001e okay I call this meeting of the red oak Independent School District to order at 7 p.m. 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 the Texas open meetings act Texas government code chapter 551 all board members are present and we will begin uh with Miss n if you will introduce our pastor Josiah cin will you come on down please Josiah cin is an ordained minister through the Assembly of God and serves as the youth pastor at Fuego Church where he has been a dedicated member for the past three and a half years passionate about investing in the Next Generation he is committed to equipping and empowering young people to grow in
002their faith and purpose welcome Josiah thank you so much Bor um good evening my name is Josiah um would you join me on your feet as we if you feel comfortable as we enter this meeting um with a word of prayer Proverbs 11:14 tells us that where there's no guidance a people Falls but in an abundance of counselors there is safety let us pray father we come before you and we give you thanks for the breath in our lungs for the movement we have in our hands and in our feet God we also come before you and thank you for the board members that are here this evening God we thank you um because with them we can be sure um that there is guidance um not just to our school district but to the
003lives of the students um who will be the Future Leaders of this district and City God we come before you and we lift up every single meeting point we have this evening we pray that your peace would rest amongst this room that your joy would fill it and that your wisdom would guide every single decision that is made we love you Lord we give you praise and in Jesus name we say amen amen thank you sir next Miss Porter you'll take the floor to introduce our pledge leader our March pledge leader is Alana Shaw come on down Alana is 11 years old her parents are Alvin and chill Shaw she has one brother brillan and brillan is in the 10th grade at Red O High School Alana is in the sixth grade at Red Oak
004Middle School her favorite subjects are math and Leadership Alana enjoys dancing reading and crafts and her favorite books are graphic novels when Alana grows up she wants to be an op op obstetrician the people she admires and her parents sometimes I'm sorry something she likes about herself is that she's smart and stays positive Alana Shaw represents Red Oak Middle School's values and demonstrates the Red Oak ISD for talents of a hwk daily she exhibits academic Readiness by striving to become 1% better every day as a result Alana has earned a 4.0 GPA for the fourth six weeks Alana was selected by her teachers to represent Red Oak Middle School at the SMU student for a Day event as appreciation for her resilience according to all teachers at West Campus she is respectful and always willing
005to assist when needed Alana makes Red Oak Middle School better by displaying Integrity that keeps her making good decisions even when other kids are not let me just add a little bit congratulations she just made the drill team for your Shaw highsteppers for next year [Applause] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it to stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the Texas flag I pledge alleg to be Texas one State under God one and indivisible Mom you can come up and take a picture conratulations thank you next we will move in into our recognitions part of the agenda let and I want to ask I know there's a lot of people here and some of you don't have
006seats but if you'll wait till everybody's recognized before you do a mass exit because the that way the kids and parents can hear their kids being announced if everybody's not moving all around and I'll take a break and let everybody go as soon as it's over so first we have Mr Brian bell for come up here come on you're just dang it I was hoping that off the hook all right uh here we have a majority of our Red Oak Middle School archery team a lot of people don't know we even have archery in Red Oak uh so this is a great opportunity for us to come and share and that was the purpose of our event we did what we called the Red Oak archery pram first annual uh we paired members of the
007community with our archers on our team they shot for combined score uh and we had a couple winners um and we're excited about that we have Mayors Fire Chiefs city council school board members and a whole lot of ISD administrators as well as some other folks from the community in including alumni uh our kids did a great job for our kids it was also a fundraiser uh so kind of along the lines however many points they scored certain dollar value uh we ended up raising over $7,000 so they did a great job that's all on them uh part of that was uh to help us get to State uh we had a couple big donations I'd like to recognize one was uh Animal Hospital of ailla gave us $400 to cover our meals for tomorrow
008which is actually our state tournament which we're excited about so we want to thank them uh and then Red Oak baseball and softball Association uh I reached out and they were they reached out to us and we were worried about making sure everything went well tomorrow with transportation and they gave us $1,000 so I'd like to recognize Sean Kelly is also on their board so uh but more importantly we're here because uh we have a couple of awards uh we had second place trophies uh in second place in our archery pram uh we had Archer uh Mia Gonzalez and her partner was with redo Police Department Lieutenant Jason Meeks if you want to come on [Applause] up and in first place with Eli Caldwell uh step forward so they know who you are there we
009go you got you stand over here uh we had Ry board member Johnny [Music] [Applause] Knight they both cheated so all right and we have a couple of our students going to present them with their trophies come on up girls there we go all right uh and one of our dads uh Eli's dad actually made these trophies for us so there a great job on that so thank you very much we appreciate it uh reach out help us grow our program you f in behind there you go some of you're little you got get up par answer are more than willing to come up and you're more than welcome to come up and take pictures SCH good luck tomorrow guys okay next we will have Laura Kelly director of instructional technology and Mr Sean Kelly
010if you will help with this one so um good evening Red Oak ISD does participate in the National script spelling be it starts at the local level on campuses 3rd through 8th grade um participate on their campus and so we have our campus winners tonight we will start with wooden elementary we have fifth grader laye Hudson from Shield Elementary we have fourth grader Ethan Hernandez Ethan also was our Ellis County Spelling be runner up so the campus winners get to also advance to the Ellis County B and Ethan was the runner up at our Ellis County Spelling be from Red O Elementary we had fifth grader Sydney Bosley from shutman elementary we had fifth grader Julia cornado from EAS Ridge Elementary we have fourth grader Cameron Smith and then from Red Oak Middle School this
011middle schooler is from th grade and she also happened to win the County Spelling be yes she got first place at the County Spelling be at sixth grader Iana George get her and come back up does she want a picture did you want to come back up for a picture come let her come back up get a picture Miss Kelly we're fixing it we're gonna take a picture way to go Sean you were sneaking away didn't you need your picture something be proud great job and next Miss Sanford and Mr Anderson okay for the 2425 school year Red O ISD continues a celebration of students and staff with the top Hawks and Hawks staff Spotlight programs which are sponsored by area businesses and organizations each grading period campuses will select the top top Hawks one
012boy and one girl from their entire School based on the four talents of the hawk academic Readiness prepared grit character and service each Elementary winner will receive a $25 gift card and each Middle School and High School winner will receive a $50 gift card from our sponsor thank you to our sponsor and if you will come on up access Self Storage Mr Doug Hunt is here as our sponsor and to present the certificates and gift cards come on okay and students as I call your name if you will just please remain up here until we get a picture of all of the elementary together we're going to start with Eastridge Elementary fourth grader Bry Ross Eastridge Elementary second grader Elias valela Red Oak Elementary second grader Zoe McLoud and Red Oak Elementary fourth grader Brandon
013Rich Shields Elementary fifth grader Abbott Britain Shields Elementary third grader Aubrey Cole Sheepman Elementary fourth grader Zariah Baldwin shutman Elementary fourth grader Dallas Holt would Elementary kindergartner Brian troll y'all have Brian troll behind you all right and wooden elementary prek Jasmine Gord and parents you're welcome to take pictures as soon as the district gets there done just line up behind Miss Trimble and you're welcome to take pictures as well I don't have to worry about that good job be thank you congratulations okay we will move now into our secondary schools okay and from Red Oak Middle School we have sixth grader Nicole [Music] Wade Red Oak Middle School sixth grader Nicholas Sanchez Red Oak High School junior Connor macali he's a baseball okay and Red Oak High School senior Liliana Lopez care congratulations and Mr
