001We'll [Music] call our meeting to order the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees for it is July 21st, 2025. Uh all members are present and we do have a quorum established. So right now I'd like to ask everybody to join the board in a moment of silence. Thank you very much. We'll move on to the uh pledges of allegiance and we're going to ask uh Molly Aalino to lead us in that. show a flash of brilliance if you don't mind >> to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nationice for alliance to the Thanks, Molly. We'll have to learn your cadence, though. >> Sorry. >> I know. >> Totally off. >> We're so used to Carla's cadence and inflection that >> we can add
002practice sessions. >> We'll do that once a month. >> Okay. >> Does that sound good? Once a month. Okay. Uh, we'll move on to our next item, which is our introductions. And oddly enough, Molly Avalino, HR director. >> Thank you. First off, I'd like to introduce Michaela Pile on up here. And Michaela is joining the team at Lake Dallas High School as the director of bands. She's already actually on board, but we're introducing her now. Falcon band is started back this week, right? Yes. In full swing. So most recently she has been employed at Guyire High School and Frisco ISD prior to that. An educator since 2018, Miss Pow graduated from Baylor with a bachelor's degree in music education and is currently pursuing her mers in music education at Southern Methodist University. Uh she's local
003in the neighborhood and has grown up in Argal, Texas. So we are super excited to have you join the team. Congratulations [Applause] over there and look beautiful for a moment. Next, I would like to introduce Mr. Drake Lawson. Good evening. Mr. Lawson is also joining the team at Lake Dallas High School as our newest assistant principal. He spent the last four years in Denton ISD at Harpool Middle School working with Dr. Gindle, who you've already met, and uh serving as teacher, department head, and intern administrator. He's earned his bachelor's from, his masters at TWWU, and most recently his principal certification at Lamar University. A native of Corinth, he's grown up close to us as well, and we are very excited to have him join the Lake Dallas ISD team. Congratulations, [Applause] Welcome aboard. Well, to
004the help. >> All right, welcome. Welcome guys. We we're glad to have you. Our next item is executive session. in the open session of the meeting will adjourn and the board of trustees will reconvene an 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 vote on a matter deliberated in executive session and it is 5:34 I give them to Lance. Lance gave them to somebody else. [Music] What question? [Music] All [Music] right. [Music] Hello. [Music] Hello. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] That's amazing. [Music] I know. I'm like, it's okay. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Sorry. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Okay. [Music] All right. All right. [Music]
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006Yeah, that that would be better. It reminds me like music in like a training class in between their little speeches or whatever. That music comes on and you're just like [Music] Okay. Okay. >> All right. Now that our uh vice president is back from getting her toenails done, we can restart. It is 6:05 and our next item is public comment. >> Do we have anybody signed up for public comments? We have nobody signed up for public comment. So, we'll move on to our information items. The first of which is the 2023. Is that correct? >> Okay. We've talked about this. So, I just want to make sure the 2023 taxable value audit findings and we're going to hear from there she is Ann Han, our CFO. Hi, Ann. >> Good evening, President Stacy. Dr. Brown.
007So, tonight we have the honor of having Dr. Missy Pope and Dr. Billy Walker from Pope Audit Firm here to talk about taxable value audits that they've been doing for the district. They're going to tell you about all the details. One thing I just want to say, it's resulted in additional revenue for the district. So, it's a win for me. So, I will let them take over. >> Thank you. >> Welcome. I am Dr. Walker. This is Dr. Pope. Um, and thank you. I uh I was just saying as we walked in the door, my first interaction with Lake Dallas ISD was in December of 2001 in San Antonio at the TAFS annual state convention when I met the doc the Tom Davenport and Wes Eversaw and uh so I have been friends with them
008a long time through Impact aid. I still serve as the executive director for the group and uh it's my first time to be here so I'm happy to be here. I was just counting up. This is my 46th year in public education in Texas. I retired as superintendent at Randolph Field, Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio. And uh before that, I was at Colleen as assistant superintendent for business. So been doing this a little while. And when I retired, um I had looked at some things to do in retirement because you can't retire, you refocus. And I was on the board for Texas Class, which is an investment pool in Texas. And and when I retired, I did a little consulting for them and at one of the conferences, they said, "You got to
009meet Missy Pope. Who's that?" Well, they explained to me and I had got introduced to her uh and they were telling me about taxable value audits. I said, like I hear from many superintendents and business people today, that's too good to be true, but it actually is. So the only work that I do in retirement besides grandkids is TAUS and Pope Audit Group because I believe in this because it's the real deal. And for you over since October of 2018, you've realized $2.3 million from the work that we do. And so basically what a taxable value audit is, I'm just going to kind of summarize what you have here. Um basically it's a way it's in state law. It's in the administrative code 9.103. 103. It allows school districts to try to maximize the value
010that you have. You know that the higher your local values are, the less money you get from the state. And so your local appraisal district sends a value from Lake Dallas ISD to the comprollers's office. The comprollers's office massages the numbers and they come up with a certified value that they send to tea which TEA pays you off that certified value from the comproller. Well, the state law allows the district to challenge those numbers. And basically in a nutshell what happens is there's 23 categories in the state. You probably don't fall in all of them but they come up with state average. If your values are higher than state average, Dr. Pope works to get you to the state average which lowers your value, which means test time, more state money. Okay? And so that's
