Granbury ISD Board Meeting - June 13, 2023

001foreign [Music] foreign [Music] time is now 5 00 P.M I call this meeting with the Granbury Independent School District order let the records show that according to remember the meeting has been duly called at the noticeable meeting has been posted Texas government code chapter 551 at this time we will go into closed session according to section 551 on 7-4 the deliberate Department employment evaluation and reassignment public office of employee and section 551076 deliberations regarding security devices or audits in section 551072 purchase exchange lease or value of real property the time is 501. foreign the the time is now 604 we are out of executive session and we're going to take a 10 minute break [Music] it's now 609 we are going to reconvene in open meeting [Music] at this time I've asked Barbara Townsend to

002uh open us with invocation he's bow your head with me Heavenly Father we thank you for bringing us here this evening Lord we ask you to give us the wisdom to know what is best for these children we know that they are so precious in your sight every single one of them father and you know what we need to do may we listen to you in the direction we should go in each one of the actions that we take Lord help us to remember to love each other and to show respect for each other both those of us on the board and those of us in the audience and to also remember that for when we are out and about in the community father I also ask you to protect each and every person as

003they go about their summer may they have joyful times with their families and may they be able to come back ready to go back to school come August and we pray all these things in Jesus name amen Mr Hudson Henry welcome young man uh he will lead us in the pledges would you please stand [Music] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America into the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty in Texas for all honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to the Texas one State under God one in the indivisible [Music] and the mother is standing there you want to wave us mom and this young man is here tonight from Steam Academy [Music] we'll go now to to Dr Glenn in your superintendent's report

004thank you madam president and trustees uh first we haven't been together since we graduated kids at uh the high school and at stars and I do want to give a special shout out I know we have principals in the audience watching online and a lot of staff that work to graduation in both the Stars graduation and ghs a very different graduations but we're proud of all of those kids I look forward to the great things that the class of 2023 I will be doing in ghs or I'm sorry as they move on from ghs and from Stars uh as soon as we wrapped up a graduation we jumped right into summer school I got the report today uh enrollment at 315. so a lot of kids uh jumping into summer school a great opportunity you

005want to thank I see Stacy Brown our curriculum director uh Shelly kurtzinger our sped director and then our assistant director of curriculum Carla willmeth in the audience and then also we know we have Jimmy Heffernan and Jessica Johnson running summer school the entire summer school staff we appreciate them giving up their time their valuable time over the summer to come back and work with our kids in addition to that had the opportunity to visit with a few coaches last week we had Sports Camps over 200 kids coming to uh to ghs every day for a variety of sports everything from soccer to football to volleyball to to basketball camps and in this week we we opened up strength and conditioning so if you've got kids at school if they're watching online we know that we

006want everyone to know that the ghs remains open GISD remains open during the summer and we encourage you to bring your kids up here and we'll continue to pour into them our Child Nutrition program continues to operate during the summer and so if kids are looking for a healthy breakfast and lunch I'll bring them up here for that meal as well and uh and just a shout out to all of our Educators who make the the summer education program possible um and then finally uh just an update on strategic planning uh we have we have moved through the g2020 plan which started under uh Dr largent's leadership and uh and we were wrapping up g2025 and already beginning uh the next phase as we look uh to to right at uh what predictions are showing

007to be 10 000 students in Granbury ISD right around the corner and uh and so if uh if the demographic study holds accurate like it has in the past by 2029 we'll be at 10 000 kids in this district and so we're grateful to the Educators the community members the parents and the trustees who have all rallied together to uh to put together a plan to help this District move forward with our city and county and and we look forward to presenting that plan in our July meeting so if you have the opportunity want to encourage uh you to be here or to watch online as we unveil some of the really really cool things the Innovative things that have come up in these Community meetings that we're going to be putting uh in place

008for this District uh and then finally if you have an opportunity tonight I promised the mayor I would say this but there is a meeting on 377 and uh for all of us who live in Granbury we know that traffic uh can can be a nightmare to deal with I'm not so sure construction on 377 will be easier to deal with but we have great Partners at the city and the county level to get the opportunity when we close out tonight I would encourage you to go to that meeting which I believe is happening at the convention center so uh with that Madam president that's a report for June thank you Dr Glenn at this time we go to the open Forum uh each of you will be given three minutes and we will begin

009with Mr Greg Harrell who wants to speak on the consent agenda 9 F which is [Music] communities in school thank you the Communities In Schools this thing so when I saw this on the agenda and pardon me good evening trustees Madam president Dr Glenn thanks for allowing me to speak once again when I saw this item on the agenda I immediately wanted to understand what communities in schools actually is and what they do um I would submit to you that it's somewhat of a misnomer as I went out to the website because I feel like the people that come to these meetings and pay attention to what's going on in the schools are the community this community in schools but what I saw on the website at the CIS um address apparently when you look

010at all of the words that are there it just appears as if it's a bunch of erstwhile people and there's a lot of good things there there's a lot of good words there but like in so many cases what you have to do is you have to kind of sift through some of the words that are there and I feel like in this environment in which we all live where there's so much gaslighting going on that you really have to kind of get down to it and look and see what it actually means one of the things that jumped out well actually two of the things that jumped out at me as I visited the website was the emphasis on Dei at the CIS website and also emphasis on social and emotional learning and it

011looks as if that is part of the core of what they bring into the schools so that concerns me so I wanted to actually even dig a little bit deeper and understand what social and emotional learning looks like and I went to the Harvard website SEL was actually developed in the 90s to help kids really kind of cope with some of the relational issues that they were having at that time I would say over the course of the 30 years since it was developed we can look back and if we are looking at outcomes we can say SEL has probably been a massive failure so much so that the State of Florida has absolutely banned SEL from its Public Schools Idaho is fighting SEL in a big way so I would ask that you not

012consider spending the money on this program and instead use those funds to place additional teachers in schools and help our kids thank you bye-bye thank you Mr [Applause] Brighton chasting to speak to Communities In Schools [Music] yeah hear me okay hello um sorry about the notes I blank out when I get nervous so notes will benefit everyone this evening thank you for allowing me to be here tonight to speak about an organization that is very dear to my heart my name is Braden chasteen I'm a 2009 Granbury high school graduate a certified special education teacher and in less than two months I will have my Master's Degree in Social Work from Tarleton State I went back to get my Master's in social work with a dream of being a school social worker when I had

013to choose where I would complete my second internship my first and only choice was Communities In Schools or as we say CIS the first her the first time I heard about CIS was from Chief programs officer Lauren sly Mrs Sly spoke with pride about the organization the employees and most importantly the student CIS has had the privilege in working with over the years I just completed my internship in April in another District at a title one school the program manager at that school spent every single day working to ensure that students and their families felt important loved and that she was there if they needed anything whether the need was a Band-Aid or helping a family experiencing homelessness every day I was at that school was a blessing and I was able to witness the

014true sense of what it is to be a part of CIS and just in case you have never been able to witness the work they do firsthand I will tell you a little bit about it being a program manager is helping students and families ensure they have enough food because kids cannot learn if they are hungry it's connecting families to housing resources because kids struggle to concentrate if they don't know whether they will lay their head that night it's walking students through grief as you cannot learn when you are heartbroken it's assisting a single mom trying to raise her kids alone but her electricity has been shut off and food is scarce is supporting a single dad whose child has been expelled because of their behavior it's connecting students and families to counseling that will

015address their trauma because when you are having flashbacks again you cannot learn it's knocking on a door of students across the street to ensure those kids get to school because their mom will be issued a truancy notice if they have any more absences yet she is at work trying to provide for them it's teaching a student to manage their test anxiety because they immediately start crying when the star test is placed in front of them as an intern with CIS I helped run groups with students where we talked about topics such as being kind self-esteem following rules and how to help with test anxiety all topics that anyone and any age could benefit from the CIS program managers not only support students and families but also teachers teachers have so much on their plate and

016feel pressure from so many different angles they don't have time to con connect families with basic needs assistance what CIS provides for students and families is support consistency safety and love they are an invaluable resource that any school district would be lucky to have I'm proud to have them supporting students in my hometown and I hope they are utilized for years to come thank you thank you Miss Justin Carolyn green on the mou [Music] thank you Board of Trustees and superintendent Glenn I hear a lot of of um talk about how poor children have all these disabilities and are worried about food and can't move forward well I grew up cash for my parents were farmers and sometimes we didn't have food at that point but I never wanted a handout from anyone my parents

017supported us the best they could there were seven children my mother was from Mexico so you know I I kind of get insulted that we're using food as a disability and um going back to this critical race Theory and the diversity inclusion and Equity that teaches racism um you know there's I feel it teaches racism against me and that um you know there's no equity or diversity up here that I can see right now so maybe we need to take a look at that and not brainwash our kids into thinking that they need to be um racist by this program um and as far as teaching our children that they can identify with anything being a boy or girl and that's okay it'd be like me saying I identified as a board of trustee and

