001uh just uh for as far as the inside of the uh intermediate uh we've got uh and we're also looking at um coming in and replacing building. Uh the utilities were cut off uh the week after school was out. Uh demolition of the portables have started uh late or last week. They had gotten one portable down. Uh, as of today, they've got, uh, this was about lunch. They had another portable and a third one almost down as well. So, I could see them getting finished with the demolition probably in the next couple of days. So, uh, hallelujah. What's that? Hallelujah. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Bodies. Yeah. Uh, let's see. The grading site work will start uh, like I said, later this week. Uh, according to Schulz, uh, the new building arrives will arrive the week
002of June 16th. They will bring them and and, uh, stage them. That way when they get everything ready, they will be able to pull them in and not have to wait for them to be transported. So, they'll be on site uh, week of June 16th. PEC has confirmed that the transformer, and this is kind of the I guess the the big uh, relief that we got. transformer will be installed on June 25th. So that was one of the things that we were kind of worried about um from PC, but they have uh contacted Schulz and said that that transformer will be on site June 25th and will be installed. So those are and then uh on the last page you kind of see that was the first uh portable that was demolished. That was the
003volunteer portable that we had provided the community with all the hospital supplies. Uh and and so that was a day's work. And you can see it was uh they crushed it into such small pieces. It was amazing uh how small a pieces that they crushed it into. So uh like I say, that portable next to it is is now gone. And then the next one beside it is uh was almost gone earlier today. So I have a quick question. Yes. What um you probably have already told us stuff since then, but what did they uh the a lot of Vista what did they do with all their hospital stuff? That's been a huge thing the community for I know right across from our offices next to the city library. They've got that thing. Yeah. But
004it was always small. I don't know Laura where exactly they uh they put everything I gave them. I called them back in August of last year to let them know and they slowly moved things out. Uh a lot of it was junk. Uh they did leave some of the stuff in there. They said we don't need it. And I had told Miss Pond uh that anything you don't need just to leave in there and we will take care of it that could be them. Right. And so yeah, I know I'd seen I had to go and get something for somebody in our office. They I know they had secured some other storage spots. Okay. So I was curious. Yeah. Uh but like I said, everything's going well. Um you know uh working hard. I I'm
005excited to to kind of start seeing that thing start taking shape here probably middle of next week, but I'll certainly answer any questions that you may have. Sounds like I'm on schedule. Yeah. Great. Okay. I have any questions? Um, okay. Discussion of possible approval of canopy and benches for tennis courts. Okay. So we uh we went through uh TIPS which is a byboard uh group that we use a good bit. Um so we uh got these proposals uh we've got uh we got the one from Kayak who has done work with us in the past. They actually did the intermediate playground. Uh they've also um did some work at uh the uh Little Vikings uh doing the the cover there. So they've done us a real good job. So, we put the quotes out. Um,
006not only did Kaya come in with the cheapest uh amount, but they also can get it done this summer. Some other ones were a little bit higher, but they could not guarantee when the work would be performed and with the u with the history that we've had with them. Uh, they have been on time with everything that uh that they have uh done work for us so far. And so we want I want to recommend the installation or the purchase of the 18 by35 metal canopy that will be positioned between the two new tennis courts on the I guess on the east side. Uh it will be in between the two or the four courts and so it will provide a lot of shade during practice. It will also provide uh cover during tournaments. you
007know, now that we have eight eight uh courts, uh we're hosting a lot more tournaments than we have in the past. And then our metal benches, we only had about three or four out there uh with the old court. And you know, I think it's something for us to really have a a nice place and and one that uh accommodates our players is to have a bench for each side of the court. And so that will be 16 aluminum benches and they will be bolted down into the into the concrete. Um, and so I would like to recommend uh the canopy at 69384 and according to Ka they will be we get this in before school starts. So and this is coming out of the bond fund. I just want to make sure we keep
008pointing that out since we're about to roll into the budget discussion. is 2022 and we also coach Phillips and then applied for USA grant that we got and I think it was 50,000 on top of that. So a lot of that that's giving you a design overview just to see what it looks like. What's that a design overview like a picture? I don't have they just kind of quoted it and it will have gutters uh so it will it will u be trimmed out. It just won't be a piece of sheet metal or anything. I assume you'll see what it's going to look like before we pull the trigger. I I can't I will ask on that. Yes, sir. Need a motion. I move we approve the or approve the kaya recommendation. Recommendation. A second.
