001Okay. The time is now 5:01 p.m. I call this meeting of the Grambury Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present and 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. We will now begin with our first item on the agenda and that is to canvas the results of the November 4th, 2025 board of trustees election for places five, six, and seven. Dr. Moroski. >> Yeah, thank you and thank you all for being here. I know this is an exciting night. Um, we will have our regularly scheduled six o'clock start time with the pledges and invocations. So, we're going straight into the business right now. Um,
002and we are going to begin with the canvas and I recommend to the board to certify the election for schoolboard trustee places five, six, and seven. The summary um of the election results from Hood, Johnson Parker, and Somerville counties are presented. In place five, we have Calvin Lawrence who received 6,885 votes. Monica Brown received 5574 votes. Place six, David Rogers received 5,468 votes and Barbara Townsen received 7,68 votes. For place seven, Jessica War received 5,700 votes and Stuart Neil received 6,681 votes. I certify that the vote totals presented correspond with the totals on the returns from each county and further certify that the vote totals include early voting and election day totals received under section 87.1231 of the Texas election code. Do I have a motion to canvas the results? >> Madame President, I move
003that we accept uh the official results as presented. >> Do I have a second? I'll second. >> That's a motion by Miss Alana and a second by Mr. Moore. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is four in favor. One absent being Barbara Townsen. Any against? And Billy Wimberly. Any against? Are you just you're just abstaining? Okay. So, one abstaining, Miss Karen Lowry, and then we have two absent, Barbara Townsen and Billy Wimberly. The motion passes. I now declare Dr. Calvin Lawrence duly elected to trustee place five, Barbara Townsen, duly elected as trustee place six, and Stuart Neil duly elected as trustee place 7. Okay. Sorry. Go ahead. >> Yep. We will now recognize outgoing trustee Karen Lowry and Billy Wimberly. >> Yes. And I believe
004on our screen we're getting an image up to celebrate our outgoing board members. We were able to celebrate Billy. He's not able to be here tonight. He is out um hunting. So if you see him, give him a hard time. Uh but we were able to celebrate him um at a for at an event last week. Um so tonight we are going to celebrate Karen Lowry. So, we honor Karen Lowry for her three years of service on the Granberry ISD board of trustees. Serving on a board um serving on school board requires commitment, preparation, and a steady focus on what is best for our district. I heard her say many times that serving was a calling and she approached her role with that sense of purpose. We appreciate the time she dedicated to Granberry ISD
005and are proud to recognize her service to our pirate family. Thank you, and we wish you well. And um I think you have a couple words to say and then we've got maybe some pictures at the front with a plaque. >> Yes, a couple words. Um my hope for GISD is that through the leadership of Dr. Morowski with the help of her admin staff, teachers and parents and her new board is that the GISD will become the the uh district the state looks to and will say how'd they do that. I pray for GISD as and as and as I told Dr. Morowski the first time I met her, I want to see GISD be the best school district in the state. I hope GISD will be inclusive of the community. We have many retired
006educators of all levels, federal and local law enforcement, doctors, dentists, chefs, people with business experience, all with the knowledge and expertise in their field who could give a deeper understanding and excitement to the students. As Dr. Seuss said, "Oh, the places will go." Okay, I want to leave you all with these words and these are the words that I started with three years ago. These are the words of Jesus. Matthew 18:6 and7. Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe to the world because of offenses for offenses must come. But woe to that man by whom the offenses come. I had a few more things
007to say, but I will put that online for everybody to read tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Lowry. Thanks. giving this audience. It was created by our staff and students here and it is presented to Karen Lowry. Thank you for your service board. Um and then I don't get that off. We also have a uh with our coins that we hand out to Thank you. Thank you. Everyone [laughter] [clears throat] >> permission to [laughter] Yeah. Um, one at a time. >> All right. At this time, I would like to invite Dr. Calvin Lawrence to join us up at the dice. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I Calvin Lawrence do solemnly swear >> that I will execute fully the duties of this office of Granberry ISD school board trustee of the state of Texas and will to
008the best of my ability >> preserve defect det preserve protect and defend the Constitution, >> the Constitution and laws of the United States and of this state. So help me God. Thank you. >> YES. Just a little bit. And now I would like to invite Stuart Neil. >> I Stuart Neil do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office >> of Granberry ISD School Board Trustee of the State of Texas >> will to the best of my ability >> and will to the best of my ability >> preserve protect and defend >> constitution and law >> the constitution and laws >> the United States >> of the United States and of this state >> so help me Thank you. [laughter] We can Photoshop her in. >> She'll be in in And
009Barbara will be next. We'll have to do another one. Barbara, >> we're just Thank you. Next on the uh agenda is to reorganize the board of trustees. But we're going to move this into close session and discuss and then we'll vote on this when we come back out from close session um under consider action and items discussed in close section item 14A. So at this time we are going to convene into close session um under personnel to deliberate the appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties discipline or dismissal of a public officer or employee security devices or security audits to deliberate the development or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel devices or security audit and consultation with attorney if needed. The time is now 5:14 We convene into open session. The time is now 6 pm
010and we will begin with an invocation uh led by myself. Please join me in prayer and bow your heads. Dear heavenly father, thank you for bringing us in service to our students, staff, and community. Grant us wisdom in our decisions, clarity in our discussions, and unity in our purpose. Help us lead with integrity, compassion, and a heart for every child we serve. May our work tonight and throughout the year honor you and strengthen the future of our schools. May we always remember first and foremost to love others and that we be a people that never rations love in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. And now we will have the pledges led by Steam Academy at Mebrano. This is Randy McVey. She is over our Steam Ambassadors. So she's going to introduce them to you before
011we start. Good evening. We're going to start down here on the end. This is Brooke, Rory, Vicky, Holden, Arabella, Lauren, and Trisha. And then Kennedy is going to lead us in our pledges. Please join me for the pledges. I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God. Just right here. Okay. You want me to sit back? >> You have to go stand with Nancy if you're not doing it all. Perfect. All right. Good evening, Dr. Morowski, school board and community. Thank you for allowing us to share our incredible school with you. It was so much fun having you guys on
012campus with us this past week and getting to share a little bit of it in real time. Um, and tonight getting to highlight even a few more things that maybe you didn't see. Um, I'm Melissa Ship. I'm the principal at the Steam Academy. These are my two assistant principles and they're going to help me tonight. This is Molly Wisenhunt and Jessica Johnson and they're going to help uh lead a few of the slides and the information. One change from your board book is I added some stars on a couple of slides. You'll see them up here. Those are the ones that we're going to hit that are special to us, but of course you can ask questions about anything on there, but just to honor your time tonight. Okay. >> All righty. Good evening board.
013So the first slide we have here um it talks about our membrano mission statement. This was a redo of a previous mission statement that we had kind of long and drawn out. So we wanted to condense it and so we uh picked out along with the staff three words that encompass and embody what the leaders of Mambbrino what we try to do with our uh faculty, staff and students that is collaborate, educate and inspire. So this motto reflects who we are as leaders um and that we are growing and we want to show excellence every day. So these are not just three words. It's a promise and a reminder to our staff um to our students that we exemplify in our hallways, in the classroom, and in our community. Who is Mamrino? So our student
014enrollment is 830 students. Our economically disadvantaged population is 46%. Um we have a very high special education population of 25.6%. The numbers of teachers and staff close to 100 just one minus there. So maybe uh we might reach that uh for the 2627 school year. Um we do have Mambbrano uh students that are steam transfers that come from other elementary schools across the um across the community and um we have um housed one of the largest special education programming there at Mambbrino for the three life skills classrooms, the three structured learning classrooms, the one low incident classroom, two structured learning support classrooms and three resource inclusion classrooms. Oh, it is still me. Sorry. All right. So, what makes steam? Um, this is the seventh year that steam has been in existence here, um, at Mebranino.
