001Mic test. Mic test. [Music] Okay. >> Okay, I'm ready. I have so many pens at home. It's ridiculous. >> What do I have pen wise? I have the energy coll. I have a TV >> smart seal pen. >> Okay. You'll have to uh excuse us, but our microphones aren't working, so we're going to talk loud so you can hear us. We're not going to yell. We want to make sure everyone can hear. >> Um the time is now 6 p.m. We'll now reconvene into open session by >> Thank you. Bow with me, please. Lord, you said that there were more gathered that you'll be here among us. We invite you to do that here with us today. Open our hearts. >> There was spoke only tree continuence despite his young age. He told the truth
002even though the establishment mocked him. told even though it cost his life >> still himself >> comfort his family just now please >> we share the good news of God in our everyday lives >> please give us the courage to do Father, please continue to guide us in our decision making here on this board in the classroom and central admin and districtwide all in your interest and the heavy responsibility of educating our town's children in the name of teller himself Jesus Christ. Amen. >> Amen. >> Thank you. >> Now have pledges led by elementary school. [Music] Good evening everyone. We are your CTA ambassadors for elementary. I'm Claire Harden. I'm John and we are going to recite the pledges for you tonight. At this time, please stand to the flag of the United States of
003America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And now for our Texas. >> Honor flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state under God. One. >> Thank you. >> We heard that it's your birthday and we bring our elementary birthday. >> I love it. >> Don't forget to make Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Okay, I'm trying to be loud. Nope, it's not working. It's not working. >> Is it working yet? >> Okay. How do I make it? >> Okay. Um, good evening Dr. and I board. Thank you for having us tonight to hear about our wonderful campus. We also want to tell you all thank you for coming on Wednesday. We're such a joy to be able to show
004you our campus and to lead you around. So, um, tonight we're going to share a little bit more with you. I am Sandy Ruiz, the principal. We have She's an assistant principal and we have media another assistant principal. Um on the front screen you will see we have our motto for this year and it's together we can together we will we're moving onward and upward. Okay. Um this spring I want to share our academic achievements with you. Uh we are super excited that in the last three years we are moving up and showing growth. Not exactly where we want to be just yet, but we are making gains. Um, as you can see in our student achievement, we've moved up one point every year in closing the gap. We've made significant gains since 2223. Um,
005we have gotten three distinctions that we're super proud of in the last two years. Um, last year, well actually the year before last was our first one that we had ever received. So, we were super proud of that. Um, 23 24 we were an 80 of B campus and so we teeter right there along that B and that is always our goal as a B campus. Last year 2425 we were a 79 which put us at a C. Um but um I feel like we're making really good gains as you can see here. Um so that is our academic achievement. The next one this is a little bit our about Bronner at a glance. Our total enrollment right now is 733. Our capacity at Bronner is 750. So, um, we're pretty good right there. There's
006our total staff members. Uh, economically disadvantaged, we're right at 67% and I believe this was from last year and I have looked this recently and we're right at 70% for this year. Um, one thing I want to point out, we are the dual language campus or one of the dual language campuses and we'll talk about that in just a second. So, 28% of our kiddos Heat. Heat. [Applause] important to our designation. We do have a purple council. Last year we had 27 students. This year we've grown to 25 students. Um last year we retirement to water the road and the point This year we're working in conjunction with the Riley Student Memorial Post 7835 um to try to give more opportunities for our students to learn about the different veterans of the community and um
007we work very hard to make sure that our teachers and staff understand the challenges that our military connected students face. Um they received training coming from the active duty lens coming from retired lens coming from the service members the spouse and of course the student because we all know that service students often are relocated numerous times myself we have 20 years in the army retired and moved to Greenberry. So our children have numerous groups. When we started looking at it, our oldest had 13, our youngest went through seven. So that's moving to different schools, different districts, different states. So we wanted to make sure that our staff understood the types of things that our students are doing. Um, we work very hard to make sure that we bring veteran speakers to our campus, not just
008on Memorial Day, not just on Veterans Day, but other times that they're able to come in for uh, for example, when we bring our our parents to come in, they're able to talk to the kids. So, we want to give them those opportunities so they can have and see them out in a different lens. And that's what we're working towards this coming year. surprise making sure you're awake. [Music] Okay, so talked about earlier we are um a world language campus one way. So all we do for our district way to understand what one way means to do a language program and when you're in a program instead of this program or the exit model and then they got to high school and finish [Music] the way we do that instruction. So math is in English
009and school of arts arts that switches in second grade as well [Music] for the district. up with our people. We actually [Music] two-way program that seems to be changed because [Music] I'm sorry. [Applause] How can you talk about strength for the month with an activity. Um so for example for courage we did water for the firefighters we did second chance farms we did for empathy the bare foundation and then we also collected um soft donations for kind of support that capture this program and you were um introduced to our CKH ambassadors um they were selected by their peers and staff for their leadership qualities. One thing that we do love about them is they exemplify our leadership traits. They lead our morning announcements every morning. Um they're really great about making sure that they have
