001Christmas. I'm reading the green sheet. >> Good evening. The time is now 5:00 p.m. I call this meeting of the Granberry Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board trustees members is present. that this meeting has been duly called and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. The board will now adjourn into executive se session pursuant to the following sections. Personnel under Texas Government Code 551.074 and consultation with the attorney under Texas Government Code 551.071551.129. 071551.129 real property under Texas Government Code 551.072 072. And the time is now still 5:00 pm. board is reconvening following the executive session. We will have recess until 6:00 p.m. when we will reconvene into open session. Okay, the time
002is now 6 p.m. We will now reconvene in open session by beginning with an invocation led by Trusty Moore. >> Good evening. Will you please pray with me? Dear Lord, we're so thankful for everybody here this evening. And Lord, we're also so thankful for our students, our teachers, and our staff. And Lord, we pray your blessings upon them as we begin this new semester. Open our hearts and our minds tonight, Lord, and give us your wisdom as we make the best decisions for Granberry ISD. Lord, we are so thankful for our community and we love where we live. And we ask all these things in the name of Jesus. Amen. >> Thank you, Mr. Moore. Okay. Next up, we have our pledges and colors presented by GHS JOTC cadetses. Please stand with me. United States
003of 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 algiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. >> Jerry, ready, go get set. Mark Three, four, cover right face forward. March. Left, left, left. Right. And next up, we have our Granberry High School update report. Mr. Dwayne Fiser, Dwayne Fish, I'm so sorry. >> Just Fish. Actually, McKEthan's next, so I'll try to get it ready for No, I'm just kidding. Okay. Um, thank you, uh, President Gore, Dr. Maroski, members of the board. Um, first I want to say um, you know, happy uh, board appreciation month. We appreciate everything that you guys do for us uh, at at the high school and we want to
004share a little bit with you tonight about what we're all about and um, you know, hopefully you like what you you hear. Um, we're really proud of uh the work that we're doing. And I'll tell you this, uh, it's not possible, uh, to do a job like you've asked me to do, um, all by myself. Um, there there's no way humanly possible. We have a I'll get to that here in a minute, but we have 154 teachers and an incredible uh, support team of classified personnel that help us every single day. And then, of course, we have our leadership team. and they're all here with me. Um, in terms of our, uh, administration, uh, Miss Stephanie McKean is our associate principal, Miss Brenda Pickicket, one of our assistant principles, Dustin Khan, Truit Miller, and Danny
005Gry, uh, all with us tonight. So, thank you, uh, for supporting us and in the work that we do. Um, I'm just going to give a quick glance, uh, at who we are currently. And this is um you know coming into the school year we're a B-rated campus 88 out of 100 very close to an A-rated campus by uh TEA. And you best bet that you know it's our goal uh to make sure that come this time next year I'm standing here telling you that we're an A campus. Um I don't see why there's any reason that we would not be. Uh we're campus of 20 uh 207 as of January 6th. Uh we have 45.6 economically disadvantaged uh population, 15.9% special education, 13.7% or ELPAC or ELLL. Um and like I said, we have
006154 teachers that uh tackle this every single day. One of the things that we're particularly proud of in our ratings is the uh closing of the gaps. Um, you know, the prior administration with Jamie and company, uh, did a really nice job over the last couple of years. Dan Allard in the in the work, um, that you guys did with our language learners really helped us, uh, accelerate in closing the gap. Um, so, uh, shout out to our our special populations team, special education, um, as well as our our EL team that really closed that gap. That's what that grade is all about. And it's about making sure that our students with special needs are performing on pace with their uh non-disabled peers. Um or ones without challenges like learning English as a as a
007second language. So uh excellent job there. We're going to build on that, continue to build on that in partnership. uh our our mission uh and motto. Uh the mission is is really long. Um there's no doubt about that. Uh but I've highlighted the section that I really want you to pay attention to and it's empowering every pirate to achieve academic excellence. Um it used to say every student. Uh I've changed it to every pirate. I want to make sure we're really clear that that is who we are and what we're all about. We're about every pirate. No matter where you where you come from, what kind of supports you receive, gifted and talented, athletics, clubs, activities, doesn't matter. If you're a pirate, we're going to work for your success. Um, and we believe in be
008involved, work hard, and be kind. And that's going to be our motto uh that drives us every single day. Um our job as a team uh in the instruction uh world um and supporting our kids is you know we want to make sure that we connect every single pirate to their purpose in order to be successful on our campus and beyond. That's it. That's what gets me out of bed every single day and that's what I hope gets every staff member out of bed every day, too. Okay, so let's look at the be involved portion of this. Out of our 2200, 1,876 students participate in 39 different clubs and activities. Now, that's an awesome number, but there's a lot of growth there, too, because there are some kids that are involved in a couple of
009things, right? And so, they'll get double counted here and there, but but just taken on its face, we have about 400 kids that aren't connected in some way. And so we got work to do there. Um, our Marine Corps JROTC who you just saw, phenomenal, uh, again, national champions, the highest recognition you could receive. We had two nationally recognized, um, marksman, uh, Viola Allen, uh, who just signed to go to TCU, um, was third place, uh, in the United States in the U8 division. Uh, I believe there's a special recognition for these students later, too. Matia Turner um with her national record this year. That record, by the way, had been standing since 2012. So, I'm probably I'm probably stealing a little bit of that thunder, but that's okay. Uh we we'll keep celebrating it.
