001Good morning. Let's call this meeting to order. Let's begin with our invocation and [Music] pledges. Lord, as we gather here today, may we do so with open minds and open hearts. We are blessed with the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations that lead us to understanding, progress, and solutions for the greater good of our students and community. As we approach the end of another school year, let us reflect on the journey we've taken together and celebrate the milestones we have achieved both in our students and ourselves. May we be may we recognize the dedication of every educator and the strength found in our community. We are grateful for the gift of this time and for the responsibility entrusted to us. May we use it wisely. We ask all these things in your name. Amen. Amen.
002I 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. Anyone sign up? No, sir. Okay. At this time, with the permission of the board, we're going to go from item three to item six. We're going to go as permitted by SE. Any questions or everybody okay with that? Okay. Uh, as permitted by sections 551.001 through 551.146 of the Texas Government Code, pursuant to Texas Government Code 551.07, 074 discussion on personnel and administrator employment resignations, reassignments, less survives and contract renewals and pursuant to Texas government code section 551.071 attorney consultation regarding legal issues related to proposed non-renewal of
003term contract and item C pursuant to Texas government code 551.074 074 considering discuss recommendation for proposed non-renewal of the term contract for employee Elsa Sanchez Kintania and D pursuant to Texas government code section 551.087 deliberate regarding commercial or financial information that the governmental body has received from a business prospect. The governmental body seeks to have locate, stay or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body and with the governmental body is conducting economic development negotiations pursuant to Texas government code sections 551.071 through 551.129 consultation with district legal council. We will now go into close session at [Music] 11:33. Come back into the open session at 12:22 and we'll go to item 7. We convene into open session to take appropriate action that was discussed in close session. I move that the board accept
004the superintendent's recommendation to propose the non-renewal of the term contract of Elsa Sanchez Gintania and further move that the board direct the superintendent to give written notice to Elsa Sanchez Gintania as required by law. All in favor please say I. All oppose. Motion passes. I move that in the event of a non-renewal hearing the hearing will be conducted by the Southwest ISD school board. I further move to accept the superintendent's recommendation to authorize a Walsh GO's attorney to advise and assist the board in connection with any non-renewal hearing and with the board president to impose procedural rules for any hearing as well as move to authorize another Walsh GO's attorney to present the case for the administration. Second. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Okay. We will now
005go into item four, consider approval of 95 phonics. Yes. Uh we've come to the board before with the K to third grade and then the last was for fourth grade. We found some really good um just feedback from the teachers with this program. And so now we're coming back to the board to approve 95% phonics for fifth grade. I move second. We have a motion and second the board approved the purchase of the 95 phonics for the 20 245 school year for fifth grade as a supplemental resource not exceeding 80,000. Questions? Anyone? Hearing? None. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item five, items of information. Budget update. Scott has a presentation. I know that up there. All the boards have a handout. We'll start with So, Scott's been working on
006it. We We went through kind of the expenditure side. We've worked on staffing staffing models. We looked at our stipen agreements, reduce those to find savings. We're currently going through budget process and looking at budgets on trying to reduce budgets by 10% across the board at the departments uh across the district. Uh we're having a little bit more struggle with that because uh places like facilities maintenance and transportation, those budgets have gone up uh and price of products have not gone down. Uh and so we're going to still look into venturing that. and Scott did some preliminary revenue uh based on our data currently and what we project for next year, but also this is very high level. It's really early because we know there's some House bills out there and Senate bills out there
007on school finance. So, we do have some runs on what that potentially might look like, but that's got a lot of that has to be worked out still. So, uh Scott, you got about 15 minutes or All right. So, I think we need 10 now. Before the um the Scott starts, I'd like to commend the board because the board has been very good stewards of the money. The board has an excellent fund balance. Um so I I want to make sure that we're very clear the district is not broke. Um they've been very y'all have been very good stewards of the money, but at the same time as we're looking at the legislative session, we are not anticipating getting all the money that we need. So that is why we're having these conversations. I don't
