April 16, 2025 Regular Board Meeting

001Wednesday, April 16, 2025. I call this regular meeting of the Kingsville Independent School District to order. We will have roll call. Joe Melz here. Brian Kuall here. Martin Chapa here. David Garcia here. Jacob Perez here. Delma Salena here. Joseph Reese is here. Let the record show that there is a quorum of board members present and that this meeting has been posted in accordance with government code chapter 551, State of Texas Open Meetings Act. We move to a moment of silence followed by the pledge of allegiance. 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 allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one indivisible. This meeting will be

002live video streamed. Uh we move to item number four, adoption of the agenda. Do I have a motion to adopt the agenda? So Motion made by Brian Kufall. Second. Second made by Joe Mirez. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Item number five, public participation. Um, do we have anyone that wishes to address the board? Yes, sir. Okay. So, I will actually have our council uh if you will, please facilitate public comment. Yes, Mr. President. So, members of the community, thank you for being here and your interest in Kingsville ISD. A couple of quick ground rules. Please respect a fivem minute time limit per person. I'll be keeping time. If you're speaking about an individual employee, an individual student, or an open investigation, I'll ask you to kindly move

003along. Other than that, let's all please room to be courteous and respectful. Thank you. We will begin with Joe Ato. Uh good evening everybody. Thank you all so much for allowing us this opportunity to speak tonight. I just wanted to say um I'm just honor um so honored and grateful to be a part of Kings YC for this school year. Uh the reason why I'm here tonight is to um just talk about the um the calendar the five day and the 4 day calendar. And one of the things that um I was hoping uh to to present to you all tonight was just some of my experience of when I came to Kingsville ISD. One of the most profound aspects new new employee was the wellness state concept. The concept that there was time uh

004throughout the um instructional calendar where every member of the learning community had a um opportunity to take care of themselves. You know Dr. Steven Cubby um famously authored the seven habits of highly effective people. And the seventh habit, he talks about sharpening the saw, which looks at balance, which when we look at balance, we're looking at taking care of our mind, our body, and our spirit. And I truly felt that when I came to Kingsville, the wellness studies really did provide for that. But they also provided opportunities for us to provide students with interventions throughout the school day, to provide opportunities for students to recover their attendance, you know, for credits and things. Um I've seen a you know a lot of great things in the year that I've been here um at Kingsville ISD.

005And one of the things that I would um I was thinking about was you know that I would you know ask you all to you know just to think about is prior to making decision of a five-day versus supported calendar to make sure that a comprehensive data analysis has been done of a longitudinal study of Kingsville ISD's data to see what was the data like when there was a five-day calendar. what is data like now there's a four-day calendar and to always remember that in the current educational environment that we have you know this is not the same same public school that we all went to right there are different challenges that people face there are different opportunities for students you know students are able to um earn so much more now that they're in

006high school where with their whether it's build credit or whether it's CTE you know so many different opportunities that are there for um that I I would say you know let's look at data let's look at a comprehensive data that not only looks at EOC and star scores and achievement but also looks at what is the attendance right now what is the dropout right now what is can we look at and pull data of mental health uh incidents you know that have occurred in a fiveday calendar five day week versus a 4 day week do wellness days have a positive impact or effect on the mental health and well-being of our students. Um remember we we're coming five years ago from a pandemic that in an unprecedented time you know shut down schools across the

007world right across the globe and we are working to you know fill those gaps and cover those gaps. Um another thing I would ask is that you know we always trust the professionals that are have been selected to serve our Kingsville community. um let um teachers voices be heard when we are making these decisions because always remember we will keep students first. It's always about our students. But how do we support our students? We do that by supporting our teachers. And how do we support our teachers? We do that first by listening to them. And I will say that to lead with the launch, one thing that I always think about is a quote that a friend told me which was from Maya Angelo that said, "Do the best you can until you know better.

008Then when you know better, do better." Right? After looking at the data, a comprehensive review of it, what is the best approach? Have we done that before we make a decision to change back or to revert back to a system that wasn't effective? Why go back? You know, what is the justification of it, right? And are we following truly the data? And I'm not just talking about star EOC data. Let's look at everything. Thank you all so much. It has been an honor to serve Kingsville this school year. and and I truly believe um having you know been here and worked with the amazing educators and students um of this district that there is greatness within our walls that there is so much potential for the um the district and as somebody who worked for

009you know a school choice for 13 years prior to coming here I will say this it is time that we bring our children of Kingsville back home to Kingsville ISD. Thank you. Next we have Delma Arnandez. Good evening board. And I think you've seen me too many times this year already, haven't you? So I apologize, but I do want to bring some for about what's going on with the calendar. The first thing I'd like to say that our goals are the same. We want to provide the best education for our community and our youth. I would like to clarify some of the misconceptions that you may have four and a half versus five calendar for next school year. The DIC did ask our school students and parents and high school for their input. My understanding

010is that the majority of the faculty, staff, students, and parents were for the four and a half day calendar. At the DEIC meeting, according to members I talked to, the four and a half day and fiveday calendars were offered. However, the 4 and 1 half day calendar won. Many of the members feel that they wasted many hours putting together the calendars that were voted upon. The school board wonders why no one wants to volunteer their time on committees. Here is a great example of why people don't want to volunteer. Many of the current members are being are maybe stepping down at this year. You talked about the attendance. As you know, I've been here 37 years. I personally have seen a greater number of students attending my classes more in a four and a half

011day than when they were on a five-day schedule. In talking with my students, my students feel that they were rewarded by being off on Friday because they had attended and completed their work for the week. They feel that they will be they will lose that incentive to be in school every day. We moved to a five-day calendar for over three years. We have had the practice of 2hour search for one day owed. I don't agree with that, but that's the way it's been forever. This is not new just because the foreign calendar. We were doing this on the five-day calendar as well. I know this because I did credit recovery for all those years. Another way the district is saving money is that we now offer credit recovery Fridays. You don't have to pay me

012or other staff members to come in to run it in after school or on Saturdays. You talk about teacher retention. Quite honestly, we lost many teachers last year because of certain administrators and because of ITC, the ITC is in charge of math and English. The last few years were not good. I don't teach a tested subject. However, I do get stay involved in what is going on in my campus. The problem is that our district hired ITC coordinates that had very little classroom experience telling veteran teachers how to teach their subject. He also brought programs that were forced on the teachers that did not want to use them. These teachers expressed many times that the programs were not going to work yet they were forced to use them. A veteran math teacher kept telling her

013young ITC that the work she was sending her to use with her classes were not and was being forced to use them was not going to work. Yet they were also forced to use what they were giving them. Now you wonder why the scores went down. Administrators don't want to listen to their own teachers and teachers who refused to use the stuff that they knew wouldn't work got into trouble for not using the required materials. This caused many of these teachers to resign and look for other work. The sad thing about this is that when they left, IC's that were in charge that year also left. We lost so very many teachers because of this. We actually don't know of anyone who left our district because we were on a four and a half day

014schedule. In fact, we have gain teachers that live outside our town because they want they want and like the 49 day schedule. I know some of them may be leaving our district if we move to the five day calendar because they could just get find work closer to home. Also adding a his day to the calendar will cost them more money to travel that extra day. He also talked about the test scores basically relating to benchmark data is false. We benchmark too often that the students don't take it seriously. I have been a test administrator on these benchmarks and I can tell you that students do not take it seriously. They finish quickly. They go to sleep. They sleep through the testing only to quickly type answers to finish the test so they don't have

015to be in the consolidation. You also mentioned that we are being watched. It's hard to know that the other two school districts around us pick and choose who they want on their campus. They like to steal our students and they are quick to return them back to us when they mess up. It shouldn't matter what they see. We need to do what's best for our students. I don't know if you have seen or heard about the student body petition to keep the 4 and 1 half day calendar. Some of the English teachers had a writing promise about what they thought about them moving from the four and a half day to 5D schedule. The majority of them want to stay in a four and a half day calendar. Look into these essays if you can.

016I believe Dr. Fettis was given those essays. So what students think look at their essays. The problem with the five and n fiveday counter is that we lose instructional time when students who are athletes, band members, cheerleaders, drill teams on Fridays. With the high school, this is a large number of students out. They would miss out on a lot of instruction. It's hard to for them to make it up. On blue Fridays, these students get to catch up with their work. They don't usually have to leave for their event until the afternoon. Also, we move to 5 calendar. We have to have substitutes filling all those positions and it's many teachers out. This would be less cost efficient. Also we have students that can't stay for morning afternoon to because of transportation most of them

017bus a lot of students on Fridays these students have been showing up and making up their work. That is your time. Please finish your thought. I'm sorry. You may finish your thought but that is your time. All right. Um please reconsider looking at four and a half day counters. Bring it back to the community teachers and parents and let us make this. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Miss John Temple. I had two things. One of them I already got figured out. First thing I already got figured out. I was just kind of curious to know about uh you know I saw the lawsuit and all that stuff and I was kind of curious to know how much that ended up costing us and I was informed very eloquently by Dr. kits here that

018it cost us nothing which surprised me but I mean I I got a good understanding of it and good I mean that's great and I I do appreciate that you know because I mean it was a concern to me and uh you did a very very good job on that and my second one pertains to retirement in a in some situations and I'm all for I mean I'm retired from TRS and like I say I'm all for it but the one that I have been reading seems to me like the tail's kind of wagging the dog. I mean when I and I I mean I know superintendent and principles were different. I mean, I was a I was a a principal at the high school and the junior high in Robtown, but and I've been

