001Good evening. I call this Median Valley regular board meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. on February 26th, 2026. We have a quorum of board members present. Absent board members are Mr. Bonnie and Mr. Nash. We'll begin with a pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. First on the agenda is student and staff recognition with Dr. Kaos. >> So tonight we have Medina Valley High School's uh Thesbsian Society here with us and Mr. Sherman Kinetic is going to come up and I think introduce him. He's their troop director. Yeah, there we go. All right. Good evening board. My name is Mr. Kinetic. Of course, as Dr. Kayla said, I'm the theater director here at Man Valley High School. I've been here for 10 years. I worked two years at the middle school and then
002moved to the high school. Um, the Thesbian Society is a national honor society among the United States and all over the world. Um, I am technically their agent because I'm sponsor and so I pay their bills with of course money and so I'm going to let them speak because this is their organization. They've worked really really hard to build it up. Um, and I will let Isabelle Davidson, our president, come up here and speak to you. >> I'm also inviting our other officers, Rayan Young, my vice president. Sarah Clark, my sec uh my events coordinator, and Haley Edgington, my secretary, in case I faint. So, you know, and if I faint, don't worry, I got my card, so they could go ahead and take it from here. All righty. Well, my name is Isabelle Davidson,
003and I've been part of Medina Valley ISD since kindergarten. And that's also how long I've been acting for. I've been doing community church theater in Lidle up until middle school where I did all three years and then I did all four years of high school theater including the UIL one act play. But it wasn't until 2022 we established our first ever thesbian society troop number 10797. And yes, just like Mr. Kinetic said, it is a honor society for theater students. We all know what honor societies are. You know, they're the they're the cool stuff. um some of the but to really put it in perspective it is in the US, Canada and 10 other countries. I believe it's 10 other ones. There are over two million troops across the world at least 600 here in
004Texas and we are one of them. Woohoo. We have 17 current members. Not all of them are here sadly but it's okay. We have our we have our good ones here and and we have abundance of other kids in our theater department who are also interested in joining. Um some of the things that we do within our thesian society is we do learn new things volunteer as lots of organizations do to put into perspective we do a lot of theater volunteer work such as inviting um incoming freshmen or the middle schoolers to come to the department and learn more about our theater department. We also include um other schools um to come over to our stage and in preparation for UIL competition. Not theater related, we do help out with um kind of with student
005council sometimes with uh touring the new freshmen coming in and some of us are there to be like, "Hey, you should join theater." You know, I'm kind of the theater girl in our in my grade level. And um I believe some of the other things we do is just be the representation for our school for theater. We help out at extracurricular activities and such. So, let me get into what Thespians is really about. The what makes us so cool and special. We do competitions. Thespian Society has its own competition system where I competed back in 2024 in acting and I received a score of national qualifier where I went up into Indiana University, go who's um 2025 summertime where I competed yet again. I met a community of theater kids from across America and the
006Philippines, surprisingly enough, and watched many musicals and shows. But what was really a big thing that I did during my week up there was college call backs. I received 22 college call backs both here in the US and in Canada. I was about to become a Canadian for a hot minute, but I decided somewhere here in the US. Um, and let's see what else happened that week. Um there's all these colleges come to international thesian society because that is where the best of the best actors and technicians from all across America and all across the world are at the kids at thesbians. They d I spoke directly to multiple different colleges at this event. They also do the same thing at Texas Corpus Christi which is where I originally first competed here in Texas. Let
007me look at here. Um, Thesbsspian Society also offers multiple different opportunities to be student leaders for the entirety of Texas thespians where we get to work directly with the Texas government. We decided to start off small with the board meeting here. You know, let's start off small real quick and then we'll make it up there. Um, the Society al also offers multiple different scholarship opportunities for the really talented, hardworking Thesbian honor students. So, it's more than just a little thing I could put under the extracurricular part on my college resume. But enough about myself and like the basics of the society. I wanted to recognize some of our members as well. Two of our students who had also participated in the college callbacks are Haley Edgington and Sean Camp. He's back there in the back.
008They participated in college callbacks where they also received multiple college callbacks, acceptances, and scholarships well before our other senior peers who are still waiting on that acceptance email from other multiple schools. Youbsspians made it super easy for us. Railen Young, Liliana Smith, and Sarah Clark are also national qualifiers this 2025 year in their technical c in technical theater. So, if they'd love to go ahead and do technical theater at their college of desire, they have a much more likely chance of doing so because they're a thesian and they just became national qualifier. Um, some of our virtual competitors just became national qualifiers. We found this out today so I get to tell you guys are Haley Edgington, Aaliyah Duracell, Angel Ariano, and Damen Bergos Arenegas are our national qualifiers via virtual. Now, you're probably wondering,
009"OMG, this girl is talking on and on and on about all these names and all this theater." But I'm going to round it up by the fact that I hope you recognize that we do a lot. At least we try to do a lot. And Thesbians really offers a future for us theater kids. And I didn't think I would be able to go into the dream college of my choice without this program thanks to Mr. Kinetic. And I would really like it if you would consider that um to recognize March as the uh theater in our schools month both an international thespian society the EDTA and the AAT um recognize March as theater in our schools month and I'd like to start that here within our district so not just here at the high school
010but here in Medina Valley ISD to recognize theater in our schools month um and hopefully that also transfers over to Creek View. They're still on our minds. We're helping set up their theater department over there as well. And thespian troop, we're doing quite a lot over there. Um, and many other states and other schools here in Texas are celebrating theater in our schools month. And I would really, really love it if you guys considered celebrating it here within our district. Thank you very much. >> Oh, thank you. >> So, next on the agenda is public comment. We have no one signed up to speak. So, we'll move on to board committee reports and we'll begin with the finance committee. Um, sorry, a budget the budget workshop that we worked two weeks ago replaced that committee
011meeting. Next, we have the construction committee with uh Mr. Beiger. >> All right. Good evening. Uh, the construction committee met on February 11th, 2026. The members consisted of myself, Matt Castellon, and Ben Warez. Um, we discussed the following items. Uh, first item was we had Pape Dawson meet with us on possible developments in the area. Uh second item was around West Texas Gas and their easement that they're wanting to bring through our our property at Bippard Lane. Third item was around uh construction updates and we discussed the following updates around construction. The first one was Medina Valley High School then HVA system that we currently have an MEP contractor um drawing up a design for us and a few layouts for us to make a decision on. Next item was the status on the Medina
012Valley High School batting cages and scoreboards. Next was around the lights on FM471 that CPS has installed um as of this last month. Next item was around Casterville Elementary School playgrounds. Uh we also discussed the status of the design on elementary school number seven. Also discussed uh middle school number three status of that school. Uh also had a discussion around portables for the upcoming year at various schools. And last on construction updates uh we talked about uh MEP walk-in uh freezer coolers at various schools that were having issues and need to replace. Uh also discussed was library books and the list that we currently have. Uh a few budget amendments and then last but not not least chars. So that that was everything that we discussed in that meeting. Any questions? >> If not, real
013quick before we move on, I should have said this a second ago. We will discuss that in committees and we will get back to you on what we're going to do about that. >> Sorry, I should have acknowledged that before we moved on. Uh, next we have safety and security committee with Mr. Wattis. >> Uh, good evening. and safety committee met uh February 12th um of this year consists of myself uh Nathan Fillinger and Blaine Nash were in attendance and we discussed the following items. Uh the police department's updates for calls for service as well as just additional updates. Uh safety project updates which consisted of the access control points on the school as well as the district window safety film that's being placed on the schools. Uh we talked about the resolution to declare
