May Board Meeting

001That was my budget. How am I supposed But they just moved to the last. That's it. Everybody else >> this way or in Dallas? >> I know. She had a battery. She just fixed it. Members present tonight and we're opening the meeting at 7 on behalf. It's It is on. Can you not Can anybody hear me? >> [laughter] >> You heard me say that. You heard me say that. Okay. >> You know I'm a little short. My arms are short. Okay. Is this better? >> Yeah. >> Turn the mic up. >> It is on. Is there volume? Okay. I'll just I'll hold it. Is that better? Okay. Welcome everyone to our regularly scheduled board meeting. We're glad you're here tonight and we appreciate you taking time out of your busy schedules to be here to

002celebrate all these student and staff members that will be recognized tonight and to hear about school district business. So, thank you for coming and thank you to our Midway family that's online and watching or listening to us tonight as well. If you haven't, if I get too loud, please tell me. If you haven't silenced your phone yet, please do so. Please remember that the board's role is to set goals, listen to reports of the superintendent and staff, approve budgets, set tax rates, approve contracts, approve personnel recommendations, and make policy for the district. We are not here to make management decisions. Management is the responsibility of the superintendent and his staff. And we are thrilled to have so many people here tonight. This is just awesome, all the students that are going to be recognized. And

003it's an unusually large crowd. And we normally ask everyone to wait till everyone's recognized before they leave so everyone feels like they've seen and heard. But with our large group, I think I'm getting louder. >> Um, there we go. >> With our [clears throat] with our large group tonight, we thought we'd change that up just a little bit. So after your student or family member is recognized, please just quietly wait till that group is done and then you may exit the room because I think we have some people in the atrium that might want to come in as well. So we're going to do that a little differently tonight. So thank you with your help for that. We always read our mission statement at the beginning of each meeting and we pick a trustee to

004give us some thoughts on what that means to them at this point in time. And tonight that is Jonathan Green. Thank you, Miss Vic. So, our mission is Midway ISD will maximize individual potential within a learner centered and supportive environment to prepare students to excel in a global society. My my one comment on that is for those of you that don't know uh Midway students have built an airplane. Uh Tango Flight uh was a program that we implemented uh two years ago, fall of 2024, if my dates are right. And we just recently we like I did anything the students uh at the high school in the CTE uh department has built a small airplane that is going to be commissioned in a ceremony tomorrow night at TSTC. And Dr. Allan alluded to this earlier

005today at lunch that uh that I I was a part of and there are students that built that airplane that didn't know what they were going to do in college or the rest of their life. And because they were involved with the with the assembly of that airplane, many of them are going into aerospace engineering, mechanical engineering, and all sorts of other plane and mechanically related fields in college that they may not have otherwise gone to. And so for Midway to afford them that opportunity to do that and to to shape the direction of their life and and their career path is something that I I couldn't be more proud of as a board member. And I think that just uh encapsulates our mission perfectly that we have prepared those students to excel in a

006global society and do things they may not have otherwise done without Midway ISD. So >> very good. Thank you, Mr. Green. And if you don't have a high school student, so you're not familiar with the Tango flight, um I'm sure we have pictures on the website by now, but you should go go to the website and look because they took built this plane inside in one of the the the robotics room or engineering room and they had to take some windows out and everything to get it through the halls and out of the building. So, it's a pretty uh pretty awesome feat just doing that. But very proud of those students. >> And can can I add too that we if you're unable to go tomorrow night, the plan right now is to stream that

007event on midway.tv. So, uh, not just the sort of presentation, but actually look around at the plane and see, uh, what everything looks like. So, you can check it out online. >> That's right. Awesome. Now, we will take a moment to pause with silence to reflect and honor those who are on our minds tonight. So, please join me. Thank you. Next up, we have the Pledge of Allegiance. And tonight, we have River Valley Middle School and Dr. Heather Meer to lead the pledge. >> Good evening. I've got some awesome River Valley 8th graders with me tonight. These kids have persevered through three principles and they are here and they are excited and they are excited about high school and I'm just sad that I don't get them another year. So, we're going to start with

008our student of the year, Parker Sandball, and our student council president, Kinsley Rich, and our robotics club president, Max Hopper. And then we have four other leaders of the Panther Pack. That is a new um recognition we've done this year of students that are exhibiting the seven habits. Parker was also and Kinsley were also leaders of the Panther Pack. But joining them is going to be Kate Smith, Landon Broyals, Noah Meyers, and Jacob Sparks. [applause] >> [applause] >> Okay, Parker, you can go at it. >> 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. >> Excellent. >> Thank you so much. >> Yes. Thank you very much. Well done. And for anyone that might be worried

009about the weather, we are keeping an eye on it while we're here tonight. Some severe storms are rumbling through later. So, we've got our eye on that. Okay. Now, is the reason you're all here is recognition. And each month, one of our trustees helps hand out the certificates. And tonight, that is Jonathan Green. Join them. And we're going to let Dr. Allen start off with May recognitions days. >> Yes, ma'am. Due to the crowd here, I'm going to try and keep my editorials to a minimum, but I'm going to read these. So, here we go. Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month was in May, as well as Military Appreciation Month. May 1st is school principal day. Uh May 1 through 7 was National Physical Education Week. Uh May 1 was School Lunch Hero Day. May

0104th through 8 was teacher appreciation week. May 6 was National School Nurse Day. May 8th was school communicators day. May 13th was public school pair professional day and then of course the 25th is Memorial Day. Um and like I said I would keep my comments to minimum but I'm going to make one. So on this list of people who are recognized and this list is produced by the state of Texas principles, cafeteria workers, nurses, communicators, and all pair professionals excluded from the pay raise offered by the state of Texas in the last session. I would hope we do more than just talk about them as we go through the next session. >> Yes, agreed. Thank you. Next up is going to be Jess Wheeler and he's going to recognize the FCCLA plus others. >> Good

011evening. So, tonight we will we'll begin with FCCLA. These student high school students are being recognized for advancing to the state competition through the family career and community leaders of America, a national organization focused on leadership development, career preparation, and service learning. Through regional and state level competitions, students demonstrated excellence in communication, leadership, and career readiness skills. Please welcome one of their sponsors, Miss Alice Emer. >> [applause] >> through all of these students. Since we are going to announce a lot of different students, if we could, we'll hold applause and then and then applause each at the at the end of each. Um, congratulations to these outstanding state competitors. For the national programs and actions team, they they got fourth place. We have Melanie Jimenez, Maline Susa, and Vivien Baker. In fashion construction level three,

012we have Cole Shy where he placed fourth place. In fashion construction level two, we have Victoria Pratt who placed fifth place. And as a first uh in the Midway FCCLA program, we have our first regional officer in Adel Torango. Please give them a round of applause. [applause] If you're a parent of these young people and you want a photo, don't be bashful. Come right to the front of the room. It won't bother anybody. Get the picture you want to take >> and we'll Yeah, we'll wait. >> We got another one coming right now. >> Yeah. Get up here and take your pictures. >> Kiddos, stay together. >> Keep your bunch. >> Stay together. >> Let's let these other two add to this photo right up here. >> Oh, >> we have one of our other

013sponsors, Miss Coral Warwick. >> Lovely. Miss Vic, can I point out as we're taking photos that those photos can also be found on the district website under our board meetings and at our Flickr account? Is that correct? So, if you miss your photo, we have it online somewhere. >> Excellent. >> Thank you guys. >> Thank you all. Well done. Next up, [applause] next is the Culinary Arts State Competition. So tonight we recognize culinary arts students who competed at the state level demonstrating advanced culinary preparation, teamwork, presentation, and industry level skills. Having tried out uh in previous years without advancing, the team's success made the accomplishment espec especially meaningful. Under the dedicated guidance of their their culinary teacher Cora Warwick and the support of culinary teachers David Hayrick and Logan Moore, the students proudly showcase the

014skill, determination, and creativity they've worked so hard to develop. Tonight we will recognize Ulissa uh Rojos, Javier Ciss, and Payton Schneider. Please give these a round of applause. [applause] and Mr. Wheeler. With them tonight is also Miss Tanya Lee, who's the director of our child nutrition services for the district and helps support this team as well. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations to each of you. [applause] >> Next, we're going to recognize the BPA. So, next we recognize Midway High School's BPA students for advancing to the state competition of the business professionals of America. BPA prepares students for careers in business, finance, technology, health administration, and leadership through rigorous academic and professional competition. We want to welcome our sponsors, Kyle Rogers, Jamie Beavers, Jennifer Cobb, Justin Davis, and Leanne Schneider. And let's represent let's go ahead

015and recognize those outstanding state competitors. First we have Mila Doo and digital media production and virtual category. We have Marcus Morgan in payroll accounting. We have Juliano Rios and Fundamental Desktop Publishing. Alex Ches and Advanced Desktop Publishing. Anna Ho and Advanced Desktop Publishing. Sarah Whitaker Delgado and Advanced Desktop Publishing. Liliana Leington for virtual category. Sh Sam Traxelis and virtual category. and Chloe Doo in virtual category. Please give these students a round of applause. [applause] Congratulations, guys. [applause] All right. Next, we'll recognize HOSA. >> So, HOSA prepares future health care professionals through competitive events focused on medical knowledge, leadership, teamwork, and career readiness in our health science field. Please welcome our sponsor Charlotte Bond, Terara Stansky, Dr. Azul Purcell, and Liberty Adair. Congratulations to these outstanding state competitors. We have Zoe Betas Batanis for parliamentary procedure.

