Granbury ISD Board Meeting - May 19, 2025

001The time is now 5:16 p.m. The board is reconvening following the executive session. Do I have a motion regarding the appeal? I move to grant the remedies sought in part uh to be discussed back in close session. So it's it I would you state that as a motion please? Did you I move to you did okay I second the motion. Okay. I have a motion to grant in part the remedies sought and to discuss further in close session. And I have a second by Miss Alana. I'll second the motion. All those in favor, let the record show the motion passes. 70. The appeal is concluded and the time is now 5:17 p.m. Okay. Now, now. Okay. The time is now 5:18 p.m. I call this meeting the Granberry Independent School District to order. Let the

002record 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. The board will now convene into closed session under the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code section 551.001 personnel to deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee for staff recommendations under for consult consultation with the attorney and uh Texas Government Code Chapter 551.07 071. The time is now 5:19 him. reconvene into open session by beginning with an invocation led by Miss Barbara Townsen. Please bow, please bow your heads. Dear Father God, bless our graduates as they begin the next chapter of their lives at the end of this

003week. May the knowledge that they have gained serve them well. Lord, be with the rest of our students and our staff who will be away from us this summer. Keep them safe. Protect them physically and emotionally. I ask you also to be with our legislators. May they open their eyes to the needs of 5.5 million students in their public education schools tonight. Give us wisdom during our meeting so that all decisions made will be for the best for our students and our families. And we ask this all in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Miss Townsen. We will now have the pledges led by our MCJOT seniors and the national anthem sung by the AMS Varsity Treble Choir. Please stand. United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God,

004indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to the Texas. One state under God. One, indivisible. It's heavier than it looks. Oh, say can you see by the dawn's Early light, once so proud we held at the twilight last gleaming. Whose brush stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight. For the rapart we watch were so galling. [Music] And the rockets red, the bones bursting in air, gave proof through the night, that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star spangle better yet way for the land of the brave and the home of the brave. [Applause] [Music] messed it all up. Okay. Administrators, schoolboard members, parents, students, and community members. It's my pleasure to recognize this evening the Actton Middle School Varsity Trouble Choir who were selected as

005an invited choir to sing at the Texas Music Educators Association conference in San Antonio on February 13th, 2025. They were chosen through a rigorous screening process that included submitting 15 minutes of recordings from the last three years and evaluations by two professional listening panels. They are one of only two middle school trouble choirs selected to perform at the convention this year. Over 30,000 people attend the TMA conference which showcases the finest choirs, bands, and orchestras in the state of Texas, which as you might surmise is the envy of all other 49 states. To be designated an invited choir or an honor band is the pinnacle of achievement for any choir or band program in our state and puts our program in elite company. This is the equivalent of a state championship for a school band

006or choir. It is of all other 49 states. To be designated an inviting choir or an honor band is the pinnacle of achievement for any choir or band program in our state and puts our program in elite company. This is the equivalent of a state championship for a school band or choir. Did you catch that part? Teaching a bar only in stance. It is only through the combined support of the community of Ryanbury Independent School District to adequately fund our network staff fine arts programs that this level of achievement is possible. Thank you for your continuous championship program which pay to cruise [Music] control is proud of our heritage and the legacy we leave our students. Granberry High School choir has previously sung at the TA convention three times. In 1996 under the direction of

007Duncan Mcmahan in 2000 directed by Joy Hope and most recently in 2022 the varsity tener base choir directed by our own Miss Kinder Fischer. This is the first time a Granbury ISD middle school has been chosen. Therefore, it's my honor to present to you the active middle school varsity trouble choir. I think you will agree they are the best. [Applause] Good job. Yes, great job. And if we have any parents in the audience, please stand to be recognized. [Applause] Gave me chills. Hey, next up we have our MCJOTC. Good evening. I'm Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Kennedy Wells, the outgoing battalion commander of the Granberry MCJRTC program. It is an honor to be here tonight, joined by many outstanding cadetses who have made this year a success. First, I'd like to recognize the Granberry MCJRTC rifle team.

008They are eighttime consecutive national champions. Please join me in celebrating the members of the national team. Cadet Sergeant Major Viola Allen, Cadet First Lieutenant Mattea Turner, Cadet Second Lieutenant Renee Carini, and myself. Our physical Our physical fitness team has also represented us with distinction at the national level. The dedicated group includes Captain Lieutenant Colonel, Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Fiona Doss, Cadet Major James Barber, Cadet Sergeant Major Brentley [Applause] Thrasher, Cadet Major Cadet Sergeant Major Viola [Applause] Allen, Cadet Captain Marcus Hathaway, Cadet Second Lieutenant Connor Gardner and Cadet First Sergeant Brady Fur. They recently finished third overall in the obstacle course at national nationals, competing against more than 80 teams. We are also proud of our robotics team which delivered an outstanding performance at nationals. Cadet Lieutenant Cadet Captain Marcus Hathaway, Cadet Second Lieutenant Wyatt Morazz, Cadet

009First Sergeant Eli Hull, and Cadet Lance Corporal Kayen McCarthy. They finished third overall and earned the sportsmanship award, standing among 80 other teams. Our cadets have earned over $1 million in scholarship as a battalion this year with 10 cadets enlisting in the military, entering officer commissioning programs, or attending college, including one who will compete as a division one rifle athlete. None of this would be possible without our cadets tireless efforts, our parents' unwavering support, and our instructor's exceptional leadership. Lieutenant Colonel Casey and First Sergeant Risitz, thank you for your guidance and commitment. Finally, on behalf of our battalion, thank you to the Granberry ISD School Board for your continued support. Your belief in our program is the foundation of our success. Simpify. [Applause] There you go. kind of get between shoulders so I can see

010everybody's heads. All right. And if we have any parents in the audience, would you please stand and be recognized? [Applause] Thank you. Awesome job. Okay, our next recognition is the JC Campbell Memorial Day essay contest winners. It is my honor to announce this year's campus winners of the JC Campbell Memorial Day essay contest. Before I read their names, I'd like to take a moment to recognize the legacy that makes this contest so meaningful. I encourage each of you to take a moment after the meeting to view the Memorial Day display just outside of the boardroom where you can learn more about JC Campbell and his tremendous contributions to our community. Special thanks go to Amy Swain and her talented art students at Bronner Elementary for designing the beautiful Memorial Day wall display. I'd also like

011to acknowledge the generosity of Judge and Mrs. Brenda Massenill, Carrie Bellamy of Edward Jones, and Bob and Julia Panel for their financial support which has made it possible to award prizes to our student winners. Helping me hand out the awards this evening are Katie Jensen, instructional specialist at Bronner Elementary, and Tanner Davenport and Natalie Weatherby, also teachers at Bronner Elementary. We will begin by recognizing the four campus winners, and then we'll reveal which of these outstanding students has also been selected as this year's district winner. The winner for Oakwoods Elementary School is Katherine Daniels. [Applause] The winner for Actton Elementary School is Aniston [Applause] Goodman. The winner for Bakus Elementary School is LJ Desmo. So, we won't forget that one. I even practiced that one half of the day today. And our campus winner for

012Bronner Elementary, who is just now finding out she is also the district winner, is Zoe [Applause] Hernandez. Please join me in celebrating these remarkable students whose words not only honor JC Campbell's legacy, but also pay tribute to the courage and sacrifice of the soldiers we remember this Memorial Day. [Applause] And if we have any family and parents in the audience, would you please stand and be recognized? [Applause] There we go. Right there. All right. I can't see right behind you, Tammy. There we go. Y There we go. And parents in the audience, would you please stand and be recognized? [Applause] That's our technology glitching. Not me. And I have a uh special announcement to make. We were just informed that our GHS UIL history team just took second place at state. Individually, Quinn King placed

013third and Cameron Ward placed six. The team was made of Quinn King, Cameron Ward, Peter O' Carol, and Carly Joe Burnfield. [Applause] Congratulations. Okay, next we have recognition of our capturing kids hearts campuses. Good evening trustees and Dr. Morowski. Our capturing kids hearts district strategist Nikki Shipley was planning on being here this evening to present the awards but unexpectedly had a family event that coincided with our board meeting. With that being said, we still want to honor our campuses that received this recognition today. We are so proud to celebrate the incredible work that's happening across our district through capturing kids hearts. As many of you know, CKH is more than just a program. It's a cultural bu building framework that focuses on building strong relationships, improving school climate, and transforming classrooms into safe, connected learning

014environments. Each year, Capturing Kids Hearts recognizes campuses that go above and beyond in implementing this framework. One level of recognition is the rising star award, a designation given to campuses on their first year of implementation that are making significant strides in building relational capacity, modeling servant leadership, and creating a culture where students and staff feel seen, heard, and valued. We are thrilled to announce that our CK Rising Star campuses this year are the following. Please come forward as we call your name. Emma Robertson Learning Center. And Miss Lambert brought the award that um CKH sent to each campus. It says, "If you have a child's heart, you have a child's mind." So, we wanted to show that off. And every campus got one of those that received the award. The next one is Actton Elementary

015with Miss Maggie Walton. Bakus Elementary and we have process champions from Bakus, uh, Sam Brisco and Chelsea Dah. Bronner Elementary with principal Sandy Ruiz. uh Manbrino Elementary with Miss Ship and Oakwoods Elementary with Nathan Daniel. We're so excited that these campuses are all connecting and their commitment to leading with heart. There's even a bigger honor that we want to uh recognize right now. that's being named Capturing Kids Hearts National Showcase School. This recognition is awarded to top campuses in the country who fully embody CKH process with fidelity, consistency, and transformational impact. We are proud to announce that one of our very own campuses have received this distinguished recognition. Please join me in welcoming welcoming Margaret Rodriguez and help us congratulate Stars Alternative High School for being named the 2025 National Showcase Campus and she's wearing

016her Oops. And she's wearing her shirt that they sent her. They gave a big banner and all sorts of stuff. So, we're next year. Yes, ma'am. Yes, we can. We can have that next year. We're incredibly proud of the progress we've made as a district and look forward to doing bigger and better things next year. Get some of the back. There we go. Ready? Thank you. We're so incredibly proud of all the work that our campus staff and admin put into this program and our kids. Okay, next up we are recognizing our state golf participants. Dr. Morowski, trustees, we're here to honor Riley Ronek and um I'm just going to go over a little bit of what she did this year. Uh they moved here from California. This was her uh one and only year

