Granbury ISD Budget Workshop and Board Meeting - July 21, 2025

001All right, we're going to go ahead and get started for the sake of time and we'll assume that Courtney Gore will be here shortly. So, the time is now, we'll go by my clock, 4:04 p.m. I call this meeting of the Grandberry Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. At this time, we will go into our budget workshop with our presenter, Emtt Whitefield, chief financial officer. Thank you, Madame Vice President. Um board, you do have in front of you your board work uh board workshop book. Um and there are copies in the back for people in

002the audience. Uh the first section of it is going to have our first uh PowerPoint and the second section is going to have your second PowerPoint. We're going to go through two this time. Sorry. Okay. Um, the third section is going to be your general operating budget. And then the fourth section is going to be your debt service budget. The fifth section is your child nutrition budget. And then there'll be a fund balance analysis under six. And then under seven says miscellaneous supporting documentation. That's going to be your budget calendar that we've gone over a few times, but it's in there for your to have as well. Um, so we're going to start with the first one. The first budget uh uh PowerPoint that we're going to go over is one that we've normally just

003bypassed. You've had a copy of it. Just gives you the budget development process and your responsibilities as a board and our responsibilities as an admin team, but we're going to go through it today for for the new people on the board. So, they'll have that and um we'll go through that right now. So, it's going to talk about the first thing we're going to talk about is C legal and it also addresses Texas Education Code 44.02. This is basically says that the superintendent is going to cause to is going to cause a budget to be created or create the budgets which means she's going to ask me to create that budget. So that's what C legal does. Then we move into C local. C local says that the superintendent that the budget planning is an

004integral part of the overall program for the planning for general educational goals, specific program goals and alternatives to reach those goals. And it also talks about district level or campus level planning and district level planning. So we'll have we'll talk about those a few things in there as well so that we meet board policy expenditures that you're going to be looking at tonight are going to be in the three funds that are listed on this page. It's going to be your general operating fund, your child nutrition fund, and your debt service fund. This is what the FA uh we call it the Fazreg, but it's a financial accountability resource guide says that you're responsible for adopting these three budgets at the function level. And we'll talk a little bit more about that as we go

005along as well. C legal also talks about that your your responsibilities as a board is to review, prioritize, revise proposed budgets submitted by the superintendent and the staff in work in workshops and working sessions. So that'd be at all your board meetings. You call a public meeting to adopt the the budget. And then you have you also publish a notice. You don't know you publish a notice, but we make sure that it gets done. The board shall adopt a budget that's going to cover all the expenses for the the following year and set the tax rate that will cover that budget. Okay? We'll talk a little bit about that when we get into that when we start talking about maximum compressed tax rates or where we're going to be in that situation. And it also

006talks about that you are allowed to amend the budget and we know we do that at every board meeting. We bring you an amendment that allows us to amend that budget at the function level. So the budget process for this this p this coming year um in February of 2025 the parameters were set by the superintendent and the chief financial officer. Now Dr. Moraski had been here a whole month so she know she remembers that I'm sure. Um and then we we established student teacher ratios and then we the allocations for the campuses and departments were uh uh set at that time. Um we presented those assumptions to you at the February 17th board meeting. Um the allocations were consistent with prior year with some increases in um state funding that u for uh specific

007programs the GT and those kind of things that were required by the law. Um any positions that were vacated or reviewed by the superintendent decide if they need to be kept or if they didn't need need anymore. Um we also said that the uh property values were going to increase but there's 2.5% cap on that. So, we have to deal with those things as well. And then the recapture would stay pretty steady as compared to this year. Now, we're going to talk about that a little bit in a minute when we get into the next uh PowerPoint because then we'll start talking about the budget itself. And right now with the preliminary values, it doesn't have the $140,000 homestead exemption in it. And I won't have those until the 25th of this month, which is

008in a couple of days. So, I did a little calculation kind of my own doing it. And I we'll talk about that how that affected the the budget and I'll let you know how that looks like it's going to play out but we won't know for sure for a couple more days. And then um we are projecting student um enrollment to grow a little bit. That was on the 17th at your board meeting. On the 19th of February we disseminated distributed uh packets to uh the principles and the directors. There was a per pupil allocation based on a PES report that I pulled and I rolled all that data up into the next school year and then made an estimate on prek and kindergarten classes to the best of our knowledge and that's where we

009came up with the enrollment that we're going to use for this budgeting process. All the central office budgets didn't increase. They stayed the same. However, we know that we've amended the budget for fuel. We've amended it for utilities. Those kind of things. And there's another aotment in this new 89th legislature that allowed us to increase those things. And we we did put those monies in there. We didn't increase the maintenancees allocation or transportation's allocations, but we put them in a fuel account and a utility account that we'll have there based on past needs historical. So we'll know how how we're going to use those things. So during the time period of February and March, principles were to meet with their staff and their departments and um directors will meet with their staff and their departments

010and go through what they would what their budget maybe their needs and what their wants would be and just they would develop their budgets in those campuses or departments and they would input those into Skyward by April 15th. I use that date so it's easy for everybody to remember. It's tax day. have your budget in by the time we also use that as our purchasing cuto off for campuses. So they know they got that timeline there and they know when it's coming. Um they were back they had to be submitted into the budget and into Skyward and the budget work should turn into me with their signature on it. So I know their working papers so when I would go back and check allocations I knew so I would kind of know what they were

011thinking when they put their budget in. So if it was off a little bit I could go and figure it out and fix it without having to go back to the campus. This next sheet here kind of tells what we've done in raises in the past. And if you read through it, I'm not going to read through every one of these, but it basically is about a 1,700 $1,800 raise per teacher per year. And that's based on like a 20-year teacher at 3%. You can go through there, you can see that's pretty much the average we did all the way through there. Um, then you get down to the uh 23 actually the 22 23 year and that's when we passed the BATRE, which gave us the extra 12 cents on the five building pennies

012that we already had. So, there's about a 13% overall year-to-year raise for teachers at that point. And anybody below an admin level got that same 13% raise. Then you move to the next uh line down there and that would have been this year. And we didn't give any raises cuz I felt like well we felt like we were riding that same 13% out and there was no more funding in this year for this bianium. Now the new bianium we're going to get some more funding and we'll talk about that in the next slideshow about how those things are going to be done and it's down here in this last section. and talk about HB2 and the statutory raises and we'll talk about that a little bit. Um teachers are going to get based on our

013enrollment they're going to get for a zero to two-year teacher the state did not allocate any funds but in the budget that you're going to see and then also later on in the compensation package you're going to see that the zero to two-year teacher got about a $1,000 raise in that that uh category. The three to fouryear teacher is going to get a $2,500 raise. Now, that's a you've completed that 3 to four year to get that $2,500 raise as opposed to your your salary the year before. So, it would be for a three-year teacher, it would be their two-year salary based with a $2,500 increase to that. So, which is more than the other raises we've given in the past. Fiveyear plus gets $5,000 and that's a statutory requirement that we had on that.

014We also have um they call it the uh I'm going to I'm going to mess it up before I say it. Um there were raises given for uh non-teers for anybody that was not a campus administrator or a central uh office administrator. So there's a little bit of money in there and that's what that 3% is going to come up with. And it came out to I want to say if we did the numbers about 200 $250,000 that we were receiving from the state and the raises for uh our clerk and professional and our auxiliary cost us around $400,000. So we split all that. Those are about what we predicted. Yeah. Okay. So, you can see on those raises kind that's kind of a historical page there to kind of tell you what we've done

015and what we're going to be presenting to you in this budget and then we'll go into that a little bit more depth during the meeting tonight. Um revenue projections were reviewed with preliminary tax values that we received in April. Um we use a current collection rate of 99% and a student growth of 2% which is about 164 students just just for our budgeting purposes. And then um we're always uh looking for different revenue sources and we are going to be a chapter 49 status district again which means we pay recapture and like I said we'll talk about that a little bit when we talk about the $140,000 homestead exemption and how that's going to affect us and everything on that. The revenues that we look for are our local revenues which include property taxes, our

016interest income, enterprising income and our other miscellaneous incomes. Our state revenues are tier one and tier two and then our TRS on behalf which is really a booking entry but it's required by the state and then other state revenues that we use and then federal revenues are indirect revenue from federal programs our charge our MAC and our JOTC revenues now the fun part our expenditures and this is with the expenditures this is the level that you're responsible for is we have we know we're responsible for the fund but we're also responsible for at the function level so function 11 is going to be direct instruction instruction. Function 12 is going to be your library. Function 13 is going to be your curricular curriculum development and instructional staff development. 21 is instructional leadership. 23 is campus

017leadership. And 31 is your guidance and counseling. So when I talk about instructional leadership, that's going to be a portion of Miss Clark's office. It's going to be a part portion of Miss Brown's office. It's going to be portion of um Miss Anderson's office. So those things are going to be their their instructional leadership. When you talk about campus leadership, the function 23, that's going to be your principal, your pings person on that campus. And then of course 31 is going to be your guidance counsel or any testing. A lot of it's in special ed too. So you'll have those. Then we move into 33, which is going to be your nursing services on the campuses. Um 34 is going to be transportation to and from school, not extracurricular. Uh food service is going to

018be in function 35, but that's also going to be in your function 240 that we're going to look at in a little while. And then function 36 is your co-curricular extracurricular which is your sports, your choir, your band, um UIL competitions, those kind of things. Uh function 41 will be general administration which is the most most of this building in here or this end of the building over here. And then 51 is going to be your plant maintenance and operations which going to be your facilities and custodial departments. Function 52 is going to be security. That's going to be Chief Wade's area. That's going to be where his staff is paid for. 53 is going to be Mr. Wilson's uh department where we pay for all technology. 61 community services. We have a small budget

019there. That's um we provide uh somebody can rent one of our buildings and we have people that take care of those things. A portion of the athletics department is charged to function 61 because they are in charge of that particular area. Function 71 is going to be your debt services. That's going to be mostly in 599, I'm sorry. Um but there are some in 199 and 240 now. This is going to be um long-term software that we have to code to function 71. We pay for it all up front, but they they charge it out to us in function 71 because it's really an ongoing expense for multiple years. Function 81 is uh for facilities acquisition and construction. That would be any big construction projects, roofing, um anything that we do a remodeling or anything

020like that or if we purchase land. Function 91 is going to be where your recapture is and you'll see that in a minute when we talk about that and then function 99 is going to be other intergovernmental charges which is going to be our CAD cost pretty much in that for further clarification which it doesn't it's not for not where you'd approve the budget but just so you'll know we're going to go over this in our uh next PowerPoint as well. 6100s are going to be our payroll costs. 6200s are going to be our contracted services. 63 are going to be supplies. 6,400s are going to be other operating costs. 6,500 is going to be debt service. And then 6600 is going to be capital. Now, we do have some 6600s that you're going to

021approve in the budget that are 6640s, but for beam's reporting purposes, we we report those as supplies because they're not over $5,000. However, we put them in those 6640s so we can track them for inventory. At the campus level, you're going to see functions 11, 12, 13, 21, 23, 31, 33, 36, and 52 with some of those object codes in them because that'll be they'll be uh allocated to those campuses and for uh PE's purposes. The other uh programs that are going to be budgeted that'll be budgeted at the district level is going to be in uh Stacy's office and then of course athletics is a is a a district level but it's your copers um technology their infrastructure and then replacement costs on um software and computers uh stasis are going to be special

022program be GT bilingual um comped and um early education and you can read those in there this is the district level costs that that we're responsible for. That is a really quick overview of the rights and the responsibilities and duties for um the board and administration. So, we're going to move into the actual budget itself and how we develop that budget and we'll be we'll slow down a little bit as we get into this. Yeah, the second one. We'll slow down a little bit as we get into this so we can talk a little bit more about the budget and how it was developed. And while you're transitioning between the two, this is a great resource for you to go back over the next few weeks and kind of reference these codes if you need

023them. Remember, our our budget codes are long and so this kind of represents he's giving you those function codes and object codes that are part of that. So, it'll give you a resource to use while you're thinking about this process. Thank you for providing that for us. So just what she's talking about there the account code when we talk about the account code at the campus level or the department district level um the account code that we use we have the it's a multi-art account code that we use like the first part is going to be the funding code where are we getting the money from is it going to be local is it going to be state is it going to be federal so that's the first part second part is going to be

024the function level that's going to be where is it being used at is it being used for instruction is it being used for the library is it being used for health services what is it being used for and then the four the third part of that is going to be logic code which we looked at just a minute ago go 6100 is it what's it being used for? You use it for salaries, you're using it for supplies. The next part of that account code is a local option that we kind of it's just something we can use to define it a little bit more of where it's coming from. And then the next part is going to be the organization. It could be the high school, it could be my department, it could be Stacy's

025department. That's the object code. And then the next part will be the actual year code. So everything that we are dealing with tonight is going to be year zero. Okay. Then the pick code. That's going to be the population that you're serving. Is it going to be a state comped population? Is it going to be ESL population? Is it regular ed population? And then the last one is another local option that we can have to define it even further down. So that's the account code she's talking about when she talked that when she said that. So the development budget development process, I told you that I took a PES report and I rolled that all up into the different grade levels to show where we're at, where we think we're going to be when we

026start the year. And we have we'll have to have that all in order by October. I believe it's 26 this year snapshot date somewhere in there. And this is historical enrollment. It's historical uh year-end enrollment or year beginning enrollment year end enrollment and then the ADA for that year. And that's it all goes back to 2022. There's just a slight increase. It kind of leveled off in the middle there but we still have a slight increase happening at about 2% which is about 100 like I said 164 students. This budget is based on 8,031 students. Oh, and then and then the ADA on that will be about 7549. That's going to be about 94% is what I calculated on because that's what Miss Clark says that she's going to get me. 94%. So that's what

027we're going to shoot for. Um the campus budgets when they had their allocations sent to them, they also had these per pupil allocations sent to them. a little higher than they were last year at the high school and middle school because we took band back into those campuses. At one point, band wanted its own allocation. They no longer want that. They want it rolled back into those. So, we put that allocation back into those campuses. High school is going to get $158 per student. The middle schools get $123 per student. And then, of course, the elementary schools will get $98 per student. The department allocations total up to $6.4 million. the state program allocations that we were talking about a while ago, the GT, the state comped, and those things total to $2.1 million. This

028budget does not include any new initiatives. That's not saying that we don't have some uh needs and wants that we want to do, but we're not sure where we're going to place those in there right now. So, we're not putting those in this budget. Um, TA recapture is going to be allocated at about $3.9 million. Now, here's where I want to stop a little bit and talk about this because I did my own little calculation with the homestead exemption. This budget that I'm going to present to you tonight, and we'll get into it a little bit more. It's going to be about $96 million. And that's about 2 point I think it's 2.5.6 million more than it was last year. The majority of that is going to be teacher retention allocation and the other allocations.