009Make the motion seconded. Any additional questions, comments? All those in favor say I. I. I opposed 60. Okay. The air mark. Okay. Contract. So, this is something we have to approve each year. Uh I want to thank Jason and Jennifer from Airart for working through this. This certainly takes a lot of time. Uh anytime you're dealing with uh the Texas Department of Agriculture, there's always um hoops you got to jump through. So, I'll kind of let Jason kind of talk us through this. Yes. So, we applied for a a renewal or amendment to the contract that we adopted a couple years ago. Uh we begin that process in January. We submit all kinds of documentation to make sure it's kosher with TDA. Uh just about maybe four weeks ago, we finally got the go ahead
010that it is presentable to the board. Uh any money that you're seeing in that contract is all 240 money. There's not any 199 money that's uh that's board controlled necessarily. So the revenue comes from the point of sale system for alt carts or uh meal sales and uh and that's where the expense comes as well. Federal subsidies about half of that. But again, 199 is only there to supplant negative balances in the event that you know kids don't pay the the expense or the and the revenue for the district is all a federal 240 fund that doesn't impact necessarily the operations of the district. So, no changes to the contract, but there's there may be new prices for cafeteria food. Like, what does that look like? Do you know the forecast? So, that's going to
011be next month. We'll talk about that. Uh TDA is pretty specific on what those prices can be or can be raised to. they have a a formula, a sheet that basically says this is what you can provide and that's what we typically end up requiring and I'll I'll bring those to you next month. Thank you for that. We need a motion to approve. I move we approve the contract as presented. I'll second make a motion. General is seconded. Excuse me. Any additional questions, comments? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. 60. Budget update. Okay. So, yeah. How long do we want to be here now? Uh, you know, I I don't know really where to begin with this. Um, you know, I will say teachers will get raises. Uh, much needed raises. Uh, certainly
012excited for that. Uh, we still don't have we still don't have a clear definition of what what teachers will get that. Uh, still waiting on that clarification. Uh, I'll be eager to see who who makes that ruling. I want to thank Susie and Tina for following this uh, rather closely. Uh, they've been looking at it. Uh they're starting to have webinars now on on how this uh how the the bill will be will play out. Uh there is not a lot of new money for us. I'll certainly let Mr. Ster take over here in just a second. Um certainly excited for our teachers to get a much needed welldeserved raise. uh you know, excited for that. But there was some uh some areas that the bill failed to address. And it's funny, teachers are getting
013these big races again, which are needed, but staff is also being cut, uh reassigned, and school districts are still adopting deficit budgets in the millions, millions, uh throughout the state. and I was I'm the chairman of a region 32 music committee and um uh the ones that I asked while we were waiting on the hall members to get in every one of them were having to cut um I mean we were the smallest cut uh some of them are having to cut $16 million and that that he would have to cut more next year. So, uh, anyway, so I'll let Jason kind of talk us through. Certainly ask questions, uh, you know, uh, what this looks like, but understand we're still trying to grasp who will get raises, how will that affect everybody, uh, because
014that clarification has not come out as of yet. So, all right. Well, quickly, we'll kind of talk about the 2425, the current uh, school year. Uh first uh just kind of give you an uh idea of budget versus performance. Uh there's some positives and negatives both ways. Some pluses are our 6200s which are contracted services, our supplies and our fees and dues. Those expense accounts are out all outperforming what was budgeted. Uh if we took if we had to pay our recapture bill today, our recapture bill uh will be less than what was budgeted. So those things are are are are good. Some delta issues are our deficit still trending to be around the 650 750k mark. Uh we still have 3 months left. So we're not super firm on what that revenue number is
