001Would you a word of prayer, please? >> Yeah, let's pray. Lord, we thank you once again to have the time to be here to do the business of the district. Lord, we thank you for continuing to keep our faculty and staff and our kids safe. And I pray, Lord, that you'll continue to watch over them, put a protection around them each and every day. And Lord, help us as as trustees to make the best decision for our community and for our kids as we move forward. And we thank you for all you do for us. Your name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor
002the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible. >> Welcome to everyone at home and everyone in attendance tonight. I will Mr. Clinton, anybody sign up for tonight? >> Not with me. >> Okay, I will move us to three recognition. All right, board uh trustees and visitors. We wanted to uh uh have a couple of recognitions here. I'd like um Mr. Ritz to come up with me. Uh we had a couple of December retirees and uh really felt that it was important to honor all their service, all their hard work. And there were two ladies that retired in December. Um they don't feel retired because I keep asking them to come back for things, retirement parties and now recognitions and things. But um I believe that combined of
003the two retirees that we had, there were 68 years of service between two employees, which >> amazing. So I'm going to let uh Todd go ahead, Mr. Rick, go ahead and um introduce our retiree. >> Well, she did not want to be here, but she said for you guys she'd come up here one more time. >> This this person has meant a lot to me in my life. I've always called her my second mom. I was best friends with her son going, you know, through school. And I don't know, should I face this way? >> I know. >> Whichever you want to do. >> I was best friends with her son through school. So she bought my second mom there and then uh drove a bus for us for years. She has by the way
00439 total combined years. >> Okay. I'm sorry. Yes. >> 69 years >> and started as a subd driver in 1987. >> What were you doing Mr. Wood? 1987 >> soft >> she had started selling at the school and then became a full-time driver and when everyone knows my father was the director before me and when he uh knew he was going to retire I'd hoped I would get the job so he allowed me to pick who I wanted as my secretary a year before he retired And there was no doubt in my mind. So I took Angie off of bus seven, which she drove for years. I'm sure she still gets kids and probably even grandkids of kids now coming up to her that remembers her on bus seven. But she has raised a lot
005of kids and helped raise them through her job here. U like I said at her retirement, there's people that come in and out of this school that work here. No doubt they have they contribute to the school and do but then there are people that make lasting impressions and she is one of those. You will forever be remembered here for the job she has done. So, one more time. I promise >> this is it. >> Come on up here. >> Yeah. Take a picture. Awesome. Thank you so much. >> And um our other retiree was not able to be here. She has listened to her family probably and herself and said, "I'm not coming for anything. Um I'm not coming back even to get recognized." I'm kidding. But Teresa Green, she's probably sitting in a
006stand somewhere uh cheering. Is that a basketball game? >> Okay. Yeah. So, uh she forever will be a Huntington fan. Um but we thank her to Teresa Green for 30 years of service. So, um our next appreciation obviously this month and I wanted to recognize our board. This is board appreciation and and um our staff may recognize some of the commitment that that you have, but I can tell you that the community has no idea the hours other than your personal families, the hours uh that you put into this position and your paycheck isn't very big. As a matter of fact, you don't ever have time. >> So, uh we decided to try to give you a payday um back there. Thank you. >> I just wanted to say on behalf of the staff, students,
007entire Huntington community, a simple but profound thank you to serve as a trustee is to take on a role that requires immense passion and significant sacrifice of time. We see your attentiveness to the needs of the classrooms and your support for the initiatives that beyond that help our students thrive. But beyond policies and budgets, we appreciate most is your kindness and the heart you bring to your service. You're not just managing a district, but you're building a future and your leadership provides our teachers with the tools they need to inspire and our students with a safe, innovative environment where they can grow. You stand as champions for every child in Huntington and for that we're deeply grateful. Thank you for everything that you do. And I've asked them and they they really don't like this.
008But I'm going to give them a certificate and I'm going to let the three stay and we're going to join because so many of them asked me for a picture of you all and we don't take that many pictures of you all. So we're going to change that tonight by >> design. Josh, thank you so much. Charles Robertson Jacob and Ben Watson. And the theme is our future is public. That's the theme for uh our schoolboard appreciation for the state of Texas this year. And uh it is public public schools and thanks for leading those public schools. So um I'm gonna probably borrow your phone, Amanda. And I'm gonna ask you guys to kind of stay. You guys can stay. I'm just gonna let them come behind you. How does that sound? >> Do you
009mind? I don't wear I very often get >> Why you doing that? >> Six months ago when he was a law he wouldn't let somebody >> ready >> pretty thank you. Um we have uh lots of things that the campuses and the district have provided uh on on in honor and on behalf. So I I at this point I haven't been in Huntington for school bird appreciation but I think they all have some things that they would like to share or some of them do >> and you can tell me how that goes next. >> Yeah. the high school you guys get you bag of candy and then also on the floor leaned up against the deal careful with the wet bank department >> hot off the press you cut out a >> middle school
010student council got you a new cup a red devil merch cup >> um and inside is also a gift certificate to do >> the intermediate got you some sus popcorn There's several flavors up there and I just kind of put stuff where it would go. It was pretty packed already. Um, our fourth grade made you this poster over here on the wall. Our fifth grade made you a book full of memos of things that they think would improve the school. Um it's everything from take down the fences to we want a full baseball field at the intermediate um to can we all please have recess together. So it ranges >> the books are hilarious. >> The books are fantastic >> and um our we have a 3D printer at the intermediate and we you have
011some little um bus yourself. >> They were the I did you do that? >> But they're not the best. I have double vision and it was very minute. >> They are fantastic. >> They're the best. So I was asked I was asked for photos of you all and that was a challenge because we don't take a lot of pictures. So I tried and now I see I said this is great. So they're 3D printed of prints of your face and I think it's hysterical. It's going to be a great decoration. This is perfect. um elementary made a book for you and every child was able to put their fingerprint in it. >> Some are a little more artistic than others with their fingerprints, but y'all don't get to have a big part in their daytoday,
012but we do know that your fingerprints are on them. Um and they recognize who you are when they see you at events. And one of the big pushes this year is more school spirit. So our students were challenged with singing the school music class requirements and they've mastered it and they are performing it for you on our video and how We love you. in the battle. >> Well, very very difficult to follow the younger kids. >> At pride school, we had our staff and our students signed thank you cards for you guys. And we also have some homemade cookies and I contributed to that by pushing start on the oven. So I followed instructions really well. We appreciate your time and your energy. Not not just your support for Pride School, but for what you
013do for the district. >> Hey, we got you guys a hat and a thank you card signed by all the drivers. And I asked Angie to do a short presentation slideshow before SHE seen her since December 19. But thank y'all for all you do. >> Yeah, we uh we and we got y'all a couple of hats back there. So, you just want to say thanks for everything y'all do. We know it's a lot more than just sitting behind that desk in this room. We know it's a lot of late nights and a lot of phone calls. So, we we appreciate everything y'all do and all the support. Thank you. Yeah, again, we do appreciate all the stuff y'all let us have nice equipment, which makes our job a lot easier. We appreciate everything y'all do
014for us. And again, no surprise we got y'all hats. We do every year. >> Sorry. I didn't have a female hat this year, so Billy Billy hat. >> Definitely appreciate y'all. Thank you'all for what you do. >> We've got you a sweet and salty snack. If you're like me, you want one of each and a thank you card. by everybody in the department. So, thank you for your support. >> We got you guys a camouflage hat. Uh appreciate you guys for what you do and all the hours that you put in. >> And and I'm going to interrupt for our group. You have a nothing but cake that's not nothing. It's massive. So, you have a delicious cake inside of a a gold box and you can swap have a swap me afterwards. There are
015chocolate, there's butter, and there's strawberries. So, you can kind of pick and choose what you want. And then a little bouquet of sweet treats. So, it's just on behalf of administration, too. >> So, and if you started your diet, give it to your kids. >> Yes. >> From the special services department, we have a voucher up there for you guys for our self-sufficient coffee shop that we have running at the high school. Stop by. >> Oh, that's so great. Thank you. >> We We appreciate you. Thank you again. Dr. Carolyn, I you know this this is very every year I feel bad about board appreciation. I do because we sign up for this to serve and it's humbling all the nice stuff. But I think everybody would agree with me. We can't do anything without
016these administrators around here and the directors and you know you you get as many phone calls as we do or more. And so uh you're to be do for what you do. And that's not a political statement. That's the truth. We're here. We ask to serve. We we ask to to be a part. And so for me and for them, I think they would agree. It's really an honor to be able to serve our students and our faculty and our community. So, thank you for what you do. We appreciate you, too. >> And and just to follow up on what D said, I know y'all have a thankless job and y'all work tireless hours and we appreciate it. It doesn't go unnoticed. are here for these kids early in the morning till late at night.