015And so, uh, kind of what really makes us kind of stand out is the fact again that we have the steam transfers that come over from the various campuses. Um and they are housed they are bus from their home campus um close to like six o'clock in the morning 6:15 in the morning over to Manbro. Um we have a variety of different activities that our students also um take care of and what they do there um they're in their classrooms. Um we are um goodness gracious. Um one of the um curriculums that we use is project lead the way that encompasses a kind of inquiry design approach to how we achieve and how we um excuse me how we uh go about with our um classroom and science inquiry. So that's the inquiry design where
016we ask explore and um we also excuse me um ask explore and then we reexplain and then we try to find a solution um to those problems that we have throughout the content areas. >> All right. Um and as you all know in our district, we are um a a capturing kids hearts district. And so that is a very big part of um Brino and something that we take a lot of pride in in how our staff has um come together and really embraced that program and it's really um just shaping and changing the co campus culture um and how our students view relationships with staff but also relationships amongst each other. And so some things to highlight with that is um we la this past year was our um first year as a capturing
017kids hearts campus and we were awarded the rising star school award for all of um the hard work that our staff has done to truly embrace that. It's just it is a group effort um in order to do that um and to just make it part of who we are and that's not possible if our staff didn't you know fully get behind the program and really invest in where we were as a campus and where we want to go next. And so um our process champions group as well is um a group that we lean on to help us continue for that because we're working for our next um distinguishment with them. So our next recognition so um with capturing kids hearts as well a big thing that has helped our campus is the common
018schoolwide language meaning um you know our expectations within the hallway um our attention getters it's not every classroom has their own they can maybe use a couple like within their room own room that work but as a campus our students know that we use the timeout signal when we need um student um attention so we say give me a timeout in 3 2 1 and it's silent, hands are up, eyes are on the speaker and um it's been that's been a game changer as far as when we have assemblies or lunchroom things like that as you can imagine. So, um just we've worked hard at having that common schoolwide language when it comes to capturing kids hearts and the things that we're doing um with that um and inside and outside the classroom. And then
019with our student leadership, each classroom has an ambassador for their classroom. Um, and that is a student, some rotate and share that leadership role. Um, but it the students, it's so funny because uh, and so like endearing because they take ownership of their room and their learning family. And so when you come into the room and you're a guest, it's like there's a guest. And you know, the students are like, "Oh, you're the ambassador. You have to go over." And they will introduce themselves. They'll welcome you to the classroom and then talk about the class social contract. We have social contracts all over the building within the classrooms as a campus as far as expectations and common places and in specials. And that is just a contract between the students um and the teachers in
020that classroom community of what we expect while we're in that classroom being kind, courteous, all of the things that's student um created. Um and so they will introduce you to that when you're a um guest in their room and ask you to also abide by that. So it's just an opportunity for our students to, you know, lead good things in their classrooms. They greet students, greet one another at the door. Um and we're just trying to empower our students to really take ownership of it as well. Um and that's on top of our ambassadors who you saw here tonight that are our campus ambassadors for us in um community events and we are uh we work hard to allow them different training opportunities to learn that those skills. And then um the other thing we
021wanted to highlight was the affirmations. We um believe that we it's important for our staff and our students to acknowledge one another for the hard work that they're doing and um we pour into our teachers as much as possible with that. We have parents that are able to through the newsletter um send affirmations to staff members and we highlight those for on our social media pages um to just really highlight the hard work that our teachers are doing. But we also have student shoutouts that parents can even go on and nominate their child for something great they did whether inside or outside the school um setting and that we can truly just celebrate our students in that regard. Um you know we have the positive office referrals all these different things that we've put in
022place for that. So, all right. And then, oops. Um, for our student engagement opportunities, we have several. That is a very long list, but I there's probably even more that we could have added. Um but some of our most important, most special ones um are we have partner PE and that includes our students um that are in those special education settings that Miss Johnson talked about before with um you know our SLC classrooms, life skills, low incident classrooms, and so on. And so, um, what partner PE is is it's an opportunity for our students that are, um, in those special education settings to have a partner. And those partners are fifth graders that have to apply to be a part of the program. And Coach Tezy is really instrumental in um, you know, making this
023program possible for our students. but on our enrichment days. So they have um it's like every other Friday a month depending on how the calendar shakes out, but they um get to in the afternoon they get together and they're partnered together. So, a special education student with one of our um partner PE um students that is there to help like like they play games, they do different activities um and it's just an awesome opportunity for our students to really partner together and um learn from one another. And so, I think truly it's just rewarding for all of the students and the staff involved. It's incredible. Um and those students then also go to CAST for kids which is up there. But that's an awesome day, too. And there's a picture of that. Um, and then
024this year, it started a little towards the end last year and it's really taken off this year, but, uh, one of our school resource officers, um, he's incredible. Officer Bobby Styver, he has, um, came to us with a plan. We said, "Run with it. Tell us what you need. We'll do what we need." And he truly has. um he started a gentleman in training club for some of our fifth grade students. Um just last week they were learning to tie ties. They're learning how to greet people, how to shake hands. Um and so it the students were able to just sign up if they were interested and I think pretty much Yeah. I'm like that's almost all of the fifth grade boys. So they're very excited about it. that they weigh their ties on Fridays
025and or he and Officer Bobby encourages that. Um, and he's just really worked with a lot of the dads to try and build that program um and get make that possible for our students, which then kind of goes into the advocates that's at the bottom. Um, Officer Bobby also kind of helped us um with getting that started. And it kind of tied together because he started advocates where they were helping on campus and like they'll help with parking on big event days or they beautify the campus on a Saturday and offer their time to come and do that. They'll greet students in the morning and it's just an positive meal presence for our students um in many different ways. And that has kind of then evolved into the gentleman in training group because that group
026of dads that are regularly helping on campus. We're like, what more can we do? And so they're just pouring into our students as much as they can. Um, and then the last thing that we had up there, oh, I kind of already mentioned that was our positive office referrals. And it's um been a great way for us um to just celebrate our students. And um you know, we don't always the parents don't want to just hear a call from the office cuz something happened and uh you know, I even called a parent the other day and they're like, "Oh, no." And I was like, "No, this is good. This is good." And so it's just a great way to celebrate um our students and um they come up, they get their picture and their coupon
027and then a little prize. So yeah. So for community service and engagement, that's one of the things that is a pillar for Amber. I know that we are really um focusing on this school year. I'll expound a little more on the advocates. I I will say that's a unique opportunity that um Tammy Clark was even telling me that and Wade came up to me the other day and said that he's talking to some of his SRO's on other campuses to look at at u kind of expounding that out and using the resources that we have because that's free resources and those are dads that want to do that and so we want them on our campus. um two of the uh projects I want to talk about. We're doing a project in every grade level
028this school year and um the they've been charged with it's a whole community project. So it has to be something that we ask for things from the outside and then that grade um heads it up. And so two that um are pretty unique is a hol the Halloween costume drive we did this year was the very first time third grade came said we want to do this in upcycle costumes. So, we asked for costumes from the community and parents, and you can see the photo of all the costumes we got. Then, they set up a drive after school for the students to be able to come with their parents and get a costume for free. We ended up having 80s something costumes and we had four left. So, it was very much a success and
029will be continued. Um, we also I talked to the Steam Ambassadors last week about doing a Lego upycling with us being Steam. You know, we all know if you're a parent, you have 94 million Legos at your house and all of those kits once they fall apart and you can't find the book to put it back together, we now have a big bucket of Legos. So, we're going to um put that out here soon and gain those Legos on campus and then use that to make um steam bins for all of our new staff when they join our campus. So, that's less one less thing they have to purchase. And that'll be headed up by our ambassadors that you met tonight. There's others up there that you can read, but we're we're trying really hard.
030So, for example, the cereal box, every student is charged to bring a cereal box. Then, fifth grade uses it as a steam project where they work out the diameter, the spacing, and everything, and we do a domino all the way through our building, but the whole school gets to see it. So, it's just kind of a community and school event. All right, this is where we're really proud. Um, you know, everybody's always proud when their letter grade changes. When I started at Manino, it was 2022. You can see that we were sitting in the C range, but with two categories, academic growth and closing the gaps in the D range, 68 and 66. I'm really proud to report that all of those areas have grown. And if you look at the academic growth, we went
031from 68 to 80 in two years. That doesn't happen without a staff that's bought in and willing to listen and say, tell us how you play the game so that we can get better at it. And our campus goal this year is to continue having those intentional conversations and planning, but placing an emphasis on our special education students and all types of learners and all types of instruction, making sure that they're getting the highlights um of the lesson every single day in every classroom. And we did go from a C rating to a B- rating with the state. and seeing that we have 25% special education. If you're familiar with education at all, you know that that means there's a lot of hard work that's happening because all of our students are held accountable to
032that. Um, last we'll end with just some student perspective. The things that they said, they love their friends in class, they love their teachers, they love the smiles every day. And as you can hear, capturing kids hearts is all throughout that. Um, the hugs and the high fives. But the coolest part, and if you ask them, these students um told us the other day, it's the inclusivity of our campus. You can't create that if it's not naturally there. And so our students learn how to work with all types of people and all types of learners. Um we even have two fifth grade girls, one of which is here, that volunteers in our life skills classroom and said, "I want to have a sleepover with my buddy from your classroom." Like joining those classes together and
033seeing the growth that we've seen from our students is incredible. So that is it and I get to answer all of your questions and I I think I stayed within my time frame. Dr. Moski, no during practice it was good. Yeah. Any questions for us or anything you want me to answer? I love seeing all the great things going on and how y'all pour into the students and bring in the community and parents to help you in supporting them in things just outside of just academics too and building those relationships. Thank you for sharing that. It was lovely and it just warms my heart. Thank you. Appreciate it very much. You're doing a great job. >> I like this. Especially the bits about gentlemen in training and the dad advocates thing. Yeah. >> I mean,
034getting parents involved in does wonders. >> Yes, it does. I had a little girl today say to me, "Can we have a girls club like that?" I said, "We can. You bring me some ideas." So, we'll we'll do that next. >> So, I love that. And I love this. >> Thank you. >> Um, let our grade differences. I've talked to you before about we we always uh I shouldn't say we always We we we sometimes celebrate little incremental changes and these are real big changes. 66 to 79, I'll give you a B on that. And uh 68 to 80 is crazy. So that's good. I love it. >> It is not possible without all 99 staff members. I will say that I can say what to do all day long and I can tell you
035how to do it, but if you're not going to do it and you're not on board, things like that don't happen. So I'm very grateful for our staff. >> All right, so one last thing. Thank you. Thanks for hosting us this week. That was great. Thank you for coming. >> Star players, student ambassadors were great. >> Thank you, >> Melissa. You're doing a great job. Thank you so much for all that you do for those kiddos out there. We'd like to invite those girls to come back up or your ambassadors all of them boys and boys. Yeah. To come on back up and we'd like to uh congratulate them on their leadership in your school and the teachers. And Randy, we want you to come back up and and uh thank you so much. We
036love how you love our kids. Jasper. There we go. There we go. I was I couldn't see behind it. [laughter] >> Yeah. >> And if we have any parents and family members in the audience, would you please stand and be recognized? Yeah, thank you. Okay, next up we'll be moving into our achievement spotlight. And first up we have the JC Campbell Legacy of Service Essay Contest winners presented by Renee Jackson and Stacy Roaming. Good evening. I'm Stacy Roaming. one of the district curriculum coordinators and a co-director along with Renee Jackson of the brand new branded new titled uh JC Campbell Legacy of Service Essay Contest. I would like to take a moment to recognize Jerry Campbell in the audience. He is one of JC Campbell's sons and he's a former school board trustee. I'd also
037like to thank our donors for supporting this year's contest. If you're in the room, please stand when called. Carrie Bellamy with Edward Jones, Bob and Julia Panell, and the friends of Memorial Lane. So, just give them a round of applause. Before we recognize our essay contest winners, I'd like to highlight the incredible artwork displayed out in the foyer. This beautiful exhibit was created by our talented Granberry High School art students under the direction of Sarah Meadows. If any ghs art student or Sarah are here, please stand to be recognized. Maybe not. Their work is absolutely outstanding. Now, it is my pleasure to recognize our elementary campus essay winners from Actton Elementary, Meline Club from Bakus Elementary. Emma Worthy from Bronner Elementary. Diana Lopez [snorts] from Mrano Elementary. Arabella Lee. And from Oakwood School, Cooper Copeland,
038who is also the winner of our elementary division district winner. Now to rec Oh. Oh, that's okay. I think Aren't you Are you Now, I'd like to recognize our secondary winners from Actton Middle School. Matthew Molly from Granberry Middle School. Camry Smith from Stars, Misty Meyers. and from Granberry High School, who is also the winner of our secondary division, Sophie Ellis. Congratulations to all of our students for exemplifying the spirit of service and leadership that this contest celebrate. Mr. Campbell, would you like to join us in this picture? Jerry in the middle. Yep. Look here. >> And if if we have any parents or family in the audience, would you please stand and be recognized? Can I say something about Jerry? About JC? >> Well, you want to talk about the parents first? She did.
