Regular School Board Meeting - February 19, 2026

001Good evening. The time is 6 p.m. on February 19, 2026. I call this regular meeting of the Rockport Fulton Independent School District to order. Let the record show that a quorum of members are present. This meeting has been duly called and notice of this meeting has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meetings Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. We'll begin the meeting with the prayer >> with Trusty. Trusty yarn. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for allowing us to serve our students and our community in this way. Guide us this evening as We continue to do this with honor and grace and integrity. In your name I pray. Amen. Please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance and the Texas pledge fire NG roc. Thank you so much cadetses. This evening, our NJOTC

002has brought us cadet Ava Christians. She is in her second year of the Rockport Fulton High School Navy Junior Return Reserve Officer Training Corp. She is actively involved in the armed basic drill team, armed exhibition drill team, unarmed basic drill team, unarmed exhibition drill team, and the academic team. My goodness. She currently serves as the commander of both the physical fitness team and the color guard. And she holds the leadership leadership position of army armory petty officer. I apologize cannot speak tonight. Cadet Christians demonstrates exceptional drive, discipline, and commitment to excellence. She plans to enlist in the United States Marine Corps with aspirations of becoming a career Marine. Her desire to serve comes from within, and she consistently models the Navy's core values of honor, courage, and commitment in everything she does. Cadet Christians represents

003the very best of what NJOTC seeks to develop in young leaders. Also with us this evening is cadet Michael Tommpkins. Cadet Tomkins is a secondyear cadet in Rockport Fton Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. He is an active member of the armed drill team, academic team, marksmanship team, and physical fitness team. Cadet Tomkins has set his sights on serving his country in the United States Army. He plans to enlist and pursue selection for Ranger training with the long-term goal of becoming an Army officer and leading an infantry unit. His ambition, focus, and dedication to self-improvement reflect the leadership development principles instilled through the NJOTC program, and from the looks of things, both of them demonstrated well. Thank you very much, cadets. All right. Move to agenda item four, which is our district celebrations. Dr. Austin.

004All right. So tonight I'm excited to celebrate the San Patricio and Aranis County Agriculture and Homemaking Show exhibitors. The show took place January 19th through the 23rd. I was able to go out there and see our kids not only their projects, but them show some of their animals. Not a lot. It's a It's a lot going on. If you haven't been out there, I highly suggest going out there. the skills that our students learn not in just taking care of their animals but in leadership and collaboration truly is an amazing program and um I know a lot of them are in 4 clubs and maybe one day as we get student interest up it could develop further and I say that because I know Danielle's sitting back there um and Danielle of course is a

005huge part of that Megan I don't see her tonight but Danielle would you like to come up as we celebrate our students no you're good back you're coming up. Okay, come on up. So, we're going to start with livestock, a mechanics, and homemaking. Uh, the students that I'm about to tell you about have done all of those. One of them I'm hoping is here tonight, but if not, one of them I know for sure. Drew, she worked, if I say that right, maybe close. Um, she's actually at the San Antonio Livestock Show right now showing her pigs. So, if we'll give her a round of applause, but is Elizabeth Rollins here? Nope. So, I'm gonna say their name. You're going to give those certificate to them and then come up at the end and say

006anything you'd like. Maybe convince them. I know not long. I'm giving you 30 seconds. No, I'm kidding. All right. So then I'm going to move to our homemaking and livestock. We had Elizabeth Ellie Sparks. She was also a Queen's contestant and the uh winner and a second runner up. Um I'm sure Ellie's doing some kind of sports somewhere. We have Hunter Sparks, her brother Ella Buckley and Evelyn Buckley. Will you give them a round of applause? the homemaking group that just did homemaking. We'd have Matt Madison Maris. We'll go ahead and clap her. Colton Maris and Kaylee Leo. All right. So, now time for the livestock. We have Bailey Benign. All right. What did Bailey show? Pigs. Dina's gonna know all of this. Adeline Coleman. What' she show? No. rabbits. I learned that they have

007to have three meat rabbits to qualify. Right. I did learn this. Sienna go. As I say, I love that every year Sienna writes me a letter and tells me when the show is, gives me the schedule, and says, "Come watch us." You did turkeys. Yeah. Anything else? Nope. Turkeys. And those were big turkeys, by the way. Connor Hill, you had turkeys, too. Connor, you had turkeys, too. All right. I know she's not here, but I see her mom. So, oh, she's half a mile. I might move her to the end. I'll come back around. Megan Hull. What' she show? Chickens and Rabbits. Jaden Puit. Chickens and Rabbits. Britainly Rainey. Rabbits. I'm putting you on the spot. Cter Wends. And JC Windland. He had grand champion chicken. And then I'm stalling. She's probably on her way.

008She'll step in and I and I'll be like, "There she is." Cara Hill. And I know she did goats. So, you ready? Thank you all for giving me a chance to visit with you all. Oh, sorry. Not as tall as you. I need better shoes. Um, I Danielle Hail. I have the privilege of serving as one of the livestock mentors for the local 4 program um and has been able to serve in that capacity for a long time. I will note I'm a Rockport Folton graduate. Logan and I uh we came from the same class in the late 1900s. Um but I was part of the 4 program back in the the 1990s when um there was a very very small group of of kids. We've been able to see the program grow over the

009years. Um, I think we had somewhere around 50ish exhibitors this year. That's across homemaking, from photography, um, baking, uh, arts and crafts, of course, our egg mechanics. We've got welders and crafters. And then, of course, I've got a special spot in my heart for the livestock kids. Um, what I like to point out is, you know, these kids are not just in 4. These are your athletes. These are your band, your choir. I think, uh, Sienna, you just came back from state. Is that right? No. solo ensemble. So, these guys are the top of your your classes and we're very very proud of them. Some of these young young people have projects that are up to 11 months long. Um they're working all summer for their goats and their lambs. Many of them have multiple

010species. So, they're doing that on top of all of their academics and they're they're thriving. So, we thank you all for your support. We'd love to continue to see the program grow. One of our challenges continues to be um as our kids get more active in their school um sometimes we start to lose them because they're having to make decisions and so the more that we can embrace that within the school system I think we can keep more youth into the program and continue to let them thrive in their leadership position. But thank you all so much for your support. >> And here is Cara Hill. So just come all the way. Just right on up. We've got your certificate. She's not late. She did have practice. All right. Uh, our second celebration of the

011night. I'm going to ask Miss Molly Adams. She She's like, "Oh, yes. Molly, come on up with me." Molly has been a big part in our grow your own with Graceland University. Um, and we are excited. I know last month we wanted to celebrate and someone was sick. So, we wanted to make sure she was here. So, I'll let you kind of Oh, thank you. I'll let you do the honors and talk about our Gracland and our grow. And then our So, we are very excited. If you'll remember, this was originally Hartwell University. Um throughout the last couple of years, they did change their name to Graceland. Uh we have still 10 um employees that are in the program, and I actually have a waiting list. So, that is wonderful for what is coming um

012up the pipeline. And so we are super super excited. I am extremely excited about Amy West. Amy West is not only an alum of Rockport Fulton High School, she is a previous student of mine. And so Amy, I am so proud of you. You have done amazing. Um my daughter has you in class and she says it is the best. Um and uh she is also an athletic So really doing everything that she can to be the best for our students. So Amy, if you'll come up and when you actually get your official diploma, you can put it in the spring. All right. Our third district celebration for the night is our RFISD police officers this month is celebrating our school police officers. And I believe they're all here. We at least asked that. Okay,

013we got two of them here tonight. I would love uh for them to come up so that we can recognize them. They keep our schools safe every day. They're at a moment's notice. They we can call them. They're checking doors. They're building relationships, putting up flags. They're mentors, leaders, and I just want to say thank you. We wanted to recognize you guys tonight. So, come on up. All right, that brings us to agenda item five, which is public comment. Miss Hill, do we have anyone signed up? We do not have anyone. So, we'll move to number six, which is the board of trustees report. Are there any committee reports? No. Then we'll move to number seven, a bond 2022 project update. We have Teal Construction and Claycom Associates. >> Good evening. We brought we brought

014Mike with us today. Um, we'll just go ahead and get started. Stop me at any time. if you have any questions. Um, so so far the project uh progress billingwing wise is 92% complete 36 uh a little over $36 million uh authorized of 39.24 and I would like to note that the scheduled substantial completion date has changed from uh March to May which we can address now or down the line uh whichever you prefer. Um and I'll aside from that I'll keep going. Uh Jamie, you want to tell us about what's been going on? >> So last month, um we've been uh completing installation of finishes in the athletic wing, uh flooring, um painting, ceilings, um casework, uh our toilet partitions and toilet accessories. Um and all the and starting on all the finishing up

015all the access control And we've continued to address punch list items in the um A, B, and A1. Moving forward this month, we'll be uh wrapping up all the work in the athletic ring. Uh creating punch list in there. Um we have uh we'll be continuing one thing we did last month, we started demolition uh in the area G uh the north side of the school. So we'll continue that demolition. Uh there's abatement going on right now and then once that is complete we'll continue with demolition. Um let's see in uh area A1 we're completing those that space and getting students into there. Same thing in the athletic wing uh as we move forward. A1 is the fine arts just for those not familiar. Sorry about that. Okay. So, as as Jamon mentioned, we've got

016some selective demolition. This was um there's various parts of the building that are going to come down and they will in their place. There'll be a new secure entryway uh on the back side of the building as well as uh some additional parking and a bus loop or some reworking of your bus loop. Um more landscaping has come in. Um on the right you can see kind of behind the building and the football field. We were there today. They were installing grass and uh I walked it not very long ago and they had had grass on probably 95% of that area. Uh and then as Jamon mentioned just continued installation of finishes in uh the athletic portions of the building. There's just, you know, getting carpet down, painting, uh putting floor tile in where you

