001Mic check. Mic check. Test. Testament. best. That's nice. Test testing testing testing testing. Mic check. What do >> other words? Other words. Other words. Mic check. Mic check. One, two. Mic. Mic check one, two, mic check one, two, mic. Mic check one two. Mic check one, two. Mic check one, two. Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the November 17th, 2025 regular meeting of the San Marcus CISD board of trustees. This is a meeting held in public, not a meeting of the public. You are invited to observe and listen as the board conducts its business. During the public forum portion of the meeting, you are welcome to address the board per our published guidelines. All items that will be discussed and voted on this evening have been posted as required by law in
002compliance with the state government code on open meetings act. The proceeding tonight is being recorded and will become part of the San Marcus CISD permanent legal record. To ensure the recording accurately reflects the proceedings, please refrain from talking while others are speaking. In accordance with state law and district policy, disruptive conduct must be avoided so as not to interfere with the meeting. The board shall not tolerate disruption of the meeting by members of the public. This statement serves as a first warning from the presiding officer to the public. And if an individual decides to disrupt the meeting, the assistance from law enforcement officials will be requested to have the individual removed from the meeting. Thank you for joining us this evening. And thank you for your support of San Marcus CISD. I am calling the
003meeting to order. We have a quorum. We have all board meet all board members present, six in person and one on Zoom. And I'd like to invite Dr. Young to the podium to introduce her Miller Middle School students who will lead us in the pledges. >> [applause] >> and we push the button. Okay. So, um, school board members, Dr. Cardona, members out here, as we say when we go to meeting, we get to choose, um, how we're going to go through our meeting. So, I always choose cheer and joy, and I'm bringing you cheer tonight. So, um I am So, this year Miller has a set of cheerleaders and it's our first set and so I brought them with me today. Three of them. We have a whole bunch of them, but three of them
004come because we have a dance show going on at the same time to lead us in our pledge and then they would like to end it with a little bit of cheer that we have at Miller. ladies. >> They're gonna introduce themselves if we could really quick. Okay. >> Hello, my name is Bailey. I'm the spirit leader. >> Hi, I'm Immani. Hello, I'm Janelle and I'm an eighth grader at Doris Mill School. >> Are you ready? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States United States of America and to the to the republic for which it stands. One nation one nation under God indivisible indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to thee Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. Thank you for having
005us. Thank you, Dr. Young, and thank you, cheerleaders. That was great. Um, the next item on our agenda is a public meeting to discuss the district's rating on the state's financial accountability system. >> All right. Good evening board president Hollyy, members of the board and Dr. Cordona. >> Okay. Uh this public hearing is held to review the district's financial integrity rating system of Texas or better known as first for the 2425 school year. Uh so the presentation I will show this evening will serve as our public hearing for the rating. If you'd like to follow along, this is on page four of your board book. There are three components to the rating. The first is an explanation of what each component is within the first rating. Second, it will have the the actual rating that
006we received. And lastly, we will give an opportunity for any public comments or questions. So, the state of Texas defines the primary goal of the financial management system as a system to ensure that Texas public schools are held accountable for the quality of their financial management practices and that they improve upon these practices. The use of the system is intended to encourage schools to better manage their financial resources and to provide the maximum allocation possible for direct instructional purposes and to also serve as an early warning indicator of any decreasing quality management. So the ratings here uh kind of put them in a in a chart format. Uh we have 21 different ratings. As you can see, they are each scaled on a pass fail, on a 1 to 10 scale, or a one to5
007scale. So, let's look at each one of these indicators. Uh, these first five indicators are on a pass felt rating. Uh, they are crucial indicators uh for maintaining a high ranking in our in this integrity system. And I'm happy to announce that we've passed all of these uh with a it's a past fail. we the yes messants that we passed all of them and I believe that's uh speaks to the efforts and the hard work of the business and finance team. Uh it's also the day-to-day work they do in ensuring that we uphold the highest standards for the district. Uh indicators 6 through nine were all scaled on a 1 to 10 and uh 10 was not scaled this evaluated this year. Um so for six through nine we did receive maximum rating uh of