039Okay. >> All right. For those of you that did not know JC Campbell, he was um quite a legend in our in our city and in our county. He was um a city councilman for a long time. And then after that, uh we could always count on him being present in our schoolboard uh meetings. um his son Jerry who is here tonight uh was a longtime school board member was a school board president for many terms and um quite active in our our community for a long time. He since moved to Bluffell is on school board there so he is quite uh active in education and uh his mother was Sylvia Campbell who is principal in our school district and um a longtime advocate for public education. Uh, so the this award was named after
040a great person and after a great family. So Jerry Campbell, we thank you so much for being here tonight. We love the Campbell family. >> Thank you. >> Okay, the next item on our achievement spotlight is the cross country state qualifier presented by Amber Ward. Hello. Thank you all so much for having us tonight. I'm Amber Adams now, but Amber Ward. I still go by my kids still call me that, too, because it's been it's been my last name forever. So, I answer to anything. It's perfectly fine. Um, this is my 23rd year here at Granberry ISD. So, I feel very fortunate and privileged to be able to coach kids such as Ganon. You don't have state qualifiers that come along very often. So, he is exemplary. He um he came to us his sophomore
041year from Grace Classical. He came in the middle of the year, so he didn't get to run cross country for us that year, but his junior year, he qualified for the regional cross country meet. Um his senior year, he started off great this season. Our first meet was at Berles and Centennial, and they combined the 5A and 6A races at those. So, he's competing not only against the 5A kids, but against the 6A kids also. So, he won that meet. He was first place. Um our next meet was at the Berles Elkrun. Same thing. He runs against the 6A kids. He won that meet also. Um then we went to Godley. It's a smaller meet but still very competitive. He won that meet and then he kind of had some health setbacks, some Achilles, some
042hamstring issues that he had to battle. It was out a couple of meets. Came back strong at our home meet here in Granberry. He won that meet also. And then we were at district time at the district cross country meet. You have to place in the top 10 in order to qualify for the regional meet. He got second place, qualified for the regional meet in Lebec. We got out there. Um, again, you have to qualify top 10 in our region, which is a very hard region. Region one is very tough. He got eighth at the regional meet to qualify for the state meet in Austin. Um, we got down there, he was again his hamstring was flaring up again. Had some issues with that. Ran great the first two miles. Kind of struggled on the
043last mile. Ended up 87th out of 152 kids in the state of Texas, which is still great. He was a little disappointed in his time because he really wants to go to college and run and do all those things. But he's been icing it and dealing with that and had some doctor's appointments. So, we're hoping for the best for him so that he can go on and run in college. But super proud of this kid. He works hard not only at our practice, but he does all the extra stuff that a lot of kids don't do like watching what he eats, you know, getting enough sleep, uh doing weights outside of our practice time. So, I feel privileged to have coached him. And this is Ganon Dolan. Thank y'all for having us state qualifier this
044year. >> If there's any parents or family and friends in the audience, please stand and be recognized. Next up on our achievement spotlight is the Sharten Kirk Senior of the Month presented by Shenkirk Motors. >> Good evening board. I would like to present Brian Thompson. He is a shoter automotive representative and big supporter of Granberry ICT and Granberry High School. >> Thank you Hussein. Good evening everybody. Um I'm here to honor Jazelle Yumanzer as the Shenkirk senior of the month. Uh Jazelle is a passionate student whose goals center on service, compassion, and music. She plans to continue her education to become a radiation therapist. Uh Jazelle is deeply involved in band and community service. She also volunteers at Waterview Memory Care where she connects with residents living with dementia and Alzheimer's. Her dedication to helping
045others and her love for music continue to shape her journey toward a future of service and care. Thank you and uh help me congratulate Jazelle. And if we have any parents, family, and friends in the audience, please stand and be recognized. And next we have our community donations presented presented by Miss Alona. All right, we have a lot of donations this month. Um, we're going to do it a little differently this time. I am going to uh announce all of the uh organizations or individuals who contributed to donations this month. We had donations from the Optimus Club, the GHS Choir Booster Club, the GHS Band Booster Club, the Touchdown Club, GHS Volleyball Booster Club, the GHS Pirate Basketball Booster Club, the GHS Lady Pirate Basketball Booster Club, the Pirate uh Baseball Booster Club, the GHS
046Lady Pirate Softball Booster Club, uh the GHS Girls Golf Booster Club, the swim team booster club, the ghs pirate soccer booster club, uh the boys golf booster club, um Tim and John Moser family to the ghs barbecue team student activity fund. Uh John Manville uh donated to the GHS barbecue team. John uh Walma to the GHS barbecue team, PTO to the Bronner campus activity fund, PTO to the uh Bronner campus activity, PTO to the Oakwoods campus, uh Propane Exchange to the AM student activity, DVZ, Fluent Figures Tutoring to the AMS activity, uh Jan Williams to the AMS activity, Steven Melissa Bird to the AMS activity. account unblenmished to the AMS activity fund. Shot and Kirk uh donated to the GISD activity as well as to the um let's see uh Brian Thompson to the campus
047activity account to the travel um and the national concert band festival and we had two anonymous donations uh from our community for a total of $74,27353. That is just amazing. Every every time I'm blown away by the community support and the amount of time, energy, effort, and money that our parents and families in this community pour into our kids in this district and I'm so grateful for them. Thank you. Okay, next up we have public comments. Uh, nobody signed up tonight, so we will move on to the superintendent report. Dr. Moroski. >> Absolutely. Thank you. And thank you uh thank you to those that are still in the audience. I know our students and families leave, but thank you to those that are left and our remaining principal as well. Um so a couple of
048great announcements. Number one, we have been selected. Granberry ISD has been named a CTE district of distinction. Um recognizing one of the strong commitment of our career and technical education and preparing students for success in college careers and beyond. And so the group that organ that um gave us that distinction is CTA and it's the largest CTE advocate in the state. Um and to this uh the first year they gave the honor only 38 districts statewide received it. I think we're waiting to see how many got it this year. So it's a really great honor. We're excited to have that. And special thank you to Todd Gibson and his team both teachers and staff over at the CTE department. So we're very excited about that. Um we also have an update. We've been preparing for
049a district vulnerability vulnerability assessment. You guys, this is a scrambled word day for me. DVA is what we call it. Um, and so I want to say thank you to the team at Wade Clark and his team, but also the principles and assistant principles that um helped prepare and and whoever else um helped in that process. And I know I see Stacy over here, too. It was a um a district effort to make sure that we passed the test. We don't have the official results back yet from my understanding. Um, but the word on the street is we did really well with our security check. So, it's all about security. Um, update from last time we were together. The Ten Commandment posters have been delivered uh to each campus and are being placed in classrooms
050um this week and placed up in classrooms this week. Uh, also we have uh an update from we from our last strategic plan workshop that we did as a board. And so just a couple of things for our community to know that as part of our strategic planning workshop, we began the process of identifying district districts to compare ourselves with both in Texas and across the nation. Um so uh we narrowed our Texas comparison groups to Midway ISD, Roma ISD, and Sherryland ISD. Each of these districts are A-rated districts with similar size and demographics and program offerings to Granberry ISD. And so we'll tackle looking at national groups to compare ourselves to in this effort to continue to grow. and we're excited about that work and so thank you to board. They also um during
051that workshop really uh took time to review the facility assessment in greater detail and began determining priority projects for us to start thinking about as a district. So I appreciate their efforts in that. Our new members will be a part of the discussion going forward. So we're excited to hear their thoughts on that. Um we are in the middle of another round of advisory teams, you guys. And I can't tell you how grateful I am for these groups. I talk to kids um and community members and staff members and parents. Um and Lisa Oliver, are you in the room still? Where'd she go? She she always shuffling out when I want to give her some attention. So, she does a great job of organizing that. I'm grateful for her. This week, we also have the
052Thanksgiving feasts on campuses. If you've been to one of those, you know how exciting those are for the kids. They're Tuesday through Thursday this week. You can check our calendar online that Ryan and his team keeps updated with reminders from the campus that enter those in. Thank you for that. And then the last thing to know is that after the board meetings, we send out a family newsletter and a community newsletter. If you don't get any of those, go to our website on the front page and you can sign up for a community newsletter um to get those in your email box. And my last words are happy Thanksgiving because I won't see most of you until after Thanksgiving. So, I'm grateful for each of you. I'm proud to work in this district and I
053hope you all enjoy time with your friends and family as well. And that's my report. >> Thank you, Dr. Moroski. Okay, moving on to consider action on items discussed in close session. First up is to consider staff recommendations. Do I have a motion? Madame President, I um ask that we approve the uh staff recommendations as presented in close session. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay, that's a motion by Mr. Moore and a second by Mr. Bolton. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. All right. Let the record show that is six in favor and we have one absent being Barbara Townsen. Motion passes. Okay. Moving on to board officers. I will start with the secretary position. Do I have a nomination or a motion for secretary? Madam President,
054since she's not here to defend herself, I [laughter] uh nominate Barbara Townsen for secretary. >> Okay, I have a motion to nominate Barbara Townsen as secretary. Do I have a second? >> I second the motion. >> Okay, and that is a second by Miss Alana. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor, raise your hand. Okay, let the record show that is six in favor, one absent being Barbara Townsen. Okay, moving on to vice president position. Do I have a nomination and motion for vice president? >> Madame President, >> I think you're it. >> I would like to nominate Miss Nancy Alana for vice president. >> Okay, I have a motion by Mr. Moore to nominate Nancy Alana as vice president. Do I have a second? I'll second. I >> have a second by Mr.