018I can just go up there and be one that's it's it's cheating mental disability mental health issues I worked along CPS and um had a lot of people people of um in the child protective services social workers make mistakes and sometimes they don't they don't do it for the wrong reasons but maybe they don't know better and for this to be brought into our schools and have a stranger look at our child and decide if they're mentally challenged or if they need something and not have the parents first bring it be identified with it we know our children better than anyone else and we will do anything for our children so for the school to want to try and take over that position I am offended um it also teaches shame that if a child

019is white they should be ashamed of themselves that breaks down their self-esteem and so I did have a teacher ask my child if she was ashamed that she was white well my child is her race is Hispanic um but to ask that of my child and of a group of children that are white that's just shaming them it's tearing down their self-esteem and that's not the school's for it's to build them up and I know there's a lot of good teachers and I know they're being pressured to do these programs and I don't want these programs and they're pressuring good teachers to teach bad things it's hard enough right now with the covet and everything else so please rethink this the community schools in schools that is actually the president is out of San Antonio

020and he's backed by George Shores and Hillary Clinton and um act blue so think of those and we do your research thank you thank you screen Monica Brown speaking on CIS [Music] thank you for having me and good evening um I'm gonna need to give something to Dr Glenn in just a minute just some papers yeah just a second I'm sorry I'm not feeling my best I haven't for two days but um I'm totally against this I just want you to know as a community member and I do care about the children as well um I kind of got drugged into y'all's life and I could be anywhere but here right now and it would be fun for me um I mean anywhere communities resource guide if you haven't looked it up you can go

021to their website granberians I guess that's what you call it yourselves that's what I am now go to the resource guide and go in and click through anywhere you see dark black click through you will see examples of how they are going to rework the vocabulary of your children you need to double check this and research it just like what she just said do your research I said um this one I wanted Dr Glenn to have this and I hope somebody will make photocopies for all of you including everybody you guys on the edges here too I think Leah Dawson needs a copy as well gender transition surgery dreams turned to nightmares and here's one more exposing the gender lie I would like to give these to you because I'm not sure you're aware of

022what a gender transition surgery can mean to a young person who has no idea what you're putting them you're encouraging them to do and the reason I mentioned Leah is because when we were asked to research books we researched them in the I am jazz book glamorizes turning yourself from a boy into a girl turns him into a beautiful girl you all need to read that the actual day-to-day life of a transgender person an average one it is not at all a good situation it's very complicated it's extremely painful in more ways than one it is not kind and then I wanted to encourage you to go back to ehaa and do what you're accredited to do look at history look at tradition I looked in your library again this week just as an interest

023if I wanted to search for Frederick Douglass does anybody know who he is okay he's not there Daniel Boone isn't there look up Texas history you won't find it look up your famous Americans you won't find them I'm pretty sure Helen Keller wasn't in there now I did find Anne Frank and then I'm going to beg you to stop the graphic novels for a while until you give these kids a good Library a library that will inspire them it'll show them how someone came up from slavery where's that book Booker T Washington why isn't his voice being heard maybe we should ask ourselves those questions and whose children are they and what are you doing and if you go back to your code of conduct which is exactly what Carol ISD came down to the

024conclusion you would have a far better system and you wouldn't need all these groups and programs to come in so you can try to fix what isn't being done in the first place you have a great code of conduct thank you Miss Brown Erica chat um good evening uh first it doesn't look like it but it is pronounced Scott oh no you would have never guessed it it's all it's always a thing um Scott Schat's yes ma'am I got you maybe next time thank you um I am a program manager for communities and schools at Bacchus Elementary here in Granbury ISD I have lived in Granbury my entire life so I was really excited for the opportunity to work in the community that I grew up in um kind of my day-to-day kind of uh

025involves being at school early ready and happy to work with other people as we open doors for kids I talked to them I talk to their parents then we go into school I usually see around 80 kids A week we have lunch groups we talk about really I just asked them about their days about their lives they talk to me about what they may need and when they tell me that they have a need eye contact with their parents um but even before that before they even come into my room if they have any sort of Interest I get a parental consent form so any kids that I see they have been given permission from their parents to see me but when they are in my room our big thing is highlights and lowlights they

026tell me about a highlight of their week and then something that's like a low light most of the time they don't have low lights and they aren't required to have them but I do allow them the opportunity um that's sort of my basic day today I have three of those groups each day but the things beyond that that I do are connect families with resources um I help parents fill out benefit forms I talk to parents about what resources in the community they may need in the month of May alone I drove over 250 miles to provide transportation to kids um and I know that I've made good connections with people in the community Through the job that I've gotten to do here I enjoy working with the Hood County children's charity fund I have

027a good relationship with our Salvation Army I run our clothing closet at our specific school which is set up by the Hood County children's charity fund we also have a Shoe Closet where I can provide shoes to kids that's kind of the things that I do and I talk to parents a lot um so I just want that to you know thank you very much [Applause] Mr Ted Lovato [Music] good evening thank you for having me here this evening my name is Ted Lovato I live in Granbury I'm a licensed Master social worker here in the state of Texas and I've been active in the north Texas Community for over 40 years in the social service area I'm here this evening in support of communities and schools Community Schools is a National Organization that brings

028vital Supportive Services to children and school districts in the Fort Worth and surrounding communities this includes our wonderful town of Granbury Texas these services that include an array of opportunities that help to combat such things as bullying mental health issues Educational Learning object obstacles and hunger because of my close working relationships with communities and schools I know that they employ several full-time licensed experienced social workers at the elementary middle and high school levels with with the required parental consent these professionals provide case management to the students to help them maneuver everyday situations that they must face at school each days they work in tandem with a team of professionals at the schools to provide the necessary services to meet the children's basic needs like food shelter transportation and family referrals for other services the CIS

029workers also serve as extra Personnel to assist the school staff and daily activities and in cases of emergencies the trusty relationships that children build with their social workers are important are an important component excuse me to the well-being and to their self-esteem the parents also benefit from the services and the relationships as the social workers can help them resolve and make referrals for things such as rental assistance food pantries mental health counseling and other Community Support Services I wholeheartedly support communities and schools and the services that they provide and I encourage the Granbury and Independent School District to continue to support them as well but most of all to support the children that so desperately need an extra bit of help from time to time thank you thank you sir the additional folks who have

030signed up to speak an open Forum would be heard at the end of the meeting as they are not addressing items on the agenda and we listen to those of you who are addressing items on the agenda so that we will have your input before we actually vote on agenda items having said that we will go to the consent agenda [Music] oh no we'll go first to consider action on items disgusting closed session um do I the first item is the action on the superintendent's contract do I have a motion regarding the superintendent's contract [Music] Madam president I move that we accept the superintendent's contract as discussed in closed session would you like to specify extend it one year yes do I hear a second I will second that any discussion [Music] all in favor

031of the extension of the superintendent's contract for a year show of hands opposed same sign let the record show 5-2 vote consider staff recommendations Dr Glenn thank you madam president thank you trustees you have before you uh the staff recommendation staff recommendations want to thank Wes Jones again and his staff for putting these together um in your packet you'll find the resignations as well as the retirements and appointments for all of our campuses in the district it is our recommendation that you approve this person Madam president I move that we accept the staff recommendations as we was posted on a second I have a motion by Ms Downton II by Mr Moore to approve the staff recommendations is there are there any uh discussions [Music] all in favor of opposing the staff regulations as presented

032show of hands at the record show 7-0 that we have approved those thank you madam president the last item discussed in closed session does not require action but I want to make the community aware that we did have two uh security audits at the end of the school year the first was at uh Backus Elementary School and the second was at Granbury High School I want to congratulate our security team we had nine audits in total and the district passed every one of them with a perfect record so shout out to Chief Clark and his team also John Mueller who's with us tonight uh you and your staff did an acceptable exceptional job also our campus administrators uh teachers it really is a collaborative effort and we're we're grateful the work you did this year

033and certainly proud to close out the final two audit successfully Madam president that's all we have as it relates to the closed section action items now we'll move to uh consent agenda items does anyone want to remove anything from the consent agenda yes ma'am I'd like to remove FNG for discussion and I would like to remove H for discussion okay so we're gonna f and g and H [Music] do I have a motion regarding consented General Adams approved the minutes first review of taspy local policy update consider moving August 28th board meeting August 21st consider ghs out of state travel request uh consider mou upbring Head Start [Music] um consider 2020 23 24 salary schedules consider staff development waiver for 23 24 school year considered Peak certification form so moved have a motion from Miss

034Gore second second from Mr Wembley is there any discussion all in favor of approval of those specific items show of hands oppose same sign let the record show 7-0 let's take up uh 9f consider mou with Communities In Schools [Music] yes I have several questions who would you like me to direct them to directing them to Dr Glenn if he can't answer them we'll get somebody that he'll get somebody that can um first of all we had I guess this one lady said she was the program director who is who are the program directors for the schools I've invited the Miss Garner up here she is from community and schools in greater Fort Worth and she is our contact with this person who said that they were program manager was a program manager for Bacchus

035so practice Lauren is here and she can answer some questions but we can go through them and then she can probably answer them maybe or would you like to come to the podium if you have any questions or Lindsay sorry Lindsay Lindsay my fault Mrs Clark on your summary on page 105 you defined a few years how many years have we been doing CIS and I believe five five years and is it only for those three schools that we've been doing it for five years so there was a time that we did not do it at GMS so there was a Hiatus of two years at GMS that we did not have a program manager but last year we added the program manager back at GMS and we also added a mental health counselor at

