001Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Welcome everyone. Uh, you know, there's seating in the front if anybody would like to move up. Just kidding. Okay, let's get started. Invocation and pledges. >> Please stand if you're able. Heavenly Father, as we gather here this evening, we pause to give thanks for the gift of a new school year on the horizon and for the calling you have placed on every member of our Southwest ISSD family. Tonight, we lift up those who may not often get to stand in the spotlight, but whose work is greatly appreciated. We thank you for the custodians who polish our floors, for the transportation staff testing routes and maintaining our buses, and for the child nutrition teams already preparing new menus. We are grateful for our teachers who will
002soon be prepping classrooms and lesson plans and for the counselors, aids, office staff, and administrators helping to prepare our schools for our students. We ask for your blessing over their preparation, dedication, and unseen labor. Guide the decisions made by this board tonight and throughout the year. Let every conversation and plan reflect our shared mission to serve every child. We ask all these things in your name. 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 pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. >> Thank you, Roger. >> Thank you. >> Okay, recognitions. I understand we have one. We have one recognition
003and Mr. Rogers is going to lead us in that one. Do >> this one. All right. So, first up, um actually the one we have today is uh Hunter Douglas. Hunter Douglas from Southwest High School. >> Southwest High School and the Career and Technical Education Department are proud to recognize Hunter Douglas, a rising 11th grade student and who has achieved remarkable success and HOSA future health professionals. This organization prepares students for careers in the health sciences. Earlier this year, Hunter competed in the area hosa competition held at Steel High School where he earned first place in his event, Life Support Skills. This victory automatically qualified him for the state competition, an exciting and unprecedented step for our HOSA chapter. At the state HOSA conference held at Kalahari Resorts in Round Rock, Texas, Hunter once again
004proved his exceptional capabilities by taking first place, making him eligible for the prestigious International Leadership Conference. Representing Southwest High School on the national stage, Hunter traveled to Nashville, Tennessee, where he competed against more than 30 of the nation's top students in the life skill life support skills event. We are thrilled to announce that Hunter has earned a place as a top 10 finalist and ultimately placing in the top five in the entire nation. The life uh support skills event is one of the most demanding in HOSA. It challenges students to respond to real life medical emergencies using basic life support and first aid techniques. Hunter success marks an historic milestone for Southwest High School and is the first step first time in any of our students in HOSA have achieved have advanced beyond the area
005level let alone achieve top national honors. This remarkable achievement would not have been possible without the dedication support of those who guided him along the way. We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Miss Erica Adamus and Mr. uh Anthony Gered, excuse me if I messed up your names for uh their mentorship and encouragement throughout Hunter's journey. So, what do you think of the chances of doing this again next year? >> Oh, that's awesome. >> A great opportunity and thank you to all the school board at High School for everything that you do. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] >> Dr. If we could have Hunter's family, please stand. [Applause] >> And those are all the recognitions we have for tonight. >> Thank you. Anyone sign up? >> No, sir. >> Okay. Nobody signed up. And
006uh that is really the most exciting part of this meeting. Okay. So if the parents at Hunter would like to excuse themselves, they can at this time. If you want to stay for the whole rest of the meeting, you're welcome as well. >> I certainly appreciate that. >> Okay. >> Thank you again. >> Thank you so much. Okay, board. Uh, before we go into the consent agenda, we're going to strike item F. >> No. >> Okay. Till we get more info on on >> student code of conduct >> on some items that need to go in there. So, we're not going to >> approve that item at this time. >> Or I JK. >> And then on items of information, >> we're going to not have I, J, and K. We just haven't gotten the
007information from TASBY or from anyone else to help us in in developing uh this policy on cell phones. Okay. >> Due to the new law. Okay. Do I have anyone that disagrees or wants to >> I I move that we approve the consent agenda after we remove item F >> and items of information. >> Not yet. Right. >> We can do it now. >> And also that we uh remove I, J, I, J, and K from items of information. >> I'll second. We >> have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say I. I. >> All oppose. Same sign. Agenda has been amended. Okay. Now, consent agenda. You've had that before you. Any questions? Any other items that you'd like to have pulled? Hearing none. All in favor of the consent agenda, please
008say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Items of information, construction update. >> Yes. We'll have Thomas. He'll come start bringing up. We have quite a few projects that we're going to cover tonight. >> First, we're going to start with James Morris here from OC OCR, I'm sorry. He's going to go over the Bob Hope edition renovation project that is coming to an end. Turn over to him. Mr. Dr. Paul, board members, thank you very much. I do have some good information to share with you, some good news. Thomas has pulled it a little bit, so but that's all right. You should be able to start doing it from last time. So, uh, all areas, all classrooms, offices, and the library are now occupied by the campus. The only things that
009are left are the corridors. We're re uh redoing flooring in the corridors and doing new flooring in the gymnasium along. And it's almost complete. Both of those items are also almost complete. So, as you can see, the classrooms in area D are all ready. They've already been punched and already has a temporary certificate of occupation. Uh all of the floors and the corridors shown in blue here, we were able to add to the project uh to kind of unify the rest of the the flooring in the the rest of the school. And then gymnasium, the floor is down. We're just waiting on stripes to be installed. So, uh with that, uh we are still on budget. In fact, uh unofficially, we probably be bringing money back to the district with contingencies that were not spent.