014a good cause exception for House Bill 3 uh which incorporated the armed security officer requirements. Um we discussed the NI the student NIC walkout as well as the Medina County Sheriff's Office supported uh MVISD high school with the traffic enforcement. >> Any questions? >> Okay, then we last one we have curriculum committee with Miss Lee. >> Okay. The curriculum meeting met on February 18th. Myself and Matt Costiano were in attendance. The following items were discussed. Map scores from 2025 to 2026 beginning of the year and middle of the year. The norms for maps have changed from 2019. Roit reading dropped more than math. Instruction has improved and identify students not showing growth. There will be a scoreboard presentation on tonight's agenda. The library. The district is in compliance with Senate Bill 13. We're required to
015post the list of new books at least 30 days before board approval. The book list is posted on the MVISD website. And this is on tonight's agenda. Academic division staffing needs. We reviewed coordinators responsibilities discussed to add three new coordinators to be responsible for the following. One would be responsible for preK through fifth reading, language arts, and math. Another coordinator would be responsible for K through 12 science and 6 through 12 math. The third would be responsible for reading language arts 6 through 12 and social studies K through 12. These positions will increase quality of teaching and learning on all campuses which results in improved performance outcomes for MBISD students. grading committee guidelines committee a committee of secondary teachers has been appointed to start the process of creating a standardized grading policy. Tom Shimmer's book
016grading from the inside out is being used as a resource. Shimmer presented at the professional development workshop on Monday. Any questions? Okay, then moving on. Next is a construction briefing with Mr. Barahas. If I can real quick, students, and I know we have some parents here as as well. >> Y'all are more than welcome to stay, right? But don't feel like you have to. If if you want to leave, go ahead and leave. >> Thank you. It's only me tonight. So, um, good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Kaos. Um going to give you guys a quick update on our construction briefing uh for our four major projects. Uh Creek View High School, we're at 91% complete on the original building as of pay application number 29, which is this month's uh and
017then 50% uh as of uh this month again on the Proposition B on the stadium. So most of the notable changes um outside are obviously on the stadium Proposition B. As you all can see, a lot of the flat work has been poured on the visitor side of the stadium with the concession building being full dried in. Um, all the roofing uh system has been completed. Uh, on the inside of it, they're actually hanging plumbing fixtures uh and the overhead lighting uh will start here in the next couple of weeks. Uh when it comes to the uh multi-purpose room, they're working on the builtup roof as well. Uh currently uh paint is or the first coats of paint have started uh once the lights are installed and they're going to start installing fixtures on on
018that side of the building. Um on the home side, um flat work has started uh on this building. All of the concession building CMU blocking has been completed. The roof steel structure is actually going to start tomorrow through the weekend uh with the roofing system um and rough in for fixtures as well. Uh the grandstands on the visitor bleachers are coming in about 3 to four weeks. Uh there's a 3 to four week installation period of that. Then they'll move on the home side and uh same period 3 to four weeks on the installation of those uh grandstands. And as you all can see as of today, um right now it's just superimposed. It's not fully sewn in, but that is uh a drone video of the Cougar Stadium um as it stands today. Uh
019in terms of what's happening in uh on the inside, there's a lot of interior finishes going up. Uh metal paneling, sorry, wood paneling, uh lighting fixtures being completed, uh tiling on the walls. As of today, we walked the special ed units, um, all of the administration, counseling, and special ed support, uh, services areas for punch list, um, for our initial punch list all of today. The library, uh, all of the cabinetry has been installed, painting is, uh, buttoned up. Uh, I want to say this one's going to be punched um, middle of next week, so we're getting close on the library side. on the fine arts. All of the seating has been installed. Uh some of the low walls uh actually as of today they were all completed uh and prep for for paint and
020finishes. U scoreboards on the gymnasium have been hung uh both competition sorry on both competition and auxiliary gyms. Any questions on Creek View High School? >> Still good on schedule for opening? Yes. Right now we're still tracking June 1st for substantial >> and roadway improvements. Any changes on those? >> No, right now CPS is >> I know. I drive by there every day. I see the post. >> We have some posts still that need to be relocated. We're we're um having communication. >> Looks like they're working on it regardless. >> That's not going to slow them down. The only thing that's that's affecting is the acceleration the exit. Um but they're still going to mill and overlay. They still um going to mill and overlay the intersection by spring break. >> Okay. So, um, as
021of right now, they're moving along with the polls, and we're hoping that those get reinated here soon on a JOTC. Uh, 47% complete as of pay application number nine for February. So um the roof or the building is considered to be dried in the uh buildup roof it's receiving the insulation on all of the area that's housing the JOTC portion and then they're going to move to uh the other set of classrooms um on the low roof. Um, as you can see on the lower piece, all of the weatherproofing or waterproofing has been placed around the building. Dense deck all throughout. Um, internally there's a lot of roughins happening. A metal studs are pretty much complete throughout. Uh, plumbing roughing is also uh complete. I know the metal roof is coming in about two weeks.
022So, all that installation will be will be done in the next uh couple of weeks. Uh this is just one image of a high bay uh lab. This is the multi-purpose lab that will be shared by plant science and animal science. Any questions on a JOTC? >> What's the scheduled completion date on this one? >> So this one by contract is September 30th. >> September. Okay. >> Yes, sir. But they're they're doing really well on this project. Uh in terms of timeline for middle school 3, we're 26% complete on this one. Again, pay application number nine. Uh as of this month, so this is the current state of it. Uh Barllet's still working on the approaches for the parent lane. um they have started um putting base for all of the the parking lots that
023would house the parent and visitor uh parking lots. Uh as you all can see right now area A which is a lot of portion of classroom rings both first and second floor has been poured. The roof structure uh has been placed. Moving on to oh below this on area A they've also started uh hanging all of the HVAC duck work throughout u area B that will house the kitchen the cafeteria uh and second floor the library uh structural members are going up they are scheduled to pour the second floor of this area um in about two weeks then moving over to area C and D there's a small portion of area that's uh already framed that's pending to be poor and then the remainder is area D. Um on the top of the screen you
024guys see u what's considered area E which is the second part of the other classroom wings uh opposite of the courtyard. Any questions on middle school number three? All right. And then this one's just there's no images on elementary number seven. We had a meeting and discussed 50% schematic design. We have a 100% schematic design meeting next week. Our uh geotech um company went out there this week and collected all BS. Uh we did start with a eight set of BRS and then depending on where those come in, we're probably going to generate a bigger or tighter grid of of Bors so that we have a kind of a better take on what the geology is of that building uh or sorry of that site. But that's pretty much the update on elementary 7. Any
025questions on that? >> I we done with all of the surveys on the property for artifacts and all that stuff. That's all. >> Yeah. So, right now, our antiquities permit, there was no findings in it. Uh, it got sent to Texas Historical Commission. They're in review, but as of right now, there really shouldn't be anything holding it back. >> Any questions on that? >> All right. >> Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Next, we have the financial briefing with Miss Hermish. Good evening, Mr. President, board of trustees, Dr. Kaos. So, here is our u monthly financial report as of the end of January. Um, kind of some of the the highlights through here is we are we're five of 12 months through the this fiscal year and sitting right at 40% of budgeted expenses
026that have been spent. so fairly on track which as you know 85% of our budget is payroll which means that we budgeted payroll and have have probably very few unfilled positions um and so we are we're pretty well on track with that we are a little bit ahead of last year as far as revenue collections um I think our state aid is a little closer to what we we should be getting instead of having a really large settle payment in September and so we've just collected a little earlier which which is which is nice. Um, obviously when you start looking at fund balances, this is our our wealthiest time of year because we've just collected a most of our tax revenue between December and January. Um, some will continue to trickle in over the next
