Red Oak ISD School Board Meeting - May 11th, 2026

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003right? Open to the public. Is there everything there and is the camera there? Audio good? Is it coming across? Yeah. Check the phone. sun coming >> There should be one in the boardroom in our in our office. Yes, ma'am. Hi there. Can I help you? Yeah. Yes. Oh, why? I'm so sorry. Yes. Charles Smith. Okay. found the box on the stage recording enabled. It's good. Just a second here. It's over there. On the stage. Oh. How are you? I'm fine. How are you doing? I look so good. Come over here. Oh, yeah. No, there's no way. Here we go. Oh, yes. know. I don't I don't know. I don't I don't know. I don't Thank you. Yeah, I see. I printed out the mint thing there. New Yorker? Um I work at Access Support Group.

004Oh, okay. Yeah. Well, cuz I don't touch my clients like >> Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. You bet. Hey, how are you? Nice to see you. So, it's good to see you. And how are you? Good to see you. Good to see you. Yeah. Two days ago. I miss you already. Well, I don't think I can ever break here in school again. I don't know what I'm doing. So, I can't Seven probably the time you had it all That's what Christmas is all about. So, you get one from Oh, is that all? And we were our last day is going to be on See you then. Oh, that's it. That's my favorite So, that's all you know. You know, we don't stop giving away in the world until then. And

005the subway's going to be all So, it's all I'm going to stay away from I know. Yeah. We don't know. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I was just thinking we were here, right? And this happened every every year, right? Every every year close. Yeah, you can compete in this one. Yeah. Oh, what did you I'm going to get 15 this year. We got three times. What is that? I think awesome. Just what time? 7:00 The one show. Smallest is the quickest one. Usually This one always is May is always the That's usually the last time. It's not weird. It was always getting close. Yes. It was always getting Yes, I saw her yesterday. Give us a call okay? I'll see you. Can I ask you a I know. What's the definition of Sorry. Hi. Hi nice

006to 30 minutes. Yeah, I think I got it in the last few weeks You know if you wanted to see So sorry. I don't know what to Yeah. Oh, that's a wrong number. Do you have the timer? Oh, what did I do? There's Sean. Yeah, we'll need the timer. Thank you. >> I need batteries for that. Put the new ones in it. So, they were not bad. Two ones in here. Just going to see how this is. And then we will have right up past school council officers who come lead us in our pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas,

007one state under God, one and indivisible. Okay, our first item is the canvassing of the board of trustees election. The Red Oak High School board of trustees election took place on May 2nd, 2022. We will now canvass those votes. I don't think Mr. Nash, would you please confirm the votes after I read I think the stream is getting the mics, like it's on. >> Place three, Marsha Spencer, 395 John Ellis, No, it just sounds like it's 32 votes. The total votes cast are 1,017. Place four, Melanie Hawkins, 446 votes. John Nash, votes. The total votes cast are 1,007. Place five, Shawn Kelly, 342 votes. >> I confirm. Yeah. 2026 at Red Oak, Texas. The board convened at 6:02 p.m. I certify that the figures on the summary sheet correspond with the numbers provided by the

008Ellis County elections administrator. Witness my hand this 11th day of May, 2026. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion that the board approve the canvassing of the election returns of the board of trustees elected held [clears throat] on May 2nd, 2026 as presented by Melody Peterson and declared John Anderson, place three, Johnny Knight, place four, Shawn Kelly, place five, are duly elected board members. Second. Okay, that was a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Sebring. All those in favor, raise your right hand and say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes, 7-0. At this time, we have a special recognition for Mr. Donnie Lutrick. We sincerely appreciate Mr. Lutrick for his faithful service as a Red Oak ISD school board member. When he received the call asking if he would

009step up and and serve an unfilled term. He He's He said, "Yes, let me think about it." However, I told him, "In the next 2 weeks, you're going to have to take 3 whole days of intensive training." But, he he did it and he he stepped up and he's never looked back. His consistent presence, dedication to making the district better, and his genuine support of students and staff have made a lasting impact. Mr. Lutrick was intentional in staying knowledgeable about the workings of the district, always striving to make informed decisions that benefited the Red Oak ISD. His commitment, positive attitude, and servant leadership are truly appreciated. At this time, we will have a slideshow highlighting some of his activities in the district. This is going to be the tough one. Making sure I'm having them

010hidden in here. Mhm. >> [applause] >> Okay, at this time if all board members would go to the front along with Mr. Lutrick. >> [clears throat] >> We appreciate you. Let's go. >> [applause] >> Okay, at this time we will issue the certificates of election. In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, this is to certify that at a general election held on Saturday, May 2nd, 2026, John Anderson, Johnny Knight, and Shawn Kelly were duly elected to the Red Oak ISD Board of Trustees. In the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, this is to certify that at a special election scheduled to be held on Saturday, May 2nd, Michelle Porter was certified unopposed and duly elected to the Red Oak ISD Board of Trustees. We will now

011have the swearing in of board members. So, if it's your time to be sworn in, please go down to the front and Ms. Temple will take care of you. >> Mhm. Mhm. >> [applause] [clears throat] >> Okay, congratulations on your reelections. And now we will elect the officers for the 2026-27 [clears throat] school year. In accordance with state law and Loretto ISD Board Operating Procedures, the board members shall elect officers at the first regular meeting after the election, [clears throat] the board shall elect a president, vice president, president, and secretary by majority vote. We will consider each position separately starting with the president. I will call for nominations from board members for the position. Once nominations are closed, the board will vote on the nominees in the order they were presented. Once a nominee receives

012a majority vote, the election for that position will end and any remaining nominees will not be considered. If no nominee receives a majority vote, the board will vote on all nominees again in the same order until a nominee is selected by majority vote. So, we will now hear nominations for the office of president. I nominate Ooh, that's loud. I nominate Mel Peterson for president. Second the motion. Are there any other nominations? Hearing none, we will close those nominations. Um John Anderson has nominated Melanie Peterson for the office of president. Will all those in favor please raise your hand? All opposed, same sign. Motion passes 7-0. Now, we'll hear nominations for the office of vice president. I nominate Johnny Mack for vice president. Okay. >> Second. Okay. Are there any other nominations? If not, Melanie Peterson

013has nominated Johnny Matt for the office of vice president. Will all those in favor please raise your hand? Opposed, same sign. The motion passes 7-0. Okay, now we'll hear nominations for the office of secretary. I nominate Shawn Kelly. Okay. Second that. Second the motion. Any other nominations for secretary? Okay, if not, all those in favor please raise your hand. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes 7-0. At this time, all officers have been duly elected and are seated. We will go start our recognitions. But first, I will read a resolution of the Red Oak ISD School Board. It's proclamation of National Police Week, May 10th through the 16th. Whereas the Congress and President of the United States have designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day, and the week in which May 10th falls as National Police

014Week, and whereas the Red Oak ISD Police Department plays a vital role in protecting the safety, rights, and well-being of students, staff, and visitors. And whereas law enforcement officers serve with dedication safeguarding life and property while protecting our schools from harm. Now, therefore, we, the Board of Trustees of Red Oak Independent School District, do hereby proclaim May 10th through 16th, 2026, as Police Week in Red Oak ISD. We encourage all members of the community to recognize and honor the service and commitment of our law enforcement officers. We further proclaim May 15th, 2026, as Peace Officers Memorial Day in Red Oak ISD, in honor of those officers who have made the ultimate sacrifice, or were injured in the line of duty. And in recognition of the families who support them. Now, we will move to National

015Math Stars. We'll have Jennifer Riddle, Elementary Math and Science Coordinator, with John Anderson helping her. All right, good evening. My name is Lynn Dockery. I'm the Director of Curriculum and Instruction here in Red Oak ISD. Good evening, Board, Superintendent Sanford. I'm so excited to present this award tonight. Um I am announcing the Red Oak ISD's nominees for the National Math Stars program. This program, introduced in 2023, identifies top math performers and provides them with resources to advance their mathematical skills. To be eligible for the program, students must meet the following criteria. They must live in Texas. They must be in second or third grade at the time of application. Students must demonstrate extraordinary mathematical ability, qualifying as part of the top 2% of their district through test scores. So, for the 2026 cohort, Red Oak

016ISD partnered with the National Math Stars to identify eligible students who met these criteria. Tonight, we will recognize them with a certificate for their achievement as a nominee for the program. We had six students nominated from Red Oak ISD, and they were invited to continue through the application process, which includes further exams and interviews this summer. The final cohort of National Math Stars 2026 will be announced in August. The final National Math Stars cohort will be granted $100,000 in scholarships over a 10-year period to assist with advanced math courses, enrichment opportunities, STEM camps, and mentorships. So, the following are our 2026 National Math Star nominees who are present tonight. All right, we have second grader Payson Gaines. So, come on up, Payson. >> [applause] >> All right, we have third grader Miles Crone. >> [applause]

