001good evening and welcome to this regular meeting of the northside board of trustees before calling this meeting to order the board would like to take just a moment to briefly review some of the rules for conducting our meeting the order of business for this meeting is set out in the agenda one item that you may notice excuse me on the agenda is the consent agenda this item includes items that are considered routine and or are of a recurring nature all the items listed under the consent agenda will be acted upon in one motion if there is a consent agenda item which anyone here would like to address please sign up to speak to that item and we will pull it from the consent motion and discuss it separately the purpose of our meeting is to
002conduct board business and for that reason it is held in public it is not a public forum however we do provide the opportunity for audience participation if there is anyone who would like to address the board during an agenda item or citizens to be heard portion of the agenda we ask that you please register on the sign up sheet located at the entrance to this room this is so we do not overlook anyone who would like to speak to the board we will review the rules for addressing the board later in the meeting is there anyone here who would like to sign up to an agenda item and has not done so all right the meeting will then be officially called to order please stand and bow your heads as trustee lopez leads us in
003the invocation and pledges 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 our children amen and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god honor the texas land i pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god one and indivisible oh it's nice to be back all right the meeting has now been called to order and we are moving down to uh superintendent's report dr woods yes ma'am dr harold members of the board just a few things to report since we last met in regular meeting to to some of your comments already it's been 16 months since we met uh in this room
004and it does feel good to uh to be back in our little uh cozy space i i think the the fact that we're back in this space is is symbolic of the progress that we've made in that period of time and apprecia appreciate everybody's grace and patience in that period of time i want to thank leroy san miguel and and jacob viral all the facility staff we recently did walk-throughs of the two schools that will open in august joey tomlinson elementary school and joe strauss the third middle school and thankfully we had both namesakes with us and really had very fine tours of the schools the contractors the architects have done great work schools are absolutely beautiful and we'll be ready to to open on time and welcome lots of kids so uh really uh
005enjoyable uh to walk through with both of our newest namesakes since we last met in regular meeting the legislative session did come to a close there are some some good and some bad and and unfortunately a little bit ugly and naomi miller will report on that tonight it's important to know that next week the legislature will come back in special session we have not seen a call from the governor's office yet a list of what will be on the special but expect that that will be coming soon i also want to say thanks to our high school principals our trustees and steve daniel and his group for graduations it was it was spread out to say the least but but in spite of that i thought it came across really well we were able to
006honor graduates in the way that we uh largely in the way that we normally do and we were able to let families if they chose to to see their graduate walk the stage and i think that was really important after what the class of 2020 experienced a little more than a year ago so tonight as you know as we do each june we bring you compensation and growth and improvement recommendations and this this is in stark contrast to the ones we brought you in uh june of 2020 and feel good about both of those recommendations coming to you tonight they're both pretty healthy from a dollar perspective both in about the 28 million dollar range but feel good about where that will put us back on some of the uh things that we thought were
007important pre pre before getting distracted by covid and uh we'll be able to come back to some of those things also feel good about where the compensation recommendation will put our employees in the in the market uh and so feel good about both of those and you'll hear details on that here coming up and then lastly want to thank janice and her team the cni team and tiffany contreras and her group for all of the work they've done on sr3 that is a lot of work and and and i should say kim ridgely as well that is a lot of work that's gone into to that plan we reviewed that with academics yesterday you'll see a review this evening for discussion and then as board members know we've moved the july meeting up a week
008so that we can seek the board's approval ahead of the due date of the actual application which is july the 27th so that is that is all coming up soon and feel really good about the ideas that staff have for uh how we help students get back uh over time to where they need to be so uh dr carl that concludes superintendent's report thank you dr woods um are there any board members reports i can actually see your eyes and [Music] we'll give you the all right mr medina thank you can you press your button i did oh you did okay there we go then miss chumbly the buttons work yeah okay awesome so um i wanted to kind of piggyback on dr woods again graduations of stephen daniels and all administration that um made
009it a safe and successful graduation ceremony for all the students and families that were participating i missed it um and i always share this and i shared it with a lot of people that uh having children at home and um and i some people might know this if you've seen the avengers there was that part where thanos clicked his fingers and people just disappeared off the face of the planet for like a second consecutive uh some amount of time and then we started graduations and people just all came out and and it was um a good ceremony it was great to see people out great to see uh knowing that people have you know did their due diligence and stayed safe and and got us to the point where we are today and so i
010wanted to definitely thank the community for for all their uh support in making that happen i also wanted to go back regarding cni we did have academics meeting yesterday and we went through a lot of information from wellness employee wellness student wellness the whole child including um the progress we've been making by already initiating closing the gaps for summer school all the impact that the pandemic has done not only to our students to our community but also to our staff so it was really important to listen to the items that were discussed and more importantly um um not only cni but also our business finance their input and being ahead of the the curve making sure that we're ready to rock and roll at the beginning of school year so i wanted to thank you
011thank you mr medina miss chumbly um first off i wanted to thank all of the number one i am so glad to be home i just i didn't realize how much i missed this board room it's just i it feels like the last i agreed um just it feels like the last 16 months were just gone it's just nice to be home um i wanted to thank the principals and all of the staff for graduations because i thought about it i had a friend who was a football coach in northside and he would always tell me that it was really hard that that his evaluations are or his future rested on how 16 year olds were going to act on a friday or saturday night and i thought you know i know how tense it
012is for graduations for our principals and i thought here they were doing this some of them with practices just at their campus and with not having the majority of their kids back and not having seen their kids and i just wanted to thank them because i thought that our graduations went exceedingly well and i want to thank our parents for being cooperative about the new way that we had it set up and just thank our kids i mean i think our seniors were really glad to be back and i think they acted very mature about it and i just thought you know after on all the years of being at graduations that the this graduation was just um so special for us to be back and for us to be able to see our kids
013and the majority of them 99.99.9 percent acted very maturely and did a great job so i just wanted to pass that on and i wanted to just point out that joelle is here and xgin is in partnership with jesse garza garza architects on tomlinson and so while we have the opportunity joelle to thank you however the only comment i have to say is i think there was a little bit too much orange in that school but but besides that it is absolutely beautiful and joey is just beyond himself and just so proud so i want to thank you and jerry the same thing you come up with just some amazing designs and just the way that you look at schools the aesthetics of them are just beautiful so i want to thank both of you
014gentlemen for being such great partners with us and just creating such such really really beautiful schools um i'm going to be wearing orange fingernail polish at the next the next board meeting orange juice so dr woods and and dr harle and i have a bet on um valedictorians and salutatorians as to how many are going to end up at the promised land texas a m thank you and then how many are going to end up in austin and unfortunately unfortunately they really won this year really bad and so the bet was that i would wear burnt orange nail polish and i just didn't get time to pick it up today so july will be the it will be the burnt orange nail polish let's see july make a note for the record it was not
015close i know it was i kept telling janice who's a big ag janice this is embarrassing i mean you're getting smoked i told him that they got run ruled yeah every time every time he'd walk by is it run rule run rule i'm writing a letter to the president anyway um and the other thing is i wanted to thank the trustees and um and dr woods and linda mcgee that that helped celebrate steve's retirement my husband has finally retired tomorrow is his last day thank you thanks i will tell them that um it's going to be interesting we leave on a two-week trip um come friday and if i come back with steve then then we know that we can do this if he is still in south dakota someone will have to go get
016him but anyway i just wanted to thank you all very much for your sentiments and and those that you weren't there sent really nice texas and so just thank you because it's been a challenging time i will tell you to to move into this this next phase and then just one other thank you is that one thing that i have seen as we have started to come out of covid is just being able to be around community members and you know seeing my neighbors in heb and and seeing the kids down the street and the parents and what has been really nice is all of them have had such great things to say about our partnership and that they appreciated and recognized how hard the last 16 months have been and how there were some
017unpopular decisions there were decisions there were things that we were doing that were preventing things versus you know actually doing things i guess you would say anyway it's just been a really nice sentiment from everyone that i have talked to about that we were in this together and i just and i hope that everyone else is getting that same hearing that same remarks and and feeling that because it it that has been really grateful and um i think that we all tried and dr woods you have been absolutely amazing during this period of time um i think that we should clone you for the majority of school districts in texas but since we can't do this at that time and then i just wanted to say one real quick um special thanks to saul ross
018to mr ortega and tyrine because throughout this whole time period they were always you know they sent me a couple of things with food and they just sent you know just nice remarks and just i think that we were supporting each other and i just wanted to publicly say thank you to them because they really um you know were so engaged with their staff and their kids and and with me and i appreciated that so thank you all right thank you miss chubby mr blood not to bring up a sore surgery with that ut austin it really wasn't it wasn't close at all but it really it was pretty bad but i just said other than that just just uh two quick items uh for those i think everybody's able to go to taz bsli
019some leadership institute i thought that uh i thought it was another another great occasion to see everybody back together and uh so that was good to see also and the only other item that i was going to bring up is i've been to um as part of our getting out the information for the bear county school board coalition and our and our book publication i'm going every single school board meeting that i can so i've been a 10 so far other school boards and i've got nine more to go this summer and it's it's really interesting to see how different boards the differences we all have on how we do things procedurally and otherwise it really is but you learn a lot from each other and that's all i had thank you so much oh
020we're on camera it's good [Laughter] and bobby you did you did an outstanding presentation too at sli you made us really proud so thank you for that miss freeman while they're checking it out is there another trustee karine or mr lopez well um well a lot of what i was going to say was what bobby has mentioned and what joseph has mentioned as well but uh and and it was maybe just to touch a little bit about uh steve melissa you know you didn't really hit really hard on on his service to north side but i thought i would share that steve was a was an ag teacher or the executive director for the for the for the o'connor ag program and his commitment to the act program into north side uh was really outstanding
021and it was really nice to see some of the students that had gone there to the event and were talking about the impact that steve had on the on the program and how they were influenced by him and his personal conversations with the individuals that that were talking and how he influenced them into continuing that program and to get into that program so it was a real it was really good to see that and it was nice to hear those personal stories because you know it really meant a lot to him i could tell it meant a lot to him uh and the impact that he had on on that program and and it was really nice to see that they honored him by naming the uh the facility or the the park uh the
022grounds after him it was very fitting it was very fitting to do that because he was very committed you were very committed your whole family had been committed and it was good to see your sons there who all went through the program or who participated in some way it was really good to see that so i wanted to just share that with you and and say i i was proud to see that so thank you for inviting us all right thank you mr lopez now ms freeman yeah i think i'm i think i'm working now there we go i wish i had a camera for every person that walked through that room though we should have taken a picture of their face because um just big smiles so i i really like that and um
023miss chumley i think we're going to take the board photo in july so that ought to be real interesting with those burnt orange fingernails by the way it's okay i owe it to a fellow board member too to mention that and sli it was wonderful to be able to to see everybody and i know that um we all weren't you know you can't go to every session but everybody that signed up you can still attend virtually so i haven't done that yet but it's in it should be in the registration packet so you're still able to see some of those some of the sessions and there were some really good really good sessions on advocacy i've been to a couple um two or three conferences and and there's been a um an emphasis on um
024advocacy and what trustees can do so some of that was certainly very very interesting and what we can do to what we can do better regarding regarding advocacy and do more of it and corrine you survived your first um sli tasby training um and and graduating and you're still here so um yes congrat congratulations you did very well that was all dr harold thank you um karine did you want to say something you don't have to i think everybody has said everything we've done i know and and you have you hit the ground running so we're so excited to have you and and welcome again to our board and um i do i do want to mention a couple of things um last week the rising stars fine arts middle school and high school production
025at holmes high school in the new auditorium was janice it was beyond words right the kids the kids um acting singing um just it was so joyful um to be with kids who were so happy to be back with each other but actually i they only have what two or three weeks to put that together and it was like months they had been rehearsing and the costuming maui and moana were incredibly handsome and beautiful and wise and wonderful it was it was just terrific the artwork out front um truly was were works of art it again in 20 days to do that kind of of work was was masterful and i really wanted to take it home my i have two wiggle worm grandkids that i brought with me who didn't wiggle at all and
026it was at least an hour and a half it was just incredible and then wanted to go home and watch the movie and thought that um the maui and the moana in on the play were better than the ones on on the movie so it just it was incredible the fine arts department the the um directors who had been there over the the past 10 years it was they were celebrating their 10-year anniversary of doing this every summer um were there there were some that had been students in the program and came back to be directors and one young lady spoke and got very emotional at the end um when she was telling how much it meant to her so again um thank you it's that's one of my most favorite things to do every
027year um i didn't get to get sworn in with um karen and karine but i sent my better half and he enjoyed meeting everybody and kind of being part of the northside family but i did get to go be sworn in john marshall lms the law medical school we were part of a ceremony for their penning and their oath taking which was delayed a year dr woods was there the police chief was there who offered them all summer internships he gave out his personal cell number um my husband didn't thank god but that it was that kind of emotional night and then to be sworn in on a similar stage that i graduated or i had been on when i was a student there was an incredible experience um i do want to say a
028personal thank you to each and every board member um for this past well two years but 16 months um zooming um trying to come up with creative ideas to let our teachers and our staff um our all our employees know how special they are to us and and were and still are to us i guess i mean the the signs we made the videos we did um you know i think bobby's working on a dance routine for convocation that we're going to streamline right bobby yeah um but but we're we're always trying to send the best message we can in the most emotional way because we feel that strongly about everyone in our northside family but to have this board just always say what more can we do how can we do it it just
029was incredible and it's it's been a journey together and what better people to travel with than the ones up here and and out there as well so um thank you i did bring um thank you plumerias for everyone my sister is the a master plumeriaist if that's a word i i just now coined but um you know it's it's really about how we grew together but every plumeria that you're going to get um they're they're seedlings they're growing right they're all different and everyone on this dice has brought such joy and colorful uh ness um uniqueness um just such a spirit of wanting to do the best for our kids and our our teachers employees and staff so that's my gift to y'all that it'll keep on growing and you'll remember this board when you
030look at it you get one too they're hard to kill and so it has a little story with it and then it has what kind of plumeria you got so anyway but thanks to everyone and now we go on with our meeting tell me um this is from terry zablocki could if i gave you 20 guesses i bet you would have guessed i'm not sure why um linda mcgee was there a why to this because she doesn't want us to go bananas or find out let me know like oh okay so we'll find out tonight it won't be a surprise on the way home okay or at our front door okay great thank you um and so now we'll continue with the 2021 school health advisory council uh fondly known as shaq annual report dr
031jordan yes thank you dr harle each year we are honored to bring to you an update of the hard work and the productivity of and the person that brings to you the report is whoever sits as chair so you can imagine you know during this pandemic the work of the school health advisory committee is always very important so you can imagine when you have a health crisis they've really done some heavy lifting um and have done phenomenal work to help create um some calmness in the in the midst of the craziness so i'm gonna invite our speaker to come up miss sarah um i was telling her just come to the podium and speak she said oh i'm a college professor i can i can do it so i said absolutely so welcome thanks the
032mic it's awkward to have a mic when you guys are like right next to me but i can i i am sarah knuckle and i'm the proud parent of three children two of whom are nisd kiddos my daughter esther and elias they are in the forester school and they're in the dual program so i want to just applaud that here in our district my children can learn spanish in addition to all the other academic achievements they can receive my third child will be entering kinder and i have we've just loved our school and that's why we have now three that will be there so well um in my professional life i do teach nursing i'm a professor in nursing so health of course is close to my heart so when i was asked by danielle
033to become the chair i thought well i suppose so why not so i do at the college level so um this has been an honor and a joy for me to be a part of jack as a parent chair so um let me just give you an overview of who's been on our committee as i represent all of the people on my team we have been meeting on zoom and the 21 of us are um include nine staff five parents we have four community members and then we also have had three students which is helpful to have their voices represented with us and the students are aiden villarreal who is attending communications art and then brianna valadez from john j science and engineering academy and then our third student is madeline aldrich from john j
034science and engineering academy so also as our community people at shaq we have dr erica sosa she is at utsa then we have amy newman who's with the american heart association and monica aguirre from the at texas a m life and then daniel walker who maybe you all know he's been around forever he's a retired military man who's also the parent of two children that attend in isd um danielle leon who i'm sure you all know is the superstar behind a lot of this she her role is as the whole child health ist and she's continued this year as the district facilitator and in addition to her roles with the shack responsibilities danielle has kept me informed with new opportunities that pertain to health education both within our district but also statewide so i would
035like to let you know that i did apply and i have been selected to be a part of the health education antiques and well texas essential knowledge and skills proclamation the state review panel so that will be taking place in two weeks in july i have blocked my schedule from teaching and we'll be doing lots of zoom meetings so and reading a lot of i'm sure like maybe you guys do so just to give you an overview of what we have been doing this past year at shaq we've had five meetings and our focus this year with our meetings has been um with four areas first we were charged with reviewing the bylaws we had to revise them and update them so that they reflect what's going on currently secondly we did we focused on
036nutrition we aim to increase awareness on the importance of healthy eating choices for the students and we did this it was pretty amazing one of our students who's graphic designer we made these amazing nutrition messages that were given through social media platforms to increase nutrition awareness our third focus this year has been physical activity we reviewed the physical activity well are charged within shack but we made recommendations for the policy to continue to encourage physical activity and then finally our fourth charge we wanted to focus as well on the teachers of course the entire reason that all of this happens and then my student my kiddos are well taught is because of the teacher so we were trying to encourage them in the midst of the pandemic so we provided them with resources and information
037that all took place at the be well stay well conference that took place so you can find details of the report if you wish at the shack table of activities in addition to our working subcommittees we had a separate committee that worked on the required triennial evaluation of the local wellness policy and plan so these are my final statements and really just as the chair as the parent chair for shaq i truly want to thank all of you as board members um for all the hard work you do and as a parent i well i had my kids go back in person when you guys opened the buildings and they've been safe and they've been learning and they're thriving and i know all the children within the school district rs and so i'm just happy
038to call and i see my home as well so i thank all of you thank you [Applause] well there may be are there any questions that you have for sarah no but um your enthusiasm and your expertise is so appreciated so thank you so much and i'm glad you're going to the state level and going to look at what can impact five million other children too so thank you for that awesome can you not be so no i'm joking you are just so happy it's so nice to be um with with everyone tonight but thank you for bringing such an enthusiastic message yes we appreciate it very much i like that she has that we have kids on chat i know before yes it's great anything okay thank you very much all right now we
039are going on to citizens to be hurt and i will read the rules for addressing the board we believe that citizens to be heard is important and meaningful and we will listen to what you have to say we value your opinions although we are restrained by law from taking any action please address your remarks to the board confine your remarks to a north side policy or practice limit your remarks to three minutes at two minutes you will get a yellow card held up by joseph medina at three minutes you will be asked to wrap up your remarks with a red card do not make any personal attacks on individuals please thank you so dr woods who do we have first please wanda longoria madam president dr woodson school board members northside aft would like to
040thank you for responding to our request by offering us the opportunity to participate in an essar funding meeting all nine of our members who attended shared their list of esser funding priorities with the team of 14 present while we have valued the opportunity to share them with a larger community we expect the ideas presented at this meeting would get serious consideration tonight each of you have a copy before you as well as the rationale supporting each we would also like to thank you for considering the 1300 across the board raise for all personnel in the teacher salary category but ask you to also consider social workers who contribute greatly by bringing necessary resources to the district and who provide a plethora of support for our students and parents as part of the teacher salary professional
041group we again would like to propose that nisd teachers receive the step of experience they did not receive last year by not receiving that teachers across the district lost an average of between 300 to 500 for the step experience increase while the one-time stipend help they are still behind in the step salary schedule posted on the 2021 nisd website we're also proposing they receive a five percent raise historically when the district has given a two percent midpoint raise the pay increase has been eaten up by the rising cost of health insurance especially coming off the pandemic in the stressful year our employees have had a five percent increase in step experience would be helpful in educators seeing a viable raise honoring their loyal service while employees were happy to receive a one-time stipend during covid