027next couple months as people beat that deadline before they start being delinquent on taxes, but for the most part, we are we are very um cash cash heavy right now, which is which is a nice place to be. Um and collections have come in really strong. Um as far as the levy came in a little bit better than what we had anticipated and so we we look good on that as well. Um I think the Yep, we can go ahead and scroll. This is just your view by function. Um something I was kind of looking at and noting um as we're moving into next year's budget and just knowing how tight things will be moving into next year is just looking at fund balance at the bottom. We're just shy of 36 million in fund
028balance. The 25% this year would be the 28 and a half. So you have about seven and a half million um more than what would be required or recommended at this point going into next year. So as you all are working through budget process that will that may be an important thing to note. Um on child nutrition kind of similar piece as you're looking at fund at the fund balance in that one as well we were at 2 point we were at 2.8 million what would be required is around 2.1. So there's a little bit better um than three months operating. You are allowed now to carry six months of fund balance in child nutrition. So there isn't a sense of urgency to to spend any of that. Um, and as you know with with
029instability sometimes with federal government and child nutrition being a federal program, it doesn't hurt to have a little extra fund balance um in there for that. And then on the debt service side, um again, we've been collecting all of the the the revenue um so far and we just made our first payments here in February um on this year's um debt payments. And so those will be reflected next month in February's financial statements. So sitting sitting in a really good place. As we said before, the state aid came in a little bit higher than we projected and even with certified values coming out, that still looks to be to be true. Um, and then collections have been really strong um, locally as well this year on the bond report. So, the first one is 23
030and probably the most significant thing to note is that the dollar amount in incumbrances goes down really rapidly as we are working towards the end of Creek View High School. and you're seeing the expense part go up quite a bit every month um as we are we're making those strong pay applications. Um still have almost 40 million left in unencumbered um fund balance on those projects with you know around six million of that in land. So that's also a good a good thing going into the next few months. And then bond interest wise um we're we're still collecting around $450,000 a month in interest. Um, some of that may be subject to arbitrage, but most of that has been reserved at this point. And so we should have should have some those additional funds for
031the HVAC project at the high school. And then the last one, bond 24. Um, we are starting to see a little our first pay hit bond 24 for middle school 3 as we are winding down the funds that were in um the 2023 bond for that project. And then we're starting to see a little bit of elementary 7 for the design pieces. Um and again, this one is also starting to bring in um some pretty good interest every month and should not be as subject to arbitrage because our borrowing rate and our earning rate are much much closely much more closely aligned than where they were in bond 23. And with that, I can take any questions that you all have. >> Any questions? Oh, thank you. Next is superintendent briefing. Dr. Goss. >> All
032right, we got some exciting stuff for you tonight if we can get to it. So, as you know, PLC's professional learning communities is a big focus of ours this school year and we've been highlighting campuses each month. So, um we've made a little video highlighting some of the work that Lucky Ranch Elementary is doing. So, we'll play that at this time. Miss Packer's my favorite teacher cuz she has treasure box and stickers. Every single day, Miss G helps us read and write sentences and help us read. The way I usually think of it as a PLC is a way for teachers to come together and discuss what they're seeing in their students based on the data that's been collected. We collect data since the beginning of the year. We have what's called ESED. It's ED.
033It stands for every student every day. And so it really helps us see that data all across so that we can identify the needs of each student. What I love is that we're all strong in something. No one person is supposed to have all the answers, which actually takes a lot of pressure off of me to be the the end all be all. So, what I like about PLC is really just collaborating with others. One of the ideas that I got from Miss Aila in kindergarten is she does clubs. Um, so I actually took that from the last PLC that we just had last week and I brought it into my classroom to help motivate the children. It could be something so simple um that I didn't think of and now I'm implementing in my
034classroom to help the students with that growth. It's actually amazing to have a team. They love to teach. That's why we're here. And so being able to go to them and go, "Okay, tell me what you did cuz I did this and it just didn't work out the way I thought it would." Or going, "Hey, this actually worked. Here's something that you could try with your kids if you're needing some extra help." like it's so normal to just share resources. So I almost don't think about it because it's just it's what we do. >> So you can see you can see the the big push with teacher collaboration, right? Working together for the betterment of the kids. And so um and then also the big the big point of u using data, right? student looking
035at student data and using that to determine what to what instruction to do moving forward. All right, so some other things we want to highlight here. We have some athletic highlights that we want to point out. We had three of our football players earn all area honors. So we have uh Reed Winslow, Bo We Connor Crisp that have all been named to the all area football team. And so we wanted to recognize those three and congratulate them on that accomplishment. Couple of our trackers um have set some school records here recently. Ella Rodriguez did that in the 1600 meter and then Trinity Pinto in the 400 and 200 meter. So congratulations to th those two girls as well. We also had several athletes that signed letters of intent to compete at the collegiate level. Claire,
036Claire, uh, Claire Bame, excuse me, Connor Crisp, help me with this one here, too. Aaron >> Gidell, uh, Kiana Pettis, Trinity, Pinto, Madison, Pinto, Addison Madano, and Sean Anderson all have signed letter letters of intent to to compete at the collegiate level. So, uh, again, congratulations to those athletes, and uh, we wish them the best. And we know this is the result of a lot of hard work, a lot of dedication, a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, right? So, it's good to see all of that pay off for these kids. Uh so, one of one of those uh athletes that we just mentioned, Kiana Pettis, recently competed at the state swim championship in Austin, and she finished 13th in in 13th place on uh in diving. Right. She's one of a one of our
037outstanding divers and she's had a I think she's only been here for a few years, but she's had a tremendous career while she's been here. A lot of accomplishments, a lot of championships. So, very proud of her and uh just want to congrat congratulate her as well. So recently our elementaryaries had their academic UIL competition and so this this is um this is an event that they take pretty seriously and we wanted to recognize Lera Elementary for for winning that competition this year. Uh you know in in these uh in these competitions they do things such as spelling, chess puzzles, music memory, creative writing and uh many other uh uh events. So just wanted to congratulate uh congratulate the students at Lera and also thank the teachers and the staff. Uh they have to put
038in a lot of extra hours right to prepare these kids for these events. So we want to thank them as well. Um our our students that are participating in the stock shows are are hot and heavy right now, right? They're they're competing in a lot of these stock shows and we're seeing a lot of lot of successes from all of our students, from a lot of our students. Uh we even had a a couple of them uh Serita Ewing and Anukica Webb that were interviewed by uh Spectrum News here recently. So just wanted to point that out and wanted to make sure that we're recognizing all those students. Again, that's another that's another uh event where that takes a lot of extra hours, right? A big responsibility taking care of those animals. And so we
039want to make sure that we're recognizing that as well. Okay, this might be my favorite one right here. So, Ma Maverick Williams, who's a pre-K student at Lacost Elementary, uh, recently was in the mutton busting ride, and he, uh, set an arena record. So, we've got a little video here we want to share with everybody. It's, uh, it's a it's a good one. So, let's play that for everybody. Maverick Williams of Texas. Wow. >> How about that? And you know what they call that? That's riding them Australian style down under. Ladies and gentlemen in an unprecedented turn of events at the halfway mark of the San Antonio Star show rodeo. We have just broken the arena record 100 points to perfect. >> What does Maverick mean? Do you know what that means? Um, I win.
