001Good evening and welcome to our March meeting. It's good to see so many happy faces out there. Everybody's smiling. Let's have a good meeting. Roger, will you please uh start us with the invocation pledges? Yes, sir. Please stand if you're able. Lord, as we gather here this evening, we take a moment to reflect on the changing season and remind ourselves that each day brings fresh opportunities to learn, inspire, and make a difference. Tonight, we recognize and celebrate our teachers of the year. Their dedication and commitment to their students and their craft are a testament to the power of education. Their influence reaches far beyond the classroom and we are grateful for them and all of our teachers who make a difference every day. We also take a moment to recognize and bless the students and
002their families in attendance. Uh may they continue to learn, dream, and embrace the opportunities before them. May they be guided by those who teach and mentor them and inspire them to reach their fullest potential. May this season of renewal bring energy to our work, encouragement to those who teach, and inspiration to all those who continue to learn. May we carry forward a spirit of gratitude, collaboration, and purpose as we support one another serving our students and our community. We ask all these things in your name. 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
003you, Roger. Thank you, sir. Okay. And now for the funnest part of the meeting. Okay. Let us begin with recognitions. Yes, Miss uh Jenny is going to lead us. We have a wonderful group both of students and of teachers. Good evening everyone. First up, we're going to recognize our students of the month for Sky Harbor Elementary School. Fernando Alcala, please come [Applause] forward. Fernando is an exceptional student who shines in and out of the classroom. He earned the highest scores in the most recent benchmark assessments in reading and math, number one scores in both, and loves to learn. He is a great role model, always willing to help classmates as a patient and supportive peer tutor. His kindness, respect, and positive attitude make him a joy to be around. Outside, Hold on. Right this way.
004You're going to come right here. Outside of class, Fernando is a responsible and enthusiastic member of the robotics team. He brings energy to everything he does and takes every chance to grow. Whether he's excelling in school, helping others, or joining in school activities, he always gives his best. His hard work and kindness make him a valuable part of our school and community. [Applause] Congratulations for Southwest Legacy High School. Adriana Orduno, please come forward. Adriana is a senior who truly stands out for her courage, dedication, and leadership. She's taken on the challenge of enlisting in the US Marines, showing just how determined she is to succeed. She is ranked fifth in her class and excels in dual credit courses while juggling multiple responsibilities. Through the CT education and training program, she earned her paraprofessional certification which
005has prepared her to step into the classroom right after graduation. On campus, Adriana is a strong student leader, always working to make a difference. But beyond her achievements, it's her kindness and willingness to help others that make her truly special. Her hard work and spirit make her a true example of Titan pride, and there's no doubt she's going to do some great things. Congratulations. [Applause] And now for our Yes. And Roger will send you the pictures. I promise. And while he's taking the pictures, not here today, but I still want to recognize them, is Zoe Serrano from McNair Middle School. [Applause] We want to recognize you also. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. And if we could have Miss Laura Garza come up and help us with our rising
006stars recognition. These students have shown incredible growth making positive changes and improving attendance. We are confident that in their their hard work will continue to positively positively impact their entire school experience at Southwest ISD. And the winners are from Cass Stem High School, Axel Kolaron, [Applause] Tobatulations. Thank you. Great job. This is for you. You know what? I'm going to put this right here. Let's take the two and then shake their hands and then come stand right behind your trophy. Okay, good job. Yes, congratulations. And while he's shaking everyone's hand, we also had two other rising stars. I believe they were unable to make it, but I still we still want to recognize them. Sun Valley Elementary, Alejandra Aguilar and McCull of Middle School, Eli Aruro [Applause] Moreno. If any family members for this young
007man are here, if you will please stand, we'd like to recognize you and say congratulations. Cassent. Yes, ma'am. I will hold this one for you. Big smile. Awesome. Super proud of you. Keep coming every day. Okay. All right. [Applause] And now for some athletic recognitions. Would we please call up Aiden Diaz? [Applause] We are proud to recognize Aiden Diaz springboard diving accomplishments for the Southwest Dragons. Aiden finished fourth overall at the UIL 5A swimming and diving state championships. Aiden is an exceptional athlete and an exceptional role model for all future divers of Southwest ISD. We are looking forward to his accomplishments in the coming [Applause] year. And while he's walking around, I'd also like to call up coach Megan Ashue. We are happy to celebrate Coach Ashue, who was voted region 7 dive coach of
