001It's 6:00, so we'll go ahead and get started. Uh, we'll start with the pledge of allegiance led by Mr. Chapa, and then Lee will do the board mission statement. 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 flag to thee that Texas one state under God one and indivisible. >> Okay. board mission statement. Through high expectations and equitable opportunities, the ISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. Thank you, Mr. Chap Leo. Uh public comments. No public comments. All right. So, we'll move forward to everybody's favorite time. Uh recognitions. We got some employee, student, and community recognitions.
002>> Trustees, if you'll join me down. We got some We got some kids to celebrate. >> Miss Booker was not able to join us. She has some health concerns. So, we have a coach. Coaches, >> somebody's metal needs to be fixed. Hold on just a second. That's very important. >> Get the drip right. Got to get the drip right. >> And parents, u we like to slow play this. So move wherever you need to mo move to get a picture and we're going to make some memories. We have our middle school special Olympics. Miss Tierney, you want to say a few words about this group of students and then introduce their coach? >> Sure. This is a great group of students that we're working with here. They went bowling um two weeks ago I think
003already and so they all did an amazing job. They were practicing and working very hard and we're really looking forward to being able to do that on our own campus in the near future. Yes. So they all work extremely hard at it and they are all so proud and we had some great accomplishments. We even had some strikes um during some of the games. So very excited. We have first we have Miss Tamara Sanchez. She is in charge of our um our FA class OUR FUNCTION CLASS. I HAVE SOME lots of first place. Lots of first place. Everybody meddled in my group. So, I'm so proud of them. We worked really hard. But before we do this, Nela Sanchez, who is at the primary school, I just want to give a shout out to her
004because she is the one who helps us. She couldn't be here today, but she have to shout out. And my parents, we have to shout out because our paras, we can't do this without them either. Anyway, so I guess I'm going to hand out some awards. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> All right. Well, this is Kieran Stin it first place winner. >> All right. This kid boy so good. >> He's a natural. >> Yes, he is. >> There you go, buddy. Turn around. Get a picture. >> There we go. >> Can I get a picture? >> Good job. >> Shake hands. >> Good job. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. Doing so much better. Everybody, come wait over here. Karen, come over. And then we're gonna have Mason Alanise. Come on, Mason. He was medal. >> Did we get
005the medal? >> So, Mason also got a first place medal. And um God, Mason, you just like when we started practicing, he wasn't sure and then all of a sudden he just rocked it at the competition. So, I'm super proud of him. Good job. >> Such a good job. >> Great job. Proud of you, Mason. Congratulations. >> And then I know him as Alex, but I'm going to tell you what it says on here. >> Oh my god, you you did so good. It was so funny cuz he made a strike and mom wanted him to hug her but he came up and hugged me and I was like >> I had a big smiley. So we need to take another picture later. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you for that. >> Great job buddy. >>
006Great job. Nice job. Yes. Good job. Good job. >> Don't forget you. >> I almost forgot that, buddy. >> Serenity Alan, get over here, GIRL. >> YES. Third place. But she's Trinity is she just They all did so good. I was so proud of them. Every single one of them got a medal. So anyway, here's a girl. And she got a strike, too. Yeah. Remember that one pin that wouldn't go down. >> Everybody had that one pin. >> I'm real proud of you, sweetheart. >> Good job. >> Great job. Great job. >> And now I have to tell you this, basketball is right around the corner >> and that's a big deal. So, if anybody wants to volunteer for basketball, just shoot me up and I will tell you what to do. Sign up. We
007need volunteers. But yeah, basketball, they're going to be ready. I'm super excited. >> Right after Christmas. Oh my god, it's going to be crazy. >> So, is our our life skills coach, so she's going to come in and she's going to give her a word maybe. >> Thank you guys. I appreciate >> you. >> Good evening everyone. I am the life skills teacher. I am Miss Garces and basically um going to go ahead and present the certificate to Ann Marie Rea, the ship maker. You did such a good job. Look, turn around some so they can take a picture. >> Emmy, look. >> Good job. >> Congratulations. >> Shake everyone's hand. >> There you go. >> Can we shake hands, please? >> Congratulations. >> One more. One more. Awesome. >> Good job. group picture together.
008One more. Okay, >> come on out. >> Come on. Let's take a picture. >> If you join us, I'm going to stand in front of you real quick. Okay. Well, let me get >> Emma smile. >> Good job. Got it. Thank you. >> Smile. One, two, and three. Good job. Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. Congrats, parents. >> Congratulations. >> All right, cross country girls. I say, did we go sit down? They outside. >> Congratulations parents. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Great kids. >> Follow. >> You want to talk about your team? >> Hi, I'm Coach. These are some of the cross country girls at Tulsa Midway Middle School in Cherokee. Uh we have Sophia Diaz. She's a senior and she um we're talking about she qualified she got fourth in district and she made
009as a team they got regional qualifies to the region meets. >> CONGRATULATIONS. You want to come up and shake hands and congratulations. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Leah Flores. Leah Flores. And actually all these girls. This is my first year as a head cross country coach, but I did have all these girls since their seventh grade year. Um, so I have a couple of seniors that been with me for a long ride and go she was part of our cross country team. Congratulations Maka. >> She is also part of the varsity team. She competed at the district meet and regional meet. She did have an injury um but she did fall still follow along the team and support us as much as she did. >> Congratulations Jacqueline Martinez. Uh she's only a sophomore, so we we
010hope to have her grow with us at the program. She's >> a tough competitor and we love having her part of the team. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> And all our cross country girls are involved in a multiple multiple sports athletes. I know we have some that are FCA currently. We have some that are in basketball. Um we have a lot of softball players. Um so some of the girls that cannot be here today are Kayla Boom. So part of our team >> sir, you want to screw it in there. >> One, two, and >> congratulations. Kayla Boon was not able to be here. She had uh FFA or FCA. Okay. And she let me know. Robin Gabra, she's also in basketball at this time. Madison Gumlet had a family emergency, but she's part
011of the team as well. She's been a four-year uh letterman. Madisono, she thought she was going to be a manager, but I kind of convinced her to come out here and do it. She she was very helpful towards the team. and Alexandra Himenez is also a basketball player and they're all part of the program with us. Enjoy having them all. >> Yeah, awesome job. >> Thank you. >> You want to come in? Is this the group today? >> Yes, sir. >> This is them. Congratulations. Awesome. Very good. >> Good evening. Thank y'all for being here tonight. Um guys, anytime you do something that hasn't been done in over two and a half decades, we're close to two and a half decades. You know, you have a special group and that's what these boys are. A
012real special group. Uh couple years ago, we got we were the first team out. We're the fourth place district. Last year we made the regionals and and we we got 11th in the regional and then this year we get 11th in the states. So those are big, you know, going forward. Uh we have a lot of young guys as you see right now. Uh some of these guys were graduating a lot but we have a lot coming back. So on our shirt we have iron sharpens iron. I've been coaching for 15 years and honestly I told him coming back from Round Rock. We got fourth in Round Rock a big meet and that's when I knew he was like we we got a group we got a group to go. And I told him that
013and that that's the first time we started using that slogan. You hear it a lot, but I really think this group embodies that because we had like 13 guys. I don't know if y'all know how cross country works. Uh, seven guys are scorers. We had like 13 guys that could have been on the varsity like from the from the start of the season and we moved things around. We had injuries that we had to manage. And so really we really like that's that's what we live by. Iron sharpens iron. I think we really did that this year. Uh, the team achievements uh we won the Moody Invitational. Uh we won the&M University Kingsville Invitational. Uh we got fourth place at Round Rock. That's like I said, it was the best in the state are at
014that meet. A lot of big fours were in that in that meet and that's when we were like that's when we got state ranked and all that stuff like that. We got the recognition I thought these boys deserved. Uh so that's when we knew uh we were backtoback district champions. Uh we were regional runnerup uh state qualifiers. And then I'll go with the with the individual achievements. All right, I have Romeo Alenise, uh, senior district team champion, regional team runner up, and state qualifier. Sophomore, Colton Anderwalk, district team champion, district medalist, UIL region four team runnerup, and state qualifier. Alex Garcia, district team champion, UIO region four team runner up, state qualifier, also district champion for the JV. Uh, so the way it works is we have seven and we have three alternates. So, as