042the majority of our classified employees fell rather short most only receiving 200 or less after taxes if we're to retain our employees we must reward them with worthwhile wages while we have the opportunity to do so let's remember that these are the boots on the ground employees who work directly with our students and their families we're specifically speaking of cafeteria workers instructional assistants custodians and bus drivers they keep our campuses and programs working we know the district has been short staffed in these areas offer them a better offering them a better dollar an hour living wage would be helpful in retaining and attracting these potential employees the 3.5 raise you've proposed matches closely to the 50 cent an hour increase we were asking for and now we ask that you consider reviewing the hourly wage
043of these front line workers and begin working towards the minimum 15 an hour living wage the city offers we must be able to be competitive with our city and local businesses if we're to retain and attract these front-line workers northside aft completely agrees that nisd must be conservative with spending in the may school board meeting as part of our esser priorities we ask the district to please review the budget and consider taking one-time expenditures paying them using as your funding therefore releasing those monies from the general fund to be able to consider these pay raise proposals we're presenting allowable allowable expenses under the department of ed esser guidelines are available the national government passed for funding to assist districts to become as whole as possible due to the expenditures they had to face during the
044pandemic this money was also supposed to help districts recapture and reinvest in human resources and personnel to assist our students in being able to navigate academics social mental and emotional challenges caused by coveted trauma we ask you to consider iron isd employees for their daily continuing to strive to make nisd the exemplary district it continues to be thank you for your time thank you miss longoria all right i can read the name from here miss leblocki would you like to be part of our citizens to be heard i know former trustee terry zablocki um i'm a citizen to be heard no yes [Music] i know how the board operates excuse me while i get my no my props in order as a former trustee we will we will give you yes you really did it
045you retired miss chumbley you are out of order [Laughter] [Music] miss chumbly miss tremblay there's a reason why i had the buttons installed for myself yes sir yes sir ladies and gentlemen this evening story is keep curious and carry a banana curious george has been updated i found an egregious example of a failure to update on june 8th when i went to some building that i'd never seen in northside where you fill out the retirement forms i very specifically waited until the retirement ceremonies were over and what to happen some poor person and i know her name but i can't say the name gave me the bag with the clock in it i give you exhibit a the clock so i started cleaning out my office and i was really distressed with the clock that
046we haven't updated and give ourselves options for those of us who do not want another item in our office so i brought some items from my office when i this is the presidents the presidents of the united states which are no longer being made and i expect to see them auctioned off at the next [Music] banquet in person etc i also have uh the grant winner sign from nef this all comes together people you should give us an option if we don't want the funds spent on the clock thank you person who's uh oh that's the count's head of counseling i'll be honest okay um uh the neff of course you could give us an option to make a donation for a neff grant there could be scholarship funding but more importantly i had this
047plaque this plaque comes from my debate coach when she passed away she was brilliant enough to come up with and send a plaque to every one of her former students who was coaching or teaching and she said as you put a personal note and so consequently i believe that it's critical that we continue and allow the northside family to continue that tradition so consequently ah june 8th i retired right okay i have one minute left which is a good sign i was the one who instituted that because that you these citizens oh my gosh listen to it so here's what happened quite seriously on june 8th that was distressing to me that i didn't have an option that there should be some sort of option and i encourage us to do that also i happen
048to be watching the view on television and there was an advertisement about oh the public school teacher never never connected with the student give me a break and then later on in the evening later on in the evening there was an evening news report and an organization from north side out in the lawn was talking about oh you know how upset people were in terms of the race i'm now going to conclude with the 10 words from the valedictorian of warren high school the best speech i've ever seen work hard accomplish your goals don't give up good luck 10 words 10 words absolutely and so renee brown says find joy and meaning i would ask that for all the groups in particular the people who come all the time sit down and play a game
049of bananagrams anytime here in northside when you're having any i don't care whether it's community members whatever dr woods i gave you the double set so you can have i can see the cabinet now because you learn and you steal from teachers and when i taught in the library if a student or students were doing something as i said we will have no children's literature section created while i am on duty here i would pull out the bananagrams and say if you beat me at bananagrams you can stay here and we would play bananagrams and it would change the difference so ladies and gentlemen miss longoria i suggest in honor of dr keith and tradition that we change how we acknowledge now i'm not saying the clock didn't move me oh my gosh i was
050i was words could not stop but i do believe that we should offer options and i do believe in honor every single one of us play bananagrams with the people and then the circumstances and change the dynamic if you won't play bananagrams you're not following the agenda thank you i'm going home to watch america's got talent goodbye thank you miss oblocki and thank you for your years of service on the board as well and we give you our our undying gratitude we may consider sending your pay records to trs night's leblanc good night terry good night thank you thank you okay we are moving moving right along to consent agenda um i'll give you a second to go down there see if there's any ones that you have questions or dis questions about or discussion
051on before taking a motion to approve motion to approve the agenda as posted okay sir a second all right miss chumbly uh all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it wow can we do that again that was so neat i just love it i love it i love it i'm going to celebrate every moment of this night tonight guys um all right curriculum and instruction update on sr3 funds dr jordan yes thank you dr carl dr woods board of trustees as was mentioned this is a brief overview of the proposed esser plan we had the opportunity yesterday evening in academics to walk through and have a bit of really good discussion i want to begin by saying that tonight is simply an overview we'll be
052bringing this back to you at the july 20th board meeting where we will ask for your consideration and approval so we can submit it by the deadline which is july 27th so on the next slide it really sums up the purpose of these sr3 funds and it's really twofold the first is to safely reopen and sustain safe operation of schools and the second is to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as you're aware you've seen statewide the test scores are not too surprising yet they still are very unsettling we knew here in northside just as many districts did we knew that some of our students struggled more than others and so we're all in the pattern now of how do we begin closing these gaps that have widened and accelerate the learning so we
053can get students back on track so what we're presenting to you this evening has gone through really two filters the first filter is how can these funds directly impact our students so how can we lessen the gap how can we move students quickly how can we focus on students who are receiving special education services students who are receiving esl services some of our students who frankly had more challenges during this time then the second filter is we know academics and students reading level math level are critically important what we know that is perhaps more important is their entire well-being so a second filter was what are some wrap around services and supports that not only our students need but that our teachers need and our families and our communities need so it was through those
054two filters that the recommendations are coming to you the next slide gives an overview of the three dispensations of funds um sr1 was a complete supplant by the state so that money um you know that was some of our ppe some of the other things that when we were really in the throes of uh the pandemic sr2 we don't have those funds um yet i think we're thinking september uh might be the time that we begin receiving some of those funds so the discussion this evening is about sr3 and so you'll see here that north side we are expecting to receive just shy of 173 million dollars that will be for a three year period so we're planning for these funds annually through september 2024. so there are some requirements on the next slide that
055the application ensures that we do and these two shaped how we receive feedback from our stakeholders which i'll talk about in one moment and also how we approach the process internally the funding is intended for one-time costs because when you know you have these funds for a three-year period the idea is that these funds are used to mitigate the disruption and then those funds go away so although there are some recommendations for additional staff this is for a three year period only at this time to move students ahead quickly the second bullet and this is we're still having to get used to this because it's drilled in our brain that you cannot supplant if you're paying for a service or an event intervention out of one funding source special revenue you can't then somewhere else
056use your local budget well this allows you to use yes uh s or funds in a supplanting situation the the next bullet completely correlates with one of our one of our filters districts must expend a minimum of 20 of the funds on the student learning loss so whether that's interventions extended day summer opportunities you'll see when miss contreras in a moment talks about the budget that our proposal has 60 of the esser funds going directly to students to address give us an example of how it's evidence-based evidence-based simply means that it's been through i know i know what it means but what i'm saying is our not all of our programs have an evidence-based foundation to them and so you could you couldn't use esser funds to purchase it so just to give an example
057we already use an intervention called st math and st math has a research base that's been done by a company not just their own company doing research to see over time did it move the needle with students so you could use esser funds for st math it means that there's been some research not done just by that individual company that meets certain research standards so then is the majority of that piece then on vendor provided programs well it is vendor provided but part of the research is is not just the vendor doing the research the vendor doesn't come in and tell you you know they may tell you this is great xyz but they have to show it has to be a third party okay so maybe i need to present it in a different
058i need to ask in a different way so if i want funds to be able to go to retired teachers are teachers that want to do additional work during the summer these monies could be used to pay them to provide those evidence-based interventions that's correct okay so i guess what i'm what i'm asking is this is not just about going and buying programs vendor-provided programs that nope okay so it includes that but it's much more than that and i'm sure janice just knowing you in this district that's a very small percent too the purchase piece of it yeah well i will tell you the largest in in this whole allocation is our expansion of pre-k which we're looking at expanding to 11 campuses will get us to 52 which is where through your direction we
059were headed anyway pre-covet because we know that is instrumental for our students absolutely so yeah in terms of like dollar amount like purchasing programs that is not one of the big ticket items on this list that's what i wanted great question thank you thank you for that thanks um the next couple pieces are things that districts um must do we've already posted the intent to apply on the district website and then after we receive our notice of grant award after 30 days we must then post our official plans on our website so within the application applications been published we all have all the pieces of it it asks quite a bit i mean you can't just say hey i want to buy st math or hey i want you know these retired teachers you have
060to show what is the need you know uh how did you determine the need how how are you going to use these particular individuals and um a peace senate that we were excited about we actually talked a bit about this yesterday was the requirement is that you come back to this plan at a minimum every six months to look at what's working what's not working you know how do you need to adjust and you can do that more often than six months it just has to be it has to be within a six month period so what is allowable in uh with using these funds so it should be no surprise the first two again that has been our main filter how do we get to our kids and so the academic supports which right
061now the measures that we're looking at with the star data and frankly i will tell you we were worried thinking how are we going to use the star data because you know if students aren't testing well there was a pretty high percentage of students statewide who set for the test much higher than many of us many of us thought so we're looking at the data from our screeners the data from star that will help us target the interventions that you see here but then we also know those social and emotional supports and a little later in this presentation i'm going to invite dr ridgely up you know she's the executive director of whole child and through your leadership i think it was three years ago four years ago you guys set a board goal about
062whole child and that was really that was really ahead of where many districts were where you were already saying that yes we have to have this academic excellence what we also know if we're not paying attention to students confidence level their feelings of safety their feelings of challenge we're not going to get them where they need to be academically so social emotional supports is are a big piece of esser the health and safety again given the fact that these funds are intended to open schools safely so continuing to mitigate any vestiges of the virus any ppe coordinating with other agencies as you know mr schmidt has taken taken the lead with that and has made so many connections that have been beneficial for our district and then the last piece you know which we haven't
063had to use continuity of services some smaller districts perhaps have where if they've lost you know a huge number of students and they may not be able to sustain the numbers of teachers that they have employed they could use some funds to make that happen and that would be an example perhaps of some supplanting so we took all the guidelines from esser we created an internal team that included tiffany renee the people budget folks of course the cni different departments elementary middle high whole child continuous improvement and so we have been huddling together for it seems like a long time it's been great on a weekly basis and making sure that we're on top of all these particular pieces and most notably curating all the feedback that we're getting from stakeholders because a part of
064this plan which is terrific is stakeholder input as to how should these funds be used to really do two things create and open uh create safe schools and open them in a safe way and close this achievement gap of our students so what you see on this slide is you see the various venues in which we implemented the same process with in every one of these venues we started with an overview some of the information i shared with you what is esser what are allowable expenditures what are the filters what are our values in north side which is you know number one is our is our students and then participants worked in small breakout groups and they brainstormed all kinds of really helpful things we came back together a whole group and we looked at
065trends and asked some questions i took some notes then each breakout group had the opportunity to submit something in writing from from some of their some of their thinking we then took all of that information and that information then we were able to lay aside alongside the requirements of esser and the beginnings of the plan so this first piece in cn that's uh every teacher in the district so excuse me every campus in the district had at least one teacher if not two teachers to provide input the we have a variety of parent advisory groups and the special ed parent advisory had some really creative ideas we have a federal programs advisory committee this committee has students it has internal staff external staff and had a really robust meeting with them as well our principals
066and departmental leaders had opportunities for input and then the north side education improvement council the that's the organization or the the internal council that you guys uh make appointments to annually and so you'll be seeing something friday letter for me asking for some new appointments they had the opportunity again that has internal stakeholders but also parents and business leaders then on june 18th we invited 10 members from each of these associations to come and work collaboratively in small groups using the same process to provide input i will tell you we were talking the other day every meeting there would be something someone would say that would resonate with the direction we're already going and also some really really good ideas we asked all these folks that gave input we said okay if you're here as
067a principal or if you're here as an association president yes that's your hat but guess what many of you are parents your grandparents your neighbors your business owners so you can wear all those hats to think about what's in the best interest of our students so using the guidelines from the particular um the esser application our proposal is broken in to these three areas so there are the academic supports to address learning loss then we have the whole child supports or kind of the wraparound services and then we have some pieces on health and safety uh tiffany and i were emailing earlier today we've kind of broken it apart so you can get the gist but many of these implemented will be connected very kind of connected together so just a few highlights from the
068academic support piece i'd already mentioned one of the biggest ticket items is the expansion of pre-k this is critical that's where we saw a decline actually statewide in pre-k and k that's where districts are losing students and so we're already thinking we've got kindergartners coming in next year that were not in high quality pre-k last year so you know you know what that means and then we've got some pre-kers coming in that maybe didn't have a real quality daycare where they're already starting to work on letters and numbers and colors so we need to get these children in our schools as early as possible so we're really excited about that we've talked i know at academics about reading academies this is actually a legislative requirement which some legislative requirements we push back on this we
069think is fantastic the only issue of course it's very expensive very time consuming but the intent of it is right on it goes back to the science of reading and building those those building blocks for our students that we know just like in mathematics they're building blocks if you if you miss some of these early building blocks you don't you can't come in here and just all of a sudden catch up so one piece we're looking at is expanding the reading academies because right now there are only k uh one two and three and so we're looking at expanding them to pre-k into fourth and fifth so that's as taking a tea idea and expanding upon it great dr jordan there's um a couple questions i don't know mr lopez and miss freeman if you
070want to wait or you want to ask them now okay ms freeman i'll go ahead sorry go ahead and ask since regarding the um expansion of full-day pre-k we're not making any assumptions about um the our ability to be able to fund this after these funds go away or would that be something that we would look at at the close of this yeah this as janus indicated it's a statutory mandate to expand to essentially offer full day pre-k wherever anybody uh has it has a need for it this will help us get there more quickly but the the recurring cost was going to happen whether coveted occurred or not so we're really using the funds to accelerate how quickly we get to full full-day pre-k offerings if you will so because these are recurring expenses
071expenditures it doesn't get flagged anywhere in the process right now submit these or okay that's that's on us thank you continuing on some other things that uh will be of interest ms chumley talked about you know retired teachers or even hiring ias we know creating students in smaller groups to receive targeted instruction is hugely important so part of the proposal is to add ias in either in kinder or in first four three years to make those classrooms you have more trained adults in those classrooms while those children are learning the fundamental building blocks of literacy and mathematics targeted tutoring expanded tutoring high impact tutoring there's many words that that are being put out there but we need more people so the idea of retired teachers even with the ias how can we bring ias in
072high quality and move them along the program to where they become a certified teacher i mean what a win-win they're already in our schools we can train them up then we can have better prepared teachers there are some pieces in here that are for instructional materials and some of them are instructional materials much of them that we would be purchasing anyway because they're research based they're part of what we use for tier one instruction or either tier two or tier three instruction the esser funds give us the opportunity to use use those the there's a variety of educational technology even in the special education area that will ensure our students have even better access to uh to the curriculum so the academic supports as we've mentioned before that targeting the learning loss is 60 of
073the budget now this is a little bit of a misnomer because some the whole child supports are kind of wrapped in two so that's in with the 60 but we've separated it here just to kind of show the intended target so at this time i um i want you to hear directly from our executive director of whole child supports and before she comes up i want to say a couple things again i think four years ago was when you guys set that goal and then we've made some changes that was very fortuitous because here we sat 15 months ago as we know when things were falling off the rails everywhere and this office did not skip a beat now they were very very busy you know out working with families and in some very beyond
074crisis situations but what this has allowed us to do because we had that goal in place because of the foresight to create this office we are now at the place to present some pretty sophisticated ideas and and if this gets approved we're able to implement this with esser and we think it combined with our academic supports um has a huge chance of closing that gap so dr ridgely will you walk us through it good evening so i wanted to take just a couple of minutes and and talk through what the whole child wrap around service reports would look like so the first item that you see is what we were calling a seeds team it's a mental health team we know in the city of san antonio there is a minimum of a six-week service
075six-week wait for counseling services the other obstacle is parents accessing those services so this seeds team will bring mental health services to our kiddos on the campus so there will be 11 seeds teams there are a team of a licensed professional counselor and lpc and a social worker and so they will work in tandem with the family to provide wrap-around services as the social service provider as the social worker and then the lpc will provide the counseling services then the follow-up care of the aftercare will be handed off to the school counselor and so we really have developed a plan for full wrap-around services it is a large ticket item and we really feel like mental health when our kiddos are back with us we're going to see a tremendous spike in anxiety and stress
076and suicidal ideation so we want to stand uh poised to provide some extra services and so who who will be providing those how does that so it will be in a partnership with communities and schools so we'll contract with communities and schools and they already have a real bank of lpcs and social workers already doing some work in our school district and so we're going to tap deeper into their resources okay and you're comfortable with the qualifications and requirements of the individuals that that will be doing this work yes ma'am so we have jessica weaver is the ceo of communities in schools and we've been in several conversations with her these particular the members of this particular team will be either lpcs which is a licensed professional counselor an lpcs which is a licensed professional
077counselor supervisor we have built into this proposal an actual supervisor to supervise them on their clinical mental health and so that's important from our lpc state licensing board that we have that service built in the social workers in these particular teams will be msws so they'll be master social workers you'll see a little bit farther down a proposal that will be bachelor level social workers and so the but the msws will be part of they will be paid by communities and schools they will be community and school employees yes right that is correct and i know carol is real high on on communities in school and i appreciate her her input from them um you know there are some schools that even during this coveted period have had and they're not social workers i'm not
078sure what the title is like the irene's in meisters of the world what what is her title who is that person yes so she's a family engagement liaison and so there are a handful of family engagement liaisons at title 1 campuses does your program with what you're recommending on this are we expanding any of that are we going to have because if you have the right person she is amazing amazing throughout covet it's unbelievable the things that she has done to make sure her community was taken care of i've just have just been so impressed with the outreach i mean she's out in people's homes it's just amazing so i just um i like that position and i know that not all of our schools have that position i appreciate the community and schools piece
079and i know that we can't um add a lot of positions where after these three years then we're still what karen's point was in relation to the funding piece of it but i'm curious as to so i'll let you go on but just point that out when you get to that part because that group of individuals i think can really make make a huge difference um in their community if it's the right person and i like that we have control of them as an employee versus it all and then just one other thing and i'll quit um so if there is ever an issue which i'm sure there won't be but if there is ever an issue in relation to a community in schools employee you feel comfortable that we have a working relationship with