055Bolton. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor, one absent being Barbara Townsen. Okay. Next, we're moving on to the president position. Do I have a nomination and motion for board president? >> Madame President, I'd like to nominate Courtney Gore. >> Do I have a second? I'll second. >> I want >> Who is it? Who wants it? >> Okay, Bolton. Mr. Bolton. So, I have a motion by uh Miss Alana and a second by Mr. Bolton to nominate Courtney Gore as president. Any discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is 64 and one absent being Barbara Townsen. Okay, so we have our officers. Um, we'll rearrange seats when Barbara gets back since she's not here. We won't have to do
056that right now. And then moving on to the consent agenda items. Do I have anybody that wants to pull something for discussion? Okay. Hearing no discussion on those, do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda items? >> I'll make that motion. >> Have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. and a second by Miss Alana. Any discussion? Okay, hearing none, let's all in favor raise your hand. Let the record show that is 64, six in favor and one absent being Miss Barbara Townsen. Moving on to discussion action items. Item 16A, discuss and possible action on voting in the election of the central appraisal district board of directors for the 2026 2029 of Johnson County. Miss uh Dr. Courtney Morasi. >> Okay. So, we currently uh do not
057have any uh any information from that county yet. So, we are unable to vote at this time. Okay. >> Wait, I have some >> We don't have We do not have >> We didn't get it from them. >> Huh? >> We didn't get it from them. >> No, we didn't. >> I know some people on their list. >> Okay. So, we'll have to vote the next time, I guess. We We didn't Is Davelin in here? We don't have anything official from them. Okay. So, we have to have the official Yeah. form. >> Yeah. Yeah. We got to have their thing, >> their resolution. Okay. So, um no action on A and item 16B. Discuss and possible action on voting in the election of the central appraisal district board of directors of Flood County. Dr. Moroski.
058>> Yes, we do have this information. And so as a reminder board, the last meeting or meeting before that, we did nominate um five members to this uh ballot and all five are on here. As a reminder, we have Mr. Scott Bradley, Mr. John Heismith, Mr. Richard Hayes, Mr. Mark McDonald, and Mr. James Wall were all uh names nominated by this board. Um and as a reminder, in Hood County, we have 3,115 votes that we can place. Um, and you guys can decide. If we divide those up evenly, each of those five people would get 623 votes. Um, but it's up for discussion. However, we want to proceed with Hood County. Um, has anyone talked to Eddie Rodriguez? Did he want to stay on the HCAD board? He's currently on there right now. Correct. Eddie
059Rodriguez. >> I thought he didn't want to. >> I don't know anything about >> Okay. He's not on the list. So I assume he's not being considered. >> Yeah, we have to stick to the this person. >> These are the nominees we came with last time. Yeah. >> I believe Billy did check with him though. I know that name was brought up and they checked. >> Yeah. Okay. >> Well, if there's no discussion, I'll make a motion to distribute evenly. 623 each to 300 3,115 votes to each of the >> I second motion >> to each one. So Scott Bradley, John Highmith, Rich Richard HS, Mark McDonald, and James Wall would each get how many votes? >> 623. >> Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to split our allocation of votes evenly across
060the nominees. Do I have a second? >> A second. And I have a second by Miss Alana. All in favor? Oh, I'm sorry. Any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Okay. Motion passes. Six f in favor and one absent being Barbara Townsen. >> So, oh, sorry. Moving on to item 16 C. Discuss and possible action on voting in the election of the central appraisal district board of directors of Parker County. Dr. >> Moroski. So, we do have Parker County's information as well. There are two names that uh are on this ballot, Richard Barrett and Joe Wilkinson. And we have six votes. So we can [laughter] >> we can divide those up as well. There would be three votes each if we want to do that or how however the board would like to
061proceed. >> Yep. I'll do the same thing. I'll make the motion that we divide those six votes evenly, three each to Richard Barrett and Joe Wilkins. >> Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to divide the votes evenly among the nominees. Do I have a second? I'll second >> and a second by Mr. Moore. Any discussion? >> Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor and one absent being Barbara Townson. Moving on to item 16D. Discuss and possible action on voting in the election of the Central Appraisal District Board of Directors of Somerville County. Dr. Courtney Morski. >> Yes. So, we have their ballot information as well. And on the ballot for this group, we have six people that are on the ballot. And I'll read
062their names. They are Nemo Britain, Brady Brown, Wade Bush, Neil Laws, Lorie Mapes, and Woody Martin. So, six total people on the ballot and we have nine votes. This does not evenly divide. >> Not evenly. >> Not. So, we have to decide how to use the nine votes. So, um, if any discussion that you would like to move forward with that. >> Well, I can speak to that a little bit and that, um, if we're going to favor one over the others, I did speak to people in Somerville County and they seem to all like this Brady Brown. >> So, I I might even make a motion to give them all nine of them. >> You want to give all So, is that a motion by you to give all nine votes to Brady Brown?
063>> Yes. Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to give all nine votes to Brady Brown. Do I have a second? I'll second >> in a second by Miss Alana. Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? Raise your hand. Let the record show that six in favor, one absent being Miss Town. Okay. Moving on to 16E. Discuss and take action to approve the audit services vendor request for clarifications. Mr. EMTT Blackfield. >> Thank you, Madam President. board in front of you, you do have the memo for the RFQ for audit services that we discussed at the last meeting. It does have a scoring summary there that you can see. It is the same memo with some um clarification from some questions that were asked this month. Those are highlighted in there for your u for
064you to see. Um it is the recommendation of the committee that uh the board approved Snow Garrett as external auditor for Grambury with Patillo Brown as the alternative selection. Both firms de demonstrated exceptional school district expertise, proven track records with comparable Texas ISDs, qualified teams committed to our engagement, ability to meet all timeline requirements, strong ability and assurance with past peer reviews. They are all they both are AICPA members and QA QC membership. The evaluation was based on submitted proposals, credentials, team qualifications, and professional judgment of the committee. References provided by both firms were contacted and gave excellent feedback. Once the board confirms the recommendation, then the district can request a fee schedule and from the awarded from the awarded firm and if negotiations fail, then we can move on to the second firm for
065your approval and discussion. Okay. >> Any further questions for EMTT White? Okay. So, it's my understanding that Attil Brown and Hill their references checked out as well. >> They did. Yes, sir. >> Okay. And how long has Snow Garrett been the district's auditor? >> We've been with them for 14 consecutive years. >> Okay. And um I just need to make it known, my brother-in-law is a partner at Whitley Penn, who's the number three on your list. He's married to my wife's sister. So, brother-in-law by marriage. It's just been my experience in the past that sometimes it's good to change up audit firms every now and then to make sure that we have a separate set of eyes looking over the books. And if we have somebody who's been doing it for 14 years, I would
066just suggest maybe we need to look at the second firm who scores really well um because it's been a long time. >> I agree. >> Do I have a motion? >> Is that a motion? [laughter] >> I'll make that motion. Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Stewart Neil to go with the second recommendation. The name of >> Patillo Brown and >> Patillo Brown. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> I have a a motion by Mr. Neil and a second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion? >> I think it's a good idea as well. I I like Snow Garrett Williams. I think they've done an outstanding job for our school district for a long time and and u I have nothing but praise for them. I I do think that it's time
067to um to switch and um I I I could concur that I I think it's time that we make that that switch. Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. Okay, let the record show that's six in favor and one absent being Miss Barbara Townsen. Okay, we had an emergency item added to our agenda. Um, so this is 16F. Discuss and take action to approve the authorization for an emergency procurement process at Steam Academy at Mebrano. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Thank you, Madam President. Board, I will read this to you so that you have a clear understanding. There was a leak recently identified at Manbrano School in an area separate from an original issue. The initial repair was quoted at $90,000. The second leak will be will be identified and addressed.
