001So, so even even Lao like I'm in LA National uh reduction in force too every like almost every industry nonprofits. Good evening everyone. 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 May 19th, 2025 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. Now we will uh go to close session. The board will now adjourn into executive session at 50:01 p.m. Pursuant to the following sections of the Texas Open Meetings Act 551.071, 551.072, 551.0.074, 551.076, and 551.129. Good evening everyone. The board will now reconvene in open session at 6:10 p.m. We will start with the
002pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation and justice for all. Texas to the Texas one state and indivisible. All right. I will take volunteers from one of our board of trustees for the vision statement. I'll do the vision. Trusty Howard, go ahead. 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 Howard, do I have a volunteer for the mission? I can do the mission. Thank you. Collectively as a community, Mayor ISD provides equitable resources, a safe learning environment, and high quality educational services for all scholars to successfully achieve and reach their full potential. Thank you, Trusty Lowry. All right, we're going to move to
003item number six. Six, recognitions. 6.1, May 2025, scholar recognition. So, team of eight, I have a very quick but awesome recognition for you this evening. Quick only because these students unfortunately couldn't be here with us tonight. But tonight, we honor uh two Mayor New Techch High School athletes who represented Mayor ISD at the UIL State Track and Field Championships. Devon Lewis placed fourth in the long jump, an incredible accomplishment. And Malia Curry qualified in both the 100 and 200 meter dash, placing sixth and seventh, respectively in her events. So big congratulations to those students. And that's all for our scholar recognitions. And I'd like to add one's a freshman and the other's a sophomore. So So even better. Nice. Wow. So, next we move on to our awesome scholars to our awesome staff who are
004doing amazing things for our students each and every day. Staff of the month um are nominated by their campuses for the things that they do each day. So, for those that are here this evening to be recognized when your name is called, if you'll please walk up to the left um you'll be handed a certificate where you'll walk across the stage. You'll shake the hands of our board of trustees, but just wait. If you wait right here, we'll all take a group photo and then once it's all said and done, you'll head out those doors for an individual photo as well. Let's get started. Here we go. We have Samira Butler from the Child Development Center. From Blake Maynor Elementary, we have Jessica Reyes, second grade bilingual teacher, and Rayan Henry, child instructional assistant. From
005Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary, we have Carla Serita, FAC teacher, and Cameron Moore, educational aid. From Decker Elementary School, we have Trevan Martinez, preK through fifth grade music teacher, and Gabriella Seda, nurse. From Logos Elementary School, we have Udi Adin Adili, first grade dual language, and Connie Squire's technology teacher. From Oak Meadows Elementary School, we have Daisy Agita, second grade bilingual teacher, and Britney Gay, kindergarten teacher. From Pioneer Crossing Elementary School, we have Wendy Boat Wright, fifth, K through fifth grade gifted, talented teacher, and Rosario Moreno, preK aid. From Presidential Meadows Elementary School, we have Shantiva Wimi, prek, and Kesha Savannah, prek professional. From Shadow Glenn Elementary School, we have Roosevelt Matthews, fourth grade science, and Raquel Perez, assistant [Applause] principles. From Mayor Rise Academy, we have Lauren Costello, first grade self-contained, and D'vorah Crawford, sort
006sore aid. From Decker Middle School, we have Rodney Fagan, sixth through 8th grade P teacher, and Angela Aguetto, S um SLE pair professional. From Mayor New Techch Middle School, we have Courtney Wells, C campus interventionist, and Jorge Velasco, inclusion. [Applause] From Mayor Early College High School, we have Alejandro Navaret, fourth, excuse me, fourth 11th grade AP calculus teacher and Stephanie Liy, [Applause] registar from Mayor Excel Academy. We have Dora Flores, food service [Applause] worker from Mayor High School. We have Julie Carwell, 9th through 10th grade CTE health science and the Vana Gita cafeteria staff. And from Mayor Senior High School, we have Benjamin Simmons, 11th through 12th grade social studies and Alma Lopez, cafeteria [Applause] manager. Great. I think that's all. We get you guys in for a group photo and then we can have
007you. Yeah. So that y'all are in the same. [Music] Ready? One, two, three. One more. One, two, three. Awesome. [Applause] All right, we'll move on to seven public forum. Good evening, team of eight. For each person present in the boardroom who wishes to address the board, you will have 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? I will. When necessary for effective meeting management or to accommodate large numbers of individuals wishing to address the board, the 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
008members 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. If you 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
009specific individual employees, scholars, or board members by name to avoid any potential breach of confidentiality. Um, superintend [Music] in So, our first speaker is Kevin Collins and topic of discussion is academic integrity. I apologize for wasting everybody's time. I'll defer from my question. Thank you. Our next person is Selia Valencia. Topic of discussion is Presidential Meadows Elementary. administr for Auditorios Jose. Administr President attributes. Gracias. Our next speaker is Miguel Perez and topic of discussion is Presidential Meadows Elementary. Hi, good afternoon. Thank you for having me here to to speak in behalf of my family. Uh she's my wife and um so I'm here because I' I've been hearing very concerning things about my kid, my family, my wife and I've been hearing other other uh family members. They're very concerned of what's happening in the
