001Texas. pursuant to the following sections of the Texas Open Texas Open Meetings Act 551.071, 551.074, 551.076, and 551.129. be back. Yeah. I need a Are you going to let him? Right. Are you going to make a comment? Um, is he gonna make a comment? Yeah. Yeah. And just invite him back next. Yeah. Yeah. Or email him. All right. Okay. Oh, good evening everyone. We will now begin our board meeting. All right. We will now reconvene into open session at April 21st, 6 p.m. Okay. And we will begin with the pledge of allegiance. States God indivisible liberty and justice for alliance. Thank you. Now I will take a volunteer from one of our trustees to read the mission the vision statement. We have Trustee Patterson. Mayor ISD's vision is to be the best district in Texas
002where we provide an equitable education for all scholars and graduate them ready to become leaders in our community. Thank you. Trustee Patterson. Do I have a trustee who would like to read the uh mission statement? I won't. Okay. Trusty Martinez. Collectively as a community, Mayor ISD provides equitable resource, a safe learning environment, and a high quality educational services for all scholars to successfully achieve and reach their full potential. Thank you, Trusty Martinez. And we will move on to item number six, recognition. Good evening, team of eight. We have a lot of recognitions tonight. So, I'm going to jump right into it for our scholars who are being recognized tonight. Once I call your name, if you could come to our left right here, walk across the stage and you'll shake the hands of our board
003of trustees. But once you're done, you'll wait right there because once everyone's done, we're going to take a group photo and then you'll head out these doors for an individual photo as well. So, let's get started. I'm going to start with our strategic plan first because a lot of these tie back to CCMR um which is academic achievement gaps which is by 202028 90% of Mayor IC scholars will graduate prepared for college career trade and or military services based upon their individual goals. And first we'll begin um with some 10 incredibly talented students from Mayor Senior High School who recently mar made their mark at the state skills USA competition. After impressing judges with their skill in hair design, creativity, and professionalism at the regional level, these students advanced to state where they didn't just
004compete, they shined. And they were awarded the prestigious state superior award, a a top honor given to students who demonstrate outstanding excellence in their field. So please help me congratulate Madison Brown. Yadira Mondrean, Yorita, Uita Dominguez, Ureli Ville, Leidua Solomon, Joselyn Gonzalez, Christian Rogers, Kathia Ranhill, Camilleia Yurbazo, and Felicia Horton. So, next we're excited to spotlight some exceptional students, student artists from Mayor New Techch High School. Please help us congratulate Levivier Castillia Lopez, Amelia Nuin, and Yorduja Ragon. These three talented students who qualified for the state vase awards um for their creativity and skills stood out at the regional level and earned them a well-deserved spot at the state contest. And there's more. Uh Yuja has also been selected as one of eight 4A students statewide to advance to the UIL state theatrical set design
005competition, and that happens this month. We got quite a few kids for this one. So, next we're we're recognizing the Mayor Early College High School robotics team for advancing to the state competition. This talented group of students includes scholars from every grade level from freshman to seniors and each played a critical role in getting them to the state level. So, let's start off with our seniors. Um, Anavvanti, Pronbond, Ava, Turman, Jedric Loatada, Joy Austin, Kyle Bergland, Ramudo Cardinos. Do we have any of our seniors here? We move on to juniors. Arabed, Alberto Garcia, Aubrey Gario, Diego, Diego, Olivia, Iman, Hussein, Isabella Fischer, Ahuin, Johnny Solless, Carla Solless, Maximo Rivera, Melanie Madrid, Pernell Smith, Ravier Singh, and TJ Wade. We got some sophomores. We got As we get our juniors up here, we'll call out our
006sophomores. Andres Valencia, Aspen Patton, Courtney Bell, Daniel Kemp, Fina Chandio, Hammad Nachi, Jamal McKini, Jessica Numko, Juan Solz, Richard Smith, Seth Sturman, Spencer Rivera, and Xavier Lada. And we'll close it out with our freshmen, Aiden Carver, Alexandra Vilobos, Forest Louu, and Michael Giron. [Applause] You might want to enter. Perfect. [Applause] Perfect. We have one more scholar recognition for this evening. And our final recognition, we're celebrating two science stars from Mayor New Techch High School. Please join me in congratulating Roshir Bonan and Antoinet Malas who qualified for the state science and engineering fair of [Applause] Texas. Not quite. Well, congratulations and that concludes our scholar recognitions for the evening. So now we move on to our scholars to staff our we have our staff of the recognition who are nominated by their campuses every month for
007the great things that they do for our scholars. Let's get started. So we'll start off with the child development center Lori Torres infant through prek from Blake Mayor Elementary. Casey Metler uh second grade self-contained and Karen Hernandez prek bilingual instructional aid. from Blue Bonnet Trail Elementary. Hazel Martinez, third grade bilingual. And Sharon McKini, substitute teacher from Decker Elementary School. Ruben Fandino, fifth grade. El and Guadalupe Venus, cafeteria manager from Logos Elementary School. Naelli Garcia, kindergarten dual language. and Lydia Lopez, senior administrative assistant from Oak Meadows. Sabrina Ruiz, interventionalist and sole Guadalupe, third grade bilingual from Pioneer Crossing. Tanya Valencia, fourth grade math and science. And Ellia Rodriguez, custodian from Presidential Meadows, Carla Arianiano, kindergarten. and Marlene Rivas, uh, long-term special education [Applause] aid. From Shadow Glenn, we have Rita Gomez, third grade math and grade
008level chair, and Patricia Hill, special education [Applause] aid from Mayor Rise Academy. Melissa Christensen, third grade reading. And Julie White, [Applause] custodian from Decker Middle School. Trina Simon, 6th through 8th grade theater. And Mary Samson, [Applause] nurse. And if you haven't seen it, um, the Mayor ISD commercials out in Trina Simon's class is in it and they did an amazing job. So I want to give a special shout out to them. [Applause] from Mayor New Techch Middle School. She be six sixth through 8th grade resource RLA and Jesse Han 6th through 8th grade in school suspension from Mayor Early College High School. Jorge Ramirez, 9th grade AP human geology teacher and Blaine Paradise, substitute [Applause] teacher. From Mayor XL Academy, we have Nicholas Lopez, 6th through 8th grade history. Maria Eskeila, senior administrative [Applause] assistant.