016Brandy Dixon, parliamentary procedure. Cedra Fathima, parliamentary procedure. Nandini Kadakia, parliamentary procedure. Pari Char Sharma, parliamentary procedure. Lia Ula, parliamentary procedure. [clears throat] Jessica Fan, healthy living. Liam Rama, dental technology. and Kirstston Stansky, National Geographic State qualifier in biology. Our final two students not only qualified for and competed at state, but will also be going to the international competition this summer. We have Abigail Ferguson for National Geographic Anatomy and Physiology and Lucy Hunt for International Qualifier for National Geographic Biology. Congratulations to each of you. [applause] All right. Did everybody? >> Congratulations. [applause] Next, we will recognize the FFA state competition teams. So tonight's recognitions continue with another outstanding example of career technical education excellence at Midway ISD, which is Oh, wait just a sec. >> We're just going to wait till they get outside so we

017can close the door. outside of the room. >> He's back there. That's our principal back there. Our river valley. That's Heather. Okay. So tonight's recognition will continue with another outstanding example of career and technical education excellence at Midway ISD and it happens to be our largest of our student organizations, our Midway FFA program. Uh I want to welcome up our A teachers, Beth Zulhoff, Christa Wright, Caitlyn Jones, Mackenzie McCormack, Hannah Maguire, and Lauren Foster, and Kaylee Cornnegie, please. So, Midway FFA students competed at the Texas FFA state career development event, demonstrating technical knowledge and realorld agricultural skills through hands-on and written competition. This year, Midway students earned multiple top three finishes and a top four national finish. Please welcome these Midway FFA sponsors uh and the students that will follow. For range, we have first

018place team at area, third place team at state, and fourth place team at nationals. We have Hank Barkley, who was a first place high individual. Ethan Blanc was a second place high individual. Davis Rutherford was a fifth place high individual and Grayson Haynes was a sixth place high individual. Next, we have Forage, which was a second place team. Grayson Haynes was fourth place. Pierce McClendon was seventh. S Pazino was eighth. And Noah Griffin. >> Certificates are off. Okay. >> Next we have Wildlife, which was a second place team. We have Grayson PL Grayson Haynes, which was a first place high individual. Ethan Blancc fifth place high individual. Bo Biggs was a seventh place high individual and Paisley was a 10th place high individual. Next we have Homesite which was first place in area. Kaylee Wardell

019was a first place high individual. Mattie Ortiz was a third place individual. Grayson Bracken and Noah Griffin. >> There they go. >> We have Entomology, which was a first place team, third place at state. We have Aparna Ancho, second place high individual. Lena Rios was fourth place high individual. S Pazino was sixth place high individual. and Pierce McClendon was a seventh place individual. Next we have Poultry was a second place team. We have Grant Ghart who was a second high place individual. We have Paxton Jones fourth place high individual. Tatum Wheeler who was a sixth place high individual and Tinley Kindred. We have Dairy Cattle was third place team. Madison Stanford was a third place I individual. Molina Accassio was seventh place individual. Presley Ashley and Austin Lwalan. We have veterary science third place team.

020Eden Smith was a sixth place high individual. Khloe Le Point was a 10th place high individual. Colin Hess, Kase Ingram, we then have nursery landscape. Second place team, we have Jeremiah Okampos, third place high individual. Quan Wyn, seventh high individual. Va Jenkins and Evelyn Whitley. >> She got something. >> We also have Milk Quality, third place team. We have Jonas Blancc, fourth high individual, Henry Haynes, Nadia Pazino, and Bo Sipple. What's that? >> Then we have Cotton. First place team, Anissa Pñena, Madison Greger, Lillian Ardondo, and Abigail Whitten. Last but certainly not least, we have Flora Culture. Third place team, Anessa Pena, third fifth place high individual, Mariah Wallace, Lily Biddy, >> and Emanuel Maxi. >> And as we as we go, let's go ahead and give them a round of applause. [applause] >> [applause]

021[laughter] >> the last guy. >> And so as as he's as he's structuring this, I'll give you a little background. These students compete uh all over the state of Texas throughout the year. Um just about every school in Texas has FFA programs. And so these students right here are in the top 5% of all a students across the state of Texas. >> Wow. >> [applause] >> Mr. Wheeler, is this our largest number of of winning students in FFA in one time? In one year? >> It's the most we've recognized. One time. Yeah. >> A lot. It's awesome. Congratulations again [applause] meeting to the high school. >> Thank you. Col Colin was helping you over at this. >> He's sorting this stuff. >> Okay. Yeah. I There's a reason I had one. >> Yeah. >> We're

022all living the same. I know. >> Looks so good. Perfect. >> Thank you, Mr. Wheeler for a good job of of getting all the names pronounced. We'll give them one more minute to get out the door so we can close it. And then Emily Parks. I know she she probably can't hear me. She's next. Emily's next to do the Robert went to find her. Next up, we have Emily Parks and she will do the BAS art and we'll wait till the doors close. Thank you. We now shift to recognizing students whose creativity, artistic talent, and expression continue to shine at the state level through their fine arts competitions and achievement. These Midway High School students are being recognized for success in the visual arts scholastic event, also known as VASE, the official UIL art competition

023for Texas high school students. I'd like to ask the sponsors, Miss Abberrombie and John Storm, to come up. I would like to say congratulations to the following students. Maya Diaz, Adam Eubank, [applause] Eleanor Goodman, Alyssa Griffin, Walter Hallapple, Llaya Murray, Dee and Dee has told me how to say her last name previously, and we're gonna call Dee N if you'll come out. Emily Nuin, Jeremiah Okampos, and Elise Snyder. >> Congratulations to these students and their teachers. [applause] [applause] Thank you all very much students. Congratulations on your awards. I'll come out this way. [applause] Why she's still up there? I know. >> Next up, we recognize our Junior Vase students. I'd like to ask sponsors Campbell Stars and Adriana Crespbow to come out and join us. Junior Vase is a statewide visual arts event designed to

024encourage artistic growth and creative expression among middle school students. Congratulations to the following students from Midway Middle School. Katie Osborne. >> Oh wow. From River Valley Middle School, Jaylen Lasia and Adalie Pierce. Oh my goodness. Let's see yours. Oh wow. Congratulations. [applause] After you take your pictures, would you show us your art? Would you turn around and show us your art and sculptures? We'd love to see Oh, y'all are talented. That's amazing. >> Well done. >> I know. >> Yeah. Well, congratulations. Thank you again. Awesome job. [applause] Thank you, Miss Parks. Next, we'll have Yes. Allison Smith give us the yearbook recognitions. Do we have what? No, nobody for yearbook. Okay, we don't have students here for yearbook. Would you like me to go ahead and read anyway? Okay, so the Midway High School yearbook

025staff earned outstanding success at the UIL ILPC and Interscolastic Art and athletics state competition this year, bringing home four state medals for excellence in scholastic journalism, design, and publication work. In addition, the Midway yearbook program earned national recognition through varsity yearbook, receiving a national award in the portfolio collection category for excellence in scholastic journalism, photography, design, and storytelling. The yearbook staff in commercial photography students are advised by Jamie Beavers. Um, and I don't know if Miss Beavers, I haven't seen her here this evening either. Um, but join two of the students we're honoring tonight. One is Kane Tullis and he received honorable mention in the student life photo. And then we also had Quinton Carter on behalf of the entire MHS yearbook staff. First place student produced marketing campaign. And so the one thing I

026want to say is guys, many many people have moved on to um digital yearbooks. We still have the paper hardback copy that our kids get every year. And I don't think that you'll ever ask our students to part with it. They do a fantastic job. So congratulations to them. [applause] Okay. Next, the National Merit Finalist. >> So, finally tonight, we get to recognize the Midway High School students who've earned distinction as National Merit Finalist. It's kind of what we've been waiting for all year. One of the nation's most prestigious academic honors recognizing exceptional academic achievement and scholarship. Each year, more than a million students across the country take the PSAT, NMSQT, which is the qualifying exam. From this group, only a small percentage advanced to national merit semi-finalist status based on their exceptional test performance.

027Semi-finalists must then complete a rigorous application process that includes academic records, leaders, leadership involvement, extracurricular achievement, recommendations, and a personal essay to advance to the finalist standing. We are proud to share that all three Midway High School students who were National Merit semi- finalists this year successfully advanced to become National Merit finalist. an outstanding accomplishment that reflects years of academic excellence, dedication, and hard work. Please welcome our sponsor and Miss Cindy Kates is one of our counselor at the high school. So, Miss Kates, come on up. She does a lot of work behind the scenes getting our kids to submit the applications in that entire process. So, Miss Kates, thank you so much for that. Our students to be recognized tonight um includes Miss Zoe Batanis. Come on up. Zoe is our validictorian also for

028Midway High School. [applause] Next is Kennedy Williams. And Kennedy was also awarded and has accepted the National Merit Scholarship to the University of Houston. So, congratulations, Kennedy. [applause] And then our third student recognized is Miss Liy Lou. Congratulations to all of our tonight [applause] students, sponsors, and families for the outstanding accomplishments. in the middle. Congratulations again on your outstanding achievement. We're very proud of you. [applause] Thank you, Miss Smith. Next we have Brad Shelton who's going to do UIL state golf and then UIL state track. >> We have high school senior Pton Carter. >> Pton Carter represented Midway High School at the UIL 6A state girls golf tournament in May 4th and May 5th, earning a top 10 finish in one of the most competitive classifications in Texas. She is coached by Bill Sharp. Please

029come on in. Payton has made it to regionals all four years of her high school career. After narrowly missing a state birth last season, Payton returned this year with determination and resilience, advancing to the state tournament and finishing 10th overall among the top golfers in class 6A competition. By the way, shooting a par on the last day. >> Uh tonight, we want to celebrate that accomplishment and highlight her outstanding finish. Congratulations, Payton. [applause] Nobody's here. Okay. All right. We don't have any students here tonight from the state track to recognize, but congratulations to them as well. Thank you. >> Miss Smith, will you do me a favor? Any of the staff that are waiting to come in? Will you tell them to come in now? >> Thank you. I think that went very smoothly for

030the large number of students we had. So, thank you all for your help on that. Um, public comments is next on the agenda and we do not have anyone signed up to speak. If anyone else would like to leave, this is your your chance to do so. Next is consideration of election matters. We have the administer the oath of office to board of trustees. Carolyn Wyn is going to do that for us. And do you want me to announce or is she gonna announce the >> You can. >> Okay. Um, our new reelected board of trustees are Jordan Barry and myself and our newly appointed trustee Steven Carl. So, we will go to the floor and she will administer the oath. Uh >> oh. >> I did. >> Okay. >> Well, you two first and

031then Okay. Raise your right hand. In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas. In the name of my authority of the state of Texas, >> I >> do solemnly swearly >> swear >> that I will faithfully execute >> I will faithfully execute >> the duties of the office >> of Midway ISD board of trustees >> Midway ISD board of trustees >> of the state of Texas and will >> to the best of my ability >> preserve protect and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States. >> Constitution and laws of the United States >> and of this state. So help me God. >> There you go. Congratulations. [applause] >> Okay. Raise your right hand. In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas. In the name and

032by the authority of the state of Texas, >> I Stephen Carl >> do solemnly swear >> that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office >> that I will faithfully execute the duties of the office >> of Midway ISD Board of Trustees >> of the State of Texas and will >> to the best of my ability >> preserve, protect and defend the Constitution >> preserve, protect and defend the Constitution >> and laws laws of the United States >> and laws of the United States >> and of this state. So help me God. >> Thank you. Thank [applause] you. Congratul [laughter] Abigail 15, Elizabeth 15, Lucas 14, 13-year-old Madison and sevenyear-old. >> Yeah. Yay! [applause] [laughter] >> Stephen, I think Yeah, you are. >> Yeah. Good man. >> Now the the rest of you can

