001Good evening. We'll go ahead and get started. I call this Medina Valley ISD regular board meeting to order at 6 PM on May 27th, 2025. We have a quorum of board members present. Uh absent board members are Mr. Castigleone and Mr. Nash. We'll begin with the pledge of allegiance followed by a moment of silence. We'll start with student and staff recognition. First is above and beyond service staff recognition with Mr. McCracken. [Music] Dr. Kaos, can you hear me? Is that all better? Yes. I have the privilege um this evening to um honor Miss Sarah Young as our above and beyond staff service recognition for Medina Valley High School. There are probably not enough words uh to describe the impact that she has made on our campus and our students, but I'm going to try. It
002is an absolute honor to recognize one of Medina Valley High School's most outstanding educators, Miss Sarah Young, as our above and beyond staff service honore. Sarah inspires our students to think like scientists, care for the earth, and lead with a servant's heart. She challenges them to be curious, community-minded, and courageous in their learning. Her work goes far beyond the classroom. She is the driving force behind our Purple Star campus designation and a true advocate for our military connected students. She's a voice of encouragement and support for every learner who walks through her door. But Sarah's impact doesn't stop with students. She leads her colleagues by example, always inspiring, always pushing others to think differently and dig deeper. Her instruction is thoughtprovoking, rigorous, and rooted in a deep belief in her students potential. She is a
003trusted adviser to both our campus and district leadership teams and her insight and passion make us all better educators. It is a privilege to work alongside her and a joy to celebrate her. Uh thank you Sarah for going above and beyond in every [Applause] way. Congratulations. Thank you. Appreciate [Applause] All right, our next honore is Noah Marquez, our state high jumper. You gonna come up, Noah, and I'll read a little bit about you. Awesome. Noah Marquez has been a varsity high jumper since his sophomore year at high school. Noah has also competed as a long and triple jumper. He is a two-time area and regional qualifier and a one-time state qualifier. As a senior, Noah was a district runner up, placed third at area and third at regionals. He set the Medina Valley High School
004record with a jump of six foot n and a half inches. Is that right, Noah? It's pretty big. It's pretty tall. All right. It's the fifth highest jump in the state of Texas this year. So, congratulations, Noah. All right. Excellent. Yes. Congratulations. [Applause] All right, it's my privilege to introduce Miss uh Gregory Hurley, who is our debate coach and has taken our students to state. She's going to come introduce them. She's another incredible above and beyond uh service staff member that I get the privilege of working with every day. [Applause] Good evening. I'm loud. It's okay. Good evening. Um, so like she said, my name is Tessa Gregory Hurley. Um, and I want to honor three amazing students tonight. Um, when I say they've truly gone above and beyond my expectations, uh, it's it's an
005accurate statement. It's really remarkable what they've accomplished in such a short amount of time. All three of them have only been in debate approximately two to three years and they've exceeded um the school's expectations and they've accomplished so much. And so starting first with our cross-examination debate team, it consists of Lori Zimmerman and Hamid Wilson. Um they have been in cross-examination debate or CX debate for the past two years now. Uh last year of their first year in it, they qualified for state and this year they also qualified for state. uh their first time being in 6A and they also made it to the top 16 teams in the 6A in the entire state. So it was a huge accomplishment for us and for them especially being so fresh into it. I'm just really proud
006of both of them. [Applause] So yeah, I'm not done. I'm not done. It's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Next. Right. Our success does not stop in cross-examination debate. Um we move on to uh congressional debate or congress. And so these students uh what Hamid and Anukica Forest did was they had about 20 topics they had to prepare both an affirmative or a proside and a conside for 20 topics they had to prepare for uh and go compete against other 6A schools. And their very first time competing in congressional debate they qualified for state. Um this is a really big feat especially with their first time being in uh 6A and so they both qualified for state in Congress and I think they learned a lot from it. They learned a like a lot of valuable
007skills and I'm I'm kind of sad they didn't do it last year, but it's okay. It's okay still, right? Because we found success this [Applause] year. And last, but certainly not least, Anukica Forest ended our speech and debate season with a bang. Anukica Forest has only been in debate about two years. uh and she came in with an open mind and willing to learn and willing to do whatever it took to be successful in this uh event or events I should say. Again, like I've said multiple times, this is our first year in C in uh 6A and so we didn't know what the competition was going to look like. Typically 6A schools have a lot more resources uh than ours when it comes to debate. So they're debating on a national level, right? They're
008going to national tournaments and so that's the competition we were going against and it was a little intimidating to say the least. But Anukica rose to the challenge and she excelled. Not only was she the uh district champion in LD but also in persuasive I believe. Um and then she also which qualified for her for state. And then we ended up in 6A at the state level. She placed third in Lincoln Douglas debate which is a solo debate event and fifth in a persuasive exemporaneous speaking. So to say that all these students did not exceed my expectations would be like an understatement. like they did amazing and I'm really sad they're graduating, but I'm really proud of the mark they left their senior year. [Applause] All right. We didn't bring the whole school, just most
