February 3, 2025 – Board Meeting

001I now call the regular board meeting of Goose Creek CISD school board of trustee to order it's Monday February the 3 2025 at p.m. um Mr kesy was the meeting properly posted yes it was and do we have a quorum we do have a quorum thank you okay Mr Jackson I will now yield to you for opening exercise and recognition thank you okay good evening president Helen BR Tims Dr o and boy members tonight's opening exercises will be will be presented by the students from Highland Junior School we'll begin I was jumping ahead there at this time I want to uh select what they're doing the students that are performing are Eliah Benitas Dallas Fischer Jaylen Gara Darien Godfrey Jaden Griffin Maiden Henderson Elia weatherwood y Yeet msas jayen Martinez Priscilla roses Harley Skinner Evelyn

002Venice and Nala Williams the students will be per Performing songs of beautiful December and zoom G and are under the direction of the choir director El Erica FIA and principal Jennifer Fiera hold on I you UND do the fled first okay I'm sorry add it backwards I guess okay so at this time we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance cited by Aaliyah Benitas and the Texas pledge led by Harley Skinner but before we begin that if you'll arise and Mr Clen will lead us in the prayer oh I knew you would get that in there all right everybody please bow your head dear heavenly father we thank you for this uh beautiful day and this beautiful evening we can come together and meet as a community like to pray for your guidance his wisdom and your

003wisdom as we navigate through this uh agenda tonight make sure we make the correct decisions that will affect each face in our district uh finally I pray that you give everyone here the blessing of safe travel home and uh we pray these things in Jesus name amen [Music] amen flag United States ofer na indivisible andice Texas one state God one and indivisible [Music] turn [Music] to beautiful [Music] you [Music] the win ch all [Applause] spe [Applause] if you are a parent of one of these students would you please stand and be recognized [Applause] thank you again to Holland's Junior School choir for an amazing performance at this time we would ask that Kendall David come up to um work with United Way recognitions hey Susan is the principal with us this evening from Holland Jun

004we can ask Jenifer I think I saw her in the back okay the principal please stand so recognize you thank you all right good evening president Barat Tims Dr O'Brien our board um I am honored today to um celebrate our United Way campaign for this school year Goose Creek has had a long-standing relationship with the United Way of Greater Baytown area in Chambers County in support of our students and their families goose employees this year raised $ 54,4 155 to support the United ways mission in helping our community and on top of that a total of 1,039 employees donated to the campaign to help with this recogn recognition I'm honored to have Miss Clapper here with us today she's our United Way campaign and events manager we appreciate everyone's commitment to this year's campaign and

005there are five campuses here today who excelled in two categories one highest employee participation and highest monetary contribution for a small medium and large campus when I call your name please come to the front to be recognized in the highest employee participation category um awarded with the third highest employee participation is Clark Elementary with [Applause] 73% the principal at Clark is Kim shite and the United Way campaign coordinator is Elizabeth Lewis Miss shite did I miss someone who supported United Way Miss shite did I miss someone who supported with United Way awesome thank you Nancy awarded with the second highest employee participation is impact at 75% and the campaign coordinator and principal is Miss Laura Reyes did I miss someone too man I'm missing all of you guys sorry Miss mexus thank you so much

006for your support awarded with the highest employee participation is Highlands Elementary at 96% the principal of Highlands is Blanca capao and the campaign coordinator is Renee strippling and the highest monetary contribution for our small campus this ranges from 1 to 69 employees and the highest contributor again is impact early col colle High School donating $3,440 and the campaign and principal campaign coordinator is Evelyn mexus and the principal is Laura Reyes in the medium campus category ranging from 70 to 99 employees the highest contributor was Highlands Junior School at $2,115 and the principal is Jennifer Fiero and last in the large campus category 100 to 234 employees the highest contributor was Pumphrey Elementary donating $3,930 the principals Miss Renee Meyer and the campaign coordinator is Miss Michelle Grimes thank you to our entire District to our

007Board of Trustees uh for supporting our uh United Way uh campaign uh for goose Creet CISD thank you to all of our campuses who participated um ultimately uh we're honored to have a partnership with the United Way uh they give give back um very heavily to our students their families in our district so thank you very much okay at this time I would ask that Dr Norma Martinez come up so she can recognize our um National School counseling week good evening president Barat Tims Dr O'Brien and board members National School School counseling week 2005 School counseling helps helping students Thrive will be celebrated this week February 3rd through the 7th to focus public attention on the unique contribution of our school counselors within the US school systems I would like to read our national School

008counseling week Proclamation acknowledging that Goose Creek appreciates their counseling and student wellness professionals that work with our students and staff whereas school counselors are employed in public and private school schools to help students reach their full potential and whereas school counselors are actively committed to helping students explore their abilities strengths interests and talents as these traits relate to Career awareness and development and whereas school counselors help families focus on ways to further the academic career and social emotional development of their children and whereas school counselors work with teachers and other Educators to help students explore their potential and set realistic goals for themselves and whereas school counselors seek to identify and utilize Community Resources that can enhance and complement comprehensive School counseling programs and help students become productive members of society and whereas comprehensive School

009counseling programs are considered an integral part of the educational process that enables all students to achieve success in school we here do by Proclaim February 3 the 3rd through 7th 2025 as National School counseling week at this time I would like to invite any members of our counseling and student wellness teams to come to the front to be recognized and Miss guy I believe that you too are a counselor please be recognized the problem thank you again to our school counselors okay at this time I would like to turn it back over to uh president Helen BR Tims to move forward with our meeting ja and all everyone who presented and again congratulations to our recognize recognition for our schools for the United Way and again to our uh school counselors you play a vital

010role in in the lives of all of our children in the district and we thank you for that we will now move to item number four on our agenda and that will be uh citizens participation uh citizens participation is a 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 regarding of whether the item is a topic on the agenda posted with notice of this meeting each speaker is is reminded that he or she is limited in his or her presentation to a maximum of three minutes and our secretary Mr CES will be the eke keeper which can uh also please also remember you should respect confidentiality concerns and refrain from attacking

011the personal character of any individual student staff members or board member in addressing concerns or comments pursuant to state law and board policy be legal the board could cannot consider or take action on 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 time shall be limited to a proposal to be placed the subject on the agenda for a future board meeting and at this time um M gcia we have uh one speaker okay get my notes we just be killing trees okay um we have uh Mr Jeff minson um would you come up as our speaker tonight thank you yes just before I start there's just a point of clarification I didn't

012know if the subject matter was um related to the agenda item so if there's any questions afterwards we didn't know determine Mr Minon is your microphone on please is my microphone on yes we can hear you now if I get a little closer it'll be a little more helpful all right you ready um Madame chair members of the board and Dr O'Brien thank you for the opportunity to participate in the GC 2035 facility workshops I would like to share some of my learnings and takeaways from that experience the workshops provided key data that was critical to mapping out a path forward for the district especially helpful was the demographic study which as a former data architect met generally accepted standards allowing the data to be relevant and reliable in producing a plan key takeaways that

013I had one the number of Goose Creek students in 10 years will be nearly the same as today under current growth assumptions the information did not factor in any impact to a reduction of students due to a potential stake voucher program the number of students in the south of the district will continue to decline due to the Natural trend of fewer children in a household and the number of students in the north of the district will increase due to new construction of homes three the current elementary junior high and high school facilities have sufficient seats to house all students the location of elementaries is not optimal with too many facilities in the south of the district versus too few in the north of the district rezoning and or building closing elementaries is needed to ensure

