Regular Board Meeting - April 14, 2025

001Notice is hereby given that a regular meeting of the board of trustees of the Robson Independent School District will be held on Monday, April 14th at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria of Ortiz Intermediate School, 208 East Avenue, Robtown, Texas, at which time the agenda items will be discussed. In the course of the meeting, the board may change the order of business at its discretion without advanced notice. First item on the agenda, call to order. Roll call. Yobos present. Present. Eric Davos present. Chester Martinez present. Lorie Garza present. Not with us at the moment. Bobby Marupine and Mario. Next item on the agenda, moment of silence. Dr. Pig, would you like to lead us in prayer yourself? Yes, ma'am. Everyone, of you still just bow your heads with me, please. Father God, we thank you for

002your presence this evening. And Lord, we ask that the Holy Spirit move through all of us in this room. Help us, Lord, to acknowledge and embrace, Lord, and accept your lordship. And Lord, let us be filled with joy that you are giving us the opportunity to serve the children of Robstown ISD. And it's in all of this that we pray in your son's name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Dr. Quig. Next item, pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Texas one state. Thank you everyone. Next item on the agenda is our vision and mission statements. Trustees. Our vision statement is um to ignite brilliance and impact lives by providing transformative learning opportunities that empower

003students for generations to come. Our mission to empower, inspire, and invest in our students and staff, igniting the best version of themselves. Together, we positively impact our community and the world. Thank you, trustees. Next item, public participation. Miss Eva Belinda Lanise. Madam President, for the record 603 Babin present and for those wishing to speak um in accordance to policy beed local, the Robson ISD board of trustees welcomes comments from citizens on any agenda items or non-aggenda items at any regular board meeting. In the event of a special board meeting or board workshop, public comments will be limited to agenda items only. Those wishing to address the school board must provide their name for the record and observe a threeminut time limit. During this time, the board of trustees may not respond to the citizens concerns

004as per the Texas Open Meetings Act. I'm going take off my my admin marker pa hat right now. First of all, I want to thank everybody in the audience, school board members, Dr. Madam President, um I want to thank you and I'm not going to cry, Lori. Um I'm gonna I want to thank you first of all for all the support that you've you've shown the powerlifting team, the girls, the boys, and all of our kids. Um you know, they've done they've surpassed everybody's expectations. They didn't just win one, not two, not three, but now they have four state championships. But as I walk walk the halls of the gym and in their makeshift um weight room right now. There's nothing nothing to leave these girls marks as they go on. You know, we have

005five seniors this year, but like you know, Coach Gonzalez's daughter was a state championship state champion. Um, you know, we've had several state championship girls, but there there's not a picture of them anywhere, you know, and the last time that they've updated the thing on the wall of, you know, their state championship was back in 2022 when they first won their first championship. And, you know, all I ask is that, you know, these girls, you know, just like the baseball team in 1989, everybody still remembers that. I just think that these girls and these coaches deserve a little, you know, recognition to last in the or in the gym. You know, I've ordered the banners in the past and somehow they disappeared. I don't know. But if I have to buy them again, I will.

006But I just think that, you know, I know there's a b a basketball one in there from several, you know, that group of girls went far into the playoffs. I would just like something to remember the last four. And I hope that they continue to win state championships, you know, just for it to be, you know, known. This was something that made Rothstown proud. We went the first years and everyone's like, "Rontown, where's that?" Now, you go ask anyone where Robstone's at or what team to beat, they know it's Rob, you know. So, I just think that, you know, that's all I ask that, you know, we remember them and a great honor. Um, another thing is too, and I know it's a little bit hard with budgeting and everything, but like I said, we

007do have five seniors leaving this year going on to their other journeys, and I know this year they didn't get their state rings until November, and I know it may not be possible, but to get them before they leave elsewhere as they go represent Robstown in a bigger way. Um, I just ask that. And also, don't forget to support our powerlifting team and get your state championship shirts. Thank you. Kelsey Moreno. Hi, I'm Kelsey Kto Moreno. I am the parent of two kiddos that attend Robert Driscoll Elementary. I just wanted to come up here to let you all know of an incident that took place on April the 3, Thursday. My 5-year-old son was able to leave the school premises and It has taken me almost a week and a half to be able to

008have a face to face meeting with anyone or to see any type of resolution coming my way. To me, in my honest opinion, that is a little bit too long. Thankfully, um I had a meeting with Mr. Garcia today and I feel confident that him and Mrs. will handle the situation going forward. But for the first week that after the event occurred, I feel like it was kind of being swept under the rug and it wasn't taken seriously. But I just wanted to bring that awareness to you all. I know it is being looked into, but this was a serious safety incident that should have never occurred in the first place in my opinion. He's 5 years old, was walking around by himself unattended at the parking lot and that should not have happened. So

009I just want to bring this to your attention. I confidence that Mr. Garcia, Mrs. Douglas will be handling it going forward, but again, almost a week and a half, it shouldn't have gotten to that point. I feel like I should have had some sort of resolution before that because luckily nothing happened to my child, but what if it was another child and something did happen? This needs to be looked into. I think we need to make some major changes across the board in our school. I want to bring awareness to you all. Thank you for giving me the time to [Applause] speak. Agenda, awards and recognitions. Dr. Quake. Thank you, Madam President, trustes. At this time, I'd like to invite Miss Alejandro for the recognition portion of our meeting. Um this is my cue to

010coach Sanchez and coach uh Mr. Chief God. Uh good evening madame president and board of trustees and Dr. Quig. Um we are going to skip over the heart of gold award this evening. Um our recipient couldn't be here so we will be recognizing her next board meeting. So we're going to skip on to the cotton picker historical artifact. Okay, tonight we are proud to dedicate this original cotton sack. And well, we can unveil it now and enjoy the story as I tell you this story. Tonight, we are proud to dedicate this original cotton sack, now beautifully preserved in a shadow box, as a tribute to the hardworking spirit that built Robtown's legacy, and to the people who made this this legacy possible. This cotton sack comes to us through the generosity of Mr. Juan Johnny,

011a lifelong resident of Robstown, and his wife Yolanda. In 1989, while planning a graduation celebration for his daughter, Mr. Bermita searched for authentic items to honor her true to honor her true as a cotton picker. He had everything. Tripods, scales, water barrels, but he needed the most symbolic piece of all, the cotton sack. After much encouragement from his wife Rolanda, Mr. Ramirez approached Mr. Alag and This is Mr. Chris Almag. Mr. Almageddorn on January 8th, 1909 in Sio, Mexico, was the first milk man in Robstown and later a crew leader for migrant cotton picking families. He and his wife Wana raised 16 children, 11 of their own and five nieces and nephews, and lived a life defined by hard work and service to others. He and his family pulled cotton here in Robtown and across

012the state of Texas, often transporting other families with him in his truck. He truly embodied what it meant to be a cotton picker. Thanks to Mr. Almag's generosity and deep connection to our community, Mr. Ramirez was gifted not one but four cotton sacks from Mr. one of which we unveiled tonight as a piece of Robtown's Robtown ISD's proud history. We honor not just the sack but the legacy of Mr. and the countless families like him who shape our town's identity with grit, pride, and unity. At this time, I would like to recognize a few of Mr. Almaya's family members who are here today. I know a few of his daughters are here. if you could come up and um I don't know exactly who was able to come so I don't want to say Okay,

013if y'all could come up here and we're going to take a picture with our board members and you all. And then um also Mr. and Miss Johnny Ramirez and Yolanda Ramirez. If you all can also come up here and thank you Mr. Ramirez for dedicating this gifting us this cotton sack. The cotton sack, by the way, is 12 feet long. I had never seen one. And you know, you hear, you know, people picking cotton and I always thought, oh, like an HV bag sack or something. I never knew that it was 12 feet, some 18t, 20 ft long. So that's 12t. Okay, 14. Google board members if y'all want to come up here. One of them can move thatbody else. Yes. Yes. No, it's not. Nothing. It's probably It took two people to carry it.

014[Music] Mr. would like to share a few words. As you know, my name is pretty much uptown knows me with the exception of all the young ones and everybody here probably is younger than I am. So anyway, John John his first of all just a few words. I would like to thank I call him Mr. Superintendent. I'm going to thank you very much because of what took place with you. It wouldn't have worked out because you and I had some good works. And of course, Mrs. Katya Alejandro, thank you very much, Mrs. Katya. I certainly do appreciate it. Board members, I don't know you personally, but Rob Rob Stonians, I know you well. So, thank you very much for having me here and for accepting our donation, which is that They can sing. Thank you

015very much. [Applause] Mr. Just real quick, it's important to note that Mr. and Mrs. Ramdas just celebrated 60 years of marriage. 60 years. Aging backwards. Beautiful. Beautiful couple. Beautiful. [Applause] Yes, this will be presented or not presented, it will stay at central office in our boardroom. So, yep, that's where it will be housed. Thank you again, Mr. [Applause] The next recognition is the rec culinary students and the food bank presentation. Today we are proud to recognize the exceptional work that we all know and we've tasted of chef Elisto and her students. I would like to call them up and I would also like to invite the representatives from the coastal Mella and on February 20th, 2025. February 20th, 2025. These students and chef Ellie Zondo participated in the Super Bowl. And I will let Miss

016Mikella explain more of that because she knows everything. Good evening everybody. Um we just like to uh make this presentation to this extraordinary group of students that y'all have here from Rockstown High School and Chef and he's on the on February 20th. They joined in with 22 other um restaurants and caterers in the postal bin to compete in what is called our Super Bowl event. It's a fundraising event to support the postal bin food bank and art center of Corpus Christi. and they joined in with their special soup which was the the yeah roasted pablano uh corn soup street corn the Mexican street corn soup excuse me we had so many pablano soups um but theirs did stand out among everybody um on that day they uh came in fourth place against those other restaurants

017and they were just one shy of being. But what I wanted to say is that these are students. They're just getting their feet wet, so to say, in the culinary world. And it's important that they be recognized for the work that they do and uh along with Chef Alzando. and we just wanted to congratulate them and thank them for their continued efforts because we know that one day we're definitely going to be see them with a maybe a Michelin star somewhere. Um, you know, we we really we really are proud of them and we just wanted to recognize them for all their hard work and uh thank Chef Alzando and of course our students for continuing to participate and support the Coastal Vin Food Bank in their efforts. [Applause] So tonight we want to present

018to them this award, the rising young chefs award presented to Rocktown Early College High School Culinary Department. Chef Edmma Alzando and I want to make sure Samara Samara Lada Vente I Jaylen Montes and Alina Vera. [Applause] in recognition of outstanding culinary talent and achievement and competition against professional chefs on February 20th, 2025. [Applause] And then we also have individual awards that we'd like to present to them. Jaylen Montes, Alina Barera, Sam Lada, and Vicente Ibara. [Music] And just once again on behalf of the Coastal Bin Food Bank, we greatly appreciate their continued support and we hope that next year that they join us again in competing for the best soup at the Super Bowl. And we hope that we can have the whole community of Rockstown come and join them and support them and vote

019for them to be number one next year. We're gonna get a photo. Everyone can. I think we have our last student here for her award with the school board. Katrina with the [Applause] school. How about your [Applause] stinking yellow and the blue of the wind. The next recognition that we have needs very little explanation because after four years the name the Robtown Early College High School powerlifting team. This year, they made history once again by winning their fourth consecutive state championship in powerlifting. An extraordinary achievement that showcases not only strength, but discipline, determination, and relentless Robtown spirit. At this time, I'd like to invite our athletic director, Coach Gage P Gage Perry to the podium to introduce the details of trustees. Everybody here, I want to thank you all for coming out tonight. I've had

020the privilege of coming up here year after year to celebrate these girls. What they've done has been remarkable. And we did it one time and then we came back and we came back to back here and that was awesome. And then we returned the very next time and we were back to back to back with 10 people. And as I'm sitting here today, you know, I'm kind of trying to think, well, even though we're back again, it's tough. That's going to be tough. Everybody want to say it four times. So, I'm going to give you a little visual cue. Anytime you see the number four go up, if you could all just with me yell out the number four. So, we'll try it one time. Four. There you go. So, not back to back, not

021one, not two, not three, but four four time state champion. We have the opportunity to stand up here and celebrate these girls. Um, enough cannot be said. Some some storylines that have been ongoing for literal multiple years. We we watched them mature. We watched them continue to grow. We had transition with coaches. But one thing that remain constant is the hard work and the dedication that they put in. I'm not going to stand up here and lie to you and tell you I was a powerlter. That that would be a lot. Uh, I have coasted before and I have witnessed these girls. The thing about this sport is there really aren't off days. You you rest a little bit here and there, but once the season starts, it's it's all out from there on. Just

022stay as strong as you possibly can to go and defend your crown, which we were very lucky to have. As Mad mentioned, when we show up, people know exactly who we are. They don't really like us. They they we understand it's going to be business. going to be we have a goal to be here and and that's what we're planning on accomplishing uh this year. I'll let talk a little bit more about it. But if there is adversity that struck as recent as the week going up to power, the week going into state, things happened that were out of our control and and they did not stagger. They were steadfast with their work ethic, their energy, their support from one another. And that is the reason that we stand here as the four time state

023champion. I want to bring up coach Sanchez, Coach Breeze, Coach Hernandez. for somebody that got caught on this year to step up and play. [Applause] Good evening everyone. Uh first and foremost, I want to start by congratulating our girls and boys powerlifting teams. Um the success that they had this year was without a doubt due to the amount of support and love that we received from the Rostown South community. Um so you know my hat goes off to y'all. My heart goes out to y'all. Thank you so much. These girls and gentlemen, they they feel the exact same way. Also, um talking a little bit about what Coach Perry mentioned, you know, going into the uh state heat with our our girls, you know, one of our one of our 132 class lifters um comes

