001It is 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7th, 2025. I call this board workshop and special meeting of the Kingsville Independent School District to order. We will have roll call. Joey Dallas here. >> Brian Kal here. Martin Chapa >> here. >> Joseph Reese >> here. Okay. >> Okay. David Garcia >> here. >> Jonas Selenas >> here. >> And I'm here to check the PZ. >> Let the record show that there is a quorum of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter State of Texas Open Meetings Act. We move to the moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance and the Texas pledge. I aliance >> to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. Nation under God, indivisible, with
002liberty and justice for all. Texas for the record, Joseph P, board president is u going to attend a meeting via Zoom. Item number four, public participation. Do we have anyone that wishes to address the board? Mrs. Pettis, anyone that wishes to address the board community. >> Welcome. >> Hi. I don't need a mic this time. I hope you can all join me because it's David's birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear David. Happy birthday to you. >> I got to put my touch on it. You old great goat. You ain't what used to be. You ain't what used to. You ain't what used to be. You old gray goat. You ain't what you used to be a long long time ago. [Music] >> That's going to be hard to follow. >> Okay, we're in
003item number five. I board of trustees will conduct a workshop to discuss the following. 5 A board I'm sorry bond refunding resolution 5B HM King drainage repairs construction update 5C health insurance terminal liability option 5B Kings all the trustee election day and 5B HME early college high school to PEC let's start with 5A's bond refunding resolution Dr. Thank you, Vice President Pettis um and Dr. Martinez and members of the board. The federal funds rate has decreased and and there is u anticipation that the rates will be decreasing further in the future. What this means for us is that we might have a chance to refund our bonds at a lower interest rate in the future. Just as if you have a home and you're able to refinance it at a lower interest rate and you're
004going to save money on on principal and interest over time. It is the same thing with our bonds. So what uh we're going to have a presentation by our financial advisor, Mr. Robert D. Hedina, who's going to talk about that and then uh we have our our bond council, Mr. Wana Aguilera as well too who will talk about a resolution to give the board president and the superintendent the authority to um enact the the resolution and uh when the conditions are ripe for bonds to be uh refunded. Uh Mr. Go ahead. >> Thank you Dr. Pittz again members of the board Dr. Martinez and staff for the record uh Robert Dehyina with the Hina Financial Consulting the school district's financial advisor and Mr. Hana bond council for the school district is also here this evening
005and I'm going to go over the plan of finance for the refunding bond. Uh before I go over page two, we all know the refinancing, we're not looking to enter into any new debt to increase the INS tax rate or add additional debt to the school district's name. Our goal is strictly to save money for the school district and the taxpayers. So, as Dr. Pit stated earlier, you sir, as Dr. Pit stated earlier uh Fed lowered interest rates last month a few weeks ago about midepptember about a quarter of a basis point. Even though that happened the market on the flip side went up about 10 basis points. We all know and reading some of the articles and watching some of the news stations that there is pressure for the Federal Reserve system to lower
006interest rates probably two more times between now and the end of the year. So we could see a cut occurring in October and possibly December with a few more cuts early part of next year. So again, this page is just an indication of what the 10-year Treasury note has kind of been our benchmark in the industry on what's happened uh this calendar year 2025. And again on the far right hand side with the dip, you see that the Federal Reserve system, if I can get this pointer to work, the Federal Reserve system lowered interest rates in between September and October, but the market went up about 10 basis points after that. So if we go to page three, this is pretty much where the refunding uh refinancing is. Using current market rates, we're considering refinancing
007two series that the district has outstanding, the unlimited tax refunding bond series 2015 and the 2016 about 7 million4 outstanding principal. And on the bottom left hand side of the page, we have the projected annual savings. uh second column uh titled private debt service that is currently right now of that 7.4 million principal and interest about 8.9 million. We were to refinance this debt we'd go from roughly 8.9 million to about 8.6 million. The refunding debt service column next to that and the pointer's a little weak there but the overall savings the gross savings is about 280,000. we would go from an interest rate of 4% to 2.65%. Based on the interest rate, this seems uh you know, let's pull the trigger. That's a a decent decrease in interest rates. But there's two things that
008Dr. Pittz, Dr. Martinez, myself, and Auan will look at is we want to make sure that the net present value savings is twice as much as the financing cost. And right now on the bottom right hand side of the page three we have MPV savings about 263,000. The financing cost is about 180,000. So we need the MPV savings to generate about 100,000 more savings for the school district which means the true interest rate cost slightly above that 2.65 that interest rates needs to go down. So we will not move forward with refunding until we meet two criterias. MPV savings twice as much as the cost of issuance and we need to get the interest rate a little lower. So we ran another scenario on page four. Assuming interest rates drop about 45 basis points. The
009savings, if you notice on the bottom right hand side, MPV savings jumps up to about 372,000. That's net. So that means it's twice as much as the cost of issuance. The interest rate on the prior page was 2.65%. We're estimating about 2.35%. And the percentage of savings uh at the bottom right corner is well over 3%. It's just below five at 4.96. So if this scenario, this item were to be approved by the board, I guess when the board gets into session at the board meeting and approves the parameters for the refunding for us to work together with staff to move forward with the financing, we need to make sure that we achieve the percentage savings and also the MPV savings generating twice as much. So the page before we know what the current market
010is right now. The financing does not make any sense. Interest rates need to drop in order for us to move forward with this financing. So on page five, we put a timetable. Assuming the board were to approve this item this evening, uh we would move forward with the preliminary official statements submitting PSF uh bond insurance application to TEA. we would have a rating and due diligence call on November the 3. And if the market interest rates were to come down, market rates come down, we are estimating a pricing date on December the 2nd and close the financing on December the 30th. And again, when we price the bonds on December the 2nd, the interest rates are fixed, the payments are fixed, and we would be able to achieve the savings that the board would be
011considering uh here in a few items approving for us to move forward. And again, this as Mr. Aguilad will come up here and discuss what the parameters resolution is. He'll let you know how long we have and what the document the resolution entails. If there's any questions from the board members or staff or myself or Dr. Pittz turn >> in just a minute I'll call up the bond council. So so in summary this is different from a defecence. A defecence is where we are paying extra on our uh debt so that we can pay less interest and principal in the long run. we're paying extra every year on it. Whereas this a bond refunding is where we are refinancing at a lower interest rate. So two separate things. The conditions are not quite there where
012it makes it worthwhile because we have to consider the the the amount of refinancing kind of like the closing cost for for a home. If you can't cover that and get something in addition to that, it's not worth it. But we are moving in that direction. And again since markets are volatile uh and there's not time to necessarily call a board meeting when market conditions are available that's why we are requesting uh permission now and then uh when market conditions are there that we can pull the trigger and I'll let uh Mr. Aguilera talk a little bit more about the resolution. >> One quick question Mr. Yes sir. Does that mean that the highest rate >> uh the that's the coupon, but it's on average the highest rate you have and it's a range of
013roughly just slightly of 4% to as low as 1.54%. So you have eight outst outstanding financings. Seven of them have been all refundings where you've gone from a high rate to a low rate. And the last two that the school district refinanced was in 2020 and 2021. And you went from a 4% almost a 5% down to 1.54 and 20 and 1.55 in 2020. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. I had a question on the fee that you the fee that you want. You're waiting on coming down at 100,000 >> 180,000 more or less. That includes uh the attorney general, financial advisor, bond counsel, uh the underwriters that are part of the team. uh they're the ones that are going to sell the bonds uh for the school district and uh the verification agent, paying
014agent, uh I think I said Texas Attorney General fee and the rating fee. >> Is is that on par with what they normally charge or did that >> Yes, sir. We've had the same contract for almost 20 years with the school district. So, that's pretty much on par. You'll have uh it all depends and varies on how much you're refinancing. If the dollar amount, this is roughly seven million and change. So if it was four or five million, the fees would be a little less. If it was about 10 million, the fees would be a little more. And that's clear across the board from the AG all the way down. Yes, sir. >> Thank you very much. My name is Juan Aguila. I'm with the uh the firm of Eskami and Panic and we we've
015been representing the school districts since about the early 2000s and as Robert mentioned, Mr. Tarina mentioned and um Dr. Pittz, this is a financing uh that the uh the district has considered in the past and you've uh authorized this type of financing. And so what we have in place today, the order that that is that was um that was that you're considering is a parameters order. And uh I know that Dr. Pitch mentioned I'll dubtail what he's saying the volatility of the uh of the market going up and down and that's more Mr. Perina's um expertise but the we're waiting to see that the interest rates drop to a certain point to make it something that is something that you would consider at all because of the volatility. The government code uh has been u
016was amended in back uh several years ago to provide for school districts, cities, counties, uh governmental issuers that are going to be doing a refinancing to adopt an order like this. We call it a a parameters order. And what we're doing is as has already been mentioned is if if it's the wishes of the board to adopt this order, you are now authorizing the your financial advisor, bond attorneys, your staff, Dr. Pittz to be able to look to see and and bring you the best possible financing. Now there are some parameters that need to be met and that's what is if the board allow adopts this the parameters uh for this financing are that as as Mr. Deherina has mentioned but there is there is a you need to have a a minimum of a