014there's not overcrowding in our elementary schools to build a new Elementary in the north of the city will take four to five years if we start immediately and cost 30 to $40 million via a new school bond immediate action is needed via rezoning to relieve overcrowding in the north more work is needed on the optimal utilization of our high schools and the perspect and the related curriculum the community is not supportive of significant additional facility costs that can be avoided options two options were presented one immediately reone to alleviate overcrowding in the north repair a $40 million bond to build a new Elementary School in the north reone again in five years after the new elementary school is built close another Elementary in the South for efficiency sakes or to immediately reone to alleviate overcrowding

015in the north and to allow minimal resoning over the next 10 years from my perspective and from what we discussed as a group option two for me was the Clear Choice for our community thank you again for the opportunity to serve do you have any questions thank you mron okay the next item we will move to item number five approval of minutes uh the minutes for the last regular board meetings U three meetings from December 3rd 202 4 team of8 training meeting December 16th 2024 special board meeting and January 13th regular board meeting uh each board member should have received um provided the amendments to you earlier in your board packet and um do I have a motion I'll move to approve second I have a motion in a second okay I have a motion

016from Miss guy and a second from Mr Clen uh to approve do we have any discussion there being no further discussion and uh all in favor please raise your hand by show of hand it's unanimous approved thank you okay we will move now to discussion item I will now yield to our superintendent Dr ramine thank you thank you Madame President we will have a few items up this evening dur under the superintendent report item 6 A1 is being presented by our business this office is the 2526 budget overview welcome Miss Clark I see she we had to get it in the video our record 6 Ines of snow here in Baytown Texas isn't that something Snowman and all yeah so this is the time of year that you all been waiting for um budget prep

017season I mean that right am I right so uh we it is upon us once again and um this year we have have the uh hopeful benefit of having a legislative session upon us as well um and some changes at the federal level as well so a lot of things moving and shaking and changing and um you know we're just we're trying to manage as we go but uh with that said I'll go ahead and jump into this is our first overview for the budget year um so we're not going to get too into the weeds or into the details but we're going to we're just going to talk about the general layout and and uh what we're hearing on the ground at the legislative level and um how we're going to manage the timeline

018from here forward so as I said um we have a legislative session going on it began on January the 14th um we have we continue to have budget challenges across the state and most school districts are are experiencing budget contraction budget deficits having to um reduce spending reduce expenditure um budget drivers and challenges we'll talk about that and also the budget calendar timeline so the 89th legislature began on January 14th and sign die is June 2nd um the elected speaker of the house is representative Dustin buroughs in his acceptance speech um for his speakership he did mention supporting public education so that is promising um the lieutenant governor uh appointed um Brandon kraton the chair of the Senate education committee there are he reduced the num the total number on the Senate education committee by

019two there are now 11 members um I believe it's nine Republicans and two Democrats um the Senate has already produced its um Senate bill to which is the voucher bill which emphasizes its importance to the lieutenant governor and by extension the governor um with it being Senate Bill two the only uh bill that is um before that is the budget Bill and that's required by law that they have a budget Bill and pass it um the Senate's bill um the voucher bill passed out of committee along party lines at 9-2 there is a fiscal note um associated with that bill for vouchers that increases from $1 billion in this bium to4 billion in 20 by 2030 so it's got a huge price tag and it'll be um a recurrent expenditure so every year they'll have

020to find the funds to to pay for that bill um the house I have not yet seen their version of the voucher bill but I'm sure that it is going to be um hitting the airwaves shortly due to the governor's State of the State address that he had on Sunday evening and I will just mention a couple of things he's got s emergency priorities um one is cutting property taxes another is investment in the state's water infrastructure number three is promising uh increasing teacher pay that's on his emergency item uh beefing up vocational Career Training also on his emergency list is immigration uh diversity equity and inclusion programs and that rounds out the seven so any uh he was in his top seven he's Banning diversity equity and inclusion programs in any entities that receive

021taxpayer money so those are his um emergency items that he set forth in his State of the State yesterday um a little side by side on the um Senate bill as it pertains to public school funding versus private school funding um in the Senate bill it has a $6,500 per student um increase well not increase but increasing the basic allotment from uh 6160 to $6,500 um with all other things being equal and no unfunded mandates that would bring us around $9 million so of course that doesn't take into account anything else just all things being equal now in the private school side in the same bill it would be $10,000 per student um also on the the um Public School side it would still uh funding would still be based on average daily attendance as

022opposed to enrollment we're one of only I believe seven states in the union that fund that way and it of course does hurt us especially in the aftermath of um Co and uh on the on the private school voucher side it's going to be um funded based on enrollment so and then you know they don't have the um school they do not have the curriculum or testing standards on the private school side like we do and then you know of course the special needs students population they can exclude folks and they don't provide transportation and that sort of thing so um the bill will change of course because the house doesn't have its version of the bill yet but whenever it goes um you know whenever the B the house does present theirs and then

023they um pass it and then it goes to I believe it's called conference committee is the the term I was looking for after it passes both Chambers so um it will change I mean obviously we know this so um it's just something we're keeping our eye on and it is certainly early in the game but it would be very nice to be able to um say yes we're going to uh receive that additional funding for basic allotment all right just some financial statistics the Texas house policy analyst Avid DeLuna said in June that the basic allotment would have to be 75 $100 to account for the inflation we've experienced since um 2019 when they put the uh set the uh basic allotment at 6160 so we're not going to get that much obviously at 6,500

024it's still quite under what we would need to uh receive to be made whole just to keep up with inflation and our spending power um you know just to be able to buy the same thing in 2025 that we were able to buy in 20 2019 um it would have to increased to 7500 uh Texas per student funding is 4,000 below the national average um so we still continue to lag behind there special ed weight safety allotment and prek funding have not increased since 2019 we get only half day funding for prek still uh special education um weights have not increased yet the costs have astronomically increased for testing and uh providing services for these students and another troubling Trend that we've seen is that we have been inundated with audits um I mean every

025time we turn around we seem it seems like we're getting audited and not only are we being audited but one recent oig audit that was based on 2011 school year um had a final resolution and they are clawing back $120,000 on that and it's it was from a 2017 oig audit based on 2011 school year so I mean we don't even keep records that long so there are some uh activities behind the scenes that where Freedom of Information Act uh is being used to request the data because we don't have it the records have been destroyed because um it it's not required to be um maintained or retained so anyway we've got that one and then we've got another one um it most of these are related to chars which is the um the uh

026personal care services that we receive in in in regards to chars and um they change the rules and they're retroactively applying them and so we have several audits that are underway on appeal right now one of them is 900 and something thousand that's the one you've all probably heard of that was the big one but then there's another one for over half a million so it's you know uh it's it seems to be constant that we're we're getting quite quite a few audits so it's something it's the reason I say that is because it affects our fund balance if we have to come back after the fact and um pay for these audits that are years out then you know obviously it has to be paid with our general fund balance so just something to

