001Okay, please stand as trustee Salceto leads us in the invocation and pledge of allegiance. Almighty and merciful God, we ask your guidance and blessings upon this board. Students, parents, patrons, teachers, and administrators as we are assembled here this evening in the common pursuit of this great nation's wealth, our children. Amen. >> Amen. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas one state under God one and indivisible. And the time is now 6:02 and the meeting will now be officially called to order. Good evening and welcome to this regular meeting of the North Side Board of Trustees. And before we call our first agenda item, the board would like
002to take just a few moments to briefly review the rules for conducting our meeting. In order of business for this meeting, it's set out in the agenda. And one item that you may notice on the agenda is the consent agenda. And this item includes items that are considered routine and are of recurring nature. All of these items listed under the consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion. And if there is a consent agenda item that anyone here would like to address, please sign up to speak to the item and we will pull it from the consent motion and discuss it separately. The purpose of this meeting is to conduct board business and for that reason it is held in public. It is not a public forum. However, we do provide the opportunity for
003audience participation. And if there's anyone wishing to address the board regarding citizens to be heard agenda items, please sign up uh in the sheet prior to the start of the meeting. If there's anyone who would like to address the board during an agenda item, we ask that you please complete a signup sheeting. Indicate the agenda item you would like to address. The signup sheets are located at the entrance to this room so that we do not overlook anyone who would like to speak to the board. We will review the rules for addressing the board later on in the meeting. If there's anyone here would like to sign up for an agenda item and has not already done so. Okay. All right. Thank you so much. And so we have item number one. I'm ready to
004move to that. >> Good evening uh Madam President, members of the board. Uh tonight uh with this first agenda item, we have a kind of a unique opportunity. I'm going to let Dr. Carol Harl uh explain really what this award means, but we have the opportunity to recognize someone that really uh throughout the entire course of the year uh works very diligently throughout the uh district to recognize so many uh North Side ISD students and staff. And so with that, uh I'm going to allow Dr. Carl to really talk a little bit about the TASBY media honor role and then u like I say present a recognition token appreciation to one of our very own. >> Thank you. Um every year TASBY asks for nominations from school boards um and and along the same lines
005that um uh Dr. Craft said um those who play a valuable role in the public education in the lives of our children and educators and certainly our community. And so the TASBY media honor role was created to recognize these individuals and media outlets for reporting fair, accurate, and balanced stories on our schools. Um, so we we nominated someone and he's being recognized tonight. Um, there were three categories just so you know, print, radio, and television. And it certainly is is print with the Express News. The criteria for honores include the following. Make the effort to get to know the superintendent, board president, board, and the district's missions and goals. Uh mission and goals, excuse me. Report school news in a manner that is fair, accurate, and balanced. Highlights positive developments in schools. Visits campuses or
006certainly board meetings in our school district. And maintains a policy of no surprises by sharing information with school representatives. So, um, we are honored tonight to present, um, the 2025 media honor role to Mr. Scott Hulesen with the Express News. And Scott, if you'll come down here and our board will recognize you. [Laughter] Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. [Laughter] Fair balance. special. All right. So, congratulations again. And now we're moving on to item number two to our superintendent report. >> Yes, ma'am. Uh there's a lot going on. Um really in preparation for the upcoming uh school year and I was giving our students a little bit of a hard time. I think they're uh growing ready. I don't know if we're quite ready yet, but we will be. Um in preparation for the uh
007first day of school, which is August 11th, like I say, there's a lot of of planning. Uh before I get there though, I I do hope that everyone had a nice summer vacation. Um I want to uh really um uh pay special recognition uh to a group of individuals that have had to step into uh a situation to help out with the very tragic event associated with the uh floods on the 4th of July. And those are our our crisis counselors. Um we um obviously that weekend uh became very in tune as did really everyone in Beay County and probably the entire world. Um the the victims associated with uh the flood and the and the tragic aftermath. And so uh I want to thank uh our counselors, crisis counselors who stepped in uh to
008include Elizabeth Flores, Tanya Perez, Stacy Griggs, uh Merida uh Selenas, and Jorge Ramos. uh they helped out Kurville ISD. Um and you can imagine uh particularly in Kerr County that was a a really very very uh impacted region. And then our very own Kim Ridgely, uh Katie Westbrook, uh Geanna Garza, and Tanya Mendoza uh went in and and served uh those that were associated actually with Alamo Heights ISD. the Alamo Heights had several students as well as camp counselors uh that were involved particularly with the Camp Mystic uh uh uh event. Um so a special like I say accolade and thank you to our our crisis counseling team that stepped in uh in the time of need. Um luckily uh thankfully they've been able to uh resume their regular activities. Uh many of these counselors
009keep in mind were not on contract. they volunteered their time uh if their services are needed and of course any other services that we can render uh to help those and and the victims especially and family members associated we're going to. So um again thank you to our our counselors. Um we had the opportunity to celebrate once again Tate Taylor. Uh this is our worldclass sprinter from Harlem High School. um not only a state record holder but also uh just recently announced here the last couple weeks the Gatorade athlete of the year. Um so congratulations to Tate. Um he's in pretty high uh company. Uh individuals uh that many of their names you might know like Tim Tibo and many others have won. Yeah. Thank you. Pton Manning, Kobe Bryant. Um so he's in like
010I say he's in good company. Um, but like I say, it was great to celebrate with Tate as the athlete, uh, Gatorade athlete of the year and and it's pretty pretty high honor. Uh, we look forward to his uh, uh, success even as a senior going forward next year. Um, just a few reminders, this is the time of year that we're going to start getting really busy. Uh, summer graduation, we'll have about a hundred uh, graduates tomorrow. We're going to be at Paul Taylor uh tomorrow, just as a reminder uh at 6:30. So, um a little bit different. Um we're having to set up for multiple events at the sports gym. And so, Paul Taylor will be our graduation venue tomorrow night. Thursday, just as a reminder, we'll have our servant leadership uh kickoff. This
011is with our our student athletes uh at 8:00 at the sports gym. And then also our ambassadors uh will be uh inducted and welcomed uh for this upcoming school year at the North Side Activity Center. Uh likewise, we'll have our coaches uh with their leadership summit um on Friday at the sports gym. Saturday, I know there are all types of welcoming back uh school kickoffs. Um, one, uh, in particular, we'll have our grandparents raising grandchildren event at Northwest Vista College, uh, at 9:00. Um, and I I'll plan on attending and just again demonstrating our appreciation for, >> say, >> their tremendous efforts, the uh, grandparents raising grandchildren. Uh, it's a backpack giveaway. Um, uh, services being provided, an education summit. Um it will be at Northwest Vista College at nine o'clock this this Saturday. Um
012I don't know that you have this on your radar but um there is a legislative update uh being provided by the Education Service Center uh region 20 on Monday and this is from 3 to 5. Uh so if interested just please let us know, let Monica know and like I say we'll get you registered. But uh that's from 3 to 5. Also, as a reminder, our new teacher academy kicks off on Monday. Uh we'll kick off at 8 o'clock at Brandeise High School with our secondary and then again at 12:30 um on Monday at Brandeise with our elementary students. Monday night is our first annual athletic hall of honor banquet. Um and that will begin at six o'clock. Uh we'll be recognizing actually eight former uh North Side ISD athletes and their families. This is
013a a new initiative. Um, as we were just really kind of looking back in uh time, we have had so many tremendous athletes that have had uh such a huge impact not only on uh their respective high school and North Side ISD, but really just as a career and as a profession, whether it be a professional athlete or just as a professional in general. And so we'll have the opportunity to recognize and celebrate uh with those eight uh special individuals on Monday uh at the sports gym as well. And then of course we're planning for convocation which is quickly as I'm being reminded by Monica and Barry almost daily of convocations um kicking off the 5th and the 6th. Uh this year's theme is North Side Unstoppable. Um, and so we're pretty excited not only
014for the student and the student performances that will once again I know just be uh the highlight of the convocation, but we're going to really work to celebrate accomplishments. Uh while we'll talk about a few of the challenges on the horizon, I do feel like and you'll see a piece of what we're describing uh here tonight. Uh we're on good footing to have a very very successful uh school year. So um so like I say, mark your calendars. will have three convocations each day, the fifth and the sixth. And I know, like I say, you you've been working towards um uh the the speaking parts. Um and um looking forward to, like I say, a great convocation. Um and with that, um I do believe we have a video moment uh this evening. Um, I
015know that a lot of times we uh celebrate all of the success uh associated with gyms and tracks and stadiums and swimming pools. Um, uh, but this is one that's kind of special and a little bit unique to Taft High School. And so, hope you enjoy, like I say, tonight's uh, video moment because it's a little bit of a a different variation of what you probably would uh, consider and be accustomed to as clubs across North Side ISD schools. Zach Carrasco learned two things early on in life. Music and exercise are like therapy for him. As a member of the Tapped High School jazz band, he's got the music part covered. Exercise. Well, that was a bit more tricky. >> At the age of three, I was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect, which affects
016one out of every 100 kids. >> It kept him playing most sports. So, he got creative. >> Going to go like off a little bit. Y'all want to do the monkey loop again? >> I decided I wanted to start a bike club in my middle school. Y'all ready? >> An idea he carried on into high school. >> Be careful. >> Now, the not so common high school sport is catching on. >> We started with five members and now we're 20 plus at Taft High School. >> I was not really doing anything at home, so I was like, you know, I'm going just give it a try and I ended up enjoying it. The club has regular meetups to ride, laugh, and talk. They hit the trails and sometimes go off the beaten path, >> which
017is where I quickly found my limits. >> I'll tell you, keeping up with Zach and his crew isn't always easy. Sometimes I just got to get off and watch it go by. >> You okay, Mr. Norris? >> Just like real life, things don't always go as planned. >> Halfway through I was like, "What's that sound?" And I checked down. I'm like, "Both my tires are flat." >> All right. With every mile, they're building muscle, self-confidence, and even new friendships. >> We have kids that are in Ben, and then we have kids that are in RTC. We have kids that are in no extracurricular, and they come to the bike club, it's like, whoa, like, this is pretty cool. >> Just a great overall club. >> Principal Aurelio Hernandez says the club has a way of
018encouraging kids to step out and become part of something bigger. you know, a lot of them started off as, you know, shy freshman or shy sophomores and they now they've become part of something. Um, and with that, you've seen them flourish. You've seen them um, absolutely, uh, you know, interact with each other a little bit more, interact with others. >> Zach worked hard to build the club into something great and all that hard work is paying off. >> So, I was able to sponsor with Trek and I was able to sponsor with a lot of sponsors and they were able to donate bikes. They were able to donate money, some pumps so we could pump air in our tires. We got to meet with the mayor. We got recognition from our council people. Like, it's
019it's it's been a fun journey. All right, let's head back. So, I just I think it's a pretty good thing we got going on. >> My special heart brought us a long way. >> That's pretty awesome. [Applause] >> I will say that um this time of year they're probably pretty selective as to when they decide to ride the trails, their bikes, but um yeah, it's pretty awesome. We're very very proud of the students at Taft um because we are all of our high schools and students across the district. Um so um with that uh that really >> I think we have you audience. >> Well yeah real quickly y'all want to introduce yourselves if you don't mind. Please >> come on up. >> Where's the bicycle? >> Okay. >> Uh my name is Zachary Krasco.
