001Great. We are ready. Good evening everyone. We can get this meeting started. In compliance with the Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, chapter 551, I call this meeting of the Mayor Independent School District to order on June 16th at 5 p.m. Let the record show that a quorum is present. This meeting has been duly called and notices of this meeting have been posted in accordance with the Open Meetings Act. The board will now adjourn into executive session at 501 p.m. Pursuant to the following sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act 551.071 551.072 551.074 551.076 and 551.129. Good evening everyone and happy what is it summer? So, um, we the board will reconvene into open session at January 16, 5656 p.m. Wonderful. We're going to June June June. Sorry. We have a very good agenda we're
002excited about. Okay, we're going to do the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of nation. All right. Um, can I get one of our trustees to volunteer and give us the vision statement? Mayor ISD is the best district in Texas where we provide an equitable education for all scholars and graduate them ready to become leaders in our community. Thank you, Trusty Patterson. Uh, do I have a volunteer for the mission statement? Collectively as a community, Mayor ISD provides equitable resources, a safe learning environment, and highquality educational services for all scholars to successfully achieve and reach their full potential. Thank you, Trusty Howard. We'll move on to a public forum and I think we have one speaker. Evening team eight. For each person present in the boardroom who wishes wishes to address the board, you will
003have three minutes to speak. There are timers on each of the screens and one in front of you. Mr. Martinez, will you please let them know when they have one minute remaining and again when their time is up. When necessary for effective meeting management or to accommodate large numbers of individuals wishing to address the board, presiding officer may make adjustments to public comment procedures, including adjusting the time allotted to each speaker. Because of the topic posting requirements of the open meetings act, board members are not permitted to answer any questions posed to the board by the patron and no action can be taken on any issue presented during this time. Due to this being a regular board meeting, you will be allowed to speak on any topic, whether it is on the agenda or not.
004You wish to ask questions of the board. You may submit them in writing addressed to the superintendent's office and the board may consider them at a subsequent meeting. If you are an employee or employees representative, please be advised that the grievance policy deadlines are not waved. If you have documents to pass out to the board, please identify those documents. Finally, please be aware that the rules of decorum will be enforced during the public comment period. Please refrain from making comments directed at specific individual employees, scholars, or board members by name to avoid any potential breach of confidentiality. If you have complaints regarding specific individuals, please provide those in writing addressed to the superintendent for his attention. Each participant is legally responsible for the content and consequences of his or her statement. We have one speaker
005and it is Miss Bridget Balden. Topic of discussion, PES. Good evening everyone and team of eight. I stand before you tonight to give a welldeserved and heartfelt shout out to the mayor ISD PA teams team. For those who may not know, this department plays a vital role in the success of our district. Teams is responsible for ensuring that student data is coded correctly. A process that directly impacts district funding. The this important task is carried out by every register in the district with guidance and training provided by the PES department. Their work ensures that every student is properly entered and enrolled in our system which allows schools to provide the right support, resources, and instruction our students need to succeed. Most importantly, it helps secure the funding necessary for the district to operate effectively and
006to serve our community well. I want to personally acknowledge the dedication and hard work I witnessed from the ladies in this department. They constantly go above and beyond what is required, ensuring that staff across the district are supported and informed. The respect, teamwork, and unity they show daily is a beautiful example of what a strong and loving department looks like. Before my time is up, I want to give these ladies is an amazing loud round of praise of achieving something truly remarkable. They are fatal free in the first round of submissions before the Friday deadline of tea. Those for those who are familiar with the term this means the data they submitted was validated and corrected with zero fatal errors. A major accomplishment in the world of data reporting. Even more impressive, this is the
007first time using ADFI, the new statewide data system recently introduced in Texas. While many other districts are currently sitting at over 2,000 fatals, our eras our team's team got it done accurately and before time. Let's give a round of applause to Erica Walker, Lily Garcia, Jennifer Bionis, Trisha Blackland for their excellence, dedication, and for setting the bar high. Your hard work and attention to detail makes all the difference, and we see you. Okay, we all right, we're good, right? Okay. Okay. We will move on to seven close session action items. I will take a um motion for 7.1 consideration and approval for the director of academics and multilingual services. Do I have a motion? Madam President. Yes. Trustee Rodriguez Bernett. I move that the board approve the hire of Dr. Kendra Doyle as the director
008of academics and multilingual services. I have a motion by Dr. Rodri by uh Trusty Rodriguez Barnett. Do I have a second? I have a second by Dr. Thomas and Patrick uh Trusty Patterson. Um all those in favor? Congratulations. Motion passes 70. Welcome. I just actually met Dr. Kendra Doyle just a few moments ago. Would you mind standing up and and waving at the crowd for us, Dr. Kendra? Welcome. Just got to let you know we were all in San Antonio and some of the trustees says, "Why didn't you tell us her mind? We could have given her a ride back." Yeah. Thank you for being here. Thank you. All right. We'll move on to uh 7.2 consideration and approval of Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary Principal. Do I have a motion? Madame President, I move the
009board approve the hire of Charles Rodriguez as the principal of Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary. I have a motion by uh Trusty Patterson. Do I have a second? I have a second by Trustee Rodriguez Barnett. All those in favor? I. Congratulations. It passed 70. Dr. Charlie, right? And I believe Dr. Charlie Rodriguez brought his fan club with him, too. If you want to stand up and wave at the crowd, sir. Welcome and congratulations. Wonderful. All right. Now, we're going to move on to uh item number eight, uh budget hearing. Mo Santiago. Stay away you guys. Good afternoon. I'm going to try to go as fast as I can. They're threatening me. Oh no. Ready. Okay. Let's go ahead and get started on this um update first of all on our uh constraint progress measure number two.