017have showers. Um, and then, uh, one thing that was a little bit of a bump up in the road, but we're really happy that it came in and it, uh, it came out really nice is, uh, acoustic panels. The acoustic panels were delivered to the site and I think they turned out very well. Right. Any questions? >> Before we open up for questions, I just wanted to address the schedule issue. And I wanted to highlight for the board that we're not talking about the whole building. Uh the portion that is slipping to May is area G which is towards the end of the hall of current hall of fame. There's about a 300 square foot vestibule that has to be built and it's at the confluence of several different additions that were constructed over many

018many decades. Right. And there was a lot of concealed conditions within that particular corner that we couldn't see and that the folks that did the asbestous uh surveying for the district could not test all of the materials that were within there. So as we demo stuff we by law if we encounter anything that looks like asbestous we have to stop right and then the district has their own asbestous abatement team that has come in because anything having to do with asbestous cannot be in either Claycomb's contract or until construction's contract it it's handled by the district. So, we've had some issues where we've encountered some stuff and per the contract, Jamon has to send out a notice, but we are constantly looking for ways so where we can compress that schedule. Talked a lot about

019it today about creative ideas that we're going to be working with come with to try to compress where we can, you know, try to order things a little quicker. But there's just a lot of different things that are it's a small area, but every component of the building in total is in that little bitty small area. So, we're working for creative ideas to try to shorten that, but we just wanted to put you on notice that there has been a little bit of a bump in the road. Does so if we're handling the asbestous at this location, does this May deadline include the time that we need to get that done? >> That is correct. Yes. >> Okay. As long as we don't find any more. >> I believe most of the selected demolition what

020what is our current exposure of you know uncovering anything else? We've before we uh completed selected demolition, we actually went and opened up some other areas that were concealed. There was some old windows that were uh concealed behind some metal panel uh just to make sure that we reduced our the exposure there. Not saying that may not run into something moving forward, but the as the original asbestous report was actually fairly invasive and did remove some brick and so there is some we've know there's some vapor barrier behind the brick. So that's that would be invasive, but that's already known and that's already built into our schedule that abatement of that material. Any other questions? >> Anything else? >> So, just so I know, am I correct? Y'all said that that is the subst the

021new substantial completion date is May 2026. So, this means that the punch list will not be complete by May 2026. >> So, I I'd like to clarify on what some of the terms mean. So, that date, that substantial completion is for the entire project. So, as Michael alluded to, there's different they're not truly phases, but it became phased at at the end. There's different areas of the building that will become complete at different substantially complete and finally complete at different stage phases that that may that is that is substantially complete for all of the work. And so, right now, you've moved into your, you know, classroom areas um partially moved into fine arts and we'll be able to fully move in very shortly. uh the athletic areas. That'll be when when you move into there,

022we'll make or before you move into there, we'll make another punch list. And then we'll have a punch list for this other area we're calling area G. Um it'll be different portions of the time. I can't speak to exactly when the punch list will be complete. Um and I I think it also depends on, you know, if it's a nick in the wall, it's easy to to fix and it'll be complete sooner, but I'll let them speak a little bit more to the schedule of that. >> No, we're we're punching the job now. We're punching the classroom wing now. As soon as we turn over the athletic swing, we'll be punching that as well. It's not it's just this one little piece, right? And the way the contract is structured, it's not like we have

023three contracts. One for the classroom wing, one for the athletic swing, and one for this little piece at the very end. It's for everything. >> So everything that that we've turned as we turn it over, we're creating creating punch lists. We're working through those punch lists. We now have a live document thanks to Dr. Austin that we are working through so that anything that comes up that Dr. Carter, you know, experiences in her building with her students and and teachers, it goes on that list, I've got a dedicated individual that's working that list. So that way as these things come up, which is to be expected, we knock it out immediately. So that's the plan. >> Gotcha. And then last question, uh May 1st or May 31st or some day day in between. So >>

024we're still analyzing, you know, the impact of it, right? So there's still abating right now. >> So that's why there's not a a firm date on that because we've got to get through this particular section of abatement. So >> all right. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, that brings us to 7B 202425 annual performance report and public hearing. We have Christy Wedi presenting. I know you cannot see me. I was going to address that before I began. I'm always uncomfortable standing behind this because I'm challenged. Good. Good evening board. You have a copy of this at your seat. I dropped them off earlier. I'm here to Is this a clicker? To go through the annual report with you all. We are required every year to present the annual report and

025to uh post it on our website and open it up for public comment and hearing. So, I'm going to go through a couple of slides and then I will open it up for any questions or comments from um the public or the board. The contents of the annual report are pretty much all reports that you have seen by themselves at other meetings. We've just compiled them all into one report. So, in there you will have the taper reports. You'll have five of them. You'll have one for the district as a whole and then one for each of the campuses. You have the financial standards report. It is the 2324. We have to put the most recent document in there. The 2425 is not available until April of this year. So then next year you will

026see the 2425. Um the 2425 district accreditation status will be released in the spring. So again, you're seeing the 2324 and not the 2425. The campus performance objectives final 2425 are in there. Violent or criminal incidents on campus is in is in there and there's nothing on that report. Um, it's supposed to be blank because there's not any. That's a good thing. Performance in post-secondary institutions for the 2023 grads are in there. House Bill 3, early childhood literacy, math, and CCMR goals are in there as they stood in 2425. So, those are current. And then there is a glossery. What is new this year? Well, compared to last year, you did not have the A throughF ratings in there. So, you do have those now. They were held up in litigation at this time last

027year. So you have those in there and again already talked about the accreditation status being delayed and so it'll be released and we you will have that next year and then next year there will be some changes in the 2526 report because of um updates to house bill 3 progress. This is the taper. This whole annual report is posted on our website. It has actually been there for a couple of weeks for people to view prior to coming to the meeting so that they could see it and get their questions prepared. And there's also a paper copy at central office um in Brenda's office. Going to open it up to any questions or comments from the public or board. So Christie, I've got one. I feel like I have to ask this every year because

028I I hate that the state of Texas does this to us. It's confusing to me. This is all over this report. We say that it's the annual report. Yet, if if I understand correctly, maybe our goals uh maybe some of the campus performance objectives, those are up to date. >> Correct. >> But we're actually reviewing 2324 data. It is a year behind. >> Yes. Because it has not been released. That's correct. In this Yes. But I just want to make that very clear. Okay. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. That brings us to item 7C, our PEK and CTE annual report. We have Amber Lad for So, we are going to talk a little bit about CTE. It is CTE month and um so it's a good time for us to present this information. First

029of all, I want to say thank you to our CTE teachers. Uh we have some here today visiting us. So, that's exciting. Um they do so much for our kids and they work outside of school hours, inside of school hours. are doing tons of things to help our kids be successful. So, I just want to shout out to you guys and say thank you. We started the year of developing a mission statement and a core purpose and that was to do what we could to help students in their post-secary goals and I think we're be we've been pretty successful at that this year. If you look um some of the facts for this year, we have 605 students that are a part of a CTE program, not just a class, but a program of study.

030Um we have 92 seniors that are expected to be completers at the end of this year and 60 of them have already earned an industry-based certification and we expect more to get that by the end of the year. In our nursing science program, we have a 100% pass rate. So, those in the practicum have passed their medical assistant certification, their patient care technician certification, and right now they're working with Rockport Nursing um and rehabilitation center to get their uh certified nursing assistant and they're working on the modules right now and they will then go into clinicals as soon as that gets done. In our culinary arts, they have finished their IBC's with a 98% pass rate. So they're continuing to work towards 100%. We have our first teaching and training student that will earn her

031educational aid certification this year. And our welding students work throughout the year on modules. So at the end they will get their NCCER core or welding one certifications in maritime. Um our students have applied for their TWIT cards. So they're hoping to get those soon and once they do that they'll work for their merchant mariner certification. So we're excited about that. Um the rest of our programs are working at the end of their programs they will take their IBC's. Um part of the thing that has helped us be so successful is our counseling and our counseling department has helped our students choose the right courses so that we have more completers in the program. Um put that uh they are also got the effective advisoring advising grant which will help um bring in money so

032that we can do things to advise our students better K through 12. All right. Some of the new things that are taking place this year. Um I appreciate Mr. Howell and Dr. Carter for allowing our middle school teachers to come collaborate with our high school teachers every Monday morning in PLC. that has helped um us align better curriculum in our graphic design as they work together, our teaching and training program. And um I know that in our seventh grade we have a career lab and so our maritime students or teachers have gone over there to build a module for them. So that's kind of exciting. Um we also I appreciate Miss McCullik. She is our department head. She had the idea for monthly newsletter and so I know that's a lot of work for her

033because she gathers all the information and pushes it out. I think it seems like we just get one done before it's time for the next one, right? So, um, that's a lot of fun. We did a CTE holiday market in December. We had Live Oak Learning Center, Fulton Elementary students come over and sing, so they entertained the parents and the families that came to support us. Our high school jazz band supported us. And each of our programs were able to sell products that they made. So, that was a lot of fun. Um we added two two new practicum classes in transportation and in um entrepreneurship and then we've got instructional practices. Those students go over to Fulton Elementary twice a week and they student teach with teachers there. So thank you Miss Cox for supporting

034us in that. Um in our practicum and entrepreneurship uh do you want to visit a little bit about what they do? Um, so we actually just presented at um CTE in the Coastal Bend on Tuesday. Um, I had three students who have been with me since I started the floral program. Um, we're basically we took everything that I taught them from floral one and advanced floral and now they're really just diving into the business side of it. Um, so they are I mean they're fully in the depths. They do all of my POS. They do my deposits, the purchasing. They contact our wholeseller. Um they are the ones that are emailing people when their orders are ready. They're sending out list and papers, all the all of the things. Um they've even renamed our class.

