Crosby ISD Board Meeting 09-15-25

001J.R. Humphrey >> present. >> We have five of seven board members. We have a forum. Please rise for our prayer led by police and posting of color led by cadet first lieutenant Alicia Smith and cadet corporal Darren Owens. You'll go please. Father God, we are so very thankful for your love and care and our many blessings this evening. We are charged with making decisions in the best interest of our children. We ask for your presence, your guid guidance, and your peace. We pray for our communities, our staff, our kids. And we ask that you put a hedge of protection around them and keep them healthy and safe. Father, we desire to do your will and to always do what is best for our students. Please give us the knowledge, understanding, wisdom, and courage to do

002this in a manner that brings you glory. We trust in you Lord and we are so grateful for your provision and faithfulness. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Color guard. Oh, thank you. Colors. Precinct. Arms. Order. Arms. Right step. March. Up. Out. Face. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible and justice for all. >> Now for the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to the Texas one state. Oh word march. >> Thank you. You may be seated. With some remarks from the board is open. We will move right into recognition. We have our Cougar Excellence Awards presented by Executive Director of Communications, Katrina White. Please remain seated until all awards have been given and photos have been taken.

003Oh, that came fast. Okay. Good evening, everyone. Good evening, members of the board, Superintendent Dr. Patterson, and fellow Cougar family. Tonight, I have the distinct pleasure of presenting the Cougar Excellence Awards for outstanding students, pair of professionals, and teachers. It is an honor to celebrate the dedication, hard work, and excellence that each of these individuals brings to Crosby ISD every day. We will start with our students, but before we call names, I do want to take a moment to mention our amazing partnerships with Crosby Chick-fil-A and Marcos Pizza for their continued support of our awards. Tonight, each person will receive a certificate from the district and a token from Crosby Chick-fil-A. And our students will also walk away with a wonderful yard sign to display in their front yard. So, we're super excited. So, we

004are going to start with our students. So, students, as I call your name, come up. But before I say that, it is my privilege to welcome you as we celebrate these Cougar excellent students for the month of August. This recognition is one of our district's highest honors that we give to our students, and it highlights the students that go above and beyond, not only in academics, but also in character, leadership, and service to others. the pillars that we are teaching our students. Each of our campuses has selected a student who represents the very best of what Crosby ISD is. These young people are role models in their classrooms and leaders in their schools. And we are so proud of them. So without further ado, one of our our very first student, our high school student,

005Brighton Fox, is actually not here today. His parents are here and that's very important, right? All of our parents are here. His parents are here. I ask them to stand. He is at band practice till 8:00 and he could not miss. So we definitely understand. Okay, our next student from CMS. Do I have Taran Thompson? Come on up, Taran. [Applause] All right, our next student from CES, Sophia Sosa. [Applause] Our next student from Drew Elementary, Eddie Smith. [Applause] from Newport Elementary, Easton Sutterfield. [Applause] >> Thank you. >> I love it. That's that spirit, right? Um from Barrett Elementary, Arabella City. She make it. She can make it. [Applause] And from our little cougars, our CKC, Mr. Julius Pena. [Applause] We love his jersey. I do think there is an Astros game tonight, too. No one.

006>> Yes. Wonderful. One, two, three. One, two, three. Okay, parents, get your photo with me out of the way. Okay. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you all so very. [Applause] And parents, before you leave tonight, the yard sign will be um at the exit for you as you leave. Okay. So, now we would like to recognize our pair of professionals. Tonight, we're honored to recognize a group of individuals who are truly the heart of our schools, our paraprofessionals. Each month, we are we will be celebrating Cougar excellence and pair professionals. They are often the quiet heroes of our campus. They are an extra set of hands, the calm voice that's needed for reassurance and the steady support that helps students and all of our teachers thrive. Pair of professionals, we salute you. From CHS, we have

007Miss Tiffany Dice [Applause] from CMS. We had Miss Edna Rodriguez [Applause] from Crosby Elementary. We have Miss Eleanor Randall [Applause] from Drew Elementary. We have Miss Emily Serta [Applause] from Newport Elementary. We have Miss Sabra R. From Barrett Elementary, we have Miss Cindy Thomas. [Applause] And from Crosby Kindergarten, we have Miss Tiffany Lebrin. [Applause] One, two, three. [Music] Thank you so very much. I appreciate you. Okay, I get to do this one more time. And now for our teachers. The teachers are more than instructors of content. They are motivators, encouraers, mentors, role models, right? Um they are the steady presence in our children's lives day in and day out. the ones who notice when a student needs a little support, who celebrates both small and big victories, and who believes in every student's potential. For

008our teachers of the year, we had, now he is with his students right now, so he couldn't be with us, Mr. Paul Odum from Crosby High School. From Crosby Middle School, we have Miss Sharon Curry. [Applause] from Crosby Elementary. We have Miss Mary Stevens [Applause] from Drew Elementary. We have Miss Julie Jackson. [Applause] I had the pleasure of co-eing lunch with the kindergarters today with Miss Jackson. It was lovely. We had a great time. We opened a lot of milk cartons today. From Newport Elementary, Miss Nelly Ramirez. At Barrett Elementary, we have Miss Casey Regent. [Applause] And then at Crosby Kindergarten, we have Miss Melissa Steerman. Woo! [Applause] Hey everybody, look this way. One, two, three. One, two, and one more round of applause for all of us. Um, we welcome you all to stay

009and listen as we conduct the business of the district. However, if you would like to leave, this is a natural break in the agenda. Thank you for coming. I'll be very [Music] Oh my god. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move into the public uh hearing of citizens. At this time, in accordance with BD local, the board will provide an audience with individuals who have signed up to address the board. Tonight, we have three requests to comment in person. Audrey Anderson will serve as our timekeeper. And for those request for those requested to speak, a timer will be visible on the screen. Public comment is in person only. Anyone wishing to speak in person at the board meeting must register five minutes prior to the start of the board meeting with the board clerk and

010the sign signup sheet. Citizen participation is limited to the hearing of the citizens portion of the agenda. The board is not allowed to respond to comments pertaining to items not included on the agenda unless the response is limited to specific factual information or reciting existing policy. Again, each citizen is limited to three um three minutes to speak. So, the first person we have is Eric Myers. >> Mr. Mars, before you begin to speak, I just want to let you know that in our local policy, you are not allowed to name an employee. Okay. Thank you, sir. Ruckers University released a poll which found that about half the people in the US who identify as political left would be okay with assassinating Donald Trump or Elon Musk. Sounds crazy, but as a country, we seem to

011have reached a point where a little over half of us think a person would make a good president and about a quarter of us would murder him. You might hear this and think that's just words. People might say that, but they never really do it. Let's look at what people really do. Last summer, Donald Trump was shot in the head. By faith or God's will, he turned his head at that moment and he wasn't killed. When we heard about it as a nation, we were horrified. Except while most of us were horrified that hatred had bolted up enough that people were trying to shoot him, a quarter of us were horrified the shooter missed. Social media was flooded with both sentiments, but a sickening number of comments encouraged the next shooter to aim better. Last

012December, a man walked up behind a man he didn't know, chosen for the industry he worked in, and shot him in the back. The victim felt the asalent continued to shoot until he stopped moving. Rather than vilify the killer as a coward, many flocked to social media to treat him as a hero. A a lawmaker in California tried to name a bill after the murder. Last Wednesday, a man named Charlie Kirk was shot and killed by a sniper at a university in Utah. At the time, he was doing what he was known for, inviting people from the crowd to debate on opposing political viewpoints. He was effective at this. He had courage. He put faith in God and won people to his positions using the good old American way by honest discussion of ideas based

013on their merit. When Charlie was assassinated, social media was flooded with people celebrating the murder. Here's a small sample. Nazis being dealt with the way Nazis should be dealt with. Thoughts and prayers. Charlie Kurt getting popped in the neck by a sniper from 200 yards away. Close-up video of Charlie Kurt. Claims to be pro-life. Effing dies. This is so effing funny. Thoughts and prayers. Two in the thoughts. One in the prayers. Tots and prayers are even more than he deserves. Thoughts and prayers. Bro got to kill Cam and everything. That's a picture of him being murdered. debate this. How did we get here? Who would say things like this? And where does this come from? I say that how we get here is it's been taught. And as for who and where, take a look

014at one of the thoughts and prayers. Who is this teaching this stuff? She's a teacher. Where does she teach? Crosby High School. My purpose in coming here today is to try to ensure that community members and those involved with the school are aware that a person who takes to social media to laugh at and mock the faith of a person who was just murdered teaches the children of this community. Thank you for your time. >> The next is Eddie Lyn. Thank you for being here in your >> Okay. Good evening. My name is Eddie Lince. I'm a Crosby ISD taxpayer. I'm concerned about item 8A of this evening's agenda titled retroactive donations which has to do with the retroactive acceptance of donations made to Crosby ISD in violation of board policy CDC local. This policy

