001e e e we'll begin with a pledge allegiance followed by a moment in silence first up is student and staff recognition we'll start with star students at entry Laos families thank you for showing and thank you for your support and your children the I'm going to go ahead and introduce and they're going to come up here and they're going to speak about their leadership on campus regarding the the programs that they're involved in and how they serve the community so I have Olivia Ramon anchor for Life prln Neil announcement crew isra laaga flag crew Ezekiel Garza student council Dylan Lopez Sunshine crew hello do I pick this oh okay perfect thanks thank you hello we are just a few leaders around the campus one of us plays a plays a part in helping to have
002a fun and happy School through our jobs my name is Olivia Ramone but my anchor for Life name is Olive I'm a part of the anchored for Life team and we strive to serve with professionalism anchor for life is a military funded program that helps all students with Transitions and builds resilience we provide monthly videos to teachers to watch that our team that our team puts together in both English manag to support resiliency greet new students and families and give the tours complete one service project a five different types of kits to students we also have crew members in each classroom that help students to adjust thank you for this opportunity to share about our team hi my name is PR Neil and I'm a part of an announcement crew for the cost Elementary we
003are a stronger together and are a great team I've been a part of announcement career for 3 years we share Daily News weather birthdays and special events for our campus different jobs every two weeks but for me my job stays the same as I am the cost very own Panther some jobs are behind the scenes like camera operator prop manager and audio tech other jobs are FR of the camera such as news anchors and special announcements third through fifth grade students are allowed to apply for announcement crew at the beginning of the year and we have to audition as well here in announce do our best to try to make everyone on campus feel special and are proud of their accomplishments thank you for allowing me to share all crew have a great day new
004ideas and watch them grow hello my name is eaga as a member of the L we are trained by the MV jrc at the start of the school year they taught us how to serve with professionalism by properly holding folding caring raising and Ling both the US Texas Flags after training we are then responsible for raising the flags in the morning and lowering them fting them in the afternoon each school day I really leadership opportunity and appreciate your time my name is Ezekiel Garen vice president of our student council as vice president of our student council I help run our meetings of with our help of SP other sponsors and I work with our group members and officers to help plan fund service projects things we do is surprise our teachers and staff with monthly
005treats our student council is made up of third through fifth graders who want to make our school and Community better we get to develop leadership skills make new friends and share ideas and opinions to help things around us thank you hi my name is Dylan Lopez and I am a member of this we ensure safety and the well-being of everyone on campus the sunshine crew is a special group of students from second through fifth grade our school a brighter Place members of our crew greet students and staff each morning walk younger students to their classrooms and serve as a friendly face for visitor on our campus we appreciate your and thank you for having us oh are they we're going to have you stay up here so that you can uh they get a picture
006with you okay let's see if I got you right goe front of the board here let's get a picture okay yes [Applause] sir ready ladies and gentlemen so the next staff member that I want to introduce um she's just it's a blessing to have the opportunity to work with her she does and supporting our campus she is homegrown and BISD so I want to introduce rackwitz who has been a dedicated and compassionate campus counsel at lacost elementary for the past years making a profound impact on students staff and families her uning commitment to the students well-being and Community engagement and resources that development exception she is community Pantry stock with essential hygiene products and food items ensuring families in need have access to critical resources ships churches and the food bank provided holiday gifts weekend
007backpack meals support for the students her advocacy for military families contributed to the campus earning a purple star tea highlighting ation and fostering an inclusive and supportive School environment rtz of leadership and resilience building meaningful connections with the school Community professionalism integrity and unwavering support make her advocate and safe space for her students staff and families including myself always accessible she prioriti the student needs with empathy and Care her passion for expanding resources and improving student well reflects in her deep commitment to service Miss rakowitz exemplifies nbisd service standards through her leadership her compassion and her dedication to Student Success making her truly deserving of this recognition tonight thank you [Applause] yeah so we have one more special student to recognize uh our high school principal principal Miss McCracken is going to start this one
008off for us I have the privilege of introducing Wyatt ducos uh he is one of our outstanding freshmen but I'm have to give credit to Mr Davis because he helped me put into words uh exactly what you accomplished stock show an Antonio Market Barrow show is considered to be the Super Bowl of all hog shows do you even make a pool and be considered to be placed within a class as there were 3,000 Market barrows shown this year at San Antonio Market Barrow show works extrem hard at feeding cleaning maintain and practicing his Showmanship skills this particular Barrow was one of seven that he and his sister brenn managed during the show season they were both very successful this year and to be able to raise and feed the 2025 San Antonio grand champion Champion
009Market bear here in our community at Medina Valley is truly a historical achievement he was awarded a $10,000 scholarship along with a very nice pay at the market Barrow auction that he can add to his scholarship fund and continue showing Hogs and other major livestock shows through the rest of his high school career and he has three more years to do that so uh we have been I I will tell I will tell you what I asked him first was were you sad okay so Mr Davis gave me permission to go see the pigs when they arrived and I get attached and so I can't go see them anymore and so I worry I worry about y'all when you have to give them up and Mom said that he slept with him four nights in