017with us and we are very sad about that because she's been amazing. But what she did this year, she was part of our uh district runnerup team. She was first team all district. They earned a spot to the regional tournament and from there she earned a spot to the state tournament. And so we just want to thank her for being with us this short period of time. She's going to be attending the U Oklahoma University. Correct. And she's going to be a pilot and she's already working on her pilots's license. [Applause] Good evening. I'm uh Ian Lamont, the assistant coach. Coach Ward was down at uh the UIL uh social studies with his son, so I'm taking his spot. We're here to recognize Lincoln Cheryl. Lincoln is a son of Dustin and Jaylen Cheryl. He's

018a multisport athlete. Played freshman basketball and varsity golf. He's an outstanding student. Um receiving a high A's in all of his classes. Uh he shot a 77 and a 75 at the regional tournament to get to be a first team reg a regional firstteamer and qualified as a third medalist to go to the state tournament where he shot an 80 in a range shorten tournament to finish 46 out of 72. And so this is a a moment to celebrate Lincoln. I have one quick story to share. It was this fall we were at Harbor Lakes. We were waiting for parents to pick up their kids and his dad came to pick up two of our good freshmen and I said, "Hey, Mr. Cheryl, you know, we think that that that these two freshmen are going

019to be really going to help us this year, you know, but they're freshman, so we got to take it easy." Well, now we're here celebrating Lincoln, who's the only one from Granberry in the Boyside that got to state. So, congratulations, Lincoln. Congratulations. And if we have any parents and family in the audience, could you please stand so we could recognize you as well? [Applause] Okay, next we have our Shen Kirk senior of the month. Uh good evening board. Um Brian Ch Brian Thompson with Chen Kerk can't make it tonight but uh it is my honor privilege to present uh Joselyn Barry as Shenkirk senior of the month of May. Uh Jocelyn has been in the engineering pathway all four years. She has participated in advanced classes. She's ranked the fifth in her class. Um she's

020involved in several uh extracurricular NHS AVID and she has been the treasurer for the junior optimist club for the past two years. She has logged over 200 hours of community service and her high school career. She plans to attend the University of Alabama in the fall and major in chemical engineering. Congratulations make room. And any parents or family in the audience, please stand so we can recognize you as well. [Applause] Thank you so much. Okay, now we have our DECA international qualifiers. All right, board uh trustee, superintendent, JSD, and everybody. Uh back in November, we always come for DECA month and I told you great things were happening. We just didn't know how great it was going to be. So this year at DECA, we have broken all school records. In January, we took 51

021to district, which is the most ever. I didn't think we'd get 10 to state. We got 23, which is the most ever. And then at state, uh our sales project team were points away from making international, but that didn't stop us. So there's a program with DECA, and it's called school-based enterprise. It's a certification you get. It's a five-year certification. The first year we have to write a 50-page paper on 10 standards set forth by the national office. So three years ago, we wrote that paper and then every year within that five years, you have to write a 25page updating paper. So in January, we submitted the 25page paper. They recorded a video. They were selected by the Texas DECA to represent Texas at the SBE school-based enterprise competition in Orlando. So we go and

022what they do is is a little bit different. You attend an academy the first day. So like a conference. Uh these two guys, Hayden and Ree, they attended. They got to network with other SBEs across this uh the country. Well, internationally. Uh I have to think about it. We're still in United States. There were 87 SBEEs represented at this competition. On Monday, they competed. On Tuesday morning, we learned if they were going to make it to finals. There were 25 teams that were going to move forward to finals and they were selected as a finalist. Um, so while they were calm and at breakfast, coolest cucumbers, I'm the one freaking out um and shaking and going, "Oh my gosh." Uh, so they went, they competed and we ranked somewhere between 25 and 11 in the

023world. Uh, so that is the best finish that Grimbury has ever had at the DECA competition. Uh, so these guys pretty proud of them. Deca is I'm sorry, Ree is our DECA president and Hayden is our store manager. Uh, so they they were up there and they were pretty impressive. Uh, so I'm pretty proud of this year. We've had a record-breaking year. We're already prepping for this year. Um, while I'm up here, I just want to thank our parents, the Hunts and the Meers. They have whatever we needed, they were there. Uh, and Danny Gry, he was our chaperone that helped me in when I'm lost in Anaheim or Orlando, I'm sorry, in the school. Have y'all taught seniors before? Um, so pretty proud to present to you the top 25 in the world. the

024Anchor Stewart and Reese and Hayden. And any parents or family in the audience, please stand so we can recognize you as well. [Applause] Okay, next we have a recognition of our valadictorian and saludiatoran for Granberry High School. She's at UIL. She is at UIL. They both are, aren't they? So, they're being recognized twice tonight, but they can't be here because of the first recognition. Um, okay. So, I'm going to change something up before we do the superintendent's report. We're going to go ahead and go into public comments and then consider action items discussed in close session and then we'll do our superintendent report after that. So, uh, public comments, we've had four four people, uh, sign up to speak tonight. Our first speaker is Patty Cisco. So sorry, get my glasses. Thank you. and I

025appreciate the opportunity to speak to you all tonight. I've been here before. Um, but tonight I'm speaking in favor of extending the uh schoolboard positions to four years. I know it's not a decision, but I I'd like to express my opinion uh and of holding elections in non-general election years. Schoolboard business is complicated. Adding another year to the term increases the knowledge and experience of the trustee and discourages those who are only using a schoolboard position as a stepping stone to a higher office. Holding the election in offear would also be more cost-effective. But here's the crux of the issue and this is my opinion um having to do with partisan politics. Schoolboard trustees must take a nonpartisan position. The goal in public education is to support all students and staff at GISD regardless of

026personal politics. Period. I was reminded of that fact when I applauded the students here tonight. I don't know what their politics are. I just know they're great kids. Uh political grandstanding has no place in schoolboard business. I I wish the Texas legislature would remember this. Instead of spending precious time on worthless bills like uh furries in schools, it's a non-issue. They need to focus on the funding crisis that we're dealing with right now. I like to work the elections. Here's what I observed in the last general election at the poll where I worked. Most voters were there to vote for president and the majority of the voters were there to vote a straight Republican ticket. To be honest, most of them had no idea who the schoolboard candidates were. But some candidates, I think, took

027advantage of the fact that by adopting a platform based on their conservative values, claiming their opponents were too woke. And in the same way campaign campaign signs touted conservative values and they were closely aligned with Trump signs. I thought it was a nasty campaign. Such partisanship polarizes our community and it turns a schoolboard meetings into a three- ring circus and stands in the way of really vital important decisionmaking. We're facing our our whole state an economic crisis that will require a school board to make some really tough budgeting and curriculum decisions in the best interest of educating every single kid in this community. And I think the community supports that. I can teach values and ideology at home, but I can't teach calculus and even how to play the flute when I'm marching in formation.

028Extend the trustes tenure and commitment to excellence in education and focus on what's best for kids. Ditch the politics. Go Pirates. And I have to leave. I'm planning a graduation party. Thank you, Miss Cisco. Our next speaker is David Rogers. Uh, good evening, Board of Trustees. Madam President, I'm here tonight to speak on item 11A, the term of service for trustee elections. Many times, thank you, sir. Many times the devil's in the details when you have a solution. I I'm not opposed to going from three to four years. What I am opposed to is doing this in off-year elections. You said it's going to reduce it so voters only have to vote every two years for trustees, but it's going to make it so all the members of the community, if they want to vote,

029have to vote every year on some positions in the community. If you look at the last two election cycles, when it came to midterm and presidential elections, the voter turnout was an average of 25 to 26,000 voters. In offy-ear elections, the average was 5 to 6,000 voters. So, this is going to suppress the voices of taxpayers, working parents, and families. Uh, I'm really troubled by this proposal of yours, Trusty Towns, for a lot of reasons. Uh, you know, the the First Amendment is precious. men and women died and gave their lives for us to have the First Amendment. This is the third time in the last three years that I've witnessed that you either benefited from or attempted to thwart the free election of the voters of Granberry. In 2022, the first full year when

030I moved here, uh WFAA reported that their phone calls and emails that they made in September were not returned until after the November election. That gave you, the incumbent, the election. Mr. Wimberly was not an incumbent. He was not on the board before then, but he's pro- tax and spend policies were widely advocated. Then there was the demographic study. You knew this data back in December of 2023, but you went ahead with the May 2024 bond election anyway. The voters should have had that information beforehand. Now, you're going to make this to where instead of having a 25,000 voter turnout, it's going to be around 5,000 voter turnout. What that does is give permanent control to the special interest groups on the left that want to rubber stamp massive tax and spending increases. You also

031said that this was going to increase efficiency and increase effectiveness. Again, I'm not against the four-year terms doing this in off-year elections where you only have this is going to make sure that people like Karen Lowry and Tim Bolton, people that think for themselves, they ask questions about what's best for our kids and about conduct going on inside the administration building. you're going to see to it that those kind of people are never elected on this board again. You said that all the other school districts and all the other ISDs, this increased the efficiency and effectiveness when they went to offear elections. Do you realize that according to the Texas House Education Committee and the Texas Education Agency that this year in January only 24% of eighth graders in the state of Texas can read

032and do math at grade level because they implemented the kind of policies you're recommending where they only do off-year elections to where the only people that are represented at the voting booth are people that want massive tax and spending increases. GISD's revenues have increased over 56% the last six years. The enrollment only increased 13%. Mr. Whitfield said that, you know, as our board president, uh, Miss Gore has stated that there's about 600 students after CO that didn't follow the checkup. It's even worse statistics if you take all that into consideration. Thank you, Mr. Rogers. Our next speaker is Don Johnson. Thank you very Ryan. Can you help him? It's Yeah. As you can tell, this is my first time to ever do this, so I'm not very good at it. I'm very new. My name

033is Don Johnson. I'm very new to Granberry and Hood County. I've only lived here a year. The reason I want to come and talk to you is I do have background in school board. I served on a school board for six years in Kale County and also served as an election judge and also as a precinct chair. So I'm involved in politics. My whole thing and the reason I'm coming is I want to talk about elections. The vote on this table is not just to turn change for three to four years. You're changing to the type of election. We have two major elections. One is called the presidential. The other I call the governor's race. It's a state election. Okay? That's 60 to 70% of the people vote in those two races. That's a vast