010school. So what I can hear but I can see that the school has turning into very hostile place. So it's very unhappy environment. There's no embracement to the teachers. The teachers the teachers are actually get punished for trying to help the kids. They get they get uh they get alienated with the teachers. They they ask him in front of everybody. They're going to get writeups for trying to help the teachers. There's an incident that my kid tried to help the teacher opening the door because there was one little kid having a problem. So the principal came in and start yelling at the kid. Why do you opening the door? This is this is very this is not the way that always a presidential men's husband there's there's no we we have an incident with the
011kid there's I guess there's one kid that's walking around there's very bad words talking to my wife she goes to school trying to help the school on the holidays make it pretty make it nice for the kids but these kind kids come around tell him uh BF you know very bad words about to her like you don't have to be like this but the kid. I do whatever I want. The same kid. The same kid. I guess he he's been uh treating other kids really bad. I guess I don't know what's going on with that kid. I don't know the kid. I don't know. But I hear from my kids, from my wife. So, I hear the other kid bringing bringing a knife to school. A knife to defend himself from this other kid. I
012don't This is This is unacceptable. We just went not too long from another school. They having a stabbing another kid with a knife. I mean, this is pretty bad. This is for the better for the kids. So, so we all asking to please change look at look at what's happening. look at what's going on and please change the the principle because this is no this is this is a very hostile environment for for the school for the parents everybody here I hear another lady that has their son and actually instead of giving support tell them you know spang your kid and he has a special needs spang your kids we cannot handle your kid anymore they go to the cafeteria they're not allowed to speak they can't talk there they're there's like a skill this
013this principal needs to be in a correctional school. I mean, treating that degraded kids know the kids that we have. This is a very I think I'm very disappointed and I think the way that this is being managed and I hope I really hope and I can help whatever I can do to help our community to keep it very nice and quiet so we can we can help and and embrace our teachers because they're really good. Times up. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is Aurora Sarpal. Topic of discussion, presidential meadows. Good evening board members. My name is Aurora Rasarpal and I speak before you today not only as an educator but as someone who is deeply concerned about the climate of fear and lack of support that has taken hold on our campus. And
014what is even more alarming is the unprofessional tone and behavior shown. I'd like to share my personal experience. I received a write up for taking my class on a scheduled bathroom break even though it was early very clearly listed in my daily schedule. When I was called to discuss this, I was told the assistant principal would be present. But when I arrived, the assistant principal was walking out and I was cornered alone in a room with the principal. She confronted me with a minute-by-minute breakdown of two days worth of restroom breaks, questioned my use of instructional time, and issued two write-ups against me without once offering me actionable feedback or consistently obser observing my classroom. I now avoid restroom breaks altogether for fear of retaliation. I am currently on my level two of the grievance
015process. Yet, no one has communicated the next steps to me despite the policy stating that the superintendent should be involved at this level. I can't help but wonder if this treatment stems from my speaking up during the last staff meeting back in October, the last time that we had one. I've also learned that the principal told another staff member, and I quote, "I do not like Sir Paul. sometime around November or December, shortly after I voiced my concerns. Let me be clear, this is not a situation where we've just be now decided to gang up against our principal. Many of us have been raising these concerns for months, emailing and notifying upper administration, including the superintendent and the chief of schools. The silence speaks volumes. from the chief of schools when I came to his
016office before my official grievance. You he admitted that my principal could have handled that situation better. He admitted that she should have simply had a friendlier conversation to address her concern. One minute. I even asked off the record for her to dispose these corrective actions and stated it would not look good to ask her to do that. So that leaves me thinking, how do the writeups make me look? Do you think about that? No, they didn't. Instead, they left me no choice but to file a grievance just for him to deny the most important remedies. And on top of that, they had the courage to ask me to to offer to give me a decent reference. All of this leads me to believe that there must be something more lying underneath the surface that makes
017her invincible and protected by the upper management such as the superintendent. And now we are seeing the result. Not only are the teachers leaving the district in droves, but they are taking pay cuts and are willing to travel longer distances just to avoid Maynor ISD altogether. That should be alarming. This pattern is not just demoralizing, it's dangerous. Retaliation, surveillance, and silence are replacing what should be a culture of collaboration and support. Thank you. Our next speaker is Maria Vangas. Topic of discussion, PME. PMENT. [Music] Fore director. Fore school. Alan. Okay. much. Gracias. Much gracias. Our next speaker is Johnny Velasco. Topic of discussion, student success. Good evening, trustees. Dr. Smani. Yeah, it's been a while since I've been back in here. I guess uh one of the things that when I departed here, I mentioned
