001We're going to call the meeting to order at six o'clock. Uh Dr. Ball. >> Yes. Thank you for joining us tonight. Um and Roger will lead us in the invocation of the pledge of service. >> Uh please stand if you are able. Lord, we are grateful for the opportunity to gather together, united and committed to the success of our students. May this meeting remind us that every discussion, every decision, every plan we make carries the potential to shape a young person's future. Tonight, we also lift our hearts in the spirit of hope for peace within our neighborhoods, across our state, and throughout our nation. May we find ways to bridge divides, listen to one another with compassion, and seek understanding in our own community. May we set an example of respect and unity that will
002help bring people together. May we find unity in our shared purpose and clarity in our vision to serve every child with excellence. We ask all these things through you because through you all things are possible. Amen. >> Amen. >> I pledge allegiance 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. I aliance to thee, Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. >> Okay. Uh Jenny recognitions. >> Good evening everyone. We will begin with Big Country Elementary. Would Zeta Benio please come forward? [Applause] Zayen is the first Golden Bear Buck recipient for the 2526 school year. Zayen is always doing something nice to help someone else because he cares. He earned the
003Golden Bear Buck by rushing to help a classmate when they spilled all of their supplies on the floor. His campus is very proud that he's a part of the Big Country family. Way to go, Zayen. Congratulations. Next up is Bob Hope Elementary's Osio Rodriguez. [Applause] >> He may not be here just yet, so we'll move on to McAuliff Middle School. Harlo Rodriguez, please come forward. [Applause] Harlo is student of the month because she sets a great example for what it means to be a rocket and models the rocket way in all she does. Harlo is respectful, kind, and always looking for the positive in every situation. Harlo is a member and featured vocalist in the malip mariachi dulceia allegria, an active member in the penguin project, secretary of the national junior honor society, and president
004of the junior thespians. Additionally, Harlo is a multisport athlete who currently excels in volleyball and also excels academically. We are proud to recognize Harlo for being rocket strong. [Applause] Next up is Castm High School with Yelina Oralia. Oralia. There we go. Please come forward. Elina, an 11th grade student, Elina is being celebrated for the impressive growth she has demonstrated during her time at CAST STEM. She has consistently shown a strong work ethic and a willingness to take on challenges. In the classroom, Elina is deeply committed to her studies, often going above and beyond to complete her assignments with diligence. This year, she continues to push herself academically by enrolling in dual credit classes at Paloalto College and is currently taking 10 college credit hours. Beyond academics, Yelina has a natural artistic talent. Last year, she
005entered a costume design contest and won first place. Yelina is an exceptional student and her growth has been inspiring for all. We are truly fortunate to have her as part of our school community. Congratulations. [Applause] The parents of these wonderful individuals or any family members of these individuals, will you please stand? [Applause] We're so proud of you. [Music] And now for our rising stars. Our rising stars have shown incredible growth making positive changes and improving attendance. We are confident that their hard work will continue to have a positive impact on their entire school experience at Southwest ISD. The winners are Giovanni Moreno from Resnick Middle School. [Music] We also have Abigail Bonda from Southwest High School. >> And Indian Creeks is unable to be here. That was Israel Sephoa. [Music] If the family members will
006stand. [Applause] Okay, now we have a student from Southwest Elementary being recognized for academics. Would Samuel McGrder please come forward. [Applause] We're so proud to announce that Samuel McGrder, a current fourth grade student at Southwest Elementary, has been selected as a national math star. Chosen from thousands of students across the country after a rigorous assessment of their unique abilities. Samuel will receive 10 years of support for additional educational opportunities. These include mentorship, advanced math programs, STEM, coding competitions, and more. All free to families and communities. This award is worth 100,000. Way to go, Samuel. You're showing us all what's possible with talent and your your proud [Applause] [Music] >> Yeah, we did. It's definitely about creating opportunity. [Applause] And now we have a recognition for our fine arts department. Southwest ISD has been honored with
007the best communities for music education designation from from the NM Foundation for its outstanding support and commitment to music. Now in its 26th year, the best communities for music education designation is awarded to districts that demonstrate outstanding achievement for providing music access and education to all students. Two awards are presented each year. The best communities for music education for school districts and the support music merit award for individual school sites. Both reach K12 schools and districts throughout the US and offer opportunities to increase awareness and support for music programs. To qualify for the best communities designation, Southwest answered detailed questions about funding, graduation requirements, music class participation, and instruction time for facilities and support for the music program. [Applause] It's their seventh consecutive year for this designation. >> So, congratulations. [Applause] Do we have anybody
008that signed up? >> We do not. >> Okay. Um, we're going to take a couple of minutes uh recess just so that uh if you'd like to leave, you can leave. The rest is just regular boring school business. So, feel free to uh leave. Thank you so much for coming. [Applause] Okay, we're going to go back. Uh we're going to start again. Uh next up, we have the consent agenda. Board members, you've had that. Do you have any questions? >> I move. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Any questions? Any Okay. Um all those in favor say I. I >> opposed. No. >> Thank you. Consent agenda is approved. Um, moving on to item six, items of information, uh, construction update. >> Yes, ma'am. We have Thomas. He's going to
009come up and start introducing some of the folks here. I was like, I don't know where he went. >> Good evening. Uh, yes. So, we're going to start this this evening with the new central office. So, uh, Andrew and Bob are here to go through that report. [Music] How do I just Well, it's on there. I didn't >> It's on the thing. >> Okay. Because it's different now. So, >> it's okay. Just Thank you. >> All right. Uh Dr. Ball and members of the board, good evening. My name is Andrew Bedes with RVK Architects and we're here to give you a quick update on the progress for the central office. Um so jumping right into it, these are some of the exterior renderings as you'll recall that show the finished product. Um, we are very
010nearly uh complete. I think we're about 94% as you'll see towards the end of the presentation. Um, we've got some updated drone footage that takes us around the building. And the majority of what you're going to see here is the activity involving completion of the exterior materials as well as some of the formwork for the new pavement that's going in. And so each day that passes, more and more pavement is showing up on site. And so we're getting closer and closer to being done. Uh so we'll very quickly take you around the building. Here you can see um the exterior materials are nearing completion again as mentioned. Um some of the driveways have been roughed out and then the formwork is taking place here. You can actually see some of the sidewalks leading to the
