001indivisible with liberty and justice for all the flag. I aliance to the Texas one state under God one and indivisible. Thank you everyone. Next item on the agenda. Our vision and mission statement. Trustees. Our vision is to ignite brilliance and impact lives by providing transformative learning opportunities that empower students for generations to come. must provide their name for the record and observe a threeminut time limit. During this time, the board trustees may not respond to the citizens concerns as per Texas meetings act. Okay. Good evening. My name is Myra Alam. Um, a certified air permit consultant have reviewed Lena's permit application and TCQ's public comments, revealing serious oversightes that call to question the accuracy and integrity of the permitting process. Aena's current permit containing significant inaccuracies. If not addressed, these issues will pose long-term risks
002to our families and our neighborhoods. A copy of this letter has been provided to the school board trustees for your awareness as TCQ's final decision is decision is expected in the next few months. Over 300 residents have formally submitted letters of reconsideration or request for contested hearings. When the situation arises, we urge the school board to oppose any tax abatement from Athena. 84. If our communities are expected to shoulder the environmental burden, then the company should at least pay their full share of taxes. What is absolutely clear is that our that any abatement requests will solely serve to boost Aena's profits. With state and federal tax credits they may qualify for, they do not need further tax breaks, especially at at our expense. We should not accept anything less than 100% that is owed to
003our community. If Aena intends to operate a facility that will degrade our air quality and pose serious risk for our public health, we should expect them to pay 100% of any taxes due to Robson ISD. Thank you. Thank you. Good evening, Madame President, uh, school board members, superintendent, ladies and gentlemen. Uh, Superintendent Pledge, uh, you're not a failure. uh do you have a great teaching staff normal students and other school districts are also experiencing loway rating. The problem is lack of awareness by students of their misbehavior. That is due in my opinion to puberty, lack of maturity, cellular phone use, violent video games, social media, and the Tik Tok phone challenge that was reported on the news yesterday with laptops being destroyed by students with paper clips. Public schools are changing very rapidly at present
004time. On June 8th, 2023, Corpus Christie ISD reported that they would be hiring uncertified teachers. Other school districts are also using uncertified teachers. However, if an individual has a bachelor's degree, they would be able to teach their field of study in my opinion. There is also high uh turnover of teachers due to stress and classroom violence. Vouchers are now available to parents. So school districts will be competing with charter schools uh parochial schools and homeschooling for funding. Charter schools will also be accepting your well disciplined students. Vouchers have been given uh given uh vouchers have given parents financial power over the their local school district. West Soso ISD, for example, is is different since it has a tax base that includes an industrial park with plenty of real estate or expansion and a new proposed
005residential site uh near the post Christie Speedway. RISD has a Tela Flint. Uh Delmar College is uh waving tuition for first uh time private and homeschool students. Texas House Bill Six now allows out of school suspensions which means that DAP has not worked. Research indicates DAP has a negative effect. It was known in the old days with the old uh saying one rotten apple barrel. Uh tell me who your friends are, I'll tell you who you are. As DAT uh houses students with negative behaviors, these students learn more negative behaviors from their new friends. ISD, for example, is returning to a five-day school week after exploring a 4-day school week in response with four uh uh to an F state rating. I'm here to ask if you would consider a program that can change a
006Texas education uh agency rating of a D to a B or a just uh thinking outside the box. Uh inclusion, incidentally, two 17 year olds killed a 37y old in Thank you very much. Next item on the agenda of recognition. Thank you, Madam President. We are going to push this one to the next meeting as our recipient is not here. So we'd like to bring young man back in June. Thank you. Thank you. Next item. Uh, president remarks 2025 general leadership conference will be held in San Antonio June 11th through the 14th. Um, did we get register is everyone? Yes, ma'am. It's going to be a long a couple of days of studying, right? Lot of work. Lots of good work. Yes, that's right. Um, next item on the superintendent report. Thank you, Madam President.
007Trustees, I'm going to ask Mr. to fire up about a 60 page slide deck. I really want to highlight four things uh today trustees and one is going to be the attendance enrollment ADA the fiscal impact talk a little bit about the legislative session and oops and and then also look at some CTE programming that's really brilliant and then we'll we'll close with a little bit community engagement. I will ask for your feedback on one particular piece of community engagement. I also want to lift up National Police Week Chief. Thank you for all that you do in protecting and serving our kids. National Police Week taking you for a stake at A1 this week. You can count on it. Let's start with enrollment. Today we're at 2534. At this point last year, we were at
00824.87. Celebration. And listen, that's a good deal. Uh folks in our area, the districts are experiencing a lot of enrollment loss. I know most of you have heard about that. We have actually been growing. But here's the beautiful part is the attendance is up to 90.3. 90.3 today.1 post pandemic. It's been a struggle for everyone across the state, right? But this is encouraging because there's a fiscal impact. But the last section is really around the average daily attendance. We are up to 220. There is a I guess two week just under two weeks of school left and remember what I said in our budget workshop the state is paying us on 2063 26388 so we're earning 220 or 222088 so when we settle up in September the projection is somewhere conservatively between 500,000 and a
009million dollars remember part of that depends on our local share and how much we collect so we'll keep a good eye on that but again just we are very very encouraged by what we are experiencing here in Wildtown ISD. Okay, we go to the next slide. We really want to dive into House Bill 4 for a moment. Those that have been tracking House Bill 4 know that this piece of legislation is not the elimination of STAR, although it's been said. Accountability is here to stay, but this is encouraging. I just got off the legislative Zoom. I was watching this on the floor and this is going to replace the current structure of STAR that And we've got bipartisan support for this one. So basically the assessment process has a beginning, middle, and end and an
010opportunity in to intervene in between those stages. I mean this is it's just well thought out. Has bipartisan support. Very very very encouraged by this one. The other one we're real encouraged about is house two, the school funding bill. Uh, right now it looks like 7.7 billion, but today and discussions I've had with colleagues and sitting on a couple of Zooms today, that may be closer to 9.1 billion when it's all said and done. It will be discussed at the Senate this week. So, the senators will be discussing the value of this investment and it looks very, very encouraging, especially with the increase, automatic increase in the teacher salary. And Mrs. If you're listening back there, the special ed investment is significant and the model for gauge net is intensive based. So, it's changed completely.
