001Good evening. I call this Medina Valley ISD regular board meeting to order at 6:01 p.m. on June 23rd, 2025. We have a board members present. There are no one there's no one absent. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. Next we have public comment. We have no one signed up to speak. So we'll begin with announcements, communication, and presentations. We'll start with the finance committee with Mr. Nash here. All right. Uh the finance committee now consists of myself, Nathan Filliger, and Susan Lee. Um we met last met on June the 11th, and the following items were discussed. the uh grandfathering clauses for Medina Valley High School with the opening of Creek View, the RFQ for the real estate broker, which is on tonight's agenda, um local policy changes, which
002we're going to do the first readings on this evening. Um the next bond sale, which was part of the 2024 bond, a potential summer bond sale for August and September. Um the update on the timeline for elementary school number seven's construction. And then we had some construction updates regarding the high school and the ROC building and then an update on um employee health insurance. And that was it. Any questions? Okay. Then we'll move on to the construction committee with Mr. Beeter. All right. The construction committee meeting met on June 11th. Uh members consisted of myself, Matt Castaloney, and Ben Warez. Uh following items were discussed. the grandfathering for Medina Valley High School, the RFQ uh real estate broker that we'll discuss tonight, the proposed board policy revisions that we'll hear this evening. Next item discussed
003was the uh Round Creek View High School with the uh CPS gas easement, the water rights transfer, and uh then project cost proposals. Next item discussed was around Medina Valley High School uh and the athletic project cost proposals that we have uh that we're currently seeking. And then next item was around the A and Junior ROC uh building and the CPS electric easement and service update. Next item discussed was around middle school number three and where we stand with starting that project. Uh next item was also around was around elementary school number seven and the timeline for that. And last item discussed was the uh summer bond sale which is on tonight's agenda as well. Any questions? Not we'll move on to safety and security with Mr. Watis. Uh good evening. Uh the safety committee
004met June 12th, 2025. Uh it uh consisted of myself, Nathan Fillinger, and Nath and Blaine Nash, and we discussed the following items. Uh the police department update applic uh application prog proc progress I'm sorry and the oi number received uh administrative assistant position uh reunification training safety project updates uh consisting of the district security cameras and the district access controls and then also our annualou with the bear county juvenile board for the juvenile justice alternative ed program on on constant agenda this evening. Any questions? Not then we'll move on to curriculum with Miss Lee. Okay. We met on June uh June 12th and the members consisted of myself, Matt Castani and Joe Beiger and we discussed the following four items. House Bill 1481 which bans student electronic communication devices during school day. discussion with some
005of the options other districts have implemented and TEA is developing a model policy to assist schools with compliance. Uh Mrs. Hendrick presented preliminary STAR results and right now they're assessing the data determine areas that need improvement and methods to boost student success and she will be presenting at a later date. Uh number the third one was GPA GPA-IC local. Uh this is going to allow uh students taking preap algebra in eighth grade to have it included in their as a weighted grade and GPA and there'll be a reading this uh meeting. The last one was a PES coordinator. It would be additional personnel to assist uh due to increase of new registrations each year and increased uploads to the state for data tracking. And that was it. Any questions? Not we'll move on. Next is
006the construction briefing with Mr. Broas. Good evening, Mr. President, members of the board. Dr. Kaos. We'll start off with our Creek View High School project update. So, as of this month, we're at 70% complete. That's been a consistent kind of 3% uptick every single month. Uh this is based on the original GMP. Uh next month we'll start bringing in some of the draw schedule for the change order which was the stadium um change order piece of the project. So we'll give you guys a second to pull up that drone. I know it's been a couple of months since we brought a a drone uh video over, but this just kind of goes with the progress of the building again. Uh more cap sheets on the roofing system is being installed. The metal panels is now
007well in its way. Area B is pretty much almost complete and they're going all around the building. Another notable items that have started is the columns on the pre-manufactured canopies. As you can see right there on the center, see some of those columns that will be the life skills drop off. They will go directly into all of the life skills classrooms. As we're panning out, um you see some of the lifts uh and the crew installing the metal panels on what will be the uh future bandhole. Again, a lot of flat work, a lot of uh site work still going on throughout the project. Um in here too, you'll notice some of the dehumidification units that are in place on this end, which will be the student drop off or the future student drop off.
008Again, that's to keep up with the schedule on on finishes before we get uh CPS permanent power place um or in place on our site. Um, again, as we pan out, you see uh more of the canopy being installed. This will be the future bus drop off leading up to the cafeteria space. Uh, we're panning over to uh the utility courtyard and main chiller plant. Next is the future CTE courtyard. Again, more dehumidification units throughout. So, there's a lot of still on-site work happening in this project. Um, and we'll zoom into some other uh aspects of or progress of the of the side elements right now. So, in here, this is just a closeup of what the academic court courtyard will look like. Again, uh, rebar being placed in preparation for the flat work. U,
009you also see some of the columns for the shading structures that will be in place in this courtyard. As we move forward, I know this is a a big item in terms of construction. We have u transformers now in place. U the uh cam boxes are in place. We're just waiting for the meters uh to be installed now that the uh rideway uh easements have been approved. We're waiting on CPS to process those and then um we'll be able to energize the main building. Um in terms of site, these are this will be the area where the away bleachers uh will be placed for the stadium. There's underground utilities um being installed, storm drain and retaining walls throughout. On the home side, uh what you see in the lighter tan is where the grandstands will
010will be placed and then the darker red is where the vending buildings and restrooms for the home side will be um erected. Uh for the interior, I'll let RT with Barllet give us an update on where we're at. Good evening everyone. Uh quick update on the interior portion of the high school. This is um level level one that you're looking at in the classroom wing of BC. You can see that um ceiling has been installed. The Tecton panel ceilings, lights have been placed. Uh supply grills have been placed. Trim um woodlike trim is getting placed on the walls. We've gotten uh the interior glass and the classrooms placed. Only thing pending here is wood doors and hopefully get those once condition air in. get those here in the next couple months. And then they'll be
011flooring in the corridor right here that you see. This is one of the CTE shops. This is, I believe, the HVAC electrical shop right now. That's a sound acoustic spray insulation that you're seeing with the large fan up top, cord reels placed, um, and then heaters within these areas. the practice gym. We've been painting the tectum panels on the ground and then placing them up in the air. So, that work is ongoing. The center section actually just got the uh dividing partition that drops down installed as well. And uh they're well on their way in here hopefully to wrap up here in the next couple weeks. This is the formwork and the shoring that's getting put in place at the auditorium. They started on this uh late last week looking to pour these risers in
012three different pores. First pour will be later this week and uh hopefully get to wrap up around July 4th time frame. But these are the risers in the auditorium area. Culinary. This is the advanced culinary classroom with the range hood. So the kitchen equipment in this area is expected to arrive end of August, early September time frame. And um for then we'll have we'll have the flooring uh placed and kitchen equipment right on top of it. You can see ceiling grid is in. Temporary lights are still in there. Um once the once we get our permanent power like Raphael mentioned, we'll have the permanent lights burning throughout. So hopefully bright up everything a little bit. Any questions on Yeah, they have to they haven't they haven't done their final tiein to the transformers yet. Yes,