017And what makes it even that much better is these folks that I serve with up here. I mean, I can't say enough good about them. Um, you know, kind of makes me tear up here, you know, talking about it. But thank y'all all for what y'all do day in and day out because it doesn't go unnoticed. These campuses look great. Y'all teach these kids and we really do appreciate it. Thank y'all very much. All right, I'll move it down to four district spotlight. >> So, uh, we figured that the school spotlight was all the school things that were provided this evening. So, our district spotlight, we'll just turn it over to maintenance, custodial, grounds, and transportation. Do you have anything to add or your department? >> Um, everything's been going smooth for us lately. I
018mean, we've got just work orders and carrying on. We've got chasing a few roof leaks today to get ready for the storm coming in. checked all the water lines, pipes, all that kind of stuff. So, we're getting getting winter rise for our unexpected. It's Texas weather. You don't never know what to expect. So, yeah. So, we're we're getting ready for that. So, other than that, like I said, everything's been going smooth. Just um just normal routine stuff here lately. We did do it elementary gym. Um if anybody's been in there lately, but the insulation around it was was coming apart and I found a product that we can use to replace some of that with. So, it worked well during the break. So, I'm going to do the rest of the gym during the next
019break. So, it looks the same as the old just the white insulation look, but it's definitely gives it a refresher and covers up all that old stuff. So, it was it was a good find to get that. And it's it's not expensive. It's not bad. So, it's we can do the whole gym pretty reasonable. >> And I believe Miss Woodmore is going to add some some stickers and posters and dressing it up, right? >> Banners. I don't apologize. I thought you I thought they were like the big uh low, you know. >> Okay. Something like that. I was >> Yeah, the gold. >> So, that's that's pretty much our that's it for us. Like I said, that's our main project. We've been refreshing that gym. So, and then um other than that, it's it's getting
020budget time. So, me and Matt starting to look at some projects and stuff that we'll probably be bringing to y'all different things. So, but uh so yeah, that's that's it. >> Put that product over the existing. >> It's over existing. You basically put 1x4s onto it and you stretch it with the 1x4s and then attach it to the uh I beams on each side of it. So, you can stretch it. >> No, no, it basically it's an overlay product. It's like an eigh inch thick, but it's a heavy mesh tarp. Yeah, it's it surprised me. I mean, I bought a sample of it kind of I think I bought 100 foot of it just to just to try and see, but it it did did well. So it kind of >> as well too, right?
021>> It's got some more value to it. It's not significant, but it's >> it's basically like underlay like you put on under a metal roof kind of, you know, if you're just doing like just for a vapor bar, not really in, you know, some little thin stuff. Yeah. It it worked well and it didn't crease. It smoothed up real well. That's why >> Yeah. So yeah. So anyway, that's that's what we're working. >> Thank y'all again. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. grounds guys. They've been working pretty hard on the fields. Uh baseball makes u even though a few years back we did the total renovation of infield. We just redid the skinned infield again. We get so much water that comes across there. Uh we just added back 10 dump truck loads to get it
022back up to the grass again and then uh put all new turf and yeah I mean we get a lot that pond back there behind that and the way everything just comes off it just washes it away you know basically. So uh but it's all leveled back out again. Got new turf down on it. Grass looks great on it right now and it's looking really good. Uh football well combination between our guys and contractors. Contractors are laying all the lines. Ruby doing most the heads and control valves, but we're adding we just added several sprinkler heads. Um we've never had the coverage we've needed on that field. We've added heads. Good gosh. It started out with 18 heads and we now have 80. So, >> well, we're getting we we're adding the sideline back in
023because it we don't have head-to-head coverage and so these guys work so hard to get it looking good and then we get like a bad dry spell and you know it really stresses it. So, but this was really a pretty inexpensive because we had it all there except for the lines we're adding on the sideline. We just felt like it was an appropriate time to to make it work. So, um Rudy, um who he mentioned, helped us lay all that out. And so, where we were spending 13 hours watering, we should reduce that probably to around seven hours of watering. So, not only are we going to get better coverage, we feel like we're going to be more efficient, too. And so, >> so we're going from 13 stations to nine >> to nine stations.
024So, we're bringing this down where we won't have to water as long by thoughts of ter. >> Well, and the reason asking about it, >> the guys were kind of like, man, that's a lot of work. I said, I know, but it's going to pay off in the long run because instead of them just trenching, we had Rudy mark out everywhere they were going to trench. Use our vent track with a sod cutter sod cut it. That way, we could lay the sod right back down. And otherwise, if we' have just trenched, you'll get weeds growing everywhere you trench and stuff. So, hopefully we'll have a good transition and look good. And then other than that, um, we are fully st I don't know if it's board meeting that that helps us with this, but
025it seems like every time we have a board meeting, I can tell you we're fully staffed. Now, next week, I can't promise we will be, but we are fully staffed again right now. So, but other than that, again, appreciate y'all and any questions you got, be glad to answer. Things transportation are rolling pretty good. In case you haven't heard, my secretary retired in December. We did I know most of y'all know Shannon Putnham. She's a longtime employee. I think she along with me also we both have 28 years here. So she stepped into that role. She's done it before at times when Angie had been absent before. So, it's nothing new to her, but it is it is a learning process that she's doing very well at. Uh, Ashley Martinez is going to come off
026of bus six and go on to bus 2 to take Shannon's spot. And I hired a new driver, Miss Tori Branson, and she's going to drive bus six that Ashley was driving. So, all worked out so far. We still would like a couple more drivers. If you know anybody right there, you got We're working. >> How are you feeling? >> Did you go? >> It was I'm feeling good. >> Seemed like lately the hospital been my second home for the past six, seven months. But yeah, >> we're glad to see you. >> Thank you. >> Glad you're here. >> All right, I will now move us to five public meeting a report card. And that is uh Dr. Thornton. And I wanted to say Angie and you are so welcome to stay, but if you
027want to escape, it's not a problem. So you can listen to everything, but I just wanted recognized and I didn't want her to. Thank you so much. You are more than welcome to stay or not. Um Dr. Thornon is going to share with us our taper report, our school report cards, um and some some of those fun required information. And I'll won't let her steal her thunder of the hard work she put behind this. So, uh, you will find a binder in front of you. >> So, board, inside your binder is, um, in the front pocket is an actual copy of the presentation because I know your back is to it. So, you don't, if you wanted to look at it, you have it. This is an annual report that's required by Texas Education Code.