020um proud president of the Taff fight club. Um I started because at the age of three I was diagnosed with a congenal heart defect which restricted me to doing a lot of you know sports and I was like I got to do something. I got to do something because I know there's kids out there just like me. And so that's exactly what I did. I started a club and I wanted to make it for everyone. It doesn't matter if you have a disability or none. You can join the club. You're here. I'm listening for you. I'm here for you. And so I did and I started at Brisco Middle School with five members and next year our enrollment is 60 plus. >> Wow. >> So we are we're excited. >> That's awesome. Good for you,
021Zach. >> Thank you. Great job. Great job. >> Hello. I am Gabriel Areola. I'm the parliamentarian of the bike club and I joined the club this year. And the reason why I joined was because I I like what he's trying to do with the school. I really I support his ideas of trying to bring everybody from all sorts of different groups and just basically putting them all into one group. I think it's very great what he's doing honestly and I feel like it's really bringing some good into this school. >> Awesome. Awesome. Good to meet you Gabriel. Hi, my name is Gabriel Obergon. Uh, I'm the historian for the bike club. Honestly, I just love the inclusivity factor into the whole bike club. I liked how everyone can just join in and just have a
022good time. That's honestly why I joined. And like also, I support Zach entirely. Been his neighbor for like a long time, so I support him. >> Awesome. Awesome. Well, thank you guys. I know that you probably weren't planning on speaking tonight, so I could have put you on the spot, but uh, great job. and Zach, uh, love your vision. Uh, you guys keep pedaling full speed ahead, no pun intended. >> With that, um, that concludes my report, Madam President. >> Before Zach leaves, >> Zack, >> we we'd like to make some comments if you don't mind. >> Okay. >> I I just uh wanted to say it what an awesome organization. Uh I'm coming from the physical education background and so just uh being able to bring something like this not only to your school
023but to the community. Don't stop. Continue to get those resources. And I liked how you reached out to your city council person because that's where it starts. And just uh you're socializing, you're exercising, you're exploring your rec spaces and and and that's what we want everybody to do. So I congratulate you for that. It's it's awesome. it's before you know it's going to blow up and there's so many organizations out there that will help you. You just you got to keep you got to just keep throwing it out there. Okay. So, thank you so much for doing that. That's awesome. >> Dr. How? >> Yeah. I was just going to say too, if you will email, our emails are on the web page. You can email us um when your next ride is. You you
024might have a couple trustees who want to to join you. Okay. So, um, that's something we very near and dear to our heart is is is the physical, um, wellness, but also the mental wellness. I mean, you guys are gems for being here and recognizing that. So, thank you very much. And then, um, are you a senior this year? >> I'll be a junior. >> You're going to be a junior. Okay. So, you don't have to worry about a succession plan. So, but you might want to think about after you graduate because we don't want this program, like Miss Apata said, to to die. It is incredible. And thank you for supporting him. I mean, it must be a rough crowd that there's a parliamentarian and you know, not too fast, slow down. No, I'm
025joking. I'm joking. No, but thank you, gentlemen, very, very much. >> Zach, my best one of my best friends has that congenital heart disease since she was born. She's had her seventh surgery. And um so if you ever need a mentor, she's living a good life now. It hasn't been an easy road, but we're here to support you. And I have a few bikes that I'm no longer using. I'd like to give if someone needs it. So, let me know. They're not brand new, but they're just sitt in the garage. Thank you. >> Okay. So, now we're moving on to our board members reports. And if you'd like to make a comment, please let him know. Uh Dr. hustle. >> I just wanted to kind of go over since the last time we met. Um
026I'm extremely thankful the Great Northwest um invited me to a watch meeting. So I was able to go to their neighborhood meeting. I also was able to go to Thunderbird Hills neighborhood meeting. So just wanted to mention if there's any other neighborhood meetings that um I could be invited to. Um I'd like to go out and meet individuals. I know um starting in September, I'll reach out to the schools and really be more active and get to know everyone. Um but I also want to be active in the community and make sure that you know even if you don't have kids, making sure that you're aware of what's going on here at North Side. Um also super thankful to Megan and Barry. I was able to meet with both of them um last last week
027or was it last week? Couple of weeks ago. Um I'm making it a point to meet with um I think it's like seven of the directs that um are really impactful here at North Side just making sure that um I learn a little bit more and really see how I can advocate for different departments and really kind of get a sense of and I kind of um I know I kind of put everyone like what are we talking I was like it's really just to get to know you. I said I hear many times here on the board um our interaction with the cabinet is many times just like can you get me this can you get me that hey how about this how about this other report how about this other number I'm like
028I want to get to know the person like I want to get to know you to get a sense of you know why do you love North Side and why you know how can I help um with your vision of what you have for your department and your vision for North Side. Um so extremely thankful. I know I'm meeting with everyone else either tomorrow or next week. Um, so I'm extremely thankful that you all made time in your schedule to just really get to know get to know you and your team. Um, and then like I mentioned, um, really planning to visit some of the schools in September to give everyone time in August. I did have some schools reach out, so I do have some already scheduled. Um, but just excited really to get
029to know the schools in the district and see how things are going and how as a board member can I help to advocate for our schools. So that's it. Thank you, >> Dr. Hall. Yeah, I just had a couple of announcements. Um, this Saturday, um, one of the organizations I think Dr. Don, you belong to, to the San Antonio Leaders and Teachers, Salt, is sponsoring a teacher fest. It's totally free. It's for educators anywhere and everywhere in Bear County or anywhere um who happen to be in San Antonio this Saturday from 1 to 4. It's at the Whitty Museum and last year we had four or 500. There's a uh educators come, a lot from North Side, a lot of freebies, a lot of uh community resources, a lot of networking with teachers and and
030educators from um all area um uh school districts. So, come to a free event. There's music, there's food, there's lots of fun. Um, you may have to wait in line a little bit. We did um let the flow go so that we step stayed within the fire code, but it's it's a fun fun event. A lot of city leaders come to. So anyway, again, this Saturday from 1 to 4. Um, also starting tomorrow night, San Antonio Film Festival has um several uh North Side alumni that are showcasing their films. Tomorrow night it's stitched and we have three John Marshall alumni. Um Zack Goodwin, Jordan Gay Guehold Guehold, I'm not saying it right. Ghold Gilhold. Um and Kyle Ward. And so um their their film is stitched. And so uh it's it's interesting because we've we've
031had some pillars from Marshall that um have gone into the film industry. So there must be something that's going on there. But anyway, um and if even if we didn't have graduates, um and alumni going there, it's a great film festival. So, um and it's $15 a person. Real lots of fun for little money. Um and then thank you, Janice, and and all your team this summer. Um all the summer offerings were great. I know my grandkids loved it and um um really really um well organized, lots of fun. Uh, the GT1 was out of this world and so um, never a dull moment, but thanks. Thanks a lot, >> Mr. Salido. >> Yeah, just something real quick. Uh, John J. Back to school bash is this Saturday from uh 8 to 12. Um, I
032think you must register on the QR code or something. You can go down to to their website, but they they got uh shots, haircuts, and shoes and produce giveaway. Just a big old u like 30 vendors or something like that. So, it's a pretty big deal every year. And um also, uh football season's right around the corner. I want to congratulate uh Stoaya and Clark for getting nominated for this year's Pixkin Kat 12 PK Pixkin Classic. It's a great way to showcase two of our schools. I believe this is the first time two north side schools are playing right cuz usually uh east >> I don't know if it's I don't know I don't want to commit to that I don't know if it's the first >> I think it's no usually northeast are burning
033one of those two school but I was surprised to see Clark and Sautayota I've got connections to both so I don't know who I'm going to go for so it's kind of like >> half time you switch >> stand right underneath the goalpost >> right >> thank you Mr. Blum just a couple items the first one that's I'm so happy I said enough. We were fortunate that um the u the Air Force Cryptologic Cyber Assistance Division and we've been a long-term partner through the North Side Education Foundation with them. But they have already and this is the earliest I've ever seen it. Uh as well as u I think the highest amount that we've received funding from them. They they said through the foundation they're continuing to support uh fully support solar cars uh science
034ball then they're also supporting STEM sisters and robotics. So it was great to see that support and when they do that they don't just provide funding they provide all kinds of resources. So that was that was some great news um to see. The other one I bring up is the reading competition. We are continuing to meet on running through the Bear County Schoolboard Coalition and primarily our North Side Library Office and some other partners. It's a big undertaking, but we're um we're definitely ready to do that. So, it will be a citywide and actually broader other cities too to continue what the NCAA did uh did last year. So, so that's uh that's really good. Uh and then two people I'm going to do this uh ran into uh one was a another former track
035star that we had that achieved at the state level. Um he was a 400 meter hurdler. Anyway, I'd asked him about Tate Taylor. He said, "Oh yeah, I got to meet him the other week." He said what blew him away and this is typical of any great athlete. He said Tate Taylor knew more about him than he knew about Tate Taylor. He knew about his records. He knew he had done at North Side. He, you know, like most great athletes, they study other athletes and knew his history extremely well. So that was fascinating because that athlete was actually five or six years ago. So I imagine he knows all kinds of other history too. >> That is interesting. >> And the last one I'll bring up, you know, we run into a lot of people
036that remind us of our long-term culture. I saw Dub Ferris for those who remember Dub Ferris uh yesterday and I was I've always I've always liked uh Dub Manorism. He was our athletic director uh that we named the facility after but just fascinating to have a conversation with him and to get feedback on him. He keeps tab on North Side uh you know his continual positive impression and his hope and dreams uh for North Side. So I wanted to bring that up too. >> Thank you sir. And I'd just like to thank um everyone that worked summer school. I know that you gave up a little bit of your summer, but we helped our students reach their graduation milestone, which is tomorrow for summer graduation. So, I always love that. Um I want to also
037continue to give a shout out to our crisis counselors that were helping out there and offer really our condolences to all those families that are still hurting. And um I was really um proud to uh read about one of my prior students, Ansley Bashara, that was out there helping the young girls and two other young ladies, Silvana Garca Valdez and Maria Pa Sarat that helped guide some young girls into safety. And so I just want to thank her. I know her mom is very proud of Anley. Um, I was able to talk to Tate also at the Gatorade highlight and I I told him, Tate, don't forget about the little people. He's like, I won't miss. But I you see those athletes and you see them make it and a lot of them do come
038back, right? And so that's what we're hoping with anyone that's a product of North Side to come back and there was these young freshman that were just like in awe of Tate watching him get, you know, this recognition and there's always someone watching you, right? and everything that we do in leadership. So, just really proud of our young people um saving lives and making an impact in our community. So, that's all I have. Thank you, sir. And now we're moving on to the citizens to be heard section. So, >> yes, sir. >> I was going to let tech service know. It took me a half hour, but I finally figured out what my password was. [Laughter] He wants a sticker. >> A digital digital badge, please. >> I don't know if he wants a sticker
039or he wants to give Chris Treyo a sticker. I >> Oh, I'm sorry. Miss Apata had something a comment. Sorry, I skipped her. My >> Yeah, just real quick. And I know everyone's having back to school bashes, but um um it is Councilwoman Messa Gonzalez this Saturday is also having one at the San Antonio Firefighters Banquet Hall in the Colonies North area. Um and that one is free and they're going to have a lot of uh city resources out there, SAPD, SAPD Food Bank, CPS from 9 to 12 and it's completely free. And uh also want to just welcome back the administrators and staff. I know it's a short summer and um just have to prepare for the new school year and and uh just welcome them back and um I know they're incorporating some
040new procedures and just welcoming new teachers and staff. So um welcome back. I know it's a short summer, but got to get ready to go. And thank you to communities and schools for doing all the uh back to school stuff the bus. Please stuff those buses because they do come back to us and all over the city of San Antonio, they do deliver those school supplies for us and it helps some of us that don't have to buy the tissues and all the things that we would buy out of our pocket do come back to our students. So, thank you all for doing that. Okay, now citizens to be heard and with that we do believe citizens to be heard is important and meaningful and we listen to what you have to say. We value
041your opinions. Although we are restrained by law from taking any action, please make sure that you address remarks to the board and confine your remarks to a north side policy or practice and limit your remarks to three minutes. At three minutes, you're going to be asked to wrap up your remarks and please don't make any personal attacks on individuals. Thank you. >> We have two excuse me, we have two individuals signed up. Uh first to speak this evening is Isabella Gaya. Good evening. I don't know if this is on or not. >> Where? >> It is on. Okay. >> Um, good evening everybody. Um, Dr. Craft, board of trustees. I'm Isabella Gia. I am a Excuse me. It's been a long day today. Um, I'm a disabled veteran. I'm um San Antonio native, graduated from
042Kennedy High School, moved my family up here. It was better for my sons as far as the school district is concerned. I have been a community member at a certain high school since 2016. Uh didn't know too much of it. It was very accepting. Had a big family. Loved it. Everybody was accepting everybody. you got there and um they took you under their wing and they taught you the things of band and how to be a band mom. I I was an ROTC kid. There's a lot that has to go on for a band and I did not know this. Um so it was an undertaking for me. It was a lot to take on. I was medically separated in 2014. So there was a lot that was going on when my son became a
043freshman in 2016. I learned bits and pieces of everything that was going on. in uh 2022 2020 my sons did not want to play an instrument over a screen so they did not attend. Then they decided oh well we needed an elective so they jumped right back into it. So there we go again running band mom doing what we have to do. It's a lot to undertake. It's literally taking on an extra 40 plus hour work week but you're volunteering. The only payment that you get is to see the smile on your kid's face. There was a lot of questions when I came back from other parents asking hey what's going on with this? Do you know what's this? Do you know what's that? I was like, "Wait a minute. We have bylaws we have
044to follow." So, I tried guiding those who were asking me questions. I reached out and I asked the current principal for guidance on how to take care of stuff, the vice principal on how to take care of stuff. I even came to the board of trustees and I brought up some nepotism that was going on and other misappropriations of funds. The community that we had built that I had put my time and effort into with my sons was in the deficit of over $20,000. So, a lot of cleanup had to turn over. People have been moved around. Stuff is going on recently. I've been trying to help clean up a whole bunch of stuff to the point that I literally volunteered myself as tribute for the concessions vice president of this certain community. That is
045a lot to undertake. Concessions for football games, especially for the pig skin and everything else, it's a lot. You have to get even more people now to volunteer. 20 people. But you currently have a director who is trying to bypass UIL rules and I don't want to see a certain community get kicked off because of this. So it's been brought to certain emails attentions as well as superintendent um and I believe Dr. Craft um has been CCed on some of the stuff as well. It's an ongoing thing and I just want to bring this to y'all's attention as well without putting a lot of info out there. >> Thank you. Thank you, Miss Gaia. Um, next signed up is Andrew Siller. Uh good evening board. I'm just going to keep this uh short and sweet.