010Can't give you the dollar amount just yet, but it's substantial. >> Um, August 1st is now uh our substantial completion date. Uh, and that's a month early based on the contract. The last things left to do are the furniture is being delivered and installed currently by the district and the playground equipment is left to be installed and then we can wrap it. >> Any questions? >> I had shared um that I would like to take the board on August the 5th after our brown bag. So whoever whichever board member wants to see it, you don't have to, but if you'd like to, we're going to have a brown bag on August the 5th. So if you like would take a quick were specially the library some of the pictures that I've seen of the library
011looks great so excited to to show the board the great project >> we're actually showing it off as well uh so IDIA which is the interior design uh component of our firm uh it's associated for the professionals uh are scheduled to review uh the library on July 30th >> thank you all very much >> thank you [Music] Next I have Flores and Steven Jackson Elementary renovation. >> Good evening Dr. B. Sorry, it's okay. And uh board uh members, we are here to present the Southwest Elementary School progress. Uh the pictures that I'm going to send are, if they were last week, they are too old. But the COG is doing a a really great job. They are progressing very fast. Uh they are on schedule. They're going to open the school on time. Um, there
012are three minor items that are not going to prevent this to be open and those items have been discussed with with Thomas and Billy. Okay, thank you. Right now phase one is um almost 80% complete and phase uh two is uh it has a uh corridors and the grid and ceilings are done. There are some few items that needs to be done. They are um touching up details. Uh phase two is including the c the um clinic, the administration and uh some restrooms and the gymnasium. Phase one is only classrooms. The rest of the phases are just classrooms and uh overall we think that the project is around 50% complete. Uh this is your gymnation. Uh if you remember, it has just a concrete floor. Now you can see the floor is in place. We
013painted. And just to remind you, this is the only place that you allow us to use the blue the school color uh because it's the sports. The rest is different. Um this is the status on the corridors. We place the uh tile on the walls and the accent tile. Uh that is uh one of the staff restrooms with the the tile in place. In the administration, we have the fur downs and the electric uh already in place. Here is another view of the corridor with another color accent. The library is uh progressing. Um and that is one of the classrooms that already have the floor uh the accent wall. Uh it needs only the baseboard and it's going to be ready and the tile is is placed right. >> So that classroom has that accent
014wall. >> Yes. >> That's a beautiful accent wall. Does every classroom have that? >> All classrooms. Yeah, everyone has an accent wall. It's different in the color. It depends on the color of the corridor. >> That's awesome. >> Here is some of the of the um areas that uh are working right now is the main entrance which uh this is where we are going to have the pavers. And uh if you have d uh driven by the uh site, you can see that the main entrance has already the rebar. Uh this Thursday is going to be poor and next week they're going to start erecting the the canopy. So you have something else to >> question. >> Any questions? And as I said, these pictures are old pictures because they were last week pictures and
015right now is much in much better uh condition. >> Thank you. >> Next we have the Elm Creek Elementary renovation. Lawrence Garcia is here with LPA. James is coming up. All right. Good evening. Thank you, board. Thank you for your time tonight. Like to give you an update today on Southwest Elm Creek Elementary School uh re renovation, excuse me. Um just overall, so George is currently in three of the eight phases um of this project. Phase one and phase two are very far along. Phase one, which they started at spring break, is about 95% complete. And phase two, which has been the summer work, is nearing about 85% complete as well. George additionally got into phase three and started their demo a little early since that spaces those spaces wouldn't be occupied during the uh
016fall semester. So they got in there as well. Um overall this project's on schedule. George is doing a great job. Um additionally the total project is about 20 21% to date. So this is phase one as you can see here. Um on the right hand side that's going to be a typical classroom very far along. Uh floors are done, walls are done, they've got mill work going in. Um in the corridor we have the floors remaining and those may have actually started already this week. This these pictures were from last week. Um and like a lot of your campuses, you do have the the tile going in in the corridor and that is um complete as well. So the phase two proport uh excuse me portion of this project uh included the cafeteria. So here
017you can see two images of the cafeteria. Um we've got let's see framing and drywall ongoing. This back wall which you can see in the lefthand picture that is also been completely tiled as well. So again these pictures from last week there's been some advancement in the project. Um, additionally we have HVAC devices being ongoing, excuse me, being installed and the on the right hand side you can see the acoustic spray phone. So that that's actually been completed and painted. So that's going to all be painted black that kind of goes away um once we get our uh act the cloud that will go underneath that. So, this is going to be a phase two classroom. Uh, very similar to phase one in terms of the progress they've made. Mill work is going in. You
018can see the rubber base is yet to be installed, but the flooring is in. It's looking very nice. Um, these corridor tile that pro that progress is a little uh little behind the phase one, but I think y'all are grouting right now and cleaning up. So, it's right behind phase one. So, it's catching up. So, these images are of the change order to the Elm Creek project which are taking place at Indian Creek and Big Country. So, this is a picture from Indian Creek. Um, that project is very close to being complete. I believe it's Friday. This Friday we're going to be doing our punch walk. So, been really impressed with uh how quickly Joris has got this in and it's looking very good. Big Country as soon as I think you'all have actually already
019moved over there. They're actually doing the same work currently right now at Big Country. So soon as this gets punched, we're going to start focusing on the Big Country. Um same scope. >> Can you replace the milwork in all the classrooms? >> Yes. >> Already general. >> Thank you. Any questions for us? Thank you. >> School of the artsio. Good evening. Thank you for your time this evening as we give you an update on the Cree Wall School of the Arts. Um I have here with me Dustin and um things are coming along very well. Um just to remind you of of uh the exterior view of the building and um the interior and all the different parts and pieces, the gymnasium and the cafeteria uh which will be summer work of next year. And