015going to be at this point. Uh but our revenue numbers are have fallen short of what we ultimately want to end up with. We ultimately want to get about 20 just over 29 million in revenues and we're looking at just over 27 and some change at the moment. So about 1.52 million to still collect. About a big chunk of going to come from the state at some point uh I hope and uh we'll also have three months of collections to to get a few bucks as well. Now for the 25 26 uh this is preliminary. We've gotten one version of the template uh that came out last week from Omar uh Garcia who's the sort of the big wig in in terms of school finance across the state of Texas. Uh the budget preliminary budget
016that you saw in your packet uh has the $140,000 exemption versus 100 in it. It has the over 65 disabled vet going from 10 to 60,000 and it also has a BPP business personal property going from 2500 to 125,000. Uh originally that bill said it they wanted it to be 250,000 and they backed that off to 125. But the revenues that you're seeing in u the preliminary budget all account for those three things. We budgeted on 1,830 students. We ended the year with 1846, but if you recall, we only get half for preK. We had 32 preK kids, so we took 16 off of that. Enrollment budget on 1830 and at 94% which is where we ended the year with in 2425 was about 94%. So, we're just rolling that over to 2526. Our expenditures
017are 25.85. So we're looking at a deficit budget about 575,000 which is about 2.28%. If you remember last year we're pushing four. So we've made some some progress on chipping that away. Last week or last month we talked about and at the budget workshop we talked about having sort of a tiered really strategic approach so that we don't feel it uh all in one year. So ultimately we've gotten off of about $680,000 of expenses uh that would be recurring uh those considered reduction. Most of most of those are in salary and the cost associated with house bill 2 is incorporated. So how we have interpreted what the raise looks like uh has incorporated that expense which equates to about 575,000 deficit. Interestingly, if House Bill Two, and this is hindsight and probably not very productive,
018but it is worth noting, uh if House Bill Two was passed as originally uh presented, uh we would have a deficit of about $400,000 and so much more local control as to what we can do with that money. And $400,000 is no, you know, nothing small, but that's something that we could manage without ever impacting an operational uh position of the district after getting off of 680,000. We're still left with, you know, $125,000 more than than that. So, we still have work to do. There'll be inflationary costs in 2627 that we have to account for. The homestead exemption going to 140,000 has limited our tax revenue. So, our interest revenue will will go down significantly. I I I've reduced our interest income about 50,000 for this year. I anticipate that may be falling short if
019we creep toward a potential recession and interest rates go down along with our tax collections about being about $5 million less than they were the prior year. I could uh absolutely see that that was probably something that we'll need to revisit in 2627. But all things considered, I I think the district and Susie and Tina and Darren have done a really strategic and sort of masterful job trying to make the cuts not impact what a classroom looks like. So like I'm looking at the packet. I don't see this but like that 680 reduction seems to be that like you said the net is a bunch of raises which I think all of us deserve you know welld deserved long ago needed and then a line item for staffing reductions not tonight can we just get
020a little bit visibility to like what reductions are we talking about and and I can get into that later. Okay. So I've got it. Yeah. Yeah. But publicly probably better to do that you know of course. So I mean sorry holistically I want to swing through the communication the team wrote community. I actually got a lot of feedback from people who appreciated the disability ask good or bad uh there's some questions but doesn't m was generally positive. I think we could swim through that again where are we at? What does that mean? We we wanted to present this to you guys kind of get your thoughts, you know, and then later this week since send a little bit more detail and even if it's in 3 weeks when we have actually real information and we
021know how through the bill passed. This is what that's looking like right now. Here's what we know today. We'll update you as we know more. So Kevin, we were going to try to get this out later this week or first part of next week for sure. So, I just wanted to revisit where we were at the budget meeting when uh we said we identified, you know, the monthly expense line and then the loan line and that graph looked like what Holly is going to show right now and we thought, oh, November 26 does not look very good, right? Like we needed to do some work uh with that information and uh new tax collection information coming in the new templates sort of influence on things. It now looks like uh the next slide that Holly
