May 20th Regular Board Meeting

001It is 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Monday, May 20th, 2025. I call this regular meeting of the Kingsville Independent School District to order. We will have roll call. Joe Mirez here. Brian Kufall here. Martin Chapa here. David Garcia here, Jacob Perez here, Delma Salenas here, and Joseph Reese. Let the record show here that there is a quorum of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with the govern code chapter 551, state of Texas open meeting. We will move to a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance and the Texas pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to the

002Texas one state under God. One indivisible. This meeting will be live streamed. And we move on to item number four, adoption of the agenda. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? President, I have one something that I'd like to table and that would be item discussion. So that is um what we discussed in in close session. Would that group be where we make that decision? Yes, Mr. President. A motion to table an item will require a motion by the board. If the board wishes to discuss an executive and then make this choice once they return to open, they can do so. Or you can you can take action now as a second motion. Okay. So we have a first to table item 10A made by Joe Mirez, second by Martin Chapa. All those

003in favor say I. I. Any oppose? So I vote yes. So motion passes six to one. So after that uh with that amendment is do I hear a motion now to accept the uh agenda adopt the agenda with that after that motion made by Joe Mirez second by Damas. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Item number five, public participation. Uh, do we have anyone that wishes to address the board? No, sir. Okay. Having no one here to address the board, we'll move on to item number six, communication from administration. At this time, uh, we move on to you, Dr. Pitz. So, we're going to go on to item 6A, recognition of the 25 spring chess tournament winners. Dr. Pittz. Thank you, Miss Reese. Members of the board,

004we have anybody that can read the students as a I didn't know if any of the board members wanted to shake their hands or anything and take pictures. Sorry. On Saturday, May the 3rd, 2025, Kingsville ISD held their 2025 spring chess tournament. Students from grades 2 through high school competed in beginning, intermediate, and advanced divisions. This tournament showcased the year-long preparation of the competitors. After seven rounds of intense competition, the event culminated with an award ceremony. Every student who competed received a tournament ribbon and the division winners received trophies. We would like to thank all the parents, administrators, teachers, and pair of professional staff who worked so hard to make this event a huge success. The winners for the tournament were in second grade beginner division. Jose Johnson at [Applause] elementary beginner division. Camila Beris

005Harold Elementary. Beginner Division, Mia Garcia, Bettis Elementary. Third grade intermediate division, Roberto Silva, Harvey Elementary. Fourth grade intermediate advanced division. Vihas Shapuri Harold Elementary fourth grade intermediate advanced division. David Gavasos, Harold [Applause] Elementary. Intermediate Advanced Division. Liam Adams, Harold Elementary. Fifth grade intermediate advanced division. Jakobo Bennett Rios Harvey Elementary intermediate advanced division. Casey Love Lady Harold Elementary. [Applause] Secondary Intermediate Division, Mariana Adrien HM King High School. Advanced Division, Dylan Sandaval, HM King High [Applause] School, Advanced Division. Adam Risavi, HM King High [Applause] School. We also would like to recognize the sponsors, Dena Neto, Harold Elementary School. Sonia Martinez Harvey Elementary School. Ida Alam Pettis Elementary School. Wessa Gillette Middle [Applause] School and Dudrey Sono HM King High School. And now we move on to 6A part two recognition of fine arts department. Mr. Robert Alvarez.

006Okay. All right. How's everybody doing? All right. We want to recognize our art students this evening. So, first here on my list, we have students that participated in the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo Western art contest. We have awarded participation ribbons for Laya [Applause] Denoa, Alexis [Applause] Lopez, and Jose Treho. [Applause] How pretty. Wow. Three, two, [Applause] one. We also had awarded a second place ribbons. In the category of 2D of critics, we had Aradi Abundes. [Applause] And in 2D mixed media, Damen [Applause] P. It's amazing. [Applause] Our students also participated in the Kingsville Parks and Recreation second annual junior pollinator art show. We had 32 students um receive participation ribbons of them. I will just call the ones who are here present. We have Ayah [Applause] Orady, Alyssa Medlock, Leonitis [Applause] Rodriguez, Freddy

007Ramos, [Applause] Gabriella Ques, [Applause] Heidi Maltista, who Llaya Denola and Satie Gutierz. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, we also had a couple of individual ribbons awarded second place in the sophomore division. We have Adriana Alado. [Applause] Third place in the junior division, Satie Gutierz. [Applause] First place in the junior division, Barbara [Applause] Castile. Beautiful. And let us offer this one. [Applause] All right. I see on here as well that they competed at the Visionarios youth art contest and were awarded the third place ribbon. And then some individual awards as well in the category of 2D digital media, Ariselia Bundes and 2D mixed media, Llaya Denma. [Applause] We have one more student show up from the Kingsville Parks and Recreation uh junior pollinator art show. Oh, sorry, Miss Boy. I cannot remember the name you just said

008to me. Autumn [Applause] McCartney. Right. And all of this would not be possible without our fantastic art teachers, Miss Jennifer Ber and Mr. Joshua Perkins. All right, moving on to the band side. [Laughter] Take a chair. All right, we had our Gillette Middle School and Asian King High School bands compete at the UIL concert side evaluations. all came back with some silverware, some trophies to to show off how well our students did. The Janette Middle School Symphonic Band got first divisions on concert and superior ratings in their sight rating evaluations. The Jet Middle School honors man received straight first divisions across the board. [Applause] The ancient king symphony band received straight first divisions on concert stage and superior ratings in the sight reading portion and the HME honors by receiving straight divisions across the board.

009All right. And last time Mr. tremendous was here. He said that our HM King color guard varsity and junior varsity had qualified for the the semifinals of their TECA competitive circuit. Um I'm happy to announce that they both advanced to the finals, competed in the finals, and I'm having trouble remembering off the top of my head. I think that Jamie received fifth place in their category. JB I think also Seven and they receive seventh gender category. So this is for the entire city. Our percussion ensemble also qualified for their finals and they came in second in their category. [Applause] We also have one special individual, a student of ours, a senior by the name of Serenity Alondo who received two major scholarships. One she received at the tech finals by the tech board. She was

010one of the few students selected for a scholarship. And then recently she also received one from UIL sponsored by HD I believe and we presented her with the the scholarship and the check there in the band hall last week. And lastly, Mr. Men has asked me to recognize our directors for all the hard work. Myself, Mr. Roberto as well as Mr. Thank you. as well as Mr. Dr. Ga Maros, of course, Mr. Mendes himself, and also a thank you to our fine art secretary, Miss Esther Brian. Okay. Next, we'll move on to item 6B, recognition of the HM King High School Prima track team, Mr. Ruben Gustin. Members, thank you for being here tonight. Um, we're going to acknowledge uh numerous student athletes tonight. That's always a great thing when you get to acknowledge as

011many student athletes as we are here tonight. I think it's been a great year for athletics at Hen King High School and Kingsville ISD. So, we're excited about the progress we've made and we're excited about the future. So, first, um, we'll talk about the unified track team. So, our unified track team placed second at area and they got to compete at regionals um, for the second year in a row. The coaches were KU and Michelle Oales. So, we appreciate all their hard work. Unified track team members were summer [Applause] boxetta [Applause] reerano maxi Jonathan Gutierz ever Kelly Reyes [Applause] and Isabella Perez. Congratulations to them. And now our Brema and Lady Brema track and field teams. I'll call up their coaches, uh, Coach Kennedy Baron and Coach Rub Flowers. They come up here to talk

012about [Applause] Hello, good evening. How's everybody doing today? Um, it was a record-breaking year for our Lady Bras and our Brema track team. I think we broke uh 14 school records. That's this year amongst other things. Uh, the biggest thing that I want to say when we call the kids is I appreciate Coach Garcia, Miss Moore, everybody in charge, um, helping us put on a great season. We were able to run at Texas A&M, University of Texas, University of Texas Rio Grand, and Texas A&M Kingsville. all those schools, our kids were able to be offered scholarships. So, we went down to UTRGB, they offered our seniors, each of our seniors, they got offered scholarships um at Texas A&M side uh ran really really fast and they offered him already committed to Miami. Um UT same

013thing and then TAMU shout out to everybody in charge. That's big showing the great you know around this the text not just our little bubble. So appreciate y'all. All right. Um I guess we'll go in order from where they are. Um Miss JB come on down. Um the freshman phenom, she was a state silver medalist. Um she has the second fastest 100 meter time for a freshman in the state of Texas ever. [Applause] She has an area record in 100 meter hurdles. She has a school record in 100 meter hurdles. She has the regional record in 100 meter hurdles. She has a school record in the long jump, the 100, the 200, the 200 hurdles. [Applause] Wow. 4x1 relay. [Applause] Oh, yes. 4x4. My my bad. 4 is coming next year. Um, next we have

014her sister Monica part of our 4x1 regional team. She was um anchored the 4x two that made it to area. Um and she was also on the 4x4 even though she got [Applause] welcome back. Next up we have Christian Flowers. Um, Christian is a regional finalist in the 100 and the 200. He's also the school record holder in the 200 and set that this year. Oh, also I forget about the relays. Um, he anchored our 4x1 that has a school record. He anchors our 4x2 that has a school record and he probably had one of the craziest races I've ever seen. He was down I think probably close to 60 meters in the 4x4 and he he pulled off the victory. So also being looked at as a football recruit, a division one football recruit.

015Matter of fact, tonight he has a virtual tour or something. So he's one of our student athletes that plays multiple sports. So that's getting things known around state. [Applause] Okay, the next one is Laya [Applause] Munoz. So Leila is a allstar 400 runner. She was the district champ district champion 400 meter runner. She was the fourth place at area. Um made it all the way to regionals where she competed very hard. And she was also uh a member of the relay, the 4x1 relay girls. They placed um third at the area track meet. [Applause] No, you're good. And Leila also was part of the 4x4 that wrote [Applause] this. Next up, we have Alexa Rodriguez. [Applause] Alexa, me and See, me and Alexa would get into it. Alexa is a freshman, too. And every time,

016every time I was like, "Come on, Alexa. We got it." She down, but Alexa was a key component in our 4x1 throughout the year. our 4x two um that made it to region or our 4x1 that made it to regionals and she ran that and our 4x2 that made it to area and then anything else that she needed we needed to put her in 4x4 open 100 open 200 she was there and she scored points for us now we have Juliet Marentos [Applause] Lillian came on I think right at district. We needed her um to score some points for us. She ended up running the 4x two that made it to area and the 4x4 that just barely missed it. So, [Applause] all right. And then we're going to do our two seniors here. Our

017first one is the distance goat for girls at HM King. Miss KGT record in the mile and the two mile and she broke it like every week. So, get my coach get my flag get my flag. And I said, uh, will you stop running? Because that's that's the only time I'm gonna have a chance. Um, I tell the kids all the time, it's about the best opportunities, not your only opportunities. And Kayla, uh, witnessed that firsthand. She ran well at UTRGB. And so, she ran well. The coach called her, basically said, "Hey, we want you to run for us." Um, she her dream school at the time was MCN. Um, she went up there, went on an official visit. They offered her scholarship money. Um, but she chose to be in the blue and yellow.

018She chose to be a havalina. [Applause] The biggest thing about that is she had choices. She got to pick where she wanted to. And I think sometimes our kids in Kingsville will kind of they're okay with just getting what they get, but that's how we believe. We want the best opportunity, not the biggest opportunity or not just any opportunity. Want an opportunity that works well for us and our family. So congratulations to you, ma'am. Um, last but certainly not least, we have the one himself, Mr. Josiah [Applause] Rivera. Now, um, Sai is well, not a state champ this year. But he did get second in the 300 hurdles this year at state and then he was third in the 110 hurdles. Stein also has a school record in the 110 hurdles, the 300 hurdles, the

019long jump, the 4x1 relay, the 4x2 relay. He also has an area record in [Music] the in the 110 and he has a regional record in the 110. So, I was at a situation where um like I said, I think everybody involved, but Sai was signed to the University of Miami. Um we ran as a school at the Texas A&M indoor meet. Sai at that point ran I think it was like the sixth or seventh fastest time in the history of the event. and UT and both&m at that point were like, "Hey, don't go all the way to Miami. Stay here in Texas." Um, so then he kind of started his recruiting. He opened it up again and s will be attending Texas A&M University in the fall. [Applause] Um, it's been a great year.

020Like I said, we we strive for the best opportunities, not the biggest opportunities or any opportunity. I could have went anywhere in the country. It was his choice. I think that's big. It's big. Not a lot of people, hey, you get to run here, you get to run there. No, he had his choice. He can go where he wanted. Um, and a lot of these underassman are on the same realm right now. I know Christians get looked at, like I said, by football and track. JB is only a freshman and she has every track school um country looking at her. So again, these kind of kids bring up for everybody else and and can all can all live off them a little bit, support them, and they can help our kids get other places, too.

