001[Music] Okay, we'll call our meeting to order of the Lake Dallas Independent School District Board of Trustees for April 21st, 2025. like to recognize that all members are present and we do have a quorum established. And if you would please join me now in a moment of silence. Thank you. Now, if uh if you're able, we ask you to please rise for the pledges of allegiance. Those will be led by Lake Dallas High School speech and debate students and justice for Texas. Yeah. Thanks, guys. We'll move on to our next items, which are the student staff recognitions. The first of which is the Lake Dallas High School UIL speech, debate, and academic success. And this will be presented by uh Steven Bell from Lake Dallas High School. Good evening. Thanks for having us. Thank you
002so much to the board. My name is Stephen Bell. I'm the speech and debate coach at Lake Dallas High School here on behalf of the UIL academic and speech and debate program at the high school which has had a very successful year. So I want to make sure to take a moment to recognize these students. Uh first I want to thank the board. Uh wanted to thank our campus sponsors, our UIL coordinator, Miss Canilla, um Miss Heriki, Miss Cole Stevenson, and Mr. Eubanks. Our academic sponsors have put in a lot of work to bring these students here to you today. And of course our campus administration, Miss Avalino and the rest of the administration has been extremely supportive in the growth of this program. We really really appreciate that. Uh but mainly want to talk
003to you about these great students. So here's a little bit of what they have been up to. First of all, back in January, uh the debate team won the cross-examination uh district championship. We've got Aaron and Lance here. They got first place at district. This is uh remarkable. Uh we did not have a cross-examination debate program just three years ago. So, we've come a long way and now first, second, and third place in the district. And uh we sent two teams to state uh to represent our district in the 4A state contest. Uh Ruby and Isabella are not here with us tonight, but they advanced to the quarterfinal round of the state tournament, which is um an extremely prestigious accomplishment. Um through six rounds of bait, debate, went to the state quarterfinal round, and that
004places them as one of the top 4A top eight 4A teams in the state. So really proud of them and the hard work and the entire team that helped them get there. There's some pictures from district and the state tournament. So really proud of them for that. There's there's Miss Cole Stevenson, our science sponsor. So let's talk academics then now that she's here. Uh we also had a speech and academic district tournament at Gainesville High School. Uh that was in March or April sometime previous to now, I don't remember. Uh but we were very successful there as well. And that was broken up into two sides, the academic and the speech and debate side. very successful showing in academics. We've got Ray Ma who is here. He placed fifth place in the district in calculator
005applications. We have Elena Clemens who placed fifth in mathematics and for the second year in a row, Elena actually won first place in uh spelling uh spelling and vocabulary and she will be advancing to the regional tournament on Saturday. Rebecca Scouszen also here. She placed fourth place in science uh and she got first place in chemistry and is advancing to the regional tournament this Saturday in science. Essura placed sixth in science. Our mathematics team overall third place in the entire district and our science team third place overall in the district. So very strong showing by the academics. Uh we also had speech and debate participants. We had aesthe fifth place in Lincoln Douglas debate. Lily Hoffman, sixth place in Lincoln Douglas debate. Charlotte Murray and Caleb Thomas, they both placed in extempiraneous speaking. They are
006also two of our debaters uh at the January district tournament and they're both advancing to region in their respective events for Saturday. And our speech team overall placed second in the district. So very proud of them for their hard work. There's some p uh pictures from the district tournament and we hope to have some more to share with you from region this Saturday. Thank you all so much for your time. [Applause] Okay, now we'll hear from the Lake Dallas High School hear about the Lake Dallas High School soccer playoff success. We got coach Nathan Davis and coach Brandon Martin. Oh, there there they are. They're hiding back there in the back. see how this thing works. First, so the boys had a pretty successful season. Um, we ended up as a whole with 18 wins,
007five losses, and two ties. Uh, one of our goals this year was to score 100 goals. We didn't quite reach that, but 80 goals isn't too bad for a for a season. Uh we finished second in district. We only gave up two goals uh in district. Uh 81 and one was a record. Uh 43 goals for and two goals against. Uh in playoffs, we beat our first round opponent 9 to1. Uh the boys are pretty excited about that. Uh second round, we won five to nothing versus Stevenville. Uh and then the regional semi-final which we went to Midland. That was quite the trip. We beat the a returning state champion two to1 in penalty kicks. Then we end up in the regional final we lost to Castleberry who was our first place team in on
008district um which knocked us out. Uh here's a picture of uh the night where I got my 200th win from the the varsity guys gave me that banner. Um this is Mitchell White uh who also won uh first team all district. uh at the soccer team and uh how many goals did you have? 19 19 goals I think on the season and also um first team uh academic all state. All right. Uh thank you for for having us tonight uh with the girls season. uh came in looking uh after moving into a 4A this year, looking to have a successful season, moving down from 5A. We had a record of 16 wins, seven losses, two ties. Uh in those 16 wins, we had 74 goals scored, 32 against. We were the district 84A champions after
009moving down. We had 10 wins and zero losses. Uh 51 goals scored in district play and zero goals against. one of the I did some research after the the season was over and out of the 192 district champions in the state, we were the only team both boys or girls from 4A268 allow zero goals in the district uh competition. So something that you don't see very often. Uh with that uh we were the by district champions which is the first round and then in the second round we lost to uh who' we lose to lifewalks a hatche. Uh lifewalks a hatche was a a state semi-finalist team and lost to the eventual state champion which was Salina. Uh kind of going along on our our seven losses. Four of those losses were to teams that