019around the business a long time, 37 years, but I've never and of course I haven't seen that many res, you know, retirements, but I never saw one that had so many conditions. You know, you can't do this, you can't do that, I'm not going to do that, I want this, I want that. That's what I say. That may be the difference with superintendent. I don't know. But when I read that, I thought, my gosh, this person sounds like they may trying to be protective of what may come up, you know, in like the Harold thing and things like that. and and I have a a I I worked at Harold for eight years and so you know I have a a spot for them and you know and that's what I was I'm trying to

020say. I mean I I don't give a who who retires. I don't give a who who who teaches in TRS. I don't give a if you retire or not. I mean, but the thing that got to me about it was was it seemed to me like it was written by a lawyer that was out to protect something, you know, and that's what I just wanted to say. I mean, but I'm not I I'm all for retirement. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. We will now have Miss Elizabeth [Music] Ramos. Mic check. I'm so much better. All right. Good evening everybody. It's going to be a little bit different. I only have this much to read. So, here we go. something somebody doesn't know about me, but I associate genders with numbers and letters. It's

021a form of synthesia that or it's called ordinal linguistic personification or OOLP. OOLP is a neurological condition where individual individuals automatically link ordered sequences to personalities, genders, and other abstract concepts. To confuse me even more, some letters that I visualize maybe as male dressed up as a woman. So that confused me even more. Like these are these things in my mind. Anybody else's problem? It's just me. But I had a fourth grade teacher, Miss Shei, that figured out that something wasn't right. There's a reason why I'm not happy in my classroom, got me tested, and sent me to a specific class where I had teachers help me. An amazing teacher that taught me that instead of seeing like a hat on a number one, I just see one dot. So, she taught me what's called

022the dot system in math, how I learn how to count. So instead of seeing lipstick and hats and whatever the heck I was seeing on numbers, I was seeing dots which made it so much easier for me. Then I had another teacher work with me in English and she gave me some t tips and tricks that really worked out for me and I still utilize those today as an adult in my 40s. Crazy. I did so well that I ended up getting picked out for the lead role in Sherlock Holmes because I could read everything and remember it all in my head and say it out loud. Something that I could have never fathomemed of doing in my life. Now, most of the community knows I have a child who who needs extra. And when

023I came here, I had a really rough first year. But I'm so fortunate that my son got to have a mush miss and a missish like I did growing up. I don't know if I could say names, but Miss Garza was instrumental in getting my son to learn how to read. I read to him every single night over and over again. He remembered what was on every page, but he didn't know the words. He couldn't read them. Halfway into the school year, I'd read a paragraph. he would read a paragraph and tears would come out of my eyes because he's excited to read the not frustrated and taking it out on everyone in the classroom. I'm just glad I didn't have an attitude problem back then cuz I probably would have done the same thing

024my son did frustrated. I want to thank Miss Melissa Pettis Estrada for when he got older and learned how to use his words and she put him in his place, but she did it with with kindness and humor and professionalism and experience to where my son's going to do what Miss Estrada says whether he likes it or not. And it's beautiful the relationship that they had with my kid. He grew so much under those two. They fought for my kid. And I want to stand here and I know there's a lot going on in this agenda today, but I want to thank those teachers. I want to thank the staff that really shine at KD. You mean a lot. You are you are my fushi and my Miss Reddish to my kid. And I really

025want that again for my son. But I see the walls built in front of you and I appreciate you fighting for our kids. So I just want to say happy, you know, teacher appreciation. No words can describe how you two have impacted Martin's life. Thank you so much. Thank you [Applause] guys. Last we'll have Derek Connley. even board members, ladies and gentlemen of the community. I'm here on behalf of the Douglas Youth Center. Uh we have an up and cominging health and wellness fair and um a drug free walk uh that we're putting on till be made the second and it'll be commencing starting and commencing at the Douglas Center which is on Martin Luther King and second street. Uh Dr. PZ is actually one of our grand marshals and we're really grateful and thankful

026for her agreeing to participate. Uh there'll be mayors coming out and other city council members. We're really looking forward to and hoping to have as much participation from the school district. But actually this the drug free walk component of it. That's what it's really all about is trying to you know make make life sacred for our kids to the school systems at the younger ages. Catch it early and you make a difference. You plant a seed and it it flourishes and it grows. And we, you know, we're looking for more support, especially from schools, schools to really get behind us with this. I mean, we have been I've been reaching out for, and I'm Derek Connley, by the way. I'm the assistant director of the Senate, one of the new board members. I just moved

027here from Atlanta, Georgia, and I'm retired military and a retired teacher, special education teacher of 27 years. uh but um reaching out to like I say to the uh different superintendent and schools and some y'all may recognize my name because I've been emailing everybody for since January. But uh once again I just really want to get the word out and try to get you know much participation and help with this uh you know worthwhile event. We've been doing a drug-free slogan as a part of what we're doing with the uh with the walk in with the health fair. And I do have vendors coming up to do actual free health checks, vision checks, all those different things. And I know some parents in the community really, you know, can take advantage of that at no

028cost. So, you know, once again, I just wanted to really get that out and make sure that everybody's aware and that pass the word. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. Thank you, Mr. [Applause] Con. We now move on to item number six, communication from administration. Um item 68, the 2425 bus driver of the year award and Dr. Thank you, Board of President Ree and trustees. Um, Kilai is deemed in partnership with our insurance company, Property Casu Alliance of Texas would like to recognize a bus driver for her outstanding dedication. Um, each year PCAT welcomes bus driver of the year nominations from all transportation stakeholders. Nominations are evaluated based on five attributes. Leadership, attitude, perseverance, student and parent relationships, and technical skill. The evaluators look particularly for those exceptional drivers who demonstrate a

029consistent desire to positively influence both student and co-workers through their actions and attributes and not just words. I'm going to let our director or Mr. Cho make the recommendations. This year we would like to recognize Miss Anarie Rees as the 2024 2025 bus driver of the year. [Applause] I'll say something on Miss Ry's behalf. Um, each day, school bus drivers are entrusted with safely transporting our children to and from school. No matter the weather conditions or the traffic, their performance on the road must always be A+. Aure and ECAT would like to recognize that school bus drivers help set the tone for children's daily experiences. You could say that there are schools ambassadors. Typically, the bus driver is the first school person that children see in the morning and the last they see in the

030afternoon. And just as that said about great school teachers, PEAT and Acer believe the same holds true for the best school bus drivers. It's not a job, it's a calling. Um, this year, following a selection process by the district, one exceptional driver was chosen to be this year's u bus driver of the year. And it was my honor to present Anmarie Reddus with the 2004 2025 PCAT bus driver of the year accommodation tumbler and tote. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you, Miss Reyes, for keeping our children safe. Moving on to item 6B, superintendent update. Um, Dr. Yes. about in 2022, we had u Mr. John Monise come on board from Walsh Gyos to um help us as we were navigating through all our special uh transformation. And so we've asked him to come and do an

031update with some facts about how we and data about how we've been doing. And so Mr. John, I go ahead and call him up. And Miss Zimmerman, I don't know if both of y'all are going to be, but thank you. Good afternoon. Uh my name is John McGee and I have the pleasure of representing Kingsville um ISD regarding students with disabilities. Um I started working with Kingsville in October of 22. Um and Kingsville has been a just a really growing organization regarding special education. your district has come such a long way and part of that is between the community that the community involvement with special education but also with the training and so I'm going to share a couple of numbers with you real quick since 2022 um the district has had only four student

032matters um that's where we actually have to look into a matter um there's possible litigation things of that nature Um, to give you perspective, um, I work with, our firm works with half the districts in the state of Texas. A district your size usually has about four matters a month. Since 2022, your district has only four. The savings for your district, I can't even quantify, but it it's quite a bit. Um, the district has had zero due process since I've been since 2022. That's amazing. Um, most districts your size are going to have at least one if not four a year. Um, and so the fact that y'all have had zero since 2022. That shows that even before I came on um the district has been working with the community and has been able to

033resolve parent complaints, parent concerns without the need for the parent to go to litigation. I have provided two inervices to your staff and it was it working with Kingsville staff is really amazing. Um they have so many questions. there was a lot of involvement and the energy from it was very much they wanted to learn, they wanted to know, they wanted to know how to do it, right? Um, with any district, you're always going to have a group, usually the large group, um, wanting to know what their obligation is in their IDA, what their legal obligation is so that they can start doing that. you are always going to have a small group of people who view it as more work. And so I always get a lot of push back sometimes at at these

034inservices from a couple of people. Um and that's that was true for Kingsville too. But the majority of the people that I worked with are very receptive. Um you have just incredible um staff that are really working hard to provide services, appropriate services um for children. Special education is a complicated area. Um it's the only area that I do and it can be very tricky. Sometimes it's counterintuitive and so it's understandable that staff across the state um can always use a little more training. But at the end of the day, I truly believe that the staff in Kingsville are doing what they believe is best for the children on a day-to-day basis. And that's the information I have for you. Do you all have any questions for me? Oh, that's great. All right. Thank you,

035Mr. Monise. Now moving on to PTO please. Um yes I just wanted to give you all an update. Now I know I had posted a letter and um I sent you all the letter as well but I did want to let you know that the um the amount of the check ended up being $7,738. Am I correct? Of a cashier's check that the PTO uh gave to us. and um we have ceased any affiliation with them. We do have Dr. Pittz here in case you have any other questions about the the audit, but we did get an external auditor assigned as well. Um talking to Mo Casey this way instead of using EOC2, we just make it very clear this is a complete external auditor that is available to audit for us. But it's going

036to be 3070 $375 per hour. You can go to $375 per hour. They they estimate that it probably will only take will take less than a day to complete that audit. So, uh we're we're working with them and I'm I'm going to finalize everything with them tomorrow. They did say it was kind of unusual for a district to be getting involved in an audit, for us to audit the PTO because usually the PTO is supposed to audit themselves. But we said we want to make sure that we're clear on on everything and that we're doing everything we possibly can to be as transparent as possible and that we did get on it right away as soon as we received a concern about any concerns whether they were illegal or not. If there's any discrepancies and

037they're not running, they're kind of sloppy in some ways, then we're going to just cease to recognize them as a PTO. Questions? I just What was the name of the perm again? Mo Casey. So, what would be the next steps after that? They will get the report and then Yeah. Yes. they they will give a written report on that and then we'll share it with of course the legal attorneys and then determine if there's anything that needs to go forward uh to the legal authorities. But we just couldn't get them. When is it that they said that they could do it? They it'll either it'll probably be the beginning of next week that they will be able to. Thank you. Now moving on to item 6 C the lasso cycle 3 strong foundation grant Dr.