010a row because he's very very very popular wasn't he and important and so he's put in a lot of work and and us proud so whyatt Duke Coast we'd like to honor you tonight for your outstanding achievement go ahead and get in there Mr CRA yeah you know I I know Wyatt and his family knows this but not everybody knows this the amount of work that this requires responsibility dedication uh it I know team effort right with the family and I'm did did little sister have a little part yeah absolutely so we we appreciate all that you do Wyatt for for U not only that program but for our school district thank you very much all right so at this time parents students y'all are y'all are uh more than welcome to stay I know
011probably some of you all are excited about staying for this meeting but probably most of you want to leave and we completely understand so don't don't uh don't be bashful go ahead and leave if you leave we'll take just a short little break while y'all do that the agenda's pretty e e e so next on the item is on the agenda is public comment we have no one signed up to speak so we'll move along to announcements Communications and present we'll start with the board committee reports and with the finance committee with Mr Nash uh good evening um the finance committee consists of myself Nathan fillinger and Joe beiger um we last met on March 19th um and we discussed the following items uh the first thing we discussed is an update uh to student
012handbook regarding student searches uh we also talked about some uh potential for centralizing our three-year-old uh programs at a particular campus in the future um construction updates that we discussed um where we stand on the bidding process for Middle School 3 um process for the a junior ROTC building uh fixing us to bring up tonight I believe um some updates to the uh budgets for the uh Stadium upgrades at Creek View High School um and right ways that we're going to be required service at um we about up off of 471 the fourstar subdivision is um and some potential Road improvements that that we're them on um I believe for a deceleration or an1 um and then we have a final change order coming from the on silos Elementary um which is a credit back
013to I don't remember the exact amount 50 something th000 um I I believe that's in the agenda tonight also um then we talked about using for some of the items that are presented at committee meetings um we talked about a budget amendment which is being presented tonight and um which are all on the agenda for tonight um we talked about the CSP for Middle School number three and the a junior RTC building we talked about some invoices that we have to CPS electric for some Transformer upgrades for the a junior and then purchases of some laptops and computer devices for students teachers and staff um we talked about U we're one of the finalists for the HB excellence and education Awards um so a meeting last week I know at the library for that and
014I think that's next month right the awards when we find out uh May 4th um and then I know that there's a Comm been meeting so we had some discussion on the uh the creek Valley High School um and what the fathering for certain kids is looking like I know there's another meeting this week where they're going to discuss further so no new updates on that and then the last thing we discussed potential changes to the district organization any questions if not then we'll move on next is construction committee with M all right the construction committee uh consisted of myself bla Nash and Matt castalone met on March 13 or March 19th as well and we discussed the following items uh a lot of similar items in the finance committee uh discussed the student handbook
015update around student searches um and around Creek View High School uh update we had four different items that we discussed one being uh CPS Electrical eation uh the Tex do the local on system Improvement project that that's going on the and thens that we discussed were around civil changes in uh Stadium the stadium upgrades uh reviewed the current estimate where they stand the contractor stands with that and we discussed around how we can do value engineering and better some constructibility items to help reduce that cost if possible uh the next item was around fourstar subdivision and the easement dedication along 471 uh on Medina Valley Middle School number three project where we stand with the and we'll bring that to the to the board tonight and then Medina Valley High School uh junior RC update
016um where we stand with the bidding process there as well uh other item around uh Portables and the cost to to move Portables and you'll also see that this evening uh next item was around the uh Elementary School number seven and getting the process started for that the silos element School same thing that next item was utilizing consent agenda on the board meetings and then the HB excellence and education Awards um being one of the top three schools in the smaller school districts so where we stand with that and then second to last item there a lot of things've been discuss uh Creek View High School attendance zones and grandfathering uh basically we've have we have a committee put together that's been meeting um and things that they're they're going through and discussing to make
017that decision last thing uh was the changes that the the school administration is proposing around the organiz organizational chart all that being said that's everything we discussed in construction committee now we'll move on to curriculum and instruction committee with Mr B the Crick uh committee members met on the 20th of March at the committee the Campell uh a lot of our things overlap discussed student update on student searches three-year program te certification the 2025 2026 transfer the waiver request for remote homebound creekville High School attendance grandfathering changes to the district or organizational chart utilize consent agenda on the board meetings and the in educ a not then we'll move on Safety and Security committee with Mr wattis uh the Safety Committee met March 20th 2025 and discussed some of the following it they consist of
018myself Jenn Campbell and Nathan fillinger um some of the topics of discussion were the police department updates along with the Marshall update uh intruded detection safety audit update uh the board policy cke um again some of the things we we already touched on by the student handbook update regarding student searches utilization of consent agenda meeting agenda uh a excellence in education Awards the Creek View High School attendance zones and grandfathering changes to the organizational chart and questions for future meetings any questions if not we'll move on next on the on the agenda is construction briefing with we'll start with Creek View High School Mr braas good evening Mr President members of the board Dr Kos let me see thank you it's kind of not my thing but I'll read want me to so um here
019to give you a construction on Creek View 62% complete as a pay application number which is March a 4% uptick from last month's uh presentation and here what you see overall uh in top of in Terms of roofing the initial base sheet installed in all the roof uh throughout with the exception of the very high roof that you see on top that's uh the final cap sheet that has been installed that Pro will start de the metal panels start being u in should be this month metal panels have started being have started to arrive on S so that's that's good for uh the progress of the envelope on this image what you see is a lot more flat work uh with sidewalks as well as theing that has been in the last month or so
