001e we're going to call this meeting to order we would like to welcome everyone to this March 17th meeting of the cors 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 guest and follow the information on the speaker form the board's role is to set goals approve personal 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
002physically emotionally and academically and these are our core values we appreciate your interest in the students of CISD so first on our agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance and we are honored today to have our students from Carol Elementary we have the girls with pearls and our guys with ties so we have uh zani means Ariana Ortega AR uh I'm sorry arah Ortega Gloria Soo naria means and then for our gentlemen we have Carlos Vega Adam Garcia uh Zen Collins Parker Davis Noah Frasier Alex Garcia and Orlando Thompson thank you all for being here I got to meet these students back in January when I visited their campus and so I'm glad that y'all got to come today and join one of our meetings stand thank you next we have our invitation that's is going
003to be led by coach Alan Walker from the Tigers boys basketball team thank you Mr Walker for being here yes ma'am amen greetings to everyone amen let's bow in prayer dear heavenly father we just thank you we praise you we thank you for today's grace and mercy we thank you for this beautiful Board of counselors Lord God we thank you U for everyone that makes up this District we pray even now Lord God that you send Divine wisdom Lord God and good understanding concerning Lord God your will to prosper this district and everybody that works here and everyone that participates in the activities that go on in this district and Community Lord God and we thank you Lord God for the unity that you bring through your Holy Spirit and it's in Jesus name we
004pray amen amen thank you coach next is audience for guest we do not have any audience for guest all right next we're moving to recognitions today we want to take a moment to recognize an incredible Act of Bravery that took place at noo Elementary School on February the 12th 2025 during lunch in the cafeteria a young student began choking thanks to the quick thinking and the Swift actions of Mr Deon Grayson our Lee custodian the student life was saved Mr Grayson immediately recognized the emergency in rush to the students Aid performing the necessary steps to clear the airway and ensure their safety Mr Grayson your selflessness and quick response reflect the true Spirit of caring and responsibility we are deeply grateful for your bravery and for being a vital part of the noo family thank
005you for making a difference and always being there when we need you the most Mr grayon we do love Mr Grayson if you did not know that uh ladies and Gentlemen please help me welcoming the student Mr Dion sa Savannah Miller along with her family and her principal Miss Lauren Weaver Savannah is a first grader at Nao and we are so thankful that we get to continue to see her bright smile every day on campus Savannah we have a present for you here [Applause] thank you Mr Grayson we really appreciate you and everything you do at noo so thank you all right next we're going to move into our facilities committee meeting so we're going to take a short break um we have pizza and drinks for everyone is that a okay um so please
006be sure get some refreshments and some pizza and then we're going to start back at uh 5:45 uh Corsicana ISD is 226 square miles which is a lot for a school district the median age of the community is $5.8 the median household income is $55,200 median home value which we're going to talk about homes and subdivisions pretty extensively here is 160 the mean uh is 169,000 and then I don't have a clicker but something that's funny to look at these Graphics are kind of funny but um where that minus B is in the middle that's supposed to be baby Boomers uh your population is almost 18% Baby Boomers to the right of that those are the Gen xers 18% gen xers where it says- m that's your Millennials you know they get roughed up pretty
007good but 21.6% of your community are the Millennials uh which is ages 27 to 44 and then the Gen zers where it says R RZ uh is the largest group with 27% and those are you know our students ages 9 to 26 and so that's just kind of the breakdown um just some some you know fun facts or little known facts if you know Cliff claven so um one of the one of the um measures that we look at in regard to the the the strength of the economy is unemployment rate and over on the right you can see that Neo County in the last year has gone up from 3.4% to 3.8 on un employment however anything that's 4% or below really is still considered to be fully employed so the the uh economy
008is strong in the state of Texas and and in DFW and in Naro County some Trends um this is the growth over over the state of Texas um it's funny to look at if you can see the bar going down uh that is covid and then the years after that um I might have to put some glass is on to read this the the point that are the interesting fact about this is after co uh the enrollment in public schools started going back up but on the far right hand the bar graph uh that is supposed to say 12736 increase and so the increase last year being 90,000 and two years ago I mean sorry 2223 being almost 990,000 and 2324 just being 12,00 ,000 so uh the the Ed public education is changing across
009the whole state now here at course of ISD uh you guys you see yourself uh region 12 you're in region 12 you see yourself highlighted you guys are in the slot growth category the districts around you have slight growth uh rice and Mild ISD have a little bit slightly more growth than you guys do uh when we talk about you know things in the community I'm sure you guys hear about this in the area local area where business is coming in and where jobs are supposed to be you know coming this way you know the um the Bitcoin mining facility you know that's a pretty big deal you know those don't happen I have to tell you this is the only District that I have that has a Bitcoin mining facility going in so that's
010something that's pretty cool so let's talk about housing for a second you can see over the last three years uh housing and Corsa count ISD has gone down in 22 it went down 11% you see the bar uh the 23 it went down 24% and then even in 24 it decreased to another 19% and so part of that is uh interest rates have been high and when interest rates are high people can't necessarily afford housing but let's look at the average price average uh home uh you can see in this graph uh where the two straight lines are uh the existing home prices and new home prices used to stay pretty parallel uh in 21 new home prices took a big jump then and then then they continued to go up last year right now
011the average new home price in coracana ISD is just over $300,000 existing home price is just under $187,000 so there's a huge discrepancy right now with new home prices and existing home prices so let's look at what we found out in the district in regard to U uh subdivisions that are existing and ones that are in the future so right now there's four existing subdivisions and three future subdivisions the four U active subdivisions are corsan commons it's down here in we're going to talk about them more in depthly but right now uh it's the one the green one down here on the left the one on the far right is Barefoot Bay the little square next to the rectangle next to the yellow one next to the blue star is West over Hills and then
012dobbin's Crossing is the other green uh polygon that's there and then there's three yellow ones those are hard to see so I want to talk about each of those individually for you real quick so when we look at corsac Commons it's in the Navaro Elementary attendance Zone on State Highway 31 near noo College it's an active subdivision of 166 total Lots right now 72 of those are occupied so just about just under half of those houses are built and people are living in them 16 are under construction and then 28 um lots are ready to be built on and it still has 50 50 Futures uh this is a DR Horton development and they're really closing between 40 to 50 homes a year so this development probably has two uh to three years left until
013it's finished right now the student yield in that is 264 and so here's what that means for every 10 homes that are occupied in that subdivision uh there's 2.6 students in the school district and that's really pretty low you might say okay Paul that that number doesn't mean anything compared to what average is really between 04 and6 uh is what you'll find so this is 2.6 for every 10 occupied homes and then right next to that corsac Trails you can see there it's 741 future Lots it's also a DR Horton uh subdivision uh it was just rezoned uh in February and so U they're they're in the process of of getting that one going so then we go to uh there's two more uh these are both in the buoy Elementary attendance zone out off
014of Dobbins Road and uh next to to the high school and the Middle School uh West over Hills is active uh 30 it only has 32 uh total lots and 30 of those are occupied so really it's pretty much done uh in that home in that subdivision homes um average around $250,000 which is under the average and the student yield there is is also low at. 233 or two students for every 10 occupied homes now right across the street at Brookstone uh there's supposed to put 32 homes in there um but that plot was approved in 2021 and there's been no activity there yet no streets no roads uh no activity so that mean so the way we look at those is until roads start going in we really can't tell you when future houses