038by [Music] Thank you, board president Marie. I apologize for my voice. It already sounds horrible. The district has been awarded a massive cycle 3 strong foundation planning grant of $140,000. The focus is literacy. The program coordinator will be Miss Rebecca Perkins. As you can see behind me, the purpose of the grant is to enhance literacy across the district, target strategies to strengthen literacy instruction. The funding, access current literacy practices, and identify areas for improvement. The plan is to collaborate with educators, literacy experts, and community partners to design evidence based solutions that address the specific needs of students. The key efforts are to create innovative literacy programs, supporting teachers with professional development, implementing strategies to promote reading and writing proficiency from early education through high school by focusing on literacy. The strong foundation's planning grant aims

039to ensure that every student in Kingsville ISD has the skills necessary for academic success and lifelong learning. The award reflects Kingsville ISD's commitment to providing highquality education and creating an environment where all students can thrive academically. 50% of the grant funds are to contract with a single approved provider from the last cycle 3 approved provider list for strong foundations to support grant activities. The provider has not been determined yet. We have established a committee of one administrator and one teacher per elementary campus and one administrator and two secondary literacy teachers her secondary campus to serve on the committee with Miss Ursula Alanise and Miss Rebecca Perkins overseeing the grant. 20% of the grant funds are for additional support from the approved provider and or salaries or partial salaries for project managers, instructional coaches or other

040positions directly supporting grant activities. 30% of the grant funds are for other allowable expenses and we are uh we will be working with Dr. Pittz make sure that we stay within the guidelines. There are any questions? I apologize. I'm so sorry. My voice is just shocked. Dr. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. So, just the wording just kind of confuses me on the 20% of grant funds for additional support. Yes, sir. So, what additional uh support positions are you are you planning on creating? It's not a creation. It is basically funding the program coordinator and Ursula Alanise. Um, and it's just a portion of their salaries to support our local budget. on the list. Thank you. And on the stipens, yes sir. Can can stipens be for writing for teachers? Oh yes sir, definitely. That's the

041purpose of that 30%. It is stipen pay for the teachers in the on the committee and also to pay for substitutes to cover for them to go and visit other districts. Yes sir. We are very excited when we receive the grant funds. Yes sir. Any other questions? Thank you so much and once again I apologize for my voice. Thank you Dr. Reise. Moving on to 6D save the children partnership. Dr. Vess good evening board president Dr. Pettis and members of the board. Uh tonight I'm really excited to announce our partnership with Save the Children. Uh the goal of Save the Children is to ensure that all children have an a strong healthy foundation that allows them to excel academically and in life. I'm going to go over with you uh the partnership that has been

042created between KISSD and Save the Children. Save the Children is a nonprofit organization that is uh well known nationally and they have reached out to KISSB. We've had multiple meetings with them uh and have are looking at this partnership and what they bring to our community. Their focus is supporting school staff for reading and math. They with as part of the commitment they offer training resources and ongoing support to address the needs of schools in accelerating literacy and math growth particularly for children facing learning challenges. They have two different types of reading. They have the emergent readers which includes phmic awareness, phonics, letter and sound recognition and high frequency words. the developing reader which is during those sessions students will also listen to their tutor model with fluent reading and focus on vocabulary. The fundamental

043curriculum of save the children for reading is based on the science of reading model. The second part is the numeracy boost. It emphasizes procedural fluency, conceptual understanding and problem solving skills and operates at three levels. the student, the teacher, and the community. First, we assess what students already know in math, ensuring their personalized approach. Second, we equip teachers with concrete strategies to enhance their their students math knowledge and understanding. And finally, we recognize that math is not confined in the classroom, is part of every day. So, Save the Children Partnership will support all three of our elementary campuses. They will provide a program coordinator for each campus. They will be paying 45,000 for a minimum of 30 hours per week to oversee the coordinator for program implementation. For reading, they will provide a reading and

044a math tutor. And they will pay for $30 an hour for 30 hours per week for tutoring oneonone or small group or reading support for students. And they will also uh be purchasing and funding the reading renaissance program for all three elementaryaries to enhance their reading development. Additionally, part of the excitement of Save the Children program is they will provide a $10,000 uh monies for each campus for their classroom libraries. They also will be providing the campus each campus $5,000 for their meet the teacher activities and resources. The funding is to support activities and resources to meet the ele uh the meet the teacher events helping to build strong uh connections between teachers, students, and families at the beginning of the school year. Do you have any questions? Yes, ma'am. On the uh on the

045$45,000 for the program coordinator. Yes. Paying. Save the children. Save the children. Yes, sir. And the uh the math tutor positions are $30. Yes, sir. The save the children will pay for that. They also have a oversight program individual that lives in Corpus Christie and she will be coming to train the teams for all three campuses. We foresee in CNI that our current uh reading academy teachers will be part of this program helping utilize their curriculum as well uh and continue what we've begun here in K. My question is um is that competitive these days? I know for example few years ago 20 and 25 was really really low and a lot of districts have it higher than that. Is that that seems kind of low to me is what I'm saying. Is that uh

046well so this is their program and we uh are in partnership with them and that's what they pay. So they think they're going to find somebody Yes, they do. They're in Ricardo right now. They've been in Ricardo I guess for is this the second year? Yes. Yeah. And so they um superintendent there communicated with me about it and so we jumped on it to see if they could help us and so that's why we had had meetings and things like that with them. They're real happy with it. of the county and Benas there also no cost to the district not at all thank you Dr. Vanise now moving on to item 6E Kingsville ISD budget calendar for 2526 Dr. Thank you Miss Reese Dr. that is members of the board. I'm just going to we're

047going to bring it up on the screen and then I'm just going to go over a few of the key dates on the budget calendar. Uh May the 6, we are planning to have a budget workshop that is where we will review the fund balances. We will discuss a lot of the big expenditures in the district including health insurance. We will also will discuss staffing and stipens um at that workshop. Then uh a month later we will discuss also um the compensation for employees. Right now TASBY is doing their pay study as as usual. It's a $4,000 uh pay study. So it um every employee compares their job duties to market value to make sure that we are competitive with employees for market value. and they will actually be here to present on June the

0486. Uh and then we plan to on June the 17th bring to the board um the compensation for approval for employees for 2526 as well as statements for 2526. That's at the June 17th board meeting. July 22nd. We do need to have a an agenda item to actually set the date for the uh public hearing for the um passing of the budget and of the tax rate. Then the last budget workshop will be on August the 5th. That's where we will uh review the budget, what will be posted in the newspaper ahead of time. because of timelines, we have to have the public hearing at the end of the month on uh August the 26th. The reason for that is we get the values uh by the first by August the 1st and then we

049have to meet with the um with the uh pre tax assessor and finally we get our maximum uh compressed rates by the 5th from TEA. Then we have to post it in the newspaper 10 days ahead of time before we can actually have the public hearing. Uh then as soon as we pass it, we will post it on the website the next day. I'll take any questions you might have. Yes. When was the last case study completed? You said you just did one here in March. When we we do one every year. So every year? Yes. Every year we start around February. We we finish at the beginning of May. We present the findings. Casby actually comes and presents the findings at the beginning of May. Um and then any changes or recommendations to the

050board will be made before passing the compensation plan for the following year. You're welcome. And and we know that when Casby does these studies, it's not a mandate. It's a comparison of Yes, you're you are right. CASBY provides recommendations, but the board is free to choose what they want to do. Their their sole purpose is to provide the board with data of what our competitors um that have similar demographics are paying so that you can make an informed decision. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions for me? Thank you. You're welcome. So now moving on to uh item number seven, new business um 7A. By common consent, the board agrees to consider one as one action item the following. Number one, approval of regular meeting minutes of March 25th, 2025. It can be found on

051pages 27 to 30. Is there a motion to accept those minutes? Motion made by Brian Kufall. Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize. Rewind. So, back to 6F budget recap report register for February 25. Thank you, Miss Reese. I just want to point out a couple of items uh at the top of the check register and then I'll answer any questions. First of all, Carile um insurance agency that is our property and casualty insurance for the years. So that covers the our buildings if something were to happen to either a buildings or contests either by a name storm or by some other type of damage um whether it be fire or anything else. And it also includes all our other insuranceances such as auto, cyber, professional liability, general liability, all the other insuranceances there that that is

052one of the item that so that is all the way from March all the way to February of 2026 is the coverage period. Again, that will be an item that we discuss um at the options with for next year um at the next workshop. electricity usage three months. Um, we paid three months not because of anything we delayed. It's it's because when they turn in the invoices, I'm not in any hurry. We saved $133.33 by them turning their invoices in late to us because basically we are getting interest um in the bank the longer that it stays there. We actually have an investment in the rules that earns more. Uh the next one, Limeberger, Gaga, Blair and Samson. That's property value protests. We work with them every year because um there is a discrepancy between

053what the appraisal district and the compler um appraiser values for and we lose money every year. Um just to give you an idea, it seems like a lot of money, $109,000 than we paid them, but they that gave us $1.46 million more dollars in revenue because we only charge we only need 7.5% of whatever they collect. And if they if they never give get any additional revenue for the district um then um then we don't pay them anything. This the amount is always budgeted. It is estimated ahead of time the amount of money that they are going to collect for us and the amount of money that they are we are going to pay them. That is already planned into the budget that is brought for the board every year. So it's it's not extra

054money. Um, one more item. If we would just look at TASBY have several items on there. You're familiar with the policy updates. Um, we also have a staffing study with them that started last year, continued this year for special education to make sure as we're doing our staffing that we are still, uh, meeting the recommended numbers for making sure that kids services um, from their IEPs are still met. Um and and we'll talk more about staffing when we have our budget workshop. Facility assessment. Again, this is something that we did a couple of years ago. And since uh it was uh something where they provide support over time, they allowed us to pay over three years. Instead of paying the the approximately 45,000 the first year, they allowed us to pay about 15,000 per year.