011We go to Senate Bill 2, the school vouchers. We all know about 11 days ago this passed. We knew it was coming. Here it is. And so, families now basically can go to private schools and use taxpayer funds to do that. So, that being said, to be real clear, that will not kick off till 2627. 167. We can't be scared of this. What we can be is really exceptional marketers and ambassadors. So I guess this is the next slide. So how are we going to address this? Let's talk about the CTE brilliance that's happening. Look at the left side of your page there. Those are our students that are teaching our younger students. These are our scholars in the CTE program at Rob County College High School who are earning their educational aid certificate from
012TEA right now. We just had 14 earn that and it's exciting. If you look all the way to the right, this was a brilliant week in CTE. This week, the Roby College High School hosted about 30 CTE directors that are on a charter bus and they came to Rosstown to check out the amazing pathways that are happening. It was very, very exciting from instrumentation to culinary. So, a lot of good things happening. I want to you press the button. There's a quote up there I want to put up. Gosh, can I read it from here? Uh, so this is a parent online and their daughter just earned one of the phabbotomy certificates down there. You see in the bottom right hand corner, some of our students just earned another certificate. She says, "So appreciative that
013my daughter has added another certification that will help her while she works on her degree." This is the kind of brilliance that's happening at Boston College High School as a whole. One more quote I want to put up. This is for the folks that visited. This is ESC. Uh I can't I don't know. I can't read. Go ahead. It was wonderful. It was wonderful to see your career and tech your career in technical educational programs in action in action to experience. Thank you. Lots of buzz about CTE in in the area but also around the state. We hosted CTE. We hosted TEA the other day, Mrs. Tiplet and they were here and we just had a great hour and a half discussion. We broke taco bread and talked about the great things that are happening
014here invited to come back. So again, lots of brilliant things happening. Let's go through one more here and I really want some of the board members who engaged in this rock and education foundation event our friends are here. Uh Dean, you all were at the foundation banquet. Thank you all for being there. Thank you for investing in our kids and it really means a lot to us and I'm also grateful for the medals that you brought from 10 times. So thank you for that. So if you think about this event, what we have been trying to do uh on the board with the foundation is bring in the foundation in a way that it's very very impactful. We feel it and there is the engagement between our staff and the Robstown uh foundation. We're starting
015to feel that. But I won't talk about it. I've got some folks that were there. Uh I'm going to ask a few of you to share who were there just you know what you felt and the experience that you had there would share. Well, for me I loved it. I enjoy every time. You can tell I love seeing and meeting different people. I mean, it's just wonderful to know that we're supported in such a way, not just by this community, but by our surrounding community and people that are, you know, I mean, we've had donations from North Carolina, you know, come into the foundation. So, it's kind of like our little arms aren't just here. We're reaching out everywhere, you know, and events like this show us that we have that support and in return,
016we show our, you know, our supporters, our donors, what family that they're a part of. are part of the foundation family, the Rosstown community family and it's the investment that they do that they bring it shows a brighter future for all the kids. I personally have enjoyed the energy hearing several people mention that this was the most successful that they've seen. uh people that are not from Robtown, they did compliment um uh having our students lead the basically the event. We had our student MC, our students did the pledge. Um everything was studentled. And as I was walking out, a gentleman came up to me uh congratulating Robson of course and the foundation for such a great event. But his his remarks that stuck with me were that the money that he's invested, he was
017able to see where his money is going. kids being on stage and participating. So that was very that was very moving to me because he said that he will continue to invest. He did he did make it clear not that I know that y'all are not you know investing the money correctly but um having our kids leave the event and seeing them in action he said now I see where my money is going and I will continue to do it. So it was very nice. I loved it. I think that the best part was where our kids were showcased. Um, I mean, we can sit up here as adults all day long. We're good. We're good. We're good. But really, look. I mean, we have our jazz band represented. We have our dramat dramaticals. We
018have this uh pre kindergarters who said our pledge, even did a little like a little bow. I loved it. We have our cheerleaders. It really was amazing. So, you know, speaking and I'll speak on behalf of my company. Uh we did have a table full of Turner management along with Tesla management and um I walked out of that room with my head held very high. I got a lot of compliments from Tesla along with the Turner management. So it it's like why do we only do $1,000? Like we need to do more which really brings a lot of happiness to my heart because I try to push props down so much but there's only so much I can do because of my role. And now our management was like this is wonderful. And not only
019that, but whoever invited our uh commissioners and our county judge, kudos to you. I'm not sure. I don't I want to make sure that the right person gets the recognition for that. But that makes a difference for companies like mine. Um not my company, but my employer because people recognize that and we want everyone wants to be a part of that. Wherever the county judge is, people want to go there. So that's just more money that I believe we're going to get next year because it really is about money. It is about the partnerships. And I But this one I every year they're good. Every I find every year and they're always good. But this one in my opinion was phenomenal and very proud to be part of this where they say they gone to
020different banquetss and I guess they've had them just I mean I haven't been to many except to sit in the district one or whatever, but they said this is like the the best one they've been to and I'm just like but thank you. You know we try hard. So I mean we get a lot of compliments. The kids were outstanding. Those two girls. Oh my goodness. I mean, we just we need to keep them going. It is about our kids. And when we put kids at the focus, this is what happens. Exactly. This So kudos to everybody who was involved. Amen. Kudos to everyone involved. And the student centered piece of it really made the show. Thank you, Miss Tommy and team. They did an extraordinary job. Miss Padron, you were instrumental in helping Miss
021Bus get everybody supposed to be just a lot of teamwork which makes the great work and everyone else behind the scenes. I'd be remiss if I didn't mention Robert Dia at his table out there. They were representing his company and really investing. So, thank you Mr. Grateful for uh you always giving. So, I think it was a great event. So, Madam President, I have one more slide, but I think I hit that slide. No, here it is. This is important. Graduation is coming up around the corner. But here's some facts we want to close with here. If you look at the graduation data, the most recent graduation data, I've sourced it there at the bottom. The state gradu graduates, again, this is the fouryear graduation. Graduate on time or even early, you get counted. So,
022you start in nth grade and four years later, you're walking across the stage, right? State's about 90.3. Reason 91.6. You look at the dropout rate, state's about 2%. Region two is about 1.6. So, you know, we're lifting up the city. We're lifting up the district, the community, the county. county judge. All of us are working together uh to lift one another up and so we want to make sure we lift up our graduates and look at the data what they've been producing here at Robson ISD. So you'll click the next button there. You know, we look at our graduation rate compared to the state and region. Um yeah, we're 5% higher than the state. That's your cue to clap by the [Applause] way. It's getting harder and harder to get kids across the stage. Trust
023me, it is getting harder and harder. and we see our graduation rate above the state, above the region, and Robtown leading the way. Kids are graduating. Uh, and when you look at the dropout rate, you know, we hear things about dropout rates look like. Uh, let's click that one there. Look at that. So, Rob graduation rate well three times as high, you know, much higher. So, great things are happening. We're on the move. We're grateful for the investment in our kids and our staff and community collectively. Let's keep doing next item, presentation,formational items. Dr. Uh, thank you, Madam President. A few donations want to highlight uh coming in Sil Junior High from Jana Diane Ross. We've got a $100 of Sil Junior High. Excited about that over there. Good stuff. Uh the Randolph Brooks Federal
024Credit is never shy about donating and gave us $400 here this month to teach and learning Mrs. Dland. So good good stuff going on. I mentioned Miss Madano. She is a leader when it comes to all things technology in the region and quite frankly the state in my opinion. She is sponsoring another tech connect and we've got tons of sponsorship and I'm going to go ahead and read them out because they're probably listening at home. Amplify a bronze scholarship $250. Uh, class link another $300. Uh, Cura 250. Edio sponsored the entire breakfast. Yes, sir. Do I just get one taco or two? Um, that's okay. As far as he likes and J to get a variety of the baked goods, imagine learning chip in 750, Kdum 250, securely 750, Spiro 250, and Summit K12 is
025750. This is all adding up. So great job and we have a few more coming in June. So this is looking good more brilliance being those are the donations president. Thank you Dr. Dr. Sir. Next item academic update TIA update. Dr. Quake. Thank you uh Madam President. I'd be again remiss once more if I didn't mention that we are presenting at the SLI and we have a lot of folks out in the audience that are going to be presenting this summer whether it's at the safety conference and there's a few others I think that are presenting in the curriculum realm uh it's important that we this one has gotten a lot of traction this idea this concept that Mr. Martinez is about to read and they gave us one of the bigger rooms there. They