020then we have in green all of the areas that we're touching as long as as long as well as the corridors and the administrative wing. And here is just a a reminder of how we're phasing the project. And uh as I said the items in pink will be next summer of 26 and then we have phase one and phase two uh happening now to be concluded at the end of summer. Current activities we're installing the corridor tile and flooring in phase two. Texture wall priming and uh painting is beginning. Um we are working in the administration area and uh starting to roughen plumbing as well in some of those critical areas. Actually actually right now all texture all wall out everything's done and all ceiling tiles going in or ceiling grid is going in right
021now. Fire marshall scheduled to be here next Tuesday to do the final above ceiling inspection and after that everything gets >> and so um we are doing the ceiling grid. We're we're doing fur downs in the library. The library is coming along very well. Um here are some finished views of the corridor and the administration area um to the right. And next week are we'll be working in the doing the case work for phases one and two. We have a change in the casework as well um which is going to be coming out Monday. Amphitheater subgrade preparation is starting and the fire alarm and sprinkler system is going in. Also the specialties will be starting end of next week. Here are some construction photos. Um, these are photos of the classrooms and the flooring and
022the wall work that's coming along. Well, you can see that the grid is in. Um, lighting is not in yet or it's it's almost in. >> Lighting's in all classrooms right now. >> All classrooms. Okay. And then we have the library area with the fur downs and the mill work. Uh, pony walls going in. Um, flooring. This is a week old as well, by the way. You know, you're hearing that as a common theme. Um, >> all grid is almost complete. Correct. And then this is work uh progress in the corridors and the circulation system. So that was a big push this summer to try and get that done. So we've got the um Wayne's coating tile up. The flooring is in phase one completely. I think we're starting phase two soon. And then uh
023ceilings and grid as you can see are coming along as well. This is the library correct. So you can see the mill work and everything coming in. So uh lot lot of work left to do in the ceiling but the walls and the floor um are coming together. The flooring will be starting next week as well. >> Yes. >> So things are moving really fast on this job site by the way from one week to another. Uh things look very different summer work. So and then I just wanted to show another image of what that library will look like when it's complete. And so I spoke about this just a moment ago, but phase three work to be looking forward to gymnasium interior renovation, our cafeterium interior renovation. Um all the canopies on the outside,
024the exterior work, uh asphalt, paving, irrigation, landscape, uh also be re-roofing and redoing the down spouts and the boots to the drainage uh to the sewer, I'm sorry, storm, and then installing the windows and the associated masonry work and repointing around those new openings. questions. >> Thank you very much. >> We have this is for Alvarado Elementary. Good evening. >> I'm Onell Himenez and >> James Nichki. Uh we're very honored to be here to present an update to the construction of Juan M. Alvarado Elementary School. Uh I know you probably have seen this already several times, but we're going to kind of give you the overview one more time. Uh the site, as you can see, has uh as along Titan Pride and uh Titan Crossing, so across from Resnik Middle School and also Legacy
025High School. Uh there is uh parking uh along Titan Pride uh for staff and uh faculty and along the uh east side of the school. Uh we have the uh the building broken up into sections A, B, C, and D just for reference as we go through the construction process and talk about the different areas. Then the basketball courts are to the north and bus loop is to the left of your screen. This is the uh floor plan with the uh twotory portion at the top. The single story with admin and then cafeteria and gymnasiums, music and art are the area D portion at the bottom. And as you can see, this is the second floor portion of the classroom wing. So at this point, we're about 20% complete with construction. I'm 28% complete with
026construction. Work completed to date is foundation. Uh peers, mud slab, and elevated slabs are done. Uh crossace insulation in areas D and C and B. Uh and part of A are complete. uh soil retainers and back fill with the exception of some crawl uh space access from the courtyard uh is complete. Uh grease trap was uh inspected by the city and passed. Uh canopy cure peer caps are complete. Polish concrete and protective covering is is complete. Uh there will be a a final finish after trades are complete and then uh primary steel in areas D and C is complete. Uh work in progress at this time. Underfloor installation of sanitary sewer lines and light fixtures in areas C and B. Um underfloor insulation in area A is still ongoing. structural steel and uh is now
027the level of detailing and decking in the areas of D and C A and B will begin uh once M materials arrive uh next week. um summer work, utility connections, sidewalks and drives ongoing and uh cold form metal framing layout is ongoing uh and will uh begin soon uh along with CMU that's going to begin in area D. So some photos, this is where we were last month when we met. This is the amount of steel that was installed at that time. This is where we are as of Friday. You can see that that's the gymnasium, the cafeteria, music and art classrooms, and uh all of the special ed and on over into the admin uh uh and just the beginning or or the connection point uh the entry area just before you get into
028uh the twotory portion of the building. This is some work that's happening that we are referring to as summer work. Uh the drives that uh enter the school are um being developed. So, this part here that we see in the larger picture, uh it's going to be asphalt coming into the uh into the um entry drive and then uh the intersection uh of uh Titan Pride and Trit Titan crossing. You can see the sidewalk extends to that point and will cross over to the other side. And then you can see at the bottom here, that's also a portion along Titan Pride uh where the uh a portion of the drive will be concrete as you enter into the uh the drop off. This is some of the underfloor. This is some of the less exciting
029stuff that we get to see, but this is insulation that we've been talking about in the underfloor and the piping and and such. uh project schedule uh structural steel will continue on into August. We'll also see the beginning of uh metal stud framing and that uh portion of the work. And this is just a video to give you a little bit more of a of an overview and a sense of what's going on on around the site. We have any questions? Anyone? >> Thank you. Looking good. >> It's another question for you. Just a comment for Thomas. Thomas, can you send me all of these electronically? I want to put out like a newsletter for staff. Um, so if you don't mind, >> excuse me. >> Oh, yes. Perfect. Perfect. Just want to keep them