010their full attention. As a matter of fact, they're the ones that will um stop our kindergarten class by saying, "Okay, kinder, show me hand, show me the sign." And our kinders immediately stop because they're used to our student leaders. Um, what we also love about it is those are the first voices that they hear in the morning is student leadership. And that's something that we love that CKH embodies is bringing our students to the forefront and giving them opportunities to lead by example within the campus. All >> righty. And again, thank you all for your support and um again, we loved having you guys Wednesday. Our kids were so excited to see you in their classrooms and walking the hallways. Um, and just always thank you for your support for everything that you've done for
011us. Do you have any questions for us? >> It was a pleasure. Thank you for opening your doors to us and allowing us to see the amazing things that are happening on your campus. It was truly the highlight of my whole week. >> Absolutely. >> Great. Thank you. If there's if there's any family members in the audience for our student ambassadors, could you also stand and be recognized? >> Yes. [Music] Sorry, we got our rhythm on picture taking. >> That's right. >> I ruined it with birthday. >> You had to have a birthday. Goodness. >> Okay. Next up, we have our community donations presented by Miss Barbara Town. I have the wonderful opportunity to talk about the donations our community have g has given to Granberry ISD just in the last month. Donation from Granberry
012Optimus Club to Emma Robertson campus activities fund for the purchase of car tags for the drop off and pickup lines. $1,500. Donation from MDM Landscaping to Actton Elementary in the form of new landscaping and tree trimming. $12,000. Donation from an anonymous donor to the GMS campus activity account to purchase PE t-shirts. $1,000. Donations from Lauren Brown to the GMS campus activity account to purchase PE t-shirts. $200. donation from pirate crew Billy Martin to the GMS activity campus activity account to fund Saturday school lunches of $500. donation from Wendy's Leticia Rodriguez to the GMS campus activity fund account in the form of Frosties for the staff meeting $279.72 donation from AMS PTO to AMS campus activity fund in the form of microwaves for lunch period $550 donation from Granberry Optimus Club to the GHS Junior Optimus
013Club student activity account for the purchase of Uncrustables for the athletes. $400 donation from Ducks Unlimited Bob Lock to the GHS E mechanics campus activity fund for auction proceeds from the sale of a swing $750. Donation from Lakeside Baptist Grace class to the GHS robotics student activity account in support of the program. $200. Donation from Proad Plus to the GHS robotics student activity account to supplement competition fees $1,000. Donation from Willsteed Holmes, Willsteed to the GISDCT department campus activity account to purchase additional tools, $500. Donation from Constellation Energy to the Special Programs Department campus activity account to purchase additional equipment for the occupational therapy team. $1,500. The total donations for this month from our wonderfully generous community, $20,379.72. If any of you around town see any of these wonderful people or businesses, please tell them
014thank you for their generosity. >> Thank you, Miss Townson. And now moving on to the Shot and Kirk senior of the month presented by Brian Thompson with Shot and Kirk Motors. >> Um Sean Kirk uh Brian has the flew today. So >> thank you for not coming. >> But it is my privilege here to present uh for the child care uh of the month. I do have a little thing I want to read about it. Also, I don't know if you heard her. She was so excited about the uncrustable. She's one of the consumers. >> So, she was very excited. >> So, this um Caroline is our first uh sen senior of the month. She's an exceptional student leader whose character and dedication to service stand out. She's a three-year member of the junior optimist
015club. She's also uh serving uh in SLC student leadership council national honor society and her church worship team. Caroline excels across academics athletics and the arts is varsity choir member. One thing she did she she does when we go to water view is sing to the residents at memory care. >> Oh nice. Um she's a track runner, athletic trainer, and volleyball player. The past summer, she balanced life garden, modeling, and helping with her ants business. Showing strong work ethics and adaptability. Caroline plans to pursue nursing. She's not sure yet where she is going. Maybe Texas A&M or Baylor. Uh she truly represent the best of me High School and is deserving of the senior of the month September. Okay. And if we have any family in the audience, could you please stand and be recognized
016as well? >> Picture for seen in the selfies. Okay, next for our student achievement spotlight, we have Paula Lamberas, one of the top 300 junior innovative innovators nationwide. as we'll be presenting. Good evening school board. Thank you for having us. And we're here with Pawash. She was chosen as one of the 300 top junior innovators. She's like uh we've never had anybody in the history of Institute ever actually getting this honor. She's the only uh student to be chosen from the Fort Worth uh region and uh in order to be able to apply for this job for this for this honor uh she had to be one of the top 10% in all science fairs of the nation. and she earned that spot by being the grand champion at the Fort Worth Regional Science and
017Engineering Fair, which is a great uh accomplishment considering that she did this entirely on her weekends after school. So, this was because she wanted to do it. It was not, you know, because she had to. Um, I'm going to have her tell you a little bit about her research because she's she knows more about Good evening. My name is Paul Ola. Um, again, I'm just going to tell you a little about my research. So, for the past two years, I have worked with zebra fish and their embryos. Um, I focus mainly on fetal development and the effects that vaping has had on it. So, my first year, my very first year, I did just essentially a research based project where I looked at the effects that vaping did have on field development. So, of course,
018as expected, I did see that it was very damaging. Um, in this previous year, I actually looked for a way to help alleviate those effects. So, using spinach and vitamin C, I did actually find a way to alleviate the effects. Um, this project has taken me very far and I'm very honored to be here today. Um, and I've been the grand champion actually two years in a row, which is a very big honor. Um, and I do hope to continue my research and I hope to see you guys here again. It's amazing. Tell me a little bit more about Could you tell me a little more about why you chose spinach and vitamin C? So, um, there is a lot of it's actually called an antioxidant. >> Um, because the cellular like base of all
019this is oxidative stress. So, I did um, actually pinpoint that and that's what I was focusing on this previous year. Um, so I did look at, hey, so what options do I have? And I did try to choose the best ones. Um, I'm not sure if there are any others out there that might have had better effects, but maybe this year that's what I'm going to focus on. So that's amazing. Thank you. >> Sorry, Tim. It's just fine. >> I was going to say, how do you teach those zebra fish to use a bait? >> Yeah, I'm big on that. >> I'm big on that. >> Good idea. And if we have any family in the audience, y'all need to be recognized. >> She's got to get to rehearsal. >> Yeah, go for it. >>