026filled two rooms up because of the desire of this particular uh session. So Mr. Martinez would like to read it. So the title is uh vision gap bridging the real divide to achieve success in your district. The descriptor the descriptor in this session we'll explore how the vision gap the disconnect between current realities and the possibilities for student success impacts achieve a achievement in schools. Learn actionable strategies to close this gap by cultivating a shared inspiring vision that that aligns leadership, empowers educators and students and engages communities. Leave with practical tools to drive breakthrough success in your district. Building an environment where all students can thrive. Thank you, sir. So, that is a perfect tea up to the teach and learning academic update where vision drives everything. with that on top of it and your
027team Mrs. Sus TIA part of this we have our teachers here today too we do at this time I'd like to invite all of the team who's going to help present this evening madame president good evening Dr. Quig, members of the board, it definitely is a team effort in um all things TNL. And so today, we've invited some special guests to assist us. Um as Dr. Quig said, everything we do, we always try to anchor back to the vision, mission, and values of the district. Um and today we're going to talk to you about a couple of different projects that we're working on. Um we're going to share the purpose of why we do what we do. Um, we'll explain a little bit about where we are in the process and ultimately just what's the
028payoff, right? All this work, what's it for? We're going to give you a brief update on summer school and the support that we're providing the campuses, the students, the parents. Um, we will talk about lasso updates, uh, learning acceleration support opportunities. Um, and there's a couple of different facets, so we try to break them up this evening. uh we we'll be sharing about blended learning and also we have some great new news uh that we received last week regarding uh lasso and then uh we will um invite our uh fearless colleague Miss SAS to join us and and and tie in the TIA update. Uh but I'll turn this over to Mr. Garcia, director of instructional initiatives for this first segment, talk about the first project. Thank you, Miss Lit. Um, so the first project
029we want to uh talk about in our academic update is of course summer school. Excuse me. So, how how are we doing the project and what is the process and what is the purpose? So, the purpose of our first um so we talked about last month we talked about how the locations where summer school is going to be held, the dates of for summer school June 2nd through the 19th on Thursdays of course. So, our teachers already ready. They're already ready to to streamline summer school. So, we had our first orientation um session that was on April 26th on a Saturday for all K12 teachers that are going to be um assisting in delivering the instruction for summer school and what that was like. Um so, we have a few pictures here just to kind
030of show you a little glimpse of how that went on that Saturday. For that Saturday, we had um all the information for them. Um we gave them a one pager to set them up for success for everything. was all housed. All the information was going to be housed for teachers. Also, um lesson plan templates were shared um how to deliver the lessons and also um kind of just a time for planning for the teachers to collaborate with their respective teams uh for summer school. And then of course, we were there one-on-one helping teachers u look at what are the biggest rocks that we're going to focus on for summer school and how we can tailor our activities and lessons for summer school. So what are teachers uh think? What did they think about our planning
031and orientation day that day? So we did give a feedback uh form for teachers to fill out after the session that was delivered um just to share a little bit about what did you like most about the orientation and planning. I like that we get an overview of logistics and get questions answered. Overall enjoyed the training. Thank you for the hospitality and leadership. Um the organization, if I could give organization of the summer of the summer planning and orientation a 10 instead of a five, I would. Um what I like most about the orientation was how everything was organized. All the information was clearly provided through classroom Google classroom and the one pager made it easy to understand. So getting great feedback for our teach from our teachers of the amount of support we're we're
032providing for summer school leading into summer school. Um just a little update on the process of summer school that we shared that we didn't share last time because now we have a little bit more to share. Um notification for students uh letters will be were sent out on Friday. Um teachers were given um elementary level folders of all the students that would be um required to attend based on the the criteria that is uh backed by board policy. The three criterias of grades, attendance and then uh cumulative data. So we were on the teacher learning side. We did most of the leg work for the teachers. We provided them which students were going to be required to come to summer school. We gave them their their uh letters and handd delivered them on Friday to
033the teachers and to send out to students. In the letter was also the registration link for elementary students to register for summer school. And the biggest feedback that we got from those teachers was thank you. Thank you for doing the leg work for us and thank you for providing the letters to actually send out. That way I just give them to the students and they're good to go. Um for secondary, the letters will be going out this week for for teachers uh for teachers to give out to the students. And then looking at summer school for the high school, we will be having EOC retesting the last week of summer school, June 19, uh June 16th through the 19th. Um and I'm going to invite um Miss Rachel Madano and Wam Bruce who is our
034instructional coach at the junior high to give us an update on blended learning. Thank you, Mr. Garcia. We came to you in April with the exciting news that we were selected to receive the blended learning grant, one of 10 districts in the state of Texas, and we received $375,000 that will cover this initiative for the next three years. We decided to create a visual for blended learning to So that it's classroom teaching, digital learning coming together for that blended learning. So as we talked about our digital learning component is I excel. We've been using that platform since April the 8th and since then our students have mastered over 13,000 skills in over a month and they've answered over 750,000 questions. So again, we're just dipping our toe in first, but we've seen great success with
035the platinum so far, and our teachers are really enjoying it. One thing that Mr. Garcia, myself, and Miss uh Bruce Beltron got to do last week was attend the blended learning summit hosted by the Texas Education Agency and region 4 at the service center. And the great thing about this summit was it the purpose was for to bring excuse me bring everyone that received the grant together and people that are already on year two to connect and start making those connections across the state. We also got to go to Lamarcisd to see blended learning in progress and what that looks like. And we got to connect with blended learning um professional development partners so that we can find ways support our teachers during this new initiative. I'm going to actually turn it over to Miss
036Bruce Beltron who's going to give a campus lens for the tours that we got to go through. Thank you, Miss Fano. So, sorry about that. I'm a little short. So, um I am, as Miss Pano said, I'm the instructional coach at Seal Junior High. And so, we got to actually visit elementary and the junior high campus. And when we visited the junior high campus, I'm going to talk specifically about them because, you know, that's my focus. We got to see all core contents at their seventh grade level. And the really nice thing about that visit was we got, as I said, all content. So, math, science, English, social studies, but we got to see a variety of levels of learner. And we also got to see because it was all contents, we got to see
037a variety of the way different teachers implemented things within their content, which is, you know, different teachers do things differently and so it's nice to get different perspectives on the way they do things. Um but some really important things to to point out was that the every across the board every teacher in every classroom that we saw even at the elementary level the way things had been pushed out by the district the way things had been implemented districtwide was across the board the same. Everybody's the branding of the way things were done was all the same. Everybody implement not the implementation side that was done differently based on the way the teacher did things in their classroom but everything was structured the same. So everybody called things the same way. Everybody had things set up
038the same way but the implementation was done based on the way teachers did stuff in their classroom. So they had some some leeway with regards to their content and their own teaching style and their own craft. Um and they also had like the expectations were all the same. There was always a small group that was done by the teacher and then there was independent work that the students did. There was always a blending of technology and there was a blending of work that was without technology. So there was always this this these expectations of these things happening in the classrooms. And like I said, regardless of whether we were at an elementary campus or the middle school campus, it was the same regardless all the way through. It was just how it was implemented and
039how the teachers chose to do those things was a little bit different. Yes, sir. U one thing I forgot to mention is one thing we saw across the board uh was student ownership of their learning. So they implemented checklist across the district and the the students truly got to kind of decide what they wanted to focus on during that day, but every student was expected to finish those tasks during that week. And based on our learning walks, we're not seeing that right now in Rosstown. So we're hoping that this blended learning initiative will allow us to start seeing that learning the learners take ownership of their their learning. Yes. And so like like I said, some teachers did things a little implementation was a little bit different depending on the teacher. And so in some
040classes we saw where teachers had a digital checklist that the kids could come up and actually check themselves off on the interactive smart TV. And then in some cases they had a paper form that the kids would interact with and check themselves off and then the teachers would check it that way. And in the elementary campus on the bottom left on the far left over there, we that was an elementary student that had his own portfolio where he was checking himself. That's why it's all spread out. So it just it just depended on where we were at and how things went. Yeah, that's a kindergarten student checking his own progress. And that's and that's honestly that's what came up was when we started thinking about this. We thought there are teachers that are already doing
