001[Music] Heavenly Father God, I just thank for this today. Lord, we just thank you for the opportunities that you've given us. Father, we recognize that all good things come from you, Father, and everything that we have comes from you. Lord, I just pray that you would just lead, guide, and direct us as we make decisions for this faculty and this community and these students. In your son's name, I pray. Amen. I pledge algiance 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 the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. Welcome to everyone and welcome to everyone at home watching. Um, Mr. Cliff, anybody sign up for open?
002>> No, sir. >> All right, I will move us down to three education spotlight high school. >> All right, got four students here with me. I'll bring your chair. Leave the ball back there, Mr. Carol. >> You leave your ball, put in your pocket. Uh so with the uh new cell phone law, I thought you guys might want a little update on how that might be going because I believe even though this is kind of considered the educational spotlight uh educational spotlight. Uh to me, one of the most important things that we've done is uh the cell phone law uh because it does open up the uh students ability to not be as u distracted throughout the day. And so I think that is one of the biggest uh assets to the law u which
003then in turn helps us to educate uh and instruct students. So I asked these four students who they're kind of a wide range of students that are involved in different things. We have some FFA officers, FFA student, our student council president. I'll let you guess which one that is. Um, I'm just kidding, guys. And then I have one that I promised him a snack tomorrow cuz he was sitting at the volleyball game. He said he's coming over to say that. Honestly, I gave you guys a few questions. Uh, just kind of a a round table just to get the kids opinions about how this thing's going because we hear it from the kids, but I thought it'd be good for you guys to hear it straight from their mouth, too. I told them to be
004completely honest. So I don't know exactly what they're going to say, but he doesn't get a snack if they say bad things. He changes. So if you want to read through some of those questions and and you can ask your own questions. I thought maybe putting you on the spot. You might not have anything off the top of your head, but um that's why Gage is written in there because I beat him up at the volleyball game. Um so I will say that just a couple of data points. We have 35 days of school at roughly 475 kids a day is 16,625 individual opportunities for students to have their cell phones taken up if you count every kid every day at school so far. So 16, uh 625 opportunities. We've had 21 referrals out of
00516,000 opportunities. Now, does that mean there's been 16 uses of cell phones on the campus? I'm not naive enough to think that no, they're not in the bathroom stall checking their phone. But where they're not checking their phone is in the classroom while instruction is going on. U you can see that 13 of those referrals were actual phones. Seven were AirPods or some kind of uh earbuds that are wireless and then one was a watch. U so I'll quite honestly I'll take it uh for now. One of the cool funniest things and he almost hated to get this kid in trouble for it but they had some Beats headphones that had the wire that goes in between. They're wireless, but they have the connecting wire. And they took those headphones and they came to the
006office and they got some of our We got some cheap air uh headphones that you just plug in computers. I mean, they're cheap. Of course, the kids about to eat them. But uh he came to the office, cut the earbuds off of the ones in the office, tied the the end of the wire to his Beats headphones in the back and walked into class, put his headphones in, plug the empty wire into the computer, so when the teacher looks up, they see the wire going up to his Beats headphones, which he's got connected to the phone in his in his prison. I thought it was very ingenious of the student. >> I wasn't mad at him when he got the questions there. You guys ask the kids ask any and all of them. Take as
007much time as you want or not much time at all. Uh but just thought you guys would be interested in asking us some questions about >> I want you to introduce yourselves first. I want to if I look at you want to call you by name and get it right. So, I've drawn me a seat chart on Got two of them filled out, but >> Case Putin Case Putnham. >> Uh, Case >> Jason Carroll. Gage Carroll. >> What do you want me to call? >> Gage, please. >> Yes, sir. >> Brianna, >> I figured that one out these questions. Wherever I got you right here. So, tell us how you feel uh about not having cell phones after 7 weeks of school. Casey, you can start. >> Um, so far it hasn't really affected me
008much. I mean, at home, I'm not really on my phone that much at all. But I feel like so far it's been pretty good. Allows everybody to like open up, talk to each other. I'm like, >> yeah, like with me being an FA officer, like us having being like across the school trying to figure out kind of does suck not having the phone for that convenience. But it just helps us like hold more accountability and like listen to it. >> Case, what do you have to say there? >> Uh, I like it so far. It, like he said, it helps us open up more. Like we're not contained in this box that's keeping us from communicating. It helps us communicate more, helping us get out to the public and just help. >> Do any of
009you not like it? Do any of you like feel differently than those other two? You think it's a good thing or >> it's a it's a good thing? Uh almost to an extent though. It's a good thing like beside the fact that I'm doing a project at home where I have to take pictures on my phone that I have no idea how to send those pictures to my Chromebook. So it's on my phone. I don't know how to I just don't know how to do that part. >> Find a friend knows that. >> All those people in the class are called resources so I use them. >> Makes sense. >> All right. All right, let's go on some other >> Why don't we want to ask a question? I don't mind. >> No long. >>
010Do you see more positive or negative effects from cell phones being not in the CL or not being able to be utilized during the day? >> Uh, I see more positive effects. I think there are some negative effects just with like it takes longer to communicate to people like emailing people um cuz not everybody is always on their Chromebook. like during lunch, nobody's really on their Chromebook. So, if you need to talk to somebody during lunch, you've got probably wait three more periods where they respond to your email. Um, and then also with like scholarship stuff, you can't access your personal email and your Chromebook. So, there's like a barrier between that um with like FASA. Um, but I think the positive effects are definitely more you I don't know. I'm more productive at school.