009From Mayor High School, we have Roel Dazzo, 9th through 10th grade English and Marcela Melendres, receptionist. [Applause] From Mayor New Techch High School, we have Wendy Delair, Tenth through 12th grade, RLA, and Wander Cruz, senior administrative assistant. And finally, from Mayor Senior High School, we have Kenneth Solaf, 12th grade government economics co uh teacher and coach, and Johnny Elliot, safety officer. All right, y'all. So, what we're going to need to do is kind of do some layers. So, we'll have one row and then another row at the front. So, I recommend kind of the shorter people in the front, taller people in the back. And then like scooch in. Perfect. Y'all are awesome. Ready? One, two, three. One, two, three. And one, two, three. Awesome. [Applause] All right, we're going to move into public forum,
010but before we do, Dr. Cmani like to say a few words. Oh, good evening everyone. Uh, thank you for coming on out. I know there's quite a few people to speak, so let's make sure we give everybody um that due attention. I know there's some people who want to speak who got here after 5:45. Um by what's posted, we can allow you to speak tonight, I'm afraid. Um however, um I want to definitely invite you if you still wanted to say something to please email me. I can give it to the board or if you want to type in all the emails, their email addresses are online. Uh but we do have a 545. It's a hard deadline that's posted that we're uh can't deviate from. Um so with that um who is our our
011first speaker? Oh thank you. Good evening. 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. 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
012being 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 specific individual employees, scholars or board members by name to avoid any potential breach of confidentiality. So, we'll begin with our first one. It is Michelle Ponish and topic of discussion
013is safety and logistics. Good evening, Dr. Dr. Sermani and board of eight. About two years ago, I stood here to address safety concerns within the district from a teacher's perspective, reaching to the experiences from my campus that school year. Today, I'm here to do the same with a proactive eye, not just for safety, but for functionality of MISD campuses. I understand the need for a balanced budget. Being in the red is financially dangerous, dangerous, and untenable. I understand that payroll is the bulk of a school district's accounts payable. I accept that positions need to be cut to bring the district into the black. However, my concern stems from how a campus can not only remain safe but also meet the logistical needs of the campus, such as during STAR testing. Most, if not all of
014you have heard about the differences between the 2324 and 2425 school years at DMS. The 232 24 school year was rough and borded on dangerous for both students and staff. As someone who experienced both years, I can tell you there is a 180 degree difference between the two. This year has been very different. Although we have had our share of unsafe behaviors, which as every year escalate during specific times of the year, but at Decker, we don't talk about last year. We have worked to ensure this year is both safe and successful. It has taken every teacher to make the difference. Despite the ongoing efforts we have we have put into changing the way of our students view themselves and their community, many believe they are merely quote ghetto kids end quote and feel they
015need to act as such. This translates to increased violence on campus. One minute. How is the district going to safely support uh support safety for both students and staff this coming year? I'm also concerned about the ability of campuses to meet logistical needs during the year. We are currently in testing season as the middle at the middle school level. There are four subject areas that are tested for eighth grade star and two each for sixth and seventh grade. Last week, when the eighth graders had their science and social studies tests, the number of teachers needed to accommodate reasonably sized testing groups, including small groups and a language support group for newcomers that speak languages from Southwest and South Asia, where 11 social studies and 12 for science with class sizes of 22 and 11. This
016does not include the specialized special education classrooms. When we are testing all three grade levels, we use 39 test administrators on one day. Again, this doesn't include much neededed hallway support. Raising room numbers to 30 where possible will only reduce the number to about 30. I'll email the rest. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Marvin Garza and he did not have a topic of discussion. Sorry. Uh just kind of found out when I came up uh just wanted to attend the meeting. I heard that this is going to be Dr. Satakova's last year. Uh and I just wanted to say, you know, just wanted to speak on her behalf. Like obviously she has a very very high performance rate of uh success. It's definitely been working with my kid. Uh she's I've had
017checked all the emails. I just went through it again. I may have got like three emails from principles outside of Dr. Satakova. Uh she's responded to me at least like 25 times. Uh definitely took care of every issue that we've had with our son. Uh we partnered up together. Obviously, it's a very very challenging curriculum at the early college and it's a very very difficult thing for someone to handle much less if we're going to spread it out uh and and make those you know vice principles and then give an overall C uh for a principal it's definitely going to impact you know just like anytime you introduce any change it's going to be the storming forming norming and then performing and that's just something we really got to ask before you know we continue
018or we make this decision uh going forward that we're not going to have you know those those resources and once again understanding cutting the budget and cuts need to be made. Uh but at the same time this is something that I could definitely see this going to impact uh because I I've never had a you know principal uh that is dedicated you know to the children to you know her profession uh and even her you know drive and work ethic. I believe she drives something like two you know an hour every day uh just to to get there. So she's traveling quite some distance and I would love to see her return. I'd love to see her you know continue on. Thank you. Thank [Applause] you. Okay, our next speaker is Iman Hussein. Topic of
019discussion is 11.6 on the agenda. Is it okay if we all stand together? Yes. Okay. Um today we wanted to talk about um Nina Early College, sorry Early College High School. We've had the most amazing principal I've ever had in my life. I've had I've been to 13 schools all my life and is the only principal I've had that has truly cared about us and out of like you could email her any time in the night and she'd be there for you. Any of these students here today, they could tell you that we would want her over a million principles ever. She has been there for us thick and thin through the dirt. Like she would do anything for us. She's helped us get funding. She's made our school funner. She made us want to
020come to school. She makes learning even like learning better for everybody. So, we're just saying we would love if you gave her a big thought in your mind and consideration when you're going for the interviews of principal tonight and things like that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, next up is Najma Hussein. Topic of discussion 11.6 on the agenda. Hello everybody. Thank you for having us here today. It's my first time speaking publicly. I am pray nervous and also emotional. I'm going to try to control my emotions. Uh my name is Najim Hussein. I am a proud mother for of four children who have been walked halls in early college. Two of my daughters have already graduated. This is the school of my daughters currently in junior and my son is a freshman. Uh Santa Gova
021is a she's not just a principal. She is she is a a mentor. She is a parent. She is a teacher. She is someone that I have seven children and they've been many many schools and I met and saw many principles some of whom I even never saw them you make an appointment they're busy they're not available they're not in their office but is available 24 hours 7 days a week 360 days a year anytime whether it's a weekend it's a weekday it's a Friday it don't matter she is Please find your heart. I know there's a lot of things in the agenda. There's a lot of budget cuts. There's a lot of financial stuff that I don't understand myself. But even if you decide to make the schools in one or wherever you all
022working on, have her oversee Max. Have her have her school. Have her see her schoolers. I think you guys will not just break sikov's heart and many parents heart but also a lot of students might not have the goals and visions that they have today for school. Many of them come to school knowing that they have a senior goofa as a principal. A lot of them will not go to school, will not wake up and go to school if they didn't have principal like that. One that knows individually their name by heart. If they don't come to school, if they don't come to testing, she'll personally call you where is so and so. She is dedicated. She's very dedicated. She's hardworking. And I think she deserve to be in their those students life as long