041this that's they just may not know that that's what they're doing. I like the initiative that have taken as far as you tell you tell them the framework and you let the teachers go and mention previousates as far as learning is that every teacher knows where there's a push to be but how you get there is going to depend on them. They know the needs directly. I really like that. that we're already doing that. I know you can hear the excitement, right? They are very excited about this initiative and they just came back totally on fire about it. And um well, we are also super excited and on fire about the new news, right? Um we received notification that we are receiving an additional $445,000 And so um this these funds are directly to support
042math at K through five they they have received 245,000 and then math 6 through 8 up to algebra 1 is receiving 200,000. Now just as anytime someone gives you money right they they have certain expectations certain strings that are tied to it. So um we do have an outline of what uh the grant requires. Um so what is this for? This actually is not purchasing the books or the curriculum. This is purchasing support for our teachers and our students. $445,000 of it. So, I want to invite Malanise uh since she is our textbook and curriculum guru. I want to invite her to share a little bit about the curriculum and um and some of the the work that we're going to be doing with this grant. Started the 200,000 200,000 is for junior high um
0436 through 8 in algebra 1. So it'll also touch the high school and the alge algebra one level. Can you hear me? Um like she said, we're getting the lasso brand and we are just really excited about this. Um one of the things that we're getting early access to materials today, we're three months ahead of schedule. Today we got 11 pallets of books. So I want to give Trey and Ron and I got a new skill to add to my resume. I can now work a [Applause] So, it was exciting to see because now, you know, now we can have the books in our teachers hands before summer starts. So, they can actually go in there, start digging and, you know, looking through the materials and getting ready for the uh next year. Also, we'll
044all be having curriculum summer camps and sometimes we have these camps through the summer, the PDS and you having to borrow materials or they're just looking all line. So now, like I said, they'll have their own books. So, as they're learning um through these camps, um they'll be able to write in their own books, tag them, and you know, work through them. And as well as teachers, learning from teachers, you know, we learn best from our co-workers or other people that are going through the same situation. So this program will allow teachers across the state and district that are already working on this program to come and work with our teachers. So you know what's better to learn from somebody that's already using it and then also um experts from the company the move on
045it textbooks themselves will be able to come and work with our teachers as well. Um and especially internalizing the lesson plans all that will be done for our teachers and they'll be able to walk through it kind of like you'll guide it step by step on that. So we're really excited about that. Um, like I said, this was today. I did get a picture of me working the pallet jack, but um, you know, in last year, Josh, it took y'all about how many hours? We got today about under an hour. Not a woman. But today we're having issues. And I said, who put these on the truck? Because they did it sideways instead of the right way. And it must have been just a man, right? We got it taken care of. So, we're very
046excited about that. So, especially because I can tell you right now that nobody in our area has got them yet. So, that's it on my part, right? That's it. So, super excited. There we go. Um, I had the privilege last week of going to the service center with 15 rowdy math teachers and I invited two two of them to um and share a little bit about uh Blue Bonnet. So, it really is not new curriculum. It's the Texas version of Eureka Math. So, that's Blue Bonnet for elementary. And it's the Texas version of Carnegie Math and that's six through eight Blue Bonnet. And so, what they've done is they've taken out the national standards that don't don't align with our Texas standards and simplified it for Texas teachers. And so, that's that's why you see
047some cowboy hats in the pictures. And uh so there are two things we did there that day. Uh number one, we had a lot of fun. Okay. And number two, we learned a lot about how to take something that's paper and elevate it or something that is on your screen and how to make it come alive. So um I've asked the teachers to come and share just what they learned from the the conference that we went to and what they're excited about for the new year. Okay. I have Miss Shane W. uh she teaches first grade at San Pedro Fine Arts Academy and she is fairly new to the profession. So she's doing an outstanding job. So good evening. Thank you for uh giving me this opportunity. So um this past Wednesday some of my
048co-workers or colleagues and I attended the blue bonnet showcase and a few things come to mind. um we had the opportunity to network. Being new to the profession, I enjoyed seeing um seasoned veteran teachers um teachers uh that appear to be fairly new like myself. Um, we took some time exploring some of the educational resources that we already have and due to the update coming because of the the blue bonnet change, we got to see some of the ways to utilize those things that we already have that kind of may just sit there on our dashboard. Um, some of those resources had tools that um allow the text to be read that kind of provide, you know, uh, visuals or videos that are more enticing and colorful for our students. Um, and I think what
049was most significant for me was the session that was led by one of the instructional coaches and one of the veteran teachers from Aldine uh, elementary, I believe, or middle school. And uh one of the teachers in particular had basically what she referred to as her TE Bible and um we had the opportunity to go through it and take pictures. But basically uh she demonstrated how she takes lesson internalization like to another level like lesson internalization 3.0. And um just in sitting there the uh inspiration was tangible. And I think that part of my job is not just to teach but to share the joy of learning and to share inspiration. So uh while I was there I was writing as quick as I could trying to get the ideas as they came so I
050wouldn't forget. So, Miss Wyn is here representing our elementary teachers. Uh, and now I'd like to invite Miss Jasmine Mondreon. She teaches at Seal Junior High. She's our math teacher and um she and her entire team were present that day. So, Miss Mundra, come on up. Thank you for having me here today. So, there's a few things that I learned while going into the um event and it was very fun. There was a lot of people. Uh adults scare me so I was like socialized like I rather talk to teenagers than adults. But we did we talked a lot. We were able to meet with those two teachers from Elmore and it gave me so much pride that at the middle school we're doing exactly what they were doing. So I feel like we're definitely
051on the right path at the junior high. We're going to continue to do that and um with our uh department. Um one of the vendors that was there that really stuck out to me that we've already used is Cammy. So Cammy is an annotation website that enhances our PDF files um from Cardi. So we're going to we're planning to do this through Blue Bonnet. Um it gives us all the um it helps with like misconceptions and all of students uh helps us learn the learning gap such as like text to speech um these very languages. So being able to see the accommodations um firsthand and all the different things that Canon has to offer just makes us more comfortable. [Music] Um a lot of socializing. Um we definitely have fun. I my team take a
052picture. Uh, we took lots of pictures. They weren't very happy, but I was like, we got to show our excitement. We're ready. Uh, thank you. So, um, here is a picture of the actual teacher edition that the teacher uses in her classroom, seventh grade math at AldiD. She is a three-time reigning teacher of the year for the entire district and they have thousands of teachers. So, that's says a lot. Um um our teachers on the right got to socialize and ask her questions and we're looking at a strategic partnership bringing that teacher to our district to uh to share her best practices. So now I'd like to invite uh my partner in crime, Miss Diana Seus. We're going to talk to you a little bit. We're going to do a skit for you. Okay, we're
053going to end on a very dramatic moment, but we're gonna share how the human resources side and the teaching and learning side are working together um on this TIA road mapap and how we have uh we are predicting success for our teachers. Um so we're gonna we're going to pretend um I'm going to be the teacher in this conversation. Miss Cus is going to be the administrator. Okay. Actual text message received by one of administrators. Okay. So, this is a teacher in our district. Very disappointed teacher here. After MClass testing, I don't feel TIA, teacher incentive a lotment, is attainable for me. I I thought I taught hard. I'm I'm exhausted and they did better than last year. But even with the growth, I didn't make it. Feeling like a failure right now. Okay. This
054was a few days later. Based on your MClass data and your TA test, if this were the year for data capture, you would have earned exemplary designation 16,678. Two students from being masters masters and receiving $29,796. [Music] What? So this was her response. Wow. So it is attainable. I need to work a little harder. Um so we just wanted to share the conversation. We got permission from the teacher um to to share this with you to talk about how what they're doing in the classroom and and how we're putting it all together and looking at the data to see what lies ahead on the TIA road. But here's what we do know that it is attainable. So you have the road map in front of you. And of course, if we look on page six,
055that's where we're at. I will share with you that on page five, there was some minor changes. We added some additional um places that we stopped on our journey and we um highlighted those stops for you. But on page six, back on April the 15th, uh the planning committee met to continue working on our hand. Our goal is to have our handbook completed before we leave for the summer and I that is going to be completed. We're almost there. And of course on April 22nd, uh we met again to continue. So we're meeting on Tuesdays. It's a schedule meeting every Tuesday. We we devote an hour to it, maybe an hour and a half, but for sure a minimum of an hour to work on a handbook. On April 23rd, the district and the campus
056leadership um we went through the t test evaluation training with NIT that took place. That was great having um having our visitors here from uh NIT and he worked with our administrative staff and took us through that training. On April 25th, our team's department and the T planning committee met with San Pedro and lots to discuss master schedule for 25 26 school year. super important to make sure that all the data on the master schedule is current and correct and that they indeed indicate that they're teaching the full day and not only a period which we found it's just how things are set up but we corrected all that we've already planned that ahead for uh with every campus after we met with San Pedro and lot then on the 29th again we met to