035So we have Wild Blooms and Co. Um so that's like their what they want to call us. So that's like our business name. Um yeah, they they're really going head first and everything. And anytime I come up with something crazy, they're like, "Yes, let's do it." So that's been really fun. They've learned from their mistakes, too. She presented about some of the mistakes they had made in or over orderering and things like that. So that was a lot of fun hearing that. Um, and then I'm going to talk a little bit more in the next slides about our career and technical student organizations, our clubs, our PEK, and our partnerships. So we started, one of our goals before this year started was that each of our programs would have either a CTSO or a club

036and they would go to competitions. So with some changes in maritime, they are in the process of working towards a club for next year. Our graphic design are looking at turning theirs into esports. But some of the other facts in culinary, it's FCCLA. They have 180 volunteer hours. They participated in competition with a local test where we had four gold medalists, six silver medalists, and one student qualified for state. In our floral club, they were able to host a community event where the students taught community members how to make floral arrangements and they had four students selected to compete in the Houston Livestock Show Horticulture Division. HOSA has uh collected 247 units of blood. They have 170 volunteer hours. They attended leadership conference in Houston and participated in competition. Our ROC you see all over

037the place. They have 782 volunteer hours. They've been to six competitions. They have one left and they placed first in their last competition. We started a club at the middle school in our teaching and training division. And so they support um decorating around the middle school and high school. And in our welding department, we started a skills USA chapter. Miss Chesttock was in charge of that. Charge of that. Thank you. And those students competed at Delmare's welding competition. We had a student win a pair of boots. They also went to Skills USA. and one of our groups of four boys won first place and they're going to state. So that's really exciting to so I think they're about to start their volunteer hours soon. Um okay, this is our first official year of our pirate

038PEK Academy that is in our nursing science classes and our welding. These were chosen because they are very high demand, high pay and a lot of student interest. It's two of our most popular programs. Um we had 81 students enter our uh freshman cohort this year. Next year we're looking at about 94. So it seems to be growing. So that's exciting. Um in welding they again earn two certifications, but those that will finish 27 college hours while in high school in welding will get a level one intermediate certificate. In our health sciences, they can earn up to five certifications while still in high school. And we have right now we are in our first online course um in our welding program. So it's taught by Ryan Gutierrez at Delmare and it equates to the course

039y'all just passed recently, the occupational safety class. So they'll get two high school credits and one college credit. And in nursing science, the way it's set up, they won't start their dual credit classes until their junior year, so the 2728 school year. And then some of the future things that are happening do in PEK we have to have a summer bridge program. So those kids will come in in the summer and get an extension plus extension activities plus they'll get ready for their TSI. We also have maritime and floral design that are going to have a summer STEM camp. So that's going to be exciting. They could possibly go to the maritime academy in Galveistston at the end of that. Um, we are starting an esports club, which is a kind of video gaming club

040where they compete and it's a growing industry, $21 million worth of scholarship. So, we think that's going to be exciting for our students, maybe help with attendance. We will have a CTE sighting day for those going into college in their field or into a job. That's going to be May 21st. And then next year, we're look looking at working with Kwit in a pre-apprenticeship and pipe fitting. So, that's in the future. And then we are our goal this year this semester is to get our kids summer internships and jobs when they graduate. So um and the last I just want to say thank you to all our community partners. We've had a lot of support from the community and the industry. The port of Corpus Christie has come visited with our students. Laguna Crane different

041places have come to talk about internships and then G&H Towing is always a support. So we got to go visit them. The Port of Corpus Christi um and some other places. So, it's just exciting how much the community has supported what we're doing. So, thank you. Why Miss Lad's up here? That is the reason why that we chose her to represent our ESC2 woman in education. I think it's like a trailblazer or something, some kind of special thing. She'll get to go to a dinner and I'm sure we'll bring her up again. But that's exactly why we chose her to represent our group this year because she is doing amazing things in our CTE and PEK program. >> All right, that brings us to 7D, our featured campus report. And this month we are featuring

042our middle school. We have Principal How presenting without a fancy suit. So, All right. Well, first off, uh, always like to thank you guys for taking the time to allow us to future our different campuses and, uh, with our chance to be able to talk about the middle school. Um, one of the things that I kind of looked at through here as we started going through the overall campus report was really looking at kind of the story that's behind the school. And our story this year is showing up. And that means showing up for the students, teachers showing up, and our campus rowing all together in the same direction. So, starting off with some student success. Um, obviously I'd be aiss to not recognize our cheer team who for the first time, and I don't

043know if this has ever happened at Rockport Fulton, but is uh took a middle school cheer team to nationals in Orlando, Florida at Disney World. Um, they got to go and experience that. Um, it was a huge cost. It was a huge expenditure for uh the community. They put this all together. They were the big support behind this. Uh really didn't cost our cheer uh students really any more personally when they came to like this part. This obviously they had to spend money once they were there. But um it was a great thing and uh coach Chelsea Rodriguez does a great job with that team. So we were really excited to see them and to be able to do a sendoff for them versus them being the one sending everybody else off. So that was

044a lot of fun. Um, as we started looking into our our organizations, one of the things that really kind of thanks to coach uh, Sosa and his forms and everything of keeping all of our clubs and organizations together was that we realized that we are just under 75% of our students are participating in at least one club or organization. Uh, you know, that's three out of every four students. And that's from anything from NJHS to uh Hope Squad athletics, fine arts, who I just got to talk to uh our art teachers and we had a couple of students who placed in this last week. Um and our of course NJROTC who our middle school gets to participate with them a lot. Um and so when we say that our students belong um we really mean

045that our students belong someplace at our campus. um with that that does help with our attendance and kind of some of the things that we just kind of wanted to showcase here between our armadillo gang uh who got to go and do the pledge of allegiance at the court opening um some of our uh hallway chats that our students they kind of run that we just video it for them and then of course um our drum line there being able to send off our cheerleaders. One thing that we've noticed is this year our attendance has been one of the things that's really helped us. We were really excited to as we came back in January, we took uh a group of over a hundred students outside during our flex period, which is our kind of

046advisory time and they got to kind of have a a celebration day because they were all students who had perfect attendance for the fall semester. So, we had over 100 students who who met that. Uh, one of the other things that we got to celebrate was we did have three of our staff members who also had perfect attendance, which coach Sosa, I'm going to do a shout out. Two of them were coaches. One of the other things, and I'll be recognizing uh this teacher a little bit more, but uh sometimes it came as simple. we had that freeze and we knew that students possibly might not come with a late start and Miss McGree had reached out to her students through her gurgle classrooms. Uh she happened to have a couple of buckets of pickles

047and said if you show up you get a pickle and boy did they show up. I think when we went through her attendance that day, she might have had one student absent out of all of her classes while many of the other teachers had uh quite a few. So again, just some of the little things that that kids will do. It's amazing what they'll do for a pickle, too. Um, as we kind of move into some of that and and the growth that we're really starting to see, I was really bummed out that I, you know, it was literally like the next day that I had some other pictures of some of the other things going on in our flex classes, but some of the the opportunities that our teachers missed during the regular day

048because they're just kind of grinding and having to get through curriculum. But with our flex period, they're getting able to pull some of those concepts and really bring it to life. And especially in our science classes, they're really making some of those hands-on activities. And the students really being able to dive into that and really bringing some of the enjoyment of science class, but also in our math classes and our English classes, they're getting to really kind of focus in on a specific area that they need to work on. So, uh, we've really been enjoying that that's been working out. uh moving into our staff development and well-being. Um we've had a lot of training this year. It seems like we've been able to take part in a lot of things. The great part about

049it is there's a very clear direction for it. Everything is tying together. Whether it's um some of our till work that we're doing with the administration to our lesson internalization protocols, lesson planning protocols, and the work that we're doing with sustained ed. So, we've got a lot of things there. got an opportunity to send a teacher to the uh TCEA I think it was the uh last week we've had uh reading language arts teachers going over to the Melanie Meyers. A lot of things that we've been able to do um really encouraging them to partake in our step challenges um which all of them keep saying is it's there so that I can try to lose some weight which isn't working well. And then of course we had a big celebration with Mr. Fox and

050uh the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Linda Hec Howell, outstanding teacher of Texas, uh Texas History, and we had Todd Hunter come over help present that. That was a lot of fun. And then in the top right, I wanted to make sure and point this out. Mr. Rudy, who was a custodian here for about nine years. When he retired, it was just a a clear example of how much everybody on campus makes a difference. These boys had asked me the day before. They said, "Hey, is Mr. Rudy's last day really tomorrow?" I said yes. And they said, "Well, can we get a picture with him before we leave?" And they asked me to get that picture and email it to them. So, uh, you know, it's just amazing the the impacts that everybody makes.