024down with with, you know, we we we talked all year about, you know, adversity at some point will strike and how you handle that adversity determines um you whether or not you deserve to be a champion, you know, um not everybody handles it with as much grace and poise as as these ladies do. Um but we went out there, you know, and and we showed that yes, powerlifting is an individual sport, but more so it it's a team effort uh when it's all said and done and you know, we came out on top at the very end. So again, proud of these ladies, proud of these boys over here. They they gave their hearts all season, you know, waking up at 6:30 in the morning for workouts. I I don't know that there's another team

025in the state that does that. Um they show they show the amount of dedication and the amount of heart, will, and and drive that is that is needed to secure a fourth state title. Winning three is is tough on its own. you know, surpassing that, breaking through that glass season, getting number four. That's an achievement all in itself. [Applause] We can't see the Lord. [Laughter] No. [Applause] We do have two students who would like to say a few words. Y'all can come up now. Hi everyone. I'm one of the twin sisters. I'm Taylor Alenise. Uh first I want to thank the board of trustees for you know giving us opportunity to come back every year and you know to celebrate our successes. It's nothing short of you know like gratitude and we just want to

026thank y'all for giving us opportunity to be here again. Um, like just said, it's powerlifting is an individual sport and um, last year I had the opportunity to win my first individual states title as a junior. And so um, my my this year was hard because I knew my expectations were, you know, nothing short title. And like you said, I came down with the flu a week before the meet and it was just it was devastating. And unfortunately, I didn't win the state title. But I know that God has better things in store for me and um I'll continue my power career at UTSA next year. So um like he said it was hard and we still managed to pull through and I think that powerlifting is a sport that everyone needs to pull through

027and you know to pull their individual weight not just physically but mentally and we have been able to do that four times. So um to the underassman I know that you know y'all continue to carry this legacy and I know that you know year after year y continue to get stronger and I'm very proud of everybody and I I know that we can do it again. Thank you. [Applause] Hi, I'm Leise and this year I had the privilege of being of winning my fourth state with this team. [Applause] When I came in my freshman year, none of these girls were here and we had a whole new coaching staff. Um, Coach Perry was here. He's been our athletic director for four years. But I've got to see this program grow and um I've got to

028see these girls grow. And after my sophomore year, you know, I had people asking me like, "Oh, are you a senior? Like, you know, how many girls do you have coming back?" I was like like I'm sorry but y'all are going to have to wait a few years for that for that title. And then even like every year like I've had girls ask me like hey me and my coach are talking about y'all's team like you know trying to strategize how to how they going to come up on top. But um I got to see these girls hard work and from the beginning I knew that that we had it. So, I just want to say thank you to my team and I'm a fish. I know them right now, but I know that the

029future for our program is bright. Thank [Applause] you. Would anyone like to share any words for our girls in our boys? I would. Um, if you had asked me six, seven years ago if I don't twins, they were my students and Matt going to be rockound as power champions, I would have said no way. Um, but here they are proving that uh I'm just super proud of you girls. Uh, proving that you can do whatever you want as long as you want it. Um, my niece is just as well. Um, again, I would have never expected them to go out there and be powerlters, but here you are. And I'm super proud of every one of you who go out there day after day, so early in the morning to do what you got to

030do to bring back that title. And trust me, the pride that runs through all of us is I mean it's incredible. So congrats four times. Um coaches, thank you for your authentication to them and for lifting them up and motivating them. Um again five. [Applause] Next up, we will be recognizing or did somebody have some? I just want to I just want to say to the girls, thank you so much. Um, you know, it it's it's very easy to let everyone around hear the bad about our school district, but you for the past four years have consistently made sure that the positive is being spread. Thank you for representing Robstown well. Um, as Mr. was mentioned, you know, the dedication that y'all put into this, even in your off season. Um, I have my two

031little cousins who I see constantly um working and um I I will I will honestly tell you that I tell them uh season's over. They said, "No, the season just started." So, um uh to the parents um you know, these girls put in their dedication and the timing, but it also takes you to dedicate your time as well to ensure that they are there on time, to ensure that they're at practice on time. Um, it truly does take a village. So, y'all are also lifting Robstown up and making sure that the positive is spread around there. Good things are happening in Robtown and it's girls like this and parents like yourselves, Robsonians like yourselves who ensure that the positive is being spread. Um, whether it's in the classroom, whether it's academics, fine arts, um, it

032really does take a village and it starts with the parents that are dedicated for the success of their children. And um I think that's where our mi our mission statement comes in where we all are investing in our students and staff to um make a better version of themselves every day. So thank you so much to our girls and to our seniors. Thank you for dedicating yourselves to Robson ISD and uh coaches. Thank you as well for your dedication and the dedication you put in every day in day out. Thank you so much. I would like to say a few words if that's okay. Um I just want to say to our girls, our boys, congratulations to our four-time state championship girls. Um what a story. I um I'm proud of you. I for a

033long time I was the only girl up here until just recently Miss Gloss is now up here and I know what it's like and you fight and you fight and you showed up four times and that's awesome. That's very awesome. So you have you have a friend in me forever. You have a mentor in me forever. You have whatever you need. Please reach out. I will be here. Um I just want to thank you for your strength and honestly just your love for pickers because you are the reason that we're all super proud today. Um it's pretty awesome to just not be a part of your story side by side, but just watching it grow really is amazing. I can't even put it into words. Um to the parents, thank you especially She was there.

034I saw her crying and and sweating and doing everything she could. I see her little seat running around everywhere. And it wasn't just for her twins. It was for all of you because that's what real love is about. It's about making everybody succeed. So, Miss Alanise, personally, thank you for that. Um, you definitely have a big heart and balance. I'm It's going to be my honor to see all you seniors across that stage. All of us, all of us up here are volunteers. This is why we're here. We're here for you. We're here for the parents. We're here for the constituents. And we love what we do. Am I right, Tracy? We are blessed. So, thank you for the amazing ride. And hopefully next year we'll be five. [Applause] And real quick, with all the

035amazing things our girls has done, it's it's very easy to to be overshadowed. But I do want to celebrate our young men here today uh who advanced uh to the regional meet. As the boys program continues to grow, we sent seven to the regional meet, four off state, one Rosa here. He's a junior. He's he got third place. He's worth a bronze medal, but he has one more year. And this is coming home with gold next year. So very very proud of that. [Applause] Great job power lifters. You are awesome. Um very quickly uh Dr. Quig, just so we can get some recognition for the girls family can take some pictures, um some refreshments, and if anybody, if Dr. Qu mentioned, you'all want to get their autographs. Um, I'd like to take about a 10-minute

036recess so we can acknowledge and recognize our girls for their great accomplishment and also to recognize the parents. So, at this at this time at 6:39 p.m., Madam President, I'd like to make a motion that we take a 10-minute recess to give our state back to back to backto back state champions the recognition they deserve. Four, one more back or you know what? Four state champions the recognition they deserve. So, um, at 6:39 we have some refreshments. I'd like to make a motion. I have a first. Do I have a second? Second by Mr. Ku. All those in favor say I. I. All in the 10 minute recess. Thank you. 49 to continue with our awards and recognitions. I have the first by second by Mr. say I now back item on the agenda regional

037science. We are going to with great news. Uh for the first time in Rocktown ISD history, we had 46 of our elementary scholars compete in the regional round of the national science and chemical section. [Applause] Among nearly 100 participants from 13 schools across our South Texas region, our students from Robert Driscoll STEM Academy, Lasership Academy, and Sedra Fine Arts Academy stood tall, bringing home medals, trophies, and pride. Please help me in introducing Dr. Amanda Kovalugia to present her students. And I want to have the students come up here. [Music] All righty. So, I'm going to start first with Robert Driscoll Junior STEM Academy and we have Zeus. [Applause] Next we have Oki, [Applause] Jordan Wong, [Applause] John Paul Cortez, [Applause] Riley Chavea [Applause] Andrew Benz [Music] and students if you could please stay up here

038so we can take a Congratulations Miss Riley. We have Thank you. [Applause] Congratulations. Alexander Rodriguez, Benjamin Sanchez, Penelopey Martinez, [Applause] Congratulations Nathan [Applause] Deoniah and William Oliver Mc. All [Music] right. And now moving on to last graduation academy, we have Alios Valdez. Congratulations, Alias. Sweet Nathaniel Boulder Espanza. Anthony Martinez. Congratulations and final one from Zane. All right. From San Pedro Fine Arts Academy, we have [Applause] Disrat Evan Rubio, [Applause] Gabriella Gonzalez, and Noah. Congratulations. Just stand right here. Stand right here and say I also want to recognize some of our students that qualified. They were in the top three or top three when we got there. So Riley Chaveeta is our fifth grade champion, the first overall [Applause] plays second in the fourth grade category. Raphael plays third place in the fourth grade category. Noah

039Alamman placed third place third in the third and under [Applause] category and Nathaniel Volderama placed third in the history category for fourth grade. Um kids y'all make your way this way for a group picture and Dr. Kovia and Mr. want to thank you so much and I know also Mr. Garcia for your efforts in in our student Let's finish this. It's for CCR. [Applause] future right now. She's pretty straight away. [Music] regional students to qualify in 22 [Applause] National Hats off to our teachers to Mr. Thank you so much. Definitely some great things happening as I mentioned not only in the fine arts and athletics but in the classroom and academics as well. So great to our uh state qualifiers and our national qualifiers. Congratulations [Applause] Okay. So, we are actually going to continue with

040academic celebrations and we have our UIL um academic participants who placed in their UIL academic event and I will invite you to um tell us a little bit about that and introduce our students. [Music] Good evening. Back in February, we had our elementary and junior high students compete in academic UIL in Kingsville and we took over 100 students to that competition and they did very well. So, we're going to be recognizing um our students that placed that competition. a little bit about it. Um, it's been growing every year. Our participation in it, the elementary is huge for the district that we're in. Um, between all the schools and campuses that are involved in it, there's about a thousand second through fifth graders that attend that competition. And so each event for each grade level, they're

041competing against 70 to 80 other students. So if they're placing in the top 10, it's amazing. Um, junior high, there's a little less. It's about 600 700 students that compete at that and they've got about 50 in their grade level per event that they're competing against. And then just a couple of weeks ago, we had our um high school UIL competition and that took place over three different days. We actually hosted this year and um it went amazingly well and we have some students who uh placed at that and so we're going to be announcing them as well. So to get us started are our student winners from Robert Driscoll. We have Jose Barza who was six in chess puzzle. [Applause] Then we have Baldin who took six in chess puzzle. [Applause] We have Abigail

042Hernandez, second in project based art. Riley Chaveeta, six in project based art. Lily Tomlinson who tied with Riley for six and project based art. Terry and Selena took eighth in number [Applause] sense. John Huffy eight in storytelling. [Music] [Applause] and John Cortez, eight in [Applause] spelling from Lock Beach. We have Avette signs ninth in chess puzzle. Delila Valoboo 10th in projectbased [Applause] art. Mariela Cortinez ninth in projectbased art. Ria fourth in projectbased [Applause] art eighth in listening skills and Miss Roxy's going to announce junior high. Good evening. Like Miss Swag said, um, junior high has a smaller number competed uh, competing, but CJ I did have a big number of students that showed up. We had about 60 that uh, participated and that to me is great because we share these kids with athletics and

043band and choir, but they still need the time to show up for academics. So, we'd like to start with our sixth grade, uh, Cassidy Bettis. She had third place dictionary skills, third place team in science, and third place team in math. Sixth place in chess players, third place team in science, and third place team in [Applause] math. Clarissa Salasar, third place in science and third place to human science. Jordana Domez, fourth place in informative speaking. Juliana Whitman, first place editorial writing, fourth place dictionary skills, fourth place music memory, and third place team for math. In order to place in team, we have to have at least three students compete in that category to be able to um compete against the other schools for our team uh position. In seventh grade, we have Nathaniel Fion, big

044place in music memory and first place team in music memory. Sebastian Vieos, third place team in number six. [Applause] Zoe Gomez, second place team in dictionary skills. Ana Gonzalez, first place team in spelling. [Applause] Leila Mendez, fourth place in music memory, first place team music memory, third place team in number sense, and second place team in maps, charts, and [Applause] graphs. Yo, third place in music memory and first place team in music memory. Salasad, fifth place in maps, charts, and graphs, second place team in maps, charts, and graphs, second place team in dictionary skills, and sixth place in chess puzzles. [Applause] Himeo, first place spelling and first place team spelling. [Applause] In eighth grade, we have Katie, third place team selling Martinez, second place selling and third place team selling. Last but not least, Aaron

045Rodriguez, third place team. I'm proud to say that we have at least one student place in every single category. [Applause] All right. And now on to the high school. um for the high [Music] school. All right, we have um Andrea Martinez took fifth in news writing and is an alternate on and she is coached by Mario Lombore. For the high school academics, it takes a lot not just from the students but from the coaches as well. It is extremely competitive. We have Josiah Aguilar, fifth in social studies and an alternate region coached by Robert Gonzalez. And then we have a third place team. They are also alternates for region um for current events and issues here. Alexis Garcia sayano and Ariela visa. [Applause] And we are super excited to start getting ready for next year.