015I said, the guys that were six and seven knew these guys were right on their toe and he got district champion right here. Comes a long way. By the way, the JB won as well and the freshman JB swept it. I think we got first through seventh, I believe. Is that correct, boys? Something like that. >> Aiden Hock, uh, junior, but he's leaving us a little early. Uh, district team champion, district medalist, you region four runner up and state qualifier. Freshman Landon W., he's district champion, uh, team champion, district medalist as well, UIL region four team runner up in state qualifier. Uh the only four-year guy we had, Christian Moreno, uh I took over three years ago for Coach Castillo. So he ran uh he was on the varsity with coach Castillo and then he
016ran three years with us. So the only four-year letterman we had, Christian Moreno, UL region team runner up and state qualifier as well. JACOB Pawa uh JV runner up, also district team champion, UL region four team runner up and state qualifier. Good job, Jacob. Field uh was third in district. They finished one, two, three district team champion, district medalist, UIL region four team runner up and state qualifier. JOHN, >> thank y'all guys. Thank y'all for being here. >> Awesome. >> I said we have a lot coming back, so we hope to make it a tradition. >> One more. One more. One more. Here we go. >> One, two, and three. Let me zoom in. One, two, three. Congratulations. that wouldn't make it. Noah Garcia, freshman, uh he was on district team runner up, district medalist,
017UL region four team runner up in state qualifier. And then Joey Pablano, Joey was our our leader every meet this year. Uh guy just works his butt off. And then today he's like he was very very sad that he couldn't make it because he has an obligation to basketball and he really was like but I'm going to let my team go. I was like no Joe, you you you know priorities you're a senior now. you're starting to learn those those are the choices you have to make that you know you're doing the right thing. You got to go to your practice. You have a big game tomorrow against Westoso. Do what you got to do. But Joey was a district uh team champion. He was a district runner up uh this year individually region four
018runner up regional medalist. He he he meddled at the regional meet as well and state qualifier with a top 25 finish. So Joey was a huge asset to the team this year. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> I was going to say you're not brace on. >> I was thinking as soon as I got it. >> Oh, the game. We took off the >> Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. Make sure we have room for all our friends. Keep going. Keep going. Keep going. >> You guys can turn this way. >> There's a bunch of them. >> There you go. seats over here in the front, too. >> Merry Christmas. >> All right, we're good. All right. Hello. So, this is our uh district champions for the uh seventh straight time. And um >> bear
019with me. I'll go through each thing. Um it's the they're carrying on a pretty strong tradition that we've got going here. They just won the ninth straight by district title, ninth straight area title, ninth straight regional quarterfinal and ended up losing in the uh regional semi-finals to the eventual state champions for the like fourth time that they've won state Wimberly. So they've had a wild run. We've been top 20 in the state now for eight straight years. This group finished this year fourth in the state. Um, so pretty solid. >> Most importantly, we have beaten Ky Allen nine straight times. We're going for 10 next year. Um, also, as far as I know, it's the first time this has happened when we did our all district selections. It's the first time the entire top six
020girls in singles and in the boys in the top six in singles that every single one of them got first team all district. I don't think that's ever happened. SO now uh I want to go through each player. I'm going to do the honors off the top of my head. So bear with me. The first one is Gianna Arzuaga. She got first team all district singles and first team all district doubles. >> Stand by. >> Yeah, because take a picture. >> Okay, the next one is Jillian Garcia right here. She got first team all district singles and first team all district doubles as well. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you. >> All righty. Our next one is Kelly Box. Um, academic all district. Yeah. >> Don't get near the right hand.
021>> Congratulations, Kelly. >> Thank you. >> All right. Our next one is Jasmine Martinez. She was district honorable mention and also academic all district. >> Congratulations. Next one is Shannon Armstrong. She was also district honorable mention and academic all district. >> Congratulations. >> Our next one is Adam Mccardi. He was a second team all district and uh doubles and academic all district as well. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Next one is Audrey Gamario. She is also second team all district in doubles and academic all district. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Next one is Gilberto Rodriguez. He is first team all district doubles and academic all district. >> Next one is Gustavo Rodriguez. He is first team all district in singles and academic all district. >> Congratulations. Next one is Estraa Garcia. She was first team
022all district singles, first team all district doubles, and academic all district. >> Congratulations. Congratulations. >> Next one is Audrey Arango. She was also first team all district singles, first team all district doubles, and academic all district. Congratulations. >> Next one is Gabriel Gonzalez. He's also first team all district singles and second team all district doubles and academic all district. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Got me in my trouble. >> Next one is Alejandro Arango. He was also first team all district singles. First team, first team all district doubles and academic all district. >> Congratulations. >> Next one is Ethan Molina. He was first team all district singles, first team all district doubles, and academic all district. >> Good job. Congratulations. Next one is Absidi Gutieres. She was first team all district singles, second team all district
023doubles, and the district newcomer of the year. And we were able to sweep the MVP honors. So, first is Tristan Dallas. She was first team all district singles, first team all district doubles, academic all district, and the district MVP. CONGRATULATIONS. >> Next one is David Guerrero. He is also first team all district singles, first team all district doubles, academic all district, and district MVP. >> Congratulations. >> That's everybody. Thank you. >> Great job. Appreciate it. >> Congratulations, coach. >> Thank you. >> Hey, I coach flag football. >> Oh, really? I scared him towards you. Thank >> you. And then I'm gonna >> color. >> Okay, now start filling in. Just start filling in. Make sure you're in a >> by the window. Find a window in the next row. Make sure you're not covering anybody's
024face so that we can see everyone's smiles. >> I'm going to get the guys to take a knee. >> There you go. Over there with next. There you go. >> All right, guys. Take a knee in the front, please. All right, we all coaches there. I'm going to let parents go first. I'll move out of the way, but don't move until I take mine, please. Certificates. >> One, two, three. Smile. Okay, wait for me. >> All right, here we go. One, two, and three. Good job. >> For this next presentation. >> So, if you could just line up. We're going to honor a an AI legend and it was a TM grad >> and if you all could stay for a few minutes. >> Um we have the family here and it's a really special
025moment uh to have a one of our own who gave his life in the Aggie bonfire that we're going to recognize here tonight. So if you could just stay here and listen. I'm going to read something. >> Where you going? No, I don't want to watch that. No, >> this was >> No, no, no, no, no. >> Printed in the Texas Aggie special bonfire memorial issue. >> Lucas Kimmel was a young man who had taken the time to map out a blueprint for the dreams and ambitions he carried with him when he left home and turned his attention to college. Long ago, he had developed a distinct plan for his future. He wanted to be a veterinarian. He wanted to serve his country with honor and distinction by spending time in the military. He wanted
026to follow in his brother's footsteps by attending Texas A&M University. It would be an opportunity Kimmel knew to do his part by helping carry out the tradition of building Aggie bonfire. When the call finally came, when he heard those axe handles being beaten together in the early hours outside his dorm windows, Lucas Kimmel never wavered. He grabbed his pot and went to work. He would be on the site every time he was needed. For the first time in his life, he was on his own. And he was determined to make every hour on the&m campus count. The school year of 1999, in fact, was the first one Lucas had ever spent away from home. He was a freshman who on the Sunday before bonfire fell had celebrated his 19th birthday. A graduate of Tosso Midway
027High School in Corpus Christi, Lucas had actively involved himself in such athletic endeavors as being a member of the swim team as well as running truck. He was also active in the 4 club, working with animals, growing even more determined to pursue his goal of becoming a veterinarian. One highlight of his life was achieved when Lucas earned Eagle Scout badge. Lucas, the son of James and Wlea Kimmel, was a biomed science major at Texas A&M joining the corpse of cadet company D2 known as dog company and serving with the second brigade fourth battalion. He was the recipient of an Army ROC scholarship as well as scholarship from the corpse. Lucas Kimmel always knew that the military would one day be an important part of his life. At Texas A&M, he had his chance to prove