033leave, but he has to stay. Sorry, he has to stay. I want to thank the family for coming tonight and welcome Stephen to our Midway board of trustees. >> Thank you. >> Happy to have you here. >> Next on the agenda is the um we're moving up D 10D1A consideration of Spring Valley Elementary School principal. Dr. Allen. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Miss Vic. Um, I am going to go ahead and ask Miss uh Christy Ingram to go ahead and stand and if you'd please introduce the individuals you brought with you this evening. >> Okay, Miss Ingram is going to be our recommendation to serve as the next principal of Spring Valley Elementary School. And in just a moment, I'm going to make a recommendation that we're going to ask the board to take action

034on. But before we do that, Dr. Kudson, will you walk us just like we did in fine arts? It's a similar process, but walk us through the process um and talk a little bit about how we got to this point, please. >> We had a break to start with and were able to pull in from where myself. [clears throat] Dr. >> Well, yeah, the very clear front runner part uh matters a lot. I mean, so Miss Ingram was um someone that made it to the top of everyone's list to be rather blunt about it all. And so we're really excited. Um I've sent you her resume. You've seen that. One of the things that we're really excited about, Miss Ingram, she not only brings experience from a highly complex and well-run school in Waco ISD,

035but she's coming back to Midway. She worked for Paul at River Valley for a little more uh than a year, right Paul? uh and and then you had some experience in the metroplex so knows a little bit about who we are and how we do things but also brings a lot of outside perspective that we think will add to us and help us grow and do better really across the entire district but especially for the students at uh Spring Valley Elementary School. Some of the staff is here with from Spring Valley, y'all. Yeah. [applause] We'll be going out to the campus tomorrow and introducing Miss Ingram formally to that campus. Uh, and then there's also gonna be an event. [applause] We also have a parent meet and greet event scheduled for next week. Uh, and

036that's assuming that you uh accept the administrative recommendation. So, at this time, administration does recommend that uh we uh name Miss Ingram the principal at Spring Valley Elementary School. >> Do I have a motion to accept accept the um recommendation of the superintendent? >> So, move. I have a motion by Mr. Alfred. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> I have a second by Miss Watts. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. It passes. So, welcome. Welcome back. [applause] We're happy to have you back in the Midway family. And thank you to your husband and son for coming tonight. We appreciate the support. We also know that you're juggling two campuses in May and so if you if you need to slip out and attend other things,

037we all understand, Mr. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Next on the agenda is information items. We have the shack annual report and the list of library books for procurement. Both of those items were in your packet. Does anyone have any questions or need to discuss an information item? Okay, hearing nothing from anyone, we will continue to presentation discussion items. First up, we have the design development for MHS gym edition and Aubrey Moses with Huckabe is here to talk about that with us. Hello, Aubrey. Right. Good evening. All right. Thank you. All right. So, um, we were here in March to give you a schematic design presentation for the athletics edition. I've done a couple more months of work and, um, developed a little bit more. So, I just want

038to give you this update. Um, so we'll go through some design updates. We also have Masonic here as well to speak to cost, logistics, any questions that you have uh, on their end as well. Um, site plan looks pretty much like you saw it last time. the athletics edition going on in the southwest corner of the campus just to the left of the arena entries. The one change that we've made is we've gone from an above ground detention pond to an underground detention pond just with the amount of traffic that is uh coming out of those locker room hallways. Uh they just they didn't want to have to try to work around that pond or anything like that. So, we're just going to put it underneath and they can just walk over it as if

039it's grass like it is today. Um and so that's that's the one change we've made on the site. Um we've added this logistics plan and phasing plan. Uh just for reference, the black fence line um shows you kind of the limits of construction and where everything will be closed off during construction. So, we will be closing off a portion of the fire lane so that uh Masonic has a little bit of room to work over there. And we will probably getting be getting into that fire lane as well. Um just because we're going to need a little bit more room for that building pad. Not we're not moving the building pad, but to build the building pad, we're going to need to uh get into that fireland a little bit. So, you'll see uh the

040detention pond is phase one. Uh and re relocating some utilities underneath uh the addition, which is number two. um will also occur during the summer of 26. Um when we get to the schedule, we'll talk about some updates there, but um we're going to separate this into two GMP packages and the underground detention and the site utilities are actually already out for bid. And so I'll talk through that a little bit more in a minute. Um but that gives Masonic a head start on construction to get some things done uh on campus over this summer um before the students come back in August. And then that'll allow them to hit the ground running on number two, which is the addition. Um, which should start around the time that school starts roughly or 1 of September

041in that ballpark. Uh, and then number three, what you see in kind of that orangeish color is the renovation scope and that will happen during the summer of 27. So everything should be complete by the time school starts in uh, August of 27. Um, you will see that we're closing off one of the arena entrances as well, just so the contractor does have some material layown area and just some move room to move around. Um, that's already been coordinated with the uh campus administration and athletics as well. All right. Uh, floor plan pretty much unchanged since you saw it last. Um, so looking at the addition again, we've got the the practice gym uh and then team room, locker rooms. I I really don't think there were any changes um since the last time, but

042I can refresh your memory if you all want me to walk through anything again. Otherwise, I'm just going to slide slide along. Um in the renovation area, uh we've added again that area in orange, we have added some additional renovation scope since you saw it previously. Um just to gain efficiency in pricing, um we're going to move some of the capital improvement scope into this project. And so that will include replacing um some ceilings in these locker rooms completely um gutting and refinishing uh the restrooms and showers in these locker rooms. So all new fixtures, all new finishes. Uh and then also uh doing some flooring updates in those hallways. Uh and so that will um we'll be tracking those separately as alternate bid items just for budget purposes only. Um but it'll come out

043of the capital improvements budgets. I I want to take just a minute here, Aubrey. So, there have been a couple questions asked before about like, are we going to fix the leaky showers? >> This is that's what this is. And by rolling it into the scope of this work because the they're already doing so much renovation in the same area, we think we can get some efficiency on cost. So, we're pulling money from one budget into the GMP for this project. Does that make sense to everybody? Okay. >> Yes, sir. >> They got it. They didn't need that. Sorry. >> I'm glad you said I was about to ask. >> Yeah. >> You mentioned the specifics. So, that was the big issue. very efficient way to address problem for a long time. >> Yes, ma'am.

044>> Uh and then no updates here. These are the um current volleyball locker rooms that are going to be repurposed for basketball um just outside the arena. Uh so some new lockers for them and then some uh minor updates uh to make those function for those programs. So this is where we get into a little bit of new information. Uh this is showing the finished pallet for the project. should look largely familiar to you since we are matching as much as possible what is already at the campus. So all of the same exterior materials um same paint colors throughout etc. Uh some of the flooring we are pulling in similar flooring that we used on the CTE edition. Um that is the the most recent edition that was done and so um kind of a

045hybrid of of those things um as we go. And so I'll point out some specifics as we look at these uh renderings. You saw a view similar to this last time. Um, so this is just an updated version that shows the uh gym edition on the right and then the team room on the left. So again, using the same uh masonry products and metal trim colors and everything that's there. Uh we do have an alternate bid item that I'm going to highlight here in just a second. Uh you'll see on the front here, you've got the three doors out in front of the team room, the pair of doors that goes into the hallway and then the two team room doors to the left. >> Um and that's because of exiting requirements out of that

046team room based on its occupancy. Um and so if I flip over to this one, this shows an alternate bid item to enclose all of that into a vestibule. I think that accomplishes two things. Uh number one, it helps with security because you've got fewer exterior doors. Um, you can monitor access to and from the the team room. Uh, and you can even get better access to the second half of that team room through an interior hallway rather than having to cross through one side of the team room to the other or going outside. The other thing is it does I think it ties the aesthetic of the overall campus together. kind of breaks up the mass of that kind of cream colored uh masonry and it brings that brick accent in that is at

047a lot of other entrances uh throughout the campus. Um you will see with both options there is some elevation change as we get to the south edge of this campus. So there is some stairs and ramps proposed on the south side here as well. um it's an alternate bid item in this estimate because it's added scope and so we wanted you all to see the price breakdown and we'll talk about that in a minute and we may likely put it into the base bid again just to gain some efficiency and pricing um if everyone is is good with that. Uh this is a shot from the other side where you can see how it ties in with the arena entrance. Uh you'll see up top there are some clear story windows into that gym so

048it'll have uh some light throughout the day. And then this highlights that that logo um on the outside will be illuminated. Um on the very left side you can kind of see the base bid again with the exterior doors and then this one shows the alternate um with the enclosed vestibule. Moving inside, uh this is the the uh gym and the current uh second gym I guess is known as your blue gym. And so this one is going to be known as the red gym. And so anything that's blue in the other gym is red in this one. Um we are still coordinating that with uh Brad and his team. Want to make sure red can be a very overpowering. Make sure we don't overdo it. Um but this is showing general aesthetic of of

049you know some red flooring, some red acoustic panels, some red wall pads, etc. >> Put fear into the hearts of people who come to play in the gym. more gym in River Valley. >> And then this is a view of the team room. Um you'll see there are some fixed risers there um with some uh a little bit nicer seats than what you might, you know, see in the arena, for example. Uh and this is a dividable room if you remember. So we roughly have 50 seats on either side with a dividable partition. And so that partition will kind of each panel of the partition will step up with the risers so that that can be fully closed. And then this is the view from the other side. Um so you'll see we'll have displays

050on either side that can be synced together or separated so that the room can function cohesively or uh independently as desired. And then you also see those two doors up front there. Those are the two doors that are on the exterior wall or can be encapsulated in that vestibule. So Aubrey, of that picture, if we went with the atrium with the windows, all of that wall would be windows, correct? Or is there going to be a space between this room and the outside? >> Right. The the ladder. So this room won't change. It'll still have those same two doors, but those doors instead of opening to the exterior, it will open into a vestibule. >> Gotcha. Okay, thank you. I didn't understand that. So, >> all right. And then from a schedule standpoint, like I

051mentioned, changes since last time. Um, we have decided to do two GMPS. And so, that will allow Masonic to get a head start on construction this summer. So, the site utility package is currently out to bid and the plan is to bring that to you all at the June board meeting along with an updated estimate for the full project so that you are comfortable with approving partial cost before you know the full cost and we'll make sure we're on track uh on track there. And then uh the GMP2 is the remainder of the project that is still running per the current current schedule that you all saw at the last board meeting. Um, and so we will issue those documents in July and bring that GMP to you in August. And then like I said,

