001Records 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 the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code, chapter 551. All board members are present with the exception of Brian Sebring. Mr. Anderson, will you give the invocation? Sure. Would you bow with me? Dear heavenly father, we just thank you for allow us to be here today, Father. And we just ask that uh you continue to watch over and bless this district, these students, this staff, this community. So thankful for those who are here tonight to be recognized for the work that they've they put in in their their respective uh activity. Uh we're very blessed to have these uh these students. We're very blessed to have the
002staff to teach our kids and take care of our kids on a daily basis. And we're just thankful for everything that you do. Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Okay. We have members of the student council. I believe the student council officers are here tonight. If so, come. Would you please come to the front so you can lead us in the pledges? Will you please rise? 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, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you. Thank you, ladies. Okay. Okay. First on our agenda, we will canvas the May 3rd Red Oak Independent School District
003bond election results. And Mr. Knight, I will need you to confirm after I read them. Okay. I, the undersigned, the presiding officer of the canvasing authority for Red Oak Independent School District bond election held on May on the third day of May 2025 in Red Oak, Texas. Do you hereby certify that the following is a total of all votes received by the precinct returns? Okay. For the special election proposition A, we had 1,53 votes for, 980 votes against for total votes of 2,483. On Proposition B, we had 1,372 votes for, 1,100 votes against or a total votes cast of 2,472. And on proposition C, we had 1,372 votes for, 1,12 votes against for total vote count of 2,474. I confirm. Okay. Next, I will read the official words here. I, Melanie Peterson, presiding officer of
004the Red Oak Independent School District Board of Trustees of Red Oak, Texas, met with the board of trustees sitting as the canvasing board to canvas the special election of May 3rd, 2025 on May 12th, 2025 at Reo, Texas. The board convened at 6 PM. I certify that the figures on the summary sheet corresponds with the numbers provided by the Ellis County Elections Administrator. Witness my hand this 12th day of May, 2025. I make a motion that the board approve the canvas certif uh certificate for the board elections held on May 3rd, 2025 as presented by Melody Peterson along with the canvas order. Do I hear a second? Second. Okay, that was a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Anderson. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed same sign. Motion passes
0056. Okay. Uh at this time we will issue the cert certificate of election for Donna Knight. So in in the name and by the authority of the state of Texas, this is to certify that a general election held on Saturday, May 3rd, 2025, Donna Knight was certified as unopposed and duly elected as a Red Oak ISD board of trustee. Uh Brian Sebring was a unable to attend tonight, so he was sworn in earlier. So, at this time, Miss Knight, if you will go down front to the podium and Miss Temple will swear you in. Okay. I, Donna, I, Donna, do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I have not directly that I have not directly or indirectly paid or indirectly paid offered offered promised to pay promised to pay contributed contributed or promised to contribute
006or promised to contribute any money any money or thing of value with of in value with value or promised any public office or promised any public office or employment or employment for the giving for the giving or withholding or withholding of a vote of a vote at the election at the election at which I was elected of which I was elected or or as a reward as a reward to secure my appointment to secure my appointment or confirmation for confirmation which whichever the case may be whichever the case may be. So help me God. So help me God. That was just Okay. Okay. I Donna Knight I Donna Knight do solemnly swear do solemnly swear that I will faithfully that I will faithfully execute the duties execute the duties of the office of the office
007of school board trustee of school board trustee for the Red Oak Independent School District for the Red Oak Independent School District of the state of Texas of the state of Texas. and I will to the best of my ability And I will to the best of my ability preserve preserve protect protect and defend and defend the Constitution the Constitution and laws and laws of the United States of the United States and of this state and of this state. So help me God. So help me God. [Applause] Okay, congratulations Miss Knight and Mr. Sebring. Next on our agenda is the election of officers for the board of trustees. And first we have the office of president. So nominations are open for board president for the upcoming school year. I make a motion to uh nominate Melanie
008Peterson for president. Second. Okay. We have a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Anderson. All in favor say I. I. Post same sign. Do we have any other nominations? Seeing none, the motion passes. 6. Now we will open the nominations for vice president. I make a motion to nominate Bron C ring for the position of vice president. Okay. Do we have a second? Okay. Seeing none, the motion fails for lack of a second. Do we have any other nominations for vice president? I nominate Johnny Knight for vice president. Do I hear a second? Second. Okay, that was the motion by me, Melanie Peterson, and a second by Donna. By Donna Knight. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. That would be motion passes. 6. Next, we will open nominations for
009secretary. I nominate Michelle Porter for secretary. Do I hear a second? Second. Okay, that's a a motion by Melanie Peterson and a second by Johnny Knight. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Do we have any other nominations for secretary? If not, motion passes. 6. Congratulations folks. Okay. Next, we are going to move into our recognitions portion of the uh meeting. We have a lot of recognitions tonight, you guys. We would ask that you Oops. that you stay for all the recognitions because if not, we've got kids up here and we're trying to call out their names and there's commotion everywhere. We will take a break after all the the recognitions are done, but if you can, please wait until this portion's over before you leave. So, first we will have Kieran Anderson,
010executive director of the Red Oak ISD Education Foundation, and Mr. John Anderson. Oh, there he is. I am honored to present to you this year's participants in the Red Oakd Community Partner Academy. Should be a slide, Scott. Sorry, I was waiting for Okay, it's he's working on it, so I'll just keep going. These individuals went through an application process and were selected to participate in a six-month academy to learn all things Red Oakd. They attend four hours a month and hear presentations from almost every department in the district and how that department educates and or has an impact on the education of our students. When asking presenters what to present or what to prepare, I ask them to tell the participants things that they would not normally know and educate them on how their departments
011fun, how their department functions and the role it plays in educating our students, some of the departments and there was a slide but I'll read off some of them. They hear from the board of trustees, communications, curriculum and instruction, HR, bilingual and ESL, instructional technology, human resources, the foundation, the volunteer program, Little Hawks. So many different departments that they hear from through this six-month period. Um, they learn a lot. They also had the opportunity to tour an elementary campus, the middle school and the high school, as well as our athletic facilities. They actually even got to eat lunch in the press box. This academy takes a commitment on their part. They agree to make all six of the meetings at that last about four hours each month. This past month, we recognized them at the
012ES ESC with the graduation where they are awarded their shirts and their certificates. So, I'd like to recognize those participants that are here with us tonight. And some of them may be out there. They may not have made their way to the front, but as I call your name, if you'll come forward. Jennifer Birmingham, Melanie Brooks, Elizabeth Inyang, Craig Jennings, I didn't see if Craig came. Felicia Lewis, Tenanisha Mitchell, Danny Moy, Yay Ingum, Brook Shepard. I think that was our last one. That was I didn't see Charlene or Melissa Williams. Okay, Charlene Stovall and Melissa Williams also participated. We had 11 participants that actually finished the academy and fulfilled their commitment. So, let's give them a round of [Applause] applause. Next, we have Miss Jennifer Riddle, our elementary math and science coordinator. Good evening board
013and superintendent Sanford. I am excited to announce Red Oak ISD's nominees for National Math Stars program. If you all uh would come forward, please at this time if you are a part of the National Math Stars program. You all a chance to come on forward. I know a few of you came in um a little bit late. 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. Students must live in Texas. Students must be in second or third grade at the time of application. And I will announce their name so you can find who they are. Um, students must demonstrate extraordinary mathematical ability qualifying as part of the top 2% of their district through
014test scores. For the 2025 cohort, Red Oak ISD partnered with 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. The 12 nominated students from Red Oak ISD are invited to continue through the application process, which includes further exams and interviews this summer. The final cohort of National Math Stars 2025 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 mentorship. The following are our 2025 National Math Star nominees present tonight. And if they're I don't know if they're all here, but I know we have from Eastridge Elementary, third grader Julian Compost from Eastridge Elementary.