020on uh kind of Center top of the image you also see the dehumidification system into SE of this building in order to continue the work on the mill work and finishes on on this side uh uh on the the storm drain being installed as well as a liner on the main uh baseball field once they're done with this still move over to the soft again back of the building this is what will be the main Bus drop off starting from the right of the image looping back around and then dropping at what will be the main Bus drop off that would lead directly into the cafeteria a lot of preparation has been done bar for basement and por couple of weeks and then the last exterior image is the main entrance this is what main
021is looking front instulation continuing in progress there's some miscellaneous cladding still pending but uh they're doing well on this process and then we jump into the opposite side which is the interior side of our uh main entry and I'll hand it over to RT to give us an update on where we are on the interior good evening everyone um as Rafael mentioned metal panels arrived last week guess that brought the rain too so uh in that in that timing I wish it would have came about three months ago but um with like Rafael mentioned the storefront at the main entry uh was really one of the last main areas that we closing up um interior stone is complete right here you can see tape and floating of walls is finishing completion and this area will
022get first coat of paint so one of the Interior classrooms on the BC side you can see the finish work um going countertops these areas are are pretty much wrapped up um with the mill work being complete just need face plates on the wall put flooring in drop ceiling we'll be good to go this is the main wall on the cafeteria area the tape and floating as you can see area the outline is actually what you what you see right there is a a video wall the three openings down below are the entrance to the cafeteria serving area those areas uh Overhead Doors have been complete um tile has been complete on the walls the freezer cooler for those areas is actually showing up um next week so we'll get that installed and put in
023and then the rest of the kitchen equipment will be coming early August we in these areas starting in the next couple weeks this is the back side of the stage painting is here um we've uh started first coat most of these areas first coat is complete the stage and rigging system will start being installed here in the next month and this area will will start to change dramatically with all the rigging system and Equipment being in here major major Milestone getting this Auditorium pushing through and you can see the framing on the um actical walls on the far inside of the picture this is the main competition G those are tectum panels that you see the that you're going to see so the ones that are not gray will be will be painted painting as
024be windows in these areas are actually the last thing we need to install will be closed up they're on site we're working on some coordin with those and getting those install next couple weeks and we'll be dried in in good shape that's it all right appreciate it appreciate it thank you next we have the with Miss herish wasn't sure construction was going long enough there I'm like that was pretty short and sweet U anyway so thank you all for having us this is our financial report as of the end of February marks school year believe it or not um and so when we are kind of looking at some of the financial highlights you're seeing those numbers are kind of based on being about 50% through the fiscal year obiously during the school year we're
025a little ahead of that so um generally we're fairly in line with where we were last this time is spending on our those are based a little bit on having a little more accurate um Revenue um property value numbers such were a little ahead on our collections this year so far 4% of their revenue and 43% spent we can carry a little bit more of a fund balance in Child Nutrition than we were able to past so in the past you could have three months we can now carry six months of fund balance which just allows us to kind of time out our projects as far as equipment replacement and cafeteria tables and things like that that we would be doing um and so we know with the opening of Creek viw that we we
026want to do some work in Med Dina Valley High School cafe and so we're able to kind of hold on to a little bit of those funds to do that work here in the next year um and then Debt Service we have collected most of our Revenue because it's most mostly property taxes and we've had our state aid payment and so we're just kind of trickling in that last bit of of tax collections for the remainder of the year um we have um we still will have a a defance payment and we'll see that the bond Financial sheet and then we have about 11 is our August um Debt Service payment and so out of that 20 million 11.5 will will be used to make our payment in August so still sitting at a similar
027fund balance maybe a little more than what we had this year um the year and so if I can scroll Scott so we'll just kind of give you the breakdowns on the functions but again most of them are pretty in line with what we would expect Transportation paid for buses and so they're always a little bit um as far as spending spending because those purchases make up a big part of that budget but but overall Collections and and whatnot look for where we are at this time of year and you see the just the function breakout for Child Nutrition again um collecting more than what we spent so far so again even though we've been buying equipment and following the spend down plan we're still still a little bit um and so we'll be able
028to use those funds for additional all Crystal M there any changes potentially to the federal funding on this that we're of yet um not specific to Child Nutrition um some of the pieces that we've been getting information on are that it shouldn't impact a lot of Title One not um Your Child Nutrition pieces there's some little tweaks to like maybe title 2 is not going to supported title four maybe not as much but those are pretty small um allotments in comparison um I do expect some of this burden May shift back to the States and at some point impact your state budget um and the I know the state has the legislature has met to talk about their budget and they haven't made any adjustments for those types of things yet in their B Anyan
029budget so we should receive we should receive what we expect for federal revenue yeah t at least for Child Nutrition it shouldn't be any any issue thank you and then Debt Service the only thing like that very first line where it doesn't really have a description that was the um move from the bond funds over for the dis deance payment that we made in January so you do see more Revenue than just like tax collections in there because because of that um transfer of funds from the bond fund over but when you're looking at the the the local revenues we're still looking to collect about the 1.9 million in tax tax collections yet for the rest of the year and then the bond funds three um as we've talked about before we we still have
