001I'd like to welcome everybody out to Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees meeting for August 25th, 2025. We do have a quorum established. All members are present. And if you would please join the board in a moment of silence. Thank you very much. Now, if everybody would please stand, we'll be led in the pledges of allegiance by Molly >> Abalino. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for alliance one state. >> Okay, we'll move on to our next items which are the student staff reports and recognitions. The one we have is the T AEA District of Distinction Award. We'll hear from Janette Murray. hear me? >> There we go. I do this almost every time and nobody says anything. So,
002thank you for being kind to me. Um so the Texas Art Education Association um looks at school districts who submit a portfolio for their excellence in arts and advocating for the arts. Um so we submitted a portfolio uh a rubric of 14 different criteria and you have to meet a minimum of 12 of those. So we were amazing again thanks to all the help from all these ladies and we met all 14 criteria again. So, for the seventh year in a row, we are again um a state of Texas district of distinction in the visual arts. Yay. So, um we have now still running received this award every year since its inception, which is a really big deal because some of our neighbors still haven't done that. Uh there were over 1,200 school districts in
003the state of tech. There are 1,200 school districts in the state of Texas and only 109 received the award this year. So that puts us in the um 8% statewide. However, 16 of the districts um have received awards every se every year for the seven years like we have. So that puts us in the top 1.3% of uh school districts in the state of Texas, which is pretty small percentage, something to be proud of. So we'll be going, most of us will be going to convention in um November. So, we'll receive our nice hardware and bring that back to you guys. And we're already planning for next year, too. So, you know, we never slow down. We never stop. Uh the greatest thing about that, like I said, is we didn't take any exemptions this
004year. And we actually exceeded many of the categories. So, they have, you know, a set criteria. Let's just say, um they expect us to do one field experience. Well, we did, I think, three. So from field experiences to art competitions to um writing articles advocating for the visual arts. I mean there's just a huge list. We we hit them all and then some. So I'm really proud of this group of ladies. They do an amazing job. Um we're missing a couple people tonight. I think a couple people Miss Ryzen Hoover and Miss Davis weren't able to be here tonight due to other things happening in the schools, but we do have Miss Shirley Phys, Miss Jamie Dennis, Jennifer Rios, and Claudia Gil here with me. Um, and they're an amazing team and I, you know,
005this is a lot of work, but it's the work we already do. We're just kind of tying it in together to present to the state and I really couldn't do it without this amazing team here. So, they deserve huge rounds of applause. Um, and I also just wanted to say thank you to all of you guys for your continued support. Um, to our all of our central admin and to our campus administrators, too. I mean, we wouldn't even be able to put this portfolio together if it wasn't for all that continued help. So, thank you so much for everything you guys do for us and thank you for your time tonight. [Applause] And she's not lying when she says they're back. They will be back at every meeting probably. >> It is. It's always there.
006All right, we'll move on to our introductions. And we have one introduction from Chief Chad Springer. >> Oh, >> one introduction of several people, right? >> One introduction of alliance. >> Hello, Chief. >> Morning or afternoon, evening, wherever we're at. >> All right, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, members of the board. Thank you. Uh, excited to be here. We actually have a full staff now. And uh so we've already introd in introduced y'all to uh Sergeant Smith when he started back in February. So we're going to introduce y'all to the remaining uh the newer members of our department and a special badge pinning uh for our newest member. So first we'll introduce Officer uh Dave Contrarus right here. Second. There we go. He's at Lake Dallas High School and I'll read a little bit about him.
007Officer Contrarus began his law enforcement career in 2012 with the Texas&M University Commerce Police Department before joining Commerce ISD in 2017 as both a police officer and an educator. There he launched the criminal justice program, advised the Explorers, and partnered with K9 Coco on drug prevention. In 2019, he served with the Hickory Creek Police Department while continuing his passion for teaching, uh, later instructing criminal justice at Berles ISD and Irving ISD's Jack E. Singley Academy, where he prepares students for indust industrybased certifications and careers beyond graduation. A certified teacher, he holds a master's degree in educational leadership and policy studies from UT Arlington, is a master peace officer, and has advanced training as a mental health peace officer and TCO instructor. Outside of policing and teaching, he performs with the Irving Symphonic Bands uh low
008brass section. So, welcome Officer Contrarus. Uh, next one is no stranger to most, Officer Michael Green. Uh, he's at the Lake Dallas Middle School. Officer Michael Green is a proud Falcon graduate of 2002. In high school, he served as a captain of the Corinth Police Explorers Post one uh 1033 before graduating from the Texoma Regional Police Academy in 2015 and beginning his career with the Gainesville Police Department. There he focused on patrol, community outreach, and even brought home gold medals at the Texas Police Games Bass Fishing Division in 2017. In 2018, Officer Green joined the Cook County Sheriff's Department where he earned multiple commendations, a life-saving award, and advanced to sergeant investigator. He helped launch the district's school resource officer program, serving as Callisburg ISD, building strong connections with students while competing uh completing advanced
009NASRO training. He's an avid fisherman. He captained the uh Callisburg Wildcat Bass Team to regional tournaments. And you can't make this up. Outside of work, he's a Ghostbusters fan who enjoys Chinese food. There's always one. Officer Green. Thank you. [Applause] All right, the next one. Officer Melinda Zitner. She is Shady Shores Elementary. She began her law enforcement career in 1998 with the Denton County Sheriff's Office and graduated from its first police academy in 2007. Over her career, she has served as a patrol officer with several departments and earned certifications as a course instructor, firearms instructor, and property and evidence technician, along with a master peace officer license and more than 3,500 hours of training. For the past four years, she has served the Pilot Point ISTD Police Department at the elementary campus, building strong relationships
010with students, staffs, and the community. With 27 years of experience, she is dedicated to safety, trust, and positive positive connections. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family and traveling with her church family. Officers Hner. [Applause] And our newest member that started about I don't know three days before school started. So we're happy to have him is uh Officer Gordon Blair and he is going to be at Lake Dallas Elementary School. Officer Gordon Blair brings 32 years of dedicated law enforcement service having recently retired from the Lewisville Police Department. Over the course of his career, he has risen through the ranks as a master peace officer and served in supervisory roles across a variety of units, including the school resource officers. Known for his steady leadership and commitment to excellence, Officer Blair has
011built a reputation for fostering strong community partnerships, guiding younger officers, and ensuring the safety remains at the forefront of every mission. Beyond his professional accomplishments, Officer Blair is equally committed to his own growth and education. He recently earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice from East Texas State University and is preparing to pursue a master's degree to further his expertise. His long-standing dedication reflects not only a passion for law enforcement, but also a desire to mentor, inspire, and create safe environments where students and communities can thrive. Outside of work, he loves to spend time with family at gatherings as well as he's an artist. So, he likes to uh draw and paint. So, Officer Gordon Blair. [Applause] So, for the badge pinning, we'll get his family up here. His wife Lily and Kobe and KK
012come on up. Three. [Applause] One, two, three. Thank you. All right. They're out of here. They've had a long day already, I'm sure. All right. The open session of the meeting will adjourn. The board of trustees will reconvene in executive session pursuant to one or more of the sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act, chapter 551, the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene in open session to take any final action, decision, or vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. And it is 5:45. Okay, it is 6:21. We are back in regular session. Our next item is public comment and we have nobody signed up for that. So now we move on to our next items which are uh our public hearings. Our first public hearing will be regarding accelerated instruction and
013we'll hear from Dr. Kelly O Sullivan. Good evening. Good evening. >> Thank you um for the opportunity to present our public hearing for accelerated instruction. Want to say good evening to President Stacy and Dr. Brown and all the members of our school board. This is an annual public hearing that we present um the results and the progress and the evaluation of our accelerated instructional program in Lake Dallas. And so actually it is part of the law in different parts of the law. As a matter of fact, each district shall provide accelerated instruction to a student enrolled in the district who has taken end of course assessment instruction which is STAR or end of course exams administered under the Texas education code 39.023 and is not performed satisfactorily on the assessment instrument or who is at
014risk of dropping out of school according to Texas Education Code 29.081. 081. And so our accelerated instructional program is guided also by House Bill 1416. So we'll hear a little bit of that this evening. So as a reminder, we like to put the at risk indicators or criteria uh up front so that we can remember how these students are identified and how we um are able to reach out and possibly meet them along the way with some of the challenges that they experience. Um we start with um students that are pre-K through third grade and they are performing unsatisfactorily on a readiness assessment. Students in grades 7 through 12 who have not been successful in at least two classes um with a 70. They've been unsuccessful. Um not advanced to the next grade level. So
015they have been retained. Unsatisfactory performance on a state assessment or STAR in the past two years. Emergent bilingual students. Chronic absenteeism. That is a recently added indicator for atrisisk students. A placement at our district alternative education program. Prior dropout history. Even if they return, they still have that history. Pregnant or a parent in the care of the department of protective and regulatory services. Homeless. They've are have had a placement in a residential treatment facility. They are currently on probation or parole or have a parent who has been incarcerated. enrolled in a dropout recovery um school are enrolled in an adult high school program. Those are also recently added indicators and then students who have been expelled in the past. So we can see there are several indicators um that our students sometimes are faced with.