027keep in mind um the board budget shortfalls continue to plague the state um the Houston Chronicle estimated that uh last year or last budget year for this budget year during the planning that was last year um the aggregate shortfall for the districts in the Houston area was total $857 million so we were all collectively grappling with $857 million in budget deficits last year um Aline is proposing closing seven schools they have a $98 million deficit Houston ISD doubled its projected 2025 budget deficit for this year and they're signaling it might uh spur layoffs because of that amount um it's half a you know half a billion now um spring ISD 13 million ciper 138 million Midland 41 million Austin 92 Cel n i mean and we're just getting started this is just the beginning of

028February so I look for a lot more um a lot more budget deficits to be uh starting to be discussed and publicized so um the goals and assumptions are are you know pretty much the same as what we have uh annually we want to if you have a budget deficit to contend with the you can't really get there if it's any any sizable budget deficit without looking at payroll and Staffing and you have to be you know you have to be lean and mean and of course we're always looking at operating efficiencies and program costs um we certainly want to remain competitive we want to offer employee compensation package and retain remain competitive and and be able to recruit with those comp that compensation package we're also assuming a flat Ada um we have slightly

029um you know we've seen slight declines in enrollment and we'll have that a little bit more detail on another slide following this one but um we're just uh going with slightly decreased and flat average daily attendance um of course we want to monitor any new Revenue sources or unfunded mandates that might come out of this legislature the primary budget drivers are the usual ones average daily attendance that's your you know bread and butter for revenues and expenditures payroll is always 80% plus of the expenditures so those are the two main things that you have to tie down whenever you're preparing your budget as I said previously um you can see that we've had a um I mean we maxed out on enrollment in 2023 and now you've we've seen slight declines um in the Years

030following that the two years following including this year um we have seen it decrease uh it's I think it's around today's was like 153 decrease I believe so it fluctuates and it tends to decrease in the spring semester um the not only the enrollment the Ada percentage as well you know just tends to decrease in Spring historically and that's typical for most school districts um you see we still have not um broken the $22,000 or excuse me 22,000 Ada since 2020 so we have uh less students less Ada coming in less Revenue coming in and um of course our expenditures have increased due to inflation so just some of the accomplishments to um highlight a couple of those from the last couple of budget years we this is going to be year three of budget

031reductions so um I know everyone's it's it's not fun when you have to reduce but it's it's the situation that we all find ourselves in just due to the um the fact that we haven't had an increase in basic allotment since 2019 I know it's it's repetitive but it's it's just the way things are right now but because of the work that we did we were able to provide a 4% General pay increase to all of our employees last year and that was only possible because we reduced our budget by $13 million and we closed non-campus positions districtwide we adjusted high school and Junior school schedules um and we applied Staffing ratios to elementaries so um the work uh continued last year and the year before we we closed nearly 100 positions we had a

032$12 million uh budget reduction plan and we did all this without uh layoffs and we also reduced departmental budgets so lots of work has gone into this in the last couple of years and this year will be no exception um the challenges of course are going to be U the no additional funding the inflation and then teacher competition is is very uh you know much in play here especially on the east side of Houston and our neighbors to the East are very competitive um you know we've got our neighbor that you know pays the highest teacher salary in all of the state of Texas and they're right in our backyard so um that makes it exceptionally competitive on the east side of Houston for us and of course um there is always the potential for

033additional Charter Schools or or other options for parents um as we move forward all right so this is a summary of and this is very preliminary this is this is just the first uh attempt at um trying to nail this down and what what the the financial picture looks like um but I'll go line by line here just explaining um where we are uh and what this tallies up to and what we have what the work looks like ahead of us so the board adopted uh a slight budget deficit for 2425 at 1.8 million um and the negatives are going to be the one the items that um that add to the budget deficit and the um the positives are the ones that offset so then the board off off the also adopted a lower

034tax rate one one cent lower it was about a $1.5 million cost so that's a negative then last year remember the we transferred in from our quote unquote savings account uh chapter 313 and ftz which is our Capital Improvements project fund we transferred $1.8 million into the general fund to help us offet set some expenditures then um we in order to keep premiums low for employees um in order to keep pre insurance premiums lower for employees um we contributed $3.5 million um in order to keep those those increases nominal um we uh found a phone earlier and I'm holding on to it we think it's an employes phone so my apologies Miss Clark was that a barking dog I don't know what that was and so um we did contribute that $3.5 million to health

035insurance to the premiums low or or you know as low as possible with nominal increases only and then um we of course have the decrease in Ada for this year offset slightly um by the penny yield but it still gives us us a negative about 640,000 the one positive or two one of two positives I guess or actually this is singly a positive is the increase in investment earnings now this is because of our interest rate environment we've had um you know we've had higher interest rates obviously it's not always good on when you're trying to finance something but it's good whenever you're earning interest so it has its pros and cons but something to be cognizant of cognizant of is a bill that has been proposed by um senator midleton for um requiring school

036districts to um invest and like we invest in our investment pools right now like you know like lonar and Texas range and and we have several but they're very you know they're very very conservative there's nothing we're not investing in anything risky or anything of that nature but um Mr Middleton has proposed a bill that would require us to uh have our money invested in one of two places none of which are investment pools so um kind of some local control would be um taken there if we were required to invest in those two entities I don't have the names of the entities there but it's in the bill um and if we didn't uh we would have to you know respond and and prepare provide a reason as to why we didn't so my

037concern with that is you know the and it's all controlled through the comp troller according to the bill so I don't know what that would look like and that the fact that we wouldn't have our money in our possession is one concern and also we wouldn't be able to shop our own rates and so are they going to offer the same rates that we're able to enjoy with our investment pools that we've had for years decades um so just something to think about that that's on the horizon and also you know if interest rates Contin continue to decrease this may not hold up so we just don't know what tomorrow brings with with interest rates we can we can you know project and and we can uh listen to The Experts and and think we

038know but we don't actually know until until we see it through so um just something to keep in mind then of course we had the school consolidation that saved um 2 point almost 2.2 million um this is an estimate only and this is just to incorporate it in here for illustrative purposes so you could see if the board wanted to approve a 2% General pay increase it would cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $5.2 million and that would give us total reductions required to balance the budget for 2526 of almost 20 million um however if the board um gives me directive uh and feedback to proceed with um doing such a transfer for this year we could potentially do that because we were fortunate enough this year again to receive more ftz money than what

039we thought we were going to it still hasn't gone down to the the historical 900,000 that we get most years and so it's it's running in the three and a half million range um so we're looking at that and then we had a surplus in workers comp of about a million and then um the remainder is with chapter 313 monies that came in so um even with that offset you now something else uh the aster there you again next year just like this year because it's onetime money and it's it's coming from our savings account it's not recurring Revenue that we're always going to have right it's going to come and the savings account is you know that's a that's a finite number usually and um so we'll have to make that up next year

040so if we utilize this 13.5 next year when we start 26 27 if we don't get additional funding from the legislature um and we don't have additional uh unfunded mandates we will have to make up that 13.5 million even with that 13.5 million we're still um at a deficit of $6.2 million and that equates to around 139 positions if at 45,000 uh each which is our average salary per employee across the board um so of course that can change depending on what positions we're talking about but um that's what it would take to balance the budget for 2627 um excuse me 25 26 but just know that in 26 27 we'd have to make up that 13 and a half so are there any questions on this slide I know this slide is the one