020All right, moving on to the superintendence report. Dr. Moroski. >> Yes, we got a few announcements. Number one, I always like to update you on our enrollment. Um, as of last week, we were at 7,899 students. That is right where we've been for the last um year, year and a half. Um, we've got coffee with the CFO coming up tomorrow if you would like to talk to him at 9:00. He's going to really go over the first report and some of the things that uh are in embedded into that uh process. We also want to say thank you for homecoming week um and the people that were part of that. Number one, Lisa Oliver did a a good job organizing that along with many others um in the school as well. But um afterwards, we
021had our SLC, our student leadership um council, I think is what we called them. And then our our junior optimists go and partner with the city to do the Great Cranberry Cleanup. And so they cleaned up all the stuff and we're so grateful for those two groups for doing that. And then we're also grateful for the Fly Boys from Pon Plantation. If you were there, you saw the fly over with those four planes. Amazing. So grateful for that. Um it was perfectly executed and unforgettable moment at the homecoming. Um also an update on our student view transportation system. We have rolled that out with students. um and they're doing a fantastic job. I watched them scan in um and off the bus the other day and so they're working on that. So parents um be
022on the lookout soon once we get this this roll out started. You'll get a unique number to log in and you can have an app that will update you when your student logs in on the bus, logs off. Um and you'll have those updates from the bus also if it's running late or you'll know where the bus is. So that's a really great thing. Um, we also have our advisory groups that are going to begin soon. We have the parent group starting. As a reminder, we're going to have a parent, a community, a student, and a staff advisory group. Over 130 people applied to beyond those groups. So, we're really excited to get those started. Um, and I'll report back kind of the results of those as they happen. And then last one, we have
023um implementing a lot of legislation right now. And so one of the biggest pieces that we're working on understanding and implementing is Senate Bill 12 has many many parts to it. And so you've heard some of the parts like parents being first at public comments as a portion of that. There's other portions that are um getting consent for um all kinds of different services. So bear with us as we get information from the state tea um and roll out some of these things. But you'll start to notice that it is coming in chunks and in fact next month I believe we'll have a big packet of legal updates um legal policy updates coming for you guys to look at and that will be one of them in there. So um lots of things to think
024about for new legislation and like I said we are um getting it done in chunks and you'll see that coming through especially parents and that is it for my superintendent report. I keep talking to this but I never turned it on. >> Well it didn't work. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. >> All right. Thank you Dr. Rossi. Uh next up we have public comments. Uh before we go into that, I do want to clarify one thing that um I've heard from the community and I've gotten lots of questions about. Um any person who's running for an elected position, if they're a candidate, they can announce that they are a candidate for a position. It's just part of identifying themselves. Uh so when you hear that in public comments, that's perfectly fine and acceptable to identify
025yourself as a candidate for a certain position. Uh tonight we only had one uh community member sign up for public comments. That's Monica Brown. Um and she will be speak she wants to speak on uh some closed session items, central appraisal district nominations, academic update and financial statements. >> No, that they're not working. They'll still they can still hear you online. These just aren't working in here. The mic start to speak. >> Any start in honor of the man who's down this week. Thank you so much and thank you Trusty Bolton for your pleasure tonight. Appreciate that. I'm here for accountability and transparency. So the one thing I wanted to bring up is the 86 acres. I noticed a price drop since July 17th by $750,000. I don't know why and I was wondering if
026you could explain that if you will. Um, someone asked me to ask why use a number on some land sales but not on others because even a small percentage of huge amount of money to the district. So will you sell properties owned by GSD for market rate or even less for the district as a whole can benefit from those funds rather than give them away? And I don't need to bring up the big one but you know that's been on our minds about giving away property but I would like to um see you be very very transparent and confident about that. Um, also on donations received, that was fantastic. Last time I heard the lady from active elementary name Reynolds, I believe is her name, mentioned that $12,000 uh landscaping. So, I'm saying if she
027can do that, that school can do that. What else could the community do to help the schools without doing the bond to upgrade and fix and things like that? Landscaping, tree trimming, and all that. And then appraisal appointment, you'll be appointing people to Johnson County and also to county and to county appraisal districts. And I just pray that you'll take it very seriously and hire not hire but suggest people who are very strong and fiscally conservative because we have major issues with appraisal district here in Granberry and would love to see audits, audits, just accountability and maybe just clarity on who it is you're putting in those positions because it doesn't look good. Um, also blue and math is a great move in a great direction to improve math scores. I'm so grateful for that.
028I would like to understand when you would use the London ELA as well with you as a key intention and then I was curious about the money that was saved on the insurance policy and also the 16 $1 million that was was returned to us. What are you going to do? I want to know. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Brown. And just to clarify, we can't answer questions during public comment, but when we get to that item, if there's something we can elaborate on, we definitely uh try to be intentional about that. >> Okay. Next up, we have consider action on items discussed in closed session. First one is to approve staff recommendations. Do I have a motion? Madame President, I move that we accept the staff recommendations presented to us in close session.
