledges. I pledge allegiance to the flag

091of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And now for the Texas pledge. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. And now we will move on to item 8 C. Mr. Kelly. Yes, Mr. Board President. At this time, Mr. Joseph Kelly, our assistant principal of Casper High School, and Michelle Holatin, our CTE instructional coach, will introduce the students who will be recognizing staff and students at Castlebury High School and in the CTE program who are in route to success. Good evening, President Oliver, Superintendent Smith Faulner, and members of the board of education. My name is Joseph Kelly. I serve as assistant principal at Casper High School. And tonight,

092our student council is excited to present CHS destination success. Good evening everyone. I am the pres. I'm Natalie Zavala and I'm proud to serve as the president at Cerbury High School and we are twotime nationally recognized student council. At CHS, our focus is clear. Destination to success. We've got this. We are focused on one singular destination, student success. The journey isn't taken alone. It is powered by our dedicated staff, hardworking students, and on unwavering support of families and communities. Tonight, we want to give a closer look at the people, the progress, and the purpose behind everything we do at CHS. This year, our road map to success is built on four key pillars. Attendance, star performance, CCMR readiness, and positive school culture. At CHS, our goals are simple. Student present, student engaged, and student prepared

093after life of graduation. Good evening. My name is Evan Hernandez and I serve as the vice president of student council. As we continue on our journey to destination success, we're excited to share how our students are preparing for life beyond high school. And the results are truly taking off. This year, 211 seniors have set their flight plans in motion by applying to colleges and universities with 137 completing their FASA to secure financial support for their journey. We've also seen incredible growth in our college career military readiness. Back in September, our seniors were at 55% CCMR, but through hard work and determination, that number has climbed to an outstanding 98%, showing just how committed our students are to reaching their destination. 70 of our seniors have already been accepted into Texas Wesland University, earning an incredible

0947.6 million in scholarships. In addition, five seniors have reached new heights by earning full ride scholarship to Texas Christian University. Altogether, class of 2026 has earned over 10.6 million in scholarships, already surpassing last year's record by proving that the sky is not the limit. This year also marks an exciting new chapter as we launched our first official early college high school program, giving students the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school and accelerate toward their destination. Our students are clear for takeoff, charting a confident course toward their future. Good evening. My name is Miley Garcia and I serve as the energy and environment committee head of student council. This year, our Cook Children's clinical observations have soared to new heights and CHS health science is working under full affiliation agreement with the

095entire hospital. We are able to go from the emergency room to the NICU and from med surge to the operating room. Our health science students are gaining valuable experience as they prepare for their future healthcare careers. In fact, just last month, our students observed surgeons as they repaired birth defects in a baby's heart, corrected a patient's scoliosis by placing rods and screws alongside their spine. They even watched as an arterial venus malf for which is just a fancy way of saying blood vessels were removed from the patients brain to correct the blood flow. CHS health science students were also able to be given the opportunity to participate in multiple hands-on events at the hospital. In these events, our students interact with many different healthc care professionals to learn about skills that are performed in the

096hospital. There are even medical sales reps that bring their O power tools like bone saws and screwdrivers to let us practice making repairs on fake bones. With all these amazing opportunities, there's no doubt that the CHS health science students are soaring towards success and bright futures in healthcare. At CHS, our teachers are the driving force behind student success. They go beyond just teaching lessons. They create hands-on, meaningful learning experiences that prepare students for real world success. Through CTE programs and engaging instruction, they help students build skills that will last a lifetime. Their dedication and passion are what keep our students motivated every day. At this time, would Miss Luna please come forward? I'd like to take this opportunity to recognize Miss Dulce Luna. As a Spanish teacher, Miss Luna does more than just teach a

097language. She opens the door to new cultures, new perspectives, and new opportunities. In her classroom, learning goes beyond vocabulary and grammar. It becomes a journey. What makes Miss Luna special is how much she cares about her students. She's always willing to help. Whether it's explaining a lesson again, encouraging someone who is struggling, or simply being there when a student needs support, she makes sure no one feels left behind on their journey to success. Please join me in giving Miss Luna a round of applause. Please help me welcome our next speaker who will recognize one of our outstanding CTE teachers, Chef Lacy Frier. Good evening. My name is Joshua Casio and I serve as the treasurer for student council. When we think about success, we think about the destination. But it's the people who guide us