008the year by her peers following this year's regional meet. Coach Isue has played a key role. Aiden, hold on one second. M coach Ashu has played a key role in aid India's success and has grown in the Southwest ISD dive program just from a few athletes to over 40 spanning elementary through high school. We are lucky to have her and congratulate her on this well-earned recognition. [Applause] We can have principal also join us. [Applause] We would like to also recognize Aiden's If they're here, if you will please stand and we can recognize the family. Thank you so much for being here tonight. Thank you. If we could please have the Southwest High School football team come [Applause] in. kind of line up here for a picture. So, let's do the very best we can to
009kind of all squeeze into this part right here. That would be great. And while they all are lining up, uh let's talk about the team. They had a season to remember. They went undefeated, claimed the 145A district championship, and won both a by district and area championship before a hard-fought battle in the regional semifinals. The team racked up an impressive seven superlatives on the all district team along with the 15 first team and seven second team selections. They also made history with 13 THSCA academic allstate selections and were named a finalist for the Texas National High School Academic Excellence Award. Additional honors include two Express News All Area Selections, four allstate selections, and a spot on the elite Waterburger Super Team. Congratulations [Applause] We are also extremely excited to recognize our Dragon football team leader
010tonight, Coach Alejandro Franco for being named the Texas High School Coaches Association Region 8 5A Division 1 Coach of the Year as voted on by the THSCA coach of the year committee. This accomplish this is anand outstanding accomplishment and we are fortunate to have coach Franco. We appreciate his leadership and efforts developing great young people through athletics. Congratulations. Any family members for these young men are in the audience? Any family members? Will you please stand? [Applause] If you want to shake the board's hand on the way up that way, that would be perfect. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. You want to do a solo? Congratulations. No, you didn't do a solo, but the diving. Congratulations. Congratulations. Good job. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Congratulations. Congratulations. Great job. Thank you for call. And now we would like to recognize
011our 2024 2025 Southwest ISD teachers of the year tonight. Please call them in. We're also going to have Dr. Ruiz and Miss Mona Weezer help along with this. All right. Their enthusiasm for teaching, love for children, and expertise make them teachers who are highly respected and admired among their peers and within this great community. We thank them for all they do. And tonight's recognition is just a small token of that appreciation. We will now go through our campus teachers of the year for Big Country Elementary, Cynthia Sosa. Congratulations and thank you for everything that you do. From Bob Hope Elementary, Katie Wedi Congratulations. [Music] Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Hitting Co. Steam Academy. Ernestine Mendes. [Applause] Indian Creek Elementary. Amma Vasquez. [Applause] Sky Harbor Elementary. Irene Garza. [Applause] Spicewood Park Elementary. Dillia Martinez, [Applause] McNair Middle
012School. Kel Richter, [Applause] congratulations. Southwest Legacy High School. Amy [Applause] Velasquez for what you do for our kids. Congratulations CASTM High School. Maya Renon, [Applause] Crossroads, Ruben Vasquez. Congratulations from Medio Creek Elementary and district finalist, Kelly Vanuva. [Applause] from Southwest Elementary and District finalist Anna Karen Parab. [Applause] Congratulations from McAuliff Middle School and district finalist John [Applause] Olling. Congratulations from Southwest High School. Dora Monsayas, [Applause] who is also a finalist. Congratulations from Scobby Middle School. Gilbert Partardo II. [Applause] And before I announce the district finalist of the year, uh, not in attendance, Creewall School of the Arts, Brena Trevinho and Elm Creek Elementary, San Juanita Garza. Thank you so much for all you do. Our elementary district teacher of the year is Sun Valley Elementary, Jessica Welch. And our secondary district teacher of the year,
013Resnik Middle School's Carlos Perez. [Applause] Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you for taking care of So like to truly express our sincere app on behalf of myself and our board of trustees. You are our best and what you do each and every day. There's truly no words that we can say thank you. Thank you enough for your dedication, for the love, the compassion, the kindness, the wonderful lessons, the way you engage our students. There's nothing that I could say to really demonstrate how much myself and the board appreciate you. Southwest ISD board of trustees is so generous. So, in your certificate, you will find a little check and if you're a campus teacher of the year, you have a check for $500. If you're a finalist, you have a check for $750. And then if you're a
014district winner, you have a check for $1,000. [Applause] So, we're gonna take a picture. So, please feel free to take pictures with us. You can see everybody. If y'all can see me, I can see you. Big smile. And one, two, three. I can touch anywhere but whether you're a school or a family, we really want to Because these dedicate weekends, evenings, a lot of their own. So, will you please stand? We want to recognize you and thank you for allowing [Applause] So sincerely on the board and myself, thank you for everything that you do. May God continue to bless you and may you stay at Southwest for your entire Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Appreciate it so much. You have a great day. Thank you so much. Have a good evening.
