001We would like to welcome everyone to this April 21st meeting of course ISD board of trustees. This is a regularly scheduled meeting and all items that will be discussed have been duly posted. While this is a meeting in public, it is not a meeting of the public. If you wish to speak, please register in the lobby for audience for guests and follow the instructions on the speaker form. The board's role is to set goals, approve personnel and budget, make policy, and provide oversight. We are not here to manage or solve individual problems. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent. As a board, we believe we must educate every child, give every child the greatest opportunity to learn, and to provide a safe and secure environment mentally, physically, emotionally, and academically. And these are our core
002values. and we thank you for your interest in the students of CISD. The first item on our agenda is audience for guest. Do we have any audience for guests? No, ma'am. All right. Next item on our agenda is the pledge of allegiance. And today we are blessed by the elementary. We have Ashes right Joshua Martinez and Zamaya Sanders. They are going to lead us in the pledge of allegiance and the Texas flag to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God. indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I pledge algiance to the Texas one state one and indivisible. Thank you. Next item on our agenda is going to be the invocation and that is given by Steve Hun. Y'all join me in prayer.
003God, we thank you so much for uh your great love for us. We thank you for our opportunity to celebrate the resurrection yesterday and I thank you for this meeting and I pray that you would preside over it. I thank you for each person who's here. I thank you for the schools that are represented in this district and I pray your blessing upon them. I pray that u as we discuss these things tonight that you would be honored and that you would glorify not only yourself um but you would do this for the for the good of this community. God, thank you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Next item on our agenda is recognition. Good afternoon everyone. Today we are here to recognize an outstanding group of student athletes who showed incredible strength, discipline, and
004tiger pride. Our Corsa County High School powerlifters who qualified for the state powerlifting meet. Let's start with a name that's become legendary in Texas high school powerlifting. Latias Kelly. [Applause] Latias Lai made her third straight trip to state, meddling each time. And this year, she brought home her second state title. Her dedication, strength, and leadership continues to inspire her teammates and all of us. Let's give her a huge round of applause. [Applause] On the boy side, Tanner Crumpton delivered an outstanding performance, earning third place in state. He compete competed with heart and represented Porsche with pride. [Applause] But these two were not alone in making their mark at state. Let's meet our other qualifiers on the girls side. Shayla Flores, Roxanna Lopez, Sarah Lopez, Angelica Besserel. for the boys. Adri Durren, Emil Gonzalez, Eli Fitzu,
005Christian Martinez. Let us also recognize their coaches, Claire Johnson and Matthew Fonbell, and their assistants, Matt Graham and Robert Arrington. Thank you for all that you did. Each of these athletes put in countless hours in the weight room, pushed through the pain, and showed what it means to compete with heart. Their journey to state reflects not just personal physical strength, but the kind of character and work ethic that sets Corsa apart. Please join me in congratulating these incredible powerlters and stronger students at Corsa County High School. Next, we're going to move into the facilities committee meeting. So, we do have pizza and waters available. So, what we're going to do is it is 5:38. So, we'll start at 5:50 um with the facilities committee meeting. So, help yourself and then we'll get started. We actually
006met with Miss How and talked about some kind of possibilities of what that could look like. So, one thing I've noticed, the kitchen itself is very undersized for the size of school you are. So, I was thinking of expanding the kitchen and then we would be able to utilize the existing gym, this older gym here, um, to expand the cafeteria and use some of that existing square footage, but fully renovate. So, it would be I mean, it would be a brand new build, brand new space when you're done with it. Um, Lots and lots of talk about bathrooms. So, there's various bathrooms on here. Uh, this is a new ACT facility. Um, I actually just bid a project that's very similar in size and scope and so I got these numbers like hot off the
007press. Um, and including an indoor arena would be that so you could have actual a shows. Um, another possibility for expanding the high school would be a ninth grade wing. Um, so looking at 20 classrooms, uh, science labs, again, another remote admin, and that can help alleviate the congestion of the main circulation, the spine in the building that gets so packed. So, we could add on possibly over by the stairwells as an idea. I don't know. I haven't drawn anything yet, but um, just brainstorming at this stage. a multi-purpose facility that's a full 120 yard indoor field. And then we talked about having some sort of flex space. It could be for banquetss, it could be PD, it could be lots of options. Um and then down towards the bottom is um some of the