0173% savings. So if the um if the savings is not there and that's net of all the costs net present value savings. So the the savings are are there not there then we cannot move forward with this financing. Another parameters that we have is that the financing cannot be more any not more than 15,195,000. Now I know that we're not considering anything like that but m in consultation with Mr.'s uh firm we put in every single eligible uh maturity that is out there. So they will be looking at all the different maturities and they make they probably more than likely will be taking some maturities because some of them make sense to be refinanced, some of them do not. So that's we we put in and gave you the maximum flexibility and the last flex
018the last parameters that we have in place is that the interest rate and and I know Robert mentioned a lot much lower interest rate but the the net effective interest rate may not be more than 6%. So, we got all of these factors that need to be met in order for the financing to be able to to to be uh completed. So, uh another thing is that uh by adopting this order, you're authorizing the board president or the superintendent of schools to be able to finalize the final uh the final order. So, Mr. Tarina will be working with Dr. pitch with your superintendent with staff and when they feel like this is the maximum uh savings that the district can be able to go uh realize then they will come over and and make a
019recommendation and at that time either the board president the superintendent will be able to then finalize this financing if if it makes sense. This order is good for six months and Robert and I have been f we've worked in in financing in in the past where if the parameters are not met then we cannot go forward within six months. That's what you're authorizing for six months. If after the six month and one day the markets really come in and we can make a big savings, we need to come back to the board and and ask you for reauthorization and adopt an order similar to this one to allow us and give us 60 uh um I'm sorry, six months uh on on the uh on the on the financing. So again, this is something that
020is uh the board and Kingsville ISD has has entertained and adopted in the past and this is a uh the the the ability to be able to adopt a parameters order is something that the uh the the state law provides and it's something that a lot of issuers take advantage so they could be able to keep up with the volatility of the market. Are there any questions on the legal side? >> Yes, sir. The actual resolution that's been presented that we'll be looking at later on this evening has the blanks in it as we would expect it to have the blanket. >> But I want to make sure that we're all on the same page. Robert said an NPV savings of two times the finance cost is what we're looking at. >> There's one parameter.
021You said a minimum 3% in PB savings, which probably would be meet the two times >> I think. Yeah. If you don't can't meet the 3%, I don't think you're going to meet the other ones, >> right? >> Yes, sir. If we do not meet the 3% and we know right now 3% won't cut it. That's just going to be a floor. We know it needs to be closer to that 4%. Sorry. >> Then I don't have a problem with the the authorization of the entire 15,195 or whatever in case there were some additional opportunities. But then you talked about the net effect being less than 6%. >> That's the interest rate. Yeah. Now >> if it's at 6% this goes away. I >> was going to say the question I had to you earlier
022is that our average portfolio is or our portfolio is just shy of four >> 4%. And six doesn't really fly in there. Now here's the overarching question. How do we adopt this resolution with blanks in it and make sure that what we've discussed tonight is memorialized? >> Well, by by adopting this resolution or this order, you're memorializing and it's it's fixed, can't be changed. And the interest rate, as Robert will come in and explain that to you, is the if the net effective interest rate is goes up, you know, more at 6% or so, we're not going to be able to meet the savings. So, they both kind of work together in order to 6% is a ceiling, but it it it's going to have to be a lot less than that in order to
023meet the 3%. So what what we're doing is by what you're doing considering is by adopting this order, you're you're establishing ceilings and minimums so that that way you're giving direction to the board president and the superintendent as to what the intent is. >> And I have no problem with anything. I have no problem with what's been presented. I'm just wondering a quick glance through that resolution. I'm not sure those parameters are established in there >> like like where does it say% >> on page two u if you go to page two the second page on page two at the bottom of section one it says it's authorized by section 1207 and in there you'll see at the very bottom of the page 15 million195. So the bond shall be issued in a principal amount
024not to exceed 15 million195. Again, those are all the eligible maturities. >> And so that's not going to happen. Then you >> everything that you outline is in the >> Yes. Go Nick. >> Two of the top three. >> Yeah. Top of three. Right. >> The only thing that's not that that's not referenced is that two times the finance cost, but that's just a target that we're shooting for. >> Yeah. And the government code says that you can establish a minimum in uh uh a maximum interest rate, net effective interest rate and a minimum net present value savings. And and that's what the law and that's what we put in here. However, the three what Robert is telling you and he's the one that's going to be driven the driving on this thing. He is
025the one that's looking at this at the savings overall. But Robert, if if again if we don't meet the 3% we're not going to be able to come with the what you're saying. Right. >> Right. Even if we meet 3%, we still wouldn't pull the trigger because the savings would not be twice as much as the cost of business. >> Absolutely. It won't happen. And we've we've been with consultants uh I mean with other clients to where the savings was right there 3% but then when we actually look to price the bonds 2.90%. We didn't price we didn't meet it. You guys have over the years saved us an awful lot of money doing this. An awful lot of money and and I appreciate it and I trust it. I trust you both. Please drive
026safely. >> Absolutely, sir. >> I appreciate the word. And keep in mind what you're what you're adopting today if you choose to do so is you're given the authorization to consider and you you set parameters. Dr. Pittz and your superintendent are going to be the ones that going to come in and say no that's not that's not good enough. That that's good. And Robert does a very good job to make sure that the savings are going to be there. So we're just setting again the law says sets parameters. So, we're setting a maximum interest rate, which if it goes all the way to 6% the we're not gonna it's not going to happen. And we're also saying a minimum of 3% net present value saving and net off all costs and expenses. If we can't
027meet that, then it's not going to happen. And and again, we hope that it it we can be able to get some savings to the district, but if we really know have no control over that, that's the markets that have control over that. But again, this is good for six months. It's not forever. If it doesn't work in six months, and Robert and I have done this in the past, we have to come back all the way back because then the markets changed seven months from now. And now it's done. But we'll come back. Hopefully not. Hopefully can get done and get you some savings now. So this item will be voted on in the special meeting after the workshop. >> Yes sir. >> Thank you gentlemen. Appreciate it. >> Okay. The next item is
0285B HM King drainage repairs construction update. Dr. Fitz. >> Thank you. Um Mr. Bington is here from AGCM. They are project managers. They are going to give an update on the drainage repair uh project at the high school. Um and then we will talk about any potential change orders that are needed as well. >> Good evening. Good morning. Good evening. My name is Amos Bington. Uh we are hired uh I work for AGCM. We were hired to manage this project and um I've been here a few times giving some updates. Uh tonight's uh uh an update that I think is uh more pleasant than the last update that we gave. Um uh I want to recap. So again at a very high level um the the goal here was to prevent the rain water from
029going underneath the building and protect that protect the building and the and the community's interests in in this building. Um it was a long process uh and we're down at the very bottom still in construction. This is uh this when we when the contractor was hired, this was a spreadsheet or some numbers that I was sharing with you guys. And I put it in here just for reference purposes. I'm not going to spend time on it. I'm going to go to the next sheet. I actually broke this down into two sheets. Um so on this first sheet there was soft costs. This next slide is about soft cost. Nothing has changed here uh with the exception of um I I highlighted the things that have changed since the last time we talked. Um there is
030a material testing allowance. Um it's 15 grand. Uh we still have a balance of a little over five grand and that I don't think we're going to spend much more of that. Um maybe one or two more tests and then after that the balance comes back to the district. I I want to take a quick um moment to look at this photograph. And I'm actually going to go back and look at this photographs. Um when I was putting the slideshow together, this is the same slide that I was showing you in the past. But that's about a foot a little over a foot of water underneath that entire high school. And I was remembering how um how horrible that is. Um, and during construction, this was a photograph that was taken during construction. This is
031on the backside. This is uh not a super heavy rain. Um, but that's the amount of water that comes from one roof drain. And I I was just thinking all of that is no longer going underneath the building. And I think that is just a victory in itself. Um this is the this is the hard costs and again I highlighted everything in everything in yellow are the things that changed since the last time we talked. Uh up at the top uh there was an alternate in this bid um to do insulation. It was outside of our budget and it was something that we could do at a later date. And so um there's a a zero there. I I do want to say that we have seen some condensation on the bottom side of slab
032on the bottom side of the slab and I I I bring it up only that it would we probably shouldn't forget that there is some insulation that probably needs to go back at some point in time. Um I'm jumping down to last time we talked we talked about a change order one and a change order two and they were all coming out of the $50,000 contingency. So they were all needed reasonable and uh they're all coming out of the 50,000 and it wasn't going to affect uh the bottom dollar. Since then there are uh four proposed change orders. These are approximate dollars um and they will become more concrete as we get more better cost estimates. One is a $6,000 uh proposed um change order number three, which has to do with some plants um
033that are back on the back side of the building next to the mechanical yard. That is something that we can lower that or actually uh not do any plants at all, but that is uh that just that's $6,000 placeholder for some plants on the back side. There's a $3,000 uh proposed change order number four for some splash blocks. And actually, I'll say that it's for this right here. Um, when we realized how far that water is overshooting that new mo strip, that concrete mo strip, we feel like there needs to be some rocks um that will be put down um in a border um that will retake the energy of that water and keep it from washing any dirt away. And so that's what that $3,000 is on on this page. There's a $10,000 placeholder.