014Hunt if you will stay put for just a moment please sir also I wanted to announce our Hawk staff Spotlight even though they were unable to attend Mr Hunt if you'll just stay up there for just one second uh from our bus drivers and office staff to principes custodians and teachers we also have the best of the best with our Hawk staff and tonight's winner uh for the staff will receive a $100 gift card from our sponsor access storage so congratulations to Linda Flora is our transportation bus driver she was unable to attend so if you'll give her a round of applause trying to be in two places at once okay uh so also I would like to take this opportunity just to tell uh you all that Mr Hunt was able to attend our
015Red Oak ISD parent volunteer appreciation program last year and at this time I'd like to present him and Accel access Self Storage as one of our 23 24 partners of the year it's a great event and we hated he was unable to attend we did not want to go without recognizing him access Self Storage not only sponsors our top Hawks and half Hawks staff Spotlight they also provide backpacks and supplies for our students they help celebrate our staff and students with illa Road billboard and we appreciate Mr Hunt for all that he does in his support of our Red Oak ISD and our community as a whole remember he's running for re-election okay now as promised for those of you who would like to go home now and do homework now is your chance to
016sneak out of course we'd love for you to stay for our public hearing and all the other interesting things that are on our agenda tonight and it looks like most people are oping to go home and do homework thank you all for coming thank you thank you all congratulations sure yes it [Music] it looks like it's a good time to get started are you ready Miss corn okay we are going to now open our public hearing on the Texas Academic performance report we will first hear from our chief technology officer Miss Megan korns and then after she's through there will be time for questions from the audience so take it away Miss corns all right let me make make sure this is working excellent okay we are tonight we are going to do our annual
017report this information that we are providing and we're going to go over tonight is information that we have already shared so nothing that we're sharing today is really going to be new information the majority of this information we actually we don't wait if we waited until now it would be old news and so we bring this information to you as soon as we get the preliminary data and then we have to wait until the taper is actually released before we do a full um open meeting like this one to go over the full annual report but the information that we're that we're covering is all stuff that we've already talked through um so this is kind of old news but we're going to go through it all um so there are eight portions of this
018um annual report that we're going to go through the majority of it is what is known as the taper and that is section one so section one is the Texas Academic performance report also referred to as the taper it is compiled by tea every year and it's released typically in that December time frame and so from that then we bring this forward um to share with the community this information provides student performance but it also provides information on our enrollment in different programs our staff enrollment our staff and then our demographics as well on the very front sheet of the taper report it states the special education determination status we are happy to report that for the first time in several years we have met the special education determination status um this was a a
019meets requirements um this is an area that our special education department has been working on for several years we're really proud of the hard work that they've done and so this is a year that we um we we earned the status of meets requirements in this area Okay the next several sections again are areas that we have shared already this year so we're looking at approaches and we're looking at meets in this area this taper report shares information in comparison of the district to the state and the region we brought this forward earlier on in the school year because while we are below in several of the areas it is a a a piece that we're working on and we're constantly looking at how we can improve and we brought forward those plans in the
020fall semester so this first chart shows all grade levels in all subjects this next chart shows the area of all grade levels in reading this is third grade through end of course exams um sorry y'all my mouth is dry all of a sudden and so that is the area when we're looking at Reading then for math we're looking at third grade through Algebra 1 science we're looking at fifth grade eighth grade and biology social studies we're looking at 8th grade and US history and this is a chart that I want to spend a little bit of time on because this is an area that we're really proud of because there was a lot of work that goes into this this is when we're looking at the growth so when we're looking at star what we
021really want is we want growth for all students and this chart represents that piece in the area of math and the area of reading so those are the only two tests that are given every single year when you're going from third grade on up and so that those are the only two areas that we can truly measure growth and so when we look at the difference between 2023 and 2024 we see a growth in the area of growth from 57% to 64% and this is a lot of the hard work that our teachers and our campuses put in last year looking at our individual students and making sure that we're meeting the needs of all students in those areas so again this is all students so the important piece on this one is it's not
022even just our students that are lagging behind it's also even our students that are already on grade level it's making sure that they're still having that growth from every year so that's an important piece to look at when we're looking at annual growth so here is the annual growth again from both subjects and then in comparison to the state and to the region in the area of reading and then in the area of math this next one is a little harder to achieve because accelerated learning is about the students who are not meeting progress and they may not have met progress for multiple years so they could be a student that has multiple years of areas that they have got to work on and if they didn't meet then they receive accelerated learning hours and
023we work with them to try to start closing those gaps what we saw at the beginning of the school year and over the summer when we were starting to get the data in was that this was an area that we needed to review and so we brought forward to the board um looking at different resources that we could pull in so that's when we pulled in the ISL resource for our secondary and then we started working with our campuses to really start targeting this group of students and make making sure that those hours of intervention that we were doing was utilizing worthwhile and an Ong grade level material that we needed to start closing that Gap because it is a harder Gap to close because these are students with multip with possibly multiple years of
024gaps that we need to close so this is only looking at students who did not meet the year before and again that is in the area of both subjects reading and then math the next one is looking at attendance so attendance is a is a delayed indicator so it is a lagging indicator so this attendance is based off of the 2223 data and so what we have seen here is that this was an increase from the previous school year and this is about what we're most likely what we're predicting for um the results that we're going to see in next year's taper so our attendance stayed about the same last year as it did the previous year so this is two years back this is the 2223 um but we're seeing about the same from
025last year um as well this is our graduation this is our dropout rate for seventh and eth grade our dropout rate for the high school again notice that this is a lagging indicator so this is based on the 2223 data this is the graduation rate for our 2023 school year we anticipate this to go up for the 2024 school year when we look at um our preliminary numbers show us about 95% so we expect that to go up sometimes the data gets clean some through Tea's magical systems and so sometimes they come back and give us a little bit of a different number than we have but we're showing about 95% and then ccmr so this is another one that I want to spend a little bit of time on so ccmr is another lagging
026indicator so the cut score for where we were supposed to be at was 60% we were looking to be right on that right about the time that this was going to be coming out out but then the state changed and said that the new cut score was a lot higher and so we couldn't go back and fix anything at that point but we could start from where we were so what we saw was that in the 23 24 school year we anticipate our percent to be about 71% and for the 24 25 we are currently right now sitting at 63% and we expect to end this school year in the 80s and that is a lot of a hard work from the high school we've had a ccmr team put together that has been targeting
