001e e e pray sure let's pray father we thank you again for time to come do the business of the school district Lord and I want to thank you for uh the safety we continue to have around our district I pray your blessing upon us as we go through this rest of this spring semester and thank you for the winter break we just had and just continue to keep us safe watch over our kids each and every day and our fa and staff and Lord as a Bo trustees and administration just help us do those things that would be pleasing and helpful not only to you but to our district and help us to be number one we thank you for all you do for us and we look forward to continuing to serve the
002district in your name we pray amen amen Al to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all the Texas flag I Ali to the Texas one [Music] state I just like to say welcome to everyone watching home everybody out here in the audience thank you all for coming tonight we we appreciate it um we'd like to welcome Dr fet our new super superintendent to Huntington Independent School District this is her first board meeting with us and we're excited to have her also Mr flowers is here with us it's been a uh a great transition and we couldn't ask for a better one and we thank both of you for that uh the kids and the staff for the
003ones that um really benefit from that we thank y'all for that very much we appreciate it anybody sign for M Mr clipp all right I'll move this down the three education Spotlight okay we have recognition Miss Powers from inter okay we're going to start off with our U first place winners I want Miss TI to come up with us if she will she's our U director for intermediate uh we had a great overall results this year in fact our uh intermediate El campuses together receive first place overall so we brought that Trophy and our first price winners are Parker Benefield for uh speaking Madison Brown for art Caroline Jones oral reading Reese modet for number [Applause] s and Sam Strickland for chess puzzles [Music] thank you good job guys and uh we also W to
004um recognize our robotics team tonight our robotics team is also there you go wardrobe change Miss K also done by Miss kers and so um our robotics team just competed here recently and um they did get an award for their Innovation project so we'd like to recognize them as well you're going to see some of these kids come back up so Addie Powers Caroline Jones Alex Phillips Tessa Wells Emily Stringer thank you good job guys can I something here I this is a very I did know you know make an exception make an exception for me I just want to say thank you to Sandy flowers than who um this is a very very rigorous program and uh she actually got the grant for us two years ago and um want to thank Miss Powers
005because she's made sure it got in our budget in case we didn't get the grand again so that we can continue with it but when you talk about higher level learning this program is it's it it's high thank you all I'm going to ask Miss Mado are you director to come up here with me even though we did not bring home first place we made a good show in how many places Miss we had 50 different places in 35 different events really pleased with that some of the events we've placed all three of our contestants uh first I I don't think she's here with us tonight Emma yeah I know when she's a double first place she's first place in art and in spelling art and spelling all right emilyn Watson U first place dictionaries
006to got first place all three years for Middle School oh and in fifth grade so luk Riley U first place social studies first place all three years Cameron peld U first place mathematics Jessica Davidson U first place music memory Cameron Johnson UIL first place science Johnson UIL first place [Applause] AR Miss oh miss one of yall yeah thanks and we're gonna have our high school we have one to recognize tonight and he's going to hang around just a second because he's also going to be our Spotlight this evening uh Mr Logan Tucker come up Mr Logan Tucker you know him for social media he's LT uh I'm not kidding he's huge on Instagram if you have Instagram but Logan Logan went down to San Antonio a couple weeks ago and brought back new Reserve Grand
007Champion for public speaking in San Antonio so very proud of him for that he also uh I'm not kidding he really is big on Instagram he's our uh lead singer guitar player for the talent team for FFA he's been our uh our honeyton president last year he is now the McGee Bend president for the entire District which goes from Central down to MAA he says so he really is kind of a big deal and I do like giving him a hard time he's a really humble kid he's a great kid so um the uh the speech that he gave in San Antonio a couple weeks ago I asked him to uh short it down just a few just a little bit but he's going to give that to you guys uh tonight kind of show
008you guys uh what that entails and then when he finishes I'm going give you little spoiler the the topic is uh right to repair so equipment some of you guys are familiar with some equipment some of you guys work in that field uh and so I ask that you when you when he finishes the speech the judges that he performs in front of it performs gives a speech to uh at FFA then ask questions of of the kids who give the speeches and part of their score is based off of what their answers are to the questions that they're asked so it could be any questions that they're asked so there's a lot of research that that goes into it so U I've told him that I've asked you guys to hammer him if you