015Brandon, nobody signed up. No, sir. Okay. They're already doing it. So, yeah. You might have to give a 20 minute. Yeah. At this time, we'll take a little break. Okay. Did you say we're taking a break for record? Take a little break. Five minutes. Okay, we'll come back to order at 6:27 and we'll go straight to the consent agenda. Is nobody signed up to speak? Board members, you've had item five before you. Any questions? I move that we approve the consent agenda. A second. A motion and a second. Hearing no questions. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item six, we'll start with construction update. Wow. Okay. Monthly tax report, you've had that. Financial report, you've had that. Investment report, you've had that. Anything we need to present? No, sir. Any
016questions, board members? We're on track in tax report and then uh last week we gave the last brown bag we gave a little update on the delinquent Texas give some requests enrollment report we are at 14907 almost 15,000 that's 57 77 more than last year at this time. Wow. Purchases over 50,000. Okay. First read of TASBY board policy update 124 for local policy. Who's going to read? Mr. Ramirez. Good evening board president Vosquez, board members, Dr. Ball senior leaders Jasby has recommended policy updates um to several corresponding excuse me local policies. Uh the uh the idea here is to ensure that there is alignment with legal requirements. This is a first read. You do have included in your packet a list of the policies that are impacted by these updates. Uh they include um fiscal
017management goals and and objectives. uh other revenues and investments, intellectual property. Uh there's also an update regarding employee standards of conduct, uh extra correct, excuse me, curriculum design and special programs and uh special programs again uh specifically gifted and talented affecting gifted and talented students. Also, there's an update regarding student welfare, child abuse and neglect, and then uh community relations. Uh and so again there's a description a short description of what these changes are. A lot of the changes are changes in wording and again the idea is to ensure that alignment with uh legal requirements. So are there any questions? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. master schedule update. Yes. Particularly it impacts our program. Good evening, board president Vosquez, board members, Dr. Ball, and senior staff. So, tonight we'll be providing an update on
018the master schedule process for 2526, which started back in the fall. So, the campuses have been working diligently to make sure that they do meet the deadline. And so the overview tonight will look at uh one the overview of the course selection process. How our current eighth graders moving to 9th grade at Southwest High School and Southwest Legacy will choose their courses for next year. We'll also look at the endorsements, which as you all know are the specialized programs of study at the high school level, which are similar to college majors. And so with the introduction of House Bill 5, they are required to choose an endorsement by the end of their ninth grade year and also look at the counts for our CTE programs of study. So you'll get to see what our students
019are choosing. Um I do have to let you know that this does not include our new enrolles. So this occurred prior to spring break. So any new students who did enroll into the district will have the same opportunity, but the counts you'll see in a few minutes will not include them because they have not started the process. And so then we'll talk about next steps. What does this mean for high school campuses a after we do our course selections? Okay. Thank you board. And of course before we get to the tallies of course what we do is we uh ask and we we do c several things with our students and we're look focusing on our eighth graders. One of the things that we do in step one is going to be of course getting
020our students interest inventories completed so that we can see what are their strengths, what is it that they like, what would their future plans be. And so there's a series of uh surveys that school links the program that we we are using uh has them go through. And so that's one of the first steps of course getting their interest uh inventories completed. From that point, we go and we continue to do more program of study uh exposure. And so that is done through different uh venues such as class guidance lessons. We do student and parent events such as our passport to success evenings. We have our elective showcase nights. And so that is continued exposure of our students. But now, not only are they have they looked at their interests and their possible, oh, this
021is what I want to do as a career, now we're exposing them to what is available at our high schools that is also related to what they're choosing and what their strengths are. And so once they do that and we continue to do exploration within their uh college and career course at in the eighth grade, then we have our high school counselors who go and make the visits to the middle schools and continue that exposure. Now they're going to be presenting their course selection offerings for the following year. And within that, this is done also electronically in the school links program. And once the students select their program of study after they've of course done their interest inventories, they've done some selections, they've talked to their parents, they've done some tours to the high schools,