011building that have been poured and are being poured. You can see one of the driveways that's been poured adjacent to the uh building right here as well. Going back around then, um, more of the exterior masonry finishes. And then leading back around to the front when we get into some more of the context for the actual building finishes, we've got the uh, SWISD and the shield up um, for the the front signage. And I believe we've confirmed that we have some additional signage that'll be installed on the building as well. So, I know that that came up during subcommittee. So, we did confirm that. Um, going around the corner here, you can see some of the pavement that's been poured for the driveways here. So, we've got concrete pavement going in. When we get inside
012the building, you can see the decorative light fixture that's been installed in the foyer area. So, a couple of good shots of that there. We know it's a a high uh important item there. Um, when you get into the business and financing curriculum and instruction areas, you can see the carpet is being installed. We're also seeing mill work installation going on, paint touch-up, so on and so forth. So again, we're getting really close to being done here. Uh this is actually the new boardroom. So you can see the mill work for the DIS that's been installed. It it's currently covered to be protected, but the countertop and everything has been installed in there. And you can see the carpet um in the back side of the boardroom as well. As far as project details, we
013again, as mentioned, we've got about 94% completion through today. Exterior work is in progress with site grading, concrete and asphalt paving, curbs, sidewalks, sealant, signage, landscape irrigation and planting and fencing is also in progress. When we move to the interior of the building, interior doors are being installed. We've got 94% of the ceramic tile, tape and floating, mill work cabinets, the elevator, mechanical equipment is in the process of having test and balance um done. We've got electrical complete, plumbing is 99% complete, fire alarm is in testing mode, and data cabling is also about 94% complete. And with that, that's everything we've got for you this evening. >> Um, can you refresh my memory? What kind of signage are we going to have? Um, besides the things that are on those banner looking things that stick
014out, what kind of signage are we going to have that says that's the central office or visitor? Is there going to be a big something? >> Right. Is that >> We don't We don't have anything finalized yet on that, >> but is it a pedestal sign or is it mounted onto the building? >> We don't have Yeah, we don't have anything final. >> Finalizing it, you didn't mean the central office because that's what I had asked about. >> Right. It was our understanding that there was some additional building signage, I think. But I guess the question is if it's on a pedestal or if it's actually mounted to the building. So I think >> yeah we don't have anything okay anything further than what we right now. >> I understand. Okay. So a little bit
015more investigation >> packages finaliz. >> Okay. Apologies. I didn't >> So we're working on a signage package. >> We do have all you know of course all the interior signage and stuff yet. >> Okay. Noted. >> Okay. Thank you. Any other questions guys? No. Okay, thank you. >> Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> So everybody knows the furniture is still scheduled for to come in on October 20th start several weeks after that. So we're looking at >> right now we're looking at a new date sometime in December staff January probably. >> Okay. >> Next we have Wald Elementary. So, we have Casey, Chris, Paul, and Dustin. They're all here. >> Good evening everyone. Um, I'm Casey Anunzio with Huckabe Paul with Marksman >> and Dustin with Mark. >> We wanted to give you a
016quick update to how things are going at the Creold School of the Arts. seeing a lot of progress. Just a reminder of what the front entry will look like when that work is complete and the new character of the building. Uh we have a phasing plan here that kind of really describes the kind of work that's going on and what we'll be starting here soon. I don't know Paul if you want to say a few words to this phasing plan. >> Yeah. So for the phasing right now we're finished the library and we're currently working in phase four right now which will completion date of December 12th and we will be moving into phase five and then everything will be next summer. next summer and the exterior in the front. >> Yeah, everything. >> Okay.
017So, current activities right now in the library, me trimouts being performed. We've got mill work going in on the bench seat in the library. New bookshelf uh tops will be installed tomorrow. Uh flooring begins in phase four. That is the classroom area, the dance hall, and the corridor on 9:18. We have a a pre-final for fire is scheduled for next week on 9:24. Uh door frames and window frames are going in. Uh damaged sheetrock due to mold and wallpaper is being replaced. That's an ongoing thing. Starting to look really good uh in the building where that's being done. New framing of the restrooms and storage in the dance studios complete. Tape and floating. New water lines being installed installed. electrical roughens uh are completed currently and ceiling grid install will begin on 9:29. So the
018photos you're about to see are of the library area that's coming along very nicely. The finishes are going in. We're really starting to see that concept take shape. It's very very uh exciting. And so here are photos of what those clouds are looking like at the ceiling and the tree as you enter the library. We also have the mill work going in and the countertops. It's a waterfall countertop on the side. Um we're starting to see that area for um book checkout and um for the person that's you know the librarian to stand and assist students. We're also seeing the shelving going in. More shelving. What you see taped up in black are the windows to the corridors being protected. And then the picture to the right's just a little more uh distance showing what
019that tree and clouds are starting to look like in the library for the elementary school students. And then this is just a rendering to kind of remind everybody what that will look like when it's fully complete. And you'll see you'll recognize obviously the the uh tree and how that mill work will start to look like a tree trunk. And then when all of the furniture goes in, this is the result. Any questions about that area before I move on? >> Uh, you said you had replaced sheetrock for mold. >> So that's part of it. So there's a vinyl that was in all our elementary campuses. It's like a vinyl wallpaper. It tracks mildew and those materials and so tear humidity. So we placed all that went back and see paint because we feel like that
020materials it >> so mild >> to prevent mold. >> Okay. So we didn't have mold >> in the school. >> I'm just making sure because when people hear mold, I mean that's like serious. So >> we didn't have that. >> No, let the record show we have no mold at wall. >> Seriously. >> Okay. Uh phase four are the dance room and the classrooms. Um, and we are currently getting that area framed up, getting the sound insulation in, working at the ceiling, uh, getting some of the MP MEP elements in, the duct work. Um, I don't know guys if you want to talk through these pictures a little bit. >> Yeah. So, as of right now, all of this is over. They got the sheetrock. We're taking this area. So, we don't have any of
021that shown right now. And then add the water lines coming in here. So they started having hot water now instead of just the cold water and we're running all the overhead water and all that. So like I said, this is all completed now getting taken. >> Is there additional photos? The one on the right is of the corridor and the one on the left is in um I think in one of the classrooms looking into a storage room, I believe. >> Yeah. So this is actually sitting in one of the new restrooms. is going to be accessed from the vestibule. So, this is a restroom. He's standing in the new storage room and then there's a restroom on the other side. >> And that's basically the update we have for you today on this space.
