Regular Board Meeting - June 16, 2025

001Notice hereby given that a regular meeting of trustees of the Rockstone Independent School District will be held on Monday, June 16th at 6 p.m. in the boardroom of the Robson Administration Building, 801 North First Street, Rocktown, Texas, at which time the agenda item will be discussed. In the course of the meeting, the board may change the order of business at its discretion without advanced notice. The first item on the agenda order is present. Eric is present. Lorie Gar not with us at the M moment. Bobby Mari. Next item on the agenda, moment of silence. Mr. Pra, would you like to lead us in prayer, sir? Yes, ma'am. Please bow your heads with me. Father, we thank you Lord for making us one. And Lord, in a world filled with so much division and hostility, you

002have called us to live differently. And Lord, we pray that you will allow us to live differently. And Lord, lead us to live differently by being agents of reconciliation right here in the boardroom and out in the world. We ask this in your son's name. Amen. Thank you, Dr. Quake. Next item, pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation with liberty and justice for all the flaggible. Thank you everyone. Next item on the agenda. Our vision and mission statements. Vision. Our vision is to unite business and impact lives by providing transformative learning opportunities that empower students for generations to come. Our mission statement to empower, inspire, and invest in our students and staff, igniting the best version of themselves. Together, we positively

003impact our community and the world. Thank you, trustees. Next item, public participation. No, no public participation. Thank you, Miss Sag. Next item on the agenda, awards and recognition. Dr. Quake. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, at this time, we'd like to invite Katrina Al to lead us through the recognition ceremony this evening. Uh, for the record, Mr. King at 603. Good evening, Madame President, board of trustees, and Dr. Today we have two um sections of recognition and the first one is going to be our heart of gold recipient and for the first time we have a student receiving the heart of gold recipient um who is um a third grade student at Robert Driscoll STEM Junior Academy and um his name is Roel Garcia. Roel, if you could come up. I know he just got here.

004[Applause] All right. So, this is Mr. Roel Garcia and I'm going to share a little story about what he did to receive this honor. So, uh Roel saw a fellow classmate choking during lunch and he immediately took action without hesitation. Um with remarkable calmness, Roel administered some back blows and successfully dislodged the and allowed the classmate to start breathing again. So, his quick thinking and selfless actions prevented a potential emergency. And um Roel, acts of kindness like this and thinking selflessly is what it's all about. So, we just want to congratulate you and thank you for being so [Applause] um I'm gonna take your picture now with our school board and our superintendent. All right. One, two, three. Continuing with some recognitions this evening are recognitions from our UIL state solo and ensemble medalist. Um

005we have a few of them here today and I will call them all here. I'll call them out first and so if you're here if you want to just step to the center um and then I'll we'll take a photo. So, Isaac Garcia earns a silver medal for his trombone solo. Damian Rodriguez earned silver medal for his tuba solo. Keani Kunga earned a silver medal for his keyboard percussion solo. Uh, the French horn quartet was Sonia Tobias, Sora Tobias, Jaylen Eskel, and Alberto Okalas. They earned a bronze medal. Jaylen Eskez received a gold medal for her French horn solo and Sonia Tobias earned a gold medal and also was awarded the prestigious outstanding performer award medal placing her among the top two to three% of musicians in the state. So um thank you all so

006much [Applause] I know it's not solely you all but your band directors as well. So, thank you all so much for, you know, just the the effort and hard work that it goes to put into these musicians. I don't know if you want to say a couple of words. Sure. I'm going to read a letter from you, director. Perfect. Yes. I'll make this quick. Okay. Uh, good evening, uh, board, honored guests. Um, so like I said, I do want to acknowledge all our solos. We are in summer break and students, you know how it is in the summer, you know, they're, uh, out and about and kind of hard to find them. Isaac did graduate. So, um, you know, but I do want to commend Demian. I was there for his tuba solo. Did a

007great job on it. He got a silver medal. Um, and then SA here and Sonia were part of a French horn quartet. They did get a first division. The other two members were freshman. One of them was uh Jayen Eske and Albert Okanyas. And we also do want to congratulate Kone on his uh percussion uh multi keyboard solo uh who got a silver. And Jay Lynn as a freshman did get a first division on her solo, but uh you'll notice that Sonia is wearing two medals uh and they are the the same state champion medals that are given to all UL uh state champions. So um it's pretty significant what we're seeing here probably once in a generation. But I do want to just read a very short letter uh from the director of music,

008Dr. Bradley Kent. Uh he sends this letter to Sonia and it says, "On behalf of the University Inter Interscolastic League, please allow me to congratulate you for being selected as an outstanding performer at the 2025 Texas State Soul Ensemble Contest. Of approximately 100,000 students participating in the regional UA music contest and the thousands of musicians who perform at the TSSEC, only 2 to 3% of solo performances earn the distinguished honor of being recognized as an outstanding performer. This achievement is truly a mark of musical excellence. In recognition of this honor, please exel accept the enclosed draped gold medal. The medallion is identical to those awarded to state champions in all you all events wearing with pride. Awards of this nature do not come easily and reflect the efforts of many individuals. Your parents, school, and

009teachers are to be commended for their contribution to your success. I encourage you to share this honor with them. At the same time, remember that you alone through your own talent, dedication, and hard work make this accomplishment a reality. I extend to you my personal best wishes for continued success as you strive for musical excellence. Sincerely, Dr. Bradley Kent State, uh, director of music for UIL. So um once again uh we also want to acknowledge Sonia's parents. Okay. Uh give her to as well. So uh once again we want to congratulate Sonia and I told her after I give her the medal she's bye-bye. She's going to go to uh TCU and on a full scholarship and study music. So we're very very excited as she represents our hometown. So Sonia, congratulations. [Applause] Yes. Go.

010All right, here we go. One, two, three. [Music] [Applause] While they're taking their last photos, I just want to um congratulate our musicians and Roel just to continue doing heroic things. All right, Roel. All right. Thank you. That concludes the recognition. [Music] Mr. Real quick, uh, Mr. Garciano, just real quick, thank you for saying just a moment. I just want to thank you again in a in a moment where seconds count. The fact that you were able to stand up and do what you did, we We be with pride and that is an incredible thing especially at your age for you to step up like that. That's incredible. Nice. Well, good for you. Really proud of you. We're all proud of you. Thank you. [Applause] Next item on the agenda, president remarks. And so I

011just want to thank the board for um not only taking the time to attend the leadership institute this past weekend in San Antonio, but also for just engaging and I think that we had a lot of good teamwork. We had a lot of team building, which I love because I can talk a tree away. So I just want to personally thank you guys for um for you know the camaraderie and the fun times and the respect and the leadership that we all showed this past week. Uh we did present u it was Dr. Quig, myself and Cesa mainly but it really was a team effort. So uh Cesa would you like to say anything or Dr. Quig or anyone if anyone would like to say anything about our our session? I just want to first

012of all say it's it's always an honor to to share Rob's message but um to all all the board you know we were all there and afterwards I know some board members came and spoke to several of us they had a lot of good takeaways from our from our session so again you know they they asked us we're going to present again next year but um you know it's great to see that they that they can take some of what we do um even with our imperfections you know they they go back and they can take it to their district and show that you know kind of how they can do better in terms of it's great to see people looking at your so I will be the first what did we say a couple

013sessions ago we're not presenting again this is the last one and then when we were having lunch what did I say so next next but a lot of people did ask I'm sorry to interrupt you ma'am but they did ask um you know as I said at the at the session um people there's always you there's always going to be some kind of division somewhere there's always going to be disagreement somewhere and as I stated there to all the boards that were there we're not the perfect board we do have our disagreements we're not always going to agree at one point but when we come together and we do focus on our vision that divisiveness you know we all we all come together as one and you know we we leave and we're not going

014to agree sometimes we disagree but they they asked us if we would do session next time on how do we manage that? How do we manage to disagree but still come together as one when it has students like um so if we a lot of deep so if we get selected if we get selected to do a session um you know I I personally would like all of us to have uh some kind of input in that because it really takes each one of us each one of us brings a different vibe to the board and um you know like I said with our profession with our disagreements. We all come together as one and students may focus and we do present more tokens. Not just five. Yes. There was 13. Thank you for saving.

015I kept I kept one that I gave away. I had a gentleman come to me after one of the session and he said I was there back in when Dr. E was there. I was the one in charge of Hback. He goes, "Let me tell you." He goes, "When I sat in the audience seeing those meetings, he says, "Wow, and here here y'all are now presenting to the host." That's that says something. That's impressive. Thank you. So, he didn't he didn't get it to be, but with what he said, I thank you, Michael. Anybody else? Thank you, trustees again for your time. Next item on the agenda, superintendent reports. Dr. Qu. Thank you, Madam President. And keeping the theme with celebrating the board, really the work of the board, there was a situation last year

016where I met a superintendent from a neighboring district as a daughter who was going through the certification program and successfully completed the certification program this year. And we told her, if you're, and by the way, the superintendent used to work here as a teacher. She said, "If my daughter finishes, I would love for her to have the opportunity to interview certainly honor her, give her opportunity to interview and we did. A year ago, we met and a year ago, a year later, we hired her. And so, we ran into her mother and her daughter at the an event and she gave us some cards. And I'd love you to read a card that she gave publicly because this is a beautiful thing as far as every trustee received one of these cards. Dear Rostown school

017board member, sorry. Dear Rostown ICDC board member, my name is Kathy Guutieres and you recently hired me to teach third grade reading at L Beach Elementary. I am forever grateful for the opportunity. Student growth is my priority and I will work hard to help our students grow academically and socially. Thank you for believing in me. schoolboard governance and really just the connection to folks to what we're trying to do for kids is moving. Uh I do want to do a quick update on a few calendar items. This Thursday at 1 p.m. we have a facilities meeting. Uh no, Thursday the 19th we have facilities meeting and that'll be a progress report with the architect that is M. Garza, Mr. Mark and Mr. Messa. I sent that out about a week and a half ago. The

018other item is a budget workshop. This Thursday, Madam President Call, we have a special meeting, a budget workshop to talk about the impact of the legislative session on budget. It's big for the folks listening around the world and the trustees listening and the adventurers every financial advisor know legislation legislation is big too, right? Uh also, uh summer school is ending this Thursday. administrators, y'all are excited. This is I see the look of summer school in your eyes. Um, and our official last day before the summer break, we'll close down and come back on July 7th will be uh the last day will be June 23rd. So after that, everyone will be practicing self-care. Mrs. Morales and Miss Flint, a lot of self-care. And on that day, the 23rd, I will be hosting a comprehensive legislative

019update. And we have a lot of bills to cover. I sent an invite I think to everyone in the district on that one. I included the on the last day on the last day. Of course. Well, you ready for a big boom when the governor has to approve everything on 22nd. So I couldn't do it before anybody veto something then makes makes us you know not speaking the truth. What time was that? 8:30 in the morning. I I sent an invite. I'll send another followup. And then and then uh just so we keep literacy at the forefront. We are moving the AL grant forward right now at lot speech. That is the innovative approach to literacy in libraries and it's amazing what's happening out there. Now there will be a big there's a lot of

020work this summer miss your team has helped with that too. But there will there will be a large library reveal in the fall. So hold on to your literacy hats. It's going to be good. Okay. That's the update for tonight. Thank you. your invite upate to the board as well. Yes, ma'am. I think you've already confirmed Mr. Thank you. Next item presentationformational items. Madam President, if we can I'm sorry. Um if we can move That's right. Um 11 11 A yeah that's discuss and take action on a resolution authorizing the assurance sale and delivery of RS independence code district maintenance tax note series 2025 securing the payment for authorizing the levy of an annual ador maintenance tax and approving the authorization execution of all instruments and procedures related to related there too that would be

021action 11A we can move it up to right before our presentation informationational items. I'd like to make a motion. Mr. Vice President, I'd like to make a motion to move 118 up before presentation. Motion Martinez have a second at this time. Uh Thank you trustes. This time I'd like to invite Mr. Robert Anita to come up walk us through this very very important transaction investment. Thank you Dr. Qu members of the board again until the record. Robert the financial consulting. We are school district's financial advisor and I'm here to present the final pricing presentation for the maintenance tax noter 2025. And you should have a hard copy in front of you, but just in case we have it up on the screen. On page two, we have the project amount roughly 3,500,000 for construction, renovation,

022maintenance, and repair for equipment and school facilities. This was just a portion to finance about 3 million five. I believe the district is having some skin in the game to say they're are using funds on hand to complete the other portion of the project. So this financing is not 100% to complete the project. It's a portion the district will be using cash on hand to complete it. Uh we have a cost of issuance roughly 65,000 total amount of 3,565,000. We started this process uh back on May the 12th. And on page three, we have the breakdown from columns right over here, we have the current outstanding M debt that consists of the series 2020 maintenance tax notes and last year principal and interest total also last year's maintenance tax notes that did districtwide roof repairs.