029And we'll go through those and I'll kind of give you those numbers a little bit too. But if I use that $140,000 homestead exemption, it drops the budget to about $94 million, which is about a $2.5 million difference to what I'm presenting to you. Why is that? Well, I've I've told you before that the local revenues and state revenues have an inverse relationship. When you go local revenues go up, your state revenues go down. When your local revenues go down, your state revenues go up. That's going to be the issue. So, how do they do that? Well, they reduced the funding a little bit, but they also reduced recapture. They reduced whenever I use that that calculation that I did, it reduced uh my recapture down to about $1.4 million. So, again, that's not a

030great number. It's not a great it's not a number I want to hang my hat on, but it was just my calculation that I did, but using that $140,000 exemption. And then the last part of this is the tax appraisal collection allocations are 1.8 and $270,000. 1.8 8 is the actual appraisal and then the 270 is what it costs for the collections. Active care is going up this year. You can see here that an employee only on the primary is going up for $49 a month. Active care with the HD is going up $51 a month. Active care primary plus is going up $58 a month. Um we're still providing the life insurance at $25,000. And then each employee still has Careflight coverage for everybody. And then we have an identity theft program. Those things

031are not changing. And on our health insurance, we provide $378 for the employee >> per month. All right. The general operating budget. Here we go. Here's the meat. This is your revenues. You can see that your local revenues in there are the the 5700s. The 5,800 is going to be your state revenues. And then um 5900s are going to be your federal revenues. Later on, we'll break that down and you'll know about how much the percentages are on those. You can see the percentage out to the side, though. You can see our current t current year taxes are about 51%. Well, that's a difference. So, we'll go the next page will show us what they are, but that's going to be the majority of our funds. Um, and you can see the increase down there

032is $2.9 million from year-over-year. 2.2 is teacher retention, $285,000 is other staff retention, and then $858,000 is the basic cost a lotment. That was where we were talking about where they allowed $106 per ADA for uh fuel and for um utility increases. And that will just about eat it up on both of those. This is your expenditures at the function level. You can see the adopted budget for 2425 was at that 93.9. And you can see how function 11 up there which is direct construction is at 56 uh.019. And then to the proposed on function 11 is 56.784. Um again the increase was $2.9 million because this is a balanced budget the way it's being presented. Um you can see that function 11 for instruction net of recapture is 61% of the budget. Okay the

033next and let's look at this. So this is where I was talking about if if uh the homestead exemption works out just right. You can see down there under recapture which is function 91 that we talked about. We're looking at like this year we adopted the budget at $3.7 million and it's at 3.9 for next year under the old law which way is calculated in this budget. However, with the new the new calculation if you use the homestead exemption like I said my number is not great but it was the best guess I had drops my recapture down to $1.4 million and that's about $2.5 million and then there's some revenue adjustments there. So the whole budget would drop to 94.6 which is about $2.2 million. So there'll be less revenues and less recapture in

034that scenario. >> Could you elaborate a little bit on direct instruction? What do you mean by that? Like >> direct instruction is can be in the classroom. It can be over uh anything that's interacting between a teacher and a student or an instructor and a student not necessarily a teacher but an instructor and a student. Anything that happens in between there whether supplies, salaries, contracted services, anything that is direct instruction that's going to be function 11. >> Thank you. Yes, ma'am. >> The next slide is going to break it down into the object codes we talked >> Can I ask quick question? I'm sorry. Um, since you said that the band is wanting to have the money moved over into the uh money for the campuses, is that why the uh extracurricular is going down?

035>> Not necessarily. Um, because it's it's still going to be if it's extracurricular, it's extracurricular. Okay. And I and I and I and I when I describe this to somebody, I when we talk about function 11, function 36. So a band instrument is is essential for instruction. So it's going to fall under function 11. But the band uniform is for Friday night. So it's going to be under function 36. That's how you differentiate. Um I would have to go in and research and why the co-curricular is going down. It could be something in the athletic department. It could be something on the campus because the campus has function 36 on it as well depending on what they're using it for. So this decrease was given to you by the campuses. >> Yeah, it could have

036been it could have been in multiple campuses, right? It didn't necessarily have to be in one area. It could have been across the board. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> So the next slide we're going to break it down into the object code. This is where we talked about 6100s are our salaries. Okay. And you can see that the adopted budget for 2425 was 77.1 and the proposed budget tonight is at 79.1. Again, I told you that just just a teacher retention was $2.2 million. It's a statutory requirement now. So, you can see that's a lot of that difference right there. But you can see that net of recapture salaries are 85.2% of our budget. So, that's you know, we we talked about 82 to 83, but this is really 80 85. And

037a lot of this there's there's some calculations that I have to do in there for um overtime because this the computer system doesn't calculate that. So, I calculate overtime. Subs aren't calculated in there. So we had to calculate that stuff in there. So that's a little bit of fluctuation there on those two. Um the next big one would be of course um contracted services which is going to be um utilities and those things. Supplies is going to be another big one but that's that's where a lot of the fuel is is under supplies. This is a little pie chart kind of breaks it down. You can see that our local tax revenue uh is the biggest part of our revenue sources. It's $73.9 million. Um, again, the biggest part is our local revenues. And then

038our straight our state state revenues are a little higher than they've been in the past again because of the maximum compressed tax rate. And we'll talk about that in a little bit later, too. Um, whenever you're like I said, local goes up, state goes down, local, bless you. State go local goes down, state goes up. So, our our state revenues are a little bit higher this And then that TRS on behalf is a is a booking entry that where TRS is being calculated on for us at the state level. The next PI category is going to be u how our expenses are. You can see the instruction instructional related services are going to be about 60.36% of our budget. When I say instruction and instruction related services, I'm talking about direct instruction which is function

03911, function 12 which is going to be the library, and function 13 which is going to be curriculum development. Those are all going to be considered instruction and instruction related uh categories. The next one down there that's going to be the next piece is going to be support services which is non- studentent based which are going to be function 51 and 53 and 52 which are going to be security technology and um utilities and plant maintenance. That's how it breaks down. Again, this is based on $96.8 million budget. It'll all change a little bit at the next board meeting when we get all those good numbers and we can plug those in. This is the expenditures that we uh for each cate for each student and what we spend. Uh one is based on ADA

040per expenditure per ADA and then expenditure per ADA net of recapture. So you can see that the projected budget that we're looking at is going to be $12,800 student as opposed to the ADA net of recapture which would be 12,315. You can see over the past 3 to four years, it's pretty close in line. Uh prior to that, it was a another legislative session and so they were ending up those kind of things for that, but it stays about the same net of recapture across the board for the last three to four years. On these operating expenditures, the total expenditures are calcul projected to be $96.8 million in this budget and that is including recapture. That's about a 3.16% increase from the 2425 adopted budget. And the proposed expenditures per ADA is 12,315 and that

041is net of recapture. Function 11 we talked about makes up 61% of the total budget net of recapture and instruction instructional support make up 79.9% of the budget then of recapture fund balance. We talked we talked about this multiple times. Um in the past historically TA has recommended six months of operating costs in your fund balance. However, with uh budget cuts and um less funding, they they kind of scale back on that. And um somebody quoted something the other day and I wrote it down. It said fund balance is not a one-sizefits-all for every school district and finance management issue for local school districts. Uh they say a healthy fund balance is about 25 to 30%. Uh and then the next slide will tell us that board policy requires 20% operating costs in fund balance.

042So as long as we're above that 20%, we're not violating board policy. But we know a healthy is between 25 and 30% of your operating. This is what our fund balance will look like at the end of the year and projected for 2026. That is a huge um difference. If you look at there, it's about $15.8 million. And we know what that is. That's the $16.8 million that the state sent to us. That was a miscalculation. And so it's hanging out there. That's going to show up in our fund balance at audit this year. Again, I advise not to spend that money because they're going to come and get >> Yeah. They haven't said it's a miscalculation yet. >> They haven't said it's a miscalculation. >> We think that it is. >> I believe it's

043a miscalculation. That's correct. Uh my advice is not to spend it and to let it sit there because they're going to want it back one day. Um, I did hear a story of some a smaller district that did get about $6 million and they went ahead and spent it. If TA comes back and wants that money back, they're going to be hurting to be able to pay that that money back until we get clarification that they know what they sent us and it's okay to spend. I would >> and we're earning interest in on that money as we hold it. >> I I somewhere around $40 to $50,000 a month. >> Nice. >> On $16.8 million. >> Can they demand interest on that money that we've been sitting on? I would I would I I'm

044going to bite my tongue when I say this, but uh I would say they shouldn't. Um that money they we didn't ask for that money. They sent it to us. >> It's going to come to blows if they try to get that money. >> I I'll be on a I'll be on a Well, that phone call tomorrow won't deal with this, but it's the group that's been working with me on it. Um $15.8 million. We know that we know where that money is and it's just gonna it's going to look different on our our audit this year. But uh I just advise not to touch that money for now. >> It's not going to hurt us on the audit. >> It's not going to hurt us on audit. No. Okay. No. cuz what next month

045I will bring you where you know every every year in August I bring you where we uh we restrict our fund balance and we'll put that in an other restricted knowing that it's out there for that purpose and it won't be in our it won't be in our uh unrestricted fund balance. >> So at what point will you feel comfortable that it's on >> when they acknowledge it? Okay. >> When they acknowledge it that I I heard a story from from an auditor the other day that said we had a district that the state knew they were paying them wrong, but they said we're just going to move forward and not go back. So, if they do something like that, then I would feel comfortable with it. But before that, I would not. >> I

046like Karen's comment. Let's get it in writing. Yeah, they don't put a whole lot in writing, but if they acknowledge it, then then that that would be in writing because it probably in a in an email when they did that, >> but right now it's monopoly money. A bank error in your >> right now it's just hanging out there and I don't want to do anything with it. Debt service budget. This is going to be a fun one for you as well. This is what the debt service budget looks like. And I left it at 14.5 cents on the uh debt service tax rate. Um because I will bring to you what Josh has for defeasence to early payoff and that would be we'll start at the 14.5 cents. We won't go above that. But

047the defeasance that he has will show us what that tax rate would look like. That based on um just the preliminary values that should bring in about $4.2 2 million on the debt service side and all of our other um revenue sources on that end up being about $15.6 million. Currently, the bond that we'll be paying for this next year would be 3 almost $3.8 million. So, you can see that's a difference of the 11.8 that would be added to that fund balance. Now, again, this is preliminary. This is not set in stone. Once you see what the defeasance is and what that what that would cost the district, then we can make a determination of what that tax rate would be to early payoff or if that is what you decide to do or

048not. >> Was there any legislation that happened to impact this tax rate for this >> for this year? No, there is there is uh SB 1453 that next year we will I will have to bring both of them to you say this is what we have for our minimum uh debt tax rate that you could spend or if we do a defeasance and we'll have to present both budgets and you will have to make a determination of which of those budgets you want to or if you want to do something in between. But this year it's not required to bring both of them. I'm going to bring both of them to you like this anyway because you're going to see what it looks like which is pretty much what we're doing anyway. I just feel

049like the law is just requiring it now, but we're already doing it. >> And this uh bottom line 16 thou 16 million there is happen stance 16 million. It's not the monopoly money. >> No, that if we leave it at 14, this is just of course it's just a a preliminary values, but that money will be what we could use for the defeasance or early pay of a of a bond that's already out there. >> Right. Right. That's what I mean. Right. Yeah. This is different from that $16 million. This is in a different fund. >> Um there is $900,000 in hold harmless in here. Now, that will affect uh will be affected if we leave the tax rate up there and we're going to do a defeasence. That $900,000 could go away because they'll

050net it out against what we're collecting above and beyond what we need for our bonds. Again, it's a million dollars out of the 16 million that's going to be out there. depending on what the board wants to do and what action they want to take uh to early early pay on bond. And I can tell you that and I've said this before and I did I should have wrote it down. I didn't. But since 2005 we've early paid about $1.6 million in um debt is saving about $26 million in interest over those years. So, and I wish I'd wrote that down so I had better numbers for you. That's pretty close though, ballparking it. The local tax revenue projected like I said would be $14.7 million and that's at 14.5 cents. Maintaining the 14 and

051a half cents high rate will um generate a surplus revenue an amount of 11.8 million and that would how to put our fund balance at about 16 million 1 $16.1 million and the surplus fund balance can be used to reduce overall debt for the district which is what we've been practicing the last few years to pay down debt early and save taxpayers interest on that. This is a graph of what the revenue would look like. You can see that over the since 22 it's gone steadily up in revenue of what we've collected. Of course, we also have paid down debt with that as well. And then here's the actual expenditures and you can see that $3.7 million down there. Unless we have a defeasence, that's where we'll be at when we when we uh pay

052our debt this year. And that's the service budget in a nutshell. Next one's going to be our food service budget. Amy is presenting a balanced budget at just a little over $5 million. She is going to do a balanced budget. Um, and that will be an increase in revenues and it will be an increase in expenditures. But you can see the increases on these spread on these uh bar graphs went from 4.6 to $5 million. And then on their expenditures went from 4.7 up to about the $5 million. And that is her projected budget. um she will have something in your board packet this evening to talk about uh free and reduced and who's going to be eating free this year and then what uh on our increase or decrease or whatever y'all decide to

053do on our uh child nutrition as well. The summary on food service the revenue is projected to increase expenditures are projected increase and it will leave her a fund balance of about $1.6 million which is about 3 32% of her operating expenses. Now, we tal we always talk about being about 30% on hers, but TDA a few about a year ago bumped hers to six months operating. So, she could have that much because it was there was a place in when with co ending and everything that we were having a hard time getting it spent down and they said, "Okay, we're going to allow to do this." So, that's where she's coming from on her expenditures and how how she brings those down just a little bit. Next, we're going to talk about tax rates.

054And this is where we're going to talk about the maximum compressed tax rate a little bit. And you can see on the bar graph there how it's steadily gone down. And that's due to the maximum compressed tax rate. And we've talked about this in the past. We're at a situation where we're a property wealthy district. That tax rate is pretty much going to be set for us. When I turn in my local property value study here in after we get uh certified values, they're going to put that in their system. They're going to do that calculation. And we kind of we I kind of showed you that at the June meeting on our preliminary how they calculate that. When they put that in there, they're going to have a floor and a ceiling of what

055the tax rate can be. And we're going to be at the floor because our local calculation will actually put us below that floor, but as we know, no district can be out of 90% out of range of any other district. So, we'll be at that floor and that floor will be um added into that 7389, which that 7389 does include the 17 cents where we passed the BAT and got those extra 12 cents. So on top of the five golden pennies that we already had, that's those are the additional three golden pennies and then the nine copper pennies that we got on that that via. So if it doesn't change by August 5th, our tax rate would be 88.39%. 88.39 and that'll be down from 93.19 cents this year. Uh we do we do calculate

056on 99% collection rate. Um they c the hood county or uh hood county appraisal district likes to calculate on 98% I think but we calculate on 99% because of penalties and interest that we get in on those things and it just it works out better because we get closer with 99% than the 98%. So, we're getting pretty close to the conclusion. Just speeding through here. General operating revenue is projected and preliminary uh property values at $96.8 million. Again, that's going to change when we get the homestead exemption in. I think I'm pretty confident it's going to drop it by about two two to$2.5 million. Um the expenditures are also projected at 96.8, 8, but those will it still will be a balanced budget because the majority of that reduction is going to be in uh

057recapture and that'll come right off the top of the budget. So, it's going to be a balanced budget still at 94. Uh the general operating will have an increase of $2.9 million as it's presented tonight. It should be about that same amount when we get to the prelim those homestead exemption numbers. And that's just over 3% increase from last year. And we know that that's going to be attributed to uh teacher retention uh and raises and other staff retention raises which is statutory now. So it'll there's no getting around that. Um the majority of them there you go have majority is based on basic aotment basic costs. Um the fund balance again will be $43 million but we know that $16.8 million is hanging out there which is about this is going to be about

058a $15.8 $8 million increase because that's due to the spending that we'll spend down just a little bit this year. And then the district continues to maintain a low administrative cost. If you look at our cost ratio, we're at 0771. And other districts our size, the state the standard average is.121250. So we're still about half of what the state standard is for district our size. Again, this budget uh includes no new new initiatives at this time. Um, we we are including in this presented budget a $3.9 million recapture, which is a decrease of $165,000 from last year. However, I'll tell you that this year's recapture amount right now is calculating at about $3.6 million, which is a difference of $32,000. The increase property values for us right now is about 6.94%. Um, the state is

059set or the state set up for the general appropriations act was set by 5.6. So that's the reason that our MCR will be a little bit lower. But based on that, um, House Bill three, again, it compresses our tax rate. And we talked about the floor just a minute ago, but it's still a decrease of 0 almost 5 cents from last year. So it's going to be about 4.8 cent decrease 4.8 cent decrease from last year's tax rate based on uh our property values. This is a historical look at our tax rate. You can see that it continually goes down. You can see the M, but the debt service has stayed pretty level and that was that's been intentional by the board so that we could pay down debt debt and save interest for taxpayers