010ended up either in the regional finals or or or better. And three losses we had one to a 6A team and two to 5A teams. So very successful season for the for these young ladies. Very proud of them. I'm uh joined tonight by one our sophomore captain um Harper Swart who was one of our leaders for this year. Uh this is a picture of us after our district championship. I have Oh, that was the only one that got put in there. That's all right. But we look forward to another successful season next year. We we had three seniors that are leaving our team, so we should look for more success next year. Thank you. [Applause] All right, our next uh recognitions for the Lake Dallas High School visual art regional medalist and state qualifiers. And
011it looks like we have a a repeat guest here. Yes, we're back. We we Murray, she's here every meeting. I think our kids just keep doing amazing things. You know, we got to brag on them. But yes, thank you so much for having us again. Um we're really excited to be here. I'm joined tonight with Jenny Rios, our other high school art teacher, and this is Ameilia Benaga. And I'll talk a little bit more about her in just a little bit. Um so on February 22nd we um competed in the regional base competition. Base is the um it's not moving forward. Oh, there we go. Um bass is a visual arts scholastic event. It's our UIL equivalent. So students not only have to create our works of art, but they have to present them and
012be able to discuss their works of art um with a juror. And with that they get rated on a scale of one to four for being a superior rating, the best you can get. Uh we competed with 32 students and 45 works of art. So multiple students took more than one piece. And all 45 of our student works received superior ratings and regional medals. So we were super excited about that. It's the second year in a row we've we've done that. So go us and our kids. Um here's a list of all our regional medalists. And next to it, you'll see the double medal winners as well. Those are students that two took two works of art and scored superiors on both of their works of art. So, lots of kids to celebrate there. Um,
013in addition to that, there's all of our regional medalists with all their medals. In addition to that, um, all students that score a rating of four move on to being jured again for the state advancement. And we had three students this year advance to the state competition. Amelia being one of them. Also, freshman Elena Blake and freshman Joanna M. And they'll be competing next uh sat well this Saturday. This Saturday in San Marcus. These are their works of art that they created. This is Ameilia's on the left. Beautiful pen work that she did. Elena and Joanna are in the art one honors classes and they created these with colored pencil and pen work as well. And here's all of our amazing artists together. So, we're super excited. We're very hopeful that we'll be bringing home
014some more medals. And so, we're hoping to share that news with you next month. We'll see. Thank you again for having us. We also wanted to say thank you um for your cons continued support over the years. It's just been truly amazing along with, you know, our principal. Um it's really awesome to watch our students grow. But we've had a million a program since she was a freshman. And to see them come along like they've done and and get this huge award is just is it just makes our hearts swell. So we appreciate being able to come here and celebrate them in front of you. So thank you for having [Applause] us. All right. Now we'll hear from Christina Reed with Lake Dallas Middle School and Laura Jenkins with Lake Dallas High School regarding the
015choir UIL success. This is a bigger group. Good evening. Uh my name is Christina Reid. I'm the choir director at Lake Dallas Middle School. And these are a few of our um varsity choir members. They are our varsity choir officers for the year. Um it's my honor tonight to recognize their outstanding achievement um of our varsity and our intermediate trouble choir for each earning a sweep stakes award at our recent UIL competition in Decar. Um, basically this means that we had an on-stage portion of the concert where the judges gave us the highest rating. Um, as well as a portion of the concert where we had to site readad a piece of music that uh the students had never seen before and we also got um the highest rating in that. Um, I wanted to
016honor u this honor was only made possible by our outstanding musicians. Their dedication and passion for singing. These ladies bring that every day to my choir classroom and I am so proud of them. Um, I also wanted to thank you, the school board, our parents, and our administrators for uh your continued support for our fine art fine arts programs here in Lake Dallas. It's because of you that our students thrive in programs like choir. Um, please join me in congratulating these ladies on their incredible achievements. Thank you. Good evening. Uh my name is Laura Jenkins and I'm the choir director at the high school. Um the high school varsity mix choir received sweep stakes awards in the UIL region 2 concert and site reading contest on Monday, March 31st at Decatur High School. Um the
017concert evaluation earned straight one superior ratings. So, you are judged by three different judges and they can each give you a score and we got straight ones across the board. Um, the first piece that our kiddos performed was Gloria Enexer Ciso, a sacred ac capella piece performed in Latin and centered around the solo melody performed by Jocelyn Aguilar. Where is she? She's right down there. She's holding her trophy. That lovely lady down there. Uh, The Long Road Home is a contemporary ballad about the journey from childhood into adulthood. And we ended it with with uh Rio Rio, a song originally composed in the 16th century performed in Spanish and with percussion u played by myself and Molly Walker who is in here somewhere. She's there she is down there. Sweet girl. Um and then Aiden
018Chesher and Olivia Reyes uh having performed solos. Um the site reading evaluation also earned straight one superior ratings across the board. Uh we performed a new piece of music they saw on site. The kiddos have about six minutes to look at the music and they get to sing through it. They use hand signs, Kerwin hand signs, which if you've seen um the sound of music with it's that whole um shindig and so they got to use their soulfetg and they performed a song that they had never ever seen before and they used their hand signs. Um after we perform at one time, they get two minutes in which to recalibrate and that's when they circle work together. Um it's not really directed by me. It's all really done by our kiddos and so that shows