008a of a 10 and then on indicators 11 through uh 14 were on a 1 to 10 and then indicator 15 was on a 1:5. So if you notice we received a maximum rating on all indicators except 11. And so I'd like to to clarify on uh indicator 11 this has to do with our long-term solveny. Uh there's three three ways that we can earn uh credit for this or full credit and [snorts] two of them pertain to growth within the district. Uh we look at a five-year span of of growth and see if we've either met a 7% growth or uh a growth of a thousand students over that 5-year period. Um neither of those indicators were met. Uh and I think that speaks a little bit of to the the just the growth
009in our area and um the lack of affordable housing uh potentially could be an issue that lends to to bringing more families into our area. However, the uh the third way to meet this is our long-term assets to to liabilities. And uh uh we scored eight out of 10 points, so almost full credit. Uh we missed it just shy uh you needed to have a a 6 um or lower to maintain uh to get full credit and we were at 67. So 67%. Uh and I think when we looked at how we can strengthen uh these areas is we need to maintain our long-term liabilities uh carefully. So we want to avoid new debt unless it's absolutely necessary and we want to pay down our existing obligations. Uh and then we always want to grow
010our asset base. So we want to maintain a strong fund balance. [snorts] Uh we want to protect our facilities. Um and we want to make sure our capital investments increase the long-term value of our district assets. So over time, keeping liabilities stable while assets grow naturally improves the ratio. and and I I feel confident as we we move forward uh this will uh uh come back up to a full credit uh indicator 16 through 21 again those are either a a pass fail a yes no or a 1 to 10 uh scale and on all of those we did score uh the highest scoring on those and so when we put everything together our overall rating for the 2425 school year is a superior achievement which is the highest uh rating you can receive it
011is a 98. So, we did just a little shy of the 100. [snorts] We have a few disclosures here um to note. And overall, it's just the uh copy of the superintendent's appointment contract uh [snorts] is going to be effective on the date of the first report. Uh summary of reimbursements to board members and to the superintendent is made available [snorts] and uh the summary schedule for each dollar amount to each board member [music] was paid for business transactions within the district. Um those are a few disclosures we have and this was a notice that we um we put in the paper just uh to make sure everybody was aware that we did have this public hearing and so at this time I wanted to open it up for any questions or comments regarding our
012rating. >> Okay, thank you very much. >> Thank you very much. The next item is our public forum. The first uh person to sign up is Jim Davis. Please come to the podium. Give your name and your address. This won't hurt. You'll like it. I promise. He kissed the length of her to torso down to the small naked D. This is an example of profane and indecent literature that's in our schools. Whatever educational or psychological spin a professionally trained librarian should try to put on this, this book has been removed from the TDC and it should be not in any school library. The first amendment does not prevent school districts from removing indecent or inappropriate books. Courts have long held in the first the fifth circuit reaffirmed this year that libraries are curated collections, not
013open forums. The first amendment does not give patrons a right to receive any particular book. No student loses free speech when a school removes a book containing profanity, indecent material, or sexually harmful material. students remain completely free to obtain those books on their own. The Constitution simply does not require schools to stock them. That is exactly where SB13 comes in. SB13 provides clear, objective definitions based on state law and FCC standards for what counts as indecent, profane, or harmful. It doesn't target ideas or political viewpoints. It targets content. the same type of content courts have always recognized as inappropriate for minors. Upholding First Amendment freedoms and enforcing SB13 are not in conflict. In fact, they work together. The First Amendment protects private speech and SB13 protects children from material that is legally defined as harmful
014while giving communities and authority the authority to set age appropriate standards. SB13 is not censorship. It is constitutional. uh responsible stewardship. I am not a prophet, but I can predict that the immediate consequences of refusal to remove these books will bring an increase in sexual promiscuity will contribute to teenage pregnancy, STDs, HIV, and many other heartbreaking consequences that go along with a further breakdown of a strong family unit. Marriage is to be held in honor among all, and the marriage bed is to be undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers, God will judge. That's temporal judgment. Just as Sodom and Gomorra and surrounding cities, which likewise indulge in sexual immoral immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. That's eternal judgment. And if he condemned the cities of Sodom
015and Gomor to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter, teach our children honor, integrity, and self-control, and remove these examples from our books. Thank you. >> Thank you, pastor. The second speaker tonight is Lori Davis. Hi, my name is Lori Davis, 422 Lazy Lane, and my talk is on regarding SB13. We keep hearing about how we wish to ban books and take away rights. Anyone can buy these profane and indecent books online, but not without taxpaying dollars and not to put them on display in schools to destroy our children. There's a difference between banning books and opposing evil. Who upon actually reading these books would not regard them as pure evil? Evil triumphs when good men do nothing. Injustices continue because those who