011Don't find myself like scrolling on TikTok. have most of my work done by the end of the day. Don't have a lot of homework. >> Yeah. The old endless internet's a good way to waste >> minutes to hours to most of your day. >> Yeah. >> Guilty, right? >> Has the attitude overall though kind of changed from you met with Mr. Stover and he hit y'all with this new law versus today? I mean, has attitudes kind of changed or they pretty much stayed the same or some people coming around thinking, "Hey, this may not be a bad thing." >> I think they changed by the first day of school. >> Really? >> Yeah. I think >> I think everybody in the summer when they heard about the law, they were like, "Oh, I'm not following
012that." But >> everyone's following it. I was going to ask um about >> a to social drama like um have do you what is your response to I know that uh our cell phones and we would record a lot kids would record things that were happening um people would be upset there would be pictures that wouldn't be all the social drama around um cell phones how do you feel about that now is that better do you feel like there's less of that. >> Yeah, I I definitely say there's a little bit less. Um >> I mean, but still people do a lot of stuff outside of school that involve that like the only place they do see each other is in school. But overall, I mean, yeah. I mean, let me get my words. That's
013a that's a big >> but I think it has decreased a little bit because people just aren't really willing to like start that much stuff anymore >> where they might want to do something for a picture for a moment on social media that that that's gone now. They're not going to maybe make that bad decision or something as frequently. Okay, >> great. >> All right, we're gonna go to the last one. We'll probably knock this out because y'all answered some of those these other questions unless they right. >> Yeah. How is uh who have I not specifically picked? >> All right. How is nonstructured time different now? Meaning in the passing periods, lunch before school. Bri did mention some, you know, lunch period stuff like that dealing with BASA loans and all the other things
014in life. But, uh, what does your nonstructured time look like now? Cuz I know I can tell you because I have three children, a wife, and myself. Right. Whenever you got the moment, this was spirit time. The people all around. I watched outside the locker room this morning at the high school. Why they're waiting on coach Jones to let them in. Four boys standing this close and talking to another parent said, "I bet they're texting each other." I said, "Well, I hope they're texting the coach let him in." But anyway, so the question was, "How is nonstructured time different now?" >> Um, I don't know. I'm not I'm not whole big on phones. Like I use them. Yeah. Mostly mostly for contacts and stuff. I deleted half my social media trying to get more involved
015in the person I am and my relationship with God. And it just it's definitely it's a lot different uh than having social media because you're on it all the time and it's just yeah it's it's a lot it's a lot harder when you're on social media all the time. You can't get your work done. Like it's just >> It's a huge distraction completely. >> Was it almost a bit of a relief for us to say no? >> Because I think independently you probably wouldn't have but was it easier for us to say it's over? blame it on us and and have a better better school life. I don't know if you'll admit that, but >> I was on my phone not much. I only whenever I didn't wasn't doing it. >> If I was just
016sitting in a classroom, I'm just staring at the wall and I have something better. I do something distracting on my phone. Yeah, I sit on it for 20 10 minutes the bell ring. But other than that, I wouldn't get on it. >> Mr. Stover, you should have had Brennon come in here. More attracted to his cell phone than any of these poor guys. Brianna, what do you say? >> Um, >> Brianna got when I asked Brianna to come today, she got an instruction from her lunch table of like >> What should they say? >> So, what did your peers want you to say? How about that? >> I think all of us like it. Um, I think at the beginning we were all thinking about how we could rig the system a little bit. Like
017rig the system work, right? >> Yeah. Kind of a way to work around it. Um, but I think a relief would be a good word to use. I think there's not a I get more frustrated with like cheating. I don't like cheating. I don't like like people using my answers. So, it's like not really a problem anymore. Um, or people getting a better grade than me because they cheated. That sort of thing. >> AI or whatever or texting their buddy over there. >> My answer, Mr. Flip. they they didn't text me. >> So, I think relief is a good word to use. Um, >> I think some teachers over the years from like what I've noticed as like phones have become more developed in our world, have been okay with breaking the rules of like
