001Sure. If you would uh keep our former AD and head basketball coach Sean Jones in your prayers. He was in a bad motorcycle accident. Uh he lost from his shin down and so we're going to be praying for him and if you would do that, I certainly would appreciate it and he would too. So let's pray. Father, we thank you for our time tonight to do the work of the district. And we pray that you'll help us to have our our minds open to what it is that we need to do that's best for our kids, faculty, and staff. And Lord, we do pray tonight for Coach Seawn Jones and his rehab and therapy to get back. And Lord, thank you for protecting him. It could have been much worse. And so, just continue to
002pray for him and his family. And Lord, be with all of our students as they go throughout as the springtime and our spring sports and all the stuff we have for the end of the year. Just pray you'll help us. And Lord, continue to be over our new superintendent. Help her, guide her as she guides the admin team each and every week. And we thank you for all you've done for us. And we pray. Amen. Amen. I aliance 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 pledge algiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Welcome everyone. Mr. sign up for the four. No, sir. All right. I'll
003move us down to three education spotlight. Okay. So, these are the first place winners for elementary. Um, elementary UIL also took first place overall in our district. So, we have a nice Kimley Vineyard. She's in second grade. She won two first places. She is first place in ready writing and that was creative writing storytelling and music memory. I'm so sorry. But two first place is pretty awesome. And then we have Wade Tamplin for number. And then Cara, third grader for ready writing. Yep. Just turn back. Take about five steps back. All right, on three. One, two, three. All right, good job. You got a baseball game? Hey, you got a baseball game? Mr. Blue's talking to you. You have a baseball game tonight? Yes, sir. All right. Good. Hey. Hey. Good luck to you. Hope
004you win. You going to hit a home run. Good luck, man. Good luck, y'all. Well, ladies and gentlemen, is my honor to have uh the floor this month for education spotlight and we have really one big significant group at Huntington Middle School that does a lot of good for our campus and the community. And we have new sponsors this year. So, I thought this would be a good time for them to come and share. And I will now turn it over to Miss Katherine Turner and Miss Emilyn Watson and Miss Madison Van. [Applause] Good evening board members. I'm President Emily Wson and I'm member Matthew Gman. Our plan for the 2425 service project is to remodel the patio by the HMS practitioner. Having outdoor seating areas at our school would offer many benefits, including improved
005student mental and physical health, enhanced learning experiences, and increased opportunities for social interaction and engagement with nature. Studies show that working outside can increase productivity. Also, plant therapy can help calm students as well. Miss Jones, the HMS counselor, could bring her small group out to the patio and into the garden. Another reason that could benefit our school is connected to the classrooms. When learning about cells, wouldn't it be nice to go to your own garden and pick a leaf or flower to inspect under a microscope? Also, students could eat lunch outside, which would be a good change of scenery. To make this project possible, the high school a workshop could be involved to build planters and benches. The student council would fund their work and they could get more practice and experience. Ways we have
006raised money in the past to help our school is the angel tree, water fountain filters, and comfortable seating in the commons. We hope you find our idea intriguing and approve it. Thank you for your time and consideration, and always remember, it's a great time to be a Red Devil. So, how did y'all come up with this idea? Um, we've thought about it for a couple months of what we could do to benefit our school for years to come. Okay, good for you. And some of the projects they've mentioned, like I said, water fountains with the the purifiers, bottle fillers, um, the angel tree, which has came into program into place in the last couple of years. These are all ideas that have came about from student council to help the campus and the community. That's
007good. Excellent. Mr. Clifton, they didn't ask you for any money either, did they? No, I'm sure they'll get there. It all that was in our education spotlight. I will move us down to agenda item four, consent agenda. Enterain a motion. I'll make a motion. I have a budget amendment. Oh. Oh, I apologize. Oh, okay. I'm not used to you hesitating. We usually I was looking over here and trying to listen to you. Sorry. You got to think about that plant. He was already trying to calculate for it's not quite that bad. All right. So, I I think we mentioned last time that we had our um fiveyear cyclical review. Help me. Is it don't call it audit? Audit. Just our our child nutrition audit. We did have a finding that they came back to and