098that really matter. For me, that's Chef Farrier. She's more than a culinary teacher. She teaches us discipline, life skills, and how to keep going even when we mess up, especially in the especially in the kitchen. She's also someone we can count on, whether it's for school, jobs, or just someone to talk to. Success isn't always perfect. It can get messy, but Chef Farrier shows us how to learn from from it and move forward. I'm really grateful for everything she does. Thank you, Chef Farrier. Behind every successful student is a strong team. From our counselors guiding students through graduation and college planning to our administrators supporting campus safety and testing, every role plays an important part. Our prayer professionals and custodial staff also help create a safe, welcoming environment for everyone on campus. At CHS, success

099is truly a team effort. And I want to take a moment to recognize a key player on that team. Someone who truly defines the heart at Cerbury High School, Miss Katherine Monzone. Miss Mon doesn't just work at our school, she helps shape it. Whether she's providing a shoulder to lean on during a tough day or making sure every student's on the right path towards the future, she's always there. Her dedication extends far beyond her office, she is a driving force behind the National Honor Society, ensuring that every member has the support they need to succeed and lead. She is the kind of person anyone can talk to, and she truly listens. She we are incredibly lucky to have a counselor like Miss Monzone and CHS is a better place because of her. Good evening. My

100name is Amelia Hernandez and I am a senior student council member. As we continue our journey towards destination success, our students are showing success isn't just a place we can we hope to reach. It's a flight we're already on. Through our CT programs, students are taking off and soaring to new heights. They're competing and excelling at state levels or organizations like DECA US skill skills US and HOSA while others are gaining real world experience preparing them for what lies ahead. As you recognize these students, please hold your applause. We are proud to recognize Nathan Griffin who has reached the state level as a DECA finalist in automotive marketing services. Christopher Fernandez also soared to the state level as a finalist in personal care through HOSA. In esports, Evan Holland delivered an outstanding performance to secure

101a spot in the finals of the Fortnite solo tournament. He placed nine overall out of 100 uh competitors and and an war lee charted his course to the state as a skills US qualifying as in ma m sorry misery and um will compete later this week. These students are leading the way proving that hard with hard work dedication and they believe that we got this. There is no limit to how far they can go. We also want to recognize these incredible achievements of our student athletes who are also soaring to new heights. Please hold your applause as we all as we recognize these students this year. Our path has taken us to some outstanding milestones. In prior lifting, Sebastian Ward that lifted all the way to the state level. In cross country, both Sada and

102Van Goen Van Goens achieved to this the regionals showing endurance and determination every step of the way. Our football team battled their way into the state of the into playoffs, demonstrating grit and teamwork. On our soccer field, our boys team claimed both by district and by district championships, while our girls team earned the title of by district champions. Our fine art programs are also hitting all the right notes. In our book, Brooklyn Potter, Aiden Brown, and Jose Moreno all qualified for state and base, showing their incredible creativity and talent. Steve Sanchez earned the all state mariachi recognition representing our school at the highest level. These achievements remind us that success isn't just a destination. It's a result of hard work, perseverance, and believing that we got this. Good evening board members. My name is Nathaniel

103Cruz and I serve as the parliamentarian of student council. At Castlebury, we've got this is more than just a phrase. It's a mindset. It's the fuel that keeps our journey moving forward and the confidence that helps us navigate every challenge along the way. You can see it in our school spirit from pack stands at games to students proudly representing our campus in competitions and events. You can see it in our service projects where students step up to make a difference not just in our school but in our community. And you can feel it in the way students and staff support one another every single day, lifting each other up and pushing each other to be better. At CHS, we're not just passengers of this journey. We're active crew members working together to make sure everyone

104reaches their destination. Whether it's in the classroom, on the field, on the stage, or in the community, our students show resilience, leadership, and pride. This positive culture creates an environment where students feel motivated, connected, and ready to succeed. And because of that, we know that no matter where the journey takes us, we've got this. As we move into testing season, we do so with confidence, preparation, and determination. We especially want to recognize one of our incredible crew members helping guide our students along the way, Dr. Jennifer Garcia. Dr. Garcia is our secondary ELA coordinator and one of our AE staff members. Through her dedication to tutoring English language arts retry testers, she has helped students strengthen their skills and just as importantly build the confidence they need to succeed. Because of her support, many of