017>> WE HAVE SECOND GRADER Beau McDaniel. >> [applause] >> And then we have second grader Jameson Terry. >> [applause] >> So, congratulations to these students, their families, and their teachers who work closely with them each and every day. >> [applause] [applause] >> Parents, you can come up closer if you need to to take pictures. Very good. >> [applause] [applause] >> And next we have Principal Brett Hall with the Red Oak High School with doing Hawk Scholars. Good evening. It is my pleasure this evening to recognize our incoming eighth graders and some of our ninth graders who have been accepted into our Hawk Scholars Academy cohort. A little bit about Hawk Scholars Academy, it's a cohort of students who participate in extensive dual credit coursework beginning their freshman or sophomore year of high school. The goal

018of a Hawk Scholar Academy is to earn up to 60 college credit hours or an associate's degree. To be considered a Hawk Scholar upon graduation, a student must have completed enough hours to be Texas core complete, which is approximately 42 to 48 hours. This is established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for all undergraduate students in Texas. Students may also complete an 18 additional hours of college credit to earn an associate's degree through Navarro College. Hawk Scholars Academy graduates will be recognized at graduation. Unique to the Hawk Scholars Academy is the fact that these students continue to be a part of the main Red Oak High School campus while having the same opportunities for extracurricular activities and experience and experiences as their classmates. So, we're going to start with students from Red Oak Middle

019School. We have Nyla Alexander. >> [applause] [cheering] >> Aliyah Broom >> [applause] >> Matthew Cortez >> [applause] >> Brendan Davis >> [applause] >> Lisbeth Espina >> [applause] >> Morgana Metcalf >> [applause] >> Sophie Tamez >> [applause] >> And from Dr. Joyce Child Middle School PEYTON BELL >> [cheering] [applause] >> PORSCHE DAVILA LEVI Fox >> [applause] >> Hayley Galindo >> [applause] >> CADENCE GOODWIN >> [applause] >> ARABELLA JACKSON >> [applause] >> ZOE Malone >> [applause] >> Corey Montgomery >> [applause] >> Lexi Morales >> [applause] >> Kaylee Silva Reyes >> [applause] >> Neriah Timba >> [applause] >> And with Red Oak High School, we have Caitlin Horton. >> [applause] >> And Ela Smith. >> [applause] >> Congratulations and we look forward to everything you're going to accomplish in the future. >> [applause] >> Congratulations. >> [applause] >>

020We have Then Mr. Ha again with our masonry students. And we have Mr. Sebring helping. Okay, good evening again. Uh at this time we want to recognize one of our masonry students, Arturo Acosta Escamilla. So, Arturo competed last month at Corpus Christi for SkillsUSA state masonry competition against the best bricklayers in Texas. All his hard work and dedication earned him first place for the state masonry competition. He is your 2026 SkillsUSA masonry champion. >> [applause] >> In addition to his first place achievement, he also earned a $10,000 scholarship for TSTC. He will be representing Red Oak High School and Texas at the national SkillsUSA masonry competition in Atlanta, Georgia in June, where he will compete against the best bricklayers from across the nation. Please wish him the best of luck for his upcoming national competition.

021>> [applause] >> And I just want to [applause] recognize up here we have Sedat, Mr. Sedat Gutierrez, who is his teacher, who has done a fantastic job in preparing him. We also have Melvin Smith with with United Masonry Contractors Association. They have provided endless support for our Masonry program this year and we are very appreciative of it. Thank you. >> [applause] >> Okay, next we have Mr. Paige Bishop. Okay, then Mr. Pickard instead. Good afternoon. My name's Ryan Pickard. I'm one of the three agriculture science teachers here at Red Oak High School along with Mr. Paige Bishop and Angelica Weaver who could not be with us tonight. Um this year at our Ellis County Youth Expo at the end of March, we had about 34 kids display over 50 projects at our annual Ellis County

022Youth Expo. And tonight we would like to recognize the top four um or the students who placed top four in their classes. We had a lot of students who couldn't be with us tonight, so for the sake of time, we're just going to recognize uh the about 13 of them that could. So, first up we have Miss Miss Crystal Adame. >> [applause] >> Mr. Colby Parker. >> [applause] >> Mr. James McCall. >> [applause] >> Miss Gwen Thomas. >> [applause] >> Miss Abigail Rowe. >> [applause] >> Miss Elena Rowe. >> [applause] >> Mr. Michael Kellis >> [applause] >> Mr. Charles Kellis >> [applause] >> Miss Addie Rowe Addie Kelly >> [applause] >> Mr. Jacob Worley >> [applause] >> The what? >> Miss Amari Thomas Amari Thomas >> [applause] >> Miss Olivia White Olivia I don't know.

023>> [applause] >> It's not on the cards. Miss Faith Dickerson >> [applause] >> And lastly, Mr. Nash Rugs >> [applause] >> Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Great job. >> Next we have Mr. Chris Anderson, our athletic director, and he's going to be introducing quite a few teams. Good evening. Good evening. My name is Chris Anderson. I'm the athletic director at Roanoke High School, and we are fortunate tonight to have five of our athletic teams with us who made the playoffs this year. And as you know, I mean, for a team to compete the level they do to make the playoffs and finally it is it takes a tremendous amount of time and effort out of the coaches and the players. Our first group tonight, we have five of them. Our first group is Coach Natalie Sutton

024in Roanoke High School girls basketball. >> [applause] >> Thank you for having us. I just want to say a few words. These girls are probably one of the hardest working bunch of girls I've had the past few years, and I couldn't be more proud of what they've done, and I look forward to seeing what they can do in the future. So, with that being said, we were the area finalists, and tonight we have Ariana Warren. Last [applause] year she was our freshman of the year last year, and she's second team all district this year. We have Ariel Warren. >> [applause] >> She's one of our comeback players. She had to sit out last the year before cuz of an ACL tear, but I'm looking forward to seeing great things from her this next year. We

025have Channing Thomas. >> [applause] >> Channing was second team all district. Then we have Journey Hodges. >> [applause] >> Comeback player of the year. She also sat and got to come back and get in a few games due to an injury as well. We have Kiersten Totten. >> [applause] >> Kiersten was first team all district, and she was all-region team member as well this year. Uh we have Janae Jackson. >> [applause] >> She was newcomer of the year this year. And then we have Naomi Freeman >> [applause] >> and Shamaya Hubbard. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Be careful. All right. Next up, we have coach Chris Davis and Red Oak High School boys basketball, and this is coach Shamir McDaniel, his assistant. First off, I appreciate you all having us here. Uh I'm going to introduce

026my boys here in a second, but I'll just explain the year that we did have. We uh reached the regional semi-finals. Uh we won 25 games straight at one point, and I think that's it that's the best in school history, I believe. Uh so, we had a great year. We got I brought a lot of kids that'll be coming back to us next year. We're missing a couple, but uh again, appreciate you all having us. Uh we're trying to do something special here at Red Oak, and uh with y'all's support and uh with my kids, we're trying to do things the right way as well. Uh so, first off, we have Jackson Thomas. >> [applause] >> Next up we got AB. We call him AB. >> [applause] >> Uh next up is Chastin Odums. >>

027[applause] >> Next is our freshman Boris Tolbert. >> [applause] >> Next is our Dylan Kirk. >> [applause] >> Last but not least Tybee. >> [applause] >> And all of these kids not only do they do what they supposed to do on the basketball court but they do well in the classroom. They they very very very smart intelligent kids so it's an honor to be able to coach them. Uh and I have a great assistant. We I really call him another head coach Coach Mack. And we we all do a a great job with >> [laughter] >> the program. Thank you. >> [applause] [applause] >> All right, next group tonight we have Coach Adam Prachel and Oak High School girls soccer. >> [applause] >> Must have some tall guys in front of me. Well, thank y'all

028for having us tonight. You know, this is a special uh time for these uh young ladies and all the athletes and you know, everybody that that are you know, works hard all year and and puts their time and effort and, you know, not just this year, but I I've had a lot of seniors um for 4 years that, you know, that academics first and then sports and then club soccer after school and then jobs and all that stuff. So, thank you all for uh for having us tonight and uh get started. The first uh athlete is London Artist. London was a senior goalkeeper. >> [applause] >> Next is Esme Rodriguez. >> [applause] >> She's a senior midfielder. Next is Morgan Mains. Senior midfielder. Carson Daniel. Sophomore midfielder for us. Caitlin Chandler. >> [applause] >> Senior