023Now we have the proposed financing for the 3,565,000 under maintenance tax series 2025 principal uh column. We have the interest in the total. It's a 15-year financing. We did receive three bids. We received Amig Bank, we received one from Huntington Bank, and we also received one from Capital One. Last year, we only received two bids. And it's part of it is the timing. The dollar amount may be too small of a financing amount. It may be too large or the term 15 years may be too long. So it isn't anything directly uh impacting the district. It's just some of the banks may not have an interest given either the amount, the term or the location. There may not be a bank close by to the school district. Some banks just passed. What we recommend is

024the winning bid of Amate Bank. This is the same bank that provided the winning bid last year. And the interest rate we're looking at is 4.75% as the first 10 years. They allow you, it's fixed for the first 10 years and reset year 11 through 15. The same scenarios last year. They allow you to pay it off at any time, refinance it at any time without any premium or penalty. The other two banks, Huntington Bank and Capital One, Huntington Bank had a 10-year call feature. You couldn't refinance it or pay it off for the first 10 years. And if you did, they're going to charge you 1% premium. So, if you refinanced it and you had $3 million left of principal, they're going to charge you an additional $30,000 to do the refunding or if

025you're going to pay it off, they're going to charge you an extra 30,000. Capital One said you could not refinance it or pay it off within the first eight years. So, again, amateur bank allows you the opportunity that if you come into a windfall or if interest rates drop, you can refinance it, pay it off. without any premium or penalty. So on the timetable again, we started this process back back on May the 12th and the bids were received earlier this morning on June the 16th. If this item is approved, Mr. Quig, Mrs. Snos will provide us, Dr. Quig will provide us with the account information and AMG Bank will wire the funds on July the 17th. If this item is approved, again, what you approved back on May the 12th was just to go

026ahead and start the process. Come back today for board consideration to approve the financing as financing. The financing team, we have Robtown Independence School District, financial advisor, bond council, FHN is the placement agent, the purchaser, payment agent, AMD Bank, and their attorney, Zion's Bank. Any questions from the board members? Dr. Quig. Well, I just want to thank you and your firm, Mr. Channing. There's we've been working on this for several months. Uh the board and myself, we've had several discussions including budget workshops about this important project. We know the fiscal constraints that came out of this last legislative session, including House Bill 19 that was a little scary there. This is a strategic investment. It will require us to make some important tradeoffs. But what I appreciate is you analyzing those three bits carefully and

027having that discussion about what makes the most sense for the taxpayers. So thank you for that. I appreciate it. Questions from the board staff. Just want to say thank you for your work. It can be very tedious. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. It's a pleasure to represent the school district and we appreciate the opportunity again to be part of your team. The hard work is done by the board members and staff his staff. Again, u there's a story to tell. We're just part of the process and it's being told by your superintendent uh who provided some information to the bank. So again, they see the numbers, they can tell the how the board represents the community. So it's kind of one of those things that they'll provide an interest rate bid on this

028opportunity to this financing. Thank you for finding something below 5%. Sir, thank you for Oh, you're welcome. I mean, it's not us. It's a reflection of your staff. Mrs. Smith knows putting good numbers. The audit, it's things like that that make sense. The rate that the district received last year was about 4.8%. So, it's a little bit lower. Uh the market is is a little shaky, but we think it was a really good opportunity to get three bids in versus two last year. Uh it put the district in a good spot. As Dr. Craig said, if we ever want to refinance, we have that opportunity. Rates drop. There's pressure for interest rates to drop here in the next 12 to 24 months. If that opportunity presents itself, I know your staff is going to be

029calling us to make sure we go out and seize the opportunity to save. And one more thing, Mr. At some point, we want to invite you back because I'd love the board to understand some of the dynamic we talked about regarding shifting funds from what that would take. These are long-term investments, but we do have to in the future. So, just want to put that out there, too. Yes, sir. Thank you, Dr. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to recommend uh the approval of the resolution authorizing the issuance of and delivery of the independent business school district maintenance tax notes series 2025 securing the payment thereof by authorizing the levy of an annual reward maintenance tax and approving and authorizing the execution of all instruments and procedures related thereto I have a first by Mr.

030I second it. Second by. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Thank you again. Appreciate the opportunity to represent you as your financial advisor. I hope everybody has a great summer vacation, great time off. If you need anything, don't hesitate to let Dr. Thank you. Have a great night. Thank you for sharing. Okay, Christiey's next item on the agenda, presentationformational items. Dr. Thank you, Madam President. At this time, we'd like to invite our esteemed nurse Chaveis up for the Rosd Chef Report. Mrs. Chavez. Hi. Hi, everyone. People and the board members. Um, good afternoon. Good evening. Actually, I'm here to do the Shaq report. I am so blessed. And I'm gonna use the word blessed a lot tonight on my report because if

031you really think about it, I came on to do director of nursing, right? But then I had to do party planning which has been fun. Uh this shack the resources that we have gotten over the past four years um has built community. I think the parents the people that the you know all the all the resources that we have it's been amazing it's been amazing I can tell you it's fun you guys have attended them and you know how how it goes um so I've added the mission the goals and the vision for the t-sh our vision our mission and our goals um to assist establishing um leadership and envision healthier Texans Every school district has to have a shack. And I can tell you that we have one of the best shacks that all

032around. I know we get called and how do you do this? How did you do that? I tell people go look on our website. All our videos are there, video recordings, our invites, how to, you know, I've been asked how do I get all these people out here? We've gotten so many people out here that people ask to be here. I know the last shack had a lot of presenters and it's kind of hard to turn people away. I don't want to turn people away with the information that they have. So because it's important it's important to build those relationships and continue having more and more of those resources. So we've been very blessed. Um so we involve of course the parents, the students and uh community members and that helps build the shack to

033what it is. Uh these are our current uh board people, our members and this group of individuals kind of says not all of them are there at all times but most of them are there and of course uh Mr. Havo presents and sometimes he invites um he gets he also is a key person in the community so he invites a lot of other people to our shacks which has been been amazing. Shaq is a resource. So what we cover is we look at all the physical education, the physical activity that goes on in the school, making sure uh it meets the standards, our wellness committees, um we make sure that we have um health resources and we have our flu shots, our flu um clinics, we have two this year. We have um advocacy. So

034if someone calls, if someone needs anything within our schools, we have the resources childhood building capacity. That's one of the biggest ones. Educate community members to be credible collective voices for our children, our students. And then nutrition, that's another big one. Um and of course campus safety. So these eight components of health education, health and safe school environment, counseling, our incredible counselors, our incredible social workers, um parents and community that comes the staff wellness promotion is super important. Our health services that we provide beyond just band-aids and fevers and vomiting and other things. Uh physical education, all these things that go on throughout the summer. Uh the nutrition services that we provide to the children also pass beyond the school year. We're required to at least have four meetings a year and we can have

035more. Uh it's just kind of time consuming to to get it all together to do all the things that we do plus still do my nursing. So you guys want to have um we've had these amazing speakers and guests. Of course, Dr. Baggerman, he's a like phenomenal person. Like we have him readily available on the Uh he helps us with anything that we need. If we need um advice on anything that's going on in the school or anything that's going on with a particular student, of course, with parents permission. Um our social workers, our food and nutrition, our coaching staff, our safety and security. And then all these other people that are listed on here are continuous. Um we are also very happy to have the students from the high school come and they pick

036a topic every month that they want to speak about. I every meeting they something that's important to them, something that's going on with them. So, it's very crucial to hear them and see what's important to them that's going on. Um, of course, these events right here that you can see here, the two flu clinics, the biggest one and the most fun was the breast cancer awareness walk. That was phenomenal. So, I know that there had been talk about maybe uniting with the city because the city had one and then we had one. So, can you imagine if we like mix them together and I don't know there we could do that. Uh mental health first aid, that's a really big thing that we um always focus on. All the um classes that we do. Burnout

037prevention was a one of the events that the social workers had. Thanksgiving meals that was nice. We get all the parents in the schools and it was was a success. The special Olympics was another big beautiful event. And summer food programs, like I said, they're going on now. And all these summer athletic programs that are happening. So those are kind of like the little extra things that Shaq kind of focuses on. What are we doing? What are we doing beyond the school day? What are we doing? Um so then we have this information here and it tells you about how I post my invites, where they should be, how long I have to post my minutes and and uh recordings. And then we have these goals for 2526 and that is to maintain or increase

038the participation of the parent, staff and community members in meetings, ensure school administrators attend all scheduled meetings, host an annual back to school health and resource fair, which I'm currently trying to work on to see if we can get a couple more physicals done, some immunizations, and um I'm trying to to see how that's going to work out. continue quarterly wellness activities and on-site vaccine flu clinics for staff. Provide security updates, which we have that at least twice per semester with input from the law enforcement, which we have a really good working relationship and district can tell you with our local PB, our fire, our EMS. Oh my gosh, our EMS, I can't thank them enough. They're there like in two seconds. They're amazing whenever we have an event or an emergency. um maintain coordination

039of care throughout uh monthly check-ins with healthcare partners. And then I know that um nutrition has up wanting to upgrade 75% outdated child nutrition services equipment by next year. I think that's something that he's working on. I'm not I can't really go into that because that's not my department. I just know that that's a goal for him. uh complete the trional assessment of the local wellness policy and that's when we kind of review our wellness policy and make sure that we're doing and I look at it and I know like we're doing all those things already but we have to do it collectively as a shack and go through it and fill it out and then present those results and then those are the references that I have my information from and then you can

040go on our website and go down to the health services department and then you can find all our shot information there. Any questions? Just a comment. Um, director Chavez, I'm just grateful for the heart and soul and careful preparation and planning and diligence that you give the SHA committee. I've been around a lot of committees. I've never had a better leader in check. Thank you. Thank you so much. I appreciate that very much. Thank you guys. Thank you. That was amazing, sir. Next item. Ros donations. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees is I You need help, sir? I might. You can go to the next item and come back. Okay. Next item on the agenda. Wait, I'm back. I'm sorry. Like all this paperwork up here, all this finance stuff here. Um, thank you, Madam President

041Trusties. We're excited. Uh, really grateful for the leadership. Celebrate leadership not only Chavez, but all the leaders here in the district that do so much behind the scenes to make stuff happen. Uh, one of the leaders I want to lift up is Rachel Dr. Mr. Dr. in the house. There you are. Yes, sir. Talk about careful planning and preparation. really willing sacrifice to make an event extraordinary, not just get one off the ground, but make it extraordinary takes a lot of effort in recruiting, donations, and sponsorship. And so, we want to recognize the Tech Connect sponsors that uh Mr. Madron was leading. We have HMH Platinum sponsor, $1,000. Magic School AI, gold sponsor, $750. School AI is a silver sponsor for $500. You teach PD silver sponsor $500 and school specialty has a bronze sponsor

042for $250. Takes a lot of courage to ask and a lot of tenacity and thank you for that Mr. D. Wonderful donations. Thank you. That's all the donations we have other. Thank you Dr. Ques. Next item, academic update, TIA update. Thank you, Madam President. Trusty. A little bumpy up here for me tonight for some reason. Let me see if I can get my stuff together. At this time, we'd like to invite the TNL department up. Belinda Aines and Josh Garcia are here to take the baton for Nadia, but she's not off the hook because this may be her last board meeting. So, we must give her a lot of time tonight. No problem. I already made a commentary for 30 years. Okay. Mrs. Aines and Mr. Garcia at some point tonight. I know Mrs. Silas