022will show. It looks like that. Now remember guys, the red line Holly you'll go back. The red line is no money in the bank. We can't make payroll if it was that. So not in public terms, right? And then so Right. So that essentially means that at the end of November we'll be able to make payroll. Uh the blue line represents expenses at the end of the month. So we'd be able to have payroll with about $1.8 million in the bank. And then in December where folks play pay their collection or their tax bill, that number goes way up. Uh interesting to note the the first hump there in the camel's back, there's a sharp decline back in down in August. That's our recapture payment. We pay about $7.88 million in recapture. So that's that
023sharp decline. the way uh things are looking at like currently with our property values being what they are, what House Bill 2 does to what the state's going to pay in terms of uh teacher raises and whatnot. Our recapture goes from 7.8 million, $8 million to $3.5 million. So there's very little decline in the in the August bill as you see that there. So that's uh what we're looking at currently and uh on this term start like this is where my private to public knowledge does an obvious job like if I in in my industry I lean on my team to start managing payment terms trying to extend those where we have the flexibility I'm assuming we have any flexibility we've talked about that uh a lot uh our our annual contracts you know we
024we even talked about this last year or annual contracts like property and casualty for example $534,000 last year you got to pay it all up front you can't do that that quarterly uh sorry like the the benches the 60 grand I know it's bond money maybe it doesn't matter anytime you keep add 15 days it gives you utiliz I'll I'll say this to your point so on the recapture money there's a settle and you know and they will and I'll probably tell them say save one month but just for example they say well you owe us $142,000 in April and we don't pay until August I mean we'll get a letter saying you still owe us well officially you don't have to pay until a certain date and we pay like the day before I
025have no doubt you've had that we we we feather the gas as much as we can on that and even in terms of our worst still sitting on a pretty healthy amount in our accounts in in February and May and April and we we try to run those net 30s as long as we can. So at the end of the month, we have as much interest as we possibly can for for that. So that's definitely a strategy we've used. If we can punt a bill to next week or two weeks from now, uh we definitely do that. And terms of what Darren was mentioning, when recapture comes out, they say they'll tell us this this month in and August, you owe us $8.5 million. Well, that's based on legislative planning estimates and that's based on
026things that the state says or thinks that we have. But I have we have the knowledge of knowing what our attendance rate is, what our enrollment is, what our collection is. So, we pay them what we believe we owe them, not what they say we we owe them. So, uh, couple years ago, it was when our property values went crazy, they said, "You owe us $17.8 million." We only owed them 14.5. So, that's what we paid them. Much better. Well, they would have given it back to us, but they get but they get the $3.5 million in interest for 90 days where that that's our money. So, uh, we we we do that. Done that for the last few years. It hasn't raised a whole lot of flags yet. So, we're going to keep doing
027it the the way that, um, most benefits the kids in the in the district. So, that's where we are. Any questions? Can you help me better understand the beginning? I know these numbers may be awful, but we needed 1,200 bucks, right? They went through the process and said you're going to get $4500 and then it was $55 at the end of the day, right? And then they use this 8 point whatever billion dollar on top of it. To me, it's mirrors. What I'm looking for is is this a wash? Did we get $55? Do we get $200? Do we get $1,200? At the end of the day, what was passed? I'm trying to understand what net and then looking toward the future based on whatever that is. Is it still us going down? Yeah. If
028you take 12 more months on that rate, yeah, if he were to do that, that Yeah. And November, a year from where you see the top point, that would be lower this next year. So, first question, what what did we really get? So, House Bill 2's uh big push, public sort of feather in their cap was that we provided teacher raises. Well, uh, the number for us was $920,000 in teacher raises. Well, when we start looking at that and determining you can't have particular teachers making more than assistant principles who evaluate them and you, you know, there's there's that sort of sensitive thing that we need to sort of map out. There's $950,000 actually of teacher raises that we have to pay, but we're only pro provided 920, you know,,000. uh we have to provide