051Um, as we continued with some of the campus learning, obviously, uh, a lot of professional development happens in our PLC's, a lot of conversations. We're really excited now as we are looking at the middle school being fully staffed and having a full science team that can really work. and we're seeing the growth already taking place there and obviously a lot of the other activities that we get to do uh on some of our professional growth days or professional learning days. uh community partnership, always working towards building a better tomorrow, having uh you know a lot of things that have happened. Um from the last time we presented from our uh bringing our parents in to help with helping to select courses and and areas that we feel that our students will be interested in for

052next year to our Thanksgiving Day uh celebration that we always do and then just uh our partnership with uh the A program and the across Texas and seeing middle school still floating in there right about second place. And then of course the other day we got to have some master gardeners who came in and this is all in that center courtyard area really looking at how can we really develop that area with that sitgo grant that we got and um they came in measured everything out. They laid out the area really looked at how is the the watering in that area? What is the sunlight going to be like in that area? really looking at how can they put some native plants in there and then they came back the next day and really cleaned

053up the area so that a lot of that overgrowth that was there. They really trimmed all those back. It was the time to prune a lot of it, left some of it and uh seeing a lot of work there. Um and then of course some of the fun things here. I know that this area is open, but um since the last time that I got up here to present, we were able to take some of our middle school students over with the salt program and they got to walk the new high school before it was open. And so that was really exciting to see how they reacted to that and how they were really looking at that and just saying, I can't wait to get to high school. And so that's one of those things

054that it really does matter when you have something nice for the kids how much they want to be a part of that. Um I've also got a picture there of uh Officer Cat and Officer Blae as they came they come over periodically and do some checks through the classrooms and they put in uh you know a lot of work over there. So really appreciate their extra support. And really just kind of as we look at that, the big point here is just really showing how everyone on campus has a role. And really, I think with the um CCMR stuff and the CTE, you can see how the high school and middle school are really starting to connect on a lot of those things. We're really trying to build how can we help grow students towards

055that high school and just really showing how everyone has a role. Everyone must row in the same direction. And when we focus on on that process, how we can really get everybody to show up. And so with that, that brings me to uh our staff recognition. So I did mention her before. Uh Miss McGree since the time I've been on the campus has been a sixth grade English teacher, a seventh grade English teacher, an eighth grade English teacher. Uh she's kind of done everything that we can. She's student council support. She's at the concession stand all the time. Uh her husband Brad is usually doing nachos or something up there or trying to fix a popcorn machine, whatever it may be. But um the bottom left picture there is also as we look at Miss

056McGrien, what she's done with her classes and getting kids to enjoy reading, which I truly believe is the foundation that we have to have. If we can get the kids to enjoy reading, then that's going to assist us when we get into social studies, when that's going to help us when we get into science and we're trying to solve those uh, you know, problems in the environment and such. If they can read those questions, they can read the the problems and really create those thoughts, that's what really matters. And whether you know her as MC Mcgri or mean McGree or Mama Mcgri, uh I just like to recognize uh Miss McGree who has been a wonderful wonderful addition to the middle school. Thank you. >> Yeah, she's got to come up for a speech. All

057right, that brings us to agenda item 7E is our district calendar presentation. Miss Adams. We'll go through a quick presentation before we get to really deciding which calendar will go before the board. Um, a lot of things go into when we make calendars. Um, so the first thing is we look at priorities. It is a requirement that students go to school 75,600 minutes. Uh, teacher contract days is 187 contract days. We look at holidays, um, assessment state assessment days, how many professional development days that we want to have at the beginning before kids, um, start school and then how many we can sprinkle in during the school year. When we really like that student start date, um, I can speak for staff members, Monday is really hard. When you start school on a Monday with

058kids, it makes for a very long week. So you'll see that's why typically school districts start a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Um and then that student end date. We always want to strive to end before Memorial Day. Um sometimes that happens, sometimes it has not happened in the past. And then you're always wanting to finish that semester before we leave for Christmas break. Um so input, we ask staff for input through surveys, uh through groups, the attack group, the DEIC group, um and then parents for community uh feedback. Um my office uh just making sure that we are compliance within the number of contract days. Our finance department and Jen with payroll making sure that we have enough student minutes and so forth. And then with our PES department making sure definitely for UIL grade

059checks that we have the appropriate amount of weeks um that we are in compliance. So feedback that we've received is that they would like to see us pass multiple calendars, multiple years at a time. Um this would I would agree that maybe we can cut back on um absences like if if we're producing calendars, plan your vacations um around these days. Plan your doctor's visits around these days if all possible. Um a feedback was let's have a break at the end of every nine weeks. That could be a long extended break, that could just be a longer weekend. Um that was something that definitely came across everywhere. Um incorporate the parent conference days. So in the middle section of the calendars that you have, we designate days that are parent conference days. Again, ending before

060Memorial Day, there was lots of consideration and lots of feedback around that 4 day week and what that looks like. What does that look like? look um at adding additional time to the already existing bell schedule because you would have to do that. Um and then um a non-negotiable was do not decrease instructional dates. We have a timeline. There are yags that we need to make sure that we are completing and following. So it is a non-dis uh non-negotiable that we decrease instructional days. So for next school year, which is the 2627 school year, you'll see in front of you that there's an A and a B comparison. I cannot see that from here at all. Um the option A um you'll see the number of minutes Hush, Jessica. She always tells me I need

061glasses. Reminder, right, we have to go to school 75,600 U minutes for students. There is the recommendation because we don't have bad weather days on our calendar. So you need to buildin minutes for that. We also live along the coast. We also live along the coast where we experienced a hurricane and we had to make up instructional minutes by adding 30 minutes to our day. Um it it is recommended that we bank a good amount of days so that we can qualify for waivers in case we need to apply for waivers. um inservice days, start days, they're, you know, about the same on these calendars. The basic difference between either year is option A offers a fall break in October and B does not. That is basically the difference between A and B. So, Hummer.

062Hum. Yes. Um, so you'll notice if you have a October fall break, you get out a week later in May. If we do not have the week in October, you get out a week earlier in May. Basically the difference. And then for the following school year, the 2728, same thing. 173 instructional days. We are banking enough minutes for the INC case. Start date is the same. End dates. The only difference is because of that fall break. You still get your week of Thanksgiving, your week of Christmas, spring break. So, we sent it out for a vote. We sent it to staff and we sent it to parents. So what you're going to see is on staff calendar A is a 68% and families A was 59%. So you're going to see that A was definitely

063the chosen. Um and we'll get into more. Does anybody have questions about how a calendar is made or just the specifics about requirements of calendar? Not which one? >> Yes, I do. Um, this year the Monday after Easter, the students and staff don't have uh school that day. Sunday, Easter Sunday is always a big travel day. and and me personally, it was a burden that we had to be back in time to go the next day. So, we had that this year. How come it's not on the calendar for next year? How come was that part of a conversation? It obviously wasn't option. So, what what what's what's the thoughts on that? There was conversation around it and like I had said earlier if you'll look on the 26 27 I understand the travel time

064completely understand that Easter falls in March for next school year and you we have just had a week off uh for spring break. Then you get Good Friday off. We would take another day off on that Monday when you have assessment and you have star right around the corner the next month. Um, and so it was it was adding one more instructional day before we um hit those testing days. Any other questions about development? Do you have any weather days on either one of these calendars? >> Yes, sir. We just b minutes. Okay. >> You have any questions? not on the development. So, I guess we'll we're going to go into agenda item eight, which is our 8A. Consider take possible action to approve the 26 27 and 2728 RFISD district calendars. >> So, I

065know it says Molly, but I'm going to go ahead and and speak up. you know, we did a lot of work, took a lot of feedback. Um, went into our DEIC meeting and after talking with our TAC group, um, talking seeing surveys, option A was one that I was leaning towards that I I thought it was a a good option. It gave some of the breaks our staff was asking for. But I'm going to be very honest. When I went into the DEIC meeting with a lot of our teachers, we had very robust conversations. An option B calendar would be my recommendation, which is against the popular vote, and here is why. The fiveday fall break, which would be great. I'm I'm I'm saying I think it would be good for us as staff members.

066Um, our secondary teachers had a lot of concerns about option A's fall break because it takes five instructional days away from their scope and sequence. It does add those days at the end, but they are really prepping. There are star EOCC's, there are star test in middle school, and losing five instructional days is very hard to make an adjustment in a year. Um, and so after speaking with them pretty uh intensely, I'm going to be honest, they changed my mind and I was leaning more to option B. Now, if you look at option A, it has just as many minutes. It's actually 30 more minutes. Um, what we talked to the group about is the non-negotiable is that we did not want to lose days. Um, and they're very similar everywhere else except for that

067fall break, which I want our staff to know that we did listen. So therefore, I have both options for our board to discuss and go forward with. If we go with option A, which it's a different kind of calendar. We've not done a fall break. My suggestion would be that we don't do two years in a row. We try out one year. If we go with option A, that's because I'm saving 15%. Um, but I think instructionally, uh, why we're trying to increase student achievement, option B to me is a very consistent calendar, um, and and provides those instructional times for our teachers. What was it? Logan >> microphone. >> He wants you to lean. Yeah, >> there's a big Okay. Option A, the the thing that popped out to me is that option A

068and it's what you were describing. I'll just give the numbers is that the first semester has 81 days. The second semester has 92 days. So, it's a 10day difference, which is well sounds like a big deal or could be. uh whereas option B is 85 days in the first semester and 87 so it's much more equalized >> and that's what the teachers were noticing >> and that is what they pointed out for their scope and sequence and felt that it was more appropriately for the scope and sequence instructional needs of our students >> I always bring up every year is the continuation of like when we start in August Then we immediately get off Labor Day and then we get off again hummingbird. And then on option A, it has a whole another week break.