010Um the this uh measure states that the superintendent will not allow the district to be fiscally unsound. Uh since 2223 uh the board established a 16.4 4 threshold, which meaning 60 days of the fund balance in your operating budget. Um, this is a pretty aggressive target, but we're are going to try to achieve that as fast and as aggressive as we can. um in 2223 um the actual um CPM CPM yeah it was CPM it's actually 35 uh.9 and uh in 232 24 you can see the decline there um in 2425 we are reaching the lowest point uh from this point forward it's a turning point um with an upward um progression of our financial position um by means of establishing a balance budget which we'll be proposing for further as we go through this
011um uh presentation for 2526 I'm estimating uh close to a 12 or 13% and um you can see there an estimate of the 26 27 based on a um a a very conservative um estimated value and the projected revenues. uh so I'm estimating around 8 20% uh CPM for year uh 2627 the those figures come from the uh graph right beside uh to the right so I won't go into that detail u but there by the graph you can see the delta in year 2425 reaching as low as as um 11.4 4 uh%. So um yeah, from this point forward, we're going to be working towards achieving a higher CPM goal. If you have any questions at any point in time, please um feel free to ask. Just an update on our current financials. Uh
012we are near the end of uh finishing our fiscal year. Uh as of the end of May the 30th, we realized about um 90.9% of our uh budgeted revenues. U that's about 91.3 uh 91.3 million. And uh that's an increase of 4.1% over the previous year. Even though we increased our revenues by 4.1 million, our expenditures almost tripled. So um increased of 15% year-over-year, increased them by 13 million. As far as tax collections, we have collected about 98% um close to about four or five million overall general fund and INS of that um about 66% or 3.2 um are general fund or M related. So by the end of the year as by the end of June 30th I'm estimating that we should be around the 98.5 uh collection rate. for the following year. I'm
013dropping that to 98.5 just to be a 98.25 just to be a little bit uh played on the saves. Our end of year uh operating cash fund balance could be around the figure of 4.9 or 5 million somewhere around that realm. Um but that would be a significant decrease over the previous year which would leave us at the end of the year with about a half a month of operating reserves which is the reason why that brought us to this slide right here. Uh last month last month you authorized the borrowing of 33 um million to be able to help us operate from July until November. So the reason for that is because offer low end ofear general fund balance uh and uh this borrowing is necessary to meet those operating uh needs between this
014time period where we do not generate uh any revenues or very minimal revenues but our expenditures continue. So um last fall you authorized a 13.1 million which was paid off in three three months. So, um, we were able to save close to 100,000 interest. Uh, this new note, um, has a, uh, 3.75 interest rate. So, we're going to try to aim at the same uh, although it is about a quarter of the operating revenue. Uh, most of our revenues, um, we do generate them, uh, during the period that you see right here. And we're going to get into detail of the of this graph because this is an important graph that we have to we have to understand how the district functions and when money comes in how we are how we spend and uh
015where our fund balances states in relation to the revenue the inflows and the outflows. So um let me start on this graph. Uh that picture right there is a lot bigger. Um, if you can see this screen right here, you can turn over here to this other screen. There's a detail. I'm not sure if y'all have uh copies just in case you all can see those numbers closer to you. So, what's important to point on this graph is let me start with the revenues. Those bars that you see almost identical, that's revenues. They are almost the same every uh December through January continuously every year. That's the trend of revenues. Then you have the red line which are your expenditures. they continue the same throughout the year and uh there's a period in time when
016and uh after March all the way to again when we reach November or the fall that red trend of revenues decreases but then that's a period of time when you have to rebuild your fund balance build your reserves to be able to operate those coming months where you don't generate any revenues the green line right there is the fund balance so that tells you what the uh cash available at the end of every fiscal year is. So as you can see if you go back to 2223 we had a real healthy fund balance close to 40 million. We had about 4.3 uh months in operating reserves. Then we get to 2324 which is uh that drops to about 3.2 two months reserves and uh and we also did not have to borrow uh until we
017get to and we see ourselves in the fall not having enough um funds to operate during the the two months that we u I came in in September. So, uh, it was necessary to bother and borrow and so we were able to pay off that note. Um, with the adoption of the balance budget, that's going to be a turning point from here forward because that decrease in the fund balance that you see is going to be put to a stop and we're going to start to build that from this point forward. Although, we are sorry about that. That's my phone. And they were asking me about that song earlier. I don't know where that song came from. So from this point forward, um we are going to rebuild that fund balance as um as quick
018as we can. Um although the superintendent has been given a three-year aggressive time. Uh my past experience has been three to four years. Um but anything is possible. Anything is possible. So, uh, we are looking into having to borrow again the following year. Uh, it it all depends on how much we rebuilt our fund balance. Any questions on this line? Madam President, there's a question. Yeah, we have one question. Well, it's one statement. I think it's important because uh I think one of the major goals here obviously to have the budget balanced and keep it balanced, but also the importance of building that fund balance. And I know that we've saved money by interest by paying it off early. And we got a better interest rate, which is great. But I think it's also important
019that we mention those three months that we did pay interest for, how much did we put out and the new loan, how much is that going to cost us? because people could understand the importance more more better understand the importance of building that fund balance and how much that's going to save us. Right? So in the previous note we paid it off in 3 months. It saved us close to 100,000 about 89 point something uh thousand in interest. So that's what we were able to save. But we paid uh 89,000. So that's what it cost the district. uh in this occasion it's a larger amount but it's a lower interest rate. So if we try to do the same um we could possibly the total interest if you kept the note uh for a six-month
020period is close to 200,000. So just a rough estimate right there. Um we could possibly save I don't know maybe 75 some 75,000 somewhere in there. So, um it is a higher amount um but um but it's it's a it's a lower interest rate. So, within the 100,000 figure that would be how much it would cost the district to borrow 30.1 million. So, it was I believe the last when it was like 150,000 the origination fee that we were paying to to do the loan. I'm do not remember but yes it could be somewhere. Okay. So roughly about 400,000 would you would that be a rough number more or less the cost of borrowing? Yes. To borrow and then to pay back early. Yes. You include all your fees, attorney fees, everything that goes into
021the administ administrative cost of Right. Mhm. Okay. Thank you. I have a question. Could you just explain for the public um how the fund balance was 4.3 months a few years ago and why it's now down two weeks from 2022 to to where it is today. Yeah. So it's important to point out what this uh can't even see this. Okay. So in 223. In 2223, we did have a healthy fund balance. We were able to to build it. Before that time period, I went uh a couple years behind uh before and we were the district used to adopt balanced budgets until you rebuild it in 2223. But then here comes um the 2223 time period where uh COVID hits. It's a time and then we also had an emergency related to the winter storm Yuri.
022So during that time period, the state allows you to borrow 10 cents of the MO pennies. So the district is able to generate some extra revenue, temporary revenue, but what the district does is gets those that temporary funding, puts it into the expenditure budget, rebuilds, increases its budget, um not considering that this is temporary funding. So um there were several things that played that brought us to this um position where we are now. Um we are um right sizing our budget. We are um doing the necessary cuts to be able to operate within the funds that are that the district would normally generate in a year. Um last year we did adopt a 20 some uh 20 plus million deficit but our actual revenues were a lot less than that. So we understand we during
023the fall when we came and we presented a balance a an amended budget we already had contracts built from the beginning of the year that we had to keep throughout the throughout the year. So there was not much that we can do. Uh even though we made significant cuts and uh we uh put a halt into even the hiring process and all that. Um even some of the services we were able to reduce but still um those contracts that we kept we had to give them until the end of the year. So that even built into the expenditure budget that we had uh presented in the fall that we were going to uh reduce which is a reason why I brought forth a budget amendment. um that increases the expenditure budget, but it includes a