022now they're selecting their program of study. And what the system has done or what we've done is we've set the system to where once they select their program of study, their four-year sequence of courses is prepopulated uh in the program. They also go in and select their level of course subject areas. For example, if it's an English class, they'll select their ninth grade English class and they will select their uh level. For example, is it an honors class, is it AP, DC, etc. The program is also we've prepopulated to where it is also going to prepopulate their four years of English, their four years of math as they're selecting their 9th grade course. So therefore now we're jumping over to step number five which is now this program we at the end of their when
023they submit this the program has created a four-year plan for the student based on their program of study and their level. Can this change? Of course we know that these students may change their mind. uh and we do have them lock in by law by the 10th grade they have to lock in their program of study so that we assure that they're going to complete uh their their CTE and their their cores that they are required and of course their graduation courses that they are uh that their the state requires for them to graduate. So within this now that they've selected that or or submitted this this is where we get our tallies and and this is where Dr. Dr. is going to be presenting the tallies that we focus on the CTE programs that
024we have. But any any uh questions regarding our uh process as far as what the students are exposed to and what they are are selected within the school links. If not, we'll pass this on to now the tallies that Dr. Ortiz will be presented. So our primary goal is to ensure that all of our students and parents have all of the informations on all of our CTE programs of study, the benefits about being in CTE. So as Mr. Gonzalez outlined all of our recruitment efforts in order to ensure that we are educating and inform order to recruit and retain our students, I wanted just to start by sharing the data at Legacy. Um so starting off with legacy based on the data the goal is to continue to recruit um for three programs in particular.
025So legal studies, HVAC and cyber security. So legal studies this coming school year uh 2526 would be the first year of that program of study. And so looking at the numbers continuing to recruit to ensure that we have a full um cohort starting that particular program of study. HVAC this school year would have been the first year that we started that program. So it is a young relatively young program. This is our first year. So our goal is to continue to recruit. We know that that is a valuable program of study not only to our students to industry but our community at is as it is growing um uh very quickly. Um the third one we're going to continue to recruit is cyber security. We want to make sure that we continue to recruit. However,
026based on numbers, we will be ma making a decision based on um numbers for that program. So, um we we will have that data towards the end of the school year. Um also at Legacy, we have animation, auto audio, video, and photography, which are very similar. They all have um graphic design um and multimedia kind of embedded within and photography is embedded in AV is embedded in animation. So the goal or the proposal is to phase out photography and continue to embed photography NAV with animation photography in uh um sorry and audio video. So incorporating those two um so that we would eliminate or phase out u photography and so those students would then have the opportunity to select from either AV or animation. Does anybody have any questions? I'm curious about our cyber security
027program. I mean it used to be pretty robust. So at Legacy um our numbers have been low for the last few years. Um so that is a is a program of study that has does not have high enrollment. Um and working with the campus um that is a program of study that has not been successful. Um I realize that by the numbers but my my question is I mean the demand is not going away right I mean the correct we need people and so why was it so robust at one time where our kids were graduating and going into the field and now we have six kids that want to do it or do we just not have the so I know that the courses become a little bit more rigorous and so We did
028also incorporate the early college high school had credit and so due to the demands in the course then you know it was not that we had years ago and so that's something that we are reconsidering is that we still work so it cyber security but we're also reconsidering with early college high school since it has some dual credit requirements is and the students didn't um participate or did not want to participate in the events of the rigorous course but we are looking at since we know that there's contin. So what we also have to remember is that we have new students that enroll each year. And so last year as the campuses are taking uh looking at their data, we had close to 200 students who enrolled after we did the first phase of tallies.