015Second grader Railen Easley from Red Oak Elementary. Third grader Obie Aigbo. Don't know if he's here, but from Red Oak Elementary third grader Matthew Frier. Okay. From Red Oak Elementary, second grader Evan Hernandez. from Wooden Elementary. Second grader Harper Johnson from Eastridge Elementary. Second grader Seth Lee from Shields Elementary. Third grader Omari Morelos from Wooden Elementary. Third grader Isaac Praau from Wooden Elementary. Third grader Eastston Scott from Eastridge Elementary. Second grader Egypt Silus and from Red Oak Elementary third grader Sethu. So congratulations to these students, their families, and to their teachers who work closely with them each day. Parents, if you want to take a picture, you can run down, get closer. We good? Okay. And [Applause] thank Okay. Next, we have Mr. Chris Anderson and he will be presenting the boys high school basketball
016team with the help of Mr. Sean Kelly. Well, good evening. My name is Chris Anderson. I'm the athletic director here at Reto High School and I'm proud tonight to have with us our fall or our winter and spring teams that made the playoffs in many cases advanced to regional competition and many cases competed at state. Um, as you know, we have tre tremendous amount of athletic success with our students, but more importantly, year in year out, these students make us proud and how they compete and honor our school and our community. That being said, I'm our first group up tonight is Chris Davis with boys [Applause] basketball. Uh, first off, appreciate everyone having us out here. uh these young gentlemen, student athletes, they did great on and on the court and off the court. Uh
017all of these kids that's up here, they A and B students. So I I'm I applaud that for them just how much we put on them as far as with the athletic part and for them to be able to keep their grades up intact. That's it says a lot about them. Uh so I want to give them a hand clap for that. This year we had a great season. Uh, of course we would have liked to go f further, but I mean, uh, we had a great year. We were 27 and9, I believe, overall. Uh, we have eight or nine players coming back from from last year. So, we look to try to do even more this year. Uh, continue to be a positive influence in the community and continue just to give back to
018kids. Um, these kids been up here all day today. I had four of them that went to, uh, Wooden Elementary today for the young men of Wooden. Uh, so they went up there at 3:30 today and they gave some time with the kids and so I've been asking for a lot from them today, but I appreciate them coming. So, we just going to introduce them real quick and we're going to have y'all walk across. Uh, KJ Bradford, he's a [Applause] junior. Trey Hodgeges, another junior that we have J. uh junior Devin Kirk, another junior. Gary Lockett, another junior, and uh Jackson Thomas, uh he was our young baby, a sophomore. Uh all of these players up here are all all district, all state, all region type kids. So uh we were missing a couple sophomores
019that weren't able to make it today. But uh I just want to thank everybody for having us here and uh look forward to doing even bigger and better things at Red Oak. Uh so thanks again for having us. Yeah. You should have stayed up here. Thank you. All right, our next group we got coach Kyle Spurgeon and Red Oak baseball. [Applause] All right. Well, this is uh fortunately our second time doing this. Uh last year, a lot of these guys you see before you, uh we were able to make playoffs for the first time in 11 years. Uh really special to us. Took a lot, like literally every inning, uh to get there this year. There's a little bit of a tougher road in front of us, but uh man, these guys have been special.
020Uh this is all my seniors. I actually have two that couldn't make it. Um but obviously a very talented group. Done something that hasn't been done here in I don't know how long to go back to back years. Uh but even more incredible than their ability on the field is just the the young men they are. Uh I've had a lot of coaches, even teachers, you know, ask who you're graduating, like how many you graduating, you got a lot of returners. Uh and the main thing I talk about with losing this group is just the uh the ability to be teammates and the kids that they are. Um that's going to be a huge loss for our program. Uh fortunately enough, they've invested into the younger guys, so hopefully some of those habits carry through.