024cushion in there of over a million, which I do not anticipate spending, but we want to have that cushion enough to absorb uh any anticipated costs that would happen from now until the end of the fiscal year, June 30th. So, um but that's kind of what led us to this position. um just temporary revenues and expenses that we were that we built into the budget and uh the temporary funding from the ESER funding and all of those positions that we moved into the general operating. So any other we're good. Thank you. Okay, so that brings us to the um proposed budget. It's real small. Um hopefully you're able to see that. Um but you all have copies of that. What you have on the right hand side is the amended budget. The one that you
025are uh approving tonight. That way you can see where your bud uh budget ended and what we are uh proposing for the 2526 school year. on the left hand side. Um the board has to adopt the general um budget, the food nutrition program and also the debt service. These are all um make up or are funded via the M and the INS tax rates that the board has to has to approve. This budget also is based on the preliminary uh property values uh that we received in April. the revenue um will change. Uh most recently the board or the state has uh approved the 40,000 increase in the homestead exemption. So that's going to be built when we receive the July certified estimated values and we are going to bring forward to the to the
026board a an amended budget. Um also another thing to point out is that this budget is built on current state legislation. Mhm. No new funding is included here. Um no new um allotments or mandated expenditures are included on this budget too. Okay. Um it is a very conservative um number and also ADA number that we are funded on the revenue right here. Uh we are The revenues that we are estimating here are an increase of 3.6% uh which is about 3.5 million more operating revenues than over the 2425 year since we are still working on the personnel salaries make up 80% of the operating budget. We are still um filling positions. We are still um staffing. We're still working on uh placement of uh personnel. What you see right here on the expenditure side, it's
027it's going to be amended. Okay. So, when you look at uh instruction costs, for example, dropping from 64 million to 45 million, that does not mean that we're going to drop 29% of our instructional personnel. Okay? We're going to come back and we're going to amend the budget. Right now we're still working on allocating personnel and uh reviewing all of our staffing. Um so but the bottom line the bottom line will remain the same. We are presenting and we're going to come back with a a balanced budget just as it is right now. So the proposed budget uh for the upcoming year is uh an an expenditure budget of 100,916,65 equal the amount of revenues that we anticipate receiving. Therefore you have a balanced budget. Can you repeat that again? The total proposed expenditure budget
028for 242 for 2526 is 100,9 100,916,65. I think she wanted you to say the balanced budget part part the last the balanced budget therefore therefore expenditure sold revenues and um representing a balanced budget balanced budget. Okay. Thank you so much. We after our money still not done. Mr. Santiago, she was like good. Okay, let's move on. I'm kidding. So, just reiterating this is our turning point. We're going to rebuild our our budget. We're stopping that declining fund balance. It will require strategic planning. um stricter um spending measures that we uh reinforce. But we're going to need the support of uh all of the chiefs, all directors, and especially from y'all in order for us to achieve this balanced budget and be able to stay within the spending measures that I'm presenting and also um within
029the borrowing needs that we just um incurred. So you all just proposed or approved uh 30 million. We got to stay within the 30 million with between now and November. I cannot come back here and and ask for more. No. Okay. Okay. So um we'll be able to rebuild the fund balance. We support you. Okay. We'll be able to rebuild the fund balance with operational savings revenues that are not accounted for in this budget and also the adoption of surplus budgets moving forward. Yes. Um last um just reiterating a constraint measure number two. Um the superintendent will not not allow the district to be fiscally unsound. And this is our long-term financial goal to a true achieve a true uh structurally balanced budget that does not include uh recurrent resources such as assets, asset sales
030or reserves uh to fund ongoing operating expenditures and that supports financial sustainability for multiple years into the future uh to not allow the district to be fiscally unsound. That's our long-term financial goals we're going to try to achieve. Should we open it up to the public? Okay. Thank you so much, Dr. Sarmani. This is a public budget hearing, so I would like to invite the public if you have any questions for the administration or Mr. Santiago, um please raise your hand and the chair will recognize you and we will be voting on this uh balance budget um later in this meeting. I don't think we have anybody no questions. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Santiago. Santiago, after I we vote, Madam President, um may I suggest that we move item 10.2 um forward because we
031do have some members of the community here to present tonight? Yeah. And um if if there's no objection from the board, we have this uh committee has already volunteered a lot of their time outside of these meetings to provide all this information for us. So if there's no objections, I would like to move that up. No objections. Go ahead. Come on over. Joe, would you mind bringing up the facilities? Um yep. Just read it all the way forward. Good evening, team of eight. So, it is my pleasure here to bring to you um Mr. Keeland Morgan and Michelle Anderson. They were part of the instrumental in helping us with the uh mayor I mayor uh facilities advisory committee and they're here to talk to you about some of our needs that we have. So, with
032further ado, good evening. Good evening and good evening. Let me get set up. There we go. other committee members that are here. There's other committee members that are here too. Greetings, Madame Board President Cortez, Dr. Smani, and the elite team of eight. My name is Keelen G. Morgan senior and I have the privilege of serving as the chair of the MISD why did I forget the name of our committee facility and advisories committee. First I'd like to take a moment of privilege to thank the members of the committee to entrusting me with such a um privilege as chairperson. And at this time if we have any members of the uh committee in the audience could you just stand there and wave your hand to be recognized. There we go. Thank you. Over the past two
033and a half months, the committee has worked tirelessly, hard and in concert with Mayor Independent School District staff and other facilitators to reach the recommendations that we'll present to you today. Tonight's presentation will be an accelerated cliffnotes version of the work that we have undertaken and data points and other information considered to reach these recommendations. You will hear later on. You'll hear from me more shortly in shortly. However, at this time, I'd like to introduce Michelle Anderson, the committee secretary who will begin our presentation. I'll see you in a minute. Good evening. So, I'm going to start with the slides and I'm going to move down and I'm going to explain to you um kind of some of the the groupings and kind of how we organized this. This is the group of the community
034members that were part of this advisory committee. There was 18 of us. These are the meeting facilitators that um actually organized all the information, got us prepared to meet um with slides and also brought all the documentation. Obviously, you know, a few of the local Dr. Smani, Joe Mendes, Miss Tammy Williams um and then the other four were from HPM. The five areas that we really focused on was enrollment and demographics, campus utilization, deferred maintenance, growth, and then the other needs, which is asset life cycles. This is kind of how our schedule worked. We started in March of 20 uh March 27th was our first meeting and then we had um there was f a total of five meetings. Within each meeting, we kind of focus on certain areas like elementary schools was one meeting,
035high schools was another meeting, um the other needs. So, it was very organized and very detailed. This next one is the enrollment demographics. Um as you can see districtwide, there's been growth. Um the middle that orange line is the 2425 school year and that might be a little bit old because as of January 30th there are there were 10,61 students um and I believe there might be a few more now. So obviously you can see over the next 10 years kind of how the um enrollment is going to increase. This is a map um of kind of the school, the areas that are um the communities uh that are being developed. And of course, I've got to put my glasses on for this part. So, as you can see, there's the um the district has
03611 active building subdivisions within MISD. There are 23 future subdivisions in various stages of planning. And of these ground ground work is underway on more than a thousand lots with seven subdivisions and 132 lots were delivered in the second quarter. So if you look at the map, the areas that are in green are the active areas. The areas in the yellow is the future. So as you can see, there's a lot coming. And since I'm in commercial real estate, there's more. And then this is the utilization um overview of all the campuses. And as you can see the the purple line is the um I don't know if you can see it over here probably a little bit better is what each campus can hold as far as students. The green is your current enrollment