030updated. That's a great progress you're making. I'm gonna continue on. I think you have the RBK one. >> Car wasn't able to make it tonight. So, briefly go through. So, all of all of the pictures you'll see in this packet today are actually from yesterday. Uh so it's a pretty accurate representation of of where they're at. They ran their drone and took pictures uh Ken Con did yesterday. So uh just kind of looking from the intersection of the double arches and the visitor parking lot looking back in the building. You can see as a lot of those screens and things are going in now. Uh there's a few where you see that wood on the bottom, the red piece there. There's some additional wood siding that goes on, but they're going to wait until after
031they pour the concrete. that way they can not damage it or splash it when they're when they're doing that. So, um I'll just kind of This is just a drone footage going all the way around. This is coming from where the Quanza hut used to be for the grounds crew shop looking back. All the staff parking area that the bottom right corner is uh the technology server room where Jeff and his crew are at. So, um, again, just another closeup coming around with the service drive in the back leading up past the the clinic and coming around the same looking from the clinic back at the building there. Getting a little bit more closeup as we get into the the building. All the metal panels. Uh, there there's a few metal panels on the back
032side. uh I think we'll see it here in just a second that are still need to be done and they're blue top now basically graded out in between the two buildings underneath where that truck on the left there is parked. You'll uh start seeing the formwork going in. They're going to have the the designed concrete that with the different cuts and layouts there that'll be going in very soon as we progress through the next couple weeks. So going into the building, uh, first floor, this is kind of the far left side of the building, closest to the staff parking lot. Just kind of an open office plan. That's where all of the workstations will be going in that we've already got on order and and should have them here in October. Then you'll it kind
033of just looks the same. Second floor though with all the windows, all the full windows there that look out over the staff parking lot and that's the where the CNI area will be. Uh then your first floor this is uh the opposite building the boardroom your picture on the left I'm sorry picture on the left is from April 30th so um that's looking from the dis out and now they're they're progressing through here so that's as of yesterday the picture on the left looking from the dis out and then picture on the right looking at the dis that once the walls and everything are done the mill work will come in after that and it's a built-in place round D for the board and Dr. Ball. So, just a few of the the project details,
03480% complete through the middle of July. Like I said, the ongoing uh concrete work outside that's happening with the curbs, prepping for asphalt paving, uh if the weather cooperates, hopefully we'll be seeing that by the end of the month. getting starting to lay the asphalt there and the the staff parking lot and the street between uh child nutrition and the parking lot there by technology. And then for interior uh work that's going on, the the the glass handrail in the front lobby was being installed yesterday around the where you look down in from the second floor and up the stairwell. Uh the elevator is in. All it needs right now is final inspection and the cab to be put in or the final pieces of the cab to be put on to finish it out
035once the other finishes are done. Um they were putting in the light fixture and and trellis that goes in the break room kitchen area. Yesterday ceramic tile is ongoing throughout the building along with the tape float paint uh texture. So I don't know if anybody has any questions for me. What is the completion date or what are they saying? >> We are still planning on occupying the building in October 25. We are hoping that the furniture has been ordered. It'll take about 3 weeks to install all of the workstations and everything. So, we're looking to try and get that in mid midepptember. We haven't got an exact drop dead delivery date yet, but we're we're working on that with Texas Wilson. So, the plan would be to hopefully be in the building by the end
036of October. >> Do you think we'll be able to have our November board meeting? >> I think that's a possibility. >> Not to real. >> All right. And then so uh outside of that job, if nobody has any questions, the if you've been going around the district, uh here recently, the safety piece of this with the district-wide fencing job is ongoing. All of the welded wire and and chain link fence in the areas that they need to be are going in at multiple campuses. They're they've got two different subcontractors that are working at it. The Marristar, which is like the rod iron looking fence, has started arriving now. So, we should start seeing that go up where they can actually finish uh all of the fence, the long fence pieces and the gates are on
037order are on schedule to be here by the end of the month. So, that a little bit of trigger work there at the end to tie in the gates and put the poles in and everything. So, that all of the elementaryaries we're still shooting to have by first day of school. I'm hoping that we're going to have all the elementarymentaries done. If not, it's going to be very close very soon after that. And then the secondary campuses will follow after that and be done by December. And then on the the last thing is we did get approval for our permit on the child nutrition freezer finally. So >> it was a huge day the other day and everybody was excited because >> it's been too long. So that that job will start picking up again
038and moving. >> Thank you, T. [Music] >> Okay. monthly tax report. We're doing a little better than last year, huh? >> Yes, sir. We're at 97% collection rate. So, >> got a couple little bit more to get here in the next couple months. Finish up. >> Looks good. Okay. Monthly financial report. Anything you want to mention? Board members, any questions? Monthly investment report. Report on gifts and be enrollment report. purchases over 50,000. Okay. Budget update. >> We have Scott to give us some information. >> All right. All right. All right. >> Thank you. >> Good evening, board members. Dr. Paul. Tonight we're going to talk about the uh where we're at with the budget here in July. It's not a click, but that's I got button. So, uh we're going to talk about the budget,
039also discuss the compensation plan that we uh plan to ask for approval later on tonight, as well as begin the top talk of the tax rate. So, here we go. All right. This is the same slide. We've seen this now four budget presentations. This is just the assumptions that we used to create the budget with. I would like to draw your attention to the last three bullet points. Those are the ones that have been added to here most recently after House Bill 2. And then the last bullet point, we did adjust the teacher pay scale for the zero to two years so we can stay competitive with the surrounding area. So we'll talk about that a little bit more later on. All right. Um this slide should look familiar to you. We show this every