021Thank you guys. Appreciate [Applause] Three, two, one. [Applause] Now moving on to item 6 C. Recognition of HMKing High School CTE state competition a mechanics DECA FFA district officer and skills USA miss Debbie Winsow. [Applause] I'd like to thank our board president and Mr. Reese and the board members for all your support throughout this whole year. We really appreciate it. At this time, I call this sponsor Raymond Gonzalez at Mechanic Welding. [Applause] Texas&M University Kingsville agricult class of new ribbon. [Applause] Erin Amaro barbecue its class of German as well as blind college agriculture mechanic show. Jacob Rivera barbecq pits class blue ribbon as well barbecq pits class blue ribbon as well. [Applause] I guess so. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez, for your dedication, working endless hours at night and on the weekends to uh for these

022kids to be going to Texas A&M University Kingsville to do their ACT projects and then going on to Glenn College. They got to uh explore the different colleges, too. So this was a great opportunity for our students in two different ways. So congratulations to our mechanics [Applause] welding. Our DECA sponsors Diana Korea and Leticia Gloria. [Applause] Good evening everybody. I'm Vlet Longoria and this is Diana Rio. We're both business teachers and we have the honor of introducing you to guys to some of our DECA winners. DECA is a student organization that prepares future uh business leaders. And so let me introduce you to some of our future business leaders. So come on up. We're gonna do this a little bit differently. We're asking them to all come up at the same time and then we'll

023introduce them. So the first project was done by Julian Gamboo and Aaron Vamos. Erin isn't here. Um the project that they worked on was integrated marketing campaign. They uh worked on a product and so Julian is here. So Julian, say hi to everybody. The next project uh was worked on by Valeria Lupus and she worked on a startup business plan and competed with that. Avani Allegria is not here but she worked on the community awareness project. And we have Sadi Cortez. She worked on a hospitality and tourism professional selling project and a business solutions project was done by both Antonio Castillo and Jaden Guerrero. They start working on their projects like as soon as school starts really we start pushing them um really September, October and uh they have to take a test sometimes um

024or they submit a paper and uh and so they compete at the district level then proceeded to state level. So congratulations. Just further announcement we have an outgoing district officer. She's our president this year, but she also served at the district level and learned some really good leadership skills. And that's [Applause] Si. Three, two, one. [Applause] I wish that y'all all had the opportunity to see these students in action and see their um powerpoints and their presentations. They're amazing and our kids are really becoming leaders and they're on the right track. And I want to thank our sponsors. They were very dedicated to these projects. Miss Katie Bohem [Applause] I would like to present Miss Raina Ferrer. Uh, Miss Raina Ferrer is currently serving as our new 2025 2026 chapter FA president acknowledging that she

025is now serving at the district level and there was 12 kids who ran and she was one of the six who got a spot for the steep district and she will be serving as a reporter. So, we have big goals for next year. Hopefully, she gets to run for area, which only two advance from each district level. And there's a whole entire process that takes like a month or two long. Congratulations. [Applause] This is a great opportunity for this young lady and also for the district because our district is being put on the map and it's in the eyes and people are looking at us from the FFA background. So, this is a great opportunity. Our next um sponsor that's going to be introducing his students is Mr. Barber Skills USA. [Applause] and this only

026part of our skill USA. There are so many kids that are working that couldn't be here. So still called learning club. This is the second year that we participated in skills USA and last year we brought in four different groups that we uh we took and all four plays to state, first and second place and we repeated the same thing this year. We got first, second to advance to state and they did very well. Okay. in television news production. Um I have Matthew and [Applause] Maest and Matthew Lon. Now, some of these guys participated in two different associations, two different groups that they had to they participated in, but they had when we got to state, they had to choose one. So, they were in news production, they had to drop one of them, but

027that's the way it is at state. Okay. Uh in video production I also had Antonio Castillo and Aelli and audio production I have Sarah Rodriguez and Angel Rodriguez. I also have Antonio because the district is not small. It's all the way from Austin to Bronville to the radio workers. So, we had to compete against all those schools. So, it's a big district, but they did well. [Applause] Three, two, one. [Applause] Mr. Barber, thank you for working so hard with your students in these hours and also being at every football game, every event, every everything. We really appreciate you and your students and the dedication that you do for your kids. Thank [Applause] you. Last but not least, our Skills USA. The sponsor is Christina Gonzalez engineering. [Applause] So this year at state for skills USA

028we had David Hamilton and Michael Airs compete in mobile robotics technology and they advanced the state in robotics urban search and rescue. We had Aya Gutierrez or sorry Satie Gutierz and Aya Oradi and they uh got second at district in amass state. Oh, and if I didn't say it before, David and Michael got first at district. [Applause] Um, in the engineering job exhibit, Jaylen Fuentes is not here, but he got a blue ribbon at district and a red superior ribbon at state. And then for our architectural model job exhibit, um, Elizabeth Love Lady and Delila Dravinho couldn't be here, but Satie Cortez is, and she received a blue ribbon at district and a blue superior ribbon at state. I just wanted to add that they really work all year on these projects. I know for

029robotics, they start the year before most of the time. I know. Um, they come in first day and they start working on their projects. They put in a lot of hours and I'm very proud of them. [Applause] Three, two, one. [Applause] uh the robotics and the engineering portion has been very dedicated and the growth of the program has risen to a very high and the license and certifications this year were amazing. Thank you, Miss Resty Gonzalez for all your support and hard work. I also want to thank Mr. uh Sandival, my backbone in making sure I get everything I need done and also uh Mrs. Moore for all of her hard work and dedication. And of course to you all the board members. Thank you. And now moving on to item 6D, recognition of HM

030King High School basketball team, Mr. Garcia. Again, thank y'all. Um, we'll continue with athletics. So, right now, I would like to call up our head boys basketball coach, Matthew Jones. He probably won't say it, but I'll go ahead and say he was co- coach of the year. [Applause] Uh, at this moment, I'd like to thank coach Garcia and school board members for giving me this opportunity not only to coach the kids, but to lead the right direction. Y'all know sports uh it is a game but is a tool to teach each other about life. It leads in the right direction as much as we can. Uh on our boys boys varsity basketball team we had Dylan Ever which is a senior. This was his uh I believe his first time since junior high playing with

031us. He uh he sacrificed a lot for us. As you know, he is a standout football player, but he did everything he was asked to do on field on court and he exceeded all expectations that he had. We also had [Applause] a we have Jay Lozano that's a senior. He's not here at this moment. We have Christopher Garza is a senior. He's not here either. We have Alex Ivanz. He's a senior. Victor Maldonado, he's a senior. Bron Maxi, he's a senior. Kay Pina, he's a senior. He's our manager actually. Uh Jordan really he's a junior is a junior. Frankie is a junior. Art Alanise is a junior. Ace is a sophomore. Ray Mos is a sophomore. Isaac Kase is a sophomore. Daniel Montgomery was a sophomore. And Julio Pñana Garcia was a sophomore. Uh this

032year the boys uh stood out. We had a 17 and 12 record. I believe we exceeded some expectations. Last year we missed playoffs by one position. We actually had three district losses by a total of seven points. This year we had the opportunity to uh sweep district but we fell short of that and shares the district title this year going 17 and 12. We also received a by district here at home uh that we won and we got knocked out in the second round which was a good uh experience for these young men. We did lose seven seniors, but I believe that these young men that we have as juniors will exceed expectations even more next year and take us to the uh to the next level. For our district honors, we had Jordan Verale,

033which received defensive MVP this year. For our district, we had three first team all district nominations, which we were the only team in the district that received those three nominations. It was Jay Lazyl, Christopher Garza, and Bray Maxi. We had our second team members, which is Victor Maldonado and Alex Mes, one honorable mention, which is our Leo Pña Garcia, which was our freshman, and then the award that I received as well. Uh, we also had two all-star selections which was Jay Lozano and Christopher Garza which was one more than what we had last year. We had one all-star. We had two this year and I'm shooting next year. Uh, these young men actually sacrificed a lot this year throughout football season. I had them come in the morning to get their weight lifting and conditioning

034in the morning. So, they would get up about 5:30, 6 in the morning, come work out with us and then uh continue everything afterwards. Uh I I again I'm very grateful for this opportunity. These young men exceed expectations not only uh on the court but off the court as well. And I thank you for the opportunity. [Applause] Now item 16, recognition of the Asian King High School Rama cross country team. All right. Now we'll honor our our cross country team. I'll call up our head coach, Ishmael Gizel. [Applause] Good evening. I'm Coach Es and today we're going to honor um two of our outstanding runners who represent the best of what King and Kingsville Independent School District have. I believe Kayla is here. Kelly, you want to come up? Kayla was a top 10 district.

035She almost made it to state. She was close. She was close. Is going to be running at some next year. From my understanding, she and Jacob will be two of three RAMs representing the Havalas on the cross country team. And our other outstanding one, I believe he's tonight, uh, Jacob Rivera. Jacob Rivera got first place in district 314A. He got top 10 in region region four for uh 4A and he got I believe he was in top 40 out of 150 runners at state. So both of the runners that represented us all the cross country runners represented um well out in out in the out in the competition and I was going to tell I was going to say a story. They're always whenever they run, whenever I make them run something hard or something

036like that, they always say, "Oh, me, why don't you do it, Mr. Eskimo?" And I'm like, "And they want to kill me. I think they're trying to kill me." But if you see me out there by the paper park lay out on the street or something like that, you know what happened. Thank you. [Applause] Uh, now item six, F, recognition of the HM King High School Raymond golf team. Mr. Garcia. Okay, we recognize our our golf team now. I'll call up head coach [Applause] Joe. U so I'll go ahead and speak for him. Uh as a team they placed in one out of five team tournaments which with a second place finish. The players won numerous individual medals throughout the season and once again we finished with a district champion MVP. Uh, two boys qualify

037for the regional tournament and the same two qualify for the state tournament. Our district tournament results Samuel Ramirez. [Applause] Where he was also the district champion and MVP and he qualified for the regional tournament and at regionals he placed third overall and qualified for the state tournament. We also have Mr. Dylan Everett. He plays second at district. He qualified for the regional tournament. He placed fourth and advanced to the state [Applause] tournament. As I said, Samuel was the district champion and district MVP and Dylan was the first team all district recognition. Um, we also had Joseph Vilches, Julian Garcia, and Roman Pereira who was on the team. And then from the girls, we had Kaylee Castillo and Mercedes Miguel Everett. Uh, so it was a great golf season. Again, I believe it was the fifth

038year in a row that we sent someone to the state tournament. Um, all hard work and sacrifice. They both played baseball this year as well. And as you know, baseball and golf run simultaneously, so they're trying to balance it all. Uh so that's kudos to them for all their hard work and sacrifice that they put in. I know we're going to miss him a lot. And again, I know coaches couldn't be here tonight, but we're thankful for him and all his hard work. [Applause] Now moving on to item 6G recognition HT high school bring up powerlifting team boys and girls. Now we'll recognize our our boys and girls powerlifting team. Um one thing I do want to say is their numbers have grown tremendously. Uh there's a lot of growth in the program. So, I'll

039call up our head boys powerlifting coach Steven [Applause] Selenas and our head coach powerlifting coach [Applause] Addy. Good evening. Uh good evening board members and guests. Uh tonight I am honored to recognize three ex exceptional young men from our powerlifting program who've shown what it means to commit, compete, and conquer. First, a sophomore, Eric Kasem, his first year competing, and he pulled 885 pounds, earning a trip to regionals. The future is bright with this man. Next we have senior Nick Vela. A determined competitor who total of 945 pounds and also qualified for regionals. His leadership by example made a lasting impact. And finally, our captain, Gabe Garza. He led from the front of the He led from the front with a total of,525 pounds and capped off his season with an appearance at the state

040championship. [Applause] Gay didn't just lift weights, he also lifted our entire program and I appreciate him. He was with me for four years. [Applause] Behind these athletes is a strong group of young men already preparing for next season. Our goal is clear and uh we want to be able to take a full team to state. With the ambition, the hunger, and the heart these kids bring to the weight room, uh I believe it's not just possible, but it's expected. Thank you guys for a great season. [Applause] Afternoon everybody. Um so it is truly an honor to stand before you today as the girls head powerlifting coach. Um this season has been nothing short than incredible. We started with 50 girls that came out to try it out and we had 41 that step throughout the

041whole entire family. So, um it was a privilege of working with the outstanding group of 41 girls. They were determined. They pushed themselves day in day out. Um they grew both in strength and character. Out of those 41 girls, we had 13. So, we had a full team plus one that ended up going to regionals. Um and I have those names somewhere here. Okay. Raina [Applause] Gomez, Megan, Lea Canada, Mia Campos, also not here. Jayen Cortez, uh, Josie Garcia, Aen [Applause] Monise, Absid Mata, Aya [Applause] O', Suarez, Jose Suarez, and Gabriella Adrian. [Applause] And last but not least, we have our state qualifier, Jaylen Cortez. [Applause] Jaylen finished eighth in the whole entire state. And uh lastly, our program did grow quite a bit this year. The girls did an incredible job this season, and

