001call this regular board meeting of the Kings School District order. We will have roll calls. Joel >> Mles Ryan Koop >> I'm here present Chapa >> here Garcia >> here >> Jacob Perez here Delma Selena >> here >> Joseph Reese here the record show that there's a form of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551 state of Texas Open Meetings Act. We move to a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance and the Texas pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas. One state under God, one indivisible. So unless there's any
002descent, we're going to go ahead and approve the uh agenda as stated. >> Okay. Moving on to public participation. Do we have anyone that wishes to address the board? >> No, sir. >> Thank you. Moving on to item number five, communication from administr Good morning um board president and board members and the public principles. Um happy to inform that uh on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday the board and I attended the tax tax conference for board members and superintendent and we learned a lot regarding the new legislative mandates that came as a result of the 89th legislature. And so we are passing that information on to our principles for further action and um I'm sure we will have to bring several of those bills to your attention for policy revision or adoption. Um we are
003continuing to push forward uh on our instructional practices. We're happy to welcome Dr. Welsh as our new assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction. um welcome [Applause] and uh we will continue to do the work that we sign up to do for kids. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Martinez. Now moving on to budget recap report register for May 2025 and be found on pages 2 through seven. Dr. Pence. >> Thank you, President Ruiz, Dr. Martinez, members of the board, >> may go all the way. >> I just want to bring your attention to a few items. If you look at attorney fees, this was back when we were with O'Hamman. Again, this is the May check register. And I I do apologize that I will work to get caught up. uh with the check registers.
004Uh that was for three months. Right now we are at capped at $150,000 for the year with Manx. Um if you look at Texas Chillers again, that was for a major uh expense that uh a chiller that went out of the high school. Uh and I will take questions for anything else that you have on the check register. >> I have a question on um It's on the National Recruiting Consultants. >> Okay. >> For special ed evaluations. I just didn't know what that was. I don't remember ever seeing it. >> So, uh we went out for um bids for um LSSP evaluations and the board did approve two at that time. One was Romeo Mongia and the second one was National Recruiting Consultants, which is um a a vendor that has several different um uh
005several different uh LSSPs working underneath them. In this particular one, we needed a bilingual evaluation. So, we were able to use a vendor from that that agency, but it's for LSSP evaluations. >> So, we didn't have an LSSP. We we didn't have an LSS. We had one a couple of years ago, but we have didn't have one last year. >> So, Romeo, aside from Romeo, this other company does it as well. >> They do LS SP males as well. >> That's the only type of evaluations that they >> they have other services that >> What did they do for KSSP? >> It was it was a bilingual LSSP evaluations. I thought it was the last $6,000. >> I have a quick question. Are we still using >> We are not using them at all. The
006only uh I will I guess defer to Mr. Manx if we are at all contacting them on any ongoing matters, but we haven't been paying them. >> Yes. Good evening, board president, members of the board of trustees, Superintendent Martinez. To my knowledge, we are not using them at all. My offices are not contacting them and when we do, it's nonal work, just transition of files. So, we should be independent at this point. >> Dr. Martinez, do the administrators know that not to be contacting. >> I don't think so, but we will address that. Thank you. >> Any other questions? Okay, hearing none. Moving on. Thank you. So, moving on to item 6A, discussion and possible action regarding the 2026 medical insurance and pharmacy benefits provider can be found on pages 8 and nine. Dr. Pitts.