018allowing you to use your phone. Some haven't. So, I guess like a relief of like not getting in trouble necessarily um is a good word. So, see what happens. And I'm sure even that that prior to this law, some of your your teachers would say, "Hey, get your phone out and Google this. Check this out." >> Oh, absolutely. >> For for the assignment or whatever. I mean, it was it's easy. It's quick. Just it's instant >> other than having to try to worry about all the filters and stuff that Mr. Bar and them and the technology department put on stuff. You can actually get your answer versus going through all the steps. Right. >> Yeah. These guys are saying there there's they have to do record books for all their projects. What's the easiest thing
019to do? take a picture on your phone so you can upload it and then you but now it's >> have to use a camera. >> Okay. >> Go through that problem. >> We have digital cameras at the school now because the kids are like I can't take pictures of my phone in my senior year. Can I bring a camera? Sure. Absolutely. >> Hey B, will you close us out and kind of talk a little bit about some issues that you've seen like with FASA or college communication like when they had to send you codes and so there have been some things we've had to do some work around. >> Yeah. So, um, my first problem appeared I haven't had any problems with FASA, but I also haven't worked on FASA yet. So, I think I'm
020supposed to work on that tomorrow. Um, uh, my first problem appeared when I was trying to do scholarships and if there was a step I needed Miss Flint's help with. And, um, from my understanding, we can't have our phones during this period. Correct. That's correct. >> Yeah. Correct. So, um I was not able to access my personal email from my Chromebook. Um so, when it came like I had to like wait until after school, go out to my car, power on my phone, look to see if I got approved, and then come back in and talk to Miss Flint, which still I needed my phone for. So, that was a problem. Um just because the Chromebook just doesn't allow you to access your personal email. Um but with FASA I've also heard there's problems just
021because you need to um have a verification code on your phone like via text message. >> Yeah. Can't have that. So um yeah there's definitely problems. I think it's more affecting of the seniors um not necessarily any of the other grades but um or like remind things like that where like teachers might use remind well you don't get a remind code >> till you get home but you might need it during school so um things like that I think that's the biggest issue >> with having not having your phone >> and so we're having to revisit some of those things because you don't want the >> you don't want the that driving everything you do. And so like we're talking the kids sitting there trying to fill their pass out with the counselor. Take your
022phone out, put it on the table, turn it on, get your verification code, put it in the system, turn it off, put it back in your bag. I mean, there's some, you know, a kid outside today on their phone trying to get a verification. So the intention is for the kids not to be distracted in instructional time. So, we're having to change some of those things as these things come up because we didn't think about, oh, yeah, verification codes on FASA or scholarship codes or applications through college wrote the law, >> right? So, we're trying to we're trying to and the good thing about it is it's pretty black and white. We tell there's no loophole to this. You can't have your phone or a smartwatch or your ear like the answer is no. I
023mean, we didn't know. The answer is no. So, >> but any utilize plan lines or anything? >> I don't know. No, we have those everywhere. >> Yeah, we have one in every classroom. My son used to >> We literally had to teach them to use >> legitimately >> and no numbers. >> Yeah, they don't have they don't know numbers. >> They don't have anything memorized. >> Is there anything final question then I'll let y'all get off the hot seat. Is there anything that your friends or anybody told y'all that because they probably knew y'all were coming to talk to us that they wanted y'all to relay to us that we need to look at something different or is there >> something they want y'all to disclose to the board that maybe we need to look
024at or I know the law is law like Mr. Sto said it's pretty much black and white. So this is they say anything that you >> I'm just >> I think just to be able to access our personal email from our books was the biggest request. >> Thank you guys. Thank you very [Music] minute. >> Mr. recess. >> Recess on the >> recess. us back into regular session and move us down to forward delinquent tax presentation. >> Good evening. Back over here. Um, it's always hard to follow up when the students go first. It's hard to follow some questions. >> Oh, we love some questions. Absolutely. Absolutely. Um, my name is James Guest. I'm your lead attorney for Tax Collections. It's good to be here in Huntington. Uh, most of you know I I live