010Um we also had uh one Allstate band member, and that's uh Brillin uh Dormo. Um she just received that a couple of days ago, so congratulations to her. Uh, we have an all-state dancer also, Paisley Cogburn. Um, congratulations to her. We have a cross country state qualifier in Ganon Dolan. Um, we have academic all state. Um, we have 16 athletes in the fall season. Um, that reached that academic all state. Uh, so that's pretty impressive. We're we're we we want to be really really good in everything that we do, but we never want to sacrifice our academics in order to get there. And this shows that we are not um athletic academic all district. We have 47 students that made all district um 47 athletes and that's pretty incredible. And I want I I think
011it's it there's a special note that goes toward volleyball here. Every single girl on that team made academic all district. So, it's pretty impressive. Yeah. Band and choir were phenomenal. I think that goes without saying. Um, you know, but they've both secured national performance invitations. Um our our band is headed to um uh Indianapolis and our uh choir is heading to Albuquerque uh this spring. So both of them have national invites, very special uh accomplishments by both of them as well. So to be involved is is going strong here at uh Granberry High School. And I just want you to know how proud I am uh you know to have the opportunity to to build on this success that we have going. Uh next I'm going to have uh Miss McKethan, our academic associate, come
012up and talk to you guys a little bit about what it means to work hard on our campus and some of the accomplishments thus far. >> Thank you all this evening. It is my pleasure to present um some just a few of the amazing academic accomplishments of our GHS student body. These accomplishments are a direct result of the hard work that our students and our teachers put in each and every day. The first one I'd like to um highlight is over 94% of our student population is serviced through our CTE program and GSS ghs has worked hard over the years to ensure that our students graduate college and career ready. Of our 2025 graduates, 84% of those students graduated, having met the state CCMR requirement. This year, as a campus, we have worked hard to
013build a tracking system to increase and ensure that every pirate graduates with their CCMR point. In 2025, 54% of our students earned at least one industry-based certificate. And as of today, 28% of our current 2026 graduates have already earned at least one industry-based certification. In addition, through our dual credit and dual enrollment course offerings, we work to ensure that over 629 students have the opportunity to earn college credit before they even leave high school. GHS is also very proud of our two National Merit commended scholars, Grace Blevens and Eli Forest, both who were honored earlier in the year by the board for their outstanding academic accomplishments. In addition, Chenise Gibson, a current GHS senior, has been recognized by the Science Society as one of the top 300 2026 national scholars. This is an honor that
014is bestowed upon only 300 students internationally. Chenise is one of 18 Texas students, and this is the first time any GHS student has been named to this elite group of students. GHS also has 23 AP scholars, eight AP scholars with honors, four and four AP scholars with distinctions. We also have four rising stars, four students who have placed within 10 to 15 points of national merit status in our most recent administration of the PSAT. And each of these students are either a freshman or a sophomore. So, we are very excited to see where these students go as they continue to pursue their goals here at GHS. Our GHS teachers strive to provide rigorous and innovative instruction every single day. We are very proud and excited to see how each of our 10 GEF grant winners
015will implement their grant winnings that total $31,682.39 this school year. Finally, Pirate Study is a new initiative at GHS this year. This began the second six weeks and has seen a lot of success thanks to the hard work and efforts of April Allison, our pirate study coordinator. This program is working to help us to continue to close those gaps for our students by providing targeted tier one instruction for those that are struggling. It is hosted two times a week after school and is a collaborative effort across teachers, counselors, administrators, and coaches. In six weeks three, as you can see, we saw 166 students that were helped based on our referral system. and we are excited to continue to see the growth in this program as we can as we move into semester 2. I'm now
016going to hand the mic over to Brenda Picket, one of our other GHS assistant principles to discuss our be kind initiatives. Thank you, Stephanie, and good evening. So, for the last four years, I have served on my campus as one of our process um champion team members for CKH. So, it's only fitting that I get to talk to you tonight about being kind. I'm going to share with you how Capturing Kids Hearts supports our campus motto and helps us move our core value of being kind um from an expectation to a lived commitment. CK provides us with a shared language and framework that defines what being kind looks like um in our everyday practice. First, we'll start with social contracts, which are our relationship contracts that state how we will treat each other. These are
017um student created, so it gives them ownership in in the um decisions on how to how kindness looks in the classroom, hallways, and other areas of the campus. Um, just recently we created what's called our common or universal social contract by taking all of the social contracts from the classrooms and looking for the most common words um to come up with a universal um pirate manifest. Um, and we're real proud that our own senior graphic design student, Kylie Brown, is responsible for our design of our new pirate manifest. Um, we're in the process of getting those posters made for our entire campus so that we can uh showcase what it means to be kind at GHS. Another tool that we use is the Excel model. Um, this is how we organize and present instruction in
018the class. Um also information at faculty meetings and professional learning communities um in each part of the process in the Excel model. Kindness is embedded. For instance, in the engage um this helps students feel noticed and welcomed. In explore, students are trusted to think and try. Uh in our communicate, uh this fosters respectful listening and dialogue. Empower gives students voice, choice, and leadership. And then our launch provides a clear purpose and positive culture. Also at GHS, leadership opportunities provide students ways to model kindness through their service projects and mentorship. These acts of kindness take our motto beyond the campus and into the real world. In preparing for this presentation, I asked several of our um adult leaders of these um leadership groups to give me some kind of input so I could talk about their
019groups and what they do. And the response was just overwhelming. I'd be here until tomorrow if I was trying to list them all. So, I'm just going to highlight a few. Our student council has been involved in many projects such as blood drives, community service pickup, our happy cart, um Halloween and Christmas parties for our life skill students. Our junior optimist club has completed over 50 service projects since August 1st. Um and they have acquired over 3,000 service hours. Some of their projects include working at the food pantry, monthly visits to the assisted living, helping with the great cleanup, um Christmas can food drive, and they also um helped welcome our veterans um at our Veterans Day program by decorating our parking lots. DECA has been involved in making and donating Christmas presents for Granberry
020Cheetah's Special Olympics Christmas party. They also volunteered at operation back to school helping to organize and build backpacks. Um they have served food and also help build shelves for the Rancho Brazas Community Center. So as you can see kindness is taught as leadership at GHS. Finally, CKH emphasizes what's doing right and recognizing those through affirmations. Um, right before the Christmas break, we had our students um involved in uh what we called deck the halls and uh students took little notes and wrote affirmations to each other, to their teachers and um just gratitude statements. We took those and hung them on garland and hung them around the halls and it we had hundreds if not thousands of little notes of affirmations and gratitude um to help kick off our Christmas season. So, how do we know
021this is working, you might ask? So the results from our recent CKH midyear survey indicate uh strong progress in building positive relationships and a supportive environment. Uh in all of the areas that are listed up there, we received higher than the baseline which is the national average. Um it tells us that kids feel welcome. They feel like their teachers value them. Finally, after four years of implementation, I think we're going to reach that rising star campus status. that we've been waiting on. So, yay. Um, bottom line is that CK supports our motto by ensuring kindness is consistent, inclusive, and intentional by all members of our school. So, be kind is our what, and CKH is our how. Thank you. Okay, that's our presentation that we have for you folks. Um we're really excited um to
022see you guys um on the 21st. We hope that every single one of you attends. Uh we have um if you haven't experienced the galley and our student bakers with their scones in the morning. You don't want to miss out. So that's just my little teaser. Hope you get hope you show up. Got all kinds of cool things um planned for you guys. Um, and you get a chance to see all of what we just discussed live and in action um, as we take you around campus. So, are there any questions that you might have for us? >> No questions. I just want to commend everyone for doing such a great job and really pouring into our kids. Not only do you have this motto that you instill in our kids, but you set the
023example for it and I really appreciate everything y'all do. I follow you on social media and I follow those updates and I think they're amazing. It's a great way to capture more families and get more of our community involved and what's going on in their children's lives and in the high school. So, thank you for everything that y'all do. >> Appreciate it. Thank you, ma'am. >> Any questions? >> No, I couldn't remember if we took a picture. I was just asking Ryan. Who knows? Okay. I would like to take just a minute um after their presentation um to recognize our board members because um as you all know that January is schoolboard appreciation month and so our board members give generously of their time, their expertise and their hearts often quietly but always with purpose.
024They show up prepared, they ask thoughtful questions and they make decisions with our students, staff and community at the center. We are deeply grateful for their leadership, service, and commitment to Granberry ISD. And while they take the work seriously, we also love their larger than life personalities and absolutely love seeing them around our districts. Oh, I appreciate this more than you know. Can we take a picture of the fatheads here first and then maybe we can hold them and take their picture. We are going to give these to you guys um for you to use as you would like. Uh but we couldn't think of a better way to celebrate you and uh this was one of the ideas that came to mind. All of our principles, all of our campuses say thank you. Yeah.