052construction will start on each package as soon as it's awarded and as soon as the permits received with the goal of being completed with everything by summer of 27. All right. And then finally, this is where we stand on cost right now. And like I said, Mosanic's here to help answer any questions you all might have. Um the base bid construction cost right now is a little over 16 million. It has come down a little bit since the schematic design estimate that you saw. Um we have we do show the uh alternate items that we talked about. One being the south facade vestibule. That's what you saw in those renderings that's outside the team room. Um if we were to price this completely separately, you probably are looking at a ballpark number of around that

053$184,000. We think if we can put that into the base bid documents, people aren't going to be pricing that as a standalone project. They'll embed it and you'll get more competitive pricing if we put that in the base bid. Um, if that is all if that is what you all would like to do. Um, we are still tracking the arena sound system separately since that is added scope to the project. Um, and then you all can ignore alternate five family restroom. Uh, Ken and I went over to the campus today and found an alternative to that. So, um, we do not need to add a family restroom as part of this project. So, that 25,000 will come out. Um, from a total project cost standpoint, we are a little over 500,000 under budget at the

054moment. Um, there's a lot of contingencies currently in the design estimate. So, we're still optimistic that that comes in better uh on bidday. And then underneath that, you'll see the capital improvements cost being tracked separately. Like we mentioned, the locker room and restroom renovations are running around 300,000. And then the corridor flooring replacement um is around 65,000. So you'll see um that stuff will come out of that separate pot of money. Um that's outside of the 19.9 high school edition project. So that is it for me. So any questions for me or uh the Masonic team? you would like to go first questions. >> Um, I was just going to ask about the underground detention pond. Is that an increased cost? >> I would think so. I mean, that sounds a lot more in depth

055than just nice big hole. >> It is an increased cost, but Masonic already had a pretty good site utility allowance in the estimate. So, I think we were able to absorb that in what they had already estimated. >> Awesome. Um, and we do think it's it'll function best for you all long term to to spend the extra money here. >> Good. Thank you. >> On the timeline, I get one other, sorry. Um, I know this firsthand. There's been 2,000 plus kids taking AP or 2,000 tests, AP tests that are right across from this new addition. Um, and that timing looks like that they're still going to be in construction next year, I guess. Can there be some thoughts into quietness around those kids taking those tests? I know I'm getting the cart before the horse,

056but >> yeah, the contractor will always coordinate those testing days with the campus and either not work during those days or only work in certain areas or on certain activities that won't disrupt the campus. >> Yeah. just I know that's been going on for the last two weeks. So, >> personal experience there. >> Personal experience. >> So, I have two questions real quick. One um on the on the fencing in the parking lot sort of blocking that blocking that lane. What it looks like that's going to be pretty much throughout 12 months, right? The entire school year. So, are we are we working on alternate plans to get I mean is there any plan to get people or cars from one side of that to the other or are we pretty much closed? Yeah, I'm

057thinking about things like the band competitions and and even just, you know, teams walking over across. I mean, being able to route around. >> There's really not a good solution, is there? Yeah. >> I mean, there's a way for our teams to get over there and walk, >> right? They can come out the other. Yeah. >> The band competition we put on radar just so that she knows that they can't warm up the >> Right. There's different. >> Okay. Well, you know, it's a price to pay for progress. Um the other question I'm interested in more detail on sound system in the arena what we're thinking of doing there just because it's I don't know maybe somewhat connected to what I do but I don't Brad do you know or do you guys know kind

058of what the plan is yet? >> Uh we Scott's expertise here to be honest but we've had multiple Atlas meetings with Atlas and I don't know whether we have a finalized plan yet. Uh they're still kind of beating it up trying to get the the most simple project we can get installed there that's the most userfriendly. Uh having Bluetooth capability much like River but much like River Valley. >> Yeah. Okay. Set up. Uh but where are the closets located? There's some there's some things they have to troubleshoot. But we're still I think they had a meeting this week and I think we've had about four so far. So still >> cool. Yeah. I' I'd love to just see to get a sense of what what you guys are looking at. So that's that's great. I'm

059glad we're adding potentially adding that to the to the project because it definitely needs it. >> Jesse, I don't want to put you on the spot. Do you have any insight on that? >> [laughter] >> There you go. >> You can't put Jesse on the spot. He's always got the right answer. >> We met this morning actually. We'd like to see that [laughter] >> a boy. Not 100% sure that we've been asking this. >> Yeah. >> So my question is I'm not 100% sold on the theater seating in the meeting room. So, one, how much extra is it to have these nice big chairs built in like this? Two, could you get more chairs in there if you didn't use this type of chair? Because I'm just trying to think of the future and all

060all uses for that room or if we even get more students involved and then that's not enough chairs. Then there's the wear and tear on these chairs which would be more expensive to replace than just a regular I guess folding chair. I don't know what other kind of chair you would use, but I'm just not I'm not sure if this is the um I don't know. I'm just not I may be the only one thinking that. I'm just wondering if there's another way to do the seating in there. >> Well, we don't want to install something that's going to show where faster than something else might. >> You can imagine a bunch of boys or athletes, you know. >> Yeah. Um, I don't know if either one of you all want to speak to the

061No, Brad or one, we do want it nice. I absolutely understand point this is kind of the standard and not the nicest seating that we could have selected. We didn't like we didn't get the tabletops to spin around to ride on. This is kind of the standard across the board when when facilities like this are being built. Uh, Temple has has just had one for about nine months. >> It seems pretty We went over there and looked at them, inspected them, asked a bunch of questions. Oh, granted, it's not a year old, but they spoke fairly highly of the think shape. >> Can you get more chairs in there if you do a different type of chair? >> Well, it is it is stepped up. >> So, I I think they would have to be

062fixed would be my guess for some safety concerns. I think if you if you got rid of the risers and did a chair like this, yes, you could get a few more chairs depending on how you arrange the room. Um I don't know how significantly uh more chairs you would get. Um but I think even campus as a whole outside of athletics has talked about how they can use this space as well. >> That's right. Multi-purpose for everybody. That's why just wondering if that's the best. What one of our visions for it will be we use the DLC a lot for parent meetings and and booster club meetings in the MAC. This would be kind of not only an athletic space in terms of meeting the teams and football programs, basketball programs, but a lot

063of parents as well. So, we did want it to be nicer in that sense. It's a place that we show off a lot of people. >> Will it be the same chairs that are in the DCL just without the desk? Because these look nicer than those chairs. They are. >> Do we have to do this nice nice chair? Can we do the ones in the DCL? Seemed nice to me. I don't know. I'm just thinking expense. >> They've been repaired, too. Okay. >> I mean, those wouldn't have the desktop part, >> right? Yeah. I mean, it's it's really up to all of you all, but we see it most commonly um the auditorium style chairs in here just with um upholstery that is wipable and cleanable. >> Good. Okay. And they don't need the writing

064surface, the desktop part. >> Not necessarily. I mean, not some would, some wouldn't. I don't think the bank is there if you just be transparent, honest. >> That's it doesn't fit testing standards for like AV testing because you have to be so many feet apart. You can't have a view to down below. Like, it doesn't fit those types of standards. >> We we had some conversation about just the durability of those >> with kids coming in now, parents coming down. hanging those up and down. >> And then I'm assuming that's wheelchair accessible in the front for the open seating for wheelchairs. >> Yes. >> Walkers. Okay. >> Okay. I just wanted to hear my thoughts. >> What is the capacity? Looks like it's about >> uh I think it's like 101 plus your wheelchair spaces

065something like that. >> Perspective is 96. It's a little wider, I think. >> Okay. >> You have the ability to divide it in half at the same time. >> Yeah. No, that's good. I like that. So it looks like if you take out alternate five and add the capital improvements,000 off >> if you're wanting to track it all under the high school budget. Yes. But but there is bond funds for capital improvements outside of that 19.9 for the high school. So, so we're right now we're tracking 530 under the budget for the addition and then another 300 almost 400,000 for those things that we're doing while we're in the room. That's part of the a different bucket of money. [clears throat] >> And that is primarily the the plumbing, the shower issue. >> Yes. Those

066bathroom renovations. Anybody who's ever done any remodeling knows that the most expensive redo in a house is plumbing and one of the most expensive repairs is plumbing. So, so we get it fixed. >> Okay. Anybody else have any more questions or thoughts on this? Thanks, Aubrey. >> Okay. Thank you so much for coming. >> Next up, we have Wesley Brooks to do the monthly finance report. Right. Good evening, members of the board. Uh we'll [clears throat] take a look at our um financial report for the month ending uh April 30th. Um along the same uh vein there on the um bond uh update from Aubrey. Um if you want to go ahead and look at page uh 50 um of your board packet, um you'll see a um bond uh budget summary worksheet. Um, so

067you have we have all of the projects uh that were approved as part of the bond program. There you can see the total bond package budget and the total of that first column of the 83.5 million. Uh so far to date uh we've spent 5 a.5 million uh most of that coming from bus purchases, the data center infrastructure um and also the athletic field lighting projects. Um and the projected cost to complete projected total cost columns will be updated um as we progress uh through the bond projects. Um you will notice this turned on here. Sorry. There we go. Um you will notice on the the top um portion there the high school gym and locker room edition that we were just um talking about. We do already have showing some um positive variances there.