040year. It's our discussion on the funding lag. It is part of our first report that we uh discuss the funding lag that occurs when the uh values change. So here we go. Sorry. Any questions on the funding lag? All right. So, uh, we continue to work with Mo Casey for our revenue estimates based on the new interpretations of House Bill 2 and the, um, and the other items that came through the state legislator this past uh, session. And right now, we are believing that we're at about $182 million uh, revenue. So, we are writing our budget based on those numbers. Any questions on the revenue? All right. This is our projected labor cost with the 2% raise and the teacher retention aotment. Um it's going to be a little bit more than last month when
041I showed this to you all because we did again adjust the uh 0 to2year teacher expenditure um salary and that cost us about $200,000 additional. All right. This slide right here is a slide that we had to add. We got some bad news a couple weeks ago about the uh the federal government decided that they are determining whether or not to provide us the federal grants. You may recognize these numbers from the presentation that Loretta presented last month. We had a whole hearing on these numbers. We had put a plan in place and then two weeks later we were told to put that on hold. So, our plan for these federal funds right now is we're going to we plan to cover the salaries for sure. The uh non- salary expenses, we're going to take
042a look at those. Right now, we're kind of making putting those expenses on hold. So, um that was kind of a big deal right there. So, any questions on that? >> You understand? These are budgets that we've had for years.$1.2 we didn't take into account in our general fund budget that we possibly would have to come back to title two which is the biggest that's all our coordinators and specialists that are the CNI folks that go around help development a lot of the budgets that we use for new teacher our professional development that's created by CNI come so right now we're going to fund the positions moving forward we're going to kind of hold off on letting them money on supplies. So just so title title one sees migrant. Title two is kind of your
043professional development. Title three is our bilingual aotment that we get from the federal government. And then title four is that wellrounded uh a lotment that we got kind of talked about that last time you know different things kind of fun things that we do around the district instruction. >> So that million 349 that includes the salaries and the expenses. >> The salaries and professional development. >> And when do they normally start? >> This has never happened before. These are all they just frozen. >> Okay. >> They're under review. >> Okay. >> They've already sent us our notice, so we know how much we're getting, but now they've frozen saying it's a possibility they're going to review. So, nobody knows what that is. >> So, of the 1.249, how much is salary? >> Did you say
044that already? No, we didn't say we have to get that for you. But the majority of it >> Yeah. >> The majority of that 600,000 salaries also all >> Yeah. >> be like 20 30% is not. >> So I guess what I want to know is how much take the salaries out. How much is would we have to still make up? You have to make up the salary. >> No, no, I know the salary, but we're not we're not those are gonna we're making up period. >> Correct. How much? >> Yes. How much is the additional that we would need to so that it's fully funded? >> It would be 124. >> Yeah, this will be the total. >> Yeah. >> So, that brings us to the next slide, which is the uh draft of
045the budget where we're at currently. It's blocking the revenue, but it's the same revenue from the previous slide. Um, on this slide, you see the 1.25 million is not included in the expenses. Um, the additional $200,000 from the that we put on the teacher pays on there as well. So, now we're looking at a $2 million deficit. Um, and we're still taking a look at our allocations as far as our uh CTE, bilingual, preK, that type of thing. So, this could change slightly. So, >> so the 1.29 that we just talked about is not in here. >> That's correct. It's not created. >> Worst case scenario, they don't give it to us. If we want decide to make it all up, >> that go to three >> million. >> Great. It's not the end of
046the world, but we were hoping to kind of get closer to that break even because that's kind of been our our goal this this year. Um, all right. That's kind of what our fund balance would look at look like with the current budget we have without the 1.25. And moving on. All right. Child nutrition budget. All right. We got a nice photo in there. Photo of some of the board members. Very nice. Anyways, uh we have the uh updated child nutrition budget. They are looking at adding a supper program so you can see an increase in the uh in the budget. Previously it's been around 15 16 million. Winston's hoping to get to 19 maybe even 20. I told him to slow down at 19. We'll see what happens. We can come back if he
047goes higher which would be great. Um but that's what that budget looks like so far. All right. And this is a debt service budget. And to keep in the theme with the construction that is an old picture, but um there's been some uh improvements since then. We saw a nice looking uh steel structure put on that building. But I digress. At the uh for the bond for the budget here for the debt service budget, it's a little different this year. We are u we have a lower bond payment than normal because we have a 27.5. We've been doing a lot of defeasance and and Oh, we pay off early. What's that called? Um I can't remember off top of my head. >> Defasance. Yeah, we're good. So we've the fees we've uh you know we're
048looking at generating about 32 million in revenue. We'll talk a little bit more about the the different options for us as we talked about the the various tax rates that we can offer. All right. So compensation very important part of our discussion about 83% of our budget is compensation is salaries and staff. So we wanted to go ahead and discuss it before we ask for approval later on tonight. All right. So, this this slide right here kind of shows um some of the areas around Texas that have already posted their the raise and what they're going to do. You can see in the San Antonio Austin area 2% it's about standard. Um you got the Houston Dallas area, they they're a little bit higher, but the cost of living is more there. So, it's we're
049I believe we're in we're in line. So, a lot of uh pay scales have not been posted yet for some of these districts. So we have a limited opportunity on what we prepare to but we still have something we can do. All right. >> When when you were going when you were discussing the 2% did you have any conversations about 2% for professionals and then 4% for parents. Did we I mean 3%. Did we talk about that? I want to say that I think it was two or three years ago we did boosted our professional skill delivery skill and then on top of that we did 6%. So he's going to kind of show you numbers where our starting rates right now are very competitive and we're very limited because we're trying to not in