028it and he was making the most of it, said Kyle Warner, a friend from high school. Lucas knew exactly what he wanted to do. He had everything laid out. He was going to do it. but now he doesn't get to. Warner remembered the competitive spirit that dwelled within Lucas. He recalled, "We would show up for practice and swim for two hours. Most of us would be using every bit of energy we could get to get out of the pool and Lucas would be running around and yelling at the top of his lungs. One one of those songs he sang or one of his enthusiastic chants. It was the same enthusiasm, the same competitive spirit that marked Lucas Kimmel's day at Texas A&M. In his hometown of Corpus Christi, the Reverend John Oliet, the pastor of
029St. Anony's Catholic Church in Violet, remembered the young man as an altar server, telling mourers that Lucas Kimmel's good nature showed him to be an instrument of the presence of God. Every time you encountered him and you encountered those good qualities, you were encountering Christ. His values, those good qualities only reflected the ones he inherited from his parents. Christine Piper, Lucas's sister, said the Kimmel family wanted the families of other victims to know that their pro thoughts and prayers are with them. She called her brother a leader, a role model, and a mischievous little squirt. Christine said, "You mis used to yell at me, you're my hero." But he was our hero. If I could ask the Kimmel family to join us. Mr. Puzzley, I think you have some remarks. anywhere. >> Absolutely. >> Mom,
030would you like to sit or stand? >> Would you like to sit or stand? >> We'll stand. Okay, >> ma'am. >> Yes. I'm going to try not to be repetitive. Um, you covered a lot of it. Thank you so much. Good evening. My name is James Piper. Joining me this evening to honor Lucas Kimmel is my wife Christine Piper Kimmel. Um, and the sister of Lolita and their mother Alita Gold Kimmel. We'd like to thank Superintendent Van Matri and you, the board of trustees for this opportunity to honor the life of Lucas. Um, the family would also like to thank County Commissioner Mike Pley for his support in honoring the memory of Lucas, especially for his works at Hazel Basemore Park where Lucas earned his Eagle Scout award as a member of the Boy Scouts
031of America. Uh, I do want to point out Lucas uh began uh school as a kindergartener here and continued enrollment throughout all grade levels at Tosaway until his graduation in school 99. The family feels that this time is it's right and appropriate to share some of Lucas's personal effects with Tulosa with his midweek family. If you ever have an opportunity to visit the bonfire memorial at Texas A&M, you will notice that all of those that lost their lives have a portal facing towards their hometown. There is a likeness of Lucas and his dog Maverick inside his portal. Um this is a duplicate bronze um >> presented to the family by Texas&M. >> Heavy. >> It is. It is very heavy. So it was presented to Mr. and Mrs. Kimmel by Texas&M University and Mrs. Kimmel
032have some other personal effects um that we would like to uh share with this with the TM family. He was very very proud of going to school here. Um, some of the things we left out were his one and only referral for um, filling up a swim cap, making a water balloon out of it, and some called in a crew to clean it up because they had a water leak. It really kind of got >> Yeah, it was just water on the floor. They thought it was a water leak, >> but Lucas Lucas grew up in plain sight to Midway High School and it was always always in his heart. And we like to share that with you. Some of you will vote. Congratulations on on your athletic accomplishments, but even more so your academic
033accomplishments. There are several scholarships in Lucas's name. If you ever decide to go to Texas A&M, the family would be glad to support y'all because the first the first ones that have an opportunity to be part of those are family and members of home. So I can just make >> especially if they're going into the core, there's some soul Ross and some core scholarship. So anyway, thank you so much for this commissioner. >> Thank you very much. It is a solemn occasion here this afternoon, but I think it's important one that we remember uh our former students and and especially Lucas and all the things he did while he was here and the accomplishments that he attained while he was a member of the Talos Midway School program here. And on behalf of the commissioner's
034court, we have uh passed a a proclamation and I will get you an official copy of this here in a few days. But uh I'd like to read this in memory of of Lucas Kimmel. Whereas Lucas Kimmel was cherished a cherished individual whose presence left an indelible mark on all who knew him. Whereas Lucas was known for his compassion, integrity, and unwavering commitment to those around him, inspiring many with his kindness and generosity. And whereas in his memory, we honor his legacy and commit to upholding the values he embodied, including kindness, empathy, and the importance importance of building meaningful connections with others. Now therefore it be resolved the commissioner's court of New Asus County does hereby proclaim this day in memory of Lucas Kimmel a beloved individual whose life enriched the lives of others. May
035his me memory be a blessing to all who who knew him. So, you know, uh, as they mentioned, Lucas was an Eagle Scout and for his Eagle Scout project, all Eagle Scouts have to pick a project that they do for the community. And Lucas picked, uh, if you go out to Hazel Bazemore Park and you go up way to the top, there's a lot of topography at at Hazel Bazemore. Lucas picked out the highest point in the park and he built a platform there that has a a table and a place where you can go and look and you know I've been up there many times and you can see a long way uh from that from that basically hillside. Uh a few years ago uh when I was commissioner uh the platform had gotten
036in disrepair. So the county paid for the materials to rebuild it and the scout troop that Lucas was a member of did all of the work uh to rebuild it and reconstruct it. Uh we inspected it here recently and it needs a little faceelift. So the county is once again going to step up to the plate. We're going to buy the materials and I'm going to work with the scout troop to get the work done to fix it up again. But anyway, uh Lucas was a fine young man and and uh it's sad to lose young people at such a young age, but uh his memory will live on. His legacy will live on. And I want to thank the Tosso Midway School District for honoring him here tonight. And and we send our our
037thanks to his family for also being a part of this. So, God bless each and every one of you. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. So, what we intend to do is, as you can see, if you go to the high school, we're building some new facilities, and we're going to work with the architects and the graphic designers to incorporate um in our high school a very visible place where any TLSO Midway student who goes to our school will know about Lucas Kimmel. >> Okay. Oh, did you already take >> Thank you all for staying. >> When you go to College Station, you'll see the Bonfire Memorial find Lucas and you'll see it's an errand pointed right Corpus Christ. Very touching. Thank you. >> Take a picture again. Okay, James, let's get a picture
038real quick. There we go. One more. One more. Here we go. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you for staying. your dad. >> I've known him since he was younger than you. >> Thank you so very Oh, I know. >> What do we do? Congratulations. >> I think I yelled at him enough like to hear from everybody. >> That's right. Are those employee now? >> Where's our catch of the month? Right here. >> Thank you all. Congratulations. >> Thank you. Okay, Miss Riggs. >> All righty, trustees. Mr. Van Mitri, good evening. Um, I'm excited to be able to present to you our catch of the month. As you'll remember, it's our employee recognition program that allows our employees to nominate their peers for going above and beyond. Um, this catch of the month is
039for the month of October. Um, he received four nominations and so I've kind of combined them all together. Um, so let me read to you about our catch of the month. We are pleased to nominate Alejandro, known to all of us as Alex, for the October catch of the month. Alex is an incredibly dedicated member of our team whose reliability and positive attitude make a difference across every campus and department. Alex takes great pride in his work and consistently goes above and beyond to ensure our district mail is delivered quickly, accurately, and with a s a strong sense of urgency. Whether it's a routine delivery or a last minute request, Alex is always willing to help. He often makes extra rounds when needed, and staff know they can count on him without hesitation. Colleagues describe
040Alex as friendly, dependable, and a true team player. One wrote, "He consistently goes above and beyond in his role and takes great pride in his work." Another shared, "Even in bad weather, he still comes in with a smile to check if we need anything. Beyond his deficiency, Alex's kindness stands out. He is quick to offer help when he sees someone in need. He treats everyone with respect, and he approaches each day with a cand do attitude that lifts others around him. Alex's hard work and genuine care for others reflect the heart of TMISD. We are lucky to have him and we proudly nominate Alejandro Alex Gonzalez as our catch of the month. Congratulations. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you so much for congratulations. >> Congratulations. Good job. >> I promised him I wouldn't make him talk.
