001Yes, >> never mind. I see you like I I was making sure you knew I was asked to join. I'm good now. I'm in. Thank you. All right. Bye. Mic check. I'm checking to see if anyone can hear me. I can't see anyone, so I'm just checking to see if y'all can hear me. Yes, sir. We can hear you. Can you hear us? >> All right. I cannot hear anything back from the audience. So, I you got a text. So, >> testing testing test. Anyhow, the time is 5:30 p.m. December 16th, 2025, and this meeting of the Midland ISD Board of Trustees is now o duly open for the transaction of business or any matters which may be properly presented. Uh, moving on. Call to order. Roll call. I cannot see anyone there. So, uh,
002Miss Messik, if you could text me. Do we have a quorum? >> Yes. >> Can you hear me? >> No. >> Okay. I got a text. The provisions of section 551.01 >> of the Texas government code have met and we're in compliance. So say that again. I could hear somebody talk back real quick. >> Test. Test. >> Perfect. I got y'all. Thank you very much. I appreciate y'all y'all uh bearing with me um while I have to zoom in from Philadelphia. Anyway, if everyone would stand and take a moment of silence and the pledges are going to be led this evening by Days of All STEM and so if we stand for silence and then a pledge to the flags that would be appreciated. And now the pledges. Good evening, President Hajes, members of the
003board, and Dr. Howard. My name is David Dwarte, and I'm the principal of Davala Elementary School. The mission of Bmanist is that all students will graduate college, career, or military ready. In MISD, we work toward that mission every day. This evening, I am pleased to introduce two days of elementary students to lead us in our pledges. First, we have Alyssa Torres, daughter of Isaiah Torres and Crystal. Alyssa is in sixth grade and loves her reading class because she she feels reading builds intelligence and is the main pillar for all learning. A fun fact about Alyssa is that she wants to be a business owner and a fashion designer. When she grows up, when she grows up, because she wants the world to see what she can create. Next we have Irby Garcia in who's in
004sixth grade as well. He is the son of Yasminia and Herby Garcia. He loves math because it's fun. He's also into it and it comes naturally to him. His favorite hobby is robotics. When he graduates, he wants to attend college to become a doctor. Together we are educating the future with excellence. At this time, our students will lead us in our pledges. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge of allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Just let me know when y'all are sitting back down. >> We're good. Moving on to again kids, have a great holiday break. Thank y'all
005for the pledges. Thank you, Days of Alla. Moving on to agenda item number five, public forum. We have a total of six speakers and the secretary, if you would call the role of names and y'all have three minutes a piece and we appreciate y'all being there. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Our first speaker will be Stephanie Me. Thank you board. I'm excited to know really declare how important the relationship between a child and their parent is. We know as a mom how critical it is to have the support we need to raise our children and teachers are a critical critical piece of that dynamic. So we have three legs. We have this amazing teachers. We have amazing parents and our students. But in our community, we have something even an added lay. We have community
006partners. In a state that is currently underfunding public education, we're one of the rare districts that can get access to funding from our community partners. Now, a common strategy sport as a former athlete is to cause hell and chaos and then get the other team to turn against each other. I invite everyone in our community to not take the bait. Rise above that we as a community, our teachers, our students, our parents, our amazing community partners that we stand strong and lean in right now. And I am grateful for our board members who are starting to lean in and listen to what's going on. So I would like to personally ask today our school administration, specifically Dr. empowered to send out a climate survey that is anonymous for every teacher to fill out that is
007clear what campus it's coming from. So there's the anonymous piece where we know what campus it's coming from. It has a job. For example, it can have things like curriculum or it can have campus leadership concerns and then that anonymous post will have something specific. For example, I have a teacher tell me that over a piece, she was specifically yelled at and screamed at by an administration in front of her students. She was willing to take the feedback. She wanted the feedback, but the way it was presented was very unprofessional. Another drop down to be something, for example, teacher requirements. We know right now the state's requiring every teacher to be certified. I had a teacher come to me over at Midland High and say, "I understand. I need to get this teacher certification, but
008my budget, I don't know where I'm going to get the money." Thankfully, the Midland Foundation has given a small grant on the F500. We appreciate it, but maybe that's something we can reach into if there's a big enough outreach if that is a concern. So again, I would like to ask the district to put that survey together, give you some time to put it together and analyze it and present it in the February board meeting so that we as parents, we as PTA and other campus leaders can lean in and support our campuses in a healthy way so that come next August, our teachers want to stay here. They'll already feel the support. Thank you for Dr. Howard for attending all these campuses and trying to gauge that. We would like as parents to see
009that engagement. Last, I'd personally like to everyone everyone on this board to commit to Sarah Burlson being a member of this new presidency. She has been belittled in the public this past year, but she stands strong behind our teachers. She clearly represents our teachers. Convocation is an indicator of how our teachers support her from the applause that she received. Please consider her to be in this presidency for tonight. Thank you. Next speaker. Our next speaker, uh, Matt Galindo. >> Good evening. My name is Matt Gindo. I'm a father of four MISD students, three Witch MPs, and today I'm here to give you a little insight of what exactly transpired. Um since the beginning of the year there's been a concern with the administration that we have there. At the end of the year Mr. Sardal
010and his um his AP left until we were part of that committee that found or was part of the interview committee and during that interview committee it was very clear that this individual that was selected was not someone that we believed uh was was going to be the right person. Um, and here we are a few months later, uh, several months later, and that's exactly what we see. Teachers do not feel supported. Staff meetings, a full staff meeting had not been taking place since November 12th. Um, reports of new or the new admin reprimating teachers in front of students. Uh, and then when they do actually say something about it and it's brought to her teaching, this is what she said to me. And I quote, "They're just mad because I'm actually making them do
011their job. Think about it. An admin saying that to a parent about teachers. Um then afterwards when we have these conversations seems like they're just being sensitive about it. You see the issue is is that this admin continues to dismiss not only teachers but parents. Um so much so that you have students that have unenrolled and these are serious issues. This isn't just a small misunderstanding as some folks have put it. But this is a the student safety and well-being that escalated all the way to Dr. hour, right? And was being dismissed and said, "I hope that they can just get over it in return." That's not leadership. F teachers, experienced teachers with decades of experience and service are walking away. Folks are thinking of leaving and others are waiting for the the transfer in
012February. Leading with fear and disrespect and intimidation is not leadership. It's a display of insecurities. I know what I did. I caused a huge ruckus, but it was to bring attention to the real issue that's happening because it goes ignored day in and day out. These teachers deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. And it is not just at peace, it's districtwide. And when you look at the issue, there's a common theme here. When I asked this individual, is this who you are or is this the way that you were trained? She said, I have a job to do. Is this who you are or is it who uh is this how you were trained? When we become a B rated campus, we can all relax. If you're if you are intimidating them and
013treating them like this to become a B-rated campus, this is not how we get the job done. We're ready to do this. There's a lot more to say. One of the things I want to make very clear is I did that. 66 students didn't go to school that day because they supported their teachers and they understand what's happening. PTA had absolutely nothing to do with it. How far y'all have gone to try to hold PTA accountable for it is wrong. I did it. There's not another Midlander. There's not another leader. >> Time. Thank you. Next speaker. Our next speaker will be Sarah Collins. Good evening, trustees and Dr. Howard. My name is Derek Collins and I serve as the president of living council of PTAs. I appreciate the opportunity to provide a brief update on
014the state of our council. At this time, living council of PTAs represents 7,54 members with district 5. Uh those members include parents, teachers, staff, and community supporters who are committed to partnering with MISD and to support student success, campus engagement, and family involvement. We are working to be a Golden Mountain whole district. Uh and that means that we have um staff support at all campuses. Currently, we have 13 campuses that have achieved this award where all full-time staff members have joined their PTAs. Um there are opportunities within the district at the administrative level to make it a golden apple district as well. So, if you have not done so already, please visit joinpta.org and become a member today. Um, I had the privilege to meet with several of you this week over the um and
015shared some of this with you. We're actively working with local PTA leaders uh by providing them training, resources, and guidance to help them navigate difficult scenarios um and reach their membership goals. This includes uh membership campaigns, encouraging faculty and staff involvement and reinforcing best practices that align with both Texas PTA's standards and district expectations. Melvin Council of PTAs values the partnership with Melvin ISD and this board. Uh we remain committed to being a positive solution focused organization that advocates for all students uh while supporting our campuses and educators and their families on their c in their communities. We have started an online campaign uh to share the group within the Liban ISD and it's called Making Spirits Right. I don't know if you've seen it if we've been sharing it on our Facebook page this
016past week. Uh and within a few short days, we've received over 275 responses thanking uh district teachers, leaders, administrators, um central office and on every campus. Um sorry, the outpouring of thanks and appreciation has been remarkable and we hope to share the joy as we end the fall semester. So, please visit and help us share that along. Uh, I wanted to share a couple of them. I have four here. I'll be quick. Uh, Miss Shields is the best teacher. She's from General Franks. She says, "I think we've ever had." Both of my children were in her first grade class over the years and they have thrived. Miss is firm, fair, and makes learning fun. She cares about her kiddos and genuinely wants to them to succeed. Another one is Miss Hullman at Emerson. She sparks
017creativity, making learning fun, providing safe space for self-expression, and inspiring students to be unique and confident artists. Thank you, Miss Hullman. Uh, Miss Tense at Yarro, thank you for being such a great teacher and pushing our stubborn little girl to her potential. Um, you're doing such an awesome job and we appreciate it. Miss T at Abel, thank you so much for being the most welcoming and helping teacher. I love you so much. And that's just a few of the short ones that we have. We've got some other ones and we're hoping to spread a little bit of joy across the district. So, thank you for letting me um be here tonight and thank you for your continued support for PTAs. Thank you. Next speaker. Our next speaker is Amber Davidson. >> Good evening members of
018the board, Dr. Howard, those in the audience and watching and those watching online. My name is Amber Davidson. Many times the only information we hear is the negative or the bad in our world, community or schools. But not everything or everyone is bad and we should not let one action or individual tarnish tarnish our image. On December 4th, Midland Council decided we wanted to hear the good about the district that we are dedicated to supporting. In 13 short days, we have received 283 praises as of this afternoon and compliments of our Midland ISD teachers, staff members, administrators, custodians, and cafeteria workers. That is an average of 22 positive remarks each day. As council PTER, we are not just shocked by that number as you are because 95% of the time we only hear the negative.
019The negative is so loud that we forget to hear or even listen for the positive. Tonight, I want to remind each of you as board members, our community, and Dr. Howard and her team of leaders that those who are on our campuses each and every day are doing amazing things. They are encouraging and pushing students and their families are seeing the results. They are creating loving and safe environments because students are excited to go to school each and every day, even in December. We want to remind you that you can determine the narrative of our district. You can focus solely on the negative and nothing else, or you can listen for the positive and not let the negative drown it out. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Next speaker. Our next speaker is Reagan
020no. Good evening board superintendent. We uh reached the one year anniversary of uh Mr. Gwen, Mr. Hodes, and Mr. Hernandez's leadership on the board. And I brought you a report card today to reflect that. Um, so we have higher academic standards with no additional supports. F. An attempted move of the 18 plus program for special needs adults without a proper apples to apples transition and an attempt to move a fedally funded portable that can only be used for special education purposes. F. Notifying Encore Academy parents that the district is moving their kids to a new campus and having a board meeting to approve the listing of the property 3 days after the announcement. F. President Hajes mocking the fact that the special needs campus had a bedroom which was being used to teach life school
021students. F the uh letter limiting public comment. Still no answers on on that letter where that came from. F. Public records request going to the attorney general. F. Retirees being searchcharged to work in the district that's already shoe on teachers. F. the payroll fiasco that took almost a month to fix and is still being addressed in uh among many employees. F South South Elementary F the reversal in teacher recruitment and retention that's made two years worth of progress. F conflicts of interest between Mr. Hodes and Third Future Schools. F the conflict of interest between TE Caribal and Mr. Hodgees. F turnover in Dr. Howard's cabinet. F. Teachers being called to Sville office because of their opinions about the district that are not favorable. F. The board's budget that has made serving special needs students prone
022to grievances. F. Last meeting, Mr. Hajes need to give them give special services the money they needed, which admits that they did not have the funds that they needed. F. Testing your kids a start test when they only know a third of the material. F. blocking constituents from their public page. Mr. Freeze F. Uh the board lawyer, Mr. M Mrs. Belaloo, taking six months into her job to explain her duties to the board in a public forum after she's already build more than $100,000. F violating constituents first amendment rights by using the color of law to move a person in the auditorium to another seat in the auditorium from the po podium even if the person has not violated board policy or law. F violating Texas Open Meetings Act. Mr. Gwen, interrupting and stopping a
023public speaker's public comment even though they have not violated any boring policy or law and not giving back their time. F. No stipen announcement right before the holidays. F. Next speaker. Our next speaker is Courtney Ratliff. My love for peace started as a kindergartener in the 80s under the leadership of my First principal, Mr. Sheen, peace provided me with a structured place to learn and grow. In my third grade years, we were blessed to be led by someone I still hold in the highest regards, Dr. John McAfee. I can remember the times he would call me to his office just to offer his praise on my academic progress and good citizenship. As a student, at no point did I ever witness or even hear of Mr. Shannon or Dr. McAfee ever raise their voice or
024be disrespectful to their staff. Fast forward over 20 years to my return to the Peace campus, ready to help the current generation of Tigers grow into their educational potential. I had the privilege of working under the leadership of Mr. Gabriel Salgado for the next four and a half years. While we had a tremendous working relationship, we didn't agree 100% of the time. that even in those times of disagreement, he never disrespected me and I never saw or heard him do so to any other member of his team. Unfortunately for peace, Mr. Salgado received an opportunity he had been dreaming of for years, leaving the campus with a huge void in leadership. That void was filled with a rookie principal. This rookie principal was given orders from this administration to not allow me to be a
025part of their future plans. Me, someone who ran for a seat on this very school board on a platform of being more supportive of teachers. Me, who for the last three years was the representative of the campus and district for an entire school community, but I couldn't even get a return phone call for a meeting. As the year started, I began getting texts and phone calls from staff who were upset because of changes made. I listened and remind them of the challenges of being new. The first red flag instance came during the initial MAP test. The principal the principal received an email about a testing irregularity in fourth grade. They immediately went to fourth grade team called them to the hall and yelled at them with her finger pointed in their faces. After this display
026of aggression, the principal went back to their office and read the whole email which which was actually about attesting irregularity at their previous campus, not the current one. Do you think that the people who were publicly scolded received an apology? They did not. This became the new normal at Peas. The staff would regularly speak of the poor treatment while being given no direction. Staff meetings became a thing of the past. Parents began reaching out to me with complaints of being dismissed or made to feel inferior by the new principal. When I saw students in stores, they would tell me how scary the new principal was. In four months, this new principal had destroyed a culture that took decades to cultivate. Teachers who have spent the majority of their careers at that campus now want out.