007>> Thank you, Mr. Reese. As discussed at the workshop, we went out for bids. We received six proposals. The lowest one was $2,715,468 from ESC 100. That was also the only one that was a guarantee for three years. Um, I will take any questions that you have on it. >> Is it this one? >> Let's go back and ask if go back. >> Any questions from the board? >> Okay, hearing none. Is there a motion to accept the recommendation for the 2026 medical insurance and pharmacy benefits program? >> Motion made by David Garcia. >> Second made by Jake Bettis. All those in favor say I. >> I oppose. Was that an I, Mr. Melis? >> Yes, it's it's an I. Okay. Okay. Motion carries 70. >> President, >> my uh mic is is being muted
008and unmuted. Uh it's going in and out, so I'm having to keep an eye on that on my end. >> Okay. Thank you, Mr. >> Yes, sir. Also, uh we do need video footage of Miss >> Okay. >> We don't have to read the vote on this one. some future items. >> Okay. >> So, do you hear that, Mr. MZ? Every time we we're going to have to see you. So, I'm assuming I I'll let the IT folks know to show your face, man, because you're one of us. >> Fine. Am I Am I on the screen right now? >> No, sir. >> You're on the screen, but your camera's blacked out. >> Okay. Uh, I've got everything on on my Yeah. [Music] Try this. Now it's black in the preview window, too. See, my
009mic was going in and out. What about now? >> It's okay. Thank you for letting us >> No, you still can't see you. >> Okay. Everything on my end is on. >> Is your video on? >> Yeah, video's on. Everything's on on this side. >> I can see all. I can hear you all. >> You may need to disconnect and rejoin. Okay, >> we'll wait for you, sir. >> What's next? This one right here. Number two, should be >> Excel or Word. Let's do Excel. Okay. >> All right. You're back. >> Gracias. >> Very good. Um, okay. Moving on to item 6B. Discussion and possible action regarding the 2026 health insurance premiums can be found on pages 10 through 11. Dr. >> Thank you, President Ruiz. As discussed before, highlights of the u of the
010premiums for 2826 are that there is no increase for employee only on all three plans and there's no employee increase for employees and children on the standard plan and on the on the high plan. Um the only increases are for the high deductible for employee and children and then employee spouse, employee family to uh try to get those premiums up to where they need to be to so that the district contribution is in line with the other um with the other plans and tiers. I'll take any questions you might have. >> We have any questions from the board hearing? None. I have a motion to accept the um 2026 health insurance premiums as presented by administration. >> Motion made by Martin Chapa. >> Second by Jake Pettis. All those in favor say I. I >>
011I oppose. screen. >> Motion carries 70. Moving on. Item 6 C. Discussion possible action regarding the 2026 employee paid tele medicine and life insurance can be found on pages 12. Dr. Pittz. >> Thank you, President Ruiz. Currently, we have uh district paid tele medicine for every employee and their dependent regardless of whether they are on a health plan with the district. Uh the cost to continue that would be $20,000 and we have $50,000 of life insurance for every employee in the district paid by the district. Cost for that would be $28,000 to continue that. I'll take any questions you have. >> Hear any questions from the board hearing? None. Is there a motion to accept the 2026 employee pay tele medicine and life insurance as presented by administration? Salute. >> Motion made by Brian Kuall.
012>> Second by David Garcia. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Uh item 6D, discussion and possible action regarding the 2026 health insurance spousal search charge can be found on page 13. Dr. Pittz. >> Thank you, President Ree. Uh we are proposing a $200 a month spousal search charge on health insurance. This is only if their spouse has a medical plan that they are able to join with their place of employment. I'll take any questions that you have. >> Any questions from the board? Hearing none. Is there a motion to accept the 226 health insurance spousal search charge as presented by administration? So move. >> Motion made by Brian Kufall. >> Second. Second by Jake Pettis. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion
013carries. 70. Item 6E. Discussion or possible action regarding the 2026 employee retention fee can be found on pages 14. >> Thank you, President Ree. We are proposing for next year $100 for to employees with one year of experience and we are defining that by our fiscal year. So if they were hired by a year ago as of 912024, they would qualify for that. The $200 would be if they have been apply here two years. Again, we are setting the exact date for that to make sure that it's well defined. Same thing for $300. They would have had to be here uh three years as of September 1st, which corresponds with our fiscal year. Approximate cost for this is $110,000. We usually pay this in November. We have any questions from the board? Hearing none. Is