009of the school. We had a lot to celebrate this year. So, I'm going to bring in our A students next. They'll come up to the up this way. All right. Y'all have to help me because I these agon it's the word I can't say. Well, Miss Williamson aronomy. Yes, I got it. All right. All right. I'm gonna start with aronomy. CDT CDE tests students technical knowledge of plant and soil science concepts in order to better their understanding of the real world application of these skills in crop production and operations. Students must learn to identify common crops, weeds, insects, and disease commonly found in production operations as well as demonstrate their knowledge of soil and water relationships and general Oh, there it is again. Use the big words, Mr. Pouncy. I'm telling you uh agonomic concepts
010through a series of tests. These students will have the chance to compete at the national FFA agonom aonomy contest that is hosted in Indianapolis during the national FFA convention in October. So coming back from college right to compete a lot of you just you okay just checking team consisted of our following students. Uh Reagan Mcool who's an MBHS senior right coming back. Yes. Reagan Mcool attending Texas Tech. Yes. Okay. Excellent. Emma Beck, who's a sophomore, uh 13th place individual at state contest. Sarah Martin is sophomore who placed seventh uh place at individual and at the state contest. Connor Proub um sorry, Proub, did I say it right? Yes. Junior first place individual at the state contest. So, congratulations to that group. We're so proud of you guys. All right. And our food science state champions,
011the FFA food science team consisted of Juliana Herrera, Felicity Ag Alani Brank, and Emma Albi. The team competed a an exam, a math practicum, sensory test, and a presentation developing a food product and pitched it to a panel of judges. With one hour of preparation, the team developed a Green Goddess chicken bowl that required them to calculate a nutrition label cost and profit margin, marketing labels, and safety hazard plan, and then answer questions about their product. This team scored an impressive perfect score on their presentation, and they have earned a qualification to the national contest at the National FFA com convention in Indianapolis in October. So, congratulations And I know they could not do this without their amazing A teachers who go with them a thousand miles over every place uh and coach them so
012well. So we're so proud of everything that you're doing and all that you've accomplished so so far. All right. [Applause] All right. And now I have the honor of introducing Mr. Rodriguez, who's going to share our state awards and solo and ensemble for band and choir. We got to get you in the picture on camera. Good evening and thank you for allowing me this opportunity to recognize some of our outstanding student musicians. Tonight, I am proud to introduce these students who earned the honor of competing at the Texas State UIL solo and ensemble contest. To qualify, these students first performed a class one solo or ensemble, the most challenging in level, in front of a judge they had never met. These performances took place back in February and required not only technical experience but also
013memorization and preparation at the highest level. After earning a superior rating at the event, these students continued refining their music to prepare for the state soleno ensemble contest where they performed for college professors and received expert feedback on their artistry. It is a tremendous accomplishment to reach this level and we are incredibly proud to be represented by such talented, dedicated and hardworking musicians. Let's begin by recognizing our MVHS choir students. We have um two gold medalists, Mia Andrade Alto and Christopher Tol on Tener Tener and a silver medalist Kate Joyce Soprano. And that's choir photo. Would you like me to join you, ma'am? [Applause] And we're going to move on to band our band students. All the previous words apply to them as well. Uh the same the same um functionality to compete at the
014state level. uh soloists and it's going to be not as big of a group as No, you can keep coming. Come on. Keep on coming down. Maddie, where you doing? Oh, alphabetical. Yes, I got you. Just come on. Get in line. Thank you. You're fine. I'm gonna just read the list straight down and we'll go from there. So, soloist competing at the contest, uh, Hamid Wilson, Daniel Alamos, and Vincent Flores. We have two superior gold medalists at, uh, from that contest, Camry Delgado on flute and Eddie Okmpo on tener saxophone. Um, ensemble members attending the contest, our clarinet quartet, Sarah Alvarado, Riley Barton, Riley Connisales, and Hunter Hurley. Our tuba euphonium quartet, Gerald Luna, Austin Lutz, David Onto, and Kevin Welsh. Our trumpet trio, uh, Alyssa Anderson, Rashan McCanni, and Hamid Wilson. Our trombone quartet,
015Caleb Davis, Ashley Persign, Leonard Santos, and Ayanna Velasquez. Our saxophone quartet, Queen Silouie, Ariana McConey, Edward Ormpo, and Andrew Vines. A percussion ensemble, Savannah Christa, Vincent Flores, Luke Mastoro, and Juan Ramirez. We have one, two, three, four, uh, three ensembles that received gold medals at the contest. Our flute choir, which performed the struggling dream, Brandy Alfaro, Emma Beck, Jennica Brrito, Camry Delgado, Madison Flores, Nicole Rocka, Summer Richardson, and Rebecca Valero. We had a percussion ensemble performing rogue agent Josea Butler, Sergio Mendes, Aaron Moreno, Aleandro Nava, Alejandro Ruiz, Andrew Simson. Another percussion ensemble performing Starfall with Leon Bagley, Ellie Gonzalez, Scarlett Hong, Sarah Kench, Levi Nasau, and Emmanuel Salazar. So each of these students has shown remarkable commitment, grit, and musical excellence. And we are so proud of how they represented Medina Valley at the state