025here as well. Pay taxes here to the school district and drive by here every day. I wanted to uh introduce a few people here. First, I'd like to introduce Miss Terry Collier. She is a county tax assessor collector. She was appointed earlier this year in running for tax assessor. She's been with the tax office for nearly 20 years. Has two grandchildren here in Huntington. Uh next I'd like to introduce uh Miss Ashley Joiner and her she's a graduate from Huntington. Her husband is a graduate. Her two boys go here as well. So and she's our file manager. And last but not least, we have uh Kelsey Huelet, and she is our file manager as well. She is not a Huntington person, but uh she does represent. They do a great job for the district. Uh
026today I'm going to go over our annual collection report. Um and I know you have two copies. The one the the bottom copy is a little bit nicer graphic that we'll be going over today. and feel free to stop me at any time during the uh presentation if you have questions. Uh I'm going to go through it fairly quickly. Uh this the report is uh the time frame is our collection calendar which starts on July 1 through June 30th. So this is July 1 of 24th through June 30th of 25. Uh and the report is also in the escalation of our litigation process. uh if you turn the page uh mailings is the first step. So once we ret we receive the turnover amounts of the current year taxes we then uh will analyze your
027role and um we will uh conduct a mail out for all of the accounts on your delinquent tax role. You have approximately 1,099 accounts that are delinquent. Um and during this period we mailed out over 3,700 letters and those letters escalate in tone throughout the year. Uh we conduct seven mailings throughout the year. If you turn the page moving into litigation when the letters do not receive the responses from our designated accounts. Then we move to the litigation process. Uh in this period we file 31 petitions on 55 accounts for just over $108,000. changes. This uh of course I don't recall the numbers exactly from the past, but this number seems considerably smaller than some of the the items that you've brought to us in the past. Is that true or am I mistaken? >>
028Um I I'd have to go back and take a look at the other reports, but this seems pretty consistent. Um as far as like the number of petitions that we have filed in the past >> in total amounts there. >> Um I I have to go back. I I don't have those numbers in front of No, but I'll >> seem like in the past we were closer to the 200 mark, right? >> Um well, I can tell you this is this is pretty much on par with the amount of petitions. We have whittleled your roll down quite a bit as you'll see. Um but uh I will take a look at that uh Sean and and get back with you to see where we are historically. um you know these these metrics are taken from
029our uh system that we you know that we uh keep track of all of our lawsuits and so forth but 31 lawsuits on 5 55 accounts is a considerable number especially when you have uh under 1100 accounts but uh we did we also filed a tax warrant during this time period as you know the Dairy Queen closed we were sad to see that close and we filed a tax warrant and went there with the sheriff's office and seize all of their items. Um, and the owner ended up paying all the delinquent taxes. And so we're able to uh not only collect taxes of what was owed, but also for this year's, which haven't even been assessed yet. Uh, so the tax code says that the items are about to be sold, then we can uh
030move forward with the tax warrant. And that was a little over $4,400 in taxes for the uh um uh for the district. Uh we also dismissed 24 cases uh that resulted in a little over $14,000 worth of tax collection. But I will go back and take a look to see. But your question mainly is we find lawsuits on amounts that were higher than this level was what from what you remember. >> Yes. Maybe just overall what this this I it seems like the television. >> Well, and again this is only litigation. So this isn't our uh actual collection numbers. This is just litigation amounts. >> Okay. >> So, this lawsuit amount of $108,000, we haven't necessarily collected all of that yet. And yes, I will get to the chart. Yes, we're well over $200,000 for
031our actual revenue. So, uh the the lawsuits that we filed, the 31 petitions was only $48,000. Um and I will get to that here in just a minute. Uh if you turn the page judgment, so by when we file a lawsuit, we file that petition. Uh it takes about a year and a half to take it to court to uh we have to find all the heirs. Uh we serve all the defendants, do all the title work. Of course, all those costs are absorbed by our uh law firm. This is our fees are are attached to the delinquent taxpayers bill. Uh we released three judgments. That's when we had basically have a business that has uh taken to court and we abstract those judgments. They paid those just over 12,000 and currently we have over
032153,000 in pending lawsuits for the district. Uh below is our post judgment collections. These are the tax sales. If you use your your cell phone, which we're not supposed to do here, allegedly you can uh label us. >> Um this will take you directly to our our website and you can see the properties that are for sale currently in the district. If you turn the page, there's a a map there of several of the of the uh properties. It just has three. This was a screenshot of our website, but there are pictures there. Uh these are struck off properties that are currently under school trust. Um and during during this uh period, we sold five tracks of property for just over $16,000. Um next page is your top 20 accounts. We redacted the name just