011what we've done for the district. Um I think we've done 10 audits since October of 18. She does every audit that she can. Uh, and basically it the process um it's it's a little bit of a lengthy process because from the time your local appraisal district sends the uh values to the comprollers's office, they go through about a year of massaging the numbers until they come up with that certified value. Once they come up with the certified values, she does her work. She gets all the the information from the appraisal district. She goes to work for you um and many other districts in the state. She's 25 years in the business. She helped pioneer this in the state 25 years ago or so. And so she uh she knows what she's doing. Um but basically
012once they get the numbers, you know what happens in the local appraisal district. You have challenges. You have appeals. Um sometimes the values change. There's there's all different things that happen during this time until you get the final value. But once we get the final value, then we go to work for you to try to to get your numbers to be as accurate uh as they can be to get the most state revenue for you. So that in a nutshell is the work that we do. I think you have a handout, Dr. Brown. Um and you can see at the summary of the work that we've done for you and you can see the amount of revenue that we've gotten for you on each one of of these audits. So, just try to to nutshell
013it for you and not try to go too deep. I will tell you this too. I'm impressed things are going well in the district because there's nobody here. I know when I was superintendent, I know, don't challenge. When I was superintendent, I came in and saw people, I go, it's cheerleader tryyout season. So, any questions that we have that I could help you with? >> Thanks, sir. Is there any questions or comments from the board? >> We really appreciate working for y'all. It's it's an honor and a privilege. And Lake Dallas is is dear to my heart. I will tell you that Wes Eversol and I have spent many, many, many hours together at various conferences and doing thing. He was a a true champion, still is for y'all in 72 the land districts. Take
014just a minute. He may have told y'all for every dollar you lose in Lake Louisville, you get eight cents back from the federal government. >> Eight whole cents, huh? >> Yeah. And we fight for that. For from 2001 until four years ago, every president's budget tried to zero out 707 and we fought for it. So even though I was a military child, part 873, we still fought for it. West Wes would go with us. We visited six districts in San Antonio. Wes was right there with us. everyone he could be and I was with him at anyone I could be. So y'all are kind of near and dear to my heart. >> Thank you. Wes is the goat. So that's that's way we refer to him. You can check that. >> All right. >> We
015appreciate it. That's it. You're off the hook. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank y'all. >> Our next item is the 2025 2026 employee handbook. Molly Eveino, our executive director of HR will present this item. >> Hello again. Thank you, Dr. Brown. President Stacy trustees, we're going to just present a few changes in the handbook tonight. As a reminder, Lake Dallas ISD uses the TASBY model handbook as the annual employee handbook. Even though it was a legislative year, there are to this date very few changes to the employee handbook despite all the other changes that we'll be talking about soon. Uh it is a working document and so can change throughout the year as we bring other updates back to you. So the quick highlights are that we have added a new topic describing the process
016for initiation and request for employees who are requesting accommodations for a disability and that's under an ADA accommodation section where they have a form they fill out and request and allows the the HR department and and the campus or department to determine that need and how we can best support our employees who have requests for accommodation. We have added a requirement annually to review the TEA clearing house and update our professional development plan and local considerations so that we're keeping track of professional development. In December of 2024, the state added a mental health education requirement for all staff members that interact with students. So, you'll see that and employees are currently getting the majority of that content through our compliance modules that are completed before the first day of instruction each year. And last but
017not least, but we have deleted the words nicotine products from the first paragraph. Nar tobacco and nicotine products and ecigarette use. And that's to uh not prohibit employees using nicotine cessation devices or products. >> Any questions? >> Thank you. Is there any questions or comments from the board? It sounds pretty simple. I appreciate it. And oh, and thank you for helping us honor America in the great state of Texas today. >> Thank you. I'll work on the timing. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um, okay. Our next item is the 2025 2026 budget presentation. We're going to hear from Ann Han. There she is. Perfect timing. Hello again. So, tonight we're just going to continue our budget discussion that we've been doing for the last several months. Um, we have we have had to shift
018everything since later in the agenda is um approval for compensation. we had to kind of shift the overall budget for child nutrition and general funds specifically um so we can include payroll. So that will be taken to you guys in August 11th. We will bring federal programs and then again um debt service, general fund and food service for the final budget update in August 11th before we bring it to you for your final approval at our August 25th meeting where you will adopt the tax rate and adopt the budget for those three required funds. So slides that I've shown you many times, you could probably repeat these in your sleep. Um but it is very important just for everybody to remember that the state funding does follow the students. Our foundation school program establishes how
019much state funding we receive. Um and that's basically funded by the number of students that come to school every day. And again, it's comprised of several different um district characteristics, student characteristics, and again, the number of students in average daily attendance, enrollment, and full-time equivalent students. A few other key points to remember is that revenue um per student is determined by state funding formulas. And since 2019, the basic aotment had been $6,160. Well, that changed this LA last legislative session and it was increased by $55 and so it's now at $6,215. And again, there's additional weights on top of that for various things. Um, special ed, compensatory ed, those are additional weights, but just for the basic regular education student, it's $6,215. Also, TEA is who calculates our maximum compressed tax rate. We don't determine