016So accelerated instruction in Lake Dallas ISD uh comes about in several different methods. One of those we call falcon time. This is at elementary and the middle school. So all students participate in Falcon time whether that is through intervention for the accelerated purposes or for enrichment. Maybe we are moving them on from that meets to mast's um level. Also we have acceleration classes at the high school. Sometimes we refer to those as EOC classes. End of course or 1416 classes. The middle school also offers um these support classes as well for math and for reading. Campuses offer tutorials. These can be structured based for groups of students or individualized. We offer specialized programs for preK through 12 including literacy and reading teacher support. Um we offer ESL and RTI teacher support through these individualized instructional
017services. And then we have summer school. So, in addition to our third through 12th graders participating in summer school, we also offer uh summer programming for our bilingual uh prek and kinder students. So, looking at our students who meet at least one and and we need to remember that many of our students um meet at least one more than one they meet multiple of those criteria that we reviewed. So when we look at our atrisisk students as compared to our not at risk students for 24 25 we're looking at grades three through eight in math and reading and we can see while there is that gap that we sometimes see between at risk versus not at risk students um the reading and the math held steady year-over-year. Um we did not see um growth in
018our atrisisk students in three through eight in reading um and math slight increase of 1%. Our not at risk students uh experienced a slight increase in reading and um in math. One um notable observation was that 3% um our atrisisk students experienced a 3% gain in the meets to masters category. So this data is for the approaches sometimes we say pass the test but the approaches they're approaching grade level um criteria but we had 3% of our atrisisk students who they increased um at that meets and masters that highest level. So we're digging into that as well and see what is working for those students and how can we really maximize that as well as looking into our students at that approaches level and how to get those gains even higher and how are we
019are identifying and supporting our atrisisk students. When we move on to high school at the end of course um performance for star we can see the at risk on the left and the not at risk on the right. um if you're facing yes facing the right way. So 2425 we saw decreases um in in all three areas in algebra in English one and in English 2 looking uh very intentionally at the algebra at at that decrease of about 12 percentage points. moving over to our not at risk, their not at risk peers, they also experienced either um a slight decrease or um leveling out right there. Uh and again, we saw that little phenomenon of the 2% overall increase in our meets to master students in that not at risk category. Um so at the
020high school level that uh high school administrative team counselors the instructional coaches have been partnering already with the CNI department and taking an intentional look at our students our services um classes they are placed in the supports they are already receiving early on um we have the data um and they have been on it early um to address those needs and to monitor assess and provide those services throughout the year. So taking a minute and moving from at risk versus not at risk students as compared to not at risk. We're looking also at the accelerated instruction in Lake Dallas. So accelerated instruction as we said is is delivered to all students. However, it is namely when we go back to House Bill 1416 is for those students who have been unsuccessful on a state assessment.
021And so when we look at this chart, it's showing us the number of students um who received accelerated instruction and they met that criteria because they were unsuccessful on a STAR test the previous year. They received that accelerated instruction whether it was through Falcon time, that specialized instruction or summer school and sometimes a combination of those services and then the following year's results. So, a year-over-year comparison of that accelerated instructional um growth. And so, we can see in reading grades three through five, we had 118 students that received accelerated instruction specifically for reading because they had been unsuccessful the year prior in reading. And of those 118, 45 of those students achieved their growth measure the following year. math. We had 154 students who participated in accelerated instruction for the purpose uh because they had
022met the criteria and 49 of those students achieved their growth measure. Um this year in sixth to eight a similar chart um we are looking at 150 students in six through eight who met the criteria they had not been successful the year prior on their star um assessment end of year and 57 of those students achieved their growth measure after participating in one or multiple formats of accelerated instruction and math 218 participated in 94 met that growth measure. That does not mean that the other students did not progress, but they did not make that expected growth measure. In addition, this school year for 2526, the middle school um has taken a very um intentional systematic approach to their Falcon time programming for accelerated instruction and they have increased that time to 45 minutes um where
023it is standardsbased and um they are really uh digging in in progress monitoring the students um giving the assessments along the way and making sure the instruction aligns during that time. Previously it was almost 30 minutes long. Um but um what Miss Boan has found is that the students need time to come into class and and get things ready and get the instruction going. And so that 45 minutes will serve them well as if it is a class period. And that's what it is. Our end of course at the high school for star accelerated instruction for algebra 1. We had 70 students participate in accelerated instruction due to being unsuccessful the previous year in math. And out of those 70, 39 made their expected growth measure. 45 in English one and 17 made their growth
024measure. And in English two, 59 students and 34 um achieved expected growth. And again, that was through tutorials, their specialized programming, perhaps working with their ESL teacher, um, and also through the end of course classes that are offered that is part of their schedule. It's one of the classes that they may be taking and then summer school. Some next steps are that continue look at tier one. That is the um most powerful lever for students. We know that's the high quality teaching that's provided to all students and that's the foundation on which we build tier 2 or tier three interventions. Um so everybody has to have engagement and participation in that general education tier one instruction. And then along the way the data from the areas of strength that we saw as well as areas
025of need. going to continue to support that through coaching cycles that are already being calendared and scheduled at the campuses um with teachers, administrators, a partnership with region 11 um coming out and being a part of that and then provides um and they're also providing professional development on small group what it looks like and how we measure those small group um instructional pieces. And then the intentional progress monitoring um at all levels for for tier one and then at tier two and tier three. Um the high school has also already implemented programs for benchmarks and assessments and accountability along the way for progress measuring not just our atrisisk students but all students and specifically zooming in on our accelerated instruction >> questions. >> Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? Um, yeah. Can
026you just clarify when you were talking about the expected growth measure? I mean, I understand you're saying they're not meeting that expected growth measure, but the other kids that didn't meet the expected growth measure, does that mean they they didn't pass the test at all or they just didn't meet that growth that we're trying to achieve? >> That can mean both. >> Okay. So, it doesn't mean those out ofund 150, it doesn't mean the other 50 kids or otherund and something kids doesn't mean all hundred failed the test. out of those 150 the previous year they had not been successful on STAR. They had not passed. >> Right? But then if they >> when you talk about meeting the growth measure, we only had 50 I just wrote down one of the numbers was 150