043will be also presenting and Rachel Lebrano. There's just a team up here with a great story to tell. So with that, DNL, the team is yours. And Mrs. Off the hook. Uh good evening. Um Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Quick, um we're here for the riveting academic update for June. Okay. Um so of course anything we do in teaching learning um always rooted between the vision and mission of Robson ISD. Um information items for tonight. We're going to be doing a summer school update. Um give you some numbers on attendance participation and then just share some some um remarks onto school. Of course we're going to share the in-class early screener summary for the end of year. Um Miss Alanise is going to be sharing our screen. EOC results and then of course

044we'll finish off with where we're at on professional development for the school year and for back to school and then we'll wrap up with the TIA update the teacher incentive a lotment. So starting off with summer school of course summer school started on June 2nd. We're on our final week as we alluded to earlier. Um what you see on the graph is on the red column week one. This is the average student participation for summer school. Um in the gray um is the week two participation. Um we want to point our direction into the second week. You do see a dip in participation. There were a few days uh a couple days where participation was a little bit low because of some storms in the morning. We saw some a dip in attendance for that

045reason. Um and I want to show you uh Robson College High School. their numbers are a little bit different because um as they're finishing their egeneuity classes, their acrual classes, um they're they're released from summer school. They don't have to to attend once they finish their their courses. So that's why there's a dip in the numbers there. Um so of course, Robert Driscoll Junior STEM Academy, we had 213 average student participation. Um San Pedro and the Lots Beach uh site as together hosting each other. um 227 down to 217. Uh Seal Junior High from 222 down to 203. Um and then of course uh the high school from 160 to 102. So that means students are finishing at Robert at at Rob Center College High School. They're finishing their courses. They're getting that credit. So

046kudos to the high school for that too. Um for on this next slide, what we have is the average weekly attendance p partic uh percentage I should say. Um for the uh Robert uh Robert Drisco Junior STEM Academy, we have about a 75% participation in attendance um versus how many students were were um invited. Um San Pedro and L Beach site averaging about 87 83% um attendance and then of course at Seal Junior High 84 to 77% attendance. Um again I didn't include um the high school because of that um change in attendance daily. Um so I didn't want to put a percentage because it kind of just the v it varies in in attendance. So we're showing students are are learning. Students are also um being active. If you see here we have u

047Mr. AJ Sales. He is um doing PE at Robert Driscoll Junior STEM Academy. We have um Debbie Sidano um there at Robert Driscoll Junior STEM Academy. What I want to show here um great great things happening at Seal Junior High. They are doing a novel study on Hunger Games. All six through eight students are their curriculum is revolving around a novel. So really looking at that literacy framework and that is a great great um testament to how we're putting literacy in the forefront at uh seal junior high as well. Of course we have our students here with the um the food service. We have our students here at the high school working on their edge lab and appears uh classes and just summer school is is a great time. Kids are having a great time.

048teachers are are happy and um you know that is the update on summer school. Any questions on summer school? No, I don't have any. Okay. So, moving over to MClass. So, of course, Mlass is our early screener for K5 uh kindergarten through fifth grade. Students do take a a um beginning of the year, middle of the year, end of year. Um, so this is a breakdown from last school year where we were on end of year and this school year on the bottom of each campus you'll see the 2425 end of year. So when we look at three columns here in the legend we have a bunch above benchmark at benchmark in green yellow is below benchmark and then red is well below benchmark. So when we look at the data, we really want to

049see that our red portion has a slant going to this way, meaning we're getting less well below benchmark when we're looking at their screeners. And then we want to see more of the blue, which is above benchmark, and we want to see more of the green, which is at benchmark. See, meaning kids are on level or above level. Okay. So when we look at San Pedro Fine Arts, we the last year 2023 2024, these are the scores that were well below benchmark, they were at a 56. This year they're at a 51 uh%. So growth there. We have some progress there in the well below. So we notice here all along this line, the line does seem to get uh shrink. The red is shrinking. So that shows progress. So we're really proud of that.

050Lots speech, we went from 50 to 49. And then of course, Robert Driscoll, we had 50% below benchmark all the way down to 46%. So great gains in in that in that column. Okay. Um this is our end of year-to-year comparison from last year to this year. Can I ask you a question real quick? That's percentage. That is so we don't know how many students are behind those numbers like students. We do know. Yes, we do. We we do have a breakdown by student. That's So can you tell me how many students it is from 50 to 46? I I don't have that exact number right here, ma'am, but I can get it to you. Okay. Okay. Question. What is this measure? Literacy. Yes. Yes. So, it's the progress measures like phmic awareness, letter name,

051sounds, um all it's the early literacy screeners. So, this this graph is of the from the beginning of the school year, this school year, this past school year 2425 all the way to end of school year, how we're doing on progress on that. So when they were screened at the beginning of the year versus how they ended the school year um at the end of the year. So San Pedro Fine Arts of course we want to pay uh put our attention on the well below we see this this slant going to the direction that we want and of course the blue above benchmark and at benchmark we're seeing more gains in the blue and the green which is a great sign great progress. Of course we'll have our um selro fine arts we had uh

05252 down to 41% uh 51% I should say. We were we stayed at the mark at 13 and above benchmark which is great. We we're keeping we're maintaining progress there. And lots we do see more of the blue from 8% to 14%. So more students are now above benchmark at the end of the school year there. And Robert Driscoll we had great gains in um above benchmark 17% up from 11% from last year at I mean the beginning of the school year for at above benchmark. So seeing a lot of great gains. the the progress is promising because, you know, we're we're putting our attention to that tier one instruction with the amplified curriculum. So, we're seeing a lot of great gains in the early literacy, which is going to be in turn giving us

053great gains as they go on um after elementary. Okay. Any questions on the MOI and EOI? You want to talk a little bit just briefly about the Amplify curriculum and how long we've been using in elementary? Yes. So the uh we just completed the second year in amplify of the curriculum for tier one tier one instruction. Of course the tier one instruction is what this what the teachers are delivering. Um this is kind of like a triad kind of situation where the tier one instruction is happening um when the the teachers will deliver the tier one instruction. Of course we also have our in-class intervention which is the tier 2 tier three for the students based on the the measures. If a student is measured well below, they are put into a group where they

054get that intervention to help support the tier one instruction. So, we're seeing a lot of gains in the tier one, you know, putting that focus in tier one instruction. We're seeing the gains going from beginning of the year at the end of the year. So, that's where the we're attributing that success to um putting our focus in the tier one instruction with amplify. So I want to show you um how we're getting recognized at the national level too from our numbers from our class and our early screeners. This is um I think it's in your packet uh board. If not it's uh it's on the side. Um this is a case study that was uh done for Robson ISD. It is being uh published through Amplify our provider. Um it is going to be on

055their marketing website to show the gains that Robson ISD has shown in in more particular first grade. So first grade showed a lot of gains from LA in last uh last last school year 22% all the way down all the way up to 44% from a from one from one beginning of the year to the end of the year. So what we what they did was they reached out they wanted to see what are y'all doing in Rostown? What is happening that y'all are getting all these gains in in our early screeners. So they they made a they made a reach out to us. they wanted to do a case study, share the impact story, and in the in your package is it is the actual published um case study that is going on their

056website and going to be shared with other school districts across the nation. And they they asked us kind of what what what was the what was the struggle? What was some of the things that we that we had when we when we implemented amplified last school year and how we went through those struggles and how we're getting to where we are today with the tier one instruction. So for your reading u pleasure there that is included there in your in your packets. Okay, I'm going to switch it over to Miss Alanise and she's going to go over EOC and uh EOC happening at the high school this week. I'm sorry because I'm short. Uh good evening uh Madam President, Dr. play against school board and members. I just want to piggy back off of Josh

057real quick because we're going to talk about it in a little bit, but the MClass data that he was going over, that's going to tie into our TIA um initiative that we're working on. So, we'll be talking about that. So, it is a big thing. It's not we're just testing kids, but it is going to be tied into our TA. Also, going um over summer school, we did um have our first testing. This is a schedule for this week. So, today we tested our English one. We had 56 students show up today and it was kind of a rainy day. Um so but we had 56 students come and these are our retesters. So these are those that took the test whether it was last year or this March and they have to retest it

058because you know for high school they have to pass the five EOCC's to graduate. Uh tomorrow we'll be testing algebra. Wednesday we'll be testing English one and Thursday we'll be testing biology and US history. and we do those two together because our number of nonpassers is really low. Um, so that's a good thing. We have a lot of passers in our biology and use US history. That's why we do those two uh tests together. And I know the anticipation of seeing our scores and this is just a reminder that these are preliminary scores because the final accountability scores will not come out until um August. Uh so these are just preliminary scores um based off and we always get the EOCC first and then we'll get the SAR 3 through 8 at a later date.

059Um so what we're looking at right now is our English one. Um we're really going to focus on um our tier one instruction. So our tier one instruction is going to be our first time testers which will be they sat in the class this year and then they tested this year. So when we're looking at our e our English one testers um in the red is did not meet. And so if you see the four, it's a positive four, but it I know it went lower, but that's a good thing. So that means that we had less students that did not pass. Um, and then when we look at our meats numbers, our I mean our approaches is the one in purple, we went up four points there. And then on our um m and

060our meats, we decreased by one point, but if you look at our masters, our masters is students that are going on and ready for the next level or for college entry. And that went up by two points. And those that's our domain one students. So that's for our English one. Are these percentages also? And I do have numbers behind the the percentages if you all need it. I would like Can you email us the number the number one? Okay. Yeah, I can email it to you. I have it on my on it's just hard because there'll be a lot of numbers to go over, but I can get that to y'all as well. Um on our English two. Now, our English two is unfortunately is probably our biggest struggle that our students have and this

061is the test two that we do have the most retesters in. Um, but if you look at our uh did not meet students, it did go up 6%. I six yeah 6% and our approaches went down 6%. Our um ma our meats went down 13% and our masters stayed the same. So yes, this is our hardest um test that we have on our students. So it was just kind of revamping it and trying to get these students to get um on grade level on our English too. On our algebra, this one was great. On our did not meet, we went down by five students. I mean 5%, sorry. At our approaches level, we went up 6%. So that's 6% of students at our at level. And then our meats went up 3% but our M's

062level went up six percent. So that is a big jump and a big increase. Yeah because we want more students because when we start looking at accountability numbers remember everybody that gets approaches is one point meets is two I mean sorry approach is one point and meets is two points and then our masters will be three points when we look at it in our accountability. So the more that we have on our meets and masters number, the better off we'll be on our accountability when we start looking at those numbers later. Um our US history um we went down or sorry we went up two points but then on our approaches we went down two points but on our meats we went up 7%. So that's a big jump. This is where we want to

063see our jumps is on our meats and masters. So we went up 7% on our meats and we went up 2% on our masters. So that's where we want to see them on our biology numbers. And I do want to point out this year on our biology, we had a brand new teacher in our science department at the high school. So kudos to her um and the other biology teacher because they really knocked it out in biology this year. So if you look at our did not meets, we went down uh 6%. We went up 6% in our approaches. We went up 7% on our um meets. So if you're looking at that, we're almost at 90% on our approaches level and then 7% on our meats. And then our masters, we went up 3%.