030most of most of the funds and the a RTC project which once we award hopefully later this evening then we'll be encumbering those FS Monsoon as well as the beginning of Middle School 3 um so those are the those are the two areas that or the two projects that were eager to get kicked off and then um on the bottom piece I did add the encumber or an amount for Arbitrage because we have our Arbitrage consultant that gave us kind of an estimate from last year of what our Arbitrage payment would be it's not due um until five years after the initial so it's it's something that we just want to carry and not spend those interest dollars um in case they do become due um down the line and so we just wanted to
031kind of earmark that but that almost 5.8 million would be what is not not has not been earmarked for anything yet and in the bond 20 just to kind of give you all a dollar amount on where we stand with that and then the last on the Arbitrage are we carrying that forward or was that a projection at the end that was a projection as of the end of last year and so they'll review that again this year and see see what it would be it's obviously it's going to go down because we're spending it down so much faster um but that that is where we were at the end of last year of that 27 million that we earned so um and then on the on 24 again we have just really the High
032School stadium project that we've sold bonds for so far but we are collecting interest on that and so we we have that shown on here for yall and as as you all know we have property values coming um here at the end of the month you all are very eager for that and then we'll decide the next round of projects um from the list there that we're getting ready to do um I think we also quarterly investment report is that okay so so on that just a couple things I did want to point out um last quarter we had an interest we're earning interest at 5.44% and this quarter it's gone down to the that um in that earn column so we are kind of watching interest rates they are going down in the pools
033um currently the the shortterm bond and CD rates are are still um lower than what we're getting in the pool so we haven't moved anything out yet and your oneye kind of T bill rates and things like that are just hovering at 4% so so we're holding on a little longer but we probably will hit a point where we start lading some Investments to lock in some interest rates is is those interest rates are starting to drop um but overall we have about 310 million invested in the pools on a reg on a pretty regular basis um and we're just kind of monitoring those interest when it's time to to lock in some better rates um but but Lone Star has done a you know has been a to hold hold fund mostly our bond
034funds at this point until until things start to change do you all I just have one question on the first sheet go back to it but we're 93% right now we're budgeted on 98 98 okay yeah that is going to be that are coming in for the next couple months yeah else anything else next we have the superintendent briefing with Dr Kos sorry yeah we don't want to miss this one do we miss Hendrick so it was read Across America day we had several of our employees as well as community members go to campuses throughout the district to read to our students and you can see there miss Hendrick I mean exemplifies what what reading is all about doesn't she let see the excitement on her face and so um very thankful for our employees
035and community members that participated in that Special Olympics we had our annual special here at Medina Valley ISD so you can see we had a lot of kids that were excited to participate in these events and they had a great time next slide of State powerlifting so we had both some of our boys and girls uh from the powerlifting teams um participate in the state contest and you can see there the results we did have one of our boys Ramirez that was a state champion in the in the 101 181 pound uh weight class so congratulations to Juan as well as all the other um athletes that participated and you can see the results there as well they did pretty well next slide um Ken five came out and our All-Star athlete who was Grace
036medley from the high school she's a senior at the high school you can see uh all the all the things that she does at the high school she's part of the volleyball team golf team uh does well academically and then is also a member of NHS and positive change Grace exemplifies what students in our in our school district so very very proud of her and very proud that she U soccer team had a great season um my understanding is this is the furthest they've in the playoffs they made it to the regional semi-finals um so very proud of those those girls and and coaches um and um you know it was a great year and we know that they are only looking forward to to to make it even better moving for um students from
037our Taffy program Texas Association of future Educators we they they competed at State contest and we are happy to announce that we have eight students organization that will go on to compete at the national contest and I believe we had about the same uh number last year as well so this is just the second year that we've had this this um organization in place so uh great job by the students and our sponsors that run that as well so congratulations to those uh students and best wishes at the national competition you see where they're going to be for that competition right I'm I'm sure they're I'm sure they're not going to be happy with that okay and then we have uh we we've pointed out you know some of our arts and in the past
038and how many uh um Stu how many of our students are artists and really good at it and we have another one here kle crisp recognized at the Tobin Center by the San Antonio Symphony League where she plays first in and paint to music competition so congratulations to K Kendall on the on that accomplishment okay next um again we want to recognize our employees of the month right we have some great great employees in the school district so uh this is one of our goals to do everything we can to to recognize and show off our our employee there's a list of of all those employees this month from campuses to departments and then this next one uh this is something that we we just add gold card and this idea came from Miss Hendrick
039right so miss Hendrick um had a outstanding idea continue to recognize our employees and let them know how much they're uh this is a program implement it so we have a video that kind of explains the program so we'll go ahead and play that video at this time I got a C and my gold card says always students first being so organized and proactive transforms learning into a world of imagination joy and Discovery for students she handles difficult calls to and from of our vulnerable families he goes above and beyond is a huge asset at cville Elementary this recognition is for being so amazing and loving even if they're not in your class district is recognizing employees um by letting their peers nominate each other to be recognized for significant service card you're just Star