042I cannot wait to see where they're going to go from here. Thank you. [Applause] [Laughter] Perfect. [Applause] Now moving on to item 6, recognition of the HM King High School Lady Rainbow volleyball team, Mr. Garcia. And now we'll recognize the volleyball team. I'll call up head coach Ma Xander. [Applause] as I'm the coach. I know but um thank you all board members of all I know Dr. Y, Miss Moore, thank y'all for being lenient. Dr. Y especially gonna call up the girls first and then we'll talk about our season. I'm going to go by numbers. So I'm going to go Number one, Naa Suarez, a [Applause] junior. Number two, Christy Roas, which is not here. She's a [Applause] senior. Number three, which is Aria Gonzalez, freshman. Number four, Shila Salana, senior. Number five, Leila Mos,

043sophomore. Number six, Alexa Rodriguez, freshman. Number seven, Monica Kazan, Jr. Number eight, Angelina Vinton. She's a freshman. She's not here. Number nine, Josea Suarez, junior. Number 10, Addison Ortega, freshman. Number 11, Mercedes Venuela, Jr. And number 13, Madison [Music] Carr. Um, we're going to talk about this season. Um, our varsity girls had a great overall season with a record of 13 and 18. They earned their spot in the playoffs, finishing third in district with a record of five and five, which hasn't been done in over a [Applause] decade. Um, carrying into the playoffs, our girls won the first round, securing a B district championship, which again hasn't been done in a decade. So, um, we ended the season in the area round. Our girls, uh, defeated the odds and obviously exceeded all expectations. This season

044was special. Um I mean the group grows are special. We are extremely proud of the growth that they have displayed. Um I want to go into the district honors. So we have our co-eter of the year which is Christie which is she's not here. Christie got co-sitter of the year and she also got second team all state. We have our freshman. I promise you you're going to hear a lot about her. Dia Gonzalez. She got newcomer, co- newcomer of the year. And for me personally, as a group, I gave her the rookie of the year for this. Going into our first team, we have junior Monica Kazangjen. She definitely played a role for our office and is probably the loudest on the court when we watch her play. Um, next is junior first team as

045Carr, which I'm going to kill that kid because she should have been here. Um, she got first team as well. My second team, Nvea Suarez. Noa, she played a big role in leadership um this season. So, next year that is our captain and it's, you know, everyone knows it. Um, and our number four, our second team is Shila Salana, senior. She got um second team defense. Our moment mentions are Jose Junior and Leila Mono's sophomore. Monica also got 13 on state. Um, I just want to add, I mean, as being a young inexperienced coach, like they always ask, what is the secret to obviously being successful? And I got to say that the kids have to believe in you. If they don't, I don't think anyone would have a chance. So, um, I know I

046said thank you once, but I'm going to say it again. Thank y'all for working hard, for believing in me, each other, um, in yourselves. I know that everyone I guess feels to see our work and like every program everyone works hard, right? But we have been working all year round and it obviously has shown. I know I can be hard and difficult and me. But uh I think by by the end of this season and by the end of the career, you're going to be like better human beings by the end of it. So, I thank y'all for believing in me and making this season to say the least. It was inspiring, not just to me, but to the whole athletics of Lady Lady Brema department. Um, again, I want to thank the board, Garcia.

047Thank you for obviously believing in me as a young coach with again, this is my first year as a head and it was obviously inspiring. Um I when this group leaves it's going to be hard just because we meet a lot of kids but I think a special group impacts me in a way that no one ever has and that's definitely this group. So I do believe God has put me here to serve and it's to serve y'all. So I thank you again and I cannot wait for the future. [Applause] Three, two, one. I just again want to thank [Laughter] Sorry. I want to thank for all your support, your unwavering support that you give the athletic department and our coaches and everything we do. Thank you to all our administration uh for all your

048support and always being there at events and just doing what's right for kids. Thank you to Mrs. Moore and Dr. Ethan Gary because we have to work hand in hand all the time and I know I drive them nuts sometimes. Um, but they're very supportive of the kids. The main thing I can say about this team we have together, all administration. Um, is everyone's in it to do right by kids and what's best for the kids. And then if the kids want it, we do our best to give it to them. And that's because of you all and everyone here. So, thank y'all parents, community, and my coaching staff for all their hard work and uh the long hours, early mornings, weekends, everything. So, thank you all. Thank you everyone. Definitely the best part of

049these meetings are rec recognizing our kids and our staff. Moving on to item uh seven, communications from administration, HM King High School uh superintendent round table, Dr. Juans Noal and Dr. Adah Bezen. Thank you Mr. Ree, board of trustees. I'm I'm here with Dr. Basher today. We're just going to um showcase the superintendent round table which is a group that started in the fall of 2022 and I want to introduce our our students before we get on with the presentation and then we'll have students say a few words about the the round table. I'm going to introduce our students. We've got Doug. We got we got um Santiago Garcia. We got Dylan. We got Isaac de Laas, Alexis Espino, and we got Pina Garcia. Goodness me. As Dr. Sonal mentioned, it's been an incredible journey

050with these young men and women uh from starting in the year 2022. During that year, Dr. Reynolds that has requested for us to do have some uh folks come into the district and do some mentoring with students. We were working on a mentoring program. Then one day we looked at each other and said,"Well, why not? Why not us? We need to be the first to step in and become mentors to these incredible young men and women." So, I'm going to share with you a little bit of the background. So, here you go. We started in 2022. Uh, our students meet twice a month with the KISD superintendent, which were Dr. Bennett, myself, and Dr. soccer at their respective campuses. So we do have a group at Gillette Middle School and then now these young men

051and women in front of you are now at the high school. So what was the purpose of this? We began a mentoring program. We spoke and taught the children the students a lot about student leadership. What does it look like to be a student leader at their campuses? We worked on collaboration and teamwork. We wanted to have a voice for the student body. So our students would actually go visit with their classmates and bring back to us a voice from the campus on items that we needed to know and hear and be able to help improve for the Gillette and the high school. Uh communicate the campus needs and also we model capturing kids heart. Dr. Sonova was very instrumental in starting every meeting uh with good things. Uh we also had a social contract

052that these young women put together for every meeting. And then we always ended our meeting with one of our students who would give a score on how we use capturing kids hearts model. And then lastly they shared a quote for the day. So, it was very important that they saw us model for them and that they also learned some phenomenal leadership skills. These are some student pictures from the very first uh few meetings we had and they're they're up here giggling a little bit because when we pulled up some pictures thanks to Tanya Williams, we're like, "Oh my gosh, look at you." the these they were in middle school at the time and our principles were instrumental in selecting the students for the superintendent round table. So we've seen the maturity uh of the students

053uh throughout the years. We also last year uh had the opportunity to highlight a lot of their work at our uh Kingsville record and this really showed the community some of the incredible work that were being done in our schools at both Gillette and the high school uh to show our leadership and our teams. These young men and women are the future of Kingsville. They're they're here. their parents supporting our campuses supporting them and we're so phenomenally proud of the work they've done. Thank you, Dr. Best. Nice. Um what you see before you that superintendent round table logo was um designed by our students. They created it there. It was their vision to to put something on on a piece of paper and that's what they created. It was amazing to watch them um the

054one you they all gave input and we had Santi take the lead and design it on one of the you know apps and this is a product that he created. It's amazing what our kids can do when you just give them the platform to to do that and we're very proud of the the logo they created. As you can see some of our students are wearing t-shirts with that logo. Um, we were able to u get those um donated for our round table students and we're excited that they'll be able to showcase their their logo for the team that they represent. Um so one of some things that they do they again we talked about them being a voice for the students. Um one of the first things that they ask is hey you guys

055can we get um the logo put on the the mopac field when they play their games. There was nothing on there. So again, we're hearing the voice of the student. Um we we don't think about that all the time, but the students are thinking, "Hey, can we get something?" So I I reached out to coach Dav at the time to say, "Hey coach, can you guys put a logo?" Um as you can tell, we need a little bit of practice with the K. But um it's it's a logo nonetheless, right? And it's it's something that the kids, you know, definitely were excited about the fact that we were able to do that. In addition to that, they say, "Hey, can we get the goalpost painted?" So I I reached out to our Bay team again.

056they were able to get that done. Um, as little as that may seem, you know, logo on the football field, you know, when they play their games um for middle school or even the post should be painted yellow, those are small things that go a long way for our students. It means a lot and when they asked for that, we were able to deliver. You know, they they felt that their voice was heard. It was important. Um, al also what they were looking at last year when um Miss Williams was a principal at Gillette, they were like, "Hey, we want to be able to eat outside and have lunch." you know, is that possible? And I want to thank our principles for their collaboration with the round table because without their support, I mean, they're

057not they're not even part of the conversation when we meet with the kids. So, a lot of times the kids are are coming with ideas and plans to do things that they go speak to the principal. The principles are really good about, you know, collaborating with the kids and finding ways to make the the dream or the vision of what they want happen. So, I want to thank, you know, Dr. Siga, you know, Miss Moore, um, Miss Dr. Williams, you know, last year leading HM King and Miss Williams leading Gillette last year for their help because without them we could not do the things that we did with the round table. Um, but here in Gillette last year, the courtyard, they wanted to beautify the courtyard so they could utilize the courtyard more often. And

058so we um were able to work with getting um those picnic tables from Lowe's. They stained them. They cleaned up the flower beds, trimmed the hedges and the and the br the the brush. and they made that space usable again. It had not been um there and maybe I don't know how long it's been, but it's been a while since we had that place where you could actually use it. And you can see that the students did the work. They did the cleaning, they did the the restoration, and they definitely took pride in utilizing that space out there to that middle school. Um other things that they've asked to do was we want to inspire other kids to do good things, right? And and we want to bring a little color to HM King. It

059just so happened that part of the AVID class a year and a half ago um they they decided to create ceiling towels and they put them inside the classroom. I shared that inspiration with this group and they said why can't we do that you know even further right? So they got other students to come and do that this year. So they created more city tiles. We put those city tiles out the hall. So students are walking through the hall they see color. they see inspiration from their fellow classmates, inspire them to do good things. So again, this is another thing that our student ambassadors um you know, students from around table have inspired other students in the in the campus to do good things for H&T. And the last thing I want to showcase um

060today is motivational signs. Um, how often do we get students in high school saying, "Hey, I want to motivate others to put posters out." So, we we brainstorm. They put some ideas out on on a piece of paper and then we um had Dr. Best bring in some of our our KD staff to come to show our students how to use Canva and they came in and showed them. Students started creating their own designs. And as you can see, these posters were created by the students. We printed them in house and we post them at the high school. again a small act of kind kindness coming from our students but yet you know going a long way. Um you can also notice that those logos that the students created are on those posters. So you

061know it's it's little piece of them put you know putting out there for their their classmates their um colleagues and and hopefully we give them a little word of inspiration um throughout the day. So it it's pretty it's pretty awesome working with these students. you know, we've been doing it for two and a half years now and and they do as much for us as we do for them to be honest. Um, I I don't get a lot of opportunity to work with students on a day-to-day because, you know, we're typically work with with adults and and as staff members, but being able to work with students on a on a weekly basis def definitely brings, you know, joy to to us because we don't get that opportunity daily basis. So, thank thank you students

062as well for what you do for us as a group. So, at this time, I want to give the students an opportunity just to say a few words about what this program has meant to them and then um we'll wrap this presentation up. But I definitely want to make sure that the board got to hear from the students on on how they're making a difference here at at at So, come over here, please. Introduce yourself. I'm nervous. I'm sorry. My name is Alexis Espino and I'm a senior at Asian King High School. And being an ambassador has made me a great person, but not just for myself, but for helping make the school and the school community a better place and also making it better and more fun for the freshman and sophomores and juniors

063and the rest of the seniors. And one thing that my sergeant Kamacho has taught me is to strive to be a future leader and to teach other young people to become better citizens with or without not having a future or not knowing what they want to do with their life is what I've taught some of the freshmen too here in the ambassadors um community program. [Applause] Good evening uh board members and community. My name is Santiago Garcia and I'm a student at HM King High School. I'm here to share a glimpse of my experience as a member of the superintendent round table and has how it has impacted me personally and academically over the past two years. Being a part of this group has truly been a meaningful journey as a student. Having a voice

064in school matters. It isn't something everyone gets but through the round table I've had that chance to express my concerns. It has been a wonderful experience to speak up about the issues we face to suggest changes and see real improvements to take place. It is more than just talking. It is being heard and being a part of the solution. Often there are challenges we students see every day that the leaders of the schools may not always notice. The round tables give us opportunity to bring those concerns forward and to know that they matter. This experience has taught me that leadership isn't just about holding a position. It's a it's about making a difference and helping others do to do the same. I want to thank the leaders of KSD for creating and supporting this opportunity

065for us students to lead, speak, and grow. Your commitment to students voice makes all the difference. A special thank you to our former superintendent Dr. Pettis who just who started this group. Your leadership and dedication to a student engagement are deeply missed and your impact continues. Thank you. [Applause] Good evening board members. My name is De Laas and I'm I've been with the superintendent round table for two years. And the way that it has helped me, it gives me a voice in the KD school district and it gives me a way to help the school be a better place and a better environment for me and my peers. [Music] [Applause] Good evening. My name is Douglas. Um I've been with the student ambassadors from Gillette when we started from the 2023. And the few words