013sir. So, as of today, they do have the executed easement copy. Um, so we're just waiting on them to process that and schedule it. Um, moving on to our Medina Valley High School A and JOTC building. Uh, on this one we're 10% complete since we just got going last month. Uh, I think last month we were at 1% and that was just payment and uh, performance bonds. But as of right now, there's a lot of underground utilities being placed. Again, if you remember, the three portables that existed uh kind of in between the 300 and the 500 wing were relocated to Medina Valley Middle School. But right now, Gregs is um and their subcontractors are well on their way with demolition of uh of concrete flat work and the installation of underground utilities. some of
014it being the secondary electrical pathways to the main building and then the second uh portion is the storm drain that's being installed. There has been also installation up to a point of the new rerouted gas lines to the kitchen. Um and they will start on the sewer lines uh this week as well as some of the water tie-ins uh later on this month. Um this is just the pad that got approved last Monday. Again, this is a big big milestone for the project. Uh now that it got approved, CPS has released the new u transformer. We're pending uh schedule from them to install the new transformer and then removing the existing transformer for the switchover. Any questions on a Gerald TC? And that is it for me. Thank you. Thanks. Next, we have presentation of
015the 2425 shack report. Miss Folks, good evening. So, the shack for 2425. Um, so Shaq ensures that local community values are reflected in the district's health, education, and programs. Shaq advises on a various uh v a variety of aspects in school health, including physical education, nutrition, and health services. This year, we did meet we did meet four times. In September, the directors for communications, curriculum, child nutrition, student services, health, and safety presented on their respective areas, giving plans for this school year, and explaining how they would work uh directly with the shack. In November, flu and COVID clinic dates were given, the diabetic training program that MVISD purchased was explained, and the 2324 vaccination report was given. Guest speaker Rhonda Brass provided flyers and explained about the upcoming seminar that uh was going to be
016given here in Medina County regarding hazards to our community. In February, blood drive dates were given and district health screenings were presented. The health ambassadors for Ready Texas Heart, made up of four of our high school students, presented on empowering student leaders to promote healthy school meals, agricult uh Texas agriculture and healthy habits. The wellness subcommittees presented on wellness plan recommendations. In May, guest speaker Rhonda Brass spoke on services provided in Medina County to include shot um clinics and different programs they have out in Hondo. Guest speaker Amanda Roodie presented on preventing is key. You are in the driver's seat. Keys to good health. And the shack voted to remove the named curriculum from the goals for nutrition education. Um the community members that were present this year were Rhonda Brass, Joanne Gonzalez, Scott Hesh,
017Carol Martin, and Melissa Scott, who also serves as our SHAK co-chair. as a member of the community does have to sit in the chair or co-chair spot. Our core members for this year were Steven Connard, director of health and safety, Tiffany Echinrod, director of child nutrition. Myself, I I serve as the Shack chair and team lead for nursing, uh Amy Milis, director of curriculum and instruction, and also Doug Waznjak, executive director of school safety and operations. Any questions for me? Nope. Thank you. Next, we have financial briefing with Miss Hermes. [Music] All right. Good evening. These are the monthly financial statements as of May 31st. And so on the first page, we just kind of summarize everything per what you normally see. Um I would just note that we figured the budget amendments into those
018percentages in the top part. So when it So you see now our current year and our prior year are a little closer aligned as far as um revenue and expenses that we that we have received and and expended um because we're now including that additional four million in revenue and almost four million in expenditures. Um so we are at 73% of budgeted revenues collected and spent 72% and um that is fairly in line with last year when we were at 69 and 71%. For child nutrition we are at 81% on the revenue side and 62% on the budgeted expenses. So we've talked a little bit before about budget of child nutrition. They budgeted a lot more in expenses this year. Um, and they they're getting close to being to break even on budget, but they're
019not not expending over on the spendown plan. And a lot of that as we went back and looked is a lot of her spendown plan included some staffing. So, on the equipment side, we've replaced equipment and we've done some of those things, but on the staffing side, some of that's going to come into play as we hire almost 20 additional people for Creek View in the next year. And so, um, and then as well with compensation, as y'all will look at later today. So, those will impact those two line items. And then for debt service, um, we have collected, um, 96% of our local tax collection so far this year, compared to 97% last year. but still on track to to be pretty close to budget. And so the next pages just look at um
020it by function. And as you know, we corrected did did a budget amendment to correct the transportation budget last time. And so now all of our functions are pretty in line with where we would want them to be. Um, so I don't don't perceive any additional budget amendments other than the final unless we um decide to take on any additional projects. And then the next one is just kind of a look at that food service budget. Um, I think the the key in there is we've we're still it's really the federal reimbursements and once we receive the summer reimbursements, we should be fine on reaching the revenue collection piece of that. and debt service. We're going to talk more about this one, I think, later today, but we still we we've used um bond 23
021funds in order to do some of the earlier defeasance payment. And so we're sitting with with a good um fund balance in in the debt service fund right now um for that August payment. Almost 21 million in our debt service fund at this point. And then on bond 23, um as we are moving forward with projects, you see a lot more encumbered um from the middle school project um to a lot of the police department expenditures are now coming out of what we allocated um for them. And then um looking at bond interest, we've set aside the arbitrage from last year and we still were looking at 8 million um still in bond interest. and we'll see what that additional arbitrage um will look like um for this year. And then on bond 24, we're
022still um collecting a little bit of interest and um I think you'll see in the June report the probably pay up number one for the stadium um as Raphael was going through that a little bit ago. And so just moving moving along um the second piece I have is the investment report. So, this is the third quarter investment report and really the highlight on here is the interest rate is still at 4.47 was our average for this quarter. So, um for those of us that were back in the 0.01 days, this looks still really nice. Um it was 4.63 last quarter, so it did creep down a tiny bit, but but it's still I think we all expected a lower the interest rates to fall more this year than they have. So, um, we're collecting
023a little more investment interest than we originally budgeted or anticipated. Um, and then the very far left column, if you'll scroll a little bit more, um, you can see that we still have, even after bond payments, around 280 million um, still invested. And I'm happy to take any questions that you may have. Any questions? Okay. Thank you. Yep. Next we have first reading for district initiated policy revision for EIC local, CFB local, FD local and FM local. Dr. Kaos. Yes. So for um for policies FD local and FM local those deal with extracurricular activities and homeschoolers in particular. So, currently in in um in law, it states that if districts want to allow students that are homeschooled or even students that are in private school to participate in extracurricular or co-curricular activities in a school
024district that the board has to have an approved policy to allow them to do that. Well, the the uh legislators just ch just basically reverse the law, right? So now if a district does not want those students, the the homeschoolers or private schoolers to participate in extracurricular activities, the board has to approve a pol policy stating that. And so this is a first reading uh that would put that in place for us that would put polic policy in place for us that would not allow homeschoolers or private schoolers to participate in extracurricular co-curricular activities. Again, this first reading, y'all have time to review it and then we will come back next month uh asking to take action on that. But any questions on that one? Policy uh policy F F uh CFB local that is
025they've changed the the capitalization threshold from 5,000 to 10,000. So, we want to make sure that we have that in policy as well. and then policy EIC. Miss Miss Hendrick's going to talk briefly about that one. Thank you for listening to this. Again, this is a first reading, so you do not have to make any decisions tonight, but since I have been here, we have been trying to figure out a way for our eighth grade students to take algebra. um a lot of high performing schools. That's one way that we can make sure that our students are college and career ready. For some reason, it is not something that we like to do here. So, I've I've heard a lot of talk about, well, they don't get GPA, it hurts their GPA. So, we are
