001e e e good evening the time is 6 pm on March 20th 2025 I called this regular meeting of the Rockport Fulton Independent School District to order the record show that a quum of board members is present that 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 prayer led by truste burton all right please bow your heads dear Lord as we come together this evening to conduct the business of the district please guide us through our discussions and give us the understanding hearts and open minds please give us the wisdom to make decisions that will positively impact the students the teachers and the entire Rockport Fulton Community we ask for your blessings
002upon everyone here so that this meeting will be productive and respectful May understanding and collaboration be with us so that the actions we take align with your perfect will in your name we pray amen please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance by our our our inj RC thank you very much Cadet this evening we have Cadet Luke Wilson Cadet Wilson is a third-year student of the Navy Junior Reserve officer training Corps he is part of the Armed drill team unarmed basic drill team and academics teams Cadet Wilson plans to join plans on joining the United States Air Force he plans to be a mechanic like his father and he plans to make the service a career thank you again all right we'll move to agenda item four public comment and we do not have
003anyone signed up so we'll move on to agenda item five which is our district celebrations Dr Austin all right see if it comes back on can you hear me all right so one District celebrations we have a soccer playoff game tonight so you're going to see some of our people not here or some of them head out early because I gave special permission you know with our athletic director I was like of course I want you to go to the soccer game he's going to wait just a little bit because we do have some great celebrations we had a group of students go to the 2025 Texas A&M Corpus Christy Coastal B science fair and we had some winners so I am going to start with Live Oak Learning Center our first grade she received
004or he received third place on August Arata did he make it tonight come on up all right second grade we had meline Pierce and she has first place at the science fair will you come on up so we had another second grader Destin topping third place come on Des e all right we're going to do our Fulton Elementary we have two students who placed we had a a fifth grader Elena Nunes she got first place for and we have a third grader Tatum sza she got first place e so coach I'm going to do my best job later to do your report okay anybody have any questions when I do that report don't ask me ask him later so if you need to head out to the game Go For It Go Pirate text us
005while we're here and let us know the score so now we're going to move to recognizing some very important Educators we have our campus teacher of the year we have our campus rookie teachers of the year and our Tia our teacher incentive allotment teachers we wanted them to be able to come today to our board meeting this is a big deal to get all of these three honors and so we thought what better way to celebrate them than bring them in front of our school board so plus we also took all the noise makers maybe a speaker flowers and when hopefully got to embarrass them in their classroom right we did get some looks of like why are you coming in here so we're going to start with our campus teacher of the year recognition
006we'll start at Rockport fton High School with waren Mitchell come on make those pom poms go fton Elementary Bailey picarazzi we'll round our campus teacher the year recognitions with Live Oak Learning Center Leslie Glenn e all right we have our campus rookie teacher of the year uh as I love our campus teacher of the year but campus rookie is their first year of teaching and we all know your first year is sometimes your hardest year but their colleagues voted them campus rookie teacher of the year such a great honor and I am excited to announce our Rockport Fon High School we're going to start with Lauren Kelly is she at is she here or is she doing sports stuff she's a coach so I'm I'm betting she's at a practice yes I'm seeing a base
007or softball thing so she's at practice uh Rockport Fon Middle School Kenzie oh I'm gonna mess it up Miss Jay she told me when I first came to call her Miss Jay jars zombeck Miss J I promise they're great rookies I know she does band and choir and color guard and probably some other stuff so I bet she's there she's at practice thank you she's at practice Miss Jay is at practice pton Elementary Rebecca Garcia woo there she is I did see her come in and then Live Oak Learning Center Anna McKenzie for now I really like that I have to bring this whole stack up right here because that how many Tia teachers we had this year some of them did get it last year but what's even special about that is you can