008want anybody to misinterpret anything. Um, we continue to be good stewards of of our taxpayers money and the money that we get, but in anticipation that we're not going to be funded more, um, we have to look at every avenue to make sure that we assist the board in continuing to be the good stewards of the budget. So, thank you, board. All right, here we go. All right, I'm just going to skip ahead and just go right go right into the legislative updates. So, right now we have uh Brandon and I have access to the legislative tracker from Mo Casey. So, if you guys have questions about specific legislative uh um items that are in the session right now, you can give us a call and we can we can track those for you. So,
009there's that. So, first update I'd like to talk about is House Bill Two. This is a very important update that's out there right now where currently the law provides us with the the aotment that we receive our basic aotment as well as instructions on how to handle teacher raises. And so House Bill two is being proposed and it knows it's been out there. It's a it's going to raise the basic aotment and also provide additional funding for salaries for teachers and school district employees. And so how much does it raise it, Scott? You raised it $395. Um nearly $395 more, right? Yes. Just one makes not very much. It's not. Ma'am, you're right. Well, we we'll see the we'll see the slides later. Good way to put it, but I'll So, the legisl two is
010kind of stalled a little bit in the in the legislature. Not sure why it stalled a little bit. the voucher was able to get passed and was signed off, but this one is still um being looked at. So, more more to come like on this one. And as we talk about House Bill 2, they do have a provision about teachers who have 10 years or more. And so, that's going to be interesting to us if it does go through because as we look at teacher performance-based pay, how do how does that factor in? So that's something we're looking at trying to get more information on as that becomes an actual law. So all right, so let's get into the budget. This is our current budget year to date as of uh April 28th. And you
011can see we're we're trending right on track is what we we planned for. So um this includes the uh winter incentive as part of the amended budget and on the far right the percent that we've spent. So trending as we should. All right. This next slide, this is a very important slide for our budget. This is what we use to write the budget with. We are anticipating 13,668 students as part of our average daily attendance. That's based on our enrollment projections of 15,216. The enrollment projection of 15,216 is what we use for our staffing and as well as our campus budget. So that number, you'll see that number pop up a few more times. And so those are our assumptions that we're going with. got our taxable preliminary values of 7.5 is that billion. So
012that could change as the uh um protests are going on with their taxes and all that good stuff. So that number will fluctuate, but we'll have a more accurate number as we get closer to July. So all right. So currently for our budget, um we're going we're basing our whole budget based on current law. We're not going to write a budget for anything else, only for current law. And so right now we've we've made some good adjustments that Brandon talked about earlier about the uh staffing and the stipens. And then uh we also are looking at lowering some of the non-payroll departmental budgets. It gets us about a million dollars in savings. That'll be tough, but we we think we can at least propose it for the short term. Now on the right, we've got
013some costs that have gone up that we know about. We're adding 10,000 for Alvarado and also our frontline ERP software is going to increase about 20 grand. So, um, and as far as compensation goes, based on current law, we are recommending that we have a salary freeze, but anyone who's on a on a scale move up one level. That's the teacher, nurses, librarians, and counselors, and then also the bus driver. So, they would move up one year. And so, that's going to cost us about 800,000. So, and then you guys approved the budget for the insurance, the additional money for the insurance. So that was very helpful. So all right, here's some of the savings that we've been able to find for some of the costs that we've added. And so not quite the four
014million, but we're getting closer to it. So that slide is there any questions on that? All right. Just wanted to kind of put this slide out there about the enrollment. So you kind of see our trend is upward, which is a very good positive sign for us. A lot of districts in our area are not trending upward. So we have increased enrollment. So that is helpful as we continue writing the budget. All right. I have a question. Okay. Going back to budget consideration. Yes. Uh savings from staffing. Um is is the is that a county? Um that's I mean we're not the majority of that is is is not majority of that is teacher reduction that we did when we changed the models. So a big portion of that we can break it down. He
