001You'd like to call this public hearing to order. Report on ESSA consolidate federal grant application. Who's going to take it away? Loretta is she's ready. Welcome to give us the information. Do make it bigger. A lot of bit. Yeah. Full screen. There you go. Sorry. That's a little bit bigger. Good afternoon, board members. Dr. of all members of our senior staff. Um, today as we mentioned this is the public hearing for the 2526 ESSA consolidated grant. So I want to share just a bit with you how much we are we will be receiving in funding and how we plan on allocating the money. Starting off with our title one part A, we're receiving a little over $4,500,000 and we are splitting that up. 89% of that will be going to funding for campuses so that
002they can um have additional supplemental support staff whether it's teachers or aids uh in purchase uh materials or instructional supplies um support their McKenna Vento students and then just have any other students needs fall underneath that 89%. uh 5% of that $4 million will go towards professional development. Less than 1% is going to go for our private nonprofit schools. And if you remember, we are required to set aside this money for students to attend a private school but are living within the Southwest ISD boundaries. And the last little over 1% is going to go for parent involvement activities that are also required by our uh our federal regulations. For title one part C, which is our migrant funding, we're receiving $33,532. And all of that money goes to support our migrant students. Uh and it
003goes towards region 20. We enter a supplemental service agreement with them and they assist us with that. Title two is just over $600,000. 63% of that will go towards additional support staff and 24% will go towards contracted services for training for teachers, administrators, andor aids if there's any need for training for them. 3% goes towards the materials and supplies that are needed for those trainings that our teachers and our administrators attend. And then the last 4% there is for teachers and instructional personnel that have to travel for their professional development. In other words, we don't bring them in, they go out to a conference or a training maybe at the service center. For title three, we're receiving $257,123. This is our uh early or English learners. So 77% of those funding goes towards additional support
004personnel. 9% is professional development to work with the English language learners and then 7% is for programs that are in the summer uh supplies and things that they need to help them with those uh programs. Last year we received title three part A immigrant and it was something that I had said we only received every six or seven years. We were lucky enough to receive it again this year. It was a bit of a surprise but it's not much but it is $16,842 and all of those funds are going to be used to develop instructional practices to work with our migrant students. Title four. Oh, sorry. Oops. There we go. Title four is 339,245. So, title four is broken up into three different areas. The first area with 56% of the funding is to support
005and implement safe and healthy students at our campuses. 27% will go towards well-rounded education and the last 13% is funds for implementing uh improved use of technology and digital literacy and that is the intent of how we would like to spend the grant funds. Are there any questions? Board members any questions? I do. Yes. So the title four the provide additional support personnel what does that look like? The 77% one no the 50 56 56 title four oh I'm sorry what what does that look like for us? We currently fund our elementary fine arts director coordinator on this and there's additional uh fine arts staff member for the School of the Arts at Creewald Road School of the Arts. That's supporting learning that was lost during school closures. Well, this one title allows to be
006wellrounded. So, you can use it. Okay. We also use it for like driving the summer for strength and conditioning. It's the overall kid wellness. This is kind of a hybrid. Title four. Is that So is it labeled wrong when it says support learning loss that have occurred during school closures, remote learning or for struggling? Where does it say well-rounded anyway? I'm just curious. Um on you're talking about the second block. It says towards the bottom well-rounded such as career, college readings and character ed. Oh, okay. Any other questions? At this time, public any questions? Anyone in the public? Hearing none. We thank you, Lord. What? And if there's nothing else for it, we thank you, Lord. Oh, okay. I thought you said we thank you, Lord. We thank him, too. Okay. Okay. And this meeting
007will adjourn at 5:51. and we will open our meeting, our regular meeting at six o'clock. [Music] Good evening. I'd like to call this regular meeting to order and welcome everyone. Uh we'd like to begin with the invocation and pledges to allegiance. Thank you, Roger. Everybody can please stand if you're able. Lord, as we come together for this meeting, we seek your guidance and presence among us. Fill our minds with wisdom and understanding so that each discussion and decision reflects clarity and purpose. Help us to recognize the challenges before us and grant us the insight to find thoughtful, effective solutions. May we approach our task with integrity and collaboration, always mindful of the greater good we serve. Open our eyes to the positive strides and achievements that have unfolded since we last gathered. Let these milestones
008renew our hope and determination, inspiring us to aim higher and work together for continued success. Bless you. We ask 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, Roach. Thank you. It is a cologne. Okay. Now, let's go and do recognitions. Dr. Jenny is going to help me with the recognition. We have one very special one tonight that we would like to recognize. Would Miss Melanie Henson please come forward? [Applause] We are proud to celebrate our amazing assistant athletic director, Melanie Henson, for earning not one but two
009big honors at the Texas High School Athletic Directors Association Hall of Honor Ceremony on June 1st in Round Rock. Miss Henson was named region 8 athletic administrator of the year for the fourth time, a clear sign of her strong leadership and commitment to our athletics program. She was also honored with the state award of merit from the national intercolastic athletic administrators association for leading last year's national conference in Austin. Mel is known for her hard work and dedication to our students, coaches, and community. Thanks to her, our athletic department runs smoothly, stays on top of UIL rules and put safety and compliance first. Her systems have become a model across the city and state. Because of Miss Hinsson's efforts, everyone from athletes to parents can focus on their roles, knowing that everything behind the scenes
010is taken care of. She leads with heart, precision, and integrity. And we're lucky to have her on the Southwest team. Congratulations. Your recognition is welld deserved. [Applause] Those are all the recognitions we have for tonight. Thank you. At this time, did anybody sign up for public general comments? Okay, we'll jump into item five, consent agenda. Board members, you've had that before you. Any questions? Any items to pull out? I move that we approve the consent agenda. I second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Okay. Items of information. Let's begin with the construction update. Yes, sir. We got Thomas. We have lots of construction updates tonight. So, I'll turn it over to him. Good evening. First, we'll be bringing up uh James Moore with
011OCR to do the Bob Hope Elementary renovation edition update. President Vosquez, Dr. Ball, board members, thank you very much for the time. Uh so for Bob Hope Elementary. I have uh some great news. I'm going to spoil it. We're about 90% complete as of as of Friday afternoon. We did a punchwalk of area A, the library of classroom B class uh area B classrooms. Uh the new addition E classrooms as well as uh relook at some of the area C. So, as you can see, the library is ready for furniture. Uh there's a few little items for punch list. It'll take the next 30 days to complete. Uh the the hallway and the existing or the new uh classrooms are all ready for occupation as well as the area B classrooms. And then in area
012D, the only area that's left, uh demolition is done and new finishes are planned to go in in the next 15 to 20 days. We're still on budget. I also have another spoiler. Good good word. Uh is that instead of September 19th for substantial completion, we're looking at uh the the end of August. Very nice. Any questions? Thank you. Thank you to Thomas on the furniture for the library and all that. When's that coming in? Do you know, Dixie? Huh? July. July 17th right now on the schedule. Okay. Thank you. Next, Lawrence is going to be with LPA. Sorry, on the Elm Creek Elementary renovation project. Thomas, see closer to the mic [Music] board. Good evening. Thank you for your time tonight. So, I'll be presenting for LPA architecture and uh Joris is the general
013contractor on this project. Uh going to be presenting on Elm Creek as well as Indian Creek and Big Country Middle work replacement. Which one is it? Just tab. All right. Great. So, this is a multiple phase project um in spring break on spring break. excuse me. Um they mobilized and started phase one. They've also started phase 2 um when summer commenced. So they are approximately 85% on phase 1 and 25% on phase 2. Um each phase includes about 8 to seven classrooms. Phase 2 also includes the cafeteria. So a rather large area they're um taking care of this summer. Phase one, which I said is approximately 85% complete with demo. All that really remains is the flooring, uh, some of the ceiling tile as well as some tile ways coat in the corridors. Um, they've