105our students are stepping into their STAR exams ready to rise. None of these accomplishments would be possible without the support of our staff, family, and community. At Calibbury High School, the road to success takes teamwork, dedication, and heart. Together, we move forward. Destination success. We've got this. Thank you board members for having us today. Uh, thank you, President Talivar and Superintendent Smith Faulner for the opportunity to recognize our outstanding students and staff at CHS. At this time, we would like to ask all CHS parent and staff members in attendance to please stand so we can acknowledge and thank you for your continued support. Yeah. Let's let's go ahead and take some pictures. We want to remember this moment. This is a celebration especially of you guys. So, we're going to take stop down a little

106bit and take some time and take some pictures. You guys We're so proud of you guys. And when I hear our kids come back now and say that they've got that Castleberry pride, it just it means a lot. It's impactful. So, I hope you carry that with you. And thank you for being here tonight so much. In the spirit of jumping around, we're we're going to jump straight to 10 A, that specific action item, just to because we have visitors here and we're going to take care of that as we want to celebrate this. So item 10 A, consider approval of the proposed contract renewal recommendation for the 2026 2027 campus academic leaders, assistant principles, etc. other professionals, that's it. Sorry. Which includes instructional coaches, TIA teachers, new hires for 20 26 27. Is there

107a motion? I move to approve the superintendent's recommendations to renew. Am I making sure I make the right motion? Campus academic leaders or is that where we are? Yes. Assistant principles and other profession professionals per attached list subject to assignment. Apologize for that. There's a second, Miss Aguil. Second. Is there any discussion? Please indicate your vote. Motion carries 6. So, Mr. Board President, I know at this time we have um some of our new employees in the audience. So, welcome to Casper, if you'll stand. New employees, you've just been hired. Congratulations. Welcome to Castleberry. You stayed that whole time and uh you got that little recognition real quick. So uh but you don't have to stay for the whole meeting. We're happy to have you here tonight and welcome. We're going to go ahead and

108jump back to six. Where do we move off? 6A, right? Discussion items. 6A, finance monthly update. Mr. William Wooten, I'll be quick. Uh, good evening, Mr. President, Board of Education, Superintendent. Thank you for allowing me to give the budget update, the monthly budget update. Next slide. These are things I'm going to talk about. The budget snapshot, uh budget financial performance and next steps. As you can see, uh the budget snapshot, we've collected uh about 70% of our of our 48.6 uh million budget. Uh we've spent to date uh 62% of that that $48.6 million budget. So net change of fund balance is positive. uh as of March uh 27th, we anticipate uh we don't anticipate it is that that the actual fund balance would increase $3.8 million. With that being said, next slide is that

109uh um when we look at local payments, we are expected to collect about 98% so we still have to book some uh some payments that came in. Uh state payment um the state ow owes us right now about $10 million and so we will not receive a state payment for April. We'll receive a state payment in in May, June, and July. And so in federal uh um uh budget, we anticipate collecting 300,000. Uh I think we'll get pretty close with with uh with indirect cost that we'll move for my for my grants. Um next next slide. And so these are next steps. Uh March, this is what we did. March, April, we're going to continue to look at the budget performance, make sure the budget, the actuals are are tracking properly. uh and then prepare

110year end uh budget amendment by function. So we're going to still look at the budget and see where we we have uh uh gaps to fill. Uh and then of course we're going to update the year end financial projections for uh this current year uh in May. Uh basically I'm going to uh propose a year end budget amendment uh based on what I see what we need to move move around functions if any. Um Mr. President Penny, any questions? That's that's all I have for the monthly update. Yes, ma'am. In hearing everything that we heard tonight about incurring new debt, can our projected balance, can we handle incurring this new debt? So the financial advisor uh did a did a 20 cent test and it's like a financial stress test and uh we can afford

111the debt uh based on the information and the test that he did. So Okay. Yeah. Anybody else? Thank you sir. Thank you. Thank you board. Item 6B s uh 2026 2027 certification of provision of instructional material. I'm Denise Shedville and this is one of my favorite topics. So here we go. Good evening board president, superintendent Renee Smith Faulner and members of the board. Tonight I'm bringing forward for your consideration the 2026 2027 certification and provision of instructional materials. This is an annual requirement under Texas Education Code 31.1011 and it serves as a critical assurance that our students have access to instructional materials that are fully supporting the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills commonly known as TEACS. So, in order to do this, we went through a a process. Sorry, I got my popcorn went down.