028We're going to be looking over and reviewing a little bit of the data from 2024, 2025. So, this is not new data. This is nothing that you and I haven't already covered and discussed at some point and Mr. Clifton has presented. There's even a piece of the financial in here. This is all things we have brought to you in the past from the summer till probably November. So, this is not new, but I am going to point out a few things as we go through. So, when you open your binders, you'll see there's 10 sections to the report. Uh it'll start with the taper report, financial standard report, uh the accreditation status, and you can just see on down what all is in there. As you go through each tab, you'll see some um colored
029tabs at the top. Those distinguish between each campus and the district. The district is always going to be first. It's in a red tab. Elementary through high through pride after that. So you'll see each tab shows you a different one. But if you look in under tab number one, this is the taper report, the Texas academic performance report. And I'm just to do just a few things as we go through. We're not going to spin, but this is the biggest section. So, just FYI, if you turn your page to page three, and the pages are in very small print in the bottom right hand corner, just okay, pointing out uh grade three mathematics. You'll notice that it shows at the meets level, it'll show you both 2024 and 2025. And I wanted to point that
030out just uh because we went in 24 we had we were at 34% means and in 25 we were up to 41% means. So a nice jump for our students at grade three math. If you look right below that in grade four reading you'll see they were at 47% jumped up to 51. And on both of those how close we are to the state. So we're getting there and we're pulling those scores up. there wasn't a large jump like we had at the state level, but our district level had a large push last year. So, we appreciate all that hard work. Um, if you go over just to the next page on page four, down here at the bottom, you'll see sixth grade reading, we're just a point one percentage point above the state last
031year on the meats level, but we um even though we had a little bit of a dip. So, we went from 66% to 57, but we stayed above the state level, which was 56%. Just moving on, I'm gonna take you ac uh this the performance standards or approaches, meets and masters. Approaches is just that approaching grade level. We want our students at meet grade level. So our focus is on meets and masters although approaches is considered passing for the students. Uh when you look at eighth grade social studies um I wanted to point that out because if you look at the meats level there the state was at 32% for 2025. Our district was at 47%. So Mr. Tamplin and his students last year did an amazing job getting those students up uh well above
032the state level. Also, right below social studies is English one in the course. And I've told you before, English one and English two EOCC's are are pretty I'm going to say the hardest test we have between STAR EOCC's. Those are your hardest two. The passing standard is set very high compared to other other tests. Plus, you have the writing portion which can be difficult um based on the scoring. If you look at the meats in 2025, we scored 54%. And while we probably don't sit very happy with that score, if you look over at the state, the state average was 49%. So, we were still well above state level on that. And I I wanted to make sure we mentioned that because again, I know that that is a very difficult test. Our teachers feel
033it and our students feel it. right below in English two we were at 57% for meats and again just two percentage points above the state part of this report too and I'm going to go a little faster at the bottom of page seven it includes the SAT and ACT uh students who take a EOC course like algebra 1, English one, biology at the uh eighth grade level or below are required to take an assessment before they graduate. So SAT and ACT scores are now published in here as part of that because any student who maybe takes al excuse me algebra 1 in eighth grade next year will now have to take the SAT or a similar exam before they can graduate just because they won't have had an algebra one or math test while they
034were in high school. So you see that our students are scoring 92% at approaches and 56% at meets. Um the state has now taken the SAT and ACT and put them on a scale to show where they would fall if it was star. So >> those show sorry let me go back. >> Oh yes sir it is report last year. I apologize but so it's not Thank you Mr. that out for reading it for me. Um it you see the asterisk in there shows that we don't have enough students taking that right now to account uh to put it on there. So they masked that data with asterisks. So we do have scores there. We do have students but there's not enough to um >> and it wasn't recorded in 2024. >> Right. >> Sorry
035about that. >> Sorry. >> If you turn over to page 17, you'll see our participation rate. Just another thing that they they do calculate in this paper report. was at 98%. So we had 2% of our students were not in attendance at some point at the window to and that's all grades. That's not just one grade level. U they were not they were absent at all times during the window and were not able to retest. Turn over to page 20. >> Opting out. >> I don't think it is. >> No, it's not an option. Um I know >> to not show up. >> So there So like for instance there one of the students specifically was in Florida at a uh cheer competition for whatever the cheer place is in love. extreme cheer and they
036just did. So you have a window to where if they if you miss a test on Tuesday but you show back up on Wednesday, you have to retest. At some point that window closes where we can't offer it to them anymore. If they come back after that window's closed, then they didn't participate in the exam. >> Yes. And there's a lot of talk of the sorry a lot of talk about the opt out on the on the STAR test that parents try to opt out. However, the STAR test at the high school, the EOC is still a graduation requirement. So >> you I guess you could say my kid's not coming and taking it. However, if your student doesn't >> take the star and pass it, they can't have a diploma. So that's there is
037some confusion every year about that. >> Probably out of the wind, but inevitably it's coming. >> Exactly. >> Turning the page over on page 20, you'll see our attendance rate for 20 and 23 24. The attendance rate lags a year behind. So instead of reporting for 2425 on this report, it's showing the 22, excuse me, 23 24. As a district, we're at 93.7% for that year. And you'll look at right below that at our chronic absenteeism. That is any student who is absent 10% or more of the time and we were at 19.6%. >> And just a quick comment, even though this lags behind, it is definitely a focus that we've been talking about as an admin group and you'll hear more about my presentation. last we were over 94. Correct. >> Right. Right. We're
038doing better. I I I think our numbers uh recently and you'll see it here shortly. Um the attendance rates are better. Our enrollment is not where it was, but our attendance rate I feel like we're focusing on that making that a real priority. Um right under that is also the annual dropout rate. And you'll see for 23 24 again still a lagging year. You'll see it's at 0%. We do not have students drop out. school does a great job keeping them in that is both for seventh and eighth grade and 9th through 12. So that the state does calculate that junior high year in middle school and looks at that as well. >> So how how does uh kid high school that goes to pride does that help on that non dropout rate. >> Okay.