009would like to a couple of questions from you guys just to kind of show I I have full faith in him that he will do a great job with answering the question so at this time I'm going let him take over man tractors are getting expensive the newest John Deere Combine at base price is 1,43 9978 to put that into perspective the average land price in Angel County where I'm from is $20,000 per acre this means I can buy about a 100 acres of land for the same price as a tractor the median house price in Angelina County is $27,700 this means I can buy three pretty nice houses for the same price as one tractor now if I spend one million on a tractor not only should it be the best tractor I have
010ever seen but it should essentially grant me the Liberty to use that investment as I see fit however that's not the case in some situations have you ever heard of something called the right to repair good evening my name is Logan Tucker from the Huntington eth chapter and I'm here to tell you why the right to repair is an issue that needs to be talked about more and needs to be resolved so what is it the right to repair is pretty much what it sounds like in the the simplest terms consumers have the right to make repairs to their purchase devices or equipment however advancing technologies have slowly cried their way enter the right repair conversation since many devices require intricate software that only the product manufacturers have the right to use the r to
011repair is costing Farmers a pretty penny since dealerships and manufacturers are the only places with the software needed to repair these products farmers are obligated to begin the repair process right back at the dealer if we consider the logistics involved to get a 2 and 1/2 ton piece of equipment loaded hauled unloaded repaired and then transported back to the farm we can likely agree on the list of negatives just to get on a truck is a th000 bucks said a farmer interviewed by Vice once do come in as after dealership we can then consider the cost of the repair that needs to be made we can also consider the time it takes to make these repairs because time is money and the rer repairs costing Farmers a lot of of time they can't afford this
012much loss many are barely breaking even as it is in 1978 the now famous so God made a farmer speech was given by Paul Harvey at the 51st National FFA convention I can imagine that you could already pin drop in that room it was not until 2013 when the speech was included in a ram Trust commercial during the Super Bowl that it truly received the recognition it deserved the speech took on like wildfire and people across the country Shar the social media and wrote their own stories of farming ranching and life as agriculturalists when God made the farmer I did not think he intended for their diligence and dedication to tending the land raising livestock Waking Up Before Dawn to beat the heat of the day or staying up well past dark to finish the
013day's work to Simply make ends meet when God made the farmer I do not think he intended for their attention to detail and stewarding of the land to nearly require them to cut Corners to plant seed feed the stock they've nurtured since their Hooves hit the ground on the very Farm they graze because the parts to repair the contain CR Machinery were more expensive than 6 months worth of groceries to feed a family I believe just like Paul Harvey that the American Farmer plays an indispensable role in feeding the world just as God intended with government intervention in many aspects of our agriculture industry just on the horizon it is more important now now than ever to speak up for those who deserve the right to repair thank you Mr you definitely have a future
014in public speaking I hope so that's the plan we singing questions that they have about the r to repair answer so Mr stubber is looking at me because I have been a mechanic since way before I H the ground yeah yeah my ground um and of course i' I've dealt with that my own self in the automotive industry um have you looked more into the automotive industry or have you just focused on the agricultural industry well the history of R actually starts in 1920 and it did start with General Motors when they wanted to make it harder on consumers to fix their vehicles after they left the dealership because they realized if consumers could not fix their own vehicle and they had to take it to the dealership well they could then therefore make money
015off of this repair Monopoly so I have looked into the automotive side a little bit and actually that's where right repair origin well that led me to my next question of a of a monopoly of um repair facilities dealerships per se um I know as well as anybody you know it is getting harder and harder to um be able to diagnose and repair your own vehicles um would you could by definition would you consider that a monopoly I would consider a monopoly yes if the customer buys the product and it leaves the dealership and they own that product fully and they are not able to fix it themselves they are not given the property that they own because they bought it then I believe that is Monopoly if they're having to bring it back in
016so they can make more money off of them every time something happens to that product so what is the fix of this and how do you uh make it come to fruition well I think there was a national rer repair Bill uh in the House of Representatives and the Senate but it was thrown in a committee and hasn't been looked at s uh and a lawyer that I interviewed actually told me it is going to come down to the state level now the Texas Farm Bureau Federation has actually done a little bit about it they signed a memorandum of understanding with John Deere and four other agriculture companies that covers about 70% of Agriculture equipment manufacturers um but we haven't seen much change just from those M us because I mean they simply are a