014there a motion to accept the 2026 employee retention pay? >> Motion made by Delma Salena. Second. Second by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose. Motion carries 70. Uh item 6F, discussion, possible action regarding the 2026 2027 Clayber County Appraisal District Board nominations. Let me be found on pages 15 to 17. Dr. >> Okay. Um the board is allowed to nominate up to five U nominees for the Baker County Appraisal District. The current term ends December 31st of 2025. The next term will be January 1st, 2026 through December 31st, 2027. Um, I will turn it over to the board for discussion and nominations. >> Brian, are you still you're the one to have? >> I am. >> Are you still willing to last term two years ago, we nominated
015myself and Brandon Barrera. >> How many votes do we have? uh Dr. >> We can nominate up to five, but then we will be allocated a certain number of votes that we will be able to distribute amongst the nominees. That'll be at the next board meeting once all the entities have turned in their nominees. >> This is just to set the slate of who our our votes will be. >> So, is still I think he's still he's still interested in We nominating one at a time or two at one time. >> We can nominate as many up to five that we want to today and then next board meeting next month we will distribute our v votes as the board chooses amongst the nominees and >> any other nominations from the board. >> Mr. President,
016I'd like to also announce maybe Dan Morris. >> Yes, Dan said current labor board. We're actually the first entity that that will be adopting the our nominations. Everybody else meets later and and so there's no harm, no foul. We >> Anybody else? Okay. So, um, is there a motion to accept the nominations for the 2627 Clayber County Appraisal District Board nominations for Brian Kufall, Brandon Barella, and Dan Morales. So, move. >> Motion made by David Garcia. >> I'll second. >> Second made by Delma Selena. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries 70 >> item 6G discussion and possible action regarding the TEA class size waiver and we found on pages on page 18 Dr. Thank you, President Ruiz. Whenever in uh grades pre kindergarten through fourth grade, the 22
017to1 uh class size is exceeded, it we are required to submit a waiver to TEA and the board is required to approve it before we send the waiver to TEA. So, uh I've listed several where the class sizes are 22. Right now we were not required to send a waiver for those particular grades at this moment but it is possible that they could be succeed u could be exceeded. So I wanted to bring those to the board at this time so that we don't have to have a special board meeting if if they are exceeded um in the the coming week or two. Um you see that right now uh the ones that are over the 22 ratio we have a prek at Harvey that is at 23. We have one at Harvey second grade
018that's at 23, but again it's possible the other one might go over 22 uh as it is at 22. And then you see at preK uh sorry PETA's first grade we have one at 24, one at 23 and those are the only ones that are currently over the 22 to one uh class size. I'll take any questions. >> I've got a couple. >> Yes, sir. So, we're making a blanket cover for all schools. Even though we're at 1 to 22 in some of the classes, you're saying just in case we go over, we'll be covered by the waiver. >> So, all schools are going to be included this in all classes in this waiver. >> No, even though they're not one over 22, >> just elementary. >> No. Um, what happens is we have to
019submit by grade level and by subject and by and by campus. So in other words, if you have two classes of 22 at arrow, say one of those classes go to 23 after we approve, we're going to have to come back and approve that. >> No sir, you >> that's what I'm asking. >> Okay. No, you are Yes, you're you're approving those blankets. So allowing us to be able to submit the waiverss for any of those as need be without having to >> when do we create another class? Is it 1 to 25? 20 25 >> 25, right? Okay. [Music] >> Yes. Um, thank you for the question, Trusty Shaka. So, the state of Texas requires us to ask for those waiverss. Um, we are continuing to balance classes. So we may have to combine
020certain classes in the best interest of the discipline to ensure that we have certified teachers in the classrooms. So that's another issue. Plus we still get students that are still enrolling um at this time. And so all of those one student here, one student there will impact the number of students that we have in each of this already high level classes. In another question, I'm just curious, what is the uh the teacher student ratio at the high school to middle school for the core classes >> currently? >> Yes, currently. You know, or or what's the set amount set amount of teacher? In other words, what are you going to get have a class at 27 28 and then try to create another class or and I'm talking about the core classes. I know PE is