029raises to our hourly folks which is great. They're the glue of this place. Our hourly folks prior to this were making $2 and $3 more than Leander for this for the same position. But we have to push that money to them as well. So if you're asking what's the actual net gain? Well, we made about $80,000 in safety security money, but it's still short of what we actually have to pay for safety and security. So yes, it was a gain, but we're still upside down a little bit. And then they also have a a ABC allotment for avail or a allotment for basic costs, which is for inflationary expenses. And those inflationary expenses cover from 2425 to 2526, which is great, but we're upside down from 2019 to 2024. So, we're still having to figure
030out, you know, what is the ultimate raise in this and we really won't know that until we have a pretty a firmer idea of what our tax revenue ultimately is. There's discussions about the tax rate compression still kicking in. I think we'll probably avoid that because our property values have have gone down a little bit. So, I don't see us having to compress our M and O rate. So I I want to get a firmer grasp on that until I ultimately decide what is the new revenue that we got from one year to the next. But they've they've done a very strategic job in telling us here's this new money sounds great, but this new money has to go to this specific expense to this specific expense and to this specific expense, leaving the district
031very little flexibility as to how to spend that new money. And ultimately it's going to not be a whole lot of very little local control. Can I Yeah. Can I can I read that back just Yeah. To make sure I understand for anybody at home that's slow like me. Right. Like what you're saying is the whole local control that you all talk about is that example. We've had local control for the last number of years and we've chosen to pay our hourly staff more than the neighboring district and be very competitive in other hours. In other hours as well. So we've done what's right for the last couple years and now they're saying on top of that we're doing peanut butter spread to compensate for districts who didn't have the same approach that we did.
032So they just took over control how we're paying. So to that point we've built our compensation schedule teachers specifically to be competitive with our neighbors. Well our neighbors are 6A districts that have you know 90,000 kids 100,000 kids where we have 1,800. However, we still built a schedule that says, you know, we can pay as much as the Leandra SD at year 12 bus. We we actually have pay our teachers more in certain ranges. Now, we have to pay that same teacher $8,000 more. We're going to be paying more than Leander, you know, $6,000, $5,000 in some areas of our and at the same time, but don't pennies and dollars of inflation. Yes. Okay. Well, and any any prescribed compensation increase, the district is is required to pay 8.2% in TRS contributions on all of
033that. So the $8,000 8.2% of that multiplied times every teacher we have, the district is on the hook for paying the TRS on the additional money. Correct. So like so that ABC the a lotment basic cost half of it is taken up automatically just from the raises. So $75,000 for us if you're talking about 950 about 775,000. So thank you for that point of local control. That's a good point you make. That's a great point. What I'm trying to understand, I think you said it well, is we're throwing pennies at dollars of inflation. That's where I'm trying to understand based on what they did or did not give us, right? And I know you still have to work through it. Do we see a trend of deficit going forward because of what they didn't give
034us? Does that make sense? Oh yeah. If we don't cut I mean right now like that's what he said. Are we still going to have to make hard decisions? Yes. Next year next year will be next year and that's where I'm going to have to communicate the community. But I get this just like you and I get this conversation is like well you know they're saying $8 million and I know it's I'm trying to understand is it washes 55 bucks so that I can visualize it for them. It was only $55. We needed $1,200. And now we're gonna have to make hard decisions. And oh by the way, oh girl is gone right on top of that. So I'm just trying to formulate and craft that message. So the analogy I used and maybe it's
