001I call this meeting of the Rockport Fton Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of board members is present, that this meeting has been duly called, and that the notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. And we will begin with the Pledge of Allegiance. >> Oh, prayer. Sorry, Logan. >> Jumping ahead. >> I know. Sorry. >> Hold tight. Hold tight, guys. >> We're gonna do the prayer. >> A good walk out. That was just practice. >> I haven't done it in a while. >> All right, please bow your heads. Heavenly Father, we come to you uh before you tonight great with grateful hearts, thankful for our students, our staff, and the opportunity to serve this community. As
002we enter the final nine weeks of the school year, we ask for your wisdom and guidance in every decision we make. and grant us the clarity in our thinking, calmness in our discussions, and thoroughess in our work. Give us the strength to finish this year with patience and compassion and purpose. And help us to support one another and to always keep the best interest of our students at the center of everything we do. We thank you for the dedication of our students, administrators, and our families. Uh in your name we pray. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one
003and indivisible. >> Thank you so much, gentlemen. Um, before I introduce the two of them, I just want to say, please note that they are not currently wearing their uniforms because of safety for them because of what's going on in our world right now. And I want to thank them for their pride. And I want to thank our men and women who do wear the uniform and for the sacrifice that they are willing to make for all of us and for the freedoms that we enjoy. But this evening representing our wonderful NJOTC, we have Cadet Colin Mole. Cadet Mole is a thirdyear student of the Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. He is the command senior chief petty officer of the unit. He commands the armed exhibition drill team, armed regulation drill teams, and color
004guard. He is part of the academic team of physical fitness teams. Cadet Mole plans on joining the Navy engineering field. His secondary goal is to work with special operations teams. He plans on a 20-year career in the Navy. The seat he is joined by Cadet Jackson Stor. Cadet Stok is in his second year of the program. He is an armed armory petty officer. He is in the armed drill team, unarmed regulation drill team, PT team, and color guard teams. Cadet Stor plans on applying for an ROC scholarship and a N and a Naval Academy scholarship. His goal is to be a naval aviator. His secondary goal is to be in the Navy Special Operations Program. He is also planning on a 20-year career. Thank you, gentlemen. Okay, we are moving to item number four, district
005celebrations. Dr. Austin. Hello everyone. At this time, I am going to hand over the mic to Dr. Carter, our RFHS high school principal. Good evening board, parents, friends, and guests. Please stand as the Pirate Academy senior enters the auditorium. We are so excited tonight, but also the perseverance that she grow determination that brought her to the stage tonight. to her family and her supporters. Thank you and the strength that you have given her along her way to our graduate. This moment is yours. All yours. Give her a hand of a be proud of how far you have come and confident where you are going. Dr. Austin and the members of the RFISD board of trustees. This student has met all state and local requirements as set forth by the Texas Education Agency and the Rockport
006Fton Independent School District. Could you please stand? I hereby recommend her to you as a candidate for graduation and a high school diploma with all rights and privileges a diploma carries by law. Dr. Austin, I invite you to address and certify the Pirate Academy graduate. On this day, March 19th, 2026, and in this place, Martha Luigi Auditorium in Rockport Fulton ISD, I concur with the recommendation of Principal Jodie Carter, that this student who has successfully completed the course of study as recommended by the state of Texas and delivered by the faculty and staff of Rockport Fulton High School is qualified to graduate. Go ahead and give her a round of applause. Therefore, with the authority vested in me by the state of Texas, the Texas Education Agency, and our outstanding board of trustees, I hereby
007certify this student as a graduate of Rockport Fulton High School. Congratulations to you, to your family, and all the people who have supported you along the way. May your journey in life be safe and may you continue to grow and never stop learning. I'm now directing Dr. Carter to grant the student a diploma in which this recognizes that you are entitled to all the rights and privileges associated with it. I ask you prepare the student to receive her high school diploma. At this time, I would like to invite the student to the stage. Erica Gibson. So, at this time, we are going to invite Erica and her family to enjoy a reception with Dr. Carter in our new crow's nest. So, please give her another round of applause as they head off to go celebrate.
008So, walk that way. What happened? who are ready to get out, accelerate, get in the workforce. Um, she is our first graduate of the year. We're very excited for her and we'll have more coming. I already know next month there will be one for us to celebrate again. All right, so I really feel like tonight is such a great night of celebration. Our next celebration group is of course our teachers and we're going to recognize our campus teacher of the year and our rookie teachers of the year and then move into TIA. So, our campus teachers of the year are voted on by our their peers. And we will go ahead and start with our Live Oak Learning Center, Miss Stacy Thole, if you'll come on up. All right, front group, you got to be
009cheering loud. And then if you'll wait at the end because we'll take one. Stacy, if you'll wait at the end, we're gonna take everybody's picture. We'll do our Fulton Teacher of the Year, Miss Britney Forsber. our middle school. Miss Gabby Samora our high school teacher of the year, Miss Bailey Wedell. And now we have our rookie teachers of the year in their first year here with us in Rockport Bulton at Live Oak. We have Kristen Krasco. I should say Garcia Carrasco. She just got newly married. Folton, Miss Kylie Venderly. Okay. our middle school teacher. She's actually over at the track meet. We have a middle school track meet. So, Miss Laura Siki is a coach. She's over there. But please give her a round of applause. Our high school teacher rookie of the year is
010Cole Vice. He's probably at the track meet, I'm guessing. Right, coach? Oh, ba basketball. Baseball. He That looks like basketball to me. All right. So, we're going to take a picture with all of our teachers of the year, rookie teachers of the year, and then we'll move on to TIA. We did get to celebrate our teachers on Friday before spring break. We take the drum line and the cheerleaders and we go surprise them with their signs. And I think I saw a few tears uh when we did it. But it was so fun to celebrate them. So now I'm going to move into our teacher and set up aotment group. So our teacher incentive aotment. This is our third year Jessica participating in it. We're so excited. We have a ton of them. I had
011to go buy a lot of roses today. This is our recognized exemplary master teachers as they're designated by TEA. It's a rigorous process that involves their evaluation, student growth, and so truly these are stellar teachers. I'm excited to announce them today. We will start with Live Oak, Miss Sher Coulter. She is exemplary. And this is the fun part. Y'all can like cheer really loud. All right, stay at the end, Sherry, because you know we're going to take a picture. So, at Fulton, we have quite a few. So, I will just start naming y'all. All come up together. We have Rebecca Garcia, exemplary. Juliana Zavala, exemplary. Christina Berles, exemplary. Adrienne Alfaro, recognized Desiree Dy recognized. Bailey Picarazzi, who just had her first little girl who's not here tonight, uh is also recognized. All right, we'll start
012with our middle school, Miss Amy Booth. Exemplary. Special place for Amy Booth. She has my child. All right, we have Stephanie Ladner, exemplary. Josh Tidwell, exemplary. He's at the track meet. Another one special to me, Stephanie McGree. She's recognized and coach Jonathan Mash. Uh, I'm sure he's doing sports stuff as well. All right, moving to high school. Miss Jessica Chavez, master teacher. She's not here tonight, but I'd like to celebrate her. Irene Kar is a master teacher, highest designation. We have Kayla Gladstone, exemplary. Melissa Reyes, exemplary. Oh, she's here. All right. Jed Wilshshire, exemplary. Katie Zuniga, exemplary Zunaga. I said it right now. Zunaga, right? Got it. Miss Gwendelyn Johnson, I had to use your full name. Sarah Anita Ryder recognized, Mr. Tanner Swimford, who we know he's also at the track meet. I love