050our next get set aside from the state cover the other employees All right. So, um, long range compensation plan. It's, uh, it's nice to know that that our district is working towards a a longer longer goal be beyond the just a typical 2% 3% raise. Um, for our professional staff, we're looking at strategic compensation. Um, in two years, our principles will be on strategic compensation. In three years, our assistant principles and teachers will be on that that same plan. So, it's pretty exciting. All right. Teacher incentive a lotment will continue this next year. It's a just want to throw that out there. That's I always like seeing the big checks and uh that's a nice thing. All right. Here we go. All right. So, our pay scale um later on tonight as we approve the
051compensation plan, the teacher pay scale here is uh is shown. You can see we've increased the uh starting teacher pay from 60 to 61,000. And that that of course increases the uncertified teacher that we were proposing last month at 57 is now going to be 58. So just wanted to make sure that we're aware of that. Um any questions on on this slide? >> How many So if we had a teacher making an uncertified teacher making >> last year or 60 whatever it was. >> Yeah. They started off making >> 60 last year. >> So now they're going to go down. No, they're not. >> They're not going. >> Brand new. >> There's no verdict that says that we have to decrease anybody we do. >> Okay. All right. >> And we if language comes
052out further for us, we'll let you know. Right now, we're not movingward. >> Awesome. >> But we need to know probably if anybody that's uncertified or starting at this person >> because we're grandfather. Okay. >> Right. >> Um, this is the new pay scale that we have for the teachers who were the professionals who were previously on the teacher scale. Just a kind of reminder of what those positions are. And here's that new scale that we have right here. Also starting this one at 61,000. And it kind of progresses with the $1,400 raise which represents at 2%. All right. We also have the counselor pay scale. Um, same story here, $1,400 raise and we're moving those scales up. So, any questions so far? All right, starting hourly rates on our 25 26 pay scale. Just
053kind of wanted to show where we're starting. This would be for people that were hiring from the outside who were come to work for our district. This is not anybody new. This is just starting rates. And the next slide here, we we can see how those starting rates compared to our neighbors and to Northeast who's also posted their 2526 rates. So, the other districts have not posted their rates. That's why I'm not able to compare, but you can see we're in pretty good shape. Um, looks like I was I was watching North Side ISD's board meeting when they talked about compensation. They were looking at moving their starting rates up to $15 an hour. So, we are we are in the right direction, I believe. Any questions on that? >> All right, sub pay. Same
054story. We are um I think last year we did a pretty good job getting those where we needed to be and I think we're in a good situation now. Um and you can see our rates are are right in line with our neighboring districts. Any questions on the sub? >> Any questions about compensation before we move on to tax? >> No. >> Well, I wanted to talk a little bit about the INS tax rate. The M rate is pretty cut and dry with a couple of things we can add. So, we don't have as much flexibility, but with the INS rate, we do have we do have some flexibility. Um, currently, as you all know, that INS tax rate is 40 43 cents, almost 44 cents, and based on our current projections that that would
055generate about $31 million for us, which would cover our bond payment and then some. Um, as we talked last month, Senate Bill 1453 does kind of put some limits on what you can do with your INS tax rate. They really want you to only tax enough to cover your bond payment. So there's some interpretations on what that is. We're still talking with Mo Casey. We actually have a webinar on Thursday to talk about tax rate and kind of see what their recommendation is. But we just kind of wanted to show you what different scenarios could look like for us. So right now, if we tax at the rate we're at currently, we'd get $31 million. We cover our tax and we could probably do some defeasants. However, we could lose our state aid, which is
056about 3.6 million. So that's kind of where we're at right now. So, we're kind of still analyzing that. We're not ready to make a recommendation tonight, but we're just kind of just kind of looking at it. So, any questions on that one? It's a little more tricky than last last year. >> All right. So, this is just same slide I show every year. It kind of talks about where we're at currently for each M rate and the INS rate. And I kind of have the history on the right. And so we should get our certified values in a couple of in about 10 days from now and should be able to get a better estimate at that point what our revenue should be. So some important deadlines for us here in the business office and
057school board. We have our bunch of meetings coming up next month. So looking forward to all of them and then we'll do our final uh budget and tax rate approval on the 26th. So, all right, next steps. Hopefully approve the compensation plan tonight. If not, we'll bring it back to y'all next month. Um, hopefully adopt the budget next month and set the tax rate next month. And then September 1st, everything goes into effect, the new laws and the new the new fiscal year. Any questions on that? >> Well, it's it's obviously better than what we thought of about a year ago. But we're not quite where we want to be yet. >> Not quite. >> Thank you. >> Are we able to attract special education at the starting rate when it's only starting >> 70
058cents more than >> I mean aids >> really for us in our district. I mean the the other instructional aids there there's not a whole lot of them except for the prek >> and so I mean I don't know if we have a hard time attracting a >> we have we have classes that happen monthly for certification and our classes are most it is a revolving door for sure as time goes on graduating position that is a lot of them but so far cy that's actually incentive for them to come to us because otherwise they're going to have to pay that cost. So that's our classes pretty what we've done is taken the uh the burden of paying the $300 out of their own pocket to get that specialized certification and the district now has
059certified trainers. So that's $300 that they don't have to pay out just to get a job. >> Okay. >> So by doing that we have a lot more people interested in it and we go through our sub pool of people who come consistently sub and asking if they would like that position. And so sometimes it's a right fit, sometimes it's not. Sometimes they go back to just but a lot of people be interested and keep the job. So it's a kind of a partnership we've done for that. >> Any other questions? Any other questions? >> Thank you. >> Okay. Item seven, we have no items. Item eight, business and finance. Consider approval of 2025 2026 compensation plan. Yes. 5,000 for those that are over five years and then >> what is each percentage cost us?