023as possible. as long as she able to do it, I think you guys should give her a second chance or whatever that is. I appreciate you guys. Thank you for having us here and thank you for listening. Thank you very much. Okay, our next speaker is Hadia Hussein. Topic of discussion 11.6. [Applause] Our next speaker is Samantha Martinez Ves. Topic of discussion 11.6. Next speaker is Mang Huai. Topic of discussion 11.6. Six. I'll keep going. Yeah, I'll just keep going. You just let me know. Okay. Okay. Next person. Xavier Anderson. 11.6. Marcus 11.6 Mustafa Alumari 11.6 Devin Everett 11.6. [Applause] Um, I don't really have much to say other than um, ever since I started Mex, she's always been by my side and um, she's always checking in on people, always uh, like like they
024said, we're she's always sending out emails, sending out texts to the parents and just making sure their students are involved in their learning. Um, her herself, she's always been with me every step of the way. um sophomore year, junior year, um everywhere I've been up to now, she's just always been there actively investing in where I want to be in life. And um like I said, I don't have much to say other than she's a great principal and I would have there would a lot there would be a lot of kids who look up to her and want to be like her because she's actively always trying to get students on top of their things. And I think that's really uh admirable of her. Um, yeah. Other than that, she's always in our lives and
025it would be it would be really hurtful if she if she was if she was to leave. Um, that's all I want to say. Thank you. Jesus Armenes 11.6. Lynn Carwell 11.6. [Applause] Hello all board members. I just wanted to come up here. First off, big congratulations to all these people. If they didn't manage to change their minds yet already, then I don't know what will. Second off, I just want to be very professional and tell you straight up, I don't have a personal emotional story with Satakova. I have a very professional and scholar principal relationship with her. She has a more connected relationship with my mother. But what I can say is Satakova does represent somebody that I think should be on the school board. She represents somebody who cares about her students. She
026represents somebody who cares about not just students but learning as a responsibility. She cares about making sure people do the right thing as opposed to the wrong. And even when people do the wrong thing, no matter how close she knows them, she will make sure that there are consequences and that they learn from it as opposed to just getting away with it. And I think somebody like that deserves to not just be responsible for mechs, but be responsible for all the schools, not as a principal, but just as somebody to advise people because that's somebody that I can respect. And the most important thing for students now is respect. And I think that's something that she embodies well. And that's something that she prides herself in even just a little bit. And I think that's
027a very positive attribute that you should really not deprive students of because it's important. It's important that we have somebody that we can look up to and somebody that we can trust will keep our best interest and heart and somebody that will make sure that we have the materials and we have the means and we have the want especially to strive for betterness. And I think that one minute. That's what you should look for. If that doesn't change your mind, I understand the school and all of this takes a lot to put together and to make sure is okay. But if you want to make the school district especially better, then I think Satakova has to have a play in that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, our next speaker, Jeremiah Garza. Topic of discussion 11.6.
028[Applause] Um I want to apologize in advance that I may not be extremely knowledgeable in this topic but if there is one thing I am very knowledgeable of it is of Dr. Saiakova. She is probably no she is definitely one of the best principles I have ever had the pleasure to both work with and see as a leader. When I see our vision to provide an equitable education for all scholars and graduate them to be ready to become leaders in our community, there is one principle that I can say for certainty that I will like to see myself become a leader as that is Dr. Saiova. The mission of Mayor Early College um for providing an equitable resources and a safe learning environment as well as highquality educational services. I can say for a certain
029that Dr. Saiakova strives 110% to provide. She has personally and both in professionally and at a personal level for a majority if not all students of the Mayor Early College program provided her blood, sweat, and tears to help us become better people and better students. I can say without a doubt that if there is one principal that I could ever look forward to is Dr. Saikova. Without a doubt. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Our next speaker is Wilfredo Mendes. Topic of discussion 11.6. [Applause] Hello. Uh, my name is Alfredo Mendes and I wanted to come up here to talk about Dr. Satakova as well. Um, there's a lot of things that I had to say about her. So, I actually wrote down um, a little message. It says, "Principal Principal Satakova has been with us
030since the very beginning of Mayor Early College program. He has guided this school from the ground up and under her leadership, Mina Early College has became more than a program. It became the guided route for our futures that you guys have. You displayed it also in the beginning of the trust board meeting that you helped to prepare us for our goals in our future. She didn't just she when creating the program, she didn't just hand us curriculum and call it a day. She's created a flexible and challenging academic environment that actually prepares us for the early college environment. she brought in with us support systems like recently she's brought in a lot of mental health support systems and we even have sometimes have dogs visit us um to help us with the anxiety that we
031feel every day um undertaking these college level courses. This is exactly in line with the main stated goals of you guys preparing us for the future through innovation and opportunity. I personally believe that removing her as a principal is not a solution to these financial struggles. It's a loss to direction to all the students that you can see right here sitting down in the stands and who are looking for cons the consistency and care in their education provided by Dr. Satakova. This isn't just about money. It's about the people who have made this program and what it is. And Principal Satakova is one of those people and she shouldn't be forgotten. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, our next speaker is Ty Derek. Topic of discussion 11.6. [Applause] Uh hello. Thank you. So, um I just
032wanted to say that without a doubt, Dr. Sodakova is the best principal you could possibly have for this position. Uh she works night and day. Um she will send out emails, texts at 2 a.m. to make sure that everybody is on the same page about everything. And she has the undeniably most commitment out of anyone I've ever met. Um she has done so much for me personally and a lot of the people I know and it's just to the extent that other people's wouldn't. Um I know I can rely on her and the whole school knows that. So, we are just heartbroken at the thought that even this person who single-handedly carries our school so highly that she is being uh threatened her position. Um, so yeah, I would like to do everything I can
033to make my voice heard. Um, so that way that doesn't happen. She's done so much for us and um, yeah, she deserves that right back. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Our next speaker is Saya R. Topic of discussion 11.6. Our next speaker, Michael Carter. Topic of discussion 11.6. [Applause] Yeah. All right. Uh, my name is Michael Carr and I stand before y'all as someone who wants to represent mech as itself. If you get rid of dark side co, not only will all these kids probably lose the faith they had, but the will to learn like they used to. because with her being um being in and being so caring and assertive in our lives, that's the only principle I've ever known to actually take time or day to ask a kid how they're doing or
034hey, what you need help with or to even go out her way to find individual resources just for that one person. A lot of principles nowadays won't even do that because we, let's be quite frank, not a lot of people want to be a principal or want that position. and she with what she has has worked hard to give all of us what we need and what we want to have a better future. So I just say if she is getting rid of I hope that you you a find a person like her or at least keep her cuz without her mayor won't mayor will not grow as y'all want it to. And that's all I have to say. Thank you. Okay, our last speaker is Vanessa Ignasio. Topic of discussion, principal for next school
035year, [Applause] Max. Good evening, board members of the school board. I'm here tonight because I know there is a lot of changes coming due to the adjustments being made to the upcoming budget. And with those changes, I want to be clear. If the district loses Dr. Satakova, it loses more than just a principal. It loses one of the greatest assets that this district has. Dr. Satakova is without a doubt the best principal this district has. Her results speak volumes. A 100% of her scholars graduate not only with a high school diploma, but also with an associates degree. That level of excidence doesn't happen just by accident. It is the product of tireless dedication, fierce leadership, and genuine care for every scholar who walks through those doors. She knows every scholar by name. She recognizes their
