May 6, 2025 – Board Meeting

001I now call this regular board meeting of Goose Creek size board of trustees to order on May the 6, 2025 and it is 604. Mr. Campezy, was the meeting properly posted? Yes, it was. And do we have a quorum? We have a quorum. Thank you. I now turn over the meeting to Mr. Matt Flood. Thank you. Good evening, board. At this time, we're going to start with our public hearings. So, I'm going to turn it back over to Ginger McKay. The polit are first. Yes, not coming up. Matt, this is not coming up. Good evening and welcome. Y'all may proceed. Well, I guess you need the PowerPoint. There you go. No, it wanted to have its own moment. So, good evening board members, President Bro Tims, and Superintendent O'Brien. Thank you. We're good. You want

002me to do a presentation? You got it. Don't take it off. Okay, I'm about to touch it. Okay, there we go. So, this is our yearly time that we are going to do the required public comments for our federal grant. So, we have ESSA IDA and Carl Perkins. Um, we always invite students, parents, school district staff, and anyone who wants to participate in providing a comment to do so. And so we have sent out surveys as well as we're conducting this uh evening event so that if there are questions before we begin planning. The ESSA federal grant has a number of different components. The first one is title one part A and that is for improving our basic programs which basically is to supplement some of our resources in our schools that have high concentrations

003of students that are from low economic families so we can have high quality educational services provided. Title one part C focuses on our migrant education program. This fund these funds are to provide supplemental instructional supports as well as some other services for our identified migrant students and their families as well as to conduct identification, recruitment, data collection, records transfer, and all types of activities as required by the law. Title 2 part A is about building and supporting our teachers and our administrators to become great teachers and great administrators. And so it provides training and any other types of mentoring so that they can improve their skill sets for our instruction. Title three part A is our ESL and bilingual fund and it basically provides uh some supplemental resources at a level that are above some

004of the others. So it's like building a cake. This is like the third level of the cake. And for those students, we provide additional services on top of things we're already providing to make sure they're having success with language acquisition. Title four is our student support and academic enrichment grants. And basically, this is to provide activities so that our students have a well-rounded education and they also are safe and healthy as well as using technology effectively. IDEA is our federal program for our special education and idea part B are the funds that are provided to supplement resources that help the district identify students for special education as well as provide those services for children ages 3 to 21. The second part of IDEIDA is part C. These funds provide the resources needed to help the

005district identify students for special services that they may need for ages zero to 36 months. And then the third part of IDEIDA is the deaf education part. These funds provide those supplemental resources as well for our students who are deaf or heart of hearing. And Carl Perkins is the other federal grant that we have. And the purpose is for it to have the career and technical education uh program to develop more fully the academic knowledge, technical employability skills of secondary education students who enroll in CTE programs and programs of study. There are multiple components of it. It requires thus to provide career exploration and career development activities, professional development. It also is to provide skills that are necessary to pursue uh careers in high-skll high wage in- demand occupations. Support integration of academic skills into

006the CCT programs of study. Support integration of programs of study. Evaluate Perkins funded programs including a local needs assessment. Oops. And now I'll give them an opportunity for any comments or questions from you all or from the audience. So just to be clear uh audience the federal spending of dollars we receive which is a small portion of the overall budget of Goose Creek is required to be held in public and therefore we invite anyone who might have a question about each of these departments and how the money is uh spent uh to ask our presenters tonight. So we'll allow for a few minutes uh for you as an audience and then also for our board of trustees. But we have the director of special education, director of CTE, director of federal programs here to answer

007any questions the audience may have in regards to federal expenditures. Hearing none, board members very familiar with it. Hey, I'd like to add one last thing. If you did want to ask a question or felt so after you leave on the district website under the federal pro programs department, those three different surveys are available for you to just click on and answer or ask any question or provide feedback. Thank you all. Thank you very much. We do have one more public hearing that will precede the actual opening exercises. We would invite up at this time the public hearing on the application for NRGC or Bio5 comproller application number J12 for tax incentive agreements. Like to ask you to come up our guest and introduce yourselves and again it will be uh subject to public questions

008at the end of the presentation. All right. Good evening, Madame President, Dr. O'Brien, board members. Uh, this evening we are excited to present a an application for NRG project Cedar Bayou 5 LLC. Uh, application number J212. Um this has been a uh a project that we have we began actually a couple of years ago now and uh it is finally uh moving forward and coming to fruition. So we are excited to bring you um some information on this exciting project. So Jetty it stands for jobs energy technology and innovation. Um it was created by House Bill 5 in the 88 legislature at the sunset of chapter 313. So it kind of replaced the chapter 313 program. Um not as beneficial as it as it once was under the chapter 13 uh section, but it does

009have value uh certainly for economic development and expansion in our area and uh creating jobs and it does have some financial benefit to the district as well. I will uh state before we move forward that uh according to the comproller uh some of the findings in in their approval of this application thus far uh that was uh part uh important to mention is that it was an eligible applicant in NRG. It was an eligible eligible project as well. Um, and there was a 20-year analysis done on the ability for this project to generate state or local tax revenue, an amount sufficient to offset the school district maintenance and operation advalorum tax revenue lost. And then also it h it went through a competitive site selection process meaning that uh had we not entered into this

010agreement or or approved the application. We haven't entered into the agreement yet. It most likely would have gone to another site um just due to the the financial implications of that. And also it was not it's not applicable uh in that it's not a qualified opportunity zone. So that that factor was not applicable to this application. Um, it does, uh, create jobs and it requires a three-party agreement between the company, the school district, and the governor's office. There are some job and investment requirements. Um, and I'm sorry, I forgot to let you all introduce yourselves, but please feel free to jump in if you have a comment. I have Kevin O'Hanlin with O'han and Associates here, as well as Kathy Matias from Oak and Casey. Sorry, I jumped ahead without um, introducing them. My apologies.

011Um, but the job and rein and investment requirements for this project are um county population the investment required is based on the population of the county and um our county the county that's going to be located in its chambers and it has less than 99 thou 99 99,999 um in population and that means it requires a $20 million investment. Um the project is um of an additional 721 megawatt electric power generation plant at the NRG complex and it would create electricity for sale in the wholesale power market. Certainly with the problems of our with our u infrastructure and our power grid in the state that's certainly something that's needed. Um, it would consist of one natural gas fired combustion turbine in a single shaft combined cycle configuration and it would be developed on 9 acres

012in Chambers County near the Baytown Industrial Park. Beyond that, it's $825 million investment. Uh, the land is not included in the incentive and is assumed to be taxed fully in both M and interest in syncing and it's supposed to be operational by 2029. where we are in the application process. You can see the you are here um little um signification there. Um we have just as I read we got approval from the comproller and we're now in the public hearing stage and then beyond that if it is approved um the governor and the uh goose creek will uh make a determination and then we'll engage in our uh execution of agreement. So, also another requirement is that the project must be located within a reinvestment zone. And the reinvestment zone was established in 2022 by

013the Commissioner's Court of Chambers County. And again, it's located um near uh the Baytown Industrial Park. The total general fund revenue impact, as you can see now that we're looking at 403, which is the Jedi Jetty Jedi. have heard it pronounced both ways. Um project it does generate some M revenue but definitely not the revenue that we were accustomed to receiving under the chapter 313 agreements. So some but again you know we're we're also going to experience the economics expansion as a result of it and the jobs and so forth. So it does increase our tax base. debt service uh it it's taxed fully at the debt service level. So that increases our capacity for bond elections in the future if we decide to do that. It it's it helps us build capacity in making

014those future bond payments. So that's a definite plus there. Next steps as I mentioned um consideration by the board to approve the jetty and that will be um an action item later in this uh meeting. notify the governor um and then the governor's office must notify GCC ISD within seven days of their approval. And then um if the governor and the ISD execute the agreement, it must be submitted to the comproller within 7 days. And here is just the board action, the the motion language whenever the time comes that that you can uh utilize for passing that motion. Um Mr. Hanland. Uh, Miss Matias, uh, do you all have any comments or Yeah, that first off, I want to say thanks for being here. But, uh, this project you've seen before. Uh, so that that

015shouldn't be a uh, news to you. The statute is a lot more directive in terms of what the financial terms are. Uh, so that there's not going to be a lot of wiggle room. Uh we can talk it a little bit about the pluses and con that there's a closed meeting and we can talk about it in the back. Let me say this about what's up for tonight. Tonight the the task is isn't the legislature moves in mysterious ways but tonight the task is is to say whether you are agreeable to the possibility of entering into an agreement. uh it doesn't mean that you have to agree to the agreement. Now, I'd never argue that you should do that in bad faith, but if the terms end up being unacceptable to you or something of

016that nature, we could also walk we always walk uh prior to uh final approval. So, what happens is is that if you uh say you're amanable to this, uh the governor's office will prepare a draft. will go back and forth a little bit between us and the company and all that. We'll bring you uh uh some uh language uh some of which you're not going to like because the governor's office insists on that kind of their way or the highway to be honest with you. Uh we got a recently got a concession out of them on one one major issue with respect to recapture or the possibility of that. Uh but the the value here is uh two twofold. If you approve this, you get significant uh assistance. Uh it's fully taxable for debt service

017purposes. So it will have either a compression rate on your debt tax rate or allow you to additional uh issue additional debt. uh that is if SB50 18 doesn't pass and you don't get bonds reduced at $10 million a year. Uh the uh on the other hand uh because of if you recall 313 we gave 100% abatement and then we got some of that back in a pilot payment. in this it's not a 100% abatement 50% because it's not in a it's not in a enterprise zone 50% of the value goes on your uh uh on your tax roles 50% of the value of price value of the property most of which the state's going to get back uh in the form of either recapture or because you're headed for that direction but you're going

018to get the the the revenues is on half of the value of the project times 8 cents uh which is the the golden pennies and that's money that you wouldn't add uh if they don't build it. So there's a little bit of benefit. It's not as much as 313 but uh so that's that that's kind of the deal. There's not a lot of wiggle room. Most of this is constrained by statute, not even the governor's office. Uh but we'll try and if you guys try and pursue we'll try and uh are in interested in this we'll pursue this as aggressively. Thank you. Mr. O'Hanlin did you have anything to add Miss McInness? I just want to add that land during construction there's no M taxes on during the construction period. That's a change from 313

019um where the first two years were during construction were taxable and they changed that were during construction zero M taxes fully tax your INS during construction but zero for M. Thank you very much. Before we open it up to the floor for any questions from the floor since this is a public hearing. Uh just wanted to summarize uh one of our local plants in Chambers County called NRG is looking to expand. In the course of doing so, they must come before the board of trustees to determine if the board is agreeable to this expansion since it is a part of the tax base of Goose Creek CSD. Uh that's what the presentation is tonight. We have the experts in the room advising that this would be a a favorable thing for our community as it

020will increase our overall taxable base and it will also provide jobs. So that is the summary of the present wonderful presentation you just did. But I wanted to just do a quick summary for anyone in the audience that might have a question for our experts. Then if no further and the board has no questions before I ask Mr. O'Hanland to join in on the choir, we want to thank you for your presentation tonight. Thank you. Mr. Fled, you'll introduce our group. Good evening, President Brought Tim, school board members, and Dr. O'Brien. The opening exercises for Tuesday, May 6, board of trustees meeting will be provided by the students from Desavala Elementary School. Deasia Christopher and Alina Rodriguez will be presenting the pledges. We will begin the opening ceremonies with a prayer led by Miss Brock

021Tims. Everyone, please rise for the prayer and remain standing for the pledges. Would you bow your heads with me, please? Lord, as we gather for this meeting, we ask for your guidance and wisdom. May we have open hearts and minds to listen to each other and work together for the betterment of our schools and our students. Grant us the strength to make decisions that would benefit the entire community. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. Thank you. May Thank you. You may be seated. The students from Days

022Elementary will be singing the songs entitled Responsible and Hold on to Your Dream. The students are under the direction of music teacher Miss Heather Ramirez and principal Miss Leah Abbott. At this time, I'll turn it over to our little performers. [Music] I'm able to respond. I'm able I'm able I'm able to respond. I'm able I'm able to react and respect I say respect. Yeah. You're able to respond. You're able. You're able to respond. You are able. Thank you, Miss Ramirez. And I see Miss Roland over there, too. And wonderful job by these students. Let's give them one more round of applause. Where's Miss Abbott? [Applause] [Music] parents, if you'll stand up and let us give you a round of applause as well. Thank you for bringing your kids and supporting us tonight. [Applause] All right.

023At this time, I will turn it over to Dr. Ray Levan for the first set of recognitions and acknowledgements. Good evening, Dr. O'Brien. Board of Trustees. It's a pleasure to be with you today. We are lucky enough to have four, count them, one, two, three, four acknowledgements for the fine arts department today. Um, first, uh, it is with great pride that I would like to recognize Miss Melody McMurray, an exceptional visual arts student at Goose Creek CISD for her remarkable national achieve achievement in the field of [Applause] ceramics. You'll really want to clap after this part. Out of more than,00 entries included over 650 submissions for 11th and 12th grade students nationwide. Melody's artwork was selected as one of only 150 pieces to be showcased at the prestigious National Council on Education for the Ceramic

024Arts NCAA conference in Salt Lake City, Utah. Melody's accomplished. Yeah, you can clap for that, too. And her accomplishment did not just stop at national recognition. She was also rewarded a scholarship to attend a nationally renowned summer art camp and an annual scholarship to the Kansas City Art Institute for Undergraduate Study. Only 15 students in the country received this level of distinction, making Melody's recognition not only a personal milestone, but also a historic moment for our district. So, let's give her one more round of applause. Next, it is with great excitement that I recognize two outstanding students from Goose Creek ISD who have achieved national honors through the prestigious Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition. Congratulations to Abigail Garcia for her piece Between Dreams and Nielli Perez, Thing One and Thing Two, and they have

025their artwork with them today. Both students are under the direction of Miss Annie Watson at Ross Sterling High School and were named national award winners a distinction awarded to the top creative works submitted by students across the United States. Abigail and Naelli will be formally honored at the National Scholastic Art and Writing Award ceremony in New York City in early June. an extraordinary opportunity and a testament to their hard work, creativity, and commitment to excellence. Please join me in recognizing these students one more time. Next, we will be recognizing our TDEA allstate dance students. This honor is the very highest honor a student can achieve from the state dance Texas Dance Education Association. Our all state dancers are Miss Reese Harvey, senior from Ross S. Sterling and she serves as the colonel of the Sterling

026Stars and her directors are head director Miss Lorie Alexander and assistant director Joanna Isis. Next from Robert E. Lee Destiny Sea. She is also a senior and she serves as the colonel for the Robert El celebrities and her directors are head director Miss Alice Hendrickson and assistant director Miss Morgan Galvan. And last, but certainly not least, we have Miss Kiara Marie Cormier, senior from Goose Creek Memorial High School. She serves as the captain for the GCM Dazzlers, and her directors are head director Angie Upshaw and assistant director Julia Burch. Our last uh fine arts recognition this evening will be students have uh who have been recognized for their outstanding work at the state visual arts scholastic event. These students were selected from among over 32,000 regional entries from across the state of Texas and nearly

0272500 pieces being selected at the state level. a remarkable achievement that reflects the strength of our visual arts programs and the dedication of our educators. First, uh, from Lee High School, we have Miss Wisdom Jordan as well as Mr. Jose Ramos under the direction of their teacher, Miss Melissa Rangel. And for the record, uh, Miss Wisdom, she was unable to be with us today, but she is a threetime state qualifier, and she is in the 11th grade. So, she has qualified for state every year that she has been competing. Next from Ross Sterling High School, again we have Miss Annie Watson with two first day qualifying students, Miss Svia Marisagan and Nielli Perez. Also, we have one young lady that could not attend, but let's give her a round of applause anyway. Her name is

028Miss Megan Griffin. She also qualified for state from Sterling. All [Music] right. Good job, Dr. O'Brien. You saw that noble effort. Uh, last but not least, Goose Creek Memorial High School. We have Miss Brothna Sang who is a two-time statebased qualifier and she has two pieces and she has both of her art teachers here. He he I'm sorry. I I need to look up, don't I? Uh, Brandy Agalar and Janna Morris. Thank you so much again and thank you for the opportunity to recognize all of our wonderful fine arts students. Good evening, President Bars, members of the board, and Dr. O'Brien. Tonight, the Career and Technical Education Department is proud to recognize in its outstanding group of students and educators who achieved superior honors at their respective state competitions in the areas of future business

