001bond series 2022. The bonds were authorized including Okay. So, uh got Mr. Stoner here. Uh he's going to kind of explain the process. We have done this once before. Uh I think it was the in April of 23. Uh we moved some bond money to be able to uh fix other other issues and uh other problems within the district. And so I'll let Mr. Stoner kind of explain the process and then we will at the end if it's the board's discretion to uh approve the recommendation. Yep. Uh we explained this a little bit uh the other day at our our special meeting, but um we are sitting on a few bucks in our 2022 bond that would allow us to allocate that money over to the 2020 bond so that we can provide our middle
002middle school campus and students with I'm sorry, intermediate school campus with the same level of of solid and strong facilities that's on par with the other campuses on on the district. So by giving us the flexibility of moving that money over, we can provide the intermediate staff and school uh with some very serious and much needed upgrades to make that a viable campus for the next 8 to 10 years. And then secondly, uh we'd also like to purchase a couple more buses. Uh the fleet that we have, some of those are under commission and are aging out to 12 to 14 years old. and we need to make sure that we don't have kids on the side of the road either going that events, band concerts, or just on a route. So, continue to upgrade
003our fleet and this would allow us to do that as well. Just to explain it to the general public, we're having to do this because when you go out for bond, we specify exactly what we're going to use those bond funds for. If we want to move excess bond monies and do them and apply them elsewhere, we want to have a be transparent as possible. Yeah. It's essentially shifting one bond over to another which was also approved by the public, right? So it's it's just playing the shell game a little bit. What's the impact of not using the funds? uh then we would no longer be able to do the upgrade that they get at school that we feel are important for the staff and the students at that school. It would take away the
004furniture. Uh it would take away perhaps painting. It would take away some ADA accessibility issues that need to be fixed. Uh so moving these funds over allows us to do everything that would put that campus on par with the other facilities that were upgraded in 2020. So outside of that understanding that um is it something on the lines if we don't use it we lose it or we're getting taxed on it? Yes. So there is an arbitrage that that we carry with uh the 2022 bond. Uh the bond was specified to earn a certain amount of interest rate when it was passed. Interest rates have gone up. So that interest is is acrewing what's called arbitrage. The more money that sits in that account, the more arbitrage that is in that account ends up going
005back to the federal government. That's what Yeah. We send it back to the government. How do you feel about that? Did y'all have any comments or questions? I realize that this is not the reason why you're here, but since you're here and you're the public, we're going to ask. Okay. All right. Anybody have any additional? That's okay. Does anybody saw this stuff, but we don't have to disclose that it's the international buses or Well, I I'll get to that in just a second. So, okay. But any any other questions or comments? Okay. All right. So, uh, what we're want to do is is move the money over and with that, uh, it will also, uh, provide the purchase, uh, if the board chooses to to purchase those, uh, two buses. Our our fleet is getting
006older like Mr. Stoner said, and so it will, uh, allow us to buy two two buses. And uh uh these are uh these two will be 77 passengers. We can get those in about 6 months. If we went with a 71 passenger, it' be over a year before we get it. And so uh I would recommend that we make the motion that uh we purchase the uh two buses, international buses, and this includes the by board of fees. And so it be two international uh buses, 77 passengers at uh $333,332. You had the other quotes in your in your packet. Uh like I said, International is is probably the best bus out there. And Gold Star mechanics and our drivers uh recommend International myself. I've driven all three buses that we have and international is
007to me drives a lot better and has a lot more visibility. So my recommendation would be go with international buses. So 330 for the two buses. Yes. So these are not electric buses, right? They're not electric. No. No. So, I provided you guys with a motion to uh if that's in direction you uh signed. I need a motion. I move that the board of trustees adopt the order authorizing the use of unspent bond proceeds for a purpose other than the specific purposes for which the district's unlimited tax school building bonds series 2022 were authorized. I have a motion. Need a second. Yes, sir. Richley made a second. Any additional comments or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. Motion passes. 60. That concludes 552. That concludes this public part of the hearing. And
008we have 8 minutes to start, but we can't start it early. So, y'all can just keep chitty chatting and I'll bang that gavvel when it hits six o'clock. We thought we would at least get it to 6:00. [Music] It's not true. I was like, "What? All right. If y'all can stand for the pledge, please 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 and indivisible. Thank you. All right, let the games begin. They normally for people that haven't been in here, they face us when they do the thing and then we'll have them turn around. But if you want to sneak around here and take pictures, you're welcome to. We try
009to stay out of y'all's pictures as best we can. We all watch out. But we've got a large group of students. Uh very successful spring, very successful school year. And so we've got several student groups we want to recognize. And our first group will be the the art art students. And uh so Mr. L appreate you being here. It is doing some good stuff this year. We're back with some more good stuff. In fact, last week is going to be hard to match and how good of a week we had. Um we came back with five medals from state. So all five pieces they went to state and all five metal. Uh just getting the state does not guarantee you a medal. So that means they were all rejudged at the state level. They all
010got a medal. The only person who didn't get to attend was Marbella. She's the only one who can attend the she's down. She'll be back in line for another good thing here in a little bit. State barbecue and state base. So she had to make a choice. Um then we looped back that same week and we had two students win uh the US Congressional Art Competition. Uh we have uh Allison ship 1/3. So her artwork was delivered today and it will be at the Austin Congressional Office for Cong Congressman McCall. And then Lucy's was selected for the national. So she is actually receiving uh roundtrip tickets to DC and her artwork is going to be on display in the Canon Tunnel. Uh there will be a big event for it sometime in June. I don't
011know. I'm actually going to be in DC so I'll try to swing by and get a picture if they'll let me in the building. Um, and I think lastly, uh, Lucy also won the, um, the start competition, which is like a statewide art, uh, initiative to get kids into the arts. And she won the summer scholarship for the full scholarship for summer at St. Edwards this again, pretty good week for the arts last week. Uh, I'm setting the bar high. Just forget about all that. We'll just restart next year. Pretend that this stuff never happens like this. I think that's it. Great. Good job. I'm here with this group, too. Okay. Hi, my name is David G. I'm the director here at List High School. And this is my tech director, assistant, and helpful friends,