008elementary discussions that were had. So you'll see those um playgrounds. I was giving a pretty rough budget of 600,000 which again I bid a playground just the other day. So that's um and that would be accounting for again November plus design and inflation and everything. Um and then at the bottom we did talk about the district does have a need for additional buses. So if we are doing about 40 new buses that's around $9 million. What what was the breakdown? Two and a quarter, I think. Yeah. Okay. So, I'm going to give you till about 6:20, 6:25 to go through this list yourself. Um, again, circle check it however you'd like and then we'll break up into groups. I'm here if anyone has questions. Yes, ma'am. Well, not [Music] necessarily building some of But also
009kindergarten they just like picking your I've showed you something. [Music] Hey, we got Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a mayor. know there are fantastic And we are not. [Music] came in. It's [Music] birthday. Amazing. How Mommy tomorrow. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. right now because I think the buses are really cheap. I guess I feel like I think it conversation that you know more. [Music] Um, okay. I think a lot of people are wrapping up their individual reading. Um, so if you wouldn't mind, yes, please break out into groups of Yes, sir. These numbers that you're showing us here, do they include the 20% soft? They do. Yes. And how much inflation is in these numbers? So inflation I am basing some of these pro most of these projects to bid around September of 26. So if
010the we'll go out for a November election hypothetically and then it does take us a you know say we're building a big new high school wing that's a long process to go through design and engineering and everything and then so maybe around the September time frameish. Um but that's what I'm projecting. So that okay 1.0058 that does add up. And I do have a chart if you need to look at it. Um, okay. And just to reiterate as you talked about this, this is one the first pass at programming. This is not set in stone by any means. So if this we need six shop spaces or extra classrooms or whatever it may be, that's all can be flushed out. But I'm just trying to get an idea of where everyone in this room stands
011today based on just the first go at it. So just want to say that. Okay. We're going to pass out larger 11 by7 printouts of the same document. And that's just so I can keep track of what's individual versus group. Um, and then I would like everyone to break out in groups four or fiveish and talk about it at amongst yourselves and even maybe spread out because I know a lot of tables have already been kind of chatting. So if you want to mix it up, that could be helpful. Okay, I'm holding another 15 minutes, please. So I'll try [Music] future volume I told you already. That's what the first one. What about had a [Music] girl. I didn't know what I said. Yes. Okay. [Music] from what they don't want. [Music] deposit million wedding.
012Well, I didn't turn it all the way down because I might do that. I don't know. [Music] We are left. [Music] I don't know. right now. But otherwise, [Music] have really scared. It is all excitement. actually nice to meet you. away. We are [Music] Okay. Oh my god. Thank [Music] you. I don't know. [Music] I love [Music] Oh my god. [Music] You got a lot of minutes and you just [Music] Okay, we'll give you about five more minutes. So, jot down your notes and We're saying Did you [Music] have the Yeah. I don't know. [Applause] [Music] I put water. [Music] Carolina. I was not The child [Music] How many three teachers? That's okay. [Music] This one basketball Oh yeah. Hallelujah. Happy birthday. White. [Music] They were part of the last teachers do need a big
013space for a All right, we are wrapping up our groups now. So, what we're going to do so, similar to how we've done in the other meetings, is have a spokesperson for your group. And I would like to hear from everybody um of the high level what you've talked about and I will be collecting all of your forms so I can I'm going to actually tally it up for the next meeting and show you how you actually voted and put a point system to it. Um so we have data but um we do want to go around and just hear the reasons like what you talked about and why. So which Okay. Um, okay. So, our group, um, we had a lot of really good discussions for the early childhood centers. We put the 800
014student as a future bond and the 400 student as a want. Um, CTE edition, high school cafeteria expansion, high school bathroom, ad facility, and new transportation buildings are an absolute need. Um, the new high school would be a want. Obviously, the ninth grade wing at the high school, I promise I will not get off on a tangent. Um, we put it want. Um, personally, I don't think that that I'm just going to say it really quick. I think it'd be better utilized towards CTE. A lot of your kids are going to be in higher level classes, not in that area. Anyway, um, uh, multi-purpose facility, a need, and one of the things we talked about as a group is that expanding the cafeteria and taking over the old gym, uh, ROC loses that space to