029leaders of America and Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. These exceptional students not only demonstrated academic and technical excellence, but they also sh showcased leadership, teamwork, and innovation. We are thrilled to share that each of these students recognized tonight has advanced to compete at the national level in June. Let's begin by recognizing our FBLA winners from Goose Creek Memorial High School. Their parliamentarian procedure team placed first in the state. Please join me in in congratulating Patrick Bour Jr. Luis Gomez Quasm Quasmosine Maximilliano Gonzalez, Clayton Wood II. They are led by their dedicated adviserss, Mr. Freeman and Miss Rios. [Applause] Next, we honor our FCCLA winners from Steuart Career Techch High School. The food innovation team placed first at the state competition. Congratulations to Eric Gonzalez. and Alex Lopez. [Applause] We're trying to get our

030next ones in here. Sorry, it's a little crowded out there. I don't know if y'all Well, there's a lot of people out there. Um, let me get my thoughts together really quick. We have a great group of individuals here today. Um, so first off, let me go ahead and get started. So, uh, good evening, uh, President Barack Tims and Superintendent Dr. O'Brien and members of the board and any guests that are in the building today. It's truly my honor tonight to recognize a an exceptional group of educators, our physical education cohort teachers, who have also shown unwavering dedication to both their students and to their own professional growth. The past few years with funding from Bwell Baytown, a group of our PE teachers have committed themselves to enhancing the district's comprehensive physical activity programming through

031advanced training in catch, our coordinated approach to child health and the integration of best practices in physical education. Their efforts extend beyond the classroom and into the culture of their campus environment, making physical activity more engaging, inclusive, and impactful for every student. Members of this group have also led staff training and not only at not only the local level uh level, but at the state association, TARDI uh the Texas Association of Health and Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance. Tapered is over 101 years old. And a historically interesting fact is that in 1974 and 1975, Carmel Norton, an avid golfer of Goose Creek Country Club, represented Goose Creek CISD as the president. Some of these physical educators have stepped into specific leadership roles within TARDI organization and even here locally on our Goose Creek CSD SHAK

032committee or as a campus champion to sustain and address the needs of creating healthier school environments. Their work directly supports the board of trustees physical activities goals outlined in our local school wellness policy. goals that prioritize quality instruction, increased activity opportunities, and a holistic approach to wellness. Thanks to their leadership, we are making meaningful progress toward creating a district where daily movement and lifelong health are foundational parts of every student's experience. On behalf of the athletic department, I want to thank Amanda Kennington for her relentless effort to build up the Goose Creek physical education department. You have dep You have definitely been a true leader in our for our PE coaches and a tremendous asset to Goose Creek CISD. Also want to thank this dedicated cohort of educators for going above and beyond. You're not

033only shaping stronger bodies, but you're also shaping healthier minds, building confident leaders, and bringing our wellness policy to life in real and measurable ways. So, congratulations and thank you for the work that you do every single day. I'm going to go ahead and call their names out and as they as I call their names, they're going to walk up to you, Dr. O'Brien. Uh from Sanino Elementary, Bruce Cortez from from Banwells Elementary, Justin Capato and John Hackett from Banwell. No. Okay. From Austin Elementary, Rachel Dudy. It's okay. From Harlem Elementary, Charles Johnson. [Applause] from Highlands Elementary. Cameron Cotlars from Highlands Elementary. Joe Couns from Desavala Elementary. Marcus Limrich. Wow. Do we have from Desavala Elementary? Uh, Angela Roland from Alamo Elementary. Amanda Lucas from Carver Elementary. Jamie Reese from Saneno Elementary. Kristen Reyes from Travis

034Elementary. Stormmy Selman from Pumphrey Elementary. Jennifer Starr from Carver Elementary. Tony St. Julian from Harlem Elementary. Sher Young from Asheville Smith. Cynthia Martinez and from Clark Elementary. Wayne Skelton. Thank you. [Applause] All right. Good evening, President Tims, board members, Dr. O'Brien. The area executive directors for campus leadership would like to recognize our participants of the Pathways Academy. This pathways academy um is a unique leadership development program for our classroom teachers with a master's degree who aspire to lead an administrative role. This program is designed to equip prospective leaders with a comprehensive overview of the principal ship. Participants were chosen after an application process which included submission of their resume, quality of responses to short essay questions which were scored using a rubric created by district committee and a favorable recommendation from their principal. Participants engaged

035in discussions and activities around topics that included instructional leadership, climate and culture, professional learning communities, human resources, and preparedness for administrative interviews. We are very proud of the work and commitment that these participants have had, and we look forward to seeing the impact that they will have in our district. All right, from Horus Man, we have Ashley Amin. [Applause] from Cedar Bow Junior High. We have Jade [Applause] Cherry from Buoie Elementary. We have Christa [Music] [Applause] Cologne from Asheville Smith Elementary. We have Corey Cooper [Applause] Sweat from Sterling High School. We have Bria Emanuel from Crockett Elementary. Christina Fernandez. Also with us is Latanza Hagerty Allen from Highlands Junior School. [Applause] We also have Rudara Mateo from Saninto [Applause] Elementary from Gentry Junior School. Kamisha [Music] [Applause] Simpson from Crockett Elementary. Jennifer Variel. And from

036Pumprey, we have Kirsty [Applause] Williams. We had a total of 16. Five couldn't be here with us this evening, but we appreciate all of your hard work. Thank you very much. Congrats. All right. Good evening, President Barack TS, Dr. O'Brien, board of trustees. Two years ago, the community engagement team set a goal to increase support for non-English-speaking families in our schools. And from there, the Hispanic Outreach Initiative was born. I'm honored to share the podium tonight with Mim Trujillo. This this is the district's extremely talented multimedia design specialist and leader of this work. On May 1st, we hosted the second annual Dia Delino celebration. This year, this year's event builds on the success of last year. And I'd like to first note that we recently learned that our first Dia del Nino district event earned

037the best in category award for special events by the Texas School Public Relations Association. So essentially, um, this award is giving Goose Creek CISD the title of having the best community engagement event in the state. [Applause] Dia del Nino Children's Day is a beloved tradition dedicated to celebrating kids simply for being kids. Held at Goose Creek Memorial High School, this year's event welcomed over 3,000 children and families. The district-wide celebration was a result of year-long planning effort led by Mima and Veronica Dyson, our district translator. [Applause] Thanks to the support of our sponsors, we raised $6,500. And we're grateful to our title sponsor, Onyx Group, Realtor, Goldsponsors, GBT Technologies, and Enterprise Products into Niagara Bottling Company for providing water for the entire event. Family First Er also sponsored our family loia, a Goose Creek CIC

038themed version of the traditional Mexican bingo game. And these sponsorships are going to support a series of upcoming parent meetings held in uh Spanish uh in Spanish. And this will create a a space for our Spanish speaking families and ensuring that every parent has access to resources, information, and support they need to help their children to become Higantes or giants. Last, um we would like to take a moment to honor the hardworking committee members who make this event possible. So, please come to the front when your name is called. First of all, my partner in crime, Veronica Dyson, Stephanie Aguilar, Bri Alcaras, Sema Cisneros, Brenda Vanova, and Aurelia Isnaga. I'd also like to note that we had over 90 high school students volunteers who supported the event and um parent volunteers as well. Um so

039please join me in another round of applause for this awesome group. Thank you. Also, I'd like to note you have one of the um event brochures that uh supported in winning the TES award. So feel free to dig into that. And I think some treats from the event Excuse the intermission. Okay. Good evening, President Barrett Tims, Superintendent O'Brien, Board of Trustees, and distinguished guests. We're thrilled to be here today to recognize the accomplishments of Goose Creek, and our greater Baytown community in the 2025 Healthier Texas Community Challenge, which is a statewide initiative designed to promote healthier lifestyle across Texas through a friendly competition and community involvement. Out of hundreds of communities and school districts across Texas, Goose Creek CISD proudly earned second place overall with 5.7 million total points, which is an 88% increase from

0402024. An amazing accomplishment that reflects the energy, enthusiasm, and dedication of our schools, staff, students, and families. We're honored to welcome Councilwoman Laura Alvarado from the city of Baytown, who joins us tonight to celebrate this joint success. Baytown also earned second place in the medium city category for their outstanding commitment to the healthier Texas Community Challenge. Councilwoman Alvarado, thank you for being here. Thank you, Amanda. Um, so we led this charge for eight weeks and we did it. Um, so our community stood out uh thanks to the dedication uh of all of the members who took part in daily logging of all of our activities. I wish the walk from the grass out there in here wouldn't counted. Um, but we can't we can't forget it's just not the eight weeks. It's continuing and keeping

041that going. And so it's healthy cooking, it's walking, it's jumping, it's uh eating nutritious meals even when you're out. Um so make those healthy choices. So this award um is a testament to the power of collective action. It shows what happens when a school district and a city truly embrace the spirit of wellness and has a little competition along the way. And now we want to take a moment to recognize someone who has gone above and beyond. You probably already know who this is. Um, and not just for the district, but for the entire city. Uh, and for the entire state, excuse me, the entire state. Um, so please join us in celebrating Mr. Sam Chapa, who has once again proven himself as a wellness superstar. He's got an invisible cape back there. So, Sam

042has earned the title of top individual points leader in the state of Texas and our local champion for the fifth year in a row. Amanda That's right. He's a quintuple champion. Sam's dedication, consistency, and encouragement have inspired so many within our community to take part and stay active. We're incredibly proud of your leadership, Sam. So he's receiving his quintuple trophy, his community medal, and a Texas flag since he has the most points in the entire state out of about 13,000 people. So very proud of him for that. [Applause] Of course, we can't forget about the schools that showed outstanding participation this year. We're proud to recognize the top three GCC campuses that earned the most points in their respective categories and this year's recipients of the coveted salad bowl trophy. These are sponsored by awards

043and engraving. We also celebrate the celebrated the school staff with a breakfast supported by Bwell Baytown and the DCCIC employee wellness department. All right. So each of these campuses rally their communities in creative and committed ways. Their energy made a real impact by demonstrating what school spirit and healthy habits can achieve. So, as I call your school, please join us at the front to accept your award. And then once all schools have been announced and we'll do a group photo. Um, so the salad bowl trophy is awarded to Lee High School principal Ernest Brooks and wellness champion Stephen Bingham. Lee High School was the top 10 campuses in the state with 1.3 million points. Come on [Applause] up. Of course, it's our it's my alma mater. Yours was too, wasn't it? Board member Yes. Don't

044walk away. We need the group photo. Um, so the junior high school salad bow trophy is awarded to EF Green Jr. So the principal is Dr. Alicia Babin and wellness champion Carla Ariano. They [Applause] hear Miss Ariano inspired others to participate with a whopping 347 referrals. All right. And last, but certainly not least, the elementary school salad bowl trophy is awarded to Harlem Elementary for principal Betty Baka and wellness champion Sher [Applause] Young. This is Harlem's third year as Salad Bowl champions. Congratulations to each of you. So as we finish up the successes made possible by those who pledged our support. Thank you Goose Creek CISDB board of trustees for your pledges. District and campus administration for your support. Our school health advisory council Bwell Baytown collaborative and the city of Baytown. Goose Creek CISD

045and Baytown have shown what's possible when community prior prioritizes health. Thank you for support and let's aim for number one next year. [Applause] All right, this concludes our recognitions and acknowledgement. At this time, I will turn it back over to Dr. O'Brien and board of trustees. All right. Let me see where I'm at. Does anybody think Mr. Flood should get the trophy for the longest presentation? [Applause] All right, Mr. Flood. Well, thank you. We We will know next time. Okay. Now we move to number five on our agenda and that is citizen participation. Uh no, do we have any citizens participating tonight? Okay. And if before I go into my spill, if anyone had arrived late, we did look into our policy and that we if we and I know some was kind of confused

046on signing in, but we can't allow you to come after the time to be able to speak, but we're glad you're here anyway. We thank you. So, citizen participation is uh the time during which the board will hear public concerns or public comments from those who have properly signed up to address the board. At regular board meetings, the board will allow public comments regardless of whether the item is a topic on the agenda posted with notice of this meeting. Each speaker is reminded that he or she is limited to his or her presentation to a maximum of three minutes which can be further reduced or limited by the presiding officer as Mr. Campezy will keep the time. Please also remember you should respect confidentiality concerns and refrain from attacking the personal character of any individual,

047student, staff member, or board member in addressing concerns or comments pursuant to state of Texas law and board policy be legal that the uh the board cannot consider or take action or concerns at this meeting unless they pertain to an item on the posted agenda for this meeting. Any deliberation or decisions on an item that is not posted for consideration at this meeting shall be limited to a proposal to place the subject on agenda for future meetings. Okay, we will have now we will get started with our folks. So, Mr. Floyd, do you have everything ready? So, our first up our guest card is Mr. Jim Coffee. All right, we're going to try something a little different this time so I don't interrupt the speakers. There's a timer on our desk right here. You'll be

048able to see the time just like we do. It'll turn red at the end and you'll be able to see a real time. It's right here. Uh I will also alert you. I'm not going to interrupt at the one minute mark. Uh we'll see if this works out better for you. You can begin when you're ready. I'll try to talk fast. You hear me? You got plenty of time. All right. I'd like to thank the board of trustees to let me speak and nominate my mom, Karen Coffee, for the naming of the professional development and event center. As requested, thanks to help from Miss Garcia, I've submitted the nomination in writing that I hope the board takes the time to read. Uh, and as I did that, as I wrote that up, I thought I

049knew my mom well, but holy smokes, I can't believe all the stuff she did for this district. her career expanded 50 years from 1969 to till she retired in 2019. And I think everybody in the district just about knows her. Uh and so what I'd like to do is in getting all that done, I had uh two I have some peers that gave me a lot of information. So I'm going to read real fast some comments from two of those peers that I gave letters of recommendation. First is renowned orth national author Ruby K. Payne. She says, "I first met Karen when I came to work for GCCSD in 1992 as director of professional development. She was in the central office in the role of providing training for the elementary schools in the areas of

050reading and language arts. She had already been with the district for several years. And in the years that I worked with her, I learned that Karen was an exceptional educator in multiple ways. Her understanding of the pragmatic reality of the of the classroom, her innovative ways of reaching students, her exceptional understanding for students with special needs, as well as her ability to work with administrators and teachers. I started my own consulting company in 1996 and left GCCISD. But Karen went on to lead the GCCISD division of 504 interventions. She was phenomenal. Under her leadership, the district had no legal litigation for 504 issues, which is incredibly rare. Because she worked with students, parents, and educators to find solutions. Um, because of that, my consulting business has allowed me to work with over a million educators

051in the last 30 years. And I can tell you that I would put Karen in the top 10 of all educators I have ever known. She is phenomenal. Because of her nearly 50 years of commitment to GCCSD and Baytown, many individuals have been positively impacted. That impact will continue for many future generations and the building should be named for Karen Coffee Professional Development and Event Center. The next one is from Kathy Littlefield. Karen was the director of intervention at GCISD for many years. After her retirement, the district contacted Karen to do Project Reed professional development and to coach teachers on the implementation of Project Reed. Karen Coffee greatly impacted my life and the life of my students. I am a retired teacher from GCCISD. Karen was instrumental in implementing Project Reed, which is a multiensory

052language arts curriculum for classroom group settings that focuses on phonics, reading, comprehension, and writing. It's designed to honor diverse learning styles. I will never forget how my second grade students reacted the first day I used this method in my reading class composed of hes hesitant below level reading students. Their eyes lit up as they used manipulatives to learn phonics. I heard surprise marks remarks such as uh this is reading. It was fun. Can we do this again tomorrow? So as we continue the year, those no longer hesitant readers looked forward to this new avenue of learning. I felt empowered by knowing how to help my students learn and attended every project read professional development given by Karen. I was a prize student, even opting to repeat the same project workshops more than once. It was

