001your attention, please. >> I'll call this meeting to order of the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees for August 11th, 2025. Mr. Tucker and Mr. Applebee are not able to attend tonight, but we do have a quorum established. Our next item is uh if you would please join me in a join me in a moment of silence. All right. Thank you. Uh if we would please stand for our pledges of allegiance. That'll be led by Molly Abalino. All right. Okay. 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 of the Texas Government Code. The board of trustees will reconvene in open session to take any final action, decision or
002vote on a matter deliberated in executive session. And it is 601 [Music] Heat. Heat. N. Buddhy. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. N. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Nat. [Music] Heat. [Music] kid is uh 6:36. We're back in regular session. Uh we'll move on to public comment which we have nobody signed up for. Correct. Our next item is our information items. The first of which is parent and family community support uh which shack membership and annual report from our most key of employees John Modica. Good evening, Dr. Brown. Good evening, board. So, yes, tonight we are um I'm presenting on the the annual report for the SHAK. We're also throwing there the SHAK membership because that is also a a consent item for you
003for the board to consider and approve tonight. So, Shaq does many things. This is our student health advisory council. Um they do a number of things primarily um the hours of instruction for health education. Uh they also give great input on parent programs, student programs dealing with with health. Uh they also set and discuss the appropriate grade levels for human sexuality as well as even the family violence, dating violence, sex trafficking that is mandated by the state. So this is the committee that comes together and makes those decisions uh as far as when and how to implement those programs. Um there's also other layers to that as far as student awareness and parental awareness um type a human health services. So that's the primary purpose behind shack. Our membership this is also mandated from the
004state. The board shall appoint at least five members of SHA. So on this next slide we'll discuss that and again it's a consent item for you to consider and approve tonight. Um and one of those members shall be the chair or co-chair. So our current membership is made up of 12 parents. We have four district staff members. Um and of course a chair and co-chair and one of those is board appointed. So one item in your consent tonight is to consider and approve these five members. These are five current members of ours. Um our current chair is Craig Rector and our co-chair is Andrew Clemens. And you can see those other five um long-standing shack members. And Lisa Walraven uh also known as nurse Wall Raven at the high school is our health services coordinator
005for the district. We are required to meet four times throughout the year according to state. We met four times this year. You can see we try to keep it twice in the fall, twice in the spring. will also meet uh as needed if a program's coming up or decision needs to be made as far as um programs go. As far as this year, they were busy. Um we considered and approved, excuse me, considered and approved the renewal of the NTCAC, North Texas Child Advocacy Center. It's just not happening. Miss Alino, you're up. >> It's not gonna happen. Okay. So, that's the group. Okay. I'm going, the North Texas Child Advocacy Center. Uh, this is the group that comes in and talks to our our students anywhere from kindergarten up to senior class. And those are
006all opt-in programs. um several human sexuality programs or health related programs and even up to texting, dating violence, um all those things as well. And then we have the they consider and approved the proctor proctor and gamble uh program. That's the human sexuality for our fifth grade students. Uh and of course, if you remember back in the fall, uh Dr. O Sullivan brought to you the Boys and Girls Club partnership that we considered and approved under SHAK. Those programs are still going. Um and then also the child nutrition they had a trial assessment and wellness plan they have to do every three years. So there's a large report that they considered looked at and even u gave suggestions as far as parental programs um education programs for our students doing with dealing with child nutrition
007and um health and wellness. Uh in the last meeting in May we actually had a tabletop discussion uh very relevant. We actually talked about cell phone use, screen time, and even conflict resolution programs for our students just centered around um programs we could bring in or research current topics to discuss this coming fall. Um with that over the summer, you realize that that the cell phone bill passed, so it was actually really relevant conversation. Uh you have the actual report there in your board packet, but I am happy to take any questions if there are any. >> Thank you, sir. Is there any questions or comments from the board? If there's no questions, we appreciate it. Thank you very much, sir. >> All right. Our next information item is budget update from our CFO and