034majority of the people in Hood County. Now, if you go to off-year election, which is being proposed, as I understand it correctly, you're down very small to less than 20, 14 to 20% of the population that will elect the people. The way you have it now, I don't like it because you got some being voted very high, some very low. So, if you ran an off year, you got a boom because you didn't have to work very hard because there's very few people that turned out. So I think you got you got to change it to presidential and I call the governor's election. Governor's on one election and another two years the president election and it's not a primary election. The primary is before the governor's election or before the other election. You already have

035partisan elections here. Is anybody here claim to be a Democrat and have voted Democrat over and over? You already have it. that's already being done uh by the people. Anybody on the school board that wants to claim to be a Democrat? No. Because you can't get elected in Hood County as a Democrat. You can't become a city councilman if you claim I'm a Democrat. That's just the way it is. So, we already have partisan elections. You just don't know it. And also you need to give the voters a chance to turn. Nobody votes in the amendment election. That's all Republican dominated. 90% of those things pass. If you don't any of you vote, they're still going to pass by 90%. I think there's been one out of all the amendments that have failed. I don't

036want to take any more time, but I appreciate your time, and I hope you do the right thing. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Hey, our next speaker is James Wall. and congratulations on your graduation. Thank you, President Gord. Thank you board trustees for allowing me the opportunity to speak in front of you tonight. Uh first of all, before I go ahead and get into surprise the 11A over elections. I just want to take a moment and recognize all the student achievement that we just saw here in Granberry is ISD today. That is amazing and it should be celebrated again and again. That amount of success and achievement. But that said, I'm going to go ahead and go right back to where everyone else is talking on, and that's the elections. And for me personally, I'm still

037going to go ahead and say that I don't support it at this time. Uh I went ahead and I listened to the board conversation last month, and I'll tell you, I was go I was convinced. Let's go ahead. Let's consider the four-year terms because that's what is so great about the dialogue between the board and getting to hear the board discuss such matters. But when you're looking at these off-year elections versus these even year elections or the presidentials, the voter turnout is disproportionately uh overwhelming. In 2021, a little over 5,000, closing in on 6,000 voters showed up. 2022, over 21,000 voters showed up to vote. 2023, 12,000 voters showed up. Bond election. 2024 over 28,000 voters showed up for President Gore and for uh school board trustee Bolton to make sure that their voices were

038heard. That is a difference of about 16,000 voters who got their voices heard. I I know I said this before last month. I'll say it again. The more voters you have, regardless of who's winning, who's losing, it shows that your democracy is live and well. That's what we want. We want voter engagement. We want people who are caring about our school district. And when you see 28,000 people showing up and caring about our kids, caring about our teachers, and caring about what happens in this district, I'll tell you right now, regardless of who wins and loses, that puts a smile on my face. So with that said, going ahead, if we change these elections, we're going to take out twothirds of the voting populace that we've been seeing in these elections. So what I'm asking

039the school board to go ahead and consider tonight, consider going to evenear elections instead of off-year elections. It's not about partisanship. It's about strictly voter turnout in my eyes. Because again, the more voters you have, the more of a an actual referendum you have walking in the door. President Gore had over 27,000 votes uh uh in her election. Over 28,000 uh showed Oh, no, my bad. 28,000 in Boltons, 27,000 in Gores, give or take or something along those lines. Guess what? Elections like that tell you that the people want you. And that's what I think everyone in Granberry ISD wants to be able to say, a unified front behind our elected school board trustees. Thank you. Thank [Applause] you. That concludes our public comments. We will now go into consider action on agenda on items

040discussed in closed session. Staff recommendations. Do I have a motion to accept the staff recommendations? Madame President, I move that we accept uh the staff recommendations presented to us in close session. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second by Mr. Moore. That's a motion by Miss Alana, second by Mr. Moore. All in favor, raise your hands. Let the record show that the vote is 70. Next is to special pro Okay. You consider action for the special programs director. Do I have a motion to accept the special programs director? Madame President, I move that we accept uh the recommendation for of the hiring of the special programs director as presented to us in close session. And do I have a second? I will second that. I have a second by Miss Townsen.

041Any further discussion? Okay, I have a motion by Miss Alonza, Miss Alana, a second by Miss Townsen. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is 70 in favor. And next I have do I have a motion to accept the recommendation for Granberry High School principal? I'll make that move. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? A second. And a second by Miss Lowry. Any further discussion? All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is 70 in favor. Okay, moving on to the superintendent report. Okay, and I'll get the pleasure in just a moment to announce who those individuals are um that were listed there. And I'm excited to do that. But a couple of reminders um from my end. Number one, I want

042to remind everyone that next Tuesday, the first day back from Memorial Day, we have our next ambassador program. So if you were part of the ambassador program, just stand up if you attended just so I can give you some applause if you were there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So um anybody can come. It is free and it is about um learning about our school district. Um and next time it's about finance. So talk about fun. You guys want to be there and you can invite anybody and we we hope to see you there. We are putting reserved seats down um for ambassadors. So you guys have a place in our schoolboard meeting. Um our next thing that I want to announce is our graduation dates. As a reminder, our stars um Accelerated High

043School is going to graduate May 22nd at 7 o'clock in the high school auditorium. and Granberry High School's graduation will be May 23rd at 8:00 at Pirate Stadium. And team, I just want to remind everybody that this is a really special time for some of our um schoolboard members and also our district leadership team. So, if you will watch the screen, we have a special little surprise for you. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay, let's go ahead get some applause because it's a really special time. And I always think when people ask, do they really know what's going on? Yes, they do. All of these people have seniors right now. They know what it means. And so, it's a special moment. I want to make sure and acknowledge that. Okay. So, I have a

044couple of fun announcements. First of all, I want to announce that we have a new director of special programs. And um Jennifer Anderson, are you in the audience? Okay, there she is. Okay. I didn't see you back there. Okay. Will you do you mind coming forward? You don't have to speak. I won't make you speak. But all right. So, um I'm pleased to share that Jennifer Anderson has been appointed as Granberry ISD's new director of special programs. Um Jennifer brings more than 20 years of experience in special education and leadership roles across multiple districts. Most recently, she served in the same capacity at Monster ISD where she led the development oversight of all special education services. Her background includes roles as a special education director, coordinator, diagnostician, ECSE teacher, and classroom educator, giving her a

045comprehensive understanding of both instructional practices and program operations. So, I wanted to make sure that everybody saw your face and and got to recognize you. And if you want to say anything, you can, but you do not have to. I'm just excited to be here. Thank you very much. I'm glad to be a part of the team. Great. Great. Welcome aboard. Y'all want to shake your hand? Y'all want to shake your hand? And y'all can stay up there for the next down. Mike. All right. This way. Ready? Okay. I'm also pleased to share that we have selected Dwayne Fish as the new principal of Graanberry High School. Mr. Fish, do you want to come to the podium? So, Mr. Fish comes to Granberry High School with over a decade of high school principal experience in

046the states of Washington and Michigan, but most recently moved to Texas and served as the assistant principal at Central High School in Keller ISD. He also has a 19-year career in law enforcement, serving as a detective, public information officer, and patrol officer. Welcome to Greenberry High School, Mr. Fish. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I was just going to say I I warned you that it wasn't just me. All three grandb babies are here. Both my boys and my wife are also here. So, thank you. Take that photo and take their family photo. They're going to take the official picture. One second. We're going to take one. Quick and then we'll take all of y'all. Okay. You want to get in the middle? All right. Ready? Ready. One, two, three. All right. Got it. Let's get your

047family in. We'll take a family with just you. All right, y'all look this way. Ready? One, two. Congratulations. [Applause] Thank you so much to our new um hires. We look forward to you growing here in Gre ISD. And that is it for the superintendent report. Thank you, Dr. Moroski. Wait, wait. I got one more item for the superintendent report. She gave us the center aisle, y'all. I know you like that center aisle. Yes, I did make a center aisle to help with some of our movement in the room. So, there you go. Much better. I like it. Now, we can conduct weddings here. Okay. Now, moving on to the consent agenda items. Do I have anybody that would like to pull any of the consent agenda items for further discussion? Yes. Is it my turn?

048If you want to pull something. All right. I want to pull a C. Charlie 10 C, please. All right. Approve the low attendance day waiver. Yes. Okay. I'd like to pull the out ofate travel. Okay. E E F. They moved around. Yeah. This isn't We got a new one. Out of state out of state travel. This one. All right. So, we're going to pull the um 10 C. approve a low attendance day waiver and items 10F approve out of state travel hosa. So, um I'm going to consider a motion for the remaining consent agenda items. Madame President, I move that we accept the uh consent agenda items except for those requested to be pulled. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a motion by Miss Alana and a second by Mr. more. All

049in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is 70 in favor. Okay. The first agenda item being pulled is 10 C. Approve a low attendance day waiver. Mr. Bolton, you have the floor. So, Mrs. Clark, I was just going to ask having read in the paper last week about uh our revenues and shortage as it comes as it relates to I'll say it. um as it relates to attendance and low attendance especially there toward the end of January and the start of February. Does this uh waiver then uh is the effect of that that it will have a lesser effect on our revenues improve that for us? Yes. So when we are beneath 10% from the whole ADA from last year on any given day due to weather or illness, there are some

050specific things that TEA lets us do a waiver for. And so the ones that are listed in your memo are the days um for full ISD or on specific campuses that we can put the waiver in for. it will take that um percentage out of our ADA calculation and so it will increase our our ADA average for this year. Yes, sir. Thank you for that. Any other questions? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve uh consent agenda item 10 C? So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. That's a motion by Mr. Bolton, a second by Miss Townsen. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that's 70 in favor. Next agenda item that was pulled is 10F. Approve out of state travel. Mr. Wimberly, you have the floor. I'm not

051sure if the person's here that asked this. Todd Gibson signed the letter requesting um $3,700 estimation of trip district trip cost. I don't know if anybody can answer if that's coming from budgeted or u some other source. Yes, sir. He's required to use his budget for that out of state travel. Okay. And also um it's one student and two employees or is there a parent involved or do you know? I do not know the answer to that sir. Okay. I have approved the the there is one um student and the parents are um giving the donating to the district the cost of their trip. So that it is under that is my understanding of how that um financial dealings will work. So part of its district part of its um parents but the parent is

052going to reimburse the district if we are paying for that piece. Yes, that's how that will work. Thank you. Any other questions? Okay. Do I have a motion to approve consent agenda item 10F? So moved. I have a motion by Miss Townsen. Do I have a second? I'll second. A second by Miss Alana. Any further discussion? All in favor? Raise your hand. The record show that's 70 in favor. Okay. Moving on to discussion action items 11A. discuss board election terms presented by Miss Barbara Townsen. Okay. Thank you. Um I wanted to state that I have received counsel from both uh our legal team and our representative that there are bills in the current legislative session considering election schedule changes for school districts. And because of that, I will not be making a motion to revise