014made a lot of progress. They're currently on schedule for phase one and doing an excellent job out there. So phase two which is what commenced uh the beginning of this month really have completed demolition and have started some framing. Uh here you can see the cafeteria looking at the stage and then also looking to the back um where the kitchen is. So they've made a lot of progress here and here are some views of the classrooms. All the walls have been gutted as well as the corridor. You can also see that they have already commenced with some of the sheetrock and backboard for the tiling. Um so for Elm Creek, excuse me, for Indian Creek and Big Country who have a little bit over 80 classrooms that were replacing the mill work. So at Indian
015Creek we've got 43 and they have already and excuse me and at Big Country they've got 39. They've already completed the demolition. They started a couple of weeks ago. So, they've got all of the existing mill work out. They're currently touching up the walls and preparing for the mil the new mill work installation, which will begin this week. As you can see, the mill work's gone. They're prepping the walls. Uh, again, on schedule for this project as well. Um, overall, we've built about they built about 7% of the project and we are on budget. As you can see, the 2.3 million is the change order for the mill work projects. Questions? Questions? Anyone? Questions? Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Next up, we have Southwest Elementary with Bombber is going to be here presentation tonight
016elementary renovation Dr. B uh members of the board. Thank you. The Southwest Elementary School has been divided in two parts. First part was the placement of the um of the portables that uh currently you can see it on the top uh right hand side which has been completed and occupied by by the school uh that gave us uh access to the phase one. This elementary school has been divided in six phases. Phase one is almost complete. There are some items that uh at the end the district has decided to change. For instance, uh doors instead of renovated the doors, place new doors and uh those are have been ordered along with the hardware. Uh but phase two has been uh started the contractor started with the demolition and if you have the chance to drive
017in front of the school the old canopy portions of that has been demolished to uh allow for the new canopy uh that will uh demark the main entrance to the school. It has been uh started. Uh we have encountered several um uh challenges during the construction. Uh we are changing all the air conditioning equipment and it looks like it's easier but we found that the new equipment is a lot more heavier than the old equipment. So our consultant the structural engineer reinforce all the structure and uh to allow for these changes. Um the work h is seems to be on time and in budget. We have not uh uh received any any request from the contractor for an exchange order. So, uh, right now we're going to finish phase two and during this summer. Any
018question? Is the challenge you were receiving talking about the heavier equipment? Is that the main challenge? The hidden hidden uh things that uh it was not easy to find during the design. But uh since we know that some of these can occure, we allocate uh enough funds to solve any problems. So up to now everything is it's on time and in budget. Great. Good. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So next will be Jeff Rodriguez will be here. I'm Jeff. No, school of the arts renovation. Thank you very much. Good evening and thank you for having me here. My name is Jeff Rodriguez with Huckabe. pleased to give you an update on Creewald Elementary School um of the arts for June. Um in conjunction with Marksman, our contractor, we're doing work there. Um it we're
019actually just a quick introduction here. Um we're talk we're just going to show go through the phasing some completed activities, activities currently ongoing and then upcoming activities for the campus. So actually this was a two package um project. Our package one was to bring the portables on to make sure that we had swing space for the renovations as we were going through. That was completed during the summer and then um or during the school year and then we started in um spring break here and we took phase one which is that teal color on the screen there and marksman has gone through and um worked through about 11 classrooms. We've actually started on um uh phase two of this project project which takes the remainder of the classrooms on the left hand side there and
020then um into the administration into the library. Um as we finish that, we'll then move on to the lower right phase. it. Um, right now they have it shown currently starting at Christmas, but that's going to be corrected because as soon as package two is done this summer, they'll roll into that portion there. Move up um following that to um the upper portion of um working through um spring break and then next summer we'll continue to work through the gymnasium, the cafeteria and updates as well with the restroom. So that's kind of the phasing as we're going through. Um here's some just some photos here. Um on the left you see the existing conditions that we had with the um with the structural CMU and we're going back in removing that. So this is some
021of the work down that corridor where it's been cleaned up. We're going to replace the ceilings, the floor, new paint, painting the um the door, the window frames. We're updating the mill work. Those are shelves along in that center picture. And then all the uh ceilings are going to be replaced throughout the facility. As as I mentioned, this is actually phase one of package two and just a listing of some of the things. We've completed the demo. We're in the buildback phase. Um ceiling grid has been completed. They're priming and painting some of the walls and um continuing to work through with the storage and the shelving. Again, those are the light fixtures are coming in. I think um this week um they'll have light fixtures coming in and then HVAC trim out on um
022the duct work that's that's in there, resilient flooring, and then we'll come back and we'll test the HVAC to make sure that it's um proper um volumes are blowing out to each of the classrooms. Um as we continue on um some of the things that we're looking at um again just updating um some of the spaces that um that are ongoing with construction activities there and then um in this package here we're going to come come back with some tile ways coating final paint currently for this phase we're substantially complete in July. Our next um portion that we're going to be working on is the amphitheaters and then the vestibules will begin with upgrades. I think that's it. Do have any questions? Questions? Anyone? Thank you. Thank you. Next up, I have Bob Skareek here
023with Ken Con and he's going to be presenting on the new central office project. Take us one second to pull his Hello. Hello. Is this right here? Okay. So, update on the here's the rendering on the uh central office. It's going real well. This is from March the 17th. Um an older photo that's March March 17th. And then this was last month's update, April the 30th. This is what it looks like today. So the masonry is 100% complete around the building. Uh the metal wall panels, the sophet, um the metal wall panels are 100% complete. The sophet is about probably 95% complete. This is what it looked like back on April the 30th. This is what it looks like today. These are all photos taken today. You can see the sophet is in, the lighting's
024in. Uh we're working furiously to get u the signs in in the columns, the slope signs, the frame with the perforated panels. This is from last month or six weeks ago. This is what it looks like today. You can see um all the metal wall panels are in there. That one area down below the metal wall panels that gets the um it gets a wood type siding on it. And we're going to wait till we pour the concrete to put that in so we don't damage that. This is from the um again, April the 30th. This is what it looks like today. So that's six weeks worth of work. Here's some of the other older photos. The 10, April 10th, April 30th. Now we've got, you can see everything's painted black above. We've got the
025acoustic clouds going in. We've got the uh aluminum door frames put in and the glazing as well on the way on those. Same on the other side of the building. This is building A. This is um um where the DIS is the f the boardroom. That's what it looked like basically six weeks ago. And now that's completely drywalled in, taped and floated and painted. You can see the difference there. I'd say the acoustic ceilings uh the grid is about 90% complete. So all the above ceiling work is just chasing that. So a recap, we're 75% complete through the middle of June through right now through today. So the masonry is 100% complete. Metal wall sophet panels are 90%. Continuing on with all the site work, the curb uh and then the sidewalks. The permanent power