039>> So what ends up happening right >> so if you look down the next part is the fouryear graduation rate we were at 95.3%. So, you don't see it here because this was the class of 24, but next year you'll see that fiveyear extended rate that's down at the bottom of that page. That's where the rest of those students will most likely show up. Okay. Um I can't show you here because they're not calculated here, but those are students who possibly went to Pride after their four year fourth year of high school and finished their graduation requirements and earn their diploma. So, I just want to point that out as well. So next year we'll be able to see the remainder of that those graduates. Um turning the page a little bit more to let's
040go to page 23. This is just a graduation profile. It shows you for the class of 23 24. It shows you how um how many students we had. It breaks down by demographics and how they graduated, what type of graduation plan. And then on the following page, page 24, again a year lag, but it shows you our CCMR graduates. We had at that year, that was again class of 24, we had 89.5% graduate CCMR, so college career military ready. So, going over to page 29, this is where we're going to start looking at student information. Not star test and graduation requirements, but just basic student information. On page 29, you see our enrollment and membership by grade level. It distinguish distinguishes between membership and enrollment. Um, enrollment are all students who come, but membership are
041our students who are full-time students. We have students in younger grades that may come for speech services or occupational therapy, physical therapy, but they only stay a few hours a week or a day. So, they're considered enrolled, but not as part of membership. So, that's why you see different numbers across the page. Turning over on page 30, showing you our mobility rate down at the bottom shows you we had a 14.8% mobility rate. Uh that just means those students are enrolled less than 83% of the year. So they come in late, move out, go back and forth. Um and then our attrition rate is 13% meaning students who were enrolled in the year 22 23 did not return for 2324. On the next page on page 31, you'll see our class sizes and you can
042compare our class sizes in the district to the class size of the state. And you'll only two areas we were above the state average was in grade two last year where we had 20.6 students in a class and in foreign languages where we have 20.3 and that's a foreign language lab. So other than that we were below the state average and class size across the board in those two rooms. Um after that you'll start seeing information on staff and just two pages I wanted to point out on page 32 at the bottom just wanted to make note of the fact that our teachers years of experience in the column of 11 to 20 years of experience we have 33% of our teachers in that column. That's where the majority of our teachers fall is 30
043is 11 to 20 years of experience. The average years of experience of our principles is seven and a half years. And if you look down at the bottom, our turnover rate, oh, excuse me, the bottom three, our turnover rate for teachers is 21.5, which is one of our goals in our board uh in our campus improvement plans and district improvement plan is retaining teachers. And at the very bottom of page 33, you'll see the teacher incentive aotment box. And you'll notice that we don't have anything to report, but I wanted to bring that to your attention because you'll see that as we develop that plan and it's sent off and approved this year and as we start that process, our teachers will be included in that because you can see at the state side how
044many teachers are in each category. So, for example, in the lowest category, there's 12,718 teachers across the state that are recognized, earning them each $5,567 on average >> For five years, >> once you get designated, it's a fivey year. As long as you're remain in a teaching position. So, you can see you need to do that multiplication 12,718 times 55 67. And you can see what the states putting into the lowest level, the recognized distinction. You can do that as well for exemplary and masters and you can see the amount of funds that are being put into the teacher incentive aotment which will come up on my report too. Um just I wanted to point out you see that it is going to show up on our reports in the future where we'll be able
045to see how many of our teachers are receiving that. >> So if you skip over now to t to tab two the rest of those reports in that tab are all campus based reports. So under tab two, you'll see the same. The very first is a red tab and that is going to be the district. Um and this is the 23 24 actual financial data. Again, this is already something Mr. Clifton has gone over with us in the past as we went through the year and as we finished the year. But I wanted to bring to your attention on page three of five. And um what I want to show you is at the very top, the top line, total operating expenditures by function. And it breaks it down by student. And if you look
046at the district per student out of all of our funds, we pay $13,816 per student a year compared to the state's $12,950. So for the the funds that we have as a district, we put our funds towards our students and obviously higher rate than the state average. So, um I just thought that was important to show you know that that that's where our focus is is on students and that's where we're putting our funds and that's where you're approving your funds to be spent. Then, if you'll skip over to tab three, this is just the accreditation status. The first page in that tab is just a matrix showing you how the the state determines our accreditation status. TEA assigns one of four accreditation statuses to every district. You can either be accredited, accredited, born, accredited,
047probation, or not accredited and revoked. Uh we are accredited. The state uses several and that's what's on that matrix. Several different areas to determine that. They look at your accountability ratings, your financial status, and they look at um several other pieces about your indebtedness and about how we pay our bills basically. And again, we had a first rating of A superior. We were our accountability for 2023 was a C and our status was accredited. Okay. Under tab four, um, and I'm not really going to spend much time here. I'm just going to tell you what this is. Under tab four are our performance objectives. We're required to review those and to show you those for the year 23 uh 24 25. Those were the performance objectives you approved last year. The in October. Um, and
048those were based on the goals you approved as a board and then each campus and district administrators and teams looked at how they could meet those goals on their campuses and district throughout. So that's what that is. It's just a a list of all of our performance objectives that this district worked on last year. So under tab five is the report on violent or criminal incidents and you can That report is empty. Um it's blank because we had no reports of events uh any criminal or violent acts that were expelable offenses according to the state on our campus this last school year. So under tab six, this is the student performance and postsecary institutions. Basically what this is telling us on the first page is just an introduction. Page two is the actual report. Every
049year the Texas Higher Education Board puts out a report by uh county and by schools within the county showing how many students excuse me, how many students graduated and again this is going to go back two years because you're they take your 2023 grads and watch them in 24 to see where they enrolled in a in a higher education and then they look at their GPA while they were there for the full year. So you can see that we had a graduation class of 84 in 2023 and they uh then you see the number of students that enrolled in 2024 in higher education. We had 13 attend a 4-year public university. 26 go to a two-year, one went to an independent college, none there was zero that they couldn't find uh that were not trackable
050and then 44 that were not found. So we had a total of 84 graduates. So then to the right of that you'll see what their GPA for the entire year. That counts summer and fall and spring semesters. It just takes an average. Okay. Under tab seven, uh, one of the other areas that we need to report on is our house bill three goals and how the district is performing towards making progress on those goals. And you'll see that those were all under goal one in the district and campus account uh, campus improvement plans. Your first goal that you set as a board was that the um reading our reading star assessment our students would score meets um and that goal would be 47% and our actual score was 38%. Our goal for math on the
051math star was 45%. We scored 41% at the end of the year. And our CCMR goal was 77% and we scored 100% at the end of the year. So at the beginning of this year, I'm sorry, this summer, you redid your board goals and approved a new set. So you when you approved your board goals, you set house bill three goals for five years and those are all set now. And this is your one of three set of goals. So you'll see that in the next few months when we show you our progress towards those. Under tab eight are the school report cards. We brought these to you in an accountability report several months ago. This is just a lot of that accountability information and taper information all a condensed form. Uh we sent these
052out and put these on the school website. Um for example, I'm just going to show you elementaryaries because they were on the top. There's not a district report here, but you'll see their basic accountability uh ratings. You'll see that their student achievement, school progress, and closing the gap scores, and their overall rating. If they would have received a distinction, it would be on there. We'll see those soon. Um and then on the next two pages, you see p uh data that came straight off that tape report just kind of flipped and put on there. So, you'll see their student information, financial, and their star outcomes. And then there's one for every campus. >> And just a quick note, two pages later, even though it says elementary, you'll see grades four or five. That's Yeah. For
053intermediate school. >> And then under tab nine is our federal report cards that just came out at the middle of December, the day we got out for school. The first two pages, it's just a report telling you what's in that report card. And then next, you'll see uh the first one is the district. Um you'll notice on that page one of the federal report card that they don't in this section under uh essay goals they do not even report the approaches category like we talked about before. They're only showing you meets and masters under this first section. Okay. When uh we look at domain three of accountability for closing the gaps that's what we're being rated on is we're to be making interim targets based on meets and masters only not approaches. Um the next
054section a couple page over starting on page seven it looks at student achievement by proficiency levels and that does include approaches but just kind of let you know um go through that. A lot of this is the again the same information just presented on under a different title. And then under tab 10, what you have is the taper glossery. And this just gives you information on how that data is reported um under each one under each report. Go ahead. Uh so the district's 2425 taper and all the documents within this district annual report are going to be put on our district website within the next two weeks. There is also a binder just like these that is put in the front at the administration office. If anybody wants to see a paper copy, they can
055always come into the office and Miss Brian will have it handy. Every principal has received a binder for their particular campus and that will also be placed in their campus front office for anyone who wants to come up and see a paper copy as well. That'll stay there for the year until this time next year when I take them back and redo it for the following in the new report. >> Is there any questions? >> I have a couple. >> Okay. >> Real quick. Uh so when I read the data on fouryear university, two year college independent. Roughly half of our kids are going to college when they graduate based on this. Correct. >> Is that is that normal average below average? >> Honestly, I think that's a little above average for a small community.