012Angel. and Avery Cor and Amalina Melendez. Uh both outstanding actors/technicians. Um this year was actually the first year that we advanced all the way to area since we become a 4A school. Uh we're now competing at those higher levels. Once it gets to area, that's where it gets a lot more difficult. The schools are kind of weeded out. Uh and we made alternate. So if one school wasn't able to advance, we were the ones that kind of took the place. Um Avery here got name your awards that you love. I got honorable mention at district and I also got allstar crew at area. And then Amaly here I got outstanding technician at area. Uh and also on top of that because of her musicals uh the Heler awards Amaly was uh named out of Austin
013area uh one of the best feature performers in the area. So she got to go and perform at the Long Center uh in that show. We had to support her through all of that as well. And somehow the long center thinks I'm a dignitary. And also something this year for theater, we did have during bands uh u we were hosting a uh power outage that killed our light board for good. Um, and you guys are probably the process of helping us replace that with something that actually helped us uh to advance and compete a little bit more with those higherend schools that do have full LED uh, you know, lock down, all of that stuff. Uh, so we are I'm still learning this board. It's got so many gizmos and gadgets on it. Uh, and
014I'm going to be training them as they uh go through on how to use this and how to implement a little bit more of that uh of that higher tech stuff into our shows and stuff. And uh next year we'll be showcasing all with I am the DECA advisor if I haven't met you yet. And uh we did a lot with DECA this year. here. These guys here are full of energy and um full of drive and Riley is going to be serving as our president this next year because he's put so much effort into DECA. But I'll tell you a little bit about what we did this year. We went to district right after the holidays and these two made state. They they qualified to advance to state and I think Ava also she
015she she Ferguson got to go to state too. So we went to Dallas and competed in Dallas and um they were honored and they were recognized and were um asked to come to the international the ICDC international career development conference. So we just got back from Orlando a couple of weeks ago. They went and competed there. Um Riley said there's what 200 teams? 200 teams in our category. Wow. And so it's very very hard but they're trying their best. They said next year they want to get there. Um, but it's a very very hard category because their category is entrepreneurship, team decision-m. Um, what else am I leaving out that y'all did? y'all have to do when they get there, they take an exam on one day and then another day um they're given a
016business scenario and they have 30 minutes to read it together, put together a plan, a business plan real quick how they're going to solve the problem and present it to a business professional judge. Wow. And it's it's a lot of stress for them. I know it is. But they worked very very hard this year and I'm very proud of them. And they brought their medals from district state. Um, and this is called Glass, Deck of Glass. So, they won Deck of Glass this year at State. So, we're really, really proud of them. Thank you for letting us come tonight. Great job, guys. That's awesome. All right. Next, we got the barbecue. This is Rowan Smoke barbecue barbecue team for LVD. Um, they had a really, really good first year. Uh, we went to two regionals
017before we went to state. They qualified for state at their first regional. I think I placed eight out of 22 on the first one. Um, we got second in ribs at that competition. We got fourth in brisket at that competition. Uh the next one we went to got fourth in brisket again, first in beans. Um and then we went to state. Um almost every single one of our categories placed in the top third in the state. Um out of 147 teams in Texas, we got first in beans. Wow. Fifth in brisket. Sorry, sixth in brisket and fifth as a team overall. That's amazing. Great job. If you remember, they provided dinner. Yeah. Next we've got our girls from downtown girls here. Yes. Thank y'all for being here. All right. Yes. We had a phenomenal season.
018Um, as you see, we have multiple dual or triport athletes. We have a couple softball players here. Um, Abby also does volleyball and Molly does also cross country. Maddie does basketball. And so, we get them all, you know, sprinkled in throughout the year. And then they came out and just were so dedicated and worked really, really hard. Um, we were first in district. Um, won every relay. went 1 2 3 in the 3200, 1 2 3 and the 800, 1 123 in the mile. I mean, it was just an amazing district meet. Um then get to area and our 4x4 team set a huge school record with a 357. Uh we had multiple girls go under 60 seconds and 400 on their legs. And so that and they were first in that race and so
019that was just super exciting. Um but all three relays made it to regionals. So, we had multiple uh I think I have it here. 16 girls advanced to the area meet which was amazing. Um and then we were third overall in area and those are some of the top teams in the entire state with Fredericksburg and Wimberly and so we were up there competing right there with those top teams and so they were awesome. And then nine girls competed at the region meet. Um, we had alternates running in the relays, still advancing to the finals in the 4x2 and the 4x4. Laya competed in the pole vault and advanced to state on the pole vault. And then our 4x4 advanced to state as well. And so we had a lot of newbies running at the
020state meet, which is, you know, the biggest stage for all them at Mike Meyers. And they did a fantastic job. Um, Maddie competed at state, Abby competed at state, Jolie was there at state, competed at state, and so it was just a really, really fun time. Um, and then we were, yeah, third overall at area, sixth overall at region, and so we scored super high at region, and that was super exciting and promising going into this next year. Um, and then, yeah, I think that's it. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Great job. Now we got push balls trapped [Music] in. Uh first of all, I wanted to thank y'all for uh I think the the large difference this year than previous years that we've had was the indoor. Uh you know, one we we're super thankful of
021it that whenever it's raining, when it's cold, we just go straight to the indoor. I know our teachers are very thankful because we usually sprint in the hallways and we're having to yell at them to get back in their room. And so, uh I think that's that was a huge uh huge benefit, especially everybody in our area, in our region. uh us having that, having the track in there, having the field in there, so we never had to take a day off. We got to sprint even though it was cold. So, uh thank y'all so much for getting that for us. You know, I know that was uh quite the chore to make that happen. And so, uh we we're really really appreciative. You know, we're inside hurdling, we're inside sprinting, we're inside bolting, we're
022inside running, pulling sleds, doing things while everybody's having to wait or you know, you know, running to their teachers. So, we're super thankful on that. Uh I got some of our regional qualifies here. Um like I said, we were it was a super successful track season as we went through. Uh pretty much the most successful track season that we've had since being here, which consequently is also the most successful track season in Logo history. Uh on the school record aspect of it, we set nine school records this year. Uh and that's just the ones that we broke, not the ones that we broke multiple times. Nine separate nine of the 17 events we set this year in. and uh in the school records. Uh we were district champs, we were area champs, and for the