025And then do you want them to come up and get a picture? >> Yeah. There you go. >> Do you want to take a picture? >> You like here? >> Okay. Sorry. >> Okay. In all seriousness, um we appreciate you. All the campuses um appreciate you and everything you do. Um and hopefully you found your small gift up here um of apparel so that we can all wear it and match one day, too. So, thank you for having a good spirit about it. You have to show your face for real. Okay. >> All right. Next, we have our achievement spotlight. We're starting with our JOTC student accolades. Um, presented by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Casey. So, as you can see, Marines can't dance. So, so, uh, thank you, uh, Dr. M, and thank you, uh, school
026board for having us here to recognize two of my young ladies on the rifle team. Um, the, um, most recently, uh, we had, uh, Cadet Turner, Mattea Turner here. So, okay. All right. So, uh, we were we were one of eight hosting locations across the United States for the Gary Anderson Invitational. So um so they shoot uh over the course of the week against other other individuals over all over the United States and then we go into a final. So just think of the Olympics, you know, you make the the top eight make the the final. So she made the finals and it's uh our finals is 10 shot standing at least in this match it was. And so uh she shot and uh was watching the score. I was like, "Oh my goodness. Oh
027my goodness." And this is I think this is going to be a national record. And it ended up being a national record. So, uh, so 10 shots, the the highest you can get is a 10.9 when you shoot. Okay. So, so doing some some fuzzy math, you know, that's a that's 109 that she could she could have shot. So, she ended up shooting a 106, which is pretty impressive. So, UM, so you can just think of shooting those nine shots and you get down to the 10th shot going, I think I'm about to shoot a national record. And that's usually when we see them go bing and they shoot the wall, right? So, she did not do that. She actually shot a 10.9 on her last shot, which is phenomenal. Uh, that record, uh, two
028records that she that she broke. one was the JRTC, the Marine Corps JRTC record and the Open, which is everybody that's all the juniors in in the United States. So, uh those records had been held for 12 years. So, she ended up breaking that record. So, we're very proud of her. So, um um awesome. Unfortunately for me, she's a senior, so if we could maybe do something about that school board and have her stick around. So, um, and then our second young lady, uh, team captain, our s major captain, um, cadet Allen, um, she we went up to to Colorado here in December and, uh, winter air gun and that's a big match. So, you have Olympians there, college kids there, the top juniors in the nation are there. So, uh, hundreds of of individuals
029up there shooting and it's air rifle. It's all from the standing position. So, she posted some impressive scores, uh, 620 and 622. So you get to add the decimals uh to that. And so in her age group, so everybody under 8 uh U8 uh she ended up getting third place, which is uh impressive. What's more impressive is she was 19th overall out of um collegiate shooters and Olympians as in for the females. And she ended up uh scored higher than 17 current college kids that are shooting in college right now. Um, which leads me into her her next uh next achievement was uh here last week. Uh she we were able to let the cat out of the bag, but she signed with TCU to go shoot uh for them. And they're a nationally ranked
030rifle team if you don't know. And uh she ended up getting a a full ride with them, which is which is phenomenal. So uh very proud of her for that. So, obviously she's a senior as well, so if we could maybe do something about keeping her around for another year. So, but thank you guys for having us uh come out and recognizing these two young ladies. We'll be heading out here in a month going up to Utah to defend our national championship and uh we'll be sending back some good word or well, I'm not bringing them back. So, but uh yeah, so thank you guys for having us here. >> Thank you and congratulations. Uh lastly, if the parents I know the parents do it once with the cameras, so I'll stand up. >> Thank
031the parents too. >> Yes. And and if we have any family, friend, parents in the audience, if you could please stand and be recognized as well. >> While you take your pictures. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. >> And next up, we have the Shot and Kirk Senior of the Month presented by Shot and Kirk. >> Thank you guys for inviting us out today. Um, I had the pleasure of I was spending last weekend with the um, a few of the people. I'm the new general manager of the Hyundai store out here. I took over for Brian Thompson. I'm sure he's been up here numerous times for you guys. And I'm happy to take over the reigns of of taking over this honor and responsibility of uh, presenting this award. Um, I want to also say to
032everyone at this uh in the room here at the that I had the pleasure of going to the stock show here recently uh this past weekend at the for Hood County and I got to meet a ton of kids uh ranging between probably 6 years old all the way up to to seniors in high school. And I want to say uh you know great job on on on every single person I met and inspired me to to to come out here and spend a few extra minutes talking about just the the amount of courage it took some of these younger kids to come up here and meet me. Um, we got to invest a little bit of money in the community at that and do some things for them. But every single person I met
033from Granberry ISD was phenomenal, very well respected, very uh very well spoken and I really want to commend everybody that does their part in contributing to that. So I did want to acknowledge that as well as the senior of the month. Um, I had the pleasure of spending some time with him, meeting him. Uh, you know, it looks like uh this is Arthur uh Ble is it Bela Leazara? Leazari. Okay. I want to make sure I I practice that name with that because I want to make sure I didn't mess this up. Uh it looks like Arthur was actually born in Brazil which is really exciting, really cool. Um moved here to the United States when he was nine and relocated to Granbury in 2023 from Commerce, Texas. And uh again, I got to spend
034a little bit of time meeting him and uh learning a little bit more about him. Uh he did mention that he is an active member in the Optimus Club, which I'm a big fan of. I've done a lot of gallas and a lot of uh events with them and I I've told him I really and thoroughly enjoy spending time with those guys. cuz those kids are absolutely amazing. And uh and also the kicker for the football team. Uh so he's hopefully going to be going on to continue doing that. Uh is what I hope to be able to watch him hopefully being uh in the NFL one day. You know, you never know. These kickers are doing amazing things right now. So I hope to see him uh continue that journey on as long as
035possible cuz it's a great opportunity to be able to shine uh and show off his skills. Also is a part of the powerlifting team. So that's that's lifting anything heavy is not easy. So I can always appreciate that. Um, looks like he plans to attend Texas Tech University. Uh, so always a big uh big fan of the um of the Red Raiders, right? Okay. Sorry. Uh, I'm I'm a I was big sided with that song wearing the Texas shirt. I thought he was going to be going to Texas and all say threw a little bit of a curveball at me. So, I was I was not prepared to be honest with you guys. I was sitting there going like, you know, hookah horns and then all that and then all a sudden all a sudden
036I'm doing this. I don't I don't know what's going on right now. But but either way, I thought either way, you still you staying in Texas is important of that cuz I am a big fan of the Texas school system and uh and I do want to congratulate you for doing a fantastic job this year and uh being a part of our community and I want to prevent you present you with a reward for student of the month and uh congratulations. >> It's a big deal. Appreciate you. >> I was hoping I was going to be up here. I was like, "Where's the big?" They gave me the little one. I was like, "That's super exciting." >> All right. Wait for fish to get on there. >> I'm in. >> All right. Ready? >> Everybody
037look this way. One, two, three. Hold. Got it. >> And if we have any family, friends, parents in the audience, could you please stand and be recognized? Oh, she's up here with us. YEAH. YEAH. Come on up here. Let's get mom and dad up here. >> There we go. >> Come on in. We're all family now. Congratulations. >> Okay, next we're moving on to community donations presented by Mr. Tim Bolton. All yours. All right, community donations starting with Ben Wyn of the Highland Nail Bar to the Emma Robertson campus activity fund for Tracy Porter's classroom supplies. That's $200. Also, a donation from campus PTO to the Actton Elementary campus activity fund for a upcoming K through5 field trips. $30,000 donation from one route group to the GMS theater student activity fund for the support of
038that program $250. Uh the same one route group to GMS choir student activity fund again for $250. Donation from Susan and Jerry Shanner to the GMS theater student activity fund in support of that program for $250. donation from Michelle Summers of Home Depot fame to the GMS campus activity fund for Christmas donations of $193. >> What did I say? >> Donations. >> Oh, decorations. Thank you. Uh donation. I said donation eight times already. Donation from Sean Morgan, Kerry Street Partners to the AMS theater student activity fund. Uh Shrek the musical for $100. Donation from Dance Dreams to the AMS Theater Student Activity Fund. Also, Shrek the Musical for $100. Donation from Shan Whitlock. Cooper's Oldtime Pit Barbecue for uh to the GHS barbecue barbecue team Student Activity Fund as a sponsor. $1,500. Donation from Will
039and Angie Leisure to the GHS Barbecq Team Student Activity Fund for support of that team. $150 donation from James Lucky from the Law Enforcement Association of Hood County to the GHS Law Enforcement Forensic Student Association Student Activity Fund uh to sponsor the club t-shirts. $500 for that donation from HGMA to the GHS Junior Optimus Club student activity fund in support of that program for $75. for a donation from Lake Graanberry Optimus Club to the GHS Junior Optimus Club Student Activity Fund to fill the athletic freezer with Uncrustables. $800 in peanut butter and jelly. everyone. >> U donation from GHS Stowways Booster Club to the GHS Stowways Student Activity Fund to supplement travel to HT Dallas Holiday Parade of $1645. Donation from TEA to go. Tog to go. Oh, TO. Thank you. We're in this business.