027out of 57. >> Only 57 met the growth. >> Right? >> That mean all the other kids didn't pass again or they just didn't meet the growth. >> It could have meant they did not pass if that was their expected growth. Okay? their expected growth may have been within a domain of that. So if I was at a low I did not meet, >> I could have made my growth measure and still did not meet that approaches, but I made my expected growth for the year. >> Okay. >> Um so there is a range within each level of the um scoring where students can meet along the way and achieve those growth measures. So for some it meant their next growth measure was they crossed over into that approaches meats or >> okay >> and
028for some they stayed within that same rating but they grew within it. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> I hope that answered. Okay. >> All right. Anyone else? No. And being as there's no one here from the public to speak, we will close the public hearing and move on to our next item which is another public hearing. will open uh the 2025 2026 school year budget. We'll hear from our CFO Annne Ha. >> Hi, Ann. >> Hi. Hi, President Stacy Bore, Dr. Brown. So, tonight is our um public hearing for the 2526 school year budget. I know y'all are probably tired of hearing from me since we've been reviewing this since May, but this is the final presentation um for the budget. So, we're at the end of our calendar. Um again, tonight we'll have
029this public hearing and then later I'll ask you to adopt the budget and adopt the tax rate for the school year. So, again, some just some key points to remember. Um, moving into the 2526 school year, the basic aotment did increase by $55 per student to $6,215. And again, some other key budget factors to keep in mind that enrollment and attendance do matter. We're funded by the number of students that actually come to school in attendance. Um, and then student needs also are factored into the budget. TEA does calculate the state maximum compressed tax rate which is a component of the tax rate and then just because we possibly might receive higher revenues from property values um that does not mean that our overall general fund will increase. So just a look at tax values
030in the last 10 years. Um from 2425 there was a slight increase. We went from 2.967 billion in 2425 to 2.981 billion in 2526, which is about a 13.76 million increase in certified property values. Just another overview of our general fund revenue. There's three components, local, state, and federal. you'll see a slight decrease in the proposed um amount for local and that is due to the anticipation of the homestead exemption increasing from 100,000 to $140,000. And then a big increase in state funding and that's going to be due to the teacher retention aotment and support staff retention aotment that the state will be funding us for for our teachers and support staff. And then a slight decrease in federal due to um we're anticipating less shars funding this year just because they've imposed a lot
031of requirements and regulations and we're just not going to receive as much funding as we have in the past. So for general revenue, um we're looking at a proposed 2526 budget of $44,714,253, which again is a big increase almost an over 2.7 million increase from last year, but that's due to those um teacher and support staff aotments. So when you look at kind of the revenue as a whole, about 55% is local funds, 44% state, and federal comes in just barely at 1%. General fund expenditures. Um, for tonight, I've kind of broken them into six major categories. The first one being instruction, which will be instruction, library, and curriculum staff support. That's going to be the area where there's the biggest increase. And again, that's due to House Bill 2 increase in funding for teacher
032retention aotment and support staff retention aotment. Instructional support is your instructional and campus leadership, co-curricular or extracurricular activities, um counseling and health services. There's a slight increase in that. Um general admin is basically everything here in central human resources, business operations. Um a very minimal increase there. District operations that contains transportation facilities, our utilities are funded out of that technology, security and then also our property and auto insurance. This might look a little deceiving because there is a decrease but that is due to the fact that um every department there was an increase the main one being in the facilities due to well utilities utilities and then um property insurance technology there was a 60 $70,000 decrease due to now that we are all districtwide went to new Apple products we won't we We are
033not anticipating there to be such a big um fee for repairs. We've spent a lot of money on Chromebook repairs. And then also the other decrease is security. Since we are now are employing our own officers, that's the biggest decrease um for district operations because we're not spending so much money on contracted services with the city to have the SRO officers provided through there. Then there's our debt service which is the Apple lease payment. And then other that's payments to fiscal agents and other intergo intergovernmental charges which is payments to the county for our tax collections. And so there's a slight increase there for that. So that brings us to um a proposed budget for for expenditures for the 2526 year of $45,536,76. And you can see from general um fund expenditures the biggest component
034is payroll which equates to about 80%. And then contracted services is 8% supplies and materials 6% and then other comes in at 5%. So, there's just a general overview of the proposed 2526 budget, and we're going to ask you to be adopting a deficit budget of $822,453 this year. in our child nutrition budget. For the second year in a row, we'll be operating um our elementary campuses under C program, which means all of our elementary students eat for free. And so that's why there's a a deficit in that budget just because we won't be bringing in as much funding. Um but one thing to remember, we do have a good fund balance in child nutrition due to the funding that we received during COVID. we received extra money. So, we have funding, we have a
035fund balance that we can spend down. And so, for child nutrition, it's a deficit budget of $174,890. In debt service, um it's a balanced budget and that's based on the refunding that we did. Since we were able to do that prior to September 1st and make our first payment on that, that allowed us to um plan for a balanced budget for the 2526 year. And so that's $1,368 um for the debt service budget. And the tax rate uh that we are proposing is the exact same tax rate as last year. Here's just a historical look at the tax rate. You can see that there's been a slight decrease from the 1718 to the 2324 year and then it's kind of remained constant. And this year again um a proposed tax rate of 1.2552. And a
036look at our compensatory education budget for the 2526 year that came in at $1,271,000 $87. And we are required to post a notice in the paper um to hold this public hearing and we posted it in the Den record chronicle indicating that the public meeting would be tonight with our proposed tax rate of general fund tax rate 7552 service tax rate 0.5 for a total proposed tax rate of 1.2552. And this proposed tax rate represents the same tax rate as last year. >> Any questions? >> All right. Any questions or comments from the board? >> Uh, apparently not. And again, being as we have no one here from the public, we will not hear from them either. At least not in the meeting. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. All right, we'll move