027This principal's leadership is destroying peace and it's happening at the direction of your superintendent. Dr. Howard's chosen principal supervisor has we need that was our last speaker. >> Okay, I appreciate it. Moving on to agenda item six, consent agenda. A, the approval of board minutes. B, approval of monthly financials. C, approval of turnaround plan based on 2025 accountability for legacy freshman high school. D. Approval of 2026 MISD PE public information act calendar. E approval of interlocal cooperation contract between Angelo State University and Midland ISD. And F, approval of amendments to the superintendent's evaluation template for the 2025 2026 school year to include objective metrics for students. Would any board member like to pull any of those items? I cannot see y'all. So y'all have to speak up. >> Anybody? >> I motion to approve consent
028agenda. >> Second. >> It has been moved and seconded that this board approve consent agenda. A approval of board meeting minutes. B approval of monthly financial. C. Approval of turnaround plan based on 2025 accountability for legacy freshman high school. D. Approval of 2026 MISD Texas public information act calendar. E approval of interlocal cooperation contract between Angelo State University and Midland ISD. And F approval of amendments to the superintendent's evaluation template for the 2025 2026 school year to include objective metrics for students. All those in favor, raise your right hand. I cannot see y'all. >> It's unanimous. >> Unanimous. Moving on to the next agenda item. Agenda item seven, superintendent update. Dr. Howard, how are you doing this evening? >> Good. Thank you, Mr. Hajes. U members of the board. So, two and a half days
029left in the first semester. That's hard to believe. It seems like we just started school yesterday. Um just came from the winter wishes event that the education foundation has now um hosted for since 2022. And so hundreds if not thousands of teachers are signed up to go through um a bigger event than ever and uh many community members there supporting them, providing them goodies and uh we appreciate all of the the funders, the sponsors, education foundation for making that possible. Uh last week we had our STEM plusm projects and awards ceremony. We had 81 junior high students. Of course, uh you remember we have STEM plus M at every junior high this year where our seventh graders have the opportunity to take neuroscience on their way to a pathway in the medical profession. And so
03081 students were there. Of course, every junior high um had winners and great turnout by parents. Uh Dr. Fes was able to join us that night and we had very good participation from the families and and a lot of excitement around that program. Of course, Scarbor Foundation's here tonight and so we appreciate them because it's all made possible by their support. Uh we have 10 high school students that just recently qualified for the National Texas Thespian Festival. So they'll compete in that in the coming months. And then we have two of our teachers that just completed their national board certification which is a very rigorous process. Uh that's Mr. Nimburi from Midland High School and Susan Murphy from Rusk Elementary. And so we're very proud of them. Uh that is uh some of the best
031training out there and process. And so we appreciate the PSP for supporting that um years ago. And that is still paying off with teachers that are continuing to go through the national board certification process. Our year-to- date attendance continues to show gains compared to last year. We um at this time are at 93.57 compared to 92.5 um at the end of last year end of semester. So appreciate our families that get their students to school every day, our secondary stu students who get themselves to school every day, and of course our teachers that create that environment where kids want to be. Um, as we wrap up the semester, there's been a lot of um, excitement around the results that we're starting to see come in. Our students in K through 8th grade completed the middle
032of your year I Ready assessment. Typical growth, and you'll get a full report on this next month, but I wanted to share some highlights tonight. So, typical growth is 50% and as a district K8, we're seeing reading at 61% and math at 62%. So outperforming the typical growth at the national level and benchmarks uh results are starting to come in this week as well and we'll be reporting those out in January. I do want to thank you um as we work to get where we want to be as a district where the community expects us to be and then quite frankly where our students um what our students deserve. Uh we're having to do some things very differently. the aligned instructional resources. For the first time in many years, we have instructional resources that are
033consistent across all of our campuses. Uh the lesson internalization TAC strategies and I want to share some examples. Um you know, just anecdotal examples from when teachers embrace that. Uh Miss Nava, who's a teacher over at Bonham Elementary, we were over there a couple of weeks ago and she was so excited. Her results were coming in. I saw at Winter Wishes again tonight. 81% of her students met their growth goals and she couldn't wait to share that news. Um she's a veteran teacher, been teaching for many years and um tonight at Winter Wishes, she was excited to see her benchmark scores start coming in. And then I had a parent reach out several weeks ago and uh that's kind of what started the um the idea about the that the PTA picked up on with
034the celebrations and successes of of from parents about teachers. Um and then some work we've been doing as well. Uh but this parent shared an update uh that their child had gained 68 points from the beginning of year till middle of year and moving from behind uh being behind nearly to on grade level in just one semester. And then just this weekend in HB because I am the type that still goes and walks through the store and buys my groceries. I don't like takeout. So, I ran into one of our employees that I worked with when I was here before and she had her elementary daughter with her and she wanted to brag on the fact that she's grown two grade levels in this semester. And so, those kind of stories um are proof that
035uh the work that's happening across the district is paying off and uh we appreciate the PTA and then of course the district's um opportunity for parents to provide that input and thank people that are making a difference in their children's lives. Uh going back to the Scarbor Foundation donation, um I'm going to say we didn't receive this funding, but our partners received this funding that supports the work in our strategic plan. So, uh the Scarbor Foundation has just announced a $2.15 million contribution for registered apprentices. So, that's 1.95 million uh that will be going to UTPB to support our registered apprentices. These are pair of professionals that work for us, but they want to be teachers. And so this allows them to continue working for us, but receive funding to get their degree and their
036teacher certification. Um, also with those contributions, 200,000's going to Texas Tech University to support the principal fellowship program that we're now in year three of. Uh this allows teachers in the classroom who want to be principles to earn their masters and their principal certification in 15 months while serving under one of our highly effective principles. And then they've also um committed to helping 200 of our teachers who are DOI and not certified obtain their certification and have that financial support to do so. So I didn't know you were going to be here, Miss Benonati, but we appreciate you and and want to thank you for that. Uh when we return from the break, our sixth graders through juniors will be uh will begin academic planning. So while we're halfway through the year, it's time to
037get ready for next year. So those will kick off with parent meetings and then students will begin selecting their courses for next year. Uh tonight we'll provide the financial and budget budget update number one uh that we'll uh do monthly leading up to June and when we adopt the budget for the 2627 school year. Of course, that starts with our projected enrollment and Mr. Durham's going to take you through that process. Um, this year we're a little over,00 students below projection. You know that we've talked through it. We've adjusted and amended the budget accordingly and we've made staffing adjustments based on that um reduction in students that we expected next year. We will be pro projecting very conservatively with vouchers, new charter schools coming into the community. It's going to be one of the toughest
038years I think to project and truly know how many students are going to show up in August. And so, uh, we will be conservatively projecting for next year. And, uh, that will begin to drive the budget. Um, one thing that as our enrollment, as we see some enrollment declines, one thing that's important to remember is that, um, that of course affects funding, but it also drives up recapture. So, we're scheduled to send back almost 84 million this year. Um, anytime we have a reduction in student enrollment than we see um more property wealth per student, that drives up recapture. Um, and the big majority of our funding comes from our local taxpayers right now. Um, a couple of upcoming events, of course, winter break. all the teachers are are I'm not sure if they're looking
039forward to Christmas or looking forward to two weeks off uh at winter wishes but uh very excited to have some time um to rest and and spend with friends and family. Uh our teachers, our staff will return on January 5th and 6th. Those are staff development days and then our students will come back on that Wednesday. And then uh last update is the Midland IC showcase that's coming up in January. That's the first time we will host that event. Again, that's the foundation helping us with that and it's a fundraiser that they expect to raise a little over a h 100,000 and that of course will flow back to our students and teachers and campuses. So that's all I have. >> Thank you very much. Any questions? >> I can't see y'all, so you got
040to tell me. No questions. Okay. >> Thank you, Dr. Howard. Moving on to the next agenda item. Agenda item 8, districtformational reports. A bond 2023 monthly report, >> President Hodes, Dr. Howard, and members of the school board. My name is R.J. Lopez, and I'm an architect and program manager with Park Hill. pleased to be here to give you an update on your current 2023 bond project. And so we'll get started. I have a clicker here. So, as you know, you have a 11 packages currently in design or under construction. Oh, there you go. And um currently Lonear Elementary is completed. We've had the ribbon cutting back in August and the punch list and warranty is uh currently being completed. Uh this is the list of the current projects uh and packages and we're going to
041run through just the status of those um as they they stand today. I think many of you have seen this this graphic showing the current packages across all of your campuses. There's a lot of work going on. Um each number represents a package that is currently uh in design or construction or completed. So you can see on the top there that one represents uh Lonear Trails that has been completed in August. And then that two on the bottom left is the uh uh Lee High School uh project that is currently under construction and then just the various packages across the uh the city. So to start off the scope of the projects on the left there, this is kind of a a new format so you can see what's going on at each campus along
042with the the project name and location on the right there. OnStar Elementary, as we talked about, really just uh finalizing the the closeout documents, getting all the warranty information from the contractor, and finalizing the the punch list. And so there's there's a few remaining items that we're working with the contractor, but we're wrapping those up as quickly as possible. The largest piece of the 2023 bond, the two new high schools are are well under construction. They're both on schedule and and under budget. You can see they are at various uh stages of construction based on the existing site differences. Uh but they are both on schedule. Lee's a little ahead of schedule. Just based on their site being a little more clear when they got started. got pictures that that show where we're at now,
043but also want to remind you of what the end result will look like since these are five-year long projects. Uh like to show the the pictures a little more often. So that's the uh the main entry of the new Midland High School. This is a uh updated rendering of what that site would look like. It's a little bit more refined showing some of the landscaping and drives um in the overall campus with parking and circulation. And then the next we're going to show an overlay of what that current site looks like. So this is showing the the clearing and then some of the uh concrete foundations being installed over that site. So you can see a lot of progress moving forward. Then we've got some u additional images of the performing arts center as it'll
044eventually stand and then pictures of what it currently looks like. Uh this is where both projects are actually starting in the performing arts area. So you can see uh what's closest to us is actually um footings in where the u the new theater and lobby will be for Midland High. And then this is showing some of the progress of the prep work for the concrete slabs. Then moving on to the new Midland High School. This is the front entry of what the new Midland Lee High School will look like. And then once again, an updated aerial of what that uh overall campus will look like, showing parking, circulation, and landscaping. Then another rendering of what the eventual courtyard will look like. and then the the status of construction. So this is a bird's eyee view
045and on the right bottom right hand side that's actually the the main entry there and you can see that uh the gray is the poured concrete. The yellow is the uh the the prep work for pouring concrete. And then on the the very far left hand side there is actually the the fine arts area where they've actually started building walls. This is showing an overlay of what that looks like currently or an overlay of the the floor plan on what is out on site currently. to the rendering of the performance performing arts area. Then this is the current status of the performing arts area. So eventually this will look like that previous picture. And this is a little bit up close photo of of those walls actually going up. So you can see they're about
04610 foot high at this point. We're also working on the uh the roads that go around the site. So the package 2A is the utilities. So the water and sewer on Avalon and Thomasson uh is about to be under construction. And then the roads uh themselves are in design and will become under construction uh in the spring. Next is uh campus three which is the elementary school package. And so you can see there's various improvements going on at each one of those campuses such as site improvements, uh exterior building improvements, classroom improvements, lighting upgrades. Let's see the status of the projects. The priority there was the fire fire sprinkler systems at Lamar Long and Houston. Uh so those were uh scheduled to be completed in the summer 26. And then we see kind of the
047various deadlines and scopes of work. The package two includes security vestibules and these are images of what those uh security vestibules would look like on the left and then on the right shows you uh what those floor plans would how those would work. So every campus would have a security vestibule uh that you would enter through the reception area and then have to be you know uh scanned and badged before you let into the campus. And so with these uh few additions onto these elementary campus all of the elementaryaries would have the same type of security desk if you'll in administration area. So that's happening at Franks, Sam Houston, and Lamar. All right, the next package is package four and that's at the GDDARD and Midland Freshman. You can see they they both have classroom
048additions, kitchen additions, parking lot expansions, and then various other improvements. Those are uh currently getting con uh started in construction with the initial brick work and temporary entrances underway. Got images that show the u the future work, new addition there on the right, which matches the existing building pretty well. So that's where the uh the new security vestibule and administration area would would take place. on the bottom right aerial there. You can kind of see the uh green uh edition is what we're looking at there. Then on the the yellow edition in that same area around where that pink drive is is the the classroom. Um and then the orange is the the kitchen edition. And uh Goddard and Midland Freshman are about the same layout. So, it's a pretty similar um addition at each
049campus, just uh a little different because of the site. Package five, the classroom edition, kitchen and dining expansions as well with various site improvements. And you can see the uh status of those projects. They're fully designed and about to be under construction in January. The renderings of those campuses are on the right there. The multi-purpose uh buildings at those campuses are under construction. So, we've got pictures showing the the slab work there being completed. There's a little up close picture of the Alamo multi-purpose building going in. And then at a bell just the the prep work for that slab. Next package, package eight, we've got the another elementary school package. You can see there's various capital improvement uh projects that will be happening at those campuses. Um the the first phase of that was the
050Santaita bus drive which is completed and then phase uh two is those various other improvements that would be happening at those those campuses and those are scheduled to be completed um over the summer and spring. package nine the uh Abel and San Do you see the various improvements including classroom addition site improvements um and finish updates MEP improvements um phase one flooring upgrades have been completed and then you can see that's in design right now this is a a rendering of the uh library edition at Sanento. See a little closer up view of that. And then a rendering of what the exterior improvements of the entryway at Saninto. And package 10 would be another round of elementary school uh package improvements. that is also under uh design right now and we did early 2027. So
051that one's coming a little bit later. Right now that's just walking to campus and verifying scope currently. And then the the last package currently in design is package 11 and that's great house rust geese Bowie Milm and Jones and you can see those those improvements as well and that's once again that's another one that's in the design phase verifying scope and would would bid and begin construction in summer 2027. So with the with the packages that we now have u either in design or under construction um we are showing a um current difference between the budget and projected cost of about $13 million under budget when you consider all of the projects that are currently underway. So, we're we're sitting pretty good. We've got a little ways to go, but after a couple of years
052in it, we're looking pretty good. Take any questions after your update on the 2023 bond. >> Does that include the potential pipeline move that number? >> Yes. Yes, sir. That includes >> If we move the pipeline, it's 13 million. >> It will still be 13 >> 187. Yes, sir. All right. Thank you. >> Any other questions? I cannot see y'all, so you will have to speak up. >> No further questions. >> Perfect. Thank you very much for the presentation. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to agenda item 8B, district informationational reports. B 20252026 targeted improvement plans for AEL Junior High School, South Elementary, Long Elementary, and Idea Travis. >> Good evening, President Hajes, Dr. Howard, and members of the board. We're here tonight to present the targeted improvement plans for Abel, Long South, and Idea
053Travis. Targeted support and improvement identification is based on identifying any campus with one or more consistently underperforming groups of students. TEDA defines consistently underperforming as a school having one or more student groups that do not meet interim target or show expected growth towards the next interim target for three consecutive years. A student group that misses the targets in the same three indicators for three consecutive years is considered consistently underperforming and is determined to be targeted determined to be a targeted support and improvement. Each plan includes implementation of high quality instructional materials, strengthening tier one instruction, monitoring progress towards student outcome goals, and the use of data informed systems aligned to AE local and Brew local. I would like to highlight that Long Elementary is required to complete a targeted improvement plan because they receive an
054effective schools framework grant. This is anformational item and board approval is not required at this time for the 2526 targeted improvement plans for the identified campuses. I need to click a targeted improvement plan must include specific areas of success criteria. one being a school improvement strategy. As you can see here, um some of our campuses will discuss the intensive curriculum and um instruction improvements. Then you will see curriculum resources and capacity capacity building plans. I will now introduce Dr. Rodriguez, principal of Ael Junior High, to present on the targeted improvement plan. Good evening, President Hodes, Dr. Howard, and members of the board. My name is Dr. Andrea Rodriguez. Tonight I will be presenting on Abel's targeted improvement plan and I will describe our focus this year on intensive curriculum and instructional efforts with streamlined systems
055for planning and capacity building. So on this slide you can see a current picture of AEL its demographics and our recent performance. AEL junior high star performance shows a lot of fluctuation over the past several years. We received no rating in 2021, but then earned a C of 78 in 2022. Um, we then declined to a D or 62 in 2023 and even further to an F um in 2024. Last year in 2025, we did show notable improvement, rising back to a D or 69, indicating progress, but we are still below the 2022 performance level. I'd like to highlight um that I came to Abel for the spring semester last year in 2025 and so this is my first full year at AEL. We do serve a diverse student population. We have about 53 uh%