080them that's such you can say i want them out of the school absolutely and they will be out that we won't have to have a long prolonged drug out you know situation where we have someone that that we're not comfortable with with our kids absolutely yes i think we have a fan dr woods has a great relationship with jessica as do i dr harold does as well um and in a in a conversation last week with jessica she's really prioritized north side because this is a large ask on her uh on her agency and so i have a i have great confidence in in the clinicians that we've already worked with in communities in schools and in her and and their ability will be part of the hiring of these uh individuals and so we'll
081have an will have opportunity to to really be in collaboration i like that and i like that you're looking at what their qualifications are as well absolutely yes and dr ridgely uh ms freeman had a question sure thank you some great services here um can you tell me the item mobile library and community outreach bus um so our kiddos have access to the libraries and the schools so what does that actually look like and for what purpose sure is it so so this particular item is equipping a bus with both wi-fi and tutoring support or clo basic needs clothing food what we know is our family engagement center is over on blessing which is the south end of the district but we know that we have need across our district and so these buses would
082give us the opportunity to take social supports to them you know perfect example is our families in resettlement situations in the colonies area and so it's hard for them to come to the blessing location the family engagement center so this will give us an opportunity to do that okay thanks where it says mobile library i thought that was a primary purpose but obviously other no thanks okay thank you all right probably yeah but the concept is incredible yeah okay all right okay um the next two items hygiene kits and backpacks for our students in homeless situations we know it's a group of high-risk population that's been greatly impacted by covid and so this is an opportunity to get some much-needed supplies to them and these supplies aren't covered under the mckinney-vento grant and then diapers
083formula wipes to our school students in school-age parenting program we had we just did the program evaluation we had a hundred percent graduation rate for the students who are in that program and so you know that that is a high-risk population and we were really able in this environment to wrap services around that group and so we're really we're really excited to provide the things that the basic needs that they need the next item is real-time translation services and so one of the things that we learned during the pandemic is we need a service to be able to communicate immediately with families who speak languages other than english and spanish and so the ability to find a translator for posh2 at i don't know nine o'clock at night is kind of challenging so we found
084a service that offers languages over 200 languages on the spot real time so we can pick up the phone we can call this company tell them what language we need and automatically trend and then they in real time translate what we need to communicate with the family so maybe it's about a parent-teacher conference maybe it's about a mental health crisis or it's some basic need and so we were doing that pre-covered but certainly not to the extent that we did it in the pan during the pandemic and so really looking to expand those services then of course uh this is that next when i talked about the bachelor level social workers so reconnection teams again in partnership with communities in schools and so we know and you've heard that we've been out knocking on doors
085finding our families so the folks who have been out knocking on doors have other responsibilities and so we need people in communities who are finding kids that we haven't been able to find yet who are really talking to them about what their barriers of attendance are and reconnecting them back to the school and so these social workers will that will be their role they'll be out working with families removing barriers connecting them right back to the school to the administrators to the counselors so we can get kids re-engaged and then we talked about the mobile libraries yes that we'll reword that really the primary focus is to get community outreach outreach to our to our families and then we know that after school time is a rich opportunity provide academic enrichment and also social and
086emotional skills and so providing tuition waivers for some of our families to be able to stay in with us and after school programming so that we can have those opportunities for enrichment we currently do not provide after-school care at the women's shelter you know the women's shelter is in our boundary and so this would give us an opportunity again to extend the school day for students who are enrolled at the women's shelter and then a variety of take-home kits around speech and social and emotional learning and extended academic opportunities for both students and special needs populations and then on the social and emotional side for for k-8 students all right those are the items the the high-level items on the whole child wraparound service plan okay mr blind um yeah just i was trying to
087understand the the terminology now i guess that's from that from the federal government of the whole child let me tell you what i'm asking that um because again we've been talking whole child for for a very long time in north side i guess you know we just use the ascd model etc so i'm trying to understand the context of is this different or we're just reinforcing it through funding because to me it was very similar what we talked about for about 15 to 20 years right yeah you know it's a it's the same concept although the federal government's not really using the ascd model but they they talk the grant talks a lot about wrap around services and social and emotional learning and mental health which kind of all falls within that arena okay i
088think i understand the reason why i'm bringing it up okay okay i guess i'm okay because i guess what i'm worried about is when we're talking about that we're including health safety i know we went different direction but nutrition a part of that extracurriculars to me i know we've narrowed a little bit but we're really talking about the just for this focus we're knowing but to really the whole child we're talking about those aspects that we used to talk a lot broadly correct yes now yeah certainly and when we talk about whole child when we talk about in her office it is it's about physical health mental health nutrition all the shack pieces yes it includes that okay thank you and of course a lot of those services already exist and to bobby's point have
089for years they're just paid for out of the general fund right because they're things we've been doing all along these are just things that we want to try to do supplemental over that three year spending window dr ridgely i had a couple quick questions um and thanks for presenting to us yesterday too because it it helped to think about it overnight um i love the idea of the trust buses or whatever we end up calling them i think getting out there and i was thinking on the reconnection teams those would be also teams that would be instrumental in helping round up our high school kiddos that um have possibly fallen in love with earning a paycheck from eight to four instead of going to school and i know dr woods yesterday said he was going
090to reach out to the chamber of commerce and um some of the business leaders to encourage them to look at our kids working after school and and just getting them um updated on on what's going on um and then where it said um let's see um i guess this is a maybe this is more for dr jordan but the educational technology um i had brought up that you know we collected all the technology but yet we know kids need technology at home um just equity issues right not everyone can afford it so um dr wood you had suggested or you had confirmed that we would be one-to-one technology um not in a virtual way but in a supportive way at home no confirmed and that those were actually dollars that we spent in the you
091know in the past that we will while we could go back and reimburse ourselves for those costs we're not going to do that we're going to we're going to use these funds as a essentially september 1 2021 and forward for three years so uh so that's those those devices have already been purchased okay and um then the last question before ms chumbley um was um and maybe it came out yesterday but our learning tree after school support bobby mentioned intramurals but any kind of after-school support entities that that we host or house would also have some sort of social emotional either training or emphasis or seamlessness to the supports they they serve in addition to coaching soccer or whatever yes so one of another item that's not a big ticket item is specific curriculum and
092and training for learning tree staffed okay all right thank you very much miss we're chumbley we're good okay um so a couple of pajamas so when we talk about full day pre-k and i know that this is going way back um bobby and i had conversations on this and when san antonio did pre-k for essay so what does the whole if when we talk about a whole day of pre-k that means that we have construction going on throughout the whole day with little kids i know you're going to have rest time and you have to need to have exercise time but it's not because there was an old model that was and this goes way back my kids were little that was half the day was instruction and the other half of the day was
093pretty much just child care and i don't want to pay for that so that's not what this is yeah i just want to be assured that our full-day pre-k is actually that that of course we have the times for the rest and we have time for fun but it is not just half a day of child care no no this is a suit this is a certified teacher all day long with an instructional assistant using using developmentally appropriate practices using pre-k guidelines that are academic and social and emotional and using you know frog street i think is what we ended up going with a really high quality yes it's not here and then you're just napping or playing video games or rest of the day no okay um and then on the um so we
094talked about instructional assistance increasing instructional assistance and we talked about tutoring and we talked about possibly using retired teachers for targeted day tutors and i would like to know what are we going to have a matrix in relation to having quality retired teachers in the classroom and i think that majority of all of our teachers are quality teachers but i'll be the first one to say i i had teachers in in our schools that my children were never going to have they would never have been in their class and i think that everyone can honestly say that that that happens so i just want to make sure that when we have retired teachers coming back that it is the best the brightest the ones that had shown academic success with their students in the classroom
095and so i want to know how do we do that and then with the work shortage that is out there right now how do we get same how do we get quality individuals for instructional assistance that you know are wanting to go ahead and be part of that program to become certified teachers so i guess my question is what what matrix are we using or are is this going to be that who who hires them i mean how do we make sure we get the best qualified individuals yeah we're going to on the first question we're going to go through the normal hiring process which means principals look at the names and if there's a flag they'll identify it hr looks at the names if there's a flag they'll identify it but there's not we're
096gonna need a bunch of people and our worry is is not that we'll have a thousand applicants for 500 positions it's the other way frankly and so to be honest if we get to that problem i'll be happy to be there i i am afraid that that is not going to be the case that i bring that up though brian is because it's really it's really really important that we have the best and the best quality so i'm even thinking that what if we have you know retired college professors i mean what i mean that was that just it doesn't come up yeah that's another right it's another thing that probably needs to be rephrased or are added to because what we've talked about actually is not just retired teachers but it's potentially college students
097it's other retired professionals it's folks who show interest in working with kids and then can prove that they can be successful with a small group of kids so retired teacher is ideal right because you're you're talking about somebody who's actually certified in the content in many cases that's the ideal situation but we don't think we're going to be able to satisfy the need purely with retired teachers we think we're going to have to look beyond that frankly some if you've got you know the student teachers and sure i mean you have utsa right down the street right yeah i mean if we've got student teachers that are good we can pay them outside of the normal day to help us in this way so so that's i think that's the best answer i've got to
098the first question on the on the uh on the instructional assistant obviously we'll we'll we're gonna we're gonna have to have a screening program to to look for people who really um what we're looking for ideally is folks who see themselves perhaps in teaching after this three year window of time so that's like filter number one for these people so that we can the goal in this is not only to help kids in the three-year wind the spend window but then to have these funds have some positive impact after the spend window that goes away right after these dollars are all gone if we can hire 200 300 400 teachers that we get to train for three years in our schools with our best teachers what a benefit right what a huge benefit so but
099we'll have to we'll screen those folks kind of along those lines like we do instructional assistants now but what we'll look for is people who don't want to stay an instructional assistant ideally but want to become a teacher okay i just want to make sure that we have something in place that make sure that we have top quality on that and then i'm not understanding the cost of why we would enable our buses to have wi-fi because i'll tell you the only thing i'm picturing is if it was my children they would be on their iphone playing and doing all sorts of things that have absolutely nothing to do with instruction while they're writing watching home on the bus um so that's i'm not quite sure i'm understanding the cost for doing that it's um
100the wi-fi is filtered for one thing so unlike the normal situation if i've got cell service that which is not filtered the wi-fi is filtered so while i'm not suggesting you there's no game you could get through through filtered wi-fi it'll be a lot less open than just cell service would be but the other thing we think is given the rides of some of our kids am and pm they will use that service for for learning and we can pair it with some of the educational software that we're talking about that's pretty engaging for kids to do it in a way that'll be meaningful on that ride on the on the bus what if we can get a breakdown at some point on how much what that cost because part of me brian too is
101um kids are in school all day long and when they're going home they just need to be able to kick back relax and go home i don't i don't disagree i'll tell you that i talk to kids who have asked for it and we've actually looked at this over the years and and have not justified the local expense but because we can do most of this as a as essentially a one-time cost we think now is the time on somebody else's dime just as long as we have safeguards in there that that are monitoring that i you know i i can picture all sorts of horrors it'd be essentially it's essentially the same filter as if you were accessing student wi-fi in a school it's the same kind of filtering we're it's not actually optional
102we we don't have a choice we're we're held accountable by federal law that if we're going to provide that service it has to be filtered and then richly let me ask you so it looks like with everything that we're talking about that we've got um we've got a lot of support in place or we will have for those students identified are for those students that we know are coming from areas of not having support what i'm worried about is what are we doing to help our teachers be able to identify those kids that pre-covered probably pretty normal you know had normal kind of challenges that that kids have but now things are different and cobit has taken um has had a really bad effect to their interactions their ability to communicate they've gone from being
103these outgoing kids to suddenly being these kids that have their hoodies up the whole time so what are we doing using these funds to identify those kids and then to get them the support that they need because i mean i think that that just the learning piece of it our teachers are going to have so much on their plates starting at at the start of school um so how do we how do we identify those kids and how are we making sure that they are taken care of within the plan that that you have in place so we're not waiting for these funds to address that we know there's a need we saw the need when students came back so counselors we've created a training that is around trauma-informed care practices so what are the
104best practices that teachers can use in the classroom to reach kids who have been exposed to trauma we've ever everybody's been exposed to trauma in the pandemic so we are not using these funds council that training is being created right now and counselors will deliver that training to teachers when they come back in august so that's the first part of that then the second part is the identification of students in crisis and so part of the trauma-informed care practice training is here's the warning signs for kids who are who are struggling emotionally we know teachers know kids best and so here are just some off you know automatic things to look for in behavior right because mental health challenges will manifest themselves in behaviors and so with these behaviors what are the steps so conversation
105with the counselor the counselor and the the counselor will be the first line of conversation with the parent before a referral to the seeds team occurs and so we don't we won't never we don't want to blindside parents that there's a mental health struggle and so we'll follow our same protocols about identifying kids for service now we refer kids for mental health services there's just a weight and parents don't access the services so we'll follow our same protocols for that but really having a conversation and training for teachers as soon as they come back about warning signs of mental health crisis trauma-informed care practices and how they're going to how those traumas are going to show up in the classroom are we going to be doing anything um me on this are we going to
106be doing anything that um helps kids i mean we're we're helping kids to identify that in themselves that you know that that we're going to have any kind of a a program or a conversation are where kids can identify you know that they're [Music] yeah that they're struggling and i stayed in bed for three days at one point and said i probably need to get up and i'm being affected by coven more than i thought i was and so you know i'm an adult and struggled with that much less you know a sixth grader or eighth grader that's going through so you know are are we going to do anything within this or within within our normal counseling program that is going to get going to have kids help kids identify self-identify and reach out
107for help very important we know we know both internal um struggles and identifying those and we know that peers go to peers that's the number one reach out is peer to peer right and so how do we empower peers to speak up on behalf of their friends when it's the don't tell um philosophy so we'll continue with our current practices counselors will be counselors develop or deliver tier one uh intervention tier one not tier one intervention tier one foundational counseling lessons or what we call guidance lessons so this summer we've gone back and they're in the process of revamping those to include a really as lesson on mental health and what are the signs and symptoms of mental health to both empower students for themselves and for their peer group then you'll see in the
108growth and improvement package that we submitted a platform for a data point for perception data so we've never asked students in a real comprehensive way how they're feeling about themselves about their school environment about their you know their ability to feel safe at school and so in growth and improvement is a line item to be able to purchase a program to be able to do exactly that and so students will be able to you know check in with themselves check in with their teachers check in with their counselors in the data platform and then this platform provides tier 1 foundational lessons that i'm struggling with grit here's what i can do on a tier one as a teacher and a counselor at tier one and then here's what a tier two and a tier three
109intervention can be so you'll see that in the growth improvement packages i was just thinking about when we how our numbers went remember right when covet first started i think like within that first six weeks and that safety number that we have in north side we had a thousand calls within you know i think brian like a three or four four-week period our numbers just spiked with families and crisis kids in crisis and i think that we're still going to have that so absolutely great i i feel much better on that okay thanks i think when looking at this we need to look at everything else that we are already doing absolutely enhancing with this that this is not just that piece i absolutely yes and i'm sorry you can't sit down yet miss freeman
110had a question in mr lopez dr harrell wait until after we get to the end of slide 10 see if it's answer okay all right one question all right and training uh professional development be rolled out at what time so for trauma-informed care practices that'll be delivered face-to-face on the campus when teachers return and the it will be delivered by the campus counselors all right and slide um i had one last question i'm trying to see what was on look ahead okay um on um yesterday we talked a little bit about teacher wellness as well some of the things that the district is going to focus on to take care of our teachers staff and employees and i know the newsletter comes out the the wellness tip of the week and those are great be
111well stay well was ahead and i think dr uh woods and you said that it'll be repeated um was there anything else to add to that or teacher care or teacher wellness woods are you you want to take that away okay yes so uh be well stay well we'll come back next year it's in february i think the date is already set for february 12th maybe it's a saturday um and then really looking at opportunities to extend the be well message dr woods led the pandemic with you know be well and so we've really tried to do newsletters around self-care for educators and looking at other opportunities tina booger and was the keynote for bewell stay well and uh tremendous feedback so diana is going to bring tina bugrun she's been bringing her that's how
112we connected with her to new teachers and second year teachers to really help them understand the importance of self-care and so looking at opportunities to um to continue to to promote the message of eight and eight dimensions of wellness and and really the importance of self-care and the eight dimensions of wellness came from the um the castle work or was it where did it come from so it is the it's the american health um i forgot the full title but it is the the national model for well wellness and so well round if you're a well-rounded adult or person really of something in each one of the eight dimensions great thank you very much all right slide 10. and thank you you get to sit down thank you so much thank you thank you thank
113you thank you kim so well dr richly b well good job so as we move to the next piece your question might be um cost so we have talked about the entire allocation we talked about part of the requirement is to have 20 percent that focuses on learning loss ours folk ours is 60 and so tiffany if um she has led this charge was she and her team working very closely with us to make sure we stay in compliance and has this detail okay so at the bottom of this slide you'll see the total grant entitlement is just under 173 million at this time ta has only only released the two-thirds of the entitlement so our cni team has brought together a bunch of program initiatives and i break down the cost for everyone so
114in this first year 2122 our one-time estimated cost is just under 25 million virtual instruction for this first year we estimate just about 1.7 and throughout the grant period which is three years ending 2024 we are just under 89 million so we want to just show that break out for you guys and on the next slide we take it a step further to break it out by the categories that we just went over so the whole the academic support 89 million whole child support 25 million health and safety 88 000 and and that's what we have our total as of right now do you have any questions on the cause now one thing um tiffany too that this is um that i walked away with yesterday is it's and uh mr medina help me understand
115it or remember it a little bit better this is dynamic so we don't need to improve it and as we're going along if something's not working we can stop it right absolutely yeah so these are just that's twice a year we're looking at it every at least every six months but we could look at it more often right so we had talked about maybe coming quarterly with with what's happening uh what changes we have made a program is not working right or or it's it's really doing well and so we want to incorporate some more cost towards it yeah exactly um so it will be ever changing throughout the grant period yeah it's an important point because some of what we're talking about are things that we have not done before there's going to be
116a lot of evaluation and this will be a constantly evolving plan this won't be something that just gets board approval in july and then it goes away and you don't see it again as tiffany indicated we're required to revisit the plan uh biannually but i think it especially in year one that that will happen more frequently uh than than that so so i don't i don't want folks to think this is set in stone it's it's not uh but we have to have an application that we can turn into the agency so that's what we're working on obviously right and tea also requires some pre-approval processes so we have to complete forms we have to communicate uh do amendments um to the application if we said we were going to do something but we want
117to do something else and so we work with the grant and grants and recognitions department sharon sanchez and her group to ensure that we're meeting all those compliance requirements before we do anything and we don't have to i mean because our total is a is 172 million and so right now we're at 115. correct so we don't have to right now justify what our our cost of all of that is right i mean we still have the 172 million that is correct eventually yes right so as we go along you know we'll see which ones work which don't and test and change and we'll have the dollars to be able to switch if we need to as of right now we can only apply for the tooth for the two thirds right the application will
118we will make next month is for the two-thirds of the total amount because that's the only that's the only dollars that are actually available now correct okay so that's that's why you see it at 1 15. rather than 173. and we focus this on just the the needs for the children as janice mentioned and so maybe hvac and all those other things that other school districts are doing for the district we can do that with the remaining funds but of course it just depends on how the programs are are running yeah i told mr san miguel and his staff early on that that sorry we're going to prioritize the uh the cni and the social emotional and then if we've got you know 17 dollars left he can have it but yeah so architects don't