015requires that gifts with strings attached such as the donations that issue here tonight shall require board approval. These donations were made by two law firms which represent the district. The problem I have is that these donations were not at all your typical altruistic or charitable type of donation. In fact, I'd argue they look a lot more like someone buying influence rather than donations at all. They were specifically earmarked only to benefit the top brass in Crosby ISD, not to benefit any of the thousands of economically disadvantaged children in our district. This money was to be used for a Crosby ISD admin academy, which was a one night, $16,000 affair at Moody Gardens in 2022, likely attended by the very same administrators who have a direct say in what law firms this district uses. Not only

016is this a conflict of interest, this sort of behavior does nothing to build trust in a district still recovering from its past financial difficulties. Since the first $2,000 payment made by Purdue Brandon in July of 2022, Crosby ISD has paid that firm over $126,000. Thompson Horton made a similar payment in August of 24. And after that date, Crosby's paid them over $60,000. This pay-to-play behavior is very concerning to me. There's a reason we have ethics rules and board policies, which more what is more concerning to me is that the accompanying agenda item for this evening's meeting recommends that you guys just go ahead and approve it retroactively. That's not how you build trust or promote transparency. You don't approve these donations 3 years after the fact. Multiple people in this district violated your own board

017policy. Here, here is a handwritten receipt. Can't mention the employees name, but it is signed by one of your employees and it looks like another former employee. Per I Yvon, she's not an employee anymore. The amount will apply toward Amex payment for dinner at the spot. Good burgers. Remaining amount will go toward Moody Gardens rental. So, somebody had to solicit this donation. a lot of people involved. Just as you guys expect the students, the staff, the faculty to follow the rules, that means the administration needs to do so as well. And I direct all of you to look at the nine criteria in board policy CDC local tonight. I don't think these donations should be approved. The money should be returned and you guys need to part ways with these law firms. Thank you. >>

018Thank you for speaking this evening. Um, our last public comment comes from Kevin Mack. >> Good evening, board. Uh, Superintendent Dr. Patterson. My name is Kevin Mack. I'm the CEO of MAC Counseling. Thank you for the chance to share how we could potentially partner with Crosby ISD. Uh, at the time, student mental health is at an all-time high now nowadays. We had somebody that just came in and spoke about things that's going on in our community. I did write this speech, but I'm going to just speak from the heart. It's at an all-time high right now. Our kids are suffering. Our kids are in trouble. Uh, it's across the board, even with the adults, even with the teachers in the administration too as well. It's very, very difficult to handle these challenges that we're facing.

019My agency is a mental health agency of 30 clinicians. We have 30 licensed professional counselors, licensed clinical social workers, licensed clinical dependency counselors too as well in QMHPS. We recently received an RFP from uh HCBE, Harris County Department of Education where we can provide free counseling services to the students in the school, but also training to the teachers too as well, trauma informed care and also with the parents. Training with the parents too as well. It's very very important that these kids at a young age get the tools that they need so they can grow. We need to plant seeds in these kids so they don't take the wrong path. And that's what my agency does. Like I said, we just received the RFP from Harris County Department of Education where we can provide these

020services free of charge. My proposal to you all is allow us to implement one or two of your most challenging campuses and give us a shot. You know, give us a chance to show what we can do. we can provide metrics and data as far as the turnaround, less referrals, more cla more kids in seat time. That's what I'm asking for. Like I said, Mac, Kevin Mack with M counseling. And I'll also leave some one pagers for I guess the the clerks right here if you all want to reach out for that. Thank you. >> Yes. Just want to let the record show that arrive 648 and we will transition to her. Okay. Thank you. And thank you to those who came and spoke this evening as well. We'll move on to reports for the

021transportation update from Dr. Patterson and board of trustees. I'm here tonight to present a transportation update for the beginning of the year 2025. As of right now, our current staffing, we have a director, we do have a vacant assistant director position, two dispatchers, one operations manager, one chief mechanic, one regular mechanic, one fleet clerk, one bookkeeper, 31 drivers, and 13 bus aids. Uh doing a study on local paper buses. This is where we stand at number four at 1975 as a starting rate of a guarantee of six hours and we rank number four among the list of school districts. So I wanted to share some historical wrership data. In 2020 2021 transportation was only transporting about 3,14 students. Now in 2526, so far this year we are up to 468. That is a 13% increase.

022And if you notice, I put a last column. We're trying to still transport the uh with the same amount of vehicles, but we have increased 13% in wrership. I want to point out buses that arrive at secondary between 6:55 and 710. And this is from August 18th to September 5th. There's about 13 buses that arrive at secondary. And that equivalent is at the high school about 465 students and at the middle school 217 students. And this is a 15minute block before the first bail tardy bail. And then after the tardy bail about four buses average per campus and that equals 216 students at the high school and 94 students at the middle school. As far as buses in the afternoon that arrive after 3:45, we're looking at between two and three buses per campus that

023arrive at 3:45 to take our kids home. That's 45 minutes after school has ended. for elementary. Again, the 15 minutes before the tardy bell from 7:45 to 8:00, it's about 14 buses districtwide and 824 students. And after the 8:00 tardy bell, we're looking at about nine buses on average, 517 students. For the afternoon, we looked at buses that arrive at elementary after 4:35. And again, that's 45 minutes after school has ended. About three to four buses per campus is what we're averaging. Okay. So, here are some actions we've taken in the transportation department to improve our our services. We've added four bus aid positions. We've added that assistant director position. And we've given five raises totaling $243. and that's from 2020 2021 school year and that's an increase of 14 and 300s percent. We offer

024a driver referral incentive for our drivers if they can recruit us some drivers to come and work for us and we also give a attendance incentive for perfect attendance each semester. Our director has also gone to the community colleges to recruit and she also posted our vacancies in the TAP and that's the Texas Association of Pupil Transportation. And then we've trained our drivers and our office staff in capturing kids heart to help with the student behavior. And so tonight, I want to bring to you four options that we've looked at in order to try to improve even more in our transportation department. And so in option one, it is to contract transportation services from a for five additional drivers. And this would help help to alleviate the crowded bus routes and some of the double

025runs. But there's also some cons to it is that it's only a short-term solution and it's a significant cost. Uh traveling drivers from a company would cost about $845 per day per driver. And then there are some local drivers that are currently being trained that they may also switch over to Crosby as soon as January. and that price would drop significantly to $385 per driver per day. Option two is to move the district to a three- tier bail system, and there's lots of pros and cons for this. Uh students will be in class on time, and that's the main thing we want. It eliminates the need for double runs to pick up the middle school and the high school. It helps to decrease the amount of time our buses are stuck in 2100 traffic. It

026allows our buses to already be closer to neighborhoods for the middle school pickup because they've just dropped off at the elementaryaries. It's easier for our department to cover routes when drivers are absent. It allows the elementary students to be home earlier. And then it allows staff to not have to stay later with late students. But the cons to this is CMS students would not get out of school until 4:20 and that would cause issues in rush hour traffic on 2100. Uh the middle school students getting out last could pose problems for families where middle school students watch younger students. And due to the high school starting at 7:05 versus 710, the bus pickup times may need to shift 5 to 10 minutes earlier. And then the final con is that campuses will have to shift

027their master schedule times. Option three is to give our drivers a significant pay raise. The pros is this would allow us to attract drivers from other districts and then it will help fill our current driver vacancies. But the biggest con is it will significantly affect the 2627 budget. And then the final option that we've looked at is outsourcing transportation services. The pros is the company becomes the communicator of all transportation concerns. Then we will have s sufficient number of drivers to meet the route needs without double run. The drivers will receive a higher salary. The cons is there's no more control over it over the operations and then the employees could lose will lose TRS benefits as well as insurance benefits and then of course it will significantly affect our 2627 budget questions. >> So

028this is not an action item. It's just a conversation that we need to have and fled out. So this is just information as a question about the hours. What is the average driver? >> Right now, because we're behind, they're averaging 40 and more behind. We can say >> what staff remains behind with those kiddos who are still at school 45 minutes after. So on most campuses it's the administrators, the counselors. A few campuses do use uh secretaries in Paris and they earn comp time uh when they stay out there. But most campuses it's the administrators and counselors. >> And how many are we short right now? If we were considered fully stacked with drugs, we've got 31. So we're short 13. >> 13. That's right. Make sure are kids eating breakfast in the classroom or

