001Hey, it is 5 o'clock on September 15th. I call this meeting of the Santa Fe Independent School District to order. Let the record show a core of board members present. The meeting has been duly called. This notice has been posted in accordance with the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code Chapter 551. And board members now adjourn to executive session as authorized by the Texas Open Meeting Act, Texas Government Code section 551.001. 001 concerning any and all purposes permitted by the act. Should any final action, final decision or final vote be required, that final action, final decision and final vote shall take place in open session. And we are now in executive session. I'd like to welcome each of you to the meeting of the Santa Fe ISD Board of Trustees. Believe it's important this
002meeting be conducted in an organized and civilized manner and an efficient manner and would like to outline a few ground rules for all of us to follow during the course of the evening. First and foremost recognize this is a board's meeting. By law, most of the discussion, all of the voting must be done in open session, but public participation by necessity must be limited to the part of agenda that is reserved for public input. Uh, occasionally you may see a board member seek comment or clarification from an administrator in attendance or even ask a question of someone in the audience. It's a board's prerogative to seek that information as it chooses. However, unsolicited participation from the audience inappropriate. Secondly, just want you to know at times it seems like we're voting on issues of importance
003with little or even no discussion. Just be advised that board members get a packet of all the background information several days in advance coming here for tonight's meeting. And we often uh exercise the opportunity to talk to the administrators or ask questions specifically about those items that we are expected to vote on. Thank you for being interested in your school district as witnessed by your presence here tonight and encourage your active participation in the educational process of the children. Appreciate your cooperation in helping us conduct the meeting tonight and hope you enjoy the evening. All right, Mr. Davenport, would you lead us uh in the invocation and pledges, please? >> Yes, Lucky. Do you mind leading us in the invocation and pledges? >> Thank you. Father in heaven, we thank you for allowing us into
004your presence this evening, Father. And we ask for our needs as you told us that we must come to you for. And we begin, Father, by asking for your wisdom for the members of this board. Father, we ask for safety for the children, educators, and uh staff of this school. Father, we ask that uh we would you would use this fac this facility and these people, Father, to teach our children to to grow them up to be good students, good uh citizens. And we ask these things in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. >> Please stand for the pledge. >> Pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag algiance
005to thee Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you, sir. >> Okay. Do we have any action from our close session tonight, >> Mr. President? We do not. Alrighty, Jenny. Do we have any recognitions for tonight? [Music] We're going to start our recognition this evening by inviting Gina Welsh up and she is going to recognize the Maguire family. >> You're welcome. Okay, thank you so much. >> Good evening everyone. So, I normally like to kind of talk off script, but I want to make sure to cover everything. So, the Santa Fe, Texas Education Foundation is deeply grateful to Meuire Injury Law Group, Clint, Natalie, Jeff, and Amanda Maguire for giving back to their alma mater in such a powerful way and where their children continue to grow and thrive. Their generosity provided
006two $10,000 checks, one to honor our elementary teacher of the year, Mrs. Bose, and one to honor our secondary teacher of the year, Mrs. Madden. In addition, they surprised 10 lucky teachers with $500 gift cards to help build their classrooms at the start of this year. These are such remarkable ways of celebrating where their success began by reinvesting in today's teachers and classrooms. We are honored to have facilitated these incredible investments in our educators and to show our heartfelt appreciation. The foundation would like to present a small gift to the Maguiars and McGuire Injury Law Group. Thank you for making a difference in your hometown and supporting our future generations. So, if I could call y'all up, please, if you all want to hang this at your office or however you like to do that.