069So when you start off the school year, it's important to set standards, set expectations, but it's hard for teachers to do that when we're constantly bouncing back and forth between holidays. So, while I get and appreciate option A, I feel like option B allows that time for them to set what they need to set in their expectations in their classrooms. I'm I'm going to speak. You know, y'all know I teach. I'm just starting the first year teaching STAR, and I cannot imagine losing an entire week of instruction before STAR, before all of those tests. And I I see that it's added at the end of the year, but that's after all of that testing. You're missing key instructional days. And like Miss Austin said said, you are losing consistency with the students very early in

070the year. And I can say that at Denise's campus, I know how hard it is to bounce back and forth and get those kids back into a school routine when they've been out for extended periods of time. And I know October is the longest year. I know this. I'm very well aware of this that in the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, and I I I joke that between those days, you know, Mars has a day that's 3,164 hours long. Coincidentally, it is the same as a day teaching between Thanksgiving and Christmas. So, I know this. I understand. I walk your shoes, but I agree that I think I'm I'm to personally I like option B better for this consistency of the students because that's who we're here for bottom line. And when explaining to

071our feedback groups who really did like option A, that was my key word with them. was y'all. I know I'm about to say option B, but consistency is is what we're looking for for next year. And I did explain that to the groups because I want them to know that when they do surveys, when they give us feedback, we are listening and we hear them. So there's other things we're talking about to make sure that we're supporting them during what we call Rocktober. >> Um, and so, but as the superintendent, my recommendation is option B. I'd like to comment as well. Um, option A is you're missing five days before the start testing. Okay, you're loading it up in in uh option the five days after the star test in in a why do students

072come to school? They come to school to learn. We also know as educators that after the STAR test, it's like the students think school's over. So, we're really losing five days instruction with A. I understand I appreciate the staff and the families voting for option A, but I highly recommend um option B. >> Yeah. And I guess I would just ask I guess when uh when the initial survey was taken that was probably something the things that we're discussing right now probably weren't well understood or communicated at that time. I mean is that fair? I mean >> well when we send out the surveys there's not a lot of it just shows the two calendars. Now, with our focus groups that we have, we went deep into them, which is where we got a I

073mean, they're the group that helped us make them, and then they're the group that saw the final versions, did a lot of explanation, but in the surveys, there's not conversations. It gets sent in in an email, and they can study them, and they can always ask us questions, but I'm sure it was just first initial looking at it. And yes, they probably don't get into the depth of the scope and sequence and how that's going to impact um or they might on campus. They might have whole conversations in the teachers lounge. I don't know. >> My my only I guess comment then um if we were to go with B I guess that's the two-year uh >> you can make either one of them a one-year option. It was just feedback from our staff that

074it would be beneficial if we could plan two years out. they could know when they needed to, like Molly said, do vacations, make doctor's appointments, and they were, again, consistency. They know this is this year calendar or 26, 27, which sounds weird to say, and then 27. It just it creates a known calendar for two years, but as a board, you can make a motion to only make it a year. It is totally up to you guys. It's just a recommendation. >> Yeah, I'm fine with it. I guess I I just feel like the next time that we happen to present two different options to uh the parents and staff that we make sure that we're good with them also first and and so that I just feel like that's >> you as a board

075or you as a superintendent who needs to be good with it the >> I believe that I believe that the superintendent and staff y'all need to be good with it before we present them to the public as as as two options like that. So, I I would be good with both. I think there always is going to be pros and cons, right? I'm my I'm going to be honest, and this group knows that my last district, we didn't do surveys. We created one everybody internally and then we showed and we took feedback from a a time, but there wasn't options, but I believe we've been giving options to our staff. And so, I didn't want to change that. But I am good with only showing one option. Logan Burton, >> could we have met the

076criteria that we that that you set early on, Molly, uh yet provided two options that had equal days in each semester? >> Not based on all the feedback that we got from our groups. A lot of them, one of the big things that they asked for, which is why it's in that calendar, was a fall break. That's why it's in there. >> Yeah. What I'm saying is can you achieve a fall break and yet still have equal It sounds to me like we would have to start a week early. That's about the only way that could be correct. >> Okay. And I don't know where that fits in everybody's priorities, but >> as you can see by Michaela shaking her head, >> I have a couple of comments. first um when we're when we get

077survey results, is there any way we can put the number of people that voted um on the survey? And then uh second, we got to make sure that we're updating Skyward because I never received the survey as a parent or a board member when it went out. Did anybody else receive that on the board as as a parent? So, we're missing something there. >> Okay. I did receive it as a parent in my personal email. >> I'm newly registered, right? >> And I update I update my email yearly. >> And then the dilemma is because we did send this out in the survey and I think the reason why we uh put the option out there for a fall break, which some districts call year round school, um was for teacher retention. That was one

078of the things we looked at. So, uh, the I will say that on option B, which I think Miss Austin has been asking for for many years, was graduation a week before Memorial Day weekend so that seniors, parents aren't competing with our Memorial Day tourists for hotels and so that would be a a positive on option B as well. Are there any comments or questions? And if not, I'll entertain a motion. I move that the board adopt board approve option B for the 2026 2027 and option B for the 2027 2028 district calendar. >> Have a motion. Do I have a second? >> I'll make a second for sake of discussion. >> All right. We have a motion made by Mrs. Randle, second by Mrs. Austin. Any discussion? >> One second. I want clarification. So

079this motion is for two years and the only option we got on the second year is that same option. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> I I my uh comment is I personally like to see one year at a time, but I do understand the reasoning for two. But it leaves us not much to change if if something isn't going right. >> I I can understand this two-year thing. Um because getting doctor's appointments, specialists, tests, stuff like that, it takes time and if you've got, you know, what days you're going to have available, what days you're going to be in school, not having to create sub plans, not having to lose that instructional time in your classroom. Um, it makes it a lot easier on a teacher, especially with getting appointments in that sometimes take

080months to do. >> I I'd like the one year at a time. >> I think for this year, I would like to see one year at a time only because we're not doing a fall break like we typically do in the past for October and we're trying to stay with that. So, let's see. A if attendance stays up, if behavior is down, if it teachers feel that they're getting more, you know, continuity or consistency in their classrooms and see if that helps and then possibly look at it doing it for a two-year if this one worked is my thought. >> I'd like to amend my motion. I move that the board approve option B for the 2026 2027 district calendar. >> Second. >> All right. We have amended a motion made by Mr. Randall, seconded

081by Mr. Burton. Any other discussion? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Brings us to item 8B. consider take possible action to approve staff longevity stipens. Miss Adams, >> so the longevity stipens is in reference to our service year awards that we award at the end of the school year in May at closing ceremonies. Uh this is in regards to your fiveyear, 10 year and so forth. Um this is uh funds that are already in our budget. They sit in general um administration function 41. Um, this would not exceed $43,540. This is increased from last school year. Um, uh, you do have two uh staff members that are going to hit the 35 and we didn't have any 35s last school year. Um, so that's a big

082part of it. Uh, we always want to see it increase. That means that we are retaining teachers and that is or retaining staff. It's not just about teaching. Um, I think this is a wonderful thing that we've done for the last two years and we would like to to see it to continue. >> Any questions for Miss Adams? Not I'll look for a motion. >> I move. >> I'm not going to I'm not going to say it's a question, but I would like to I'm just kind of brainstorming here and uh I love this. I think uh teacher retention is a great thing. I feel like one of the places that we could benefit a lot from would be retaining the 5, 10, and 15year teachers. Um, I think a lot of times, and I

083may be speaking out of term because I haven't seen the data and I haven't asked y'all. Um, but I'm thinking a lot of those 20, 25, and 30, they've they're there and they're going to remain there here. Okay. Uh, but it's the 5, 10, and 15s that might be here and and leave. I would actually like to see us at some point maybe consider increasing those, you know, the first three increments there. Uh, I think we would, we could potentially see some more benefit. I don't know how that would impact uh the overall dollars. Uh, but I just think it's something to be thinking about. >> All right, I'll look for a motion. I move that the board approve the 2025 2026 long longevity stipens. >> Second. >> All right. Motion made by Miss Randle,

084second by Mr. Burton. Any further discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 brings us to 8 C. consider take possible action to approve the 2526 request for a low attendance waiver. Miss Adams. >> Um and to go back, I just want to remind you that probably in June, Kathy would be bringing you a a budget amendment that's for that longevity. As I said, they're currently held that money is held in function 41. When we finally pay out, then we move it to the appropriate teachers, function 11, so forth. So you will see that um amendment later in the year. The low attendance waiver, this is um January 26th, we did a delay start due to weather conditions. Um you remember it was extremely cold. Um not only were we

085worried about precipitation, um but we are worried about our kids that are at bus stops at 600 6:30 in the morning and it is very cold. Making sure that our buses are warm and ready to go and making sure that we can the buildings appropriately. So, we did do a late start on that day and you will see on the rationale that day that day's attendance we were at 80%. Um, and last school year's overall was 93.86. Um, in order to get a waiver, you have to be 10% lower. Um, and so we would like the opportunity to apply for that TEA waiver so we can hopefully knock that 80% off. Any questions for Mr. Adams? If not, I'll entertain a motion. >> I'll move that the board of trustees approve the submission of a

086low attendance waiver to the Texas Education Agency for January 26, 2026 due to the drop in attendance resulting from severe increment weather conditions that impacted student transportation and student safety. >> All right, we have a motion made by Mr. Burton, seconded by Mr. Romos. Any discussion? We'll take a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 6. That brings us to 8 D which is consider take possible action to approve budget amendment. Miss Henderson. Um this is a budget amendment. We did in 2011 when we were do the bonds for uh live vote in Fulton. Uh one of the bonds was a um what they call a QSCB which basically we did not pay any principal payments on it for 15 years. Um the the at the first the federal government was going to reimburse

087us for all interest paid. A few years later, I don't remember how much, um, they did the sequester. So, we started having to pay of the 140,000 interest, we paid like 10 of that, 10,000 a year. But we have been each year during the taxing season, uh, we included 425,000 of principal that we collected in taxes, put that back. So, that has been sitting in fund balance and growing. Now, we pay that off uh in February. So, I need to move that out of fund balance into appropriations. And since this is adopted a board adopted fund, y'all have to approve moving the funds into appropriations. >> Any other questions? >> All right, I'll look for a motion. I make a motion to approve the interest in syncing budget amendment as presented. >> All right, we