027and really personalizing that piece for ccmr and really looking at each individual student and making sure that there's a plan for them to meet ccmr before graduation so that's a they they've put in a lot of hours and a lot of hard work this is our ethnic distribution for the 23 24 school year and this is straight from um the data that is termed in with peam this is some of our student demographics so this is our economically disadvantaged our EB students you may have heard that called English language Learners prior to to the last few years and then at risk these are enrollment by programs bilingual CTE gifted and talented in special education and then we have hit section two so all of that was section one that was the taper so this is
028section two section two of the of the annual report is the financial report and Dr Johnson shares this every year we are a we have a first rating of an A so that was has been shared already this school year section three of the annual report is the district accreditation status and we are accredited again this spoar section four includes our campus performance objectives these are shared every year through our campus Improvement plans and those are found online at the district website um you can also obtain those at any of the district um the campus office the district office or any of the campuses and then this is Section Five so section five looks at violent and criminal incidences on campus so there are 18 discipline codes that are considered violent or criminal of those
029codes we only had three that were actually utilized in Red Oak ISD during the 23 24 school year those three codes you will see that aggravated robbery is on there that was actually not on campus that was outside of the school but because it's a mandatory placement we have to include it within our data and so that is why that one is listed you'll see that they all have an aster and that is because there's a less than five so if it's less than five we include an aster because we don't want to provide any any information that would compromise furpa in order to help mitigate any violent or Criminal incidences on campus we have the student C the student handbook and code of conduct we have policy we utilize our counselors we have the
030Crim stopper online form we have stop it that parents students and Community can can can put in um stop it um incidents that we can reevaluate and then we also have the school safety audit section six is the Red Oak ISD student performance and postsecondary this is provided to us from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and this is looking at how students are performing um after after high school and in their postsecondary work and this again is is provided to us from that um that board and then section seven is the house bill three goals so House Bill three goals are looking at the area of meets for third grade specifically and if you'll remember we've come to you before talking through our goal our goal as a district is by 2028 we've have
031a 60% meets for all of our subjects and all of our grades and so that is what we are working towards this is looking specifically at third grade data to see how we were beginning them off and so you'll notice that there was a trend downward so our curriculum Department did put in a plan at the beginning of of the year and I'm going to have Michelle Owen talk through those pieces so House Bill 3 looks at Early Childhood literacy and math and so for literacy we've spent uh summer professional development in our back to school PD and then four professional development days throughout the school year working with our teachers to make sure that they're trained and have all the materials that they need for our curriculum in kindergarten in first grade we use
032literacy Footprints for shared reading we use Saxon for our phonics program and then we also support our teachers in the area of stations guided reading and then writing second grade we use sais that is our uh reading adoption and then Saxon for phonics and then again we work with writing guided reading and stations in second grade third grade uh again we use Salas for third grade and for writing um we have a vertical alignment program uh Continuum for our ecrs which is how they're tested on Star and writing and so in third grade we really start hitting it really hard as far as how to answer those questions and respond to text in third grade um January 6 was one of our PD days that we did writing calibration and scoring so our teachers more
033than just K through three but this focuses on K through three me to go over all of our student writing samples to score them and to calibrate to make sure that we're all looking for the same things in writing and then to develop intervention plans extension plans and then Ong grade level lesson plans for writing this year we also implemented I ready so I ready um contains a diagnostic for beginning of the year middle of the year and end of the year through that diagnostic the I ready program puts our students on individual Pathways based on their learning needs I ready also includes a teacher toolbox where teachers can pull lessons aligned to all of the literacy teaks and math teaks so they can pull Ong grade level lessons they can pull intervention lessons and
034they can also pull those extension lessons to push our kids that are scoring at the Master's area also House Bill 3 reintroduced reading acmy for all teachers in grades K through three prior to this year our teachers participated online um and we know how that looks sometimes when we participate online this year we have done the reading Academy is all in person so all of our teachers that are new to teaching grades K through three have attended 10 or will attend 10 um I think they have two more uh professional development sessions with our reading Academy cohort leader and then they also receive four additional coaching sessions from our reading Academy cohort leader um in the area of literacy and that's in addition to the support that they're receiving from our instructional coaches on campus
035and then to support our um emergent bilingual students we also have the elevation program where which contains lessons for teach teers and for students to um improve those listening Reading Writing and speaking skills for our emergent bilingual students for math we use stem Scopes in Elementary grades K through five this is focusing on grades K through three stem Scopes utilizes the 5e model um engage explore explain elaborate and evaluate and then in addition to that it also provides intervention and acceleration models for our students who are struggling again for math we have I I ready as well and just like reading it has the three Diagnostics it creates those individual Pathways for our students and then it also has that teacher toolbox for lessons um for our teachers to use in math we also use
036reflex and fra that works on math fact fluency so in grades K through two about halfway through second grade we work on addition and subtraction facts we want our kids to be able to solve those with back fluency um and then in second half a second grade and then third grade and up they work on multiplication division fact fluency and then on that January 6th State we also brought in region 10 to do a vertical alignment session where we looked at our math teaks from grades K all the way through grade 12 to show um each grade level how they're building upon each other to make sure that we're making sure our kids are well prepared for the next grade level the next part of house three includes C CMR and this specifically looks at
037the area of AP participation and AP results so in this area we have been the curriculum department has been doing an AP curriculum review looking at certain um subjects areas and courses um to to realign some of the the resources there there has been a region 10 partnership in addition the College Board provides a report that actually helps single out some students that might benefit from taking AP classes and so helping the counselors have that report um is going to be a piece that's huge this year increasing participation in the AP exams are ongoing ccmr committee meetings and then a targeted those targeted student plans for ccmr to have that done before graduation and then the final section eight of the annual report is the glossery and this just provides information that that is what
038was shared and then just that methodology of information shared by by tea this is available at the on the website it will be available within two weeks and then it'll be available in print from the district office or each campus thank you Miss corns you have comments from the board questions can we back up to accelerated learning for a moment yeah this is the page I was looking at I was I was looking at this earlier and I was trying to kind of understand a little bit I'm looking at the state level to where they've dropped their percentages where like if you look at 2023 you look at the state it's 38 39 region 37 District when you look at 2024 you look at State as 32 Region's 32 and we're 34 so we're above