007>> I love it. >> Awesome. >> And then what we'll do is we'll get them to go stand in front of the board. >> Absolutely. Yes. Absolutely. So, if y'all will stand in front of the board. [Applause] All right. Make sure I can see everybody's head. >> Okay. One, two, three. Keep smiling. All right. Make sure your eyes weren't closed. >> Perfect. Good. >> Thank you. Thank y'all very much. >> Talking about you, by the way. >> Thank you very dear. >> Pleasure. >> Thanks, Amanda. >> Appreciate you so much. >> Thank you guys so much. We appreciate it. >> That was better. >> Thank you. >> Next, the district would like to announce the proclamations that we will be celebrating during the month of October. Bullying Prevention Month, National Principal Month, National Physical Therapy
008Month, Fire Prevention Week, National School Lunch Week, School Bus Safety Week, Red Ribbon Week. Try to say that fast. Texas Education Human Resources Day, Unity Day, and School Custodian Appreciation Day. So, if y'all don't think there's enough going on in October, just email me. At this time, we would like to recognize our employees of the month. If you are in attendance this evening, please join me at the podium as I call your name. From Barnett, we have Brendan Polalmo [Applause] from Kubichek. Delisa Dyson from Wulm. Jana Butler from junior high. Katherine Neighbors from high school. Trinity Tuttle from ISA. Cindy Gaido. I'm pretty sure I saw this guy come from transportation. Steve Higgins. Yay. From maintenance and operations, Donna Folz from the custodial department, Eva Reyes. From administration, Sandra Britain. And from our police department,
009Monty Wilson. Congratulations and thank you for your service to our students and the district. And if you guys will go stand in front of the board, we'd love to get your picture. >> Congratulations. Great job. >> Perfect. Dr. Bot, will you scooch that way just a smidge? Okay. All right. One, two, three. >> All right. Good job. >> Anybody else want pictures before we let them move? Okay, >> congratial. >> Thank you guys. Go that way and you'll get your certificate. Y >> I just had the wrong name. >> Thank you. That's all our recognition this evening. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Get off easy. Okay, next on our agenda is our uh public forum. Board of trustees will hear public comment on agenda items at all open meetings in accordance with Texas Government Code
010section 551.007. Public comment on non-aggenda items will be heard at the regularly scheduled board meetings in April, August, and December per our board policy. And we have no one signed up for tonight. So, we will now move on to our information items. >> Yes, sir. Mr. Wheeler is going to give us a brief update on uh facilities. >> Good evening, everyone. Uh quick update on our facilities. Uh we are wrapping up the last part of the Kubichek annex uh re-roof. The roof has been completed, but we have a crew out today. Um, one of the one of the additions that we decided to go with was replacing the entire eaves of the Kubach annex. So, that was the last piece that was added on at the end and today it was uh starting to be
011painted to match the rest of it. So, the crew should finish up tomorrow at Kubachek. Uh, we did receive the last of the um approved uh engineering material for the uh maintenance and operations warehouse. So, that job is going to start momentarily as soon as the engineers give us the go-ahhead. Um, if you're uh most of everybody was aware that the high school did lose power last Friday. It was a centerpoint uh issue. Was not on our uh side. Our generator did kick on. Uh but one of our 4,000 amp automatic transfer switch did fail to engage. The 3000 kicked in. So, the kitchen um some supplemental areas had lights, but the main the rest of the building uh was without lights until we went down there to manually flip that switch was about 6
012and a half, 7 minutes after the maybe about 10 minutes after the power went out. Um once once we flipped the switch, we were back on utility power within about 25 minutes. Centerpoint um was replacing poles as normal maintenance and one of them just happened to blow when they put it on there. So, I have uh our uh generator service provider that does our semiannuals and our and our annuals coming out to look at our 4,000 amp switch gear to make sure that it has no issues. Uh we did do load testing. We do load testing every July. So, this was just done and everything passed. So, we're going to look into it a little bit more and figure out why it didn't transfer over. >> Did it transfer back when they re-energized? >> Yes,
013sir. As soon as the As soon as it went back on utility power, both of them switched back like they should. So, for some reason, it's having an issue. And I don't know if you remember convocation two years ago when it kind of got dark and we were working in the rain. Uh, it was the same gear that did it then, but then it didn't do it. It's so it's intermittently happening. It might be something that I I just need to replace the entire gear. >> That absolutely slick 50 a long way. >> Refresh my memory from all the doings when we got that generator to begin with. Is there any shared costs on any of that maintenance with the county or anything or >> No, sir. As soon as the general land office put