021but as a coach about as good of kids as you can ask for. Uh so I'll go over them individually and then I'm going to touch a little bit more at the tail end uh before they take a picture. So first up, Miguel Calderon. [Applause] Next up, Jonathan Mosley, Caleb Rodriguez, Ezra Salada, and then Caleb Stags. The two that could not make it was Walkin Hontess and Josh Keaton. Uh I can't talk about what they've won or achieved just yet. Uh but we do have uh out of this group here we have two firstteamers, one second teamer and one honorable mention uh just in this group here. But one thing I can share with you and this goes to the core of what they are. We had three that uh is going to make academic
022all district and that means you have had a 90 or above this entire uh year and that's Jonathan Mosley if you'll step forward. Caleb Stags, Ezra Saleda. Even even more incredible than that, and that's a tough feat, uh, academic all state, and I submitted these guys, and they should qualify, but I'm going to go ahead and announce them. Uh, we had two of those, and that's Caleb Stags and Ezra Salada. They had to have a 93 their entire high school career or above. And so, that's really special to us, and really honored to have those guys. Thank y'all. All right, next group we got Oscar, Coach Oscar Lewis and Red Oak boy soccer. I'm short, so yeah, I'm a shorter guy. Yeah, thanks guys. All right. Uh good afternoon. Uh first, thank you for the
023community support that I feel yearly here. It's one of the things I I love about this area is that I just feel so much support and throughout the year. So super uh special and lucky to work here. So I'm just thankful for that. I want to introduce these guys. Uh first we have is Ernesto Arco. Uh Ernesto was voted defender of the year. Uh he was also an all region player. He's committed to go to Hill College. Uh he was a a major player for this year and I'm just thankful for the the way he finished his high school career. Uh the next guy I want to introduce is Paul. Uh Paul last name. Aranderees. Yep. Uh, so Paul has been our manager the last three years and I wanted to him to come tonight
024because he's played a major role in our program. Uh, he's always made sure that the we've had the support needed for players to be successful. Uh, I I could talk about Paul for hours, but the the work he's put in to make this program to what it is has been really special. Uh, next we have Lewis Hoffy. [Applause] Lewis Hoff was first team all district this year as a sophomore. Super special player. Uh I can't imagine what he's going to do these next couple years. Next we have Isaac Martinez. Isaac was first team all district. He's our PK taker. He is this has this confidence about him that it shows throughout the game and I'm excited that he has one more year with this. Next we have Gil Medel. Gil is our goalkeeper. He's the
025back-to-back goalkeeper of the district the last two years. Uh he we had a playoff game our first round and I've never seen a keeper just like take over a game like he did and it was just a phenomenal moment and just another reason why Chucky or Gil had such a great high school career. Uh lastly we have Danny Nunez. Danny was a junior. He was voted second team all district this year. Hard worker, just very passionate about the game. Overall, we finished second in the district and uh before the season, we had predictions and they didn't put us in they didn't predict us to make the top four and the fact that we finished second and also won a playoff game this year was just a very positive thing and I'm looking forward to the
026future, but also super thankful to the seniors that uh put in the work to get us to where we are today. [Applause] Try that. Come on. Yeah. Go. Go ahead. All right, our next group tonight we have coach Adam Pachel and Red Oak girls soccer. Um, thank everybody for having us out. Um, a little bit about these girls. um you know they all year they they they worked hard and you know they had a goal to you know of course win state and and and you know that's everybody's goal and we didn't we didn't get that but uh this group uh went the furthest I've I've been here for a long time they they went the furthest um that I've ever been in the playoffs I mean it's due to all their hard work and
027their dedication and their time that they put in a lot of these girls you know they they have to juggle sport uh club sports, high school sports, um other things that they're involved in. Um and it's a lot of time, a lot of effort, and um their hard work is is is what got us to this point. You know, we were regional finalists this year. Uh we went four rounds deep. Um we end up losing to Midlo. One of the big highlights this year was beating Highland Park in the third round. They were ranked actually were ranked number one in state at the time and we upset them uh to make it to the regional f final finals um with a you know a late goal and you know it was a pretty exciting game.
028probably one game I'll never forget. But um a couple highlights, this team was 184-1 overall, 11 2-1 in district. Um 83 goals on the year, 15 goals given up and that says a lot to our attack and that says a lot to to our defense and our goalie that we had. Um we had three superlatives uh in district. Aa Nelson, she won MVP of our district. Uh Cara Connor, who's not here tonight, but she won defensive MVP of our district. Carson Danielle, uh defensive newcomer in our district. We had um two first team all region players, Tatiana Bean and Carson Danielle. Two allstate members, they won, they were for members of the all-state team, Aza Nelson. second team all state forward and Cara Connor uh honorable mention all state defenders. That's a big big time
029award for them. We had four seniors signed to go play college ball at the next level. Um and three seniors that um received the Tasco academic allstate um award that meaning that they have to have 90 or above all four years in high school. Aza Nelson, Kennedy Robertson, and Cara Connor all received that. So, um, just to introduce them individually, London artist. London was our goalkeeper. She is a junior. We'll have her coming back. Aza Nelson, she's a senior. She's going to play college ball at Louis Louisiana, Southeastern Louisiana. Morgan Mains, she's a junior. She'll be coming back. Ashton Paige, she's actually a freshman. She was on also on the state track team. Alen Ramirez, [Applause] freshman. Esme Rodriguez, [Applause] junior. Caitlyn [Applause] Chandler, and Isabelle Cordderero. Thank you. [Applause] All right, almost there. We
030had two more groups. Our next Our next group tonight is uh Coach Jacob Pearson and [Applause] powerlifting. Yes, good evening. How's everybody doing? Uh we're excited to be here. Um I'm very excited to talk about this young man. Uh he is a senior for me. Uh powerlifting is a team sport, but there's a lot of uh individual work that goes into it. Uh we've been rebuilding this program on the boys and the girls side. Uh I can honestly say um where the program is now, uh having to gone having uh athletes go to state the last three years, I couldn't have done it without this young man. Um his willingness to help others, uh whether that's rapping guys, uh coaching them up because we got so many different platforms going on. uh you know, this
031kid, he's just a pillar in our program and uh he really helped build the foundation over the last 3 years. With that being said, uh Payton is actually uh if you look at him, he's 165 lbs. Okay? And he uh maxed out this year with a uh 500 lb squat. Then he had a 340 bench press and then he also had a 500 lb deadlift. So, um, yes, uh, Peyton, uh, with that being said, you know, to get those kind of numbers, it takes years of work and years of dedication. Um, he grinded. U, he put the time in over the years. I'm just, uh, really thankful to have him a part of our program and all the success that he's had. U had a trip to state this year, fell a little short, but
032I know he's going to do great things in the future. So, if you guys can give me a hand, Pton Fields. What arm? [Applause] All right, our last group tonight is uh Red Oak Track and Field and we have Coach Johnny Johnson, who needs no introduction. Come on up. Hello. My my name's coach Johnny Johnson and I'm the the head track and field coach here in Red Oak and um we have been blessed to have had um quite a bit of success when you look at attending and competing at the state meet the last few years. This year was a little different as uh this year uh our Lady Hawks um really took over and and performed on a very high level throughout the course of the 2025 uh track season. So, I have some
033accomplishments here. I'm going to read through them as fast as I can cuz there's quite a few of them. Um I will say that these I'm very proud of these ladies. Um, I I know it's cliche to talk about how hard they work and and things like that, but it's a testament to uh their success. Um, they worked hard every day. We have pretty tough uh pretty tough workouts. Um, they they endured those workouts uh throughout the course from December uh all the way through May. And so uh every day we we challenge them. Um we challenge them a lot. Uh the biggest deal about I got two seniors in this group that will be will be leaving us this year. They've been varsity um track runners since their freshman year. So, um I really
034appreciate those two. Um when we got to state this year, state was on a Friday, prom was on a Saturday. Everything's good. Um, one problem. There were storms all around Austin, lightning, all of that good stuff. Prom is Saturday. So, I was very confident that we were going to get the track meet in. Um, that did not happen. They moved the track meet to Saturday and we did not get one drop of rain. Um so it was asking a lot of our seniors um who had sacrificed the freshman, sophomore, junior year and their senior year leading up to that point did everything we asked them to do. Um, and then I had to make the phone call to parents and to to those seniors about competing at the state meet on a Saturday, the same
035day as prom. And you know, if anybody knows anything about prom, there's at the very least a lot of money involved with that prom. Um, but they sacrificed, they stayed, they competed, and if you look around their neck, it worked. [Applause] Um, so before I introduce them individually, I'll just tell the results. um at the state meet and you'll see how proud we are of um of these athletes. First of all, thank the school board. Um school board showed up in big numbers at the state track meet. Um and that that means a lot to the program to see how much they support us as well. Um but in the shot put uh we have a sophomore um Bana Davis ear fourth place at the state meet. Bana Davis um also finished the season ranked
036number three in the state of Texas in shotput. She finished the season ranked number 10 in the nation in Chapill. And she finished the season ranked as the number two sophomore female in the nation in Chapill in the 100 meter. Zarya Bernard. Zarya Bernard is a freshman who finished number one in the state 100 meters. And that put her at number 10 in the state among all females. that put her at number one as a freshman female in the nation. Jada Edwards, who's a senior for us this year. [Applause] Jada Edwards competed um in our 4x1 and our 4x200 meter relay and she graduates uh Red Oak High School as being the most decorated female athlete in the history of Red Oak with six school records. Morgan Morris, another senior. Morgan Morris graduates as a
037current school record holder in the 400 meter and she graduates also being holding four school records. Briana Simeon, she is also a freshman for us. Briana broke the school record in the um in the triple jump this year and she made it all the way to the regional uh finals in that event as well. She was also a part of our 4x100 and 4x200 uh meter relay. Our 4x100 meter relay uh ended the season as the number one relay in 5A in the state of Texas. Our 4x200 meter relay ended up at number 13 in the nation, number seven in the state among all divisions, and number one in [Applause] 5A. And so we are very uh we are very proud of these ladies. Um I'm going to miss our seniors obviously quite a bit.