055And and that is to that's because they are providing services throughout those three years. But again, benefit to the district since we didn't have to pay that up front. We saved $3,000 in interest by splitting that payment up over three years. So, I'll take any questions the board has on any of those or anything else. On the down near the end, the Corpus Christie brake liner incorporated. Yes. What repairs are they doing as far as repairs? the uh let's see is let me ask I don't have the specific thing of what was repaired. So, for example, we we have a local as far as radiators and things like that. Do are we still staying local with our radiators and the things like that they need to be replaced or thing the thing? Are you talking

056about things that we can repair in house or Yes. Or or we have a radiator shop on 14. Do do we take anything there to that business? Dr. Saval, do you have an answer on that? [Music] But but what I what I can see is that when it's not something that we can fix or do local these are the experts that that we send it to that I'm just making a little things you know like radiators and things like that. It it wouldn't be feasible for us to send all the way over there to get something a little little fixed. I'm just trying to confirm that we're using these guys here. I we will have to get back to you guys. Thank you. Dr. Pit. Yes. on South Texas Music Mark. Yes. They have a

057band instrument repairs for 3,75. That was the same as the month before. Is that like this? Because maybe they're maintaining the same amount of instruments year. It just seems a lot the same price. Um I I can look into that for you, but I I know that it is it is something that they do frequently when instruments need to be prepared. Um that it's a lot cheaper than buying new instruments. I know that sounds like a lot of money, but you can easily pay, you know, several thousand dollars for one instrument. But I can I can look into that for you and get free on it. Okay. And then the refreshments for the UIL. Yes. The 6,300 seems like an awful lot. It it is, but that cost is something that um in May I

058will be invoicing all the other districts. So the the way that it works is there's there's a host district and the the years where we did not host the host district sent us an invoice. So that cost will be divided by all the districts that participated. Was it eight districts that participated or or seven seven districts that participated? So so that cost I will be invoicing and we we will recoup six. So that we are responsible for 17 of that. And I have just one more question on on these uh emergency teaching permits. Are they good for a year? It's on nearly in the back. It's $171. Are those oneear permits? Do we know? Is that something Dr. Dr. Holt that you can speak to? Is that something that I should Thank you. Any more

059questions about the budget? Okay. Hearing none. Thank you, Dr. Pittz. We're now moving on to new business. Item number 7A, by common consent, the board agrees to consider as one action item the following. Uh number one, approval of regular meeting minutes of March 25th, 2025. Right. Your motion. I hear a motion from second by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries 70. Now moving on to item 7B, discussion and possible action regarding the National Speech Therapist Week Proclamation. Here we find on pages 31 and 32. Um Dr. Zimmer Zimmer, sorry. Good afternoon, Dr. Pettz and uh Mr. Reese and school board. Um thank you for having us tonight. Um, we'd like to recommend that the board of trustees approve the National Speech Therapist Week proclamation. So, I'd

060like to read this right now. Um, we in Kingsville ISD are very blessed to have uh both speech pathologists as well as speech therapists who uh lovingly dedicate their time to working with our students. Um so I'd love to recognize them tonight and read this procl proclamation. Uh whereas speech language pathologists often informally known as speech therapists are professionals educated uh in the study of human communication its development and its disorders. whereas they treat clients with a wide variety of speech and language problems ranging from those caused by uh birth defects to others resulting from stroke and older patients. Whereas these highly skilled professionals assess, diagnose, and treat people with communication difficulties in a wide variety of settings, among them clinics, hospitals, schools, and nursing homes. Whereas patients who have successful therapy may see individual

061improvements in different areas including improvements in speech, language, fluency, voice, and swallowing difficulties. Whereas to highlight the importance of the services provided by speech therapists, a week in May has been designated for an awareness campaign. Whereas at this time, therefore, I encourage all Texans to recognize the essential role of speech therapists and in the important contributions they provide. Together, they work to make a positive difference in the Lone Star State. Whereas Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, has proclaimed statewide recognition of speech therapist and therefore be it resolved that the board of trustees of the Kingsville Independent School District hereby proclaim the week of May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as National Speech Therapist Week. I'd like to just uh recognize my amazing team. [Applause] Sorry. Three, two, one. Is there a motion to accept the

062proclamation for national speech there was made by Martin Chapa? I'll second second by Delma. All those in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Uh, moving on to item 7C. Discussion, possible action regarding school nurses recognition week proclamation can be found on pages 33 and 34. Morris, Miss Flowers, I'm sorry. Good evening, Mr. Mr. President, Dr. Pedes, members of the board, um we recommend that the board of trustees approve the proclamation recognizing and honoring our nurses the week of May 6th through 12th, 2025. And I will read that proclamation for you right now. Whereas school nurses strengthen and facilitate the educational process by improving and protecting the health status of children and youth. And whereas school nurses work diligently in the school environment serving not only our youth but also their

063community and providing a variety of valuable school health services. And whereas in addition to their caregiving duties, school nurses must also demonstrate clinical expertise using sophisticated medical equipment and performing specialized procedures in their efforts to meet student health needs. School nurses serve as a vital link between parents, teachers, and administrators. And whereas the major focus of school nursing services is the prevention of illness and dis disability and the early detection and correction of health problems within the school and community. And whereas all citizens recognize the contribution school nurses make to the health of our children that allows them to reach their full potential. And therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees of the Kingsville Independent School District hereby proclaim the week of May 6th through 12th, 2025 as school nurses recognition week. We

064have any of our fabulous nurses here tonight. Thank you, Mr. Flowers. Is there a motion to accept the proclamation for schools as recognition week? Move. Motion made by Jacob Pettis. Second, second by Delma. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Now moving on to 7B. Discussion and possible action regarding teacher appreciation week proclamation can be found on pages 35 and 36. Dr. service tonight. Board President, Dr. Pettis, members of the board, the week of May 5th through the 9th, 2025 has been designated as teacher appreciation week. The following proclamation is being presented to you for approval. Whereas teachers serve in partnership with parents of our communities children. And whereas teachers strive to instruct children to read, comp comprehend, write and write with skill and communicate effectively and responsibly in

065a variety of ways and setting. And whereas teachers teach our community's children to know and apply the core concepts and principles of mathematics, social, physical and life sciences, civics and history, geography, arts, health and fitness. And whereas teachers inspire students to think analytically, logically, creatively, and to integrate experience and knowledge to form reasonable judgments and solve problems. And whereas teachers help our students understand the importance of work and how performance, effort, and decisions directly affect career and educational opportunities. and rats. We support our teachers in their mission to educate the children of our community. Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Kingsville Independent School District Board of Trustees designate the week of May 5th through the 9th, 2025 as teacher appreciation week. So is there a motion to design designate teacher appreci appreciation uh beginning

066Monday May 5th through Friday May 9 by Joe Mirez second made by Demo Salenas. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carry 70. Now moving on to discussion and possible action regarding the interlocal agreement between Kingsville Independent School District and Communities and Schools of the Coastal Band. Dr. Pits. Thank you, Mr. Ree. We have been partnering with with communities and schools for as much as I know uh 20 some odd years. Um I have only been with the school district at least 12, but um Dr. Gloria Taylor has been here quite a bit longer. We have we have two agreements. One is the one with PDAs that is a three-year agreement, $17,000 per year. It is cheaper because there was a grant to get that partially funded. Um and this

067next year, 2526 will be the third year of that agreement. And then you see the agreement for the other campuses also in front of you. Um, and the amounts of that, the term of the agreement is July the 1st. Uh, I'm sorry, August the 1st, 2025 to July the 31st of 2026. And I would like to introduce Gloria Taylor who is going to share a little PowerPoint and talk a little bit about community and schools. Thank you, Dr. Piss. Everyone recognizes I am older than you are. Good afternoon, President Giz, Dr. Bettz, and KISD leadership and KISSD community. I am Gloria Taylor, chief executive officer for communities and schools, and it is my pleasure to be presenting to you today. Communities and Schools of the Coastal Ben aims to provide deeper services for our students

068as we learn their needs. Your investment in our students has allowed us to continue building connections and give them access to wraparound support and mental health services. The data reported in this presentation highlights the preliminary effectiveness of CIS during the 2024 2025 school year and will provide a snapshot of program highlights from fall to date. Before I move on, please allow me the honor of having our CIS case manager and our pantry manager who served your schools to be stand and recognized because we are truly successful only through their dedication and hard work. I present to you our CIS staff members. [Applause] Thank you for everything you do. Yes. And I'm gonna join them as well. Thank Thank you very much. Each day, students arrive at school carrying a multitude of challenges, concerns, and obstacles,

069often grappling with trauma that impacts their educational journey. Our commitment is to stand alongside those students, addressing the barriers they face, which may include poverty, hunger, stress, anxiety, resource limitations, and more. We strive to provide the support and resources necessary to empower them not only to succeed in school, but also to thrive in life. This slide depicts the demographics of the students we serve in the intensive case management program. And please uh forward trustees if you have any questions. Please do not hesitate to stop me. CIS works alongside our students, families, teachers, counselors, social workers, school staff, and stakeholders to create a meaningful change that impacts lives today. Together, we will build a plan to education for future generations. The CIS model's designed to keep students persisting in education and ultimately graduate from high school.