041Go ahead. Go ahead. Go. There we go. >> One, two, and three. Okay, go. Alex, see you tomorrow. >> The recognition's over. See you tomorrow. >> All right. So, Thank you all for that. That was really cool. Uh that was recognition only. No board action needed. Uh next we will move into close session. The board will convene in closed meeting as authorized by the Texas Open Beatings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551.071 through 076.082.0821.083.084. Anybody need a break or we just go? All right. 6:46 we'll roll into. All right. 7:58 we are reconvening from close session. >> No action. No action. >> No action. All right. So now we'll get to our action items. The first one is consideration and approval. The real important one because it's all capitalized.
042Consider Consideration and approval of an order authorizing the issuance of the district's unlimited tax school building bonds in the maximum amount of 34,625,000 for the purpose purposes authorized at the 2023 election. levying and adorum tax for the payment thereof, delegating the authority to district staff to approve and execute related documents and other matters in connection therewith. Members of the board, we have with us our first class financial team. He needs no introduction, but Victor Ke. Honorable president, members of the board, Mr. Mitri, thank you for having me here this evening. Further recommend Victor Koga with specialized public finance and we have the honor representing the district as your financial adviser. Also with me is Eduardo Lopez. He's a director at our firm and joined us about six months ago. Um but I wanted him to
043see what a quality school district operation like I brought in this one here. And uh as you know uh Victor has been promoted to partner. >> Oh >> congratulations. Thank you. >> Although my wife tells you it's just a title change and more liability for us but no we're happy. It's it's a neat opportunity but it's only due to loyal clients like you all. Y'all been with us for a long time and we appreciate you. Um but uh on to the presentation. We're invited here today to uh give you a uh information regarding a financing plan and to go ahead and issue the remaining bond authorization from the uh uh bond programs we passed back in 2023 for 100 a little over $164 million. We have $34.6 million in unsold and remaining authorization that we
044want to go ahead and access now sooner rather than later. And so this uh brief presentation will just talk about how much debt we have outstanding. Currently we have a little bit over $153 million. So this $34 million will be added on uh to your debt profile here. Um and just as a reminder, we asked the voters in November 2023 for 164,625,000 to take care of Proposition A, B, and C for the projects that you see above here. So, uh, B and C were funded, uh, very quickly in the first authorization. So, now we're going to complete, uh, the $34 million as part of the Proposition A. And so, this is the funding update. This is what, uh, has been funded so far. And, uh, we've issued $130 million in the bond program. We have
045the 34.625 million left to go. Uh, we anticipate upon your approval today to enter the bond market on December 10th. That's when we'll go into the market, lock in an interest rate uh for this 30-year bond, and then that'll set up a closing date so that the district receives those funds on December 18th uh 2025. And um right now, we're still uh working with the tax rate threshold that we told the voters back in 2023 that the bond program will will cost us about 13.2 cents uh with the IDA's tax rate impact. And so the last slide here, ladies and gentlemen, this is the summary of the action that you're taking. This is what we call parameter sale bond order. We did this the last time we sold bonds earlier this year. Basically, you're granting
046uh myself and uh superintendent CFO the authority to go ahead and uh continue working on the bond documents and enter the bond market on December 10th without having to meet again as a board. and you're delegating the approval for them, the CFO or the superintendent to sign the final uh documents that will lock in the interest rates on December 10th and set up that closing for December 18th. Um unless something happens that's pretty wild in the market. Uh the action you're taking today is good for 12 months, but we're um optimistic that we could go into the bond market December 10th to lock in an interest rate for you and finish up this bond program and you could have all the funds uh in house. I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
047>> Leo, you had a a question on one of the documents. I mean and it and it this very first page Victor uh it has numbers the the numbers you had on your your slide were correct but this comes down as the very first column or the second column uh amount previously issued has a total of 45,000 or 45 million as opposed to 130 million. So I don't know if this is a document >> that's a draft and so I think u yeah that's just the what the attorneys prepare and so that's a draft form that you have right now. So the numbers that are in there right now are not final. Uh when we go into the bond market December 10th everything will be updated to include the interest rate that we're selling for
048these bonds. But yeah that's a great catch. That's interesting. Somebody's actually reading the legal document. I commend you for that. Uh, normally if I have trouble sleeping, I'll pull those out and uh, but no, thank you for that. But it's a the numbers are not final in here. They're still draft form. >> But I'll get mad at the bond attorneys for that. >> Any questions, comments? >> All right. All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the district's bond order. We have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the district. All right. >> I'll second motion by Leo, second by Kim. Aria votes yes. Leo, >> we got to go individually here since we started. Now I got to now I got to say everybody's
049name. >> Okay. Is that right? >> I got answer for myself. >> Say yes. >> You say yes. >> Okay. Yes. >> Leo Gonzalez votes yes. Rick Chapa >> yes. >> Brian Boon is absent. Kim Boon >> yes. >> Marty Himenez. >> Yes. >> All right. Motion carries 501. >> Well, thank you. It's always great to see y'all and uh look forward to bringing back some good news to you in December. Have a happy Thanksgiving. Congratulations. >> Thank you. No, that's all right. >> Very nice. We made everyone appreciate it. >> Thank you. >> Thanksgiving. >> Thank you. Have a good night. >> They kept us entertained out there. So, >> they have great stories. >> Couple weeks. >> All right. Next item here is discuss and consider approval of out of state field trip
050request for TMHS baseball to travel to Colbert, Oklahoma March 4th through 7, 2025 to compete in the first annual Red River Classic baseball tournament. >> Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, Coach Moody could not be with us tonight. So pinch hitting >> Mr. Alvarado. >> Uh so Coach Moody is coaching basketball tonight, so he couldn't be here. Uh so the basically uh we were asking your permission to go compete in a tournament that features both Texas and Oklahoma teams. Uh we will be staying on our side of the in the greatest state of all the states and then we will be traveling both to both sites either both in Texas and both in Oklahoma or whether we playing it's 100% covered with the booster club and baseball funds. No district uh funds used with
051the exception of subs for coach and his staff. But it could be a great opportunity for the boys to see people outside of the region. Considering how far we make it, it's good to see baseball teams that we're not going to face. U hopefully the end. >> Yeah. >> You think there's going to be a family rivalry? >> Yes. >> Coach Moody and his brother will play against each other. >> Yeah. I think they've come down here to play us at Waterburg the last couple years. >> Returning in favor. >> Any questions, comments? >> Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board board approve the outofstate field trip request for Tosa Midway High School baseball to travel to Cobbert, Oklahoma March 4th through 7th, 2020. That says five,
052it should be six 26 to compete in the first annual Red River Classic Baseball Tournament as presented. >> All right, make a motion. Kim makes a motion. >> I'll second it. >> Molly second. >> Pariaga votes yes. >> Leo Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Chapa. >> Yes. >> Always. >> Kim Boon. >> Yes. I got to be serious. >> Himenez. >> Yes. >> Carries. >> All right. Our next it action item here is report only. It's for the care portal. >> Mr. President, members of the board, we have our district social worker, Miss Muggi, here to give a report only on a very important program uh throughout the district, our care portal. Miss Muggie, thanks for waiting. We're glad to have you here. the best travel. >> Um the peer portal is a technology um platform