029they eat in the cafeteria. >> It depends on campuses. They all do it different. >> Just based on the numbers you get approximately 2000 students are getting the class late. So I was I had the same question ago about supervising students after school. How are we compensating? I guess how are the people compensated for comp time and administrators out the goodness of their heart? >> Yes ma'am. >> Um do we still share staff between CMS and CHS? I guess my question is which of these would address this need most immediately? So we have just come up with options. We have not come up with a recommendation yet there because there are so many factors for all of these options which is why we did the pros and cons. So at this time we don't have

030say this is what we think this is just these are the things we've worked out so you guys know this is these are the conversations we're having when I think when I look at the cost comparison because I do hear drivers say we can make more in other districts but when I look at this it looks like we paid a comparable salary I' I've asked that question but we pay a comparable salary and they say yes but on the We only get six hours a day. We make less on 4 day week. Is that an accurate explanation? >> That is not. When we moved to 4 day, we did not change anything. So, they weren't getting paid, but I think we actually gave them a raise the year we changed. So, we gave them a

031raise and should have said that. I will double check that. >> Okay. >> We gave them a raise and you're working four less days. >> I I guess I think I'm not even asking that correctly. Okay. So, if we say just a driver six hours on a 4 day week, that's 24 hours, right? >> So, in a neighboring district where they may make the same pay, but they're working 6 hours times 5 days, they would be getting 30 hours. So, I'll go back and double check. I think that's why we gave them the raise. So, that they not receive less than what they were making on a five day. I know, but I think the other people raised their props, too. So, if they were making So, if they're making 1975 in a 24-hour week

032and Scalina Park is paying 1960 in a 30hour week, they're bringing home less money. I mean, I get that we're paying them more, but their take-home pay, which that's what's important to me, how much money I have to go spend is less than if they worked in another district. >> I think what what she's saying, and it it makes a lot of sense. We gave that raise at that time, but it's it's basically eaten itself up by this point with everybody else raising theirs again since. And even though we gave another 3% or whatever, at this point, we're back to that affecting them now with the less hours. maybe for that first year right at right right at the beginning we gave it enough of a raise to make up for the less hours but

033now that's gone again basically because yeah we're still if we look at that chart we're in the middle of the pack but that chart's not talking about the less hours >> how much that actually >> in the grand scheme of things now it hasn't it didn't follow is what I'm saying it didn't track long enough to keep up >> is that what I think that's what you're saying. >> Yeah. I I think I think for hourly employees, what they're looking at is their hourly wage, but how much money do I have to spend on bills? How the hell do I make a living is how much money I'm bringing home? And so making sure that they bring home the same amount here that they can bring home in the neighboring district. And and I realize

034of course right now they're probably working more more hours than they want, but when we're trying to attract people, we can't guarantee that same rate of pay. So I definitely think we should explore. Um also you listed the um I guess as you're investigating them. I would be interested to know are there additional staff members that we need to make transportation run smoothly? Is there is there a missing piece? If we had more drivers, I mean it could work. I think the staff is where you need more drivers. The office has to drive. So I think the driver that makes sense. on the U three tier system. Have we looked at Have we looked at um will the schools be opening like if I have two kids that go to two different schools and I

035need to go to work? Are the one school that's opening later going to be available for me to drop my son or my daughter off while I go do that? Like are we going to open those hours up? We haven't dug that deep into the logistics of it yet. >> And I know that there are a few districts around here that outsource a percentage of their routes and not all of their routes. Is that an option or is that would that make up for a difference of our missing drivers other than just doing five if we gave up five routes to someone? Is that an option or do they have to take all? >> Possibly once they shrimp to to local because right now the only drivers at the one company I've looked at, they

036don't have any local. So, it's costing us a lot more because they're having to come from Austin and San Antonio. Once they're able to train up some more local ones, it probably could balance out where we could get more drivers than five five to to take care of those vacancies that we have. Absolutely. I know that um KDB outsources like 20% of theirs. So I know that maybe we should get with them and see what kind of company they use these companies to see if that would be an option to save us as well. Um and get kids to school on time. >> Those those costs seem outrageous though. I mean for a contract I mean the out here at hotel if we use a local company that is just providing the drivers and not

037making it where we're stay making paying for their hotel to be here. I think that that would be a different fee. I'm not saying it's it would work. I'm just saying there are other options. I know is one of them. >> So this company is not the one that that district uses that we'll call them. But the company we've spoken with, they don't have waffers that are local. >> Yeah. >> So we're we're going to we're going to call the company. >> Yeah. I mean, my thoughts on that though are even even still at 385 a day, which is if they were local because 845 a day is outrageous 385. I mean, if we're $20 an hour for six hours, we're you got $120 for you're paying out per salary. I know there's other costs

038um associated with that, but I still don't think we get to 385. My the other thing my brain instantly does is what are they paying these drivers? And if it if it turns out they're making if they're actually paying them a lot better than our other drivers, what's it going to do then? >> There's a lot to think about with a contract thing that and >> I'm not trying to >> No, you're saying no instantly. I'm just saying to me there's a lot of red flags there when I can't I think bump and pay enough to attract a few more drivers is is a way better solution than that. But the three tier system I think is something that we're only going to be able to avoid for so long anyway. I think there's going

039to come a day where we don't have an option other than that. So that's still up there on do we just go ahead and fight the bullets and and get on that program because it's going to happen one day like I don't think it's permanently avoidable. >> The only thing I would say about the contract system is like I think it's option three where we go full contract is we have some really um great drivers that have been very loyal to our district who have paid into CRS and that is I would hate for them to I would hate to lose them in our family and I would hate for them to lose the benefits they've worked for many years to get >> that's the only other thing that that said that made me think

040I just talked to a district that has program where they're getting high school kids to get their CDL being that starting down >> and we start to build our bench of um >> for when they cry. >> Yes, for when they cry. [Music] >> I have a question. You said in option three it was significantly that's option three. >> Well, I know at one point after somebody came in and audited us, they showed that we actually in this district spent less for transportation than most surrounding districts. And I was always concerned we went there for a day. We I understood we gave the raise, but we also took out a day of opportunity of actually making the money. I'm just wondering, you know, if we magically had money and could throw it out there, are

041drivers just going to come out of the woodwork and want to work here? I mean, if we're talking about spending a lot of money on all these other things, we may just have to in the long range re readjust our budget and consider that it's something that we have to do. Kids have to get to school. They need to be there on time. We know that. And a lot of consequences for that. Unhappy staff, you know, we can make drivers happy, staff happier, kids are more, you know, productive. That's that's my thought. >> I think one last question for me is how many weeks are are we driving? Last question. If we magically got those bus drivers that came to work and we got 13, we have 13 buses they could go drive. >> I

042don't know if we have 13 extra buses. I would have to go check. I don't know if we have 13, but we have quite a few extras. Quite a few, but I don't know if it's 13. I would have to check. All right. Thank you. Okay. Good evening, madame board president Lewis, members of the board uh school board, and superintendent Dr. Patterson. Tonight, I will present the 2025 Crosby ISD state accountability rating. On the agenda, we're going to go over accountability overview. We will touch on domain one, student achievement. Domain two, school progress. Domain three, closing the gaps. We'll talk about overall ratings, targeted support, and distinction designation. So, first up is our accountability overview. We have three domains in accountability. Student achievement, school progress, and closing the gap. The first one is domain one

043student achievement. Student achievement for elementary and middle school. It combines all star scores. It calculates it from approaches, meets and master's grade levels. The domain one score for our campuses for elementary and for middle school are right there. Our high school domain one is 40% star, 40% CCMR, and 20% graduation. Crosby High School's overall score for domain one is 81. Our next domain is student progress. There's two parts to student progress. The first part A is student growth. This is going to be how well a student did versus last year. We also get bonus points for students who didn't pass the previous year and if they get approaches for this year. Part B is relative performance. This compares us to campuses that are similar to us in our economically disadvantaged percentages. for domain two part

044A. These are the um tests that include growth. Part B, we are based on we are put into a 40 comparison group and like I said this is based on economically disadvantaged percentages and that is reported at our October snapshot for our campuses for part A and part B of domain 2. These were our ratings. And lastly, we're going to go over domain three, which is closing the gaps. Closing the gaps looks at data from different student groups to see how each group is progressing towards different goals. Four student groups are looked at. The first one is all students. The second one is our two lowest performing racial and ethnic groups from the prior year. And then our last is high focus. These students are looked at on different components including academic achievement, math and

045reading at meetats or above, academic growth, graduation, telpass growth and student success which is domain one. Our domain three ratings are there. Now our overall ratings, you take all of the different parts. So you have domain one, student achievement, domain two, student progress, and domain three, closing the gap. You take 70% of the best of domain one or domain two. And then 30% of your rating is domain three. Our overall ratings, Barrett was an 81B, Crosby Elementary was a 89B, Drew was an 89B, Newport 88B, Crosby Middle School 72 C. Crosby High School 81B, Crosby Crossroads an 80B. Crosby kindergarten was a 78 only because it's paired with the district. So it gets the same district I mean it gets the same rating as the district is for the district rating. Each district has a