019their strong leadership. Um, and then they performed the last time for the judges. Aiden Dondo down here, Olivia Reyes right over here and Jocelyn Aguilar uh showed fine leadership as section leaders during this rehearsal process. Um, some of the commentary from the judges for the concert uh portion. Solid inonation throughout. Excellent balance between the parts. Lovely tone, delicate phrasing, nice job of singing with musicality and expression. Um, I am in love with all of the crispy cut offs. Great job. That means when you sing a song and you end it with a really like a good T, like a T. And they all did it at the same time. It's a lot harder than it sounded just then. Um, uh, another judge said, "Wow, I really wanted this song to go on forever. So pretty
020and really beautiful singing today choir." And then as far as commentary for site reading, this is almost something that we're more proud of because this is evidence of the learning going on in the classroom. It's not something we've practiced. It's something they're absolutely learning on site. Um some commentary was choir. I can tell you have really prepared the site reading process well. I'm so impressed with the accuracy and precision of your singing. It was a delight to hear the product of all your hard work at this important coral skill of site reading today. I love seeing everyone engaged in working together. Such confident circle singing. Good ensemble work. Uh, director, it's clear you and your choir have a lot of respect for each other and for the UIL process. You prepared them well. I very
021much enjoyed watching you perform today. Uh, they did such an amazing job and this is the second time that we've been able to go to UIL contest and receive straight ones across the board and and uh that's just a testament to these great kiddos that stand in front of you today. So, thank you for your support and thank you for recognizing our kiddos tonight. [Applause] Just making a note here that crispy means good. All right. Now we hear hear from uh coaches Brittney Robertson and Kai Edwards from Lake Dallas High School regarding our track and field team success. Hello. Thank you for having us. I'm Kai Edwards. I'm the head boys track coach. This is Britney Robersonson. She's the head girls track coach. And we just want to thank you guys for recognizing these student
022athletes. Um the season's really long. We started in January. We're going all the way into, you know, late April and it's a grueling season. As I like to say, our season, our sport is other sports punishment. So, but I want to thank uh athletic director Scott Head for just the financial support and support to allow me to do my job and coach to do her job the way we think we need to get it done for the success we've had. And I want to thank Miss Abalino. We spend a lot of time outside of school at track meets and they support us 100%. So, thank you. Some of our successes this year, um, regional qualifiers, Jan Hardan, senior, he ends up being the 100 meter and 200 meter school champ, uh, school record holder for,
023um, one week. Um, Saturday, it's not up there. Saturday broke the 100 meter school record in the prelims at the regional track meet and it was the third fastest time in 4A this year. Unfortunately, he injured himself in a another race. Um, he was able to come back in the finals and get third, but only the top two go to state, but he he he battled hard. He set the school record a couple weeks ago with the 2196, but that was bested by Isaiah Morrison this uh Friday in the regional prelims with a 2195. Sorry buddy. Other regional qualifiers, uh Jet Love, senior 110 high hurdles. Kaden Hedrickk senior in the 3200 meter run. Malcolm Simon, a senior in the 400 meter dash, Mason Groover, a junior in the pole vault, and Isaiah Morrison, junior
024in the 200. And we qualified all four boys relays for the regional meet with the 4x two, making the regional final. Um, and breaking the school record, I believe, at the district or area meet with the 127.12. Overall, I think we broke what do we break six school records this year, girls and boys. So, very successful season. I want to lastly finish with uh there was a lot of seniors on that list. When I started track here coaching five years ago, we had one senior and we've grown it and grown it and grown it and seven seniors with six of them making the regional meet is pretty fantastic and hopefully it continues to grow year after year. Thank you guys. [Applause] There's a few pictures. All right. I'm the head girls track coach. Uh Britney
025Robinson. Again, we want to thank you uh for allowing us to be recognized tonight. Thank you for to uh thank you to all of our admin. Uh Scott Head, uh Molly Aino. Uh we just appreciate all of your support and the parents supporting us as well throughout this long season. Um we also had some area qualifiers. Uh Haley Jones and the 100 meter hurdles, the 300 meter hurdles in our 4x2 uh relay. We have Jaylen Williams in the long jump, the 100 meter dash, 200 meter dash, and the 4x200 meter relay. Uh, Grace Monagon in the POV along with Julia McDaniel. Uh, Sophie Kashama in the high jump, Avery Morante. She's excelled in the 4x2 100 meter relay and Marissa Hughes in the 4x200 meter relay. Um, we qualified to the regionals. Again, that's Haley
026Jones in the 100 meter hurdles, 300 meter hurdles, and the 4x2 relay. and Jaylen Williams long jump and the 4x2 relay. We also have some uh school records broken as well. We'll get to that next. Uh Grace Miggon uh in the pault and Julie McDaniel and Avery and Marissa as well in the 4x2 meter relay. Haley Jones was our she was our first leg. Jaylen was our second leg and Avery's our third and Marissa was our anchor at the end. So we kept that strong. We were only able to run that relay what two or three times this year um out of a full season. So for us to advance not only in the area but to regionals as well. So um Haley Jones broke the 300 meter hurdle uh school record with so it