056of our students who are economically disadvantaged and about 24% of them are emergent bilingual. Our special education students make up 11% of our campus. Our student body is also predominantly Hispanic at 64%. Our attendance has has fluctuated over the course of the year. Our first cycle um we had 95.2% attendance above the district at 94.9%. And our second six weeks 93.9% attendance above the district's 93.4%. However, we still are slightly below our campus goal of 94% for the year. On this slide, you can see the board goals that are specific to AEL. These are aligned to the district board goals. Specific measurable goals are important. Um, specific measurable goals aligned to the board goals are important because they ensure that our campus and our district efforts are focused, coherent, and directly connected to the priorities
057set by the board. They also provide clarity for staff, create accountability, and allow leaders to monitor progress and adjust strategies based on data. Our campus leadership team, my principal supervisor, and our chief academic officer also carefully monitor and adjust our plans as necessary. I will now provide a little more insight into our selected strategy for improvement this year, intensive curriculum and capacity building. So our targeted improvement plan strategy is intensive curriculum and instructional improvements which focuses on planning, implementation and capacity building. We are implementing STEM scopes this year. This does qualify as a high quality instructional material and this is the purpose of this is to to support our student performance in math. Our teaching and learning department and principal supervisors have also increased their support um for our teachers to allow them to focus
058more of their time on lesson preparation and internalization. Teach like a champion serves as the foundation of our um professional learning at AEL. This organization combines a deep instructional expertise with firsthand experience that leads to largecale improvement efforts. together. Um, teach like a champion offers a powerful partnership with us for building the capacity of school leaders and teachers to deliver sustained academic gains in challenging contexts. So, the teach like a champion leaders come to AEL once a month. During their time at AEL, we meet for half a day. We spend time in classrooms and in professional learning community uh meetings as well. We look at uh goals that we've been working on in the past and identify further areas in need of improvement. And then these action steps are provided to Miss Ton, the principal
059supervisor, and myself. And we determine the next course of action to take. Uh lastly, our multiclassroom leaders and the administration at AEL also attend monthly district teach like a champion professional development sessions where we focus on lesson internalization and explicit direct instruction. Good evening. I am Pedro Maruvius, principal of Long Elementary. As mentioned previously, Long is only required to submit a targeted improvement plan because a we are a recipient of effective schools framework. I forgot. Larry Elementary has shown steady improvement in star performance over the past several years. After receiving no rating in 2021 and 2022, the campus earned an F in 2023, but improved to a D in 2024 and a C in 2025. 2025 being my first year as a principal. Long serves a highly diverse and high need student population. 83.5% of
060students are economically disadvantaged and 34% are emergent bilingual. Special education students make up 18.5% of the campus. At Long Elementary, we set specific measurable goals aligned to board priorities to ensure all campus efforts contribute directly to district objectives. Progress is closely monitored through regular data reporting and and analysis, allowing leaders to identify trends, celebrate successes, and adjust strategies as needed. Within the target improvement plan, we establish specific milestones tied to student outcomes and instructional practices. These milestones include targeted professional development such as monthly teach like a champion session for multiclassroom leaders and myself as well as campuswide implementation support by linking professional learning data monitoring and milestone tracking. The campus maintains a structured response driven approach to continuous improvement. Long elementary school school improvement strategy focus on creating a cohesive high impact instructional system. Teachers
061engage in intense lesson planning and internalization, rehearsing lessons and refining delivery to maximize student engagement and mastery. This work is supported by high quality instructional materials, structured professional learning communities, and campus instructional leadership teams which monitor fid fidelity and provide coaching. Additional supports include strategic staffing, targeted campus professional development, teach like a champion look force, capacity building, and district level guidance from our chief academic officer and principal supervisor. All designed to strengthen teacher effectiveness and accelerate student growth. Together, these elements create a cohesive datadriven instructional system that supports teachers effectiveness and continuous student growth. Thank you. >> Good evening. My name is Jennifer Payne and I'm the principal at South Elementary. Tonight, I'm presenting South's Elementary targeted improvement plan, which outlines key strategies and systems we're implementing this year to move the campus from an
062F-rated campus performance to a C-rated campus performance. Our demographics illustrate the complexity and responsibility we hold as a campus. South serves majority of economically disadvantaged students, a large population of emergent bilingual learners, and a growing number of students receiving special education and intervention services. These student groups count heavily in domain 3, meaning consistent instructional systems are essential for ensuring all students, especially our historically underserved subpopuls, show meaningful academic growth. Our accountability outcomes over the past several years reflect what we would describe as a yo-yo effect. A pattern of significant swings in overall performance that has moved the campus from a B- rating to an F-rating within one year. This level of volatility is not sustainable and does not represent the quality of instruction that our students richly deserve. Our previous instructional systems and expectations were
063not implemented with consistency, clarity, or fidelity. As a result, students achievement varied widely yeartoear and significant gaps emerged in tier 1 instruction, data monitoring, and instructional cycles, intervention cycles. As part of the in targeted improvement plan, South Elementary has established clear, measurable accountability goals aligned to the board's scorecard and the Texas accountability framework. Our targets for this school year focus on increasing student performance at meets grade level standard and accelerating growth for all student groups. Specifically, our goals include overall math meets percentage 42% across grades 3 through 6. Overall reading meets percentage 44% across grades 3 through six. Overall growth goal 72%. These goals guide our instructional planning, intervention cycles, and professional learning priorities. The board scorecard serves as our primary progress monitoring tool, helping us track performance across all student populations, including Hispanic, white,
064African-American, special education, emergent bilingual, and economically disadvantaged students to ensure that every group is making the necessary gains to meet domain 3 expectations. South's elementary improvement strategy centers on strengthening tier one instruction, aligning curriculum and assessments to state standards, and building the instructional capacity of teachers and leaders. Our focus is to ensure daily highquality instruction that accelerates learning for every student with particular emphasis on foundational literacy and math skills, complex higher order thinking skills, emergent bilingual students, and special education services. This approach includes stronger lesson internalization, intentional grouping, daily mastery checks, and consistent instructional routines through Teach Like a Champion practices to ensure strong implementation of the targeted improvement plan. South Elementary has established a clear instructional calendar, consistent leadership meeting cadence, and progressing progress monitoring checkpoints supported by daily walkthroughs, weekly PLC's, bi-weekly leadership
065data reviews, and monthly district project checks. The redesigned master schedule protects core instruction, embeds daily intervention time, and ensures PLC collaboration and consistent special education services. Vertical PLC in math and reading strengthen TE's alignment and planning rigor while datainformed instructional grouping using I ready MA map exit tickets and domain 3 indicators drive targeted small groups instruction instruction every week capacity building is supported through weekly coaching cycles daily feedback and MCL modeled aligned to the teach like a champion look force that increase engagement pacing and acade academic rigor, strategic staffing, including multiclassroom leaders, master teacher reach teachers, team reach teachers, and redistribution of certified teachers, ensures students have access to highquality instruction and specialized support. District level leadership, including the academic chief officer, provides monthly reviews, coaching, and curriculum support to sustain implementation. Professional learning focuses
066on tier one instruction, smallroup intervention and PLC facilitation supported by deeper HQIM internalization of K through six stem scopes and amplify lessons. Exemplary development and fidelity checks. Finally, strengthening special education and dual language training ensures effective inclusion practices by literacy support and aligned instructional plan for all learners. Our goal is clear. Eliminate the yo-yo effect and build a campus where instructional quality is consistent, predictable, and accountable every day. With these systems now in place and supported by clear academic and accountable goals in math, reading, and growth, we are fully committed to move South Elementary from an F-rated campus to a C-rated campus and restoring the academic stability our students deserve. Good even good evening Dr. Howard members of the board my name is Annette MSAS and I will be presenting the information on Idea Travis.
067So at Idea Travis, our mission is to ensure that every one of our scholars is prepared for college and for opportunities that follow. Families choose Idea Travis because they believe in that promise and our responsibility is to ensure that the results match that belief. Idea Travis serves more than 1,300 students from preK through 11th grade. Demand for the campus remains strong and families continue to place their trust in us at Idea Travis. At the same time, the academic data tells us that we have much more work to do to ensure that all scholars are consistently on a college ready path. Foundational performance in reading, math, and science, particularly in the early grades, has not yet achieved the levels required for long-term success. Attendance is close to the district averages, but not yet strong enough to
068fully support academic acceleration. This data provides clarity and it signals a need for a focused intentional improvement plan that strength strengthens daily instruction and ensures that our scholars are gaining the skills they need year-over-year. Our proposed performance goals reflect a clear responsible trajectory for improvement. In the near term, the campus is targeting movement to a C rating, followed by sustained progress to a B and ultimately an A. This approach prioritizes building strong instructional systems that last rather than short-term gains. We are anchoring this work in early early literacy and mathematics with specific growth targets in third grade reading and math. These early benchmarks are critical because they set students up for success in middle school, high school, and ultimately college. These goals represent our definition of impact. Students gaining the foundational skills they need earlier
069and more consistently so that they remain on track for graduation and post-secary success. The targeted improvement plan outlines how we turn this vision into action. The strategy focuses on two key areas. Strengthening instructional planning, follow-through, and building the capacity of leaders and teachers to deliver high quality instruction every single day. Instruction is supported through regular classroom observations, data reviews, and leadership check-ins that allow us to quickly identify what is working and where additional support is needed. Teachers engage in consistent job embedded professional learning such as collaborative planning, analyzing student work, and coaching so that instruction remains aligned to the standards and that it is responsive to student needs. At the same time, we are investing in leadership development to ensure that our principles and our instructional leaders can coach effectively, support our teachers, and maintain
070a consistent instructional bar across the campus. Together, these systems reduce variability, strengthen instructional quality, and create the conditions for sustained academic growth. To close, this targeted improvement plan reflects our commitment to responsible stewardship and long-term impact. Your partnership allows us to invest not just in programs, but in the people and the systems that directly affect classroom instruction and student outcomes. This work is about building a strong foundation so that students remain on track for college readiness year after year. We are confident in the direction that we are headed to because it is grounded in evidence, disciplined execution, and a clear focus on results. We look forward to sharing our sharing your continued progress as this plan takes hold and translates into stronger outcomes for our students and our scholars and our families. Thank you. >>
071Yes, ma'am. Before you I can't see anyone there, but I'm assuming you're walking away. I had a I had a quick question for IDEA. >> Yes, sir. Y >> um I appreciate your your presentation, but if I I want to make correct me if I'm wrong. In 2023, idea had a 69. 2024 it was a 65 and then in 2025 it was a 66. >> That is correct. >> So what In in layman's terms, in non education jargon, what do you feel like you're putting in place to turn this around because we want it's very important that that y'all are successful for our kiddos to offer them opportunities. So, just in layman's terms, could you tell me what your three strengths are that you're you're going to implement to to focus on? In layman's terms,
072we are focused on strengthening the systems, the coaching systems devel to develop our teachers and our leaders and then the datadriven systems that uh require us to be responsive to the students needs. >> That thank you for that. I I'm trying to get a little bit more in depth, not just that jargon. I mean, are y'all going to change curriculum? I understand y'all are going to do PLC's and focus on on training our staff, but are you doing more one-on-one interventions or are you going to do small groups or what are we going to do in layman's terms to be able to get the kids that are struggling up to speed and back on track? >> So, we do have embedded into our master schedule this school year an academic block. It's an hour block
073uh for scholars to participate in every every single day throughout the school day. >> Okay. Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> I I have a question or two. So, so >> don't forget Dr. Freeze, not trying to interrupt. Just if if board members have questions for IDEA, remember to speak up because I cannot see y'all. Thank you, Dr. Freeze, for speaking up. Sorry. >> Okay. Um so these these reading scores are these meats or approaches you know the it's meats >> it's meats the percentage of scholarship >> right so I mean you know we're sitting here at ddd and we're not showing any improvement but then we have these forwardlooking graphs that show all this great improvement very rosy polyananish scenario And you know, a skeptic might say, "Y'all have had years to fix this
074and it's not I'm not seeing it get fixed." So, could you comment on that? >> We have made changes um at the leadership level at the campus uh as a result of uh the scores that we are seeing. We this school year we've also made instructional adjustments where we've put teachers that are um performing at a higher level in specific spaces where we are seeing uh students not meeting the bar just yet. >> All right. I would really like to see some data showing improvement um as soon as possible. Thanks. >> We do have the 1882 presentation coming up and we do have more recent data to share with you. Any more questions? Speak up. >> I have I I have uh some more questions for for other principles. That's Miss Payne, I guess. So,
075I I uh I really appreciate you um doing what you're doing. I can tell that you're very conscientious and you're very caring individual and I think you're the perfect person to lead this turnaround at South. So, thank you for for doing that. That being said, um you know, I've I've kind of made some unannounced visits to South and I've noticed, you know, some of our, you know, the bar charts that I'm seeing outside of these classrooms. I see a significant number of kids that are two plus years behind. How are we going to fix this? >> Aligning making sure our tier one instruction is solid, but also we're going to have to be accelerating the instruction. As we looked at our data from our benchmark this last week, finishing it up, we talked about taking
076on the identifying the I the high leverage standards as well as how we can get those things put in place. We also looked at strategically what's coming up in the upcoming six weeks that we're coming back after the holidays as well as that previous and putting things in place as far as specific staff members as well as specific strategies and approaches to be utilizing what's going to happen in the natural instruction and then embedding that and scaffolding learning. If we're seeing gaps and issues because of that two or three year behind gap that's occurring. We're also making sure we're giving every single moment we can for the kiddos to have either personalized lessons that are on their pathways. In addition to that, making sure we have small groupoups instruction pieces. Our instructional team of our
077pair of professionals are also targeting and going to be utilized for helping students specifically in their particular needs and giving support to teachers in removing the corded that needle of what we need to do. >> Thanks. That's that's very helpful. Um, also the other thing I I happen to notice is I see uh teachers or instructors, whoever's in there on their device a little too often. Is there anything we can do to help encourage them to put their device down and teach? >> We made clear expectations of the what should happen during the instructional time. As well as that, we've tried to make sure that we've reminded them that we have different ways to communicate to parents if they're focusing in on communication. and we put some walkie-talkies in particular areas. So, if there's needing
078to be quick communication about students and and what's going on with that particular student or group of students, if they're needing a reply. So, we're trying to make sure we're giving communication to continue to flow, but in a way that is not taking the eyes off the students, we can simply look at the students and then reply what's going on. So also being very very aware of what we need to be doing as far as paying attention and our expectations that our community and we have as a system that we should be providing our total focus on the children the entire time we have them. Mr. See, I uh I would like you to kind of just tell us how you do a really good job with the culture at your school. I mean, it's
079it's incredible how you can do that. So, if you could just kind of speak to that even even this year, you get a a big change in your student population and it's the same thing. I mean, you're a master at this. How could you kind of just explain to everyone what your secrets are? >> No. No. At least they weren't here. Just kidding. Um right now we've implemented the Ron Clark Academy which is um we try to show all our kids that they belong somewhere and um other schools are trying it out as well. So each kid belongs to a house and they get um points for their behavior, for their answers, for their participation. So we do that, we inform the parents, we have constant communication with the parents and we always invite our
080parents in. Um we always have different events. We host one every mo once a month every morning and then once in the afternoon just so that we can accommodate everybody and and we have a full house all the time. So so um we we encourage parent participation. Our teachers are very parent oriented and have that communication open and and that's the secret just just being transparent with the parents. um being communicated communicative with the parents. So So that's how how we do it and we encourage good behavior. So it's working. >> I got one for Dr. Rodriguez. Um so previously I mean I think you've done a phenomenal job raising it up 11 points in in a half a year is incredible. Um we kind of talked about some of the challenges with the instruction.
081I I was just I'd like you to talk to how um teachers are how the buyin is going on your campus to some of the the things we're doing like the the teach like a champion and what are what's working for you to uh you know help these teachers buy in. Um, so we have quite a few new teachers, brand new associate teachers or DOI teachers, and um, they they've really done a it's been easier to get a lot of those people to really embrace some of those strategies because they're a clean slate. And so we've had a I think with those people starting to buy in, it kind of starts like a snowball effect. And then you're seeing results from these brand new teachers, these associate teachers. They have no experience. And then that
082encourages some of the more veteran ones to start to um become more involved as well. And so I think just those successes that we're seeing with those newer teachers are really the veterans don't want to get left behind. >> Yeah. They're very quick to ask for help and they know that there's lots they don't know. >> Anybody else? Thank y'all. >> Yeah, I I have I have a question uh for all for everyone that's presenting. Thank you all for the presentations. What is y'all's current backlogs? if you have any backlogs for testing for your kids with the diag. They currently don't have that information on hand, but we can provide that at a later time. >> Okay. Thank y'all. You can go ahead. >> Any more any more questions? >> No. Moving on. >> Okay.