046Next year we get the privilege of hosting elementary and junior high here in Rostown. And all the UI winners, everyone want to come up here for a group picture, please. Amazing, sweetie. I [Music] know. Thank you. [Music] What are you waiting for? [Music] I'm going to say my [Music] I [Music] can't say hi. Yes, we do. [Applause] [Music] Where do we go? Hello game. That does wrap up all the recognition and I am just going to say that I'm super proud of all of the recognition today especially the academic ones. There is a lot of great things happening in our district. I hope you all had a few more. Um just a congratulations to everybody again to the coordinators uh to the coaches to everybody involved the parents students who take their time to go

047beyond just their academic work but to do this just for the competition for the fun and u it's incredible to see and I had a celebration that [Applause] success on the So the summer leadership conference will be in San Antonio to the 14th and I believe [Music] everyone last [Music] It was a great I just wanted to I know I had to spoke with you and Dr. Quig, but since you mentioned that this conference is in June, I also check I'm sorry, I also check with Miss Pia um also June 22nd through 26th. uh that is the uh technical safety conference u everybody that conference so uh I'll have more information next month's meeting so um he'll probably give an update but um at our last uh safety committee meeting that we had on um

048Wednesday, last Wednesday, I believe. I want to acknowledge our chief and our social workers. If I'm jumping the gun, I'm sorry, but um so that the committee, the board here can know that our Roside ISD social workers and chief were selected to present at this conference this year. So, I want to just acknowledge them. I'm not sure Chief was going to mention that, but Next item. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, uh, real quick, uh, up here in the screen, we're going to go through a little bit of an agenda here that's cover a topline report. We're going to talk a bit about the engagement, look at literacy, and look at the superintendent leadership advisory council, what we're doing there. introduced them to you last time. In fact, we had a couple here tonight. Quick legislative

049update and update on the accountability ratings for let's roll through this district. Uh we had a town hall April 4th. Well attended, lots of good information that night. We talked about some of the programming in the district, the academic emphasis. We talked about literacy. We also talked about safety. Chief gave an update a little bit on bullying as well at the very beginning of that program, but it was also an opportunity for parents to really see their kids showcased and really we talked about them being ambassadors for the vision district was a really powerful night. Okay, we go to the next slide. Uh this is how Friday this is Corpus Christie caller times. We are making literacy the number one priority in the entire city. All right. And right here is a celebration and manifestation

050of that and it's the book vending machines. I want to lift up the Robstown Education Foundation. They are partnering in our literacy movement. That's a big deal. So really excited there. Every elementary school now has a book vetting machine. They earn coins and it's based on their grades. It's based on attendance. based on their really their character and all the values that we have. Every campus has a little bit different but really the point is this literacy is a gift and we're starting to get that gift. If we go to the next slide, especially since the superintendent student advisory council is critical to having students with a voice, really them feeling empowered to tell us some things they might not say otherwise. Mahandra, would you agree we heard some very candid things from our students

051which is very important. They had a voice and they were very very direct. I put here direct communication uh direct dialogue with the superintendent was was a powerful moment. They really jailed. But it's the opportunity for them to know how to collaborate and how to emphasize teamwork but also how to champion the vision and mission and values in your district. That was that was really powerful. Go to the next slide. I just want to update uh a couple of things regarding the legislative session as it's going to conclude here in May, the first week in June. But as a teacher myself, I want to emphasize the discipline bills. Right now is the hardest job in the world is to teach. It's the hardest job in the world right now to do. It is much harder

052than when I was in the classroom 35 years ago. Now, because of that, lawmakers are realizing that we must have bills that support protecting these the sacredness of the classroom teacher. And so, House Bill three will give some more flexibility uh for teachers with respect to student discipline. Um, House Bill six is specific to discipline. The Senate has a few other bills that are discipline specific. I'll give one tidbit from one of the bills and that's this that teachers if they have to have a child removed they would have to sign off to allow that child back in the classroom. So again these bills are not finalized you can go review them. Uh but again it's encouraging to see that we're making and empowering our teachers and rearing our teachers and allowing them to have

053uh that latitude. School funding is critical. This week we will vote on two bills. House Bill Two, which is the school funding bill, which we think will inject about 7.7 billion dollars into public education. But let's put it into perspective. 7.7 million a billion is still about 13 billion short of the buying power we had in 2019. So put that in perspective. So again, while we are very encouraged that we're going to see an increase I would say, you know, can we do even more than 7.7 billion? We shall see. It's not over yet. Um, so again, some upcoming votes this week, possibly Wednesday is that school finance bill, House Bill Two and Senate Bill 2, regarding the vouchers, education savings accounts. No doubt that's going to pass. If you tracked it at all, you

054already know those that are voting for that. That's a done deal. Okay. And I think that might next slide there. Lastly, you might remember the we haven't had a rating, a school rating since 2021. And part of that is because you might recall that TEA did it what they call a star redesign and they changed some of the standards for the test uh for the 2023 and 2024 school year. And because of that, some districts sued the Texas Education Agency. So ratings have been locked in the judicial system for some time now. Well, last week we had the 15 court appeals uh gave a judicial ruling that says no, you got to release the the ratings. Those 2023 ratings will be released April 17th. They will be made public on the 24th of April. And

055the other ratings, that is the 2024 accountability ratings remain in the judicial system. Thank you, Dr. Qu. Next item, presentation,formational items first on the agenda, Rockstone IC wall of honor project. Dr. Thank you, Madam President. uh trustees. Several months ago, um I was approached by some Rosstown graduates, class of 66 and class of 70 to partner and create a wall of honor. Keep going. It is. Now, we have uh folks that are really fired up about creating this recognition of not just Robtown graduates, but community members, distinguished faculty members that have impacted Robtown. What you have in your hand is just the wall of honor criteria that again two Robstown graduates came up with. Mr. Martinez and I will working look at the major thoughts. Yeah, I just want to first of all thank Dr.

056Qu for the opportunity to be on this committee and thank my fellow trustees here that are wanting to join. Um I do want to make mention that you know at the beginning of this u Mr. McCclary and Mr. Silva myself and Dr. we kind of came up with a criteria as to how these individuals will will be selected. Um it's kind of like a merit system like kind of like a points and um for the most part Mr. Silva and Mr. McCclary have brought many names to the table um and you know they they brought names that they feel that people have contributed to Rob. Um Dr. and the committee now that we have the committee here we assure that those names will be coming to the board um here or our trustees for final

057approval but um I want to thank our my trustes that I mentioned that are now on this and then we'll try to expand this further with community members and such but this is uh just now getting off you know wheels are now turning so we want to try to move forward with this thing for you know with these individuals who want to But of course make sure we're hoping for we're going to convene the committee here soon including members but that's next So I think we would have to so we would for the other committee members know that the board mentioned it no but again I think we have to move that link back to get on the board and maybe some other individuals that they feel criteria. The good thing about these two uh

058Rob graduates that are behind this, they really want this event to have their way and gravity deserves and so I don't foresee the issues with us, you know, making sure we go through the process in the proper way and everyone has a voice in that. I think the do it right and excited about it. a week from this. Well, I'm glad that we're talking about it now because I feel that there's already certain names and I do hope that we all get a list and we put full effort into it because this is bigger than what I believe we all It's going to be we want to make sure that everything. Thank you, Madam President. This time I'd like to invite Mr. Garcia and Mrs. and Mrs. Anise. Who else? And Mrs. Good evening, Madam

059President, Dr. members of the board. Um, we're here to So, of course, um we're gonna be talking a little bit about it's it's my issue here. There it is. Okay. Like Richard um of course everything we do in teaching and learning and our academic updates we is everything rooted to the vision and mission of ISD and then of Robson ISD and our core values. Um today we're going to talk about um the state of assessment updates on start where we're at. We've already had a few rounds of of start testing and is going to give us an update on where we are on that. We're also going to talk about lasso grant um an update to the fundings that we're going to be getting for our blended learning um grant. And then we're talking about

060summer school already, how we're doing on that, updates where we're going to have the summer school and what have you. And then of course some support that we already have lined up for next year uh for next school year. And then of course um we'll also have our our monthly update on TIA. I know you've said this before, but for these acronyms I lasso stands for what? Good question. What does I know you mentioned this before. I just can't. Learning and celebration support opportunities. Good question. Google. All right, we'll have Miss Alanise give us an update on start testing. Good evening again. Just a quick update. Um, we had kind of already gone over this last time. Our T pass test is what our emerging bilingual students take um every year. It's just to see

061how much English language they know. So, we've already completed that. We we had 98% of our emergent bilingual students test. I think we have one absent. Um, and then moving on to our star test or start to or alternate to that is the test that they give to our um our kids in life skills who have a severe cognitive um disability. Um our window is still open up until this Friday and right now we're at 97%. I believe we have one left at Robert School to test and one at SEAL to test and then we will have our 100% completion there. And all of that is um like I said closes this week since we don't have school on Friday. Yeah, Friday. So um Thursday would be our last opportunity. Um moving into STAR, we

062started our STAR testing last week with our reading and was reading language arts and ver three through eight and then English and English one for high school. Um like I said, Thursday is the last window or the last day to test for those and we're at 97% tested on that. And then tomorrow we Everything now goes in windows windows for each star test. We have a two week window for reading and English. Then we have a two week window for science um and social studies and then a two week window for math. And they kind of overlap each other. Um thank you. So here's the schedule. So like I said last week we did reading and English and then tomorrow we'll start science and then social studies. Social studies is only eighth grade social studies

063and then the US history at the high school. And then on science, it's fifth grade, eighth grade, and then biology at the high school. And then next week, we will move into our math and our algebra. So, we're just trucking right off. Any questions? Yes, ma'am. Thank you, Mrs. Bise. You and I were visiting the other day. We're getting a flavor of, you know, how is testing going? I know you talked to your principles and you talked to your campus testing coordinators. want to share with us just that overall feeling and sense of um no I mean actually last week Monday we've never really did it for we've never done this for our CTC's which is our campus testing coordinators they're pretty much the APS assistant principles except for at the high school who's a

064campus coordinator so they're the ones in charge of testing at their campus and you know a lot of It's to me it's gotten a little bit easier that we've gone all online through all these test booklets. But um you know we're it's making sure that every kid test everybody that needs a test test. And a big thing about about it too and I know I've been working with Sherry and the principles and Miss Vanson um is just making sure that our PES is correct because every part of PES and that's so our PES is everything like um demographics. Yeah. So it's I say PE the demographic like they're Hispanic, are they white, what rate are they, are they male, they're female, they're social, they're economically disadvantaged. So when we look at our accountability TA um

065one of course it's all kids in domain one and then they break it down to like we have majority Hispanic and then we're a high econom economically disadvantaged district too. So those numbers play a part into our accountability and then our special ed and our merchant bing. So making sure that every kid is coded correctly in our skyward and then making sure that it matches what we We used to call it cat cat dog. So if it said cat in skyward, it has to say cat and cambian and cambian is the testing platform that we use for tea. So it's is a lot of tedious work and you know human eyes and you know after you start looking about 100 kids and 100 names and letters you kind of like yeah you need a break.

066So I was kind of a little stressed out last week but between me and Miss Bla we've you know I think we're on I can honestly say like right now we're like 99% I can breathe that we're on the right track now. So, any other questions? Madam President, Dr. Quig and school board, I'm here to talk about our lasso 3 opportunity that we got. So, what's amazing about this particular grant is only 10 districts in the state of Texas were awarded this grant and we're one of 10 and we were awarded $375,000. [Applause] So what this grant allows us to do as a school district is really evaluate how instruction being delivered in the classroom by providing funds to get a researchbased intervention program that tea supports allows us to look at our schedules to

067look at if we're going to do rotations. It allows us to look at what the retach opportunities are in both reading and math and then support our teachers along the way. So what we have done so far, boy, it's not moving. There it goes, is we've launched our platform that we're looking at for blended learning, which is Il for math and reading. We launched this by doing a training last red day, April the 7th. And since then, we've had 139 questions that our students have answered in that platform. And that's just within a week, a week of them, our teachers having it. Our teachers are enjoying this platform. They actually gave us some quotes about it. Uh a third grade reading teacher said they launched with their students today. They loved it. They begged to

068get on the next day. Fifth grade math students are loving it. Thank you so much. And they're loving the access to the high quality instructional materials that are built in. And then the junior high RLA said, "I'm excited for ISL. It's personalized recommendations, real-time feedback, and engaging skill-based practice make it powerful resource for helping students grow at their own pace. So, we're real excited about this. We're at the planning phase. Um, a couple of us are going to Houston in May to actually go and meet with TEA and learn more about what's involved with this opportunity. Any questions about this lovely grant? Who did we apply for the grant or how did we who did that? So, 3 gave us multiple different grants. We were awarded two. We were awarded the blended learning grant and

069the technology laden grant. Last month you guys approved the purchase of 350 Chromebooks with the tend uh the technology learning grant. So we were awarded those two and those are both the two competitive grants. The other grants were not competitive. We still applied for two other I think we applied for five total grants and we were awarded two. So the te the te the teaching and learning team partnered with our federal programs director Miss Delma Selenas and then we partnered with Dr. Pu of course to come together about what opportunities we were we were going to seek. So do we have a do we have a writer a grant writer? I'm a grant writer. Everyone here is a grant writer. I've written hundreds of grants in my career. Everybody's got a little bit of skill

070and as as Mrs. Madron said, we kind of bring it all together in the table and pull in what we think might be the perfect response to a grant, a competitive grant opportunity. And I would say nine times out of 10, we get it and there are a lot of competitive grants that are coming out of TEA, too. So, yeah, we're pretty solid. So, it's a Yes, sir. Yes, sir. There's not one specific. No, we came we had several meetings together and we looked at what the requirements were for each one both on the district side, our teaching side and we looked at what the best opportunities were for our district. You mentioned those Chromebooks that we just purchased. Yes, sir. There was how many? and that was under the techn the technology learning grant