038We've I've been knowing them since seventh grade. And so, uh, for them to graduate on us, um, and they're going on, I know Jada Edwards is going to Baylor University for track and field. I am not sure yet where Morgan is going, but Morgan also has a 3.89 GPA. So, she has a choice uh to pursue uh her college career academically, and she also has has options in track and field. I don't know when she's going to make her decision, but when she does, I hope I'm one of the first ones to know. So, these are Red Oak Hawks, Lady Hawks for 2025. Thank you. I don't know what that is. Next we have Jason Nich, our director of fine arts. Thank you very much. It's my pleasure to serve Red ISD as your director
039of fine arts and I am very excited to be here tonight with you to help recognize the many accomplishments of our really wonderful and talented students. We're going to start off with our students from our Red Oak High School choir program. And here to introduce them is our Red Oak High School choir director, Miss Cassie Arrington. Hello. Good evening. Um, the students that I'm going to introduce to you today are qualified for state solo and ensemble competition, which means that they performed a solo um at a regional competition of the highest difficulty level available and received the highest rating available. Um, so very proud of them. They are Nicole Okapati, Derek Chapman, Ava Garcia, Annayiah Parker, Carrington Price, Natalia Santana, Briea Stove, Lana Upurch, Ebony Zachary, Caitlyn Stanford who also is a recipient of the
040Woxahhatchee Symphony Association Young Artist Award which is awesome. She earned that. That is a award that's open to any vocalist in Ellis County high school um musician. We have a few others that could not be here tonight. Michael Kamacho, Zoe Harvey Dodson, Reagan Northcoat um and Roberto Rivera. Congratulations. [Applause] Next up, we will recognize our students from the Red Oak High school band. Here to introduce them is our Red Oak High School director of bands, Mr. Justin Wood. Thank you. All right, guys. Thank you for having us out today. We really appreciate it. Anytime we get a chance to recognize these wonderful kids, it's great and it was great to see everyone else getting recognized, too. I'm going to explain a few things so you just know what it is we're saying. So, we have
041solo and ensemble. And if they get a first division and they memorize the solo and the judge thinks, "Okay, this is really good. We get to go to state." They send the kid to state. So even getting a one sometimes you don't get to go to state an ensemble. Uh so we have a that's called UIL uh solo qualifier for the state ensemble. Same thing for the the ensemble. They can qualify in an ensemble. We have also we have some TEA allstate band auditions where our two kids who made that actually ended up being in the orchestra which is confusing but just it's okay. Um and then we also have some people in here who won um outstanding soloist at a at the Meerson when we played at a the Dallas Wind Band Festival. So
042those are the four or five things that we're kind of announcing in here just in a nutshell. So when you hear me announce their name and you hear the laundry list of things that they've done, I just want you to know what they were. So anyway, very proud of these young men and women. All right, we have Juan Bstros who qualified for UIL State solo and ensemble in the ensemble. He's not with us today. He's at home probably studying, I'm sure. Then we have Logan Belera Allstate band. He made the orchestra 6A this year. So that's very impressive. That was his third time to make it, by the way, which is crazy. Then we have Abigail Bergman, who is a solo qualifier for state, an ensemble qualifier for state, and also made the TMEA allstate
043orchestra 5A. Then we have Mason Cheek, who is a UIL solo qualifier for state and ensemble qualifier for state. Then we have Carly Childress who is a UIL state ensemble [Applause] qualifier. Noah Childress who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Then we have Presley Coleman who is a UIL state solo [Applause] qualifier. We have Gabe Corpony who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. We have Samaj Cox who is a UIL state solo qualifier and ensemble qualifier. We have Skyler Curly Weathers who is a UIL state solo [Applause] qualifier. We have Ava Delfrey who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Then there's Colton Dunn who is a UIL state solo qualifier. And then we have Lana Fischer who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Joseph Galendez who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Bella Gray who
044is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Monica Guzman who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Then we have Jerry Horton who is a UIL state solo and ensemble qualifier. Maurice Horton who is a UIL solo and ensemble state qualifier. We have Harrison Jones who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. We have Jacob Kelsa who is a UIL state solo qualifier. [Applause] MueL Concincaid who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Isabella Lee who is a UIL state solo [Applause] qualifier. Alan Lial who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Andrea Lia who is a UIL state solo and or state ensemble qualifier. Zachi Zachary McCoy who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. We have Payton and Wyatt Newsome who are UIL State solo qualifiers. We have Anley Nitch who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Jonathan Nubaz who
045is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Austin Oliver who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. AJ Pandy who is a UIL solo and ensemble state qualifier. Kaden Roberts who is a UIL state solo qualifier and one outstanding soloist at the Meerson Windband Festival. Cruz Romero who is a UIL state ensemble qualifier. Vivian Ripple who is also an ensemble qualifier for state UIL. Marco Saborto who is a UI state solo qualifier. Uh Leia Sanchez who is UIL state ensemble qualifier. Carlos Stewart who is a UI state solo qualifier and ensemble qualifier. Jonathan Stewart UIL state solo qualifier. Martin Tate UIL state solo qualifier and ensemble qualifier. Then we have Gabriella Torres. UI UIL state solo and ensemble [Applause] qualifier. Saxton Tyler, UIL state ensemble qualifier. Morgan Warren, UIL state solo or ensemble qualifier. We have Avery Wood,