041that so I think it's just important to note that um you you brought up that the legislator's in session now and they're making these proposals uh in in essence it's a road a roading away from local control in 2021 session they removed the negotiability of our Board of Trustees for 313 agreements and it was sunsetted in 2022 so any of those that we have remaining will expire in the next few years and then furthermore they're proposing once again to remove our own savings account from our control and putting it with the comp troller and we can make possibly withdrawals from it upon request so uh there's a really strong push legislative ly to take away the authority of the locally elected Board of Trustees so I'm a little bit concerned that we're in the position

042that we're in financially not because of mismanagement or over hiring it's really that inflation has impacted us you had it on the slide up there 22% over the last six years right and there's there's some question as to whether or not this session will come through and deliver uh any concession for inflation so I just want the board to hear uh what you said in regard to um these these matters absolutely you nailed it any questions on this slide I I got a question yes sir So when you say we have to make up this 13.5 million yes how how are we supposed to do that we'll have to have another budget reduction year if we don't get additional funding from the legislature okay so you said I get it but I was thinking like

043there's some way we're going to make 13.5 million but there's not that means we're going to be cutting again that's correct yes sir without funding without additional funding yes sir right that's correct we have and we have fewer employees today than we did when this all started and this is assuming the tax rate doesn't change yes yeah that can and and any other changes that they put in place that I mean if they're going to they want to reduce property taxes by 10 billion dollar that's the amount they want to reduce it by so that's a huge that's that's a large number so I don't know exactly how they're going to go about doing that but I'm sure compression is going to be part of it but in in essence what you've presented here is

044the best case scenario yes un short of additional funding right if we got what the Senate Bill provides for additional basic allotment you could offset that by 9 million but you can see even with that we would still have a deficit so wouldn't be as as much but it would still be deficit any other questions all right so I'll just go over the timeline here um you see all these um items in yellow are actual board meetings and the red in the activity column is going to indicate board action um of course tonight is the just basic overview on the 17th you'll have an HR update you see the Lilac there we're having our internal committee meetings for Budget reduction and those kick off tomorrow um we have three of those and then um we

045have the committee come and present to Executive counsel and then we present the um proposed budget reduction plan to the board on March 3rd um and then we take your feedback and and any other internal um any other changes that may come about in that time period and then we would ask the board to approve the budget reduction plan on April 7th um the only question uh I have here or a coup in bread is you know if the board wants a uh Workshop then um an additional Workshop because we'll be having those um if they want a budget reduction Workshop we'll have to have a special board meeting and I just put out a couple of dates um the 24th is a Monday but that we can um certainly determine that later as we

046after the um the initial reduction plan is presented um then you see on the 19th we have the compensation plan that we're will'll ask you to approve there um and then General the entire budget will be adopted on the 16th so um that's to your point on the calendar that will be after Cai but it won't be before potential um special sessions that could ensue so we may or may not have a clear picture of the funding projected from this legislative session at the end of the session if um if vouchers isn't passed quickly and um and then notification from either Party U whether or not other funding will be uh allocated for public schools um we won't know so this will be this is a beautiful calendar I might add Miss Clark but it's

047still subject to the actions or inactions that occur in Austin you're exactly right and you have to adopt the budget based on current law you can't if the if the law is not in place which it most likely will not be now I've heard I've H I've heard I think coming from the house that we're absolutely not having any special sessions this year but it's it's early so foll four special sessions last year right yes so we'll see so this may Middleton proposal for us to invest is that mandatory uh it yes if it passes and when will that take place we don't have an idea either it's not B yeah it's not on the emergency list it's not a high priority but because of the bill number being in the hundreds it's not in

048the high priority but it's it's been proposed so we'll we'll just be tracking it any other questions thank you Miss Clark thank you you will continue on Dr yes ma'am uh next up we have the rezoning update all right good evening president BR tens Dr O'Brien our Board of Trustees uh we're here to present uh the rezoning recommendation um and our committee work that has occurred over the last um six months um I'm Kendall David I'm the executive director of community engagement I have a team with me and Matt Binger assistant superintendent of Human Resources also want to point out that we have um our incredible members of both GC 2035 and our district task force resoning committee if y'all will ra your hands stand up if you were on the district resoning task force

049or GC 2035 yes thank [Applause] you a lot of um a lot of work uh went into looking at rezoning um I think I think everyone who stood will agree that it's very complex um and um you know a lot of a lot of work and brain power has to go into to looking at a comprehensive District res zone so we wanted to start off today with just talking about why are we rezoning uh two primary reasons the first is balancing enrollment so um preventing overcrowding in high growth areas which in our case is on the north side of our district and ensuring that we're utilizing um our schools that are currently at lower capacity um that for us is on the south side of our district we also want to make sure um Bridget

050just came and presented our um our budget and the complexities with that and so we want to make sure we're being very efficient with our campuses and so uh what we mean by that is um deferring the future School construction um we don't have a school planned to be built as of right now so we need to make sure we're utilizing our campuses as best as possible for next year um we want to minimize purchase of Portable Buildings they are very expensive they're hard to maintain and and most teachers and students do not like um receiving or giving instruction in Portables um and then also um avoid um operating schools significantly below capacity so we had some rezoning objectives that we kept at the Forefront of our mind when we're talking about making decisions on

051our school zones the first is to draw attendance zones in a way that supports efficient and effective use of our facilities and resources reduce overcrowding of campuses look at Future growth and what those projections look like and plan the best as we can based on uh our knowledge involve the community and get feedback and evaluate that feedback looking at um students proximity to a campus being mindful of traffic patterns and ensure that we're transporting and uh providing zones that are the safe uh as safe as possible for our students and then of course always keeping keeping in mind that this is about the kids so what has our timeline looked like um we really started um this discussion uh based on the data that was presented at the May 2024 board meeting uh from our

052demographer um and that definitely showed a need to um uh have a comprehensive rezone again uh due to the fact that we have many schools in our in the north side of our district that are at our over capacity and schools on the south side of our district that are under capacity um in August of 2024 we presented um the uh vision for the district resoning task force in GC 2035 and we're given the green light by our board to form those two committees um from October to January um from August to to October really the the GC 2035 we focused on the long range facility plan but that uh ran hand inand with rezoning from October to January GC 2035 took a deep dive into rezoning and and Nancy's going to go over what

053that looked like from November to January uh we had five district resoning task force meetings and then uh December 20th through January 10th we released our zoning options a Q&A um and then a community surve uh survey to get feedback uh based on the options presented to the community so for the District of resoning task force that was an employee task force we had about 35 members administrators teachers different staff from different departments and campuses across the district and we developed those objectives that Kindle shared and the first thing we did was we evaluated the demographic study to look for areas concern where we knew we needed to um make adjustments in the rezoning so we worked with the demographer and we were provided option A which we provided a lot of feedback on we

054really wanted to accomplish clean feeder patterns which wasn't in option A so we provided a lot of feedback looked at it very closely and then we were given option b we still had some feedback for option b some refinements we're looking at individual planning units we're looking at how many neighborhoods are changing schools we're looking at transportation and that's where option C came from there were still some requested refinements from there actually there were parts of B and parts of C that people really lik that they wanted to combine together so we worked with the demographer to see if an option D was viable but it wasn't um it wasn't as imbalance as B and C were so those were the two options that were provided to the public for um feedback on so we