013that we're taking the whole stage here. Uh he's at the track meet, but he is recognized. And then um I have one special one. Would you guys go ahead and switch? I want to award this TIA. TIA is a big deal and you work really hard for it and Mr. Sanchez got that award and we want to make sure that we celebrate him. So his teammate, Miss Emma Buck, is here tonight to accept that for him. Our next celebration is Miss Valerie Fountain. She is our child nutrition director. She is amazing, guys. She is always applying for whether it's grants, whether it's um awards, cream of the crop, but she is receiving a Texas Department of A agriculture recognition. She does an amazing job. She was supposed to be here tonight. Something came up. I
014just wanted to make sure that we named her, let her knew how much we value her. Will you please give her a round of applause? All right, our next celebration is our Fulton spelling bee winner, Jenna Schuler. She's advancing to regionals in Flower Bluff. Is she here tonight, Jenna? All right. Hi, Jenna. Come on up. Is this your first year to win? Is your first year to win? Will you come up? We have a certificate for you and we want to celebrate you. Miss Cox, when is regionals? Oh, she had regionals. Okay, she advanced to regional All right, we'll move to agenda item number five, public comment. Miss Hill, do we have anyone signed up? Right, we'll move to item six, board of trustees report. Any committee reports? Okay. Um, thank you. Uh two weeks
015ago before spring break, we had a meeting on um education accountability and so forth. Uh very interesting meeting. Um a lot of data was presented. Um I came away um with both good um thoughts and and encouragement and then then some concerns. So let me address the uh good thoughts first. We have a tremendous group of teachers as exhibited tonight with the awards. What a fantastic bunch of teachers we had there. But overall, we have a great hardworking staff of teachers. Um, and teacher assistants, everybody pitches in, does a great job. Um, our superintendent works very hard, very concerned. That came through in the meeting. Um, I I obviously believe that um there were some good data that showed uh certain groups that were going up such as uh those who meet um requirements went
016up as well as those who mastered. So those are two things that are really good. Those are indicative largely of students who are self-motivated and and really want to get ahead. On the other hand, I came away some concerns overall. Our numbers are going down. That's the big picture is our numbers going down. We came from an area where our performance wasn't very good. And this interim um measure shows a trend that's a little bit alarming. Now, back to the positive side. In talking with the group, I see a lot of good things, a lot of things in place that I have great hopes and I believe we're going to turn this thing around, but we need to turn it around. We don't have any wiggle room. Thank you. >> Anyone else? That was the
017academic excellence committee by the way. Anyone else? All right. If not, we'll move to agenda item 7A, which is our bond 2022 project update. We have Teal Construction and Claycomb with us. Am I on? Turn it off. Can you hear me? Okay. I'm gonna do that. All right. Did I figure it out? All right. Okay. I'm gonna put my mouth really close. Um, sorry Jamie couldn't make it. He's watching his kids play T-ball. So, you're gonna have to deal with Mike. Um, we're going to go ahead and uh just jump right on in. This is your bond project update for March of 2026. Uh, as of as of now, uh, billing progress is at 94% complete, uh, with 36.71 million authorized and the same as last month. The scheduled substantial completion is May of 2026.
018Um, those letters are too small to read, so I'm going to go off of memory. Go for it. Okay. Last month, uh, we began final clean, including waxing floors in the athletic areas, installation of the toilet partitions and restroom accessories at in the athletic area, locker rooms and restrooms, continued demolition of existing buildings in preparation for new parking and drives. Began installation of sight fencing. Continued installation of mechanical, electrical, and plumbing components in the athletic areas. Continued addressing punchless items in the classroom wing. This month, students will move into most of the areas of the athletic wing. Be we've begun installing foundations for the new areas after building demolition over an area G. We are continuing demolition and preparation for the new parking and drives. Uh we've continued installation of site fences and access control.
019Uh continuing developing the punch list and addressing the punch list items. Um, but I think the most the thing that everybody's excited about is that the front entry is open and we've got uh, you know, drop off and everything. People are figuring it out. It's going to be a little bit of a learning curve, but I'm sure everybody's happy to have the entry of the building open. So, okay. All right. So, there you're at the back of the building in uh, area G. Uh, you can see that the uh, demolition is continuing. Uh, I think all the buildings are pretty much flattened by now. I know that they were working um over spring break to do all the loud, you know, uh jackhammering and stuff like that to get all the largest chunks of the
020foundations out of the way and they're cleaning up everything. Uh in here at athletic wings, you can see that we're touching up the paint in the corridors. Um we've got all of the uh lockers installed and uh the locker rooms are all the you know cleaning up and um putting in the final final finishing touches for uh the athletics wings is ongoing. Uh you can see in the laundry facility uh you've got on the left hand side those are the big gas dryers and on the right hand side those are the commercial washing machines. Very nice. Uh and you can see here all the fencing going up. Um, I know that um, uh, Mrs. Austin, you know, had some comments about the fencing looking really good, nice and straight, clean, very secure, and, uh, very
021good addition to the aesthetic of the school. And that's it. Here's Josh. Yeah. And one thing that I do want to address, we we've been throwing around the term punch list a lot uh, currently in the academic areas. Te's working through the punch list. Uh we're about to create the punch list for the athletic areas. And then when all of the outside of the building is ready, we're going to make a punch list for that. When when we say substantially complete, nothing's perfect. Uh no installation can be perfect. There's still going to be some paint overspray on the door frame that got has to get cleaned up. There's still floor tiles that need to be pulled up from time to time and replaced. And that process will we're going to as when we say we're
022working on punchless items, those are the types of things that we're going through. So, um, does anybody have any questions about the project? >> I have one uh just from the construction uh the bond construction meeting earlier today uh and and then looking at the the first bullet for this month that says uh students will move into most areas of the athletic wing this month. Is that true? I'll let him speak, but that was true until last meeting where we where we didn't made a decision to pivot, but I'll let my >> All right. Thank you. >> Yeah, it's been our intention to try to get all the kids into the athletic areas as much as possible. Obviously, there's issues with the uh weight room floor and stuff like that that we're working through. Uh
023we got some communications from coach Sosa today that, you know, his intent is for he really wants the kids to come in when it's done done. Um, so we're going to work through, you know, the various different items that that need touching up and make sure that, you know, we have a good understanding of what Dun done means and what his idea of done means. So, we're working through that. But, you know, the goal is to get the kids in there as quickly as possible. But, you know, if that if that means making concessions that if he wants everything done, we'll get everything done before they go in. So, >> I just want to make sure that people don't hear this and get their hopes up that they're moving in this month. So, >> understood.