016cannot stop them do not act. There's a holy God to whom we will stand accountable. Scripture says, "Let those who love the Lord hate evil. who will stand up for me against evildoers and those who do injustice. I'm here to say we will. It's why we're here. We will work to protect children. We will stand for good, morality, purity, and integrity. Our battle is not with you personally. We pray for each of you by name. We hate the evil that is being done to our children. And believe it or not, your battle is not with us. It is with God. Where is your fear of God? Fear God and not man. You have the power and authority to remove these books. Please do so. Thank you. >> Well, thank you. The next speaker is Debbie
017Limebach. >> Hi, good evening superintendent trustees and parents in the room. I'm here to clear up two misconceptions. Could you please state your name and your address? >> Debbie Linbball, New Bron Falls, um 311 Copper Crest. I'm here to clear up two misconceptions. SP13 terms are not vague. They use long-standing FCC definitions. Profane content includes extreme vulgarities like the F word, which the FCC has ruled grossly offensive and illegal to broadcast when children may be listening. And decent content includes descriptions of sexual organs or sexual activities. From the challenge book, Wicked. The widow kissed the puppet husband, pulled off his leather trousers. He had two full sets of male goods. Her daughter took the front, the widow took the rear as they bucked and squealled. That is the definition of indecent content. Now, Wicket's profanity,
018brothel scenes, and graphic sexual content were removed in the musical and movie because they would violate FCC standards for minors. SB13 simply applies these same clear objective standards to school libraries. [music] That's not censorship. It's a longestablished law protecting children. The second misconception that we keep hearing is the excuse that the profane or indecent books meet students where they are and that a bleak or that a bleak story with a hopeful ending somehow justifies the graphic content. That's simply not true. The ending does not erase the explicit material the child must read to get there. The professional librarians are acting as if the old Texas obscenity exemption still exists. It does not. [music] Under SP13, there is no educational justification for exposing minors to profanity, indecency, or graphic sexual content, especially not with taxpayer dollars.
019Our duty is to protect children, not normalize harmful material. There is no acceptable amount of profane or indecent content in a book or in a school library. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, >> Dr. Kodona. The next item is the superintendent's report. Madame President, members of the board, good evening. If I could get Dr. Cole AOA up here. Uh we have our attendance award for our schools. So it's not on playback, but we have uh for our elementary again. So uh if principal Gonzalez can come up and Ernnandez [applause and cheering] reached 96.45% ADA for the month of October. Congratulations, Jennifer. Let me grab a Let me grab a Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. [applause] >> And once again for the month of October, Goodn Night Middle School [applause] took the prize. Congratulations,
020Principal Mitchell. And Mitch uh Goodn Night received 94.89. 89% or reach 94.89% ADA for the month of October. [applause] >> Thank you. >> I'm sorry, Dr. Valadez. I forgot to You were walking right in front of me and I forgot to name your name. I apologize. I'd also like to call up Dr. Terrence Sanders for a very special announcement regarding Well, I'll let him Good evening, President Hollyy, board of trustees, and superintendent Dr. Cardona. I am very pleased to stand here before you this evening and announce that after a very extensive search, we have landed a director of special education. And she is here with me this evening. And so I am pleased to announce Dr. Bonita Teasley as our new director of special education. Dr. Teasley. Oh, okay. Give a ROUND OF APPLAUSE. >>
021[applause] >> DR. TEASLEY was most recently the executive director of special education at Round Rock ISD. So she has a few words that she would like to say to you all. >> Thank you. >> Good evening trustees, Dr. Kadona and Sema, our leadership team. I want to first thank you for giving me opportunity to serve as your new director of special education. Special education is [music] my passion. If you know me, like that sounds like a record because I tell everyone that, but special education is my passion. I've been in education right now for almost 25 years and um 15 of those been special education administration. I believe as educators, we have to remove barriers for our students so they can succeed. When I speak in regards to our students, I'm talking about students who
022receive special education. Um, I have a bachelor's in applied learning development from the University of Texas at Austin and a master's in educational administration from Prairie View&M University and a PhD in education policy and planning from the University of Texas at Austin. Um, I'm a new implant here in St. Marcus. My husband and I recently bought last year um here in the district. So, I'm looking forward to growing roots. We have two sons. Um, and we just learned we are expecting our first grandchild. So, good things are happening for us. Um, but again, I want to thank you for believing in me and trusting in me and allowing me the opportunity to serve as your director of special education. I look forward to new things. Thank you. >> Thank you and welcome. >> Dr. who