029outside back. Raiden Trees. Sophomore outside back. >> [applause] >> We got Amora Turner. A junior center back. >> [applause] >> We have Emily Lopez. A senior midfielder for us. >> [applause] >> And last but not least, Ashton Page. She's one of our wingers. Sophomore. >> [applause] >> All right, another team that had a great season this year is uh Red Oak High School boys soccer. And this is coach Oscar Lewis. Good afternoon. Uh I'm saying coach Oscar Lewis uh with the boy's soccer. Uh we had a great year this year. I wanted to introduce some guys and just talk about them for a little second and then we'll go from there. So, first we have uh senior Danny Nunes. >> [applause] >> Danny was a first team all-district this year, our team captain 2 years

030in a row. Uh just a true stable force within the program. Always putting others before himself. Uh just really going to miss him. Just a true leader and we're thankful for the the impact he's left on this program. Uh the next is senior Julius Salinas. >> [applause] >> Julius uh came to us last year during his junior year. Had a a really big impact this year when we had injuries. Uh he was first team all-district. Uh he's uh committed also to Texas A&M Texarkana. One more thing, I'm sorry, Danny also is committed to Northern Oklahoma College as well. So, excited that they're both going to the next level for soccer. >> [applause] >> Next is junior uh Luis Hoffee. >> [applause] >> Luis was uh first team all-district and was also a superlative of utility

031player of the year. He plays uh multiple positions for us depending on what the night uh holds. Uh true leader. Uh captain as a junior is sometimes hard to deal with, but he uh handled it very well this year. Very accountable. Also uh very uh does very well in school as well and excited about his bright future ahead. Next is Abby Abby Abbyvia. I do that every time. >> [applause] >> Abby was first team all-district this year as a junior. Uh played multiple positions for us. Uh just a key defender for us throughout the season. Uh has grown so much just from the beginning of season to now and as a captain moving into senior year, I'm looking forward to even bigger things that he does. Next. All right. Uh next is uh sophomore Eli

032Gonzales. >> [applause] >> Eli as a sophomore played uh some big roles and moments throughout games. Uh his effort is never doubted by me. He continues to give his best daily in training sessions this spring and I'm looking forward to him having a really big junior year. >> [applause] >> Last but not least is Andrew Cassias. >> [applause] >> Andrew was first team all-district this year. He was also offensive newcomer of the year. He was also uh honorable region all region player as a freshman. He scored over 20 goals this year. Uh yeah, I remember him last year as an eighth grader and I'm like, "Oh, he's an eighth grader. We'll see what happens next year." and he made a major impact this year on the team, our leading goal scorer and just as a

033freshman and he's going to have a bright future ahead. >> [applause] [applause] >> So, our last group tonight and as you as you know, this group is still competing. They have the the state track meet on Friday and with us tonight we have coach Johnny Johnson, our head boys and girls track coach. >> [applause] >> Uh good afternoon. So, we'll uh, we, uh, had another successful track season this year. I'm very proud of the athletes, um, as always. Um, the standard now in Red Oak is state. And so, uh, that's what we push for, uh, every year and it was no different for us this year. So, you can see we have a pretty good sized group. All of these, uh, athletes will be competing this Friday at the state, uh, track and field meet.

034Uh, so, I'm going to call them up and I'll kind of say some of the accolades they've earned this year. First is Breanna Simeon, sophomore. >> [applause] >> Breanna is going to be competing, uh, Friday at the state track meet in two events. Um, she's on our, um, number one state ranked 4 by 400 meter relay. And she will be competing in the long jump. >> [applause] >> Next, Maya Ward. >> [applause] >> Maya is a senior for us this year and, uh, she's been in the program. She's a four-year letterman and she has, uh, she this will be her first trip to state or second? Second trip to the state track meet and she'll be competing on the 4 by 400 meter relay. >> [applause] >> Next up, Zaria Bernard. Zaria is a sophomore.

035She will be competing in three events at the state track meet this Friday. She's the number one ranked, uh, 100 meter, uh, female in the state of Texas. She'll be competing in that. She's the number one ranked 200 meter female in the state of Texas. She'll be competing in that. And she will also be competing in the 4 by 400 meter relay. >> [applause] >> Uh, Shanaya Ward. >> [applause] >> Shanaya is a senior for us this year and she will also competing in our 4 by 400 meter relay for the second consecutive year. >> [applause] >> Abigail McCoy Abigail is our 4 by 400 meter relay alternate. Poor Abigail has to come to practice every day and do those same workouts. And she's very It shows how mentally tough she is. She's a sophomore.

036So it's it's good it's good training for one but also it helps prepare us our program for the future. So when we lose our seniors this year, she'll be able to step right in and and cover for one of those. So she'll be traveling with us this Friday as an alternate for the 4 by 400 meter relay. >> [applause] >> Camden Atkinson Cam is a freshman for us. He he did a lot of real good things for us this year. So when we made it past district, we bumped him up to our varsity team. He competed on the 4 by 4 at our regionals track meets to help us get to state. So very important role for us this year but he'll be an alternate for our boys 4 by 400 meter relay that will

037be competing this Friday. >> [applause] >> Daylen Johnson >> [applause] >> Daylen Johnson is a junior. He'll be competing in two events this Friday. He'll be competing in our 4 by 100 meter relay and our 4 by 400 meter relay this Friday at the state track meet. >> [applause] >> Braylon Brown Braylon Brown is a junior. He also competes in the 800 meter. This Friday at the state track meet, he will be competing on the boys 4 by 400 meter relay. >> [applause] >> Jason over AJ Jason was an athlete that started off on our on our JV and kept working, kept working, kept working and those times just kept dropping, kept dropping, kept dropping to the point where we could not ignore it. So, we had to make a tough decision and make some

038changes on the on the boys 4 by 400 meter relay and he earned a spot on the boys 4 by 400 meter relay as a sophomore. He'll be competing on that relay this Friday. >> [applause] >> Gavin George Gavin is another sophomore. He's also a hurdler, 110 and 300 meter hurdler who made it to the regional finals in both of those events. He's an alternate as well for our boys 4 by 400 meter relay and we're excited to have him and excited to see what he's going to do do for us for the next couple of years. >> [applause] >> Charles Askew Charles is the record holder in the Red Oak track and field 100 meter run with a 10.33. >> [applause] >> He was a regional finalist in the 100 and the 200 meter.

039And he will be competing as the first leg on our varsity boys 4 by 100 meter relay this Friday. >> [applause] >> Jayden Washington >> [applause] >> Jayden is a senior for us this year. He's a 800 meter runner, 400 meter runner, won district in both and this Friday he will be competing on the boys 4 by 400 meter relay. >> [applause] >> Dylan McGee >> [applause] >> Dylan is Dylan will be competing on our boys 4 by 400 4 by 100 meter relay this Friday. He's also highly recruited football player. If you know his name, that's where you know it from, but he is also a 10 5 100 meter guy, so he is on that 4 by 100 meter relay and he'll be competing this Friday. >> [applause] >> Billy Miller Billy is

040the senior quarterback for Red Oak. Also runs track, stuck with track with us this year. He's on our 4 by 1 and our 4 by 2 regional finals. He's on the 4 by 200 meter relay and he will also be competing this Friday on our 4 by 100 meter relay at state. >> [applause] >> Billy got Okay. >> [applause] >> Next we'll have Jason Nitch, our director of fine arts. Good evening. Thanks so much. It's my honor to serve as your director of fine arts here in Red Oak, and I have the pleasure of presenting to you our fine arts students who have distinguished themselves in an individual capacity and received a recognition or award here in the spring semester. We will start with our Red Oak High School choir students. They will be presented

041by our directors Cassie Erington and Reagan Potter. Hello, I'm Cassie Erington, and over there is Reagan Potter. We're are recognizing tonight our choir students who earned a superior rating at our solo and ensemble competition this semester, and they have qualified for state solo and ensemble competition, and they'll be doing that here in just about 2 weeks. So, they will represent Red Oak very well, I have no doubt. So, congratulations to Nicole Akpati. >> [applause] >> We have some that couldn't be here tonight. Mika Alvarez couldn't be here tonight, but she also represented us, and Mario Amato. Angela Arnold. Diari Carter, who is >> [applause] >> Sydney Huntley. >> [applause] >> Ryan Miller. >> [applause] >> Who you'll see later for band as well. Jaylen Molina. >> [applause] >> And I think that's all that we've