083Moving on to agenda item C, review of the 2026 2027 budget preparation timeline and priorities update number one. >> Good evening, President Hodges, members of the board, Superintendent Howard. This evening um we are bringing the first budget um presentation for this upcoming fiscal year um before the board. During this presentation, we'll review the requirements, timelines, some of the historical information um that we are utilizing in order to look at our budget assumptions along with our district priorities. So, to start off, the strategic plan determines what to fund within the budget and forecasting determines how to fund the budget. The budget is only good on the first day that the board approves the budget and thereafter it is a continuous process to continue monitoring to continue um projecting what our current revenues and expenditures are going
084to be for year end purposes. Some of the factors influencing the budgeting process include the legislative session, inflation, available funding, unfilled positions and enrollment and attendance. Regarding the legal requirements, the board is required to adopt an annual budget prior to July 1st for three funds. The general fund, the town nutrition fund, and the debt service fund at the functional level. After the board approves the budget for the fiscal year, the board is then required to set a tax rate prior to September 30th and after the district receives our certified values. This is a graph that illustrates the historical certified property values per the controller for the school district. So you can see that whenever you compare 2012 to 2024, our overall values have increased dramat drastically. Um however um over the past few years um
085it just has a steadier incline, not the um extremely sharp um increase. However, um since 2012, the values have increased by approximately 11.7%. This is a comparison of our fund balance between last fiscal year and the most recently um closed fiscal year. So the bottom right hand corner shows a deficit of $18.3 million. This is significantly better than what the district um originally adopted a budget last year of $42.5 million. um we made significant strides to um absorb any of the vacant positions um that we had in order um to get closer to a balanced budget along with um monitoring our nonp payroll budgets. So we ended up a lot better than we originally adopted the budget for last fiscal year. This is an illustration showing the current fund balance as of June 30th. Um
086you can see 52% of our overall fund balance is designated as unassigned. um and then the other breakouts thereafter. We currently have approximately 6.95 months of operating expenditures and fund balance. PA recommends um district having three months. However, um we do have um a recommendation to have six months of operating expenditures and fund balance. This is an additional graph that illustrates the historical fund balance. The blue indicates total fund balance as of the audit. Um and the red indicates total fund balance excluding the 1882 partnership. 1882 partnership the funding is ran through the general fund. So they do have um a fund balance shown within the audit. However, the district does not have um any say so on how those funds are um utilized. And so this is a good comparison to show what truly
087um is in the district's fund balance that we have discretion on. This graph illustrates the revenues, expenditures, and total change in fund balance since the 2016 2017 the most recently completed 202425 fiscal year. You can see that the first year that revenues were under expenditures was for the 24-25 fiscal year. Um, this did not come as a surprise. Um, that was the first year that the district no longer had formula transition grant. Um, netting us around $40 million on an annual basis. Um, and as I previously mentioned, we ended this past fiscal year um, a lot better than originally projected. We passed a budget this year of 7 um, $89 million deficit and working towards creating a balanced budget to bring to the board in June of this upcoming year. This graph illustrates the current
088budgeting funding source as of November 30th. Um what I did is I took all the funds um from the general fund, child nutrition fund, all the federal funds along with debt service um in order to create this graph. So you can see that 85% of our overall revenues um come from local property taxes. Um unfortunately the M portion of that approximately um 23 to 25% of that is then recaptured and sent back to the state. So, starting with the 262.7 budget planning, um this evening we're discussing the first budget update in preparation for next fiscal year. Um we have a few upcoming finance committee meetings in the fall. Um in May, we'll review and approve the 2627 compensation plan. And then in the month of June, um we will have a public hearing to um
089discuss the proposed budget and tax rate along with having board approval for the 2627 budget and final budget amendments for the current fiscal year. So a little information about the budget process. I briefly mentioned this just a minute ago, but the budget is only good for the day that it is adopted. After that, um it changes on a daily basis. um that changes based on um enrollment, student attendance and requires continuation monitoring throughout the entire duration of the year. Um one thing that districts do is um we review campus campus enrollment to figure out where we are understaffed and where we are overstaffed and make those adjustments um throughout the campus and the district. Um accordingly this year um we are updating campus budgets based on actual enrollment um which is snapshot compared to the
090projected and so um that will result in some campuses getting an increase allocation and some um getting a decrease in their overall allocation. Um one other thing that we implemented starting this year um is updating campus allocations based on attendance rate compared to the prior year. So you can see um the graph at the very bottom um I've provided the first six weeks um with a four-year um trend um along with the second six weeks. You can see that for the 2526 um both the first and the second six weeks um attendance rate is trending higher. Um I I do not know for a fact um that it is um solely due to this. Um I know the campuses um are working extremely um hard on making sure that um students are coming um and
091being more engaged. Um however I do want to show that um we do have an increased attendance rate um this year whenever compared to historically. Um the reason why the refined total for 2526 is not illustrated yet is because that is um the average taking into consideration all six six weeks. So we'll continue to monitor that um and then monitor the budget accordingly. So with the 2627 we've um indicated three different budget priorities. The first is to balance um and have a sustainable budget presented to the board in June. The second is to provide compensation increases and the third is creating a data-driven budget based on board goals, the strategic plan and comprehensive assessment. Some of the building balls going into the 26 27 um fiscal year is we had a demographer study um that
092was recently completed this fall. Um they actually showed um three different projections a low projection, mid range projection and a high projection. This is actually the first year that um Zonda the demographer um has provided this and the reason being is they are seeing um a a um large difference in the way that they have to project based off current trends. This is the first year that um the state of Texas did not um increase in enrollment and actually decrease in enrollment. And so they wanted to make sure um to provide um their districts um three different options. Um so with that, the district utilized that um for our December 8th meeting where we finalized student projections. Um we're projecting an overall enrollment of 28,959 students for next fiscal year, which is a decrease of
093approximately 1,200 from the previous year projections. As Dr. Howard mentioned um earlier though, we are about,00 students um under the the projections. Um we'll continue to rerun the projections um and we'll rerun the projections um at the very beginning of February once the district receives the um property value study from the controllers's office. Um that will be the t the date and time that um one of the crystal balls um are actually finalized for our current year budget. We'll utilize that information um for next year projections. Um and as I've mentioned, the number one priority is to bring a balanced budget before the board in June of this upcoming year. This slide shows a graph that the demographers study provided. So you can see here the low projections, mid-range projection and high projections. Um we
094are currently utilizing the low projections for our student enrollment um for next year. Um some of the information that is going um into that lower projection includes uncertainty um in economic conditions and a downturn in the overall um job market, slowdown in the housing market, um increase in other educational opportunities along with lower kindergarten and prek enrollment. >> Did you say a decrease, Mr. Dur? >> Yes, sir. in the in housing, employment and what else? >> Yes sir. So um uncertainty in the economic um conditions and the downturn in job markets and then the slowdown in the um housing market. So right now whenever you compare to um historic um housing sales um are are lower along with um it taking a longer lead time um to actually close on transactions. >> I was just
095checking. I think I've heard that before. I think we discussed it. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> And as previously mentioned, some of the key budget assumptions is a projected enrollment of right under 29,000 students, a projected ADA of 25,952 students um which is the funded students part of the overall enrollment. Um we have um prek students that only receive funding for half a day. And so that's one of the largest um differences between the projected enrollment and overall average daily attendance along with the attendance rate of 92.5%. This graph um illustrates the enrollment trends and projections dating back to the 2013 2014 um fiscal year. The blue indicates enrollment. Red indicates the um average daily attendance and then the green indicates the attendance rate. You can see on the far right hand side um
096the green rectangle that is showing the projected 25 um 26 um enrollment in ADA along with the actual enrollment in ADA um as of December the 5th. You can see that while our overall enrollment in ADA was less than projected um our um attendance rate was higher. Now it will not stay that high and it will continue to um go downwards um based off trends and looking at historical data. Um but I am hopeful that we end up the year um better than we where we have um in the past five um to eight years. Um the rectangle right to the side of that is a projected um 26 27 enrollment ABDA um along with the demographic study um based off the mid-range and so we are budgeting at the low projections um from the
097democracy study um and then on the very right um that shows the projected enrollment for the 2035 2036 fiscal year. Some of the next steps is to continue to to um get into more detail on the non-tayable budgets, figure out where um we have more efficiencies um to implement um compensation plan review, administration's review of the budget um which will happen throughout the month of the February and March um finance committee meetings that will happen in um in the springtime and then the budget adoption that will come before the board in June. And at this time that concludes my presentation. Are there any questions? >> You have a question, Mr. Bishop? You good? >> Yeah, we're good, Brandon. Moving on. >> Okay, I appreciate that. >> Moving on to the next agenda item D. board
098discussion of policy and I'm presenting that. I think that y'all have the slide deck. So, while we're waiting for him to uh find the slide deck, I'll just go ahead and introduce it. Um, this uh Miss Burlson and other board members uh had felt like they had not been included or there was a difficulty in being included and stuff. So, this is just for an example only. This is just for discussion to kind of get our minds right on it about upcoming policy. Um the purpose of this is ensuring informed consent and public capital projects. Uh the purpose behind this is just for us at a later date uh to start discussing these things. Uh are y'all finding the deck? I'll just go ahead and and read it off my slides. But uh large capital
099projects often involve taxpayer dollars in the millions or billions with complexities including legal incumbences, environmental impacts, long-term costs and contractual obligations. Without assured informed consent from decision makers, approvals can lead to costly surprises, delays, litigation, or wasteful expenditures. A structured signoff process creates a document trail for accountability and forces deliberate reviews and reduces the likelihood of needing oversight of unexpected hiccups. Uh this practice aligns with core principles of democratic governance. Elected officials are fiduciaries of public resources and informed decision. Uninformed decisions undermine fiscal responsibility. Next slide, please. The So, we had bought the property where the new Midland High is going to be. There's been lots of different issues uh that have come up with that. And we did not know or there was confusion on who knew what and these policies are going to
100go in to make sure that every board member signs off on a packet and they're informed. they don't have any questions left and all the information has been uh been given to them and until each board member signs off it's not it we wait to put it on an agenda uh just to make sure that we have transition with elections and all the different things everybody's been brought up to speed next slide please the proposed policy framework for Milan ISD we have a legal foundation side of it and a core purpose We want our due diligence material sign off timeline requirements and then the signoff process. Again, this is just ideas for for fellow board members to kind of start grasping ideas to to put together for this. Next slide, please. So key policy requirements
101do a material presentation question resolution individual signoffs unanimous approval and then agenda placement. Uh non-compliance may delay procurement or trigger reviews policy effective upon board adoption annual training for trustees and staff is recommended for this just so everybody's on the same page. Next slide please. Compliance checklist. uh got 10 different steps on there. Like I said, these are just ideas for us to get our mind wrapped around it because I would like to see the we discuss it one month is a discussion item and then the next next month we go ahead and vote on it so everybody uh has an opportunity to put input on it and we're not violating TOMA. But anyhow, just ideas wanting to go over that. Um and any questions? Now, I don't have a questions, more of a statement
102on it. So, I didn't have a part of this presentation, but I did have a part in this idea. So, in every month, we have one-on- ones or what we call one-on- ones with Dr. Howard. Um, myself, it's normally myself, Mr. Hodes, and Mr. Hernandez, just because we do it after agenda review. Miss Berles sometimes meets with Mr. Bishop or whoever. uh never more than three of us in there. But this is kind of an idea that I brought up to Dr. Howard because, you know, reflecting on this last year on the school board, there's been times, you know, lessons learned, probably could have done things a little different. Um so for me, I know there's going to be inst there's going to be times after, you know, discussing with Dr. Howard as well that
103we won't have the ability to make it a discussion item then an action item. Budget amendments for one they they just come, you know, but I think as a board member over the last year I've learned the biggest complaint I get is we didn't know. I I hear that a lot and as a board member it's hard for everybody to have the information without being a quorum. So it's still trying to figure that one. So for me, I would really like to see moving forward um if it's an action item this month, it would probably have been a discussion item last month. Uh a good example of that would be um what's that? Yeah, the improvement plans. So we heard those this month or tonight. Then next month there'll be an action item. Another one
104would um Dr. Howard's evaluation uh amending that we vote we discussed that last month we all already had the information so this month we were able to put it on consent then uh no monetary value uh occurred on it. Um, another one if you look action item C or D and E tonight was essentially an discussion item last month that we t it was an action item last month but we tabled it still had the discussion then we we spoke about it had some concerns they corrected them they brought it back tonight as an action item so that's kind of where some of this is stemming from just some clarity on that that's all I have >> if y'all would go back to that first slide the ensuring ing information informed consent. I just want
105my goal is to make those frowns turn them upside down to smiles. That's all I have to say. So, if anybody else has anything, great. If not, we'll move on. Moving on to agenda item 8E, district informationational reports talking about u an audit. Dr. Howard and I discussed this earlier today several times. Uh the attorneys have all said be careful. All I just want the public and the the taxpayers and the students and the teachers and everybody to know that that the board and the district has put in processes for some improvement that we found in a procurement. We're going to make those. There was no flaw. There was no malfeasants uh that went on on an audit. And I would like to thank Dr. Howard and her team uh and and Mr. Durham and
106Mr. Cado and Miss Bueno, everybody there uh that's that's putting in these processes to make education and focus dollars uh back to the students to be impactful on it. And I just wanted to say thank you'all very much and thank you to the board members and the district for doing that. No questions, no comments. Moving on to the next agenda item, agenda 8F, intruder detection audit report findings. We need to do that uh discuss that in close session. So I cannot see y'all. So y'all are going to have to speak up. You'll want to go into close session now and get close session done with the intruder audit and then we come back and then we can just adjourn when we're done. >> Mr. Haj's chief is at the podium to say the piece he
107says in an open session and then we'll do the rest in close session later if that's okay. >> Okay. Do y'all want to do it now or do you want to do it later? >> We'll do it later. >> Okay. >> Welcome, Chief. I can't see you, but welcome. >> Good evening, uh, President Hodes, members of the board, Dr. Howard. I'm here to provide an update on recent intruder detection audits and their findings. I will provide further information during close session. >> Dr. Harvard, can you just give a brief reason why we go to exact I mean I know why but just for the general public. >> Yes. So, intruder detection audits started a couple of years ago, um about a year and a half ago, and when there is a finding um the law
108allows for that to be discussed in closed session for safety reasons. >> Thank you. Uh I'm going to motion for a 10-minute break. Second. >> It has been motioned and seconded for a 10-minute break. All those in favor, raise your right hand. I need a vote. I can't see y'all. >> Unanimous. >> All right, we are on 10-minute break. The time is 7:16. All right, Mr. Hodgees, I think we're ready. We're going to get started. It's my wife. >> You're good, Brandon. >> Perfect. I want this meeting is back in session. The time is 7:27 p.m. I would also like to correct the record. I believe I said that we adjourned for a break. Not adjourned, I'm sorry, that we recessed for a break at 8:15 and I wanted to correct the record to 7:15.
109I was in I'm on East Coast time right now. My apologies. Um, were we done? Did we leave off on districtformational reports or was was chief done? >> We're starting action items 9A. >> Okay, perfect. Moving on to agenda item nine, action items. 9A, discussion of and request for approval of the 2026 academic calendar. >> All right. Good evening, President Hodes, members of the board, and Dr. Howard. Tonight, I'm seeking approval of the 2627 academic calendar. The academic calendar committee met and worked on the calendar from October to December of this year. From December 1st through 5th, we released three calendar options for feedback. There were a total of 1572 responses with 39.4% of the vote selecting option two. The academic calendar meets the following requirements. A minimum of 75,600 instructional minutes. A total of
110187 employee days. two bad weather days, a week off for spring break for teachers and students, a week for Thanksgiving break for students and teachers as well. A winter break that extends before December 24th and after January 1st, no instructional days after Memorial Day. There are also six professional learning days that are built in during the academic school year. And the first day of school is August 18th of 2026. I do want to thank the calendar committee for their work on creating the three calendar options. And at this time, I recommend approval of the 2627 academic calendar. >> Any questions? >> A motion to approve as presented. >> Second. >> Has been moved and seconded that this board vote and possibly approve Action item 9A, discussion of request for approval of the 2026 2027 academic
111calendar. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Unanimous. >> Motion passes. Moving on to action item B, discussion of and request for approval of budget amendment number five. Trustees, on an annual basis, the school board is required to adopt a budget for the general fund, child nutrition fund, and debt service at the functioning level. Um what this budget amendment does is it does not increase the overall um budget deficit. It just moves um funds that have already been budgeted um from one function to another in order to address um the needs for budget owners along with um redirecting some additional revenue um that came in. So, at this time, the administration recommends that the board of trustees approve budget amendment number five as presented. >> I got one question, Tucker. >> Yes, sir.