023will be starting with us on December 1st. I would also like to publicly thank our special education coordinators and who are here with us this evening. They have stepped in and done a lot of hard work over the last couple months. So definitely want to thank them. [applause] So that is Thank you. >> Dr. Teasley, I didn't know you went to UT Bl. Welcome. So now I got to be really careful about what I say. It was a long as an Aggie. So, game on. Um, I also want to take a moment. I'm I'm sorry Dr. Solomony left. I saw her leave. But I do want to take a moment to uh recognize our band program who a couple of weeks ago had the privilege of going up to Round Rock and listening to them
024play. And while we didn't advance to state, I think the community needs to understand just exactly who our band was competing against. say we're competing against some heavyweights uh in the state of Texas. I mean, you're talking state champions. You're talking band programs that win bands of America in Indianapolis. And we came in the middle. There's 25 schools and we placed right in the middle. And everybody above us has over 3,000 students or more. I would consider them to be, you know, your elite of the elite band programs uh from around the central Texas area, but they did an amazing job. Um, David was there. He can echo that. And if you want to see the video, it's on my web, social media. I I put the video on there. The performance was fantastic. I
025also want to recognize our two amazing choir directors. They were at uh UIL uh solo >> district >> and we sent over 40 kids and we had numerous advancing uh to the next level. you know, I'm I'm sorry that some people are not here to hear. Um, you [music] know, that we are producing well-rounded children. Uh, we believe in whole child development and we know what that does for the brain. Uh, and when you have a program that has roughly 150 kids and 40 plus are competing and something that really makes me nervous watching them because it is something to to watch. Uh, these kids perform. Uh, they should be recognized for their efforts. And then finally, our football team will be playing um this Saturday at 1:00 at Buccaneer Stadium in Corpus Christi. So,
026y'all come down and support our Rattlers uh in round two of the playoffs. Uh and then finally, just to the staff and to um well, to the staff and to the the community. uh you know we we do we have been doing the the teachers have been doing just an amazing amount of work but it doesn't go unnoticed the stress uh because people outside of our organization um choose to act in a manner that doesn't reward the work that our staff do in the school district. Um and so if anybody wants to ask me a question and email me I answer my emails. The reason why uh we are taking Friday is because our staff and our students earned it. Uh there's a lot of stuff happening in the district. Uh Stephanie Munoz, our chief
027of HR, looks at a lot of data matri metrics. We send that out. Uh we all know illness is abounding in our community. uh on various forms. Uh and so as superintendent cabinet and in conversation with the principles, we made a determination to do it. But if you have any questions, just email me. I'll answer you. Um it follows me everywhere. And I want to thank our staff because um I don't think we do enough. I wish we could do more. We are trying to do more and we are getting better every day for them. Uh but we are a great great district and when you look at our metrics and you look at districts that look like us, not that don't look like us, that look like us, we are outperforming all of them
028by a significant margin. And we will continue to strive to be a B or A-rated district because that's what our teachers want and they know that that benefits our students at the end of the day. And so we have an amazing group of students, teachers, um, and administrators. And I would put our people against anybody in the state of Texas. And with that, that's my Have a great holiday. Oh, wait. I forgot one more. Mr. Andrew Fernandez. We have one more special recognition. >> So, he's going to be upset that I do this, but if I can have Mr. Greg Cuban come out. So, I told you. So, this man does a lot. This man and his team does a lot of work behind the scenes. And I know if I told him that we
029would do this for him tonight, he wouldn't have showed up. So, this is a complete surprise. But, um, Greg, on behalf of SMCSD and myself, it's been a pleasure to work with you my last nine years. But, he's given 18 years to this district. He's put us through a pandemic. Uh through everything that has been thrown our way the last 18 years, he has handled it with grace and with the utmost professionalism. And I told him he's become one of my favorite favorite people in the district. And I never thought I would say that. I'll be honest. And and and I told him that we've had a roller coaster of a relationship, but he has become one of my favorite people in the district. And we will absolutely miss you. And most importantly, as a