064So that was a big jump in our science numbers. So that's I mean that's a good job out for those teachers. So like I said, this is just a prel preliminary domain one u report. Any questions on those before we move on to the next level? I think the comment I would like is as far as a number of percentage so that we can see the actual increase. Yeah, I have it right now. Maybe I can email it to y'all as soon as we're done or whenever you're available like share that with y'all. Next. Good evening. Uh talking about professional development support that we're offering this summer and throughout the school year. I am going to start at Tech Connect 2025. You all have an invitation at your chair. We would love for you guys

065to come out. Uh we offer we're going to offer actually close to a hundred different sessions at this tech connect and we're covering everything from Canva 101 to artificial intelligence prompting and how to use artificial intelligence in the classroom and also just in different work environments. Right now we have over 206 people registered to attend our conference this year which is over a hundred more than where we were two years ago. and we have 13 different districts that are joining us as of right now. So, we're very excited about this event and it is July 31st. It's the day before new teacher orientation. Uh the other things I will be supporting and of course any of our curriculum, our egeneuity throughout the summer and then throughout the school year. And I'm going to turn it

066over to Mr. Garcia to talk about math RLA and what we have in the plan. Okay. So um I think it was last month we shared a little bit about the uh what how what we already have in the development but I wanted to um revisit this because we have added additional support. Um if you notice in the map column there are two um two of the bullets are with a star that means we've added that um to our plan too. Um so we were awarded a second round of grants for math additional support for math. So, we're working um with our providers for blue bonnet 6 through algebra 1 with the service center for ES2 ESC2. I just got off of Zoom today to revamp that plan in accordance with the grants. Now, we're

067going to be adding additional visits from the service center for additional support for our math from sixth grade all the way to algebra 1 um with the service center. So, we're working on that contract and that'll be coming to you um to the board on the Thursday meeting. Um in your packets also, it's an an action item. We're also looking at Blue Bonnet Math K5. It's an agreement with um Great Minds, the the provider for additional support for K5 math. That's going to be our visits with them. They have a great program of support coaching with them that are going to they're going to be coming in to help us with PLC, help coaching our teachers, help coaching our our instructional leads to to better, you know, get the get the instruction a little bit

068um on par with the with the instruction and the curriculum. um RLA support of course we have our amplify 6 through8 facilitated PC in coordination with the service center of course still implementing for math and reading and then at the high school we're going to continue with writable and introduce quill um to help with those grammar and mechanics of course for looking at English 2 looking at English one for EOCC um in the Hopper we also are looking at our blended learning grant um we're going to be hopefully partnering with a with you PD um to get service and coaching for blended learning learning for our teachers in undergoing the blended learning initiative um through UT teach. So that's an offer that's what we're working on right now and of course still looking at exploring

069our support for Amplify K5. Any questions? So I do want to point out that um everything for Blue Bonnet, all the materials, all of that stuff is already in. We have it all all at at at Ortiz. we're we're going to be introducing that out. We're already making the plans for the support for math. We're making the the plans for Harley. So, day one when teachers are here, everything's going to be there for them. So, we're really excited that we're this early in the year that we already got everything kind of already situated for, of course, math and RLA. And so, on day one, even for curriculum writing in the summer, we have the materials for them. We have the materials coming for RLA already. So, everything is all in the in the run for

070day one for our teachers. So we're super excited to have everything um fall into place and getting ready for them for our first day. Um Mr. Can you explain what blended learning is? Yes. So blended learning is a new initiative that um of course we got awarded the last three blended learning grant. Blended learning is just a different type of of of teaching. So where we have the actual intro the actual instruction the tier one instruction coupled with small group instruction in the classroom and then digital learning all at the same time. So it's kind of like students are going to be uh learning through small group at the same time and then also they will transition to another station or we will call it studios stations to where they'll do a digital learning aspect

071and then they'll do a small group aspect for based on you know how they're performing on on um their data. So everything is data driven in blended learning and they're small groups. So the teachers is the students are actually going around in those different stations throughout the actual period or class the class uh block. So that's a blended a little overview on blended learning. They're learning in different uh different stations in the in the actual class. Okay. And that's why is on the is on the is on the agenda item because going to be your digital component for blended learning. Now that is it just the teacher one teacher going to be going and supervising each one of these little stations or Yeah. So, so the so the idea for blended learning is to to

072empower the students to to also um become you know experts and also become experts in facilitation too. So it's not saying that every student is going to be in blended learning. Not every grade level. Of course there's a framework that we're going to be rolling out um and different grade levels are going to be um undergoing blended learning in the first in the first phase of of blended learning. So yes certain certain students. Yeah. Well certain Yeah. certain needs Right. Right. Are they going to be able to particip Yeah. So we'll have certain schools that may pilot it and we're still working on that exact framework of course. Um but the but just the components of who's going to help us with coaching and actual the the the professional development for it and then of

073course our digital learning component will help in that process too. So we're in the early phases of of of making the framework and we'll of course be updating as we as we go along. trustes. I asked Dr. Quig over here in a little side note if this was Miss Alan's update if that was going to be our update for testing and just you want to update the whole board instead of just me. Uh you all received a comprehensive update summary from me last week. Do you recall? Do you all read that? Okay. So I did send that. So, as Miss Alanise said, will you come back up, Miss Alanise, and just re reiterate what we said about the preliminary 3 through 8 when that's coming and how we're going to roll that out. So, right

074now everything is preliminary and so like I said, we always get EOC first because they try to get those because those kids will retest in the summer. So, we need those scores like ASAP. So, we have preliminary scores and the final won't come out until August. So, this is just based on like what we got from TA. We usually get, you know, just the kids name pass or fail. And then for the high school, we just got whether they're like low approaches, high approaches, meets and then mast's level because then we still have to go into domain two and then domain three which is closing the gaps and our growth measures. So you know there's different domains for the whole accountability. So really right now it's just domain one and it's not like a set

075in stone until the final accountability comes out in August. Right. And so we are bringing this out in peace mill for a reason, but I wanted to make sure you all had a high level, which is why I put together the summary and we all got a spreadsheet that had all of the results. We will have some more obviously in July, but remember we do an annual accountability workshop and we go into a lot of depth when we get all those results. So thanks for your patience. There's more to come. Thank you. Any other questions on professional development? You want to talk just a little bit about the math grant and the targeted approach we're going to use with those funds and we talked a little bit about instructional coaching at the math level as

076well. Yes sir. So um so what we're doing is especially with our great minds K5 um so when we look at the learning blocks too can we look at you know what are the needs of the campuses and what are the needs of the teachers. Um, so we're we're looking a lot of of support in hoping to attain the more conceptual learning of math and not only just the procedural learning, how you, you know, get from step A to step Z. We really want to try to get our students to actually learn the reason behind the math. and our our partners with Great Minds, of course, they're going to be helping and facilitating that type of learning and that type of attainment with our teachers to profess that and uh and actually put that into

077um our learning for our students. And then of course, the instructional coaches are going to be learning with that type of learning to help facilitate the PLC's in that in that realm too. Yeah, interesting. A big part of math, this is this difference between arithmetic and mathematics and specifically the conceptual attainment that Mr. Garcia was talking about. Uh Mr. because you know exactly what I'm talking about. You want to speak a little bit to about conceptual attainment and mathematics. So I know what uh Blue Woman and and trying to do is trying to have a student respect and have more conversation about the actual math versus the algorithms. Um you can teach somebody an algorithm and it'll become more of a rope practice where I do it this way this way but they don't understand

078why. So with blue bonnet uh or what is it blue um they're trying to conceptualize they want the student to understand it completely fully so that they can explain it then they understand it that's kind of what the the goal is for that's what rock is can the student communicate with another student or the teacher back and forth have that communication going because then the conceptualization of it then they can fully understand what's going on why they're doing this and I'll Be honest with you, this is probably very similar to what math proofs is on um I didn't realize there was an actual class that would teach you why 4 plus 4 is eight, but there's an entire math class on why 4 + 4 is eight. And it's kind of what we're kind of

079doing with them, but it's more basic skill for our students. So, it's supposed to be an amazing program. Um as long as our, you know, we we do early, which I'm sure our students will and uh hopefully get our students about math which excites me completely. So thank you Mr. Thank you Mr. Garcia. Oh I do want to also share um on your on your seats was also an invitation for our new teacher orientation talking about professional development on August 1st we are having and hosting the new teacher orientation at Hattie Martin. Um our theme for the year is saddle up for success. I already ordered my TOAS. We are going to be dressed up for success and saddled up for success. So, we do um encourage, you know, uh the board to come visit

080with our newest uh Robstone ISD con pickers on August 1st at Hatty Mart. Thank you. Order some chats. And we're going to go ahead and transition to TI receipas. Good evening, Madame President, Dr. Pig, board of trustees. We continue our journey. It's an exciting journey, never a dull moment. But of course, our road map um you have human resources and teaching and learning together. And only together can we be successful in this journey. So you have it's a it's a straight highway right now. It's kind of really smooth. um journey for the the month of May. So May 13th um we met and we meet every Tuesday the TIA committee and uh the TIA committee is right here Rachel Medano we also have Selena Castella on the committee and Miss Loetta and myself. So we

081have structured our meetings every Tuesday and we are working on our TIA handbook which that is our ticket one of our tickets in order for us to leave for the summer. Our TIA handbook will be ready and it is ready. We just have a couple of um of areas that we need to to polish but it should be ready to go. So of course we met on the 13th. We also met on the 20th and then on the 27th we received the best news. Our application was approved on the 27th. We did not have to go back to correct anything. So it was exciting news. We were off. It was that day. It was Memorial Day. It was that day that there was a little bit of self-care and that was great news to to

082receive that notice that the application was approved. So now we can we can move forward. I promise you that that probably will not be a straight highway when we come back. It'll be very bumpy, Mr. Martinez. It be a bumpy road, but it'll be fun. Uh so after the 27th of course June the 3 um again every Tuesday like I said we we are meeting to complete that. Uh June 5th uh we met with teaching and learning and we met to create our um oh I forgot sorry the 28th after we came back uh we met with teaching and learning and we worked on our assessment calendar. So the assessment calendar is completed and that will also be included in our TIA handbook. We met and June 5th we again met with teaching and learning

083and we started our calibration calendar. We got through the first semester and we're good. And of course tomorrow is Tuesday so we will meet again. We're trying to finish the spring semester for our um calibration calendar. And then on the 9th um of course we will uh we attended the um TIA conference, the first inaugural TIA conference which was a great great conference. Lots of learning that we actually stayed up and started working on data debrief with the debrief. We did a lot of that too. So one of the presentations I went to they we thought about you Mr. Martinez because they had the bumpy road. I said we're no we're no more cur it it was great learning opportunity to learn from others who have been on the road and have been on this

084journey. Um and we learned things that they you know mistakes that they made things to avoid. Um but it gave us an opportunity to really start looking and we started looking at our mclass data. I think Miss Alanise mentioned that. So we will continue to to do that. We were anxious. So we started we we started looking at MClass data and then started looking at teacher observations and started really digging in and reading comments and reading the evidence from teacher um observations to see where we needed to to help and facilitate and guide uh our team. So, we have a couple of stops. Okay, just some future stops. I mean, before we get back on the road again. So, I wanted to highlight some of our stops in the month of June and July of

085course. Um, June 17th, no, June June 17th. Um, yes, that's horrible. We do have a zoom with a real cohort and we are going to start uh setting up our data capture year which will be next year. So the zoom tomorrow will will involve um giving them giving us some guidance and direction for data capture year. Then on June 18th of course we're going to meet with teaching and learning to finalize our calibration calendar. Then come the month of July 8th when we get when we get back we will meet with our campus and district leadership team to really dig in uh to present our test data. So we're going to pull all our observation data and and dive pretty deep into our test data so that we can take a look at that. July

08615th, we will attend another rural cohort Zoom um covering on how to set up for uh the data capture year and will be part two of the presentation that we start tomorrow, July 24th. All of us will be attending a test refresher um training at the service center. Everyone that's a test appraiser will be attending the session. and everyone's already um registered to to attend that half day and based on our on our our digging and reviewing our data, we really need a refresher refresher training. So, um double check with Dr. Quig, we're good to go. We will be attending that half day on as a tea test and then on the 28th we will be attending another half day training at the service center and these two sessions are free free of charge. So

087we need to of course take that opportunity and we will be attending a t test calibration training. So that will help us you know really um facilitate and enhance our calibration amongst the leadership teams from both at the elementary level and at the secondary level. We're excited. We're excited that your application was approved. Uh it's an exciting time. Now we'll dig in. I did share with the committee that I do intend to or we intend to um when one school starts and we have all our data of what it what it what we actually receive and what implication it would have on the teachers that are eligible for year one. We will have a one-to-one conversation with them. I'd like to be very transparent and and share with them if this would have been the

088year this is what it would have been like. you know, this is where you're at with test and this is where you're at with your student growth measure. That way they know what they have to look forward to for the year. And I think that personal touch and meeting with each individual teacher, it's about 60 uh 60 60 are eligible. So we that that is our intent is to meet with each teacher individually um and share that onetoone like a scorecard with them is to that way they know it's not we want to be as transparent as possible because that is one of the areas that u we heard at the presentation people were not very transparent and that's I think if we can continue to be transparent with our folks I think they will