027was a 35 year old school record. So that's pretty impressive uh for her to break that this year uh running it at 45 uh 42. So, congratulations to you, Haley. Um, in our 4x2 relay, uh, broke a 20-year-old record. And again, that's Haley Jones, Jaylen Williams, Ay Morante, and Marissa Hughes. Um, at a minute 46 and 14 milliseconds. Um, I want to say this, it's been a great year. I know this is my first year here at Lake Dallas. Uh, but with the different personalities, it's been fun. Uh, it's been great. I mean, we had our fun road trip uh down to Commerce, so got to know these girls a lot a lot better. We are losing one senior, Marissa Hughes. So, we hope to be here in front of you again next year. Um,
028and I think that's it. Thank you all for uh bringing us here today. [Applause] And those guys look fast just standing there. That may be get me getting old, but I don't know. It's probably both. All right. And now we'll hear from our chief operations officer, John Modica, regarding the Lake Dallas ISD Falcon Insider. Good evening, Dr. Brown. Good evening, board. Yes, I am excited and honored to recognize a set of individuals that participated in our Falcon Insider program. So, just a reminder of what this is. Uh this is really a chance for community members, parents, uh anybody that wants to be involved. You get a behind-the-scenes look, a real detailed look in just the different departments and operations that operate in the background to uh support campuses and in the end support student success.
029That's truly what we're here to do. So they got an indepth conversation with um the director of child nutrition, right? And you go through the mandates and requirements of the state and the nutritional um mandates that are placed on every meal for every meal served. You talk to a transportation director and figure out exactly what it takes to uh train and certified and on board a bus driver and how long that process is. And then then just the extensive safety training they go through or you'll hear directly from custodial and just the pride that goes into cleaning and supporting a campus so that it's a quality learning environment for our kids. So you you get those day-to-day operations. They got to hear directly from our our directors and uh the leads of our department on
030that. Um so you can see we kept them busy. Uh we they dedicated them um at least one morning every month. Um and we visited all five campuses. So when they visited a campus, they actually heard directly from the principal um and even students there just to hear exactly what their learning environment looks like day-to-day and what they experience day-to-day in the classrooms or in their extracurriculars. Um and then of course we coupled that with a department or an operation. So they they actually um we packed a lot into these hours and so we visited campus every month. So they got a got to see the entire district and we even toured some of our facilities like the bus barn and our maintenance and operations. Um and not everyone is able to come tonight. We
031had some with some prior commitments. But if you are here when I call your name, if you don't mind just standing. Um we have an actual certificate for those that endured that program with us and and we're and really just learned along the way with us. So we are really are grateful. Uh and just to mention we had parents, community members, u PTA members, we even had former educators and former superintendent. So Gan Davenport, Bo Davis, Michelle Dea Cruz, Jennifer Debor, Sterling Edwards, Amanda Felosh, Andrea Groover, Mel H. Jacob Jenkins, Sharetta Lee, Julie Luke, Tamara Prescott, Michael Sheay, and Jennifer Sutton. And again, like I said, not all could join us tonight. U but if you would just help me recognize those that put in the time and and really, like I said, learning what
032we do dayto-day just to ensure our kids are successful and learning. So, thank you. [Applause] All right, now it's time for a little surprise. We get to get our pictures made with those groups. So, let's do this. And we're going to start with the first group that was recognized and then move through in that same order. So, bear with us. All right. Our next item is our April teachers and employees of the month, Dr. Brown. Thank you, sir. where we uh recognized our April employee of the months a few weeks ago at breakfast and that video will play while we are in close session. And speaking of close session, the open session of the meeting will adjourn. The board of trustees will reconvene in executive session percentage to one or more of the sections of
033the 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 609. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Mhm. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] It's okay. [Music] Yeah. Yeah. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] It is uh 7:15. We're back in regular session. Our next item is public comment. We have nobody signed up for that. So, we'll move on to our information items. The first of which is board member continuing education announcement. Uh under state excuse me under state board of education rule completing required continu continuing education each year of service of basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member. As board president, I'm required to announce the name
034of each member who has completed required continuing education, has exceeded the required continuing education, and is deficient in the meeting in meeting the required continuing education. The CEC training progress overview report is included in the packet showing all of you did not only comp not only completed your required training this year, but each of you has exceeded it. And I want to say thank you for your commitment not only for completing but but for exceeding it. So Mr. Bar has completed it. Mr. Smith has even even Miss Collier has exceeded it. I've exceeded it. Mr. Tucker, Mr. Applebee. No, Mr. Barley. I wanted to do that again just just to watch his face. But anyway, again, I appreciate all y'all's all your uh your efforts in in uh getting all those CEC. All right, our
035next item is our uh strategic plan priority four and this will be uh presented by Chief Chad Springer, Lake Dallas ISDPD Chief of Police. Now it is it was a white light not blue light. Uh so uh priority four is efficient operations. It has three objectives. Uh in that I'm going to be concentrating on the safe school environment and give an update and where we're at. So we're in the process of hiring district police officers. Um the goal is for all the officers to start July 28th so we can get some mandatory training. All the things that they need to have done uh before teachers return on August 4th so they can get integrated into the classroom start knowing learning out learning who everybody is and and uh have good start to the school year.