040Tea means something else. Uh from TO, excuse me. T to go uh to the GHS F1 student activity account in support of that program's spirit night for $300. Donation from an anonymous donor to the CTE campus activity fund in order to fund dual credit activities, dual credit fees, excuse me, for $600. donation from the ghs girls golf booster club to the ghs girls golf team to supplement travel to the leick tournament for $2,000. And last one, donation from Lake Granberry Medical Center through the touchdown club to the GISD Athletic Department of Kawasaki utility vehicle of a Kawasaki utility vehicle to assist the athletic trainers in hauling equipment within GISD facilities for 15,281 09. The grand total this month, $54,1949. >> Thank you, generous donors. >> Yes, definitely. Thank you. We couldn't do what we do
041um in this district without your support and we are truly grateful for it. Uh moving on to public comments. Uh we didn't have anyone sign up to speak tonight, so we'll go straight into consider action on items discussed in close session. First one up is staff recommendations. Madame President, I move that uh we approve staff recommendations as uh recommended in close session. >> I have a motion by Miss Alana. Do I have a second? A second >> and a second by Miss Townsen. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is seven in favor, zero against. And I wanted to follow up um with the conversation, guidance from the board. Wanted to make sure that I had a full understanding of the recommendation from you is to move
042forward. Um, we were discussing with our legal counsel the idea from the last memo about board cycles changing from three to four years. And so the information that I got from the board was to bring a resolution next month to discuss and possibly adopt that would be shifting board u terms from three years to four years but also um moving those elections to odd numbers years. So I wanted to confirm with the board and open that that is the direction that I have. >> Yes ma'am. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Moving on. Superintendent's report. Dr. Moroski. >> Perfect. Okay. So, I have some exciting things, of course. Um, first I want to bring your attention to our web page. Um, you'll hear a lot about it today, but I want to make sure and always
043tell you that as a reminder, there's a connect with us um button on the bottom right hand corner. If you have questions about the district or if you're wondering about something, this is a quick way to reach somebody who can give you the answer. So, I know sometimes the public may feel like they need to wait for a meeting or they may need to wait till a town hall, but we are ready and willing and and and able to answer the questions that you have. So, please feel free to to do that. It funnels through our communications department and they direct it to the right personnel to answer that question. So, just a reminder about that. We want to make sure that you feel connected and that you can get your questions answered in a
044timely fashion. So, just a reminder about that. Um, and then the next thing that I want to go into is, let me make sure I get the right page pulled up here. Oh, hold on one second. Is that we have some just great announcement about things that are going on. Number one, we did have our FFA uh get uh our um livestock show and it was fabulous. Last week I got to pedigote, so that was really great. Um, I always love to do that or did it for the first time. Uh also we had a leadership summit for our elementary students designed by some leaders here in the district and it was phenomenal. So we really grateful for that experience for those students. Um another thing that I'm always want to highlight is how our
045district is being efficient and right now for instance um our curriculum department is going through an annual review of usage and um uh reports that help us make decisions about softwares and and supplemental curriculum. So I'm grateful for the work that Stacy's leading her team through that. So hopefully we'll have some decisions to make based on data for that. And the last thing is really about some staffing announcements. So we're going to start with celebrations. Um Jessica Johnson has been with our district for six years and she is retiring. Um but she's actually been in education for 28 years. So we want to make sure and celebrate you in just a moment. If you don't mind, you'd come up and take a picture. And I have a challenge coin for you that is um for
046your service that you've given to Granberry ISD and how much we appreciate you. Um and in her place we are uh grateful and thankful that we are moving uh Meredith Payne into the position of assistant principal. And so the neat story about her is that she has uh let me make sure I get this right. Is it eight years in the district or 10 years? I lost my place on my form here. Um 10 years but all in Granberry ID and she was a Mano student at that. So it's going to be a perfect fit. Um so if you guys don't mind giving some applause and if you will all come up and we'll take some pictures of different groups. Thank you. And thank you for um Mayor Brono for coming to celebrate that staff.