060in the district. Though that's intentional, but you can see the maximum capacity has taken the M down every year since 2022. And then that affects the overall tax rate as well. And so just to clarify the M tax rate, we really don't have any local control over what that's going to be because of the state maximum compressed rate and their limits that they place on districts. They have to be within so many percentage points of surrounding districts. >> That is correct. On the maximum tax rate, the 17 cents is what the voters approved for. >> Yeah. And our control is that that voter approved that that's where we have the >> the five the five golden pennies or the boards the board was able to control those but the 12 cents that we added on

061top of that the voters approved that for >> and November 23. >> Yeah. And then the rest of it is determined by the state. >> That is correct. >> Okay. >> That is correct. >> Thank you. >> But why is it always 0145 on the debt? Why didn't it gone down? >> That has been that's been a that's been a uh board decision. So when I bring you the defeasence, that's what the defeasance it took to make that defeasence payment. >> So leaving it at the 14.5 cents allows us to pay down debt sooner, saving taxpayers, we've saved them over $22 million in interest by doing it this way. >> What if it went to even lower number though? >> You could. So if you wanted to lower the debt insides, you could lower that

062by however many cents and then still pay off some debt early. You could leave it and pay off more debt early. This is really where the only freedom we have with the tax rate really lies. >> And I won't have those numbers until I get certified values and I'd send them to Josh and he can he can put it out there to see what we could the fees and how much that would save taxpayers in interest. >> Do we know how much what what's the minimum that could be and pay off what we need to this year? We have not calculated that yet based on preliminary values, >> but that will be presented in the next budget when we when we adopt the budget. You'll have both of those numbers. >> So that'll be at

063the next meeting. >> Yes, ma'am. That's been that'll be when you're adopting the the tax rate for the debt service. You'll have the decision to make if you wanted to fees or if you don't want to defease and you'll have both of those budgets side by side to see right what it would be. And >> and I know the sentiment from the community has been to pay off debt. And so that's what we have historically been doing. So you can't pay more. That that tax rate can't be more than what it is. That takes voter approval. So the 14 1.5 cents on the debt side is that is the most that it can be unless voters approve another bond election to raise that rate. Other than that, 14.5 is where it's that's it's it can't

064be any more than that. >> That's what the voters approved, correct? It could be less. >> We could lower it >> and not pay off as much debt early or pay off any debt early. >> It would be like making it would be like making the minimum payment on a on a credit card versus paying it off and saving money on interest. >> Something that you'll probably run into depending on what property value is due. Um like this next coming year. I think we showed it was $3.4 $4 million as our debt service for this upcoming year, but then a couple years down the road it goes up to $7 million. So depending on what our property values do, you could have a fluctuating INS rate instead of having a steady INS rate. Now that's

065not guaranteed, but that that's what it would look like if you looked at our our bond payment book, what it what it looks like it would fluctuate a little bit on that. Now, that's not guaranteed because property values are going to increase as well. >> Yeah. I and and I'd like to see like a breakdown. If if we looked at the INS side and lowering it, still paying off some debt early, how much is that going to save taxpayers versus how much we could save them in paying the debt off early? >> He's pretty good about giving me what the defeasance could be and what it could save taxpayers at that point. He knew he normally only gives me one, but there's been a situation where I said, "What's a what's another number I could

066go with?" and >> he would send out another number and then we would kind of we'd bring to you which was we felt like was the best option for you to look at. But always saying this is what this is what our minimum is which is what 1453 will do next year. We'll have to show both as well. But we've already kind of been doing that. So it's not a >> not a big change for us. >> I just want to ensure we're we're being good stewards of the taxpayer dollars and saving them as much money as we can whichever way we go to do that. >> Yes, ma'am. The budget presentation conclusion child continuing on um child nutrition will adopt a balanced budget making projected fund balance $1.6 million at August 31st going in

067the debt service would be 11.8 $8 million uh increase and then that will leave us about $16.1 million at August 35% just like we've been talking about that could be used to defeat um uh existing debt out there to go lower. Um thanks to all the principles and directors and the finance staff for their help and um I'll be glad to answer any more questions that you might have. And that's pretty close my time limit. And I want to make sure y'all know how much time and effort goes into this. So, um, weeks and weeks and weeks of of of effort. So, I appreciate the work you and your team and everybody that's contributed to this has put into it. And I know it's ever changing and still unknowns and and you're handling it really

068well. So, thank you. >> Yeah, because we'll we'll present our budget uh we'll actually present our audit to you for this this year um in December and then we'll start again in February for the next budget. So, it's a continuous cycle for us. Thank you, EMTT. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay, so that closes out the budget workshop. The time is now 457. Sorry, 453. All right, the time is now 4:54 p.m. I call this meeting of the Granberry Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present that this meeting has been duly called and that notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. We will now go injourn into executive session pursuant to the following

069sections. For personnel under Texas Government Code 551.074 for staff recommendations. Uh consult with attorney under Texas Government Code Chapter 551.071 071 and to discuss real property to discuss the property of the Decker Gym Complex located at 301 North Hannerford and 600 West Bridge Street, Granberry, Texas 76048. To discuss school property located at 1301 James Road, Granberry, Texas 76049. And to discuss the property at 1300 Meadows Drive, Granberry, Texas 76048. The time is now 4:55 Okay, the time is now 6:16 p.m. and we will reconvene into open session by beginning with an invocation led by Mr. Billy Wimberly. for me in prayer, please. Lord, thank you for this day. Thank you for the many blessings that you've given us this day. We thank this gathering of of trustees and citizens to discuss uh the business of

070our school district. Pray that you'll help us make good decisions in Christ's name. Amen. >> Thank you, Mr. Billy Wimberly. Now, if y'all will join us in our pledges, Okay, first things first, we have our achievement spotlight uh for lemonade day winners of the top entrepreneur of the year sunshine sips from Bronner Elementary School presented by Miss Holly Martin. >> All right. Just want to make sure y'all can hear me. Good evening, Dr. Moroski and board of trustees. Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight. I'm Holly Martin, president and CEO of the Granberry Chamber of Commerce, and I'm honored to get to share a special achievement spotlight with you. So, this spring, the chamber partnered once again with Granberry ISD for our third annual lemonade day. And what an incredible success it was.

071We had 94 stands across the map representing every elementary campus. And together, these young entrepreneurs brought in an estimated amount of $36,31 in total earnings with $28,04 in net profit in just a 4h hour period. That's real money made by real students and more importantly, real life skills learned along the way. So tonight, I'm proud to recognize our top overall entrepreneur award winner from all five campuses, Sunshine Sips from Bronner Elementary. This outstanding team earned a net profit of $2,272. And they did it with creativity, teamwork, and a business plan that impressed all of us. So Sunshine, Sunshine Sits, I can only imagine how you had to say that all day long, right? I love that name though. Sun sunshine sips is just one example of the impact that this program is making. We continue

072to hear how students are talking about how they learn how to budget, save, invest, all while building confidence and communication skills. And none of this would be possible without Granberry ISD. So your partnership, first of all, means everything. We're so grateful for the way that your teachers and your staff pour into these students by um working through the lemonade day lesson plans about financial literacy, business planning, marketing, and even leadership. It's really amazing to watch the students bring their ideas to life on Lemonade Day. And the chamber is incredibly proud to be a part of something that truly prepares our next generation for success. We also want to thank our community and local businesses who continue to support and invest in this program. The way Granberry shows up for its kids its kids is nothing

073short of inspiring. So to Sunshine Sips, not all four of the team is here, but we do have Miss Ellie Avalis. She is present to get her certificate. So we want to say congratulations. The other three students that are not with us tonight is Mila Bradier. Did I say that correctly? Thank you. Um Kira Englishb and then Brady Hinton. So we're just so proud of them. And also to Granberry ISD, thank you for being such an amazing partner in building these young leaders. So let's go take a picture. >> Thank you. Congratulations. >> And if we have any parents or family in the audience, could you please stand and be recognized? Congratulations. [Applause] Good job. All right, next up we have our community spotlight for community donations presented by Miss Nancy Alana. >> All right,

074we always want to recognize those in our community who are very generous and provide donations for our school district. And um for this month, we have donations from uh Granberry High School Basketball Booster Club to the boys basketball campus activity account for locker room uh renovations in the amount of $2,483.96. [Music] We have donations from the Granberry Optimus Club to the GHS Children's Charity Fund for lunches in the amount of $123. And we have donations from the Granberry Art Alliance to the GMS AC campus activity fund for a mural painting in the amount of $300. So our total donations from the community for this past month were $2,96.96. [Music] We want to thank each one of these people uh or groups that provided donations and uh thank everyone of u the individuals who provided uh

075the help for these um uh groups to provide this and we encourage every organization and individuals to provide donations in the future. Thank you very much. Sorry, moving on to the next one. We have our superintendent report. >> Absolutely. Thank you, President Gore. Um I have some exciting news. Of course, uh we just opened up the candidate packet pick uh pickup for our next round of voting for um school board trustees. And so, uh, if you are interested in becoming part of this awesome team up here, we you may pick up your application at the front of, um, at the front office here, uh, during business hours from July 19th, which has already passed through August 18th. They must be submitted here August 18th. If you pick up the packet, there's some information in there

076about what's required. And of course, we're here to answer questions um, if anyone is interested in running. Uh, just a couple of district announcements. We're getting ready for the beginning of school. It's always an exciting time of year. And next year we get to meet with all of our leadership team. We call it our district leadership team. So departmental leaders and campus leaders and we'll be focusing on what's important going forward through next year looking at strategic plan and and making sure that we are focused on the same things. Um we also have returning student registration that began today. So once again it's just picking up and so I want to remind everyone to go online to our website. There's a one-click option that says student registration on the left hand side that will take

077you to a page with more information. We encourage you um this is not just if you're registering your child for the first time. This is just um the reenrollment process that we do every year. You used to get big packets of paper and folders coming home. Instead of that, now you get to do it online. So, uh we want to make sure that you do that early so that we get all of that information. If you need help, contact your campus. They're the ones that will be able to help you with that information. Um legislative updates will be happening. We have some discussions going on um today. Uh but over the next few months, we'll be getting new uh more information for policies that need to be developed and and handbooks and all of those

078things. I want to um thank the community and our staff for responding. We've put out a couple of one question surveys and are grateful to get the response that we did. We had over a thousand people respond to our cell phone question. There's a new cell phone law and so we use that in some decision- making hopefully going forward. And then also we had over 1500 people respond to um the questions that we ask about um homeschool. That's a new law that went in. So, um, we want you to know we're grateful for your responses. We're reading everything and, um, whether or not we go one direction or not, we we use those comments to to answer questions and be proactive. So, we really appreciate you responding. Um, some great news. The athletic department announces

079that 2025 Granberry Pirate football season tickets are available for online today um, through August 3rd. You'll go to granberry pirates.com for more information. And also, the gold cards will soon be available for 55 plus Granberry Pirate fans. Gold cards must be purchased at one of the designated inerson sale dates and you can visit granberryisd.org goldcards/goldcards for more information. And last thing is we have our big convocation where we invite all of our staff members to come and celebrate the beginning of school on August 13th. And so it's a unique opportunity to connect with staff members. Um if you would like to become a sponsor or register for a a vendor booth, excuse me, email convocationist.org or and that is my superintendent update. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Moroski. Okay, moving on to public comments.

080We've had five people sign up to speak and our first speaker will be Connie Wimberly speaking on UIL. >> Go ahead. >> Thank you for your time and your service. I do appreciate it. Granberry is a district of innovation and doing what is in the best interest of the students and the teachers. Allowing homeschoolers into UIL may be one of those great opportunities to let students and teachers shine. This will only work if the teachers buy in. They will be the ones putting in the extra time, effort, and commitment. I suggest giving the homeschool stipen to the department and the teacher working directly with that student, compensating them for their extra workload. How can this help Graanberry students? UIL is competitive. You try out for the team. You work together as a team and you

081make each other the best of oneself and the team. Excellence will breed excellence. Striving for greatness brings out greatness and excellence of those around us. Having the best students, whether it's the public school child or the homeschooler, will strengthen all students, making Granberry students and its programs stronger. How does this help Granberry ISD as a whole? It's a way to bring in our community and welcome homeschoolers, opening doors of opportunity for the students gifted in an area, such as those students that participate at the opera house group, swimmers from the seals, academically advanced students and athletes. I don't know why a child is homeschooled, but it's ultimately a parent's responsibility to see that their child's needs are met, and homeschooling may be necessary for that child. A child shouldn't be penalized because a parent is

082doing what is in their best interest. Maybe a child is training to be an Olympic hopeful or they're academically advanced or they were bullied and had to leave for medical reasons. We need to remember why we are here. We're here for the betterment of all students. Your vision statement states, quote, Granberry ISD inspires excellence and empowers all students to be future ready and positive contributors to their community. Your mission statement states, and I will quote it, "In partnership with our students, staff, families, and community, Granberry ISD is committed to empower all students, al all learners to achieve academic excellence. You now have a great opportunity to be that person or board that opens its doors to the community and all learners. To achieve excellence, we need to change our attitude and raise the standards for

083everybody. Thank you once again for your service, your time, your commitment. I support your decision. Thank you, Mrs. Wimberly. Okay. Our next speaker is Mr. Jim Brown speaking on UIL devices, budget, and the election. Hello board. Thank you Miss Wimberly. That was awesome. That was good. Okay. So, um I want to talk about HB900. Was that included in what I kind of wrote down? you wrote down um UIL devices, budget, and then the upcoming election. >> Well, I really wanted to talk about HB900. So, I guess I didn't know where to fit that in. >> What is HB900? >> Well, HB900 for the school libraries. Wasn't that on the topic tonight? >> It's on It's on the agenda. It's just not something you But if it's on the agenda, you can speak on it. >>

084Am I allowed? Yes. Thank you. Okay. Uh it's going to be quick. Uh, with the new Texas law HB900, school libraries are under pressure to remove or restrict books based on definitions of explicit content. Protecting students is important. Age appropriate materials, books that reflect real history, diverse voices, and essential ideas need to be in the forefront. I urge you to take the moral high ground. Let's provide students with inspiring, historically accurate libraries. That means preserving the stories of our early patriots, civil rights leaders, and the undeniable influence the Bible has on the founding of our country. Erasing that influence is misguided and inaccurate. We must teach the full American story, not a filtered one. Students deserve to see the complexity of history, not a version that has been edited for comfort. That's how they learn

085to think critically, engage with different perspectives, and understand the principles this country was built on. We need to trust that students can handle the truth even when it's challenging. You can follow the law without giving the without giving in to fear or politics. We get one chance to live life and leave a legacy that isn't harmful and instead is inspiring and will give students what we were given in our growing years. Students and parents may not call in and complain, but that does not mean that there's not a problem. My bigger concern is that the is the mentality behind allowing sexually explicit books in the school libraries. It takes a law to get them out. Charlotte Mason believe children should read beautiful, thoughtful, and well-crafted books that challenge their minds and stir their hearts. Thank

086you. >> Thank you, Mr. Brown. Our next speaker is Mrs. Monica Brown speaking on Decker Gym Library Books and the Trustee election. Thank you. Good evening. Um, that was awesome, Jim. Thank you. Um, I agree with the first comments, too, about the letting the students be involved. As it turns out, uh, WY ISD has has given you a packet. I don't know if you've seen it. Where are you the one who hands things out? If you'll just hand that everybody, I think I have enough for everybody or at least all the trustees. But that's about the UIL. In case you haven't seen it, there's a video, there's an explanation, and there's forms. And like you said, there's $1,500 per student per activity to help pay for these students to participate. Um, let's see. Here's some

087thoughts on the Decor Gym. This is from a a concerned citizen. It says, "The decor gym should be sold and those funds should be used for other needs for the district. If there are no other needs, do stop asking for bonds and other increases in revenue. If you can afford to donate buildings, then you must have way too much money in tax revenue. And I'm this is from an actual multi-millionaire business owner. Um you'll say it's not fair. Uh we say you keep asking for bonds for money. You don't have enough space. You don't have enough room. The next thing we know you're giving away buildings like more than one. Um so anyway, if it needs a lot of maintenance and let's dip into that 16 million that you got that you were surprised about.