008level up so there's three designations so you get one and then each year as your students grow more and more you can move up in those designations so we had some teachers move up we called it level up and so we're going to go ahead and start with our teacher incentive allotment teachers we'll start with Mr Buddy acock he is from Rockport Fulton high school he got the designation exemplary we have so many so if y'all are good I'm going to call them as they come and then they're all going to stay up here anyways so from Live Oak Learning Center Ruth Castillo she is Exemplar Jessica Chavez Rockport Fon High School recognized Sherry couter Live Oak Learning Center recognized Timothy foxsmith Rockport fton High School recognized Sydney kipa Rockport Fulton Middle School Exemplar Warren
009Mitchell Rockport Fon High School exemplary he leveled up Mr Joshua nwin Rockport Fon middle school high school recognized Miss Paula palas palasek I probably messed it up I'm sorry Rockport Fon High School a master teacher that is the highest designation and she leveled up Emma price buuck Rockport fton High School Exemplar she really gave me a look of like why are you in here Lisa Lisa rosowski Bolton Learning Center exemplary Miss Angie Skinner live oak Learning Center exemplary she leveled up as well and then Mr Christopher starns Rockport Fon High School recognized e thank you all right that brings us to agenda item six which is our Board of Trustees report do we have any committee reports we'll move to agenda item seven a this is our bond 2022 project update we have teal construction
010and kayc all right good evening is this did I just turn it off all right good evening um jump right into it so first to talk about the Rockport Fon High School um the work that's been going on in the last month uh just a lot more of continuing what's been going on a lot of installation of masonry as you look across right now you can see almost that entire wall is covered in masonry now um interior drywall has been uh they installing that installation of interior wood blocking for fixture I've got some photos of that um continuing installation of the building waterproofing and flashing um Plumbing mechanical units electrical low voltages right now there's just a lot of people on site we've got it to the point where you can you can have a
011lot of trades working at the same time uh sort of on top of each other and there was just a lot of progress really fast and since mostly covered up if it rains workers can still work so there's a lot of bu so to talk about progress uh 48 48% complete authorized 18.9 million of$ 39.2 million still on track for a substantial completion in December 2025 might speaking a little earlier than that but happen so here's some photos of the continued masonry veneer um on the left you can see a photo where you have it almost completely installed and on the back you see a lot of silver so we have a waterproofing and our uh building installation that you can see behind the and then on the right you can see where the band
012and fire hall are got brick all the way up on that you can see they've started installing interior drywall um right now for the most part it's only on one face of the wall they're still work being done in the walls installing conduit and junction boxes and and work like that but they're going to get started on that in the next next month or so and the interior Plumbing installation on the left you can see that's a that's a group restroom it's kind of hard to picture right now but you can you can see all the all the piping that goes into the ground and some of it in the wall and on the photo on the right you can see a lot of the above ceiling uh piping was being installed and it was
013insulated and then just more electrical conduit installation there's a lot of wires for electrical work for low voltage wires for fire alarm for speakers for um your TVs all all of that and that's that's going in right now uh then to move to Fon Elementary it's 88% complete authorized 11.3 million of the 12.87 million and scheduled substantial completion is by the end of next month still okay ail and April so we showed we've already you're already occupying your new dining area uh new classroom Wing should be wrapping up this month and renovated classrooms which I'll show you some photos of that area being demolished uh that we're making room for those classrooms that that should be wrapping up by the end of next month last month began demolition of your existing dining area as you
014know you have a new dining area we're taking old dining area and we're making space for a new classroom that that's well underway uh continued installation of finishes in the new classroom Wing as we're getting closer I should be starting my punch list on that next week or the week after um we installed new concrete for parking spaces on Fifth Street and again installation of marker boards tackboards all the all the final things in the new classroom room yes this month um in the old caet allarm that min so here is your uh your old dining area so on the photo on the right I'm standing where the stage used to be I'm looking towards the dining area and on the photo on the left that is where your kitchen was this is your new
015classroom this probably a week and a half old photo but there's a little bit more that's been done since then but we've got mill work marker boards tack boards paint ceilings lights and they're all coming together it's really final touches right now in that space and then this is the additional parking along Fifth Street I know that the elementary school doesn't have the most parking in the world so every every extra space that we can get in there really I think it help out quite a bit thank you any questions okay thank you have a good evening all right move to 7B long range facility plan Mr no Watney all right so I also have up here Sean Fletcher he's our coordinator of maintenance going to be tackling some of this with me and also
