001be held on Monday, May 11th at 6 PM in the boardroom of the Robson Administration building, 801 North First Street, Robstone, Texas, at which time the agenda items will be discussed. In the course of the meeting, the board may change the order of business at its discretion without advance notice. First item on the agenda, call to order roll call. I love here. >> Present. >> Cesar Martinez present. >> Lorie Garza present. Not with us at the moment. Mario Messa, Bobby Marin, Larry Canu, Senior. Next item on the agenda, moment of silence prayer. Dr. Quig, would you like to lead us in prayer, sir? >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, if you'll bow your head with me. Uh, Father God, we come to you excited, Lord, and we're excited about your your love and that you
002never leave us or forsake us. Lord, this evening, stir in our hearts a conviction to continue this work that you've called each and every one of us to do here in Robstown ISD. Let our decisions align with that purpose tonight. In your son's name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. Thank you, Dr. Quake. Next item, pledge of allegiance. 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 everyone. Next item, our vision and mission statements. Trustees, >> our vision statement is to ignite brilliance and impact lives by providing transformative learning opportunities that inspire that
003empower students for generations to come. >> Mission to empower, inspire, and invest in our students and staff, igniting the best version of themselves. Together, we positively impact our community and the world. >> Thank you, trustees. Next item on the agenda, public participation. Miss Sigma. >> Thank you, Missa. Next item, awards and recognitions. Dr. Quinn. >> Thank you, Madam President. At this time, I'd like to invite Katrina Alejandro up for this portion of the meeting. She is excited. She is riveted. She is filled with energy and ready to lift up some folks here in Robtown. >> All right. Good evening, Madame President and members of the board and Dr. Pig and guests. Um so today we have two wonderful um proud picker recipients and the first one would be uh Bo Champion. Is he here? Yes.
004Come on down. Leo champion. >> I thought we were in trouble when everybody showed up. a front and center officer, >> front and center. >> All right. So, it this is a really good little story here. Um, try not to cry. Um, so tonight we are honoring officer uh Champion. He's being recognized for his exceptional kindness and dedication to Robtown ISD. Um, at the request of a student's family, because the student's father was unable to attend her special event, Officer Champion stepped up to accompany the student to the fatherdaughter dance at Lot Beach Speech Leadership Academy, ensuring that she did not miss out on this meaningful experience. His willingness to go above and beyond the call of duty demonstrates genuine compassion and a true commitment to serving others. This thoughtful act created a lasting memory
005for the student and reflects the positive impact that Officer Champion continues to make throughout Robtown ISD. Officer Champion, in your bag, you have some gifts from Vitality, a free taco from Edmano CIS, and some ice cream tokens for Dairy Queen. And um we just want to thank you for um going above and beyond for, you know, for for service, right? for for showing service and um every time I go to a campus, you're there, you're vigilant and you you're aware of what's going on and you see people, you see, you ask questions, you ask how people's day is going and I think that's what makes you just so great and um just thank you for this. Good job. Um, we have one more proud picker award recipient and that is coach Tanner Blendzer who is
006here today. So, Coach Tanner Blendser is at the high school and he started out this year teaching uh special ed inclusion, but then it kind of shifted. So, I'm going to read what your coworker said. Uh, Coach Blunzer has truly been the MVP of the social studies department during a time of need. Without hesitation, he has stepped up to teach both world geography and world history. Um, two courses outside of his primary passion to ensure that students continue receiving strong instruction and support. What makes his contribution even more impactful is his commitment to special education students. Special education is where his passion truly lies, and he has worked hard to earn his certification in this area. Even while adjusting to the new content and responsibilities, he consistently prioritizes the needs of all learners and demonstrated
007a true student first mindset. While we are incredibly grateful for his flexibility and leadership in stepping into this new role, it is important to recognize that his strengths, passion, and dedication make him exceptionally well suited for an inclusion teacher role where he can continue making an even greater impact in students. Coach Blendzer's willingness to step up, lead, and serve wherever needed makes him an invaluable member of our campus and perfect example of what this award represents. Coach Blunzer, thank you for for leading, for serving, for, you know, just stepping in whenever there is a need. Um, that's awesome. So, thank you so much for doing that. Yeah. Uh, Miss Pia, for the record, at 607, Mr. Marin, Mr. Ku, and Mr. Miss are now present. >> And those are all the recognitions for today. >>
008Oh, the heart of gold um is not here this evening. >> I'm right here. >> The other heart of gold. >> Thank you, Miss Thank you, Miss Katrina. Dr. Quake. Next item on the agenda, uh president remarks. K. I heard that. Uh 2026 summer leadership conference is in San Antonio. Uh this year it will be starting on June 10th and extending through June 13th. Uh Dr. Quig did inform me and I'm sure some of us that we are presenting again this year. It was approved. Dr. Quig, do you have the title of the presentation? >> Title is your secret weapon is already in your policy manual. >> Nice. >> Do we did they confirm that date, sir? No, we're still waiting the date. Okay. Sorry. >> Um, also, I'm not sure who's going. I'm going.
009Has has everybody gotten back on the email? >> So, I'll I'll be there, but um just on the I know that Dr. F mentioned that we were going to be presenting, but if um they can't do it on Friday, they won't, you know, be able to present. So, anybody else would want to >> conference >> the conference in San Antonio 13th. >> Okay. and we have made the request to present on Thursday. So, we sent them a a notice uh that way we can accommodate, you know, the trustees that want to be part of that presentation. Waiting to hear back. >> Thank you, Dr. Quig. Next item, um additional board training. So, um after discussing with Dr. Quig, um and some conversation regarding his evaluation. So, we're going to have a training on superintendent evaluation
010and goals. that way um just that we're all on the same page on what to expect and how to set the goals properly. Um we're going to come we're going to meet and get some dates together. Also, board self- evvaluation. It's been about four years since we've done that. Correct, Dr. Quake? >> Three. >> Yeah, three >> three years since we've done that. So, I think right now is a good time uh to do that. And then also a team building. >> Mr. As far as you would, I know this is um this isn't on the agenda, but um I don't know when our next board meeting is, but just so aware, I did mention to Dr. Quick, today I registered um for the um Texas State safety, >> what is it called? Safety conference.
011>> Um safety conference that's going to be happening June 22nd. But um uh did a little compromise with the people from um Texas State. Um so they gave me a call and as I've been attending these uh conferences for the past 3 years myself and Mr. Loos are on the um safety committee um for the district. They called and they asked me to um sing the national anthem and since we're here to save money I agreed but they will be taking care of my registration fees in lie of um me singing. So going to save the district on that, but just wanted to let the um let the trustees know that I'll be attending that conference again and um they have agreed to pay the registration fees. So just wanted to inform you on that.
012>> Thank you, Mr. Martinez. Next item on the agenda, super superintendent reports. Dr. Quig. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, I will talk about item D first, and that is the enrollment. We're at 2436 as we wind down the year. Attendance is 91.3. So again, we continue to rise in attendance. Next year, attendance will be that much more stringent in the way that TEA is collecting attendance data. It will now be every six weeks. And also the way that they pay us will be a lot more stringent. Usually there's a end ofear settle up in September. You know, we reconcile uh your ADA, but this will be done every six weeks. So, we have some additional trainings uh we'll be doing this summer from the administrative side to really tighten up some of the uh
013attendance procedures. We're doing really well as evidenced by the improvement in the attendance numbers in ADA. Uh but there's an opportunity for us to do some more training based on uh the changes. Does that help us in a way or does it um does it make us >> Well, I I think it helps us be that much more hypervigilant, but we really need to get uh the folks in the front lines uh at the very top of the pyramid is the teachers, helping them understand and internalize the pervasive importance of that accounting attendance. Okay, >> they're doing a good job now just again elevating the process. So, that's that. The second thing is the voter referendum did not pass and I want to thank everyone for the efforts. Uh lots of work and energy and
014messaging went into that. Uh grateful uh for the commitment to that desire to shift the funds from M to INS and and want to say that again we are to be commended for the effort in that related to that item C. We need to do some budget workshopping soon. I want to get with Miss Cetos and Mrs. Garza and we'll plan out some budget workshops just to go through that budget process in depth in advance of August. We do this every year. Uh but this will be a little more heightened given some of the uh the challenges we have right with enrollment loss in particular. Also want to mention guess what we have 160 kiddos graduating this Saturday at least. It's a big deal. Cotton picker Saturday night 8:00 p.m. Beautiful night. Beautiful celebration. We'll
015be there this Saturday. So we look forward to graduation. The last piece I'll cover tonight is the commissioner visit. The commissioner is visiting this Wednesday. We are excited and Mrs. Shabetta is telling her face right now that she's also excited. We really are. We really are because this is a learning walk and everyone's in school improvement together from uh the state all the way through our local uh trustees and all of the teachers and administrators at SEAL central office supporting. What is it going to look like on Wednesday? What will it look like? Well, want to walk you through what we are going to do with tea. The first thing I want to mention is this is a learning walk orientation. So the commissioner is coming specifically to watch classrooms to observe classrooms and particularly
016good instruction. So that's the point of the walk. So we're going to marry our learning walk process with some of the expectations of the commissioner and what he wants to see on the walk. He's given us very specific guidelines. So let's walk through what what the process is going to look like. First is first of all is this understanding how our students are experiencing the learning at SEAL. That's the main purpose of the walk. What does the learning experience look like at SEAL? And I think the part of the learning walk that's so important is this. How do we respond? How do we respond in terms of coaching, developing, growing, improving, renewing what we're doing in the classroom? That's the purpose of the walk. That's why it's called a learning walk. I'll say this, this
017is an inspection. It's a learning walk. It's a big difference. It's not an inspection. It's a learning walk. So, we're here to learn. So, we go to the next. What does the process look like? There is a focus area missa. And that focus area is going to be on formative assessment. That focus area is rooted in the previous walks that guide us. What are those areas of opportunity? There's some group norms we'll discuss and the real group norm is this. This is a non-evaluative learning walk, non-judgmental. So everyone's got to understand we're not there to say oh look I love the way this happened or I love the really way this happened or I didn't like that. We're not here this is a snapshot in time. We're not here to judge. We're here to elevate
018the learning about what we see in the learning experience of the kids. Did that make sense? Uh the classroom visits I think we're hitting at least six teachers. Met is that correct? Okay. And then um when you're in the classroom, you gather evidence. The commissioner and tea has at least six people slated to come along. Uh they're going to be in the classrooms gathering evidence of what we saw, what we heard, what we wonder. That will drive what we call the hall talk. We go in the hallway for about five minutes. In the hallway, we go, "What did you see? What did you hear? What did you wonder?" Everyone on this board has been on a learning walk, probably with the exception of Mr. Cantou, Mrs. Viet Lobos. Mr. Mess has not been on learning