026bringing this as kind of a a carrot to try to get our kids to take 8th grade algebra. um this would currently um GPA starts in ninth grade. So, this would be an exception to that and it would only be for eighth grade algebra and it would be a weighted course. And our hope is that our top students will not let GPA be a factor to keep them from taking advanced math because this does set them on the course to, you know, take if they want to be an engineer, they can take calculus their senior year. But we also have added a bunch of um math electives, other choices at the high school. So that our goal is that kids take five years of math but at least four years in high school. So um
027first reading. Do you all have any questions? Okay. Thank you. That's all. Any other questions on any of them? Okay, next we have the superintendent briefing with Dr. Kos. Okay, so I want to recognize a few students. Again, here we have um Anukica Forest who was recently highlighted on News4 and Fox 29 in their salute to seniors segment. So Anukica is a daughter of an active uh duty US Air Force airman and has attended 11 different schools. Yeah. While while going through her. So, you know, this is this is something we've brought up in the past that we want to make sure that we are um taking care of our military connected kids and making sure that their transition here is as smooth as possible because we know that they go through this quite often
028and so we want to make it smooth as possible. But she is uh she's chasing her dream to be OBGYn to improve women's health care. So this fall she's headed to the University of Texas at Austin to major in biology. And so we are uh obviously we're very proud of this young lady and wish her the very best moving forward. So our vice principles, we have a couple of vice principles that we recently recognized. Um you know this is not an easy position. They've got a they've got a tough job. They've got to do a lot of the the the dirty work, so to speak. And so we want to make sure that we recognize them as much as possible. And so Mr. Langi recommended doing this and so we moved forward with this. So
029we're we're proud to announce that Blanca Cisneros from Lucky Ranch Elementary School and Dustin Hurley from the uh high school uh were both honored with this this award. And so we want to just thank them and and let uh make sure that they understand how much we appreciate all that they do. We're having camps right as we go through the summer. So, we've had good participation in all of our camps. Um, want to send out a special thanks to our coaches and our sponsors that that run these camps. I mean, obviously that's that's extra time that they're putting in to do this for the kids and try and help develop them in these different areas. So, thank you to the coaches that that that help out with this. our curriculum design team has been meeting
030over the summer and so we want to make sure that you know as we as we uh prepare for next school year that we're breaking down TEICSS and ensuring that our curriculum is aligned, rigorous and focused on student outcomes. So we've got quite a few teachers that are coming up over the summer to help us do that. And so thank you to those teachers uh as we you know continue to to try and uh put things in place to make sure that our kids are getting the best education possible. We had a SAPA, right? SAPA stands for San Antonio area personnel administrators. And so that's several school districts. That's basically HR directors, right? In school districts. So we have several school districts that are part of this organization. So we hosted this job fair and
031we had over three uh 350 attendees. And so it was a great turnout, you know, and so hopefully us as well as these other school districts can get some um some good applicants and some good good hires from this job fair. uh FFA continues to to shine. And so we had a couple students uh that are part of the FFA program that competed at the state speaking development events uh that was held at Charlton uh State University. And both of these students earned top 10 finishes uh Miss Herrera and Miss Ag. And so congratulations to both of those two young ladies. Uh I think most of you know Cara Garcia and her story. So, she was also recognized recently by the San Antonio Express News, earning their Heart and Hustle Award for 2025. Uh, I'll
032also say that she has been chosen to be the grand marshall at the Fourth of July parade in in Castville, uh, this coming that's coming up on the 4th of July. So, uh, very proud of her and all that she's battled through and wishing her the very best as well. And then last, we have district enrollment. So we have uh final enrollment numbers for this school year. Uh and so this is comparing apples to apples, right? Because we have the end of last school year compared to this school year. And you can see we're up just just almost to a thousand kids, right? A thousand kid increase from last year. No surprise to anybody, I don't think. Right. But continue to grow. And I believe that is my last slide. Any questions? All right. Now
033we'll move on to discussion of possible action items. We'll start with consider approval of consent agenda items. Dr. Kos. Yes. So in cons consent, we have minutes from the regular board meeting on May 27th, 2025. The minutes from the special board meeting on June 11th, 2025. the 2025 2026 memorandum of understanding with the Bear County Juvenile Board and then the appointment of the 2025 2026 community shack members. Again, all of these have been reviewed with board members either through committee meetings, board updates, or in board book. Anything pulled? Not. I'll look for a motion. I Matt Castle move to approve the consent agenda items as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Joe Beiger second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in
034favor raise your hand. All board members voted four and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval of new high school attendance zones that will begin the 2627 school year. Miss Vetta. All right. Good evening. So, I know we saw pictures of Creek View earlier, 70% complete, coming along beautifully, not opening this school year, but the following. And so, tonight, um, we are presenting to the high school attendance zones. And so, I actually have two of our committee members from our attendance resoning committee that are going to present that recommendation to you all tonight. Um, we did meet throughout the spring um, and wanted to try to get this uh, approved with plenty of advanced notice for our families to be able to plan and prepare um, with Creek View opening in fall 2026. So,
035I'm going to go ahead and introduce them. I have both Adriana Jackson and Brian Becker who served on that committee and they're representing um you know all of our campuses. Those committee members were um representing all of our schools. So, I will let them take take the wheel. Thank you. Good evening, Adriana Jackson. Um the committee Thank you. The committee consisted of parents and staff throughout all of Medina Valley School District. Um we met February 20th, March 6th, April 3rd, and April 24th. Um the committee charged the attendance resoning committee is charged with developing an attendance zone recommendation that best aligns with future growth projections while also prioritizing student needs, considering efficiency of programs, resources, and community impact. Um the topics that we reviewed and discussed were the demographic reports which were very interesting, the
036enrollment projections, bond project updates and timelines, the academic programming, the extracurricular programming, um feeder patterns, transportation, grandfather eligibility, the high school zone options, and the middle um the middle school zone options as well. Um at our last meeting we did have 14 parents present of the committee members and 13 out of the 14 agreed to the present to the recommendation that we're going to make tonight. Um and at the end of it we were given the opportunity to give some feedback and many members felt that the committee was very positive that we were heard like we got to make input and that it wasn't just being fed to us that we were actually making the recommendations on behalf of the committee and all all of the district. Um, so we appreciated that and so here
037is our recommendation. So the proposed high school attendance zones follow our current middle school feeder patterns with the exception of a few subdivisions located along Petranco Road extending toward FM 471 including Megan's Landing, Petranco Acres, and Petranco West, which was the big area of feedback that was given by the committee members that those needed to be included with the Creek View. Um, so that was the one recommendation that a lot of the committee members felt was important. The attendance zoning committee recommends that this area be included in the Creek View High School attendance zone due to its proximity to the campus. Projected campus enrollment estimates are also projected, which I'm sure you're very familiar with. Um, and there's just a chart which also probably looks very familiar to y'all. Do you all have any questions