046Um mostly I wanted to ask for a little bit more insight about House Bill 2, Article 5 uh with the early literacy and numeracy as to when or if there will be uh it will be implemented for the 2526 school year uh regarding free prek at Northside for public school uh teachers. It's mostly all I wanted to say is to get more insight. >> Thank you. >> Absolutely. And Andrew, I think we can probably address that uh item here momentarily with the budget conversation if you want to stick around. >> Okay, sounds good. >> That concludes citizens to be heard. >> All right, >> so we're going to move on to our our next item on the agenda is our consent agenda. So these are items that are considered routine and are recurring in nature.
047So, do we have any motions? >> I just had a quick question. >> Okay. >> Address Dr. Woods. >> Yeah. >> I think we're okay. Dr. Hasso uh brought that to my attention as well. Um we I think has have reached out to the organization uh asking them to update uh the contact information but I think the agreement itself uh is very standard. Uh the resolution like I say is one that we've um gosh we've had implemented for years and years. Um so I think even though it's addressed to Dr. Woods we'll make that correction. The resolution it itself is factual and correct. You're also known as the one requesting it. It's He's also the one that's getting the job, right? >> I'm sorry. He >> the one requesting the Sam Wombo. >> Oh, WBO.
048>> He's also on that list. >> We can't hear you. >> The person that's requesting that extension, he's part of the appointment. He's >> the agent faculty member. >> Yeah. Yes. He's with Texas A&M University. You'll you'll see his >> question to be one of the teachers, right? >> Yes. One of the adjunct professors. >> Okay. >> Yeah. And I I can explain a little bit more. What happens with 4 is this allows in essence the students that participate uh in these county extension opportunities uh stock show uh etc. uh to be counted uh as attendance in school uh for ADA purposes even though they're probably going to be offsite um at a stock show um or venue in essence. Um and the the um county extension extension agents that you have listed on page
049four in essence uh are considered to be the teacher um of record for that day. I had something to add if >> Okay, Dr. >> Um, so I know when like in normal circumstances we have an individual that's not credentialed to be a teacher, we have like their degree, we also have their years of experience. And I know like some of these degrees don't really correlate with what they're going to be teaching. Um, so I didn't know if that's a practice to not also have because I'm I'm making the assumption, right? I mean that they have the years of experience. >> Um, I I think this is maybe a little bit different in the sense of I mean it really purely is uh allowing the district the ability like I say to capture the ADA.
050And Dr. Jordan, I don't mean to put you on the spot, but um I don't think that the the degree uh within this particular activity is um is is important. We're talking about a few days and really it's like say for stock show purposes. >> Agreed. It's mostly stock show after school. They're showing animals. They're um sometimes it could even be horiculture where they're tending different plants. Um, and so those individuals may not have the exact degree, but uh, we've had these types of agreements in place for over a decade or beyond. >> Now, that's different from the school district teaching permits, >> which is also Yeah. on here where those teachers don't have certification, but they have degrees in the areas where students are actually getting specific CTE credit for certain courses. And then
051I guess my second question is these are all Texas&M College Station employees, correct? Like background checks are done on the Texas&M college site. >> Oh, absolutely. Okay. >> Yeah. Uh we've got Texas State uh Incarnate Word and then&M. Exactly. >> Oh, wait. No, those are that's where they got their degrees, isn't it? Or that's where they're that's the institution they're working at. >> I believe that's the institution that they're they are serving. >> Yes. >> Correct me if I'm wrong. No, I thought that was the degrees that they got with the institute. I thought they all worked at College Station and they all got >> graduated right from these institutions. >> Yeah, the degrees that they got institution. >> You are correct. >> And then I just wanted to make sure one like they're all
052background checked individuals that work for Texas&M College Station. Um because obviously they're around students for sure >> maybe not an extended amount of time but still a good amount of time. Um, and then yeah, my only question was like some of these degrees and I I get it. I mean, with horiculture, you really just need like assert and like the experience. It was just like >> it looks like on the letter head though, Dr. Hustle, it says Bear, Texasamu.edu. So, it says Bear County Extension Office. That would be the hiring. But yes, they should have the same hiring practices. Yeah, if they're going to be working uh with our students, they will have to have, like I say, the background check in order to be able to do so. It it would be uh very
053similar to um any process for any other volunteer to be working with our our students. Um we can verify and like I said, we can we can bring this particular resolution back. Um I don't think it's timesensitive. Um we can bring bring it back to the meeting on the 12th. >> Um >> and it mentions specifically that um these adjunct professors are in good standing with Agra Life and so with the with the organization and so um that good standing includes that they've been vetted and but we could we could bring back more detail about kind of the standards of Agra life if that's helpful or we could include it in Friday letter. >> So you want do you want more clarification Dr. Also, as far as like what's the student background check on the
054north side end of to deal with our students like what are do we do anything >> from the HR side on >> the to my knowledge these um faculty are already background checked but we could verify okay those specific questions >> just like a verification I mean I think I mean >> great organization I've worked with them I'm not like I'm just like hey They work I work with college students so there's a little less of a I mean still a concern but you know so my only question is obviously they're working with high school students and so I know it's something we've been doing for many many years but because I'm like I'm assuming I'm making the assumption that they're College Station employees. Um so then obviously yes they go through a full background
055check on that and similar to our NISD background check. Um but if just a question if they do Absolutely. And um we will we will definitely verify uh and provide um like I say that followup in in Friday letter. Um if they're not, they will be or we will bring like I say this agreement back, but they'll have to be in order to be able to like say work with our students. >> So do we want to bring that back or do we want to go ahead and include it in our consent agenda? We want to pull this item. >> We can pull the item and bring it back on the 12th. >> Okay. Like I say, we'll have have them clean up the um name as well. Not that not that Dr. Woods is
056a bad guy or anything, but >> yeah, we already Yeah, we already knew like we were already going to pull it regardless probably because of the name wasn't accurate. >> Yeah, that kind of Yeah, that was one of those things. It takes about 10 for >> that was one of those things that it's like if the name's not right like that kind of makes me look into what's going like what else is going on. So I mean like I said great organization not it's just questions on that and so I make a motion to pull the a um document from the consent agenda and bring it to the next meeting >> and approve the consent agenda. >> Oh yes and approve the consent agenda. >> Okay second that. Okay. So, um, consent agenda has been
057passed with the exception of item F, which will bring back August meeting. >> Oh, I'm sorry. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? Okay. Motions passed to approve the consent agenda minus item F. Thank you. All right. So, we are now on our next item. >> I think I believe we're ready for item number six. um which we'd like to provide an update. Uh Brian Wiggins is uh going to provide just a quick update uh to our uh boardroom uh remodel. Um if you recall, uh Mr. Blunt was the recipient of the James Brow uh TASBY Leadership Award and elected at that time to have the funds uh proceeds received as a as a result of that award to go towards the updating the boardroom. And so Brian uh has a very quick overview um
058as to what you can expect here uh in the coming days. >> Good evening everyone. As uh Dr. Craft said, I will keep it very brief um to give you an update on where we are with this uh update to our boardroom. So this is these are the items we are going to be covering. Um so of course the purpose is to uh upgrade the boardroom with the award that Mr. Blunt was uh awarded through the James B. Crow Foundation. Um little bit of background. Uh we initially brought this to you in January of this year. Um and things we discussed was removing and some of them we have already done. Uh removed the the frames of the past uh board members. As you can see they are now gone. Um we were making room
059for student artwork or pictures which as you can see we have done. Um the only thing that we have not done is a display um TV that we were looking at when we brought this. Some of the feedback that we got was what would we display on there? um how would it be used outside of board the board meetings? Uh would it be visible for um for citizens and could it be used as you know the visual timer which I can see we had up on the screen as well. Um so the funding of course is the $10,000 that was awarded to Mr. Blunt. What we were using that on is for the construction of the display, the actual display and any programming that was needed to to make the things happen on it. So
060this is what the boardroom used to look like if you recall. Those are all the frames that have since been removed. This was our original uh proposal was to have a big TV standing on this wall, but that's when the questions came up is how is it used if we're not in a board meeting because that's the only time that the public comes in this room. And then if we were to have it on during a board meeting, would it be distracting if we had like artwork going through there? Would people be looking at that instead of listening to what we were saying? So, we kind of uh chose a different location. Um, so we are looking at the outside which is right behind this wall right here. Right as you walk in the doors
061over here is kind of where we're looking at putting that. So as you can see we kind of same concept. We'll we'll fur out a wall uh put some paint on it to match the the wall in the back and we have a 55 in display TV that we are proposing there. As those doors open as because as we keep those open since it's a public meeting it will not uh interfere with that display which is why it's sized the way it is. Um another view of it looking from the from the desk. What this allows, of course, is visitors will be able to see that even if the room is closed. So, we will be able to have that on during the during the time of day, any time of day. You'll be able
062to see it from the seating lobby that we have created out here. Um, you can also use it uh to assist with board meetings uh out there. We can pretty much display just about anything we want on there. As you can see on the content, can serve as a marquee. Um, we could also run the pictures that are now at the museum and being scanned. All the ones that we took down, all those pictures are being scanned. So, we'll have them in digital should we want. We could uh we could just run them kind of like a screen saver on there. You could use it as a as a schedule like they do at Knack. I'm sure we've all been, you know, when you walk into Knack, they have that TV right when you walk
063in, it says what meetings are where, what room they're in. You know, it could kind of it could use that. We could use it as uh video feeds. um you know any we can pretty much do just about anything as I mean right now we're going to keep it kind of simple um you know we could display the artwork if we get digital artwork from students um you know we could use it to market the the district for anybody who walks into the building you know just to kind of take a look at that screen but we felt with it being out there it would get more visibility out there so we are of course as you saw we're recommending building out that wall one that meets ADA because ADA says it can only stick
064out 4 inches. So when we fur that wall out, it allows that TV uh screen to fit in there. Um then we would just in essence, like I said, it's a 55 inch uh monitor that we would put in there. Um we are looking at possibly getting the the infrastructure from the wall right here because we already have a lot of that we can run through the ceiling as you can kind of see wires already going up over there. So we're feeling that'll be the least invasive uh to kind of get all the the wiring that is needed. Um like I said at first, we're keeping it kind of simple. um just displaying pictures and messaging, but of course as we go forward, we we are looking at uh and getting with technology on possibly
065maybe it's a live feed for what we're doing during board meetings. So, as we get full and if people out there, you can do the live feed out there so they can see out there, you know, have the the video moment, everything that's shown out there, if we're not if everybody's not allowed instead of having everybody peek in the doorway like we're used to. Um could be an interactive display possibly. it would require a different TV than what we're buying at first, but maybe it's a touchcreen that, you know, we could, uh, look into in the future. So, uh, that is a possibility as well. Um, you know, integrate with our social media feeds. Maybe they're, as we post stuff, you know, to various departments, maybe they're showing up on that screen. Those are all