036the high school to help our LPC and on page 103 item three parental consent how are we obtaining that consent I'll go ahead and let Miss Garner talk about that I would like to start if you don't mind by introducing myself and first of all thank you Dr Glenn Dr Harrington and the board for allowing me to be able to come here and have opportunity to address some of your questions I'm Lindsey Garner we do actually have our chief programs officer here Lauren slack so you can see those are easily mixed up and then I'm Lindsey Garner president and CEO of Communities In Schools greater Tarrant County and I'm also a very proud alumni of Granbury ISD so I went to oakwood's intermediate Meadows Middle when that was a thing and a graduated Granbury High

037School class of 2000 so I mentioned that to say I am deeply deeply committed to this community I'm a product of this community and and it's been a great honor and a privilege to be able to bring services and supports from the organization I represent to the students and families here it's been very dear to my heart and I consider it a great great honor and to answer your question about parental consent and so every student that is enrolled in CIS either the case management program or the mental health counseling program must obtain parental consent before they are enrolled and that is that is a Statewide standard for all of our communities and schools programs it's a national standard but we also have a very strong presence in the state there are 27 Affiliates just

038in the state of Texas we can obtain that either by electronic consent form that the parents are able to sign that way or if needed we can send home a paper form but that is a requirement for a child to be enrolled I was the student selected to then be sent to you so the referrals for students can come from a variety of sources a a parent can ask that their child be enrolled in the program a social worker could have an interaction with a student or a student could approach a social worker at the school and and say any any manner of things that there's a need and they need somebody to talk to and that you know a risk that they may become homeless any number of things in that case we would

039reach out to the parent and seek consent sometimes a teacher and they have a student or a principal may be aware of a student tour we have I mean we we serve a great number of schools across a Four County area and we oftentimes enter a school when the principal says you can only do case management for you know up to 90 students and they have a list ready to go of kids that they know are are deeply in need of services and resources or some kids have behavioral issues um you know anger management issues that manifest in the classroom and are withdrawn and are having a hard time engaging at school or they want to see an increase in Parental engagement there are so many reasons why a child might be referred to a

040CIS social worker and on the clinical side they may be referred because they're exhibiting some sort of signs of having a mental health counseling need a mental health concern and in that case it's an opportunity for a parent to enroll their child to receive clinical mental health Counseling in the school setting where they already are for free and which if anybody's ever tried to seek out Therapy Services there's a number of barriers that often present themselves and all those barriers are removed by bringing that service directly into the school okay on page 107 item six you talk about a principal created written campus plan can we have that campus plan yes we can get those for you we don't have room tonight I'm on page 107 number 14 it says that we are receiving a

041yearly report card on the CIS program does this report show us the observations and insight into the well-being and health of the school and do we receive that so in March um Stacy Brown did uh the reports that overview so that you could know what was being done and that during that report it talked about the case managers on the three campuses I've seen 247 students and have done 21 risk assessments or crisis interventions on the case management side and the mental health counselor had given counseling services to 33 students and had done 12 risk assessments and 22 crisis services this year on our campuses okay can we be informed of what are the primary issues that we're seeing not by person address but like what kind of issues are we having um I'm not

042positive that that's I mean we could do an overview and we do have an overview and those things were a lot of the services for case managers they're that they're working on is growth mindset emotional regulation like um being able to control their emotions when they're angry or frustrated some of it is grit and classroom effort some of it is sense of belonging self-efficacy are they able to to complete the things that they're asked to complete those are a lot of the case management um broad overview things that they're that they're having service hours for and having discussions about um their self-management about paying attention and remaining calm and and staying focused and having a growth mindset so those are the the broad spectrum of things they can probably provide us the number of students

043that were in sessions for each of those but as far as like the counseling services I'm not positive how much information is shared on that of the issues changed over the years so I run it back up just a little bit and one of the things that I wanted to discuss briefly because it provides some context for your question is that we are a partner of the Texas Education Agency and so as such and what I mean by that is the Texas legislation Texas legislature appropriates some funding for communities and schools programs in Texas administered to us through the Texas Education Agency and as such we are actually contracted to tea they set our targeted outcomes for kids they set a minimum threshold of children and that we are expected to serve and they set

044our targets and what I mean by that is and they we are accountable to Tea in very much the same way that school districts are for our performance and so we measure student outcomes in academics behavior and underneath the umbrella of behavior you will find some of the items that you're talking about in terms of well-being grit self-efficacy and emotional regulation in all of this and attendance we track graduation rates for our high school seniors and overall stay in school rate so those are not metrics that we come up with internally those are actually given to us by tea and then how we measure um in in terms of for example a pre and a post a questionnaire that a student might take where we can measure a score in terms of well-being grit and

045all of that those are surveys that have to be pre-approved by tea before we can administer those we have an internal database that we use to collect again with parental consent and bid the data that we are monitoring for showing progress in student outcomes across all those areas academics Behavior attendance and such and because we we collect a lot of data and we are able to provide the types of breakdowns that you're asking for so not only do we provide the outputs in terms of 247 students that were case managed by communities and schools this last school year and and 33 students received ongoing clinical support and that we provide an academic behavior and attendance outcomes breakdown for all of those students that are enrolled in our program we can also break it down by

046the types of services which I believe is what you're asking and so what should this you know you heard mentioned a little bit a while ago about transportation and you asked to have the needs changed we have seen a huge amount of Transportation needs so for example a lot of families that need car repair so that they have reliable transportation to get to work to get their kids to school to get their kids to the doctors we have an internal family crisis fund that we can use if a parent needs rental assistance utility assistance they need that car repair the vast majority of the family crisis fund that we directed this last year to families in Granbury was car repairs amazingly enough and so when you when we break that down and we look at

047all the districts we serve it's very interesting to see what are the needs in this community versus that community and where are we being asked to spend the resources do you um the different some of those different things but what I've or do you address I guess is the way I'm going to ask this question is like any incidence of the um an increase in the suicide ideation or child abuse you address those kinds of things also yes so that would be addressed on both sides the case management and the clinical side the clinical side again that's ongoing mental health counseling for students who need that deeper level of support for counseling but all of our social workers are able to provide District approved risk assessments and we also track the number of risk assessments

048that we have conducted for students so in a situation where a student is exhibiting signs that they are considering self self-harm or harm to others we would work closely with the campus personnel there to administer a risk assessment to that student and then if they need to be referred to a service to provide them support then we do that as well it's good to get those reports because if we understand what the problems are then we are more capable of finding a good solution on page 107 number five where does the mental health aspect fall in those six components a through f where like you know what those are yeah she doesn't have the same document right so it's supportive guidance so the six components are supportive guidance and counseling uh Health and Human Services

049academic support enrichment activities parent and family engagement and Korean college career and college readiness and the the first one was supportive guidance and counseling and it's a counseling and I also I can't say this enough but parental engagement I mean none of this happens without being in partnership with the family yeah it was one of my questions um enrichment activities what does that look like so that could look like um without getting too wordy we describe our services in three tiers so a tier one service would be a service that's going to touch a lot of students on that campus and not just the ones that are enrolled in CIS case management or CIS mental health and that could be an enrichment activity so going back to our reference made earlier to a campus plan

050so if our social worker on a campus begins their school year and they sit down with the principal and they say Mr Mrs Principal what what are your goals for this campus what are some of the very specific needs that you see that you're trying to address maybe it is a need for more parent engagement so a social worker might be asked hey can you plan some parent engagement nights can you get some pizza donated can you you know do a financial literacy night or any manner of things like that meant to bring families to the campus it could also be a field trip that a social worker plans we plan a lot of field trips and I know one of our social workers here I can't remember exactly which which campus it is but

051has been phenomenal about setting up regular volunteer opportunities for her students to go to Ruth's place and it's another it's just a way that we partner with an organization in the community and I think we all understand the value of students participating in volunteer service so those would be examples of enrichment activities okay do you work with the Stars Academy at all like in correlation or do you they don't I'm not familiar I'm sorry um let's see on your main CIS website as it's been said before it says you have a commitment to the Dei diversity equity and inclusion so I think that would be a reference um to some wording and I agree there's I won't deny it there's quite a bit of wording uh around that for our CIS National website um I

052think one of the things that's important is to draw the distinction between CIS the national office and CIS programs in the state of Texas so um you may or may not be aware that Communities In Schools there are 27 Affiliates in Texas and we have our own C3 our own non-profit that is CIS of Texas and we're all extremely mindful I would say and respectful of the communities that we work in and you know I would challenge you to find similar language on the communities and schools of Greater Tarrant County website but all of that to say our commitment to diversity and inclusion I would say what that means to us locally is we are going to be open to serving students of all backgrounds and you know I'm not going to discriminate against a

053student because of of where they come from their needs or what their background might be we are here for all students yeah I understand that but I also understand how the Dei kind of snakes in there and if if the national is your parent company then you have to be a little careful with that um during the last legislative session Senator John kimple said while discussing Senate Bill 17 is virtually no evidence that Dei programs have closed the Gap in terms of minority student outcomes so I would certainly hope that a view of your own non-profit that you would definitely keep Dei out of this well I can address that by saying you know I had a question for you um going back to what you said about surveys correct me from one but to