088have a motion b made by Mr. Burton, seconded by Mr. Romos. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Brings us to 8E. Consider take possible action to approve the resolution and interlocal agreement with ES ESC8 TIPS purchasing cooperative. Miss Henderson, >> this is we have been a member of this um purchasing co-op for many years. It's not one we use a lot. Uh Mr. Noney um was using this for one one of the projects. He can tell you which one. Yeah, it was a E3 project we had to do the HVAC replacement for Fton and high school. This co-op just when we shop doesn't have the best rebate using this. So that's why when when when it went to them, they're like, "Oh, wait. You're still showing on our

089record county ISD." So this is just they're still holding it. Our membership won't change, but they wanted us to get corrected to our Fulton ISD. Just one of those things that came up. >> We expected it. >> I make a motion to approve Rockport Fton ISD to join and participate in the ESC region 8 TIPS purchasing co cooperative at co-op. >> All right, we have a motion. Do we have a second? >> Motion made by Mr. Burton, second by Mrs. Austin. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. It brings us to 8F. Consider take possible action to approve property insurance premium renewal. Miss Henderson. >> So um to give you a little background of what's been happening in January, GSM began working to look for the best rate

090and coverage for our property insurance renewal. In February they brought us information from the open market and RPA Ed a RPA being regional pool alliance submitted a proposal after meeting Dr. Austin, Mike, myself, and GSM, we met, we discussed, and we verified the statement of values that were being used. Um, Mike worked very hard at getting all the the values corrected. We But since the high school now is all connected, it's considered one building. So, we had to go in and get all the total um values, take off the two the two gyms that were individual. So he got all that. Uh we redid the the values. Um and then we sent those out. RPA revised their premium what they had originally sent to include the high school as one building still keeping off the

091buildings that were we removed last year for coverage. Then GSM sent the new values to the open market. RPA came back with a premium of 1,55774 with total values of 191 million plus a little bit. Um RPA does have a limited liability of 175 million per occurrence for the total pool and that is if it's a named storm. So if we have a name storm and um it hits here like we had with Harvey um it's in within 72 hours. So right now they can correct me. I think it's just the district and the NAV district are the only two that are with RPA pool. So if something were to come through here, this limit between the two entities of 175 million, but the premium is based on the 191. Um the open market came

092back with an estimated 1.8 million at the total value of the 191 million. But the open market value coverages are per building where RPA is a blanket across the district. So whatever the value we have on our schedule for each building that is the most that can be um claimed what are received if there's damages to it. Um trying to go a difference uh RPA has flood included for name storms with some li limits listed. Open market coverage has limited flood up to a million total across a district. RPA's coverage includes disaster preparedness assistance, disaster response and remediation recovery and restoration where the open market uh does not include that. So we'd have to go out and do that above and beyond ourselves. Um, RPA has a deductible of 25,000 for all other perils per

093occurrence, fire, whatever happens to be. Uh, the open market is a 100,000 per occurrence. For main storms, both are at 3% of the scheduled values per building. RPA has a minimum of 250,000. The open market's only 100,000. you have in front of you a paper like this that I put there. This just kind of shows you a side by side of the three proposals that GSM has gotten for us. Um you can see the RPA is at the 1.5 million. Um estimate two from the open markets 1.8 with the same coverage where option three is 1.6 but it's only $100 million coverage. So, it is our recommendation that the board approve RPA for property insurance coverage from March 1st, 2026 to March 1st, 2027 at a premium of 1,55774. The gentleman from GSM are here.

094If y'all have more specific questions on the insurance you just named 1557, but the new sheet you gave us says 1527. Go with the new sheet. Okay, >> we're going to look. Hey, I'm I'm going with the new I wanted the new sheet, but I wanted to make sure >> sheet better myself. >> Yeah, that was >> at 450 today. >> Yes, that was between our conversation. We started at 2:45. They left. They didn't I didn't catch that. Any tells you how long and how much one reason we're getting this late is they kept working with companies trying to get us the best rate and best coverage. Okay, I am going to ask this because we are in the middle of a mess still handling Harvey and anybody who doesn't know that is not paying

095attention to what's happening between I mean honestly the county and what they're dealing with what we're still dealing with trying to get our central office re built um created because the original central office was completely destroyed. Um, so we're still in the middle of a lot of mess and RPA was our insurance broker at the time. I'm going to ask and you know I want to know what are we doing differently because I know Harvey was an anomaly for this area and Harvey was an anomaly for Texas in general and I'm sure RPA with whatever they were covering got hit just like every other insurance company in a way that most places don't. I mean, Harvey stopped here, hung out for a while, and then did stupid stuff in the rest of Texas. What are

096we doing to make sure that we don't end up eight years, 10 years down the road still dealing with another named situation or another catastrophic event? What are we doing differently? >> I'm gonna let Dr. Austin start answering. I'll let her answer that because I know she is >> and and Mike can jump in at any time and then again if Blake and Travis want to but one thing so that was my concern last year when we also moved forward with RPA it would have been my concern really with anybody just because I have been able to come on the other side. So one, I do not judge anybody actions during that very disastrous storm, but there is a lot of hindsight on this side that we can learn that did not happen. And so

097we kind of have done a debrief of what what did happen that didn't work. Um during that time, we called in RPA. We called in the chosen uh contractor who would be the one to respond with RPA. We have a sitdown talk. We had it in June. We will have it again. Well, actually it was probably May because I know June 1st starts everything. Everybody laughs when I'm like what? It's in June. I'm still learning. I'm almost there. It'll be two years in April. So, uh, we sit down, we go through what happens when it right before it comes. How are they going to mobilize? Who's mobilizing? Who are they going to contact? We make sure everybody's on the correct list so that when the storm does hit, who gets to come back in? Uh,

098who's the third party adjuster? Who do we get to talk to? If there is I mean I've asked questions if we don't agree with them how do we you know appeal that uh then we talked specifically of when it is time to recover how do we track everything how do we document everything I do truly feel like RPA gave us the answer the contractor that we'd be working with gave us an answer I feel like we are prepared and we will do it again this May and have that same meeting and then Mike if you want to add anything that I might have forgotten. >> That was ma mainly it. I just want to say you have people here that experienced that and that know the questions now to ask because we're still dealing with

099ramifications of what happened back in 2017. So, and we have got GSM, gotten with RPA, asked all these questions before any of this even happened. So, I feel like if God forbid something like this did happen again, I feel like we are more prepared. know what to ask and who to contact and the district will be also highly involved in any decisions that are being made during the mediation process. and the tracking we determined that that we would be much more involved in okay here's the tracking of the funds come in where are they going and that is one discussion we've had with them as well >> and I completely agree with you you don't know what questions to ask until you're in the middle of it I mean I you get asked that question

100well do you have any qu I don't know because I haven't been in the middle of it yet and we we've learned a lot the hard way because that's just the way you learn but I want to make we've learned from it. So that way if God forbid something like that happens again, we're more prepared than we were last time. >> So are thought I turned it on? Uh are are any of the changes that y'all just discussed is that actually language in our contract with them? I mean, was this documented through con contract language or is this just SOP type stuff for our district? >> This is just us talking with GSM. We ask the questions about knowing ahead of time instead of if an event happens then we're asking the questions. We just

101this is just between us a discussion between RPA GS and the district. This wasn't anything down in contract. We just wanted the contacts now so we were prepared. We did add and Dr. Al, you may correct me if I'm wrong on this, but I think we added in our agreement with them or at least had it written that we would help in choosing who would be the the contractor. That was one thing. Before that was already that was chosen for us. We had no um that was like I said that was chosen by RPA. That was before us. Now, we've put in language, whether it's agreement, I can't remember what, but I know we have it stated that we would have say in who would be our contractor. >> We did that last year. >>

102Was there any comments that y'all would like to make since y'all are here? Didn't want to leave you out, Travis and Blake. The only thing that I would say is thank you to your staff. Um, I won't bore you with all the details, but it's been it's been a lot of work since January. Um, honestly, the whole year, but you know, starting January on this, there's a lot that goes into three not simple options. And it took a lot of work on your staff's end. There's you walk outside, you see a whole lot of things going on that complicate property insurance and uh like I said, there was a lot of things moving up 450. So, kudos to everyone that's been involved because it's really taken a team effort. Well, >> answer any questions specific

103to it, but that's, you know, >> right back at you in that this is the first time since I've been on the board that we've ever gone out for a third party deal. And I know that that is a lot of work on you guys to make sure that your hometown or your county is taken care of. So, I appreciate the work behind the scenes that you're doing on that. I think it has reassurance in our trust with GSM but also with RPA because even going out for the first time for me seeing it in nine years. You look at what RPA is going to cover and you look at what the other carriers offered and I feel like we've been in good hands. Yes, we've had a huge hurdle. We know how to overcome

104it. We have solutions to it. So, thank you again for everything y'all do for the school district and keeping us protected and in your hometown. Thank you. Just just so you know, I think 14 15 different insurance companies to participate. There's a lot of things come together to get I don't even know on the pull side, but that's just to get a open market quote. It's a lot of people playing together from all over the world to to do that. So, it's you have good options. >> And I'll say uh ditto to what Michaela just said. Uh and then have one question uh wanted to see if y'all could speak to uh very interesting to me that the schedule values went up about 40 let's go $32 million uh yet the premium uh dropped 500