112>> So, on here, you know, every month we carry the same deficit pretty much. When do you start updating that based off actuals? >> I can't remember from last year or do you just kind of hold that number towards the end of >> So, I just hold that number towards the end. Um, I will disclose um kind of my projections and assumptions. um starting in the March time frame um whenever I come back and give the board an update um number two for the budget. Um the reason why is there's at this point in time there's only been five months out of the fiscal year that actually has happened. Um and there's a long a long road ahead of us. And so what I try to do is make sure that my projections are extremely
113conservative um to make sure first of all that we remain um within the board adopted budget. um but then also on the um functions because at the end of the day there has to be sufficient funds within each function um to to address all the expenses um at the end of the fiscal year. So to to answer your question um I'll start providing those numbers starting in March. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? I'll second. >> It's been moved and seconded that this board discuss and possibly approve action item 9B. Uh, budget amendment number five. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Unanimous. Motion passes. Moving on to agenda item 9C, discussion of and request for approval of the annual comprehensive financial report. Mr. Durham, >> trustees, on an annual basis, the
114district is required to um have their books audited by an external audit firm. Um this evening, we have Jeremy Stevens um a partner with Ideally here to present um and review some of the highlights regarding the fiscal year 25 audit. At this time, I will turn it over to Mr. Steven. >> All right. Uh, good evening members of the board. Yes, I'm Jeremy Stevens with I firm has completed the audit of the statements for the district for the year end of June 30, 2025. I left a bound copy of those uh at each of your seats. Uh, just got a brief slide deck to get some of the financial highlights. Uh typically we're here in November to present this. Uh we did hit uh I guess the federal government through a bit of a kink
115in our timing with uh their shutdown. Uh prior to them shutting down, they had not issued the compliance supplement which provides guidance for all auditors that do single audits of federal awards. Because that compliance supplement had not been issued, auditors were not allowed to issue any of their single audit reports. Uh once the federal government opened back up, they issued that compliance supplement. Uh it was right before Thanksgiving. We finished everything up. Uh got got it issued and so we're here here now in December rather than in November. Uh so anyways, just want to kind of mention that interested in why we're a month late. But uh like I said, I think audit went well. Uh did not uh have any adjusting journal entries as a result of procedures. They're not reporting any material weaknesses
116or significant deficiencies in internal controls. Uh that being said, I'll get into the bound report and into uh the slide deck. Uh beginning with our report which starts on page number 10. Uh it goes on over through page number 13. Uh summarize kind of the main points up on the slide. Uh at the top of page number 10 does state our opinion uh which states our opinion of financial statements present fairly in all material respects the financial position of the district. Uh this what's known as a unmodified or clean opinion on the financial statements. It then goes on to describe our basis for our opinion uh which is that we conduct our audit in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and that we believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient to provide
117a basis for our opinion. Uh moving on to phase number 11 describes management's responsibilities for our financial statements which is that management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of these financial statements in accordance to generally accepted accounting principles and for the design and implementation of internal controls. And then lastly, it describes auditor's responsibility through the audit, which our objectives are to obtain regional assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material on the statement and to express an opinion as to whether those statements are in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. There's some narrative regarding our approach to internal controls which states that we obtain an understanding of the district's internal controls, design or audit procedures. Uh however, we do not sust them to an extent that allows us to express an
118opinion on the effectiveness of those internal controls. Uh so we're not expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of internal controls. Uh now flipping ahead to some of the basic statements themselves. Uh first statement I'll touch on is the statement of net position or on pages 27 and 28. Uh this particular statement provides a snapshot of all assets and liabilities of the district at a consolidated level at June 30, 2025. Uh on the slide I've got a very condensed version of that statement along with the 2024 comparative column. Uh you'll see uh at end of current fiscal year total assets and bird outflows of resources just under 1.8 billion. Previous fiscal year was just over 1.8 billion. uh total assets and and deferred outflows resources did uh decrease a little bit uh year-over-year uh spending cash
119on construction projects and that does decrease cash a little bit. Also, you paid down uh some of the bond defense paid down quite a bit of the the outstanding bond liability this year. So, those resources were utilized to pay down uh those those those uh liability as well which were reduced your total assets and deferred outflows. Also, uh, total liabilities and deferred inflows of resources, uh, down to about 1.25 billion. This year is about 1.4 billion last year. Uh, so they're down about 145 million year-over-year. Again, largely due to reductions in your long-term debt due from regular payowns. And then the bond diffuses that was in 2025. Uh, second statement I'll touch on is the balance sheet of governmental funds. Uh, which is on page number 31 and 32. Uh this particular statement again provides
120a snapshot of assets and liabilities of the district. However, it's on presented on what's known as a modified acral basis to the county. Uh so it does not include any long-term assets. Capital assets are not included. Does not include any long-term liabilities. Uh so it does not include uh the bond payable liability. Uh it does not include the net pension liability or the other post-employment benefit liability. uh this particular statement is uh is focused on the district's current resources and then its current obligations. Uh under this basis of accounting you see total assets in the fiscal year uh just under 1.3 billion is about 1.43 billion in the previous fiscal year. Reduction is largely in that cash and investment line item down to about 1.2 million this year from about 1.36 million in the previous
121fiscal year. Uh again uh those those reductions in those cash and investments uh primarily due to capital projects that were being incurred and then also the the big pay down of that bond defe for the payown of the debt. Uh total liabilities of this space to the county about 153 million this year it's about 166 million last year. Uh so liabilities decreased about $14 million yearover-year. Uh if you add it up your assets plus your liabilities from balance at year end uh it's about 1.135 million at the end of the current fiscal year. It was about 1.266 mil sorry 1 1.266 billion in the previous fiscal year. Uh this particular slide illustrates the different categories of that fund balance divided up by uh restricted to use and so forth. largest category of fund balance is
122a restricted fund balance about 919 million. This year it's about 1.03 billion in the previous fiscal year. Uh primarily those are amounts that are in the debt service fund that are restricted future debt service uh uh obligation and then also in the capital projects fund which are restricted capital projects that are ongoing from those lawn funds. The unassigned fund balance is the fund balance that's available to the district kind of to fund regular operating activities. It's about 111 million uh this fiscal year is about 109 million in the previous fiscal year. Uh one one measure that you can use to kind of gauge that is compared to your average monthly expenditures in the general fund. TDA recommends keep approximately three times your average monthly general fund expenditures uh in the unassigned unbalanced category. uh based
123on the 2025 expenditures uh that 111 million represents about 3.2 times that was average monthly general fund expenditures. And last statement I'll touch on is the statement of revenues, expenses and changes in fund balance which on pages 34 and 35. Uh again kind of summarized on the next few slides. This first slide summarizes revenue sources. uh you'll see it's about 574 million in the current fiscal year, about 63 million in the previous fiscal year. Total revenues did decrease year-over-year approximately $29 million. If you look at the individual categories, you'll see that both state and federal revenues have decrease year-over-year. Uh federal revenues, the ESR funding did expire in the 2025 fiscal year. So, they did come down uh for federal revenues in 2025. uh state revenues uh the district had a formula was part of
124the formula transition grant for the last few years. Uh that expired in 2024 as well. So state program revenues decreased because of that. And then your local revenues uh by far the greatest revenues uh of the district primarily property taxes up to about 560 million in the pre in the current fiscal year. Uh as far as expenditures of the district, uh current fiscal year expenditure is about 709 million compared to about 540 million in the previous fiscal year. Uh so expenditures did increase about 169 million year-over-year. Uh you'll see that increase largely in the debt service category. You'll see it's up to about 174 and a.5 million in the current year compared to about 17.6 million last year. uh did have the really large bond decent payments uh in 2025 which drove up that debt
125service uh expenditure uh in 2025. Uh the intergovernmental uh category up on the slide that's call attention to that that's it's about 91 million each year uh that is primarily made up of recapture payment uh to the state. uh you know each year the district is required to make that that large recapture payment uh based off of uh it's probably tax collections and wealth per student and so forth but it's about 91 million in each fiscal year. I did just want to highlight that uh it is u shown as an expenditure in the general fund. Uh it is budgeted in function 91 each year uh but like I said 91 million in each fiscal year. And lastly, uh just two other reports that were issued in the bound copy that I'll touch on real quick.
126Uh first is a report on internal control over financial reporting and on compliance. Uh it's way back on page number 131. Uh again, this report reiterates that we're not expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of internal controls. However, if we did report any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies or any material instances of non-compliance, this is the report that we would communicate those in. Uh again, no such items are reported this year. And then lastly is our report on compliance uh required by the uniform guidance. It's our single report that we were uh waiting on the federal government to issue that compliance supplement on. Uh anyways, each year we select what we determine to be major programs uh of the district. We can perform tests of those programs uh to express an opinion as to whether
127we think the district complied with the requirements uh of those programs. Uh current fiscal year, we test the title one part a program. Uh and then the supporting effective instruction uh grants program. Uh the opinion for those is on page number 141. Basically just in our opinion uh the district complied in material respects with compliance requirements of those major federal programs. So again this is a unmodified or keen opinion on compliance as well. And that was everything that I had prepared. Uh are there any questions for you? Any questions? >> Got a motion. >> Any questions? >> No questions. >> I I motion to approve as presented. >> Second. >> Has been motioned and seconded for this board to discuss and possibly take action on agenda item 9 C, discussion of and request for approval
128of the annual comprehensive financial report. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Unanimous. The motion passes. Moving on to agenda item 9D. Discussion of and request for approval. I'm sorry. Action item 9D, discussion of and request for approval of RFP number 25-137, heavy duty vehicle parts and repairs. >> Good evening, President Hajes, members of the board, Dr. Howard. The purpose of this presentation is to request your approval for RFP 25-137. The purpose of this RFP is to identify and contract with a pool of qualified vendors capable of furnishing heavy duty parts and repair services to support the fleet. This would be an as needed contract to ensure timely and efficient maintenance support for the fleet. The term of the contract would be one year. Estimated annual expenditure across participating vendors is $150,000. Approval
129of this RFP will enable MISD to maintain safe, reliable, and cost-effective fleets. If there are no questions, I request approval for RFP25-137. >> Any questions? >> Now, I think it's important to know we talked to this is the one that I motioned to table last month. Um, this this is just adding them to the vendor's list. This isn't saying we're going get spend this money. Um, it's just putting them on the vendor to give us another option to keep us from having to use a co-op in the event. That's correct. If something happens, >> I got clarity on that the other day. Just want to share that information. >> I believe I believe we took off the Tyler vendor, correct? >> That's correct. >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. We got that figured out. Okay.
130Any other questions, comments? >> I move that we accept Second. >> It's been moved and then seconded that this board discuss and take action or possible action on agenda item 9D, discussion of and request for approval of RFP number 25-137, heavyduty vehicle parts and repairs. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Unanimous. Moving on to discussion item 9E, discussion of and request for approval of RFP number 25-138, light duty vehicle and parts repair. >> Thank you, sir. The purpose of this RFP is to find to excuse me is to identify and contract with a pool of qualified vendors capable of furnishing lightweed vehicle parts and repair services to support the fleet. This also will be an as needed contract to ensure timely and efficient maintenance to support the fleet. The term of the
131contract will be one year. Estimated annual expenditures across participating participating vendors is $150,000. Approval of this RFP will enable MISD to maintain a safe, reliable, cost-effective fleet. If there are no questions, I request approval for RFP 25138. >> Any questions? >> Motion to approve RFP number 25138, uh, light duty vehicle. >> I hear a second. >> Second. It's been moved and seconded that this board discuss and possible take action on agenda item 9 E, discussion of and request for approval of RFP number 25-138, light duty vehicle parts and repairs. All those in favor, raise your right hand. >> What's the vote? >> Unanimous. Motion passes. Moving on to agenda item 9F. Discussion of request for approval of reimbursement agreement and related second amendment to pipeline to pipeline rightaway agreement between Midland ISD and energy transfer
132for the relocation of pipelines at new Midland High School sites. Um, >> I got Mr. >> Motion to table that. >> Yeah, Mr. Hodgees, I'm going to motion to postpone this one. Uh, >> hold on. We got a motion to table it. >> It's >> Is there a second? >> I believe we need to postpone. >> Well, we've got to postpone to the date then. >> Yes. >> So, yeah, you got it. >> Go ahead. >> Okay. So this is the item that we left on the agenda in hopes to have the um easement and reimbursement agreement finalized and ready. Uh knowing that if we didn't have that yesterday that that's why went went ahead and posted the special meeting for Friday. So I would recommend approval to postpone this item until the special board
133meeting on Friday morning. >> Okay. Uh any questions? Do we need do we need a vote on our motion to table? We should probably vote that down. I recommend voting that second. It did get seconded. >> Just for the record. >> It's a motion to postpone. >> I second. >> Mr. Bishop seconded the the original motion to table. So I think we got a vote on it. >> Okay. Yes, we need a vote on it. So all those in favor of motioning the table, raise their right hands. >> No, he >> What is that? Motion. Motion fails. >> Mike, >> nobody voted for it. Correct. Now we're going to re motion. >> We had some votes for it. >> Huh? >> We had some votes to table. >> How many? >> Two. >> I think
134there's some confusion. Do you want >> I think we had three votes so it would fail. >> You didn't. We had two. >> Do you want Mr. Leer to >> Yeah, I'm confused. >> We don't want to table it. I motion to postpone it to Friday's meeting. >> I know. I motioned I motioned to table it. So there was a motion on the floor to table it. I didn't hear a second, but Mr. Free said that it was seconded by Mr. Bishop. So we voted that down, that first motion down to table it. And now there is a motion on the floor to postpone until the special meeting on December 19th. >> Second. >> Okay. It has been motioned and seconded that agenda item 9F, discussion of and request for approval of reimbursement agreement and
135related amendment to pipeline uh rideaway agreement between Midland ISD and energy transfer for the relocation of pipelines at New Milan High School sites be postponed until the special board meeting on December 19th. All those in favor, raise your right hand. Unanimous. >> Unanimous. The motion passes. Now moving on to agenda item nine, action item G. Whoa, this is a long one to come on screen. Discussion of Senate Bill 1882, partnership schools and possible action to renew or amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals. Approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Midland College PreK for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years. Approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Young Women's Leadership Academy for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years. Approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Ben
136Milem International Academy for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years and approval of new performance goals for IDEA Travis for 25 2025 to 2026 through 2029 to 2030 and the presenter is Miss Mitchell and 1882 partners. Welcome. I can't see y'all but welcome >> Mr. Hudges. With your permission, I would request that Miss Mitchell and all of our partners uh go through the presentation and then we can take up each item individually for individual votes. >> Okay. So, it well somebody needs to motion that from the board to break it up. So, Miss Mitchell is going to introduce the item and then go through all of the presentations and then the way that the um agenda is written, each item is a separate item underneath when we get to the approval. So, the first
137part is the presentations. >> Okay. I'm just seeing bullet points under G and it's not separate motions. It's just under they're all under G. I'd like to make a motion that we separate them. >> Okay. It has been motioned. It's been motioned and seconded that we break up and vote on the individual items within action item or agenda item nine, action item G, discussion of Senate Bill 1882, partnership schools and possible actions to renew or amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals. and we're going to break up these those four that we're voting on into separate votes. So, all those in favor for breaking these up into four separate votes for agenda item G, please raise your right hand. What do the votes look like? I can't see y'all. >> Unanimous. >> It has been motioned.
138The motion is moved. So, now go ahead with the presentation. We're starting with whom. >> So I'm going to give the full presentation first and then each partner will present their information and then at the end will be the motions for the goals. So Miss Guda Mitchell is starting. >> Okay. Thank you. I I I I'm I'm learning Braille right now. So thank you. >> Good evening, President Hodes, members of the board, and Dr. Howard. My name is Pete Mitchell. I'm director of student services and tonight I'll be joined by leaders from each of our partner campuses to provide a brief overview of our 1882 partnership campuses including academic performance and progress toward their goals as well as focusing on highlighting next steps to ensure that our students achieve their goals and school improvement happens.