019walk yet. Okay, that's we respect that. Uh Mr. Barina has been a learning walk and Mrs. Garza has been I know Mr. Martinez has been in multiple Mr. Gagos. So you should be familiar with some of this and then the end of it will be the classroom debrief. We'll look for some patterns, some themes uh some noticings and we'll collect that in a feedback letter to drive uh potential coaching and potential feedback. Right. the next slide. >> Who's going to be on the learning walk, sir? Besides you and >> they're going to There's uh 15 from I think we've got six from the service center and we're going to break into groups. We have at least four from uh I'm sorry, six from TEA, four from the service center. Uh myself, Miss Chaveeta, Miss Botan,
020and Mrs. Candace Rodriguez. Right. Right. Good amount. These are the tools that we're going to be using in parallel. The tool on the left is our learning walk tool. What did I see? What did I hear? What I wonder? It's kind of a note-catching tool. You scribble your notes. What did I see based on the evidence? It's supposed to be very, very specific and very, very objective, non-judgmental. The the tool on your right, if you're looking at the screen, it is the TA tool, which we have used in their previous visits. Now, the most important piece is the focus. So, if you go to the last slide, and the last slide or second to last slide is the focus area. This is a portion of that agnostic content tool from TEA. We mentioned the focus
021area being formative assessment. These are the questions that are centered around uh formative assessment. These are the questions for which we're going to come out of the classroom and talk about what do we see? What do we hear? What do we wonder with respect to these questions? Does that make sense? And finally is I think the reflection question for everyone. The next the last slide is is really um what do we learn about how our students are experiencing school like what did we learn when you do learning walk what are they experiencing that needs to as servant leaders and uh instructional servant leaders we need to be prepared to discuss that and talk about how do we respond to that how do we support the teachers how do we support the students that is in
022a nutshell and that is the report this evening madam president >> thank you Dr. Quig. Any questions trustees regarding the learning walk? Okay. Next item, present presentationformational items. Dr. Quig. >> Uh, thank you, Madam President. Uh, Miss Silus, have we heard from Cheryl Hoover? Okay. I hope she's okay. Um, we had confirmed with her a few days ago. Let let me go through a few others, Madam President, and we'll come back to see if she is in route or lost or something. Let me go to the um donations. Really excited about the generosity that we've had here in the community. Uh HB again came through with uh $500 for teacher appreciation. Uh really grateful for our friends at HB, Miss Bonnie, if I'm correct right, Mr. Alejandro. ANA Transport again um came through on um
023lunch for administrative assistance day and they got it from my cotton $110 there and that was very nice. Tesla $1,000 for the uh teacher appreciation and then they just came in for couple of thousand dollars for the employee end of year celebration. Right. Okay. They sponsored the band and also Rally Credit Union always so generous. um $1,000 for the summer professional development. And again, the generosity continues with all of our picker partners. Thank you, Miss Alejandro, for all of your work and helping create that climate of generosity. >> Madam President, those are all of the donations. Would you like me to proceed to the academic update? >> Yes, please, sir. >> Okay. This time, I'd like to invite the TNL team. Dr. Madrono and Mrs. Alanise are here, and then Miss CS will come up
024with a TIA update, too. Madame President, Dr. Quig and school board, we are here for the academic updates. So, as you know, everything we do is rooted in our mission, vision, and values. We're going to touch on pillars in IT support, assessment update, and TIA update. We know that our four pillars for TNL are tier one PLC's learning block and coaching. Uh the focus right now is going to be on PLC with the work that we did today with NIT. Uh NIT came Mr. Robert Stell came today and worked with three of our campuses worked with uh Robert Driscoll San Pedro and Sill to work on a long range PLC plan. I was with him today and we had some amazing conversations with our administrators as to how to continue the momentum that we've laid
025down this year, the foundation and continue to move it forward. Very productive meetings. Uh it was a lot of reflection too as to what current practices we have and how we can adapt them to keep striving and do better for next year. So solid conversations with everyone. Um this is my best part of the day, sir, uh is to be with them and have those conversations. Next is our assessment update. >> Good evening board, Dr. Pig and guest. Um, just a little update because I know I start getting the phone calls and emails and a midnight planning slumber party at my house by Miss Chaveeta is when the scores like as soon as they hit. Um, I usually check the day before, but just to give y'all an update, um, the tail pass results and
026they usually get sent straight to me and Dr. quick first in the Cameian and then I usually export them and then upload them and then they are available to the teachers and other administration um a few days later. So our tailp pass results of course that's for our our emergent bilingual students that's going to be on the 20th. Um and just let you know too we had 98% participation of our so 98% of our EB kids tested. Um our star al kids our star alternate two kids is of course our special ed kids mostly in the life skills unit. um those tests get uh released on June 9th and we had a 100% participation rate in in that test as well. And then for our STAR 3 through eight and EOCC, we do have different
027timelines for those. Uh we get our EOCC scores before we get our 3 through eight. So our EOCC scores of course is our high school, the five subject subjects, algebra, biology, English one, English 2, and US history. Those will be released the 22nd. So, we will get them before the kids well the rest of the kids get out and then our three through eight um will be here on May the 29th. So, as soon as we get those we do start making phone calls for summer school as well. Um and a good thing to note is we had 99% participation rate across the district and it I think I was telling Dr. point the other day. I think this is the highest participation rate that we had. And it is a big deal because one,
028we get more kids to test, but it does play a big part in our accountability is of how big our denominator and a bunch of math. Um, but it does help to in our with our TIA teachers because of course, every kid counts. So, the more that we have um testing, the better off we are. So we I was really proud of ourselves, our truency department, our technology department, like it just took a whole team together to, you know, phone calls us, pick up kids, whatever we need to do to make sure that we got all kids here and tested. So it was good. Kudos to everybody for making it work. And then when it comes to MClass, uh, officially our window closes in two days. However, I wanted to give you guys a small
029update because we've had some amazing things that we're already see shining through with MCL class. So, when it comes to our whole district right now, our BOI to EOI, if you look at that gold star, we went from 12% of our students to be above benchmark to 20% of our teacher our students to be above benchmark, which is amazing growth. um are well below benchmark. That percentage is all those drops because they're all moving up to above benchmark. I did pick out two grade levels that really shown. Kinder, if you notice, they went from 11% at benchmark at the beginning of the year, which was September, to more than double 24% of our uh current kindergarten is EOI. And again, these are the ones that have tested. We still have some people that still need
030to test. And then our well below has dropped by 5% and they're kind of just rolling up was which is amazing to see. Our third grade also has above benchmark. They went from 20% to 35% above benchmark. Again, all those numbers are kind of we want to see those decreases and them moving down. On top of that, some shining stars. I very preliminarily looked at some individual uh teacher growth and there's one teacher that has over 90% of their students met growth above met or exceeded their growth and they have kids that went from well below benchmark to above benchmark in a single year. Uh we have another teacher that has over 85 same we keep seeing these stories. So our teachers are really really getting in they're really helping our students grow. We are
031seeing it and we are beyond proud of what our our students and our teachers are doing with our kids. We'll have a full report later, but this is just we had to do a shining moment because these are great numbers that we're seeing. And then TIA, Miss Silvis, >> good evening, Madame President, Dr. Quig, members of the board. Our journey continues. It's been a great month. We completed our presentation, submitted our presentation. So, we're excited and look forward to that. What we have been doing and we started is um visiting we're visiting each one of the campuses and we're meeting with teachers and verifying uh student rosters. So, uh teachers are signing off that yes indeed those are the students that will be counting towards TIFF. Uh we started at Robert Driscoll. We were at
032Lot Beach today. We will head out to the high school tomorrow, then San Pedro, then back to Robert Drisco to finish up, and then we'll finish up with everyone at SEAL. >> So, we're excited that, you know, teachers have an opportunity to take a look as to why some students are not going to count uh for them and why everyone else is. So, um it's exciting to see them, you know, to be able to see the information because we're trying to be as transparent as possible. So they review the information and then sign off on the roster. So that's where we're at at this point. >> I'm I'm just curious. I'm not not to go into detail or anything that I'm not sure what but what would be a reason that a student could not
033count for a teacher? >> If the student uh back to MCL class, if the student did not have a beginning of the year um MClass uh test, then we cannot measure growth if he's here at the end of the year. Okay. uh in some cases some of the students were here at the beginning and they had a beginning of the year and they've transferred to another school district. If that district uses MClass will be able to retrieve that information and that student would count. However, if that district moves to a district that does not uh use MCLASS, then that student would not count. if a student uh withdrew and it came in after the the snapshot date of the TIA TIA snapshot date is February 27th if um >> exempt exempt identified special ed and
034then very very extreme attendance >> attendance issues >> okay >> so we have had you know students exempt >> okay >> what's the attendance like 10 absences what 45 >> 45 >> count special ed any other label they will count towards our teachers >> but they would have like accommodations obviously right >> the when we do the end class. >> So if it's a student that's in 504 for example or an EB student and he took the test then we'll take a look to see what his test uh results were at the end of last year and where what the results are this year to see if there was growth. Did the student have any growth? Okay, because the teacher worked with him all year. So it's really it's not a reflection. It's it's how
035did we do did we make progress with that student or not? But the student test normally uh with accommodations uh with whatever if he is a special ed student whatever the his IEP states then those are all um administered correctly during the testing assessment. >> What's different about TIA? It's not based on if they pass or if they fail. It's if they show >> that's that's the name of TIA. Did they show growth with that student? >> Can you speak to that a little bit? We talked on Friday about some of the amazing growth, but part of that also is the teachers really owning the experience. Will you speak to that a little bit? Any idea? >> So, the campus I was referring to essentially those teachers know that data. I actually talked to one
036just a second ago at blended learning and they were like, I looked at that data. I knew my student need help with fluency and with reading comprehension and I'm so proud of RC my data they've all grown. So our teachers this year I think partly because of TIA they've really taken ownership of that data of where our kids gaps are and have really started closing those gaps. So we've been we've been seeing it we can't wait to actually dive deep into the data um this summer to see what our true go growth are per campus per student excuse me per teacher and see how many potentially put forth in October. But yes, we're seeing amazing stories and our teachers are willing to share those stories. I know my kids. I know where they're at. I
037know where their gaps are. This is what I've done to help them. >> That's awesome. >> That's our journey for now and it will >> and it continues. >> It continues. >> Thank you ladies. >> Dr. I believe Mrs. Hoover's joined us here. >> How are you, Mrs. Hoover? >> Welcome. Tasby is here. I think we have your presentation ready to queue up. >> Yeah. Thank you, Dr. Pew and Miss Silvas. Where are you? There you are. Working with you, too. It's been a pleasure again to work with Frogtown ISD. Thank you for having me today. Uh just drove in a few minutes ago. So, thank you. >> Welcome. >> Yeah. So, uh, I was, um, able to conduct a staffing review for Robstown. I think I did one a few years ago was here.