040>> You do win, friend. >> So, you know, this rodeo's been going on a long time. Like way longer than you've been alive. >> And guess what you've just done? Do you want to do you want to guess what you've just done? >> Mhm. >> Go ahead. Guess what did you just do? >> Um, I went rodeo. >> Wow, >> that is impressive. Yeah, >> that is tonight's much busted champion, Mr. Maverick Williams. I mean, he held on. He took home tonight's belt buckle, as you heard, with a perfect score of 100. >> All right, that's good stuff. That perfect name for that kid, isn't it? >> All right, moving on. So, we also wanted to recognize our communication department. Uh, they recently had their their state conference and they won 10 star awards. everything
041from outstanding photography to videography and publications. Uh the team received two best of best of the category awards and four gold star and four silver star awards. So just wanted to recognize them for all the great work that they're doing as well. I tell them and yeah I don't think any of them are here but I tell them they they have one of the toughest jobs in the district. They have to try and make me presentable when in pictures and videos and so that's that's very hard to do. But congratulations to them. We appreciate all the hard work they do as well. Attendance resoning is is underway. So if the board recalls last year at this time, last spring we were working on high school attendance uh zones. And so um this year, you know,
042we Creek View's opening. We're ready to roll with those attendance zones. Uh now we've got to prepare for middle school three openings. So this spring we're working on those zones. And we've had a couple meetings, very good meetings. And so we're in the process of determining what those zones could look like. And also as we go through this, we want to we want to uh take into consideration elementary 7 and 8 that are coming as well and see how all that can tie together so that when we do look at doing elementary seven and eight attendance zones, we're not having to totally redo all attendance zones. So that's something we're considering as we go through this as well. Teacher incentive aotment. We've talked about how this is something that we want to implement in our
043school district. So, this is a process. First year, you work on your application and that application is due April 15th. So, that's coming up pretty quick here. So, Miss Hendrickx and and uh and um and her uh department and I know HR has been helping out a little bit with this as well have been meeting with with a a teacher group to try and determine u what our application is going to look like. So, they've had a few meetings. They have one more on March the 23rd before they finalize that application and submit it. There's a list of uh this month's uh gold card recipients. So, you can see uh see that list. And then the next slide is our employees of the month for the month of January, right? For each campus and and
044our departments as well. And so again, we we're very thankful for all of these employees, all their hard work, all they do for our kids in the school district. And um I'm very fortunate to have them as part of our school district enrollment. So we added a little uh uh little side on each uh campus as far as as we've gone through this school year, what enrollment has looked like compared to the end of last school year. So you can see uh a couple things that I want to point out. So with Lacost, if you if you look at our elementaryaries, Lacost has increased the most and that was intentional. If a board remembers last year, we we did some uh resoning, right, from silos uh to Lacost because Lacost numbers were low and silos
045numbers were very high. So that has paid off. It's it's relieved silos a little bit and then it's increased the enrollment at Lacost. The other elementary I want to point out is Lera. It's up over a hundred, right? And so that's a that's an area of of of focus right moving forward all all indications are that area is going to continue to increase right that that uh area where students are is there's a lot of u there's a lot of development going on in that area and so as we as we move forward with these attendance zones we need to keep that in consideration. What can we do to relieve some of that enrollment? And then if you look at our two middle schools, look at how much more LMA has increased this year compared
046to Medina Valley Middle. I remember when I got here four years ago, Medina Valley Middle was about 200 kids more than LMA. And there were some questions about, hey, do we need to look at doing some resoning to to even that up a little bit more. But uh you know we looked at projections and we knew that uh the projections were telling us that LMA would grow uh much much more than Medina Valley over the over the next few years and we see that happening. And so again that's that's something as we as we uh look at zoning middle school 3 we need to take into consideration as well. How can we relieve some of that growth at LMA? Any questions on enrollment? And I believe that's the last slide for me. >> Any other
047questions? >> Okay. Next, we have first reading of TASBY initiated revisions to local policies DBA, D, DGBA, DK, EB, EEB, FDA, FNG, and GF. Dr. Kais. >> So, these are uh TASBY initiated revisions uh that are recommended to align our local policy with our district of innovation. So what what TASBY is trying to do here is policy. Policy is supposed to be the what and then your admin regggs or in this case our DOI is the how. Right? And so what they're doing is they're just taking some of the what out of our local policies and referring the district of innovation as as the the source to the to the how. So they're taking some of the how out and moving it to the district of innovation, right? And so it's not changing anything that
048we're doing. It's not changing any of the policy as far as, you know, we got to do this differently now. It's just it's just cleaning things up a little bit so that it's putting more of the how in out of policy and into the Rex. So this is the first reading. you know, you can review it over the next month and then when we come back next month, um, if you have any questions, we can definitely go over that and we'll have it on the agenda as an action item to approve. >> Any questions? Just take time over the next month and review. >> Yeah. >> Next, we have scorecard presentation for priority number one, Miss Hendrick. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Kaos. Um, so tonight we are going to do
049our first scorecard update on priority one. You have four more or three more to go after me, but we're we've decided to spread them out so it's not all at one time. Um, so before we actually get started on this, I wanted to point out, I've kind of talked to you about this and we're going to at the board workshop, we're going to go into greater detail, but if you look at this, the new norms that are associated with NWA map, um, you can see the 2020 norms which were prior to COVID. um the bell curve is much higher than the 2025 norms. The 2025 norms are based on the 22 23 school year and the 23 24 school year. And so you can see that it has the overall achievement level has gone down.