015has a spreadsheet we could share that shows exactly where we're going to have the savings. And then there's some that was to attrition. Uh but most of those placements have been made I'm assuming Francis. And then there was some decisions that we decided not to do. Uh a good example is the the nurses clerk. So that's not in that number. So this you think is a number. Correct. And anything after that through the attrition that we decided. So example social workers that's not in this number yet because we we don't want to put a number up there when we propose a budget. It's not going to be part of the savings. So if we have social workers leave and we can split fund them then they then that's going to be free up some of
016those savings that are additional through those items million is for sure correct. Okay. That was my question. Great. Oh sure. All right. So this slide right here is our prop proposed revenue based on current law at the 6160 basic aotment and we are looking at 166 million. That's about what we're expecting currently with current law on our revenue. Hopefully it'll go up a little bit more, but that's kind of what we're looking at right now. One of our biggest losses, if you go to the bottom where he has it in yellow, the the 5931 Medicaid program, we had some we that used to be about 3.5 million. Yeah. So, we're we're getting revenue from the state and hopefully there's a law out there to help supplement those losses for us. Uh we're hoping that passes
017and they're able to give some of that money that we've lost because we're still in litigation over the money that we lost from the last year and this year. So, uh lots of changes from the uh that organization and uh cut back on that revenue that we were getting. So, it is kind of a big blow for us. Pretty significant loss. And so based on that, we have the campus aotments. And so we've we've already passed out our campus a lotments to the principles and they've begun working on breaking it down as they see fit on spending those those funds right there. Um we may have to go back and look at the custodial costs have gone up significantly over the last couple years. So we may have to go back and look at that,
018but I think we'll be okay at the start of the year. Um, any questions on the campus a lotments? [Music] All right, nitty-gritty. Here's the draft budget based on current law and it does include the the health insurance increase. And so this budget right here that you're looking at also includes the million dollar subtraction from the department allocation. So right now, if everything stays the way it is, we're looking at about a $7.8 million deficit budget. So, I know that a deficit is very hard to to agree on, but I can tell you that in Bear County, this is something that's talked about every month at a superintendent meeting. Ours is the lowest deficit from all the school districts in Beay County. Some of them, as Brandon mentioned last week, have something as far as
019up to 47 million deficit, $18 million, 21 million. So though we want to continue to decrease that um $7 million deficit is actually one of the best ones and last year was 12 12 so it was 129 this was about 7.7 the thing about that and now I kind of mentioned to the committee a little bit is not only when we reduced the staffing models uh we were able to cut some staff but we're growing too. So, I mean, our class sizes are going to grow a little bit, but we're not going to be sitting at like a, you know, 27, 28 in our elementarymentaries, but that's why we broke down the capacities at each elementary. We have room. And so, we did have a we were very friendly and nice to campuses with the
020the models allow for extra. And so, we kind of cut out the extra. And that's where we have the biggest savings. And we're not adding because in the past, we've added staff and added staff and then compensation and compensation. And that's kind of where you have a a huge number in your payroll costs. So, we're really doing two things. One, reducing staff and not adding staff, which is causing us to see our deficit shrink, and that's that's what's helping. And then with added revenue, and we have other districts that have uh adopted larger class sizes than we are. Yeah. So, yeah. And just so the board's clear, so I wanted to get out there because we did this with our ESAC, too. We adapted adopted class size staffing mods, not class size you have to
021be at, you know, 23 to one. It's just this is how we're going to staff you and then we're going to give you the FTEES and you figure it out. And so like elementaryaries, we we're not going to let schools be with 25 kids in first grade. So we that's kind of I just want to make sure it's not our our ratios change in each classroom based on when they actually have kids in there. It's just how we staff. Thank you for explaining that because a lot of times the public doesn't understand how that works. It's just a staffing model, not what we say you have you were going to have in your class that we have to spend no matter where we have to spend. We do different things, but the fact that we're