071is what allowed us and that one was over 200 oh sorry 150,000 we're trying to get another district that's a loading question how many do we We're actually working on a replacement. Sorry for interrupt. I think I think I think that roughly the the nice thing about the because of who we chose last month, which I want to say is was intest. That's actually going to possibly give us opportunities to purchase more with that same grant. Want to make sure Yes. Because now, like I was saying, now the testing's online. We need to make sure, you know, every star test is done online. We just got to make sure that and we have a plan to swap out those that are being outdated with these new ones, you know, and then they also want one

072to because our instruction is also done on on the computers. I know I know you mentioned last you have some specific for those who are testing, correct? Not everybody's testing on the same day, right? So, I just want to make sure that even with these being purchased or the replacement schedule that we have, it's not going to affect any testing. I'm sure you're on top. I'm sure you're on top of it, but I just want to make sure that we're doing our part to make it easier for you. No, I mean we're really good with us working, you know, helping us what we need for each campus when it comes to testing. So, and just to show you on this graph, what you're seeing here is um 5,96 skills um actual skills in math and

073RA have been practiced since the launch of ISL. We already have 2,244 skills mastered within ISL for a week. That is amazing. Amazing. I can attest to the the perseverance and also the you know just our our teachers going all in with with the product. So I'm very very proud to say that we are really making gains in just excited to see how how long it will flourish within within the the grammar the duration of the gram. like to comment. Um never used well we would like the privilege as well as my district to use it this year for the first time and u diagnostic test. We have found that our students have gaps that go back to like fourth grade. So it's incredible that this diagnostic test will pinpoint what they're missing right. So

074it's very individual individualized. So I'm pretty excited to I like that you shared that Mr. diagn because exactly exactly true to the platform our students um we've we've made a a district goal for the pilot for all our students to go through their diagnostics through math and reading that we have that analytics going into summer school. So when our teachers are coming in for summer school, we already have them all the data for them already. And when we're doing intervention in summer school, we already have that data for them to do small groups intervention. That way they'll be uh using utilizing EXL during summer school as well. And then at the launch of next school year, we've already done the troubleshooting. We've already trained our teachers. That way it's seamless for next school year already.

075Thank you for sharing that. And this is for kinder through 8th grade. I did forget to point that out. kinder through eighth grade in that. Yes. Okay. So, going into summer school. So, summer school we have already slated for to begin on June 2nd through the 19th and it'll be Monday through Thursdays. Fridays our teachers and students will be off from summer school. Our locations for summer school of course will have uh Robert Driscoll Junior STEM Academy hosting their own students and San Bedro will be hosting their students along with long speech leadership students um at their at their campus. Of course we also have secondary summer school going on at Seal Junior High and at Robinson Early College High School. Well, we have planned to support our teachers to roll out um to get

076ready for summer school. We have a few opportunities for teachers to come in, plan, and then also to have a an orientation where they we'll go through the procedures, all the schedules and all the scheduling, and we'll set up some Google classrooms for summer school. Addition uh basically what we did last year for for the relative summer school. On April 26, we'll have a teacher orientation just for teachers to come in and actually get oriented. And then also on May 29th, we'll have our teacher assistant orientation while at the same time, we'll also have our teachers coming in work day to work on any um anchor charts, things like that. Get the materials ready on the 29th. And then also on the 30th, we'll have a summer school workday for everybody that is coming in

077to work for summer school. And we're strategically working with our HR department for staffing. Um we've already sent out the application for teachers to apply for summer school and we've also sent out the application for teacher assistants to apply for summer school and we're meeting with HR, with Snaglin, myself, and looking over those applications and we'reing um with our students that are going to be coming in as well. Any questions on summer school? Okay. And looking forward to next school year. Some of the things we've already um kind of already stamped in for next school year. In our math support, we met with the DSC. We we already mapped out um a sketch draft of our cal school calendar for next year until it is approved. We're looking at just a draft of the the

078the calendar for next year and looking at what is possible um sessions that we can get support for blue bonnet. Moving forward to our math curriculum for six sixth grade and algebra 1. We will be getting support from the ESC. Um we have great feedback from our teachers from six through algebra 1. They really love the consultant from the service center. So we are teaming up with the service center again to have that support for six through algebra 1. Um, also we also have an ongoing implementation support of Exl. We've already talked about the platform for RLA. We met um we've met twice already with um our RLA department at Seal Junior High along with Miss Chavea and the instructional coach over there. It was really great that the RLA teachers from there were asking,

079you know, we want we want additional support. So, we we listened. We talked to the service center. We have a great consultant coming in. We've already set um I think it's every week that we're doing RLA support for for her staff. We have a consultant coming in um almost every week to support and and facilitate PC's with them too. Um we also have ongoing implementation um for for RLA uh ongoing support and then we're also teaming up at the high school 9 through 12 RA. they were really interested in in initiating and adopting Quill, another platform for helping them with grammar and mechanics. So, we've done a training for them. We've also implemented that platform for for high school for RA to get some support for our students in that realm, too. Um, with instructional

080tech, um, probably Madonna can talk a little bit more about Tech Connect, but we do have Tech Connect coming up on July 31st. Put it in your calendars. July 31st will be Tech Connect. Um, and then of course the ongoing support instructional tech will be for And then also Ingenuity we just a refresher training on Ingenuity to implement for looking forward to summer school as well to use the platform on ongoing. Then in the hopper what I'm working on is getting additional support for blue bonnet math for K through 5 and then also getting a a ongoing support for amplified K5 that is our curriculum and then blue bonded math of course for math K through five. working on that in the hopper to solidify instructional support for next year. Mr. Garcia, real quick, will

081you unpack for the trustees just just a bit the amplify facilitated PLC what that looks like, what that sounds like, what it feels like, just so everybody understand what's supposed to happen. The amplify. Okay. Yes, sir. Uh so what we have is we have a great consultant, Matthew Le from the uh ESC2. He's come in. he's um he's done some observations at the junior high and looked at um how we're doing with instruction and we also had our teachers really reach out to us and say we really want some support in the RLA realm with how to instruct with how to improve writing and so I said you know what I know a guy so we talked to Matthew Le is going to be coming in and he's going to help and facilitate how do

082where we should be impacting the teeth what that looks like and then also how we could be pulling engaging activities on how to teach writing and also how to tie it into the amplified curriculum. So, um along with our instructional coach and Mr. Le, they're going to be facilitating the the the learning and also in in helping them unpack how they could best support their students in the sense of in the classroom. And then also what Mr. Le has been doing is working with me, working with the with the campus principal and letting us know really how we're going to move forward in having a great writing program at anything you want to add, Mr. Okay. Yeah. But yeah, any questions of the other support that we're working on or what we have already in

083place that we solidified for this school year? Um, I'm looking at math obviously. Uh, blue bonnets, have y'all looked into that? Have y'all getting a chance to look into it as far as the teachers? So, no. So, we've looked into it, but I'm also working on getting teachers a over you and looking at the different items. You know, there is a slight differences in Blue Bonnet from what they're used to, Eureka and Carnegie. But what I love about Blue Bonnet and Eureka and Carnegie is that those actual vendors worked closely with EA to develop the the curriculas amplify was a little bit different. That's why we decided to stay with Amplify, not move with Blue Bonnet and RLA. Um we didn't want to, you know, move things around too much, but we're we feel that

084teachers are ready for a little refresh with the math curriculum. They've been going through Eureka and through Carnegie for about four or five years now. And so the refresh is is pretty is there. They're they're ready and they're excited. Um we are going to be um I'm actually going to be stamping some opportunities for them to visit the curriculum, our math leads and such like that. So yeah, great question. Any other questions? And that's the academic. Thank you. Oh, good. So close. Okay, Mr. Martinez, we straightened out our road. Uh because we did we straightened out a road because we're on the home stretch essentially is why we decided to straighten it out. We've been on this journey. We actually found out we started this journey back in April of 2024. So a full year

085later. And the most exciting point that is up there is back on March 8th, we did um submit our application to the rural cohort and we had to sadly wait until March 31st to get feedback as to how our grant was written, how our application was written. We had three changes. We forgot a year under one of the questions. So we had to add 2026. We had to add uh change what we're going to calibration. So instead of by department, we're going to do it by dimension. And we had to add a statement that essentially the instruments that we chose are validated by TEA. So those quick changes were made on March 31st and we did officially submit our full TIA application to TEA at that point. So the due date tomorrow, two weeks ahead

086of ahead of the game since that phase one, what are we looking for for phase two and so on. The next uh two things that are on our plate as a committee is sometime this month we are going to meet with uh N. We did have a date but it does conflict with testing. We are looking to see when Robert Stell from NIT is able to come back and do more calibration training. And then the TIA planning committee is meeting on May 5th with the rural cohort to tell us what the next steps are. We should find out by August if our TIA application was accepted. And that is our TIA update. We're very excited. Okay, now the updates. Do you have anything to share? So, Dr. PL on TIA. No, just the level of

087focus and dedication. It's a very meticulous process and the level of care and careful planning and preparation has been exceptional. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next item, M update. Thank you, Madam President. Professor Loberg, we go. Ready. Good evening, Madame President, Dr. Quig, uh, distinguished board members. Excited to talk about continued progress that we are making in the maintenance and operation department. I'm going to hit some high level items. I'll start with our HVAC project. We did do our final walk through. The engineer was very pleased with the work. Um, he is going to, if he hasn't already, the letter of statue completion to be submitted. uh roofing project, seal's complete, Patty Martin's complete, and as you drove up, you probably saw some of the construction going on here. They're currently on

088this campus now. Um with testing going on, they are having to uh delay some things so the kids can take the test with no distractions. So, that's happening. Um I'm not going to our architect is here, so I'm not going to go too far into the fieldhouse project other than I do know there was three members of the board that are on the committee. Uh we met very regularly with the architect. I think he's going to do presentations tonight. The excited thing about that is I think u everybody is in agreeance on uh the outcome of it. The meetings were very productive and excited for you know stuff to begin. I have met with two demo teams. Um so we are definitely trending in the right direction there. uh CDL. We we are going to

089try this CDL training program for some of our uh coaches and some of our maintenance staff. The gentleman, he does it's commercial driver's license. Uh he'll come and he'll do a course with our guys and gals. Um and at the end of it, they will have their CDM, which is huge for us. So, it's a three-year program. We get five drivers a year. Uh we'll start it in May. Um, so we're excited to start that as well. Other than that, that is the maintenance and operations briefing for tonight. Any questions? Mr. Lover, you want to talk a little bit about the refresh we're going to do at the press box? Yes, sir. About that one, sir. Um, actually, um, which box? Which one? The football field press box. One that's has a bunch of holes

090in it. Yes. Don't know if you've ever been. Well, this one was in really bad shape. So, um, we did get three bids. Uh, Coach Perry's actually taken the lead at his one of his first projects with us and, uh, excited to see what he's done already. He's met with all the vendors. I've been there in the shadows, but he's doing a great job. I think we are going to start that project in about two weeks. U, but it is going to be we're going to redo the floors on the inside. I didn't want to steal Coach Perry's thumb there. I don't think he's ready to talk about that anyways, but we're going to redo the floor on the inside, the paneling on the inside, the wall, the windows, uh countertops, painting. Uh it's going

091to look sharp. It's going to look sharp. Uh we're excited about that. So, we're probably two weeks away from starting that project. How much did that cost? That was 4 uh right at 497 49,700. We originally thought it was going to be $250,000 on the job. it was very conservative. You all had several people come out and look at it and put together, you know, package that is really going to provide some safety and much needed. Thank you all for your diligence. Yes, sir. Who construction? The last time we were here the last time that were not the baseball has been Yes, they repaired those. Okay. I mean, there's still some other things that we need to address there. And we did have somebody come out and he's going to give me some quotes on

092um either you know uh getting rid of them or replacing them repairing them. I think that would be honestly my opinion. What could be done for now? We repaired the I think was it you send me the picture Mr. You sent me a picture of the screw. It was just a P. So we went and repaired those there are some that are pretty bad. attended several baseball games with my Mr. Mr. Ku. Yeah, some of those need to be repaired. I'm not sure if they've been repaired since I was there, but I know that they need some work. And I know that we had mentioned at one of our last meetings. I think it was meeting that Mr. mentioned it about maybe just getting rid of them. So, so I got a quote for both,

093right? I got a quote to get rid of them all together. And just so you know which ones we're talking about for us to get rid of is the the third base and first base. wooden uh bleachers that sit behind first and third base. And the thing about those, right, if you're sitting in the first, second, third, fourth row, you can't see the field anyway because when the dubs, I think it's the most for the most part, I think it's the third first base that And so I know we did do some repair on those bleachers. Do we have any local contractors that build on any of these projects? Yes, sir. on the press box. On the press box. Yes, sir. Local. Local. Was there a matrix completed? Uh, there was a question. How did

094you like contractors? Well, just uh everyone we gave everyone the same scope of work. Um, told them what our expectations were and they put in their bids. just sm like she mentioned the matrix on how we selected them. Well, two things, right? Well, one of them was about a $30,000 difference for the same scope of work. I did give the vendor a call and say, you know, I didn't give prices, but I said, is this your best price? You know, there was a local vendor and u he said that was his best price. And uh the we checked references. The the other gentlemen had great references as well. Not that these guys didn't. One of the other bids did not cover all the scope work. They weren't able to do all the scope. So, that