038for us as a committee? No. Yeah, I was going to say thank you very much for the time. I mean, that helps us a lot when we get community input on these things. So, appreciate It's a big commitment. I mean, it was I think it was four or five meetings. I mean, and evenings taken away from their families. So, we we do appreciate y'all. We did get to see the high school, too, a little bit. So, um that was that was fun. On our last meeting, we got to tour the construction zone, but it was really neat to kind of put eyes to where exactly they were going. And I do want to add, so we do have the enrollment projections. Those are very rough projections, right? Uh so, don't don't hold us to those
039right now. There's a lot that still is going to happen over the next year that will determine those final numbers. Thank you. Thank you. Any other questions? Now I'll look for a motion. I'm Matt Cassone. Move to approve the new high school attendance zones that will begin the 2026 2027 school year as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Jason Bonnie second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval of new middle school attendance zones that will begin the 2526 school year. Miss. Yes. So following that um right we we included those subdivisions in the high school zones um to go to Creek View,
040those that were mentioned earlier right along Petranco Road leading up to FM471. And so to help create kind of direct feeder patterns from our middle schools to our high schools, we did want to make the recommendation to go ahead and revise our current middle school zones that would be effective for the 2526 school year to include those subdivisions as well so that the middle school and the high school feeder patterns are in line. Um this does impact I want to mention a very small number of students 12 to be exact um for this next school year. Um it is six sixth graders, one seventh grader and five eighth graders. And so we'll be contacting you know those families immediately. But again this is due to that proximity that they are closer to that campus. So
041that this should be a a good option for them and something that'll help them uh prepare and set up feeding directly into Creek View in the future. Questions? Yeah, I got a question regarding those individuals who are affected. Are we going to offer them potential waiverss for that one year if they're eighth graders? So, we're looking at following the same the same process that we have done with any so your eighth graders gr grandfathering uh or you know, being able to stay at that campus and then also allowing the district transfer policy for the others. You know, we do want to especially for the sixth graders, that was really the reason why we brought this forward was that we felt like we wanted to try to avoid them starting at one school and then moving
042to another, right? So if we wouldn't have made this revision tonight, they could have continued on at Medina Valley Middle School this year and then wanted to go to LMA the following and then that's another extra move, right? So it was really trying to make sure that those sixth graders could have a clean start. But yes, of course, for those eighth graders and seventh graders as well, we'll continue. Was was this discussed with the committee as well when So they they were aware that we were going to consider the middle school changes as well. Correct. Okay. So everybody was on board with that. Okay. Yes. Yeah. And and I will say I'll add to that even though we will give them they will have some options possibly we will encourage them to to to attend
043LMA because those will be the same kids that they will be with when they go into high school. Other questions? I'll look for a motion. I Ben Watis move to approve the new middle school attend zone that will begin the 2025 2026 school year as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I blame Nash. Second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for four. And the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of a resolution providing for the defeasants and calling for redemption certain currently outstanding district obligations, delegation to certain district officials and staff the authority to affect matters related thereto and other matters in connection therewith. Miss Hermish. So, I'm actually um going
044to defer a little bit to Victor. He has a presentation um ready for you all, but really when it's the defeasence we've talked about in the fall and we issued half of it in in the November December timeline and then this is the other half of the 15 million um basically that that we had discussed in the fall. But I'm going to go ahead and let him go through all of the fun Okay, great. Thank you. Honorable president, members of the board, Dr. Kaos, thank you for having me here this evening for the record. My name is Victor Kuroga with Specialized Public Finance and we have the honor of representing the district as your financial adviserss. Uh before I begin this presentation, I also want to introduce a new team member of mine and uh
045he's actually uh lives in the district, has three kids in the district, Eduardo Lopez. Uh he joined me two months ago to help out our team and everything. So, um, and also he doesn't need an introduction, but Klay Benford is also here, serves the district as, uh, your bond counsel and prepared the resolution and the potential bond order that you're considering here this evening. So, the presentation I have for you today is, uh, to walk you through, uh, the plan, uh, just kind of talk about what's already been done and what the next steps are to execute the plan that we developed before you all last year when we were engaged with the district. And so we want to just talk about the um May 2024 bond program for $290 million. Uh talk about the
046second phase of the defeasance program that we talked about last year for a total of $15 million. And then also talk about potentially moving forward on this summer's bond sale uh with a potential change of borrowing instead of $70 million to fund the middle school, but potentially add an elementary school uh to that funding plan uh this year to possibly take advantage of state aid that will come into effect based off of new legislation just for your consideration at this point. And so a few topics that we'll talk about here, just the bond market update. Uh right now it's uh starting to settle down a little bit. there has been some volatility anytime there's uh things happen in the Middle East. Any tariff discussions the things change. So the numbers that we always run for
047you here on a preliminary basis are always very conservative. We put a very good amount of cushion in there because I'd rather um uh overpromise than underpromise. And so this is just a look back at the last uh number of years since 1961 the interest rate for long-term tax exempt municipal bonds to see where they're at. And so yes, there has been an increase, but overall when you put in perspective, we're still in a pretty good spot when it comes to borrowing money for 30 or 35 years is what the plan is right now. We're still very much close to what you're actually investing those monies for in your investment pool as Miss Hermish indicated earlier about 4.4%. Not quite that low, but around that around that level. So just a quick update regarding your
048existing debt profile. Currently, we have 10 bond issues outstanding and the total principal amount outstanding is $547.1 million assuming you move forward with the defeasants. We'll knock that down a little bit, but then it's going to add if we issue additional bonds this summer to continue funding your bond program. Uh those bonds are going to be scheduled paid off in 2029 to 2054 and uh they all currently carry the AAA rating from the permanent school fund guarantee offered by the Texas Education Agency. that rating is the safest available bond rating for your debt. So, uh the first phase here, first part of the uh conversation is regarding the defeasance. And so, uh last fall you all give us authority to move forward on on part one of two for the defeasance program. So, we uh
049released almost $8 million last fall to defease some bonds and then uh the proposal now is to release an additional close to a little over $7 million to continue that defeasence plan. Uh here we're doing a little something a little bit different. We're actually attacking those principal payments that are due in the front part of the repayment term or the near term. And what we're doing here is we're trying to delay the maximum annual debt service year uh so that we could try to continue fitting in bonds and um and try to reduce that risk that we kept talking about if you do have to pledge tier one because as you know for any bond amount that we want to issue moving forward at this point we would have to do a certain amount of
050tier one pledge. So this uh diffuses part two here would uh reduce your principal amount from the two by about $6.87 million. It'll generate interest cost savings for your taxpayers of close to $1.4 million and it'll delay that maximum annual debt service a few years to 2035. The way to kind of view this is um we're trying to extend the runway here just in case we have to land the plane and utilize tier one pledge. It's not the expectation, but we're just trying to delay that as much as possible just to give you all some landing room uh for that um uh consideration if it were to happen in the future. So, this is just an update regarding the first phase. The ones that are highlighted here are the ones that we would be uh