047>> Do you want one? turned off. >> I'll send it to Meredith. You'll get quicker. >> Okay. And I have one more exciting announcement. So, we also were searching in the district um for a replacement for Wes Jones. If you haven't heard, we are sad to lose Wes, but we know that he has more golf to play than time in the day. So, we are uh grateful that uh he is going to get to do that, but it is going to be a big spot to fill. But uh we did a great search and have a great candidate. And so, I would like to introduce to you uh Dr. Tim Roki and he will be our new executive director of human resources. So, if you'll come on up. Um, he has a wealth of information
048and I'll come shake his hand. Um, the thing I want to say is that when I hire somebody as an executive director or cabinet member, I look for someone I can learn from and so we're truly grateful and our district is blessed that you've decided to join us and we can't wait to see what great things happen. So, thank you. Kim is here too, so come on up. Yes, absolutely. >> Come on. >> You want to take one with your phone? >> Perfect. >> Let me get one with her phone. Got it. Okay, moving on to reports. Item 11 A, Granberry Education Foundation, Miss Stacy Mitchell, our wonderful Granberry Education Foundation President. >> Well, thank you very much. Before I start, I would like to thank you all for the time and energy that you
049pour into our students, our teachers, and our district. We could not do what we do without the strong leadership that you pour into us as well. So, we so appreciate that. And I would like to report that 50 fellas this year raised a little over 165,000 and it only cost us $5,400 to put it on. So we had a huge increase and that way we were able to award about 117,000 in grants. So you will see I've added up after this year the total by campus. So that is how much every campus has gotten uh year to date. And I also wanted to let y'all know we we've started a few awards we've done for a little while like our college tours to the counselors at STARS and CTE certification, but we've started a few
050other uh awards that we're going to do every year. We send the special uh programs to the YMCA. We started that a couple years ago and so we fund that so that they can all go over there every year. And we also had a donor that wanted to support UIL with a donation of $2,500 for study material and entrance fees. And so anything over $2,500 can be earmarked for a certain program and they wanted it to go towards the UIL. And then I'm so glad that Dr. Morowski mentioned the leadership summit because that was a grant that we did this year and a few of our board members came and were so excited about it that were there and Lisa Oliver was telling us how incredible the event was. So we voted to make that
051an annual special award of $1,500 every year and we'll check with them each year to see if they need more. But I mean the leadership coming from all the elementary schools together across the district is that's I mean leaders have to be trained and that's incredible. And thank you all for doing that and supporting us with that. And the last thing I would like to let y'all know too is our all of you were aware of our lead butter donation. We are now up to uh 15 scholarships that we do 2,000 each. We do nine for students. Well, 10 actually. We did a workforce one too for uh a student that Jerry Durant came and told us he was always on time. If he only had his tools, he would be the perfect employee. So,
052we chose to incorporate a workforce scholarship, too. And we're going to start buying tools or giving to a student in need in that area as well. And then last year, we started as Miss Led Butter had wanted us to do working for teachers and administration as well. So, we did the two elementary teachers, the $2,000 to go to the their uh year-long summit that they're going to conference, and we're going to do that as well. And then hopefully after this year, we'll be able to um broaden that to teachers and different things, too. We just wanted to get our feet under us with what we were doing. So, and we also, just so you know, some of you that may have been new, our scholarships, the lead butter, are $2,000 a year. So we have
053some this year that are coming back for their fourth year. This is the first time that they can come back for their fourth year of scholarships. So in total we've given 48,000 just in scholarships across the district. So um and we also did implement giving half back to the campuses. So whatever each campus donates towards 50 fellas and their employee, we give half of that back just to that campus to get more supplies to continue grants and do programs like that. So um just thank you so much and we appreciate you. So and do you all have any questions? >> No. >> Okay. Thank you Stacy. >> Okay. Next up, we have our strategic plan update, uh, communications report. Mr. Ryan Cox, make sure my own equipment works. All right. Good evening, President Gore, trustees,
054and Dr. Moroski. Thank you for the opportunity to share an update of the work of the communications department this evening. I want to start by saying thank you to this board for your continued trust and support. clear, consistent, and transparent communication doesn't happen by accident. It happens because the board values openness, community engagement, and keeping our stakeholders informed. That alignment is exactly what our strategic plan calls for, and is reflected in the work from the communications department that you'll see tonight. This slide highlights our communications team, the scope of work we cover districtwide, from website management and social media to crisis communications, branding, internal communications, media relations, and public information request. I have two amazing assistants that have been with me since I began in this role in 2023. Lily Hardenbrook and Kelly Brown. I
055believe you're only as good as the people around you. And these two help me make my job easier and make Granberry ISD better. Every role here supports one central goal from our strategic plan. Building trust through clear, consistent communication. Whether we're communicating with staff internally or families and community members externally, our focus is always on accuracy, accessibility, and transparency. Strong schools are built on strong communication with families. We continue to utilize multiple channels, Remind text messages, social media, and edio broadcast to meet families where they are. This multi- channelannel approach ensures families receive timely information about safety, events, deadlines, and celebrations. It reflects our belief that positive partnerships with families are essential for student success. Our social media reach. Our social media platforms continue to be powerful tools for storytelling and transparency. Beyond the numbers
056you see on this slide, social media allows us to consistently highlight students, staff, and campuses and programs while also sharing important district information. It's often the first place our families and community turn to for updates, which is why accuracy and consistency are so critical. As you see in the slides, our biggest social media reaches are typically during homecoming week and graduation. Here you get a glimpse of homecoming week analytics on Facebook with over 1 million views from August to September. We also had a video of a GHS student performing the national anthem on guitar at the community pep rally that over had over 100,000 views alone. My newsletters remain a cornerstone of how we communicate with different audiences. We publish a weekly staff newsletter, a monthly family newsletter called the Moroski Memo, and a quarterly
057community newsletter called the Pirate Post. Community members can sign up to receive the pirate post by filling out the contact information in the pop out slide on the website homepage. Each newsletter serves as a distinct purpose but shares the same goal, clear, proactive communication. These newsletters support internal alignment with staff, keep families informed beyond social media headlines, and ensure our broader community standards understands district priorities, progress, and celebrations. The Moroski Minute has become an important tool for transparency and leadership visibility. Through short video updates, families and staff hear directly from Dr. Moroski on key topics, celebrations, and district updates. This direct line of communication reinforces trust and open communication from district leadership. This Wednesday's family newsletter will also include a Moroski Minute video focused on virtual school, which will discuss later in tonight's meeting. Our
058website, granberryistd.org, or serves as the central hub for district information and communication. We continuously listen to feedback from our families, staff, and community about how we can improve their experience and make information easier to access. Many of the recent website updates are a direct result of those conversations and suggestions, resulting in a clear, user-friendly website that supports transparency. We want to ensure that the tools and resources are visible right away, so families no longer have to scroll through multiple pages to find what they need. As you see on the graphic right there, that's the homepage of the website, Edlio, which has been a great partner for us for almost three years. At the bottom are um stagnant uh updates and links that families will go go to throughout the year. We wanted to make it
059easy to access without scrolling. On the far left are uh customizable, timely links of events happening across the district where they can uh easily access, go to links, buy tickets, whatnot. And then on the right you see is where you can sign up for the uh the community newsletter. And then the right graphic, recently we were recognized by Edlio in their client national newsletter featuring our website showcasing all the things we do with our website. That that was a it's a fun honor to see over the holiday break. One of the most impactful improvements we've developed along with the help of our director of community relations, Lisa Oliver, is the everything calendar, which brings together events from across the district into one accessible location. This helps families, staff, and community members plan ahead and stay