014the put it in place, it's 100% ours. Even though in the event of emergency, the uh G County Emergency Management takes over, it's 100% our cost on everything, fuel, maintenance, everything. >> And we're still way ahead on that one. >> Yes, sir. >> Absolutely. And we'll be for for decades. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> That's all I have for facilities. If anybody has any questions. >> Yeah, I have some more questions. >> Yes, sir. Uh in in terms of why it failed, we still don't know why the uh the generator switches failed. >> One switch did fail yesterday. Just so so the there are two services there. 7,000 amps total. So we have it broken down into a 30,000 automatic transfer switch and a and a 4,000 amp. Yeah. >> Uh the 4,000 amp
015did not switch over. Um I >> I don't know why it didn't. I'm going to like I said, I have the generator uh Sol Gen Solutions comes out. They do our our inspections and they're going to come out this week and figure out what happened and see if they can determine why. >> Okay. >> But if they can't determine why, >> they're going to drive they're going to drive down to a root cause of why it happened. >> Yes, sir. They'll open the entire gear they'll open the entire ATS up. Um and what we'll try to do uh I won't be able to load test it until So, I'm going to plan to load test uh the building again uh when I don't when we have students out. Not next Monday, but the Monday after
016when we have a student holiday. Yeah. I'm going to try to load test it. If if we have the ability to do it that day, I'll work with the principal and if she gives me the okay, then we're going to load test it again to make sure that 4,000 amp switches over like it should. >> Okay. U appreciate the information on Kubach on the on the roof. Yes, sir. >> What uh what is the condition of the high school and the junior high? Uh currently, I'm talking about the roof. >> The roof. So um in 2019 we we did re-roof the junior high, the gym and the administration building. Uh so those roofs are 20 25 year roofs. Uh the high school original construction of the high school. Yeah. >> The fieldhouse uh all press
017boxes are original to the construction high school being 2000 uh 99 really when that roof went on at 2000 time frame. And then the the fieldhouse and other areas are 2003. Um they are gravel ballast roofs. Um they're not we don't have any failure that's happening in say the field of the roof itself but we are starting to have major failure when we where we have through wall flashing and actual flashing on vents open airs and uh just the uh parapits. So that's where I'm I'm finding a lot of our leaks that are happening around roof drains around uh parapit walls and then through wall flashing. Uh, does that require a new roof or what is what was the life expectancy on that roof? >> Life expectancy of that roof was a 20-year roof. So,
0182020 we are ready for a new roof. And that's one thing that that we have that we definitely need to replace that along with the Kubach original um the original construction of Kubichek. Although that roof that's on it is not an original. It was probably re-roofed sometime in the 90s. Um, I have no data on that roof, but it is a gravel ballast roof. Um, still the same condition of the high school. It's holding up, but it does have issues where we have routine roof leaks that are just failing in the field itself because that roof is sub is significantly older than the high school roof. >> Yeah, that Kubichek was there when I was in the fifth grade. So, >> Yes, sir. >> That's that's how old it is. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh,
019no, I really appreciate the information. Thank you. >> Absolutely. >> Anything else for Mr. Wheeler? >> No, sir. Thanks, sir. >> Thank you very much. >> That's all I have. >> All right. Next, we will move into our consent agenda. >> This is pretty standard with our minutes and accounts payable. We've got a budget amendment and uh the proclamations from Miss Davenport. >> Mr. President, like to make a motion that we approve all items under consent agenda 10.02 through 10.11. >> Second. >> Okay. It has been moved and seconded that we approve the consent agendas presented to us. Uh any other questions or comments? Not. Would you cast your vote, please? It is passed. Thank you very much. Okay, we will move into our regular agenda. And Dr. Bot, you have the first item. You
020want to present the board goals? >> Yes, sir. the the the main board goals uh again continue to be a reflection of what the school board and the community of Santa Fe want to make sure our priorities for our students and and and for the community. Those main goals have not changed, but we did talk about putting some more actionable goal actionable sub goals underneath each one of those main goals. And so those are listed listed for you. They will uh be put on the website designed to be more of a living document as the needs of our kids change. So potentially our sub goals change and we we wanted to make sure that we had something that we could kind of track and monitor. And so under safety, you have uh some sub goals
021specific to achieving uh success on our safety audits and addressing not just uh the physical safety but also the the behavioral and and and mental health needs of our students. Under achievement, you see some some measurable growth sub goals specifically in our core content areas, but also addressing the soft skills, the character education, the CT programming in our district for culture. You're you're seeing sub goals specific to communication internal and external, but also providing opportunities for our parents and stakeholders to to come and participate and be a part of our school district. For the recruitment goal, you've got an onboarding plan specific to new hires. How can we recruit, retain, and make sure they feel connected and valued, but also prioritizing the benefits of our employees so that our employees know we care about them.