068Um uh mine is not uh quite as high as Aubrey had. I have 230,000. I had a little more soft cost still built in, but um as we do get our GMP, as Aubrey talked about, um we do anticipate that positive variance for those projects to to increase um significantly. Um and uh that four so the 400,000 we talked about those alternates um in that um last presentation, those are actually come out of that operations budget, the 50.2 million there. Um so those were budgeted in that um in that category. Um but as we've mentioned, we can go ahead and get those taken care of while we're um at the high school uh doing the other projects. Uh any question on the bond budget? >> Just to verify then. So you will track you would

069track those two things under the operations capital improvements. >> Yes. >> Not with the high school. >> That's correct. >> Okay, great. >> You you will start seeing this budget summary regularly in addition to ongoing presentations around the projects. And then I'll remind you that we're standing up that bond oversight committee kind of once we start back into August. So we'll have three or four different ways that we're reporting out on the money. >> Wesley, are you our administrative person in charge of the bond, overseeing the bond? Remember how Buddy did that for us last time? Who's kind of our main contact with administration with >> So Ken is largely is the contact point on like construction and projects and all that. And then Wesley's in charge of making sure that we stay on budget

070and that bills are getting paid and that we're we're interacting with all the different people we're going to end up writing checks to over time. So those two will be the right and left hand of that. >> Very good. Thank you. Thank you. >> I will say since you brought up Ken's experience doing this in other districts has already been very very useful and helpful to us. He's given us a lot of good >> insight and wisdom that's already saved us quite a bit of money. So we're very appreciative of that. Yay. Wonderful. All right. >> Okay. The next uh next page actually sorry the previous page um of your um uh financial report. Well is the are the proposed budgets in the >> you want. You want the proposed budget for next? >> Where

071was that? That was >> I've got a page 51 in here. >> 51. >> Page 51. Okay. So, uh page 51 then of your packet. Sorry about that. Um you'll see the um proposed budgets for 2627. Um and according to the Texas Education Code, uh those are the three budgets that the board is required to formally um adopt. Uh the general fund, child nutrition fund, and debt service fund. Uh you'll see the general fund. Uh we're looking at projected uh budget deficit for next year of 2 and a.5 million and that that does include um the TASBY recommended um compensation package that was discussed last month and is in um the consent agenda this month for approval by the board. So that these numbers do assume that that compensation package um will be adopted. Uh

072child nutrition fund uh budget for next year, $36,000 surplus. and then our debt service fund. Um we will uh plan to adopt an INS rate um that is 24 cents the same as last year and any excess funds will be used to defease um uh current bond issues and I'll have more details on that um in the coming months. Uh so these budgets uh will be um posted um and ready for adoption at the June board meeting. Any questions? No. >> Are we going to have any budget meetings this summer that we the board will need to meet or we'll be on shouldn't extra meetings? >> Um, no. We don't have any. >> We don't currently have any scheduled when we can make that happen. >> It's fine. I know. Just was wondering. >> Anybody

073else? >> So, these are these are posted now. Our fiscal year July one again, right? We're >> correct. >> That's going from here on. We are July one fiscal year. >> That's right. Okay. Wesley, just for clarification on the bond budget worksheet, positive numbers are good. That means that we're saving. Correct. >> That's correct. Positive variances are good. >> Okay. Just want to make sure for all of our readers they understand. >> Uh we do have two budget amendments in the consent agenda. Amendment 26-8 to provide funds for the purchase of new handheld radios for the police department and budget amendment 26-9 to provide funds for the teacher incentive aotment payment. >> Okay. Any more questions for Wesley? All right. Thank you very much, Wesley. Okay, Jesse Gar, if you will come up to the

074podium, please, and talk about technologies annual update. >> Good evening. Thanks for allowing me to present tonight. It's my pleasure to provide you all with our annual technology update. Here's the items I plan to present. Starting with a 1:1 device status update. We currently have just over 9,500 iPads deployed to staff and students. We're in our second year of four on these devices. They've been performing very well. We've only had 191 repairs this year, which is well below the 3 to 5% uh breakage we've seen in previous years, so we're happy with the way they're holding up. Uh keyboards is another story. We've had a lot of keyboard failures, fortunately. Um we've got a three-year warranty on those. So, we've got it'll probably be over a thousand keyboards we're turning this summer. That could be

075better. But the devices themselves have been solid. Very little glass breakage. So that's been good. I want to take just a moment to acknowledge the talented technology professionals who make up our technology department. These guys and gals are in the field and behind the scenes keeping our systems running and they do it with a great attitude every day. It makes it fun to come to work. They excel in keeping good customer service top of mind. And I'm just very fortunate to get to work with this talented group of professionals. Here's our strategy for breaking up the work in the field. We've divided our facilities into three groups based on the volume of work. We pair up our technicians and assign them to one of the three groupings. And for six weeks, they're responsible for the

076work orders on those campuses. Every six weeks, we switch up our technician pairs and their assigned campus groups. Some of the benefits we've seen by doing it this way, technicians have a sense of ownership for their campuses. It helps build relationships between the technician pairs. It helps our techs get to know all the campuses intimately and all the campuses get to know all of our texts. By the end of the year, they would have had the text assigned to them for a six week period. Um, we also provide phone support each day with our helpline. Here's a summary of technology tickets we've completed so far this school year. August was obviously our biggest month as we prepared classrooms and systems for the new year. Last August we completed 960 work orders which is about three

077times the monthly volume for the rest of the year. Otherwise uh C campus distribution of work orders aligns really closely with student density of those campuses. Is a federal program that helps with the funding for schools to help with the cost of internet and internal network connections. The amount of our discount corresponds to the percent of students on free and reduced lunches. We're just over 37% free and reduced lunch this year. So our discount is 60%. So an eligible item that cost a dollar would only cost the district 40 cents if approved. We've applied for and have been approved for funding for our internet circuits, our dark fibers that connect each of our campuses and the maintenance for our privately owned fibers. The bid for internet access came back very favorable. We'll be be able

078to double our internet bandwidth next school year for less than we're currently paying monthly. Those items are in tonight's consent agenda. We're still waiting on federal approval for our category 2 requests. This year, it includes wireless network controllers and campus UPS units. We hope to have that in the coming weeks. And if so, we'll have we'll include that in your consent agenda for June. Switching gears to security. There's no silver bullet for security. I wish there was. Instead, we have many layers of security systems and practices in place. That's why I like the analogy of an onion with many layers. Each layer of our security onion represents another safeguard that we have in place between us and the bad guys. First layer is physical security. Our access control system, it's automated. So it's based on

079your campus assignment within HR. So that means the campus assignment in HR dictates the doors that you're able to open at our campuses. And the moment you become inactive in HR, your badge no longer opens our doors. Our surveillance system records all activity from parking lots to the hallways 247. And if you're a visitor, your ID will be scanned and background check performed before you're allowed past our secure vestibules. Our network firewall denies all incoming traffic unless it's specifically allowed. All web traffic is filtered through our internet content filter. With about a quarter million new websites added to the internet each day, the content filter is critical piece of equipment for categorization of websites. All student web activities filtered both at school and at home. And of course, our guest network traffic is prevented from

080accessing internal network resources. You're all familiar with antivirus software. As cyber threats have become more sophisticated, so has our threat protection software. Instead, like the old days, simply looking at a file and comparing it to a database of known threats, our endpoint protection is able to recognize threats by their behavior. It allows us to detect and quarantine both known threats and unknown threats. Email remains the most common medium used by the bad guys for cyber attacks. All email at Midway is scanned prior to delivery by our email security appliance. You may be surprised to learn that over 85% of all email destined for our inboxes is blocked by our email security appliance as either fishing or containing malware. Looking at data security prior prior to any sharing of data for staff or students with a

081third party, we thoroughly vet our platforms for security, regulatory compliance, data privacy, and we have them agree to our own data privacy agreement. This ensures they cannot sell our data service ads and in the unfortunate case of a data breach due to their negligence. This agreement holds the vendor financially responsible for costs incurred for the incident. Our servers are backed up locally and off-site daily and are immutable from ransomware. This just means that if we got hit with ransomware, the bad guys can't encrypt our backups or change them. And then the cyber security concept of least privilege is one we adhere to at Midway. This means users only get the permissions that are needed to perform their job duties. This helps our cyber security posture in two big ways. One, our surface area of attack

082is reduced. Even if an attacker successfully landed malware in someone's inbox, our end users don't have the rights to install software that includes malicious software. So the the malware is unable to infect the machine. And two, lease privilege limits the east west spread of an attack. So for an example, if a user in HR were compromised, they don't have the ability to spread the malware into other parts of the organization for which they have no rights. At the core of our security onion is people. A well-trained staff member is often our best protection against cyber threats. To that end, we train our staff in cyber security awareness annually. They love it. And periodically, they send we send simulated fishing emails as training. If a staff member falls for one of our fishing simulations, they're instantly

083alert as what happened and are assigned a remedial fishing awareness training course. And finally, all staff email accounts are protected by multiffactor authentication. Implementing MFA has been one of the most effective security measures we've done in preventing compromised user accounts. Inconvenient as it may be, we have some additional safeguards in place for our students. Bark is a monitoring platform that analyzes all student email and Google Workspace activity for things like self harm, bullying, and violence. This year, Bark has analyzed over 7 million student activities. It's generated 755 alerts. Those go to the campus administrators and counselors, and they take action as needed. In the classroom, teachers have the ability to monitor what is on the students screens. They can limit applications. They can limit websites. They can even prevent iPad use altogether. And parents may

084use uh screen time restrictions on iPads if they'd like to set additional application and usage restrictions at home. If you go to this UR here, it'll walk you through the setup of screen time on a student iPad. Here is everything we've purchased to date using funds from the technology portion of the recent bond. You remember the first line item there from I presented in January. Uh, thank you guys again for allowing us to expedite that purchase and avoid most of the crazy price hikes we're experiencing today. Our new hardware has been installed and configured and we actually completed the last of our mission critical server migrations last weekend. [laughter] >> It was a consideration. Yes, sir. >> Otherwise, it's just a screenshot from a spreadsheet I keep. Um, also, uh, worth noting, um, by shifting

085our our funds for capital expenditures and technology from M to bond, it's allowed us to reduce our 2627 budget request by over 600,000. And that would be the case for each of the next five years. This uh, summer is a good one for us. We're going to complete year five of five of our teacher computer refresh cycle. We'll be replacing uh around decade old computers at Woodway, Spring Valley, and Chapel Park elementaryaries with brand new 24-inch Dell all-in-one PCs. After this summer, we'll have finally hit a goal of ours of having every teacher computer in the district be five or less years old. Other summit projects we're working on, we're upgrading our internet bandwidth, as we mentioned earlier, from 10 gigs to 20 gigs. That's scheduled for July 1st. We are rolling out our new

086light speeded parent portal. We finally have the automation piece that allows us to onboard parents and guardians at scale. We're excited to provide this level of visibility to families into their child's internet activity both at school and home. We'll have that ready to go by August. And finally, we're continuing to remediate door position and request to exit sensors on all exterior doors. This is going to allow us once complete to notify campus administrators to a door that's been held or forced open. That's the end of my presentation. I should have had a slide at the very end, but I don't. There we go. Um, thanks for your time and attention. I'll be glad to answer any questions you may have. >> Jesse, I know we've mentioned this numerous times, but for our viewers as well,

087uh, how much do you think that we saved by buying some of that technology stuff early >> for the compute piece? about 650 if we were to bought it now instead of January and the storage piece around 200,000. So estimate about 850. >> Wow. >> And and that's due to the pressure in the market right now due because of AI data centers. >> Circling back to the -ate information I know last year that was up for some debate by our friends in Washington. >> That's right. And given that changes in federal policy have some could have significant financial impact for us. Do we have any sense if that's on the table again right now? Do we need to be calling our congressman hold steady? >> No. The the judges did what they needed to do

088and - been fully funded for the next 5 years. >> Okay. Thank you. That's that's comforting. >> Mr. regard um bark. I I didn't know that we had that at the district level that the parents don't get any notifications via bark. It's just the administrators. >> That's correct. >> And I see on the one slide a light speeded parent portal. >> That's right. >> Um and that's for the parents. Is there any overlap between Bark and Lightseed or is there potential to integrate that that parents get notified about bullying emails automatically like administrators do? >> Those two are separate. Lightseed parent portal is going to provide visibility into into web activity. Now where they might overlap is if the web activity on the report um was also something that was monitored by bark but the