089appreciate that but exciting time really really exciting questions question that any of you might have on TA. We couldn't do it without these ladies. I mean, it's a great team. It really is hard workers. I'll just say I appreciate the tenacity on your part and your team. You have been absolutely nothing short of tenacious in ensuring that we have every eye dot at every te cross. The collaboration has been extraordinary. We know out of this last or current legislative session after June 22nd we have some additional investment in TIA and we said this all along. We know that the ledge is behind this sort of merit-based pay and I think it will be continue to be supported but this injection this upcoming legislative session is significant for TA. So yes, it's important. Thank you. Thank

090you, Miss. Next item on the agenda, ML update. Thank you, Madam President. At this time, we'd like to invite up our esteemed director of maintenance and operations, Mr. Lobber, who's also going to provide sort of a unique perspective here. It's his year with you. Your year's up. Congratulations. One year. Yes. Today is a bit different brief. Uh Madame President, Dr. Qu, board members, it's a little bit of a different brief. Um because I kind of want to do a year review and what I'm going to do is uh I'm gonna pass out and I we have a slide. I'm not real great at slides. So u but we have a slide and we can follow along. I'm also going to give you a hard copy. Uh before I do that though uh when I was

091interviewed last year, Dr. Qu gave me these two tag uh audits, right? basically. And uh they had 23 findings on there and and there were some serious items on there, some not so serious items on there. Uh I'm excited and proud to say that we've already done 22 of the 23 items on this report. I held on to that. Um it is a I'm going to just go ahead and pass this to you guys. You can have um you know in in this position it's it's you know for me we can I can sit up here every month and tell you this is what we plan to do this is what you know we want to do but really it's a results driven right and I was a coach and for me, you know, it's

092results, right? And you want to win at the end of the day, right? And it's been a continued progress throughout the year. It's been definitely a team effort. U proud of the team that that I had that I inherited and that we groomed and grew together. Uh I knew there was some challenges early. I can tell you that. But man, I'm super proud of the of the people that are here on the maintenance and operations team. So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and start you go and I won't go over each one. I just wanted to let you know that um you know what we've done this year in the maintenance operation sides some school districts don't do in three or five years and that's the honest truth. We've done a lot.

093Uh it's a team effort across the board from you know HR helping me with the hirings. Mrs. Nettles has been a godsend for me. I know she hates seeing me but she's been awesome. Uh and just you know everybody has been such a team effort. The one thing that's not on here I forgot to put on here was the fieldhouse and I don't know how I missed it but I did renovation. What I can tell you is they started on uh May 30th and they are complete at the fieldhouse with the first round of renovations. It's 100% completely empty under budget in time and to the standard. So that was wonderful and they're about 25 or 30% done in the other building. So they're really moving along and they're doing a fantastic job. Um so

094I know we have a meeting on Thursday. So uh I think that is going to be a huge meeting for us because now that's the structural engineer and the architect and you know we kind of go over our plans again. But now you could start to see it and when you walk into that fieldhouse it is huge. It's it's amazing what they've done in that time. So, I'm excited for our kids. I'm excited for our our coaching staff of of you know what's to come for those guys. Um, new field, football field, parking lot, new HVAC, roofing, roofing. They're at the high school now. They're currently at the high school now. That's the final piece. Uh, the one thing that we want to address and we're addressing is the repairs, right? That's the one thing

095that's still getting us. We still have some leaks in the schools that we didn't replace. So, we have not forgot about it. We're staying on Corel. We're staying on with Marcus, who they call the the roof whisperer, but I'm going to call him on it because we have too many leaks that that have not been repaired. So, we are staying on it. It is not going unnoticed. Uh, but we do have to share him with the nation, right? Because he's all across the nation. So, uh, but we have not forgot about that and we will stay on that. I can assure you of that. How many leaks do we have? Uh cuz it sounds like the way you're talking sounds like we have a lot. It it doesn't but you know one to me is

096is too many right now. So I think at Robert Drisco uh we have about eight nine he told me the other day eight eight uh you know L Beach has a few in the office and Pedro has a few. Um so we we have some work to do. I mean but we're going to get it done. We check though like the top the top four. Yes. Is there any? No, nothing there. Martin, I'm sorry. Hatty Martin. Hattie Martin had one today that came. They sent me a picture at Martin. So, just one. Yeah, just one. But that's good. That's That's better. Yeah. Seal Seal was great. It was nothing to see. How many How many leads did we have at Driscoll before the eight? I think at one point they were at 32 and then

097it went down to 24 and then it was down to 12. Um, so I can't remember off the top of my head a year. Dr. Remember? Yeah. We we had too many to count and we also had that large waterfall coming down the main hallway down the pillar. Yeah. Remember the pillar and there was a waterfall coming down and we've done a lot of replacement repair there. But here's the reality. The elementarymentaries only received repair. We evaluated them. Marcus came out, but we have a commitment from Corell, as you said, to come out and get that all showed up. So, uh, I I think we're in a good spot. Definitely, as Mr. Martinez said, a better spot, but, uh, we're going to maintain our foot on the pedal to make sure that this project is

098110% complete. Right. I I think Marcus is going to be down in the next week or two. So, we're going to hold him here until, you know, we get some some improvement done for sure. You think it's going to take? Um, I mean, Do you think it'll be done before the year starts again? That's the plan, man. Yes. That's the plan because we plan to be done with Corel, you know, in the next month. And what I mean by that is with the work they have. So, we need to get them while they're here. And that's Yes. And your team already identified more or less where they are. Yes, sir. That would be a problem. And leaks are funny because it may look like it's leaking right here, but that's not where the actual leak

099is. So, that's why he comes in handy. And what he did was a lot of the outlining of the area of the of the le of the schools. Um so and you can see it when you go up on the roof you can see the work that they've done. You can see that they did do they try to see it but I mean leaks are funny. So what we are going to see on the plan is before school starts. Um moving on you know the painting of Seal was the interior painting of Seal. They got new flooring in the offices there at Seal. It still looks amazing. Uh, new electrical panels to support a little more for the band and the concession stand. And we did put three new panels in Gillespie Gym. We also

100did the rename the naming of the Gillespie Gym and we had the ceremony which was awesome. Parking lot for the buses was huge. Uh, football field press box. Um, they are in the final stages of that. Uh, the painting, that's what we're at now. The painting, the flooring's in, insulation's in, windows are in, countertops are in. It It's It's actually looks amazing in there as well. So excited about that for our, you know, coaches, our announcer, our our stat guys. So, you know, that's good for them as well. Do you have an amount on that, sir? I'm sorry. That was how much that cost is, dude. That was 494 495,000. That's unbelievable. $49.99. 999 $49.99.99 and no uh change orders. No, no additional things. Uh, next page. Three buses. Uh we purchased three buses. I

101will tell you our kids enjoyed them. Uh and they are still in great shape. Before we move out, do the windows open? No, sir. Press box. No. So, how's that going to affect the I I I already talked to Mr. Chet I mean Mr. Caba. It's a one It's one event that they have and it's the uh crossroads. Crossroads. So, it's one, we are going to make him a VIP to where when they come and sit down, the judges are going to have a covered tent, area they can ride, area they can, and it's going to be blocked off only for them. And he was happy with that. As long as they have that, he's happy. Can you describe tent like a canopy? Like a canopy, but not, you know, it is not going to

102be all over. It's going to be nice. They're going to have a Sam's Club tent. Is it going to be branded with drops down? I don't know about that. It's going to have Roy Gar's face on it. I already showed it. Reordered it. What he wants to say is going to have his face. Oh, it's going to look good. It's going to look good. Yeah, I just mentioned that to Dr. Quig because I know that um prior, you know, and I'm sure the board here can, you know, that was a question of mine as far as concerning with the band. Yeah, we have not forgot about it. And um you know, Dr. Dr. mentioned that, you know, I just want to make sure that they're going to have a a good experience. I want to

103make sure, you know, I'll be honest. I told him, you know, having them inside would be ideal, right? Because they'll be an AC, but for them to want to come back to Robstead, you know, the experience is going to be impeccable. And Dr. Quick reassure you, they're going to have a good experience. So, I can I can assure you they will. Um, luckily, it is in October, so maybe the weather be a little nicer, too. So um but um but you know it will be a good event for them and we will make sure that they feel like it's a good event. Thank you for bringing it up, Mr. Monkey. Yeah, sir. Also, you had on the items completed, you said you had fixed the the gates or is that the fencing between where Robert

104and Martin? Is that what we're talking about? No, like at Seal at at Seal, they only had one operating gate where they they did that for like five months. Okay. Um, so we fixed that gate. Hattie Martin, this gate right here wouldn't close on the side. So we fixed that. The high school, the gate fell. We fixed that on the pickerland side. Now, what about the fencing? You are you guys ones are going to be doing that? Because I've noticed when I passed by there, there's a lot of open gaps and that's a very big concern for me because if a child gets away from a teacher, they can slide through. Now I can slide through that thing. They can slide through it. and we don't want them to go into the street or have

105somebody end up taking them an incident. So that was my concern because I've seen a lot of the gaps and I've seen the young, you know, students going through them to where they're sliding through there and going through the, you know, playground area. Yes. And stuff. So that's my concern on that part to where I'm just hoping that can be taken care of whether your starts if possible, you know, or as soon as possible because and I know I know chief is going to address that a little bit as well. Okay. But we can we can surely help for sure. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Uh new equipment for the grounds. Uh you know, the zeroturn is still running great. Blowers are good. We eaters are all intact. We are going to have

106a an an inventory, sir, next month. We have an annual inventory. They're going to lay everything out. We got a list going now. We'll come and check it. Um so, all of that's been is is going well. Our warehouse, we opened a warehouse. Previously, we had like three different places. Um, we all put it in one central location now. Um, and if you walk in there, it's labeled. You can see trash bags here, you know, toilet paper, soap, everything. It's It's like an offic It's a great warehouse. So, where's that at, sir? It's at the Salazar building where in the by the way the buses are. I think it used to be cafeteria maybe. Okay. So, it's right there. Yeah. You can go in there. It looks It looks great. So, we've been operating there

107for probably the last six or seven months. Wasn't that where the shipping and receiving was kind of, but it wasn't. But you also had other some inventory in the Salazar building and you had some other stuff at the Ortiz building. We put it all in one central location. So, is that still there? Where is Yes. shipping receipt. Yes. Yes, sir. It just looks way different. What about in the back? I haven't had a chance to pass by there, but but what's what's in the back? Do we still have old vehicles and stuff like that? No, they're gone. The graveyard. They used to call it the graveyard. It's not the graveyard. Now it's the golf course. I did not put that. And I I probably forgot a few, but it's No, it's not there anymore. So

108that remember that old uh they had swings like a swing set type of thing like and it was all rusty and damaged. All that's cleared out. It's cleared out. It's empty back there. Looks good. So what about all the full equipment? I know we had a tractor that was down. We still have some of those things. The tractor. Did we ever get it fixed? No. The Which one? I'm sorry. There was a tractor there with the shredder on it. Oh, we have that. That one works. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I thought it was down for It was down. So was the white bus that was been activity bus that was down for a long time. It's They use it all the time now. Powerlifting used it. Tennis used it. We should take it to schoolboard

109training. Actually, we just did it with two. We just put everybody in the train. Let's go on the activity bus, guys. Drive us. How about you? Moving on. Moving on. I think it would be super fun. Okay. Uh, one of one of the other things that I'm really proud of is at the very bottom there is where it says we promoted four people from within. Uh, I'm a firm believer if you know they're they're doing a great job in in the current job and something comes available for them, they should have first dibs. I really don't want to bring somebody else in when we have capable people here on our staff from Robtown that have been doing well. Um, some of our guys, they got promoted like our warehouse guy and none of these are

110new positions. People just left or you know, it was created by people leaving. Levi was here with us. He was our warehouse manager. He got a great opportunity. I don't fault him for that. We had Ronald step in. He was on our grounds crew. He had Fredo lelay background. So, he had a good experience with that. He's done great for us. Um, another grounds became one of our mechanics. He had a great mechanic background. He's been doing great. Uh, the buses have been better than they've been. As you saw, 50, we made a 50% cut. We were what we were sending out. Um, we're doing in-house now. Cleaning coils that hadn't been done. Like they pulled out the coils today. That affects the air conditions, right? So they clean those coils, change the oil, change