036Uh next one is intruder detection audits. Uh intruder door audits that is created that is completed by TEA. We've had four of the five campuses completed. Uh the middle school is the only one that hasn't been done yet that's uh forthcoming. Uh so far we have had no findings. Uh which means that the staff and the students are doing a great job keeping our exterior doors closed and uh keeping our campuses safe. Uh we've just recently completed our third uh safety and sec security security committee meeting uh on the 16th. That was last week. Um and so that was the third and final one for this school year. Our next one is slated to be scheduled for August uh to get ready for the next school year. All the campuses are finishing up on their
037emergency drills. will be compliant with all the requirements related to emergency drills by uh the first part of May. And uh I'll I'll give a shout out to Shady Shores Elementary because they have completed all of their emergency drills and and uh appreciate it. So we're I'll on our silent panic alert technology. Right now we use Raptor. Uh we are switching this coming year to strategic crisis alert. Uh this is geared more with a panic button rather than the use of an uh your phone and an app on your phone. This also allows us to meet everything that's on the requirements for legislation. Um whenever the panic button is initiated for a lockdown, it will automatically uh turn on strobe lights in the classrooms. It'll also trigger the announcements on the PA system and will
038deactivate all of the card readers except for first responder cards. Uh this is exactly what the legislation requires that the panic buttons do and so we'll be in really good shape. and having the panic buttons or having the uh strobes and the audio uh helps with anybody with disabilities or anything of that nature uh know that we're in some kind of protocol. Uh the lights that are inside the strobes will be colorcoordinated with the standard response protocol, something the school districts have already been using. So it's not a it's not a new learning. It just uh reinforces it. And the final thing is our access control system. Uh right now we have two different systems across the district. Uh we're going to uh update the card readers on all campuses and this will align all
039the card readers into one software making it easier to manage. Uh the one that we have is is going out of service end of life. And so this will uh bring everything up to uh up to speed on across the district. So, with that, I'll entertain any questions you have. Thank you, Chief. Any questions or comments for Chief Springer? No. You're off the hook, sir. Appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Our next item is our construction update from our construction project specialist, Mr. Wes Eversol. How you doing? I'm doing well. Good to see you. Good to see you, Mr. Stacy. President Stacy, good to see you. Good to see you. Dr. Brown, good to see you as well. Um, so this evening, um, like to kind of step through a construction update. Um,
040we'll be brief, um, for my component of this, but I do want to bring you up to speed. And so, um, so here is the construction schedule as we've we as we've presented the past several meetings, excuse me, the construction schedule really has not changed since we've met last. And so, um, so in latter part of July, we scheduled to complete the band hall expansion. Um to complete the performance hall renovation, it's primarily back of the house, the stage and back of the house. Uh completion of the high school classroom uh career and tech renovation, the first floor um of the two-story facility and the completion of the new career and tech building. And so I'm going to show you some pictures the new career and tech building here in just a second. Um we
041are starting um the expansion of the band hall um with the roofing system right now. Um and so that's that's ongoing. We put a temporary wall in the band hall and uh um and so we will we will be working through the end of the school year uh to uh to further finish that project. Our hope is really to finish the band hall by first part of July. That's the goal. Um and the performance hall renovation and the high school uh um classroom renovation cannot start until school finishes. And so uh we plan to uh start moving furniture uh the last day of school. Last day of school is a half day for our kids. And so we plan to uh to start moving furniture that Friday afternoon, that weekend, and start constructing on Memorial
042Day. And so that's kind of the plan as it stands right now. And so this has not changed. Uh the the the area in yellow or gold is is part one. All that's completed. That for the most part was completed last summer. And then part two is is what we're currently undergoing. And this has not changed since we've we've met last as well. And so these are just some recent pictures. If you've driven by the high school, you've seen the outside of the building. And so this is Thank you, Jerry. Um this is two different uh two different shots of the front of the building. That's going to be a window wall um that you're going to see in front. So that um will be a kind of a component. There'll be an awning right
043there. There'll be a sidewalk. That side's not forged yet, but um but for the most part, all the new parking has been has been completed and uh and so uh our construction company Crosslin is using some of that for lay down and for parking for for the workers. Um and we've able been able to add a few additional parking spaces for the high school to use for the remainder of the year. So um so that's good news. Um these were all going to look very similar. So I'm going to explain to you what you're looking at because uh everything is is is under construction and about the same the same kind of schedule. But uh this is the law classroom. So, uh, so, so this was, um, the old A building, or I guess it