029Do I have a second? >> Do I have any further discussion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor and one being absent. Mrs. Lowry. Okay. Okay, next item up for uh items discussed in close session was the possible action including adoption of a resolution to approve the sale of real property surface only described as 86 acres more or less of unimproved property in Hood County described block 1 R1 block 2 Actton Middle School addition located at 1301 James Roadberry Texas 76049. Do I have a motion? have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> And what is is your motion to approve? Like you didn't say what your motion was. >> Yeah. So I I was going to
030let you uh I was going to let you get a second on that. It's longwinded and I'm sorry for that, but >> Well, I need I need to know what your motion is first before I can take the second. >> Yeah. Fair enough. >> Motion to for the to approve the resolution. >> All right. I'm sorry. >> Okay. And then a second by Mr. Moore. >> But I'll give you the res Oh, you don't the resolution yet? >> Not yet. Okay. So, I have a a motion to approve the resolution by Mr. Bolton, a second by Mr. Moore. Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none, Mr. Bolton, the floor is yours. >> Okay, take your seats. Uh be it resolved on February 20th of 2023, the board of trustees determined that the real property consisting of
03186 acres more or less of unimproved property in Hood County described as lot 1 R1 block 2 active middle school edition located at 1301 James Road in Granary, Texas 76049 as the property is surplus and not necessary to meet the current and foreseeable needs of the district for educational purpose. Uh second, be it resolved that the board authorized administration to advertise the property for sale by sealed bids pursuant to section 272.001 of Texas Local Government Code. It resolved that the district received a sealed bid, a single sealed bid from Locka Development LLC, a Texas limited liability company. here after referred to as the buyer. Be it resolved that the board of trustees accepts and approves the bid received from that buyer. Be it resolved that the board authorizes the superintendent to negotiate and execute the
032contract, amendments to that contract, and other documents necessary to affect the conveyance conveyance of the property with the exception of the deed. Be it resolved that the board authorizes the board president, if the terms of the contract are satisfied, to ultimately execute that deal. Be it resolved that the school district administration is hereby authorized to take any and all appropriate action to accomplish and effectuate the purposes of this resolution. Thank you. >> Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Right. Let the record show that is six in favor and Miss Lowry is absent. Okay, moving on to the consent agenda items. Do I have any items that anyone needs to pull? Okay, hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items? Madame President, I move that we approve the consent consent
033agenda items as uh recommended by the administration. Okay. Do I have a second to second? And I have a second by Miss Townson. Any further discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor? Raise your hand. >> Okay. Let the record show that is six in favor and one being absent. Mrs. flowering. Okay. Next on our agenda is to discuss or take action on the campus improvement plans. I guess we we just approve them. We don't really take action on these, but uh Miss Tammy Clark. Okay. I'm excited to bring you the campus improvement plans um this month. our um administration on each campus have been working very very hard to um put the plans in place um based on what their results were um from last year and taking into consideration what our um refined strategic
034plan. We kept the strategic plan goals um and you all met in the summertime to refine them and put them in a in a more succinct um format. and we have formatted all of our campus improvement plans and you'll see next month our district improvement plan after that. So we are all inspiring excellence and rowing in the same direction. So the purpose of this meeting is to inform you how um the campus principles determine campus needs and then what the focus of the campus improvement plan which is um different for every single campus but all of them aligning with the strategic plan and um and we're also here because um Texas Education Code and our legal policy require it. So um and require your approval of these plans. It's important to know that a campus
035improvement plan is a cyclical um strategic process that uh continues year after year. So I started with the campus needs assessment because that's where everything starts and that starts off in June and that's to inform the campus um of what they need to be focusing on because of strengths and weaknesses. They are assessing all of the things. We'll get into that a little bit more in a second. Um, and then align what their focus points are going to be based on the strategic plan goals. Then they move into July and August where they're getting their campus improvement plan design. They they come up with some different things. They throw it out to their campus leadership team and then they plan a campus roll out of that plan so that everyone on their campus is informed
036of what their focus points are. Then here we are in September where we are now presentation to the board for approval and um then we'll move into our formative reviews. Um through our process there's a review in November, February and April for each one of their strategies. So they look at every single strategy that they named in their improvement plan during those times and they try to evaluate how have we made progress in the amount of time that we've had. Do we need are we are there some data points that show that we need to correct course right or do something different and it is a living document so they can make some diff some changes if they need to. And then from March to June, that's a long time that there's a lot of
037data that we that goes into a campus needs assessment. We get our we get all of the end ofear data to put together to have another campus needs assessment for the following year. And the cycle continues for continuous improvement. So campus needs assessment is data driven. And I know when everyone hears me talk about data because I stand up here for taper so much, usually people are thinking that it's going to be achievement data. And yes, achievement data and growth data go into that. But you all have overarching goals for a lot more than just our student achievement. It is our main focus of school of course, but we also have human capital data, our community connection data, all of the things that align with the four overarching goals that are set forth in our
038strategic plan. and of course the projected budget needs. Um other than star achievement and star growth and student data, we also use our intervention data. Every single campus is tracking how interventions are going with their students who are needing to make the most growth to catch up with their peers. So that's considered in there and other common assessment data. On human capital data, you can obviously look at retention rates, surveys, exit surveys, and state interviews, and then evaluations of all of our staff. That goes into the human capital data piece that is considered. For budgetary needs, um we usually talk about staffing needs, special project needs, and you know, facilities needs of course, and see what we can do there. And then on community connection data, it's not just the surveys, but participation and attendance
039for all of their community connection nights and things like that. And then feedback from those family events, surveys after the fact, or just anecdotal um comments to the to the staff if something went well or if something can improve on those family connection nights. So that's the community and connection data that gets all thrown in to do a campus needs assessment. So, we begin projected staffing and budgeting in March and April. Um, that's our timeline for starting the next year's planning um with our campus principles. And then at the end of May, we get all of the end ofear numerical data and all of the survey data for end of year. And that's what our campus principles work very hard looking at in June to see where they are strong and where they need to
040maybe improve and give some attention to next year. So the first goal shouldn't be a a shock to anyone because it's going to be the same for every single campus and for our district. Campus students will demonstrate or exceed grade level proficiency and be equipped with individual future ready skills. That first column is how you guys have um kind of separated out the four objectives. Those are going to be the same for all of our campuses and our district. And then I put some strategy examples that are used on a lot of our campuses. Not everybody uses everything, but I put some of the examples that you could go um that are in our campus improvement plans that you will see either on their one pagers that you were included in your board printed packet