111the filters, you know, clean sanitated inside the bus. Um, that's what we're doing right now. We're servicing our buses and we weren't being able to do that. We would take them somewhere and get them service. So we're doing all that in-house now. Um, so I'm really proud of that one. Um, and then, you know, just real quick on athletics, they started uh strength and conditioning last week. Uh, numbers are great, energy is great. uh the new coaches that we hired are here and you blend them with the current coaches that we had. It's been a great uh combination right now. So, uh I'm really excited for next year. I think you'll be excited to see. Um so, you know, it's been a wonderful year for me. Uh I'll tell you that I still I'm still

112excited to do this job. I love it. I knew it was going to be a challenge, but they asked Dr. Por asked me, you know, what the last question he asked me was why do you want to be a cotton picker? and I said, "I know there's a challenge here. I know there's a lot of things that we can do here to impact." And I wanted to be part of that. And he only gave me 59 seconds. So, I think I did it like 58. So, I'm still happy to be here. Thank you. Any questions? Any coaches? Um, we we're missing one right now. We're working on one. Girls basketball coach. Sir, you also forgot to mention that you did an expansion of the storage area for the Robson Education Foundation. Oh, was that for

113you? Hey, great. You appreciate it, I tell you. No, I know. Thank you. And I'm sure I missed a few things. Those were just some of the the big things. Mr. L, we hired you. You interviewed uh with nine other people uh and nine other folks competing for the job. The reason you stood out is because you're a problem solver. Everyone wants the title of leadership. Everybody wants to be a director or president of the United States or whatever comes down to problem solving. You come in here and this is just really the tip of the iceberg. You know that. And there's a lot of problems to solve. Whether you're a principal or director or chief police trustee, there's a lot of problems to solve. You come in here, never complained once. You've contributed every

114day. Not one complaint. Keep up the great work. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Lober. We all appreciate you, sir, but I do have a question. Um, I asked this before. I don't mean to sound like such a girl, but I am. Um, can we get amounts of every item that this has cost us? Like, can we just add a column here? I'm not saying tomorrow, but um I've asked of these things of these. Yes. Just add a column and and put an amount of what this has cost us. I, you know, as a trustee, I I'm great. I'm very thankful to you, but budget season's coming up, and I think that's going to be an important tool for us to use just moving forward. and and I will share that this isn't going to

115be the norm. But I do think that we were behind on certain things. Now, if I'm up here next year and the list is like that, then then yes, but I think these were some big ticket items that needed to happen and we had it um for for sure this shouldn't be the norm. And I can tell you it's already like this summer alone is is not like last summer. So, but yes, ma'am, I'll work on that. Okay. Thank you. Next item on the agenda, safety update. I'm sorry, safety report. At this time, we'd like to invite our esteemed chief of police, Mr. Chief. Thank you. Uh, greetings, Madam President, Dr. Qu, board members. Um, first thing I have is that we will not be moving forward with the lost beach uh sidewalk project, the

116textile transportation alternative funding grant application. Uh, it was going smooth. We got to a point where uh we needed commitments that could only be from the city. They were unable to commit at this time. Uh, we did have meetings. We try to reach out to every option available. Again, it won't be just stopping this one, but I won't be looking into other grants available uh that we can try to reach out for on uh our side. The trickiness with this grant is that it had we had multiple different entities involved and we had to have 100% cooperation which we did up until again when we requested uh the certain commitments that had to be on the other side and uh we got stuck there and we that's where it stopped. Was it a military commitment?

117No, it was uh it was a maintenance responsibility. We tried to get as many options as we could. We reached out to de to text dot several times to give usation to try to make it as uh where it was as minimal to to a point that it had to be taken care of. Uh but they were at this time they advised us we were unable to uh they were unable to commit to that at this time. It's kind of unfortunate uh you know at our last safety committee meeting chief mentioned that and that was my question. what was the commitment that the city or because he even reached out to the county um what commitment could they not do and the main commitment was the maintenance of the of the sidewalk which would be

118cutting the grass around it um why they couldn't commit to that I don't know um uh it's unfortunate you know that our kids are losing out on this but um and you know even some other factors that he mentioned as far as what did you mention there was any overages if there was overages uh if they can come into the overages, but that was a if there were any didn't mean there was going to be just if there were any. So like overages as far as like the budget so that if they gave us this much money but it was going to cost us this can the city commit to the difference with the difference and you know we couldn't commit. Dr. Quig were you in this conversation? No. So, I'm just curious if I

119believe with my heart of heart since he were in there. I mean, is it something that we could maintain the grass just to get this done for our kids? Like, could that have been an option? Well, we really don't want to use our resources to maintain city property, even for our kids. We'll do anything for our kids, but again, we have a legal obligation to maintain our resources. They have a responsibility to maintain theirs as well. So you also have to have skin in the game. We have a lot of skin in the game. This is a simple ask, you know, and I'm not judging. They just want able to execute it. But um no, this was not the county. Was this city city? So and that's what I I and I mentioned that to

120Chief Target because again it has to be a commitment from the city uh according to the to the grant. However, as Dr. Quick said, you know, at some point we as a school district and I would assume Mr. just wouldn't let the grass grow 10 ft high right outside the fence. You know, we would probably commit to cutting the grass here, you know, now everything else because there's some that's going to be off the property, but I would make that decision. We can't we can't and even though as chief mentioned and you know I would assume Mr. Long would agree if this would have gotten we would have at least gotten that commitment, you know, he's not going to let the grass grow 10 ft outside the fence. But well, we don't know that because

121Dr. Craig just said he wouldn't he wouldn't do that. Well, I mean, I would assume that, you know, well, a lot I'm sorry, but a lot of the sidewalk would, you know, especially what's in front of the school that that we could have. That's what I'm referring to. You know, I think it's the other part cuz I think it goes runs into the neighborhood part that is not on the school. So, that whole part Okay. So, the front of the school, it was going to be the front of the school going towards um Perkins uh going towards Shutter Pat Shutter. It was it was going to be a lengthy road which at that point you know the city would commit but because they chose I mean either chose to or they couldn't I don't know

122it wasn't in those meetings by the way who were you meeting with we city we uh we had several meetings with text and the city they they brought in their the mayor was in the first meeting with text uh then we had meetings with their their CFO Miss Brown and then the second text meeting and the last meeting we had was with the mayor miss and the city secretary the Did you not choose to bring you to a city council meeting and speak to your whole council? Well, the the the only problem on our side that we were trying to get we had to do the rubric and we we had to have everything in place before we could move forward. And like I said, once we got to that part of the rubric as

123far as the maintenance responsibility, which is just a document from the city saying they're going to maintain responsibility, then we can go to the next where we have the paperwork complete. Once we got that, they couldn't commit. They gave us options. They had asked if it could be the city and the district, but when we talked in Texas, Texas, I said it had to be one entity. It had to be the city. Who did you have in with you as far as the school district besides yourself? I was there. Our mayor was there, but you were not. So, were you invited to the meeting? Yes, I was. And you just did you did Well, again, we have to delegate and they've done a tremendous job in my role and not only these two gentlemen, but

124also officer Costa, right? So, when it reaches a certain threshold, I do get involved, but it didn't reach the threshold yet. Well, I think this is a threshold. Don't you agree? I would agree. You know, and I mean, I'm not saying you need I I the lead work, sir, at our safety committee meetings. I mean, you're doing a lot of work and I honestly commend you for that. But I do agree with Miss Carson. I mean, I would assume I would I would have appreciated it. Maybe it would have been a different conversation. I mean, Dr. Ver, very convincing. We Yeah, he he probably a lot more than us, but we did tell them like we did tell the city, we will partner with you. It was, you know, we will help maintain it if

125we needed to. the the lady was very adamant like she said it. She says, "Hey, the city is not going to help in any of this." And this was who? Miss uh Miss Brown. See, and to me, at the end of the day, we can't sit up here and take responsibility for the city not wanting to work with the different entity. We can't force them to work with us. They got to be willing. They got to be willing to do it for the kids, not for the school, for the kids. At the end of the day, everything we do is for the kids. And from what I'm taking, from what you just said, they're not in it for We We went above and beyond. I would add and and I know pretty much their excuse

126they're saying that well because we can't do the maintenance so we can't go forward. So that was it right there. They were made aware also of that overage just in case. But once we like to get more options in the maintenance. [Music] Yeah. So yeah, that's what he referred. I was going to say that at our committee meeting chief mentioned to Mr. Damos is now on that committee. that that's actually what halted the whole so that was met other [Music] so we still committee 6000 Yes, that's already in writing. So again, it has to be No, but it has to be revisited in September whatever date. But you know, it's unfortunate time. Yeah. Yeah, we're going to revisit. Yeah. It's just unfortunate, you know, things went down, you know, as chief mentioned that halted. I

127I know where Mr. part of getting us going because I was thinking the same thing. But I'm going to just throw this downstairs. The $60,000 for our police services to our campuses in my opinion. Correct me if I'm wrong. I would hate for any of us, not included to start, well, if you don't do this, we're not going to do that because it really is for the kids. Going back to Mr. Na, it's we're here for the kids, guys. And once we start to battle and and them and this and that, it doesn't matter. We just the way we were told me and Dr. Pig, we went to a session. Dr. Pig, remember we are trustees. We are higher power than the delegate. City council members are delegates. The mayor's a delegate because they get

128paid. They get like some kind of financial, you know, payment. But we do not. We are the voices of those who do not have a voice for themselves. And this is why I'm a little bit I'm a little disheartened, sir, that you did not get involved. I'm not sure what the reason was for, but safety for our children, in my opinion, is a meeting that you should have gone to, especially because our mayor was there. Especially, I'm not saying these guys can't handle it. They absolutely can handle it. But our representation as far as the board is you. It's not Mr. Lawren. It's not Mr. It's not the chief. Just like the city council representation is the mayor. Correct. And they had the representation, but we didn't have ours. So, I believe that this this

129grant is done. We pretty much closed it, right? It's a file. We close the file. We're done. We have to re in order because maybe another grant. But I just feel that when it's when it includes our city and we that live here, we know this. We have to fight bullet to bullet, right? We have to really show um like show up, just be tell them that we're serious and and I feel that Dr. Plague because of his personality and he does really bring people in. He does. I mean, he's a great speaker and I think that it could have gone somewhere else. So, I'm not sure what the disconnect was here, but um I hope we use this as a learning curve and and I think if everything up to that point would have

130been but everything was like we'll do whatever you need. The city was telling us we'll do whatever you need. So, we were briefing Dr. Qu, hey sir, they're telling us this. They're going to support us with whatever. This came out of left field for us honestly. It was not like she just said it at the end of the meeting. That's what that because we thought everything I mean that that's what I don't understand how she I understand how she's speaking on behalf of the city. I mean that and I'm just what you're saying but I mean it didn't have been an agenda item maybe. I'm not sure how this whole I guess Dr. maybe Mr. Dr. Quit can update us more on this because I feel like this is just not going to end right

131here. I don't want the politics to get into the safety of our kids and I'm sure none of us I'll hear you. I mean, it's that important to us. No, the safety is first and I'm a big big for that, you know, and that I was one of the ones that was really pushing on that sidewalk, you know, because you know, I didn't get to go to I didn't know you guys I would have been there. I would have been there, but I didn't know anything about it. And I was really, you know, about getting that sidewalk taken care of because I do not like the kids that they're having to walk on the streets on the roads and in danger of getting hit by a car and then for this to have stopped just

132for that because they couldn't get the maintenance involved to go cut grass. This is ridiculous, you know. So that puts us to where we're like, what? So we're going to have to fight harder on this, you know, to get this accomplished. So the next time around it comes you know your way. So remind me again what do we get? What services do we get for the 60? So they the police services we get include everything from investigation uh to additional support and patrol and what else do we want to add to that? Did we have any any of that? Was there any of that investigations? No, no. As far as Yeah. He has the superintendent has all the docations. Yeah. We we asked him at one, you know, he didn't provide us with, but he

133did mention that there are several documents that he's already had prepared as far as numbers and stuff, which I get where you're coming from. Sure. But but I agree with Miss Garz over here too because this is two totally different things. Yes. um uh you know and if we are indeed getting the services that were within thatou well then you know they're they're complying with theou this is a whole other unfortunate situation um and you know maybe that'll have to be at some point you know but moving forward and like said you know Dr. bring the mayor city now together uh and the fact that again I don't know why the city themselves wouldn't ask that you come before the council and speak to them and let them as a whole as their governing body