056Yeah, >> I think that's above average from what I've seen in other districts. >> Okay. >> So, um a lot of times, let me expand on that. That is the first year after they get out of high school, right? several a lot of times you'll see students who wait that first year or so maybe go to work get a little money under their belt and then go to college that doesn't take any of those students into account this is first year right out of high school >> okay I thought that was good >> so I just a little bit is we used to subscribe to clearing house which tracks that data >> so that we would know better what are our kids doing if they're dropping out why are they dropping out who is it
057you know because we small enough to know the kids we could call or somebody what's going on. >> The the company that does that uh is not always um I guess adequate in the information they give back. Uh we don't get information back on every kid. Somehow they're lost in some and I don't know why the but we again subscribe to the company that gives us these this data and for some reason it's just not >> all inclusive also. >> Okay. But that doesn't take into account those that go to a trade school and went through our a department and learned how to well go in the logging business. None of that's in. >> So half of them are going to college. Probably another 25 to 30% are doing that. So that that helps me.
058>> And there's military also. So that's obviously not >> right. So last question and this is on me. I I should know this but I I don't remember when we set goals for performance objectives. Did the administration do that? >> No, no, no. The board did that. We did that. Um, what month was it? It's early. >> It was before before school started. >> Okay. That's must I wasn't here. >> Yes. I did that in training one night. >> So, what happens is House Bill 3 requires just early childhood math and reading and you have to set them for five years. >> I wouldn't hear that. That's why that's why. >> Sorry. Yes. And so we will track those throughout and give a update. That's just a >> I'm just seeing what I missed. >>
059And y'all y'all write the goals. Y'all approve the goals and then the campus and the district administrations. We write the performance objectives to meet those goals and the strategies on how we do that. >> All my years here and and uh I think probably Shirley would agree. I've never seen this much of a comprehensive report ever. It's a really good job and thanks for putting that together. Absolutely. >> I wanted to thank uh Dr. Thornton because um uh what she has spent the time she has spent analyzing working with and and I'm going to lump our principles in there too because this information is what they used to develop their campus improvement plan and they are learning all about needs assessments and improvement plans and they're working hard because it should be uh the document
060that guides what we do. This is it guides what we do. So um I've never had such a thorough um uh person, Dr. Thornton, to to look at everything. And they have, I believe it's been super productive. They've had one-on-one meetings for every single campus to learn, to evaluate, to write, and so so just wait till next year. These plans and these assessments are going to be super stellar. >> It's just amazing that we're finally looking to see what we're doing. >> That's what you're doing. how we're progressing which is important. >> Very good. >> It's good job. >> And for those of you listening or in the audience, all of this information is online. We can share that. >> Any further questions for Dr. Okay. I will move us to six financial reports. >>
061Yes sir. Your monthly financial reports are attached in board book. Um as I mentioned, Mr. would prior to the meeting. I've adjusted those board reports to in to be month previous end so that y'all are getting the month end data. I was doing it mid midmon and it kind of you know if we have an early meeting it kind of skews the data and I just felt like it would be a better for you guys to see monthtomonth what we're what the expenditures are. Expenditures remain very consistent right now. Cash in the bank is very consistent right now. um you know we're just paying the bills and um watching attendance and uh you know preparing for whatever adjustments we may have to make um in the event that you know that trend continues. So um
062any specific reports about any of the financial uh reports? >> No, just your projections that we saw early on the way that we're tracking it right now. I mean, obviously our refined ADA and our enrollment is going to impact >> um you know what we're going to receive and settle up. Um, at this point it's a little early for me to tell you really for me to project just simply because I don't know. I track the last three years today to determine if this so we this data is given to us attendance data and what we call our foundation school report data is tracked on a six week basis even though we're nine week we have to track it every six weeks and so I tracked all that to try to get a trend line.
063It is consistent that at the third six weeks reporting period, our refined ADA does go down. You get a lot of movement um you know there's sickness because it's wintertime. Um it's it's prior to the break. Uh kids leave the district um at you know halfway point and so we see that that goes down and then it will rebound somewhat. But at this point it's really difficult for me to say if we're going to continue the same trend. Um, if you are asking to put my feet to the fire today, we're going to get less money than we've rejected. How significant? That's just going to be determined by what our enrollment ADA ends up. You know, I wouldn't want to tell you something at this point. I'm not ready to um sound the the the
064scare alarm. I just, you know, I'm bringing everybody's attention to the fact that we're making I've asked all the the principles and directors. um they probably are tired of me saying it, but you know, hey, we want to think about if we're ordering something, let's think about it. Uh give it the 24-hour rule and decide if we if we really need it and you know, just in an effort to try to only spend what we need to at this point. So, >> so we started with 1564 roughly in that area >> roughly where >> I'm going to show you actually I have a visual for you. No, no, no. It's a >> that's an appropriate question for the financial I mean if we're talking about budgetary >> under my superintendent report this time I have
065some slides to show you and that's one I want to visualize that for you >> any additional questions for me for budget and financial report for consent >> agenda consent agenda on the consent agenda >> no sir no budget minutes this month. >> Okay. Any further questions? I'll entertain a motion for cons. >> Have a second by Mr. Watson. All in favor? Motion carried. I'm now moving to a action discussion items a consideration action depending upon calling a trustee election to be held by Huntington Independent School District May 2nd 2026 making provisions for the conduct of the joint election and resolving other matters incidentally related to such election. So, um, and I'm going to I also have a slide on this, but just so you know, we have three positions, um, that are open. Position
066one and position seven are threeear terms. Position six is a two-year term, and we're calling an election to fill those. So, that will need to take an action. >> Hey, are we going to be able to piggy back off any other election at this time or is this going to be one that we run here in house? >> We'll do it with the city if they have an election. >> The city has one. If anybody runs again, >> it'll depend if anybody runs for the city. >> It'll be together if they have an election. >> Any further questions for Dr. Fishetti about the election? >> I'll entertain a motion. >> Make a motion to uh approve the calling of the trustee election to be held by HISD on May 2nd, 2026. >> I have a
067motion and I have a second. All in favor? >> Motion carried. I'll move us to be consideration and action if any upon approval of library book order. And I'm going to table that until February's board meeting. >> And I'm going to tell you why. Um we uh this uh Senate bill is uh someone you approved an order last month. We are to post that um uh list for 30 days and then you will approve it. Um Every book that's ordered has to be able to have the opportunity to be reviewed. We posted that. It is under and we're going to some we're going to give you the the steps to that, but it's under HISD under district. This is the links and then you click on required posting and you'll see the Senate Bill 13.