023first time in school history, we're regional champs, too. Awesome. Seventh overall as a team at the state meet. This was the first time that we have taken that many events. We had a high jump point hurdles, uh, 200 meter, we had our mile relay, we had 300 hurdles, we had a discus guy, all representing at the state meet. It was pretty cool to be able to go set up a track camp and like have to be there all day at the state meet. So that was new for us and that was uh it was again it was uh all all hard work from the kiddos here uh going through it. Um we'll start over there just real quick. Uh Matthew Perky finished sixth overall in the 300 hurdles. Um one of the great stories about
024Matthew just kind of like going back to the regional uh track meet going into it. We knew it was going to be pretty close was our next big one going into it. Uh going through the numbers again my wife's a spreadsheet person. So like she had it she had it planned out what needed to happen you know and she said if I don't talk to you then it's not going good. And then like she was pretty much ignoring my eye contact. And so I I I knew we were going to be down two kind of going going into the mile relay. I thought where we could end up, you know, first or second, but it was going to put us about two behind Wimberly. And then uh going into the 300 hurdles, Matthew was sitting
025fourth behind the defending state champion and then the kid that actually beat him before. And so like it was pretty insurmountable odds and then going against the Wimberly kid that we had lost to I guess twice during the year already. And uh from there and he was like if we if we just beat the Wimberly guys then we're going to be down two and you know I was trying to figure it out and then so Matthew decided that he was just going to finish second and qualif and so uh so that kind of flipped the script on everything that we were doing. U and so going into the mile relay we uh we we kind of we I do a lot of shuffling with the kids and they don't kind of freak out. It freaks
026it freaks everybody in my like immediate family out and all the other coaches. Uh our plan going into it was we're going to drop suede which having suede is you know having a trunk card and so we're going to put suede on the 4x2 and that's where we're going to be. That's going to be the best thing for us in the state. Uh the LBJ guys said they're going to put their fast guy on the 4x2. So we pulled suede off of every uh relay and like the young kids were like what does that mean? I said that means y'all have to qualify every relay to figure out what we're going to do with swayed. And they didn't blink an eye. They went to work. They competed well. They they qualified every single relay. Our
027sprint relay had uh let off with a sophomore, hand it to a freshman, hand it to a sophomore, hand it to a freshman, right? Going into 4x2, you know, was a freshman, freshman, sophomore, junior. And so, and they every single one of them qualified. Uh our our mile relay, same thing. Had to qualify into the win. They came through qualified. Uh we're sitting there and we're sitting at the table and I said, you know, which one are we going to go after? And the the kids got to pick it pretty much cuz they took ownership of it. They said, "Uh, yeah, I'll run 51. I'll run 50 point. I'll run 50 point." We hand it to Sway with Wimberly. We beat Wimberly, we win, right? And I said, "Yeah, that's pretty much the math." And
028I said, "Su?" He goes, "Yep." And so that was it. Uh, ended up was about 40 m behind. Again, we need to finish second behind Wimberly to win the regional track meet. We're about 30 40 m behind. Uh, he got the stick. And on the backstretch it was one of those and we always talk about being the wool leg and it's something that you want to be in track whenever you get the baton and everybody goes woo whenever you start catching everybody and he had one of those moments. He had one of those great moments. Uh ran down the kid ran down the LBJ kidly kid end up pulling away from us. Uh but he ended up running 469 on his split uh to set a new school record there uh for us and get
029the entire mile relay to state which we get to state again. Matthew has finished sixth. Graden Graden's another one who went in what seventh in the discus in the region or something like that. Seventh or eighth. And we're talking about winning region before. And he said I'm going to throw 150. Don't worry about it. I was like okay. And again like he had only thrown 140 one time and that was a week before. Before that he had thrown 125. And I was like okay. And but he came out he scratched twice and I was like oh all right. And his third throw he threw 154. put in second, qualified for state, so he wasn't lying to me. He absolutely brought it through with the points. And then we get to the state meet and suede
030sets a new school record, jumping 6'7, getting a bronze medal in high jump. Then he comes back in the 110s, defends his state championship from last year, gets another goal there in the 110s, and then in the 200, everybody always questions why he doesn't run the 300s. And I was going to make him this year. And then uh he told me at the end of last year, he said, "I'm going to run 20 points. Don't worry about it." and he ran 20 point at our home meets at another school record, but he ended up winning the 200 uh hour ride, too. And so, like I said, we had a great year. I could talk all day about it. They're pretty fun. Uh the the freshman that we have, Devin and Brennan, are super fast. Uh
031Adam decided to be the fastest hold in the 300 hurdles, which is pretty uh prestigious in their household in track. Uh Suave is once in a lifetime talent walking our hallways. We've been very lucky to be him. Uh Miguel in the three in the 800. He ended up fourth. It was uh not exactly where we wanted to be, but he uh he's going to be back next year. He'll win the region. He'll be a state qualifier there having great comeback. Uh Garrison was on our mile relay that qualified into it. He's going to be back next year, too. And Matthew will be back. So, it's looking strong that we're also going to be good again next year. We're hoping. So, we'll be back here hopefully saying the same kind of stuff with the backto-back regional
032titles. In all the tournaments that we played JB and varsity level, we were top five or better or in the top five for all but two of the tournaments that we played in this year. Uh we were tournament champions twice um not including uh these are your district champions for uh 254A and um we played at Jimmy Clay um golf course in Austin and it was a pretty tough course but we had some great things happen um that week um that we played. Uh all 12 players made it to regional from our district which was huge. So we had the first place team, the blue team was first and uh the gold team was the runnerup team and then we had two individuals make it as medalists on to regional as well. So taking 12
033people to regional, we were the only district that did that. Um and so it was a a lot of hard work on these young ladies behalf that that allowed that to happen. the individual champion for the district uh shot a PR of 82 on day two and she had a two-day total of 167. Adriana Owen Jansen had a PR of 87. Um on the second day she was second. Uh Violet Wheeler had a PR of 85 on day two as well. She was third overall. Bailey Berlin was fourth and Lena Spidel was fifth. So we had all five uh places first through fifth at district meet which is really really a good testament of how hard they worked and PR is as it was on a on a course with sand on every hole and
034uh we don't really practice in that so much. We will in the future but we didn't here. Um region four was tough but we competed well. Jenna Jansen was 10th individually. Um I just told you she had a PR at district. Two weeks later at regional she PRs on day one with an 82 and then on day two she bested it by eight more strokes and shot 74 on day two. Oh my gosh. She was 10th she was 10th overall in the region. She was alternate to state and uh Jenna is a freshman and she'll be back of course to do this again and again. Um, Adriana finished 11th and Vis Violet finished 13th. And as a team, we were fourth overall, which was uh the alternate team to the state tournament this year. And