046weight and so it's based on um how much that percentage gives us our district rating. So you can see how each campus contributes to the district. For our district overall rating for domain one, we were 78. Domain 2 A 70, domain 2B 77, and domain 3 79. All of that averages up with the math to a 78 C. Next, we're going to talk about targeted support. Targeted support is based on domain three closing the gap. If a student group misses a target in the same three indicators for three consecutive years, then it is identified as targeted support. Crosby Middle School is our only campus that was identified as targeted support in the following areas. Um, our white student group was identified in math um achievement and math growth and student success. Our continuously enrolled students

047were identified in growth in reading, growth in math and student success. Now the best part are distinction designations. Each campus is assigned to a unique comparison group um of similar Texas schools and a campus earns a distinction to be in the top quartile of its group if it earns um if it's in the top quartile for a certain amount of indicators. So the high school has to be in the top quartile for 33% of the indicators and elementary and middle school has to have 50% of the indicators in the top quartile. The available design distinction designations are in the following areas. Academic achievement in reading language arts, math, science, social studies, top 25% in growth, top 25% in closing the gap, and post-secondary readiness. The following campuses got the uh these designations. So, um, Newport

048and Crosby High School both got academic achievement in math. Newport Elementary got academic achievement in science. Crosby Elementary, Drew Elementary, Newport topped 25% in growth. Drew and Newport 25% in closing the gap. And Drew and Newport in post-secary readiness. Any questions? Okay, >> next is land and facility board committee report. I'll leave one there. >> Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Patterson, Board of Trustees. I'm here tonight on behalf of the Land and Facility Committee, uh, which is made up of myself, um, Trustee Humphre, and Trustee Thomas, who's unable to be here tonight. Um, and we've got three things to present to you. Um, the first one is going to be forformational purposes only. It was an evaluation of the Crosby Middle School uh, restrooms. Uh the second one is going to be a recommendation to you

049on the uh Red Barn uh athletic uh fieldhouse. And then the third one is going to also be a recommendation uh from the committee to the board for an old uh for our old administration building. Um so you've got three um stapled handouts right there. And so I'll just begin with the first one which is going to be uh the Crossy Middle School restroom. On August the 27th, a special committee was escorted throughout Crosby Middle School to evaluate the conditions of all of the restrooms. In doing so, we compared each one to the renovation proposals of performance services versus what we as a committee deemed necessary to provide our students with while keeping a mindful eye on the uh financial commitments. The committee would like to recommend that the following items just be considered for

050immediate attention. Uh the list below is quite exhaustive, so I'm not going to go through um each one of those individually for you. Um I would like to point out here, however, that the majority of the items listed below can be accomplished inhouse by our maintenance and our cleaning teams. For ease of understanding, we have uh taken this we've highlighted those items in yellow for you. uh the other items will have to be outsourced to a third party to accomplish but uh we as a committee do not feel that they are too extensive to require a project management firm. Um so as you can see as you can go through them uh we're going to start with a 100 hall. Uh each one of them we went into the boys and the girls restrooms. Um

051generally speaking um they're kind of all one and the same. Uh they need corrections made on mirrors. Uh sinks being pulled off of the walls. Uh we have faucets that are loose. We have motion sensor faucets that need to be replaced. Um we have some trash back u baskets inside women's stalls that need to be reinstalled. Uh toilet lids that need to be replaced. Essentially, it's just a big um it's just a maintenance of each one of these restrooms. All right. Um, again, all of them that are in yellow are things that we believe can be handled in-house. Um, I do want to point out to you, however, that as you scroll through these or or scan through them, I'm sorry. Each of the boys restrooms have issues with the wall-mounted um vanity sinks and

052those are being pulled um off the walls. Um, that is not something that we can handle in house. Uh, it will require a third party contractor to come in. Um, so we would appreciate administration going out and get some bids on that. Our recommendation, if you can just imagine walking into any one of the boys restrooms where there's two, three, four, or five wall-mounted uh, vanity sinks on the wall, is to completely remove those and install one long trough style sink um, which would be supported to the ground so it's no longer hanging on the wall to eliminate the young boys who are pulling them off of walls. Um there's some AC supply grills, some returns that need to be cleaned. Um quite a few bulbs and lens covers that need to be replaced. Uh

053there are a couple of bathrooms um that we feel especially the faculty restrooms that completely just need a repaint job um to freshen those things up. Uh we've got some hot water uh faucets that are not operable. Uh we have some urinals that are not operable. But again, all this is is stuff that can very easily be corrected. So I'm going to skip down and if you'll follow me to page seven, please. And it's titled miscellaneous notes. Our recommendation is that through all throughout all the restrooms, this is the third bullet point there, that all restrooms, they just essentially need a deep clean on all the restroom stalls. Um, and when I'm saying restroom stalls, we're talking actually uh the dividers, the physical vertical walls in there. Um, all the AC supplies and grills in

054all the restrooms. Um, throughout all the restrooms, there are some toilet seats that need to be replaced as I mentioned earlier. In doing so, we just want to ensure that maintenance has a few of those as extra inventory so that they can be replaced easily in the future. Um, we also want to just make sure that maintenance is doing a thorough evaluation of all the bulbs throughout the facilities and getting those replaced in a timely manner. Um, and we know that that's going to happen um, a lot now with maintenance given more time because of our landscape contract that just occurred. So now we can get into um, our schools, our facilities and maintain those a little bit better. But the big one, I'm going to spend some time on this one. It's going to

055be the last bullet point and it says urine smell issues in boys restrooms. It was quite an experience for this community. Quite an experience. So, let me read this to you. After touring all of the Crosby Middle School restrooms, it became apparent that the urine smell in all boys restrooms was an issue. The main culprit, of course, is urine on the floor. However, another contributing factor to the potent smell is the type of floor. The tile flooring laid in the restrooms is approximately 1 and 1/2 by 1 and 1/2 in square tiles. Um, it comes on 12 by 12 sheets, but they're little inch and a half by inch and a half tiles. All right. The design creates an excessive amount of grout, a total of linear of 84 linear feet. However, if that was

056to be a 12 in x 12 in tile, that would be approximately 24 linear feet of grout. In an average size restroom that was evaluated, that is a difference of more than 1,200 linear feet of grout. of four football fields long. So you can imagine little boy's urine getting onto approximately 1,200 linear feet of grout. Being that grout is a porous product, it absorbs and retains urine causing the smell to linger even after the floors are have been mopped. It is our recommendation that the floors be cleaned every Friday afternoon with an enzyatic cleaner since urine is acidic. Evaluate weekly costs for laying down peads under all urinals with laundry service. An estimate should be obtained from whomever our contract is with clothing for maintenance or another company who provides these services. There are floor

057drains in restrooms as a safety measure to prevent water damage should there be any leaks on fixtures within the restrooms. These drains do not have water flow to push out the excessive urine from the P traps. We just ask that uh we discuss uh with our cleaning team that these drains need to be flushed out regularly. So what I've done for imagery purposes here, if you'll look at the two images below, uh the first one with the little the uh the blue there, that illustrates a floor drain with a P trap. The blue would be the liquid that sits inside of that floor drain P trap. Okay. To the right is going to be a wall-mounted vanity sink. You'll also notice that it has a P trap down at the bottom. It's hatched in gray.

058The difference between the two, however, is the vanity sink has water that flushes that P trap out every time they wash their hands and turn water on. Our issue is the floor drains, the urine or when they mop the floors, that water sits in that P trap and becomes stagnant. There is nothing of gravitational force that pushes that stuff out. So, as it sits in this floor drain and never gets flushed out, that is a lot of the smell that we're getting in those restrooms as well as the urine um which is soaking into the grout. So, it is not our recommendations this time because it would be quite costly uh to replace the flooring in there. Um, but it does need to be cleaned more regularly and as I mentioned previously um it needs

059to be cleaned with an enzyatic cleaner uh because urine is acidic and so you've got to neutralize that. Any questions on the Crosby Middle School restrooms? Again, that was forformational purposes only. Um, as the committee was tasked with going and evaluating the restrooms after we received um a presentation and an estimate for performance services. >> The ground crew starting are they qualified to do work? >> Maintenance crew. >> The people that were doing the were the ground crew. Mr. Mitchell. >> Yes. But they won't they won't be doing those intent to clean the deition part. They can do those people not in the actual maintenance people who do the plumbing. >> So we would relieve them from the other duties by the ground project. >> The plumbing items to to follow up on that question.