046UIL ensemble qualifier and outstanding soloist at the Meerson Windband Festival. We have Andrew Zart, UIL State Ensemble [Applause] Qualifier. And I do want to clarify, one of the things is these solos they do with a little bit of help from the directors. We do help them with that, but their ensembles they do all on their own on our school. So that's a really big deal and we pushed that pretty big this year. So another round of applause for these wonderful musicians. [Music] Next up, we will recognize our Red Oak High School dance students. And so, help me welcome our dance director, Miss Ashley Pope. Oh, sorry I'm short. Hello everyone. Um, tonight we are going to be recognizing the Hawette dance officers. Our team is very busy, but they are busier because I ask a
047lot more of them. Uh, for example, during our contest season, not only do they compete in our three team routines, but they also compete three separate routines, and that is what we are recognizing them for today. uh at one of our competitions they were awarded best in class meaning they were the top scoring in their officer division. So, we have Jade Edwards, Brooklyn Johnson, Charlie Luna, and we had two that were unable to make it tonight. Koko Monzias and Olivia Dvidio. [Applause] Right. Next up are our high school Hawk theater students. And I just want to point out something you already know if you're a parent of a fine arts student. They're some of the busiest people in the world. Our theater students are literally down the hallway rehearsing because their last performance is tomorrow
048night. And so they literally took a break to come here and uh receive their recognition. So we appreciate all of their hard work throughout the year for sure. Here to introduce our our talented theater students is our Red Clark theater director, Mr. Jericho Thomas. Thank you, Mr. Nich. What happened? Yeah, I do. It's on my phone. I'm digital. Um well, Red Theater had a wonderful uh 2425 season. Um, if you don't know, we produce uh six fully produced shows. Uh, each of our production classes, JB Varsity and Musical, does a fall and a spring show. Um, we had a wonderful turnout for Sound of Music and brought in our elementary students and we're just we're just busy and pleased as Punch that we're here to award our uh our varsity one act play district champions
049tonight. Um, so I've got some individual awards really quickly. Um, this is our all-star cast member. Uh, oh, actually, I'm going to go first. Uh, this is our district best performer. And then honorable mention at by district Derek Chapman. Next up we had an all-star cast member at by district and then honorable mention all-star cast at district Monique Jak. One of your top 25 right there. Uh next up I want to uh who's next in line? Ah, our wonderful sound designer and all-star technician at by district contest is Mr. Deshawn [Applause] Gayton. Allstar cast member at by district 1516, Miss Jasmine Morgan. Next up is allstar cast at district contest, Mr. Landon Stover. [Applause] without his tree branches and monster claws. So, he's a little less scary today. And then another all-star technician. This was
050at the district contest, Mr. Aiden Todd. Um, two two other notes before we recognize the entire company. Um, Miss Tony Rael Ivory could not be here tonight. Um, she is a 2025 Texas Thespian Scholar. So, let's give it up for her. And then I also want to shout out uh Caitlyn Stamford. We at Fine Arts share a lot of students and so we were really blessed that uh Caitlyn Stanford was elected as one of the seven uh Triumphant Hawk Award winners. So let's give it up for Katie. Yeah. All right. And then rush the stage so we can get back to tech rehearsal. We'll see you at scenes and songs tomorrow night in the blackbox at 7 o'clock. Uh this is your district champions varsity OAP company. Come on guys. And last, but certainly not
051least, the best of us, our technical director, Mr. Jeffrey Franks. Okay, as promised, we will take a short break for those of you that would like to leave. For those of you that would like to stay for the me rest of the meeting, we're just going to take a couple of minute break easy on the carpet. It's hard to It's hard to move on the No, it's not going to look good on TV, right? All right, there we go. Good. I thought you did. What? Oh, well that's okay. We will open the meeting back up with the superintendent report by Miss Brenda Sanford. Time to start with um Angela Thomas, our sponsor for the Red Oak High School student council. They're going to do their student council annual report. Yes. I have with me three
052of my awesome officers. You probably recognize at least two of them because they've been officers, president and vice president for two years. Lauren Smith and Roshi Roshni Mortchi. Um and they're going on to Texas A&M and UT Arlington. Uh, I have to brag on Lauren a little bit more because she served as our district 3 president for the entire Dallas Fort Worth area uh representing about 150 schools in the area. And then Kayla Freeman is our incoming president. She's a junior and she'll be serving as our president for the next year. All right, ladies. All right. Student council is the link between the student body, the administrators, the schoolboard, and the community. Over the past school year, Redo High School student council has worked incredibly hard planning and executing projects to build our campus culture
053and bring unity to Ross. In the slideshow, you will find some of our biggest projects from the year, leadership training events and awards, as well as achievements that have been that have recognized our council as a whole. All right, 2425 school year in numbers. As of right now, we have about 171 members. We've collected about $39,588.50 worth of donated goods, and we've logged about 4,7 service hours. The majority of our goods donated come from blood donations, but it also comes from things like canned goods and school supplies, awards. So, first up, we have the National Gold Council of Excellence Award. Only 2.3% of councils in Texas get this national award. To be recognized as the TASC sweeps stakes award, we have completed an outstanding number of drug alcohol safety and health projects, pride and patriotism
054projects, energy and environment projects, and community service projects. Miss Thomas was awarded and selected as the district 3 adviser of the year for the DFW area and she was awarded the TASC state adviser of the year award. There are over 1,400 member schools in the Texas and Miss Thomas was selected as the number one adviser of all of them. We also had five of our seniors earn the Lonear Leadership Award and those seniors were recognized at the annual state conference. Okay. Summer. Over the summer, we attended the state steering retreat. Means Thomas attended this event with others um advisers and students from around Texas to plan the TASC state project. We attended the district 3 officer retreat and our council and some of our members and officers attended the summer leadership workshop at Trinity University.