026is now to the building. Uh and then the louvered equipment on enclosure on top is completed and then the ongoing electric uh interior work is basically the finishes. We've got on the 26th we have a inspection with the the fire department county. Once that clears, that's for all the above ceiling work. That can continue on and we can start dropping ceiling tile everywhere. Air conditioning is on in the administration building and sky bridge soon to be on in the a building. Yeah, we had they actually had a coil that they had and that should have been put in today. So anyway, questions. Looks great. All right. Bye. Thank you. [Music] Two more meetings in here. I know. The last report we have is to give a report and update on Alvarado Elementary. Thank you. It's
027opening. Just take a second. Sorry. Is that a big file? It is. might be easier. Yeah, that's what I was trying to do. Oh, yeah. Let me close some of the stuff out to make it faster. There it goes. All right. Give me a second to share it. Good evening. I'm very excited to be here and present the update for Alvarado Elementary School. Um, and with me here is I'm Onell Himenez with Marman McKini with Jurorus. Yes. Um so, uh we we um normally start off with just an overview of where you know everything is at and I'm sure at this point you guys have seen this enough times that it's very familiar. So layout layout of the site the building that north portion is the twotory and you can see it on the second
028floor plan as well. Uh current progress we're about 23% complete. Uh work completed at this point is crawl space insulation in areas C and D, soil retainers and back fill around areas C and D, grease trap, canopy care pier caps, removal of pans in area areas A and B, work in progress underfloor installation of sanitary lines and light fixtures. Structural steel. Yay. Polish concrete in areas A and B. summer work, utility connections, sidewalks, and drives. A little bit of the progress photos. This is where we were at the end of May. Uh all of the uh slab was complete at that point. And you can see um the area where art and music is had already had polished concrete and was being protected. This is where we are as of today. Uh we're seeing the
029steel starting to get going. Uh there was a lot of rain last week uh towards the end of the week. So that kind of limited our ability to get moving uh or get more progress on the steel. Uh but uh definitely it's moving now and you'll see this develop uh very rapidly. This is more pictures of the steel and this is kind of more of an overview. The pictures on the right are showing some of the construction work that's happening along the uh side of the road, the drives that are uh going to take place over the summer. Uh and then the underfloor crawl space. You can see this is where the insulation is already in. And um we're looking the main progress or the main thrust of the effort at this point is uh
030structural steel. And we have a little drone video to kind of give you a little bit of a sense of the site. You can see a lot of the water accumulated there from the rains. Any questions? Questions? No. Thank you. Thank you. That's everything. I I do want to say something really quick for Thomas's. Where's Billy? I know he sits way in the back. He had to go to Oh, did he? And then Dixie. Uh, you know, adding the mill work at Big Country and Indian Creek with the fencing project. We have 11 active projects going on. Roughly about $170 million worth of projects that we've never really had that many projects. Usually, it's three or four projects at a time and we time them out. So, it's every day all day. Uh, and actually
031coordinating furniture now for some of these places. So, they're it's really busy. So, I just want to give him a shout out because it's it is a lot of work. Uh, and we're having a lot of good projects going [Applause] doing it all without work orders. Okay. Monthly tax report members. Yeah, we're trending exactly where we are about 94% collection at this point. Great. Monthly financial report. Got anything to say? Okay. Monthly investment report. Board members. Any questions? Stop me. Reports on Gibson request. Enrollment report. 14844. Okay. Purchases over 50,000. District demographic report. I know we have something. Yeah, we have Brent here. He's our Oh, he's been with us a while now. And so, he's here to kind of update uh the demographics of the district. Talk a little bit about our population growth,
032our areas that we're seeing lots of growth. And he's going to also sell some areas that we're not seeing it. Uh just so that you can have eyes on different uh aspects of our district. Uh, and so I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to him because he's got quite a lengthy presentation so we want to get through it and if there's any questions, he can answer them. All right, Brent. Thank you, Mr. Chris, board members, Dr. Ball. It's pleasure to be here again for the annual demographics update. Like Mr. Chris said, we have quite a bit to cover. So, let's get right to it. Um, what you see here are the annual snapshot numbers. the official number uh for the 202425 school year additional enrollment 14,833 that is a new uh record
033high uh for the district. So recall a year ago at this time our forecast was uh for the district to see between about 14,600 and 14,900. So um enrollment did come in sort of in the moderate to moderate high uh growth pace. The TEA releases enrollment data for all of the districts districts in the greater San Antonio area in the springtime. So, I've given you the updated numbers here. You can see that Southwest ISD is the seventh largest uh school district in the greater San Antonio area as of this past school year. When you look at the growth compared to last year, uh enrollment was up 4.4%. that is the fastest growth that the district has experienced in 12 years. Um but you can see that period of growth that or the period where enrollment
034declined from 2016 up to 20 really through the end of the pandemic period. Um you can see how these last three years have been much faster uh averaging about 3.8% uh annual growth. When you compare that to what um other districts in the region are seeing, um here are the percentage growths for the last three-year period, the the district shaded in red are the fastest growing. So you can see Medina Valley, Navaro, you know, at the at the top of the the growth, but many of the districts that are sort of in the outer ring of of the region are seeing the fastest growth. And so this this map here, this this this illustration is very similar to what we see in many of the metro areas in Texas uh where the the more mature
035school districts uh in the interior core of the metro areas are seeing enrollment declines and experiencing consolidations and closing schools as many of the uh home buyers move further out into to purchase purchase houses. So you can see that Southwest ranks sixth uh over these last three years in percentage growth but third in overall net numeric growth. So the net growth over these last three years just under 1,600. Uh you can see how it is right up there with the fastest growing districts uh in the area. slide. This slide here gives you the numbers, the latest numbers that we have from our census based EZRI reports. You can see that in 2024, this the these are as of late summer of of 24 75,000 total residents, nearly 22,000 total households. Uh one of the key
036takeaways here is we continue to see u you know, recall it. I talked last year about uh you're seeing more houses. They're on smaller lots. You're seeing smaller u pe people per household, fewer children per household. We're starting to see that reflected in the overall numbers with that household size uh continuing to decline. Um there's some other charts on here. You can see the percentage of families uh declining a little bit, but but when you look through the overall numbers here, these really reflect some larger national trends. the younger generation um is having fewer children currently. But um let's focus back on what's happening here within the district. These are the attendance level numbers. You can see the chart in two-year increments. Note that prek and high school enrollment uh in 2425 reached record highs.
037Um, also look at the numbers for K through five elementary the last three years growing at about four and a half%. That's uh great to see after those years during the pandemic period. Recall that we've highlighted that growth wave that's been moving through the district uh from that group that moved in back in the 2012 2013 time frame. You can see how those uh kiddos have moved up into the high school range and you can see the record numbers in 10th through 12th grade uh this uh past school year. But also note the improvement in the K through2 numbers we've seen over these last two years. So it's good to see uh those numbers strengthening. Um one of the charts that's a a metric that we look at every year is graphing what's coming in
038versus what's outgoing. Um, if you look on the left hand side of the chart, you can see the the kindergarten the blue line in the first grade numbers. Orange line, you can see how much higher they are than the the 12th grade numbers. You know, that's very characteristic of a fast growth district. You can see how the lines grew together during the period that the district was declining. Um, and now one of the encouraging signs is that we're seeing those u kindergarten and first grade numbers begin to climb higher. Now with that growth growth wave coming up into the uh upper grades, you can see how the yellow line has moved ahead of those, but I I expect it to to invert again more back to a characteristic of the past growth district going forward.