050And so what that has done is it's made there's larger shifts at the lower achievement levels and smaller shifts at the higher levels. And so the RIT scores have stayed the same, but basically the norms because they've shifted down. Some of like what they told us to do is some of our kids may qualify for GT where they wouldn't have before because their RIT score is higher than it it is higher before than it is now. And then at the other end, we have to really look at the bottom end because some of our kids may not qualify for interventions even though they actually need them. So, I just wanted to point that out. Like I said, we'll go into major detail um at the board workshop. We have Sarah Beth coming from MAP to
051really explain that. But the reason why it's hard to compare before this year to this year is because of this change and then also the change in the testing pool. So before if you were a third grade student and you got the question right, it would give a pull of questions above grade level that might be anywhere from fourth grade to 7th grade and it would pick one and then if you got it right, you would go up again. If you got it wrong, you would go down. So to make the test more gradesp specific, they narrowed that pool to if you're third grade, it will only take you to fourth grade and it will stay on fourth grade. If you miss it, then it will go down. But much more grade specific. And so
052what happened like with math it really did the test is more specific and so the scores might be a little higher than we expect. So we've really had to look at our writ and look at where grade level is so we make sure that we're making decisions on actual data and not some that can be a little inflated. So on that we should expect our scores to go up and if they don't it's even more concerning. >> Yes. >> Okay. Just confirming. >> And just to clarify this distribution, this bill curve distribution, this is nationwide data. This is just another district. >> Yes. So and and as you know this is after COVID. So, >> we know and I'll actually show you where that group of kids is and you can see the drop. And
053so, >> I know Miss Lee has asked me many times, when are we going to recover from this? But it's just that whole foundation of those kids that were like in kinder and first grade when they weren't in school. It, you know, we just we haven't recovered yet. So, okay. Any more questions about that? Okay. So, I'm going to go back up. So, basically, every student grows every year is my priority. Um, we y'all saw the PLC video. We also have instructional leadership teams that are constantly looking at data to improve our instructional practice practices. Um, and I think we're going to look at scores um from star of last year because I don't think we did an update once we got our star scores back at the end to look at growth. Um but
054I think overall um when we do our progress in June at the end of the year, I think the the projections uh Miss Pota has done a great job of taking our map growth and putting it into star projections to see where we're going to be. And it looks very positive that our scores are going to go up. So if you look at the measure is what it is. The scorecard goal was our measure that we hope to hit our percentage that we hope to hit by the end of the year. And then progress in June. This was the 2425 endofear data. And then we're hitting on progress of um what we did in January. So basically we wanted to increase from 64% to 75% and our star um growth measure in math. We all
055know that last year our star scores were not um what we expected. It was a huge eye openener I think for all of our campuses. And so I think that's what kind of jumpstarted the PLC and really looking at our data this year. And so I'm hoping that that was enough to get us to um take the data seriously and we're hoping for really good results. Um still have a long way to go by um 2027. So we'll we'll we'll keep looking at this. Um in reading we were going to increase from 75 to 85 and you can see depressingly um we we went down to 66. We're not lowering our goal. We're still keeping that the same. And there is there are some campuses that when we do their their growth projection, it is
056looking like it's going to be in the 80s. So, that's exciting. We'll have to wait and see. Um on MAP growth, um we wanted to go from 49% to 65%. In June, we were at 49%. In January, we were at 67%. So that was exciting. Um, again, >> we do we need to redo that goal being that the test changed, >> right? Is that not right? >> I mean, we probably need to look at that because a lot of that is just that came in. >> Once we meet it, I would want to raise it anyway. >> Yeah. >> Um, so definitely >> and then um reading increased from 48% to 65%. We went to 52% we're at 63%. So again, if we meet it by the end of the year, of course, we will
057definitely want to go up. Um, with science, we really don't understand what happened. We're looking at different um things in fifth grade especially, we have a bunch of triads this year. When you grow, like normally in elementary, we would do a reading, social studies, and a math, science teacher that partner. as we're growing so fast, a lot of times there's an odd number of teachers. So they'll do a triad and so the triad teacher will teach science and it it limits the amount of time you have in class with your kids. And so we are actually we actually had a meeting about that on Wednesday, I think, where we were looking at what could have caused this to go down. Um so we were at 75. That was the first time we had a baseline
058was last year and then it went down to 68. So we are looking into the reasons for that. >> Yeah. But and that testing change of how they're doing it is across all of them, right? Correct. >> Um yes, but but it they have said that it mainly impacted math. Math could be inflated a little bit. >> Okay. And I know we're going to go over this in the workshop, but I mean we have this data >> pretty much down to the student level if you know to dissect and figure out what you know where grade levels and things like that. So we reviewed that in curriculum committee and I think everybody's going to get a chance >> to see that. Right. So, >> and and Matt, that's a great point because that's what's made
059the biggest um you know, when you are looking at overall averages, things can be masked, but when you go down to the class level and you look at this teacher versus this teacher, you can really see grade level by grade level what's working and what's not. Okay. So, now we're just going to kind of go through um some support of that data. So this is where we got the 67% in math. So um you can see in each grade level. So the grade level norms which is the projected growth that went down. Um so that's where the the norms went down. Um and then we had what our students did was the observed growth. So that's where the blue is. So you can see um all the way up until seventh grade we were um
060you know scoring above those new lowered norms. You can see in math we had 6,632 students who had a growth projection and what that means is they they were there at the beginning of the year and then they were there again at the middle of the year and they met their growth projection. So that was 67%. Is there is there the ability to pull this with the old norms to put the old norms on? I would just like to see it compared to the old right. >> Yeah, we had the old risk score growth norms for the >> I can >> but to pull it in the report is what I'm getting at to be able to see it on here like okay we're x percentage above at first grade where was the old norm
061because then we could look at where >> so you can't do it in map but she's pretty >> we can manually do that. take the average score per grade level and compare that to the 2020 norms to see where it falls to get this exact picture of data. >> Okay? Because if we take the old norms and we plug that into here and compare to where we were, then we can compare year-over-year. Yeah, I get that they lowered the norm so we can't compare it here. But we should be able to take the old norms, plug it into our growth, and be able to compare year-over-year then where we are to that old norm. Write that down >> because I'll forget by the time I go sit down. >> Based on an increase in individual
062risk score, average risk. >> Yeah. And and that's the that's the good thing about this is the RIT score stays the same. It does not it doesn't change. And so >> we could compare by looking at actual scores comparing year. >> Yeah. And if you just kept the old norms, then you can compare year-over-year. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um, oops. I always forget on this one. So, this is what it looks like. >> I was gonna say, and actually when you get down to the detail and you look at the individual RIT score and look at the you actually get a lot just looking at that as a verb as a as opposed to looking at growth and all of that, you get more out of it. So, >> yeah. Yeah, I'm with you. But
063at the end of the day, we have to look at the aggregate too. >> Correct. >> Right. And that was an activity we did at the beginning of this month. >> Good evening. On February 10th at our uh principal PLC, we actually looked at those RIT scores from year to year by campus per every content area. That way they could take a look. These are this is what we had in place. This these are our RIT scores based off of the old norms. This is what we have in place now. Here's the new RIT scores with those norms. And the discussion became, okay, especially in math, if it should be easier and your RIT score should be higher, why wasn't it higher in seventh grade at your campus, right? >> Looking at teams, looking at