044still is the old A building, but we're renovating it. And, uh, and so those are two windows that we've, um, we've put in. And so, that will ultimately be our law classroom for Tristan Leau space. Um, this is the bunker room and the first responders lab. And so that uh that first responders lab is is a portion of the of the old a lab that we used to have in the in the old facilities. Just kind of give you a point of reference. Um and then that's the bunker room. That's a um a new addition to uh to the old a building which will completely be renovated obviously. Um on uh on the left hand side um that's the farm tech space. And again, you have to know what you're looking at because this all
045looks very similar. But um but uh but that's the farm tech space. And then to the right is the additional unfinished space. We've got about 3,000 square feet in this space. Uh that uh that will be we'll be finished to a point, but uh we're going to we're going to certainly um sheetrock the walls and and do the painting and that type of thing, but it's really set up for for future use. And so that's that's a picture of that space. Um this is uh the a and welding shop. And so that's that's the egg um egg shop or the welding shop looking outside um those doors to the right. And so those are two different views. This was taken last week and so that concrete was freshly poured when I took that picture. And
046uh and so uh that's the shiny look that you see. You see some ballers. We've we were protecting a lot of our uh our water and internet or gas services by biards and you you'll see some biards um erected in this space and then also behind the fine arts space as well the black box we're putting some volumes back there as well um this is inside the high school um right next to uh our uh PE gymnasium affectionately called the echo dome and so this is ultimately the athletic training space and you'll see an office space um You'll you'll see uh on the on the far right kind of to the left of the office there's some some plumbing. There'll be there'll be a couple jacuzzi's back there. There'll be refrigerator and ice machines, some
047built-in cabinetry work and uh and then we'll have some athletic training equipment on the lefthand side as well. So that was taken last week. Um so uh forgot to introduce Jennifer Workman. She's she's joining us from VLK. So, she's the the partner in charge on this thing. And uh um kind of show you a brief view of our graphic package that will that will start coming up. And so um the lower left picture is the foyer. So So you'll come into um a vestibule. And so so that lower left hand is coming into the the doors coming into the vestibule. you'll take a right and uh and then you'll come down the hallway. And so that next picture below um is uh that opening will go into the law and and fire and EMT classrooms.
048And so that will be the opening there. Uh those windows in the foreground are windows into um the fire academy and EMT. Um and then uh and then that's the graphics that you'll see coming into that foyer foyer area. And then this is some graphics. Um, so you're looking from the robotics lab into the two classrooms uh for engineering. And so those are the computer classrooms on the left and on the right. And then uh and then there's kind of a rendering of the way we see the graphics package looking above that. So when you come down that hallway, you'll see the robotics class. We'll have a window wall with a Wayne's coat. You'll look through the robotic class and you'll see this. It'll be very colorful. And then uh this is a graphics design
049that will that will be um installed both in the career and tech building and then also in some areas of the high school in the the renovated instructional space. And so um I think uh that one to the right down below is Farm Tech. Uh that's the uh the door going into Farm Techch and a window um looking into the Farm Tech space. And on the left hand side uh that's a that's a door going into the lab. And then those are those are one of the two computer uh rooms for engineering. So just as a point of reference and so we've kind of scattered the the actual picture going down the hallway. It's not yellow. It's just kind of show you the the highlights of of uh of of what this graphics will look
050like um going down the hallways. Um, and then let me double back here. Um, we do have a easement that will be coming up as an action item uh here shortly. Let me kind of explain that. So, the board did pass a approve an easement and this easement is for uh for Encore to provide us electricity to our transformer. So, an easement is required. So, the board passed a an easement and that easement is located if you can see where Parkidge Drive is is printed there around the K across Park Ridge on our property is kind of where the easement is. And uh and so um as as we got deeper into uh construction and working with Encore realized that there was a big tree in the way and so um so we're presenting you
051a new easement this evening that's actually encompasses the old easement. It's larger just to um to go around that tree um to be honest with you to save the tree. So, uh, so when that comes up as as the your first action item this evening, that's kind of the explanation and I'll be h happy to answer any questions during that action item. So, uh, so anyway, so um, so as it stands right now, um, we hope to complete, um, the, uh, the buildings, uh, both the renovation and the new building. Um, get this down to the end. um you know before the obviously before the teachers come back. The first day teachers come back is the 4th of August and so we're hoping to start moving furniture in the preceding week. We have nine weeks
052to get this thing finished. So it's a pretty quick time frame. Um but but uh we've got Crossland Construction is doing a really good job keeping everything on schedule along with VLK to make sure they they uh um they're guiding us in the right direction. Um but Uh but again, the schedule is hopefully we're going to move the band in a little bit earlier, finish their space so we can we can start all their their summer band um the things that they do, their band camp or whatever. Um um and uh and then uh and then complete everything uh in time for the the teachers to come back on the fourth. So that's our schedule stands right now. Uh, so that being said, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have. Or Jennifer