066I have to say is that it really helps that we have a voice to come and uh voice our opinions about the our opinions about the school and the district. [Applause] Hello. Good. My name is Gandu. Being part of the superintendent round table has been an incredible experience for me over the past few years. Giving me a chance to see what it really takes to get things done in our school. And more importantly, it's helped me that students have a voice that our opinions truly matter. This experience has helped me grow, grow my communication skills. I learned how to speak just not for myself but be of my school and peers. Whether it was discussing behavior or sharing feedback, our team was always came together with respect, fun, and team. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you

067students and and just I'll close with just a thank you to to the board um for for supporting the initiatives that that we are doing to to serve our kids here at Keith Kleski and and I and I want to finish with our our principles again. Thank you. Because, you know, I I know it's it's sometimes um a little unnerving to to just let us have conversation with the kids and not know exactly what they may ask or want to do, but you guys have been very supportive in the work that they're trying to do and trying to just make Kingsville, you know, um Kingsville ISD, Gillette Middle School, and H& King a better place for us. So, thank you guys. I just want to close also to share with you that we we have

068great celebrations with the students and then we also are there for them during hard times. So we've experienced both joy and then some really difficult times with them. Uh but I'm glad that we were able to be there and we can surround them with love and support and they have a safe space when we come in. they know they can trust us and we can talk openly and we do everything we can to make their life better. Thank you for your support. [Applause] Thank you Dr. Sandal and Dr. Moving on to item 7B, capturing kids hearts. National showcase schools designation. [Applause] Thank you so And now moving on to item 7B the capture kids hearts national showcase school designation Dr. Saman. Thank you Mr. Ree. Thank you board trustees. I proudly stand here today to

069present the capture kids hearts national showcase schools award um to our schools u and uh in our district for creating a positive and supportive learning environment where students feel comfortable, safe and valued. The award celebrates schools that have successfully implemented the CKH process and demonstrated positive outcomes for students. Keys Independent School District had the following campuses designated as 2024 2025 capturing his heart's national showcase schools. So, um, one of the things that CK did when they nominated the schools, they did send them a care package with a bunch of goodies. And I believe every campus received theirs. The only one that has an in I'll be presenting HM King with theirs today. And so, um, I want to go ahead and call you guys up. I'm going to call the campuses up, recognize your accomplishment,

070and then we'll do a photo with all the schools together with the district banner. So, let's begin with AD Harvey Elementary School, second consecutive year. And Merrell Elementary School, second consecutive year. [Applause] Jesus Park Elementary School, second consecutive [Applause] year. John S. Gillette Middle School, second consecutive year. And HM King High School, Early College High School, first [Applause] year. And again, I've got a banner for King. And then we're going to also be updating the other banners so that we can make sure they're posted with the years that they've earned the uh designation. But in addition, Kingsville Independent School District first year designated as a Cathy Kids Hearts District as well. Congratulations. [Applause] Mr. Is he still here? Come on, sir. Awesome. [Applause] Three, two, one. [Applause] Good job everyone. At this time I do

071want to present the high school wizard banner as well. We're definitely going to get this run of their school. So that's [Applause] more good. Okay, now moving on to item 7C, the Kings ISD 18 plus programs and services. This is Laura Zimmerman. Good evening, President Ree and School Board and community. Um, in light of all these celebrations, um, I'm proud to, um, just be able to discuss a wonderful program and I have the honor and pleasure of introducing one of our amazing teachers um, that I think everyone understands and knows her as, Mama Hall. Um so the 18 plus program and services are designed for special ed students um to apply their skills learned during their school years in the environments that they will be accessing in adult life. So we actually have uh two

072different types of programs that we have to support our students. One of them is 18 plus employability. And so this is designed to help those students transition uh for employment in the community as an adult. Employment skills are addressed through on-site training in the community. And the Texas Workforce Commission also works with our adult students and their families to help ensure that skills are acquired for employment. Then we also have our 18 plus life skills program which is designed to address the students transition plan and cultivate the skills they need to say to succeed in their daily lives as an adult. So they work on home management, nutrition, personal hygiene, community integration and uh this program the students can progress also into the employability program as well. So, Coastal Plains also works with our adult

073students in this program and their families to help ensure that skills and needs are addressed. So, at this time, I wanted Pog to talk about all the wonderful things she's been doing with our students. Good evening. It's an honor, pleasure to be here and to address you with the best program KISD has. And it's just wonderful to be with them. This is my fourth year to be with the 18 plus program. It's my 42nd year in the classroom and the last four have just been the most rewarding. Um I've got four students who are going to age out this year. They've reached the age of 22 and I have had the pleasure of working with them the last four years and helping them to mature. And of these four, two of them, one of them

074will be very successful in the employment field. one will be successful with a job coach. The other two um are moving on to independent living and and it has just been an honor to watch them grow. We changed the program up a little bit this year with the direction of Miss Zimmerman. we um were going to various jobs um throughout the school year and this year what we decided to do is to concentrate on a job for a 9-week period. And what we did is we spent the first two weeks going over the skills needed for that job, the so uh the communication vocabulary associated with that job and what they would need to do to be successful in that job. The four different areas that we worked this year were Walmart, Dollar Tree, Goodwill,

075and we're finishing up the library, and it has been very beneficial. Um, the students have also learned to fill out applications. I've had two learn to write their not only write their name, but write it in cursive where they have a a signature. They've learned their addresses, their phone numbers, and um we we go pick them up every morning. Um they do not ride a school bus. We try to transition into what an adult life going to a job and coming back would look like. That is our morning. Our afternoon, we we take our students home and then we go pick up four young men who are just a delight. I've had the pleasure working with them. Some of them four years, some of them three years. Two of those are going to age out.

076And we've worked on what's a nutritious snack, personal hygiene. We've worked on folding clothes. We have a washer and a dryer where we can um do household skills. We have a bed where we can learn how to make it, change it, and things of this nature. that these are the things we work on in our independent living skills. And it is just a joy and a pleasure. I go to school every day with joy in my heart because I love these kids and they're they're wonderful. And I thank the Lord for the opportunity to teach them, to guide them, and to direct them. They're going to be successful citizens in Kingsville once they've left our program. [Applause] Now moving on to item seven. Okay. Can you tell me how long the uh 18 plus day

077is Yes sir. Um so each we have a morning program and an afternoon program and they're four hours long. Any reason why it's only half day? Um well the state does not give us um specific uh time frame and so looking at the needs of our students each year uh is how we determine that for this this current school year. Is there any data out there that that says um half day works I don't know a full day or or vice versa? Yes sir. So we did look into uh a lot of different types of programs. Um the state actually gives us different ways that we can run those programs as well. I don't want to reiterate that the year that I came to uh were having coffee conversation sessions and we invited CCISD they

078have a huge 18 plus program and they came to see what was the inception in the very very beginning what we were doing with those students. So they were very instrumental in providing the the the foundation and the framework to begin build this program. Amamaha just mentioned that especially this last year uh we began to re redesign some of the work they're doing and so there is some uh direction for a district to determine the length but most of it it does rely on the students ability and capability and stamina to be at work sites over the course of time. So our goal is to begin them perhaps with two or three hours and then uh be able to extend their day. Uh we also have to find job sites. So many of the places

079that they do go, they have to be supervised by their employees. So we're partnering with our community and they're welcoming us, especially Mama who wouldn't want to be working with her every day because she is such a delight. But to answer your question, it is based on uh the students, their abilities, uh their stamina in the workplace. So you have a lot of different designs throughout the throughout the state uh and guidance from TEA, but we've come a very long way in four short years. So are you saying that you you created the program in the last four years? No, sir. You said CCISD. Yeah, but just to clarify because I'm seeing I did not create the program in CCISD. However, I'm very familiar. Okay. Created CCD. You met with CCID. I'm sorry. Yes. In

080the beginning of the school year when I started, we had coffee and conversation sessions with a lot of individuals in the region. So, CCISD was one that came, so did Cal Allen to help us with our dyslexia program. So, there were many things that we were just getting off the ground. I'm looking at some of the former board members that were here. And if you recall, uh, we did share at the, uh, the beginning of the overview perspect all of the different coffee and conversation sessions we had. But we were in Kingsville and I'll openly say where a lot of our students were being served and we know that we had to do better. And we began the process of looking at what other districts both large and small were doing for the students that

081were getting to that age and how to help them to become employable and how to transition into community. So they could also earn a living and many will begin to live independently uh and help parents through that transitional phase. Many parents concern is you know what now? What after uh public school? What what are we going to be able to do for our children? So those conversations start in transition much younger starting middle school planning their year. I hope I was able to answer your question. Okay, last question for the 18 plus program. Can you just give us an example of what kind of activities go on for those four hours? Um so uh like Miss uh Harriet Williams was explaining too in the mornings um they go out to different job sites and again

082we work with the community but it's all based on each individual child's transition plan. So what that is is the children and parents have been completing plans um talking about what they as their family and the child's needs are and then we create a program yearly around each individual child. So we even pick sites that are um based on each of the students needs and uh interests and parents as well. So, we go to the sites and they have different types of jobs. Uh, we also have um a job checklist that the Texas workforce was actually really excited to see us using and they were going to be letting other people uh other districts know about that too. Um, in addition to that, our afternoon class, the life skills, like Hugh was saying, they work

083on those very specific life skills. um you know uh if a child is able to learn employability skills, we definitely want to work on those things, but just even having any of our students become productive citizens out in the community. So again, it depends on their transition plan and what the parents uh and family want uh and what their needs are. And so that actually drives what goals and what activities we do. like she said um they do cooking, they learn housework, math skills for so that they can go to the stores and and buy things on their own as well. Has anybody reached out to HD by any chance? I know two former students who actually retired from there as Yes, sir. through our graduate team plus program. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. So, um

084that was actually one of the sites that we considered. Um but again it just depends on uh within each year it's going to look very different based on those transition plans. We did not have students that were interested or families that were interested in that particular site this year. um as far as the different activities that we were doing. But that's definitely uh on our list and uh you know as well as many other um employers in the community were also interested in helping us. We also had region 2 come in. They were an active part. Uh Kathleen Merch is at region 2 and she's amazing. She oversees uh this particular program in this region. And so again, you know, she also came in, observed students, our teachers, our parents. Uh she helped us build

085and guide us as well to ensure that we're really giving the best opportunity for our students. Thank you, Mr. Thank you, Dr. President. Thank you, everyone. Um now moving on to item 7D, budget update. Dr. Thank you, Mr. Ree and members of the board. Um, so a couple of things. Um, I'm not going to speak in depth tonight. I am going to just give an update on a couple of things moving forward and then we will save the rest for the workshop coming up. Um, there's a lot going on in the legislative session. um a lot of different conversations uh with different bills being suggested by the House and the Senate. So far, we don't have final answers on school funding. So right now there are several bills that could affect funding for our staff,

086that could affect the defeasence, that could affect tax ratification, election, health insurance, several different things that uh you see the um the current budget workshop that we have for 63. Again, you saw the email that I sent out proposing changing that to 610 just because the session ends on 62 and we will have more answers and be able to provide a better recommendation to you on 610. The second uh update I have for you is on health insurance. We've been meeting several times with our consultant. We've also met with our provider. We've met with TRS. and we don't have to give a final answer until September the 5th recommending that we uh bring the consultant in our consultant Mr. ESL and his team on our next budget workshop to talk about many different options that

087we've been discussing so we can make the best uh decision for our employees. Finally, the last thing I want to bring up is a tax ratification election. So this is something that that we have not discussed before. If you could blow it up a little bit bigger, please. If you see at the very top, it talks about our tax rate. Our M is 7552. Our INS is 6552. Our total tax rate is 1.41. And before just a couple of years ago, our total tax rate was 1.5187. So our total tax rate has decreased by about 10 pennies. And and the board has wisely as the state has decreased the M rate. You see the 7552. They have decreased that over the last couple years. And then uh we are required whenever they increase it, decrease

088it to either number one. uh have a tax rat ratification election to keep it the same or number two to uh move pennies over to the INS side or number three to overall decrease the tax rate and again we have decreased it by about 10 cents over the next years. Um what we what we have an option to do in the next year is do a tax ratification election. That is instead of moving pennies from the M to the INS to move pennies back from the INS to the M. The advantage of that is it gives us several hundred,000 extra for our M operations. Um one slight disadvantage is it it decreases a little bit of the amount of debt that we can pay in that year. Uh but right now we are at the

089point where every option is on the table to balance the budget on the M side and we do have uh several extra pennies on the INS side because we had been moving it over there. So if we did a tax ratification election to move some pennies to the M side, the total tax rate would not increase at all for any of our uh community. So that that's something that we're going to discuss a little bit in depth at our next budget workshop. I just kind of wanted to give you a preview of another tool that we have to raise money on our M side. And uh we will have also Mo Casey there. Uh Mo Casey was recommended by both our uh financial consultant uh Robert Deharina and also TEA and they are they are

090pretty much the experts on tax ratification elections. So they will be able to answer any questions that we have at the next workshop. I'll take any questions that the board has. Questions? Okay, moving on to item 7, budget recap report uh check register for March 2025. Dr. Thank you, Mr. Ree. So, just want to point out a couple of things. Um, Cla County Appraisal District, again, we pay that every quarter. We're required as a taxing entity. Um, and then we have on here we have six HVAC vendors. We have Okal Vioa, Texas Chiller Systems, Linux Industries, Quantum Mechanical Services, Texas Air System, Climate. I I just wanted to point out that we do have aging um we aging eight fact systems that that need constant attention. Uh and we a lot of it is outside

091of our expertise to fix. So we do contract out with outside entities as you see there are many different entities that we have. It it just depends on the best value for that particular project. We we again don't have u uh any vendor that we particularly rely on at any time. It's just what is best able to do the job in the quickest time at the best price. Um I don't have any other specific items to point out to you. If you have any questions, I'll be h happy to answer them. I have a question about the $6,250 for CCMR services. Yes, sir. What services are provided? Uh let me defer to Dr. Sandival. um that can answer that question. Again, we have we have somebody on on site uh for CCNR services, but Dr.