016Chris Garris is going to be jumping in he's probably going to stay back there though because he's got some important work going on back there but uh let let's jump into it so we've been working on this plan for several months now got with Dr Austin and it was uh know one of the priorities we wanted to make sure we got implemented and uh really what what's in this plan is so it's really planning for the future making sure that we are staying on budget and have a plan to finance some of the items that we have to replace uh so as far as in the plan maintenance goals ensure safe efficient and cost effective facilities uh facility upkeep uh also permitted to maintenance routine inspections energy conservation and compliance with codes uh there's also
017technology upgrades listed in the plan uh replacement of Aging equipment and upgrade of Safety and Security equipment uh also HVAC is a big part of this plan uh there's phase plans for replacement of Aging unit uh Fleet and equipment so our maintenance Vehicles as well as our bus fleet there's uh spreadsheets in there showing the age projected replacement of buses and also just feature projects uh plans for the uh that include Athletic Facility upgrades playground improvements and renovation remol the facilities and then I want to do this next slide here this kind of shows our yearly upfront costs that we have um along go through every single line item but some of the big ones are our mowing contract we have our Chiller maintenance U fire alarm inspections and repairs but all of our costs
018that are already ear marked for the year are 32,9 56 of 96 cents that does not include repairs for other items and just our day-to-day operating costs so that comes out of our local fund every year then I'm going to let hand over this to Sean he'll kind of go over our proposed rooftop unit replacement site all right so this is a pretty aggressive plan and the reason is that we had when during Harvey they replaced almost a 100 units um out of 400 units so that those are all going to come due at the same time they're all just dying so uh the first year is a high and that's because that's all of the units that we currently have that are overdue or getting close to the end of their life cycle um
019and most of these are smaller like four or five ton units so that's um kind of where that's at and then the next year 19 24 so on so forth um it turns out to be about 22 a year if we broke it down but um we tried to sprinkle in some of the the ones from 2017 to kind of even it out so the phase plan total for that is 1.8 million and then of course some of the newer units that are going to be coming du um later on that's a little bit over a half a million so for a total of 2.4 million that's what it's going to take to replace just the rooftop units so all right so the next is the phase plan which the very top two items there
020those are our really big uh multizone units oh sorry uh that's on page 16 of the uh facility plan um and these there's not very many of them but it's a multi-piece unit so you have your big multizone unit and then of course the classrooms have um the blowers and all the other stuff that goes with it air handlers um so the cost for the Fon units if we do it in 2027 is 584,000 we weighed another year at 600,000 and uh okay yeah yeah yeah so there's a total of four units and then first one and then the second one in 28 and then the two at the high school which are a little bit newer um and larger they'll be 29 and 30 and then to replace everything that is overdue currently you're
021looking at a little bit over right at 239,000 uh 2026 would be 19 units 16,000 and the one so for and then of course uh none of our schools have ever been painted inside so they're starting to look a little dingy and uh quite frankly it's a huge undertaking to just do touch-ups during the summer so um we estimated that at $4 $4 a square foot so to do live oak it's about half a million to do the Middle School 450,000 and then and then the last thing on there that uh we'd like to uh do in the future is the stadium LED conversion um the football stadium which is about 232,000 and then uh baseball and softball which would be about 425,000 yeah so the grand total for all of that is 5.1 million
022and just to do the critical stuff the AC work would be 3.5 million and that's just equipment costs so the critical need for all of our our budget our our local we can get three or four a year and we Salvage how many six from the deep south and then we'll be able to salvage another six from uh the phase the demo phase of the bond did I hear you say that um the 3.5 is the equipment price only that's not the inst replacement price a big cost of that's going to be those inov units that uh I know I've discussed a few times of previous board reports those are the Fulton ones they need to be replaced uh they're getting blasted by that all you know they're real close to the shore there and