037on to our information items. The first of which is Lake Dallas ISD 2024 and 2025 accountability ratings. Dr. O Sullivan, welcome back. >> Thank you. It's nice to be here. >> So, we have our accountability ratings in for 2024 and 2025. TEA actually released the 2024 and 2025 accountability ratings at on the same day at the same time um just a little over a week and a half ago. Um so we have not had an opportunity to review those the 2024 ratings. So we will do that tonight as well. Previously we have shared out the star and the EOCC data from 2024 and from 2025. So this evening we are going to focus on the accountability ratings and in order to um really look at 2024 we need to be able to compare it year-over-year
038with 2023. So I've also included that 23 um data as our reference. So as a review and a refresher of the TEA accountability rating system, we look at the measures and those measures include district and performance in multiple domains. And so to create that 100 100% of the accountability rating, 70% comes from achievement or student progress. So whichever rating is the highest for the campus or the district, that's what it's chosen. This the achievement and student achievement means all students, all subjects, all test. And then the school progress is references what we talked about earlier, students making that year-over-year expected growth measure. And then 30% comes from closing the gaps. And those uh the closing the gaps looks at all of our students in every subop including all students. And it moves across all those
039populations and how are we um serving those students and how are they experiencing successful student outcomes. And so student achievement is star performance, graduation and post-secary readiness at the high school level. And at middle school and elementary it is star performance. School progress is that growth measure. And then closing the gaps focuses on outcomes for all student groups. Okay. So starting out with Lake Dallas ISD ratings. We can see the 2023, 2024, and 2025 ratings are there. At the bottom, it's starting from the left. it's overall the rating and then it goes into the three domains of student achievement, student growth and closing the gaps. So looking at the overall a 6% increase since 2023 and a 5% increase over 2024 and a significant area of increase is in closing the uh gaps domain which
040accounts for that 30% um of the overall rating and as a district this increase was 10% um over 23 and 24. And then looking at achievement and growth, both had um increases as well, especially the student achievement at um 5%. Um this year, looking at all of these ratings, the principles and the teachers and the campus staff, they know their students, they know them already, and they already have intentional strategies in place and support to address challenges that we're already seeing um that relates to that um academic success in the students across all those populations. So next moving on to the campuses we have current elementary accountability ratings and again looking at um the overall plus the three domains starting with the 2023 we see significant growth and achievement um in in all the categories
041um that administrative team and the entire campus have worked together to intentionally create successful student outcomes um from the partnership with the district and CNI and region 11 for those small groups intervention and coaching and continued data driven driven practices. Um we see um we see growth in overall of um 6% in uh achievement growth um percentages as well. And then closing the gaps over um we see that 44% um growth. And then looking back at the overall from 23 to 25, we see that 20% growth. Sorry, I see a misspelled word on there. I apologize. Um I can't fix it from here, so I apologize. Um, looking at Lake Dallas accountabil, Lake Dallas elementary accountability ratings, um, overall um, significant growth from 24 to 25. Um, 10% growth overall in student um, in the
042overall accountability rating. Student achievement is holding at 70%. So I know the campus is looking at that as as well. um student growth measure 10% growth from 24 to 25 and that is that expected growth for each individual student making their growth. So that is an important growth measure as well and then closing the gaps looking at every population and all students and moving them forward. Um significant growth there from 24 to 25. Shady Shores Elementary since 2023. Um, looking at that overall, that's a 4% increase. Uh, student achievement 2% growth over 2023 and 3% over uh last year. Looking at the growth, it has grown significantly since 2023. And then closing the gaps has stayed um somewhat stable. Another area um that I know that we are looking at with great intentionality, Lake Dallas
043middle schools, late Dallas Middle School ratings. Overall, we see that um there was a 3% increase in the overall accountability rating in 25 versus 2024. moving back closer um to that 2023 um rating. Student achievement took somewhat of of a dip um over the past um 23 to 25. Student growth that year-over-year for each student has um started trending back up um which is really good to see. And then closing the gaps also an increase of 10% over last year. So really looking in and with a narrow focus of all student populations. Our high school high school is a little bit different in that we um talked about that uniqueness at the beginning. They have a post-secary that is also included in their achievement um score. So 40% of the high school rating is star,
04440% is CCMR and um 20% is graduation rate. So overall increasing 10% year-over-year since 23. Student achievement 9% increase. Student growth leveling right there at 75 74%. And then closing the gaps again a 13% increase overall for the year. They also received a state distinction designation in science for the st science achievement. So some next steps um after looking and digging in at on this data focus on math. We noticed even in the accelerated um instructional presentation and then here um math is an over district-wide focus for us. Um we are excited that we have new curriculum in place. teachers have been trained, campus administrators, CNI, every instructional coaches, um, all moving together with high quality instructional math materials. Also, the professional development that started last spring and has continued through the summer and will
045continue through the year. And then also that focus again on tier one instruction, that foundational rigorous um, curriculum that everyone needs to engage in. Um, we are also going to remember reading. Reading is important. Uh if anybody has looked at a STAR math test, they will probably tell you it looks more like a reading test sometimes with with the problems that students have to navigate through and be able to read and understand. We are looking at early literacy. We always evaluate and assess our phonics programs, our dyslexia programs, and um those early um literacy um systems. Again looking at high quality instructional materials that are in use aligned with u in our TEICSS our standards our state standards are aligned with the curriculum that we use and then the high school in addition they are
046keeping a focus on those industrybased certifications not only the alignment with the program of study but also students are completing those certifications in addition um they have already started that intentional and systematic approach to looking at SAT ACT um AP and that TSIA that college u preparation test that college readiness test making sure students not only take those participation is huge it's a huge factor but also students are prepared what is our preparation program for that what is the expectation that we are setting for students and families along the way and then that college prep course the Texas college bridge sometimes we um present out on that that participation as Any questions around the 24 or 25 accountability ratings? >> I'm going to go ahead on limb and guess that Miss Collier does. >> I
047saw her blue light. It's okay. >> Um I don't have any questions. I just I just want to make a statement that I appreciate the progress that y'all are making. And um I wish on social media, newspaper articles that come out and plaster the grade or whatever, I wish they could see what we see and see the charts and the growth and the progress because that's what it's all about. And I just wish public could see some of that. Of course they can if they're watching, but um I just wish we could picture do a better picture of it, but of course, you know, we all know how social media the newspapers are. But I just want to thank y'all for the work that you've done and it's exciting to see those charts moving up.