053that we utilize across the district. Um there's kind of three um facets to it. I guess we move the next slide. Michael couldn't be here. So we have the implementing partner um which used to be um Agape Ranch. However, now the pregnancy center and the job of the implementing partner is just to recruit the churches in the local area um to train them on how it works. Um they also do different kind of drives to provide food and things of that nature. As far as care portal goes, I think they listed I think that this slide presentation, but they listed all the things that the pregnancy center does. So care portal is a sharing technology that drives action for local children and families in crisis and it's primarily utilized um with kids at the center
054of the focus or whatever. Um prior to my year work here um at TLSO, I worked for child welfare with CVS um and they utilized it to meet needs, those um tangible needs that families need. um car seats, um when you're talking about younger kids, um clothing, if there's a we've utilized it for house fires, right? If a family loses everything in a fire, we may utilize it for an appliance or for a microwave or something along those lines. And so essentially, um the care portal has the requesting agency, which is to midway or um in other situations, it's the department um who makes the request on care portal. So go we uncover the need with the family. Um then we talk with the family. They send a release of information for us. Um just
055giving us the opportunity to share once we've contacted a church. Well, once careers locate a church that's willing to find the need. Um we have them send a release of information that allows us to share their name and their contact information so that they're able to um make contact with that family and so the church can kind of meet the needs of that family. Um, so then um, so the we're utilizing in communities and schools and myself and some other staff across the district to kind of utilize those needs, submit the needs. Um, then the needs because I have the long history and working with care portal um, comes to me. I read over it, make sure it has everything that they need related to the need. We submit it. A church says, "Oh, I
056can offer to take care of that." So if it's a bed for the family, we've done a lot of beds or whatever. um the the church submits a request submits that they'll take on that request. An email comes through um and then we make contact with the family and they take it from there. And so the three circles of care with the child um at the forefront of it, then there's the family, the church, and the community. It's just trying to connect all of those um along the way. Okay. Um so um that kind of gives statistics in Noasis County that's not necessarily related specifically to to across Nois County in the last year um they've served 1185 children and the economic impact there is 751,884 and the requests that are met is about 67
057or 60 holding 67%. at Tlo since we've been utilizing them. This will be I think going into our fourth our fourth year of utilizing them or three and a half years. Um they've serviced 376 kids um across the district. Um the impact has been 12,671 and about 87 needs are met. So when a family comes to you and requests certain things, sometimes those needs can be met, right? If they come and they're asking for utility assistance, we can make that request. Hey, can you assist with this the utility? But not all the churches because again they're volunteering to help these families. Not all the churches can always meet those needs. And so that's kind of why the there's not 100% needs met. Um these are some of the most requested items that we utilize it.
058Um we've done a lot of beds. We had a family my first year utilizing it through Tuloso. We had a family of eight kids. They were all foster children that had been placed with a relative and they had eight kids and they were all sharing like two beds. Um, and so Care Portal was able to provide eight beds, mattresses, bedding, all of the things that they needed for that. And so that's a really cool story to tell. Um, um, typically we utilize these as our purpose statements, improve the school attendance for a student, um, remove any kind of educational barrier and improve the child's wellbeing and safety. So sometimes it looks like um, locks for a younger sibling to not get out of the house so the parent can focus on doing evening chores and
059stuff, right? um heaters if it's freezing cold outside, those kind of things. We run the lobe. And then um Michael, he's not here today, but he's our like regional area director of care for them. >> Any questions? >> How do we communicate this is available to families. >> We try not to just communicate it to people because we don't want them to overutilize it because it's churches within the community and so if we overutilize the churches, then they're less likely to respond. So, typically it's a kid coming in and saying, um, I couldn't get to school today because of XYZ. Um, and so it's those um teachers that are emailing their teachers in schools or myself or a counselor and saying, "This kid has this need." And then we pull the kid, we talk to
060them, then we call the parent and see how we can help them. So, we try not to advertise it because we don't want to be overutilized for those kids that really need the help. Thank you, Miss Moogie. Really appreciate what you're doing. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> All right. That was report only. No board action needed. >> Next item here is discuss and consider TM Virtual Academy, an amendment of EIC local policy. >> Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, um we're going to do um some catchup for two of our trustees that weren't here during the um initial uh presentation. Um and from that presentation, um there were some um a lot of questions, a lot of good conversation. Uh but what we took away from it is um we needed
061to implement some guard rails. Um, and they're going to talk about that. Um, and then, um, talk about moving forward. Mr. Who's doing >> uh, do you want to go ahead and start off with the the presentation? >> Sure. >> So, at least they can get an idea of what we're >> Okay. So um basically this last legislative session uh Senate Bill 569 passed uh which allowed for the uh I guess typically when we have talk about virtualmies or virtual schools is always through the TXVN which is the Texas virtual network. This new law passed which now allows for independent school districts to offer their own virtual academy or own virtual classes either 100% online or hybrid meaning kids come to school part of the time and then do online classes. Um we uh were
062kind of in the middle of a legal update provided by Juan Cruz. Um and he was going over each of the laws that had changed and this one kind of just struck me uh because I saw it as an amazing opportunity for us to gain some extra revenue for the school district. So the way the law is written, every student is not at a discounted rate. You get the full ADA for that child um if they attend 240 minutes of school each day. Uh so we immediately started planning and in a month and a half we kind of had a solid plan. We worked with Edum. Edum is here. Um they are the providers of where our online curriculum is currently right now. Um I'm going to let them turn it over a little bit
063so they can talk to you about what our programs uh or the curriculum looks like. Um go ahead. >> Hi. Um I think I met everyone mostly everyone last time. My name is Karina Lenise. Um, and I have the pleasure of working with the high school, with Iris, with Lamar, just a little bit of everybody as y'all have been subscribers of Edmonton since 2008, I want to say. Um, so y'all have been um using our curriculum for quite some time and um that just so happens that we are also supporting schools who are venturing into the 569 realm, right, the the virtualmies. So, um, currently y'all use us for credit recovery, first-time credit. We do offer credit bearing courses that are Texas Tees aligned. So, that is a program that you are already familiar with,
064your students are familiar with, your staff is familiar with, and just with that, we would be adding the personal touch to your virtual program, which would mean adding those Texas certified teachers onto those courses as they are being taught virtually through Tulsa Midway. So, um I'm sure we'll probably have a couple more questions through through the slides. >> Okay. Now, so we're going to show you a video. I'm going to pull up the video. I know some of you watched it. You're going to have to hear my voice again. I'm sorry. Um but we'll explain to you what the program has outlined. Then we're going to take it frame by frame and kind of go over it again. So, I'm going to try I asked Rosie I don't know if I'm doing this right to