060connected. Lily Hardenbrook does the majority of our day-to-day website maintenance and does an outstanding job of keeping the site userfriendly and easily accessible for our community. You'll see on the left that's just the kind of back page every campus has access to one of their own. They input every district event happening. The right is the live view of the website and on the right you'll see the multicolored links. They're all checked right now but parents can go and toggle between the events they want to see. So they'll plan their w weeks. So if they have a kid at Bronner, GMS, and the high school, they can click those three. It filters it out and they can plan their week, month ahead. And thanks to the campuses for updating those so we can have everything on
061the calendar. All right, public information requests. Beginning in 2526 school year, you all voted to transition public information request to Lisa Crass, who continues to help our department stay compliant, consistent, and efficient. This process protects the district while ensuring requests are handled accurately, legally, and within required timelines. As you see in the you see from the chart, over the last four school years, we have surpassed over 100 PSIs in the school year. This year, we are at 91 request and at the current rate will surpass 150 requests this school year. Kelly Brown does an amazing job of handling all these requests in a timely, accurate, and professional manner. In closing, communication at Granberry is about more than sharing information. It's about building trust and strengthening relationships and ensuring our parents, staff, and community feel informed
062and connected. Thank you again to the board for your leadership and support. And thank you Dr. Moroski and district leadership for the collaboration that makes this work possible. I appreciate your time and I'm happy to answer any questions. >> I just want to say thank you. Y'all have done a fabulous job revamping this website and making it so user friendly and making information so much more accessible to our community, our families, our students. Y'all have done a phenomenal job. Phenomenal job. Thank you. >> Second. >> Thank you. Second. >> It's a team effort. the the part that I have really appreciated is the everything calendar because I want to know not just you know something that's going on at AMS. I want to know about what the different teams are doing and where when's the
063choir going to meet and that type of thing and you've done a great job of putting that together. I have wanted that for years. So, thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. And I'll say as a parent who has had a child at the elementary school, the middle school, the high school, all involved in extracurriculars, that is a lifesaver. >> Absolutely. Thank you. >> Anybody else? All right. Appreciate it. >> Next up, we have our virtual school exploration. Dr. Moroski. Yes. Thank you. I wanted to give a report on um some conversations that are happening um here in the district and give you kind of some why behind they're happening. Um so we'll start off with the next slide and I I wanted to start with a conversation about enrollment and so you will see
064here it's a little bit hard to see so we're going to dive a little deeper in the next slide. U but each one of these lines represents um a school year and the amount of students over every month for the first semester. So, just take a minute. At the bottom, you'll see those are the weeks that we tracked. On the left hand side, you'll see the enrollment of students. Um, but the main thing I want you to see is that we had tremendous growth. You can see 2020, 2021 down there in the blue. Um, and then going up, uh, growing, growing, growing, different lines, but the one I want to bring your attention to is this year, and it is the brown line, but there is a gray arrow pointing to it. So, I want
065you to see where our enrollment is right now. uh because uh we want to make sure that people are informed about what's happening. So, we're going to go to the next slide now that we know that brown line and we're going to look and we're going to compare our yellow line, which is our current year enrollment, um against the blue line, which is last year's enrollment. So, what I want you to see is that there was a very similar trend in all of the last ones we saw, depending on how many kids were in the district. But what you'll notice here is that in October we are noticing a decline in um the students over the last couple of months. So I have tasked my team to really dive into the information about why and
066where these students are. And so next month I would like to bring to the board just an enrollment report with the information that we're we were gathering. But with this in mind, um it really uh created the sense of urgency for us to consider something that the legislation uh voted on um at the last session. So I'm excited to go to the next slide and really talk to you about um what's happened. And so for the first time um the legislation has opened up the opportunity to any school that would like to plan for a virtual or hybrid school. And um with the planning they are planning to give uh some of the same uh ADA our attendance money and enrollment to a virtual program if designed around the rules that TEA set. So on
067this screen I'm not going to go into the rules. We're going to have more on that later. But the two things that you need to know is that the way the government the government the legislators set it up is that students would count towards average daily attendance in the same manner as traditional students and also that the district maintains local control over program design, communication with families, course offerings that are aligned to district goals and student needs. So that's really important for us to consider if we are going to introduce a new type of learning uh to our district that we have control over those two things and that we also um are getting compensated for those students that are uh in our school. Um as we go forward, I'm also tasking this group for
068us to reconsider a local policy that was adopted um in the fall. And um before our our numbers started dropping, we decided to implement a pilot program for our homeschool students uh because we wanted to to um to serve the students in our area and to have a pilot where they would be able to participate in our UIL activities. And so um I am asking the board to reconsider with the numbers that we've seen. Um the number that I didn't say out loud was that we're down a 100 students. And so I don't think this board it would be smart for us to create a system where we are giving an opportunity for other students to leave our district. I feel at this time we've got the sense of urgency that we need to be
069creating systems where students are staying or even being attracted into our school. And I think this opportunity is one of the ways that we'll do it. So um we'll continue that. We are talking about local policy today and that will continue over the next month and this will be part of that conversation. And now to the next slide, which is really where we are in this conversation. So I have had a lot of great uh conversations about virtual school. At this point, we're looking at a hybrid program, which means that students would come to school at least once a day. And the team that's working on that is going to really design what that looks like. But students would be required to come to campus every day. Um, and then we're designing the program so
070that we can decide how can students have flexibility in the way they're learning, but also participate in the wonderful things the high school has to offer, such as CTE courses, fine arts, um, all of the wonderful things that we know attract people to Granberry ISD. Um, so we are looking at this as we know that our um, our school district offers an exceptional education and we're just thinking about how can we attract more families and another pathway to learning. Uh, in the end we get a Granberry ISD diploma, but on the way we might have a different pathway. We might have students on the traditional pathway. We might have students on the alternative school stars pathway. We might have students in a virtual pathway. So, we're really excited about meeting new learners where they are
071and how we can provide for them. So, we have filled out a grant. So, Stacy Brown and her team and I worked on getting a grant for this. We haven't heard yet, but hopefully soon we'll hear if we get the grant. I think we're going to be good um to help us fund this implementation and and making sure that we have people dedicated to thinking about that. Um we're also going to be coming to families uh in our area, but also families of homeschool students who currently uh are are uh participating in homeschool co-ops. We'll be asking for um what they're looking for if they were to attend our virtual programming. What what would be a great way to be able to provide these opportunities for more students than the ones we have? Uh and
072then we'll be looking at some guidance and application and developing a plan and a proposed timeline will come soon. I will tell you that we've worked with the high school. We've identified two exceptional leaders, Whitney Schaefer and April Allison, and I think they're going to take off with this idea because they've already proven that track record. So, we appreciate the support of the high school jumping on and saying at this point, we really feel like it's 9th through 12th grade, but we're keeping all options open and really thinking about how to positively impact the students in this area and to keep pirates pirates. So, that is my uh presentation. I'd love to hear any comments or questions from the board. Uh what's the timeline on the enrollment study? >> So, we are going to bring
073back what we've gathered next month. So, hopefully we'll have it. It is a little harder than we initially thought to get exact information. We can we will know who's leaving for homeschool and um other districts. What we won't know is why, but but we may know some of the why. So, I'm going to bring back what I can find. Um and we're trying to gather that information from not just this year, but compare it to other years to see if this is an anomaly, which it looks like the drop this year is an anomaly. Uh but but once again, I hate to make any um guesses about that until we have some more information. >> Yeah, I'd like to I'd like to know more behind the why before we I mean I love this idea.