035we got to go watch the people in our region do well and and it was it was a good experience for us and and we're going to make it happen next year for sure. Um we couldn't have had the success that we had without your support and we wanted to say thank you to you uh as a board. Um also our administration and our staff and we know that we could not do anything that we do without Holly Jackson and Jennifer Stazzy. We couldn't do anything without Tammy at the bus farm. Um I've had holes and tires and shuffling buses and all kinds of crazy things this year and we really really appreciate them. uh the golf pros and our local two both golf courses have allowed us to practice again all year round and
036uh have been great and generous to us and uh we thank you all and we uh look forward to many more championships in the future. [Music] Perfect. Thank you. Thank you. My name is Brian Rogers. Uh they had boys going here in long distance. Uh this is half of our 10 people who uh competed in our district tournament. Uh the other ones were busy teenagers and had prior engagements. They do they do off their holidays not being here. Um just just to we had this year a bunch of firsts. The first time we had fall so we got to start in the in the fall. Uh, Coach McAdams was was nice enough to head up that program for us for boys and girls as well. Uh, we also, this is the first time I've taken
037two full teams. Well, I'm sorry. This is the first time I've had five seniors on a golf team, and it's the first time I've ever taken two teams to regionals at a district. So, a lot of firsts. Uh we have Bennett uh who is your district champion uh for the entire district 25 4A. Uh Dalton is your runnerup district or your district runner up. Uh he won in a playoff against another person from August who's not here today. Um in the district tournament we had we held the top nine spots. Wow. Uh we were the top I'm sorry we were the top six. we held nine out of the top 10 spots. Uh so that's that's a testament to their their hard work and their and their effort. Uh we did advance two teams to
038regionals. Uh in the regional tournament, we found out that uh our region is pretty good in golf. After the first day, we were in fifth place and we were thinking, okay, we just had we had a bad round of golf. Uh we'll come back tomorrow and do better. Well, we did. Uh unfortunately, the other three teams ahead of us also did better. So the uh the state champ the the the regional champion uh posted a 597 which is sub 300 for two days in a row. Uh we haven't seen competition like that. Uh but we are prepared for next year. Uh we have a we have a couple of freshmen who are going to come up. We have a sophomore coming up. Uh we have a couple of juniors and we will have a couple
039of returning seniors um who who will head up that program as well. So, uh, I present to you our high school boys team. Yeah, there you go. All right, congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. Heat. My name is Michael and softball coach. This is Kristen Woods and Grace Ro the assistants and this is your 2025 district champions 254A. also won by district this year. Um, after talking to Coach Hill, it's been a long time coming. Uh, we got a lot of babies here. They're still sophomores. So, next year, no seniors except for one manager. So, uh, a lot more success to come hopefully. Uh, we've got Winter Callahan is our district 254A MVP. Uh and Sabrina Phillips was uh the 254A catcher of the year. We had six girls get NFCA uh all-American scholar this year, 3.5
040GPA and higher. Uh we also had 12 girls get academic all district. We had six girls first team all district and three girls second team all district. Um very successful year. We we all wanted to go more. There was a lot of tears at the end. You know the district wasn't as tough as we had liked, but getting into the playoffs and seeing some more talent, but we were very blessed this year. Very excited for what's to come for Lago Vista softball. Um just very proud of this group of ladies. They did amazing this year. So this the high school softball team right here. Yeah. Heat. Heat. Heat. Good afternoon. My name is I was the coach for the baseball team this year. Uh my assistant could be here, but coach Hooter was my assistant
041coach this year. And this is the half of the 2025 baseball team. Some of them are working umpire job at the little league field, you know, got back for new. So, uh, really proud of them for doing that. Uh, right here we have Austin Yik, he played second base for us. Reluter played third base. Uh, utility kind of played everywhere. Cooper Mills York, Jackson York played some outfield. Evan Reher played some outfield and pitched for us. Jet Tyler played some outfield for us. Uh, Luke Walker played infield. Uh Colin pitched and played outfield for us and Hayden pitched and played first base. We got a lot of pitchers, got a lot of talent with this group. Uh really proud of them. They got the district championship in the 254A this year. Um and they pulled
042it off in good old fashioned style. They were down 80 in the last game and came back to win it 10 to8. So shot show a lot of fire, a lot of grit to pull that off and become the district champions of the 254A. Um they were 19 and 10 uh over the season and had some really tough teams that we played. We played a China spring tournament, played China Spring, ranked number three or four in the state. Hung around with them. It was a 2 to1 ball game all all game and we had a couple areas come in and we unfortunately lost that one by a little bit. But competitive against some really good teams in the state. So a lot of potential here and a lot of them are coming back next year.
043So really proud of them. Uh, I haven't told them they're all district accolades yet. I was going to save that to be a surprise for tomorrow's banquet. But this team has a district MVP for the district. Uh, a defensive MVP, a newcomer of the year, five first team all district players, six second team all district players, and three honorable mentions. Uh, really proud of them because kids, we lost in the by district to Wimberly in a three-game series, made it to the third game and lost on a rainy day. Unfortunately wish things would have been a little bit more in our favor, but did everything they could. Very proud of them and excited to to see what the future holds for them. So, thank you. Great job. Turn around, coach. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. I
044mean, I'm just eat something. I'd like to just Sorry. Please don't let my computer be broken. The water went all the way on the side. Okay. So far so good. Okay. Uh Okay. The campus of 2025 intermediate campus project update. Okay. So, kind of give you an update. Uh had a couple of meetings over the last couple of weeks. uh not only with Casey and some contractors, but also with our uh with uh Miss Sullivan and special ed department uh on moving what that's going to look like as we get ready to um get rid of the portables. Uh I don't know if you know, but one of our portals we have been allowing the uh volunteer group to use for hospital uh supplies and materials. Uh they I believe have gotten all their equipment
045out that uh that they need. They are going to leave some of that in there. The demolition group uh Schul said they basically said if you got any junk, throw it in the portal and we'll haul it off for you. So, taking advantage of that and uh and so uh the volunteer group, I told them back in uh August that this was going to happen in May. And so, want to give them enough time to uh find a new home for all that equipment and they've done that. And so, uh just let you know that. Uh so, couple other things. Uh you know, we're getting technology ready. Uh looking at uh you know, internet hookups, cameras. Uh we're going to be uh ordering interactive boards for all of the classrooms uh in in the intermediate.