053life-changing for me and helped me make be a better educator. I have had my former students tell me, "Thanks for making learning to read easier for them." I say thanks to Karen Coffee for recognizing the need and knowing how to fix it. Karen Coffee greatly apprec impacted the children, parents, and teachers across GCCSD. Her impact is felt by our grown students as they are now better prepared for life. Thank you. Your time is expired. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We now have Ned Smith, Sandra uh Dur. Thank you. You're welcome. Start by stating your name and what you're speaking on. Okay. Sandra D. And I am wanting to recommend Karen Coffee for the uh to name the building the professional development center for her. Uh, and it is my honor to recommend that to

054you. She is my colleague and she is my friend. Karen is a living legend in Goose Creek. In a career that spanned decades, she was a pioneer in many ways. She forged a path for atrisisk kids and dedicated her life to providing the support, tools, and training needed to ensure the her success. After many years of substituting in Goose Creek and raising a family, Karen's full-time career began at Crockett Elementary where she quickly found her niche. She was working with students who struggled. Whether the struggle was behavior, a learning disability, or an emot an emotional issue, Karen never gave up. Based on her success and methodology in the series, she was asked in 1992 to take on a new role as the lead teacher for Project Reed. Six months later, I was hired in a

055parallel role to be the lead teacher for dyslexia. This gave me a front row seat to witness firsthand the magic of strategic methodology and strategic professional development in the hands of a master. Karen was a pioneer in this area. She would go into classrooms and would teach lessons with the highest needs kids while their teachers watched. I want you to think about the courage that that took. Whether it was whole group or small group, she would engage the students in a meaningful way. The teachers would observe their students interacting and experiencing success like never before. She would then provide training for the teachers to learn the strategies and methods. These sessions were held in the evenings on Saturdays and the summer. And as you can imagine, the rooms were always full. I still work in

056the professional development, and it's amusing to me to see the current trend in PD. See it, name it, do it. Karen Coffee was using that strategy 30 years ago. Her ability to connect with students and staff served Karen well in her subsequent roles. She later became the director of dyslexia 504. A key part of that job was training and leading the dyslexia specialist. But Karen also realized the value of teaching all teachers how to support struggling students. As her job evolved over time, she provided oversight for kindergarten, pre-K, homebound students, and positive behavior supports. In each role, she utilized professional development as a primary tool in equipping staff for success. So much of Karen's success was her ability to connect with people, to help teachers understand the the specific learning needs of the student, to

057help parents understand the difficulty the child was facing, and to help everyone work together to meet the needs of the child. In each row, Karen forged a trail. I always said she stood in the gap for kids. The gap is that space where kids are al often lost or left behind. Karen stood in that space to provide teachers, parents, and students the knowledge, the information, and the tools needed to experience success. I can't imagine a more appropriate name for your new professional development center than the Karen Coffee Professional Development Center. Thank you. Thank you. My gosh, did I get it right on time? Thank you again. We next have one. Our guest card is uh Quasin Coffee here. Same thing. Your time will show on my iPad on my desk right here. If you'll state

058your name and who you're speaking about. Okay. Uh my name is Kaisen Coffee and I'm proud to nominate Karen Coffee for the naming of the professional development events center. Karen happens to be my mother and while uh I wasn't always present to see the full uh scope of her work within the school district. I witnessed time and again her unwavering love and dedication to her students, especially her own children and grandchildren. She taught me when I was young, instilling in me the skills and confidence to excel academically academically during my undergraduate career. What stands out to me most um in my memories is watching her work with her granddaughter who was severely dyslexic and faced numerous challenges in learning and reading. Karen poured her heart and expertise into helping her um and she overcame many

059obstacles that might have seemed insurmountable to others. Today, Jada Manard is the senior at Goose Creek Memorial High School. And she's set to graduate 44th in her class, placing her in the top 8% of of that school. And if Jada were here standing right now, she would tell you how much her Mima meant to her and how instrumental Karen was in achieving all she has accomplished. Karen Copy's impact goes far beyond teaching. She changed thousands of lives, inspired success um among students and teachers alike. For this reason, I am honored to submit her name for this recognition. And I do have one letter I'd like to read from a former principal and administrator in the district is named Dick How. It is an honor for me to take make the recommendation for consideration of Karen

060Coffee for the naming of the uh professional development event center. Karen Coffee and I worked together for many years in Goose Creek. When I opened the new Crockett Elementary School, Miss Coffee was one of the teachers who helped me uh so much to achieve our our goal. Children come first in all the decisions. Karen served all the special ed education teachers. It was evident how much she loved the children she taught. It was inspiring to observe her teach children in such a kind and thoughtful manner. The children paid her back in their respect and love for her. Often parents of her students had obligations at work and weren't able to make the meetings um during school day. So Karen was always willing to meet before and after school to involve the parents in the child's

061education plans. To illustrate illustrate her dedication and level professionalism, I am reminded of the time when I was enrolling a child who suffered with spinoipida. This envir enrollment was to present extremely difficult situation for any teacher because of the extra demands required to meet the child's physical needs as well as the instruct the other students in the class. I was so thankful that Karen was the the special education teacher because I knew how loving her response would be. Karen was wonderful and she worked in various ways for the little boy to be a true blessing for those of us who had interacted with him. Miss Coffee and I had another opportunity to work together after I was an assistant superintendent for the curriculum and instruction. On that occasion, Karen was working on a position to

062assist teachers in developing instructional skills for students who are having difficult time with reading. Karen again served the district in a professional, loving and dedicated manner which could always be expected from her because of her love for children and the and her love for Goose Creek. I'm h happy to recommend Karen Coffee for this nomination. Respectfully, Richard H. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Uh, next guest card will be Ruben Es Escalon. Good evening. You'll have three minutes. Your time will be right here. State your name and what you're speaking on, and you may begin. My name is Ruben Escalon. I'm speaking for the maintenance department. Um, speaking on the achievements and, uh, a couple of concerns. Good evening uh President Barack Tims, Dr. O'Brien, and esteemed board members. My name is Ruben Escalon, and I

063am the supervisor of trades in the main department. I appreciate the opportunity to speak with you this evening regarding our achievements and the challenges we face. Firstly, I would like to highlight the remarkable work of our department that our department has accomplished. Last year we completed over 12,000 work orders and I am proud to report that as of today we have already matched that number this year. We are on track to exceed 15,000 work orders by the end of the year which represents an increase of more than 25% compared to the previous year. However, it's important to acknowledge that the increase in productivity has come with challenges. Due to staffing losses within our department, the workload has significantly increased for the remaining employees. Despite this added pressure, I can confidently say that our team has

064risen to the occasion. Their dedication and tremendous work ethic have been key to our success. Yet, we must ask ourselves, how long can they maintain this pace? This is the critical question we face as we move forward. Tonight, we gather not just to celebrate our achievements, but to collaborate on finding sustainable solutions. It is essential to ensure that our employees remain motivated and supported so they can continue to strive for success and meet the goals set for our district. Thank you for your attention and support on behalf of the maintenance department. Together we can foster an environment that not only recognizes hard work but also prioritizes the well-being of our employees. Thank you, sir. Our next speaker will be on our guest card is Fred Miller. Good evening. You begin when you're ready. Start with

065your name and what you're speaking about. Uh Fred Miller on behalf of our maintenance department. Good evening, President School Board. Dr. O'Bron, you just heard Ruben Escalon speak. Ruben started his career as a building mechanic, moved up to a carpenter, then the night crew supervisor, and is now trades department supervisor. Another good example is Billy Peacock. He started in the grounds department, moved to maintenance as a building mechanic, and now as our gate and overhead door manager. We have several others. I could the list is long of achievements, great achievements that that we've made as a as a department and I'll put our department against any department in the state of Texas. No brag, just facts. I myself started at the brick department doing brick, stucco, ceramic tile. I've trained in carpenter work, floor coverings

066for the district. I'm now the planner scheduler. I work under Ruben who's a delight to work for. I've been employee of the month, employee of the quarter, and employee of the year. I have excelled and do an excellent job for the district. And for our hard work as a team, and our dedication, we have lost two bereavement days, three holidays, our pension plan, and the ability to drive our company trucks home. Our insurance is very inconsistent. I know of two people uh in the trades department that this year the the policy doesn't cover their uh diabetes medicine that the last year's covered. In closing, I understand the challenges of balancing budgets and the tough decisions y'all have to make, but there was nothing gained in the budget by taking our bereavement days and our holidays.

067Please consider giving them back as a show of appreciation for our hard work and dedication and please consider our other concerns as well. Thank you for your time. Thank [Applause] you. And our next guest to speak this evening is Ar Rusty Sak. Welcome, Commissioner. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. My name is Rusty Sak and I'm here representing the Baytown West Chambers County Economic Development Foundation this evening. Uh I'll just be a moment. BJ Simon, who is our president, could not be here tonight. So, I'm I'm here to sort of fill in uh sort of just in case, but we're here to support the Cedar Bayou 5 generating project, which is extremely important not only to our area to help promote uh in our continued growth with industry and jobs here, but also for the uh

068actually for the Texas grid, for the Urkott grid. Um and uh I think uh I'm not going to make any sort of a presentation. I think your financial people are going to going to do that. Uh but we just wanted to show our support. Thank you. Thank you, sir. [Applause] Okay, moving on. We'll go to next agenda item. Uh Nomi, that's completes our uh citizen participation. We will now move to our approval of minutes on number six. and we will go through each of the minutes because we have to have it on record for the board. So, as we proceed uh for the meeting minutes from March 21st for budget workshop, uh do I have a motion? Um I move to approve. Second. Okay. Motion. Uh do we um motion for Mr. Clim, second by

069Mr. Campy. Uh do we have any discussion? There being no further discussion, all in favor, please raise your hand. Any oppose? And any uh sustaining astension? Okay. One. So 64 and one. Okay. As we move next to our uh 6B, our March 31st uh special board meeting. Uh do I have a motion? I'll move to approve. Second. Okay. Motion to approve by Miss Sky and second by Mr. Clim. Uh do we have any discussion? Any Okay. There being no further discussion. All in favor, please raise your hand. Two, three, four, five. Okay. Any oppose? Any abstension? Two. Okay. Motion carries. Our next um is for our regular board meeting on April the 7th. Uh do I have a motion for approval? Move to approve. Second. Um motion for approval by Mr. Clim, second by Mr.

070Campy. Uh any discussion? There being no further discussion, all in favor, please raise your hand. Okay. Five in favor. Any abstensions? Two. Okay. Motion carries. Okay. We will now move to uh number seven on our agenda and that is the issue certification of elected to the newly elected board members. I think um like to invite Mr. Brandon Benwis up to certify the board members the oath of office. Oath of office. So would you like for the newly slated board members to come to you sir? Come come come around all together. Good. That's right. Repeat after me. I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office of Goo Street CISD. single member district of trustee of the state of Texas and will best ability preserve protect and defend and

071laws United States. Congratulations [Applause] I savior the third solemnly swear or affirmly I will faithfully I will faithfully exeute the duties execute the duties of the office of the office of CISD single member district single member Board of Trustees Board of Trustees State of Texas of the State of Texas and will and will to the best of my ability to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend preserve, protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States and laws of the United States and of this state and of [Applause] Mr. I, Richard, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office CISD single member district of the state of Texas and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution and laws of the

072United States and of this state. So help me God. [Applause] I Helen Bars domly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office CISD single member district 5 board of trustees of the state of Texas and will best of my ability preserve protect and defend the constitution and laws of the United States and of this [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Ben. Well, that locks them into another term. Great. All right. You didn't tell me that. So I'm sorry y'all. Okay. Thanks, Tiffany. When you have a good assistant here, I'm my time just winding down. I'm too excited. [Laughter] Anyway, it just huh? I just began but in certain seats here. Okay. Now, we recess into close session. Uh, this board will now recess into close session pursuant to the following sections of the Texas

073Open Meetings Act. uh private consultation with the board attorney on any or all subjects or matters authorized by law. Uh reorganization of board of trustees. Um discussion of purchases uh exchange lease or value of properties in recognition of uh Texas government section code 551.073 551 074 551 075 551087 No action will be taken while the board is in close session. It is now 7:40. The board will now reconvene into open session. The time is now 7:59. No action was taken while the board was in close session. Okay. Okay. We will now move to reorganization of the board of trustees. I will now call for nominations for the president of Goose Creek CISD board of trustees. Any nominations? Miss Brocks. I'd like to nominate James Campy to be president. I second. It has been motioned and

074second. Motion by Mr. Clim and second by uh Jesse. And all in favor? Any discussions? I have discussion real quick. Uh first of all, I accept the nomination. Second of all, because of technical uh issues as far as our seating up here in computer availability, I would like this to take effect at the close of the meeting. if the board would agree. Okay. Okay. I'll amend my motion to include that. Great. Thank you. It has been mended and second of the discussion from Mr. Kempy. So, as we move forward, um there's been Okay, I call there's been no further discussion. All in favor, please raise your hand. unanimously. Okay. Now I make a motion for vice president of the board of trustees for Goods Creek CISD. I would like to nominate Mr. Clim. I'll second

075that nomination. It's been motion and second. Motion by Miss G, second by Mr. Campy. Any discussion? Okay, no further discussion. All in favor, please raise your hand. One. Unanimous. Okay. Now I would like to make a motion for secretary of the board of trustees of Goose Creek CISD. I'd like to nominate Miss Guy. Okay. Second. Okay. It's been nominated by Mr. Miss Guy has been nominated by Mr. Clim and second by Mr. Campy. All in any discussion? All in favor, please raise your hand. No. All that carries. Okay. Now for assistant secretary of the board of trustees of Goose Creek CISD. I would like to nominate Mr. Martinez. Second. Okay. Mr. Martinez has been nominated by Miss Guy and second by Mr. Clim. Any discussion? That's going twice. Okay. All in favor, please raise your

076hand. Okay. Scores your nose. Oh, good deal. That's it. Before we move on, Madame President, I would like to publicly congratulate you on a year well served and on behalf of the rest of this board, we appreciate your leadership for the past year. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Thank you. Well, thank you all and for bearing with us and me during this time. And um I am the most happiest person in the room [Laughter] tonight. Just they didn't want to shuffle tonight. So I'm going to keep it going on. And the next meeting y'all will see another face right here. So am I happy about that? Of course. I'm hit one time for you, Dr. Fry. All right. So let's move on to our uh number 12, our discussion items.

077We uh 12A is the superintendent's report. Our first presentation will be from a group of teachers. I'm excited to invite up to uh our presentation table the superintendent campus connection grant proposal presentations. Please come on up. When you get up here, Mr. Flet will show you how to turn the mic on and then we will allow you to introduce yourself and talk about the project that you've identified for this calendar year to go and be implemented next school year. It's green. Okay. After you introduce yourself, someone please say what your purpose in being here is tonight. What was our mission? All right. So, we're representing the um superintendent campus connection committee. I'm Rachel Lawson. I am a representative for the elementary schools representing Harlem Elementary as well. I'm Laura Pacina and I'm representing Carver Elementary.