022>> Any questions? >> No. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Next up, we have Southwest Elementary. Jorge and Stephen are here presentation. Good evening. My name is Jorge Flores with Gara Bombberger and here is Steve with uh Badley Uh this is uh the Southwest Elementary School renovation project. Pacing plan. uh phase one and phase two are complete and uh currently barley is working on phase three which is almost complete. Um here we are showing uh the phase one that the the corridors and the library that is uh uh currently finished. some of the decorations on the uh tile for the restrooms that has been placed with new partitions. This is um these are the photos for the classrooms with the um accent wall painted in the same color as the corridor. And uh the main
023entrance and the toilets also they have new partitions. Uh down here is the is the uh orange corridor and the the uh workroom, teachers work room and one of the I think it's the principal's office that we also uh put a photo over there. Um we have more pictures of the finishes for phase two and uh this is uh for phase three that is not longer like that. Our is working u very hard and this a little bit ahead of the schedule. Um we have plan to do a a punch visit on October 2nd. So, it's a couple weeks from now and this area is going to be complete as well. Um, more pictures of the library. Library is complete as well. We did the punch three weeks ago and it's uh uh finished. And
024the corridor as well. This is uh one of the faces. You can see this part back here is dark and the new part is very light. You can see the difference on the lighting. the original lighting and the old lighting and that's uh basically it. We received the air conditioning equipment. So right now they are installing that and the school never went out of air conditioning but they are replacing the air conditioning now. All the structure has been reforced to receive the new air conditioning which is heavier than the original one. So we are almost done. Any questions? >> Any questions? >> No. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> Next we have Homem Creek Elementary. Lawrence Casey, you're here. [Music] Good evening. Thank you for your time tonight. Like to present an update
025for uh Elm Creek Elementary School renovations. I'm here with Joyce Casey. Um so we are currently in phase three. Phase one and phase 2 have been completed. To date, we're at approximately 41 to 42% of the overall project complete. For this phase three, we're about 25 to 30% complete. So, part of this work includes the library, offices, classrooms, toilet rooms, and corridors. So, on the left, you can see an image of the library. This was taken last week. All of the demolition in this phase has been completed. Uh you can see that we're currently working on the spray foam insulation on the ceiling to help with acoustics. We have HVAC duct work and electrical work and plumbing ongoing. We also have metal stud framing, drywall and door frames being installed. This corridor on the right
026is adjacent to the library. You can see that the backer board for the ceramic tile is installed, the drywall as well as the door frames. So on the left we have a good example of the status of the typical classrooms. So we have the drywall up. Additionally, same status of the mechanical work, have the duct work pretty far along. Um additional materials also being stored on site. Here on the right you can see some of the plumbing work going on. So Joris has um had quite a bit of extensive excavation. So cutting the concrete slab, getting the dirt out, getting the new plumbing lines. We've had some minor adjustments to our plumbing fixtures. So, um they've done really well on maintaining the schedule and they are shooting for a believe early December, first second week
027December completion to allow time uh to get in before the end of the year. Any questions for us tonight? >> No. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. Now we have the one Alto Elementary is here with Travis. Everybody likes to see you Travis. [Music] Good evening. Um, very happy to be here today and present the construction update for Albano Elementary School. Uh you guys have seen the site plan and the floor plan so you're familiar with the layout. Uh progress summary. Uh earlier on all we had was construction or concrete and and some steel. We were happy to see steel and you know there was some piping and whatnot going on. As you can see now there are a lot more trades that are coming on board. So, we have uh um drywall and uh
028metal stud framing and CMU and a lot of the things going on, sprinkler pipe, HVAC, duct work, and such. You'll see all that in the photos. So, uh this photo was last uh board meeting and this is what you would see today or more recent. Um this is the uh library canopy that you see in the renderings. So quite uh presence and as you can see uh earlier on we only had or this was the extent from the last meeting and you can see now the set the twotory portion of the building extends all the way to the end of the uh classroom wing. Looking at the interior of the space, you can see uh like I mentioned framing uh piping, sprinkler piping. Uh the interior of the gym is CMU is already um uh
029considerable amount of CMU has been installed and uh looking at the twotory portion, you can see stairways and decking in place and uh this week uh concrete was poured on the decking. We're still on track to be complete uh May 2026 and see if we can get this to work. Little drone video kind of see a dynamic u progress. Any questions? It's a lot of progress since the last meeting. >> Looks awesome. You have any questions? >> Travis is doing a great job over there. >> He is absolutely >> still early. I agree. >> No questions. Okay. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Last night we have Raphael, Raul, and Zach are here for the Legacy High School edition. Good evening everybody. >> Good evening, >> Mr. President, Dr. Ball, members of the board. Uh
030for us, it's going to be a very quick uh presentation based on where we are on the on the on the project. Right now through the last pay application that was submitted uh through the end of August, we're at about 14%. So, we're still very early in the project. Uh we didn't include a lot of photographs based on the work that's out there. Uh they pretty much have completed the foundation uh recently. So the they're the they're ready for steel. Uh we have been saying that by the end of the month we were going to be receiving steel, but it actually made it to the site. So they it's ready on site and it should be beginning here in the I guess this coming week they're going to start to sort out all the material
031on site and then for the following one they'll start to erect is the plan. Uh so that that was a good news that we got today. Um, see, one of the things that we're coordinating with with Joris at the moment is going to be what probably one of the tedious items that we have on the project is where we get to do a lot of the controls on the on the existing campus and also also the fire alarm system. And the the intentions there is going to be to replace the system and replace the control controls throughout the whole campus and this is trying to do it while the school is active so we don't interfere with the activities. Uh, so right now they're kind of working on the schedule for that and we'll come
032back later and present that as far as how they're going to phase that work because the intention is to do it. By the time we turn over the building back to you all, everything's complete and it's ready to go. But that's going to be probably the the most tedious part. The addition we have on the side, that's going to go quick. Uh, we have faith in George that they're going to do a good job uh build it right and and build it very quickly. Um some of the photographs we have very few photos today that you've already seen through the subcommittee and and probably the report that you've seen is that the foundation is done and then this this was our our money shot for the week because a lot of the work that's happening
033right now is actually in the crawl space, right? You might not be seeing a lot of it on top. A lot of it's happening on stop because it's the systems that are that are tying into the existing system. They they do the they did the the spray insulation on the underside. Now they're doing the connections to the hydronulic piping to the connections to the electrical and that's the majority of the work that's happening underground uh before the steel comes up and then we'll move up upstairs. I mean overall the project's on schedule and on track. So I don't know if there's anything else that you want to add, Zach, that that I might have missed. Well, one thing that we did review today was the coordination of the work that's going to start at the