015practice in, banned on rainy days. Calico's practice in there some morning. There's a lot of different groups that practice in there. So, while we absolutely 100% need it for the cafeteria expansion, if you take something away, you got to give something back. And we all kind of felt if it was proposed as that fashion instead of more of a sports facility, it would have a better chance of being understood by the public. Um, Collins outdoor rec space we put as a want. Um, definitely up there with it. Collins improvements, future bond, uh Sam Houston Elementary expansion and Carol Elementary improvements were both need. Um Sam Houston is at double capacity right now, so they definitely need some help over there. Um for all of the playground upgrades, um we actually put those at once. Um
016we kind of did use Sam Houston as the standard for that. Bay PTO, not PTOAR, they fundraised their entire playground upgrade. And so looking at the playground facilities and upgrades with everything else, we feel that maybe they could help out with some other schools and show them how it's done. Um, buoy restroom upgrades, any restroom, all restrooms upgrade yesterday. And then, um, buses. Absolutely. 40 new buses. I know a lot of our kids complain about not having air on some of them. You know, it gets hot um or they're not working. So, we definitely felt that that was a need. [Music] So our total bond we did $120 million as a total amount on our we started with the early college center the other student one it kind of alleviated a couple of the other
017needs. It eliminated the need for to have a playground. It eliminated Sam Houston elementary expansion. It kind of eliminated the Carol elementary improvements. So our first one's the 800 kid ECC. We went and did the high school cafeteria expansion for 26 million. The high school bathroom renovation, the M great wing high school improvement. We eliminated science labs and courtyard and just at the restrooms for 2 million. And then we made our own number there. Uh we did do incurable playground. Uh we did a buoy restrooms upgrades and we did five new buses at 1.1 million instead of 40 buses. So yeah, the rest was once [Applause] Okay, just keep in mind that we have two parents and three board members. So, um we went with the early childhood 800 student as an E. We went
018with uh the CT edition and the A facility kind of as as a bond by itself. Um the uh high school cafeteria expansion and bathroom renovations as a deed. The new the new transportation building as a need. the new high school as a future bond, the 9inth grade wing um as a need, the multi-purpose facility on a bond by itself and sell it as the other group said that it's just not a an athletic facility. It's if you take this, we got to give this um the Collins outdoor rec space. We did that as um a need, but only 3 million instead of six. I mean 300,000, excuse me, 300 300,000 instead of 600,000. We cut money, too. Uh all the playground equipment, we cut it to three instead of 600 600,000. um St. Houston
019expansion need Carol uh improvement need uh buoy restroom upgrade a need and then buses just um we did that as a smaller bonds and faster payoff and so and not do 40 buses at a time maybe 10 at a time and then just rotate that that's our on the facility. What we said is it needs to be we know it has to be separate because it would have to be considered athletics but do it at a completely different time from anything else. That would be the only item on the ballot for for that bond. Good job. [Music] So we had a a clear division of frugal people and let's spend all the money people. But okay. So but what we kind of settled on was very similar to this group over here. So, we just
020kind of talked about what would get kind of like biggest bang for our buck, what kind of alleviates other problems if we if we fix one thing. So, the first thing we said was the ECC for 800 students. We actually said it was it's really kind of fiscally irresponsible if we can double the size for 15 million. It's kind of crazy. And then so we kind of talked about, well, if we're alleviating that stress those stressors off of the elementaryaries because we're taking kinder, then you've got more space, you got more storage kind of we talked about last week. Um, it also waited some numbers. It's handy when Sean's in your group and you can pull all the things. So, um, so it actually would free up classrooms for 34 teachers. It's 630 kids right
021now is what would move over for for our little bitties all the way to kinder. Um, it obviously would open up again for us to kind of open up transfers again. So, that's some more revenue coming in for our district and things like that. Um, and more programs that we can do. So really had the heavy need there, but it also like I said alleviates and then creates some good situations. So then it went to okay, what's next though? Um obviously the high school is high point of need which it struggles. So um we kind of started working down from either so is it ninth grade wing or is it CTE but either way you're creating a a release of pressure. Um, if CTE, one thing we did say kind of contingent would be if