022tracking in the right direction even though we know we are going to be bringing on a new elementary tracking the right direction that we're going to do this all within the, you know, constraints that we're under with the money, but that we're not wasting money or increasing too large of a size and all that stuff. So, thank you. Yeah. And so here's a draft for fund based on House Bill Two's proposed uh increases. And so as you can see, it's a little bit different. It's about a $5.8 million deficit. And it the reason for the different the huge difference is yes, we're receiving a lot of money, but a lot of that has to go towards mandatory uh salary increases. And so you can see that up at the uh on the on the staffing
023part near the uh yeah so I was sharing with Dr. Ball the house bill even though it's it's significant they're going to raise this the basic allotment which we want we want the money in basic a lotment more than anywhere else because then we get to choose how to use it but inside that you know they raised it and so the basic allowment gets us about an extra $4.8 $8 million and then they're tying all that to salaries like you know seven 40% of it has to go back to teachers nurses and then 75% of it all has to go to salaries and include your other folks uh and then after that there's a lot of weights where the other money that goes specific programs like special ed comped safety aotment things that we can't
024free up to help let's say operations like facilities and maintenance budgets and transportation budgets. So even though they're giving us more money, they're actually telling us how to spend it, which was what we didn't really want them to do because compensation wise, we feel like in our market, we're pretty comparable, but all we're doing is moving that up again against everybody else. But where we're hurting is in a lot of other places uh other other places in salaries, other places in uh like running our facilities, running our operations. Uh and so that's just giving you a heads up. That's why it looks like, well, yeah, you're getting all this money. Why is it not reducing down to zero? Because a lot of it's getting tied up in some of these other programs and a lotments
025and then also in in future salaries that they're going to tell us how to spend it. That has not been voted on. Has not been voted on. Still still in the house as far as we know. And they're running out of time. Yeah. Are they are they getting a lot of push back for the basic aotment amount? I think they have to agree between because this this is the House bill. It's not not like the Senate bill. Senate bill is all give all the money to the teachers and there's not much else for anything else. Okay. So, they have to come to an agreement because they got to work together. And there's a there's several other nuances in the hospital too besides the increase of the basic office that's I think it's taking a lot
026of time. How much do we give for the the uh the bilingual all that stuff? And then they have to work with the Senate whose bill was just teacher increases. That was their finance bill. So, they got to work to get there. It's it's a big animal. Hopefully, it makes its way through. I wonder how many of those legislators are teachers. Probably not. Correct. It looks like most of them are lawyers is what I All right. Speaking of fund balance, here we go. So, on the left you have the current current fund balance. that would be if we passed the the budget based on the current law. So, it looks like we'd have about a $7.8 million loss, which would bring our fund balance um to $50 million, which is very significant. We're able to
027operate. That's a good fund balance to have. With House Bill Two, we'd be kind of in the same boat. It would take our fund balance to 52 52 million. So, just wanted to have that slide there for you guys to have if you needed it. So, all right. Budget timeline. All right. Well, we're in May. Um, and we were going over the the budget and we going to go over it again in June. Hopefully in June we'll have a little more information. We should know which direction we want to go if there is any kind of compensation increase. Um, we should have a little bit better handle on on the laws that are that are in session that are about to be passed. And so and then July, as we move towards July, we'll have
028our probably a compensation plan that we can present that will tie into our budget that we're looking to adopt in in August. Should have our certified values um cleaned up by then and have a better understanding of our what our revenue should be. So looking forward to August. All right. Any uh any questions? Going back to fund balance, you know, it says that we have to have a minimum of three months. Yes. Based on last year, what was last year three months? Months or min? Um 175 divided by Well, I think it's about 45 million we have to have to run three months. We're spending Yeah. 15 million a month is pretty much what we operate on. We're at four months right now. So, we're at 73 million right now. And we go to 57.