034canopies by the weld shop because we're adding that that canopy. So, some of that work is going to start to take place. Some uh construction fence is going to go out there so they can start some of the the peers for the for that uh for that structure up there that's going to be coming up fairly soon. >> Any questions, guys? >> No. Thank you, Raphael. >> Thank you. >> That concludes all our construction updates. Okay. All right. Moving on to monthly tax report. >> Yes. So, August is close to the end. So, we're at 98.5%. Last year, we're around 97%. So, we have a little bit another collection this month and we're hoping to end around 99 99.5% total collections. So, that's it's a good year. >> Yeah. So, >> okay. Um monthly financial
035report. Um, if y'all have questions on that, y'all can get with Brandon or Scott. Monthly investment report. They gave it to y'all. It's on in front of you. Uh, any questions on that? Um, report on gifts and bequests. That's there also. Um, enrollment report. Any questions on Stop me if you have questions on those things. Um, review purchases over 50,000. Um, okay. Moving on to item H, uh, 2025 2026, application for maximum class size exception for elementary schools. >> So, I'm going to ask for Mary Lou Hernandez to come up. Um, she's provided you each a blue folder so that you have that. Good evening, board members and Dr. Ball and senior staff. Um, this is an item information regarding class size waiverss. State law um limits kindergarten through fourth grade classes to 22 students
036per teacher. Our district of innovation plan gives us a flexibility to go up to 23 to one for that ratio. This fall, six elementary campuses have classrooms that exceed that 23 to1 ratio. Um because these classes are above both the state limit and our DOI flexibility, we have submitted six class size waiverss to TEA. Um parents of those students will be notified as required by law and we will continue to monitor class counts um and work with the different departments to see if we need reroutes or things like that um for class sizes. Um and these are the campuses right here um that we've submitted the waiverss for. They're Bob Hope Elementary, Elm Creek Elementary, Sky Harbor Elementary, Southwest Elementary, Spicewood Park Elementary, and Sun Valley Elementary. Any questions? >> No. Thank you, Megan. >>
037Thank you. >> Okay. Um, review of strategic priorities and goals. >> Yes. Myself and senior staff will be doing this and we would have a handout for you and also last year we started by developing some strategic um goals that we set together as a board and a superintendent. and we um gave an update last year in the spring and now that we have clear data we'd like to give you another update bar um just to make sure you know that you also have a one pager at your area with our strategic um priorities so you guys will remember our strategic priorities we did that in cooperation with not only a work session that we have with the board but also with multiple multiple stakeholder groups including parent groups including teacher groups in the ESAC
038including DIT and also the principal and AP groups. When we did that we created four strategic areas that we wanted to concentrate that we thought that would really bring a change to the work that we do. So our focuses were number one to retain, recruit and develop talent which is our employees area making sure that we invest in our human capital that we have. Number two would be to improve academic performance because that is how we're rated by um our success of student outcomes. Number three, optimizing fiscal and operational efficiencies and making sure that we take a look at our operations and do um and be really good servants of the money that we're investing. Number four is to foster a safe and supportive environment to ensure the culture and climate that's in this district
039is um supportive of all students and their growth. After that, we were able to come up with actual smart goals that had data behind each one. And so, we're here to present to you our results of the 2024-25. So, the first one is retain and recruit develop talent. That was under um administration and human resources. And our goal was to ensure that we had more participation and teacher and employee voices when we had surveys of how they felt about working in the district. Um, as you can see, we had it started off with 79% of employees uh did the did the survey the year before and we wanted a goal of 82%. We actually met our goal. We had 88% of all employees including every auxiliary bus driver any employee do this survey. So we
040were able to get more feedback from them. So we were able to get more voices in what we is truly a climate in the departments in the campuses so that we can make some good change to retain more people. Secondly we have um we created a plan to ensure that we had more retention of teachers. As you know there's a teacher shortage around and the longer uh we keep experienced teachers who are already trained the better investment it is. And so our goal was to move from 80% to 82. And as you were at New Teacher Academy, you saw that we had very few new teachers come in, we were able to retain, we made a goal uh of 92% and those were not counting the retirements because retire people um we we allow that.
041And the DOIs that lost their certification because they weren't able to be certified. With the people who were eligible to come back, we were at 92%. Okay. So our next goal is u priority number two improve academic performance. And so our goals were based on specific percent increases. So for goal number one we put there we did u partially meet that goal. So initially we wanted to have a 6% increase for approaches and a 5% increase for meats. uh we were able to get some um a growth increase which we celebrate that and so we're saying it's partial. We did have a 3% increase and a 1% increase. So this is why we it's a partially metal. >> Real quick, what did you say the we our goal was five and we got three >>
042for purchase the goal was 6%. >> Okay. >> And we got 3% increase. Okay. >> Or meets the goal was 5% increase and we got a 1% increase. >> 5% >> and that's >> okay. >> Now for goal number two for math uh we did not meet our goal and again the goal was set for us to move up and increase or uh approaches a 6% we did have a 3% decline and then for meats our goal was to increase also with 5% but we had a 1% decline. So we currently have a new curriculum with move on it and we're making very spec specific strategic movements for that along with a lot of training that happened during the summer and then also just uh with NIT which is our partner we are working with
043our campuses still providing training for our principles and our teachers in order for us to have a systemic change when it comes to math. And goal number three we do are a we are able to celebrate that we did meet this goal. We do not have any F campuses. So, every single campus that we did have last year, um either an F or a D, they did move up. So, we do celebrate um the campuses that move even two and three that are grades up. Uh we did have breastnake with an F and now they're in a force D with great growth. Um McColl move from a D to a C. Scopy moved from a D to a B. Ber moved from a D to a C and Ho moved from a D to a
044B. So we do a lot of hard work went into this and so we do not have any. >> How close was Resnik to the sea? >> So Resnick I believe it was two um and it was just what is a force D. It was in a very specific target area and so that's in the closing the gaps there's a specific percentages that they have to meet. So they would have been able to get that scene just because of the growth that they did have. >> Yeah. I I want to acknowledge that because Yes, >> re resnik really deserved to go from an F to a C but what I all the data I know that but um oh she's not here anymore but u congratulations to Resnick for doing that. So the celebration is
045that they have an 18% growth which is our domain number two and so we did put in a lot of work into this but there's other strategic components to this in the domain part three which is closing the gaps and that's the area that we are passing really hard to make that change. >> Did you say 18% growth? >> 18%. >> Okay. Do y'all have any questions on the academic stuff [Music] >> for the strategic um priority number three? Brandon and I share that um because they come through our pupil services department. And so our goal was to improve attendance from 91.8% to 92.8%. As you know that um this is only preliminary data. It's not the official data until it comes from the state. Right now, we are not targeted to meet that. We