029So these will definitely go up and in speaking to legacy, they're going to be looking at other areas to market to make it more meaningful and relevant to our students. So definitely the hope is that these numbers will go up just targeting different groups of students and then also the marketing that is involved. is that cyber security also um they also have it at the high school the Southwest high school so the it's different the numbers are different yes well the numbers are different in terms of I I'll I'll let me move to that slide so for southwest for southwest high school I See, I didn't I didn't know that we had it here. So, for Southwest High School, um the numbers are reflected. Um so, the goal is to continue to recruit for cyber
030security and for drones. Um the numbers are um the number for cyber security is seven for this particular cohort, but as Miss Aragon, we're as Miss Aragon mentioned, we're continuing to recruit. Um they have had larger cohorts in previous years. So right now their um freshman course um currently has 27 students. Their sophomore course has 27, junior 24 and 23. So they have proven in the last four years that they've recruited large number of cohorts. Um so the goal is to continue to recruit for this one to ensure that we can get to that number. Um, also another recommendation for Southwest High School is to add audio video. Um, that is a program of study that does have high interest and uh that would we be able to continue to support electronics? Any questions? Any
031other questions? No, but I would like more information maybe at a brown bag. We used to kids coming out of our middle school that were really geared towards the cyber security cyber right so we had because we had the clubs so what we're looking at especially right now in medical school is it's all about the required course and so back then when we did we had clubs which we still do so now we're talking about cyber security there are some required courses when we talk about a study that the state is now requiring for us to use the four years. So we need to come up with a way of how can we interest from the students again where they get to enjoy what we used to have before. So that's what we're trying to
032do is like you know maybe we need to articulate it different we need to market different in order for us to find that interest back for the students. So I think um partially has been when we started incorporating the dual credit it was no longer just get in there and you know for the student interest computer it was more from the dual credit side you have to learn the book you have to learn the law you have to learn so I think there we kind of just lost some of that interest from the students where now we're looking at how do we gain the recruiting aspect how do we articulate different not only that but then we did see the workforce is still there so I know that even with our advisory and our workforce
033they're still coming back and saying we need students that matter just but So that's a part after school organization because cyber patriots was also something really strong. I would bring in industry people and explain I mean from a kids point for just showing them the book they're not going to see the true interest of just like studying. But if you bring them in and explain industry people what this can do what this can do for them. cyber security. I didn't none of it in high school. We didn't have it. But it provided me with career. But we have just as many male females across the board doing from military to civilian everything with this. So I went and spoke to the kids that resonated like they had so many questions I wouldn't expect. So I
034think having that having industry people come in and explain to them what this can do for them would gauge some more interest instead of just seeing work from the book. Can I say something real quick? Just so what would be the number that we would because you know you already have other cohorts. So we're we're looking for a class of 25 to 30 kids to so we're not like the seven looks like it's all we don't have but the other classes have just number like 23 27 so we're looking to try to get 25 to 30 freshmen to choose this pathway. Yeah I I understand but I I just remember walking through the cyber security at the southwest high school at one time and there was probably remember the tour It was a lot of
035kids and it wasn't just one period either. So, I'm just I just don't want to get to the point where we're like, oh, only six people, so we're gonna not do cyber security anymore when we know it's such a heightening career that our kids can choose versus um I'm not gonna say anything about the others, but it's you know, we also had I'm just curious. We also had an instructor though that was wellliked and had a good rapport with a lot of the students and that was back then. Yeah. Anyway, thank you. And just to conclude, um campuses are going to continue recruitment. uh looking at this these numbers are pretty average for the first round of uh course selections. Definitely as new enrollments come up and as you know you've had children they change