055evaluated every bit of the community feedback we looked at every vote every comment to dig in there um Kindle's going to show us more information on that later and we also worked on developing grandfather clause and communication plan with GC 2035 it was a lot of similar work there we um when we looked at the demographics study we also looked at it in comparison to the long range facility plan since they had been working on that and they reviewed options B and C offered some feedback as well and then they voted on their recommendation at the GC 2035 we also evaluated every piece of the feedback from the public and worked on developing the grandfather clause and communication plan okay so on the screen here you can see three maps and so these are these

056are the uh the maps that we're looking at the current zoning boundaries are of course Uh current for these are the elementary Maps is on the left uh and then option B is in the middle and option C is on the right and so as shared there were several items to consider whenever we were whenever the committee was looking at the uh different options uh least amount of disruption making sure that we're not rezoning more students than we have to um eliminating pocket zones and making sure we're improving clear zoning boundaries so that they're they're clean they're easy to follow um transportation was a consideration then also pure as as Nancy Shar pure feeder patterns and so you can go to the next slide so for elementary um uh a couple of things to consider

057um consolidating Lamar on the south side was a factor and then also providing relief for ptree elementary and Highlands Elementary on the North side was a factor so there's a lot to take in here on the numbers so I'm going to just talk through a little bit of this um these are based off of functional capacities including the special programs that are currently at the school and so what is functional Capac FAL capacity is the the number in which all students are zoned to that school including the programs that are located at that school um it it does not consider transfers student transfers or programs that may relocate students and so for for an example if you'll look at um current capacity Highlands Elementary is at 131% So that's its functional capacity um in our

058in our membership report its current capacity is at 120% so it's 11 percentage points lower and so why the difference well the difference is because of student transfers or students in programs that may place them in a different School than their Zone to and so that gives a a quick example so if you look at um option b and option C what you'll notice compared to the current capacity is that um that there is a reduced variance and so that was one of the goals so in our current elementary zoning you'll see that at the low end Ashville Smith is at 58% Capac capity and then at the high end Harlem Elementary is at 131% capacity so that's quite a bit of variance from one school to another so that creates staffing issues that creates

059operational issues and also Equity issues and so when you look at um option b and option C even though of course there is you can't have it perfect where they're all 87% um but but you can see that there's much less variance another note to consider which probably jumps out at most people looking at this slide is that there are still some schools that over 100% capacity with option b and option C and so again I want to just just a few things to consider on this first of all um this does not consider again transfers or program changes and so transfer and program changes can swing percentages quite a bit um and I'm gon to I'm going to give an example here in a minute on that um and then also what's important is

060the forecasting of 10 years down the road what would that capacity be so you can see that for most of the the schools the forecasting 10 years down the road is there's not a dramatic shift and that's good because that means there's probably more consistency hopefully um with that school's population over the next five six or seven years okay so I want to use uh no stay there I want to use Harlem and Highlands as an example um so you'll notice that Harlem right now their current capacity according to to this their functional capacity is at 73% and Highlands is at 131% and so what will happen with options B and C is I mean obviously Highlands Elementary is over capacity there there's a big concern there they're on the North side and so you'll

061see that um it will provide relief for uh for Highlands Elementary with options B and C um however Harlem tends to jump up a little bit over 100% um however Harlem does have three programs and so if there's a relocation in programs or we're not considering student transfers um it would be very manageable to get that number down to the high 80s or low 90s per with one program change or two program changes or just considering the transfer so this I guess my point is this chart doesn't consider those transfers which we know is going to create some fluctuation with the population okay you can go to the the next slide and then um then what we're going to so ele so Elementary is by far the the the most cumbersome piece of this resoning

062uh process uh for for junior high again you can see that the same filters that we went through as as far as least amount is disruption um but but the primary goal here is just to make sure that we we accommodate a clean feeder pattern from element to Junior High which we currently do not have and so a couple of boundaries if you look at current versus option b and then you go to option C um there are some adjustments made and those adjustments help to uh accommodate those clean feeder patterns for elementary um when we get to the uh the numbers you'll see that the numbers aren't much of a concern like they are for for elementary um because we recently built a junior a six Junior High and that that's really helped with

063our um North capacity at the junior high level and then at the high school go the next slide High School map um same same explanation as it is for uh for the junior high you see our current map and then our secondary option two and then our high school option I'm sorry option b and then option see um very little shifts and so if you if you look at that and again the shifts account for or making sure we have clean feeder pattern so there's a few resoning options and we'll talk about grandfathering here in a minute uh to address that concern but um but but there's there's a couple of changes just to accommodate for that that pure feeder pattern okay and then um similar to the elementary same idea is that we're looking

064at functional capacity numbers so it's not considering transfers or programs which can shift but um but if you look at the uh the numbers here there's there's Minor Adjustments again for the same purpose one point that I want to make is like is for green Junior School um what you don't see currently its functional capacity is at 73% um we the demographic study showed that projected out 10 years this school will be close to 100% capacity and so even though there's there's a slight dip in that number its capacity goes up to 88% that's a whole lot better than than the current zoning um forecasting and what it's forecasting for and then there's a couple of adjustments at the high school level as well where you can see those numbers shift um based off the

065zoning Maps Okay so as I stated before um evaluating feedback was a big piece of the work for our district task force and GC 2035 they did take a survey uh based on the preference for zoning option our community um they had a preference for option b uh 71.5% um preferred option b and 28.5 preferred option C um the majority also was the same with our GC 2035 committee with 62.5% preferring option b and 37.5 preferring option C so um a big part of the work that GC 2035 and the task force um did was is really looking at the written responses we were looking um this was organized by neighborhood by preference Chosen and we're really looking for a pattern of um a a community that had a a strong um voice in not

066wanting to move to a certain area or um having a huge conflict with the rezone and we never saw any um patterns that really stood out um on the written responses 56% um provided no feedback so that question was what are your concerns what feedback do you have for the district so essentially they voted on their zoning option and did not provide feedback 17 were against either option b or c and voiced that in their feedback 11% supported option b or c they were happy that they were being rezoned um or with the rezoning option 5% had various questions or concerns um anything from what will this do um to classroom sizes to um where will special programs be held those sort of things um 5% had questions about grandfathering 4% did not want to

067rezone at all they wanted to keep all district lines the same and 2% had Transportation questions or concerns so let's talk about grandfathering um our current recommendation is for um our Elementary uh students uh for elementaries for current fourth graders as you saw um there's very little wiggle room across the board at elementary um and so we we looked at what would happen if we included siblings or additional grades um and ultimately um it it's not doable Uh current fourth graders are really all that we can look at for um Elementary grandfathering and that's pretty typical the highest grade level um affected that's what we've offered in the past however we did want to look at um um the possibility of additional grade levels where we could uh manage that and so our recommendation um

068is for sixth and seventh grade students be offered grandfather Claws and at the high school 9 10 and 11th grade be offered the ability to uh grandfather I will tell you uh we pulled numbers from previous years um it does turn out to be very um a a wash essentially you have about 100 to 15 50 students that transfer are that choose to stay at those campuses at all of the high schools one thing to note about um our grandfather clause is transportation must be provided by the parent or a student driver uh siblings of grandfathered students must be rezoned so if you have a current seventh grader who's going to stay grandfather eighth grader and a and a sibling coming up into sixth grade they will have to go to their Zone campus and