048>> Any other questions or comments? Nope. All right. Thank you. We'll move on to our next information item which is Lake Dallas ISD district and campus improvement plans. >> Hi Dr. Oelvin. How you doing tonight? >> Hello. I'm doing well. Thank you. >> You're not going to pull a switcheroo on me, are you? >> Good evening. >> Have somebody else get up there, right? >> No. >> Tonight we are presenting our district and campus um improvement plans as we do each year. Um this is a process that is um it is not just a lengthy process. It is a detailed process and it involves everyone from campus um district, the community, the parents, everyone plays a role in this process and we are excited um this evening to present these plans um for you. Um
049the committees meet throughout the year and u a few times in the fall and in the spring and they really build this plan. the district committee um met just recently on August the 5th and they were kneedeep in the data highlighting areas of growth, areas of challenge, did we meet our goal? Um how far away are we on from that goal? And then what do we need to do? And then helping us reset the goals and and provide feedback. Um so we also remember that the district and campus improvement plans, they're they're really living documents. We update those throughout the year um with the um committees. As new data comes about, as new needs come about, as new resources sometimes become available, we look back in those improvement plans and say, how do we best
050serve our students and what changes or revisions need to be made to continue to move forward. So this evening the principles are going to present the um aspects of the district and the campus improvement plans as aligned with our district priorities specifically priorities one two and three of student success faculty and staff engagement and parent and family community engagement and I am going to pass this to Miss Jennifer Bryant. >> Good evening. Right. So I'm starting with priority one. We did a switch on student on student success. Okay, good. It changed. Thank you, Mary. All right. So, the first one on the district improvement plan is by May 2026, Lake Dallas ISD students will increase achievement in math and reading by 5%. And the second one is by May 2026, the percentage of emergent bilingual
051students who advance in all proficiency levels of reading, speaking, listening, and writing as measured. By 2026, Telpos will increase by 5%. Just some fun facts, in 2024, we were at 26% and in 2025, we were at 33%. So, in alignment with that is our SSE campus improvement plan. So our two strategies that we are mainly focusing on are by May 2026 SSE students will increase achievement in math, reading and science by 5%. And by May 2026, the percentage of emergent bilingual students who advance at least one proficiency level as measured by TLAS will increase by 5%. And for our strategies, you will see we are going to be focusing weekly um in our professional learning communities digging into our new highquality instructional materials that Dr. Solden was talking about. So we have a math and
052blue bonnet learning and then um many of us are using the amplify reading and then we also are on our second year of our new science adoption as well. So you'll see um as we are digging into those in our professional learning communities weekly, we're also going to be giving common formative assessments which are little checks along the way to see what adjustments we need to make in instruction during a unit. And then at the end of the unit, we're going to give um summitative assessments to see who's mastered, who hasn't, and then adjust our Falcon time intervention and extension groups. So, not just focusing on the students who are struggling, but also pushing our students and challenging those as well. So, you'll see a couple pictures up here. On the left is one of
053our kindergarteners, and those are magnetiles, but they have letters written on them. Um, if you look really closely, it spells tap because they're learning their CVC words. And then in the center, those are some of our fourth graders working on angles. Yes, we still use protractors. Don't let anyone tell you we don't. And then on the right is some of our fifth graders working on their hands-on science experiments. You will also notice there is a lot of um pencil and paper on that science table. Um that's a important focus on our campuses is writing within science. So you'll see a lot of that as well. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to the lovely Dr. Kindle. All right. Good evening, Mr. Stacy, Dr. Brown, members of the board. Um, as you can
054see on the screen, we have a focus of algebra 1, English one, and English 2. Um, obviously indicated by the data that you saw earlier, it's a substantial area of focus for us. um our campus leadership team um didn't want to um go with just approaches approaching grade level. We wanted to hone in on increasing the percentage of students that meet standard and then also masters. So you guys saw in science last year we were we got a distinction award. Well, those same ninth graders were taking algebra 1 and English one. our kids are really smart and so um we we wanted to make sure that um our staff knew that we we are wanting to raise the bar for everybody. Our kids that really are going to struggle to hit that approaches and then
055our kids to get from approaches to meets and meets to masters. And so very similarly to what Miss Bryant said, some of the strategies we're using is really targeted progress monitoring through essential standards. So at high school, um, you know, you can have two to three to maybe four teachers teaching content areas. And so it's really important that we are in alignment so that if a kiddo is in one teacher's class, they're getting the same information and the same focus on what's essential um in the other teacher's class down the hall. And so all of our core areas, but specifically our um tested areas have uh built-in time throughout the day. we have um developed teams that are uh really working well together, planning together and then monitoring one another but holistically it doesn't again
056it's not just and we made a point in our in our back to school the accountability ratings for English one English two algebra and biology and US history that's not just on that group of teachers it's a group effort and so as you can see that second bulletin we're doing nineweek summit of assessments for each core area so our our ninth graders, God love them, that get tested three times out of their four core and world geography, they're still going to be getting a summit of assessment that we're going to be tracking those standards because um while some of that may not directly funnel up to their junior year at US history, um there's still relevant skills and things that can be translated. So really trying to work on um our common language and our
057alignment across the department um while also focusing on these three areas specifically. Uh the second piece that we shared about was CCMR. Now if you'll remember this data lags a year. Okay. So the CCMR data that will go into our accountability rating for this year was from the class of 25 seniors. And so um obviously I wasn't there last year but that team did a ton of work. Um, and I believe we're right around 90% CCMR, which is a huge jump from 78 from the the previous year. So, our goal for the graduating uh seniors um or our juniors class of 2026 um is going to be 95%. Okay. Um through IBC's TSI SAT opportunities, intentional tracking of student certif uh certifications and scores. Um, one thing that I've noticed and have gotten a lot
058of feedback about is is really and truly that ACT SAT prep. And so we're partnering with PTA to create some opportunities for students um, and we're exploring some other opportunities for uh, various testings within the school day um, to try to get our kiddos some more exposure with that. All right, at this time I'm going to turn it over to Mrs. Boan. She's going to introduce priority two. Good evening. Jessica Boan, proud principal of Lake Dallas Middle School. I am going to introduce priority to faculty and staff engagement, focusing on retention and recruitment. The board's goal, LDISD will actively recruit certified and qualified individuals to serve students in the district throughout the 2526 school year to fill vacancies and prepare for the 2627 school year. and LDISD will continue to increase the percentage of staff
059retained into the following school year. What that will look like at LDMS um by May 2026, LDMS will retain 90% of staff for the 26 27th school year. Um that's a big goal and we plan to do that many ways, some of which I have included here. Uh we do provide a mentor to all of our new teachers and a buddy a mentor to our teachers that are new to teaching and a buddy to teachers that are new to the campus but have experience and the mentor meets with the uh their mentee monthly. We have mentor meetings. Um they work with our instructional coach with planning and we really just want them to be surrounded with support. Um and our buddies they work together. they have um they know they've been teaching for a while
060but just learning all of our district and campus um different things that we do. So that's what the buddy helps with. Um also relevant staff development. Um teachers don't like to sit in staff development especially if it's not pertaining to their job uh specific job responsibility. So we are working um to have relevant PD for all staff including our par profofessionals, our clerical staff um each department um just to make sure that what we are developing on is um aligned to what their roles and responsibilities are. Um part of that will include um research-based instructional strategies, RBs um for math and reading. And we have a few internalization um PD that we are having our math teachers go since we have a new math curriculum. Also to retain staff, we're going to have some fun.