016level. Their success is a reflection of not only their talent, but their perseverance, teamwork, and passion. And we can pass these out if we stayed in alphabetical order. Excuse me. Stay smiling. Thank you, Mr. Moving on, next is public comment. We have no one signed up to speak, so we'll move on to We'll give everybody just a second to get out. Okay, we'll move on to board committee reports and we'll start with the finance committee with Mr. Beeter. All right, good evening. Uh the finance committee members consisted of Blaine Nash, Na Fillinger, Nathan Fillinger, and myself. Uh we met on May 14th, 2025 and discussed the following items. First item up for discussion was the 2024 2025 budget update. Um, next we discussed what summer projects that we have planned to complete. Uh, next item
017was around the budget amendment and we'll discuss that further uh discuss that this evening. Next item was around uh purchases uh specifically around cafeteria tables. Next item that was discussed was the Bippert property. Um we have some utility companies that are wanting to uh uh purchase easements uh in that property uh for electrical and gas. Uh next item that was discussed was land around land and uh property that we are currently looking at purchasing. Uh last item that we discussed was the attendance resoning for high schools uh in preparation for Creek View High School. Those are all the items that we discussed. Any questions? Not. Then we'll move on to construction with Mr. Beer as well. All right. Um so the construction committee uh members consisted of myself, Blaine Nash, and Matt Castaloney. Um the
018committee met on May 14th, 2025 as well, and we discussed the following items. Uh again, the Bippert property and the electrical and gas easements. Um the next item was around mechanical, electrical, and and plumbing engineering services. Uh, next item discussed was districtwide access control project update. Next was Medina Valley ISD, the middle school number three project and where we stand with starting that. Uh, next item was around the Medina Valley High School A and Junior ROC project and where we stand with starting that. Uh, and current items that are that are taking place in prep for that work. Next item was around uh County Road 471 security lights along the middle school and high school. Uh as well we discussed the land and what we're looking at doing there as far as purchasing property. And
019last as well we discussed um the attendance reszoning for high schools in preparation for Creek View High School. Any questions? Okay. Then we'll move on to safety and security with Mr. Uh good evening. Uh the safety committee met May 15th. Uh it consisted of myself, Nathan Fillinger, and Blaine Nash uh to discuss the following items. Uh the committee chair and meeting schedule. uh our police department updates to include application status uh department purchases for the department uh board policy ckees uh with revisions the transition from their SRO program to the PD uh the Marshall update uh newest marshalss in training our monthly training continues how monthly training is continuing uh intruded detection safety audit update uh all is complete as of this this now uh safety project updates district security camera project, the uh district
020access control project. Uh we also discussed land and also the attendance resoning for high schools in preparation for Creek View High School. [Music] Any questions? Okay, moving on to curriculum with Miss Lee. Okay. Uh we met on May 15th. Uh the committee consists of Joe Bonnie, Matt Constiani, or Joe Beer and myself. Uh we discussed the House Bill 4. In other words, trying to eliminate the star test. It passed the House. It's gone to the Senate and there is I assume still right now. Uh there was uh we discussed the drop in accountability score, some of the root causes and key strategic actions. Uh the star and map assessments and how they rolled out this year. uh the review of E1C local which is credit for high school classes taken in middle school which they
021take algebra one in middle school. They do receive credit however my understanding is it does not figure into their GPA and we want to put it into the GPA just as if they took it in high school. Uh the next it was uh the uh preap training that happened last week at the high school. their middle school and high school teachers. Uh summer curriculum design teams, what they'll be doing over the summer, uh getting the curriculums that are across the board and uh the same at each uh grade level or department. Uh summer curriculum design teams will be meeting a jump start for elementary schools, uh elementary schools instead of summer school because elementary kids do not are not ready to jump into summer school right at the end of school. So, they're doing a
022jump start program which about I believe a week, two weeks before school, they'll have a program that will get these kids ready and up and running uh to start the new year. Uh then we discussed uh land and the attendance reszoning for high schools. Any questions? Okay, thanks. Moving on. We'll um next is the construction brief briefing with Mr. Bhouse. Apologies for that. I'm redesigning this place. Um, all right. So, just to give you a quick update on the uh Creek View construction progress. Uh we are currently about 67% complete and I apologize for the layout of this but the only difference between this and what we've presented in the past is now we're tracking the change order that was approved uh at last uh last board meeting for the 2024 bond portion of it