008Han. Good morning. >> Hello, President Stacy Bour, Dr. Brown. So, tonight I'm going to come to you with um our final budget update, and that's going to include our general fund, our food service fund, and debt service. I think last month I also said I was going to have federal programs, but even though we're fairly certain we're going to have all of our funding, TEA still has on their website that it's not available. Our applications are not available yet. So hopefully in the next few weeks by our next meeting on August 25th, I'll be able to have those as well. But I just didn't want to provide numbers until at least TEA fully opened it up. But I'm pretty certain that they are going to be all available to us. Um so then again, we're
009almost done with the budget calendar. After tonight, we will just have our next meeting on August 25th. Um, and that will be our hearing for to adopt the budget and the tax rate. So again, I know this slide has been presented every month. Um, but just a reminder that the revenue is determined um by the number of students that attend. And this year, for the first time since 2019, the basic aotment was raised $55 per student to an amount of $6,215. And tonight, we'll discuss our tax rate, which it TEA calculates that for us, they provide um us with the maximum compressed tax rate. And then also once we discuss property values, keep in mind that property higher property values do not mean overall more general revenue for the district. So, our taxable values came
010in um just a little above where they've been in the 2425 year. They were at 2.967 billion in the 2425. And for 2627, I'm sorry, for 2526, we're looking at um my eyes aren't good enough to read the screen. we're looking at a 2.981 billion um certified value freeze adjusted taxable value for the 2526 year. So we did some adjustments to our general fund revenue um since we last brought it to you looking at a slight decrease in our overall local revenue. That's just due to again property taxes. we're not anticipating as much um interest revenue, but then we also factored in facility rentals with our practice plan. So, we're seeing a small decrease in our local um revenue. State revenue is where you're going to see a big increase, but that is due to
011the teacher retention aotment that the state will be funding us for and also the support staff aotment. So, that's why there's an almost 2.9 million increase in state revenue. there's a small decrease in federal revenue and that's due to um just not as much funding coming in from our charge program. So overall for the 2526 year we're looking at a 2.7 million increase um in our revenue of 44.7 million. We brought this to you um a month or so ago, our non-p peril expenditures, but I did just want to touch on the ones that we made adjustments to. There was a slight increase in our student transportation due to um our auto insurance once we got the renewals for that. And then also plant our plant maintenance and operations, our facilities um also there was
012a slight increase in that insurance as well. And just a reminder, the big decrease in security monitoring is due to the fact that prior to the 2526 year, all of our SRO's were contracted through the different cities and now those police officers will be employees. So that number will be on the payroll side versus the non-payroll. And then another addition is the line item of debt services and that um is for our Apple lease payment, the $760,000. So that equates to about a $385,000 increase from the 2425 year to the 2526 for non-payroll expenditures. So overall the general fund expenditures um when you look at the payroll you see a $2.8 8 million increase. And again, that's due mainly to the teacher retention aotment that the state is funding us for and then the two
013and 3% combination raise that you approved at last month's meeting. And then the non-payroll expenditures that we just discussed, bringing a total to $45.5 million for expenditures, which is a little over $3.2 million increase. So when you put it all together, the revenue we just discussed and the expenditures, um we're looking at adopting probably adopting a 822 $453,000 deficit budget this year, but again that's mainly due to the Apple lease um that we've discussed. child nutrition. Um we're seeing a slight decrease in revenue of about $200,000 for child nutrition and then a decrease in expenditures of about $500,000. For the second year, we will be operating under C, which allows us to provide free breakfast and lunch to all of our elementary school students. And for the 2425 year, there was a big deficit um
014adopted due to the fact that we had two serving lines at one of the high school and then LDE I believe um that we paid for out of the 2425 year. So overall, we're looking at a budget um deficit of $174,000 890. And for our debt service, um, and I'll go into that a little more in my next presentation, but we're looking at an overall balanced budget. Our revenue, um, we'll show an increase of $633,000. [Music] And you see almost the exact, um, increase on the expenditures for overall budget um, of $1,368. And for our proposed tax rate that we're gonna I'm going to talk to you about tonight, um we're proposing the same exact tax rate that we had last year. So no change in tax rate. It'll be an M tax rate of
0157552 and we're maintaining our debt service tax rate of 50 cents for an overall tax rate of 1.2552. Any questions? Thank you, ma'am. Is there any questions from the board? >> No, ma'am. Appreciate all the work you've been doing on this, though. >> Sure do. >> And speaking of hard work, our next item will be Ann again presenting uh regarding the bond update. >> Yes. So, if you remember back in, I believe it was April, we had our financial advisors um Josh Mclofflin and Allison Long here and they um presented bond parameters for a bond refunding. So, I just wanted to present to you um the results of that. So, just kind of review of the parameters order that they presented. Um the savings had to be at least $2.1 million. The maximum interest rate