053Workman's here. She'd be happy to answer any questions y'all may have as well. Thank you very much. Any question? I've got got one. Um, Mr. Barry, go ahead. And this may not be associated with what you guys are doing, but are there any washer and dryer connections in the bunker room or any anywhere in where the fire operation would be? Um there's there's water in there. Um we have an ice machine in there. Um we do have a water fountain in there. We don't have a washer and dryer scheduled to go in there. There's if you look at a modern fire station, they're building uh heart disease was the number one killer firefighters for years, but now it's cancer. And what's happening in fire service north central Texas, really across the country, is they're putting
054banks of extractor washing machines in bunker rooms because they found that chemicals and things that firefighters get into gets in their clothing gets into bunker gear. And so they're coming back off major calls and required to wash these and they're buying two and sometimes three sets of bunker gear so that they can wash and be able to get out of a contaminated set. if we don't have that in the building. Um, and those mandates as it stands today, International Firefighter Association suing the NFPA. Um, and it looks like those and fire departments are going to it already because they see it that it's coming. If we don't have that, we'd have to retrofit that back. Um, if we're keeping the fire gear in our control, I don't know what they do now. I don't know
055if they send it if if Lake City Fire Department cleans it for them or what, but it I just thought I'd throw that out because probably easier to do it now than it would be to do it a year or two from now. Well, we'll double back with high school and uh and and and see see how they manage that. If if that's something we need to look into, we can look into it. Uh we do have a hose drying system in there um for their hoses and that was designed as part of the uh um the design meetings and that we had early on. So, we can take a look at that as well. Anyone else have any questions? Nope. All right. Thanks, sir. I appreciate it, Jennifer. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right.
056We'll move on to our consent agenda items. Those are those routine items that can be handled in one motion. Do I have any questions or comments on the consent agenda? If not, I'll entertain a motion on consent. I move to approve. Motion to approve by Mr. Smith. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Tucker. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor, please indicate. And that is unanimous. Pass. Thank you. And we'll move on to our action items. First of which is consideration approval of an encore easement. And right on Q, here comes Mr. Ever Soul again. Okay. Okay. Me again. Okay. So, uh, so as I described earlier, we do have an easement in your package for approval. Um, if if the board approves this this evening, we'll send that
057to Encore. Um, um, it's important the timing of this because, uh, um, but they're going to start firing up that transformer and, uh, um, and we need power to make sure we've got condition space before we can move move on. And so, um, if the board approves this this evening, then uh, there will be no delays. So be happy to answer questions you may have. Yeah. Any questions or comments from the board? I think this is pretty straightforward. Thank you, sir. If there's no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion. Most to approve by Miss Collier. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Bar. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you. Move on to our next item, which is consideration approval of
058all matters incident related to the issuance and sale of Lake Dallas Independent School District unlimited tax refunding bonds series 2025, including the adoption of an order authorizing the issuance of such bonds, establishing parameters for the sale and issuance of such bonds, and delegating certain matters to authorized district officials. We'll be hearing from an and Han. Hi. Hi. How are you? I'm just looking down at who's presenting and it's you. I know who is gonna follow you though. I bet. Do you? Okay. Well, evening, President Stacy, Dr. Brown, board. Tonight, we bring to you a parameters order um for potential bond refunding opportunity that would result in a savings of at least 2.1 million for the district. We have with us tonight Josh Mclofflin and Allison Long of B Financial Securities and they're going to kind
059of walk you through um what that would mean for the district. Good evening, President Stacy, distinguished members of the board, Dr. Brown. It's a pleasure to be with you tonight. I will try to make this as painless as I possibly can. And by all means, let me first start out by saying how nice it is to see Mr. ever saw again. Um before we talk about the upcoming opportunity, we always like to talk about how the district has managed it debt portfolio over the years and whether it has refinanced his existing bonds at a lower interest rate or prepaid bonds prior to final maturity. The district has generated more than $32.9 million of interest cost savings to its taxpayers since 2012. So something to be very proud about. This gives you a look at your
060current debt portfolio as it stands right now. Your bonds are uh paid in annual principal and interest installments over a 25-year period. You will see your bond payments essentially go down over time. Uh your highest year is the current year and that's because we prepay debt to manage that annual tax rate. Uh currently you have wonderful credit ratings by double A3 at Moody's and double A minus by S&P. As a reminder, every time we go bonds. We apply for the permanent school fund guarantee and get that automatic AAA rating. Currently, you have 164.8 million of dollar uh principal amount of bonds outstanding. Of that 164, 148 is callable prior to final maturity. And you'll see those first several bond series highlighted in pink there or orange depending on how you want to look at. We're