022We want to find ways to make sure that we're we're helping them feel valued in our school district and providing as as as much as possible the most positive experience for them and the resources in the in the past has largely been surrounded around uh financial integrity. And that's still as a as part of our main goal, but we also want to make sure we're honoring the Santa Fe taxpayer. And so we have some sub goals in there specific to that. And just want to thank the board for uh just filling out the surveys and giving us good feedback to make sure we're representing our staff and our students and our community as best we can. Thank you, sir. >> I appreciate that. I I think it looks really good. >> Mr. President, I move
023that we adopt the board goals for 2025 2026 as so eloquently presented. >> Okay. Okay, it's been moved and seconded that we approve the 2526 board goals. So, any other questions or comments? Now, would you cast your votes, please? And it has passed. Thank you. >> I do. >> Do what? Okay. Next we have uh our young nutrition services and Sheree gets to do what she does best. >> Hi. Um I'm asking you this evening to approve uh or self-certify the microurchase threshold for Yum Nutrition Services at $49,999. Um the we started doing this about three years ago. I have to bring it to the board annually for approval. It just um gives us a little leeway if um a major piece of equipment breaks and we're not having to do a formal formal RFP
024for for um an emergency purchase. It doesn't mean if you approve it that I'm going to go out tomorrow and start buying things for $49.99. I'm not doing that. But this just um gives us a little bit of wiggle room. gives you flexibility within a budget that's already been approved. >> Thank you. You You said that much more eloquently than I did. >> There's that word again. >> Mr. President, I move we approve the micro purchase threshold for Yum Nutrition Services at $49,999. >> Second. >> Okay. It's been moved and seconded that we approve the microp purchase threshold for Yum. Any other questions or comments? You cast your votes, please. >> Thank you. I do have a quick question. How did we arrive at 49999? TDA um dictates it. >> Ah, okay. >> The the
025number's 50,000, but for some reason I can only ask you to hit $499.99. >> She left the 99 cents off there. >> And 99 cents. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, next we have uh some cyber security software we need to talk about. Mr. Sanchez, >> I guess everyone saw that another school district in Texas just got hit with >> multiple school districts. Yes, sir. >> Recently that >> Well, good evening. Um, I I don't know how I got the short end of the stick for the next two items. Um, but I'm here. Um, so as you guys are aware, in light of recent events, the district is recommending the purchase of additional cyber security software to create a more robust security infrastructure within the district. This software will add
026support to our current systems in the prevention of any cyber attacks in the future, including ransomware attacks. In the everanging cyber world, the use of updated technology with AI integrated systems allow for greater protection and aroundthe-clock system surveillance. This new software will add additional defenses to detect anomalies in our system and prevent and deter attacks while alerting our IT staff to these anomalies for further study to increase our protection. So, we are asking the board to consider and approve the purchase of cyber security from Houseion in the amount not to exceed $37,730 >> in in a very like specific non-technological way. Can you just tell me what this does that we don't already do? >> Absolutely. So um basically what this software does is in the background it works with AI technology to review the
027patterns of the district um when it comes to data filing within our network and our um server and then it starts trying to figure out if there's any potential attacks or anything. And once it starts or reviews anything that starts happening that becomes anomalous or starts uh making some changes within the the software that's not um usual it it'll then stop that or try to alert us of that potential happening. Okay. Now, it also encrypts. Well, not encrypts. It actually works on the back end to try and review any additional files that get added into the system in case data gets encrypted. They're able to access that data and be able to revert it back without the use of any type of uh additional u decryption from either a thread actor or uh um additional
028third parties. >> Did that make any sense? So, kind of like we have kids that have that look on their face like they're up to something, but they haven't done anything yet. >> Yes. >> This kind of says that like really haven't done anything yet. >> Apparently takes some candy and just hides from me. >> Yeah. But it it sounds like it's tracking normal patterns looking for something that all of a sudden is abnormal. >> The outlier, >> if I'm hearing you right. >> Yes. I mean, >> that's the basic principle. >> Debit card. If you make all these local purchases and all of a sudden one shows up from Canada, they're going to call, are you in Canada? >> That's correct. And so that's the basic principle behind it. Now, it does use artificial