092Sandival would be able to answer in more depth exactly what services those those are providing. I'm trying to reference to what that CCMR service is. Okay. Um that's our education. That's the the service that we currently have helping out at agenc,000 contract over the course of the year. Um sorry, what did you say? That's that's the contract we pay over the course of the year. the 75,000. Thank you. We're still contracting now or using No Senator as a as a consultant or what what what's his role? So his role is strictly audit related. I am not a CPA. So whenever we have an audit, we need to have a CPA prepare our our files for the audit. He's not the actual auditor, but he does prepare it. Um, okay. And and sometimes the billing is

093uh after after the fact. Again, usually our audit ends in January, but when they send the bill in, that's when Yeah, we used him years ago as a inter. Thank you. No more questions. Okay, hearing none. Moving on to item uh item eight, new business. By common consent, the board agrees to consider as one action uh item the following. It can be found on pages 26 to 42. Uh first, the approval of waiver of tuition for transfer students. Second, approval of special meeting minutes uh of April 29, 2025. And also number three, approval of special meeting minutes of May 5th, 2025. I I have a question about the transfer. So just uh for the record I think uh at some point maybe work we need to look into the waiver country students. you know, we

094we we're the only district around here that accepts everyone and um we just need to take a serious look at this because we're facing a lot of lot of cuts and we we also need to look at you know number four the transfer back as you can see as noted in accordance with our policy students fail to maintain the academic standards you know attendance our district policy, our handbook, you know, the other school districts, they follow through with that bishop does, SGA, we I don't know if we've done that. I don't know if we seriously did that. And we put ourselves in that position to where we don't have any teeth, but but we do. It's just right here. So, we're waving we're waving a fee, but we're not following what we're not following the

095policy like for number four. We're just, you know, okay, we'll take you in, but we don't hold anybody steep in the fire against students that we accept. Seem to forget that we accepted you, but you have to do your part for us. We're accepting you. Does that make sense? Yes. I think we need to take a look at the board and and do something different. Have have we have we had any cases to where we had to do that with any students transferring in? Thank you, Mr. I do oversee the students that transfer to the district from from other districts. I do look at attendance. I look at discipline. I look at behavior um that the students exhibit. we do look at those records before we we accept students. Um I I believe what's coming

096to you right now is is considering whether we wave the the tuition that we charge which I think 725 Peter fe that that's what's being brought but we do look at that Mr. chop up. But if if we do want to look at that policy and and maybe revise it to make it a little more stricter because we do get feedback from the principles if there's any concerns at the end of the year for any students that are out of district transfers or any students that are in in in district transfers that we have to look at possibly making any changes or or recommendation moving back to their own campus. No, I think it's strict in in the in the writing the way it's written. It's just on how it's being executed. How it's being

097executed. Yes. Yes. So, yeah. So, the uh so I had a question that the waiver that we that we provide that 752, who does it fall on? Um if we don't wave it, is it the parent that has made that come into our district or That's correct. Okay. Then the next question is um do you get feedback you mentioned you get feedback at the end of the year. Do you get feedback about academic uh achievement from these uh transfer students by your principles? Yeah, we do send information to our principles in usually it's usually April that we send it in to give us information on any kids that are considering putting on probation and hold them accountable for not coming back the the following school year. So we do look at that information, you know,

098again for anybody that's coming from outside the district or any students that actually transfer within the district to another campus because we want to make sure that they follow and abide by the the expectations when they were taken to that that campus, you know, of attendance behavior and grades as well, academics. We look at all those things. So, have you actually and not to be able to get specific, but say in the history, say the last, you know, three or four years since you've been here, can you think of a case where we've actually had to ask a transfer student to, you know, return to their home district? You have we have is it is it because we denied them, Dr. In what sense? Um, what do you mean denied them? uh the transfer maybe

099that we accepted the transfer and then you're saying that we did send them back. Yeah, we do look at it every year. We look at all the transfer kids that come that are in our district and we actually make them reapply as well. Is it 750 a one time fee? That's every year every year. So do we monitor their progress once a year or throughout the year? If principles are notifying about concerns, you know, we'll notify, you know, the parents and and you know, there's issues with, you know, the students misbehavior, things of that sort. That that tends to be the main issue, the misbehavior or attendance. We don't usually get the ones about um academics. It's t it tends to be the discipline or attendance. You know, I I can understand. We've got parents

100that move in from from another state, from the town and and and we we wave those, but we're within district. Mr. Maddox, is there a way we can set parameters to those districts and maybe those, you know, maybe I hate for the parents have to pay, but I think maybe their district should pay whatever there were within the town. It'd be like saying that we KISD are going to pay the kids all the kids bishop up to those who contributed to all that and and and we don't we collect taxes on those kids but we don't get money from the state in their in their 88 that that money will go there and that's kind of what the the tradeoff has been over the years is that um nobody really charges these these transfer fees

101anymore because we get so Yes, ma'am. Thank you. data to support the effectiveness of programs. You know, I can I can go through our records in the last four and a half years and I've been bleeding it and I can share that with the board. I mean because just like it's good to bring the kids in but we don't want to bring in problems or you know grades I do moni because that's one of the things that I'm overseeing and I try to make sure that students we're not just get them just for the sake of getting them especially when they come from another district. There's other things that we take in consideration. Do they live in the community? They do. We take our students. If they live in Ricardo and they're a high school

102student, we have an agreement with Ricardo. So, we take the students, but we we do look at those records and we look at and ask for them when they do enroll in the district. The question, do we get ADA from these students that transfer students from the state? We do get ADA. Yes, sir. And for the record, I have this nothing to do with the family that is applying to get in. I was just it was just a thought in general. Yes. for us for the board meeting to think about discussing later. Thank you, sir. So, now that we've had our discussion, is there a motion uh to approve by common consent item? Motion. Motion made by Okay. made by Martin, second by Delma. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries

10370. Now moving on to item 8, discussion and possible action regarding the memorandum of understanding for education for employment partners for the 2025 2026 school year. Dr. San, thank you Mr. Lee. Thank you board of trustees. I'm here today to we're going to do a small presentation on the education to employment program that's currently serving HMP High School. Um E2E has been here full-time, three and a half years serving the the campus and and they provide support for postsecary education to our our graduating seniors and also additional support to some of our lowerassmen as they get ready for that senior year. I've got um Ann Black from Education to Employment and Stephanie Dodson that are going to be doing their presentation and then afterwards we'll take any questions you might have about the education to

104employment program. I'm currently serving the high school and then we'll um leave it for you to discuss and consider the AOE. Good evening. My name is Ann Black. I'm the executive director for education to employment partners. It's good to see you all again. Um we are representing our postsecary advising program. As repres ISD this program is done in partnership with a national funer, the root ed alliance out of Chicago, Illinois. They are a private funding organization that's dedicated to post-secary success in rural environments throughout the country. We are lucky enough that they are in South Texas and that they agree to partner for the value of the cost share that Kingsville does over the years. You all pay the salary for the post-secary advisors that are on campus. We're asking for two this year. We

105all have seen an increase in your enrollment and we need to add in a second adviser to make sure that all of our students are graduating successfully with a post-secary plan. Bridad Alliance puts in all of the extra funding, the private funding behind that to provide all of the college tours, all of the technical assistance, all of the different seminars and visits that we're able to do, as well as decision days and professional development. So, I'm going to step aside and let Stephanie, who's our director of postsecary programs, get into the statistics for cancer. Good evening every I'm Stephanie Dodson. I'm the director of the secondary programs. Um this year we have had one and a half advisors and they have done a phenomenal job. We had Savannah Sandival and Samuel Ortonon on campus. Um,

106I just want to give you kind of a view of what has happened over the last kind of three years that the program has been at HM King. As you can see, um, the advisors work with every student on the campus. In the fall and in the spring, they actually meet with 100% of the student population. This year there was approximately 206 seniors that they worked with. During that time they visit with the students and they segment every single student into collegebound, workforcebound, or militarybound. And they determine whether they're going to go to a four-year college, a two-year college, if they're going to go workforce um and get a certification or whether they're going to go to the workforce without training. and then whether they're going to go military and from that segmentation they determine

107specifically what they're going to need to support those students in. So every student gets the needed support that they require for their segmentation. Whether that is 100% of the students will complete the FASA and I'll talk about that here in just a minute or um every student will do an application. They do it to a college and then they also if they're in the workforce they do it to a an employer. The workforce students also do resumeumés. They do mock interviews. the military, they support them with the ASVAB. The um collegebound students, they make sure that they've done a state assessment, whether it's ACT, SAT, and the TSI. We support TSI with boot camps. There were actually two boot camps that were offered this year, once in the fall, and once in the spring, and

108we're going to continue to build on that to help support that. That's one reason why we're asking to have two advisors this year to really kind of help with that level two and level three support um to help the students in that college readiness area. So really that advising component is so important for those students um and that's why the adviserss do that 100% meeting. We had 94.2% 2% of students that did some form of a post-secary application completed and it's at 94.2. It will get to 100% because our advisor's work over the summer. So, they're continuing to support those workforce students to do some type of an application into the workforce. So, we work with summer melt. It's important that students not only segment into college, but they actually are attending college. So, we

109make sure that they're following through with their orientation and that they're actually attending in the fall. The workforce students, we make sure that they're actually getting their employment. Yes, sir. Mr. Chop, you had a question. I know what summer melt is. Can you make sure can you tell everybody else? Absolutely. So, summer melt um we have students that when they segment into college, they say they're going to go to college. we they've done their FAFSA, they've done their college application, they've done all of those parts and pieces, but for some reason there is a barrier that occurs over the summer that they don't follow through with their plan. Um, and it can be various things. They just they're tired. They don't want to follow through. They kind of enjoy that summer break and want to

110continue that for a little bit longer. Sometimes there's illness. Sometimes there's something happens within the family. um lots of variables that occur and so students don't follow through with their plan for the fall semester. Um they don't attend orientation, therefore they can't register. They don't know how to get with an advisor again. They can't register for the fall. So summer melt occurs and then what happens is because they don't attend in the fall, they're not in their class, districts don't get credit. And so a big part of our advising program is that our adviserss work over the summer and they continue to reach out to those students. Did you attend orientation? Okay, you attended orientation. Now, have you spoken to your advisor in your program? I don't know how to do that. Well, let's reach

111out and find out who that person is. Here's the phone number. Let's contact them. Um, have you gotten your fall schedule? Can you send me a copy of that to make sure they have it? Do you know where your building is? here's a copy of the map for the campus you're attending. So, they reach out throughout the summer to make sure that those things are happening. Um, if they're military bound, they have to actually enlist for the districts to get credit for that. Maybe they've gone to the MAPS and there's suddenly some medical issue that they weren't able to enlist in the military. Their plan A is now out of the question. So, our advisors have actually helped them complete their FASA. So, maybe plan B is what we have to do. So, they're going

112to help them with plan B. So, maybe we need to get the certification while we find out what we can do with that medical situation. So, we're helping with all of those things. We also don't want that workforce student to just sit on the couch and not follow through. We want them to be productive citizens and give it get a livingable wage. So, we're going to continue to help them and direct them to the workforce solutions of the coastal bin. Hey, have you continued with your resume? Did you finish it? Do I need to help you secure some type of clothing for your mock in for your interview because you do need to dress up? What can I do to help you? So, we continue doing that. We also have students that reach out after

113they graduate and are still going to college. They remember, "Hey, I don't know how to do my FASA. can you help me again? And we'll do that. So these advisors continue because they've built that relationship and it's so extremely important. So those college applications will continue to go up over the summer. So thank you for having me continue with that. Parent engagement, you can see that's been growing, but it's not where we want it to be because we understand with parent engagement, we have to have the parents involved for students to follow through. and continue on that growth of post-secary development. So, we will continue to build on parent engagement over and over. And we all know as educators that's always hard, but we're going to continue to strive to get that to 100, but

114we're going to continue. Postsecary plan will always strive for 100 because that's our goal. We want every student to cross the stage at the end with a plan and not just one plan but two plans because we know things can happen. Financial plan is our newest and we're at 98.1. Um we want students to understand what a livable wage looks like, not just a wage. We want them to understand how much money they need to actually provide for themselves. I still need that. Um, so I try to look at the financial plan myself. Um, and it's getting tougher and tougher as we all know. So we want to provide those skills to our students as they're getting ready to graduate. Um, I put the FASA completion. You can see it kind of dropped, but that