008we have learned since that this has been a common finding among um something they're targeting this year. Um so what they essentially what they are finding is these things were duplicative services where supposedly that we could get these services completed for us at a regional service center that we're also paying for out of the 240 child nutrition budget even though we've been doing this for at least five or six years. Yeah. um they have decided that this is no longer acceptable. Um and that we would have to we're going to have to pay this money back. Um luckily the the amount is not crazy significant. Um it's around $16,257. The problem is we don't have a budget in child nutrition in our 199 because we historically have just paid everything out of the federal uh
009program. Um, so essentially what I'm asking is that we're going to reduce our instructional budget by the same amount that we're going to increase and add a budget to this uh child nutrition local funds so that they can we can do our corrective action as they've requested. I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda as is. I have a motion second. I have a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carried moves to five action discussion item A consideration action bending upon instructional materials a lotment antique certification. Okay. So TEA releases every year a certification of provision of instructional materials and what it is is the district submits all of the instructional resources that they are going to be using both core curriculum resources as well as the instructional supplemental resources. And then we
010assure that 100% of the TEICSS will be covered throughout that year with those instructional materials. With that being said, we it takes board action and approval before and I have to upload this to our EMAT website before that money is released to use to purchase the instructional materials. And so that is what the certification provision is about. And um it was given to us uh mid March, not not very long ago, but we uh we just have to take approval on that. And I can tell you just to piggyback on that a little bit, it used to be a a just a I promise that it covers. Now you have to list every single um the questionnaire, the survey goes on for quite a bit. So it's great reading if you're ever interested. It's uploaded
011on board book. So you have it and you can look at I didn't print individuals because it's a big booklet. So, and it basically just assures that we are teaching the TES which is the state requirements. I'll entertain a motion. Excuse me. Make a motion to approve the instructional materials certification. I have a motion. Second. I have a second. All in favor? Motion. B. Consideration action if any point in agreement with connect. Um this agreement was um proposed to us by TASBY Facility Services. Um essentially what this agreement would be that we would begin to market our property to potential um cell phone carriers um to potentially put a tower on some of our property that we have uh primarily because it is a revenue uh producer as well as it improves connectivity um close
012to our buildings. Um and so we really have two locations that we felt like were possible. Um obviously at the high school we have a good bit of property out there and then at elementary school in behind we could even go in behind where the fence is, we have property on that side um as well. Um this agreement does not bind us to anything. Um even if somebody comes to us um and says we want to put a tower up, we have all full negotiating rights there to decide if we want to do it at this time at that time. Really all this is is agreeing to allow them to market us as a potential place. Uh because what they're trying to do is um put schools in the kind of in the in in
013the front view of the cell phone carriers um so that when AT&T or T-Mobile or um Verizon, whoever starts looking for a place, they contact TASBY facility services and say, "Hey, do you have anything in this area?" Um and really just puts us out there. It's a three-year agreement that says over the course of the next three years if they're contacted, they potentially could contact us um with an option to have a tower put on our property. So, if we uh down the road we did that and put a tower our property, would we be able to use that revenue into our Yeah, it's just general fund um other local revenue is what it would go into. No issue with us making money. Oh, no. No. This is common throughout I mean school districts own
014a lot of property throughout the state and so this is just an opportunity really where it's really the thing that caught my attention about it was is because connectivity in these rural areas um is so critical having it right there in our you know in our district would it's it seems to reason that it would help improve our connectivity. Yes, for sure. Um as well as the potential for some revenue. I mean, it's not like windfall stuff, you know, we're not talking about um hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, but it is it is some revenue. Um, as well as we potentially could do things like work in the deal that they would um we could put our radio repeater um on their tower um and they would they would take care of it