015are going to be coming on board to produce students and so we we let you know about them but we really don't calculate much with those all right another one is doin cross Dobbins Crossing 18 total Lots 16 of those are occupied so that L that subdivision is pretty much finished and it has a yield of three students for every 10 occupied homes and then the last one I want to talk about is North View I'd Li to the next to last one I want to talk to you about is North View uh North View's been sitting there for a while uh when we did a when we did a study for you guys in uh 22 to this one was there and there's no work that's been done on it since and so that
016one's up there in the buoy Elementary School dist uh Zone and then the last one is out by the lake um and it's Barefoot Bay it's shared between three three school districts and it has 26 of those or corsak ISD and uh the lots are ready to go but they're currently not building there and the average the home prices there start at 300 91,000 all right so that's what's going on with the homes multif family um this map shows all of it it's hard for you to see but you guys have 730 students that reside in over 2,000 multif family units the yield for that is higher at 3.5 students for every uh 10 units occupied and so those you have quite a bit across the district there from each of those color polygons and
017then we talk about manufactured homes not a lot of information here uh in 2023 you guys had 26 manufactured homes that moved into the district I mean I guess the homes didn't really move into the district but the the homes well they might have and so uh and then 44 this last year so that just kind of shows you what's going on multif family so what where are the students back so where are the students coming from U 253 students reside outside of corana ISD and then 80% or 79% of all your students reside within the city of coracana and so there's just very few that actually reside um in the school district outside of the city limits so when we talk about this this screen here uh is a report that comes from tea
018and it comes out each year and what's important to see here this is students that live in coracana ISD but go to school outside of corana ISD is the first um the first one is students that live outside of corana and then come to school inside corana and you had about 162 of those in 2223 and then the bottom one you've really uh this is what's important here you guys have gone from 452 to 475 to 425 to 442 all the way down to 405 fewer students are electing to leave course ISD to go to other districts and so that's the trend that you guys have going for you there this slide talks about um birth rate it's really hard to see but basically uh one of the one of the measures that we use
019is the number of births in a county you know we we five years ago how many kids were born how many of those are going to percentage of those are going to be kindergarteners and you guys stay a little around 85 around 85 % on that scale so let's talk about some numbers um this year you guys right now have just over 6,000 students which is down 60 students from last year and you can see here the two largest groups are 10th grade that has 479 students that's your largest and so what I want to show you and I can't really get to it I can get to it over here and it's not in color but what I want you to look at when you look at this chart is right now there's 453
020seniors they have been the largest class ever since they were I'm sorry the 10th grade class has been the largest class ever since they were sixth graders that's what's important when you start talking about a school district when you get a big group they stay large they lose a little bit the other important factor here is you guys have a 453 seniors all right or I'll talk about this next slide so right now you have 453 seniors we're projecting that you're going to come in with 413 kindergarteners so what does that mean that means you lost 40 students and nobody moved nobody did anything just because you graduated more than that are coming in so that's why in my projections here I have you actually going down a little bit for the next two years
021then getting back up to about 6100 uh uh in about 5 years and then really uh in 10 years being just over 6,300 students and so I'll just stay right here and so uh this is hard to read without the colors on it uh but this what this shows you is what how each campus is impacted um in regard to the projections uh you can see Carol uh has a capacity of 500 64 and it is over capacity now and it's going to stay overc capacity for the next next um 10 years Sam Houston has a has a uh building capacity of 278 and it's over 400 for the life it's always been over 400 and so um I even had to ask Miss how I go I think this is a topo uh because
022it's over 400 and she said no 278 is is what she found and so um again if they hand this out to you guys you you can also see further down uh the Intermediate School is right around 900 and it stays around 900 uh until you get about seven years out and then it starts increasing Middle School is in great shape because it's you guys have a big Middle School 1100 capacity uh you're in great shape there and then with the high school of 163 31 is the building capacity and you guys are at 18,800 now even with graduating a big big class in the ninth grade class not being that large you still uh stay over capacity uh for for the near future and so really just as a summary uh my projections are
023in five years uh enrollment is going to be it's going to dip for the next couple of years and then start on a more of a linear increase 6,67 students in 5 years uh 6,318 in 10 years so questions yes sir when you said all righty that was the me median salary uh from from the Census dat it was 55 I've got all my stuff that was the median yes median and on the Full Employment 3.8% is that a number you got from like the federal government from so so oh the 4% is being uh considered fully employed you got 3.8% unemployment we get that from the county records uh let me see I can go back the slide that you're talking about uh that says that the unemployment rate in Naro county has gone
024from 3.4% to 3.8% over the last year yes we get that from the from the county other questions all [Applause] right now we're going to ask Mr K the Director of Finance to come discuss school Finance 101 you guys are going to love this green button makes a go right awesome all right like I said um Miss house said I'm Sean K Director of Finance with the school district um we are uh up on on the slide you have our M and ins uh that's maintenance and operation tax rate and then you have ins which is interest and syncing you can see our current tax rates maintenance and operations is uh what it takes to run the school salaries fixing things instructional supplies curriculum uh materials ins that uh money goes directly to bond payments
025so it goes to debt okay uh this year's total tax rate 8620 so what does our maintenance and operation budget look like um so this this is the bulk like I said this just supplies everything uh that goes into running this District every day our total budget you can see at the bottom over $65 million um most of our cost like most businesses goes to payroll okay we were we are anywhere between 83 84% of our budget is payroll um of this $65 million right this pie chart it includes everything payroll curriculum supplies all that stuff uh instruction so anything that happens in the classroom including paying teachers including uh paying for supplies for the students curriculum all of that technology uh or instructional technology 58% of your dollar a dollar goes uh to the
026classroom okay and you can kind of see the breakdown uh next after that uh facilities security uh data that's our next biggest and then I see instruction leader instruction Cal leadership after that so where do we get what what what how does how does school Finance kind of affect every every day the day-to-day stuff uh you see the first thing student enrollment and attendance okay so we're going to use a roundabout number we saw a little bit over 6,000 kids that we have we'll use the number 6,000 um so we are not paid for those 6,000 kids we are paid on attendance we are paid by how many kids on average come every day so when our teachers are preparing for 22 kids to show up they we're not actually getting paid to uh for
027those 22 kids necessarily to show up we're getting paid maybe more like 95% of our kids to show up okay um so it it's it's not unusual but it is not the norm around the country to be paid like that as a school district many states are paid on how many kids are on the books for a school district okay um you know big big conversations right now about property values and um how much they've gone up and how they affect our tax rates uh right now our legislators are debating that and redoing formulas uh which dict our tax rates and then we also see you're going to see some charts here on how the state funding and our local funding how your M taxes uh and our ins taxes locally kind of go hand