037and then there's a percentage versus what this school can hold. Then the demographer has a projection of what next year is going to be. And you can see as some of these schools like Logos Elementary is projected, it's currently at 96% and will stay at that. Um there's another let's see uh Shadow Glenn Elementary is another school that's at 95. It's currently at 97% and potentially going to go to 95% but there's lots of growth still coming in the Shadow Glenn area. As you saw on the last map, this is your deferred maintenance. And I'm sure you're all aware what deferred maintenance is. Um it's basically postponement of maintenance activities such as repairs, replacements, general upkeep. So currently um looking at this graph, you can see anything that is highlighted in the bright green. The
038first part is the um elementarymentaries. So the bright green, that's something that needs attention. So as you can see, Blue Bonnet Elementary School is already at 10 million. So currently our current backlog of deferred capital renewal is at 34.2 million. If no action is taken in 2030, we are going to be at 133.5 million. So that kind of goes to show how important we need to pay attention to our deferred maintenance needs. This is your facility condition assessment. So facility assessments are essential to long range planning, evaluating building conditions, capacity capacity needs, and deferred maintenance. They help prioritize repairs, align with growth trends, and guide budgeting. Often findings are integrated into long range planning and bond cycles to secure funding for major upgrades, ensuring safe, functional, and future ready learning environments. So the facilities were
039assessed over a five-month period in 2024 by licensed engineers and we didn't do any assessments on any of the new schools just the older schools. A detailed database was created that identifies both existing life cycle existing and life cycle deficiencies. This allows the district to accur accurately determine capital needs by building by system. So looking at this chart, anything at the green is is okay, but as it starts to hit the yellow, that's when you start to need to pay attention. The orange obviously is a little more attention. And then the red, that's obviously something that needs more attention. And then this this graph here shows this is a fiveyear deferred maintenance schedule, and it gives kind of what's going to be needed over the next five years. I'm sure you guys have all this
040in your packet. And I am now gonna hand the this over. All right. Thank you so much uh Michelle for kind of providing the foundational aspect of um the recommendations that we'll have for you today. So those index scores, the deferred maintenance costs, I know those big numbers that you saw, sometimes it can be intimidating. It was intimidating for us, but at the same time, we know that it's much needed work across the district. What I failed to mention uh when I introduced myself is I'm the proud parent of one Mayor ISD graduate from Mayor New Techch High School. Uh a current Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary student and a Mayor New Techch High School student. So, so definitely I have a vested interest in the work that we're doing. As part of our work, we
041did a community survey. And as part of this work in assessing district needs in relation to projected growth of the district as a whole, we conducted a brief community facility planning survey. Mayor ISD stakeholders were asked to provide feedback on topics including the current condition of maintenance of facilities, understanding of the two tax rate components of the Texas school funding, expansion of academic opportunities to serve more students, and how they might prioritize needs based on limited funding and potential support of a future bond to cover major facility repairs and replacements. Here are some of the select highlights that emerged from the 553 responses. First, stakeholders are in support of expanding innovative learning and early college opportunities here within the district for students. This is evident as when asked what academic opportunities would be prioritized, expansion
042of models such as new techch and early college emerged to the forefront. When asked about the current condition and maintenance of facilities, 47% of respondents describe facilities as being adequately maintained and 25% as poorly maintained. And just a little anecdote, my son saw he said my son told me this story about seeing a possum in the cafeteria and I didn't quite understand what he was saying, but he saw a possum in the cafeteria at Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary. Just a thought. when asked about the prioritization of funds to address needs, safety and security and routine maintenance, deferred maintenance were the top two. And last, when asked about their top priorities related to a future bond package, renovating or replacing aging facilities, expanding schools to accommodate future growth enrollment, and enhancing campus safety and security were
043at the top. So, walk with me for a little bit. I'm going to delve back into the uh growth and deferred maintenance needs planning to address uh district growth projected to happen over the next 5 to 10 years. It's now mission critical that we address this. Based on the projected growth, we have several elementary schools that are set to surpass their capacity. We are just one school year away from Lagos Elementary reaching its capacity in the 2728 school year. and with Presidential Meadows, Shadow Glenn, and Blue Bonnet Trail to set to near or reach theirs in the following year in 2829. While I've only highlighted a selection of the schools on the leaderboard reaching their capacity, all of the sales colored yellow, pink, uh, or red are very concerning. Moving forward to our high schools,
044note that you do not see any pink or red cells as areas of concern with relation to capacity and utilization. However, in the current high school model for the district, Mayor Early College High School is projected to reach its capacity in 2627 as indicated by the yellow sales. Based on current capacity in relation to utilization, both Maynor High School and Mayor Senior High Schools are now at 80 or below 80% utilization. This is important as 80% is the threshold to where the schools can operate efficiently from a dollar perspective in a standalone fashion. To mitigate this, the next slide outlines the new model for high schools the district is moving to in the upcoming year. Under this model, Mayor High, Mayor Senior High, and Mayor Early College High Schools will be combined to streamline the
045operation and improve capacity and utilization rates of our high schools based on current and projected enrollments over time. So, we've kind of laid the foundation on the what, now the how. So, how can we do this? So to address the growth and deferred maintenance needs of schools in most need this can happen in a multitude of ways. A number of them are outlined at the bottom of the screen. This can include but is not limited to boundary adjustments, installing temporary portables, modernization of existing facilities, adding new wings to schools, or opening Wild Horse Elementary as a true elementary school housing grades K through five. The next slide kind of gives you an overview of a word Michelle kept using and that's the life cycle. We all know that everything has a life cycle including us.
046So within that life cycle um this model that's here it's one slide before what I really wanted it to be but walk with me. So this slide um is shown the planning, acquiring, using, maintaining and disposing of assets. It simply helps us understand some of the considerations regarding the timing of purchasing and the utilization of our assets. Moving forward, what are our other needs? Our other needs are things such as transportation, safety and security, technology, fine arts, athletics, facilities, and land. And with that, this slide just kind of uh provides a little bit more detail as to what um those categories encompass like safety and security. We got police, we got the police uh radios, all that good stuff. So, I'm sure you'd be happy with that. But uh perimeter fencing for our schools. Uh
047you see facilities uh FFN, our uh furniture, fixtures and equipment, uh fine arts and athletics, band uniforms, they have a life cycle. So all those considerations for the other needs. So this is where we get to the really fun stuff. Well, not quite yet, but we know that Maintenance and Operation is the uh bucket of money to do our short-term planning, but it does not really allow us to bank on that bucket of funds to do our long-term planning. And that's where we go into the next bucket, which is the INS or interest and thinking, the capital asset life cycle renewal and replacement plan. So simply put, short-term planning, M long-term planning, INS. So moving into that long-term planning, the a subset of the committee participated in a paired comparative analysis. Y'all don't know how
048many times I said that to get it right. a paired comparative analysis um uh session where we really looked at all of the for the lack of better words competing priorities of the district and put them up one to one against each other. And this is what we came up with with the priority list. Number one, fund all life cycle capital renewal projects. Two, renovations and upgrades at Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary. Three, expand capacity at Mayor New Techch High School to reach 1,00 to,200 students. So, make them a little bigger for a and then add a wing onto Mayor Senior High School to make it a true 9 to 12 campus. And again, that reduces the transportation needs from the campuses and things like that. And I'll read the next one. renovations and uh upgrades