015for us. Um so, I mean, it's got some benefit. Any further discussion? I'll entertain a motion. Make a motion to enter into this agreement with connected and Texas I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion carried. C. Consideration action upon reviewing bid the bids and adopt the resolution authorizing the issuance of maintenance tax notes series 2025. Sorry that was a mouthful. Um I told y'all this was coming. Um I put for each one of you. You will see the three uh banks that bid on our note. Um the winning bid was Texas Regional Bank. um they came with an interest rate of 3.68 was was substantially less than the other two. Um really there's nothing that that sticks out to me as an issue with this. The note is callable. Um but
016most of the time that's going to be pretty common um among commercial type loans with this, but it's not callable until 2027. So we'd be two years into the note. Uh the likelihood of a bank calling a note that is uh paying on time is slim to none. Uh but they do reserve that right. I guess if down the road they decided they needed to uh with the fund balance that we typically carry, I don't feel like this is a huge risk. We would pay a couple years of principal down before that potentially would be something even considered. Um so it it's my recommendation that we um approve this uh tax maintenance note uh through Texas Regional Bank. Interest rates at 3 point did I say it's at 3.68. So it's really better than I'd
017anticipated. We we had thought it'd be closer to five. Um yeah. So I mean it honestly that's I would say that's a win and really not that much higher than what it was in 2019. Uh when we did it last time I want to say it was closer to 30 then. But um so I was happy to see that we did we're not going to need a bunch of interest. You the bank the bank man. I make a motion to accept. We have some you got to say all any further discussion. Okay, I will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion to accept the Hey, there's a somebody has the specific language. I apologize. Okay, go ahead. Um I don't Oh, Glory put it with y'all like to make motions. I can tell you why.
018All right. Anyway, I move to accept the winning submitted by Texas Regional Bank and adopt the resolution authorizing the issuance of maintenance tax notes series 2025. All right, I have a motion. Second. I have a second. All in favor? That's a lot to say. Motion carries. I'm glad on the top of this business. I was waiting on school bus. I will move us to D. Consideration action if any upon blue bonnet transition plan. Okay. TEA is requiring all school districts implementing the blue bonnet curriculum to write a transition plan and present it to the board for approval. Myself and Miss Ford training to write this plan on March 5th at region 7. Um so the plan will cover the K through five uh implementation of RLA and the K through8 implementation of the math program.
019So this plan, this plan also allows us to utilize the $28,000 that TEA has set aside for the curriculum resources. So we are able to purchase all resources for teachers and students through the EMAC funds. Uh which is a great thing. So it's not costing uh the district any money outside of that. As far as the plan, we had to set some goals for that. So goal one is 100% of teachers in grades K through eight will implement Blue Bonnet learning math beginning week one of instruction as well as Blue Bonnet learning reading language arts K through five. Number two, goal two, stakeholder investment. We would hope that by the end of the year 90% of the teachers will report high confidence in blue materials by the end of the year. This will be measured
020by surveys conducted three times throughout the year. Goal three, teacher practices. 100% Teachers will use unit or lesson internalization protocols during collaborative planning time. And goal four, student outcomes. 100% of students will engage with grade level content from the blue bonnet learning. Uh teachers will be provided for all the materials that um are embedded within the programs with fidelity and HISD will provide all of the training and ongoing support to help them implement the curriculum. Recommendation that improve the transition plan for blue line. And I'm just going to add to that that one of the goals um coming in in ensuring for next year is that we have an aligned curriculum uh a peacemilled curriculum. Um it does it creates gaps in learning. And so um this is the state curriculum. Sorry, this is a
021state curriculum. Blue Bonnet and and even though it has a different name, it's actually um some of the materials our teachers have used in the past, but they have changed it a bit. The state has adopted it as their um curriculum. They've changed the name to Blue Bonnet, but it's Eureka Amplify. Some of the other products that our teachers are used to using anyway, um but they have aligned it to the TEICSS. And um what's great is that we already have teachers that are um implementing this this year. Not not through this level. We that's what we hope to do for next year. Um but the com positive comments are this is amazing. I have my life back. I don't have to hunt and check for materials. It's all given. Um it's very organized. The