060The plumbing items that are highlighted in yellow are simply tightening the faucets that are loose. So there's not any physical water connections or anything that have to be made. >> So I guess our next question is we have a budget to correct all of this in the current maintenance budget. >> So we're going to start working on the list and we'll come with the >> I know at some point I cannot remember We I feel like we've been talking about multiple bathrooms for a really long time. I know at some point we heard from someone and and I apologize for not remembering who that they felt like it would solve a lot of supervision issues in the restroom or in the hallway. This does not provide that. Correct. >> It does not. Um the cost

061associated with that as we heard from performance services previously um again I'm not going to speak for the committee on this one um personally um was pretty excessive. >> Okay. >> That's the way we discussed it. It was we all felt that >> from that contractor. >> Yeah. I think I think everybody felt that way. I just meant I I did hear I know we heard from someone that that was a the DMS. We need we can't get in there to hear. That's when they do things that shouldn't you know there. >> So, and what they had recommended was moving them out, moving the sinks out and going with the basically the tamperproof or whatever you call it, vandalism resistant. We're still saying that style. And so them being like that should hopefully give a

062lot longer life because it's not going to be a suspended offthe-wall sink that they could just jump on basically and break it off because that's what happens. They go in there, jump on, rip them off, whatever. These are a totally different sign where they've got floor support, base support. The plumbing should be all >> Concealed behind that. So they shouldn't be able to kick pipes and break them either. So our space again I think in talking through like if you can solve that problem it doesn't need to be exposed. It'll be too hard for them to mess up. It shouldn't it shouldn't be as big of an issue. And the other stuff they can still break bathroom stalls toilet seats but obviously they can't move that out. So if they're going to do that they're

063going to do that. But this should hopefully at least give us a lot longer life versus constantly remount the sinks and buying new sinks. >> So the recommendation is to keep the same for y'all's recommendation is that we're going to keep the same style sink that was brought to us by the other company, but we're we're leaving in the restroom. It's not pulling them out. >> Yes, ma'am. That's correct. All right. The second item that the uh committee is bringing to you tonight is going to be um a recommendation on the red barn and the a mechanical um areas. On August 27th, the land and facility committee reconvened to discuss the current state of our middle school athletic facility and the red barn. Through those discussions, we narrowed down the pathway moving forward to three

064options and ultimately landed on the recommendation that we would like to present to you today. Before presenting that recommendation, we would like to discuss the three main pathways that we considered. First, do nothing. Put the renovation package out on a bond proposal. After discussions, we felt that due to that previous commitment that the district made by incorporating a renovation of the facility into the approved 2017 bond and then failing to provide due to the financial debacle that this option was not our best. Option two, take a minimal approach in renovation cost. In doing so, a minimalistic approach could be had and a renovation of pure cosmetic items or necessary items could be had. Unfortunately, it couldn't be both, and it would still leave the district with two lingering issues. A vacated a facility within the

065middle school and a wait room locker room that would continue to require our middle school athletes to walk through a parking lot to utilize daily as well as provide a subpar and failing facility to all of our athletes who use the fieldhouse. Through discussions, we concluded that the monies we spend need to be impactful and long lasting. Finally, that leads us to our um our last option here, which is our recommendation to the board, and that is to take an extensive renovation approach to the Red Barn, as well as a renovating transition of the middle school a facility into an athletic area consisting of locker, weight, and training rooms. The committee agrees that our facilities make up a very visible presence within the community. In doing so, we will exhibit exhibit the pride we have

066in our facilities, our students, our staff, and our community through ensuring we maintain appealing facilities. As we evaluated the options and scenarios, there were many talking points, and we'd like to briefly present a few of those to you. The discussion of eliminating a CTE area was one of the first conversations that we had. Through those discussions, we concluded that it is not a reduction as we do not nor do we plan to offer CTE classes at the junior high level for numerous safety and staffing reasons. Also, it is important to note that the current a department facility at the middle school was designed and put into place was as it was originally constructed as a high school. These renovations will assist our middle school athletes in quite a few ways. Allow for an in-house transition

067from classrooms to athletic periods. Eliminate the need of our students to walk through a parking lot on bad weather days. Decrease some safety concerns with students leaving the main building to walk through that parking lot uh at different times to get into the detached uh wait room, which is the red barn. And then finally, the renovation to the red barn will resolve some immediate concerns with the structure such as sewage drainage, plumbing issues, leaking roof, insulation, etc. It will more positively impact the overall visibility to our community members while providing an updated and safe facility to our student athletes, trainers, and staff by transitioning from a dualpurpose weight room, locker room to an athletic facility designed for game day usage of our soccer, track, and football athletes, as well as provide training rooms for our

068athletic trainers and meeting rooms. It is worth noting that after inquiring, we learned this building was constructed in 1972 and has no major renovations has had no major renovations performed in its 53 years of existence. Only minimal reserv renovations at best have been completed. So, it is the committee's recommendation to the board to approve a renovation to the red barn and transition of the middle school a department facility into an an athletic training locker and weight room not to exceed the amount of $4 million. And then finally, the uh third item that we're going to present to you tonight is also a recommendation, and that is on the old administration building. Again, on August the 27th, the land and facility committee reconvened to discuss the current state of our old administration building. Through those discussions,

069we began with two starting points. Sounds odd, but we thought it was imperative in part as they both relied on one another. In order to bring forth the committee's recommendation to the board, we feel that it is imperative to walk you through our key discussion points which led us to this conclusion. So to begin, our two starting points were identifying that we have an asset, a structure and a property that is completely owned. Now unfortunately the state of this building is quite poor. It is one that has become dilapidated and is is an eyesore within our community. Its current state lies once again in the issues from 2017 and then again from the riff of 2018-19. Very sore subject to many but it was from a business perspective that had to occur for the district

070as a business to continue to operate. These two situations caused a major blunder to the maintenance required on our facilities. After identifying this, we then asked ourselves the question of do we intend to renovate this building so that it becomes of use to the district or do we simply let it deteriorate to a point where it is in need of complete demolition? Essentially, do we ever intend on it resurfacing as an asset to our facility inventory as well as maintaining it as an asset financially to the district? Through those discussions, we identified the unlikely possibility of the property being of value to sell for any respectful amount, as well as the estimated cost of demolition and haul off of the structure and all associated debris to bring it back to raw land. We then continued

071with evaluating the property as a raw piece of land. Unfortunately, the smaller size of this property as well as the new detention requirements of Harris County once again provide us with a negative outlook on its possibility of drawing a respectful sale amount or providing the district with an opportunity to erect another structure on it without first spending an enormous amount of money on new detention requirements, architectural engineering fees, demo costs, etc. Our second starting point was to address the concern of our administration being spread throughout the district. To better understand the entire makeup of the administration department within the district, we needed to identify who that consisted of. To our surprise, it was more than expected. Therefore, to ensure clarity, we would like to also make sure you as a board are also aware. Our

072administration team consists of our superintendent, CFO, our business office, assistant superintendent of administration, special education department, our bilingual ESL department, CNI department, directors, curriculum coordinators, accountability department, assistant superintendent of HR and administration, executive director of operations, child nutrition, executive director of communic communications and community relations, communications coordinator, student nutrition, and our district receptionist. All in all, that's an estimated 50 employees. Throughout this discussion, we identified the advantage of bringing the entire administration team together as well as evaluating the current state of how they are dispersed. In summary, the cohesiveness and efficiency of housing our administration staff in one facility stands out as being one that would support our students and employees in a manner we are entrusted to do so with. Those two starting points were the driver towards our conclusion. As a district, we

073are charged with various responsibilities and facilities is one of them. It is our responsibility to have a forward-thinking mindset and proactively plan for the future. Continuing to delay the renovation of this building will only increase future cost. So if not now, when? With that said, the committee has concluded that our best option moving forward with a long-term vision for Crosby ISD is to immediately proceed in a renovation of the old administration building with an amount not to exceed $8 million. In doing so, it will allow our entire administration team to be housed within one facility, providing multiple benefits that will disperse throughout the district. It will free up some miscellaneous rooms throughout our campuses, which will then allow them to be used for specific campus purposes. Maintenance and transportation will then be able to be

074housed back into one facility. Finally, it will resolve the dilapidating property that we own and demonstrate to the community that we are committed to providing and maintaining visually aesthetic buildings to our community while at the same time providing facilities that our staff and students are proud to walk into daily. Our current administration and previous CFO did an incred incredible job with the foresight in accounting and investing with the ESSER funds and bond funds to put us in a financially sound position. Once again, it is the committee's recommendation to proceed forward with a renovation to our current old administration building in an amount not to exceed 8 million. >> Thank you. Before we go, for all of that work, that was a tremendous amount of work. >> Just so y'all know, Philip can take uh a

075lot of that credit. He put all those reports together. You know, we had some great discussions. You know, we uh we took it very seriously and spent a lot of time, but he still compiled everything and I thought he did a great job presenting tonight. So, thanks for all the extra work with all that, Phil. It was really appreciated. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Next on the agenda for tonight's meeting, consent agenda. For the items listed above, are there any items that are requested to be pulled from the consent agenda? If not, do I have a motion to approve agenda? >> I have a motion by Trusty Humphre, second by Trusty Barrett. Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I posted by nay. Motion carries. I came late. Forgive me. >> Okay.