033for the open meetings process. I did give uh Matt our uh Mr. Clifton our total delinquent tax role. Actually, that's the first 300 pages. So, that's a little over half of the role there. Um and uh um and those have all the notes and the names of everybody. So, if you all want to see that, again, that information is available to any of you if you just want to call me anytime. But you can see on the right side the current status. You'll see a lot in deferral. Uh you have at least one here in in bankruptcy, but all of these are um either in litigation or having to conduct uh title work uh or address research those defendants. Um and if you turn the page here is the status of accounts. So if you
034take your total delinquent tax role, not all of that money is available today. uh almost 15% 14 and a half% is under deferral. That is your over 65 disabled persons. Um that's a remedy available to them. When we file a lawsuit and people call us, our first question is to ask them if they qualify. We help them obtain that remedy. We definitely do not want to take anybody's home that um has has a remedy under the law to keep those properties. Of course, um you have some in in bankruptcy, not a whole lot, a little over 2% um over 15% already in lawsuit under litigation. And I wanted to point out that o out of,09 counts, 63% of those are under $500. So when we file a lawsuit, the court cost and all of that
035is uh adds about a thousand or so to the tax bill. We always take that into consideration. We recently, not here in this jurisdiction, but we even we filed a lawsuit on a $50 account. Uh we it came to our uh attention that the property was abandoned and that the people had passed away and the kids didn't want it and there was an old deferral on it as well. So, uh there was an interested buyer. So, we will pursue any property account that's out there, especially if there's an interested buyer. But just for the equity of not wanting to add so many fees, we're we're always trying to reach out to contact uh that the property owners. Um but I was also going to mention that about 31% of your accounts are under $100 as
036well. So and only about 24% are $1,000 or more. Um maybe turn the page and I think u Mr. Sim this is what you're talking about here, the total collections. Sir, so 213,000 was our uh was last year's collections during this um uh this uh period. The year before was quite a bit more, but we had a really big collection month in September. That month, um I don't remember exactly. I was trying to find what who that was, but it was a really big collection. You can see the comparison of the four years there. Um, we also had a uh the Encore made a made a pretty big payment um in May of last year as well. I don't know if y'all realize that Encore were ongoing liquation. >> We did. Yeah. We had a
037cut on check >> to Encore. >> There was a refund. >> Well, uh there shouldn't Well, theation is still ongoing here in Angelina County. So yeah, we haven't there's no there hasn't been any final adjudication. In fact, we've had a couple of wins. So there's probably about eight counties involved in this and uh we just had a major win. I believe it was in um may have been in Tarant County, I believe, either Tarant uh or um I think it was Tarant County, but I can I can follow up with you on that. We just had a meeting about this like two weeks ago and I know for a fact that we haven't fully adjudicated the uh the encore that there was a refund to encore may have been for something else but it it
038wasn't for the litigation. So and encore may have had another ongoing lawsuit but it wasn't uh for the late payments that they made two years ago. So um but uh in 2020 and 21 there were a lot of government programs for CO as well. That was a really big year. Prior to 20 and 21, most of your collections were under 200,000. 190 was hover hover there for several years, but you know, values have have gone up. Um, so this is pretty much on on par, but you know, collections are uh been delaying. So uh but we do expect a good collection year this year as well. Uh in fact, we're ahead of where we were two years ago, of course, and also this past year. Um, I did not add this to the report, but
039I wanted to give you uh, so there was a turnover report that we provided to Mr. Clifton a couple of weeks ago. I just wanted to read a couple of statistics out of this report. Um, so last year, uh, July 1, 993 accounts were turned over to us. Those are current year taxes for just over, uh, 213,000. Compared to this year, there was 966 accounts. So, the accounts have gone down, but uh just under 239,000. So, the amount has gone up. Um so, we do expect great collections um uh for uh the district this year. Um and if y'all if you have any feedback for us, we're available 247. We love being a part of this community and we've represented the district for over uh 40 years I think going close to 50 years now.