030marketing tool, I want you to make sure you showcase SMCD anywhere you go. So, uh, any last words, Greg? But >> just want to thank, you know, Greg for his service for the last 18 years. >> Thank you, sir. [applause] >> Appreciate that. Any last words? >> Well, thank you, Andrew, for surprising me. No, I don't have any last words uh planned other than it's been an absolute privilege to serve here. San Marcus gave me an opportunity and I'm very thankful for that. I will always be deeply intedded. Uh um so I did throw myself into this work. Uh again, thank you so much. I'm going to miss the people in this district. Has been a big part of my life. I will miss it forever. So, thank you guys so much. [applause] >> Thank
031you, Mr. Hubenac. We really appreciate you. And you don't have to be a stranger. We're not going to be far away. Okay. Thank you. Madame President, that concludes the superintendent's report. >> Thank you. The next item are reports and information items, financial report. Miss Garcia, >> can can I ask you if it >> Oh, yeah, sure. We can move that. Denise, before we start, uh, we have do have an item on the agenda later on that involves that Chief Stevens is here for, and I just want to take a moment if anybody has any questions regarding that. I don't know if Chief's had a long day. I don't know if he wants to sit here for the next six hours, Chief. No, I'm just joking. We don't got We're not here till six hours. >>
032Questions for Chief Stevens ahead of the item. Anybody? >> It [clears throat] Thank you very much. We appreciate you, Chief. >> You can be well when you're having that fundraiser in December. >> Uh good afternoon. Uh tonight we have our uh auditors ABIP. Uh they have concluded our annual financial report for the 2425 school year. Uh so I am going to announce Mr. Nick Gutierrez and Janet Pitman up to the podium uh to give that presentation. >> Thank you. Thanks Denise. Good evening. Thank you for having us here this evening to go over your financial report for 2025. What do I do? Okay. the notice uh the first thing on the um the slide is the certificate of the board. We won't be able to sign that tonight because um the OM which is the
033offices office of management and budget of the federal government has not approved our final compliance supplement. Every year they issue a compliance supplement that tells us how to audit the federal funds. They issued a draft in May [clears throat] and they usually approve it in the middle of the summer, but they haven't they haven't done that yet. So, TEA has advised us to hold off on issuing a final report until we can make sure that we have followed the correct all the compliance that the federal [clears throat] government has issued for us. So, um, we can either come back when that gets all finalized and do a final presentation or however you want to do it is is what we'll do. Anyway, so we won't be signing anything today. And you'll notice that everything is
034in draft mode, even our audit opinions. We do not anticipate that anything is going to change. Anyway, so you have a large document in front of you. It's about 120 pages. These are the items that are uh the sections that are in the annual financial report and I'm going to briefly go over each of those sections. So our independent auditor's re report is on page one's the first thing in the financial statement. We are required to follow two sets of standards generally accepted accounting st [music] uh auditing standards and because you're a local government and you do receive federal funds we also have to follow government auditing standards. So what is the purpose of an audit? It is to form an independent opinion on your financial statements and whether or not they are presented [music]
035in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. Our audit opinion is unmodified. It is the highest level of assurance that you can receive from the independent auditors and it basically says we did not make any modifications to your financials and they are presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. The next uh item in your financials are is the management discussion and analysis. This is an overview of the financial statements and there a comparison from 2024 to 2025 and [clears throat] it gives um some reasons of why the changes and whatnot and it has some budget highlights and then information on your capital assets and debt and then also on your next year's operations. It also gives um instructions that if you wanted more financial [clears throat] information, it tells you how you can contact management
036to get that information. So, your governmentwide financial statements, those are all of your funds combined, your your general fund, your capital projects, your debt service, and all of your special revenue funds. It's all combined into one column. It has all your capital assets and all your debt on on the financial statements also. So the assets of the district exceeded their liabilities by 96.2 million at the end of June. A big the largest portion of that is your net investment in capital assets 86.3 million. You do have some restricted dollars in there of 31.4 million. Most of that is related to debt service and a very well $1 million is related to federal and state programs. Your unrestricted net position is a negative 21.5 million. Most of that is due to your net pension liability for
037your TRS and um your OPED for your other postemployment benefits. So last year, those two together, the net pension liability was about 48 million. This year it grew to 51 million. So if you didn't have those items, which are very long-term liabilities, um you would have a positive unrestricted net position. So your net position overall did increase by $18 million from the la prior year. Although you had a large increase in state aid, a small increase in property tax and also you had some uh decrease in instruction expense and also in your debt in interest expense. And those the debt interest expense will go down as you're paying your bonds off. So now we'll talk about the fund financial statements and that's where you have you have columns for your general fund, your debt service,