076Moving to regular business. Item eight. As discuss and consider retroactive acceptance of donations made across the move to accept retroactive donations made CISC. Are we able to ask question? >> Sure. >> Robert's informal rules. >> Okay. >> Well, I was wondering why their rent and why we wait. >> So at that time the donations did not come to the board for approval. We received the donation we applied for our admin academy so that money the district was paid to for the team building for the district and it was later brought to our attention and so our attorney said to cover all bases. We we we so we're just basically running this and our work policy or our policies in the district are compromising policies just based on what I heard tonight. >> It is debatable

077on whether it was not illegal. The attorney's guidance was it's available to cover all bases. >> So we have confirmation that it is not >> there. It's not unethical. It probably we know at that time from now on we will bring those such >> donations to the board from now on just to make good on what did not come to you that's what we bring tonight >> that was going to be my only thing if if the motion was out there I was going to wait until to say that was just hopefully in the future we make sure we get that because not illegal attorneys are saying it's good but still it sounds But according to our own policy, we should have done it. So um >> and from >> and yeah, so just moving

078forward, we need to be more careful, make sure we get the tees crossed. >> Yes. Just so I understand the policy for the future. If someone is unsolicited, so any business just says, I want to give you $10 million to buy buses, you can take that because it's unsolicited. But if it's solicited and there's a specific purpose, it requires for improvement. Is that what I'm reading? I don't have a for that because it's also if it's a certain amount and it's designated if they say $10,000 for buses. That's different from just saying here's $10,000 and we say we're going to use it for. So, our option tonight is to accept this and approve it or give the money back to the company. Is that accurate? Mr. Question versus I'm sorry. >> Can you repeat that?

079>> Yep. I apologize. Um, her question of unsolicited versus solicited funds. Um, she essentially alluded to the fact that it only required board approval if it was solicited. It actually to unsolicited if it is specified for specific purp. >> Yeah. What it boils down to for me is there was nothing nefarious here. I mean it's pretty obvious what happened. Um we just need to always make sure we do these things so that we're covered. But I mean implications otherwise I reject fully. So, I think we got to make sure we do a better job. Second. >> I have a motion about Trusty Humphre and second by Trusty Chapman. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Same. Motion carries. 414. Discuss and consider the approval of the 2025 2026

080HB early childhood literacy and mathematics and college career military for goals. Good evening, Madam Board President Lewis, members of the school board, and superintendent Dr. Patterson. Tonight we will present for your approval the proposed House Bill 3 goals in early childhood reading and mathematics and college career and military readiness indicators. I'd like to provide for you today our closing the gap student groups. You can see last year's numbers compared to this year as of September the 5th when we were able to collect this data. You can see the differences in our student groups. Mr. Rebleski also targeted this group in our domain three for you so that you can see that this is the information that comes to us as targets from the state. These are our student percentages. Looking back at the history of

081our HB3 goals, we began with the 2018 2019 school year. we've developed in Crosby the baseline and as we move through you'll notice that we have had two iterations of the star assessment and now we are at the 2526 school year we're asking you to accept the board goals through the year 2030 tonight when we look at how we create and develop our board goals we must start of course with the baseline we look at the targeted outcome and our specific student populations and have a deadline for each school year. Our goals must be specific and quantifiable and we must span a fiveyear timeline when creating goals. We're looking for student growth in the area of reading for third grade and mathematics for third grade. We also track and look at our progress for career

082sorry for college career and military readiness indicators. Tonight we will begin with early childhood literacy. Good evening, Superintendent Dr. Patterson, Board President Lewis, and Board of Trustees. I'm going to review how the rest of the slides for this presentation are set up. We have provided the last three years of data and we are proposing five-year goals. You see on the slide we have board approved goals, proposed CISD goals and the TEA scaled score. This year our goal is 52% to align with the state and by five years out our proposed goal of 63% will have us at an A. And this slide is reviewing of course our third grade star early childhood literacy goal. This next slide is our five-year goals for our student groups. These goals are aligned with meeting the next interim target

083set by the state for domain three, closing the gaps. Here we have also provided historical data and our proposed five-year goals. The next several slides are our progress measures. Again, we are providing the three-year historical data. This particular slide is for second grade and at second grade, we ended at 65% last year and we're proposing 70% and by 2030, our second graders will be at 90%. This slide is first grade. We're proposing 75% and by 2030 95%. We then move on to kindergarten proposing 81% and by 2030 93%. And then we move on to pre kindergarten. We are proposing 84%. And by 20 29 we hit 100 and continue at 100 for 23. Now we're going to move into math. You can see our board approved goal was set at 42% and we are proposing

08446% and again moving in increments to get us to an A rating by 2030. The next slide again is our student groups with of course the historical three-year data and the proposed five-year goals. We then move on to second grade with the proposed goal of 56% for this year and 76% by 2030. First grade we ended at 50% proposing at 55% and by 2030 75%. Moving on to kindergarten 72% is our proposal for this year and ending at 92%. And then we move on to pre kindergarten. We ended this past year at 95%. We're proposing 98% and reaching 100% by 2028 and keeping that 100% goal through 2030. Our next section is our college career military readiness or CCMR. We have the same setup as literacy and math having our previous threeyear data and our

085five-year goals are highlighted in yellow. If you notice this last year, we were at 75%. One thing I would like to mention is when we look at our CCMR data, we're always lagging a year. So, our graduating class this year, they wouldn't show up until next year's accountability. So, keeping that in mind, we did have um end at a 78 C. With the work that we put in put in, our goal is to be at 90% which would be an A for this year, and to continue growing through 2030 to be 95A. Our next slide also has the targeted student groups. At the top we have our previous three-year data and then our proposed goals. Our students um in crossb we have exceeded the next interim target. So we are working on the long um

086longterm targets that are set by tea and that's what our five-year working towards that the 73 88 98 96 98 Our next is our progress measure one, which is our students that will graduate college ready. Um, this last year we finished at 53.2%. We're looking to bump up to 56% college ready, ending in 2030 at 62% of our graduating class being college ready. Progress measure two is our students that are career ready. We ended at 57.5% being career ready. We're looking to bump that up to 65% and in 2030 being at 73% for career ready. Our last progress measure of three is military ready. This is one that will be interesting whenever the data is actually revealed. We ended at 1%. That meant that we actually had a DD4 form in hand for a student

087that is enlisted into the military this year, which will be for next um school year. um this graduating class that we just graduated, they will have their military status um reported by the Department of Defense. So, we could have more students. We were basing our goal based on what we have been able to receive as far as the actual DD4 forms that we get from students. So, our goal was 1.2% of the senior class ending at 3% in 2030. And now we're ready to fill in questions. >> I've got one real quick. It's not really about the goals themselves, but it's something I've been meaning to ask for a while. When y'all talk about their career ready and how they switch to having it be all four years, how did that look for transfers we

088get somebody in this? Because we're going to be growing so much. I'm just wondering. >> For transfer students, it is very difficult. We actually met with a student today and she talked about she transferred from another state which they had career readiness there as well but we have it even when they transfer from a local district and we still the expectation is that we get them the four credits. So, it's always hopeful that if they transfer in as a senior that they've been on path with their pathway and that we can get them certified or that they are closely aligned with us. If not, then we have a business pathway option at um Crosby Crossroads and Crosby High School that we can get them their four credits and we can also get them um their

089business certification. Um, but it is a challenge for the babies. If they come in their freshman, sophomore, or junior year, it's easier for us because we could have them double up on classes um since they are just pure electives and they get to be able to have their choice. But the real hardship for the kids is if they come in as a senior. >> Thank you for that. >> I have a question on the percentages for the proposed fiveyear goals. How are those done percentages? for a specific >> I guess really for all of them just doing a quick math 3% 5% increases on average. >> So we based it on increments to get us to an A rating. So it could be different depending on where we ended, where our students ended and what

090it would take to get to an A rating by 2030. Our goal was to have each category at an A rating by 2030. >> And I would say for the CCMR slides, we took into consideration, we're about to go into an accountability refresh again in 2028 where they are yet again going to send us through a couple hoops. So we wanted to make sure that we were giving our students time to be able to meet the college and career readiness. >> So I know that there is a why but talk to me a little bit about why do we increase the timeline by two years >> from three to five years. So, at the last board meeting, we specifically asked if we wanted to set five-year goals since that's how they're set for house bill