078this year with uh lots of consideration we were trying to tackle something that um seems to be occurring across all campuses which is our response to behaviors um positive negative however maybe although yes we got up a lot more with the negative. So, um, our elementary school proposal for, um, this year is or what we're breaking it down to is, um, we're going down campus by campus group by campus group, as in like high school, junior highs, and elementary schools. And we're proposing, um, a grant. And, um, our elementary school one, we're calling a a behavior response grant. Um, and we want to provide the opportunity for each campus to consider their individual needs and determine the best way to allocate grant funds. Um, for example, we were discussing a registered behavior technician, which is

079an individual who would be able to deescalate situations quickly, um, check in with students, everything like that. Um, or the funds could be used towards PBIS and, um, awarding positive behavior and such. Um, our response to in-class behaviors, our administration, front staff, and support staff aren't always readily available to assist teachers when negative behaviors need immediate action. We also want to focus on ways to allow instruction to continue for the majority of our students. We are proposing the following to allow each campus to evaluate their needs and develop their own behavior plan. Possible examples are positive parties, reward days, behavior incentive stores or a house system uh support etc. and or to provide a RBT which is a registered behavior technician to a pair of professional to support teachers in an immediate deescalation of negative

080classroom behaviors. offer a stipen to train pair professionals due to the increased responsibility. These pairs would be responsible for checking in with certain students regularly and providing positive reinforcement and support. The major, excuse me, the major reason why is that um we determined our elementary schools need greater adultto student ratios. With our current budget and constraints, we determined the best way to assist our teachers, students, counselors, and administration is to provide behavior support to students who are not necessarily receiving specialized services. We have support staff in place for our special populations. But what about the students who are struggling to control their emotions, dealing with overwhelming situations, or our positive behavior population? Providing the opportunity for each elementary campus to determine their behavior needs and allocate funds to support and implement their plan is the

081focus of our grant. So the application and the implementation each campus PBIS committee will access the need assess the needs and submit the application. The application will be reviewed and will either be returned for reassessments or funds will be distributed for implementation. The implementation of the campus plan will occur September October of 2025 and will be evaluated midyear and end of the year. Successful plans will be shared and considered for further implementation across campuses. The funding to be determined. Thank you. Thank you. You said 25, but it says 26. That's a typo. That was a typo. I apologize. Sorry, that was a typo. I just Sorry about that. This fall. We're hoping for this fall. This fall. Yes. We would like to make them wait a whole year. No, we would like it to start

082this. If you saw mine, you would have What is What is PBIS? What is PB PBIS? PBIS is positive behavior implementation system. That's it. Intervention support. There you go. Yes. So, where is the grant coming from? That would be coming from the superintendent campus connection funding. Um, line item with the superintendent. There you go. Yes. Y So we basically are going to be funding it ourselves. Yes sir. So we get a grant from ourselves to our campuses. It follows it follows a similar pattern to the education foundations innovative teaching grants. That's where this sort of idea came from is uh to enable campuses to empower themselves to take some action to improve student uh behavior. Yes. So they developed this system and that's what the presentation is tonight. How to go about procuring the funds

083because the funds would sit there otherwise. Yep. We're just looking at different campuses. Every campus is different and each campus. Some campuses needed more positive and positive uh reinforcements or we needed more prizes for our house parties. And so we kind of based it off of the education foundation grant and said, you know what? if we give it back to the schools and says you have to choose you can choose what you want to spend it on but it has to be based off of behavior. So are we going to use existing personnel to do this or we talking about hiring this would be with existing personnel. We've um analyzed the different pair of professionals currently on our campuses and tried to determine the best way to approach them if we were to go the

084route of the RBT training. Um, with that being said, there has also been some other um, ideas tossed around with our new student services. So, Mr. Samson, just to be fair and transparent, it was proposed that we add one registered behavior technician to every campus, which would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $2.4 million. So, that quickly went south and we went to the stipen model as presented to you this evening. But we did ask, we were pushing for it. We're pushing for one person per campus. Yeah. It's like, okay. So, we're trying to be a little more reason. Those numbers weren't coming. So, we're talking about getting giving a siphon to certain individual teachers if the campus seemed necessary if the it would be up to the campus. The campus could choose either or.

085And with that being said, further development would need to go if that was a decision made by the campuses to make sure that it's streamlined across all campuses and it's fair and consistent. So, let me ask you a question. Are we we're trying to get to the point where we have one at every campus? Are we having uh a person that splits campuses? One per campus would be the dream. That would be exactly what we would like to see happen. Yes. But right now, we we're going to crawl, right? So, yes. Yeah. Okay. And what kind of a stifen we are talking about? that would be determined once we develop the idea a little more in that situation if we were looking to towards an RBT um trained pair professional. Are we talking about someone

086who's more experienced? We were looking at individuals that um we we were thinking about giving this more as an opportunity for our pair of professionals that work handinhand with our students that have those have built those relationships, but they're not necessarily in a teaching position, but they're supporting our students. We see a lot of really good pair professionals that deserve to be recognized for those relationships they build, and this would be an opportunity for them to probably most likely apply for that position at the campus to receive that stipen. Okay. I'm just curious. I just saw numbers running across me like, you know, unfortunately, I mean, we we would love to see um you know, upwards of like a $2.5 million $2.5 million with our current budget constraints. Um we understand that we need to

087take our ideas, implement them, see how successful they are, and then re-evaluate in the future. Okay, that's all I Mr. Samson, just for clarification, the super campus connection is a group of the teachers of the year from every campus across our district who come together and meet with me once a month and their challenge at the beginning of the year is how do we want to improve Goose Creek and they identify an area that they believe we may be omitting attention to and this year's um unanimous call was to address student discipline. So, the programs that you're going to hear from are elementary, junior high, and high school tonight that are going to uh because they're uniquely different based upon the students that they serve, they're presenting different programs to you. So, you've heard the

088first one. We've got two more to go. Oh, okay. So, again, this is a grant we created from our general fund. Yes, it is. So, why don't we just put general fund uh grant instead of SEC? Uh, it sounded like we got a grant from from the federal government or something. I'm just curious. It's been a line item in my budget for 10 years. Okay. And it's a it's a program designed to put the power back in the teachers hands as to how we can improve our school district. So, how much money is in this? So, it is generally $50,000 up to $100,000 depending on the presentations and what the need is. each year annually. We're proposing about 2500 per campus which comes to approximately $8,000. But that's the variation each year. Yes. That's a

089lot of money. Yes, sir. A lot of kids. That's a but we feel it would be beneficial. For sure. So, this will be a special assignment, if you will, for a an educator that's already being paid by the school district. It could it could be potentially. It potentially could be. Again, this would be based on the campus needs. And so, each campus would propose um a plan to us that would be a their behavior response grant, behavior response plan to apply for the grant to receive the funding. Mhm. back to their presentation. It could go as a stipen to a person to go and remove a kid from a classroom or it could go to um positive behavior intervention systems rewards like bicycles for kids who behave well for six weeks or something of that

090nature. It's up to each campus to apply for the grant and utilize it how they see fit to in general improve student behavior across our district. Yes. Which is a very valid and important thing to do. Our major concern was the students, the general population students that tend to get pushed to the side that we we oversee some and we want to make sure that we implement something to help them get their best education. Okay, great presentation. Thank you ladies. Thank you. I like it. Thank you. Oh, we're gonna start charging. This is just a discussion. Discuss. Okay. Fundraiser. When will this come up? No, no. I'm just asking so I know. Oh, it's already there. It's already set aside. It's earmarked. Okay. All right. So, that was uh the elementary school proposal. Um this

091will be the middle school proposal. introduce yourself. Yes. My name is Deborah Silverberg and I was selected to represent the middle school cohort. Uh I represent Baytown Junior School. I am the coral director of Baytown Junior School. Uh Warren Simpson from Cedar Bio Junior School. Addison Ramsey from EF Green Junior School. Jennifer Martin from Gentry Junior School. Certie Cole Carney from Highlands Junior School. and Britney Johnson from Horus Man Junior School were our other representatives uh and teachers of the year who Why didn't they show up? I'm sorry. Why didn't they show up and they left you holding Mr. Samson? She's the represent. There's one spokesperson for each cohort of It would be nice to have five or six, but we do have others in the audience. Would y'all like to stand up, please, and

092show that you're here to support? Thank you for being here tonight. Thank you, Mr. Samson. Thank you. I I'm here, Mr. Samson, so you'll have to Well, I get what he's saying. Have to make do with me, right? I get what you're say. You sat through the their discussion and they just left you up here by yourself. You know, I'm curious. You know, I am a choir teacher. I'm used to performing, so I can I was I was wondering there for a sec cuz you weren't speaking or saying anything. So, I was like, what's she doing? All right. So now the middle school department um we have one recommendation that will not cost a dime and we'd like to share that with you. Um Dr. O'Brien shared with us that uh we have undergone a

093shift in the experience level of our faculty. uh since co we now have 54% of Goose Creek teachers that have less than 5 years experience and we feel that at the middle school level particularly uh middle school students need teachers who have command of a classroom. Yeah. Uh we propose the following three items for our instructional leaders at the middle school level. Number one, we need to develop a common protocol for our new teachers that explicitly outlines common classroom disruptions and how they should be handled. Uh whether they want to do this on a flowchart or a one-pager, um this needs to be clarified and standardized across the district and among administrators uh to help our new teachers. When do when should parents be contacted? When should office referrals be written? And when should students

094be removed from class? Frankly, ask three different administrators and you're going to get three different answers. And I feel as a veteran teacher 26 27 years now, these are questions that I sometimes still have to ask myself. And with our adjunct faculty program and alternative certification programs giving us more and more new teachers, this is something that our instructional leadership could provide to help in teacher retention. Number two, we need to train our new teachers in parent communication uh strategies to build better relationships with our community members. When you make a phone call to a parent to let them know that you've had an issue with a student, there are ways to approach that conversation so that you can let the parent know that you are on their side, that we are working together to

095help build a strong relationship and not tell a parent, you know what, your kid's a jerk. It it just it could go one of two ways. and we need to let them know that there are ways to make that call a positive call. Number three, train new teachers in deescalation techniques so that the amount of time that we're spending in redirection is not taking away from instruction. So if we have our campus leadership unite to create these protocols and training, we believe that management will improve and we'll have a much greater chance at retaining these newer teachers. So that's our first recommendation. However, that's not a use of those grant funds that we were talking about. So next slide. So why did we mention that if it's not a use of the grant funds? I'm

096just asking. because we felt that it was worth mentioning as a recommendation to our board and our instructional leaders and we wanted to make sure that we brought it to your attention. Okay. I I well I appreciate that but I'm not an educator by any means but don't they have sponsors like somebody that we do have mentors. You have mentors. That's true. But only in the first year and if we hire an educator who comes in in their third year or their second year they're not assigned a formal mentor. Okay. So, they're still they're still green, right? They don't have a formal mentor. And if you're someone like me who's a coral director, I'm the only coral director at my school. I don't have someone to reach out to. And so, if we have someone

097if we have this training for every teacher of under five years, that helps to plug some of those cracks. Okay. I was just curious. I'm asking. Yeah. Issue number two, this is where our grant funding would be addressed. We suggest that for the middle school, as opposed to every school spending their money in a different way, we would like to see the middle schools pull their funding to get the Smart Pass app to help control restroom and hallway misbehavior. We believe that the majority of our middle school misbehaviors are happening in the hallways and in the restrooms. When we go from elementary school to middle school, we see a change in the routine that keeps students with the same one to two teachers all day to a very sudden burst of autonomy. Students must get

098to and from classes and lunch and take their water and restroom breaks on their own. And unfortunately, some students take advantage and do not use that time responsibly. Surprise. Sorry. Now, we are seeing a huge growth in vaping and substance abuse, inappropriate behavior, social media challenges, and even unfortunately selfharm. These are taking place in the bathrooms. By law, we cannot place cameras in bathrooms and locker rooms. Administrators cannot enter restrooms, or at least they're limited in the ways that they can. The Smart Pass app can prevent student meetups, quote unquote, track student usage, monitor which restrooms are being used and by whom. Lock out students from being out of class at the same time if we know that certain students are tending to meet up together and provide reports of this data. Now, the results

099that we expect from this is that it will allow students physical needs to be served without question or favor, without interrupting instruction, and it will use technology that we currently own. It operates off of the iPads that we currently issue to all students. It will require all middle schools to use the behavior grant money that we anticipate from this superintendent's campus connection fund. If we pull together, because of the progressive price structure of the app, it's 5,100 students approximately, but it would only be $2 to $3 per student. Successful piloting has already taken place because Highlands Junior School has been using the app this year. So, we've already tested the app at one school and it worked. They love it. any questions that you'd like to ask me? Um, I may be way off down

100a rabbit hole or something, but do they have fire exting fire alarms in the restrooms? They they can't pull the fire alarm in the restroom. No, I'm just talking about nothing for smoke detector smoke detector in restrooms like regular smoke detectors. Yeah, something that could, you know, like somebody vaping in the restroom. Okay. We have not installed the vape detectors if that's what you're talking about, right? Yeah, we haven't installed those. I know that we've been looking at those, but we haven't installed those. That way you can detect. I know those exist, but they're pretty pricey is my understanding. Dr. Price can speak to it. It has been piloted on some campuses. Yes, we have some on some campuses and we were supposed to finish out the rest of campuses with that unsuccessful. Yeah, we

101are talking about junior high. We don't have them at Baytown Junior. Okay. I can speak to that. Okay. We're talking about junior high campuses, right? Yes, sir. Right. Yeah. Yes, sir. And they're smoke they're smoke quite a bit, sir. It's It's It's a problem. That's crazy. Well, I was just curious about that. Yeah. You when you said vaping, the smoking and the vaping unfortunately is a problem at the junior highs. Yeah. And we we were as proactive about it as we can be. So, thank you, Miss Silverberg. We appreciate you. I could have queued all of you up a little bit better and letting the board know. Let's give her a round. Thank [Applause] you. The super campus connection has been meeting for 10 years. Uh, and it is a group, as stated, 32 teachers

102of the year who come together and meet with me once a month. And the first meeting of the year, I put a blank eel on a a blank canvas on the eel and say, "Here, go." And they're objective is to make Goose Creek better to find a way to improve um something in Goose Creek, teacher retention, it's ranged from the uh security locks, um various other uh programs each year. So, this is a once a year presentation you're getting from the teachers of the year. Uh, and they do nominate a representative, so you won't have 32 people up here presenting to you. There you go. But I could cued it up a little bit better. Go ahead and introduce yourself and talk about Before we move on, Randy, I got a Do you have another

103line item for each of these like junior high and high school? Like, how many line items do you got with 80,000? I just I'm being serious. Like how many is it? Just one light on just one for 80 to 100,000 or 50. We say one. Just one. Okay. Yeah. Just making sure. Okay. Good evening. My name is Jared Lynch from Goose Creek Memorial. I'm Sarah Herwick from Sterling High School. And then we do have Carla Johnson from the virtual academy and uh Kurt KMA from Peter E. Highland in the back. Uh we are here to represent the high schools. Uh basically we found that most of our findings support the same things that everyone else is saying that student behavior is a problem. Um where it comes to tardies truency luring in the hallways um

104it's not just bathrooms. We found at the high school level that our issue is not in the classroom it's in the hallways. It's the kids not where they're supposed to be. Um and that's affecting grades accountability campus safety and all of those types of issues. Uh we do know that with our current district budget, hiring new administrators, more administrators, more security, more teachers, it's not happening. Um so we tried to figure out what is a what is something we can do with the line item money that Dr. O'Brien,000 with the I want 100. He told me 50. I know. I got you. But we're going to split it. We split it three ways. 33 33 33 and we'll let Randy keep all of us. Perfect. So, what we decided to come up with at the

105high school level kind of encompasses what junior high and uh elementary said. It kind of encompasses everybody that we want to make this a grant system just like the education foundation where there's $2,500 on the table per campus. they would have to apply for that grant, use it whichever way they determine whether they want an RBT specialist, whether they want a uh the Hall Pass system or if they want to use it for behavior incentives because what we've discovered is your traditional high schools have a different need than sometimes your non-traditional high schools. Like so your virtual school obviously is not going to have kids in the hallway while your traditional high school that's what we're going to have. Now give me an example of each. What high school is traditional? Which one? So your

106traditional high schools, we're looking at Roberty Lee, GCM, and Sterling. And then your non-traditionals, we're looking at Peter E Highland. You're looking at the virtual school, and you're looking at Gotcha. Okay. So career career, they count as a traditional now. Um, so the main thing about the grant, however you do decide to spend it, is it does have to focus on student behavior. Um, and it must be measurable. So what is the what does it look like for us is that it must be measurable linked to a smart goal which means specific measurable achievable relevant and time bound and it addresses student behavior. So there are a few different examples that we came up with. One an incentive program for positive behavior which kind of is like the PBIS committee. uh staff training focused on

107behavioral interventions, restorative justice circles uh circles, peer mentoring programs, parent engagement or purchasing materials. So those are just examples that any school can write their grant specifically for their campus how they decide to use it. Uh what we have decided that the requirements for the grant and we do have an example of the application is that um it has to be to propose a behavioral initiative. It has to begin no no sooner than September 1st and then it has to conclude by April 30th of that school year. So that way we can take that data and present it back to you with our findings on how well it performed because it's going to perform well. Um, it does have to have the smart goal. Um, it does have to have measurable outcomes. So, at what