089two systems alert completely separately >> and timeline for light speeded and how would parents know about enrollment in the light speeded parent portal? >> Yeah, we're doing the integration this summer. We'll have communication prior to the start of the school year. >> Great. It'll it'll come with uh how to get started, what the where the links are, how to log in, and you can choose to do a a weekly summary report. You could log in at any time and pull a live report. You could literally be in one room while your kids in the other room and pull a live report of what they're doing. >> I think that's incredible. Yeah. And I also wanted to say 9,500 iPads being used on a daily basis. >> It's insane to me that your team does such

090a good job keeping up with all that. So, thank you for all >> Nice of you to say. Thank you. And to explain [clears throat] VARC a little bit more, if if say it's anonymous, right, the AI does it. That's why the parents don't see that. But if you had a child that was mentioned or sent, I'm sure you then check it and notify the parents, right? Is that what you were thinking? The parents would want to know if they're a child. >> So obviously the first pass is AI and then it goes to a team at Bark and they decide if it's urgent or not. Um, if it's a severe alert, it goes automatically to campus administrators and counselors and then they can choose what to do with it from there. >> I had

091a question on the doors you're, you know, adding and updating. >> Can you give us a figure of the districtwide or all of our doors? I thought all of our doors had this on it already. Are you just >> that >> fixing ones or does this actually not have it yet? So, this last access control upgrade was very revealing as to what more we needed to allow for these alerts. Um, most folks think when you present a badge and the door is open that everything's hunky dory and it is. The door is open, but in order to alert as to the position of the door, there's a magnetic sensor in there. Um, the exterior doors at the campuses are in different states of u of working or not working. Some of them, some of them

092are missing, some of them are not aligned properly, some of them were never installed to begin with, depending on which vendor did it in which construction project. So, we're going through uh campus by campus, and sometimes it means running brand new cable, brand new sensors to give us that ability to tell you if a door is open and closed from a map. >> So, what percentage of the district would you say is covered at this point today? Uh, I could go live tomorrow at Huitt and our next project is Castleman Creek 20%. 10%. >> Okay. >> Some campuses are are need more work than others. >> Okay. >> We picked Castle Moon because it needs a lot of work. >> Is that something you could update us on in the near future? Because that is

093such, you know, our first barrier of defense is the doors. >> So, if you've been here a while, you've heard me talk about this before. As soon as I realized it was a feature in our access control system, I was excited to share that. And when I realized how much remediation was going to be required, uh this isn't typically written into a construction scope. It will it will be in ours. >> Okay, good. >> That's great. >> It's important. >> Hey, so we had if I can um I emailed you u after the canvas disaster and I know that we know that's not our product. we don't work without vendor. But I think it's instructive to kind of to us as a board and kind of for anyone who's listening to see, hey, what does

094that sort of reveal about the nature of these vendors and LMS's and and where do our vendors sort of stand and stack up and like what what has that conversation been with them? So, can you sort of just I don't know if everyone knows what happened with campus, but could you just sort of walk us through where we are in respect to that? >> Yeah, you bet. And in fact, that's what prompted me to add so many security onion slides. Yeah, I figured that was >> uh so um a group called Shiny Hunters, the bad guys, um were able to hack the platform Canvas. It's used by 9,000 institutions across the world. Uh mostly higher education. >> Yeah. >> Um they it's ransomware. When you go to log in, there was a pop-up screen that

095says uh you know, pay us all this money uh or you'll never get your data back. Um they they actually pay the money. We'll see if they're good criminals or bad criminals. Um but when you asked me about that, you asked what about like our system we use powers school. Um they they were unfortunately the victims of a data breach last year for which we were unaffected because we ran on prim and we actually ran a different version than was actually affected. But what that what that caused was a lot of scrutiny from thirdparty cyber firms into powers school as to their practices. They changed a ton of things and now I would say they're arguably one of the most secure platforms because of the the recent cyber incident they had. They're required to be

096more secure. They're they've got everything. They're running the best practice everything at the moment and that's our that's our citizen our fists. >> Very good. Thanks for keeping an eye on that because I know that's I mean obviously when I heard about that because it affected Baylor y'all. So it shut down a whole day of finals at Baylor and it was a huge disaster. My immediate first thought was I should check with Jesse and see kind of what his thoughts are about how we're positioned. So that that's great. Thank you. >> Yeah, the timing was was horrible. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Jesse, real quick. I know we have a disaster recovery site as part of the bond. What's kind of timeline on that? >> Yeah, so this summer we're working on working with Ken closely.

097Thank you, Ken. On uh cooling and power requirements before we try to bring extra gear over here. We uh already purchased uh the switching. It's on the shelf at the warehouse. Um, as soon as we finish data data center migrations, our focus will be on DR site. >> Awesome. >> Yeah. >> Jesse, you mentioned earlier that you made some migrations here recently. Will you tell me what day and what time you finished that migration? >> Uh, they went they were a little slower than I anticipated this weekend. So, sorry about that. Um, Saturdays was a 12-h hour day, but we got it done. >> Yeah, >> thank you. >> Not not me, by the way. The guys on that picture on my first slides. >> I didn't ask the question for you to apologize. [laughter]

098>> I asked the question to highlight the point that you do this work outside of normal hours so that we don't get disrupted in serving children. And the reason I know that is while I'm at my son's wedding, I'm getting these text messages on updates about data migration and I'm think and what I'm thinking to myself is Jesse's going to have a longer day than I am. And so I appreciate the hours you and your team put in making sure that that these huge shifts are taking place in our tech services and you don't even notice it because you guys do it at times and in ways that do not interfere the work of the district. We've got some of the best. Um, since you mentioned [clears throat] the balance between personal and work life,

099I'll tell you [laughter] a quick one. Sorry, Becky. I know you're timing me. Uh, two of our guys went to their child's dance recital with laptops to monitor the situation. I mean, yeah, we got the best. >> Tell them thank you. >> Yes, please. >> Thank you. >> Awesome. Any more questions? All right. Thank you. Very good report. Next up is Dr. Becky Odima, teacher incentive aotment update. >> While she's walking up here, I just I keep feeling like it'd be wrong if I didn't say Sarah Collins name. This DPA stuff, she's the one who runs these data privacy agreements on all of our um when a teacher says, "I want a new um app," she's the one who runs the traps on DPA to make sure that we stay locked up. It is it

100is a team effort. And so the right and left hand of instruction and technology are top-notch. Okay. Sorry Becky for all quiet now. >> Awesome. >> Great teams, great people. >> Yeah. >> Um tonight we're excited to share update about teacher incentive a lotment. It's a timely opportunity for us to do this because our teachers received their teacher incentive a lotment stipen this week. So to celebrate along with us, we were going to give you the highlights of that program and what that looks like. Um, as a reminder, this came about in 2019 with House Bill 3 for the opportunity for teachers to earn that $100,000 salary. They're going to earn higher salaries that was going to attract teachers to stay in um education and keep those effective teachers in education. And it also incentivizes

101teachers that are at those um campuses where the kids have the highest needs. So your low socioeconomic campuses that have higher numbers of low SCES and then also rural schools have higher um funding allowments to that. There were two pathways to the money. One was through national board certification and the other through designing your own local designation system. We're one of the few districts that has both. So that's a great opportunity for us. The first thing national board certification this actually started paying out and having teachers designated before the local designation system came about because this is not a Texas program. It's a national program, so teachers earn a national board certification on their own. It's an individual um opportunity for them to grow and perform. They end up submitting three monstrous portfolios that include

102essays and recordings and their own studies in their own classroom. And then they also take a certification test. So the great thing about this is that Midway has a cohort of teachers who were national board teachers. It started with three of those individuals. Kathleen Menchu that's still working with that program is one of those original national board teachers. And so we created a cohort in Midway to support those teachers as they go through this individual process. So we've had teachers come along the last um four years or so. And now um we'll have 18 teachers next school year in the classrooms that are national board certified. As far as local designation system goes, that was one that we designed as a district. We started in 2021 designing our um system. Within that system, the state

103required us to have two qualifying components at a minimum and that was a teacher performance measure and a student growth measure. So, we use TA test as our teacher performance measure and then we use a myriad of things for student growth depending on the content area. Those um those weren't the only things that you were limited to, but in order to sustain a program um we kept it as streamlined as possible. So, we only have those two qualifying measures that we look at each year. There um are we've submitted an application expansion that um changes the waiting of that a bit um simply because it is easier for teachers to factor on their own if we look at it as a 50/50 percentage. Previously, we looked at it as 6040 6% 60% being student growth

104and 40% being teacher performance. But because we stick to the state um performance standards, it was really 50/50 all along. So um this is much easier now for um teachers to calculate. There was House Bill 2 TIA expansions that came about in this last legislative session. So some of this is new material. The things that um changed in the last session is that they increased a lot of the technical assistance so that all districts can start to have access to this um local designation money, this TIA money. Um they increased the region service center support for those programs. Um they created an enhanced TIA program that includes like every teacher in the district um having the opportunity to be designated plus an administrator level of that. There's a lot of strings tied to that. We've

105looked at it and have not moved that pathway yet. Um they also are examining whether or not they're going to continue to keep national keep national board certification in this program. Currently it is still there. um they added a new acknowledged level, so a new base level of funding of teacher recognition. So that's great. So now there's four levels instead of three. And then they're also increasing the allotments um for each of those designated levels for basically three of the four levels of designation. So more money coming to teachers, which is excellent. So what that looks like is this. Previously, you had recognized, exemplary, and master teacher levels. Now we'll have a new acknowledged teacher level. So you can see on the top um table that recognized teachers the performance band that we hold to

106a standard that the state looks at um as a a measure of just uh state verification with all of the teachers in the state. 55% of students meet or exceed growth for that year on their student growth measure. That's a recognized teacher. Now there'll be a new level where 50% of that students, excuse me, of that teacher students meet or exceed growth and they'll also be able to be designated because we waited at 5050. The other half of that is your test evaluation. And then you see the metrics for tests down there. The um the highest rating, average rating you could receive in test is a five. So a 3.7 was recognized, 3.9 exemplary and masters was 4.5. Now we have a new 3.5 level. So that's new. it'll be um funded at a higher