028inand with what the state gives us uh big obviously you know it's in the news it's a big it's a big spring and summer uh for the state with with the sessions going on in Austin and so you know uh funding the formula for for school districts and Texas has not changed since 2019 so we are operating with a dollar that is as good as it was in 2019 the formulas have not changed they have stayed the same in 202 uh3 they did not change it uh they are looking at changing that right now uh hopefully we will find out soon what that looks like what we will get per child here's a history of our tax rate in coracana so this goes back to 2019 with a total tax rate of 1. 12831 we
029are down to 862 at the very bottom you can see the big change in 2223 there was a legislative session they compressed some rates and so our local taxes did shrink um but what happens as you'll see is as kind of our local contribution uh goes down the state contribution kind of goes up to kind of meet us in the middle there Sean can yes dictate our tax rate that we can yeah we we don't the m is not dictated by us we don't we don't change that we don't we don't it's based on our property values it's based on the state uh formulas so that is not something we we get that we put it in on our books and that's it um through the tea that's through tea yes they dict yes it
030is not done on my computer it's not done in the my office and this department and this school district uh that is something that comes from the state so thank you good good clarifying so up here you have kind of comparison of other cities uh near us and in our County so you can kind of see where we stand compared to others I'll let I'll let give you a second to kind of take a look I believe very nice they are ordered uh least to greatest I I did not uh yeah did not realize that at first but thank you whoever did that all right so uh this was kind of eye opening this first time I saw this was a couple months ago when when I came across this just uh you don't get
031to see this chart uh all the time but uh we do pretty good so here we come back to basically how you know the the heart of funding um it is based on attendance and and we are serious about attendance here uh we have programs we have people whose UH responsibilities are to uh get with parents get with kids to make sure our attendance and these kids are learning they're in the classroom uh but it directly affects our funding um and so uh as you can see there's three circles in the middle the first one attendance Ada Ada stands for average daily attendance and that is watched throughout the year we watch it and we are basically it's going to be a number like 5,700 what does that mean it means 5,700 kids on average
032come to school every day out of the 6,000 enrolled the 5,7 100 number is what we get paid on not 6,000 the second Circle talks about weighted average daily attendance we we we say w w is is a positive thing it's great because certain programs and certain students uh take more money to service um if you think if you took a tour of this uh high school and went to the CTE programs when a student in a CTE class sits in a CTE seat they generate a little bit more money uh than a student that might be sitting in a in a general math class because we need that we need to pay for the huge you know welding machines all the materials think of special programs in our special education department same thing some
033of those students require uh more services which is more money um and so the state gives us that funding for those with a formula okay we see uh in the bar graph uh the blue is our local taxes uh the funding that we provide here uh in the city and then the yellow is the state funding and you can kind of see the history of it as the state funding kind of has increased because we had that compression of the local tax rate in 23 at the bottom you see the basic allotment so right now the formula per kid is we get, $160 that has not changed since 2019 okay that's what we're looking at there there's been some bills that have been filed to increase that um so we're waiting to see uh what
034that'll look like okay I've kind of hit on this on a few slides but um State funding is not adjusted to account for increased costs and inflation this is what we've been talking about since 2019 some numbers if you run them if you look around the dollar has kind of lost about 20ish per of its value since okay as property values increase State funding actually uh decreases we have a couple things there let's see yes uh just a couple of things of the history of of the compression uh and the tax rate from 2007 and okay that is my last slide uh and questions do my best Mr can you clarify to people that a lot of people complain that theer value increas they're paying more into school taxes but clarify again that pay more
035school taxes to kind of what school bring in so have toay the school not receiving tax no they're right their formulas don't it doesn't work like that and then and it is something that they're they're they're looking at again um in some of the bills but a raise in property taxes doesn't mean it's a it's a direct one to one back to the city their formulas uh don't allow for that um so it it is complicated it gets you start getting into gold pennies copper pennies and all that stuff and it gets kind of real in the weeds but it is not a direct one to one uh that we get just because property taxes go up means we get to pocket more in the in the uh in our school district so last year
036what was our ATT rate that we got paid I believe we were around 93% so we had the staff bus drivers cafeteria teachers AIDS every everything that makes the school run based on enrollment of 6,000 kids but we only got paid on right for 9 3% of 6,000 so I think when I last time50 kids we didn't get paid on exactly exactly when you see school districts closing schools that's because they're not getting funded enough and they're having to consolidate we don't have that luxury here as you can see we're at capacity at our school we don't have facilities to cons right right but that's based on the funding the way our state does it that's why you see everybody the deficit you're not getting paid for the kids that you have to say you're
037going to Ser right and not just that one of the things that we have to do every two years is uh we have to predict two years out uh what our attendance is going to be so for example in December the school district had to sit there look at numbers look at what we have on paper and predict what our attendance is going to be in in uh 2526 and 2627 and there I mean there's a good reason for that because the state is trying to make their budgets and so they kind of want to know how much they should budget for but as you can see um you know in the last five six years things happen um you have pandemics or you have developments they clear the land but they don't build a
038homes I mean we we have the pleasure this year of having a demographic study but that doesn't happen for all districts and you know when they need that so think of that think about trying to predict what attendance is going to be like uh in the fall of 2026 right now uh with all the turmoil of the last six years and the attendance rate so we are we are continuing to get better we're continuing to try to get back to that attendance full transparency covid just killed attendance in in every school district and so trying to get back to that to pre-co ATT attendance rates and back to that uh that that has been tough uh but when you start doing the math and you think if you we can get attendance that we can
039get kids in schools and kids back you know one and 2% raise and attendance rate you know we can do a lot better as a as a school district but also it's very tough because that's such a moving Target and teachers prepare for full classrooms they don't prepare for 18 of 22 kids to show up so all right yes sir I saw I saw data somewhere that the district gets about $1,500 per student per year yes yes is that the number we we sent out did we send out a little lower right at 10 okay so that's a combination of federal funding as well so we get um a few million dollars of federal grants that go to certain things uh to accelerated instruction to teach a recruitment to special programs so that 6,000 number
040that you see is State money when you start throwing in other money like Federal money it does go up to closer to 10,000 per student uh and I might just add far away from the number that the state of Texas and tea released in the Press uh I think they said 15 or $116,000 on average per student not true not true but the federal grants on correct correct correct very correct yep compliance reports uh audits all of that on those federal grants so they are earmarked it is not a free-for-all uh for that money good question yes that also includes Federal Child Nutrition money which is a six A5 million budget as well so good questions yes ma'am I have a question when theed daily of students does that compute into the high school learning
041atmosphere such as um know AP classes du credit classes or does that pretty much stop tent yeah dual credit does not create any weighted uh AP does not create any weighted there have been some changes with dual credit that have been beneficial uh to the district and to low-income students uh so that has helped out with the budget there the state is paying more for that uh but it is usually anything that falls under that special program umbrella um uh emerging bilingual ESL uh CTE Career Tech uh programs that are basically always at the high school and then we have 11 teachers at the middle school that teach uh CTE as well well so there's some funding there but yes that is basically the W uh umbrella for the most part good questions who is