036families. She was literally working while in labor with her first child. That's the kind of commitment we're talking about. And if a scholar is struggling, she doesn't wait for someone else to fix it. She steps in. She makes it personal. And she does whatever it takes to get them the help that they need. I have a graduating senior this year who has thrived because of the support and the leadership that Dr. Satakova has provided. I also have a finishing scholar here finishing her freshman year. And I would like to know that she will have the same guidance, the same support, and the same stability for the next three years the same way her brother did. If the plan is truly to just have one principal for the Mayor High School, Mayor Senior High School, and
037the Mayor Early College, then the principal should without a question, without a doubt, Dr. Satakova. No one is more qualified, more proven, and more deserving of that role. You guys stand here every board meeting and you state to us our vision and our mission. Dr. Satakova doesn't only believe in it. She walks it. She talks it. And she has demonstrated that with every single scholar that has graduated from her high school. You have a room here today. Don't listen to my words. Don't take my words. Listen to your scholars. They took the time to come and tell you what that person means to them is because Satakova is not just a principal. She is way more than that. She is the heartbeat of this district of our future of our scholars. And if you care
038and you truly do believe in the mission and the vision, then you truly do believe that Satakova is the person that's going to lead the next future. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. All right. So, now we'll move on to uh close section session action items. So we're going to move on to 8.1 recommendation for hire of Mayor High School principal. Yes, Trusty Patterson. I'll be making that motion. I move that the board approve the hire of Candace Smith as principal of Mayor High School. I have a motion by Trusty Patterson to approve the principal for Mayor Senior High School. Mayor High School, I'm sorry. And I have Mr. Trustee Martinez second it. All those in favor say I. I. Um, all those opposed. Okay. Abstain. Motion passes. 6. Go ahead. U, Madam President and, uh,
039community, I'd like to introduce our our newest Mustang. She is an experienced 6A high school principal with also an early college attached to it. She's been running a 3,500 student school. I would like to introduce our newest and proudest Mustang, Miss Candace Smith. You want to come up and say hi to everybody? Good afternoon everyone. Madame President, Dr. Smani, board of trustees, I just want to say thank you for this opportunity. Uh just walking in the doors has been just so electrifying. Uh and I'm just so grateful for the opportunity to lead. Um I even had an better opportunity with walking in and seeing all of the scholars that were honored. Uh, congratulations to all of those who were honored for their uh, their accomplishments. Uh, I am excited to to join Mustang Nation truly
040and I'm excited for the work ahead. So, thank you all. Welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All right, we will move on to uh close session uh action item uh consideration approval of educator chapter 21 abandonment contract. Madame President, Trusty Patterson, I move that the board make a finding that there is not good cause to support Lucille OA Patrini's resignation, her position at Mayor ISD. I have a motion by Trusty Patterson for action item uh close session action item 8.2. Do I have a second? A second. I had a second from both uh Dr. uh doc uh trustee Rodriguez Barnett and um Trusty Martinez. All those in favor? It passes 6. We'll move on [Applause] to nine. Superintendent Update. Thank you very much. And as usual, Dr. Harvey, I guess, is going to be
041my clicker. Uh so, Dr. Harvey, you can move forward. Uh as always, we'll do the student safety update. Uh so uh some couple of uh things that have happened recently. We did get the audit from the third party uh and they did a behavioral health audit. A little bit more information that I just want to point out that our recommendations uh for changes are now 40 as we expected. We were going to get some recommendations for change. Uh two of those recommendations they made to us we had anticipated and we had already made those. Um, and that includes the the reducing of the shuttle busing for the 2526 school year and the hallway supervision plans. If you go forward a little bit more about that, uh, the person who did that audit, that's the center
042for safe schools. Um, and they did that. Uh, just so you see their score, they scored us a 74 out of 100 and they're on their metric that was demonstrates a behavior, health, and school climate that is well structured and a significant compliance by all parties. Now, obviously, we want to do better than a 74, and that's what those recommendations that they gave us are. Uh, and I just went ahead and put a a kind of a brief list there. That's obviously not everything, but I want to just sum it up very briefly. Uh, one of the number one things they cited to us is to needing to reduce the amount of students that are shuttling between the senior high school complex and the mayor high school complex. And of course, uh, we one of
043the things we did was we're having all the nth graders at one place and the 10th through 12th graders. and that's going to reduce the shuttle busing by half. Uh there are some improved signage around the campus that they're looking for and some warning signage that um the police are going to be putting up that they would like up there. Um and also some uh other things just to improve the climate about the school website and the recognitions as well as suggested some new training. Uh they did do a lot of interviews with staff and they determined there was some other training that they want us to provide and of course uh we're going to work to accomplish those things. A couple other things on on the uh list. Uh we have been looking at
044weapons detection systems. We have chosen one. We have been negotiating a contract with them. Uh I'm still intending to install uh those uh by the end of the school year at Maynor High School complex. They'll uh the senior high school got to to try out the uh what do you call it? The the beta model um their their newer model for a little while. So they kind of saw what it looked like and the students told me they like it a lot better than what we were currently doing. So, we're still trying to get that contract signed um before the school year is out. Uh we do have one other physical uh safety audit and assessment from the Center Schools. They had to do a follow-up visit and I am awaiting that final report. And
045just a reminder, some of that won't be um something we'll discuss publicly. I'll have to discuss it in close session because they're really there to look for vulnerabilities. And of course, you don't want to discuss school vulnerabilities out in open session. Uh finally, uh you may start seeing the beginnings of construction being staged over here. We have a project to prod put fencing in this area around New Tech Middle School and New Tech High School. Uh the materials have been ordered. They're supposed to start coming in around May 1st. So we've given permission to begin staging uh materials. That means you might actually start seeing fenced off areas and equipment being dropped off. Uh that fencing project is due substantial completion before the first day of school. Um, but you'll start seeing the prep work
046that's out of the way being done before school's even out. So, thank you trustees for, uh, giving us the the authority to begin that project. Uh, also, uh, the state accountability scores. Uh, so this it seems like a decade ago, but it's actually only been a year and a half. But the 2223 scores, if you didn't know, are actually going to come out and I believe they're coming out this Thursday um, publicly on April 24th. And I just want to go back to the past, remind everybody about those scores. It's been held up by litigation. Uh, the judges in that case have um said that those scores can be released. So, barring some last second challenge, um, which is a possibility, I've heard, uh, the scores will come out publicly on Thursday, just want to
047make some reminders that this is the first, uh, set of scores that were under the new STAR test and there's a much more rigorous accountability score. So, when you see the letter grades drop, because most of them will, uh, that doesn't necessarily mean schools suddenly did worse and students suddenly didn't know something. The literally the standard by which you scored actually got higher. And so it's important to remember that that was the year uh that that changed. It's been a long time. The 232 24 scores, however, if this wasn't confusing enough, are still tied up in litigation and won't be released. So we have the 22 23 scores coming out. We have no 23 24 scores and we very well might release the 20 current school year scores but not have the year in between.