018to the faculty and staff that if they ever needed anyone to come speak on their behalf, just just give me a call and and they done so. Uh I'm going to go off of pretty much my notes here, but I want to say something. this this afternoon or today during the day I'm I I work right up the street at Applied Materials and there's a billboard on 290 and I guess uh right there off of Tuscanyany Way in that area right there that has an enrollment I guess advertisement and trying to enroll students with u award-winning fine arts, award-winning athletics and uh award-winning academics. Well, after hearing these folks speak here, well, there's a reason for that. Those are the ones that were just standing up. That's that's the reason. Now, what I wanted to
019say here is uh we have a large amount of great educators here from what seems to be happening in this district to me is that they're forced to sign resignations. I know we're having a reduction in force and it's it's pretty sad and pretty scary. Some of these educators are scared. Some of them don't know where they're going now. I don't know when the contracts are going out, which I don't have that access anymore, you know, not being on the board anymore. One of the things I watched, I guess from one of your last board meetings you had is you had a number of students from a campus come speak on behalf of their leader. Of course, you can't mention any names, but I was very overwhelmed and very proudly saying that that was a
020program that we have here that we brought to this district. One minute. Thank you. And also that, you know, it's it's a great thing that we're teaching these kids to come and speak on behalf of their leader or leaders. I will say also that one of the things is that I was uh that I noticed is that you know with with the state and where they're going with uh the vouchers, you know, just just at church yesterday or even this weekend, my own pastor talks about the advocation for private schools and and that's a it's a scary thing. I'm a I'm a I'm a supporter of public education. I'm a product of it. I'm a product of Mayor ISD and again I will I will come back again and speak on on behalf of these
021folks that are very very scared of of speaking here in front of you all because they're afraid of the re retaliation that they'll receive. Again, thank you very much. Good luck to you. Welcome new board members and thank you. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Alejandra Himeus. Topic of discussion, urgent action needed, leadership crisis at PME. Alejandra and P PMP. forch. for administr Gracias. Gracias. Our next speaker is Monica Contreas. Topic of discussion. Urgent action needed. Leadership crisis at PME. Start. Mathemat. Examinch. Fore! Foreign! Foreign! Examinch. Our next speaker is Vasquez Santa Maria. Topic of discussion, urgent action needed, leadership crisis at PME. Presidential Elementary. Foreigneid administr PM Daniel. Next speaker is Maria Sales. Topic of discussion, urgent action needed, leadership crisis at Presidential Meadows. Good evening, members of the
022board. My name is Maria Salas and I'm here as a as a parent of two students at PME. You know what's the first thing people do when you tell them your child attends a school in Mayor ISD? They flinch. They hesitate and they ask why. But I never felt that way because my daughters attended Presidential Meadows Elementary and PME was different. PME had exceptional teachers. Teachers who had been there for 10, 15, even 20 years. Teachers who didn't just teach. They cared. They knew our children by name. They showed up early. They stayed late. They built a safe, loving space where our kids thrived academically and emotionally. The environment at PME was unlike any other campus in Mayor, and everyone knew it. And now it's gone. All of that ripped apart in less than one
023year because of one person, one leadership team. And now more than 90% of our teachers have resigned. Not transferred, resigned, left the profession, left the district, left the school they loved. Why? Because fear has replaced community. Because silence has replaced collaboration. Because intimidation has replaced inspiration. Our children are scared. Our teachers are broken. And we the parents are furious. And we are holding every single one of you accountable. Especially you. You, the superintendent. Please refrain from because you have known you have known what's been happening at PME. the complaints, the surveys, the emails, the resignations, and the pleas for help. And what have you done? Nothing. What exactly are we waiting for? Another horrible incident like what happened at Logos Elementary? Is that what's going to take before the district acts? Let me say this
024as clear as I can. None of you deserve to sit in those chairs if you're not willing to protect our children, our teachers, and our schools. We, the PME comm community, demand immediate removal of the principle of PME and her leadership team. Not next year, not after review, but now. Our children deserve better. Our teachers deserve better. and PME deserves better. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Um the timer is frozen. Our next speaker is Liola Lita. Topic of discussion, urgent action needed, leadership crisis at Presidential Meadows Elementary. Direct Presidential. No coincidence. Certific responsibility. for director. Gracias. Gracias. Next we have Luis Ortiz. Topic of discussion PME and safety. Hi, my name is Luis Ortiz and I am a third grade dual language scholar at PME. I wanted to talk to you because school is
025supposed to be a happy place, but it doesn't feel that way to me. I feel nervous and stressed almost every day, especially at lunch. Some lunch monitors yell at us a lot. It makes me feel scared. Sometimes we're not even allowed to talk at all, even if we're finished eating. We've had so many silent lunches this year just because it gets a little loud. I don't think it's fair for the whole grade to be punished like that. Lunch should be a time for to relax and talk with friends. It's also a time for students to learn about each other, even learn a second language. I also don't feel safe going to the restroom alone. There are kids playing, being loud, and not behaving, and there's no adult around to help. I try not to drink