023they're approaching 15 years and that's right at the time that we need to start getting ready to replace them so I would anticipate we could get till 2027 and that's what we need to start replacing the first two and then the following year we do the de two and the reason there's an increased cost we just estimated 3% for inflation each year so in his RT replace and that that's probably it could be way more you know it's hard to guess what inflation is going to be but on the replacement cycle the previous page which is page 13 that that same thing in this document it's a living document so there it's actually interactive documents all these spreadsheets on here they link if you click on when you're actually on the document not not the
024PDF you have but the one that we use it brings you up to a bigger spreadsheet and it has each year broken down and there's all inflation accounted for every year uh one suggestion then that I have is just that to me this number might only tell a portion of the story and I think that you know from a planning perspective uh when when we're planning how we're going to fund these projects I think the installed cost is really the number that we need and I don't know if I would assume we could talk to some AC companies and and maybe we just kind of figure out a factor that can be applied that covers installation for in units that is uh that is replacement and some installation but for the rtus the smaller units
025that he mentioned like the 5 ton units we actually can do a lot of those ourselves so all we really need to do is just run a crane uh it doesn't cost a ton of Labor if our guys can get to the area we usually handle that ourselves we do all the smaller RT units ourselves so that the cost is yeah it's really not a huge change in the number but that is just for the unit but we can add you know an installation cost for the smaller RT units and then next we'll hand it over to Mr Garris back there and he's going to go over our technology phase in plan e for first for every world for e for spe for for e yeah so the last three line items there are our
026security Safety and Security equipment and Hardware software uh the one here security uh Access Control software we need to do that because yeah the other problem we're running into is now that we're doing higher definition cameras and especially with the bond we're getting higher definition cameras our server in infrastructure for our cameras are having trouble keeping up with the higher definition so we're having a lower frame rate so really this just to have a more fluid and efficient security monitoring uh upgrading our so the other thing is when we we also put Access Control in here because we could get one software platform that could control everything instead of having a separate Pro uh program for cameras a separate program for our Access Control we can Loop it all together and it'll actually work together
027so if some a door gets left open it'll shine a camera automatically on that door why is a door left open so it yeah it's just and then the next line item security camera upgrades uh so we have around 340 currently we're adding SE probably another 60 or I think actually over 60 during this Bond edition that we're doing so the phase in plan for that we're not the cameras that we're adding that that's going to be bond funds for the current additions but this is to replace the existing cameras that we currently have that have been installed since what Chris 07 or whenever we first installed cameras they've not been replaced since then we do have several highdef cameras but if we start upgrading we can also get them to where they have some
028analytics in them to where kid with a red backpack or someone with a red backpack it'll you can search that it'll help you find that person quicker so that will also help with that and uh access control the 2526 plan 700,000 that is to do access control for the middle school that is our only campus that does not have access control high school has a few doors but really most of it's been phased out now we have access control at most of our high school but Middle School that would do all of our classrooms and all of our offices uh the next year would be the uh if we were still using the Fieldhouse at that time for whatever we used for once we're in our new facility that would do the field house that
029would do all exterior doors and just secure that facility and these were big items whenever we did our facility walk in November Dr Austin invited uh local officials uh Sheriff's Department County we all got together walked all of our facilities and the number one concern they had not concern but suggestion they had was just upgrading our cameras and our access control that was the number one concern and so total so right now our total maintenance cost for this 5year plan is 5.1 million as Sean mentioned earlier critical for all of our HC 3.5 million uh technology for the next five years 4 million which brings us to a total of 9,248 43 and with the way our local budget is currently we cannot cover most of that so we either need to consider Maybe trying