088Dip into that. Fix it. Make it a historical building for Granberry for use of Hood County. get a vision that comes from GISD for the entire community and restore it back to the way it was. That's awesome. What an awesome place it was, but it's not to be given to a nonprofit, any nonprofit. There's way too many issues doing that. Um, also, the person who is leading that program has spoken to citizens and has invited them to come into the building with the caveat, you be here, we get to use your equipment. So we can allow Adrienne Martin, the lead of the Democratic Party, to speak her mind on the health and social issues around here. Socialism, okay, not the values of conservative Granberry. So I'm sorry to say that, but that is the fact.

089It is a it's going to be an incubator of nonprofits and not all of them are lining up with the values of this community in the voting block. Okay. Uh so much corruption, Greenberry. This person's coming to realize it's more severe than they dreamed. the school district has been corrupt. Um, so I just want you to say you just can't take our money as taxpayers and then just go do whatever you want with it. You can't. I mean, you might you might get away with it. You already did it. You let them in. They invited more in and now it's kind of embarrassing to get them out. But I'm saying they need to be out and that building needs to be used a different way or you need to do the honorable thing and sell

090it just like YMCA. So that's how I feel about that. Um, I was going to speak on elections for trustees. I think that's great. Can't wait to see who's running. We're looking for people who will make the reading scores rise. Look at education out there. You can do you can so easily find out what's working and make it happen here. You can have reading that works and math that works and scores that blow your mind. And there are districts across the country that are doing it. Just got to do a little research. Doesn't take about 20 minutes to figure out what's working and why what's happening isn't working. >> Thank you, Miss Brown. >> You're welcome. Our next speaker is Miss Cindy Leatherman speaking on UIL. [Music] Good evening. I have uh taught at GHS

091for several years and I am a UIL academic coach. I completed the survey in opposition to homeschool students participating in UIL because I have several concerns. Thank you trustees for allowing me to speak to this issue. My first concern is that this might encourage GISD students to withdraw and pursue homeschooling. Students attend GISD schools roughly eight hours a day and only practice their competitive activity briefly during the school day. UIL regulates the time that coaches may practice. Homeschool students would not be regulated in this area and could practice their sport, their instrument or competitive skill much longer during the day. as this might make them much better at that skill. Why would GISD students want to stay enrolled in school? Um, many athletic teams and UIL academic teams are competitive within the team. I had

092to cut seven students on my social studies team this year. I don't want to encourage students to stay at home and only attend the parts of school that they like. Could this possibly cost us our students and our ADA funding? Secondly, as an academic coach, I'm required to check my students grades in their classes. I can communicate with a teacher about missing assignments or low grades. Texas does not regulate homeschooled students as far as a curriculum or assessment. And while many pursue a rigorous curriculum, a rigorous curriculum such as a Becca parents are not required to do this. How do I know as a coach that the assignments and assessments are at the same level as my students in GISD? And how do I know that the student passed these assignments? Thirdly, as UIL academic

093coaches, we do not have a class period, and we work with students when they are available. Often, this is before or after school, but sometimes it's during our quest and lunch period. How would homeschool students entering our campus work logistically in our front office with young people coming and going um from campus? Would this be placing a burden on our front office staff? While on campus, would homeschool students be required to follow the student code of conduct, dress code, the wearing of a student ID? Um, when we go to competitions, would this be required and would this need to be addressed in the handbook? Um, some UIL programs like marching band and volleyball have already begun for the year. Do we know I I was unfamiliar with how the money would work for this? Um,

094and so I'm asking if you would please consider not allowing this for the 2526 school year, but revisiting the issue in the spring when more information can be known. And finally, I would like families to be fully committed to GISD and not look at us as an allocart system. Um, as one of my fellow coaches, academic coaches stated, teams are not just built in practices or games or competitions. They're built in classrooms and hallways and cafeteria in the library. Our students have shared experiences, friends, and teachers. While I was successful at coaching UIL social studies this year, I'm an even better classroom teacher. I would like the opportunity to teach Granberry students. Um, I would like to have them as part of our school team, not just my social studies team. Coaches are good teachers,

095too. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Leman. And then our last speaker for the night is Shannon Wolf speaking on Decker Gym and United Way. >> You don't look like Shannon Wolf. I do not. Hi, my name is Jessica War and Dr. Wolf has asked me to read her comments. She couldn't be here tonight. These are comments by Shannon Wolf, July 21st, 2025. Good evening, trustees. I couldn't be here in person this evening as I'm out of state testifying in a human trafficking case involving a child. Thank you for allowing my comments to be read. The Decker Gym is a landmark in Hood County and I have long hoped that it would again be used in the ISD in some capacity. The gym is owned by the school and therefore by Hood County citizens and this

096board is the caretaker of the gym. I realize that the gym is in great disrepair and GISD does not have the funds to renovate it. Still, it is eligible for a historic site designation. Gifting the gym to the United Way is very generous. I can't help but remember that this board has repeatedly attempted to pass multi-million dollar bonds over the past few years and now wants to give property away. One must ask why. Why the United Way? 48% of all revenue funds received are given to employees. 37% is given to organizations outside of the US. 5% is given to organizations within the US. Why the United Way in Hood County? Is it because court trustee Courtney Gore is a board member of the United Way in Hood County? Is it because Miss Gore is a

097personal friend of Crystalmore? What other nonprofits in our community have been approached as a possible recipient of this gym? And as a side note, there is much >> Yes. >> Can you pause the time for just a second? If if there's a personal complaint that she has against a specific person or board member, there's a process for her to fill that out. but not like this. But if there's something that she does have a issue with, we have a process for her to be able to address that issue. But to publicly call people out by name, like people in the audience. >> Okay. Um I'm just reading what she wrote. So what do you want? >> You can skip the parts that has specific names in them. >> If there if she's calling any specific

098people out, just skip the names. >> Okay. Let me read ahead just a little bit. Okay. Why choose the United Way in Hood County to decide what community nonprofits benefit from the United Way? During the last schoolboard meeting, Trusty Gore stated that this district cannot make parents sign up for free lunches. And Miss Moore stated that she could make them by not allowing them to receive school supplies and Christmas gifts for needy children unless they sign up for free and reduced lunches. It was also stated last meeting that the decision to give the property to the United Way was based in part because the United Way could receive more grants if they owned it. Could it be that Trusty Gore is confused in her roles as a GISD trustee? And >> can you remember that

099rule about let's not call people out by name? >> Okay, I might be confused. You asked me not to call out audience members. Can we not call >> board members? >> Yes. >> Any any individual? >> Yes. >> Okay. Do you want to read the statement and tell me which part you'd like me to leave out? >> Just anybody's >> anyone's individual names. >> Okay. >> Understand that she does. She has been given I get it. >> These are not my words. I get this. But also, it is my understanding that um the public can call out our board members during a meeting. >> Is that not correct? >> No. Well, if if there So, if there's a Can you pause the time real quick? I'm sorry. if there's a personal issue or uh complaint

100or something like that that someone has, there's a process for that, but not to, I guess, break people publicly like calling them out individually by name. I'm not clear on the law or what the specific law is, but I can get that information for you. >> Okay. I would just be curious personally. This isn't my statement, but I would be curious. Yeah, I >> because it is my understanding that if we have an issue with the board member, we bring it publicly here and we can use your name. I mean, I guess you could bring anything publicly, but we do have a process in place for people to address those issues. >> Okay. Um, do you see in this statement anything that you would like you would like me to skip reading the last three

101or four paragraphs? >> Okay. >> Yeah, we'll pass that around. >> Okay. Could it be that we have a trustee that is confused in her roles as a GISD trustee and a United Way board member? This is a conflict of interest at best. A local businessman spoke with the United Way about locating his business at the gym and the United Way stated that they would be accepted, but only if that businessman promoted the local Democrat party and mentioned the local Democrat chairperson by name. Why on earth would taxpayers give property to someone who will use the property to promote a political party? This whole deal has a plethora of unethical and undertones and sets a dangerous precedent for future land decisions. >> Thank you, Miss Work. >> Okay, moving on. That wraps up our public

102comments. We are moving on to consider action on items discussed in close session. Uh we have staff recommendations. Do I have a motion? >> Madame President, I move that we accept the staff recommendations uh discussed during close session. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion by Miss Townsen and a second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion? >> All right, hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. Let the record show that is 740 against. All right. Next, um did you want to speak to um Yes. So, we did discuss some properties um in close session. Um and uh one of the things that came up was the decker gym and we are not ready to take any action on that. We have several questions that we still want answered. Um and we've got a

103list of those. We want to be good stewards of the taxpayer money and so some more questions to be answered before we take action um on that particular property. and other properties. We are also just still um thinking through and talking through no action to be taken on any of the properties. Oh yes, there was. >> Yes, we we need to approve that one. And then so next one would be to consider the action on the property that we discussed, the James Road. James Road >> the Meadows Drive. the Meadows Drive property. >> It is. Yep. The 1300 Meadows Drive, Granberry, Texas 76048. Do I have a motion? >> That was for the zoning. >> Okay. Right. So if there's a motion, it would be for amending from low density residential to high density residential

104and zone. Yep. >> I'll make that motion. >> Okay. So I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to amend from low density residential to high density residential. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> And I have a second by Mr. Moore. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor, raise your hand. Okay, let the record show that is 70. All in favor? >> All right, moving on. We have our consent agenda items. Do any trustees want to pull any items for further discussion? >> Pull 12D. >> 12D. Any other items? All right, let's move on to 12D. Consider revisions to local policies BDA and BDB, CSA, DCE, EI, FD, FDE, FEC, FM, and FNC. >> Only have one. >> Repeat of FD. Would like to make a motion. I move that we form

105a committee to see what areas of our UIL program, if any, could be open to participation by homeschool students. I further move that this committee make recommendations on funds received by GISD to be largely funded by to the teachers, coaches, and directors and facilitators of our UIL programs. >> Okay. So, you have a motion to form a committee. Did you right now we have to decide for this academic year if we're going to allow homeschool participation in UI UIL activities. So did you want to did you want to include this and say that we're going to hold off this year and form this committee to do during this year and then >> first I first I'd like to make this motion. If it passes then we'll form the committee and we'll have we won't take

106action on the uh on page 113 which deals with not uh doing the academic or the UL programs but between uh academics and uh athletics and uh fine arts I think there's a lot of different UIL programs that are at stake here and I think we need a committee to adjust and the the board has a capability to address these um individually or as a group. And I think there's enough things that have been brought up that we need to talk about each one of these different programs and decide whether or not we're going to do that. Also, I think the $1,500 that uh comes up on this should be taken into account and where that should go. I think Mr. Whitefield mentioned that that's un unrestricted type funds. Was I correct in that of

107$1,500? >> I don't believe >> I don't I don't think we have that specific information yet. >> Well, if it is un that's what we need to find out. >> There's some there's some unanswered questions and um I think what Courtney was saying is just to be clear is that we have to make a decision. So, automatically the law is that homeschool students will get to participate unless we put a policy in place that says they will not. So, this policy says they will not. I think the discussion is is all the parts that go into that. Make sure that clear. So, we still have another school board meeting prior to that. We'd have time to uh to bring that back up. >> I believe is it August 1st? We have Can someone check? Can

108you guys check when this is? >> No, it's September 1st this year. It's >> August 1st after that. Thank you. I remember the two dates. Thank you. >> So, if this if this passes, so if this passes, then we would not allow homeschool students. What I guess my question is whether this passes or not. Do you want to form this committee? So, like if if we pass this resolution, we don't allow homeschoolers. we still form a committee so that we have all of that information you're wanting to get in case we do want to implement it the following year or do you want to have this committee only form if we decide to allow homeschoolers >> only form the committee if it u if it passes tonight if it doesn't we can take action on

109the way that it's written on page 113 which is not to take part in UIL programs this year and bring it back up the following year so I'd like to address it for this year and That's the way my motion. You want me to read say the motion again? >> So, you want to approve allowing homeschool students, but you want to also form a committee. >> I want to form a committee to discuss that and then bring it back up >> In August. Okay. And make a determination with more information. >> Okay. So, I have >> table the discussion. >> No, not table it. Table it for the same meeting >> normally. >> Okay. >> So, not take action this meeting. what he's >> on for a committee and then come back next >> um

110month with a recommendation. >> Confused. >> I just don't know if one month is enough time to do all that work that the committee would need to do. >> I don't know that the kidittee would do the work. We we need to take the month to form the committee. Am I I don't want to misquote you. >> Yeah. And then that because so way I'm what I'm understanding and if I'm wrong tell me but you want to get this committee together to reach out to all the different UIL um teams that we have. Yes. >> Cuz maybe one team is okay with allowing some homeschoolers and some aren't. And so we you're looking at possibly peacemilling it based on the feedback from the committee. >> Yeah. And so I've talked to um Coach Moore. I've

111talked to several of the of different people in the in the uh district about this and there is some interest. Uh I wanted to talk to Miss Leatherman. She was on vacation. But uh there are certain different aspects of of UIL where there's different coaches involved, fine arts, band directors, choir directors, swimming coaches, all these different people. Um we can peiemeal that as a board. you can either uh take it as a whole, which is kind of the way it's it's being put up now to not do that, but I think um that also coach Moore had talked to Weatherford, I believe they accept uh UIL um homeschoolers and I believe they had in the whole Weatherford school district, there were only nine um athletes that are taking part in those UIL programs within athletics.

112But within all these different deal, fine arts and uh academics and um athletics, it's there's so many different ones. I just hate to turn them all down if in fact um um we could do some good within the school. We want to have the best all obviously u UIL is highly competitive. Um and uh but we want to have the best teams that we can for our UIL to to compete with other schools that we do. And the the teachers, I guess the coaches themselves make up um and determine who their teams are. The the school district would still be eligible to uh give $1,500 per student that come into the program and then determine how that money is going to be used. uh whether it's within that program or if it goes into a

113general fund or you know we'd have to make that decision which is why there's a lot to do and I just don't think uh blowing it off for this year would be uh feasible. I think we ought to look at it and see what we can do and if there's something we can fine if it gets voted down that's fine too but I think we need to look at it and not just um blindly you know accept that. So >> I'd like to amend the motion. >> So before you do that, I just want to clarify the motion. >> So the motion we have is to approve this policy so that we we don't allow uh homeschool students this year, but we form a committee and look at where we might do that next year.