035helpful or not. My grandpa used to give me you know 20 bucks for a tank of gas. Mhm. Right. Like sweet. I was 16 years old that bought me 20 of gas not compared to you. Right. Like, but now if you're going to give me $20 for a tank of gas, it's like great. You just bought me like four gallons of gas. And so he's like, "Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Here's $25 for a tank of gas." And no, take of gas is $4500, right? So giving you so much more. Yeah. I gave you 25% more. What are you talking about? They gave you all this extra money. No, because you should have given that. I feel like the the better analogy on so teacher compensation aside is taxpayers lined up to pay their bill and
036the state goes no I got this right so this is money this is new money it's not new money to us right they're allowing taxpayers to keep more of their own tax dollars and and so it looks like an infusion of money to school districts it's no new money they're just instead of taking it directly from the taxpayer it's coming from the state that make sense yeah and I'm trying to break that smoke screen with the community by using analogies and visualizations and hard numbers like instead of 1,200 we only got 55 and so that's what and we can have a conversation conversation about that. Yeah, I I think the local control is not necessarily how we spend money. The local control is what positions do we need to absorb or or or reduce to
037get to the number that they've budget. Well, and here's the other bad thing and Jason made this point. We went around to the campuses a couple of weeks ago and talked to the staff about, you know, what was on the horizon. And y'all know, y'all been here. Our first rating has been superior for for years. you know, financial first rating through the state saying, "Okay, Lo Vista, y'all scored a perfect hundred last year, but this year we're going to adopt a a deficit budget." That doesn't make sense when you're doing everything right according to the state, but yet and that's us making reductions and and cutting here and and you know pulling money there and and but it's saying that now that we we are you know deficit budget man it doesn't make sense if
038you can have a perfect score on a financial integrity but yet you're a deficit budget district doesn't make sense. So, as we discussed in the budget workshop week or two ago, um I think we think collectively all of us think that the approach that we're moving forward with is is is slowly ripping this band-aid off and seeing what things present themselves that make the most sense and have the le least impact on kids so that two years down the road from today, we're we're going to be great. uh we could potentially get to a an adopted zero uh budget, no deficit budget in 2627, but that will be that will impact what education feels like in Lagab Vista. If we can feather this and make sure that that there's money in the bank and that
039we do the least things that are uh difficult for for a kids education, that seems what's should be what's best for kids. That's what uh that's what Mr. Web and Dr. Loftton and and Tina have all sort of um adopted as their approach as well. So this will be a a 2year three-year process before we get to zero because ultimately I don't see any money additional state money coming in until 2030. So you mentioned that they did provide additional security money. Yes. So 80 on top of the 75 or 78,000 that we got. But our expenses double that, right? So we uh we have an increase in our safety and security expense line of $45,000 or so. That brings that up to about 300,000, but they're going to give us about 160,000. So still questions
040or comments certainly. I have lots of comments but not on the record. Disgusting. It is disgusting. So very frustrating. Is the you got $230,000 spent FTP additions that's based on increased identification requirements. Increased identification. Yeah. Quite a bit. So did I read they are they going to pay they're going to pay us to do the Really? Yeah. the special education money, the true increase is not supposed to kick in until next after after this they they're going to be a year to to develop the new won't get that this coming. I think it's probably worth noting that it's probably going to be all gone once all these evaluations come in and the state doesn't really have an idea of actually how many evaluations are being done uh year-over-year. So, by the time we're supposed to
041see this money, the pot that they've allocated for special ed may be nickels by the time we get there. So, that's unfortunate. And we're not quite sure yet how the state's going to reimburse us for those. We did 114 re uh initials or reevaluations in 2425. That's $114,000. How do we report that? How do they recognize which ones count? which ones don't. Is a re-evaluation the same as a evaluation? And guys, I'll just put that into context. We're 114. A district next door to us was over 600, okay? 600 evaluations. You think about the the Dallas, the Houston, the Austin's, and this is a smaller school district, you know, bigger than us, of course, but I don't know if the state realized what they were getting into when they said this because you just look
