001Thank you very much. Cadets, this evening we have Cadet Enen Diego Guer. Cadet Guerrera has been is a thirdyear student of the Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps. He is the commanding officer of the unit. He leads the unarmed regulation team. Participates in the armed exhibition drill team, physical fitness team, and academic teams. Cadet Guer plans on enlisted in the army as an Army Ranger after graduation from Rockport Fulton High School to continue a family legacy. He plans on making a career in the Army. We also have this evening Cadet Michael Tomkins. Cadet Cadet Tommpkins is a secondyear student of the Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp. He is part of the armed drill team, academic team, and physical fitness teams. Cadet Tomkins plans on joining the army. Also, he plans to enlist and get
002selected for Ranger training. His ultimate goal is to be an Army officer and work in counter intelligence. Thank you both. And army is a great way to go. >> Thank you all so much. All right, that brings us to agenda item number four, district celebrations. Dr. Also, >> I am excited to have Miss Molly Adams, our assistant superintendent and HR up. She is going to be introducing our new administrators, our assistant principles. Okay. So, one of the most important things um that we do is build strong campus leadership teams. Tonight, I am excited to introduce the newest assistant principles to RFISD and our pirate family. These leaders were chosen not just for their experience, but for their passion for students, their commitment to excellence, and their ability to build wonderful and lasting relationships. They have
003already rolled up their sleeves. They've gotten to work, and we are confident that they will make a powerful impact for the students of RFISD. And it is a great day to be a pirate. So ladies, when I call you, if you'll come up, you'll shake the board's hands and we'll take a picture at the very end. Please join me in welcoming Katie Atkins from Live Oak Learning Center. Katie holds a doctorate from the University of Houston and brings more than 20 years of experience in education. She is dedicated to student success and building strong partnerships with staff and families. At Fulton Elementary, we welcome Amanda Burton, a proud fight in Texas Aggie. With over 20 years of experience, Amanda is committed to supporting students and teachers while fostering a positive school culture. And joining Rockport
004Fulton Middle School is birthday girl herself, Raina Albrittain. A proud Texas Longhorn with more than 12 years of experience in education, Raina brings a strong background in student support and a proven record of leadership. And we also have Anuk and Anukica Sinclair who recently returned to South Texas from Ohio um Iowa with 16 years of experience. Anukica offers a fresh perspective and a strong instructional background that will serve the middle school campus well. And there is one other person in the audience tonight. She is not new to the assistant principal role, but she is new to our Fulton Elementary campus. So Amy Lagu is here. So if you want to come up as well, we want to make sure that we introduce all of our assistant principles that all their respective campuses. Now it's That's
005all of our celebration. >> All right. Brings us to agenda item five, which is public comment. Mrs. Hill, do we have anyone signed up? No. So, we'll move to item six, board of trustees report. Are there any committee reports? >> Um, just actually made it to an Odyssey. uh board meeting last night. Um their enrollment is good. It's down a little bit from last year so far, but they're still fluctuating. Their parents are adjusting to the new hours of the campuses. So, um it does affect Odyssey because if they don't need care, then they're not sending them over there. They're finding that maybe it is helpful. >> Anyone else? If not, we'll move to agenda item 7A, bond 2022, project updates. We have field construction in Claycom with us. >> Good cheering, Mike. You got
006to hold the button. Okay. Um, so I guess we'll go ahead and get started um talking about the talking about the projects. Stop me if you have any questions at any point in time. Um, we got Jam Welch and Michael Miller with Teal here with me. Uh, we'll start talking about the Rockport Fton High School additions and renovations. Uh, according to our billing, we're 74% complete. We have $29 million authorized and we're on track to for sub substantial completion in February of next year. you want to run through? >> Yeah. So, last month um walk through the school now, you'll see that got some HBAC units that are running, continuing to start those up. Um the a lot of case work and mill work in the classroom wings and in uh the administration area has
007installed. Uh we've started uh some of the concrete site work up in front of the school. uh working on some new concrete around the concession buildings. U completing those out. Um bunch of wall tile in the corridors and in your restrooms. Got a bunch of acoustic grid and almost throughout every classroom. Maybe one or two missing some. And then a lot of paint throughout the whole school. And then moving forward, uh we'll continue with mill work. Um continue with painting. U we'll start uh getting hopefully getting some ceilings covered up on the second floor in your classrooms. Um got a lot of uh structure cabling going in. Um to get all the communication systems up and running. Uh we'll continue to start HVAC units. Uh we'll probably start to U your flooring and your restrooms
008going down and uh to start the process of getting restroom fixtures installed. Um on exterior the building you'll see ACM panels which the metal panels in the front of the school. So we'll start to see some of that finishing out. Um continuing all the site work all the flat flat work at the front for sidewalks and ramps. Um start to see some ceiling towels dropping in some Um and yeah, a lot of continuing all the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing work just to keep the school up and functioning. Uh we'll be turning over uh in the process of turning over concession building at the baseball field. Uh so football has sessions and restrooms uh coming up and still working over at the softball field sessions on site work and finishing out those interior building. Um, here's
009a couple of pictures of some of the mill work installation. On the left, you have kind of a standard classroom mill work. On the right, that's in your art room. That's just one shot. There's there's a little bit more mill work in there. Um, a lot of it's going in. I think a lot of it looks really great. Um, and I I think happy with it. Um, throughout the building there's wall tile going up. Um, most your corridors and common spaces are going to have wall tile. You want that so they're a little more durable. Kids or carts or anything bumps into it, it offers a little bit extra protection. In your classrooms, you won't have wall tile because you want space to put a poster or put something up against the wall. This is
010a view from last week of the stair near where it's going to tie into your dining area. Um, some of us were there today and it looks completely different even within even within a week. Uh, there's wall tile on the wall in there. The walls been painted. Um, and I think we're getting close to having storefront doors there so that can get sealed up. But this this is where it is going to connect in. You'll be able to go in from the new classrooms into your uh existing common area. Um, and this is just some progression shots of your main corridors. The one on the left is your first floor, the one on the right is your second floor. And then here's some drone shots from just some exterior progression. You can see that uh
011brick facade is pretty much complete. You have new drives. Uh you have some sidewalks uh in place. You have your monument wall that's going to say Rockport Fton High School. Really big letters off in the left photo right there. That the backup for that wall has been built. It's not complete yet. There's a little bit more work to do there. Uh but you can see the building taking shape. You can see um most of the glazing that isn't a door is has been installed. Um, any questions on the high school before we move on to the elementary? Okay. Uh, elementary is going to be a little bit quicker of a presentation. Am I back? I'm back. Okay. Um, so building wise, it's 95.5% complete. As soon as the staff have moved Thank you. One cool
012photo I have for this month is that you have some existing stucco that's been on the building. It's just been sitting there for a long time weathering, getting rained on, having the sunshine on it, and uh was one of the last things that are done in the project. It has been repainted. Any questions? Thank you. >> Well, hold on real fast. So, we walked we were had a bond meeting today and we got to walk the high school and even though we're putting a ton of pressure on you guys, I will say walking the halls and seeing the classrooms and the whole facility coming together, it's going to be a very beautiful school and the kids are going to be very proud. So, thank you for your work. Thank you taxpayers. It was much needed