051considering tonight moving forward with. Uh we would lock in and and fix out the interest rates and the final numbers uh tomorrow. And you could see here the bond maturities and the issuances that we're targeting. We're targeting the refunding bond series 2015 for $2.62 million and then this uh school building bond series 2016 for $4.25 million. And again, in total with uh this potential savings and the savings you achieved last fall, the interest cost savings for your taxpayers will be about $2.8 million. And again, we would have delayed the maximum annual debt service under this plan from 2028 to 2033 and 35 moving forward. Those numbers are very similar but again we're just trying to delay that. That is the first part of um the discussion here in the defeasence and I could move on
052with the presentation or if you want me to pause there I I'll take your lead. Yeah, let's pause there. Any questions around the defense? Yeah. What does that take us to on the the principle remaining principle on the 2015 and 2016 series? Is that is that final payoff on both? Oh, no. No. So, so those are just partial. So, the 2015, that's going to knock out most of it, but the 2016, that's just barely touching it. So, we'll still have a a balance on that bond issue. Again, we're just kind of cherrypicking certain material. We're not targeting the full Sure. bond issue. That'll take 2015. Okay. Clay Benford, bond council for the district. The one thing that I would add is just a reminder that the source of these defecence proceeds were the unexpected interest
053earnings on the 2023 bonds. So, um you have an option as to what you can do with that money. You can use it for new projects or you can retire debt. And the decision was made by this board to uh reduce your debt load. Um take advantage of the unexpected interest earnings. And I would just say that a $2.8 8 million interest cost avoidance on $15 million of unexpected interest earnings is a really good win for the district. Any other questions around the defense? For a motion. I Blaine Nash move to approve the district's defecence resolution as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Matt Castle second the motion. I have a motion to second. Any further discussion? Not. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for
054and the motion carries. Next to the second part, we have consider approval of an order authorizing the issuance of one or more series of the district's unlimited tax school building bonds in the maximum amount of 132 million levying an advorum tax for the for the payment thereof. Delegating the authority to certain district officials to approve and execute related documents and other matters in connection therewith. Sorry that was that is a it's always a very long agenda title and I know it's long in the motion too so I'm not going to repeat it but um but this one is to look at our next authorization of bonds and Victor is going to walk through again where we are currently and then um what has happened but the main thing and we've talked about this a little
055bit is that with the state adding um the additional homestead exemption from 100 to 140,000 that as keyed in by August 31st. The only way you're held harmless for that additional exemption is if you have the bond sale authorized by the and sold and closed by the end of August. Um, and so we just want to make sure that we're bringing everything to you that we can as far as what our what our maximum capacity is at this time. We do know that there is some impact to the tier one pledge um that you also need to consider as part of that decision. Um, but I will I'll let Victor kind of talk through those and what the numbers look like. Um, and then we can open it up for more discussion. Thank you, Miss
056Hermish. Um, I'm considering letting Clay finish my presentation. He seems to be doing it better than me. He's very smooth, but now I appreciate him being there. He uh uh brought up some very good points that um uh was part of the decision- making process to get here. So, basically, as you know, we have the $290 million voter authorized bonds from May. Uh uh to date we've uh tapped into or accessed 11.2 million of that authorization for high school number two stadium expansion. And so uh moving along here, there's some uh discussion as Miss Hermish indicated is that the legislators um again increase the homestead exemption, the state mandatory homestead exemption for school districts from 100,000 to $140,000. Um what's that done is caused a lot of um uh concern in the school districts for
057folks that either recently had bond authorization approved or had some on the books already like you all do that have not been sold yet. So what that has caused this summer is uh uh more bonds being sold uh quicker than what originally those school districts were planning. Um and it's also requiring and and and we're just being conservative here right now. The rules say that so long as you issue the debt, meaning you lock in an interest rate, uh, and then you close that transaction by August 31st of this year, then that new bond issue that you're issuing would be subject to the hold harmless provisions, meaning that the state will make up the difference for that additional increase in homestead exemption from 100 to $140,000. So that's a big reason why a lot of
058school districts are accelerating how much they're issuing this summer. Um right now the indication is that um we just have to close the transaction by August 31st, 2025. However, we're being conservative now because um we've had multiple conversations with TA and they they they put that in writing that we have to close the transaction by August 31st. But our concern is uh the way they've done various programs in the past, they also want you to have a debt payment scheduled within that fiscal year. Um they won't commit to that whether they're reading it like that. So, just to be conservative, the timeline that we're proposing here would allow us to close the transaction by August 21st of this summer and then schedule the first interest payment one week later on August 28th just so we
059could play it safe and make sure that uh we're going to try to hold these bonds harmless under those provisions and be able to get you uh that state aid. So, um, because your statemandated homestead exemptions are going to increase from 100 140,000, basically the overall impact to the district is that now you're looking at less property values to work with as your tax base. And so because of that, when we analyze and just run the on a preliminary basis what the uh ple tier one pledge would have to be if we're to issue up to$135 to $132 million in that range. The tier one pledge to get that bond approved by the Texas Attorney General's office is $10.3 million. Again, that's a pledge that we would make. The anticipation and the hope is that
060we won't have to actually utilize tier one or Mies to make debt service payments. Um, however, the uh uh if you do that and you issue up to$135 or $132 million in bonds this summer, uh the additional state aid under for homestead exemption that you would be qualifying for and being able to get from the state would be about $24 million of that bond program. So, I know that u you know, we initially were planning on issuing the $70 million to provide you funding for the middle school, but also we wanted to bring this forward to you for consideration because I know uh the need is great for the district in terms of adding new facilities. So, the thought was to potentially add another $60 million on top of that to try to get you
061funding for an elementary school and also uh have these bonds eligible for the hold harmless provisions. Not that the state law is uh changing, but we did run some analysis here for you and also wanted to clarify to the last time you saw me in May, we gave you an update regarding the bond funding plan for the remaining authorization. At that time, we were working with preliminary values that did not include the $40,000 increased homestead exemption. The the law had not passed by that point. And so, at the time, if we wanted to issue a $70 million bond issue, uh the tier one pledge would be $3.1 million. $132 million would be about $7 million. But now, with the increase in the homestead exemption and us having a lower overall property taxes to work with,
062uh we are looking at a higher pledge level. Uh, as you can see there, up to $135 million. That would be a pledge of $10.3 million that we would have to list on the paperwork to approve and pass this test with the Texas Attorney General's office. I do want to point out that these are very conservative estimates, ladies and gentlemen. I I always want to give you the worst case scenario. The hope and the anticipation is that once we lock in the interest rate, we'll get a better interest rate than what we're projecting here in the modeled numbers that we're presenting to you, preliminary numbers. Uh and also in in in working with Klay Benford's office, with the attorney general's office, uh seeing if we could um uh utilize uh the the property values that
063still don't include the 40 for the $40,000 um exemption because that's still subject to voter approval in November. Although, you know, it wouldn't be a wise bet to bet against that. It's going to pass. But uh when this last happened and it went from 40,000 to a 100,000 which is even bigger jump at that time Clay and I worked hand inhand with various other mutual uh school district accounts and um uh the attorney general through discussion with Mr. Benford's office we were able to utilize some numbers that were going to be more beneficial to the district when we acquire less or not as much of a tier one pledge. So basically in a nutshell these are worst case scenario numbers. I'm hoping we would come under this when we do uh actually issue the debt.