068Right now, the high school has a has a a roster that is awaiting to be approved to be ordered. Um I will I I really want to give a compliment to Mr. Stove and his librarian. They have the purpose of the posting for these for 30 days is to give the community an opportunity to look at that board an opportunity to look at that. I will uh share with you anytime there is a list and I I failed to do that because we just got that up. Um but um they've done a great job of taking book titles and putting them through uh there's some Senate Bill 13 filters to check for any content. Um there were multiple measures that uh Mr. Stover took to ensure uh the book titles that we were looking to
069order are um great for our libraries. Not to say that things don't pop up in the middle of the books, but we absolutely are doing our due diligence. So I just want to let you know that that will frequently be on a consent agenda because it's now the law. Even without a library um uh committee that we did not form because we voted not to, we still have to titles. So, we're gonna postpone that till February. >> Okay. I will now move it to nine superintendent report. >> Okay. This is where um I just created a few sites for you. Um just to show you some visuals. Um every week in my newsletter, I send it out on Sunday. Do the best that I can to give you some attendance at the very bottom. Attendance
070and enrollment data. um it doesn't mean a lot if you're looking at week to week and kind of in isolation. But when you're looking at it overall and this is just important because this is one way we receive revenue is attendance. That's just how the state finance system is set up. And so as it warms up we can go to the first slide and it's really a visual. You almost don't even need to see um all the numbers even though we could call those out. But that is basically from May the 12th and every week I get a update report from Casey Jones, our fans uh person, and she tells me our district enrollment. This is not the refined, which is we'll we'll discuss in February. This is actual. So from May the 12th, we
071were at 1568 and it bobbles. Um you'll see then I jump to the August. That was so the last report I had May the 12th and then I go into August um 11th of this year all the way down to I literally put today's um here just for fun. But it goes from anywhere from 1568 students uh down back up a little bit but essentially we start trending downward uh 15 about beginning of September 1534. So there's a loss of about 34 kids. Uh the 8th 55 1525 1517 went up a little 1520 then 1515 1506 1504 1500 1499500 1502 1507 1503 now we're 1497 1490 and today we're 1487. So I just wanted to visually show and just share that we are responsive and this is something we monitor. Uh we looked on the
072next slide. I did uh I appreciated this too. The next question in your brain probably was where are they going? It should be h so we looked 42 students are documented moves within the the state one at the when the report was done moved out of state. 22 are to homeschool that doesn't exactly that just says home school. It doesn't say where. It doesn't say what. Five removed by CPS. We have one to juvenile and nine pride graduates at the time the report was pulled. So there's um there's some of our students. Um our yearly percentage as of January 9th. This is that attendance rate. Remember that you looked on last year's attendance rate and I said good news ahead. Really our uh attendance rate and I didn't put pride here because pride is either
073100% or almost zero like it's kind of or 70 you know. So because those students uh sometimes they're at work, sometimes they come. So it's it's fluid. It's very fluid for pride. But I wanted to show overall high school 93.93%, middle 94.24, intermediate 94.22, elementary 93.64, and as a district we're 93.86. So that is our attendance percentage thus far. So you looked at in that book, you looked at last year's. So this is higher. So that's a good thing, which is great. And we're working on attendance incentives. And is that the key? Is that the key? But is it will it make the difference for a few? Hopefully. We're hoping that tenants incentives will help. The little they're here and they don't want to miss something. Please, mom, don't pick me up early. You know,
074we want to stay here. We're working on um and again I I know that uh that's not uh the end all be all and there's extending circumstance extending circumstances often but we just want to express the importance of being at school. >> You said the moves within Texas were documented. Does that mean they unenroll here and enroll somewhere else? >> Correct. >> We get a text a T-Rex report that says we need the records. So another school district said give me the records for So that happened 42 times. >> We refer to those as confirmed movers. confirmed numbers. >> So they don't just leave and we lose track of them. What we >> Yeah, they're real. Like we actually got requests for information. Great question. We don't get that request. We start looking >> Yeah.
075We start trying to hunt them down. >> So just a little information. I just thought, you know, we're getting ready to look at budgets and like plan for the next year. You really have to have some of this information to do so. Um okay. So that was uh our attendance enrollment. Next one. I just said this. Uh we kind of double duty. We already voted on the schoolboard election. Those are our openings. Three year two-year uh term. Got that? >> So that that two year is the one I was in. Correct. >> Yes. Correct. >> Where I started. >> Yes. >> And then that's the remainder of what was mine was left. Even though I'm sitting in >> talking about 2002. >> I know. We're not talking about 2002. You come over. >> I'm just
076kidding. >> Y'all start doing these numbers, I get confused. >> Yes. Yes. You're exactly right. But I don't have to run in the position I'm in now. I can go back to that position. >> You can run in any position you want. >> Okay. Two years. >> Two years. Perfect. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> That will actually be called special election >> and it'll be on a separate ballot >> and then the three year will be on another ballot called the general election at the same time. >> One, two ballot for that one by itself and a ballot for the two three. Gotcha. >> So enrollment attend enrollment is down for the state of Texas period. Correct. >> Where are we at as far as percentage wise? Our enrollment is down. This percentage
077the state average enrollment is down. >> It's it's similar. >> We're following a I mean honestly Angelin County may be hit a little bit more simply because industry has shifted. People are having to go other places which I think is why you know we've had multiple discussions Mr. Stover and I and Dr. Fetty and I, you know, that that move within Texas, why it represents the largest percentage is because people are having to go to different school districts. A very small portion of those were county school districts. They really I mean they're moving out of the county is what the data really kind of indicates. Um but no, it's I think we're comparable and I don't think it's like significant that we're losing comparatively speaking to some other district. We're all kind of losing um
078enrollment. Um, and it's just they're, you know, that's the trend right now. >> I can tell you that at at every monthly meeting that I sit at in a superintendent, we all have the same comment. >> So, how much of this is attributed to the vouchers? >> So, homeschool, I I don't know yet because it opens February 4th. The application opens February 4th. The ones that would apply could be homeschool or private schools. >> I don't I don't really know yet. I don't know if those home schools will apply. Um, that information is available to That's going to be interested. But just to put it in perspective, that's about 550,000 bucks. >> It's a lot of money. Yes, sir. If you take the kind of what our call, that's over a million. So, >> yeah.