065go ahead and launch it for tonight so we could we could see it. >> How many applications have you gotten? >> Phone calls. >> Okay. So see if they launched it. I don't see it. Let me see. >> Well, I think it's still I know she hit it already. Yeah. Let me go ahead and go back to the boardation. Let's see if it's there. >> There's a virtual academy link. >> Yeah, that was the link. But you were supposed to have launched it. Let me see. Okay. How do I get back to the There it is. Okay. All right. So, you won't see the video. Sorry. Um, but we'll just go over. So, tell us the midway. Virtual Academy is a tuition free school of choice with flexible and hybrid learning earning both high school
066diploma and college credit. So we designed this program to have four different pathways to uh to graduate. Okay. Uh the the key thing is it's free. Students would apply as they normally would to be a tod transfer student meeting all of that criteria that we've set forth in our transfer application. They have to have a good good attendance, good grades, no discipline, um pass their star tests as well. Um for this academy, we require them to pass three out of the five star tests that they've taken. So, they all have to be at least a sophomore or greater uh to at least taken those. Um and then with the English two going away in a couple of years, it'll be one less test they'll have to do. Okay. So, pathway one, this is a traditional
067track. It is a four-year graduation plan with a 100% online, eight classes per day, 240 minutes per day. So, the kid I kind of want you to imagine, this is our normal kid, doesn't want to accelerate, just can't handle real school. So, this is the kid who um you know, maybe is working, has a job, something of that me uh that measure. They stay on 240 minutes. They do their A courses uh provided by Edenum. Um and then they graduate in May just like every other senior uh or junior whatever they follow their traditional path. Okay. Um pathway two is the accelerated track. Okay. So these are students who are very much like our compass kids or ACC kids. Okay. These kids are trying to hammer out credits as fast as possible. So they will
068attend u class at least 240 minutes. So we get the ADA um and then they just rifle through their courses. So if they have English three, they stay in English 3, they work, work, work, work, work, work. Move on to the next credit. Work work. Um so it's not necessarily eight periods a day. It's just trying to figure out and graduate as fast as they can by knocking out all their courses. >> So they may not be with us four years. No, they they that that's the whole point is they they're trying to gra get early. That's the incentive for them. Uh remember, we are a very non-traditional school district. We have really crazy things that nobody else has. Um especially as we were finding out as we're calling our our partners, our uh dual
069credit partners are like, "You're doing what?" Um and so, you know, it's that's the good word. >> Um >> so, would they be also like um on intercession times as well, or are they just would follow our schedule. >> They would still follow our schedule. >> They could still they could still work during that time. >> Okay. >> Pathway three is our associates track. This is one I think is probably going to be the most popular. So, it allows for a student to take both uh dual credit classes free of charge because most of our partners are free of charge. Get their associates degree, either bachelor of arts or I mean sorry, associate of arts or an associates of science and get their high school diploma at the exact same time. We still cover tuition,
070books, fees because they're all free. Um, associate degrees um from our partner institutions and it's 100% online. So, if you think of it this way, you'll have a kid who will be taking everything under the sun that the college can offer at the same time taking our classes. They might be enrolled in nine classes, 10 classes, whatever it might be to get them done in the time frame that they need. But they'll be taking 15 hours each uh semester to try and get done within the two years. but it is a minimum of a two-year plan. Pathway four is the one that I like the most. Um it is our flipped high school track. So it is a high school diploma plus your certification. Uh once again, everything's free. All of your uh coursework is
071100% online for us. But the cool thing with this one is they actually go onto a campus, a college campus, and they do their work there. So, if I want to be if I want to do process tech and I'm at Ray High School and CCSD does not offer process tech, I would join the academy instead of coming to TM. You never would. You'd go to Delmare, do all your classes there and do your work for us online, all the classwork uh at night. We in turn get the entire ADA for that kid. And since Delm Mar's free, we didn't really pay for anything. Um, so that's the the concept. It would be for that cosmetology, anything under the sun. Basically, this allows us to open up the entire uh community college book for any
072course that kids want to take. So, uh, for instance, tomorrow we are going to DMAR College to go to there's some, uh, superintendent um, what's it called? >> Symposium. That's the right word. Um, and that's up there. um place where they do culinary arts. We don't offer culinary arts at our campus. It's way too expensive. I can tell you that right now. Buying food, buying everything else, but we could have a kid, not one of ours, but a kid the hybrid way, they would go take classes at Delmare, then come back to our campus and take classes here. And because we are counting them a certain way, we all get uh we get the funding, Delmare gets the funding, kind of everybody's happy and our kids get to do whatever they kind of want. They
073want to be an airplane mechanic, if they want to do anything, that's the whole entire concept behind the flipped high school track. Okay? So they get a full high school experience. So just because you are uh you are our student so you still get to participate in UI activities so long as you're able to attend athletic periods. If you can't attend that period I'm sorry that's that's not for you or band or choir or whatever activity you want to do. Uh we have online onampus classes that you're able to attend as well. So um you know part of this program we have met with uh&m Kingsville about last week. >> Yes. Uh, and we talked to their Jeff West guy. Uh, Jeff West is their new person in charge of their uh, Kings was kind
074of branching out uh, and kind of joining the I'd say the workforce training part. Um, so they're creating electricians. So our kids could go there during the day, come back at night, do whatever they need to do, still participate in the football game, but they would finish everything uh while taking our stuff at uh at home. Um major events, they still get to go to homecoming, prom, college admission guidance, and graduation ceremony. They have to have their own graduation ceremony. uh we separate apart from ours mostly because we don't want it to get too big and we want our kids to have a the people they graduated with not somebody that they might not know. >> Are we going to ever get partnered with uh&m the island >> if they bring down their prices? Yes.
075>> Really? >> Yeah. They are the most expensive of of all um by a lot. >> And I was wondering why we were going to Kingsville instead of here. >> Oh, it's just money. That's the only >> expensive. Okay. >> So, they're about 60 bucks more credit hour than Kingsville >> and Delash free. >> So, >> yeah. >> Okay. Thank you for answering that. >> Okay. So, the criteria to join uh they must complete the TMS transfer application and we have to accept them as a TMISD student. So, that's really important because our DOI lets us say, "Hey, if you're not doing what you're supposed to do, then you're going to have to go back to your own your own campus." There's a there's a consequence there. Um, you must have at least uh three
076EOCC exams passed. Um, that kind of guarantees that we're going to have a graduate. Um, because if they even not passing their last one, we still have the ability to to graduate them with an own an IGC must have access to the internet. We're not going to provide that. They're going to have to provide themselves and must agree to come on campus to either EOCC or TSI test. So those we can't do online obviously the STAR test and TSI they'll have to be taken in person. Okay. So there's that. So here's the business model. This is probably Leo's um spot. Okay. So why are we doing this? Well, it's it's it's it's really simple. ADA is $5,250 per semester. So, if we assume that, and this is at the base rate, let me say that.