054collect data um who is that data shared with where are all the people that the data is shared with so it's it is kept um the student responses are collected by communities and schools because it is a survey that is approved by the Texas Education Agency scores um are shared with tea because the data that we collect from the students in our program is required to be shared with DEA that's how they hold us accountable for performance and that those are the two parties and tea doesn't have individual responses they only have overall scores [Music] don't don't want to share that data correct we don't use I think I I know kind of what you're referring to but we don't send out surveys from any external platform questions are input into our system which is

055why I can safely say that they are sent out to buy CIS collected by CIS one of the things on your if they if they need mental health support for free it is a state of Texas program and so we desperately need those things in our schools right now for our students and we need to relieve some of the burdens are licensed professional counselors super busy with all of the the different student needs in our district right now and so um they would be referred and get a parental consent just like all of the counseling services would and then we could do that service again within within our schools during a class that's not core content reduce the amount of absences that our students have and get them the help that they need for free

056and so that's just us providing the space and and the Telehealth option for students who need those Services the parents get to sit in on those Telehealth conferences it would be the counseling staff would have a space that they could see but then it would be it would be private and then or the parent could come and again we're talking about parental consent first but uh but I think you know the reason this is before you deny it is is obviously you know in the last two years we have seen a an increase our own counselors have told us this and I don't think it's just a granberry phenomenon I think it's something that we're seeing nationally is is mental health issues with with kids and making sure that we have the appropriate responses in

057place we have systems in place where kids can talk out issues and problems gets any surprise to anybody in this community because Granbury ISD dealt with child trauma in the spring self-inflicted trauma and Cornerstone dealt with the same thing and so being able to offer Support Services to parents two children with with parental consent and partnership is is a good thing and in a program like this in an era where it's it's hard for us to find licensed professional counselors to come in and work because every every school is clamoring for them everybody wants them this is just another tool and toolbox for our counselors to help work with parents work with kids make sure that our kids mental health needs are met it's the parents being involved in this that I'm most most concerned

058about and I think that if we get take the data and then we realize what's going on and I believe the bullying is a big issue with it then we take that data and then we can help see what the problem is and then start fixing the problem to help the kids yeah and so I think the the good thing about communities schools and the good thing about this program is that it starts with us reaching out to the parent first and working in Partnerships parents first foreign do I have a motion Madam president I move that the board approved the mou with Texas A M University Health Science Center for the provision and administration of Telehealth Services associated with the Texas Child Health Access through telemedicine thank you Billy do I have a second

059thank you Courtney and we have a motion and a second to approve the mou between GISD and Texas A M Health Science Center any further discussion not those in favor show of hands those against show of hands you'll let the record show that it's a 5-0 with Miss Lowry and Miss Graf again voting again we will move to H Madam president it wasn't so much that I have questions on this I just wanted to give the shout outs for what our community has done to help Granbury ISD this past month just in the past month we've received donations from schottenkirk Automotive to the ghs junior Optimist Club for 16 scholarships which totaled four thousand dollars American Legion Post 491 gave to ghs for good citizen scholarships 500 the post also gave to ghs mjrotc a

060thousand dollars for scholarships uh Lewis and Rhapsody gigliati gave one thousand dollars to extended school day to supplement families struggling with tuition First National Bank gave Acton Elementary School two hundred dollars to help with transportation of a third grade class to Langdon Ranch buckholz Ranch I donated to the ghs uh but expensive six hundred dollars Ducks Unlimited gave ghs FFA campus activity fund for fire pit projects 850 dollars ghs volleyball booster club gave to the ghs volleyball to supplement travel of and Patriot garage door and service gave to the athletic campus fund to supplement the football camp one thousand five hundred dollars this month alone our community has donated eleven thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars for GISD thank you so much to the community thank you but I would remind you if you have

061an opportunity to use any of those folks or if you run into them make sure you as a member of this community thank them for their support of the school do I have a motion to approve the budget amendments as presented so moved I'm a motion Miss Johnson do I have a second a second [Music] okay I have a motion by Miss Johnson a second by um Mr Lowry uh all any further discussion all in favor raise your hand oppose same sign let the records show 7-0 now we will move to 10A consider approval of Benchmark education phonics program Miss Brown good evening everybody I'd like to introduce our early childhood coordinator this is Belinda Linker and she was the beginning point of our selection of a new phonics resource for students in grades kindergarten

062through third grade so that she specifically formed a committee of k-3 teachers to outline what they were looking for with regards to a phonics program as well as consider the approved resources from tea they then took the approved resources invited the vendors to come in and do a presentation of those approved resources and then all Kinder through third grade teachers were invited to view the presentations with the vendors and provide feedback based upon the feedback they selected Benchmark phonics for kindergarten through grade three and the program has been displayed for the last 30 days specific to Community review the community gets a chance to review any of the materials a link was sent out to all of our staff as well as posted on the GISD website and so it has been posted and displayed

063for just now over 30 days no comments were received from the from the public so the specific selection is Benchmark phonics for K3 and it's recommended that the phonics adoption is approved by the board any questions do I have them I am president I move that improve the Benchmark education promotion for Mr Lord do I have a second second second from Mr Wimberley any further discussion all in favor show of hands pose same sign like the record show seven zero thank you ladies consider t-e-a-c-h Early Childhood Texas scholarship for little Buccaneer employees Miss Rodriguez hello thanks for having me um so I came to talk to you about the teach Early Childhood scholarship program this is for child care employees teach stands for teach education and compensation health so the program basically it's just a

064scholarship model designed to retain Early Childhood professionals helping increase their education which in turn helps to increase the education provided to our children in child care the eligibility criteria employees have to have a high school diploma or GED they have to earn less than twenty dollars an hour they have to be employed in a licensed child care facility and then they also have to work a minimum of 30 hours per week the really just to provide Child Care employees to continue their education to either get a CDA which is a Child Development Associate some kind of education or Child Care field or a bachelor's degree in the same thing this helps to retain employees this helps for us just to provide more education and further further their education and professional development which comes back to

065our children in the child care facility there's three different ways that we can utilize the teach model set model teach scholarship model employees can get a CDA which is kind of like that starting point they take a certain amount of amount of hours in child development training and then they have to take an assessment and then be assessed themselves in the classroom to make sure that they're utilizing those skills that they've learned teach pays for the majority of this they pay for the four four hundred and three dollars and seventy five cents of the assessment fee we would be required to pay for 21.25 to sponsor that employee to get this the completion award the the employee would receive their CDA and then their commitment award is that we would either teach would offer them

066250 dollars we would offer them 150 bonus or a two percent raise and then they would have to remain employed with GISD for six months or agree to have to pay back what was paid into this just to give you an idea like employees minimum starting pay is twelve dollars an hour so a two percent pay increase would be 24 cents which would be over the course of the year 364.80 so not a huge amount that we would have to put into that I do have one employee that is working on that right now who's trying to finish up their training the other way that they can get this is through the associate's degree that a teach scholarship will pay for 90 percent of their school we would agree to pay for five percent and

067they would agree to pay for five percent and you can see at the bottom average annuals caught tuition costs for an associate's degree is roughly thirty eight hundred dollars five percent of that is a hundred ninety dollars um we would provide them release time if needed if they need to go to school or if they need to study they would get either 300 bonus or the two percent increase which is only 190 dollars if that's what we agree to they would agree to remain employed for up to 12 years 12 months 12 years would be fantastic with 12 months or they can also pursue their bachelor's degree and everything is pretty much the same on that um the commitment would be up to 18 months that they would have to stay bachelor's degree cost a

068little bit more but five percent of that would be 622.50 [Music] are there any questions Tiffany ice I I would like to just say thank you for for finding this program bringing it to us something that the board has expressed uh support for and place value on is uh growing our own staff from within and so this is certainly an opportunity to do that it's our pleasure to recommend it tonight great thank you Tiffany how many employees do we have with you right now um there are 14 14 and how many of them do not have any of the free certifications we're talking about here um I would say maybe half of them they all have experience in child child care but probably half of them do not have some sort of degree it would

069be it would be wonderful to have that much more education behind what they're doing yes thank you any other questions any other questions from members of the board thank you Tiffany thank you then I will entertain a motion to approve the teach Early Childhood Texas scholarship Madam president I move that we prove the teach Early Childhood Texas scholarship program for little Buccaneers employees I have a motion do I have a second I have a motion a new score a second in this brat any further discussion all in favor show of hands pose same sign let the record show 7-0 that motion is approved we will go on to the next motion consider the 23-24 Compensation Plan thank you madam president uh board in front of you you do have the 23 24 salary increase board

070policy DEA local States the superintendent shall recommend an annual Compensation Plan for autistic employees as such the budget to be approved of at August 31st 2023 will include that raise that's our increase if approved tonight projected budget information has been provided to you so you can see how the effect on the budget would be with this particular raise and included in this preliminary budget is a three percent increase to teachers salaries of one thousand eight hundred fifty dollars three percent midpoint increase to all other positions this scenario also includes the increase in the stock salary stopping that was presented earlier and in addition to all those salary increases increases above the district increase all bus drivers are moved to a minimum of 18 an hour driver leads are moved to 19 an hour and all

