001started now. If everyone will take your seat, call this meeting of the Red Oak Independent School District to order at 7 PM. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that notice of the meeting has been posted in accordance with Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. All board members are present. And Mr. if you would give the invocation. >> Yes. Let's pray. Father God, we just uh pause this evening and express to you our our thankfulness for everyone in our district who work so hard every day to ensure the safety, the the the proper climate for learning for the care of all of our kids. Lord, from those who pick our students up in the morning on the buses to
002those who stand outside in the car lines, those that are teaching all day. Lord, there's so many that we could mention. I ask that you would bless each one of them, that you would meet their needs, the things that they have. Lord, we pray for our meeting tonight that you would give us your wisdom and your understanding and all the things that we must deal with. And we ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. Mr. Sebring, if you'll go down and introduce our pledge leader for tonight. Our September pledge leader is Isabelle Helms. She is 10 years old. Her parents are Haley and Matthew. She has a brother that's three. She has three brothers and one sister. Isabelle, do you want to come up? Isabelle is in the fifth grade at Eastridge Elementary
003School and her teacher is Mrs. Bergman. Her favorite subject is science. Isabelle enjoys soccer and has played since she was two years old. And her favorite book is BFG. She loves tires. I'm just kidding. It's tire. Her favorite pet is her dog named Dolly. And when Isabelle grows up, she wants to be a hair stylist because her mom is one and she loves watching her do hair. The person that she most admires is her mom because she is kind and she protects her. Something that she likes about herself is that she is kind to people. very admiral today. The fifth grade team chose Isabelle because she is always de demonstrating the four talents. She is kind and respectful to her peers and adults in the building. Isabelle is a great fifth grade leader. I pledge
004allegiance 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. >> Now for the Texas flag. >> I honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. >> Okay. And next we will have the superintendence report by Miss Sanford. >> Yes. We are going to start with uh Chief Pacifica. is going to give you an update on our safety week. [Music] >> Good evening, board superintendent, Miss Superintendent. Uh thank you for having the uh give me the opportunity to come and just give a little brief update on our safety week for fall. It was the week of September 2nd. Uh there was a lot going on that
005week. Uh it was one there was a Labor Day holiday on Monday and two it was also grandparents week. So there was a lot of moving parts for the for the safety week. But uh first I wanted to send my thanks extend my thanks to all the uh campus emergency management APS that do the scheduling and work with the campus teams. They do a great job. So all the all the folks that are in the emergency management piece at the campus uh thank y'all very much. please extend my thanks to them for their hard work. Um, we test, we've talked about this before, the state requires that we test all parts of the standard response protocol once in the fall and once in the spring. We do twice that. So what we do uh is
006have a fall safety week where all parts of the uh protocol can be tested early and then the campus uh the respective campuses schedule the rest the the remaining time uh before the end of the year the calendar year and then we'll have a spring do the same thing in the spring with a spring week and then allow the campus to schedule the rest time. they they do the scheduling during that week, but it's designated for that week and then they they had flexibility so somewhere else within the the year to schedule that second part. The only exception of that um which I know most most of most of y'all know, excuse me, uh is the fire drills and we have to do those every month when there students in for at least 10 days
007in the month. So that's all all year including for summer school June for the two campuses that have summer school. So, uh, those are tested every part. Uh, I will say this year was, uh, I think real successful. Uh, I know I talked to y'all last time we had some issues with doors. No issues with doors. Those were all mitigated from last year's time. So, that's good. Uh we did in the safety training prior to the school year we did preach to you know we want to drill to reality which we're still working on with all the the campuses but I'll tell you a reality piece occurred at one of the elementary campuses uh the students were locked down in a great place and exter they had an extra room in their uh in their
008uh um buil built in a little closet and that's where they were and they weren't found during the uh original uh search. Uh that is reality though because um in a real event more than likely it's going to be somebody not associated with the district be somebody a first responder from another department that may not know where that area is. So again it you test reality and sometimes reality just finds you and that's what occurred on that time. So, um I just want to note that the only uh issue uh that we had was with our informcast the overhead announcement the lock slides out of sight. It hung up. Uh so we worked with it. They reset the server and then did a firmware update that was due evidently and that seemed to fix the
009problem the rest of the week. But early on at the elementaryaries we were having trouble being able to shut that inform off and so that would that was the only thing of note. um the uh you know we we make sure that we do the afteraction reports and learn from any uh any areas or tried to identify any areas that we can improve. Uh but like I said all in all I thought this was a a good test. I did want to make note you know that we test that we train on the safety prior to for all departments uh for every every person within the organization with all across the district. And uh this year I just want to give a shout out. We we because we we train on the standard response protocol
010which is part of our safety training beforehand but this year we also did stop the bleed and Sergeant Fitton who's a stop theble to bleed instructor basically did every uh he had to teach every class because he he is a stop theble to bleed instructor was able part to do that portion so I just want to give a shout out to him but I that was one of the recommendations it's not a requirement but it was one of the recommendations from TEA when they when they did our district vulnerability assessment that we might want to look in increasing that so we incorporated as part safety training. So, I just wanted to bring that to y'all's attention. Um, I don't have anything else. I'd be welcome to answer any questions you may have. >> Thank you