013and appreciated. Thank you. >> Absolutely. Thank you. Actually, since I stole it from Michael in that meeting, I'll let him tell you why we got our standing ovation. So Josh was given an update on on what uh on the progress of the of the of the various different projects and um and so everybody, you know, was very interested in in the facilities coming along and everything else, but they really wanted to know how we were doing on budget. And so whenever I gave them the report that, you know, we've completed two of the three unique phases and that we had already returned a couple hundred thousand dollars to the district and we were well under budget. That's when the applause and everybody stood up and laughed and screamed and hollered and everything else. So that
014was a really a really welcome um you know praise and accolade and uh I'm sure uh Mr. Vogle, you know, appreciated it and and everybody in the community appreciates it. And look what you're getting. I mean, you're getting really good value on your money and we have stretched these dollars. We've delivered everything that that you guys said that you were going to deliver to the community and we're doing it for less than what you said you were going to do it for. So, I mean, who can argue with that? So, it was really it really puts some wind in our sales um whenever we get that kind of recognition and um and I'm sure it does you guys as well. So, thank you all very much. >> All right. Thank you. All right. Next, we
015have agenda item 7B, delinquent tax collections report from Limebar. I wasn't going to say the full name. I'll mess it up. Does that work? Okay. Uh, Limeer Attorneys at Law. We've kind of shortened it a little bit, although officially it's Limeburgger Gog and Blair and Samson LLP. Um, good evening, uh, board members. Good evening, superintendent, city staff. Thank you all for having me here today. My name is Steven Saledo. I'm a partner with the Lineberger Attorneys at Law. And of course, with me tonight is your tax assessor collector, Miss Anna Marshall. And next to her is Terry Zema who is the account manager for Rockport Fulton ISD and who is intimately involved in every aspect of our collection activities. Uh thank you for having us here today. Uh what was just handed out to you
016uh is a summary of delinquent tax collection activities uh that will go over what we've done over the last year since you've seen us. Um just as a reminder to the board um in August of every year the tax bills go out and those are uh become delinquent if not paid by February the 1st and if they remain delinquent then they get turned over to our firm to collect on July the 1st. At that time the delinquent taxpayer will uh be uh placed with a statutory penalty of 20%. So, if they owe $100 to the school, now they're going to owe 120. That statutory fee is the only way we get reimbursed. We don't take any fees upfront from the school district, and we only get paid if we collect. With that in mind, uh
017let's start at the bottom line. If you would start at section H, I believe. Flip to that. Let's start with the second page on H. Uh you're going to see two charts. Let's start with the green one first. The green one is a summary of our collections finishing out the the calendar year. Uh as you can see uh the calendar year of ending in 2024 uh we collected 1,392,751 on your behalf. And you can see that's a a little bit of an increase over the year before at 1,357,000. So we always like to see an increase in collections on your behalf. And if you would flip the page, we're going to go to the tax year. And so, as I mentioned, tax years uh when the tax rolls turned over to us, um this most
018recent tax year just com completed uh in June and we collected $1,279,076, which is down a bit from last year. We hope to bring that up this year. Now, what I'd like to go to next is if you would flip to G, it's going to show you our work plan and what we did on your behalf in order to collect what we did this year, the $1,279,000. So, as you can see, we do eight mailings a year. If anybody owes $25 or more to the school district, they will get a letter on our behalf. We pay all mailing upfront. there's no cost to the school. Anything related to the mail, we do. And the statutory mailing that warns taxpayers that they're going to get a 20% penalty if they don't pay their taxes, we we
019cover that as well. And that goes out in May. So, if a account remain is delinquent, they could get up to eight mailings warning them of their obligation to the school district and the consequences if they don't pay. Uh we do target the larger accounts first. As you can see, we target the top 80% of the tax ro, which brings us down to about $1,300. That doesn't mean that if you owe less than 1300, you may not get a lawsuit. You you will. Um, but we try to concentrate most of our things to the higher amounts because when I file a suit, you're looking looking at $500 in court costs. If you had abstract fees, it's going to go up to above that, you know, in the $700 range. So if they owe $100, we
020could file a lawsuit, but then they would owe $700 in related costs. Now, if things remain delinquent for a while, we do file those type of lawsuits. Additionally, um in addition to being delinquent for a long period of time and filing a lawsuit, if there's ever any problem areas in your in your district, someplace that you know requires a lawsuit, you want to get that property sold. if they have delinquent taxes, say it's a sill, say it's an old house that's being used for drug purposes, uh just bring it to our attention and we'll expedite a lawsuit on that behalf and try to get it sold. >> Additionally to this uh to the lawsuits, we do actively pursue phone bank collections fully bilingual and everybody who works for Limebar is a line. We don't we
021don't outsource anything. All of our phone collectors are Limebar employees. Uh we have a call center in San Antonio that does this on your behalf. We additionally if if we're forced to take a judgment and then we sell those properties, it's eligible for sale on the courthouse steps the first Tuesday of every month. And for Rockport, we have four sales a year. And Terry's working on the next one. And uh should be in October, I believe, when we'll have our next sale. And we'll give you a copy of that. All your sales now in the county are online. Uh the county passed a res uh a resolution that all tax sales are now online. They're marketed it uh on our website at the law firm. They're also marketed at the at the county as well
022as real auctions website. That's the the individuals who conduct the sales. Additionally, we do publish it in the paper for three consecutive weeks. Some is some the properties that are going up for sale. Uh we do work with taxpayers. Uh we understand there are people of low means and whenever possible we try to get them into a payment arrangement that they can afford and work with them and we're cognizant of those type of individuals and obviously as we're doing our job if anything comes in that needs to be addressed to the appraisal district we keep close touch with them and provide them our title information if it's at odds with whatever's on their role. If we could now let's flip to the beginning the if you to the very beginning of the of the report
023I given you it's the third page after the letter it will say uh Rockport Fulton ISD litigation summary and this is what we did in order to get the 1,279,000. Uh you can see since this last year, since the last time I was here, uh we filed a law, we filed 79 new lawsuits for over $488,000 non-suits. That means we dismissed the case, but we dismissed it because we were paid. Uh we had 38 non-suits for over 199,000. We took 64 judgments for over 493,000. A lot of those haven't been sold yet, so those are things that will be going to sale. Abstract adjudgment means uh it was something I couldn't sell. So, we just follow the abstract in the county records. So, if whenever they try to sell some property, it'll show up as
024a mark on the title and they'll have to take care of it. Releases of judgments uh over 143,000. We release a judgment when we're paid. Uh so, that's what that number indicates. Uh then you'll see the tax sales statistics, uh what was brought up, I mean, what was brought in, things of that nature. If you have any questions about that, I'll be happy to try to answer. And as you can see, we have uh currently a 100 lawsuits still pending for over $642,000. Generally, you know, best case scenario, uh it takes a year uh from the time we file till we can till we can take it to judgment. That's best case scenario. If there's problems with title, you know, if there's if it's heavily litigated, if there's other issues, depends. we could be several
025years down the road. Obviously, if it's bankruptcy could really extend it, things of that nature. Um, but if that's about all, that's how we got to the 1,200 1,279,000. If you have any questions this time, we'll be happy to try to answer. >> Got a simple one for you, I think. >> Yes, sir. >> Can you explain the difference between the nonsuits and the releases of judgment? It seemed like you said in both cases those are act it actually means that the u the owner paid the taxes. >> Correct. So it it's a question of timing. If I haven't take the judgment yet and the case is still pending um then we non-suit the active petition. We I bring a a order to the judge saying judge we're dropping our lawsuit because they paid it.