069ultimately students must maintain good standing and atten end tardies and behavior in order to um uphold that Grandfather Clause we determined these recommendations uh based on the uh work from both of our committees um the junior high Grandfather Clause was very close with the GC 2035 committee with 5 55.6% choosing sixth and seventh grade and 44.4 choosing seventh grade only um not as close with 9 10 and 11 at 81.8 and and 18.2 for 11th grade only um the the commentary behind that was you know at at high school those students are there they need to be offered the option to stay However especially because we have clean feeder patterns um it would be a benefit if those students were were um forced to go to their Zone schools because they will be following those

070students to high school um with the district resoning task force um same results six and 7 75% agreed um it should be six and seventh grandfathered 25 7th grade only and 9 and 11 at 81.3 and 18.8 for 11th grade only and that's how we developed that recommendation ultimately our recommendation tonight is to approve rezoning option b um it's what the uh committee voted on as their preference it's what GC 2035 voted on as their preference and it's also um the Committees preference uh for our district resoning task force based on that feedback and then also approving the grandfather clause for current fourth graders current sixth and seventh graders and current nine 10 and 11th graders as we've shown these two committees have worked on a lot over the last several months um but there's

071still a lot of work to to do our last two meetings with um each group focused on these items here thinking about what needs to be the next steps including communication communicating with the families of any of the affected students whether it be a just a rezone or also the special programs which we're going to do a full evaluation on to see the best placement location for those programs also um communicating the grandfather clause options sending out a survey so they can choose which option they would like and a timeline with that we'll also need to look at prek zoning as well and also HR will be working on Staffing allocations as we are shifting you know students and numbers staff will be shifted as well so we'll have to look at that um and

072with special programs also and then also looking at technology rollover so not just the physical technology of maybe devices moving but also like uh licenses to programs that will need to be shifted as well and of course Transportation seeing the new routes and how that'll all work any questions just just a note to the board that this will come up on the agenda to be voted on later this evening yes sir um do we anticipate the enrollment at GCM to become low enough to be back in 5A for UIL purposes or has that been a consideration I I don't know the answer to that question Dr Price do you know if uh lee Martinez has looked at that at all Mr Martinez coincidentally they have a report later this evening we can ask that question

073well I I think we really need to consider that when we're doing special programs Etc because if we're going to grandfather I can see where we could end up being a 4A I mean a 5A school still playing in 6A in a year yeah as the plan develops and we need to be careful about that thank you it looks like just on from the chart that in about what eight years we'll be back at the same capacity we are now at GCM so we'll have that same problem again y thank you very much thank you appreciate our next report will be Transportation update Miss D Cody and Dr Price will be presenting are y'all presenting together yes yes sir good evening President Barack Tims board members superintendent Dr O'Brien I'm Anthony price I have with

074me two two of the uh departments up under the operation Services umbrella we will start off with Transportation uh director Patricia uh will'll be followed follow that with the athletic department with athletic director Lee Martinez and assistant director Greg Smith Mr Cody Dr O'Brien and Schoolboard members um I'm very excited to be here for the very first time in front of you guys so thank you all for the opportunity um we're missing the West Tex's draw from Mr Walter side howy welcome thank you um so I'm just going to give a quick Transportation update for you guys um so I just took a little snippet of of our team it wasn't everybody so hopefully I can get a better picture this summer um when we start our next school year but just wanted to give

075you a brief um little snippet of our our staff members um for Route Services just want to give you a quick um rundown from last year 23 24 school year to this year uh we were able to reduce 27 uh routes um total um which roughly was 277,000 Miles for this school year but we did see a reduction um for this uh sinder parent app and student badges um we are still mitigating through that um every single day we did start with our um implementation and mandating our high school students upon um as of October 21st for them to start scanning on and off the buses so that parents can start looking at that and we can start also tweaking it and see where we need to um adjust and what we need to uh

076work on with um with new technology um November 11th we did that for the junior schools and then January 13th we started off with the elementary schools and of course with every start of um our new impementation we start seeing little things where we have to tweak here and there so every day is a learning opportunity for us and we're working through those um day by day so we can get um everything better um and hopefully we have a a great start of the um 25 26 school year with that um we do have um the parent app where we send notifications to the parents um and we do try to get them and encourage them to get that downloaded that way they have that accessibility at hand for their students um we still have

077some parents that are asking lots of questions about it we try to work with them every single day on on that as as aspect so just wanted to share with youall a little quick update um I know you guys probably have this presentation with you guys um but just a couple bullet points on what it takes to be a school bus driver in Texas it's not just um hand your keys and let's go hit the road it's a little bit more in depth of that um but we do work very hard every day with our our um new members and our new bus drivers even those that come in to our department with CDLs and we go over certain procedures and requirements just to make sure that we're putting the best person out on the

078road um to transport our students um I did want to brag a little bit about this but as of um February of 202 uh 22 um gccis transportation became a thirdparty testing facility with um the state of Texas DPS um that means that every single new driver or even somebody that comes in with a Class A without a pns endorsement we will train and they will test um paper test and behind the wheel test at our facility um so we get audited constantly from DPS to make sure that we are top of the line and so I do have to be very I'm very proud of it but I do have to brag a little bit on on our department because we always get an A score and so that that's very um a high

079standard for us so I I'm excited about that um but as you can see on on your um on the slide every year from the day that we started we have grown in the number of people that we test at our fac facility so that is something to be very very proud of I just wanted to give a shout out to you Mr Cody by being a certified trainer and certifier it's also a Rec recruiting tool because someone could be coming from another District to be certified in our district and realize wow they have a nice New Fleet of buses wow these people are really nice here so I want to commend you for going the extra mile to have trainer of trainers in place thank you sir I appreciate that for field trips I

080did just wanted to brag a little bit of course um our mission is to um to provide students with the educational experiences the side of the classroom with real world experiences um and learning opportunities so just gave a quick rundown um with the number of field trips we uh provided last year and then as of um January 11th we've had just a little over 10,000 U field trips so far um we look at projecting 100,000 miles again this year with field trips and um you know everything that we can do to ensure that our students continually success is what we want to do um and then just uh another quick rundown with our shop facts um they help our keep our Fleet in tiptop shape to safely transport our students to and from school daily

081um with perimeter maintenance and work orders that um or gets submitted from our drivers little things you know the like we try to encourage our drivers even the slightest um knock that they hear on the bus report that so that we can get that taken care of before it becomes a major issue and just a little um tidbit of fuel um fuel gallons that we use from one year to the next as of October of course we've only used 110,000 gallons but um fuel cost do increase drastically from year to year so but that's something that we um deal with on a daily basis so just wanted to give you a quick rundown and then just a quick snippet of our team our leadership team and I couldn't do what I do without them and

082our drivers and monitors do a great job every single day thank you guys any questions for Mr Cody that bad Drive the the tall one yeah yeah could we go to slide three sorry and uh oops talking of on this year the 2425 school year um you do you have 166 routes running concurrently each or is that like half in the morning half at night so that's 16c routes total that's um AM and PM routes at so the am and P routes run the same routes sure Tot so at any given time it's about 80ish at any at any given time we have when I'm on the road at 7:30 a.m. there's a bus everywhere I go we have 166 buses on the road am and p.m so your total projected miles for this year

083versus last year um is what about 270 ,000 less yes approximately 277 translate that into dollar savings for me oh that is prob that's why school board members like to hear okay um So currently I believe ta has it set up for um $487 a mile dang I believe okay so that's a significant savings yes sir yeah okay you should brag about that um moving to slide six does this make us any money so we it um not very much but it does we do have M us with other districts um and we do charge them $200 a fee if they would like for us to use our facility for a training uh for testing and once you pay all the state fees out of that how much goes into your transportation Cofer so all