066possibilities. Like I said, our first step is a regular TV monitor that will kind of work probably off a computer that's probably here um, and that we can program to display kind of whatever we want. Uh, timeline. Um, so if we get the go-ahhead, I will engage an architect to kind of draw draw up plans and we're figuring that's going to take take them about two to three weeks. Should be pretty simple. Give two weeks for contractors to price it. And then construction is about another 3 to four weeks. So the whole process, you know, roughly about two weeks. Some of the considerations that we're looking at is uh, you know, how long does it take to get that TV? I think they're pretty readily available. So I'm not real concerned with getting a 55
067inch TV. Um, bidding during the summer. We're coming to the end of the summer, so a lot of contractors, uh, the smaller time contractors are finishing up work because they have all their summer work. So, and as we're getting to the end, we're kind of hoping we're going to get some good pricing because they're looking to keep their their year going. You know, all their stuff is happening over the summer. Um, just kind of programming. We're still kind of vetting everything and how the programming works. So, there may be a little delay in that. The big issue is the closing of these doors because as we're trying to construct that wall, of course, we would want to close these doors here um so that to allow the contractor to build it. Uh the possibility does
068exist of having them work at nights and on the weekends, but of course that just lengthens the timeline. So we would probably go from two one, you know, two or three weeks to maybe two months or so. And you know, because they're building cleaning up every night, so it it just lengthens that process, which also adds money. The longer it goes, the more it costs. Um, so as I figure, we could probably just leave the doors open over here. If we just close this, you know, you probably miss maybe one board meeting where that's closed. Possibility of two, just depending on when we start, but we could get everybody to come in over here. Um, we would still have access to the CNI doors over here. We could just wall off in essence where the
069VCT is and leave the carpet open. Contractor could enter through that door without disturbing anybody. Um, and like I said, for a month at most, I think it would be uh definitely doable. Um, other than that, uh, you know, how we're still kind of determining exactly where we would control it. We were thinking here, but maybe it's at, uh, the receptionist desk. Maybe there's a computer there that we could, uh, we could use that for. Um, so those that's kind of where we are. Um, and unless anybody has any questions, >> Dr. Hustle, that's old. Okay, Mr. Blunt, >> just one quick question. The um audio is coming from the monitor. >> We right now we are planning yes the moni the audio would come from the monitor. I mean we could look at speakers
070but that is not of course that would be a little future. We could also add those as well. >> Okay. Thank you. >> I believe we have speakers that are already linked uh out in the foyer area. So we can probably like I say >> link those in. One other item uh with the board's permission that we'd like to add. It came up actually um in our uh most recent uh building committee uh was ensuring that we have our mission statement in the boardroom to transform the learning experience for students. And so Barry and I were discussing it earlier. We'd think we'd like to use this wall to your left uh to have our mission statement posted uh in a pretty nice u uh probably block letter font um um like I say attached to
071the wall. Um, like I say, with your permission on this wall right here, >> this he's thinking >> this this one right here. >> So, this item is just up for discussion. Is there any There's no action tonight, right? We've already approved it. >> Yeah. I mean, unless anybody has any issues, we'll probably move forward. I think we brought it to make sure y'all knew where we were going. Um, and there was any questions or objections, um, we'll move forward with it. If not, I think we're good. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Bobby. We need you to win more awards. Great. >> Thank you. And so, our next agenda item is business and finance. >> I'll turn this item directly over to Megan. We'll get started. >> Thank you. Our first item is asking
072the board to take action to set the date of August 26th as our date of our public hearing for our budget and tax rate adoption. We are required to set a date so that we can publicize that with the notice. And so I'm asking for our regularly scheduled board meeting of August 26th to be that date. >> 26th 26 26th and this is an action item. >> Do we have any motions? >> Any questions? I'll I'll move approval. >> Okay, Mr. Blunt. Any second? >> Mr. Aata. All right. So, all in favor to go ahead and approve that on August 26, we're going to have a public meeting to discuss a budget and proposed tax rate. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion's passed. >> Okay. Our next item, you're ready
073for me to go forward? I would like to introduce Jake Smiley. He is our director of budget and he is going to cover this item for me this evening. >> Right. Good evening everyone. I'll be going over local revenue and excess of entitlement. We'll kind of talk about the what, the when, the why, all of those items. So last week we received a letter from TEA that was notifying us that we have possible uh local revenue in excess of entitlement for tier 2 revenue. We've got this for the last four years. So uh we'll go through a little bit more of the details in these topics. So what is local revenue in excess of entitlement? This is when the district essentially receives more tax collections than the state aotment for our estimated attendance. There's two
074different types. We've got tier one and tier two. Um either one is commonly known as recapture Robin Hood or chapter 49 is the Texas education code that it relies in now. So tier one revenue that would be our maximum compressed tax rate with that uh that's set by the state. So we have no option there. The tier two P piece is tied to the copper pennies. So the copper pennies we have to go out for a voter approved tax rate election to get those pennies and we don't have those. Now this is a detailed calculation of those two different tiered uh revenue sources. So, as you'll see at the bottom, I won't go through the detail. NISD does not meet either of those options. So, why am I here talking through all this, you might
075be saying? And so, uh, the deal here is TEA doesn't know where we're at in our tax rate election process. So, they assume in this calculation that we are adopting all nine pennies of the copper pennies and then they tell us that if you do this, we are going to owe this money. So at this point, NIST has no plans of doing a voter approved tax rate election at this point in the year. So we are not going to be uh subject to recapture. This next slide kind of goes over by tier our tax rate. So we've got our tier one tax rate at the bottom in that green. The next two levels are tier 2 level one revenue. So those are the golden pennies. Those are never subject to recapture. We only have the
076five golden pennies that you'll see in the green. And then the gray cells there are the copper pennies. Those are the ones that the letter is about for today. But we don't have access to the three golden pennies or the nine copper pennies without an election. So right now we are not going to be sending any money back to the state. So require next step. TEA does uh they do require boards to take action. There's five different options that we could choose to do, but districts typically take option three, which is to net uh net uh the purchase of attendance credits against our state revenue. Um so I recommend, if you don't have any questions, please ask, but I recommend that we approve the agreement for the purchase of attendance credits and delegate the authority
077to the superintendent to submit this agreement. >> There's one more slide. >> Oh, there's one more side. Say one more time, we are not going to send any money back to the state. We will not have excess revenue this year in 2526. >> Dr. Hall, >> okay, can um because this is new to me. I don't remember this last like every July talking about this. So, can you reframe the story one more time? Every July, um TEA will notify school districts, right? So, every July, we've supposedly been notified, right? Yes, ma'am. um that we have local revenue in excess of entitlement for one or both tiers. Um and so we we got notification that we do have tier two >> level two. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. And um >> if we were to pass
078those if we had a vader and adopted any of those copper pennies, we could be at risk of having to send some of it back to the state. >> Okay. And they they didn't have I mean wouldn't they have been notified that we >> No, because we would not actually do that until the August board meeting. >> So we would call the election at the time you set a tax rate and so they don't know right now if we're going want to do that or not. So they required us to put this on file with them just in case we do call that board meeting for this time >> and then they would know what we're planning to do to alleviate their concern. >> Okay. This isn't required until September 1st to be done when
079we have to approve our tax rate. But we'd like to take it forward in July. So since we have so much coming through in August in that meeting, >> do you do other districts do it sooner? >> Um >> so they don't have to do all this extra work. It seems >> I think they would still have to do this. >> Okay. >> So I I don't think there is a way to do it sooner. The TA is still going to require that we have this in place and filed with them. um and that the superintendent will res submit it through teal. I don't think there's any way of to not take this take action to choose one of the five items that Jay talked about. And again, the most common one is the third
080one that if we did need to buy down our revenue, we would exchange attendance credits for it. And that's um last meeting Miss Freeman talked about are we a recapture district or not? Right? >> We're not because we don't have to do this. But what this exercise shows is that if we did have the copper pennies, we might have to send some back some back. And every year is a little different because the tax values change and Okay. You know, so it's uh so they're trying to be proactive based on the information they have at the time. >> Okay. Any Mr. Gant? Yeah, I was gonna I hesitate when you say proactive because to me it's actually the opposite because they haven't >> I can see >> what um what policy law or whatever else
081do we look at getting changed u so that tea doesn't do this to district per se it's got to be written somewhere but maybe we should be saying wait a minute until you have information otherwise which can be attained later then we shouldn't have to go through these extra exercises because our staff has other things we really want focused on? >> Yeah, that's a good question. I don't know that it's necessarily as much tea through uh rule making andor administrative regulation, if you will, as it is actually state funding uh and and school finance law. So, it probably have to be changed legislatively. >> Yeah. Um >> I believe um the the letter we received from TA is loaded in in board docs and it talks about the estimates are created under Texas Education Code
08248.269. I believe that's the section. Okay. Because it calls for the commissioner to have to come in and use the estimates to do this calculation. >> I said I went to this deep, but that's fine. So, we may want to look at that. You know, we're talking about legislative policy, etc. >> Forward. >> Yeah. >> Um I don't know that we can get it knocked out this special session. >> You never know, but that's fine. >> Depends if there's a second call or not. >> They're a little busy. Thank you. This is an action item also. >> Okay. Do we have any motions to go ahead and approve the recommendation? >> Yeah. So moved. I I'll move approval. >> Mr. Blanc. Any second? Mr. >> Uh I have a question. So this is a it's
083an action item. Does it have to be voted on today? I I understand being proactive. >> No, we could we could vote uh anytime prior to adopting our tax rate. >> So our last meeting in August, we would have to have this item before our tax rate adoption. >> We could bring it back on the 12th. >> Okay. >> Short answer. >> What what do we think's missing? >> I don't know if we want to explore a different option. And like I say, this is really just just the option if if it were to be exercised to go ahead and purchase the attendance credits. Um but as uh Jake indicated, it just it's going to be a a moot >> Yeah. >> item. We you'll see here momentarily with our um proposed 20 fiscal year
0842026 budget. We won't be sending money back to the state. Correct. But we can bring it back. >> Yeah. Just I guess more time to look over it. Okay. So, Dr. Hassel, >> um, and then I may have I'm looking at the slides and I'm hearing, but I'm like, maybe I missed it. Did you Does the slides have the other options? >> I have them in front of me, so they're a little less attractive. >> Is that why I was like, I know. I heard everyone say and he said them and I was like, >> no. So, some of the other ones are consolidation with another district. >> No. >> Um, let's see. Detachment of territory. >> So, that would mean splitting your district off. um education of non-resident students as provided by subchapter E.