016could not exceed 4.10. The principal amount cannot exceed 38,9518. The final maturity would need to be August 15, 2042 and the refunding must be completed by April 20th of 2026. So on July 22nd, we um sold our unlimited tax refunding bonds 2025 and here are the results. We had a savings of4,832,418. The interest rate was 3.83%. The principal amount stayed the same, 38,9,518. The maturity um stayed the same. And as I just said, we did the refunding on July 22nd. And just some key points from this refunding. When Josh came in April, he had at that point in time, if we were to do a refunding, the savings would have been 1.67 million. And based on the sale that was, we were able to save 3.1 million more than he had mentioned when he he
017presented to you guys. And then also based on the results of our 25 refunding program and the prior refunding program and bond repayments that the districts has done, we've generated an aggregate savings of 37,727,520 for taxpayers since 2012. And then also by selling prior to September 1st, LDISD um is estimated to earn an additional $1.07 07 million of INS hold harmless funding and this is due to um Senate Bill 4 which increased the will increase the homestead exemption if that um voters approve that in November. And then also um that provides additional INS hold harmless funding for the district. And so by us by us being able to do the refunding prior to 91 that was a big savings for the district. And we also will not have to do a bond prepayment um which
018we normally bring to you this time of the year because again we're doing the savings with our refunding. >> Any questions? Any questions from the board? >> No ma'am. We all good. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> All right. Our next item is the 2025 2026 student handbook. Mr. Monica, >> good evening again. So last month or last month, yes, we brought you the student code of conduct, which is uh document to be board approved. Student handbook is not board approved, but it's also our guidelines, our day-to-day procedures. Um, and there were some updates here. So, we wanted to bring that to the board just to make you aware of those changes and the additions made to the student handbook. There are four major ones that we're going to talk about tonight. Uh, the first being
019parental rights to review instructional materials. This has always um been a component of how we operate. Parents can always access instructional materials. One specific thing laid out in the law of this legislation was instructional plan or the course syllabus. So currently the campuses are gathering those artifacts um kind of place them into one single um gathering place if you will so that makes it easy if a parent requests that and of course a parent can always request that individually from their teacher but we are in the process of creating a system for that to make it easy to make when the parent makes that request because that is by course by grade by subject area. Uh a new component to the handbook would be parent consent. So this uh requires that there is a written
020consent anytime a student opts to join a student club or organization. Uh and again this is a district form that they can access um through the campus or the individual sponsor of that club and this would include all student clubs. So Spanish club, FFA, robotics, the le the letter of the law says that any of those there must be parent consent when a student joins that organization. Another addition would be storage of firearms. So, uh, a new mandate that came out from the law is that three times a year we must, um, send out notice or a formal letter to parents educating them on how to store firearms, the potential dangers of that, and then the repercussions, um, if it falls into a student's hands, and this is also outlined in the student handbook as
021well. So, four times the parents are informed of this. And then finally, the Slack or the School Library Advisory Council. Dr. Sullivan um went into great deal detail on this last month. Uh so this is again restated in the handbook. There's actually an entire page um dedicated to this. But in a sense it lines out that we are forming a school library council. Parents can um have access to the library catalog which is found on our website. Just discover library media. There's a link there for parents to access the catalog. And of course, parents can even opt out of certain genres or articles that they would their parent their student not to participate in, which is also a practice we've had in place. There's a district form online on the same web page where parents
022can go to and that goes directly to the librarians and we can make a note in our system or of course parents can contact the librarians or campuses directly to make those choices or notify them of opting out of certain genres. Those are the additions to the student handbook, but I'm Happy to take any questions. >> Any questions or comments from the board? >> No, we're all good. Thanks, sir. >> All right. Our next item is a construction update from a friendly face and a familiar face, but not a baby face. >> Mr. Wes Cersil, how you doing? It is not a baby face, right? >> You should check your face and make sure it's not a baby face. Right. a long long time. >> Well, good evening, President Stacy, board trustees, Dr. Brown, thanks