030to pass a bond a maintenance technology bond to help with some of these costs and if we're not able to do that we will have to probably consider doing a maintenance note to cover some of these costs that's all I have is there any questions I don't have a question I just wanted to say thank you to you and your team I know this was months of work lots of detail um I know that he didn't go through everything because you know we were trying to get through tonight before 9:00 you know 10:00 but there's also protocol for how he does preventative maintenance um his yearly reoccurring cost if you did want to see what his yearly reoccurring cost that's all in this plan as well so he just did a a phenomenal job with
031his team getting this together for us board do you have any questions I'm sure we do uh Mr nney but we'll uh address those later it's a lot of information thank you all move to agenda item 8A consider take possible action to approve the purchase of furniture for for the bond 2022 Fulton Elementary Bond project so this is for the we actually already purchased furniture for the classroom Wing they had the four classrooms that was under the 50,000 was with that's why that one did not come to Y but this one is for the remainder this is doing the six classrooms the intervention room all the remaining furniture and that total I don't have oh it's not to exceed 100 our original quote was right at 90,000 so this is not to exceed 100,000 and
032it'll finish all the furniture needs for the Fon project and I just want to remind the board that this is uh this was already funded through the bond it was um through our soft cost and it's still below what we we still have in our budget so uh it's coming to the board for a vote because of the amount of money so if no other questions I'll look for a motion I make a motion to approve the purchase of furniture for the Fulton Elementary Bond project not to exceed $100,000 out of bond funds second all right we have a motion made by Mrs Randall seconded by Mr yarell any further disc discuss sure Mr Burton Miss Cox I just wanted to make sure you were a part of this I assume the answer is yes
033absolutely but just wanted to verify yeah okay thanks no other questions we'll take a vote all in favor I any opposed motion carries 60 all right move to agenda item 8 B consider take possible action to approve extension of Bank depository with prosperity bank Miss Henderson yes so this is uh we started with Prosperity Bank in 2021 it we always according to the state we have to do a two-year contract we have the option to extend three twoyear contracts with with our without going out for bids this would be the second of our thir we we extend one more time this is the second extension we we would do for two years um staying with the Prosperity Bank they did no changes in um charges which they don't charge us anything um they kept the
034contract amounts and everything the same um I recommend they're they're very good easy to work with I recommend we stay with them all right I'll entertain a motion yeah I'll move that the board approved the two-year extension on our depository contract with prosperity bank for the term of September 1 2025 to August 31st 2027 second I have a motion made by Mr Burton second by Mrs Randall any further discussion all in favor any opposed motion carries 60o brings us to uh agenda item number nine superintendent report Dr Austin all right thank you as Miss Cox makes her way up because she is our featured campus report today I wanted to point out one thing that is new on our agenda you're going to see at the end of each of the items it says objective
035those are aligned to our new strategic plan balance scorecard and every time we have one of those agenda items that are new not a reoccurring one but new um we try to continue to put our objective so it's Priority First and that point two is that objective yep all right Miss Cox are you ready Bonnie just said put your teeks well these are kind of like our teeth okay good evening thank you so much Dr Austin I love the new addition to the agenda I did notice that so it's our turn to present Lots going on at Fulton Elementary our slogan for 2025 is together we learn grow and Thrive do I have control over this thank you all right so I asked my department and my teacher leads to put this together for me
036so thank you to my leads uh this is our third grade team their featured slide you you'll see lots of Hands-On science activities there our student council did a food drive um one of the photos shows some peer feedback they're setting and achieving goals in map andl we have book clubs going on wi time activities and then one of our teachers Miss puru she was sponsored by near pod and she she had the opportunity to present at the tcea conference in Austin this is our fourth grade team and they sent me with some notes I want to make sure I get this um in this photo you'll see um in the at the top there where you see the fence and the kiddos with their riding tools they went and consulted with our turkey named
037gravy it is a real life turkey uh they consulted with gravy before they wrote their compositions um during Thanksgiving um let's see Mrs rosal's class they celebrated Chinese New Year they have some students in there that celebrate that holiday uh learning about new cultures and she and her husband also um serve some food to go along with that for the kiddos um math they were studying area and perimeter during the time this photo was taken you'll see them out side in the hallway and then in social studies they were learning um using the Texas size map to learn map reading skills such as coordinates and how to interpret a legend so we're proud of our fourth grade team There You Go fifth grade uh confidence grows with every lesson is are our students in fifth