039it but yet why is the percentages changed the and why is it so so that's looking at how all of them how everybody did in this area and so across the state everyone struggled struggles in this area because these are students because this could be it could be a fourth grader that's only had one year where they haven't passed but it could also be an eighth grader where maybe they've never passed star and so passing after you have past can be challenging that's where our teachers are The Magicians that really go in there and learn what it is that the student needs to learn um in order to get them to to meet to to fill in those gaps so that they can maybe Miss maybe it's filling in gaps for multiple years where they
040haven't had success over multiple years so we're keeping a close targeted eye on this right yes sir so we so my department specific speically we pulled this at the beginning of the year because students are assigned intervention hours and so my department specifically pulled those at the beginning of the year and helps help the campuses look at who has been who has not passed it multiple two consecutive years in a row versus somebody who only missed it last year um and then you actually if you if you fail but you made growth you actually kind of get some points for that because maybe you've started closing the Gap but you still haven't passed and so we help look at that as well okay okay that was my question thank you thank you okay this is
041an open or a public hearing so do we have anyone from the audience tonight that has questions on Miss Korn's presentation now it's time to speak okay thank you ma'am thank you since there are no comments or questions that will close the public hearing and we will move into our superintendent report okay we will start with mentors care update I have Jessica Roberts if you will come on up who is a mentors care area coordinator that's going to be presenting to you tonight good evening thank you so much for having us here this evening we're excited to show you all of the exciting things um at Red O high school going on with mentors care uh first I would like to introduce we have our um our high school coordinator Camp uh on the campus
042fulltime Mr Miss Crystal doer she is this is her first year redo High School from M for care and she has done an amazing job the kids have just welcomed her and um it's been such a natural uh introduction I've been excited to see that and um she's done amazing things so far just in this year and she's going to introduce our student speaker which I know is everyone's favorite part uh I just want to say thank you for having me it's been awesome really being a part of Red O High School part of the ISD thank you to the board thank you especially Donna and Johnny for being my mentor TS to awesome kids um Mr how Mr thank you for daily support and and taking really good care of us at the high
043school um our student that's going to be speaking her name is Havana she's an 11th grader and um she's always in the mentor's care room she really engages she loves her Mentor who couldn't be here today but she um is an awesome advocate in the Comm Community um and Havana wants to go to UT um Arlington when she graduates and she wants to go to the police academy so bring cavana up I have been a part of the I have been a part of The mentor's CARE program for most of my high school life and I am proud to say that is that it has helped me become more secure in my decisions the support I get have having a connection with a mentor who encourages me to push for to push myself to be
044better and having an opportunity to meet new people and make new friends have helped me become more secure in my decisions and Life Choices my mentor is a mentors care is a great tool and program for students like me because it allows them to feel safe and have a support system in an area that could be in tandem with their home life thanks to the support I have gained I have received multiple chances to grow and do more outside of my comfort zone by the push of the program and my mentor having a connection with the mentor can give the kids in the program some guidance in life thanks to my mentor I have insight and advice about topics I was not thinking about before thanks to the mentors CARE program I have developed a
045better understanding of people and it has helped me a lot in the 2 to three years I have been in the program these years have helped me with meeting new people and pushing my self-esteem by talking to the people I find important being in mentor's care means a lot to me and the students in the program because it is a self safe environment for us to be in and have people listen to us when we need advice and help in life awesome thank you great job amen now I'm going to go over all of the stats for the school year some of these will be from the 2324 school year and then some will be from this first semester of 2425 so this is an overall look at mentors Care Program wide and it's fun
046to see all of these indicators the Improvement that students have made and like I said this is across all 21 of our campuses um but it's just showing an overall of the difference that a mentor can make in a student's life um you'll see further on in the um in the presentation that we track a lot of stats so that we can show um improvements things that students are struggling with things like that um and so we love to show when things are improving um we saw a 54% overall decrease among again these are roughly about a, students across all of our campuses we saw 54% decrease in the indicators that we track for our mentors care students we saw 48% decrease in self harm 38% decrease in bullying a 37% decrease in behavioral issues
047such as referrals to the office um alternative school ISS things like that a 36% decrease in drug and alcohol use and a 35% decrease in students that feel like they're struggling socially and I'll get more into that in in detail especially for redo High School specifically so here at redo High School for the first semester of this school year this is what we saw we saw 48 uh 48 students total that were referred new to the program a referral comes from a caring teacher an administrator a counselor somebody who notices that a student could use a little bit of extra support and they refer a student to our program and then that's where doer meets that student and they interview and they give them the choice to join the program if they'd like to um
048currently Miss doer has 56 students in the program which is very close to a full case load at all of our campuses she has 56 mentors so every student is meeting with a mentor every week and this year she has a total of 15 seniors and you'll see later that they are all on track to graduate um we have seen 498 volunteer hours like I said for for this first semester which is amazing those are people from your community coming in joining forces and encouraging these kids and and and stepping foot on the campus about nine hours of volunteering and that like again was for the first semester 79% of the meetings that are scheduled are happening our goal as a organization is 80% we're really close to that that includes Mentor meetings that aren't
049happening that includes students that are not at school that day um if a mentor needs to reschedule for whatever reason um testing things like that those meetings aren't happening but we're um very intentional with making sure that those meetings are happening because the students need that support and ROK high school has a 65% Mentor retention which is really great that means over half of our mentors are returning year after year so these are the indicators that we track for our statistics um we we noticed that the state out risk indicators were um important and we track those but we also noticed that students were struggling with other things as well and so we also about five years ago when we started doing these stats we noticed there was there was something missing and so we
050began to create our own list of mentors care indicators um and those are things that we felt really valuable tracking and so we have our own set which you'll see later um of the changing changeable mentors Care at risk indicators and then there are some that are unchanging and I'll kind of get into that a little bit more so here's the state at risk indicators that we track um and these are all things that I'm sure you all are familiar with but um out of our mentors care students there are 29% that have been involved with daap alternative school um 68% were struggling with passing grades for the semester um 5% were struggling with a homelessness situation mckin vento um we had 38% that were not passing star EOC testing 27% that had had an
051incident with CPS uh 7% that were facility placement which means um they were having mental health challenges and they went outpatient to receive services for that a 2% Dropout previously and now they're back and 7% that were experiencing parole or probation 7% that were expelled and 2% that were either pregnant or were a parent in high school and here's a list of our these are the changeable mentors Care at risk indicators and these are things that we felt that there was a need to track there was value here there were things that we notied students struggling with that we wanted to to really get a good look at um I won't go over each one I know that can be but you can you can see them all here but some of the larger ones