023for the invite tonight. Um, would love to give you a a construction update. >> Well, you're always invited. >> You don't need an invitation. >> Oh, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> As far as I'm concerned, so >> Well, thank you, Mr. Stacy. Um, so this is our construction schedule. I think we last had a construction update. Was it February, March, somewhere around there? And, um, this really hasn't changed much. Um, August 24, we completed the band hall renovation, choir renovation. And so, uh, we completed that ready for school um, for for the last year. And then January 2025, we completed the tennis courts. Um we have completed the band hall expansion um high school classroom current tech renovation and the completion of the new current tech building. We are substantially complete on on
024all those all those components. We still have a couple things dragging that we'll talk about in a minute. Um but uh but for the most part we are substantially complete in those areas. Um we are still working on the performance hall renovation back of the house. Um, we're probably a couple weeks away from finishing that. Um, and the the TV studio as well. We're probably a couple weeks away from from completing that. I think we're on day 78, 78 or 79. Um, I don't think we've hit 80 yet. Um, from the time the students left, uh, that following Saturday, uh, we had 30 movers move about 25 classrooms. Um, our cafeteria looked like Office Depot there for all summer long. Um but uh um but again we're we're probably around day 79 uh in the
025construction schedule. So just to kind of give you a feel for um some current pictures. You may have been in um recently so these may not be anything new but um but it's it's good to see it's good to see the kids back. Um it's good to see the parents back. And so so that was taken open house and uh um a week before that that looked like Office Depot. And so uh so it's good to have everybody back um and ready to start school on Wednesday. Um so the career and tech building that picture was taken around February I think that's picture we shared with you during our last presentation. Um and then uh that's what the career and tech building looked like last week. So a pretty dramatic change obviously. Um there is
026the uh um the robotics lab with the two um um engineering classrooms uh computer classrooms in the background with a graphics package that came up a couple weeks ago. Looks really nice. Uh then there's farmtech. That's a farm techch classroom as well. Miss Claus tried to get in the picture, but she wasn't quick enough, I'm afraid. Um that's the uh the law library with Tristan's space um to the left. Uh that for the most part used to be just our old welding shop. And so we poked a couple windows in um and a portion of that came um is is the wall classroom. And then you can see the welding um the welding lab as well with Jason Lee. It looks it looks really nice. We've talked a couple times. It already smells like a
027welding. We haven't they haven't welded anything, but it always smells like a welding welding place, but um but anyway, it looks looks really nice. Um fire academy. You can see our mark ambulance um with our our own graphics package. Um and then the bunker room to the right with with the bunker lockers as well. Looks really nice. Um this is the food lab. Now, this was taken Thursday or Friday um of last week. We do have all our appliances in as of today and so um so we're good to go. I think we're dragging a few storage cabinets um in uh in one space, but um I think those will be showing up hopefully tomorrow, but but uh we're pretty much finished in this space as well. Um this is Kylie Butler's uh computer repair
028space. Um kind of two views. Uh we have I think 15 workbenches and then a big workbench in the middle uh for for group projects. Uh that's uh Ann Haj's career and tech lab. We have four identical labs. Um a little bit more than a thousand square feet. They're good size space. I think one of the the meetings that that I was in early on um talking to the students when they brought the high school students in. We had a meeting with the high school students, the first one, and one of the complaints was the computer labs were small and uh and so uh so our computer labs are now are now spacious in this space, which is really nice. And then uh and then to the right um we replaced the last of the
029glass block um of the 1998 version building. And uh and so that's that's um those windows have been replaced on both the twotory um stairwells. And so uh so there's a picture of the before and after. Um so so the before was um 19 uh 2019 and before building was built in 1998 and that's what the front of the building looked like. And so um so this project this process started seven years ago. Seven last seven years ago summer seven years ago uh in which we we hired BLK. We did a facilities assessment uh that fall um had um long range facility planning committee um which Frank Graham and and Jinger Collier chaired. Brought that to the board that following December. Board called the election. Um and the election went to the voters uh that
030May and we're very appreciative of the voters. We're very appreciative of the taxpayers um because this this is this is big for our school district. Not only this, that included obviously the first renovation of the high school, the second renovation of the high school, um a full renovation of Krenth Elementary, um a fieldhouse for the middle school, an indoor practice facility. Security was absolutely a huge component of this. And so after we left, even in the first phase, every school had a a secured vest bowl, which this the that's that was the front of the high school right there. You walk across the hall and and uh and and see the receptionist. And so huge improvements, huge improvements as far as cameras go, um electronic locks. Um that was our big first phase that that