139In addition to this overview, four campuses will be requesting approval for amended academic goals for their campuses. This work aligns with ELA local, which outlines the district monitoring and oversight of partnership campuses. In order for the board to make rigorous and evidence-based decisions regarding partnership campuses, Midland ISD currently has seven 1882 partnership campuses. Ben Milm International Academy, Carver Center, Lamar Elementary, Idea Travis, Midland College PreK, Stamp Houston Collegiate Academy, and Young Women's Leadership Academy. Each partnership campus operates under a unique set of performance goals that are jointly approved by both a partner campus governing board and the Midland ISD board of trustees. Midland ISD collaborates with each campus to monitor progress toward these goals in alignment with ELA local requirements. Annually, each campus receives a final monitoring framework evaluation which determines whether the campus will
140be subject to an indepth monitoring visit during the following fall semester. The chart you see reflects historical performance data for each partnership campus. Ratings highlighted in green indicate that the campus met or exceeded its agreed upon goals. Light red highlight signifies the campus fell one letter grade below its target while dark red indicates performance significantly below the established goal. Two notable outliers should be acknowledged. First, Lamar Elementary. Lamar received a rating of F in 2023. This rating reflects the year prior to entering into a partnership. Second, Midland College PreK does not receive state accountability ratings and therefore assumes the district's rating. These ratings are shown in light red to reflect the district's ongoing goal of achieving an A or B rating. During the current school year, Ben Nylm International Academy, Lamar Elementary, Idea, Travis, and
141Sam Houston Collegiate Academy received monitoring visits as a result of not meeting one or more of their established performance goals. I will now turn this presentation over to the partnership leaders who provide the campus overview and amended goals for IDEA Travis Midland College PreK Young Men's Leadership Academy and Benm International Academy. Good evening, President Hodes, trustees, Dr. Howard. My name is Laura Dowy. I am the principal at Young Women's Leadership Academy. So, I'm going to start off tonight with a few highlights. So, last year was a full circle moment for YWA as we graduated our first class. Many of y'all were in attendance. Maybe all of y'all were in attendance. Um the campus also maintained an A rating from TEA and earned all seven eligible um designation distinctions. The 2025 2026 accountability year will be
142our first school year to be scored as a high school with CCMR. So even though we had 100% of our graduating class last year with CCMR, that will not factor in until this year's accountability. So we already feel really good about that for our accountability for this year because CCMR will count in all three domains where it has not counted for us at all. Um at the nine weeks check check checkpoint goals one and three are on track to be met and we will disagregate our growth data after the 18week checkpoint. Some challenges that we have at YWLA um we have phenomenal teachers that do a great job of meeting students where they are and helping to close the learning gaps. Last year in math and or 75% of our students who who were behind
143academically made at least one year of progress. The challenge truly comes when those students do start progressing and making sure that they maintain those high levels of learning um each year. So our enrollment for the current school year we are at 436 that came snapshot. So, we have 261 girls in our middle school and 175 girls in our high school. Attendance this year through cycle 2 is at 97%. Last year we were at 96%. Um, we're in the middle of, you know, flu, COVID, and everything in between seasons. So, um, we will probably realistically see a dip in cycle 3 attendance, but hopefully after the Christmas break when everybody comes back healthy, we'll we'll see an increase again. So, for our performance goals, which you can see, I think in your board book, like the
144definition, like all of the breakdowns, but for goal one was receive an A in domain one for student achievement, and that goal was met for the 2425 school year. So CC CMR again did not count but this year we're already on track and it will be um 100%. So goal two receive an A in domain 2 school progress and that was met for the 2425 school year. Um goal two also has two goal progress measure underneath it and so and these are addressing the student progress 2A. So, go progress measure one, 88% of students at YWA will meet their star academic growth in reading and math. And we did fall short on this progress measure at 85%. Goal progress measure two, 85% of students categorized as economically disadvantaged will meet their star academic growth in
145reading and math. And we did meet this goal at 86%. Goal three receive an A in domain three closing the gaps was met. This also has a pro a goal progress measure and it is worded as meet or exceed the state approaches target in reading and math in all qualifying student groups with domain three. When we wrote these goals right when the new accountability was rolling out we didn't actually know 100% what that looks like. what it looked like, but this is really pro the way the word the goal should read is um meet or exceed the state target for the four identified groups in academic achievement and growth status for reading and math. And so we have four subgroups that we are looking at. So we look at all students, a high focus group
146which is made up of economically disadvantaged, our sped students EB and then students that are indicated as being foster students, homeless or migrant. So that makes up the the high focus group. And then our two lowest performing racial or ethnicity groups. And for YWA, those are Hispanic and white. And we did meet the goal for each of those areas in reading and math for all of those groups. A major focus kind of like don't want the clicker. There we go. We did it right. A major focus for YWA this year and really truly every year is to continue to work with our students to ensure that they are demonstrating academic growth with a particular emphasis on sustaining and advancing advancing our mastery level performance amongst our already achieving high achieving students. So increasing overall mastery
147percentage among allstar EOC exams is is one of the things that we are truly focusing on and decreasing the percentage of students from 15% to 12% who drop the performance level attainment strategies. I know probably every principal gets up here and says this. I know this true about every campus, but I truly do have some really great sparkly magical teachers at YWA and they do a fantastic job in their PLC's. One of the advantages that we have is some can see it as a disadvantage is mult they teach multiple grade levels. So that vertical alignment and truly knowing what comes next um is really really strong in our PLC's and those conversations that they have. So curriculum fidelity. So the retention of those teachers last year, I was grateful and blessed enough to have all
148of our teachers return. So that truly does make a difference when you're talking about your teams working together and being able to bring back the same team that you had the year before. So curriculum fidelity and align instructional practices and monitoring student data by cohort and individual performance tracking and goal setting. It's very important that we know where every kid is performing um so we can ensure that um we know what their growth would look like. So next steps at the end of all of our presentations um you are going to be I am going to ask that you approve our amended partnership academic goals. So we are now fully paved out and our accountability changes this year with CCMR factoring into every domain. Um in 2028 we are going to have an accountability refresh
149and I believe that these goals will transcend when we have the new accountability um we'll still have domain one two and three and so what those goals are is basically just A's and then removing the goal progress measure measures and letting us have the flexibility on the campus to adjust those as needed but still reporting A's in all of those domains every year. Thank you. Does anybody have any questions? I got a quick question. Uh, so could you I've had some questions about how many kids you have and how many what your capacity is for students. >> So I'm looking at I I don't truly know if the black is our campus like what the capacity of our campus is. So the model, if your campus would allow that with the Young Women's Preparatory Network
150model is to have no more than 100 kids per grade level. So if I were to give you the breakdown, we have more students in seventh grade than any other grade level. The way the district is configured currently with sixth grade being in the elementary campus, we have the most applications for kids that are in sixth grade. Are you ready? Sixth grade going into seventh grade. So, but we're currently at 436. Our enrollment is up 3% from last year. >> You don't spend enough time on the elementary campuses. >> Sorry. I've I learned to tune it out. I hear it probably 20 times a day. >> I know. I'm sorry. I'm I'm willing to catch brief. >> If y'all do have questions later, I'd be happy to answer them or get back to you with
151the answers on those. Thank you very much. I hope you all have a great Christmas season. >> Everybody good on the questions with WA? >> Yes. >> Thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Well done. Good evening members of the board, President Hodes and Dr. Howard. My name is Stephanie Cornett and I'm the executive administrator of Palmer Center, a proud partner with Midland ISD as a school of choice for GT students. I thank you for this opportunity to present tonight. Um to start off, I guess we should move the slide. That's okay. Uh also want to start off with some highlights. Um, some accomplishments to highlight this year include exceeding domain three next interim targets for academic growth set forth under the current TEA accountability system. Academic growth is a priority focus for us at
152Carver Center. There's often an assumption that students identified as gifted and talented will automatically score at M's level. Um, on the star or perform highly in all subject areas. However, some of our students need intervention in different areas as well. Our vertical teams focus on high level mastery of grade level content to ensure students continue showing growth um each year as well as differentiation for students who are ready to move on. We believe every child deserves a year of path. Carver center students and staff earned all six eligible distinction designations this year. academ academic achievement in reading language arts math and science top 25% comparative academic growth uh post-secary readiness top 25% comparative closing the gaps earning distinctions is challenging because the targets change every year based on the performance of um schools in your
153comparison groups we are very proud of this accomplishment we met all of the performance goals outlined in our contract earning an A in all domains including parts A and B of dom domain 2 which centered around academic growth and relative performance. We have schoolwide implementation of depth and complexity using high level questioning strategies to increase the level of thinking and engagement um in all learning opportunities. Another highlight is our focus on attendance. We're currently exceeding our end ofear attendance percentage from last year at 97%. The student experience created in the classroom cannot be duplicated with makeup work when students are absent. Therefore, we encourage student attendance through parent communication, student support meetings, competitions, and celebrations. Some of our challenges include um we experience some of the challenge challenges we experience include creating the best learning
154environment for GT students while ensuring they master grade level content and are prepared to show what they know on the star test. We strive for all students to achieve master's level on star but that level of achie of of achievement is not unique to GT students nor indicative of giftedness. Another challenge is the expectation of high level student experiences and growth for GT students. Um regardless of the level of teacher experience um you know it doesn't matter if we have a teacher who's been teaching for 15 years or one year the level of expectation is the same. So we have some strategies in place to address these challenges that are included in our action plan. Since becoming a partnership school in 2019, we have worked to build strong systems of collaboration, accountability, and support to
155sustain our high level performance and foster continued growth and improvement. Our staff collectively develops the teacher levels of support that differentiate support for teachers based on their needs. This includes, for example, working with collaborative partners, peer and administrator classroom visits with immediate feedback, lesson lesson plan support using depth and complexity, vertical team alignment, and tracking progress toward campus and team goals. The levels of support also fosters teacher leadership and earned autonomy. Our vertical PLC teams are crucial to the success of creating the best learning environment for our students. Our PLC set goals that are tracked through classroom visits and they review and discuss the data collected as a team. The science team uh team's goals are to increase the amount of hands-on learning activities and incorporate lab reports and technical writing across all grade levels.
156The math team is monitoring student use of academic vocabulary and opportunities for mathematical thinking and communicating. The reading language arts team is working to encourage and increase students creativity in their work and creative thought in discussions. We also monitor how technology is used. It's tracked across all subject areas. Whether students are using technology for collaborative activities and projects, both for individual activities and programs. We also track levels of questioning using that and complexity. We actually script those questions and our um GT um instructional coach goes over those with teachers too. Constantly um growing and learning in that area. Our vertical teams also focus on vertical alignment of standards and expectations, monitor student progress, and compare and discuss the data they are tracking as a team. When concerns arise with students, whether it be with academics,
157behavior, or attendants, we conduct a student support team meeting to bring together administrators, teachers, parents, and special services teachers if necessary to discuss the students progress and develop a support plan to help him or her be successful. By implementing these systems with fidelity and consistency and maintaining a mindset of continuous growth and improvement, we will remain focused on our mission to create the best learning environment for GT students at Carver Center. We appreciate MIST partnering with us and thank you for the opportunity to share our highlights, challenges, and action plan for continued success. >> Thank you. >> Any questions? >> No questions. Moving on. >> Thank you very much. Good evening, President uh Hodes um members of the board, Dr. Howard and cabinet. Thank you for the opportunity to present tonight. I am here um
158to request board approval of updated partnership performance goals for Ben Mahame International Academy. These revised goals are aligned with current MISD priorities. the updated accountability system and instructional needs of our students. We are proposing updated goals at this time for several key reasons. Our current partnership goals were developed under prior leadership and were aligned to an accountability framework that has since changed. STAR and state accountability measures now place a stronger emphasis on achievement and their proposed goals reflect that shift. In addition, these updated goals expand our focus uh from grades 3 through six to kindergarten through sixth grade. This allows us to strengthen early literacy and math foundations while maintaining a clear consistent achievement expectations across all grade levels. As context by Milan International Academy is currently rated a C with a score of 78.
159Over the past several years, we have seen movement between C and B ratings reflecting both progress and continued areas of need. Despite staffing transitions in a specialized dual language program, we have demonstrated measurable gains in reading growth, math performance for targeted student groups, star outcomes, and emerging bilingual success, which increased from 48 to 52%. This um number I'm mentioning refers to the English language proficiency rating in domain 3, which we met um our interim goal. The updated partnership um includes five performance goals. First, Ben Milan will achieve an A campus rating by the end of 2026 2027. Second and third, we're adding early achievement goals for kindergarten through 2 grade reading and math. Fourth and fifth goals were aligning grades three through six reading and math goals to achievement at the meat level onstar. Together
160these goals establish consistent measurable expectations from early elementary through upper grades. To support these outcomes, we are strengthening tier one instruction according um across kindergarten through sixth grade through targeted professional development, instructional coaching, and datadriven decision making with an emphasis on instructional rigor and support for emergent bilingual and historically underserved students. At this time, MYAm um International Academy respectfully requests the board approval of the amended partnership goals and your continued support as we work towards sustained academic improvement. Thank you for your time and your leadership. >> Sorry, my tip. >> I have a question. >> We ask questions. Um, I'm looking at the performance goals from that were set before at 70% up to 82% and now we're going to 47% to 51%. Um, that's just one of them. I mean, they're all kind of
161like that. What is the high What grade level is the actual program in this year? What's your highest grade level right now that is in the program? >> The highest grade level right now is sixth grade. and sixth grade is shared with two uh sections of monolingual students. The program will be fully implemented next year. Addressing the question about the uh percentages, uh the goals that were originally established were aligned to past uh MISD goals uh and those were expressed in terms of growth. Um so the percentages that you're referring to are goals growth goals but we are aligning is uh uh similar to MISD goals and we are aligning to achievement results. >> So you're moving from domain two to domain one. >> Yes ma'am. >> Your goals. >> Okay. And um and can
162you tell me a little bit about the MC class on K through 2 because um those percentages are so much higher than a STAR test which I know it's a very different test but could you tell us a little bit about what MClass um MCLS is a is a a commissioner approved um tool that is used by the state of Texas uh to report reading levels and possible reading deficiencies. Um we have been using this tool for several years and we feel comfortable that that was a good predictor for um students in those grades K second. So I guess one of my questions is if if we have 80% and 82% scoring in second grade then when we come into third grade and of course I don't know these are mixed third through sixth grade
163so that that could be part of the problem with the percentages. I'm not sure. Are your third grade scores are they maintaining a high uh percentage in third grade? One of the issues that we had and I I came and and presented some of the uh weaknesses that we had identified two years ago. We uh noticed that the gains that our uh students K through 2 uh were making weren't transferring to third grade. So we went back to the board and we basically redid our our instructional program. We aligned from the top from sixth grade all the way through um K. We've been uh working on a two-year plan to correct this issue. Uh this is the third year. We believe that this year will show that our third grade students have made the g
164have maintained those gains. Of course, there's a greater level of difficulty. One of the reasons that I attribute to the higher percentages in our K through second is that Spanish is an easier language to learn and uh when uh decoding is a lot easier in English. Uh so the expectations for reading K through 2 in the Spanish language are going to be easier to achieve compared to English if that makes sense. Uh but we're working hard on on achieving really levels of comprehension and levels of uh higher order the thinking skills more than anything else that are going to be the drivers of that student achievement that we're looking for. >> Thank you for you to say it's easier. I'm trying to learn Spanish. I don't find it easy. >> So that just shows that
165your your first language is your strongest language and your second language is going to be hard whichever one you're in. All right. I appreciate that. Thank you. >> Welcome. Can I clarify something? Okay. So, one thing that you may be thinking is why did Carver present? They're not on the agenda. There's some others that are not on the agenda. So, the board reporting calendar that was approved, I don't remember, July, August, something like that, September, um, has us reporting on every partner in December. So, you're going to hear a report on every one of them, but only those that need amended goals or need any type of action on their contract is all that we'll be voting on tonight. >> Thank you. >> Good evening again, um, board members. Dr. Howard, thank you for the
166opportunity to provide an update on our 1882 partnership as well as to propose our performance goals and objectives for the 2526 school year through the uh 2930 school year. Um before I begin, I want you to briefly hear from one of the roles that ensures that our scholars are not only enrolled in rigorous courses, but are on track to graduate and prepared for college entry. Mr. BJ Williams serves as our road to and through college. Uh his role is to intentionally prepare scholars for the ACT, guide them through the college application process, and track progress towards graduation. His work is supported through coaching and feedback from our newly added regional director of college success, ensuring that this work is aligned, monitored, and accountable. I've asked him to share for just a few minutes to give
167you a window into how this work shows up for us and for our students. >> Thank you, Dr. Nasillas. Good evening, board members. Thank you for the opportunity to speak. My role at IDA Travis as the road to endure college teacher. It is my responsibility to ensure that every scholar is intentionally prepared for college entrance exams, college applications, and graduation readiness. At IDA Travis, college readiness is not assumed. It is taught, tackled, and monitored. Students receive explicit preparation for the ACT, structured guidance through college application processes, and regular progress checks to ensure they are on track to graduate. A key part of what makes this work effective is the coaching and feedback I receive from our regional director of college success. A new leadership position, excuse me, added to strengthen college outcomes across our region.
168Through that coaching, my work is more focused, data driven, and aligned to clear indications such as on track to graduate milestones, assessment readiness, and post-secary planning. Together, we regularly re review student data to identify early warning signs, adjust supports, and coordinate with teachers and campus leaders so no student falls through the cracks. This allows us to intervene early and keep students on track academically, behaviorally, and in their post-secary planning. What stands out most to me is how this intentional approach impacts our students. scholars begin to understand what college readiness looks like, what is expected of them, and how their daily work connects to their long-term goals. They start to see themselves as collegebound, not someday, but now. Every day, I see students gaining confidence, taking ownership, and rising to the expectations set for them. This
169is why college for all is real at Travis. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Williams. So, now as we look at our current year data, uh, beginning of the year data, sorry, I'm having a hard time seeing the screen, we have highlights, uh, showing our progress, uh, up to this point. So if you'll notice for our beginning of the year data, we have administered the TEA star RLA interim assessment that was administered in October 2025 for grades 3 through 10. Our students showed a student achievement score. The student achievement score is the average of the percentage of scholars that are approaches, meets and masters. And this is what is measured on domain one, the achievement domain. So our goal on the corrective action fund that we submitted was that by December we would be at a
17035% SAS. So for RLAs we're we are at the 35% EAS. Um highlights from this assessment are that 40% of our scholars were already showing to have met growth goals by the end of October. So, that's promising uh because by the end of the school year, we want to have at least 80% meet those graph goals. Uh the student percent meets, we have 37% of our scholars begin grades 3 through 10 already at the meet standard. 8th grade, I highlight here is that 54% of our reading language arts scholars were uh already at grade level, meeting grade level on the star interim assessment. And for English one, we had 63% of our scholars at the meets grade level um percentage. For math, uh we just administered wrapped up our interim assessment for math this week.