038your capital projects and also then you've got special revenue column. Anyway, the general funds fund balance at the end of the year was 38.8 million which was a small decrease of 3.2 million from the prior year. prior year actually had a a decrease of 17.9 million but your unassigned fund balance was 36.9 million which is what we call a very healthy fund balance. You have $4.5 million in operating reserves and that's to be used for your ongoing operations. Uh last year you had 4.4 months. So a little bit of an increase. You're you're doing well on saving that fund balance. The combined fund balance for all the funds was 210 million, a decrease of 22.9 million. Most of that decrease is due to the spending of your bond dollars, which you're meant to spend. Uh
039the district's fund balance at the end of the the year was um and these are all the funds combined. So restricted fund balance, you have 172 million. That includes the debt service of 23 million and then also about 140 million in your capital projects fund. You still have some bond dollars to spend. And then you've got two small um amounts in your general fund that are assigned. assigned means you can move them around if you want to, but you do have 500,000 set aside for construction and a small amount set aside for your scoreboard. You have uh two internal service funds. One is the concession, the other is the child care fund. They have a a good healthy fund balance at the end of the year. your concessions did not have any activity during the
040year. Don't know if you're going to Huh. Yeah. All of the the information there is is the child care fund and and then you also have some custodial funds which you have one scholarship fund. The only activity in that fund this year was investment income and then your student activity funds for your for your students. Capital assets and debt. You had $23.9 million in capital assets increase mainly due to your construction costs and [music] also purchase of buses. And your total debt, no new debt this year, but you do have $354 million in debt. on the budget. Good news. On the budget, you have uh you had actual revenues were $5.3 million more than what you had budgeted. Most of that was in I believe in state revenue and your expenditures were $5.8 million less
041than your budget. You had actually u budgeted for a fund balance decrease of 17.6 million. your actual D decrease was 3.9 million. So, a good job there controlling the costs. Way in the back of the report is our compliance section which we're required to um report on your uh federal funds. Also, uh we have an independent auditor's report on internal control of your financial reporting. if we had any issues with your segregation of duties um or internal controls over your major processes such as payroll, cash dispersements, revenue recognition, they would be listed in this report, but we are pleased to say that we do not have any internal [music] controls that we need to be reporting to you because you receive over $750,000 in federal funds expensed during the year. we are required to uh
042perform a single audit and again this is the compliance supplement [music] area. Uh you did spend you qualified for the single audit. You had almost $12 million as um total expenditures in federal funds and your major program was your child nutrition cluster. It was about 48% of all of your total federal funds that we audited. Uh and again we have an audit report and we do [clears throat] not have any findings or question cost in that area. So that's on the financial statements. Does anyone have any questions regarding the financials? >> Evening. A couple questions. >> Sure. Um, and these are more for you probably not going to instantly know the answer, but you might be able to point me to what you reviewed that was that you gave a summary of. So, like, do
043you have a copy of your report? >> I do. >> All right. On page 11, uh, I saw a notable increase about a 25% increase in contracted services. um where our 25 expenditures were 11.7 million which was almost 3 million more than the year before. What did I'm trying as a policy maker to understand where that money went. What did you review as an auditor that that resulted in this summary? >> I'd have to dig into the details exactly. I'm I'm thinking maybe it was special ed contracted services, >> special ed. >> Yes, I thought >> we had a lot of special ed contractors um that because we weren't able to hire for positions in special ed, we did have a significant amount of money in contracted services. >> Okay. So, some of the some
044of the drop in payroll was most likely made up for the increase in contractual services. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> And hold on, one more. Were there any district accounts that you did not audit or review >> or do you review all accounts held by the district? >> We we look at everything. um some in great detail and some it's just an analytical review where it has to or it has to make sense why the changes are. >> I see. Well, you made you found it notable that there was zero activity in concessions. Is that because do you understand why that is? Like is that money going to a fund that you don't see? >> I would think that has to do something with athletics and it doesn't you're not tracking that anymore. >> Okay.