071pay schedules have been adjusted as presented to bring all pay grades above 15 an hour you've also been provided a five-year Trend that shows the difference between preliminary values and certified values and I'm the reason that we bring it to you in June is that we have 226 day employee contracts that start on July 1 and if the the increase is not approved but prior to that contract started anything that is paid retroactively is not considered TRS eligible so that's the reason we bring it to you at this time so it is a recommendation of the administration the board approved the salary increases for the 23-24 school year as presented by the superintendent prior to July 1st contract start date for 12-month employees [Music] Phil I noticed that the projected total revenues this time is

07289 746 438 and the total expenditures with this salary schedule is 89 7 46 438 which appears to be a balanced budget currently it is that's based on preliminary values right and we did for lack of a better word uh squeeze some areas to get those raises at that point thank you so we have just to speak into this for a second uh We've we've rung our hands over this watching the legislative session play out the last few months um probably it's uh disheartening to say the least to see the state with a 33 billion dollar Surplus and in districts like Granbury didn't even see a a small increase in the basic allotment likely there will be a special session certainly there is the opportunity for things to change specifically when we get into reports

073tonight we're going to talk about some other options either that are locally within our own power to do more because I will tell you the uh the elephant in the room for us is is we deal with the loss of staff is that Granbury remains uh at least 10 percent behind our peers and and that number Rose every year when we sat down and had this conversation we decided we would take care of our low end employees first we have people that are making 10 or 12 dollars an hour like with 14 inflation hitting the country we needed to make sure those individuals were taken care of first so we're taking our minimum wage up to Fifteen dollars that's what you heard uh Mr Whitefield say which is a pretty substantial cost considering we have

0741200 employees and then beyond that I think where it what what burdens us is the the three percent raise for everybody else knowing that uh likely even with this legislative session not seeing an increase in the basic allotment those districts that are 10 or more ahead of us will likely give at least a three percent which is going to continue to keep us at a disadvantage in recruiting staff and uh and so later on tonight uh during the informational reports I'm going to talk about some uh opportunities that this board has locally to make a more concerted effort to take care of our teachers you didn't mention Esser are we going to bring that back later this summer Mr Whitefield yes sir we will bring that later it'll be a compensation revision for this year

075so and I see Stacy Brown in the audience uh her Department manages our federal grants we do have a little bit of Esser money left over and so we're going to divide uh what money that is equally amongst our teachers too and a retention stipend to thank those individuals who have stayed with Granbury ISD but again we've done that three times now over the last three years with our federal money trying to take care of our staff but that that money will be exhausted at the end of this year and so we've got to look at something more long-term to take care of our staff the rest of you but when we had such a large Surplus at the state level in January and they were talking about putting into tax relief or those taxpayers

076across the state and putting it in to teach your salaries I thought yes well my letters to my legislators and my Governor have not been too nice because they didn't intend to do that they shouldn't have promised it in January and so all of us got our hopes up that we would be able to do something really good for teachers this year and they just pop that bubble bigger than life but thank you for working hard to squeeze this into a balanced budget here in us to go ahead and approve those you've heard uh his uh missed whitefield's presentation do I have a motion regarding the Compensation Plan [Music] a little bit more discussion yes I've been down Austin three times during this lesson legislative session completely um frustrated with the legislature for not putting

077up for our teachers not only in Granbury but Statewide it's a it's a travesty what I think is happening pay wise 14 like Dr Glenn said for inflation I would not vote down any increase that we need to get more and we'll keep working on this for our teachers to try and get them more pay so with that I move that we accept the [Music] salary increase is proposed by Emmett and we'll keep working I have a motion do I have a second a second number second from motion by Mr Wimberley a second by Miss Lowry any further discussion nobody else wants to bash Austin all in favor of this motion show of hands oppose same sign let the records show 7-0 it passes consider approval of Bank depository bid under CSP 2023-07 Mr Whiteville

078thank you madam President Ford in front of you you do have the RFP for the depository for Granbury ISD we issued a request a proposal using the standardized depository Services RFP temp template by Tech for Texas Education Agency we received seven responses after a thorough evaluation two banks rose to the top um as contenders based on the strong financial stability extensive experience serving public school districts comprehensive service offerings competitive pricing and advanced technology capabilities it is recommended that Plains Capital Bank and the First Financial Bank be presented to the board for their final selection as both banks have demonstrated exceptional suitability to meet the district needs of Granbury ISD is recommended by Administration that the board selects one of these Banks based on their preference and suitability to meet the specific needs of Granbury ISD

079for a period of initial two-year terms starting September 1st 2023. Mr hopefull as I was going through these two proposals and I would not ever try to present myself as a banker so I'll let Mr Moore address that harmless Townsend but it seemed to me that uh the First Financial proposal was a little more favorable to the district with regard to finances in the overall scheme of the things of of all the categories they came out equally it may have been a half a point difference in the evaluation they both have competitive rates they're they're both calculated a little differently on their interest rates but uh everything else was equal yeah they're both they're both gonna going to fluctuate a little bit but in the initial proposal first financials rate was higher First Financial has

080more locations across Granbury First Financial was a GISD partner for a long period of time in fact we switched 2017-2018 from First Financial to Plains Capital so the district has a history with both Banks okay we're currently with we're currently with planes so how difficult is it means switching over it's time consuming it's not that difficult in other words it's doable it's doable yes not painstaking no no and again what what we would recommend and I think is is we go through it because it is it is going to be time consuming um but you have the opportunity to renew into your increments up to eight years so if just like we made a switch from First Financial to planes Capital if the switch was made again we would be asking for renewals so that

081we're not going through this every couple of years okay [Music] and just for the general public's information we have like yeah 20 40 pages from each of these Banks and their proposals to us and so that's why I would defer to some of the bankers on the board I can give you a mortgage interest rate talk to me right after the meeting well from what I'm looking at I mean they're both good banks that we are not going to be wrong with each or either decision we make but honestly I see First Financial out in the community more and I feel as every single month I read for you what the different entities in our community do for us I think that that should play a part in it and so my my thought is

082towards First Financial are you making that the form of emotion I will allow more discussion before that Lord is open to discussion we have two choices when we just take a vote and see what comes up hey would you like to make that in the form of emotion I move that we vote [Music] or probably make make pick one of them you have to pick one of them make a motion to approve one of them my biggest concern was how much work time effort it was going to take to make the switch I've I've done that before and the company that I help manage is fraction of the revenue the school district does and I know how much of a pain that was just for me but that was me by myself but that was

083my biggest concern how much of an issue is it going to be to make that switch for the payroll or the accounts payable accounts receivable purchasing everything that goes into the school district and what we do on a daily basis is it going to mess things up really bad it's not going to mess itself it's just time consuming we have been through this practice before and it is time consuming of the longest process is watch waiting for all ticks to clear the last bank so you really managing two banks at once that's the time consuming part the initial switch is nothing both Banks manage school districts across the state of Texas and are financially very sound and have experience doing this so how long again does that usually take I want to say the last

084time we carried two bank accounts for three months three to four months to make sure all checks are cleared other discussion do I have a motion and figure out how to say it hold on just a second okay Madam president I move that we approve the bank depository bid under CSP 2023-07 to First Financial Bank promotion for First Financial do I have a second my new flowery motion by Ms Johnson second by Miss Lowry to approve First Financial any further discussion all in favor show of hands what is the same sign I saw your hand both times I I don't care let me clarify are you far against okay so let the record show on a photo five to zero high five to two that uh First Financial has been approved on those opposing where

085Mr Wimberly and Miss Gore [Music] all right moving to approval of security film thank you madam president uh last month board epic solar control was approved and the board meeting to uh turns key installation of 353 767 dollars for the film on each instructional campus when requested to provide payment of a performance bond the vendor responded three weeks later stating they did not include the required insurance in their proposal when asked for the additional two percent they did not we we didn't want to give it to them basically that triggered a new set of events so we put it back out to the other vendors well all the school districts are getting awarded and the the bids came in lower so you have in front of you NGS films and graphics with a 3M it's

086a 3M preferred cell reseller with a Ultra 800 product which is very similar to what was quoted before for all instructional campuses at a reduction of five fifty five thousand six hundred forty seven dollars and thirty four cents less than the original bidder it is the recommendation of administrations the board approved the purchase of security window film and impact protection adhesive from NGS films and Graphics through the tips contract for a total of 305 195 dollars and And to clarify this is money received from the Safety and Security Grant and this is a required purchase of that Grant yes this purchase is funded by a state of Texas Grant and this is one of the required steps that you must take this before you spend that money on anything else um on page 204 and

087206 the terms and conditions on the 3M they don't make any guarantee to degree of performance on all windows unless they're because windows are constructed differently and not and may not guarantee it per the specs are we going to get an itemized list of the windows that at which school that did not meet because it'll be and I say this because we want they have to be done a certain way in order for the film to work correctly so are we going to know which Windows did not get that correction we can have them provide that information to us yes ma'am yeah I think that'd be a good idea and one positive comment was um I did speak to a subject matter expert that we have working with the Lowry and Associates security Consulting um