068Due to the nature and timing of these issues, the total cost is expected to exceed the district's usual procurement threshold and will potentially surpass the $100,000 threshold. Justification for the emergency declaration. As per Granberry ISD board policy, CH legal and CH local, emergency purchases may be a authorized without following standard competitive bidding procedures when immediate repairs are necessary to protect health, safety, and prevent disruption of district operations. In this case, delaying repairs could lead to a more significant damage. Legal authority and procurement processes and in accordance with Texas Education Code 44031H and board policy be illegal regarding regarding board meetings and emergency meetings. The board is authorized to approve emergency pro procurement actions either during regularly scheduled meetings or through emergency meetings uh procedures as if necessary. This agenda item is presented for formal approval
069at the upcoming board meeting which is this meeting in compliance with open meetings laws and and board governance policies. The request is that the board of trustees to to approve the emergency procurement declaration authorizing the district to proceed with repairs up to and potentially exceeding $100,000 contingent upon subsequent repairs and assessments. >> Okay. Any questions for Mr. Whitefield? >> Yes. Uh you have dollars associated with emergencies like this, so it's not going to >> This is within the Yes, sir. It's within the function budget. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. Thank you. Okay. Any further questions? Do >> I will just want to make sure the board knows that we have um many restrooms out of service right now on Miss's campus. So, um she is very much hopeful that this will go through and be approved
070to begin the repair work. >> Do I have a motion to approve the emergency item that was added to authorize emergency procurement processes at Steam Academy? >> So moved. >> I have a motion by Mr. Moore. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> And a second by Mr. Lawrence. All in. Any further discussion? All in favor? Raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor and one absent being Miss Townsen. Okay. Moving on to Yay, we can flush the toilets again. Moving on to the reports. strategic plan EB emergent bilingual program evaluation. We have Dan Allard, Misty Walters, and Stacy Brown. All right. Good evening, Dr. Moraski and board. Um tonight, um I'm going to introduce you to uh Misty Walters, who is our coordinator of assessment, accountability, and compliance. Uh
071Amy Gilbert is retiring and Misty is taking over for her and a couple of other functions within our department as well. And then we also have Dan Allard who is our coordinator of emergent bilingual and dual language instruction. And so he is taking over the majority of Christina Sosb's position as well. And tonight they're going to be presenting the 2425 emergent bilingual program evaluation. [laughter] >> Dr. Morowski, board of trustees. Um I'll begin with um Granberry ISD's emergent bilingual program. Emergent bilingual we say EB a lot in the state of Texas used to be English learner eel and it's an overarching overarching program which consists of two models. So I'll start with the first one. The dual language immersion one-way uh program that we have is a biiteracy program. It's also known as an additive
072bilingual model. That means that we are adding another language and not negating the first language uh for second language acquisition. This develops students linguistic and academic and cognitive abilities in both Spanish and in English. And we promote bilingualism by literacy through c uh cross-cultural understanding. This program starts at prek at Emma Robertson. And we have two dual language campuses, Bronner and Bakus. Another part of the EB program is English as a second language or ESL as you probably are familiar with. Uh this program focuses mainly on developing English skills and we have four domains that we develop uh literacy and English uh reading, writing, listening and speaking. And so we want to support academic growth, cognitive development across all the content areas. And at the same time uh we want to develop second language acquisition
073overall. And the ESL program is offered at all campuses. GISD. >> Good evening. Um, the state requires that all students complete a home language survey to determine whether a student may need language support services. And the survey asks specific questions about the language is used at home by the child. Um, if any response indicates that a language other than English, um, the district must administer a language proficiency test. And this process ensures students are properly identified for support. Um the chart that you see are the native languages um of the EB students in GISD. Um a child's native language is typically the first language that they've learned. Um it reflects their early language development and may differ from the language most used in the home on a daily basis. We have a total of 15
074different languages in Granberry ISD and with the majority of the EB students having Spanish as their native language. On this chart you can see these are some of our numbers uh throughout the last few years and you see in the green the word reclassification. So reclassification is we want we want our EBS or our emerging bilingual to become English proficient. So we want them to become EP. So that's called exiting the program or reclassification. So you can see that in the year 2023 we didn't have but 01% of our students um exit or reclassify to English proficient. That number grew drastically in 2024 and we were very close in 2025. And um you also see in the white uh bar graph that uh the top numbers uh what those those are the full numbers of
075our EBS throughout the district. So, our numbers have grown from 2023 and we stayed more or less the same in the last few years and and we've gone down significant significantly because of our uh reclassification rates. >> Oh, I have to go again. And then I'll speak to our bilingual student progress overall. As you can see on this uh bar chart um for the Telpass test in 2025, we take this test every year um in February and in March. So the TEPASS test is the Texas English language proficiency assessment system which is mandated by the state uh to give to every emergent bilingual student. And basically that means we test the students in all four domains listening, speaking, reading and writing. And Granberry ISD is outperforming the region and the state overall. And of all
076our EBS that we have, we had 942 total. But we actually don't test students that are in preK. We start in grades K and one, but we don't test them online till grade 2. So that's why you see this 651 figure here. And so we had 651 students participate in this English test and 365 showed measurable progress from the previous school year. And that progress starts in uh grade three for the online version. >> Let's see. Um, school districts uh are required by the state to uh provide a bilingual and ESL program staff with certified um teachers. And when a district cannot um hire enough certified teachers despite documented recruitment efforts, it must file a bilingual exception or an ESL waiver. And to ensure in compliant that we're in compliance and and continue the services
077for the students. So last year we had to file a bilingual exception for one teacher. This year we had to file a bilingual bilingual exception for two teachers and an ESL waiver for two teachers as well. And these filings just communicate with the state that the district is actively working uh to meet the certification requirements and maintain legal legally required services for our EB students. And this will be our last slide. So our overall program goals and development um for the dual language program and the ESL program. Uh, if you look at the first bullet, we want to ensure that all of our teachers in the dual language program are bilingual certified. Um, and that we're also ESL certified, especially all of our English teachers. It would be ideal to have all of our staff
078ESL certified. Uh, maybe we'll get there one day. Uh, we want to offer uh training and professional development for those that are not yet certified. So, we'll spend um some of our funds for that and do all that we can in our department to um get those teachers uh fully trained. Second bullet, we want to implement um the dual language and ESL programs effectively using high high quality uh instructional methods and materials uh which we are currently doing in all of our classes and all of our courses. And the third bullet, we want to continue researching the impact of stipens on hiring and retaining high quality uh highly qualified staff. Uh we want to keep uh good teachers around and we want to see what the impact of these stipens are. Uh the last bullet
079is we want to continuously study dual language models and implementation strategies to best meet the needs of Granberry ISD's emergent bilingual students. There are many different types of uh dual language models. um one way, two-way, and there's about four different types, and we want to continue um seeing what's best for our students in our district. >> And do you have any questions for us? >> I have a question. >> Yes, ma'am. [clears throat] >> So, at at one time, we were trying to make sure every teacher that was hired was was ESL certified. Is that that not happening anymore? Okay. So these teachers that are being certified online and coming to us are they being ESL certified? >> Yes there different degrees of that but yes requirement to hire all >> Okay. Okay. So the
080waiver can you explain what the waiver does for us while we're waiting for the certification? the the waiver um we have to do some professional de development for the teachers that um that aren't certified and so the waiver we just basically are telling the state this is what we're doing and then we we go through a process and the the waiver was filed by November the 1st and so just stated um the specific teachers and the students the number of students that were affected by the waiver um and so we'll we'll continue the professional development for those. So does that mean that they're just taking professional development to basically build that skill set in lie of getting certified? >> Yes. And we also have uh pair of professionals that support them in the classrooms as
081well. Um so that they they have some extra supports in the system. Um and just we one circumstance we just had a very unfortunate situation happen and so um and and that happened. So and then a couple of the others are special ed certified and they're just difficult to find. Yes. So bilingual special ed is not in lie of it's in addition to. Is that correct? Are they still expected to get their certification? That was the question. >> Okay. Trying to clarify. >> Okay. So we'll get certified. Okay. So they're getting certified but we have to file it right now while they're working on that certification. Correct. >> Correct. >> And then it's it's not mentioned on the slides or any of the bullets but it's a good time to mention the uh international program
082that we approved a few months back. >> Are any of the are the teachers on your list? Are they included in that? The international teachers that are now teaching in our bilingual class. >> That's good. So, that's great. So, we're happy to hear that. It was a good um a good system that the board approved us to to use. >> And just specifically so that you guys know um we receive an EB aotment from the state of Texas which we set aside. And because we filed waiverss, we must allocate a 10% towards the professional development and the development of our teachers towards getting the certification as well as making their job more effective. And so that's to the tune of about 60,000. Okay. >> Yeah. To be clear, that's 10% of the EB allocation, not