042got here tonight. We also have Payton Ninch, Reagan Northcutt, Anaya Parker, and Eden Smith who were unable to be here. >> [applause] [applause] >> Next up, we have our Red Oak High School Hawkettes who will be presented by their director, Ashley Holt. >> [applause] >> All right. Hello, everyone. Uh tonight we would like to recognize the varsity Hawkettes for their I'm short. For their first overall placement at their first competition, they placed first place out of all teams in the entire competition regardless of size, division, or classification. Uh their team jazz routine was also the highest scoring routine of the day. Uh yes. >> [applause] >> Uh they won many other awards over the course of their season including choreography, performance, technique, and crowd crowd pleaser awards. So, please help me congratulate them. We have

043Mariah Hunter. >> [applause] >> Isabella Martinez. Kirsten Hicks. >> [applause] >> Trinity Anderson. Cameron Montebias >> [applause] >> Zeblin Perez Aaron Porter Nila Jones Kaylee McCloud >> [applause] >> Emily Penny >> [applause] >> Ariana Vasquez Macy Rivers >> [applause] >> and Abigail Cono >> [applause] >> All right, next we will have some recognitions from our Red Oak High School Hawk Theatre program presented by Jerrod Thomas and Jeffrey Franks. We are few but faithful this evening. After JV one-act play, after making sure all of your wonderful Pack Event gets what they need lighting and sound wise, we're a little tired. I'm not going to lie to you. So, um but we have wonderful kids and they are we're doing wonderful things. We're we're still running a JV of our city enemies go theater program. All of

044that's going well. So, please know that come by and see us anytime you want to and see what we're doing. So, here's some of our recognitions. We had UIL one act play this year and we had our district all star technician that's Zoe Hearston. >> [applause] >> They're clapping at home. Then we had a honorable mention all star cast Miss Molly Hughes. All star cast for Michael Brussard. We had a district best overall tech team. That is Deshawn Gaten, Aiden Todd, Taran Piper, Josh McQuery. >> [applause] >> And that includes Zoe as well. And then we we had a a few people move up in the International Thespian Society rankings. These are your honors Thespians. Payton Niche and Tony Brannon Albright. >> [applause] >> National ranking is landed Will Height and she's here tonight Miss

045Heidi Torres. And then Mr. Price, what did you get Heidi Torres? Thank you. And then we had international rankings. This is like 180 hours. This is like 120 hours past the minimum. This is Emily Rodriguez, Dalton Fellows and Isaiah Wayne. And then we had one more awesome award. This was a I believe in my senior year this is this is the first. We had a Broadway Dallas High School Musical Theater Award nominee for best feature performer and that was Miss India Wright. And that's what's going on at Hawk Theater and we'll see you in the fall for gosh JV fall showcase. Thanks. >> [applause] [applause] >> Okay, next up we will have our Round Rock High School band students who will be presented by one of our assistant directors, Mr. DJ Todd. Mr. Todd. Good

046evening, everyone. Right here we have our students that qualified for the UIL State Solo and Ensemble contest. They will be traveling to Austin, Texas on May the 23rd to go and compete for a classification. Uh these hard-working students spent countless hours preparing a solo or an ensemble. Most of them had to memorize it, and most of them are all of them played a grade one, which is the highest difficulty that you can get in our UIL classification. And this year we had 42 students qualify, which is amazing. >> [applause] >> So, I'm going to start calling these wonderful students' names. We have Abigail Bergman. >> [applause] >> Deshawn Briggs. Marcos Correa. >> [applause] >> Gabriel Cavallini. Taylor Chaney. >> [applause] >> Mason Cheek. Carley Childress. Preston Coleman. Alexis Corns. Samaja Cox. Ava Dalrymple. Abigail Draper

047>> [applause] >> Colton Dunn Jackson Eden >> [applause] >> Lana Fischer Monica Guzman Mercy Hobbs Oria Johnson Harrison Jones Michael Kincade Isabella Lee >> [applause] >> Amanda Lee Austin Marshall Ryan Miller >> [applause] >> Payton Newsome Austin Oliver >> [cheering] >> AJ Pandey Romeo Reyes Hayden Roberts Vivian Ripple Marco Saborda Josue Salguero >> [applause] >> Dalia Sanchez Emmanuel Shabazz >> [applause] >> Jackson Smith Carlos Stewart Martin Tapp >> [applause] >> Gwendolyn Thomas Gabriel Torres >> [applause] >> Saxton Tyler Samantha Wade and Avery Wood >> [applause] >> Thank you all so much. We thank you for your support. We thank you for your your wonderful and kind souls throughout this year and just helping out these students and we can't wait to hear what's next next year where we start with marching band. So, thank you

048all so much. >> [applause] >> And next we have Miss Stanford superintendent report. How do I do We are going to start with Riddle Castle student council and the report after you hear what Thomas our sponsor says. All right. But you're going to want to drag it over to the left side. That's good. No. I know. It's all the way. Look at the mouse pad. >> All right. I am Thomas, the student council lead advisor for Red Oak High School. Uh we do an annual report so you guys are up to date with what we do for our campus but also our community. Uh I brought with me to do our report our outgoing 25 years, uh 26 student council president, Kayla Freeman, and our incoming 26-27 president, Izzani Harris. >> [applause] >> Good evening.

049You've already been introduced, but I feel like I'm going to restart the student council recap. It's like a slideshow. I don't She just sent it as a PDF. So, the student council is the link between the student body, administrators, and the school board and our community. Over the past school year, Red Oak High School and Red Oak High School student council has worked incredibly hard planning and executing projects to build our campus culture and build community to RHS. In this slideshow, you will find some of our biggest projects of the year, mission driven events, and awards as well as achievements that we would like to recognize recognize our council as a whole. So, for the 2025-2026 school year in numbers, we have a total of 157 members, $50,000 $50,060 $50,060 [clears throat] worth of goods

050donated, and 3,942 service hours. For our awards, we have our National Gold Council of Excellence Award, where we had to submit all our projects that we did for the entirety of the year, and we got recognized for that. As well as our TASC Sweet Sweet Sticks Award, where we had to submit all our projects through the committees that we had. And for accomplishments for this year on the TA TASC level, we got elected TASC District Recording Secretary school, so that's pretty good news there. And uh we also got the Lone Star Award, that was awarded to me and our seniors including So, during the summer we have our officer training, which is held at our school. And we just go through the entirety of our year, and we train our new officers for the upcoming

051year. And also, we have our summer summer leadership workshop, where it was held at UTSA. And we got to meet all of our leaders across the Texas across the state of Texas, and we got to train there. We also had a JC, which stands for a junior counselor, which is Jaylen and she led some of our groups there. First semester. So, this we started off the year really strong. We had the teacher movement day / waffle breakfast to listen to our staff, and students loved to talk about that. We had Eco Club to Go, which is an event letting the new members know and letting them know what Eco Club to Go is, and what the best part of the campus is, what it can offer you, and what we can offer you. And then

052for the entirety of the day. And then we had a freshman gala, similar to the freshman gala at school. And then we were like freshman and incoming freshman to compare their schedules, and we got to see more of what the school has to offer and what Eco Club to Go has to offer. And we had our practice for the Bash. That was really cool when we got to share. We got to share so much of what goes on at school. We talked about the year which started with it. So, September is we held our senior sunrise which is the event for our seniors to celebrate their beginning of senior year. Um, at our pep rallies, we had a veteran pep rally, cancer pep rally, um, Aloha Hawks pep rally. We um, introduced this school year

053starting off with um, school spirit. We also do football gift exchanges. So, every um, football game we give gifts to the other opposing team. And, yes. October, we had our district three fall conference at Mililani High School. We got to meet so many other student councils because it's a fun activity to see. And, we got to learn so many different projects and see so many cool things and learn so much. at Mililani High School. We also hosted our first blood drive of the year. The fall blood drive where we got a good amount of units donated. And, that was for the best scholarship money. Each person who donated three pints, so we helped a lot of people. So, homecoming, one of our biggest projects that we host for the year is homecoming. This year's theme

054was um, Hawk Hollywood which is like movie themed. So, each um, organization signed up to do a hallway decorating for different movies. So, we had like, let's see. We had Star Wars, we had Scream which was pretty cool for NHTS. We had um, Legally Blonde, like all these cute movies. So, then we had our parade which you can see on the top right corner. Our theme, since we um, posted it, we usually just do the overall theme which is Hawk Hollywood. And we had a coronation where um, we recognize all of our queens and kings and princesses and princes. We had a pep rally and our school dance, which was held in our school's cafeteria. Um, we had our Veterans Day breakfast, which is We got to recognize so many veterans in our community and

055we also Um, we had our kindness week where we got to have a peaceful citizens that people could write really kind messages on to spread kindness throughout the school. And we hosted We had We held our Special Olympics at Burges High School. We got to um, recognize and help our special education department kids, not only at our school, but at other schools participate in our program. For December, as you might as you all might know, we have our Toys for Tots event where all organizations from the school, um, helped bring in donated toys so we can donate to Salvation Army. And then at Christmas with a brother was also we had a booth there. We had, um, little events and activities for the kids that came. And also we had a TASC District 3 overnight

056at Bowie High School where it's more, um, mutual training and we had to, have mutual training with all the kids in, uh, the TFW area. Second semester. So, January was, um, we did a Colors for Caring for Human Trafficking Awareness. We asked everyone to wear blue to spread awareness for human trafficking. And we had Hi, How Are You Day, which is a day where we all encourage students to say, "Hi, how are you?" to someone just to start a conversation because mental health is always very important and you never know how someone's doing. And we made encouraging posters by our school that had cool words there where we encouraged our basketball team. They did great. They won 25 games in a row. So, another big project that we did in February is Hearts for Hawks.