040So um do y'all have any questions for me? Miss Cer says she did not want to speak so I didn't want to put her on the spot here. So, >> thank you, sir. >> And it was just it was a small refund, but it was y'all had to take action on a on something relating or maybe I just gave a a discussion only item about that suit. >> Okay. >> Yeah, there I wouldn't be surprised. They have a lot of accounts here and uh but they they've come they've had some clever legal uh arguments for delay payments, but all of their uh all of their motions have been tossed out. And so we've had one county, the next county, Smith County, where it will be litigated. Um, they had some clever arguments, but again, their
041main argument is with the legislature. It's not with us. So I think the other counties who did wave that wave the fees are kind of regretting that now because we we seem to be on a roll. And I do expect that uh you'll be able to keep those uh late penalties. So >> welcome. Thank you, J. Appreciate it. All right, I will move us down to five consent agenda. >> No budget amendments this month. No sir. >> Any further questions or discussion consent agenda? I now entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve consent agenda as presented. Have a motion by Mr. Sin. A second by Mr. Robertson. All in favor? Motion carried. We'll now move us to six action discussion items. Okay. Consideration and action if any upon our on resolution regarding Senate Bill
04212 and parent rights. >> This is a resolution because uh Senate Bill 12, you have a handout um in front of you and it includes so many it's a wide variety of parental rights um and it even addresses board information from board to instruction. Um I wanted to share that with you. TASBY prepared this because they don't have their policy update ready including all of these stipulations. So they wanted to have a resolution to a board and um if approved we'll need an action for that. Um basically this says we're following the law even though it's not in our policy yet. So that's really what this resolution is, but it goes from anywhere from that um that we will as school districts, mind you, this is across uh the state um receive parent information for
043any consent for medical, psychiatric, psychological treatment. Um there's no DEI, diversity, um or equity or inclusion duties to any of our positions. Um no employee will deal with social transitioning. That's in six um five and six. Um that then it goes on to course syllabi need to be uh available. Then on number nine it's superintendent will provide an internet portal. What we've done is there's a thumbs up on our web website and you can put any comment or anything that comes to me and I forward it to whether it's a board information whatever it is and we've gotten um quite a bit of usage with that. So, I want to share that that's available for questions. Um, we're going to have public uh comments on number 10 at the beginning of board meetings and that
044our meetings will take place outside of work hours. Um, it goes on and on about uh not withholding information to uh parents. Um, you can read all of these. They're quite interesting things that we have typically done anyway. uh uh parental consent before human sexuality instruction. Um then it goes on to 22 having opportunities for in-person conferences. Uh so and getting parent permission for clubs uh um that they participate in in school. Um and I am directed at number 25 to make sure that all employees are aware of this resolution. So in our meeting today, our all of our admin have this and we'll share this with their staffs as well. But basically by approving this resolution, we're following the law that's going to be part of policy shortly. >> Okay. Any further discussion? I
045will now entertain a motion bill. Make a motion to approve the resolution regarding Senate Bill 12 and parent rights. I have a motion by Mr. S. Which one? Second by Mr. All in favor? Motion carried. B consideration and action. if any upon $500 donations from Eagle Ready Mix Eubank Jerry's Tire Shop Sonic >> BM I don't know what it stands for either Texas Mater >> thank you appreciate it >> thank you Texas materials and bisc for integrity any further discussion a motion make a motion we approve these No motions. >> I have a motion. >> Shirley. Got it. >> I have a second. Miss Shirley. All in favor? Motion. Car. I'll move us down to C. Consideration and action if any upon $1,000 from Huntington Little Dribblers for high school basketball program. Any questions? Entertain
046a motion. >> Make a motion to approve the $1,000 donation from Huntington Dribbers for high school basketball program. >> Have a motion. Second. Have a second by Mr. Robertson. All in favor? Motion carried. Mr. D, discussion only. Child nutrition, athletics, and curriculum and instruction. Samantha is going to share a little bit and then she's going to run to a kiddos baseball game. I think uh just a couple of updates for you. Let's start out with equipment. Um hopefully, knock on wood, we are done spending for the year. Uh unless something crazy happens, but just to run through a couple of them. We've gotten some milk boxes, some ovens, steamers, um freezer racks, dunage racks, and an ice machine. So, we spent uh $56,000, and I'm good with that. Hopefully, again, that's that's all. And then