023which was the stadium improvement upgrades for Proposition B. But overall the original scope we're still at six or we're at 67. That's about a 3% jump from last month. So, what that means is continuation of the U top sheet or the cap sheet for the roof as it goes from the fine arts wing, the athletics over to the administration area and over the cafeteria. and it'll follow through the kitchen, uh, counseling suites, library, and so on up to the, uh, classrooms, the general ed classrooms. This one, uh, you can see now the further delineation of the parking lots that were on PR-51 for the additional site improvements. Um and that was the parking lot that parking lots that were added at the bottom left of the screen and then towards the um center right of
024the screen um there has been a lot of concrete being poured throughout the site as well as improvements on the uh stadium field itself. So, as you can see here, the liner is being placed as well as the fine final uh grading together with the storm drain that um makes up the interior of the field curb that will um be placed around the future track. Um and then some more additional field areas like uh high jump, uh long jump, and pole vault areas. Uh like I said, more concrete. Concrete's being poured uh a lot. This is the courtyard outside of what will be the cafeteria area. This will this platform will be allowed to be used throughout the school day um as an additional space for lunch if um if possible or if depending on
025administration. But uh that's pretty much the update on the exterior piece. There's like I said there's a lot of flat work being poured in preparation for all of the finishes that are being installed indoors. Um, I know Barllet doesn't want to track uh mud or their subcontractors to track mud throughout the project as finishes are getting getting ready and installed. So, they've been really um tackling the the pavement around the site. But to give us an update on the interior portion, I'll have RT. Good evening everyone. Um, like Raphael mentioned, um, actually today was one of the few mud days we've had. So, won't won't curse the mud. We needed it. We needed the rain, that's for sure. A little bit of update on the inside. This is one of the standard classroom lab areas.
026We're um putting all the specialty items in the BC wing right now, which is fire extinguisher cabinets, fire extinguishers, um the visual marker boards right there, corner guards, um and toilet partitions. You'll see right here on the next sheet. This is one of the classroom or one of the restrooms in BC area. Tiles complete. Uh toilet partitions are complete protecting the floor for the tile. Um really one of the last things that we're going to do is uh just get that temporary light and have permanent power with CPS and that restroom will be about ready to go. This is the main stair that connects level 3 BC from AD wing. So on the opposite side of the ways coat tile is the library area. And um you can see we've we've painted it. We're protected
027right now with the Terzo underneath on the landings and the um stair treads and Ty Wayne's coat going up on top. for second coat painting um a lot of the stairwells right now and first coat um a lot of the areas in uh AD. This is the auxiliary gym. I believe last week I showed you the pract or the competition gym with the goals being installed over there. They were finishing up the auxiliary gym this past week. starting painting the um walls within the auxiliary gym, painting the overhead work, expecting for the court to get start getting installed into July, August time frame. By that time, we'll have conditioned air blowing in there. And um so we're we're trying to prep and get every all the overhead work complete for them. And the mezzanine right
028above where those windows are at is the second floor that connects uh really right there next to AD and EF. This is a picture of the cafeter or the sorry the library area. We've uh started framing the ceiling in that area. As you can see we have the hardid ceilings done. Um lights cut out in those areas. Started framing for the specialty ceiling. First coat of paint is done on the walls. Um most most of the walls the walls that aren't painted have a wall covering that goes on it. That's a quick update. Any questions on Creek? All right. Appreciate it. Thank you. All right. And then the next update is for the Medina Valley High School AROTC building. Um on this one, we just awarded this project to WR Griggs. So we're um substantial
029completion is targeted for September 30th at a contract amount of 11.5 million. Um we haven't received a pay application for this first month. So uh we're about usually the first month we just receive the payment and performance bonds uh as part of our billing. But next uh board meeting we will bring you a percentage completion that will capture what's been done this month. I don't know if we can play the video or not. Oh, it's all right. If it doesn't catch it, doesn't No, it's fine. Um, so really what the video showed was just the pole installation through CPS that was done uh or started at the beginning of this month. So CPS really tackled the installation of the new service line through the south of our property. All poles have been installed, dressed, and
030um wires have also been installed up to the RI new what will be the new riser pole. Um, on top of that, Griggs has now incorporated the primary up to what would be the new transformer, uh, feeding the campus. And then what you see on your left hand side is the secondary that will tie back to where the existing transformer is at. Um, again, we're we're going through with CPS. they have really uh been aggressive on this project uh which is really benefiting the timeline for for the summer work. Uh in addition to that, the existing three portables that were located south of the ban hall have been relocated to outside of building 200 for middle school future use. So any questions on a ggerc? All right. Thank you. Thank you. Next, we have the