105$400,000. Can you talk about that for a second? >> The first person that has ever complained about that ratio going the way it did. Uh the answer is really simple. We've been in a generational hard market. I think we've talked about it every year for the last three or four years. It was real. And like any swing in the market, you usually see it see it swing the other way. And there's really no other explanation other than this is the market swinging the other way. And we're really seeing it in property and uh catastrophic property. So you're you're some of the first to see relief and that that's what it is. Um because it's on both sides. It's on the the if you remember when we talked about open market options before they're extremely limited

106and um you know you everything kind of is in line. So it's just a market swing. We're swinging the other direction. Let's just hope that it does it slowly and stably and doesn't swing back. So, you picked a good time to build uh and add a lot of new values. >> Any other questions? All right, then I'll look for a motion. Um, yeah. I make a motion that the board approve payment of 1,527,774 to Regional Pool Alliance for Property Insurance effective March 1st, 2020 2026 to March 1st, 2027. >> All right, we have a motion made by Mr. Burton, seconded by Mrs. Randall. Any further discussion? We'll take a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? And all abstain. That's 54, zero against, and one ab. All right, we'll go to agenda item 8 G. Consider

107take possible action to approve the purchase of interactive video displays and installation districtwide. Mr. Natney. >> Okay. So, what this would be doing is replacing our existing projectors at all of our other campuses with similar, well, not similar, the exact same model that we got for our new addition for Fulton and the high school. And I actually have Cena Smith. Oh, he's right here. He's actually going to go into more detail about it. >> Sneaking up on him. Um, so what we did when we looked at what to replace with these aging pro projectors, we looked at the tech side of it that we needed to replace our aging pro projectors and also our desktops that were aging out in teachers classrooms. We also wanted something that would be compatible with the teacher Chromebook and

108the student Chromebook. What we did on the instructional side is we looked at our curriculum and our digital resources and what would be compatible with that that would also engage students in instruction and be something that teachers could build and enhance their instruction on. And so that's why we picked these VSIC panels moving forward. And we would love our district to have all the same things and not be separated throughout the district. Are there any other questions about it? No questions. I'll entertain a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the purchase of interactive video displays and installation districtwide totaling $455,917 to be paid out of bond funds. Bond interest funds. Correction, bond interest funds. All right, we have a motion made by Mrs. Randall, second by Mrs. Austin. Any discussion? Not we'll take

109a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 brings to 8H. Consider take possible action to approve additional asbestos abatement of the north west wing of the high school. Mr. Moy, >> I tried to get it. It's accurate. try to where that wing was. But saying old science, most people may not know what that is. Uh so as Till mentioned earlier, this was there was some additional asbestous found. Uh the reason we didn't know it was there before is because it was actually in the roof, but we when we do samples and tests, they're not going to rip apart our roof to start finding asus. So that's what this is. So this here includes the actual abatement and the air monitoring that is required whenever we are abating asus. The reason this one's a

110little more crucial is this one's uh can't be fryable. So they they they have to do it by hand. So that's that's why there's a time I believe it was 15 days is what this quote includes of it being. >> And just a question um because this was on the district not through teal or or the I should say the contractor or the uh architect we did budget money for this. >> Correct. >> Okay. Any other questions? If not, I'll look for a motion. >> I just have just one. Um I I see the the duration of 10 working days. I just kind of bringing us back to the u the till presentation today and the fact that they're extending our our um our completion date, right? And so I I don't know when they

111plan on starting this, but just that there's some urgent there to me there's a sense of urgency here. And I don't know if Grant McCay understands that. So that's my question. >> They actually started yesterday. Now I sent a letter of intent. I had a earlier discussion about that and it's actually not Grant McCain anymore. It's Kamacho. I don't know if you have the updated I had to just send it today. So they actually mobilized. They were here yesterday. They've already started. They're already up on the roof. So >> because of that sense of urgency and the delay. Any other questions? I'll look for a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the additional asbestous abatement of the northwest wing of the high school not to exceed $125,000 out of bond funds. >> All

112right, we have a motion made by Mr. Randall, second by Mr. Burton. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Brings us to 8 I which I was informed that we should >> I asked Mr. Kruzanne if this is something we could wait on. There's been a lot of talk of what we want to do with um existing wings and different areas that we service like our life skills and we came up with a better option. We're just not ready to present it. So I've asked him if that we could remove this We have a motion to by uh Mrs. Austin to table. I have a second. All right. We have a second by Mr. Burton. Any discussion? All in favor? >> I. Motion carries 6 8J. Consider take possible

113action to approve intercom upgrades at the Fulton Elementary and Live Vote campuses. Mr. Noatne. So, what this would do is upgrade the existing intercom, aging intercom system at Live Oak and Folton. Uh, this would actually be on the same system that is currently at our high school that we upgraded during the bond and also was recently approved at the middle school. And so, that would upgrade them and then once this is done, the entire district will be able to cross communicate if ever needed. Uh, this can also be communication could also have it if I needed to say something right now with my laptop, I'd be able to make an announcement over the PA. So, this is also a safety security upgrade. And uh if there's any other questions, >> I make a motion to

114approve the purchase uh in intercom upgrades for Fulton Elementary and LIVA campuses not to exceed 160,000 to be paid out of bond funds. >> All right. Have a motion made by Mrs. Austin, second by Mrs. Randall. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6 8K. Consider take possible action on a resolution regarding Senate Bill 11, opportunity for prayer and religious expression. Dr. Austin. >> So, I did send information last month for you guys to review. I just want to talk about Senate bill. but was passed in the 89th Texas legislation and the law requires that all of our school boards to hold a recorded vote by March 1st, 2026 to decide whether or not to adopt a policy that mandates a daily pray per period for prayer and reading

115of the Bible or other religious texts on every campus. As a superintendent, I'm recommending that the board not adopt this resolution. This decision was based on the conclusion that existing laws and district policies are already sufficient to protect the rights of students and ex staff to express their faith. Our current practices and protections include several things. Students have an absolute right to pray or mediate silently or voluntarily, read religious texts whenever they would like, provide it does not disrupt our school activities. Senate Bill 11 would have required it not to be during an academic time anyways. Well, we already allow that. Every campus observes a moment of silence daily following our pledges of allegiance. And students can organize and participate in religious clubs, groups per existing board policy already during non-instructional times. And we have

116FCAs, we have Bible clubs. We already have the policies and procedures in place. And I am not recommending that the board adopt this resolution. >> Any questions? I'll look for a motion. >> I move that we accept the superintendent's recommendation to not adopt the resolution regarding Senate Bill 11. >> I second. >> All right. We have a motion made by Miss Randle, second by Mrs. Austin. Any discussion? We'll take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. All right, that brings us to agenda item number nine, our superintendent report. Dr. Alstead. >> All right, before we start with our department updates, I really uh would like to give an update on Tuesday. We did have a strategic roundt where our executive team, our campus leaders and trustees came together for that second

117quarterly strategic roundt. The purpose of this work session was to take a step back and look carefully at where our district is with our strategic plan. We call it our 4 by12. And we specifically looked at priority four, which was our finance and operations. Um, we wanted to ensure that our board and our leadership team came together to make the most important decisions that are aligned to that 4x12 and continue sustainability with Rockport Fulton ISD. The m majority of this workshop focused solely again on finance and operations because financial clarity and transparency is extremely important to us as we go into truly this uh budget season. We're trying to accomplish a lot of major goals and one of that major goal is to balance our budget in our general fund. So as a team what

118we did during that time together I think we spent two hours in our strategic workshop. We uh went over our 25 26 uh PE snapshot numbers and we reran our revenue. Um we talked about our expenditures and how as a campus uh department campus and department leaders we have already cut 15% from our general budget. As a team um our team is doing a lot of work to tackle that uh budget deficit that was 3.2. And as I showed you guys last night with those new revenue numbers and our expenditure and what you saw in insurance, we are very close to getting to a balanced budget. And I just want to thank our team for coming that night and being part of that discussion with you guys. I know I did a lot of the

119talking, but they did a lot of the work. It was a great time that we spent together. We did send a next portion of that meeting talking about staff alignment. Um we went over the Mo Casey audit and did a lot of reviewing with uh how do we compare to region two and other peer districts. Uh that analysis really confirmed a lot of things that we uh already knew and it also showed those areas that uh we knew we needed to make some staffing adjustments. Again the team has been discussing those adjustments so that we can better align with our enrollment. We did go through our enrollment. We made some predictions that if that enrollment dips, we know what we need to do for staffing to make sure that 26 27 budget is also a

120balanced and maybe if all things work and stars align, maybe even a surplus is what we're hoping to get to. And then we wrapped up that meeting following uh an update with all of our bond um updates where Fulton is, where the high school is, and those district-wide maintenance and safety projects just so that you as a board know what will be coming to you over the next year and a half. I think it was a very productive strategic round table. I hope you guys agree as well. And thank you to our team. So, uh, if you have any comments about that strategic round table, we would like to always after we have those give an update to our community that we, uh, will be doing those three quarterly throughout the year. And if you

121don't have questions for me, I'm going to move to I believe it's our teaching and learning. We'll start our central office reports. >> Yes. So, I wanted to provide an update for you on um we were in grant cycle lasso grant cycle three. Um TEA is in year three of rolling out some very strategic, very specific instructional grants. And when I came to you um last school year, we had applied for this. It was accepted and we started some important work with Sustained Ed. They have proven to be fabulous partners. Um, I've gotten some really good feedback from some of our principles with this team. We love having insight from other places, um, other areas, and they've just been a really strong partnership for us. We had a wonderful group of teachers, administrators, and a