053policy BBB local at this time. Okay. Thank you. So, we're essentially pulling this um since it was a discussion before, it's not a resend. It was never a motion. It's just we aren't going to do this at this time because we don't know if it's going to even be a possibility with legislation pending. Yeah, exactly. Well, I I would like to say um I appreciate the way that y'all brought this to us to discuss first and give the community ample time to weigh in on so we could hear all voices in the community and give the board time to reach out and do research like that and find out more information. So, I really appreciate the way that y'all went about bringing this agenda item to us and weigh letting the community weigh in. So,

054thank y'all for that. I do appreciate all the uh constructive comments that were made by the community. It was very helpful and uh we will go forward doing the best we can for Granbury ISD. Okay. Thank you. So, no action on 11A. Next item is 11B. Discuss a nomination to fill the vacancy on the Johnson County Appraisal District Board. Uh presented by Miss Dr. Courtney Moroski. Yeah, we got notified um from the central appraisal district of Johnson County that there is a vacancy due to a resignation of an appointed member. Um they let us know that we have 45 days to nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy. Um we we did include in your binder the name of someone that we know is running. We are not endorsing that candidate, but just to have

055you you um have that name and then you guys can if there's any other nominations, we can go forward. And that was David Carmy, correct? The name that we have is David Carmy. Okay. Do I have a motion um to accept a nomination to fill the vacancy of the Johnson County Appraisal District School uh Appraisal District Board? I'll make that motion. What motion are you making? Who are we nominating? Oh, you I thought you were just opening it up for nominations. Yes. Well, yeah, I'm opening it up. Okay. Do I have any nominations? Can we discuss it a little bit? Well, motion, second, then we discuss. Y Okay. Uh, yes. Then I'll I'll go forward with David Karm. David Carmy. Thank you. Okay. I have a nomination for David Carmy. Do I have any further

056nominations? Hey. Do I have a motion to accept David Carmy as the nomination to fill the vacancy on the Johnson County Appraisal District Board? You mean a second? A second. I'm sorry. Okay. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? No second. The motion fails. So we are not taking any we have no nomination to give. Okay. Next is uh discussion action item 11 C consider for approval budget amendments. Mr. Whitefield. Thank you Madam President. Board in front of you, you do have budget amendments for this month. You have two budget amendments. One is for the child nutrition program. This is amending the uh the supply chain grant and the local food school grant. for that particular program. And the second one is for the the maintenance and operations budget. Uh

057the the uh major thing on that is the $16.1 million amendment to the revenue and um it is before you for approval. Okay. Do I have a motion to approve the budget amendments as presented by Mr. Whitefield? I'll make that motion. I have a motion by Mr. Bolton. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second by Mr. Moore. Any discussion? Yes, please. Um, so, Mr. Whitefield Howard. Uh, what's your uh what's your level of confidence? Maybe a percent uh that we get to keep that money. 50/50. 5050. Yeah. Um, and is that on the rise where you were at 25 before and now you're at 50 or is No, I'm still at 5050. Could you explain where that money is coming from? Yes, ma'am. This is a uh they call it a

058uh foundation sellup payment due to the revised frozen levy. So I've discussed this with a few financial what I consider financial gurus. They think it's very strange. I think it's very strange. Um I did talk to Lindberger who is our property tax attorneys. Um they said there's a couple other school districts that are dealing with the same thing. Um it looks like they adjusted frozen levy based on values prior to adjust prior to fixing the T2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T 2 T22 T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T T2 value and T7 value. Having said that, this is the audit that we filed back in that year 23

05924 about sometime just a little bit after uh spring break uh to adjust our our uh property values. uh the software system that um three of the four CADs that we use uh neglected to take into consideration frozen levies. So this is where that money is kind of coming from. However, TEA didn't adjust the T values when they they made the adjustment. So when they if they come back and adjust those T values, they're probably going to request that money back. So, we're in a 50-50 situation. Keep it worst case scenario. It stays in an investment and makes money on interest on that 16. And I do want to bring up um that this is something that um that was caught by our CFO that to know that we were not getting the right amount

060of money originally. And so, you did lots of work, communication, gathering information, and submitting all that. Um but you also knew that that probably wasn't right. So, I just want to make sure that people know that you caught that we should have some money. Maybe not that much, not that much, but that that you were working to make sure that our taxpayers and that the money was represented correctly in our system. So, thank you. Thank you. Like I said, worst case scenario, we get the interest on it until it has to go back. Yeah. Good. We get to earn money on that money while we have it in hand. That's good. Do we have a timeline on it, sir? Do we have a timeline as to when we'll know for sure or day by day?

061Don't Don't ask. Don't tell them. Don't I'm a fishy fishy sir. I mean, could they come back 15 years from now and say that we I don't know what the statute of limitations is on it. I do not know that. Okay. Do these Has this ever happened before? Uh when I talked to the property tax attorneys, he said that he had never seen something like that before. Wow. But there are some other districts that are going through this as well. Mhm. Are they other districts that also had the same problems with their the the the software Southwest data data systems and they didn't take in and they do a majority at least of in North Texas for the H the CADs um and they they had a glitch in their software that didn't catch that

062frozen levy reduction um and it was reported to the comproller. So the comproller's T values are significantly less than what they should be. And um during the audit, we got a revised um T value for our property values. However, the comproller is not going to go back and fix what's on their website. They just they sent us a memo saying this is what's being corrected. And actually, they sent it to um the commissioner of education and and CC us of the new property values. Mr. Whitefield, is there any um restrictions on this money that we receive? Can we use it for any purpose? Don't use it. we get to we we could use it for any purpose if it's our money. There's no restrictions on it. Um my calculations and um Linder kind of confirmed

063that for me today was we should have got about 1.6 and we ended up with 16.8. It's a big difference. So he found the error and they rewarded him with 10 times as much. And you know, we will definitely if that money stays in our account, I think we definitely um will come back to the board and talk about how that money should be used and we of course have some recommendations, but you guys would be a part of that conversation as well. Thank you. But it's my advice at this point not to spend that money. Right. Right. Understood. It sounds like Dr. Morowski already has a plan for it. I got plans. All right. Any further discussion? I would like to uh thank Mr. Whipfield for all the work he has done first to

064find this error and also to realize that we do need to be very cautious about this money. I I could not be more proud of our CFO. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Okay. I also want to go over some other donations from the community before we go on. donation from uh board of witnesses and outreach K. Jones or Lutheran Church to Bonner campus activity account for breakfast and lunch during star tutoring of $720. Donation from Constellation Power Amy Fleshman top the Bakus campus activity account to supplement the fall 25 field trips of $4,500 donation to Golden Chick to the Bakus campus account to support students and teachers of $200. donation from the Optimus Club of Granberry and the GHS to the GHS Bleacher Creature Student Activity Fund to supplement their summer camp of $700. Donation

065from Flying B Merkantel Brienne Langden to the Bleacher Student Activity Fund to purchase uniforms of $130. Donation from the Northeastern Pavers to the GHS Inception Racing Student Activity Fund in support of the program of $2,000. Donation from Elizabeth Crockett Chapter D to JHS MJ ROTC student activity fund in support of the program of $2,332.19. Donation from the Hood County Hood and Somerville County A&M Club to the GHF MJ ROTC student activity fund in support of their program of $100. Donation from A+ roofing Chad Ammons to GSD and shingles and labor to replace roof on Decker Gym that was $53,000 for total don donations from the community of $64,82.19. [Applause] always amazed by the community support. Thank you for recognizing them. Any further discussion? All right, hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve item

06611 C uh budget amendments? So moved. I have a motion by Miss Townsen. Do I have a second? I'll second the motion. I have a second by Miss Alana. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show that is six in favor. one has stepped out and the motion passes. Next item is 11D. Consider the approval of the purchase of 200 wireless access points for GHS. Mr. Whitefield. Thank you, Madam President. Board, in front of you, you do have the CSP for the wireless access points at the high school. Um, it was a CSP that was put out. Um, Mr. Wilson did the evaluation on it. It's recommended that the board of trustees approve the purchase of 200 Cisco Catalyst 9166 L-mr wireless access points from CDW government in the amount of $214,972. Thank

067you. Do I have a motion to approve or do I have any further questions for Mr. Whitefield before I take a motion? Madame President, I move that we approve the purchase of 200 wireless access points for Granberry High School. I have a motion by Miss Alana. A second. I'll second. A second by Mr. Bolton. Any further discussion? I just want to say thank you, Mr. Wilson, for answering all my questions. I know I had a lot, so I appreciate you taking the time to respond. Okay. All in favor, raise your hand. Let the record show the vote is 70 in favor. Next item up is 11D. Discuss approval for attorney contract with Liser Crass. Dr. Courtney Moroski. Yes. Um thank you, President Gore. I'd like to present to the board a recommendation that we um

068sign a retainer with Lisa Crass. And so I listed on the memo several reasons. Um number one being that the cost is less than what we're currently paying. Um and you'll see that listed there. the retainers um half the price and then each of the levels um of service are less uh money per hour. And then also another reason is that they have comparable expertise in the firm um as to what we currently have and they're regionally more accessible. So um I'm happy to entertain any questions that you may have. Do we have any questions? I do uh worry about ending a relationship we've had for a long time with uh certain legal issues in play right now. I do believe though that we should always be cognizant of other things that are going on

069and other attorneys that are available. Um, I would suggest taking one piece of all that we do and letting Aliser Crass have it as opposed to cutting our relationship with Walsh Gyos completely at this time. Any further comments? Yep. I'll make another comment. Um I I kind of have the opposite point of view that I think that I like to take uh those uh longstanding opportunities. They like to take those opportunities to uh do things fresh and do things new. And so there's there's a opportunity for that with this. Um and I think that I would also take the opposite view. uh not in opposition. That sounds like I'm in opposition, but I think it's it goes handinhand with what um with what Miss Townson was saying uh that we may not need to cut