031financial briefing with Miss Hermish. Good evening. So, this is our financial statement as of the end of April. And as you can see, um this is just kind of a quick summary sheet that shows where our beginning fund balance was, revenues, and expenses to get to kind of where our current fund balance lies. Um part of the highlight um the districts collected 73% of our budgeted revenues and spent 66% of expenses. Um both of those are a little bit higher than they were at this time last year, but as you um have previewed, we have a budget amendment coming and when you add the additional revenue and um expenditures, those percentages get a little closer to being in line. Um so we'll we'll have that as well. Um, in food service, they've collected 71% of
032budgeted revenues and spent 53% of of the budgeted expenses, and we're still working through that spend down plan. Um, and then for debt service, I always like to kind of just bring up the local collection piece because we're always tracking um where we are as far as um uncollected debt or uncollected property taxes and collected. And so we're a little over 95% of our current year collected taxes and we're really tight on our previous year's collected taxes meeting budget and then we've exceeded that in our investments and so so overall debt services is is has already met budget for this year. Um but we are still kind of tracking those um local collections to make sure that we're collecting um everything that we that we should. As you know, we budget at 98% and we're
033already a little over 95 with a couple months left to go. And so if you'll scroll to the next one, again, this is our just general fund breaking it out by by function. So we can see all of the functions in there. Um the one that we've talked about the last couple months is that function 34 in transportation. And you can see it's it's pretty low, which is why we have that budget amendment um coming in this evening for for those salaries. And as we've talked about before, the salary piece, we budget all of our transportation drivers and aids at 20 hours a week. And obviously, they drive a lot more than that. And we missed the the budget for adding that additional hours over 20. And so we just want to go ahead and
034and correct that. Um, and if you'll keep going, then we have the child nutrition. I did notice as I was coming in that the fund balance number did not pull across, but it is on the front cover sheet. It was around 2.8 million is where our fund balance was um at the at the end of the year last year. Um, and so that's kind of where I I'm not sure why it pulled zero, but I caught that kind of last minute. Um but we are we are tracking probably a little bit lower on our revenue than what we um had budgeted and so that will be part of that difference on the expenses and then obviously we we are also tracking low on on the expenditures and so those should offset each other pretty nicely
035and we'll still be under the the amount of fund balance that we can carry into next year. And then for our debt service, um you just kind of see that where if you will scroll down to that one, we'll Thank you. Um we can kind of see where we are with debt service as well. I added a piece in this week's board update just to kind of show because it this this year it's been a little bit more confusing with the ins and outs with the defeasants. Um, and we had a question um, from our last meeting about where we were fund balance-wise. And if we collected nothing else in our debt service account this year, we would probably be a little bit ahead of last year's fund balance. So, still have a little over
0366.2 million um, in there after we make our August payment. Um, and we're still anticipating collecting probably around 900,000 um, between collections and interest over the next um, four months. And so, so we do anticipate probably having a closer to a million dollars um and more than what we had last year at the end of the year is kind of where we're tracking for debt service. And then if we'll scroll, we'll just kind of take a quick look at our bond funds. And so bond 2023, you can see the A ROC building added um the the big incumbrance in there. And so that brings our balances down a little bit into what we have left. And then you'll see we still we um at the end of April hadn't signed the final contract for the
037middle school and so we'll see those incumbrances hit here on the May statements. We're still doing really well with interest even backing out the debt payment for the defeasance and the arbitrage that we were our arbitrage liability as of the end of last year. We still have almost seven 7.4 million sitting in in interest expenses. We may acrew a little bit more in arbitrage this for this last year. Um, but still doing doing really well on interest. And then the last one is not super exciting, but bond 24, we have our stadium improvements and as Raphael said, we'll get that first payout probably coming in this month and then we'll start to see some some movement across that one as well. And like the others, we're still we are getting a little bit of interest
038from the from the bond sale that we had in the in December January time frame. And so we'll keep keep an eye on that and be able to use that for um any un additional athletic projects that we end up needing extra extra funds for. Do you all have any questions about any of the financials? When do we recalculate arbitrage? We we did it last year after our audit. Okay. So then we have a full year of it on the on the books. Any other questions? Awesome. Thank you. Next we have the superintendent briefing with Dr. Kos. We are um closing out the end of our school year. So obviously we want to highlight all of our students, but in particular our seniors. And so we've had some events here recently from our uh academic
039and scholarship night for seniors to the senior walk on campuses to the car giveaway, right? That's always exciting. We had that last la. You can see our lucky student there that won the car. Special thank you to North Park Chevrolet for donating the car. Obviously, u this is this is a a big motivation for our students to, you know, have good attendance, have good grades, good behavior, right? Because you have to you have to um be able to in order to be able to have a chance to get this car, you have to have good behavior, attendance, and and discipline as well. So, thank you to North Park Chevrolet for for donating the car. Uh we do have one one other special event coming up for our seniors, and that's graduation night. It's Thursday night