057So, every every year for Valentine's Day, we write a heart for every single student that is in our um school, and even our staff and um our teachers. So, we hang them up on the school. So, we have some of our different like designs. So, this one is like a 6-7 design. Here's a cat design. It's really cute. And we also during um lunches, we gave a lollipop to whoever found it in their box. So, it was really cute and so, we um it brings a lot of school spirit to our school. So, in March, we had the opportunity to go to our advanced workshop in Orange, at Hub Texas. And some of our student officers they traveled and they got to learn a lot of leadership training. They got to see many projects that

058other schools are doing to bring back and better our campus and bring them to our social events. So, in March, we had another um spring conference. It was a conference that was at Northwest High School. It's more of a leadership training, sharing ideas, meeting different um leaders around the DFW area. We also had our second blood drive of the year. And this one was held in the gym. And we collected I think like 70 units of blood and it was very successful. So, TASC years we went to state conference in San Antonio. Um, students got another amazing opportunity to go to the annual state conference where we stayed in San Antonio state hotel for about five days. And we had a great time. Like, we got to see all these campaigns that just showed how

059important being each other is. Like, even up in every area. So, we got to learn from that to just make sure that students at our school are being heard enough. We can bring baby teachers to the team which are better at school. And we got to learn so much. We had to meet a few amazing and inspiring speakers. It was a great experience. So, in April, April and May were kind of slowing down for the rest of the year. So, first off we had Kite Day which we had in the front of our school. And it's just not just the um way to bring through this testing season while it's stressful. It's a way with delicious and lots of fun. Give us some kites around the school. And then next we had our last blood

060drive of the year which is super successful. We had like 82 units of blood collected. Again, amazing. And then recently had our officer transition meeting where you can see me and Izzani um transition to all the officers. All the incoming um officers got trained for the upcoming. And then we also had teacher appreciation I think last week. So, we got uh Bahama Bucks for all of our teachers and it was very successful and we loved it. There are so many of these that we couldn't every single one because they happen multiple times during every month. But, student council does care for all the groups and organizations at our school and every year whenever any any organization or group has a big accomplishment, we make sure to bring them a gift basket and they bring put

061sign that says, "We care about you." And on weeks and months or days that we honor certain We honor certain like certain staff members, like this week is National Police Week, and today was National Nurses Day. We gave them a gift just to show how much we care about them. And last week we did it appreciate it for bus drivers. And obviously we couldn't fit every single thing we do in just one slideshow. So, some of the things we do is we have meetings. We had a monthly meeting today. We have currently night monthly monthly monthly party, birthday cards, campus cleanups where we just pick up trash around the school. We have a sticky note board for students to take a note if they're feeling sad or just like upset. And also sticker nights so

062we support different organizations with sticker night at basketball or sticker night at soccer or theater, anything like that. And more. So, obviously we would love to just put everything in there but it'd be a long long slide so it'd be a long slide. Um we got American Red Cross headquarters. Following administration approval, this year we were allowed to award a Red Cross graduation cord from the Red Cross to seniors who have donated blood two or more times. 75 seniors earned their Red Cross graduation With our three blood drives this year, we collected 238 units of blood saving 714 lives. >> [applause] >> So, just for some numbers, since 2016 under the direction of Ms. Thomas, we have hosted 25 blood drives with 3,094 blood donors and 1,962 first-time donors was 63% of our donations. And

063we also had 8,308 8,343 lives saved. We're very proud to be making an impact on our community. Our next blood drive is October 20th, 2026. >> [applause] >> In the fall, we will partner with Chick-fil-A. We have been selected to participate in the Chick-fil-A Leader Academy. Student Council will provide dedicated leadership training for our 2026-2027 year through our Talking Posters, who are student leaders from every organization on campus, around the entire school. And we will have more information on this next year. So, some of our goals of the upcoming year is to increase school pride and student participation, develop new project ideas and for the upcoming upcoming years to come, and do more projects targeted towards the environment. Thank you for your continued support of our student council and all of the relevant administrative staff.

064We appreciate you so much. We were so grateful that you allowed us to be here tonight. And >> [applause] >> thank you, and thank Ms. Thomas, cuz I know you put in a lot of time after school, before school, and I just want to let you know that we appreciate you. >> [applause] >> Appreciate you guys. Wonderful. Hey, not nearly as interesting will be Dr. Johnston and Dr. Day. That's a hard act to follow with the students. But it's always It's always fun. Thank y'all for having me. Uh tonight just kind of give the board an update back into when we come back in June for the board meeting, we'll have to ask the board to approve the budget. So, I'm trying to give y'all an update on where we are right now and there's

065still work to do. And just talk about some of these categories here. Uh again, we presented in January to the board the calendar for the year. So, I'm not I have it listed over here on the slide. I'm not going to go over every piece of it. And again, the board by state statute we're required to have the board adopt a budget by the end of June. So, we'll be coming back on the 15th of June in the regular board meeting. And also have a public hearing before the board meeting. Again, here's some of the steps with the check marks are things that we've already done. You know, we met with budget managers in the month of February to go over the current year's situation with their budgets as well as projecting for the next

066year. We looked at pay pay plans. And we determined projected staffing needs for the next fiscal year. And we determined through cabinet what the budget picture should look like for the next next year. And we asked the budget managers to provide their budgets into Skyward. So, they not have to be manually entered. And we did receive last week the preliminary property values uh from the appraisal district. And I have some information on that in a few minutes. Again, present the preliminary budget to the board in May, which we're doing today. Then we have to publish the notice of the public hearing, which will be done 10 days before the 15th of June, and then we held the public hearing. Then the board will adopt the budget by June 30th. And then after that, the tax

067rate will be adopted in August. And we'll get that information in July. Again, part of the development process, and I brought this up in the past, is when we develop the budget, we're just making estimates of all of the components. Uh because of property values, we don't know what the final property value will be. Uh student ADA, the attendance, we don't know what the students' enrollment will be, as well as the attendance. And the comptroller's property value, we really won't get that idea until next January. So, just FYI, that you know, the budget's kind of a guess at this point. And uh again, due to the transparency act of 2019, there's going to be an estimated tax rate. So, we don't know what the final tax rate We kind of have some idea of what

068it may be, what it should be, but again, it could change. Again, essentially, what it is, is the property growth of the state goes above 2.5%, then they lower the state lowers the maximum tax rate. And right now, it's projected to be 3.6, but it hasn't been finalized. So, we don't know if that number is going to be valid or not. So, our tax rate would be for the M&O would be 0.7011 for next year, right now, what we're projecting. And then here's a couple slides, just the the red line is actually the budget cycle, or the budget year. And all the information before that is where we have to adopt the budget, but we're just making estimates, and we don't know what the enrollment will be, we don't know what the ADA will be,

069because it's going to be six weeks into the fiscal year. So, this is just kind of showing you how it is the process works. And again, from property values, again, the biggest component here that may impact the budget the comptroller may need. Property values of the comp- comp- comptroller provides, but we don't know what that will be until January. And again, at the end of the presentation, I'll show you how that impacts the budget. Again, the tax rate projected at 0.7011, it's gone down 40% over the last 8 years since 2014 or 2019-2020. So, we are helping the community by having lower property tax rates. Again, as far as the budget, we're projecting a slight decrease in the ADA, yeah. Average daily attendance. Because our enrollment this year was about 138 students less than what

070was projected. Over the last 3 or 4 years, we've had somewhere between 150 to 200 student new students a year. For some reason this year we had a reduction of 138 students. So, we're not projecting a big increase in enrollment next year because we've got to make up the 138. So, I've projected about 20 more students than what was this year. We're also moving next year to a 175-day instructional calendar, which will allow us to take some of our days in the summer. But once you hit 175 days, any day above that, you get additional funding. So, for summer school this year, we're going to probably hopefully get some additional days, and I estimate right now about 25 ADA. Since it's not really a full day, it's only 4 hours a day at a maximum.