020the tax rate. That's determined by TEA. And just initial calculations, we're really not anticipating our tax rate um to change much. We're hoping it will stay pretty similar to what it was the last year. And also another reminder that even if higher we receive higher property values, that does not mean that we receive overall more revenue. the when state when local revenue increases then our state funding will decrease. They kind of counterbalance each other. So just looking at where we ended this last fiscal year in general fund balance. Um general fund balance is just kind of a cash management tool. How we pay our bills function dayto day. uh one of the main things monthtomonth that's our biggest cost is payroll and then also just ongoing educational programs that the district provides and then onetime
021expenditures. Um a few months back we brought a budget amendment to you guys for some one-time expenditures that we paid for and bought out of this fiscal year. Um and we ended our 2324 audit with around 14.3 million in fund balance. TEA baseline is 25% of annual expenditures which is around 10.4 million. So we do have additional funds but again we brought to you some onetime expenditures and then also we have our Apple lease that we've entered into that um will more than likely come out of fund balance as well. a first look at just general revenue for the 2526 year. We're anticipating an increase overall, but in terms of local revenue, again, that will be our property taxes, which we just kind of had to do an estimate since we have not received our
022certified values yet. But we're anticipating a slight decrease there. Enrollment has declined and we budgeted with a slightly lower ADA number for the 2526 year. So that will affect our our amounts. Interest revenue. There's been a slight decrease. We've kept athletic revenue about the same. And then we've also um added revenue that will be generated from our facility rentals. You see a almost two over 2.8 8 million increase in state revenue. Now, that's going to be due to the additional aotments that the state is funding us for, the teacher retention aotment, which we'll talk about a little later um when I'm up here again, and also our support staff aotment. Those are all new with this last last legislative session that will be provided to us with our state payment. So, that's why there's actually
023such a big increase um in state funding. But again, local and state, those numbers are based off of certified property values. And so those could very well change once we receive those um no later than the 25th of this month. Federal revenue, there's a slight decrease. Um our SHs payments have not been where they were a few years ago. They've put a lot of rules and regulations into place and so we don't receive as much funding in that program as we have in the past. And then also with indirect cost, um, our SR funding went away and so we won't be receiving as much in indirect cost for our child nutrition program. Um, for the second year, we were approved to operate under community eligibility provision, which is a great program to operate under because
024that allows us to feed all of our elementary school students breakfast and lunch at no cost, which is a huge plus for our community. And then also for the 2526 year, we're going to keep secondary prices the same at $2 for breakfast and $3.35 for lunch. Again, as I said earlier, um just kind of a look at our tax rate over the several years, if it holds true as it's looking just through estimations and it stays the same. This will be the third year in a row that the tax rate has remained at a$126. Again, that's just preliminary estimations, but that's kind of where calculations are coming in for tax rate. Any questions? Thank you, Ann. Is there any questions or comments from the board >> in our secondary lunch program? >> Um I'm sorry,
025I have a question. >> Okay. >> In our secondary lunch program, um I know when we had I think more people were more aware of it maybe in um elementary, but I haven't seen anything come this year of anybody offering to help pay anybody's debt, lunch debt. Do we have some kids with lunch debt that maybe community members if they're looking for something might want to help pay some kids lunch debt? >> Yes, I don't have that exact number, but yes, every year um basically general fund has to cover any negative balances in child nutrition account. And so that would be greatly appreciated if the community >> I think it's just community's kind of maybe forgotten about a little bit just because The elementary is all eating for free, but our secondary still isn't. >>
026Correct. >> So, okay. Thank you. >> Any other questions or comments? All right, that's it. Appreciate it. Thank you. >> 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 on the consent agenda? If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Applebee. Thank you. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. That passes unanimous. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to our action items. The first of which is consideration approval of TASBY delegate and alternate for TASBY delegate assembly. Dr. Brown. >> Yes, sir. It's that time of
027year. So, you have in your packets uh the information about the delegate. You guys have done this several times though, so you're very aware. So, we just need you guys to tell us who is your delegate and who is your alternate to represent you at the Tacit Tasby event in uh September. Uh, we just need you to let us know who will represent you. >> That's what I'm waiting on. >> Is there any compensation for this? >> No. Okay. Mr. Bar, you good with it? >> It's usually I think it's usually on the Friday. >> Okay, Mr. Bar. >> Yes, sir. >> Mr. Bair will >> Yeah, he's and I think Yeah, >> the alternate >> I think Mr. Bartley's fine with that, too, right? You're good with that? Okay, appreciate it. They say there's
028no compensation, but that you will be paid in spicy peanuts. >> Free what? >> Oh boy. >> Does include green M&M's in the box? No. >> I believe there are fortune cookies that have absurd fortunes in them. >> Okay. >> Only if you're a good Teletubby. So, we're looking for So, if we're looking for a motion uh regarding the nominations for Mr. Barrett and Mr. Bartley, do I have a motion? >> Motion to approve. >> Approve Mr. Bar >> as the delegate >> delegate Mr. Bartley >> as the alternate for the TASBY delegate assembly. Thank you. >> Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Tucker. Is there any further discussion? Thank you. All those in favor of approval, please indicate and that passes unanimous. A lot of boxes to check. All right. Our