039Also encouraging to see for what's coming into the district is the local birth rate. Um, you know, I just made a comment nationally, but if you look here here locally, you can see that the number of births uh for uh babies born in the the general area of the district, you see represented by the blue line moved five years forward is trending upward. Uh the number for 2020 uh there dipped down a little bit. That's the 845 on the chart. But note that the latest data that we have, 2021, that's the highest that we've seen over the last 15 years or so. So very strong numbers encouraging might be a little bit of a flat number in kindergarten in 25 but it's encouraging for 2026 to see that number uh bounce back up towards a
040thousand. Now this chart here is our student mobility. We're looking at the student IDs that were present a year ago in K through 11. Did they move up to first through 12th grade? What do those comparisons look like? You can see these last three years that you've seen quite a few newcomers versus the leaders. You it's an average of just a little bit of more a little bit more than 2,000 newcomers coming in versus 1,600 or so that have have been leaving. So again, uh characteristics of the fast growth uh that you're seeing. Now you're you have the enrollments by campus in here for your reference. I want to move on and show you some additional data that has come out recently. This is the TEA's transfer report. Now, everybody's going to immediately jump and
041look at that 652 that 6527. I want to comment on that. The TEA reported last year um they dramatically overcounted the number of kids in charter schools. So, they revised it down and this year they are saying that there were 30 just a little more than 3,400 students that live in the district or were attending uh elsewhere. Now remember that this number is based on PE's data and it reflects students that are living in the district and attending other charter schools or other public school districts. It does not reflect private school. So where are they going? I've given you the list here. The majority are in the IDEIDA campuses as as they've been uh for many years now. Um, you can see though that as more districts, neighboring districts have gone to open enrollment that
042they have pulled some of the the students out of the district as well as you all bringing students in with your open enrollment policy as well. So, a little trading off going there. Um, we have seen a few more there's been a couple more virtual schools open across the state. So, we've seen a little bit there. Not as much as what I've seen in other districts. Now the geocoding that we do every year um shows 94% live within the district boundary about 7% transferring in. Um what's important here is we're looking at the student yields u from the housing growth. U the yield from the single family today continues to slowly decline. It's a 0.45 overall. Uh but again, this is another way of seeing how as these new types of homes on the smaller
043lots are coming in, they're they have fewer uh fewer kids. Um I've given you the uh individual subdivisions. I think uh what's important to to note is that many of the top performers are yielding right in that that range of 0.3 to 0.5. So you can go through and and see those numbers. the apartment numbers. We're still as the the newer high-end apartments that have um a higher percentage of onebedrooms um continue to uh be built uh here in the district, we're seeing that that apartment yield gradually uh decline as well. And this year is at 0.43. Um but we are seeing a little bit more on a if you compare these growth rates of the the sample size to enrolled students you're you're getting a little bit more uh from your apartment new apartments
044than you are uh from the single family. Okay. So let's shift gears and let's talk about what the main growth driver has been for uh the district. This this slide here shows the numbers for the greater San Antonio uh region for new home construction. The San Antonio area in 2024 produced a record number of closings. Um many of the areas you you'll see on the uh possibly on the news and articles about how the housing market is slowed down in many parts of the state. Well, typically that's we're talking about Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, but San Antonio has been uh performing better. The interest rates are still high as as most of you know, still right about 7%. But this is mainly affecting the sales on the existing home side. People are still, you
045remember me talking about being house locked and many of the people that have mortgage rates that are around 3% are staying in their homes. But this is benefiting the new home side because the builders are buying the rates down. So this where the the school districts that have lots of new homes available, that's where the buyers are going because they're buying the rates down to 3.9 and 4.9 and they're doing it for 30 years. Now that's expensive for builders. That means they're less profitable. They So they some individual builders may slow down a a little bit as we go through uh the next couple years if rates stay high. But for you all, the the key takeaway is that um you have the new homes that are attracting uh people and you have the new
046homes that are in the price point that are attracting people in San Antonio. The 200s and the 300,000 price homes are where the majority of the activity is today. Now when you look at job growth uh in the region here, San Antonio growing much faster than the other major markets. Uh you'll you'll hear that the other me the other markets are slower. Uh they're they're seeing uh job growth is as slow as it's been since 2010. But here in San Antonio right about that 23 24,000 a year which has been historically where it's been. You can see the red line. the housing market has has done uh quite well when that there are that many jobs as you have you all are probably very well of JCB plant coming in on highway 16500 jobs so
047we are seeing you we're going to we're going to watch that manufacturing number uh over these next couple years in this area of of Texas becoming more um you know prominent in that in that job sector All right. So, let's focus now on the housing growth. You got your quarterly numbers in here, but let's move on to the annual numbers. So, uh 1,480 new homes were started uh through the 12-month period that ended in March, and a record 1500 in two homes were moved into. Uh the lot development uh slowed down or lot delivery, excuse me, slowed down uh over the last 12 months. Uh 768 lots were delivered. The key point here is like we talked about a year ago with all of the projects that we're opening up, the builders have produced record
048new home construction and that's been fueling the growth. Southwest has now moved up to the fifth most active new home market in all of the greater San Antonio area. These are the top performing uh neighborhoods. You can see many of them are producing more than 130 closings a year. Uh you can see when you go through the elementary zones, you're going to see that the growth is is widespread. I think that's one of the key things to take away is it's it's all over uh the district. U one thing that we're watching that if you look at that column with the future and preliminary lots, you see a lot of zeros. Well, that means that a lot of these popular subdivisions are are running low on lots. So when you see my forecast, you'll see
049the strong next three years begin to taper off. Well, many of these uh neighborhoods are going to need replacements. So we're going to continue to watch that. So price point wise, I did show you every the the popularity of homes under 350,000, how that compares over there on the right to what the region uh is as a whole. So very affordable uh new homes here in the district, which is a benefit. um activity by uh attendance zone. You can see the activity by elementary zone here. So again, Spicewood Park is the leader over the last year with about 375 new homes. But but you can see it's districtwide southwest Medio, Bob Bob Hope, and Sky Harbor all uh producing a lot of homes and even Crew Road in some valley over a hundred new homes
050in those attendance zones. A lot of this feeds into Resnik and in Legacy High School. So, uh you can see how they have uh the majority of the activity. Now, looking at inventory as of uh this spring, there are about 2,300 lots that are on the ground. These are the ones fully developed and ready for houses to start. About 1,300 lots are coming behind that. When you roll it all together, there's about 8,300 single family lots in production and about 2500 apartments that we've got in our forecast. So, we've got them mapped out here through um throughout the district. You can see uh when I when I refer to it being districtwide, you can see um the widespread geographic location of all these subdivisions. And we're even seeing u some some additional development south outside
051of our survey are to the southwest of Elm Creek where we're seeing some of the some new homes in mobile home communities coming in down there as well which is which is adding to growth in Elm Creek. All right. So I have pictures of the developments through from the end of March. I'll go through these quickly. This is um up in the Vita area. You can see the progress in the in the bottom corner with the the University Health Medical Center, but this subdivision is adding, you know, several new lots and new phases. You can see there in the in the picture. Um, across Zarzamora is smile, the smiley track. This is several hundred lots, you know, filling in there. U Hunter's Pond between Hunter's Pond and Vita. And then as you move over, you
052can see the Apple White Meadows subdivision. The the new South Sa Palo Alto apartments are just opening. So, a lot of the ones that we talked about last year are are up and running. Um, and then others that we've watched for years are starting to wind down. So, you can see Marbell and Los Altos in the Nets area starting to wind down. then reserve at Medina after all this time they have developed all the lots and that's what you see in the picture um are what they have remaining now you can see those streets stubbed out into the adjacent parcel so we're watching for that to be to be sold but at this point it it's still um that still has not occurred now we're watching on the Watson Road corridor um here's Rancho or