031first uh that first go around. Um but it's it's been a huge effort. Um there's been a lot of people involved. Um our friends from BLK, Jennifer Workman, Matt Crowley, Mark Gestner, um they've been they've been on the second phase been a huge they're they're architects and uh anytime you renovate a building, uh it's a little more difficult than a new build. And so renovating this building has has uh has been interesting, but we've been able to correct a lot of the things that we needed to renovate um through construction, which is which is great. Uh Crossland is our contractors. Um they've been they've been great. Um from Derek Clure, um uh Robert Cortez has been the job superintendent and I think he's I don't think he's taken a day off last month. Um and
032his staff, Robert, um Riley Cummings, Cummings, Ryan Payne, Phil Garcia, Zack Murphy. Um our construction meetings are 10 to 12 people and we're having them weekly. We have them had had them start weekly probably in May. Um Miss Aina has been a huge part of that. Um she's she's well during the first phase she was she was the one who um helped mitigate tons of of construction um things that we had to deal with water, electricity staff um so forth and so on. And remember that first phase uh was renovated during during the COVID time. So, um, so thank you for for all your help getting us through this. Um, Jimmy's been a part of it. He's at he's been at every construction meeting for the first phase and the second phase. He's been a
033little busy, so he's missed one or two in the the past month, but um, but a huge part of it as well. Um, going into this process, just thanks thanks to the teachers, we had a huge needs assessment. Um, probably a couple months, I think we met with with pretty much every teacher once, maybe twice. Um Molly was part of that. Um the architects were part of that. Just making sure and the and the question was what does the perfect classroom look for you? Sky's the limit, you know, and and so we got a lot of input and a lot of that translated into into the design. Um and uh and so again, this has been a a big a big project. Um we are substantially complete. Um again, we are the performance hall. were
034probably a couple weeks away. The TV studio a couple weeks away. Um the the back area we got slowed down. Believe it or not, it it rained in June this year and uh and so that slowed us down in the back of the building. So, our back entryway will be open for for our our students to arrive on um on Wednesday. We're not going to be complete. We're probably a week to week and a half away. You'll see some grass at the end of this week. We've um have some planters back there. Um you'll see some trees and it'll really take shape within the next week, but the the back of the building will be open for our students on Wednesday. Um and then the entry coming into the uh uh the football field, we're
035we're two or three weeks weeks away from finishing that, but we should be good for the first day of school or first first home game. So uh so that's just a brief synopsis of of where we are. Um um the building's ready to go. I mean, we still have some things. We're not we're not finished. We're absolutely not finished, but um but the building's ready for for our students to to come back on Wednesday. So, be happy to answer any questions you may have. >> Any questions or comments from the board? I bet Miss Collier does. >> Yeah, I just want to say thanks. It's just it has been really cool to see this from just the the talking from I can't believe it's been seven years ago when you said that. I was like,
036"Wow." From seven years ago to walking through it the other day. I just wish we had some little rubber duckies wearing little lab coats or something like that. Little tiny potty cacti or something decorated. >> We'll work on that. >> Yeah. >> I'm sure the shower heads and everything have been installed in there too, right? >> Yes, absolutely. >> Mr. Barry will like that one. >> Are there portable? They can be moved. It's good. Handheld. As long as they come with a couple of couple of vice grips or something in you, right? If you know, you know, right? >> All right. Well, thank you, Mr. Eversol. Appreciate it. >> Appreciate it. >> All right. Now, we can move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda are those routine items that can be handled in
037one motion and vote. Is there any questions or comments regarding the consent agenda? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve by Mrs. Collier. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Smith. There's no further discussion. All those in favor of approval, please show. Thank you. That passes. Forget he's down there. He's always so quiet. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. We'll move on to our action items. The first of which is consideration approval of Lake Dallas ISD district of Innovation Plan. Mr. Monica, welcome. Glad to have you back. All right. Uh so yes, today we're going to look at the district of innovation plan. There are some updates based on the legislation that we need to bring to you guys and have approval. So because of primarily House Bill