046were on track to meet that up until January when the executive orders came out and then we had a a dramatic decline in attendance in particular areas and we never recovered from that. Even five days of students not coming based on something like that or um like a emergency at a campus or bad weather really produces a a one to two% less score. We did make growth in that area. So we will be um targeting attendance again as a goal for ourselves. >> Do you know how sometimes we apply for waivers for that? We couldn't do that because of the executive order. >> No waivers are very specific to emergencies, to weather, to um something that happens that is a safety issue. Um we couldn't even do it for days where um we knew that
047we were going to have emergencies in other places. So they're very very specific and targeted for that. >> Okay. >> So second part of this goal was last year we set a goal uh we had a a roughly a $13 million deficit that we adopted last year and our goal was not knowing what the state of Texas was going to do at the legislative session is that we would reduce over the next three years four million per year to get us out of our own deficit. Uh and so being at 12.9 at the end of last year adopting that budget uh this year we were able to adopt a deficit of 3.3 million which is a reduction of that of 9.5 that includes what we what happened at the state level. So we exceeded our
048goal. Our goal still would be to get to a balanced budget at this point going into next year. There is some work to do around that. at the same time trying to stay competitive with salaries but also opening up a new campus. And so there's going to be some things that we're going to talk about on what that goal should be for next year and and what the real reality of that is. So, uh, pretty proud of it. I want to thank the committee, the budget committee that was a part of it and all the staff that worked through it, uh, to get us where we are today on on the budget. And I know on on that committee that number was actually a lot closer to zero, but it was a lot of stuff
049that we had to add and that raised that number. >> Correct. We actually got to our own ourself 4 million, but then we went back and did a contribution for insurance that got us back under the 4 million, but then we were really close to doing the 4 million on our own. >> Yeah. >> Right at like right under it. Uh and then with obviously what the state did, it it's helped us narrow that gap. under the strategic uh priority number four which follows um the the fostering a safe and supportive environment. The goal number one was really that each campus adopted a behavior matrix that aligned with each other throughout the whole campus. I'm happy to report that we met that goal that each campus did provide me with their plan that those plans
050were submitted to TEA. So we met that goal by the end of the year. Um on the second goal, the goal was really to um cut down on the gap between initial referrals that were put in and how many of them actually qualified. So at the beginning of the year, we sat at about 6%. The goal was to move to about 5 point or 4.5%. We actually ended the year at 4.1%. So we met that goal for this year. >> And uh goal three, we we came up with this goal kind of mid year. Uh, and this was really for a goal for this year. And so this one's not scored based on at the when we came up with this goal last year. This was dealing with our safety audits like the door checks
051where the state comes in and checks. Uh, last year we had some campuses that did not meet that part of that goal for us. So we're we're using this for this year. And so right now we've already had three Bob Holt, Castm, and Elm Creek and they've all passed. So our goal is to have 90% of our campuses. We want 100% but 90% we feel like is attainable goal for sure uh to have all the safety audits the door checks pass and that we do everything required by law. >> Just so I know these are the surprise audits, right? >> Correct. These are the surprise audits. It's a little bit more in depth now. You have to have your door logs available and have that all ready and when they show up because you could
052fill because you don't have that. You have to have people know where those are. So, we're making sure that we're ready for those and uh and we're providing the safety that we need at our campuses. And then we have Bob Hope and Elm Creek under doing construction. >> Correct. And so it's really >> Yeah. >> And we were having some issues at Castm because they got construction going on. So all three sites are a miss. Uh so all three did wonderful. So we're proud of that. >> Awesome. >> Thank you. >> So overall, we're very proud of the successes that we've made in our strategic priorities and and everybody's on track to be able to meet and accomplish the new goals that we'll establish for this year. And so our next steps would be to
053take the data that we have and um review all of our current and trending historical data to set priorities for the 202526 school year and then establish a dashboard as you guys saw um Dodie Matics created for you so that we could monitor the data throughout the year and keep track of the trajectory of everything and then report to the board periodically on the progress toward all those established goals that we approved. >> Okay. And then the math. Um I know you said we have new uh curriculum and so you'll present a detailed plan on how y'all plan to get those numbers up. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Francis. Okay. Um moving on to administration and human resources. Uh consider the approval of the amendments to the district of innovation plan. Good evening board members,
054Dr. Ball, senior leaders. Recent legislation uh imposed or ushered in some new requirements uh for school districts throughout the state. uh and uh our current district of innovation plan has always allowed us uh some flexibility and the ability to be exempted from some of those requirements to address some of the more recent requirements. We are actually proposing several additional amendments to our current innovation plan. So if you look at page three uh we included some information about each one of these proposed amendments. If you look at page three, one of those amendments involves our current g our grievance policy. Uh this particular amendment affects mainly uh policy FNG for students and parents uh with the idea that most likely would also later on impact uh our DGBA policy for employees in the GF4 community. And
055so what the new requirement states is that uh or what it does is it actually gives parents additional time to submit grievances for any complaints that they may have. Right now, our current policy or previously our policy allowed for uh 15 days from the date of an incident that gave rise to a complaint. Uh with this new legislation, parents have up to 60 and sometimes 90 days. And so, u that's one thing that this particular requirement um uh kind of ushered in. And so, uh, another thing related to our grievance policy is the ability for, uh, complainants to actually include some additional material and documentation. And, um, in the middle of the grievance process, which in some cases, in most cases, many cases, we've actually allowed. Um what we are requesting in this particular amendment
056is that we keep our current policy or the previous policy which really limited um the uh timeline to 15 days okay from the date of an incident uh rather than 60 to 90 days. Uh the reason for that is because a lot of times when we conduct investigations regarding parent complaints we often find that a lot of the evidence that we're looking for to be able to fully consider uh a complainant's concerns is really lost or it's gone. you know, uh, video footage may not be available anymore. Uh, our, uh, people who are listed as witnesses may no longer be enrolled in the district or they may no longer be employed in the district. So, to to best be able to address a complaintant's concerns, we uh, we're really looking at keeping with the previous
057policy where we limit the timelines. So, another part of the uh the request here, the proposed amendment is that uh while DGBA complaints allow for a level four presentation to the board, our uh FNG for students and parents, that process uh allows for a level three presentation to the board. To make it consistent, we're actually um proposing that we also create a level four or allow uh a complaint to the board to go to level four even with students and parents. So >> can you say that again? >> So right now there are four levels for employees uh of the grievance process. Uh parents and students have three levels. So to be consistent across the board or across uh both policies, we're asking that there also be four levels for students and parents as well.