057continue working on our handbook on May the 5th uh we attended a planning committee rule cohort meeting to discuss the next steps. So they said okay now everyone has submitted their their application now. So they shared with us that they had um put together a new guide book for 2425 so that we could use as a guide. And of course we shared with them that we were already working on our handbook that that was so we were ahead of schedule because the guide book is supposed to guide us which we went in and looked at TA's guide book and we get ahead. That's our style just to make sure that we get things done on time. So May 6 course which um we met again to continue working. We do have a scheduled meeting tomorrow
058and we are at the final stages of our planning handbook. So we will definitely meet our deadline of completing our handbook. We're excited with you know on the journey uh and yes it is attainable and to have that text from a teacher really feeling down and you know I mean exhausted of everything that she's done all year and feeling like it was she was not going to be able to to meet Tia. We could earn $16,000 if we would give you the money this year. So, it is attainable. We are excited. So, that's our journey and our journey continues [Music] until the curves from here. Now, it might start a little bumpy bumpy in August. questions anyone on the TIA update. Great committee. Great committee. We are looking forward to attending the first TIA conference
059that the state is scheduling in San Antonio this summer. So, of course, we were all encouraged to attend, especially your first year. So, here we are. We'll bring that report to you hopefully in the next couple months and maybe that road might start getting a little bumpy, but Thank you all so much for your support. Thank you. Thank you everybody. President comment. I just want to thank our teachers and um those who attended that group audit summit. I'm sitting here and I can really feel what our core value of joy being expressed everywhere. the excitement that you all that exudes from we are I just it's exciting and it's exciting to see that what other districts are doing we are already doing that so thank you again continue spread that core value because it definitely
060feels good to see that we have teachers like that represent us at the state [Applause] next item on the agenda graduation date May 23rd 25th Sorry. Next item on the agenda, Mate. Madam President, I'd like to invite Mr. Lober come up and share the good word. We got a lot of momentum. Tough to follow those teachers. Mr. Lber. Good evening, Madam President. Dr. Quake, board members, do not have an entourage. I'm still here. Uh I just want to discuss one quick thing. I did just get an email. So I have some good news as well. Um since we approved the vendor for the fieldhouse, they did the asbestous testing. They did 41 samples and they just came back. I just got the email. So that's been they didn't negative. So no findings. What that means
061for us is we can start our project. Um I think we're going to wait the two weeks because graduation's coming up and I think it'll look look pretty bad out there. dumpsters and things like that. So, we will start the the project on the 26th of May if that's okay. Is there is there a plan in case it rains for graduation? There's always a plan B. We've had the before the size of the participants. So, for that with our fieldhouse, what I'd like to do now, it's okay. I'd like to bring up our partners from being Mr. Smith, Mr. Hines, they're traveling from San Antonio. Um, they are down here on a weekly basis. They are our partners. Um, so without further ado, turn it over to the Good evening, Madam President, Dr. Que of
062the board. Thank you for having me this evening. My name is Matthew Smith. I'm with Be Professionals and PBK Architects out of San Antonio. Uh, my role there is director for that office. Um, you know, we cover central Texas, South Texas, West Texas, wherever we need to go. So, but I'm glad to be here tonight. Um, and when we were hired for this project, our role was to provide construction administration services. Um, and mainly what that entails is peer review services. Um, reviewing what the contractor had provided, reviewing their details, drawings, um, providing pre-construction meetings at each campus prior to the commencement of construction. Uh, and then of course the big part is providing on-site uh, construction observations um, weekly uh, as needed as other issues arise. So that's just in a nutshell brief summary
063of this project for us. Um and then I have Les Hines here, our senior project manager. Uh that's the PM for this project and he's just going to give a quick um progress overview for this particular project. Good evening everyone. Thank you for letting us come and chat this evening. Um we've been working every week since the project started. Actually before um typically uh basically what we did for this project is we did kind of our own overview of what was to happen reviewed what the uh contractor documents provided what they were to do. So every week we've been coming down we do what we call an observation site visit. So we actually come visit the site, walk with the contractor, kind of review the progress, review the you know the details are they installing
064per what the agreement was with the district and then also every week uh we provide a report from that visit and then are meeting weekly with the district with Mr. Ron Dr. sometimes when he's able to break away and join us and the contractor which roofing. So, we typically kind of review what's happened that week, talk about, you know, what conditions we find, you know, if there's something of concern, we discuss it. We always ask uh Mr. Lber, you know, we have special concerns for this campus. So, we discuss these items weekly. Um, so that's been actually I'll say really a refreshing experience. It's been of a partnership with the district with us and the contractor. That's not always the case. Um the contractor has been responsive. Um really they've been quick to identify items.
065Some of that they're identifying on their own and correcting things. It's construction. Things don't go perfectly. Um then I'll give you a little report on where we at our progress. Maddie Hattie Martin is done. Few punch list items to confirm to make sure all the items were corrected that we identified at the end of the construction. But basically it's it's completed. Seal we just conducted a uh punch list. So we'll be following up to make sure things are verified and completed there. Our keys is ongoing. We're probably want to give it about 65% complete and then work is yet to be begin at the high school. Probably I'd say we're probably about two weeks out there schedule not quite on track. There's been some weather. There's been a few things come up that's impacted that.
066So that's kind of it in a nutshell kind of what we've been doing and kind of where we're at. Mr. is going to be with the demo and all that. So we put the new roof and we're thinking of putting AC units up there. Did you say how's that going to affect? We we just had a pre-construction meeting. We were actually had the meeting on top of the roof for that one. Um I don't think that's going to affect it because the work that they're going to do right before before they they arrive is going to make it further. It's not going to get in the way of anything we need to do or the demo. So, um when I talked to Fernando with the demo company, he mentioned that to him and he said
067that's not going to impact anything what they're going to be doing. So, I don't see any problems from the demo or Okay. So, yeah, just my concern was we put in the roof or whatever to the changes that we make on the construction site. I don't know how it's going toffect Cap, right? So, there's some existing units that were there that are abandoned and in really bad shape that are actually being removed. They're not really part of the roofing, but they would allow water to continue to enter the building. So, those are we're still working with the contractor, but the plan will be to remove those and cap those curves. So part of that is to leave those curves in place and cap them. So if say during new work you needed to use those
068curves and not have to punch new holes, it would be available. So and and the demo will begin at the fieldhouse first as well. So by the time you get over to the red building, we should be pretty close to being done. We don't remove them. We just put it. No, definitely not. No. And we and I don't remember the gentleman's name. We had someone Rudy came over and actually walked with us just to kind of confirm what is abandoned, what is staying. So, and the roofing contract was on the side on the roof at the same time. Thank you. Okay. Thank you very much. I just want to uh commend Beam, PBK and Beam. The professionalism is nothing short of tremendous and you guys auditioned for this gig. We know that a lot of
069the contractors does a great job. We're not accustomed to the board district hiring of interest and you all have been meticulous. Haven't missed a single report. I read them every Friday. your meetings on time at 9ine start on time. Everyone has been so collegial because Coriel's on the call. You're on the call and we're all working towards the same goal. There's a synergy in the groups that are working on this project that are going to really have an impact on our kids and our staff, our students, and really our broader community. So, I'm just grateful again. Thank you all. Thanks. Thank you. Sure. On the time, on the time, you mentioned that we were kind of off schedule. What What is the projected end date to complete all I would I think we're looking at
070early June. Yeah, we were we the contractor was working toward the end of May. I know we've had a few more impacts. So, I'd say probably, you know, a couple of weeks into June. But then after the high school, the elementary No, just repairs. Okay. Is there anything that we're going back on the elementary? Yeah, he's come back twice and it's it's almost every time he comes back there's a new league. So, we're trying. Those were the ones that are with all this rain that we had. Nothing at Seal, nothing at Hattie Martin, nothing. But the leaks are still at some of our elementaryaries and we try to get them, you know, they take pictures, we mark them, I bring markers back, but it'll be something different the next time. So, those are pretty hard
071to to get. Once we get some Whenever he comes back, is he charging us? Sometimes is it? How much is it? Um, do you have a how much has the price the price on it? He hasn't charged us yet. No, we keep calling char. Yeah. Some some of this repair work that he already did. Say, "Okay, I'm guaranteed that we go back and do that again." So, I know they're coming back to do a few more after this last rain. that they're making a lot of progress that the work has been extensive for and I and I do think part of the success right with being is they set the expectations early for Cory knew that these guys were not you know they were going to be here on site every week set the expectations.