034Um, we were asked about the as the roof drains come down, uh, I don't have a picture of it, but as the roof drains come down inside the building, they come out of the building. Uh, that is on the back side. And on the front side, there's PVC pipe that comes out of the wall and goes down underground. We've been asked to see if there was some cosmetic way of changing the way that looks. And that $10,000 I'm talking about is a place where as we look at options of of of um cosmetically looking at the PVC pipe. Uh there's a $200 there's a manhole that needs to be raised and it's just a matter of some rings that get added to the top and that's about a couple hundred dollar. Um, I want to
035go over to the the I'm going to go back up here for a second to the under slab drainage alternate that was taken. It's $39,454. Um, as we do, uh, as as we're understanding more information about the slopes of the soils underneath the building at as they go to drainage inlets, we're realizing that in the Prisma report hearing the lawsuit, um, those drain inlets probably don't need to be lowered. And so there may be some cost savings in that 39,000. probably about half of that. So, I just want to keep that um bring that to your attention that as that gets developed more, I'll be able to report um on that. Uh I'm going to move to the other side. In the base bid, um it included three allowances. There was a demo insulate uh
036an insulation demolition allowance of 24,000. Uh there was a $16,000 pipe hanger allowance. And of course, there was the $50,000 contingency allowance. Um it does look as if we're we're going to go over on the um the insulation demo allowance. We had 24,000 slated. The total cost of work is 31,000. And that is that is determined by the amount of insulation that was left underneath the slab that hasn't fallen down, which was not truly known at the time. So, we asked for a unit cost. That unit cost was 75 cents of a square foot. And as we went down there, we realized there's about 70% of it left that needs to be removed. And the cost of the work is going to be about 31,000. That means there we're over on that about 17,000, but
037I'm going to show it's not uh it's going to come out of the $50,000 contingency and we're not going to be asking for any additional money in the long run. In fact, as I go down to the 16,000 pipe hanging allowance, uh we think that's a similar kind of allowance with unit costs. Um we weren't truly didn't truly have an understanding of how many pipe hangers that needed to be replaced. And so as now we know, we think that it's going to be about $12,000. So we're gonna have an extra $4,000 in that location. And so now I'm going to jump down to the $50,000 contingency. The sum of all the change orders um the one through six is 34,000 giving leaving us 15,000 uh in excess which will absorb the 17,000 for the insulation
038minus the 4,000 for the pipe hangers. And let's not forget that we think that the 39,000 under slab drainage alternate will get reduced as as well. So we're going to come in well within the budget now. I wanted to share that with you. Any this is a good time for questions if there's any questions. >> Could you go back to that picture? >> Sure. It's okay. >> Question. We got three spouts. One's trickling, one's nothing coming out the other. >> Okay, great question. So, um, some of that roof is is a pitched roof. And so, it it all collects in a gutter and downspout situation. And so, that's what the square is on the on the on the left. That's a down spout that collects rain water from the pitched roof. The rest of the
039roof is a flat roof. And so it all goes to internal roof drains in the building and comes out the side. That that one to the right is an overflow train. So if the one in the middle doesn't work, it's got an overflow and it should never have any water. If it's working if the if if all everything's working correctly, there should never be water coming in the out of the overflow >> on on the overflow rocks that you're going to place. They will be secured correctly. So you can't I mean are they going to be able to be moved around or kicked around or picked up? >> We were going to put a similar border that we'd used in the landscaping in the front and then put the block box the um they'll be
040they'll be about six inches big and they'll just be piled in there so that they have an edge for non-maintenance and stuff like that. But it it'll absorb all the energy from that water. >> Good. I know it's going to absorb energy, but I can just go pick one up. I want >> you could Yes, that's correct. >> And there there's rocks in the front, too. So, um and these these actually be bigger than ones in front. >> Thank you. >> So, let me go to the next. Oops. Okay. Okay. So, I was going to go over a little bit of quality control just for y'all's information and I'll go through this fairly quickly. So, construction quality control, some of the quality control measures that we've been doing there. There has been two letters of
041non-conformance that were issued to the contractor. One was for not many hitting their milestones and uh at that point we started monitoring their every day. They had to send us their daily goals for the next day. actually for the next five days, but um they updated it for the the very next day. We needed to know their manpower and uh and then at the end of the day, we would track it to see did you accomplish what you set out to do and did you have the right kind of manpower. Um the second letter of non-conformance was uh they actually missed their uh contractual substantial completion date. uh liquidated damages damages became into effect and I didn't mention that earlier but in the end they'll probably be around a little over $8,000 worth of liquidated
042damages. Um there is a deficiency log uh that we've uh uh been tracking and uh as a result of that um they staffed the project in a different way and they we've seen a lot of positive results as as a result of them staffing the project uh uh in a better way. >> Question. because they missed their deadline. We're we're receiving how much back for that? >> It it's $200 a calendar day and in the end it'll be about $8,000. >> Um currently there's about 27 items uh and some of them are collective issues on that deficiency log. Many of them have been corrected and um I'll show you some examples in a minute. Uh, one of the bigger items was a trench train rework. I had to re redo the trench trains at the
043entrances of the building. And forthcoming will be a punch list that will be uh that will happen at the time of the inspection of substantial completion. Okay, this Oops. One more. Okay, here we go. Uh these are some pictures of kind of the quality control measures I was talking about. Um the there's several pictures there of uh trench trains that go across uh the fronts of the building. They were in that top left. They were just not put in uh straight level uh in an ADA compliant fashion. So they had to cut them out and put them back in the uh top right. Um there was a there's a guy there. He's reworking a box. It was put in in the wrong location and at the wrong height. So, they had to replace that with
044a new box. Um, again, there's several of these. These were just some of the bigger ones I wanted to bring to your attention. Um, this is a schedule. Um, it's uh this is the same schedule I show you time. This is the new schedule. Um, as of as of uh earlier today. Um these are really the last um three weeks and the last week uh from the October 20th through the 24th is punch list items. So assuming they don't need to spend too much time on punch list items, which that's kind of our goal of the deficiency log is to try to keep them fixing things before the end of the project. Um they they may not need to work too much on that on that last week. But the in general um they should
045finish around the 17th. It's uh it's about a week more than what we were projecting. Um the kind of activities that are still left has a lot to do with the stuff underneath the building uh the insulation and the pipe hangers. >> Who's involved in that punch list? You get >> So it is uh it is y'all's option. We're obviously going to be there and if y'all want to participate then y'all are there and and so that's typically you guys have somebody at the table. >> We know who that going to be. >> That that will be myself and somebody from maintenance. >> Yes. Right. they can make sure that they walk them around, but they're the ones with the so they're going to be on on stand as well. >> So each one of
046you is going to have a punch list. It's not going to just be one person with a punch list. >> So there's been different ways of doing it, but um the way I see this happening is it it'll be a group of people that walk around together and look at everything and generate a punch list together as a group. >> So you'll have one punch list. >> Yes. Everybody agree to it. Sign off. >> All right. >> Any questions about the schedule? >> Okay. These are just some progress photos just uh these are these are recent photos just kind of u you know there's some concrete being poured and some uh you know reworking some of the um grades and so forth. This is again at the bottom we're starting to see the finished product.