040at 7 o'clock at the hemisphere Coliseum. And so we're excited excited for that night for our seniors and for our parents and and uh and look forward to it. Uh one of our coaches, Coach uh Kirk Patrick, who is our girls soccer coach, received a tremendous honor here recently with the Express News. They they named him coach of the year. And so that's a a tremendous honor for any coach to receive that. Uh very proud of K uh Coach Kirk Patrick and all that he's done for our girls soccer program and for our athletic program in in general. Uh so here in on June June uh June the 12th at 10 o'clock here at the high school, Medina Valley High School, we'll have a job fair. So this is some of our area school districts
041that participate in this job fair. And so we're ho hosting it here this year. Uh we've been advertising for it. You can see a list of the schools that that uh participate in this. Uh Mr. McGur Mr. Mcgura said earlier today that we've got close to uh 200 individuals already registered for it. So we anticipate a big turnout and hopefully we get some good hires out of this. Uh we recently had a you make a difference day. So that's a a bunch of our students that uh get out and about and participate, you know, in uh projects across our campuses and across the community to to u help help better, right, our our school district as well as our community. So very very thankful to all of our students that participated in that as well
042of all of as well as all of our administrators and teachers uh that were that help organize and part participate in that as well. Uh recently we had an athletic signing day. So we had we had u six of our high school athletes that officially signed and will be competing at at the college level. And so you can see a list of those those uh student athletes and their sports. We have some from tennis, girls basketball, track, football, and baseball that will be moving on to the next level. So uh congratulations to all those students. That's the result of a lot of hard work and and discipline. So, um, again, congratulations and best of luck to them as they move on. We also also had a military signing day on May the 15th. So, we
043had uh nine students that signed, right, to to to serve our country. And you can see we've listed out each one of those students and which branch they will be serving in. And so, uh, very grateful for these these students, um, to to to commit to this. We also had an additional 13 students who have uh shown interest right in in uh becoming part of our our our service. And so um again, thank you to these students. We can we can sleep easily at night knowing that these students are going to help protect us, right? So uh congratulations to them and best wishes to them as well. uh fine arts has been busy over the last few weeks per doing a lot of performances here within the district and in competitions as you saw earlier
044this evening and so just want to uh congratulate all those students for all that they've done all their successes and uh we appreciate all that they do and all the performances they provide us as well. Some very nice performances. uh we closed out another year of our aspiring leaders uh group. Miss Hendrickx leads this group. And so, you know, as a fast growth school district and as we know, we're going to be adding campuses. We know that we're going to need additional leaders in this campus. And so, we want to do everything we can to to grow our own from within our school district. And so, uh this has helped leading that way. So, thank you to Miss Hendricks and her staff for for heading us up. And as always, we had our employees of
045the month. So you can see the list of employees of the month for each campus and department. So congratulations to all those employees and thank you for all that you do for our school district and for our kids. Then we also had our uh gold car recipients for this month as well. So you can see the list of those uh employees. So congratulations to them. And now the legislative update. So, the big talk right now, uh, you know, with educators is what are they going to do with school finance, right? And so, House Bill Two, House Bill Two, uh, was passed in the House a few weeks ago. And we've kind of provided y'all summaries on this in previous meetings. And so then it went over to the Senate. And so, since going to the
046Senate, the Senate has made some changes to it. Uh, the positive is that the total amount has not really changed. 8.5 billion in new funding for public schools which we're very grateful for. U how how they distribute that has changed a little bit. Right? So the the big part is the um is the salary part right with the house. They uh they they increase the basic aotments in order for us to increase salaries right within the district. On the senate side they are wanting to designate just exactly where that money is going to go. So they have 4.2 2 billion designated for teachers and staff. Now, the last time we presented to y'all, it was 4.2 billion for teachers. So, you can see they've added some um some stipulations where we can use it for
047other staff members as well. So, that's a positive. Um the this next one is also an addition to to this bill. This 1.2 two billion for um aotment for basic costs such as utilities and insurance and TRS contributions. So they're they're providing some additional money basically for cost of inflation, right? So that's a positive. Uh special education, both of them had about two billion designated for increased funding for special ed. And then there's some safety money in there as well. So this is better than the initial Senate version, right? With the the the the changes they had made to the house side and the next slide will show you a little bit of the breakdown on the salary part. So that 4.2 billion that'll go towards salaries. You can see teachers that have uh three