021different, special ed is different, but the core classes, what is your student teacher ratio? >> So, mine, it depends on um the class period and what other classes are offered. We range from 15 to 30. Um in English and um in our math, we're running right about 28. In US history is about to change um depending on what happens, but those were running about 20. And for biology anywhere between um I have some as one that's as low as 12 and that's because of the class period it is but the rest are over 20. We have approximately 30 students uh that enrolled this school year over last year. Um the numbers are uh fluctuating for us from um about 25 to 36. Uh we have three uh three teachers in social studies, three teachers in
022science, we have uh four in math and uh four in EL. Um I if you'd like uh Dr. I can provide specific information regarding why those numbers are what they are um now or >> just my concern is because of the scores and and I don't want to get these classes back like that and I know we're trying with staffing and the uh you know reduction and all that kind of good stuff because of the budget but we need to be careful with student you know success we need teachers and I know it's we have teacher shortage but I don't want want to see classes back at 308 and and I know it's it's it's out of your control sometimes. I understand that completely. Okay. Just that you know I would like for the rat
023know to have a certain ratio set by the district. We're gonna have one to 27 for you know whichever core core subject and then abide by that and if we go over that then open up another you know another class that I know we need teachers and if we need to then the principal needs to request you know look my numbers are high you know I need additional teachers and I know again that we're we're trying to reduce staff but to me this is this is very important as far as you know getting you know I don't want too many I just don't think too many students in a class, you know, is is good, you know, classroom management. So, you know, etc. So, that that's just my concern. And I I have a question,
024maybe silly, forgive me because I'm I'm not in K through 12 public education, but does the teacher have any say like, you know, we're we're we're coming out, we're asking for this waiver, do we just automatically assume, okay, well, because we have this waiver, you know, this teacher is an exceptional teacher, we're just going to go ahead and continue uh increasing until we hit 25. Uh but what if that teacher just, you know, has that class where they're, you know, they're feeling it, they got a they got a good handle on it, you know, classroom management's good. Everything is where they need it and then they're going to add, you know, two or three more people. Does that teacher like just basically accept the kids like no questions asked or what what is the I
025guess the administration? >> Yes. So I can answer that question. So that's where we have that cap, right? And we can continue to place students in there uh based on the caps that are established. However, we want the principles to continue to provide us with feedback and letting us know, you know, what are their thoughts in terms of the number of students we have in each uh class. Certainly a lot of things come in play from the certifications, the number of teachers that we can hire um etc. Not to mention the budget. And I do understand that we want to be conscientious about um focusing on instruction while at the same time being fiscally responsible um with the amount of teachers that we have for students. Um so we are in the process right now
026of conducting leveling which means we look at all the teachers the number of students they have and um we determine if we can collapse three classes into two uh and that's when we might reach close to this numbers but uh but the decision always rest with the principles of the campus and of course the the administration uh based on what's available, what's possible, uh the budget that we have and all those things. >> I have one more question. When you talk about >> doc, >> when you talk about leveling, okay, I I understand what that is, will you in case you need to move a teacher to another campus, are you all willing to do that as an administration? In other words, if we have too many in one school and we need help in
027that and we don't have as many students in the teacher ratio in another elementary, will you be moving that teacher to that other campus? >> Yes, as a matter of fact, that's exactly what we're doing now. um in oftent times we look at certifications, we look at their data, um the areas they can teach, uh their experience at different levels. So there's a number of factors that come in play when we make those decisions in the best interest of the students. Um sometimes um you know if it's a DOI teacher and they cannot serve our students well in a specific class we can move that teacher to another area where they're better suited for that. So definitely we move teachers from classroom to I mean from school to school. >> Yes sir. I think this