119start worrying about redesigning hvac systems anytime soon [Music] so and you know it's it's actually a lot of people have complained about the two-thirds it's actually not a bad thing i think that this is ample dollars for us to get started on some really exciting initiatives the rest of the money will come available but by then we'll already have a sense of what's working for us well and what's not what do we need to double down on what we need to go away from and then when those dollars come available they'll allow us all that flexibility so it's it's not a bad situation really at all you know brian on that on the facility side of it though have we looked at you know because i know that we were talking about um and i
120don't know what we what we call it but it's in the elementary schools where we were talking about actually having something that was a manipulative on the wall like the lego wall that we were talking about right have we talked about our thought about is there anything from a facility standpoint that could be used like with the social workers with communities in schools that's a manipulative or something that we could build into our libraries or put into i don't know i just um yeah i don't think we've gotten that far down the road the sensory piece is and touch on a lot of the the different trainings i don't think we've gotten that far down the road that'll be an option i think um as we the rest of this money becomes available i think
121we can think through those things some of what we're doing on the pre the full day pre-k side is in the facilities area it's converting rooms that used to be a fourth grade standard classroom that now need to be you know for little people so there is some some of some of that work in here but it's not large-scale hvac work we don't have that in a plan yet we'll wait and see what happens i'm just wondering if we try to think outside the box though within the changes in those rooms is there something from a social emotional misridgely um from a social emotional standpoint that we don't have that maybe we maybe we need to have yeah we can talk about it we just haven't had the conversation on on that piece of it
122um anything construction related does require pre-approval pre-approval from tea but as we explore those ideas we can definitely request it yeah but it's good in the loop there they got plenty to pray over without escrow money brian so how and and i know just from being involved in schools for a long time that there's you know there is a learning point and you you know you have to before you can come in and say yes this is working or no it's not that you can't just you know do it in a month say it's good or not but but since it's over over a three year period i wouldn't want to go a year and a half and then say you know what we probably would have gotten a better bang for our buck for
123this program versus that program so are we looking at like a a really deep review after the first semester yeah i think i think six months feels about right for especially for the the stuff that janice laid out six months is probably about right where you could start looking at what again what you want to double down on and what you may want to go away from but i can't see much less than that being you just won't have enough data to be reliable yeah i just thought if it's a it's only three years i wouldn't want to go a year and a half and then decide oh you know what that that we're not that's not as effective as i think first first real programmatic review will be early spring of 22. okay thank
124you all right thank you thanks tiffany just real quick um dr jordan when we were talking facilities um um yesterday it didn't come up but i was wondering if we had talked at one time about having a family health clinic clinic and doing things like vaccinations and things like that similar to the one that's in harlandale but could there be a consideration possibly for one that also provided mental health services and support to families because sometimes schools are scary places to to families and something you know centrally located or um you know in dual places in our district to help support families on a walk-in basis yeah that's we've had that same conversation and that's i think after the rest of those dollars are released that'll be on the list for consideration because that's another
125thing that could be mostly one-time expense and then have a long-range benefit you know beyond the spend of the money well i think we were talking about before covet even but we're not hitting the mental health part and wrap around as much as as anything so this will be great so yeah that's that'll that'll be on the list for consideration down the line a little bit okay um the next um any other okay mr lopez um no okay all right i was just trying to turn it off okay i'm sorry i'm going way back janice uh my questions were kind of previous uh in the very beginning of the presentation so when we're talking about the uh allowable activities and we're talking about academic support social emotional support health and safety and continuity of the
126server or continuity or continuity of services under the social emotional support when we talk about family engagement what are we talking specifically as far as programs i know we're talking about communities and schools as part of that wrap around services and when we talk about wrap around services what i don't know if many people understand that's the the uh clothing that's the the uh food uh type uh benefits right that support uh school supplies things that we do on a regular basis sometimes for some families what are we talking about when we talk about a family engagement i mean how are we going to be talking about that are we going to reach out per campus will there be you know a licensed professional that will meet with family or will they be recommended to
127the communities and schools program how would that criteria come about or how would it be established in other words so we'll work with for specifically for the seeds team and then the reconnections team so we'll work with cis and with sassy so our office of school choice um student advocacy and school choice to develop what the absentee critics the absentee criteria is academic criteria also there's going to be some like from a counselor that'll say look johnny has missed x amount of days but that's because maybe he goes between mom and dad or you know there's some kind of classification he may be having or or some kind of uh you know yeah okay okay well that's good and that's what you're saying that that sees team is right they're going to go specifically out
128for those type or they're just going to be referred to the seeds team will actually be the mental health providers and the social service providers so so students will enter the seeds team referral process based on needs identified by either the reconnection team or a school administrator or a school counselor or a family liaison so the the criteria that's established really to devel to look at the family crisis or the student in crisis and so entry into the seeds team will come from a real um cross what i would call cross-demand cross-departmental team so so we have a child advocacy team process in some of our campuses where you have the counselor the school nurse and administrator specialist who talk who bring a child into this process to say you know here's the struggles here's
129the needs now what's the next step and so that's the identification process then to get them to the seeds team now going a little bit further with that seized team and we're talking about you know providing the child uh that service and i'm gonna say more social emotional um what about like for our seniors because what i've seen in the past and and through personal experience i've having been a part of a situation that required something like that there was some i want to say it was a student a former student of ours and by the way you were very instrumental in helping me provide and put that connection to it uh for that child uh but centered around those students that are seniors junior seniors that are having identity identification issues um that's been
130real important to me because a lot of that there and i don't want to say neglect but there's just not an identifying or an understanding of what they're really going through regardless of what their situation may be it almost seemed uh and i think i shared it with you it's almost it almost seemed like once he graduated he was gone it was like no longer he was in our system and it was up to society after that to take a part of that or to take over that uh that portion of it and i'm not saying we did that i'm just saying that do we track would we be tracking some of those type situation should they come up and only just to say that hey yeah you know we put him in the right
131direction he went in that right direct or he or she went in that right direction and they were able to we saw success because i see that as as as our alumni i see that as a community i see that as our students once they graduate from us they're always ours right um and so i took it a little more personal when i saw it that he was one of our students so you know i was kind of curious of how that would follow through if any or do we have a plan to kind of follow through with that so we don't have a specific plan about students who have graduated other than if they've not gra if they've not met graduation requirements credit you know recovery process for them the irene chavez academy um
132if they're in service with the seeds team we would continue to track them because clinical mental health requires us to do that right but that's a great point that we can look to wrap into that referral process and what's the follow-up after care that's part of having social workers on these teams is because they're going to do the after care once the clinical mental health portion is is concluded because that clinical mental health is not it's not meant to be three years it's meant to be eight to ten sessions and so then the social workers will pick up that continuity of care afterwards and what i learned from that experience and this situation was that it was even very difficult for that child even at that point once he was at a certain age he
133was very limited as to what he could do or what services were available so you know when we when we make that transition from going from graduation and you know i'm just using that as an example but he's coming from our he's in our system and then once he's in our system and we let him go he graduates you know it was very hard for that person because i even called organizations they said no um he has to be this age and it was so so for that type of student who a former student that needed the service needed the home needed a place to eat and shower and and be ba you know be sheltered there was a gap and that was was very disappointing to me in trying to provide some kind of
134help or assistance so um i like that and and it just so you know the guy was homeless the poor child was homeless and um so i'd like to see something like the continuity of carrying that over and seeing how that you know i'm not saying we have to do anything big but what does that look like if we can't explore that um the i lost my notes um thank you so much dr originally my next one is for for janice you know um you mentioned earlier when we were talking about the pre-k for essay i mean i'm not pre-k but our pre-k program um we were talking about you know that we're continuing our program and we're going through our program and our efforts to to bring in more pre-k students you said that
135we kind of lost some students what did you mean by that when you said that you know we lost some pre-k students was it because of covid or was it because of the connection uh because you know pre-k kids didn't learn through virtual or what did you mean by we had quite a few families who elected their students would have come into our pre-k and they kept their kids at home sure um because you you know you don't have to attend pre-k and we weren't alone in north side that was a common phenomenon throughout the entire state where and you know and actually it kind of does make sense for some parents you know especially if and and then they didn't do the virtual learning at home because they weren't able to do the virtual
136virtual learning so they thought well i'm just gonna my kid my child won't do any pre-k i'll just enroll them in kinder so we were on a trajectory as through um the decision you guys were making of adding more full-day pre-k which dr woods said i mean we have three years we're through statute that we have to have full day pre-k for any child who desires and qualifies for full-day pre-k um but of course we had a had a hiccup with our numbers increasing due to due to covet and that's that's exactly all across 100 due to coven and because you know there's not compulsory attendance at pre-k and that's your youngest children um parents thought you know what they'll be fine so what we know and that's why you know we pre-k again is
137one of our big ticket items and adding ias into those earliest grade levels is we know that children even a children from an advantaged environment they did not have the quality of what they were interactions probably in the home of what they would have had in our classrooms so we want to you know kind of accelerate that so as they enter first grade second grade we're able to mitigate them not having a high quality pre-k experience okay thank you for explaining that and and please bear with me on this one janice because i wasn't quite sure where it would fall or who could answer it you know when we talk about health and safety and we talk about the health part the social emotional the health part one of the things that i realized and
138i learned it and and and i'm just going to speak quite frankly uh we experienced it in our own family was the inactivity that our students did not have and um and and this is one of the things that i kind of wanted to ask you if we do some kind of like uh emotional you know type uh you know when we incorporate the social emotional part of it the physical activity i think is so important that was lost throughout this section and and it manifested itself through eating is through eating and because there was a lack of focus on hey you know watch what you eat there was and i say that because i bring it to the point of when you know with bobby and a lot of what he has done with
139physical activity and supporting you know activities like sports and stuff like that with with our programs and even incorporating it into our middle school programs i think is what we're doing now am i correct if we're doing that right now bobby yeah and i say that because i think having that physical um component to it do we have something are we looking at some kind of like a sports partnership with the sports foundation that says hey um we're gonna we're gonna create a middle school you know i don't know something to include physical activity actually getting outside i got the the remediation i got all of that but i think what's also key and what was very important was that we had our students that came in back to school where our athletics programs our
140students that played sports our band kids that were involved in those activities that in my point in my point of view that helped us bring the kids back because they wanted to come back right those are typically the the the um the outgoing students right they're the leaders so i'd like to see some kind of a physical activity or a partnership that incorporates that too i got it the counseling i got all of that the recovery but some component that continues or that brings into physical activity if that could be possible whatever you all recommend right yes and mr lopez i couldn't agree with you more a student's physical health is directly related to their mental health is directly related to their academic health and so just a couple of comments on that first of
141all i think we have lots of opportunity to do more um where the magic is and i'm looking over at kim and her team they've been working on creating a social and emotional curriculum that actually integrates with the regular curriculum so so part of the key if you want system wide like increase health is to integrate it within the things that you normally do because sometimes yes you want some of the separate pieces that people join but if it's something that's integrated on a daily basis then you have it throughout the system so we have opportunities i know just to give some examples are elementary teachers for example our cni group when they would create lessons and things and push out that were being delivered virtually they would put in brain breaks that included get
142up go outside i mean it was part go find 10 different leaves bring the 10 different leaves here show them on your camera go in and breathe some of the mindfulness pieces which was just trying to mitigate as you say sitting inside in front of a laptop so as we're looking at the the question that was asked earlier i can't remember who asked it but the question about are we are we trying to teach students to self-regulate to recognize those things in themselves it's the same idea of as we're working on social emotional learning and mental health we have these services but we want to integrate it into it's the day-to-day of what you do and so the physical piece certainly has been a challenge as as students have been on laptops and so you
143know certainly we have the curriculum for pe and we have those who are in athletics kind of our lift is going to be how do we integrate it in tier one instruction um for students and teachers and that's a that's certainly a priority okay and now now we're talking about more of a of a like a pe class that would be incorporated into it or are we talking about like an extracurricular well we already after activity that would require hey uh coming to school or staying i mean things like that so we we already have requirements around physical education 135 minutes a week for our elementary students and then there's so many courses that students have to take if they're not in athletics of course fine arts marching band cheerleading all that counts as well
144so at this point we're not talking about adding like a separate you know thing for physical activity it's more along the lines of because you hit the nail on the head physical health is as important as mental health is as important as academic health so we're looking at that piece you heard shaq speak that's the physical activity and physical health is one of the four main components that shaq works on so that the goal is and certainly we can look at adding you know this new core not a course but something after school or whatever which i think would be helpful the key to get it to scale is how how do we integrate it daily in the classroom okay okay thank you appreciate it all right mr blunt you're good you sure yeah okay
145i know yeah thank you thank you very much so to just wrap up the next steps you see um we're we're well down the road um we've have our stakeholder input you see we've been working on the plan for several months we'll be bringing the final plan on july 20th to you guys and ask for your approval the submission is the 27th i don't know when we're going to get our notice of grant award you know they've given some some general dates and then the review is really important i think ms chumbley you mentioned it that this isn't something that was okay this is what we're doing for three years and we'll see in three years so coming back and saying this is the results that we're seeing this is the feedback that we're getting
146so we can see what what tweaks and then we the september 2024 of esser ending we have that you know it's going to come to an end and so we need to prepare ourselves to make sure we're able to continue the work okay all right we'll move on to cpr waiver dr jordan dr uh sorry just miss freeman one quick question um in the process so are we not going to be able to plan for any of these projects until we actually get the the blessings from tea or are we going to go ahead and plan that we're going to be able to to do this no we're going to plan to do this there are some things that require pre-approval but the the bulk does not require pre-approval so no we're going to go
147forward obviously we've got to have funds in order to bring people on board and so janice alluded quickly to the fact that their lack of specificity on when we will get the noga is frustrating thank you okay i don't have any more questions dr jordan yes ma'am so this cpr waiver this is the second year we're bringing this to you in requesting your approval um and this is really covering bases by the time our students graduate it is a a requirement from texas education code that students have had instruction in cpr they don't have to have any designation they just need to have had instruction in north side instruction can take place in any course as long as you have a certified instructor in northside isd we deliver cpr instruction in our health classes and
148also in some of our cte classes like sports medicine i believe we offer it there so this year as in last year we're bringing the waiver in case due to the cove disruption due to so many students virtually in high school in the hybrid if we have students who did not receive they weren't in attendance or they did not receive cpr instruction this waives the requirement for that we do not anticipate bringing this to you again we hope ever if not a really long time um potentially you know it can be um you know it could be quite a few students affected we frankly we just don't know okay i don't see any questions um optional flexible school day for chavez excel academy that's a that's an action item item b is an action item
149okay we'll wait for dr harl thank you oh yeah approval okay is there a motion sorry ms freeman i would mention that we approve and bobby there's a second all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it the cpa cpr waivers been approved and item c optional flexible school day for excel yes thank you so this is for uh the instruction and the program at chavez excel academy that you know are darren calvert is the principal of and and does phenomenal work with those students there this is an annual approval although some of the requirements around it have changed it used to be that districts needed to hold a public hearing and then there needed to be an action item they did away with a public
150hearing in 2020 so really what districts do now is they bring to the board of trustees the request to present the waiver for attendance so just to give a few little details we're anticipating roughly 350 students who would be eligible to begin excel academy this next school year the primary purpose is to prevent dropouts these are students who have at least 17 credits under their belt towards graduation and through a whole host of circumstances these students need a non-traditional environment many may be working to support families some may be teen parents but these are students who who desire to get a college diploma and so they agree to attend several days a week at least four hours consecutively where they receive instruction in order to finish their high school diploma historically students who have participated
151in the chavez excel academy have an impeccable completion rate the students who attend who meet the standard do very do very well there attendance roughly over the last four years runs about 86 percent 87 percent this past year attendance was 77 so we anticipated a drop off given the disruption we have no doubt that things are going to get back on track now that um individuals the students who are participating will be back in person so the request is for your approval for us to submit this waiver so that we can have the job as excel academy for about 350 students next year okay miss freeman you have a question no okay um is there a motion to approve so what is it averages for about the past four years about 86 okay no number
152of students it has ranged from uh we had a dip when we looked at chavez last year i think we were down to 316 or 317. so there's been as many as nearly 400 and it's kind of vacillated since then in this next year we're anticipating being up about 45 students okay so just an average you think of 350 we could be higher than that no we're we're we feel like it's going to be pretty close to 350. those are the numbers that darren has really pulled together yeah i think we'll can we'll continue to see some pressure that will cause enrollment to go up for the next two or three years because of the covet impact um so it would be higher than the three yeah they they may be they may be a
153little busier than usual in the next two or three years but it's not an issue if they're 400 i mean now no we can make it work if if that's what you mean we may need to flex with staff and you know that kind of thing but we can make it work and we can always adjust mid-year and is this that they they have to do four hours they have to do at least four hours a day four days a week that's correct correct okay so we haven't we don't have anything where they can do two full eight-hour days that's that's that's statutory that's not our choice okay i wasn't sure on that we don't have that option okay thank you you're welcome all right miss freeman you had a motion um yes i motioned
154to a proof thank you mr medina ii all those in favor of hang on let me go back approving the optional flexible school day for chavez excel say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it it's been approved thank you dr jordan you're welcome can i just i just want to ask one question um so if i'm 19 i'm a senior well i would have been a senior i'm 19 and i now am have opted to work last year during covid and i have neither a ged or a high school diploma would i be eligible to come back and go to chavez it depends on if you have credits and what your state testing situation is possibly yes if not we would route you towards ged so but i would
155or re-enrollment in high school you know that's another option obviously yeah i just thought at 19. i know it doesn't happen very often that needs what we would recommend is that individual visit with a high school counselor and they'll be able to triage what's the appropriate placement okay thank you all right facilities and operations uh mr semigo thank you uh we have a couple of presentations for you today um as some of you know we bring on occasion uh master planning uh to the board so they can see it and look at it and helps us with orderly planning our capital improvements over time so today we have especially for our older schools excuse me uh today we have a presentation uh by nextgen uh for uh meadow village elementary school and i know that
156uh mr joelle hernandez will make a short but riveting presentation for your consideration short and sweet i was told sure is the key and riveting and riven short was the key right no pun intended all right so i'm sure monica will help me through here so obviously as we were here last month uh today we're here to present meadow village last month we presented colonies north but much like meadow village you'll see the front end template is much the same in this case we are providing two different options for a potential master plan for meadow village but our goals and objectives are still the same so we're still looking at you know long-term planning and making sure that whatever additions renovations those kinds of things are done to this campus that they're done in a
157manner in which makes sense and that we have a roadmap of how to go about about them so these are some quick images of the front of uh metal village in case you're not familiar with that campus and then this is the overall site plan one of the challenges we have in this site plan obviously is uh we have one street a lot of your schools including colonies north that we did last month it's not an intersection so in terms of accessibility it allows two routes for buses and parents to be separated in this case it's a little bit more challenging because they're both coming off of uh meta way drive the other challenge we have uh as you can see here by our color code uh most of the building or at least the
158core of the building is from 68-69 uh and it's kind of reached its its its lifespan uh a lot of it is not only the technology of it but just the sizes of spaces that were uh designed in that era versus what we would do today um is is different so obviously this is an effort to try to bring all of those up to your current standards of tomlinson elementary which is a new elementary school thank you and then here's just a broad overview of color coding the general areas of metal village existing campus so as you would expect most of the deficiencies uh lie into physical education um all of those older schools got those gym editions in the mid 70s that that are outsized compared to what you would have now your media