049at Decker Elementary. But you see the full dossier of recommendations there. But one thing I do want to highlight and this is something that uh we talked about uh Michelle and I and the team and with regard to the addition to Shadow Glenn Elementary and Presidential Presidential Meadows Elementary, they did not rise to the top of that list, but those are very much areas of concern with the growth and development happening in that area and the potential overcrowding of schools. As I shared earlier in the presentation, uh particularly Presidential Meadows and Shadow Blend Elementary are set to reach their capacity in the very near future. So I don't want it to be misrepresented that, oh well, the advisory committee um didn't put that high on the list, so it's not a priority. It's very much
050a priority. So definitely I hope the information that was presented to you is helpful. and on behalf of the committee, thank you for allowing us this opportunity to share with you on this evening. Thank you so much. Great presentation and I really want to thank the committee members um who put their time and um an effort in making sure they brought the best recommendation over to the board. Thank you so much. And if I could, if all the members of the facility committee, would you mind coming up? We have a little something with we we brought with you. Miss Kelly could bring that to you. Come on up, Michelle. Come on. Yay. Committee members. Oh, Mr. Mendes has it. You know, nothing can give you back the time that you spend. I mean, we did
051give you some really great food sometimes. Sometimes, um, but but at least we want to show appreciation by giving you a certificate of appreciation for the service you provided the district. And it would be my hope someday that uh if we have more facilities committees that many of you would come back since you are now experts on the facilities of the district. So and in the process too I wouldn't say expert but committed committed community member. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Uh madam president if I could go ahead. Uh just a couple of notes especially for the public. Uh there is a website for the facilities committee and there all their information that they showed very quickly up here. You can see the full presentations that were given to them and all the information given
052to them on that website and as well we will get this one up here up there as soon as we can. Uh what happens next is the administration will take the recommendations provided by this committee and then we are going to start um actually pro I think it's tomorrow or Wednesday um Wednesday we're going to start doing detailed work to provide administration the detailed dollar amounts and what that looks like and what the financials behind it all is with a goal of giving you some of that information during our our prepackets before the board meeting and then an opportunity for discussion on August 4th. Uh so um anybody out there wants to hear that discussion, it'll be on August 4th. And at that point, um we will let you know what dollar amounts that we
053think we need in order to accomplish the missions that you've set out for us and uh to uh um cover some of the recommendations that um they've given us. And of course, that also means we will probably likely need bond money to do that. And for those who don't know, that would require the calling of a bond election in November. uh we still got a couple months of information to provide trustees before we get there. But certainly we would want that to be a discussion topic on August 4th or if there seems to be a momentum that direction, we can also have a motion there for you that night. Um certainly you don't have to do it that night. Uh but I will remind everyone that August 22nd is the last day by law that
054a election can be called for November. So any questions for administration on that? I just uh I just have a few questions. So, um I know it was uh the maybe I missed it, but how many years was this plan or what's we do? We know that until the recommendations never mind. So, uh what the charge of the of the committee was to analyze the needs over time. Okay. It's going to be up to the administration now to take that and put it into chunks uh over the next years because now we're going to have to overlay on that the financials and what um the the new law because the law has changed by the way um and our financial situation when it comes to INS has also changed um assuming the governor signs the
055the new change in the homestead values and the home harmless. We'll have to read into what that does. Uh but basically our job now is to take this into chunks and what does that mean for the next three years? What does it mean for the next five years? And my goal is this will be cyclical. As I told the facilities committee, this is just the beginning. So we bring forward the recommendation of what we think we can accomplish with the finances in front of us. politically. Uh the board will decide this is something we think the community and us can support and then whatever if a bond is passed that tells me when the next cycle will begin and we will begin that committee to um in a year or two years to get that
056next chunk ready and ultimately we want to always have about 10 years out of stuff that we know we need to get done. I have a question. So I know there's some pending bills that might affect the uh bonding capacity that we have. So do we h do we have a plan in place and do we a plan in place? So, we have the recommendation say on August 4th because I'm just worried that what if the bill is still in lingo like what does that are we I just want to make sure we're prepared. Well, we won't be in limbo because the governor has until um next week to sign the bills where they die and so we'll know for sure by the end of June um what the law is. I've already engaged our
057financial adviser um to begin to prepare. uh we know what the numbers are under current law. The question for him and our financial advisors is to calculate what is that going to be under new law and if there are any changes to that. Um the number I gave our facilities committee was uh $325 million of current bonding capacity under current law as of right now. I won't go through all the assumptions they used. Uh but I also emphasized to our facilities committee to focus on needs because bonding capacity changes and there are some indications as even our commercial real estate agent uh mentioned that our bonding capacity will increase actually over time and there are definitely some indications of that as well and so I want to focus on the needs um knowing that we
058will likely have greater bonding capacity in the future but of course we will come with financial advisor recommendations not Dr. Sman's poor math on a calculator. Well, I'm just saying because you at the same time you don't know if we're going to have a special session and here we go again, you know, just make sure we we cover all our thoughts. Well, I think we're good. Does anybody have any questions? Good. Thank you so much once again and you guys did an excellent job. Thank you for putting your time and just remember you are going to make an impact this three, five, 20 years from now. So, please don't let the rest of the committee know that their hard work has not gone unnoticed and we thank you very much. If I get a chance
059and we build a new wing at Blue Bonnet Trail, I'm going to name it the possum wing just for you. I was going to say, was possum on the menu or All right. So, we're gonna move move on back now to number nine, superintendent update, student safety. Hey, uh team of eight and trustees, uh to give you your monthly superintendent update, and we'll start with school safety. Uh just to let you know, we we've accomplished six more recommendations. Uh we are now up to 20 of 50 three recommendations. Again, we're very conservative. These are fully implemented recommendations. There are um quite a few um to be done this summer because some of them involve some uh light construction work and so they're going to gear up to work on that. Uh the weapons detection system,
060if you didn't notice, it did get installed at Mayor High School before the school year ended because I really wanted the kids and the staff to see what it looks it looks differently. We are now in the process. There's an upgraded system that we are doing. I mean the one we put in now was leased so that we could turn it back in and we get the upgraded system. Our focus is the high schools. Then we will do the middle schools and then in the bond we are discussing a potential different product um for the elementary school level that will engage uh with the community and in the future um once we have more information on that. Uh but uh by the time school year runs along we will have the uh the new detection
061systems up and running at all the secondary campuses. if you move forward. I want to put this up here um partly because I sometimes not sometimes I do hear people talk about um schools being dangerous and such and you know the only thing I can show besides walking somebody through a school is to just show you the data. Um, and I'm I'm really happy and pleased with some of the numbers, especially at Maynor High School. And I just wanted to show the community how um our administrators are putting structures in place and working with kids and the incredibly uh large decreases in the number of fights and assaults that happen across the district. And I want to emphasize to people when I say the word assault, I'm using the legal definition. And that means if