053Kota this is where Habitat humanity this this home builder uh hand up homes and these have given you a 0.8 yield getting lots of kids out of this type of home and they've got more land coming there where Fiser and Watson Road are where it comes together there at the curb. So we've got a lot of activity right there near the Alvareo Elementary campus. So the timing on that in 2026 like we talked about is is very very good. Um again, you move through the area, you can see more of the development. Um move over to where LAR is. They've been moving quite pretty quickly at uh Valley Soul. They're going to move across the street or excuse me across 35 on the north side to a subdivision called Sunshine Trails. They've got nearly 800
054lots there. U that one will be in Southwest Elementary or currently Crescent Hills top seller. Um, you can see how it's filled in so quickly right there next to Medio Creek Elementary. Um, remember Salana Ridge has been active for so long and now look, Dear Horton is down to the final few lots in the picture. So, it's it's going to be interesting to see where they go uh to replace this. And then others um you can see Melissa Ranch and then if you go up to where 90 and 1604, the Applewood community continues to expand. They're they've pushed their um or they they've completed their northern entrance off the 90 access road. So this area will continue to grow and add future retail uh and commercial uh in the area. And then look at all
055the homes in Cinco Lakes and in Medina Landing and Lucky Ranch. We're still watching just so you're aware. There's a couple tracks that are most of it today is in Medina Valley schools, but there are about 300 lots that are still left uh there. We're continuing uh to watch that progress. Okay. So, what does all this look like? Uh moving forward um these next three years, we're looking at about at about 1,200 to,400 closings per year. Um over the next five years, it could be 6200 homes. We could see over 9,000 homes in 10 years. So um again quite a bit of activity uh to go. So what does that mean in terms of enrollment growth? Uh when you look at the moderate scenario that is really a 3% uh growth rate from this year
056to to uh next year being in that 153 range up to 154 more of a three and a half to 4%. So uh the blue line really represents more of a a 2 and a half to 3% growth rate. over uh the next 5 to 10 years. Even if that happens, we're looking at almost 2,000 more students in the district over the next five years, potentially 3,000 over 10 years. If we see the yields go up, if we see even more subdivisions, there's the potential for 2500 to 4,000 students coming in uh to the district. Um, now there's a lot of factors that I'm trying to I'm talking to Brandon about being on that moderate. You know, we've got we've got the vouchers coming in in 26. You know, how's that going to impact K
057through two? Um, you know, we're watching the builders say that they're going to try to purposely slow down. Uh, so there's some there's some things out there marketwide. You all adjusting your transfer policy. those kinds of things are all uh contributing to being more in that 2 and a half to 3% forecast. So even at that forecast these are the projections um the roll up for each attendance level and their percentage of capacity. You can see today that elementary the blue lines about 86% of functional capacity with the addition of Bob Hope's additional classroom space and then the the Alvareo campus is going to fall back towards 80 but it's going to keep growing and so you all are going to have to likely need to address elementary again uh within the next five to
058six years. If it grows faster it's it's going to be three to four years. So, as you can see, uh, you have the capacity right now at middle and high school to absorb the growth. Um, if we see the higher rate of growth, just kind of move everything up to the left on the on our charts. But overall, uh, I think elementary will continue to be the area to most of your your focus. Um, I'll answer any questions that you have at this time. No questions. answered everything. Thank you for the handout. Everything's pretty very good presentation. Thank you. All right, Brit. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. M. Okay, we're going to go to uh budget update. Yes, sir. We got Scott. He's going to come up and kind of get a quick update.
059There's a little bit of information from last time added on with some more TA guidance that we got. Uh and then we've kind of started our projections. We still have a lot of work to do uh as the summer goes on as we start closing out this fiscal year and looking at budgets like transportation, facilities, and maintenance uh and the costs that we took on this year and and forecasting next year. So, he's going to go through it pretty quickly for you and then if you have any questions, he he'll be ready to answer them. All right. Well, good evening board members, Dr. B, senior staff. Let's talk budget. Here we go. All right. So, as you know, there's a new law, House Bill Two. I think we've talked about it a couple of times
060before, so I'm not going to bore you with those details, but they're pretty important to our budget. But on the right, what we do need to know is that there are templates out there for us for Brandon and I to kind of look at to kind of base our revenue off of. So, so those are currently being modified. So, the good news is as more information comes out, the better those templates are at at estimating revenue and that helps us with our budget process. So, here we go. So, some new laws that came out that are not called House Bill 2 is Senate Bill 4. It's the resident homestead exemption. So, that increased from 100,000 to $140,000. That still has to go to the voters, but I'm pretty sure the voters are going to vote
061yes for less taxes. It seems to be the trend. And so, um, we'll be keeping an eye out for that one. What that means for us is that we'll receive less tax dollars. However, we'll receive that's the difference from the state. So, it doesn't really affect us in the wallet. So, that's good. So, the next item that's pretty important is the Senate Bill, 1453 that relates to the INS tax rate. Basically, what this bill is saying is that if we come to you guys in August and approve a and ask for approval of a tax rate that's higher than what we need to to uh pay our bond payment, then we'd have to justify that that uh that additional rate. So, um right now we haven't decided if we're going to be coming to you
062all with that information. Typically, in the past, we've used that that additional funds for defeasance or increasing the fund balance for future defeasants. So, but we'll come to that in August. All right. And of course, this one's very exciting for the purchasing office, the procurement uh law change. So, now it increase $100,000. So, Senate Bill 1173. Thank you for that increase. And so, we'll that'll probably be part of the next TASBY update. So, looking forward to that one. All right. So, as we said, uh we've had some new insight into revenue and um here's a uh screenshot of our current projections of revenue. So, we're looking at $181 million. No, excuse me, $181 million revenue. So, it's uh seems like a lot, but as you know, some of it is earmarked for flow through to
063teacher uh raises and port staff raises. So, all right. So, last time couple weeks ago, we talked about the the new funding that we would be receiving and we looked at we were looking at about $7 million. The new updates are look showing us about $9 million. So, that's great. We still have the five million that we need to flow flow out. We have to contribute about half a million dollars as well from our from our pocket to pay the taxes and the difference for the the new raises. But, at the end of the day, we should get about a $4.2 $2 million increase in funding. So that's that's pretty nice. We're we're excited about it. So how does that work? So at this time we're kind of taking that that information. We're looking at
064our at our overall staffing and we're looking at a 2% increase for all staff and of course the teachers would be receiving the uh the raise that the state provided as as part of the house bill too. So that is what this would look like. So the total cost for that is estimated to be 151 million. So so you can see the raise about $5 million in raise receiving about 4.4 and rate and money from the state. So we'll be having to pay the difference. So all right, this is what our draft budget would look like based on our new higher revenue and our even higher payroll. So, we're looking at about a $1.7 million deficit budget currently, which would bring our fund balance projected in 2026 to about 56 million. So, we're still in
065good shape. This is way better situation than we were, I think, this time last year. So, I feel pretty good about it. Um, Brandon and I will continue to look at revenue estimates, continue to look at um payroll updates as we get those uh clarifications from TEA and other places. So, but so far, we think this looks pretty good. It's a good starting point for us. feel a lot better than this with this number than I did two weeks ago. So, all right. And this is a fun slide that shows the fund balance. There you go. All right. Compensation, everyone's favorite topic. All right. So, TEA came out with a uh a uh guidance on how they would like to see the teacher pay scale with the new races added to it. And so, this