052are um 70% were strugg they did not involve themselves in extracurricular activities and this is something as an organization that we all joined forces to make it a per a personal goal in each office to encourage the kids to get involved we know that when kids are invested in something outside of their classes they're more apt to be respectful in class to not get in trouble they want to keep their grades up because they're involved in something and they're invested um as well as you know coaches they're another added layer of support for that student's life and so um that's something that we're really encouraging the kids to be involved in and you'll see that stat that we show an increase in but 70% at the beginning uh were not involved in in things outside
053of school 54% were struggling with attendance issues they were falling below that 90% attendance rate which is really important and we know that if they're not here they're struggling um 45% was a large one for depression students struggling with depression there's also anxiety and anger I feel like those are all very hand inand uh 59% of the students um in the program were struggling with poor self-esteem 20% they did not feel motivated and then I'll move on to to the um mentors care atrisk indicators that are we consider unchanging these are things that the students have experienced that will affect them for the rest of their life they're not going to improve but we felt like it was important to show um a demographic of students that were serving with these as well uh 4%
054of the students in the program had a loss of a parent uh 18% had a divorce or a blended family and 11% were struggling with uh poverty Financial struggles um one thing that we've really worked on as well is building great relationships with Community Resources within Ellis County and red oak and we feel like you know there are needs that we find through the program when a child a student says you know I'm I'm struggling with food insecurities or mental health things like that and things beyond our control but we do have relationships with people outside of the school that we can say hey here's a service and a resource for you that we can just give them that information and what they do with it is their decision but um just helping them find
055those those relationships outside as well to to help with those those needs so um Crystal had made these referrals and like I said we don't know if the students take those or not but we give them that resource should they need it um food resource that looks like a food bank most oftentimes Mana house things like that um clothing uh counseling we have Partners like running free ranch and things like that that are um nonprofits as well and CPS law enforcement so this was the results the impact that it was made at Red Oak High School um and so I'm going to share all these because they're exciting 76% improved their attendance that's one thing um our mentors will set goals with their students um when they meet that goal they get on a brag
056board we celebrate them it's exciting it's it's fun for them to feel special they're rewarded for something great that they've done and a lot of times what we're talking about is attendance it's important to show up and so and a and I've heard students um across the board say I didn't want to come to school but I knew my mentor was coming so I mean it helps knowing someone showing up for you you're more willing to show up as well um 83% of the students um you saw in the stat that there was a very high percentage of students that were struggling with their grades um 83% of those kids promoted to the next grade level so they achieved their passing grades 100% of your seniors and this was this was last year um they
057all graduated and I believe they're all on track to graduate this year as well um 72% of those kids that we showed having behavioral issues you know referrals like I said ISS da those sorts of things out of all of them 72% decrease their referrals from the office so the behavior is changing again I believe that that's a lot to do with that mentor showing up and encouraging you setting goals um talking about respect and what that looks like and navigating difficult situations and things like that 60% improved um their overall atrisk indicators they decreased those indicators that they originally came in with that's over half um so this is a report of of out prise and so this is something where a student might have a need that comes up outside of their mentoring
058time which does happen um oftentimes misure our our room is known as a as a safe place as a place where it's a friendly face they're they feel comfortable and so sometimes they will share something that's going on in their lives outside of mentoring time and so we do diligently track all of those things as well there was this um this year just this first semester there was one suicidal outcry and those types of things Miss doer works very intimately with our school counselors um she notifies Administration they work hand inand on those things to make sure that appropriate help is given um 40 incidents of anxiety that um she they reached out to her she was able to help calm them down or um just give them the support that they need to get
059them back to class and learning uh four incidents of depression one of abuse neglect 10 of basic needs and this is something that looks like um hygiene products um it could be um feminine needs things like that we will we have those in our office if a student needs that as well Pathways is something that we just recently started tracking a few years ago we wanted to say hey these kids graduate but a lot of the mentors and and students after they graduate they still keep in touch and so we wanted to say hey these are these are the plans that these students have after they graduate we want to keep up know what's going on with them and so um this was from last year 10 of the students that um graduated last year
060were College Bound one joined the military one went into the workforce immediately and one joined a vocational tech school like a TSTC and another thing that we do as well is we have a a long list of employees businesses that have joined with mentors care they are big supporters of us and they've said hey if you have seniors that are graduating that you feel would be a great asset to our company we want to hire them because we're affiliated with mentors care and we want to support them and so that's also something exciting if we know a student is joining the workforce immediately that we can send that resume over help them build that resume with their mentor and and get them a little little leg up in the world 47% of our students um
061reported that they did not feel that they had a person that they could confide in and talk to before joining mentors care and this is actually one of your very own mentors Miss Danny mcore um and she says um that her student says mentors care has helped me helped me keep my grades up and set goals it gave me a person that I felt safe with there's that those goals again we want them to to feel confident when they set a goal and have somebody there cheering them on and supporting them this is your very own Miss doer um she said mentors care has been an integral part of Red O high school students lives they have been challenged to overcome their obstacles and be the very best versions of themselves each day even though
062that looks different for every student were able to help each of them realize their potential the standard has been set for them to show up for themselves every day and put in their full effort and only through these actions will they achieve success that many of them never knew they could achieve well said Thank you do you does anybody have any questions or comments for I just want to say if you're not mentoring shame on you if you don't truly understand what Mentor cares is about then you need to be visiting that campus to check it out because you have no clue what it's really about until you're a mentor and you have that kid confiding in you um I know in our family we have them texting us years after they've graduated and um
063I'll just say my little girl convinced me to go ahead and run for Schoolboard again because she wanted me to hand her her diploma next year so you know it it makes a difference and if you you you don't you just don't truly understand it until you're working with those kids and understand their needs you think oh that kid's fine there's nothing wrong with them you don't understand and there's no money that can be put on the amount of what your outcome is in the end we're graduating students we're sending them to colleges where otherwise they would be sitting out dropouts and our dropout rate would be outrageous so if you're not mentoring shame on on you one hour a week is not going to kill you cuz I can guarantee you're standing around chitchatting