011so much. >> And I just have a few things just to announce. Uh, yes. And um, Isabelle and Miss Helm, y'all are welcome to stay or you're welcome to be excused if you'd like to be. It's totally up to you. Okay. All right. Okay. Hey, just a couple of uh quick announcements. Congratulations to our Red Oak High School volleyball coach, head coach uh Hope Porter on her 500th win. Uh she was presented with a 500th win volleyball at the last game, and we'll be bringing her a little bit later to present her here to the board as well, but I did want to recognize her again tonight. Our elementary school celebrated Grandparents Day on February the 5th, and we welcome many grandparents to our campuses, and they had a great time. >> I'm sorry, what
012did I say? February, September, September the 5th. I'm really jumping ahead. Really jumping ahead. Y'all didn't know it was already past semester. September is firefighter appreciation month and we want to say thank you to all the firefighters in our area. You as well, Mr. Kelly, uh for your service and support of Red Oakd and our communities. We are celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15th through October the 15th. So, keep an eye out for activities on all of the campuses. September 19th is staff development day and a student holiday. The Red Oak Founders Day parade will take place uh this Saturday, September the 20th at 9:00 a.m. and then it will end at Founders Day at Watkins Park. So, they'll have many activities there as well for the day. September the 26th is a
013district holiday. Coffee talk October the 1st at 7:45 a.m. That's virtual. The next mobile food pantry is Thursday, October the 9th at 4 pm here at the ESC. Homecoming parade will be uh on Friday, October the 10th at 2 p.m. And our next regular board meeting is Monday, October the 20th at 700 p.m. So those are just some save the dates of upcoming events. >> Thank you. >> Hey Debbie, did we have any? Okay, then we will move on to our consent agenda items. Are there any um items under the consent agenda that we want to pull and discuss? If not, do I hear a motion? >> I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented. That's a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Anderson. All those in favor
014say I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. 70. And now we will we're going to do something just second here. Consider. Okay. We're going to talk about the uh purchase of cafeteria equipment. Miss Vicky Arber. >> Good evening. >> All right. I'm coming to you um to uh request a purchase of equipment for our cafeterias. This purchase is for two pass through heated cabinets and one re-in refrigerator at Red Oak Middle School. one pass through refrigerator at Red Oak Elementary and one reach in refriger refrigerator at RPS to replace old and non- workinging equipment that have reached their end of life. Some of them have um this capital expenditure request has been approved by TDA. Quotes were obtained from the following uh equipment and um restaurant supply companies. Pasco, Atex, ASmart, Cooks Direct,
015Jeans, Supreme Fixture, Kirby, and T-Rex. The recommended vendor with the lowest price is Cooks Direct. I took into account the price first and I also looked at warranty information um and just compared all of these um quotes and the best price and everything was equal other than the price. So the best price was for Cooks Direct. Any questions? If no questions, do I hear a motion? >> I make the mot I make the motion that we approve the purchase of the equipment listed above from Cooks Direct in the amount of 71,14576 using VI board contract 683-22. >> Second. >> That's a motion by Mrs. Knight and a second by Mr. Sebring. All those in favor say I. I >> oppos same sign. Motion passes 70. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Next we will go to
0166B which is a resolution of candidate nominations for Ellis County Appraisal District Board of Directors for 2026. And Miss Sanford >> going to talk to us about that. Each taxing unit in Ellis County is entitled to nominate by resolution adopted by its governing body one candidate for each position to be filled for the board of directors for the Ellis appraisal district for 2026. There are two positions that are up, Rick Keeler and Walter Irwin. And Walter Irwin from Inennis has expressed interest in continuing to serve on the board of directors. You are not required to nominate anyone, but if you do nominate someone, then we have to submit a short bio and contact information for the newly nominated candidate. So, it is coming to the board to see if y'all wish to nominate a candidate
017for either of these positions. >> Why are we laughing? I'm gonna nominate John >> from one board to another. >> Does anyone have a nomination that they would like to put forth for either one of these positions? If not, then I believe this >> motion >> this motion dies. >> Yes. >> Because there was no motion. >> Correct. That is correct. >> Okay. Then we will move on to the approval or discussion of approval of school library advisory committee for the 2025 2026 school year. And we have Miss Laura Kelly. Okay. And so in July the board did go ahead and approve to establish a school library advisory council per um Senate Bill 13. And so coming back to that now we actually the board gets to appoint each member of the board gets to
018appoint a member to serve on that council. So you do have in front of you and in your packet those who you appointed and I'm just coming to ask that you go ahead and officially nominate those. This council will just review um any library purchases procurement to our library collection and and they'll review it and come up with processes and procedures to make recommendations for those purchases. >> Will they meet do they have like a certain many meetings per >> minimum year? minimum two per year, but um they can meet more often than that. And then as soon as a council is blessed, we'll come up with when those meeting dates will be starting with this first semester. And as they work through that process, they'll have um a better idea of how to work
019through each semester moving forward. >> Do we get new library books each semester or >> Oh, yes. >> How did Okay. I wasn't sure how >> how that rotation went. So the librarians typically in the past have just um gone through their own processes and procedures that we have in local board in legal and local board policy already. But having a school library advisory council, they are parents from the community and so they just review those titles from this point moving forward and then make recommendations to go ahead and approve or if there's some that they have questions about, they can reach out to the librarians. The librarians are constantly um purchasing books every semester for those libraries, the latest and greatest and new things and and listening to their students interest in what they
020want to purchase and have in their library. So, >> okay. Does anybody have any other questions for Miss Kelly? If not, do I hear a motion? I'll make the motion that we recommend that we formally appoint Do I need to name them all or just the above? >> The above. That we formally appoint the above members to the school library advisory committee in accordance with board policy EFB local adopted July 29th, 2025. >> Do I hear a second? >> Second. Okay, that was a motion by Miss Knight and a second by Mr. Sebring. All in favor say I. >> I post same sign. Motion passes 70. >> Thank you. >> Thanks. >> Okay. Well, now the time is 7:18 and we will go into close session. Thank you all for being here. >> Thank y'all.