026And the other one uh the release of judgments after the judgment was taken if I heard you correctly. So it's all a matter of timing. Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Well, I guess I do have one other one. >> Sorry. >> Yeah. Sorry about that. Um on the uh on the total lawsuits pending $642,000. Can you put a an approximation to what we might reasonably expect to receive out of that or or >> um so there's a hundred suits and each hundred are different. Uh it depends. Is the is it valuable property that we can sell for the full value? Well, then we're going to get the full value. Is it a house that has been burned down and now worth a fraction of what it was? then we won't get the whole
027value that's old. It just depends. I would have to look at each individual case to answer the question. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. That brings us to agenda item 7C, our annual Rockport Fton ISD Police Department presentation. We have Chief Story presenting. Okay, where's this clicker? Let me get this thing figured out. There we go. This is our staff. We have Lieutenant Wilson at Live Oak. We have Officer Cat and Officer Bla1, her partner at the high school. And then we have Abe at Fulton. And then my amazing secretary, Amanda. She's at the high school. we couldn't. She keeps it all together. But when I was looking at this, I came to realize that between me and Wilson and Cat, we combined, we have 70 years law enforcement experience.
028Cat is the one with the most school-based law enforcement experience. So part of our training includes active shooter training, alert training, the door entry, the breaching tools. That's new. We have not been trained on that. We've got that set up and ready to go. Uh we're trained in CPR and stop the bleed. And we also provide training to the campuses and CPR and stop the bleed. We are all trained to administer Narcan. Uh we're trained in threat assessments and the SRP training. Um this is a picture of Cat and Bla1 working. Cat and Bla1 have to go to annual training every summer to get reertified and Blaze always passes with an A+. We're also all qualified with our firearms every summer. House Bill 33, the two main um items that affect us is the availability
029of the breaching tools and the ballistic shields at each campus. Um we have the breaching tools now. We have not been trained in the use of those yet. Lieutenant Martinez with DPS out of Corpus will be training us on that. Uh we do have them on campus. It consists of a sledgehammer, an axe, and this horrible looking thing with a claw on one end and a spike on the other and it's really intimidating. Uh we're also uh required to have the active shooter training which we've had that for years. That's been in place for years. So we've had everything that is mandated with the exception of the training on the breaching tools and that's coming. So what do we do? We we uh support admin and staff. We serve as mentors for kids. We build
030positive relationships with kids and parents. We enforce all state laws and city ordinances. And we're constantly engaging with kids and parents. We act as first responders. And our goal is to always uh serve as mentors to the mentors to the kids and to continue to build the positive relationships. So this is a breakdown of our cases from last year. Uh you see there seems like a lot. Um the high school and the middle school cases, most of these were actual cases that were charged. But in the total cases, there is also included with incident reports where no charges were filed. Same thing with Fulton and Live Oak. Of course, we didn't file any criminal charges on kids at Fulton and Live Oak, but when you see these miscellaneous calls, it's calls for service. It could
031be a traffic complaint. Um it could be um having to meet with a parent or some kind of investigation on the campus. So our goal this year is to provide more visibility on the campuses, be in the hotspots to try to cut down on the number of possession of the tobacco products to cut down on the number of uh disorderly conduct cases and and the miscellaneous misdemeanor cases. And that's going to be about visibility and being seen in the hallways and in all the hot spots throughout the campus. And this is us doing what we do and what we love to do. It's interacting with the kids. Does anybody have any questions? >> No questions. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. All right, that brings us to 7D 202526 student parent handbook and student
032code of conduct we have Mrs. Morris presenting tonight have questions. Good evening. I am so excited and honored to present this very exciting list of student handbook changes. try to make it because I was, you know, bad that it's just a list, but I'm going to be quick because it's a long agenda and I know that this is something you'll have already received. So, basically, due to the legislation, we got the TASBY model a little late this year. So, that's why we're just now presenting handbook and uh code of conduct. Typically, it would be in June. But, I'm just going to go down the list of changes and if you guys have questions, just stop me. And then I I also have it pulled up on my computer in case you have some questions that
033you want me to clarify. Uh so we do put it side by side with the TASBY model and then just put the so I just noted the page numbers of the changes. In page four there we added that we do have to have consent for any psychological or psychiatric evaluations. In page five we removed the opt out option for human sexuality. This is not new. We have a long time ago. You guys approved curriculum for different topics related to um health and different um it also entails uh child abuse and other things that we have to cover throughout the year with students, but we can no longer do opt out. We have to do an optin. We're working on a big comprehensive optin for that. That'll be coming soon. Um, so on page seven, the
034district will automatically enroll a student in grade six. In advanced math, it used to be the top 40% or higher on grade uh five math star, but it's gone to 60 percentile. So, that's a change that we made this year. On page 12, teachers are required to provide a copy of the teacher's instructional plan or course syllabus. That's um already taking place and we have that in the works. Page 13, a parent may request records pertaining to the school library materials that is their child checks out. Page 19 and beyond, we've changed all references to RTI to MTSS. That's really not new. We just it's just a correction in the handbook. Page 24 under compulsory attend compulsory attendance all grade levels. Um we have added that mental health appointments are also considered healthcare appointments for
035absences. page 26 and also under attendance for credit. We just basically they uh TASBY I should say cleaned up the ver verbiage and just added some things there about the student who attends fewer than 90% of the days uh the of the days of the class will be referred to the attendance review committee. The committee will determine whether there are extenduating circumstances. there was some choice options there and that's the way our district has uh been functioning. Page 31 was revised. We revised our list of CTE programs just because we have to list those there. And so we have changed diagnostic and therapeutic to nursing science program of study. Same courses just that uh more marketable pathway for students. And then we added NJOTC, which is now CTE, which we're really excited about. On page
03632 and beyond, all references to psychological abuse have been changed to mental and emotional abuse. And then we aligned, of course, the class rank and grading policy. Uh, our grading guidelines. We've just updated that to match what you guys have already seen. We did have to add a note that came about in legislation due due to recent legislative updates. The commissioner of education will be required to develop a standard method for calculating high school GPA which is forthcoming. So that's just a note in there as a little disclosure but it could change. Um make sure I didn't miss anything on that page. On page 40 questions or y'all good so far? Okay. Page 40, the University of Texas has changed their automatic admission from the top six% 6% down to 5%. Now, page 42, uh,
037under complaints and concerns. The revisions here are basically condensed, uh, grievance policy concerns. So, just making sure parents are aware of where they can find forms to file grievance. Basically, that's what that's all about. just streamlining the language there and ensuring we just ensured that it matched the TASBY recommendations. Um the reference to commit suicide is now die by suicide. Uh not something I really want to talk about in a meeting here, but it is just something just to make sure that it's referenced across the board. Those are the new terms. And the same thing with gender is has now been changed to the sex instead of gender. And there was also some clarification and condensing under gender-based harassment. So that was all on page 48. And then our dress code page 53. We did