017contract there's not much backing them so I think it's going to come down to legislation on the state level so at the legislation level how do you think they'll actually to get it past or keep it the way it is what drives that well a big part of it is putting something in that legislation that defines emissions controls because the big thing with these sensors on these tractors and these combines if the farmers are given that software is it has to do with emissions and Congress doesn't really want to mess with that because obviously global warming is a big topic right now so if they give Farmers these sensors and they can go in and mess with something with the emission controls then Congress might have a b bad look on them so we put
018something in the legislation that you know fixes that so so to say solve that problem so you're proposing bills and come up with legislation this how do they enforce it how do they put it into action well that's a very good question putting it into action really really comes down to the individual manufacturer because like I said they have Theseus but we haven't seen much change so okay so let me ask you this if it comes out of the individual manufacturer individual individual manufacturer is sole beneficiary of keeping it the way it is which meaning they're the only ones that can work on it so whenever you shove it back to that so manufacturer to disperse this software this computer whatever it is how are you going to convince them to put this product make
019this product available to John so he can work on your John Deer that's a million and a half what I'm saying you can pass all the laws want how do you get them enforced how do you get this plan on the ground to where it actually uh benefits your in consumer I mean that's something I might have to do a little bit more research on is actually getting that enforced but to my knowledge I don't I mean they don't want to break the law to my knowledge [Music] you put a f on you find them if they so to goad a little bit further I have one more he had three or four I only had two okay uh you said the uh in a roundabout way the emissions compliance and that's basically the just
020of the proprietary software and uh the ability to manipulate that software um do you feel like agricultural equipment should be part of that compliance with EPA well I believe emissions like I said emissions controls should be in that legislation I don't think Farmers should be able to mess with the emissions controls um simply because that is such a controversial topic but when it comes down to there there's a death code inside these tractors when that sensor messes up that Death code goes off and the tractors and this the equipment cannot be used anymore I believe they should be able to have access to those sensors so they can can fix it on their own but when it comes to emissions I don't there there should be something to where they don't they can't mess with
021emissions so do you believe in global warming and the way they part of this process and and again you know uh legitimately meaning hey stump stumping because at this point he will give the speech again he will go down and he will write these questions down that you guys have asked him and he will prepare for those questions the next time he's asked if he's not fully prepared he's given this speech in front he's he's done it to me several times and he knows the parts of the speech that I don't like but he keeps them in there anyway but he takes this this type of a um and not just not just say Mr Ross's daughter does the same type speeches different topic the same type speeches and they they give these speeches to
022people so that they can be hammered like this so that they can go back and say okay I need to look a little more into this or get a little more opinion on that so then when they go before their judges they're prepared for itog I'll devil advate you anytime you need I just to say I'm off on Monday so anytime you come Badger you and your classmates that do this how long ago did you prepare and he's one of our six juniors in leadership tomorrow as well so we're extremely proud of Logan how long ago did you start this process to get where you are today well I I've had this speech this is this will be my third year doing it so because some people change their speech every year but like I
023said there hasn't been much progress with the right to repair when it you know legislation wise so I've kept the speech and I try to improve as much as I can and I appreciate these hard questions of course because that get that gets me to do more research I think your speech is is on a topic that's evolving because you mentioned legislation all that stuff rolls around you know once every two years that they actually address these things and so if you keep parent stay up with I mean you never know where to go uh real quick in your research is there a lot of lobbyists that are lobbying on the behalf of the manufacturer I got Reas question already your question did you notice that in your I didn't see many lobbyists for the
024actual manufacturers most people are taking the farmers side like repair. org is a big one where I get my research from they're taken up for the farmer me really only taking up for the manufacturers or the manufacturers they have Deep Pockets so yeah but I think you deserve a stand [Music] ination you need a sales job thank I think we're done all the and we have Elementary next month for U they wer available today [Music] was about 10 minutes maybe I was too busy asking questions consent agenda any discussion consent agenda that's yep okay um I there you have each of you have the budget amendment um essentially what it come down to in October of 24 uh Microsoft um issued an end of life for Windows 10 they typically have given us two to