095kind of eliminated what they could do for us. So, but we go local with everything that we try to that that's up that's up and running. But like I told you earlier, there's a part that they're waiting on that I don't feel real confident with letting people get in there yet until it's fully complete and inspected. So, but can they do the inspection as well? Yes, sir. And I think you were giving me a number. Yeah. Yeah. For another actually I spoke to the gentleman and the gentleman said that he used to do the inspection there but he left the company. Mr. Lee, was it Mr. Lee? He he left the company, went to a different company. He said just to give a call. They still do. If you can't find somebody that that can't

096do the inspection to give a call, just for my own knowledge here because I don't know too much about this, but how often do the bleachers get inspected? Is there ever any time where they come in? No, we we just hire. No, we hire an engineer. We can get it done. Now that we're doing that, did you get a price? I'm not doing a few other things for us across the district. So, the it's a big deal what we're asking for. We're asking for a few other things that I haven't gotten into with you guys yet, but that's part of it. I think at this point, I don't know. might be. Next item on the agenda, athletic department. Coach Perry. [Music] trustes about powerlifting obviously. So we'll just kind of go down the order celebrate

097and kind of keep you in the loop while we're at our respective sports. Uh track and field, we actually have regionals. Uh that'll be this Friday and Saturday at annual Kingsville. Uh very excited about our track program track. A lot of people feel it's a a bit of a dying sport because it's just once again it's hot. It's It's not something that kids gravitate to. So, we take a lot of pride in that. This year, we have grown the size of our track program. I attribute this to a very unified front amongst the coaching staff that's allowed us to have more multiport athletes than we've had uh in the past. Last year, I know we're a little bit disappointed that our boys, we had zero get out of district last year, which is I think

098the first time in a long time that we didn't have anybody advance. We had over 10 uh this past year. So, that was a big improvement for us. And we're also going have girls and boys representatives at the regional track meeting uh this week at A&M Kingsville. So track's been been going in the right direction and that's been a pleasure to watch. Moving on down to baseball and softball. Uh softball has clinched playoff spot, so we're very very excited for them. Uh we're waiting on details we should know tomorrow night. I was just fixing down in the valley a moment ago to try to work try to work out potential sites and for a stadium for them. Uh the boys have two games, two big games this week. Tomorrow will be playing here against those

099will determine our our playoff opportunity as well as a possible seating if we're going to get first or second uh in the small school division there. That's where we're at with the uh the varsity side of things. Moving on down to the middle school. Been very uh very pleased simply by the amount of games that our middle school kids have gotten to play this year. They've had an absolutely full schedule uh playing local teams. To see them supported, they've had six coaches out at every single practice. You don't have to wonder which coach is doing what level. Everyone's out there pouring into those kids. They've all played a a full season. Uh and they've really worked on the fundamentals and the skills to get better. We played some teams. We played one just the other

100night and they only had one pitcher and they pitched him all seven innings. We've been fortunate enough that there hasn't been a single game, I don't believe, that we've had two more than two innings. Uh we're struggling with some some pitching issues at the high school right now. So, we're already trying to remedy those by watering it at the roof with those with those younger kids right now. So, that's been a great thing to see. Their development has been completely obvious. Um obviously, we want to win every every time we step out on the field on the diamond. That's that's what you know, we always want to make sure that we are being successful in and achieving our best goals. But I can honestly say on the softball and the baseball side of things, the

101culture that I've seen in the team, the commitment from the players, the early mornings uh are now present aligning with with the whole athletic department. Uh the effort that these kids are putting in, the camaraderie that I'm seeing, the philanthropy that's going on with it, as well as the community embracing the parents. If y'all saw the softball, I had the parents out there uh on the football on the field, I'm sorry, playing kickball with the senior girls and kind of really trying to create these special memories. So those coaches everything that they can to create an environment. Uh it's a bit of a process, but I promise you it's not going to take long and the wins are coming as evidenced by the success we're having down at the the middle school. On the softball

102side as well, our girls, we have a great eighth grade group of softball girls who have won two uh tournaments this year. Uh they win most of the games that they play. So, we're very excited about the future. We can't wait to get those girls up to high school. Spring football, uh seven on seven is kicking off here uh in the next month or so. We're going to be hosting uh a league just with some some local schools after school on Wednesday just to start getting those repetitions in. And then we're also participating in the CCI Steam League which will be on Mondays uh three Mondays during the month of May. Uh schools reach out to us about partaking in a middle school 77 league. So that's something that we're looking into as well to

103once again make sure we're providing opportunities for those young kids. Uh so we you know we have continuity in the program and they come up knowing what we expect of them. We're excited working intensively on the summer strength conditioning. Always been very proud of the summer efforts that we've had from our coaches and staff. Our kids come out, they need somewhere to to feel safe and to belong and continue to perfect their craft here in the summer. Very excited to provide them with that. Uh as well as finalizing our camp schedule. We'll be providing a a huge camp and all the sports that we offer uh to the the young kids as well. Everyone's locked in and and ready to build on the uh the previous success. Uh continue to get better and better. Uh

104moving on to the uh administration side of things. Uh on the zerobased budgeting, uh that's something we've been doing, myself meeting with the head coaches to kind of get their perspective list of budgets moving forward to make sure that we're being meticulous in exactly what they are wanting. Uh but we're not just spending money to spend it. We want to make sure that everything has a customized need just for us and what our student athletes need. So, we've been doing that. Uh as well as myself just trying to provide value in areas that have maybe been overlooked in the not enough attention was paid to. So trying to do that as best as we can on the administrative side of thing, identifying policy and systems that we could use to improve in various ways, whether

105that be efficiency or becoming more cost effective in in some of the our practices. So a lot of great things going uh everybody's bought in. We don't have bad days in the athletic department. Everybody gets along with each other. Uh very excited for what the future holds. about coaching sir. Do we have coaches for for the upcoming season? Um there's still a couple of spots. Uh if we had to go to war today, we could 100%. We we've made some some big hires. We're excited about uh kids that have proven I'm sorry, coaches that have proven to be about kids uh proven records of success. Uh very excited to get them on board over here. Uh like I said, if we had to go play today, we could, but we're still continuing to try to

106pour into to seal and our young kids as best as we can. So, there's still a few spots that in a perfect situation we're going to get those filled. Um, but we're in a much better position than almost anybody around this high street. Coach, as far as football uniforms, and I know I know you've discussed this in the past, but how often does our high school get uniforms? every two years and then y'all have that schedule that replacement schedule where it goes down. And how often now are we purchasing uniforms or what are we purchasing for our fire students? How often are we purchasing those? This year we made a a very large order. Um it just kind of depends. You don't necessarily need a brand new one uh every year, but you do want

107a properly fitting one. Uh so as Some of them can be passed down at times. We're always going to want to make sure that we're replenishing our stock annually. Uh but we definitely want to get to the point that we're trying to minimize problems that uh other schools have as well as far as potentially sharing uniforms or somebody being super committed to it and and then somebody who's just kind of testing it out. I mean, they are expensive. They, you know, if it's $200, $300 a suit. Um and so you want to make sure that you're being, you know, sound in the in your spending. You want to the right amount. We don't want to get too much of them, but it's absolutely important to equip them. Success they've had, they they deserve the best

108and we're going to work to get them that for sure. Every year the the needs will be looked at there. It doesn't really fall since there isn't a uniform, it's not going to fall under the typical replacement cycle. Um, and that replacement cycle also includes the helmets. The replacement cycle does not include the helmets. like for junior high. I know last year's been there, you know, some that were kind of just Well, we definitely bought brand new junior high helmets within the past two years. We absolutely have. We replaced every last one of them. And so helmets get sent in every year for reconditioning, which is an expensive process, but we we don't spare any expense there. We make sure that they are uh verified to be safe to continue wearing. Um, I mean that's

109upwards of 10,000 what we spend a year to make sure that those get checked actively. And you have the choice of you can do it every other year, but we typically go ahead and send every helmet every year just to make sure that the kids that we're putting them on are safe. And and so a helmet, the lifespan of a helmet is 10 years. That's how long you legally have as long as you're getting a check every two years. Uh, and so typically you buy helmets a certain amount every year just that way you don't yourself in a situation like we did last year where they hadn't been purchased enough and all of a sudden now as those are expiring you may be needing forced to buy 30 40 50 helmets. So you buy a

110little bit incrementally every year. Any other questions? Okay. So I know we run through the money that we made off the powerlifting event. Correct. We did not uh some some of the funds were were spent I believe um but there's still money in their student and that that was specific specifically for 100%. Yeah. It can't be touched by anybody else. I'm sorry. Any any that would have been assigned to that line will be in there. If it was during that period we can get any information from you know it's from that came out of the actual budget we can easily provide those as well. Yeah, I don't think it specific. Would you like to see that? Can you provide that to absolutely just for clarification? What is it exactly? That came out of the student

111activity or the events when we hosted the power. Yeah. Well, all the expenditures that have to come out of the budget towards what the the student activity budget, the fundraising budget or the general supply budget. No, just the student activity. Student activity. Okay. Absolutely. Yeah. I think he's asking specifically for the power. Thank you guys. Go ahead. Yes ma'am. See you tomorrow. Next item on the agenda is safety report safety climate survey results. Chief greetings president board members Dr. Uh we just completed uh our safety climate survey and I guess we'll go over the results right now. Um during our district committee meeting, we went over individually all the questions. What I want to go for you right now is the overall executive summary of of the findings. Um, of course, last year we first

112conducted the survey, we have 300. This year we have uh 860. The uh believe it's about 46% of the community overall. We did have I said steady growth and everything. U again overall you know we stay consistent uh this the student comparison the district we did go down uh from how district campus handles bullying in appropriate manly manner. This is on the student side of course. you go to the stakeholder side. Uh one of your highlight on this side is that it sorry it's going to be on the next uh the same question but this is on the stakeholders parent side it went up. So again, we on the district safety committee meeting, we did have a discussion on bullying and you know, we had some ideas that we're going to move forward on as

113far as how we're going to but again uh and my from my viewpoint, you know, we are addressing with the staff in the community. Uh but this is showing me we need to go more towards the students. So we'll start usually when I present I present to community members. I present to staff uh with our trainings and everything. But this what this is basically telling on this side is we you know, make the students aware of what we're also doing. And again, uh, one of our, and I believe you'll have it in the board packet, all the the president percentages on the on the, uh, sorry, percentages from the survey, uh, showing, you know, the parent side, student side, because like I said, we did have a comparison on both side. They did two different

114uh, surveys and, uh, it does go in a lot of, there's a lot of things there for improvement, which we're going to look into. Also, like I said at the district committee meeting, we went through each of them individually and it did show a lot where we can improve on and where we're excelling at. So, again, it gives that's what uh with the previous with the city, you know, we couldn't just email everybody in the district, community members to see, you know, what we need to focus on, what things are changing and with the we have that so we can adjust accordingly as like we said we see with the data. Do you have any questions as far as survey? Anybody have questions? I I just saw the stakeholders and the first one was do

115an incident or something and it went down quite a bit on the next page. It went down quite a bit. So in 2023 2024 we did not have a police force. Am I right? Yes. Yes. I'm just curious in my opinion this is a safe you as a police chief. How do you feel about that? like what what is it that you're going to do to increase that number for our stakeholders where they where they all where they are aware of what report on the and it was I like when I saw it on there one of the questions was who do you say to trust and say to report uh and it had multiple choice it had about five option police officer you know being our first year was the second option of it

116teachers were 61% police officer was 51% again teachers students, you know, they they see each other every day on a regular basis. Again, the officers just want on the front at the front of the campus usually. Uh I thought that was we already number two on that list of somebody they trust and feel safe around having. Again, I've already in the district of the community, we had a discussion, I felt like, well, I'm going to, you know, I'm at a lot of these and I told my officers this, uh I'm at a lot of these events. I'm the one speaking. they see me, but my next thing is to push them out there that they're the ones doing at each campus, doing the presentations, they're the ones that are out there so that more and

117more people see and feel comfortable with that. Uh I believe last year we had uh because we're starting to have more officers in the on the campus, the kids at the kindergarteners would say like about half of them said like they want to be in law enforcement now and and I'm thinking hopefully this year now that they see more that that's going to be a higher number at the graduate begin. So, and then plus our CTE program, I think our uh the enrollment went from 26 students this year to like 146 uh for the next next year CP program. So, that shows, you know, we're starting young, getting them excited, you know, career in law, law enforcement possibly. We also have our high school students that are excited about having a law enforcement program there

118uh help to to move forward with that. So I hopefully like I said having them out there being more proactive especially you know it was just me at one point but now that I have them you know I have more mult you know and that's my one of my faults is delegating more often and now that I have everybody at the campuses that's something that like I said this is the first year we got to see how it was going to work and like I said what's great about these surveys is that they let me focus more like where I can use them how I can use them and uh you know for them to grow at this meeting um I I did ask that you Um uh you know because as these numbers you

119know some of these things are eye opening and some of them are annoying as far as um the chief did mention that he was going to be delegating his officers more and be more visible with within our staff our students um and one thing that I personally recommended towards our u our administrators that are on the campuses and in the committee um Mr. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think these surveys are from fifth grade up. Third grade through high school. Third grade through high school. So at that point, um I believe this is the number 1854 is what is eligible to participate. Yes. Um and we only had 855 participate. Um so my recommendation or just my you know impression would be so that we can get accurate numbers and that you

120know um we ensure that everyone who's able to participate does participate so we can get um Um actual readings on this is maybe having this survey them in a core class core subject where they have to be there. uh maybe one day a week. um maybe pick a day out of the week where maybe in their math class or you know core subject where they every every student attends um so that they can we can get accurate information because as the chief mentioned only 48% identify that they you know are comfortable going to an officer and to me if you know something's going on that's the first person to run to safety or a concern even though this does provide to us that teachers are um developing those relationships with the child but they feel