038a lot of cleanup last year. So there wasn't a lot of changes to dress code other than the removal of the no leggings and some specified specifications on from PK to two and just we really refine refined and made it more concise. And then moving on is also under or I didn't put the page number there, but the following thing is under our communication devices. So, we made sure and I know you're going to see more of that tonight under the policy review. So, we went ahead and just listed all of that updated those updated procedures on on cell phones, which we have to refer to as communication devices at school. On pif page 58, there's a lot coming down the pipe on parental consent. So, um, the law does require the district to obtain
039written parent consent before a student may participate in a student club that is authorized or sponsored by the district. A parent may obtain consent forms for students. We had to add that whole piece there. Page 59, we added some things about collecting fees, which came from TASBY. Page 60 to 62, again, our grading line guidelines we listed there to make sure they matched. Uh, page 69. A student who receives special education services may earn the distinguished level of achievement and an endorsement. Right now, we're trying to move to where we start all of our eighth graders on that highest level regardless of their program and we want them, you know, if we have to make adjustments at the end, but we want to start them all at that top. So, we were kind of already
040aligned there. Page 70 to 74 also about consent and health related services. It requires schools to list all services available for parents and to consent. Page 73, just a name change from the unassigned like the Epipen to a delivery system. Page 84 includes an explanation of parent rights to know and um just regarding all services provided and activities held at our schools. And moving on, uh, a legislative update also added that we have to offer at least two opportunities for in-person conferences during the school year for each parent for each parent of a child enrolled in our school district. Page 85, agenda for regular uh, or special scoreboard meeting is posted no later than three business days before each meeting. Moving on, the st safe storage of firearms prohibits of course leaving firearms unattended and
041reach of a child. Page 92, updates to non-discrimination notices of with our school lunch program. And then again, page 96 regarding library updated policy and procedures there, which you'll also see some more of tonight in the policy updates. So that is all for student handbook. And then um the cond is really short, but do you all have any questions before I go on on the handbook? Good. Okay. So, I'll be super quick. The student handbook is very short. Uh just I mean the con code of conduct is very short. Just a few changes. Um it was already noted in the con code of conduct last year what a campus behavior coordinator is. It refers to a campus administrator who oversees discipline and threat assessments. usually our assistant principles, but there was just some change in
042verbiage there. Page seven added a statement. Students shall not engage in any behavior that violates the student code of conduct and is motivated by anti-semitism. Moving on to page eight, there was just some added firearms are already listed, but for some reason they add some more specifics, a short barrel firearm, and then they also added the list of nicotine pouches, which are also to be considered as tobacco. Now pages 8 to 10 again same updates to our procedures regarding personal communication devices. Page 12 m misuse of technology and this is where they're adding in AI um so artificial intelligence. So students shall not utilize AI in a way that would constitute academic dishonesty or as a means of engaging in any other prohibited conduct and shall not use any device or technology to copy or
043capture an image of the content of district materials such as test or exams without permission from a teacher administrator. And AI is also listed under miscellaneous offenses. And I thought that was important to to talk about there. Page 13, they just added text regarding the first time offenses of nicotine and ecigarettes with there's some flexibility for the administrators there. Page 15 states that parent u involvement in the review of alternative disciplinary settings or exposion. So just making sure parents are involved there. Page 16 clarifies the guidelines under teacher removal of a student from class and state the parents right to be informed of that removal. Moving on to the list of procedures for teacher written consent in regard to a student returning to the classroom as well as the procedure for appeals on teacher removals.
044And I did attend um an update the service center that also went over a little bit of this. It's teacher consent or campus plan of action. It's not only teacher consent which I realize you guys are probably aware of but I just think that's important to clarify. Page 18 cannot use out of school suspension on students below grade three. Students that are homeless cannot receive out of school suspension unless they engage in an any um any from that list to include threatening the immediate health and safety of other students in the classroom. Then they can still that can still be addressed. Page 19 adds that a parent may submit a written request for an alternative assignment other than that out of school suspension for circumstance special circumstances. A student may be placed in DAP for
045specific offenses and added to the list of disruption of activities or classes. They added ecigarettes. That was already there, but it's just some change in verbiage there. Page 20. um aggravated robbery or felonies listed as offenses in title five are punishable as mandatory expulsions. So that was added. Page 21 added statement under mandatory DAP placement to include harassment of a school employee or volunteer uh volunteer um on the campus on or off school property as well as added list of felonies listed on page 21 also resulting in mandatory DAP. Page 28 and 29 expulsion. some crimes were removed but bundled under felonies there. So page 31 also under expulsion um engages in conduct that contains three elements of the offense of exhibiting using or threatening to exhibit or use a firearm. And then almost done.
046Page 31 notes the use of virtual expulsion programs. Uh page 34 adds that an emergency expulsion may be ordered based on a single incident. Page 34 and 35 um list details in regards to certain felonies and related procedures. Those are all the changes to the student code of conduct. Any questions? So exciting. Yay. Where's my music? I want cheers for that. I'm just kidding. Thank you. Thanks for not having any questions. I appreciate that. >> All right, that's going to bring us to some action items. Uh we have quite a bit. So we'll start with 8A. Consider take action to approve the 202526 RFISD student code of conduct. >> I move that we approve the 2025 2026 student code of conduct. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion made by Mrs. Randall, second
047by Mr. Burton. Any further discussion, questions? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Brings us to 8B. consider take possible action to publish delinquent taxpayers names. Have a motion. >> I move that the board approve the proposal to publish delinquent taxpayers names in the local newspaper in September 2025. >> Have a motion made by Miss Austin, seconded by Miss Randall. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6 8 C. Consider take possible action to approve the 2024 2025 final budget amendments. Miss Henderson one. Okay. So I have presented for you three uh budget amendments. The first is u just increasing the TRS on behalf which again this is no income or expense to us. This is just what the state's portion of putting
048into uh the staff's TRS we have to book it as revenue and expenditure. So I always wait till the end of the year when I know the exact amount of what it's going to be or at least what I'm projecting. So this is um increasing the revenue 729,500 increasing this expenditure 729,500. And do you want me to do each one or do you want me to go through all three? all at once. Is that all right? Okay. >> The second one is moving unused 2425 budgeted funds to cover estimated year and expens expenses in in the correct function. Um, you can see we're moving money 830,000 into recapture to go with our now estimated of 7,480,000 of 2425 recapture. We're moving 45,000 into general administration. That's to cover the excess in attorney fees that we've