047another positive, our breakfast numbers are up. So, we're happy to see that. Hope that that trend just keeps on going that way. And then the last thing is Dr. Fuchsia got um a note from a call on the 18th that is requiring the SHA committee um to have their their council uh >> that's the school health advisory >> committee. Yes. >> SHA committee. Yeah. Um to be trained with uh the Narcan training and we actually did that like not just three days before that call. So we're a little bit ahead. We have had the speaker from East Texas Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council come and she spoke with us. She trained our committee as well as about 25 of our staff members. We were all given Narcan kits. Um so they have been trained. Um
048and then we in this note you can go and print out some posters, some signage that we can hang. um we thought that it was more appropriate on the junior high and high school campuses um as far as those that signage goes. Um and then if there's anything updated, we will we'll get that out there and get it pushed out. >> Great. Any questions or anything? Thanks for being so patient. You guys get to go to brother. >> Hi. All right, we'll start with high school football. We have 58 kids uh from 9 to 12. Our varsity football team has 33 kids on it. Our season record is 1 and4. Uh we will start district next Friday at home against Nyball. Uh our JV team has 20 23 kids. Uh our season record is 3
049and 0. would play at Garrison this Thursday before we start district next Thursday against eyeball. And our junior high football program has 34 kids in it. We have one team. Our season record is 3 and 0 and we also start district next Thursday against dieball. Um let's go to high school volleyball. Our high school volleyball program has 30 kids in it. Our varsity, our season record is 22 and 15. We're coming off a big win. um last Friday against Dyball that put us in pretty good shape for the playoffs and the number one seed in the playoffs. So, we have two home games this week. We'll play uh Warren tomorrow and Newton Friday and we need to get both of those. Our sub varsities, um JV White, JV Red, both have seasons season records of
05010 and eight. So, um, Coach Cbeck's got all those kids playing and she's doing a good job of developing them. Um, our junior high volleyball, uh, they're playing tonight against Newton. It looks like Texas and Nebraska are playing over there right now. We got 43 kids in the program. Uh, our eighth grade is 5-0 and our seventh grade is 3 and two. Um, so I believe this is their last home game. Is that right? Um, cross country. We have 18 kids in our cross country program. Uh, they just finished their last meet before the district meet. That'll be u October the 8th at central. I think it's next uh Wednesday. Um, we have according to times we have several kids that are going to have the opportunity to advance past the district meet. It'll just
051depend on how they show up and compete next week at Central. Um, swim. We have 10 kids in our swim program. They're three weeks into into practice and their first meet is this Saturday against or in Tyler. So, they'll they'll get started and have several meets over the next couple months. Uh over the next month, we have girls basketball starting on October the 22nd. Uh the boys will follow a week later on October the 29th. Uh as far as facilities go, our softball field, we'll get a new scoreboard should be installed next Tuesday. talked to the scoreboard company and they're still planning on being here next Tuesday and uh they should be able to get that up in a day. Um we'll begin work on baseball and softball fields when we get off the fields
052at the end of October. Uh kind of the way we structure our off season is we do we're on the field a lot until the end of October and then we get off and uh give the kids a little break from it. And when we do that, that's when we'll start adding dirt, field conditioner, overseeding with ry grass, and and do all the things we try to do to get the fields u looking good for the spring. Now, the last thing, we have a snapshot day at the end of October for our reclassification numbers, and the UIL will take whatever number that we turn in and they will use that to start trying to figure out how they're going to reclassify everybody in February. So the numbers that we have right now should keep us
053a solid 3A. So there shouldn't be any big changes as far as that goes. >> So is that I think what was it baseball we did? They did a two class in 3A, right? >> Yes, sir. There's a division one and division two. And the way they do that is uh you'll go through your district season and they take the four top teams and the two with the biggest enrollment go division one and the uh the other two will go division two. So it's always >> wins and losses. >> Well, I mean the top four teams in wins and losses, then they'll take the the top two enrollments and they're division one and then the other two teams are division two. So, as long as we're in the district that we're in, us and dieball
054will always be division one or us and whoever whoever else makes it. It's usually going to be dive ball, but but uh anyway, that's the way they that's the way they do it. And uh there's been a lot of rumors about how they're going to reclassify everything, but uh we just have to wait and see. >> Any any questions? >> Anything y'all need? It's time to work. >> More hours a day. >> Just time. Time and some kids will get after you. >> Thank you. Okay. Dr. Thornton's going to give us a little bit of information on a federal accountability that we received I believe last week. >> So, uh, last week as Dr. appreciate he said we did receive the 2025 results driven accountability uh district report that is also referred to as RDNA