022um sequence is aligned um throughout. So, it's what um it's what we need to ensure our kids don't have gaps in their learning. So, one of the things that I I like personally, Philip and I met with Dr. Pashetti Friday and it's it's a very conservative curriculum and with our community and us being a conservative community, uh it's pretty good. We were asked, I'll just be very transparent in um I had a group that we did some um interviews for an assistant superintendent and we were asked by one of them uh quite interesting questions about Bloom Bonnet because this person was coming from a more urban environment and where there's uh lots of questions about it. Again, the questions about it um just relay on rely on some of the emphasis to um in um
023in some of the older level resources. They use some stories from the Bible, but it's uh in in um as far as technical, it's not for religious purposes, but it's just technical uh non-fiction resource, things like that. So, um there there have been questions out there, but it's a conservative approach. Um and um again it doesn't have religion in it but it does use some of the uh resources uh throughout or some of the um theories kind of throughout um very conservative but um very appropriate and aligned to the peaks which is I feel like what our kids are missing there are some gaps in their learning so this is going to uh align that um general education and then we can always supplement with some of our additional resources. So Uh we think it's
024a great move. Any further discussion? I will entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve to approve the blue line transition plan. I have a motion. Second. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. E. Consideration action upon June bids and accepting a three-year agreement with next. I know y'all heard from me a lot tonight, so I apologize. We have lots of business. Um, we are requesting approval of a three-year agreement with Nexttiva. Um, they are the winning bid um for our phone system. We'll be able to go from 115 lines currently to a total of 255 lines. Uh, we are paying $28,200 annually um as of right now. Um, and when we add the additional um go to 140 lines, uh, we'll be paying $37,422. Um, I felt like that was a a
025pretty um consistent really a cheap jump for adding that many lines. We essentially everywhere there will be kids and teachers there will be a um voice over IP phone um so that we can ensure that connectivity in regard to a cell phone um is is a non-issue. So um I feel like this is the most appropriate thing to do um for safety purposes. It keeps us in compliance. Um, not that we're out of compliance, but I think it solidifies that compliance. Um, and and the cost is variable um, based on the total number of lines that we have. Any further discussion? There's a motion. Make a motion that we approve and enter into an agreement agreement with motion. I have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. Yeah. Discussion only. you with DP's Texas local
026workforce and development board incorporated. This does not um require approval. I just wanted to give some information. I met with the workforce solutions um last week it was and um I can sign this agreement that basically what it is it's a partnership between the school district and the workforce to provide students in grades 6 through 12 readiness out uh it's a readiness outreach program. Um they gain lab uh labor market employment information in demand industry sectors or occupations available in deep Texas. Um they talk about employability skills, career awareness, career counseling and some exploration. They do it in a game format but it's uh some courses that they will provide in typically 8th grade and then in um the high school setting, juniors and seniors. Um, again, it's done in a a game format, but
027they really talk about what skills are needed that they need to be in the workforce, uh, training prerequisites and job opportunities. Um, so it's a it's a great um,ou and I think it's good for our kids to know what's out there ahead of time. So, starting thinking about that in middle school. So, um, I'll sign that. I just wanted to let you know that I'm signing that with the workforce. Is this kind of is this similar, Mr. W? You may know the answer hasn't made it over yet. Is this similar to the careers class that my boys are taking seventh grade? Something like that. Yes, it's similar to that. This is just a supplemental um entity that will come in and I think that's what they embed themselves through the careers class. Yep. Yep. And
028what I really love about I'm just going to say on a side note, what they I really love about the workforce, these are all these resources that are provided um that they will come in and do for our students that are at risk. um as well. And uh students with special needs, they talk about employability skills for our special needs. And do they need here hearing aids, vehicle modifications, transportation, any job matching? They really focus on students um in ensuring that they have a place to go. So, I'm I'm really excited about workforce um solutions and just it's they always are around and a lot of times school districts don't know when you ask for their help. But don't worry, we'll be asking to help our kids. That's it. All right. Mr. G discussion only