049had this year. Uh, and we're moving 55,000 into health services. We learned like in October, the first part of the school year, uh, some of our our nurses were not given had not been given their correct pay or years of experience. So, we got them caught up and got them caught for the year. So, we're just having to cover that that expense um in in this year. And the last one is um will be an audit adjustment that the auditor has to make the each year on based on Gazsby 87. This is just moving some of the copy lease interest into uh function 71 which are as our debt service. >> Are there any questions? If not, then I'll look for a motion. I make a motion to approve the 2024 2025 year end budget
050amendments as presented. >> Have a motion. I have a second. I have a motion made by M. Randle, second by Miss Austin. Any discussion? Vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 8 D is consider take possible action to de to delegate authority to the superintendent for obligating school district for purchase of attendance credits recapture payment under TEC 11.1511 Miss Henderson >> uh this is an annual um the board can designate uh the superintendent to do everything online rather than sending hard hard copies to the to tea. So, this is just giving Dr. Austin the authority to act on y'all's behalf uh by submitting everything online for anything we have to do for recapture. >> I guess I'll try I'll try it. Yeah. >> So, I suppose this is the legal this this is
051all that has to be stated this way. >> Yes, sir. Uh, I make a motion that for the 25 2025 2026 school year, we delegate contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code TEC 11.1511C4 to the superintendent solely for the purpose of obligating the district under TEC 48.257 and TEC chapter 49 subchapters A and D. um and the rules adopted by the commissioner of education as authorized under TEC 49.006. This includes approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit or the agreement for the purchase of attendance crediting chapter 48 funding. >> Did I get >> There's still more. I just Okay, somebody else will >> contract. You're right here. Contractual authority. Okay. Obligate to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code TC 11.1511 C4 to the superintendent solely for
052the purpose of obligating the district under TC 48.257 and TEC chapter 49 subchapters. Yeah. And indeed, it's repeated. delete. >> Yeah, I was gonna say she read it. >> I was like, I've read all this. >> I was like, why is this? >> We have a motion on the floor. Do I have a second? And whoever seconds has to read it again. >> Oh, second. >> Oh, I didn't hear you, Miss Jarnell. Sorry. >> All right. Motion made by Mr. Tur Burton, second by Mrs. Jarnell. Any discussion, questions? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. That brings us to 8E. Consider take possible action to approve innovative course students to industry connection. Miss Robbins. >> This is one of those courses that we bring to the board
053for approval because it is an innovative course. Um this is in reference to what Candy Morris spoke about and trying to increase opportunities for our special education population. And so the student um to industry connection is about creating some employabil giving students some more employability skills um that workforce connection. So this class would allow us to give that them that um CTE course that can build um to some practicum opportunities. Any questions? >> Motion. >> I move that we approve the student to industry connection innovative courses and offering for students. >> All right. Motion made by Mr. Randall, seconded by Mrs. Austin. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 8F. consider take possible action to approve TASBY policy updates 125. Miss Adams. >> Um so last month I brought to you
054the first read and this is uh just a lot of it was just some language changes of words. I mean basically um but does anybody have any questions? I do have it pulled up if you have any questions on any local or legal changes. >> No questions. I'll look for any motion. I move that we approve TASBY policy update 125. >> All right. Motion made by Mr. Jarnell, second by Mrs. Austin. Any further discussion? All in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 8G. Consider take possible action to approve resolution establishing a local school library advisor council. Dr. Austin. This is from Senate Bill 13 from the 89th legislation which relates to our district library materials and catalog. Um and it it goes to propose in this resolution establishment of a local school library advisory
055council and parental rights around that regarding uh what we put in our cataloges and the access by the parents child to those library materials. I can continue reading. They just it's a council that there is a lot of work that will come together. review before things are ordered. Um, >> it's moving forward. >> Any other questions? >> Every book that would be ordered, every book that would be ordered would go through this council. >> We do not have to. Um, you could say no that we don't have to do this. I propose that we do. I believe in transparency with our community and we have had parents who have been interested in what's going into our library. So I'm bringing forth that we do establish that. >> Yes. >> You want >> classroom teachers employed
056by the district, librarians employed by the district, school counselors, certified school administrators, the business community, the clergy. Um and >> those are actually the non voting. on voting, but they can be on there. >> They can the board actually will appoint be responsible for appointing five parents. >> Five parents. >> So, we'll have some guidelines for that and some ways that we work >> to serve as non- voting from the group that I just read for you. >> Yes, >> those you can appoint from that group, but they cannot vote. Two times a year that we would meet and other times it's necessary to fulfill the council's duty. We post the meeting. I can keep going. >> All right. I'll look for a motion. >> I move that the board approve the resolution uh the
057resolution establishing a local school library advisory council. >> All right. A motion made by Mrs. Austin, second by Mr. Burton. Any questions? If not, we'll take a vote. All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Motion carry 6. Brings us to 8H. Consider take possible action to approve TASBY policy EFB local instructional resources library materials. Dr. Austin. >> Instructional resources library material. It's all the things that go with 89. It's not in my book. >> All right. I'll look for a motion. But I promise you it's coming from what's required. >> This is H. >> I move that we approve TASB policy EFB local updated as pres update as presented. >> I have a motion made by Mrs. Randle, seconded by Mrs. Austin. Any discussion? >> It is in the same It's >> May I May
058I You want me to explain that? >> You have EFB. So the um the resolution is in reference to the committee. This is actually in reference to requirements under the law that require that we notify parents when they their students check out books. Um it makes sure that we are um creating some more transparency around what we're selecting and what we're not selecting and it tightens up the process. I'm sorry. Yeah, we only have the resolution. >> Oh, no. >> That's what I was saying. I have the resolution. It says EFB, but it's not local. >> Is it in It's not in your board book either. >> It goes resolution and then we'll have your local policy that goes with it. Yep. Be local. >> We got a motion in a second. I do have
059it. Refresh. When she's ready, refresh. It'll be in your workbook, but wait until we say. So, I'm going to read a little bit. It has school library councils in there because it goes along with the resolution. Then you have collection development policy and then responsibility and then development goals and then recommendations of procurement of materials. So it just gives you the specifics of what the resolution is putting into place. So when you see when we get it then that's what's going to be on there. >> Is that coming from TASBY or TEA? >> Coming from legislation then coming through >> TAZ. Okay. >> Yeah. So this was sent specifically from TAZY to us right after 89th finished. We've been tracking pretty closely with statewide organizations and making sure that we're following kind of procedure that