064And so just to show you what this would look like and again I have to put a disclaimer basically on every slide here because as you know the state meets every two years and changes things every two years. So this is assuming that um uh we don't sell any debt and we just leave our debt position currently as is. But we do take advantage of the defeasance that you just approved. Uh overall, the estate aid for homestead exemption that you're looking at based off of your current debt service requirements, it's about 192.9 million in that range. Again, these are all this is very long-term. Uh things could change here as soon as two years, but this is based off of the current law what that could potentially look like for your existing debt. One thing
065to look at is that as you're developing and and and new homes are coming into your district, um those homes too are going to be part of that $140,000 limit that the state is going to uh reimburse you for in the future moving forward. So, it's not just the homes that are on the ground right now, but it's also homes that are being built and aren't quite on the tax roles yet. So, again, that's just something that we wanted you to consider this evening, assuming you sold up to $135 million. and and it's uh it's not a typo or anything. Uh the consideration under the bond approval is to borrow $132 million, but when we ran these numbers a couple weeks ago after we were requested to run the numbers based off of this new
066homestead exemption, what is the maximum amount that we could borrow and still keep the INS tax rate at 50 cents for this upcoming year? Uh that calculation was $135 million. And so the 132 million was just more on project costs right now. So uh just wanted to show you that uh that difference. So you could see there the additional aid that you would get by qualifying these bonds are the whole harmless provisions by closing them and then paying making an interest payment by this uh August 31st. And you could see the potential impact in terms of the state aid that the uh state would provide you for this bond program. If you wanted to move forward uh the agenda item just like last fall, basically you would authorize and this has changed since then uh
067but you would um authorize the staff and myself and Mr. Brenford to continue moving forward on the offering documents get ready to go into the bond market. Uh within that we would um fit in funding for middle school uh number three and elementary school number seven. Uh and uh we would limit the amount to be issued at $132 million. we won't go above that. Um and and the timeline for this would be uh we would enter the market August 6 and we want to go wait until then because we want to wait and get the certified values from the appraisal districts in Medina County and Bear County uh before we go into the market because we we need to make sure exactly the dollar amount that we're working with so that we know that the
068tax rate is going to be sufficient to repay that debt. Uh again, we would close this transaction on August 21st and then make the first interest payment on August 28th to qualify these bonds for the additional homestead exemption aid. One different thing that we are doing here, ladies and gentlemen, is that for this bond program, like we talked about extensively with the finance committee and the board last fall, is that we are looking now at issuing not a 30-year bond, but a 35-year bond. Uh many fast growth districts utilize that because the whole goal is to try to reduce the annual debt service or cash flow requirements on the bond program so that uh we could hopefully uh give ourselves a little bit more breathing room in order to fit in additional bond issuances in
069in the future to complete the bond program. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have. What was what did the tier one pledge look like for like the second year? I mean, assuming assuming we didn't sell another bond next year or do another bond sale next year, would the tier one pledge go down substantially? So, I'm glad Clay is here because he it's very complicated and he's a smart guy, but uh he um 10. Yeah. But but basically, it starts all over again. Yeah. So, but I mean it would still be, you know, we're looking at the same tier one pledge again the next year potentially. It depends on your growth. Growth, correct? Yeah, it depends on your growth. And so, um, what the the pledge basically says is that if you don't
070issue new money bonds, um, in order to issue the last series of new money bonds, uh, and and demonstrate your ability to repay all of your debt in your gear of maximum annual debt service with your locally generated revenues, um, you would be insufficient of some amount. Correct. And so, um, in the event that you get to that year, that MADS year, which is some point in the future, and you haven't grown and you don't have the ability to generate your local funds at 50 cents, before you can levy a tax above 50 cents, you have to put it as much as you use to pass the test at inception into your debt service account before you can go above 50 cents. Um, every time you issue new debt, you're going to reset your amount
071of tier one pledge because you'll have a new max manual debt service year. Um, you will have property value growth. You'll have changes of interest rates. You'll have changes of projections of available funds to accomplish things like defeasances. Um, you will have refunded debt um based on the ability to get to the 10-year call provisions. Um, to project what it might be in the future is very difficult. So all we can really do is say where you are right now. So that that 10 million what what year were we looking at that would be where we wouldn't 2035 2035. Okay. 10 years. Okay. All right. That's what I was looking for. Thanks. And also too um let's just say we get to 2035 and um we don't do anything but what we're doing this summer
072and for some reason the 50 cent uh tax rate isn't enough to make that payment. Um well before you actually tap into tier one there's other things that you could look at. You could restructure your bonds. You could use INS fund balance if you have it to make that payment. And so it's not an automatic you got to use tier one first. We're going to try to find other ways to not tap into that obviously because that's for operations. What growth percentage that assume to put us at 2020 2035 was like 10%. Yeah. Well, it was 10% for the next few years and then we started backing it off like we projected. We we don't want to be too aggressive on that. Any questions? So, we're entering the 6th, August 6th. That's the that's the
073uh tenatively it's based off of really uh the board's availability because based off of the agenda language that you're considering uh you're delegating the authority to sign funded documents to the board president. I have one thing I'd like to add. Can you go back to one of your prior slides where you showed the the um tier one pledge based on May 13th and then the revise based on the $140,000 Keep going. Okay, that slide right there. So, Victor alluded to this. Um, when we look at all of the district resources that are available to demonstrate compliance with the 50 cent test, the last thing that we look at is tier one. So, first you look at your local tax generation. Um, then you look at IFA or EDA programs and then you look relatively recently
074is uh state aid hold harmless for increases of the homestead exemption. um we cannot project future revenue for programs that we have not yet realized dollars for. So the hold harmless that we will receive for this most recent increase in value will not materialize until next year. So, in 2023, we had discussions with the attorney general's office that said that that is patently unfair for the school districts who built a bond model based off of a in that case a $40,000 homestead exemption and in the middle of the game changed the rules. Legislature provide hold harmless, but we can't use that hold harmless because we wouldn't get it to the prior year. we were able to successfully argue that the correct uh value of property should be as it existed at the time of issuance