171Um so what you see here is our local assessment. Uh these are our um unit assessments that we administer in math. So again, the target for the middle of the year for December was to be at a 35% student achievement score. Currently we're at a 35% for our college prep courses that six through eight. Now our concerns are for the interim RLA is that third grade and fourth grade, seventh grade RLA and English 2 were below that 35%. So we did have vacancies in third and fourth grade RLA which are now filled. Um and seventh grade RLA, we did make a teacher change there due to the teacher not uh moving towards proficiency and improvement overall in student outcomes. With math, our local assessment data, we're looking at grades three through five where we do
172have current gaps. We're currently at a 28% SAS and that's a local assessment. Our goal by December was to be at a 35. So our attendance our uh attendance uh what we implement for attendance are daily ADA huddles and our daily ADA escalation matrix. Some of the activities that um or tests that we assign our staff are to make daily phone calls to any scholars that are not present at school. So every day between 8 and 8:30, you will see our grade team leaders in the hallways making phone calls to all of our parents and families of any scholars that are absent that day. We also have an escalation matrix. With the escalation matrix, we implement specific strategies including having parent meetings and contacting parents to determine what barriers or what next steps or what
173supports we can provide to ensure that our scholars are uh coming to school. So our performance goals, we've not met uh goals one and two and again we are proposing goals for the 2526 school year. The last set of goals uh goals and objectives that we had were for the 2520 uh 24-25 school year. So we are proposing new performance goals. Our enrollment remains strong. So when we look at enrollment um I want to highlight that we currently approx have approximately 244 scholars on the weight list. That represents about 16% of our current enrollment. That weight list is a strong signal of the community trust and demand to the advanced academic model. So when we do look at our college prep, especially the math scores, what I want you to know is that every single
174eighth grade scholar takes the algebra test. We don't administer the eighth grade test. They're already in advanced coursework. Now planning to our action plan um by the middle of actually by the end of quarter four we wanted 75% of our math third through 8th grade teachers to be proficient on lesson planning um and internalization on the instruction rubric that we use. Currently we are at 74%. The reason that this is important is we have a very specific rubric uh for teachers to plan so that they are intentionally asking grade level rigorous questions. If we want our scholars to perform at grade level, we have to expose them to grade level curriculum. So although we do have interventions to close gaps, if we only teach at a lower level, we're never going to get our kids
175to achieve at the level of STAR. So our focus here is on ensuring that our uh teachers are planning for misconceptions, asking rigorous questions uh each and every day. So our uh scholars are meeting grade level performance standards. The second uh action plan metric that we have is that 65% of the reading language arts third through 10 10th grade teachers and math teachers are rated proficient on rigorous instruction um on our instructional rubric. This speaks to uh the level of rigor and the releasing of the thinking to our scholars. What we want to see in all of our classrooms is that uh students are doing the thinking. They're doing the reasoning. We don't want the teachers to be the sage on the stage. We want the students to be the uh to be doing the
176thinking and to be engaged in rigorous lessons. And ultimately by the end of the school year, in order for us to be at a minimum of C, we expect to be at 45% against student achievement score, that's the average of the approaches, meets, and masters across all content areas and grade level. So our school improvement strategy is this current year we have added a reading and math coach or lesson planning. Again, focusing on that first metric, lesson planning and internalization with the priority leaders and teachers. And this is every week. We actually have our coaches embedded in the field modeling for leaders and for teachers twice a week at Travis and those are two full days. Um we also have student academic interventions for priority scholars daily during academic block and we have national content
177coaches supporting infield and with planning rigorous lessons bi-weekly. So our strengths and focus areas our strength the student culture leadership student enrollment and interest from our families. Our focus areas are eliminate eliminating rigor threats especially where we have the new teachers um new teachers to start grade levels and content areas and also ensuring that we're including engagement strategies every day. So our next steps are uh to request that the board approve the amended um renewed partnership goals which uh you see on this slide. So on this final slide, we are proposing a path to a C rating for 2526 to a B rating by 2627 and ultimately an A rating by 2930. With this trajectory, we are intentionally prioritizing third grade early literacy and numeracy with steady year-over-year improvement aligned to the NISD goals. This
178data represents where we are now, not where we will finish. We see early momentum especially in math. Um I do have preliminary data and just looking at our college prep data for math and the interim assessment we already had a 70 student achievement score just in agree for eighth grade. So that's really exciting. Um so idea Travis is moving forward with clarity and urgency and this partnership remains essential deliver to delivering on our promise of advanced coursework and college for all. Thank you for your continued trust and commitment. >> I have a few questions that's okay Mr. Hodes. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Um you say you have 244 on your weight list and where where are those students from? Are they from all over town or are they just from the area where the
179school is? And how do they apply? How do they get on that wait list? Is it through Apply Midland? >> Those students are coming from all over Midland and they are on the waiting list with the old system, but also with the new system that we've got. And they can come from out of district, they can come from in district, and they can come from the neighborhood. And so they come from all areas. >> Okay. So, do they do they apply yearly for that or you said old list, new list? Is it a we don't know if they really are still wanting to be on the wait list or not? >> Because some of those students applied last year at the beginning of the year for this school year. So, the partnership application opens up
180September 1st. So, some of those students essentially could have applied September 1st of last school year, did not get in. They're still on the wait list. And so that's for this school year. >> Okay. All right. Um, you also said that you don't give the eighth grade math test, >> not the eighth grade star test. >> You give the seventh grade star test. >> We do give the seventh grade star test. It's pre-alggebra. >> Okay. >> So, they're skipping eighth grade math basically is what you're saying that they're doing. >> Yes. >> But to some extent by not taking the test >> combine the curriculums. Yes. >> Okay. um performance measure number three and number four down here this year it says 50% on RLA star and 33% on math star. Did you meet those
181goals um or not? >> The 2425 numbers on the current um column >> is what we actually scored in 2425. Um, we did I don't have last year's performance objectives. They weren't specific to third grade. >> Okay. All right. >> We're proposing third grade this year to align with HB3. >> Okay. >> Any more questions, Miss Burlson? >> I'm good. I I do have a question. >> Yeah, I do have a a question, Mr. Hajes. Uh Mr. B, >> out of the I think you said 1300 students, uh do we know how many of those students out of the 1300 reside uh in the idea Travis district or area or community? >> I don't have that number on me, but we can easily run that number and get that for you. >> Okay. I mean,
182I'd like to see at every grade level on how many students in the in the community or the neighborhood we have attending idea. Thank you. >> Is that it, Mr. Bishop? >> Yes, sir. That's it. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. Anybody else? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. President Hodes, trustees, Dr. Howard, thank you for the time this evening. Um, I'm Zach Katik. I'm joined with Miss Jamaica Johnson, principal at Lamar Elementary. And excuse me. Okay. And we'll be brief um because we know you have a long night. Um, so we partnered with Midland ISD to run an 1882 partnership with Lamar in 2023. This year, I want to talk specifically what we've done in the last four months, four and a half months specifically. We've had a successful administration of our NWA for
183BOI. We completed makeups today, believe our MOI, and I'll share some of those results with you. I did not have those that data prior to submitting this PowerPoint. We've had a successful administration of dibbles both beginning of the year and middle of the year. And we were fully staffed at the start of the school year. We also had two weeks of intensive administrative training at Lamar Elementary in July with all of our sightbased administrators across all three states we operate in. We had 75 administrators on site for over two weeks um coaching them up on our instructional practices and using our quarter five sitebased summer school program as calibration site for our administrators. You'll see where our attendance we're slightly below the district ADA. We're at 93%. Um, and the district is at 94%. We
184had our winter extravaganza last night and we had over 600 families in the camp on campus in the school from 5:30 to 7 last evening. You can see the important dates there. I want to thank the Midland ISTD Midland ISD team. They had senior leaders come in November 10th, both of Sam Houston and Lamar and to our school. They visited multiple classrooms, had teacher panels, had student panels, and it was a pleasure hosting them during the evening. Moving on to what we're actually doing and what we've started doing is you you'll see couple bullet points for our action plan. Our first key action is effective instruction. So that's measuring the quality of instruction and we conducted our systems review team in November. I'll have that data over the winter break and provide that to the
185district. We have a fall target of 75% of our spot observations by conducted by an independent audit team will be measured as proficient. That metric rises to 85% in May of 2026. Our second key action around instruction is the fidelity to our LSAE model and we assess that through a December rubric score by the sitebased administrative team as well as our director of instruction for the perian basin. Those have been completed and those scores were proficient. So they have earned max points on their action plan for that. Key action seven is the science of reading. We use dibbles or MCAST as you've heard that that name earlier tonight. And our target for EOI is 95% of our students in kindergarten and first grade will be proficient at benchmark green or blue andor their pathway of
186progress will be above or above growth. I will have that data early next week. We'll be able to provide a MOI or presentation to the board at their convenience. Key action five is effectively implementing our staffing model and since 2021 TFS does not have any substitute teachers. Um we have 184 student teacher contact base and we employ learning coaches and teacher apprentices in order not to have subs for two reasons. Number one, they know the instructional model and can execute it with fidelity. But more importantly, they have relationships with the students because they're full-time employees and work there 40 to 50 hours a week. I will say that Lamar is presenting a unique challenge for us in the spring. I have to surprise him here with this. Um, we have five teachers that will be
187going on maternity leave sometime between February and May. Okay, no problem. We've given her three extra positions to be able to hire now, train, so we are not short staffed and can still provide quality instruction every day. So we will add those staff members she has the green light to hire and she's actively working on doing that. So we'll have additional people prior and as they go on maternity leave effective teachers will be able to fill that. So we're happy to be able to do that. Another thing that we've done this year that is new. It's not listed in your PowerPoint. Um but all principles at third future new rule new standard operating procedure is we've graded out all of our teachers at every campus. The principal may not delegate the instructional coaching of the
188bottom tier teachers to an assistant principal. So, Miss Johnson has ownership of those four every day. While she does have two assistant principles, they are not the primary evaluator for the four lowest teachers on that campus. The intent is the school leader, the best instructional person on that campus, has direct supervision and will not delegate that supervision to an assistant principal to make sure we're right raising the level of achievement and instruction every day. On the right hand side, you can see our school improvement strategies. We talked a lot about instructional feedback. It's real time. It's daily. Principles receive that every Saturday morning in an update. I break it down personally rank out all four domains and what we're looking at we're consistently monitoring the LSE model both in the classroom and in the team
189center our literacy coaching readingmies I was at Lamar Saturday for our readingmies our next session will be January 5th so we're bringing Sam and Lamar doing that as well and consistent staffing and quick turnaround on hiring so my expectation is that when Miss Johnson makes a recommendation to hire that person has been vetted that person is background check fingerprint within 72 hours so that our kids our students are not waiting for us to do our job. Our strengths and area of focus again quality of instruction, leadership and culture 80% of per day is instructional feedback providing SAM leadership and building a high performance culture across students and staff. Our focus areas is extended LSE. You may have remember I talked about that this time last year about Sam Houston. Lamar is executing that as well
190every Friday so that we're pushing our high kids, our S2s and our A's, getting them to meets and masters while closing the gap for our L's and S1's are non-proficient and are partially proficient and again coaching and non-proficient teachers where I talked about not being able to delegate bottom four teachers. I'd be happy to entertain questions >> has some questions. Mr. Hodes, >> go ahead. Miss Pearlson. Correct. >> Yes, ma'am. Go ahead. >> Um, I find it interesting and I think when you were here in the spring, I I said I would like to see things that how the others are doing it. And I know that you're a charter, so we really can't make you do that. But, um, there's no performance goals listed here of what the performance goals actually are, but you
191only achieve two out of the nine performance goals. We are not asking for any amended performance goals. >> Yeah. >> Um I can tell you so we did go from a B to a C. I have no reservation or hesitation to tell the board we will be back up to a B next year with the work that we're doing. And anecdotally I just broke it >> in growth or in achievement >> as a as a school as our overall performance. We will be at a B next year. >> Okay. And I guess my other deal is um I find it interesting that there's no concerns. You have none at this time. And that is concerning to me because there seem to be a lot of concerns at Lamar that that we could put down to
192address something. I mean even gifted and talented school came forth with concerns to always make the students grow no matter what level they are. You want everyone to keep achieving even higher. So, um, could you give us some concerns now, please? >> I mean, I have no concerns that I would bring to you as a board. Me personally, we walked every classroom today except for K1 because they were at lunch. Um, could things have been sharper in some areas? Yes. For example, couple classrooms did not have quick response cards. I want quick response cards in every classroom. some of the pacing could have been perhaps a little bit better. Um, we had talked about modified whiparounds and how the teacher would have maybe the yellows and then the blues. That's the level of detail that
193I look at. That's the level of scrutiny you have to have over 184 days to go from that C to that B. And that's my expectation. But I have no major concerns that I would bring to you the board this evening. Anecdotally, I can share some data that I pulled. Um, in four and a half months, the students have grown eight months time in ELA, eight months time in math and one year and one month's time in science for a total an average growth in four and a half months to one year's growth in those three concepts. >> Okay. Is that through NWA and what they give you or is that from y'all's formula that y'all do specifically for your school? This >> is from NWA and and our equation using the RIT. >> Yeah.