091goals, and it was upon the request from the board that we increase that we present a five-year goal plan. >> I just remember us looking at the goals last time, and we were like, why did we set that as the goal? >> So, just with the accountability refresh coming up languages, So I'm just going to say my opinion and that's all right. What I see with these goals is um very high expectations which I believe in and demanding high expectations from individuals. But what I also see here is a great possibility of never achieving those. And I'm one that um for everyone listening to you standing in front of us, you're going to work your rear end off to try to achieve this. And it is I don't want to be failure for you because

092your efforts they should be supported. you have six and so very quickly the one that I'll look at is uh second grade literacy over the past three years we essentially not okay we're at 69 58 55 stacking and five years we expect to grow to 90% I commend that I just don't think it's achievable so I don't want it to come across that you work your rear end off every single day which I know that you do and that no matter what you do, you cannot succeed. So, I want you to know from my voice that I don't think that is true. Um, I would love it if you choose. It would be a great great thing, but I do have a fear that just So the one that was motion to approve 2025 2026

093early childhood literacy and mathematic and college career and military course goals. I have a motion by trusty Humphrey and a second by Trusty K. Any discussion. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Opposed by Nate. Motion carries 6. Item C, discuss and consider the approval of design build method of project delivery for red barn renovations not to exceed $4 million. >> Second. question. Um my first question is um just to be sure to be local clarify the committee share their deliberations with the superintendent or the board president prior to coming for the full board. I said, "Did you did you share with I was just asking if he shared with you or Dr. Patter. So it was >> just want to go back to local. It says that are fact finding and advisory

094and they shall report their findings to the board. So the board should have ever been added to the agenda as an action item. to the border. Just like that. We talked about this in our last discussion board. No employment requirements. Government B. The boy going to the superintendent and having contractors here and proposal ready. That tells me that we pass the full board and went straight to action by having action item. Um what you're insinuating I completely disagree with there was not a suspicion and it was presentation which I just read I s that it was had as far as coincidence but I don't think that's >> completely inaccuracy >> no we had a wait on this one. Yeah, we haven't had this one. >> The first bid we had was from >> So this

095work is all-encompassing with work we have already been doing. So what we've already done with that whole process will cover the whole admin. That's what we're talking about. >> We have proposal from now >> because they did the facility work and telling us what needs to be done >> and so it is on the agenda as an action item and they are here because they're on the agenda as an action item >> that was for the >> right >> not this we're on >> yeah Roach um the insinuation that that you're here is completely inaccurate the the u the board polic B boy reads that a board committee shall report their findings and recommendations to the board and now shall not assume administrative duties or respons responsibilities. That's exactly what has occurred in reports. The

096committee reported the findings and presented. There is no language in here that says um that you cannot or that you're not supposed to send to a superintendent or to a president. >> I said I did not say that and I can bring it up on the next bullet just to be fair that having a proposal from a architect September 4th implies that we have action before the whole board information last year. I'm a lot >> I was involved to see an action on it. >> Okay. >> Especially after >> didn't we say we would have an action on it ready for this for this meeting? Actually, at the last meeting where we were all in the team of a meeting, we said that we wanted to hear from our community and get their input before

097we move forward with project. That was that was what I heard. Also heard from our um the consultant that we needed to hear from the community before we started more projects because we were trying to build trust and show transparency. If we're asking them to serve on the committee for six months to get us into it, but while they're doing that, we're filling in the back. I feel like these projects were already in the forever like we were waiting for. >> We literally talked about would we agree to the bond if the admin building was on it? And we also had a conversation about should we have the red barn as a second would it be a second proposition. >> We we were all in the same meeting. We all heard ahead. I think that

098we all >> and then we said the land this is something good for the land committee to meet again about. That's what we said and that's what we did. >> Okay. Well, two things. This was voted on in the last on that. >> I mean they agreed on that part. Correct. We're going to agree agree on that. >> Yes, they they did they did agree on that and auditorium. >> Okay. And then you're saying what about the team building what were we all had discussions about what where these fall in the bond we said we need to hear from the community we were building trust with the community that's why we had that committee I don't I don't recall that that was ever part of the long range planning committee or a bond the three

099bonds. Now I did we not say that that that's not something we would want to >> we considered all auctions at one point. The way we left that meeting was land committee is going to go meet again and come to the next meeting with the proposal and we had a meeting and came to the next meeting with a proposal. what we discussed. Is that something you would be willing to do? >> Is that something you can Are we understanding? >> You have a question for me? >> I think she's saying You were told was correct. >> I understood that all of these were going to be part of the conversation with the facilities planning committee, >> the community facility planning committee. So, uh the conversation and discussion uh with the board in the workshop uh

100setting was um involved around what could possibly be potential projects considered by your community in a long range planning process. Involved in that is this uh discussion about projects that are already being considered. All right. And uh for which maybe were included in previous bond elections uh or for which there have already been planning underway and there may be funds available. So this prioritization uh that the board as the trustees of the community uh takes in terms of um you know what do we already have in place and then what might be considered in a potential bond program. Um there were these projects my recollection is those came up. There was discussion about if those projects were bond projects, what would be the structure in terms of referendum like a referendum. Uh however, my recollection

101is that you you have this internal committee. this internal committee was going to meet. Uh I recall that there were conversations about prior uh at least uh the belief that there were prior um commitments maybe that had been either made or implied like in a previous bond that we would want to address. And I heard that tonight in the committee's report as well. So I you know I my recollection is that uh that you know if the resources exist and and and the belief was that uh you were going to uh it was something that was already committed to and a need of the district that you would move forward with that you an option would be to move forward with considering that. So whenever we had the conversation about the committee, our brief if

102if these projects rose to the top and you would say, "Oh yeah, we don't even need a bond for these community committee, we can take care of this with balance." I remember that conversation, too. Like we're going to hear them now, but then you start to act like >> Well, it sounds like you have an action item in front of you as a board. Of course, now I'm I'm kind of wearing my my my board training hat as well. You have an action item in front of you where if the need exists, it sounds like there already was uh if if some of these were tied to uh I think about I think the action item before you right now is the the red barn, right? So that's tied to uh input that you've received

103in the past. So it sounds like there has already been uh community engagement in that sense of it. What I would my recommendation would be as your consultant would be then uh just as was done tonight uh in Trusty Chapman's report is that during this engagement process, we make sure that as you're doing as a part of this board meeting tonight, you're just being as transparent as possible with the district as to the decisions you as trustees are are empowered to make in terms of the facility needs and the um and and the fund the the finances of the district. So, I'm not I don't as your consultant, I have I don't have a uh concern in terms of the process with the board acting on these action items tonight. >> But in the meeting,

104did you not mention that it was like in our best interest to to give I guess not recommend? I just remember you saying if those come up, then we tell the committee we've already we already have the money to take care of this. We can go download them. if no action had been taken by the board prior to that, if if those were still out there. I will say this, uh I I I very strongly believe that uh if if the if the need already exists, if the if the intention is already there that you not wait until after this process has gone through to do that. My my recommendation would be to go ahead and act on it now. Uh because I would want to create the appearance of a lack of of transparency

105if we waited until after the engagement process was done and then we take action on these items. Um I know that's not the intention of the board. I'm just thinking more about >> Yeah. consequences. >> Yeah. Any other questions? My other question was you made a comment that we don't do CTMS. I know in the past we did we stopped doing CTMS. Both of my kids we have >> we do we have we have multiple pathways. I think the big deal is that we don't have them in shop right now. They can be done in Okay. >> So they that's their county repurposed. >> Yes. >> So we have to it's not in the shop. >> Yes. >> I I guess my my concern is multiaceted. I'll say again that um and I've been saying

106this. Well, let me ask this first. What is this coming from? Unassigned fund balance or from remaining bond funds? I'm sorry. >> So, not from and what is the total amount in assigned to unbalance now? >> At the moment we have 10.4 million. I think I think it's the same concern that I've been saying is we h we had that positive study done. We got that report in June. If I look back at that, we're going to have um Crosby Elementary and Drew at exceeding capacity this school year. probably medical is already exceeding capacity and so it seems very irresponsible to me for us to utilize our savings which is essentially what a fun balance is for anything other than classrooms I will be the first to say something needs to be done at the

107red barn but when we're looking at a total of three schools that are already going to be over capacity, one over capacity already and according to the study, two more will be over capacity this school year. It seems very irresponsible and if we know what the future is going to hold as far as growth, I don't think it's I think we see that the the houses are being built, it seems again very irresponsible to our savings on an admin building and a barn because we need classroom space and it's going to be really to explain to my community specifically that we spent $12 million on these items that aren't addressing an immediate need and now we want you to say yes to a bond. I I can't explain that. So, Okay, I have a motion