041or deeper into the really thick one that we did not print but is online for you. It's in the board book and they will be presented online um after you okay them today. we will put them out online tomorrow. So for academic growth and achievement, we definitely make use of instructional specialists everywhere that we can. Some people use their intervention and tutoring time differently and um enrichment time sometimes during that same intervention time based on what students are needing. For CCMR, for a lot of people, it's career day. That's mostly our secondary schools, right? So, college visits, but some of our elementary schools go on college visits, but um TSIA is our big push right now for our secondary for our high school because that is going to help our CCMR probably the most. Um
042safety and well-being, CKH is a huge initiative for that purpose and it is doing very very well. student celebrations for everything, safety, our mandatory drills and our audits that are um coming down from the state and have been here for quite the intruder ones that we've had for a few years and the DVAs that are coming um this November. And then all of our community connections that we have. And then student involvement is our extracurricular clubs, our um our interest surveys, our incentives, giving the students leadership roles like the CKH leadership roles, trying to get every single kid plugged in somewhere somehow to their school. Number two is really where we focus on our human capital. campus staff will be highly effective, well supported, and valued personally and professionally. Again, those three objectives are the
043three that you all came up with this um summer. It was based on what the district strategic plan did a few years ago when we made it um together with the community, but um we pulled out the different pieces so that we could be very very um specific on the strategies that hit every single overarching objective. So for recruitment, we partner with our Charlton teacher um interns and they are fabulous and we try to hire them if we can. We have a grow your own um program. Uh we have a fabulous job fair that has been going strong for a couple of years now and we are in our first year of getting data for TIA for retention u mentor program. we rolled out a district-wide mentor program um that is going to be the
044same. So no matter what campus somebody is a new teacher at, they are going to have the same type of mentorship. Um before it was very campus centric and uh Wes and his team along with Maggie Walton worked very hard to come up with that. Um and have new teacher meetings and those types of things. And then for training and development, a lot of that goes to our teaching and learning department and our instructional coaching with our IS's and our administrative team that works very very hard on those things. So um that's human capital. Granberry culture is our third overarching goal. Campus students, staff, families, and communities will be connected, supported, respected, and value the educational experience. So we separated those into student and family culture, staff culture and then our community relationships and transparency.
045So you can see the strategies and I think that if you are on Facebook or if you are on Remind on any of these campuses or if you get their weekly newsletters, you know that communication with everyone is a huge push for every single campus principal. making sure that everyone on campus knows what's going on, who is being recognized, all all sorts of information out in the um in the community. We also have a lot of um events, family events that give them an opportunity to connect as a family to the campus. And then all of us have purple, all 10 campuses have purple star activities that are going on to have military connectedness for staff culture. Um we're really p pushing into those staff surveys, trying to do some staff spotlights. We're seeing some
046of those um celebrating their birthdays for example and giving them leadership opportunities um within campus leadership team, district leadership team and LEAP Academy and things like that. And then community relationships and transparency. We try to bring a lot of um community partners in and um have them as speakers, have them as evaluators for fish tank uh shark tanks or whatever. And um there's lots of opportunities for people to plug in um to our schools. And then our fourth one is facility and financial stewardship. Campuses will be wellmaintained, secure, and prepared for future growth. Um a lot of that lies at the district level to be honest. Um the things that the campuses came up with for um for this these objectives are part of their safety audits, part of their safety trainings, monitoring their um
047enrollment data, monitoring their transfers. Um most of them participate in the long range planning process. As far as alternative re revenue sources, everyone looks out for local business supports and community connections and GEF grants, which is where our little green section comes from every single month. So, um, that stone is never left unturned for any of our campuses. So, um, what to expect from here? Well, in November, February, and April, um these campuses will get together and do their formative checkpoints on all of those um strategies, okay, that they are leaning into to make those objectives um be met. And then, um they can modify it as needed. I told you it was a living document. If in during those checkpoints they think that they need to pivot, they will because um there's no use
048in continuing something that's not working if you already know in November. And it's a continuous process. So when we get back to the spring, we'll be g gathering all that data one more time and then um doing another campus needs assessment so that they can get another plan to find the focal points for next year. So if you have any questions about the campus improvement plans, I don't know if it's a question so much as maybe you can help explain that because we're everything in purple. That purple star program is not our program. you just participated. >> Correct. That purple star program is not Granberry Purple. Purple Star designation comes from the state of Texas and it is for military connected families. And so there are um different things that you have to do. Uh
049we are going to participate in the program always. Um sometimes we'll get the designation. It's an every other year designation anyway. Um but um there's some different things that you have to do. You have to have school ambassadors for example. You have to participate in month of the military child in April. You need to do some things for um military uh appreciation around Veterans Day. So those are the haveto's. We go above and beyond. Um I think that Julie Sellers sold herself a little bit short because she absolutely connects. She has had and Miss Townsen um participated not last year but the year before in placing um >> flags at the at the cemetery for all of the veterans that were there. Those types of um events that honor our our um our veterans and
050honor our military families. They're always looking for ways to connect that way. And so they have to amass some um data and and submit it. and you're either chosen or you're not. And um and then and there you go. But we will always be doing our Purple Star activities. It's pretty close to my heart, too, for I hope obvious reasons if you know me and and my husband and his background. So, um that's something that is that Granberry didn't always do. >> Thank you. >> Yes, you're welcome. >> Thank you. And and I'm just want to say we're so grateful for all the hard work and effort that goes into these campus improvement plans and everything that you and our admin do and our teachers and staff do to ensure the fidelity of the plan
051is quality for for our kids. So thank you. >> Yes, big big shout out to your campus principles and to the teaching and learning department. Um it's a huge collective effort to make sure that everyone's driving in the same direction and >> and that was really very obvious when I was going through all the different plans that I could definitely you know go to goal one on each one of the sheets and it was the same goal put in the same format and it was very very helpful. So they did a great job. >> Thank you so much. >> Anything else? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the campus improvement funds? >> So moved, Madam President. >> I have a motion by Mr. Moore. Do I have a second?