115was as of 5:15. I looked again today. We're at 99.8. We got two students that our advisors have one more week. So, they're going to keep pushing and pushing. We have some students that have completed all of their credits. It's just hard to get a hold of them. But our students will not give up. I mean, our advisors will not give up. They're going to keep pushing and pushing till they possible end to get them off complete FASA. And I want people to realize it's 100% we're striving for. It's not 100% because we want that 100%. It's 100% because we want every student to have an opportunity. It's that we want them to have that choice of doing whatever they want. And so that's why we strive for the 100%. Um so that's kind of

116our overall percentages. I want to kind of um move from percentages because I think that's phenomenal. But, you know, the biggest thing for me is success stories. It's about students. Um, I'm an ex educator, so I always go back to students and what this really means for them. And it's the impact that we can make. Um, you know, Jose Senior, these are students our adviserss have advised and just attending stays focused on his plan. He's got scholarships. He's going to go to Tamuk. Um we have another student, Kim. She's planning on going to um the Island University. These are just some that are going local. We provide college um tours to the students. Um they when I come to visit, there are tons of students in the advising room. But just recently, and I didn't

117have the opportunity because I sent this earlier, but um Savannah, who is an advisor here, um was invited to um an event. And if you can give me just a minute of your time, I just wanted to read a letter. She was invited to um a group of top 10 students that selected someone who made an impact in their lives. And um this was actually the letter from the student, but it said, "Dear Mrs. Sandival, I want to take this moment to express my sincere appreciation for all that you've done for me. Your guidance and support has been a key has been key, especially in the challenging process of applying for college and securing scholarships. I feel overwhelmed, especially when I felt overwhelmed in starting my admissions process for UT with me thinking it was

118too late to even apply to my dream school. But you actually walked me through every step, even when it felt endless calls with admission. And all thanks to God, I was actually accepted and able to attend UT Austin in the fall. Your door was always open and no matter what the challenge or question I had, it seemed you always had an answer. No matter how busy you were, I truly appreciate your dedication and your personal investment you've made in my success. I am eternally grateful for your unwavering support and guidance. Again, thank you for everything, Mrs. Savannah. I know you have counselors. I know they work immensely hard, but without an advisor that can work on specifically postsecary advising, 26 students cannot have a postsecary plan. Any questions? Okay, I have two questions with for

119Dr. is on the bottom. Uh first question is, is there any reason why we didn't have theou uh in the packet? And then second, what would we actually be voting on if we don't have theou? I guess that's my question. I want to apologize that should have been in the packet. Um the similar to last year, Mr. Reese, one slight difference or two differences actually. Um the MOU in the past have been $75,000 for a year and that was to give us one and a half advisors. Um we are um the MOU this year for or 2526 is going to increase to $80,000 a $5,000 increase but they will be providing two full-time advisors to HM but theou I'm not sure why it's not in there but it was provided to us by education issue.

120Okay. I would just hate to vote on something. I haven't actually looked at it. So, I don't know if we can vote. Yes, Mr. President. You, the board may take action on it uh by either authorizing the administration to review and execute it or to authorize legal counsel to review and and uh to review on behalf of administration for execution. So, if the board would like either of those entities to review it, the board's welcome to approve this now pending those reviews. There's been a couple of things said that that I just need to I need to clarify. We pay for the counselors or or we pay you and you pay for the counselor. So me again you pay the majority of the salary for the two postary advisors. So we're only charging $5,000 more

121because Rudet Alliance which is the private funding partner for this program is covering the rest of that second salary. So we're able to provide that for the ISD with the support of the private funding. All right. I I need to go even more basic than that. Do they get a paycheck from your organization or KISSD? So all of the adviserss in the postsecary program work for education to employment partners. I know when we looked at this years ago when we first started it, there was some discussion about we do have counselors and historically this role has fall fallen upon counselors to do. However, counselors over the years have gotten an awful lot of other things um on on their plate and I think the program has been very successful. I I appreciate the the job

122that you've come in and done. Um, the preparation for the TSI, the preparation for the FASA, the working with the students to develop a plan is something that may have been done for some students in the past, but not across the board as I as I think it's being done done now. My my issue is I think four years ago our our enrollment numbers were actually lower than they are now. Um and so there was some a comment made about you know your enrollment has increased. I don't think it has. Um a and so that gives me a little concern about increasing with it decreasing when every single penny we've got coming down the pike has got to be squeezed. Um our senior class for next year, class of 2026 is actually projected to be

123larger than our current class. Um, Miss Moore, I don't know if you if you know what your numbers for your current junior class is, but I want to say it was approximately the 230 range and we're currently at 206. So, one of the reason why education diploma was looking to add another half, you know, person or advisor to the group was because of our our projections. A question for um E2E. Yes, sir. What other um districts are you involved in in ESC2? Can you name them? Yes, I can actually. She's really good at rattling off the list, right? I think I can rattle them off. Um, Falf Furious, Brooks County, Fremont. Um, let me go Matthysse, Taft, Skidmore, Bishop, Engleside, GP, Oranis, Pass, Benet, Ben, Bolt, Auad, I Alice, thank you. [Music] How many counselors

124do you have in How many do you have in GP and how many do you have in Alice right now? In Alice, there will be three. They currently have two full time. What's their graduating best? Closer to 300. Yes, sir. And GP GP is part of a different granting source. So, it it we can't really compare that one. the the theory of thought behind advising is approximately 120 students per advisor is a good thought for successful advising. So that's what we usually base it off of. And do we know what GP's graduation class is? Is it closer to probably 300 also? Correct. All right. One more clarification. So go ahead. I was just going to say the junior class is 236. All right. And our our senior class is about 206. 206. 206. Wait, you

125got Sophomores is 231 and freshman 271. Okay. And there's some attrition that will take place over over those years unfortunately. Let me make sure I understand. So we have been paying 75,000 and we've been getting one and a half counselors. So for 5,000 more a year, we can get that other half person to be two. So I want to clarify, they're not counselors. These are postcary advisor. So there is a difference. No, I able to do the the agreement with Rudet Alliance is that the districts will use some of their outcome bonus funding as that increases over the years to pay for the postsecary advising program. Rid of Alliance realizes that there are very few districts in Texas right now that are getting their outcome bonus funding. Um, so we're using a cost share model

126to make sure that the districts have buyin. So while you are only increasing by $5,000 on your contract, our obligation with root edit is going from 114,000 to 140,000. So we're jumping another 26,000 in what the program total cost for Kingsville ISD is. It's just that that's being covered on the private funding side. And this is a one-year contract. This is a one-year contract. Yeah. So, we revisit this year-over-year. Are there any other questions? But I do want to clarify that this does include all of the college visits, the FAFSA incentives, all of the things that are not covered by the Kingsville ISD portion of the contract. Looking down the road and y'all y'all's experience, okay, you've been here three, four, three and a half uh three and a half years. Yes. Okay. How what's

127what's your history with some of the other districts? What's like the longest you've been in a district? This is the longest district. So, y'all came in in the spring of 22. Uh, we had another group of six that started in the fall of 23. Uh, Kingsville ISD agreed to be the pilot for this program in South Texas. This is a proven program throughout the country. Um, and so y'all came in and were that the year after that CCISD came on board and we started adding districts from there. So, out of the 19 out of the 42 school districts in ESC, we're in 19 of them. We have about six on the waiting list that are hoping to get into the program. The only way that we're able to do with the funding taking on new

128districts is to get our cost share districts to, you know, pay their part of the contract and do their cost. What a and this will be purely anecdotal and speculative, but it would seem to me that when you go into our area, specifically Corpus Christie South, Brooks, Fremont, Alice, and you have a a high number of of citizens that have not traditionally experienced college. um it's not been a a family focus. And so I would I would think that the educational process that you're going through with these students and these families might make it easier down the road with child number two or number three or the neighbor or somebody or by by by word of mouth. So, it could be that that down the road if our numbers continue to to to dwindle a

129bit um that you know perhaps we could get back to one and a half or or something. Absolutely. And that's why theou is yeartoyear and that's why we want this to be a very mobile flexible program. I do want to highlight on the education to employment partners side that we also just signed anou with Clay County to install an adult navigator at the new Clayber County Economic Development and Disaster Response Center. The judge felt like that was a really important thing to do and that navigator will actually be dedicated to adult upskilling and reskilling in Clay County. We've had someone in Jim Wells County for three years as part of an adult upskilling and reskilling program. And we've seen a lot of parents and older folks from Claver County coming into Jim Wells County because

130they want service and support to increase their employment. Um, so this is in partnership with that program and part of what we do do in our parent meetings is talk to the parents about, you know, any goals that they may have that we may able to support. So each's continuum is seventh grade all the way through adulthood. Thank you. Do we not I'm going to ask the fellow board members here. Do we not have another agency that's already doing something similar? Is it It's that gentleman that came um speaking of Jeff um there was a you talked about incentives and then Jeff Yes. gave us um a maximum of what we could potentially get and then I think he may have come and then told us what we actually did receive. What are the projections

131for do you see any projections or how do we do last year as far as net revenue from the incentives? Oh, from the outcomes bonus funding. Is that what we're talking about? Yes. One of the things that I want to begin this conversation about outcome based measures that it's a two-year lagging indicator. So any of the work that they're doing with education employment, we won't see it for two years. Um, and one of the things that we struggle with at HM King and I'll just be, you know, upfront, we're not getting enough kids to pass that TSI like we need to. That's still one of the things that we're working with to help the high school counselors, the high school administration. We have partnered with college spring um just in the last month and a

132half and we are going to be rolling out and utilizing college spring for our TSI third king. But again, you know, we haven't got any um TSI outcome measures in two years. Well, the last time we got it was 2023 and and we just got information and we're looking at data right now. we are like at the threshold of where we could start earning money. But for every kid that is not, you know, being meeting the CCMR indicators or going to college and and and doing that part, the TSI membership or TSI participation and the success rate is not at the level it needs to be at currently. So, we're currently working on that with the high school administration and our counselors. You want to speak to that? Um I was just going to say

133and that was one of the things that we noticed is the outcome based measures right away when um I started and so we have been pushing the TSI um exploring different options. I know they held two um face toface TSI and then we were able to test our kids all the way to the point now that um our kids begged us to do a TSI this week last week of school. Um so it the transition is changing um and the expectations of kids are changing um but also the support and um being able to offer them and then be ready to take that test. So outcome measures is on our our radar and so in the coming years like you said it's two years behind but we definitely know that with percentage of the kids

134that are testing now and passing that um we will have Dr. Garcia was she able to see this or read over this? You did get talk to it. Yes, we met with Dr. Garcia last Friday Mr. Volis. Okay. Um, Miss Black and and Miss Dawson presented the same presentation you got today, talked about, you know, what we're doing moving forward and Dr. Garcia did um give us a blessing to present to to the board. And did she have any thoughts or any any comments or was it just more of the presentation? He did have some feedback and and she definitely wants to make sure um and and it goes back to the TSI the conversation we've just had um make sure that we're have a a better process and and program to support the the

135the TSI initiative at HMD um high school but um again we've started the process with college um it's just a matter of you know following through and and making sure that we get more kids exposed to TSI at an earlier age you know we talked about doing it starting at the end of 8th grade year and make sure that all kids are are are getting exposed to it. Um, education to employment provides additional support with TSI prep and getting kids ready so they're kind of like a safety net for those kids that we can get. And so it's definitely something that's on the top of our our list of making sure we set up that TSI program to meet and serve all kids at 18 minutes. Dr. Sorry, one more time. Uh, it's a lot

136of information to to retain, but how do we get the incentive again? Can you just give us what things need to happen before we get money? It's a certain percent of kids that need to um have met TSI and and based off whether kids are are being served in special ed program um regular ed students and whether kids are economically disadvantaged and once that threshold is met any kid that threshold um is going to earn us you know either 3,000 5,000 or what's the other $2,000 per kid. So, you know, the the sky's is the limits in terms of what we can achieve. It's TSI has been that way around our ankle where we're not, you know, we've got to definitely get kids more um in front of that TSI more consistently and and give

137them the prep they need to be successful with TSI. That's why we moved uh forward with college um early this semester. So, we have so we have made zero so far. Is that right? Two years ago, we made was it 12,000 15,000 people? What was the number? 30,000 last two years we haven't got anything out of code. So is there any at the as far as TSI capsule for at HM King for incoming freshman in the summer do they still do that? We are currently doing that Mr. Bis for all our kids coming into early college high school. um we have met as a leadership team um at the high school talking about our plan moving forward and I'll let Miss Moore speak a little bit to that because she's part of that conversation and

138and leading that that conversation with the leadership team at the high school and as well as as central officer. So our students that are coming in as eighth graders uh to 9th grade, we do have a summer bridge already set up. Uh we have the program uh the college spring um is being um offered to us this year for free and then next year we have a donor that's going to pay for that. So we have next year and a half um so we're working on that. We also our freshman current freshmen that will be sophomores next year. A lot of them had not taken the TSI even the early college. So we pushed uh for all of them to take it. We signed up and all of those individuals had taken it. Um, we