026water just so I don't have to go to the restroom. That doesn't seem right. Another thing that makes me sad is that during can time, which is supposed to be a fun break like P art and music, we end up doing which feels like another test when we go to computer lab. I think we already do enough work during the day. We spend most of the day sitting doing work and preparing for tests. As a bilingual student, I have to take twice as many tests, not just in English, but also in Spanish. For example, we have to take the T pass and other reading tests in both languages. On top of that, practice for the start is too much testing in instead of helping us learn. It often just makes us anxious and tired. We
027need more time to broad to do projects and activities like science experiments. I love reading science and learning in fun ways. I also like my friends. That's the main reason I don't want to move to a different school or be absent. But sometimes school feels more like a prison than a place where kids are supposed to grow, feel happy, and safe. I hope you're will listen to what I'm saying. Not just for me, but for other kids who might feel the same way, but are too scared to speak up. Please help make school a place where we want to be, not one we want to skate. Thank you for listening. Thank you so much. [Applause] Our next speaker is media mortise. Topic of discussion PME and safety. Good evening members of the board. My name
028is Maria Mortis and I am here today as both a parent and a professional educator at Presidential Meadows Elementary. I'm here to support my child's experience and to express deep concern about the current environment at PME. The climate has become tense, disconnected, and at times even toxic. Leadership that shuts down input, dismisses ideas, and avoids collaboration is not true leadership. Schools thrive when leaders build trust, value relationships, and support those who serve our children every day. What we are experiencing is opposite and authoritarian approach with little regard for the voices of staff, students, and our families. This culture of fear and disrespect is now affecting our students in deeply personal ways. Recently, my own child had an upsetting encounter with a staff member during lunch. The interaction left him feeling intimidated and uncomfortable. so much
029so that he no longer feels safe at ease going to the cafeteria and he is now apprehensive about coming to school at all. No child should ever feel afraid in a place meant for learning and growth. No child should ever be made to feel disrespected or unwelcome. I've personally sent emails and completed surveys hoping to engage constructively and contribute solutions. Despite those efforts, I have seen no change. What's worse, I was written up for making a professional judgment call, doing my best to supervise students both inside my classroom and unsupervised students in the hallway. That decision was made with students well-being and safety in mind. Yet it was met with punishment rather than support. This sends a harmful message that educators acting out of care and responsibility and professionalism will not be supported, but instead
030penalized. That is unacceptable. Teachers working under pressure with children's best interest and heart should be guided, not reprimmended. We need to create a school culture where staff, students, and families feel safe, valued, and respected. That cannot happen if concerns continue to be ignored and intimidation is normalized. As a parent and educator, I am calling for accountability and transparency. I urge you to listen to the voices of our community and take seriously the responsibility we all share to ensure our schools are places where every child and adult feel safe, heard, and cared for. Thank you for your time and your attention in this urgent matter. Thank you. Next up, we have Amanda Dorner. Topic of discussion, leadership at PME. Good evening. My name is Amanda Dorner. I'm a teacher at Presidential Meadows. Excuse my raspy voice
031today. I've been teaching at Presidential Meadows for four years. I've been teaching in Mayor ISD for a total of eight years. I left Mayor and I came back to Mayor because I believed I could find a school home here and I found it. But it's no longer that. This has been the hardest year of my teaching career in 10 years. And I taught through COVID and a mask and the internet, but that was easier. I've worked for many different principles, assistant principles, and never been so disrespected, discouraged, and uninccluded in conversations. I was chosen by my previous leadership to select the new leadership at Presidential Meadows. I felt very proud to hold that voice for my community and and we asked for certain things that we were looking for in a new leader. I don't
032believe we found them. My it's personal and mental mental and physical health have severed immensely. May is mental health awareness month. The flyer on the seat made me laugh out loud to be honest. Felt a little ironic because I am shaking with anxiety. I've had to take multiple days of personal leave beyond the two mental health days due to increased anxiety attacks from how I've been treated by the not just the principal, the assistant principal, and other named leaders of our school. Instead of being a leader, I've been looked at as a problem because I speak up. Teachers are leaving because we don't we haven't been heard through the grievance process, through emails to district leadership. It's kind of been brushed off as miscommunication. A nine-page document that I wrote of evidence for my grievance
033process was not based on miscommunication. It was based on the worst leadership I've experienced in my career. So, like many others, I will be looking outside of Mayor ISD to a somewhere that I feel will support the teachers and students that stay here. So, I came today to speak up for the people that don't have a choice to leave. This is their school home. They deserve teachers like me, teachers like the ones here, and they deserve to be heard and listened to. Thank you. Thank you. Next we have Jose Orosco. Topic of discussion, urgent action needed, leadership crisis at PME. [Music] Uh, PM Seosto Lasch. Don't responsibility. Director Administr Gracias. Gracias. And we don't have any more speakers. Thank you. 8.1. Okay. Now, we're going to move on to close section session eyed action items.