107rate than it was previously. This is what the funding looks like. Um in the last three years that we've done this, recognized began base pay at $3,000. Next year, acknowledged will begin at $3,000. Recognized teachers bump up another 2,000 as their base and exemplary teachers bump up 3,000 as the base. >> There's a range from base pay to max. there's the max is actually higher than that, but we can't access the top of that um scope because we're not rural and we don't have the highest number of low SCES schools. >> So, that's kind of where ours max out. Um but more money coming to teachers. Um the I figured the numbers of how many teachers we would had in our current data captured, the ones that are being paid this May, had this rule

108been in effect last year when we captured data, we would have an additional 29 teachers that were captured because of this new level. So I anticipate we'll have even more um moving forward. So, um, since 2022, if you see the, uh, groups in red, those groups, that was their first year to capture data and then we began adding groups. So, every time you see a red group in each of those years that follow is a new group of teachers that we added with new um, test metrics that we're tracking, new test um, vendors that we're using in order to capture student growth data for those those teachers. So, you can see the program's grown significantly over time. Um, and then, uh, really the last group left is our CTE teachers. We've found a way for

109nearly every teacher in the district to have a pathway to TIA. So, what does this look like? Growth over time. So, this is our third year of designations. Um, currently we're sitting at 223 designated teachers, which is amazing. It's a 1,933,000 payout um, for teachers. Had we added those 29 teachers at the acknowledged level and if we were paying out at next year's rate, that would be at 2,398,000. So even if no new teachers qualify, we're still looking at like nearly 2.4,000. So we'll be significantly over that number next year, which is why we need your budget amendment that Wesley put in. Um, so you can see that the teacher numbers jump. I think this is probably um an opportunity to look at the it it's not at one campus. It's spread out over the

110district. So, we have significant numbers everywhere of teachers in all of our all of our campuses at all of those those levels. Um the the thing that's great is that we're not just um acknowledging teachers that are brand new each year. Our teachers are leveling up through the system. So if you look at that middle um area on the slide, we had 14 teachers that were already designated at recognized that moved up a level to exemplary this year. Eight that move jump from recognized to masters, they jumped two levels. And then we had 18 that moved from exemplary to master. So it's not that they just make it one time. They're like making it and then they're making it higher the next year, which is exciting for us. So this is what the chart looks

111like. So over time it's been major gains. We had, I think, a a difference of 56 new teachers the first year and then 75 the next year. So, we look to expand that because we've added even more groups this next year. So, moneywise, we've um almost tripled from where we started. Um and that would be significantly more if the new uh money were factored in this year as well. So, we know that'll continue to happen. So, this is an interesting um graph because we can see the number of new designations. So, 40% of the people designated right now were brand new. So that's excellent. That's new money coming in. But then we had um nine teachers that four. Yeah. So 4% of the people that are designated jumped two designation levels. 14% jumped um one

112level and then we had some that kept the same designation. The other thing that I tracked on this was the teachers that had coaching cycles. So we've had our teachers when they wanted to become designated or when they wanted to move up in this system, they would work with a learning coach. And so when we look at the number of teachers in the whole scope of things, the number of people who had a coaching cycle or coaching touch point this year, 65% of the teachers that are designated worked with a coach throughout the school year, which is a a huge huge deal. The neat thing is though that 75% of the people in the new designation area worked with the coach. And then of the people that jumped one level, 79% of those people worked

113with a coach. And then 80% of the people that jumped two levels worked with a coach. So they didn't do it alone. There's a lot of people supporting the effort along the way. So Sarah Collins and the learning coaches are right there working with the teachers um handinand to help them um work on their craft and we see student growth because of it. This is our um test walkthrough snapshot. What you can see here is that over time, this um chart starts with the year 22 23. And if you look at the averages in each of these dimensions that um we measure for test growth, we average those for a teacher's growth in domains two and three. So that's anything that has a two or a three at the front of it on the left

114hand side. If you look at those numbers, look at the change over time. So over time our teachers have worked with coaches but we've also implemented some programs to help them strengthen their skills in these areas in the classroom. So their content knowledge and expertise we certainly worked with that but communication differentiation also if you notice the giant jumps over time in their classroom management and in their managing student behavior and classroom culture that comes from our work with champs and stoic the professional learning we've had the way our campuses have implemented that and then also the teachers work with um each of those coaches to get better at those things. So you see that the change over time over the last 3 years it's jumped to a point 4.5 which doesn't seem like a

115huge significant jump except remember the difference in moving from a recognized teacher to an exemplary teacher is 0.2 points. So if they're jumping 0.5 points on average they're moving significantly up the scale. So we've seen a lot of growth and um we think there's some some reasons that that's happening. one, I think it's because we've identified some intentional goals. So, our district has outlined those campus improvement goals and then our campuses have come right behind it with our our um campus improvement plan goals and we've identified wigs through our work with leader and me. We've identified those wildly important goals and they've identified where they want to get better as a campus. Well, when the campuses do that, the teachers jump into that as well and the teachers make classroom goals. And then if any

116any parents have been in the student led conferences this year, you know that the students have also made goals about how much they want to grow and how they want to progress throughout the year. And I think those intentional goals has driven this system um and the success of our students as well. I think professional learning has a big piece of it. You can see over time those test scores have climbed um over the last three years because we have those measurement tools and we have feedback. teachers receive this on a regular basis so they know where where maybe they have an area for growth and then where they're doing well and they know what to have a conversation about with an administrator with a coach and then I think it comes down to leadership

117so campus leadership district leadership um teacher leadership this is our second year of teacher leader academy so like we have teacher leaders that are stepping up and talking about how to get more growth student growth and then we've moved it into student leadership too the students are looking at goals and setting goals and then having their parents um at a meeting where they can present what they've learned this year and how well they've done. So I think those are some things that have really moved the needle and our teachers are seeing the benefit of it. So as far as the timeline, this is a cycle that never stops. Um we will there it is. We will um pay teachers on May 21st. So we have some goodie bags to take around and celebrate them um

118on May 21st on their campus and then they'll receive their stipend at that time. And then um we'll continue data collection. So we've already collected data for this school year that I'll submit next October. That'll be at that new funding level with the new acknowledged level so we'll have even more teachers qualify. Um and we'll continue to look for ways um to find a path for all teachers to have an opportunity um to participate in the teacher incentive a lotment. So right now CTE is the biggest area that's still left out of that. So we're working on that process right now to get those pre and post tests worked out for those individuals. But um overall um huge gains and um the teachers are seeing the benefit of it because once they're designated, remember it's

119a 5-year designation. So that 1.9 million is happening every year for the next 5 years for those teachers. Are there questions I can answer >> on the designations? Are we resubmitting every year for every teacher? So if I hit masters this year and I hit masters next year, am I automatically extending my timeline another? >> That's a great question. You can submit a teacher if they're at a new or higher designation. So if you achieve the same designation that you currently have, I can't resubmit it. So you can't start the clock over. If you achieve a higher designation, I can. So the trick with that is at M's level, there's not a higher designation for you to go to. So I can't resubmit. So they'll have to write out their five years of masters and

120then we'll resubmit that last year um before their eligibility drops off. >> Okay. Is that like the Texas saying that? Is that kind of part of the law or is that just >> It is because it's Yeah, that's right. >> Gotcha. >> Yeah. Everybody else we're tracking we're encouraging everyone to have um a full cycle observation every year. So they collect data every year. So if there's a chance they can move up in the system, then we have all the data that we can submit for them. and I have to submit every teacher that's in a qualifying area as long as they've had an observation that year because every student does the assessment pieces every single year. So, we're submitting for about 400 people now every year. >> Uh looking at the numbers, 223 uh

121designated teachers for TIA this past year out of about a total of a little over 600 teachers. So, about a third a little more than a third of our teachers are getting TIA right now. Is that right? >> That's right. of the teachers that are eligible today, 56% of those that are eligible have a designation. That's awesome. >> The state average says it should be 33. >> Looking at that kind of breakdown, I thought that was interesting seeing the different campus levels. Is there any concern that is that just the middle schools kind of being in the lower spots? Is that just because of more turnover and they haven't gone through those coaching cycles? >> Probably. We have had a lot of teachers that are just coming into Midway that are in the middle schools

122now. So that that's a piece of it. And then there were some curriculum things that we were working out that we feel like are in a lot better place now than they were. So I think we'll see see that growth. >> Awesome. I kind of had a feeling it was turnoverish. But >> yeah. Yeah. Lots of change. >> But I do love seeing the that being spread out at every campus. I think that's a really good chart seeing that broken out. >> Yeah. Absolutely. >> Yeah. I just think it's I continue to think it's tremendous the work that you've done to build our local system because I know that sort of when we when you tackled this the state really had no plan that said do it this way and you you kind of >>

123built the plane while you were flying the plane. >> Yeah. It was early days >> to to tie it into tango. Um but uh I think it's great. I think, you know, one of the things I think is the a tremendous opportunity we have is to say, you know, the average three-year teacher, 5-year teacher, seven-year teacher at Midway is not really making this this base chart over here anymore. The average teacher, this is what you're making at Midway. So, I think that's a that's right. I think it's a great marketing opportunity to help help bring in good staff and help keep good staff here because they know that >> you know you can look at a chart that says Waco ISD will pay you x amount more but not really not when you really look

124at the average salary of our actual teachers who are here right >> I think it's a great opportunity >> that's right and you can see our numbers move like over time you can see their tour t test scores have grown over time they're getting better at the craft >> well in the t test what I want to say about that is you talk about a point4.5 that's like a 20% increase over where it was 3 years ago. So you pick anything out there and say we're going to be 20% better than we were 3 years ago. That's tremendous. >> Yeah. >> So Emily and I have been talking about that whole marketing discussion. >> Yeah. >> And and there's two prongs to it. One is uh what what do teachers here really make relative to

125base pay? But then two, the supports like y'all heard me say this before. If you come here and if you stay for at least three years and you go through a coaching cycle, if you're an eligible group, we're going to get you qualified. >> Yeah. And that's not going to do nothing to get better with this new acknowledge level. >> So we're we're working on a campaign around all that. We Emily I told Emily work on it. So Emily's working on a campaign around that with uh with um Dr. Kudson like as we speak we have pull all that together. >> Well and you saw you had the numbers there the number of teachers that have come into Midway already with the designation. >> That's right. >> So then our teachers can also leave and

126take their designation with them to another district. They can. We don't want >> We don't want them to, but yeah, that designation stays with their their teaching certificate. They could they have it. >> Right. Right. >> Well, you do amazing work and work very hard. So, thank you. That was a very good report. Anybody else? >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, Becky. >> Okay. Pam Watts, the TASBY Legislative Advisory Council update. >> Yes. Thank you, Miss Vic. I wanted to provide a brief update on the legislative advisory count council and you all have a more detailed breakdown of the work that we have been doing. Uh the legislative advisory council or lack as it's called is 108 member body of school board trustees elected by tasby members from across the state. And what makes