046Uh we'll also be of course installing the fire alarms. Um Schultz will be here early June to start u taking down the portables. Uh they you know they sometimes buy portables but ours is such bad shape they're just going to go ahead and demolish them and call them off. Uh other other updates, uh the core construction group uh will begin uh on site the the Monday after school is out or I should say that Tuesday after school is out because you have Memorial Day on Monday. Uh we have already picked the flooring uh that has been ordered. The paint has been selected. uh our staff as far as getting ready for uh the intermediate uh renovation, they're going to be taking down all the uh wall hung items. Uh we we'll be taking out some
047of the some of the lockers there at the intermediate. We'll also be removing and relocating existing furniture. Uh the sped department will move into Viking Hall uh for the summer and then once the other portable comes back in, they'll move back into the new portable and then we uh the goal is for our boardroom to be back at Viking Hall probably in September. Um so now you put it back there right before I leave. So uh just to let you know that. Uh let's see. A couple other things. Yes. Do we I mean are we why are we taking all the lockers out at the Cuz our the classrooms and the intermediate are so small that they put their backpacks in the lockers to create more space. Okay. So um and so our furniture delivery
048and installation will be coordinated uh modular improvements. uh they will once everything's in they uh this group will actually come in and uh place all the furniture for us cuz that's a heavy heavy lift for for us to do that. And then um and so all this u Adam is going to try to get into the classrooms the the Friday that we're out start taking things down. Uh teachers know to start moving personal items out. anything that belongs to the school, we will move and store and if they have any personal belongings, they will take those home and uh like I say that Tuesday that we get out uh after Memorial Day, they will start coming in and uh taking things down and we'll start moving. So, uh it's going to be a short time
049frame, but uh feel like we're going to be able to get everything done. Uh city should not hold up the uh site review. they they've received it. Uh Taylor, the interim superintendent uh city manager said he will make sure that the site plan is approved in a timely manner and so we're going to move forward and and hopefully by August 1st we'll be pretty much set and ready to go. So that's that's the update on on the uh intermediate field. You have any questions? Yeah, I'll take any questions you may have. Okay. uh consideration approval staff development. Uh these are the ones we had to go back and do from last year. I don't know if y'all read all the stuff. So we have to go back and do it from last year and then
050the next step will have to be to do them for the current S. How much you want or I mean we have to we have 2100 minutes uh that are built into the calendar. We were formed by TEA that approving a calendar that expressly states that we use 2100 minutes is not acceptable that we have to have it as its own agenda item in order to qualify for the waiver. So uh there are two agenda items uh 2425 current school year and then 2526 uh for next year. So we'll need to have two separate motions. Need a motion to go back and do this current school year. I move we approve the staff development minutes waiver for 20 2024 2025. Rich made the motion. EIE seconded. Any further comments, questions? All those in favor say
051I. I I opposed 6. I move we approve the staff and minutes waiver for 2526. David Scott made the motion. I'll second. Greg seconded. I don't Oh, I I didn't hear Greg. Right. I didn't hear anything down there. So, okay. Okay. Greg seconded. Any further comments or questions? All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. 60 uh consideration approval of foreign exchange student waiver for 25 26 26 27 27 28 school years. Uh this is something that we apply for every every 3 years. Uh as you can see uh you know we we we limit uh to to three students. Uh that's what we've done in the past. I think that's a good number for us. Uh and so if when if you decide to approve this waiver, you're looking at 2526 26 27 and
0522728 school year that we'll be approving this for. Yeah, it's a commitment for the three schools. Yes. So how many do we have this year? I think we only had two this year. Um so the you have to have a waiver to have any to to limit the number to fewer than five. Um, and so we've generally had three. I mean, sometimes we don't even get that many. Um, but we have had years where we had um quite an interest. My suspicion is that we won't have um as much. That seems to be sort of a downward trend, but um because they were required to be juniors um and junior classes almost always our largest class uh in the school from year to year. Um you know, they do potentially qualify for English language learner
053services. um you know they um you know generally speaking uh the transcript review and and things like that tend to take some time getting records and things it it does bring on more work. The campus has traditionally requested uh that we limit it to three just to make sure that we're not overburdening the system with additional work. You said it was a downward trend that foreign exchange students in general I mean here we have not seen as many. There were years where we needed the waiver. Um but in the event so we already have three applications for next year and so we would like to you know in the event that we receive more um again I'll seconded. Any additional comments or questions? All those in favor say I. I opposed. 60 uh the gold
054star transit contracts amendment. Amendment. Yes. Uh this is just an approval. Each year uh you know like most of these contract services they do a CPI index. Uh they uh Goldstar does theirs out of the Dallas Fort Worth area. Uh CPI this year was uh 1.4 but per the contract that we were agreed upon a number of years ago. Uh we we said the floor would be 2%. And so, uh, with that, uh, I would like to make the recommendation to approve the contract, uh, with a 2% increase, which is a little bit over $15,000, uh, for this next school year. Uh, last year the increase was 4.9. So, we're we're seeing a 2.9% decrease. And so, it'd be my recommendation to approve uh, Gold Start transit contract for another year. I move we approve
055the Golden Star Transit contract with a 2% increase. Rich made the motion. I'll second. Greg seconded. Any additional comments or questions? All those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. 60. Uh budget. Oh, no wait. Sorry. Approval of te certification. Yes. I'll let Miss Pac uh briefly explain the uh certification process. Uh this is a yearly process. Uh the form must be completed and presented in an open meeting to the board ensuring that we have instructional materials that meet 100% of the TEICSS. Uh this year's form looks no different than last. We've had no new adoptions this year. Um so this is presented to you for gratification so that I can submit online. Um and we are then eligible for instructional materials allotments. Okay. I have a question. So TEIGS are approved by Huh? So
056the state board state boards yes are are our curriculum standards. The instructional materials are the resources that we adopt in order to provide instruction to meet the teams. state board political apolitical political political political so the reason I'm asking this and I'm not I'll be brief my thing is is that you have a political state board who has year after year approved TESS so my real question is is then how is the argument and it this can be rhetorical you don't not have to entertain me but how then does if I'm required to approve instructional material that is following the TESS then how does the argument work that all of a sudden I right um the process has changed drastically for sure and Susie knows the history and I know the present um and you
057I think I think there's a political agenda and if you go back and watch the uh the sessions in which the materials were reviewed um it was definitely divided um group um that voted on which materials would would um move forward or not loop on it and what we keep hearing about did move forward. Um and the the clincher here is the new process also includes an entitlement for school districts who opt into using the um open OEER resources which are blue on it. Um it for us that would be $33,000. Um it would open the door for us having a little bit more access to funding. Um so it's like I I've visited with um peers uh Wimberly for example um was considering moving forward with blue bonnet because of the same budget constraints