072So a lot of times in the meetings um they're calling some call outs but it's already been addressed by coro based off the previous visits that they've made what they're looking for. So I do think it's been a great partnership for everyone. I mean the meetings have always been very beneficial to us. We have our input or has your input has input collectively. It's been you know been really good project for us questions. Next item on the agenda, safety report. Yes, Chief Dway is coming up. Evening president trustees Dr. Qu um the part of gold award. I'm not sure if you all it's a rebranding of our life saving award. That's why I would be the one presenting it. Uh basically we change it up. I received I give it to our selection committee and
073they give me back the results from that. So that's why I going forward be called our safety update for the month of May. We received another audit from our int detection audit from the service center. Again was a law speak and we passed. So good. They really like coming to our districts. Um we do have a date set for our summer district committee meeting for June 4th. Uh we will be sending out involved. Uh did receive an update on the signs and crosswalks. I in contact with Chief Mez. He advised me that they are still working on the sign the signage for our school zones. And then uh I made contact with the street department with the city of Robson on street department directors. They're advising they have completed the intersection crosswalks. Uh the only
074one that they're not allowed to go with the responsibility I guess with with the uh text do is for the high school crosswalks. So the one responsible will be reaching out to them. Also, uh we also received the our six set of our open gate weapon detection systems which have been placed at lost beach. They have already trained with the staff and they already utilizing that front of the school. The uh last part is our update on our law speech sidewalk project. We have been meeting myself and also requested meeting with the city officials, county officials, department heads. Uh they all supporting the project. They've all told us pretty much in every meeting and you know anything for the kids. So they are helping us out. Um with the detailed application for the uh hospital
075project the rubric is a little bit more detailed. They're requesting support letters. So we have been reaching out and in the process of collecting support letters from uh the community as far as who have been involved with that project. And uh we were approved for a engineer from tech. We are they have assigned one from Corpus and we're just waiting for the dates for them to come meet with us to walk the area so they can see what the pretty much besides the diagrams and everything we've given them what further we're going to need for the project. Are they going to be here? Are they going to be already put before the year starts again? They're trying as quick as they can. But I asked basing all the signs. Okay. Crosswalks. You said which ones
076were already completed. They said all the intersection sidewalks were completed. The only ones they could go to was the high school. Okay. Because like even out here in the front here, there's like a crosswalk that's like faded like the, you know, I guess. So they did one over here, but then there's like a second one over here. And then there's speed bump over here that you could probably lose a muffler before you actually see it. You know, it's like need to probably be redone there on that one. And I noticed that there was right between Ortiz and I think there is no crosswalk and these kids are just crossing all over the place. And then on the HGTH, but also Yeah, that's for the officers. Yeah, they I mean there's like and then the people
077that park, they're just parking right there and the kids are having to go around them and stuff. So, it's kind of very dangerous on that. Thank you so much, sir. Any other questions? Next item on the agenda, list of bills. So, the list of bills is in your packet for your reference. If you have any questions, please email Dr. Qu. Next item, financial statement report. Dr. Quick, thank you trustes for progressing well. Um, I'm confident that the expenditures that we projected and the revenues that we projected are going to be very close. The only concern I have again is the local share which I mentioned previously. Thank you, Dr. Qu. Any questions for Dr. regarding financial statement report. No, we will continue to consent agenda items. I'm sorry. Don't consent. Okay. Go ahead. Okay. Uh
078thank you, Madam President. On trustees, I found if you'll turn to page packet 51, the minutes that particular meeting, just to be clear, you got the the very very top of 51 there's a reference there attendance district's attendance at the time was 93 no it was 90.3 so that should be 90.3 that was from that previous meeting it says compared to 84.7 the previous year that was the tea taker report from 2223 we'll make sure we make that thank you Dr. Quustes do I have a motion President like to make a motion to approve consent agenda items with the amendment made by Dr. I have a first by Mr. Martinez. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Gos. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Next
079item on the agenda, action item, discuss and take possible action of plan of finance in relation to the issuance of maintenance tax notes and time warrants for the construction, acquisition, renovation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and equipment of school facilities, including particularly the fieldhouse. Dr. Qu. Thank you, Madam President, trustees. At this time, we'd like to invite Robertina with Dina Financial Consulting up and walk us through the plan of finance and let him have an opportunity to share how we're going to get this thing done. Good evening, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. and staff, director again, Robert Financial Consulting. I handed out a hard copy and I know Dr. Cle presented this or discussed this with the board last week. There's no modifications other than the dates, a few dates. We're originally looking at presenting
080this on May the 5th. So the only difference are the dates. So if you turn to page two for the maintenance tax notice, the board will be considering construction, acquisition, renovation, maintenance, repair, rehab and equipment of school facilities, particularly the fieldhouse and that amount is about 3.5 million estimated. Below that we have the project fund again 3.5 million estimated cost of issuance about 70,000. Total PAR loan amount 3,570,000. As we've done on prior two maintenance tax, no financing, the revenue to make these loan payments will be coming from your M tax rate, your maintenance and operation tax rate, not your interest in syncing fund ins tax. So you turn to page three. On page three, uh the first few columns we have currently outstanding M debt, principal and interest in total. Those are two maintenance
081tax note financings. The one that was done last year in 2024 and those were for districtwide roof repairs. And then the one that was done in 2020, which I believe covered football field, baseball field, uh the softball field, the track repairs throughout the athletic uh fields. That was 2020. So that's the principal and interest payments for those two M financings. Now on the right side, we're projecting for this financing to receive a rate of about 4.8% % almost on top of the loan and interest rate that was received last year. And the payments won't begin if we receive an interest rate, a bid in July. The first payment will not impact the school district until next fiscal year 2026. The first payment will be February the 15th. It'll be a 15-year financing. We're estimating principal
082and interest payments roughly about 334 average uh principal and interest payments and then we have the total column second from the right and again this is maintenance tax note uh financing it'll be paid back on the M side now turn to page four the timetable we have the board meeting this evening and as you've done in the past as you did in the fall approving this item does does not mean the board is going to do the financing. Does not mean the board is committing the district on this loan. All you're approving today is allowing the consultants, my firm, your bond council, McCall Parkerson, the placement agent, the working group to work with Dr. and the staff to get a financing package together and we'll go ahead and distribute that at a later date. So,
083on May the 12th, again, seeking that this item is approved, uh, the placement agent will submit a bid, uh, pretty much a term bid sheet to the banks, uh, this week, tomorrow, by Friday at least, and the bids will be due on June the 16th. When we say bids going to the bank, the document, financing document that's prepared by your financial advisor, bond council, the placement agent consists of your audits last three years. presentation and about 50 pages of legal information prepared by your bone counsel that goes out to minimum 25 banks in state and out of state and local that includes Frost Bank and within South Texas in the valley and again banks as far as Utah and up in I believe the Carolas there's one bank there that will be participating. So again,