052Second and a second by Miss Alana. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor? Raise your hand. Let the record show that's six in favor and one absent, Mr. Okay. Next is to discuss and take possible action to nominate people for the Parker County Central Appraisal District Board. Dr. Morowski. >> Okay. Wonderful. >> That's you. >> So, uh, we did have one nomination. If you don't mind clicking on the last link that says BOD resolution director nomination. We did ask board members to send us names, uh, to nominate. I received one name for this county and it is John Corpal. As a reminder, um both of these counties, in one county, we have uh five votes. I believe Parker, we have six votes out of about 2,000. And the next one we have about five
053votes out of 2,000. So little say, but we want to make sure and give you guys a chance to discuss and and put anybody on here that you would like to, but we have one named John Corpal right now. >> Yes. And yeah, so our vote isn't going to be the determining factor because it's such a small percentage, but we still get a vote. So, >> right. Yeah. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve John Corpal for the Parker I'm sorry the yes Bark Park Parker County Central Appraisal District Board. >> How many votes do we have? >> This one is five uh six votes out of 2000. And actually we're nominating at this point and then we will vote later like the actual vote comes >> approve the nomination of >> we're
054voting to nominate >> to nominate. >> Yes. >> Okay. Okay. So, I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to approve the nomination of John Corpal to the Parker County Central Appraisal District Board. Do I have a second? Also, I have a second by Miss Alana. Any further discussion? >> So, then this will go in and then later we will get a list of the candidates and actual vote. >> Yes. No. >> Okay. influence. >> You bet. Yeah. >> All right. Any further questions or discussion? Okay. Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. Okay. Let the record show that is six in favor and one absent. Mrs. Lowry. Okay. Next item is to dis discuss and take possible action to nominate people for the Johnson County Central Appraisal Board. Dr. Courtney Mor. >> Yes. So,
055we did not have any board members turn in a nomination for a name yet on this um item. So, we can take a name here and discuss. Does anybody want to nominate someone from the floor? Okay. Hearing none, then we would take no action on this item. Correct. Okay, moving on to the reports. Uh, first up is our strategic plan priority to human capital, Mr. West Jones. >> Just move it out of the way. >> Jones, we did. >> Yes. >> No, action. >> Thank you, Madam President, and the board. Um, you know, recruiting and and uh obtaining teachers in our district and staff in our district is much easier because we have a supportive board. We've got a great administration. We got great principles, got great facilities, and a supportive culture teacher resident program.