079I mean, consider this. The pride graduates um those are our kids who just transition from an enrollment at our high school to an enrollment. So, even though they're we're showing them on the slide, they're still ours. Um, but consider that the way that this impacts ADA is because the while the attendance percentage is important, ADA is how we determine how many available seat times that they have and how many times that they were here. So, when a kid moves from the high school and goes to the to the pride school and they graduate early, they're still nicking us a little bit on ADA because they're they're not in the seat once they graduate um once they go. So, but we have to consider the size of pride in general and it does not because it's,
080you know, 10 kids when you're looking at 1487 is not going to move your needle significantly. But those are ADA um basically ADA seat times that we're losing when they graduate. >> I'd be willing to pay that. >> Willing to pay. >> Absolutely. No, that's a that's a great that's a great trade-off. >> That's a great loss. >> Absolutely. >> Which is why we have zero >> dropouts, you know, that absolutely. Yeah, I think that's a I mean that's a great point. >> So there's main trend you feel like because industry is leaving Angel County. >> I mean that's that's us in the school business commiserating about the fact that enrollment we're like well you know where are they working? Where can they go? Um and so we're making some broad assumptions. You know that
081that data is not available for us to pull and go >> why did they leave? We just know that they left and they've confirmed that they've enrolled somewhere else. >> Can I add? >> Absolutely. So, at the at the high school, we took all of our all of our kids who unenrolled this school year and then and asked specific where did they go specifically. The majority of them are homeschooled. The second largest is they checked into a school outside of Angelina County. So, we lost 16 kids who went to Sabine, Dallas, Houston. I mean, I don't know specifically >> somewhere. So they're not like they're not leaving us to go to Savala. They're leaving us because obviously their parents are picking up and they're they're largest other than home school. That's our largest levers and
082that's 16 of them. >> But then so then I'm thinking okay are we you know we losing kids to Lufkin Hudson Dball. When you look at that we lost three to die, two to Zavala, three to Central, two to PCA, one to Hudson and one to Lin. So our kids aren't they're not all mass exiting Huntington to go to dieall or to go to Hudson or go to Lin. you lost one here and maybe the two at PCA maybe in a family you know they both picked up and moved or and they may have actually picked up and moved the die ball so it's almost let's say encouraging but we're not losing kids because they don't like it here we're losing kids because they're parents and it kind of goes with the industry deal real
083numbers is the largest group of kids we're losing are picking up and moving outside of Angelina County >> and those are some assumptions that I'm making so the papers here so don't quote me as that I have the data but I don't want to be misqued but um I would like to say that we're making some assumptions about the fact that it is difficult to find work to here in Angelina County and so again that's why we're that's why I'm making that supposition is that they're moving but we we've dug a lot into this data because obviously we want to try to answer the questions like what what is causing you know what is causing the enrollment we have to look at the countywide what that looks like and whether or not that meets the
084>> Does that make sense? So, >> and a lot of times we do see home kids go to home school and then a month later >> come back and I don't have a number for that but we that's >> very common. So, I just um thought it was important for our community and our uh staff and our board to be very much aware of where we're trending. So, when we do make future decisions on budgeting and things like that, there's a there's a rhyme and a reason behind it. It's we use the data. So, okay, there we go. I just wanted to make note of this really quickly. Uh we uh the wonderful tech department has uh helped me figure out how to send text messages, not just voicemails or emails I've gotten. We don't
085check emails very often, so don't send important message that way, but if I send a voicemail, it looks like it's urgent and it can disrupt classes when it's not as urgent. Um, so text messages was their happy medium and we finally got that working. However, it doesn't come automatically. So, I've been sharing and I'm just anyone listening, anyone going to watch this. If you have not and I've put this in newsletters, it's on our website. all to opt in. They need in order to receive text messages, people need to opt in and they use this QR code. It's like two questions, I think. And so, super simple. Um, we were at I get a report every time I sent a text, the first text I sent went to 700 people. The couple days later when
086I sent another text, it went to,300 people. Yes, 500 more people are or 600 more people are on there. So, I'm just shop from the mountain tops. Like, this is a great way for me to communicate without disrupting the whole school and making phone calls or you getting uh email messages just not going to be read. So, I really do like this. It's quick and easy if we need to do weather or if we need to do uh anything, no school. Um I love it, but I need to have my parents opted. So, that's that. Last real quick, uh TIA I wanted to mention teacher incentive aotment. that was um something that we've begun. We've had three meetings this year so far uh January 5th, October 10th, and September 24th. And we have another upcoming
087meeting February 4th. So far, we've identified there are parts to this program. It's that incentive program that Dr. Thornton was referring to, the teacher observation tool. It's going to be test. We are working the student growth measure as we speak. We are looking because of the enormity of it. The goal is to include all teachers. However, year one, that's a lot to take on and we want to be successful. So, we're looking at a phase in plan over two years. Um, if we some of the um programs that we want to use for student growth measure automatically have reports and that's easy typically for core teachers, the non-core teachers some we have to write district created things, assessments and so that takes a little bit more time. So, we're working that in that committee through
088what our plan is going to look like. Uh in February, we're going to finalize that plan. Student growth measures. We're going to look at the waiting. Um is it just are we only going to have student growth and teacher observation? Is that 5050 or are we going to add another component? And how do we want to spend the funds once they receive it? Uh part of that plan is deciding how the teachers get it. Um, typically very common is 90% to the ear teacher that earned the designation, 10% to the district for the fringe benefits that uh has to be paid uh when they receive that. That's all. Um, we're getting ready to finish that and I hope that you see that prior to the application in April. That's when that is due. >> How's
089that? How's it funded? >> The state it's all >> we get our money, you think, Matt? >> Yes, sir. It's a but it's a year removed. >> So, we're a year behind. So once we enter that just I mean I guess that's good frame of reference. So we'll pay that on the front end and they reimburse us the next year but it is a specific aotment that there's no it is what it is like we either get it or we don't based on the teacher's designation. >> And let me just also just let you know even though we submit a plan it has to be reviewed and then there's a year of data collection. >> Okay >> and then we turn in names from that data collection year who met the requirements. So, it's a
090process. It's a good process, but it's a process. >> Once it's all done, >> to me, all that's clear as mud. You'll be able to really explain it to the teachers where they understand. >> Yeah, we're working it uh with a it's a we have about third 25 to 30 in our group now. >> And once that's decided and written, yes, we will have communication with um our staff and with you as the board before we um apply. >> And once it's attained, they get it for five years regardless of that. >> Five years as long as they stay in a teaching position. If you are a teacher and earn it and you become a counselor, it doesn't it's in the PE code of a teacher. It doesn't you don't have to stay in the
091greater subject or anything that you got it in >> but and you can change as long as it's in a teaching. >> We have a couple that we are paying because they were they had the distinction from their previous district and so we continue to pay that and then they reimburse us for that because it's within their fiveyear >> uh window. That's a That's a good point. >> And it's great. Yes. And so talking about the uh recruiting and retaining, it's a good thing to retain teachers. It's also a great thing to recruit. If I were a teacher looking for a job now, I'm going to look for a district where I can earn TIA. Um and then maybe move to the district and bring that with me for five years. You know, if you
092want to have a plan to be able to designate teachers, it just helps bring that much more into their salary when the landscape is a challenge to find teachers. which it's um there are great things about it and there are horrible things about it and I'm going to tell you I've seen all of it and it's so there's always bumps in the road with an incentive program no matter what it is but the state is as you saw in the numbers in Dr. Thorn's report very clearly funding this. So, >> but they could end it at any time. They could just say >> not really. >> It's in state law. >> It's state law now. >> It's legislative. >> So, no, like we need Yeah. >> I mean, could they through a legislative process? >>