042at I mean, 600 evaluations just in a district pretty close to us. One high school district. Yeah. One high school district. And you start looking at Houston or Austin, what that's going to be like. Well, they they were behind 645 evaluations in Austin. Those were the delinquent ones. Like that's not including the they didn't I mean couldn't didn't have enough time in the day to do it. Mhm. So you mentioned business personal property. So currently there's $2,500 exemption for that. They're raising that to $125,000. Yeah. And the other thing is they're doing these homestead which is good for the taxpayers. That money's got to come from somewhere. Where's that money been? Yeah. All these other years. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, I can put it in personal perspective for our business. The business personal property
043tax, I mean 2 and a half, 3%, whatever rate you want to do it. It's just like I work for a very small business, but our personal property is about a million dollar. So, that's about a $30,000 tax bill. So, I mean, you're talking about Yeah. It's going to going to have a little bit of impact for businesses, but it's real it's real money to small businesses with that. So, yeah. Yeah. The other piece that we'll have to start planning for too is what we expect our to have to our enrollment the following year because if if and when I mean vouchers did pass, we do expect that it might that it will have some impact on our enrollment here. And what does that look like? So in that budget planning, you know, typically you
044forecast to say the size you are or grow, you know, so on top of that, you're predicting that you'll lose. And I mean, again, it may be 10 or 20 students, but that has a real tangible impact on our budget. This is the Mar so bear with me. Is it legal? Like there's a bunch of people in Jonestown and a little closer that live equidistant if not closer to our high school than the one that they're assigned to. How do we inform them of that we're willing to take transfer students? We talked about it. We've talked about put close to close to your house a couple years ago on the end of this. But you guys like these these like I'm on the school board and I'm still confused by certain things on what's allowed,
045what's not. Like I get asked, hey, can my kid transfer? Yeah, of course they can. Get approved. Yeah. Um I mean, you know, we do look at, you know, attendance and and behavior and things like that. Sure. Sure. We can take like we can select into the way they would want and the families that we want and demographics purely about kids being in academics and they get to go from a number in Leander offense listening to a name in law. You're right. That's what we do too. It's just the only ones that get turned away are more about class size. The ones cuz we had an impact. some elementary where it's kind of pushes into that extra teacher, you know, but high school pretty, you know, and even middle school is is is high school
046it gets all depends on if they're in athletics then it gets kind of murky at them. But yeah, you're right. I mean transfers I mean bring revenue you know and diversity andor like acade like there's other stuff besides the money that comes with that too we can select right you make our district better you know up we didn't used to take it was what did y'all didn't take I know we didn't take transfers with calls she was way I mean you know one guy we were yeah we were already taking them in. But I mean, there have been years where we knew we would have more capacity and we've done some push on social media just reminding people that that we do take transfers and transfer application is open. That probably is, you know, right
047now we're still trying to figure out where the dust settles and you know, you'd hate to advertise something and then have to reduce staff such that you couldn't actually accept them. And so, um, but yes, if we're anticipating loss of enrollment, that's a really good time to remind people that, you know, we do accept transfers and it is it is like a private school here. But, you know, just put you on the street. You have a little on street. Why was Kevin on 1431? But we did get like 12 transfers out of it. Thanks for taking me to some lost consent agenda. Uh I just need a motion to approve the consent agenda. Move we approve the consent cons. Kevin made the motion. Pie seconded. All those in favor say I. I opposed. Passes 16.