134commit as a whole no we can't rather than you know the CFO making that commitment already you know u from from what I get from what I'm gathering he only spoke to two people on the council um and the mayor so I I mean, like I said, that's unfortunate. You know, that maybe I'm just speaking being devil's advocate here that maybe the other council members have no clue you went and that now they're, you know, we have three or four that work for the school district on the council and we're almost there. So my thing is how I think the conversation would have gone a different way, you know, had had the mayor um and Miss Bosquez, Mayor Pro Tim Bosquez, um you know, maybe put you on an agenda item. It's just unfortunate, you

135know, if if that is the case. Um you have to move forward and maybe like Mr. President said, you know, have Dr. sit down with him and explain everything to him. And maybe there's reason behind this, right? We don't know. We don't we don't know their books. We don't know their staff. But I would like to see going forward if the mayor's involved or any council member. I would like our superintendent involved. I would like I know Miss Millows would have loved to attend, but I personally would prefer our superintendent represent us because you can think one way that Bob can think of different. I have no problem with that. Right. And then just leave it up to him to be our voice. That's just my request from going forward because it's I mean we

136know we're from here guys. We we're always going to have a difference of opinions. But I would have liked to know the real reason why cuz I just I cannot I don't want to believe that our council and our mayor would not be would not be okay with you know signing something for for the safety of our kids. I just I just don't want to miss out. And and me and my team we've been pretty much I think 10 8 to 10 months we've been working on this grant. Uh, I'm not going to give up on the grant. I'm going to look for another option. Like I said, that's been the end of the last conversation we had with, you know, I'm going to see about other options we have. That mean other grants. That's

137what I mean moving forward. J, did they give you a specific like I know you said that they know on that point. I mean, I'm just kind of wondering like if you may have gotten with the drainage because that's also part of our drainage news. If they would have committed, would they have accepted that or they said you said you needed the city? text of the city. The city had to be. It couldn't be us. It could be text. It could be the county. It had to be the city. You've been complaining about it since you got on the board. Everyone when has a border work they they would have they were walking they all would either have to stop car five or six cars lined up stop waiting for the kids to cross or

138to get off the stop walking get onto the side so we can pass and then just come back to the road to school there is a need like I said I'm going to continue looking at you as much as I can we did have our district uh safety committee for the summer session. We introduced our new memberos. Uh we did go over our EOP updates, our audits, of course, the lost beach uh project, and then plans for our next school year, reference to like our uh our try to use the we had a couple missing in reference to our video with our SRPs. We're using our students possibly in the video that have it so people can see it. Uh go to our website, they can view our drills that what we're doing out there.

139Um, and then last but not least, uh, we do have our Texas, we will myself and Miss will be presenting at the Texas states, uh, safety comm conference this year in San Antonio on the 20 next Monday on the 23rd. Uh, so, okay, sir, where are we on the sidewalks or I mean the crosswalks? I I did speak to uh that same meeting. I did ask about that also. They said they were still looking into it. I did tell them about the third and G and fifth in G. Uh, so they said they were looking different. Did they give you like a time frame or they just kind of threw it out there? That's what Mrs. Garcia said she was going to get back to me. She had to go back and get back and

140reach out to him. And the signs the signs was with the uh with the police department. I can reach out to the mayor to get an update on that. I know they were working on the signs. I have seen some of the signs changed. Yeah, some of them already changed, but this one here still Okay. And uh um as I was uh mentioned to Mr. offer about the the fencing between Robert Friscoll and Martin. We are we are looking into some other grants and to cover the radio systems, updating our security system, uh mine, our schools, and then the the fencing. I'm sorry, Mr. If we do update the fencing, would we be taking that down? I think that I don't know why the design was like that, but maybe a changing fence would be

141because that one said Dr. Wait, when I did it one time, he pulled it himself. You know, um this year can open. I would work with Mr. Lawler to see which ones would be best for the school. Now, would that be done before the school year starts or is it going to take some time with the fencing? Um I would try to see what timeline they could give me on it. It just depends on the companies that we get the quotes from. Is that a Mr. Long question or chief brand safety because it's it's a chance. Okay. We don't get the chain fencing or whatever to where it gets repaired. Can those can that fence get repaired because there's like big gaps and I would hate a child to go through that. We squeeze them

142together. Yeah. They just keep going back out. Yeah. So, we close them but about a week you drive back by. It's not necessarily something like we have to That's a safety issue and we cannot afford to have those kids any any one of them get loose through there for I mean because of Mr. or maybe you can meet with and you guys come up with a plan on what to do because if not we're all going to start telling you what to do sir right here I got a list but that is important to get that taken care of thank you sir chief appreciate your leadership thank you again for your diligence on that grant didn't go our way we can't control anyone else we control what we did every grant process win or lose

143is a learning experience to your phenomenal job. So, thank you. Our feathers are feathered. Thank you. Next item, list of bills. The list of bills is in your packet for your review. Um any questions, please email Dr. Quig and he will forward them on um to get the answers attached. Also is a financial statement for your review. Again, any questions, reach out to Dr. Clay prior to the board meeting and he'll get those answers for us. Uh, next item on the agenda, consent agenda items. I do want to mention Thank you, Madam President. Uh, just bring to your attention two items on consent. We have a couple of changes. The changes are indicated on two handouts you received moments ago. On the appraiser list, there was an appraiser on there who has already retired, so

144we took that individual off, so it's been updated. And then as far as the uh courses go, uh, we have They would hear the need to add a different uh course to those uh no passion play exceptions and the rest are the rest are approved every year. Yes, sir. I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda items. Have a first by Mr. Martinez, second by Martin. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Thank you, trustees. Next item on the agenda is action item B. Discussion consider approval of purchase order exceeding 50,000 for IXL learning digital platform licenses for K through8 math and reading practice. Thank you, Madam President, trustes. This time I'd like to invite Josh Garcia up. Let's just talk briefly about uh learning platform. We're

145going to use this to ignite brilliance and really also the funding sources whether this is coming from local. Yes, happy to report that this will not be coming out of our local budget. Of course, uh we were awarded the lasso3 blended learning grant. Uh so that's where the funding will be coming from. Of course, when we look at the blended learning grant, there are some stipulations of course that we need to um adhere to for the grant. Um and there was approved uh vendor list for those digital platforms and is one of those. We did pilot um the the end of the school year. Um we did have a training on it. Teachers have been using it. been trained on it um in anticipation that we would adopt it for the school year. Um so

146they've all been trained, they love it. I've been sharing some updates with the teachers throughout the school year when we piloted it. Um we are doing math and reading. Of course, we are since the since the grant is a three-year grant, we did get a quote for the three years of using. So that's what you see in your packet. The total for the 94,000 is for three uh three years of the digital license for K through eight math and reading which will be coming from the um the actual grant itself. Um it is a platform of course the students will uh do a diagnostic at the beginning of the year. We see where they're at um on the their skills. Excel will then um show our teachers um some heat heat points on where they

147need to kind of um focus their in-class instruction as well and then also assign those um those assessments and assign the skills on the platform to help um bridge the gap for them in the in the actual digital platform. So the question that Mr. Guy was had earlier with the blended learning this is the digital component that the teachers would be using in blended learning but also in the regular classroom too. the um we are using it you know K8 in all the classrooms too um in our in our learning labs as well. So it will be in the blended learning classrooms but also in just the regular classrooms altogether because it's great teaching and great a great tool to use um for your so so for your consideration we are um um asking for

148the recommendation to approve the the um the goal for the purchase over 50,000. What's the what's the amount of quote do you know? Yes, let me let me pull it up here. It is 94 94,47.50 we are going to do a first installment for the first school year um of $48,0125 and then of course the next year the next September we will we will uh provide another installment and then the following uh September we'll we'll finalize that last installment um to complete the 94,000. So just because the whole actual amount in three years went over 50,000, we wanted to to bring it to the board to let y'all know that we will be using the last three learning uh grant funds for that. Is this the only math program that teach? So this is so

149this is in coordination with the actual tier one instruction too. So they will be using the blue bonded learning for the tier one instruction which then in turn will will provide us with the intervention with the ISL learning. But we're not using like mia or so this will this will take a place of matia and then also taking the place of z of course we want to do that strategic abandonment we're not going to ask a18 to do another platform of course so that we don't want we don't want to overburden of course we want to see the cycle of three years for and how it how it how it develops in in the years it's only this one and blue it well the blue bonnet is the actual instruction the actual instructional materials and

150then is the the intervention that go. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Dr. Craig. Your recommendation. Uh, approve as presented. Motion to approve. I have first by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Gos. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of purchase order exceeding 50,000 for Amplify Texas K through8 E instructional materials. Thank you, Madam President and trustees. Mr. Garcia, let's talk a little bit about amplify Texas and the KR instructional materials. You alluded to it earlier in your presentation, but let's expand a little bit. Yes, sir. So, the Amplified curriculum, of course, this will be our third year at K5. Um so we are um anticipating to move forward with a year three

151for amplify K5. Of course we are in year I believe it's year four um for uh 68. So we are going to continue with the instructional materials for 68 as well. In your packet is the actual quote for K5 instructional materials which is going to be the actual books and student activity books, everything that the teachers uh the students need. And then of course the the teacher resources and then the digital plat the digital platforms for the teachers to look at their teacher editions and internalize. Those are the materials that we'll be using you know to lesson plans things like that. Um so these are the actual just the books and the materials for the students and for the teachers for your consideration. Of course, this is the the focus on the tier one instruction,

152what's happening in the classroom and then um so we'll couple it with the with the program too to help with the intervention as well. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. Uh approved as presented by Mr. Martinez, second by Miss. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. I'm assuming you're gonna stay there. Okay. Next item. That's enough. Mr. Consider approval of purchase order exceeding 50,000 for great minds blue bonnet K through five math professional development and coaching support services. Dr. Clay. Thank you, Madam President. Uh, great minds. You ready? Let's let's talk a little bit about it, Mr. Okay. So, great minds. So, before blue bonnet became blue bonnet, it was Eureka. Eureka math. Um, and Eureka Math was created and in partnership and and the actual developer was Great

153Minds, the the the the uh the vendor. So, um, we're teaming up with the actual vendor that actually produces the blue body materials um to provide the coaching and the support and professional development for us to come in and actually consult with us and and coach our teachers and coach our leaders. So this is what you're see what you're seeing is the actual plan for professional development for consultation for them to come in and support us as leaders as as as instructional leaders and also support our teachers in the classrooms too. So what they'll do is they'll come in and help us facilitate PLC's and in turn the instructional coaches are going to be learning from their lead from their actual coaches to lead for then in turn of course we want to gradually release

154the support where instructional coaches are going to take more of the initiative of also de um delivering the PLC's and to build capacity for our leaders and instructional leaders with these coaching materials. in your package you'll see um we have a quote I believe it's for 1225 which is the half of the uh the allotted grant of course whenever we do lasso 3 or glass uh strong foundations automatically 50% of the grant goes to our provider so that is for for your approval for your consideration for us selecting great minds as our provider for the professional development and coaching using those those that allotment with 50% of philosophical grant funding um so yeah that's what that is also If I may add, last time we had the teachers come up and talk about what they

155learn at the service center. So that's what is going to be added. That's part of what's going to be happening with that professional development. Now the teachers are learning with their instructional materials. Um this is obviously a rebranding blue but how long have we been using this material? So Eureka um we are in we will be starting year five of Eureka but now it's blue. Of course, there's a revamp. Texas adopted its own version of Eureka. It is now Blue Bonnet. Um, of course, Great Brighten Minds is still producing um the the material, of course, and then we we also uh purchased the materials through Blue Bonnet through Grey Mines, too. So, I we're really we're really excited to partner with Graveminds because they have a plethora of knowledge. Obviously, they're the developers um of

156the curriculum. So then um what they're going to be cutting in is actually helping us with that conceptual learning of the map versus the procedural uh learning. And whenever we had a we had a presentation with what their professional development looks like in your package, you also see what their their coaching sessions would entail. We're very um pleased and excited to to to build that partnership with great minds. And just because I want to have more conversation about it, the versus what was it before did John have? Yes. So we had a partnership with strong foundations for lasso2 the the second round of the grant. We were with the service center for K5. We are continuing with K we're hoping to continue with with the service center for 6A which will come to you um

157in the next meeting. Okay. And we still feel confident. I'm just I'm asking because well we're seeing amazing gains in literacy. I it's not running parallel with mathematics. So is blue bonneted and with this we're kind of saying this is probably be a better opportunity. Yes it is. So I'm sorry for interrupting. So can we say okay can we say this is year one with green? So it's kind of essentially starting over with the actual company itself. So how do how are we going to look at that? Are we going to say this is year one? Is this year five? Absolutely. So we are looking at as a fresh start of course um as new program blue bonnet you know there's there are some some minor tweaks to the curriculum of course to the instructional

158materials um but that's what we felt very comfortable with working with great minds because it's almost like a reset um we you know we're we're kind of already our students our teachers were already used to it we're seeing in the learning blocks we have some adjustments that could be made with that conceptual learning so when I when I have that um sit down with great minds to help them to for them to deliver what they could provide I felt very confident in moving forward with great minds based on what we see in the learning logs, what we see from teachers and what they're what they're needing in the classroom. So when we met with them, I was very confident in saying, you know what, maybe this switch with blue bonnet is a good time for

159us to switch in providers as well. So and one last question and why didn't we extend this to January 6th through 8? So uh 6 through 8 we we are very confident in the in the consulting services with six through algebra 1. I'm going to be straight straight forward with you. We are we are we are very confident in the provider of the consultant that that is helping and supporting 6 through8 algebra 1 through the service center. This is sorry this goes back to our with the blue on it and we were also talking about the amplify. This is the HQIM which is the high quality instructional materials that TA is kind of like recommending for instructional materials for students. So it's you know B I mean this is what TA is recommending as well.