058that we all have. Um but it is a very divisive topic. Um because in in in the resources themselves um there are there are are pieces that um provide questionable content with hidden agendas perhaps. Okay. Um is that that is how it's interpreted. Um, some school districts are moving forward adopting these resources by, uh, being very careful about what they actually utilize and pulling some pieces out that might have an underlying religious influence or whatever, um, what whatever it is that doesn't align with the district's vision. Okay. For context, it's worth noting that Blue Bonnet was passed with an appointed member of the SBOE due to a resignation and that person's tenure on the SBOA was one meeting and it was this meeting that passed that curriculum. So, um you know, it was uh and
059it passed it did pass on a partisan vote. So, um it it would be challenging as a I'm speaking as a social studies teacher. um it would be challenging to teach something like Jim Crow laws that are in the standards and not suggest that there's also systemic racism, right? Like that's a delicate line for teachers. Um what we always, you know, instruct them is to stick to the standards, right? If you're if you're teaching to the standards, you're using resources that are aligned to the standards, then then you're doing what you're supposed to do. Okay. Well, I I mean I just I apologize for bringing that into it, but I it just Yeah, I was interested about question. It's not without it challenges. Yeah, David, thank you for that question. Uh did we have a
060No, I need a motion. I move that you approve the tech certification for 2526. Greg made the motion. A second. Rich second it. Any additional comments or questions? All those in favor say I. I I opposed 60. Now it's budget. Okay. How long do y'all want to be here? No. Uh Mr. Charles will give you kind of a rundown. And like I say, every month we're we're hoping to get a little bit tighter uh view, you know, explanation of what the budget is going to look like. Certainly there there's going to be challenging times as we move forward uh if something doesn't change at at the state capital. Uh I I will say before Mr. Stoner gets started, uh a lot of schools are feeling the cuts and the and the issues this year. Uh
061we're not feeling as much as as some are this year. Uh, but if we don't see relief, then not only will we be in that same boat, every school in the state of Texas will be in that same boat. So, I'll let Jason take it from Yeah. Uh, I'm just super compelled to say this like we see all these kids doing all these great things have, as we've sort of navigated through this, we've done our very best as a district, as campus leaders, as district leaders to not do anything that would impact those kids' successes. You can see that in the way that you know in the manner and the volume that we have. I am hesitant to say this next part but we may be in a position where those sorts of things are
062going to be impacted uh sooner than later. So that's it's an unfortunate position that public is in right now at the moment but that's where we are. I I provided you two different spreadsheets on the preliminary budget. Uh there's one that's current law and then there's one that's proposed law. I think ultimately we may be somewhere in the middle. This is all the dust that is probably maybe even more so more so toward the current law model. Uh currently the current law has a deficit of about $1.3 million 1.37. It's about 4.9% deficit. And you may ask the question, well it was only $959,000 last year. Why is it going up? Well, it's budget to budget, right? So, although we'll outperform to an extent what we budgeted on last year and be better, the actual
063budget says it's $950,000 deficit. So, when we compare budget to budget, if something doesn't impact that 959,000, it's going to carry or it's carried over to school year 2526. So the increase that you're seeing is actually a deficit between 959,000 and 1.4. It's just about a $600,000 deficit, $500,000 deficit. And that's what we're taking on this current this current year. The relief that we may see is really chipping away at the deficit that we adopted in in 2425. But I don't know if you can see the things that I'm looking at, but they're on the board. That's kind of kind of small. Holly, I think that's the proposed law. Is this in their packet, Holly? Yes. The preliminary budget with the two tabs. Yeah. So, uh on the bottom it says CL, which is current
064law. This is the advice that we're receiving is that you budget on current law currently. Um the number is what we're currently at, which is 1845. When I did it, it's actually 1843 today, and it's about 94.5% attendance rate. our tax rates actually going to remain the same because our collection will be less. That's something that we haven't anticipated since I've been here. We've already seen more debt collections to a degree with compression and now I don't know if I know David's seen his preliminary tax results, but but we're starting to see tax property tax values go go down. And that doesn't necessarily impact us on the M side, but for the golden pennies, when we passed our Vader a couple of years ago, we anticipated this growth and what we receive in golden pennies
065year-over-year. And actually, we're getting less. We're getting less. I think last year we had about 2.9 million. This year, we're going to only get about 2.7. uh when we got the preliminary values from TCAD at Travis Central appraisal district uh it represented a less amount in the prior year. They have this sort of anomaly of this huge amount of protest that's going to occur. I don't believe that that's going to happen, but they're sort of hedging their bets on what the values are to make sure that we don't budget for things that they're not certain about uh receiving. So, we could potentially see a little bit more in tax collection. Most of that goes to recapture. Uh only about 8% is in golden pennies. So our revenue could change just just a little bit. But
066uh we're doing our best internally to try to do things uh try to absorb some costs through attrition. A couple of those positions are are listed there on that uh in that spreadsheet. But most of the things that we're seeing are just the sign of the times in terms of uh inflationary costs and supplies and contracts. And then also our tax collection is is not what uh we necessarily anticipated it being. So that puts us at about a $1.4 million deficit. Current law. Uh if you go to proposed law, uh proposed law is sort of pie in the sky. This is from the house. uh all the revenue that they're saying that we could keep would be great, but they're tying about 40% of the additional revenue onto compensation. So, uh with that, we're still
067in a deficit uh with with that statute in there. So, uh the the second um proposed law planning budget is about $500,000 deficit, which is about 1.74% deficit. So, we're riding in that 2% range, which is is sustainable. Uh we hope to maybe outperform that, but because we're being so mindful about what our costs are, there's not a whole lot of fat in the budget anymore where we feel like we can outperform things 2%. And we're seeing that this year with our current budget. You know, we're really hoping to outperform our current budget 2%. But because we were super mindful of what things cost in 2425, uh it's it's not going to be a 2% outperformance in 2425. So, like I mentioned earlier, I think we're going to fall somewhere in the middle of those
068two uh proposed budgets, preliminary budgets. But what that is remains to be seen. The last year there's about 15 versions of the template. We're only on four. So there's going to be a lot of changes coming in the next few weeks if not months. But um I try to best case scenario and worst case scenario and probably fall somewhere. That's where we are. So what are you budgeting for for attendant? I mean for actual um enrollment next year what we are currently today 1840 to I believe that's what it was at 94.5%. So, what do we think the passage of the voucher is going to? What impact is it going to That's a year removed. That's a year removed. But I would say next year. So, not next year, the following year. To that point
069though, David, uh, in May May 15 of 2024, there was 1,858 and today there's 1,84. So, we've actually lost kids in the calendar year. because the one calculator that I saw projected that for us it could be $750,000. So I would think that'd be 75. So they they allowed you to do a drop down of the small, medium, large um you know voucher. Um that would been that was the large estimate. Um you know Mr. Webb and I were looking at you know so one of the rules for that is that they have to have been accredited by an organization recognized by TVA for at least two years. So that's limiting in terms of Yeah. So there are there are a few um um in the area and I expect we would we will be
070impacted um just to what degree. So that's not for the 2526 that's 26 27 and there will be pending litigation too which may which may you know hold things up the the start date on that. Okay. I'll say this and I'll take questions if you have any, but uh I find it uh is personally as a as a an interesting and frustrating piece of information. All of our audits, all of our first reports, all of our financial ratings have been superior. And we're dealing with potentially not having money to to run payroll in November 26. That doesn't add up to me. I don't I can't wrap my head around uh how we get into a position like this. And and there's another some some more uh legislation that says they're going to increase the homestead