064somewhere an hour a week we appreciate both of you m I can just follow up with something um I had a young man I mentored and he graduated two years ago um I've been we stay in communication and he's fixing to go Navy so he's uh he's when I first met him I couldn't get two words out of him and I met with him and he talks more than I do that's pretty good you so but it it's it's amazing the connections you can make with someone because the young man a mentor now you know they said I couldn't get two words out of him and he has opened up his grades have come up he is he's amazing kid but there's a lot of times and shame on a lot of people because they
065think them as throw away kids and they're not it's you got to walk in their shoes but it it is a great program thank you I think the power of somebody showing up for you week after week speaks volumes and one of my personal favorite things that I have ever I'm a mentor as well is that um I think most kids um they're under the impression that mentors get paid they're here showing up for a job and when they find out that a mentor shows up for no no reason other than to just support them to believe in them to encourage them it's nothing in it for you um that light bulb moment is a really cool thing to witness firsthand and um it's a beautiful thing when they realize someone cares about me enough
066to give up their time to come all the way here and support me encourage me thank you thank you thank you so much and thank you Crystal okay next we have uh Lisha bass our director of intervention and grants is going to come talk to you about Tia teacher incentive allotment okay and that wasn't good putting me after that because I'm a big crybaby so okay I'm pulling it together okay um all right so teacher incentive allotment okay what is this and so this is basically uh accessibility to a pathway to help us to get our effective teachers more income in their pockets okay and so we're looking at how do we um allow for the effective teachers to earn more income while staying in the classroom so not having to go in to Administration
067not having to go into a different area but actually remain in the classroom and be effective for students right that's what we want we want our students St to have the most effective teachers and so that's what we're looking at here and so with Tia which is a teacher incentive alotment um it complements what our district goals and our systems are and so we're looking at strengthen strengthening student outcomes and so that's one of our main focuses right is to make sure that our students are growing and that they are receiving great outcomes another thing is improving teacher retention we want to keep those teachers that are doing an excellent job we want them here we want them to stay here and then reward quality instruction so we're actually incentivizing those that are providing great
068quality instruction as well as encourage professional collaboration I'm sure a lot of you have heard about our professional learning communities those PLC meetings so this encourages them working together to help students grow and then of course we want to maintain a competitive age in the market right so when our surrounding districts are offering these types of programs we want to offer them for our teachers as well so in the Tia it consists of these two separate components one is our local designation system and so that's what we worked on as a district and we had a committee that worked on our system and what that would look like for rogd but the second component of it is the actual allotment and that's what the state gives us and money to be able to support these
069designations that the teachers receive all right so how that works we have three designation systems and that's recognize exemplary and Masters the pay ranges for teachers could be from $3,000 to $32,000 it does prioritize hard to staff positions and so Texas the state of Texas actually does that prioritization and then it focuses on teacher funding 90% of the funds that is received go straight to the teachers okay we are allowed to hold on to 10% of those funds to actually help support growing teachers so that they can earn designation as well as support carrying out the functions of the program and then there is a fiveyear validity so that means that each teacher once they retain a designation they keep that designation for five years years it actually goes on their certificate and anyone that
070looked it up will be able to know their designation okay so that breakdown of the the payment groups so if a teacher is to receive a recognized status they could receive anywhere from $3,000 to $99,000 for an exemplary status it's 6,000 to $18,000 and for a master status is $12,000 to $32,000 and so let's sort of look at how the state prioritizes it remember we said the state prioritize so they look at more need so if there's more need at a campus they get more funding so that means if they're a rural campus as you'll see on the report the rule campuses receive more than a non rule the more social U non the more they have of low socio economic status the more funding they're providing for that campus Because those students may have
071more needs than students that have a higher economic status and so what does that look like for Red O ISD so how that breakdown looks is if say we were to look at East Ridge Elementary so if a teacher is to receive recognized status then their payout is $4,260 but if they were to receive a master's status they would get 16,2 $29 added to their Sal okay and so same thing with um the high school it will be $3,000 $ 3,847 for recognized status with $114,000 um added to their salary for a master's status and so this calculation is done each year and again it's done by tea so they determine by looking at low social economic status as well as rues Rule and non-rule statuses okay this is a three-year approval process right now
072we are in year one the pre-application and application Phase next year once we're approved next year would be the data capture year and we would actually be tracking our student growth and then we would actually submit the uh data in year three and so that is the 26 27 school okay so again I said we had a committee that sit down and work through our local designation system we had a committee committee of 36 members of those 36 members 29 were teachers all right so we did have some that were administrators as well as instructional coaches um and Specialists but as you can tell majority were teachers that were on this committee and they range anywhere from pre all the way up until High School school they also we made sure we had math we
073had science we had social studies um we wanted to make sure that it was a well-rounded group we had our extracurricular uh teachers involved as well and so we wanted to make sure that this group was able to really make a good decision for our district of what we needed and how we wanted it to function all right main thing here and I know Megan talked about it as well the greatest part of this incentive allotment is that it's measuring student growth so this is not about achievement where did they fall but it's where they started and where did we get them at the end okay and that's what we want we want every child to grow not just our low students not just our high students but every single student to grow and so
074that's our ultimate goal and so that's what this system tracks is the growth of every student so what we plan to look at as a committee we looked at our classroom growth we're looking at our K3 uh reading and Math teachers as well as our special ed teachers in that K3 area for reading and math and then for fourth through eth grade we are looking at reading and math but then we're also looking at our algebra one English one English 2 teachers as well as our sped teachers that that is our resource teachers and our life skills self-containment as well because those students are also they take star take STAR off and so they also have a star transition table for those grade levels in those classrooms as well um for our K3 we are
075going to use our already data to be able to determine what growth looks like for those students um for the classroom growth when we look at our data a teacher can get a Five Points scale score if they have 80% or more of their students to grow okay so 80% or more of their students meet or exceed the expected growth then that teacher will get a total of five points on that scale score now how the designation system works our committee decided that the T Test evaluations will be 50% of their score and then the classroom student growth will be the other 50% of the score and so how that looks is is for a teacher to receive a master's level designation they would have a minimum combined score of 4.5 and for exemplary that's
076a 3.9 and then for recognize it's a 3.7 okay so you may Wonder well what about the teachers that weren't in those categories that we just talked about okay well we also um the state of Texas offers National board certification and so as you can see here they have different certificates available to receive a national board certification and so teachers have an opportunity to receive and go through this program to receive that type of certification the teachers that receive a national board certification actually are at the recognized level once they are nationally board certified and so there is a cost associated with the national board certification but but that cost is reimbursed by the state of Texas once the teacher passes the certification um but the State Board does allow for them to have payment