038grade embracing the love of learning so you'll see um them doing different activities there up at the top there they have some um I'm not sure what exactly you call it but they write on the wall and uh it's not on the wall but it's a um it's like a shower curtain they put up there and so they're standing and engaged in learning with their peers and then at the top right you see those students are in the 50 points growth club for I Exel so lots of good stuff going on in fifth grade and then this is our elective team they sent me some notes as well so in PE we're proud that we completed the walk across Texas challenge uh with Megan gliden and every school in the district um earned that recognition
039this year so we're proud uh to promote physical fitness and Community involvement music students are learning to play the ukulele they'll also perform their fourth grade Musical on our new stage in our cafeteria we're excited about that um in art they learned about they're learning about symmetry repetition and designing principles technology they've been creating their own computer games learning um coding and problem solving skills and then in academic and science lab they've been learning uh science Concepts like such as force and motion through Hands-On activities and let's see counseling they completed the great kindness challenge promoting empathy and positive relationships through kindness activities and we currently just started cooperation which is very important uh for students to learn and then Library we love our new library it's amazing and students um are um students are
040able to work on their critical thinking skills creativity and there's uh lots of resources in our library that promote engaging activities and help our students um through important conversations and uh through read alouds and problem solving skills they're also using an oz osbot robot in the libraries so we're super excited about that too and so great things happening in our elective programs and we appreciate that um we support the Arts in our school district as well and then finally to wrap up uh we have our special pops and sped department or super proud they wanted to share their mission statement there you can read it to yourself but we have our dyslexia ESL behavior supports reading and math intervention and then our life skills team which is amazing those kids are awesome and so is
041the staff um let's see we also uh we were super proud we're proud of our new cafeteria which was featured on the front page of the pilot so thank you all to the community for supporting the bond we are so thankful to be in there and then I'll close by saying there's so much going on at fton and we just started a partnership with Coach sza called the pirate Playmakers and so we have high school athletes coming over twice a week in the morning uh starting at 7:45 and they're impacting 32 students right now and it took some time I want to thank U my instructional coaches Amanda and Amber and my secretary Heather they helped get this started and I was talking with students the other day at lunch and and we had so
042many asking if they could join the sports club and so while it is tutoring and mentoring we really are proud of the relationships that they are building and we hope to make this bigger and better next year so thank you and we're so proud of fton do you have any questions before I go I don't have any questions but what you're doing is impactful the young man who got the science award earlier thought it was cool that he could stand next to a fifth grader so to get those sports kids over there too it's that same impact so good job thank you all right thank you Miss Cox we will now move to teaching and learning Miss Jessica Robbins all right so I featured a couple of things in my report this month one uh
043we did a full day usually our learning lab with our principles and our ic's is only a half day but we decided that for this last big push with the interim assessment data keeping in mind that we aren't all the way through administering those assessments we would use the data that we had to make those final um action plans so we gave time to really go carefully through the data make sure that they knew how to get exactly what they needed um we had some different uh data views that we allowed them to use so that they just had set aside time with no interruptions to compile the data the way that they needed it and then we walked them through some pretty strategic steps with building out an action plan that they could use
044through these last couple of months so those teams are working very hard um now to just it's all about the the work now the work the monitoring the followup the coaching it's just now that ongoing big push we're using a language of all hands on deck so right now I've got instructional coaches who are building out rock and reviews um while they're sitting at a soccer game and then coming back to school the next day with the next grade levels Rock and review and providing to teachers um what they need teachers are working in collaboration with them to get that stuff T done so just everyone really trying to make that big push to the end um and then I also featured some of the celebrations many we got to see today um just this