075of the debt, which was a $40,000 homestead exemption. And even though we all knew that in November the $100,000 the increase to $100,000 would pass, that was perspective. And so we couldn't imputee in August what our values, property values would be. the attorney general's office agreed with that um and allowed us to use in that case the $40,000 homestead exemption and not the $100,000 one that we knew would become effective in November. So I think we can use that. There's no guarantee that we'll get that same argument, but the facts are all the same and the situation is all the same. So my expectation is that we will be using a $100,000 homestead exemption for purposes of proving the 50 cent tax rate because that is in fact what's in effect at the time that
076we issue the debt. So I believe that the tier one pledge is going to look much more like what you saw on May 13th. But for purposes of transparency and to demonstrate a worst case scenario if that argument is rejected, the TEA has told us that there are no rules that have been written. Um, but that would be my expectation going in. Worst case scenario is what he's showing on June 10th. So, I wanted to talk about that a little bit. Perfect. And the guarantee right and so and the argument to the attorney general's office is yes we we know that the exemption will go up to 140 but at the same time we'll receive hold harmless. So it's a wash for purposes of determining capacity. Well we use it in the calculation to determine
077how much tier one is necessary to pass the 50cent test. So That's correct. Because there's more local tax revenue generated based off your existing AV at the time of issuance of the debt. Does that make sense? Okay. Yeah. Mostly I'm a glass half empty type of guy since I'm finance. I want to show you worst case scenario here. But uh we're hopeful that what Clay discussed it will be what will come to fruition. have any other any other questions? Real quick is I do feel more comfortable about the tier one now ma mainly because whether whether the attorney general is allowing us to calculate it or not, we're still going to receive those funds. So, it's really just a matter of if they're if it's part of the calculation for the tier one pledge. Yeah,
078but it doesn't get you out of the seven million. No. So, no, it's still Yeah, correct. Yeah, you're still any other questions? No. Look for a motion. I'm at Castaloney move to approve the district's bond order as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Jason and Bonnie second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor, raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Thank you for having us. Thanks. Thanks. Thank you. Next, we have consider approval of TEA approved uh innovative high school course titled college transition. Miss Hendricks. Okay. So, um, one of the difficult things about doing a ma master schedule at the high school is finding courses that help other courses. So, especially when you have a
079semester course, um, there aren't many semester courses offered at the high school level. So, like dual credit speech, um, we don't have anything for students to take opposite that. So, it's first semester, they need a class to take opposite of that. And so they found this course. However, it was after course requests have been done. So we can place those students in that so that you know they can they can have a full year of courses. But this is such a great course. I think once we get it into the course selection guide for next year, it is a course that possibly all students could could take. So um it's a really good course. So we are we are asking that you approve that this year for the um speech students and then after that
080to be considered for all students to take and it is 9 through 12th grade. Correct. Any questions? Any questions? Look for a motion. I Matt Castony move to approve the TEA approved innovative high school course titled college transition as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Joe Beiger second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? If not, all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Thank you. Next we have a consider approval for the purchase of Nina Valley High School fire alarm tie-in. Miss Harmish. So, we brought you the budget amendment in May for the fire alarm tie-in at Medina Valley High School, but we failed to actually bring the action item to approve the over $50,000 purchase
081um that is required for this. So, this is bringing back that same project that we talked about in May to get the entire system at Medina Valley High School on the fiber connection versus using the old copper lines. Um and it is through um fire alarm control systems inc. And it they are on the by board cooperative and Mr. Kennedy's here if you have any specific questions about that project. Any questions? This takes care of everything regarding the the purchase of everything. Should ask Toby that. Say that again. I'm sorry. This takes care of everything now. Uh regarding the the total amount that we're putting Yes, sir. up until we have our inspections going on. Okay. This has been an ongoing issue for many years. Yeah. And this is the same quote for the exact
082same amount we took in May. We just didn't bring the actual approval for the purchase. Any other questions? Now, I'll look for a motion. I Nash move to approve the Medina Valley High School fire alarm tie-in as presented. I have a motion. 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 of selection for RFQ25-004 for realtor broker services. Dr. Kaos. Yes. So we did put out a request for qualifications for real estate broker services and um we had five firms that submitted their qualifications. And so Scott, if you could go to the next slide, you can see we uh took those five
083firms and based on the qualifications that we requested, we scored each firm. And so we had one, two, we had five different six different categories that we looked at. And so um after we scored those five firms, you can see there were two two that uh there was a good break between the top two and the the other three firms. And so we decided to take those top two firms and conduct an interview with them and and we did so and scored their interviews. And so then based on the total scores, uh, we have a we have we will we we're asking the board to approve the the evaluation score sheet tonight. And then if the board does approve that, then we would take the the the firm that scored the the highest and try
084to negotiate a contract with that firm to move forward with their services. Questions? Yeah. So looking at these, I mean, I see more historic commercial type realtor brokers at the top and then the bottom ones, the ones that we that ranked the highest here look like more local based. Was there a a a difference really in the I mean, you know, in the past we've worked with the commercialbased ones, but I'm just concerned about contacts and access to, you know, commercialisted property. I think one of the things that really um we felt was important is that the firm have a a good understanding of the district and and and you know is familiar with the district and areas and you know and so that they would have better uh could establish better relationships and I
085I don't know a lot about either firm. I was just curious about the amount of contacts and the previous work they've done related to commercial type property. I I will say this and I don't want to I don't want to um throw anybody under the bus that we've previously used. Uh but in in my experience um it's not always the the the the uh the firm that has the the most experience, the best qualifications that looks the best on paper. It's uh sometimes the the to me it's sometimes who who is going to pro provide us who's going to give us the attention who's going to you know put everything in for this school district and that I think that played in this scoring as well. What are the two the first column and the
086fifth that just say 20 points and 10 points that say nothing on them. Yeah. Do you remember those crystal? I think one the was the first one location I believe. And then the last one was references, wasn't it? I think the first one was was Any other questions? If not, I'll look for a motion. Jason Bonnie move to approve the selection for the RFQ25004 realer broker services as presented. You have to name name which one? You have to name one. Horizontan properties. You want to restate it? Restate the old name. I Jason Bonnie move to approve the selection for the RFQ 250004 horizont properties for the realtor broker services as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Joe Beiger second the motion. I have a motion and second any further discussion.