088he said that 3M was very good so long as the installation is done correctly it works just fine a couple points with it the bullets will go through it and it is equally as difficult to break in as it is to break out [Music] any further discussion do I have a motion regarding the purchase of the security window film hello Madam president I moved to approve the purchase security window film and impact protection adhesive from NGS films and Graphics through the tips contract for a total of 305 195. thank you Mr Wimberley do I have a second second I have a motion by Mr Wimberley a second by Mr Moore any further discussion all in favor show of hands post same sign record show 7-0 uh nomination for board press a position for region 11c

089we got a an offer from tasfi there is a board position open uh Dr Graham would you speak to that please yeah thank you madam president from time to time the region service center tasby will have seats open uh there are committees for trustees to serve on this particular committee is from the Texas Association of school boards it is our region region 11 position C the current incumbent has expressed his desire to run I have not received an information packet on him yet but now is the time for nominations and later will be the opportunity to vote on position so if if you or if there's another trustee you want to nominate for another District now would be the time and we'll get the application to them they can get their name on the ballot

090and then when the election comes we'll cast our vote accordingly any of you have an interest in yourself or someone else all right if there's no interest then no action is needed then we'll move right to the reports [Music] this is more what Dr H is going to be looking at these pages so I'm here to talk to you about the a through F refresh templates just a minute one up here all right um tea provided us a template to guide us and we put our own information in but they wanted to talk about how they are changing the a through F grading system and and why so why refresh the a through F grading system where do I point it there you go okay so um according to state law we have to continuously

091improve student performance eliminate achievement gaps and prepare students for post-secondary success that's what a through F measures and in the spirit of fostering continuous Improvement and growth the state of Texas has made as as well as the federal targets are going to increase um systematically over the next you know 15 years and five-year increments and so um that's the reason to refresh and to continuously up our goals that we're trying to reach for in the state of Texas for our students [Music] we have a lot of measures other than star some of them are counted into our a through F but we along the way measure a lot of our growth by our normed test to see how our students are progressing we also look at our graduation rate how many of our graduates attend

092college a lot of the things that I go over on the taper report in January were there abouts advanced classes taken and how much success they have on some of those AP exams ibc's earned and all of our students connected to our activities and our attendance rates which has been one of our big goals so over the last five years there has been an feedback from stakeholders on the current a through F and how it's working and then in 2022 they started proposing some of the changes based on some of that feedback and that went through some rounds this past year and so in March of 2023 is when we started to see how we were going to be graded for 22-23 [Music] to make sure that the cut scores for a through F remained

093unchanged since 2017 so what doesn't change is the cut scores but the indicators have to continue to increase and so the goals the targets of how many students are meeting their expected growth and their expected performance is what increases and 2023 is is the year for the changes so 22 23 this is this is the year so they gave us a what if and what that means is they took last year's ratings last year's scores and they put it into the new a through F calculation to show the difference because there there's different rules in this new A3 through F refresh so it wants to show you the effect of the increasing of goals how that would have on the a through F score for our district okay so it's really important when I come

094back to you and talk about a through F scores and when I come back to you to talk about the taper report that you understand that it's not an Apples to Apples comparison from last year's scores and a through F and this year's scores in a through f um so where I'm going to go through a couple of scenarios but it is possible that someone who has an a rating from 2022 this year could have improved in student achievement but they would receive a B rating based on the new calculations for a through f [Music] so these are preliminary versions of the campus and District ratings so that's not official until September and I'll go over when everything the calendar of how that's going to work the what if we put doesn't replace last year's

095ratings last year's ratings are what they are it's just put in place so that you have a comparison from last year's scores to this year's scores with the new calculation if that makes sense so the final versions of our district ratings will be set in the fall when we get the three through eight final scores and um and and in September they're going to post on Texas schools.gov and they'll do the what if rating from last year they'll do the real rating from last year the what if rating from last year with the new calculation from last year's scores and then this year's scores with the new calculation ah yes so let's look at what that's going to look like [Music] that's kind of small but hopefully you can see the one in front of

096you I did a what if rating for Mambrino Elementary and so you can see domain one student achievement for elementary schools there are no changes and for middle schools there are no changes so for domain one student achievement is calculated the same student progress is going to always be what's better between domain 2A academic growth or domain 2B relative performance so the updates there are for elementary school it's also going to stay the same but then when you look at domain three closing the gaps it's going to decrease the minimum size for our for our student populations so when you look at all of the disaggregated data for different student populations such as white students Hispanic students EBS special education students we are graded on each one of those subpopulations and so it used to

097be that the minimum size was 25 they've reduced that to 10. and then they move from just a yes or no did you meet the Target or did you not to a zero through four to give you more differentiation in that score and then it focuses on the student groups just in need so they put it into four buckets you get a a yes no score on all students and then they take the racial groups and they pick the two lowest of those for you to focus on and those are two of your buckets and then the last bucket is your other special populations such as EB and sped students and so that's how closing the gaps is changing as far as as that Target and you can see from ambrino the scores from last

098year was scored at a 92 for closing the gaps but the differentiation in the new calculation would reduce that score to an 85. and so overall the score from manbrino last year was in 91 and stays for 2022 as an a at 91 but if they do exactly the same as they did last year this year their score would be in 89. yes so high school is a little bit more complicated because they're graded on a lot of different things so if you look at domain one for student achievement you can see that we have increased increased standards for ccmr and for graduation rates so it's important for us to know that the same graduation rate for example whereas last year it counted as a 90 percent for Granbury High School or 90 points this

099year would be 10 points lower right so that pulls their score down as does the increase goal for ccmr so this year last year's score was in 85 and the same percentage of students earning their ccmr point and the same exact student population graduating would result in a 74 this year's calculation [Music] for School progress it's still going to be this the highest of 2A or 2B for 2A to capture growth and including learning acceleration so what that means is that any students that take Algebra 1 or an accelerated class in Middle School are going to count their growth score counts higher and so um that or counts again and so that's going to be um in there it captures their growth and so that goes from a 73 last year to same exact numbers

100a 69 this year and relative performance because of our ccmr goal being upped that changes your relative performance and so relative performance would have been an 80 last year and the same amount of students compared to in our comparison group would be a 73. and then for closing the gaps for the same reasons that I talked about in the elementary schools that's the difference between last year's 79 and this year's calculation using last year's numbers would have been in 69. so you can see that that would decrease the high school rating from an 83 to a 73 with the new Target scores goal upped goals and calculations [Music] so if you look at what if ratings for Granbury ISD so the only thing I'm like important on this slide that you need to key in

101on is that Top Line the district ratings are now calculated from a weighted average so in the past it would take the number of tests at a campus and and that would be the percentage that was calculated there but now it's going to be on population of the school so [Music] um our new accountability this year is going to be encompassed in our Granbury High School scores and 17.9 percent will be AMS and 14.8 percent will be GMS so you can see that those those populations of those schools that's going to shift our our what-if score as well so if we would have had our Granbury ISD done by weighted average of Campus ratings with the new everybody having the new a through F score scoring on last year's scores instead of an 82 last

102year we would have had a what-if score last year of 79. so the state of Texas says that the number of schools and the percentage of schools that have ratings that stay the same decrease in increase you can see that so I just wanted you to know from this of our 10 campuses eight decreased in numeric rating and two stayed exactly the same but as far as letter grades are concerned only three decreased in letter grades and that was ghs due to the ccmr and the graduation rate requirements and goals being set higher Mambrino and that was biggest for closing the gaps that's why I use that as your example and then Emma and it's because Emma doesn't have any state testers on their campus so they get the same score as the district so

103they would have gone down in a letter grade and seven would have had the same letter grade [Music] so this is preliminary this is just so that you can know that it's very different The increased rigor and the increased goal setting that the state is setting for this this new refresh is is not Apples to Apples from last year's score so that's the only thing you don't need to do anything with this information it may not come back exactly in September how it is here but this is just an informational so that you know what's happening so here's the communications timeline and what happens so we got the what if ratings on May 31st the same time that we got our EOC performance levels and I want to tell you I want to brag a

104little bit on our high school it's important that you know that all of our high school eocs improved over last year in all five tests they did they had better this year on their scores than last year's scores so that's something to be celebrated and we need to congratulate our high school for a job well done we won't have you can see if you look down to August 11th we won't have our star three through eight performance levels until then so we're anxiously awaiting that information and then you can see it September 28th that's when our a through F ratings will be released publicly on Texas school.gov and you will see the last year's score and then last year's what if score if it was calculated like ours is going to be this year and

105then um the new score so that's what's going to be there and this is what it'll look like so you'll have last year's score and then you'll have that explanation there and then above it you'll have the what if score so that you can compare it to this your score so you can see that our kids try to at least compare a little bit the best that they can provide that our students grew do you have any questions why continued Improvement cycle at tea and again tea they did release a short video that that I'll send you that covers just reiterates a lot of the information that Miss Clark just shared with you I will say our our curriculum Department Tammy Clark they do a great job of when the the data comes in they