055for account uh for results driven and uh basically this program monitors and evaluates the performance of a very specific set of students um and that is going to be three different groups your ESL your English as a second language and your emergent bilingual then your sped and the third group is called other special populations and that is a group of students that are either homeless that are um military connected or they are um oh goodness I lost the third one military homeless foster students excuse me sorry about that foster students so um what they do is they take those three separate groups they look at two different domains academic achievement and then they look at post-secary readiness and so that's going to include of course star that's going to include discipline graduation rates and dropout
056rates Uh for special education, they also look at what they consider to be disproportionate attributes and analysis. And that's going to look at your instructional settings for those students. Um for each of those programs and indicators, we receive anywhere from a zero to a four. Our highest number was a two. And then on October 29th, TEA will release the determination levels. Basically, they take all your indicators and put them together for each population and give you another score. And at that point, we'll know on October 29th or soon after if we are in any type of improvement needed category where we'd have to do some reports and some work. Looking at our history for the last several years, where we were at this point with our performance levels, that should not be necessary. we've actually
057improved in at least one area and that was actually um the discipline for our sped students. Uh we're more appropriate appropriately aligned with our gened students in discipline than we were last year. So our numbers went down. So I don't I do not anticipate having any determination levels that we'll have to do any type of improvement requirement type work >> and a little bit with the scoring. You want zeros on this report. You want the lowest. >> We're looking for the letter. So the fact that we it goes up to a four, but the highest we got was a two is great. We want the lowest. So and and this is the federal game we play and A throughF is the state game we play. So we're doing well. Any question? >> Question. The seven
058superintendent report. >> Great. Um the monthly expenditures are in workbook. Um nothing new. year. Our attendance hovering in all school uh all the schools around 95 96%. I do have to giggle last Friday was the highest percentage that we have had in the entire year. Everyone came dressed up and they obviously loved it and did not want to miss out on homecoming activities because it was the highest that we've had. Our enrollment is anywhere from 1517 to 1520. It's been about 1520 the last few days consistently which is a decrease from from last year just >> I think your newsletter did wonders. I mean, I really think that people needed to hear that that's how we >> we get funded. I keep trying to kind of somehow teach the public that there's a reason that
059you're hearing that's how we get funded. So, um trying to trying to kind of subliminally put that in. >> Thank you. Um C, United Way. I wanted to share that um Eubank is um sponsoring a a United Way activity on for only HISD employees. everything that they raise through us um will be donated to United Way. So, what they're doing a raffle and they can do that because it is um the bank and not the school. Um if we you can buy a ticket for that and they're going to learn about this on October the 1st, but any collections that they earn from our uh staff um in that drawing, they're going to donate on behalf of HISD. And so I thought that was really generous of Jack at you um Eubank to come up
060with kind of a unique way for us to people that are able to and want to buy a raffle ticket, they can and they are not pressured to do so, but it does benefit United Way who in turn uh we received about $4,000 for the um library. They support um the library um and so anything that we could do to support them is great. Um but I I appreciate Jack in his um creativity. He's doing that for Zabala IC and for us. So I think that was really nice. Um and then our personal report which we'll discuss. >> Okay. I'll move us to number eight executive session. If during the course of the meeting discussion of any item on the agenda should be held in a meeting the board will conduct a closed meeting accordance
061with the Texas Open Means Act Texas Government Code sub chapters 551 subchapter DE. I will now put this into executive session. All right, I'll bring back into regular session. I'll move us down to 10 consideration action if any resulting from executive session A. Make a motion to uh accept personnel report letter item A as presented. >> I have a motion. I second. I have a second by Mr. Sap. All in favor? Motion carries. I'll now move to be personnel consider a consider superintendent recommendation to propose termination of professional contract staff. >> I'll make a motion to infinitely table personnel report under letter B. >> I have a motion to table. Second. I have a second by Mr. Robertson. All in favor? Motion carry. I'll move it to 11. I need entertain a motion to adjurnn.
062>> I'll make a motion to adjurnn. I have a motion. I have a second by Mr. Sap. All in favor? Motion carried. Meeting journ. >> Good luck.