047Again, these are more finished products. They just put down a lot of the soil, the the sod um over the last few days. And that's it. If there's any questions, let me know. I just wanted to point out a couple of things. Number one, the funding for this was through the settlement that we had. So, the the funding completely covers that. And there they're uh depending on there may be one to $200,000 left over that we can use for other um projects around the high school, and there are several for sure. Uh and then we did have in the in the special board meeting, we did have an item to approve additional change orders. That was just in case it went over the 50,000. We didn't know at the time, but since then, uh, we
048do have the the amounts of the change order, so we're not going to need that item for additional approval when we get to the special meeting today, uh, because it's already within the contingencies that were in the contract. Any questions for myself or for our project manager? >> Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Thank you, gentlemen. >> Okay, next item. 5C health insurance terminal liability liability option. Mr. or Dr. Pit, >> thank you very much. So whenever you are moving from one health insurance vendor to another, there is something called terminal liability. So, there are going to be claims that were incurred before December the 31st, but are not processed and paid until after December the 31st. So, uh like for instance, let's say that someone had a catastrophic issue on December the 25th.
049There is no way that that claim is going to be processed and paid before our insurance ends on December the 1st. So we have an option to get terminal liability um with the previous vendor. So what that will do is they will help us process and and pay them. And furthermore, if that claim pushes the individual stop-loss over $225,000 uh in January or February or March, then the stop loss will still be in coverage. So, it's like a continuation also of the stop-loss policy as well going into the new year. But again, there is a cost to it. The estimated cost, it depends on how many people we have on the policy at the time in December, but the estimated cost is a $141,000, which gives us about six minutes of terminal liability. And let
050me invite um Erica Scramusa over to talk a little bit more about it. He she is from Phil ESL and Associates. Hi, good evening. Um, so basically what Dr. Set Pit said is correct. You have the option to purchase it through Etna. Um, you can also have the option to purchase it with your new carrier. So you can have a run out, you can have a run in. Um, I would recommend pricing it out and seeing what the best price would be would would be. Um but I don't so >> we have spoken with the new company and he has said that um it will be much more cost-effective to do it with the previous company. >> Thank you. >> So for four months we calculated your maximum exposure you want. >> Okay. So four
051months we calculated the maximum exposure to be about 1.33 million. That's like worst case scenario. and at six months about 1.99 million. So about two. Um but again the fee is they're charging you we found is going to be like the rate that they're going to charge you no matter what your fixed cost. So 10741 times the number of members that are on the plan. You're looking for a fourmonth run out about 150,000 to 225,000. That doesn't include the claims because you have to pay the claims. Um, so I mean we really need to see more information honestly to be able to give a more firm um number and that would be things like has anybody already met the individual stop loss at the end of when we're getting closer to this term. Um, have
052they met the aggregated stop loss and then um we would need an updated claims report to kind of see what the claims are looking like trending like at that time. So, this is kind of looking far out in advance to give you a firm number, but um as far as your options, that's kind of what they're looking for. >> So, to reiterate, we are self-funded right now. We are moving to fully funded. However, there are still going to be some claims that are incurred before December the 31st that we are still on the hook for because we are really self-funded for whatever happens to December the 31st. So, as Erica was saying that we we pay close to we have the option to pay close to $140 to $150,000 for what could be at worst
053$1.9 million of extra claims that we could be on the on the hook for. So, um it is quite uh a sizable amount of money to pay, but again, the risk is quite a bit more than that. Uh any questions? We're not voting on this today. We we do need to let them know 30 days in advance. So by the end of November, we need to make a decision, but we just wanted to start bring it to you. Now, this is the first time. We'll probably also bring it in the November workshop and then make a decision by the November meeting of whether we are going to purchase this um this terminal liability coverage. Suppose somebody has an accident mid December and it leads to complication after complication after complication. How how do you divide?
054I mean >> if the person would be covered >> under the new policy for anything happening after that but is the new policy holder going to claim all these evils came from this old? >> No. So basically they'll pick up any claims beginning January 1, but anything incurred before that will go to your TLLLO to your runout if it hasn't been filed by then. The average time to process a claim is about 60 days. So that's why you need a coverage like this so that if you have anybody who's or claims that haven't been filed, doctors haven't submitted them. It takes a while for all of that. It's going to cover up until December 31st. So there's no lasers on anybody. This fully funded plan is going to accept everybody the way they are starting
055January 1 and all the claims that come with them. So don't know if that answers the question. So to un to make sure I understand you correctly is ESC was it 100? >> Yes. >> That is that still looking like the front runner? Is that what I understand? >> Yes. Yes sir. And and that is the one where when we brought the bids to the board that was sizably uh less expensive than the others. Um so that is is again the one that the board has has approved. But what we're talking about here is kind of the I I guess the stop gap between one and the other to make sure that any claims that are that are carried over that we are covered when we're moving from self-funded into fully funded. >> And the
056closer it gets, it would it would be a good idea for us to come and bring all the numbers so you all can see everything, really understand it. We can look at the claims, the pending claims that we have, if we have something ongoing like you said, which most groups do. And so then that way we can do a good analysis of everything. But this is just to kind of make youall aware that it's going to come. And that's all self-funded plans. You have to have a run out. >> So again, timeline, we'll we'll bring some more accurate numbers as we come to the November uh workshop. We do need to make a decision by the November board meeting whether we're going to purchase this terminal liability coverage or not. >> Thank you. >> Okay.
057Item 5D trustee election date. Dr. Pittz. >> Thank you, Mr. Pettis. So, we have brought this before. Again, the board does have the option uh up until December the 31st to change the trustee election date for the district. We are able to change it from May, which we currently have it in even years, but the legislation only gives us the option to change it to November in odd years. So, uh, if we decided to do that, then, uh, the next election would be November of 2027. Anybody that is up for reelection in May of 2026 would now be up for election in November of 27. Anybody that is up for election in May of 2028 would be up for election in November of 2029. I'll open it up for any discussion and questions. >> I
058think the legislator made a mistake >> and and I think they're going to correct that mistake because I think they're going to have a lot of people scream. It makes absolutely no sense to have the uniform election in odd number of years. State, the federal is all done in even number years. The only thing that comes up in November, a odd number of years, is if the legislature creates some constitutional amendment like they have this year, and they have in in the past couple sessions. And they may, but at some point, the constitutional amendments are going to have to stop. So, we would be the only ones out there on an odd number year having an election, which we're not authorized to do. We've got a le we're between a rock and a hard place
059here because we are required to have a joint election. Correct. And the city has now gone to four-year terms. Yes, sir. >> And so every two years we're not going to have anyone to have a joint election with. So either way we move, we got a legal issue. >> Yes. In 2026, the city will not be having an election. They're having it now. The next one is in 2028. >> Well, sir, the solution is there really is no solution. I have spoken out late with Texas Secretary of State Elections Office in-house legal council to confirm our interpretation of the statute that it is interpreted correctly. Was also a little bit surprised at the language. She said that's what it says. It says odd years in November. I did discuss the situation that we have here
060in Kingsville ISD. Uh he also said well sir that that is what's the statute said kind of repeated himself a little bit on that one. So do have to have our joint elections do have a statutory option of audit November elections. Moving either direction does not solve our issue but it is an option available to us. As far as election cost, Mr. Kufall, you're correct. Unless there is some other constitutional amendment going on, we would be alone. Now, I have gotten with the county and they have told me that usually there is some type of constitutional amendment in November. Usually they have something that we could piggy back off of to save cost savings. like when we get to the special meeting and we have the contract with with Clayber County, we are going to
061be splitting the cost for that election because they have constitutional amendment 17 as a matter of fact going on. But even if they only had one constitutional amendment, we would piggy back and be able to save cost. And not only cost, but we would be able to save also time and manpower because they're going to be the ones securing all of the judges and the clerks. They're going to be the ones that are taking care of the applications for ballots by mail and everything and the voting machines and everything behind the scenes. So, um, but but you're right. If if there is a situation where they're not, then we would be all alone as well. As it stands right now, our election is set for May 2026. >> Yes, sir. >> No one else has