060aligns with others. So we've been watching this pretty closely for a couple of months. >> So it has access to the procedures a parent guardian who wishes. So it'll explain what they want to do. If they want to look at our materials, protection from inappropriate materials, it defines that. If you want to challenge library material, that's listed out in there. How to do that. Guiding principles, formal challenges, the advisory council's recommendations, what to do when you want to appeal, frequency of review, and removal of library materials, maintenance, gift, and donation. It really gets very specific. >> She has not said go yet. Oh, well, it said reload meeting. >> Oh, sorry. >> I didn't even see it because I was reading. >> We should probably tell everybody out there's a football game. going on. >>
061I'd like to pull my motion until we have a chance to review. >> All right, she's going to pull her motion and we're we're gonna actually come back to this and we got a second by Mrs. Austin. So, we'll move to 8 I which is consider take possible action to approve TASBY policy FD local. >> So FD local is talking about students who are enrolled in private school or home school being eligible or concurrent. We are opting out. So ours will actually say a student enrolled in a private school including including a home school shall not be eligible for concurrent enrollment in the district nor participate in curricular or extracurricular activities. We are choosing to opt out if you so choose. >> Any questions? I'll look for a motion. and move that we approve TASBY
062policy FD local update as presented. >> Second motion made by Mrs. Jarnell, second by Mr. Randall. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. You said you it's up. All right. Then we'll go back to 8H, which is consider take possible action to approve TAB policy. FB local instructional resources library materials policy is there now. >> I move that we approve TASBY policy EFP local update as presented. >> All right. Motion made by Miss Austin, seconded by M. Mrs. Randall. Any discussion? Take a vote. All in favor? I opposed. Motion carries 70. 6. I wrote 6. >> All right. Brings us to 8J. Just consider take possible action to approve TASBY policy FM local student activities. Dr. Austin, >> you'll see that it really is just semantics here. I feel moves from
063allowed unlimited to shall not limit. And then for eligibility of private school, which does not apply to us because we will not have to. >> I move that we approve TASBY policy FML local or FM local update as presented. >> Motion made by Miss Austin, second by Mrs. Darnell. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries 6. Go to 8K consider take possible action to approve TASBY policy FNC local. This is the student conduct personal >> telecommunications electronic devices. Dr. Austin. >> So this is the big cell phone one. They call them personal communication devices. It essentially gave us options to bring forth to the board for policy. We could either ban them completely from coming to our campus or we could allow them but they could they needed to be turned off
064and not used from essentially the start of the day until the bell rings at the end of the day which is what we would like to choose. It does also authorize us to dispose of the device if a parent does not come up to get it. We have multiple uh notifications and then there will be a final notification and after 90 days if they do not come we can dispose of it. This will say during implementation the superintendent shall develop regulations to implement this. We've already created those. They have been posted. You don't necessarily approve approve that plan. You just approve the policy to tell me to do the plan. >> There you go. >> Any other questions? I'll look for a motion. >> I move that we approve TASBY policy FNC local updated as
065presented. >> All right. A motion made by Mornell, second by Mrs. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. Brings us to 8 L. Consider take possible action to approve staffing audit. Dr. Rosson. >> So, this kind of comes off of a few of our budget meetings and other regular board meetings that we have had as we've looked into our budget and possibly looking at Vader. We went with the efficiency audit. An efficiency audit is a big overview of our district and our district level programs compared to peers. But as we've talked about, we really need to do a deep dive and look at staffing at all levels, all of our programs. Look at master schedules again. essentially leave no stone unturned to see exactly how our district is running in efficiency at
066not just finances but in personnel and compensation and so looked at two different we looked at TAS we looked at Mo Casey's Mo Casey is who we are currently working with with the efficiency audit there's option one and two I'm going to recommend option two because it deep dives into those master schedules that I was talking about at secondary. There is an example of those. It's called sample ISD that you can look at those reports. I spent a good hour working with Mo Casey to make sure it's going to get us the data all the way down to the levels that we want to see in every department auxiliary to teacher to central admin to the compensation of all of those. And I highly recommend that for the year and what we are in right
067now that we go to this deep dive. So it says 18, but we did the efficiency audit, so it's 15. >> And when you're looking at these examples, these samples of the uh is there anything that's missing that you would like to see? >> No, there I mean a way to make more revenue. Just being honest. Um I'm being facitious. I'm sorry. No, it truly is. There will be comparison districts. They're going to look at turnover of comparison districts. There's nothing as we went through it that I saw was missing. However, I do feel like we have a relationship with Mo Casey and the way we've been working with strategic planning. They know what we're working on that we also if we are seeing something, we could ask what about this? So, not in my
068official my first formal review of what they're giving us. >> And when would this uh audit be finished. >> It it would begin and so we I have asked for it to start. We will kind of affirm the data again when snapshot happens and we could have it December but no later than January would we have the full presentation ready to give to you guys as a board. >> I want to say I saw some years but I don't want to say it the wrong way. We did talk about it. 1920 >> Michaela. I wasn't born then. >> Michaela, I heard >> I was just shortening trying to get you out of here for the football game in year 2019. 2020. Was Rockport a school in 1920? Okay. I got showing here it's n the
069year 2019 2020. >> Yes sir. >> It does. Yep. >> I can ask them. >> Yeah. Okay. You do not see it in there. >> I I know you don't. I'm saying I am I am affirming you. You do not. But I will talk to them and say I want to look at the districts that are out there running it. >> Yep. >> Absolutely. I will get that for y'all. >> And year round. Okay. All right. >> Any other questions? >> I'll look for a motion. >> I move that we approve the staffing audit by Moo Casey as presented. >> Motion made by M. Jarnell, seconded by Miss Randall. Any further discussion? All in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries 6. That brings us to 8M which is to consider take possible action to approve
070the appointment of interim representation to serve on the arrange county appraisal district board of directors on behalf of Rockport Fton. I don't believe >> I don't believe we have any appointees. So >> I put this on the agenda last minute and just in case we needed it but it doesn't look like we I don't want to rush on anything. Um so I make a motion that we table this. All right. Motion made by Mr. Cruz. Seconded by Mrs. Randall. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6 to table. Brings us to item number nine, our superintendent report. Dr. Austin. >> My favorite part of the night. We're going to start with our teaching and learning. Jessica Robins. >> All right. So, applause from the back, but I have to say this. Um, I
071don't really get to brag on this team much. There's so much there's so many good things happening in school buildings, but I'm going to tell you, summers are game time for the row behind me. Um, they're working endless hours. They're partnering with principles who are just having I mean, they're really working to lift um what happens when kids walk back in the door. And so I cannot say thank you enough to the team that is sitting behind me. And even I mean the meetings that happen with business office um with Jen to make sure money is working together with teaching and learning with Kathy um with M. I mean we are in constant communication to make sure these systems are go for August. And so um they will sleep sometime in the next few weeks.