070ties completely with Walsh. Uh but I think I would look at it the opposite view. Instead of giving just a piece of that to uh Liser, I think I would give it all to Liser except for the items that are currently outstanding and let them continue with those items through uh their resolution, natural resolution. Any further comments? Hey, um there are a couple ways that we could go about making a motion. We could just approve this agreement and cut ties with Wash Gayos. We could keep Wash Gay goes on to be uh council to the board and Lisa Crest for the super and admin. We could do one of the two options that Miss Townsen and Mr. Bolton made. So, there's a couple different ways that the board can go and I am willing to

071entertain a motion by any of y'all for any and one of those things. In my opinion, we don't need to completely cut our ties with Walsh Gyos because we do have such a history with them and they are so familiar with our district. I would hate to cut ties with them completely and we've never used CRA. I would like to bring them on slowly and let them become more familiar with our district before we give them before we give him that much is much of [Music] a of of so many things involving our district. So I my feeling is that we bring them on slowly and keep uh our tie our keep uh Walsh Gagos in our whether it's just with the board or whether our admin or or how we do it. I I

072I I'm not willing to completely cut ties with him. So what uh what would that motion look like? Would you want to keep a motion to keep Walsh on for board counsel and all current uh legal matters and then bring Lisa Crass on for spec which how how would you word that or how would you want that motion to look specifically? I'd like input from the other board members. Well, go ahead. Okay. I think I pretty much agree that things that are have been existing with Wyos should be continued and that we with new things that are new to the district maybe bring Lisa Crass into that into that realm. Um and things that we've done with them in the past for long periods of time maybe keep uh WAS uh for a period of

073time. I don't know how that motion would look but that's my feelings on the on the subject. Then I agree. I'd like to see how it goes before we totally cut off Walsh. I want to see how the how the new one would work out. And we can always keep Walsh as board counsel and Lisa Crass for admin. There's there's that option, too. Yes. I want to make it clear that we can have both retainers and we can we can approve both retainers for um while we kind of move through the the period that you guys decide. I agree more with um Tim that we could let Walsh finish what they've got started out there not as a board u and not have them go to go to LSER and then just use let Walsh

074and Galagos have the other stuff they're already working on. So with that I'll make a motion. Okay. I have a motion from Mr. Bolton. Let's hear it. I move to accept I move that the board should accept Superintendent Dr. Moroski's recommendation to approve the transition from Walsh to Liser Crest as the district's primary legal council effective immediately with outstanding items uh being seen through to resolution by our current council with Walsh. So I have a motion to approve the transition to Liser Crafts effective immediately with only the outstanding items remaining with Walsh Gagos. Correct. Do I have a second? A second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor raise your hand. All right. The motion fails. I will entertain a second motion. I mean the the it doesn't pass. So additional motion.

075Yeah, an additional motion. I'll I'll entertain an additional motion if anybody wants to to tweak it and reward it differently. Something that we have had um problems with spending a lot of money on legally lately are PIRs and grievances. Um, obviously we are not handling them as well as could be handled. I suggest we give those over to Liser Grass to begin with. See how they are handled hopefully for uh different counsel and maybe for less money and we move on from there that if that is successful onto a transition but kind of a Can can we do that? We can. Yes, we can do whatever pieces or parts we need to do. Okay. So, is that an official motion? Yes. Okay. So, I have a motion by Miss Townsen to have Lisa Crass take

076over the PS and what was the second? Grievances. Grievances. PS and grievances and then keep Walsh Gayos on for everything else. That is correct. Okay. So, I have a motion by Miss Townsen. Do I have a second? I'll second. Okay. Okay. And I have a second by Miss Alana. All in favor of Can we have more discussion? Yeah. Okay. I'm sorry. Any further discussion? Go ahead. Okay. So, PRs would be what? The uh public information requests. Okay. Okay. And so what about existing um um things that are going on right now with uh legal the so things that are not completed with legal that have to do with PIS with anything? No, just all we're giving to Lisa Crass are PIRs and grievances. How much have we spent in PIS in the last you know

077three years? I don't have the exact total on that. We're on track to hit about $100,000 in legal this year. The if if I like the fact that leiser crass is less per hour and for legal for doing something that we are just being inundated with with pir. It would be nice to have save some money legally there and also maybe get some other counsel on how to handle our PIS and our So we represent that as as costing less to have two on hand but we have a retainer fee for both of them now. That is correct. I thought we didn't have two retainers. Yes, you can have we have two different attorneys that do different things for the district like insurance and things and and just to be clear the the first year

078that we would be with Lisa Crass it's a free retainer no cost retainer and so that's when this is kind of our trial period many districts have two three attorneys um in different in different areas that they specialize in. Well, we have Walsh Gyos and we have Lime Barker for example. I I think it's a good um I think it's a good option to kind of try them out and see how they work with us and if if we like the relationship and if we want to move forward with um having them do more, I think this gives us an opportunity to see if we we will be compatible. I'll remind the board too that that we do know who he is and how he works because he gave us that training. He was great.

079He stuck around Absolutely. for the rest of the evening to talk about board policy and just sort of weighed in on that. Absolutely. I re I really like them a lot. I'd like to add them to be the board attorneys to that. What you're saying? Add board attorneys to that. I'll go for that. Say that again. I didn't hear the whole thing. She wants to add board trainings to No, not board trainings to represent the board. To represent the board. Add to what you're saying. Just I want them also to represent the board. Not Wilson Gos. Okay. Okay. So I have a motion and a second to add Lisa Crass to handle PS and grievances. An amendment to that. And now I have an amendment. So we're going to vote on the amendment. The first

080the amendment is to add on retaining them as board counsel. Yes. Along with their Ps and Right. So we're adding in board counsel. So do I I have a second for the amendment? I'll second. Okay. Okay. I have a second to add the amendment to include board counsel, not just P and grievances, but board counsel as well as well. Okay. All in favor? Did you agree to that to add to the motion? Well, first we have to do the amendment, right? We have to vote on the amendment and if the amendment passes, then we would vote on the correct. So, right now we're going to vote on the amendment. Do we have any further discussion on the amendment? We have to vote on the motion. the motion that's out there and then we vote on

081the amendment to add to the motion. That's not right. The other way. Amendment first. It's amendment first. Then the motion. Okay. It's amendment. If we're going to add that, if the amendment fails, we don't add it to the motion and then we vote on the full motion. Correct. Okay. Okay. I don't What does my parliamentarian say? Come on. Come on, Mr. Parliamentarian. cheat. I think you're I think you're correct. I think you have to vote on the amendment. We vote on the amendment. You have to go up the ladder. If that amendment is approved, then we then you come back down. Okay. So, we are now voting on Do I have any further discussion on the amendment of adding Lisa Crest to also uh represent the board? I think that was a good suggestion. Okay.

082Hearing no further discussion, do I have all in favor? Raise your hand. Raise your hand. Raise your hand if you are in favor of the amendment to add having Lisa Crass represent the board. Not ready for that. Okay, the motion fails. The amendment fails. Excuse me. Right now, back to the original motion of having Lisa Crass handle the PS and the grievances. Do I have any further discussion on that motion? Okay, hearing none. All in favor, raise your hand. We're only going to authorize Lisa Crrest to handle PS and grievances and we will retain Wash Gayos for everything else. That is the motion we are voting on. All in favor, raise your hand. The motion passes. 70. Thank you for that deliberation. I appreciate it. Thank you for the help, Mr. Parliamentarian. Mr. Bolton, it

083was your idea. Moving on to discussion action item 11F. approved the J1 host school agreement with the International Alliance Group. We are actually going to be pulling this item. There's some more information we need. So, this is actually getting pulled. We won't be voting on it tonight. It'll be coming back to us at a later meeting. Moving on to the reports. Uh item 12A, student view transportation update. Brian Cruther, transportation director. The floor is yours. It's going on to you, not me. Oh, perfect. Thank you G for giving me a second to talk about student view. Um, student view is a real time GPS tracker for the school buses and with added connectivity, it allows us to monitor the students as well. Um, we start by asking why student view and, uh, Dr. Harrington, who

084signed up here for years, uh, said it pretty much perfect. If it's not for the good of kids, then Granberry ISD doesn't do it. What this does for kids, number one, it keeps them safe by making them aware of, making transportation and administrators aware of what's going on, where the bus is, that kind of good thing. It also makes parents aware of that. Let me give you a little bit more information on how this and we'll come back to this question here in just a little bit. Student view is involved in three major parts. The first is bus view. Um let me back up just a little bit. Student view is uh a product of national fleet tracking. They do they track uh vehicles all over the United States uh tracking. This is through the

085school system. The first is bus view. It's a GPS tracker. And what it will do, it will let us know where the bus is. It will let us know the speed of the bus, where the bus is going, and the past historical data. Where has the bus been for this week, next week, it will store up to a year's worth of storage in that. Student view goes a little bit further and then it lets students scan their ID when they're entering or exiting the bus. What I'd like to do is pass this up and let you guys take a look at this. These are this is a sample of the cards that we are using and of the scanners that we use. What the students would do is they would get on the bus and

086they would take their card and swipe it across that scanner just like that and it would beep. Exactly right. That's exactly right. And it beeps and lets the driver know that it's that they're on the bus. And they do the same thing when the kids are getting off the bus. And with along with the real-time GPS that transmits back to the school district where the students are, what students are on, that kind of good things. Along with the next item which is parent view, it gives parents notifications about where if the location of their students bus, how long till the students bus gets to their stop and with an additional assignment or when they can pick on that uh application, they can get additional notifications if the bus is running late. If we have an

087area that is a uh where we have flood, we hadn't had that for a while, thank goodness, but in case we do and we have to let a certain amount of kids know that they can't go, if the parents have signed up on this app, we can notify them directly rather than shooting a big mass email out to everybody. Just let the affected folks know what's going on through there. Um, who does this impact? Eventually, we're hoping this is going to impact all of the students of Granberry ISD. But all of the students with Granberry ISD is about like eating an elephant. And the only way to eat elephant is one bite at a time. So, we took the bite of the specialized transportation units and we are taking just that batch together and learning

088how to operate the system. Imagine if you will. Everybody around here has a cell phone with them. But if you will imagine when you get that cell, you've got your cell phone, you know where the numbers are, you know how to get to your significant other. You can get all that information together. But what happens when you upgrade that cell phone? Holy smokes, there's all kinds of different apps and how do I get to this and where did that go? That's what we're learning right now. We're learning how to use this system through this pilot issue with the special needs buses. Kind of the time frame of what we did. You guys were gracious enough to approve the uh budget amendment for us to start this product in December and January. We began hardware installation