121comfortable enough to report something. Um uh the chief did you know mention that he was going to delegate his office now that we have this information as to how they can be more visible and develop that rapport with our students where they feel comfortable enough to support. I just want to be real clear. Mr. 1854. So what I mean is accurate. What I mean by accurate or maybe that's not the right term but what I mean a better measure as far as all of our students participating because I feel like right now it's just optional. Um and you it's a requirement you know at that point we have all our students participating. Um and maybe these numbers will go up. Maybe there are a lot more students who do feel comfortable. Yeah. So, um just

122for those that are researchers in the room, I just want to be real clear. When you have a population of 854, you want to take a sample of it. You don't necessarily need a 100% for it to be statistically significant. So, in other words, if you get 100% uh beyond, you know, 50%, you're probably going to get around the same. I think what's more important is the open-ended responses. You know, those to be coded and to provide some direction because statistically, uh, these are all valid data. If you've got 854 samples and you've got a 48% response rate, um, that's actionable data. That's not directional. That's actually actionable. So we can actually use that to inform our in practice. So yeah, so that's why I mentioned if we get a full participation that number may

123go up. So I think personally as a member of the committee and and representative of this board, that's just a recommendation that I would like to be done. Again, doesn't have to be. Um the majority of the committee that was there, you know, they they kind of agreed and maybe that's something that our administrators can look at. Again, that's just a suggestion from the board member. in the day to date, but I think 100% if we can get to 100% that would be a very good valid number 1845. So that's about a thousand students short that could have responded to this. Again, just a suggestion of a committee member and a representative of this board. The 55% correctly that's comment on your question whether parents or not I'm saying that number regardless of how many

124was two that means one out of two parents felt we were doing our part on and of course some of it could be exaggerated some of them could be u angry it could be simply you know what I'm not going to kind of I'm not going to be satisfied ever until I get back what I want here kind of situation which I understand but that number is still alarming um I don't know if it's the transparency part that they don't like or what but and maybe in one of your uh so maybe that's a conversation piece so we can have a longer conversation piece on what it is that they're wanting was that a fivepoint scale or a fourpoint scale Which which question? Uh for the strongly agree Lyker scale uh five five point. So

125it may not necessarily so you might want to look at the top you get the top two box here the top the bottom two box because it may not be at 50%. Depends what that neutral number is. Okay. So it's the bottom two box for the stakeholder for the students. The stakeholder about 55.2%. Well there was an increase. It's still a little low for me. And I'm just saying because that just sounds like a conversation like what are we not doing that's not satisfying you as far as how we have of it because there's only so much you can give to a parent or a patient to begin with. Yeah, that's what I want to emphasize too that not necessarily the open ends. I need to be bothered with this but the qualitative data. So

126you know what you do when you get quantitative data like this to understand it better get some qualitative sit down and have a conversation. That way you can actually tease out the nuances and some of the responses. And that's the word that we're saying as well. I just wanted there's only one open-ended question on the survey. Two openended. So that's the extent of the qualitative. I just that would be a better measure because we got well it would definitely help round out some of the explanations here. So to Mr. to touch on your point and I believe we can share what was said at this meeting. Correct sir? Yes sir. Okay. So, at this meeting, um, uh, our Rob Stone Police Chief did mention, and that probably goes back to what your question was, that,

127um, he's had several, uh, people go to his office rather than our chief's office. And to go back to your concern, but the concern that they're telling him is that the district isn't telling them anything. A lot of parents are wanting to know what actions were taking towards the other child. Um, and being that we can't share that information and it gets, you know, kind of, uh, sensitive, um, if that's their main complaint to him is that the school isn't doing anything because they're not getting the answers that they want. Um, so he did mention um I'm not sure he did kind of suggest to the committee he was going to get with Dr. Quig and Mr. Alejandro and our chief about um possibly making a video collaborating with both chiefs putting on social media

128you know kind of explaining the you know the the process of how of what we're doing the bully investigation what it is that we can share. Um, so maybe that goes to your point. Maybe they're not getting the answers that they want. Um, and because it's a lot of sensitive information. So, um, that could probably be some of the the reasons for those results as well. Can I make a correction? That top question, do you know where to report bullying? That was just yes or no. There was no like scale. So, that was only a yes or no. So, last year we had 72% say yes, they knew how to use my voice or knew about it. This year is the 58.4. know about my voice. So, we did have a few questions that were

129just yes or no. And then we did have five points scale questions and then two opened questions. And I do have a meeting with the chief tomorrow reference to the message that we're going to put out. Sir, I know I had to just I know you were still waiting for some results. Did you get the results back on the fencing with the with the barb wire and what? Yes, I spoke with uh Chief Rocher from the service center and I spoke with Mr. Tus. They said it's the same as a regular fan on the outside. The 6 to8 ft has to be uh not scalable and uh have the I think they call them the tines or the pigtails up. So So right now that's what it is. 6 feet with the bar 68 6

130to 8 but the 6 to8 in general or six with barb wire or 8 ft with what is so so right now we wouldn't need the barb wire if it's 6 to 8t so if it's six feet you need okay that's my question 8t with no bar water my safety updates question the survey again with the bullying to we have all the information there. The bull that we followed uh we felt it needed a little bit more streamlining to it as far as uh the messaging uh we came up with some great ideas you know we'll have it on the website we found like under the my voice section we're going to want to try to put it there we're having Mission on and Mrs. syllabus on how we can message that out of the

131all that information is there for parents to find if they want to see what we're doing, how we're doing it, and what how we're approaching it. They can go to the website and and follow the steps as we go through it. Like I said, again, they a lot of times it's about the information about the other students, but we don't give that information out. So, just chief and I know I mentioned this and I probably should have waited for you, but it's a good thing to have, I guess. Do you want to mention maybe mentioned about the conference that's coming up? presenting and that were selected to present and we have and they actually got the news while we were at that meeting was pretty exciting. Hello. Um, we are very excited to be presenting.

132Didn't know I was that short either. Um, I was explaining to or we were explaining to the committee that our our district is doing a a lot of really great things to ensure the safety of our students. Um, we go on trainings to, you know, to learn how we can better serve our students and make sure we're doing everything that we need to do and going above and beyond. And every training we come out of, it's we're like we're doing so much more than a lot of the districts surrounding us. Not that we're comparing ourselves, you know, we're always like, how can we do better? We're lacking. What are the gaps that we need to fail fill? Um but um we are constantly letting our kids know we need to give ourselves credit because we

133are doing a really a really amazing job. And so when we were talking about that, we said we want to tell our story. Um Everyone has a, you know, everyone will tell their story if we don't. And we want to make sure that we're letting our community and the communities around us know exactly what we're doing. So, we decided to send in a proposal to um the Texas School Safety Conference, which is where we spend a lot of our time. Of course, that's Chief's job. We work a lot with our campus teams on just how to keep our students safe, any kind of safety concern, and how we're addressing it and what supports are needed. And we meet weekly. Um, we're very very good about trying to make sure we keep our meetings because safety

134is is our top priority. Um, and so we decided to present on really how our district is utilizing our campus police department and our behavioral threat assessment teams to really keep our students safe, to build resilience, and focusing on how our behavioral threat assessment teams and the whole process isn't a punitive measure. It's not a bad when we have to run a full threat assessment on a student, it's it's a good thing. It's us letting parents know we want to support your student and what's the best way we can do that. We're going to work together to give them everything that they need, whether it's here on campus if they need it or they need it out in the community. And I think our principles can tell you that we have been doing really great

135on trying to see where these red flags are and intervene before there's violence before there is huge safety concerns and so we're really excited about that. Congratulations the selection from the nation. It's not just not just Texas uh to come up with everything but just it's more of a model. We have a model here that really works really well and and you know like I said they they reviewed it and they said they agreed with it that it is a model that people should hear about and listen maybe they can apply at their district because again just because the police get involved at the schools it's not a I should have punitive measure it's we're there for support we're there to help you know and we try to use all the resources the school has

136to offer they have a lot of resources so that's that's what the whole conference that's what our session will be about and I think somebody said earlier like transparency is a component. Um, and we want parents to know we're not just sitting around not taking these these concerns seriously. We have a thorough protocol or process that we follow for every single report that's made. Every single alleged threat that's made, we follow the same way. Whether it's we know it's not true or we have no idea this is someone's in danger right now. So, we're actually going to be at our next meeting letting This is the process that we follow every single time a concern is reported to the safety concern. And it's scheduled in San Antonio from June 22nd to June 26th. And I

137think we present in the afternoon sessions on the 23rd. June 23rd. It's two sessions. When do we purchase or when do we get my voice? Do you remember that? I think it was Is it like a software or is it just something that we use? Do you remember? It's utilized through Edgehoria. So, it's part of a program we already pay for in the district. Who and who's a delegate person? Is there like is there like an update every year that you know of that where the system updates and we have to train our staff? This is where you go. This is changing. This is Luckily, there's no updates. It's just letting the staff and students know, remind them the process of reporting bullying. So maybe every year like our principles and that they're they're up

138to date with that where they can I guess teach their staff. I'm sure they have someone that they delegate. I do the trainings and the shocks and every time I present usually there's a my voice section on where to report everything at the beginning of the year with administrators just as a refresher. We also have a protocol training at the beginning of the year for requirement for every staff member. We go over my voice. Oh, that one's already done for every step that we do about it. It's all kind of high school district. Just refresh incident reported who's notified. Okay. Just the updates. Uh we did get a 98 audit visit to SE Junior High this week and we passed. Uh we have have ordered our we've officially ordered our our law open weapon detection

139system. Uh hopefully we can get in the next couple weeks. Uh they also reached out to me through the grants. Uh we need to purchase anything else. Safety wise, we we're going to go ahead and update our wand system that we have, our metal detector wands for each campus and more halo detection for our schools. Um already requested the folks on that. Also, uh we had our district safety our spring session committee meeting and we are looking to have our June uh our summer uh district safety committee meeting here in June. And that's every question. I I just have a comment. Um we have an extra officer. We have extra officer and uh I think we put some extra adults and we've done some rescheduling. In fact, I don't want you kind of give an

140overview. We had a lot of conversations about this and you've done a great job of putting some extra I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I want to make sure that all of what we're doing. Yes. Good evening, Dr. Madam President, and members of the board. We um obviously take the news coverage seriously and so we've done a lot of reflecting. Um I do have to say that I think we have a great process at SEAL. Um I think Mr. Martinez is most definitely correct. I think the biggest complaint is that we don't share the consequences um of some of those things. But one of the great What we're doing is we have um streamlined the bullying process. I think that there's other ways besides my voice. They can report

141it to a principal. They can report it to a teacher, a counselor, and then an administrator will take it from that point. We've had um two officers on duty the last two weeks. Third week that we've had two officers on duty and then we have extra support in the cafeteria since that's a high need area. And we also have support in the morning when our backpacks are coming in. there's a bunch of activity into the building and we have athletes going into the locker room and so our coaches um are there to make sure that um that's safe when the kids are putting their stuff in the locker room because those are some areas we also did another survey for our students and this one we did together during a Google meetup and so we

142had all the students log on during advisory and we went through each question um and had students and we had a really great response and I took that from what you said about making sure we did an import class it wasn't a We had about 430 students respond and I think we had like 100 kids out that day. So it was accurate. So almost every student was able to participate and so we met on some of the feedback that is it's rough, right? Um because some kids did feel that there was more that we needed to do. We asked them to give us feedback on what exactly they would like to see and we didn't get much on that. um they just wanted us to change the world or they didn't know they just wanted

143us to make it stop and so we are um doing a lot of our focus the last six weeks with our counselors is going to be on that we're doing more comp like conflict circles I think that the consequences we're very good at giving it's the intervention how do we intervene to make sure that behavior stops and we had to reflect on that and say okay maybe we need to be a little bit more And so we're working with our counselors and our social workers to ensure that the intervention is happening and that we can articulate because it's happening. Just want to make sure we can articulate um how it's happening. So specifically during lunch cafeter we do have more help in the cafeteria. We did we adjusted um some especially male presence because um

144I think in both instances there was you know cafeteria and it was women and not that women can but we have male presence during cafeteria. Has it gotten better since then? It has. Okay. What are we doing with all these kids that are causing these problems? So, we follow the process and we have I mean we follow the discipline manual. So, you know, one of the one of the misconceptions is that parents don't understand that D is an expulsion. Because when I spoke to parents, they would say we want you to expel them. Well, sending them to DAP is an expulsion. Beyond that, it would be JJ You know, in this county, we don't expel to the streets. And I think some of them, they want them to get kicked out. Like, well, we can't

145do that. It's not even something that we offer. We expel them out of the campus. It has to go to JJ. We still educate them. But we um have a process where I think you've heard us talk about it before. It actually came about several years ago with their last superintendent. I asked them, I said, "Sir, you know, when is it my responsibility and when is it the parents?" Right? you know, I don't want to be lacking in my job, but junior parents are they're learning and they're growing and they're learning that I'm the baseball kid and I'm the softball kid and I'm the, you know, the band kid and so all the little clicks happen. I said, "So, how do I get ahead of that?" And I remember you told me, "You have to

146make sure that you're documenting in the intervention." And so, we have a set of letters that go out, but we a lot of times, and I'll honestly tell parents, okay, you think bulling is happening. Can you give me when it's And a lot of times it's out in the community. I don't have jurisdiction out in the community, right? It has to be um within on school grounds unless it's cyber bullying. But even then, in all honesty, it's hard to even tell because and I'm sure my other assistant principles can say on Snapchat, you can put whatever name you want, right? So sometimes it's like, well, they said this, but I can't pin that it's actually that student. We look at messages all the time from kids on social media and unless we can really find

147proof, it's really hard to say that it was that child. But um we do send a letter when we open a of an investigation. I think I shared with the board we've had about 34 since we started that process. And sometimes we find the bullying has occurred and sometimes we don't. Um but each parent, the victim and the um perpetrator alleged will get a letter and then we have 10 days. And I think that's the other not transparent part is that parents don't know we have 10 days to investigate because we have to be thorough to say that this child is a bully and we're going to label them that label and that consequence. want to be thorough. So that takes 10 days. Um and then after we've conducted the investigation, then we let them

148know, yes, we found that your child was a victim. No, we found that your child wasn't and vice versa. We found that your child has committed acts or did not commit acts and here's the consequence. So we I mean that it's a really good process. We were actually when all of this happened, we were like we have a we can articulate that part. The consequences, right? The consequences ISS, OSS, JJ, we have to it's the intervention part which is teaching them to not engage in that behavior again. You know, so when they come to DA, what do we do? Like do they come over here? Do we have a counselor here? No, we don't. We don't have a full time counsel, but do they come do they actually come here and speak to these kids

149and counsel them? And I mean, some of these kids, like you said, are still trying to figure themselves out. They're trying to be big man on campus, but they find out they're not, you know. So when they come here, who comes in and talks to them? Who who counsels them and how many times a week do they come? I mean, those those are very important things we got. They are I I do think we could benefit from a full-time, but our counselor does come over here. Miss is one of the come the most from junior high and miss will come, but I can't say every day. It's a it's a lot to take on our campus, but um some of them have counseling IPS that they have to submit to, but it's about an hour.