077plans that they go through the state board and so it gives them options to pay that out over the time frame in which they're taking those um courses right now currently our district supports um our current um national board certification candidates in two ways right now we partner with region 10 to offer a cohort support and our district pays the cohort Fe for those teachers and we currently have two participants in that while we are definitely willing to support up to five participants for next year and we also have a district Mentor we have a current teacher that is within our district that is a national board um certified teacher and she is a mentor to those teachers and being able to be a sounding board for them as well so in addition to them
078having a mentor through the region 10 cohort they also have one that's in District all right as I said before it is a three-year timeline and so right now we're at that uh application Phase we will be notified of our um Acceptance in August of this year we'll begin to capture data next year and pay out for those funds would actually happen August okay thank you guys for your time if you have any questions or any feedbacks thank you thank thank you so much then I just have a quick update if my voice can get me there boys and girls soccer teams are both in the playoffs and have advanced to the area round after winning by District the girls will play uh sunset at 6:00 p.m. m. tomorrow night at Kincade Stadium followed immediately
079by the boys at 7:30 p.m. against North mosquite so we have those going to playoffs our high school senior pton Fields qualified for the Region 2 Division One powerlifting state meet and competed this past weekend he set a new personal best in his weight class as well so congratulations also to our high school students who were named five a district 15 one act play Champions they will compete at the B District round this Thursday where actually hosting here at Red O high school and they will be performing at 10:00 a.m. in the pack at Red O high school again that is going to be on Thursday and congratulations to our top 25 seniors and their star teachers that's always a neat event we appreciate the Education Foundation for coordinating that the star teachers were surprised
080by their students on February the 5th with this honor and these teachers have made a huge impact for those students to actually remember them and choose them and they will be honored on April the 7th at a banquet sponsored Again by Education Foundation congratulations to our Red Oak High School Visual artart students who competed at the visual art Scholastic event all Red Oak High School students received a rating of four which qualified them for State we have a lot of kids advancing in a lot of different areas uh congratulations to the ROK High School CTE robotics team T Talon Incorporated for an amazing job at the best Southwest steam competition they received first in school spirit first in robotics third over all winning winning $3,500 and this past weekend the first robotics team Advanced to
081the final championship game at regionals where they served as the captain of the alliance and won second place the individual team is ranked fourth out of 35 teams and they're also advancing to State at the U contest in Houston next week redoy celebrated maintenance worker appreciation day and bus driver appreciation and we want to thank them for all that they do uh also just to mention I know you're not going to be surprised about this at all but uh ROK ISD is proud to be among the elite group of Education institutions recognized by tasbo which is the Texas Association of school business officials with the prestigious Award of Excellence in financial management and award of Merit for purchasing operations so congratulation Dr Johnston and your team as well and ROK ISD also received the asbo
082certificate of excellence in financial reporting which recognizes school districts that uphold the high standards financial reporting and transparency so so as um it has been every year the business office has really worked hard to keep rocd on target with our finances as well so just a reminder of a couple of upcoming events a coffee talk hopefully I'll still be talking by then coffee talk with superintendent will be held on Wednesday April the 2nd at 7:45 a.m. the next virtual Bond talk will be on Thursday April 10th at 4:30 p.m. and the next mobile food pantry will be Thursday April 10th at 4 pm. and that concludes my update thank you okay now we have public forum and we have one person Miss Ferguson I'll ask you to come up in just a moment but first
083I have to read the legal paper okay so now we move into the public comment session of our agenda the board welcomes comments from citizens who have completed public comment forms this evening which are accepted prior to the start of the meeting and are not transferable to other speakers please be advised that the information shared in public comment is the opinion of the individual speaker not the district two minutes per person have been allotted for public comments please keep all public comments related to school district governance and operations if you have a specific concern related to an employee of the district or a specific student issue you are encouraged to utilize the district's grievance procedures provided in board policies on the district website finally remember that the board may not discuss or act upon any
084issues that are not properly posted on the agenda so miss Ferguson you'll come up and just give us your name and you can see up here your time okay um good evening school board thank you so much for your volunteer support of our students and our our community my name is Belinda Ferguson and my family has lived in redo ISD for 11 years I have two students currently enrolled at the high school and the middle school I've served on a PTA board for the last eight school years at wooden elementary at ROMs and at the high school I have served in various volunteer roles throughout the years and even my husband has been volunt told to volunteer with me at varsity football game nights let me share a couple of personal stories regarding the upcoming
085Bond proposition I let me start with proposition a one item that would be addressed on proposition a is the CTE building my 10th grader is a current construction CTE program student when he was an eighth grader and saw this opportunity direct quote power tools for a high school credit signed me up he's that student that struggles with why do I have to write essays why do I have to read MC Beth but having this opportunity to build a playhouse build a bird house do something with his hands excited him and made the struggle of having to read M best just a little bit easier when he was a nth grader and he had a single block of his construction class he had to be Bust from the high school to the middle school after being
086busted only had about 20 minutes of instruction even though he only had 20 minutes it still inspired him to continue with the CTE program adding a CTE building on our current Lane at the high school would allow for more instruction time for these classes and expansions of the programs let me share a story regarding my younger son that applies to Proposition C my younger son participates in tracking track and field in particular shop put in dis at the current facilities the shotput in dis areas are not lit off often officials are reduced to using their phone flashlights to measure the last throws at attract me proposition a would not only address these current deficiencies it's not a matter of keeping up with the Joneses or other districts our current facilities are insufficient I would encourage
087the community to visit good stadium and think about this not only for football I'm sorry I have to stop you okay thank you thank you thank you okay next our action items first we move into our consent agenda do any board members have any items they want to hold considered separately hey if not do I hear a motion I move that we we approve the consent agenda as presented second that was a motion by Mr KN and a second by Mr Sebring all those in favor say I I oppose same sign motion passes 70 next we will discuss the 20 25 2026 school calendar I believe that's that's me you again I'll get there y'all have a copy of the actual proposed calendar uh it was made a draft was made available to staff students
088parents and community members uh through our website social media and email for input we did do a survey so I wanted to kind of give you the U results of that survey we had 648 respondents of those 648 61.6% were parents 31.3% were staff 7.5% % was students and 12% was other which could be grandparents community members alumni and subs of those 648 that responded 91.9% were in favor or no opinion and 88.9% disliked the calendar so those were the results of the actual survey some of the Hot Topics which some of you may have heard as well were the uh spring break when it is positioned that's always a u challenging thing to do because we try to go with some of our our districts here in Ellis County that we share a lot