159your library is also undersized and your classrooms although we indicate there that it's very slight it's less than two percent uh or right at two percent um the reality is that the sizes are not correct you just happen to have more classrooms than you need compared to a new elementary school but the classrooms themselves are are undersized so um there's a good chance we're going to replace the majority of them so kind of a big picture concept is in this one we're proposing uh to keep two buildings which were uh done in the 2000s and the odds so uh the two that would remain or the two you see there in gray and highlighted now in yellow so one was built in 2002 the one on the lower half and then the one to the
160right of plan was built in 2009 so the idea is that we would keep those obviously some of the challenges that we're trying to overcome is the physical education being undersized the administration being undersized parking is deficient and then a playground we're going to address some of the playgrounds improve traffic flow and then obviously as i mentioned earlier some of the classrooms are past their life expectancy so in phase one uh demolition we would demolish the existing gymnasium room from our gymnasium building demolish 14 classrooms and add seven portable buildings uh phase one new construction we'd come back at a new gymnasium cafeteria and kitchen building uh add some classrooms uh service yard and all that would get upgraded and you provide for a new pave play court add a new bus loop um which
161would be adjacent to the cafeteria so now that it serves uh more in line with what you would have in your standard new elementary schools and then renovate the existing classroom into or the existing cafeteria into classroom space and then remove the six portables we anticipate that to run about 9.7 to 10 million dollars and by the way these are in 2022 so should you delay it as part of your bond program or delay it to a future bro uh program those numbers would need to be adjusted so now in phase two demolition we would demolish the existing library and another additional 14 classrooms and we would add six new portable classrooms to accommodate that and then next we would add a new administration building at the front of the school to be more consistent
162with what you would expect to see at one of your newer elementary schools add 10 new classrooms a new library a new student drop off and then remove the five portables that were part of the earlier phase we anticipate that to be 6.4 to 6.8 million dollars in 22 dollars and then lastly in phase three we would demolish the kitchen cafeteria and the administration of the original school and the remaining 10 classrooms that we need to complete this model add a new drive and some additional parking and then remove the two portables and we anticipate that to be about three million dollars so obviously uh this is able to satisfy for the most part all of those things uh including although we have highlighted the playground area not being an ideal situation given where it
163is we could do very minimal things like landscaping fencing those kinds of things and provide the type of protection that we would be looking for but overall we're looking at about a 19 to 20 million dollar job okay so option b is taking the concept of okay we're just going to replace everything and relocate or basically replace all of the buildings throughout the campus in three phases so challenge yes ma'am so the very beginning is classroom and gym in which one cafeteria in which one i'm sorry the very beginning the first one in phase one yes ma'am phase one okay yes yes ma'am only because it it's the biggest and probably the most disruptive and on top of that it has the most efficient spaces and we want them to have that gem cafeteria combo
164that we know they use a lot uh provide for that bus pickup as well to have that separation for the parents in the buses it's at the top on the north end of the site okay i'm sorry i missed building committee it's okay i just need to catch up okay one more keep going one more i'm good okay you're good okay uh so in this one okay let me start all over uh 12 classrooms add the portables uh and demolish the gymnasium as well come back with a new cafeteria gymnasium a two-story classroom building with 25 new classrooms chiller yard and all the pave courts play fields new playground and then demolish the kitchen and the cafeteria on the north end of the side as well as remove the six portables as part of that
165same phase one after the demolition of the cafeteria in the kitchen we would then come in and provide for a new bus loop and additional faculty parking we anticipate that to be about 20 million dollars in 22 dollars then phase two demolition we would remove some additional classrooms in two areas uh add a new library and classroom building which would be your pre-k and k along with its playground and we anticipate that to be about 4.67 million dollars then lastly we would remove the remaining portion of the existing buildings as well as the administration add a new administration at the front i'm sorry you're talking about everything pretty much this one and yeah when we're done with this you have everything is brand new yes so as you can see from the model once you
166add the administration and the student drop-off you have that large parking lot at the front as you would in a new elementary school along with a separate parking lot for faculty and bus drop off and that would be another three million dollars so this one because we're doing everything new we're able to check all of the boxes but at a much higher cost so we're looking at anywhere between 28 and 29 million dollars and 22 figures or not about yeah more than that construction costs would be 32 35. construction cost of tomlinson was 27. yeah 2.7 million and that's uh complete with site work everything and you're about that right but yeah true but you're you're tint it's phased and yeah this one by the time you're done you'll be born at 30 or 40
167oh yeah absolutely are construction yeah right that's not the other stuff that we have to add to it yeah right the fees we got to pay the architect something and he puts the squeeze on us on those fees so so thinking about the the two the two options option a and option b as joel's got it synthesized here the the del the difference is you're taking out some buildings built 2002 and 2009 um and they come out in option b in my mind we can we can operate with buildings built in the 2000s and we ought to consider option a i actually uh think it's a really good option um and the phasing works out really better than i even would have hoped and it comes at a cost that i think we'll find reasonable
168and it comes at a cost that i think we could chop into fewer phases right um which is attractive it's very much a different design though brian oh yeah the designs are completely different but i think you get you get essentially the the same benefits at two-thirds of the cost right it is the more reasonable one and it checks virtually every box yeah so i would i would recommend board consider option a so what would we be looking at in in the next bond yeah that's still still working yeah we're still working in context this what we've done here is we've broken up the phases so that we can actually look at and this is one of them that's sequential that you really ought to do one before you do the next one but we
169can do one two or three but you could do one and then two and three as doctor yeah i'd suggest that that's kind of my basically cut it in half so you do two nine million dollar renovations or yeah that's that's kind of where ten million dollar renovations and you're yeah that's where i am yeah i like i understand completely the cost piece of it i just like the way that i like the way that option b looks brian i just don't like it 10 million dollars worth no i don't yeah i understand that but i sure you know it sure would be nice for them to well and normally though i mean when you look at the faces that we normally um keep you know something in early 2000s is certainly not something that
170we would think about right one's here as well i don't i don't love that conversation about a 20 year old building yeah yeah because i was here when we were building that building over there the 2009 building yeah right so yeah that would be that would be tough at this it was all in the 80s i think that'd be a different oh yeah and this is a completely different discussion pursue any one of these dependent saa would be the candidate here we can always come back and and revise it and get more into detail especially we get into a schematic design which i know the architects will get a deeper dive we're ready to start and assuming assuming it makes a the next capital improvement list at all we've got lots of competing priorities but
171at this point hope that it will and recommend option a okay and remember that the conversation we had in relation to which school is it you know i'm trying to think where it wasn't the nicest order of was it was it was it mary hall it's like to me we kind of were backwards about it of the areas that we but this one this one i kind of like a lot better and it works so thank you for putting that attention to that um i like the flow of it a lot better in relation to what we are what we are replacing first off so this is this is for action for approval is there a motion for um either option a or option b i move approval of option a second okay um and
172then carol if i could um our because i wasn't there for this presentation the members of the building committee um does anyone karen corrin do you have any any yeah do you have any um comments that you'd like to make in relation to that no because when i was at the meeting they were we were very precise and thorough about going through it and what was in y'all's kind of feeling at that point was option a option a was really okay thank you okay the motion again was made by me miss chubbly and a second mr lopez all those in favor for option a say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right option a um has passed and has been approved good job i like that i like the um the flow amazing
173yeah thank you the changes that that you're making thank you appreciate it thank you have a nice evening everybody thank you all right mr sammy go um john jay high school john jay um this particular facility as again as we start looking at our our older facilities uh we start thinking about what in ways to be able to have the capital improvements over time so this particular facility we commissioned a facility master plan very similar to what you saw here a few minutes ago but obviously high school which is as uh as more is more comprehensive along with that though there is a 2018 bond program uh initiative to replace the fine arts a very similar concept with what we did at holmes high school we have actually two architects working on this project the
174overall master plan is being done by fluger architects uh in a lot of it has to do with the idea that they did a lot of our cte and our master planning for the magnet schools so they're very familiar and given that sca is at john jay uh they have a lot of knowledge and skill uh enabled to help us with that so they wrapped up a master plan along along with uh looking at the facility in a larger context the second piece of this obviously is what jerry lammers is doing uh we asked him to actually do the um to design and hopefully build the uh fine arts facility and so what we want to share with you today is a conceptual design a little slightly different than we had in the past because
175we want to see those in in concert with each other to ensure that when we do one piece that it doesn't impact the other piece so to speak so we're looking at it at long range but we're also looking at what's going to happen here shortly with the fine arts facility so we have two architects and i think jerry starts first and then andrew will start next thank you leroy good morning everybody good evening everybody it's been a while since i've been in here too but yes as leroy mentioned we're actually here for the conceptual design for the fine arts replacement at j high school it's going to be similar to the one that we did at holmes tonight we're just here to talk about the concept meaning that we'll be back in september to
176talk about the schematic design and to present that it's a really big picture view today talking about where the building is going to go mostly and how the components will be arranged we have three options so jay was built in the original campus was built in 1967 the auditorium is part of the original campus it's right adjacent to the courtyard and then there was a um a theater arts edition to it the music and band hall is located right behind it adjacent to the gym and then there are classrooms that are in the new classroom wing and the main classroom wing next slide so the roughly right now there's about thirty four thousand i'm sorry thirty five thousand four hundred square feet as i said the auditorium's in the center part of the campus the
177theater arts is adjacent to it there's the band halls and music located adjacent to the dressing rooms and then the art classrooms are over here and actually they have five sections of art we participated in the bond planning for this project and if you remember at the time we came to the billing committee and did a whole analysis of the entire facility which had the highest priorities and then through the bond it was desired to replace everything so our facility today is a brand new facility uh for the fine arts basically so if we go to the next slide i'll show you the concept designs we have three options to look at i'll show option a first so as i said our goal today is really to talk about what the combinations of the facility
178will be and where it will be located so what option a is is building a a freestanding um i mean it will be attached but adjacent to the existing building an auditorium music and um orchestra choir and mariachi renovating the existing art classrooms and then adding an additional art to bring us up to the three art classrooms that are required um one of the things we were asked to do is leave the existing music facility where it is so potentially it could be renovated into special ed let me just share a little bit of information right now they have six units of ailee probably one of the larger uh accounts for on our high schools and so they are actually in the building which is the cte building uh over to the right hand side
179and they're scattered all the way through we had to take over the culinary arts the actual dining area because there's no physical space anywhere on that campus that we could put these kids so we had to make some concessions not long ago a visit with a campus administration prior to school ending to anticipate what we need to do there so we have a as the special ed uh the block that you see there in blue is where the band halls are currently held at and we believe that for the time being we need to give those kids a proper learning environment and keep them all together along with the suites because they have a suite with counselors and various support staff as well so one of the things that i ask the architects is to
180consider leaving the band hall and the coral that blue area and then moving in there temporarily doing some renovations to give the proper space temporarily so we can house them all in one spot as opposed to and give some of the the spots that we now have i.e the culinary arts dining area back to the campus during this process so the advantage of option a is that everything is built here on the west side of the campus one of the disadvantages is the way that the student parking flows around the existing building so you have some parking in front some parking adjacent some parking behind some parking where the auditorium used to be after it's torn down and then the coaches parking stays the amount of parking uh originally or currently it's about 487 spaces
181we are going to pick up some spaces if you recall we're building another lot uh expanding the lot on the other side and we're expanding forward to the street so if you imagine that the the current fence line for the campus is about right here so we're coming forward with the building which is one of the goals of the project was to announce that that the school was having a new auditorium and thereby putting it in the in the front similar to what you're doing at your other campuses and all of the schemes will do that mr lopez has a question real quick yes sir i'm sorry jerry thanks for for that uh real quick when we have the where you have the music section what does that look like leroy what is that going
182to consist of as far as the music section yeah so um is that what we certainly have like with all our other theater programs yeah when i when we come back in schematic design we'll have all the little spaces are little they're quite large divided up but what we're looking at today is should the music which would be the large band hall the small band hall the orchestra the choir the mariachi yeah they have a mariachi yeah where would it be located in relationship to the auditorium or to the campus and depending on which scheme you choose we'll come back with options on that scheme to say okay the band hall could go here that could go there it might go here but it's really about today is like should is this where we want
183to build the building basically right and they're quite different in that in this scheme you're building a building right on the edge of the existing building that's there and the and the other two schemes we're kind of mixing it in where the auditorium is now which in some cases has a better relationship to the school it's a tighter less walk but it is more complex in terms of the construction project and from a phasing and if you remember when we when we did homes we came back several times because we had you know we had a couple of uh uh go uh presentations in front of you for the schematic design then we came back and talked about the phasing because obviously the school has to occur i mean it has to be occupied the
184entire time so it with that amount of complexity we'll be back in front of me certainly the billing committee and perhaps the whole board a couple of times all right thank you jerry appreciate it okay i mean because that parking lot on the left is where that's what i mean that's where everybody parks it's all the student parking currently yeah and now on this you're talking about there's not parking on the right side parking in the middle of the cameras yeah but on the other ones they're they're not just to be clear we've got three options we're going to show all three we are going to recommend one of the three and this is not it this is this plan moving on option b so it was an option this is what it looks like
185in 3d so okay the next option is a where you still have the auditorium on the uh connected to the main building it is still in the front in the same relationship that you have in the others but here where we tear down the auditorium that's where the band halls would go the orchestra choir and mariachi and in this case we're using the old art classrooms as support spaces for these facilities and we're putting a new art suite so in this scheme and actually the next game too you get three new district art standard classrooms as part of this scheme it has the covered art patio it does face the parking in this scheme but and the one of the benefits of this scheme is the parking is much better organized because the building doesn't
186impede or intrude into the parking so it is uh it is essentially one continuous parking lot with some additional parking behind the building one of the questions that we were asked was is there a way that we could actually expand the parking and one of the ways you could do that is reduce the size of the marching field and and take that space that is the marching field you pick up about uh 30 spaces if you do that where do you give them a marching field no it's reduced from 100 yards down to 80 yards at o'connor you have 100 at marshall you have 80. the only school that i can remember is marshall as a from the 20 to the 20 because we don't have any land up there right but everybody else has
187100 correct and that's that's truly just an option within this option like if you needed if parking were more important to the marching field then this is a way to accomplish that um so let's look at it in 3d so it's smaller up here in the front as you can see you can see where the our classrooms are and then the band hall fills in here and then we're reserving the existing band halls for the special ed expansion and then the the final scheme is similar to scheme b except it push it relocates the art over to where the courtyard is so now those art classrooms can use the courtyard more easily and that patio would actually face the courtyard we're doing something similar at the new high school that the high school has actually
188two courtyards and the art actually faces that one of those courtyards the music is still supporting the auditorium here so that the band halls would be roughly in this area and then the music is located along the back the auditorium is similar as it was in the previous scheme the parking is better organized in this scheme if you can see it flows a little bit more in front and then the student parking is similar to the previous scheme so let's look at it in three dimensions so student parking will be on the left yeah so this is all student parking right here so it's it's uh more contained more organized um and then the facility uh the the uh auditorium is here along the front and then the music facility is connected it accomplished several
189things from the fine arts they wanted to have a direct connection from the music to the auditorium so they wouldn't have to go outside they also use the music facilities as green rooms for preparing for whenever they have an event in the auditorium so that would be able to occur in this uh concept design and then we'll go to the comparison of all three are we gonna in this one we'll have all the latest and greatest that we have in our thunder that'll happen yeah this is a this is a a homes-esque project yeah it's a complete redo right i'm sorry yeah so all of that the standard is the homes which is the last one we built and i'll go to my own as well so there is there anything that um because i
190thought one of the schools maybe brennan that there was a conversation that um theater arts are not using the black boxes the black rooms anymore so so i had asked that question and it came back from um james binchoka that they are using it i just asked the question okay all right i remember that correctly that's why i recall it but i remember though that we were out of function somewhere brian i remember that we were all at the board was at a function where we met and we're kind of holding in the black box and we had a conversation with the instructor who said we no longer are really using the black boxes and it's been used something else could be we asked that better yes instructor or did we ask james well i
191i think that's really a conversation for schematic design um i what what we're trying to figure out today is is can we reach consensus on kind of a general idea of how the building's gonna look we'll come back we can come back and revisit the black box and whatever else anybody wants to talk about but that's we're still some months away from that can you help me not do this absolutely i think we need to talk about who's using it who isn't and i'd like to have the teacher's perspective not just james's though i appreciate everything james does and his his value to all of this but i know i just can't remember where i know we were all together waiting for something and the instructor himself told us that black boxes were on the
192way out and they really were not they did not use it i just can't remember what school it was so uh for obvious reasons we're not recommending option a the the main part of problem with option a is a cut up how cut up the parking becomes and and just have some concerns about that from a supervision standpoint as well as just from a logic standpoint no offense jerry the uh so options b and c make a lot more sense from that uh perspective in my mind the advantage of option c is that those art rooms get relocated to the courtyard and that is that is what in is a decision point as far as i'm concerned um and just in my own mind and so would recommend option c and again we'll come back
193what september you said in in schematic design and then um karine you said earlier that you attended this meeting is see what the committee felt strongly about as well yeah and i was there by that point too carol oh good good and it was c good and yeah c c was the okay the recommendation of the right we don't have to do that anymore except option c okay we have a motion to accept option oh it's it's all one agenda item so we'll yeah another one time and we could say c uh because you gotta get a look at that unfortunately we've got another half sorry yeah sorry i i yeah hey all right so andrew benjamin he's gonna do the master plan to rehearse yourself don't don't forget that jerry thank you for your
194part thank you gotcha all right well good evening everybody thank you uh i am yes please jerry i know that we're not anywhere near that discussion but anything possible just from this trustee's perspective that we can do to get rid of those blue dots that are on the outside that suddenly kind of appeared after that last construction many many years ago all right so i am here to present the master plan for jnjsca in conjunction with jerry's project with fine arts and so we've been working closely with jerry and his team to make sure that what we propose doesn't uh create negative you know issues with the fine arts project and so you'll see that we actually identify the general area of of his three options actually and make sure that we make steps to
195avoid what he's working on currently so we went out to the campus and actually looked at what we are calling the existing deficiencies associated with the layout and age relative age of the buildings so the first slide here actually indicates you know as jerry mentioned the the original school was built in 1967 and so you can see the the wings that were constructed during that time frame and then you had the building that currently houses aoe and some cte in 1975 followed by rotc in and then varying levels of additions and renovations occurring uh in the early 2000s and onward and so we looked at all of this in conjunction with other items on the campus to identify the following deficiencies so the first deficiency that we actually identified is not necessarily a square footage
196related item but in comparing to newer north side high school programs the administration is actually buried in the building and is not accessible from the front door and so we've identified that and we want to make a note of that too to look at options to potentially pull it up to the front and make that a little bit more current so the next item that we looked at this was actually kind of a big one uh there are 14 science labs on campus the current standard for high schools is actually 18 labs and when you add to that the fact that sca also needs science lab facilities we are pretty undersized in terms of how science goes and so the next slide actually shows that you're tracking about 28 smaller than your current standard for
197high school programs uh going to the next slide the next deficiency we've identified was actually touched on in jerry's project but the ale programs are scattered in this building in the back of the campus as mr san miguel mentioned they are currently taking uh residents in the culinary dining room and so that's definitely an item that's that's worth looking at and exploring further the next efficiency that we've identified and this is kind of key in looking at what'll be the first phase in both options for the master plan the cte programs and the magnet are actually scattered throughout the campus they don't currently have one kind of you know identifying home or location and so we've identified their locations throughout the campus and and also just the fact that they are currently sharing facilities with
198ale at this time the paint booth is back here uh and the body shop that's associated with that collision is actually in this back corner in in building f currently and you do have two automotive labs one is for sca and one is for j currently and they may or may not feed into the paint booth but the proper collision lab is actually down there so looking at the next item one thing we did identify in in the existing plans the kitchen was renovated in 2012 however we did identify that the cafeteria is currently tracking smaller than the current standard and so the next slide identifies that as well the overall program is about 30 percent small but you can see the cafeteria is is roughly a quarter of the size that you would see