060>> What is the total for all the other employees? That that's that it's harder to do because in the past we do like if we did like a 1% it'd be like 1.1 million but that included the teachers. We we haven't really got the number for all the other employees at 2%. >> What's the difference between two 2% versus 3%. >> I would have to run your numbers on >> just I mean you're talking about this additional I don't know if Scott's over here. Let me look at the >> Well, no. There's that you have that slide. If you pull up your slide that has the the raises on there, you can kind of see what the the raises are costing us all the way to the front. >> There we go. >> Yeah. So
061we do receive 545,000 550,000 from the government for raises. So we are able to get that funding. Um >> so this 2% right now is costing >> uh so campus professional support. >> So those five those four numbers at the bottom there. >> So you're looking about a million and five and they only give us 500,000 to cover. >> Yeah. So, it's probably 500,000 per percent, something like that. 5600. >> You're talking about another 500,000, >> huh? >> Another 500,000 for 3%. >> Probably. You know, I would I would I don't really want to like So, we could try to we can go this route, kind of see where we're at, and then we get to Christmas time, maybe think about how our budget's tracking. >> Uh because I know Yeah. Because I know that
062faculty likes that. I just don't want to announce it now. But it's going to continue to blossom. >> I'm just uh I mean the races from around Texas, I mean the ones that really would concern us and we're not going to have people driving to Austin or Bron or Katy >> or Dallas, but so SISD is doing four. We had a conversation at the Bear County School Board Coalition and there were representatives from all over town, all the different districts and SISD gave a higher race and people were asking about that in the meeting >> and they had been behind. They had been lagging and they had not catch they were >> for a long time races at all. >> Okay. So, it's >> and then Harland's two, which is what we're going to do.
063And then Northeast is one and we don't know what Somerset and >> don't know what Somerset I know that uh uh North Side he was I think they're doing like a one and a half one.5 >> because they had a huge deficit. Everybody's very concerned and they're thinking long term because if they give out this year that means that it's >> forever, you know, it's like and they're concerned about what the situation will be as >> as it you know as the session ends because it's still they're still considering other things. >> Yeah, I think we go with with with what we have now and then in December like Brandon was saying, we look at possible >> Yeah. >> retention bonuses. >> I move a second. We have a motion to second. Any other questions?
064Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. Sir, approval of purchase of surveillance surveillance cameras. >> Mr. Present on this topic. >> Everybody. >> Good evening. Back in May, we brought to our board um the upgrade to our camera platforms. Uh so we purchased originally uh servers for our campuses and at the district level. What we're doing now is we want to bring to uh to you folks for approval is the replacement cameras that are going to outfit the rest of our district and upgrade the cameras. Most of our cameras are about 6 to 8 years old. the warranties have expired and they lack the modern features such as facial recognition, license plate recognition that some of the new models present. Uh we requested quotes
065from three different vendors, Altex 360 integrated and CDWG. Uh the lowest bidder was Altex. Uh they're also the vendor that ended up getting the server project. So once we've purchased these cameras, we won't be paying ongoing annual costs for licenses because we're already going to own the uh the video management platform. Now we won't have to pay like we're currently doing with our legacy uh video platform uh LINC. So uh we'll own the servers, we'll own the programs, and uh once we are 100% I pro cameras, uh we won't have to pay annual cost moving forward, just replacement costs as they go out five to seven years or so. Um, Altex is a member of our byboard purchasing cooperative. Uh, we're requesting the approval of IPRO surveillance cameras for districtwide replacement at a cost of
066148,35230 352 and30. Uh, we will be utilizing safe cycle 2 grants as well as 2023 bond funds for this purchase. This time we were requesting that the board approve the purchase of IIP Pro surveillance cameras from Altex at a cost of $148,35230. >> I move >> second. We have a motion and second. Any questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you, Mr. Sud. consider endorsement of TASBY board of directors nomination. Uh board members, uh there's two people for that position. One is the incumbent Richard Senna from Bernie. The other is from Harland. Uh I don't have his name in front of me, >> Louisa. >> But we only received a letter from Richard Rich. And uh I know he's been doing a good job. Flo,
067I know you >> I know him very well. He's attended a lot of the uh lack meetings uh when I was put on committee and him and I were usually the only ones present and I really like him. He's really got a good guy. >> He's very involved and very nice too. >> So at this time I'll entertain a motion. >> Move that we support Rich S. >> Okay. A second >> motion and a second to support Richard Senna for uh position 20. Is it D? >> Yes. Position region 20 position D. >> Questions? Anyone? >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. >> All oppose, same sign. We'll send them our endorsement. Okay. consider approval of reinstallation of playground equipment at Bob Hope Elementary. Yes, >> sir. So, as if y'all remember, we
068had to remove the region 20 the the small the prek through one playground for the addition of Bob Hope Park Place Recreation was the contractor that did that removal. Uh we stored all of the equipment here at the main campus. Uh it is now that like you all heard earlier, Bob Hope hopes coming to an end. Corey was with Ken Con's trying to clean up the site finally. So we are looking to have Parkplace Recreation come back and reinstall the playground. There were some areas they like there was a concrete bike track and things that got destroyed during construction because of their location of the building. So, we're we've gotten a park place to give us a new layout with all the same equipment and putting back the same as what was there when it
069was taken away because all the equipment is still here, but as far as the fencing and everything, we'll have to add those back. So, the district staff is recommending that the board approve Parkplace Recreation Designs to install the reinstall the playground at Bob Hope Elementary. And I think I just did the wrong one, didn't I? Um, for a cost of 68, >> $460 >> for Bob. >> Yeah. >> I'm sorry, that was for Bob Hope. Did I say Alto? >> I apologize. >> Reinstallation for Bob. >> Reinstallation of Bob Hope. >> Bob. >> Yeah. >> You started with Bob Hope. You end there with Alvaro. >> I ended with Alvo. I apologize. You'll know why in just a second. No. >> Okay. Members, >> I move. >> Second. >> We have a motion to second.