038So, happy to be back in your wonderful town and hear all the great things happening here. It's really exciting. So, Cheryl Hoover, TASBY uh, senior HR consultant, been with TASBY for eight years, uh, after 34 years in school districts as a teacher and coach and principal and HR director and curriculum director and all those fun things. So, I always enjoy coming back to schoolboard meetings, believe it or not. Uh so happy to be here today. So we'll roll through the staffing review report for you. Do I have a I do. Is this up to me to click? Thank you. So basically the way the review works um is I I get all of the student numbers and all the staff numbers. So it is a staffing review and it's based on um the numbers kind
039of ratios of your number of staff and your number of students and then we have benchmarks that we compare to. We have some number benchmarks and we use professional organization benchmarks too like the uh Texas and national counseling association. They have a one to 350. One counselor for every 350 students is what they recommend. We use that at TASBY. Um over the 30 years that we have conducted staffing reviews, we have our own also. Uh one is assistant principal. We recommend at least one assistant principal for every 450 students at high school, middle school, elementary, and all those benchmarks are in the staffing report. There's a ton of numbers today that I'll throw at you. I'm a former math teacher, so I kind of roll through numbers, uh but I'll try to go through it
040slowly. But we have lots of benchmarks that we compare you to. A district can staff however they choose. You can staff however you can choose. Uh basically it comes to down to what you can afford, right? Uh because your staffing is kind of like our own bank accounts. You only have so much money. Uh so no principal, and I'm a former principal will ever say they have too many staff. No, nobody in any auxiliary or department will say they have too many staff because they don't. But you have to work off what you have. So, we have a lot of comparisons and I'll talk about those comparisons today, but ultimately your district decides how you staff to best serve your students in your area. And obviously, your superintendent and your district leaders and your principles
041know best there. But we also looked at central office staffing and auxiliary staffing because that's that's where a lot of your money goes to, too. Um, so lots of recommendations. uh it gives you a really good look at yourself on your staffing since about 85% of your budget goes to staffing not just to salaries but the benefits and and all the things that you do for your staff. Uh so benchmarking is just comparing yourself to others and I'll talk about all those others. Uh this is information on your district and you know this better than I do. Um this is from PES. Um I don't make any numbers up. I get those from PES and Taper and from your numbers, etc. And there's, you know, TEA website. There's anything and everything you want to know
042about your district and all the 1,31 districts in Texas. It's it's all out there. Uh this is your fiveyear enrollment trend from 2021. You had 2,601 students. You have decreased slightly about a 1.2% over those five years. Um so this is from two 202021 2024 25 this year when I and it was a snapshot of when I asked the principles to give me their numbers at that day there were 2,484 students in Robstown ISD uh the projection for next year and this is this is what your leaders decided to use as a 2% decrease because that's the trend and you want to be pretty close to what the trend is so you can staff most efficiently. Remember I don't say right or wrong. I just say efficiently. Uh so we assumed a 2% decrease for
043next year which would mean about 2,421 students. So that's just moving kindergarteners up to first, first to second, second to third all the way up and a 2% decrease. And you know, your grade levels have different numbers of students. They're not all totally equal. So this is what you look like. So you have a little bit of a decrease, which ultimately means that might might uh cause some challenges for staffing. I work with some districts that have lots of uh large increase, but I also work with districts have uh decreases. So there's different trends across the state depending on where you are. Uh one of the ways that we compare you is to peer districts that look like you. And again, it doesn't ma it doesn't mean they're right or wrong on how they staff.
044It just sometimes districts just don't know how other staff and you might get some ideas from them. So these are the peer districts that I chose and we agreed upon for the staffing comparison. And I can pick districts anywhere in the state of Texas about your size about 2500 and about 88% economically disadvantaged. But I did try to choose districts in your area because you know these districts they're your neighbors and I was able to pick quite a few in ESC2 because there's quite a few your size. Sometimes I work with districts there's nobody in that area that size. have to go further out in the state and they don't really know those districts but you know these districts. So um the averages of these peer districts and all the categories is noted as well
045as each district. Sometimes staffing is different because they the district might contract like uh transportation or child nutrition or something like that. So they might have less staff because of that. So basically um first of all we'll talk about central office then we'll talk about the campuses and then we'll talk about auxiliary departments. Here's your comparison of your numbers of FTEES or full-time equivalents. It just means positions. It's a fancy word for positions. Full-time equivalents. >> So the first number is Robstown ISD and the second number is the average of the peer districts. Again it's not right or wrong. It just is. So curriculum instruction, you have nine and a half positions compared to 6.2 of your peer district. And the difference there is that you have instructional coaches. You have three instructional coaches. So
046that makes a difference. Some of these districts don't don't uh can't afford or don't pay for instructional coaches. So that's really your difference right there. So kudos to y'all for supporting your teachers and with TIA and every all the other challenges that's needed. You see your number for business and finance 6.5 just a little greater than 4.9. human resources pretty close operations again some of your peer districts might uh contract out um custodial or child nutrition or something like that so there's a reason there and then communications pretty much everybody has one okay so that's central office nothing real big stands out there pretty comparable uh technology you have five staff at the time that I I conducted the um review the peer district is 5.3 uh we also surveyed districts uh all across across
047Texas at TASPY and it's those districts uh choice if they want to participate but districts that participated your size district they had about 6.8 eight technology positions compared to your five. So, you're a little low. So, I actually uh my recommendation was considering adding a technology position if you can afford it. And whether enrollment is increasing or decreasing, as your staff can tell you, there's a lot of technology needs. Everything's electronic and you want to go electronic. Those your processes make things more efficient in all your departments. So, so, so there's your first recommendation of consider adding a technology position to M. >> Hooper, I have a quick question. I'm sorry. Um, when when um You said you got a snapshot of the certain when was it that you got these numbers? >> We actually
048started in November. >> November of last year. >> Yeah. And then uh November 2025, which was this year. Um there was kind of a gap there. I'll just say there was a gap there because I was out for two months. I had a total knee replacement. So it wasn't your district's fault. It was it was mine because I had to come back and recover and and uh get back going. And then we tweaked and talked and looked at numbers and kind of as things changed. And one thing that did change from November to now is we agreed on a different percentage of decrease. We actually were at about one or something. We went to two. So I kind of had to rewrite the report a little bit, but I wanted to be be right, you
049know, be be a good picture of what you have. Good question. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Any other questions? >> And please ask as I go. Otherwise, I just keep going. Okay. >> All right. Safety and security. Obviously, you see them right back here. I felt very safe walking in today. chief and five officers, five security guards. Per district averages for 5.2. Uh districts all across across Texas, more and more have their own police department. Uh but it is the district choice on whether they want to contract or that. So no recommendation there. That's based on your location and needs etc. Um here's the campus. This starts with the campus. This assistant principal. So again, we use a benchmark at TASBY of one to 450 students at the high school, middle school, elementary. Some districts
050will say we're going to use one to 600. Some districts say we're going to use one to 300. Again, it's your choice. We're just giving you a picture of what that would look like. So, you have eight and a half assistant principal positions. And um so the benchmark ratio is 1 to 450. Uh your secondary ratio is 1 to 279.8 and your elementary ratio is 1 to 306.3. So you can see a little lower. So I did have recommendation if you needed to save money is possibly consider absorbing a position there. Uh comparing to your peer peer districts you have 13.5 principles and assistant principles while your peer districts have 11.3. So you see that kind of all matches up there that you have a little bit more but there may be a reason you
051have more. >> So on this one here I know you said that's districtwide correct 8.5 assistant principles. >> Yes. >> Okay. So that recommendation or what you were putting on there on absorbing that >> is that specific on secondary or elementary level? >> I believe it was at seal. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I don't have the report in front of me, but I did look at it before I left today and I think it was there. And there is a chart and a section in the report. The report's about 60 pages long. If you want to read it, I'd love for you to. Um it's uh but there's a chart for every uh thing I'm talking about today with the district and the recommendation and then another chart comparing you to the peer district. >>
052Now we compare you to the peer district. We have the principles in there. So it's the principles and the assistant principles there and that's kind of somewhere early in the report probably about page 12 or 13. See I've written a few of these. >> Thank you ma'am. >> Good questions. Um counselors we use the benchmark of 1 to 350 that I mentioned and that is the Texas and the national recommendation for counseling associations. You have eight counselors and two social workers. Um your ratio is about 1 to 310.5. I don't count the social workers because that's added. They only meet with certain students. So we don't count those as school counselors. Your peer district average is about 7.2. So there is a possibility of maybe absorbing one position there to be considered again. Uh >>
053and where was that at? I'm sorry. >> That's in the report. >> Okay. I I'll get it from >> I just wasn't sure. >> Yeah. So in the report I pretty much kind of give a um Sorry, I don't have it in front of me. I can pull >> No, no, you're fine. No, no, I can get it from him. I just didn't know if you had that with you. Yes. >> As to what >> which elementary or secondary was that counselor? I think it was at the early college high school if I remember right but I'm working off my memory but I think that's right. >> Okay. Thank you ma'am. >> Sure. Instructional support coaches uh you have three district level. They work with all the elementary, middle school and and early college high
054school. Peer district average is 2.3. There's no recommendation there. We know I mean there's a lot of support for instructional coaches to help um teachers with instruction and you know be better teachers. So, if you can afford it, um, kudos to y'all. Library staff, you have three librarians and two library aids. Um, your, uh, Robstown Early Early College High School librarian also serves as a district librarian. So, that's actually counted as a half there. Peer District A is 4.2. This is a typical staffing for a district your size to have librarians and library aids, but maybe not staff a librarian at every campus. I mean, everybody loves that, but it is I have no recommendation there. But some districts do just maybe have one or two librarians and then have librarians after that and share
055the the workload and the supervision. But no recommendation there. That's a real typical staffing for library staff. Clinic staff, you have two registered nurses, three LVNs, and a clinic aid. So that that ratio is about 1 to 414. I often see one to 800 or 700. Uh so you have a pretty good ratio there which is good. Uh peer district average is 4.8. Uh the only consideration I had is I believe there were two LVNs at one campus while there was a clinicate at another elementary and maybe put an LVN at every campus you know. So but there might be a need for that a reason for that based on programs. Special ed. We do have a section on special ed. Um, in the district there are 420 students that are identified in special ed.