114>> No, no, >> no. Okay. >> That's why I'm clarifying. >> So I'll read it again. >> I'd let you read this, but it's my scratch. But >> cuz the if when you say this passes, the policy that is proposed right here is to um not allow >> and we don't I don't want to do that. I want to make a motion to form a committee >> to see if there's some UIL programs that could be opened up to homeschoolers this year >> and then have that information by next meeting >> by the next meeting so we can make the September 1st deadline. >> Okay. So, the current motion is to allow homeschool students to participate this year, but to form a committee to see what programs we might allow them to participate in and

115just kind of go from there and make a decision at the next board meeting. >> Yes. discuss with the uh coaches, the teachers, the directors um to see if if there's certain programs within athletics, say swimming says, "Yeah, we'd like to get these people, then we bring swimmers in." Or if it's a a golf a kid that plays golf very well, he will and he's homeschooled and the golf coach says it's a good idea, we can make that decision. We can peacemeal this as we see necessary. So, we wouldn't be making a formal decision on whether we allow homeschool students tonight or not. That would be at the next board meeting. You just want to get this committee formed and get that information gathered. >> Correct. >> Okay. So, that is the motion. >> I

116second. >> You you second the motion. >> Certainly. Thank you. >> Okay. Did you have an amendment? >> Yes. >> Okay. What's your amendment? >> So, I I think I think this includes all of those things. I think we're on the same page. So, I'm just going to read off what I wrote that the board shall allow non-GISD students to participate in UIL extracurriculars effective January 1st. I'll get to the reasons why for that in a minute. January 1st, 2026 in order to provide this committee to be formed and to do its research and due diligence to understand the logistics, the financial impacts, the academic impacts if any, and for as much as it's possible to quantify any social impacts in the interest to minimize and mitigate those and any other impacts. Moreover, this motion

117shall include a provision for this board to review this program on an annual basis during the March school board agenda ahead of spring tryyouts, which is part of the reason for that delay to January ahead of the spring tryyouts and on an otherwise light agenda month. >> So, there's other UIL activities besides the spring like there's academic ones that they start day one. And so if if we aren't starting this till January 1, there's a lot of other UIL activities that have already been some have already even started like banned. So >> appreciate that. >> So just knowing that and and hearing what y'all are saying. Um >> hold on, there's more. >> Okay, keep going. >> Having said that, this motion also includes striking the proposed paragraph under FD local policy in blue uh

118on page 113 of the July board book. So we would strike that language, not adopt that language, and instead move in favor of going forward to allow homeschool or nonGISD students the opportunity to participate in uh UIL extracurricular, >> but not starting until January 1st. >> Not starting until January 1st. But I did that because I I don't want to, you know, uh the kind of proverbial moving the football where where where Charlie Brown's trying to kick and Lucy's moving it out of the way. I don't I don't want to invite this to happen and then say, "Hey, you can participate in these and then say, but not this year because you missed spring triyouts." So I the academic piece of that maybe we can we can amend it further to allow for something like

119that. I'll let you go ahead. It looks like >> Yeah. I just want to make sure that I think um what we're saying is what I think what you're saying is that if we said we allow them today um which I don't think you're proposing that um then a lot of opportunity has been missed from spring tryyouts and summer workouts. And so to say you're able to come into our school system at this point would almost be um inviting some some issues if we said you're available to try out next spring for the following school year. I think that's what you were saying is to get the process in the spring in place so that there's an equal opportunity for everything. And I don't I'll have to confirm with the legal if we can peacemail

120it. I think that's something that I don't know the answer to. Um and I'm happy to to look at that. >> Well, I read through the bills and it pretty much said that we could do >> that we can add >> peace meal is is necessary. >> The the Okay. All right. Thank you for that. We should probably definitely get um clarification from legal to make sure that that is the case. I'm sure it is. Um but just to double check. So the motion, >> we have a motion by Mr. Wimberly to um not take any formal action tonight other than forming a committee to get more information on possibly peacemealing certain UIL activities for homeschoolers. Um and then making a decision at the next board meeting. Um we have an amendment that we now

121need to vote on by Mr. Bolton that um says pretty much the same thing but to that it would allow homeschool students to start January 1st so that if we did move forward with this they would have the opportunity to try out in the spring for the following school year. >> I don't think we can make an amendment to to the motion until we have a motion that's been >> we have to approve the amendment and then we vote on the whole thing and so the amendment either passes or fails. If the amendment passes, then we vote on the whole motion with the amendment. If the amendment fails, then we vote on just the motion that Billy made. >> Correct. >> Have a clarification. Um, if we wait, then the children that could be participating

122in UIL things that haven't started yet won't get to do that then again until next year. Is that correct? >> Correct. >> You want to amend the amendment? >> If I could figure out how to amend the amendment, yes, I I would I just think that it needs to be started now. those that know that they've already missed that opportunity will have to wait because of teams have already started or maybe that they try out anyway and and they may become part of the team because they're that good. I I just want don't want to complicate the comp the uh conversation here, but >> no, I like the complication. So So that's news to me. I didn't realize that we could that there were opportunities to start even immediately on some some things. And so,

123uh, I'm not opposed to adding in an an amendment to my amendment, if you will. >> Okay. >> To suggest, can I amend my own amendment? >> Well, first we have to vote on your amendment. >> No, no, we don't. We can keep stacking amendments up in property right now. >> Okay. So, do you want to change your amendment? >> Yes. >> What do you want your amendment to say? >> In effect, the same thing. I mean, I haven't written it out, but in effect, the same thing. But where there are opportunities that we can start right away, I'd want to do that where it's not Lucy moving the football. Okay. >> So, >> okay. So, not hard January 1st. That's just for spring tryyouts, but other academics. >> That's why I included that date

124because I wanted to capture spring tryyouts and not and not pull the football. >> All right. So, the amendment we have on the table by Mr. Bolton. Um, do I have a second for that amendment? >> Can you read the amendment again? >> Okay. Sucker. Um uh the motion is that the board shall allow nonGISD students to participate in UIL extracurriculars. Here I say effective January 1st, 2026 for those activities uh that require spring tryyouts, but otherwise immediately for those that would be more academic in nature and not require tryyouts. I'm piecing that together on the fly. Um, in order to provide a committee to be formed to research and do its diligence to understand the logistics and financial impacts, the academic impacts if any, and for as much as possible to quantify uh any

125social impacts, all of it in the interest to minimize and mitigate those and any other impacts that we may find along the way. Moreover, this motion shall include a provision for this board to review this program on an annual basis during the March school board meeting uh agenda ahead of those spring tryyouts and on an otherwise light agenda month. That said, this motion also includes striking the language in paragraph the blue paragraph. >> Okay. So, your your amendment um adds those things to the committee. >> Yes. >> And it also includes striking the language from the policy. >> Yes. Well, we just wouldn't adopt it. >> We just we just wouldn't adopt it. >> That's right. >> So, okay. So, does everybody understand the amendment that's on the table? >> Not to get confused. >>

126May anybody >> may I ask a question? Okay. Well, first off, we need a second on that and then we can have discussion. >> Correct. We need a second on the amendment. That's why I said does everyone understand the amendment that's on the table? No, I don't. But we need So we're gonna discuss it. The amendment on the table a second. >> Yeah. So the amendment is for uh Billy did his committee and then Mr. Bolton added on to the committee that we would go ahead and allow homeschool students to start now. Um so that's new. >> So right now we would be voting to approve them to to to come. So, so someone can tomorrow come in and say, "I want to join marching band." >> Correct. Because that because his amendment strikes this

127language. So, we would be if we voted to on the amendment, we would be allowing homeschoolers to participate as of after tonight's meeting. >> Okay, I understand. >> Okay. >> All right. So, we need a second. Does anyone second Mr. Bolton's motion? Okay. The amendment fails. So now all we have on the table is the motion by Mr. Billy Wimberly to not take any formal action tonight. Form a committee, get some more information on if there are any UIL programs that are receptive to taking on some homeschoolers or not, seeing if this is something we could possibly peacemail or not based on the feedback we get from that committee and then make a formal decision and vote at next month's meeting. I have a motion by Mr. Billy Wimberly for that. >> And I have

128a second. >> Do I have any further discussion? So from what I'm understanding, I just want to make sure I'm understanding. So what we're saying is we are holding off making a decision on FD local tonight. A committee will be formed tomorrow. That committee will meet within the next month. to talk about whether or not we believe this would work or are there particular disciplines in extracurricular that would be interested in opening that up and then we would meet next month and then decide whether we're going to put no total or we're going to put yes on certain areas. Is that my understanding correct? >> That's correct. So, a little more information to part to participate students are responsible by the law to pay the same fees as GS GISD uh participants. They also must

129register for activities, meet the age restrictions, pay required insurance, transportation costs, physical conditioning, qualifications, responsibilities, event schedules, standards of behavior, and performance. And that's exactly the same as a GISD student would have to do. So, anything that a GISD um child uh that participates is covered by the school, that would be covered by the school for the you for the the homesooled child, but they have that the law says you have to meet those those restrictions. And also, um we talked about it already, but we have until September 1st opt out of this legislation. Um, and then we need to discuss with a lot of different folks, coaches, >> uh, people like Mrs. Leatherman, uh, to see if they want to to be in this program or not. Take that into account, make a decision.

130There's also $1,500 per child per event, >> per event. So, if someone came in and they wanted to do >> golf, football, and choir, >> that means we would get $4,500. >> That's correct. >> You're sure about that? >> Yes. >> But the odds of that happening are pretty low. >> I know. Just trying to make sure I understand. That was a question I had. So, that's good to know. >> They might be in several academic programs if they're um high achiever anyway. That could happen. I could see that more likely. And I just want to make clear that the things you listed um are not all the things that are required of Granberry ISD students. So there is attendance and grades that are required of Granberry ISD students. >> There's grades required by the

131uh student homeschool too. They either have to take the Iowa test, the California test, and there's two other major national tests that they have to uh >> like a summitative exam, but we were talking about the no pass no play where it's um a regular checking of grades. So I just want to make sure that we have that. And yes, there are some differences. >> There's an accountability measure built into the public school setting with UIL that they they coincide with each other. So like Mrs. Leatherman when she was speaking spoke to the fact that she can check on her students grades in whatever classes they're in to make sure that they're still eligible. And so it acts like an accountability measure for our own public school students. But that that system, that process isn't

132in place for anyone who's in a homeschool setting because the UIL coaches and teachers don't have access to grades like that. >> But the the parents have to provide that and they have to pay for the test and they have to make average or above. >> So they are they required to take the test multiple times a year? >> Just once a year. >> Yeah. So >> yeah, once per year >> because our great our kids in public school, they're checked consistently like weekly daily. But by this law, it has to be done with one of those four tests. >> Okay? >> And they have to score average or above and that has to be proved by the parents and they have to pay for the test. >> In our FMA, it it says that

133this is all granted. And under prohibitions, it says that the subject they're only subject to the eligibility requirements. The curriculum or assessment requirements, performance standards, practices, or creative education program provided to a non-enrolled student may not be required to be changed in order for the non-enrolled student to participate in UIL. We've got it already. Our legal says that we can do it. Why why are we wanting to wait longer? We could say yes, we want to do this and then form the committee and then say, okay, these are the things we want to do. But there's no reason not to allow these children to play and and perform in our UIL. They're they're our family, they're are friends, they're our community, and when are we talking 100? Are we talking 50? Are we talking maybe

13410 children? >> What was the count on Weatherford? Who had that count? >> Yeah, Weatherford. Coach Moore checked with the uh that that was the only school district that that was that he checked that was allowing UIL activities within the athletic department. He believes there were nine students in all the different sports that were participating. >> But we don't know anything about academic or fine arts. >> Okay. >> Hadn't gone that far. The other thing too, I know with this new law, if um so Weatherford's the only one in the area that I'm aware of that's doing this already, but it would open us up to accepting homeschool students from wherever because if there's no school districts in their area that accept homeschool students, they can go to the next closest to the next closest,

135>> but you have to accept them. So yes, so if there's a kid that came from say Hurn and he came here and said, "Hey, you guys accept people in academics, you don't have to accept them." >> That's right. In our geography, we have to, but outside of our geography, it's an option for >> That's correct. >> I'm not sure about that. >> I'm pretty sure we have to. >> If if they're if their home district does not allow it, they are able to go to the next regionally closest school district that allows >> that accepts them >> that Yes. So if we if we accept homeschool students, >> if we accept homeschool students, they would come to us. >> If we accept any homeschool students, then we have to accept those. >> Yes, that's

136my understanding. One of the things that I just want to make clear is that this is so new that we are still learning and we are learning about the process. We are learning about I know we keep throwing weight around $1,500. We don't know how and and there may be some people that know, but we have not been presented by the commissioner any rules around this about how that enrollment would work. Um, and so I think what you'll see is there's a little bit of fear and I'm just going to be honest about that process. And so when you talk to us, I think people um, you know, may be reacting to it's coming so quickly and we're uncertain about some of the things that will need to be in place on our end and

137we're starting school in a few weeks and so um, I you know there may be lots of information out there. I have a commissioner's call on Thursday and generally that those are the the times that we get more information. Last time he gave a talk to us he did not have he told us $1,500 but there was no process in place for that. So some of it is just the unknown >> discover discovering that process is is part of the reason why I wanted to put a January first date on there to give you I mean this came from discussions with you and with Tammy and with coach Moore and some students and some uh administrators from other districts and board members from other districts. And so, uh, talking about those things, um, my own

138son today said, "Well, why not?" >> That that that's my only apprehension around doing a committee and trying to have that information by next month with school starting in a couple weeks. Teachers are trying to get ready for their get their classrooms ready, get ready to receive students, all the back to school stuff that that goes into what our educators do. It worries me that it's going to add more more workload in a really critical time. And so I'm I'm almost wondering if holding off a year, forming that committee and working that committee over the next year as especially as we learn more and get more information and then that gives them a time to do thorough um thorough work, talk to everybody, get good data for us. So when we come back next year

139to vote on this, we'll have that presentation ready by the committee. >> So that's essentially the way I wrote it. And the reason why I wrote it that way is because I'm I'm fine with waiting a year to do it, but we don't want to wait a year to do it and then be in the same place where we've missed their opportunity to do spring tryyouts. >> I'd like So that's the reason why >> I'd like to join in on this conversation. Um, we talk about this as if this is the only opportunity the students in in our community have to participate in any of these opportunities. Um, it's not like if they don't participate in football that in Granberry ISD that they're not going to be able to play football any place else. Um,

140I believe in school choice and I believe that if a parent chooses to homeschool their children, they've made a choice. If they choose to private choose a private school, they've made a choice. If they choose a charter school or a public school, they've made a choice. And if they choose a public school as a public school advocate, by golly, I'm going to support them in that public school choice. And as a public school advocate, I stand for that child and the teachers and the coaches in the public school. We had a former teacher and a former principal and former central office employee whose son was a very strong football player here in Granberry. When he was a junior, they chose to send him to a private school in Fort Worth because he was such a

141good football player. He went to private school in Fort Worth. He got a scholarship to play football at Colombia, was the starting quarterback at Colombia and did quite well. He he excelled in academics and he excelled in sports and he did did that not in public school but he did it in the private sector. She was a public school advocate, but she chose private school for her child and he excelled in academics and in the athletic field. I believe that public school when you choose for public schools that you choose um you that as a public school advocate. I am choosing to do the very best for our students and for our teachers that are in public schools. Our homeschool families, by golly, they are choosing to do the very best for their children in

142the homeschool settings. They have all kinds of opportunities in the in the community for sports. They have all kinds of uh opportunities for fine arts, for academics. uh in the private schools they have multiple opportunities for excelling in academics and they are not hindered one way or another in ac in uh sports opportunities. I mean this young man went on to Colombia. He he did quite well. He wasn't hindered one way or another as far as sports opportunities. And so to say that if you go to a private school, you're not going to be seen in the sports field is is not correct. To leave Granberry ISD because you feel like you're not being met. Um your needs academically are not being met. Um, and so you leave at Granberry ISD and go to a

143private school and yet when you do that you feel like your your um sports needs are not being met. You have to make a choice. And I know that uh sometimes the people in our community say, "Well, yes, but I am a taxpayer." But when you made the decision to homeschool or private school, you knew that you were a taxpayer at that point. also. So that isn't to me is not an issue either. You were you made the choice. You stood by your choice and it's your responsibility to go through with that choice. I am a public school advocate. I stand by our public school students. I will vote as a public school advocate and I see no need to continue to go form a committee because I feel like we're all pretty well know

144how we're going to vote anyway. And I think that our our teachers and our students who are in our public schools deserve the opportunity to get the very best and have every opportunity without having private school and homeschool students coming in to compete against them in their own schools. And um so if I have to vote right now, I would vote for our public school students and I would ask that we support our public school students and not allow our homeschool and our private school students to come in and compete against our public school students. >> So I don't I don't think it's an all or nothing decision. I mean the when somebody makes that decision that you were describing as their choice and they make a choice that they don't necessarily have to make

145an all or nothing choice that they can choose to go and the state agrees with me on this. The legislature has just ruled on it that they can make a choice to homeschool their children for the academics and participate in sports and other extracurriculars. And so, um, I don't I don't I don't like the idea that, um, and we've got to stop thinking this way, that the kids have betrayed us somehow when they leave public schools that they're gone and out and we forget they ever existed. They're dead to us. And so, I think there's opportunity here for those kids. And, uh, and we have it. And I think especially if you're a public school advocate that the that the possibility that we bring them in the door and they get a foot in the