024It's it's a good clarification. >> Well, I also want to be clear. I mean, I'm not going to blame all on coach SOSA wanting it to be done done. So, I just want to be transparent that also we had um an email from the city that we do not have the TCO. And so, when we did not get the TCO, we decided like, hey, since we don't have that, there are still items that they are requiring for the TCO and that we still see still need to be done. Let's just go ahead and keep kids out of the way so we can get finished at a a great pace that we want to be. So, I don't want it all to fall on coach Sosa. He's my He's my coach of the year there. So,
025>> and if I could clarify that just a little bit, um we we made that decision to pivot earlier today after the discussion that she just described. It's not that the building wouldn't be safe or occupiable. Um there's a couple of things that the city wants to see before they'll give it a temporary certificate of occupancy. The they're very they're the things that could be quickly addressed. It's just that we want to make sure that not only is it safe and occupiable, but then we do get the nicks in the wall fixed. We do get the any flooring that needs to be repaired repaired uh done before students are moving in. >> And coach of the year is going to look out for his students and make sure that they've got a great place to
026go into that they're not having to move in and out of. So, good for you, too, on that one, coach. Any any questions? All right. Thank you. >> All right. That brings us to agenda item 7B, annual RFISD mentor report. We have Alvita Gandandy presenting. Hello and good evening. Um, okay. So, good evening and thank you guys for the opportunity to share an update um on the Rockport full-time mentor program. I just took this role on about a month and a half ago. So, I know thanks. So, a lot Yes. All good things, but a lot of this work was started with Jenny Plume. And so I do want to give her credit for getting the ball rolling on um the future improvements that we're trying to work on for the program. Um so I
027would like to highlight some of that um and where we are areas that we want to continue expanding um to help the students move forward. But before I get started into that, I do want to share a little personal perspective. Um as a parent, I've experienced Okay, okay, great. All right, so um so before I get started, I do want to share a personal uh perspective. So, as a parent, I've experienced firsthand what it's like to want a mentor for your child and not have one available, especially a strong male role model. That experience really showed me how important this program is and how much that it can make. It truly does take a village and this program is one way that our community comes together to support our students. And that's exactly the purpose
028of this mentor program. Our goal is to connect students with a trusted adult who can provide encouragement, consistency, and support. For many of our students, having someone who shows up just for them, even for a short visit, can make a big difference in their confidence and overall well-being. This program allows our community to be directly involved in supporting our schools and investing in the success of our students. At its core, the program is about making sure that students know that they are seen, supported, and that they're not alone. So, one of the realities of a growing mentor program is that the need often grows alongside it. So, last year we had 41 students needing a mentor and this year we currently have 57 students who are requesting a mentor. Last year we had 38 mentors
029and this year we have 31 active mentors that are serving students across our campuses. So while we are incredibly grateful for the mentors who give their time each week, this also shows us that there are still many students who could benefit from having that consistent adult presence in their lives. And we know that even a short visit each week can make a meaningful dis a meaningful difference for a student. So because of this, expanding our mentor network continues to be one of our key goals moving forward. um through community outreach, local partnerships, and sharing the impact of the program, we hope to invite more community members to be a part of supporting our students. Um so one over the past year, um a lot of what Jenny was doing was getting everything digitized. Um so
030that way it would improve communication amongst all the counselors and anybody else who needed access to the mentor, um to the mentor list. So, we introduced digital tracking spreadsheets that allow us to monitor mentor pairings and their visits. This also gives the administrators a clear view of who's matched and how regular the visits are taking place. We created online forms for both the mentor applications and student referrals. And moving those processes online has made it a lot easier to manage information and to respond more quickly when new mentors or students are being identified. Another improvement that we're working on simplifying is uh simplifying and making quicker is collecting parent permission forms so that students can begin meeting their mentors um a lot sooner. And then finally we are developing which I finished today a mentor
031welcome toolkit and that will help simplify the information that we're giving to our mentors because a lot of them have not stepped foot possibly in a really long time um to our campuses. So, we just wanted to kind of simplify the information that we're giving them, whether it's their um schedules, the testing schedules, and campus information so they feel um welcome whenever they come onto our campus. So, supporting our mentors has also been a key focus. Um like I just mentioned, the mentor welcome toolkit will um help them guide them through that process really smoothly. And based on feedback from mentors, we are planning to introduce a mentor orientation and training session in September. And this will help provide practical tips for navigating challenges, building strong relationships with our students, and just creating opportunities for
032our mentors to share ideas and learn from one another. All right. So, what does it mean to be a mentor? We get this question asked quite often. Um, so when we speak about with our potential mentors in the community, um, one of the first things we like to explain is how simple that commitment really is. Most visits take place during a student's schedule time and last about 30 45 minutes. The focus isn't tutoring or teaching. It's about conversation, encouragement, and building a positive relationship. So, a typical visit, what does it look like? It's very simple, very relaxed. All of the campuses have a designated area that the mentor can visit with the student and they just basically can talk about how their day is going, how their week is going, encourage them in their school
033progress or discuss any interests and goals that they may have. They can play games, they can read books, um, and just have that open conversation. And we know that even though that time is short with 30 to 45 minutes that it can make a really huge impact for our students. So, um, I ended up recently getting some feedback from one of our seasoned, uh, uh, mentors who also was on the education foundation for a long time, uh, Mr. Mike Pewitz, and he allowed me to share some information. Um, and so one of his feedbacks, he said that he believes in the mentor program is incredibly important. Unfortunately, so many students have a home life that is very difficult for them and for adolescent boys with a single mom, it's especially hard. Having someone there to
034talk about it means so much. And a male mentor can make such a big difference. And a lot of our students who do have mentors that show up, they get really excited. Of course, they um show when they show up, they have a big smile on the face, give them a hug. And again, it's just really important to know that they are supported through that. So, as the program continues to grow, um the need for mentors has grown. As I mentioned earlier, we have 57 students that are requesting a mentor and we only have 31 mentors. And so, we are truly trying to dedicate our time to increase that number. Um, but it also not only um are we grateful for everybody who has helped in that, but we also know and see that the
035benefit of having this program is very important. Um, and so hoping that people more can continue to to share it with their friends and family and bring in who is interested in being a mentor within our program. And in May, we're going to host our end of year mentor celebration, which I'll invite all of you to. Um, we want to recognize them and just thank them for um the time that they have spent with our kids and the relationships that they've built with them. And before closing, I just want to again express our sincere appreciation to everyone who's helped make this program possible. Um, we want to thank obviously our mentors who give generously their time to support our students. And then we're grateful to our campus administrators, teachers, the front desk receptionists, counselors, the
036communities and school staff, and anybody else who has helped coordinate and support these relationships every day. And we especially want to thank the Rockport Fullton Education Foundation and our community supporters whose um whose funding helped sustain this program for this year. And the mentor program works great because it comes together and it brings our school and our community together in a meaningful way. And when a student knows that someone is showing up just for them, it truly can make a lasting difference. So, thank you. >> Any questions before Avita walks off the stage? >> I do have one. How have the 31 mentors that we currently have been recruited? Do you know? I mean, is there a trick? And and what I mean is there a is there a way that to identify them or