042it Jeff Robert yes yes I also just want to point out legally your M fund your maintenance and operation cannot cross over with your your so as we talk about possible building project that's your ins and you cannot use those funds to pay teacher salaries thank you yes yes is there okay thank you all right I'm going to introduce our next presenter Jeff Robert from Hilltop Securities uh going to go over Bond information thank you good job all right good evening course can board Miss how community members my name is Jeff Robert with Hilltop Securities um I work with school districts throughout the state on bond elections Bond authorizations issuance of bonds so I've done quite a few of these these uh types of meetings and what did we do with the clicker is did
043did I put my thank you all right um so I've actually worked with Coran ISD on all of the authorizations and issuances that you've done since 1997 so very familiar with with the district um I put this presentation together last week KN the district was obviously on spring break so some of the information I have is going to be redundant to Mr K's uh presentation I'll fly that through that part very quickly um but before I get into some uh some capacity scenarios I'm going to do a little bit of a bonds 101 and I'm not going to read all of this but I'm going to uh hit a few points you know as Mr Mr K went over it's very obvious that Texas school Finance is very convoluted and confusing it's not anything like
044you know our own personal financial experiences but the one thing that you can say a school bond is similar to is your home mortgage um it is a contract repay borrowed money typically at a fixed rate uh that third bullet there if you can see it you know really nowadays the only way that a school district can meaningfully impact their facilities is through a bond election the cost of facilities are much higher than they were even five years ago 10 years ago certainly uh and also budgets are extremely tight with 80 to 85% of the M budgets being used for person and payroll it's very tight in terms of what kind of money is left over for school districts to be able to do kind of what I call a pay as you go uh
045type situation with facilities um there at the bottom all I do is just kind of show the difference between what a bond authorization is and a bond issuance a bond authorization is once you pass an election you're authorized to issue that amount of bonds and then you when you issue the bonds from that authorization that's when interest starts acre and the district receives funds for those projects how are they repaid Mr K's talked about the m and the ins tax rate uh the ins tax rate once again can only be used for or levied for the payment of voted bonds the earlier question the the maximum tax rate you can actually go above 50 cents but at the time that you issue bonds you have to show the attorney general that you can make all
046the payments from the first year to the 30th year with no greater than a 50 Cent ins tax rate it's called the attorney general 50 Cent test so we try to keep it at or below 50 cents no matter what I've never had a district that's had to go above uh what will the interest rate be you know we don't know we've got to make projections you don't know what the interest rates are going to be until you actually issue the bonds um one nice thing for Texas school districts and most governmental entities that they can issue bonds at a tax exempt interest rate meaning that the interest that the investor receive is not subject to federal income taxes therefore typically that rate is lower um another nice thing is school districts in the state
047of Texas receive What's called the permanent School fund guarantee which gives you a AAA Bond rating uh meaning that when you issue bonds that you're going to get probably the most competitive rates available the Standalone uh ratings for the districts are moodies A1 and S&P A+ and those are very good ratings for a district course Canada size so when you once again combine that with the psf you're going to get very favorable interest rates so what does Bond capacity mean what that means is how much can you issue given tax-based growth assumptions interest rate assumptions the term or length of the borrowing and then are you planning to issue it all at once or over multiple issuances and it can also be impacted by the projects that you're including for instance if you told me
048you were going to buy if you're going to do a $100 million bond election and 20 million of it was going to be for Chromebooks that's going to be pretty expensive because I've got to pay that $20 million off within 5 years because those Chromebooks are not going to be uh they're not going to be useful after that 5year period now if you're talking about a new facility for 100 million well that that facility is probably going to be around for 50 years so we don't have to pick off as much principle in those early years for construction projects tax base so again we've got to make assumptions on what your tax base is going to do we try to be very conservative on that um because we are talking about taxpayer money uh when
049the tax base goes up same tax rate from the prior year will produce more money if it goes down produce less money uh there at the bottom kind of piggybacking on what Mr K was talking about increases in your tax base yes they can cause your M rate to go down but they won't result in more M dollars for the district because the state will just give you less money the number of kids is what matters on the M side however on the ins or debt side increases in the tax base do help you because there's no State money involved the district gets to keep all the money to make payments on their debt so a higher tax base will result in more funds brought in interest rates again we don't finalize those till we
050sell the bonds um yes interest rates have risen however you know I'll show you in a second those covid interest rates as I call them were probably the lowest of of my lifetime and I'll show you in a second tax exempt interest rates are pretty in line with where they've been over over a very long period of time other than those covid uh levels that third bullet a lot of folks see well the FED lowered interest rates and remember when the FED takes action they're talking about the overnight lending rate which is very short-term rate so uh whenever the FED lowered rates twice in this past year long-term interest rates actually went up so there's not a a guarantee that when the FED lowers interest rates that long-term rates are going to come down the
051term kind of like your mortgage if you do a 15-year mortgage yes you'll save on interest but your monthly payment will be higher the longer the term the higher in interest but the lower the payment the shorter the term the lower the interest but the higher the payment uh issuance size and timing I'll kind of skip over this you see a lot of districts in the Metroplex area they're growing that'll have very large elections and they issue that over several several years um if you do that you can actually reduce some interest cost uh a lot of districts that aren't growing quite as much usually issue those bonds over a one per one year period or maybe two so here's a graph on interest rates this this is what's called the bond buyer Index this
052is a 20-year tax exempt index comes out every Thursday and if you go all the way over to the left and the the white graph in the background that was 1981 so tax exempt 20-year interest rate in 1981 was over 133% and you can see how that's trended down and over here if you get to the right you can see that dip there that was those were the covid interest rates as I call them and last week last Thursday it was at 4.29 and if you look over on the far right and you kind of draw a line across you can see that yes we're obviously higher than we were during the co years however over the Long Haul we're still a fairly low interest rate envirment and that blue graph just shows what this
053index has done over the last year okay so some history and Mr K shows you some as well this is all from What's called the mun Municipal advisory Council of Texas website so it's a a database that includes a lot of information for not only school districts but cities counties and other governmental subdivisions but on the left left there in column two that's what your tax base has done since 2015 fiscal year 2015 now I do want to point out there's been growth in each year you see a negative number no I'm sorry negative in 2016 was that only year but in 2017 23 and 24 you still had substantial growth in some of those years even though those are years when the homestead exemption was increased and when the homestead exemption increases that basically
054wipes away value from the tax rle so you can see the growth percentage in column 3 some pretty steady growth uh your tax rate history there in column four I guess we we missed one you a dollar four also there in 2016 but I do want to point out that your current your current total tax rate is the lowest tax rate the district has had since fiscal year 1993 so while values have gone up tax rates have certainly come down quite a bit over a long period of time so we made assumptions on our Capacity Analysis and so what we've done again you can see in column three there what the growth rates have been and you can see what we're using for our Capacity Analysis hopefully this is very conservative and that's what my