070The board approve Park Place Recreation Designs for the >> Oh, wow. I This does. It should say Bob Hope Elementary Playground with a contract amount of 68,460. >> The number is right. The school name. >> Okay. >> I apologize for that. >> We got it. >> Okay. >> Questions? Anyone? >> We're gonna go to the track after. >> Oh. All in favor, please say I. I. >> All oppose. >> That passes. Okay. Now, consider approval of playground at Alvarado Elementary. >> Yes, sir. So with the surfacing project that we did two years ago and all of the elementary playgrounds that we've put in in the past, we district staff is you is recommending that we use ParkPlace Recreation uh through the byboard uh contract to put in a new playground for Alvarado Elementary uh to
071match the same as what we have at all of our other elementaryaries to keep the equity across the board for all those elementaryaries. So, uh, recommendation is to approve Park Place Parkplace recreation recommendation. Man, I have a bad night. The construction cost for that project is $359,259 and will be funded to the 2023 bond fund. The reason we're asking to bring this now, we need to get it ordered and and on site so as Joris is finishing their site work, we can get it in before they do the final uh irrigation and all of that so we don't break things in the brand new >> second. We have a motion to second that the board approves Parkplace recreation designs for the Alvarado Elementary playground for the contract amount of $359$259,000. Okay. All in favor please
072say I. >> I. >> All oppose. Thank you Thomas. Okay. And now we have consider approval of change order number one for Southwest Legacy High School addition project. >> Yes sir. So George general Contractors is the construction manager at risk for the Southwest Legacy High School addition project. Um as a project team we've come to the decision that we're going to need to make a change on the DEC controls contractor. Not only has the district had problems with this contractor on the recent job at Bob Hope, but Joris has also seen problems in other jobs that they're having around town. Also heard the same from the East Central folks that they're having similar issues with the same company. With that being said, the next uh contractor, it's a $970,000 jump to I'm sorry, $970,157 jump
073to go to the next DEC controls contractor. We do with the past history of what they've what we've kind of gone through at Bob Hope and the fact that the the one that we're going that we're recommending move to does a very good job with all of our after the construction is done, we get all the maintenance. they they do a good job responding to us when we need them. We feel very confident that that company would be the right one to choose here. So, or um the district staff is recommending to the board that we approve change order number one to the Southwest Legacy High School Edition project in an amount not to exceed $970,157. >> I move >> I second. >> Questions and hearing none. All in favor, please say I. I. >>
074All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you, Tomas. Okay. See, I nothing. Special programs. Nothing done. >> You have something you want to bring up before we go into close session? >> Yes. Just want to remind the board about convocation. The summer's going by very quick. We'll have convocation on August the 6. Looking forward to that. We'll be um honoring Dr. Vera as one of our pillars and then Dr. Swood for one of our friends. And I did email everybody the invitation for Dr. Seuda. Um, but you also have one here also. Um, so those are the two upcoming events. >> Thank you. Board members, do you all have anything before we go into close session? Okay. Hearing none as permitted by sections 551.001 through 551.146 of the Texas Government Code. And pursuant to code 551.074 for
075discussion on personnel administrator employment resignations, reassignments, leaves of absences, contract renewals pursuant to cover Texas government code 551.071, [Music] attorney consultation regarding legal issues related to public complaint grievances. C. Pursuant to Texas government code 551.071 071 and 551.0821 deliberation and consultation with school attorney regarding pending special education complaint filed on behalf of a student before a Texas education agency investigator tea complaint number 202528264. We will now go into close session at 709. come back into open session at 8:14. Go to item 12. Superintendent's recommendations. >> I move that we approve the superintendent's recommendation as discussed in close session. >> A second. >> All in favor, please say I. >> I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item B, we have no motion needed. Other business. >> I would just like to uh invite the board to our
076new teacher lunchon. It is on July the 29th at Resnik from 11:30 to 12:30. >> Can you remind us? >> Of course. >> July 29th. Yes. July 29th >> at Resdick. It's been changed before, right? >> Yes. >> And that's going to be dear teacher. >> You said it was at what time? >> 11:30. >> Okay. >> Anything here? >> See y'all Thursday. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. >> Four members. Anything? >> No. This meeting is adjourned 8:52.