0348.1 consideration and approval for contract non-renewal for reduction in force employees. Um, do I have a motion for 8.1? Madam President, if I might before you begin. Yes. Go ahead. I just want to remind trustees in the community that um back on April 21st uh trustees voted for reduction in force due to program changes. And at that time we reduced uh the force by 15 positions. Uh those 15 persons were offered a process and an opportunity to avoid a non-renewal contract. 13 of those people did so. Uh the two employee names we bring forward tonight did not engage in that process and opportunity to avoid non-renewal. Thank you. Uh, Madame President, I move that the board approve to now renew the employment contract of Alame Sanakova based on the board resolution adopted April 21st, 2025,
035authorizing the reduction in force due to program changes. I have a motion by Trustee Patterson. I'll second. I have a second by Trustee Martinez. There's no additional discussion. I will ask for the vote. All those in favor 70. We'll move on to close section session I action items 8.2 con consideration and approval for contract non-renewal for reduction and force employees. Madame President, I move that the board approve to non-renew the employment contract of Kristen Stryimer based on the board resolution adopted April 21st, 2025 authorizing the reduction in force due to program changes. I have a motion by uh Dr. Lowry. Trusty Lowry. Do I have a second? Thank you. I'll second. I have a second by uh Trusty Martinez. All those in favor? passes 70. Now we move on to close se close session action
036item 8.3. Madam President, go ahead. Okay. Consideration and approval of educator chapter 21 contract abandonment. Go ahead. Trustee Rodriguez. I move that the board make a finding that there is no good cause to support Leland Bird's resignation from the position at Mayor ISD. I have a motion by trustee Rodriguez Barnett for um 8.41. Do I have a second? I have a second by from Trustee Patterson. No discussion. All those in favor? Motion passes. 70. I'll move on to the next um action item 8 five. Madame President, I move that the board approve the hire of Sundial Ali as executive director of human resources. I have a motion by doc u trusty Patterson. Do I have a second? I have a second by trustee Howard and trust by Dr. Trusty Thomas. All those in favor? There's
037no discussion. Uh did you vote in favor Dr. Thomas? Yes. 70. I just want to make sure and I would like to take a moment uh I think she's probably out there watching to welcome Miss Sunali. She is out of town and not able to be here today. So let's give her a little round of applause. Welcome. All right, we'll move on to a um action item 8.5. Oh, 8.6 consideration of Okay. Uh, consideration approval for hire of executive director special programs. Madam President, I move that the board approve the hire of Ricky Bean as the executive director of special programs. I have a motion by Trusty Barnett. I have a second by Trusty Lowry. All those in favor? 70. Congratulations. [Applause] And of course, uh, since he's been here for a while, he doesn't
038really need introductions. So, come on up, Mr. Bean. You got to at least say hi to the team of eight up here. [Applause] Good evening, board. Good evening, Dr. Sani. Well, I want to um thank you for this opportunity. I am honored to step into the role as executive director of special programs. It's a privilege to serve in educational community so deeply committed to student success. I look forward to supporting our students, families, and staff to support and strengthen programs that will leave uh meaningful and lasting impressions on our community. Thank you for the opportunity. Thank you and congratulations. [Applause] Wonderful. So, now we'll move on to action item uh 8 7 hasn't got one here. Consideration approval for hire of Decker Middle School principal. Dr. Thomas. Madame President, I move that the board approve
039the hire of Brian Reid as a decor middle school principal. I have a motion by Dr. Thomas. I have a second by Doc uh Trusty Patterson. All those in favor 70. Welcome and congratulations. He's here. So, Mr. Reed. Um, as you come on walking up here, you got to say hi to everybody. Just to let the community in the audience know, Mr. Reid comes to us by way of Alleaf ISD in Houston area. He is the assistant principal of a 1300 student middle school, um, with very similar demographics to Decker Middle School. Um, and of course, uh, his superintendent is actually well known to us because he comes from the Austin area, so his reference checks were fairly easy. Um, and we're excited to have you, Mr. Reed. Why don't you introduce yourself to the
040community? Uh, good evening board. Brian Reed. I just want to say I'm honored and excited to take this position and excited to become a part of this community and and share my knowledge of education and learning with the community and make it a, as you say, the best district in te Texas. So, thank you. Wonderful. Welcome. Thank you. All right. Now, we're going to move on to number nine, superintendent update. Student safety update. Uh thank you trustees. Uh we'll start with some uh our usual student safety updates. If you can go forward. Uh Dr. Harvey. Uh just to let you know uh we did um have 13 more recommendations when we received the physical safety audit at the Mayor Senior High School complex. Um we've also increased the number of recommendations that we've accomplished. So
041both numbers keep going up. So we're at 14 out of 53. And so that's where we are right at this moment. Um just reminder to the community, some of these recommendations will take um quite a bit of time to um implement. Some of them will be implemented over the summer. And uh if you go forward, I want to give some uh some clarity to what the physical audit did. Um you can see there are three major categories that they did and gave us the scores. Um their definition of these scores are they demonstrate a behavioral health and school climate that's well structured and a significant compliance by all parties. Um the 69 of course is our lowest one is for the exterior of the building. Um while there are recommendations there, those are some that