022we do create new CTE, then what CTE is now has to become classrooms. Uh, because we've got to be able to get back some instruction space, instructional spaces. Uh, but either way, it it again releases kind of pressure off. So, um, and then that's funny because bathrooms is the next one. So, um, so of course we need to update these high school bathrooms, but if you had nth grade wing, you would have additional new bathrooms or if you did CT, you would have additional new bathrooms. If you just are able to spend all the money, then we do both. Of course, but always man it out of the park as max out as we as high as we can go. But we felt like that was kind of a a good start. Um if you
023did high school bathroom, if you did nth grade wing, you could do high school bathrooms and you could do a or half the buses. We said if we did a then it would be a good thing that if we if we moved a or created new for a we would move transport into old A. And so now Now you don't need the transport building either. You know you just if we can create if we can reduce pressure then we can create some big moves. So that was our group. We're trying to keep it right there. I didn't know Jerry smoke that we can alter prices. What would be ideal is if you could do the $55 million early childhood center for about 25 million maybe back in 2009. Okay. Hello. We are all high school
024seniors. [Applause] Um, so for ours, we learned a lot, but from what we initially wrote, we said it was a need to have the early childhood center for 800 students. And we think it's really important to have that opportunity, especially for low-inccome families that don't have the opportunity for child care and just making sure that they're all have that stronger foundation understanding for school. Um, for the CTE edition, we do like our CTE than we currently have. I think it could use some improvement, but we think it's more of a want just because we're working what we have right now, what we have right now. And it it's kind of something that like we can utilize what we have and like build upon that rather than adding a whole new addition to it. Um, with
025the cafeteria, we put future bond just because the cafeteria we think that we fit right now. Um, and future bonds because like there's going to be a growth in students, but right now we think that if it's a fine. Um, but the bathroom's going to need bathrooms are they're rough. And then the agriculture facility, we put a need. Um, we just think it'd be a lot more opportunities for students. Um, the high school, the new high school future bond. We didn't really think we knew that. Um, and then a multi-purpose facility. Okay. I'm a band. And sometimes it's really hard just like finding that space and color and everything. So, we think that it could be future bond, but also it's kind of more of a need. Um, but we can just renovate what we
026have. Like the dome is like it's not a lot to be big enough like for us to do our show in it, but we think that like if we renovated what we had now, then we could put the new facility for the future in the future bond. Um the Collins Auto Workspace, we did future bond. Um okay, we didn't put improvements. Okay. Um the San Elementary expansion, we think it's a need. The Carol Elementary improvements we think is a need. We put all the playgrounds as a need. Uh we just think it's really important for students to have that area to like just like the brain break and like adjusting to school especially in those elementary and having that um and then a need for the restrooms. You want to talk about buses? And then
027as for buses, we chose as a need because um I used to ride the bus and sometimes it was really hard for us high school students to go home on time if we need to study or anything because the buses have to pick up the elementary students and the um other kids in the middle school. So, it just took a while for us to be picked up and we were also like really crowded on the bus and it wasn't safe for us all to be three in a seat. So, we just felt that um the buses wasn't needed. And same thing for like I just want to go back on the bathrooms. I just think that like the difference between the middle school and the high school that there's more more like people um like
028this I guess the admin is more like strict on bathrooms at the middle school which is why the bathrooms of the middle school look the way they look. It's just because they have more structure and like you're like rarely you see any students in the bathroom at the middle schools just because they're being watched. They're being made sure that nothing's going on in those bathrooms. Whereas at the high school, we just have a little bit too much freedom when it comes to the bathrooms, which is why they look the way they look. It's just because we're not making sure that these students are doing what they need and getting like right out like make [Applause] me Amazing. Okay, we got a couple more. Andy Williams voted I felt very strongly um about the 800 student
029early childhood center. We felt very strong about the CTE edition. We also felt that if the CTE edition was done right with maybe more classrooms that um the ninth grade wing would not be necessary because I don't know the exact number but I'm pretty sure that over 20 something classrooms inside this main building are being used for CTE purposes. So if those could be moved out to the CTE facility, you're going to free up a lot of classrooms inside this building and then you wouldn't need the nth grade expansion as much. So, um, that was our trade-off with that would be to put the nth grade expansion as a future and the CTE as a need. Um, bathroom renovations across the board, absolutely. A facility, yes. Um, transportation building, yes. Um, new high school, as