084of that goes into purchasing I'm not sure where it really goes okay it disappears into believe General funds I understand that's where my marching band money went that's that that the slame black hole yeah um same question on slide eight um are we on on fuel purchased are we unscheduled to purchase less fuel this year so because of fewer routes we are unscheduled to projectively maybe a few gallons less only because the increase is a little high this year okay is that to be a wash most likely on price yes sir okay all right all right thank you very much yes sir appreciate your report that was a report from Transportation they bring the uh Little Giants to school and we get them home safely in the afternoon thank you Mr Cody and now For

085Your Entertainment pleasure Athletics so thank you for having us here today I I do want to thank uh Patricia and transportation for all they do for athletics uh they also that that service does provide athletic coaches the the coaches the opportunity to train here and become certified drivers so um it's definitely a good Advantage for our coaches to have it right here at home um so right now you should have an iPad in front of you but before we get to that I just want to thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight uh so thank you to all board members um and of course uh Dr O'Brien uh thank you for having us here um go ahead and press the middle button twice really fast and then something's going to pop up that's

086asked for your name you don't need to put your full name or or you could you put a some initial so we know it's going to be the ID first it be the ID is coming up as soon as it gets up on the board uh just plug in that ID so 428 009 plug that in and then we'll wait for you you guys to sign up as as your names are popping up um going to use this opportunity to to tell you why we're doing this um some of the stuff that we go over is is uh repetitive so we just kind of want to give you a different uh come at you guys a little bit different with a little bit of creativity a little bit of fun uh just to try to

087um give you guys the same information at the same time um try to uh make it make it a game as well no you don't all right is everybody in is everybody I think everybody should be two Mr Samson you good he said you're good you know I'm old school you know so I have an eight track in there though no no eight track players now let's go um we good yes sir so we're going to go ahead and get started so you'll have about uh be as you answer before we get started I want to say it's the color that you're going to pick okay so don't pick a letter or a number it's going to be the color so the you're going to have a couple of questions coming at you here so

088again thank you for tonight and we want to go ahead and get started here in about two seconds um first question of the three high schools which one made the playoffs for volleyball and if you look on the board you see the uh the color same thing on your screen so that's for the honors part um all right all right so we got cesy in the lead right now all right so we're going to keep going so if you pick GCM the the answer is correct so uh uh GCM I've made the uh playoffs in volleyball this is one of the the things that we sent out throughout the district uh just to inform the school districts and um my supervisors and everybody else who they're playing and where it's a good opportunity for the

089kids to to get uh get some notoriety as well throughout the district so they at at the 6A level they made the playoffs and they put up a good fight for a little while but uh you know they in the end they they didn't go their way but hats off to GCM volleyball for making the playoffs so we'll go to the next one which high school which high schools made the tennis playoffs for team tennis wow so so if you were if if you said all the above that's that's correct all all three tennis teams made the playoffs and uh it it was definitely a man that that's awesome I'm very proud of all of them extremely proud of uh Lee High School because coach has really done a good job there uh couple years

090ago they they didn't even have the numbers to get in you know to to to compete every week these guys making the playoffs this year was very huge for them we got a first year head coach at uh at Sterling who uh got to coach against his old school leport and beat them in the in the playoffs it's a little hint for the next one and then of course GCM had it let's move on to the next question Sterling tennis went how many rounds into the playoffs I keep Miss yeah all right so Sterling win three rounds uh this this was the uh the last one we sent out to the to the school School District they beat leaport as mentioned just a while ago so I gave you a hint there was at least

091two then they beat Kingwood Park in round two uh getting beat by a him Consolidated who's very tough man they they kind of got our number right now but for a first year coach at Sterling to continue uh that tradition was really big for us because Sterling tenis had been a a very good has done a very good job for us throughout the year so good good for the new coach there oh next question which combination of schools qualified for the regional cross country meet in Huntsville that's a very tough one but this is honors test here this is the athletic Academy so that's what I was doing soccer ever since I got the first one I hadn't got one either all right so cross country regionals we had uh boys in ual at GCM

092uh JN AB Barka and then we had Gavin Cortez at RSS and then we had arel boys team qualify which was very big for us um very proud of the all the coaches there who come out and do a a great job man you see them running all over the place and bless their heart because it's not it's not a very good time to be run and it's pretty hot out there even in the morning uh next next question Sterling boys and girls water polo both Advanced to the second round of the playoffs who did they beat to get there look eventually one of these going to be right all right so the Sterling boys and girls the team they defeated was Al I went to Green that was in the first round they advanced

093to the area round uh we're just kind of just sharing with you what we sent out they Advanced to the area round the the boys were defeated by brz's wood and the girls were defeated uh by Clear Springs uh but hats off to both of them making the playoffs and they did a good job with that which Junior High had the highest passing percentage for all athletes for the second nwe report card this is a straight guess for you guys I'm going with so in junior high uh junior high academics Cedar Bayou LED in the second this is the second nine weeks at 97% um Gentry at 95 EF green at 89% Horseman at 88 Highlands at 87 in Baytown Junior 86 with 1178 total Junior High athletes uh 10,061 were passing which gave us

094passing percentage of 90% total all right which high school had the highest passing perc for athletes for the second nwe report card let's see I just closed my eyes and just oh wow we had a change in the lead here okay all right so the high school academics was uh Ross Sterling at 92% GCM in second place at 87 Nel uh Robert E Lee at 84% there's 1500 and 85 total high school athletes 141 passing gives us an 88% total of all schools Junior High and high school is uh 89% which High School logged most community service hours for the first semester it's not the blue one look up up two oh I got correct oh uh oh so the high school community service hours uh GCM Leed led the pack with uh 860 community

095service hours of Sterling and uh second with 628 and Roberty Lee with 626 which gives us a total of 2,114 um for High School athletics next one which Junior High log the most community service hours for the first semester uhoh then it's not it would have been wrong no one said it be hor man so horse man is the right answer oh wow and uh they have 590 my eyes are starting to go bad over here here W bra can't we can't we can't tell you right now go home okay so Horseman at 597 CBJ at at 454 Baytown Jr at 290 Gentry 281 EF green 190 and Highlands at 159 the total junior high is 1,971 uh community service hours for high school 2114 which gives us a total of 4,085 what was I

096think this is it what was the total number of athletes currently participating for Goose Creek CD Athletics at the end of the second nine weeks oh yeah this is the honors class I'm telling you is all right so so the if you look at the bottom piece there it says total is a [Music] 2,763 again with Junior High 1178 and high school 1585 and that's just the total numbers both of them put together green okay so right now blue came in third wow Helen in the second place and number one would be is gu all right you so I I just wanted uh uh I thought we just wanted it to be a little bit different for you guys um you know have a little fun doing it you know trying to be a little

097bit creative on what we do so just want to say thank you for the opportunity and thank you for having us here tonight and just wish you the best of luck and and to all of you happy New Year so and just to let you all know that you're all winners to us and we will give you free admission to any of the U athletic competition all right great presentations thank you all very much for your leadership obviously uh executive Council Athletics has now set the bar you have to come up with something similar as cahoot for all your future presentations I have okay Dr o BR we will move right into action items uh 7A 7B and 7 B1 and 7 B2 and we'll read those and I'll move over to you to kind