042we wouldn't want to discuss out in public because some of those did point out some vulnerabilities that um we have immediately begun to close if we haven't already um closed those vulnerabilities. uh they gave a score of an 87 the interior security and 86 for security and training and those scores are just below their superior rating. Uh so something to be proud there and I would like to highlight if I could if you move forward one slide um a few areas that got 100% um I would like to point out our security personnel including our police department were given 100% by the auditors um as did our nurses and as did our technologies uh team's ability to um protect student and um they also were very appreciative of our camera coverage. So, thank you to
043that staff. If you move forward one, just update uh to the community. Uh you know, just a reminder that when we engaged in a process to purchase a weapons detection system, uh the contractor that was going to sell it and was approved got fired by the company they were working the the manufacturer, which delayed us quite a bit. We did hopefully find a workaround where we're going to be able to lease uh some equipment and get it out there so at least the staff and students can see what that equipment is going to look like in the future so they can see um what the future looks like and how quickly we'll be able to pass students through. And then this summer we'll be able to actually purchase the equipment and begin to install it
044on a permanent not a lease basis. Uh, and um, yeah, and I think that's all for um the safety updates unless there's any questions from board. I don't see any questions. Okay. Uh, a couple points, Brian. Uh, one thing, just want to update the numbers. I I I feel bad I got the prek numbers wrong at the last board meeting, so this is my Mayulpa putting them back up here. Uh, we did still see a 30% increase year-over-year, but the numbers I had last week were a little bit inflated by about 100 students. still a really large increase to be proud of, but I I don't like giving inaccurate data, so I wanted to make sure that I put that out there. Um, we are exploring the possibility of having paid prek in the future.
045It does turn out at the moment that those um paid prek is eligible for for the voucher system. So, thank you, legislature. Unthank you in the fact that they're trying to close that and not allow us to use vouchers. Now, in the Senate um version of the bill, um you know, I'm I guess I should let the public decide why the legislature gave us an opportunity to open a private school in our community, choose our schools to have the prek and use a voucher and then suddenly they don't want us to do it anymore. So, just uh putting that out there and if you happen to want to contact your Senate, the House, the Senate bill that's affecting this in school finance is hitting the floor this week. Dr. Armani, do we have that posted
046on the website or contacts for that? Can or what would be the best way? The best way to contact um our senator, just to point out, is very supportive of public education. Senator Echart is um I would suggest you reach out to perhaps the senators in charge of the education committee of the Senate. Uh Mr. Kraton comes to mind. if you can look him up on the website and let your thoughts know from the state legislature. There is a way to email him directly and his staffers. Thank you. Uh also, if you didn't know, if you don't follow football, we had two players, former Mustangs get drafted last year. They played on the same team. I'm sorry, last year they got drafted this year. We now have a Carolina Panther and a Cincinnati Bengals to
047go with two other students we have drafted. and we are going to get a chance to celebrate them on June 23rd at 11 o'clock at the senior high school. Uh school's out so we can invite the public. So if you want to come by and help celebrate these two young men and the accomplishments um that they made and uh outstanding young men, Mr. Brooks uh comes back on a regular basis to help uh train kids for the future. And here there's a documentary on Netflix that actually is about Mr. Taj Brooks. For some reason I can't get it on Netflix. I'm really upset about that. But I'm not sure what the blockout is, but if you can figure out a way to get it, let me know. It's all those history documentaries you're watching. Maybe
048it is. Um, so, um, and with that, uh, that's the end of my, uh, my points of pride and we're on to information items. Wonderful. Thank you, Dr. Sarmani. Uh, information item number 10, monthly financial report. Any questions from our trustees? We're good. All right. We're going to move on to uh 11 consent agenda items 1 through nine. Madame President, I move that the board approve consent items 11.1 through 11.9 as presented by administration. Thank you. I have a motion by Trustee Lowry to approve consent agenda items 11.1 through 11.9. Do I have a second? I'll second. I have a second from trustee Rodriguez Barnett. There's no discussion. All those in favor. Say hi. 70. Thank you. And now we're going to move on to action items. 12.1 Consideration and approval of a resolution authorizing
049the issuance, sale and delivery of Mayor ISD maintenance tax note series 2025 and approving other ma matters incident and related there too. We say Santiago and uh uh trustees um we were negotiating the rates up until right before the board meeting and we also have here with Mr. Santiago, our financial advisors from Estrada Noosa, as well as our bond counsel, Mr. Ombberto Aguilera. They are here to um let you know what those um rates are and also um answer any questions that you might have. Thank you. Good evening, Madame President Cortez, trustees, Dr. Smani, members of the audience. Uh my name is Anayanes. I'm with Esteosa. We're your financial advisors for any debt service related items. with me is our senior managing director of San Antonio, Mr. Don Gonzalez, also your bond counsel, Mr. Ometo
050Aguilera as well that assisted through this process. Um, just beforehand, just want to give a a a great recognition to your staff and admin and your superintendent u your CFO being real cooperative during this process. It's not easy. There's a lot of documentation that's needed uh for these investors to look at. Um, we also had a rating call recently that affirmed the district's rating. It's just like our own personal credit rating. Um the district as a whole gets a credit rating as well. Um so they we did have conversation with them last month that they affirmed the rating for the district. You know, there's a lot of items out there that you're doing as a district and they take that into consideration and they look at you know the processes that that you've taken uh