077That means a kid has not been identified as anything, that's the worst case scenario, is that their their uh attendance gives them $5,250 per semester. If we assume a 90% attendance rate, that means we're going to get $4,725 for educating that child. Adminum's cost is provide the certified teacher in all the classes is $1,520. If we have cost of nine hours, this is the worst case scenario. Remember Delmare and Coleman College are free, but an Adam Kingsville is not. So the worst case is 500 bucks. That's a total expenses of 2020, which means we profit $2,75 per kid. If we enroll a thousand students, and that's at the very small end of a virtual academy, we gain $2,75 million in ADA to help make up some of the things we've been missing lately. Um, so
078that's per semester. This is just if we start now. Do I know think we're going to get a th00and kids now? I'm not sure. We start we're starting a little bit late for this semester. >> However, we we could u but that's our max. So the state law right now says that you cannot exceed more than 50% of your high school to be a u an online kid. Okay. So we have 1,070 kids. We add 1,000 we're like at 49%. Okay. So year one remember each kids were 10,500. We roll the same thousand kids. After year 1, you do the math, we're gaining about 5,25,280,000 if the kid is worth at the baseline. That's no outcomes bonus, no special ed uh incentive, no um we're not getting any more state comp. We're not getting anything.
079This is just a regular garden variety because this is the worst case scenario. That's how much we profit. >> Um >> and menum price goes down the whole year. So that'll help to the 700 less >> so we make more money. >> Yes. >> Um okay. So year two uh at this point admin's helped us uh apply to be our own special. We get our own state ID creating our own high school separate and apart from the high school. U at this point there is no cap. There is no limit. Uh if our goal is to get about 4,000 students, which still places us on the small end of a virtual academy, um remember there's not a virtual academy south of San Antonio. Um well, yet um and so our total earnings for 4,000 students
080would be $21 million annually in uh profit. Um that you would expect because that's already all the expenses out. Like I said, that's baseline. Worst case scenario, a kid doesn't count for anything. >> When we go over DOI, we'll tell you how we're going to make sure they do count for more. >> Um, but that's two things now for now. >> Um, so we're we're about that. Now, uh, Miss Cardennis attended the um, state conference for curriculum and assessment and then they went to the virtual academy. There's a virtual academy in uh and I don't know where where they're at, but they're pushing 30,000 kids and they're getting $256 million a year and and that's that's a lot. >> Um the the whole premise of it though is we we're going to take as much
081as we can handle. >> Um but our area, our region has nothing like this. Um, so what we've done on the back side is we've also gotten uh Mr. Image is waiting for your approval. Uh, we've gotten twous from two different universities, Texas Southmost in Brownsville and Southwest Texas in Yaldi. Uh, both of those schools are ready to sign on uh to offer college classes for people in their area. Southwest does not charge. Southwest does charge a little bit more, but like I said, you're making two something thousand dollars a kid. We want them to be able to go to the regional, like if they're a kid who lives in Dilly, Texas. >> Sorry for that. >> Um, they'd be going to the Evaldi uh school campus. Um, so if they graduated and didn't finish,
082they'd have the opportunity to go there and finish at their community college that's near them. We're in talks with Laredo Community College as well. We've had our first meeting. Um, we'll see how that works, but our goal is to be region ESC2, ESC1, uh, and get as many kids as we possibly can after year two. Um, this whole entire thing is meant to put us in a better financial position as a district. Our kids in our area would profit immensely. Uh, at that kind of price point, if you wanted to replace the roof at the high school, you just sign a check. You don't have to pass a bond. You don't have to do anything. You just have to take the money in. Um, but it is for the betterment of our kids here. Uh,
083you'll be able to hopefully help some teachers out, raise their salaries, things of that nature, things that you would you're not able to do now because of your financial constraints. And this is the way the state has kind of allowed us into a different world, a world where we're everybody else is making profit. They said, "Well, let's just deregulate and see what we can get up with." Um, and it really is that we had our first I'm not sure who was on the T were you on the TEA meeting? They don't have a clue how to work this out right now. I mean, they are making it up as they fly. Uh, which is great for us. Um, because that means we can kind of set the rules. >> Um, but >> the uh but
084that's the general fund is is just at at 4,000 kids where we think we can get to quite easily. We don't think that's a unobtainable number. Um, and we got that simply by saying, Iris, how many kids do you graduate a year? >> About 60. >> And I graduate about 30 from Compass. So that's 90 kids in our home, our school district that kind of do this. >> And that's in one school district. And we're talking San Antonio, >> South of kids who they don't have these type of programs. So we feel we can get to those numbers pretty easily. So, how are you going to advertise this? >> Good thing. So, our kids um we uh got our marketing kids to make up their own uh video, the video that you didn't get to
085see. Um but they produced it. They made it up. Uh we are hiring a consultant uh social media consultant to make sure that we hit u that age groups >> um I don't know, algorithm I think is what it's called. uh to make sure that they are seeing it continuously. Uh we've we've gotten some help from somebody who who does that professionally. Um she's ready to go. Luckily, we had grant money that was able to pay for that because it's CTE related and since it's CTE related, we can use those type of grant funds. So, that's not really costing us much. It's just grant funded money. So, the um we plan to get it out that way. Uh so you'll see it on social media through Facebook, whatever the kids use. Uh but it's me
086going to be targeted towards the kids in that that age group and their parents. Um we plan on holding several several meetings uh with parents so they can figure it out and then once we go from there, we'll we'll figure out where we're at. >> And you would be the principal at this virtual academy as well or would like >> would our campus principles be for whatever? >> Yes. grade level there. So y'all would still be >> So for year one, we have to be under the umbrella of Tulsa Smith High School. >> The next year when we apply for a new campus number, there there must be another principal because it's its own individual entity, >> separate and apart, >> right, from the high school. Just like Iris is separate and apart from us,
087she's their principal. TA requires you to have your own principal if you have your own individual school. But yes, there is going to be some cost associated with labor to get this thing going after year two. Um, we already plan to do the work for year one. It's it's we're going to have to there's no we haven't we're not going to get any money to because we're what a year behind kind of >> on the on so we're going to we're going to eat it for a year and a half and then hopefully by the next year we'll be good to go in much better financial shape to take on whatever you want to take on. I mean it's whatever you can do with $21 million a year extra. Um that's kind of what you
088get to do. We can get them beds instead of CS because they live at the school now on CS. So, we can get them a bed. >> Will will you be rolling out also for like the smaller age? You know, >> no, >> this is just specifically for high school only. >> The liability of although they're they're pretty good. It's it's possible. Um but the u our fear is that we're going to have kids not pass our and we don't want anybody to our school district to take a hit. Now if the virtual academy goes be it has its own entity well then it's its own entity that takes its own hit. Those kids actually do pretty well. I mean I think they're most of them average a B. >> Um what we are doing
089is we're making sure they've passed at least three. Um, so there's a the only one they have to pass is US history and it's US history's got like a 96 97% pass rate. >> Uh, so we're we're kind of hoping that they'll do okay with that one. >> And I did want to add that this year we are applying for the lasso 4 grant and in that grant there's the virtual academy. So we're looking at a $230,000 grant and so that could also help offset some of the cost. So if we did that, part of that money can also go to salary um to help with that cost if need be. >> So are you going to talk about guard rails? >> So uh when we brought this to the board um last month, we
090had a really good discussion. I I think we're all very excited, but there were also some concerns about, you know, about our students here in T TMISD. So what we discussed is that we would put some safeguards in place. And so what you have in your packet is the EIC policy. So what we did, we got together and we made some changes according to the conversation that we had um like making sure that you know our top 10% students uh came from TMISD. So starting on page two at the very bottom where it says exclusions uh we talked about virtual academy courses completed through distant learning virtual or remote remote programs do not satisfy the in residence requirement for the top 10% for automatic admission. And then we did put a clause there extenduating circumstances