037has it been more that they hear about the program and they contact y'all? >> So, a lot of several have been around for quite a while like Mike has been around. This is actually his 15th year of mentoring. Um, a couple others. Heather Miller has been around forever. She's the one I think who actually started the mentor program. Um, so a lot of them do it through word of mouth. They share it with their groups, whether it's at church or book clubs, um going to different meetings and things like that. So, we've been trying to get out in the community more and just bring it up to different businesses of who wants to have their employees volunteer. Um so, anybody who is willing and wanting sharing >> and I know that early in the year
038we put out flyers at coffee shops. I talked to the silver pirates about it. So, we try to get it out as much and I um Jenny before handing it over to Avita really at any time anybody asked her. I know she went to different church meetings, small group meetings and would talk to them about the mentors and we're trying to let them know how simple it is. I think it can be a little nerve-wracking for people who've never done it before um because we understand and appreciate the love of teachers and how hard that job is. Um, so to them coming in as a mentor, they get a little nervous about it. So, we're just trying to help them learn that it's very simple. It's not um as daunting as it can be. And
039we have so many great community members and people in this area who have such a talent and gift and they have it inside them and we let them know even as adults, you know, we look out for mentors and we're learning every single day whether it's through our job or our personal life. Um, so kids need that too and everybody has something in there that they can share with their kids and this is a perfect opportunity to do that. >> Yeah, I completely agree. And are most of the the visits are they during school hours on campus? Correct. >> Yes. Mostly during their elective. Gota. >> Thank you. All right, that brings us to agenda item 7C, our long range facility plan annual update. Mr. Milwaukey will be presenting. All right, so last year before
040I start, I can't believe it's already been a year since uh I first presented this, but what this is is a a year update when we presented the long range facilities plan last March. So first I'll start off what's in the plan. So have maintenance goals in there. Ensure safe, efficient, cost effective facility up. Uh also how we uh do our preventative maintenance. Okay. Okay. All right. Also includes the upgrades replacement of aging equipment has a life cycles. We do have a life cycle plan on there for facility plan. HAC is a big one on this a plan to replace aging units also includes fleet and equipment uh and also future projects that we want to complete. And next uh I brought this one on here. This one was presented last year as well just
041what our uh yearly uh contracts are. And you can see at the bottom there, uh, right at the beginning of every year, we pretty much it doesn't get expensed all at once, but we encumber it just so we know that that has been encumbered and that's what we're going to have to expend throughout the year for our maintenance contracts. I put uh this on here because now that the city of Corpus Christie has taken over our gas for the city, we are now required to have a third party come in and do inspections every two years. This will be our first year to do it. We're going out and getting numbers. We do not know what that's going to cost. So, I want to put that that's going to be not But every two years
042we have to do that as required group requirements. So we'll start on some of the projects that we've started since last uh last year. Uh HAC replacements. So pictured here, this is actually above the existing admin area of the high school. This one of our units, 510 unit that we placed there. Uh we handle most of those smaller units like that in house. We have a great HVAC team. So we did have to sub out a crane because of you can see in the back there. We're going over the new twotory edition. So, for some we do have to sub out a crane. Uh usually we do a local contract, but this one was so difficult to get we had to get one of the bigger cranes. But we do most of those in house.
043We're saying uh on our cycle plan for that. So, several throughout the district have been replaced since last year. And then this has been the one this is the big one that's been uh I believe whenever Dr. Austin first came in, we had a a onetoone meeting and she said, "What are some of the things that keep you up at night?" HC was on it. And this project here has been the one that's been on my mind. And luckily, this was, thanks to the board, this is approved. I believe it was three meetings, two meetings ago, we approved this project. So, these are the big multiszone HAC units that we have at high school and Fulton. There's two large unit larger units at high school and four at Fulton Elementary. So, these will be starting
044replace work's already been started. They actually were out today at Fulton checking make sure everything's good to go. going to start this work in summer and they'll be ready to go at the beginning of the 26 27 school year. So, we're excited to get those. Uh these actually made it through Harvey. We've had them since I believe 2012. So, they're they're one at the end of life and they went through a pretty significant weather event. So, we're ready to get those replaced and uh make sure those are good to go because if those goes down, it's not just one classroom, that's 10 classrooms going down. So, very very glad we got that ball rolling on that. Another thing that was on the plan was the live oak playground. We wanted to upgrade that fill material
045in there. Before it was just that pear gravel and not only was it, you know, pravel, it also kind of caused a safety concern sometimes because it would get in the doors and keep the doors from closing. So it tracking the shoe get up there and then the door wouldn't close. So we made we really wanted to get that done. So we ended up going with that rubber mulch. And from what I hearing and this one could maybe back me up that sounds like everybody loves it going really well. So really happy we could get that done. So, not only was it a issue for the playground, but was also a safety issue that we were able to, uh, solve by doing that. Another upgrade that was on the plan, uh, baseball and softball lighting.
046So, we had this done just before the start of, uh, baseball season, we retrofitted our current poles with new LED lighting. And not only are they more efficient, this also gives us, we can schedule, we schedule so we can have them come on automatically if we want to. We can also control them from our uh, this app. you can put on your phone, you can turn them off, turn them on. You don't have to physically go over to a breaker, flip a breaker like we were having before. So, really good upgrade there. So, softball and baseball both have them. And then, uh, approved last month was our interactive panels. So, this has been on the plan for a while because we had aging short throw projectors that again were there since about 2012, 2013, the
047same time that the other units were put in. And for one, they're at their end of life cycle. We wanted to go a little more modern and and this is kind of the route everyone's going is these interactive panels and so far they they've been great. But this is what we put in at our Fulton edition and the high school edition. These are currently in the classrooms now. So that's a picture of one of the high school and now uh since the board approved last month anywhere else we have projectors at Fulton Live Oak all campuses are not going to have these panels. will be installed over the summer access control. So we trying to remember it's several four uh four minutes ago we approved the little live oak access control upgrade. So there's 12
048classrooms in there that I had the doors that were there since I believe it was 53 or 57 when that door was built when that building was built and those were the original doors. They were solid doors. Uh but it was time to upgrade. Uh it not only is it uh safer because it's going to have access control, but it just gives it a fresher look, upgrades that wing a little bit. And so believe we have four doors left. We had to do it in phases because we also ripped off the frame and we had to make sure we can reinforce that frame. So we we're doing it in phases to make sure that we did some over Thanksgiving break, Christmas break. The last one was spring break and we were able to do a
049few because when that frame comes out, we have to reinforce the blocking to make so there's time for that to cure. So that's why we're having to phase, but this will be done uh the last phase will be in summer when our next break is, but they'll they'll be ready and everything will be ready for the uh 26 27 school year. Then we also are doing middle school access control. So, that was one of the our only campuses that did not have access control for the classrooms or offices. There were some a lot of our exterior doors already had it, but it was a safety concern and uh the board approved this uh several months ago and work already begun. Pictured there is uh where the main one of the main control boards will be.