040Struck and just excited to see um you know any type of recognition and it's just a great feeling side I think it's important because we don't always take the time to tell each other how much we appreciate so busy and so this is a great way to remind us to take time everyone doing a great job go ahead and fill out and make their day it really makes a difference it really uh home for that person so uh if you're thinking about that person definitely get out there definitely do that uh because it means a lot to somebody I card at yeah so it's the little things isn't it make a big difference is that we will bring a list of all employees that received a gold card so there's a list from this uh
041past month so you know again thankful for those employees and all that they do other employees that takes some time and effort as well so greatly appreciated by all all right good now on to the good stuff legislative update so we we some of this is a a little bit of a repeat from from last month just a quick reminder with with some of the school Finance stuff you know both and the Senate want to add some additional funding for for school Finance 4.85 billion be specific um how they allocate that is a little bit different house is focused more addition to the basic allotment whereas the Senate wants to um uh designate it more specifically towards uh teacher salaries and so um I I would say we we are in favor of the house
042version because it gives a school district a little bit more flexibility what they can do with that money now most of that money will end up going towards salaries right but it still gives the district a little bit more flexibility um vouchers nothing has really changed with vouchers see we're still waiting on the house the house is I think is going to hear their bill this week when it comes to in particular House Bill and then um once they once they get that pass I'm sure them and the Senate will try and work together to come up with a plan that they both can agree on but with the vouchers both are are uh designated a billion dollars right towards vouchers and that's just year one I want I would like to point out as
043as you go through the years three four years down the road that grows that could grow to four or five billion right and and remember that's money that's being taken away from uh Public Schools but how it it's related to the average daily attendance more specific it's $10,000 per student and if the student is a part of the special education program it's another $1,500 those are for students that are attending like school if a student is homeschooled both designate $2,000 per student property tax relief again they want both house to property taxes and and relieving property taxes 3.5 billion by both the the main one I they do have some language in theread exemption and the amount of a homestead exemption which is great for for us as taxpayers right but really uh really impacts
044a school district on the ins Side and being able to fund those Bond projects so those are some of your uh fi more more related to finance uh the next slide is just some other miscellaneous just some FYI for the board you know to know that they're out there bonds are big one there's a lot of conversations about bonds and and impacting some of the the things that are done with Bond so you can see Senate Bill 1209 um says that you could only hold a bond election in November you would not be able to do it in May uh and a lot of these uh a lot of these bills have companion bills in the in the other chamber right so there's a there's some companion bills for some of these in the house
045as well Senate Bill 1225 I thought was uh interesting it says Bond language must have this is a tax increase right on any any bond that you have go out for for a vote well that's already on there right yeah but they want it all I guess too many people are missing it right now so um the next one is is an interesting one as well Senate Bill 655 would three fths majority vote for a bond to pass now I I will I'll I'll I'll note this as well out there that require 2third majority vote to so um that's a little scary the house bill 2207 prohibits districts from submitting the same Bond within a two-year period in other words if you if you go out for a bond and it fell you'd have to
046wait at least two years before you go out for a bond again and I I'm there's there's a bill as well that has that at five years instead of two years so little little scary with that as well especially for a fast growth School District uh Senate Bill 1459 cell phones so there are some conversations about banning cell phones from school districts uh house spill four has to do with accountability so there's actually some some good things in this one it would reduce and and again none of these are finalized but part of the language right now has uh reducing the number of test right State tests given particularly at the elementary level uh it also would reduce uh the length of some of these tests as well and so there's some good things accountability
047that are in there um it it is kind of funny they have put some language in some of their bills uh that deal with you know the we've some of the districts have sued the state over the past two years on the accountability system which has held the state from U sending out ratings uh so some of these bills have language in there to where school districts can't do that or even if they do do that the ratings are still going to be released you know so there's some things like that that earn these bills as well and then lastly there are some bills uh related to safety and uh some additional funding for safety so that is that is any questions on the legislation we will see what happens from here okay next slide
048is our enrollment so again you can see our enrollment at the end of last school year which was 8,847 kids and you can see as of the 27th of this month we were almost at 9,800 kids so we continue to grow I'm I'm sure by by by next month will be over that 9800 and I believe is that the last one Scott okay any questions and we'll move on to scorecard priority two presentation with Mr mcgo good evening Mr President board members Dr Kos uh just want to give you an update on score two uh priority two which pertains to recruit Rec retain and professional development oh I do you're right so under recruitment these are our our three we're trying to work on is host multiple job fairs recognized in boing substitutes and continuing
049marketing uh for all of our POS and is under here to measure is we do send this out to you periodically but as of March 7th uh we only have two teacher openings one at L one at the um and once we first started the school year we only had one science position so we did very well with having all of our teachers and then we added the column on the right that keeps you update how many AIDS we're still looking for and then down at the bottom is our departments uh key thing to remember about our our some of our department positions especially child and transportation at this time of the year if we would hire somebody number of days we would annualize for their checks that would pay out through August is not