089on the special needs buses along with the RFID cards that you saw go by. Think of those RFID cards like the tag on a garment. that when the cashier forgets to use and you walk out the door and it sends off the alarms and everything, think of that RFID card right there. It has no information other than just write that piece of information. It doesn't send any information out anywhere. The information that comes back ties that and we're able to look at the system. So, the students information isn't really out there in the world anymore that way. Um, in February we trained the transportation office to learn how to use it, sent it out, gave the drivers information. We moved on to the campuses, showed the campuses front desk because they're the ones that are

090going to use it because they're going to call and parents going to call and say, "Hey, is Timmy on the bus?" Par the school can look it up. Timmy got on the bus. They're they're good to be here to the school or they're good to be home. in XYZ minutes so they can look it up that way. This summer we're going to make a plan for full implementation, getting the IDs out to everybody, communicating with parents because each parent has to have for the student a very uh individual ID number. So that ID number goes out to the parents and it's not the student ID number. It's a very individual I number that Brent helps us get that information out to the parents and that way they can sign up to through parent view and

091use the apps, that kind of stuff. Again, uh the next school year we're going forward with full implementation on all of the buses, regular ed as well as the special needs buses. And again, we're going to do this incrementally. We're going to eat the elephant one bite at a time. So, while we were on this discovery process, we learned about a new uh product. It's not new to it's new to us. It's not new to them called a driver view tablet. And the driver view tablet, think of it as the uh info uh your navigation software that you have on your vehicle. Um think of it something similar to that. What it will do, it will provide directions. If I have to ask Mr. Emtt to drive school bus for us one day, he would

092be able to get on that and it will give him directions on where to go and where to stop if that were to come up. It also tells you coming up to this stop. We have 10 students to get on the bus. They are students 1, two, three, four, and five. And when that comes in and we see that we only got five buses, we can say, "Hey, where are these other guys?" We can look out and find out where those guys. Another option that that's great for that is in the afternoon when kids get off the bus. Say Mr. uh Ryan over here is riding the bus, but he wants to get off with his girlfriend kind of deal. There's going to be a a buzzer go off and then we can say, "Hey,

093get back over here on the bus. You don't need to be getting off here kind of deal." And so it gives us that information on how we're moving forward that way. So let's go back to the qu first question we had. Why NFT? Couple of options here. There are several companies out there that provide GPS tracking for the buses. Um NFT with the student view was the least expensive. They are a local company based out of Glenrose and so uh if we have problems with the system, we can call them and they can be up here in the time it takes from them to get to Glenrose and they are super responsive. So there was a there was a local item, there was the price item, and finally there are several of the local districts

094around this area, Weatherford, Mineral Wells, Lakew Worth, and Brock that I can pull of immediately that are within driving distance that use them and all of them gave them rave reviews from the system. They're super responsive and super able to make it work for Granberry, make it a Granberry ISD product. At that point, I'd like to ask, do y'all have any questions? Is there anything I can help you with? Yes, ma'am. If a student loses their card, is there any information someone else can get off of that card about that student? No, ma'am. Because all that is on that card is a number. Okay. And that number doesn't kick back to looking the student up. Remember I told you about a a specific number that Brent's going to give the parents? That doesn't have that

095information either. So that's all that's on there. What that does is that triggers the scanner when the deal when the card runs the scan. It just says, "Okay, this one in here." And then we go back. It goes back and looks. So there's no information going out. There won't be no there won't be a name on it. Well, it'll have the it'll have the students name student's name and picture on it. Yes. Just like you see right there. Just like their IDs. Just like their ID, but I mean there's if they if there's no way if they lose it, they're their name and their ID is all there is that's out. Okay. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Anything else? I just want to say thank you for looking into this and getting this implemented and getting

096everyone trained on it. I think it's going to be a great uh product for Granberry ISD and our students and our parents. Yes, ma'am. Thank you very much. We're excited to have it too and be able um I was actually able to make a use of it to today before I came here. I had a mom call panicking because uh student XYZ wasn't home. We were able to look up on the system and it showed that he wasn't scanned in that he didn't scan in on the bus. So, he didn't ride the bus. So then we were able to route back to school, found the student at school, and were able to get him and uh mom reunited. So it's already working. Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, moving on to our athletics

097report. Coach Lamont Bore trustees Dr. Morowski, thank you for allowing me to be here. Um, all right, go through this, be as efficient as I can. Uh, athletic report. First off, um, first off, I will be presenting new team members, successes throughout the year, changes, uh, facilities updates, department, and department needs. Uh, why am I presenting? provide an overall snapshot at the athletic department from 24 to 25 school year moving toward the future. All right, here here are two new team members that we have two big ones. Uh new girls basketball coach and girls coordinator who was approved tonight uh Brad Bllelock. Uh he is u very highly respected in the state of Texas and girls basketball. He's part of the UIL executive committee. uh he has uh come highly recommended by a lot of

098coaches uh throughout the state of Texas and some athletic directors as well. So happy to have him. Uh it was a long process of trying to find the right person to to replace uh you know coach Thorp who's been u had a legendary career. So we're excited to have coach Bllock. And then um Corey Slabota uh will be replacing my uh athletic secretary secretary Amber Nickad who's who is resigning uh to have her baby uh in August. So Corey is coming over from GMS. U she was the principal secretary and been in the district for a couple of years. We're excited to have her. She's uh very well respected as well within the district. Also her husband works in the district as a marshall as well. So uh be a family affair at high school.

099So, we're excited about that. Uh, all right. Uh, successes throughout the year. Um, so number one, uh, about this time last year, I was implementing, uh, going cashless and implementing hometown, our digital ticketing process, uh, software. Uh, and we we implemented that this year to all sports and I think some other activities took it on throughout the year. So, it's been very successful for us and some other activities within the school uh extracurricular activities within the the school district. So, we thought it went really well. Some hiccups in the beginning as as expected, but as the school year went on, it was smooth smooth sailing for uh our workers and for and our fans and parents as well. Uh we thought it was very uh efficient and uh cost effective for everybody involved. So, we

100we love the process. hometown's been great with us helping us transition into it and anytime we have any questions or concerns about anything, they was able to answer any questions. So, uh, Amber did a great job of, uh, getting that set up and and we we it just went wonderful for us and we we think it went well for our district and our our community as well. So, um, all right, let's go through some of the team success this year for some of our sports. Girls basketball was a uh by district qualifier in the playoffs. lost in they lost in the first round but had an incredible year. Coach Stors last year we thought the girls competed h really well in a tough district and was able to get a playoff spot. So we we're

101excited about them and the success they had. So, um, and then baseball, uh, was second in district. Uh, came down to the end of the, uh, district the last game, uh, getting second behind Alledo, um, and was able to, uh, qualify for a first round district, uh, playoff game. Uh, they went went three games with tough Collville Heritage team and lost two out of three in the B by district round, but, had an incredible year. Coach Eve has done a great job with that program. Uh we're looking forward to the future. So as well, so boys track uh they had eight regional qualifiers. Uh they were third in district. Uh as you know as well, our district is a really tough district and them to get third overall as a team as a team was

102really big for them and to get eight eight regional qualifiers is also also a heavy task. So uh and then girls track had another good had a good season as well. They was able to get three regional qualifiers out. Uh unfortunately we had a kid that was uh pretty high ranked we thought was going to get to state. I mean he just had off day but you know that's how it goes. That's athletics. But uh he he will be back and we're excited about that. So uh team uh tennis boys uh was district champs this year uh over. So that was huge for us and coach LCA has done a great job of that program. Yeah. Exactly. Uh and uh that was huge for us. And then he had three kids. He had a doubles

103team that got first in district and then he had one indiv individual kid that got first in the singles that qualified for regionals. And uh so incredible year by them. Uh he took that he's taken that program uh a long way and so we're excited about what what's going to happen in the future as well with that with that program. It's looking bright. Cross country boys and girls uh they were regional qualifiers. both were third in the district and they both both teams qualified for regionals and had an incredible year. Uh boys golf uh and girls golf, they had each had one state qualifier. They was recognized tonight. Uh as you know, anybody that gets to state in anything, that's that's a that's an incredible feat. So, um and the boy is the the boy

104that qualified, Cheryl, is a freshman. So, we're looking forward to him for three more years and maybe uh get on that podium at state, too. So, and then u we had one girl we we uh honored her tonight. She's going on to college. Uh so we're uh Coach Addison is uh done an incredible job that girls program. So volleyball uh we had a another good year. Um we they were by district uh qualifiers and had a you know we meet up with a tough district unfortunately but uh coach Seahan's done a great great job that program and to get those girls in the playoffs and uh they played they fought hard and we're excited about what what's going to happen in the future with them as well. Uh swimming had an incredible year boys and

105girls were district champs. Uh that's the first time uh that coach Overton's had that. So he was super excited as well as I. But u so that was big for us and our program and he had 11 11 state qualifiers to make it to state. It's like I talked about earlier making the state is is incredibly hard. So to get 11 to go. So we're excited. We were super excited for him and what he's doing with that program. powerlift powerlifting had uh one uh male state qualifier and then we had one female state qualifier. The female got second in state and she will be back. She's a junior and so she'll be back. So and uh we're excited about that. The boy was 17th and they have like 90 kids down there for him to

106get 17th that you know that mean that means a lot. So don't look at the 17th number and think that that wasn't a tough task. So uh he was a senior so we will be he will be missed. So, but um we will have the female back. So, excited about the program. So, that's some of the team successes this year. That's a lot. And uh we're excited about our coaches. They've done an excellent job and just want to give a shout out to them what they've done with these programs and continue to do. So, uh, some of the changes and additions, uh, excellent personnel, like we talked about the new girls basketball coach, uh, that we hired tonight, uh, Allan Thorp, after 30 years of service, uh, he is retiring from, uh, teaching and coaching

107basketball. Uh, but good news, he's going to stay on and be an assistant golf coach. So, we're excited about that. He's co he's coached golf before and he played a ton of golf. So, he's got a lot of experience. So, we we're excited to keep him around. but just not in that capacity. Um, and then Amry Nixah, we talked about her a little earlier. That's going to be a big blow for me. She was here from the beginning with me and went through all ups and flows of getting uh imp implement myself into the program. She was a big help for bringing in some new new uh new ideas, some new some new procedures and policies. So, uh she would be missed, but I know Corey will will fill that gap. Uh you know, excellent.