064resources being used, looking at the fidelity of the PLC's. So those are pieces that we do have in place and we've been working with campuses. >> Perfect. >> Thank you. Okay. So this is achievement overview. So the last was the growth. Um this is achievement and we have fall to winter. So we went from the 55th percentile and this is all subjects in math. Um and then um to 61% in the winter. And the thing that we need to look at with this is if if your programs are being um impactful, your greens and your blues are going to go up and your oranges and your reds should go down. So if you look at overall out of these 6,926 students um 27020 um we grew in both our greens and our blues and we
065went down in our oranges and our reds. And the the thing that I always like to point out is that red is the bottom 20th percentile. So when we started this a year two years ago when we first gave map um our what was falling in the red was above 20%. And that was alarming. So the fact that we've gone now to down to 12% is showing that what we're doing is impacting our kids. Um this is just another way of looking at what we um just showed you broken down into grade levels. So you can see um kinder that's a huge growth from 55 to 68th percentile. Um but all the way down we are growing. When you get to sixth and seventh grade slows down. So, we know that's where where our target
066needs to be. And then one more time, this is the way it looks. If you just look at the the greens and blues from fall to winter, you can see that they're increasing. So, we are definitely making progress. So, some of the things that we are doing for that math um because it doesn't just happen in middle school, that starts in our elementaryaries as well. And so we are going we've piloted um one program and right now the six through algebra are looking at two more programs. They didn't like the one that the elementary was going to go with. So they're going to choose out of those two and then we are implementing those in the fall. Um, we've already got quotes and everything and Petranco was the one campus that did it consistently across
067all grade levels and their their scores show major growth in math. So, we think this will help with the vertical alignment because it is consistent with one resource instead of using multiple resources. Um, another thing that we're going to do is this summer we're going to a offer math boot camps to our teachers in third through 8th grade to really focus on helping them learn how to show the kids the concrete, the models before they go straight to the algorithm and so that our kids can see it from concrete to abstract instead of starting with abstract and then they never get it. And so again at Petranco those teachers because they were using stem scopes it's very concrete to abstract and um they they struggled through tears and all of that and did it and
068now we're going to try to use them as our experts to come and help other teachers and then hopefully tea will have our mathmies ready all K through three teachers some one of the house bills I can't remember which one right off um requires all all of our K2 K3 math teachers to go through mathmies the I can't remember if it's a week three days three days um and so that will start for sure in 2027 but they've got some pilots right now that hopefully we're um wanting our teachers to go into. Okay, we're going to switch to reading unless you all have any questions. >> I do have one question. Yes. Did the new testing standard of not going above grade level when you answered correctly was that did that occur in the fall
0692025 testing? So this is apples and apples new norms. This is apples to apples the new norms new norms and the new um testing. >> So they applied in both testing period. Okay. >> Yes. >> Okay. So with re Oh I forgot we have algebra. So just um algebra is one of our focus points. Um we've looked at it for quite a while now. Um we we did not see growth. We went from 55th percentile to 54th percentile. But if you look there is a little bit of movement in our distribution of scores. Um, I really think that we're gonna we're gonna start to see this growth when we get an adoption that everybody is using across the board. Um, >> can you explain that? I mean, just looking back, we meets and masters, we
070increased in both and and our the bottom two levels actually went down, but we went from 55th to 54th percentile. So, in order for it to to move consistently across a big group, you have to hit you have to grow at at least the 50th percentile. And so, it really probably didn't change that much. We also have um more students in the second group than we did in the first. >> Yeah. And so >> just seemed like every >> I it doesn't always make sense, but when you break it up into this where you have Don't look at the 10th grade because those are repeaters, but when you have your eighth grade, I'm sorry. >> I know. Yeah, there's four stu five students and then four students. But um you can see that when they
071take it in eighth grade um you know those are your your top students that are taking advanced math and we see you know they're at the 81st percentile. Um well that's that one kid again. A student moved in who was in seventh grade who's taking algebra and so it's the one student. But if you look at 8th grade, they're at the 87th percentile and then at 9th they're at the 50th percentile. So it's kind of a mixture of those two that makes it where it doesn't really show. Um, but again, um, I think if we can get the foundation built and then we can keep it going through the middle schools and work on our advanced math versus our regular math and do that differentiation, this will go away. Okay, so we're going to reading
072um, what did I do? Why are my sides on here? Okay. Okay. So, reading. Um, so 7,158 students had a growth projection. Um, it was 63%. They did say that, um, you could see the drop in scores more in reading than you could in math. Um, I think that's just the whole COVID thing. But if you look at grades six and seven, those kids were in kinder and first grade during the COVID year. So, they didn't go to school. So, you know, that's when you learn how to read. Um, and you can you can kind of just still see it. Um, this is what it looks like in the achievement. So, we went from 57th percentile in the fall to the 62nd percentile in the winter. And again, if you look at your greens and
073blues, you can see that we're growing and we're shrinking in the oranges and red, same as math. Um, here is this um different view. You can see not as much growth as not as much improvement as we saw in math, but still we are moving until you get to um you know the lower grades and you start seeing not everything is growing um the way we want it to. Here is broken down by grade levels. Um so you can see the blues and greens. Are there any questions about this? >> It seems like it's the great same grade levels. >> It is. Yeah. >> And you know, we we keep talking about is that just like the brain goes a little haywire when they get into middle school and then it because it does go
074back up. You know, if you look at 10th grade, um we're starting to you see the gain again. Um, it's like middle school is where we see that drop. And it does, I will say, as a former sixth grade teacher, the TEICSS do really get harder from fifth grade to sixth grade, but it's really seventh and eighth grade where we see the drop. So, um, it's definitely something that we we need to focus on. Um, one thing that we've done across before I go on, um, with reading is, um, we've really focused in on our 95% phonics, we've brought in coaches from the company to come in and work with our teachers, model, do model lessons, look at their resources. they've made um coaching giving coaching advice like use a timer, use clickers to make
075the lessons more um appropriate. And so I really feel like we're going to see gains. And if you look at the lower grades, you do um see that that is starting to pick up steam. The other thing that we've really done this year is focus on writing. So, we left a lot of points on the table last year because we were not writing in our classrooms. The kids didn't even attempt in a lot of areas and we got a lot of zero points. And so, um, pointing that out, I think I shared that with y'all earlier in the year, but pointing that out to the teachers, they were like, "What?" And then they could actually see what the kids wrote on the test and it was very eye opening. So every campus has had a
076writing initiative since then. So um we like I said PLC all of these things I really feel like just looking at the data has opened everyone's eyes to we need to we need to do a few things differently. Okay the next part um we're going to shift to CCMR. So we focused we wanted to increase participation in ACT and SAT from 43 to 75% by 2027. You can see class of 22 was 43, class of 23 was 51 and we did go up to 58. A lot of the things that we've done still have not it'll be next year's group um on the taper. So this is all basically two years behind. Um but we did increase on our ASVAB um testing on the um criterion at or above I mean the scores at or
077above the criterion were staying pretty steady. Um the one thing I can say is the more kids that take the test sometimes this the average does go down. Um but still staying pretty pretty consistent. Here is the TSIA. And this is one of those things that is just very troubling. Um I I do feel like we did a much better job this year of monitoring who was taking the test and instead of just letting them take it over and over, they took it. If they didn't pass, they had to complete a prep class on um egeneuity and then they would go back to take it again. So the 2025 which was actually last year um the class of 2025 I think will finally see a jump in this um but also they now have to