045Any Did we used to Yes. >> And now we don't. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> You probably didn't close that phone out. >> Yeah. >> Thanks. >> Any other questions? >> Go ahead. >> Okay. So, in addition to um the bound document, we also issue a letter on the conduct of the audit. This is required communications between us, the auditors, and you, the um the governing board of the district. We are required to tell you if you adopted any new accounting policies this year. You did adopt Gazsby 101, which has to do with compensated how you're accounting for your compensated absences, your vacation, and your sick leave. We were required to tell you if you had any accounting estimates in your financials and you have some significant ones. The net pension liability, the OPED, your
046state receivable, um some of your your depreciation on assets, um and those types of things. We do look at how you prepare those estimates and um we agreed with the assumptions that you used. Again, they're estimates they could change. We're required to tell you if we had any difficulties, misstatements or disagreements with management during our audit and none to all three of those. So, that's good news. Um, we are required to get a letter from management saying that we got everything we needed to perform our audit. Because we haven't finished, we haven't gotten that letter, but we will get it at the at the end when we get to actually present the final report. were required to tell you if we um if your accounting department went out for like a second opinion on an
047accounting matter and as far as we know that did not happen. Um as part of our audit we do um compliance work on your public funds investment act and your investment policy and we are pleased to report that the district is in compliance with that that state act. Other than that, um there's our contact information. And I want make sure I thank Denise and her staff for getting us everything we need. We ask for a lot of information. They pull a lot of information aside from their regular regular duties that they perform. I wanted to introduce Nick. He was the manager on the job. He was actually actually here the whole time. Um he's also a graduate of St. Marcus. So, [laughter] >> any other questions? >> Thank you very much. And thank you. [clears
048throat] >> Okay. The next item is the approval of the consent agenda items. Is there a motion? >> President, can I pull item D from consent? >> Uhhuh. >> Thanks. Anybody else would like to pull anything? Not. Is there a motion to approve items A, B, C, E, and F? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Motion made by Mr. Mclofflin and seconded by Miss Kaine. >> All in favor to approve the consent agenda. Consent agenda items A, B, C, E, and F, please raise your hand. Opposed. That motion carries. 70. Also, just a note, uh we are now required to uh list every board member's individual vote when we record our minutes. So, it might be a little slower in the towing process here. So, give us a little little grace there. Um all right.
049So, agenda item 78 D, the consider approval of localized board policy update 126. Is there a motion to approve? Miss Kane makes a motion. I'll second. >> Seconded by Miss Vapondo. Any questions or discussion on this? >> I mean, just as a matter of record that I continue to not like the way we do this, but I did not, as much as I tried, have time to make it [music] through all 1500 pages. So, I'm going to abstain. >> Thanks. And so to clarify, you're abstaining in part because the process by which TASBY pushes policies down to us that we don't really have a say in. We just have to adopt under the guise of approving. Is that >> Yes, we've had that discussion before. So I I think we do have a say. We
050could just not do it. But I understand that's not how 6,000 [music] school boards across Texas do it. So I'm kind of shaking my uh hand at the sun and abstaining. >> Understood. Any other questions, comments? Miss Kane? Um, I'm Thank you for removing this, Mr. Mclofflin. Um, I was just going to ask that we get a quick summary, like a 30 second Why do we have 1500 pages of things that we're approving just for the public to know that that happened. >> So, following the legislative session, we have many policies that are required under the different Senate bills and House bills um that changed our local policy. And so while legal you are not approving it automatically goes into effect. Our local policies dictate the way that we operate and those do need your
051local governance and approval. TASBY's recommendation while a lot of policies it's their um guidance on what you all should do as a local board. >> Any other questions, comments? All in favor of approving item D, please raise your hand. All opposed. That vote is 61. The next is items for agenda. Uh the first one is to consider a resolution to vote for candidates for the board of directors of the Cwell County Appraisal District 2026 2027. I'm going to take that along with consider a resolution to vote for candidates for the board of directors for the Guadalupe Appraisal District 2026 2029 term. Uh, it's my understanding that we do not have any nominations for either of those positions. Would anybody like to nominate anybody for either of those positions? Seeing none, we'll move to item three,
052which is consider a resolution to vote for candidates for the board of directors for the Hayes Central Appraisal District for the 2026 2029 term. So, in this seat, we have currently appointed Joe Castillo. Uh, he is in the midst of serving his term. This term does not end until December 31st, 2027. There are two other opportunities for two other seats on that board that are open. And the candidates who are running for them are Jeffrey Alstock of Dripping Spring ISD. Mark Jones uh from Hayescd is currently serving a term that runs to the end of and Nora Puente Hayes CISD. Uh there's a new candidate running whose name is Andrea Justice. Um and so we can vote for one, two, or zero of these people. We have 250 votes to to to use. Mr. Eerado.
053>> Uh thank you, President Hollyy. I would just like clarification from staff [clears throat] on on this process. At least individually, I am comfortable casting ballots for former Hayes County Commissioner Mark Jones, who I know is one of the listed candidates that we can cast our votes for. So, I just wanted additional clarification that I could make an individual motion to just cast votes for one candidate versus naming several this evening. Correct. Okay. Well, then in that case, I'd like to make a motion that we cast our ballots for Mr. Mark Jones. >> Second. >> Okay. And I have a question on that. So if his term is up in 2027, why are we casting votes for him and not for Mr. Castillo? >> That's what this says. Mr. Jones will be there through 2020.