025three years to rectify those issues this year they said you have a year so end of life what happened October of 25 um we felt like the the most appropriate thing to do was go ahead and get started um in replacing teacher devices um simply because summertime is such a busy time of the year that we we fear that we would just not be able to get everything done um fortunately this budget amendment comes with a reduction in one of our uh our our functions and an addition in the other um and later we will talk about um the bus financing we will not have to make a payment for those buses this year it will roll over into uh next year so that that's not an issue so we will be reducing that budget
026to zero and putting that same amount um in the data processing budget so that this purchase can be made um next a little further down we will actually ask you guys to approve the purchase of the laptops we're essentially buying 145 laptops for teachers AP principles counselors um and overall this is going to help us reduce our device footprint because now people may have multiple devices because they they move from campus to campus this will have one device that they will be able to take with them wherever they go desktops corre we thought it was more efficient more effective uh for the teachers so these are for the teachers right all of our our certified professional staff yes sir any further discussion a motion make a motion to approve consent agenda have a motion have
027a second all in favor motion carried I'll move us down to five action discussion items a consideration action if any to accept the certification of unopposed candidates and issue an order of cancellation for the trustee election I don't neighbor you think that oh okay okay I'll entertain a motion I make a motion to accept the certification of unopposed candidates and issue an order of cancellation for the trustee election have a motion I have a second all in favor motion carry consideration and action if any upon the 2025 2026 school calendar we uh David and I work together on this uh he had started the process so we continued it and basically it mimics this year's calendar ex ly uh new teachers will start July 31st um and um our regular staff that are returning will
028then start August the 1st that will be convocation they'll be uh the staff development days are highlighted in yellow you have a paper copy of that calendar and um we only made one change uh for for different reasons um in the calendar there was originally this year's calendar there were three half days um and we took two of those half days is away and made it a full day of Staff Development so you can see on October the 10th that will be a staff development day prior to fall break and the reason that I think that's important is because um really half days number one students don't see those as valid sometimes to come to school nor do parents sometimes um teachers struggle to get uh authentic instruction in because it's uh we have to
029get kids fed and it's a reduced schedule things like that so um I feel like uh keeping more full days in the calendar but taking this full day off allows the teachers then in October you typically hear we need time together we have all this beginning of year data we have alignment we need to work on and no sub so it doesn't cost the district anything to allow teachers a full day to work with either new curriculum or um um alignment things like that so anyway that will be that was about the only change I think is uh Friday October 10th uh you've got your fall break your Thanksgiving break um Christmas and uh the winter break still in um next February spring break at the end of March into April I uh heard that
030if any of those I would definitely be boot it out if any of that changed so that is absolutely not continue it will continue everybody loves this calendar um due to the um math we have to be here 75,6 minutes the students do we have um out of this calendar I hope this um this is right it's 77350 minutes so essentially there's a 1750 hours banked uh or hours that are banked which is approximately four banked days meaning that we have four days already embedded in the calendar before we have to take any weather days so um it is very helpful uh obviously either sometimes you get snow sometimes you get lots of rain and you never know what's coming so uh those four days do truly help um originally um those Bank days used
031to be used for Co now I feel like uh we have weather issues and we never know what's coming so um any questions on the calendar it's really essentially the same and we'll advertise that after this is appr I make a motion to approve the uh 2025 202 school calendar I have a motion I have a second all in favor motion Carri move us to see consideration action if any revisions of two policy uh DB okay uh policy DB basically um selfishly um we were very fortunate in the last is it 10 or 11 years to have a superintendent and a director of our assistant superintendent director of curriculum that lived in District and that's wonderful um however that is not always the case um and that may or may not housing may or may
032not be available necessarily for the assistant uh superintendent so right now in this policy it requires the assistant superintendent to live in District um I felt that it's obviously important for superintendent to live here but we may be able to Cat cast a wider net and receive more applicants if that were um uh changed into uh not having to live in the district however um assuring that in the job description which I edited and we ensured that there were uh statements of participation of District activities no matter what the hour it wasn't leaving it for it was participating in evening event and or being superintendent design um in multiple venues so um the purpose I believe in the past for this uh policy was to ensure they would participate in community events but that to