058>> What are the four levels? >> Uh typically the person the uh lowest level administrator will hear the level one that is filed. that could be a campus principal if it's a you if it's a parent. Level two will typically go to a department leader or somebody in central office. Uh and then after that for students and parents it goes to the board. Employees have an additional step. What it does the third step the third level for employees is a panel. So there'll be a panel of uh of leaders or individuals who will hear a level three. Uh and then level four would be the board just like for employees. >> Okay. So, we're going to establish a panel for parents. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. That's that's part of the >> So, we're
059now level four. >> Correct. >> We were level three. >> Correct. >> Okay. Now, we're level four. >> Okay. >> The um next amendment. Any questions about grievances? >> Um well, do we have to adopt this today? Is this like time sensitive? Okay. >> And so right now we can't operate. We're operating under >> Okay. And because we're a DOI, we can >> stick with what we're doing. >> Yes. some of the issues that we're really looking into and I went to the grievance um trainings that happened over conference is if you have somebody who applies for somebody who um comes up with a grievance in September, by the time you get through all of the different levels that are in this new system, sometimes the board would not hear evidence on that until April
060because of all of the dates because they get more days to write, more days to review, more days to hold on to it and by that time. If a parent has a complaint about something, we want to solve it as quickly as possible to the time in which the complaint was filed, not half a year away where they think that we've actually ignored the situation. Because something happened at the beginning of the year, most of the times with the way that our grievance policy works now, we can solve it in the fall and we could have it done in the first semester if it's a first semester issue. Right now, you're looking at people who do something in the spring won't get that resolved until the next school year. But so if I'm a parent
061and something happens at my my kids's school right now, I have 10 days to bring it to your attention. >> 15. Okay. 15 days. And then you have so many days to get back to me, right? Like 10 days or something. So the state is saying now we have the option to give the parents 60 to 90 days calendar days. >> It's not an option. They would get 60 days unless they're >> Well, it's an option for us because we're DOI. Yes. >> Okay. So, but they can still do it in 10 days and then they still have that from that 10 days we still have the whatever 15 what I remember what you said days. Yes. >> So, we're not saying that if we give them 60 days. I I don't want to be
062cut. I don't um it's it's drastic the number of days that the state is saying they should get and then we're saying no, you don't get 90 days, you only get 15. So I I want to be very clear on why we're doing it as a as opposed to making it look like we're just saying, you know, we're not being customer friendly. >> And the idea is to just bring resolution as quickly as possible. And and you know, it's not about just getting going through the process and being done with the process. Uh we've had parents who have said um who have said, you know, well, what happened? Why why aren't you able to get this evidence? Can't you pull video? Well, at this point, we can't pull video. And so, a lot of times
063that's made the situation worse because now they're thinking, oh, you just don't want to show us video. No, it's not that at all. It's just that we've lost the ability to pull video that that you know, initially we could. uh but because of timelines that would make it even more difficult to go back and get evidence, you know, get statements and things like that. You know, you've got students who may not even remember that something happened uh in a classroom or on campus. I I guess my concern is your your the example you gave Francis is that if they bring it up in April, we don't have a resolution until whatever he's like way or 90 days. But that's really only if the parent submits it way like 90 days, right? It's not it's it's
064if they submit it within five days, then of course their resolution is going to come way before the >> well the resolution part will come earlier but they're giving them longer times to actually file the next level and the next level and there's a longer period for that. So if you think about school being about 20 days of a calendar and you know between 212 days they're giving them 20 days. So, it's a month and then another month and then another month. And so, we're adding different levels to it. If people really want witness statements of either children or employees, it's very hard to get. There's a lot of times that um we'll receive a complaint about something that happened last year and they're asking us to go back and look for data and those
065witnesses that they give us a list do not remember something from six months ago, five months ago, three months ago. We're asking to be able to do a really good investigation that we work on the timeliness. As soon as a parent knows a complaint, we work as quickly as possible to get as much data as possible. But if something is brought up three months after something happens, the likelihood of finding good evidence at that time or good recall of it witness is very hard to get. >> Right. So my my argument there would be then that would be the parents for lack of a better word fault for waiting so long to submit it. But I I just worry that since the state is being so generous and then we're being more stringent or whatever
066that we're going to we're we're okay to override the state. >> Yes. So, we do have flexibility to do that. Um, other districts have already done that. I I went to the training, so other districts have done that. In addition to that, I want to make it very clear that in no time has a parent come to us or an employee come to us to give us a complaint in which we're like, you're past the deadline. We're not even going to look into it. We have always taken a complaint very seriously. And if they have a legitimate complaint, whether or not they're able to file a grievance, we take that matter and investigate it because we need to make it right or better. And sometimes we can't go to the grievance because it's not timely,
067but we can still look into the matter. >> Okay. >> We did actually have that incident happen this year >> where somebody came from something that happened last spring and we still took the time to investigate it. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Oh, you can keep going. I'm sorry. >> I'm sorry. Keep going. Okay. The um the next requirement that's been imposed on districts is the uh involves the GPA calculation. The Commissioner of Education has developed a standard method for calculating GPA. And one of the things that we're doing is seeking an exemption to actually continue using our existing and current process for calculating GPA. The concern is that if we do change at this point, we're worried that it may negatively impact uh existing students GPA. So, the next
068exemption uh would be uh would involve board approval of library materials. Um currently, the districts districts must submit proposed library uh material acquisitions to the board for approval. What we're asking for here is that we continue with our current process where district library services actually vets materials. Uh they'll continue with posting uh proposed acquisition materials uh online on our website for parent review. Uh they'll also give parents opportunities for opting out and we'll also make available checkout histories as well. So uh as well as providing an annual summary report of acquisitions. The uh the next amendment involves the appraisal and professional development system for professionals. Currently uh districts are required to appraise evaluate uh professionals annually. And so what our amendment is this what this amendment would seek is a uh change in that um
069those campuses who actually uh or let me let me rephrase that. Those employees who have actually met expectations consistently on uh A&B campuses we have the option of um evaluating them non- annually. Okay? In other words, we don't have to evaluate them every single year if they've shown that they've consistently met expectations and they're on an A or B campus. What that would do is that would allow administrators to kind of focus uh a lot of the time that is spent evaluating all employees in other areas that may be needed uh on campus. And so u that that amendment really gives us the flexibility to devote some of that time in other areas. Um what we will say here though is that uh all professionals however will be uh will still have comprehensive walkthroughs conducted
070during the school year. And for those who request maybe may not need an evaluation but request it because maybe they want to increase or achieve a higher effectiveness rating for the Texas incentive aotment then they uh they can certainly request to be evaluated so that they can achieve that higher rating. The next amendment is actually related to a previous amendment that we had in our current district of innovation plan where we look to hire people who are not certified in certain areas to fill uh hard to place uh positions. And so uh what we did is in the past we included core content areas in addition to areas like CTE librarians and so forth. And so, uh, with the recent legislation, we're no longer able to, uh, hire, uh, non-certified teachers for core content areas.
071And so, what we're doing here is kind of doing away with the previous amendment and including this amendment to remove core content teachers from that consideration and that exemption. will still be able to consider hiring uh non-certified people in the areas of CTE, librarians, um dual credit, uh and noncore content areas, but uh we do have to remove the um noncontent area um individuals uh as far as from the hiring process. So, any questions? How does that affect the people that we hire that go through the I mean I don't even know if they still have Texas teachers but say they did. Um so they sign up with that company, they take a couple of tests and then you can hire them to teach. Can we not do that now >> because they're not certified?