029child nutrition and athletics. Uh we just had a kid that uh returned from the state power lift to meet. Solvin Reed placed 11th in the state. U competed real real well made good showing. Uh both of our track teams are in full swing. Uh both boys and girls have won meet. Um I think the last one that we had here Thursday night, the girls won it, the boys finished second. We're going to have a bunch of kids that are going to get to the area meet and have a chance to get out to go to regionals. Uh that's that's going to be a successful season. Uh girls softball 17-2, ranked in the top 10 in the state. U baseball 16 and two, ranked in the top 10 in the state. Um tennis just got started
030last week. Um we'll have a have a few more meets and got kids running everywhere. That's it. Um, as Mr. Clipton stated, we completed our administrative audit back in February on the 11th and I have to brag on my intermediate ladies. They were fantastic. They did a great job, especially for a first year manager there. Um, the auditors really bragged on them. So, I wanted to really, really, really let you guys know that they did so well. And to come out of that with one finding, I mean, that's their job. They've got to find something wrong. to come out with one finding, we'll take it. Um, like he said, you know, the consultants seem to be on the horizon and what they're having issues with right now. We I expressed my concern to them about
031um their thoughts on that and essentially just told them that while this may be a fighting in their eyes um what is practical and what um looks really good on a corrective action document are two totally separate things. Um and that we're putting a lot of pressure on regional service centers. I said I asked one of them I believe um I said do you know how many child nutrition people work at our regional service center she said no I said there's one there's one of them so you take our entire schools I disagreed as respectfully as as I could I would like to say this a very clean audit they had nothing to say about anything of any substance surface all of our procurement was good all of our money handling was good um everything
032that in my opinion really matters was spotless. Um they found this one thing. We're going to pay them their money back and smile while we do it, I guess. Um and then hopefully next in five years it won't be something else that they have decided to hone in on. So anyway, I'd just like to add that Miss Macro did a great job. Further discussion. All right. Discussion only review of preliminary special education audit findings. Last Tuesday, we had a zoom meeting with our tea and region 7 representative on our recyclable audit process. Um, we had already completed step one, which was the process of submitting our dyslexia program overview and submitting our 24 random files that were chosen. Um, and just to make sure that our pro processes and procedures were reported in place. Uh,
033the meeting last week was part two. This meeting was to give us a preliminary review of what they could see as items that would possibly be flagged by the audit. But the beautiful thing about this is that those things that they see are we have the opportunity to submit and correct before TVA renders their final results. Uh we've been working diligently on this task and the plan is to have our submissions and corrections submitted by this Friday. Um, all things identified are easily fixable and overall findings were positive, mostly clerical and not programmatic and therefore we have the ability to correct those. With this being my first experience going through this process, I really didn't quite know what to think, but our region 7 representatives sent me an email and let me know that we
034had done very well. So, final timing should come out. super proud and they're getting all of that corrected and turned in by spring. So, we're working on it that way, I think. Right. Well, if you weren't, you're committed to it now, aren't you? They're going You're doing great. They actually offered us an extension because April 1st was the was the due date, but we we told them we thought we could have it in by Friday. So, so they're working hard. All right. Any questions, further discussion? All right, moves to six attendance report. So, monthly expenditures, that's more questions about that. Um, attendance, 1567 students, it's 93.92%. Um, wanted to clarify, I know I uh started to ask the question about May 5th at six o'clock for our budget workshop. Um, so that's the plan, but
035I just checking on that. Um, note the change for the B May board meetings to start at 5 because the athletic banquet, we want to get that done and be able to go join the athletic banquet at 6 and then we'll discuss the personnel report. Okay, I will move us down to agenda seven executive session during the course of meeting item on the agenda should be held in the board conducted closing meeting with Texas Act. 51 subap. I will not put bring us back into regular session. I move down to 10. Consideration action depending upon resulting from executive session. A personnel consider employment resignation, extended leaves, additional positions, and other personnel matters. I will now entertain a motion for the personnel report. Make a motion to adopt the personnel report as presented. Have a motion.
036Second. Have a second. All in favor? Motion carried. I will now move us down to number 12. A motion to adjurnn. Make a motion to have a motion and I have a second. All in favor? Motion carries. dirt.