108by trusty Humphre, a second by Trusty Kiss. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I'm sorry, let me go back. I have a motion by Trusty Captain. Have a second by Trusty Humphre. All those in favor signify by saying I opposed by name. >> Nion. So motion carries 411. Next item. I have a motion by trusty Humphrey and a second by Trusty Chapman to consider approval of architectural services by Think Architecture Incorporated for renovation at the administration building located 706 Runberg via road via RQ2223-00004 and authorize the superintendent to negotiate and execute a contract not $68 million. >> What What funds did this come from? >> A total of $12 million. And I thought you said we had 10.4 balance. >> Project. How much money is left in the 2017? >> Roughly 17.5

109million. >> So by voting yes on this, we're saying that we all agree that we should move $1.6 million from assigned fund balance which we could use to address the immediate need of transportation where we have 2200 students arriving to school weight and we're going to move that money to a time balance so that we can build an administration building. Is that my understanding for this proposal? Was there a reason we weren't tapping into the bond funds for that pretty thoroughly? >> I don't think there is >> cuz both of So both of these things were on the 2017 bond. both these action items that this exact wasn't for to revamp that admin building but that admin I mean that bond proposal in 17 had uh money to like convert CK into an admin building

110>> because we were adding an elementary school. >> Sure. But we we can't build an elementary school with what we have left either. >> I concur that we can't build an elementary school but with $12 million and if a bond doesn't pass we could build on to elementary schools to address capacity. We could address the immediate need using that money. But if we assign this money to an admin building and to a fieldhouse then we have no way to address the need of where students will go to school to learn. And again, based on the proposal that we have in front of us, we are moving $1.6 million out of our unassigned fund balance that could be used to address the immediate needs that we heard tonight. Again, 2,200 students arrive at school 8. I

111would like to address that putting fund balance on salary >> is not a great idea >> because it's recurring and not a purchase. So fund balance or savings is a one time. >> Yeah, that's that's literally how the district got in trouble. It was because of that was paying salaries with outside of our normal budget, >> but it would address immediate needs while we found where we could save 1.6 million in other areas to put towards salary. It would address do I mean we don't even know if we have enough budgets to cover the 13 routes that we need. I'm going to read what I wrote here so I can not ramble. Um I want to begin by affirming that I I agree both our student athletes need improved facilities and our district administrators deserve

112a comfortable functional office space. Those are real needs and I don't want to diminish them. However, for me, the priority is classrooms, specifically when we have three facilities at or over capacity already. Our middle school is literally deteriorating with almost 1600 students walking those halls every single day. I know that you all went through there and looked at those spaces. In addition to what's on this list, I hear from community members, teachers, and students that there are unusable class leaking walls. It is the building is falling apart and it could be a serious support. Our community has been clear. They don't want us to finance the third maintenance through bond. They told us that in the 2017 bond and again in our last sales bond. They expect us to prioritize classroom capacity and student spaces

113before we spend spend money on facilities for adults and athletes. We ask community members to six months of their time to serve on a committee. And we employed a strategic planner to guide this process to spend $12 million now on a bill house and an unused building sent the wrong message in my opinion. How do we justify renovating vacant space for adults while our middle school is crumbling around them? Spending these funds on non-classroom projects risks eroding community trust. The public will rightfully question why we didn't prioritize kids and classrooms first. We know line will be necessary to build future schools and community support will be harder to gain if they believe we've misallocated the resources we currently have. I want to say that I have often supported board decisions publicly that I did not

114necessarily agree on. I've gone to bat and taken one on the chin as a part of the board and I I just want to be very clear if we move forward with this I will not in good conscience lend my voice to support this decision. I just want to be clear about that before the vote. Thank you. I I I do want to say and of course this probably sounds terrible now. I do think you all did a lot of work going into that facility and reviewing that. So, thank you for the time you spent on that. >> So, it's my understanding that we we have limited time for the renovation for to use our buildings that we are proposing to use for admin. So if we if we don't take action now what happens

115to that building >> that's my that's one probably my biggest one of the biggest reasons I came around on this. We've got this asset sitting there losing value continuously that there doesn't seem to be any other good good use for other than renovating. We would lose on it. I I fully believe we would lose bad on it if we tried to sell it. If we just bulldozed it, Mr. Chapman in his presentation called out the reasons why that would be bad to try to start ground up with some other sort of structure we could use. So that's how I can testify. Quite simply, it's a good investment on an existing asset that nothing else can be done with. And so we'd lose all the value in that asset to not do something with it. Now,

116if there was an argument to be made, it would be what else could we do with it? But in for a current need, I don't see it as being renovated with classrooms and splitting up some crazy deal of having students there for any reason along with all the other things about as much as they need I think the admin needs to be together. Also, I think we need this space here for maintenance things because we're going to be asking our maintenance to start doing a lot more projects as we've talked about with middle school. They don't even have an office to operate out of or make daily plans on what they're going to do. I think it's going to free up some room in here. So, for all those reasons, I I think it's I

117can justify it. We have to have classrooms. Obviously, I was the biggest proponent of that in 17. I still believe that. But at this point, after looking at some of the stuff and touring and walking through these facilities, something needs to be done with them. And we've got the money through hard work, savings over the last several years to try to get these stuff. And when you bring up deferred maintenance, I look at these in a way that's what it is. So the renovation, not so much, but you could say that as far as the fieldhouse goes, it it definitely had to have something happen. That's maintenance. And so if a community member wants to say we should pay for that and not and not ask for money and a bond for that, it's like,

118well, it's falling apart right now. So, and we found money and we saved money to be able to fix it. not using these are not going to get a classroom. Are you saying that we can't add portables or I think that you're kind of using that to not do these but how do you know that that's necessary if the bond doesn't pass either to pay for bill how do you know that we need this money for that I mean, I don't know exactly what money we would use, but I think you're just giving a a scenario. So, I guess the question goes back to are we are we being good stewards with taxpayers money if we let the building fall down that we should have taken care of way back when? the red farm we

119should have taken care of way back when. Um, but I mean if if you want to stop the progress that we're trying to make for this district on a what if um you know to me that's just I don't know. So next year when there is not classroom space across the middle according to the study that we have done how are you going to pay for additional spaces for students? I don't know the answer to that because I don't even know that we are going to need to build space next year. I mean, you're you're kind of projecting into the future something that you don't know. We're we're working on sixth grade campus, but that doesn't address a sixth grade campus doesn't address the elementary. I mean, I'm Yes. I'm projecting based on the data

120that was provided. We have this data. It's all there. We've had that since June. >> Yeah. So I don't know if that's like a what if scenario. Okay. When this was brought to our attention, we were assured that these were monies that we have accumulated through good stewardship that we can do these projects and I trust our cabinet and people that brought that to us. And so we have to decide do we go with that or we go with one board member that apparently can run the district. I don't I don't know how I'm running the district anymore. Well, I know that you were not support and with the meeting that we had with the team building. If I remember correctly, you said it was non-negotiable that everyone said that no I I wanted to

121hear what the community said that I just think that I feel like trying to move forward and help the district make progress, but then we look like the bad guys because we want to see that happen. Um, so, you know, I guess we need to trust your expertise with our financ. I'm not asking you to trust anything. This is not just like you have yours. If we have $8 million and we're going to peace mill the middle school bathrooms together with our ground, why would we not use that money to use on the facility that kids are in every single day? That's my opinion. It doesn't have to align to yours. If we were if we were to vote this in tonight and by chance the need for the portable buildings were needed next year,

122would those funds be available? Will they be funds available for that? that am I possly 17 left in >> so between 10.4 20 in 17 we got 27 and a half almost we're talking about less than half of that >> I thought we had already earmarked that 17 and a half for another project the seven bond fund >> couple other than land purposes Okay. So, I have a motion by Trusty Humphre, second by Trusty Chapman. >> Any more discussion? >> All those in favor signify by saying I >> opposed by Nate. >> Absent. Motion passes 411. I I >> I just can't I don't know. I have too many unanswered questions now. I don't >> Okay, passes. >> How does that work? Does extension get taken out to him? I have to look at that

123rules as if they're not here or do they count as part of a majority. Okay. >> That's a tough question. Okay. So, Discuss and consider the approval of the purchase of two box trust from Chesting Ford in the amount of $136,698 via board contract 724-23. >> So moved. Motion by Trusty Hump and second by Trusty Ch. >> Any discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I >> oppose my name. Carries. Board will now move into close session. The time is 8:49. According to Texas government code 551.01 pursuant to section 551.071. 071 551.072 551.073 551.074 551.076 551.082 551.0821 551.084 551.087