055goal is 2 and a half% for three years 1% for four and then half a percent thereafter um let's talk about your outstanding debt right now also what the district has outstanding in bonds series 23 issue excuse me Ser series 2013 2015 and 2020 issuances for a total of $ 73.2 million and so oh gosh this did not go over very well into the Google uh the Google Docs the graph's not going to show you very much because it didn't it didn't upload very well it doesn't look like but if you look at the top here what I've got is I've looked at what amount could you do for zero tax rate impact meaning stay at the exact same tax rate what could you do for one penny uh increasing by one penny and then
056what would a s 7 million an 80 million a 90 million and a $100 million uh election size look like and for all of these I've assumed a 30-year term with a 4 and a half% interest rate if we issued right now we'd be somewhere between four and four and a quarter so the maximum tax rate obviously we could do 45 million for zero tax impact so if you did $45 million it would not increase your ins tax rate if you said let's go up one penny we could do 51 million so 5 1 million would result in a 02051 ins tax rate if we did an even 70 million that would be an increase of 0449 so 4.49 pennies about 4 and a half pennies up to 24 cents 80 million would get you
057up to 2575 which would be a 6.24 cent ins tax rate increase 90 million would get you up to 27.6 which is an 8.09 C ins tax rate increase and then 100 million would be just under 30 cents it'd be 29.4 cents which is a 9.89 cent increase and I'm sorry the the graph didn't show up like I wanted it to so what does that mean in terms of those different tax rate increases what does that mean to different homeowners um so at the top I get the question a lot you know over 65 your taxes are frozen and a lot of people sometimes just say we don't believe you so I've actually uh cut and pasted from the comp trollers website of the State of Texas and you can see the quote there um
058that if you're over 65 and you file the necessary paperwork that your taxes are frozen for school districts now the the uh the charts below what I've done is is for those bond election amounts that you saw on the prior page 45 51 70 8090 100 the top one said that would be how much your taxes would increase for the different home value that you see there so you have $150,000 home a $200,000 home $250 $50,000 increments all the way up to $500,000 uh what each of those different tax rate increases would mean in terms of a tax increase on homeowner and this assumes the current $100,000 homestead exemption so for instance a $150,000 home actually only pays taxes on $50,000 of value because you get that $100,000 homestead exemption 150 less 100 is 50,000
059then you multiply it times that tax rate and it's on a per $100 uh basis and that gives you those numbers there so let's just pick out $300,000 home there at the top which is right there in the middle if we went up by let's say the biggest one 9.89 that would be an increase of $197.8 on the tax bill and then the bottom is just that top chart divided by 12 just to give you what that monthly impact is now the one caveat I want to give you or this one disclaimer I want to give you is that as Mr Mr K's mentioned that the legislature is currently in session and if they make any changes then I hope you'll allow me to make changes to to address whatever they decide to do and
060the legislative session is supposed to end in late May so if they make any adjustments then these numbers would also need to be adjusted but as the the rules are right now these are the tax rates and impacts uh that these different election sizes would result in and did this come out okay so what I did here this is I I tried to pick districts that were either fairly close in proximity to uh Coran ISD or maybe a little similar in in in uh in scope meaning about an hour from the Metroplex not necessarily high high growth I mean there's some on there that are but if you look over on the far left I'll just read them out real real quickly I looked at alvaredo kurn Crandle Dennison Enis Everman Greenville Joshua Kaufman and
061Terrell and you can see you know how much they have in terms of bonds outstanding and I'm not trying to say anybody's doing anything better than anybody else but just to show you how districts that may be deemed somewhat similar what they look like in terms of their bonds outstanding they're authorized but unissued there in column the third column what that means is they've passed an election for that amount but they haven't yet actually issued those bonds um if they're having a May election curn is having a May election um as is uh Dennis uh that the last date that they passed an election and the next one I said you know how how how long has it been or how many times has a district not passed an election uh since their last passed
062election if that makes sense so in other words at the very bottom Terrell has had two elections that did not pass since their May of 2016 that did what their taxable values are pretty similar for a lot of these districts in terms of what their taxable value is interest in syncing fund tax rates there for each of the districts this current year what is their debt per taxable assessed value or their debt per tax base what's their debt per Ada and you can kind of look and see where corana compares to a lot of these and then at the bottom I just showed what the mean numbers is for some of those are average and then what the median which is the middle uh is because sometimes that that the mean can be skewed by
063one or two districts so uh you can see where Corsicana Falls in terms of comparison with those and if I miss some districts that are obvious that should be on there I'd be happy to include them uh if an update is needed and then lastly um some things that have changed as a result of the 2019 legislative session I put it on there because um I know it's been I guess we talked about this in 22 but couple of things that the legislature requires is that even if you said well we want to do the $45 million election and it results in zero tax rate increase no matter what the ballot in capital letters is going to say this is a property tax increase and that's required by the legislature and the reason for that
064is is that even if you're able to make the payments with the same tax rate you're still having to Levy new taxes in order to pay off the new bonds and then the other thing that's required is that you used to be able to combine everything into one proposition if you wanted to now uh if you do any work on an athletic stadium with over a th seats an auditorium technology device purchases uh Performing Arts facilities teacher housing and then some recreational facilities other than gyms they have to be on a standalone proposition so that is all the information that I have I'd be happy to answer any questions if if anyone has any if anybody's aw awake no thank youall thank you I know that's been a lot of information a lot of money
065talk uh so thank you for staying with us we have just a few more things to go so we in February we sent out a community survey to our all of our stakeholders and I'm just going to review a few of those um from the survey we had 88 respondents that were parents of either current or former corsak ISD students 38% are corsak ISD graduates and 30% of the respondents are corsak ISD staff members 69% of the respondents agree that education should be the top priority and if needed agree to raise taxes to improve our schools so you can see that how that came out on our survey what do you feel is the greatest need of Corsicana ISD ranked number one was build new or replacement facilities rank number two the second highest priority
066is Renovations and additions to current facilities 72% of our respondents would support a bond election to build a new educational facilities and or addition for existing facilities so before we go on to Kelly she's going to do a a quick exercise with you guys I'm gonna we're g to have a website that will have these presentations on there some of the things that did not come through due to the just the PowerPoint and the Google separation stuff uh we'll have it on a website and I will make sure that Merill gets this email to each one of you in the morning just so you'll have it it'll be in color and if you have any questions then you can reach out to me or someone on my team and we'll be happy to answer it
067um any questions you have but I just want wanted you to know that we do have all of this in color and and in the right format so but I'll get that email to each one of you tomorrow and I turn it over to Kelly okay so I'm going to give you a brief quiz over the demographic report in school Finance 101 y'all got out your paper I've got scantrons y'all aren't ready for that okay not really um this is one of my favorite parts of the meeting those of you that came to meeting one you got what lots of information about kind of what we were going to do you got information about the facilities so far for meeting number two you've got done what you've sat and got lots of information about um