048to four years experience will see receive an additional $2,500. Teachers with five or more years of experience will receive $5,000. And then this is at um the other staff part. So support staff, we will get $45 per per ADA for non-teers and non-admin full-time and part-time positions. Now, this is still in this is this is still in the Senate, right? It has not approved been approved on the Senate side. It's in the it's it is um in the third reading, so they're getting close, right? But once the Senate does, if the Senate does finally approve something, then obviously the House is going to have to agree to that as well. But it's looking a little bit better as far as funding that we would get overall for for um for new monies. A few of
049the other bills that we've mentioned in the past, House Bill 19, which was a concern from uh bond elections to debt issuance, uh that one is not going anywhere. So, that's that's a positive sign for a school district like us. Uh, but we have heard where parts of that bill may be attached to other bills. So, we we're we're going to have to keep a close eye on that as well. House Bill six, which deals with discipline, that one is continuing to move forward. And so, uh, that's a positive. If you recall, that one gives school districts a little more flexibility to remove students at all age levels for ser serious threats or um offenses. Now, there's obviously more to the bill than just that, but that was one of the big things in the
050bill. And then the other one that we're keeping a close eye on is House Bill 4, which has to deal with accountability. And this uh you know, Miss Hendrickx over there is our as our positive person. And so, she thinks they're going to do something with this. And one of the main things in this bill is uh eliminating eliminating some of the state testing in particular at the elementary levels and and middle schools. We'd still have high school, right? But but at least it would get rid of it at the elementary and middle schools and would move more to a norm based norm reference type test. One of those that is being mentioned is the MAP testing which is what we currently do. So again, that would be a positive if something happened in that
051area as well, but we'll Miss Hendrickx will hold her breath. We won't on that one. So that's a summary of some of the bills that are out there that we're keeping a close eye on. And then lastly, district enrollment. So you can see where we are uh as of the 23rd of this month compared the to the end of last school year. So we're comparing about apples to apples now, right? You can see we're almost at that thousand student mark. Any questions? Thank you. Moving on. Discussion and possible action items. We'll begin with consider approval of consent agenda items. Dr. Kos. So in consent agenda tonight, we have the minutes from the regular board meeting on April the 28th, 2025 and the special board meeting on May the 14th, 2025. We also have the uh
052purchase of cafeteria tables for child nutrition and policy revisions to CK local and if the board recalls that was presented last month as a first reading and that is the change in policy for the implementation of our police department for the school district. Right. moving away from the SRO into our own police department. All of these have been presented either through committees or board updates or in the board packet. Any questions? Anything pulled? Okay, I'll look for a motion. I Ben Wattis uh move to approve the consent consent agenda on items as presented. I have a motion. Do 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 carries. Next
053we have consider approval of attendance at the PLC solution tree conference and related expenses. Miss Hendricks. Good evening. Um so we last year we started our focus on PLC's which um professional learning organ professional learning communities where teachers work together using de data to improve outcomes for our students. So last year I think we sent about 50 people our administrators um some teachers from each grade level our instructional coaches they went they loved it. So this year we allocated a certain amount of money which was actually below 50,000 um to send people from the district level. So we're sending a certain amount of people but our campuses then decided that they wanted to send more people. So when you put all those together it went above um 50,000. So that's why it wasn't on our
054original um request. The good thing is is when you put it all on one bill, we say it's $799 a person, but when you group it all together, we save $100 a person. So, we were able to send aboutund or we will be sending about 111 people from the district. And if we want to make a big improvement in that area, it's exposing them um to that. We are trying to save money with we're going to get buses to take people down there so that we don't have to pay for parking. It's actually in San Antonio. So we this is the biggest group I've ever taken to something like this. Um part of the conference is you do have time to meet. They they get you a big conference room and you meet and you
055work in teams to plan out implementation for the year. So this is like a really exciting event. So what's the difference in cost? H what's the difference in cost? So we save $100 a person, right? But overall what you'd originally budgeted we did like just under 50,000 and then they but this is all in the budget. So it was just we used campus budgets. Okay. Um together with our budget. So yes. Awesome. Any other questions? I'll look for a motion. I Jason Bonnie move to approve the attendance of the PC solution key conference tree conference and related expenses 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