029next item for action to be taken is consideration approval of the 2025 2026 employee compensation plan and pay increases. Um, is this all about you tonight? Nope. >> For now. Yeah. >> At this moment. >> I know John's on the agenda again. >> He is. He is. >> All right. Thanks, Ann. >> Okay. So, tonight we bring to you our recommendation for 2526 employee compensation. There was a lot going on in legislation this year um in terms of employee compensation. And so just to kind of walk you through the different the scenario that we're presenting, we'll first start with teacher raises for the teacher retention aotment. The estimated amount that we will receive for that is from the state is $1,784,000. And that will give every teacher on with three and four years experience $4,000
030and those with five plus years experience um $8,000. Sorry, I want to make sure I'm saying the right thing here. And then our recommendation to you for all other staff that is on a pay plan, which is our auxiliary pay plan, our clerical par pay plan, and then our administrative professional pay plan is a combination of a 2% of midpoint and a 3% of midpoint. And the 3% of midpoint would be for all of those employees who are on the auxiliary paygrades and the clerical parah pay grades. That equates to um around $180,000 for a 3% midpoint increase for those staff members. The 2% is for those who are on the administrative and professional pay grades. And we've broken those up into two different groups based on the support staff a lotment. Um we have
031our professional staff who are non-administrators and that would be your um diagnosticians, counselors, librarians, nurses. Um they would qualify for the support staff a lotment. And then the other group of the administrative professionals is those who are truly administrators, assistant principles, principles, directors. They do not qualify. So that's why we've broken that into the 60,800 for the professionals non-administrative and then the administrators that are not eligible for the support staff allotment of 55,000. Again, the state is going to be giving us the 1,784,000 for the teacher retention aotment and then we will also be receiving $129,000 for the support staff aotment. And with the combination of the auxiliary pay increase, the professional non-man non-admin pay increase and the teachers who are not eligible for the teacher retention aotment, which is basically those teachers on steps
0320, one, and two, we will spend more than what we're required to spend for the support staff allotment. That's the $270,000 number. So overall the combination of the raises for teachers and we'll look at that salary schedule here in just a minute and then the 2% increase midpoint increase for admin professional staff and 3% midpoint pay increase for clerical parah and auxiliary staff is a cost of the district of around $200,000. So I know this is kind of small but this is our um proposed teacher salary schedule for the 2526 year. We are giving only the teacher retention allotment raise to those teachers. And so teacher retention aotment does not affect steps zero, one or two. And so that's why we are giving an additional $610 plus $500 if they are a certified teacher. And
033that will begin have our beginning teacher pay at $60,000. And then you can see it goes down from there. Once you hit steps three and four, you get the $4,000. And then five plus, you get the $8,000. We wanted to break it down for you guys like this so you could easily understand um how we came up with the numbers. So for a non-certified teacher in years 01, and two, their pay would be lower. Any questions? >> Do we have any questions or comments from the board? >> If not, uh, appreciate it. Thanks, Ann. Um, if we don't have any questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion on this item. Is that you Aaron? Okay, Mr. Applebee with the motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bartley. Thanks. Is there any
034further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. I just want to say thank you for all the hard work you've been doing on that and running numbers and running numbers and running numbers. We do we really do appreciate it. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. Thank you. >> It does not go unseen. >> Thank you. All right, our next item is consideration of the 2025 2026 student code of conduct. And we're going to hear from our chief operations officer, Mr. John Monica. Good evening. >> Good evening, Dr. President Stacy, Dr. Brown, board. Uh so yes, on the heels of any legislative session, you there's obviously a lot of updates to policy procedures, handbooks. Um so you'll hear a lot from myself and Dr. Oolen tonight on some
035of the new policies that are in place or even the uh recommended changes to current policies based on the most recent legislation. So the first being the student code of conduct. This has actually been included in your packet. Uh this comes out every two years following a legislative session. You are welcome to peruse that 60-page document at your own leisure. Tonight, I'm just going to give you the highlights, the ones that um really affect our change, our day-to-day operations, specifically our campuses and student discipline. So, those are the ones I want to bring to your attention as far as the summary changes. Uh the first being really it's a a verb change if or verbage change if you will. So in the past um in the student cond student code of conduct there had to
036be campus behavior coordinators and the law allowed multiple on a campus where with this last legislative legislation they made it very clear that only one single person needs to be that CBC or campus behavior coordinator. So that's a change you'll see in the handbook. Um in our case here in our district it'll most likely be the campus principal. So there really is no practice change there. The campus principal is always involved in discipline and always essentially manages and oversees it and the other administrators help administer discipline overseat as well. But in this case, one single person has to be named as the campus behavior coordinator and that'll be our campus principal on each campus. Um, another line added for student discipline um, as far as an infraction is any behavior or um, something that violates
037code of conduct motivated by anti-semitism. So that's a new line in there in our student code of conduct and that'll be in our reflected in our discipline matrix as well. Uh a new line item as far as prohibited items would be a short barrel firearm which might be a little confusing because yes all firearms or weapons are prohibited on a campus. Um this was had to be specifically named because in another bill it removed it from a list of primitive items. So they had to add it to the actual list in chapter 37. So it was always primitive but it has to be listed by name. it's been taken out of another list and moved by another bill. That makes sense. So either way, this was always prohibited, but they have to call it out