072>> We still can't. So there there is an ability now it'll go back to what we call a cold school method which is allowing them to get a permit. So they'll have a permit from year and so that permit is just like a certification. Okay? They hold a permitted certification with them and so it's for one year. Okay? And so it allows them the opportunity to be a teacher and to be certified. There are certain subjects that you can't get permitted in but if they have the credit hours they're able to get it. So they get a letter of eligibility from their organization. Um and then from there they're able to come into a school district. So that is still in place for that. But for the the extra additional years that we provided in
073our flexibility, we don't have that ability anymore. >> Okay. >> So at this time, we're asking that the uh board consider the approval of the amendments to our current district of innovation plan. >> I'll second. >> Okay. Do we have a motion and a second to consider the approval of the amendments to the district in innovation plan? Do we have any other questions or discussion? No. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed? No. Okay. Thank you, Adrian. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Moving on to business and finance. Um, consider approval of amendments to the 202526 compensation plan. >> Yes, ma'am. We have a couple adjustments that we want to make to our compensation plan. Uh, one of them is, uh, changing the, uh, actual pay scale for our librarian aid. Uh, this is for
074a specifically for a campus that doesn't have a librarian. Uh, it's not for the library aid that works with the librarian because when we are missing a librarian, the the aid steps in and kind of takes on one of those duties. And so, we're want to increase that on our skill and have a separate library aid that's at a different level that is in that situation. Uh we're fixing our salary structure on some of our professional skills. So when we gave the raise uh this would be with people with a lot of experience. They might go outside the maximum range. So we needed to adjust that and so it doesn't change their pay or anybody's pay. Do we just have to fix our skill so for our system? Uh there's a campus testing facilitator. We're
075moving that to a campus professional support skill. Uh that's because that new position is a non-certified position. So we we're adjusting that. Uh and then there's a a required reading academy stipen that we're have to pay now due to legislation. It's $50 an hour. Any employee that has to go through a reading academy on their own time that goes to to tea or to region 20 or to do these readingmies, uh we have to compensate them as part of the new law. And then we had add a stipen in for our v video boards for our football games. It's an $1,000 stipen for an individual that's helping us uh with all the things that go on on a Friday night. So, we're asking the board approve the these recommendations to and amend the conversation plan.
076>> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second um to approve the amendments to the 2526 compensation plan. Any questions? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? No. Thank you. Um consider approval of a partnership agreement with the CAS network. >> Yes. So everybody knows that we have a great partnership with the cast network uh with cast stem high school at currently at Palo Alto College. We initially had a aou or agreement partnership agreement back in 2017 I believe when we started I can't remember now uh is it 2017 >> 2018 uh and that was part of the when we uh also the generosity of cast network and HB uh giving us the money so a lot of that had that uh thatou had a lot of that in there
077and the verbiage and how we operated and it's kind of ran out its time so we we're creating a new one that kind of shows the roles roles and responsibilities of Cass Network and Southwest ISD. Who's responsible for what? What are we supposed to do? What is Cass Network about? And so I want to bring up Jackie. Jackie, you're gonna talk. >> All right. Come on up, Jackie. Give and also give a quick update on CAST and let her kind and Gene Russell as well. >> Thank you. Good evening board, Dr. and senior staff. So, we just wanted to provide an update and a few highlights as we start the year off. Um, okay. So, just um a few things that we pride ourselves on is our career connected learning and outside experiences. So, throughout
078this summer, we're proud to say that we had 17 internship or work-based learning opportunities that our students were able to complete. Eight students completed the AMT program with Toyota. Um and so we had eight students from south uh from CASTM um representing Southwest ISD. The other eight were from um Alamo Academy. So we had the biggest group um that was represented there. Four students had an internship with SA Works. Uh one with Southwest Research Institute and then we had three uh with dancer this summer. Um, one student completed the Valero Young Scientist program at Texas Biomed, which is a very competitive program to get into. And then we had two students who completed the Tapia camp at Rice University. And then this fall, we currently have uh for the first time we current um we're
079working with um our partners and we have students that are doing internships. We currently have three that are with Toyot Tetsu. So they go every Tuesday, Thursday. They start the day there at 6:30 in the morning. then they're busted over or drive driven or busted over to our campus afterwards. Um we have one that's doing a an internship with C schools and then uh two with local businesses and then we're also trying to partner with Palo Alto to see what other additional opportunities our students who are there who may have trouble with transportation trying to integrate them into the campus there at Palo Alto and provide those career experiences for them. Uh we're proud to say we have an A rating with two distinctions. And so we we earned those distinctions in comparative academic growth
080and closing the gap. So our goal is to continue to maintain that A and shoot for the um those seven distinctions. Our class of 2026 projections. Right now we have 100% that will graduate college and career ready. um based on our CCMR um uh uh indicators, 100% that will graduate with at least nine college credit hours. So being at PaloAlto is paying off where we're able to put them in the classes um at least for at least nine hours. 85% will graduate with an internship experience, so some type of work-based learning experience. And 95% as of right now will graduate from Palo Alto with either an associates or a level one certificate. So we're being very strategic in making sure that there is some type of completion as students continue their courses there at Palo
081Alto. >> Jackie, how many students do you have over there now? >> So right now we have 236 is our total enrollment. And so just to give you some a snapshot, we have our our biggest ninth grade class right now at 103. So which puts our enrollment at 236. We were we're at 56 seniors. So you know, we'll lose those seniors this year. So definitely um we'll be closer to around 350 next year. >> So I just wanted to say thank you board. Um as Brandon noted, it's been since 2018. So this has been a pretty long relationship and we've bounced around to a lot of different places and we really appreciate the vision of the board and the superintendent and putting us at PaloAlto College and we think it's just paid off in spades.