146door and decide, you know, I like this better after all. My my son did that. I mean that all two of my three sons did that that they decided they didn't want to be in the private school I was sending them to and paying fat tuition for that they uh wanted to come to this school instead and so they came to GHS both of them and graduated from there. So that happens. they get their foot in the door and they decide this is where they want to be. And so I think this may be an opportunity for that. And if we're public school advocates and we think that we're putting the best program forward, then that might happen. And we I think we've just got to stop thinking that they're secondass citizens if they if

147they choose alternative uh uh weights. >> I I don't think they're secondass citizens. I just think that there's different categories out there and that whatever category we choose we they need to we need to we need to support that category and the category of public schools I support 100%. I'm here right now supporting public schools. >> Me too. and and if I >> extracurricular I have grandchildren in private schools and I if they want to do private schools I think that parents that's that's their choice but I don't think we need to be I think as when we start opening our doors to private school and homeschool then we're we're letting them come in and take the place of our of our of our public school students. >> But that's not true. They don't displace

148anybody. >> Well, they do in competition. >> Not necessarily. They just are part of the team. >> But they not necessarily. >> Not necessarily. >> Okay. I'll give you one other example. One other example here locally. Just >> one other example here locally is the SEALs. The SEALs have been in place for 30 years. >> They formed a group of of individuals that are highly competitive. About 25 to 30% of those kids are homeschooled. About 70% of the of the high school swimmers were former SEALs. Some of them are private school, some of them are public school. There's one individual that's going to be a sophomore this year that I talked to a Seals coach and she said that there's one kid that's that that is a sophomore that is highly competitive probably at the

149NCAA level at least. And to exclude that, that's why I think we should form a committee. If we go to the swimming coach and he says, "I'd love to have that kid on my team. It would improve our school's performance if he's really that good. It would also open it up to somebody that could could uh help GISD. And so I I believe that uh that committee could go to c these certain coaches or certain directors. If there's a if there's a pianist that's really good or a violinist that's really good, that's not really offered that much. I know that you Nancy are in favor of an or of an orchestra. There's no orchestra at Granberry High at High School. They have a concert band and they have a marching band. But if you got

150a pianist, somebody's really good on a violin, maybe somebody on a different cello, that is good. You can have an orchestra here with homeschooled kids if they're if they're available. >> Also breeds camaraderie and acceptance of each other and others that are coming in. >> Well, I get to put in my two cents now. I won't be as wordy as Nancy, but I feel like as elected officials for a Granberry ISD public school system is that we have an obligation to protect our public school students. And I I have nothing against private or homeschooling, but if you make that choice that you are giving up other activities and and like Nancy said, there are other organizations that you can join to do things like that if you choose not to do public education. So that's

151my two cents. >> Any further discussion? >> All right. So call the question forward. >> The motion on the table is Billy Wimberly's motion to not take formal action tonight, form a committee, and have the committee report back to us next month and vote on this next month. That is the motion. And I have a second. No further discussion. All in favor of warming a committee and bringing this back for next month's agenda, raise your hand. Okay. And those against okay record is let the record show the motion passes 43. We're going to form a committee for them to come back next month. So from to make sure I understand since we are not taking action on this right now. If someone calls tomorrow and says I want to try out for something. >> No

152or banned. >> It doesn't it doesn't go into effect until September 1st. Correct. Okay. >> Oh. So that's right. >> Just want to make sure I understand that. >> Right. >> No. What if we were to vote on this tonight then they could starting September 1st then they could they could call and get on the the teams or try out >> but they don't do anything they could >> right if we don't do anything it so when we when we come back tomorrow not tomorrow but next month and then vote on this then that's when we'll know if it opens up or not. Okay. So that was item 12D and that passed with Billy's amendment four to three and that >> no amendment Billy's motion >> I'm sorry Billy's motion and that was 43 that

153was Miss Lowry Mr. Bolton Mr. Wimberly and myself for and Nancy and Mike Moore and Barbara Townson against that was just for the FD. The FD the rest of the pol the rest of the policies we're going to vote on the rest of the consent agenda now. So >> I need to pull >> Oh, okay. I'm sorry. >> CSA and FNC. >> CSA. >> Mhm. >> Okay. And the other one? FN CE. >> FNC FNC. >> What is Am I backwards? FNC. >> FNC. Yeah. >> FNC. >> All right. So, let's talk about CSA first. >> All right. >> CSA, it's short, won't be long. Um, the I I am definitely in favor of u men not playing in women's sports, which is not this one. That's the other one that is kind of going

154along with this one. Uh because now we're not going to be allowing men to go into women's restrooms, locker rooms, changing rooms, or shower rooms. And I think as a GISD, it's good that we are going to be keeping our young ladies and women safe by implementing this policy. And unless anybody else has got a lot of discussion, I've got a motion. >> All right. So, I have a motion to approve CSA policy. Yes. >> By Mrs. Lowry. Do I have a second? So moved. Second. >> Who? >> Barbara. Miss Townsen. Seconded. So that's a motion by Miss Lowry, a second by Miss Townsen. Do I have any discussion? Any further discussion? I would just like to add or I guess make a statement that all this does is align local policy with the legal

155state law. >> Yes. We didn't have it in in any policy. So, I it needed to be written >> because I wasn't even really sure. We had something that said that men can't play in women's sports that I just had found out recently. >> So, they kind of go together. >> It was just legal. Yeah. So, this just aligns the local with the legal. >> Okay. And then the other one was the FNC, the personal communication devices. And this these revisions align with the state law in HP481. >> Correct. Um I have been um asked does this apply to all electronic defi uh devices and can they have them turned on before school and after school and also can the students bring their laptops into Quest or at lunch and what about the Wi-Fi connection

156or lack thereof not my words and are we addressing this issue >> are we addressing the Wi-Fi issue >> the Wi-Fi issue >> so all I know a couple board meetings ago we just approved all the wireless access points at the high school that because that was the the biggest campus. So that was getting done over the summer, but I don't know about any other campuses. >> So we removed some of the high school. >> Okay. Okay. But they have to keep them in their backpacks and then but they can't have their laptops out at Quest or Lunch >> or Can I just make a statement about this policy because it's pretty hefty. And so, um, just a reminder that this is a new state law that says that students may not use a personal

157device, a two-way communication device, um, that can look a lot of different ways, like a smartphone, smartwatch, um, anything Bluetooth. So, students are not allowed by law to use those things on school property during the school day. And so, what we're asking is they've given us two ways to accomplish this. It's either to say don't bring them to school, don't bring them to school, or to designate a storage area. We're recommending the policy after getting lots of great feedback um about designating a storage area. And so really your decision tonight is is that um now once we do that, there will be lots of other conversations that we have to make sure that people do have what they need to access the learning that that we're providing. Um also what are the consequences? What are

158the what are the hours we consider school hours? Those kinds of things. So I think um tonight you're deciding how to accomplish that law. whether we're going to say don't bring them or whether we're going to say designate a storage area and we're asking you to designate a storage area so that we can start um making plans and communicating with our families that that we would include those as a backpack or a purse um and then think about some of those times that they have um to have those on or off at the school. >> Okay. Thank you. >> That's key. I think that they're locked the locked area can be their own purse or backpack. Yeah. We don't have to designate an area. we don't have to buy zipper bags, >> right? We can

159designate their backpack or purse as a storage area. Um, and then we'll get more specific about that, making sure everybody understands what that looks like. Um, once you guys decide to to approve that, if you do as is, >> but no additional appreciable expense to the to the district. >> It costs us nothing. Um, there are grants that will come out if it doesn't work. Um, and we do have to lock them up. There are some grants that are coming out from the state in August and September um that we could do. So, we would still provide a storage area, but based on the comments from our community, they really would like students to be able to keep the phones on the students in some way. Um, so we're working with that feedback and recommending

160it to you. >> Powered off, but on their person. >> Yeah, we're going to say powered off. >> Yeah. >> And in the backpacker purse because you are not allowed to have it. We will um the law talks about confiscation and so we will be communicating all of those parts of the law. Remember, this is a new law um and we have to comply and so your decision is how we comply. That was Thanks for going there. That was my next one. >> So, there's the two options and that's what we're voting on for the FNC local. >> Oh, it's just the one then that is the one that they recommend our administration is recommending is that they we designated storage area. So, that's >> that's the way it's written. Correct? Yeah. Thank you. >>

161Yep. >> Okay. Any further discussion about FNC? Okay. So, not going to pull that out to vote on separately. >> That's what I was going to say. Do Do you want me to make a motion? >> We're going to do it. No. No. We can We can >> No, not on that. I mean that I I can make a motion that we accept all further proposed changes to the policy >> on 12D. Yes. >> That were not discussed in detail with the exception >> of FD. >> 12D. FD. So, we discussed CSA, FD, FNC. and FD is the one that we made the >> All right. So, I need a motion. That's what I'm suggesting >> that um for the revisions to local policies BDAA, BDB, D, CSA, DCE, um EI, I can't read. I

162wrote >> um FDF, FEC, FM, and FNC. So moved >> to to approve all the revisions to local policies except for FD because we already voted on FD. So it's the remaining policies. >> Correct. So moved. >> So I have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? >> A second. >> And I have a second by Mrs. Lowry. Any further discussion? All in favor? Raise your hand. Hey, let the record show. That's 70. All in favor. Okay. Okay, so now moving on to the rest of the consent agenda items. Did anything else need to be pulled? Okay, so do I have a motion to approve the remaining consent agenda items? >> So moved. >> I have a motion by Mrs. Lowry and a second. >> Second >> by Mr. Bolton. Any further

163discussion? >> Okay. All in favor? Raise your hand. Let the record show that 70. All in favor? Okay. Okay, moving on to discussion action items. Item 13A, discuss for approval the 2025 2026 compensation plan. Mr. West Jones. >> Thank you, Madam President. Before you is a compensation plan for raises. Um $1,000 for teachers for zero to two years of service. >> A $2,500 increase for teachers with three to four years of service added to their prior year salary. a $5,000 increase for teachers with five or more years of service added to their prior year's salary. A 3% midpoint increase to all positions in the clerical and pair professional auxiliary pay scales and A1 2 and three on the professional pay scale. A 2% increase on the midpoint to all positions on the A4 through A8

164professional pay scale. The teacher pay raise has been limited to individuals that serve in a classroom for at least four hours a day. Any individuals salary adjustments made in the 25 26 uh may not receive the percentage salary increase. At this time I answer any questions. If not ask for your approval. >> Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the 2025 2026 compensation plan as presented? >> So moved. >> I have a motion by Mr. Bolton. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> And I have a second by Mr. Moore. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor raise your hand. Let the record show the motion passes. 70. All in favor. Okay. Next item up is discuss for approval the district scorecard and objectives. Mrs. Dr. Moroski. >> Yeah, if

165you don't mind pulling this up on the screen for me, Ryan. Um, this is uh just a a reorganizing my 90-day uh presentation. We recommended that we um reorganize and and make this uh strategic plan a little easier to read and to also uh have some some conversations about accountability uh with the board. And so, um, what you'll see in front of you is just a reorganized into, um, keeping the four priority areas decided by the committee that created the strategic plan and just redefining and making sure that we understand in each of those areas what we're really working on. So, you'll see under priority one is student achievement. We are going to work on the systems academic achievement and growth always number one. Uh, our CCMR, which is our college, career, military readiness, safety,

166well-being, and connection, and student involvement. So when we present on the strategic plan going forward in priority one, those are the things that we'll be reporting on. Um those are the priorities that um the board will be working to set outcomes on over this year. Uh priority two, human capitals will be looking at our recruitment systems, our retention systems, and our training and development systems. Once again, we will provide information um uh periodically on the updates on that. We've got Granberry Culture in here, which is our student and family culture, our staff culture, and community relationships and transparency is really important in priority three. And there's a slight tweak um to the wording in priority 4. It just said uh facilities before, but we based on the engagement sessions I had, I really wanted to

167add that financial stewardship. So um priority 4, we've added um not only just facilities, but also financial stewardship. And so under that, we're going to look at this long range facility and asset plans, transparent and effective budget processes, and alternative revenue sources. So this is our focus. Um as I said, I'll be working with the board. We'll be having roundts um and making sure that we have outcomes associated with these as we go forward throughout the next year. >> Madam President, I'll move that the uh board approved district scorecard is presented. >> Thank you. And thank you, Dr. Moroski. I have a motion by Mr. Wimberly. Do I have a second? >> Enthusiastically. And I have a second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record

168show that motion passes. 70. All in favor. All right. Next item is child nutrition report meal prices for the 2025, 2026, and August meals approval request presented by Mrs. Amy Whitley. >> Good evening. All right. Uh first I'm going to do my annual report and then I'm going to go over um the two items that I would like to propose. Um so let's see make sure I Yes. All right. So the child nutrition mission is to meet the most basic needs of our students by providing daily nutritious meals to comply with state and federal guidelines. Uh in this presentation, I'm going to start uh by talking about staff, then meals served, go over some revenues and expenditures, uh programs that we operate, and then our child nutrition strategic plan for next year. So staff, we

169have myself the director. We have four central office staff. We have nine uh cafeteria managers at the nine campuses. We have 48 food service workers and then three um subs that uh fill in when we need them. Um I would u have to say I cannot do my job without all of these people and we cannot feed all the kids without these individuals. They are amazing. uh meals served for breakfast we did uh 378,000 lunch uh 694,000 adults um 23,000 and then at Emma we uh serve snack at the end of the day and it's 47,540 574. Uh a total of meals is uh 1.1 million. So that's quite a few mills in one school year. Let's see. Then next um is our revenues and expenditures. Uh this is a projection because this is going

170to include what we're projecting through August. Um first our revenues. Our federal uh revenue is about 3.4 million and about 3 million of that is going to be our actual um claims that we do each month. Our local revenue is 1.1 million and this is going to be our allocart sales, adult sales, um also our students that are on the free and re or I'm sorry the reduced and the paid uh program and those costs that they that they have. Um and then our state uh revenue is 38,000. So the total revenues is 4.6 million. Our expenses um our salaries and our benefits is 1.8 million. Contracted services is 69,000 and this would include things like pest control, our vent hood cleanings, um our cleaning supplies and things like that. Supplies is uh 2.4 million.

171This is our food and our paper goods that we have each day. Miscellaneous expenses 14,000. And this is going to include travel, our health inspections that we do. Um, also any type of membership dues that we have uh for our staff. And then last is our equipment 125,000. So this is any repairs um that we have, any um parts that need to be uh purchased and repaired. And then um we do we did have a couple of capital expenditures. Um and those were some serving lines that we had at Actton Elementary. And um our warehouse freezer did need a new condenser. So, we had that. Um, also at Actton Elementary, um, the walk-in cooler needed a new evaporator. It was pretty old. Um, and then for our free and reduced percentage, um, this does exclude

172Emma because Emma is free because they're on that um, C program. So, in October, that percentage was 51.2%. And then in May, it went up just a tad at 52.64%. Then this is just a breakdown of our allocart per campus of what we made starting in August through May. And as you can see, the high school does have the highest amount. And this is primarily because of the coffee bar that we have there. Um and the a lot of it is, you know, snacks or maybe an extra slice of pizza that a kiddo might want to be able to get. So, um, that 522,000 in revenue is from all of those items. [Applause] The next is programs and the audits. We did have uh several audits this year in um our uh school breakfast program.