029intelligence to monitor that. And so it allows the information to go into their AI uh uh server and to be able to analyze it and uh uh including from other partners or other uh people they work with. that data gets analyzed from their end as well and they can prevent future attacks that may be lurking that we perhaps not be considered anomalous in our uh uh environment. >> I guess I have a follow-up question. >> Yes, sir. Do we believe that if we would have had this software that it would have prevented the cyber attack that we had? >> Um in in in in the most blunt answer, yes sir. This would have actually helped us in at least in the retrieval of the information and would have actually probably decreased the amount of downtime
030that the district would have had quite significantly. Thank you, Alex. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Any kind of a guarantee? >> That that's where I was going to go with it. >> Guarantee. Um, we cannot really guarantee any of that type environment just because of the ever changes that happen, but we can say with a lot of accuracy and certainty that it will decrease the attacks. on their part. They don't offer any kind of financial [Music] >> Cy do they offer any kind of warranty or guarantee on that. Um, from from my understanding, >> they do they have like a like an entire team assigned, you know, with um I don't want to say a guarantee because I don't think they offer a a solid guarantee, but I I would probably put like
031a 99.5% guarantee on on their product just based on the history they provided us, you know, >> with with all the folks. And so they have a team that's assigned to us should in the event that we have any type of attack on the district and our data gets encrypted, they have a team fully designated to the recovery of the data. So they us in in in speaking to the event that we had that we suffered, um we had to go through an external third party that would come here and help us investigate the situation and find out where our actual holes were to try and and and get as much information for us to patch up and and and protect in the future. They would have their team fully dedicated for that who would
032basically come in and do all that without any additional expense to the district. Let let me ask it a different way. What happens if the cyber security company has a breach on their end that they get to our data? Will they help us repair and restore even though that it's our data that's sitting on their platform? >> So, um >> the reverse way. >> Does that make sense? >> The the data will not be on their end. They're basically going to be investigating the traffic but not the data itself. >> Okay. >> Right. So, we're not going to host any type of information on their server or on any type of them, if if you may. It's on them coming into us and just kind of looking around. So, basically, if we had a security
033company walk out in the vicinity of the buildings, they can't really take anything from the inside. They're just kind of monitoring any type of anomalous activity. >> Appreciate. Is this the only thing we're doing that we didn't used to? that we didn't used to um >> for the breach >> in additional software as of right now. Yes. But that doesn't mean that we're not doing different practices. We have installed different procedures. We have increased our um security if if um our password uh resets, our um renewals and such, those have increased since the uh event. And so um that has changed. So some of the policies, some of the procedures, those changed, but not necessarily any type of additional software aside from this. >> We've we've taken a lot of recommendations from uh from the
034folks that came in and helped us with procurement and uh the insurance and we've taken a lot of those the free things that we can implement like sooner than later like the multiffactor, the uh password resets, the um the the crowd strike install across the board. We've taken all that stuff that we already have and implemented it right away. Um, especially all the firewall restrictions and the VPN restrictions. We've we've done all that stuff already. >> Without getting into too much detail, I know that avenues that potentially could have been accessed or no longer avenues that could potentially be accessed. Does that help? >> That's correct. >> Yeah. I was worried about, you know, if we're spending extra money, I was curious, you know, what >> a dollar amount is going to cause us. I
035think the number was 30 35% increase in Texas in cyber >> attacks. Yes sir. And we have seen it happen in several not not only school districts but also uh cities that have received these these type of attacks. So unfortunately it's a growing trend and u we are trying to keep our eyes open as best as we can but our technology is limited in in you know manpower. So having an additional if you may computer looking at this is is a great addition to them. So it not only looks at the background and provides them with great information you know if anything does happen that thing learns from it. >> It also takes action too. So if something does get happen isolates immediately. >> There's one more question. Do we know maybe I should know