085>> Okay. >> Taking on other students and then taxbased consolidation with another district. So this is historically most likely the only one that's selected except in very >> How many years have we selected this? >> Four years. This is our fourth year if we select tonight. So >> and and if I could uh and attached on your board docs the document that is called notification of local revenue level and nexus of entitlement on page 203 that is the TEA document. They go through those five and it even TEA tells us that districts have historically selected option three and it tells us that we do have to adopt this even though even if we do not expect that we're going to have to pay it. So that letter may be helpful to the board. Mhm. >>
086So we do have a motion to Did you want to make a motion, Miss Apata, that to prolong this? >> If we want to table it like say >> we could just I think yeah I guess be honest process-wise if the motion and get a second then you just go ahead. >> There's no second. >> Yeah. >> Then yeah then then it actually go. >> Okay. So we'll table this to our next board meeting. >> Yeah. We'll be glad to bring it back over. Okay. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you J. Is is there any further information uh that >> you would need >> needed to be provided by the administration before we move >> those slides you shared about the other options you think you could upload those just >> they are
087there okay >> awesome >> yes it is the letter that is in the document I can tell you the name of it I have it open it is the TA annual review of local revenue PDF that's attached that is the letter that tells you that >> page two of three >> Oh yes P the five options. >> Yes. And if you see right below there, it says that the commissioner recom says that most districts select option three. >> Okay. Well, we just review that for the next board meeting. Thank you so much. Page two. Did you guys find it? Okay. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. >> Okay. We're bring it back on the 12th. Um >> Okay. ne next item like I say really is uh uh a look at our fiscal year 26 but also
088fiscal year 27 uh budget. And the reason that I highlight that is um because as you uh approved compensation and again uh thank you uh for your diligence in that on on that um front. Obviously, um that is a huge variable factor in constructing this year's budget, but also budget budgets going forward. So, uh, with that, uh, Megan Bradley and her team, uh, have worked pretty diligently to be able to propose, um, a very, um, high view, uh, overview of where we stand from a fiscal year 26 budget planning process and what you can anticipate to be proposed on the 12th and then, uh, brought to you for consideration on the on the 26th. And so, um, tonight really is just like I say, an opportunity, uh, for you to have that initial, uh, full
089picture perspective of fiscal year 26 and fiscal year 27, a a sneak peek. Um, because I do think that as we have uh, worked this spring in preparation for fiscal year 26, we also needed to look at fiscal year 27 as a result of really House Bill Two in the legislative session. Um so with that I'll turn it over to Megan and we'll get started in looking at this year's budget. >> Yes. Just waiting for the presentation to come up. So we have continued again um Jake and Julie here are here to help um support this item and Tiffany of course is always involved in these presentations. We're going to go through some more detailed look now that the compensation plan has been adopted as Dr. K said and thank you to the board for
090that compensation plan. So first we're going to look at our general fund budget planning assumptions that we're using to build this budget. So I think it's important for our board to understand the critical items we are um making assumptions on to build this budget. As our assumptions change, it does change the budget. So I think it's important for the board to understand what those assumptions are that we're using. First of all, we are assuming student enrollment using an refined average daily attendance of 91,500. Um that is based on a membership. So that's an enrollment or membership of 97,300 with an attendance rate of 93.5. All of those have to go into the formula to make that calculation. And those are the the numbers that we're working on looking at our information from this the school
091year that we just finished and using that data to estimate where we'll be for next year. Want to make sure the board knows that we have reduced our um uh department budgets by $10.27 27 million through our zerobased budgeting process and the original 10% budget cuts that we were looking at for departments. And so that has been done and has been implemented. Also very important for the board to understand where we are are we are budgeting our staffing. So we do not budget at 100% of our potential cost for staffing. We know that at any time we're going to have vacancies in our staffing. And so what Jake and Julie and their team does is they look at a scenario and they used April 30th, 2025 and looked at the fill rates of all the
092different departments and that on average that fill rate was 94%. And so that is the average we're using. We do not use 94% across the board. So custodial may have a very different fill rate than school nutrition does. And he you they use that um those percentages based on those individual groups, but overall the average is 94%. So, I want the board to understand that uh there is a slight risk in this um that if we have a fill rate that's higher than those percentages that we'll need to add money to the budget as expenditures. We hope that is the case. We want to come back to you with a budget amen amendment that says we're going to spend more than we budgeted because our fill rates were higher. So, just want the board to
093be aware of that. That is our goal is to come back to do that for with you. The next three items on the bottom row all go together. they um kind of tell a story from left to right. So we look at our property value that we are we save tax revenue on and our property values overall for our district which is three different counties. We have Bear County, Medina and Bendera counties uh that are in North Side and so overall that property value growth has gone up 3% which is a good percentage and it is a growth and that's important for the group to know for the board to know but because we are looking uh legislatively to increase our exemptions for homestead over 65 and disabled exemptions we will overall when you look
094at the far right hand side see an effective taxable value decrease of 2%. That does affect our tax revenue. And so it's important for the board to understand that. I don't want the public to be concerned that they may say our values decreased when they really did not. Our if you think of a gross and a net situation, our gross values increased, but our net values decreased because of the exemptions. And we are assuming those exemptions will be voted on by the voters. And TEA tells us to assume that also. Historically, anytime the legislature has said um we'll put forward a constitutional amendment to increase those exemptions, they've always passed. So, they want us to go ahead and assume that. So, I want you to be aware of that. So, those are our big highle
095assumptions we use to build this budget. Another piece of the assumptions is going back to staffing. So this next slide talks about our staffing um levels and you can see that our non-teer staffing has been reduced by 85 positions through this year as we've done our zerobased budgeting and our um budget considerations of trying to work on our deficit that is u that we've seen. We have reduced 85 non-teer staffing reductions and we receive reduced 414 teacher staffing and those were achieved through the scenarios that you see on the bottom slide here. Uh Debbie McNary has worked with that very closely with us to make sure that we are calculating this correctly based on the assumptions. The elementary schools are a ratio of a studenttoteer ratio and the middle school and high schools they try
096to achieve an average. So they do their calculation is a little different on how they actually do that. We do not expect to reduce teachers further than this. So I want to make sure the board is aware and Dr. Craft may want to yeah >> touch on that. >> Um so as you recall um this conversation we have to go back several months um really almost uh back to January February and uh this was the tough one. this but this was also the big lever if you recall when we began the conversation in and around uh trying to uh work to put the district on a financial uh track that is sustainable. We had two objectives. Um we wanted to protect jobs and we wanted to protect programs both curricular, extracurricular, um co-curricular um which
097you'll see here momentarily we've been able to do. But this was a big variable similar to the compensation plan that you just approved because we've been able to make the reduction. If you recall the graph uh that was presented very early on as uh we really came out of the 2020 2020 school year and we kept adding staff whereas our student projection if you recall was an inverse relationship and declining that's what we had to to really rightsize um and that's what we've worked to do and so again I know um that it was a lot of effort on behalf of campus administrators district administrators to get there Um, but uh to Megan's point, we had this conversation uh within our 3 and 1 half hour cabinet meeting today. It really was three and a
098half hours. I apologize, guys. Thanks for sticking with me. Um that we this is this is it. I mean, we we can't go any further without in my assessment really detrimentally impacting the quality of instruction that we're able to provide to students. Again, these are going to be averages. So, and I think in many cases um these are going to be much lower ratios uh realized um but um like I say when we look at the budget going forward which again I'm going to not to steal Megan's thunder we're on a much better uh fiscal track this is just not going to be a lever that we can easily revisit. uh we have pushed this in my assessment about as far as we can possibly push it without really impacting the integrity of instruction uh
099and the quality uh that we're able to provide our students. So to continue with that conversation, um we are the top section that non-teer staffing reductions. We are still doing hiring reviews for any of the non-teer positions as they come open to see if we can make further reductions to that top area, but not the bottom area. And I also want to point out, we've said it many times that no one lost their job over through this process. It was a nutrition process. And so we really focused on protecting anyone who was at North Side and wanted to stay at North Side, we want them at North Side. And so that was a priority through this whole process. So while these are big numbers, I want to make sure that that is um discussed and
100clear that while people may have moved jobs, they still had a job with North. So that's important. >> Dr. Hall has a question. >> Um real quick, um so for we go We have to do the waiver processing. >> Correct. Correct. >> Um and I know we heard sorry >> um at least I heard a lot um as this is starting to roll out and prek K1 and two teachers are hearing they could possibly have 25 kids in their class. A lot of concerns and and I don't know how they were notified prior to tonight, but um I mean I have the same concerns. uh 25 preK kids is a lot. Especially there was there's been a lot of behavioral issues, a lot of special ed testing in preK through first grade, second grade because
101of I don't even want to say postcoid just because, right? And and that's 25 little ones. Um that that's a tough tough number. Yeah. Um, and I I get it and and I know it's putting more money back in the budget, but and I get what you're saying about quality of ed, but that's um of instruction, but that's that's a lot. That's a lot of little guys. Um, so I'm just saying that out loud. I don't know. We we don't vote on this, right? Um, but it is I I have huge concerns about that. >> Yeah. and and and we'll make sure like I say um whether it be through the support of instructional aids I mean we don't want to create unsafe environments >> right >> um one of the provisions also that has
102been legislated and it was mentioned earlier so this is kind of a prime opportune uh time there is legislation that provides employees that have students that are of prek age to uh attend preschool uh to do so um free of charge as long as they're employees of uh the district. And so u that may change like I say our numbers of prek eligible uh well it will change our number of prek eligible students uh that would qualify under this provision as well as those that qualify under uh our our more u traditional uh provisions uh at risk uh economically disadvantaged etc. So, so this may be something that I say that because this may be an area that we have to revisit as we get ready to start the the school year. Um, again, we
103don't want any undue pressure or un particularly unsafe environments, but um we'll see. And keep in mind, too, that our prek and kindergarten student population has been where we've seen the greatest drop in student enrollment as well. Um, so, um, we need to see really truly what this population entails as we get ready to launch this school year. >> And now are they able to register now for these programs? Is that an open application now with the change of legislation to >> My understanding is yes that we have registration going on >> and we'll we'll we'll start working to communicate um uh that um we'll have to be careful like I say of capacity similar to how we're treating open enrollment. Um but yes, uh they'll have that ability uh beginning September 1. So we'll
104we'll enact it in essence. Um even the law might not go in effect until September 1, we'll want the students to start >> August 11th. >> And our prek programs do have instructional aids in those classrooms also. So that's an important piece to know that they do have additional help. >> They do classroom. >> Oh, I know. Thanks. The next piece I'm going to talk about is our House Bill Two items that we are bringing into this these scenarios so that you are aware. This does not include all of the items in House Bill 2. And I don't plan to go through each one of these items. I just want the board to have them in front of you. There are more items in House Bill 2 and other legislation. I shouldn't just say House
105Bill 2, but the 89th legislature uh that will affect our funding and affect the rules that we must follow and things we're going to implement. And many of those because there were so many this session, the commissioner has said he's going to be rolling them out and the regulations out through the year. So try kind of doing just in time. As things become requirements, uh we will receive the guidelines for those requirements. So these are the things that we're tracking that we are including in our budget and addressing right now, but there will be some other items on the horizon that we will need to um address as the year goes on. So, I want to make sure the board is aware of that. Mr. Blunt, did you have a question? >> Yeah, just go
106ahead real quick. >> Mr. Barn, >> if I'm next. Okay. Just um which one of these sort of negatively impact us? Because a lot of these are very positive. So, if you saw that from the outside, you oh, okay, what's you know, you know what I'm getting at. So, they may not even be here, but keep us informed. So, we at least show that part too to say, okay, these are the ones that negatively impact us. I don't know that I would say any of them negatively affect us. However, like the top right, the early education aotment increases. The early education aotments come with required expenditures because we're going to do the mathmies. So, similar to the readingmies that we have had in place for a while. So, while it provides additional revenue, it also
107>> requires additional expenditures. >> The school safety >> same thing. Right. So, there there >> I'll pick Yeah, I I'll pick on the most obvious the basic aotment increase of $55. That's a far cry from the $1,350, $1,400 that we felt like we really needed just to keep up with inflationary pressures and the lack of state funding that hasn't been received since the legislative session uh um recessed in in 2019. So So, so it's not as it's we'll take $55 per student, but it's not 1300. So, thank you. Um, I mean it's not bad. It's not harmful, but it's definitely far cry from what we really need. >> It's not great. So, but we'll take the every penny they'll give us. So, we'll go with that. Is there another question? >> Dr. Hasso. Dr. Hasso
108and then Dr. Har. >> Um, not for not for finance, but something I wanted to ask um for like future either on a Friday letter. what is our CCRM CCMR outcome percentage um for speced students and just general pop um and then also where are we at with industrybased certifications um just what is our like what programs what so but yeah not finance but on my mind thank you >> yeah that would be actually a really good topic I think for an upcoming academic uh committee meeting um that we could I think will be uh ample uh opportunity to present that data if that is sufficient and we can provide it in Friday letter as well if you're not able to make the academic meeting. I know like I say Dr. Jordan and Dr. Harl
109working try to get that >> we already have special ed on there too so that just fold right in. >> Okay. Yeah, we we can definitely provide that information. >> And just real quick question on the school safety aotment um roughly doubled. Is that still heavily based on hardening of the schools kind of thing or was mental health actually mentioned in >> It's all inclusive. Um but again it it falls very um well short of really what we already have been spending uh to ensure our schools are safe. >> So it's it's inclusive. >> It is inclusive. There are mental health guidelines that have been increased as well as we still have the hardening items also. Okay, thank you. >> Without getting into too much detail there, >> the next slide we're going to look
110at is tax rates. I know we talked the last meeting a lot about tax rates, and so I've I've gone back and at the board's request done a look at our area um school districts. So, I searched Bear County area school districts and put the tax rates in here. Of course, uh this is not all Bear County school districts because we do have some school districts in Bear County that are cerminous military districts that do not have a tax rate. So, I want to make sure that it's I don't want to call it Bear County because some in Bear County do not have one. Uh, but you can see along the lines here that the the blue color is the Elman or general fund tax rates for the school districts and the orange is the
111INS tax rate. And we're going to dig into the the um Elino rate above the five cents additional that we could the board could approve with the golden pennies here in just a moment. But I just want to focus here that you can see north side and where we are and look across from left to right and compare that. Uh we are not the lowest but we are fairly low compared to some of the others there and that's what I want the takeaway to be for the school board um to be able to see that we've done very well in managing the tax rate for our taxpayers. >> Can you elaborate on what MA means for those that don't know? >> Yes. So M is the maintenance and operations which is also the general fund.