061We're going to highlight staff in the newsletters. We're going to highlight staff, embarrass them a little bit at the staff meetings. Um have some trivia games, Monday morning check-in. just really trying to build a culture of continuous improvement and um where people want to stay at LDMS. Up next, I'm going to pass it on to the amazing principal of Corinth Elementary. Good evening, Dr. Brown, president Stacy and board. And so I'm going to continue with priority two and that is faculty and staff engagement and professional development. And so LDISDA faculty and staff will have the opportunity to contribute to the continuous improvement process through through surveys, committees, PLC's, coaching cycles, and professional development from July 2025 through May 2026. And for the 2526 school year, LDISD will implement a district plan for professional development for
062all staff. And so at CE, what this will look like is um in addition to all the professional development that Miss um Boan just mentioned, um we will also utilize our own team members at CE. And so we will have um campus administrators pro um conducting walkthroughs and observations um and providing specific data and feedback to staff to help with continuous improvement. And then also between August 2025 and May 2026, CE staff members will um be able to have two opportunities to observe their colleagues um allowing them to inquire insights and um different practices from the experts on their own campus. Um because just because you teach a younger grade doesn't mean you can't learn something as a fifth grade teacher. And so that'll really um allow them to learn from their peers and have
063different opportunities there with our new highly instructional um qualified material or highly qualified instructional materials. Um LDISC will also hold celebrations and recognitions monthly to recognize teachers and staff from August 2025 through May 2026. This includes things like birthday brownies monthly for teachers and staff which are very delicious and we look forward to. And then also um end of year celebrations like getting our pins and different things like that. And at CE um part of this will also um be with wanting to retain at least 90% of our staff for the next school year in 2627. And one of the ways that we want to do that is have um something called a staff game changer. So it's like a um you nominate your monthly draft pick. We have a sports theme at CE this
064year and so um this will be an opportunity for staff to nominate their colleagues and recognize that person for some of their work that they're doing on campus. But then also um staff have opportunities throughout the day to give their teammates shoutouts on our PBIS system. And so they're able to recognize their fellow colleagues, give them points, and then teachers are able to visit our campus store and purchase different things um that they find fun just like the kids do. And so now I will turn it over to Miss Carrie Blendins from LDE. Right. Good evening. I will be sharing priority three, which is parent and family and community support. So the district's goals for priority three are LDISD will engage in ongoing communication with parents in the community during the 2526 school year. LDISD
065will increase engagement and learning opportunities for parents and community through campus and district events. So to accomplish the district's goals, LDE has the following two goals. By May of 2026, LDE will increase engagement, participation, and parent community during the 2526 school year by 5%. And by May of 2026, LDE will increase the measurable results assessment or the MRA percentage in family and community engagement by 5%. And the MRA is a survey that's done through Leader and Me where we send that out to all of our families and they provide that feedback. So, I'd like to share some of the strategies that we'll be using to accomplish our goal of increased engagement, participation in parent and community communication. So, all of our home room teachers contact all families within the first two weeks of school. We
066also share bimonthly newsletters with our families. And so that's the picture on the top left. You can see an example of one of our newsletters. We also utilize social media a minimum of three times a week to provide up-to-date communication including campus events and also to showcase student learning. So on the top right you can see one of our social media posts from meet the teacher night which was a lot of fun seeing all of our students. And then LDE will also send out surveys to gather feedback and communication from our parents. So up on the bottom of the screen, you can see some of the feedback we've we've received last year through POSIP. Um, which is really nice to have. To accomplish our goal of increasing our measurable results assessment or that MRA percentage
067and community engagement, we're going to host family nights in the fall and the spring that focus on student learning. So on the top uh left picture up there, that's from one of our events, the masked reader, which is like the masked singer except we had masked readers and it was a lot of fun for our community. Each grade level will also host an open house night and a musical performance for our families to come and attend. And during that time, our students also share their leadership portfolio. So in the top right, you can see one of our kindergarten musical performance. They were bunnies. They were so cute. Um LD will also partner with our communities and schools during the school year. And then we also partner with our PTA as well during the school year.
068So in the bottom left you can see a picture from our PTA launch conference where we attended. We had a large group from PTA which was nice as well. Uh we also plan to increase the participation in watchdog volunteers by creating new advertising methods and designing or designating specific volunteer days throughout the year. So the picture in the bottom in the middle is from meet the teacher where our top dog was recruiting dads and we had 28 sign up at meet the teacher. So we were really excited about that. also continue our partnership with the Lake Cities Fire Department during the month of October as they teach us about fire prevention and safety. And then we'll also continue our partnership with the Rotary Club this school year. So on the bottom right you can see
069a picture of our students um during that Rotary Club assembly receiving their free dictionaries. And then lastly, we'll also have our career day. Um we'll do that where our community partners are invited in to visit our campus to teach our students about the careers and the skills and the education that they need for those careers. All right. Want to introduce you back to Dr. Gindle. All right. I'm gonna go ahead and warn you. I don't have any cute pictures. So, sorry about that. Um, as you can see, we're going with 5% increase of engagement participation. And so, there's a few strategies we're going to focus on this year with that. One of those is found in our LDHS newsletter um in survey feedback that um was sent out in May. Um a lot of parents
070were unsure really what's happening in classrooms. And so one thing that we chose to do um is a weekly Falcon Focus where um if if a parent wants to has time, can whatever uh help their child either with their homework or map out their week, they can go to this spot in the newsletter and click on a link and it will take them to an overview of the week. If a kiddo has any tests, quizzes, projects coming up um so that they can help their child if they have the ability or the desire to do so. Um the second goal is really in conjunction um with Miss Boan at the middle school. We really want to have a targeted focus on helping educate our eighth graders and their families about each program of study. Um
071a their course selection for high school is in eighth grade. And so if you think about that, that's really early when you've got 13 year olds trying to decide what program of study they're going to have and they just are just trying to figure out what shoes they're going to wear. honestly. So, um we are taking a really proactive approach and have a goal that every quarter the kiddos and the parents are hearing from the high school in conjunction with the middle school counselors about the programs of study. So, quarter one, our goal is to have uh Mr. Broadstreet, our new AV teacher, do a a brief introduction for each of the programs of study to share with the middle school. Quarter two, we would love for some of our students to go from the
072high school to the middle school to speak to kiddos about different programs of study that they're interested in. Quarter three, which is also when course selection is January, Februaryish, um we will have our eighth graders come tour and by then hopefully they will have identified their top two to three areas and they will be able to dive into that a little more when they come visit our campus. We'll um have that in conjunction with our eighth grade transition night. um where we'll have, you know, invite invite parents in and help them understand a little bit more about programs of study um so that they they can kind of help guide their child as well as if if there are some kids that really just are not interested in anything, kind of help direct them on
073a nth grade year that can leave them open for opportunities in the future. The next um thing is a partnership that um it was pretty amazing. I've just been blown away by the community support here at Lake Dallas. But we really wanted to enhance some student success, celebrating our student success. And so I had a conversation with a parent in passing and she asked if if there was anything I needed. And I said, "Actually, I would love to start student of the month at LDHS and I would love a sponsor. Do you know anybody that might be willing?" And I'm not kidding, within a day, she had connected me with Damon Hurst at Frostbank and they are sponsoring our student of the month. So once a month we will celebrate a falcon and a student
074of the month. Um and so the difference is student is is a student, right? And falcons are going to be involved in something extracurricular. And sometimes those are going to overlap. Sometimes you'll have just a kiddo that's just a great student. Sometimes it'll be a kiddo that's shown substantial growth in the classroom. um our teachers will nominate those students and then we will invite the students and the parents to be uh on our campus really early in the morning for breakfast and then our teachers who nominated the student will share in front of the group about the student. So um really and truly partnering with Frostbank here um they they have just been phenomenal. So we're excited to to bring some families in and celebrate our amazing students at LDHS. So, we've just gone through
075a few of our strategies. You guys, you know that we have a lot more in our campus improvement plans. Um, but thank you for allowing us some time to to share what we have. Um, at this time, do you guys have any questions for us? >> Thank you very much. Any questions or comments? >> Okay. Don't don't give me that look. >> Miss Collier, I believe, has a question or comment. >> They're all going to roll their eyes at me later. Um, I do want to say that I've already gotten positive feedback um about the high school newsletter, about the individual things. I had a parent say that was great because I could see that my kid had a test on this day, so I didn't make that orthodontist appointment that day. So, just want