048Um but we don't have any control over that. That is litigation. uh that is not something that we have anything any power over. So we will let you know when we have that information. Um regardless of that of course uh we do have internal data and of course we've made plans on that we presented and we'll be talking about college career and military readiness tonight. Uh so we don't wait for scores to take action. We solve problems. That's what we do. Um oh then some points of pride. I I haven't talked about attendance and enrollment in a while. So, I just want to kind of throw this out there for the public. We were up to 10,86 students as of this morning. And just to give people a comparison, we were at 9,385 students um
049about a year and a half ago. And to give you an even better way of looking at that, that's basically we've added Mayor New Techch Middle School worth of students um since that time. Uh so, we are still a fairly fast growth district. And you know, I love that um our parents are choosing us. We obviously have a lot charter schools in the area and they're choosing us. Uh we also had a I have a surge of pre-K students and uh we registered pre-registered 113 preK students for the 2526 school year. That's a really healthy number to start off with. Uh we actually currently have 676 students enrolled which is an increase of 281 prek students year-over-year. And so that's a huge uh number and very important because prek students tend to stay in the
050campus which they're enrolled. So I'm expecting our kinder numbers to go up for next year. Uh, so appreciate uh families that are choosing Mayor ISD. Um, uh, Mr. Carr, are you still here or did you sneak out? Where are you, Mr. Carr? Mr. Car, I can't see you. You need to be someplace I can see you, sir. Um, oftentimes there's some unsung heroes go on and it wasn't just Mr. Carr and I know he would try to point at his staff, but I just want to let you know what emergency services told me. There was a a medical emergency with a student on the campus. uh the emergency personnel at the hospital said that if it weren't for the quick actions of the administrative staff and the teachers at that high school and the nurses
051at the high school that we may have had a different outcome, but we have a student that's on the mend. Um but it they've pointed to their actions and their ability to get the hallways clear and get that person to emergency health. So, uh Mr. car. Um, I know you don't want it, but I'm going to tell you, man, I really, really appreciate what you did and you went and visited the staff and it warm my heart for you to send that picture to me over the weekend. So, want to give you a round of applause. Thank you. So, please pass that on to their their staff and tell them they can watch that 651 if they want to hear it all. Okay. Thank you, sir. Uh, and then I also want just uh hot
052off the press, this weekend we had uh two new state qualifiers for Mayor New Techch High School track. Uh, yeah. And I've been thinking about this and so I had Marissa to do a little research for me. So, if you go up go forward once and this is really kind of amazing stats. I don't think people realize that. Uh Chris, if you go forward one, uh it it so far this year, we have had three different teams qualify for state competition and 38 individual students have qualified for state level competition in this district between our two high schools. I don't know if people realize that's a lot and I'm really incredibly proud of what our kids do and it's about it's in fine arts, it's in academics and athletics, it's in all three areas. So
053way to go parents and way to go kids. Dr. Thomas, whatever was getting you is getting me now, too. I think it must be on this side. You go forward. And lucky enough, it is not my time anymore. So, you, sir, you get to take on me. Uh, good evening, uh, team of eight. All right. Yeah. um before you uh you have some information uh in regards to our updates for CCMR. And so I wanted to start back with just kind of some information we shared with you all um in the fall semester just so you can see where our class of 2023 is. And just to kind of recap and remind that it's uh lagging data and so uh the class of 2023 data is based upon the class of um it's the school
054year of 20 uh of 22 23 but we get the data in 24 and um you can see where we were at on there. So I'll pause see if there was any new questions about that data. If not I'll move on to where we at now. Yep. mind. So, um here's our unofficial uh we believe from uh class 2024 and um this is the year that we we came in to start doing our assessment and looking at our systems and trying to see how we can pivot with the systems uh CCMR accountability changing. So we had changes with uh CT changes with some other areas and um you can see that we were still able to um have some successes um in in the CCMR in college and career areas but so but we went
055down a little bit from 63 to 59 in the fall. We talked about um those areas uh for improvement, how we're going to focus on master scheduling for this year to try to remedy the areas in college prep uh increases. I think there were some questions around what we're going to do for SAT and ACT and some specific questions about the calendaring for those. And so those systems are in place for ensuring students are testing at uh 8th grade um through 12th uh through 11th grade and of course during the senior if they need to retest. So So you're already testing uh the eighth graders in the middle schools. In the past we were te we were testing sporadically. So we kind of had a roller coaster if you will. There was a time period
056where we were testing all eighth graders and then we had a time period within the last two years where all campuses were not testing all and so what we've done in response to that is ensure that all students we have a testing calendar okay that we have for that actually shows all the tests the students were taking eighth grade 9th grade 10th grade 11th grade what semesters they're going to take and and all that and then we've attached uh funding sources to those to ensure that that those things happens for 25 26 and forward. Okay. Yes, ma'am. So, yes, sir. Let me be straight. Um, so basically eighth graders are taking the eighth grade assessment now and ninth grade 9th or are some eighth graders taking high school assessments. And are you talking about uh
057college readiness tests? Yeah, he's talking about the TSI test. That's the the college readiness. Yes. um on the STAR test. Um that's the one that we talked about where we're switching the curriculum back so that eighth graders are taking an eighth grade test and nth graders take a ninth grade test. So this is the TSIA two now. Okie do. Yes, sorry. TSI and eighth grade and then um PSAT will be what the test that we'll start pushing down earlier, but it won't be Yeah, that's not Star related at all. PSAT to eighth grade. Eighth grade has a plan in PSAT for for the eighth graders. Um and then you can take it in ninth and tth grade and then 11th grade as well. So that's that scope and sequence that we're working on. Yeah. The
058PSAT is one of those ones that actually has an eighth grade version of the PSAT. Okay. So that's what we're talking about. Yes, sir. And that's that's that schedule that we are that we're in for that we'll put together and publish before the start of 2526 so parents are fully aware of the uh the test and the testing calendar. So, all right. So, where we are right now with class of 2025, um midway through the year, well, a little bit past midway through the year, we are uh at 37% CCMR. Uh the big indicators will come at the end of the at the end of the year which are the college prep course, the uh any additional SAT um tests, the um any additional TSI testers, certifications will be added at the end of the
059year and um any additional military will come at the end of the year and um any remaining dual credit students that um courses or students taking their first math math or English dual credit class that counts. That'll be counted at the end of the year. Or if they're hitting their third dual credit class that's not math or science, uh math or English, then that will be added into the section um at the end of the year. We'll spend some time in end of May through June doing all our calculations and making sure that we count every piece of data that it should go in. Just can you go back one? I just uh always like to emphasize on this slide is the rule I have for this current slide is only what we know if