038by name in this case. Um, tobacco products, they've added the wording there, you can see, including nicotine pouches. So, I guess that's grown in popularity, but that has been added to the list of items for prohibited items on a campus by students as well as staff. This next list comes down to personal communication devices. So, you can see the verbs changed there or the verbage changed there. The red's going away. The blue is being added. Um, this one we'll touch specifically on uh House Bill 1481 with the cell phone device or communication device policy, but this is how it'll be reflected in the student code or the student code of conduct and the handbook as well. They give us a little autonomy here as far as local control. We'll be going with that last bullet
039there where basically students can bring their cell phone devices to campus. Um, but we are going to require them to be them stored, right? Um, some of their c some of their districts are having them be put in pouches or they don't have access to them at all. We're going to allow them to be stored um in their backpacks or their own personal device, but they should be powered down and not accessed during the school day on school property. And that is state law. So again, we'll address that policy specifically here in a second. Uh some other items as far as student discipline, these are all ads or changes if you will to the student code of conduct. Um specifically they've talked now about artificial intelligence in the classroom or AI. So in the past
040we campus admin have just had to use academic dishonesty and point to AI or chat GBT. Um, specifically now it talks about using AI as a means for academic dishonesty and how that's prohibited. So again, just word changes there. It's always been prohibited, but now they're calling out specifically artificial intelligence and the use of it. Um, step two there, that's goes back to, if you remember two years ago when a student was found in possession of EIG or a vape, it was a mandatory DAP. Well, they've now come off of that a little bit. It's not a mandatory DAP. Now it's a 10day suspension in school suspension. So that word shall is in there. So in lie of a placement a student would place an ISS if they're caught in possession with an EIG or
041even paraphernalia relating to an EIG. And with that they had to change the last bullet there about the limit to in school suspension. This obviously doesn't allow campuses to go rogue. They can't just put a kid in ISS for indefinite amount of days. Um we have a internal discipline matrix that our campuses follow. It's a set of guidelines. It really calibrates us by campus campus and secondary and elementary so that we're all following the same procedures all implementing discipline more or less to the same caliber because every situation is different and we do it case by case, student by student. But those are the main highlights and changes to the student code of conduct. If you guys have any questions, I'm happy to answer. >> Thanks, sir. Is there any questions or comments from the
042board? As long as mullets are still allowed by the dress code. >> As long as it's not distracting to the school day. >> So fake mustaches would be >> not appropriate. >> Okay. >> If there's no other questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion on this item. Motion to approve by Mr. Tucker. Do I have a second? >> Second by M. Collier. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you very much. >> I'm not I'm not going anywhere. >> Yeah, I know. >> So, hang on. I got to scratch that off the list. All right. Our next item is cons consideration approval of the 2025 2026 student fees. And once again, we're going to hear from our key employee, >> Mr. John
043Modica. >> I'll take that. So yes, u student fees that touches on uh FP legal where the store the board of trustees may approve certain payments as far as membership dues or student fees. So you can see some of the items here. Um obviously athletic attire um equipment, things like that. And then we'll get into the specifics especially around graduation um class rings, those materials there. So these are all allowable expenses the board could pass on. So these are just a reminder what was approved last year by the board. Um so we took away parking fees, seat time fees, made a flat fee per course um for the summer school. Uh college entrance exams, those are just passed on at cost of the individual exam to the student. Clubs and organizations, if there's a national
044membership like FFA or something like that, we again pass that on to the student and their family. And then those optional items we just touched on, yearbooks, class rings, graduation, things of those sorts. Um those are always just passed on to the student and their family at cost. Sometimes when the district goes in as a group, we get a better rate just pass that on to the families. Um as far as extracurriculars, we talked about band last year. Um this would be a rate per student for all their personal items and equipment for band. Um and then football and all those fall sports and even some spring there. You can see it's $50 per student. Uh the max of $100 per student. So $50 per student per sport, the max of 100. Uh and then
045all those other sports, no fee required. And all these cases and all the fees um that's in our handbook as well. Um if it's families can always reach out, we'll work with them. Uh if a student is deemed as economically disadvantaged, we also wave those fees for them too or abide by the lunch fees of 50% or waved entirely. So those still playing effect here. What we agree to tonight as far as a consideration approval of um if you have not heard, we are rolling out Apple devices and so we need to update our acceptable use policy including fees along with that. So that's what we're bringing you tonight. Device repair and replacement fees with those devices, the iPads that students are getting. This is directly in line with our protection plan that we received
046with Apple through our lease agreement. Um and so what we are recommending those first three rows these are for accidental or unintentional damage. So a student drops it gets knocked off a desk water spilled on it. Uh the first two occurrences there will be no fee and again that's covered through our protection plan. On the third occurrence um then we're going to say that would be passed on at full cost for repair or replacement of device. Those last two would be intentional damage. Um sometimes our students don't make good choices but if they intentionally damage a device uh the first occurrence would be 50% of the cost to repair uh or replace and then the second time would be at full cost. So this is what we are recommending. It's going to go in our