028is >> uh after you finish leveling, can you get us a master schedule from each campus with a tally with with each uh teacher, how many students they have from uh uh especially in the secondary 6 through 12 to see how many students are per teacher. Can you get us that master schedule with that? >> Yes sir. We we were actually looking at that today and our team uh is working on ensuring that the data we have in the system matches what we actually have in the schools and that we discover was a little bit of a discrepancy there. Um and so we're trying to correlate all the data but I will certainly provide you with that report um no later than Thursday. >> Right. And also I think uh I don't know what what
029program you're using. I think we were having some problems with it earlier in the year to do a hard body count by campus. Uh each we used to do that years ago and it worked out uh fine. It's a little bit more work but we can know exactly who's in the class. >> Yes, that's what I asked the principles to do today when we met this afternoon. um to make sure that they take the master schedule and ask each teacher how many kids they have actually register in the class um so that we can then match that information with what we have in the system which again it seemed to be uh non-ongruent and so we're we're trying to address that by doing it the oldfashioned way which is seems to be the best way
030at this point. >> Yeah, that is the best way. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> So, so I guess I guess before we call the the vote, you know, Dr. Martinez, I know I know Martine, Trusty Martin mentioned, you know, your take on it, but is this a reasonable request by administration? Is this something that's common that happens um in other districts or is this like a one off? I guess that would be my >> Yes, this is um this is a pretty standard process that we follow every year. Um it's it's pretty common to ask for waiverss particularly at the elementary levels. And so yeah, it's >> and and just to also be clear, if we're asking for this waiver, it's it's only for these campuses and these grades. Anything else? >>
031All right. Any more questions? Okay. Okay. Do I hear a motion to accept the tea class waver? >> Motion made by Delma Sinas. >> Second by Min Chapa. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Moving on to 68. discussion and possible action regarding purchases over $50,000 can be found on pages 19 through 20. Dr. Bits, thank you. Uh we have presented these before. If you have any questions, I'll answer. There is one new one that I just added up on the screen in green that you do not have. We just had a 30 ton rooftop unit at Pettis Elementary School go out. It does service uh the library. It serves about five or six classrooms. Um, and we received already three quotes for it. The lowest quote is
032$65,000. So, I put that up there for for Scott Electric Company. All the others were the ones that were presented at last workshop. I'll take any questions that you have. Um, I just have one question. Does this include uh I guess a chiller system or unit that sits up top of the u technology building at the high school. Are those air units been like reinstalled or what's going on with those? [Music] Yesterday, I believe it was yesterday or last Friday, um we did have the contractor come out and is finishing up that that work. They put the units on yesterday. They were actually there calibrating the thermostat. So, hopefully we should be back in that building. I'm hoping by next week. >> Thank you, Dr. >> You're welcome. >> Any other questions from the board
033regarding the purchases of over $50,000? Is there a motion to accept these recommendations? Motion made by Delma Salas. Second. Second by Jake Perez. All those in favor say I. I. >> Go to it. Yes, we can hear him and the stream can hear him. So, we ask this connection. >> I think it's just the internet where he's at. >> Can we get another way named like a text message or Can you >> Yes, Mr. President, I advise we just uh count his vote absent and move forward on the on the motion. >> Okay. >> The law is very clear that he has to have both audio and visual capacity to take a vote. >> Can you hear us, Mr. Mez? You can't hear us. Okay. So I would just do what 61 think >> or
034sh one >> one will now enter into close session according to the Texas open meetings act Texas 5.17 one and 5.174 to deliberately consider the following item 7A consultation with legal council regarding legal and personal matters. No action will be taken until we return open session. We are entering into close session at 6:07 Yeah. in open session on which action may be taken. We're returning to open session at 7:22 p.m. Uh item 8A, discussion of possible action regarding legal matters. Do we do I hear a motion to give uh >> to authorize legal counsel as discussed in executive session this morning? >> Is there is there a motion? >> Motion made by Delma Salas. >> Second. >> Yeah. Joe Mirez, second by Joe Mirez. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries
03570. There being no further action, I do hereby adjourn this meeting. We are adjourning this regular meeting at 7:23 p.m. >> Good night everybody.