038six, um there were several things we didn't I say several, there's only two things that really affected us in the district innovation plan, but House Bill six specifically said uh anything pertaining to chapter 37, so discipline law and order uh needs to be pulled or exempted from the district innovation plan. So there really only two components of our current plan that deal with that. Uh one that we talked about with the student code of conduct, the campus behavior coordinator. So if you remember um in the past we uh the district was innovative in that we took that law and basically said well this will be any administrator any assistant principal or principal on a campus. Well with the passing of I think two or house bill six one of the two said that you have
039to have one designated campus behavior coordinator which is our campus principal meaning this must be removed from our district innovation plan. So that's the first component, just removing the campus behavior coordinator clause there. The second being armed security guards. Uh if you remember, it seems very long ago, but I think it was just a couple years ago when the law passed about armed security at each campus. Um we've come obviously a long way because now we we do we have our own police force and armed security at every campus. But in the inception of this uh we had we wanted to put in some flexibility there. We had the good clause exemption uh resolution brought to the board. But then also we put in this clause in our district innovation plan just trying to um
040adhere to every aspect of the law in case of an unfortunate event. But this allowed us to if there was an event at a campus and say officer moved to one campus to another, it gave us some flexibility and coord and control into move an officer. Right? If we pulled one from LDE and we wanted to pull one at the high school just because of the number of students or the uh this allowed us to do that again now because we obviously have our own police force um and we have officers at every campus but this component too would also come out. The last piece isn't a change that we're doing right now, but just kind of a conversation piece and awareness coming up uh al with house bill two. Um eventually it'll do away
041with district of innovation teachers, the DOI teachers. Um, so we don't have too many of those, but essentially what this allowed us to do as a district, if we have teachers that um have workforce experience or college experience, we could put them in a classroom um in a case where they don't have a certification or pending their certification. Um eventually this two will come off. So it basically mandates the reduction of uncertified teachers in course subject area. So by fall of next year, a year from now, that would be K kindergarten through math, math and reading. And then two years from now, it would be all subject areas, core subject areas. So just again, this isn't coming off for now, but eventually we are working towards this where all our teachers and our cert areas
042will be certified in the next couple years. And this two will have to come out for the district innovation plan. Those are the like I said two changes that are happening. This one will be down the road. I just want to make you aware of that. Any questions on that? >> Thanks, sir. Any questions or comments from the board? >> If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> Uh, I move to approve the district innovation plan as presented. >> Got a motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? >> Second, Mr. Bartley. Thank you. Is there any further discussion or questions? If not, all those in favor of approval, please manifest. And that passes unanimous. All right, we'll move on to our next item, which is uh consideration approval of consideration approval of
043request for purchase of HVAC. >> Right. This is where the fund begins. We could talk about maintaining buildings and landscaping and mowing. Um so yes uh David American and I are director of facilities. We've worked pretty hard very hard over the last six months to uh put together these requests um primarily two large bids going out for heating and um AC services preventive maintenance um for our entire district as well as the controls of those of that equipment and then a second one here in a second but it'll be for grounds for the district. So for this one, the HVAC systems, yes, we went out for um a contract really it's two in one in the same bid, but the first contract being for services to uh tend to and preventative maintenance of our equipment
044uh across the district. And we're actually very intentional in that request and we let contractors know that we would um one split up the services. So there's the service of the equipment and then there's also the services of the control or the building automated services of the equipment and we've even broken it down by location. So very specific and that's for the benefit of the district. We can piece it out based on uh quality of work and even the efficiency of the work and then price of the work control or contract to within that same bid would be the controls like I said the building building automated system. um come to find out that um and we all know this I mean maintaining that equipment the preventive maintenance behind it is the counterpart of that