08310%. >> Correct. TB I didn't say that. I'm sorry. The EV allotment. 10% of the EV allotment. >> Yeah. >> She's making a joke. No, I wasn't that. You want to make that clear? >> I have a question. >> Thank y'all for that. Okay, go ahead. >> Okay, on the list of the 15 different languages, what is P posto? >> We've got two of those. >> Believe that's the language in Afghanistan. >> Afghanistan. Okay. >> Okay. That's the only one I didn't recognize. It's interesting to see those statistics. You don't realize, >> oh yeah, there's another one. >> Yeah. How about that fourth one down? >> Jiardi. Jiardi. >> Don't even try. >> Jiardi. >> We've got two of those. >> I may need to go back to that slide to pronounce it. >> Yeah,
084I don't. >> Okay. Well, thank you'all for all your work and for that information. and it's great to see the good things happening in our district and kids and student outcomes improving and I appreciate all your work and effort that you pour into our teachers, our staff and our students. >> Thank you. >> Okay, next report is transportation report. Brian Kruthers, transportation director. Okay. Did I say your last name wrong? >> Brothers. I'm sorry. >> As long as you call me for dinner, [laughter] >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Perfect. >> Call me for dinner. >> Am I doing this or are you doing this? I'm doing it. Okay. Perfect. All right. Um, want to do a quick what what we call a 50,000 foot view of uh what we do at transportation. Try to move as
085quickly as we can because I know we've had a long meeting tonight. Last year we traveled 1,434,573 miles. Now, a guy like me sees a lot of numbers with commas and he's going, "Golly, what does that mean?" Well, I looked it up and what it means is we went to the moon in back three times. I can see that I can see that moon out there and I can tell we've been traveling a lot. It averages around 6,600 miles a day. And [clears throat] you guys that have been here with me before know that I measure from one side of the country at LA over to Charleston and back. At this point, we have done the two and a half times each day. >> So, we're putting lots and lots of miles on there when
086we're when you see this coming through. Currently, we have 40 general education routes, 15 special needs routes, and two special program routes. Typically, those special program routes are routes we run in a white fleet. They're little hot shot runs that we run out and get a get a special student that needs to go somewhere else that a bus won't cover. Um, and the fleet covers uh 67 big buses, general ed buses, 23 small buses, which we typically call the special needs buses, and 19 white fleet. Now, you'll see some big differences here, and towards the end of uh my visit, I'll explain where all those numbers come together. Currently we are running 89 employees. That's route drivers, attendants, subd drivers, technicians, and clerks. It takes the whole lot of us to make the make those
087wheels go around that kind of miles. So the question comes up. Let's see if I can make this work. And I did. How do we do it? The magic comes with double routes. Now, folks like, dislike, whatever, but I can tell you the magic comes with the double routes. And the and the reason for that is with the double routes, we're able to get more. We're able to go get the little kids, bring them in, go back out and get the big kids with the same number of employees and or with less employees and with less fleet. If we were to go back to a single route, we would have to have double the employees and double the fleet. So, that's where the magic comes. But also with that magic comes lots and lots of
088miles. As you've seen, we begin at 5 in the morning running uh for their double routes and drivers. They come in, start coming in, checking their equipment out, and about 5:30 vehicles start rolling. If you're over here, run through it that morning. You'll see the lights on and buses starting to run out. By about uh 7:15, we've arrived at the elementary campuses and we have dropped off our elementary kiddos and we're running back out again to get the middle school and high school, hence the double routes, that kind of stuff. And we get those guys back at 8:15. Um, everyone's gathering back up at transportation about 8:45 to 9:00 and we have a little bit of a lull in between. That doesn't mean things have stopped because if you know anything about transportation, transportation hardly
089ever stops. I was talking to uh the facilities uh Kevin Cummins about doing a uh interview about our uh when we can come in to look to see when the electricity and I said Kevin we are running all the time. You might be able to come in Thanksgiving and Christmas and maybe New Year's. So for some reason he didn't want to do it on at that time of year. Um in the afternoon we come back in about two o'clock. See if I can make this work. I did. about 2:00 we come start coming back in getting our stuff together heading back out at uh 3:00 to pick up those elementary school school kids to take home take all those kids to all the part of the district those of you that might not know we
090cover uh 250 square miles and I feel like I've we've physically covered each of that because we go out to the far corners some of you that might not know um we go out past where the paint museum gym used to be Fate Road. We go out uh west all the way to Daniel's Feed. We go south all the way to uh past the Pines uh community, the Pines uh Midway Pines, almost to the to the Stonewater Church there. And then when we're going north, we go all the way to the Parker County line. So, we got lots of track, lots of areas we're covering in there. buses come back about four o'clock, get the middle school, high school kids, head out again. And just for good measure, we throw in a bonus round in
091there at six o'clock. And that bonus round is our activity route. The activity route takes the kids home that make the whole district look good. They take home the football kids, the basketball kids, the debate kids, the chess club kids, the kids that are studying for tutorials, and even those even those little kids that have to do the makeup and the detention kids. We take those kids and we take them home. Because we're out in different areas and we don't know exactly where we're going at that point, we have community stops rather than take everybody to their regular stop. So what that means is we might take them to the community pool. We might take them to a uh a common area, community center, something like that. But we have our several stops set up
092in the uh surrounding area for that. Next point I'd like to There we go. Um few challengings that we got to talk about. One challenge that isn't on here, but I feel um I need to talk about is the traffic. Anybody tried to go anywhere during their lunch hour around here? It's almost impossible. It's almost you moving at a snail snail's pace. Folks are coming and going everywhere all the time. Um well, imagine doing that with 30 plus kids behind you and they're all not sitting there like little angels. They're over there doing what kids are doing because they've been cooped up. They've been still all day and they want to be involved with their kiddos. So, they've got that on. So, there's the traffic going on and then there's the stuff going on behind
093us. So, that's that's probably our first challenge driving that you and let's bring up the point of the uh new construction that's coming. 377 construction's coming. We're already starting to see the construction coming on 144. They've got the McDonald's uh fenced up and that place is soon to be gone. They're they're they're getting ready for this construction. What that's going to happen that's going to be slowing us down, taking some time away from that. That's challenge number one. Challenge number two is to find good qualified drivers for that. Um, it's not as easy as it used to be where we'd put a note in a paper and you'd get all kinds of folks uh answering. We have to be um different. Some of you have probably seen the school bus we put out at Walmart
094with our ad. A lot of times that picks up a lot of folks, but we take those folks and we're picky about who we pick find who picky about who we choose to get in there. Trying to find folks that are qualified to work with kids. We get those folks and then we teach them how to drive the school bus. We provide uh training, paid training to those guys to teach them how to be safe school bus drivers. Those are our challenges. A couple of uh words of appreciation. I just wanted to give you out the first one is the NFT system that you guys have recently approved. That has been amazing. Um, if Emtt little uh Johnny happens to not not be home or something, we can look on the bus and see where
095Johnny is. Um, did he get on the bus? We're able to scan. We're able to produce a list immediately of who's on the bus and then we're able to use that list to even out our student load to be to run more efficiently. So it that has been a grateful so thank you for for providing that tool for us. Um the other words of gratitude I would like is thank you for the new buses. We don't have them yet. I'm expecting two more weeks we ought to have those in. Um Mr. Hussein was talking about hey that's going to be a nice Christmas for for present for you. And I'm going to agree that's going to be a wonderful um because about that time is when the kids start moving around and that kind of
096stuff. And we we do use a lot of our extra vehicles during that time. So that five extra uh those five extra buses and the extra sped buses will be useful. That that brings me to our my final point my brag which is on my shop staff and my drivers. Let's go back to the last away football game. Remember on our very second page or whatever, I said we had 67 fleet and we had 40 routes. And I'm sure a lot of you going, "Well, that math doesn't really work out." We had everything with wheels going somewhere, either taking kids home or going to the football game. on that last game that we're away. We had two school buses um that are 20 years old that we held back in case something broke down and
097we prayed really hard nothing broke down. So at that point I'd just like to open it up and do y'all have any questions for me? >> I'll go. >> Yes, sir. Uh so you mentioned community stops and that that uh is efficient when you're doing the activity buses in the late in the day. >> Yes sir. >> Um it would that be more efficient opportunity for us to to do more community stops in the AM PM routes? >> That might save some time. Um currently uh board policy is that for the little guys we're at a quarter mile and for the big guys we're at a half mile. we would have to look at where that was, that kind of stuff. Very similar. We do we also do community stops for summer school and we
098could look at something along those lines. Um, but we we just haven't been able to get to that point yet. But that is a possibility to maybe shave some time off, especially when this traffic starts to steal our time. I was going to say that in light especially in light of what's we know to expect with 377 construction is I think it's probably the biggest one. >> Yes sir. >> But really construction everywhere. I've seen the master thoroughares plan and it's >> Yes, sir. >> It's got a lot of stuff we're going to have to work around your team. >> It's going to be interesting. Yes, sir. >> Yeah. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Anybody else? >> All right. Thank you all very much. I appreciate your time. >> Thank you. and thank
099you for making sure all the children in our district make it safely to their schools and campuses and back home again. We appreciate all of you and all of your staff and everything y'all do to ensure they make they stay safe and get to where they need to go. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hey, next up we have an update on the 2023 2024 TEA Foundation. No, yeah, maintenance report. Maintenance report. You're going to be presenting on tea foundation setup. I don't know if anyone told you, but good luck. >> Maintenance report by >> Yeah, go ahead. >> Maintenance report by Haley Baron. >> Well, good evening, madame president, Dr. Morowski, and members of the board. Thank you so much for allowing me this opportunity to speak on this magnificent department.