056Uh, that's about 16.9% of your population, which, you know, used to be 8%. I work with some districts that have about that number. That's pretty typical. Sometimes it's even 22 23. Uh, the state average for staffing though is one special ed teacher for every 15 special ed students. And then when you put the special ed teachers and the special ed aids together and the students, it's a to seven ratio. So that's a state average. Okay. Overall, we do have some benchmarks for programs and that's what this is here. Resources inclusion. That means that the benchmark that we're using is one staff person for every 15 students. And resource inclusion at the high school, 1 to 12 at middle junior high, and 1 to nine at elementary. And that could be a teacher and aid, but
057you're always going to start with a teacher. you know, have to have a special ed teacher for case management. Life skills and everything else is pretty much one to four behaviors a little higher. So, that's a good starting point. If a special ed student has an aid assigned one to one, we do not count that aid in these numbers because that that obviously that that aid would be working only with that student. So, what does that mean for y'all when you compare your staffing with those benchmarks? And again, those the special ed director can say, well, you know, we we don't want to use those. want to use a little lower, a little higher or whatever, but it's a good starting point. Um, your average is one special ed teacher for every 14.2 students. So,
058just a little below that. And you have 22 teachers in that are special ed teachers, but I actually say consider adding one special ed teacher and I believe it was in resource at one of the campuses there uh based on those benchmarks. So sometimes it's just kind of a reassignment um of that aids. When you throw AIDS in there, teachers and aid, you have a 1 to 6.1 ratio. Remember the state average is 1 to seven. So um you have 29 special education aids employed in the district. And so looking at the chart, it's kind of in the middle of the report. that it's possible maybe uh too absorbed by attrition that we don't like to say reduce but the nice thing about school districts is at the end of the year a certain number
059of staff leave. So if you did want to reduce um you would do that by absorbing uh those vacancies and maybe not fill those vacancies. That's a nicer and easier way in school districts that we can um absorb staff if we need to. So possibly three special ed aid positions absorbing by attrition there. We also look at your special ed itinerate staff like your uh LSSPs and your uh diags is that first um section. They basically are the benchmark that we use is that they can um assess and evaluate about 80 to 85 students a year. yours. U now you might be contracting some because maybe you can't hire them and that's a problem in the state of Texas defi is to find LSSPS and diagnosticians but the ratio for your staff is one to
060140. So if they say they're working hard they're working hard but they might be contracting some too. So if you could we would say to add two diagnosticians to help with the evaluations. The second section there is speech pathologists and basically a speech speech language pathologist therapist can um handle a case load of about 45 to 50 students. Yours have about a 1 to 76.6. So again that's high. Uh so we would recommend adding two speech language pathologists or path pathologist assistants which many districts will hire them while they're in the training. Um they're hard to hire. They're hard to find. uh you're probably contracting because um if you could hire them, you probably would. And then the last bullet is dyslexia teachers. Obviously, that's a growing area. Um and the ratio there is about
061a 1 to 30 to 35 students per teacher. Uh yours is about 31.5. So that's that's good, but keep an eye on it because that's an area that continues to grow as we know. So that's special ed. Um the next sections are clerical staff and educational aids. uh we actually have a benchmark at secondary of of 5.5 campus clerical FTEES for every thousand students and at elementary 4.5 FTEES per thousand students and if you apply those benchmarks you could consider absorbing up to seven secondary campus clerical staff and up to 2.5 elementary campus clerical positions. So hi there. Non-campus clerical are your clerical not at the campus. So they're at central office are the auxiliary departments and our benchmark is four positions for every thousand students. You have 17 and a half positions when using
062that benchmark uh the recommendation would be nine and a half positions. So there is about eight positions there that maybe could be absorbed through attrition. Educational aids we use a state average. It's about 15 aids educational aids per thousand students. Uh you have 49 educational aids. That's pretty high. So you remember I said on the special ed side you must might be able to absorb three. Here you might be able to absorb uh 10. So that's 49 total. That's not 49 over. That's about 13 over. So possibly an area to be more efficient in. All right. Teachers uh elementary is pretty easy. We use a 1 to 22 ratio. If you have separate bilingual uh gened classes, we separate. You guys don't. you have ESL type and so we put them together. So really we
063just look at one to 22 in a class. Uh your average is 19 uh per in a class. Um if you next year moved your students up at each of the three elementaryaries and had a and then um you could actually absorb two elementary teacher positions, but you would still have an 18.4 class average doing that. And That's mainly because of the decrease in number of students. That make sense? All right. Junior high and high school. First of all, I'm going to say the junior high and high school master schedules are very efficient. I see all kinds of things. This is my 15th uh review this year. And you think about over eight years, I've seen a lot of master schedules. Uh both campuses run pretty much like an 87. So they most of the
064teachers have one conference period. So they're they're very efficient and most of the teachers are teaching all day long. I don't see a lot of off periods like I do at some districts. Uh the difference in junior high and high school, junior high has a 20.7 class average and you're going to see when the high school it's about 16. So that's the difference there. Um if you roll students up and even move up to maybe a 23, you know, if you raise the class average, then you can maybe absorb two teacher full-time equivalents through the master schedule. But master schedules are probably already created at this point in the year. It's kind of late in the year. Uh but you can get more efficient by looking at your master schedules in the years to come
065if you keep having a decrease in student students by um either increasing your class average or having a more efficient master schedule. Well, you already have an efficient master schedule. It's kind of hard to make that better. So really the only way that you can get more efficient is have more students in a class. um even if you just go to you know a couple two or three you can you can decrease your number of teachers. So here's about two high school you'll see kind of the same thing but the difference is on the average there's about 16.5 students in a class instead of 20 master schedules at high school are more difficult to be efficient because you have so many CTE and singleton and athletics and fine arts. So, it's tough, but if you
066could increase to at least 20, you could absorb maybe up to nine teacher positions. So, that's that's a a big deal there. So, really just analyzing the master schedules because master schedules do drive staffing, which does drive budgets. And if you were going to increase that class size, you'd really want to do it over a couple years. Maybe you go to 18 and then 20, etc. athletic periods. Uh the only thing that we do with athletic periods is just compare the co the coaches and the athletes in that ratio and we compare it to the teacher and the students. All we do we don't compare outside. We know coaches work really hard. I'm a former coach. I know that they work really hard to put a lot of hours in. But during the day we
067look at how many classes they're teaching and your coaches are teaching a lot of classes. Uh but if you look the first part of that up there, it says uh your current high school coached to athletic l ratio is 1 to 11.9. That's a little less than that 1 to 16.5 of the teacher and students. So that's where that recommendation of maybe um three of those athletic period assignments maybe could be academic period assignments based on what the coaches can teach. The bottom section of that is u possibly consider converting three junior high school athletic period assignments to academic period assignments. They have a ratio of a of coaches 1 to 13.9 while your teacher to student is 1 to 20.7. So a little and there are more sports at high school etc too. So
068it's challenging but something to look at if you get in the bind. All right. Auxiliary. Any questions on campus? I know I'm running through numbers. I'm doing good. All right. Maintenance and grounds. We use another organization's benchmark. APA is the association of phys physical plant administrators. Believe it or not, there's an organization that looks at staffing for those things. So basically they say that one maintenance worker can take care of about 67,000 gross square feet. Who would know, right? And a groundskeeper can take care of about 35 acres. Well, there's a lot of variables. Did it rain this year in Robstown or not? Were you having to mow or were you having to clean, you know, buildings, you know, how's, you know, HVAC and all that stuff. So, based on those, the recommended staffing is
069about nine and a half MW's maintenance workers and four groundskeepers. You have seven and seven. So, it's about right there. It's just where do you need them? So, maybe evaluate if you need more here or there or whatever. So, u but I'm sure your maintenance director is probably doing that. custodial. Same organization says that a custodian can clean about 23,000 cleanable square feet a day. There's a lot of variables too here. Um, obviously if somebody's cleaning your house, it's better if you and the kids are out, right? It's easier. Or if your house is new, so there's a lot of variables. Your custodians clean a little less than that. Just a little less. 22,255 cleanable square feet. um you have 26 custodians employed. Uh the peer district average is a little less than that, 23.5,
070and the recommendation is 24. So maybe consider absorbing two positions, but I'm sure your custodial director will probably say there's about two or three that are absent every day or you need you need more help here for events or those kinds of things. So you're really close there. Also, child nutrition, we use something called meals per labor hour, which your child nutrition director knows a lot about. It puts in a formula how many um staff and how many hours they work to produce the meals. And you want an efficiency of 70. That's an easy number to remember. We want to be between 70 and 100 just like grades. Um so three of your five campus, I believe they were all three elementaryaries where met that rating while the secondary campuses did not. And typically that's
071because you don't have as many students eat. So if you want to have those efficiencies higher, you would have more students eat or you would have less staff with labor hours. So um from there uh the recommendation is consider absorbing one position because you have 27.5 positions when the recommendation would be 26. Transportation really would just kind of give you information. You have 15 staff. Peer district average is 19.8. You have 82 square miles in your district. You're pretty compact right here. Your peer district average was 195 and you transport about 318 students per day. So it looks like you're pretty efficient there. So it's just a comparison there. So what does all this mean? It's a lot of numbers. I warned you. A lot of information. Uh but basically it gives you a really
072good view of where you're staffing in every position and maybe some positions that you might, you know, be able to adjust if needed. But basically, your decisions are made by your district leaders and the board and and the money that you have. And if you do have reductions, you do that through attrition, obviously by vacancies and maybe not filling those. And evaluating the high school secondary master schedule would probably be a good idea. Uh but if you are going to make changes, gradual implementation is a good idea. You can't do everything all at once. And then create your own staffing plans, which I'll have done. You know, I'm just trying to tweak those questions that y'all have for me. >> Want to point something out, Miss Hoover, on uh the Robson ISTD student enrollment. You
073know, we had this very small decline of five years, right? 1.2%. And then this year we had the sudden decline, 134 kids to date. And so it was 120 the last month. Now it's 134. This is a trend we're seeing across the state. I mean, in the 15 reports you've done this year, what percentage of those are seen? I'm just curious. I want to hold you to it. >> Yeah. Well, it that's a really tough question because I work with rural districts. I work with very large I've worked with districts 40 50,000. I live in Georgetown. I work with Liberty Hill. They had a 70% increase because they have subdivision after subdivision coming in. Uh north of Dallas is crazy. You can't even buy a house, you know. But for the most part of areas
074like this area, you are seeing a decrease. Um and you know, it depends why. I mean, you you know, you'll have to answer that why and what's going on, but it's very, very common, particularly in districts under three, 4 thousand. Yeah, you're not alone. I wish I wish I had an answer, but you're not alone. >> Well, thank you. I think the key takeaway is to uh look at those enrollment trends and just really rightsize uh the staffing. We got to have rightsize it based on um based on the revenue we can generate, you know. >> Any questions? Thank you ma'am. >> Thank you. So I have a question the prior to this sir has this report been shared with department heads principles or anything that address >> No we have not yet shared that.