106disaggregate it quickly and so hopefully August 11th by that afternoon when it comes in we'll be able to give you a really really good idea of how all of our campuses in our district perform but where we're at tonight is that uh the the rigor is up that can stay continues to place a lot of emphasis on standardized testing and so we continue to uh to push hard to make sure that our kids are performing well yes and we're also at the high school improving in a passing rate for every single EOC we're also there already thank you Miss Clark discuss voter approved tax rate election Dr Glenn thank you madam president so earlier tonight you heard the compensation report from Mr Whitefield and I think I told you we were we were pretty discouraged

107whenever the legislative session ended and we didn't see an increase in the basic allotment a lot of a lot of time and energy was spent on a on a what I know is a priority for the school board and that's to make sure that our teachers are taken care of that our teachers and staff are among the highest paid in the area a question that I commonly get is uh you know why why we don't pay with weather for pays or Cleburne pays or Burleson pays and so I did pull their tax rates and total tax rate at rally is 1.44 the same for Burleson Cleburne is 1.39 weatherford's a dollar 22 even here in the county he told her it's a dollar 22 in lie pans 1.27 I bring that up because Granbury ISD

108sets at 99 Cents and this board uh in this community have done a great job of keeping our tax rate historically low and I think that's something we can be proud of but at the same time I know the two priorities that are pressing for us is taking care of our teachers and and so if if we're not going to see legislation that that allows our teachers to be taken care of then we need to look at all options that exist within this district and it's not just about teacher pay or paraprofessional pay or staff pay certainly we're talking about that but we're also talking about reducing student-teacher ratio reducing class sizes because we know that our kids learn best when they're in small groups and having classes with 30 35 kids is it's not

109good for the teacher in the classroom it puts stress on that teacher it makes the teacher want to get out to go to a smaller District or go somewhere else and we know it's not good for kids in their learning and so and so what can we do that could possibly generate funding and and so the law changed back pre-2019 they had what was called a tax ratification election in 2019 the law change and now it's called a voter approved uh tax rate election and uh and so I found um I actually didn't find it during strategic planning we had talked a little bit about uh the possibility of a vatre and um and just in pitching it to a couple of individuals who were in the room uh they showed me this video from

110Pflugerville ISD who this past November November 22 actually successfully passed a voter approved tax ratification election and and I like the video it's about three minutes long and uh and I want to show the video quickly and then then I'm going to go through a PowerPoint that specifically addresses how it would affect Granbury ISD because you'll notice from the video some of the numbers in Pflugerville and GISD are very different again if you don't mind Mr Wilson if you show this video real quick we get the volume up test ratification election and then restart or v-a-t-r-e [Music] set for Tuesday November 2nd this short restart please or video will explain I tell you what you can skip that 11 seconds what a Tre is and demonstrate its effect on flugerville ISD the purpose of a

111tax ratification election is to ask the community to consider approving a tax rate to maximize State funding if passed the proposal would allow Pflugerville ISD to gain an estimated 7.1 million dollars annually in funding while also decreasing the total tax rate how is that possible the Pflugerville school district is funded primarily through local taxes and state funds local taxes are collected and go into two different funds maintenance and operations or mno and interest in syncing or ins the mno fund pays for everyday District Operations like salaries books and building maintenance while the ins is similar to a mortgage and can only be used to pay the debt on school bonds bonds pay for new school construction and Capital Improvements the Board of Trustees has set the total tax rate at 1.40.8 cents the lowest tax

112rate in pfisd in 21 years 94.8 cents for mno and 46 cents for ins you will see the total tax rate of 1.40.8 cents on the ballot down from the 1.42 total tax rate last year approving two pennies for the mno side means more State funding for Pflugerville ISD meanwhile the overall District tax rate has gone down and as we said before the district's proposed 1.40.8 cents tax rate will generate an estimated 3.3 million dollars in additional state revenue annually and 3.8 million dollars locally more importantly this new revenue is not subject to the recapture system of school Finance better known as Robin Hood so what will the additional 7.1 million dollars be used for by increasing the mno budget Pflugerville ISD will be able to utilize These funds to balance its budget sustain its

113current Workforce and fund any programs which will benefit Pflugerville ISD students it's important to note that we are only talking about the Pflugerville ISD tax rate which is different from a homeowner's overall tax bill Although our local school district tax rate will decrease as a result of the election an increase in property value will inevitably result in a higher homeowner's tax bill our Board of Trustees has called the tax ratification election but the voters are the ones who decide the outcome of the election all eligible registered voters are encouraged to become informed and exercise their right to vote in the election early voting begins Monday October 18th and continues through Friday October 29th election day is Tuesday November 2nd voting locations times and additional information can be found on our website that's good Brent thank

114you and if you'll pull up the PowerPoint I did uh I did lowest tax rate in 21 years was 1.40 and we're at 99 Cents so I think we're off to a good start I'm going to jump right in if if you'll just kind of flip as as I go through this um the the two pots of money that that we pull from in GISD is our maintenance operations tax rate in our interest in Sinking tax rate so specifically when we're talking about the vatre we're talking about the mno tax rate again ins that's debt tax rate that's bonds if you look at the Historical rates you'll notice that uh we're at a dollar 25 and 1617. that was right off of the 2013 bond that was passed we were still in the construction phase

115or we had just finished the construction phase and uh and his values grow in the district uh what what you see happen is the tax rate goes down because there's more people paying into that tax base so Granbury ISD when we start talking about our tax rate in the tiers specifically as we dive into the maintenance and operations tax rate we they have what we call tier one and what they call tier two so tier one is uh the rate that is really set through a formula for the State of Texas and so our our current tier one rate is 80.8046 so 80 cents and uh and that is compressed by the state of Texas and in what we we call it MCR the maximum compressed tax rate so the Tata state of Texas says

116that's as low as you can go on your tier one mno tax rate now tier two is a little bit different tier two is what we're talking about with a VA t r e currently we're at five cents the board has the ability to go up those five cents we call those golden pennies because they're not subject to recapture so the state of Texas will allow a district to have up to eight golden pennies golden pennies again are super important to us because they're not subject to recapture right now we take advantage of five of those we are going to pay back this year over 11 million dollars in recapture next year it'll jump to over 12 million dollars in recapture and then there's nothing we can do about that I get taxpayers all the

117time and they're like I write my check to uh the Hood County Central Appraisal District and it says Granbury ISD on it and that's all well and good but the the state of Texas is still going to require us to send them 11 million dollars back this year beyond the the golden pennies uh all districts have the opportunity to get uh copper pennies uh copper pennies uh are subject to recapture that's the big difference between Golden pennies and copper pennies so you have a tier one tax rate which is just your basic level of guaranteed funding and then you have the tier 2 mno tax rate which enriches or adds to your basic funding so this next slide really encompasses what we're dealing with in Granbury and when when a property when a district has

118a property tax revenue increase like we have seen uh we've always been a wealthy District but we have seen our property taxes go up up and up over the last couple of years uh the the state funding decreases and so you can see if you're not generating a lot of local taxes the state will supplement you quite a bit more we are that cup on the far right and so we are spilling over to the tune of again 11.2 million dollars this year and over 12 next year and so what we're really talking about here with a a v a t r e is taking the maximum compressed tax rate which we do believe and and again there's a good chance that this legislative session is not over and uh and things could change but

119right now by all indications uh the state is going to require school districts in Texas to compress their tax rate once again so the tier one number will go down it went down last year it'll go down again this year tier two we have the five cents levied for their golden pennies and then there's also the opportunity for voters to come back and say we will add to the tier 2 mno tax rate and then the ins right now is locked in at uh 14 and a half cents and unless there is a bond it won't go up those three together make up our total tax rate of 99 Cents so we're at 80 cents on the MCR we add the nickel for the tier two we add the 14 and a half cents on

120the ins and that gets you the total tax rate of 99 Cents which is where we're at right now and so we break down for you what a uh what golden pennies and copper pennies would do for the ISD so three additional golden pennies would generate 3.7 million dollars uh annually for GISD and I say annually but I'll get into another slide and talk about that in a second the nine copper pennies would generate an additional 4.4 million dollars for the district so we're talking about a combined 8.2 million dollars if we were to maximize our tier two funding and so this is uh this is an interesting slide so when you look at if the district had passed in November of 2022 the uh the vatre similar to Pflugerville ISD we would have netted

1212.5 million dollars from our golden pennies and 4.4 million dollars from our copper pennies to a tune of 7.3 million dollars and and if you'll slide over you see you know back up if you'll slide over to next year's calculations based on on appraised values in the community you see that number increases to 8.2 so that's an increase year over year of a half a million dollars is Granbury continues to grow in value those numbers continue to grow in value that's how we continue to fund raises that's how we continue to fund uh smaller class sizes that's how we continue to fund uh Staffing for new schools and so you ask yourself why why would districts go after it in just a few reasons uh and include staff compensation the majority of districts that are

122jumping out there they're trying to take care of their staff they recognize that under the current funding system uh they're they're not willing to just continue to try and compete at a three percent raise every year they want to take care of their staff and make sure they pay at a high level they want to to add new academic programs New Fine Arts programs they want to be able to supplement existing programs for us that would be like JROTC Fine Arts and culinary CTE they want to make sure that their classrooms are well equipped and and teachers as we move to an era in testing where kids are are having to to use Chromebooks to take tests we want to make sure they're doing that on on good technology and and then finally safety and