060the year stopped right this second. Correct. This is what TEA would have. It's not a projection. It is literally right this second. In a moment he's going to get to the projections. Yeah. So uh we created in in the goal that um the board charged us with team of eight charged us with we created some uh three uh goals from that three uh uh goal progress measures. One of them was to work towards increasing the amount of students that was um um move that were performing higher at TSI, college prep SAT. So that's the 3.1. You can kind of see where we're at right now at this point, right at 24%. Um 3.2 was looking at uh dual credit in general. And so this was the work that we were um needing to address in
061our master scheduling to ensure that we had more stu more access um to do a credit outside of our specialized program at the high school. And so the work we're doing in the master schedule should ensure that the more testing test prep for TSI and then the access and master schedule would will increase those dual credit numbers. Then the last one was the 3.3 and we we talked to the board in the fall about the changing and the sun setting of the certifications and the microcredentiing that we were doing. And so uh right now at this time period we have a consultant that's going through and assessing our uh certifications and and CT programs so that we can make those um adjustments to tea and put those programs and pathways in place so that we
062can have us um still meet our uh 2028 target. I'll pause for questions. We're good. Yes, sir. At what point did you gather all the data? Is that early June or Yes, sir. Okay. Well, you're probably about to say what I about to say. Some of some of the data you can gather up to October 31st. Yes. Um but majority of it comes in by mid June. So, yeah, there's some stats that that we can still collect and input after uh the summer. Uh all of our uh uh coursework though will be done in early June. Okay. All right. So, um here's our our projection for uh class of 2025. So, you saw that we were at 63, went to 59. um based off of uh checking our data, seeing where kids were enrolled at
063in class. Um and we've spent a lot of time uh having principles check, double check, triple check, working with PES, and so we're believe this is um uh a fair uh projection for class of 20 uh 25, which is at the 67%. Um we've looked at uh I don't know, you know, we this is a fair projection. Uh I'm hopeful for a higher number, but this is I think this is a fair projection, conservative I should say, projection of where we should be at at class of 25. And so um part of all the work that we're doing is ensuring that we're doing data dives on a regular basis to ensure that um we're not seeing students schedule changed out of classes and then we're progress monitoring, ensuring that they're passing um coursework or and
064showing up for any exams or things they need to take. So this is our projection and you know our ultimate goal is to catch up and still hit our target um for 2028. That's why we didn't come before the board uh team of eight in the fall to change to request a change in those. We believe that the work that we're doing um we can still hit all those marks and and you hear it here. I'm going to say it right now. You hear it here first. Yeah. TW class of 2029. That wasn't a mistake. Wow. you put in the right processes, you put in the right systems, and you work over long term, it is a doable proposition that we can hit that 100% in class of 2029. So, um, it's all the way
065up up from here. Yes. Wow. [Applause] Questions? I guess. Okay. So um plan moving forward is um uh we went through those areas. I think the biggest thing is that um somebody just summed up is class cohort 2829 uh we have a larger IBC number um because by that time for the incoming class of uh incoming class right now and the following cohort we have those pathways cleared up for them. So when they move up through their um and hit their senior years, we'll see a an increase in the IBC's. And so and that's the work that our consultant is doing right now. And then we'll work to make sure they had the supplies and then industry connections for that. And so these are the things you have a good strong start in the cohort.
066Then when they get to their senior year, they'll have what they need to be successful. other questions. All right. So, uh last on the slide is um what are we using for for in for intervention? So we have mastery prep um across the secondary camp campuses and this gives the test prep in those specific areas and um 11th and 12th grade is um it's in addition to um the the supplementary um interventions is embedding the the blueprint of the test into the academic class. And so this is something that Dr. minor talking about that we want to work with academics so that we can ensure that these things are not just seen outside the classroom but inside the classroom uh because all this um each one of these tests have a blueprint that aligns to
067TEICSS and so we want to make sure that we're highlighting and um showcasing those TESS in the um 11th and 12th grade. Uh again, vable is our uh CCMR indic uh um and CTE awareness and education and training program that we're implementing elementary through middle school that gives the early awareness and access and connection to industry uh pathways. Also works to improve um Lexile scores. And then last, um, making sure that we are, um, continuing to build and tighten up our system with tracking for our students receiving special education services and, um, making sure those transition arts are taking place and are happening sooner than the 12th grade year so that we're we're on track with that. You have any u prognosis to tell me when the last bullet does not have the first two
068words in it. In other words, the slide before it said we're working to build these pathways. And I guess my question is we implement these four bullets. We take continue to out and just put build in. Will that give us the pathways we need? So I want to know how long is the continue to. So, it's part of the plan. I chose continue to because TA is about to sunset um pathways again. They're doing it on a on a kind of a schedule of every four years. And so, um if I were to say that we're going to build it and and make it final, then I' I'd be coming back to y'all later on and saying the pathways have changed. And so, there's a the process of balancing cohorts now that we have to
069do what uh the schedule TA has built. So, at a certain point in time, a cohort is going to come in and that's going to be the last cohort on this um four-year pathway. And then we have to now simultaneously maintain those systems and resources and courses and for that cohort all the way through for the next four years while building a new set of of POS potential pathways. Some may not change, but some may. And so, that's why it's always it's going to be a continuous process. And they've already put that schedule out now. And so our go our job now is to to schedule those things out and and and plan those things out. So my team, we're working on the fiveyear plan and then we'll continue to build on the back end
070so that we we kind of know what's coming year after year and then try to align those things with, you know, necessary funding requests. Madam President, may I Yes. Go ahead. Yeah. So on I mean Patrick, I like where you're coming as far as the data, right? So, one of the things um that I've explicitly asked Commissioner Morath is what are you doing with the data from your cyclical reviews from special education? They've gone through the six-year period at this point. They have data. How can they help us with the data that they have statewide? how can they build us dashboards so that we know what to expect and we're not in a gotcha moment um for that data and to be able to continue to improve the education of kiddos receiving special education related
071services. So that's something I've shared with Dr. Smani. It's a continuing discussion with TEA and really um continuing that conversation when we're in his presence um Commissioner Morath. So he's committing resources. He's just not telling us how he's going to do it. But that that's our job as elected officials, right? So I'm happy to and I know Anna has been at the capital um as well for um all kiddos but also for special education. Thank you. Thank you. All right. And Madam President, I apologize. We actually got a little out of order on the agenda. I know he I was like, "What? What? Hold on. What happened?" So, we'll move on. We're going to have to switch up. Okay. The next one. Okay. 10.1 monthly financial report. Mo says Santiago. If there's no questions by