036this already. Do we know where the breach came from? >> Not 100%. We don't. We can speculate just based on the information because they they pretty much clean slated their tracks, you know. >> Gotcha. >> On accident. So >> that's what I was trying to refer to earlier. There were only so many avenues that they could have come in and so we've tried to backtrack and eliminate any other ways they could have done that again. >> That's right. >> Cool. Mr. President, make a motion that we approve the purchase of cyber security software high in the amount not to exceed 37,730. Second. >> Okay. It's been moved and second that we approve the cyber security software. Any other questions or comments? Would you cast your votes, please? >> This pass. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Sanchez
037and Mr. Ryder had our updated concussion management protocol. >> Yes, I tried to get Coach Ryder to to volunteer himself and do this one, but um he he continuously pushed me and he's better at paper rock scissors than I am. So, I I lost. Um so, um we are bringing the 2025 2026 concussion protocol to the board for approval. Unfortunately, well, not unfortunately, um, as you know, new legislature had come up and there's a new what we call Natasha's law which now requires any school district um to approve the concussion protocol for every district or for the district every year. Okay. Um, this includes who the concussion team will be, how they will be managed, and the type of actions that will be taken by them and by the school district itself. Okay. Um, we
038have board policy that requires our coaches, requires our trainers to be trained under the newest concussion rules and laws and uh um identifying methods or whatnot um every year. However, this concussion protocol is a little bit more specific as to the actual process that needs to be done. Um, so with that, we would like the board to consider and approve the concussion management protocol. It is, I believe, about eight pages long. Um, has really great information about concussions. Um, and um, if you have any questions, I'm going to let coach Ryder here answer everything that you can possibly imagine. And >> coach, did you want to say anything? >> Just make it up. Ask them. Make >> you want me to, Dr. So you were already doing a lot of these things. It was inevitable
039this was coming. It started in professional sports. It's hit the college level and it knew it was just a matter of time it was going to make it to public schools and everything else. There's one thing that stood out when I read this that and I've got it highlight. It was highlighted right here that unrestricted return to a sport will not happen before unrestricted return to learn. And I think, you know, so many times people think that we do stuff to cater to athletes and this that and the other, but this shows that the the thought is with the student and if they're not able to go to school, they're certainly not going to be able to participate in one of our extracurricular activities. So, >> right. And and there is at least a three-day
040minimum. So even if they are able to return to school for learning, they have to wait at least 72 hours before the process can actually be um um you know that they can actually begin to play after that. So um it's pretty interesting. It does help our students um and it protects them from any type of you know uh future damage if you may. And you know we we our kids really love playing football and um it has been mentioned before they have a lot of grit. Um so sometimes they will go a little bit harder than they should and you know with this at least we can blame it on the state and not on anybody else. >> Any other questions for us? >> Yeah. So it says here a bump, blow, sudden stop
041or jolt. >> Yeah. I mean, h what what how do you determine a kid has a concussion >> or maybe it's not you when you know >> I mean that's why you have to train staff, you know, at every athletic event, but you just have to trust the kid. You know, a concussion isn't like a broke leg or a broke arm, you know, you just have to trust the kid whenever they say that their head hurts. I mean, you can obviously see, you know, and and we have we have trainings that through UIL that every coach has to go through trainings every year on what to look for and what the symptoms are, you know, blurred vision, dizziness, tired, uh, sensitive to light and things like that. But, you know, you have to to trust
042the kid and then go through the go through the protocol and then even after they're cleared from the doctor and from the trainer, they still have a protocol to get cleared to the trainer. So there's no test that like you can do. I mean just for example like a pupil test or nothing. I mean there's nothing that that the medical professionals can do on site because you know as well as I know football players are not going to come in I need to be out man. My head hurts. They're not going to do that. I mean you majority of the time >> there is a tool um but it's done by medical professionals only. So um I believe in this case our trainer from the methodist is trained on that particular uh tool. And so