055Now moving on to the first semester. In August, our school starts early with multiple projects before the first day of school. At freshman camp, we welcomed over 500 freshmen to Ross. And with Yugo Stuco, we had a mini workshop to teach all the members, both old and new, the ins and outs of StuCo. And we also had teacher move in day hosted with a waffle breakfast in September. September and October are our busiest months in student council by far. Um, we hosted pep rallies such as our senior pep rally, our hawks care pep rally to honor cancer survivors, and our homecoming pep rally as well. We also had senior sunrise, our football gift exchanges, and a fee my starving children um meal pack event. In October, we attended the district 3 fall conference at Capel
056High School. We also had homecoming in October. Our theme was no there's no place like homecoming which is inspired by the Wizard of Oz. We also had moms with friends hall decorating dress of day um parade coronation pep rally and our school dance. It was so much fun. In November we recognized over 30 veterans at our Veterans Day breakfast. We also had our first fall blood drive which is our first blood drive of the year. And we also did our Special Olympics event in December. Um we did one of our f favorite projects um which is hosting a booth at the Christmas and Red Oak Festival. We also did Toys for Tots and also attended our District 3 overnighter at Mount Lebanon. second semester. In January, we attended the advanced leadership workshop at Lake View
057and also had our Hi, how are you day and then we had our Hearts for Hogs project in February, which is where we write down the name of all of our students and staff members and hang it on the walls of our school so that they can find it and exchange it for a piece of candy. In March, we attended a district 3 spring conference at McKini High School where we um passed our torch as a TSC district 3 president school. And we also held our blood drive which the difference between this one and our previous one is that's held in the cafeteria. Um and also in March we hold our charge workshop. So we go to this we go to all of these different leadership workshops and now we got to share with different
058um campus leaders at our school as well as wei we invited Ferris first student council to come. This was super fun. Lots of moving parts but I know as the end of Brazil was very reward rewarding. We and we also had a very special guest our own president how present and as well as different guest speakers conference as you know Miss Thomas won our state advisor of the year and we also learned many different projects to bring to our council. April, May, we had our kite day as or today was our third blood drive where we raised collected 77 units of blood which is 300 units all this school year. We had our officer transition our and teachers appreciation where we brought snow cones for all our teachers and we next this Saturday we have
059our senior sunset student co care cares student cares is a year-long project where we celebrate all of our school's accomplishments as you know we have so many UIO area state and just give little gift back gift baskets to show our appreciation and more. Obviously, if we had every single project that we did, we would go on for hours. So, this some of our other ones that we do and yeah, we are open to many ideas. Our goals for the 20 2025 26 school year is to increase in school pride and student participation, develop new projects and ideas for the years to come, and increase community service participation outside of RHS. Lastly, we just want to say thank you to for your continued support of our council and all of the RCD RO ISD students and
060staff. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations, Miss Thomas. It's a great accomplishment. It is. Okay. And next we have Dr. Johnston going to give us our budget update. Thank you all. Thank y'all for having me and thank you and this will should not take as long as many people are anticipating. I can say uh talking about going to go over the budget calendar briefly, budget development, legislative changes, which is what still we're waiting on what those are going to be. Discuss the property values and talk about the next steps. Again, the board saw the calendar in January, so don't need to go through every single step of it, but it's an ongoing process. It's very fluctuating and is developed based on the district goals. So, it's following the desires of the district and it must be
061adopted by June 30th, which every two years could be a problem based on the legislative sessions. Again, the ones with the check marks are things we've already done. We've communicated the budget process to stakeholders. We began developing the compensation plans or we talked about that for next year. It hadn't been finalized yet because it's still waiting for the legislative session to give us what they want us to do. We met with budget budget managers in the month of February to talk about the budget process for the current year and next year and to answer any questions they may have. Again, we started developing the plenary budget process, but again, unfortunately, at this this year, we don't have a lot of the details yet. So, it was more guesstimates of what we were wanting to do.
062talked about staffing needs because this enrollment is continuing to grow. So, we've talked about staffing for both Shaw Middle School as well as uh regular based on a student enrollment and the other parts of the school district. And then we uh provided the proposed budget, talked about that in cabinet and tried to again we're still waiting for we can't do the salary and benefit cost yet because we don't know what the legislaturator is doing and we talked we got last week or two weeks ago the preliminary property values again but we don't really know what those are going to finalize what the final ones are going to be until the end of July. So we're doing some sort of projections on that as well. Again talked about the current budget situation which is a very
063basic budget so far. Again talking tonight we're going to present the preliminary budget picture to the board. Again we have to publish the notice of the public of the budget hearing at least 10 days before the meeting. The meeting is the 16th of June. So we around the first week of June, we have to submit that which is only a couple weeks away. So again, and we still don't know a lot of the components that the state is going to provide us. So that's why we're doing a preliminary budget, very basic budget at this point. Again, on June 16th, hold the public hearing to discuss the budget, proposed tax rate, then have the board adopt that the budget the same night. then we won't come back until the tax rate probably in August which we've
064done in the past because we won't get that data until the end of July and then if we have to do a budget amendment we'll come back and do that based on what we see at the Texas Texas legislature as part of the de budget development process and I've done this for a few times as well again when you develop the budget you don't really know anything about what the final numbers are going going to be in your budget cuz property values we don't know what those are going to be until July. Student ADA is based on the whole school year which we hadn't even started the school year yet and we won't get the comprollers property values until January of next year as to what they want to factor into the budget formula again.