112So, it's our it is our basic operating funding and then the INS is that funding that tax rate brings in the revenue that pays off our bonds that we've passed. >> We're the top lowest of the five five lowest M which is good. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. We're very low. Yes. >> Low overhead cost. >> Yes. Yes. And part of that is because of the Vader. So, we're going to look at the next slide uh that we'll go into. And so what we're looking at here, as we've talked about in our last budget meeting, so building on that learning, uh we talked about how the board was able, first of all, the legislature comes in and requires us to compress our tax rate. So there's that maximum compressed tax rate. On top of that maximum
113compressed tax rate, boards were able to adopt five golden pennies without having to go to voters to ask for those. All of the districts listed across the bottom have adopted those five, including us at North Side. So what you see on this slide, anyone that has the blue line are districts that have gone out for a v voter approved tax rate of um rate election and have passed it. And so these are the pennies that they have above those five cents that their taxpayers are paying. So you can see very clearly Edgewood um Edgewood has adopted all of the available tax rate uh so all of the golden pennies and all of the copper pennies. So the other districts you can see um South Senate ISD, Alno Heights, I believe those both have only adopted
114the golden pennies and then the others have adopted some of the copper pennies. So >> we invest more in our instruction insight. >> Um >> in INS is the top one of the top seven highest. So >> our our debt service >> our debt service >> investments and securities, right? Is that what INS? >> No, no, no. So there there are two tax rates. Keep in mind there's the maintenance and operation. Okay. >> And the maintenance and operation is is to keep the machine running. Um whereas the INS or debt service indebted services tax rate is the mortgage. That's to pay for the bond uh programs of 2014 2018 2022. And as we're retiring debt, and we'll actually have a presentation, I believe on the 12th that kind of looks at our debt portfolio, uh
115we adjust that debt service uh rate or INS rate. Um but but we're purely looking at tonight uh the maintenance and operation tax uh rate, which is what you just approved last week. Um to the tune of about 89% of our operating budget. Um it pays for electricity cost. to take pays for transportation cost. Um like I say, it is truly how we operate and function other than the acquired debt that the community has approved through um the exercise of of bond elections. >> So our INS tax rate is uh currently 33.55 cents. There are on this list uh one, two, three, four, five districts that are higher than we are. We're right in the middle for insight. We're right in the middle. Uh, Elmano, we're actually on the lower end as you can see
116here. >> Okay, Dr. Hasso, thank you. >> For number five, is it possible to do it in a table chart instead with like the ISDS, the amount of um, M, and the amount of I >> I actually have that in front of me. >> I mean, that's like >> um I will put that in Friday. >> I'm like, well, I like the chart. I'm like I'm a visual person, but I do like numbers. So, I was like, can I >> I'll put that in Friday letter if that's okay with the so that you'll have that. Okay. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions before I move on? >> I like that we're not the worst or we're just right in the middle. >> Right in the middle. Yes, ma'am. >> We're doing okay. >> Well,
117and I think that's important. Bobby, I don't know if you wanted to go, Mr. >> I'll go after you. If we can go to the next slide again and I've mentioned this at the last meeting and this is not again I don't mean to steal Megan's thunder but looking forward um we we've got a little bit of work to do in in assessing analyzing efficiencies going into this fall. Um we're again, you'll see momentarily in a much much better um and I will argue sustainable fiscal position for not only next year but the following year. But it is going to be contingent upon us doing our due diligence and uh garnering as many efficiencies as we can without impacting the integrity of like I say our programming without having to implement um any type of
118a reduction in force and particularly without having to declare financial agency which is the dire straight equation. We're in fact we're moving past those conversations uh at this point. So, so how do we get and and position ourselves for the fall of uh which will be uh what I estimate uh a proposal for the community to consider uh our ability to adopt and take advantage of the three additional golden pennies that we still have on the table. Um and then also looking at the next uh 26 bond proposal um that will very likely include a lot of life cycle replacement needs to include HVAC repairs. Um I don't foresee any new new campuses um in fact for the foreseeable future. But I do see foresee a lot of renovation needs, a lot of life cycle
119replacement um maintenance and and um upkeep needs. Uh that will be likely be a part of of that bond. So it'll be likely in fall of 2026 a Vader voter approved tax ratification election as well as a probably a smaller bond than what we're accustomed to but to take care of like say our basic facility needs. As promised, um, as Dr. Craftwig said, we would get to the to the meat of the presentation. Uh, this item is our projection projection budget projection item. And so what you're seeing on this slide, and you've seen this slide, a similar slide of this several times before as we've come to the board through the year. And we are looking at our current year, which is the 2425 school year. That is the budget year that ends August 31st.
120So we've got about a month about month and a half left in that fiscal year. The most recent budget amendment that has come to the board and approved by the board was about $101 million deficit if you remember correctly correctly in that. So right now we are projecting trying to project out to August 31st and we look like we're going to finish the year at about a $91 million deficit. So I'm going to say that's a positive thing. We went from 101 million to 91 million. That's a that's positive. um not where we want to be, but that's realistic. Uh but we've done a lot of work, a lot of hard work this year and right now based on the legislative session. So we did get new revenue in from the legislative session and you
121can see that in that revenue section. I'm not going to go through each of those line items. Um and through some hard work of reducing expenditures in that bottom section and we're expecting fiscal year 26 right now roughly to be a deficit of 22 million. So those are that's where we are. So, we still have work to do, but so much better than we've been over the last couple of months as we've been working through that. So, couple of things I want do want to point out in the 2526 budget line item because the my last slide here will tell you things that could change this scenario. So, I'm going to talk through a little bit of that right now. Um, one of the items, the third line down on the revenue is a one-time
122property value audit. We go through every year and ask to have our property values audited so we can try to use get as much revenue as we can through that process. So you can see that's an $18 million revenue item that we expect to receive. The timing of that is somewhat unknown. We are in the process. In theory, we could receive it before August 31st of this year, which would move it to the left. We can move it receive it the year that we have it in, which is what we think will happen. but it could be delayed as it is many years and move out to the next year. It's a one-time thing. So, it's not going to keep being realized every year. So, that eight that $18 million could move left or right
123on that item. So, just some things that look different. Similarly, on the very bottom area, the expenditures, the $15 million payroll acral that has to do with our number of instructional days in the fiscal year that we're currently in. We're moving from our in August of this year, we will have five more instructional days than we did last year. So we have a payroll acral that actually moves the expenditures and so we're actually saving money out of next year's budget and it moves into this year's budget. So some of these things will eb and flow from a year-to-year basis that are the one-time things for those years. But just for you to see in general, >> Megan, let me for our new trustees, let me kind of explain this again. So, previously the board approved
124a two-year calendar. Uh rather than um as a district of innovation, rather than uh backing this start of the school year up a full two weeks, uh we elected to adopt a two-year calendar cycle that last year we backed the start of the school year up one week. And so we actually experienced this exact same acrruel last year. Uh this year we're obviously backing up August 11th. In fact, we're one of the earliest now districts starting in the state, uh, believe it or not. So, I already warned this team this morning. Uh, this is it. We're not backing it up again. Uh, but this will be the second year of that oneweek approval uh for that two-year uh calendar cycle. And then, of course, we're uh this fall going to begin the process of working
125through the committees to develop the next two-year uh calendar cycle. Um so that that just to provide a little bit of context as to the logistics or the the um the mechanism behind uh uh those those approvals. >> So um want to stop for just a moment before I talk about the bottom part of the slide. But so making sure you're focused on that projected results of operations line item. That is your what would be a surplus if it was in black, but because it's in red, it's a deficit. So want to make sure that you know you see that. And while our goal is a balanced budget, we're not there yet. But again, doing so much better than we were six months ago. So, we're we're making progress. So, we will have some reductions
126we will have to do or or I want don't necessarily want to say reductions because maybe it's more revenue. Maybe we have a lot of students that come in from other school districts, but we have adjustments that we need to do to be able to get to that balanced budget because my goal is for 2027 to have a balanced budget. we do not want to go into our unassigned fund balance. So, that leads right into that bottom section that we've talked about so much um of our fund balance. As you know that the board has made an assignment to have an instructional continuity piece of our fund balance that we've been spending down and I'm going to show it graphically next. So, Dr. Huss, you probably like this slide. The next slide will be the
127graphical look of it. Uh so um but you can see that we're fortunate that this $22 million deficit that we're showing right now, we do have fund balance set aside to pay for that. We have savings, if you will, set aside to cover that piece of that deficit for the upcoming school year. >> Yeah, this is if if you recall, this is the instructional continuity uh designated fund balance that we've been describing. And even though we're spending the vast majority of it to shore up uh what we anticipate to be this year end fiscal audited this fiscal year in year- end audited budget. Uh that $48.9 million is um very nice to have to not only take care of this year's budget but also looking at next year's budget. Um but the reality is is
128is we are going to have to begin um well I say begin we're going to have to continue to use what as I referred to as a scalpel approach and a very systematic analysis of where can we gain efficiencies again uh without using a hatchet which is what becomes very very painful for all parties involved um particularly students and staff Um, and so that's that's what we will do. Um, and while uh here in the coming weeks, um, we feel like that we're going to be able to propose, like I say, a a budget that we can live within, um, and that the community can support. We're going to continue to work on this and and we're going to work on it all the way through uh, this year. Megan uh indicated one approach strategy
129that we're going to be implementing particularly from a central uh office and uh support uh um uh perspective is we're going to put a a basically a hiring freeze review on every position that becomes vacant um to see if we can garner efficiencies through reorganization and um and if we have that ability we will and like I say that will be a position that we'll absorb. Um, and it I know it sounds like, well, that's one position or two position, few positions. Well, in the aggregate, as you've already seen, that add that effort adds up. Um, um, and so those will be our efforts going into the fall, um, along with some other conversations in and around school efficiencies, uh, etc. So, we've still got some work to do, but again, thanks to Megan and
130her team and really the entire uh district administration, campus administrative team that worked so hard on the spring and and summer, um we're we're in a much better fiscal position than we have been. >> So, following that um view across using the instructional continuity first is what would happen uh as we go through this process for the $ 38.4 $4 million deficit for the fiscal year 27 look that we're looking at right now. Some of that would use up the rest of the instructional continuity and we would start dipping into the unassigned fund balance. And so I'll go on to the next slide. So you can see that graphically that you've seen the graph through 2324 several times. Um but you can see that 2425 we're spending down that green part is getting much smaller
131with the deficit that we will see for this fiscal year. And then next year we would use up the remainder of the green part, the instructional continuity piece and start eating into that unassigned fund balance if we do not get control of the deficit spending. But we will we'll get there. U so but I want you to see that that the three months is that best practices. And so you can see across that left hand side the three number three is what we want to be at. Um we'll be dipping into that but again we we will get that contained uh before we get to fiscal year 27. That is my my goal and what I plan to do. >> And I and I know that probably one of the questions um is well, how
132how did we acrue the designated continuity of instruction fund balance to begin with? Well, if you recall, there were COVID relief funds that were plentiful um as a result of the pandemic. And so the district very strategically um and wisely in my assessment uh put that money as much as we could supplanted uh many services knowing that this day eventually was was going to come. Um and so um even though uh we called Dr. Woods a dirty name earlier tonight in this regard uh very his efforts very much leadership was very much appreciative. This is the rainy day fund, right? >> This is not Yeah, this is not really the rainy day fund. This is a designated rainy day fund um for us to basically be able to wean off of the COVID funding that