084not only the Texas bank will see this, there'll be banks outside of Texas. So on June the 16th, if we receive a bid from a bank, we'll present at that evening the lowest interest rate on June 16th. And I believe that will be a special board meeting. And at that time, June the 16th, is when the board will consider the financing as final. The interest rate will be locked in from year one to year 15. It's not going to be reset. It's not going to fluctuate. and it will be presented on June the 16th and at that time if the board approves the item the funds will be received at closing Eva will provide us with the closing wiring instructions the winning bank will wire we will not the winning bank will wire the funds
085to the account information provided by the district on July the 17th. So on page five we have the working group Robstown Independent School District financial advisor bond council McCall Parkerson and Horton the placement agent FH the purchaser paying agent purchaser council is to be determined will know on June the 16th the winning bank and if they're going to be the placement agent and who that date those two items will be filled in on July the 17th taking it back on June the 16th when we present it to the board for consideration. I know it's a lot of information, but it's the same process as the board took last fall for the districtwide repairs. Dr. I thought I may be a little behind, but I thought it was 5 million. It is 5 million, but not
086we don't want to borrow 5 million. So, we're only borrowing 3.5 and we're going to take the rest from fund balance. So, we didn't want to go 5 million and put everything uh in the fieldhouse on loan essentially. So, what what what is that going to make our fund balance after we do that? Well, probably about 11. Okay. 11. So, we're in and still in a good spot. Uh remember we went over last week where that fund balance good spot was and we don't want to get below seven or eight but it will be 11 million. Right. Yes. Now, um again, we'll see how we end up with the year. right because you know we we adopted a deficit budget so we'll see what the final projection is but we're in a good spot to
087do this at one at 3.5 I don't know I don't know if you're going to know this off the top of your head but do you know how much longer we're going to pay for the old loan for the current field the current house is paid off it is paid off for the Yes. Only cost 2.1 million. It was paid through fund balance. No finance. That will be on page three. Yes. If let's see the columns title right below maintenance tax note series 2025. Yeah. But does this include the rest of the debt that we have on the M on the M side? Yes sir. The first three columns below currently outstanding M debt. Those are the two business tax note loans that uh the district went into in 2020 for the turfs in the
088the track and also last year's loan for the district-wide roof repairs. Those are your principal and interest payments. The first three columns and then the total for those two loans. The next few columns is the proposed estimated principal and interest payments for this loan. And then we have the total for all three being the second column on the right hand side. About 1 million 20,000 for fiscal year 26 uh through fiscal year 2029. And the last payment on the new loan is 2040. Last year's loan in the fall for the districtwide roof repairs. The final payment it was a 15ear loan also 2040 the turf will be paid off in five years in 2030. We did a 10year structure on that based on the company that provided they had a 10year life expectancy on those
089fields and track and this is strictly just your debt not the Dr. Quick recommendation. I recommend we approve the plan of finance as presented. The trustees again, we don't want to buy off the whole 5 million, which is why we did 3.5. We're in a pretty good spot with a fund balance and we want to maintain an opportunity to finance just a portion of it. Trusty, do I have a motion? I have a first by Mr. Mesa. Is there a second? Second by Miss Gable. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. You're very welcome. Thank you for allowing us the opportunity to represent the school district. We appreciate everybody and good evening. Thank you, sir. Next item on the agenda. Discuss and consider taking
090possible action on an order expressing official intent to reimburse the tax exempt obligation proceeds cost incurred to construct, acquire, renovate, maintain, repair, rehabilitate, and equip school facilities. I didn't want anybody to assume that I wasn't grateful for the opportunity on the prior item. On this item, I normally attorney at home. This is something your bond council prepares. Again, for the record, Robert Financial Consulting, uh Jay Huades is your bond counsel from Macall Park. But this item, the reimbursement resolution, allows issuers in Texas, city, counties, and school districts that if you want to start working on a project, you're going to borrow money and you're going to enter into a loan, but it's going to take a while to get that money to start the project and you need to start the project ASAP. We're not
091saying that's the case here, but just in case you need to do something on the project, the fieldhouse, you can use funds on hand from the I'm just going to make up a number 100,000 towards the project. You approve this reimbursement resolution. It legally allows you that when you receive the funds at closing, if you approve the item on June the 16th, and the money is wired to the school district on July the 17th, anytime after that date, you can take a 100,000 from that account, what we call bond proceeds account, and put it back into the general fund. You're reimbursing yourself legally. This item will is a resolution that your staff will always keep in hand. It is legal. The IRS accept it. If this item is not approved and something does happen where
092you do use cash on hand towards the project, if you don't approve this item and then you were to transfer bond proceeds to the general fund, you can't do that. The RS will be able to track that down and wave a red flag and point that out to the school district. So all this is is just a safety net to legally allow you that if you need to pay something ahead of time get the money, you can do so and it doesn't mean that you have to take that money from the bond proceeds and put it back. This just allows you to legally do so and trustes we did the same resolution last fall with respect to Thank you, Dr. Quick. Your recommendation, sir? Uh, I recommend we approve the order expressing official intent to
093reimburse with tax exempt obligation proceeds, cost incurred to construct, acquire, renovate, maintain, repair, rehabilitate, and equip school facilities, including and particularly the fieldhouse. Motion was first by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Messa. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you everybody to see everyone at our lunchon at the SLI lunch at the child. Guests are invited and staff are we're going to be working. Sir, we love they got to give you a break there, but we hope to see everyone. We don't take breaks over there, sir. Next item on the agenda discussing consider resolution adopting a one-time employee retention incentive payment. I want to make motion to take because I want to have more discussion on what our debt. And I know Mr. Martinez
094couldn't be here last time. So we need to have another trustees. I have a motion to table item C. Do I have a second to table? I have a first and a second to table. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. All I do here okay so it was a 34 you have a We're think well let me I want to just refer back to Dr. for him bringing this after that meeting. Go ahead. So, is this resolution? I I am recommending a one time employee retention payment and I want to make and I appreciate Mr. Min's point of view. Absolutely. But I want to emphasize something here during this discussion last week. We talked about tradeoffs and right and I want to make sure if we're doing this, we can do
095anything but we can't do everything. And I do think it's important that we empower, inspire, and invest in our students. Right now in our staff right now, there is a war on talent, period. Whether it's a bus driver, there's a war on talent. And everyone here knows I'm very conservative with the way that we do business here, right? But I'm also a realist and understanding that, okay, if we need to invest in our staff, let's do it. As long as we understand there's some tradeoffs we're going to make down the road. And and I I have to emphasize our staff is the most important resource we have, but as long as we understand everyone at this table, it will require us to have some tough conversation about other things later. That's my ask your CEO.