045that is just as important are the controls and sisters that monitor and adjust that equipment throughout the day um for this agreement it is a five-year term that renews um each year of course unless the contractor or the district would like to move on but it's a fiveyear renew it's a renewal every one year for up to five There was an evaluation criteria for each of the contractors that put in for the bid and you can see the breakdown here. The majority of being price for the services. Um qualifications to meet the needs, reputation, references and then of course um just the qualifications to meet the needs in the best interest of the district. So as far as the services to our heating and ventilation AC systems, you can see the breakdown here. There's two
046primary groups as far as the preventive maintenance and the services, efficient facilities international, Inc. and RPM, reliable plant maintenance. Um, we are we currently contract with RPM on several of our buildings, but you can see the breakdown here. Uh, EFI, they'll have the high school, Shady Shores, Corinth, the Lake Dallas ISD event center is the new, well, it's the old Thousand Hills church that property there. So that's when you see that on these bids, that's for now what we're calling that space. Uh and then the other three would be go to go to RPM, the middle school, Lake Dallas Elementary, uh central services building, so the building we're in here, and then all our auxiliary. So the bus barn and the transport or transportation building and our uh maintenance and facilities building. And like I
047said, within that bid, there was a separate um contract for the controls behind all this equipment. Uh TDI, you can see there, they they won outright on on all aspects of our uh building automated system. TDI is a long-standing um pillar in this industry. Uh we work with them currently. They do a great job. They do a great job of quality. Uh and of course the price there too, it it well beat out the other competitors. So, as far as the controls go, um, our recommendation to the board is that that still stays with TDI throughout the entire district. Any questions on this? >> Have any questions or comments from the board? >> If not, I will entertain a motion on this item. I move to approve as stated. I have a motion to approve
048by Mr. Bear. Do I have a second? >> A second by Miss Collier. Is there any further discussion? Not. All those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Our next item is consideration approval of request for purchase of landscaping services for Lake Dallas ISD facilities. >> Yes, sir. >> Mr. Monica, >> go to the top of the building to the bottom. Uh so yes, now we're same process uh request for services for landscaping and grounds maintenance for the entire district. Um so in this just that uh we did the ex same process though where we um split it out by location again for the benefit of the district so that we could be uh the most selective get the best quality we want and um at a price that is
049efficient for the district to still maintain our facilities and make them look nice. Uh same pro or same um termination there if you will. It's a five-year agreement every that will renew every year. And then same criteria as the HVAC services, the majority being price, qualifications to maintain and tend to the grounds of the district, reputation and references, and of course the extent that they can do those qualities that meet the needs of the district. So again, we split it out by location. There was two main groups that um had the highest criteria and evaluations according to our committee. Yellowstone landscape central you see they took the high school and the high school proper and the athletic complex. So they would have the high school main building um the grounds around CTE all our athletic
050facilities at the high school and the DAP building right there across the street. They'll also have Shady Shores Elementary which if you remember you have Shady Shores and that large lot in the back. So still a lot to maintain there. Uh the rest of the district, you can see the list there, would still be maintained in the Mainscape. Mainscape's who we um contract with now. They do a great job. Um you hear them every Monday up here. Um especially before a board meeting. Um and they do a good job out there. They have good quality service and of course um this is the recommendation moving forward that we split the locations of the district between these two contractors. Any questions on this? >> All right. Any questions, Mr. Bear? I know that the specs for
051this was uh that they were going to hire more than one. They were the the district was looking to have two different companies. Um how did how did they decide the difference? How did they decide that Yellowstone would take the two campuses that they got or the two things they got and Mainscape would take the rest? Did they bid all of those separately? >> Yes, sir. They gave a quote for each location. So the price, it probably came down to price. >> We took that into consideration. And then also when you think about just the location where those are, you know, we didn't want to have somebody trying to maintain, not that we have a large district land mass wise, but coming across the highway or different parts of the day, but we try to
052keep them located close to each other. But yes, the the primary thing there was the price. And yes, it was broken down by location. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Yes, sir. >> Any other questions or comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion on this item. >> I move to approve as presented. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? I'll second a second by Mr. Bay. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you very much. Our next item is consideration approval of authorization to publish the proposed budget, tax rate, and notice of public meeting to discuss budget and tax rate for the 2025 school year. Miss Han, how are you? >> Hi again. >> Good to see you. >>