061here tonight because you have the potential to refund a portion of those bonds at an interest cost savings generating additional savings to taxpayers. Based upon uh those series of bonds, you have roughly 38 million outstanding in an average interest rate of 4 and a half% or 4.55%. If you refinance those bonds today, it would be roughly 418, saving taxpayers close to 1.67 67 million on a present value basis. That's roughly 2.70%. Keep in mind before we move forward, we like to hit that 3% target. If you could see there, if interest rates go up um 25 basis points, savings are going to be reduced uh to about 669,000. Um, if rates go down 25 basis points, savings will take up essentially a million dollars for every 25 basis points. Uh, you could see right now
062on the table on the right, this would equate to about $100,000 a year of savings over the life of the bonds. Unfortunately, um, as you well seen, if you ever pull up and look at CNBC on a daily basis, you you'll notice there's been some volatility in the market, let's say. Uh, since Liberation Day, which is the day uh, President Trump announced tariffs, we have had essentially a selloff in the bond market. I will always remind you what goes up tends to come down. So why today might might be the opportune time to sell bonds, sometime in the near future will be. So what we're here asking the board tonight is to consider a parameters order because we have one shot of refunding these bonds at an interest cost savings. We want to set those
063parameters high enough to maximize the district's savings. So, uh, pursuant to this order, uh, the district could move forward with the refunding of these bonds if and only if you save at least $2.1 million of future interest cost savings. Then of all cost, uh, we cannot refinance any more than the $38 million we identified that provide a potential savings. The maximum all-in true interest cost cannot exceed a 410. uh the final maturity cannot exceed August 15, 2042. These are the same final maturity on your existing bonds we're looking to refund. So every time we go out and refinance your debt, we are never extending the final maturity. We're always keeping it in the same maturity schedule. This essentially replacing higher interest rate debt with lower interest rate debt. Uh this parameter order would allow us
064one year to get this completed. again is going to be subject to market timing uh depending on when rates come down to an acceptable level. Unless each and every one of these parameters uh is achieved, we cannot move forward with the refunding program. If we get to the point where we don't think we're going to move forward, we will come back to the board and give you additional guidance or seek additional guidance from the board. From a timetable standpoint, we're here tonight asking the board to approve that order. Uh we would hopefully be in a position in a couple weeks to have everything done needed just to wait on the market. Um, for instance, the market actually came down in the district's favor last week and we just showed you 1.67 million of savings. Today,
065it would be 1.82. So, conditions can move that quickly. But once we get to that point where we could save 2.1 million, we could get into the market on an hour's notice, lock in that savings to taxpayers, and deliver you a successful financing. Right. Now, the earliest we can complete that is May 20th under federal tax law. However, again, we have a year to find the most optimal time to refund your bonds at a lower interest rate. I know I went through that relatively quickly. I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. Any questions or comments from the board? Say it's relatively straightforward. We've been through this before. Absolutely. It's all very familiar. All right. If there's no questions or comments, I'll entertain a motion on this item. Motion to approve by Mr.
066Tucker. I'll second. Second by Mr. Smith. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate. And that passes unanimous. Thank you, sir. Thank you. We appreciate you. And our final action item is consideration approval of the 2025 2026 professional new hires. And we have Dr. Brown. Me. That's not what it says. We We flipped a quarter and I lost. Y'all are messing with me. I know how y'all work. Yeah. She She was over there uh preparing for retirement pointing at you. She just went The next item, sir, do you want to read it or did you want me to read it? Oh, you did already. Oh, I was taking a nap. Okay. So, we uh we recommend uh the professional hires for the 2526 school year as presented. Okay.
067Is there any questions or comments from the board? If not, I'll entertain a motion. Motion to approve as presented by Mr. Applebee. Do I have a second? Second by Miss Collier. Is there any further discussion? If not, all those in favor of approval, please indicate by the uplifted hand. And that passes unanimous. Thank you very much. And our next item and hopefully final item is our uh upcoming meetings and events. Dr. Brown. Thank you, sir. I'd like to start with the first and read through all of them because they're all very important. There's two pages attached. We we are at the best part of the school year. This is when there's a lot of recognitions, a lot of banquetss, and a lot of uh opportunities to celebrate our Falcons. So, you do have two pages
068of uh dates and times and locations. Um I they they start this week. We have our FFA banquet and then they go all the way through. Couple of uh May 1st, we do have prek and kindergarten orientation um going on and we'll be working with our prek programming then and then I'll let you read through those and decide which ones you are able to attend. All right. Any questions for Dr. Brown on that? Good. All right. All right. We that that conducts all of our business for this evening. Uh we are adjourned. It is 7:46. Thank you very much.