139actually met with Delmare today and major a lot of our kids are now college ready. So, it is a big push. I can get some numbers for you so that way y'all can see how many kids have taken the test TSI this year um and where we're at right now. We're hosting one tomorrow. So, we have kids asking for it. So, that's the best part and be ready. We've set some stipulations up too of um seniors and um having off periods, you know, we want them to be um ready after high school. So for those also they need to be TSI ready. Thank you. I actually have a question. So for those students that take the college prep courses that that actually makes them exempt uh from having to take the TSI. Is that that

140right? It does make them well it does but we push for them still to take the TSI because um you never know if they change their mind. So, so is there any thought of maybe in those college prep courses to maybe have some TSI preparation in those? Yes. So, our plan uh for next year is the college spring program to also get it into our um some of our classes. Um and those are some of so that way we can have them both ready, the college prep and the TSI. Very good. Thank you. When y'all had asked about outcomes bonus, I kind of stepped back away for just a minute just because we had presented a contigo report at at the high school earlier in the year and um Miss Moore was in that meeting

141and we had a lot of discussion. So that's why I stepped back because there was a lot of discussion and kind of planning on her end at the high school on how they were going to move forward with that TSI component because to get outcomes bonus that is really the meat and potatoes of the whole thing. So when you talk about you know the college prep course it kind of exempts them from taking TSI but it does not help with your outcomes bonus at all. So trying to help students and parents understand that piece is is kind of a hard pill to swallow. Like you're getting exempt from the TSI. However, we really still want you to take it. Um that's kind of so on the high school level, it's it's her trying to plan

142on how to how to bridge all that conversation and make that planning along with the middle school and how they're going to do all of that. So it's kind of that's not our part. ours is the support piece on you know how we can help bridge that for the high school. So that's kind of why I took myself and we kind of step back from that. Yeah. Just really quick on the root ed side. I just want to kind of clarify with all of our education partners for all of our ISDs. These are ongoing conversations. Last year, we were asked to put more into TSI support for some of our districts, and we spent an additional $58,000 on those TSI boot camps and supports for those 19 districts. A large portion of that was spent

143to hold events in Kingsville as well. But those are ongoing conversations that we have to support the administration. When they come up with something they think might be a good fit, we are happy to go back to our funders and ask if they can support it. You know, I'm I'm reading the uh KISSD the things that we have to provide as far as phone lines, computers, internet, and then number two, provide district emails. Okay. Three, appoint a KASD level and campus contact person to assist with program development, implementation, and evaluation. What's that about? We just have like the counselor for the seniors that just kind of oversees. So it's that person for communication, just somebody on the campus that just supports. So I'm actually the person who comes to the campus that does all the

144evaluations that does all of the training with the advisor, but we always have a point of contact with on the campus for the advisor. Number four, provide an on an on-site mentor to help the advisors deliberate into the school environment. Again, that is just a counselor that to help if there is an event. So, it's somebody there. So, they're not alone. They're not an alone entity that doesn't integrate within the environment on the campus. So if there is, you know, as a senior counselor, they're planning senior events or they're planning senior meetings, they just make sure that the adviser is also included in those meetings. They're not just by themselves. So it's not an added um duty for that counselor at all. That is not something that we add on to them. We make sure

145that they understand this is not somebody that they're responsible for training or that they're responsible for having to u monitor, but it is their point of contact on the campus if they have any questions that they can go to and ask. Thank you. You're very welcome. One other thing I just want to say that um um Miss Savannah does is um we have basket nights um once a month. Um and also and then now in May we've had it twice a month. So she has lots of families and parents that come out and she helps support the parents um after hours she'll flex her hours so that way it never goes over. Um and so that way she can meet with the families and help them do FASA because of course we have the parent

146and student part of the FASA. So she does that at least once a month now that we're getting closer to graduation twice a month. Dr. Biz, is this something that's paid monthly or we pay? It is my Okay. After having a discussion and I guess receiving theou, do we have a motion to accept the Mr. President? I move that we accept theou at the increased price of $80,000 for the 2026. Motion made by Brian, second by Martin. All those in favor say I. I. Any [Music] oppose? Mot uh motion carries six to one. Thank you. Moving on to item 8 C, discussion and possible action regarding the H1 High School drainage repair. Dr. Thank you, Mr. Ree. I'm just going to give a short background and then I'm going to turn the microphone over to

147Amos Bington from AGCM. So, we went out for bids for this uh in the fall. We received only one bid. It was over $2.1 million and that was over our budget. Right now, we have $1.7 million in our construction fund that was put there from the law construction lawsuit that we have. Uh we have to use that money first to remedy that issue at the high school. So, we were looking for something under $1.7 million um to remedy that situation. And and as you see, we we did receive two bids that were underneath that. If the board approves this tonight, then we would be able to get the majority of this work done in the summer so that it would not uh interfere with um student activity the high school. Let me turn this over

148to Mr. Amos Bington uh our project manager from AGCM. Good evening. How are you? Um members, uh last time I was here was back Dr. Pitz was saying, uh, at that time we went up to bid and we had one bidder and it came in over budget. I'm going to go through a quick, uh, presentation. I'm going to go kind of fast because I'm going to cover some a little bit of history just to get us back up to speed and spend some time. And, uh, if you have any questions, please let me know and talk about that. Top one. Okay. Okay. So, so where are we in the process? The process uh originally we collected some data. There was some uh we digested the data. We procured the civil engineer. We did some topographical

149survey. Uh we did a site investigation. There was uh some an extra investigation we did on the foundation edge. Uh we developed a scope. We uh designed we went through a design process. We um secured a building permit. We uh put together bid documents and we went out to bid and then we we ran into we were over budget on that one bid. So what we just did was we went out to bid again. So that's where we are right now on that last second to the last. So what is uh second to last process was the rebid. So what did we do? We uh we we advertised a couple times in the newspaper, local newspaper and the Corpus Christie newspaper. We did an advertisement on Civcast. We did a pre- bid conference. We issued

150an agenda from the pre-ID conference. There was a bid deadline that came. We opened the bids. We graded them. And here we are right now uh making a a recommendation for best value to uh to the board. Um I'm going to go back a little bit further as Dr. It said uh the previous bid that we had uh back in November, it was uh 2.1. Uh there was an alternate that uh we that was in there as well that was not part of the bid. So when you add them together, it's actually 2.5 million. Um if we were to do all the work including the agenda, the amendment. Um at that time we made a recommendation to the board and uh it was to rebid in 2025. We were going to take some of the

151work uh and make it an alternate so that there was a geo a geo membrane that we were that was in the base bid at that time. We were going to move it and make it an alternate. So if we didn't if we came in over budget again we could back that number out and not do it. It was it was kind of an insurance kind of activity to begin with. So, we felt comfortable in taking it out if we needed to. Um, the other the other item we the crawl space uh drainage improvement, we also made that an alternate um that was something that can be done at a later date. So, we wanted the the ability to back it out of this new bid. So, we did all these items um and we

152went out to bid uh this year. And this is a spreadsheet that I kind of shared a similar spreadsheet with you last back in November is how we kind of track some of the activities during the bid process. Some of this is just acknowledging who has downloaded the plans specifications. Uh some of it is phone calls that we made on behalf just learning uh contractors letting them know that that things are out to bid and uh being available for them to answer questions. This is uh calculation for this time around. We had again two biders. There was due west and and uh KLI. Um the numbers are very close which was uh that's always a really good sign. Um the you can see that I'm going to go over at the bottom left is what

153we're um these were the bid numbers of dwell the low bidder and it's 1.3 um for that that same um alternate that uh we had on the first bid. Um it had to do with in spraying insulation on the underside of the slab and um that was that actually it's uh it's similar to the number we got last time. Um and then those two that we made alternates that 47 that's that liner that we backed out. Um and then there is the unlab uh drainage which was 39. All of that you add all that together and it's 1.8. Um, and if you the scope never changed. And so if you go back to the first bid back, uh, back in November, it was 2.5. And so, um, I think I think that y'all made a

154great decision going back out to bid again, I think that really we ended up saving about $700,000 in the process. Um the best value is on the right and what we're recommening recommending that we don't do the installation which was something that we were probably not going to do on the first bid anyway. Um we feel like the the the liner is that's a great price for the uh liner. I thought it was going to be you know about 150 probably and so at 47 we feel like that that would be a great um something. It's it's a great insurance and it's uh it's a great price for that activity. And then the unerslab it is also about where it should be and it should we should probably just move forward with that as well.

155So it all comes out to about 1.4. Any questions? Yes. First of all, thanks for hanging in there. No worries. Um, I know you said they're due west said they're they have great have a lot of experience and different references. Have you personally worked with them or I have not. Um, I'll just speak openly. They're more of a service company. So, they go in and take care of things. They do several other things as well, but one of the things that they do, they're able to act very quickly. They do a lot of self performing and they have these relationships with subcontractors where they can move on something quickly. um they're more on the service side versus the um um new construction type contractor. Um I I have grown uh in in answering some of

156their questions and being around them. I have a lot of confidence in in their abilities at this point and we did make a lot of phone calls to uh their references. Okay. My last question is about um the budget is as you see it's just about it's under budget which is good but what do you normally see cost overruns 10% 15%. Do you and do you think this might be a cost overrun? Is that I know that happens a lot, right? Are you talking about the first time that it happened or at this point? At this point, do you foresee any Oh, are you saying So, first of all, I'll I'll say this and I have another slide as we go forward. I'll let you know what's in that base bid, but one of the

157things that's in that base bid is the $50,000 owner's contingency that we can draw on if we need to. If if it's not spent, you get to keep it. So, it's uh and there's actually two other uh allowances as well. I I want to I'll keep going. I'll show you that in just a second. This is the schedule. Uh it's a uh it's our current schedule. Like, uh Dr. Pit said, um our plan is to act very quickly. Um if at all possible, we're get you guys vote um to move forward. We want to try to get a contract executed by the end of the week. So, we've been already talking with the contractor just to make sure that that maybe potentially that can happen. And then on next Tuesday after the holiday uh issue

158a notice to proceed and then um we're working through plans uh for them to access the site um as quickly as possible so that we can take advantage of the summer school. That's what this schedule talks about. up to the top. It talks about what the summer the high school schedules are. Um when the um when the summer school is Yes, absolutely. So on the summer school, we did move the summer school to Gillette from the high school just so that we could kind of facilitate this and make sure students aren't um affected. This this slide here is a total project cost asked me to share that with you. So it includes soft costs and construction cost. So the top is project management cost. There was some there was a survey that we did survey

159that we did. Uh there civil engineering cost and then there was a masonry investigation. So that all comes to about 122. Um the construction cost uh we went through the best we just went through the best value which is not taking alternate number one but taking alternate number two and three that comes to 1.4. Um in the base bid over to the right in the yellow box it talks about 24,000 which is an insulation demo allowance. So there is a unit cost of.75 cents a square foot that the contractor gave us that they will um for every square foot they'll charge us 75 cents and that'll come out of the 24,000 if it comes out to be less than $25,000 that the remainder of the money stays with the school district. Um similarly uh there's

160a $16,000 pipe hanger allowance. they have uh given us unit costs for our pipe hangers. And so um as we go through and change out pipe hangingers, they'll count it and they'll deduct that unit cost from the 16,000. The remainder will stay with with with the district and then there's that $15,000 contingency allowance. Hopefully we don't have to dip into it. Um and that will come back as well. Um so pro total project cost is 1.5. So who's going to be like the site manager as far as representing AGCM will be there. So I I typically take care of a lot of uh pre-construction type activities and then uh we have a guy his name is Chris Schaw and he'll be on site um actually going with works happening. Yes, he'll be doing quality assurance

161is what he'll be doing. Your calculations indicate that the 24,000 is sufficient. I mean, honestly, if it comes out last money comes back to us, but what happens if it comes out and and when do we get notified that? So, uh you know, we'll get notified at the end of the project when we kind of put all the all the costs on the table and and run any changeovers that need to be made. So all that'll be official at the end of the project which will only be in a couple months. So I understand but what if what if at the end of the project they say well we estimated 24,000 but it actually came out to 48,000. So that the extra money would come out of the $50,000 contingency. We're hoping that's not going

162to happen. Um it we we took stabs at those contingency amounts and those allowances amounts not knowing what the unit costs were going to be from the contractors. So we had to make some assumptions in doing that. Um I still feel pretty comfortable about it. Okay. Because you do know the unit cost now. I do do. Yes, I do know. Yes. But the other thing we don't know, the reason why we have the cost is there's not a true understanding of how much insulation is under underneath there until we get underneath there. So that's where we are. Hello. So that's where we are. The best value of for this is hiring west for the uh for the base bid and also the alternate number 203. So do we okay any more discussion? I'm ready to