071And then also other enrichment categories, about a 3% increase. Again, the biggest issue that we got when we got the property values over the day is our property values are going up. I'm estimating it to be a 70% increase over last year. The preliminary number we got was about a 90% increase, so we're almost double. And that's primarily due to the commercial property that's coming into the community. And so with between now and probably the end of June, there're going to be appeals, so I'm not using the full 90. I'm thinking it's going to be less than that. I initially hoped it was going to be here somewhere in the 15% range, so it's a lot higher. And again, also with the Comptroller's Property Value Study, that same 70% is that, and I'll show you

072at the end how that impacts the community as well. We're still eligible for the fast growth district because our enrollment hasn't grown over the last 6 years. So, 338 count toward the formula. Last year it was 379, so it's kind of going down a little bit, but it's still providing us around $350,000 a year. And we're also continuing to project a decrease in Medicaid reimbursement. They changed the process for the last 4 or 5 years, and so that number We used to get them like a million dollars. Now we're only getting around $250,000. So, from a budgeting perspective, we're reducing that a little bit as well. Again, from the uh uh ed uh in instructional or the speedy expenditure component, we're also factoring in the pay increases. For the teacher pay scale, $1,000 per step,

073plus they move up one step, so they'll get whatever that step increase from one step to the next step is. For all the other staff members, 3.0 of the mid 3% of the midpoint of their pay scale. And again, teachers that are above the step 30, cuz that's the maximum step we have, give them a $1,000 increase as well. We've added some of the new positions in preparation for the new Shirley Jones Elementary School and a few other positions, special education and some of things at the middle school level are being added as well. We're also increasing the loyalty payment. And some of the their intent attendance incentives are going to be increasing because there's more individuals and more groups participating. We're projecting our property liability insurance to decrease. Over the last several years, we

074haven't had as many incidents, so therefore it's being decr- projected We were told it may be going down by 20%. That's not what I have factored in just yet. We won't know what that is until probably end of June what that would be. Utility costs, Shaw Middle School, we only had it open half a year this year. Next year's going to be a full year, so we had to increase that a little bit. And technology and furniture for staff additions to the new bodies, we have to add furniture and and computers for that. And this is a slide I usually show near the end. But the slide I'm going to show in a few minutes may it's needs some clarification. Again, if you have 1,000 students in two different districts, they should get a total

075of funding of $6.2 million. If you get $5 million from taxes, then the state only gives you $1.2 million. If you only get $2.5 million from taxes, then you get $3.7 million from the state. So, that's that swing that I show a slide from time to time. And again, here's another the same amount of funding for both. But the local share, if you get higher local share, you get less state share. The reason I show this is because under with our property values increasing, we're getting close to that unfortunate recapture component. Because of the the property values increase. We're not sure what that's going to be, but I just want y'all to be aware that that may be we're probably more in that hopefully in that third cup instead of the fourth cup. But just

076as an FYI that we may come back. It would probably be when we uh in August and share that information with you as well. So, here's kind of a total of the revenue and the expenditures. And the reason I showed that other slide is cuz if you look at that again, the growth is $1.8 million, but our state funding is going down by almost $18.7 million and property taxes are going to make up the difference. So, again, by having more property tax revenue, the state reduces the funding from the state. So, this is sort of how that's going to look. Right now, we're projecting again $1.8 million increase. Again, from the campus perspective we're staying the same per pupil rate. Again, we had reduced it 2 years ago to balance the budget. And the same

077thing with department budgets, we haven't increased their budgets as well as either for this year. And then just a quick brief of the legislative changes the basic allotment was increased by $55 this year. They've added a teacher retention allotment. Certain teachers get 2,500 if you're 3 to 4 years of service, 5,000 if you get more than 5, if you're in a classroom and teach in that way. Then they also state gave us some additional support staff retention allotment of $45 for other teaching or excuse me, other staff pay. And then allotment of 106 for enrolled students for things like insurance and just things that were the instruct the costs have gone up over the last few years because the funding had gone up. Then here's a chart showing again for the last 6 years the

078basic allotment was the same for the last year and this year. It's gone up by $55. And what was approved in the 89th legislature if a certain thing increases like property values increase, then that may go up a little bit as well, the basic allotment. So hopefully next year they'll increase that as well and more. Some other things, they increased the weights used in certain special allotments such as bilingual, early ed and sped. Sped don't take effect until this year. And that's going to be interesting trying to calculate what that's going to be because they really haven't laid out the plan yet for that. Uh the school safety allotment used to be 20 or $10 per student. Now it's gone up to $21 and then $33, 33,540 per campus. Transportation costs for special education have

079gone up. Again, the property value of the homestead exemption has gone up as well. So property taxes should have gone down. Uh it's gone up to $200,000 if you're senior citizen over 65. That should be your homestead exemption. And again the uh tax rates have gone down will go down slightly. I'm estimating for us it'll go down 0.0061. As far as the uh maximum compressed rate. Now, the thing we're also required to do every year is share with the board as well as the community the two different property of the certified property values. And that's part of the first rate. And we have the locally certified property values, which is what the county appraisal district provides. Then you have the certs state certified property values, which the controller comes up with. And they do a

080periodic audit. But the main reason for that is we try to just make sure every There's 254 counties in the state of Texas, and each county appraisal district, they may process things or calculate things differently. So what the uh controller's office tries to do is make sure everybody is at least somewhat consistent. And they uh do an every 2-year audit. So it is they just they don't you do it as their data doesn't line up as much with the local CAD as you would hope. So there are some things that I'll show you in a minute about that. Again, this is a slide I used if the Going back, if the local share goes up, the state share goes down. And then here's the same slide I showed a minute ago. The So no need

081to go over that again. But again, if the if the assessed the local value which your taxes go up, then state share does go down. You get here's that chart. Now the problem is the state uses the higher assessed value between what the county appraisal district provides as well as the property value study provides. The problem is that the tax revenue was based on the when we did our budget, we based it on the information we got from the county appraisal district, not because again, we don't hear anything from the controller until next December. 6 months after the school year starts. So and then we can't go back and change our property taxes. So the problem is the state will say, "You should have gotten it based on You shouldn't have gotten taxes based on

082the property value study." So if your property value study value is higher than what the Ellis County CAD had, then essentially you lose money. And that's what that withheld funding is because they'll you actually the local collections is what you receive based on the information you receive from the CAD, but the state says you should have gotten a little bit more than that, so you lose money. The fortunate thing nice thing about us over the last 5 years our tax collections have been higher than the property value study. Because you see there the green star line is the property values used for tax collections, and the blue star that line represents what the property value study was. So, we've been fortunate for the last 5 years to not have to lose money, but again the

08326-27 we're still estimating we're still waiting to get more final numbers from the CAD because we only got the one number on the 30th, and hopefully that number will go down, so then our overall tax collections will go down will not be as high, so we'll get more state funding for that. So, really the next steps then continue to monitor that current year ADA to make sure that we're at the we're been rough hovering around 95%. We'd like to get it up a little higher than that because that means more funding from the state for us. And if any variables change that might might impact the 26-27 budget. Monitor that information of TEA to see if anything they have changes again like the special education. They're still trying to work through how those special education

084allotment is going to be. Come back make the final adjustments to the budget, and then come back and have a public hearing in June, and then come back and ask the board to adopt the budget. We'll do that at the June board meeting. And the tax since we don't the final certified property values until the end of June or excuse me the July 25th or July, then we'll come back in August and ask the board to adopt the tax rate and we'll make any changes to the budget which we've done in the past, too. With an amended budget if something changes dramatically. So, that's essentially it. So, thank you for your time. And if there's any questions. Just got Yeah, just one. Um back on slide 76, you know, when when we're talking about this

085uh study conducted, you know, by the state every 2 years, do we know where we are in that 2-year cycle? Uh I think we're in the second year. Second year. Okay. Again, thank you to you and your office for keeping us to where Red Oak ISD can say we're not in a deficit budget. Absolutely. And also thank you for watching the money so that our staff and our employees can get raises every year so that we can keep them here. So, thank you. You're welcome. Absolutely. Thank you, Ben. Any other questions? Okay, thank you. Thank you so much. Um now we have Chief Resendez going to discuss the district-wide intervention audit plan. Good evening, board. It's a pleasure to be before you. I'm actually glad I'm following Dr. Johnston and not the recognition of all