029And that's if we spend every dollar out of this budget this year based on the, you know, the was a $12 million $12.9 million deficit, but then we also added the incentive. So really, we have $15 million fund balance deficit this year. That's if we spend every dollar, which I don't anticipate happening. So we'll see what that number that's that second to last bar, 57 million might be at the end of this year. And then if we continue to operate in a deficit, we're going to chip away and get below the the three months reserves. Can you go ahead and put the thought of doing a legis you know that thing that we have to do legislative? Absolutely. Because not all of us go to that thing where they give it to us. Yeah. So
030maybe we do something to the board and I always have trouble getting that and we need that as a training right. We can do that in August or September if we would like. Well, one probably September once the law goes on. We can do it in August. Okay. Well, some sometimes they also still do it at the um fall conference, too, but we can do it. Some of us don't. Sure. Okay. Um, a couple of points though that I would like to make. Um, again, really thanking Scott and Brandon for for working on this. Um, as y'all can see, if you go back to that slide, I just want to make it very clear of the healthy fund balance that the board has been able to help it help it grow. But one of the
031amazing things of the team is that they're always being proactive. There will not be another legislative session before we open up Alvarado Elementary. So, we have to be very cautious of what we do because there will be a cost to open up Alvarado Elementary. So Brandon, do you want to speak a little bit on that? Well, so you know, as we get into uh working through Alvarado, right now we're starting to build budgets for Alvarado. Uh first of all, for opening, so a lot of the money that we could use to open Alvarado operationwise, facilities wise could come from the bond funds, but there will be some purchases outside of that like curriculum wise and and setting up that campus for success. Uh there could be some movement like other areas like we've done in
032the past with technology and moving uh different things from buckets of campuses that are going to be losing kids but for the most part to get them a fresh start. So we'll start building that budget and at the end of the day we'll need to look at uh capacities across our district. So we're going to start the demographic study uh and we've already contacted Brandt. he's already started to work on it and so in June hopefully we'll have a a study of uh where our campuses boundary changes might happen and then look at capacities of campuses that maybe we need to look at doing something different and that really that's all I want to say at this point is are we maximizing every facility and if not where is there potential savings well put any
033questions Okay, thank you. All right, thank you. We have a first read of FDA local policy update and revision. Yes, Miss Barson is going to speak on that. There are lots of handouts on that, a PowerPoint and and some other board policy handouts. Recently worked with Amy. Amy is the individual from TASBY um that provides us our board policies. It was a great learning experience for everybody that was involved. Really helped us to see what our policy says and what our practices are. So in in looking at that, there was a little bit of a discrepancy in regards to what we actually do and what our policy says specifically in the area of FDA local. Um so Francis is going to speak on that so we can have the first read. Good afternoon everybody. So,
034I'm here to speak really uh about the FDA local policy. Um, one of the things that we like to do is make sure that you understand some of the data behind that. So, I'm going to ask uh Dr. Hogan um as one of the chairs of this committee to really talk about some of the data that she has for us. So, we ended up doing two separate rounds for the transfer process. So during our first round, we focused only on staff and their children. So this is the breakdown of all of what we processed during round one. So we processed 291 applications. And if you note, there are two campuses that obviously stand out, which were Elm Creek um and then Southwest High School were the two that had the most um transfers during round
035one. Those have all been processed. And then when we went to round two, we actually processed um a larger number with that group. that particular group included there were still staff kids that were um applications were coming in and then they were also other outofd district transfers. So we had 498 transfers that we have processed through the committee for this round. What I will note just so that everybody hears this is that we're still getting transfer applications every single day. Um it averages anywhere between two to six or seven a day. Um and so they're not and it's not just staff kids. We do have um lots of applications that come in from all over the place and various different reasons. Um so the number does continue to grow and the committee which uh Mr.
036Hernandez and myself have been heading up, we're going to continue to process those but it has been very enlightening in the process. So this is 700 um applications to come to Southwest for non-residents not including cast stem. So let's talk about the process and what FDA is. We did have a TASBY review of all of our board policies and you'll get some more information on some updated um policies through the summer. We have a collection of data that was done by a committee to find out actually how many interd district transfers we have coming into our district. Um, we had committee meetings and groups that actually looked through applications and went through to see what the capacity of campuses were and what the staffings were for those campuses. And then we had a policy discussion.