071exemption to $140,000. [Music] That again will impact us negatively because that takes away gold and pennies from from us as well. And they're talking about compressing the tax rate which will again impact us when the golden pennies run. So, we're in a in a pretty uh challenging situation. If they go to a voucher system, do they do away with Robin Hood since everybody has their choice? You wish. Robin Hood is never going away. Cash, but uh yeah, we're we're in a we're a position that we've talked internally quite a bit lately about, you know, how how we're going to navigate. It's a it's a it's a interesting I used to call these kind of fun problems. This is not a fun problem. This is not a fun This is We're talking about people at this
072point and that's that's just really frustrating. Yeah, it's a fun problem when it's a challenge over when it's a but anything besides education and people's jobs. I've always felt like there's a solable problems, solvable answers. Um I don't know what that problem is without impacting people and kids, which is the whole reason why we're here. That's frustrating. No, you're doing everything right, but the odds are stacked against you because you could do everything and way more if we were able to spend our own tax money. This be a rich district, right? It's that they take away more money than you actually they don't ask you how much money is left over. Give me the remainder. It's I'm taking this. And it it would be a disservice to the people that work here and the kids
073that go to school here if we anticipated this huge windfall in two years and three years. You just sat on it because we knew that we're going to need it in a couple of year. Like that seems that we're we're not providing the value. Yeah. You can't bold now, right? So these people put their blood, sweat, and tears in these jobs and they don't get paid a ton. So we're going to try to pay them as much as we can when we up until the point we can. where we we were struggling with how how to to do that. So you think that potentially November I mean your comment was November 26 that we wouldn't have the money in fund balance to make the actual liquidity in our in our Lonear account. So our our
074tax collections come in December, January, February. That's where the big deal hits. you pay our recapture in August, which is, you know, $8 million. That kind of depletes our cash flow at that point until we have to make September, October, November with really no income coming in. So, you know, the fund balance number is $8.2 million, but that's liquid. But, that's not liquid. It's liquid in nine months out of the year, but it's not liquid through September, October. Not consistently. Yeah. That's what you're saying. Now, I I I do feel like I can be creative enough to feather the gas a little bit to get through that in November of 26, you know, draw down our federal funds. We can be really tight with our local bank to make sure that we carry as much
075money in our our investment pool as possible, but it does become a problem. Okay. a lot tighter October, November of 26, 27 and projecting, you know, 6 months ago. I was thinking November of 27, but because that tax uh appraisal came in the way it did and shorten the runway by and and what I was saying earlier, a lot of schools are there this year or or will be there next year where ours will be a year year after. So the fact that you say that we have to get creative, we shouldn't have to get creative. Um I know this going to be a strange question, but do you see us being a continuous deficit from here on forward? Like what is the likelihood of us being in deficit for the next 1 2 3
0764 5 6 7 8 9 10 years? And and until they make some pretty radical legislative changes, this is our new our new reality. Yeah, we they were def long was deficit for several years before Dr. Qualls got here. Yeah. So outside changes for what we need, right? Instead of the public education systems, we're going to be in deficit. Correct. Yes. Okay. And facts are facts, right? The fact of the matter is our illustrious representatives voted for the voucher, including Ellen Cros. And so for me, what she's doing for the city, right, trying to get $6 million from Cap Metro, why is that not happening for us? That's not true. Yeah, I will say this. The funding bill is tied up in the Senate. The vice chair of the committee sitting on the bill represents
077this district. So that's something of note to me. Um because the the funding bill, House Bill 2 has passed the House, voted on by trucks player in fairness. Um sent over to the Senate. The Senate has had it for 20 plus days now. It has to go through committee. Um you know, so the chair Brandon Kraton, vice chair, Donna Campbell, represents Logista, they have not scheduled it. I checked at 5:00 today. Still not scheduled. So they're hearing on it. It has to go through committee hearing, voted on, then make it to the Senate floor before Stein die on June 2nd in order to become law. And and my understanding is uh Senator Katon, who's the chair of the K16 uh education committee, posted on social media that they are working on a hybrid bill, which
078is a translation less than the $395 promised for the basic aotment out of House Bill 2. Um and so the Senate version of the funding bill is a zero on the basic aotment. The House is 395. So when he says somewhere in the middle, it's probably somewhere closer to the sentence version, which is zero. What's the basic allotment on that run that you had? 65 55 655. Once again, that's fact. There's no amount here, right? The data says what it is. How much is the voucher? Well, more than 10,000. 10,000. Okay. So more than 6,000 that we get paid, right? So they get a $10,000 voucher. Everybody goes, I'm going to logo now. We make way more money. Right. If everybody chose to come here, we would have more money in our pocket. Right. Yes.
079I mean, the voucher right now is capped at a billion for the first year. So, it's a a year. So, it's a bianual bill. So, it' be at 1 billion for the first year. The fiscal note has it approaching 11 billion um by 30 by 2030. Um but is that not an accurate state? We only get to keep 6 whatever it is per student, which is in the $6,000 range. Now we can every student that comes here has a $10,000 check and I mean obviously yeah our wad is a little more than that. It's just under what n about 8,000 600 checks but it's not 10,000 if we got 10,000 a kid we'd be fine. If they did the right thing, but if the roster was literally like a check. Yeah. If they did the
080right things, if they were not trying to deteriorate the public education system, we would not be in this trend of deficit, deficit, deficit, knowing that we're passing all our ratings, knowing that our finances are in order, knowing that we're doing everything we can. Right. To me, this is the hit job. It is what it is. Yeah. It's Yeah. It's fight this on both ends, right? Vouchers one way. The other way is they're already making it impossible by taking vouchers will be another challenge because when enrollment starts dropping in the midst of all this, that's another variable that's going to be I don't know there's there's there's movies that that play that like there's this main big problem that's going on. But in the meantime, you keep getting hit by five other different things, right? And
081so like by the way, we don't have any more shards in money anymore, right? ours was $350,000. We don't get that anymore. We used to make about a million dollars in interest. Now our collection is going down recession where interest rates go down. So all of a sudden now we're all our little revenue sources are being taken away are just getting you're a heck of a sharpshooter, but they're moving targets not. So, I think that the thing that'll be a deciding factor is when there's a major default on a bond, when a district loses enrollment as a state, then they do and then that their their ability to borrow money and be impacted. I don't know if that'll happen, but I got to think that worst case scenario, that's something that's got to play come
082into play. We talked about how we can increase revenues, right? And there's the low heat that's in 2728 and Logist is unique and not a 20% low heat. As a board, we have you have the opportunity to adjust that number. Uh that's something that we can potentially consider in a in a year or two. Uh copper pennies is another play that we can consider. All these things impact somebody's property bill. Yeah. And those are those are difficult targets to hit and tough decisions to make, you know, as a board to make that call when you know you're sending 70 cents on the dollar back to general revenue, right? Like that's a tough call. Can you give breast the situation? But uh it it's just pretty saggy poetic and all the successes that this place is