199in a newer facility and then the last deficiency that we've identified is that three quarters oh three quarters i'm sorry thank you the last deficiency we've identified at jay is that the secondary gymnasium is is under size and a lot of the locker facilities are significantly undersized in that they they simply don't have the square footage or space allocated for all of the various athletic programs such as golf or baseball so on and so forth we do you um remember when we went in and did all the locker rooms and dressing areas at john jay i remember yes there there have been renovations there yes so what we did there was we cleaned it up and then we reorganized within the existing footprint wherever we could squeeze inches out to give you know more space
200in there but we we actually cabinets and stuff out of rooms we've done that through very to another initiative but the footprint that we're talking about here needs to be larger to be more compliant with our newer standards yeah so if you go to the next slide that actually does kind of talk about the areas in red specifically are the ones that we we couldn't identify in the plans and then you can just start to see we're about 21 smaller than the the current high school standard so again it's it's comparing against say soda meyer high school as a as a basis of comparison so with all of those deficiencies identified we've created what we're calling two options for the master plan with the first one being more heavy on renovation work and the second
201one looking at replacing more of the older facilities and so the first option outlined here would involve the construction of a new facility for both the magnet and jay's cte program because the rotc building is in the footprint of the area that would be demolished that would also be incorporated in here not unlike what we actually did at the marshall lms project we built rotc in that project as well the second phase in this particular master plan option which again is renovation heavy would actually take advantage of the existing automotive labs and renovate them and improve their their actual programmatic space but within the existing building however that is a 1967 arab building so that is something to take into account one of the things that we are looking at closely and in talking with
202mr san miguel in the facilities folks is that while the music area that ale will be moved into in the fine arts program will get them all under the same roof that may not be the final location for ale because you are renovating existing program spaces to create the spaces for them so our suggestion is actually to relocate them up at the front of the campus and in court i'm sorry incorporate them more for inclusion purposes within the classroom wings of the main facility as well as renovating the administration and bringing it up front like we had kind of talked about so automotive so the paint is in the back automotive is currently at the corner of the building that's right by correct football field and track that is correct and so you're talking about
203moving all of that moving it into the existing facility uh in the second option we are in this option we're actually leaving most of the automotive where it is currently and suggesting to renovate that space because additionally is only that's you've got automotive over in the building to the left of that building by the track yes correct so there are there are three total lab spaces and all of that lab space will fit in number two in this case yes because there are actually four or five spaces just south of those existing automotive labs that we would literally re-purpose this entire facility and re or reorganize and incorporate so that all the garage doors and everything are all facing the north end of the the facility but there are uh actually health science labs that
204are being used on the south end of that building now as well as i believe their architecture department and so there'll be a little bit of back and forth so those programs could move into the new facility here which would free this facility up to be completely dedicated to automotive okay and so leroy is this comparing um i'm trying to think which high school is this comparing the automotive at harlan so this will be comparable size i mean size um technology all of that if this will be comparable to that the amenities it doesn't look that big understand the existing structure now again there's going to be two options that you're going to be able to see because utilizing existing space so we would get it as close as we possibly can to that now
205this is not detailed enough so we can count every inch in there but leroy this isn't this isn't going to be this is not near if you put it very close with this plan if you put it in one if you're talking about because you're talking about some major relocation of cte courses there's no way that lab at harlan that automotive lab at harlan is huge and and then you figure out the paint and body piece of it too leroy that's an appendage uh to this but above assembly i think the concept here is that we may have to add an addition to two all we're looking at now is just where the pieces would go in concept uh so we can organize the campus uh this doesn't have that granular of detail to be
206able to determine every every square foot i guess the pieces though it's hard for me it's hard for me to to see the pieces when two to me is not anywhere comparable to the size that you're talking about that we have at harlan on their automotive let's let's let's wait till we see the other option i think the other option will meet some of your concerns a little bit better all right so apologies no no not at all well well taken noted definitely um wrapping up phase three of the master plan then which includes the ale and administration renovations that would free up the existing square footage that's housed by that music program for aoe currently to build another i'm sorry to build in an addition to create the space required for the athletic facility
207as we had mentioned that's 21 undersize and so we would be able to add on to that and repurpose again the existing 1967 era building to construct new gymnasium spaces and locker rooms etc the final phase then would be to look at expanding the cafeteria dining area as much as possible without creating negative implications for the actual courtyard space especially if option c is selected in the fine arts project because he is also jerry is also moving towards the courtyard in that option and so looking at this in three dimensions which may help a little bit uh in terms of perspective as well we've identified the zone that's associated with all of jerry's options in the fine arts project and and keeping that in conjunction with what we're proposing for the master plan so in
208phase one you would actually construct the sorry can you go to the next slide i'm sorry in phase one you would construct a new sca magnet cte classroom and rotc edition to be located adjacent to the existing facility not unlike what jerry is proposing at the auditorium here and then the next phase would then involve the renovation of those existing automotive labs and so again looking at square footages is key however there's a dividing line in this building currently where the back half is actually classroom spaces currently and that would be overtaken to increase the overall square footage of the automotive facilities in renovation the next phase then looks at relocating ale to the front of the campus as we had discussed and then moving admin to the front as well to get a proper
209secure vestibule and and main insurance for the campus in the next phase then you can see that the existing music facility comes down and an addition can be created to allow for the additional square footage required for the athletics and then renovating the existing facility and lastly we would go ahead and look at expanding the cafeteria and so that's that's the first option which again is more renovation heavy we actually have a second option here that looks at i think better treating the requirements for the automotive facilities and your athletics as well and so looking at option two we would actually propose a larger addition which could go upward more than outward which would actually include all of the automotive facilities then in this building here that actually also reduces the number of phases because
210we no longer need to worry about renovating this when this component is complete and so phase 2 then would allow you to again renovate the ale and administration component and then we could knock down that existing music facility to construct an all new athletic edition so 100 new construction complete matching of your current high school program at that time and then lastly expanding the cafeteria and sorry did you have a question i'm sorry go ahead no go ahead okay yeah keep going okay i'm sorry yeah no so again the existing conditions so looking at the first phase you can see the the building gets a little bit bigger square footage wise it does start to look uh like a potential three-story addition but that is because we are also creating the space associated with the
211yard for the automotive component and so you can actually start to visualize where that's going to live on the first floor of the building and then having the vehicle access in the back here the next phase then would be the aoe renovations and administration renovation followed by the new athletic edition back here so 100 percent new square footage in the back of the campus to uh to right size everything and then lastly looking at expanding the cafeteria i do have a summary slide next that actually shows you both options compared to each other what are you going to do with the paint with the paint and body shop so the paint booth itself is actually living in its very own building literally the building only has the paint booth in it we actually did complete
212a project a couple years ago to rebuild that what i will say is that we designed that paint booth to be able to be broken down and relocated so if it was the wish of the district to move that into the new building that actually could be done and you would demolish that building that's in the back for the paint booth now but it works fine in the schools with it and so we could still leave it oh yeah yeah it's a brand new paint booth yeah we can leave it or we can relocate it uh we had two schools we did that i think homes and yes that's right and john jay and uh we asked the architects to make it so it's movable given that we are looking at master plans and rearranging
213space and we think that the i would really like to see the where the office is the administrative piece be one of the first things done but you're thinking that the order needs to be that side building first and then i just i really don't like that the administration is in the very back center of this campus no agree i think the programmatic needs for uh science and sca are so great that that that would be the recommended first phase is construction of that building on the far right uh and come back later on the rest of that project it's it's just purely a programmatic need i don't disagree i just think it's a higher priority and so this would make um the sca pretty much have its own building outside of sharing it with
214the cte no no cte and and sea would would all be in that new building um they would they wouldn't necessarily be in all the same spaces but they would all be in that new building but this would be like a headquarters building if you will for sea that's i just didn't ask that clearly brian that's what i'm saying is that sca would get its own kind of identity with that's correct outside of sharing the bottom part of that building that's correct with cte right it would have its own administration suite and the whole nine like we're doing it met the others that were i really liked that so the the difference between one and two obviously as andrew pointed out is is that one is heavy renovation two is more new construction unlike the
215comment i made about westwood terrace where we were talking about buildings built in 2002 and 2009 now we're talking about buildings built in 1967 and i feel completely different because of the different age of the buildings in my mind option two is the clear choice because otherwise we're renovating 60 year old buildings by the time we get to this work in late in this decade and so would would strongly suggest that option two be the choice um here again because of the age uh of those spaces and because of the increased flexibility we'll get with new construction frankly so and i had a real quick question about um going back to add-on melissa's um so our other magnet schools um i'm trying to remember um have their own identity and their own um not anonymity
216but um there's another word i was looking for um anyway um they doesn't seem like they have to share with other big programs like rotc and cte so how how does that help our i mean i'm still thinking that when it's john j sca it's its own school right for all intents and purposes although it's attached to john j proper what does that look like and it's hard to tell with cte also in there and rotc um would it still feel that same way it's part of the the way that the architects will go to try to plan that out so that it does look cohesive um and then it belongs to the the sca that have his own identity you know the exciting part of this is we ask the architects to put it
217up front we want to showcase that uh it's a magnet school that is somewhat scattered you saw the uh right it is and it needs to known identity so the next phase of this is if we make it to the this makes it to the next bond would be the schematics that now gives more specificity to the uh you know the layering so to speak of the sca versus the cte now we've had conversations with cte director we've had conversations with the campus administration and they all gravitate to two for the for for several years can you go back can you put the picture because it gets its own identity did you want to see the plan no just right here there's a connection to the existing campus to carol that because that that little
218ridge at the bottom of that building on the right would be like the entrance if i'm thinking right would be like the sc front of sca and then the the automotive probably would have an entrance for the kids coming into automotive that would be back towards in the back portion yeah and then so and what about rotc same thing they'd have their own interests if you remember marshall the rotc we built is at the bottom portion of the third floor uh or the three-four-story building to the back because they get closer to the fields where they go in and practice this would not be any different than that because they practice in the parking lot and in a back area but where would you where would where would you have rotc there though again where
219you know this is just a basic layout of trying to figure out where the pieces would go we would have to you know get more strategic and get spend more time to allocate those spaces in the most appropriate way yeah that configuration you see may not be the the final the final no i the word i was thinking about autonomy so it has its own it's it's connected but it's its own school yeah it can be designed that way okay all right just we can listen for that next time right yeah yeah the remember we don't we don't have funding for any of this so this is always off still uh so we're not designing right now we're just trying in any of this could possibly be in the next well i think likely the
220first phase will okay but but even then we don't have the funding for that so so we shouldn't spend time designing it we're really just the decision point tonight is are you interested in that heavy renovation work or not and in my mind we shouldn't be renovating 60 year old buildings and so the decision point is really pretty simple i really like this so you did a good job back to try to synthesize all of this think back to the first presentation we're going to recommend option c that jerry presented and in what andrew presented we're going to recommend option two and then kareem there you go c for the fine arts facility and option b two two two two yes sorry okay and then bobby second so option c and option two bobby second
221uh karine yes move down bobby second in all those in favor say aye all those opposed nay all right the eyes have it it's been approved good job guys too that we've had two of y'all from different firms that you know they needed to play together yes you all played very well together nice guys though thank you okay now we know what sorry we all right bonfire here moving on all right sorry we're cleaning that jerry was married to carter's sister no thank you for taking it yeah i think it's disturbing i wish i hadn't heard that all right moving on uh we're down to business and finance uh dr barajas so all three i'm going to just tee off and then uh renee is going to go through these all three of these items
222are for action tonight the non-campus-based units are the a handful of units that we've asked for under growth and improvement that obviously are not campus-based the board's already approved the campus-based units back in april so that we could begin the hiring process growth and improvement has changed very little since it was initially presented in april the only real change that the board will note in these items is in the the third item item c on compensation it has been revised slightly from what we presented a couple of weeks ago otherwise these are uh as they were brought to the board in april thank you thank you dr woods uh actually uh brought to you on june 15th uh just a few days ago we covered these three items uh to prep you for the tonight's
223meeting the first item is the non-campus-based units of which there are 17 there's actually a net of only 10 because there's seven eliminations and we covered this on june 15th asking for approval in years past these particular non-campus-based units have normally been included with the growth and improvement packages the board gives approval to be included in the 2000 or in the budget that's going to be adopted later in august but because we take the time and effort to go through the process of having the board approve the campus-based units we thought it was more appropriate to go ahead and show you the non-campus-based units rather than embed them within the growth and improvement packages so that's action item number a again 17 units but a net of 10 because we are eliminating some positions uh
224item number b is discriminating let's go ahead and prove can we go oh okay i thought you wanted to now is any questions first of all yeah i do all right miss chumbly so and i'm sorry i i was at that meeting and i don't remember this i i don't remember seeing this like this do y'all remember seeing this like this i i do do you with with the elimination of those positions yeah i was on slide number seven uh from the june 15th presentation yeah i must have missed it okay um renee so um i guess i'm not quite understanding some of the positions that we are eliminating and what are they being replaced with well they're just being eliminated uh through the fact that there's nobody in the position and it's it's not
225needed so when we look at the pluses and minuses there are 17 additional positions that were being asked through the growth and improvement process 17 new positions on the board and then if you take out what we are removing as far as positions that are being eliminated the net is 10. and we showed that on again back on the 15th of this month uh exactly how many were being added for instance three instructional support teachers one construction buyer so on and so forth so we we have have a net of 10 for a cost of 000 i guess my question is um are these positions that we don't have filled right now but did we not have them filled because of that we've just been through covid where we haven't had kids in the in
226the classrooms whoever made made the determination that that position was no longer needed certainly went through that thought process and didn't just willy-nilly delete it because they thought well i don't need this position anymore because of covet so yes thought was taken into it because trust me school district people do not like to give up positions okay so it takes a real lot of thinking to go through it and say i'm willing to give up these positions because the need is no longer there i'm overstaffed or whatever it happens to be so yes thought was gone into that but at the same time we're adding 17 so this would be under leroy's well not well the construction well not all of them for instance there's occupational therapist assistant one position that we're adding so i'm
227not talking about the ones adding i'm looking at the ones that were that we're getting rid of is the ones that i'm that we're getting rid of it's it's each year we look at positions that have been vacant for a period of time and evaluate whether they should be filled or they should be pulled off you're just not used to seeing it on a list every year we eliminate positions exactly that's a common practice common situation i just want to make sure brian that we're coming off of a very unique year that we're not eliminating any positions that we actually still need right we've got two out of the custodian pool we went to prior to covid we went to that new plan where we had custodians at different times and and brian prior to
228covid we had some custodians and head custodians that weren't real happy with those changes that we had made and particularly in the schedules that they were having to work and that was something that we were going to come back to and then covet hit so we never came back to that so i'd like to understand that piece of it before we get rid of custodial positions you know have we addressed any of that those concerns are you know is that kind of had just split off the plate because there were some we had head custodians that were coming in late and working late it was causing problems with child care for their families we had custodians that had talked to us about that and so i just want to make sure that we're you know
229that that removing these positions is not something that is going to already impact a situation that we were talking about and then covet hit and we lost sight of it yeah i don't i don't see those two things connected at all the we can revisit the custodial schedule issue but i that has nothing to do with eliminating positions so i apologize um so looking at slide 7 that was presented back on june 15th those 17 on non-campus-based units were presented um but the 10 that were going to be eliminated it's just by the presentation it's being shown today was in um it's similar it's not the same so that's only my confusion um but yes you're right um on slide seven they are presented but so positions those ten that were being made yeah it
230does it says an actual net of ten that really looks different yeah it's just a net of 10 positions it's a it's in a memo format uh the uh 17 back in april we did the same memo same format listing the campus based units that we were recommending being added to the 2122 budget but what about the ones that were being deleted i don't remember seeing this format yeah we probably didn't know it back then renee on that so i guess my my question or let me just my comment is when i'm looking at positions being added and that was what was presented on the 16th without the positions that were being eliminated then this is a different picture to me than what was presented in the other format on the 16th and so that's
231why it's just caught me by surprise on what is being eliminated so just and i guess what i'm hearing is we weren't sure that these positions were going to be eliminated on the 16th no on that day we knew that there was again because we listed it on slide number 7 an actual net of 10 positions due to other position elimination so we knew it at the time we just didn't put prepare it in the board agenda format which was the memo as we did just the presentation to the board at that time okay i like to give you a preview of what was going to happen i like this this type of presentation better so maybe just going forward if we're eliminating positions a little bit more transparent um i'd like i'd like to
232know that we're eliminating them so just you know which ones because we did say we were eliminated we wouldn't see which one which ones okay yeah i would just like to know which ones which ones are being impacted um on that and and when i see custodial pool that we're pulling two and head custodian one and a plant manager won and prior to covid we had the conversation that that new arrangement of having head custodians have to come in late was not working well with all of our custodians and then that conversation just you know got sidetracked with so i just want to make sure that as we move back to the normal operation of the district that we don't lose sight of that piece of it because we're we're eliminating one two three four
233you know four four four positions that we would normally that we would normally have so just brian if we can just keep that keep that in mind sure yeah and i want us to come back and have that conversation because our custodians weren't all happy about that change and some of them having head custodians particularly having to work a later or fragmented shift yeah we can we can revisit that but these two things are not connected okay uh miss saldana did you have a question or a comment yes uh the custodian pool head custodian pool plant manager pool are those the pool of workers or is that the swimming pool no no that's a pool of employees that that we've had as kind of a reserve okay okay and so there were frequently unfilled positions
234okay it's it's a reserved pool of employees so what you do is instead of creating let's say you needed a pool of people employees instead of creating 20 different positions that are in our system you create one position that is considered a pool and 20 people can be in that pool i was thinking it was the swimming pool and i was thinking who's going to be left to take care of the pool no no impact there thank you to dr woods um a comment that in years past these eliminations and additions have been embedded within the overall growth and improvement packages to me it is actually more transparent to separate it out and show you pluses and minuses although in a different format than just embedding them within the growth and improvement so oh very
235much so thank you renee this this this format that you brought right now is much better and really does give us a clearer picture because what sometimes happens is you know after we do this we may get a call saying well why did you eliminate that that position i know you did and we didn't know we did so i just i want to thank you because i think this format is much better than than the one where we did not know that those positions were being eliminated it keeps us from being caught off guard or blindsided um by that so i i appreciate you putting it in that format all right i move approval okay miss chumbly moves approval is there a second um miss freeman um i actually it was a tie the tie
236goes to the new person uh ms saldana all right so all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it the non-campus-based units have been approved and now growth and improvement well let me just ask one so brian is there so we've eliminated those positions and now as we do you know we've been out for you know a year and a half as we come back into this like as one of them was a warehouse foreman as we come back into these if we find that we need these positions back then we will still have leroy um our i'm trying to think who's who would be over this event you would be over that right but if it's the maintenance warehouse we would then make a request
237okay so the answer the question is we would just simply bring it in a budget amendment right so i mean we're eliminating them now but i just think that we've been out of school for quite a while and that we may come back and you may say hey we really do need that position and so in which case we would bring that you can bring it back to us okay thank you all right growth and an improvement okay so action item number b b not number b number two is the rest of all g i has nothing to do with campus-based units or non-campus-based units we covered that again on the 15th 22.3 million is being asked to be included in next year's budget that again has nothing to do with any kind of units