062an election in May of 2026. >> How do we pull that off? We don't we've come into this issue before and again I I have sought the the guidance of the elections department secretary of state the law as written doesn't give us options for not holding a joint election statistics we must hold a joint election consultation with myself and the board at the time we decided to pursue an election believing it to be the lesser violation to not hold a joint election versus postpone an election which would be much more in my opinion previous violation of the laws of the state of Texas. So in this case if we were to change and there is an election in November 27th we would be shortterm avoiding our May 26th problem of joint election but that doesn't
063mean we'd be preventing another future problem that's been an ongoing issue here at Kingsville that we have to address. We do have to make a decision by the end of December. So I I can continue to bring this back at another workshop for later time with more information. Although I don't know what information we would be able to bring at that time we might be at the same standstill. Have you u discussed this with any do you know what other school districts are doing who may be in the same similar situation? >> I have not worked with a school district that did not have enough entities around it to have a joint election election season. I have worked with districts who have changed their election for reasons like this to make it easier or more
064congruent or aligned with other local and state elections. But this has been a unique and case of first impression to me working here in Kingsville and I was not able to ask or I'm sorry when I did ask they were unable to find other cases like yours at the uh Department of Elections as well. So it's fairly unique. Okay, let's throw this out the window and suppose that we just so this day wanted to change our elections from May to November and we opted we were proposing to do that in even number of years so that we were sure that there would be a November election. How how would we absent this absent this uh legislative bill, how would we go about doing that? >> We currently cannot change our election month. We're talking changing
065to a November even year election. >> Yeah, >> we currently cannot do that. There was a change just like this one from the legislative session that allowed that change years back. It has a sunset provision in it and it just passed. >> I I I really think they made a mistake and I think they're going to correct this in in the next session. Um because this is this is this is goofy. I think there was certainly some legal gymnastics going on or legislative gymnastics in drafting of this bill and have the end result out of the sausage shop. We have the resulting package, right? But uh all parties agree language as we are interpreting it. It's the only way to interpret. I wouldn't be surprised they revisit it, but typically it's several years in between
066each of these uh provisions allowing change. the last 2014. >> Thank you, Dr. Thank you. Appreciate it. Next item is 5e HM King EC to PEK. Mrs. Flowers Good evening board president and board members and Dr. Martinez. Um I'm here as the assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction with Miss Jennifer Flowers who will present to you the transition the proposal for uh transition to early college high school from M college to PE. Good evening. Thank you for the introduction. Um so we are just going to present some information just for your consideration um in a transition from an ECHS to a PEK at HM King uh high school. So for starters, uh PEK, that's our pathways and technology early college high school. and it's going to integrate our high school curriculum, college, and career prep into
067one program. Uh some of the key features, it aligns a little bit um more with what our current curriculum is at the high school in terms of offering those industrybased certifications for our students. It still allows our students that opportunity to earn an associates degree. Uh there is more of an emphasis on career aligned pathways and CTE. Um and then it's going to have some structured work-based learning opportunities as well. So rationale for this possible possible transition. So our curriculum currently aligns a little bit better with the state outcomebased measures for PEK. Um and we do need to meet these outcomebased measures. There's access, achievement, and attainment. uh it expands a little bit beyond the AC ECHS model and it embeds career readiness and industry certifications in the uh program itself and then it's going
068to enable us to strengthen our ability to meet these designations just because our curriculum does align a little bit better with PTE. So I bear with me. I know some of these slides have a lot of information and again just for your consideration. Um so these annual performance targets. So our our campus does need to meet these outcomebased measures. So there's access which is ensuring our students uh have equal enrollment opportunities in the program. There's achievement so demonstrating that strong academic performance and then attainment. So delivering college credit and credentials that lead to that post-secondary success. Um if we do not meet these targets, we will need like we do need to um send our our credentials to the state at the end of the year um in order to maintain these designations. If we
069do not meet these outcomebased measures, we'll have to come up with a plan kind of like a school improvement plan um in order to make sure that we are going to meet them in the future. Um, is the plan going to go into effect right now? No. So, this would this would be something that we apply for and I believe and correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Obato and Miss Mo, it's a four-year transition plan because we do need to uh graduate our students that are currently enrolled in ECHS. And then um our our incoming class would be would be PEK. So, we don't leave our kids high and dry, right? we're ready to transition them into this into this new program if that's what y'all see fit. So our first outcomebased measure is access
070and uh the targets are the same for both ECHS and PEK. So this would not change uh if we move forward with this program. Uh we must meet the atrisisk and emot and economically disadvantaged targets. Um our our atrisisk students we can have no more than 25% under the district percentage. And as far as our economically disadvantaged students that are enrolled in the program, we could be no more than 10% under that district percentage. And in terms of our our real-time data for the students that we have, we can look at the class of 2029. Um the students that we have currently coded at risk that are enrolled in the ECHS program, uh 63% of them are are coded at risk. And in terms of our taper report for 2324, our at risk percentage was
07171.9. So we are well within that 25%. We have uh 85% of our students coded economically disan disadvantaged in the class of 2029 that are enrolled in ECHS. Uh and then according to our taper report in 2324, our district percentage was at 78.1. So we are within that both again for ECHS and PEK are the same for that access target. So I do want to apologize members of the board. I did change the format of this a little bit just to make it look a little different. The information is exactly the same on the slides uh that you have but I apologize. I I should have had the insight to do this before I I submitted it uh to you last week. uh these are six achievement targets that we must meet. Um we have
072to meet three out of these six for the achievement outcomebased measure. So they look at our algebra 1 EOC, they look at our English 2 EOC and our TSI TSI A2 score. Um and you can see 70% of students hitting that approaches by the end of nth grade. um for algebra 1, 70% hitting that approaches by the end of 11th grade and then 60% of our students are hitting that TSIA score by the end of 11th grade in math. And here's the other three question. Yes, sir. >> Just so you've got an implementation process for You've got an implementation process going to take basically four years. So do you have five years to reach this 70%. >> So this is going to go by their their graduating class and this cohort. So the cohort is
073going to move along. Um so the the ninth graders now they need to meet certain targets by ninth grade. They need to meet certain targets by 11th grade. >> All right. But it would be like if it if magic wand all approved we start this next year. We're not saying that 90 or 70% of the nth graders have to reaches by the end of next year. >> So we're we're just looking at our students enrolled in ECHS. So it's not in total of our ninth graders. So just the students that are enrolled in ECHS because they're the ones that are helping us to meet those designations with the state. >> All right. >> Okay. But as those those ninth graders, so for TSIA, they have until 11th grade and we want 70% of them by
074the time they reach 11th grade to hit that specific target. >> How realistic is that? >> Well, where we are now? Yes, and I I have those numbers for you. So, let's let's go through some real time data and then I think maybe we can have have some clarifying questions here. Um, so we're going to look at our class of 2026 and and that's our senior senior class. So, our algebra 1 EOC, we needed 70% of those students enrolled in ECHS to hit that approaches by 9th grade and we had 80%. So, we did hit that one. uh English 2 EOC we needed 70% to uh hit that approaches grade level. By the end of 11th grade we were at 95%. Uh and then our TSIA we did not meet that target. So we were
075at 24% and we needed 60 and that's in math. And then of the other three targets there's six in total and we need to meet three of them. So our TSIA in reading we needed 70%. Our class of 2026 is at 32%. uh our high school graduation rate. So, we need to be within 5% of the statewide four-year graduation rate. According to the taper report in 2324, we were at 82.7 and the statewide four-year rate was 90.3. And historically, we have seen an increase in our graduation rate over the last three years. And I I believe we talked about that the last workshop with our accountability scores. Um and obviously, our class of 2026 is yet to be determined. And in terms of our college readiness, so that's our TSIA criteria in math and reading.