037Are we able to continue this process? And then what needs to be revised? Are we actually following through with our policy? And then we're here today as our first read. And then at the May board meeting, we're going to ask for the approval of the board change. So, let's dive into it. I want to remind you, I've provided everybody the TASBY recommended new wording. It's in front of you. It has blue and red in it. And just to remind you, red means that it's a deletion. It'll have a strikeout. Blue means they are um asked to add that to the existing policy. The black lines are the existing policy. the way that it stands. We are talking about interd district which is non-resident students coming to southwest ISD. We are not talking about intra which
038are our residents going from one campus to another. So today it's outside coming into southwest ISD and that's what our FDA focus will be about. Francis, can I ask you just real quick? Do we get um the um if we get a kid coming from north side, do we get the money for that when they come? Yes. Well, we get state funding. We don't get the tax funding. Yes. Because they're not a taxpayer. Okay. Yeah. So, we don't get the we don't get the full like but we do get this the foundation the basic allotment. How much is 6,100? No. Well, fallart the state. Well, I mean, what the tax? Well, it depends on the tax. Like, if they live in our district and they had a home and they would pay taxes, they would
039be paying taxes based on the value of their home. No, I know. But what are we losing? I mean, if if the kid comes from our side, we're getting the basic a lotment, but we won't get taxes because they still pay taxes at wherever they live if they have just asking ballpark. How much? Well, you know, most $2200 $2,500 something like that. So we're having to educate the child without the tax. Correct. Okay. But again, that money goes into a state pool. North sides and ours all goes to the same pool and then it's funed. Well, supposedly equally. Well, I mean, if you're a taxpayer in South D and you pay Southwest D taxes like but you take your kid to North Side, we get the tax money for that kid. So, okay. The state
040just realizes that in their foundation, it imbalances it out. But we get the basic amount. Correct. Okay. Okay. So, let's talk about what our actual policy states right now. Our current policy as written in front of you says that no non-resident student shall attend Southwest ISD. And that is how it's written that a non-resident district employee may request admission for their child through an application process. Transfers are only granted for one year. Factors for considering the approval of a out ofd district transfer would be the availability of space, instructional staff required for that, students disciplinary history and the attendance record of that child and if they violate our code of conduct or and our guidelines that they can be non-renewed for the following year. And that is what is on this page and it's in
041the black section. That's what you have. So you'll see the first outline in yellow that says that really we don't have open borders. So what are we proposing? Our proposed change is that we add non resident students may attend Southwest ISD if their siblings are already enrolled in the district and they follow the factors that are already listed below. meaning we're trying not to separate families into two different school districts. If they already have a sibling here, we would let the siblings continue on their educational path here at Southwest ISD. In addition, we need a statement added so that non-resident students may attend Cass High School because that is an open campus and we allow enrollment from across San Antonio. So, those are our two lines that we would add in that section. You'll see
042one of them highlighted in pink with the word siblings. You'll see the other one with the blue dash on the far right side so that you'll know that that's the cast stem line. In addition to that, we would request that we have regulations created and that was provided to you on the following page. And the regulations basically would state that through the deputy superintendent and through ghost and planning that we would allow that we would determine which campuses are at maximum capacity for resources of staff and space as per the factors in FDA local to make a determination which campuses could close for transfers from out of district in district as not to put a burden within the school. And so that would be done annually. In a nutshell, this would allow for the transfers
043of students for CASTM high school based on the application, which is a process they've used since they've been um in our district. It would allow employee children to be considered based on the criteria that is located in this policy, which is space and resources of staff. the attendance and behaviors uh and disciplinary um history of a child that we would allow sibling groups to continue to attend Southwest ISD preK through 12th grade if their child is already en if the sibling is already enrolled this year in the 202425 school year. The factors would not change. they would still be the same and that if a student violates this uh this policy or any other of our guidelines, we can non-renew that transfer the for the following year which is already existing in that policy. Do
044you have any questions? Yeah. Is there anything we're doing affect our existing kids at all? So, I think that we've already received a lot of the phone calls just actually having the committees review and look through everything. But as a person who has pupil services and Mary Lou under me um and Adrian even the years before that we've had to make decisions about allowing um the transfers to come in and take a seat in a program space that may have gone to another child that we might have had to create another classroom. We might have had to find another teacher. This one would really allow us to um use our funding and our dollars for the kids that draw the tax base here in additional to respect the employee because that's why they come here
045so that their children could have consideration coming in. A lot of districts don't allow everybody to come in. Um so this allows them to be considered for it if there's opportunity and availability and space and resources. In addition to this, um, we thought that adding the sibling group really allowed us to be who we say we are, which is family. So, if they're already here, we allow them to stay here to continue their educational, um, journey with us. I think those will answer the majority of questions. I think people were just concerned because there might have been rumors that no employees children would be allowed. And when rumors get out there, it's a problem. And because our policy did not match our our practice, that's where complications happen. Now we're trying to align the two.