048Superintendent report. Okay. Got a just a few things. Uh just remember Thursday, July 17th, we will have our team of eight training. I have Kathy Lauer from region 13. She'll be here uh talk about uh training um and you know things that we've kind of talked about as far as moving forward. Uh, also want to remind you and I'll send this flower flower uh to you uh later to tonight or in the morning. It's an August it's a team of eight training synopsis or symposium I'm sorry it's August 8th and 9th that's a Friday Saturday. Uh it's put on by region 13. You will be able to get 12 hours of training and it's all the required hours as well. And so that's the uh team of eight symposium August 8th through the 9th uh
049is at uh the Sheridan in Georgetown. Uh they they have I think a lunch and a breakfast for you. You spend the night for people that are you know driving in. I'll send that uh that information to you no later than the morning in case you want to sign up. It's you can sign up for one day for like 250 or for both days for 400 or something like that. So, if some of you are not making it to SLI, certainly feel free to look at that. Let Holly and I know if it's something you're interested in. So, I'll get that uh to you. Um, of course, uh, SLI will be uh, starting this week and then we got one in Fort Worth next week. Uh, just a little bit of update on summer maintenance.
050Uh we've kind of we uh adding irrigation to our throwing practice field uh where we throw the the discus and whatnot. And so we're going to add some more seed, a little bit more soil soil to get that field a little bit better condition so when they do start throwing it's not just mud. Uh we're also going to add a u dishwasher to the fieldhouse and you add wine to all the water bottles just to make sure that they're sanitary. We want to put a little small dishwasher in there so they can stick the water bottles in there and get them clean. Uh Mr. uh Robinson's doing that and his staff. They're also when that was built the water ran away from the drain instead of to the drain. So they are sanding the uh
051the uh concrete down to where it will slope more toward the drain. And I probably uh was a little bit facicious on that, but uh it doesn't drain as well as you should. So, Adam will come in and sand some of the concrete down so we can get the water to run into the drain more efficiently, I'll say. Uh, also making repairs to some of the irrigation heads here at the high school. Uh, we've got the fire alarm inspection u in progress right now for the district. Uh Adam and his team is uh also doing some pre preventative maintenance uh at the cooling tower uh just cleaning and replacing worn out parts. He is also coordinating uh want to give our PTA a shout out at the elementary. Uh they have they are going to
052purchase some awnings for the teachers to stand out during uh car pickup and drop off. And so, uh, Adam is coordinating that with the with the, uh, the PTA to get both drop offs with some type of coverage for the teachers. So, certainly want to give them, um, uh, kudos to for that. On the cleaning side, IQS, uh, they have completed the the older wing of the elementary, if you're looking at the elementary, the wing to the right. Um, also they have the first floor of the new wing uh prepared for for wax to get started later this week. They've also completed uh they're near completion of the second floor here at the high school. They're starting to put furniture back in rooms and they also the first uh couple of days that they were
053out, they got to the fieldhouse and uh coach's offices and whatnot, they were all waxed. And so that's where our cleaning uh and waxing um that's where they're at right now. That's pretty good progress just for the first, you know, 6 days or so. So they're they're doing a good job. So um let's see. Any any questions on dates or also one other thing, our gym floors, all our gym floors will be uh will be waxed on June 21st and 22nd. We have Newman floors out of Huau. They have they do just about 90% of all floors in this area. I don't know how they get them all done, but uh they'll be all all of gym floors will be rewaxed uh on the 21st and 22nd of June. So on the my classroom floors,
054new construction remodeling, we're using nonwax tiles. Right. Right. So it should be a process as time. Right. Good. And then on the throwing fields as you talk about adding installation or sorry irrigation, seeding, maintenance, mowing, there's a cost analysis been like just back then they've done about like the opportunity with synthetic out there everywhere else. You're talking probably a million dollars. Should would have loved to use the scrap from the football. True. Didn't think about that. Yeah. Uh but yeah. Yeah. That's just got to This is a big a big area for the use. Okay. So, any other questions or comments? All right. I have just two questions. All right. 6:49 and we're going to close session. We'll take a quick break there. 649. 649. Yeah. We'll go on the back there.