108percent did we get an improvement? At what percent did we reduce student issues or student behavior concerns? Um, and then we bring it back to May 15th. The goal behind this grant is that we find a positive value in it and then we can somehow find more line idol money and sustain it for the years going forward. Um, with that being said, we have to be very sure that each campus is uh making sure that they're holding their grant writer, their grant people accountable and that they're actually getting the posit. I'm glad you brought that up. So, is this the first year we're doing this? Yes, this is our proposal. So, if we love it, we love it. But Randy said he had that line item for 10 years, but they do something they do

109something different every year. Last year they did convocation outside and bought lawn chairs. It's okay. I'm just trying to behavior grants. I'm just trying to put No one ask no one asked questions about complication nature. I'm just trying to figure out what happened to all this money we've been having here. But hey, you you know, but I it's more understandable to me on the high school level because of, you know, they're more leaning toward adults and they're Yes. You know, they're a little bit more mischievous. Not all the students, but you know that and and that's why it's the grant system is they can use it. If the elementary finds a need somewhere specific, they can use it because those kids are going to eventually come to us in the high school level and we

110would like to fix it then and not have to worry about at the high school level. So, an example of our the at the high school level, what we would use our $2,500 on would be a student behavioral support stipend. So what we would like to do is identify an already employed an already employed teacher someone who's licensed who is already teaching and they would um become a part-time outreach mentor to students that have been identified um by a committee and we would use the P like all of our campuses have a PBIS committee led by one of our assistant principles who's in charge. So they would be the one responsible to making to keeping the uh mentor accountable and making sure it is going forward like it's supposed to. So what it would look

111like is we the principal or the PB PBIS committee would identify an English teacher that's well-liked, well-loved, could use an extra $2,500 in their budget. Um, and they would give up half of their uh, conference period a day or two times a week, three times a week, and they would use that time to meet with those kids that have been identified. Pull them in, pull them out of class for a couple seconds, meet with them, say, "Hey, what's going on? I noticed your grades are dropping. Hey, you you were absent yesterday. How are you doing? You've missed three days of school this week." Just to put them on the radar and know that those kids are being watched. Won't that take away from their parent teacher conference or call time when they're on? That's why

112we're proposing they do it two to three times a week and it's only half of their time. So you're talking 20 minutes three days a week and that's what the stipen is for because we are taking that time. So we are uh we are rewarding you with this money. So if you have to so it won't distract from the individual uh uh teacher with the student calling their parents and having parent conferences and all that. Perfect world. No. Um we would hope that the teacher that does that is identified as this person and has the time management and the capabilities to to find the time in their schedule and and and work around that way those systems. Um the the idea behind it is that they'll be the mentor. They'll help the student with goal

113setting and then be that positive reinforcement. So it kind of gets those kids off of the radar that the closer to graduation, no more behavior problems. And if that all works, we've kind of solved our problems internally with $2,500 versus hiring a new person for $80,000. Call me old school, but when we were in school and we were messing up in class, the teachers just, you know, would pay more attention. It's it's not the the problem is it's not in the classroom, right? It's the kids in the hallway coming. Yeah. They're not coming to class. They're just wandering the hallways um you know, during the class period. And you know, our principles are dealing with major discipline issues. So they don't always so those kids sometimes are missed because they're dealing with the major discipline

114issues rather than the kid just wandering and walking around. And another thing we wanted to identify was that it's the 2% of the campus that is the problem. And we would rather our teachers spend their time educating the 98% instead of dealing with the 2%. So, if we could have this teacher during their conference pull those 2% kids out once or twice a week and get them into shape, I think that it would be very helpful from both ends. I I would think that we would need to create a a a program that would restrict their going or being allowed into the hallway and being allowed to go to the restroom, especially on the high school level. You already know who those people are. they're marks, but there are there are a lot of barriers

115and obstacles that prevent that. Um, you know, with students transitioning from class to class, we can't keep them in one room all day, and we can't make them go to class. We can't keep them out of the bathroom. We can't throw them in ISS more than a few days of the year, or then we get into other issues. Um, so there's no perfect world solution. We're hoping that this is a really, really, really strong band-aid. Yeah. Bandaid. Well said. Uh before you guys leave, um status, recommendations, crystal balls on House Bill Six. Anybody? The discipline bill? It's there. Okay. I know it's going while we have a captive audience. House Bill Six is directly dealing with public school discipline and it possibly will allow us to write our own ISS and suspension etc etc. It's

116going to be debated on the floor of the Senate on Thursday. So call your senator in support of House Bill Six because that could really put some teeth into all these grants that you're talking about. Yes, sir. So are you proposing that if they do pass it, they'd be put in school suspension. It's going to give us back some of the things the legislators took away a couple of sessions ago. Well, the goal like possibly sending them to JP court for truency. The goal with our program is to no longer have those students. We don't want them in ISS. We want to solve the behavior. And so, if we can get get behind them and and not have that issue, we don't have to worry about ISS. Well, and a lot of the kids we're

117talking about aren't necessarily huge discipline issues. They're just wandering the halls because they don't want to go to class. What happened to tardy sweeps? Um, we they do them, but they still it doesn't apparently it's not very effective. A lot of ours don't care. You'd be amazed how smart those kids can avoid. Yes. Oh, yeah. Um, and really it is like I was talking to our principles, they said we have about a hundred kids Yeah. on campus that are constant tardy and hallway walkers. So if even if you split it up, okay, first nine weeks we're going to focus on these these 1520, next nine weeks we're going to focus on these 1520 and see if again if the measurable goal works, can we get those kids back in class on track where they need

118to be and then we can get those 100 kids down and then our principles can focus on the bigger discipline issues that we have on the high school level. Do we have metal detectors? No. Oh god. Is that allowable? I don't I mean some schools do have them like Crosby High School. No, this is pertaining to discipline. You know, these kids are bringing stuff on the campus right through the very doors they walk through, you know. So that's why I'm asking these questions. We do not have metal detectors. I think part of the problem with metal detectors and on most high school campuses is just that there are typically entry points and multiple they're expensive and so you'd have to buy multiple for each campus to catch all of the entries. High schools talking about

119entry points. Yeah. No. Entry our main building high school has mean at the start of the day like when they come in from the front. Same. Same. Like Yeah. I mean we have at least four to five that they you have to have someone there to man it. But you know what? If it saves one life that kid brings a gun and we catch it, you know, with before they get in there and somebody gets hurt. Hey, I mean I know it's a lot of money, but it's at at this point in time and these the the way things are these days, you know, look, y'all talking about junior high kids going in the bathroom and smoking and doing drugs and stuff. We do have vape dete. We are the the high schools are the

120ones that have vape detectors. We don't have them in every bathroom, but we do have them. Um, and they alert the office when they have vape. I want to commend the board on that robust questioning for this this presentation. Uh I do want to share just briefly that the reason this culminated in multiple presentations rather than one for example this committee could have come up with the app for everyone and that's what we would have implemented but instead they proposed different strategies to address discipline at different grade levels. So that's why you saw three different presentations very unique and individual and that's what I want to point out is the teachers are respected by their peers in between the 10 meetings that we spend two two and a half hours once a month they go

121back to the campus and solicit opinions and ideas and then they come back to our next meeting and we shape and hone what the proposal might look like. At the end of 10 meetings, we're ready to present to the board of trustees and let them know what the proposal is for the upcoming school year. And once again, it's just some strategy to improve what we do. This year's focus was student discipline. I get it. Hey, but I wanted just to summarize what the presentation about and why they were so diverse is because of the different grade levels. instead of going with one plan for the entire district like we have in the past, the um the safety and security film that goes over the slots in the door so that when the teacher flips the

122light, that was one strategy and it provided safety and security for every kid across the district. In the classroom, the lights go off and you cannot see into the room. When the lights are on, you can see through it and you can see into the classroom, but when the light when the teacher flips the light and they go into secure mode, um it's it's a safer environment. So every year it's a different item. This year teachers said we've had enough with this discipline. We need to support our administrators are doing all they can. We need to come up with a strategy and I want to commend not only you that are presenting right now but all the presentations tonight and those of you who came from the super campus connection to support your colleagues tonight.

123Let's give them a round of applause. I I did have a question, but somebody was real longwinded. Uh, but I'll leave it for another time cuz they gone now. All right. Thanks, Howard. But I do I do have a comment about that. You know, it's all great and dandy that we're clapping and you know, and we support our teachers. Sure, we do. But, you know, we sat through budget after budget after budget because we didn't have no money and money is tight, right? Um, thank God the legislature passed, you know, uh, for teacher pay raises this this last session. But my thing is, uh, you know, you know, that's a lot of money, $100,000, you know, and that's why I'm bringing this up because we spent a lot. We've cut from department and department and

124department. You know, not being able to give some people raises and then, you know, it's like a, you know, that city always came up with onetime expenditure. Oh, we have a onetime expenditure, a couple million dollars. Oh, really? And I So, when I hear money coming up like this, it it makes me think and it woke me up. And that's why I was asking the questions I was asking. Very worthy. But just as a side note to be clear, um legislature has not passed a finance bill as of yet. So that's still pending. That's not what I read. No, it's it hasn't happened yet. There may be something proposed out of one house or the Senate, but nothing has been voted on as of yet regarding the finance bill. Okay. So, I just didn't want

125misinformation to go out. No, no. I I read it in the paper. I know what to talk about, but it's okay right now. We're good. We're not here for that. All right. So, with that, we will move on to our next presentation, which is our spring athletics update. I see a few coaches in the room, so I think they'll be coming up to join our leaders up here at the front and or maybe not. Now, here's where we could spend a hundred,000. Get our football program back up with this guy here. We're good. All right. Thank you for having us here tonight. So, good evening to all the board members. Dr. O'Brien. Second time I said that today. So, yeah. Uh, thanks for having us. We'll we'll we want to go through this. Uh, you

126know, we have had a lot of coaches who are to who are here tonight and obviously put in a lot of hours for their work, but we just want to tell you what's going on with athletics right now. Um, you introduce your colleagues. To my right, I have coach Sutterfield. He's uh representing Coach Finn tonight. He had to attend a funeral uh today. So, um, he had a coach Sutterfield. And to my left is the new head football coach at at Goose Creek Memorial. All right. Coach Cleveland and uh so I'm just glad to have them here and introduce you guys and hopefully we have another new football coach here in a little while and you're the most popular presenter tonight for the third time. Oh man, thanks Mr. Martinez. So I want to we'll

127go ahead and get started here. Um I I can't I can't leave out uh Greg Smith who's also uh he is in College Station right now with the tennis team uh who's competing in the regional tournament. So, let's go ahead and get started with the spring celebrations. And um we're going to start off uh with GCM girls soccer who were by district champions and area finalists. And you're probably going to hear me say this a couple of times. Awesome. Uh but this is their first year back in 6A. A lot of people didn't even know if they could compete. And uh they not only won round one, they should have won round two. Uh a bounce or two. You know, soccer's a little bit different than a lot of sports. And then of course I

128want to recognize coach Weezar and the outstanding job that he does and he actually recorded his 300th win this year. Go ahead, coach. We are here. Yeah, they're all here. They're going to all the coaches will come up after we the presentation. Uh we'll go to the boys soccer team who who was a who was a state semi-finalist. Uh last year they were by district finalists. This year they had a pretty good year. They came out slow out of the box because of injury. Um, we did have the 236A coach of the year and coach Coach Freeman. Uh, I think that's that says a lot about his colleagues for a for a coach usually gets coach of the year. They usually win their district. For him to get that award with not winning the district,

129uh, says a lot about him. So, that's awesome. [Applause] um Sterling girls soccer by district champions and area finalists and in a first year head coach and coach Franks who's also in the room tonight will be coming up here shortly. Uh she had an outstanding year and did a wonderful job. I'm going to tell you guys, we hadn't won a playoff game in a in a while in soccer and I and they they got to that second round and they came up against a tough team, but just to get that confidence back into those girls and sometimes that's all we need. We need that little push and I I couldn't ask for more from Coach Frankson. She did an outstanding job. Awesome. St. So, we go to Sterling Boys soccer, their by district finalist. Um,

130and Coach Haymon, uh, that first that that first round game against Angleton, which they lost in penalty kicks, um, they they came out that team ended up going to the state semi-finals that that they lost to in in penalty kicks. So, it was a very good game. A lot of people thought in the region that that was probably two of the tougher teams in that division going in and for for starting to get take it to penalty kicks and uh probably should have won the won the match. Um says a lot about their program and what they've done them making the the playoffs for the third year in a row. Uh couldn't ask for more from Coach Haymon. He's done a great job. Um so I have the league girls powerlifting. I have coach Sutterfield

131here to my right who is the powerlifting coach. Um, and we had two state finalists this year. And uh, coach, do you want to say something about them really quick? Yeah, both both of these young ladies are one's going to&m this year, the one on the right. And Shayla, the one on the left, is the right now is number two in our class. And these two young ladies work their tails off. They represent Robert Lee tremendously. They rep they both got the one on the left got seventh at state in the state of Texas. The one on the right got eighth in the state of Texas. And you're talking about over the little one got seventh and the one on the right got eighth. So they did a tremendous job this year. All [Applause] right.

132And we have uh Sterling powerlifting um with coach Alonius who has Asia White. She was also a state finalist and uh coach Lonnias did had the honors of taking her up there and and having her compete and she did a wonderful job. What a great job by coach Alanias as well. Um coach Coach Lonnie is uh Go ahead. Coach Lonnie, can I speak on her behalf? Come up here, Coach Lonnie. Now you come up here cozius. Come up here co. Come on coach Lonnie powerlifting. No what's really special about that girl and I tell coach Lanes every year she's a special needs girl. So without powerlifting she probably wouldn't compete in anything. And not only is she special needs, but she went to state in parland coers. So Bradley Dison is the Sterling Boys golf

133regional finalist. Um I don't know how I don't know if they're able to compete uh this week because of the state, but I know he competed well in a very very tough group. I don't know if you guys stay stay up with golf as much, but man, this this is a if not the toughest region in in the state. It is there's some really good teams and uh for this young man to end up in the middle of the pack, that's a good that's a good pull for him and I'm very proud of him and coach Hullbrook for the job that coach Hullbrook does year in and year out. We have Sterling Swim. I I really can't see those names. my eyes are I guess failing me, but coach coach uh Clen Gatrell always does

134a great job in in in the region. We had a lot of the those individuals right there as you can see all made the regional uh tournament and uh the regional swim meet and for for us to have that amount of kids in the program and to advance says a lot about what Coach Catrell does with his kids and and uh and I know he's we're going to continue to do a great job year in and year out. Uh starting with water polo as you guys know they were in the playoffs again and now we have a group of uh individuals that are in the regional swim meet. So Climat trail uh Sterling High School coach does a great job. Sterling girls track we had a regional finalist. Uh she's coached by coach Jaylen Batist.