056members voted for and the motion carries. Thank you very much. Next we have consider approval of RFQ25-003 for mechanical, electrical and plumbing um MEP engineering services. Mr. Braas. Yes. Good evening again. Medina Valley staff advertise for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineers to assist the district on an as needed basis just like we do our architects. It's a pool of MEP professionals that we can tap on. Uh this RFQ was advertised on April of this year and six uh qualified proposals were submitted on May 7th. Uh as you see there, that's the selection criteria that was used. At this moment, if we go through the second page, that is the proposers that uh submitted qualifications. And at this point, we're recommending the board approve all six firms uh to be in our MEP pool for the
057district again on an as needed basis. Any questions? I'll look for a motion. I Joe Beer move to approve the selection for the professional services pool for mechanical, electrical, and plumbing engineering services associated with RFQ number 25-00003 as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I been 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 selection of an architectural firm for the elementary number seven design and authorize the superintendent to negotiate and execute the contract. Mr. Bas. Yes, sir. Elementary number seven is one of the approved uh construction projects for the 2024 bond. In September, the board approved the RFQ pool of 11
058architects overall as the district in preparation for the design. We narrowed that to seven uh qualified firms where each firm presented based on their consultant team, their design team, uh relevant examples, their schedule and also uh projects within the last five years. Based on the strength and relevance of their presentation, Huckabe Architects was selected as a top candidate. Our recommendation is that the board approved Huckabe Architects as the architectural firm for elementary number seven. Any questions? Now, I'll look for a motion. I, Joe Beiger, move to approve the selection of Huckabe Architects as the architectural firm for the elementary number seven design and authorize the superintendent to negotiate and execute the contract. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I Jason Bonnie second the motion. I have a motion and a second. Any
059further discussion? All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next we have consider approval of budget amendment. Serish. And so we we have talked a little bit already this evening about the budget amendment, but the main piece of this budget amendment is that we're shoring up our revenue based on the additional students and attendance that we've received throughout the year. And so you see that adjustment just shy of $4 million. Um we we do take a conservative approach when we when we budget. Um and so then that allows us to have the flexibility during the year when things pop up and when we meet those expectations or exceed our budgeted um expectations, it gives us a little bit of leeway. And so you see that in there.
060The remaining piece of the budget amendment um is primarily one 1.4 four million is for transportation um specifically for the issue we talked about before with the over 20 hours um that wasn't accounted for in our original budget. And then the remainder is $126,466 for maintenance department for some of our summer projects to include updating the fire alarm at the high school to tie in um all of the systems that are there um with fiber versus the old copper lines. Um it also is to replace the AC unit at Petranco Elementary. So this is a change from what we presented in the finance committee. Um the AC unit in the kitchen at Petranco went out last Friday or a week little over a week ago. Um and we were able to find a unit and
061be able to get that installed here in the first couple weeks of June as to not interrupt summer school and our summer meal program that's going on at Petrinkco. Um and then there's a there's some painting projects and some beautifification projects at Lacost Elementary. And and that rounds up um the budget amendment. So we are recommending an increase to the revenue budget of $3,975,000 and an increase to the expense budget of $1,66,466. Do you all have any questions? Let's just be sure we budget for overtime. Yes. Yes, sir. Figured that was already taken. Any other questions? Not look for a motion. I Joe Beiger move to approve the budget amend amendment as presented. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I want to second the motion. I have a motion and second. Any
062further discussion? If not, all those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. The time is 7:02 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 agenda items 7 A through D. No action will be taken in close session. And the board is now in close session. The board is recommitting into open session at 7:49 p.m. For the record, no action was taken in close session. Next on the agenda is consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation to hire the principal of Creek View High School. Dr. Chaos. Yes. Administration recommends the hire of a principal for Creek View High School as presented in close session. Any questions? Now I'll
063look for a motion. I Jason Bonnie move to approve the superintendent's recommendation to hire the principal as presented for the Creek View High School. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I want to second the motion. I have a motion and a second. All those in favor raise your hand. All board members voted for and the motion carries. Next, we have consideration of future meeting dates. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for June 23rd, 2025 at 6 PM. We have a budget workshop scheduled for June 11th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. Last item is adjournment, and I'll look for a motion. I Jason Bonnie move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 7:51 p.m. on May 27th, 2025. I have a motion. Do I have a second? I, Joe Beer, second the motion.
064I have a motion to second. All those in favor raise your hand. We are adjourned. Thank you very much.