127this council unique is that each member represents their region and brings forward the priorities identified by local school boards at regional grassroots meetings. This year, region 12's grassroots meeting was hosted here at Midway, where attendees selected uh our neighbor Russ Johnson from Lena, Larry Hawthorne from Hubard ISD, and yours truly to serve as region 12's representatives. The Lex's job is to take all of the priorities raised in the 20 different education service center regions and then combine them into a single statewide advocacy agenda that reflects the voice of Texas school boards in a grassroots process. Local trustees identify issues that matter most to their communities and then the lack meets twice in even numbered years to refine those ideas into draft legislative priorities. Those recommendations are then sent to the TASBY board of directors and

128ultimately to the delegate assembly where trustees from across Texas vote to approve the final advocacy agenda. And then that two-year advocacy agenda becomes TASBY's blueprint for working with the legislature and state leaders. So last month uh we at the LAC met in Austin to begin drafting priorities for the 90th Texas legislature. A second meeting will be held next month to finalize the draft before it goes to the delegate assembly this fall. So that's basically the setup and the process. The proposed priorities for this year currently focus on several key areas. Adequate and sustainable school funding. Full funding for special education, school safety and security, teacher recruitment and retention, protection of local control, accountability and assessment reform, [clears throat] reducing unfunded mandates and unnecessary regulation, ensuring that any school receiving public funds is held to the

129same accountability and transparency standards. And that was actually the committee I was on. These priorities align closely with many of the issues we continue to address here at Midway ISD. In past years, our trustees have also taken turns representing our district at the TASBY delegate assembly where the final advocacy agenda is adopted. And I just want to say I appreciate the opportunity to represent Midway and region 12 in this important process. And I will continue to keep the board informed as the agenda is finalized. >> All right. Thank you, Pam, for doing that. I know it's extra time. We appreciate it. >> We are being heard. >> Yes. Good report. >> All right. Dr. Allen, discussion of real estate items, which >> we need to take that up in close session. >> We will move

130to close session later in the agenda. Okay. Consideration items. A the consent agenda. What is listed on the consent agenda is the following. One, minutes of the April 21st, 2026 regularly scheduled board meeting. Two, minutes of the April 23rd, 2026 special called board meeting. Did I read that right? Okay. Three, early graduation request. Four, Texas Association of Future Educators or TF out of state trip. Five, Family Career and Community Leaders of America, FCCLA, out of state trip. We saw some of those students tonight. Also, six, HOSA, Future Health Professionals, out of state trip. Seven, budget amendments, which Wesley mentioned. Eight, list of recommended library books that was in your packet. Nine, delegate delegate hiring authority to the superintendent. 10, e-ate for technology related services and equipment 2026 2027 just mentioned. 11 resolution to approve outside

131employment for district administrators. and 12 FDB local admissions, intrad district transfers, and classroom assignments. Does any board member wish to remove an item from the consent agenda before voting on it? Okay, not hearing anyone that wants to remove anything from the agenda. Do I have a motion that we accept the consent agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> I have a motion by Mr. Barry. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Wit. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same sign. The motion passes. >> Okay. Next, we have approving resolution authorizing donation of sidewalk easement to city of Woodway. >> Yes, ma'am. M. Yes. You have had an opportunity to look at that authorization is really just the next step in a process that we started.

132It feels like maybe a year ago now. You'll remember that the city of Woodway is doing some improvement along estates. Uh they added the bike path and that was part of a larger conversation that was taking place and now they're ready to start doing the work on the sidewalks that'll run up the rest of the way and kind of connect all that up. We feel it's an advantage to our families and students to have that sidewalk in place uh and the relationship to that and um Woodway Elementary School. Mayor Corzal is here. I noticed you are here this evening and is Yeah. Yes. And so >> if you happen to have any questions, I think they can help discuss those. I will tell you the process is that we received the agreement. We shared that

133with district council Angela Tel. She looked at it um with almost just a few little tweaks, gave it back to us and said looks good to her. It is the administration's recommendation that we approve the resolution as presented. But if you have any questions, we have people here can help talk to that. Ken can speak a little bit too if need be. >> Does anyone have any questions? or mayor or anyone. >> I don't have a question, but I'd like to say that I think this is a clear win-win. I think that we have a long great partnership with the city of Woodway there. Um, in many regards, the paw, the playground, and and sidewalk is great for our students. >> Yeah. Yeah. I'd like to thank the city for taking the lead and initiative

134on this. >> Yeah. It's the only question I have. I looked at the the area to be included in this. We're not putting concrete on all of that, right? I mean, that's just the that's just the area that's covered, right? I don't because there's a lot on that corner that it would be a shame if it wasn't. >> It's easement to give them space to do the work that they >> Okay, good. That's kind of what I thought, but I was just making sure. >> Yeah. >> And sidewalks would be great to have there because we don't have them and so I'm good with that. Anybody else? Any more questions? Okay. I need to have a a motion to approve the donation of the sidewalk easement to the city of Woodway. >> So move by

135Mr. Green. Do I have a second? >> Second. Second. Let him have it. Let the new guy have it. [laughter] >> Your first, Mr. Carl. Yes. Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Any oppose? Same sign. >> The motion passes. Thank you all for attending the meeting tonight. We appreciate it. >> Thank you so much. Uh, President Vick, I was going to mention also there's some questions about the uh beautiful oak trees that are right in front of the elementary. Those are going to remain untouched. In case you get any questions about those people about their trees, [laughter] >> thank you, mayor, for letting us know. That's good to know. Glad you're doing that. >> The mayor is standing there. >> Mayor, don't >> I will bring to your attention that

136there's a corsol coming back to the district as an employee. >> Really? >> I missed that. >> And it's not the mayor and we're really excited about that. So, [laughter] >> a [laughter] thank you again. >> Okay, I lost my No, no, no, no. Sidewalk. Here we go. >> That's great. >> Okay. [clears throat] 10C, consider and take appropriate action regarding 2026 2027 compensation plan. Dr. Allen, do you want to speak on that? >> I can and then if we have some detailed questions, we'll draw on Dr. Kudson. We uh Dr. were presented on this last month. The recommendation hasn't changed. We're asking the board to authorize the district to allocate no more than $2 million for compensation. That would be a 2% GPI for our staff as well as some market adjustments and um

137incentives as appropriate. You saw Wesley make reference to how that would impact our budget for next year. Um we feel like it's a it's a tolerable um way to start the budget in terms of hit the fund balance. That number is very very very conservative. I feel like we'll do significantly better as we tend to. Um but um we want to be able to try and do at least the 2% for our staff if we can. And so it's the administration's recommendation that you approve the compensation plan as presented. Any questions? We'd be glad to take those at this time. No, but I know economic times are not the best for education right now, but I'm glad we can recognize how hard our teachers and staff work and the cost of living that goes up

138every year and and try to keep up with that to some degree. So, I appreciate that we're we're doing the 2%. >> I wish it could be more. agree. >> I was just going to say I appreciate how much our staff, our our teachers trust us to sign contracts and say yes, we want to come back knowing that the compensation plan is still being finalized. And so I just I think that speaks a lot to the relationship our [snorts] teachers have here and the reason they want to stay here is they know that we're going to do the best we can to take care of them. So thanks to all your work on that, everyone who's made that happen, >> people at that table. >> Any more discussion? Okay, I need to ask for a

139motion to approve the compensation plan for 2026 2027 school year. >> Motion made by Miss Watts. Do I have a second? >> Second by Mr. Alfred. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any oppose? Same sign. The motion passes. [clears throat] Consideration of personnel. Deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer employee. Um, we already voted for the consideration of um Christie, so that's done. Uh, here a complaint or charge against an officer or employee reorganization of the board of trustees. Um, I do know we want to go into close session for reorganization of the board of trustees. Is there any other reasons we need to go in close session? >> Discussion real estate. Real estate. Yeah, >> real estate. That's correct. Thank you. >>

140So, [clears throat] the board will go into close session pursuant to Texas Government Code section 551.074 to consider reorganization of the board and 551.072 to discuss real estate act items and the time is 9:04. There's my gamble. Turn my microphone is on. Okay. I don't have my iPhone. So 10:41. >> Yes, ma'am. We are reconvening the public meeting and state no action was taken in close session at 10:41 p.m. Reorganization of the board of trustees um with the election and appointment of a new board member and members of the board of trustees must organize themsel themselves. This happened when we had our new um trustee back in December and then every May because we have election time in May. So we we do this yearly. So we are going to open um the process of

141electing officers and for our newbies I mentioned it um we will do the president first and someone makes a nomination and you can nominate yourself. Um and then we will vote on those nominees and then after we do president we will do the vice president and then we will do secretary and we'll go on that order. So I want to open the the floor and ask who would like to nominate someone for position of board president. >> I'd like to nominate Susan Vic. >> Second. >> Well, thank you both. You sure? That's very that's much an honor. I appreciate that. Thank you for your confidence. Any other nominees? We've had a motion in a second. So, we will now take a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All those opposed, same

142sign. Okay. Susan Vic has been um appointed as the board president for the next year. And now I open the floor to take a nominee for the position of board vice president. I'd like to nominate Pam Watts as board vice president. Okay. >> Any other nominees? >> Okay, I'll have heard no other nominees. We will close that. And um we had a motion made by Steven Carl. Do I have a for Pam Watts? Do I have a second? >> Did I say that? >> I'm tired. We second the motion. >> Well, we don't always second it, but midway mid >> a second. >> Midway nom. We always do a second. Technically, we don't have to do any motions for positions. Okay. Um, Colin Whit will um second that. So, >> it doesn't require a second.

143Sorry, >> I jumped the gun. I'm sorry. >> No, no, no, no, no. >> We just we we've always we just tend to make a motion in a second for these positions. So, do I have a second? for the nomination of Pam Watts as vice president. >> Second. >> Okay. Second by Brad Alfred. Any other? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed. We nominate Pam Watts as vice president. I now open the floor for um someone to nominate a position of office of board secretary. I nominate Colin Wit. >> Okay. Have any other nominees? >> Okay. We've we'll assume no other nominees. I've heard no other names. >> Do I have a motion to nominate Colin? >> So motion. >> All right. Motion made by um Jordan Barry. Do I have

144a second? >> Second by Pam Watts to nominate Colin Wit as board secretary. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> All oppose, same sign. Okay, the vote passes and calling witness our secretary. >> Thank you, Colin. And thank you, Pam. >> Thank you, Susan. >> Thank you all for being willing to serve as officers. Thank you all. >> Thank you. Um, then we're out of business items, so I will join the meeting at 10:45. You didn't have to see