082And then as you saw the enrollment numbers, that's really a tribute to the collaboration we had with the district last year and really working closely with middle schools. And so we think that that's yet to come. We're offering like a a real value proposition for students who want a different kind of environment. But we also hope that the collaboration will help um spread sort of different STEM approaches and career connected learning across the entire district. So we're looking at additional ways to partner this year. So we wanted to thank you for that. Thank you, Jackie. >> So, we're asking the board to approve the recommendation of the agreement with Cast Network. >> Okay. >> Daniel moves. >> Second. >> Okay. Are there any other questions or no? All those uh so we're considering approval of
083partnership agreement with the cast network. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Oppose? No. >> Thank you. Uh, consider approval for the Juan Alvarado Elementary School sites permanent power. >> Yes, ma'am. CPS is the district's power provider throughout the district. They're the only game in town. So, we are currently working with them to get our three-phase power brought in from their easement into the Alvarado Elementary. So there it's a combination of overhead to the edge of our property and then an underground duct bank that goes into the actual CPS transformer on site. So the fee to extend that permanent power is $95,638.93 that will be funded by the 2023 bond funds. So our recommendation is that the board approve that amount of $95,638.93 to CPS so we can bring permanent power into the
084job site. >> I move Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second to approve um paying the CPS fees for permanent power extensions at Juan Alvarado. Um all those in favor say well sorry. Any questions about that? No. All those in favor say I. >> Opposed? No. Thank you. Um consider approval to update CH local purchasing and acquisition. >> Yes. So, part of the new legislation, uh, the state of Texas approved to move procurement, which is competitive bidding, to $100,000. So, an example is if we were going out for a product or a goods or service that costs more than $100,000 over the a 12 month aggregate year, we would have to competitively bid that out. And so, we would either do with our own bidding system, our own procurement method, or we
085would be part of a co-op that had already done that for us. Uh and so the other piece of that is once we do that uh in the past it was 50,000 and then after if it was 50,000 and we procured it through one of those means that I talked about then we also have to bring it to the board if we purchase something single one-time purchase for 50,000. So it really aligned. So when the state moves it to 100, our just to make sure that we're in line and so employees understand all that is we're asking the board to approve to move a single purchase to 100,000 so that it aligns with the competitive bidding and the procurement process uh so that people are are aware of what similar to what we've been doing
086but because of the size of our district and I think the state realizes the size of a lot of districts that operate and purchase lots of things and lots of items is it helps move things faster but also we follow under procurement law and follow board policy. So the recommendation is to approve if you're willing to move the threshold to from 50,000 to 100,000. [Music] >> Yeah. So that affects the report that we always get that says purchases over 50,000. So now it's going to be purchases over a 100,000. and yours. >> And and then and then any anytime we even when we go out for a bid and do procurement, anything that costs a h 100,000 or more, we we would be bringing that to the board as either an item on consent if
087we've been doing it for a while or if it's going to be a new product, we would put it in a regular agenda one of ours and present it. >> So y'all can just go without board approval. Anything you want for under 100,000 >> under 100,000 a single purch >> we still have to we still get the report on it. >> Correct. Okay. Um, I need a motion. >> Second. >> Okay. We have a first and a second. Um, to approve the update to CH local purchasing and acquisition. All those in favor? Any more questions? If not, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Opposed? No. Okay. Motion carries. consider approval of school colors and mascot for Juan Alvarado Elementary. >> So, we're really excited about this opportunity. Uh we spent a lot
088of time looking at the data that we had from the survey that was done, looking at what our current mascots are, working with the new principal also. And we would like for the board to approve uh what we're about to show you. So this would be the mascot if the board approves it. [Music] >> Oops. >> All right. [Music] So, it is a two-tone blue with silver and then it will be a lion that we are recommending for the >> smiling one. Okay. >> Yeah, it's got a little grand. >> So then you'll get that if it's approved, you'll get that over to the architects and they'll run with it. >> Is it right there? You take it with him. Give him a picture. >> Okay. Um All right. So, we need a motion. >>
089Okay. So, we have a motion and a second to approve the school colors. >> I can see it. Sorry. >> And the mascot for Juan Alvarado Elementary. You >> got wild eyes. Okay. Do we have any legitimate questions or concerns? No. Okay. So, all those in favor say I. >> Opposed? No. >> Thank you. Uh consider approval of the purchase of school buses. >> Yes, ma'am. In line with uh our bond program, uh last year we put out a uh a a bid uh an RFP actually for transportation supplies, equipment, and buses. And so we're bringing the board to approve the purchase of six uh 72 passenger diesel buses, fully air conditioned seat belted, three special needs, and one activity bus for a total price of 1.538600 uh 1.5 million uh funded from the 2023
090bonds. >> I need a motion. >> Second. >> Okay, we have a motion and a second. Um When we purchase the buses, if if it passes in a in a minute, how long does it take to get the buses? >> We should I It depends. So, sometimes they've come in in three months and sometimes it's been six to eight months. >> Six to eight months. So, it's still a real long. >> Yeah, it takes a little while. >> Okay. All right. So, we have a motion and a second to uh purchase the school buses. All those in favor say I. >> Oppose? No. Thank you. uh consider approval of media equipment for the new central office building. >> Correct. So uh part of the the last part of the purchases for the new central office
091building is all the AV equipment that's required in our in all our conference rooms uh and some of the other spaces that you may like lobby areas, TVs, etc. And then uh setting up our boardroom uh to host board meetings and the media that's going to be allowed in there that also will correlate into the professional development part of it. So creating an atmosphere of AV that we can use for board meeting but at the same time can be used uh for different professional de development times. And so that cost is roughly $130,000 and that's going to be from the 2023 bond funds. And so we're recommending that we uh use Bloom who was the best bidder came for the best value for the district for the audit visual solution for this new central office
092project. >> Okay. Did Okay, I need a motion. >> A second. >> We have a motion and a second. Does that include all the equipment that they're gonna Jenny's going to need for her own little Are we taking our old stuff? >> Yes, they This is just This equipment will be for just conference rooms and then the boardroom. They use the stuff. They'll be using that and they'll be running that for the boardroom. No. >> Stand over here though, right? >> No. >> Well, if we need to, we can discuss that. No, >> but they have some maybe a equipment they're going to be taking that we've already purchased to use in some of their spaces. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> All right. Um Okay. So, we have a motion in a second to uh
093approve the purchase of the audiovisisual solution equipment for Bloom. Any other questions? If uh if not, all those in favor say I. >> Oppose. No. Thank you. Um, we have nothing under curriculum instruction, nothing under special programs. Um, do I need to say that whole thing because of the new rules? >> The numbers. >> Okay. >> All right. So, as permitted by se do I need to say one more thing? Okay. Sorry. One more thing. >> So, we have a lot of things coming up. Um, tomorrow we have our first uh local planning meeting. Um just want to remind that the member for that is Sylvester and Daniel and you're the alternate for can't make it. >> We also have tomorrow shaq meeting. >> What's the time for six >> six and here in the
094boardroom. >> Oh okay. >> Here in the board tomorrow is also Shaq and we have Miss Bernell that represents us on the SHA meeting. On Friday, we have the curriculum and instruction meeting and um presented there by Mr. Gabrio, Miss Adul and his Cornell. So, we have those. We also have a legacy football game on Thursday. Then Friday is Southwest Homecoming. Um and then all of y'all got a little flyer. You were invited to the fire station is having their grand opening that is coming up. And also, I will remind you about this, but we did not have a board meeting scheduled for December, but since we don't have brown bag, we will need one in December. So, we will have that on December the 16th. >> The 16th. Okay. >> Okay. So, as permitted
095by sections 551.001-551.146 001-551.146 of the Texas Government Code um will go into close session at 7:28. [Music] We're going to go back into open session at 8:05. Um, we'll go back to >> item nine. I'm sorry, item 11. >> That's it. That's the one. >> Yeah. >> I move that we approve the superintendent's recommendation on personnel to include Daniel Cho as U director of finance. >> I second. >> We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Oppose. No motion carries. We will uh close the meeting and take the meeting at 86.