108So, uh, some new additions this year, uh, NFHS, National Federation of State High School Associations. It's a game streaming software. It's been around quite a while. Uh, it is a national service. So, it's a service where you can basically uh, stream every single sport that we have, you know. Uh, so we kind of went, we talked to Todd Gibson. he's going away from the the prior network situation. It just wasn't feasible to get at every event, you know. Uh so we thought this would be a great uh opportunity for us to jump on board with NFHSHs to uh to make sure, you know, consistency, reliability for all our games. So people can't make it, they can be there. And uh they've been around a long time, well respected. I actually have a membership already, so

109I can watch the state championships. I can't make them. I can watch any sport. So, uh it's it's been it's great and like I said, it's a national service, not just Texas. So, uh we we think that's going to be great for us and so we can get that streaming out for all the games and like I said, it's consistency and reliability for us. Um we will be initiating zebra pay this year as well. It's a streamline process to pay athletic officials. Um, and we just think this is just costefficient for us and uh it be more efficient as well for for everybody involved and uh this is a a company that's that's been around for quite a while and we're excited to partner with them and uh and get this streamlined process for our

110athletic officials get paid so on time and regularly. So, um facilities updates. All right, some big ones. uh facility updates. Like I said, we we're always looking we're looking at every all our facilities, not just these these two on the screen. We're always looking at all our facilities just to make sure we're we're up to date and making sure that all our uh our facilities are safe and, you know, up to par of what standards of what we want. Um and these are two that we updated this year. James Juan team meeting room. That's the one at the bottom. And you can see the before at the top with the little maroon chairs kind of bunched up the with the cloth and then the walls are just kind of plain. And then you can see

111the tile. Um and then you see at the bottom that's kind of what we did. We stayed in house within our budget to take care of these which is another plus we we like to do. Uh those chairs we already had, you know, we just redid the floor, painted the walls. Uh so and you can see the difference just that just that little touch-up. And then at the the uh bottom right is our team meeting room at the pavilion. Um and you can see at the top what it used to be uh where the coaches are sitting. That was a tile and then the walls. And we did u our maintenance crew did an excellent job. We kind of buil built some little uh like theater steps, you know, and then bought those chairs and

112and painted the walls and put that little sign up right there from the CT uh our CT uh team did that for us. So, uh, we did this all in house within our budget. So, just a little pride and for us and, uh, we just, we just love what we can do. So, and, uh, the kids just they were so excited to have that. So, we're trying to kept them out of and then surprised them. So, they were they were super excited. So, uh, all right, those some are up. And then middle school bleachers, same thing. Just need to be updated. Want to make sure it's safe for the kids. and uh and uh so we replace those at at both middle schools. Uh some of the some of the bleachers. All right. Some of

113the department needs uh two big ones right here. GHS track and field complex. You can see a picture of a mock of what we wanted to look like. Um and uh so just the the the track is just is condemned. Basically the structure is is damaged. Um, we can we we cannot use it right currently right now. We're going over to GMS to use their track. Um, and then AMS track is not as it's not at the same level as the high school. It just needs to be resurfaced. That's the at the point of AMS track, but GS track GH GHS tracks needs to be completely replaced. It's pretty bad. Yeah. If you haven't had a chance to go check it out, I'd encourage y'all to do that. Yeah. So, those are some of the

114needs. Uh those two are the big ones for us. Uh any questions on anything? Oh, thank you for all the improvements you've made and I'm excited for this new streaming system that we're going to be using. So looking forward to to using that. Thank you. Okay. All right. Next up is our academic report by Miss Tammy Clark. Thank [Applause] you. Okay. I'm excited to be here tonight. Thank you for having me for the AC academic update. I told you last month that I would come back because we have the 2223 um data that has been released for accountability data. Um and we're awaiting the 24 results to be released as soon as that litigation gets solved. And hopefully it's pretty quick because pretty soon we'll be having 25 data that will be coming in and

115um released to the public is the best way to get um full transparency, but we don't get to release it until the state does. So, um, except for through taper reports, but, um, the reason I'm here is to talk to you about the A throughF accountability scores and how it's calculated at the 30,000 foot view and then tell you how our ISD numbers, what percentage of each campus goes into our um, overall ISD accountability. So, I put the texaschools.gov there in the bottom right hand corner. If um you want to see this in anyone, texaschools.gov is where you can look and get this information. We get the information sooner than the public, but when it's released to the public, it's released at texaschools.gov. And so the 2023 is released and it has us overall at

116a B. So, well, let me back up. student achievement school progress is worth 70% of the score. So they'll take the best score out of all of those pl all of those um little wickets and they will give you 70% of that is your overall score and 30% is closing the gaps and I'll explain what each of those are when I get there. So student achievement if on this texaschools.gov gov. If you drill down into show me the details on student achievement, you will come across something like this. This is where you can see how our district for approaches, meets, and masters overall for all of our subjects compares against the state. I'm proud to say that um we are above the state in every single area for 2023. Um, it measures if our student

117met expectations on STAR and how prepared they are for success after high school. So, school districts with a B, our recognized level of student achievement. Our goals are to get everybody at 90, 60, 30. So, that's our first big goal for GISD is to get 90 approaches, 60 mates, and 30 masters across the board. So, that's what we're working for first. Anywhere we're above those numbers, then we have incremental goals higher than that. Another part of student achievement is graduation rate and CCMR. It's important to note that CCMR is lag data. So, this is 2023 taper information and accountability information, which means it's 2022 CCMR data. So, at at 2022, we were just starting to make sure that we were um doing IBC's that were counting for our CCMR credits. We were just starting the

118process of um getting our students TSIA tested, which helps. There you can see all of the different district and state numbers there. We are working diligently on that. But this is 2022 um college and career military readiness data that counts for 2023. So when we get our 2025 numbers, it will count for last year's CCMR data from 2024, which is kind of interesting. We are proud of our graduation rate. We are proud to say that we regularly are above that 95% on fi four-year grads and it just goes up the longer you give them time to finish. Um our big goal is forund 100% of our students to get that CCMR point that we are diligently tracking every single senior and um trying to make sure that they get um a CCMR point somehow. So,

119um, that's the goal that we have in mind for CCMR eventually and hopefully you'll see that we'll improve there. School progress, this is not the one that I had on here. School progress is the next one. And um districts that earn a B in school progress um is when many students demonstrate appropriate grow growth or we are achieving better than our um similar school counterparts. So um on academic growth our score was a 76 which is a C but it measures how our students grow academically by at least one year. How that is calculated is you can see along the left it takes last year's um data and it shows that um where they were testing last year and then you follow it across where they tested this year and to get a growth point

120you have to show the orange is where they get half of a growth point and the green is where they get a full growth point. So, if they've mastered last year to stay in a growth point scenario, they have to stay at mastery level, if that makes sense. You get another quarter of a point for any of your accelerated learners, which is the information on the bottom of that um screen. And that is um anyone who did not meet and then you get them to passing. So you get an extra quarter of a point for those accelerated learners because they are making the achievement. They're making up their um their deficits to get to on level. Our relative performance is 81. And so um relative performance is with our groups that are also at the

121same economically disadvantaged level as we are. So each campus has their own grouping of 40 schools. So um let's just say for example AMS who has a an economically disadvantaged rate is different than GMS's. So they have a different grouping of schools that they're compared against for their star performance. And we also are compared against like schools at the high school for our CCMR. And so those component scores go together. And for us it's an 81. So that's are our our like groups of um schools that are the same population as ours and economically disadvantaged um population as ours. Closing the gaps is really kind of as I know that's a lot of information on there. So every single campus has um four areas. This shows how well our district ensures that all subgroups are

122finding academic success, but it's not really calculated on all of the groups. So, a every campus will be calculated on the achievement and growth of all students and the achievement and growth of their high focus group which includes Ecodis, EB's, special ed and our highly mobile and homeless students. and then their two lowest demographic performing um subops. So every single one of those campuses will get graded on a grid very much like this and then it goes into a big grid that um then gives them a percentage based on the population of students enrolled 3 through 8. And so that's why our high school is 38% of our overall accountability. And then it goes down to uh schools that have less enrollment 3 through 8. STARS is on a different accountability because they're an alternative

123high school. And Emma just gets the same grade as GISD. They are paired with GISD because they don't have any students that are testing. And so the recap is with all of that in together, our highest was an 81 for school progress under relative performance. And so that was our 70% um overall for for um school achievement or school progress. And then our 79 for closing the gaps um was the other 30% which came out to Granberry ISD getting an an 80 which is a B in 2023. So that is it. Do you have any questions? Go back to that last slide for me. Yeah. So it's important to point out I think I mean I know you said this at the top but this is two-year-old data. Yes. Yeah. I was really just hoping

124to show you what you could see on texaschools.gov and then to make a little sense of it for everybody who's looking at it themselves. Right. This is two-year-old data. We got the data and we presented it in um fall of actually in Janu either December of 2023 or January of 2024 with the taper that gave us this grade. It's just that the state did not release it to the public until the litigation was done. Same thing is true with last year's data. Last year's data we went in depth in January about the taper report. That's the view that I get. I we get the taper report and we make informed decisions based on that and I do a taper report so that you know what those um numbers are whether the state gives us an

125A throughF grade or not but this but the public doesn't get a Texas school.gov grade um to see until the litigation is done and that's why this data was just released and before too long not to put too much pressure on you Dr. U but we'll have some kind of dashboard report card something local on our own. All right. One more thing for you that on this slide too. So I want to ask you about uh Emma and stars. Do those zeros factor into the overall average or are they just discounted all together? They're discounted altogether. Yes, we get so whatever points like let's say that GHS gets 100 points because where the points don't matter. So then 38.1 points would go to the GISD score and then if you know ACT and middle got

126the same 100 points then GISD would only get 16.9 points for them if that makes sense mathematically. Tammy Clark gets to fly for free. Yes. So there you go. Any other questions? Hopefully I shed some light on what the public can see when it's released. Thank you. I appreciate that. Yeah, you're welcome. Hey, next up we have our first 90 days report by Dr. Moroski. It wasn't funny. Actually, you didn't hit the funny. That's good. Okay. Um, so I'm glad some people are still here. Way for sticking with it, everybody. Um, so, President Gore and members of the board, I'm proud to follow through with my entry plan promise of coming to you with um some information after my first 90 days. So, I'm going to click through this hopefully um and see if we