062I push someone and they don't push me back, that's an assault. That doesn't mean somebody was was beaten up necessarily. we're talking about just even the class C version of assault. Um but you can see those um large double-digit decreases year-over-year and um those are something to be proud of. I also want to thank our community who's really helped us out with improving our attendance. While I'm certainly not excited by the attendance rates, I'm excited in the direction they're going in. Um especially at Mayor High School, uh you really don't see kids hanging around Starbucks and McDonald's like you used to because they know better. uh word got out really fast. The community, our businesses have a phone number they call that links them to dispatch. Dispatch calls available units, not necessarily police. I've even
063seen the football coach go um pick up a basketball player at McDonald's. Um as long as we have a district vehicle, we can pick them up and give them a ride back to where they need to be. If they don't want to go back with us, we call their parents. And it's as simple as that. And so that's led to an increase in attendance as well. And and I'll I'll say the same thing. I say this all the time. We have such great kids. Um yeah, I mean kids are kids. They're going to do things that they can get away with. Um I think it was the second last day. I was actually on the phone with Miss Cortez actually and I looked out my window and I was like there is a kid about
064to skip school right in front of me and I'm sitting in my car. I just pointed at him go like this. He turned around and walked right back. All our kids need is some structure and they are great kids. And so that's what we're providing and I love the direction we're moving in. So uh a few points of pride. Uh, we have a couple new doctors in the district. So, I want to give a shout out to Miss Carol Jackson at Decer Elementary School and Leticia Jones at Mary New Techch Middle School. Let's give them a clap. Virtual man. And it's been so busy I forgot to tell everybody this, but Dr. Williams Hill got selected to the prestigious all expenses paid Holdsworth aspiring superintendent academy. They do not pay for everybody to go to
065this. you have to apply and she went through two rounds of interviews and so I'm excited and I'll get to actually learn because she got in I get to learn with her too. So that's exciting for me as well. So uh congratulations to you. Congratulations. Uh some uh class of 2025 highlights. Uh just to give you some final stats for for the public's view. Um just want to put those out there. Five half million dollars of scholarships. Not too shabby. And 18 military enlistes fine um final enlistes. Um, some of them came in after, um, the graduation and I guess some people changed their mind or decided to jump in. Uh, so, uh, some excitement there for our graduates. And if you move forward again, oh, and I've got some legislative updates for you. Um,
066so the first one I want to put out there is if you haven't been paying attention, House Bill 1481 passed. I'm pretty sure the governor is going to sign it. He has uh, the legislature is having a total cell phone ban on K through2 campuses. And so the the devil's always in the detail. Uh I don't have the details. Um that's for lawyers and TEA to provide those uh that information. Uh but I did want to put out some things right now to let you all know because this is effective immediately. And so we need to get something up and running by the first day of school. So my intention is to put in uh regulations. Uh essentially devices will be out of sight and out of sound. Um the law requires us to discipline
067and even confiscate electronic devices if we see them. There is not a question of this anymore. It is what the law says. So we are going to be putting those rules into place and communicating to families um as we get those honed in. There are a lot uh there are several districts in our area that have already done this. So we've been borrowing um kind of some of their processes and procedures they've been using. There will be a policy that I will bring to the school board. We are required to adopt a board policy. And so once we have the details from TEA on that, I will bring that policy forward to you. Um I I do want to stop at this point in case there's any um conversation from trustees or or questions about
068the the information I know as it is right now. I just want to make sure the parents and families know that it's not us, it's the legislators. So as clear as communication and education we can give them that's you know may I ask um do we have any plans to do any communi community communication in regards to what this means for families and how to help them rest assured that they can still contact their their students when they need to and that this isn't cutting anybody off from being able to communicate but rather that we're going to be able to continue to support this partnership. Absolutely. Uh we were going to have to roll the communications plan out and not just to um address those things you said, but I really do want to also
069point out some of the reasoning behind this and some of the research that's been developing about the distractions and the problems that are associated with electronic devices. I I I put cell phone ban on there, but technically it's electronic devices, which includes um everything from smartwatches to iPads that are not district issued. And so all those are on the list, but there is there is a lot of uh research being to come out um and the legislature cited it as a need to reduce the psychological strain on students um who are constantly checking their phone during school time. Okay. Did you have something? Okay. Good, good question. Does anybody else have any questions or comments? All right. Um, and we got one other one. I just want to update. Okay. On House Bill two, that
070is the school finance bill that has been passed and the governor has signed it. Uh, just a couple of notes there because I I sent a letter to our staff to let them know um about this. Uh, two things here. One, you saw the um presentation by Mr. Santiago. Um, we are turning the corner. We are not out of the woods with our finances yet. And I say that because just because we do have some funding coming in does not mean that um we're going back to where we were. Uh we are permanently reducing our our workforce and staffing and any money we put back into the system is going to be very targeted towards those things that are going to be best for our kids. That being said, we have got to build up
071our fund balance, which means we have to allocate a good portion of this money towards our savings account so that we don't have to borrow money and like uh Mr. Martinez said and then spend money on administrative costs for those loans. Um that's money that could be going back into our classrooms. So that's one thing I want to bring out. The second thing is a large um I shouldn't say large I think it's 40% 40 plus percent of the compens uh money that is coming to us is directed by the legislature to be compensation to particular job types and they have to there's some definitions that have to be worked out. Uh teachers for example are one and so that compensation will be targeted. We will work with the rules as they begin to come
072out. We just got our first uh information from TEA and it's not complete so I can't tell you exactly who's getting it but over the next month in July we will find that out. We will notify those employees that are affected and let them know. Uh one thing um that was specific it specifically excludes actually campus administrators and district administrators. Uh we do are going to ask trustees when you adopt the compensation plan um we are wanting to put a stipen in there for administrators um who um will get a stipen based on their improved campus performance and I think this is just a way to acknowledge the hard work that they do since there is no compensation in this plan for them u but also make sure we reward those that are really perform
073improving the performance of their campus Um, any questions on on the school finance bill? I don't have a whole lot of answers on it. I couldn't even tell you the exact dollar at this mo moment. Uh, because the templates are just now coming out. It is a complicated bill for sure. I know that when um they were working on this bill, a lot of like the staffers that I talked to, whatever, they were running all these numbers and the run numbers were inflated. So, um, I'm just curious to see how that looks with what we're going to be getting. and you know, but not right now like because it's it's I mean, I'm sorry, but I I know that a lot of it wasn't completely accurate it sounds like for SP2. So, I just want
074to make sure that I know you're doing a lot of hard work. Well, and it's probably important to to remind everybody the reason we have to we know we're bringing an amended budget in August is because we adopted a balanced budget balanced budget on current law knowing that we were going to have to adjust everything once we knew the rules um come up here in July. So, we will come back and uh amend the budget in August. So, just to emphasize the balance budget is based on current law. So, we are expecting actually to have a surplus budget of some kind uh next school year, and that's always been the plan to bring back the the fund balance um as we move forward. Thank you. But at least we're getting some money. Um is this
075the last? Okay. Financial report. Um 10.1 do we have any questions from trustees? No we can move on to uh 10.3 because we already did 10.2 presentation of summit of GPM and CPM monitoring reports. There's no question. We can move on to Madam President. Go ahead. Can we go back to the beginning of that? We do as part of our lonear governance want to um point out um some of the summited presentations. So Dr. Williams Hill, would you like to take the stage? I know. And I was looking at her and I was like well maybe she was trying to fly under the radar but I was good evening team of eight. Good evening. Good evening. All right. So our summitive um progress goal progress measures and constraint progress measures. OSS gave the uh constraint