086those wonderful students here Red Oak ISD or the presentation from the student council. So, uh thank you, Dr. Johnston. I want to take this opportunity as well uh to thank you for the for the proclamation for National Police Week and Police Memorial Day Uh and recognizing the staff here at the police department. We're very appreciative. Thank you. So, again, I'm short and sweet. Like you told you last time I came, talked about intruder detection and audit. We've always come in the years past just to talk about when we have a finding. We also want to celebrate when we don't have those. So, I'm pleased to say that on April 23rd, we actually were audited at two different campuses back to back. Once one was here, Dr. Joyce Shaw Middle School, and the other was at

087B.T. Shields Elementary. At both of those, there were no findings. So, I'm I'm pleased to present to you that tonight. We have now seven of our eight campuses that have been audited through this year. Ms. Teresa, you're you're on the hook. It's the last campus. Is it Wooden? They can come back to other campuses as we've discussed before, but with a handful of days left in this semester, I'm thinking Wooden may just be the last one. But, we'll see. We also still have to stay prepared every day of the week, every minute of the day, you know, to ensure that we're safe here at the district. So, I just wanted to touch base with you on that. Staff and all the partners at the campuses remain vigilant. Keep those doors locked and closed and report

088suspicious activity. So, that's all my short report for today. Thank you. Thank you. And I just have a couple of other things. Just a reminder that Wednesday, May 13th, 5:30 p.m. is real rebuilding Goodlow. It's going to be an exciting time. We're going to have our RISD staff, students, parents, community, alumni. Of course, the board is going to be there. We're going to have food trucks, giveaways. It's going to be a great time. 5:30 p.m. this Wednesday at Goodlow Stadium. Also, same night, senior scholarship night at the PAC at 6:30. Our next food drive is going to be Thursday, May 14th. Our state track meet, as we got to see all those wonderful athletes, is going to be this Friday in Austin, all day long. Really early to really late. And then Wednesday is the

089May 20th is the last day of school and don't forget our graduation for Red Oak High School is going to be at the Mansfield ISD Performing Arts Center on Thursday, May the 28th at 4:00 p.m. And that's all I have. Okay, thank you. Anybody have any questions for Ms. Sanford before we move? Okay. So, next we have open forum. Did we have anybody sign up? Okay, thank you. Next we have our consent agenda. Are there any items that any of the board would like to pull to discuss separately? Can we pull the District of Innovation? What number is that? Number Number seven. Okay. Are there any other items to pull? Okay, Mr. Anderson. So, we're we're going back to looking at a another approval for 5 years. Is that correct? I can't see this. It's

090a good deal. Oh, sorry. I can't really read that. Me either. One more time. So, you're asking us to approve another 5 years for the District of Innovation. >> Yes, correct. And when when you look at the plan, already talks about the the prep for post-secondary, uh in ROTC or NJROTC, student center engagement, personal learning, strong partnerships. But then when you look at the the breakdown of the items that they're listed under that. I'm not sure how where they align with those strategic priorities. Okay. As far as the teacher certification, of course, that will be engaging in the instruction. And also, and Mr. Ash, you're welcome to come up as well if you have anything you want to share. Also, the dual credit, multiple pathways, and all that. So, teacher certification fulfills almost all of

091those in that area with the alignment of the strategic priorities. And as you go into the probationary contracts, what you're looking at on that is um for us to be able to have that flexibility that if we have a person on probationary contract for 1 year, and we're just not ready to say, "Yes, we're going to own them. They are rock solid." But we're also not ready to say, "We're going to turn them away." because we feel like there's still some growth there. So, that allows us that opportunity to extend that probationary period on that as well. Look at what I'm doing. The flexible start date um as you know, we we try our best not to start too terribly early, but if we're going to get that 175 student days in there, uh that

092flexible start date allows us to go ahead and begin instruction before the fourth Monday in August. Otherwise, we'd be pushing way into the junior. So, that uh impacts the instructional part of the day as well. The class size ratios aligns back with all of the educational um academic success, learning opportunities, uh and things like that because many school districts, because of budgetary constraints, some of them are going to larger classroom sizes. Um so, what they require is a class size to 22 students per teacher unless you get a waiver. And they do have those waivers where the districts can actually fill those out every year to make those classroom sizes larger. Uh but this will exempt us from that to be able to have a different class ratio. So, yeah, so we used to do

093waivers on almost almost monthly. Right. So, this allows you not to have to do a waiver every time that you you change as you need to. That's correct. >> So, currently at our elementary campuses, I mean, I'm not Don't give me an exact number, but can you ballpark how many classes are over what the 22 What we do, um I can get you We can get you a number here, but what we try to do is in the event we have a class that goes 23, say 23 kids, and it's not really feasible for the district to be able to hire a new teacher to be able to split that class at 23. So, what we try to do at that point is we hire a paraprofessional in, and that that paraprofessional can then come

094pull out some of those students and work with them small group to allow more one-on-one. Uh I don't know if we have a number. I'll let Miss Alaire keep looking for that of how many we have. I know she'll have it. She pulls out that number sheet every single week for us and shows us the number of classes, but we try really hard if they do go over, especially those We're talking about core, you know, in the smaller groups, that it's hard. I mean, as a first grade teacher, I can tell you the difference in having 18 students in my class versus 22 is big, but if they went above 22, then you start losing that connection with those students. So, we do put an extra person in there if we can. Will the addition

095of the the uh new elementary school, will that alleviate that that problem? Yes, when we start moving those teachers around. Now, I'm not saying that we won't have growth, and it happens. We go through on cabinet every week, Miss Alaire brings all of her paperwork showing this is how many kids we have rolled up, this is how many we have here. We actually move teachers around sometimes from one campus to another if one goes down and the other goes up. Uh but yes, it should help with evening out some of those numbers. And I know you talked about the uh being able to hire staff that uh outside of the certifications. Yes. Um uh I've We've said it before, talked about it before that at one point we had a policy that if you wanted

096to work in Rental Assistance, you had to be a a highly qualified Right, certified. teacher, certified, qualified. Um teacher. Do we have a plan to get back to that? I know I understand that there's there's growth. I understand that um we have some some programs where, you know, somebody has a special skill like in CTE. >> Correct. I I get those, but the day-to-day classroom uh your core subjects, is there a plan to get back to that? And we may be work maybe we're there. I don't know. Um Yes. Do you Do you know? How many In the last couple of months we How many teachers have we hired? A lot. >> [laughter] >> And how many of those are certified teachers? So what we start with right now is certified. So we tell our

097principals at this time of year, you're going to hire certified teachers. If you remember, and I don't remember, but last month, couple months ago, we have created a plan um to um we have the 5 years with the state. And so this year our focus is that elementary doesn't have any um Unfortunately, one of For example, one of the postings we looked at, there's eight applicants, and one of them was certified. And so how do we get those programs here? Um I don't know if some of you saw, we were honored actually at DBU on Friday night because we are trying to grow those partnerships, because that's where we're getting our teachers. And so, if we can get ourselves into the colleges, then those kids are here, and they're taking our jobs. Um unfortunately, as

098the year progresses, we do have to look at um uncertified teachers, because we have to fill the classrooms. But right now, in your first round, the principals know we have to look for certified, and then we will go to uncertified, depending on what program they're in, what they're, you know, um what we're offering them. And then, very last resort, August, right before school starts, we do have the opportunity, um and the state has also granted the para certification form. And in that form, if they're truly in school to be a teacher, and they've been with us, they've already been in the classroom, um there's a new document that we can request that maybe they might be a better fit, cuz they're already in our schools. Right. So, I know we have programs where you kind

099of grow your own. We have We've had kids who graduated, went off and got some got some level of of uh education, and came back. We put them in those alt certification programs. They have what, 2 years, I think, then, to get certified. And those are good, cuz Mr. Knight, when we went to the state of Texas a year or two ago, they they there were a lot of dis- districts that were going to that. Uh not so much just to fill their classrooms with bodies, but kind of uh pull from when their own little community, right? The you know, the people who the kids who live local. Uh or people who lived local that wanted to to get into education. For whatever reason, they never went down that path to start with, but uh

100but my I guess my con- my concern is it's not just a uh uh a staff member. I know there's some some really good teachers that didn't go through normal normal programs and I'm not saying there's not. But it goes beyond just being able to teach a teach a subject. It's when you have student discipline, classroom discipline cuz you know, in this last election, I heard a lot about people teachers are leaving because of classroom discipline discipline. And if some of these teachers didn't go through classroom management type courses or training, you know, that's something else that they have to learn on the fly, too, as well as doing the curriculum side of it. Do we have a or what kind of support program do we have for those teachers on our campuses? So, this