076to let you know that that um has already reached um positivity to us. And then I just want to um comment on the PLC's. Um a lot of you mentioned having those PLC's meetings and um back when I was traveling through the great state of Texas um for my um master trustee training um I actually went to one of the schools we visited. They actually took us into a PLC meeting. So, I would like to challenge any of the board members and if any of y'all ever wanted to invite any of us to a PLC meeting, it really was probably one of the most impactful things that I attended because I also had heard some negativity. I know you're going to be surprised um from some teachers that weren't used to PLC's and why are
077we doing this and all that. And to actually watch a PLC that was functioning like it was supposed to be, it was it actually brought me to tears. I know y'all are gonna be surprised, but it actually really I don't know why it got I got so emotional, but it just did because these are our kids, all of our kids in the great state of Texas that we are trying to advocate for. and just watching them all go around and talk about how we can help here and here and the data and this and that was phenomenal to I was privileged to be a part of. So, just want to challenge if anybody wants to invite your adopted board member to any of your PLC's, I would challenge you all to go because I that
078really was impactful to me to see the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of how you and your teachers are working every day to impact our kids. >> Thank you. You only get credit for one, by the way. Any other questions or comments from the board? Nope. All right. Thank you all very much. I appreciate I really appreciate all the hard work y'all put into that means a lot. All right, we'll move on to our consent agenda. Consent agenda is those routine items that can be handled in one motion and vote. Is there any questions or comments regarding the consent? If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll move to approve. >> Move to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Applebee. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of
079approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Move on to our action items. The first of which is consideration approval of resolution regarding the Senate regard excuse me resolution regarding Senate Bill 12 and parental rights. Dr. O Sullivan, welcome. >> Thank you for having me back. >> Our our principles are going to move on with their evening commitments. So this evening we are bringing you a resolution for your consideration regarding Senate Bill 12 and um parent rights. And so Senate Bill 12 from the recent 89th legislative session relates to parental rights in public education including requirements and prohibitions regarding instruction, diversity, equity and inclusion assistance with district student social transitioning and student clubs. TASBY has made a recommendation that districts adopt a resolution during this gap time of when the policy and the law
080are really being framed and and ready to be um moved to the districts for adoption. And so that's what we are bringing to you this evening. You have the complete version of the resolution uh in front of you, but we wanted to provide just a brief overview of some of the requirements of parts of this resolution. So one major component of the resolution is an overarching parent access piece. And so within it um the resolution um sets expectations around access for parents of their students educational records. And so parents shall be granted access to all of their uh child's educational records. Also access to instructional uh plans or syllabuses much as you saw Dr. Gindle present out. This is something that we have already started and we're already doing in Lake Dallas. At any time
081parents can request what um those lessons are, what their children are learning given syllabuses. But now we are actually creating links on the website. Dr. Gindle has already started that at the high school. So parents can click on it and see what those plans are even at a week or for the semester at a time. And then also uh in alignment with access is parents have the right to parent teacher meetings each year. And so there's a minimum of two that they um are offered during the year. And again these are current Lake Dallas practices to offer parent teacher meetings. Another overarching umbrella is that additionally SB12 prohibits certain educator or district staff actions such as assisting a student enrolled in the district with social transitioning including providing any information or guidelines intended to assist
082a person with social transitioning. Also prohibited um actions include engaging in diversity, equity, and inclusion duties or instruction or requesting that of some other staff member. Again, these expectations and practices are already in in place uh appropriately in Lake Dallas. We are following those guidelines um before they were even presented as a resolution. Um, additionally, Senate Bill 12 requires parent consent. So, we've had parent access, we've had prohibited actions, and then parent consent is another um umbrella of of actions. The parent consent includes student participation in a district sponsored or authorized club or organization. And so, even of now, parents consent is being sought if their child wants to be in student council. if their child wants to be in National Honor Society, if their child wants to be in band, we are obtaining parent
083consent for that. Um requires parent consent for access to school counselors and nurses. And um we are currently in the process of distributing and obtaining parent consent. So students are able to visit with the counselor or participate in guidance lessons or character lessons um as well as access any medical services offered by the nurse. And so looking at um SB12, there are other components that you'll see on there such as board meetings offered during a time that's not during the work hours, offering public comment um at the beginning, things that are we are already doing and have in place in Lake Dallas. So, this is not new practice for us, but it is just um confirming that it is in place through a resolution that we're bringing to you and asking for your approval for
084that. Do you have any questions about the resolution? >> All right. Thank you. Any questions or comments from the board? >> Apparently not. You're off the hook. Thank you. All right, that is an action item. So, I guess we need to take a vote. Is there any questions or comments from the board? >> Nope. Uh, do I have a motion on this item? >> Motion to approve by Mr. Tucker. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Smith. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. That passes unanimous. Thank you. Right. Our next action item is consideration approval of the 2025 2026 general fund food service fund debt service fund and compensatory education budgets. >> That's a mouthful. >> I know. >> Hi again. Um so
085earlier during the public hearing I presented our proposed budget for general fund child nutrition um fund debt service and compensatory education. And so now I just come to you asking you um to adopt that budget. In your packet, there is a summary of all four of those funds. And again, um it is a requirement for the board to adopt these four funds. Any questions? >> Yes. >> No. >> Oh, okay. Is there any questions or comments? Uh if not, I'll entertain a motion. >> I move to adopt the general fund debt service, food service budget, and compensatory education budget for the 2526 school year. >> We have a motion to approve as stated by Miss Collier. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Bear. Is there any further discussion? If
086not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Our next item is consideration approval of an ordinance setting a tax rate for maintenance and operation and debt services for the 2025 2026 school year and Han. How you doing? >> Hi. Hi again. Um yes, so tonight I come to you asking you also to adopt a tax rate for the 2526 school year. So just a comparison of the tax rate from the 2425 year to the 2526. Again, you'll see there was no change. Um, maintenance and operations stayed at 7.7552, debt service at 0.5 for a total tax rate of 1.2552, which is the same tax rate that was adopted in the 2425 school year. And another look at our tax rate over the last several years. Again you can
087see since 23 24 year it has remained pretty constant and there again is the proposed tax rate. So also in your packet is a required ordinance for you to sign and um this does have some confusing language on it possibly. So I'll try my best to help you understand it. So the motion that you will be making tonight is that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 1.2552 which is effectively a 11.31% increase in the tax rate. And so basically what that motion means is um there's a no new revenue tax rate which if we had no increase in our property values are increasing and so obviously there's going to be more money generated and so that motion is based on the no new revenue total tax rate
088of 1.1277 and our tax rate that we're asking you to adopt is 1.2552. So since there's an increase from the no new revenue tax rate to the tax rate we're asking you to adopt, the required language is as such. And then on the actual ordinance, there is two statements that's required to be on there as well. One statement being this tax rate will raise more taxes for maintenance and operations than last year's tax rate. And again, that's due to property values increasing. The second statement is the tax rate will effectively be raised by 20.74% and will raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a $100,000 home by the by approximately 0. And so this again, the motion is based on the total tax rate. This statement is only based on the maintenance and operations. And
089so the no new revenue um maintenance and operation tax rate is 6255 and the tax rate we're asking you to adopt for maintenance and operations is 7552. And so that's the percentage increase on that. But since the overall tax rate is the same, that's why um the increase is $0. But as a reminder, this does not mean the overall tax rate is increasing. Um, and yes, our property values have increased and over the last several years, our recapture amount that we have to pay back to the state has increased um around $240,000. And so, as a reminder, is the state's way of even evening out funding for property wealthy districts and property poor districts. They have a limit on um how much money a district can keep per student. And if we go over that,
090then we are required to pay money back. And so that has increased um a little bit every year over the fa past few years. Oh, don't do that. Sorry. So again, one last look at the proposed tax rate for the 2526 school year. Maintenance and operations of 7575, debt service of 0.5 for a total tax rate of 1.2552. 2552. Gosh darn it. Any questions? Sorry. >> Any questions or comments for Miss Hong. All right. And just so y'all know this this uh >> and there is a Sorry. There is a prescri a very prescribed um motion that has to be said and it has to be a record vote. >> Record vote. That's what I was getting at. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. Is there uh any questions or comments before we
091ask for a motion? All right. Is there a motion on this item? Right. I have a motion to approve as stated by Mr. Applebee. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Bartley. Thank you. We'll go to start down here with Mr. Bartley. On your vote. Yes. Uh for Mr. Bartley. Mr. Applebee. >> Yes. Mr. Tucker. >> Mr. Baird. >> Yes. Mr. Smith. >> Yes. >> Miss Collier. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Stacy? Yes. All right. passes unanimous with a record vote. >> All right. Thank you. >> Our next item is consideration approval uh consideration approval of city of Lake Dallas drainage easement request on the Lake Dallas ISD property located at 104 Swisser Drive, Lake Dallas, Texas. Is it drive or road? Is it drive? Swisser road. I don't know. >> It's road.