072not all right then we'll move to 10.2 quarterly investment report report Santiago. The only ask that I have is um if there's any um if you could check with our FAS and I had sent Dr. Sarmani a message as a reminder um to see if there's any uh different um investments that they're considering because of all the local craziness or you know with the stock market. I know I've talked to personally to different people but not in public education. And so I was just curious to see what if any investment changes our financial advisor has decided to recommend differently than what we're already doing. Okay. So our financial advisor cannot recommend uh types of investments that we can invest on. Um we would have to either go through a financial um consultant or through a
073broker. But you all would have to approve that list of brokers. Um with the uncertainty of the markets at this point, it is good where we are um investing on our pool. We are earning the highest interest at least close to or over 5%. Um and they would recommend uh just two weeks ago I was at a an investments training and they were recommending at this time fixed income which is treasuries um where is most uh investors are running to at this point in time because of the uncertainty of the markets and that was my question. I was just curious what public entities groups are right shifting or how that looks. So the pools are the ones that are earning are yielding the most most interest at this point. Yeah, and that's where we have
074most of our investments at this time. Um, and because also of our shorting cash flows, we have to have liquidity and it also provides safety. Wonderful. Thank you. I was just curious about that. Thank you. Any other questions? All right. So, we'll move on to 11 um consent agenda items for um 11.1 to 11.13. There's no discussion or questions. Uh do I have a motion for the consent agenda items? I move that the board approve consent items 11.1 through 11.13 as presented by administration. I have a motion by trustee Lowry to approve 11.1 through 113 as presented. Do I have a second? Second. I have a second by Trustee Martinez and Patterson. Um if there's no discussion, I will go ahead and um ask for the vote. All those in favor of consent agenda items
07511.1 through 11.3 say I. Raise your hand. All right. Wonderful. It passes. 6. Thank you. Now, we're going to move on to action items 12.1, consideration approval of the RFP health insurance and cafeteria plan options for 2025 2026. Moyes Santia. Okay. Uh so just to provide some context on this proposal uh back in December uh you all approved a third party administrator. Our current administrator is FFGA and so we contracted with um Gallagher and um they are our new uh third party administrator for health insurance and for uh other optional cafeteria plans. And so um our current uh health insurance is Blue Cross Blue Shield and uh we are fully insured and uh we have been a non-TRS member for the last two years. So we still have like three more years to go in
076order to u get back into TRS. So that's just a little context on that. Uh the purpose of this uh procurement um had two goals in place in in mind and that is to miticate mitigate the increased cost to the employees and also to the address the concerns or the current controls and concerns in customer service. So um with the rising cost uh we try to mitigate uh we cannot increase uh further cost to the employees. So we try to help with some of that uh try to mitigate some of that increased cost. Um we also try to achieve um or try to look for rates that were comparable to the regional PRS rates. Um PRS regions rates are currently between nine and 10 10%. They are way below what we are um seeing currently
077at the market and what we were able to um achieve through this procurement process. Um we also were able through the procurement um able to outperform the industry rates which are currently between 24 and can and exceed up to 24 up to 30% which is what we saw uh increasing premiums. Um we focused on savings without um compromising the um the quality of the health plans. So with that we that's the reason why we um needed the expertise of the third party administrator um Gallagher to help us with um some of that. Um we clearly signal to the third party administrator our current concerns with customer service. So um we address those concerns and we'll ensure that they are um that they are met. These are the um different areas uh that we looked into
078the RFP are the medical insurance uh currently fully funded through um Blue Cross Blue Shield and the dental vision and basic life and then also the other cafeteria optional insuranceances uh through disability um uh supplemental life insurance uh critical illness hospital identity theft and uh legal services. Those are other optionals um insuranceances with were which were also procured through this um service or this RFP. We had uh 28 initial respondents and um we uh filtered those out to uh 15 and then we selected the last three to interview and this was a process for the interview process. Um I don't know if you all can read that but uh we pretty much uh went through a pretty thorough um search and uh we even looked at their financial stability, the network access to the providers
079uh the quality of the products um compared to uh even the reputation of the vendors. We got in contact with some of the other um companies that they're currently uh serving or school districts that they're serving. If you all have any questions as I go, you're more than welcome to ask. For the uh health insurance, we had two proposals. We had Sigma and we had uh Blue Cross Blue Shield. Um Blue Cross Blue Shield provided the best um rates, premium rates and Sigma uh those um increase or were increasing um up to 30%. So that's pretty pretty um high too high for our our employees to be able to meet. Uh the cafeteria plan finalists were also again Blue Cross Blue Shield uh standard and also the heart. So um those were the three uh
080three finalists that we interviewed uh for the uh cafeteria plan options. Uh this is a summary of the some of the recommendations that we came up with. Um on the far left side we have the um health insurance through Blue Cross Blue Shield. Um through the procurement process we were able to save up to 10% in premiums cost. So had we not gone through this procurement process our rates would have increased up to 24 25.4%. we were able to reduce those to uh 14.5 14.9%. So there was some savings significant savings there. Um also um we recommend uh some plan changes that I'll present uh further but uh with a plan change we were able to further reduce that from 14.9% to a 12.4% 4% by changing the type of co-pay going from a 30
081to a $50 co-pay. And u other points to highlight there on the dental insurance uh we were able to lock in some rates uh for the next two years. On the up to three years on the third year that rate uh increased but not as high as our current rate. So, we're still having some savings and we're able to lock those rates for the next three years on dental insurance. On life insurance, we currently provide basic life for our employees uh at a 10% at a 10 at a 10,000 uh life insurance policy at no cost to the employees. It cost the district $8,000. for an additional $8,000 annually, we can increase that life benefit from 10 to 20 uh,000. So, that's another uh plus that we were able to achieve there. Uh, about two
082or three uh districts uh surrounding uh do offer a 20 uh,000 life insurance benefit to their employees. And we also are able to lock in that rate for three years. And then we have the disability the voluntary and additional coverage which are uh optional insuranceances at the at the option of the employees. I sent you all those the details of those um different plans if you all had any questions on this. How much did we pay Gallagher? Gallagher uh we do not pay them directly. They are based on a um on a just my mind right now. It's uh based on a compensation, but I say they get paid by selling the the capital. Yes. So um so they get their money from the from based on commission. Yes. Not not from us though. Yeah.