076progress measures measure for the finance report um earlier this um evening and so I'll just briefly um pause and go through each of the slides to give you an update on how we've done this year on our goal progress measures. So we have GPM 1 here and you see our preliminary data for grade three 24 2024 school year the preliminary data is 25% 2025 is 28% at meets and above. GPM 2, the percentage of third grade students who meet grade level or above star math will increase from 19% to 47% by June 2028. Our preliminary preliminary data has us at 23%. Can I ask a question? Yes, go ahead. Um the annual target says 33% for example school year where we just finished 2425 so it says 26%. Um and when we see the information
077at 23% are we are we also adding the mastery because mastery is and above. So is it like 30%. It's not the percentages are collapsed within each other if that makes any sense. So the 7% is inclusive the 23% is inclusive of the 7%. Oh, thank you. Our GPM3 for our CCMR will increase from 48% to 90% by the class of 2028. As of 2025, our projected or predicted CCMR scores as of June 12th, last Friday, at 72%. Here's an update on the data that was provided last month. May I ask a question? Yes. In regards to CCMR data being it shows that it's being housed in Skyward and School Links. How are we validating the data in two different sources to ensure that we're getting accurate results? That is an excellent question. and I'm
078gonna call a friend, Dr. Harvey. Good evening, um, team of eight. So, um, Skyward reports into school links and what we do is by hand download what's in school links and then do a comparison between what's in Skyward and school links to confirm that those things are correct. And then as mentioned earlier, we have awesome PES team that we've been working with to verify the numbers and um make sure the code's going in correct. So we been pretty busy um doing um actual handbyand uh comparisons. So then is the data in both Skyward and like is all data in both systems? Yes. what go everything goes into Skyward and then it uploads um daily into schools and it gives us the graphics and the predicted meas measures. Yeah. I don't think you're not using the
079Skyward to house the College Board stuff though. No, no, no. Those things go straight to um to TA uh to for performance reporting and then we actually get get that data and go back and add it into here. It's all it's all uploads into Skyward. So then is it integrated like those two different softwares are they like do they talk to each other integrated and then produce the data or I'm just one way talk. So it it goes one way up everything goes um from Skyward that way we don't have any system overwriting our main database to Skyward. You know, CCMR, as I've mentioned before, is one of those things. The data elements come from so many different locations that you've got to do a lot of hand work. When I say hand, I mean
080we're working off of spreadsheets, of course, but that's one thing that I saw this year that I was much more excited about. We had principles and counselors sitting with spreadsheets going over their class of 2025 students um line by line so they can say, "Well, I know that kid passed the SAT. Why isn't it showing that?" Great question. go find out and you go and try to solve that issue before themes does the summer submission because the way the education agency works is once it's submitted here in summer you can't change it doesn't even matter if you can prove you were wrong doesn't matter whatever you submit right now is what counts and so a lot of work's been going into uh checking this data to make sure we have every single number um so
081I'll leave I'll leave it at All right. So, I've got my homework assignment to verify which data is housed in which source and how we count on the reliability and validation of the data. We have three constraint progress measures and for number one it is the percentage of the teacher turnover rate as measured by taper. The Texas academic progress report shall decrease each year. And as of May 2025, I think a couple of months ago, when we started talking about the budget, I shared that we would start tracking data in two different ways due to our local certified teacher program and because of the number of positions we were eliminating from the district. so that you could see what our teacher turnover rate would be had we been able to keep those FTEES and what
082they are as a result of us not being able to keep those FTEEs. So what you have on the far right you have 11.67% 67% that is if we were able to keep all of our FTEES that is what the turnover rate would be for teachers but because of our financial state and us having to eliminate some of our FTEES our teacher turnover rate is 28.97% as of May 2025 which makes our retention rate 88.33% and 79% respectively and we do still have um the option for teachers uh to resign. So, we're still in that time period to where we may or may not see one more last push before the penalty-free resignation date, which at which is at the end of this month, right? And then for CPM2, Moyes gave the update. And for
083CPM3, the campus accountability scores. If we look at our predicted scores for this school year or 2024 and 2025, we saw that 10 of our schools improved in their overall score. Four of them decreased and one remain about the same. We still recognize that we have too many D's and Fs and have been planning this spring to jumpstart our upcoming school year anticipating what those ratings might be. and we have not fully adjusted to the higher standards and changes in testing put in place in 2023 and 2024 public just uh the reason why I'm not putting the scores up there is TEA has not released the scores and one thing that you don't want to do is put out a score that's too high or a score that's too low and then TA come back
084and say well you put out the wrong score these what I'm referencing here are internal predictions that we've done u that could change depending on what comes out. And we should be getting uh I believe a public release of scores is next week, I think, is when it comes out. Uh let me rephrase that. 2025 is coming out next week. No one's real sure what's going to happen with 2024. Uh it is still um part of a legal challenge. Um and we will see um if they get put out. Can we can we go back go back about four slides? Um third grade reading right there. Um let's just make sure I was seeing this right. Seems like uh tell tell us what the eye station ice station actually is. Yeah, it is an assessment
085used by the students to calibrate their reading fluency as well as their reading comprehension. So it's a software program that calibrates according to how the students answers answers the questions. And so are these results studentto student? Meaning what I'm I'm asking is like a third grade. It's the same cohort of kids who sported 43 in September after a year of instruction. We're down to 40. Is that am I reading that right? From September to May. Yeah. Uh, good evening. Um, Trusty Patterson, it's not that the students like forgot stuff or or scored at a lower level. That's the percentage of students that are um at or around grade level. That's a rough way to talk. Or students who are progressing as um as expected or on grade level. though where in September that is the
086same the well it's the students that were here back in September October scored um the 40 40 43% of them 43% of those students were scoring at you know at or at grade level and were progressing as predicted and then by the end of the year 40%. So, I guess what I'm saying is is I station saying, "Okay, uh, grade three in September, this is where you're supposed to be." And then grade three in May, it's the same kids testing and only 40%. That it is the same kids testing and students are growing. If all if the students were growing at about the same rate, the bar all the bar would be flat. So it would still be 43%. What we in fact need to do is have more students growing um and and uh
087scoring at grade level or above which would bump the number from 43% of our of our third grade students scoring or progressing at about grade level or as expected up to 45 up to 50. Um, but students are growing, just we're we're not growing them all at, you know, a year's growth like we like we would hope. Okay. That's I guess we dipped a little. I guess that's my look. It is. You you see it. And in in kindergarten, first grade, for instance, you see like kindergarten, hey, all right. Right. Kids kids came in about 28% of them are where we need them to be. they left, but whatever that really small number is, 36% are are where they need to be. And then second grade, it leveled off a little. You know, yeah, we
088we we pushed a little few more students um into that category. And then third, second and third, interesting. It's the numbers much higher, but then throughout the year, we're not continuing to add more students onto the list of performing at grade level like we'd like to. I don't know if that makes sense. Yeah, it makes sense. And so I'm sure you all knew this and um and I guess there's a plan to address either um those grade level curriculum or the teachers at their grade levels uh because because we want to see especially at third grade they get that's the first year for star isn't it? Yes sir. And one of the where we put a lot of our eggs in the early literacy basket this year um to build that up from the ground
089up because as they creep you know into the next grade and the next grade the idea is that it'll grow. But we really do see that we need to focus our efforts and hit those third, second, and third grade um teachers, people teaching those grades to increase the capacity of instruction there so our students can continue to grow. Um yeah. Okay. And then on the right side, those assessments are in Spanish. Yes, they are. Okay. And so is there going to be an Wow. Uh uh I think I know what you're asking and I think back at the beginning of the year when we got in those first scores for kindergarten and first grade um brought it back to my team and we brought it to I station like that's I'm respectfully we got smart