033me is a part of monitoring um so um that will still be the expectation but it just casts a little bit wider net your inventory is a little bit low around here FYI I've been Str I was struggling with that for a while so uh it just um opens the do any questions about that no I think it's long overdue and and uh with Angelina County and what we just went through in the in the superintendent search and all you know in inventory uh you all will make good decisions on bringing that person to us and uh I think this helps us get better qualified people and hey if they want jod or somebody to build them a house they can and it'll be fine but but I'm glad that we're changing that policy and
034and thus far I feel like it's worked we're up to I think 11 applicants today so we're we're super hopeful well I'll make a motion to approve the policy DB local as written a motion and a second all in favor motion car moves to D consideration action if any upon seeking bids for the sale of note for bus five financing yeah five buses for financing um so I provided you guys with a summary of the plan of Finance essentially what our financial adviser Samco Capital which we've used for the other the two previous uh bus financing um note bids they will do essentially seek bids from vendors we as a district we can't just go and sign a with International to buy buses um a financial advisor will seek bids to get us the best
035deal we're assuming the interest rate is going to get somewhere around 5% um where he's hoping he can get a little bit lower than that but you know on average that's what he's seen um you will see kind of the rundown of timing um assuming you guys um take action on this item and approve uh them to seek those bids he'll start that process tomorrow um at the March board meeting we'll actually prepare that packet for you um an action item for you guys to approve the uh assuming that note um and then we'll sign that agreement and would actually be issued the funds for the bus purchase um in April um we will carry that out of fund balance until we get that that money but if you guys will recall um I believe
036in August we did the budget amendment to increase our Revenue as well as that expenditure so that's all there uh Po's in um we're really set it really is just um having you guys give force of action uh to him seeking those bids and then we'll bring back to you in March um for for final um action if there are questions about the timeline obviously I'm happy to answer those for you but we will not make a payment until next fiscal year on those discussion motion make a motion to seek bids for the sale of the note for five buses for financing motion second second all in favor motion car e consideration action if any upon the purchase of 45 laptops yall tired of hearing from me tonight I apologize I'm glad to see you
037spending some money well it's got my heart rate up I know it does I know it does um and y'all think I'm kidding but my watch just said uh is this a [Laughter] workout okay so you let me say this in at Disney oh a week ago today matter of fact it got cold that night in shorts but between the two of us we had right at 60,000 steps that day around that time my Watchers were like hey somebody stole I mean we out but got it 60,000 between the two of us and we did not take a picture with the Mickey ear even though Shane was paying people to get us to do that so Hew on us say hey Shane that would look real good like plans now let's not get um you
038will see that there is a quote from CM CMC um they quote our stuff this quote came through tips which is a purchasing Co-op they actually Sho this uh for us for multiple vendors uh we're buying Dell L 145 Dell Latitude uh laptops um you will see the docking stations um and and the adapters that go with it the total uh cost of the purchase is $181,700 79810 we're seeking approval for the purchase of these laptops this will go of course in place because we did the budget amendment previously so assuming y'all um approved the purchase we will actually get that PO put in this week and get those on the way so we can start the process in hopes that we get it done really before summertime starts so Mr clion does this price
039need to be included in this motion is this a specific price is generically approved no sir I I would appreciate the the price and the motion if you don't mind just because it it covers me okay any further discussion I will entertain a motion make a motion to approve the purchase of 145 laptops from CNC for 18179 I have a motion second I have a second all in favor motion Carri F discussion only campuses special services and Technology up to campuses I'll start so we're uh spring semester busy uh most importantly coming up and kind of probably the same for everybody is our curriculum or our curriculum base assessments that we'll do high schools next week I think everybody so um we'll get thata from those release test to start making the final push towards
040our in of and start start I Echo the same thing Mr St said gear up for cbas the next couple of weeks um and an to see the results of those um other than that trying to get in classrooms as much as possible so hey same thing uh as preparation for um our end of year star and for the cbas the month of March we're doing some after school tutorials uh Monday through Wednesday um we've got some specific things that we're targeting even a specific group of students that we've invited to come to these tutorials so um the teachers are planning at some things that maybe don't look so tutorial is um trying to entice kids to come and to stay and to keep coming the duration of March um so we're hoping that we