030much as we would love it, um, a future bond. Um, we already discussed a ninth grade wing. Um, multi-purpose facility. We have absolutely no problem with that. We obviously know they would have to go on a separate bond and I like their idea of putting it at a different time. Um, we didn't really discuss uh the out the Collins improvements very much. The outdoor rec spaces um we think S did a great job of raising money and um and as my kids came through San Houston, we know um what um a good parent organization can do and so um we did not put those at high need. Um the elementary expansion because my kids went through St. Pet. I did have some questions that weren't necessarily able to be answered. And here out to the
031side, it says six new classrooms and restrooms. And as much as I know those are needed, um you're taking away that seven or eight classrooms that are portables and adding six classrooms, you're really going backwards instead of forwards. So that might need to be looked at a little bit different. Um also, if you are adding an early childhood center, um is that as necessary? Are you still going to have the busing at the scenes at San Houston if you're having an early shopping center? So, that was a thought that we had. Um, restaurants. Yes. Uh, do we buses? Yes. Do we need 40? I don't know. We don't know. We need uh we do know that if we did have some good new quality buses that were dependable and um had all the features that
032um we need that maybe we wouldn't have to spend so much money renting charter buses. Yeah. Um and hopefully in that bus budget there could be um some large or one or two or however many you need box trucks um for transporting equipment. So um that is what we discussed on that. We don't know how many buses you need but we think you could save some money. One more thing we don't have [Music] 100 million Hello. Um, okay. Well, I I started my analysis, if you will, by trying to look at what was the absolute minimum, and I and I came up with the high school cafeteria, uh, high school renovations, buoy, restroom, and half the buses. And just those few things, uh, that total came up $35 million. And these ladies that I'm here
033with are they they do work for the district. So they have they have some other things that they think are just as important which would include the CTE addition at the high school. That's another 33 million. And they added the Carol elementary improvements. That's another 12 million. And the other half of the buses it looks like. up. So that comes up to about 80 something million dollars right there. And then in the want column, they got the A facility, uh, transportation building, 9th grade wing, multi-purpose facility, Collins improvements, Sam Houston. I think that totals up to about another 80 million. So that's about 160 million. And then the other items ended up over in the future bond program. Um, there's something else I'd like to say just because not correct for this, but um I
034don't own a big fancy house. I'm you know, but my homeowners insurance went up about 30% this year. I don't know about any about y'all. my automobile insurance went up another 20% and I don't have any tickets and no claims, no accidents or anything else. Uh the thing is that it those costs are going to go up again this year for everybody and $200 in taxes is going to be real for a lot of people. Now, I'm over 65, so I dodge a bullet. But homeowners don't. And the other thing that I think everybody needs to be cognizant of is that if if you rent a property, that tax is going to go on the property. And that tax is going to get pushed on to the rent. And the people in this community that
035are renters, they're renting houses and they're renting apartments. Those are the people that are going to pay this bill and those are the people are going to get hit the hardest and hurt the most. So, you need to be sober in thinking about just raising taxes and spending money. Anyway, I'm done preaching here. Thank you. [Applause] I'll go. Okay. All right. Let me go where I can spread out. So, I tried to do this with calculator on my phone, but the numbers got big and it was just too much. So, admin and did it wonderful to I don't have calculator so it didn't happen. So, we met and early childhood 800 we said is a future bond. We want to go with the 400 CTE. We had Mr. uh beers at our table and JP
036was close to us. I just couldn't say no. I just couldn't. And and we need it. We really do need it. I walk out, it's it's crowded. We have to expand the cafeteria. The bathrooms, you've seen them. They are yucky. Just bomb them. They're gone. Uh we need a egg building. We have to have a egg building. That's a yes. New transportation building. As bad as we want to say yes. They really work on driving the bus, but really not in a building a long time. Run in, get your keys, get out. So, new transportation building, new high school is a no. Ninth grade wing is a no. The multi-purpose building is a no. Collins outdoor rec space is a no. Uh Collins improvement, um science labs, restrooms, courtyard is a yes. Sam Houston expansion,