050So all the control boards are now installed and you can kind of see some of that yellow cabling. That's the cabling that runs to the doors. They've already started cabling. They did a lot of work over spring break. So all this when you come back to school uh beginning of next year, every door in that campus, all classrooms, offices will have access control. And another access control project that was in this plan was updating our software. So we had the same software uh whenever we implemented a live oak was our first main camp live oak and ultimately we had that bond back uh back in 2012 and that software just antiquated sound update and the other thing we wanted to do is have instead of having multiple programs one for VMS and one for access
051control we wanted to bring it all together so they could interact with each other and with this upgrade we went to Genitech and that's been implemented it's operational now Uh there's still a few doors at the new wing that we're waiting on. Once they get on, then we'll Genitech will take over and uh we'll have one system. It's been uh rolled out to uh our SRO's and a few members at the high school. We all have it and then we're we're currently working on rolling out the client to everyone else. So, it's so far it's been great. Uh Daniel's and Cena have been doing a lot of work in the behind the scenes getting us going and so far we really like the software and it's it's it's really a needed upgrade. And then some
052other stuff that uh we're working on that's also in the plan uh that we just don't have uh approved yet or uh numbers yet is also districtwide camera upgrades. So that would replace all existing cameras uh just to get them little updated higher definition. Uh also they'll have uh the analytics in them to where you can track uh facial recognition on any cameras we do. They would have that and that new software it'll be compatible with that new software that we uh just implemented. Also network equipment uh working on replacing a lot of our aging network switches. And then uh there's also an ADA playground work looking at for Live Oak. Uh we do have numbers on that and once once we're clear that'll we'll then take that forward and uh try to playground. There's
053also uh some other stuff that we had on there. We u a Chromebook life cycle is on there as well. Uh which actually is an agenda item on that this afternoon later on. So there's other things we're working on, but these are some of the bigger ones. That's all I have. If there's any questions, >> Mike, how many of these uh the upcoming projects are going to be paid for out of any remaining bond funds? uh the districtwide camera upgrades and the live oak 88 playground. Okay. The network equipment we uh try uh helps with that. So a bulk of that we're hope will be paid uh we have rate help with that. So but those those two the districtwide upgrade camera upgrades potential bond. >> And how many of those projects that you showed
054already are at a bond? It seems like pretty much all of every single one. The bond was there. >> So, I just want to thank our community again because this is a lot of it is safety and security of our students and staff. So, >> thanks again to our community for the bond. >> And going back to those bond projects, were we still looking at um changing some of the parking situation and drop off and things at Live Oak to get it to where our students are not having to cross the same area as a parking lot? >> Yes. We're still looking at parking lot expansion and possible drop off expansion. That's that's awesome. We also, one thing I didn't put on here is also parking in Fton. We recently had uh the paving is
055now done for the mobile classroom used to be and now all it has to do is drive it. So that that actually just completed beginning of this week. I just didn't have that. >> Any other questions board? All right. If not, then we'll move to agendum item 7D, which is our featured campus report. We're featuring Fulton Elementary. We have Principal Linda Cox presenting. >> Thank you. We're going to move pretty quickly because our featured employee is eagerly awaiting her daughter's 16th birthday party and so we don't want to keep her waiting any longer. We're excited to talk about Fulton. Our motto uh this spring 2026 is excellence is our standard. That's Alex, a third grade student. Um and in third grade our kiddos sometimes and their parents come a little hesitant because We're in a
056new school, new building. Now we have new classrooms. There you see the students interacting with the new View Sonic boards that Mike just discussed. Um, as they go about Fulton and learn their new campus, they start building that confidence. They're still engaged in windtime just like they were at Live Oak. We have some science fair participants there and then also we had some guest readers uh this year and so they're soon to be fourth graders these kiddos. And so this is our fourth grade crew um here you know in fourth grade they are reminding us at that top left that we have exceeded 100 days of school. That was their 100th day celebration there. Um, we also push for effort and progress to lead to success. And, um, they continue to build on their reading
057skills, their writing skills, their problem solving skills. And these students featured here are almost going to be fifth graders. And this is a bittersweet time for us because our kiddos in fifth grade are about to transition to you, Jerry. And, uh, we're really going to miss them. But we enjoy the three years that we spend with our students. And so you see there our fifth graders building their knowledge one one day at a time. They took a field trip to the Fulton Schoolhouse Museum that's featured there. And then we had some guest speakers come in for some science um ex extension. And then at the top right you see our students engaged in the problem solving model that Denise and I rolled out with our math teachers this year. Um all of our students get
058to ro rotate through different elective classes and so we're thankful for that part of our team as well. Um growth at every grade level in every content and classroom helps prepare our students for our um our mission here and our vision to start here and really go anywhere. Um, and our our elective team, they helped bring that creativity and joy and engagement in our surveys from our students. When asked what their favorite classes were over and over again, they talked about PE and music and art. And so those classes are very important to them and their future. Um, we also all of our students are supported um in different ways depending on their learning needs. And so this is our special education team, our dyslexia teachers intervention. This group of staff members prepares our diverse
059learners by continuing to be dedicated to their own personal needs and also they exhibit a lot of patience for our students and meeting them where they're at. We also celebrate and are very supported by our office staff, our security officer, our instructional coaches. Thank you, Dr. Robin. She does a great job ing them. Um, our counselors are a big part of our team and our office staff, our nurse. And so, in every system and process and decision that we make at Fulton, we do our best to build everything with excellence in mind and then also safety in mind and we did get 100% on our door audit. So, we were super proud of that. Um we also um feature a lot of community events and clubs. We're always excited to grow that because it brings
060our students to school. It also brings our community together and it gets our parents involved. So there you see in the photos we have craft club, some of Martha's clubs. Um that was a school event at the bottom right. And then we have guest speakers that come on campus throughout the year to engage our students. Uh this year we we're excited to add Fulton morning bike ride. Then we've had two of them, one in January and then one in February where we meet at the Fulton Convention Center at 7 o'clock and we get on bikes and we ride our bike to school. And so we just thought we've seen other districts do this and it's always the question why not our kids? and it's actually been really successful and so hopefully the next one y'all
061will join us because it actually is just a very soothing way to begin the day and get a little exercise in. But the kids keep asking for it. Um we are we also had our principal's advisory council present to the silver pirates um at the request of Dr. Austin and I hope that y'all that were there noticed that this is a very prestigious group of students who have excellent public speaking skills and leadership skills and I was very inspired by their presentation. We are also with our principal team. We are planning principles in the park on May 1st which is another community event. Um we have my assistant principles are having a lunch and learn with families later this month. They're bringing bringing them in the building, teaching them some skills that can transfer to
062home, and we're also feeding them, which is a bonus. And Denise and I are collaborating in May with something new called Pancakes with Principles. And so we have seen that sometimes there's a decline in numbers when students come from second to third grade. And so when we were brainstorming with Dr. Austin, we came together and we're going to invite parents, second grade parents to come and have pancakes with us as a little trans a more intimate transition to Fulton. So, that's just a few of the things that we are doing. There's a picture of our first bike ride. It was more successful than I realized. And so, we're always excited to do new things. And Speaking of greatness, every great school is built on great people. And tonight we are recognizing Heather Morales. And so
063I'll tell you a little bit about her. She um is in her 16th year of education. She has spent most of her majority of her career teaching in Rockport Fulton. She says that Fulton Elementary feels like home to her. And I will tell you in my transition as the principal of Fulton, she has been critical to my um success and she helped me in the summer, on the weekends, anything I needed. She was able and willing to transfer all the institutional knowledge that she had and I am so thankful for her. Um she also has a wonderful family. She um has four children. Her oldest daughter, McKenzie, graduated last year from Rockport Fulton High School. She is currently attending Texas A&M College Station. Her youngest daughter, whose birthday is today, and they are celebrating with