093Yeah. They could, but I mean it is a you know, it was passed in it was ratified into law. So, um TA is required to roll it out because of the legislation. So, they would have to >> they would have to do something. >> Well, they didn't just roll it out. They funded it. >> They funded it. They could defund it, I guess, um, through a legislative process, >> but I can tell you I started this process seven years ago. It's still going. >> So, we started at year zero, um, in when in my previous district, and it is still going. >> And Mr. just to show the importance again this last legislative year, they actually added indicator. So, we went from three levels, which was what was in the report from Taper, but now
094it's at four. And they also added if you had this system in place, We could then roll out the expanded plan which addresses principles. They'll get funding. They can apply for designation. We're not there yet because we don't have our basic plan. But that's not only are they funding it, but they seem to be increasing the program. So, it's inevitable for us to do that for our staff. Um, last thing, um, on my I wanted to share, uh, real quickly. Um we had a cafeteria inspection of all of our campuses on um December 8th. I kind of p uh summarized this for you and um the intermediate middle and elementary school had zero to three non-priority findings. So what I've learned a lot about um inspections, priority one is high risk, priority two is moderate,
095and priority three is low risk findings. um in um the high school and I apologize here is let me see if I can explain this very well. Um on December the 8th they the high school had five priority ones, two priority twos and 12 priority three meaning low risk. Um the priority ones that's the only ones that I listed had some paint build up in the ice machine, food temperatures and render droppings in the prep area. And I wanted to explain real quickly prep area is the entirety of the kitchen. So um what um so that was on December the 8th immediately and this is what I wanted to really share. Immediately that day, uh, our crew got together, figured out kind of, um, all the specifics about what was going on, and our inspector
096came back on the 9th, and while he did not go through a new inspection, he it's all the same dates, December the 8th, um, and our board has a copies of of all of the reports on December the 8th. I called it a walkthrough because he simultaneously used the word walkthrough. Um and he observed uh that the staff was cleaning and working on the things that he had discovered. Uh he was reviewing pest control documents. Uh Miss McCroy had a standard operating procedure document that they were working through which is an accountability piece and they were all working on corrective actions that was in the narrative only. So I just want to say for every report it was just a repeat of December 8th. So, um, this and I want to really clarify a grave
097misconception that it we waited until this board meeting to take action within minutes to hours. Uh, our staff were working on on those adjustments that were needed on January 12th. I'm going to call that a walkthrough again, too, because it wasn't a new inspection. Um, again, the findings were reprinted and you'll see they're all dated December the 8th. Um but the narrative was further information from our the same inspector about uh maintenance suggestions, pest control, um things like that. Um so what are what was done um and um for through our maintenance department we identified sources of maybe where um any rodents or pest could get in, sealed, worked through, had controlling measures I mean like all the things um that were identified were addressed radically. So uh we really worked on all of that
098are continuing to work on and just maintaining the status of that. At no time at no time did a child become ill did they eat anything that was connected with um I wanted to make sure that I shared this because there's a lot of information that is spread and this is the opportunity for us to share the reality and what's going on. On January 14th, I highlighted it was a new inspection. So, he says, you know, I have to do two a year, so this is going to be my new. I said, that's lovely. And mind you, I walked the entire time with them. Um, it was a new inspection. He uh again, like I said, he just reprinted in the other documents the old inspection. No priority ones, no priority twos, and two priority
099threes. And I will tell you the two priority threes, those are the low risk. One includes heating elements in a freezer door that um they become because when you go in and out it it slams that door and they become detached. So there's a little bit of ice buildup that happens. Um I can tell you Mr. Crane and Mr. Clifton are have contacted the um and ordered all the appropriate parts. It's it's an industrial machine. you can't go to boots and so it's that's being worked on. The last one is there's a wear washing machine that is not in use and just in case it could house any pests. That was the suggestion and I'll let kind of open to that that is still on the docket because it hasn't been removed yet. It is
100literally a massive piece of equipment that is built to the size of the room and >> it was I mean it was built in the cafeteria at the time that it was opened so 25 plus years ago. And it will have to be tight. >> We have to It's going to be quite the quite the process to get it out. >> It's basically pot riving. All your ducks and metal duct flu that's all pot riv. So it's >> cut apart. >> It's going to be cut apart. Yes. >> And then the the the gasket seal for the freezer that's not indicating there's anything wrong with temperatures, but they the the ice build up around the door. >> Um it it's Yeah. air air intrusion. And so we we had to get a a local company
101to order one that they will have to install, but it has to be custom made because it's not like you go like Dr. Fetti said, we don't we don't go down to Boots and they have a a walk-in freezer that we can buy the parts for. Um it basically has to be manufactured. So we're expecting that within the next two to four weeks, but we're having to wait on them. Uh meanwhile, everybody's keeping an eye on, you know, making sure that temperatures stay where they are. We have alarms on those that we get if a temperature was to go below and and that kind of stuff. And uh in regard to the wearashing station, um we um we our plan is to begin that process and hopefully by the time winter break gets here, they
102can do the final removal during that time. We just have to be cognizant of the ladies in there working. Um and so we can't take up too much space. We can't create dust um while they're, you know, prepping food and that kind of stuff. And so we're we're just going to we're going to get it done as soon as we can um to try to meet the the expectation that the health department would like for us to meet. So >> we shared this information with our SHA committee thought it was really appropriate our student health advisory committee um and uh that included students, community members um and just wanted to let them know so that they could have the truth. And I just want to end this section with this statement. Based on the findings,
103and this is quoted from his report of the followup in full routine inspection on January 14th, the facil facility was found to be in compliance at time of inspection. Priority violations identified during previous inspections have been corrected. No evidence averted activity was observed. Inappropriate corrective actions have been implemented, including sanitation exclusion measures and enhanced pest control services. I just have to say that it didn't it didn't take minutes to hours for us to be working on what we um needed to have done and it's ongoing. So, uh pests are there and we're working on it all the time. So, I just want to commend the hard work of those that uh did and work towards positive outcome and just wanted to make sure that everybody had that information. >> Do you have any questions? >>
104Pest control service in general, is that something we do ourselves? contract >> contract >> and we do that for a specific purpose that >> you know there's legality with pest control and you know obviously we want to make sure that that's being followed to the letter of the law and I I would like to just mention this that pest control in large school buildings um is you know you have that many openings >> it's just one of those deals that you have to you know we have to try to stay on top of we hire him to come in and do monthly um checks and we monitor activity and we address any issues, but when you have this many doors opening and closing all of the time. Unfortunately, it's just something that we will continue
105to have to to to address. Um and I would like to say that our staff is some of the finest people that you can find um anywhere um in the world and they jumped in and busted their tail to try to meet any expectation that was put on them. And so I in an event um to to highlight them as something less than um people who take care of business, I would just like to say that they that is not the case. That we take care of our business and we take care of our kids. Um and you know it's a I'm proud of what they accomplished in the time that they did it. >> Dr. Executive session during the course of meeting the discussion meeting item one agenda should be held on the meeting.
106will be conducted closed meeting in accordance with the Texas meetings act code chapters 551 sub chapter D at this open session. I'll now move to 12 A. There's no action needed on personnel B. Superintendent employment contract and evaluation. I will entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve a one-year renewal of superintendent's contract with a 3% salary increase. I have a motion. I second that motion. >> I have a second by Mr. S. All in favor? Motion carry. I'll now move to 13. I entertain a motion to adjurnn. Make that motion. >> I have a motion. >> I have a second by Mr. Robertson. All in favor? >> Motion carry.