053Yeah. So, um the district is required to advertise a notice that um gives the indicate the date and time of our public meeting to discuss the budget and the proposed tax rate. And within that notification, um it must be published in a daily, weekly or bi-weekly paper. And the notice is to be published no earlier than the 30th day or later than the 10th day before the hearing date. And as I mentioned earlier, our public meeting will be August 25th. And our proposed tax rate is general fund um 7552 debt service.5 for a total proposed tax rate of 1.2552. And this proposed tax rate represents the same tax rate um as last year. So I'm just asking for you to authorize um the notice. And you also have the actual notice in your packet as
054well. >> Any questions? >> There you go. There any questions from the board? All right. If not, I will entertain a motion on this item. I move to authorize the publishing of the proposed tax rate not to exceed 1.2552 and the notice of the public meeting to discuss the budget and tax rate for the 2025 2026 school year which is scheduled to be held on August 25th. >> All right. I have a motion to approve as stated by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Bartley. Thank you very much. Is any further discussion on this item? If not, all those in favor of approve approval, please indicate and that passes unanimous. Thank you. And our last action item is consideration andor action to approve an agreement uh for the purchase of
055attendance credit option three agreement to and to delegate contractual authority to the superintendent. Does that sound like a good idea? >> It does. >> All right. Well, let's hear it. >> Okay. Um, so basically this is our chapter 49 wealth sharing or as you probably know better as um, recapture, which we've been doing now for a few years. So districts with wealth above the guaranteed yield of 49.72 per weighted average daily attendance are subject to wealth reduction provisions of chapter 48 and 49 of the Texas Education Code. And to equalize um the district's ability to generate the revenue, the state requires them to reduce their wealth by choosing one of five wealth sharing options. So the first option is to consolidate by agreement. Um, school board of two or more districts may agree to consolidate
056in order to create a new district. Or school boards could detach an annex by agreement where two or more districts would detach property from one school and attach it to another. Option three, purchase of attendance credits. A district with wealth above um the required statutory threshold may purchase attendant attendance credits from the state. And this is the option that most um districts use and we've also used this one in the past. A fourth option is to contract for education of non-resident students. Um we could go into agreement with a qualifying district to pay for the cost of educating students in that district. And the last option is a tax base consolidation. school boards of two or more districts could agree to conduct an election to create a consolidated taxing district for the M of the
057two school districts. So tonight we're recommending option three which is the purchase of attendance credits. Um and again as I said earlier that's the option that most school districts that are identified as chapter 49 districts use. Any questions? All right. Any questions or comments from the board? >> Pretty straightforward. We do this all the time, right? >> Yes, we do. And there is specific language also for this motion. >> All right. If there's no further discussion, I'll entertain a motion on this one. >> Motion for the 25 for the 2025 2026 school year. We delegated contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code TEC 11.1511C4 to the superintendent solely for the purpose of obligating the district under TEC 48.257 and TEC chapter 49 subchapters A and D and the rules adopted by
058the commissioner of education as authorized under TEC 49.006. 006. This included approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit, the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit netting chapter 48 funding or the agreement for purchase of attendance credit and netting chapter 48 funding. >> Okay. So, I have a motion to approve as stated by Miss Collier. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Second by Mr. Smith. All right. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that is unanimous pass. >> I really should get some fruit salad for that. It's kind of yummy. Yummy. >> Have a Hershey candy. All right, we'll move on to our next item, which is our upcoming meetings and events. Dr. Brown. >> Yes, sir. The most important
059thing coming up is on Wednesday, all of our kids come back to school, which is very exciting. If you want to uh go to your adopted campus and open doors and greet kids, let us know. We'd be happy to have you uh volunteer some help, all the help we can get on those days. You also have a meet the Falcons on the 22nd and our next board meeting is on the 25th. >> All right. Thank you very much for that information, Dr. Brown. Um our next item is executive session. We will wave that and we'll move on to our next item, which is adjournment. I appreciate y'all's attendance and thank you very much. It is 7 27. I was trying to get like you missed it. >> Say the great state of Texas. >> Why
060should you adjourns us in this great state of Texas?