238campus based or otherwise some of the uh the big items in there were our new school startup 3.2 million a new school base 1.5 million summer school of 11.8 million this will be for summer of 2022. reading academies at just under a million dollars so that's the remainder of what we're asking to be included in the approved the proposed budget back in august so and this is the normal gni process that the senior staff goes through to review all of them take some out says no let's wait until next year so this is the culmination of all that and so this is what we normally normally see in june in in relation to which positions are going to be new position not um where we have the ones that are all new school positions so
239that with their new positions because they're driven because we're opening what you know x number of new schools and then we have the other ones that have made the cut through the recommendations for those positions yes right okay i'm having a hard time figuring out which ones which ones are which how it how this is set up so um so the category called startup is about sotomayor okay which opens a year from august right the category called new school is about tomlinson and strauss which opened this august then there's the category of other which is larger obviously the biggest item and other is the summer school item that renee highlighted because we think large summer school is going to continue into the future okay thank you that's what i was trying to figure out is
240where where that was broken down all the positions related to um now that's good because it no it does yes it helps to have you know coming opening and then everything else and so i try to figure out okay what is the everything else what made the cut because i know that there were probably other other requests that didn't make the cut for this budget that is a fact okay as is always true as is always true it's just sometimes brian um i'm trying to remember because i thought that there was some room where or where we were shown things that didn't make the cut no ma'am that has never occurred maybe we just found out about things that didn't make the cut that might have happened that that's probably what happened when they don't
241make the cut they don't come to the board we just care about them brian okay any other questions or discussion all right is there a uh motion on the floor to approve the gni package wait carol i'm sorry sure go for it i've not won one um there was a large expenditure on police officer body camera and police vehicle vehicle gps so our officers don't have that the body cameras now i thought they had something though brian is it on the car the vehicle but the gps needs upgrade and the body camera initiative has not begun so we'll go from zero to complete and this gets us uh most of its one-time cost okay i guess i'm not quite understanding but that's okay if you all feel the need that we have to have that
242our officers have to have body camera body camera on them is this the first time we've seen it in this i trust them or it wasn't seen in this format during finance no it's it's not or at or at the meeting yeah call me now the documents just look different from the presentation to and one looking at the memo and then this one they are different yeah this is the detail but this is but this detail was has been this is what we suggested in april this detail has been available all that time because nothing's changed in these packages they've been consistent so in april what was shown to us you got a presentation that was a highlight and then we said if you want to go see the individual package by package every single
243one including all the details and the cost breakdown and the payroll breakdown here's how you go access all of that okay so just my recommendation i'd like to ask what the rest of the board feels like i'm if this is what i'm going to be voting on at the end then i want to start with this no problem good to be in committee i think joseph was um adding right right at finance well no because this was april 13th and i'm looking for either a hyperlink it's not joseph the what what was presented on the 16th right was that um june was it 16th whatever date did not look it was not in this format it was in a different format so i i guess just my feeling i'd like to know what the rest
244of the trustees think i'd like to have the format that i'm going to be voting on when we approve that part of the budget i'd like to have that format in when we have that time to dig more deeply into the details i'd prefer to have that that format carried through we can make that change what you see is consistent with how we've done growth and improvement as long as i've been here but happy to make the change if we can brian because that that may be but i do remember seeing [Music] shoot and this could have been i'm flashing back to 10 years ago who knows but i do remember seeing where it was broken out in more this format which i really like um verse just line on just kind of a general
245you know it's x amount of dollars for these kind of things i i just i prefer for this miss freeman sorry in the past i know we've had paper copies um and that was usually at a previous meeting or at similar committee committee oh karen that i don't i don't know that it was ever at committee i think it was all in it was during the budget process we've not brought this through committee because it's it's got to be acted on by the full board i honestly don't remember what we had in april and i haven't accessed that but it used to be you're right if that was it was the paper copy that we got like i am not advocating that we have a paper copy no i just like this format okay so
246did we have a motion on that in a second okay is there a motion for the growth and improvement package dr carl i will make that motion that we approve the growth and improvement package as presented is there a second all right mr lopez seconded all those in favor say aye aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the ice habit and the uh growth and improvement package has been approved and now the compensation plan all right again on the 15th we covered initially what the district was proposing for the compensation plan for 2122 we have made some tweaks to it so we will cover tonight the latest proposed compensation plan so what does it include well certainly changes to the teacher hiring schedule a midpoint raise of three percent for all employees who
247are not auxiliary employees those employees were recommending a 3.5 percent midpoint increase for employees considered in to be in auxiliary positions there are some reclassification stipends and other adjustments and also some market adjustments and these are typical what has been part of the north side compensation plan when we've been so fortunate to actually take forward a compensation plan with a raise and market adjustments and so on and so forth next slide please so what are we doing uh with the teacher hiring schedule well we're proposing a 1900 increase uh to teachers counselors not librarians nurses and other positions that are tied to those particular hiring schedules it's an average of a three percent raise for those uh those categories so because they don't have midpoints like the rest of us do we which you get
248to the middle number you apply three percent to it and that's why we refer to it as a midpoint raise well teachers are on a hiring schedule so we have to use a different methodology to go through and come up with what is roughly a three percent raise for them and we look at that number and then we could either adjust it up in this case which we did so 1900 actually represents a little bit more than a three percent average raise for uh for those particular groups but because you do that you then have to go through and do the adjustments to what is now going to be the 2021 22 hiring schedule because you can't have somebody who is in their second year in north side or on step one right who is
249making the same amount of somebody who's right out of college right so you have to make those those adjustments all the way through so the we're going to increase starting teacher pay which is year zero by 15.65 that happens to be nineteen hundred dollars minus the differential that you have between all the different steps right so that's going to be 56 675 we don't know where that puts us in relation to any other district in the area or our competition because they haven't adopted their budgets uh nor have we at least myself haven't called them and said what are you suggesting for your hiring schedule we'll know all that when they adopt their budgets again we're going to maintain the differential all the way through the scale and the master schedule is the ba plus
2501500 just like we've done before next slide please so this is what it looks like after all that talking this is essentially what it looks like so if you're coming to north side and you are going to be hired and you have you're accredited with nine years experience you know exactly what you're going to be making thank you on this hybrid schedule put putting that in there well the hiring schedule yes yes and it's been it's been in previous presentations before because see i thought i missed that there because that was that one that i had said could you come back and give us examples of different positions and what that would look like so i'm sorry renee i missed i missed this well this wasn't in in the 15th presentation but i'm saying in
251prior years uh when we are bringing this to the board for the compensation plan approval that compensation plan or the recommended one has actually been in those presentations because i saw that but it wasn't in the it wasn't on the 15th no no it wasn't on the 15th okay because i thought you were saying it was on the 15th and i thought okay i don't remember some things but i thought i don't think i forgot that okay okay thank you because i like having this in there that helps so that if we move forward with this compensation plan and the board approves it in the adopted and the proposed adopted budget uh in august then this is will will be our hiring schedule for twenty one twenty two only in effect for twenty one twenty
252two it's uh year by year uh next slide uh current teacher hiring schedule again this is looking at where we are in 2021 and we can certainly update this and send it to the board once we know where uh northeast saisd judson and the bear county average are in relation to where we are going to be do you have any feel for that i mean with your colleagues colleagues dr woods it'll it'll look very similar to what it looks like now just the whole the whole set of lines will move up slightly miss freeman did you have a question thank you thanks okay so uh the midpoint pay increase non-auxiliary employees on midpoint scales which is roughly half the district will receive a three percent three percent midpoint pay adjustment this is after we've gone
253through and adjusted the scales or the boxes if you will so this is something that is commonly done in compensation in not only our district but in others but you can't keep the the min the mid and the max the same year after year after year because then you start to fall back so in in our district's case our methodology is that if we are proposing a three percent raise then we adjust the box the middle to the max by 1.5 percent or half of what we're recommending and then you apply the percentage midpoint raise to the new midpoint so as you can see here for fiscal 2021 the mid the min the mid and the max those those are hourly rates the adjustment is first made at 1.5 percent to get from 1641 for
254instance you add 25 cents all the way to the max adding 34 cents and then this would be the new uh min mid and max for fiscal year 2122. in this case uh the midpoint is now 1994 it went up by 29 cents and the raise will be applied to that new to that midpoint so what has been told to me is in the past there were some employees who maybe thought that you took the three three percent and you added the 1.5 to it because i'm going to get a 4.5 percent raise and that's not it's not you have to move the mid you have to move that you're going to get uh you've got to raise on a adjusted midpoint so that's that's how that mathematics works so looking at an example for
255instance um same box from the previous slide except let's take an employee who is currently making 18.39 an hour so a three percent raise is going to be on that adjusted midpoint of 19.94 that comes out to 60 cents so the new hourly rate is simply the 1839 plus the 60 cents in this particular employee that effective raise is actually higher than 3 percent because as you can see what they were making at 1839 was less than the midpoint anyway so if you're below the average and we give you a raise on the average your raise is going to be going to be higher good yeah that's just the way the math works out in this particular case so and this is done for all the employees who are on midpoint scales so and because
256it's teachers counselors nurses right who are not on midpoints who are not on midpoint administrative interns all those who are tied to all these different scales and uh essentially and other employees as well but but this is an example for all of those employees who are on midpoint next slide please same methodology except because of labor shortages which i'm sure maybe the board has heard about because of this restaurants and others just you know needing people and paying higher we are recommending a 3.5 increase for auxiliary positions so the same kind of mathematics that we did for the midpoint on three percent we're doing to the 3.5 percent same kind of methodology that cost is 3.6 million dollars so it's you know in relation to the entire budget of the district it's not very much
257but we are recommending that as we move forward to help not only child nutrition but all the other auxiliary positions where we may have trouble filling some of those positions going into the year yeah next slide please and there are of course coming through gni there are some reclassifications stipends and other adjustments in this case it amounts to about 126 thousand dollars and again this has happened probably dr woods year after year where it's all adjustments from rate even during the year as a matter of fact but through the gni process we try to capture as many of these as possible incorporate them into the compensation plan that we recommend to the board and then finally market adjustments this is something the district has historically done at the beginning we may start with looking to
258find out which positions in the district are below market and we either look at going 90 92 95 at least in my short time here i think last year we may have gone to 92 even though there wasn't a huge mid we didn't do a midpoint increase i believe there were some slight market adjustments that were done last year in this case we are looking at going to 95 percent of market the cost is 123 000 prior to us doing the three percent raise and we're looking at two it was a bit higher but the three percent got these employees to closer to market so the cost to go into 95 percent uh decrease because we are looking at a three or three and a half percent raise depending uh mr lopez has a question
259thank you dr harold um you know renee when we talk about market adjustment and we're talking about the different classifications of positions uh that we're looking at and you say that we review them on a regular basis how often do we re review these uh how often do we review them and then you say what six months seven months or is it two years i know compensation does that right it's annual annual yeah okay when was the last time that we did an evaluation or a market analysis on as far as custodials transportation employees like that in in the spring in the spring was that the last time yeah it's it's an annual review before we bring up of all the position groups okay um all right and it's easy to get good data on
260on on position groups that every district has like custodial like bus drivers because everybody has data on that yeah well because i i mean knowing right now with what we have as far as transportation i'm just going to use transportation as an example a bus driver they can go make more money at a another transportation place and i'm just going to say greyhound right graham greyhound will hire them and pay them 20 an hour where we we pay our bus drivers maybe 14 15 an hour yet still having to out of that uh that compensation level they're still having to pay their insurance which is very high for them because of the way they're structured i i just kind of have a hard time with that and saying that yes these are compared to the
261market but when the market really is saying that hey out there they're going to make 19.20 more you know so i'm having a hard time with that um when you say that with the market adjustment um because i just don't see it and um a three percent raise for our bus drivers and and our custodian um i i is i say is is getting us there but it's not there i don't see it as it being there yet um so that's just my opinion i mean i'm just saying that um but yeah i have a hard time when you say that the adjustment of that the market adjustment you know it's fair but yeah so what we do is we look at uh we look at the market of school districts in the area who
262hire these same positions so so what we'll know is after this action all of our position groups will be at a minimum of 95 percent of the market pay rate all those other school districts in the area yeah i got it you're comparing it to apples right we're saying that you know north side is compared to san antonio isd and southwest isd sometimes those other districts are paying more than what we're paying at times and so that's why i say the market adjustment how below that market adjustment because i mean i'm sure i mean i've i've heard the stories that other bus drivers will leave and go to uh another district because they're paying more right and and they're getting pulled they're getting recruited so um i i just have a hard time with that
263so that's all i'm saying i mean you're saying we're comparing to school districts i got it but they're i'm still having a hard time with that three percent three and a half percent so thank you okay next slide please so here's a recap of the proposed compensation plan broken out by fund general fund child nutrition the other fund that the board adopts in august is debt service but debt service pays no salaries that's what we used to pay about our bonds so you can see the compensation package in total it's 26.7 million dollars 24.4 of which will be borne by the general fund library are we are we having any challenges with our um our facilities people i mean our plumbers our electricians are i'm trying to i think our hvac is throwing a lot
264of money because i'm not seeing or so where do they fall they fall into the the midpoint here so they would be in there be auxiliary at 3.5 at 3.5 percent yeah because i think that that that market's going to get tighter and tighter with what we're seeing right now out there um i would just so i guess what you need to do is just let us know if we if we're losing them and can't hire them because then we'll have to come back and take a look at at readjusting what we're looking at for those positions i think this will go a long way honestly really see i think we're going to be low on some of those when you look at what some of those you know they're making on the in the
265outside market miss freeman did you have a question um no i i didn't it was actually a a ways back i was going to make a comment but it i will pass okay next slide please and just to round this out we wanted to make the board aware that because of legislation passed in 19 i believe 2019 i don't know which bill all of us who are participating in trs starting on september 1st of 2021 will start paying more into our own our own account and that's going from 7.7 to eight percent that will remain for two years and then in 2023 but the member contribution rate what we pay into our own account is also going to go up to eight point two five percent of that so um if you happen to be
266a district that is not giving a raise you would see your net pay go down a little bit because you're paying more into general trs by a small amount and if you're on the bottom of our pay scale that would hurt so we just wanted to make you aware of that so that is the totality of the compensation plan that we are recommending to be embedded in the proposed budget that will bring to the board in august for consideration of approval and i'm looking to see if there's any comments um or miss freeman yeah i was just gonna i'm gonna have them on i was just gonna add the regarding our teacher compensation package i don't think i know we've all talked about it right i don't think we can ever compensate our teachers enough
267for for what we do but this particular package here i i think as i look around with other school districts we look at what our pay schedule is we're higher currently and if we've been higher consistently with other school districts in the area so i think it's i think it's a generous package and regarding our auxiliary employees we were talking about school bus drivers earlier i remember back in the time when we had the the big oil boom and we were having um drivers that were getting compensated with six over six a six figure salary and with the same type of license and we just unfortunately we can't compete with that so we we do need to compare apples to apples and we do need to look at other school district bus drivers and and
268look at that particular schedule 95 percent of um i'm sorry what is the term market adjustment thank you 95 percent of market i i think is i think is fair um so i would um if you're ready for a motion i would um move that we approve the compensation packages presented okay is there a second second all right mr medina all right you got it okay all those in favor say aye aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it the 21 22 compensation plan has been approved yay thank you good job all right dr woods actually doctor oh dr harold sorry i saw superintendent and then i go oh that's me no this is reorganization of board officers and um before i take nominations i did want i think the entire
269board knew that probably for the last 16 months we started kind of a new way of working with dr woods uh the week or two weeks before each board meeting and it was to have the vice president also be with the president in those meetings and what that really helped a new president really kind of um not that it showed at any of the board meetings but learn um how to kind of be a president was to bounce um questions and get feedback and get good expertise from a two-time all-american president or three-time just once okay one time um president but who had other offices as well and it really helped i i think the process almost in a mentoring way so karen i i do want to acknowledge a a huge thank you for
270doing that because you showed up at each one of those meetings and it wasn't something we had done in the past but it also mentored me in a way that um allowed me to feel much more confident and comfortable in this role so thank you and i want i would like to suggest that we do that kind of thing this next time around that whoever is the president and vice president which will not be me um that we look at that because it is a way to grow um a person into that level of comfortability and confidence and so um i just wanted to i think everyone knew that that was going on but that was a really neat model i think um the other thing is that um i think a year ago too
271that i know um miss freeman had said she had wanted to to be a president this was two times two years ago and then um um mr lopez you had mentioned that you would have liked to have been an officer and you guys kind of put that on side uh to the side for me to be a president and then karen to be vice president and then joseph to be secretary so i kind of wanted to revisit that because it allowed for continuity to go on into that second year which i think was real important whether we had covet or not and so um so those two things i wanted to mention ahead of time along with saying thank you um to karen but thank you the rest of the board for putting up with
272with me so um if there are any nominations i would like to accept them now and i see miss freeman and miss saldana not that um you cannot be an officer um but you cannot be an officer this first year so um as much as i would like to i know i did yeah it was in board operating procedures she's really she's relieved yeah it was in board operating procedures we changed that to all positions we did yeah to all positions it was in the other realize that we had done that to all yeah i i i saw it the other day but i think she's very happy um so um anyway um and miss freeman you had a button i'm i'm not ready to make a nomin i'm not prepared to make a nomination
273but carol you have done a really great job this has been a tough few months and most of the time that you've been president it's been during the time of covid and it's been well it's it's a difficult um position to begin with and then with all of the other things that went on during covid um just i just want to say thank you well you're welcome thank you very much you've done a really good job i agree well very much so you've done a real good job on that and you were really excellent on the um being able to jump right in carol into the i've gone completely blank on what our meetings are what do we call our meetings virtual virtual virtual thank you i would completely thank god lose that yeah yeah
274the on on the on the virtual meetings okay um you know i thought particularly at the very beginning when we were all really new to the technology um anyway i thought you did a really good job thank you thank you all right any nominations um can the president make a nomination or do we go back to or miss chubby yeah i nominate um and but i so we have two ways so let me ask the board what their feelings is we have two ways that we've done nominations in the past we've done it as a slate where we voted on it as a slate and then we've done it as um an individual and since i'm not quite sure and we we you know because we had talked about even going into closed session at
275this point for um which i believe we have the if we have the ability to do that to talk about roles and responses to talk about roles and responsibilities so i'm not sure if we need to do that or if we don't but i so so this year i'm doing an individual nomination nominating karen freeman as board president okay i'm looking to see if no no no so having not done this before are there any other nominations for president okay they're being so there be none [Music] it looks like by acclimation do we don't take a vote we i mean we don't have to we don't have to because i'm not hearing any other nominations okay except karen freeman is okay we're president all right is that okay with you ms freeman all right yay
276that was easy okay well thank you for the vote of confidence okay the acclimation of the acclimation of confidence there we got information okay um vice president so am i allowed to make a nomination yeah okay um i'd like to nominate mr lopez or vice president this is one of those moments when i wanted us to go and i wanted to talk about roles and responsibilities because we haven't had a chance to talk about you know what what everyone's kind of um you know this job this job no matter if you're a board officer or not it takes a lot of time particularly if you're working and you're moving up into different roles and so i'm not sure how everyone what everyone's and i think what everyone is doing and so that's why i yeah
277and i appreciate that i think a year ago when we were talking about the roles and responsibilities i think that same um issue was brought up and i think mr lopez at that time had said you know he would like to be considered for that at that time so i was going back to when we did talk about it and oh geraldine gerald was very gracious of um of stepping off off of the board officer rotation um for the betterment of the board at that point is there acclimation by acclimation i'm seeing acclimation on faces but i might okay all right it's affirmation acclimation and affirmation all right you okay with that mr lopez okay all right and then no objection no objections you got it all right and then secretary i nominate joseph and
278i would second that if we could second but i'm looking for acclimation is there anyone else that is there any other nominations for secretary what do you think joseph you're okay yes all right all right that was there being no other nominee no no other nominations for secretary we have acclimated affirmed and approved we got to vote so are we due for shall we shall we no we don't vote well what you do is are there are there any negatives are there any no's so shall we by general consent or acclimation except by affirmation yeah okay so you know i don't see any so we're good yeah all right that's it right congratulations congratulations yay yeah okay next we go to elega election of delegate and alternate to the 2021. texas association and school boards