100It was this time last year when y'all approved me for this position, and it has been a phenomenal year. Um I've been in education over 20 years and part of some fabulous teams as team teacher leaders um curriculum teams also as a principal all fabulous experiences but there is something very different about this team that doesn't always is not always seen out because we do a lot of behind the scenes work and so I wanted to start by recognizing our f our great um leadership team. First off, Sandy is our secretary, and we really know she is the heart of the department. She has turned the guys um uh conference room, lunchroom into her own place that she keeps them fed. We say if you get hired with our department, you're going to expect to
101gain about 10 pounds just from her. And her wealth of knowledge of the district, she has been with Granberry ISD since 1988. And so for me, just having that experience is is amazing. Also, we have Scott Campbell who is our maintenance manager. He has been with the district for 39 years and just entered his submitted his retirement. Will be with us through December. Um, his knowledge goes very deep. When we go on to a site, he's able to say that water line is right here just out of memory. So, it'll be a huge loss. It's part of the reason why we had asked for the facility assessment because we didn't have all of that information written down. He just would know like in 2001 we had a hell storm. So, that roof got repaired in
1022002. And so all of his knowledge is it's it's going to be some big shoes to fill. Um coming up also we have Kevin Cummings who is over our facilities and he does a little bit of everything. Every reservation for our football fields, for our classrooms, for um churches on our different events on Sundays, um setting all of our controls for our HVAC units over cameras, you name it. Everything usually kind of runs through him for our facilities. and he has been with the district for a while as well and worked his way up starting with custodial to grounds to his current role too. I have four fabulous leads that I'll go into when I talk about their department as well. I also want to highlight that over 50% of our staff have kids now
103in Granberry ISD or kids that have graduated from Granberry. And I think that's what makes us so special because it's not just a job for them. It's a school where one of their children also went to. So, a few of our statistics are we have a little bit over 1.5 million square feet that we provide services and support for in our maintenance department. We have over 621 acres that we also take care of. 13 GR game and practice athletic fields. And since I started this time, no December of 2024 up to date when I made this presentation in October, we had closed out over 8,000 work orders in the system. And that is even larger than that because a lot of times you're on a campus, you see something, you take care of it. And
104so some of those aren't always documented in that. Um, EMTT had given me some examples as I was preparing mine. And that the last one that was presented, their number was a little over 3,000 several years ago. So the number of work orders that we're taking care of has increased over the time as well. Also with that our um we have a very basic work order system but it does give me a little bit of data to go through. We have been able to reduce our closure rate at the time it takes to um close out an item that the campuses select. We've also added surveys and right now 100% of our survey feedback survey feedback has been very positive for our department and um just very excited about what our team can do with
105our staff. We have 28 staff members and closing out those over 8,000 in 10 months for them. And this I wanted to show just some pictures. is not just uh maintenance that we do. These are Thank you, Stacy Brown for Blue Bonnet. With Blue Bonnet comes delivering all of the materials to the campuses. And you can see we have a a rotating schedule where we make sure that they get the materials they need. They load up our tractors. They all work our trucks all work together as a team. This is one of the shipments of Blue Bonnet materials. And it was so much that we couldn't even store it in their storage building. We had to get it sorted and taken out. We had a it was it's nice to be from the curriculum department
106and now in the role I am we had a collaboration party of sortin and delivering with both maintenance and curriculum at 7 a.m. one morning and we got all the items to the the campuses that they need as well. We also do a lot of work for behind the scenes for graduation making sure that um our stadium and our fields are ready to be presentable to our public. And a lot of the perks of the job, this is one of my favorite ones, was when we had the helicopter with the HVAC units uh this summer, replacing those. So along the way, me learning um a lot of fun experiences to along the way. This is our athletic grounds, which we have two grounds and one irrigation specialist. And as you can see, then when he
107um something pops up, this was um the hole was actually from um getting ready for a bike rally that wasn't related to school. They hit a water line. We had to go out and do do that. So, they keep those 13 fields. They keep our irrigation always looking pristine. Next, we have our ground staff. And again, I just want to highlight it's not just the grounds that they're taking care of. They help with the blue bonnet. They help with painting lines in the parking lots. any other things that pop up that we need, they're there to help. This image also shows that we're at a moderate level of maintenance, a level four um with the amount of um acreage that we take care of. We always just have to kind of plan out where we're
108going. Um I set up a calendar for the guys based on if we have a family night at this school, we have a game at this school, and that kind of helps dictate our schedule. Our goal is to get to a level two where we have a true rotation where it's not just happen to um schedule our support based on high needs of events in the com in our district. And then we have a fabulous general maintenance crew as well that includes one journeyman plumber for the 1.5 um mil uh million square feet. So he is always everywhere and they're doing other things as well. Um the one of the pictures is Oakwoods when they had donations for their basketball goals going in putting in the seaman and and putting up those goals as well.
109And then I have to highlight at the bottom left is me and two fabulous gentlemen. This was probably maybe the second week on the job. It was sleeping outside. We had just decided everyone could go home due to their safety and then the admin had not just a little trickle leak but a big leak. And we have Jared in the middle. And he was as they were up there showing me in the sle in the cold still having a good time getting the work done. And he was the district employee of the year last year. And that just goes to show his dedication. And then also on the right we have Chad who was our heartbeat um winner last year too. Again just said everybody could go home. It's leading outside. A leak comes up.
110They never hesitated. They were in a good mood. they were making sure it was taken care of and they speak kind of the whole um culture of our entire department as well. We also have our HVAC electric crew. We have two HVAC techs, one HVAC technician and he's not pictured, but we all and one um apprentice electrician that wasn't pictured in this as well. And again, you know, our age of our HVAC units and where we are based on our facility assessment discussions and they are always across the campuses making sure that our HVAC is working. In fact, one of the units went down today on the board meeting. I was like, that's not going to happen. And they were working their magic. And as you can tell, it feels comfortable in the room and
111always making sure that our students and our staff feel comfortable in the the rooms and the environments. Our next part is our campus budget. A large part or our district budget a large part goes to our utilities pest management also for throughout the district. Our fuel allocation we have trucks going every direction just like our transportation department going from Manbrano and then back to backas and wherever the needs come and that's for our fuel. Our main part of our budget is our maintenance allocation, which is about half a million dollars, which goes to everything else. Anytime an HVAC unit breaks, a belt breaks, filters for the classroom, filters for HVAC, just um preventative maintenance, anything comes out of that. And so we're always looking at where we can save money, comparing different quotes, pinching every
112penny to make sure we're able to meet the needs of the district. And then part of the strategic plan was to look at alternative sources of revenue and we've written a few grants. One we're rolling out the safe cycle 2 grant working with Wade and his department on that. We've um applied for an LED grant as well and hope to hear something in the next month to two for that one. We've worked with Diamond Communication as another way to bring in revenue. And I'm working with Mr. fish and text dot to write the grant for safe routes to school grant to provide more sidewalks to school. So, we're trying to utilize our grant our budget but also look for other um alternative sources resources as well. A big push that we have started this summer
113was our energy conservation. As you can see, this is bar graph shows our energy usage over the last few years. And so, our goal is to have a 5% reduction. And I want to kind of highlight kind of where we are now. Two campuses that look really well are Little Bucks and my Embrano. You can see their decrease from last year to this year of their usage. And a lot of that goes when we invest and thank you for the investment for our HVAC units. We did a complete overhaul at Little Bucks and you can tell now their usage is down 50% now that they have the energy efficient HVAC units on their campus and we were had a large portion of units replaced at Manbrano and you can see that as well. I have
114about half of our data for October and we're down 13% right now as a whole for our district as well. A few things that we've done to make sure that we are trending in this direction are joining the tea which is the energy management association working with other districts getting ideas. We've started a staggered start time. So on campuses instead of having all the campus go on at the same time. We know kids come in the cafeteria and offices first. So it's a slow roll of when those items are turned on. We're also um adjusting some of our set points. where can we move it just one or two degrees and is it still a comfortable temp to make sure we're saving that money. We've started watchers at three of our campus where our students
115are going around and seeing are the lights turned out off when the classes aren't in use and kind of looking for those opportunities as well. And as Brian mentioned, we are doing our campus walks both when schools are in session and outside of time to see why are different units or um things running when the campuses are not in session. So, I'm very excited about where we are and where we're going with our energy conservation. And since I am a lifelong learner, I'm always looking at ways to grow our staff as well. I'm very proud of our CTE collaboration where we had a senior last year work with our lead electrician and got to work on a um work order for at CTE adding in new plugs. That was very exciting opportunity. We are also
116collaborating with our neighboring districts to learn from them. Um kind of give us suggestions of what they have done, what works, what doesn't work, maybe things we should try. Uh we hosted the HVAC fall symposium um last month where we had other districts come share ideas. We had other vendors share ideas and just kind of walk away with a better understanding and and kind of next steps for our team. I've shared our tea which is our energy management which we meet monthly with that and one thing about this group of um in the maintenance world is everyone is always so willing to share their ideas Mansfield we went to Mansfield and talked to their team has come here and met with my team and shared resources walkthrough forms everything uh since Jared's not here and