050much so we do have quite a few people that are recommended that turn us down at this time of the year for Food Service bus driving just because we annualize everyone's pay they work 40 they're paid out over the next five months is not very much of a check that comes home so just keep that in mind um also under was to increase def rate of our substitutes um so the Top Line this graph is what happened last year and the bottom part is where we currently are this year um we did much better in the fall semester um this spring we are down a little bit from where we were last year but I do believe the flu impact was a lot bigger this year in not only our student attendance but also our
051adults and spring Sports continues to impact us there as well with everything that's going on in a month of February and March but we will finalize this and bring this back to you once we're finished uh finished the school year under 2.2 uh the three main things we're looking there is to grow effective principles provide employees with a voice and then strengthening um employee recognition Dr Kos mentioned part of that in his presentation today um what we wanted to bring to the board is our retention at teacher attention right right now it's just teachers I will bring more data about back on on all the Departments uh but here is the teachers that we had present last year how many of them returned uh this does look at our uh teachers that retire resigned at
052the end of the year uh but this is where we compared to last year um 2.2 on um retain also have tenure uh I do believe remember Mr casion wanted to add tenure so here's my stab at the dark of to pres present this to you in a way that makes sense so um we do have the camp on our left side um then we have the number of teachers at that campus we their total number of years of experience this doesn't matter where they worked this is the column that accounts for all of that please remember this does not count this year nobody gets paid based on this year we're only looking at where they are uh when we start the year and then you have your average of that and then the next
053column number of years in a district this is solely looking at how many years they have been in a district and then the average there um so we will keep track of this every year for you uh we do want to retain everybody but it kind of also want to bring to your attention that middle column of average years experience um we are getting a lot of people moving here from other districts I do believe that middle column will climb as well as total years of experience and you know uh this year we only have 17 teachers that have zero years previous year 35 I think we will continue that Trend in getting those highly experienced teachers to come to our district um the third part of this goal is to uh in regards to
054professional development and Leadership opportunities we did have five people that were in our um leadership academy uh take positions in a district I'm not to the point where I can tell you where we are this year because um we're looking at this year's Leadership Academy and how many are going to move but our main goal here is to go from 5 to 10 by 2017 but I will bring this back to you at the end of this school year um this again is a slide in regards to zeroe teachers uh 23 24 we had 37 and of that 37 35 returned and then currently this year we have 17 uh it did go up because we had some midyear highers uh but I'm going to focus on just 17 that began the year and of
055those 17 will come back and I'll fill in that question mark then and then also under professional development um our goal our is to increase teacher tenure again the same slide here just with teachers uh same numbers are on there um for us to continue to increase both columns years of experience and also with years in a district questions no thank you thank you you're welcome so moving on to discussion and possible action items we'll with consider approval of consent agenda items Dr Kos yes so um you from committee reports we discussed this with each committee this is something that we're going to start adding to our agendas this is uh fairly typical for school districts to have a uh typ typical items in a cons agenda are those that are that come um on
056a u either monthly quarterly or yearly basis like usually have minutes every month right uh some of these quarterly investment reports those things that are fairly common and the board is is uh familiar with uh could be part of a consent agenda purchases you know purchas I don't know if I should say your your your smaller smaller purchases you know but not necessarily but maybe for us I don't know with with the situation we're in some of those purchases all of these will be reviewed uh with the board either through committee be information will be provided in the board updates and then all also information packet so and all these all these memos and and documents that support each one of items will be provided in the board update and to the public and so
057um they they are presented if at any time the board has a question on one of the items that's that's presented they can ask to have item pulled and we can uh go through the information and review it for the board otherwise it will be be presented and the board will um approve those all as one motion so with that I'll turn it over to you Mr filling any question any no I mean we reviewed all these and as Dr Kos pointed out these are all on the district website for the public um to review the specc specifics of each item um these are some of the more standard I'll say the word trivial items but uh I I think uh moving forward help speed the process but the information is available so with that
058said um I Matt cleone move to approve the items on the consent agenda as presented I have a motion do I have a second Jason Bonnie second the motion motion to Second you fa if not all those that approve all board members voted for and the motion carries next we'll move on to consider approval of resolution approving acquisition of prop Medina Central Appraisal District thank you um of the Medina Central to allow us to purchase a Building on 18th Street in Hond Texas before we start that we have had two new board members on the Central Appraisal with us here today Butch G has joined our board we also have added chipm um from Denis I'm not going to go back through the presentation you had several questions before I can address those if you
059have continued question questions or if you have additional questions we're glad to discuss this um have taken back the questions you asked and considered whether or not this is the best place for the appraisal district we continue to believe that it is since it's a building that's already constructed um we have been back in it and looked at the amount of Renovations that have to be constructed we believe that those are basically minimal to starting new construction um we believe that the cost of Renovations would be less than building a new building or starting with some of that we listed for you so that you can consider some of the other buildings that we looked at I'm here about any questions or handle it as you choose what was going to be the cost what