076Uh as per the CCMR definition, we needed 40% and we were at 16. So I will tell you our ECHS uh designation, we did not meet the achievement uh outcome based measure. So that we we didn't meet three out of those six. Does this mean that all students that that pass all the parts of the star test, does this exclude the ones that go to committee and then are graduated passion? >> I I don't know the answer to that off the top of my head. I can get you that info though. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> Hang on. Miss Moore has answered your question. So it does exclude them. It does not. >> They're included. >> They're excluded. Okay. >> So, do we know more? That's how many we had last year that
077what committee under 30 maybe or >> I can if you give me a second, I can pull that data and give it to you. >> Yeah. I just just wonder. >> Okay. I can pull it for you. All right. Mr. Ku, did that clear up your question? >> Yes. >> Thank you, sir. Okay, so we're going to go over some theoretical data. So, if we were trying to reach that PEK in achievement, right? So, this is that one outcomebased measure achievement. and if the if we were designated as PEK where where we would be. So these are the six things that we would need to hit right. So again it's going to look at that algebra one EOC English 2 EO E EOC that college readiness TSIA2 score it's going to look at that high
078school graduation rate and it's going to look at our CTE program status by the end of 11th grade and then by graduation. So those are those two right there uh that do align a little bit more with the curriculum that we offer. Um we are a CTE head heavy program and this would help us meet those measures um just be just because of what we offer already at our high school on our [Music] >> Yes. So and and we'll go over these here right now. So our algebra 1 EOC again our class of 26 would hit hit hit that um same with our English too right same data uh we would not have hit that college readiness in math and EL by graduation except >> yes yes and that is by graduation this is current
079data I'm sorry thank you Mr. um our high school graduation rate um you know same same data that we had with our ECHS. So that 827 is from our our last paper and then 90.3 is that statewide 40ear average and then our CTE program status by 11th grade. Uh so our our class of 2026 was at 50%. Uh we would have needed 55%. So pretty close on that one specific target, but our uh 65% by by the time they hit graduation, obviously we're we're not quite there yet, but uh these kids need to make it from 50 to 65%. So um we can we can say our preliminary data will probably have the completer status is approximately going to be about 80%. questions on this because I know that I mean this is all hypothetical
080targets here and then that last outcomebased measure is attainment. So, um, both for ECHS and PEK, they would need to hit three out of these targets in order to, um, meet that outcome based measure in attainment. So, earning uh, earning nine college credits by the end of 10th grade, 40% of our students earning that ELA or math college credit by the end of 11th grade. And that does tie into TSIA scores as well because they do need that in order to enroll in those ELA and math uh college courses. Earn 15 college credits uh by the time or 50% of our students, excuse me, earn 15 college credits by graduation. Uh 50% of our students uh achieve core completion by graduation. 50% of our students earn an associates degree by graduation and 75% uh remain
081enrolled in that ECS program. So those are those six targets that uh we would need to meet three of those. >> So if our students uh can pass a PSI in the summer coming from 8th grade into freshman that would help us a lot there. >> Yes, sir. and then they would be able to enroll in some of those uh English and math um courses at the college level as well. >> So this is our our data for the class of 2026. Um so we had uh 37% of our students earned nine college credits by the end of 10th grade. 21% earn that ELA or math college credit by the end of 11th grade. Again, goes back to those TSIA scores. Um, and then our um 26% of our students earn 15 college credits by
082graduation, but of course, we're not we're not quite at graduation yet, so we do have some time left on that one. uh 3% of our students uh are hitting that core uh completion and then our our target for an associate degree. So I think we have roughly 10 students that are looking to um uh get their associates degree by the time the school year is over. Um unfortunately not all of them are in the ECHS program. So, not even all of those 10 students are going to uh impact our target on this. Um, and then persistence. So, 75% of our students enrolled remain in that program uh through graduation. So, again, that's where we're at now. And then we can do those theoretical um PEK attainment um targets. So, for PEK, we would need 50%
083of our students to earn three college credits by the end of 10th grade. we would need 40% of our students to earn nine college credits by graduation and then 40% of our students to earn 15 college credits by graduation. Um and then our other three so we can have our 50 uh 30% of our students earn an associates degree or a level one or level two certificate by graduation. Uh 50% of our students earn an industrybased certification by graduation. And then uh with that persistence to staying in that program, 75% of our students enrolled in PEK would remain in that program through graduation. So some of our theoretical data, so our class of 2026, 61% uh would have earned that those three college credits by the end of 10th grade. 42% would have earned nine
084college credits by graduation and 26% would have earned 15 college credits by graduation. But again, we're not quite at graduation, so we have some time to to boost that number. So, our our target for earning those uh associates degree and those level one and level two certificates, again, um we we don't have all of that information yet, but we're looking at about 10 10 students earning that associates degree. And then our industry based certification, uh I believe we're on target to hit about 50% of those uh students enrolled. And then um obviously we can't really give you too much of persistence data since we have no students currently enrolled in PEK. So I know Miss Williams did p pass out a handout to you. Um it is a map of region 2 and then it's
085also a list of uh schools in region 2 and the programs that they offer. So you can see the majority of the schools in districts in region two have moved to a PEK program. Um those that are uh blue on on your sheet uh they're in a multiple program year and that's because they're transitioning from an EC ECHS model to a PEK model. And then um you can see at the very bottom on the list there's the I think there's about six schools still on there that are ECHS. um and ourselves included. So again, this is just some information for consideration. Um if if we want to move forward with this, there is there's a process. Um and I believe November 21st, I think it's on my paper, November 21st is the deadline to uh
086submit this application to be a PEK designated campus. somebody. [Music] >> So, I I'm not sure. So, they there's two different ways they could have done it. So, if >> they could have applied for both and still be doing both. Um, they could have switched over previously and now they no longer even have ECHS to offer. Um, I don't have specific information on when they did it, but I do know that those are all the schools in our region that I can pull up um and and where they're at in their program. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> So, just hypothetical here. Let's say, for example, we adopt PE. >> What happens if we don't meet uh our requirements? I mean, are we put on some sort of probation or how long do we
087have? How long are we given the opportunity to continue? So if we don't meet those outcomebased measures, we do have to give the state a plan. So I know currently we did not meet our outcomebased measures. We need two out of the three. So out of access, achievement and attainment. Um we we need uh two out of those three, we only met one. So our we do have a plan and I know Mr. Oavdo has been working diligently. Um the the plan is based on just just better tracking. So, making sure we know uh who's in what program and and what they need in order to complete either their pathway or associates degree or things like that. Um and that we do have to reapply yearly for these designations. >> Dr. Welch, >> the condition
088that we >> are in. >> Yes, sir. >> Or Dr. Martinez, both of you. What do you all suggest or recommend? What do you all what are your thoughts about? >> So looking at excuse me looking at what um they offer at the high school. It is it is as Miss Flower said already better suited for the PEK program um because it aligns with what they're doing more so than early college high school. Um, it also will afford us the opportunity to get more students, I think overall, access to college courses whether or not they finish an associate or not, but they will have college courses as well as um an industry based certification coming out. And one of the things I wanted to add um in reaching these goals are you as you are
089aware we are pushing down some of some uh CTE courses current CTE courses down to the middle the middle schools which will again increase those numbers of of students being able to uh reach these target goals. >> Any other questions? >> Yeah, I have a question. Yes sir. >> So you know PEK standing for pathways in technology. Um you know it seems that sometimes there's trends you know things you know uh more students wanting uh to you know you know learn different different types of uh like in this case you know industry based certifications things like that. But my question would be you know let's say that for some reason you have uh the trend then students wanting more you know academic uh uh type uh uh certificates or or associates degree programs. Does that
090hurt us or does that is that part of that these percentages like the 30% the 50% and 75%. Or the only way to count them is they have to be technology-based certifications. I guess my question. >> So the the programs that we the college courses and dual credit that we offer currently will still be um available to the students and earning an associates degree is still a pathway that these students can take. So we are not um hindering their ability to do any of the things they are currently doing in terms of their dual dual credit classes or uh earning that associates. um this I mean I I'm kind of thinking of of it you know in terms of of sports and I know you all know my family thinks in terms of sports. So
091if if we are training a student on you know cross country and then we go measure them on how fast they can run a 100 well we're not we're not measuring them on what they can do best. So if our students and our curriculum are better aligned to these targets then then this may be the path you know that that we need to take. Um, but it this is this is what we offer and and our students seem interested and again as Dr. Walsh said, we're even pushing pushing these programs down to the middle school and I mean our our students are excited. I know I mean Dr. W can probably attest to that. I mean the the programs are rolling and and and they're they're doing well over there. So, so I'm not I'm
092not questioning the uh you know where we are now, but my my my question is if students want to obtain an an academic associate degree, does that help us reach these targets or so meaning let's say I go and I get a I don't know I want to do a bachelor's in or or BB business, right? business. Um, >> is that going to help us reach these percentages? That's just my question. >> Uh, I believe it will, sir, in large part because, again, as I said, uh, I think we'll increase access to students. So many students may join it not necessarily with the intent in the beginning of getting an associates degree, but because they get into the program and get exposed to it, they will have the opportunity to not only get an IBC,
093as I said, but continue forward and earn an associates along with an IBC, industry based certification. >> Okay. >> Yes, Miss >> Okay. So, for example, we have 10 graduates that are are going to graduate um with their associates degrees if everything goes as planned. Not all 10 of those are in the early college for different reasons. They weren't here their eighth grade year transitioning to their ninth grade year, but they are obtaining or you know got to graduate. So in the PEK model, those students we would receive the credit for where in the early college model that we're in now, only if they have been part of the early college program from 8th grade when they transition to nth grade do we reach the credit. So that's just one example of what this year
094our 10 grants. >> Okay. and board membership. If I may add to that particularly in summary, if you compare the early college with the PEK, the one of the main differences between the two is that the early college is more focused on college driven careers. That is the main focus, right? To get kids to get an associate degrees on the pathway to college. G Techch expands that horizon to students who still want that career track um I mean that college track into um you know different areas but in addition to that it exposes students to career and technical opportunities, internships um industrybased certifications that otherwise we may we offer but they are outside of the scope of this type of programs where we track the students and they follow a specific cohort etc. So in
095ess instances we go from um single-minded if you will uh that might not be the right term but single minder um college track to a more there's a diversity of things that they can do college is one of them industry certifications other career technical exposure to different different areas uh PEK allows us the opportunity to do that that's why so many districts are moving into that because it expands the opportunities for our students. >> We're already doing it and we're just going to be measured on what we're doing as opposed to the other. Now, >> absolutely. >> I take it as an application process. >> So, the application process we have to do either for early college or PEK. And so, um last year we went ahead and continued with what we had this year.