075>> Okay. >> This couldn't have come at a better time >> after our voter referendum was not passed. >> That that's >> We have work to do. Um so I guess after today sir you'll meet with department heads go or look over this and then see what they're >> right once once we finalize the report we will definitely meet with everyone internally. >> Okay so that everyone's aware um starts with you guys first seeing it and then we will plan accordingly. >> Okay. Yes. >> Which just out of curiosity sir you seeing this report what's going through your mind right now? >> Well that's what I just said. we really need to be disciplined about right sizing the district. Um, you know, that's not a value statement. It's um it's it's just a a reality.
076You know, we're only going to bring in so much enrollment and so that means only so much money. So, it's making the trade-off and putting uh the staff at the right size so that we can sustain uh ourselves and stay in in the black. So, we have some work to do. >> We do. Thank you, Dr. Quick. Uh, next item, M update. >> Mr. Lver. >> Good evening, Sarah. Madam President, Dr. Puy, board members. Uh, at this time, I'm going to go ahead and bring up uh Mr. Davis Powell, who is a architect for the fieldhouse. Uh, we've been at it for a few weeks now, but he can dive a little deeper if you have some other questions for him. I just want to say, you know, it's been it's been really great so
077far. I know, uh, Mr. Pow, they spoke highly of you. uh the the you know Helis has spoken really highly of him and I know he's down here pretty often once a week once every other week. So that's a lot for us because we expressed to him how important it was for us to make sure this is done correctly and I think this gentleman has done a fantastic job with that. So >> Madam President, Dr. Puig, ladies and gentlemen of the board, it's a pleasure to be here. Uh I do have some of the enthusiasm that Mr. Lber has project at this point. Um, we're rolling right right along. Uh, if you haven't had an opportunity to go over there, what you would see is that you go inside the building, the interior plumbing and
078under slab is complete. Uh, site work, concrete is being installed. Um, the mechanical, electrical, plumbing lines are being installed overhead. Uh, we do that first so when we come back with the framing, it's a little bit easier to we won't have to drive as many of the or anything like that to put up the big big thing. So, it goes in first. Um, it's being installed now. Uh, they are starting to frame frame the project as of this week or as of this this afternoon. Uh, they are starting to do the framing and the layout for the framing. Uh, officially it is on schedule. Uh, just so you know, that the contractual completion date is uh September 21st. As a reminder, um, we estimate the completion being a little bit earlier than that. Um I
079think there was some some conservative uh estimate in the uh in the proposed schedule or the contractual schedule. So I'm kind of projecting a summertime completion date at this point. The weather can hold out while we're doing the outside stuff uh and and we can keep the trades moving the way they are right now. Uh no changes to the scope of work. I put out five proposal requests. These are are requests for if we we do change some of the scope of the work. Um, three of these are no dollar items. The other two I haven't got a satisfactory response back yet. I can't make recommendation to the board whether to consider them or not. I've had 21 RFIs. These are requests for information. Um I think there are about three outstanding at this point.
080Um and we will get the answer to the contractors on those. Um as work has been going on, the work has been tested. We've had the structural engineer down here several times. We have a third party independent lab doing tests for the concrete and observations for the rebar placement. And um to date everything's been been rolling right along very very smoothly. Um trying to think of anything else that might be pertinent that at this time. Uh I think one of the issues we talked about a little bit in committee anyway was that the transformer needs to be uh upgraded to a larger capacity. We do have a number back from the city on that and the lead time is not problem. So, I just need to to get an approval on that and we will
081get that as well. So, any any questions? >> Go ahead. Go ahead. >> You >> Well, is that an approval from the committee, sir? Or you or what >> is that a change order? >> No, I think it's just a question on how you want to pay for it because >> you have a you deal with the utility as an entity. You can pay through through that or I can introduce it into this contract as well. I just need to get the authority to >> What's the size of the transfer? >> Uh they want to move it up to 750 I think. 750 KB. >> Is that the city or >> Yeah, that's the utility. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Yeah. I don't remember having a conversation. >> Well, we can't we we haven't had one.
082Can we have a committee meeting this Friday? >> Sure, we can have a committee meeting. >> Are you available this Friday, M? Yes, >> you Bobby. >> It would have to be early. >> Yeah, >> even if it's just a phone call, >> maybe a conference call, >> virtual, >> work it out. >> Um, now you mentioned there was some modifications also. Was there any modifications to the plumbing? >> Uh, only on the location of where they tie in to the existing one. That's the element so far. >> What is the What's the size of the existing uh through line? >> Four. >> 4 in. >> The one that runs from the building to the next manhole is a four. >> What What type of uh line is >> 4 in, >> but we ran
083a what? Six inch. We're in our six inside the building due to the slope that we had to stay underneath the finish. >> Is that going to cause any back? >> Uh there's several ways we can handle it. Um we can I'm kind of waiting on that one because probably the best way to deal with that would be to put in a manhole. >> Um but I don't want to absorb that kind of expense if I don't need to. So I was going to wait and see how we're doing financially before I made that recommendation. What's this? What's the size of line that we the new line that we put on install right there by the vin 6 inch? Would there be a possibility we can tie into that one? >> Where is it? >>
084To the to the main >> I rather do that than going to a 4 in from a 6 in to a 4 in. >> Yeah. I think we can. We just need to put a manhole there. I think that's really biggest concern. >> Well, I know we can. It's just >> to prevent issues. We don't know how old that is, right? >> I think he came with the building. So, it's 15 years old. something to look at. That would be obviously portion to the project, but or could be a different project that we can do. I mean, at least to that point, but I guarantee you we'll have problems. Does he put a station or something? >> Yeah, that's an option, too. >> Just compare calls, I guess. >> Okay. So, we'll set up a
085committee meeting to go a little deeper into some of these questions. >> And it doesn't have to be Friday. Let me We'll talk about it later. I'll call you. >> I think and just so you know, I think the lead time on that transformer is four to six weeks. So we probably need that coming online first part of July. >> Are we ordering the transformer from the city or or the city? >> No, the utility is that's a utility >> because they own that one, right? Yeah, they own it and so they're but they do charge you to put >> Yeah, I agree. >> And that's that's what this is for that's what >> overall we are sounds like pleased with the timeline progress. >> So far everything is a lot of work going on.