045is a great time of getting to celebrate those folks in our system that are doing such wonderful things things and I have to say it really is the best idea in my opinion to just walk in with big crowds of people cheering for you making noise silly hats all of that stuff like it just brings to life um that it brings an energy to the campus students get to see adults celebrating adults and I think that's just really important for them to see that and so um we've got and that will continue through the spring season any questions just a short comment about that first picture in your report that's great I wish we could share that on on the big screen it's like realistic okay tell me which one I just had it pulled
046up a minute ago yeah it's Britney doing this and she's looking at the and everybody's eyes are really those feel like War rooms let me tell you they get down and dirty and it is like intensity that gets on yeah so it is a good picture it's very typical very typical photo all right thank you Miss robins and we'll move to our business office report Kathy Henderson business office report is there if you any questions we're still on track um with our tax collections are are a little bit ahead of last year so we're doing doing good there one thing if you any questions I'll be happy to answer those one thing I did want to bring to the board there was a question asked me last month um I think the board maybe had
047asked Mike and Dr Austin if there was some uh back in 2023 there was some items that were could have been purchased with expense to bond funds we we purchased them expensed them out of local we could have reimbursed um back to local out of bond funds once we received them but in August of 23 it was discussed with the board that since we did not have the full cost of the construction projects yet that um if we wanted to make sure we had enough funds to cover all those it was decided to leave those expenses which totaled 4 [Music] 62,700 left that expense in local in 2023 um we can do a transfer from bond funds into local but all that's going to do is put 462,000 in cash in our local funds but
048as you saw from what Mike um presented there's a lot of needs a lot of those needs we can do out a bond fund such as hbac um so in some of the technology stuff for the classrooms so my recommendation is to leave the 462,000 in bond funds to pay for some of those needs that we we like I said y'all saw with M report that that are there now this is just this is not an action item this is just part of my board report but if the board wants to discuss this further we can put it on an agenda in future months right I don't think there's any questions I didn't hear any so we'll move to the athletic department report oh I do that every time Molly every time Human Resources report
049Molly Adams so I'm just gonna piggy back off of Jessica um the recognitions was absolutely amazing tonight um starting off of course with the adorable kids and the one who telling us about red or blue hummingbird is beautiful and love it um but celebrating teachers for all the hard work that they are doing in the classrooms for students um and then I'm sure you saw all the pictures on Facebook Gil did an amazing job of capturing pictures especially the Tia I mean happy tears just overwhelmed with emotion in front of their students students was it it was awesome um and and so I just that's what this is about that's what my job is about it is celebrating the work that's being done um for our staff members tiia does not um happen there's a
050lot of work that goes behind scenes and I'm going to give credit to Jessica Robbins and Christy Reed wedy right now there's a lot of work that goes into getting everything set up pre and post test and everything so I want to say thank you to both of y'all it takes a lot of work but you got to see tonight what all that hard work was about um in addition you know that we're going [Laughter] through uh in addition we know that Staffing meetings are continuing I know next week we have a board work uh budget Workshop um you're going to hear more information at that time we know that we we have moved to an 8 to a seven period day and what does that do to Staffing um and so those conversations are
051continuing to happen we are looking at ways um to save money we have you know we know that we are in a deficit budget so all of those are being constantly looked at and the next week at the budget Workshop you'll receive more information and on your pictures there's two pictures we did women in education you want to talk about that yes because they're here and plus you kind of already named one they are here um so uh it's through the service center uh region two uh they do a um women uh celebrate women in education um and every year the district gets to choose uh two people that recognize and and Excel in our district and represent us so well um and this year's recipients were Christy wedi and Miss Linda Cox and I