123insecurity even though we got a Safety and Security Grant being able to enrich our program and continue to provide safe schools those those are good dollars to these spins so uh so how many have done it since 2019 and uh and the answer is simple 73 have done it 42 have been successful in that so it's a 61 percent uh approval rate uh for communities ultimately uh every Community is is responsible for what they want to do with it um but but as we sit here today and we talk about options what would it look like what would what would 8.2 million dollars look like for Granbury ISD what it would look like is a 10 percent raise for our teachers and staff a 10 raise and and that when we had conversations early on

124and I know Mr Wimberley as we left the last meeting uh he made a comment something the effect of don't be sent raise for staff I'd Rather Have Nothing than three percent and then I have my head down and I got browbeat a little bit when I said it's three percent if we want a balanced budget but that doesn't mean that our community can't look at this and say you know what GISD is a good investment and we're not necessarily talking about raising the tax rate because if the state decides to compress the tax rate once again we could just pull the pennies out of the compression and that's what you saw Pflugerville ISD doing they were saying you know what let's just leave it at 99 Cents I mean everybody around us even if

125they compress 10 cents they're still in the dollar thirties we're at 99 Cents what if we just did not did not pass along the compression we kept our tax rate at 99 Cents and we were able to give our staff the raise that we need to do to be competitive with the weatherford's Burleson's crowleys of the world and to make sure that we could reduce class sizes two things we hear from our staff over and over and over again and so to our staff to you I would say what that looks like is uh in August and we're not asking for Action tonight we're wanting thoughtful dialogue but but in August you as a board could approve two budgets a budget that assumes that the vatre fails and one that allows voters to to go

126out and cast a ballot scene if they'll support the school and if that budget were to pass then the teachers would automatically get their 10 raise with back pay because you will have approved the budget that way so that would essentially allow the taxpayers to see exactly where if they approved that tax rate exactly how that's money is being used you will you will approve you will approve two budgets in August okay and if the Tre passes the second budget will go into place immediately and the teachers would receive that raise and then the extra money could be used toward reducing class sizes I know strategic planning is talking about a bond um you know that could be a one to two cent on top of this so I mean there there could be a

127lot of moving Parts in this but but truly these are the options we have this is what we have in our toolkit and I'm not saying we have to do it but I do feel like it's my responsibility to present you with options and and what we're seeing since 2019 is every year more and more districts are saying we're going to do a v a t r e to make sure that we can fund our schools appropriately we're not going to wait on the state to do it if they don't take action this legislative session will be two more years before they convene and do it again so I feel like my job is to give you the information and uh and then your job is to decide if you want to give people the

128opportunity to vote on that but but this plan right here if we're talking about how we can pay our staff now take care of our staff now this is a plan that would allow that to happen election have to be called on August uh on August 21st along with our our Board election and if strategic planning brings a bond forward that all three would have to be called simultaneously which I think is worth taken into consideration any questions [Music] we'll put this uh we'll put this powerpoint online well Lisa Oliver upload it with board notes so everybody can look at it I will say we just uh tested our staff ran a little survey out just to see what what they thought would they get behind a an election and of course it's going to

129be uh it's it allows them to get paid comparable to other districts so you're going to see a lot of people supporting it but the last number I heard it was 103 yeses and one no so I do think we are seeing a staff that is saying hey we recognize that we're underpaid and would like to see the board at least try and exhaust all options to make sure that we're paid competitive and I also wanted to point out when when our tax rate was compressed last year it was actually compressed below the no new Revenue rate so when you don't bring in new Revenue it's kind of hard to give raises but yeah it the no new Revenue rate just keeping it at that we went even lower than that with our compression and

130we're looking at possibly having that happen again so I appreciate this option here bringing this to us thank you any other questions or comments okay we're getting about to the bottom of the world financial statements thank you madam president board in front of you you have the financial statements for the month ending May 31st 2023 the statement includes only those transactions between September 1st 2022 and May 31st 2023. Revenue collected to date is 94.3 percent of the budgeted amount as compared to 94.49 and 21 and 22 and the expenditures today are 71.69 of the budget compared to 63.88 in 2122 I will uh draw your attention to again the transportation it does the percentages look different on Transportation is because we have amended that budget to fit in uh the fuel increased costs and same

131with the plan and maintenance that's where utilities are utilities are looking at about 25 increase this year from last year and over the past two years we're looking at about 174 percent increase in fuel so those are the the major things to look at there you can also look up in the in revenues under investment income and you can see that our investment income this year is a lot better than it was last year and that is your financial statements for the month May 31st 23. if y'all have any questions I'll be glad to answer those moving on to the investment and cash flow report you can see that the month of May we actually made 307 772 dollars in interest because the interest rate that we are our biggest interest rate is at um

132Lone Star and it's about 5.231 percentage points at this point um and that is considerably better than last year bring our total um investment interest over all funds to 1.7 million dollars this year and that is your cash flow and investment report at this time we're going to take a brief recess to allow our staff who have had uh a couple of hard weeks if you'd like to go we still the only thing left on our agenda is our open forum and so anyone that would like to leave and the staff feel free to do so and we'll pause the meeting briefly to give you that opportunity no one takes it we'll go right on okay Mr Godfrey to speak about open forum and public comments well I do appreciate the opportunity to speak to

133you all again in the last month I've had an opportunity to be somewhat uh enlightened on the matter of culture as it relates to school board activities and what I'm observing is a culture clash in Granbury ISD the ideal culture would be that the schools belong to the people and that the board exists to serve but the culture that I see present has manifested by the board majority here is is that the board can do just about anything it wants to do so long as the public doesn't find out about it or doesn't complain about it and a number of things have led me to that particular conclusion and some of those go back a little over a year ago you changed your standard operating procedure to try to limit uh dissent at the board

134table uh you have and attempted to uh intimidate the board majority through social media activities as well as from the diocese itself you have reduced the amount of time in the open Forum from five minutes down to three minutes you have moved the bulk of the open Forum except for tonight to the very end of this and you can see the net results of what that does to the public interest in what's going on but the thing that brought this back to my mind and led me to comment on this again is an event that took place last month in which you had in your consent agenda an item to remove to move the board date from a June 19th to June 12th and then you proceeded to take that out of the consent agenda

135and proceed with a discussion at which point you decided not to keep Faith with what you published in your agenda but rather instead of moving it to the 12th you moved it to the 13th playing hide and go seek with a board meeting and that was done in order to accommodate a single individual on the board and I think that is a terrible uh precedence to be set and demonstrates once again that it's the public be damned and the board can do just whatever it wants to do I would also like to point out to you that unless the culture of this board changes than what Dr Glenn has just presented to you is a hopeless cause you'll never get the public to give you a an approval and with the culture that is presently

136manifested by the more majority it's time to make a change and y'all can do it thank you Mr Daughtry June [Music] thank you madam president superintendent and trustees I thank you for all your tireless effort it goes Way Beyond the board meeting what we see and I think all of us can agree teachers need more money I've heard that I come from a teaching family those are the soldiers in the fields they deserve every penny and more and frankly we can never pay them enough but beside that I was looking over Community involvement the word Community I grew up in a school where the community involved we heard tonight the community is involved at the tune of 11 700 from just organizations and that was just this month so we've got community that's working in

137Granbury I left you alone a long time I don't have kids in the school system a lot of people affect the census says ninety percent of the homes in GISD do not have children in the school system but yet you take our money and it funds us and kids and their education are important but what brought my attention were the books and the sad part of it was y'all seem to not be realizing that you had a book problem until somebody of the community discovered it brought it to your attention and instead of going oh my goodness we got to get a policy procedure we got to get on this fix this problem immediately we attacked the people that were bringing the issue to it and that troubled me and I read a book to

138find out is there a problem it is a problem you still have many books in there that you need to address and that also brought me to the thing of going if there's a problem with the books and they don't know about it what else do they not know about well somebody brought the attention of the airplane and y'all reviewed it and decided that was not a good use of your funds and got rid of it what else is a problem so I started talking to people that were past staff past students past and current and bullying is out of control in our school system there are people that their children are bullied so much that they literally take them out of this school system and go to neighboring schools further safety and well-being of

139their kids to get an education y'all got some things to take care of next thing I found out is there is a safety issue and I'm glad that there's a bunch of things going on for this there are bathrooms in the Granbury High School that girls do not feel safe to go to they don't go they go all around the campus to avoid them you have a drug trafficking problem that is in the school if kids and students and staff know about it y'all need to know about it if you do know about it and you're not doing anything about it shame on you you need to get out if you don't know about it get onto it and get this fixed the other thing is the safety in the hallways for them to be

140safe just to walk about we want you all to succeed let me just finish we want y'all to be successful we want the teachers to be successful we want Grandberry to be successful thank you Miss Mary and I will continue on but thank you for what you do Kayla hasna [Music] asna going Watts going twice Kayla Asner there being no further business this meeting is adjourned at 8 23. thank you board