072Um but uh and and really a lot of this goes handinhand with the work that principles are doing because they are teaching and learning in their buildings. So, the energy that we started school with this year, um the coaches kicked things off with our um orientation with getting, you know, new staff in the buildings and then when we got to roll out the energy around some of the pieces we're doing this year, um with teachers working through that internalizing of lessons, of instruction, um was so strong. And that happens when principles are really taking the ownership of um that implementation. So their teachers were they were it was it was a different kind of energy this year. So I'm just excited about the work that happened. It takes every single person um carrying their weight
073and and we just had a strong team kicking things off this year. So any questions? Oh, pictures are up. Nice. I don't know that they usually put the board report. Look at Wedi's cute picture. All right, that's the internalization process. Those teachers and the posters on the wall that's over at Live Oak. And so, yeah, they're I mean, they're breaking down those lessons and talking about what is this going to look like across classrooms, not just in my room when I go in and close the door. So, they're getting to learn from the best each other. And that's really exciting. So, >> I wish I could remember Miss Sweetie's call sign. >> Look, the truth is she's jamming out to the BeeGees. So, so they at our launch meeting, we talked about Hi, Octane. We
074talked about the Blue Angels being one of the most prestigious, high level of excellence teams there are. and they are the Blue Angel Magic team this year. And so with that, and we talked about all that we need to do to be precise and on point. Um, we then did a fun activity uh and made call signs for each other. There we go. I probably should not. No, it's not inappropriate. I promise it's not, but I won't. Yep. He said move it along. Um, so thank you. Any questions for Jessica? We're going to move to our business office report. Give her a high like. So we are at the end of July. Uh, our tax collection is at Can't 97.62. We're 0.15 above last year. We're on on point to collect the um current year
075taxes. The long y'all have you should have a copy. This is the full cash flow through July uh that Dr. Austin taught you about at the last budget meeting. So we will start presenting this every month. Um >> so I would I would highly recommend like keeping this and so then when she releases September, you can then do a comparison from year to year. You can also put it in somewhere and I'll bring it back. But yeah, any questions? And I know and I think what we'll start doing is giving y'all the full legal copy of that because it'll be harder to see in board book where we can give you the full legal page of that so y'all can really blinding your This right, no questions. We're moving to our human resources report. Miss
076Molly Adams. So everything that Jessica said, it has been a fantastic start to the school year. Lots and lots of different moving parts going on, but it is absolutely wonderful. And what I said earlier, it is a great day to be a pirate. Um, in last month's board report, we talked about um, you know, the goal was to be 100% staffed on our campuses by the first day of school. We were very close. Um tonight you will actually have some names as well in executive session. Um so after tonight we only have one aid at one of our campuses and the rest of our um four campuses are completely staffed. So congratulations to these four over here. Um you know that's one that's one part. We got them here. We have the kids here. Um
077and now we have to take care of them in our department. Uh, one thing that we did take a look on with our end of the year surveys and looking at results um and feedback was how do we um make sure that their wellness is taken care of. Looking at our benefits package um part of that was we have some things in place but the communication of them have not been the best. So we owned that. We have met with the four campuses during faculty meetings. We actually meet with our maintenance department and technology tomorrow. Um and we are going over specific things about our benefit package um that are amazing. Um we have different programs. One is um free counseling services. One is our teleaalth um that people need to utilize. Um, not only
078is it very easy for the employee, it also helps us on the um as a district of of employees not spending going to an ER for something of a stomach ache. Um, using that service will save on both ends. Um, there's also another one called patients choice. Um, it is basically if you need a MRI, CAT scan, colonoscopy, anything like this, shoulder surgery, knee surgery, and you get orders from your doctor, you are to get a copy. Angela is your go-to person. Um, and she we submit these into patients choice. There is a plethora of doctors not necessarily in the uh coastal bend right now, but um we submit these orders. They are free of charge to our employees. If you have to go to S San Antonio or Houston, they do pay for your
079lodging and your uh fuel to get there. All of these are things at the fingertips of our employees, but we don't know if they know about them. So, we are working very hard to make sure this information is getting to them. The last is UBC cares. UBC is our broker that we use. Um it is basically a grant-f funed program. Um to speak openly, we had an individual that was going through cancer treatments, could no longer afford monthly cost reached out to us. We reached out to UBC Cares. The money is being deposited into that person's account to continue to pay for their services when it is a financial hardship. No, no person should ever go without medication because of financial needs. Um, lots of different things going on. Amazing things at convocation. Um, we
080had a well we had our first Wedi we had our first wellness uh committee meeting today. Um, we had asked anybody in the district that wants to join and it's you know wellness is this big umbrella. It's about the health and physical wellness. It's also about culture and climate. So, we talked everything um um step challenges to the bridge walk. Let's go walk the new harbor bridge as a RFISD group. Let's do a um the football tailgate. Um lots of different ideas were thrown out. Um and so we are continuing to work on keeping people in the district. Um and so the part of that is taking care of anybody um anybody and everybody. >> And I'd like to say that is all part of her objective and her strategic plan. She knows it's objective,
081too. Um and and part of that wellness committee was part of her strategic action. So just want to say great job. So, we're gonna move on. Don't hand it to him yet. It has to go that way. Do you have one down there? Give her a round of applause. Great job, Molly. So, >> yay. >> As you can see, this is not Coach Sa. He's out on the football field coaching hopefully to win. Even though it's a scrimmage, I still want to win. >> But he sent the best girls coordinator. >> Oh, what? >> Coach Reyes. And this is my favorite part of the meeting. Uh so we'll go right into our participation numbers. Uh for the high school boys athletics, we have 218. Our girls, we have 180. Our middle school boys is 180
082as well. And our middle school girls, we have 156. As far as our participation numbers, uh, for cross country, we have a total of 11 with eight JB girls and three varsity girls. Uh, 13 total for the varsity boys. I'm sorry, 13 total for V uh, cross country boys with three being on the JV and 10 on varsity. Seventh grade girls, we have one. Eighth grade girls, we have two. Seventh grade boys, one. Eighth grade boys, five. And for our varsity or for our volleyball program, we have three complete teams with 37 total. 12 being on varsity, 12 on JV, and 13 on the freshman team. For our boys of fall, we have 122 uh 36 on varsity, 44 on JV, and 42 are freshman. And for our team tennis, we have a total of
08315 for the varsity girls with six being I'm sorry, 15 varsity total with six being boys, nine girls. And then for our JV program, we have two boys and four girls. And then I'll go right into tennis. They've started off on a full swing. Um they're excited. They're working hard. Uh they've already had a couple of matches and done very well. Um their first district match will be against Port Lvakcoa on September 4th and they're definitely looking forward uh to this year getting one degree better each day practice and match so that they can advance further into the playoffs and have more success uh than they did last year. They did well last year, but their standards are higher this year. And um they're getting the middle school soon. They'll have middle school practices getting
084them ready for the spring and they're excited for the new school year with some positive changes and exciting prospects for RFHS tennis. And um they do want to thank you for all your support and um they want to also extend an invite to their tennis matches that they have that they host at home. The first one will be August 26 starting at 5:00. And for our boys of fall, like we said, our football team, uh, they're off doing great things and, uh, I know y'all are excited and keeping up with them right now, but, uh, football season is here. Like I said, they have 122 players between the three teams. And, um, they're also hoping to build a ninth grade A team and a ninth grade B team so that student athletes have more playing
085time. And they've been working hard to prepare for the season. Uh the season begins August 28th with the sub varsity hosting Orange Grove here at home. And then that Friday the 29th, our boys will be traveling, our varsity boys will be traveling to Orange Grove. Um the varsity home opener will be against San Diego where they'll be celebrating Little Pirate Night. I think that's going to be a really cool event for uh for our community. and coach Sosa and his whole coaching staff. They're looking forward to a very successful season and of course appreciate all the unwavering support. Our volleyball team um they're definitely off to a great start. They've had a couple of scrimmages and they've also played uh two preseason games against Aranis Pass and ODM. and all three teams uh it was