087Yeah, I do want to have one idea. What what what length term length are we looking at negotiating a contract for on this? It'll be a one year. One year with the option to extend after that. Okay. Okay. Any other discussion? If not, all those in favor raise your hand. All those opposed, raise your hand. Five board members voted four, one board member voted against, and one board member abstained. The motion carries. Next we have consider the approval of the 2526 compensation plan. Miss Hermish. That'll be Mr. McGura. Well, sorry to disappoint you, sir. So after working with the the compensation compensation committee that we met several times and getting input from all types of employees and then presenting the budget workshop um we're here to present our our pay scales that these options will
088come out. So on the first sheet I provided you is the new teacher scale whereas year zero gets an increase of 2,000. Years one and two get an increase of 2400. Years three and four get 2500 and then five and above gets 5,000. Uh it brings us to um year 29 and and 30 uh making over 80,000 if they may have a master's degree. Yes, please. So moving into the admin pay scale. Uh we're presenting that we give everyone on the admin pay scale a 3% raise. And then the caveat there would be the campus administrators, meaning our assistant principles, academic deans, and campus principles. We would give them three years of their teaching year experience when we calculate their salary this year. And also on the admin pay scale, we did we had some
089movement. So Jason, are you at the first? Yes. Can we go back to that? The teachers the first summary slide. The summary slide. There is additions when we posted the the memo online. Okay. We did we had some other additions that came in um after the fact of posting that agenda item. So uh on the admin pay scale we did move the coordinator of seaf safety from paygrade one to pay grade two. Uh we changed the titles to ac uh coordinator of academics used to be the core content. Uh we just changed the title there to fall in line in what we're doing at the department of curriculum. And then we had a title change of coordinator of district testing material. That was Dwight McKazik's old position that we changed. And then the other change
090is on the second page, the director of communication. We moved from pay grade five to pay grade six. Next pay scale would be the clerk and per professional. Across the board, everyone on our pay scales will get an increase of $1. Uh the changes there, we added um a fine arts aid uh to help our larger elementary campuses that are pushing a thousand, which means they have about some of them have 170 190 kids going to rotations and we're we have to have creative ways of creating spaces to handle all those during the rotation. So the fine arts aid does help us there. On pay grade three, the mill clerk applicant um has increased from 197 to 207. And then on the second page, we have since realigned our admin assistance that used to be
091for assistant soups. Uh we moved them to pay grade seven as they are the admin assistants to our chief uh finance and chief academic officers. on manual trades. Uh, everyone there, every pay grade is a dollar increase as well. And the one addition here is on pay grade seven. We've added a supervisor for food service. Our food service is growing uh with the campuses we add and we need a supervisor in Emanuel Trades. um and it's um staff member would would greatly help Tiffany in managing all the staff in our food service. Then we come to our stipens. So we made a couple of changes on the athletics. Uh we want to increase the athletic coordinator at the middle school for both the boys and girls from 2,000 to 3000. And then we also want
092to bring in line our cross country head coach and assistant coach to be the same as the other sports at 6,500 for the head coach and 4,000 for the assistant coach which align with the rest of the high school positions. And then on performing arts, we are adding the head high head high school band director at a two $12,000 stipen and then a band coordinator for the district uh which would help the middle school align with the high school for additional $3,000. Next pay scale is our additional duties. I have finally taken all the athletics uh game day amounts off of this st uh off of this list so it's more condensed. But what we're adding there is our Marshalls at high school game coverage to be $50 per hour to provide uh more security
093at the high school games. And then the sheet right after that are our game day pay rates that we pay everyone that works our games at the high school and middle school. No changes to it from last year. And then the last page is our substitute pay. Um staying the same as we currently are. Um just bring your attention on the certified uh person that's longterm. We do have quite a few retirees in our subpool and the rate we pay there if they did 20 years of teaching they get 291 days 291 per day when they're covering those teachers out on extended leave. And then the food service worker is 3.85 per hour when we need a substitute uh for a food service. And then transportation sub. This will only be used again in the
094spring and it's in line with the the regular driver's rate of $22 per hour for subbing in the spring semester. Any questions? Yeah, I got I got a question, Don. The the teacher the new hiring teachers. Yes, sir. Is that in line with everybody else? Currently, we're dictated by the state with what we had to to give our teachers. So, that is that's where we're coming from. Originally the state said 0 to um 0 1 and two would receive nothing and that's where we as a district uh increased our zero 2000 and years one and two to 2400. So we're actually raising state did not allocate for that but we have the money to reward those teachers as well. Yeah. And discuss real quickly Jason why we did the zero two 2000 and then the
095one and two was 24. the scale uh is stepped but we don't guarantee steps. So that is why the the difference of 2,000 for the zeroyear teacher and our teachers that were on zero year moving to one would get 2400 from what they made last year. Okay. Uh but compared to other districts how do we you know compare to that? I would tell you probably last study I did year eight we pay the most in town. We're pushing I don't think anybody at the top I remember that I just So all all districts are having to do the 2500 right and the 5,000. Yeah. So it's just the zero to two that districts have the option of and I think we're going to be very competitive with others in that area. Keep in mind this
096is for 187. So we do have teachers that are 197 and 226. So we would take this and divide it by 187 and then multiply it. So we'd get a daily rate from the scale, multiply it by the days, but if they have a mast's, it's still a flat 1500. It's not it's not included in calculating that per day. So the teachers that are 226 will get more than 5,000 because of their days they work. Jason on the the dollar per hour raises for the trades and the clerical prayer per prayer professional skills those for all categories that's greater than 3% right yes okay traditionally there's just one uh one on pair professional that would is was higher that a 3% would be a couple of cents more but across the board this this dollar
097increase yes so this for for these folks this is way better than a 3% raise across the board okay and and we have our current scales posted online which showed what the 3% was last year. Um it's out there. There's a big difference for especially our pay grades one two three four and five are getting way more than what they have in the past. But these re the recommendations for these this came we did we basically did a peer review for these right? Yes. This year. Okay. And and the scales are all been adjusted. So the minimum has been raised a dollar. the mid uh median is a dollar and the max is a dollar. So across the board we adjust the the manual trades and per professional skills. So anybody coming in will get
098a dollar increase as well. Any other questions? Good. I'll look for a motion. I Jason Bonnie move to approve the 2025 to 2026 compensation plan as presented. I have a motion. I have a second. I Matt Calion second the motion. I have a motion and second. Any further discussion? All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. The time is 7:27 p.m. and the board of trustees will now convene in close session as authorized by section 551071 551074 551076 551089 and 551072 of the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss discuss agenda items 5 A through D. No action will be taken in close session. The board is now in close session. The board is reconvening into open session at 7:54 p.m. For the record, no action was taken
099in close session. Next, we have consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation to hire the director of transportation, Dr. Kaos. Yes. Um, administration recommends the hire of Gabriel Ramirez for the position of director of transportation. Any questions? Not. I'll look for motion. I, Blaine Nash, move to approve the superintendent's recommendation to hire Gabriel Ramirez as the director of transportation as presented. I have a motion to have a second. I Matt C. Oh, go ahead, Ben. I want to second the motion. I have a motion and second. Any further discussion? None. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members vote up four. And the motion carries. Next, we have consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation to hire the principal of Lom Ala Middle School, Dr. Kaos. Administration recommends Michael Lopez for the hire of principal
100at Loma Alum Middle School. Any questions? Now, I'll look for a motion. I Nash move to approve the superintendent's recommendation to hire Michael Lopez as the principal for Lala Middle School as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Joe Beiger second the motion. Have a motion and second. Any further discussion? Not all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Congrats. [Applause] Next we have consideration for future meeting dates. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for July 28th, 2025 at 6 PM. Last item is adjournment. I'll look for a motion. I'm Matt Castle. Move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 7:55 p.m. on June 23rd, 2025. I have a motion. Do I have a second? All right. Jason Bonnie, second the motion.
101I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, raise your hand. All board members voted for and we are journed. Thank you.