037we squeezed it in. We said yes. Carol improvement, Mr. Best, we said yes. Just want to let you know yes. Um the playgrounds, we thought about Sam Houston. If they could do it with 75,000 clap again. Yes, we're figuring we can do it at the other campuses. I don't know how. Sell some things. I don't know. But the playgrounds, we had to let those go. The booty restrooms. I haven't been in there. Miss F, is she in here or no? Miss. Okay. So, I don't know what they look like, but if they look like our restrooms, it's a yes. Uh, and the bus we said no. It's working now. We're just going to stay with the buses that we have and we'll deal with that later. So, but again, I don't have the numbers on
038it. Nobody they didn't send a person through the calculator. [Applause] We have you. Okay. Our needs are early childhood center. We went with the 400 student because of the price. Uh CTE edition. Um, we talked about the only one thing about the CT edition that and I'll Mr. Johnson said is we have 11 CT teachers already out of the building. We have 17 in the building. So the CT edition wasn't as big as we thought it may be to be. So we think it needs to be a little bigger. Um, high school currently have five shops right now, too. So we have five shops and there's only four on the CT edition. Um, high school cafeteria expansion is a need for us. High school bathroom renovations are a definite need for us. The student will
039tell you and they did. Uh, 9th grade wing at the high school. We saw that as a way to uh just improve the high school and make it newer. And the reason why we did that is uh it's a hard sale. And I'll just tell you going from the middle school to the high school here for students. Uh and and one of the things that she said and she's so right is, you know, the restrooms are different and they're a little more organized and that's because they're bigger, they're easier to access, they're newer, they're more modern. They weren't built in 1970 like the ones over here. So, uh that matters and so um that's a big deal to us. Everything else we had two wants, early childhood center, the the bigger one, and the Sam
040Houston expansion, we wanted that. Everything else we put on future bond. All right, last but not least, they're hiding. All right, we're we're high school, so we're going to be biased. Um, well, we uh we put as a need that we wanted the CT edition. Um, the high school cafeteria exp expansion again. Uh yeah, the cafeteria renovation would go into the old gym, but it would not take up the old gym. Uh that would still be used for PE um and other other events. Uh drill team uh uses it sometimes. Uh but we would we would use that, but just knocking out that wall and pushing it back 20 or 30 feet would grant us probably three 3,000 square feet in the cafeteria, which is big time. Um of course, high school bathroom renovations. Um
041And then we said all the all the elementary improvements, the Collins improvements, the Sam Houston Elementary expansion, the Carol elementary improvements, and then the Buoie restroom upgrades. And then we talked about uh the the a facility and the transportation building just renovating that or expanding that and spending 10 million on on those two buildings instead of instead of putting new new uh structures in place for those. So we try to keep it under 100 million. So that's where we we were. So okay. [Applause] I only move so fast. Okay, so thank you everybody. Um so next steps what you can expect. So we do have one more meeting four and that meeting um we are going to come up with some different bond scenarios and based on the district's bonding capacity. So this how did
042get some preliminary numbers. So we're starting uh from the financial advisor. So we are starting to look at that and then we can start putting kind of the different items in different buckets and then that's going to be the discussion for next time. Um so the next meeting is Monday May is that 19 okay at 5:30. Um same place same time. Um, and then if we need a fifth meeting, so if next meeting not everybody can come to an agreement, there might be a fifth meeting, but we'll kind of see how next one goes and then may or may not have a fifth meeting. Um, anything else? Do you have anything else? I was going to thank you guys for coming. I hope to see you at the next meeting. I need you at the
043next meeting. Um, why did you schedule it for senior sunset? I just said that. Oh, it wasn't on my calendar. I'm gonna ask them to move it. Uh, we'll work around it. There's too many senior things going on that last week of school. But thank you guys for coming. Uh, I really appreciate it. If you have any questions, most people in this room have my phone number, my cell phone number. You can share it. It's fine. Or email me, call me, call the office. Any questions, anytime you want to meet, you want to have a tour, you want to go to the A facilities and see why there were so many on a or CT, call me. We'll do a tour. Um, if I can't do it, then I'll see somebody on my team. But
044thank you again for coming. I really appreciate it. You can go. Thank you for coming. We are now going to go into close session as permitted by Texas Governance Code section 55.01.