086a clean sweep against both of those uh opposing teams and um they just won in dominating fashion. The varsity team also scrim I mean uh played in a tournament this past weekend against uh at the CCISD tournament which is a very competitive tournament. Uh they did extremely well. They made it to the gold bracket which is the first time in in a good number of years. So we're really excited about that. And then just today and into this weekend, they're competing at the Sentin tournament. They played three matches today and won all three matches. So again, going into the gold bracket. So that's really exciting for them. Um, Coach Clark and her coaching staff, they have a great group of girls. These girls really work hard. They're very hungry, and I know they're they're putting
087in all their effort to have a a good season. and they do have their eye on on that district title and and making a good run into the playoffs. Cross country with Coach Thompson and Coach Blue, they're off and running um literally with strong energy, dedication, and high expectations. After a summer of training, and I was up here a lot this summer, and I saw Coach Blue and Coach Thompson really training those kids and those kids showing up for them all summer long. So, I know that it's going to it's going to be a promising season for them and uh of course they have very high expectations for them. Um they've already been doing well. Uh Coach Blue, Coach Thompson are very pleased with with their times already. Those times are getting better uh each
088and every time. And the the team morale and the chemistry uh is really impressive already. And they will be running this Saturday at K City. I'm hoping to make it to that one before I get to the volleyball game. And then just ongoing, we have um our online ticket sales and we have transition from hometown ticketing to event mania. And after some research, we feel that this company has more to offer our district in this area. uh sales have already started with um uh reserve seating and also to the general admission and um for all sports for uh the football sub varsity as well as well as middle school volleyball and high school volleyball. And for our social media, Facebook is our primary social media and will be the best source of information for any
089athletic happenings for the community. And we also have basic information posted on our RFISD athletic website and communication with our parents and student athletes. We use the Sports U app which has been very very effective. I think it's a a great way to communicate uh all our information uh to our parents and our kids and it's proven to be uh working out really well. Um, our codes have also been posted on the RFISD athletic website and shared um and shared at at our meeting, our student uh athlete and parent meeting um about athletics, which in wrapping it up um on August 14th, we had a student athlete parent meeting for the fall sports here in this auditorium and we had about 120 parents that attended the meeting. The meeting consisted of presentation from Seth Snyder
090and the Pirate Club and then a presentation uh coach also just talked about in length and in great detail about the athletic handbook. um he did a great job. It was very informative. And um and then we also have a sportsmanship initiative program adopted by the Texas High School Coaches Association that's called uh the Texas way and again that has already proven to be a really good program within UIL athletics and um it's already proven to have a lot of success. also talked about the online ticket sales and other information pertaining to athletics. And so far, we've received great responses from our student athletes and our parents. And um we're just all excited about the upcoming expectations. I know um the fall sports, our boys of fall, our football team, our our volleyball, our tennis,
091and our cross country, they're already doing great things, and we're super excited for um for what's to come. So, as Molly said, it's a great day to be a pirate. >> A lot of pirate pride. So, thank y'all for all the support. >> Thank you, coach. >> Mike Noani, operations. >> All right, Daniel. I have a clicker, so I'm going to try to go through this. So, uh, okay. So, to start off, some of the things we have going on, that first picture is the central office new gate that now has access control on it. So, we did that to secure the new, uh, reception area where Brenda is. That's uh Carlos working on an access control door that was having some issues. Uh that's Daniel working on another gate. We had to resurface that
092uh existing central office gate because that trailer was moved and that's originally where it was serviced from. So he was just getting that rehooked up. Below that is the city helping us out move uh install the signs that we have around Stadium Enterprise and Live Oak. Uh they seem to be working. I uh have watched people and whenever it flashes I see people slowing down. So, I think all those signs have really helped out. Uh, next, so we had uh to do some uh quick remediation real quick at the front of the high school. That actually happened like a week or two before school started. And you wouldn't even know that there was an issue there. That was actually some um some water damage that got in there. We had to and some termite damage
093that got in there. We had to rip out those lockers and we completely redid foamed that wall. And you can kind of see before and after on the next page there. That's them foaming it. And then that's what it looked like once they finished. Uh turned out really well. Uh some audio equipment being reinstalled after uh we repainted the commons. That's just uh our grounds guys fixing some patches in the Fulton gym ceiling. Got some painting going on at the high school. Uh start of there uh repairing a leak on one of the sinks. I believe it's the middle school. And then next is just some pressure washing we did to prepare for the start of school. Again, more washing of the entrances. That's more pressure washing of uh the floor in front of Live
094Oak, repairing some VCT at the high school that's in that life science where we did that remodel and some of the floor was left like that when we took the little shootouts of the countertops that was we had to replace that tile. And then that's a sandbox that we did at Live Oak. Uh there was a grant that was uh Miss Poland was been working on and uh our guys built the frame and then installed all the dirt for and there's like some big dinosaur fossils. They're very large, very heavy. Uh they're deep. Last I heard they still haven't found any. They found one. So they found one so far. So I heard the kids are really excited about that. So and then that is a process of the Fulton gym. We have a new
095floor in there now. That's actually before it was done. It is completed now. Uh there's now lines painted on it. There's basketball lines and four square lines as where as well as they call them discipline dots. It's like where to sit. Uh sounds like I was talking to Miss Cox. Sounds like the kids are liking it. Uh the new PE coach there seems to really appreciate it. So they're they've already been on it and uh yep, it went really well. Everybody's been pleased with how it turned out. And the last pictures there, central office actually put on a little lunch for our uh maintenance and tech guys. And so we really appreciate that. That's Gil there cooking some I can't remember if he did pork and chick. He did all kinds of stuff and everybody
096pitched in. So we really appreciate everybody doing that for us. And since the last report, we have closed 1,11 work orders. So it was a start school. It was a lot. We had a lot going on. And then Yeah. No. And so I kind of touched on these already with that gem floor against the bigger picture. Uh general maintenance, just some pressure washing. >> And not just pressure washing, they pressure wash the front of every school. Made sure before meet the teacher that it looked phenomenal. It was just very beautiful at every campus. >> Thank you. All right. So the budget 725,998 starting we've encumbered $679,96. [Music] uh our August expenditures 37,13 remaining and this was as of last Thursday Friday 46,92 now that'll last us through the end of August and then come September
097one come back up so there we go in good shape um some upcoming again we still working on the access control and VMS software upgrade that's still in the process uh live oak access control was approved at a board meeting we had I think it was two weeks ago a special board meeting All that equipment's been ordered, new doors, new frames for access control in the little little prek wing. And then remaining admin furniture. We had a delivery. It's almost close to a month ago now, I believe. And the rest of that furniture will now be delivered Tuesday. They estimate about two to three days to finish. That includes my report. Do you have any questions? Yes, sir. the last three. Well, not not the admin furniture. That admin furniture was actually the furniture that
098was going to be going into the admin building that was being remodeled from Harvey. >> So, what we went ahead and did is because it was supposed to go in central, it was bought with insurance money, but it's been, you know, >> more than a few years, so we went ahead and had it delivered >> because it was in storage. And even what we found is that some of the chairs were damaged because of how many years they had sat in storage. And so we're working with the insurance company again, letting them know that every chair has been damaged. But it is nice to have real furniture, not plastic tables at central admin. So we are very excited to have that. That completes the superintendent report. All right, that brings us to number 10, consent
099agenda. The superintendent may consolidate items on the agenda summary for possible group action or any trustee may suggest group action on any items to expedite the meeting. Uh board, are there any questions or items you would like to pull from consent agenda? And actually, we're going to go ahead and pull I'd like to pull a 10A minutes and that's just because they're not listed in board books. There's a board book premiere issue on the posting. So, I think Miss Hill's got a ticket in for that. So, with item 10A pulled, uh, I'll look for a motion. >> I make a motion to approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> All right. We have a motion made by Mrs. Jarnell, seconded by Mr. Burton. Any further discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. 6. That
100brings us to item 11. So at this time, the board recess and executive session pursuant of the Texas government codes section 551071, 551072, 551074, and 551076. And the time is 7:38 p.m.