046So I think this will actually resolve a lot of the uh conflict or confusion with with our community. And does this affect a little? I know you mentioned earlier. So if I have a if we have a student and they supposed to go to Lidol and they're like a super fantastic basketball player and then they come to South is that allowed? it. Well, in UIL, it's allowed because depending on if they were in Lido and then like their freshman year and they come to Southwest their sophomore year, they have to sit out a year, right? So, that's UIL. Okay. But once you come to Southwest and you establish residency here, which is we're allowing them to be at our district, even though they're not they're they correct they play freshman. Yeah. Their freshman year, they
047they're eligible as far rules. They can't move forth. Correct. Now, if they moved into the district and bought a home or rent an apartment and they established residencies that way, there's another there's a waiting time, but it's a lot shorter for that. Yeah. Okay. Uh say we get a new teacher at El Creek knowing that we're maxed out. Are we allowing their child to come with them there? So, the committee actually makes a determination on that. And it's and when we say maxed out all different grade levels, different programs, we actually have to look child by child and look through their history. Look at everything that u the child presents and where the spaces are. So we don't make a blanket statement because one classroom could only have 18. The next classroom next to it
048has 22. We have to make sure that we actually look at all of that. understanding that right now we're still in the middle of registering for next year and that we'll have our big registrations all throughout the summer. Uh we will be doing the same thing we did last year, which is having open registration over in the human resources building. We'll have two people working to help parents register on time every day in English and Spanish so that they don't have to wait until August or July to register. they can register all summer long so that we actually have good counts when we have new teachers come in. Other questions that the board might have. So then our plan is to bring this at the regular board meeting for approval unless there's questions or comments.
049All good. Okay. Other business. That's all we have. Thank you very much. Board members, do you all have anything you want to do? Um, this tonight is everybody going or who's going to go or I know these three are going for sure. I got a call from Boka last night just pretty much. She's going to want us to be kind of hands-on tonight passing out um medallions or trophies and stuff like that. So, just FYI, I think they're probably going to be four for sure. No t-shirt and shorts. Sorry. No t-shirt shorts. This week is teacher appreciation week. So I know that the team deliver cakes today uh for teachers. We try to highlight them in the Monday message. So this week is teacher appreciation week. Also nurses week. um is this week. Um then
050we have Thursday is our big employee banquet. I pretty sure everybody's going to go to that one, right? Yes. Um then Friday, uh Relay for Life. We have Relay for Life. Um on Friday, this Thursday is Yes. Yeah. Um and then it's also communication school communications day. So, I'd like to thank Jenny and her team for everything that they do. Um, the list goes on and on, but I will be texting y'all like I did yesterday. FFA banquet is on May the 13th. Um, the big team of eight training, but on that team of eight training, there's also a regular, not a regular, but we're going to have a board meeting where we will also cover the um canvas canvasing of the votes. There was one other thing and then I'm going to bring Mo
051Casey, the contract with Mo Casey and uh and Brett here. They're going to come meet each other. So to help us with what we discussed in close session, we will continue to remind you that also something very exciting that's going on for our district is on the 20th. It is the first time that Southwest ISD is going to go do the teacher and sendup aotment. So anybody that on the 20th Of course. Of course. But just as a heads up that if anybody want, we will spend the entire day going and visiting 63 teachers, giving them a big check. Really? Was that from last year or from this year? From last year. 63. Wow. Yes. What are the ranges? Everything I think was from $8,000 to like $25,000 for five years. That's fantastic. So, that's
052a big deal. That night, they will come to the board, but we also want to make it very special. Um, so if any board member wants to join us as we do that, again, I'll send out reminders, but I know that many of you like to plan ahead. Um, just want to let y'all know that happens. And when is that going to happen? On May the 20th. May the 25th. Okay. It's in the mail. Not hearing anything else. We now close this meeting at 102.