047handbook and our acceptable use policy as far as device fees for students. Any questions or comments with this? >> Thanks sir. Any questions or comments from the board? I believe Miss Collier has a question andor comment >> just to remind me. Do the kids take these home? >> Secondary students. >> Secondary kids take them home, right? Okay. >> I bet Mr. Smith has a question andor comment. >> Question. Thank you. Appreciate it. >> I'll know both. I mean, >> all right. For the secondary students, are we going to make sure the parents know how much >> they cost? So like to help prevent intentional damage >> to show that, >> hey, you break it, right parent, you're out >> x number of dollars? >> Yes, sir. So that's in our um protection plan with Apple
048and we can project that out to parents. When we communicate this out, of course, this isn't this upon approval would be in our handbook and our accessible use policy, but there'll be other communication directly to parents to say because the verbiage from the protection plan is we actually ship it to Apple and they determine, hey, based on this, you pay the fee or you don't. And so we'll give that direct verbiage to the parents up front to know, hey, this is what we deem it as. Depending on how this device is returned or the shape it's in when you your student turns it in, that'll determine what the fee is applicable. And so, yes, that's all up front. And it even gives estimates of the type of damage and how much it would cost. >>
049Could uh intentional damage would that also uh violate the code of conduct so that there could be discipline as well? Yes, sir. on top of that. Okay. >> School property at that point. >> Exactly. Okay. All right. Any other questions or comments? Nope. If not, uh, I will entertain a motion on this item. Most to approve by Mr. Applebee. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Smith. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. That passes unanimous. Thank you. But wait, yeah, there's more now. Consideration consideration approval of policy FD local. We're gonna let's see once again hear from John Monica. Hey, thanks for being here. Appreciate it. >> Thanks for thanks for having me. I'll be back next month, too. >> So, yes, sir. This
050is in l of Senate Bill 401. Um basically the we'll sum it down for you there. Uh what this legislation said is that any student not enrolled in a district, so if I'm a going to a private school or charter school, I'm being homeschooled, but I live within the district, the this legislation says that that student even though they're not enrolled in a district, would be allowed to pretend participate in district activities or extracurriculars or UL events. Um later in that bill, it gives an option for districts to opt out. We just have to a policy saying that we are opting out. So students not actively enrolled would not be able to participate in you all activities unless they're active within our district in our school district. So the proposal for you tonight, you have
051the entirety of that um policy. You have the current policy and then this is the addition that we're adding to FD local. A student enrolled in a private school, including home school, shall not be eligible for concurrent enrollment in the district, nor participation in curricular or extracurricular activities, meaning they're not going to be able to participate in UL activities unless they're enrolled in the district. So, this is our recommendation to the board tonight for FD local. Any questions or concerns with this update? All right. Do I have any questions or comments from the board on this item? If not, I will entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve. Motion to approve from Mr. Barrett. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bartley. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those
052in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes with a resounding seven. in favor of and zero against. We'll move on to our next item which is consideration approval of policy FNC local and would be pleased to hear from Mr. John Modica. >> Uh so yes, this would be House Bill 1481. So, this is the one that uh has grown a lot of popularity as far as legislation goes in the in the social media world, but um 1481 basically says that school districts must adopt a policy prohibiting cell phone use by students and electronic communication devices while on school property during the school day. Um so, we have to the school district must adopt policy. So, you have the entirety of FNEC local there in front of you. that was uh given to us by
053TASBY. Um we do have local control as far as the admin rag and how to follow through on that policy. So um again our recommendation for the admin rag which will be written into the discipline matrix as well is that students can have their cell phones on campus. They just won't be able to access them. They should be in their school bag, backpack, something where it's not distracting and out um and powered down throughout the day. Um there will be a lot of communication coming out on this post. We actually worked on some of it today as far as um what this policy means dayto-day. Um frequently asked questions parents may have as far as what if my kids traveling, what if there's a field trip, um how do I get access to my child
054throughout the day? So that'll all be lined out and communicating to parents as well. Um but according to this bill, we must adopt this policy as far as prohibiting and what that looks like dayto day. Um so our recommendation this would be FNEC local. Uh students shall not have their personal communication device on campus but they shall store them um in accordance with admin regulations. And again doesn't mean they can't have them on campus. Just we prefer them to be in a bag or their backpack. And of course any violations of this would fall under the student code of conduct and disciplinary action pursuant to that. I will for this um oh I wanted to point out so one thing we're also putting out in that communication to parents and students what an actual personal
055communication device is most people just go to cell phones this includes radios smartwatches the new meta glasses that I don't own um earbuds Bluetooth speakers so it's it's going to rock some kids worlds but we will we will educate with grace and then through it, but we're going to be proactive as much as we can and communicate this out to students and parents beforehand. But again, this is the law now. So, uh there are exceptions to this policy, if you will. Um so, if a student needs that device as far as implementing their 504 plan or an individualized education plan, um that would be permitted. I'm trying to think of an avenue like that where that would be, but u maybe an application, something educational they need that they can only access through the phone.