051from a deficit budget trying to proceed forward and move forward. So as long as you keep on moving forward in that direction, uh we feel that these rating a agencies will look that in a positive light and hopefully maintain your rating as a school district. So um that's that's something you know every school district throughout Texas is facing deficits as Shamani just mentioned right now. Um you do have House Bill 2. They're in discussion with the Senate side and that's um it's it's interesting. It doesn't look like much extra discretionary funding for school districts. Um, and it looks like there's going to be funding for I mean, which is great for teacher payraises, but at the same time, they're not funding items such as the TRS and all the benefits on the back end as
052as well. So, that's something that districts will still have to find some other uh revenue source um to look at that. So, I just wanted to present to you all um as just a bridge that we were looking at. We looked at it last year. We're looking at it again this year. the bridge to to pretty much give the district some revenue sources until they meet get receive some type of state aid um in the later in the fall and also collect tax revenues. So we did have that you do have a presentation in front of you uh that was printed out. Um ultimately our financing team like I mentioned um Estan Jose your financial advisors Esamia Panic with bond counsel and we did get a bid from Texas Capital Bank um that we're going
053to be recommending recommending today. Uh we put out a bid sheet for to multiple banks throughout Texas and throughout the nation in order to look u at financing um this note. uh we put that out and got reasonable bids for today for your consideration. Uh with your approval, we'll proceed forward and we'll have this closed out and funds received to the district on June 11th. Um the three bids that we received were from Texas Capital Bank at 3.75% uh regions at 4.01 and Huntington Huntington at 4.39%. um Texas Capital Bank. Uh one of the main things there, the call date, that's that means you could pay off the debt earlier um without penalty. So it says anytime without a fee. Um that's something that the district is really going to consider in order to save
054interest um and not have to wait till June June 11th of 2026 to pay off this note. So if if the revenues are there, we will go look at that and try to pay this note early to save interest on on this note. Um total amation schedule um is is there with a 3.75% looking at a total of about roughly 31 million. Um and your uses and sources looking at at 30 million for the project fund um to utilize and cost of emissions of 145,000 for a total of 30 million 145,000 for the district. So at at this time the again the recommendation is is Texas Capital Bank at at a rate of 3.75% callable any time. Um and they'll they'll also be their paying agent as well, but I'll entertain any questions from the
055board. So it sounds like a really good interest rate and it you know was is was this better than what we had last time? Yes, you were slightly above 4% last year. Yes. Wonderful. And the other question, I have three questions and I just want to make sure I understood them correctly. Okay. So, the first uh one of my first questions and I've been always since the very first loan that we took out, I've been the rating, you know, and it sounds like you explained it earlier that we the they're looking at us in a positive way because we're paying off stuff. We're we're kind of trying to balance our budget and stuff. So with this second loan, you don't anticipate us being rated lower. That's that's something that the rating agencies will continue to
056monitor as as far as you know, Dr. Sanmani and and Mr. Santiago, they did a great job explaining to these r agencies on what the board is considering, what they're doing, the actions that have been taken. Um so they will continue to monitor and and make sure that you those that action does come through. Um, and like you mentioned, there's there's everywhere throughout the state, everyone's trying to look at at reductions in expenses. And so that's something that that they'll monitor and they'll come back to us and look, especially also at at paying this note off if we pay it off earlier as well. And that's my second question. So to be clear, the payout would be 30 for the $31 million. It will be paid out March 30th of 2026 and that's a projected
057payoff time. This right what you have currently the amorization schedule um is through June 11th. So that's the last uh that's the final maturity date for this note June 11th that for it to all be paid off principal and interest. But the district is going to look at trying to pay it off earlier um so you could save on that interest. So you could pay it off at any time. So, um, you could receive this note today and and pay it off in in a couple of days if if need be. Um, so without any penalty fee to that. Um, so you wouldn't pay any acred interest only until the date you called it. Wonderful. The district's finance team, our plan is to pay it off early though, isn't it? I think so. Yeah, that
058that is what I was that goal. Yes. Well, thank you. You've answered all my questions. I don't know of any other board members or Dr. Super Santiago could answer. Mo says u well I just wanted to say that that is our goal. It is our goal to pay it off early and based off our cash flow uh projections that we had over the previous over the previous years and um based on the amount of revenues that we earned during uh January and February I think we should be able to um pay off that note uh sooner. Um but uh it all depends on how that anything can change but uh those are our best projections. Okay. And I think probably bear is just a quick reminder to the public. Um the reality is is because