068the demographics of the community and what they look like and what they may look like in the future as well as some information on school Finance all very very important to file away and put in your brain as we move forward but this is my favorite part part cuz this is where you get to participate and this is really why you are here um y'all are a diverse group we've got school people we have Business Leaders business people parents did our students come back I think I see some students so we have some students we had a recent grad last time um so anyway we want to know this is your community what do you want for your community what do you want for your school don't uh we're not going to even cap it
069to facilities we have been talking a lot about facilities facilities ranked really high on your survey but when we get in here to think you're here to dream big and dream about everything um the goal of today is no idea is a bad idea nothing is too small nothing is too far off in the future we really want to capture everything that is important to you all about Corsicana ISD um because we're not only thinking about a plan for maybe this spring in 5 years in 10 years in 15 years CU as we know these buildings that you're in they've been here for a long time and if we do any new or or additions that those are going to be here for a very long time um so the first thing I'm going to
070do is be a little chaotic and I'm going to kind of we're going to number off and there's a lot of you so just be patient with me but I think I'm going to put you in about 10 groups because I want the groups small enough so that everybody has a voice and if we get groups really big there's going to be that person I might have been that person at one point in my life that just kind of sits back and lets everybody else say their opinion so um before I number you off once you get up and you move around everybody's going to have we call these plac mats you're going to have a place mat I hope I have enough for everybody to have one because what I'm going to do is
071for the first part of the exercise you're going to work individually you're just going to think what do I want for Corsicana ISD from your perspective and I want you to jot those down then after about 3 or 4 minutes for about the next 15 or 16 minutes you're going to really talk with your group and and you might have an idea that's different from your neighbors and so you're going to talk about all of those things we don't want you to really weed anything out here when then what I'm going to ask for from each table is just one place mat so I'm going to ask for one person from each table to consolidate all of the ideas that you all have and then I'm going to take those with me so that we
072can do kind of part two of this activity at our next meeting um and that's where we'll kind of build some scenarios look at some doll look at some costs for those scenarios and then kind of pull it back to the information you learned today about your bonding capacity and what dollar amount if that's what you're comfortable leaning toward does that kind of make sense okay so you're going to number 1 to 10 I'm going to kind of move around the room this is a big room and then I'm going to say this once and I'll say it again so that'll be table one and I might kind of scooch y'all that way a little bit once you're table one this will be table two we'll do three four in the middle 5 six on
073the end s eight then we'll do nine back over there and 10 back over here so we've got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 okay now the hard part can we all count to 10 yes we did not get very far okay we're going to do this again loud and proud 8 9 10 2 S 3 four five seven seven and eight all right y'all are awesome okay if you will move all the ones twos three threes fours five six seven eights nines and tens you seven just what number you who are you looking [Applause] for so y'all kind of have to yeah over there have to combine and turn if y'all need to kind of scoot tables make a bigger group move chairs absolutely yeah yeah [Applause] okay is everybody
074found their home no who's looking for who yes what I would like for you to do if you did get one on your own we're going to have about three minutes of kind of quiet just jot down your own ideas about your dream big if everybody didn't get their own you can just kind of jot down some ideas on paper cuz I do need one to take with me from each group so take a few minutes and just jot down your own ideas principal oh as a group do it individually first you can write on that yeah cuz I don't I yes [Music] ma'am great big drink it [Applause] [Music] if you need ideas on your paper and on the board or just some ideas listed of things you can think about you for if
075you haven't already and you're done kind of thinking individually if you want to go ahead and collaborate with your team and what I'd like you to be ready to do in about 15 minutes is share out you'll have one person from your group share out your ideas about dreaming big We're Dreaming big over here e [Music] didn't think about where okay I'm sure I think I said it right the whole thing about the John de program is you have to be sponsored by a John Deere dealership and where's where's the closest John Deere dealership here Norther yes it's north of oh yeah it's right there yeah so but they can only sponsor one person a year clearly [Music] what we doing as a district to prepare for the Future come to the high school here
076the here watch oh we're collaborating okay so I think I think m is a lot more different from I really so I so I'd like for the to to come to school renov school like I'd like I but I want I'd like two brand new SUVs with the sea on it of the Suburban and then I'd like two Expeditions with the sea on it um CHS again more exposure for students to video equipment media team High School I don't the B the same since I graduated I I would and I'm embarrassed we have something in in the auditori people go wor bom like oh God no you got old for 4 hours I nor walk them down here so uh classroom Renovations we need we just need to high school U fanan right here um
077foundation repair play playground updated G updated cafeteria a stage with SE updated tech for teach instru coach windows in the be room and then um this is at she has a whole L right we going to give you that too but better facili uh update what we can retention of people I like that Spanish support uh for students I mean and [Music] te I'm be honest Master CHS b c and Fa common space CET time my anxiet High um find life H back up Administration office administration office what we have a lot sketch and I [Music] dream big checkbook out and I [Music] let me break in for two seconds thumbs up in about 5 minutes will you have a Consolidated dream big Vision that one person will be able to share out I got
078one thumbs up we're doing great Perfect all right five minutes five minutes [Music] he's been listen sit back there I like to [Music] H good about to be done try to get as much behind you [Music] it was all night itainment it was crazy it was interesting Austin would transport [Music] from for you want to tell them Richard green [Music] AR they a big St patties I love St P day they actually threw it last week you take about one or two minutes and wrap it up we will share out to finish out the meeting nothing for to me you know I had looked at it HB after get away I all right 5 one sorry teacher at heart I could flip off the lights we can clap we can do something else I don't
079know give me five something all right um I'm going to give y'all each a minute at your table I'll pass the mic so everybody can hear and I'll just kind of start on one side and work my way and um what I want you to do is share out your dream big and then we might see some consistency so if if you said something someone else did just kind of reference it that way we kind of get a picture here today of where all of your Collective brains are so I'll start over here with this group wonderful thank you very much uh we've got a big list I'm just going to hit a couple of the high points that are on the top of it first one is that we had talked about and kind
080of collaborated on was a CTE building being a new build being constructed here at the high school that would give us the opportunity to renovate the remainder of the school the current building uh and open up classrooms on on both ends of the campus when we do that U more room for housing students and more offerings both in the AP World and the CTE world uh everyone kind of thought that Collins needs a facelift uh there's some work that needs to be done to bring it uh up to speed a lot of that would would be cosmetic but it does need some attention over there um I'm trying to trying to hit the ones that are most important to us uh the possibility of a a building renovation at CHS uh we could see enclosing
081the a building and possibly even building an arena uh that they could be used for event that we could use for rentals uh and and host lots of lots of things that would cater to our student body as well um earning Early Learning Center exploring ideas on a on a new build for Early Learning Center or the continued renovation of drain had to get some advice from some some people that specialize in those fields in in order to figure out what to do there uh and then we talked about a new Transportation building is something that that I threw in there and everyone agreed with maybe moving transportation across the street our current Transportation building could become the maintenance building and then that whole area back there could be a single entrance with parking for