098of go over all of those we'll go and take the very first one independently 7A consideration of the rezoning recommendations for Goose Creek CSD as presented this evening to you okay Administration does recommend option b I think it was during her presentation and that that is administration's recommendation to move forward with u resoning okay do I have a motion I'll move to approve I second okay we have a motion in a second to be approved uh there been uh any further discussion we I make we didn't get many responses but once we V this in you're going to get resp okay thank you for your comments appreciate that all right now as we um call for the vote all in favor please raise your hand one two three oh full it's approved all right next

099up would be our consideration of consent agenda number 7b1 proposed low attendance waivers for Alamo ashell Austin benos buoy Clark deala Harlem Highlands Hopper Lamar L sanino Travis Walker Baytown Jr Gentry Jr Lee High School and Point Alternative for the day January 23rd 2025 number two adoption of the resolution authorizing employee pay during the emergency closure of the district number three memorandum of understanding with Chambers County texes and conveyance of I a 350 fot wide drainage easement and I I a 50 foot wide temporary easement pursuant to section 20 272.50 of the Texas local government code number four propos changes to DEA local compensation and benefits emergency closure authorization number five RFP number 24-13 for fine arts equipment supplies and related Services number six final option to extend RFP 2.010 for grease trap maintenance services

100and finally number seven tax refunds as presented Administration does recommend approval of the consent agenda can I ask a question right F yes on the low attendance that was at what period of time was that doing the snow that was the day returning from the snow oh returning the first day back some family stayed home okay so the ones that we didn't were when we apply for an attendance low attendance waiver what the state considers is what is our normal attendance on that particular day over a projected period of time say the last three years what was our attendance and they would award us um for the attendance for that waiver amount so 19 were under yes sir rest anything below our typical average of 90 94% um we can apply for a waiver okay

101and these were in the range of mid 80s to high 80s okay if I recall yeah that's all out okay thank you okay can I get a little clarification on B 3 uh it was not attached the M it wasn't attached to our board packet and I just want to be sure that the maintenance portion of that as discussed in closed session is a part of that Moe I I was going to say it was a presentation at a previous meeting um M Garcia Mr benoa specifically that we will not be liable or responsible for maintaining that the short answer is yes thank you yes we will not correct we will not have to maintain that cor correct and that's the theou piece we talked about a drainage easement we added anou piece to make

102sure that we had a formal agreement with Chambers County for them to maintain that in perpetuity right I just want to make sure that that was what we were voting on since we discussed in close session thank you great question any others Madame President we uh would retain our recommendation to approve consent agenda okay motion is still on the table do I have a motion for approval I move to approve the consent agenda as presented I second Mr Clen motion and Mr cesy second all in favor please raise your hand approve anonymously and it passes thank you noamy okay now uh Dr o' BR we will move to 7 SE for future board agenda item board training uh meetings uh future board agenda just the calendar that Administration has thrown forward uh in things that

103either on the calendar the annual calendar Andor that board members have asked for we will have a middle of the Year cni update an HR update and a special education update at the next board meeting uh subject to the board's um authorization and or pleasure okay that was I'm sorry leave something we didn't get to that one yet that's 7 uh c3a one for the board meetings yes I'm sorry yeah to include that board training governance Camp is March 5th through 8th uh and then of course the the board meetings needed would be the special call meeting to uh have an election order uh for the joint agreement however um it's my understanding that if there are no opponents we can withdraw that order is that correct no I mean okay okay so it'll be

104a call meeting on that date okay thank you we need to vote on that now or we we have to vote on that to make a motion for it if this time okay so this is the time where the board can discuss the time of that meeting um we have uh when we have a special call meeting the the the requirement is to have a quorum only yeah and um so it can be four members that can agree upon time whether it be a lunch meeting a four o'clock meeting a six o'clock meeting who's available 13th uh 4:00 or 3:00 meeting would give me your preference I'll be out of town okay Jesse it's working Mr Samson I need you now we got two long as is not abent even when he's here yeah long

105as is not 2:00 how you looking the 13th is I is Thursday Mr Cy how would you look at a 3:30 four o'cl meeting ify five o'clock would be more definite five okay with you Mr Samson five and Mr I have Lynchburg chamber Gayla be here what that evening later so what's the the earlier the better for me it' be 5:00 would be the best case scenario we have four for five so we're good and Dr O'Brien so we're good so 5m on to 13 five we we were sidebar discussing after five would work better for myself and Mr Ria if anyone else could do on one day 13 13 oh yeah we were looking at five is that okay you make it good deal thank you thank you both so we should have anything

106else 5m 5: PM yes okay so do I have to make a motion M okay okay do I have a motion for approval for the um special meeting for election order and join agreement for February the 13th for 5:00 pm here in our boardroom so move second moved and second mov by Miss guy second by Mr cesy uh all in favor please raise your hand okay any oppose substan okay two substan okay that concludes administration's business um Madam president back to you for close session okay um hold up before on future item on the agenda i' like to get an update on the on the cost if there are any for the repurposing of Lamar Wonder know how much it cost where we're at on Lamar on the repurposing okay repurpose who did I talk

107to about that today somebody the cost on repurposing Lamar right we can provide that we just it's um to the next agenda possibly um it's a work in progress right now we don't have those numbers just yet okay once we have it then look at get an update don't have to be Financial an update yeah where we're at so far okay I got something also okay uh I'd like to get two parts I'd like to get a review from the uh police department since we got a new Chief and everything I like to get a status on his department and the second part is would be a Clos session item um salary that they have and what you know how is they going to affect our budget in it m Dr Binger is that a

108part of the HR update as presented uh the next regular schedule meeting that you're scheduled for S uh I'm sorry c1b okay thank you anyone else or anything else Mr anything okay the board will now recess in a Clos session pursuing to one or more of the following section of the Texas government code section 551.071 072 073 074 075 076 082 083 084 and 087 no action will be taken while the board is in close session the time is now 7:52 Dr Martinez I have to know did the person get their cell phone back okay the board will now reconvene into Open Session the time is now 9:06 S no action was taken while the board was in closed session Dr O'Brien as we move forward um Madame President we have consideration of personnel at

109this point please proceed so Administration will bring before the board this evening for approval to accept the resignations and retirements as presented I'll move to approve okay was move by Miss guy and second by Mr Samson all in favor show your hand motion move carries 100% we do have just a couple of administrative elections to present to the board this evening we have Jessica Amaya curiel as counselor at Highlands jior High so moved second mooved by Mr cesy second by Miss guy all in favor raise your hand it passes all next up we have Student Success and academic Excellence District liaison Jennifer garon I'll move to approve second move by Miss Sky second by Mr cesy all in favor please show your hands approved by all motion carries me Madam president yes once again in

110and I've asked this forever they not here right at least have them show up at a meeting and so we can see you ask that I ask it all the time I never heard you ask that he ask meeting I've seen you that ear doct okay that Dr Binger could you make that a request of the proposed candidates to be present at the next board meeting requir it's a request not a requirement request just a request those who can and those okay we'll proceed on the agenda Dr we we would accept a motion for meet me dismissal adour okay there's no further business before this board this meeting is adjoined at 9:10 good night he was close thank y'all thank guys