059we're so close to recapture, we get very little state aid, which means we have almost no revenue for five months. Almost all our revenue as a district comes when people pay property taxes in December and then mostly in January. So when people see a big number like $31 million, yes, it is a big number. Yet our tax revenues, we know what roughly what we're going to get in January and they dwarf that number, which is why we can say pretty confidently that we will have the money to be able to pay off the note um once our tax receipts come in in January and February. Thank you. Um if I could add just one thing to look into the future, uh Mr. Santiago and I when we bring the budget for the June board meeting,
060we would also like the opportunity, if it's okay with trustees, to lay out the multi-year um process that we're planning on to make it so that we don't have to take loans out in the future and both a very conservative view and then what we can do to accelerate that process so that you know what decision points will be in the future. I would we I'm sure we would love that. Yes. And Mr. Santiago would love to show it because he's so excited. He was already working on it. Oh my gosh. Yeah, he's a tremendous job. It's a very detailed uh analysis on projections, you know, trying to project two years from now on what's going to come in and ADA. So, uh kudos to him on on what he's done there because it makes
061it makes this uh easier when we go out to investors and banks um asking for some funds. So, thank you. And I want to thank the whole team as well because literally we just kind of figured we might put this on the agenda. We didn't have the whole presentation. You guys were gathering everything out getting the interest rate and ready for the end of the meeting. Um kudos. You guys are really on top of it. And for us to get a even a lower interest rate and to work that fast and do all that homework, um, it's greatly appreciated and it feels much much better. Do you guys have anything else to add? I I'll just quickly add a lettera with Escamian Panic serving as bond counsel to the district. Uh we've prepared the resolution
062before the board this evening which incorporates the financial terms that were just presented uh to the board by your financial advisors. Uh the resolution also authorizes the district to enter into a a series of agreements and other uh documents that are needed to formalize and and and consummate the transactions. So, we um stand ready to assist the district through this process. And if the board wishes to move forward, it's appropriate to uh make a a res a motion to approve the resolution as presented at this time. But we're happy to answer any questions the board may have. Is there any questions by our trustees? No. I guess we're good to go. So, if there's no questions, I will entertain a motion. Madame President, I move that the board approve and hereby authorize a superintendent to
063enter into agreements to borrow funds for fiscal year 2025 2026 and amounts not to exceed 30 million as submitted. I have I have a motion by uh Trustee Howard. If I could tweak that just a little bit just to also include the adoption of the resolution as presented. My apologies for that. Do you want to amend your motion? Yes. It's 31 million, right? Yeah. Go ahead. It would just actually be the approval of the uh the resolution as presented. Okay. Yes. That makes it a little easier probably. My apologies. So, I move that the board approve the resolution. The resolution as presented. As presented. I have a motion by trustee uh Howard. Question. I have a question by trustee Patterson. That is that okay? Yes. It's okay for them to amend based on legal counsel
064and he's uh our legal counsel and our and our other councils there. Okay. Uh I have a motion by Trusty Howard. I'll second. I have a second by Trustee Lowry and Trusty Thomas. No further questions. All those in favor. Motion passes. 70. Thank you very much. And you guys need signatures, right? Okay. We just have one more action item. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. All right. And then All right. We have action item 12.2, consideration and approval of a one-year extension of the superintendent contract. Um, Madam Madam President. Yes. Trusty Patter. I move that the board extend the superintendent's contract one year to end on the 30th of June 2028 and authorize the board president to execute the contract on behalf of the mayor ISD board of trustees. I have a motion by trustee Patterson.
065Do I have a second? I have a second by trustee Thomas. I second the motion. Wonderful. If there's no discussion, I will entertain a motion uh the vote. All those in favor 70 and um wonderful. So this amazing team of eight has seen um a lot of work hard decisions of our leader and um we've already done our superintendent eval March and we wanted to make sure we um have a solid foundation consistent leadership and um we're on track and balancing the budget. We have uh gotten rid of our TA monitor. We have had got we've gotten better health care for our employees out of savings and there's much more to come. So, Dr. Sarmani, welcome another extra year. Make us proud, keep us balanced, and let's keep this team of eight rolling. I want
066to thank you all for for that extension and and I think tonight is a good example of not only the the team and the hard work that they do and what they're able to accomplish together because their my success is really their success. It also speaks to of course that we got work to do and we don't shy away from the hard work. um we accept uh when there are things we got to do better and we we get up in the morning and we go to work tomorrow morning and so um that's kind of team that we have and we will do so and I appreciate all your support. Uh I did tell tell uh the mayor of Mayor that since there's a Chewies coming he may be stuck with me for for a
067lot of years I am a Chewies fan. So but thank you all. I appreciate the the support. And I want to add you said their success is my success. I've always told you, Dr. Sarmani, that your success is our success. So, you know, we're all a team. Thank you. All right. So, now we next um confirmation of the next regular board meeting is Mayo is June June 16th. and no other items. So, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. Madame President, I move to adjourn. I have a motion by Trusty Batterson to adjurnn at 7:32 p.m. I have a second by Trusty Howard and Trusty Thomas. All those in favor? Does it sound like boom boom boom boom boom? Thank you everyone. Have a good night.