065So, we're still waiting for a lot of information and we also part of it due to the property tax reform transparency act of 2019, we can't adopt the budget or the board can't adopt a budget in June. It has to wait until after the end of July. And again, we don't know what that is. I'm guesstimating that we're going to have a maintenance and operation tax rate reduction, but again, there's nothing that's really been identified yet for that. Typically, on an annual basis, if your property values are greater than 2 and a.5%, then it's reduced. The current projected rate is or percentage increase statewide is 5.5%. I've that number's been presented, but nobody's talked about a reduction or compression of the tax rates yet. So, I don't know if they're going to try to roll
066it all into one and present that to us, but I'm estimating our tax rate for the maintenance and operation to be 70.79 cents for next year. We'll see. Hopefully, that'll won't go down, but we'll see. Again, this is a chart that I provide every year, too, just talking about the different steps. Again, what's in red is the actual budget year. We're before that, and we don't know again a lot of the stuff regarding the average daily attendance. And then same thing with the property values. We have to adopt a budget in June, but we won't get an estimated comproller number until January of next year, and that's not finalized until August of next year. Then this is showing what the uh tax rates have been over the last six years. We've gone down 39 a.5%
067from where it was. And so it's projected again my right now the projection is 70.79 cents. Again, what what I'm going to present here in a minute is because of the legislative session, it's recommended that we don't make a lot of guesstimates as far as salary increases or basic aotment increases. So, we're just doing a very basic budget at this point. And hopefully within tomorrow they're meeting hopefully we'll know more of the outcome of the Senate getting together tomorrow to talk about that. But what I had to do is I increase a basic aotment a little bit and it looks like they have approved a school safety aotment on both houses. So I factor that number in too. Again talk about the revenue projections and expenditure projections. have a slight increase in the ADA number
068because our ADA numbers are a little bit down this year because our percentage of students attending is not where we projected them to be. Projected them to be at 95%. It's roughly at 94%. So, I've I'm just being a little cautious and not increasing it drastically yet, but we'll see over the next week what the final numbers are for this year. That may change. And again, uh, our prek are not included in that, but there is some legislation that's talking about wanting to include the pre-K students. So, that should help as well. And we only get half of FTE for the kindergarten students. Even though they're there a full day, we only get count them as.5. and all the other special a lotments. I've projected a 3% increase because our current numbers pretty much close
069to what we projected them to be. So it it's gone up around 3% a year. So hopefully that'll be okay as we move forward. I did increase the basic aotment by $125 and the main reason for that is because if we didn't we weren't opening the new middle school this year, we wouldn't have a big issue. But because we're opening the new middle school, we're needing additional staff, there's going to be additional cost to do that. So, I increase right now the basic aotment by $125 to cover all of those costs. Also increase the safety aotment as I said a minute ago to $14.37 $14 per student, $37 37,000 per campus. That's what was approved by both the Senate and the House. So, I think that's going to be final. Again, I'm projecting based on
070what we got in at the end of April for the tax rate or excuse me, the property assessment, a 6.15% increase. Again, the only downside of that is there's also the talk of increasing the homestead exemption. That will reduce that, but we don't know what that number is going to look like at this moment. Again, the tax rate using 70.79, which is a 1.95% reduction as a result of the 5.5 statewide increase. And then one of the proposals was to decrease it by 3.31 cents. That was the lesser of the two. So, I using that number right now. The comprollers property value is a 7% increase when I'm projecting that right now. Homestead exemption. I'm just using the 100,000 homestead exemption because we don't know what how it's going to work out with the $140,000
071increase, which is what they're projecting to go from 100,000 to $140,000. We're also eligible for the fast growth district as additional funding. It's roughly $325,000 because our growth in students has grown up over the last six years. Projected decrease in Medicaid. If y'all have any knowledge of what's going on in the SHARS and Medicaid arena, they did an audit based on 2011 data, but they didn't do the audit in 2000 2017. And they determined that the state of Texas was billing things incorrectly or were funding school districts incorrectly based on the numbers submitted. So, starting last year, they started reducing that and making us pay back some of that. We didn't have to pay back hardly anything, but our allocation that we were getting is about half of what we what we were getting, what
072we're projected to get now, is about half of what we were getting. So, you'll see in a few minutes that we're reducing that as far as salary increases. Again, we're going to try not to do anything at the moment until we know what the state's going to do. Uh the only exception is if you're a teacher and you're on the step increase schedule, there's an contract that we have to we do the step increases for you. We've also added a few positions required for program expansion. Again, added the Shaw Middle School salary or staffing for that. and again keep maintaining most of the attendance incentives which have been very profitable to us to have student or staff stay have staff stay uh working be because they get that additional incentive for that other things again
073with opening the new middle school there's going to be additional property liability insurance because of that school additional utilities so those numbers are factored in there as well and we have to have technology and furniture for any additional staff members that are added to the district. So, here's a breakdown. Right now, projecting about 3.175 million increase in revenue and we have balance that to where we have a expenditure increase of 3.175 as well. Majority of that is staffing and salary increases and again like 1.8 million of that is due to the new Shaw Middle School. Again, the 650,000 is for the property. We don't know what the property insurance is going to be yet. So hopefully that number will go down and free up some of the funds, but estimating what that is, but that
074utility is about 650,000 for the new middle school. And then we're also eligible. We can do a program improvements of 382,000. That's what's that's there as well. So right now, if I had to submit a budget to the board today, it would be balanced. But again, we have a couple weeks before we have to get that ready for the board. And so that may change if depending on what the state may do. Again, this is showing what the campuses get. Again, last year to have a balanced budget, we reduced all the funding for the campuses as well as the departments by 10%. My goal would be to try to get that back to them this year, but at this moment, we haven't been able to do that because we don't know what the state's going
075to do. Then some of the legislative changes, again, there's multiple different I mean, you have the House version, then you have the Senate version. They don't really always align. And one of them has basic allotments going up by $220. The other one had it going up by $395,000, excuse me, $395. and they're going to talk tomorrow to see how that turns out. Hopefully, they'll add some language that'll go up year-over-year based on inflation, which it hasn't. And I have a slide here in a minute to show you what it's been over the last several years. And they also have recommending changing that 40% of that increase has to go to salaries. And so, we have to wait and see what that number. They're also in wanting to in increase certain aotments, special a lotments, bilingual
076compensation ed, sped, early education. Then they're talking about adding a separate one for fine arts, but they we don't know anything about that at this moment. So, we have to wait to see what happens at the legislature. Then they but part of the language says that TEA will determine which courses fine arts courses would be eligible. we have to wait for them to determine that what that eligibility will be too. So no telling how long that was going to take to get all those things resolved. So here's a chart showing the basic aotment and as you see over the last 6 years it's been 6,160. It hasn't changed over the last six years. And if you see the p publicity out there, it would have gone up $1,340 over the last between 2019 and now
077if they followed the CPI rate. And so hopefully they'll do something like that to add that into it. Uh some of the thing increase the teacher salaries. There's various components out there. One says that you may give $2,500 per teacher, another $5,500 based on years of service. Again, it may be additional funding. There's talk about adding money, but the problem with that is if they give you money one year or two years, can they sustain it? And if they can't do that, then the districts would be responsible for providing those additional salary down the road. And then talking about the school safety aotment, there was discussion of $1420 28. I think as I said a minute ago, they settled on $14 per student and then 37,000 which is a $22,000 increase per campus for the
078campus allocations. Then property tax relief, they're talking about increasing the homestead exemption from 100 to 140,000. Those over the 60 age 65 may get up to 200,000 exemption. That's being discussed as well. Again, it started out as being before 2019 it was 40,000. Then it went up to 100,000 in 2023. Then there's talking about tax rate compression. We don't know what that's going to end up being yet either. Again, I factored in the 1.95 based on the average increase and I used a 3.31, but again, there's another bill. The Senate bill has 6.8. We don't know what it's going to be. Some other changes. They're talking about increasing the special education transportation allotment, put it at 1.13. It's currently at a a dollar. Increase in teacher incentive allotments and add a fourth designation. increase the
079CCMR outcomes bonus funding. Again, the session ends June 2nd, which is a couple weeks away, and we have to publish the notice by June 4th. So, it's going to be interesting. More than likely, unfortunately, I hate to say this, but if as we saw a few years ago, they did special sessions after the session end after the June second session expired. Hopefully they don't do that. But that's why we're looking at a basic budget now and come back hopefully after we know fi what the final numbers are to do an official budget budget amendment for that. Now the last thing I want to talk about is and we're required to do this every year too because it's part of the first rating is just do a comparison of what the local property values are and
080then the state certified property values are. the local certified property values are provided by the county appraisal district whereas the and that's what we use to project what our tax collections are going to be. The state comes back and says well as part of the funding formula they want to provide their own value and again there's about 285 district counties in the state. So part of it is they want to make sure that every county is kind of following the same guidelines so you don't have some counties that are drastically increasing their property values, other ones that aren't. They should be consistent depending on their location. So that's why the they use the state certified property values and but they only conduct their study every two years and not annually like the CAD does the
081county accessor. Here's a under normal circumstances if your CAD property values or even the comprollers property values go up then the state funding should go down and that's that chart I showed in the past but there are variables that can change that and I have a slide that shows that in a minute that if your enrollment is increasing or decreasing that could change that could impact it tax rate could impact it homestead exemption could impact it as So here's sort of the basic model too is if you have two districts they both have a thousand students. One of them has higher property value so they get or so they can get $5 million from taxes. So the state only gives them 1.1. The other district only gets $2.5 million from taxes so they get more
082money from the state. Again, that goes back to the cup component where each district has the same size cup. One of them has more local or tax dollars, so they get less state funding. The other one has less tax dollars, so they get more state funding. So now the problem is the state uses a higher assessed value between the CAD value and the property value study. So you use the prop the the CAD value for your tax collections and that's what you build your formula around. The state says we're going to use the comprollers number for that. And if it's not may not always be the same or close to the CAD. And again if the CAD number is a little different you can't go back and say I need to collect more tax dollars.