194Thank you. >> And thank you. >> I have a quick question. Is >> Mr. Katic? Yes, sir. >> Brandon Hodgees. >> Where where are we looking at as far as uh TA A throughF accountability, moving up in domain one in achievement, closing the gaps. Where are we at there? Um I I don't have those numbers in front, but I can I can almost say guarantee I feel highly confident that Lamar will be a B above 80. >> Okay. Well, I I would like to see those numbers and I know the rest of the board would like them as well too. That way I think what Miss Pearlson's getting at is we would like to compare apples to apples. Correct, Miss Pearlson? >> Correct. >> Yes, ma'am. And we have also, just as an update, um
195we did meet with Finland ISD several weeks ago. I know that the district is moving to I Ready assessments and we have agreed to do that as well next year in addition to NWA. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you very much. Anybody else have any questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Katic. >> He's still got one more. I still have one more and I will bring up Miss Tina Levas, our assistant principal at Sam Houston. Um Mr. Levas is is standing in tonight for um for Dr. Garza who had a family emergency. He could not be with us tonight. So many of the same things I'm going to be repeat um at their future we attack things systemically. So you're going to see a lot of the same discussion the quality of instruction. We're going to talk
196about our the fidelity to our LSE model, our staffing plan as well. A little bit different is the enrollment and the attendance. We are matching the ADA that the district has at 94% and Sam's attendance is up as of this morning I believe we were at 542 is what we have and last last week I said you enrolled five more students. Correct. >> Yeah, five more students we have. We did have a site visit from Midland ISD senior leadership staff on November 10th. They started the morning off with us that day and then we proceeded to Lamar that afternoon. Um, as you know, Sam's current rating is an A, but we we still have areas that we we are working on. There's certain areas that we're not happy with. Um, and you'll see on the
197second page, sorry, you'll see our action plan goals, our school improvement strategy, and you'll also see our strengths and focus areas. They do mirror they do mirror the models as these would be the same for all 12 campuses across our three states. The difference is going to be the little tweaks that Sam will do. I did mention it during Lamar's presentation about how we track spot data weekly. Sam consistently I would say we're finishing week 18 of the semester. I would say 16 out of the 18 weeks. Their internal assessments and spot data have been the highest across all 12 campuses. And I said this today, I think we can be a little bit tougher and more stringent there because I think we are missing some things that we really can get better on. But
198consistently their spot observation forms and their administration's assessment of the quality instruction has been the highest of the 12 campuses. We will have our NWA data um for you after the break. Preliminary I do have Sam's growth is at 1.1 years. So there are 0.9 years of growth in four and a half months for ELA 0.9 for math and 1.2 for science bringing them to 1.1 years of growth in four and a half months time. They are tracking to get over two years of growth if this current trend holds up. Another good factor to stand that we put in last year and they're doing even better this year is our extended LSA. We put that in place last year because Sam had the highest number of students in our network at grade level and we
199were not getting the meets to masters and keeping the masters at masters. Um we put that in place last year. We saw good results that went from the C to the A. I believe that was a very good contributing factor and that is being even stren it's being enhanced this year in the team center with coaching of our learning coaches and we are replicating that as well at Lamar and several other campuses because of the results that Sam received. Um I feel very confident that Sam will remain an A based on the leadership we have there. All three administrators have a turn. We have zero turnover at Sam Houston. Um and we observed every classroom today K through six every room we visited. We debriefed spot averages. What tweaks can we work on? Um they
200have a small number of teachers two two that are not proficient in my video. be happy to entertain questions. >> Anybody have any questions? >> Yeah, I I have a question kind of going back to Lamar uh if you will. You and maybe I heard you wrong, but you said that you don't have any substitute teachers at at Lamar? >> No, we have one vacancy um a teacher apprentice and then we have to hire the three additional that um that we opened up for them for the maternity leave. Yes, sir. >> Okay. So what's your student toteer ratio? >> 1 to 22 and K1 and then 1 to 25 and 2 through five or two through six is our target. I don't believe we have any classrooms at either campus over that. We may be
201pushing it a little at same. >> So when you have a teacher that might be out for the day, does another teacher just take that role or do y'all have another teacher to come on and fill that that position? How does that work? >> Yes, sir. a teacher apprentice. So in in Third Future Schools, a campus is awarded one teacher apprentice position for every 150 students. So they're full-time. They're on a 201day contract, $63,000 salary and they train under an expert teacher. So they started with this July 22nd. If Mr. Levas is absent because her hot water heater is broken and she has to get it fixed, I the TA would step in and teach her students for the day. I know the instructional model, the lesson is prepared, but more importantly, I since I'm
202a full-time employee, I have relationships with the students. That's how we've been operating since 2021. >> Okay. Thank you. That's it, Mr. For me. >> Yes, sir. Anybody else? >> I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. Kronic. >> Thank you. Appreciate your time. Have a Good evening uh board and Dr. Howard. My name is Shelley Haney. I am the associate vice president of early childhood and dean of education for Midland College. And I'm here to update um everyone on the prek academy at Midland College. Um let's start with a few of our highlights. Um from our beginning of year data, more than half of our fours were on track to meet our end of year goals at at the beginning of year. Also about half of our fours were also on track in in math to
203meet our end of year goals. Um and the majority of our three and four year olds are also meeting or exceeding our goal in social emotional. Um concerns. We do have some concerns with the specific part of our literacy goal concerning letter sounds. Um, at the beginning of year, only about 40 students were on track to meet that goal. Um, as well as about half of our three-year-olds on track to meet our literacy goals. Um, additionally, attendance is a concern. As you can see, um, in the bar graph on the slide, we are slightly below the district average. Um, in regards to all of our concerns, I think we have a great plan to start the second semester to address attendance as well as a great plan to implement as soon as we get our
204middle of your um, CLI data. Um you can see in regards to our performance goals last year we did meet all five of our goals and as uh Miss Mitchell mentioned in the beginning we do take that C rating because we have to take the rating of the district since we don't have a star rating of our own. Um and lastly, just in case um for anyone who doesn't know, we have um opened 15 classrooms of 15 of our 16 classrooms um which is 279 seats and as of right now we have 267 of those seats filled. Um we're still looking for for 12 three year olds. So that's that's what we're missing. Our three-year-olds, uh we have a wait list for our three-year-old seats. Um, and anytime we happen to lose one, there's a
205long list of ready to fill it. So, um, on to the next slide. Um, just in regards to some of our our plans for, um, our beginning of year data, we do um have an interventionist that is pulling students based on missing skills for the most recent data. Um and then our teachers also use that data um not just beginning of year but weekly data to build on the skills during their their station rotations as well as um we use footsteps to brilliance to specifically target those literacy skills. um school improvement strategy. Again, using the beginning of year data to drive um PLC's for both grade levels and as many of my colleagues mentioned also um walkthroughs with feedback and coaching provided. Some things uh we consider strengths. We're fully staffed. We have a positive
206culture. We're proud of the quality instruction that our teachers provide. Um, we are fortunate to be able to offer a 17-3 ratio in our three-year-old classrooms and a 20-2 or 10 to1 ratio in our four-year-old classrooms. Um, we are also very excited this year to have a wellestablished and growing PTA. Um, that that has been great. They have been great um to support us in some of the things that we consider strengths, especially in regards to culture. Um, and we we're lucky at Midland College. We kind of have a built-in grow your own. Um, several of our teachers assistants are actually students at Midland College or already finishing their four-year degree at a university. And our goal is to to uh use them uh and hire them because again, they already know our our model
207and and know how we work in the event that we do have a teacher vacancy. Um, for focus areas, we think we can do a better job of coaching and onboarding any new staff members, especially staff that might come on board after the beginning of the year. Just making sure that we're really intentional about um, mentoring, on boarding, and providing them the staff development that other people may have gotten in August. Okay. I am also here tonight to talk about our updated performance goals. And here's where I'm going to read to you a little bit. I'll apologize in advance. Um on this slide, you will notice um that this that it's divided into current and proposed goals. Our new goals are very closely aligned with our old goals and also provide an increased level of
208rigor so that we are in alignment with Midland ISD. Performance level one is the district rating and I won't repeat why that is is labeled the way that it is for a third time. Um performance level two is split into two sections. One for four year olds and another for three-year-olds. You will notice that the top goal is labeled 1.1. The goal states that a percentage which is listed to the right four year olds will develop an ontrack understanding in twothirds measures of the CLI engaged chronological awareness assessment. The bottom goal is unique to Midland College prek three-year-olds. The goal states that a percentage which is determined by the number to the right of three-year-olds will be a we will be able to produce at least 20 letter sounds on a standardsbased assessment by the
209end of the year. The proposed changes maintain the letter letter sound target with the addition of two measured subtests that are currently part of the four-year-old goal. This will create a developmentally developmentally appropriate goal for our um population of three-year-olds while maintaining alignment with the entire MISD population of fours. Um and then performance measure three is very similar just in regards to math. Um, we are also changing the goal to where a p a percentage of our three-year-olds will score 20 or higher on the math assessment and the three-year-old data that we'll be tracking is the same 20 or higher on the CLI math assessment. Um, at this time I would request the approval for our amended goals and I'm happy to answer any questions. Any questions? >> I have I guess I have one.
210Uh when we're talking we're changing it from developing an understanding on the CLI to on track and two3 two out of I guess two out of three measures on the CLI. What is the difference in those two things? So the the new goal actually aligns more with the goal that Midland ISD tracks which is the twothirds. Um we were looking more specifically um but now to better align so that we can report data that aligns the apples to apples like you mentioned earlier. Um that is why we changed so they'll they'll they'll meet the measure on two of the three parts of CLI and literacy. >> Okay. Thank you. Anyone else? >> Thanks. >> Anyone else? >> Mr. Hudges, at this point, I recommend approval to amend Senate Bill 1882, performance goals for Midland College
211PreK for the 2526 through 2829 school years. >> Okay. As we voted earlier, we're going to divide the question. We voted and approved to divide the question and correct. >> Go ahead. >> I just said correct. >> Okay. So, we want to start with Midland College PreK. >> So, we're going to label the resulting parts G1, G2, G3, and G4. It's a practical way to organize them for clarity in discussion voting and for the minutes. And although the rules, Robert's rules don't prescribe specific labeling, it is up to the discretion of the chair and that's how we are going to do it tonight just to make it simple. So, the first one that the board will be voting on, it has been uh that needs to be motioned and seconded is G1 approval to amend
212Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Midland College PreK for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school year. Do we have a motion? >> Second. It has been motioned and seconded this board discuss and possibly take action on agenda item 9 G1 approval for to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Milan College prek for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years. Those all in favor, please raise your right hand and let me know how the vote is, please. >> Unanimous. Motion passes. Moving on to G2, Young Women's Leadership Academy. It has been uh the approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for young women's leadership academy for the 2025 2026 through 2028 through 2029 school years. Do we have a motion? >> My motion to pass. >> Second. It's been motioned and seconded
213for this board to discuss and take possible action on agenda item 9G2, approval to amend Senate Bill 1882, performance goals for Young Women's Leadership Academy for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years. All those in favor, raise your right hand and let me know the vote. >> Unanimous. Moving on to the next agenda item. Agenda item uh 9 G3. Approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Ben Mumm International Academy for the 2025 2026 through 2028 2029 school years. All those in favor raise your right hand and let me know the vote. >> Got a motion here. Right. >> Motion. Motion to approve. >> Let me get a motion. I'm sorry. My apologies. >> Dr. Freeze made a motion. >> Second. >> Okay. It has been motioned and seconded that this board discuss
214and take possible action on agenda item 9 G3, approval to amend Senate Bill 1882 performance goals for Ben Mumm International Academy for the 202526 through 2028 through 2029 school years. All those in favor raise your right hand. Let me know the vote. >> Unanimous. Moving on to the next item. It is agenda item G 4. Approval of new performance goals for idea Travis for 2025 through 2026 through 2029 through 2030. Is there a motion? >> Second. It has been moved and seconded this board discuss and take possible action on agenda item G4, approval of new performance goals for idea Travis for 2025, 2026 through 2029 through 2030 school years. All those in favor, raise your right hand and let me know the vote, please. Opposed six1. >> Six in favor. >> Yes, sir. >> Motion
215passes. Moving on to the next agenda item. Uh, agenda item 9H, discussion of and reorganization of board officers. Before we move on there, I want to say thank you for everyone that presented uh their plans. It's very much appreciated. Thank y'all very very much. Keep up the good work. Now, before we start in the discussion of and reorganization of board officers, everyone, this last time people didn't felt like they didn't get time to talk. There will be discussion on on everyone. So, just hang in there and be kind on it. But so now we're open for uh agenda item 9H, discussion of and reorganization of board officers. And I would like to make a motion to motion uh for Josh Gwyn as president. >> Second. >> Has been motioned and seconded. Now, we're gonna we're
216we're gonna sit on that one and we're gonna we'll go through these and and vote on them. Uh >> you need to ask if there's any other nominations. >> Well, that that's Yes, ma'am. Are there any other nominations? That's what I was getting at. >> I would like to nominate uh Michael Booker. >> Okay. It has been motioned to nominate Michael Booker. Is there a second? >> I'll second. Okay, it has been motioned and seconded to nominate Michael Booker. Is there any other nominations? Any y I cannot see y'all, so y'all got to tell me. >> No more no more nominations for president. Okay, seeing no more nominations, um, all those in favor for Josh Gwyn for president, raise your right hand. >> Are we going to discuss or not? >> Oh, well, you can.
217Yes, go ahead. I just I'd ask any more nominations. My apologies. I just assumed there was no more. Nobody else want to talk. Go ahead. Um, I I think uh both nominations are very worthy. Um, I think Mr. Gwyn's done an excellent job as vice president this year. Um, I think uh I would thank you, President Hajes, for all the work you've done. Um, I uh I nominated Mr. Booker. I think uh one thing this board could really use right now um as far as communicating to the the community is a unified board. And I think Mr. Booker would really bring that to the table the best of all seven of us. Um he's he's for me personally I've you know I've had a few times where I I've pursued something and he's kind of
218issued some restraint and at the appropriate times and then other times he's uh encouraged me to do things that you know I think were probably good ideas. So, I think he has good wisdom, good judgment, and uh I'm I I'm throwing my support behind him. >> I appreciate it. I agree. Mr. Booker, you are one heck of a good guy. Um, anyone else? Any discussion? Mr. Gwyn, I I propose that we nominate Mr. win cuz he's had the time sitting in the agenda reviews kind of learning the competency side of it for the last year. I think he's well prepared for the governance side of it. Mr. Booker, I think you also could be uh got a little bit of a learning curve, but you definitely could do it. The I I didn't know that
219you were have wanted to be president. When I had spoke to you, you said you did not want to be president. Are you wanting to to be president? I >> still don't want to be president. So, do you want the nomination? >> I mean, it's it's their It's already second, so we have to >> vote. >> Okay. I'm just asking if you want But you don't want to be president. >> No. >> Okay. I was just Any more discussion? Seeing no more discussion, everybody ready to vote? I cannot see y'all, so I'm just I'm playing this blind. ma'am. >> All right. All those in favor of Josh for president, raise your right hand and count the votes. >> Four for Gwen. That's a majority. Do you want to >> That's a majority. >> Yes. Booker,
220do do y'all want to still vote on Booker or No. >> Absolutely. >> Okay. All those in favor of Mr. Booker for president, raise your right hand. >> I abstain. >> Booker. Can count the votes, please. >> Three. Four. >> Correct. Four for Gwen. >> Okay, perfect. Moving on to the next position. So, I can make this real easy because there was two of us for president. So, I nominate Michael Booker for vice president. >> A second. It's been motioned and seconded to nominate Michael Booker for VP. Mr. Booker, would you like to be vice president for us? And >> Sure. >> Thank you. And lead this and and help lead MSD to be successful, more successful than we already are. >> Yes, sir. >> Awesome. Any any other nominations? >> None. >> There are
221none. He just wants to make sure Mr. Gwyn's not absent. >> You better show up every every meeting. >> No more nominate. >> Oh, by the way, >> seeing no more nominations, is it is there is it been motioned and seconded for Mr. Booker for vice president? I believe so. So, it being motioned and seconded to vote on Mr. Michael Booker for vice president. All those in favor, please raise your right hand. >> Yes. I need the votes, please. >> Unanimous. 70. >> Awesome. Moving on to the secretary. Are there any nominations for secretary? >> I nominate Dr. Matt Freeze for secretary. >> I second. >> I'd like to nominate Sarah Buterson for secretary. >> I second. >> So Burley or I'm sorry, Miss Burlson. Miss Burlson. Miss Burlson. I'm writing it down. So I
222have all this. So I have Dr. Matt Freeze and Sarah Burlson as nominees for secretary right now. And I would like to nominate Angel Hernandez again. Mr. Hernandez, would you like the nomination? >> Sure, why not? >> Is there a second for Mr. Hernandez? >> I second Mr. Hernandez. >> Okay. It has been moved and seconded to vote for Mr. Hernandez as secretary as well. So, starting with Matt Freeze, all those in favor, >> can we get discussed real quick? >> Yes. Sorry, I apologize. Yes. Thank you. >> I I would like to throw my support behind Mrs. Berles. Um I I think I can be more effective uh working on issues and um I I would like to throw my support behind her. So, >> well, we motioned and seconded it, so we got
223to vote on it. understand you can still vote on me, but I'm throwing my support behind her. >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Any more? Any more discussion? >> There's none. >> Okay. Uh, it's been motioned and seconded that this board vote for Dr. Matt Freeze for secretary. All those in favor, raise your right hand and please give me the votes. one. >> Who was it? >> Angel Hernandez. >> Thanks for not shutting me out. >> Okay. Uh, it has been motioned and seconded that we vote for secretary for Miss Sarah Borlson. All those in favor raise your right hand >> and give me the vote. You can't vote twice. >> Yeah. So, it's five. >> Who Who voted? >> Who Who did not? >> Everyone but Mr. Hernandez voted for Mrs. Burton. >> Mr. Hernandez.
224>> Okay. And me. >> She got five votes. >> Perfect. All those It's been motioned and seconded for all those to vote for Angel Hernandez for secretary. Raise your right hand. one. >> Just one. >> Okay, perfect. Congratulations, new executive board, Miss Burlson. Congratulations, Mr. Glenn. Congratulations, Mr. Booker. Congratulations. Now, moving on to our last agenda item. Agenda item uh G10 information. Oh, no. I'm sorry. That's it. So, now we're going to executive session, I believe. Correct. >> Yes, sir. >> That's correct. >> Oh my gosh, my this screen is too small for all this. I need big monitors. Uh, moving on to agenda item 11. Action item. Close session in accordance with This is not an action item. Moving on to agenda item 11. Close session in accordance with government code section 551. Section
225551.071 for the purpose of private consultation with the board's attorney on any or all subjects regarding all matters authorized by law. Section 551.074 074 for the purpose of considering the appointment employment evaluation reassessment duties discipline or dismissal of a public officer employee or hear complaints or charges against public officer employee section 551.076 for the purpose of deliberation regarding the deployment or specific occasions for implementation of security personnel or devices or to deliberate a security audit. this we are now it the time is what 9:18 p.m. and we're now in close session It's hard. It's cool. move over. All right. Can y'all hear me? >> Yes, sir. The time is 10:09 p.m. and we are just now adjourning or we are coming back from close session and moving on to the last uh items to adjournment.
226We have a motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> Was there did somebody motion it and then you second it Mr. Motion to adjurnn. >> Okay, it's been motioned and seconded that we adjourn this meeting. And all those in favor, raise your right hand. >> Unanimous. Feast. >> Have a good Christmas. We'll see you in January.