064Crawfish. Aubrey is a sophomore. She loves track and cheer. Her oldest bonus son has already graduated and is working and her youngest bonus son will graduate this year. She has three pets. One a dog named Callie. Lily is a rabbit. And she also has a tortoise named Chloe. And in her first year of teaching in Rockport, her mom bought her a class pet named Chloe that she later realized would outlive all of us. And so now she lives at home in her backyard. Last year, Heather did earn what is called a structured literacy dyslexia interventionist certification, and she could tell you all of the work that went into that, but just so you know, it is a very prestigious honor. Heather is critical not just in our building to teaching students with dyslexia, but she's
065also a quiet leader on campus. She helps us make most of our schedules. And I think this year she published the best Thanksgiving feast schedule yet. And so anytime a teacher needs her as a mentor, a student needs someone to go to, the admin team needs some help, Heather has always been there. I talked with some of your students behind your back, Heather, and this is what they said. And keep in mind, she works with students that really struggle to read. She said she's very nice. She explains stuff really well. She's pretty. She's caring. People like going to her class. She helps us understand how to read bigger words by sectioning them out. And if I don't understand something, she helps me to never give up. Heather, we're so proud of you. We are so
066thankful to have you as our Fulton Elementary featured teacher. Come on out. All right, that brings us to agenda item 8A. Consider take possible action to approve the purchase of student Chromebooks for the 202627 year. We have Cena Smith presenting. Yes, this is part of our refresh plan that Mike mentioned earlier so that we can maintain student device health throughout the district. This helps us ensure that the devices are secure on our network with our filtering systems. that also these devices support all the testing around the district that we do and it also helps to make sure that any adopted instructional materials that are online that these devices will support that as well. >> Are there any questions? I don't have any questions but I do want to make a comment because I know right
067now there is a lot a lot of comment about the amount of time that students are spending on devices and I want to say from personal experience that the work in the classroom is more often than not on paper and pencil because we know developmentally that is where the kids are retaining the most. However, we have to do due to state requirements, we have to have these students on devices and have to know how to use them and how to answer questions on them and do certain things. It is not because we don't understand best practices. It is because a group of people decided that this is what they need to do honestly so they can get data quickly. And it does help teachers sometimes to collect data quickly because we don't take home three
068and a half inches of paper every night to try and go through and quickly react or figure out your students needs. um because we have a lot of needs and we want to make sure we're responding to them quickly and I know teachers want to do that. So the computers do help us do that. It's not that we want to just stick them in front of a screen. It is a tool to help the student and it is a tool to help the teacher to help your student. Um, I have a question. Uh, in doing some research, I saw that over 40% of students um, access porn on their computers um, given by the school and they get around the firewalls of the schools. What measures are you taking to prevent that? >> That is
069a very good question and that's why we do like to maintain device health because all of our secure measures that we use, our firewalls, our extensions that we use that filter what they're on that we can monitor students to ensure that they are staying where they're supposed to be within those realms. um without the proper device health, if we get older devices, they do not support those things. And that's where we see the ability of students to be able to bypass. We also have dashboards that monitor for us, notifications that are sent to us. When students get around things, we always tell teachers, they are our first eyes. If they see something that shouldn't be allowed, they alert us right away so that we can immediately shut that down. Um these student devices are connected
070to our networks so that they are stay in our filtering system and anything that we use we pull them back into our system so that students can't bypass our internet. I do want to give an example because I am a parent of a student. Um my son they are allowed to email not each other anymore but he often will email me and tell me to bring him lunch and I do say no. However, I said, "What are you doing?" He answered back, "He was playing a typing game. I understand it's a typing game, but I didn't want him playing a typing game." So, a teacher that I knew could jump on the dashboard and see what he's doing. I asked her, "Can you please go block him from this game?" And so, she was able
071to remote in through that program and take that game off to where he couldn't play. I'm sure he won't email me again and answer me that he's playing a game. Um, and I hope that he's not watching tonight. Um, but they are able and when I found out I said please go block him from this game. It was a typing game but it's still a game and so it is definitely it works and it's like kind of like Avita said it's going to take a village. We have to monitor we have to keep device health up so that our firewalls are working. Um, but it's always a concern. You know Mike said what keeps us up at night. I will say that would be one. And I do work with um all the principles and
072in every area that we can go into any platform we have, we create structures within those to pull students back into only instructional type materials as much as we can and they will work as hard as they can to bypass everything we put. So yes, it is um a busy job, but that's what our goal is. >> Any other questions? If not, I'll look for a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the purchase of student Chromebooks for 20 2026 2027 totaling $165,400. >> All right. A motion made by Mr. Burton, seconded by Mr. Romos. Any further discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? >> I I ask for discussion. Sure. 167,500 Chromebooks. Okay, that's a lot of money. I am all for spending money if it helps our students, but
073there is no data out there that tells us that kids in elementary needs Chromebooks. There is data out there, plenty of data that shows screens in the classroom are detrimental at the elementary level. I am quickly going into that camp. There was a state um board representative running no screens in the classrooms, but that's that's the direction we need to head. We're spending $165,000 on something that may be detrimental. I can't prove it is, but we have more technology in our classrooms now than ever, and our breathing levels are lower than ever. So, it's beyond me to prove that it's working. >> Thank you for sharing, Jack. And I know that's out there right now. And and and it's not just at home that we're worried about that they're on the screen. I mean at
074home, it's at home as well. Yeah, that needs to be closer. I know as soon as I pull it, it's going to go off. It's not just at school that we're worried. And what I want to tell you at our elementary levels, we have structures that when we are in tier one intervention, you're not going to walk into Denise Poland's classrooms and see that much screen time. We are very structured when they get on in elementary and as they move into secondary that time does increase especially as you come into second grade because we start preparing them. Unfortunately, it's not a decision. TEA has not reached out to me to ask me my opinion about state testing on a computer. Um, but it is required that they take their state test in third grade on
075that computer. We do not have an option. And so it would be unfair to our students if we do not introduce them to computers, how to use them correctly. I think what's most important for our team is that we continue to have conversation is what's most age appropriate for our kids when they're on devices. I also will challenge parents. It's not just at school. Screen time is detrimental. It's at home as well. Um, but I share that concern not only as a superintendent but as a mother and I know that our principles do too. Um, talking to Miss Smith, talking to Dr. Robbins, we constantly say, okay, is the structure that we have students on computers appropriate? I think we can always get better. But I just wanted you to know and our our staff
076and our parents out there that is definitely something that's on our mind and we are watching. But to get these tools today, I understand it is to keep up with what is required for them to take a state test. These will go to our ninth graders. Um the cycle shows most of them going to our ninth graders who all take tests online. >> Jack is just old school. >> I I I agree with you, Mr. Vogle. Uh I if if I could have it my way, we'd go back to worksheets and pens and pencils. Um but the reality is computers are here to stay and they are I mean I would say they're the future, but they are they're the present. So we have to have them. Any other discussion? We'll take a vote. All