043they will use that. Um, coaches can use their their knowledge and the ones that they have been trained with, but the specific tool has to be used by a medical professional. So coach wouldn't be able to diagnose an actual uh concussion because of the type of training that's required for for them to do that. Now, obviously, he's seen plenty of concussions. So, he'll know, okay, >> this probably needs to be >> taken outside and let's take care of that. But um the specific tool we use which is the seat6 um is is medical professional use only. >> So a really bad hit happens on the field. I mean when they come off, do you ask them anything or do you just wait for >> the trainer and the team doctor pull them aside and talk
044to them right away? No matter if the kid says anything, you know, the kid flips over, lands on his head, or leaves with his head or something, they they they pull on him aside and start talking to him. >> I was wondering because I've never seen it before, you know. I've never seen that in play, so I was just just curious. >> Not that it never happened. I'm just saying I've never, you know, I mean, I'm there's everything other things going on, so I'm not, you know, watching. >> We had we do everything we can to prevent it. We have every every JV and varsity kid in guardian capsu uh for every practice. We haven't had a concussion in a practice since we've been using those things. Sure. >> We take every preventive thing that
045we can do also as a staff. >> Coach Ryder, can you kind of explain what a guardian cap is? >> Well, uh it's a I don't Rachel, what did you say? I like your term. It's a big squishy thing that goes on the top of >> it's like a bubble wrap. >> Yeah. >> Over the squishy >> over the helmet. >> And so we we wear them at every at every practice and uh >> they're not they're not cheap, but you know, we've bought more and more over the years. And so now we have over a hundred kids in them at every practice. We wear them in the scrimmages. And then a new rule is if you do get a concussion or even if you don't get a concussion, if the guardian matches your helmet,
046so we have green helmets. If the guardian matches your helmet in high school, you can wear them in a game now. So if we have a kid coming back from a concussion protocol, then we we bought a few green guardian caps to wear on top of their helmet for when they come back for a concussion. But we all know that concussions happen in other sports other than football. You know, soccer's right up there with it. But, you know, there's not much you can do for that. But >> would you say a lot would you say yourself and your coaches are comfortable with this concussion protocol? >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you, coach. >> Anything else, >> Mr. President? I'll make a motion that we approve the updated concussion management protocol. >> Second. It's been moved
047and seconded that we approve the updated protocol. Any other questions? >> Yes, sir. >> I cast your votes, please. And it has passed. Thank you very much. >> Appreciate it. >> Okay, that is all of our regular agenda items. So, we will now move into a little bit of communication from the board if anybody has anything. Mr. Couch, you have anything you want to add? >> Uh, yeah. Um, we had our annual TASB conference uh this past weekend and I found it uh uh quite helpful. Um, and I was on the board before. I would always go to these things and look for things to come back and and and bring back. Um, I was able to attend some sessions regarding bonds and I've got some information that uh I'd like to share with some
048people whenever we uh we want to uh delve into that uh that realm. Um, also, uh, I went into a couple of social media and communication, uh, uh, uh, seminars and, uh, I can tell you this, um, the things that we're doing here at Santa Fe, uh, we're doing everything right that I can tell in terms of social media and communication. Um, I just wanted to let everyone know that uh I'm very proud of what we're doing in terms of um our social uh media and our communication, the way we do things, the things that we have uh on the internet. Um I I just think we're on top of things there. Uh the other things uh some of the other sessions I went to was the legislation. There's just a heck of a lot
049of legislation that the uh state legislation uh legislators just passed and uh um there's a whole lot coming to our our uh policy manual in terms of changes. Whoever does that is going to be really busy for a while. The other thing that I was really encouraged about uh in terms of legislation was the ten commandments. One one of the uh things that I I guess I may have heard this but I I didn't realize it but when the states pass the ten commandments um if somebody donates this we are required to uh put it up and install it in every classroom. And uh I I really like that. And uh and if they don't uh uh donate it, the school actually can go in and pay for it themselves and put them up in
050the classrooms. So I thought that was kind of neat. Uh along with that, um ever since I was on the board, I would always go to the sessions that included discussion around court cases in in school law. Um, a lot of big changes have happened in the last two or three years. And in fact, just over this summer, there was a case regarding uh some LGBTQ books in uh in a Virginia uh classroom and uh uh the parents tried to opt out and the schools wouldn't let them. This eventually made it to the Supreme Court. This past uh this past year was argued in April. decision came out in June and the parents won their case. Not only uh was the school wrong in terms of uh not letting the parents opt out, but the