133we have become accustomed to. The rainy day fund, our rainy day fund, I will argue, is really our three months operating expenditures, which is represented here as the unassended unassigned fund balance. um that really is I'll argue yes for a rainy day but really also very important to the operations of just how we funds flow state funding flows for us to be able to make payroll and also to have like I say uh a cushion in the event that we need those resources >> if we if we find oursel in a really a financial pinch or tight which we're not going to >> and as we've seen the decreased enrollment it has been critical. So, it was a such a smart move to be um ahead of that decreased enrollment. >> So, that's the fund
134balance look based on the projected budgets that we'll be bringing forward. I want to talk about the other two board approved budgets that we talked about last time just so you know where we are on those items because we've not spent a lot of time talking about those. We'll start talking about those more heavily on August 12th and then of course ask for adoption on the 26th. The debt service which is our interest and syncing fund which is our payment of our outstanding bonds. uh we will have uh someone here to talk through that process of how we try to early defease those bonds when we can to save in the interest cost. Just like your mortgage, if you have a if you go from having a high um interest rate mortgage and the t
135and the interest rates go down, you can refinance and save yourself all of that interest cost. The district can do that, too. And so that's we'll be coming back on the 12th and talking about how we want to try to do that again. We've done that for several years. anytime we can do it, we're going to try to do it to save our taxpayers money over time. And so we our intent is to have a maintain a level tax rate on the INF side uh to not increase it. Of course, we don't want to increase it. And our real goal is to be able to have a bond election and not have to increase it by doing these costsaving measures through those refinancing. And so we'll bring that forward on the 12th and talk through
136that in um anticipation of the 26th uh setting the tax rate. And then on the child nutrition fund, I just want to remind you of some of our overarching goals there on the child nutrition fund. Of course, the child nutrition fund is paying for the payraises that the board enacted um within that fund and they are not um going to increase paid milk prices. So that is a wonderful thing that Thomas Wearary and his staff has worked very hard to be efficient to be able to provide those payraises and not put that onto the parents. Uh they are also maintaining their fund balance. they're not having to dip into that and so they're maintaining that in compliance with their regulations for that fund. And then equally as important as that bottom line item, we will
137continue with these same 76 campuses that have the C program where all students there at that campus, those campuses, 76 of them receive free breakfast and lunch. So none of those are having to be reduced. So that's a very positive also. Good. So, so when we bring forward those two budgets um to look at for the first time on the 12th, I want you to remember these pieces because I do think they're very important on those those funds. >> That's great. >> Thomas does a great job in that. >> Dr. Hassel, >> I have a question. Not finance again, but it came to mind. Um just kind of the process of collecting free and reduced lunch paperwork and how efficient we are at doing that. um just because it catches up later on when they
138get to high school because that is a lot of what the funding is on the college site. So just out of curiosity, what is our process and what does that look like? And if we have 76 schools that are eligible, how does that >> translate to high school? Like because I just don't I don't I mean I could be completely wrong, but I don't know if there's that many high schools that qualify for that in our district. Yeah, >> I don't I do not have that list in front of me, but I can tell you the the process for documenting income levels for the C campuses is done completely different than the nonC campuses. Okay? And that's federal law. So, federal law says that the campuses that are under the National School Lunch Program, which
139are not the C campuses, that goes through our school nutrition, child nutrition department, and they have an actual group of four or five employees that are working that all year round. So, they are there right now already collecting forms. They could start after the July 4th week. And so, they're already starting collection on the nonC campuses. Okay. the C campuses, it's a the income level is still the same to qualify and to get the indicator, but because they are a C campus, they cannot legally use the National School Lunch Program resources. Um, so again, there's federal guidelines and we're audited on them every year. Um, so the CP campuses actually go through our other departments, our more administrative departments to document that same information and to get that documented. is critical for accountability and so
140we are >> pulling while on the national school lunch program it's critical for that free and reduced lunch reimbursement on the CP campus side it's critical on the accountability side so we are we work very hard on both sides to get that information through all the grade levels >> and for both campuses that's sent into tea >> they're not it's sent in through ps yes okay >> yes it's sent to tea >> so we have campuses where every student gets just can go and get a free breakfast and a lunch and they don't have to apply through an application and that's what a C campus is. >> Yes ma'am. >> And the other ones there's like me as an individual >> have to fill out that form right to become and you could have a
141free or reduced based on that depending on your national school lunch program. >> Yes. And this um the C program is a very interesting program. I should have Thomas come and speak to you sometime if we ever have a slow board meeting agenda because it is a it is a u >> we got we got to giggle on that one but it is a amazing program and the and the qualifications for it is is very different. Uh but it I would love to have him come speak to you. I love it because the students never felt like the stigma of being like I'm afraid we everyone gets it and so it was really cool because everyone would take it up >> and we're able to do things like breakfast in the classroom which helps start
142your day of learning early and there there's a lot of great things with the CDP option. Yes, I I'll ask Thomas to come visit. >> Dr. Harl, sorry. >> I had a real quick question back on um Sorry, I was still thinking on the fund balance history um in 201920 because it is so correlated to um you know our our attendance um and our enrollment, right? So we had 104,000 in 2019 and you said earlier we're at 91,000 >> 97,000 enrollment. 97. >> I can go way back. Let me go way back here. >> I heard 91. >> The 90 91 is in essence what we're what we're calculating for ADA, which is how we're >> you have to take into consideration. >> I got you now. Okay. >> In essence, attendance rate. Um now
143even that we're really funded based upon weighted average daily attendance. Um but that's a whole another So there are weights associated with funding of the funding of programs like a CTE right >> um that we would receive an additional I think it's 26 um >> I think Julie probably know that but >> is am I close >> it's it's amazing and it's I've been sleeping on it for months now but um and so yes we'll we'll be a little over 97,000 we anticipate to be a little over 97,000 000 students and and I'll say this as well um we feel like that that is a number that is slightly conservative um because we want we wanted to make sure that from a budgeting standpoint we're not over inflating our enrollment um because in doing so
144we're once again just belaboring the challenges of okay there's it's going to have to be corrected at some point Right, Mr. Blunt. >> Yes. Um, I was curious when you asked that question. It's actually on our website. >> The the number of schools we have are listed provision. There's actually five high schools and then you also had we include home green and uh DAP home green also within that make it seven. >> But yeah, at least five high schools. That's big. >> Yeah. But it's on the website which ones are actually in it. I was curious about that. >> I was going to add one other thing real quick too. I'm sorry. um when we're comparing data with the different uh districts and this mainly for our fellow our trustees this is a good time
145to have conversation with other districts because there's other information for example when we're showing the table it's interesting to know home values also uh for the different districts because it makes a very big difference in that regard the other thing that's interesting to talk to other districts about um is and it's it's very common now but in old there used to be a big difference you know some used to use it to buy facilities and some other type days now has a lot in common. So, so when you look at it's hard to do a straight line comparison. It's valuable information, but it leads to good conversation to understand what others and how they got to their situation >> in the rounds of compression is what is what has eliminated a lot of that variance
146mathematically as you know. >> Okay. >> So, this is our next steps in the budget process. Uh, so we are starting to get our tax value certifications and we can't calculate our tax rates until we have those from all three counties. So we have it from one county and we're waiting for the other two now and we hope to get those I think Jake's going to start calling and talking to them on Friday. Yes. Okay. To say please get them to us as soon as possible. Um the then we send that information when we back into those tax rates. We have to send it to TEA. TEA has to certify our maximum compressed tax rate before we can bring it to you. Uh so we do that around August 1st is when that happens. Uh
147then we um are still as I said waiting for some clarification on some house bill two items that can affect those numbers that we showed you on the detailed number spreadsheet. And so I want you to know that if we get new information again the commissioner is we have a commissioner call tomorrow afternoon. He may tell us some rules on something that might affect some of this. And so we'll keep listening to those conversations and adjusting. And then we'll bring the proto proposed budgets and tax rates to the board on August 12th and then ask for approval on the 26th with conversations on at both of those meetings with those. One piece I did not put in this um slide, but I think it's important because I know you've been reading and hearing. We're also
148watching the federal land landscape. Uh you know, we had five federal programs that were put on hold for funding that could affect this budget scenario, too. We do not want to be reactionary and react too quick and and stop doing things that are good for kids until we know for sure what those rules are. And so if we have to move some of that to the general fund temporarily, we will. Um we're hoping not to have to do that. One of the five has already been um said it will be released, but we're watching that federal front very closely also. So that could adjust some of this if there's any known that come out of that. So, it's kind of like the House Bill, too. Um, we're also watching the federal landscape. >> Megan, I'm
149just really impressed that you're still smiling and and that you're very optimistic. So, thank you for keeping us informed. >> She doesn't have a choice. >> I was going to say >> we we we check her uh every day before she walks in the building. She's got to somehow conjure a smile up. >> Say, yeah, it's um >> Megan has hit the ground running. um you know she she's she she came and and started a north side shortly after spring break and we were had started the budget process and if I can just describe it as pretty doom and gloom that's where we were and and so I completely agree Megan but also she's got a pretty phenomenal team >> that has worked very very hard >> all the teams I mean everyone has jumped
150in rolled up their sleeves worked together and worked for the students It's been it's a hard process, but it's been a heartwarming process to see how much people care to do the right thing for our students in our district. So, >> thank you, Dr. Hassel. >> Yes. I just wanted to add when I met with you and your team, um you could really tell the respect they have for you and that is a huge thing as a leader to really have individuals in such a short amount of time um really respect you and respect your decisions and the work that you're doing. And so I do want to commend you on that that I was able to notice that when I met with you and your team. >> Thank you. And with that, we're going
151to move to the next item, superintendent, future agenda items. Ma'am, >> so um obviously this will be an item that we bring back on the 12th. Um before I get to future agenda items, we actually have two called meetings on the 30th and the 31st. Um and currently we have just the improvement of student outcome training on the 31st and we have our um uh team building team of eight training on the 30th. Uh all seven have affirmed attendance. Um what we'd like to do if it's okay is we'd like to flip those dates. We think that the ISO training which is going to be obviously very data intense and looking at uh student achievement data will actually be beneficial to launch us then into the conversation the following day on the 31st uh particularly
152with goal setting. So the the 31st um so the 30th if we have ISO training uh a three-hour training um and then the 31st the first hour or um with uh TASBY will provide the team building uh portion of the of the training which is storming and norming um a conversation activity um and then we'll jump into like I say goal setting and some other important matters but I think it just as we were Dr. Jordan and I were discussing having that ISO training with that data piece I think would be really beneficial in leading into the very next day uh our >> day. >> Yes. And he's he's in agreement. Um >> that would have been my only hesitation. >> Yeah. Just let him let him know and he can make it. >> I
153think we all had already committed to both days anyway. So I don't foresee that to be a problem. >> The only thing I want to make sure everybody knows is that >> they're different times. There's a one hour difference. >> Yeah. >> One longer. >> So the border retreat um was originally scheduled on the 30th from 4 at 4:00 and the board and the ISO training is at five. So it would flip. ISO would now be on the 30th at 4 if that's okay. >> Or do you do we need do we need to change? >> We we can make it five o'clock. I I think >> I can I just want to make sure because I have to change it on the agendas in the >> Yeah, I I think that it's sufficient to
154say that we could probably have both the 30th and the 31st posted for 5:00 starts just to make it consistent. Um in five to in 5 to 8ish. >> That would be great for those that have to work already. >> Okay. >> Awesome. >> Okay. So, we'll make those uh changes. Okay. Um a few things. Um so then on the the 12th um uh we've already uh mentioned several of the items. We'd like to first and foremost have the meeting at the activity center, north side activity center. We'd like to introduce uh you our new leadership going into the school year as we have in the past. So, our new principles, directors, um the venue will provide an opportunity for a a short reception. We'll introduce those individuals and the roles that they have assumed.