077in favor? I. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. 41. We'll move to agenda item 8B. Consider take possible action to approve memorandum of understanding with head start to fi five program. Principal Poland is presenting. >> Okay. So you receive theou that was presented before you. Um really it's just an extension of our partnership and collaboration that we've had with Head Start. Nothing has changed with that partnership. It does help us serve up to 94 students and so we do have about 91 right now. Um that even starting with our three-year-olds helps us with 34 of them. So they actually get an experience for two years in our prek classrooms and has really helped them be kinder ready um as they come into the main building. So that is what is before you. Any questions about
078it? I just want to say that I am very thankful for these programs because I know how difficult it is with our our parents are working both parents are working outside the home. They don't have the same level time available to do the things that some of our family members were or families were able to have when they were growing up where somebody was at home to work when they got home, you know, with their littles. And I'm thankful for programs that can step in and help those students be kinder ready the way that we were expected to be in years past. And the greatest benefit is having them there already on our campus and they get to experience that ex, you know, all of the things before they even become a pirate, they're already
079a pirate. So where they used to not be in our facilities, um that's been the biggest asset to having the collaboration. >> And of course, we want to think Head Start, but could you briefly tell us u what they provide as far as teachers and aids? So in the five classroom they do fund all the pair of professionals and their head start staff that goes with that. So our responsibility to that is just the district certified teacher. Uh but within that there are inind matches from food services to our facilities use. They help fund the instructional materials and the furniture if there's any needs within that. Um but additionally they also fund two family advocates for um our students. And so those family advocates very directly work hand in hand with families to find community
080service needs if those needs are present um as if we lo if a student unenrolls, they are quickly looking for a student um to reenroll. And so those seats always stay full. And so they've also been um just a great resource and benefit to being able to recruit students. Um they have ways of knowing who those three year olds are and those four year olds just working with all the community organizations. So um it's definitely been a huge benefit to us. >> Thank you. Are there any other questions for Miss Bulan? If not, we'll I'll entertain a motion. I move that the board approve the memorandum of understanding with Head Start birth to five program. >> I'll second. All right. Motion made by Mrs. Randall, seconded by Mr. Cruzanne. Any further discussion? Take a vote.
081All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 50. That brings us to item number nine, our superintendence report. Dr. Austin. >> Thank you, Mr. President. We are going to start with teaching and learning. Dr. Robbins. >> All right. So about a a little over a year ago, I had come to you all with um an approval item to work with sustained as we kicked off a lasso grant. Those are some of the grants that TEA has been consistently rolling out annually. This particular grant was supporting our work with literacy. And so we've used some of those grant funds to work specifically with sustained ed um on some of our system work. So our leadership systems, internalization, the data analysis tools, um those uh classroom observation feedback. And so one of the things that was kind
082of the final step of this process was to take a really deep look at our instructional resources specifically in reading. But we also asked them to tack on some learning experiences for us related to math as they pertain to the most current research around researchbased strategies in math and reading. And so we actually I took a team up north. Um I took two our two elementary principles, a couple of teachers, a couple of instructional coaches. Um we took a we took a journey and we had some grant funds to build in a site visit. We got to visit two um beautiful elementary schools with students with a wide range of needs. Um and we got to watch PLC's. We got to be part of teacher focus groups. Um we were able to talk to campus
083leaders, district leaders who have also been working in this journey with sustain ed. The only difference is that they've been working in more of the curriculum resources. So the work specifically with blue bonnet math and reading. We wanted to see these resources in action with their students. We wanted to see how their leaders were interacting with sustained in this work. And so it was just a very well-rounded learning experience for our team. We got to use that to kind of hold that up against what we see in our own curriculum right now, make some good comparisons. And so Mr. Vogle referenced um just some things that he felt good about that came out of that conversation. Um I'll be bringing to you next month the next step of recommendations as we accept the next round
084of grants that would support us in this work as we continue um really just improving the instructional options for our students and teachers. So, this u my board report this month just featured the highlights of that visit and really just bridges into the next conversation, which is what's next to make sure that we're giving everything we've got. We've worked very hard on our leadership systems this year. Um our next step really is what is going in front of our kids in instruction. And so um more to come on that next month. Any questions? >> I don't have a question, but I was in the same meeting as Mr. Vogle and we have some incredible teachers and they pour every moment that they have into our students. And it is on us as a school district
085to provide them every resource we can to make that time the most effective. And I appreciate the time that you are taking to find ways to do so. All right. If there's not any more questions, we'll go to our business office report. Kathy Henderson. >> Um it's questions. One thing I want to bring to your attention. Um last month when I presented the tax collection report at the end of January we were down about 2% from the prior year um which I expected to there was a lot of deposits at the first of February that were still coded that this tax office is still put back to January. So this year I mean this month we're only down 66%. So there was a a big increase in that. So, we're back really back on track
086of where we should be. Um, the other thing just to mention, um, I haven't been investing as much this year for long term. The rates have been either quite a bit lower than our short-term pool. So, I've been leaving the pools. Rates are now longterm are starting to go up. So, I'll be watching those over the next couple of months to hopefully get some six, nine months that we can get a little bit higher interest rates. I'll be watching that to help our interest income there. Any questions? >> I'm going to call out just because I caught it. I saw it. Our cash flow is a little bit different. This I mean not cash flow our well cash flow sheet where our expenditures are are higher. I want you guys to know that is the
087insurance premium that we paid. It went out in February. It was due March 1st. They're always due in March. Of course, our insurance premium down here at the coast is pretty high. Um, actually, it's a great price for this year, but that is why you see such a jump in this month, right? No questions. We're going to move forward with Let's see who's next on my list. Human resources, Miss Molly Adams. Uh so this time of year we are busy uh looking at enrollment, looking at student requests, course request, making sure that we are uh staffing ourselves appropriately for the upcoming school year. Um looking at the potential vacancies coming up, u making decisions. Um with that, we always have positions um that we need to fill as we have retirees as well. and we
088have three job fairs coming up. We will be attending Texas State, Texas A&M, and Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Um these are great opportunities. We the I went in the fall to all three and it was a tremendous turnout. Um and typically spring is better than fall uh with graduates. And so really looking forward to the uh new teacher graduates that are about to um get out into the real world and hopefully they will be joining us. Um we will are continuing to work on supporting staff. Um there was a couple of suggestions about our substitutes and additional training. Um and so at the beginning of next school year in August, they will do a half day um kind of a rotation type of a thing. They'll start um in one room and then there'll be
089different sessions that they'll go to uh one around curriculum instruction, one around uh behaviors in the classroom, just procedures on a campus. Um and so looking forward to making sure that we are supporting our guest teachers um because we could not do a dayto-day uh without them. And then um the other thing that Miss Wedi is going to hold my hand when we do this bridgewalk um so Saturday, April 11th, we're trying to do uh some fun team building things with our staff. And so the next one coming up um is on Saturday, April the 11th. It is walking the new Harbor Bridge. Um and so uh we have a group that is signed up. We could always take more, but it'll just be fun times together. Um and no judgement. Any questions? >> Well,
090come on. >> All right. If we have no questions, I'm going to move us to our athletic department report. Coach Sosa. >> All right. Thank you. Um, with spring break comes Oysterfest. Uh we had so many extracurricular activities that performed in there. Obviously with the band and the emeralds marching uh the uh NJRTC with the color guard uh in the parade. It was great to see our our our students um to be able to to represent uh RFISD in a positive manner. Our athletic department was asked to do cleanup crew. Uh we got raving reviews. So, I'm super proud of that of the way that we were able to to help and uh and give back to the community. So, um as the big our big spring project, that's what we were able to do.