086Uh I like the way they are working. It's organized, questions are are communication's good. And so I I think as as far as the schedule goes, we're we're dealing >> uh with everything in a in a timely and efficient manner. >> So just for the record, we we are expecting change order, correct? >> At this point, >> and we do change. >> So you have you have I believe it's $77,000 worth of allowance in in your contract. So until we exceed that, we don't have We're doing >> so I expect Yeah, any any remodel is going to have some surprises. So, >> thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. >> Thank you, sir. >> Oh, was that is that on the M update? >> I just had a couple questions about on this to build or do
087I wait for this to build, sir? >> Uh, >> okay. Uh, just a quick question on the RH It's RHS door. What what door was 15,000? >> Um well that was at Kio Gym. >> Okay. >> That we did we did all the doors at Kario Gym. >> Okay. >> So but we had some of it was from a grant. >> I do remember you mentioned that. So the district pay 15,000 out of that. >> Okay. >> And um >> replaced all doors. >> How many painters do we have for the district and your department? >> We don't have any I mean we have a general maintenance but nobody's nobody's a painter. So they do some painting, but if it's a bigger job, you know, I'd like to to do it professionally because then, you
088know, when they're at that job, they get called to do other things and then that job never gets really done. >> Okay. Um I I was looking at I saw there was quite a bit of painting done, but um painting at lot speech and then it says districtwide um districtwide walls district wide. I was just curious as to what >> we did uh as when I was up here the last time we did the Salazar building as well. Uh we did lots Beach cafeteria. That was that was a big one for them. Uh it hadn't been done and and their walls were in pretty bad shape. So we had somebody come in and uh do that and they're very pleased with it. I can tell >> some Okay. I was just wondering like as far
089as um >> especially now like if we can use and save money on that because that was about $10,000 and then um >> do we have to purchase that painting material or no >> cuz I I saw that was another $1,000 almost $2,000 like that then we're doing the job but if it if we sub it out they're paying for the materials most of the time. >> Okay. >> Painting. And there's a lot of things that we do and we plan to do this summer that we're doing. I know we're tackling some of the restrooms and some of the hallways. We're going to be doing the curb painting. We're going to be doing it in house. >> Okay. >> But there's no kids in school, so it makes it easier. My guys are we can
090dedicate to that. >> Okay. >> And that sewer job that was in San Pedro, sir, that seemed like a pretty big job. >> That was a pretty big job. Yes, sir. >> Okay. Is that I'm assuming that was in our property? >> Yes. >> Okay. And then I think we even had we had a few issues there because it was a it was running over a gas line so we had to reroute it a little bit but it got done. >> Okay. Thank you, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Yeah, we ordered the motor so that it's it's been on order. So once it comes back, it's going to be fixed. >> And AC was fixed. Didn't we just replace all of our ACs? >> No, it was it's a it's a motor to one of
091the chillers that wasn't replaced. Okay. >> But it was it's been ordered already. >> So, it was a chiller. >> It was the motor you ordered. >> Okay. Dr. Paw, we're on um just on Mr. Martinez's questions. Um I know you've mentioned several times zero um budget, zerobased budget. Are we still on that right now? >> We are. So, every every dollar that's spent, are you approving that prior to if it >> someone's approving it prior to >> Yes, ma'am. And yeah, the good thing is, you know, you look at maintenance in particular on page 67. We've stayed really uh under budget. Uh y'all have done an extraordinary job of being very frugal, >> right? Nothing that we've spent is coming outside of the budget. >> Everything that we're doing is within the budget. >>
092I try to make sure of that. And I haven't seen anything on the reports, but I just, you know, I know you had mentioned it last time that um this month, you know, that our um preventative maintenance on our on our on our buses and all that is being done, you know, because you have your mechanic. Does he have an assistant? >> Mhm. And they do all that stuff. They do all the changes. Now, they've even added the police units. We don't send them out anymore. They come and we do all the work in house. >> Okay. >> Now, we do have to buy the supplies for that, but >> correct. I did I did see some supply spending on there but um like previous months where they where we had been sending it out
093I didn't see it so that's why I was under the assumption that it was being done in house. >> Yes sir. >> Okay. >> Thank you Mr. Lber. >> Thank you sir. >> Next item on the agenda. Dr. Quig safety report. >> Uh yes Mr. Tagle. Chief Tagla is ready to give a safety update. >> Greetings President Dr. Quig. Board members. Uh, sorry. We have a date for our summer uh district safety committee meeting which will be June 14th. Uh, we'll be sending out the email later this week for everybody invited. Um, our Robstone ISD police department will have their annual stable training. It'll be June 13th through 16 admission. Um, again, this is our yearly. We're up to intermediate level. It goes up to master level, but we try to do it every year
094during the summer when they offer it through Texas State. On April 24th at 3:19, uh, our IDA audit was done at Las Beach. We passed, but they've kind of changed on when they're coming. They usually used not come till after 9 after our arrival and they wouldn't come after before uh they wouldn't come after 2:30 for our dismissal, but now this year we've seen them come at 8:15 and now we've seen them come at 3:19. So, but we did pass. Everything still went perfect. So, um, that was really good. Uh we will be escorting our baseball team in our next playoff game Thursday and Friday. Our our officers will be going with them. And the last thing I have is that, you know, even though we're coming up at the end of the school year
095and in the summer, we want to stay hypervigilant. Uh if we see something, say something, still report things that are happening at our schools or in the in the community. Like as long as we get the information, we look into it. Whether it belongs to us or not, we we make contact with the other agencies in our area. Uh and again, you know, it's a resource there that, you know, everyone could access. We just want to make sure that we're getting the information that they're utilizing it so we can, you know, be, like I said, because at the end of the year, it doesn't slow down. It ramps up. And even though, uh, we're out for the summer, it never turns off. Our my voice never turns off. You know, our other device, other uh,
096uh, not anonymous report, our other reporting system still works. So, like I said, it's still there. We want everybody to be aware of it. So we utilize it as best as possible. >> Any questions? about eightmates wearing black and white suits grass offic. Yes, sir. They're going to be there. Our gates should be closed or you guys should be notified and be out there waiting for them to finish. >> Yeah, by the time I was notified, I went out there. There was three gentlemen and two sheriffs. Uh we did >> that was >> and uh we did go into a secure but it was shortly after that that uh they had already left the area. Uh but yeah but it was just a notification. I I will meet with the sheriff's department and see if
097they could advise me whenever they come out. >> Yeah, I was now that you mentioned that. I mean I didn't I hadn't that hadn't crossed my mind honestly but um do they they don't notify you when that's going to happen? I mean being that >> not this time uh but I will make sure that they notify me. Um I I know it was about a block away from also an empty lot. Um going back to what Mr. Mesa mentioned, I know that some inmates were um cleaning a lot by the junior high. Um but that makes a good point. I mean it wasn't as close, but that makes a good point. I mean there >> Yeah, I saw the sheriff on that issue. >> We were watching and like I said, we did go into
098secure, but then they were already done by the time we were on secure for a short amount of time. >> Okay. >> Yes, sir. Yes, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> Any other questions, trustees? Thank you, Chief. >> Uh, safety, I'm sorry, list of bills. For your reference, the list of bills included in your package. Thank you, Mr. Martinez for asking the questions here, but just out of courtesy of Lieutenant Dr. Quick Prior just just just getting a heads up. Um, next item on the agenda, financial statement report. Dr. Pra, do you want to say anything on that? >> I'm sorry. Which which questions? >> Just No, I'm sorry. Next item, financial statement. >> Which questions that you referring to? >> For the list of bills. Just if you have questions on list of bills. Okay.
099Just out of courtesy. >> Uh, financial statement report. Dr. Quick, >> I do want to mention something. Trustes, you'll turn to page 67 of the financial report and >> 67. Yes, ma'am. 67. And you'll see the monthly statement. At the very top, uh, we have revenues. You see there's and there's three buckets. There's local, state, and federal. Do you see that? And you'll see the original budget in the first column. And you'll see this is at the eighth month mark, right? The second column you'll see the actual in other words what have we actually collected to date with revenue and then you'll see year-to- date and if it's in parentheses means we exceeded that. Does that make sense? >> So you can see if you roll those three together what percent of the budget have
100we collected to date about 79% of the budget right? You see that? Now if you go below that the next area are the expenditures and you'll see them. They're all in their function codes 11 12 13 and you can see they're described right same same process budget actual and then you can go to the bottom of the total expenditures and you can see what percentage of the expenditures we have already allocated and what do you see there about 70% right so revenues tracking ahead of expenditures that make sense so if you go to the very bottom you'll see the impact on the fund balance now here's the thing this is only a snapshot right of eight months into the school year. But we'll use this to project out to the end of the school year
101and then we can as you as we come to the next meeting, you'll see that number change a little bit more. You'll see the revenue hopefully be approaching 100 by the time we get to August and then you'll see the expenditures start to um rise up as well. Does that make sense? You can kind of look at this and see how we're tracking with expenses and revenue. So, it's just a very good report to look at. Just want to make sure you're aware of which what's now that in that first uh section there and that's your 199 general fund. The next one is the food service and you'll see the next one is the 599 the interest in syncing. So this gives you just a snapshot of how we are doing. So it's a very
102good report. Just want to remind you of that. Okay. All right. Thank you madam president. >> Thank you Dr. Quig. Next item on the agenda, consent agenda items, approval of minutes. Trustees, do I have a motion? >> Make a motion. >> I'll second by Mr. Marukin. Second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? >> We have a first and a second to approve consent agenda items. Miss Valobos. >> I. >> Mr. Ku. >> Hi. >> Mr. Gos. >> Hi. >> Miss Garza. >> Hi. >> Miss I. Mr. Marukin. >> Hi. >> And for the record at 7:25, Mr. Mr. Miss is not present for this vote. Motion carries. >> Thank you, Mr. Martinez. Next item, discussion items. Um, so this first one, discussion of EIC policy. I asked Dr. Pick to put this back on
103our agenda for discussion. I felt like we weren't finished talking about it two meetings ago. I didn't put it last month because of our contracts. We were approving contracts. Um, Dr. Pig, you want to kind of give us an update on where we left off, what we were talking about? >> Uh, right. So remember, we're going to take this to a committee with our administrators and also with a board member representative. I think I reached out to Mr. Gagos to be a part of that committee because of his lens as an educator and really help bolster this. And what I mean by bolstering it like include some exclusions in here to really really tighten it. EIC is is solid as it is now. But in terms of keeping fairness, you know, for those that uh
104have been here, um, you know, I've got some things I discussed with Tasby that I want to share with the committee, including Mr. Giggles and the committee on the administrative committee to to to really even put some more I hate to use the word teeth in it, if you will. Uh, but I think something that would give us that much more, I guess, fairness, if you will, for the policy. There are some other things related to military we can put in there too as we talked previously. But in visiting with your TASBY policy consultant um she outlined a few things that might help really bolster it. Uh bring Mr. Gagos in as I said and then the high school administration and and uh bring it back. >> Sure. Can we can we um email you