056We started this program 5 years ago with Charleston Charleston State and um at the time with this grant we were able to pay them $20,000 each and it was really really a paradigm shift in the way because teacher resident program is really student teachers and so uh we partnered with Charlton uh in the beginning and they were kind of the leader across the state in this program and we were fortunate enough to get in and um They uh these teachers unlike student teachers they observe for about a month and then they teach for about 12 weeks. Well, in the teacher resident program, they teach from the first day to the last day, which is a huge change and uh prepares these teachers so much better. And u as you can see, we've hired seven of
057the 18 uh residents this last year and that's we were usually about 50% in the last four or five years. Uh but uh they um they're all great teachers and they want we wanted more but they u usually go back to their home uh district is where they want to go. the GIS job fair. We started that two years ago and that has been well attended. Uh big success and we hire over 25 employees every year from this and so it's been a it's been a very big success for us. The international teachers we partnered this year with IHG for uh uh teachers uh because of hard to fill positions and this year we hired three teachers. two at Bakus for bilingual and one at AMS uh for Spanish. Uh the alternative certification program is
058uh we hire we've had 20% of our new teachers are certified through the alternative program and that's 50% across the state. Uh district of innovation we are able to hire employees with real world experience. Uh, as you know in our CT department, uh, we've had two teachers, regional teachers of the year. So, that just speaks to the program. Uh, Ryan, uh, Payne and Michael Boch. Uh, the substitute program. Uh, we have 160 active substitutes right now. This is a great pipeline because we use this program to hire many of our full-time employees for the year. So over 25 employees for full-time work uh that we steal kind of from that substitute pool for the retention uh competitive pay. Uh the board passed a Vader in 2023 which was a huge help. Uh it made us
059one of the highest paying districts locally and really competitive at the DFW area too. And then House Bill 2 this year provided significant raises overall. Uh the Texas Incentive Aotment TIA rewards highly effective teachers. Uh currently we have seven teachers that are designated for TI TIA. Next year we're in a data capture year this year with TIA and so next year we will 187 teachers will be eligible for TIA which is exciting. uh little buck Buccaneers uh child daycare. Um big success. Um I know of three teachers that stayed at GISD because of this program and what it does and uh they do a great job out there and there's a waiting list and hopefully in the future we can open up another residence too soon. Our health insurance contributions uh $378 is uh very
060competitive and one of the highest in the area. uh retention rate of teachers is 85% right now. Um before COVID it was about 88%. Uh but during CO it was about 82%. So we're getting back to that 88% hopefully. But uh we retain a lot of our teachers. And then the mentor program, I think uh Tammy talked about that and and a change that uh Maggie uh Walton had done chairing that committee. she uh did a lot of work on that. Our whole competi committee did a lot of work on that. But uh that's a a consistent across the district uh mentoring program that uh is going to be evaluated by the mentor and the and the and the mentee each month and then at semester there's a survey and then the full year there's
061a survey. So uh that's going to help us in our retention. And then we always recognize our employees at our awards banquet or like we did at convocation. Uh and then we cut we uh have a customer care program that y'all see every when we meet with the campuses uh that does a good job and we always try to continue our uh community partnerships with Are there any questions? Thank you for everything that your department has done um with our teachers and the residency program and job fairs and it's it's been amazing to see the positive things coming out of all of that. >> Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next up we have academic update on our uh blue bonnet parent portal, Miss Stacy Brown. or I'm sorry. She had a an unexpected day not
062being here. So, Carla, step in. >> Thank you, Carla. >> She has a clue that's going around. >> I hope not. >> Good evening, trust me. The state of Texas has provided a parent portal for parents to view all components of the blue blue bonnet learning product. Tonight, I will briefly remind everyone about what Blue Bonnet learning path is and how to access the parent portal. I'll just tell you if that's so uh blue learning math is a state developed HQIM and that's a highly qualified instructional material. Uh it was it's fully aligned with our TICSS and the ELTS and that's the English language proficiency standards. Uh it was approved by TEA and the state board of education uh through the IMRA process which is the instructional materials review uh and approval. Uh it is
063a tier one material which means it's used for all students for kindergarten through fifth math uh in secondary mathematics grades 6 through 8 and algebra 1. It's researchbased. It's built on solid foundations, rigorous and enhanced with Texas specific improvements. Um, it builds on deep conceptual understanding rather than just wrote memorization. And you guys, a lot of you got to see that in action at Broad this week. So, that was really pretty pretty cool. Um the next slide, um this information that's on this slide that you see will be going out tomorrow to all parents in the morning and uh it'll be sent out by our communications director, Ryan Cox. Uh once they get this uh email, they can click on the link or the QR code and go into the material section, select the grade
064level, and they can see all sorts of things. the teachers editions, student workbooks, the scope and sequence guides, slide presentations, and lots of videos. I know parents as as a parent, I always wanted to see something to uh have an example so I could help u my students. So, there's those videos there that will be very helpful. Uh the teaching and learning department has also offered uh to come to campus parent meetings. Uh so principles know that if they have an upcoming uh parent meeting or program and they want our department to come and speak to their parents to learn how to dive deeper into that portal that we are available to do that. Um so that is the parent portal information. Do y'all have any questions? I just want to say one thing is
065um this is going to be on our website as well is there access on our website to this. We want to make sure that parents partner with us on this new journey. Um we know that learning this new way of thinking about math may be a little challenging at home and so we wanted to make sure and stand in front of you guys if you hear anything and and be able to direct parents to a place to get help. So we appreciate you presenting that information to help our our parents. Thank you. >> Yeah. So thank you for making yourselves available to the campuses in any meetings that they might have. It's it's uh very much appreciated. >> Absolutely. Yes, sir. >> Also, it's a new way of doing math. It's not new math two
066and two and so forth. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you. And then also, there was a question earlier about um about maybe we're on we're on the math program now. And is ELA coming? >> Okay, that's a good question. So, earlier you uh approved theou for the planning for the RLA um with the grant for the strong foundations. We are going to be looking uh we're going through the researchbased instructional strategies for ROA. That's a huge component of that grant. And then we'll also be looking at all of the highly qualified in highly qualified instructional material HQM that have been approved by the state in the RLA area and we'll pull in teachers. We'll go through those. We'll have the whatever the teachers and our committee selects, we'll have out to the community and
067um parents to be able to look at and see. So, we'll be going through that whole process. I can't tell you necessarily if we're going to pick who we want RA, but that's one of the choices, >> right? The whole process is what I want to do that too. So, I know that you want to tell us that it's a heavy lift and doing all of that all at once would kill everyone. >> Oh, absolutely. We've already had lots of teachers thank us for not adopting to things this this this year. So, >> thank you. Thank you. Okay, moving on. The next item is our procurement calendar update. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Thank you, Madam President. Board of you, you do have our procurement calendar. This is a new process we're going to bring to
068you at our monthly board meeting to keep you updated. >> And I want to stop you out there. I want to make sure and know um what he's about to present to you is a followup from a directive from the board in February. So, he's going to I want to make sure and close this loop that you guys ask us to go out for a bid for an auditor and he's going to explain that process. Um, but I want to make sure our PNG knows and the board knows that this is a direct response to the request. We won't always bring forth all of our RFQS, but this is an important one that we want to make sure that you had uh closure to that request back in February. So, now take it over, sir.