066right here is what that pay scale would look like. for Southwest ISTD. As you can see, the starting salary would stay at 60,000. Years one and year two would stay the same. And then year three, we add the $2,500. Year four, $2,500. And then year five starts the $5,000 increase. And so, and our salary scale goes up to 34 years. So, anyone 34 years or more would be receiving the uh that that slide. And so um we also have the uncertified teacher that would the new hire uncertified teacher starting pay would be 57,000. So any questions on that slide. All right. Very good. Moving on. This page right here is the same one from two weeks ago. We just kind of reminder of who all will no longer be on the teacher pay scale. We've
067moved them to the new campus professional support pay scale. We're still working with our um our frontline service to kind of create that that pay scale within our computer software. It's a little bit little bit more task oriented than we thought, but we'll have it done by the time we start in August. So, here we go. All right. So, the so that new campus support pay scale. This is what that would look like. As you can see with the 2% uh raise, it's about $1,400. And so, that just kind of flows across. So starting salary would continue to be 60,000 year 1, 6,140 and so forth. So and this one als this is the one that includes the nurses and the librarians as well. So this is our counselor pay scale. They've always been on
068their own scale. So this one just shows their new scale with the $1,400 increase. And so that's there for you to check it out. All right, next steps. So we are in June. We've we've talked about our compensation plan. We'd like to come back to you in July with uh with a compensation plan to approve and then of course we'll continue to go over the budget reports. We'll have some updated information on our on our revenues, probably have a better insight as to what tax rate we propose and so forth. We'll have our certified values by the end of July. So that will really help us out as we move into August and approve our budget. So any questions? Questions? on the potential campus support. Are so y'all are recommending the 2% or Well, so
069we're going to run numbers. We're going to start with 2% and go from there. Uh running the 2% and not doing anything else in the budget wise. We're at a $ 1.7 million deficit. We could potentially run something like a one and a half to see if that gets us closer away from our deficit or we can go a three and see how much we add to our deficit because you're talking auxiliary staff, you're talking bus drivers, count uh counselors, custodial staff, everybody getting across the board 2%. I was in the call with superintendent because I said it for Dr. B. Uh north side's 1.2%. Northeast I think is 1.5 1.5 I think. And so we feel like 2% for us is a good starting point to see how much I bring that up because
070we have to be ready for 2026. So what we do now this year will impact us when we get into opening Alvarado because we're probably going to add on 5 to7 million in operational budget. Uh and so we're going to run numbers and we're going to still work on our revenue. There's a lot of still a lot of things to unpack still in revenue. Uh because some of the revenue is prescripted. We're showing as revenue that we're gaining, but some of it's going to the CT program. Uh unless we're adding teachers that that can't help us pay for teachers. That's just going to give them more money in their operational. So, we're still having to work through a lot of those to see what actual money is going to help us to reduce the deficit.
071Uh, and then like I said, some of the other bigger departments, uh, right now they're getting close to running in in the in the red like transportation and facilities and maintenance and how we can fix that next year. So, there's still a lot to look at and so we can run different scenarios. The reason why we can't give you hard numbers right now is like Scott said because we're having to do something different with our all our our scales and put them in our system and it's taking us a little longer than we thought it was going to take. So, you're saying the 1.7 deficit includes the 2%? Correct. Correct. Like a a real like raw correct calculation. And that's not including some of the other things I just talked about. Brandon, this time of
072year, this time last year, we were looking at what deficit was it? 12. Yeah, we adopted about a $12 million. And and what did we end up with? Well, we're finishing the year right now. Yeah. So, so it's we're I think that our our revenue is coming in a lot stronger. So, I don't think we're going to be in the twelves. Uh okay. At all. So, we don't know the number. But I will say that we including in that was we asked the board to do an incentive. So, we spent about 3 million that we didn't anticipate out of fund balance for that. So, right now we're tracking with our revenue. I think we're going to be in pretty good shape. We're gonna have we're going to go into fund balance, but it's not going
073to be to the tune of $12 million. 12 million. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Thank you, sir. [Music] Okay. Item seven, uh, administration and human resources. Consider approval of resources for learning for mentoring support of teachers new to teaching and mentor and mentor teachers. Yes, Miss Barton. It has this one. in regard to a grant that we were awarded. So um this year under our talent management which is Dr. McClullen uh she went out and um looked for different ways for us to mentor new teachers. What we find out is if we can keep teachers in our district for for two to three years then they stay and they they like the Southwest community and the culture. And so our job is to make sure that they're able to be very successful in their
074first couple of years with us. And so she went ahead and applied for it's considered a grant type but it's called an aotment. So it is the mentoring program aotment and we went ahead and received that this year. So we won that grant and with that we will be able to train the mentors the people who are actually going to help these new teachers out. We're going to have uh individuals who worked at the regional service center and this was their expertise come out to the campuses, help the administrators on how to lead uh a positive culture for uh new teachers to want to stay, how to help mentor teachers, on how to not only be great classroom teachers, but to mentor new and upcoming teachers uh to the profession. And in addition to that,
075to make sure that every new teacher has a voice with somebody who's not their direct person who evaluates them, somebody who they can soundboard ideas with and really talk about issues and then they can go through and work with the administrators on clarifying maybe standards or practices or things that need to happen. And so we were very fortunate to be able to win this aotment. And so this program um that we're having before you is over $50,000. It is one of the approved programs from TEA. You had to use an approved program and so this would be paid out of the aotment completely. How much is the a lotment? I think it's almost $100,000. We're paying a little bit out of u um Dr. Mlelen's salary for it and the rest of it would be
076this. And then locally we typically pay a stipend for that mentor because they do hours outside. In fact, with this, they'll have to do two days in the fall prior to school starting and a couple hours in session and we already have that as a part of stipen grant, but um we're looking um for different ways to funding. So, we're still looking for extra money. Okay. Thank you. I move a second. We have a motion and second. The board approve Riley and Presley educational paraprofessional certification training and mentoring support for teachers due to teaching. Questions? Anyone? Hearing? None. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item eight, business and finance. A, consider approval of a lease agreement with Palo Alto College for Castm High School site. Yes, sir. This is a
077two-year agreement to extend uh for the next two years with Cass High School being on the on site at Palo Alto College. The estimate it will be about $395,000. We did negotiate uh we also negotiated down the price because this was actually costing us more because we are now having several programs there. We're actually we ex exempted June and July. So this is actually lower price than what we've been paying at Palo Alto this time. What is our anticipated enrollment cast next year? I I know the freshman class is going to be about 120. Okay. So, I know the freshman class numbers, but I don't have the other numbers. Mark can share that information. I move second. Have a motion to second that we approve a lease extension with Palo Alto College through 2627 physical
078year. Questions? Anyone? Hearing? None. All in favor, please say I. I. Motion. All oppose, please say thank you. Motion passes. Okay. B. Consider approval of ESA federal grant application. Yes, sir. Uh, as Loretta presented during the public hearing, I do want to point out under title 4, uh, there was a typo. It should said well-rounded students and using those funds for well-rounded students. And so, that was the, uh, what those funds are, uh, entitled for. And so I'm asking the board to approve uh as presented and recommending to the board to approve the ESSA application. I move a second. We have a motion, a second that we approve the submission of the ESSA consolidated federal grant application for 2526 school year. Questions? Anyone? Hearing? None. All in favor, please say I. I. All opposed. Motion
079passes. Consider approval of adopting a policy declining to grant non-enrolled students the opportunity to participate in league UIL activities. Yes, sir. So, this is a new house bill. Uh, in the past, districts uh had to opt in. So, basically by board vote, we would have to opt in to let non-enrolled students or homeschool students uh participate in UIL sports, UL activities. We are uh the new law says that we have to opt out uh and so we have to bring this to the board and and ask the board and we're recommending to the board to opt out of allowing non-enrolled students participate in sports here at Southwest ISD. I move second. Have a motion second that we adopt a policy declining to grant non-enrolled student access to participate in league UIL activities at Southwest ISD