155Yeah. At the activity center, and then we'll uh go ahead and convene our meeting uh thereafter at 6:00. >> Um again, we'll discuss the the defeasants uh as Megan has already described with our debt service and opportunities for defeasants. Again, anytime we have the opportunity to save our taxpayers, particularly money and interest uh paid, we're going to do so. Fiscal year 26 will be uh proposed. Um and then uh tax rates to uh support like I say that that fiscal year fiscal year 26 budget. um a few of the items that uh wanted to go ahead and bring forward. Uh we spent the vast majority of our our time and we really were meeting for a little over three and a half hours this morning, but a lot of that time was spent in looking
156at what was passed out of the 89th legislative session. And while we absolutely anticipate uh a lot of this to come in the form of TASBY policy and an update, there are a few pieces of uh what uh has been formulated in law that I my sense is even though I've reached out, we don't have the luxury unfortunately of sitting back uh and waiting too long. um particularly for an update that could be September or October uh in the making because there are a lot of bills that pertain to public education. So, a few of those uh that we discussed uh this morning, Senate Bill 13, uh this pertains to library books. Uh we would like to take a proactive approach uh in developing the Slack committee, which is really the public review committee uh
157if materials, library books are challenged. And so we're going to work uh to bring you policy uh uh probably uh the the 26th um if not the 12th uh for review in regards to Senate Bill 13 and at least a big portion of uh what that formulation of committee uh entails. Along that same line, the review Senate Bill 12 of instructional materials um and what that entails and looks like. In fact, uh we were just discussing it this morning that there's going to be a uh list of books that we are considering purchasing that is required to be posted online for 30 days uh to go ahead and be posted. That way uh you'll have the opportunity within that 30-day period, i.e. the 26th, so that when we start the fiscal year September 1, our
158librarians will have access to those funds uh to purchase the new instructional materials uh to go on library uh bookshelves. Uh Senate Bill 401. Uh this is going to come in the form of FM local. Uh this is this homeschool participation student athletic uh UIL athletic uh uh extracurricular participation bill. Uh if it's okay with the board, I'd like to bring a proposed uh board policy on the 12th. Again, we start school on the 11th. Um most of our athletic activities have not commenced at that point. Um, but since we discussed it, uh, it's going to be a slight change to that policy. Uh, I'd like to bring that in on the 12th for your consideration >> for action. >> Uh, for Yes, for consideration. Absolutely. Um, and it's pretty cut and dry. >> Uh,
159the other one is the student personal, this is Senate Bill 1481, the student personal communication devices, and this is the one that I think is is probably going to garner a lot of int of attention. And it's a very simplistic bill. In fact, the bill is only about a page, maybe a page and a quarter long. The challenges um are the implementation. Um and this is where a lot of districts are are struggling. And so, uh, we're in the process of, uh, working what we believe is going to be a a amiable solution, uh, that does not prohibit electronic devices, communication devices from coming to school. because in today's day and age, um, as a parent of a senior myself, I just believe that most parents are going to want to have the ability in
160an emergency situation, uh, to be able to contact and reach their their student uh, two ways uh, for that matter. So, our intent is not to prohibit, which is really what the legislation calls for, um, personal communication devices coming to campuses. Now beyond that um this is where it gets a little bit more complicated in the sense of they are not to be visible nor used during the instructional day instructional time. And so the instructional day uh has been uh school day has been defined pretty well as bellto bell. So that's inclusive of passing periods as well as lunch periods. If personal communication devices are to be allowed to come to school, uh they are to be in essence uh collected and put in a um out of sight uh area in the classroom or
161within the school. Well, that's where it even becomes more complicated because the the reality of this is, and I'm gonna I'll pick on Brennan High School, which will be serving close to um 3,000 students this year. I I really logistically don't know how a high school administrative staff could collect 3,000 devices uh prior to commencing the day. And then not to mention the redistribution of those devices at the end of the day. I mean just logistically having been a high school principal I I just don't talk about Michelin Impossible that I think that may be it. Um so that being said uh we're going to be visiting with principles tomorrow uh in regards to a solution that will be that will suffice the letter of the law and that is phones if they come to
162school andor uh personal communication devices which includes watches which also could include personal tablets uh go into backpacks and they are uh then placed uh in a designated area in the classroom uh within the backpack and to be turned off and not visible, not used during the instructional day. Uh this does a couple of things. Uh it prevents teachers from having to take time and very important time out of instruction to collect the devices. Um and then it also um like I say meets the letter of the law uh as it was intended. Uh one of the questions that was asked was well what if the students don't have a backpack? um which there may be a few and and thanks Mrs. Zapata, like I say, that kind of opened my eyes. I I don't
163I don't know as a student, I don't know how you go through the day without a backpack, but but things have changed. Um uh that would be a situation that we could have, like I say, a collection depot, whether it be a box, some pouches, uh to collect the phones during the periods as well. But but we're going to, like I say, have that conversation with principles, uh tomorrow. Another provision within the the uh law as Mr. AOT and I were just discussing earlier is there is a uh safety provision uh that would provide the opportunity for students to to maintain that backpack. We believe uh within that backpack. Um and that's in essence uh through our u uh crimestoppper reporting uh that provide students the opportunity to report incidents um through text messaging, cell
164phone uh uh messaging um that I I believe would absolutely uh be sufficient for the students to retain like I say the cell phone. So we're going to strike this balance. Um, we're going to start working on guidance and then we're going to bring back policy in the form of F FNC local also on the 12th. Uh, because this is one that I do feel like also needs to be formalized. I know that we're going to be a day after the school year starts, but it needs to be formalized through policy pretty quickly. The policy itself actually will also be pretty straightforward. It's really going to be the admin regulations and what goes into the student uh code of conduct. But um like I say, I know there's a lot of questions that have been
165swirling around. What is North Side going to do in regards to the cell phone bill? Um and I would prefer and recommend the students are not prohibited from bringing the phones to school. They stay in the backpacks. uh we create a designated area um so that it it's not one more thing, one more task that our hardworking teachers have to uh handle because again this is districtwide. Keep in mind this is this is prek which I know this may sound crazy but we may have pre-k students that have iPhones um and probably know how to use them a lot more so than I do um um all the way through uh 12th grade. and we want to make sure that we're um uh consistent with our messaging and we really don't want to have to
166like I say look up and and change policy or indoor practice uh after we start the the school year. So uh that's our intention. Um unless you have any questions, >> Mr. Sal? >> Yeah, I did a part of that bill included the medical waiver part. How we're going to do that where they get to keep it no matter what, right? If they have >> Yeah, exactly. There's a medical waiver uh exclusion. There's the school safety exclusion. Um, and then there's one more. Sorry, I don't you may have it in front of you, but um, Mr. Salaz, but there was one more uh, exclusion. Um, so uh, so from a medical waiver standpoint, it was a physician uh, order. Thank you. Um, so and okay, let me back up. It was an IEP uh, or
167a 504 plan, a physician's order. So there would need to be a physician's order for that exclusion to apply andor for a safety plan to be implemented on the campus. Those are the three uh exclusions. Um so so to answer your question, it would require a physician's note. But that being said, I think that we can strike, like I say, a balance of mutual respect. I think a policy that the parents will be um in favor of actually because I do believe in my conversations that parents don't want cell phones to be a distraction in the instructional environment. At the same time, in the event of an emergency, would like to know that they can they have that ability to reach out um and make contact. Um so, like I say, being a compliance with
168the law, but also like I say, striking that balance is going to be our main objective. Thank you. >> So, those those will be policies that will be uh like I say forthcoming on on the 12th. Um and then I know there'll probably be a few other items that come up just as uh we get ready to start the school year. Oh, there'll be a first day of school report as well. >> Okay. >> All right. Thank you, sir. So, the board is now going to convene into close session in accordance with the Texas government codes 551.071. 071 through 551.084. No action will be taken in this closed session and any decisions that will be made uh will be uh done so in open session when we reconvene. Thank you all for coming. It's now
1698:13 and we're going to go ahead and um meet >> uh in the in your office. Okay, great. So, let's meet at 8:15. All right, the time is now 9:29 and the board is now reconvening into open session. No action was taken in close session, but regarding the agenda items discussed in the close session, is there a motion to come before the board? >> Which one? >> Sorry. So we have two items. Item A and the approval of appointments. The resolution and the appointments. >> Oh, okay. I move that we approve the appointments as presented um in executive session. >> I second. >> And um all in favor? >> Any opposed? Okay. Motion has passed. Do we have any other motions? >> Dr. Hassel, >> do we move to the resolution or approve the resolution?
170>> Yeah, I mean you can discuss the resolution. It can be uh read and then a motion can be um submitted by a member of the body. >> Okay. >> Read it first. >> Yeah. You'd like this is a long one. Okay. Resolution authorization to sell, transfer, and convey the district's 0.6442 acre track of land out of the lot three, new city block, NCB. Um, address 1518 Sam Re or 1518 um, Sam Reburn Middle School, a subdivision in the city of San Antonio, Bear County, Texas on IH410 and Valley High Drive, which is part of the Sam Rayburn Middle School campus, excluding minerals to the state of Texas, acting by and through the Texas Transportation Commission for the use and the benefit of the Texas Department of Transportation and authorization to execute deed. Res resolved
171that the superintendent and or his designate is hereby authorized to negotiate acceptable terms and sign all related and/or necessary agreements and/or documents with the Texas Department of Transportation to consummate the sale transfer um conveyance of the 0.6442 6442 acre trace of land out of lot 3, new city block 15180. Sam Rainber Middle School, subdivision of San Antonio of the city of San Antonio, Bear County, Texas. Record in volume 9527, page 83, deed and plat record. Oh, plat record of Bear County, Texas. owned by the district of IH10 and Valley High Drive which is currently part of the Sam Rainboard middle Sam Rayburn Middle School campus excluding minerals um to the state of Texas acting buyin through the Texas transportation commission and the president of this school board of trustees is hereby authorized to execute a
172deed transferring and conveying the district's property including minerals to the state of Texas acting by and through the Texas Transportation Commission for the purpose of expanding IH410. The foregoing resolution was adopted by the board of trustees. Oh wait, got not that part. The end. >> So in English um are you making a motion? >> I am making a motion to approve the resolution or to have discussion. Approve the resolution. >> To adopt the resolution. >> Adopt the resolution. >> Okay. Uh, do we have a second? Do we have any discussion? >> Okay. >> There's a discussion. You have a question, Dr. Mada? >> Yes. Um, I'd like for the board to discuss, uh, I know that's an area that's a really hightraicked area and I'd like for us to possibly discuss maybe also acquiring a
173marquee or some sort of some sort of advertisement just so we can continue to advertise um, the quality of education that we have there with Rayburn. Um, I know it's going to cut a little bit off, but uh, I think it's important. It's a hightraic area. you know, it's it's a you know, it's a great school. I just it's an you know, I just don't want to lose the opportunity where now it kind of gets hidden or it gets pushed back. So, there's an opportunity for us to acquire some sort of digital marquee or a marquee so we can continue to advertise. >> Is that a question you guys can answer first with text dot? The only thing the only thing is they probably I don't know if they have a microphone for them to
174>> you can borrow mine >> just come sit here. >> Yeah. And while we're while we're working on that just as a reminder this is a resolution uh that authorized us basically to engage in negotiations to uh finalize this for uh board execution. Um uh the conveyance and again I was going just in layman's terms again the conveyance uh in this particular situation or regard is going to encroach upon about 30 ft of ride of way um on the frontage of 410 uh that is adjacent to Raver Middle School. Um so I'll let them introduce themselves and like I say thank you guys for your patience for being here this evening. Y'all been y'all been here the entire meeting I think if I'm not mistaken. >> Uh good evening uh Madam President. Uh Dr. Craft
175and uh boards, I'm sorry. >> Uh so to answer your question, ma'am, at this time I don't really have an answer for you. I can go back and try to do some research and see what can be feasible, but I know that, you know, we're not going to be um it'd be helpful if I brought a map so I can visually show you, but um the school will not be essentially hidden away. It's just going to be the roadways just going to be expanded. So, there will be some spot maybe open on um the tract of land that's on that side of the fence where you can possibly put a vent a sign if you choose to do so. Uh but as far as if you're referring to placing a sign and text right away,
176that's something I have to go back into >> get clarification on, but I I'm not going to promise whether that is going to be possible or not. Yes, please, if you don't mind going back and asking only because I I also know construction I I I mean, we say it's not it's gonna it's not going to be blocked. I mean, when it's all said and done, but I also do know it takes a long time and you know, there's a lot of barriers out there, the construction and all of that's taking place. And I just um you know, right now we're in a position where we need to continue to showcase our schools and to make sure that that we advertise and to make sure that we have that. And you know it's uh like
177you know just want that opportunity to to see if that's able to be done. >> Yes ma'am. >> To have some visibility right to that traffic that will be >> Yes ma'am. There will be visibility >> behind our school. >> Okay. >> We we'll definitely work in coordination and uh just see what opportunities we have. >> Yeah. And I just was going to add if it's okay >> Dr. Har. Um, no, I was just going to add it doesn't necessarily have to be on tech stock uh easement or right away. It could be on our land, but but we would certainly like that considered in the negotiations that it has this strong visibility um sign advertisement touting Rayburn Middle School right there just because it'll be it'll be dust and dirt and construction and everything
178for a while and and it is a jewel back there. So, >> yes, ma'am. >> Of course. >> Thank you. >> Appreciate you. >> Okay. With that said, we can now vote to approve uh the adoption of this resolution. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Okay. The adoption for the resolution has passed. And it is now 9:37 on July 22nd and this meeting is adjourned.