036their mind. So definitely we will see some shift in numbers for uh our tallies our current course selections and definitely just really honing in on those recruitment activities and Mr. we'll be uh tapping in to your uh definitely industry partners to make sure that we do bring these industry partners to our district um and talk to our students about how important cyber security and the demand for cyber security because at one point uh when I was in a different building our floor a bunch of high school kids walked in and actually four of them were from southwest there was a program with a company that's not up there no more but um it's definitely there and there's definitely programs where they can get you know not a top secret place so they can get in
037and start working but just a matter of tapping into the right company. So yes so yes thank you sir and so um as new enrollments come in they will go through the same process and so you'll see the numbers that will continue to grow and then also the campuses do have a timeline of June 26 for that master schedule to be complete. We know EOCC scores come in after so there will be some adjustments. So we know that students who do need some courses based on their scores will have some uh schedule changes but the goal definitely is to be uh done by June 26 and then of course we'll have some slight adjustments as new enrollments come in and then also again with our EOCC scores. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Ministry of Human
038Resources. I see no items. Business and finance. A consider approval of change order number one for the Southwest Legacy High School roof repair. Yes, sir. uh back in November, you y'all approved the the district to uh go ahead and move forward with bond funds to start the roof repairs even before the project started uh with Joris. Uh and so we hired Brazil's urethane uh to go in and and redo some of the areas of the roof at Legacy. Uh the change order uh came in a little bit higher, so we had a not to exceed. So, it came in at $3,497 more than we we had asked the board for. So, we're asking the board to approve the change order for the additional $3,497 to complete the project. I move. Second. We have a motion
039and second that we approve change order number one to Barzo's ureth for the amount of 3,497 coming from bond funds from 2023. Questions? Anyone hear? None. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. The award of RCSP 2425-117 for the district-wide fencing project. Yes, sir. We went out uh for seal proposals on February 26. We had eight biders. Uh the r the bides range from 4.6 to about 7.7. uh district staff working along with Alamo Architects uh did did the rankings based on the published criteria and tonight we're recommending that King Kong Construction uh be the recommended vendor for $4.7 million funded out of the 2023 bond. We anticipated this project to be almost $8 million. We do have I should have put on there we do have a safety
040grant of about 3.9 million which is where most of this will come out of which really will save about 8 million $7 million in the bond funds that we put aside for this project. And so tonight's recommendation is to improve King Con for 4.7 $125,000. I'll move second. We have a motion, a second that we approve Ken Khan Constructors as a contractor in districtwide fencing project with the contract in the amount of 4.725 million. Questions? Anyone? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. All oppose. Motion passes. Thank you. Nothing on CNI. Nothing in special programs. Wow. You have one more thing I do. We have lots of great things happening in our district. Tomorrow we have one at one of the programs that we use and the students have won a contest there. So
041recognizing them at 9:00 at our field. So that will be from 8:30 to noon. Then lots of games. We have the high school soccer game on Thursday for the boys. Then the girls will be on Friday at 7. Southwest Legacy boys will be Friday at seven legacy. Then we have a art show for high school at Alto College next Tuesday at 5:00. All of you will put on your Friday notes, but lots of great things happening in our Okay. As permitted by sections 551.001 through 551.146 of the Texas Government Code, we will now go into close session at 651. 7:20. Call this meeting back into order. Item 12. I move that we approve the superintendent's recommendation on personnel. We have a motion, a second to approve the superintendent recommendations on personnel and administrator employment. donations,
042reassignments, leaves of abidences, and contract renewals. All in favor, please say I. I. All oppose, same sign. Motion passes. Any other business? Board members can. Wow. 7:21.