078pass the TSIA to be able to take dual credit. So I think all of that together is going to make them take this um you know more seriously and that it will go up. Um AP participation we are seeing a little bit of increase. Again I think our increase will be this class because a lot of the kids moved from dual credit into AP because we started offering more classes. This is our dual credit completion rates. um just because we moved to Alamo Colleges like they don't allow you to take if you don't pass a class they don't allow you to take another dual credit class. So there are things that we we have put in place that will take care of this. So I'm I'm hoping these scores go way up. And the thing
079I'm most proud about is CT complator completer status. We were at 29.3 27.6 six and this is a big jump to 39.8. That means they were in a consecutive um pathway and they earned their IBC in their practicum course. And again, the results are going to come the next year when we really stop doing CT classes as electives. And I went the wrong way again. Um okay, any questions about CCMR? This is really long. I'm sorry. Trying to go fast. Um, okay. So, um, safety and well-being. Um, our goal was to reduce, um, percentage of discipline removals. This is actually last year's data. We'll have the new data at the end of this year, but we did um, you know, surpass our goal. So, 2.8% in elementary, 19.8% 8% in um secondary. I will tell
080you with um 2,800 students, I don't think our results are going to look like this this year. Um but hopefully they'll go back down when we separate campuses. Um attendance, we were doing so good and it was so high and then the flu happened. So, we're still above where we were at the end of last year, but it's starting to go down, which is depressing. Um, the only thing I have, this was from last year, again, the 2024 2025 school year. These were just some things, most of them we presented at the board meetings, but just kind of a summary of our extracurricular and co-curricular opportunities. Any questions? Okay, I am finally done. >> Thank you. >> Next, we have the transportation presentation with Mr. RmIrez. >> Push. Got it. Uh, board president Dr. Kaos,
081members of the board, uh come before you today to discuss a presentation on Senate Bill 546. Uh we have had some discussion over the past months in regards to 546 and obviously this is in regards to outfitting our buses uh with three-point seat belt harnesses. So over the shoulder and across the lap. Now uh did I go to Yeah, right here. So right now uh we're currently approaching the reporting phase of of this process for 546. So technically what it's asking us to do is pretty much first identifying um whether what our current status is right. So uh are we going to move forward with purchasing buses or do we want to retrofit buses? Um and doing so uh we can just follow down the the step process and going down to step number two
082is identifying uh what exactly do we have? Okay. So I can already tell you um by moving I'll just fast forward to the next one because this next one's going to have there you go. Uh step step three uh pretty much fast forwarding into this one is just we've already did the evaluating pro process of it. So, we already identified that we have 88 buses currently in our fleet that is actively actively transporting our students to and from school. I I state that because uh thanks to you all, we purchased 13 buses. We have received three special needs buses. Everyone's already bidding for them, by the way. Thank you very much. But uh I'm not including that number in our 88 because they're not actively transporting our students at this moment in time. Uh 42
083of those buses however are the ones in which we need to look at what we want to do. Uh do we want to retrofit? Now the first uh bullet for the 33,000 uh that's for 29 uh gen ed buses. So these are going to be your big buses 70 77 passenger or so. Uh it does vary as you can see 33,000 to 35,000. Uh and this is because there's different setups within that bus and it all depends on how it goes. These figures do come or the quotes I should say come from um Longhorn International and uh Thomas buses those are currently the buses in which we have in our fleet. Okay. So we've already identified that as well. Now if we were to consider retrofitting those 77 buses um I'm sorry 29 buses uh
084it would come out to $957,000 up to a million depending on the variance of of the seat arrangements. Below that, you'll see that we have 13 sped buses that will also require the same outfitting. Okay. Uh the total cost being $286 to $351,000. Now, this is uh going back just for a special needs bus, $22,000 to retrofit. It's it's quite a big amount. Not to mention these buses in which I have uh put aside the 42 are are older models. They are high in in mileage or approaching the 200,000 uh mark and they don't have the ACS and which is very popular down here in in South Texas. So that's one of the things there too. But um those are pretty much that's the number of what we currently have uh in our fleet and
085what we want to look at. Uh and as I mentioned before it's it's we're at the reporting phase of things. So um I have been tasked to report um to you all and also implement our data or our current stance into Sentinel to determine whether what what we're looking at the moment. Uh uh I have been attending certain seminars meetings and zoom meetings. This is just basic information that they want to move forward with just for data mining collecting and see what they want to do with the state on the state side of things. So, um, the reporting date, uh, is going to be, uh, May 29th of 2026. So, we're approaching that very closely. Um, just wanted to run that to by you all and, uh, give you a rough synopsis of what we're
086looking at. We have uh, come up with a forecasted uh, bus replacement uh, schedule. As you can see here, um, on average, uh, we're averaging our growth to be about 700 per year. Uh, just in case, just, uh, looking at the most recent numbers, I should say. 56% of those students would require, uh, transportation services. Okay, that's typically what we're running at this uh, point in time. Now, I also want to point out that as far as bus capacity is concerned, I did put 70 students per bus. Now, I want everyone to to know that typically in our primary and maybe middle school level, it's about okay, we can we can handle that. But our high school level, our kids are going to be bigger and it's not necessarily going to be three to two
087to a seat. So, I just want to put that out there as well. 42 of those buses um that are going to be on this list uh would need or meet uh need to meet that seat belt requirement by September 1st of 2029. That's when the mandate is asking for us to be in compliance all the way through. >> Do we have any idea based on the reporting the TEA I saw in there that the state's going to look at financial assistant? Do we have any idea when we're going to hear back from them on anything like that? >> Right now that that question has been posed. I posed that same question as well. And unfortunately, right now, it's just getting back all the information, sending it over to the state, and then ultimately finding
088out what they want to do with it. No one really has given us a definitive answer. It's very vague uh in in when it describes that in TEA. Um and a lot of us uh transportation obviously board members and so on so forth we're we're kind of >> waiting to see what the next is after the reporting phase obviously >> probably should assume it's going to be unfunded at this point and we just start down that path. >> Yeah. >> Well I think it's 29. I think we give it a little bit just stay with our replacement plan and we're >> Yeah. replacement plan needed for growth but also Yeah. I mean, we're obviously going to look at the older ones and phase those out like we plan to. >> Exactly. So, I mean, obviously,
089we have some time and opportunity here obviously to utilize the fleet that we currently have and use it to our advantage as we progress in number. >> So, for example, in 26 27, you've got 10 new buses needed for the seat belt mandate. Do we have 10 in our fleet now that would be that would be ripe for replacement at that time? >> Yes, sir. Okay. Yes, sir. So we would follow our natural plan for the most part, >> right? >> Yeah, >> we would >> definitely >> I think that was we were somewhere around 10 buses a year or something like that in our plan. So basically we're off by >> Yeah. So I mean it pretty much follows our replacement plan anyway. >> Yeah, it it pretty much does. We're just obviously we
090just added the >> the caveat. >> Yeah. And hopefully state comes through with something >> and um yeah, they're looking pretty neat. Oh, you you'll see the new ones pretty pretty soon. You'll actually be able to identify them. I just want to add this on here is um that the school bus sign on top of the school buses, they're illuminated now. That's it's required moving forward. So, instead of just having the reflector, you will actually have lights behind them. So, it's pretty neat. The small things. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's true, too. We've already started quoting for the bulbs for those as well. Yeah. >> Any questions? >> Nope. Thank you. >> My pleasure. >> Yep. >> All right. Moving on to discussion and possible action items. We'll um begin with the consent agenda. Dr.