135Uh Emily, she runs a 1600. Uh if you guys if you ever get an opportunity, please go to that regional meet. I think you'll see a lot of great runners there. Uh she really competed very hard and and uh we're hoping next time we can get somebody to keep advancing. But what what a good uh she she had a good showing for for starting high school [Applause] there. And we had uh GCM boys track the regional finalists uh coached by uh Coach Taplan. Coach Tap for short. Uh the four uh we had a 4 by two team that was amazing. Uh Nathaniel McGill, Joshua Gonzalez, John Gonzalez, and Joshua Babin. Uh also I believe Babin competes in the long jump. Uh all these com all of these individuals made the regional uh track meet and

136that that that was a great race they had that day. um came up a little bit short, but definitely not not saying anything about the effort. The effort was there and and uh it was definitely a good showing for Goose Creek at the regional 6A regional meet. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. It we the what what made it difficult this year was because for some reason a lot of uh school districts had the their spring break at different times. So, a lot of the teams that we had were on spring break and we're not coming. So, that's something that we're going to have to look at next year as uh because we don't want to lose teams like we did this year. So, we're definitely going to have to correct that. Um the regional, we have

137Sterling Tennis who as mentioned earlier is is at the regional meet as we speak in College Station. U they're coached by Coach Spaniel. Um Bravo Torres, I could read these. Natalie Dela Cruz, uh Kayn Arasco, Maddie Dodson, uh maybe I can't, Jedadia Chapa, and Kennedy Medina. Uh Coach Spaniel is actually in his first year. Uh he replaced obviously a very good coach and coach Trimmel. Uh so for him to get him to this point, I think it's a good start for him and his career. And I think uh he's done a great job and I think these individuals are are just going to keep getting better if we continue to work. So, thank you. Um, we had Sterling softball was uh the by district finalist. Coach Warner, who's been at Sterling for a while, has

138done a outstanding job and she's one of the most even kill coaches I've ever met. Uh, she never changes. It's kind of it's kind of funny around that sometimes, but you know what she does is very effective and their girls made the playoffs this year and it you say they're the by district finals, but they competed very well throughout the year. Uh, a lot of games I was able to catch some games this year, very competitive in some games in in a very tough district. So, we have a uh GCM baseball coached by Coach Band. Um, again, another school in 6A that uh was not sure they were going to compete in this district with uh the teams that they had. They ended up, you know, sweeping a Northshore uh sweeping a Channel View. They

139uh won some big games. They took a Tascita to the seventh and took Kingwood to the seventh and kind of kind of let that go. The the the exciting thing is there are a bunch of sophomores and juniors coming back. There's two good arms on the mound that are coming back next year. So, we're looking forward for for GCM to be back in the playoffs and hopefully uh get get some wins once they get in there. But, uh, Coach Bandana did an outstanding job for the first year being back in 6A. Um, Sterling also, we were we were fortunate to have two out of three teams make the playoffs, which is always a good thing. Um, Sterling baseball were by district finalists and I tell you what, it was a very exciting series uh this

140past weekend. and they they lost game one at Leaport and they had to come back and win uh game two after being out at their field for a couple hours and then having to go home, wake up the next day, get back on a bus, get back out to Deer Park and uh their their coach their uh their their coaches and their players did an outstanding job competing. They won game two. Uh slow start in game three. The guys woke up a little bit, kind fought there at the end. Uh but again, that's another group that's young that a lot of players are returning. So, we're looking for these guys to be back in there. Uh and what a great job uh for coach Dustin Greer and what he did for Sterling baseball this year,

141obviously. And and most importantly, we we have um we have a lot of uh before I say this, uh I gotta say something really fast. um Sterling Track also with coach Kelly Walker who's been sitting here as well patiently. I don't want to leave him out. He's part of that track team that that does an outstanding job and uh I I didn't get to mention his name so I wanted you guys to hear that name and become familiar with that. Uh but going to this uh this is obviously the most important thing that we do when we work with our coaches. We emphasize core course GPA in athletics because that's obviously the most important thing. Um, we have our own program that that we utilize throughout the the entire district for all the high schools.

142Every team, every coach has access to it. This year, we dropped in our numbers, but it's still a number. And we have uh we ended up with 28 total athletic scholarships this year. And uh even if it was one, it's still one person that get one. And I'll tell you what, I'll take this any year. Uh because ultimately in the end, this is what we're shooting for. this is what we're gunning for. We want to change lives and we want to use our our respected sports to do that. So, that's our update for for uh right now. If you have any questions for us, just let us know. [Applause] So, at this point, I'd like to have all the coaches come up. That's what I was going to ask you if you wouldn't mind bringing

143them up front. let us express our gratitude for the hard work they put in, the long hours they put in that are often gone unnoticed. Uh we certainly do appreciate the hard work that they put into shaping these young men and young women athletes. Thank you guys. Wait a second. Wait a second. What are y'all doing? The the board wasn't through asking questions to the last group. Well, I think I'm going talk to the athletic director. We need a line item for sports, right? 200. Oh, Lord. Okay. Our next presentation for the superintendent reports is GCCSD 2223 accountability ratings and distinctions. Miss Jackson, will you introduce your team? Yes. Um this is James Husbin, our um director of assessment accountability. In fact, I'm very loud over here. And um this is no other none other

144than Kevin Foxworth, our air executive director, representing our secondary schools. Dr. Sandy Conklin representing our elementary. Everybody knows Karen. She's been here forever. It's like the coffee building. It's going to be the PD Karen. And then we have Britney who's up here representing um our assessment accountability department. So, one of the main things we wanted to start off with is um you ask a lot about the ratings around this. Now, we're talking about ratings from 2223. So, you knew what the scores were. This is the official rating. So, this is not really new information. Um the schools are just around us in region 4 that got an A or above on the screen. Here's the schools that got a B. We were grateful and thankful and happy that we are in that group with a

145B. And here's the groups that um we wanted to share with you that got a C. And then um we just left the others below because we wouldn't want to do that. Then I'm going to switch it over to um doc Mr. Husband. I just gave you doctor title. It's premonition. So, in your packet, you um you guys have the uh the 2223 individual schools um and in their scores, but we wanted to kind of show you the the overall ratings. So, as a district, we were um as Miss Jackson said, we were a B. Um the high schools on average um they were a B as well. It was a 83. Um junior highs on average were a C there, which was at a average of a 76. And then elementarymentaries on on average

146were a C also, which was a 72. Um before I go on to the next slide, um I want to just kind of recap a little bit about the 2223 accountability. Um that was when TA decided to do their 5-year refresh and there were a lot of changes but that were done dur during that during that year. Uh they raised the CCMR cut points by 28 points to get an A. Um it was a star 2.0 which mean there were there were a lot of open-ended responses. There was AI scoring. There were a lot of echars which is extended constructive response. So a lot more writing on the test. But and the main thing was though that and the reason but that the it was in litigation is because the 22 23 accountability manual did

147not come out until after testing had already been completed. And so it's basically like playing the game I mean and them changing the rules on us and the game's already over. Um and that was for all the schools. That was for everybody. that was for everybody. So, so what we did on the next slide, what you'll see in your packet, you see that u we wanted to list the ratings if it hadn't if we were because GCA GCCIS was playing the rules by what we knew at the time. We we were playing the game by the rules that we knew um and the ratings that uh would have been received if if the 2223 refresh had not happened. If it had been if we had been rated the same way. So on the next slide,

148um I'm going to turn over to Dr. Griffith and she's going to share uh that information. So no school would have received a rating lower than a C. Again, this is applying the 22 methodology. Eight schools would have increased by one letter grade. Five schools would have increased by two letter grades. Two schools would have increased by three letter grades. 13 schools would have received the same letter grade. and only one school would have decreased by a letter grade. So as part of the accountability system, campuses can earn distinctions there. They earn a distinction based off how they perform within their 40 comparison group. Um they have to be in the top quartile, which is the top 25% of that group. Comparison group is made up of schools that are similar to them. So it

149could be similar numbers in economically disadvantaged, merger, bilingual, special education, all those things. And so they're grouped in a in a group of 40 schools. So out of 28 eligible c um campuses, 61% of our campuses received at least one distinction. Elementary schools can they're eligible for six distinctions. Secondary schools are eligible for seven. Um elementary seven of 16, 44% earned at least one campus distinction. In junior high, five out of six, 83% earned at least one. And in high school, five out of six eligible campuses earned um at least one campus distinction, 83%. What was our rating in 2122? Was it 89? All right. So for our schools uh receiving distinctions, we had six receive um academic achievement in reading language arts. Nine received academic achievement in math. We had six who receive received

150academic achievement in science. two uh in social studies and only our junior high and high schools are eligible for social studies. So our elementaryaries are not. Uh six campuses were in the top 25% in academic growth, three in top 25% in closing the gaps and then we had 13 schools who received distinctions for post-secary readiness. Okay, receiving these distinctions is a is a big deal. There's a lot of competition among the principles. Uh, I can tell you back in the day when Susan and I were principles. I knew how many GCM had. She knew how many Sterling had. So, it's a it's a lot of competition. So, I say that to say we want to honor those campuses that are receiving distinction. So, I want to call them out by name. So, receiving one distinction

151is Clark Elementary, Walker, uh, Gentry, and Impact. Receiving two distinctions by the state are Lamar Cedar Bayou, Horseman, and Stewart Career Tech. Receiving three distinctions from the state are Crockett, Alamo, EF Green, and Highlands Jr. Receiving four distinctions from the state are Saninto Elementary, Sterling High School, and Goose Creek Memorial. And then receiving five distinctions are Pumprey Elementary, and Lee High School. So um those are the 22 23 we are still waiting upon 23 24 it's still tied up in litigation but you do have those camp scores. So what what were the high schools ratings? Like I know Sterling I read that Sterling got Are you talking about for currently for this year for 23 23? Yeah. It's in that packet you got all the individual school system. Well I wanted to discuss it that's

152why Sterling was an A. Yes sir. Yeah I know. What were the other two high schools? All be okay. Uh the all the high schools did extremely well. Good. extremely welcome. So, it was just junior high and elementary. Keep in mind um that they use CCMR and we do such a great job as a district of making sure our gradu our students graduate college or career ready and they get points for that. So, that is why um that score went down and that is also a change. The district used to be graded as a district whole on our CCMR and they took that away and gave it a proportional. So that's one of the changes that we've had to go through. So we were we were outperforming the state um in college and career military

153readiness by double digits is how well we were doing. And that was helping carry high school. And we still are. We still are double digits. Any other questions for any of us? Will would the blue bonnet curriculum help at all? We sure hope so. That's why we went down that road. Right. Right. I get it. I'm just, like I said, I'm bringing this up because I remember we we were involved in a lawsuit to keep these, you know, these uh from coming out, the ratings from coming out. And, you know, people have a misconception out there that, you know, well, Goose Creek didn't want them to come out because the ratings were so far, but they're not. I mean, it's a B. It's not I mean it's not it's not where we want to be

154but you know there's always room for improvement but the reason I bring that up is because I want to clear any you know correct misconceptions about our students are doing well. I think that's fair. We um as a school district we don't we accept our our scores how however they come out. The and we we want our parents we want to have transparency. We want our parents to know how we're doing. The challenge u of half the u districts in the state was because it had nothing to do with scores. It had to do with the fairness of how they were calculated. Mr. Husband reported that they the test went out the test came back in ready to be scored and then the accountability manual came out to show you how to score them. And

155in particular that's the year we went from an 89 to an 80. So we dropped 10 points because they changed how they did it. That was the reason for the the the pause was because it was the fairness. Nothing to do with scores had to do with how they tabulated the scores. So um we the the current uh hold on the next round is similar except instead of changing the way it's the cut lines were and the tabulation of the scores had to do with how they were graded which is through artificial intelligence. Whereas before, every year prior, human beings scored the written portion of the exam, whether it's the short answer or the full essay. And the human beings would be able to determine whether it was a four, a three, a two, or

156a one rated um writing sample, whereas the automated generation gave many, many zeros, much more than the state had ever experienced. Uh so it was a statewide concern, statewide issue to your point. Um, but even the year that we got the 89, our highest score, we truly our academic performance was a 92 and we received a three-point deduction because of one low performing campus. So, we that dropped us to an 89. So, it it's about fairness is is the only thing that most of the superintendents that I know and the school districts that I know is has been about. Just be fair. Tell us how it's going to be scored in advance and we'll live up to that measure. And that's a good point of clarification for these people that are wondering or you know

157judging I guess in a negative way. But you know just you know and the other the point I mentioned earlier you know that the other schools were under the same you know rating and they did good you know I said yeah but I mean like barber let's take barber it's smaller you I mean they made an A but you know they're a smaller school we're we got a larger school district to deal with so there's some you know some points of clarification that people need to understand. That's why I put that slide up there so you could see there's only three school districts around us that scored an A, which is outdoing us. Most of the We actually are on the upper end of that because there's as many C's and below um that we

158didn't even bring up. Right. Okay. I'm just Thank y'all. Thank y'all. Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Yeah, you can leave unless you want to stay for the budget update. Bridget, I I checked to see if there was any takers if they want to present, but uh I think you're it tag. Mr. Clark, welcome back to the presentation on the budget update. Welcome, Dr. Bowlinger as well. Yes, thank you. Just when you're feeling rested and energized, it's time for the budget. So, H I did not put it in that order. So I apologize, but we will talk about the legislative update because there's been quite a bit of activity and then some activity that we would like to move along that's a little on hold at the moment. Um we'll go over the reduction

159review, some TASBY compensation, uh food service and debt service budgets we'll go over briefly and then calendar and next steps. So, we're in the midst of this session and it's it's getting to down to the wire here with deadlines incoming. Uh the first of which is going to be on May 12th, the last day for House Committee to report House bills and House joint resolutions. Uh you see most of these uh through May 24th pertain to the House. Uh the Senate has a little more leeway as far as um deadlines are concerned. Um the Senate has a deadline though on May 28th and then you see on June 2nd is siny die. So we are getting into the thick of it now. Uh the news dour of course is the passing of the voucher bill

160which is Senate Bill 2. Um it it got passed largely along the party lines which is no surprise. The only Republicans that voted against it were Van Diver and Feland. Um it's now been signed by the governor. He had a ceremony uh to sign it on Saturday, so with much fanfare and he got that passed. So that's been a major initiative initiative of his for several sessions now and he has gotten that passed. Every.org does estimate Goose Creek will lose approximately around $2 million. Um once it's fully implemented, students will begin accessing accounts in the 2627 school year. Um, so the governor has gotten that uh emergency item passed. It is now law of the land. The bill that we're very concerned about and watching very closely is House Bill 2, which is the school

161finance bill. Um, it has been stalled in the House since the 17th of April. Um, we have heard that there is some concern from the Senate on its price tag. So there is a delta between uh the house bill uh set aside for public ed versus the senate set set aside for public ed like one and a half upwards of maybe close to $2 million or $2 billion differential on that. So um we do know that the Senate uh has the bill um and there will be changes to it. You you can pretty much bet on that. So right now we're just waiting to see what those changes might be, but we are very hopeful on this bill. While you're on that, Miss Clark, just this is what Mr. Ria had asked about. The difference

162is the House version had about 7 billion and the Senate version had about 5 billion uh allocated for the school finance bill. And so the rule of thought would be that they get split somewhere down the middle, but that's why it stalled in addition to pending um constitutional amendments. You're going to talk about them. Uh yes, I will. Yes, sir. Um and just as you mentioned that, I I'll go ahead and comment on that. Um, one of the concerns is the another agenda item that uh, Governor Abbott had on his priorities list was property tax relief. And um, the Democrats because the um, the voucher bill did pass. They have made some statements to the effect that they could not vote for constitutional amendments, which would mean the tax bill reduction does not get passed.