041get some good results on that as well um same we're working on our cvas uh our teachers have been absolutely working their tails off we're in the classrooms all the time and the stuff that we see and the output from the kids and the input from the kids is just fantastic um we did have our after school enrichment for two weeks and we set it up very much how Miss pow was talking about um it's not just the kids who need the Boost it's the kids who need that enrichment and that building who are already High and the way that they set it up in the classrooms it was so activity based and the kids were eating it up they were upset when they didn't get to come so we want to see excellent special
042services they're um there's been quite a bit that has transpired in the special services department since December uh first thing though is tended a normal business just because there was a change in leadership didn't mean that deadlines stop or the work and so work of doing what's best for our students has to continue first and foremost and we try to ensure that daily that that business keeps going uh looming out in the Horizon we knew and we knew that it was coming was our cyclical audit every six years each school special education department subject to a desk review audit uh is consists of two parts first is a total review of the dyslexia program that we have in place since dyslexia now falls under the special education umbrella um we sent them a book that
043was about as thick as a Bible I hope they have fun reading it U the the second part was uh our comprehensive B review uh tea just at random because of our size uh selects 24 kids that we have to pull folders on they make sure all the components are there if we follow procedure basically if we're doing things the correct way uh both the dyslexia review and comprehensive review were submitted before the January 28 deadline however that's the only the first part of the process uh we're now waiting to hear back from tea with their findings uh tentatively that is scheduled for the end of March once we hear what their findings are we'll write whatever correction plan is needed to address those and we'll submit that to tea um we made a I
044made a point to visit with all the teachers on the campuses and the special education staff hear their concerns tried to identify where the largest problems with within the department and I believe that we've made tremendous progress towards addressing those issues and we'll we'll continue to do so at least through the remainder of the year uh the bones are good sometimes it just takes a little remod um as a staff we've met several times and we're revamping all of our operating procedures to make sure they align with state and federal policies and there's a whole lot of components to that but the end goal of all of it is to having a process that's streamlined across campuses from top to bottom and of course it takes time but I appreciate your patience I have to
045just comment that that's a huge undertaking number one streamlining anything is a huge under ask about curriculum ask about procedures and and uh there are so many rules associated with special programs whether it's 504 or Ida or all the things so I have to commend Chris for stepping in and running a campus and and uh stepping up to that plate because it is a real challenge uh to do that um so thank you for your team's hard work because I it's a lot it's it's a lot of uh there are a lot of unsung heroes there because a lot of times it's behind the scenes and it's um their nose are on a computer um or writing reports that take hours um I did not want to fail to ask um Mr Neil to talk
046about Pride because I know he has a a special announcement too for Pride all right we've had U we' had 11 graduates th far this year which is really good old Pace we currently have 12 uh 12 kids Pride I expect over half of them will graduate if they stay on pace so we're kind of falling within our typical 15 to 20 uh graduates for the year we did have one this past few weeks that graduated and proud of her um they and our pride kids exhibiting really good conduct and just good work ethic this year I think their attendance is improving a little bit that's something we always work hard on I know sometimes our numbers look a little low but as most of you know pride is some of the kids have some
047extenuating circumstances and we do try to get them there as much much as possible for for them to be successful um I want to thank I try to give a thank you occasionally and uh our pride kids are really utilizing the breakfast and lunch I know I don't know if that's possible every year but I personally see that every day how that that helps quite a few of the kids are pride and they're taking advantage of that so that's that's much much appreciated this year thank technology techology is busy as always what's that um with our cyber security currently using carbon black which is a managed EDR which is a endpoint monitoring system we're going to switch to a different program called sary that is a manage and monitor EDR ndr which it does the
048EDR part that we're already doing but it also watches the east west traffic on our Network giv us a better coverage they'll actually come in and do an audit on our Network make sure we've got everything secured as possible as well as onsite response if when we have an incident next we already discussed a little bit was the laptop purchase will be meeing with principles and scheduling thatment out so it'll have the smallest impact on their campus we're in the process of getting our door centers installed we've got about half of them on high school already it just takes time to get that system set up and everything L out where we're going complete a campus out of time the notifications for that campus and move to the next one next is our we'll have