083you have to use what the county assess assessment was. And so the problem with that is the state will fill up the cup with the state funds from the level that the state feels the local value should be. So if you thought you were going to get more tax dollars, but the state says no, based on the comprollers's numbers, you're going to get less state dollars, then you what's right on that document there or the cup, you're not going to get those funds. So school districts lose some of the revenue if the CAD numbers are higher than the tax numbers from the local CAD. So, and here's a chart that we're that I've provided in the past. Again, the difficulty is things change over the years. But if you look at 2122 and 223, the
084property values did go up. The tax collections did go up. And if you look at the very last column, the state funding did go down. But then if you look at the next year it went you know the local value or the state funding went up drastically and the main reason for that if you look at the second from the top for 23 24 the tax rates went down that's when they implemented that over 18 cent tax rate so that took the values down the CAD values down and therefore you got more state funding so it again it's not as e easy as just factoring year-over-year. But again, the purpose of this is to show if properties values go up, state funding should go down if all things are variable or the same factor. So
085the next steps we'll continue monitoring. We only have a week or so left of school district to see how the final numbers for the district are. Talk, you know, see what the legislature is going to do. Then we'll make the final adjustments to the budget and provide an update for the special hearing or the public hearing and then hold the public hearing for the proposed budget and tax rates. Have the board approve the budget in June and then come back in August and have the property values certified or the tax rate certified. And again, depending on what we see, come back and ask them to ask the board to adopt a different budget or basically a budget amendment hopefully showing more revenue so then we can have more expense for salary adjustments and things like
086that. And so that's it. If you'all have any questions, thank you Dr. Johnston. Thanks, Will. Appreciate you, sir. And I just have a couple of things and then I will turn it back over to you. Just wanted to uh recognize Reoist has been honored as one of the best communities for music education by the National Association of Music Merchants, marking the 10th time that Retookd has received this prestigious recognition. So, we're very proud of that. Uh the next mobile food pantry will be on Thursday, May 15th at 4 p.m. at AESC. Coffee Talk will be on Wednesday, June 4th at 7:45 a.m. The next regular board meeting is scheduled for Monday, June 16th at 700 p.m. And then our Red Oak High School graduation is going to be held on Thursday, May the 29th at
087the Mansfield ISD Performing Arts Center at 400 PM. And that's all I have. Okay. Thank you, Miss Sanford. Thank you. Um, Miss Debbie, did we have anybody? Okay, we had no one sign up for open form, so we will move into our consent agenda. Are there any items that anybody wants pulled to consider separately in the consent agenda? If not, do I hear a motion to approve? Make a motion that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. That's a motion by Mr. Knight and a second by Mr. Kelly. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. 6. Next we will consider method of procurement for 2025 bond projects. And we will hear from Dr. Johnston again. again with the passing of the bond start to it's time to start the
088projects and we want to get started because something I didn't talk about a minute ago is there is a bill out there that's being discussed as with the hold harmless going up if your hold harmless is going up means the tax values are going down. So for the funding formula they give what they called hold harmless funding to make up the difference and and mainly it's for the maintenance and operation tax value stuff. There is a component for the INS the debt service but right now they haven't what they did in 2023 when it went up from 40 to 100 they said if you issue bonds by the end of August then you get that hold harmless. Right now, the language doesn't really show show that they say January 1, 2025. So hopefully when that's
089presented here in the next week, they'll adjust that. So we're preparing to maybe potentially issue bonds in August if they change that date to August 31st to issue the bonds to get some of that additional state funding for your debt service fund. And so what we need first one of the steps is we've been working with Corgan is to go through the process of identifying and selecting a construction manager at risk. So that's what this document does. It does two things again asking the board to approve us using the construction manager at risk process which is a two-step process where we identify through a request for qual qualifications then come back and do an interview with those that we want to interview and then there's also attached to this the evaluation process how each of
090those components are verified and then provide the superintendent the authority to establish the process negotiate whatever final contract we come up with for that purpose. So that's what this recommendation is for. Any questions? Not. Do we here have a motion? Anyone? And again, this is mainly just for the major projects. There's some of those minor projects such as the playgrounds. We're going to do those internally. So, it's just the five major projects that were part of the three bond propositions. It's give us just a second. Sure. Yeah. a motion. Yep. And just for clarification, we went through the same process for the new middle school when we selected Jorus to be the construction manager at risk. So, it's the same process that we plan to use for these five projects as well. Okay. Just read.
091I move. I'm gonna get a little closer. Are you going to do it, John? Because if not, I got Okay. I move to adopt the resolution declared, you know, the construction manager at risk two-step process as a constru uh construction delivery method and other uh required actions for the following five projects as presented. New career and technology CTE building with cafeteria. Uh the new elementary school on Harmony Way. the Red Oak High School practice gym edition, the subvarsity athlet athletic uh venue, the Goodlo stadium uh renovation. Thank you. Do we have a second? I'll second. Okay, that is a motion by Johnny Kn and a second by Donna Nut. Okay, all those in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Thank you, sir. Motion passes. 6. Okay. Next is information items you all had in
092your packets. Do you have any questions on those for Miss Sanford? Okay. hearing none. The time is 7:43 and we will adjourn into closed se closed session pursuant to multiple Texas government codes as listed on the agenda. Thank y'all.