163make a motion. Okay. So, um do we have a motion to accept uh the recommendation? Motion made by Martin. Second. Second. Second by David Garcia. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion passes 70. Thank you. Have a good evening. Thank you, sir. Moving on to item 8, discussion of possible action regarding the depository contract renewal for the 25 uh 27 bianium. Dr. Thank you, Mr. Ruiz. Every two years we need to have our depositor renewed by the board. Um, Prosperity is uh been a great depositor. They have given us good interest rates. They have they don't charge fees on anything. They have great fraud protection, excellent customer service whenever we call. They're always available. Um and we are requesting renewal for the next two years. Uh I will answer any questions that

164you have. Why is it two-year? It is just that is what's set by TA that every two years we are required to to get it renewed. Did you go out for bids? Uh we did go out not we didn't go out for bids this year. We're not required to go out for bids this year but we did go out for bids in the past and again they were the top value for the district. We had clay bank before we had clay bank in the past. We've had it's been it's been 12 years been 12 years. Yes. Any more questions or discussion? Hearing none, do I have a motion to accept the um depository contract reneotion made by Jake Pettis. Second second by Brian Ku. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries

16570. Now move on to item 8E. Discussion possible action regarding the donation from Pattern Golf Win LLC. Dr. Pittz, thank you. We we actually have two pattern golf win 2500 uh to the HMK volleyball team and also a $1,000 donation from CIS to Harold Elementary for uh end of year field day supplies for that. I'll take any questions that you have. Nice to comment also they have been consistent support of the Cassie Education Foundation's golf tournament. So, thank you. No question, just a comment for me and I appreciate these donations coming to the board now so we can know and thank whoever's doing it and making the donations before and not after the fact. You're welcome. And we did invite them uh they weren't able to attend. Okay, hearing no more discussion. Uh um do

166I hear a motion to accept the donation from Pattern Gold Point LLC? So no. Motion made by David. Second. Second. Second made by Jay. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Just clarify. Uh, we didn't mention the second donation from CIS to Arrol. Is that one approved as well? Or uh, do we have a motion to accept the donation for Herold Elementary from CIS for $1,000? CIS for $1,000. Second. Motion made by Mr. Mandelas. Second by Ryan Kubal. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries 61. Thank you, Dr. Now moving on to item 8 F, discussion of possible action regarding the Gillette Middle School CTE equipment instructional material and curriculum. Miss Debbie Winsow. I discussed uh this u this um venture I guess what two meetings ago and we uh talked

167about Paxton Patterson. I went and got some quotes trying to get sim uh similarities and I went with Pitsco Education and also Project Lead the Way. They're the only ones that had um um something that was comparable to what we were asking for. And if you notice the prices of Paxton was 85,930. And then you go to Pitsco Education that was 146,186. Then you go to the project lead the way and that was 159,119. And um the labs are to help our students be uh career and high school ready and to for them to get a venture of what uh career pathways that we're offering at the high school so that the kids are prepared and what career pathway they want to actually get into because after their freshman year they cannot change their career

168pathway. And now it's more serious than ever because this coming year the students have to have at least four classes with four credits or three classes with four credits in order to get their CCMR and be able to take their their license and certification. So this program is more it's probably more vital now than ever. Um what are we investing in? uh for our fully supported up-to-date learning systems that are relevant to the students today investing in all the curriculum the content activity tools and everything. Um and we don't have any uh yearly subscriptions and we renew the site every five years and that renewal price is going to be 3,800 every five years. Yes, we will have to update supply needs and stuff, but this CL these two classes that we're going to be

169opening will generate CTE funds because we're coding it in that area. So, we will still continue to generate CTE funds and we will be able to pay for the teacher and the supplies needed for that class. Every seventh grader will be taking these classes. So in the long run it'll benefit the district. Also course delivery highlights 65% of the students um is a time hands-on uh career learning. Yes, they do the computer part and they have to know um they have to learn all the curriculum first before they can do the hands-on. But when this project gets going and these classes get going, you're going to see positive things happening for our school district. You're going to see that the kids are engaged and it is going to be like helping them to do their

170research about what college and careers they want. This is everything that we're we're driving for for this district. If you look at the very last page, uh, it has the lab design and upgrade. And they they came in and they looked at our labs. We're using two science labs that are right next to each other and there's a a hallway in between. We decided that we're going to use that hallway in between as a like a green room. And it also has where we can we can store the supplies. But the lab the science labs are they have the sinks where we need the sinks. It has the light where we need the light. It has the the cabinets where we need the cabinets. We're not having to buy any furniture or anything to go

171with this because we have everything in place already. So, that's going to save a lot of money for the district because these rooms that were selected by Miss Sigetta at the Gillette Middle School are amazing. So, I'm really excited about this and I hope that y'all are too. So, Miss I have a question. So, what what is our initial investment? And is that the $85,930 because that was the I guess the most the lowest bid or whatever or that is the product that we really wanted but that was our lowest bid and also but uh we're we're opening up if you look at it on the where it says Patterson and Pax and Patterson it tells you all the different programs that we're getting for that. We're getting the design and marketing, the cosmetology environment,

172the veterary medicine, the digital audio production, the home maintenance systems, the video production, the nursing, uh the engine stand um combination, the introduction to culinary arts, the material pro process and design, the structural engineering, the welding base, is the engine, the energy and power, the electrical electrons, the criminal elastic, the flight and drone technology, the robotics, the robotic V um EX that they also will assemble everything. They will also give us staff development on this so that all of our teachers are prepared on how to teach it with enthusiasm and to get our kids engaged the way they need to. We want this to be a win-win situation not only for the middle school but to lead on into the high school and after school when they graduate. Now, do we have staff on board

173already for this? Yes, sir. We do. Are they DOI uh teachers or certified or I mean who do we have ready for this? Yes coming up to help me with that. We had uh two teachers that are currently employed at the at Gillette Middle School. One of them was doing the career college and career exploration class and the other was doing the robotics class. So, that's who we when we met with our district folks, we uh decided that those two individuals would be the very best. Um, and they've already been notified, so I can make it public. Nick Lopez and Joseph Fettis. They're I'm assuming they're going to have full loads all day long then. Yes, sir. Oh, yes, sir. Uh, yes, sir. Uh, what the way it's been designed uh based on uh if

174y'all if y'all approve the expenditure what we have done is the um particular modules that were purchased. Half of them are going to be those that are right in line with the pathways that are offered at the high school and then the other half are just career exploration for the students to be able to see the different um careers that exist. uh so that they can um start to broaden their horizons and see the opportunities that exist for them um once they get into um the market or the workforce. Thank you. Any more questions? So you some of this is coming out of a grant. Is that right, Miss? Um, we have the Carl Perkins funds and the state funds or I'll call them local funds here. And the Carl Perkins funds, um, we have

175a large amount still left in that, but I when I did this bidding, I did it individually. I did not do it as a group. I did it where we got individual quotes for each deal where I could pull it out of any whether it's a state grant or a federal grant. um because I you can't um sub supplant. So I when I'm bidding on it, I'm bidding on cosmetology and barbering by itself. So that way I could do what was right for the district and fair for all. But thank you. Yes. Any more questions? Hey, do I hear a motion to accept the recommendation for the purchase of the the this Gillette Middle School CTE instructional material and curriculum? A motion. So move made by David Garcia. Second. Second by Delma. All those in

176favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries 70. Thank you very much. Moving on to item 8G, discussion, possible action regarding the innovative courses for 2526 school year. Miss Yes. Um I'm presenting to y'all the innovative courses that we want for the 2025 2026 school year. And I'm going to explain to you why we're looking at all these different innovative courses. Innovative courses have to be approved by the board in April, May so that we can prepare for the for the uh next year and we have put general employment skills and student to industrial connection there because the Texas workforce has u let us know that it's discontinuing opportunities Now for Kingsville ISD, any CTE teacher or a special ed teacher can teach this and it will generate funds for the school district and it will

177pay for itself. uh we will uh be using those two classes to help our special ed students and to see it at a higher level and we will look into workforce for these kids where they go out and then we get them try to get them successful jobs and stuff and prepare them. Yes sir. So the the one ending in 153 that is for special ed students. Both of them are 153 and 154 connection. Thank you. You're welcome sir. The uh we also asked for the advanced floor design. This is more for our care program. Yes, this is a level three class and because of the 44 or the three four U completers, we we only can use this a level three. We still have to have another class after that which we'll probably use

178as a practicum and try to get our our uh career students to go into a job site where they can work with a plural or an opportunity like that. So, we're trying to do what we can to help them and prepare them for the real world in the workforce. Also, we're looking at uh the 12910 student leadership for the next coming year and this is to build um to work hand inand with our early college. We have 71 students uh to build and prepare for success in college and we think that by doing student leadership this will help our early college students to succeed at a higher level. This is not a CTE class and it does not generate funds. So who who's going to teach that class? Well, at this time we just want

179to have this in hand in case we decide to go this route. We will have a staff already. We'll have someone on base. We're not going to ask for anyone in questions. Any more questions? Okay, hearing none. Um, do I hear a motion to accept uh the recommendation from administration regarding the innovative courses for 25 26 school year? I moved motion made by Martin second by Delma. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Motion carries 70. Thank you very much for your You're you're welcome. Thank you. Moving on to item 8H. Discussion possible action regarding the optional flexible school day program for the 2025 2026 school year. Dr. on the Thank you, Mr. Board of Trustees. Today, I'm bringing to you the optional flexible school day program application for the 2025 2026 school year.

180I read I this is the same application we've been submitting for the last at least five years since I've been you know back in in uh the the reason I'm bringing it to you in May because when we there's a about 30 to 45 day at least approval window for them to approve the the application once it's submitted and if we don't get that application back before uh we start instru instruction, then we lose out on on ADA for any students that are are currently being served at at care. So, I bring it to you in May so that we can get it um submitted as soon as possible and be able to earn the funding that our our kids generate by being part of the the care program. I'll take any question you might

181have regarding the program at this time. So I have a question for item number three where it talks about the providing outline of staff positions and resources personnel. So is it are these teachers and administrators that we already have or is it something that is being requested? We already have. Thank you. Any more questions? Do I have a motion to accept the administration recommendation regarding the optimal flexible I'm sorry optional flexible school day program for the 2025 2026 school year. So move second. Motion made by Jay, second by Brian. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries 70. Moving on to item 8 I. discussion of possible action regarding the 2025 20226 school board meetings calendar. So as stated in the uh actual uh board packet uh every first Tuesday of the

182month identifies the u the workshop if needed. Uh and then of course um then we have the uh later date uh in for the actual board meeting with the only exceptions being uh there's no workshop due in January due to Christmas break. The March meeting is moved to the fourth Tuesday due to spring break. In July there's no workshop due to administration building uh summer break. Uh work sessions of the board shall normally be held on the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30 p.m. The board president may cancel a work session with proper notice uh for a month when work session is not needed. Are there any questions from the board? Hearing none. Do I have a motion to accept the uh 2025 226 board meeting calendar? Motion made by Delma. Second. Second by

183Brian. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries. 70. Item number nine. Um we're moving now into close session. The board will enter into close session in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551071 and 551074 to deliberate and consider the following uh action item. Uh item 9B to discuss participation in multi-d district litigation involving youth social media usage and related litigation and entering into a contingency fee contract with O'Hanland Demarat and Castillo PC and Ereland and Bonan PC to represent the district uh Texas government code 51071. No action will be taken until we return to open session. We are entering close session at uh 8. Victoria, if I could real quick before we go in executive session, I know today is uh Mr. Leinho's last board meeting. Uh

184she is retired. Uh we thank you for the 30 [Applause] years. Thank you so much. for all that you've done and enjoy retirement. Yes, thank you so much. Yes, 30 years of dedicated service. We appreciate all you've done for our district. Uh we are entering into Thank you for that, David. Moving in uh to close session at 8:49. [Music] return to take necessary action on the matters which the board may be discussed in open session upon which action may be taken. We returning to open session at 9:38 p.m. So, um, do I hear a motion to, um, for consideration adoption of resolution approving contingency legal services contract, including findings needed for submission of contingency legal service agreement and request for expedited review by the Texas Attorney General. What is that? Yes, Mr. President. Whenever uh

185a school district is entering into a contingency fee contract, the state controllers's office has to review it. And as discussed the executive our our conversation with the state is that they will take these on an expedited basis based on the timeline and so it's you the board approving we send it out that way. Is there a motion? Mr. President, I move that we approve a resolution to be drafted by legal council signed by our our board president um permitting the Kingsville Independent School District to enter into contingency feebased contract on the pending litigation discussed in close session. Is there a second? Second. Second made by David. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Motion carries 70. And then um item 10 C consideration adoption of contingent fee legal services agreement with O'Han Dean

186and Castillo PC and Iliad and PC. Is there a motion? Was that not covered in the prior motion? Uh the prior motion was for the submission. It was for approving the resolution and for the submission of that contract to the controller's office. This one's for approving the contract with Kings. I move that we approve the contract with our legal counsel uh for pending litigation discussed in close session. Second. Second by DMA. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries seven zero there. There being no no further action. I do hear a mo. Do we have take a motion to the meeting? I declare this meeting adjourned. We're adjourning at 9:41 p.m. Yeah. some