089of students and staff with walks hatching in particular and uh also then we have Nao who sits theirs differently so I know there's always some questions on how we do spring break on that that was one of the comments that was made was looking at uh the positioning of spring break four-day school week which we all know everybody um a lot of people would like that so they asked us again to look at the 4day school week uh start date and start times and end times and uh also there was a lot of positive comments about the fact that they love how we strategically planned out different days throughout the calendar to where we do allow quite a few four-day weeks where the teachers are actually doing some staff development and students are off but
090also giving teachers off uh as well so the calendar is very similar to last year's calendar or actually to this school Year's calendar it still focuses on instructional days and the needs that are related to Transportation so you might see an actual uh early release when we are playing a far away team out of town so that we can have the transportation issues solved there it also re um meets our requirement of 75,6 minutes of instruction and contractural staff days and gives us an extra 4.97 days for inclement weather so the recommendation uh put to you is to approve the proposed draft calendar for the 2526 school year as presented any questions any questions on the calendar or comments hey if not do I hear a motion I make a motion that we recommend the
091approval of the draft the 2526 school year as presented second motion and that's on motion by Mr Kelly and a second by Mr M all those in favor allst same sign passes 70 thank y'all sorry thank you'all sorry okay next we will have Dr Johnston going to talk to us about the purchase of new classroom and instructional Spaces furniture for the new Middle School good as you just said you know we are building a new Middle School yes and you need to have furniture inside of it and so that was built into the budget and uh there was a committee of four or five individuals that reviewed several vendors and went with Indico sales who we currently use for other things so the furniture for the new Middle School is very similar to the furniture
092that we have in our existing uh facilities and so we got bids from two different companies them as well as lak Shore Learning and Indico was the lowest price and they also guaranteed uh lifetime warranty on the furniture and so the recommendation that we go with them for the classroom furniture and the Learning Center information or I mean furniture and Equipment uh the office furniture will come back in another bid at another time I don't know if there's any questions I just got one uh is are is it Our intention to go back with indigo on the the furniture other than just the classroom stuff that way we stay with one vendor or is that something that we're putting out for bid again well we've gotten bids it's still in the process of being reviewed
093and it it I can't guarantee that it's going to be with them but we're the committee is reviewing four or five other bid approaches too for office furniture and they they may be one of the one the ons to come back but uh you know other other firms have similar Furniture as well so sure I just I just looking through the proposal is very detailed yes yes the committee put a lot of work into this they really did sitting for hours at a time trying to do it so I appreciate the committee any other other questions we have a motion I move that that we purchase from Indico sales as a vendor to provide the furniture fixtures and equipment for Dr Joy Shaw Middle School classroom and another instructional spaces at the price not to
094exceed 1.5 [Music] 8812 the purchase will be made using by board contract second that's a motion by Mr Sebring and a second by Miss n all those in favor I I oppose motion passes s z thank you Dr John next up we will have Mr Brent Stanford and he's going to talk to us about the new purchase of new school buses the time of year every year this time of year we try to uh get on the agenda to purchase three buses uh these will be the three buses to kind of change the fleet over and the bus will be equipped with the three-point seat belts that meet the requirements of Senate Bill 6 93 this purchase will come out of my 2526 budget so we need to go ahead and get them ordered now
095just so they'll be here before school starts I ask that you all approve any question for Mr Stanford you know I do no U this is replacing some of the older ones that we can get out yeah every year we turn three out and bu three new ones and we still have some that are 20 years old and yeah our Fleet is better than it's ever been and our Fleet is better than any District around us right now that's good and so that is really helped being shorted in the shop that these guys are can focus more on preventing maintenance and not have to just re bu engines and things like that yeah so it helps greatly okay I just got to ask just because it um it came up here recently um price difference
096in a diesel bus versus electric bus no I had even considered it because we don't have the equipment or the electricity damage at the barn charge one okay I I just I I when it came up uh in conversation uh the 147,000 for a bus um you could probably add another couple of digits to the front end of that uh for an electric one so I did I I didn't I didn't know if we if we had ever gotten a price on it because I didn't want to I didn't want to overstep and tell somebody that it was about three times as much what we pay for a diesel one I never have but uh I will check into it and get you back an answer yeah kind of curious now I just I just
097I knew somebody that had talked to me about it and make sure you lump on the infrastructure it takes to support that yeah well you know also kind of a rural type area you know you just don't run electric buses you know those kind of distances yeah we're running somewhere around 2,000 miles a b yeah this has nothing to do with the actual cost of these buses but are we ever going to get another bus that is a like a spirit bus with a wrap and all that to where it looks like we're up in showing that we are from Red Oak and we're proud to put those athletes Etc on a different bus than the yellow bus uh a lot of districts have gone away from those because of the cost of buses you're
098talking probably a quarter to half a million dollars a bus for that versus these right here so many districts right now are hurting financially and they need yellow buses just because of the growth and stuff uh that is not something I could answer because I don't make those purchases somebody else in the past made that and brought them to Transportation I mean we'll take care of them and issue them out but that's not something that we would ever I guess recommend because we're not in that field and I know this has nothing to do with the purchases either but just just a thought just crossed my mind with our new school open up how is that going to affect us with busing it's actually going to make it better is it because the buses that
099service shields in shut will stay on that side of town and service the middle school and then they can service the high school and then come back to this side of town so it's less traffic or it's less going back and forth across 35 okay and so we're actually working on all our routing right now so that in the evening you'll have buses over here that run like East Ridge and then they'll run the middle school well then when they drop their middle school students off they might go by the high school and then go to the other side of town where these buses are doing two over here and then they might come to the high school and do a short ride over here so our buses are getting back earlier because our programs
100that we have for riding has helped us really figure out how to make it the most efficient the less miles and get everybody back to the yard on time and get the students home a lot quicker so it's actually going to help with with that for sure good hopefully with the road situation they'll get back quicker you want 35 that's not eventually comes in play that'll even help more we won't have to add any buses or any routes that's fantastic those are going to be International uh yeah we're trying to keep the fleet the same we did get some other bids this year we always get two three bids and and international comes right in line and they have the cumings engine and yeah we've had a lot of good luck with them and and
101parts are easy accessible and the warranty is really good as far as then coming out and doing the warranty work on them are the other 6.7 the Cummings yeah they they're the industrial 67 not what you would find for the last five years good yeah fantastic anything else from Mr s okay and do I hear a motion I mooved that the board approv the purchase of 377 passenger buses that with the appropriate 3o SE belt from the 2025 2026 budget Year from Longhorn Bus Sales by board contract 722-20 okay y that was a motion by Mr Sing second by Mr Porter okay then all in favor say I and oppose same sign motion passes 70 thank you you thank you thank you Brent he you y'all have your information items have did anybody have anything
102they want to discuss on those okay if not the time is 8:39 and we will go into close session pursuant to multiple Texas government codes as listed on the agenda so