083has and has had that we're in position that we are. It's it's really frustrating. Great update. That was uplifting. Thank you. So let's go for sure. Some more awards to get out. Any any other questions or comments? Like I said, we can sit here all night. I know we sit in our office. to press the button. Okay. All right. Well, let me uh um I need a motion to approve consent agenda. I move approve consent. I Rich made the motion. David Scott seconded. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed. 60. Now you're up. Okay. I want to visit with you about a couple of things. um have a meeting once a month with Chief Bosch Shears and the interim uh city manager Taylor and uh visit with Taylor. I guess it was on Monday
084or last Monday and they are wanting to set a a meeting on on June the uh 16th, which is a Monday at 6:00 to have our joint meeting. Uh I told them I would visit with you guys about this. uh they want to talk about uh possible agenda items would be uh putting a red light out here at the at the main entry of the high school uh on on Lman and then they'd also like to discuss the wrership of students riding kept metro u they they talked about that they're being charged uh and I believe I might be think I'm explaining this right u from one from the house to the school. Uh somehow K Metro metro charges the city on that. It's not a part of their basic fee. And so the city
085would like for to to visit with us about that during that meeting. Uh there could be a couple other agenda items. And so I told uh you know looking at some blackout dates and whatnot you guys have sent that you know if we chose to go that direction uh June 16th would be a date that we could look at. And so we wanted to get y'all's thoughts. I just want to uh interject my thoughts on this. Number one, on the light up here, my understanding was that that's some that's not a city thing. Don't we have to do that in conjunction with textile? It will be with the city and the light that way back when Matt looked into it and uh it was not a city venture. Okay. They're saying it is now. So,
086of course, they are. Um, I don't have any interest in doing a joint venture with them, but um, I also have no and it sounds like they're going to be asking for us to chip in money for kids to that they're being charged for a kid to drive the Cat Metro bus and um, I I did not realize that was the case. Did they vote Cat Metro? Huh? Did they vote down the Cat Metro yet? I don't know what they did with the Cat Metro. um the Shane or Sean or whatever his name was heached out because of the way the motion is written. The motion is the worst written. I mean the way they require you to write it the when you read it it's like yeah I need to vote for this but
087it's the exact opposite of the way you and it would cost the city 6 million to get out of where I was on the committee to put it on the on the ballot back in 16 or 17. Yeah, it would cost a lot if my 1.5 million to get out at that point I believe and now it's 6 million and I think it just keeps getting more as you go along and until we how long before we can vote on it again. It's like another it's got to be some period of time. I would imagine I think it's every every 3 years I believe it can go back on the ballot. I don't know how Cap Metro has any say when we put it on Valor like they like the state where they they provide
088the words we get. I think it's in it's in the contract that was signed back in they get one of the two pennies they get the other penny. Yes. Right. Some something along Yeah. There's two pennies and they get a certain they get 8 like they get 6.75 is our tax rate. 8.75 1% goes to Cal Metro, right? and 1% goes to I guess. Yeah. So, how many of our kids are together? We did this. I don't know. They're they've got a study cap Metro. I thought I was going to get those numbers from Taylor this week or or last week and I never didn't receive them. But he he had requested that from Cap Metro and they're supposed to be getting him those numbers. Did they start picking up around the city or is
089this so somebody at Dawn Drive and that go straight to Cedar Park? I don't I don't have any idea. All I know is they fundamentally didn't do they do have certain spots within Lago cuz they drop off right across from the uh middle school. That's one of their pick up and drop off points. Um I don't know where the other ones are. to be honest with you. I'd like to have a better idea of what it is they want to talk about because um we're just got finished talking about how little how little money we're working with. So EA would you I know do you ever talk to Kevin Sullivan or Okay. I mean I have no problem reaching out to Kevin because if I'm not I don't want to get into a meeting where
090they're going to be asking I mean they can be transparent up front and let us know what it is they're talking about. We've lived without we've lived without a light for forever. We're not in any financial position to be chipping in right now for anything. And we cannot control parents that allow their kids or prefer their kids to use the cap metro bus. That's what I want on us. No, it's not. We can't go tell parents not to put their kids on the Capital Metro. They want to Uber, they can Uber. If they want grandma take, right? They want C Metro. The only thing that I was asked to clarify by was it Shane or Sean? Shane. Sean. Shane was um now I can't think of what I was asked to clarify. What was what
091was he asking? Uh about training Metro. Do we have the same are they vetted the same way as gold? The same vetting the same like it's also again that's out of our purview. That's none of our business. No. If we start micromanaging how parents get their kids to school, are you kidding me? I mean, you want me to reach out to Kevin? You know, I'm I'm happy to talk to him. I'm going to ask him to be transparent because it's our time and again, we don't have the resources to start chipping in for things that we have little to no control over. Okay. Is my opinion. If y'all disagree, I'm happy to. Once you find out there's a it's something different than that. Yeah, I can't imagine that it is, but I'm willing to be
092open-minded going into it. I can't imagine what else they would be asking about when talking about a light and then the number of kids that they're being charged to drop off at the district by capital came here and said we'd like to talk about like go ahead. You're the city that puts up lights. Well, the thing is with the lights is that you want you don't want to put up a light before you know where the next development's going to be. True. Yeah. I mean, sounds that that's my thoughts. I mean, you're going to put a light out here and you're going to have a development and the next thing you know, the development can't access their entrance or their exit because you got a light backed up 250 yards while parents are trying to
093get down low. Yeah. I mean, I think they've got they may they may have actually rethought some of this, too, because with the rains, they've got way bigger fish to ride. I mean, I'm one of the ones that got that building thing where all the stuff came into my yard. All the because of the building and the drainage run off being not not done. Yeah. So, so I think we table to find out and then make a decision how we want to move forward. All right. I'll let y'all know what Kevin says. All right. Uh I sent you guys I think I don't know when, this weekend or today, maybe last week. I meeting dates for next year. if you could look over those in the next couple of weeks and we'll come back in
094June and set those. Uh all of them are on regular date except for I think the one in October we have a school holiday and I'm just going to move it to that Thursday. So look for that. I'm also looking at u trying to get a team of eight training through region 13. Uh talked to uh Kathy at at the service center. uh she's going to uh give us some ideas on team building and whatnot and then try to get that scheduled in the summer as well. So, um let's see. Also, uh graduation's coming up here in just a few days. So, um who will will everyone be at graduation? I know we've got uh that's here tonight. So, it's the 23rd, Friday the 23rd, 7:00. I I mean I'll be okay. Will everybody I
095think we know Kevin's not the only one that's not. It's the It's next next Friday. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's supposed to be 98°W. We'll have water. Uh cooler. Can we have it in the ship or whatever we're calling it? Uh it will be at 7:00. Uh we will have reserved parking spots for you guys. Uh so you can park pretty close so you can get get down there to the uh we'll meet in the uh the fieldhouse like we have the last several years. Also, if you'd like to sign diplomas, uh get with Holly if you have certain ones to sign. Need to get those done here in the next few days. Holly doesn't have them yet. We don't have I think we've got them in at the high school office. Just haven't got them
096up to us yet. So, uh we'll let you know when those are available at our office. And let's see what else. graduation. Um, got the attendance and so that's all I've got on superintendent report. All right. Um, I have 7:18. Take a quick break real quick and then go into close session. Got a couple hours. Myus will