117I love to pick on him he did attend our Taso operations conference and he wanted his first day of school picture as well and he was so proud. Um, a lot of the members of this department have not had opportunities to go to outside learning opportunities and you could tell he he was very excited. Had to send that to his kids and his wife for his first learning opportunity. I tried to tell him he looked like little Sheldon and he didn't know what that was, but to me that is exactly who he looks like. Um, also in a highlight, we have some staff changes over the past year and this was one of our water leaks at AES. Even though, you know, in the moment you're trying to fix everything, the um, we have some
118guys that have been here 15 plus years, some that were just um, on boarded this past year and they would stop, explain to the newbies kind of the process so that they're actually growing within the department as well. Um, and I love that relationship that we have um, within our department. For our next steps, as I've shared, we do have a work form platform that's kind of outdated. Doesn't always give us the information that we we need. And so, um, in December and January, we have a committee that's going to be looking at our different platforms for work orders and facility rentals. In our strategic plan, we're and working along with our facility committee. We are trying to complete the 10-year facility plan as well as the asset replacement cycle. I'm really looking forward to
119doing the work and it's pretty intense of working alongside Mr. Fish to get the grant for the safe routes to school. If you've ever been at the high school at drop off or dismissal, you know that is is needed. And I really want to transition from a reactive to a proactive approach um based on the facility assessment and knowing where our facilities are. And I want to continue our collaboration with Todd Gibson and the CTE program. They just started year one of the construction program. And so they'll start having internship opportunities in the next two years so that we can start having that pipeline from within. Do y'all have any questions or needing me to ex elaborate on any of the slides? >> All right. You ready for me again? >> Here we go. What
120you got? Um, one I was going to tell you that my dad is available for uh your your interest in trying to reduce the cost of electricity because he'll come in and tell you don't touch the thermostat. [laughter] >> And we have part of our schools where Kevin Cummins has the controls of them and then half of our schools are not up to date that where you still they if you go over over break or over holiday and they forget to change it then you see that energy um waste. Yeah. Yeah. >> All right. >> But hey, tell them to come on. >> And and your Scott, by the way, is only retiring, so you can still call on them and it'll tell you where the water lines are. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> I
121love that idea with the watchers, having the kids on campus take responsibility of their their campus, their school, and making sure that everyone's doing their part. >> Hundreds. I was going to say that, too. You got hundreds of kids. Let's employ them. Go. They got the watchers on campus. Some of them have used their um ambassador programs. I piloted it this year. We have three youth that have piloted so we can work it out. Then also those campus leaders um will also be able to come back and share that experience so that more will um join next year. I just knew with the blue bonnet curriculum changes with the campus, I did not want to add on one more thing unless they were ready to to tackle something that they already felt they could bring
122in. And I I'll give you praise too and you about uh having the proactive approach to an asset replacement life cycle >> program. I like that. >> I'm very eager to look at that. Dr. Morowski's also given me some um examples to kind of work through things to to see what needs to be included on that and then coming back to my team and seeing where are we and what what are our next steps on that. >> Yeah. Good. Thank you. Those of us that have been here for a while um used to leave our rooms and come back and find a note from Larry Anderson that said, "Surprise, you for left your light on or uh I caught you or something like that." So, uh we learned early on that Larry could come back
123and >> find that we made a mistake. But, uh I think that's a great idea for the kids to help the reminders as well. Thank you very much. And also, I thought it was really good that you were the only woman in that picture with I noticed that. [laughter] >> But thank you for all you do. >> Thank you so much. >> Hey, you know that I worked for five years for Goodyear Tyran Rubber and I tried like crazy to get on that blimp. See if you can get a helicopter ride out of them. We didn't get to ride on the helicopter, but we did get to watch that process and it was it was very just once they land they have to take everything off of the helicopter because of the weight. They take
124out most of the gas and everything else so that they could have the capacity to pull those HVAC units. >> Um, so that's what I love about this job because each day is new. Each job is something I haven't experienced and it's always rewarding. >> That may be why they didn't let me on the blimp because I exceed the weight. [laughter] I'm I'm not going to comment on that. >> Thank you. Thank you for everything you and your department do to keep us up and running and make sure that we have safe buildings for our kids and identifying those items that need to be addressed immediately and emergency items like >> Thank you for that. We were texting after y'all approved that and we're very thankful for y'all support so we can move ahead on
125that as well. >> Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate y'all. All right. Next up is the update on the 2023 2024 TEA Foundation settle up. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Thank you, Madam President. Board in front of you do have a timeline of the settle up on the the $16.8 million that we've had since March of 2025. That was in response to the property audit value that um that the district did file in April of 2024. Um at that point, we received the notification in November 24. I expected about $1.6 million where we did receive the $16.8 million. When it was all said and done, it would come out to be about $1.7 through the timeline. Um, we received in October a notice that we had a settle up for recapture of about $1,100. So, that prompted me
126to go look at my foundation settle up. And when I did, they had done a DPV property value study, which is our district property value study. And when they did that, they did find their T value um mistake and they settled it up and um they said that we basically owed them back 15.1 $1 million. So I sent an email to Kim Wall who's a financial analyst at TEA and she said it would be uh moved into our 2526 state payments on our FSP payment schedule there. Well, I only looked at that. They've already paid us a quite a bit of money for our state funding already. So it just shows us having a negative balance there. At that time it was two 10.7 and it's still right about there but it's about $1,000 off.
127As of today it was about 10,798 million. So I think this is going to carry forward until they get it through. So basically that money is going to sit there and it's going to be basically we're going to use some of it this year for our funding. We're going to use some of it next year for our funding. So it's not extra money. It's going to be our funding for this year and some of our funding for next year. So I'm glad we didn't go out and spend that money. >> That was the right decision. Otherwise, we would be >> to this point. >> Yes. >> To this point, having that money in the bank, we've we've gained right at about $270,000 in interest on it. >> Awesome. >> And so, but but they're not
128really taking the money. We're not sending the six or $15.1 million back to them. We still get to hold on to it. They chip away at what they owe us in coming years. So, we get to even gain Yes, sir. >> more in the months ahead, maybe even years ahead. >> That is correct. And and it'll it'll settle up next year. Yeah, I mean and and that'll that that number will fluctuate this year and it won't be it won't be the $10 million. It'll be a little bit less than that probably, but interest on money we're holding on to on behalf of >> we're getting interest and they're not. >> Yeah, >> we might be able to buy a couple more buses out of that. [laughter] >> At least one or two. >> Yeah. >>
129Or a helicopter ride. >> A helicopter ride. Well, I I appreciate your stewardship in um making sure that we stay fiscally responsible and um take the the safe path when it comes to that money, especially when we weren't sure what was going to happen, if we were going to have to pay it back or we were going to get to keep it. Uh so definitely appreciated your advice and insight there and absolutely made the right decision. So, thank you. Appreciate your stewardship and fiscally responsible practices for our school district and uh taxpayer dollars. Thanks for keeping the rains on Morasi because she wanted to spend it. >> I did. I'm gonna spend it all. [laughter] >> All right, moving on to financial statements for period ending October 31st, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Thank you,
130ma'am. Board in front of you do have the financials for a period ending October 31st. These are the transactions between September 1st, 2025 and October 31st, 2025. It uh reflects revenue collected to date equals 20.55% of the budget as compared to last year at 9.38% in 2425. And expenditures to date are 19.07% of the budget compared to 20.51% in 2425. There's nothing really outstanding there except for that state funding and has a little bit to do with that $16.8 million that's in there. Um and we're just going to kind of ride that out for a little while until it kind of starts to level out a little bit and then we'll kind of amend that out to to show where we're at in that. So, nothing really outstanding on the financials, but I can answer
131anything that you may have, any questions you may have about that. >> Okay, no questions. Moving on to item F, cash flow and investment report for period ending October 31st, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Yes, ma'am. In front of you, you do have your cash flow and your investment report. And then as of October, uh, we gained $216,250 in interest. This time last year, we had about $138,758. You can attribute some of that uh interest revenue to that $16.8 million that's still hanging out in there. Um we have currently for this fiscal year, we're at about $423,000 in interest gain and last year we were at $293,000. And that is your cash flow and investment report for the month of October 31st. >> Thank you, Mr. Whitefield. Next is procurement calendar update. Mr. field. >>
132Yes, ma'am. In front of you board, you do have the purchasing calendar. These are things that are be coming up. Um you did approve um the uh amending into fund balance for the HVAC system which was committed in the audit which we you will see at December's board meeting whenever they present the audit and that um the HVAC HVAC bid system is going to be coming out. Um there will be 43 uh additional units at Mbrano and one non-functional unit at AMS is what she's have presented and that will will be what they're going out for bid for. Um there's also a dual credit program that they're currently in the process of evaluating. I believe that's came that has come in and they're doing the evaluation process right now. And um they will be putting
133out a fuel supply bid um that has not been gone gone out yet, but when it comes in it will be a cost plus bid. And so we we will see how that kind of lands. And that's the procurement calendar and that's what is coming up in future months. If there's any questions about that, Mr. Robbie's left, but I could probably left but I could answer any questions. >> And $100,000 in plumbing. >> Yeah, that too. >> Yes, sir. And that is within the budget already for for repairs. >> Yeah. Okay. Moving on to categorical categorical spending report. Mr. Whitefield. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh board policy does allow us to make purchases between 50 and $100,000 uh as long as it's within a approved uh procurement process that the board has approved. Um and the
134one you do have for the month of October is for curriculum and associates through the buy board. It was for I Ready Toolbox and I Ready partner services license renewal and it's for $63,46.13. And that is just information for you that was purchased through the buy board. And that is the report on categorical spending. Any questions? All right. Thank you, Mr. Whitfield. Without any further business, the time is now 7:45 p.m. and this meeting is adjourned.