127can talk through some of this. So, in my entry plan, I said that I would bring to you a comprehensive 90-day report that would include some of these things that would include these three things. A stakeholder engagement report, analysis of district structure and processes, and then recommendations for going forward. So, to start with, we're going to talk about the engagement sessions. So, before you you'll see that we um had many engagement sessions. There were um 24 of them total and I had a participant uh 1,044 participants. So very exciting to talk to all different um groups of people and 10 of those were staff, four were parents, four were students, and six were community. And I'm about to show you all of the results from that. I'm going to turn this so I don't look

128crazy. Okay. All right. Um so one of the questions that we asked was an open-ended question where people could write and respond in any way they wanted to. And the question was, "What does Granberry Is you do well?" And as you can imagine, the results were overwhelmingly about the caring and supportive teachers that we have in the district. So, um, very excited to celebrate those teachers and acknowledge that that that was by far the highest remarks that we got on those open-ended questions about what we do well. Um, the second thing that came up many times was that we do career and technical education well. And so, you know that um that you guys have worked very hard on making that a strong system here in the district and and everybody agrees. Um last thing

129was that they thought the the strengths that we had were uh communication and community involvement. Um and after um after those three popped up, I wanted to give you some examples of comments that were written. So on this slide, we have um things like teachers truly care about the well-being and future of our children is reflected in the heart that they pour into their jobs. I love that quote. Granberry ISD excels in communication and community engagement using newsletters and social media to keep residents informed. It fosters collaboration which ensures all students are successful. I love the CTE program and how it supports students learning a trade knowing that not every student is going to college. And lastly, the time staff spends ensuring all of the kids feel welcome and loved. So great comments from all

130different groups. These remember were some were students, some were staff, some were community, and some were um whatever group I left off parents. Okay. Another question they asked open-ended was, "Hey, where do we have an opportunity to improve?" And so the three things that kind of came to the top after analyzing all that data was that um supporting staff and salary looking at salary were some of the top things that came back from those um engagement sessions. Facilities and buses also came back and um many people uh talked about aging facilities and and some different items and we'll go through um a couple of comments that came from that. And then also they a lot of people noticed that we needed to do a little better at culture and connections. So some of the comments

131that they wrote was communicate positive things and connect with the community. U another thing we could do better is u providing better 5A quality facilities and newer technology. Um one person said ask for feedback from all staff members when making changes and listen to and show care and concern for staff and support um and support them in the classroom with behaviors. So that's a indication um of that open-ended question. So the last thing was um in your opinion, what should the immediate focus of the district be? Should the um focus of the district be? So I broke this into different voices so that we could kind of see how everybody was feeling. So staff voices is first and you can see the gold bars are the ones that came back with the most popular. It's

132kind of hard to read on the screen, but the the two on the left are academics, reading, writing, science, and math. For staff, communication, uh they felt like that needed to be a focus. behavior and bullying for staff was very important that we look at and the climate and culture. Um we had 10 sessions with staff and and 597 participants. So that was a good we had some parent voices and so parent engagement. Um we had four sessions but one of those sessions was a survey um that I sent out because I couldn't get a hold of all the parents so quickly. Um but same thing the gold bars are the ones that they felt were mo most important and it's no surprise that the academics on the left. The communication was important to the

133parents and then also the behavior and bullying um bar was important. The student voices were fun. They were probably my favorite engagement sessions because they just say it like it is. Um so we did have five things that popped up and they're a little different and it's fun to think about what they were um you know considering. So they did not put academics or cell phones first, just so you know, but they really felt that communication and they gave some great examples for, you know, being better at communication as a district and the school, um, safety and security, behavior and bullying. Um, CTE learning was by far their their favorite thing to talk about. And then they were really interested in making sure that, you know, future choice opportunities in the district would be available.

134And we said when we presented that a choice opportunity was something like the Steam Academy at Mr. um where a parent might have a choice to to choose what model their student learned with. Community voices was another we had eight sessions and 190 participants. Um reading, writing, math, and science were high on their list. And the other thing that they really wanted us to focus on was CTE learning. So those three gold bars were the most um the focus areas from that group. So what I did is I took all of those things together and really came up with five gold bars with all groups considered. So no not surprising to me or you the academics on the left um communication came up everywhere um behavior and bullying was very important and then climate and

135culture was really important to the groups as a whole and so we'll talk a little bit about that. So second thing I did was internal review in several different ways and I'll kind of go through a couple of slides that talk about the strengths that I saw and some areas that we have to improve in. So our district strengths as I mentioned our teachers and campus staff are welcoming. They're hardworking and passionate about students. So, um that was evident in all of all of the things that I found and and and obviously in our engagement sessions as well. We have talented and capable leaders at both the campus and the district level, which is um a wonderful thing to walk into. Our curriculum and special services, which is special programs, I shouldn't have said that.

136Department are student centered. Um GISD operates effectively and frugally and budgeting is cautious and prudent. Number five, technology facility safety and security operate smoothly. Students have many exemplary opportunities in GD including extracurriculars, fine arts, um the MC, JOTC, and athletics and career pathways. And we have a thoughtful and collaborative strategic plan that's in place. So those are really some of the major strengths I saw when reviewing things. And then when I reviewed things, I saw that we have some some areas to grow in and some of those align with some of the things the engagement sessions um revealed as well. Number one, um there's some opportunity to build trust by being transparent about district goals with stakeholders. Number two, we really want to explore opportunities to ensure Granberry ISD is a high performing district in

137the state and nation and the best choice for all families. Number three, continue to improve district culture and climate to create a place where staff and students feel valued and appreciated. And lastly, um we have an opportunity to to to clarify and formalize district processes including things such as um a long range facilities plan, instructional support and expectations and central office procedures. So just to name a few. And so really those are my two um first two steps. The next one is the recommendations that I'm bringing to you. So, um, when you take all of the engagement sessions and they what they wanted us to focus on and then my analysis, um, we came up with these eight things that are, um, things that we want to continue to look at. Um, and so academics,

138as we said, student behavior and bullying, communication, staff support, facilities and buses, culture and connections, transparency with district goals, and clarifying district processes. That's all of it, right? Um, we already have gold. They're like little um, asterisks there. gold if they're already addressed somewhere in our strategic plan. So these are not new things. These are just um you know almost like uh solidifying that this is still important work to be done and it was already identified by the group that did the strategic plan. The other three items give us an opportunity to look at making sure that we have a plan for those things. So the first thing I'd like to recommend is that I stand before you and talk and gather some feedback about the next recommendations on the next slide. So, um, I'm

139presenting this to you, um, and then seeking some approval to proceed. And so, my recommendation number two is that we refresh and reorganize the strategic plan to include new areas identified through the engagement sessions. And what I mean by that is those three that are not included currently. Um, also, uh, when we're refreshing and reorganizing, um, we would of course talk to the the strategic planning committees and we would want a really easy to read two-page version to publish. I think one of the things that we need to do is publish a really um easyto- read version um that is clearly outlies what we're working or out um lays out what we're working on as a district to our public and our community. And then the last thing is to create a district scorecard to

140publish for accountability with stakeholders. So we want to make sure that people know what we're working towards and then how we're doing on that and make sure that that is available for viewing on our website. Recommendation three is for you all. And so really I would like to work with you um in June to make sure that we have a clear vision of where you want what the outcomes to be. And so um we have some outcomes that are in our strategic plan, but we'd like to come back to you and make sure that we're heading the right direction and make sure that you are a part of that goal setting process to to tell us exactly where you want to be. Um I would also like to create four advisory groups to continue to

141listen and evolve. And so that would be the same groups of people, of course not the same exact people, but a student, a parent, a staff, and a community advisory group. And I would schedule at least four meetings a year with each of those groups to continue gathering feedback and make sure that we are um keeping that part of our engagement open. My last recommendation is that I promote and build trust with stakeholders by presenting information consistently to stakeholder groups and being visible in schools in the community. So, I would schedule and present this information um regularly as long as well as any updates that you make on goals that you would like to set. Um and then also I'll make some superintendent visibility commitments because visibility came up a lot in what I wanted.

142Um I asked one of the questions I asked was what can I do for you as a superintendent and visibility was in there. So, I'm going to include a visibility commitment as well. And so my last parting thought is that we'll lean into our strengths to accomplish our goals. And with the amazing people and passion we have in our district, there's nothing we can't accomplish accomplished together. And I just want to say I know that was very official, but the people, the programs, the things that you have guys that you have in place is amazing. And so I know the hard work. I know all the people in here, all the people on the campuses. Um it's just it's just um a gift to be in the district and to see all the hard work

143that's gone into it. And so, um, I just want to make sure and end on that positive note. Any questions? Thank you. We will post there is a one-pager. I know y'all are dying to read it. Um, on our website and then we'll also post this slideshow on our website. Um, and I'd love to to seek any feedback that you have to give. I'm excited about that dashboard. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Me, too. Anybody Anything else? I'll give you some feedback. Okay. You're the best superintendent I ever hired. He keeps saying that because he's I'm the only one. Okay, thank you. Thanks. All right, moving on to the financial statements for period ending in April 30th, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. Thank you, Madam President. Board in front of you do have the financial statements for the

144period ending April 30th, 2025. includes uh the transactions that occur occurred between September 1st, 2024 and April 30th, 2025. Revenue collected to date equals 89.83% of the budgeted amount compared to 85.23% last year. And expenditures today represent 63.94 of the budget compared to 61.91% in 2324. There's nothing on the financials that really stand out to me, but I will answer any questions that you have. Any questions? Okay, moving on to the cash flow and investment report for period ending April 30th, 2025. Mr. EMTT Whitefield. Thank you, Madam President. Board, you can see that the interest earned to date uh this year is $1.691 million. Uh this month alone, it was $298,45723. Last April it was $324,137. You can see that our interest has dropped just a little bit. The interest rates are down just a

145bit of the that they were last year. Um that total of 1.691 compared to last year. Last year we had a a a cumulative total of one 1,724,744. So it's down a little bit, but with the uh windfall that we received this month, I expect that to go up just a little bit. Thank you. All right, moving on to the categor categorical spending report. Mr. Whitefield. Thank you, Madam President. Um, if we uh make a purchase through a approved purchasing technique uh between 50 and $100,000, we can go ahead and issue that PO, but we bring it to you asformational. Um, this month we did have one. It was a budget impact of $85,000. And it was to FH Passion through the tips contract. And this is for the plumbing renovation that we're going to

146do at Bakus through the summer. Awesome. Thank you. And any questions? All right. We are adjourned. The time is now 8:15 p.m.