070CIS partners with all of all of the above and students and parents to identify the specific needs of students who are at risk of dropping out of school. Once those needs are identified, CIS customizes support for students and families. CIS provides individual case management services to help stu students fully engage in learning involving the community as part of this process and we monitor the student level data and track education outcomes for those students served. So the result of our of our work CIS provided,427 campus gold service hours to assist in the improvement of the daily average attendance. 24,474 students served through campus Y events. 376 students received the int intensive case management services as of today and 2,967 hours of intervention services in the core components towards case management. So what does some of our

071supports look like outside of helping those with the behavior attendance and academics? We also do a lot of other supports. 30 students participated in the child's spread totaling up to $3,000. We had the Border Patrol and the Kingsville Lions Club members come and went shopping and that is probably one of our favorite events. 125 students participated with the Walk the Pride. They went shoe shopping before school and got to pick out their shoes. from uh 1.5, we were able to give out a hundred holiday food cards to our families. Each card was $140. We stopped giving them food baskets because I like to have turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing, but some people don't. So, this way they get to choose what food they would like for their holiday meal. 13 family supports totaling up to

072$990. And that is uh provided by our uh great foundation, the Thresh Grace Foundation. And they have already awarded us for next year up to $100,000 for five school districts and Kingsville is one of them. 27 utility supports totaling up to $5,000 $737. And it continues. We did 213 home visits, 620 clothing assistance, 25 caps and gowns for our seniors, 167 hygiene supports, 184 weekend food packs, and and 1,800 parent guardian phone calls. Out of those 1,800 parent guardian phone calls, almost 600 of them went strictly for attendance. We gave out over a thousand school supply assistance and we gave every school a budget to incentize our students to come. And in order for us to move the needle, we uh required our staff members to work with the impact teams of their school. They

073had to have a plan signed by the principal and 60% of those funds had to go towards students who are struggling with attendance and not for perfect attendance. Um so we were trying to figure out what is going to make these students come to school, what is it? And sometimes we found out it was something at home that we were able to help. So we're very proud of that. And we even gave um a budget to uh principal Odin Moreno who we do not serve at school but we felt that those kids deserve u to have an sentence as well. So we're so proud of our CIS food pantry. Um as you can see we have uh served families every month and to date we have 14444 individuals who have received assistance. We partner with

074the Driscoll Health Plan and together we provide health uh presentations for the community to learn about nutrition and various topics. Since two 2019, CIS has purchased a suicide prevention presentation as a commitment we made to representative Todd Hunter while sitting on his task force that Dr. Pettis initiated. This year, we continued strategizing and team up to send a critical message to our students. We are thrilled to report that our parent numbers continue to grow. Social workers and counselors were all on all hands on deck to have a deeper conversation with those students who indicated on an exit ticket that they would like to discuss this topic further in private. And then lastly, we have um some success stories, one for each of uh the campuses. But what I believe I'm going to do just um

075so I can leave time for questions. I'm going to hand these out and you can read these beautiful testimonies of some of our students. There are so many to pick from. Um but we want to be um just complying with the time and respectful to everyone else. But I will hand these over and you can read them. Um and I will questions from the board. I have a question. Yes, sir. So um thank you for that. Yes, sir. There there's just one thing that everybody on this board uh would really like you to help us with more is the attendance. If you continue to support us with that work on that. I know that at one time that that was like a big part of what you guys do. Yes. and it continues to be

076uh a priority and in fact you know our food pantry uh manager doesn't get we don't charge the district for that that's our employee but dur every day she makes phone calls for the district for the high school um and that's we try to get as many folks as I can she doesn't have she doesn't she's not part of the contract we paper out of a living legends collection and she does that so we can have all hands on deck with your attendance, sir. Yes, of course. M Taylor, I think you're selling yourself a little short because we have many times um I have um the the privilege of serving as uh director of services for human services and and the the communication that I have with CIS staff that helps out KI KISSD staff

077as far as Max and Margie and OD. Uh one of the things that I would like to see like Mr. Marti Chaba just mentioned right now was would be attendance and I see your energy and and I I'd like to know from you or hear from you what is what is our attendance department doing to to help out because I I don't see this type of energy with our attendance uh department and and that's why I want I want some of you to rub off on that. Oh, well listen, I was born this way, sir. You know, I can only Well, you could be born again, but in another way, but uh but uh no, as far as your your your love for what you do. I do have a lot of passion for what

078we do, sir. And we I think just uh we work very closely with the principles and counselors whose concern is the attendance and we are all trying to become come up with innovative ways right innovative ways to get these kids to school. uh and you know we're constantly brainstorming um but I will tell you that um I we're so fortunate that our staff members are really uh engulfed in the practice at the schools and they're everyone's trying to come up with the perfect solution you know I have colleagues across the state sir and attendance is not just a local issue unfortunately it is across the state I have 28 C CEOs that we're all asking what are we doing we try to come up with, you know, innovative ways to find the root of the

079problem. And, um, you know, I hope one day we'll get there. Um, I do feel like the, uh, case managers have a good relationship with Max and with our parent person, uh, excuse me, Mr. Sabodia and Dr. Sandoval and our truent officer. And so, I think they work together. Sometimes there's just not enough hands for everything we have to do. But u we'll continue to strive to make attendance a priority for this district and all the districts we serve. Any other questions from the board? Mr. President, I I don't know if we could do this, Mr. Mat's advice on this. I really like to table this. Not that I'm I'm anti-CIS because I'm not, but I I really feel that we could do better for CIS with our truency uh program. And I I'd like

080to see maybe we enhance that a little bit more. That could be that maybe we get CIS somehow more involved with that. And just think we need a little bit more time. That's just my if I can bring that up, Mr. M. Yes. Trusty Garcia, you may make a motion to table the motion. Okay, so we have a motion to table this decision for a future meeting. Is there a second? I'll second. Are we able to add to it if they were to vote on something? Like are you when you say enhance like you want to add more services? I just don't want them to think they're not going to get No, that's why I said I'm not anti CIS. Okay, good. Thank you cuz I was holding my breath for a minute. I can

081see her turning colors. Miss Taylor, I said I'm not I'm not anti-CIS. We're CIS and I just think we could do a little bit more for CIS to enhance our our attendance issues. And with that, that's all. Okay, sir. So that that's a little bit more from from us to help them correct is what we're where we're headed with that with Yes, Mr. But I also like to look at our attendance program too. Attendance partner also. Yeah. And make it better. Okay. So, so we have a motion to table uh this decision I guess to for a future meeting at our next meeting, Mr. President. Yes. Okay. Next meeting made by David Garcia, second by Delma Selenas. All those in favor say I. But we will meet the June. Yes. Okay. I just want to

082make sure it doesn't. Okay. So I don't know. Vote again. Mr. Just am I allowed to speak? Yeah, sure. But I just wanted to say I may not be here in the base. My husband is um diagnosed with cancer and he's having surgery. So that was the reason I was uh trying to get all of my school districts contract so I can be addressed but I will have my chief program officer here should be hand. Thank you M for your host. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So, so we have a a first and a second after still discuss. We can still discuss. This is the appropriate time for discussion. So then we're going to find ways to make our programs work. We're together. So what when are we going to do that? We do that

083workshop. I'm thinking maybe at our I'm I'm thinking, Mr. President, we can we can call for a workshop, okay, to get our ducks in a row so that way we can make sure that we give the best service for our for our kids, especially when they're having to deal with truency. So, I'm I'm hoping to look here within the next month or so that we can go ahead and and make a decision for CIS and not put that stress on Miss Taylor. So, so I guess May the 6 would be the next possible workshop for consideration. So, that would probably be one of the things on the agenda for that workshop. So, what would be I guess sounds like a plan would be we meet with CIS, see what our truent officer services are because

084the attendance department is really just the attendance clerks. So, we're not looking to do any of the trend clerks. We're looking at Okay. Thank you. Okay. So, we have a first and a second to table this after having a workshop on it. So, all those in favor say I. I. I. All those opposed? No. So, we have uh 13. Okay. But we have um four eyes and three nos. So motion carries. This is tabled for after the workshop. Moving on to item 7 F, discussion and possible action regarding memorandum memorandum of understanding between community action corporation of South Texas or KCOS for short and Kingsville ISD for the facility lease of Claybird uh main building that can be found on pages 42 to 50. Dr. Bits, thank you. Mr. and and uh we have representatives

085from Kost here that are going to speak a little bit about the program and the and what they're using the building for right now. But I wanted to give the board a little bit of background where we are. We uh three years ago we signed a three-year lease with them. That was for $11,775 per month. Um and they the term is coming to an end and we are proposing to the board for an extension of one year and we have updated the cost. If you could in three years costs have gone up. So right now we are proposing for this next year you see the total amount of $13,100 per month and and we put all our expenditures in there. I I want to point out that we would be paying uh some of these

086costs anyway if the building was vacant. So it is to a benefit to our district. So for instance for uh flood insurance, for building insurance, we would be paying those costs anyway. Appraisal, tax collection, all those expenses we would be paying per month anyway, even if the building was vacant. So it is it is a benefit to our district. And also uh when we have a a vacant building, it can tend to deteriorate. But if somebody is actually using it and living in it, then we know if there's a problem, we address the problem. And um again, the building stays uh much more usable and doesn't deteriorate at a more advanced rate. So um uh I will let Does the board have any questions on for me before I turn it over to Kos? I