112Um, so we gathered input from all the stakeholders. We verified alignment of the instructional materials to the TICSS. We ensured they were on the state board of education approved list, confirm compliance with student internet safety protections, reviewed all subject areas, and we prepared the document for board ratification and submission to TA by May 1st. The process ensures accuracy and integrity and the preform work has been completed. So during the consent agenda time, we respectfully ask the board to consider approval of the 2026 2027 certification of provision of instructional materials. Thank you for your continued support of our students and staff. Do you have any questions about this? We actually do it every year. Yeah, the state has a process that we have to y'all have to approve it before we can order them. So, it's

113just part of the process and the only change we've had is the really transition to blue bonnet which Scott and Whitney have presented before. So, all right. Anything else? Thank you. So the consent agenda item 98H will be withheld and taken out and adjusted to get correct. The amount is not correct and so we will adjust that and address that at a different meeting. So at this time we will consent consider the consent agenda as amended. Is there a motion? Is there a second? Second. Is there any discussion? Please indicate your vote. Motion carries 6. savings performance plan, but we have been advised to uh to look at and yes, we've been so Yes. So, um we have had our attorney look at the contracts, but we've been advised to go ahead and approve it

114at the same time that um our financial advisor is going to ask for the motion and then we'll follow up with this action item at the next board meeting. Okay. But the attorney has approved it. The attorney is looking at the contract. We're getting some uh feedback just to be sure that we crossed our tees and dotted our eyes. So that's all of the action items. Now we're on information items. There is one. Is that information items? Is that in 12? That's 12B. Is there anything we need to touch on on any of these information items? Anybody had any other discussions or questions about really? Angela, can you uh open 11G, please? A paper fool's joke. It states that the document is in the owner's trash. Right up there, it says it's in the trash.

115Yeah. File in the trash. Mr. Lasher. Is your file in the trash? File 13. I can't open your f says it's in the trash. It's covered in gum. Miss Kelzo, can you go and print this for the school board members so they have a copy? I do have a question about this now that I see it. Um is any of how much of this will change due to centric? Yeah. For planning for next year um you'll see that these are interior and exterior finishes and so it is we've uh taken the budget down and we will only be doing the interior and exterior. There will not be HVAC. There will not be controls. There will not be lighting in part of any of this. This this would mainly constitute like cosmetic things um that uh

116touch-up paint um if we had to do any drywall uh any carpet squares that we'd have to replace um throughout the process of in preparation for the start of new school year. So, so that means sorry, so that means that 11H the propo propo proposed draft of the 2026 the next one because when you click on that replacement plan it has HVAC stuff on there so that's no longer is that right since well the HVAC would be item project number 19 okay so with the um with the Centrics uh contract. There is a if you can scroll down, Angela, there is a uh a annual cost of the the $6,200 that we've put in there as well. Okay. What is that for? That's the the reoccurring cost. Kevin, are you aware of that? premature. Can

117you Can you get to mic that works? You can come up to the front if you need to. Yes. We just want to ensure that part of the reason we've had some premature repairs and failures is because we weren't always doing a thorough preventative maintenance program. So, we're not only going to put some money back into this, which is something we do in house. This is not something we have to contract. The chiller section, we will contract. We're going through the process of what that's going to cost us, but it's less than 10% of what we were budgeting for repairs and replacement in order to keep the equipment that we have as well as the equipment that we could be purchasing through the contract up to date and extending the life 15 or 20 years,

118which it should last. And this is for the chillers. I don't know if the 6,200 is for chillers, but it's put to put back into the preventative methods program. Yeah, it's it's the overall um it's not necessarily through the chillers. It's it's it's the reimbursement through Centrics. So when he had met with us, there's that annual fee uh that we pay Centuries and that's where we're pulling this from in the capital improvement plan, not the replacement capital. Thank you, ma'am. Is that part of the $5 million? Yes. Yes. This would just be a re reoccurring month or not monthly, a yearly cost. that's associated with that. That's part of the original $5 million pot of money is for lack of better words. It's where you said we'd have to we'd have to that is not

119part of what's uh uh taken into the loan like the maintenance side of it, not the purchasing and replacement piece. Yes. Gotcha. And when does this start? Does that start year one? That would start at the end almost a year from now. So that's where he it would be build uh towards the end before our fiscal year uh starts on uh 2728. So we'd have to account for it a year from now. I guess the one that I linked to looks different than this one. So, I just somehow I think that could have been what happened is there was an updated link uh that was switched out because I'm looking at one that still has uh HVAC preventive maintenance. Yeah, that's the one I'm looking at. So, I don't know. It's the It's the next