054>> It's not his turn to run. >> Okay. >> I think they stagger. >> Okay. >> Got it. Okay. A motion made to cast all 250 votes for Mark Jones and seconded. Any questions? [cough and laughter] All in favor of that motion, please raise your hand. That vote is 70. The next item is the consideration of possible action regarding procedures policy, EFB local updates and SLAC bylaws, procedures and collection development policy. President Hollyy, I see that we are discussing this in our closed session. Should we move actually voting on it until after that? >> Well, I think we're just giving you an update on what we're going to be doing with the slack. Once you vote, we'll >> kind of run you through that. >> Then I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. Motion made
055a motion seconded. Any questions? All in favor, please raise your hand. That motion carries 70. Next item under operations, consider approval of the city of San Marcus detention water quality inspection access easement at Doris Miller Middle School. >> Move to approve the access. I'll second. >> Motion made and seconded. Are there any questions? All in favor, please raise your hand. That motion also carries 70. Next item under procurement consideration and possible action regarding resolution authorizing the transfer of a surplus bus to the city of San Marcus for the fire department pursuant to a public purpose including possible delegation of authority to superintendent designate to finalize a bill of sale to effectuate the sale. Any question or motion? Is there a motion to approve? Motion made by Miss Kaine. >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Mr.
056Arerodondo. Any questions? Seeing none, all in favor, please raise your hand. Opposed. That motion is 70. The next item is consideration and possible action regarding the approval of selected vendors for purchase of furniture at Mendes Elementary School replacement campus. Is there a motion to approve? >> Miss Vondo second. Miss Kaine. Any questions on this item? Mr. Mr. Mclofflin, >> uh, how I don't know to whom this goes, but how were these six vendors selected? >> So, we had a committee uh that was put together consisted of operations department, business department, and the campus team. Uh we looked at different qualities uh such as experience with other districts in our area, other um public school districts, uh experience working with our district previously, uh delivery and installation process, and um just overall what um makes our
057company kind of different from others. And we met with all six of these companies. Um we are actually considering just two of them to move forward with um because this would entail uh not only classroom spaces but also common areas, cafeteria spaces, library and administrative offices. So we would like to move forward with both uh JR Inc. and Office Depot business solutions. >> And JR Inc. do you can you tell me more? Are they a Texas company or tell me a little bit more? >> Yes, I'll I'll and if Mr. Sand needs to chime in. Jerry Inc. um has been involved in just about every um campus project uh over the last several years within our district. Um they've done a lot of our administrative areas and uh you know they've um consistently have been
058uh great in in the work that they've done, the products that they've had, the timeliness and so we felt very confident u with continuing to work with that company and Mr. Understandable. I don't know if there's Okay. Um, so that that was um one of the reasons why we decided to to want to move forward with JR Inc. >> Thanks for the explanation. Any further questions? >> Any other questions? All in favor, please raise your hand. That motion carries 70. Thank you very much, Mr. Alvarez. The next item is finance. Consider the approval of the 2025 2026 budget amendments. Miss Garcia. So we have three amendments uh tonight to bring forward. Uh the first amendment is the salary uh increase allocations for some service credit adjustments. Um the second is high schools wanting to move
059some money from function to function. Those are already budgeted monies. Uh this is uh for technology devices in the classroom. And then also some money from function 13 to 36 to support uh the drama department. Uh the final amendment I believe we can go ahead and remove. Uh we got word today that community action is back up and running. So uh we will not have to fund these uh positions. >> I'll move to approve budget amendment 2607 and 2608. >> Motion made by Mr. Mclofflin. Seconded by Mr. Ardondo. Are there any other questions? All in favor, please raise your hand. That motion carries 70. Thank you. >> Thank you. And the next item is uh to move into close session is authorized by section 551.071551.074 5551.129 and 551.076 of the Texas Government Code. Is there
060a motion to move into >> I'll move to move into close session. >> Second. Motion made and seconded. All in favor, please raise your hand. Thank you. I guess you're asking All right, we're reconvening uh in public forum. It is 7:38. The board is reconvening from close section. There is no action to take. I will take a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion made by Miss Viaondo, seconded by Miss Lopez. All in favor, please raise your hand. That motion also carries 70. Thank you everybody. Have a wonderful holiday and thank you for all of your hard