087do. Okay. Okay. Since you're just extending it one year, why are you increasing the lease? Why am I increasing it? Because uh we have looked at what our costs are now for each of those and that is what our current costs are for this next one. And there I mean these are helping us with 11,000 because if we didn't have it I mean occupied then we would be out of 11,000. So that's correct. That's correct. Also Dr. against with it being occupied. Uh we've got that Memorial Middle School across town that is not, you know, the major facility. Having that facility being used and every day, Yes, sir. uh is a huge plus and I think I think u what what what's being paid on the on the one you know if we extend it

088and keep it at what it is I know we still need to listen but keeping it at what it is occupied might save us tens of thousands if it wasn't occupied that is the board's prerogative to change that and if they want to revise and make a motion to keep it the same but amend them the amount to stay the same that is the Um, any other questions for me before I turn it over to Kos. I always have to need to bring a little scooter wherever I go. My My name is Ann A Wolf. I'm the executive director of the Community Action Corporation of South Texas and and I want to thank you for for listening to us this evening. Um I'm also joined by April Unel Doula and and Alena Esel and I'm

089going to tell you right off the bat they do the heavy lifting. Uh I' I'd like to tell you how much we appreciate the opportunity to occupy Clayberg School. Uh I think that's turned out for us and for the children and for the community to be a wonderful asset. Um as you know Head Start serves children from birth to the age of school attendance. And in order you know when you have a Head Start center and it's in what was formerly used as a public school particularly elementary school not only is it suited for the children but it also gets the children and their parents used to attending school. So when they do go to public school, they're not intimidated by that facility. Um we serve children that are lowincome. So the children that are

090there in that facility right now and we serve 93. I think we've got eight toddlers and the rest of those guys are three and four year olds. We're licensed by the state of Texas. So licensing department comes in and makes sure that that that facility is safe and secure. Um I'm very proud of the teachers and the staff that we have in that place. Uh in addition to uh a vibrant and robust education program, we also provide mental health services for the children and the families. We provide dental services. We provide nutrition services every day and we provide health services. This year we did something really I think extraordinary. We intend to do that every year. And in fact, it was so successful, we used Kingsville as the prototype and we're now extending it to

091the other uh Head Start programs that we have in the counties that surround us. So, let me tell you a little bit about that and then I'll ask April and Elena to really get in depth. Um, we did have a concern that we needed to have a more robust steam approach for our children. So, we wanted to do science, technology, engineering, and math because we want them to know that and we want their parents to know they can go to the Kingsville Independent School District and then when they graduate and go to college, they don't have to go anywhere else. They can stay here and go to Texas A&M Kingsville that has a premier engineering program if they don't choose that route. Kingsville also has an outstanding education department. So, April and Atlanta talked to

092the folks in the engineering department at&m and they talked to the education department at&m. Got them together and we did a steam lab in that center. We introduced it to the parents by having the engineering students, the engineering ambassadors and folks that were in the education program at&m come over. They set up uh they set up stations with experiments throughout the cafeteria and I bet we had at least 200 parents there with children as they walk through this as they walk through this this first of its kind lab that we've done. To me, that's important and that's impressive. I'm going to let them talk about it a little bit. Before I do though, I I really appreciate the fact that the board would consider keeping our rent at its current level for a couple of

093reasons. Um, and I I appreciate the the question that was asked earlier today. Can you hire somebody for that amount of money? Um, we like most educational institutions have been pushed uh to improve our salaries particularly for our teachers. We all know that that if we want highly qualified teachers, they need to be compensated. So, it would certainly help us uh as an agency and as a program to attract and retain uh appropriately educated individuals if if our lease could stay as it is for one for one year. So, uh that that being said, put I'm going to put the plug in there and throw us on the mercy of the board. Uh and after that I'm going to pass this on to Helena and April and talk a little bit more about the program.

094Good evening, Mice, Dr. uh Perez, board members and attendees. I'm Elena and I'm the head director and I've been with the program for 51 years. Um so you can see my hand. But anyway, we I sincerely want to thank you for allowing us to lease your facility. We love it. Our children are love it. They walk in those doors with pride and so is our staff. And uh just to add to the steam lab that we do have, the children love it. They do get to visit the steam lab once a week. We have hands-on activities for them to enhance or develop skills in like Ann mentioned science, technology, engineering, art, and math. So we're preparing them for the school district. Thank you all so much. I'm not going to say much because I think

095these ladies have said everything um really explained the program very much. But we hope that if we're able to continue to stay in the facility that we'll continue to bring innovation um just like the steam lab and we will continue to do that and incorporate KISSD families as well. Thank you. Thank you. I remember visiting the steam lab is really cool. I have I have a couple of question maybe one we we have you said there's 93 students and and the three and four year olds how many of the how many of those students feed into KISSD more or less do you know 29 specifically because right now the majority of our students we are serving are three year olds that are turning four but 29 students um will transition um next 29 into our

096system for 88 and everything else. Yes, that is correct. Thank you. I think that was one of the requirements that we asked for Kos when they first came to ask that we make sure that they serve as a theater type school to come in and and I know I know the work that Kos does. We do the same thing here in Kingsville as far as our Cath program and our nutrition program. So, um I I saw just in the news the other day where you all are taking hits and we're all taking hits with the with budgets and everything. So, uh I think it's something that that that we need to still support uh Kos in in their endeavors and we get some kids in we're all we had asked for a report on that

097miss maybe two years ago but we never got anything but I'm glad Mr. has brought that up and 29 that's that's a that's a good number but uh we we can bring more we love them you know so yeah yes I think we we have 29 that are that are graduating from Head Start and they'll go they'll go into the KISSD so every year we we turn over uh children so you know we've got toddlers three year olds and four year olds so that's kind of the progression uh and actually last year uh what we we we got the idea actually from the board. The board had wanted children to feed into the KISSD. We know we're doing that. We know we're doing a good job of that and we'll get you we'll get you

098a report on that for the last three years. Uh but we said, let's take this one step further. They can feed into KISSD, but let's encourage them to also feed into Texas A&M Kingsville. U we really want to keep we want to keep folks here. We want to keep folks here. We want to make sure they can have jobs here. And this this I think is our this is our part in local economic development in addition to education. Thank you. Mr. President, I'd like to make a motion to keep let's keep the lease the way it is now without the increase. Uh we got one more year on on record. So that would be my motion. Mr. Okay. So, we have a motion to keep the lease at the current uh cost. Uh is there

099a second? Second. Second. Okay. So, motion made by David Garcia. Second made by Jacob. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries 70. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you all. Great job. And now moving on to item 7G. Discussion and possible action regarding the nomination for a Clayber County Appraisal District Board vacancy can be found on pages 5152. Dr. Pence Dr. You're on. I'm sorry. I try to escape your coffee. Okay. So, um, every two years there are nominations that we have for the Clayberg County Appraisal District Board and the the normal nominations will be coming up in the fall. Um so based on uh based on our property values we will get a c certain number of votes to cast in the fall but right now there is

100a vacancy right now and they are giving us the opportunity as as well as other taxing entities in the district to select a nominee to fill that current vacancy. Uh, and then it needs to be um approved by the board and it needs to be adopted by resolution. I'll take any questions. You speak to that because I'm the current representative for the board. It's not necessary really that we do anything. This vacancy was caused by the death of of Roy Ku. That representative typically comes from the lower end of Clay County. Um, I think there are some other entities that will be nominated. We certainly can. The way this works is that the nominations, the entity that nominate it will go before the board, that board, and that board will actually elect who that that

101replacement is. So, I mean, we can, but there already some names in the in the hop kind of representing the that that end of the of the county. No action taken. Okay. Thank you, Dr. Hips. Welcome. Uh now moving on to item 7H, discussion and possible action regarding certification of provision of instruction instructional materials. Dr. Bastto Thank you, Mr. Reed, Dr. Pettz, board members. Once again, I apologize for my voice. Um, the school districts are required to certify annually um to the state board of education um and the commissioner that students have access to instructional materials covering all teach. And so, um, districts and charter schools will be unable to order any 2025 2026 instructional materials through EMAT until this certification has been received by the Texas Education Agency. And so we um administration recommends

102that the board of trustees approve the certification provision of instructional material survey. and you have a copy of the survey and it lists all the materials that we will recommend to be used in the school year of 2025 to 2026. Are there any questions about the survey? No questions. So, is there a motion to accept this recommendation by administration for the survey? So, move second. Motion made by Jacob Perez, second by Brian Kufall. All those in favor say I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries 70. Thank you, Dr. Rice. Thank you. Now moving on to item seven. I discussion of possible action regarding the open education resources or OAR transition plan for blue blue bonded learning instructional materials. U Dr. Vice. Thank you, Mr. Ree. Um, school districts are to submit to the school board

103for adoption of the open education resource transition plan for blue bonnet learning instructional materials which is designated to support the planning, execution, monitoring and evaluation of the adoption of and implementation of the state board of education approved state developed OEER instructional materials known as group learning. The administration recommends that the board of trustees adopts the open education resources transition plan that was submitted to you for blueonic learning instructional materials for math K through 8 and algebra 1. Is there a motion to accept the recommendation? So moved. Motion made by Delma Selenas. There a second. Second. Second made by Brian Kumo. All those in favor say I. I any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries 70. Thank you. Now moving on to item 7J. Discussion and possible action regarding the second reading of localized policy update 124

104on pages 117 to 129. Dr. Thank you trustees. Dr. Pettis. Um this is the second reading of update 124. Um this includes revisions of legal policies based on legislative and regulatory changes. Changing local policy offered for consideration address the following topics. Um financial ethics, investments, intellectual property, employee standards of conduct, special programs, gifted and talented students, child abuse and neglect and conduct on school premises. Um there's eight different policies that are considered for update. Um it's CA A local, C DA local, C Y local, BH local, EHB local, EHB local, FFG local, and GKA local. Um we have reviewed the the eight different policies in the previous reading. Are there any questions that you want on any specific policy we can review? Um, it's up for any questions, any discussion before you guys take a