091Kos, >> consent items are are listed in uh the agenda. And so, um I'll open the floor up to any board members that want to pull one of those to discuss. All these items have been u presented in in committees and or through board updates. So you have been provided information on them but if you want to discuss further we can pull at this time. >> Anybody want anything pulled? If not I'll look for a motion. >> I Matt Castle move to approve the consent agenda items as presented. >> I have a motion in a second. >> I want to second the motion. >> I have a motion and second further discussion. Not all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval for
092budget amendment. Mr. Hermish. Thank you. So, the budget amendment that I'm bringing to you right now is is kind of the culmination of our mid-year budget reviews. And so, in addition to looking at our campus enrollment growth, um some of our campuses increased enrollment pretty significantly and they had a little bit of an additional allocation that went to them. We also had every department in the district review their current budgets and determine if they needed to make any shifts based on needs that they had for the remaining part of the year. Um most of those are are pretty minor shifts going through. The the big ones that you see um are related kind of to our capital projects or our growth funds. And so at the beginning of the year, we had budgeted for the
093full cost of cell phone pouches between the middle and the high school and ended up not needing as much as well as gaining um some TEA grant funding um for that. And so we have some additional function 11 money that we're wanting to re redistribute um to and you see most of that going into function 52 um which is for additional safety needs. um as we've talked about film projects that that may be completed during the rest of the year. Um a couple of the other larger ones um you see kind of a larger increase in function 36 which is our extracurricular funding and some of that is for the beginning few months of Creek View. Um when when we worked through the Creek View initial budget, most of it was for instruction or the
094admin team because they weren't starting school yet. But then as we've re-evaluated, they're going to have a lot of extracurricular things happening um over the summer and into August. And so we just wanted to make sure that she had some funding um for those activities um that were planned for. Um again, we talked about the safety film and then probably the other bigger ones are in function 99, which the only cost that comes out of there is our fees to the CAD office. And so now that we know what that those payments look like for the year, we wanted to move that surplus um into 41 to cover additional attorney fees um things with the superintendent search, all of that fun stuff that that needs to happen for the rest of the year. And so
095with that, I can take any questions. Oh, almost forgot to mention the CPS rebate. So, our maintenance department is um super proud and I know that they the HVAC department in particular worked really hard um to utilize as much of the CPS um summer energy program. Um and so that 25 almost $26,000 um is what we earned back from CPS by following the energy program over the summer. But with that, I can take any questions that you all have. >> I like these type of amendments. >> What I I like these types of >> I know these are these are not we we shuffling no extra no extra except for some extra money coming in. So >> yes, any questions? If not, I'll look for a motion. >> I Joe Beer move to approve the
096budget amendment as presented. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> I want to second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval for purchase of computers from Intech Southwest Services. not to exceed $400,000. Mr. Hermish, >> I I'm gonna let Mr. Lamman um talk through this piece, but um very similar to the issue we had earlier with the servers in the fall where the price increase from the time that you all approved to to the time that we tried to make the purchase jumped significantly. And so he's going to bring back and just talk to you about where where we're at with that. >>
097I hate to be here to do this. Crystal just tells you all this good news about shuffling money and I'm here to spend some more money. Um, so when we approved the last uh the 400 laptops for staff at the last meeting, um, we got the PO into the vendor by January 30th. I had asked them to have pricing good through the 31st. Um, the original vendor informed me that the pricing had gotten pulled as of January 28th and so we missed it by two days. They would not could not honor that price. Um, the original price on those laptops was 708. The next closest bidder was $818. So starting February 1st, I'm sure you all have seen RAM and and storage prices have spiked. Um those components have seen 90% increase. And so that
098has increased the price on all laptops, desktops because the capacity for storage and RAM has been diminished by um AI data centers purchasing high high performance RAM and storage and so they're producing less of the types of of components that we need in our laptops um which results in those prices getting hiked. So, um, our price effectively, so we we're not we're not going to we didn't even get revised pricing from the original vendor. Um, I did get revised pricing from Intex Southwest. Um, that new price all in this is with warranty, three-year warranty and um, what was the other thing? Oh, the imaging and tagging is now $969 a unit. So, it's an effective 36% increase on those devices, unfortunately. um it was about a 20% increase from the original price Intel gave us.
099Um the the actual price on the quote that we have in here is is about $387,000, but just to kind of hedge bets a little bit, I want to do a not to exceed $400,000. This still falls within our budget. I I know I kind of bragged a little bit at the January finance meeting that I was under budget. Came back to bite me in the butt. Um we are still under budget because uh we did get the Chromebooks purchased and those came in under what we had originally projected and so we still have budget money available to do this. So it's not an increase to our budget, it's just an increase in the overall cost of the project. >> So the original was that 2832? >> The original was 283200. Yes. >> Okay. >>
100And it is now 387 600. >> And was that coming out of 199? There are so 150 of those laptops are coming out of the FFN for Creek View and then 250 were coming out of local out of 199. >> And what's the distribution now? >> It's the same same distribution. >> So we're going to still stick with the 250 and then the rest of the excess is going to come out of bond FF. Yes. >> Or is it the percentage? >> It's it's the FFN is is set for >> picking up the basically we're picking up the difference in bond. >> It's it's a >> oneird 23. Yeah. Both are increasing. >> Okay. So, we're keeping the same percentage in both. Okay. >> Yeah. And unfortunately, they've our vendors have told us we can
101expect to see price increases continuing through at least the end of this year, probably into 2027. >> Any questions? >> Now, I'll look for a motion. >> I'm Matt Castle. Move to approve the purchase of staff computers from Intech Southwest Services not to exceed 400,000 as presented. >> I have a motion. I have a second. >> I want a second. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of a joint election agreement and election services contract with Medina County Elections. Dr. Kaos. So, as the board is aware, we have three uh seats up for re-election. Our two at large positions as well as single member district number five. And so,
102um the two at large positions, we have received four applications for for those positions. Um Nathan Finneer, Blaine Nash, Andrew Carowin, and Toby Walters have all applied for the the two at large positions. for our single member district number five position. We have not had anyone apply or we did not right because the deadline to apply is is is passed. So we have not we did not have anyone apply for the single member district. So with with the atlarge positions um we have four that have applied only two positions. We will have to have an election for for the atlarge positions. And so law requires that um school districts partner with other entities that are having elections at the same time. So we um will partner this election with both Medina County and Bear County.
103And so in in the board packet you will see the agreements with those two counties for the for the u for the election and they are presented tonight for approval. >> Do we get a discount since we don't have to do member district five? I was just going to say what what did we get cost information from them yet? >> Yes, sir. I can tell you um for for Medina County the cost is going to be right at 20,000 and for Bear County about 3600 3,600. >> I believe the reasoning uh some of the reasoning behind that is there's uh quite a few more entities that are involved in the Bear County election as opposed to the Medina County. So it cost to share more. >> Correct. Correct. >> Any other questions? No. I'll look
104for a motion. >> I, Joe Beiger, move to approve the joint election agreement and election services contract with Medina County as presented. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> I want a second. >> I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in favor, raise your hand. >> All board members, vote it for. And the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of joint election agreement and election services contract with Bear County Elections. Any questions? None. I'll look for a motion. >> I'm Matt Castleion. Move to approve the joint election agreement and election services contract with Bear County as presented. >> I have a motion. I have a second. >> I want to second the motion. >> I have a motion and second. Any further discussion? Not
105all those in favor? Raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. The time is 7:31 p.m. and the board of trustees will now convene in close session as authorized by section 551071,551074 551076 551089 551072 551082 and 5510821 of the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss agenda items 6 A throughF. No action will be taken in close session. The board is now in close session. The board is reconvening into open session at 8:31 p.m. For the record, no action was taken in close session. Next, we have consider approval of a res a resolution for sale and conveyance of a utilities easement to West Texas Gas Bear Transmission LLC on the district's approximately 83 acre property located south of Highway 90 situated in the JW Howard survey number 15 and a fourth abstract
106number 1464 described in general warranty deed dated September 15, 2021 to Medina Valley Independent School District in instrument number official public record of Medina County, Texas. Questions? I'll look for a motion. I, Matt Castleion, move that the board approve a resolution authorizing the sale and conveyance of utility easement to West Texas Gas Bear Transmission LLC on the district's approximately 83 acre property located south of Highway 90 in a form approved by district council and further authorized the board president to execute the easement agreement and the superintendent to execute any other documents related there too. >> I have a motion. I have a second. I Joe Beer second the motion. >> I have a motion and second. Any further discussion? Not all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion
107carries. >> Next we have consideration of future meeting dates. We have special board meetings for March are on the 18th, 19th, 23rd, 25th, 26th, and 30th. Many of the special board meeting schedules are are related to the superintendent search interviews. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 24th at 6 PM. With that, we have a German and I'll look for a motion. I Ben Watis move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 8:33 p.m. on February 26 26. >> I have a motion. Do I have a second? >> I Joe Beer second the motion. >> I have a motion and a second. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members vote for and we are journed. Thank you.