074Um but if if part of the reason why is because of crowding in schools and you know lunch is starting at 10:00 in the morning and going until 1:30 in the afternoon, that is that's a capacity issue that we can't address. This would help with that. But if um if that's one of the reasons why I'd be interested to to dig into that, >> we're interested in that information as well. >> Awesome. Thank you. >> So, do I understand that in this type of a program, a student who is on the hybrid program coming in for just one class a day would be considered a GISD student. So then they could be in the UIL. >> Yes, >> that's correct. So we are designing the framework right now but our goal would be that they
075would attend I think we've mentioned they have to attend um less than 90% of the time by Texas law. Am I saying that correctly team? Okay I get that less than more than it gets confusing when you think about the time but so I think we're designing um some ideas behind whether they'd come for some may come for one some may come for two depending on what they're taking. For instance if they're taking an AP class we may want them to attend in person. Um, so some of those conversations are being considered, but yes, at least one class a day they would have to be on campus to be considered a a student, a pirate. >> It helps keep them connected to the school and the campus as well. And if they're still eligible to
076compete in UIL if they're part of this program, that also helps keep them connected. Absolutely. >> And be a pirate. So yeah, I like I like it. Um, I guess we'll have more information next month regarding will we have information on curriculum or anything like that? >> So curriculum department is working on that right now. I know and Carla's been a great part. So, thank you Carla for your work on that. But we're looking at um some different options, but we have not made a decision. We will definitely keep the board informed as we go forward. One thing I want you to know is that um it will look different than the COVID virtual school experience. And um I think there's some you know some things we all have those experiences no matter what district
077you're in. And so it will be a different experience than that. We want to make it to where um in my last uh place that was our only a high school was our virtual school because it was a rigorous um setting and the students that really wanted to concentrate on academics were there and so we had some requirements to get into the school and we've talked to the the high school about that. So we think it could be really something special and meet a lot of needs in our area um if the right students get placed in this program. And so you're not just looking at other school districts who are having success at this, but you've enjoyed some success. >> We've had a lot of success in another state. Yeah. >> Yep. >> Thank
078you, Dr. Moroski. I appreciate all this information and all the work and everyone who's helping gather data and research into this. >> Thank you. Any further questions? Okay, moving on to the financial statements for period ending December 31st, 2025. Mr. Emit white bill. >> Thank you, Madam President. Board confirmed you do have the financial statements for December 31st, 2025. You do have come do uh include the transactions between September 1st, 2025 and December 31st uh 2025. Uh revenue collected to date is 33.54% of the budget compared to 39.12% of 2425% of the budget. Uh expenditures date represent 33.2% of the budget compared to 35.29% 29% in 24 and 25. Um there are no real um extreme differences between the two years, but I can answer answer any questions if you have any. >> None. >>
079Okay, no questions. >> Thank you. >> Okay, moving on. Cash flow and investment report for period ending December 31st, 2025. Mr. M president board in front of you do have the investment and the cash flow over analysis for the month of December 31st. You can see that month to date we did gain $221,998 in interest for the December of 2025. Um last year this in this month we gained $128,733. Pardon me. Um that is due to that $16.8 $8 million that we received from the 2324 audit that I requested on our uh T2 values that uh were presented wrong in 2324 that we did receive those funds in May of 2025 and we'll talk about those again in the audit and when there is presented later on today. Um year to date currently we have
080$863,653 in interest and this at this time last year we had $538,000 in interest. So, that money is still working for us. >> And if you have any questions, I'd be glad to answer them. >> Thank you. >> We need a $16 $16 million error in your favor every year. >> We can only hope. >> Okay, no questions. Moving on to the consent agenda items. Do I have anyone who needs to pull anything from the consent agenda? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? It's our previous board meetings and the region 10 multi-reion purchasing co-op. >> So moved. >> Who is that? Mike Moore. I have a motion by Mr. Moore. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> And a second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion? >>
081Okay. Hearing none. All in favor? Raise your hand. Let the record show. That is a seven in favor, zero against. Okay. Moving on to discussion action items. 13A. Discuss and approve the financial audit report for the year ending August 31st, 2025. And we have Snow Garrett Williams here to present. >> Good evening. >> Yeah. >> Thank you for being here for >> having me. I'm Rick Klein with Snow Gat Williams. the partner on the engagement and um we met with a couple of the board members and Moski and EMTT and um kind of went through it a little more thoroughly. So, this is kind of just a brief summary. If y'all have any questions though, I'm happy to go through anything and explain anything or answer any questions y'all might have. I think I'll have
082the uh copies in front of y'all. So, I'm just going to go through some pages if y'all just want to follow along and u we'll go ahead and get going. So, we'll start out on page one. So, here we have the board certificate that y'all will sign after you approve the resolution for the audit. Um, it'll be signed by the president and the secretary. Um, you'll get this back to EMTT and he'll send us a copy. We'll get you everything you need so you can submit that to TEA. We'll move over to page three. Here we've got our independent auditor's report and this is just a quick summary. The report and the financial statements our opinion we've audited the financial statements of Granberry ISD as of August 31st 2025 in our opinion the financial statements
083presented fairly in all material specs in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America and that's what's known as a clean or an unmodified unmodified opinion which is the highest level assurance we can give as auditors below that you'll see the basis for our opinions we conducted the audit in accordance to the auditing standards generally accepted in the US and with the government audit ing standards and we believe that the evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our conclusions and we'll take a jump over to page 17. Here we have the balance sheet of the district. Again, this is August 31st, 2025. Let you get over there. Just a quick outlay of how this is presented. On the lefth hand side, you'll see there's
084four categories. We've got assets. Under that, you got liabilities, deferred inflows for property taxes, and down at the bottom, you've got the fund balance categories. Going across the top of the page to the right, we've got four columns. The first column is the general fund of the district. Next column is the debt service fund. All the other non- major funds are aggregated together in the other governmental funds column. And then in the far right, you have your totals. Looking at the first column for the general fund, total assets for the district as of 831 2025 was 58.1 million. Total liabilities was sitting at 26.1 million. The deferred inflows for property taxes for the general fund was 1.9 million. Down at the bottom, you'll see total fund balance um ended at 30.1 million. Out of that
08511 million was unassigned and then there is committed amount for 19 million. And we'll jump over to page 19. Here we have the statement of revenues, expenses, and changes in fund balance or more commonly known as like an income statement in a business setting. Um, again, a quick overview of the layout. On the lefth hand side, we've got revenues followed by expenditures. There's a section below that for other financing sources and uses, the change in the fund balance, and again, the ending fund balance. We've got the same columns as we did on the previous page. Again, looking at the general fund column, you'll see at the very top, there was 95.2 million in revenues. And then look towards kind of towards the middle down there in the bottom, you have 92.6 million in expenditures coming
086to a net increase in fund balance for the general fund of 2.9 million. And part of that is from the the net offset of the um FSP frozen levy adjustment. So, any questions before I move on? No. Okay. We'll go to page 53. >> 53. Yes, sir. Again, we're looking at some general fund information. This is the budgetary comparison schedule. We've got the same revenues and expenditures. We've got some different columns to go. Let's get over there. First column is the original budget that was adopted by the board. We've got the final budget following that actual numbers and then the far right column is the variance between the final and the uh amended budget. You'll see that total revenues came in under 14.7 million. Again, that was for the adjustment for the FSP frozen levy
087adjustment. And then down at the bottom, you'll see that the total expenditures came in under total budget by 3.4 million. If you look above that with with the functional expense amounts, you'll see that there's no large negative variances or any negative variances at all. Just one small one which is offset by the one above it. And one last page, we go to page 75. There's a lot of good reading in here. If you want to take this home and kind of peruse it on this page, we got a list of the scheduled um school first indicators that we're required to report on as the auditors. I'm just going to go through a couple of these. I'm going through the lefth hand side. You'll see the SF numbers just using those as a reference. SF1, was
088there an unmodified opinion on the annual financial statements as a whole? Yes, there was. SF2 were there any disclosures in the financial report or other sources of information of nonpayment returns or any debt agreements at year end the answer is no there was no issues noted going down to SF5 did the report disclose any instance of material weakness and internal controls no there were not anything noted and right below that was there any material non-compliance noted and again there was nothing noted so it was a clean audit everything went well and uh we appreciate it So, do you have any questions? >> So, the extra 16 million, how does that show up in this? >> So, if you look on the balance sheet, it's we'll go back to page 17. >> Okay. So rather than
089it being reported as a revenue to show like an increase in your phone, >> it's kind of right smack dab in the middle of that page, it's the line 2300, the unearned revenue. >> Mhm. >> So it's at 15.9 million. Um I believe there's a few other things in there, but the majority of that is where that is um deferred for now and that will be recognized over the next year um through the next aotment from the state funding. So >> thank you. Yeah. All right. Well, that's all I've got for y'all. Um, we appreciate um being able to serve you all over the past couple years and um if y'all need help down the road, just holler at us. You know where we're at. >> Thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank y'all. >> Okay.