091Uh with spring uh in the air, it's uh a lot of things going on. I realize as I'm looking through it, I absolutely for the upcoming events, I forgot about district golf on March the 30th and 31st. Uh so you can see in my my uh report I did also uh uh keep going. There you go. Um the toast of the coast relays uh is going on this weekend. Uh right now currently we are in the 200 meter dash in the middle school relays. So coach Swinford and coach blue are are getting that going right now. Um tomorrow I'll be heading down to Edinburgh. Elizabeth Garcia is uh is participating in the uh state her trying to get a gold medal this year. She got silver last year, but she will be uh starting lifting
092at uh 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. So, uh they already went down there. We had a great uh send off this morning for her. Uh so very uh very excited. And you can you can look down uh we got so many things that we're hosting. Um big events as the district track meet are coming up in a couple of weeks and then also the area track meet coming up in midappril. So uh spring is in the air. Um really powerlifting is the last winter sport. Everything else we're uh we're we're we're going into the spring. So uh softball is 2 and 0 in district. Baseball has a big district opener tomorrow. Um we got JV and freshman baseball going on right now. So pretty much every single day of of the week there's something Green and
093Gold is participating. So, um, very excited. Thank you for all the support. Uh, do you have any questions? >> No, but I would like to go back one slide, Mike, if you could for the community service and uh, explain. You you mentioned the emeralds and the band. How about the dirty work, the trash work? >> Yeah, the Yes. Um, so I was approached uh by by um uh the Fton Fire Department and saying, "Hey, do you all want to take care of it? It's a big it's a big undertaking." And and again, I'm new here. I've been to Oyster Fest a couple of times, but uh last year was kind of I was able to spend a lot more time, but then this year I was immersed in it. So uh uh but yes, I'm
094so proud of of all of our our athletes. We had boys and girls, middle school, high school coaches, they all signed up. Um, again, talking with uh with David Cameron, uh he said that that was probably in the past 10 years they the most compliments that they've got. And so again, I take pride in something that hey, that's Rockport Fulton athletics. And so I'm going to take pride because that's that's what our stamp is. And I know our kids also did that and our coaches stepped up to the plate and really uh did a great community service and give back to the community. And uh and again we we talk about it as the athletics, but those same athletes were also working in booths that were the uh uh I mean the emeralds, the NRJC.
095I mean there are so many students there and uh and I'm just blessed that I'm be able to work with these student athletes that again we're mult we're so multiple in everything that we do. So, uh, but yes, thank you. >> Definitely want to thank the student athletes and the coaches because there was a lot of them out there and they did a really good job. >> Thank you. >> All right, if no more questions, we'll move to our operations report. Mike Noatne. >> Okay, so uh before I get into the slide here, I want to go over uh this was submitted before spring break. So over spring break there's a lot of uh projects that happened. Um I mentioned earlier access control at little live oak happened and middle school. So there was work
096on both the access control systems there. U the new intercom system at middle school was installed over spring break is now functional. Uh I mentioned also the asphalt uh that was started in spring break finished up uh this week. Sound panels or sound boards in the high school cafeteria and middle school cafeteria were also completed. Uh we also had some uh plumbing repairs at Little Live Oak. Uh some of those old pipes had had clogged or had some debris. So, we we went through there and got all that cleaned out. Um also had a lot of power line work. Uh there was a a sub came out and replaced a lot of our poles and power lines up there by off of Sunny Watkins. That was done over spring break as well. And uh so
097then here uh water line replacement. So after the demo, our water line that services Vanhole Maritime Transportation uh was dug up and it was old ductal line, old iron pipe. And my concern was we're about to slap a brand new parking lot on top of this very old line that was already rusted and uh didn't feel too confident in that. So we ended up replacing all that line with a poly pipe. It's a lot more flexible, so it can handle that. So we were able to do that. And uh it's got all new pipe now to service all those areas and safe to put over uh that parking lot over there. And we also Gil helped us out and we had the plan to take an overhead shot while we had it all unearthed. So
098we did a drone shot, you see where all of our piping is and then whenever all this is uh overlaid with the new parking lot, we'll have an exact same overhead shot and overlay the images and we'll be able to mark out where all of our water lines are. So uh thanks Gil for helping out with that. And then on the right there, general maintenance. That's our grounds guys. Couple of maintenance guys just loading some new uh dirt in the long jump bits. And then our budget started the year with 670,500. So far we've encumbered 436,21 expenditures since the last report, 42,177, which leaves us with 234,299. Any questions? All right, that's the end of our central office reports. >> All right, move to item 10, consent agenda. The superintendent may consolidate items on the
099agenda summary for possible group action or any trustee may suggest group action on items to expedite the meeting. Board, are there any questions or anything you would like to pull? If not, I'll look for a motion. >> Make a motion to accept the consent agenda. All right. Motion made by Miss Randall, seconded by Mr. Burton. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 5. All right, that brings us to item 11. So at this time, the board will recess an executive session pursuant of the Texas government code sections 551071, 551072, 551, 074, and 551 076. And the time is 7:37 p.m.