052can tell you everybody's going to have wonderful things to say about these ladies they are hands down a blessing to rfisd um and I can't imagine having any other people to work with all right now I'll move to the athletic department report uh and I should I should have brought a whistle and be like all right everybody pay attention we're going to go through that Athletics um so what you'll see I'm going to do my best just to kind of summarize he's got our participation numbers and uh he's got our Athletics tennis cross country basketball we're in our spring Sports um so he says no stats in baseball softball I have to talk to them oh they haven't started middle school starts April all right so that's quick turnaround tryouts and then a game awesome
053um seeing lots of things that are great with softball they had a big game uh with cinton uh great score there our our boys just plays West Oso you guys already know that we have a playoff game tonight I've texted uh Miss Dina already I mean it's 709 I don't think they maybe have scored yet but I was just checking um did someone say they did I was hoping they did okay girls powerlifting we had six lifters their name there for you uh that went to the regional meet three of them qualified for state next month's board meeting we'll be bringing our state powerlifters and we're hoping um our boys who left this morning we had three of those as well uh will bring back some hardw Hardware just like our girls did so I
054think he has some pictures there for you his ongoing social media his congrats with the girls Hardware from State meat our boys big things I did I can't believe he put that picture there of me throwing the baseball which I have not done in years and I practiced a whole lot and if Gil was here he'd be like well she kind of did it bounced over the plate it was a strike I I'm gon to say it bounced over the plate and I did not hit the girl with the guitar or the cameraman so I feel very good about that um you see his connections it looks like this is their Fon um well this is our pirate softball team that went to our schools and then at the end it says win the day
055there is the athletic report I'm living out my dreams of being an athletic director right now don't know if y'all knew that I think maybe in my interview I told you that I went into Administration to be an athletic director and here I sit today what you don't even think about it she that don't think about it do you have any questions your Mike noaty all right ad mind pulling up my I don't have to cck it with right so you should have my usual board report if you have any questions on that uh so some of the projects we had that photo over there is the softball uh that was the running power after they finally finished the bleachers I don't say fin they actually got it done pretty quickly once they started working
056on it but that that was them adding the power and getting the uh scoreboard data into the Press boots for the bleachers and baseball was just completed Tuesday or Wednesday Tuesday so uh Power is now also on the baseball field uh Baseball Press boot excuse me uh general maintenance and upkeep that picture there is a a vibration vibration insulator uh isolator that isolates insulates vibration anyways reason I put that up there is because that's our hbac crew and this is the kind of stuff that they can do inhouse and that's uh Larry Schindler there and very proud of those guys we have three hbac guys they all do a great job uh Tom Larry and David uh so you know we're just really grateful to have a good group of guys that can do this
057kind of work for us in-house next slide please so our budget 725,000 so far we have uncovered 48,49 our March expenditures 62356 it's a little higher because we had a couple of things HVAC has always uh come up we had some controls go down at lioke and the only way to replace them was to go to one vendor because they have it protected and it was pretty large cost to get the controls back up but we were without those controls we can't control temperatures or anything remotely with that system so for but we're so good for the rest of the year we got 26756 for maintenance next slide please some of the upcoming stuff we have a lot of fencing that's already been repaired uh around we went through Sean and I went through a
058lot of our athletic facilities there's a lot of gates that were just been needing to be replaced we're trying to secure everything we can uh that's coming out of that safety Grant and then also I have power and AV Equipment power is now done as of this week and then AV Equipment we're hoping should be able to be completed for both baseball and softball by the end of week uh we're just waiting on equipment to get here and then we'll get it installed and that concludes my report all right if there's not any questions that concludes our superintendent reports all right we'll move to agenda item 10 which is our consent agenda the superintendent May consolidate items on the agenda summary for possible group action or any trustee may suggest group action on items to
059expedite the meeting board are there any questions or items you like to pull and consent agenda or discussion not I'll entertain a motion and make a motion we approve it consent agenda all right we have a motion made by Mrs Jarell second by Mr Randall any further discussion all in favor I any opposed motion carries 6-0 that brings us to agenda item 11 so the time is 7:14 and we will recess into executive session pursuant of the Texas government code section 5510 71 551 072 551 074 and 551 076 for