090Do I have any motion to approve the financial audit report? >> Madame President, I move we approve the uh financial audit report as presented. >> I have a motion by Miss Alana. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> And I have a second by Dr. Lawrence. Any further discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor. Any against? Raise your hand. And one against Mr. Bolton. Okay. Moving on to the next item. This is discussion only. This is our first look at the local policy 126 update and recommendations. Miss Tammy Clark. >> Thank you. I am so excited to go last about local policy. I know you guys are too. So, we'll get right to it. Um, so last month we went to
091through our legal policy update and the changes that ensued. And now we're going to discuss the local policies that you have to consider and look through over the next month. And then we'll update them um with board approval next month. Um the legal changes are the are what drives a lot of our local policy changes from all of the local policy changes that if you look in the summary of local policy um I pulled out nine plus one because it's not going to be in this summary of local policy but it's one that was driven from one of the legal changes to highlight tonight for your consideration. Of course, you probably want to read all of them, but um I pulled out nine plus one. Local policy will be required to be adopted by the
092board next month. And so, this is a first review. So, again, the overview of the board policy structure. I put in parentheses how many are on the local policy update um in your packet so that you can see in each section. So, no changes to the basic district foundations accountability section A, a couple of changes in section B, and I'll go over these and so you can see, but um it prompted 27 plus I'll say two local policy shifts because that one from the legal um of Senate Bill 11 is going to drive two local policy changes if you adopt it. And we'll talk about that in just a minute. So in local governance um two that that I thought we should talk about be local it's just um the wording to match the new
093legal requirements. So the minutes including each one of your votes by name and posting uh the board agenda now three business days instead of 72 hours in advance. So that matches the legal in beed local. We've asked for um this update. It wasn't driven by um 126, but we did need to change the time for signing up to public comment and board policy to our current practice. It was um earlier in the day originally and we have been going till noon. So, we want our local policy to adopt to reflect what we actually do. So, that's that change. under C business and school um support services. There were six total, but one that probably you want to look at that's new. Um CQB local um is about technology resources and cyber cyber security. And it's
094going to be talking about the AI training and acceptable use for staff and students of AI. And so that's the local policy for AI. Under personnel, this is one of the five plus ones. And I I went through both plus ones on this um slide. So DBD local um that's the disclosure of outside employment that could be a conflict of interest and the moonlighting for admin. Um that's where that is found in our local policy updates to reflect um and mirror what the legal uh requirements are. under DEEC local the compensation and benefits it addresses concurrent use of paid leave during FMLA and that's the update from 126 we are also looking in power policy committee about the processes for uniform enforcement of reasonable absence control we've been talking about that in our policy committee
095for a little bit now and so um if there's a shift to the current wording in your update um after our policy committee meeting this month Dr. Morowski will let you guys know about that as well and it will be reflected and we'll make sure that you know about it in the next um board meeting. It we may not shift that awarding until summertime. DGBA local personnel management relations that's just going to have the extension of grievances um that that happens for students and families and for personnel. So those three local policies are going to be updated and all of them are going to match the timelines that are in legal. So that is driven by our legal policy. The plus one comes from um DG legal that we talked about last month. Uh yes,
096last month um talking about having a um a res adopting a resolution relating to a daily period of prayer and reading of the Bible or religious text. We got the resolution and updated it into your board book so that you could see the resolution. There are also some um policies that we can forward to you that are if you adopt the pol the resolution what those policies would look like. That's a discussion that um you're going to have to think about it after you read through those and we provide them to you. Um but um if adopted the if the resolution is adopted, it will drive a DGA local and an FNA local that you that will not be in your packet, but we will be forwarding it to you soon. And then in F
097the 8 plus one, but I already went through the FNA local that would be for the plus one. The FA local, I'm just going to talk about that again. that was driven from legal that the district must provide means through which parents may submit comments the parent portal that connect with us that Dr. Moroski was talking about that is what we are talking about right there on the website for if there is a concern. If you if you are a parent or a community member that has a concern connecting with us there then we can connect you to the person who can um have a resolution for your problem. If that resolution was not at the classroom campus or department level then we will be able to meet your needs faster than um than any
098other means. So uh that connect with us button is very powerful and FA local is our local policy for that. FE local is attendance release time for any release time courses. It talks about the requirements for the district, the family and the provider of the release time course that has to be followed in order for it to count for a release time course. Um and then FFG local is um matching the FFG legal about um reducing the reporting time from 48 hours to 24 hours uh for all mandatory reporters. And so next steps, you're going to review the local policy updates. Lean into this summary to show you what um and it's one of your um your attachments to your board book. lead into the summary of local policy recommendations for all of the updates.
099I know that you were also forwarded the redline um changes and so anything that really you want to read all of the local policy about, please dive into that. Send your thoughts to Dr. Prely regarding changes to what's presented and proposed as new policy. consider um the resolution for SB11 and for uh if we think we want um to for DG legal to have a DG local and a FNA local I think is what it was um policy at the February board meeting and be ready to um vote it. talk to us about what um considerations you want us to make so we have time to bring a clean um approvable board packet for local policy next month. Do you have any questions? That was a lot of information um going through all of that
100and thank you for providing us with the redline version. I know it might seem like overkill, but um it's very helpful to have that sidebyside comparison to give context to exactly what is getting removed and what's changing. And so, thank you for for getting that to us. We really appreciate it and thank you for this update. It was very informational and just adds more context to all these changes that we have. So, Sure. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Anything else? >> Thank you. >> Yes. Have a great >> Thank you. >> One more thing. Thank you for all the hours and hours you must have spent and with if you got a team together, I don't know. But oh my goodness. Yeah, >> she's she's her team. >> That's all. >> Yeah, I I am I
101am truly impressed with how much there was there. I know how long it took for for for Tazby and everyone else to figure out exactly what it was that the legislature did this past session. So yes, >> thank you. >> Yes. Well, thank you for your diligent look um at all of this so that we have a great local policy to approve next month. >> Thank you, Tammy. >> Yeah, that was and with uh no further action or with no further business, we will adjourn this meeting at 7:26 p.m. So, do we