082baseball softball and tennis and I sto there because I can talk for a while thank you thank you group one group two I think they copied off of us um a few things yes bathrooms would and I mean I think that's almost automatic bathrooms uh upgraded but then more of them everywhere somebody made a good point they said we think basically every campus needs something um that that's really where we're at um of course the CTE building bathrooms one thing we talk about Commons uh cafeteria and also in particular ovens Let me Give an example I think at one point correct me if I'm wrong Kim we were down 14 ovens uh just not long ago 14 ever ovens were not working uh each oven cost anywhere from 20,000 up to $50,000 one campus we
083were uh literally down to a half of an oven right Kim where are you at yeah we were down to half of an oven just thinking oh my goodness please keep this working we don't want to make the news but things like that we don't even think about um so I mean real real basic of course we talk bathrooms Early learn Center daycare um again this is a dream right we said daycare what what else uh great idea with the CC uh career new CTE maybe an advanced academics area too and I don't know if it's all tied into one um where if it's part that's career to so I don't know if that's Career Development um Advanced academics dual credit um all that could be out there too possibly what else large large yes
084a large meeting area uh maybe for the district or however that you know we talk about the LGI at the middle school which something much bigger than that that's that's all the time there's really nothing on this campus or really districtwide um for instance she has to meet 100 kids that want to have a student council meeting there's nowhere on this campus to meet um so something like that and I think you touched on that a little too yes it could be PD professional development Community could rent it um test what did you say testing yes cuz we're taking his gems for testing right uh what else I think we of course the bathrooms bathrooms bathrooms bathrooms thank you we'll go here we're actually group seven um I think a lot of the stuff we've
085all touched on um for CS would be infrastructure expanding the hallways expanding the cafeteria adding more restrooms um one of the big things that we all talked about was multimedia training for students and teachers and having Advanced capabilities when we are thinking outside of the box several years down the road we all know AI is playing a big part in the world today we don't have anybody here that can teach that the kids are more knowledgeable than most of the teachers are um but that goes along with having some sort of a multimedia Center or lab that is specific for that um a big thing on our table was we want to continue to expand the career ready programs I know we added the fire Department program this year let's bring Nea College back to
086the table let's get some more of these programs going um we did talk about a daycare program let the kids for Staffing that staff need daycare what about our kids that are in child development programs they can work they can earn credit hours things like that could we partner with the corana uh police department in AA college and have that kind of a program um so I think there's a lot of opportunities there um one of the things that we all were kind of floored about was Sam Houston and the fact that they are at Double capacity and we would like to look at a better use for Sam Houston and drain um because especially with small elementary school children at Double capacity that is very unsafe and it's not a very good learning environment
087for either the students or the teachers so there could be something that could uh we could help them with that uh we would also like to have all of the schools have automatic locks because they don't and that is a huge safety risk huge um both um moving uh this goes back to what I think shade said uh moving the bus barn over to the uh new school which it'll always be the new school to us uh and making that into tennis softball baseball parking um as a tennis parent trying to come through for a 4:00 match when the buses are trying to get out of here baseball softball anything it it is a nightmare and unsafe um also with that is moving the a barn across the street over there and upgrading it uh
088when was the last upgrade in the 80s in the 80s and we have a wonderful egg Department that you know continually does well that we need to support um restrooms humidity control things like that obviously upgrading the pack we have a lot of good programs that come in um that the community utilizes and the entire County utilizes especially with our Nea Council of the Arts partnership so that could have some upgrades although I know that does have to be on a separate Bond and um trying to put all of the admin in one location where transparency communication or just ease of somebody trying to find somebody body um I think that would be something good anyway I think that's it did I get everything okay there we go good job all right we came up
089with we would like a new EG Barn there you go Monty I hope you're here we get him an you didn't say it so you didn't come up with it no wasn't well I didn't it wasn't loud enough for me okay okay uh HVAC honestly and all of our all HVAC and all of our schools needs improving uh Roofing um I train still leaks so um compliance with Ada all of our schools need to be compliant with Ada possibly a new Elementary School uh Behavior Uh you know for like our Behavior students uh maybe having their own entrance that's what came out of this group so they wouldn't be coming through with the normal if they have to be at the school they wouldn't come in the same entrance and then uh this group would
090like to have an indoor facility not just for football it's for every sport and every organization and a lot of people don't know we've got to do a better job of talking to people about this but if it's over 100 degrees and it's a certain percent humidity kids can't go out in practice right so we need to make sure that people understand that it's not the same as when we were kids when we went out there and and we we did it and these kids aren't they're just not it's not the same there's there's all laws and regulations so that's what we came up with good thank you group four y group three okay so we um we had a lot of the same obviously the CTE facility for the higho school um that is
091a growing uh area you know our kids aren't necessarily fouryear college students but to be able to learn a skill a trade auto diesel welding um that's very important because they can walk out making a lot more money than if they go to a four-year college so um that is very important it will take a lot of pressure off the high this High School main building by having a CTE facility um we also feel the cafeteria needs expansion and renovation uh to be able to feed the number of students we have here um we also talked about a ninth grade Wing um to be able to separate the ninth graders um and expand um areas that will take the pressure off the main building because these ninth graders would be Consolidated to one area um
092Safety and Security for all facilities um I think we have you know uh a lot of good things in place now um but I think there's always opportunity to upgrade and improve like the automatic locks um there's a lot of Technology that's been created to where you get an alarm um and notification and uh you can automatically lock every door in the building uh there's a lot of Technology with facilities now where if there is a fire or if there there's anything a pipe burst somebody's going to get a notification immediately and we know so we can you know get our crews out there or callif fire department or whatever um so Safety and Security for all our campuses um cins uh covered hallways because they don't have covered or enclosed hallways um so that
093would definitely be part of upgrading Collins um expanding Nao and Carol those two schools are at capacity over capacity and are going to continue as we see the growth in our community um with the new housing and and the multif family housing projects um a recess in a playground for Collins because they don't have that and they're fifth and sixth graders um renovate the a bar and then the transportation building um is definitely something if you've ever been to that Transportation building bless those people and they deserve a lot better working conditions than what that building offers so that is ours thank you group five we're going to give to I am just going to probably repeat most of the things that you guys have already said obviously some of the things we talked about
094where if we can't build a new high school definitely make the upgrades and the improvements to the one we have we talked about um building An Early Childhood Center I think um we wouldn't have the capacity issues that we have at our elementary schools if we had a designated building for Early Child Hood in our prek and we also talked about the bus barn as well so I won't go into detail uh Miss Roman just talked extensively about that we talked about a professional development center for our staff um as well as upgrading our athletic facilities such as the baseball Fieldhouse um it was mentioned that our soccer team practices at Nao college so maybe perhaps we are um could be better utilizing those areas and then um a leisure Center for extracurricular activities okay