056Um the good news is we have those iPads and pretty much anything you can access access through a phone, you should be able to access through the iPad, but in the off chance we can't and the child needs that phone, that would be prohibited um as long as it's part of their individual plan or their 504. Um the second bullet would be if it's um mandated by a doctor or physician qualified. Uh we've had this in the past too. Um students with diabetics or diabetic students are uh need to regulate their blood sugar. They have devices or even pacemakers that are they monitor on their phone. That's obviously prohibited here or sorry permitted here or that is allowed as long as been um documented and prescribed by the doctor. And then finally, when it comes
057to emergency operation plans or safety protocols, um this would be on the rare occasion, right, that a student needs their phone, but in the event that we ever have to reunify or students are instructed to text their parents or call their parents in an event, then obviously that would be permitted here because um those would be a part of our safety plans and well communicated in advance and at the discretion of the campus. But obviously in those instances, it would be allowable. Questions on FN FNC local in the addition here. >> Any questions or comments from the board? >> Uh, I got a question. >> Mr. Barrett has a question. >> Is there a schedule like it is with the electronic devices if you do this this time? >> Yes, sir. >> Is there a
058schedule for that? Because I I would think that >> there's going to be considerable number of violations and you're going to have willy-nilly if you don't have a schedule. So, you're talking about uh first offense, this happened, second offense. Yes, sir. We actually were drafting that today. Um, we'd like to get that in front of the campus principles and get their feedback because really that'll be worked into the handbook and our internal discipline matrix. So, we want something that's practical and um can be implemented at the elementaryaries and the secondary. So, we want the principal feedback before we roll that out to parents, but that also will be communicated. Yes, sir. And just like anything, right? Um, we teach kids with grace. So, there's multiple offenses. We're not just going to drop the hammer and
059put everybody in ISS or DAP. That's that's not why we're here. >> I believe Miss Collier has a question andor comment. >> So, the state makes this a law >> but then gets gives very little guidance. Is that what I'm understanding? >> So, is up to us? Okay. I just want to make that clear that the state has made this a law. Yes, ma'am. >> That we have to put into a policy and that our kids have to follow and we will have a non-willy-nilly >> discipline. Their guidance was >> cell phones are prohibited altogether. Or the other alternative is you can say they're allowed but you have to give some type of um admin rag or in our case discipline matrix part of the handbook but they're very specific. It should not be accessible
060during the school day and on school property. That's the part of the law that is the law. Outside of that, we do have some local control. >> Okay. >> And how we follow through on discipline or teaching our kids. >> Okay. Mr. Bear, to your point, we will be uh sharing with parents when we'll confiscate phones and uh Mr. Monica is going to work with principles because we want to secure those. We don't want to dump them all into a five gallon bucket and have them just sitting there in the room. We want to make sure that they're in secure location as well. >> I have a question. >> Mr. Bartley has a question. >> On you mentioned during the school day or on school property. >> So at a football game on school property
061at night >> as long as it's not during the school day. Okay. That's not that's still allowable throughout the law. >> Well, that would be that'd be that'd be a bear tackle. That'd be hard for adults. It's so simple a cave man can do it. >> Question. >> I believe Miss Collier has a question and or comment. >> So that brings up like local track meets during the day, right? >> So that's one of the things we're working through the >> other people coming in. They may have different rules in their campus. Have to follow ours, >> right? Um >> and I guess we only can control our kiddos. Um, but those are things that again we we we do our best to hey here's here's how we best perceive it and then we kick
062that to the campuses and kind of work through it together to work through these scenarios right here because yes this was they just released the code of conduct I mean yeah four or five days ago so and this was included in it so yes we are we're still working through those uh we have plenty of time we have two weeks plenty of time >> okay In the end, all this will be communicated out to parents. Um, this policy specifically because this is going to come up and we want to especially point out the prohibited items. Those Bluetooth headphones are going to be a a big sticking point. Um, but then also, yes, the follow through on here's what happens if you don't follow the rules. Um, but then all those outlying scenarios, we want to
063try and outline those as much as we can. >> All right. Any other questions or comments? If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Collier. She really did it. I'm She's not turning her microphone on, but that's okay. >> I second. >> Thank you. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. All right, we'll move on to our next item. You can Thanks, Mr. Monica. Appreciate your hard work. >> Our next item is consideration approval of policy EFB local and resolution establishing a local school library advisory council. And straight from farm to table, it's Dr. Kelly O'Sullivan. >> Thank you very much. I am happy to deliver this artisan
064presentation. >> Good evening, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, and school board trustees. This evening, we are going to um we're presenting an update to EFB local board policy and a resolution in conjunction with that um that establishes a local school library advisory council. And so those are both being presented for your consideration and approval. So part of the 89th legislation what passed was Senate Bill 13 and that requires an update to our EFB local policy which is the instructional resources library materials. Our current Lake Dallas EFB local policy and practices already closely align with this. So there are minimal changes in selection criteria and that process and the review of that process and parent access. The purpose still remains to provide a wide range of library materials for students and staff um to make sure it