163And so that creates some concern on vetos and and the like if House Bill 2 were to pass and then it gets to the governor's desk and he vetos it or, you know, something to that effect. some kind of you know back and forth with um you know attempts to uh you know kill other bills as it were. So sometimes we get in in sessions where there defensive sessions like that where not a lot gets passed and and a lot of bills get killed because you know one bill gets killed and someone gets offended and then you know politics takes control and then you know lots of bills don't pass. So um but anyway we are hopeful that that something will pass. We just don't know exactly what and we do expect changes in the

164Senate. So, all right. This, as you see here in red, this is House Bill two. This is the only vehicle for increased school funding this session. This has strong support from ISDS and within the House and um, you know, hopefully they'll be in a good position when negotiating with the Senate, but if this bill doesn't pass, we don't get additional funding. So, I just want everybody to understand that this is the vehicle and it is stalled right now in the House or it's moved out of the house. It's stalled in the Senate committee. Um, yes, sir. Just the voucher bill. Yes, sir. So why would why would the the Democrats not vote for the this one if No, they support this one, but but the constitutional amendment for property tax relief requires some Democrats to

165vote for it. I got you. And if they don't, it it it it could die. The property tax relief bill could die if that happens. And and because the vouchers passed in its form that it's current currently in, um they were not happy with that. So yeah, that's kind of where I was just that's what I was you know the Democrats usually support public education which is good. I mean I'm just saying right they they did they do support this bill. Um now yeah exactly. Exactly. The voucher bills passed now so the leverage is kind of gone now because you know you can't pass bills at the same time. There has to be one on the calendar before the next. So, um, it just, but we're not losing money as a school district because of

166the voucher program, are we? That because Terry Leo Wilson, she's going around, you know, educating everybody, but that that voucher money doesn't come from public education money. And well, it will indirectly because we'll we could lose. I get I Yeah, it's possible. I know what you're smiling over here. I I get it. I got I got eyes on the side of my head. Yeah. This guy here. Yes. I wish you smiled like that when I brought up that line item budget you have over there. That would have made me laugh, too. All right. So, Omar Garcia, everyone knows the legend that is Omar Garcia. He came out with a new template um about a week and a half ago, and his template is is the gold standard. And whenever we put our uh data in

167there, it looks like based on House Bill 2 in its current form, we would get about $13 million increase in funding year-over-year. Um it would increase the basic aotment from 6160 to 655. And like I said, it stalled in the after passing the House uh on April 17th. So we do expect that to change. I wouldn't be surprised if the basic aotment got changed by the Senate because they are having that heartburn over the price tag for House Bill 2. Um, if that 13 million were to come to fruition and no changes were made to House Bill 2, the minimum 40% must be spent on compensation, which would equate to about 5.2 million. Yes, I guess. And then the minimum 75% of the 40% must be spent specifically on teachers, nurses, and librarians, which would

168equate to about 3.9 million. And a minimum of 25% of the 40% must be spent on non-administrative compensation. So, um, that would be everyone else, all of our manual trades, bus drivers, auxiliary, and everything. So, just so you can see what that looks like there. Three different lightons right there. Yeah. Yes, sir. Okay. So, this scenario here is going to illustrate what it looks like for 2526 only. Um, this first column for 2526 is current law and that is if House Bill 2 does not pass. It gets thrown out in its entirety. Um, dies in the Senate, whatever. Um, vetos by the governor. All these things that could possibly happen. Um, you see there, we could still give a uh 2% raise. it would cost about $4.2 million and we would have a slight uh

169deficit of $2.482 million which we talked about in our budget workshop. Um and then approved uh the budget reduction plan. Uh it now scenario C here which is the second column me illustrates uh House Bill 2 passing and that you would see the pay increase there on line four of that 6.7 million that we just talked about. And then um that would give us uh before legislation before House Bill uh two funding flows in that would be about a 4.9 million almost $5 million revenue uh under expenditures. And then you see the legislation from House Bill three two coming in at 13 million on line seven. That puts us in a good position, right? That gives us $8 million in the black you see there on line eight. Um it buoys our fund balance u

170back to um almost a hundred million. If you look at line 10, it's $97 million. So, it would be very helpful and will be uh quite above the three months required uh fund balance of 67 almost $68 million. So, that's for 26 2526 only. These next three slides are going to discuss 2526 versus 2627 just so you can see how how things can shift. All right. So again, this one, this illustration in both scenarios, 2526 and 2627 shows if House Bill two dies, some sort of sad death. Um 2526 still shows the $2.48 million uh deficit, but look what happens in scenario one in that green column for 2627. If we wanted to give a 2% raise, which is line five there, that would be another $4.2 uh million dollars cost and then uh a

171transfer in from capital improvement projects would only be about $4 million um because of the decrease in uh revenues coming in in that fund. So, we would have a $16.2 million deficit that we would be grappling with for next year's budget. And you see it also puts us dangerously close on line 11 to our fund balance um a three-month required reserve for fund balance um because we're going to have on line 10 you see an estimated fund balance of 70.2 million and our requirement is 68.3. So that gets us very close doesn't it? If if house bill 2 does not pass. Well, I think it's also worth noting that that uh fund balance required the three month that is a fluid number that increases with inflation as well that increased cost. Yes, it changes with

172every like whatever your expenditures are it's it's three months worth of those expenditures. So, every time your expenditures increase, your fund balance requirement is going to increase as well. That number is not static. That is correct. Yeah. And it'll it'll change on these examples, too. Um All right. So again, uh scenario, uh this is 2526 versus 2627. Now, this is if House Bill 2 passes early in the year, it's not a problem because we know before we adopt our budget and our compensation plan that this House bill has been signed into law, let's say if the governor signs it before June 2nd, uh we're in great shape. We're going to have an $8 million surplus. You see there online I can't see the line number. I apologize. I thought I fixed that but it went

173back. Um but you see there the surplus is $8 million. And then what what happens next year even with that influx of House Bill 2 money in 2627 we're still going to be grappling with a deficit if we want to give a 2% raise. If we don't want to give a 2% raise it would obviously go down you know to like 1.5. million cushion, right? It would we would still have a nice cushion there, but eventually we will have to balance our operating budget. I mean, eventually the you know, put us back down to 92. We're still good, right? We'll still be pretty good, right? Um, let's see here. Okay. So now [Music] if how this is this is the one that gets a little uh you know a little sticky here. Uh if if

174House Bill 2 passes but after June 2nd, right? It's because we have to adopt our budget by June 16th. I mean unless we wanted to have a special meeting to push it out, but your latest is June 30th, right? Um but we have to post legally 10 days before, right? uh the budget is adopted, right? So, we don't have that kind of time if it gets passed in a special session or um the governor doesn't sign it until July or Well, I hope you're right, sir. He going to sign it. But but well I just think you know the economy you know and inflation is going to come down and things are going things are starting to change for the better and that's what I'm that's where my hope is that you know things start

175turning and we're good and they leave public education alone like in the words of one of my uh co-rustees Richard Clam says that leave public education alone So yeah, we definitely agree. Um but nonetheless, you see here, even with that influx from House Bill 2, you see in that green column when we start getting ready for next year's budget and we're preparing if we want to give a 2% raise, we're going to start off with almost a $6 million deficit even with that influx because, you know, it comes in and it's permanent, but so are the raises. So our our expenses unless we you know reduce expenses, we're going to have to grapple with this uh again. So that's I just want everybody to understand that it's there are wide swings that can happen here

176and a lot of unknowns at this point. We don't know anything for sure. So these are all just illustrations, but just to just to educate you all and give you the best information possible for um making your decisions. So does anyone have any questions on um any of these scenarios so far? Or did I explain that well? Does it make sense? Yeah. I mean, thank you. All right. So, with that, I will give you a brief overview of the debt service fund. These funds, these next two funds are in great shape. We don't have deficit issues. We have um very healthy fund balances. You see here in the U bordered column there, the proposed budget is um you know, pretty uh substantial. We're going to have uh we're going to have a surplus and then

177we're still going to have reserves for one-year debt service payments, which puts us in a very stable position to make our bond payments. Same situation. Uh if you look at the border food service budget, we're still going to have um well, we have a we have a spend plan that we're required to have on this one. And that's why you see um a revenue under expenditures number of $8 million because we're required to spend down this this uh fund balance. And we've been trying um since co um we've had lots of issues as we all know with supply and and all those things, but we think we're getting a handle on it finally. Last few years we've actually added to the fund balance. So now we're finally able to spend some of that down. But

178we still have a very healthy fund balance at $9.5 million even after the spend down of 8 million next year. All right. So, next steps. So, if we don't spend it, what happens to that money? Uh, we don't want to know because we're we need to spend it. No, we uh we do have to spend that. We have to adhere to our spending. Uh, do we lose it? I don't know that we would lose it, but they would definitely step in probably and start giving us some directives, right? Yes. Yeah. They would start giving us directives without autonomy, you know, local control. So, we want to make sure we're adhering to our our plans here. So just to recap the next steps if we adopt a compensation plan before House Bill 2's passed which Tazby

179has given us the uh the advice recommendation to hold you know as long as we can because I haven't seen a provision but there could be one if you know we were to pass a compensation plan early and then they pass this bill saying you have to give 40% of the year-over-year or year-over-year increase based on House Bill two. we could have ourselves in a position where we'd have to pay a 5.5% uh increase on compensation. That that could happen. Um even if the house if the bill passes late in the summer in a special session, we still have to comply with the law by September 1st. The law is effective. So we have to comply with it by then. And if House Bill 2 does not officially become law prior to 56, it obviously

180has not. Today's 56. The recommendation is to move compensation plan approval to 62. What's the deadline date for that? June to what? Uh June 2nd is siny die. So that's the last day of the session. So um that we just so happen to have a board meeting on that day. And so we're hoping between now and then that it gets passed. But if it does not, we would want to push it, you know, as late as we possibly could, which on our per current schedule. How late can we push our budget? Well, we could push it to the 30th, but okay. Our board meeting right now is scheduled for 6:16. So, we hope we have something by then since sin die is 62. So, so the the hope is that by 62 they're not using

181the word special session, right? If you hear special session a lot as we close sid that means it could be pushed beyond snee. That is correct. I was just curious what what our you know limitation was. That's our drop dead timeline. June 30th. Yes. Yes. So it can get very messy. um if they do it after the fact, we could have to come back and and make an amendment and then, you know, make retrop payments and paychecks would be very messy and all that kind of stuff. So, we're hopeful that it gets passed before then. But if not, we'll work with it, but it'll be it'll be a lot more confusing process for everybody. All right. So, uh as I just mentioned, uh we are on the home stretch now. So is the legislature. Uh

182we're going to try to bring the uh compensation plan for approval on the 2nd. But again, if if the House Bill 2 has not passed, we may have to punt until the 16th and be hopeful that we can pass it then. But that would be our total budget adoption on June 16th, but we can have a special session. We could have a special meeting if we wanted to after that. We have to if we're going to do it, right? Yeah, we certainly could. And they don't pass it. Yeah. Right. Yeah. All right. So um I will turn it over to Dr. Bowlinger now. Okay. So at our at our last uh board meeting, we went in depth with the compensation plan. So we proposed several packages. Uh so just like Miss Clark shared, uh originally

183we were going to have the compensation plan up for approval today, but due to legislation that's been delayed, and she explained why. So most districts have not come out with what their raise is going to be for next year. for that reason. Um, TASBY's given the recommendation to hold until we have more information before we uh put something up for recommendation. So, what I what I want to do is just real quick go through the summary slides of um of what we proposed last time and then just show how that applies to the new formula that that was run based off the finance bill that's that's constantly changing. So, and if you have any questions, I can go back through the details, but for the sake of time, I'll I'll do a summary piece. So

184a 2% increase as what was mentioned by Miss Clark earlier um across the board would be four around $4.1 million. Um and at that point we we presented just a 2% increase but then whenever the finance bill had some spin requirements for compensation then we had to uh provide additional uh raise options. And so a 3% increase across the board is is just just uh north of $6 million. a 4 percent raise. And again, the reason why we presented a 4 percent raise and a four and a half percent raise last time was because of that spin requirement for teachers, nurses, and librarians. So, that's going to come into effect here in a minute. Um, a 4% raise is $7.9 million. And then out of that, $4.45 million uh would be the cost for the

185teachers, nurses, and librarians. And so there was a spin requirement again um based off the money that we will receive if that finance bill passes. And then the last model we showed so we showed a 2% a 3% a 4% and a 4 and a.5% um four four and a half% at the time hit that spin requirement for teachers, nurses and librarians at 4.9 and total it would be 8.8 million. So to uh so it's a lot of numbers and a lot of uh moving targets. So to simplify it on this one pager, um when we presented in April, the estimated uh increase would be $16 million. And then as you've seen that when whenever they reran Omar Garcia reran the um his formula, it it dropped to 13 million. And so that's going to

186come into play here on what we're required to spend for compensation. And so a 2% across the board is 4.1. A 3% across the board would cost the district 6 million. a 4% would cost the district 7.9 million and then a four and a half percent would cost the district 8.8 million. So, so with that spend requirement on that formula, we're required to spend 3.9 million on compensation for teachers, nurses, and librarians. And then we're also required to spend a certain percentage or a certain dollar amount for um for other staff, not including administrators. And so this would be one example of we could do a 3 and a.5% raise, which would be somewhere in between 3 and 4%, probably about $7 million if if the board opted to do that. Or you could break

187it up where where um if the if the finance bill passes as is, then one option for the board is also to do a 3.5% raise for everyone but administrators. and that that dollar amounts are broken out here for teachers, nurses, and librarians, it's 3.9 million. Um for pair of professionals, for manual trades, um that that the other employee groups, it would be 1.7 million, which is a little bit higher than that spend requirement um in the finance bill. And then for administrators at 3% it would be 1.1 million around that area. And so the total would be 6.7 million. So again, just to make sure I've driven home the message, if the if the finance bill passes as is, then there's a certain requirement that that we would need to allocate um 75% of

188that 40% that we receive for teachers, nurses, and librarians um towards compensation. And so that that equates to about 3 and a half% raise. And then what you do with everyone else um we we would give options for that. Okay. Um, I have two more slides and so I wanted to show those real quick. So there's there's pros and cons if we did differentiate the raises. Um, so again, the board could just say, "Hey, we want to do a three and a half% for everyone." Or they may want to separate out administrators and and and make that lower. So there's pros and cons for doing that if you differentiate and separate out administrators. Um, first of all, it allows us to stay compliant with legislation. So if there's a spin requirement, we hit that spin

189requirement. um we're able to recruit and retain teachers and high high need areas especially with with that um raise above 2%. Um of course it improves the morale for those receiving that three and a half% raise and also it supports budgetary concerns and so it saves us a little over a million dollars by separating out uh that that that 5% 3 and a half% versus 3% for administrators. So there's a savings there for doing that. Of course, on the downside, u there may be perceived inequity where some people get three and a half% and some get 3%. So, we would navigate that. Also, making sure we're communicating who gets the 3 and 12% raise and who doesn't um who would get the 3% raise. So, we would communicate that. And then down the road um

190there could be a concern for um pay compression where for certain jobs if if teachers start to get paid uh at a three and a half% and then the position right above teachers get to 3% there could be a uh a shift where teachers could pass pass pass up uh certain positions such as our our entry level administrators or elementary counselors so to speak. And so if that happens then we would TASBY would actually make uh recommended equity adjustments and that would be additional cost to us and so just to keep a healthy spread between different positions of promotion to make sure that certain positions aren't above other permiss uh other positions. So so those are the pros and cons um if we do differentiate it. Right now, again, like Miss Clark said, we're uh

191we're in a holding pattern and and once that finance bill passes or doesn't pass, then we'll know um what direction we'll we'll recommend to the board. Okay, questions by the board. Does House Bill Two still currently have a uh automatic increase on the second year of the bianium? There is no to the aotment. No. Did that fall off? That was part of it at one point, was it not? Uh, I'll have to I'll look at that again, but um I know that the the runs that I've seen did not have um an increase. Inflationary. Yeah, inflationary increase. Yeah. So, unfortunately, no. We wish it they would, but but Mr. Rentry is going to call the governor and try to get things squared for us. Please do. Somebody needs to call. Thank y'all. Thank you so

192much. Good presentation. Thank you. That's right. Okay, Dr. O'Brien. All right. Next up, we have our action items, including the consent agenda items. 13A. I'll go ahead and run down the Would you run through the list, please? Yes, ma'am. Okay, Madam President. Number one, donation from Lockwood Andrews Nunham for sponsoring Giant Con. Number two, donation from Goose Creek CSD Education Foundation. Three, resolution extending the depository contract for funds for Goose Creek CSD. Number four, municipal advisory services contract with Huntington Securities Incorporated. Number five, the dissolution of the citizens bond oversight committee CBOC for the series 2019 bond. Delegate the expenditure of any remaining bond funds to the superintendent pursuant to the election approval approving the bonds. Number six, interlocal contract with Houston Independent School District for school health and related services shars program. Number seven,

193memorandum of understanding or theou with Harris County Department of Education for High Point School East. Number eight, award the RFP 25.07 fencing materials installation related services. Number nine, award for RFP number 25.01, general maintenance, repair and inspection services. Number 10, award RFP 25.01, turnkey solution for graduation, production, sound, visuals, and staging. Number 11, authorization to solicit seal bids for the purchase of surplus property. Number 12, superintendent's expenditures. Administration brings before the board these consent agenda items, recommending approval for all of them. Okay, before we move forward, are there any items that any board members would like to pull for discussion or separation of consideration? Yeah. Number five. Number five. I'd like to pull number 11 for separate consideration. Which one? 11. Number 11. Anyone else? A question if that maybe could be answered so that

194we could can keep it in. Yes, ma'am. Um for what number was that? 10 for the graduation sound visuals and all of that. So with the new scoreboard and stuff, we're not able to do our own. Not yet. Maybe not yet. Next year. Okay, that's our goal. Okay, Miss Garcia, did you have any follow-up comments on that Miss Jackson? Right. This year though, we will not be able to use the scoreboard and the sound AV equipment for it. Right. That's the purpose for the rental. Okay. As long as it's in the the plan. It is in the plan. It is in the plan. We're even moving goalpost, right, Mr. Martinez? Okay. But do I have a motion for approval of the consent ag consent agenda excluding items number five and number 11? I have a