080effective immediately. Questions? Anyone? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. D. Consider approval of a new safety measures for 2526 school year. Who's got this? I'm happy. Coach, coach. Thank you. Good evening board. Dr. B. In light of ongoing national concerns about school safety, Southwest IISD has taken a proactive approach to evaluate and strengthen our safety protocols to better protect our students and staff. Nationally, over 75% of schools have reported taking increased safety measures such as clear backpacks and bags for students. uh participants with clear bags at school events, installing security cameras and perimeter fencing, and also expanding mental health support. District staff facilitated two safety and security committee meetings as well as conducted surveys with parents uh with staff and with community members to provide feedback regarding safety
081measure recommendations for our next school year. Stakeholders that took part in the process included parents and guardians, Southwest IISD staff members, board of trustees, and campus and district administration. Recommendations that were highly supported included a clear bag policy at campus district events after hours, student clear backpack and bag policies for all grade levels, and scheduled wand metal detective wand searches at campuses. If approved, these recommendations and proposed actions would be shared with Southwest ISD stakeholders through multiple avenues as we continue to prioritize transparency, proactive planning, and the well-being of every student. I've got the survey data here from uh both staff and also the uh the community members and parents. We had about 620 responses from the parents of questions that were asked if they would support the use of clear backpacks for students. Over
08270% of them were in favor of that. Uh we had about 230 or so staff members. Overwhelmingly 87% were in favor of clear backpacks for all grade levels. terms of uh activities, clear bags at events, concerts, athletic events, 80% almost 80% of our parents were in favor of uh adopting that and staff members overwhelmingly almost 90% were in favor of that. Our last recommendation included using the handheld metal detectors for scheduled wand searches. uh wouldn't be every day. It wouldn't be every student be based on the concerns that we have. Uh right now we're looking at doing this only through grades 6 through 12. Uh so looking at our parent response, we had almost 80% of approval and our staff was nearly the same about 80% 78.6. So our next steps would be we would
083communicate to stakeholders these changes that we're going to be implementing. principles of course would send home the uh welcome back letters to families. We would post information on our websites. We would post information in social media and also all of our other avenues for getting that information out. We haven't sent out our district supply list, but we would include that recommendation or that that approved recommendation uh for that. And then our parent student handbook changes would also uh would also support that that move. Uh I know some concerns that or questions that have been asked is will the district be providing the clear bags? We will not. So one of the things that we would do is we would communicate to academy, Walmart, Target, those areas. U and then of course Amazon has them as
084well since tons of uh school districts nationwide have moved towards that and the uh principles were also overwhelmingly in favor unanimously in favor of moving to that at all grade levels. [Music] And what was the determination for the athletes of the bag? For the athletes, that would be if it's a district owned bag that that's issued out, dance, athletics, what have you. Uh that would just be subject to to a search in the event there was reasonable suspicion report or something that bring it in early. They said correct. And we would work with administration to come up a protocol to have the kids check that into what band area or athletics prior to the school. I have a couple of concerns. Uh, one is that so few people responded to the I mean it we
085probably had less than 10% of our parents respond. So um when it says 72.9% it's it's just not lot a lot of people. Correct. Um also most uh retail businesses ordered their supplies last year. So even if you call and HB and they've already they're already getting their back to school supplies. So, I don't know that we're going to be able to find 14,700 clear backpacks. Um, I'm not sure if it's really feasible to make that change this year or we should give families a heads up for the next school year or if we're going to make um exceptions for people that can't find the backpack or I mean I'm just saying it's a it's a is North Side going to clear backpacks? Not to point out. Okay. So, I don't want to jump on
086the clear backpack wagon with only less than 10% of our parents uh uh responding and also does it put a financial hardship on the parents that use the same backpacks every year? Because we probably have a large population of children that use the same backpacks yeartoear or they use their handme-down backpacks. I just have a concern that it's a little um a little late to try to do that this year. So, would you be okay with amending the recommendation or if the board wants to approve the whole recommendation, but we could say how about the sporting events and after hours stuff having clear backpack policies like I would be okay with the sporting event and after hours and the wanding because we still would like to have that wanding. I'm just not sure we can
087put that. It's already June, middle of June. We're starting August 11th. If there's other, especially if other school districts are going to go to it, that's going to be even a bigger demand for backpacks. And also, clear backpacks, they don't last. Yeah. They tear. They um I'm just thinking we're not this is not a a good thing to tell all of our parents in June that on August 11th they have to have clear backups. Originally we were looking at secondary level only but as we expanded to the other principles and and that's nationally they're doing it sixth to 8th grade or 6th to 12th grade as well because a lot of the students don't really use backpacks anymore because everything's digital. Well, I know, but all everybody I see those kids coming into the high
088school with heavy backpacks. I don't know what they have in them. They have backpacks. And I know somebody said that a couple weeks ago that kids don't use backpacks, but I dropped my nephew off at the high school every day and I see those kids walking in with backpacks. So, I'm not It's just my opinion, but I think it's a little too late in the game to say [Music] You got to have Well, we need direction then from y'all. Like, so I think we've been through this before and um we disagreed on it as well sometime a couple of years ago or a few years ago um probably before our previous superintendent had left and um I do believe that those backpacks do not last very long. We've had I think we had conversation with
089other school districts and parents were not very um uh on board with it because they can't be buying backpacks every three months. They tear, they have holes in them, you know, from the students putting them down or whatever. So, I don't like the idea as well because I don't want to have uh I don't want to put undue burden on families when there's already, you know, they have to buy so many things and it's very expensive, you know, for a lot of these families. We do have a lot of people that that have uh back to school clinics, you know, where they give away backpacks and things like that, but what are we going to do if they're going to do something like that and it's just regular backpacks? I mean, we would have to
090that would be hard for parents to go out there thinking they're going to get something for free and then they can't use it here. So, um I think it's also very late, like Mr. Dawkins says, I agree with that. It's very late in the year to have that notice out there. Um not sure if businesses would be able to um have the backpacks available for that many students, but it's just um too expensive for families because a lot of families that I know reuse their backpacks as well. That's my opinion as well. I don't know what everyone else thinks. Well, I would agree to to approve the other two. bonding and the events also if we're going to pull back on the backpack part for now but the other parts definitely improve those in my
091opinion. Well, we're going to long every person that come through the gate. No. Okay. Random. Okay. Yeah. Random. I'll go with that. But I don't like the backpack issue also. Well, we want to recommend uh for a clear bag policy for all our after school events and then the wanding of um our students that uh what's the word you use? I forgot to be scheduled so one day we we' be doing every other bus or every third bus. Yeah. Randomly, that's the word I was looking for. But with the bench, yeah, I need to get that notice out there pretty quick. Quick. Yes. So, the wanding is just it's the wand. It's not metal detectors. Correct. We would train administration on on how to properly want. So like you're saying at for example at football
092games or No during the school day during the school day. Yes ma'am. It's a it's a practice we use here at our our crossroad center that we're just randomly kids get off the bus. We're there. We start wanding kids. It's it's not profiling. It's just random sections scheduled during the day to So we already have the wand. So we have to acquire we have we do have Yeah. So I would move that we approve clear back policy at all events and also um random wing. Random wand waving. What is it? Wanding. It's called wanding. I think random wing. How many school districts in San Antonio have clear back policies at events? I think every one I've ever been to. on every playoff kind of late game on it. I didn't have a clear bag and