150And then our social workers at least once a week, right? If not more. I'm gonna jump on my question there. Uh so two kids five junior high, they get sent to DAP. They don't always get sent. Um it the D the discipline guide says two or more deserve DAP. The first one is really just out of school suspension and it depends on the circumstance. Now if there is 2 to one we consider that okay that was 2 to one up then we usually we would send and we would code that as so so when you do send them how are they in the same room here so that makes no sense now this year we have had or we're dividing them and so this year we've had enough help and I appreciate Dr. Quig and

151the stock advocating because we have uh two people and so this year we have split them up in the Sometimes they were together. I mean, but we I know this recently we sat together as a team, a DAP team on my campus with the number of kids that we were sending this last time and we split them into two rooms. So, right now we have two rooms. But I think that's going above and beyond because I don't know that we have to do that, right? Do we have enough staff here? Yes. We just got to make sure the staff because they're DAP coaches. So we lose some of that. we have to do is maintain a a rotation to ensure that this year we we've also resourced here in here but there was no official

152Most of the time we have an officer here, Mr. D. And I did want to also say that we're trained like CPI and restraint. The employees are trained. So I know the staff that I have in we officer. He's in his training mode right now, but we have we are still using utilizing Rob. He now they can they do send him quite often, but they don't every day. So, we have to make adjustments. But now that we have a new I don't know when this happened. I know again I hardly ever get calls but this contacted me because the officer Mr. was stuck in the room and there was nobody to talk to. back now more recently but just try to credit your campus principal try not to answer any questions but right now you're

153still fulltime I'm lacking another yes I have one full and one But she's agreed to come on full time. But I was just wanting to know if you were already fulltime as yet. sending teachers to require not not for the high school. So the teachers that they have here we do have our teachers come. They also have Google classroom and then our certified teachers also trained in special education and then they come over as well. I have one last thing real quick. Um and because didn't make any news part uh but PD did contact me over the weekend u last week before last right about an incident with involving some high school students. It wasn't enough where there was going to be any charges but they did want to let me know that they may

154want to look into it uh just because they both go to school and they they were upset at each other. Uh I met with the principal social workers uh so we didn't come in on Monday was the following day and the principal said we're going to call them in individually and make contact with each of them and after speaking with all the students we spoke to five I believe all morning and there was a lot of anger there uh after we interviewed all of them the the principal said we should make bring a circle in got the social worker involved we all had a circle I thought maybe we should wait because they are really they were all really angry uh Uh, but we should have recorded that that circle because that's the point of

155the circle. And they all took ownership. I remember that like the the teenagers we were talking with, that's the way it's supposed to work. And they all took ownership. They all apologizing even though they didn't have to. It it just it ended the whole bullying situation that started it started off with the bullying over over the the phones and stuff. And but it that's the way it's supposed to work. And that didn't go much further than our room because we can't really talk about stuff like that. But that was the design and that's the way we want to see it happen. That's the way and it usually happens that way. It's just sometimes it starts from the outside and comes into the school and then we're dealing with it at the school level. And like

156and as uh said you know you know principal you know uh police and then parent you know all that has to work together and in this situation it all worked also like it was supposed to designed to work and uh you know but like I said couldn't go anywhere that's the way it's supposed to work. was there at school, but we understood that, you know, this is it stopped the problem that could have gotten a lot because there was multic kids, but it stopped right there. Like I said, there hasn't been any issues since then that I'm aware of and, you know, it was I I wish I really wish we recorded it because that's we could use that as training, but I just on that side just to let yall know. Thank you. List

157of bills. So, the list of bills practice for your review. You have any questions you can call a quick email. Uh next item is the financial statement report on that trending. Uh okay, I'm a little concerned about local revenue tax collection. So we are doing a deep dive into that. Thank you, Dr. Quick. Next item on the agenda, consent agenda items. Trustees, do you want to have a motion? I'm sorry, Dr. Qu. Thank you, Madam President. I appreciate you. On your budget amendment, there is a need for correction. I think on page 467 57. Yes. Correct. So on 72 that shared service agreement function I think it says 91 should be 93. Yes. Thank you. So trustes do I have a motion to approve consent agenda items with the correction from function 91 to 93?

158I'll make a motion to approve consent agenda items with the changes as Dr. First by Mr. Martinez, second by Mr. Goss. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, trustees. Next item on the agenda, action item. First item on the agenda, discussing consider approval of Robson Early College High School Field House design. Thank you, Madam President. Thank you so much. Uh and trustees, some trustees are members of the committee. Uh and we have our high school representation here as well. and our operations uh folks here. They're going to speak to this fieldhouse process. With that though, I'd like to invite up our architect, Mr. Davis Pal, was patiently waiting. How are you this evening? Thank you, sir. Sorry. Sorry for all the talent. It took so

159long. Well, it's great to be here. It's privilege and an honor to present the new home of the four time state champion. [Music] [Applause] What a treat that was to see tonight. A great introduction to to the facility that we have in mind for you. Um quick uh quick objectives. We would like to provide a quick introduction who I am design process today. Uh presentation of the approved concept, an estimated budget, an estimated schedule, and I'll take questions. You can actually inter um I've been in business since 1999 as a solo practitioner, done over 200 projects, million construction, uh primarily in the Del Rio Valley Eagle Pass area. Uh I think I've been successful in that area primarily because I provide a high hands-on design and in construction administration for challenging projects. I think that's

160probably outcome I came up with this project. I'm also unsuccessful at working with conservative budgets. Um as far as our process today, we've had three really productive meetings. Uh the design guidance committee members are Miss Garza, president, Mr. Mquin, the also a board member Mr. Mesa board member principal of the high school um Mr. the assistant ad Ronber the M director myself and then I've had structural engineer involved as well uh the first meeting we had is on the 15th of February was kind of an introduction and review of the facilities I'd had been made familiar with the report of the condition of the existing fieldhouse and so one of the things was most interesting to me when we from that that came out of that meeting was when the structural engineer and I were

161walking around looking at things. We kind of came together and we were kind of looking at each other and we both almost said at the same time, you don't need to tear this structure. The issues are all on the interior walls and what's going on in relationship between the interior walls and the foundation. So uh we started discussing the reality of that possibility. Uh we brought it up to the committee members and uh there was no objection to considering that approach. And what that does is it makes this project it can grow. It can be a lot more broader than what we had originally thought we were going to be dealing with. in which we presented four concepts uh of which one was the preferred concept and we took it to another stage of development

162and then on the 27th of March we came back with two more concepts and a preferred concept was selected and actually modified during that meeting to kind of get us to a point where we felt like we could present it to the whole board and community for uh your consideration. So, just looking kind of taking a big step back and looking at the whole overall picture. Um, we have about 36,000 square feet of space that we would consider locker room, weight room, uh, fieldhouse, administration for athletics available to the district right now. What's crazy is that it's all operating right here. And I think the first comment from the public person tonight was she was she's just saying, "How how can this adequate for the programs that we have. And it's like, yeah, you're right.

163You've done a amazing things creating state champions with everybody in that one little area. So again, once we realized that we didn't necessarily have to take down the structure of the fieldhouse, that we could use the entire fieldhouse, uh, all of a sudden we were able to incorporate 16,000 ft of renovation of the fieldhouse and the additional 9,000 square ft of what I'm calling the main locker rooms, which was the old locker rooms that serve the the gym originally. So, that is the current uh plan that the fieldhouse will be renovated, the main gym locker rooms will be renovated, and by the time it's all said and done, you'll have 36,000 square ft of uh locker room and wait room type spaces for your facilities. And currently, you're operating in 11,000. So, it's going to

164be a heck of an improvement. and I'm really excited about where we've landed with with the project. So, um moving to the specific uh facilities, this is the fieldhouse facility, 16,000 square ft. One of the things you'll see uh with this plan is that it's kind of changed the mentality of what you had there. Originally, you just had to walk right into the men's locker room or walk right into the ladies locker room locker room. This is a little different approach. taking more of a, for lack of a better term, a collegiate or corporate type approach where uh we'll actually give the fieldhouse a new front door that faces the parking lot. So if you are coming to visit the athletic department, you know where the front door is. And so uh you'll have a

165new entryway into the fieldhouse. Uh and you would walk right into a lobby area. And that lobby area is the place where as we were talking about this where where we get to show off all the the hardware that your your state championship programs have earned. Not only do we have the lobby space for that, but we would have this nice gallery that could be created between uh the different functions of this building. Um that again could kind of show off the wares of of the programs that have been successful. Um, also that gives us the opportunity to create kind of a little administrative area where you have your offices for the AD, the assistant AD, the girls coordinator uh, and then maybe athletic secretary. And then uh, over here the restroom component, but that

166could also be used as uh, the changing room for your officials when they come over for a football team. Lastly, kind of a new feature to be incorporated in the layout was I'm calling it a classroom, but what that really becomes is a film or a training room for the athletic programs. And it would be as big as a typical classroom in the high school. U so that's kind of the new new component, the new uh the new look for the athletic department. Uh also what you see is that once you come into the lobby, it would be a control lobby. You would have to have a security clearance or somebody would have to let you in to get in beyond the lobby. The first thing he The idea is that this weight room is

167going to be kind of an open open space behind glass, but it does a couple things. Number one, it showcases your state championship program, but it also gives a kid that's coming in just to do some physical therapy or something for the day. he can go straight into the weight room, see his trainer, get back out, do his his workout, and be done. So, it's kind of a nice front door uh big visual as you come into the facility. You see that weight room right there, kind of the central feature of this new fieldhouse. On the left side, we have the the boys locker room. Uh we went through that with the coaches on their student counts, what they were anticipating. We have 60 JV lockers, 50 varsity lockers. Um on the ladies side we

168have a JV women's locker for with 80 lockers and a varsity women's locker 25 lockers. Uh the ladies would be the softball program and the track program in the in the spring whereas the football program and the track program is operating on the men's side. Uh lastly, and this is kind of the uniform storage. We're significant significantly increasing the uniform storage area uh and laundry area and we're using that as kind of a soft space because, you know, we do have a budget to maintain it, but this is an area that really doesn't need to be spend a lot of money. Clothes don't care. Um, so this is the area where we would probably do the demolition that's required and then not do a whole lot of finish and use the monies that would save

169there to do something nicer somewhere else. Um, and it helps us greatly with our budget. Uh, the green areas represented are just kind of public spaces that pretty much any student could use. the training area, the offices, the classroom. Uh the wait room would probably fall into that category because it's such a big feature. I gave it its own color, blue. Service areas are the gray and ladies yellow. Are there any questions on kind of where we're at with the fieldhouse? Why why it is uh that is you're referring to that correct that's so that's a serving two functions it's it's a changing room for the officials and it's a restaurant so the T is the toilet component of the changing have one for the men for the women um any any other question does

170anybody Anybody have any questions? That mechanic shop mainten which one now that lobby door. We don't have that right now. Correct. Correct. So it's coming from the parking lot. You're going to demolish that fence and maybe even open. Yeah. The idea is that you have like covered walkway to go under. So you have like little and all of that anything else. Okay. Uh this is the building that goes between the auditorium and the the gymnasium. It's about 9,000 square feet. Uh doesn't hasn't been used, I guess, in quite a while. Uh so the idea is that we're going to come back in and capture the 9,000 square feet that we haven't been using and put it back into to use. kind of what you see is a similar approach to what we did at the

171fieldhouse, but on a smaller smaller smaller level. We'll still have kind of the idea of the one one doorway in and out approach for the lobby. It's not so much a lobby in this building. It's more of a corridor. Still gives you the opportunity to hang plaques and pictures and whatnot for your achievements. Um, plan also accommodates the student that's going to come in and do a little bit of physical therapy and be gone with the doorway here. Go straight in, sees the trainer, goes to his weight room, does his workout, and then is out. And again, we've separated the men's locker room area and the ladies locker room area. These would be primarily for basketball on the men's side and volleyball and basketball on the ladies side. Uh 25 JB lockers and varsity lockers