173Um, also national school lunch program. Those audits are every five years as well as the seamless summer program that's every five years as well. Then our child and adult care food program which is at uh Emma Robertson that is um the snack program and it's every three years and we passed every single one of them. >> I want to say what a great celebration that is. You're not celebrating but that is a really big accomplishment. So thank you. >> It's a lot of blood, sweat, and tears. Then last is our strategic goal for this coming year. Um, of course we encourage our households to fill out the free and reduced meal application um as much as we can. Then um something that's really um amazing is Senate Bill 1 is allowing for free breakfast and

174lunch for students um to have um I'm sorry for for reduced price students to have free breakfast and lunch for the next two years. So this past year it was just breakfast free for them. Now we're allowing um lunch to be free for them as well. And it's wonderful that it's for two years. Um the next goal is our farm to school program continuing with this program which we love uh being able to provide um Texas grown products. Um and then fourth is purchase the highest quality of foods that we can for our students. Uh the fifth one is move uh towards implementing the new biamerican guideline um through USDA and TDA. Um this is new. It started um as of July 1st and um it's basically saying that with your breakfast and your lunch

175program that only 10% of your total cost can go towards non-domemestic products. This is really difficult when it comes to especially fruit. So we all know that like bananas aren't grown in the US. So um we have to be very careful with our budget of how much of that um we spend on non-domemestic products. Um and then last is um introduce uh new entre to all the different grade levels. We did do some uh recipe testing over the summer and we're excited to be able to present those this school year. Are there any questions about my presentation? No. Okay, great. All right, moving on. Actually, Amy, I do have one quick question. Go back to the last one. >> Okay. >> So, for a student to be allowed to have the free breakfast and lunch,

176they will have had to have f fil filled out the paperwork to be able to get the reduced. >> Yes, ma'am. >> So, we're not going to run into the same problem we ran into before where everyone was getting free, so they didn't bother filling out paperwork. >> That's correct. Yes. They either have to fill out the application and qualify that way or they have to be on a state program such as SNAP, TANF or Medicaid. >> And we know who is on those programs? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions? No. Okay. Um the next thing is um the first proposal for meal prices to increase for the 2526 school year. Um, we are required to look at these meal prices each year and I'm proposing that a 5 cent

177increase on paid lunches um go into effect and the um maximum that we can charge is $41 and we are just requesting a 5-cent increase and this is actually lower than uh comparable districts that are around us such as um Berles their elementary um price for lunch is $3. That's going to be what our high school price is going to be. And then their secondary price is $3.25. So, and there are a couple other districts that are higher. Do you want to um take two votes? So, either um vote for this request and the next request or do both as one. It's up to you. I'll take a motion as one. Okay. So, do you want to go ahead and present the second half then and then they can vote on both together? >> Okay.

178So, the next one is um student reducedpric lunches for August with that bill where students are going to be able to have no cost meals if they qualify for reducedpriced meals. Um it's it begins September 1st according to the bill. Um so August those students we we would like to request that the district pay that um amount for just the August reducedpriced kids. Um, looking at what we did for last year, it's going to be just under $1,600, um, give or take, depending on how many of those students eat with us that are on the reduced price program. So, this would just make it seamless starting the school year and not having to explain, oh, you got to start in September. Do I have any qu more questions for Amy? Okay. Do I have a

179motion to approve the meal prices for the 2025, 2026, and August mills approval request? >> Madame President, I move that we approve the recommended student lunch meal prices um and the student reduced lunch prices uh and breakfast prices as recommended. >> I have a motion by Mrs. Alana. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Have a second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion hearing? None. All in favor, raise your hand. All right, let the record show. The motion passes 70. >> Thank you all so much. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. Moving on to our reports. Uh we have a academic update update on summer school. >> Good evening everybody. As the real stars make their way to the DAS, is that right? Did I say that right? Okay, good. um

180wanted to introduce our summer school uh team and uh first I wanted to just really quickly go over a little bit uh regarding the overarching purpose of summer school. So our goal is to provide students opportunities to recover credits. Uh it's also to get ahead in coursework. We call that acceleration um and then receive enrichment and support. So, our summer school helps provide um or prevent summer learning loss, particularly for students who may need to retake courses. They retake the end of course exam um and in order for them to get back on track or to graduate for those who need additional support in specific subjects as well. Summer programs also offer enrichment activities. It's funded by our state comped budget as well as by our local curriculum budget. And this year I've had the

181privilege of working with these three ladies as well as I'm getting to work with Miss Anderson as well. I'm like she's never here with us. Um but they're going to share with you some of the information about their specific summer schools and uh their specific growth measures and uh how the students responded. All right, first is Miss Nuvia Velasquez. >> Good evening Dr. Rim School Board of Trustees. My name is Nvia Velasquez. I'm currently um one of the assistant principles at Bronner Elementary. This is my fourth year in the an admin role for the summer school team and my second year as principal for GSD elementary programs. Um, we offered 16 days of instruction that meets the 120 hour require minimum requirement for the EB program. And within those 16 days, we did 15 days

182um with GenEd instruction. And the graphic here um on the right or yes, still to your right, all the DBs um shows the growth that we had. So as you can see um what we did is we took a pre-EST and a post- test for math and reading and that was based on historical data from STAR the the star tiques that we needed to hit for the district. Um and as you can see the graph just shows that of course the area of growth that we are still continuing to focus on for our district is math. Um and reading um especially fourth grade showed amazing growth at um almost 79% growth. So that was amazing within that short amount of time. Um, and that goes to our amazing curriculum department who helped guide us. And

183even though they're not on here, I did want to mention the transportation department. Um, Mr. Kurthers, Boholiaak, and Miss Leslie Gray. We could not have done summer school without them. Um, I could not do their job and do not wish to do their job. Um, but I just wanted to mention them because I know they're not on here, but they really really did play a big role in getting our kids to school as well all all of our parents. you know, it was a new school for a lot of the parents and they were very u welcoming and great to work with. We did serve on average about 230 students a day um with um 33 instructional staff members. Yes. And so um we do offer 120 hours of instruction that is required for the

184EB language acquisition. And so what that does is for current preK and kinder students and they focus on the academic English growth um within that program. So what that looked like for us and my people call her a firecracker. I think that's a nice word for your little wild child. Um she was part of that program and I actually saw a lot of growth. So for her we also did a pre and post assessment and those students showed 34% growth. So that was anything from um their colors in English, their ABCs in English, their numbers, patterns, rhyming. So we also serve those students as well. Can you give me an idea on you know you uh for example the we you were talking about the fourth grade our LA growth growth of 79. What what

185does that mean 79%. So whenever they did the preassessment we were about at 67% and so then >> 67% >> of passing score. >> Okay. >> Yes ma'am. And so then um from there when they took the next assessment the post assessment to see where they have grown they were at 79%. And so we took an average of all the students for what they made for the pre-EST and then all the post and then we divided that and it showed 79% growth. >> Understand? Thank you. get to follow that up. That's greatness. Right. My name is Meredith Bremer and I am the special education uh department head at Active Middle School and I am uh proud to be the middle school principal for summer school. Um so let me talk about middle school. Super excited

186to talk about the growth that we had during summer school. We had 15 days of instruction with 18 wonderful teachers and four pair professionals that served our uh special education population 504 EB making sure that their plans carried over into the summer. Uh average attendance was 130 students uh daily. And you can see that based on the district um average for the lowest scoring TESS that we had our baseline data to where we progress monitored them by the end of that 15 days. we grew exponentially. Um, I want to attribute that through the 18 teachers that did small groupoup instruction, handson, and getting in just the nitty-gritty with kiddos in those TEICs that they needed to work on. Uh, biggest areas that I looked at, um, seventh and eighth grade math saw 50% or greater

187growth in those areas of those TEICs that we needed to grow across the district. Um, yeah, pretty pretty psyched about that. So they were on fire. So thanks guys. >> Best for last. Yeah. Um I'm Whitney Schaefer. I am an isip at Granberry High School. And this year I had the honor and privilege of taking on um the high school summer school, which is different than the middle and elementary because there's three working parts. So the parts are divided out for you. Um the credit recovery piece is on campus. And so between the counselors and once grades are finalized, we go through and we invite every student who needs to regain a credit to stay on track for graduation. Um we had a total of 166 total students that came to credit recovery. 80 students

188completed all of their assigned courses and are back on track. 23 students completed at least one course, but not all their courses. And 63 students made progress. um with myself and eight teachers. Um those 80 students were completed and we did celebrate cuz you know nobody wants to be a freshman forever. Um the acceleration piece we I had two teachers who worked remotely. The acceleration piece is um it's set up a little different. We offer it from incoming freshmen to juniors. Um we registered for three nights into April 1st of May and students can pay to get ahead in their courses or to take accelerated um options or other CT options. So we had a total of 366 students um sign up and pay for courses to get ahead. Um 111 of them were incoming

189freshmen from both middle schools. 245 were current GHS students. 10 were current STAR students and 308 completed their acceleration path. Um, we also offer blitz. Um, it is not mandatory that kids retest in the summer if they need to take an EOC, but we do offer that. Um, so I had nine blitz teachers. We offer a two-day intensive targeted blitz for a retake of an EOC um for all of them. And lucky for you, I did get scores this morning, so I can tell you what they are. Um, we had 60 students who participated in at least one day of Blitz. Um, and we actually had 73 show up to take the test. Um, and every student who needed to was invited. Um, English one, we had a 48% pass rate, so 11 of the

19023 passed. Biology, 31%, so four of the 13 passed. Algebra, we had a 43% pass rate, 10 of the 23 passed. English 2 had a 25%. Pass rate, three of the 12 passed. In US history, um, two took the test and we had a 50% pass rate. Um, a lot of times in the summer it's a lot of kids who struggle and especially with whether it's EB504 with speds. So, we try to make sure that they're a little targeted and that needs are met. So, all in all, that's high school. Thank you. Extended school year or ESY because special education likes their acronyms. Uh these are for students that are on IEPs that show regression in critical skill areas that they cannot recoup with data within eight school weeks. So think about the kids over

191summer, they lose it and they can't get it back within eight weeks. Uh we had five teachers, 14 paras, and 28 students that worked on um maintaining those critical skills. We will have some students come back in the last week of July. um that is to help bridge that gap going back to school. So, we'll really see that progress for those kids coming back and having that transition period being less for them so that they're back into that school routine sooner. >> Thank you. >> So, general questions, any questions about the amazing team that's up here? I will tell you that they start working on summer school. We we usually start mid-occtober and we start laying out what we want it to look like, how it's going to look, making sure everything's in place and

192getting things um organized and they're a great group and I'm very proud to know them. >> And I just want to take a minute to thank them as well. I've seen this program run a lot of different ways and a lot a couple of states and districts. Um and their commitment really to the individual students is really impressive and so not only the leadership but the teachers as well. And so I want to congratulate you guys on a job well done. Awesome. [Applause] >> I know. Yeah. They want to know if they can have a picture. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. >> Any any family in the audience? Would you please stand up and be recognized? >> What' you say? >> This works. Can we do summer school all year? >> Okay. Next one is

193our libraries update report and first look at local policy update. Miss Leah Dawson. >> All right. Hi. Good evening. Thank you so much um Dr. Moroski and board of trustees for this opportunity to discuss um SB13, Senate Bill 13 that's just passed um for our libraries which is different than House Bill 900. There are two different um bills that have passed. So before you you should have a copy um in your book from Senate Bill 13. And I would just like to go over some of the bullet points that things that we already do that are in purple highlighted, the things that we must do in yellow may do in green and then a few notes about this bill. Um so what we already do is we allow parents to access all records and the

194right to refuse library books for their child. We review library standards every 5 years. We developed collection guidelines in 2022 and we email parents library notifications when their students check out books if they opt in to receive those. Uh things we must do for Senate Bill 13. Destiny, which is our online portal for our card catalog, uh must allow parents to restrict materials if they desire. Uh there will be a new TEA con reconsideration form coming and we will have to put that on the website. uh prohibit students access to any challenged material, postacquisition list from librarians online for public view for 30 days. If a challenged material is removed, then we have to notify all classroom teachers to remove it from their classroom as well if they have it in there. School board u

195approves all acquisition lists donated or procured and the school board must adopt a new policy for acquisition before the 2526 school year. Uh the things that we may do in green, the school board may create a local school library advisory council. Um if the slack is created, it's a three-year commitment. Um if it's not, 10% or 50 parents, whichever is fewer, may petition to have a slack. Five people appointed by the board. A majority must be parents not working for GISD. And each trustee would appoint an equal number. So we'd have to have at least seven. Obviously, Slack must be a majority of parents, not employees of GISD. Non- voting members can be teachers, principles, administrators, library and counselors, b business, community, or clergy. They have to meet a minimum of two times a year.

196If there's a slack, the boards must consider recommendations before adding materials, removing them after a challenge, or making changes to policies or guidelines. and the public meetings are the same requirements for Slack posting on every campus and taking notes and videoing and putting it on the website. Um, a few notes, Senate Bill 13 adds new prohibited content. Their language of indecent and profane has been added um that those can be removed. Tesla Library and Archives Commission, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission standards will be updated in April um of 2026. And um we can keep in the EFB local that we are still not taking donations if you wanted, but that's up to the board and and or Slack. Uh in 2023, 5,343 parents opted in to receive email notifications when their child checked

197out books. In 2024, 4,878 opted in to receive emails. In 22, there were there were I'm sorry, in 2020. In 2022, there were 22 formal challenges. Uh in 23, there were zero challenges. In 24, there were zero challenges. And we've had zero phone calls, emails, or concerns in the past two years about any of our library materials. Um we can reorder books without board approval according to this bill, only if the ISBN number is the same on a book that we've already procured in our libraries. and Senate Bill 13 goes into effect September 1st of 2025. On the next slide is an internal process for our procurement of our library materials. I won't go through all of that, but basically that's just all of the steps um laid out that our librarians have to go

198through. And of course, if we did create a Slack, then we would add that as one of our steps to have the Slack committee approve all of the library list as well. and bring concerns or questions from those list. Uh the next slide, that is just an example of a purchasing timeline because having the um Senate bill adding a having to have your list online for 30 days and getting the list from the librarians and going back backwards from the schoolboard meetings to getting it to the board book and then if you had a slack also approving those list. So this is just an example of kind of what that timeline would look like. Next slide talks about how our libraries comply with the law. Parents will have the ability to go in and restrict

199specific library materials that do not align with their family values. Um, Destiny, I've already been working with them to set up a new user type that will be turned on for the 2526 school year and it'll be on our website under libraries and parents can go in and put their email in. they'll get a one-time access code. Once they get that code, they can go in and they can check any title that they want to restrict their child from checking out. And there's no way that they can override that. Librarians aren't allowed to override it or whatever. So, um, it seamlessly blocks checkouts for them. Um, if they do restrict a title in kindergarten, that title is restricted all the way through high school unless they go back in and uncheck it. So, >> so

200they can go in multiple times. >> They can go in every year and change it and update it. >> Okay. >> But if they don't, it'll it'll be restricted forever. >> Sure. Or their whole school time. Uh what are our next steps? We have to decide to create or not to create a Slack committee. Adopt a new EFB local policy. And if we decide to create a Slack, then each board member will need to submit some recommendations to me by August 15th so we can form the committee and get it done by August 30th. So it's in effect before September 1st. Um, I can be a point of contact if y'all want to email me or if you want me to get lists from principles of people who are already volunteering in our schools that

201we might reach out to. Um, however y'all want to do that, that's great with me. I'll just be your point of contact for that. Are there any questions? >> Can you uh dive a little bit more into what it would look like if we did or did not create a slack? >> Uh I think it's just really if we create a slack, it's just going to take a little it's another step to take more time for the orders to get approved during that 30-day process of getting with them, getting their approvals. Um there are a lot of questions. We've been in a lot of meetings as librarians and directors and coordinators of what does it look like if there there's a lot of unknowns. If the list is online for 30 days and you have

202a parent that says I don't think that you should order Dogman because it's goofy. I don't know. Then you have to discuss, okay, well does it meet our selection criteria? Does it meet our collection development guidelines? Does it meet the T- Slack standards? And if it does, then what do we tell that community member? And then you need to meet with your library council and see what they say. And then if someone on the library council might not agree, there's a lot of unknowns. Um, but really it's just an extra step of looking at the list. Um, I feel differently about both ways. There's I mean, not that you really want my opinion, but >> Yeah, we do. >> Okay. So, I think that um we have professionals that already look at the book reviews