095I've lost track are yall six six I'm G stay in my minute I promise um but we did say that we would like um new facilities if we can do it uh Renovations and additions to our elementary campuses that are uh overc capacity um we need to invest in infrastructure um I know we'll be having these talks again in another 20 years what are we going to invest in uh to make sure that we have the land for that we want to have career ready programs here at the high school uh invest in stem Fine Arts um then new programs in technology thank you eight nine we'll we'll do nine first I'm here um so we said Auditorium R ations Plumbing electrical it's the same thing um restrooms are gross District buses Transportation Commons update
096and expand elementaries need extra space more restrooms across the board a building um CTE facility same thing this is the green group so we pretty much said what a lot of people said more exposure for students new video equipment uh media team the bathrooms are nasty um classroom Renovations better facilities uh update what we can retention of people she was passionate about that I liked it safety equal for all Spanish support staff uh technology facility all Sam Houston yes we don't have computer labs they need a computer lab Fanning yeah you're double um Fanning foundation repair playground equipment updated system cafeteria stage with seating a tech for teachers instructional coaches windows in the bee hall because kids love the sunshine uh new aborne uh expand the hallways and then she had Miss Bill Miss bin
097had a good point she said a an enrollment center where if you're coming to enroll everybody goes to the same place and that person can determine okay you're supposed to be at Fanning or you go to Carol but they do all the paperwork there and then just send that student to the school it's all done I thought that was good um upgrades to CHS CTE a we talked about that new Early Childhood uh Fine Arts HVAC Administration office downtown with parking I'm looking at Raymond add gim for a PE um drill team expand the cafeteria more classrooms update the bathrooms teacher lounge with more than one bathroom play uh playground new playgrounds for elementary okay uh another main hallway and I say the best one for last I think okay so the uh Collins or
098the media school will go to the new school the new school will come to the high school the high school will get a new high school that houses 25 students now she said dream big um update to all the elementary campuses and if what Collins will become will become another Elementary campus students 2500 students I look at me I got so Collins would become an elementary and then we could kind of get some people from the crowd crowded elementaries uh get rid of all Portables yucky uh new vehicles so we need two SUVs and when I say SUV Suburbans with the nice Seas on it and we need um two Expeditions and I know we do have a couple Expeditions but that would be really good we need a mini bus for traveling I'm finishing
099a mini bus for traveling when the counselors are going I mean other people are going places not just the counselors and then a wrapped bus wouldn't that be cool you know how Curr have the rap bus every time I see that bus I'm like what in the cowboy heck you're in Curr so one with a c on it so perfect all right group 10 oh we definitely appreciate her enthusiasm y'all give her another round of applause I am glad the group has decided that we're going to build a prek center our new ECC Center so the meeting is wrapped up we're ready to roll uh we'll get numbers out to you soon um we have registration coming up I can get those numbers all right but we did talk about some the same thing uh
100with prek being one of our main focus and Center uh of attention for our district uh we know that other people are doing it but that doesn't mean we necessarily have to do it we need to do it is what needs to happen um restrooms that's always been an issue no matter where you go in our district restrooms are an issue uh just at Carol Elementary we have four restrooms two boys two girls that feed K4 um when they're down guess what all the kids have to go to those other two restrooms so keep those things in mind but that's like that all over the district as far as restrooms and the amount a lot of these buildings were built in the 40s and 50s um storage we we kind of wrapped everything up with
101space like we just need more space no matter what school you're looking at we need more space and more of it um we talked about um sped equipment and specific types of things that we need for our students who receive special education uh we want them to have the top-of-the-line motor Labs we want them to be able to go in and feel comfortable and feel successful um our lady from the city over here with where's he at principal of the high school where you go Oh in the green shirt but we sure appreciate her um but she told us about some wayfinding materials basically signage on your campuses uh if you go to all the campuses with the exception of your school um he's got the digital sign out front he's got this welcom and
102drive like you pulling up at the white house uh but then you go to the elementary schools it's like where do I get in um so and that's like that at all the elements like where do I get in um so just kind of things like that to kind of edify our buildings uh when you look at them um CHS as far as Improvement y'all talked about hallways and the congestion I know at the previous bun we talked about closing off that back way and kind of making that a hallway to loop around uh but we had to go with the money that was dealt and some things got cut short because we need to get some things done um the awnings and coverings over at Sam Houston and around our district uh the ones
103at Sam Houston leak uh the ones at Carol needs lighting uh but if you go to the other side they just need replacing um they were part of the original build um so you'll see mortar you'll see concrete you'll see some tin and some iron uh but in essence it's all falling apart um High School is important we like y'all we love you um but everywhere needs something and we'll wrap it up with that with our new ELC Center to be built soon all right give yourselves a big round of applause so you all heard all the same things I did of course do we need restrooms did I hear restrooms I think I heard they're gross nasty whatever um but we also what I heard was everything from the littles so prechool all the
104way up to the bigs inside the building outside the building we y'all have run the gamut we even heard about some program once which I think is good so now what our job is at w and this is kind of the reason there's a big gap between meeting two and meeting three is we're going to take all this information and put together some scenarios and some costs to nearly or everything that you have you have told us and then we're going to bring that back to you all in meeting three and kind of let you look at all of your ideas what they cost and then we're going to do some prioritization because everything on the list is important and we'll kind of decide is it a have to right now now is it something
105we do in a couple of years in 10 years what can we do out of the M budget you remember what that is are there some things we can do out of M um so that's kind of where that's where this activity leads to anything y'all want to add Jeremy or Mary um okay then thank y'all very much for your participation I'm going to turn it back over to Stephanie just to wrap it up and kind of give yall charges to move on I feel like some of y'all were in my brain so we we are all dreaming the same way uh our next meeting is Monday April the 21st it'll be right back in here at 5:30 um we will talk about uh School construction budget and cost and looking at our wants and
106needs and how we're going to prioritize that so please please make sure you're back on April 21st we really want your input I'm so thankful that each one of you came tonight you came to the first meeting uh we've invited some additional people there were some things going on tonight but if you'll just keep coming and keep giving us your feedback this is exciting to me I'm a HomeTown girl I grew up in this High School I mean even Jeremy went to high school here so you know we all want what's best for our our district and our campuses and um listening to everybody around the room it it makes me really excited it gets me going because I want a new Ab bar I want a new high school I don't think we can
107afford it but I want one I want a new Early Childhood Center there's lots of things that we all talked about that we all want for our district so please keep coming uh keep I want to keep hearing from you and we will have the website up this week it will have uh presentation one and two linked to that you'll see the financial um that Jeff Robert did and our demographic study so that you have that information so that you can share that with the community they they need to know uh what our demographics looks like what's our median income what will it look like if we have a$ hundred million Bond it looks like it's about 50 cents a day if you have Liv in a $300,000 house I if you go to Starbucks
108you spend $10 a day I'm just saying that's all I'm I'm going to leave it there and I will see you guys April 21st thank you we are going to close this school board meeting as permitted by Texas governance code section 55101 and go into Clos session thank you all for coming sorry