105vote? Any questions from the board? Okay. So, hearing none, I hear a motion to accept the so motion made by Jacob Pettis. Second by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Thank you, Dr. Thank you. Now moving on to Okay. Item 7K. Discussion or possible action regarding the memorandum of understanding between Kingsville ISD and Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Texas for the 2025 2026 school year. Uh can be found on pages 13 and 136. Dr. Sandala. Thank you sir. Um Keith Independent School District along with the big brothers big sisters in South Texas are partnered to offer an opportunity to uh mentor um program mentorship program for our students. Uh the BBBS mentoring program occurs between um both during school and after school hours. Um

106depends on which programs the students are involved in. I do have Mr. Tommy Alzando here from the Big Brothers Big Sister of South Texas here to answer any questions that you might have regarding the Big Brother Big Sisters mentoring program. Greetings. Any questions? I was going to get Dr. Boss to come talk for me, but Sure. What is the success rate with your program? What have you seen? We our success rate is very high and I know one of the things that you addressed earlier was attendance. So children matched in our program are 52% less likely to skip school than those not mass in our program. We do collaborate highly with communities in schools. So that will directly uh impact their attendance rate here. uh kids that match in our program are 90% more likely

107to go to a higher education whether it's whether it's a college or a technical institution. So how many students are we serving? Many as many as we can get in. No, I totally understand that but like do you have numbers? We we don't we don't. So this is going to we had a program here prior to 2018 and then the pandemic happened. The program went away. We're coming back. We're revitalizing it. We work highly with the university. We bring mentors from the university, from your community. We're also going to look at a program where your high school students, mentor your elementary school students. We know that kids, younger kids, match with high school students are more likely to feel wanted and needed in that school. They're more likely to attend school. And it's great for

108the high school student because especially if they're in extracurricular activities, these kids go and support them. We have friends, our high school kids that walk the schools in their cap and gown and the kids love it. So it's it's a great match. Our goal is to match at least 50 kids in your school next year and that's in any any and all programs that we have community based program high school based program or sitebased program. There are different ways that we can attack these to ensure success. Mr. There's no cost right there. There's no cost to the district. There is a cost for the program but we uh we will seek funding for that. Thank you. Yes sir. Free free9. So once you started how often will you get like a property report or well

109I work with Dr. uh sonal or whoever whoever is in charge we'll work together if it's monthly if it's quarterly whatever you guys want. Not only will we give you the kids who are matched in a school-based program, but those kids that are matched in our community based program where where the mentoring doesn't take place at a school, we'll also give you that order. And just so you guys know, I don't know if you're familiar with the Big Brother Big Sister program. It's a world it's the nation's largest and oldest youth mentor program in the world. It's been around about 125 years. We came into the coastal bed in 2005 uh and we're still here. here. We'll try to revitalize it. So, this is our 20th anniversary and we love our KISD. Any more questions?

110Okay, see none. Hearing none. Is there a motion to accept this memorandum understanding? Okay. Motion made by Jacob Perez. Oh, I'm sorry. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Jacob. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any obstain? Motion carry 70. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Uh, now moving on to item 7L, discussion and possible action regarding the KISSD instructional calendar for 2526 school year can be found on pages 137 and 139. Dr. Sun. Thank you, Mr. Ree, trustees Dr. Pettis. Before you, you've got two draft calendars, both the five-day calendars for the board to consider for adoption for the 25 26 school year. Um, we did use the last 5-year calendar, which is 2223 that we had on record, and we use that as our template to to make draft one. Um,

111there are some minor changes in terms of where we put those professional development days and work days at the beginning of the um school year, but other than that, it's a pretty um similar calendar to the the last 22 23 um instructional calendar that we had. Um, draft two is similar to the other draft that we have, draft one. Other than that, it starts a week earlier. Um, it starts on the 19th of August. Um, draft one starts on the 25th of August, which is the fourth Monday of the month of August. Um, which is the typical um start date for any school district that not that's not um DOI. We are DOI. We can start earlier than that. So, one option does allow the calendar start on the 19th of August. Um, I'll take

112any question you might have regarding the calendar. I have some questions. Dr. Son, did the staff, students, or DIC have any input on these two different fiveday calendars? No, sir. So, they're just being given to the board. So, the board is going to have to make a choice between those two. That's correct. The two the two Hold on. The two fiveday calendars were sent on an email. No, one of them was and that's where we got uh remember I had sent asking them for suggestions and we got suggestions saying can we can we have fewer weather bad weather days on the five-day calendar. The five-day calendar that they received was draft one. Remember when we when I had sent the 4day and the fiveday and then it was recommended I just we just keep it

113to the fiveday. So with the suggestions we got about the fiveday via email from everybody or whoever wanted to submit it was can we have fewer bad weather days and start later or you know leave earlier. So we did that uh for this next for both of for both of them and this second one we started earlier to get more instructional days in which is one of the things they wanted. I'm just I'm just feeling and I voted no. I mean I voted yes for 4 day but I'm just feeling that we're we're forcing this down the staff's throat. I really really do. And that's just that's just my concern. You know, I know uh it's getting close to the end of the school year. You know, I was I was wanting to make and

114I'm going to hopefully I can make a motion to table this based on you know, we're we're going to have to choose the 25 day. I don't I don't I don't as a as a board I would like to have input from the from the staff from DIC just the normal way that we we've done it in the past because you know here's five and five okay or which one is it going to be I I really have a concern with that we didn't have students we didn't have a survey of teachers and but said she got input from right when I sent the email out about the four and the fiveday but but what I'm trying to say is I will have like the board and then the five day which one but we

115voted on that last I understand the direction that the board gave you last time I understand yes Dr. that is but that's that's just my thought and my concern and you know for whatever it's worth you know I that's what I feel and I feel that you know I would like to make a a motion to to take this item and give the staff DIC a chance to look at these calendars and then they then administration from their input give a recommendation to the board on what the staff and students or whoever g gave them, you know, their their their input. But I'm feeling that we were given two choices and as a board we have to pick one of those two. Um, you know, I just have a, you know, concern with that. I

116just say also think we should uh we should also survey the staff and push. That's that's what I'm trying to say and the students and that's what I'm trying to say. Yes. So we can send the two five days to them. Did we ever have a survey of four and five? We asked for that at the beginning and it didn't get done. No. What happened was DEIC made the recommendations and according to the charts, none of them wanted a five-day calendar. All the suggestions that they made were put on the two 4 and 1/2 day calendars. Okay. with the times and all that that they were changing. So, we brought those forward. Then I was told that, okay, now we want the fiveday calendar. But we had already got I mean surveyed everybody. Then we

117got some letters, we got some emails, we got some texts, we got some things saying, is it still possible to to vote on either a 4 and a half day calendar or a 4-day calendar and a fiveday calendar? I assumed that's what we wanted to do. So, I sent that out. But then I was informed, no, don't do that. They just want a five two fiveday calendars, which was what was recommended at the last board meeting. That was what was told to me to do. So, that's what we did. So, from the calendar, the five-day calendar that had been sent, that's where I got suggestions about can we have like the workday when we come back from the holidays. Some of those suggestions were on there on the very all the surveys we had done.

118So, we left that on there. Can we have fewer bad weather days? So, we did that. Um, instead of seven bad weather days, we'd have four, I believe. So, I took the suggestions we could put into a five-day calendar because that's what I was asked to do was bring two five-day calendars. But yes, we are still getting feedback from a lot of the, you know, the staff saying, you know, why are we not considering a four day calendar? What the same type of calendar that we've had? The thing is at the last meeting it was voted that we go with a five date calendar. Correct. So, So that's why we're going with the fiveday calendars this time because that was what the 4-day calendar didn't pass, right? What but that doesn't mean that it still

119can't be reconsidered. The board can always reconsider a prior action. I will second Jake's motion because I feel like we're hearing from the community. We're hearing from the students. We're hearing from the faculty. We're hearing from the administration and we're up here saying no for board members know better. And I I feel like we are, you know, thumbming our nose at at at the community, at the students, and at faculty. And I I just I I can't support it. And I'm not trying to put blame on anyone. I know this meeting was made the last board meeting, but I just feel that the staff, like I just mentioned few minutes ago, they have to have some type of input on both types of calendars because what I've been hearing is that the majority like the

120four day calendar. Well, Jacob, at the last prior to Okay. But prior to us voting or them voting, the president did receive notice from some of the board members to have Dr. Bettis put a five-day plan calendar out there for consideration. It wasn't done from the beginning. Again, I'm not trying to put blame on anybody. So if she done it from the beginning then it would have been fair you know to where we had four day calendar and a fiveday calendar and we put it out for a servant that was not done from the beginning we asked her as the second round I requested well I just want to clarify just like she just explained there was a fiveday option that was requested through de DCI whatever but nobody chose that option. So that's why

121it wasn't presented to the I can respect that, but at the same time I I'm a sitting board member. I'm not going to be able to give anybody directives. I can make suggestions. I can email like I did. If like I said, I don't know how many times, 15 or 20 times in that last meeting, I'm looking at student achievement. Okay? So we can go back the gentleman, I don't know if he's still here, and and and look at student achievement. Okay? The thing about it is is where we're at now with student achievement. So if that five day would have been an option with the four days, five, four and four, whatever it was, and the fours got it, then I had to go with it. But it was not up there when I

122requested to be there. With all due respect, Mr. Millis, you know, I've been in education 33 years. I've been in campuses. A calendar does not drive the test scores. It's it's or or student achievement. The teachers do the teachers in the classroom do. That's where we need to get good and we do have good teachers. That's what drives the scores of the student achievement. Not a calendar. And that that that's just my, you know, I'll add to that. I'll add to that on these Fridays that we're supposed to have a lot of schools, a lot of kids in school. I'm not seeing it. They're not whatever the blue Fridays are. I'm not seeing the kids that really need to be there. So, that's a that's a huge concern for me because we we voted to

123have students on those blue Fridays go in and I think they we didn't have some going in. We do have a bunch going in secondary level making up hours, but as far as instruction, what's happening, you know? So, that that's my point there. 10 days. But, you know, we I guess we could debate this all night, but even if you have a Friday calendar, get this get the kids to go to school on Friday. You know, that's a challenge, too, is to go to school on Friday to go to class. So, you know, there's always pros and cons. Well, it's also a challenge to get the instructors here on on Friday that should be here. So, did we not just hear Well, Jay, hold on, Jake. I mean, you're not the only one talking here.