090kids but that's higher than what you would expect. The grade level the second and third grade scores those were about right. Mhm. And we met with I Station representatives to try to dig into, you know, what happened with those scores because they look great. And, you know, I was pretty cautious and calm about trying to, you know, celebrate how awesome they were because I expected that we would be at a normal more of a level more commensurate with where we should be in the next grade level. like second and third grade, although they're not as high as I would like, the the progression in second grade in particular, we want to see that more kids functioning at and reading at grade level. Um, kindergarten and first grade, I knew I'd be standing here. when those
091scores first came out um at in the fall, I knew I'd be standing here um trying to explain it and um there is there's no way to explain it other than the scores were anomalous at the very beginning. And then for the next page for the math next slide. Uh so this is a whole different data set and it's about um students mastering I it's it's more of what you're used to in terms of scores and actually Dr. Lowry might need to tutor tutor me on what what I ready actually is showing us because each year when I first came in I was at this meeting I think seeing this data when I was getting sworn in and it was like wow we're doing great in math until you look at the star scores and
092it it doesn't translate and so really I have I have a problem with the the I Ready math data and that's one of the things that prompted for this next year not only a change in the curricula curriculum which was I ready curriculum but also um a change in our progress monitoring which is going to move to a product called which is used across the state and also has a practice platform attached should yield some data that we can feel more confident in for for next year. You answered my questions. Thanks. Thank you sir. And that's the question I would have asked you is whether we feel confident in the tools that we're using and whether we feel they are best supporting our students. Um, I'm uh definitely I'm I'm with you, Dr. Bent, seeing
093that that Spanish literacy drop down so low for kinder and first grade when half of our population are bilingual students and we want them to be thriving in their first language. Um, that's that is definitely something worthy of looking into and it's great to hear that that's exactly what you all did. Um, I'm very excited to hear what your plan is moving forward with and how you anticipate that's going to impact our GPM next year. Thanks. Thank you. All right. There's no further questions. We're good. So, we'll move on to 11 consent agenda items 11.1 to 11.17. Do I have a motion for the consent agenda items? Madame President, I move that the board approve consent items 11.1 through 11.17 as presented by administration. Thank you, Trustee Lowry. I have a motion by trusty Lowry
094to approve 11.1 through 11.17 as presented. Do I have a second? I have a second from Trustee uh Martinez. All those in favor? Uh 70. Thank you. Um we'll move on to action items. Okay. Action item 12.1, consideration of approval of 2024 2025 budget amendment. Uh, Madame President, I move that the board adopt the final 2425 budget amendment as presented. I have a motion by Trustee Howard to approve the budget amendment as presented. Do I have a second? I have a second by Doc uh trustee Dr. uh um Thomas. Thomas. I'm trying to say both of them. Dr. Trusty and all those in favor passes. Um 70 and we'll move on to action item 12.2. Do I have a motion for action item 12.2? Consideration and approval of the 2025 2026 budget. Madame President, I
095move that the board adopt the balance 2526 budget as presented. I have a motion by trustee Patterson. Do I have a second? We second. Y uh seconded by all of the trustees to um uh um approve the balance budget for 2025 2026. I still have to take the vote. All those in favor passes 70. All right. Congratulations admin staff. Everybody deserves a big round of applause. I think this is really historical like it is very his historical and I think just it goes to show on the focus and on the leadership and um we couldn't do it without all the hard work and dedication of our staff are a focus superintendent and the support from all of our trustees because during that we have had had to make hard decisions but guess what we are
096a team we supported each other. We went through all that and now we're here with a balanced budget. You guys are amazing. You should feel very proud of yourself. The community should be feel very proud and I I'm almost in tears. Thank you so much. Madam President, can I say one thing? Go ahead. So, I think it's also important uh the little tidbit of information that we found out here a little bit earlier uh is that we are possibly only one of two districts uh that actually can do can say that we have a balanced budget. The second one we don't know yet, but possibly two. So, this is a big Trusty Patterson. I could see you. No, no. I was just turning off my mic. I'm through time. Okay. Um, well, thank you so
097much. Do you want to say that something really quick, Dr. Cman? It's your team, too. I'm sure I would love to. Uh, and I think you said it right. I don't think I think this is a really good example of what um team of eight leadership looks like. I don't think uh I'm not sure if we could have made it across the finish line if it weren't for a board that looked at us and said, "Get across the finish line." And when a board is united like that, it unites the administration and it unites the community to accomplish something even through the hardships, through the pain, um, and the difficult decisions. But I I don't ever want to lose sight why we did this. We built a balanced budget so that we can help our
098kids to the future. Can't help your kids if we don't have any money to help our kids. So this is about rebuilding the the district back with a laser focus on the academics of our students. So congratulations trustees, congratulations administrations and congratulations uh to the community to be proud of your your district. Uh Mr. Martinez is right. There are there are districts out there with balanced budgets. Um but there are a whole lot of uh of districts out there that are going to be texted me a little bit and said I didn't actually believe it was going to happen, but there it is. So congratulations. Thank you. So now we'll move on to action item 12.3 consideration approval to expend funds to pay for a school board member shipped to Mazba. Dr. Smani. Yes, trustees.
099I put this on on action item um in order for our our board president who is the president of Mazba to recuse herself all the other memberships of the different organizations. TASBY, TLSBA, um, and, um, TABSY are actually in the budget you just adopted, but this one by law, um, to avoid a conflict of interest must be, um, brought out into action. Okay. Can I take a motion for action item 12.3? Madame President, I move that the board of trustees approve the expenditure of district funds to pay for the school board membership to the Mexican-American School Board Association, or MASPA. Thank you. Do I have a a motion by Trustee Lowry? Do I have a second? I have a second by Trusty Martinez and uh Howard. All those in favor? Okay. Uh six. I will
100abstain. So it passes. 61. Thank you. Trustees. Um 12 action item 12.4 for consideration and approval of the 20252026 agreement to purchase attendant credits. Madame President and trustees, our team of eight and community, this is TEA's euphemism for recapture and Robin Hood. So, this basically means if we tip over and we're considered a property-rich district, this allows uh the board has to give me authorization to basically pay the education agency back. They call it purchasing attendance credits. I'll let somebody else explain that one to you, but it is recapture. All right. So, I I will entertain a motion for action item 124 after Dr. Smani gave that explanation for consideration approval of the 2025 2026 agreement to purchase attendance credit. Madame President, yes. For the 2526 school year, I move that the board delegate contractual
101authority to obligate the school district under the Texas Education Code section 11.1511C4 to the superintendent solely for the purpose of obligating the district under TEC section 48.257 257 and Texas Education Code Chapter 49 subchapters A and D and the rules adopted by the commissioner of the educa of education as authorized under TEC 49.006. This includes the approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credits or the agreement of purchase of attendance credit netting chapter 48 funding. Uh I have a motion by trustee Rodriguez Barnett. Does anyone want to read the the second motion? Okay, I have a second by uh Doc uh Trustee Lowry. All those in favor passes 70. All right. And I guess our next regular meeting will be um confirmation next uh regular board meeting is August the 18th. We will
102might have a special we're having a special one August the 4th. Correct. All right. Well, I'll uh entertain a motion to adjurnn. Nobody wants Okay, I have a motion by Trusty Martinez to adjurnn. Do I have a second? I have a second by trust trustee do Dr. Thomas. Those in favor? I seven 70. And I think we should take a picture when we balance our budget. Yes. You know, I I I find that passing a bud balanced budget takes a lot less time at the board meeting than some of my colleagues have been spending. Yeah. So, we should take a picture. Historic right here. I'm going to frame it. Thank you everyone. Have a good night.