060were you projected to do we've talked with a couple of um Builders developers and have been quoted um for minimal res Renovations in the if well if you'll remember the building has five right now we know that we need three of those sections we've been quoted about ,000 by WR Griggs here in town to renovate the 5,000 square ft that we need for office space another section of the building is available able for us to use as a boardroom and a hearing we believe that that needs no renovations it's in good shape and then we have a cleaners that's in like say the section section you you're familiar with it we will they have a lease and they'll be in that section until the middle of next year and then we will analyze at that
061point what to do with that portion of the building not need it for a while but because we are an appraisal district and it we will not continue to lease to them questions motion I Joe beer moved to approve the resolution approve acquisition of property by Medina Central Appraisal District as presented motion to have a second a second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion all those in favor raise your hand all those opposed raise your hand two resorted four motion fails thank you thank you good evening so as as you all know you approve the approve the budget and when we come back to make amendments that budget we need to bring those back to you um and and basically let you see those by function so we approve
062by Fund in function so this budget amendment is actually two parts so one part of it we received e- rate reimbursement if you recall earlier ear in the year we we went out um to do some um access points um with and battery backups using eate funds and now that we've received those reimbursements we want to increase both the revenue and the expense for that $ 46,7 69 um this will ensure that the technology department has the needed funds to finish out the rest of their projects for the school year um and then the rest of the rest of the um budget amendment is is for um portable and furniture for next year so the first part of it the function 11 is going to be your classroom Furniture um for student growth for next
063year and a little bit of technology devices as well in there um and we're looking at I think we are add 20 plus teachers in the elementary grade level and so equipping those classrooms with the needed desks and chairs and and the things um will be important so we're walking campuses and getting good numbers of what they have and what they're going to need um but this is kind of an estimate of of where we think we're going to land um for furniture the function 51 of it is for the moving of the Portables so we're moving Portables from Lucky Ranch to silos on the pads that were installed last year when we built silos and then we're moving three Portables from Medina Valley High School to Medina Valley Middle School and part of that
064for the A and RC building to go in that space and we'll also provide additional um portables for Medina Valley Middle School should they should they need those as well um so most of the cost is for the move does include decking um and and the infrastructure I think we're we're laying sidewalks in a few of those places um as well and so so it's kind of the all-in cost of the um maintenance to to set those Portables um function 52 was adding some additional fencing at Medina Valley Middle School outside of the where the Portables are going to be and building 200 to enclose that space so um it's not free access for our middle school kids to to go out into the the parking lot back there school area and then function 53
065the bulk of that is the 146 from the eate equipment and then it's $8,000 to um do some recabling for the Portables at silos to get those hooked up and we're going to do internally um but with that I'll take any any questions um that yall have any questions not I'll look for motion I blame Nash moved to approve the budget amendment as presented I have a motion to have a I'm Matt CLE on second the motion all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of existing portable building relocation Services by doson house moving LLC not to exceed 17553 31 Mr bras yes sir as it was point out in order to accommodate the growing uh population we are moving uh scheduled
066to Portables from Lucky Ranch to silos and three Portables from Medina Valley High School to Medina Valley Middle School uh and those are listed on on per line item on the cost for each $13,250 for the Middle School to sorry from Medina Valley High School to the middle school and then $ 72,3 .31 uh from Lucky to Silo does include the new uh aluminum uh decking system that we're providing in all of our portal so our recommendation is that the board approve the existing portable building relocation services from Dotson house moving LLC in the amount of $175,300 you're referring to Lucky Ranch lucky Ranch lucky Ranch has I believe six Portables now no I believe they have eight is it eight there's eight so they have a few that are not being utilized at all
067right now and we feel like even as they grow that will I just want to make I was unaware thank you any questions if I'll look for a motion uh Jason Bonnie moved to approve the existing Portable Buildings relocation Serv Pur by dodson's house moving LL to exceed [Music] $175,500 Z1 for the Medina Valley ISD project and delegate and delegate authority of the superintendent to execute the contract Mr BR yes sir District staff and VK Architects work together to releas this rfcp uh we accepted a total of five bids on February 25th uh the base bids range on the lower end to at 68 m700 th000 to, 399 uh $1,999 uh staff together with VK value cre and is how the rankings fell showing barley coock general contract as the highest rank general contractor uh
068together with this proposal we also requested two alternates one of them being uh security film all throughout the building on the lower level up to 7even uh feet in height and then a secondary prefabricated walkway cover to allow for an additional drop off area as needed so through the process it shows that barley coock General Contractors is the best value for the district that bar General Contractors uh is awarded for the Medina Valley High Medina Valley Middle School number three including alternate one and two in the amount of 69 m341 th500 as well the district staff is also recommending the increase of the owner's contingency for the project to an additional 2,6 158,00 to cover any unforeseen conditions bringing the total uh contract price to 72 million even and delegate the authority to the superintendent
069to execute the contract any questions contingency that added was based on the fact that this came out below our original estimate yes sir our advertise 80 million we well under thank you any other questions now I'll look for a motion I blame Nash move to approve the award of rfcs 20251 to Bartle coock General Contractors from Medina Valley isd's Middle School number three project and delegate the authority to the superintendent to execute that contract I have a motion to hi Matt CLE only second to motion I have a motion to 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 Award of RFC 20252 for the M Valley High School Agricultural and jrc project and delegate authority