083We don't pay them directly. So yeah. So, it's it's I I really have to give you guys a lot of credit because and since Dr. Sarmani began and we when we opted out of TR TRS, that was a huge concern to us and then we saw the rates balloon and I mean, we had to eat that up. lobby or else our employees wouldn't have gotten a raise. And then just to see how thorough you have gone through all this. We don't know what we didn't know. Look, we're saving. You did all this whole process. We're fully ensuring our employees and at a now at a savings. So, I want to thank you guys. Thank you, Dr. Armani. That it feels like it's been forever. I've been in healthcare all my life and I know prior
084to going to real estate and I know the monster that healthc care is and kudos to you guys. It just seeing everything and all the all the different all the work that was done. I was very thoroughly pleased and I feel like we're in a good space to fully support our staff. they already do a lot in this in in the climate that we are in and that's something a little bit extra that we can right give back to we did um put together a team uh of our um my uh my department along with the expertise of the third caler so uh we were able to bet this companies so um yeah I didn't do it all myself so I get the expertise on the uh of my other employees I I just know
085that it's been a very long road and I'm very very pleased to hear this. I mean, yeah. And and just to to to cut to the chase of why we bring this before you all too is um you'll see that line there. With your blessing, we we are going to attempt to balance the budget while um absorbing um the increase in cost of the individual health care to our employees. It's going to cost about 697,000 is what we are estimating right this moment. um we think we can balance the budget still um while absorbing that if that is something the board desires. I see a lot of shaking heads uh Mr. Santiago. So yeah um I I can go through those bullets. Uh we still haven't covered the main one. Um from there um okay
086so we are proposing we are getting we have we offer four plans. um if we get rid of one uh which is the one that's used the lease, our employees would still have the benefit of um going into another plan, the PO200 which has similar um um the plan offers similar options or they could also go into the other one um another HMO uh 2500 which would cost about 132 less than what they would be playing if they um with this uh in the one that we are wanting to get rid of. Um we are also proposing um to increase uh or select a plan that would offer them lower premiums by a 2.4% by going from the 3250 co-pay. So um with this plan um employees would see deductibles um between family individual and
087family rise between $200 and $400. But at the same time they would see a decrease in their premiums by 2.4%. Um the the employer contribution in order for us to pro continue providing a um an indiv individual cost at zero to the employees we would have to increase that um by $36.78 which our current contribution employee contribution is 471. So we would increase that to uh 508 which is about an 7.8 8% increase uh in salaries if we were done any increase to uh just a compar comparability there. Um so that would be uh an an increase uh to the employer contribution by $36.78. Um the annual cost for that uh would be uh to the district an increase of $700 uh the increase to the employees as a result of the premiums is about
088310 uh,000. the O savings about 183 uh thousands to the employees. Um so what we propose tonight is a plan that provides comparable um premium uh rates uh to the or comparable to the regional uh premium rates u that TRS uh currently offers and uh at the lowest possible uh cost to the employees uh and the district while maintaining flexibility. And by that I mean we are offering different plan options and also accessibility. And by that I mean accessibility to um network providers. Okay. And uh also within the objectives of uh maintaining or reaching a uh balanced budget. Would you like to add anything else Dr. Cmani? Thinking out of this that we will we're going we're going to achieve a balanced budget. I the only reason I I hedge on this is just because
089we never know what the legislator is going to do. Um, and we never know what happens when we get our certified property values. We've only gotten the what do they call it? The preliminary preliminary. Um, but based on that, we believe we can balance the budget and absorb the cost of individual healthcare. Uh, in case you're wondering, anyone come back to the June regular board meeting and that's when the writing is there. It'll be on board book and everyone can see the budget and how we got there. Um, and we'll have that opportunity to vote on that. And so I really do hope we can take care of our employees in that particular aspect. Um, and with your support, trustees, I think we can do that. Absolutely. Thank you once again. Great work. It feels
090like it's been forever, but you guys really did a thorough process and I am very grateful for that. I've seen it because I've kept on asking. Thank you so much. Is there any questions by anybody? All right. Thank you. Thank you. So, if there's no questions, I will um entertain a motion for action item 12.1, consideration approval of the RFP health insurance and cafeteria plan options 2025 through 2026. Madam President, Trustee Rodriguez Barnett, I move that the board approve the health and welfare benefits package as recommended by administration. I have a motion by trustee Rodriguez Barnett to accept 12.1 as presented. And I have a second by uh Mr. Martinez. Mr. Martinez and Dr. Thomas because I saw her hand go at the same time. We all fight for that one. Yeah. And um all
091those in favor I we have Okay, you'll take mine. Five uh four and one abstain. Yeah. I want to say while you're abanding and and it's I've been in healthcare all my life and I'm just I just trying to protect the district and you know so that's my obstain and my passion for healthcare and uh 12.2 consideration approval of an agreement with the Texas Educator Housing Affordability Fund Dr. Williams Hill. All right, good evening team of eight. Good evening. Good evening. Good evening. We just have a quick update for you. Uh, since last year, we have been working with the Texas Educator Housing Affordability Fund to see how we could bring affordable housing options to our employees in Mayor ISD. And so the fund, the board has been canvasing out um apartment complexes in Mayor
092ISD to see how we can initiate this program for all of our employees. So we are still in the discovery phase. They've been driving out um contacting apartment uh complexes to see what they can do for us. And so tonight we're presenting before you anou to get us started. that gives them a little bit more collateral when they have conversations with builders about the option. So, just to give you an example of how they have worked with other school districts, let's say an apartment complex is offering rent at $1450 a month and they offer, you know, $200 off the first six months rent. And so, it would take it down to $1250 a month. and the Texas Educator Housing Affordability Fund will kick in another $250 off, leaving that rent to about $950 or $1,000
093for the employee. And so, internally, we have to set up some systems and processes to see how our employees would be eligible for the affordable housing. And so, we are in the discovery phase trying to find locations within the city limit limits of Mayor. And so theou is our first official step to their canvasing the area and in conversations with the administration. Wonderful. I love it. Affordability for educators. Thank you so much. Anything can help. And thank you for thinking outside the box. Innovation. We need to do something. Yeah. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? Comment. One question. So at the very end you said within the mayor city limits. So is it city limit or Okay. Mayor has said have to say Mayor, Texas. Okay. As long as it says Mayor, Texas. Okay.
094Good question. Um, Dr. Thomas. Okay. I move that the board. I have a motion by Dr. Thomas to accept 12.2 provided a second by uh Trusty Patterson. There's no further discussion. I will take that. Well, all those in favor I Oh, congratulations. All those abstaining, I'm a realtor. Um, five uh one 01 and see. All right. Thank you all. Thank you so much. So now we're gonna um I guess the next confirmation or the next regular board meeting is May 19th, but we have a board workshop, right? Yes, we have a board workshop. Uh anyone wants to learn about INS and food service budgets, you're more than welcome on May 5th. Uh trustees, we do have one document that needs all your signatures. So please don't anyone run away until we get your your signature.
095And then of course, board secretary and board president, we have lots of stuff for you to sign tonight. We whippy. All right. Well, thank you so much everyone. Um, I guess I will take a motion to adjourn the meeting. I have a motion by Trusty Patterson. Do I have a second? Uh, Trusty Rodriguez Barnett. All those in favor? Passes. 6 at at 7:31. 7:31. [Laughter] Thank you so much. I knew I knew it was going to be