096But I would like to recommend this. We've carved it out very very uh carefully and I hope that um we'll support it. That's not dismissing the concerns, the questions that we all have about this actually, right? We have to respect and honor that. these questions. My only thing was we never discussed amount. I mean that's that's why I mean you didn't see XML I mean I mean um that was actually discussed at the previous meeting when tabled so initially since we're on discussion which really should be point of order but discussion um initially and again for the record I brought this at last meeting after speaking with Dr. Quake. Dr. Quig called me and he did express concerns and he said he would have liked to look over the budget. Um that was my reasoning
097for tableabling and if I may Dr. Quig. Dr. Quig said you know you do that. Looking at the budget if it allows maybe more. He never said he would do more. He said sir look into the numbers. He was going to do that. I apologize I wasn't here for that budget workshop the last week or yeah last week but however at the end of the day with him looking over the numbers and I'm sure that he works side by side with Mrs. Neto's here um if our CEO feels comfortable now had he come over here and said you know what the numbers don't look too good um you know okay well then it would have still it would have still been brought to the table because again that's what I recommended at the last meeting
098uh but now Dr. has come back and you know again he did say trade-offs and we are going to have to have those difficult discussions but as he as he mentioned there's a war on talent right now uh these vouchers just came in and I truly do believe that investing in our teachers at the end of the day is investing in our students because keeping them here will keep them to get educated keeping our staff here will get our students to where they need to be well you had said 500 and you said possibly more so that's why I but right now there's a resolution in here Mr. Mr. Nissa and it specifically has the number amount and just for the record it says 500. He said he couldn't do any more. So again, it's
099500. It's here in the resolution which I will read before um we if you would allow me, Madam President, to read this before we vote and then we'll just move on from there. Well, I would I would just like to say that I I appreciate everyone wanting to table it because it is important that we discuss this and I mean we're all adults and we need to respect each other's opinions because that's why we're here. Was this not discussed in the last version? Well, I just want to state that we're ready in May and I believe Are you going to tie this to something, sir? Like attendance or or everyone's going to get it. Is there The eligibility is outlined. It's in the resolution here. Okay. So, we need to have some time to let
100that work. Correct. So, like if we were to table it to next month, like what would that push it back to the following year? I just felt like we didn't have enough time to table it at this point. Uh, I don't think it needs to be kick kicked down the road. I just think we need to to unite around the mission because I agree with Mr. Cantu's point and Mr. Min and Mr. Messa. I we already know, you know, the trade-offs that have to be made, right? We're committed to when we weren't board. I mean, I left the building thinking, well, we're not going to pass what 8.1 8.7 or I mean the def deficit Debt or deficit? Deficit. 2.5. 2.5. What was the 8 point? That was the debt. M debt. Okay. Sir, so
101that was the reason I thought you were going to not make the recommendation. So yeah. And to put in perspective again, let's go back to nothing good at the time. I don't know. I took it. I mean, if if I may, if I may. I mean, we've already discussed this several times. We've discussed it several times. It's been brought, you know, Mr. Martinez has already brought it. He brought it for us. We tabled it. We revisited it. So, I think that it's to the point that we need to just say, you know, this is what we're going to do or this is not what we're going to do. And in my opinion, it needs to be the who before the what. We need to take care of our staff, our teachers because they are the
102we have given what you know I mean but with challenges that we're facing now every year it's a different thing there's challenges we're facing so we need to consider that you know we need to we need to look at that right now I don't think anybody's saying don't take care of what we understand we've been more than generous I understand but my thing was when he said 500 and he said well we can probably do more I I mean I thought we were gonna discuss a number and that was never even but I guess00 well the number was gonna be brought up by Dr. And and if it wasn't more well obviously because he feels we can't do more but and you know I just you know take that the if you go back to
103the last two audits go back three audits the fund balance is excessive excessive what auditor said we have too much money yeah we have too much money but you start to spend it strategically Okay, last audit we went from 9 months of fund balance to 6 months of fund balance. We're spending down on a lot of projects. What is unique right now in the in in the education space right now is there is legitimately a challenge in recruiting and retaining our staff legitimately. And it has forced me to even change my mindset and re-evaluate. The most important thing we have to be able to do is to change our minds. When you think about the long-term objective and our long-term objective is to keep our staff here, that's it. Now, as long as we understand
104that we're all going to be fiscal strategists here, and when we come to a a purchase, something very, very important that we're willing to say, remember when we invested here, we took that out of fundamental, we can't do that right now. As long as we can really, and I know I'm doubling down on this because like I said, we can do anything. We can't do everything, but I think investment establish very, very important. and uh weighing it out. If the fund balance wasn't as robust as it is, it's not even a conversation. But there is an opportunity to do this. It will cost $220,000. Okay. Dr. Fred, you want to state your motion? Yes. I'd like to recommend the board approve the resolution. Recommend. I'd like to recommend the board approve the resolution uh for
105the one-time payment retention incentive of $500 as described in the resolution herein. I'll make a motion now. Seconded. I have a first by Mr. Martinez, second by Miss Wolf. Any uh questions or discussion? Make a comment. Um just to draw a comment to the we've been generous to our educators. Now I want to appreciate Dr. Qu and all his efforts that he's done. Um, but I feel as an educator myself, um, thank you for advocating for educators to be paid what they should be paid already. And I appreciate that. Um, and what I mean by that is I don't consider what we did, although extremely generous, a raise simply because we fought for a fair wage. Again, not to take away from your advocacy. I really appreciate that. what you've done for educators and for
106for everybody. Um so to give this typen um even you know in the smallest amount just to show appreciation to our staff um you know is something that uh as an educator you know it's something that I look at to my leaders as well um and my school district and uh I'm just saying I'm just full of gratitude um for your donation. Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. No. All opposed. Was there any other? No. Only Bobby. Well, you answered my question with the alone. I mean, I was just I was Can we go one by one for the for the record? Available. Mr. No, Mr. Mr. Yes. Myself. Yes. Yes. No. You cleared the amount? Yeah. Okay. So, yes. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Um,
107thank you everyone. Next item. Thank you, Dr. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of the request for early graduation from Rosa Early College High School. Thank you, Madam President. I'd like to invite Mrs. just give a a brief overview of this situation. Thank you, Mr. Good evening again. Um, board policy requires anytime a student uh would like to uh graduate early that um we bring the request to you. Um, of course, for uh for uh reasons, we can't disclose in open the name of the student, but we did include the ID number. Uh the process is the high school um the the student or the parent will visit with the high school counseling um counselor assigned to the individual and then they will consult with the principal. Um I do receive the
108written request. I also receive a transcript and a plan um that is feasible within the um sections allowable for a student to take. Um and so based on the request, uh the student can meet early graduation requirements and the student has requested to graduate at the end of 2526. Dr. Quake, your recommendation. I'd like to recommend the approval of the request for early graduation for Robson Early College High School as presented by Mrs. Trustees. Any first by Mr. Gos second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? Ma'am, what's the process on that? I I know we've already discussed this prior, but once they come in, they have to come like so many longer. I mean, not longer, but more to complete their So, typically they will utilize most students will utilize like summer school um
109credit approval um through egenuity to double up on courses and things like that. Um, I know back in my day, I was a three-year graduate. Back in my day, the opportunities that we now offer in the high school were not. We had to do night school, we had to do correspondence classes, things like that. But, um, the high school has truly uh become such an innovative place where students can either take additional courses and graduate with with not only their um grad uh diploma, but also their, you know, associates degree, or they can just finish their diploma at an earlier rate. And so it is set up um for them to accelerate um through through those uh class periods and they are meeting the minimum requirements um and we're actually asking a little more uh
110so we want them to graduate with an endorsement. So that is currently our standard that you have to still seek an endorsement. So any other questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Miss Douglas. Next item on the agenda is discuss and consider approval of staff development minutes labor. Secret. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, this is normally a consent item. However, we have some new trustees. I want them to be familiar with this particular topic. Want to invite Miss Silvas, would you come up just give a high level overview of the purpose of this waiver, how it impacts what we do for kids. Again, Madam President, members of the board, Dr. Quake. This waiver is a waiver that this district has been submitting for many years and
111this waiver allows the district to use um instructional time for students uh instead for teachers. So it's and we're limited. It's 2100 minutes. That's all we can use. But you can hear even this evening you heard should I say about lasso and the blend blended learning and all the staff development training. It's placed on the calendar as staff development days uh in lie of student instructional days. Of course, we are required to make the 75,000 minutes. In the past, we used to have to workund, you know, the actual number of days, but now it's minutes. So, it's a it's a a waiver that has been helping our district um for many years. And this year we're asking for the waiver for two years because it's a waiver that comes to the board every year. So
112it uh we are allowed the opportunity to to ask for approval for two years. So um you can see on the bottom of the recommendation that we're are we are asking for 2425 and for 2526 school year. But it's been it is a waiver that our district has really put to use. Uh ultimately it helps us improve student performance. Thank you. Your recommendation. I'd like to recommend approval of the staff development minutes waiver as presented by Mrs. Sis. I make a motion to approve. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Any questions or discussion? Sir, when you do these um subject minutes, I saw your email on the 27th. Was it the 27th? Yes. Is that does that also use um 27 um flex day that's different right the the flex day selfcare day is
113something uh and of course you can look at the board policy that allows us to do this FB with the calendar it really is giving us an opportunity to reward all the teachers and staff that have go beyond the the typical day and so we've allowed that day to be flexed um for the PD that they do outside the normal hours. Any other questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Thank you everyone. Thank you Miss Evas. Next item on the agenda, close session. I'll make a motion. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. valuables. All those in favor to go into close session, say I. I. All opposed. The board will now convene in close session and pursuant to section 551.074 of the Texas government code. The board
114will adjourn into close session for the purpose of considering the appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Thank you. [Music] Second by Merc. All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. We're now back in open session. Next item on the agenda discuss and consider approval of appointments, employments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, or dismissal of employees. Dr. CL. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, I recommend as discussed in close session. First, Mr. Vos, second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. I. All oppose. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda, adjournment. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Dos. All those in favor say I. I. All meeting. Thank you everyone. Great meeting. That's what I do.