065aligns with district priorities and standards. It is also to support student achievement through varied difficulty levels and multiple points of view. What you notice highlighted is to establish clear standards for uh selection, evaluation, and development of those library materials. So that updated EFB policy formalizes these new procedures for how library materials are acquired, reviewed, and shared with families. So this does align with the requirements of the 89th uh Texas legislative sessions and it deepens that parental involvement that we already had in place but it builds a structure around it. So the selection criteria uh remains the same as in our current EFB policy and that includes following the Texas State Library and Archives Commission guidelines. Uh it supports the TEICSS and curriculum. It reflects appropriate student age and um ability and interest. It promotes knowledge,
066appreciation, and societal values. It encourages reading, critical thinking, and discussion. And it represents ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity as well as aligns with district priorities and standards. So those things have not changed. Parental involvement is something that is already um part of our practice and in our EFB local policy. Um parents are the primary decision makers for their child's um access to library materials. The district must provide public access to library cataloges. Our parents have access to the library cataloges through our website. Parents may submit opt out list of materials. This is a practice that um we already have in place where parents can um have that input into um what their children um check out and then parents may recommend or assist in selection of alternative alternative uh materials for their child. So that
067is a process that the parent the library and the administrators the teachers um collaborate on. The update to the policy includes the option for the school board to establish a a school library advisory council. So this is the portion that is new in building that structure and formalizing that process. This addition, it structures and encourages parents to participate at a higher level rather than uh being informed. they're having a voice and and they're part of that input in that acquisition and review of library materials. So the school library advisory council is appointed by the board of trustees trustees. They are the parents of enrolled students with the majority of voting members consisting of nondist employee parents as well as district employees and community members. They will review and recommend donated or proposed library materials for
068board approval. And they will review challenges submitted from parents, staff or the community and make recommendations related to library materials. That is the um part that is the newest to us. So moving from the EFB policy into the resolution itself. The resolution is a necessary step in that establishment of the council. So in order for the school board to establish that council, this resolution has to be in place. It is required by Senate Bill 13 before establishing the council. It also ensures local values are reflected in the school library cataloges. And then recommendations for purchases or acceptance of donations are made to the school board before they're acquired or accepted into the library. So the council reviews it and they make recommendations to the board before those material decisions and purchases take place. So looking
069at the membership of that council, there would be equal appointments by each trustee with a minimum of five voting members. The majority are required to be parents of enrolled students who are not employees. One parent will serve as a chair. The non- voting members can include teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators, business leaders, or clergy. The council will meet at least two times per year. They will post an agenda 72 hours in advance of the meeting. They will record and maintain minutes of the meeting and then submit those minutes and recording within 10 days of the meeting. So our next steps, each school board trustee would appoint a member if the resolution is approved this evening to the school library advisory council. We would submit appointments in uh adhering to the criteria set by Senate Bill 13,
070establish the council and communicate with uh the members. The council chair would be selected at the first meeting and the district librarians and other professional staff shall assist the council in developing the list of library material recommendations to be presented to the board. If you notice in your packet, you have a form and that form is for you to make your appointment to the council. And we ask that this form would be returned to Dr. Brown by Monday, July 28th with your appointments. It's broken down between voting members, parents who are not employees, as well as parents who can be, and then non- voting members, the teachers, administrator, librarian, clergy, and council members. If approved this evening, the resolution outlines the process for establishing the structure and the purpose of the school library advisory council.
071Referring to the exact wording at the end of the resolution, it says, "Now therefore, be it resolved that the board of trustees of Lake Dallas Independent School District establishes a school local school library advisory council, further resolve that the members of the SLAC will be appointed annually by the board of trustees in alignment with administrative regulations." >> Questions? >> Any questions or comments from the board? It's going to require a little bit of work from them, huh? >> They're gonna have to read some library books. >> Read some library books. Get to know the process a little bit better. Absolutely. >> Sounds like fun. We should probably compensate them with like reading lights or scened bookmarks or something. That'd be cool. >> Do I have any other questions or comments? >> If not, I'll entertain
072a motion. >> Who was that? I move. >> Oh, thanks Mr. Applebee for the motion to approve. Do I have a second? >> I second. >> I have a second by Mrs. Collier. Thank you. Is there any further questions or comments? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Oh, that was our last uh action item. Very well. We'll move on to our calendar announcements and information items. The we have is upcoming meetings and events. Dr. Brown, >> thank you, sir. So, you have a upcoming events listed there. Just kind of a quick note, our new teachers uh do come back or report uh next Monday. We're excited to have them all here. Um there's a couple of things, Falcon Camp, meet the teacher nights, all of
073those things happening. Our next board meeting is August the 11th, and if you're not here, you will definitely suffer from FOMO. Thanks. Thank you, Dr. Brown. Uh, it is, uh, 7:06 and I'd like to thank uh, Mr. Jerry Blazewood, former board president, for his fear of missing out and joining the meeting remotely. And it is 7:06 and we are adjourned. Thank you.