279delegate assembly is there anyone who would like to be considered for that and this this is acclimation affirmation and approval too right all of the above or do we have to vote unless you have somebody that okay i mean general consent gotcha whichever you want carol can i just make a statement about what the responsibility are just to review the responsibility so once a year at tasa tasby there is a delegate assembly um the um it's an opportunity for us all to come together the the biggest thing that happens one thing that has to happen as a delegate assembly is the budget has to be has to be approved but we also look at the advocacy agenda any changes to the advocacy agenda so there is a what we call a caucus meeting right before
280the delegate assembly and so each region has a caucus where the delegate and the alternate of each school district come together and their specific things are discussed in caucus much of which is what happens in the assembly to go over the rules and and then some other if there's any questions they're answered in that caucus and then we go into the delegate assembly so what we're looking for here is the delegate and the alternate when you get into the delegate assembly there's only one person on the floor from each district at any given time so the alternate can be in the back but they can't be a voting member on the floor during the delegate assembly those people are able those two are able to swap places but only one can be on the floor
281but you're allowed there because you're i'm i am allowed there because i'm i'm a tasby director so this particular so we have two people on the floor but um we're looking at the delegate and the alternate right now is just explaining that so we we do need a delegate and an alternate and it doesn't include you that's correct okay well i don't mind i don't mind if anybody i mean if anybody else wants that i'm fine i'll go ahead and fill in i learned a lot this last year being part of it and uh so it really was interesting so i'm willing to be that representative you were the alternate dispatcher yes i think i was you were i mean gerald was the delegate and carol was the author i was the alternate that's what's
282in the minute no it was just because it was no i think that was was that the year before anyway it wasn't okay and it was visual you know and then miss freeman and then miss charlie yeah to follow up with karen um i do want to emphasize that this year it's going to be pretty interesting to be a delegate there's going to be a lot happening i'll put that way so you got to really do your homework politically you have to sort of know what's going on et cetera so whoever's going to do it we're going to need two people for sure this year so whoever the delegate on the delegate is and alternate we're going to need you both there because there's going to be a lot happening this year from from what
283we've been hearing okay so so far gerald do you want to be a delegate okay um karen did you want to add something i would just suggest that um just to remind the board too gerald you are a lack member for region 20. so it would be a good idea for you to be a delegate okay okay um i i would i would just think that would be logical okay so we need an alternate and corrine's allowed to do anything right now just it was just the officer piece okay the alternates and just in the back just sits in the in that little area right in the back right they also can swap places if for some reason the person on the floor um needs to leave or the person um who's the delegate is
284not able to attend convention then the alternate um can fill in and bobby why do you think that this is going to be an exciting time a lot of thank you sir i'll tell you a little bit i did this yeah i just would say let's make you have a delegated and i do remember sitting in the back but that was like five years ago so so there's one and it's been a while since i've done that yeah so um it's going to that the lunch right going to the lunch and then that's where everyone from our area talks about what's going to be out there that's the caucus the caucus and then it's sitting in the back during the actual the delegate assembly during the actual delegate assembly and it roughly the caucus is
285an hour delegate assembly can be at least two hours at least two hours and the alternate the alternative is i'm trying to remember they still have other presentations going on during right during it don't they yes i'll do it all right we're asking for a twist just because it's you wasted your own arms because i haven't done it in the last probably 10 15 years you get a lot done back there it's a real interesting time yeah it is and this is an interesting time i'm trying to it's an important piece and quite honestly our numbers and the delegate assembly um have dwindled over over the years and um so we do need representation from from each school district it's important that we go it is it is important i'm trying i'm just trying to
286remember okay okay all right moving right along um board representative to the northside education foundation and i was just going to nominate myself because that's the one thing i haven't done is yeah and i had a real i had a real hard time with it being virtual carol this year i made you know i made i think one meeting and i made the um the review of the um for for nef you know the what am i trying to say the scholarship people for any up so if you'd like to do it that'd be great unless i'm looking down on this side too if anyone i don't mind doing it either all right let's i feel like all right it's kareem kareen's got it i love it all right um the north side um it's
287neff the representative to neff is karine all right then um northside representative to tasby board of directors that's karen that's automatic right no it's not the board gets to vote on it and i would nominate karen ii although okay so melissa nominated you seconded just for clarification too i have two more years that i can serve on the tasby board then i'd better turn out oh okay but we still have to vote i'm just sitting here even though yes okay so it's been moved and seconded all those um in favor say aye all those times yeah well let's just say by general consent shall we shall we general consent shall we tell me that who did the merchant and i'm changing it i'm just going to say i move by general consent that we select
288karen freeman okay thank you all right the election of board representative bear county school board coalition i'd like to do that if nobody else nobody else wants to joseph i heard you say something joseph do you would you rather do that that's fine no that's fine because i'm already doing the tasby thing so what about crying sure i see bobby at our meeting and then and all of us can go right bobby anyway all of us can go whenever yeah when whenever we want yeah they've been great we'll see the reminders all right election oh election um that's by acclimation to everyone right okay election of representative to national school boards association is this i think that leaves you i i know i just i'll go again i lo i liked it actually um where
289is it this year i have no idea but it's in san diego april the second through the darn it i hate it i hate it when that god we can't have it in frigid washington d.c again where you can't get an uber well and that's because we still have that that one in washington is the advocacy the abacus advocacy and that's around the same time right in march whenever it was it was bitter cold i thought it was that was january i'm pretty sure when it was in washington it was national but okay all right that's acclimation two and actually anybody anybody can go to nasa dr harle all right hey and then legislative update naomi miller that was you sorry dr woods no that's fun so everybody's where they're supposed to be you got
290it thank you this will be doing this don't get the acclimation piece all right i'm out of here everybody's tired we'll be we'll be brief i will be brief good evening hi naomi hello i'd rather be here than in a committee room in austin so that's okay we're glad to have you here which will happen again soon yes um so this is my my uh debrief for this session that just ended on may 31st the 87th uh my second with north side and my 10th overall but somehow i'm still 21. you are so um i just wanted to do a quick overview of what the 87th looked like for public education and all together legislating during legislating during a pandemic we thought was going to be a little quiet at the beginning and then in
291the end it was not quiet as you know we have two education committees one in the house the house committee on public education they met 24 times the senate committee on education met 19 times we're lucky to have a representation from bexar county on both committees with diego bernal and steve allison in the house and new to the senate committee on education is our friend jose menendez i want to thank them publicly for all of their work this session those are some statistics of bills filed it's a little less than prior sessions but still 3 800 passed 20 of which were vetoed by the governor and about 80 plus of those affect public education or school districts in some way in the house we had another new speaker for the second session in a row
292which meant new committees and new committee chairs the speaker from the prior session didn't shake that up too much but this session speaker phelan did give us a new committee chair in public education veteran member harold dutton from houston so that happened in the house and then the senate was pretty um interesting uh par for the course they had some select priorities the lieutenant governor had 31 priorities that he uh focused on in the senate most of those past but a lot of them didn't including ones that would have affected us directly we've heard a lot about esser 2 and so3 tonight you know that that was a big subject that public school advocates were advocating for from day one this is our statement that we have on our priorities of course advocating to advance
293policies that foster the best public education in texas and looking out for our students employees and taxpayers this is our lovely trifold as you know we had four key areas of focus finance obviously uh charter schools assessment and accountability and governance so in the next slide what i've done is as highlighted to be positive some of the things that actually advanced in our priorities of course from the very beginning we were worried about house bill 3 being fully funded and it was thankfully and that was a priority of both the house and senate from the get-go even though the comptroller had given an estimate that was a little bit conservative at the beginning the teacher academies that were mandated in house bill 3 that deadline was going to be this year and thankfully in the
294house bill 3 cleanup bill they expanded it by a year to give our teachers more time to do that senate bill 11 was our school safety bill that funding remained in place and it helped with school safety and mental health and actually in the house bill 3 cleanup bill they've expanded what the uses can be for that funding and i'll talk about that in a bit uh it was a priority to close a digital divide for students that's been obviously at the forefront with virtual learning and there was a broadband bill that passed there was a district fund balance bill that died in committee so we were able to keep to defend our district fund balance uh we prevented quite a bit of charter legislation from advancing including one of the lieutenant governor's priorities senate
295bill 28 which some of you are familiar with uh positive changes to the accountability system and then uh no legislation passed that would have taken away local control from you as an elected body so i have several bills i wanted to highlight i'm going to go through them fairly quickly so just stop me if you have any questions house bill 773 adds cte is an indicator of achievement under the accountability system house bill 999 was a big one for us it gave more flexibility to individual graduation committees for our students this school year senate bill 1365 was the big accountability bill that dr woods worked on and other public school advocates and it's actually turned out to be a pretty positive bill it was it was a little troublesome at the beginning but it passed
296under cni we all know about the critical race theory bill that passed which in essence doesn't really change anything it was more of a political issue um the things that it says we're not supposed to be doing we're not doing so that's 39.79 or didn't know what it was 1063 added a personal financial literacy as part of the economics course for the for half credit it would be two-thirds uh financial literacy and one-third economics senate bill 1 was the appropriations bill the budget bill that passed like i said house bill 3 was fully funded house bill 1525 was the house bill 3 cleanup bill which did more than clean up possible 3. it turned out to be a christmas tree bill is what we call it where they added a bunch of stuff to that
297senate bill 1716 started out as a voucher bill for special education but after some some work by our advocates actually is a little cleaner and is no longer a voucher bill good stuff for staff and teachers hospital 159 improves training and staff development for special education 25-19 that one changes a little bit of the law regarding uh teacher contracts um senate bill 179 is a bill that senator lucio's been pushing for a while it basically mandates that counselors must spend 80 percent of their time on their counseling duties senate bill is a good bill that allows a member of a non-profit teacher organization to participate in tutoring um and also retired certified teachers which is a big a big thing for us this this year with all of the uh stuff we're doing postcovid we
298all know about house bill 547 which says uh that homeschool students can participate in uil if the district elect allows them to is it about 1697 before you leave that but but the district has the option not to allow that right that's correct senate bill 1697 was one of the bills that um allows parents and this one's a little complicated but allows parents to decide if they want to hold their student back their child back that passed house bill 690 this is the only one that i can identify as i'm unpacking and i've unpacked quite a bit that affects you directly on your training it adds school safety training to to the requirements for you as trustees under virtual learning and digital divide hospital 5 is that big bill that expands broadband services it creates
299a statewide broadband office and adds some funding to try to close the digital gap in texas we all know that hospital 1468 the virtual learning bill did not make it uh because of a break in quorum that last sunday night but house bill 3643 uh creates a texas commission on virtual education it did get passed so that um commission will be formed and they'll study the issue that doesn't help us this school year but that did pass last but not least when i first started this presentation there was no special session there is a special session now july 8th as dr woods mentioned earlier we don't know what's on the call yet that's up to the governor so that's first special session we know there will be one in the fall for redistricting when the
300census data comes out and i put a two with the question mark because i don't know if there'll be more before that and it'll be wind up being three or four um of course all the commissioner rule making starts and all this now that all the legislation is passed uh hopefully we'll go back to a regular uh interim where there'll be interim charges and studies and hearings that will start next year and of course we have the primary elections coming and it's a non-presidential election so we'll have the statewide governor lieutenant governor etc we don't know when that will be because we don't have the maps yet because redistricting got pushed back because of the census data and that's it thank you all for letting me be here another session no job security yay thank
301you any questions naomi thank you good job thank you speaking of is our representative county miss freeman what's that joseph she did yes right yes all right ms freeman did you have a question or okay um dr woods one more presentation uh so in april uh before the end of the session and naomi mentioned 1468 that failed to pass after we had put a lot of time and effort into getting it negotiated so what that means is that there's not a mechanism for the state to fund virtual learning except for the virtual school network and the eight previously approved uh full-time schools that already existed pre-covered so have been doing a lot of soul searching about where that leaves us um and so i'll go back and review quickly kind of what happened and then
302the recommendation for 2122. so we brought the proposal after janice and her team did a ton of work on it in early april uh to to stand up virtual learning uh with as you recall some criteria and i'll remind you of those criteria coming up uh then in late may as the session was uh ending we knew that there wasn't to be well we knew that the bill did not pass at that point we were still feeling like there was some chance that the commissioner would have some authority to fund virtual learning he claims that he does not which and he doesn't have to um so uh so what we bring you tonight is consideration of a local proposal for virtual learning exclusive to elementary students and i'll explain why that's the case so monica
303go forward so what what you'll recall is these are the criteria that we showed you uh through the january through april time frame uh we have added criteria of success on star test as janice said most kids did sit for the test so we've added that to uh two criteria the rest of these remain the same this is the filter through which we were we were telling families that they would either have the option or not have the option okay monica so here's one more so here's how the numbers come out of of family or students that students whose families have requested virtual learning for for 2122. as you can see the lion's share of that is in the elementary grades the total number is actually quite small substantially less than one-half of one percent
304the issue with middle school and high school is because the numbers are so small they're spread out across every course imaginable so you've got two kids signed up for english two and you've got two kids signed up for seventh grade math and you've got one kid signed up for all kinds of electives so there's no way to efficiently offer this when those numbers are so small so that's the reason why the recommend this recommendation is exclusive to elementary school for the 21 22 school year so this next slide just shows updated numbers when we applied that new criteria so you see a slightly smaller number of elementary that were eligible and again middle school and high school in our mind is not on the table and so lastly then recommendation is to use federal funds
305to stand up a virtual offering unique to elementary students for 2120 the commitment is for 2122 only it's not a long-range commitment we can reevaluate over time tiffany's calculated that maximum cost around 1.7 million dollars so that's the the recommendation although the board had approved this back in april because things had changed so radically i thought we needed to come back obviously next steps assuming the board approves would be to notify parents and start staffing and so forth because that work has not been done and brian the cost of it was one point one more i'm sorry 1.7 is a is the cost i think that's a that's a kind of worst case scenario especially since we've actually lowered this number of eligible when we ran the star filter i think one point five is
306probably a better number mr lopez thank you dr harold and ms freeman um brian when we talk about the the elementary campuses and we're talking about now when we say virtual that means that's going to be strictly one teacher that's not going to be teaching both virtual or right uh in classroom right this kind of one teacher dedicated to virtual that's that's right so we'll have a we'll have a third grade teacher whose only children are virtual okay okay good um yeah no and and i think that's good and i think that was one of the things that was difficult or was challenging for for our teachers uh during this pandemic uh was that so yeah as we've been saying since we started this conversation that had to end just wanted to make sure thank
307you all right miss freeman and then ms saldana dr woods i know this is rather early in the process but will those students that um that will be logging into virtual learning will they their home school will be not necessarily their attendance area school depends on what you mean by the phrase home school from an accountability perspective they will stay at the school to which they are assigned by geography but they could be going to class with different students yeah and in that third grade class that we talked about earlier you might have 15 different schools represented and then if they decided to go that that's this is not what they wanted or their parents made a decision to put them back into school then they go back to their geographic school that is correct
308okay thank you okay miss saldana will the teacher be at home or at a campus in the building okay absolutely in the building that's a non-negotiable i had a question about the star being added i still question that as a a gatekeeper or gate opener i'm wondering only because i've seen experiences recently where teachers were kind of true to the teaks and the kiddos that first of all participated and then this was in algebra got their scores back did well and others who did not and i i don't know what kind of mode they were in but long story short i still think it's iffy this year with star and i would i would wait and just in my own opinion wait and see where the chips fall and what the scores look like and
309who participated and who didn't and um because we as a district we kind of say that you know a star is important but it's not it's not how we judge um how good our students really really do and i hate for that to be a gatekeeper when we had some really good criteria that we shared this summer and then at the last virtual meeting so i probably have some other reasons but i'm really tired i just it did it just kind of goes yucky yeah so i don't disagree i mean i would always say star shouldn't be a proxy for for learning but but i think when combined with those other criteria it adds value the other thing i would say is we did we did have a bill passed that would require a child
310who did not pass a test to have access to a teacher that the campus has designated as particularly high quality that's another reason that i'm concerned about those students who did not meet standard on star being virtual if they were to not pass again then we've got a we've got a real issue with that student so just think we're more likely to be able to intervene in person that's the logic behind it but i i don't i don't disagree with your kind of your phil the philosophical place you're coming from at all well we could see and it didn't move the needle very much in fact the vast majority of the kids who had signed up at elementary were both successful academically as as recorded by their teacher and met students right all right okay
311any other that was just for our fyi right oh this this is an action item because it's different where does it say that oh i'm sorry that's okay um so brian i just want to make sure i understand so this is not where if i have two kids from housman and three kids from glen oaks that those kids are still going to be associated with glen oaks or houseman they're now going to be associated as a at-home learner and with with that teach with however let's say we have you know 20 3rd graders we're going to divide it by however many teachers that we're going to have and they will be part of a a um that i'm tired a dual a virtual school that's correct they will have a virtual classroom that is made
312up of kids from all over the world and they're not going to be assigned to because that was part to me part of the challenge for teachers through this coven period where everybody stayed within you know within their school and you had five kids that were virtual you had three kids that were in the classroom and you know i think that that was a bigger challenge so this this will be we will have a separate virtual school yes with a high quality teacher a high quality teacher and we will have criteria criteria if they are not successful that they have to come back to their homes campus that was that was already in the plan that the board approved in april nothing's changed okay and if the child just misses playing with her neighborhood kids
313at school and they just want to come back they can come back but we're not going to have it where i can come back today and next six weeks i get to go back to virtual it's your virtual and you have one shot you come back you say you want to come back you come back the advantage of us doing this on our own dime is we don't have to worry about what state rules are like we used to in the past about how often they could come and go we set our own rule and i agree you get one shot to return to the building once you're back in the building you stay in the building okay so i just i um i really am with the rest of the state with i don't
314want a virtual program i'm ready for our kids to be back in school i think it's healthier for them to be back in school i don't want a virtual program however that being said if they're not successful we bring them back and if they just decide they want to come back they come back but they don't get to jump back and forth and um you're only doing this you only want our approval on this for one year so this is not saying that our approval here guarantees that we're going to do it for next year for 22-23 right the next the next school year everything you just said i agree with okay i can live with that okay so is there a motion to approve the virtual school i move approval all right melissa chumbly
315moved to approval is there a second all right mr medina um seconded all those in favor say aye all those opposed say nay all right the eyes have it it's been approved thank you all right future agenda items dr woods so in your uh blue folder that ms mcgee put at your place you've got a board committee uh sign up sheet that uh if you can get that to if you haven't done it already i know some of you have you can get that to ms mcgee asap so that mrs freeman can do committee assignments we will bring that to ratify at the july board meeting so that's on the list to ratify it to the july board meeting ryan i think linda's trying to motion to yeah i've got you got everybody oh but
316uh carol well it may switch up because of that i think i changed i think i changed my science form i've got the form done with everybody on it except now i'll add yours you were for president so you hadn't okay okay i think i may have changed mine too so let me give you mine so i think i may have changed mine i can't remember what i gave you before so it wouldn't impact what anyone else wanted right okay can i borrow yours so on you've also obviously got future agenda items just a reminder we've moved that july meeting up a week from what it when it would normally be because of the esser plan uh and then you can see the normal three meetings in august that have to do mostly with budget
317budget finalization and then you've also got a couple of invitations or i take it back one invitation uh in your folder as well i'll just put that's it dr carl okay um all right the board of trustees on june 29 2021 at 10 39 we'll convene in closed meeting 10 39. all right accordance with texas government code all right the board of trustees on june 29th beginning at 10 39 p.m well oh wait i'm sorry the board of trustees beginning at 11 16 uh p.m will convene an open meeting action will take place on um appointments of a through j ceremo a through n doctor carl yes mr freeman dr harold i'm moved that we accept the administrative appointments as discussed in um executive session is there a second second all right mr medina thank
318you for the second all those um all those um what in favor say aye all those opposing me all right the ice habit the board meeting in it at 11 17. good lord