093nobody asked me to go take it back to the car. Yeah, here because Southwest We didn't have it at Southwest yet. No, not here, but I mean at other events that I've been to. I know North Side does north. I haven't been to any event where they tell me that I need to have a peer backwards. That's why I was asking. I have. I've had to go back to my But of course, I carry a small bag. I don't carry a large Oh yeah, the small ones. Small ones they allow. We'd probably do that too. Like I mean you can size. We can look at certain size. Yeah. So we have a motion. Oh, second. We have a motion, a second that Southwest IC safety and security will approve a clear bag policy at campus
094district events and scheduled one searches at campuses. Is that random? Okay. But are we saying after school events? Correct. Right. Just to be clear. Yes. Yes. So then is that an amendment to your motion after school events because it doesn't say after school. Okay. The wanding for after school events. How no just get that. Let me read it again. A clear bag policy at campus district afterchool events and scheduled slashrandom wand searches at campuses. [Music] Um the camp it just say campus buses sorry campus buses. Okay let me re and is that up for any amendment? Okay. Southwest ISD safety and security policy will be a clear bag policy at campus/d district afterchool events and scheduled slashrandom one searches at campuses and buses. Is that okay with the motion made and the second? Okay. Hearing
095that motion, any further questions? I have one question. Okay. What are we going to do with our athletes that go from school to the games and they have a backpack? That's something we'll have to work out a procedure with. Okay. Any other questions, comments? All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you, coach. I keep calling you coach. Okay. And I've got that for you, Mona, if you need it. Okay. Curriculum and instruction. Consider approval of a contract with National Institute for Excellence in Teaching. NIT. Yes. Lea has this one. Yes. We've been doing some work with MI18. And so the work that we started was with Blasto. Now we have three grants which is a total of $914,000 which we're really excited about. And so with this money broken it
096down and we're going to continue to contract with NIT. We're also going to provide not only just teach her training but it's also training and with additional of 199 on coaching sessions. So we're happy that we can even learn our teachers and our leaders and so we're hearing a lot of positive feedback and we're rolling out this work even as of now. So we are asking the board to approve our contract with NIT to continue to support our math curriculum and Last year was implementation planning. Now we're in implementation phase. I move I second. Have a motion and second that the board approves a contract with NI at the cost of $548,400. Questions? Anyone? All in favor please say I. I. Motion passes. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. We approval of contract with NIT
097for school improvement PLC supports. So we got an additional grant and this grant was specifically for support and this is for our three middle schools. We are going to be incorporating a fourth middle school with some additional funding or if nothing with this but NIT again is the partner that we are seeking since they already have done an amazing job with our leaders and our teachers. So, we found a really good partner to help us with our curriculum um initiatives that we are rolling out. So, for our middle schools, we did receive $225,000 just for this and we're asking the board to approve this additional contract with NIT. I move I second. We have a motion that we approve the NIT contract to provide additional support to all three middle schools at the cost of
098$89,54. Any questions? Hearing? None. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Same sign. Motion passes. Thank you. Special programs consider approval of amendment to stipens for the 2526 school year. Yes, Dr. Hogan is going to talk about this. In order to fill some very high need positions, we would like to increase a stipen. Yeah, we at this point we we still have um quite a few openings um for the upcoming school year specifically in the area of our early childhood special education self-containing classrooms and then our DLC classrooms which are our diverse learning center classrooms. Those tend to be the hardest positions to fill and and two parts to that. One is because it does require two certifications. It requires the special ed certification and it requires the general ed certification. Um and
099a lot of our special ed teachers really only have the specialized certification. The other piece to that is they're really complex classrooms. They have a lot of students in the classroom that have high needs, uh come with a lot of liability, a lot of training that goes into that and really to enhance the opportunity to to get qualified teachers and to get them to stay. We're looking at um wanting to increase the stipend uh to 5,000 additional dollars. Um, so what I would be asking for today is for the board to consider the approval of an additional $5,000 that would impact um roughly 38 teachers right now. What would the complete amount be? So right now for the self-contained position, there's an there is a $3,500 sip. So this would be an additional $5,000 for
100them. The stip is considered like kind of a retention and recruitment. recruit people that are out there come to Southwest at the same time get an incentive for the ones that we do have because initially it was kind of like let's let's try to recruit some more but this is what we're using to do it but also we got to take care of the ones that are here as well. So, it's kind of a retention incentive and recruitment style added on to their additional sting. So, it's an addition to the 3500, not 3500 becoming 5,000. No addition. I move. Sorry, we have a motion in a second. Questions? Anyone? All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose? Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. We also have consider approval of agreement for Medicaid consulting and billing.
101Yes, this would be changing who helps us um with the SH. So I know Dr. Hogan has this information. Yes, right now we're really looking into making sure that we have the right um group of individuals supporting us to have more efficacy with our our billing process um and better integration with our current district better practices. Um and so we did go back out and look at several different um companies. Um, and based on price and based on working with our platforms that we have, we are recommending that the board consider onward as our SH's management vend. I move second. We have a motion and second that we approve onward as a shares management vendor for Southwest ISD beginning with 2025 2026 school year. Questions anyone? I just would like to make a comment that
102they did go out and looked at others. Okay. And now we're showed up as the uh best. [Music] All in favor please say I. I all oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay, your one last thing. Just like to remind everybody that we are closed on Thursday uh for federal holiday uh now and then we'll be open back up on Monday. Okay. Anything else? Not at this board members have any. Okay. Hearing nothing else as permitted by sections 551.001 001 through 551.146 of the Texas Government Code. And pursue with the Texas Government Code 551.074 and code 551.071, we will now go into close session at 7:28. Like to come back into open session. Time is 8:34. Go to item 12. First of all, uh item A, superintendent recommendations and personnel administrator. I move that we approve
103the superintendent's recommendation on personnel. Second. Have a motion second. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Item B, consider take possible action regarding Texas Ethics Commission complaints. I move that the board restates its prior motion from August 27th, 2024 and continues to believe that there is a legitimate public purpose to authorize Wash Gayos to aid in responding to outstanding ethics complaints filed against board members. As such, aid continues to support the district with normal board and district operations, help support the election decisions of the voters within Southwest ISD, and helps the district be in compliance with the laws of the state that the board has retained sufficient controls over the response to such complaints that ensure the district's public purpose is served. I second. We have a motion second. This time
104all in favor please say I. I. Any abstensions? I abstain. I abstain. Any nays? Motion passes. Item 13, other business. Yes. Um, I would like to remind all the board and senior staff that there's a retirement party for Miss Pam Rips. Um, if that's going to be next Wednesday, the 25th at the print shop from 1 to 4. Pam has been a long-standing employee with the district. So, I'm hoping that y'all can come and join us to celebrate her her retirement. I'd also like to call up a few individuals so everybody could see some of our new principles. So, if Miss Gearhart would please come up and Miss Gearhart is going to be joining us as the new principal for Bob Hope Elementary. Miss Gearhart, if you would come to you just remain standing right
105here and you can look that way so in case anybody's viewing us and just remain standing. Then I'd like to call up Miss Alina Palomo Scott as the new principal for a Big Country Elementary. And then I'd like to call up Miss Raina, the new principal for Medo Creek Elementary. [Applause] The principal shep is one of the most important jobs. um you're guiding our teachers, our students. So, we are so happy to have you all join us. We know that you will do a great job and we are all here to support y'all. So, God bless you all and thank you for joining us. [Laughter] We will not be having a July brown bag. Um, so just so y'all can put that on your calendar. We'll see you at our regular scheduled meeting for July.
106And of course, we're here if we can help with anything. Great. Board members, any last item? All right, let's go home. Being a journal.