051Supreme Court went one step further and said it never should have been on an opt- out basis. They insinuated it should have been on an opt-in basis that these students uh uh going through school that was exposed to a lot of these books uh it violated their uh first amendment right in terms of uh inhibiting the free exercise thereof. So that is just a huge case. And uh what I've also learned is that was talked about in some other cases is the lemon test has been thrown out uh of of the court cases. That was one of the big things that Santa Fe lost in 1999 when they went to the Supreme Court. Uh that they used the limit test which forced the schools to uh uh prove that there wasn't entanglement of religion. that
052that that force them that they had to remain neutral and there w there had to be a secular reason uh in in terms to have any any type of uh religion in the schools. Now the the the new test is uh regarding what's happened in history and what's traditional. And that's why you saw the Kennedy case in Pimton in in the Oregon where the football player um decided uh where the football coach decided to pray after the game and he won his case Supreme Court. So um there are some exciting things going on in terms of school law and religion and I it it looks like uh this country is finally turning the corner on this. So thanks Mr. Kelly, you got anything? >> Uh, no. I gotta tell you, I'm pretty happy with everything
053that happens in this school district. Only thing I do question is maybe some of our great leaders driving techniques, but other than that, thank y'all for what you do. >> Thank you for that. You're welcome. I'll have to explain that at some point now. >> Please do. Mr. grass have anything? >> Um, no. I think Mr. Kelly's said it as eloquently as possible. >> Um, but Saturday was good. I mean, I I I didn't get to go to the game, but man, I get this message and the score is just a complete blowout. And then I'm watching the&m game and then that was just unbelievable. So, man, Saturday was a good day for sports, man. But keep it rolling. >> Sir, Mr. Davenport, have anything else? >> Just the word. E adequately. >> I'm done.
054>> Eloquently. >> That's why I couldn't say it. >> I'm a numbers guy. >> Yeah. >> No, sir. I do not. >> Dr. Bot, you have anything you want to add? >> I don't even know. >> Are you eloquent? >> What to say to this group? Um, thank you all for a great start to the year. Always, as always, thank you all. Just teachers work so hard, principles and directors work so hard. Um, just always an honor to come to work. Love coming to work. Appreciate all you do. Thank you. Congratulations again to our employees of the month. Um, just real quick, I do want to say I did have to transport the board to a board training and parking garages are not always as well marked as they could be when when you're going
055the opposite direction on a oneway you went. >> So, it's never a safety issue as long as there's no cars around. >> And there was never a safety issue with the board. So, everybody's fine going out. >> Nothing happened to the vehicle. Everybody's going here. >> No safety concerns. So, there's really nothing more to discuss. >> If you're ever running short of a bus driver, he's not >> on the list. Trust me, >> that is that is not an accurate or eloquent statement. >> Yeah. >> At all. But the board has been in good hands and uh will continue to be in good hands. >> I was just glad you were able to get Patrick to put his seat belt on. >> Now, we're getting into the root. what really the issues were. But appreciate
056this board and the time and commitment they gave to come and all seven of the school board members uh attended this task. I don't think I saw any other tables there that had all seven board members. So, thank you all for all you do. >> And for those of you that are wondering, someone in conversation used the word eloquently and that just has become the buzzword. So, that's why we keep saying that word. Now, I appreciate uh everything that everyone's doing. I I really this has been a tremendous first month start of school and uh a lot of positives in the the the few things that the challenges have been handled well and um just really really proud of everyone's efforts and the way this year has just taken off and you know it seemed
057like it started way early this year for some reason. Maybe it's just because it's still so hot but um we're a month in and everything is just going really well. So very proud of everyone's efforts and uh coach athletics, all the extracurricular activities right now that are going on and everything all doing very well, off to a good start. So we're we're really we're in good shape. We just want to keep it going. So appreciate everyone's efforts with that. And with that, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. >> Okay, it's been moved and seconded we adjourn. All those in favor, please raise your hand. And we are adjourned. Thank y'all very much.