101year, and I don't know if any principal put on the spot, the mentor program training that you just did this week, they're actually we are implementing a stronger program for mentor teachers so that they kind of have a training piece of usually you pick your best teachers, but what are they truly doing in that program? So, this week the principals had a Well, is it yesterday? Um they have a training to try to help us with that program as well. So, we are trying to find different things. That's part of our grant is the mentor program. Um and so bringing in that training, is it that we're lacking some training? Um what are we doing with the support that we have? Um we've kind of tiered our last principal meeting last week, we kind of

102tiered what support they have, what does that look like with all programs, with our mentors, with our ICs, admin. So, we are trying to create um plans. And so, we have another focus of raising what we're paying the stipends for those teachers so that your veteran teachers want to participate in some of these programs. So, we are looking at new ideas, looking at grants, looking at other programs um to try to, you know, support um some of those programs that could help the new teachers. I do think tonight and just the board taking the priority of raises, a lot of the districts around us um are not giving raises, they haven't given raises. And so, would your certified teachers say, "Okay, I want to go back there." or "I want to go there." because they're

103continuing to provide those. So, we're trying to look at what it is. Um I do think that um like you said, you want to go where you really like the people you work with. And so, how do we create that culture mindset that the teachers want to stay with us? Right. Yeah, I I just think it's important to continue to communicate, um publicize, cuz if you're on the outside looking in when you see some of these programs and anybody can access the the district renovation plan online. I mean, from a from the outside view, it looks like, well, that's just a that's a way to bypass getting highly qualified teachers in their district or that's a way to get past uh the number of kids in their in their classes. And I think we need

104to continue one is we I understand why we do the plan, but I think our goal should be to get up off the plan, away from the plan, uh where we're not having to use those. Maybe it's there if you need it, but we're not technically using it. Um so that when when we have uh teachers or uh parents who are looking to move, you know, we're going to continue to grow in this area. Um I think they're looking for for these things. They're looking for when know, if I put my child in the classroom, I want to know whoever's teaching that class one knows what they're doing. They're certified. You know, they have a certification program for a reason. That's why they do the student teaching. That's why they go through all those steps

105so that when they get to a classroom, it's not the first time they they've done it. I know it's hard, you know, standing in the gap. I'm I'm not education educ- educator. I've never stood in the classroom. Um so, I'm not going to talk like I I do, but um talking to the teachers, we want to make sure the ones we have uh and the raises and things are great, but it's it's more than just money, I think, a lot of times uh that keeps people around. Uh and it's it's a it's a kind of a well-oiled machine and these these teachers, when you have a good district and discipline's good, which I think we need to talk more about, um the uh I think that's what keeps our keeps our staff around. And they

106encourage their friends, you know what I mean? They all know They all have a lot of friends in education. You know, how's it in Red Oak? It's great. Come on. We always have positions open, so Okay. I want to kind of echo that, too. We in leadership, we talked about that, that sometimes we can be our own worst enemies, because if we're not promoting the great things that are happening, then they create their own narrative. And uh so agreed, building that culture where everybody wants to be here. I'm one of those that always says, I can't even imagine waking up in the morning and not coming to work at Red Oak, and that's how I want everybody to feel. That um it's just it's a privilege to get to come. I want to come. Family

107atmosphere. And I also want to echo, I was one of those teachers that I could do an amazing lesson plan. I could knock your socks off with TEKS, but no one taught me how to line up 22 6-year-olds and take them to the restroom. So, I I preach that all the time, that we definitely have to even those certified teachers sometimes miss that, and we definitely have to continue to support them. Anything else on that video, Mr. Anderson? No. Okay. Okay. If not, do I hear a motion? I'll make a motion to um accept the consent agenda as presented. I will second. Second. That's a motion by Mr. Knott and a second by Mr. Seabring. All in favor, raise your hand and say I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes 7-0. Next, we will have

108Dr. Johnston again to talk about the Shirley B. Jones Elementary School Guaranteed Maximum Price Bid Package. As you know, we have several construction projects taking place this year, and we've presented three of the projects to have the guaranteed maximum price to y'all. We presented some of these other ones, but what tonight is the final two. And the guaranteed maximum price is a a bid process that the architect and the CMAR doors go through to come up with a maximum price that the district would be responsible for for the construction. And so, for the CTE building, that amount is $59,822,302. So, we ask the board to approve that. That's on CTE? CTE, yeah. Yes. I'll second. Mr. King >> This is the elementary. Correct. I'll pull it up. Yeah, I know this is the CTE like

109I said this one is closest to my heart. You know, um it's it's incredible. I've had the pleasure of sitting on in on the meetings with this um and the understanding of it, the layout of it, uh the aspects it's really going to be amazing, honestly. Um so I uh I move that we approve the guaranteed maximum price as detailed in the uh uh George's General Contractor proposal for the construction of the new Career and Tech um Education Center. We're on the elementary. We're on the elementary. Uh he said CTE. Bill said CTE. He he said CTE. He did 12. We're doing the elementary. I'm sorry. Shirley B. Jones. Yeah. Do we want to do the Shirley first or go ahead and You have to. We have to do 12 already. Uh because of the

110amount that he presented 33. Million. You'll look on that one. That was the 33. Yes. Yes. That is Shirley. Yeah. There There are three different bid packages. This is the third and final bid package and that is 33 million 667 171. Yeah, for the Shirley. Yeah, uh Yeah, with what Okay, with that then I'm going to approve the new elementary um Shirley B. Jones Elementary bid pack um and building guaranteed maximum price as detailed in the uh George's General Contractor's proposal. Do I have a second? Second. Okay, that's uh motion by Mr. and a second by Mr. Kelly. All those in favor, raise your hand and say I. I. I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes 7-0. Now, Dr. Johnston is going to talk about the new career and tech technical education center. Again, it's the

111same price, 59 million 822 302. In this, instead of having multiple bids, Right. >> they were able to get everything done at once, and so it's just one bid for that one. Exactly. And with that, uh I make the motion to approve the guaranteed maximum price as detailed in the George General Contractor proposal for the CTE uh project. Second. That's a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Sebring. All those in favor, say I. I. >> I. Opposed, same sign. Motion passes 7-0. Thank you, Dr. Johnston. Appreciate you. You have information items in your packets. Did anybody have anything to ask or add? I don't have anything from the packet, but I have a question. Do we know when we expect to get scores back? We get the EOC scores on May And

112then the GPA, I'm going to double-check. Yeah, we get the EOC scores on May 22nd, and then we get 338 on May 22nd. So, can we get I mean, the data we see, and know, and I talk about that all the time, but the data we see is basically the taper data on that I can get online. It's percentages. When I look at 6th grade or 7th grade or whatever grade, it doesn't really tell me how we're doing in that grade level. Can you cuz I want to know if we're if we're a 65, is that we have a lot of really high scores and a lot of low scores that's bringing it up to an average of 65 or is everybody hovering around in the that range? Can we Can we get that information

113over the last years scores? So, when we get the new scores, we have an ideal where we were and where we're going and where we're at, right? So, uh and you can do it You don't have to We're not looking for for names or anything else. Just do a a a scatter plot or uh a box plot or something just so you can just see the data as a whole. Um and and part of that, you know, when we have that you get this to the 6th grade level, how many kids going to the 6th grade didn't go to Red Oak ISD? So, a comparison from our kids that are coming from other districts going into our secondary level, uh you know, how do they compare? You know, and then then I go I always

114ask about going back to the you know, from 6th, 7th, and 8th and on, going back to our our elementary campuses, how do how do they compare? Uh but I I I don't have a good other than a percentage, I I don't have an ideal really where we're at. And that's what that's kind of what I I'd like to see if the if we can do that. I I don't think I'm alone in this. Not trying to create a bunch of extra work, but um you know, we talked about we're going to uh concentrate more on our our scores, our data, um then we need to know where we're at. And I think that's important when you're looking when you're looking at your, you know, if you're looking at your campuses or your grade, a

115certain particular is under part part of understanding where where are we at? Do we We just need to bring a handful of kids up or is there a bunch of kids at the bottom we got to bring up? And not forget about the kids at the top, right? Cuz they need to level up, too, whether it's one point, two points, or whatever. So, if we can get something like that, it'd be awesome. >> Yes. Actually, the principals get all that and they have it in their meetings, so it won't be any problem to bring it. It won't be extra work cuz they have that, absolutely. Anybody have anything else? If not, the time is 8:08 and we will go into closed session. Thank you all.