105or meet with you individually as far as these um or any recommendations that we may have? >> Yes, please. Yes. >> I know that when we spoke about it, you know, Mr. Mini, Mr. Messa had given their input on some things. So maybe just them email you. >> Yes. >> You can reference it with a committee and then Mr. Gos >> on the policy policy about the ranking >> um so that we can maybe you know Mr. Gos of course will be there to rep as a as a board representative but um you know just to y'all can hear some considerations from the rest of the board to Mr. Ggo speak on our behalf. >> Thank you Eric. Thank you sir. >> Will you let us know when that is that going to happen pretty
106quickly short sir or >> very quickly? Yes. We'll get through graduation and we'll and then we'll set this uh meeting up and we'll probably do something virtual just for convenience for everyone. >> Any other questions regarding EIC policy? Uh so this next agenda item, it's not for approval yet, but it is a discussion item discussion of policy on criminal background checks for schoolboard candidates. That was an item that one of our trustees recommended or requested that it be put on here. Uh, Miss Evette, you want to talk about this a little bit on why you um, basically what I wanted to do is I wanted to inquire if we were able to put something in the reference to um, basic background check. I had spoken to somebody from Tazby legal and they suggested that if
107we were to do this, it was possible that we do this, but it would have to the verbiage would be basic background check, not something to where we go, you know, extensive into it. Now, according to what I have in front of me, we're not able to do that. So my question would be what can we do to prevent an incident that we've previously previously had before to happen again >> from happening? >> Well, um >> is is he responding? >> Okay. So >> he's logging on. So Juan Cruz is going to log on. Um, this was before you were on the board event, but >> all of us I mean we we're just expected to tell the truth in my opinion. Um, I don't think that's ever happened before. Do y'all remember that ever
108happening before what happened this last time? >> I respect your opinion because I I agree with you that I think that we should do that, but what's what's the line, right? What Yeah, I know. And I mean and for me it's kind of like just to pretty much be sure that you know like anybody you know teachers have you know pretty much just basic you know uh just so we're not having any violations of >> you know substantials >> well that's the situation that happened this last time but at that point system >> and it's unfortunate that we can't do If I come in, I'm putting myself out there >> for perjury >> but then if we're not there's no way or anybody holding them accountable or even checking. we're just going to take their
109word for it, which we could have somebody who has a record of, you know, something with children and we don't know, but because nobody's checked on it and they're sitting on the board representing our district, >> you know, so that's kind of my concern. >> Well, we have one. >> We received legal advice. Oh, I we can't hear you yet. One, hold on a minute. >> Can you hear us, sir? >> Okay, there you go. Yes. Well, good evening. I I just want to address I guess the memorandum that was sent on I believe there was a request as to whether or not a school board can impose a criminal history background that wants to consider to be a school board. And as you know you have a court case that was addressed by the
110San Court of Appeals. In that case basically the the court has said that is the legislature through enactment of the statuto requirements that prescri for candidates to run for school board election. And Statute is pretty clear in terms of the requirements and to go beyond the statuto requirements would not be advisable because if a candidate were to apply and be rejected because he or she does not want to go through the criminal background checks if challenged in court then the school district would most likely lose based upon case Um, moreover, because it's permanent statute that you have those legal requirements and that's all that the legislature has enacted to date going beyond expose the school district to uh legal fees as a result of a potential judgement action that could be fought against the school
111board or the school district. Um, so you know I know obvious concern and what has happened in the past with people that have applied for school or candidates have not been 100% you know accurate or um application but to that I think the response would be obviously to do what is has been done which is qualify the person know that they do have a criminal offense that allow them to sit on the school board. Um, number two, anybody obviously that has somebody talking about this that they do something in a government document that they could potentially be exposed to a criminal action by any individual citizen that would want to file a criminal complaint against them for So, um, you know, that's what a nutshell and I'm sure if you had other questions or what
112else I can maybe answer. >> Well, Mr. Cruz, um, thank you for joining us. First of all, um, I do want to ask then, how would we be able is there are there any kind of measures that we could take to be able to maybe prevent something like that from happening? Because this last time that it did happen, it was plastered all over the news. it didn't kind of put us in a good light, you know. So, we can't expect the honor code to be, you know, with everybody who's going to be wanting to be a candidate, you know. So, if we're having somebody who has an offense against a child and they're sitting up here on the school board, how are we supposed to verify that nothing like that has happened? I mean, so
113it's just going to be okay that they just sit on the school board and you know, if nothing's ever said because nobody's ever checked or it's never been checked by anybody, you know, I mean, we're just going to go by the honor code and have somebody who's taking offense to kids who's not supposed to be near kids sitting on the schoolboard representing us. >> So, two two things for that. Number one is obviously work with state representatives to change the law that would allow you to um basically check the criminal background checks of individuals. That's that's the number one thing that could happen. Um you're obviously working up against another session pretty soon. So that could be something that you know we can assist with to say you know this is the priority for this
114is what has happened. black eye for our community and we need to change the laws to allow school boards across the state, not just in anywhere to check the background because right now um basically I guess any school board right now could be comprised of exactly of what you're saying people that may have backgrounds that may not be known to others. We as school districts all we have the do is check the four corners of the application, make sure that all the boxes are filled in and at that point for the school board. That's really what the election code um has authorized us today to be able to do to go further than the application and do more background and look into individuals whether There's a lot of people that say, "Hey, why do school
115corporate members owe taxes? We should not have them on." Well, that's that's not by state. We have not been able to regulate that yet. So that's something that's you know those those type of backgrounds in terms of taxes criminal we're not able to to go into it at this point because that's what the you know law is pretty narrow for school districts. Yeah, I can understand that taxes and stuff. DWI is, you know, another thing, but I'm any concern with anybody representing our district as far as being on the school board and having some sort of violation, you know, with an offense with a child that should not be near a child or anything in that matter, you know. I mean, if they have a felony, you know, that's another thing, but that's really a
116real big concern of mine because then, like I said, you know, not everybody's going to go with the honor code and have ethics, you know, to where they say, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and, you know, do this and oh yeah, they're not going to look into it anyway. So, and then here we have somebody up here that's going to be doing this and close to kids who's not supposed to be near them. You know, that's one of the biggest concerns I have on that. Well, I mean I would echo 100% what you're saying. They've taken a lot of measures to educators, volunteers, consultants that have criminal background checks to improper conduct for students to be able to be employed or serve as consultants and governor. He has noted that priority to
117school boards. I think also because people are not advocating for that. But I I could assist the school district in writing the state. We would need to get to sponsor that because that is 100% I think I would get on board with that. Why would you want to have something that has a child defense on school board, right? That is something wheat say you're Democrat or Republican. So, you know, school board may directly to a senator. Mr. Cruz, I think also what Miss Boos is is referring to because I know that discussion that we had prior when this situation happened basically and this I I believe this is for any elected office where you um you basically state on there that you have not been convicted of a felony. And I I believe that's for
118any any elected office that you um want to run for. So, as far as that, you know, that that's I think where she's kind of leaning towards where you obviously are not being truthful in that manner and on the the direction that it went to with our last schoolboard election um with basically not being truthful on that document. Um possibly committing perjury on that document. Um, that's where I think this is coming from. I'm correct. Where the felony offense and lying on the document to um to run for office is what she's wanting to to get. But I I I after reading what you sent, I totally agree. And you know, that's just something that it's unfortunate, but we'll have to work with our state legislators. >> Yeah. What we can do is put it
119in more black and white documents in Texas 37. We have that in a lot of applications for students um in some school districts where people documents. So we kind of have to So you can kind of do the same with your school application. >> And I think >> yeah, that would be a start. I mean, I don't know if that's >> Yeah, I think that would be >> that I think that would be something to look into. I think that in itself would keep us away from breaking the law on our end as far as what you're you're referencing in these as far as these cases, >> but also it's unfortunate, but having that >> maybe advise them and I'm sure the community will be aware of what happened last time that this can potentially
120happen if proven that you falsified the documents obviously because we we had to disqualify a candidate um for the last election because of that issue. But but um You know, I think that would be something so that we won't have to move forward and with these background checks, just making them aware prior to the situation. >> Yes, >> absolutely. And I think that's something that some school districts do have forms when they are signing up for school. one board meeting a month because I think a lot of people sign up for school and number two also talk about the laws that school boards and number three in the requirements andifications of being a school board member. So that's something that we can work on. But you know this could work on changing a little bit
121of the statute andbody knows. >> Yeah, I'll I'll get a hold of her. >> No problem. I'll get a hold of her, sir. Thank you so much for your assistance. Yes, absolutely. >> Thank you, sir. >> Thank you, Juan. Thank you for logging on. >> Enjoy your dinner, sir. >> Thank you, sir. >> Uh, next item on the agenda, action item. First action item, discuss and consider SB546, whether district budget allows for the purchase of buses with threepoint seat belts. Dr. Quick. >> Thank you, Madam President and trustees. You recall in a previous board meeting, we discussed uh Senate Bill 546, which is strengthening the standards for school bus uh seat belts, specifically requiring that all school buses are equipped with a three-point seat belts for every passenger and every driver. We have until September
1221st, 2029 for that to happen. Now, u said that last time and I remember we talked about it last time. You're right. You're right. Um I want you to look at this document here. This is the report we're required to submit. This particular piece uh Senate bill requires a board determination of the feasibility fiscally to take on the entire purchase of new buses that do not have uh the three-point seat belts or the retrofit. So, I'm going to invite uh Ron Lauer uh to do part of this, but I'm going to do the first part uh of this seat belt cost reporting form. Okay, I'm going do that with you all real quick. The first step you see is does the local LEA, the local education agency provide buses for students? Yes, we do. So,
123we're going to continue. Now, you look at compliance. Are all the buses used to transport students, whether contracted or owned, fully equipped with threepoint seat belt buses as required by the Texas Transportation Code? The answer is no. So now we're here tonight to go to step three. Has the district's board determined the purchasing that purchasing buses equipped with three-point seat belt fits within the district's budget? Okay. So, I want to tell you we have 10 buses that are going to require the threepoint seat belts. 10. That is a cost of about $1.5 million. Where do you get that number from? Remember, we bought three buses two years ago, $150,000 a piece. Right now, if we go through this process again, let's let's go through step four, Mr. L. Let's kind of walk them through um