070of the superintendent to execute the house yes sir similar to the previous project okono Roberts and District staff work together uh to prepare this rfcp uh the district accepted bids on March 18th were set were SE uh seven bids were submitted the base bid ranged from 10,200 th000 to 13,1 100,000 uh District staff together with okono RK the submitters and it shows that WR Griggs is the highest rank for this project we also included six design alternates on this project uh number one being the exterior premanufactured tying back to the existing High School drainage improvements that are needed outside of the cafeteria uh immediately adjacent to the Future ajrc building will be a greenhouse a walk-in cooler for the food science lab flooring for the science lab as well sorry the food science lab and
071a natural um system for the food science SL on top of the range hood again and through this process it shows that WR Griggs construction is the best value for the district our recommendation is approve WR Griggs uh as well as the or alternates 1 through six in an amount totaling 10 million 95,000 um District staff also recommends increasing this owner the owner contingency for this project in the amount of 645,000 to cover any unforeseen conditions bringing the total contract price, 550,000 um and delegate the authority to the superintendent to negotiate the final agreement yeah and this was the same we increased the contingency based on the fact that it came in below below estimate that's corre advertis yeah and just to be clear we're not increasing the Incy just to get to that number
072but with the tariffs and all the other like there there's definitely some some supply and demand issues there so we just want to make sure we're covered and not be coming back after cor good point I mean it's for because we expect prices to go up that's great due to Copper tariff other things like that so all right thank you other questions look for a motion I bla nmo to approve the award of rfcp 20252 to WR Griggs for Medina Valley High School agricultural Junior ROTC project and delegate Authority to the superintendent to execute the contract I have a motion to have a second mat cleone second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise all board members voted for the motion carries next we
073have consider approval of joint election agreement and election Services contract with bar County elections Dr Kos yes so we will have a a school board election this may and so in order to do that we need to um Jo election agreement and election service contract with be County and so we have presented that information board tonight and we do recommend approval of this agre any questions not I'll look for a motion all Jason Bonnie move to elction agreement and election Services contract with bar County election U as presented I have a motion to have a second I been want a second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of election Services contract
074with Medina County elections yes so Medina County is that we um uh that the board approve a election service contract with them as well and so that is tonight and is recommended for approval as well any questions now I'll look for a motion I Ben wat is moveed to approve the election service contract with Med County election as presented I have a motion do I have a seconder second the motion I have a motion and a second any further disc discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have considered adoption of order to cancel the May 3rd 2025 trustee election member district number four Dr Kos so single member district four had only one app applicant and so there is no need to
075have an election for that single member district so we're have an order here part of the election any questions is that something that's still going to show up ballot it does not Lor doesn't okay got a not a look for motion I'm Matt CLE Ernie mooved to adopt the order to cancel the May 3rd trustee election for single member district number four as presented I have a motion to have a second I Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion and second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members vot voted for and the motion carries next we have consider approval of May 3rd 2025 general election order revision so with the cancellation of single member district 4 election we need to revise the general election order and
076so that is presented tonight to the board for approval as well questions look for motion I Ben West mooved to approve the revision to the May 3rd 2025 general election order I have a motion do I have a second all right Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion Carri we have consider acceptance of certification of unopposed candidate for single member district number four and so since single member district number four is unopposed the board can accept the certification of that unopposed candidate and so we present that to the board tonight for as well now to look for a motion I'm Matt CLE only move to approve the acceptance the certification of unopposed
077candidate Suzanne Lee for single member district 4 as presented I have a motion I have a second I Joe beiger second the motion I have a motion if not all those in favor raise your hand all board members vote up for and the motion carries the time is 7:18 p.m. and the board of trustees will now convene and close session as authorized by section 55171 55174 55176 55108 9 551 072 of the Texas open media open to discuss agenda items a through D no action will be taken in close session the board is now in Clos session e e e the board reconvening into Open session at 8:21 p.m. for the record no action was taken in Clos session next we have consider approval of the superintendent's recommendation for the lacost Elementary principal position Dr
078Kos yes Administration recommends Oscar Vega for the position of lacost Elementary principal any questions now I'll look for a motion I bla nmve to approve the superintendent's recommendation of Oscar Vega for the lacost elementary principal position as presented I have a motion to have a second I Jason Bonnie second the motion I have a motion and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries [Applause] congrats next we have consider approval of administrator contract renewals for the 2526 school year Dr Kos so I recommend the renewal of administrator contracts for the 2025 2026 school year as presented any questions not a look for a motion I'm Matt Castle moveed to approve the renewal of the administrator contracts for the 2025 2026 school
079year as presented I have a motion to have a second I want a second I have a motion and a second any further discussion not all those in favor raise your hand all board members voted for and the motion carries next we have is consideration of future meeting dates the next regular board meeting is scheduled for April 28th 2025 at 6m last is adjournment and I'll look for a motion all Jason Bonnie move to adjourn the regular board meeting at 6822 p.m. on March March 31st 2025 I have a motion do I have a second I Joe beiger second the motion I have a motion and a second all those in favor please raise your hand all board members voted for and we are adjourned thank you