195motion. I mean, I'll make a motion to approve. Okay. Consent agenda items 1 through 4, 6 through 10 and number 12. Thank you. Second. There's been motion and second by Miss Sky and second by Mr. Clim. You got to vote. Okay. Okay. Well, we have to wait till we have a discussion. Yeah. Discussion of five and 11. Well, well, go ahead and call for the vote. Oh, call for the Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Show your hand. Okay. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh, it's unanimous and to approve. I'm sorry I jumped ahead of you, Miss Barack Tims. My apologies. I saw number five and I knew that Miss Garcia I know you I was getting confused, so that's why. But we we can move forward now. Thank you. Okay, Miss

196Garcia, you could explain why the the CBSC is being dissolved. Well, we've uh very successfully completed all of our bond work from the 2019 bond and um at this time um there are not any follow-ups for the committee. They um are recommending that uh we return any remaining bond funds to the uh board or designate to um use per your purview. Generally speaking, those are for capital improvement projects. Correct. Yes sir. Um we did finish under budget as well. So the 2019 bond under budget and there was also interest earnings as I understand. Yeah. As a result of of interest earnings but uh but still under budget nonetheless by over $3 million. Right. 3.4 million. 3.4 million. Yes sir. What was what was the recommendation of the CBOC for for for the funds? Um, it

197was for the board to use for cap for much needed capital improvement. We do have a couple of CBOC members here present. If you have any questions for them, Mr. Thes is here, Mr. Brian. Yeah, but you would know that the recommendation was to uh to return the funds to the to the board for Here's my question. Yes, sir. Why Why is it say here that the expenditure of any remaining bond funds to the superintendent? That is a discrepancy on the caption versus the actual uh motion that or the actual item. Um if you look at the board agenda item summary, it does say to the board of trustees or designate. So there there was a discrepancy there. So, do before we vote on it, we need to change that to be the back to

198the board versus to the superintendent because that was a recommendation. Yes, sir. The caption did not get updated unfortunately. Yes, sir. When with the revision, right? So, question, excuse me, a question about the actual funds. Are those funds remaining actual bond funds or are those funds from interest earned on monies? And does that make a difference? Well, we did finish uh all of the projects were that were on the ballot and um because there is excess fund funds available due to interest earnings. Yes, it was earned on bonds fun bond funds, but those uh projects are completed now and we do have $3.4 million left and it is um uh you know possible for the board at their discretion to u make that determination as to how they want to spend those funds. So that's

199interest earned correct? Okay. So we my point being is we have fulfilled our obligation to the taxpayers based upon the bond in 2019. Correct? Yes. Okay. And I think the discrepity is simp discrepancy is simply that any capital improvement projects would come to the board for approval. That's the missing element. Right. But I'm not reading that. What I'm reading verbatim is that the money's any remaining funds to the superintendent. I mean, I know it might be a technical thing, but I think that I mean, it should read any remaining funds should be the board designate. Right. Correct. It would read exactly as your agenda item summary states. That's this is the correct phrase is what's on your summary sheet. Yeah. the actual item. Any other questions? I just want make sure this clarification is that,

200you know, it's not and and nothing personal with Randy, but it's nothing the money what the recommendation that the the committee made was to return the money to the board and whatever decide. Yes, that is correct, sir. Okay. Yes. So, and that's what we're doing. Madame President, you would ask for an amendment to the motion. Okay. Okay. Uh, do I have a a motion to approve the item number 13A5 as an amendment to the to the original motion? I move to approve. Mr. Martinez made the motion. Second by uh Mr. Ria. All in favor, please raise your hand. Any oppose? Any unanimous knowing me? Okay. And we have number 11, authorization to solicit seal bids for the purchase of surplus property. Yeah. What's the question? Um, well, let's start on what is it and then

201I'll form my questions based upon that. on what the property is. What is that? The question. What What are we voting on tonight? So, this would be to solicit bids. This is not approving the actual sale. This is just putting this out for bids so that we can receive prospective biders uh amounts for uh the 1.76 acre tract on the west side of Highlands Elementary at the corner of Maine and College uh Street. Right. Okay. So, with that being said, um I've been adamantly against this because that property is adjacent to Highlands Elementary. There is a huge traffic flow problem over there at the beginning uh of classes drop off and at pickup time. Um I have videos of dump trucks rolling down that road and parked cars. I don't believe at this time it's

202in the best interest of Goose Creek to sell that property or even consider selling that property when we have a traffic flow problem that we could possibly use that property to fix in the future. Uh, so with that being said, my second question is what is it costing us to solicit these bids and how much money do we have in it already? I would I would defer to Sheila Kentu who's director of purchasing, but I believe the estimate that we've received is about $810 to publish the notice. That's the amount that the school district would have in solicitation of the bids. Just a publication local newspaper, right? Correct. Right. And in regards to the uh traffic flow problem, I just it'd be remiss to not share that uh the reszoning has addressed much of that.

203Um do you have the number uh Miss David of the number of students that were at Highland this year and the number that will be there next year. I think it was a reduction some 300 students or or more about 20%. Still not enough to fix that traffic in my opinion. I will not support it and I hope my colleagues will consider the safety moving forward on that. To me, the juice just isn't worth the squeeze right now. Okay. Which peace offer group is in charge of that area besides Goose Creek? I'm sorry. Could you repeat? What peace officer? Oh, precinct. Precinct theory. And how much and how much have we relied on them to help solve that issue? Well, the co the current issue is there's no uh the cars go in down College

204Street, which is a residential street off Main Street, 2100 in Highlands. Uh there's not enough room on that street to hold the cars that are in line to pick up and drop off. And that line wraps around um Main Street down Wallaceville. It goes all the way down in both directions. There's people in the turn lanes. Uh it's a safety thing for me and for the little bit of money that we traffic or is it dump trucks? The the tra the traffic being cars sitting at stopped in the middle of the street for 30 minutes waiting to drop off and pick up while other cars are flying by. If you're not paying attention, those cars are stopped in four lanes of traffic. So that all sounds like a precinct 3 problem to me. How many

205how many times has it been reported to precinct 3? What are we reporting though? The cars have to stop in the street before they could turn in the school. It's similar to What's the signage about parking? Yes. I'm not following you, Mr. Clint. If they're parking in the middle of the road, there should be laws or signage about it. Well, there's they're they're stopped waiting to proceed down the street. It's a Goose Creek problem when it comes to we don't have Yeah. driveway space like we do at So, how is keeping this piece of land gonna solve that? It it it would allow future traffic lanes to be added such as what's at Baytown Junior and other schools at our expense instead of precinct 3. How would precinct 3 solve it though? Because they're not

206monitoring these roads. And I don't think it's been reported to them. And I don't understand why we need to hold on to this piece of property because some law enforcement office isn't doing their job because he says it's a safety issue for the school, for the kids. I understand that. And if you give it away, then it could interrupt. Are you going to vote to spend a million and a half dollars to make that piece of land into traffic lanes? I'm not. Well, there you have it. I'm I'm not at that point at this point either, but once we sell it, it's gone. Uh the model that we've used at other schools on Main Street, on Bayway, we're we're building traffic lanes into these schools uh for the reason of safety. And if we sell

207this property, we're eliminating that opportunity at Highlands Elementary. Perhaps there are other ways to make um that road safer like um promoting the buses to use buses instead of cars because you know buses are very safe. Our are our our bus drivers you know are are very good bus drivers. It's a it's a safe system. So maybe there's some way that we could promote uh parents using that to help with these issues instead of keeping this land and spending. I do agree and I I do think the 20 25% reduction in students on the campus will have a significant impact on the number of cars stacked. Uh there is you know hope that at some future date we could have stackable lanes in another area on the property. It would still wouldn't be at Main

208Street. U the stackable lanes could come from the hopper direction or something of that nature if we were to be able to u increase the number of stackable driveways. Um, but it wouldn't be out at the main street area either if we were to use any of the property. It would be the hopper end. Any concession? The main street is a state. You have to work with the state and county on it. That portion is county only. Oh, okay. at the side street is the county. But the only way it's going to be the only way it's going to be corrected in the for the long term if that defense is moved in and a pathway road is done. But right now, I don't really think it's something we need to kind of re research

209a little bit more what we can do instead of saying, "Well, let's sell it." No offense to to you. I know you to sell it, man, but let me let me be clear on a couple of things, but I certainly the pleasure of the board. I I know what Mr. Campes is talking about cuz I live out in that same area and it's the same problem we have on Interstate 10 with Harlem. Harlem correct people get and that's a state right away there and they'll still getting over and on the grass part they'll block the lane and then you got to either get on the freeway or I hate to overstate the obvious but for 30 minutes every day every campus has a traffic problem. Right. But but they have the other campuses have other

210routes they can take to, you know, to get out of there. Well, even for example, Alamo has stackable lanes and it's still a um a a concern, you know. Yeah, but we're not that Alamo. Several years ago, we had the same exact situation on Bayway Drive with Baytown Jr. And this district spent the money to put a traffic lane on our district property to eliminate it. And it's served that school very well. We passed the bond. That's true. That's true. We've passed the bond. Oh. Uh my concern is once we sell the property, it's gone. It it removes that option at that point. Um I'm with you, Mr. Campy. It's your area. Whatever you want to do, I'm good with it. I'm one vote of seven and I will support however this vote board votes.

211Stay strong. Don't give in. I just think Can we Okay, we're going to call Mr. Kim. That's a good to follow up on. Why don't we take a look until we can look at a little bit more if that's possible? Can we hear from Miss Garcia real quick? Um, I just wanted to reiterate what Dr. O'Brien said. I think there are ways to in the future apply uh internal lanes to those campuses because they're connected. Um, it would just need to be investigated. But I think there that is a possibility for those campuses in the future. The issue though, I think the question is would we use this acreage for a viable lane? It's not viable because there is a city park or a park that's open in between. It's difficult because we don't own

212col that college road either. So, do we own the remainder of the property contiguous to hard highlands elementary? We do. That's my point. And this is the only portion of that property that would still front faces Main Street. Yes, that's correct. Yes, Dr. Price. Are we being I don't have questions anymore. We're just being asked to authorize the solicitation of bids. We're not selling the property tonight. That's correct. That that would still it's still going to come back to us and if somebody offers us 10 times its worth, we'll reconsider. If if this board were to approve this, I'm sorry again. If this board were to approve this tonight, it would go out for bids and we would anticipate if we receive any bids from restricted buyers, it would come back to this board either

213at the June 2nd or June 16th meeting depending on the parameters of the bid. Can we tell them they have to buy the fairway property, too? How much would it cost us to to to put out bids? Would it cost us any money? That's it. It's about $800, I believe, to to advertise. Six. Randy said six. I've suggested I'm going into the newspaper business after after this. Dr. If I may, uh, Madam President, uh, board member Compee, we've looked at this before, that piece of property, uh, we were talking about doing what you were, uh, as what you referring to, putting those lanes, but remember, uh, Dr. Brown, we got a lot of push back from the Highlands community. they did not want us to mess with that because it was a they considered a

214park area and they really came out and pushed back on that. So that was one reason we didn't uh use it that use it uh for that purpose. Um and at the beginning of the school year we do have a lot of traffic on that location but the uh precinct 3 and our police department comes out and we get that taken care of. So, if we need to contact them more and have try to get someone over there, then we could probably uh look at that and go stronger with that. But I don't think we would um I don't think the community would be in favor of us doing that thinking about what they did last time. We had a lot of push back from that. Is there developed park there or is just green

215space? It's green space, but they they consider it and look at it as a park. And our kids use it as a as a walking park also, but some of the community as well. There's only a like a broken um concrete pad for a basketball court. It's not being used. Okay. Our students use that every day for recess, did they not? I agree with you. We should just table this. Okay. Well, do I have a motion for on the table? [Music] Um I just think Come on. I think we ought to just table it right now and then make a motion. Look, you got a motion. Give me a second. I make a motion that we table this until we have a little bit more information on PO possibly what can be done. And if

216nothing can be done, then we put it up to to sale. And then if we don't get any qualified bids, then we'll just keep the property and just figure out that we need to talk to precinct 3 and our department about better managing the uh traffic in that area morning and evening because that seemed like the biggest problem morning and evening. But okay, I'm just going to make a motion to pull it. Okay, we're going to pull item 13 A1. Okay. Are we pulling it administratively or I can pull it administratively at the will of the board. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Proceed. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. What else we have? Next is only 10. Huh? Oh, okay. I think lost my place. Thank you, Tiffany. Uh, we're now on future board 13B. Um,

217future board agenda items, board training, board meetings. Just a reminder that we're going to summer Leadership Institute in San Antonio. Yes. June 11th through 14th. those who can make it. Those who can't make that date a week later will do June 18th through 22nd in Fort Worth. Thank you. Miss Garcia is requesting that we advise her today if we're going to join go to the either one of those beg. Miss Garcia is wanting to know if we're going today if if we could let her know so she can make her plans. Okay. For confirmation tonight if at all possible. so that we can get the rooms booked and all that. Okay. The board now will proceed um recess into close session. The board uh pursuant to one of the following sections of Texas um government

218code section 551 071 072 073 07 interrupt. Did we vote on number five? We we made the amendment. Yeah, we voted on five. You've been sleeping. 074 You've been worried about Randy Money. 075 076 082 083 084 and 087. No action will be taken while the board is in closed session. The time is now 10:05. And y'all better move fast back there. Yep. This chairman is tied. The board will re now uh reconvene in open session. The time is now 10:51. No action was taken while the board was in close session. Dr. O'Brien, I'm going to move to you now for discussion of uh personnel. Is it really 10:51? 1052. Now you're wasting time. Okay. Okay. Excuse me. Administration brings before the board for consideration approval of 36 elections and approval of 51 to approve

219resignations. Thank you. It was a motion and moved and second by Tiffany and a motion by Mr. Clinton, second by Miss God. All in favor? Approve. Administration brings before the board this evening for approval. Abigail Tyler as educational diagnostician. I'll move to approve. Second. Motion and second. Motion by Miss Guy. Second by Mr. Clim. All in favor? It's unanimous. It's getting late. I want to make sure that this isn't the same person. Board brings I mean administration brings before the board Abigail Larson as speech language pathologist. Move to approve. Second. Okay. Moved by Mr. Clim, second by Mr. Campy. All in favor, please raise your hand. Unanimous. Administration brings before the board Adrian Wear as licensed specialist in school psychology. Okay. I'll move to approve. Second. Uh approved by motion by Miss G, second by

220Mr. Vera. All in favor raise your hand. Unanimous. Gotcha. Is that the one I have folded over? Okay. Um, all right. Administration brings to the board campus athletic coordinator, head football coach at Sterling High School, Spencer Anthony. Howard, you want to say your part first? Are they still here? He left. this time. He got some power if he going to take off before the Rangers. He can't be jumping ship like that, you know. Okay. Motion by Miss G, second by M. Have to give him a canoe. All in favor raise your hand. Approve. Uh unanimous. administration brings before the board for consideration uh the renewal non-renewal or termination of employment of instructional personnel contracts specifically consider and take action to renew non-renewal or terminate the end of the contract instructional personnel contracts as presented for

221chapter 21 of the education code okay move have a motion that was item four right yes yes I move to approve second okay it was Motion for approval by Mr. Clim, second by Mr. Renter. All in favor, please raise your hand. And hold on. Hold on. Any abstension? One, two, three, four, five. Approve to abstension. Miss guy. And madam president, I don't know if this is a matter for you or not, but uh administration may request a special call meeting for personnel only uh a weekday um because our next meeting is not till June 2nd. We have people waiting on contracts. So we will get a few dates to the board. Oh, and I've left one thing off of our agenda to recommend. So just for consideration of a future board special call meeting for

222personnel only. Uh item F, consideration of the application for NRG Cedar Bio5 uh comproller application number J12 for tax incentive agreement and board declaration of conditional intent pursuant to government code 403- I mean 611B and administration does recommend approval. I'll move to approve. Second. Okay. Motion by Miss Scott, second by Mr. Ria. All in favor, please raise your hand. Tony, it was worth it. You had nothing better to do on a on a Tuesday night. [Laughter] Okay. Administration rest. There be no further business. This board and this meeting is adjoined at 10:56 PM and Helen Barack Tims is out as your president. Congratulations, Miss Tims. Oh, man.