096Um that's why we're bringing it to the table because we need to submit by November 21st the PEK route or the uh early college. Now we'll continue early college for the next four years to phase it out and we'll start a planning year if we uh get accepted for the PEK and move forward like that. >> Will the fact that we have not met our targets under early college high school affect our application for the PEK? >> No sir. We did ask those questions when we met with um our individuals last year because the data is lagging. So all of this data was from the previous year, not last year, but the year before. Um we already started to um increase our TSIA and all of those different measures uh for for this last year.
097And so no, it will not affect it. >> I like the the exposure that M was talking about at the junior high level. Is that correct? >> Yeah. So you you use the example of sports. A lot of kids during middle school try out every sport, but yet when they get to the high school, they're limited to what they're better at. So PJ, I think is is something that we need to look at and exposure in the middle school level. >> Yes, sir. Can you stand up? >> Just as Miss Flowers mentioned, that is something that we're seeing uh with our eighth graders, they're getting the opportunity to look at the different pathways that are available to them because they're taking the principles of pathways class. And so what they're doing is they're talking amongst
098themselves. So early on, even though some of them had already chosen the particular pathway, they were like, "Wait a minute. I think I want to do this other." And so, excuse me. So, they're already having those conversations amongst themselves, with their parents, and they're really looking at uh where they want to focus, you know, their pathway. And we've explained to them uh just like the HMK, you know, shared with us that right now is the time for them to make that decision to change from the pathway that they've chosen to another one because once they get to high school, >> they can't make another change, right? They can make one more they can make one more change. And so that's giving them that opportunity to explore even further uh the different pathways. Yes, sir. I
099mean, we have young ladies who were um I'm not even going to know what that uh it's a tool and they were taking the lug nuts off of a a tire and they were changing a tire. They were learning how to change a tire. They were in auto mechanics. I mean, in eighth grade and all of those experiences that are being offered to them and they're being exposed to, you can't beat that. And >> I, if I may also add uh for the board members, we do recognize that moving from early college, high school uh to PEK is not in itself the solution, right? We still have to work on improving the the learning environment, the rigor, the you know our instructional um yes everything right but um so I don't want you to hear
100that we're moving from this because now this seems easier because that was the first question that I asked why are we doing this like why are we doing this because we couldn't meet the standards the high standards for early college as P tech seems more attainable. Um but when you our expectation for all of us is that we are going to improve academics at the high school regardless of which model we offer. So our students are fully prepared for college, career, nursery, whatever they choose. So that goes without saying that we're not putting that at rest. We are going to continue to work hard to increase our learning environment in academics. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Okay. The uh next item is 5F 2025 2026 BOY benchmark data. Mrs.
101Tina Woods. >> Yes. again here with uh Miss Williams and we'll present the data for BYU this year. >> Good evening members of the board. Dr. Martinez. Um as Dr. Walsh stated, we are going to be going over our beginning of year data um for our individual campuses uh district as a whole. Um give some time for the presentation to get on the screen. All righty. So, we're going to go ahead and go over our beginning of year data. This test was given to our students um on the fourth instructional week of the school year. We gave them the 2025 release star. Okay. So the presentation will provide you an overview of the results of this benchmark. As we move into the school year, the data presented gave us a guide for our instructional planning.
102It identified areas of strength and highlighted opportunities for targeted support. As we run through this data, it is going to be presented to you in a few different ways. You will first see percentages with numbers. The next slides, you will also see bar graphs. Okay, the bar graphs are only going um to include the approaches, meets, and masters categories because those are the ones that are included in the calculation of our accountability. Now, when looking at these numbers, please keep in mind that we did begin with the end in mind. So, we gave them a full 2025 release star. Several of these TESS had not yet been taught. However, we wanted to give ourselves a baseline to see the work that needed to be done to meet that end goal. Also, when looking at the
103percentages, some of you may be thinking, hey, these calculate to over 100%. Ideally, the percentages that you want is 300 because the approaches meets and masters categories scaffold upon each other. Okay? So, for example, if you look at the district averages, if you look at our did not meet, we're at 76%. In our approaches categories, we're at 24%. 6% out of that 24% moved on to our meats category. 1% out of that 6% moved on to our mast's category. So therefore, the percentages in whole will calculate to over 100%. As you see, that is a trend that we are currently seeing across the district is the majority of our students currently are falling under our did not meet and approaches categories. >> Yes, sir. >> But this is on material that they haven't even learned
104yet. >> Correct. Correct. We did give them the 2025 release start. So, beginning with the end goal in mind, right? where are kids currently at and where do we need to get them by the end of the school year? So this is the data that you just saw on the previous slide. However, as stated, this is only including the approaches, meets and masters categories. Since these are the ones that are used to calculate um our accountability ratings, these are the ones that we are focusing on. The numbers that you are seeing are the percentages. Looking at our third grade math, we are seeing the same trend um where the majority of our students are falling within those first two categories. Now, when it does come to our math, we are in the first year implementation
105of our blue bonnet um curriculum and so we are seeing a little bit of of a hiccup here. However, we are getting a lot of support directly from um the Blue Bonnet vendors that are coming to the campuses doing instructional walks with the campus administration um as well as the curriculum and instruction team providing those debriefs and with strategies to improve our tier one instruction. And I do know please stop me at any time with any questions. There is a lot of numbers, a lot of data. If you have any outlying questions, please let me know. Looking at our fourth grade reading, um, we are seeing a lot of bright spots, right? Fourth grade reading, the majority of our students are falling in approaches and as Mr. Kufall stated, this is based off of information
106that they have not yet been introduced to. Um, so we are starting with a strong baseline. Fourth grade math, same as third grade, we are implementing blue bonnet. Those same instructional walks are occurring with this grade level as well. And those debrief meetings um happening with the campus administration and with the CNI team. Um the campus administration is then turning that around to their teachers. fifth grade reading. Um, huge bright spot here. As we stated, these students have not been yet introduced to this information. Yet, we have pretty much around 20% across the board already hitting our meats category. So, that is a huge bright spot for us. um and knowing that the work that needs to be done by the end of the year, several of our students are already at that level to
107where we just need to strengthen um their understanding of that content. Fifth grade math, we're seeing the same trend as the two prior grade levels. fifth grade science. We are also seeing um our the majority of our students are falling within those first two categories. Now with our fifth graders, this is the first time in which they have tested in this content area. Now, they do have unit assessments, things of that nature, but this is the first time that they see a STAR test in this content um specific to science. Now we went ahead and went over overview of district with the individual campuses. Um this is going to be the same data but campus specific. So we can see um how each campus is standing within these star scores. So first campus up is
108Harold. Um as we saw with reading um fourth grade and fifth grade 20% are already hitting that meets category. Okay. So we do have a good baseline there. Harvey, the data is summarized there for that campus as well. And the same with Bettis. Moving on to our middle school, you will not see a district summary with the middle school because they are our only middle school. If you see any outline questions, anything that that peaks your attention, please let me know. And we're seeing basically the same trends. Um our kids starting where they are and um within those first two categories. Moving on to our high school, we are also seeing as you know prior the same scores there there is um on our algebra one if you notice there is one thing that I
109did want to point out and um you know I would like to give kudos to Miss Moore is if you see the total number of students, you do see that there is a very high number of students there. And the reason for that is because not only did she um encourage for us to test all the ninth graders, but that also includes all of our retesters that are currently enrolled in algebraic reasoning and our college prep students um in preparation for TSI. So, we were able to get a baseline on all of those students. Next steps moving forward, we have analyzed the boy data with most students um performing in the did not meet and approaches categories. Principles are working with teachers to break down the results and identify um any priority areas for improvement.