069>> Yeah, you won't receive every RFQ to you. We will bring you a calendar and show you the ones that we have out there. it just won't be as indeed because you did have the uh the summary of the included in your package. Um it's just going to help keep you informed of our process, our calendar, what we're doing, and kind of timelines. Um this RFQ did go out. Um it went out through way. Um there were 146 vendors that it went out to. Only 19 of those are qualified. Um but it it went out to everybody in our own way. Um, we did go through and pull the uh, TEA listing of CPA firms that are qualified to do audits for school districts. And we pulled the ones from region 11 and we did
070send out those include like the why bands, the hen stuffs, the snow gars and the tidwells. So we sent those out. So not qualified CPA firm receive this bid and have an opportunity to bid on it. Um there were some things that we added to the RFQ that are specific to our district and um you have a chance to look at those under timelines and deliverables. That's what we talked about in those sessions around February. We wanted our um our interim field audit to be in June. And then we wanted our final field audit to be in October because we want to have our at least our draft audit a couple weeks before the December board meeting. So we can go through that with the committee where this is at least three board members. Um
071and then we will have the chance to go through our our journal entry to be sure that we agreed with all of those and they could explain them to us as well. And then we want to be have be able to have that final present to you at the December meeting. And so it would be ready to submit TDA on a timeline that would uh be in a the timeline with our first report and that is the report on your procurement. If you have any questions, we can answer those for you. >> Thank you, Mr. Whitefield. I appreciate the uh the transparency and the clarity and information. And I do want to share if you can pull up the website where our community can go to look at these items. We want to make sure
072that you know these are on our website. If you go to.org departments, it's on the screen. Finance business. When you click on that to the right hand side, you'll see lots of options. We're going to go into the purchasing vendor uh link, which is right there. And then as you scroll down, you'll see that there's um several things, but the one that we're going to click on right now is current bid opportunities. It takes you to our online portal for vendors. We can't click all the way through it because I'm not a vendor right now, but you can see that right now our audit services is on here and vendors may click on that and get all their information. Also, there's a doughnut store bid. So, if you're interested in bidding on that, you can
073have it. Um vendors do register for this site and he talked about sending out notices. Um that's what happens when we create um some kind of request in here. it sends out a notification to all of the vendors associated with this and if they're interested they get a chance to do that and then also soliciting was another opportunity that was taken advantage of for other members. So just want to make sure our community knew where those were found on our website. >> Thank you Dr. Rosski. Any questions? Okay, moving on. Next item up is our financial statements for period ending on August 31st, 2025. Mr. EMTT White. >> Thank you, Madam President. board preview, you do have the financials for August 31st. This is a transaction between September 1st, 2024 and August 31st, 2025. The
074revenue collected today equals 98.71% of the budgeted amount as compared to 98.29% in the 23 244 year. The expenditures today represent 95.94% of the budget as compared to 94.45% in the 23 24 year. This is this will change a bit when the audit comes in. There are some acral entries that still need to be made. We are working through those um doing our part and then when auditors get here they will have some they do as well. But we have it pretty much shored up. If you look at the bottom line there under actuals you'll see that we're showing a 16.3 million almost 16.4 million profit. We know that has to do with the $16.8 million that you received from the state that we believe is an error. So, we do have an investment account
075and it'll be in the next report to be able to see where we have that those investments split up. Um, if you look at that, we did amend the budget early on in the year to do buses and Hbacks and we did amend that at $2.2 million. You can see that we're only going to recognize about $500,000 of that loss and that's due to coming in under budget on some certain things and then, you know, we get to a place where we we are very conservative in the way we spend towards the end of the year and that has effect on that too. And when we come to you next, we'll be bringing those same monies to you again to do more buses and more at least that projects possible inevitably will. And then we'll
076bring those to you in October and we'll have those. >> Thank you. And we've been talking about that 16 million for a few board meetings now >> because we're just we're waiting. >> They're going to come and get it in their office. >> Right. Right. >> But until then, we're going to have an investment account and we're not going to let it sit there and be a we're going to let it work for us. earn some interest, right? Thank you. Appreciate that. Um, any further questions for Mr. White? >> Okay, moving on. Next item is our cash flow and investment report for the period ending August 31st, 2025. Mr. Black, >> thank you, Madam President. Boards in front of you do have our investments and this will be the 12th month of investment. You may
077be able to see that down there that we have over the year collected $2.9 million of interest on our investments and that includes that $16.8 million. The majority of our investments are in the two uh two well one full investment and then one first financial bank account over on the far right side. That is where the majority of our money is actually in October we will bring our investment um policy to you for approval and everybody that we can invest with there will be a new one on that and I his uh interest rates just today was 4.49 which ranks right up there with the two that we are in right now. So when I bring that to you that will give us the opportunity to invest with him as well. Um but we can't
078do it without your approval. So in October we will bring the investment policy. Uh last year in August we had uh 2.7 million in interest. You see we're 2.9 this year. So we did do a little bit better this year in somebody $16 million. >> Just let me hold it. >> Yeah. Just let me hold it. That's all I want. Yes. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions or comments? >> Hearing none. And with no further business, this meeting is Do you have a question? >> Yes. Thank you for Okay. With no further business, the time is now 7:12 p.m. This meeting is a journ. >> Good job. [Music]