203and go through all of the um book list and they have the specific reviews that they have to go through. You know, they have professional reviews. They can't just go look on Amazon or Target.com or Goodreads for a review. It has to be a professional review. So they're already doing that and they've been trained well to do that over the last three years and quite frankly are very nervous already about everything they choose because they don't want to be in you know scrutinized for anything inappropriate. Um of course and so then I get the list from them typically and then I fine toothcomb every one of their list and go through and check all their reviews. Um, and then now the school board will also have to get the list and have the final approval

204of all of our library list. You're welcome. So, um, that's just another step, but I I feel like we have so many professional people already doing that that it's unnecessary, but it is another set of seven to whatever eyeballs. >> So, what I'm hearing you say is we already have systems and processes in place that look at everything. We don't necessarily need to create a slack because we already have in that structure in place. >> I feel like the procedures, the policies and procedures that we've put in place three years ago have been working well and we are all looking at everything so clearly and deeply now that I don't see room for mistakes or faults. But that's, you know, it's not broke, don't fix it, >> right? But >> except more eyes make for

205uh lighter work. Well, maybe not lighter work in this. It sounds like we have quite a few eyes already on it. >> Is this at the local or state level or regional level? >> State. This is Well, the SB13 is a new Senate bill law, but the slack is optional per district >> and that be local, >> right? >> And so the people that are reviewing it are at the state level. >> No, the people being it from the slack would be local people. Each school board member would appoint one person that is a um let me go back to that. The school board may create a library school library sorry local school library advisory council um five people appointed by the board. A majority must be parents not employed by GISD and that means

206parents have students enrolled in GISD. >> Correct. But before the slack and there's people reviewing books, correct? >> Well, >> you said there's there's people that review these these books already. >> Currently, all librarians professionals. Those are those are those are at a state level. >> No, they're local. >> Can you explain that what they read? I think he's asking what are local professionals what they rely on to to make these decisions. That includes some state and federal I think. Um >> Okay. So, in our collection development guidelines, hopefully this will explain it. A librarian if they make a list of books they want to order, they have to go look at professional reviews sources to make sure that it meets the T-slack standards. Now, what is T-Sack? >> The Texas Look, I knew you

207were going to ask that. Texas State Library and Archives Commission. So they set the standards and the librarians compare the reviews with the standards set by the Texas. >> Yes. And they need to have two positive professional reviews. Those come from school library draw uh journal, book list, book horn. Uh so there's like a set of review sources that we have to use that are reviewed books by professional librarians and that's per state law. And the only opportunity for community input into that process is either by way of this slack or a specific parent complaint to say remove this. >> No, we will have we will put these online. Every list will go online for 30 days for community feedback. They can reach out to me with concerns or questions and then I'll work with

208the community on any of the list and then bring it to the board. >> That's with or without a Slack. >> Correct. >> Yes. Yes. And how are we doing that? Yeah. >> How are the parents of these students going to know that this stuff has gone online and they should go look at it? >> Uh we are going to with put it all on the library website and push that out through individual campuses. >> But how does that get to the parents? >> Are you talking about the 30 days online? >> 30 days. Yeah. How the parents need to know when that's going up and they need to know that it's there. If you just say you put it on the library on the website, they may not go there. We're going to communicate

209that through campuses. The campuses are going to communicate that to the parents that that's >> well, we can still discuss. We've got a district communications team that can put together a plan after decisions are made to make sure that parents are informed. >> Sure. >> On the um EB EFB local um within our packet here, one of them says uh ALT, the other one says SLAC. What's the difference? Nothing was in red or blue to determine what was different. >> There's two uh policies that have been proposed by TASBY. One policy proposed is with a slack for your district and one is proposed with no slack. >> Okay. >> Depending on what the board decides >> and the mustdo uh portion of your slide, that means that uh you have to have that done by

210September 1st. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. And on the uh the zero challenges, do you have any idea why there were not any more zero challenges than when we had challenges previously? >> No idea. We just have not had any complaints or concerns. >> Yeah. Um on the on one section, I know because I checked with the old EFB policy was a protection from inappropriate material. That is definitely an update and I hope that it's going to be strictly adhered to. The library material shall not include harmful material. Any library material that is pervasively vulgar or educationally unsuitable. Any library material containing indecent or profane content. any library material that refers a person to a website link or QR code containing content legally prohibited under the law or any other material legally prohibited from the

211collusion in a public school system library. Obscene material is not protected by the first amendment of the United States Constitution. I hope that we're going to be protecting the minds of our students because it's as equally as important as protecting their hearts. protection of our students minds and supporting student achievement through library collections an important job and I look forward to touring the libraries and seeing the material available that'll be there for our students. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. >> I just want to be clear that we're not voting on a policy tonight, but in order to bring a policy to you um next month, uh we need to decide between the the option of having a slack and not having a slack. So, I know we didn't put it under the action items. We're

212we're learning as we go, but we we do want to find out before we bring you something to vote on if you would like to um have this library committee based on the presentation or if you have any more questions to answer before we >> So, you need a motion. >> We really do. You know, it's just um just an overlook on on our part, but in order to bring that to you next month, we've got to have the decision on whether to have the slack or not. So, >> okay. So, with that being said, I will entertain a motion um either to have a slack created or not have a slack created. >> Yeah, but it's a they need a motion on >> Yeah, that was that was our mistake because we are not

213asking you to vote on the policy, but we need to know how what policy to bring you. So, we've got to decide um whether we need that or not. >> We can do that. >> So, does this >> if if not, we'll have to call a special meeting, which we can do in two weeks. We still got to have this in place by this one in place by when this policy >> September 1. Okay. >> Well, I like the idea of community input. So, I'll make the motion that we add a slack. >> A second. >> So, I have a motion by Mr. Bolton to add a slack and a second by Miss Lowry. Any further discussion? All right. With no further discussion, all those in favor, raise your hand. All those against, raise your

214hand. Let the record show the motion fails. 52 and that is bar. >> Yeah, that is Barbara. >> Did Billy vote? >> That's 421. >> 42. Did you want to vote? >> No. >> Are you abstaining? Do you want to state your reason? just I just don't I think it's too confusing right now with the information that we have whether or not to make a decision to do it or not. >> If if we're not ready, we can have a call special meeting. >> Well, we already have a meeting on the calendar two weeks from now, don't we? >> No, I don't have a workshop every other >> not starting till after school starts, I believe. >> Sorry, >> we already voted. So, >> yeah, we already voted. So, the motion fails. Four against that

215is Barbara Townson, Mike Moore, Nancy Alana and myself and two four that is Miss Lowry and Mr. Bolton and one abstaining Billy Wimberly >> under duress >> under confusion. >> All right, next up is our foreign trade zones discussion. Thank you so much, Miss Leah Dawson. And that is being presented by Shay Hopkins. >> Hello. Good evening. Really thankful to be here tonight with a room full of people that are so um great at supporting our children. So um I will give you all a really brief introduction of who I am and and kind of what I've done so that y'all understand my past involvement with foreign trade zones. So as stated, my name is Shay Hopkins. I'm the director of economic development for the city of Granberry. I have been there about nine months.

216Prior to that, I was the AD for economic development for the city of San Antonio. While there, I was over all foreign direct investment, industry, and foreign trade zones. So, um that is kind of where my knowledge of this began. And I just kind of wanted to let y'all know, um what they are and and why we potentially want to um have one. I don't Ryan, can you get this slideshow pulled up, please? I do. >> Okay. Well, it's fine. Okay. So, Foreign Trade Zone is a federal program that has been around since the 1930s. So, actually one of our oldest federal programs um that has been used for years and years and years by many other communities in the United States. So basically what it is is it is a designated area um where

217certain customs and tax procedures are streamlined for companies engaged in international trade. So in very simple terms if we are set up as a foreign trade zone we would be asking DFW airport to extend their foreign trade zone which is foreign trade zone 39 to be extended to Hood County. So what that would allow companies to do that exist here currently or that would like to locate here is instead of having to pay tariffs and taxes at point of entry, they would be able to delay them until point of sale. So what this does for companies and why it's so important to them is because it helps with cash flow. It helps with their ability to be competitive on a national and international stage. Um, it is not helping companies that are foreign. It is

218helping companies here in the United States and specifically in Hood County that are trying to be competitive and continue to be profitable and stay in business. FTZ again is a federal program, but it does have local control measures. So, tomorrow actually it will be um in front of the Hood County Commission. um they would be the designate. So they would be the ones that would be seeing um each foreign trade zone application um and would be I guess reviewing it based on merit to make sure that it's the type of foreign company um that we would want here in this community. Sorry, I was not using my slides so I'm I'm off. Okay. So, foreign trade zones benefits only apply apply to approved companies and locations. It does not apply to goods sold locally. So,

219it's not getting rid of the tariffs. It's simply delaying when they are paid. Um, it requires both federal and local approval. The economic upside. So why FTZ has become so important is it it's become pretty critical in attracting high-v valueue companies like manufacturers, assemblers, and distributors. Um these companies bring new jobs, capital investment, um property and sales tax growth. Many would not choose Hood County without an FTZ. Um this has become increasingly prominent, I would say, in the last year. Um, and I I'm I'm basically preaching to the choir on this, but I'm really passionate about bringing jobs back to Hood County because over 50% of the people that live here commute outside over over 30 miles. So, we're talking, you know, hours and hours a day, which um contributes to about seven uh 7

220hours a week spent just on the road. And as y'all all know, that keeps them um away from being involved parents. It keeps them away from student activities. And research consistently shows that parental engagement is one of the strongest predictors of student success. So, I'd love to see those families get to be working back in this community so that they can participate not only with their students, but with their entire family. Um, another thing that I will share with y'all is I made a quick chart of all of the um, projects that I was unable to apply for just in the last 6 months because we do not have this designation. So, there have been one, two, three, four, five technology companies in the advanced technology and manufacturing sector, pharmaceutical and preparation sector. um that

221would account for 4,600 jobs and capital in investment of $1.03 billion that we can't even apply for because we don't have this designation. This designation does not mean that all of those companies would qualify. They would still have to apply. They would still have to go through a rigorous selection process. But at least we're in the game now. We get to see if those companies are a good fit for this community. So lastly, um, Hood County does keep full control over the use of FTZ benefits. Commissioners can set job wage requirements, infrastructure support, environmental anesthetic standards within their FTZ program. They can also require community impact analysis paid for by the company so that we fully understand any implications um that could be seen by the community, the school district, the county, the city, um

222any tax implications that we could see. And then if there are any negative um perceived outcomes, there are ways that we can also address those. One of the most prominent would be a pilot agreement which is payment in lie of taxes that we could put together and ask companies if there are any adverse things that we can ask them specifically for flat rate payments. We can ask them for training programs. Um pretty much anything that would be beneficial to the school district. Um we can ask these companies for if a foreign trade zone is important enough to them. Um, and another thing that I will add is this is just a tool in a toolbox of many economic development tools. Um, we may never use it. We may use it once a year. I would

223just like to see us at least have it available if we do need it. And I know that's a lot on a very complex topic. So any questions I I welcome. >> So thank you for your presentation. Who would approve this foreign trade zone? Is it the commissioners county or city? >> So, we're still at the process where we are applying for a foreign trade zone. So, they're actually pretty difficult to get >> um Hood County. So, it would be the entire county would be um basically a sub zone of the foreign trade zone in Dallas. Um the requirements are that you have to be within a 60-mi radius to apply as a sub zone. Um if if it passes, we would be applying with several other communities um because we were advised that a

224joint application is a lot stronger. Um so Parker has already signed their letter of support, Palipinto has already signed their letter of support. Um so we would be the third piece to that. Um, and so once we get those applications together, if we're a part of that package, it goes to the DFW, foreign trade zone, and they determine whether or not we would have that designation. At that point, then existing companies here would be able to apply. Um, as well as it would be a marketing tool for me to say, we're part of this foreign trade zone. If you locate here, this is something that you're able to at least apply for. But who signs the agreement to allow you to go and ask to be part of the DFW section? >> Hood County, the

225commissioners. >> The commissioner. >> And I think is there something that you're asking from this board or justformational? >> Um, it's informationational. I I would love a letter of support, but I know that that's a big ask with a lot of information that um, you know, there's probably more questions on. Um, but the actually the only letter of support I have to have is the counties. But I did want to bring y'all in because it it does affect the school district. >> So to help you sell it, go back to the bit about pilot. >> Sure. Um, so let's say that a company comes in and they want to do an FTZ and they come back with an economic development report that does show that it impacts school taxes by 10,000 a year. What we

226could then do is say, "Okay, you know, in order to get your foreign trade zone approved, you're going to need to enter into a pilot agreement that states that you have to give the school district GISD that $10,000 a year to make them whole." And y'all can do y'all can call it anything you want. You can call it a facilities fund. You can call it an education fund, but it will not be treated like tax dollars. So it cannot be swept. >> It's not eligible for recapture. >> Correct. >> It's not part of Robin Hood. And >> pilot is not like a trial. Pilot stands for >> payment in lie of taxes. >> Thank you for all that information. >> You're welcome. And I can tell you I have done many, many of those agreements

227before San Antonio. when I was in Tennessee and all they do is pilot agreements. They don't do tax abatements. Um they do FTZ, but they don't do tax abatements. So, all they do is pilot agreements. Um and they've worked really well there. So, >> and the state doesn't try to get a piece of that pie. >> They do not. >> You think we have a good chance of having this pass if we get several >> several other communities to go in with this? >> I I do. Um, I've I've worked extensively with the Dallas Foreign Trade Zone. We've had many webinars. We've had tons of discussions. And that's kind of why we've done this collective regional effort to position us the best we possibly can. And again, I've tried to take if not all the

228risk out of it, as much as humanly possible, out of anything that could possibly go wrong to say, look, this is just putting us in the game. This isn't committing us to anything. It's just allowing us to have this program if we need it. >> Very good. Thank you. >> So, it sounds like this actually could have been an action item. >> Um, >> sorry. >> We can I mean it's Yeah, if it's up to y'all >> if y'all if if she's asking for a letter support and we want to >> motion. Yeah. Y'all >> do we want to do a motion for a letter of support? I move that we provide a letter of support for Ford train. >> Okay. >> I have a motion by Billy. Do I have a second? >> A

229second. More information. Okay. >> Okay. >> You got to be in commissioner tomorrow morning at 9. >> Tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. Commissioner's court. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. And we can as individuals go to that tomorrow and let them know what we think from what we've heard tonight if that's something that we're very strong about. >> I go all the time >> or you can email them and watch it live. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Next up, we have our financial statements for period ending June 30th, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Thank you, Madam President. board in front of you do have the financial statements that include transactions between September 1st of 2024 and June 30th 2025. Revenue collected to date equals 95.2% of the budget amount is compared to 88.38% in 2023

23024. Expenditures to date represent 7 78.05% of the budget compared to 76.36% and 2324. Um and those are your financials. You have those in front of you. Everything percentage-wise looks comparable to last year uh except for the couple things in the in the revenue area that we've already talked about. Are there any questions about your financials? >> All right, moving on to the cash flow and investments report for period ending June 30th, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh you can see that in June we uh made about $321,000 in interest. that's down a little bit from last month. But as you know, we we collect most of our money in um December and January. So, we start we start uh paying down some of our uh funds that we have in revenue. So,

231it's going to go down just a little bit. And then when we get to next month, we'll of course we'll pay recapture and um made some bond payments. So, those those interest will go down as well, but we're still pretty comparable we were last year. >> Any questions about your cash flow or interest? on that. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Moving on to the categorical spending reports. Mr. EMTT Whitefield again. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh, you do have your categorical expenditures. These are purchases that were made between 50 and $100,000 that we made through a cooperative or approved purchasing uh assignment that you gave us. Uh, we do bring those asformational. This budget impact will be $211,718.60. That was for three purchases. First one being Huftton Mifflin Hardcore Publishing Company through the buy board and

232the total of $66,970. Carnegie Learning Incorporated through the buy board for $93,62. And Benchmark Education Company um through the buy board for $51,686. And that is your categorical spend report. >> All right. Thank you. Any questions? All right. Well, with no further business, we will call this meeting adjourned. And the time is now 8:35 p.m. >> I second.