124Yeah, that's retrofit, which is less expensive. We're going to get to that part here. Yes, sir. So, we look at the bus ownership type. All we own all of our buses. We don't contract. Now, I want to go through the bus type and seat belt status of each bus. We have We have 14 buses. Mr. Lover will pick it up from step five. >> Okay. Uh we we have 14 buses. Like Dr. Quick said, currently of the 14, four of our buses are the three-point seat belts. So, four of them are obviously the three new ones that we purchased. One of our other buses already had the three-point seat belt. Uh, four of the buses have the twopoint, the ones that come right across your lap. They currently come with that. So, that's our special
125needs bus and our two activity buses. So, two special needs and two activity buses. Of the remaining six, they do not have seat belts. So, um, those are the ones that we have to target. Like Dr. Quick said, there are 10 of them. Uh obviously some of them are cheaper than the others, right? The smaller bus would be cheaper than the larger buses. Um the total the some of the some that have the three seat belts or no seat belts is zero, right? Because they either do or don't. And then some of the seats that have lap belts, uh others with no seat belts, they're also zero. So, the total, if you move on to step six, the cost estimates, uh, the total retrofit, which you were saying is $331,000. Where I got that number
126from is I did get a hold of, uh, Rush, who is one of the the the people we bought the buses for, that's who retrofitting some of the buses throughout the state, and they sent me quotes. So, we added those numbers up, and that's what it came to. >> And these threepoint seat belts are required to come across the chest. >> Yes. Yes. instead of the lap. >> Right. So it' be both, right? >> With both, right? The lap and >> Yeah, it's the lap and >> and the car. >> Yes, sir. >> Um the number of buses that are affected through warranty, zero, right? Because we've had our buses for so long now. And the ones that have warranty, well, they have seat belts already. So, it wouldn't affect any of that. >> So,
127based on um the cost estimate and the potential to um deplete our fund balance if we were to try to be in compliance with our own uh monies. Uh, I want to recommend that, uh, the board make the determination in accordance with the Texas Transportation Code 547.701 as amended by the Senate Bill 546 of the 89th Texas Legislature, that the school district does not have the financial feasibility in the district's budget to support the purchase of 10 new school buses equipped with the three-point seat belts. Now, that's the recommendation we want to make based on the cost estimates. These cost estimates have to be submitted uh through a portal for TEA by May 29th. Now, what we said last time, this is a guide book from TEA. Um there will be some grants available for
128this and we have to be notified by January 1st, 2027 of the availability of some of those funds according to TEA. >> So, um I wanted to make that recommendation based on analysis. And if I may, sir, kind of like fencing, remember when fencing was a big ticket item, they offered grants and things like that. I think this is going to be the same way. >> I was I was wondering, sir, when you mentioned fencing, but um if any grants under the safety part, I know this is transportation, but >> maybe any grants under safety would be able to >> I I don't think so because they're two different >> safety, you're right. I would that's a good question to ask and >> because I understand it's transportation but >> chief would you do you
129think or foresee that any grants would on the safety side would help us in in regards to purchasing a bus because of the the new requirement the new requirement for the seat belts as far as safety I mean I'm just curious >> Dr. Mr. Madron may know >> if we can pull from >> the seat belt on the bus. >> The seat belts now. >> I'm just curious because because that that also that's actually where I learned about this initially >> that it was coming and it's here. So that's a good question >> that we don't have the funds to to purchase >> right >> to determine that we don't have the it's not feasible for our school district to buy new buses. We're going to retrofit. >> Now a grant opport I'm going to
130read from the guide book from tea. A grant opportunity will be made available to eligible school systems after reporting closes. Notifications will be sent by email through Sentinel. >> That's May 29th, you said, sir. >> Yes. Yes, sir. >> It doesn't mean that. No. >> No. >> It's just I guess giving us um like letting them know that we don't have them because we have to a certain date to purchase it, but we don't have the money. So, now we have to. >> But the deadline to submit this paperwork is May 29th of this month. So >> of this year, sorry. >> Well, >> he has a if you want to read the motion, that's the way you can read the motion. >> On behalf of On behalf of Mr. Um, Madam President, I'd like
131to make a motion that the board determine in accordance with Texas Transportation Code 547.701E1 as amended by the Senate Bill 546 of the 89 Texas legislature that the district does not have the financial feasibility in the district's budget to support the purchase of 10 new school buses equipped with the three-point seat belts. >> I have a first by Mr. Marine, a second by Mr. Messa. Any questions or discussion? >> Correct. >> Yeah, it was his recommendation. It's the motion. >> Uh Dr. Qu, the 10 buses that you're that we're going to retrofit, are they all in service right now? >> Yes, >> we use all of them. >> Yes, ma'am. Okay. >> Which one? >> Bus 17. >> What happened to 17? >> It hasn't run and >> since I way before May. >> So,
132that's the one you'all got going again. >> Not that not that one yet. That was in our later project. I stand corrected. >> Are we going to three point that one also? >> Um I mean I think so. I think >> we can we can get >> But that's in the number though. That's in the number. Okay. I'm sorry. >> Thanks for the verification. We can get our mechanical. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> We've been stripping that >> by the end of the week. Yeah. >> We've been stripping that. >> Yeah. But it's in the numbers of the of the 14th. >> So there's one that we don't use. >> Okay. >> Madam President, we have a first and a second to approve um action item A. Mr. Alos >> I >> Mr. Gantu
133>> Hi >> Mr. Hi >> M Garza >> I >> Miss I Mini >> Mr. Mesa Motion carries >> thank you Mr. Martinez. Next item. Discuss and consider approval of an order canvasing the returns and declaring the results of a bond election. We >> Okay. At this time, do any of the board members present at today's canvas wish to examine any of the election returns or have any questions about the conduct of the elections up for the staff? No. At this time, I will read the results. Uh, early votes in person for 281 against 335 early votes by mail absentee ballots 46 against 26. Early I'm sorry. Election day votes for 128 against 171 totaling four 415 and against 532. Under votes if any 58 total votes cast of 105 provisional ballots if any counted
134zero uncounted zero. Do I read the whole thing or just that? >> So um do I have a motion to canvas the results of the May 2nd 2026 bond election? I have a motion. >> Have a first by Mr. Marin. >> I have a second by Miss Vobos. >> Any questions or discussion? >> I do just want to say something. Um after the election was held um after the results about maybe two or three days later, I got over 20 phone calls of people apologizing to me saying that they are sorry they didn't believe me. But I guess everybody went and they went to go do research and they figured out or they spoke to somebody that um it was not going to be a tax increase. That was just state verbiage. U we tried.
135I'm proud of us for putting it out there on our ballot for our community to decide. I feel if we do this again, we need to do a better job um going going out there. Um I mean we we got to wish we I wish this would have passed. Unfortunately, it didn't. So now we have work to do, which is fine. I'm not angry. I'm I'll never disrespect the community. I respect the vote of the community. I just wish we would have done a better job >> to get the to get it out there. >> I just want to pay back off that just to, you know, reiterate as you mentioned, Miss Garza, that if this does come again that we could do this um to let the community know that all seven of us
136have the best interest of the district >> and not only the district, but our community. Um we all live here and we had four or five attorneys that we spoke with um administration here, you know, did day in day out, you know, for about two or three weeks just speaking with attorneys um you know, making sure that all our, you know, we everything was our ducks were in a row and that it was going to be beneficial to that. And I think we did put the message out there. Um, you know, but again, just respect democracy and just know that because this didn't pass, the work doesn't stop and we're the best interests of our kids and our community, our staff. Um, at this moment, we're just be more efficient with how we're spending our
137money, but um, again, we're here for the best interest of our community and the students. So, >> that's what it is. Yes, sir. >> Anybody else? M we have a first and a second to approve action item B. Miss Gables >> I. >> Mr. Ku. >> Mr. Gos. >> Miss Garza. >> I. >> Myself. I Mr. Hi. >> Mr. Messa. Motion carries on action item B. >> Thank you. Trustees. Next item. Discuss and consider approval of special education series RFP. Dr. Quick. >> Thank you, Madam President and trustees. This is uh fairly routine, but I'd like to just uh educate you all on this particular actually the next two items. I'm gonna invite Mrs. uh CEOs to come up kind of walk through why these are on here. There's a little history here that maybe
138not everyone knows about. Metals is excited about coming up. Like is he really calling me up? >> Good evening me madam president, members of the board. Um the last RFPs that were done were back in 2020 and usually it's just a good timing like the RFPs were for a sixyear term and we renew every year. So any During those six years, you're not happy, you have the opportunity to get out of the contracts. But it's just a good practice to go out for bids every now and then just to make sure we're getting the best prices for the services that we need. And this time, the ones that are up are for our workers comp insurance and our special ed uh services. >> Thank you, Miss Dr. Quinn. Your recommendation. >> Uh I recommend we
139approve as presented. >> Trustees, do I have a motion? I have a first by Mr. Messa, >> second by Mr. Mukin. Any questions or discussion? >> We have a first and a second for action item C. Miss Valos >> I. >> Mr. Ku. >> Mr. Goss. >> Hi. >> Miss Garza. >> I. >> Myself. I Minim. >> Mr. Messa. Motion carries. >> Thank you, trustees. Next item, discuss and consider approval of workers comp RFP as discussed by Miss. >> Thank you, Madam President. Exactly as Mrs. Cos. So, uh, succinctly put, I'd like to recommend as presented as well. Thank you, Mr. >> I'll make a motion that we approve action item D. >> I have a first by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Min. Any questions or discussion, sir? So, whenever the RPs come in,
140we're going to approve the >> correct. >> Okay, >> no more questions. >> Mr. Martinez, >> uh, first and second for action item D. Miss Fobos. >> I, >> Mr. Ku. >> Mr. Gos, >> hi. >> Mr. Scarza >> I >> myself I Mr. Minim >> Mr. Messa >> motion carries >> thank you trustees next item close session do I have a motion >> I'll second >> have a first by Mr. Mukin second by Mr. Martinez >> we have a first and a second to go into close session at 758 Missos >> I >> Mr. Ku >> Mr. Gos >> M Garza >> I >> myself I Mr. Morin >> Mr. permissive. >> The board will now convene in close session in pursuant to sections 551.074 of the Texas government code. The board will adjourn
141into close session for the purpose of considering the appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Thank you. Second by Mr. Mesa. >> We have a first and a second to reconvene to regular session. Mr. Globos. >> I. >> Mr. Gantu. >> Hi. >> Mr. Gos. >> Hi. >> Miss Garza. >> Hi. >> Myself. I Mr. Marin. Mr. Messa. And now our read. >> Next item on the agenda. We are now in open session. Discuss and consider approval of appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Dr. Pig. >> Thank you, Madam President. Trustees. would like to recommend as discussed in closed session. >> Have a first by Mr. Maruki, second by Mr. Mesa. Any questions or discussion? >> We have a first and a second to approve. Um,
142>> I miss Mr. GU. >> Hi, >> Mr. Goss. >> Hi, >> M. Garza. >> Hi, >> myself. I Mr. Mimi, >> Mr. Mesa, >> Motion carries. >> Next item on the agenda, adjournment. Do I have a motion? >> First by Mr. GGO second by Mr. Ku. >> Any questions or discussion? >> First and a second to adjourn at 8:46. Miss Alavos. >> Hi. >> Mr. Ku. Hi. >> Mr. Goss. Hi. >> Miss Garza. Hi. >> Myself. I Mr. Morin. Hi. >> Mr. Mesa. Hi. >> Meeting adjourned. Thank you everyone. It was a great meeting.