092So now all my presentation shot. That's great. >> Yeah, it's all wrong. You drive on a road, so it doesn't matter. >> Okay. I don't know. >> It's all good. Go ahead. >> Good evening, board. Good evening, Dr. Brown. Uh, yes. So, I have several easements for your consideration approval tonight. Five to be exact. Uh this is a part of Lake the city of Lake Dallas and the the upgrades are making to their city and their infrastructure specifically drainage and easements uh uh in several locations that affect our district. So this is one of five tonight that we're going to go through fairly quickly. Uh the first three are right here at this building, 104 Swisser Road, Lake Talis, Texas. U this will be on the south side of the building. It's that uh section
093between our property and where that apartment complex is. The city's needing this easement here about 25 meters ac feet across um for drainage to build a covert and to help with water flow and moving water away from certain areas. So, this is the first easement for consideration. >> All right. Any questions on this? Pretty straightforward. If there's no questions, I'll entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Tucker. >> I'll second. >> Mr. Smith with a second. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. All right. Our next one is Okay, I'm totally lo Okay, here it is. Consideration approval of city of Lake Dallas temporary drainage easement request on Lake Dallas ISD property located at 104 Swisser Lake Dallas, Texas 75065. Uh
094same area property. This would be to the west of us between um our property and the manufacturer right there at those homes. This would be temporary. So they're only going to take over this easement while they put in a drainage system. And then of course we will get that um easement back. But this one will be temporary. When temporary is two to three years, however long it takes to complete these projects. Um and I'm not exactly sure when they will tackle these. They're going to uh jump on the Hundley and and do sections first. So but this is a temporary easement that the city is asking us to consider and approve. >> Thanks, sir. Is there any questions or comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Mr. Applebee. I'll >> Second
095by Mr. Bear. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval indicate that is unanimous. Pass. Thanks. Uh 10 F. That's what I said. That's what I meant. There we go. Consider already scratched it out. I can't go back. Uh consideration approval of city of Lake Dallas sidewalk and access easement requests on the Lake Dallas property located at 104 Swisser Drive, Lake Dallas, 75065. So this is now the northeast corner of the same property. Um they will be widening that access there where Swisser and North City Shores meet and then they'll be adding culverts as well as a sidewalk. So again, they're asking for an easement from the school district there to accommodate that. It's not shown there, but they get a little corner of that northeast corner as well, so
096they can widen that sidewalk to make way for sidewalk as well as I believe the pole. I mean, the infrastructure of the pole as well for the red light. >> Any questions on this one? >> All right. Any questions on this item? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Miss Collier, >> second by Mr. Smith. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. >> Two more >> now. All right. All right. Consideration approval of city of Lake Dallas road drainage easement request on Lake Dallas ISD property located at 425 East Hunley Drive, Lake Dallas, Texas 75065. >> Sir, so if you remember in the spring we approved this easement uh going through our maintenance facilities, the old high school if you
097will. Uh so this is now they're working on the other side of the street. And this is where our bus barn uh and right to the if you look just north of the screen there that's the practice field of the middle school. Um so we're they're asking for an easement in front of that practice field and in front of our bus barn. Again this is for drainage. They'll take it over uh put in draining systems and then we'll have much better drainage in the city of Lake Dallas. This again right across from our maintenance and facilities building there on Hunley. >> Will that be? >> Yes sir. Yes, sir. >> Any other questions? >> That's all right. >> That's right. Uh if not, no more questions. >> Well, actually, yeah. So, they're going to be
098doing construction. Do we know time that they're going to start and with our bus schedules and everything else to get our transportation assets out? >> Correct. >> In a timely fashion. So, they will begin this project on Hunley as early as this spring. So, they're saying January, February. Um, they have been in communication with us, but to say the least, it will be a mess. Yes. But a mess worthwhile because getting that third lane will be great. Um, but it will be it'll be tight for quite a bit. And they'll I think they're starting at the next one, you'll see right in front of that city park and moving the way their way down. But they are working with us. But at the same time, buses is it's going to be tight. Absolutely. >> Yes.
099Yes. I'm sorry. Yeah. Two to three years. >> So, I know like out where that red is, that's where a lot of our maintenance vehicles park and everything like that. Are we looking at maybe relocating them to the maintenance? It shouldn't impact that parking lot there. It will impact where it's where that white text box is. Right. We've already done that easement there. So, we will lose parking there. Um, the plan is to actually repair this parking lot that you're seeing on the screen. So, we have and do better lines to get more spots in there. And actually, we worked with the city and they gave us a rendering of that and we can we'll we'll accomplish that. >> Okay. >> It it actually ends up adding I think two or three spots when we
100redraw the lines. And the other piece that David and I will get to tackle is just we need to fill in those potholes, repair that parking lot first. So that will happen this fall so they're ready in the spring. >> All right. Any other questions or comments? >> And if not, I'll entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Tucker. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. And now uh or Nick. But wait, there's more. Yes. Who will it be? I know where I'm putting my money. All right. Uh our last item is consideration consideration approval of Lake Dallas, city of Lake Dallas sidewalk and access easement request on Lake Dallas property
101located at 325 East Hunley Drive, Lake Dallas, Texas. >> Yes, sir. So, same aspect, but now we're right there in front of the middle school. So, 325 Hunley, but same thing. They would like to put in drainage systems and put a sidewalk back there in front of our middle school, which again down the road would be tremendous for our kids and our community. >> All right. Any questions or comments? >> If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> Make a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Barrett. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Collier. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approve approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you, sir. Appreciate all your hard work. Yes, >> sir. >> Our next items are calendar announcements
102and information. And Dr. Brown, it's yours. >> Yes, sir. Tomorrow night, we have a open house at the middle school. So, y'all are welcome to stop by and uh see our parents and teachers and students there. Our first home football game is Friday night and on September 5th we start our employee of the month uh breakfast. So hope you'll join us that morning. >> All right. Thank you very much. It is 7:44. Our business is concluded and we are adjourned.