122few district leaders who came together to build out a literacy framework. Um, I gave you a couple of snips. This is still in draft form, but I wanted you to see that little stack is that says foundational skills, text complexity, knowledge coherence, and textbased response. Our four researchbased instructional strategies that we are anchoring in in our literacy um that we will use as it will be the um it will really be the model of anything any resource we choose and select moving forward. So, our team spent time creating a vision statement that's aligned with our district vision and mission, some belief statements, and some next steps in action. So our team is very close to finalizing the framework and we will wrap up the work by really holding our current resource for reading up against

123um this standard and make some decisions about are we truly in the highest leverage resource for our team for our district. So we'll look at that at those different grade spans. Um, and so that is how we will close out our work with the grant. And we will begin then to embed all of this work into current systems we already have. So this won't become another standalone document that kind of sits on the side. We'll make sure that our anchor practices have these pieces embedded within them so we can really just ensure that these are ingrained in the work we do every day. Any questions about that? All right, we'll move to our business office report. Kathy Henderson. >> Uh, first of all, I want to recognize uh Karen Mercer is our lead payroll specialist

124and she completed her Tasbo certification in January. Um, she's been working on that for several years. She had to do 10 six-hour classes. Um, has completed that. There were school business with majority in accounting, payroll, and personnel. So, want to recognize her for for completing that and trying to continue to learn. That helps us all along. Um, two things I want to point out. We collected as as usual is the majority of our tax revenue comes in December and January. Uh, currently, um, if you look on the balance sheet, we have 33.6 million in uh, cash in our investment. or bank. Um, so that is in there which was good. Um, the other thing I wanted to point out on the tax collections, we are 2% behind where we were at the end of January

125last year. Um, but if you look at tax year 203, we were along the same lines there and at that year watched 97.8 a total 97.8. But again, we will be watching this each month to see where we're in line with that. >> Could some of the delay possibly be because of the waiting for the November election and getting all of that tax information out? >> They're all due by the end of January. Okay. So, we had we did not collect in November as much as we normally do because they were the uh statements were late going out, but December picked up. They were very busy then. January was the same, but just a little bit less. So this is a overall um >> so some there may >> delayed property tax bills but same

126due date and so that may have that may have shifted some people because you know that is a good chunk of change that they have to shell out >> and there also you'll see um and I saw it in the deposits if they're postmarked the um tax office has to say that they're current by January but we may not see that into February. So that I notice in February about five five to 10 days that were still very high. So I think in February that will catch up. Any questions for Kathy? Okay. If not, we'll move to human resources. Molly Adams. >> So, uh, just as Dr. Austin was saying, um, and what we discussed on Tuesday night, we are heavy, heavy, heavy in our 26 27 staffing, um, and making sure that we are

127staffed appropriately. Um, that goes with course requests at the secondary levels. Uh, they are finishing plugging in all of those request and making sure kids are in the correct pathways. That's also looking at special populations, our special ed students, and making sure that we are staffed in those areas appropriately. Um, and so that is a big focus right now within the HR department is staffing for next school year. Um, last month, um, I think it was actually on the day of the board meeting, uh, was our wellness clinic and we had actually over 50 participants in year one. So, we I thought that was wonderful. We That was more than we anticipated. Um and so staff members instead of having to go to their uh primary physician, they could do everything in their blood work

128um here. And so a plus for them and a plus for um us not them not having to take off of work. Um and then last weekend we had some fun bowling. Um Dr. Austin is a stud at the strikes. So is Mr. Natney. Uh they were the overall champions. Um uh >> Hey, you have some champion. >> You have some champion losers back there. >> It was great fun. Uh actually it was requested that we do it once a semester. Uh so good fun uh with great people. Um and then we have a uh the Harbor Bridge walk that cheerleader behind us that sweetie is planning um and so that information will be going out to staff uh just more times to be together build that culture build togetherness who spends lots of time

129together so let's have some fun >> so I want to know how many secret practices you two had on >> that's a secret >> that is let's make it public >> has his own locker >> well first of all I'm sorry I chose the ringer for my team. Sosa is not a ringer for bowling. Don't pick them for your team. Uh we had zero practices, but we all like I mean I'm only a little competitive. Only a little competitive. It was it was an awesome time. I appreciate HR to do events like this does take a lot of planning. Um we also got to bowl, but the the deal that we got, we got to eat as well. The pizza and the food's pretty good there. It is. >> If you guys haven't gone, um

130I think it and they really were awesome host and like she said, I think once a semester is a great idea. But yes, if you didn't know, Mike Bowls, he has his own shoes and two different balls. >> So, did you also select the shirts? I I like the team shirts. >> I did the team shirts. Oh, you did? I was in charge of the team. >> I did like the team shirts and I thought that was well planned out. So, good job. >> I just want to know how you're going to walk that bridge. that that bridge >> actually will not be that one. >> I'm just really curious as to how you're going to walk that bridge. >> If you don't have any questions for Molly, we're going to move to our athletic

131department report. Mr. Coach Eric Sosa, >> thank you. Um, in the board report, you see all the uh the participation numbers. Uh I do want to give a quick shout out to Camila Rojos uh and the wrestling team. Uh again in a three-year program. We had our very first state qualifier. Um her she went 0 and2 the first day. Uh but she did face the silver medalist in her first match. And so as a freshman, she got to see how grand of a of a stage that the Berry Center was in Houston. uh Coach Black and Coach Clark, they did a great job. Um but uh super excited for our state qualifier. Um another shout out to our boys basketball team. They they were second in district and they qualified to the by district round

132of the state playoffs. Um officially we will be playing Wharton in Quero on Monday uh at 6 or I'm sorry 7 o'clock. Um, so again, postseason play right now for our our winter sports and uh we're head heading jumping head head first in uh with all of our spring sports. We got track going on. Uh softball is down at in the valley with the border Olympics and then uh the boys in baseball, they're over at at Quero at a tournament over there. So, a lot of things going on. kind of highlighting what uh coach coach How said about um just the extracurriculars and getting our kids involved so that our kids will be here in school learning um because they are students before they are athletes. Um and then to finish off the board report

133was the UIL realignment that happened earlier this this um this month. Uh for football, we obviously merged district 16 and 15 from this past year. Um it's going to be uh a good amount of traveling for our sub sub varsity teams and our varsity teams. Uh middle school will not be traveling um with this district. We will stay in our co-op. So uh travel won't be uh really much different than what it was this past year. Uh for volleyball and basketball, uh a little little different uh with the CC CCISD schools coming down with King Miller and Moody. Um, but uh it's going to be uh the travel is is is pretty comparable. We'll be going over the the new Harbor Bridge quite a quite a few times, but uh um I don't see travel

134being being that big of an issue for for those sports. We haven't gotten the spring sports yet. That should come out in next couple of weeks. Anybody have any questions? >> No, but I want to give a shout out. We always give a shout out to varsity and and and high school and whatnot, but the last two weeks I've been at the middle school track meet and I am very impressed with our middle school runners and the whole system. I mean, they are doing a fabulous job and I don't know if that's strength and conditioning that happens between the spring and the summer that gets them ready or what all what all plays into it, but if you get a chance, you need to go to the middle school track meets. They are doing a

135fabulous job. >> We will be hosting quite a few track meets. One of them be the uh um the middle school um the week before spring break. So, you'll have an opportunity to see all of our kids. And uh again, we have great kids here here in this district. We have awesome coaches. Coach West, she's not here anymore, but um I mean, all of our coaches are mentors along with the teachers. So, um it starts with the kids, but uh again, the coaches are great. The support that we have in the admin office and in the front office is uh second to none. So, thank you all very much. >> All right, if you don't have any further questions, we'll move to operations report. Mike Noatne. Okay. So, um, want to start with, uh, on

136the pictured left there is rooftop of the middle school and that's during that freeze that we mentioned earlier. So, we do a pre-est. You know, we we do test our units to make sure heating's working before we do have the cold weather, but that was pretty cold and some our units still needed a little extra help. So, picture there is Larry Schindler and a fairly new employee, probably a few months now. That's Mark Bu. He uh he said, "Well, I didn't know it got this cold here, too." So, he he wasn't too excited to be up there, but he he was there. He was up on the roof all day, so he he's been a great addition. And not just the HBAC crew, but all of our guys came in ready to work. They knew

137they were going to be outside. They knew they had hard work to do, and all of them showed up and did a great job. So, HVAC, grounds maintenance, all those guys just uh really appreciate them. Um they do great work. And then on the right there is our grounds crew. uh proud of uh getting softball tournament ready. So they uh that's new concession stand. We did some temp fencing there just to prepare for that. Um they also set up some fencing at the memorial park because we had some games over there as well. Uh so yeah, they a lot of work just grounds. It was also all maintenance, but we got a good shot of them uh posing there in front of the new concession stand. And then moving on next. So I want to

138note on here on the budget you're going to see a little bit of a different number here for our starting budget of the year. And as Dr. Austin mentioned earlier during that round table we uh talked about cuts. So this reflects a 15% cut in our original starting budget which was 788,500. So 15% 118,000. So it went from starting to 670,500. So now we've encumbered $394,024 expenditures since the last operations report 38,592 which leaves us 276,476 to finish the year. Any questions? >> All right, if there's no questions, thank you Mr. Natney. And that is all of our central office support reports. >> Thank you. That moves us to agenda item number 10, consent agenda. Superintendent may consolidate items on the agenda summary for possible group action or any trustee may suggest group action on

139items to expedite the meeting. Board, are there any questions or items you'd like to pull from consent? And if not, I'll look for a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> I will second it. Motion made by Miss Austin, second by Miss Kruzanne. Any discussion? Not. We'll take a vote. All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Brings us to item 11, closed session. So at this time the board recess in executive session pursuant to the Texas government code section 551071 551072 551074 and 551076 and the time is 8:10