120line. The next as number eight. So, yeah. Number what? So, line number eight that I'm looking at has preventive maintenance HVAC marsh. I don't see that. And I think I'm confused because he said it starts January 1. Ribbon cutting ribbon cutting, but yet this says start date is July 1st. Right. Centric says they're Yeah, we're talking about two different things. The the measurement verification, the 6200 specifically is what we are paying for the third party engineers to review the project and that's a onetime fee. Further up, that is the preventative maintenance. That's that should be in the uh the annual um replacement schedule. So Renee, your document's different than this one. I don't I don't see what you guys are seeing. So this is an information item and so um what we'll do is we'll

121look over it before it comes to the board. So this is exactly what it's for. This says draft to look over it and see what's on here. I think there was an update and um I have the old version link that I'm getting to. Is that what you have Angela? Because yours looks different than my link. So I we'll this is an information item only and uh it will be coming back to you for approval later. Yes. Thank you, Kelly. See, Kelly's aware that I need everything in big print now. I was like, what is that? It took her a minute with the book. What's a gingerbread? She's the only one that doesn't eat this big old one. I'm joking. People know it's a phone and some people know it's a dance. Oh, it's a

122phone. Sorry. Sorry. I took that if there's nothing else in information items. We'll go on to uh items 12. Uh we'll start at 128. I'm hearing uh board key dates. We've got uh conference. Got a conference coming up. We've got uh fundraiser coming up. Education gall. We've got a art shows and music performances. There's a lot of art shows. Yeah, a lot of art shows. Yeah, it's like an elementary and then secondary. who uh we've got three NSD NSBA conference except for me. No, the three of us half of us are going. So, art shows. Anybody want to commit to attending any of the art shows? I will go to um I'll probably do one house on the bill. Yeah. Somewhere in there. And then I'll probably do one the next week, too. The one

123night. Yeah. Yeah. I'll take Leah. She likes art. Okay. It's going at least one night to both of those shows. Yeah. Then I'll also be a spring fest. Mr. President, I don't see right there 16th 16th at 6. I do have a question though. Um, it says there's two dates. The 28th and the 24th both say the spring mariachi concert and the 24th. Yeah. One says one just doesn't have a V after it and one does. So, but then JV is the 30th. So, I'm confused. There's a varsity and a JV. Varsity and JV, I guess. Yeah, but there's So, there's like three on here total. So, there's one on the 24th, there's one on the J. And there's one on the 30th, which is JV. So, that's what I'm confused about. I would think

124the 24th is middle school. We just need clarification. Oh, okay. I mean, it can clarify, but you've already got varsity and JV identified. Yeah. You think that's probably middle school? They're all at CHS. Oh, they're all at CHS. That's what's confusing me, too. I know there's a link to the fine arts um master calendar. Maybe that can help us. Yeah. Yeah. It does say April 24th Middle School at CHS auditorium. I know that we have Springfest and the gala on the same night. Um I did talk to Darren. There was no way that they could have Springfest on a different night. We already had that time frame uh on the gala. We will have some seniors uh in the parade. A handful uh that will uh participate in the parade. We will not be able

125to be there. However, we'll have some representatives there. And just for public record, unfortunately, and my um apologies to my opponent, I won't be at the candidates's forum because I my family priorities are taking um priority right now. And so I regret that. So is there any way have that I can do a recorded message that of the first of the two questions that are given to the pre um I I think we can ask Dan Dennis I don't think there would be a problem with the first two questions because we give the first two questions to the candidate yeah so I don't really think that'll be a problem we'll run it by yeah if you can let me know because we have it's the same questions and so I'll get with Angela so she

126can check or have that I can have something prepared a video or something whatever of the two questions that'd be great. Okay. And you still you'll be on stage correct? I don't think so. I don't I can be I don't I think Mr. Did Mr. Ferris agreed to be the moderator again this year. I think I think u some time ago he said he would be the moderator again. I just think that's something to consider since anyone running for office. Someone may have a question for for you whether you have an opponent or not. Something to consider to consider doing being on the I don't know if we haven't had one before. If no one's had an opponent, have we? I mean, like, if there if no one has an opponent, we haven't gone ahead