124Okay. We had a lady come in here in public comments. Did we not hear what she said and she wasn't getting support? Yeah. You heard? All we heard was everybody loves a Friday. Hell, I love a Friday day off. What happens if I want to go to my judge, my my boss is back in the back. I go to him and tell him, "Hey, can I have a day off Friday?" Just because No work's got to get done. We're not in a position right now. This is just me speaking. And we're going to go to a vote. Mr. Kufall said he's he's backing you up. Let's go for a vote. But I heard this lady in public comment come in and says we're not getting the support from administration. That was them. Okay. What I

125heard her say, and if she's here, that'd be great, was she there was a concern with staff from last year or the year before, and that was dealt with. That's what I understood. No, I'd like to just bring up something. The TEA released a 15page report that compared STAR scores with four day school four days to those of the U five day school and they were low all across the board for the four. That's that's what drove my vote. Yes, it was the data for TDA and we you haven't seen it, you can easily look it up. That is our concern was with the students, not for any anything else. Once again, it's on the TEA website. You can see it. It's called Texas 4day school week campus analysis 20 2022 2023 school year. And

126once again, every school district in the state of Texas have the four-day calendar against the five-day calendar. The data was very clear, ladies and gentlemen. It's nothing personal. It's just and I remember that talking about being data driven. That is what drove me to that decision. And I remember that data and um there are concerns with that data, but we can we can review that anyway. I think we need to look at our data also. Um this is the second year that we have it. We haven't haven't completed STAR. We are completing STAR and I have all the confidence in the world that our kids are going to grow from last year. In fact, they actually grew from the year even before. So, we have our own data. We're looking at cohorts. Um, all I

127can say is when we took a DEIC, and this is what we've been doing every year that I've been here, it's take their suggestions, what can we do with those suggestions, and then bring them to you all as recommendations. Um, and and that's what we did, the same thing we've been doing. So, I did misunderstand last time. I thought you all wanted go ahead and do a survey of a 5-day and a 4-day. So, I did email that out, but then I was told pull it back because what was asked at the board meeting was to bring two five-day calendars. So, then we took all their suggestions that people had sent in and that's what we tweaked. So, I'm I'm just bringing what I understood we were supposed to bring. And we did ask staff

128for suggestions, and those were the suggestions that were made. They also didn't want like a meet the teacher on the day of a work day. So, we didn't do that. Everything that we could possibly put in here that they had suggested for the four day is what we put. You like the work day after the holiday when we come back from the holidays or the meet the teacher on that day. fewer bad weather days, things like that. We were able to implement in there. So, we did seek their input on that. The last board meeting when we voted for the five day calendar, it was 70. So, we all agreed No, that was on a four calendar. And then when we voted to bring back the five to bring two fiveday calendars, it was 70.

129I I don't think we voted 43 on the boarding. How did I Mr. President, we we have a motion. Okay. So, actually I'm gonna ask some clarity from Mr. Maddox. So, do can we just vote on a 4-day calendar again? Vote on a five-day calendar again. Is that possible or uh because it it says it uh it says the discussion of possible action regarding K instructional calendar for 2526. I see no specifics on 5day versus 4 day. So could we vote on each one again is my question. Yes, Mr. President, members of the board, as written as discussion and possible action regarding AK instructional calendar 2526 school year. So that is broad enough to encompass any multiple calendar the board wishes to adopt. Okay. So I guess by roll call vote I well first is

130there I guess a motion to make a decision. So we're going to vote on a 4 day again and we're going to vote on a five day and four day pass. Mr. Mr. President, I believe the live motion on the tables is a motion to table seconded. We first need to finalize that. Okay. So, we have a motion to table this for further review and a second. Motion made by Jacob PZ, second by Brian Koopo. All those in favor say I. No. I. So, it's Mr. President, can you just take a roll call vote, please? Okay. Good job. Let's start with Miss Alenas for the to table it. Yes. No. Yes. David see no table. No. No. Yes. For me. So, of course, the notes have it four to three. So I'd like to make

131a motion to table the two five days but like to get input from the teach from the teachers from the students from the staff and from the community and and then we'll make a decision based on those on that date. That's that's my motion. I'll second it. But asking them what what what do you want them us to ask them? Now we do a survey of the four day and the five day. The two five days. The two five days. Now you want to serve two five days. I thought that's what we were going to get today. I didn't know what what I understood you had asked was for two fiveday options and we did get input from the staff about some things they wanted in them. Both those things are in both these calendars.

132Was was the input from TEIC? It was from anybody who wanted to email us. I sent it out and asked them that. I did not want to spend another few hours if they didn't need to and because the only thing they're asked is to do two fiveday calendars. Well, I think that's sufficient information. What does DEI have a preference of? I want to vote on which one DEIC preferred one or two. Okay. So, are you asking for us to send now these two calendars to everyone? But no four-day option. No four-day option. Just these two calendars. send them out and say which one do you prefer of the two fiveday calendars. So, so we have a motion made by Martin Chapa to table the decision on instructional calendar 2526. We have a second made by

133David Garcia. And I guess by roll call vote, we'll start with Miss Alenas. Yes. Mr. Pis, Mr. Garcia. Yes. Yes, Mr. Chapa. Yes, Mr. Kufall. No. Yes. And I will also vote yes. So it passes five to two. So now uh moving on to um item 8, a close session. The board will now enter into close session in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code 551.071 and 551.074 to deliberate and consider the following. consider and deliberate uh regarding the renewal of probationary term, dual and non-certified professional contracts of teachers for the 2526 school year. Consider and deliberate the renewal of term professional and non-certified professional contracts for positions of principal, directors, coordinators, assistant principal, superintendent, CFO, and executive director for the 2526 school year. and domain C consider and delivering the non-renewal

134of probationary term dual and non-certified professional contracts of teachers for 25 2025 2026 and then al item 8 D discussion regarding superintendent intend to retire from KISD item 8E discussion with legal counsel regarding uh legal and uh personnel matters we are entering into close session Add 7 39. We've now returned to open session to take necessary action on matters which the board has discussed in open session and upon which action may be taken. We are returning to open session at 9:06 p.m. Mr. President, I would like to make a motion that this board bring back item number 7E, which is the discussion possible action regarding an interlocal agreement between Kingsland Independent School District and Community and Schools of the Coastal B. We have a motion. Second made motion made by Brian Kuall and second made

135by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Mr. Secretary. I would like to now make a motion that we approve the interval agreement between Kingsville Independent School District and Communities and Schools of the Coastal Bin as presented. So move. So first made by Brian, second made by David Garcia. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Uh we now move on to discussion and possible action uh regarding the renewal of probationary term dual and non-certified professional contracts of teachers for the 2025 2026 school year. Is there a motion? Second motion made by Delma Salas. Second made by Jacob Pettis. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. We move on to item 9B. discussion and possible action regarding the

136renewal of term professional and non-certified professional contracts for positions of principles, directors, coordinators, assistant superintendent, CFOs, and executive directors for the 2025 2026 school year. Mr. President, members of the board of trustees, are there any contract numbers the board wishes to pull out for individual review? Number six. Number six. Number two. And board, I'm going to advise you pull five out as well. Any other numbers? 15 board. I have 625. Any other numbers? Mr. President, this time I advise that you call for a motion to approve all remaining contracts and the board will revisit these right after that motion. So moved. Motion made by Brian Kall. Second. Second made by Jake Pettis. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose. Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. Lord, I advise at this time that we have

137an individual motion for contract five. So, is there a motion to um we need a a motion to we need a motion of whether we are approving it and as to what time. Mr. Mr. President, I make a motion that we approve the contract for number five, but that it be approved at a 12-month term. So, we have a motion made by Brian Kufall. Is there a second? Second. Second made by Joe Mirez. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Oppos. Okay. So uh so we have three opposed and four uh yes. So motion passes 4 to three or you have contracts six two and 15 remaining. You may take individual motions on each or you may motion them as a prerogative. Mr. President, I move that the contractors number two, number five,

138and number two, number six, number 15 be uh tabled at this time. We have a motion to table six, two, and 15. Is there a second? Second second made by Delas. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? No. We have one no and six yes. So motion carries passes six to one. Uh we now move on to item 9D, discussion and possible action to accept the superintendence retirement KISSD. Do I have a motion? Mr. President, I move that the board approve the voluntary retirement agreement between Dr. Cecilia Wis Pettis Kingsville Independent School District as discussed and amended in executive session. Is there a second? Second made by Martin Chapa. All those in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Any abstain? Motion carries. 70. There being no more further action, I do uh hereby

139uh hear a motion to adjourn the adjourn the meeting. Motion Delma Alina second by J. All those in favor say I. I meeting is adjourned at 9:13 p.m.