110We are optimizing schedules for instructional planning, adjusting grade level structures to provide teachers with a dedicated PLC time for data analysis and instructional planning. And we are strengthening our curriculum and resources, identifying the areas of support to enhance planning, lesson internalization, instructional practices, and maximizing the use of our current instructional resources. As always, our focus remains on strengthening the tier one instruction, providing targeted support, and improving our student outcomes. >> Any questions? As far as the teacher incentive development incentive, is this is this a start this year for that to see improvement? >> So the teacher incentive a lotment um we chose star to star. So it's last year's star and based on this year's current star. So this right here gives us a baseline. Now, with this boy assessment, the two areas that we
111did have to test in order um to meet the requirements of the TIA aotment was our fifth grade science and our eighth grade um social studies and science since they don't have a end of year star for that one. So, we did have to test those which is also why we chose to use the 2025 release star. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> What's what's the plan for? You don't want test after test after test after test. Going forward this year, when's the next true assessment? We have our middle ofear benchmark. >> Any further questions from the board? >> Question. >> Yes, sir. >> The middle of the year. >> Yes. Um did you give the what are they going to be basing it on a curriculum or TESS or >> Yes sir. So
112our middle of the year is also a release star um to do that. Now prior in between our benchmarks we do do our unit assessments um so we can still track the progress of the content in which the students have been exposed to at that time. Um but this one we did want to get a good baseline just to have like I said keep that end goal in mind and the work that needs to be done to get them to that goal. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Mrs. Williams. Okay, before we go into the special meeting part, I would like to take a five minute quick break, please. Number six, Kingsville board of trustees will conduct a special meeting. Item 6A, communication from administration, superintendent update. Dr. Martinez. >> Good evening board members.
113Let me start by saying that as we are working on our school improvement plan, we are um restructuring our PLC's at the middle school and high school and of course we're increasing the coaching support at the campuses, working with the principles on that uh plan. We're also working on developing the tip and the T which are required documents we have to submit to TEA. uh outlining our plan for school improvement. So our team has met several plans with principles and we are in the process of completing those requirements. Um just a reminder for everyone out there that the end of the first nine weeks is this Friday. So on Monday we will be issuing report cards. uh please parents review that with your children and uh reach out to teachers so that uh we can
114uh support the education of your children. We also have on Monday the 13th at 6 pm at the high school dome the town hall meeting to talk about the voter approved tax ratification election. Um Dr. Pits is going to be presenting information to inform staff and community members on the purpose of this election. We are also working on updating the website which we recognize is very outdated and so we we're hoping to finish this by October 31st. I invite everyone to attend the Hall of Fame at the high school uh on the 16th of October at 5:30 p.m. I hear it's going to be a great event and uh we're excited about supporting that with the education foundation as well. Um that's all I have on my end. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. 6
115to executive. Item 6F executive. >> Okay. U does any board member oppose moving that item into close session for discussion? All right. Item 6B. By common consent, the board agrees to consider as one action item the following. Approval of t test appraiser for the 2020 2025 2026 school year. Is there a motion to approve the t test appraiser for the 2025 2026 school year as listed? >> Who is that? Who moved? >> Moved by Joby. Second. >> Second by Delas. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose do the same. Motion passes 70. >> Okay. Item C, discussion and possible action regarding the funding opportunity series for 2025. >> Thank you, Mr. Pettis. We've already discussed this in the workshop. This resolution gives uh the district the authority to move forward if the
116conditions are set uh u in the market. Um uh I would be working with our financial consultant and then I would give a recommendation to either the superintendent or the board president who make the the final um uh approval. Um the redundancy gives uh gives us the option of if um one of them is out of pocket that we would be able to do either or. I'll take any other questions that you have. >> I would recommend if you like the parameters presented in the presentation portion to include that in your motion. For example, so moved to include the parameters as discussed in presentation. I move that we adopt this resolution as it's presented with the parameters discussed in the workshop being taken into advisement by the people we are giving authority to pull the
117trigger. Do we have a second? >> Second. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose do the same. Motion passes 70. Item 6B, discussion and possible action regarding the joint elections contract with Cla County. Dr. Pitz. >> Thank you, Mr. Pettis. We are again are proposing a joint election where we do share the cost to the election. They are responsible for securing all the judges, making sure that all the ballots by mail are taken care of, making sure that all the election machines are ready to go. uh although I am involved in the process. For instance, when they did testing of the election machines, I was present there to make sure that everything went smooth with the testing and I will be there making rounds during early voting. I will also be there
118making rounds on election day. But again, the ones that are doing the lion share of the work on those days are the um is Clayford County and the staff. The cost would be shared proportionally. uh amongst us. Again, depending on several things, depending on the cost of all the judges, the machines, and and again, by proportional, it depends on on the turnout as well. How many people are voting for us, how many people are voting for the county um with the constitutional amendments. I'll take any questions that you might have. >> You have any estimate? Yes, the estimate would probably be around $12,000 um that we would pay. Again, it all depends on several factors. Participation we don't expect to be nearly as high as it would be like in a November even number year
119or when there's a presidential election. So, uh costs will be will be less. But again, we still have to pay for the voting machines. We still have to pay for the clerks and the judges on election day as well. >> Any questions? >> Is there a motion to approve the 2025 joint election service contract between Koel and school district and county? >> Motion made by Martin Chapa. >> Second. Second by David Garcia. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose do the same. Motion passes 70. >> Okay. Item 6, discussion and possible I'm sorry. First mistake of the night. >> 6 discussion and possible action regarding the HM King drainage repairs change order. Thank you, Mr. Pis. So, this uh action item is no longer needed as now the change orders did not
120go over the 50,000 allowance uh included in the contract. >> Nick, does anything need to be said or >> no? >> There's no action on items uh item 68. I mean, sorry. Yeah, 68. Okay. Item 6 is going to be close session. The board will enter into close session in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act. Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.074 to deliberate and consider the following. Consider and deliberate regarding the employment of contracted personnel assisted super antenna of support programs. 7B consider and deliberate regarding the employment of contracted personnel director of special ed. And 7 C consultation with legal counsel regarding legal and personnel matters. No action will be taken until we return to open session. We are entering close session at 7:31 p.m. [Music] We now we now return to open session and
121take necessary action on matters which the board may discuss in open session upon which action may be taken. We are returning to open session at 8:38 p.m. Going back to item 6F, discussion of possible action regarding the director of school improvement reclassification and new position. Dr. might be miss. We're going to Is there a motion to approve the director of school improvement classification reclassification and the new uh position as as presented? >> So I'll second >> moved by Mr. Mirez, seconded by Selenas. All in favor say I. I. I. >> Do the same. Motion passes 70. Item 8 A discussion and possible action regarding employment of contracted personnel assistant superintendent of support programs. There will be no action taken on that item. 8B. Discussion and possible action regarding the appointment of contracted personnel director of
122special ed. Is there a motion to approve the following contracted employee as presented? Director of special ed. >> Moved by Mr. Garcia. >> I'll second. >> Second by M. Alenas. All in favor say I. >> I. >> All say. Motion passes 70. There being no further action. Do I hear a motion to adjourn? >> Mr. Vice President, I actually, if I may, sir, board of trustees, any action on proposed agreement as discussed in on 8 C for legal personnel. the one we just discussed, >> right? >> Give the additional two components to the already pre-approved. >> I I move that we approve the settlement, the negotiated settlement with the additional factors provided by our attorney in executive session. You heard the motion. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mara. >> All in favor
123say I. >> I motion passes 70. >> There be no further action. Can I do this now? >> It's okay. I hear it possible to introduce our special >> um Miss Gloria Hamill. If you can please come to the front. [Music] >> It is my pleasure to introduce to you the new director of special ed, Miss Gloria Haml Garcia. In addition, I would like to congratulate um Miss Jennifer Flower as the new director's school improvement. >> All right, take it away. Great job. Thank you, brother.