049a new phone system coming soon you get a contract for that next month for approval so that will put a phone in every classroom as well as replace all the existing phones U next thing we're changing is we're going to change our content filter and our classroom management software all into a single software package it's called line wise uh we'll actually be doing proof of concept on that starting Thursday when we Implement that it'll it'll run in conjunction with what we currently have so we'll see if there's gaps in what we have um one thing that's very specific about this software as well as a few others really like how this one works it blurs Nona images and videos so if you do a image search and there's an image that should not be seen
050on a school device or at school it will blur immediately so you can't you can't you don't see you just see which is is helping lot with that but it does the behavior health monitoring it'll do the filtering it'll do the classroom management the next one is also a cyber security it's a a program for manag methods it will Monitor and protect data as well as accounts it makes it cannot stop an email from being sent but if an email is sent that has personally identifiable information credit card information any any information that should not be leaving the district it will flag it let us know what went out who sent it can stop it if U someone tries to log into one of our accounts from outside the US it will immediately suspend their
051account so most hickers are not from the US so when they try to log in from Russy wherever immediately their account gets locked they can't get so it'll help me sleep tonight um and the last thing is we have completed securing our Wi-Fi what that means is our Wi-Fi now has a certificate on it instead of a username and password based authentication so without that the only way you can get on is guest and guest is firewall where it goes out to the internet and that's it you don't get anything any resources inside the distri any questions all right I'll move us down to six titis report okay so uh Mr flowers um that's he's here to support this report together uh so any monthly expenditures you can see that attachment uh if you have
052any questions you can ask David um how's that I'll take ownership next month um attendance and enrollment uh as of uh February 7th 1,560 uh 93.9% uh Skyward visits um you can see that we have a Skyward what uh up from October to February um 16, 786 visits uh website 81,000 and the app about 2500 I wanted to add a piece here just a little blur um about the m library and I was invited to participate in a meeting I just wanted to share uh what an interesting relationship that and you all know this but this was new to me that the district has at Mullen Library um I learned it's 75 year history um and it's really unique in that there are very few school districts that have a public library connected and or
053associated with the school district I think Mr flowers told me we were one of the three I think three um um so it was great to see that they support our kids in summer programs and then my mind went nuts um so I thought okay what about we could do a lot of things during the school year we could get our future teachers our Taffy teachers in that library and look at some of the three-year-olds that are at home that might want to come to Story Time and um my mind went to National Honor Society service hours and uh student council service hours and all things that uh can happen in a library uh when I was at the meting meeting um now join the board which is great um one of the members is
054helping a Community member earn their GED and I believe this person is 65 ear earning their GED well and what a a wonderful opportunity to use the library for supporting our community members and a lot don't know that it's there or the resources that are available so that is a goal um they talked about struggling with their social media presence and needing some support with that and I think that's super easy to do and uh you have a resource that's very quietly sitting next door that um I think uh Miss Smith said that she sometimes kind of felt like a seep child and I said well you should not have said that because she will not here shortly she's going to be so busy uh working through the library and doing all the services and
055I know Pride takes a great advantage and they do a good job working with our students they're able to go how many times do you actually go to the library and check out book interrupt your board meetings also that's all right I love to have them come through a board day and there board meetings going on my kids that's all right so anyway it was a great I I had a wonderful time meeting with this uh group of people and can't wait to see different ways to expand the L environment um in the community so super good all right all right all move us down to seven executive session during course of meeting discussion of any item on the agenda should be held in meeting the bo conduct Clos meeting in accordance with the Texas
056open Mee act Tex government code chapter 551 sub chapters D now put us into session e e e back better I need motion for personnel report make a motion to pres approve the February 2025 personn report as presented I have a motion I have a second all in favor motion carry I'll move down to 10 adjourn