127and had a forum. Yeah. Correct. Yeah. Okay. And we did get clarification on that um too. And so we had to um offer it because it was on the calendar. If someone would have denied, if both candidates could not be there, it would be cancelled. Uh so it was up to um the candidate if they were going to come and participate or not. Okay. So that's how because I did reach out and say uh this is something we don't know and so how do we handle this? Okay. And then uh I gave the information to Dewey to Hannah to be able to had a conversation with Dennis. Okay. All right. So I just want to make sure you've had that opportunity if you wanted to. So you'll just get back with me on what I

128can do or need to do. Okay. Thank you. And again I see why there couldn't be but I'll check with this. I really don't see why there couldn't be. I mean yeah I'm pretty sure that we can give the first two questions because we have a certain date we are supposed to give them with the instructions. So, we can probably just deliver those. I guess the only question I would have then if you're going to afford me that opportunity, I think that you would have to afford my opponent the same opportunity to record the message. No. Um, they just everyone just needs to get the question at the same time and they can uh respond. You can respond that way uh because they can use paper to read from. So on to item 12 B.

129Big long thing. I have to read this whole thing, don't I, Angela? So it's it's it's this size. So this is the annual announce Casper Independent School District Board of Education. April 6th, 2026 annual announcement of continuing education of board members. Uh under state board of education rule completing required continuing education each year is a key responsibility of every board member. As board president, I'm required to announce this announce the name of each board member who has completed the required continuing education, has exceeded the required continuing education, and is deficient in meeting the required continuing education. The announcement must be made at the last regular meeting of the board before an election of trustees. There are eight training areas for board members continuing education. Um, one is local orientation, two is orientation of the Texas

130education code, three is post- legislative update to the Texas education code. Four is team building. Five is additional continuing education. Six is evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. Seven is identifying and reporting abuse, trafficking or and other malreatment of children. And eight is school safety. All B board members successfully completed the required courses except for the team building training. Therefore, all BU board members are considered deficient in their continued education hours for this year. Specifically, Dwey Toiver completed all courses except team building with 24 hours of additional continuing education. Marylu Martinez completed all courses except team building, 24 hours of additional continuing education. Kathy Gatika completed all courses except team building 12 hours of additional continuing education and will complete remaining hours at the annual conference April 10th through 12th. Uh Tracy Gman completed

131all courses except team building uh zero hours of additional continuing education will complete remaining hours at the annual conference. Uh, Linda Agulan, complete all courses except team building. 12 hours of additional continuing education, will complete remaining hours at the annual conference. Ariela Martinez, completed all courses except team building, 17 hours of additional continuing education. Janice Carol completed all courses except team building. 25 and a half hours of additional continuing education will complete remaining hours at the annual conference. The three hours of team building training were not credited this year because unfortunately one board member was unable to attend. As a result, the board did not receive credit hour credit for those hours. We will ensure the miss team building training is completed at the next opportunity so the board members remain fully compliant. Thank you

132to all board members for your dedication to professional development. That's item 10 B. 12B sorry Master B account board members report. Uh as a reminder 12D um board members will uh be asked to report on the national convention. Find a class you like uh present an item that strikes you and and hits your heart. whatever something something that you can bring to the board uh for our district. Is there anything else anybody's seeing on there after this? I have a question on 12c. Can we get the either attachment or link for the master meeting calendar included please? Not there. And then also on 8C, it leads to uh the presentation from the high school earlier and it's Canva access. How are we supposed to act? Like it says we need to request access but with

133what email cuz I mean we do we have a Cbury Canva account. Okay. 12C is actually under 12 A. 12 C is under 12 A and 8 C. So we want to link it on 12C also probably. Angela, do you have the 2627 master meeting calendar for 12C? Huh? You're linking it. Okay, thank you. This is a draft. So, um that is exactly right with Ariela wanting to look at that because we want to look at the dates to see if there's anything we need to change as we're putting together the whole uh district master meeting calendar. So when I try to go to Canva with my Castleberry email and I don't know if this is just a oneoff and Jacob help desk support maybe but it leads to a login with clever.com. Does that

134sound okay training? It just didn't look familiar so I didn't go further. That's good. very proud of you. Thank you. Yeah. What was it? I think Lauren Lauren or can you fix the permission? Okay. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to move on to item 13A. Establish next meeting Monday, May 4th for a regular board meeting. And on to item 14. I move we adjourn. Hearing no objection, we stand adjourned at 8:44 p.m. Thank you very much.