160Thank you Miss I understand that Eric understands everything else but I understand thank you thank you for putting it in lame's terms appreciate Dr. recommendation. Yes ma'am. I'd like to recommend as presented motion first by Mr. Second second by Miss all I'm sorry all any questions or discussion all those in favor say I I all opposed. Thank you Mr. Garcia. Thank you Miss Alanise. Thank you. Next item discuss and consider renewal of dispository depository contract with Wells Fargo for the period of September 1, 2025 through August 31st, 2027. Dr. Qu. Thank you trustees. I'd like to invite Mrs. up just for a high level overview on this one. Some of the challenges that we're having around depositories status um back in 2001 the district went out for repository bid that was awarded to Wells Fargo.

161So we are allowed to do three two-year extensions. We did receive notice that the local Wells Fargo's bank will be closing. So the bank is about 8 miles away. Um the reason we agreed to we brought this to you to renew at Wells Fargo even though the local branch was closing is because the time of the notification that they were closing wasn't because it would allow us enough time to properly do the bidding process and that was a process we didn't want to rush through. So we're recommending to renew for well sparkle for another two years. Um, in the meantime, we're going to have to come up with a plan as far as deposits that is going to be less of an inconvenience to our staff that has to go deposit cash. We're going to

162have to work out a plan that's going to work best for them. And whether we assign one person to collect all the cash and make banks deposits weekly, uh, there's just going to be some fine tuning details that we're going to have to work out moving forward. That was actually my question. Then, do we have to do the two years? with the TA guidelines contract. Dr. Quake, I'd like to recommend as presented and give us time to evaluate during these next two years. Trustees, do I have a motion? First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Vos. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. Thank you, Mrs. Thank you. Next item, discuss and consider approval of 2025 2026 IC student dress code for grades P five and grades

1636 through 12. Also, it's two different ones. Okay, Dr. Quake. Thank you, Madam President and trustees. We've had minimal um changes to the dress code, but I'd like to invite the thoughtless she thought she was going to get out of having to be up here. I've been waiting for her, sir. So just the process overview, the collaboration and how we landed, where we have land made with these minor tweaks. Um, first off, I'd like to just take a moment to thank uh the the board for just an opportunity to serve my hometown, the alma mater. It's been a wonderful experience. So, thank you all for your trust and for the uh opportunity to really serve here in this district. Um, as we talk about the start of the school year, we want to always um,

164take input, get input from our, uh, campus leaders and also our district level leaders. And so, just to tell you a little bit about the process, we sent out last year's version to our campus administrators. You know, they're um, they're, you know, working alongside the students and know the needs and also know the challenges that come into play. And so all of the administrators were able to give in input and insight as to what challenges they're seeing on the on the campus. And so um first I'd like to speak to the grades preK through 5th. Um I do want to apologize there is a typo and that has since been corrected and I believe you received an updated um version. And so, um, there's three major items or three items that both the prek through

165fifth grade and the 6th through 12 have identified as changes or modifications to the dress code. And um, the first item that I'd like to uh address is uh the backpacks. And so um, you know, three years ago when I I came here, clear backpacks was discussed. uh there was not enough time at the moment to give our families time to make that adjustment, make that purchase. Um since then, most neighboring districts have gone to clear backpacks. Now, I always say this because Chief Doug is probably like, don't make any false promises, right? Clear backpacks aren't going to 100% keep, you know, safety or keep our students safe, but it is a step in the right direction. it will deter some things that don't belong in school from coming to school just because of the

166transparency of the material. Um also we have um we have surveyed u our local stores um Walmart uh Target most uh big box uh name brand stores are carrying these at a very affordable rate and so we feel u very um we feel that it is an appropriate time to make the transition and that enough consideration and enough time is being given to our families to make that adjustment. Um the next item and it's consistent in both is we want our students to dress for success for academic success right when you when you you know look the part you feel better about yourself you're ready to learn. Um we also have to um start you know sharing with our students that there are dress codes and expectations in the workforce right and um so this

167is one of those um preference uh it may be um but definitely we want um everyone to to come prepared to learn and to succeed. Uh so pajamas um are being uh identified as not being allowed uh during the school day or during the regular school. Um and the third item, um this this is this was a uh interesting and and that's why it's such an important step to include our campus administrators in this process because I would have never known this. Um but the recommendation was to um to require that any um water bottles or drinking containers that they be clear in nature and that we refrain from using metal tumblers like Stanley's, Yetis, things of that nature. um or Hyperflast, right? Even though it's not a it's not a spill concern. Um but

168we we have brought metal detectors to all of our campuses to increase that level of safety for our student uh for our students and staff. Um but we have found some challenges that students are using the metal tumbler to hide things like vapes um that would not normally be detected because okay, you put your cup to the side, right? um and you or you pass through and if the only thing you have in your hand is the metal tumbler, well, okay, it's your it's your Yeti or it's your Stanley. Um and so we have found that this is one of those items that, you know, we're not limiting any student from having a beverage or drinking bottled water. We just would like to narrow it down to clear containers only. So, I would have never

169known that um had we not gotten our principles involved. How many how many incidents do we have where we finally been a stat this year? So, I don't know that I we just collected. Yes, sir. Um, off the top of my head, I want to say a good dozen or more that we caught inside of a cup. inside the so officially like but other ones where we knew it was there and we just you know searching is a tricky thing but but I it is for us to be aware that well I don't it's probably actually higher too I bet and sometimes we just didn't catch them and you know and to be honest kids are high you know in all areas um so that's why You don't always catch them. And the Stanley cup

170going through that metal detector is kind of the thing that's going to distract. Oh, it's got to be that. They don't have it hiding in there if they have it in their jacket or whatever. They're assuming that's going to be that. Unless we're going to ask that everybody spill like at an airport that everybody spill their drink right before you know that that adds a whole layer to getting into the building. And so, um, did you have something to say? We had two. You had two also. at the elementary school at the elementary level at school elementary right here and and team this is we have to start going now it's gotten to that point we really need to take a strong stand I know it inconveniences folks and parents but you know enough's enough

171we need to take a united front on all things related to vaping it's a reality it's unfortunate has bled into elementary schools and uh this is going to deter some of it uh but I appreciate the collabation coming up with ways to put together a a proactive dress code. So, thank you. So, are those the only changes? Yes. Yes, ma'am. Are you doing the same thing in ma'am? Uh stay tuned for the for the June 25th board meeting. It will be on the agenda. How soon will this be be posted on our website? After today. After today. Immediately following work. So, so the clear bag is for high school also. So, what about like athletic clothes, gym clothes, football wear? I mean, are they allowed to take their duffel bag or do we have enough

172lockers for them to store their still lockers? I know we're having a locker issue. Not at the beginning of the year. Huh? Not at the beginning of the year other than what they have this year. So, we will we will work with the principles to create a logistical plan um that accommodates, you know, the big base the baseball bags and things of that nature, but we want to make sure that if it's in our hallways, you know, that it is clear and um that it is visibly at least a deterrent. That's why I'm saying like for the duffel bags with their sport attire, do we have enough lockers so they can put it away in the morning where they don't walk with it in the hallway? problem. No. Yeah. Now that you mentioned that, you

173said there was a locker issue. So, I want you to mention that. Make sure lockers. He said yes. He said there's going to be enough lockers. Yeah. Because our athletic bags are not clear. Our athletic bags, they get issued backpack athletic bags. So, they have backpacks that are not clear. So, they have to house them somewhere in athletics. Right. That's what I was saying. They have the room just to put them up during the morning and that way they're not walking through the halls. We will work on a logistical plan for that that accommodates those outline needs and also that it's a fit for each campus because every campus it looks a little different. But as far as the general backpack that a student would have on them in the hallways throughout the day, we

174are recommending that they be clear. Um Mr. D has a statement or a comment. I was saying that before we print it out and make sure that we make the correction under AirPods, earphones, headphones, cell phones, and smart watches. Not allowed at all during Okay. Let me make that. Thank you. I appreciate that. On both of them, right? Yes. On both PK. Say that again, sir. Okay. AirPods, earphones, headphones, or cell phones, the smart watches not allowed at all during the instructional day. It's not allowed. Okay. not so and and I apologize um because I I do see the need for consistency uh because it was in the section labeled not allowed um but I I will make sure that it is clearly communicated so that there's no question okay appreciate that um Dr. If

175this gets approved tonight, can you um can Miss Katrina post like one post individually for each campus because this is I think this is going to be very important for our parents. That's the plan. Yes, ma'am. Okay, sir. Uh sir, your recommendation uh to approve both dress codes elementary and secondary as presented. Mr. Ve first Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I have a question. I'm sorry. So, are we going to do the the backpack giveaway? Are they going to be clear? Well, if we can only have clear backpacks, then they must be clear. Yes. If we can only have clear backpacks, then they must be clear. Yes. Thank you, sir. Thank you for being clear. Uh, all those in favor say I. No, there was all those in

176favoring say I. All oppose. Motion carries. Next item, discuss and consider approval of TASBY endorsement form for the TASBY board of directors. So trustees, there is a on page 142. We must vote for a representative for the region 2, which is Moses Al. He's from Memphis. He's the incumbent. I should have um researched how long he's been there, but he's been there for a while. Um I've only talked to him one time only because I had to complain about something. And then there is a challenger for Jessica from Brook County ISD. So we are going to submit one nomination for our school district. So anybody have any nominations? So, um, see this has been a board member in Mat 2015. Um, a two-year term, and you just get that for um, as of 2025, it

177says, um, it is a Um, this is his third year of a four-year term as a receiver. So, I guess the question is, do we want to support the incumbent or do we want to give somebody else a chance? Any any ideas? Brooks County We have to decide. Yeah. Make a motion. So, I have reached out to Moses a couple of times on concerns that I had here and um he's only returned my phone call one time. Okay. You want to make a motion? No. Okay. Can someone make a motion? I'll make a motion to nominate Jessica from capital. Okay. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Gos. [Music] Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those motion carries. Thank you. So they're formed, you have the form. Yes. Okay.

178Thank you. Next item. Close session. Have a motion. First by Mr. Diego. Second. By Mr. Bessa. All those in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. The board will now convene in close se session in accordance to Texas Government Code 551.074. 074. The board will adjourn into close session for the purpose of considering the appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismiss of employees. Thank you. I have a motion first by Mr. Marin, second by Mr. All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Now back in open session. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Dr. Clay. Yes, ma'am. I recommend as discussed in close session. I'll make a motion. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Mesa. Any

179questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All oppose meeting. I'm sorry. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda, adjournment. I'll second. First by Mr. Ggo, second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All those opposed. Meeting adjourned. Thank you everybody. Great meeting. Glory