172in both in both the men's and women's programs. This building would have its own storage and would have its own laundry facility as well. And then an introduction of kind of a new piece of the the locker room puzzle would be where do your visitors go? And so this last 1,200 square feet up here would be the development that becomes a visitor's locker room, which is not so much a locker room. It's more of a place where they other visit visiting teams can go change uh do a shower, do a a toilet visit, and it's got a little facility for a visitor coach and trainer to to set up and do his his tapes. So we've accommodated the visiting teams with 12, 1100 square feet, 50 capacity of about 50 for changing in the coach

173and trainer area, shower and rest. So that would be the usage of the main gym. Any questions on this one? I'm just in this room that Well, I coached there for 10 to 12 years and it's I'm excited to see it back. But on this entrance, is that going to be the breezeway that's between the auditorium and the gym? I mean, that is correct. Yeah. And and I should point out because I think it's an important point is that the visitors would actually go in the other side that would and we don't really want to be two teams if we don't have to visitors go home. Yeah, that would be I need it for exiting. That would be more of an emergency. There's still going to be a door over here, but yeah, same thing

174with a door here for it. If you didn't want to mix the team, don't make them walk around. But if you don't mind that, don't think that's going to be a problem, you could use that. at the main gym. There's that little that little piece that you can use as well. Uh what is this thing going to cost? The way we've approached it is we took several comps projects that I currently have underway right now about four gymnasium type projects with locker type components. I pulled out the cost for things that we can reuse in this versus the structure foundation mechanical system at least the units themselves the electrical service at least to the main disconnect panel. Um and that looks like we're going to be able to save about 40% of a typical construction

175budget. So when I apply that to these different components, we've got a demolition of interior fieldhouse and remodel of interior 13,500 square ft. Uh $29 a square foot. That's a $2.8 million project. We have a storage and laundry room facility with limited finishes and we would be buying a new set of washers and dryers for that. 2500 square ft. So using 99 square foot about 2 250,000 for that um demolition and remodel existing main gym. It's a little it's low. It's very low building. So the walls we build are not going to be very high. Um so I I didn't use that $29. That's the difference between the two costs. We're going to be building much taller walls in the fieldhouse than we are in the in the main gym. So there's difference in the

176that we've incorporated into this looking projected cost of 1.7 coming around and project rights or comments there. We have $5 million. I think the approach we're going to take is a combination of fund balance and There's a lot going on. I just want to make sure we're good. We're not going to be in those situations later. I'm glad you bring that up. I just want to make sure everybody understands the concept of tradeoff. So, like I've said, I broken record, but over and over, you know, tradeoff. We get something we want our life by giving up something else we want our life. As long as you understand that, we'll be in good shape. broke your record. So, we do have $5 million. Yes. Now, can you uh kind of what that 5% is? Okay. The

1775% the professional fees is is basically me um my expertise, the team that I put together for this project, which includes myself, structural engineer. Um, we're going to be bringing in a geotechnical engineer. I think depending on how we sequence events. Uh, we'd like to have those people in here sooner, which we'll talk about when we get into schedule rather than later. Um, we'll be bringing in a geotechnical guy to give us some guidance on what's going on with the foundation that caused the problems in the first place. Did you go through the did you go through the report we already have? I did. So are we planning on doing any uh warnings? I think we are. I think we would like before we tear up the foundation. Well, I think those will determine how

178much we feel like we need to do. So yes. Then I have a mechanical electric plumbing engineer involved as well. So it's just basically services that are provided to make the construction document package which will be what determines the what is going to be built. I know it seems like a lot, but I think it's probably a little Okay. Uh schedule. So talked earlier earlier about the three meetings that have already taken place tonight, the 14th of April for approval of design that goes forward. Then it'll take us about eight weeks to put the drawings together. Uh get our testing done as much as we can depending on the condition of what we're able to see. Uh that gives us a a projected bid date when we would get our numbers in around the middle

179of July with hopefully your approval for the construction contract in July. usually takes about 30 days to get the time track signed and the notice to proceedings issued. So projected construction start of August 15th and then a final April 15th construction completion. Now one of the things Mr. and I have been talking about is having demolition performed directly by the district before we actually get the contractor engaged to do the construction look back. So if we do that I think that will bring your construction completion date in about a month earlier. What it does for the design team is would allow us to actually see the condition of the building empty uh so we have a better handle on what it is we're dealing with in regard to repair that needs to be done. So

180I would certainly encourage the district to consider that if it works for you but at this point we're just assuming that it's all going to be one general contractor that does it. So what do you mean that you will demolish? Isn't that under? It can be. Yeah, it is. You're right. And so you would use the funds that would be going to construction. Okay. So you're saying we can take that off and go lower cost your cost, but it would be under not under your leadership. I would be happy to participate in that. So then we would be sending out two different things. You're not going to hire the contractor. Am I correct? The board will hire the contractor. Selecting the general contractor. Yes. Right. So the first step is hiring the architect with the

181design. You'll do the official drawings. Obviously are just sketches. Uh as soon as we hire officially uh Davis Pal architecture, then we'll delivery method. We'll recommend a delivery method to the board. It's either be a traditional uh competitive lid delivery. It will be either that or we could go construction manager risk. We could do construction manager agent. Um so that there are some other avenues but the first step is getting through this portion. Are you saying that we're going to need an architect and project manager? Well, we have to have an architect by law. We went over that the last meeting. Um, but then we're going to have to hire someone to oversee the project contract and so forth. The demo you're referring to is something we could actually do inhouse. And one of the

182ways we could speed it up and not only take off one month uh but even an additional month if the emergency procurement resolution that the board approved previously is exercised. I just need workers and associates to sign off on that before we do any of that. that would allow us to circumvent any more fitting for demo work because it is an emergency declaration by the school board. And I would point out that part of this I would be happy to do the demo plan or that's necessary. I think Mr. talking to uh potential vendors and I mean it's pretty straightforward what they have to do and they know what they have to do. tear down some walls. Uh just interject here and ask some of the committee members to share a little bit about their

183experience and the and the process with Mr. Pal also with Mr. Perry, Mr. Lober, Mrs. Pinino's here. She shared a lot in this too, but speak to the way that we've gone through this because I'll say this, the first time I've been a superintendent 15 years, I've never seen an architect on the fly go, "Yeah, let me do that right now. Can you give me 15 minutes?" I mean, that was very hands-on to your point. Stop. I would love to speak a lot about it, sir, but I think it was great. I mean, it was very convenient. Everybody was able to be hands on deck and I personally liked it. I missed the last two but I trust my trusty over here that I mean they both I think it was very helpful to have

184all the collaboration and all that with the coaches and stuff like that. So with me and construction I was the first one that said no tear down because I didn't want I didn't want to but I think through your recommendation my recommendation is for the approval of the Robtown Early College High School fieldhouse design as presented by Davis Power Architecture. I have a first by a second. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Next item, discuss and consider approval of contract with Davis Powell Architecture. Dr. Thank you, Madam President. Mr. Pal and I and Juan Cruz and Associates are working on finalizing the contract. I know we had the last little bit of work, Mr. Pal. I know we're going back and forth on we can land

185the plane uh soon, very soon. I know we need to land it as soon as possible. Let me compliment you, too. You've done three or four sharp sessions here without a contract. That's another first in my career. So, thank you for that. Um, didn't that mean it's great? Oh, no. I'm sure more than the 5% somewhere. But I'll say this, um, I did talk to Mrs. Garza earlier and I mentioned to you that I talked to Lisa Paul with Juan Cruz and Associates and she recommended the following language for the night in regards to Mr. Pal's contract. She says here, uh, authorize the superintendent to negotiate and finalize the agreement with Davis Pow architecture, including final legal review and authorized execution. on behalf of the district. So, we'd like to present that for you all

186tonight. Do I have a motion? I'll make a motion that we approve the um contract with Davis Pow and with Dr. Mr. Martine any questions or discussion? I just want I would just like to know sir before you make any final decision. Thank you. All those in favor say I. I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you. Next item discussing consider approval of HBAC work and issuance of final payment to carrier. Thank you, Madam President. Trustees, I want to invite Mr. Walker to come up just to the podium just in case we have any questions about this final walk through. Um trustees in your packet is the final walkthrough as we mentioned earlier through Mr. Law for substantial completion of this HVAC project. That being said, we are recommending that the board approve the HVAC

187work and issuance of final payment to carrier. Mr. Laro, we've done the final walk through. We've noted in the board packet, the letter that we I've read, you've read, and Mr. Wheaten has indicated just a little bit of items that carrier still holds us, but we are at substantial completion. And we are addressing some of those uh other items as we speak now. So thank you. Nothing too alarming though at all. Social service. So the I mean you're approving the punch. Yes sir. Took our time. We went through it. Our HVAC tech was there. The member from carrier carrier was there. I'll make a motion to appreci. I I All opposed. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Lberg. Next item discuss and consider approval of Brontown ISC 2025 2026 school calendar. Thank you madam president trustees.

188Uh this is the same process we used last year and that is working with the district education improvement council the DIC to go through a calendar draft and then take it back to their campuses and then get their feedback and do another Zoom meeting last week and then we vote on it and we did. The most important wrinkle that came from a trustee no names mentioned here was can we change the graduation date so it doesn't fall on the weekend of Memorial Day. Done. So that's been done. So I'm not I don't know who was I don't know who was I have no idea who it was. I have more request. This is a request from this has been cruise approved by DEIC. This is a request. Can we be out that day after holiday

189done? Got it. I'll tell them that you request. Yes ma'am. I do. So, a lot of work and thought went into this, including that's a very important point on the on the earlier graduation. I want to compliment Mrs. because really we talked to her to make sure, hey, can we make it work with all the parts involved? Mr. Dean, you want to talk a little bit about it? We've done it before. Okay. Yeah, we've done it before. I don't remember. Everybody came back for exams and they were done. So, we They're done. She says, "Thank you, Mr. So, we present it to you for your approval." Sir, real quick. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. Oh, I thought we had to do a question after, but I just had a question. Um, I know Miss uh

190Miss Wad mentioned earlier about us hosting our elementary and junior high events. Um, when do we find out those dates as far as when they'll be? Oh, goodness. I know there's a few meetings before that happens. Let me check. But just so that we I know we're going to adopt this calendar, but maybe with ample time we can, you know, schedule if we need to make them happy campuses or wherever we're going to host it because I mean last. No, no, no. Because I I think we can we can still make amendments to the but just that we make them with ample time. We're not advising parents that there's no school the elementary and junior high UIL's on a Saturday. Okay, that that helps. There you go. It's on a Saturday. Okay, perfect. Just want

191to make sure letting people know. I'll make a motion to approve. I have a first by Mr. Martinez. I have a second by Mr. Michael. All those in I'm sorry. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All oppose. Next. item on the agenda discuss discuss and consider approval of Rstone IC and your retention title. Uh Dr. Pig I this is Mr. Mr. item so I will let him talk please. Sure Madam President um I just um I asked for this to be put on the agenda. Um I know that um right now it's a very hard time for educator as Dr. Qu mentioned. Um um I had asked Dr. Quig u to look into an end of the year stipen uh for our staff members. I feel, you know, at this

192point we can tie it to something um rather than I know that during the Christmas holidays it was kind of a question at that point we we really couldn't be gifting funds per se. Um so I'm asking to give an end of the year stipen uh maybe after the 45th day prior to starting school. Um but in conversation with Dr. Quake uh he's going to look into that. Uh, personally, I was going to ask for a $500 stipen at the end of the year. He's going to look into the numbers for me. So, uh, I'm going to ask that this item be table to May's meeting, um, with the exception of, you know, bringing it back in May with no less than $500 is what my agenda item, but I ask that we table this

193item and then I'll get with Dr. Quig on numbers for that. But for it to be brought back with that for May's agenda, May's agenda. Yes. So, I I'd like to make a motion, Madam President, that item um E under action items, the end of the year retention sitement be tabled for May's meeting. Um and at that point, we'll discuss the number, but no less than $500 will be my I have a first by Mr. Martinez and a second by Mr. Vag to table the agenda item. Any questions or discussion? All those In favor say I. I. I. All oppose. I table. Next item on the agenda, close session. I make a motion to go into close session 924. First by Mr. Second by Mr. Mesa. All those in favor say I. I. All opposed.

194The board will now in close session pursuant to sections 551.071, 551.072, and 551.074 of the Texas government. The session for the purpose of employment evaluators and nurses. Thank you. motion first by Mr. Ggo, second by Mr. Bea. All those in favor say I. I. I. All post. We're now back in open session. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of appointments, evaluations, resignations, reassignments, duties, discipline, or dismissal of employees. Do I have a motion? Madam President, you would know really quickly. I don't think I mentioned it earlier. For the record, Miss Pia, Mr. Mat 705. Thank you, Mr. Martinez. Do I have a motion, trustee? I'll make a motion to approve uh item A under open session 13. I have a first. But Mr. Martinez, I have a second. Second. Any questions or

195discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of real estate and property tax. I'd like to recommend the approval of the property contract as discussed in my session. Mr. Mart, second by Mr. Mart. All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda, discuss and consider approval of extension of certified and non-certified administrators/directionctors. I have a first by Mr. Mesa and a second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I. I. All opposed. Motion carries. Next item, approval of renewal of employment contracts for teachers, librarians, counselors, and nurses. Second. Have a first by Mr. Gos and a second by Mr. Martinez. Any questions or discussion? All those in favor say I.

196I. All opposed. Motion carries. Next item, adjournment. Second. First by Mr. M by Mr. Any questions or discussion? Oh, come on. All those in favor say I. I. All of