091would be at the discretion of the high school principal. Um, and then we also said the district will assign an internal class rank for all students to appear on transcripts forformational purpose even if those students are not included in the official top 10%. So basically what we're saying is that we're going to rank our TMISD just like we normally do brick and mortar kids. >> Yes. uh we're not going to take anything away, but what we're going to do to include those other students that are part of the tech school virtual academy is that there's going to be a second ranking. That's going to be an internal ranking. Has nothing to do with the automatic admission, but that ranking would would be on their transcript >> and that's the one that's the most important. >>
092Yes. >> So, I think what we were >> we were talking about local honors. We want to make sure our kids get our local honors, >> but it's also extremely important that these kids get included in the rank. >> So, if I'm number 40 out of 200, I missed the top 10%. I missed automatic admissions. But if I had a thousand kids who were taking regular ranked courses, well, then my denominator changed from 200 to 1,200 and now the top 120 kids get into the school of their choice. So, it's a it's a win for our kids. >> Um, >> and then right and then also, you know, the kids that would be attending the textual text Texas virtual academy, they're um whether it's regular in all distant learning courses, the weight is just one
093point. So, they're not getting that extra weight of half a point uh or that, you know, 15 t of a point. So, their courses would only be one. So they're not getting that extra um additional weight. So that was another safeguard. Um and then on page eight of your um policy um we also said that in order to be uh this is only for if you are TMISD student you are not eligible to participate in the virtual academy because we didn't want to take away you know our students leaving our campuses and going to the Texas virtual academy. So, that is one that will be in our um TMISD virtual academy handbook and when we have our parent meetings, we will be sure to communicate. If you are a TMISD student, you you are not
094eligible for the TMI virtual academy. Uh and then when we're talking about the validictorian and saludiatoran, you have to have been continuously enrolled at Tloso Midway High School for two consecutive years. So to be considered for the vow in SA, you have to be a TMISD high school student. So even if it was a TM virtual who had the highest uh GPA, they still could not ever be a Val or a South at all. >> So I got a question for you real quick. Um so you were saying that no TMISD student could be here and then get on to the virtual academy. Like you couldn't do that. So, what happens if you have a student that can't go to school? >> They live in the district, but they can't go to school either because
095of medical or anxiety or something. And what if the parent comes to you and says, "Hey, you know what? I know that it's important. We live in the district, but my I need to put my child." >> But that could be how a 504 plan or a special ed plan. >> Okay. >> Those those would be fine. It's the regular kid who just I don't want to go to school anymore. >> Okay. >> Um but if they have a medical diagnosis, sure, we're going to take that >> and that extenduating circum and that's why that clause is for the principal. >> Where do Oh, for the principal to make the decision. Okay. Cuz I was going to say where that designation. What we're worried about is 250 regular kids want to join the virtual academy
096and now we have we haven't received the funding and I have to reduce staff by 15 teachers. >> Understand? Just wanted to make sure that just in case because you know I mean there could be >> a child or student okay that needs >> right now this thing starts >> and that's why it was recommend that we put that clause in there circumstances I think we're taking care of our students here in our district. we're not taken away from, you know, our top 10 and they still get that college automatic admission. And so there's still a lot of safeguards in place so that I think they both could be a win-win. >> And remember, this is just for a year and a half because after that, >> they're their own high school. >> They have
097nothing to >> But the funding still comes to the entire district. >> Comes to Philip. >> Comes to Phillip. Look at Phillip smiling. >> Wow. Well, Philip, that's a lot of money. >> So, do you have any questions about our the safeguards that are in place? Any >> So, this is what I would like to do with your approval. Normally, we don't move forward with anything uh until second reading because this is first reading for EIC changes. What I would like to do if you approve the first reading is to give them the green light to move forward for registration and then if in December you don't approve the second reading, tell them to stop. >> Let's go. Let's go. >> Forward. Let's go. >> Sounds like a really good deal. We don't want to
098miss the boat. I'm excited about it, too. Are y'all excited about it? >> Oh, yes. >> Um, I know. So, we're I guess do you discourage kids uh when you don't, you know, in this uh when you don't wait it? >> I mean, are you going to kind of eliminate some of the students that might be thinking of, hey, I want to compete >> uh if you don't wait a course. I mean, I know you're trying to protect the brick and mortar kids, but is there a risk that we >> It could be, but you have to think of it as if I'm a sophomore starting this, these rules don't apply. >> Uh because I'll be my own campus, that campus will have its own valator. >> Okay? >> That campus will have its own.
099So, so the the juniors would probably be the only ones that have the issue with >> they are not in a position to get that much um weight I guess you'd say as a senior going in. There's only eight opportunities to get an honors class. >> Um and they wouldn't they have to take 24 hours in college and that's unreasonable not right. Uh so that really they'd only be able with the safeguard of they would only count as one class the u the most they could take is 15 hours five classes and our kids take way more than that. Um I I I think it's going to wash um but the sophomores are definitely we can explain to them that once we start a new school >> you'll you'll be ranked with just virtual kids
100and we go from there. Good. Any other questions? >> All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the amendments to EIC local policy to safeguard the top 10% college admission eligibility for students attending Telosi Midway High School as presented. >> All right, >> I'll make that motion. >> Kim makes a motion. Second. >> Second. Ariaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez. >> Oh, yes. >> Yes. Rick Choa, >> yes. >> Absent. Kim Boon. >> Yes. >> Marty Himenez. >> Yes. >> All right. Motion carries. 50. Great job. >> Great job by y'all. >> Awesome job. >> Super exciting. >> Once again, y'all knocked it out of the park when we have the things. You'll come back with all the answers. >> So, great job. Next one is strategic
101plan goal progress measure number one graduate profile. >> Missing members of the board. We are going to go over the uh graduate readiness profile. Dr. Sham and I we worked on it together. So Yes. >> It's okay. I'll just scroll. Yeah, no problem. >> Okay. So, this is part of our strategic plan. Actually, it's goal number one. And so, some of you have had the opportunity to uh to see this presentation, but it's kind of been sitting for a while, but we are now revisiting and we're going to actually put it to um make it come alive this year. So, for goal number one, our goal is that 90% of students will have met the standards in the TMISD studio student readiness profile. And so what we did uh Audius and I when we thought
102about this when we went back to revisit graduate uh this goal district goal number one we went back because we thought a lot of the um the data collection was very cumbersome to the teachers and that's one thing that we don't want to add to their plates. And so, uh, we simplified it, uh, in terms of, you know, we're looking at three items, but you can al actually get a lot of good information in these three areas. And we felt like these three areas when you're talking about academic achievement, social and emotional learning and college and career readiness, we felt that these three areas when they graduate from high school, we feel like they will be prepared for life, whether they choose college or a career that these three areas when they leave TMISD, we
103feel that they would be successful. So we were looking at measurable data. Can you go back Melanie to the first one please? Measurable data and activities opportunities to develop each area. Data will be collected at the beginning of the year and the end of the year starting in preK. And so what we did, we started thinking about what are what are teachers already doing? What are counselors already doing that we can collect information on social and emotional? And then of course college and career readiness. I mean, we're getting ready to build the CTE building, but what can we do at the lower grades to foster that as the kids move through the different grade levels? Can you go to the next one? So, if you look, this was the graduate readiness profile that we shared
104with you last year. And so, a lot of this is we're carrying it over, but really our big problem was the logistics like how do you capture this data? and we had talked about you know um these different platforms and portfolios right now we figure you know what let's just get it started let's move it and we can do it right now with just you know the information that we have and right now what we're going to do is to start with the papers and the folders and then as we transition as we get better with this then we can find a platform that can house this information. So here is our year to reset. So if you look at our timeline in October, we're bringing this back to the table and we're having this
105discussion. And so what we started doing is reviewing the graduate readiness profile uh work that we started. November, uh we're presenting to the board and we're just recapping the previous work and plan for continuing with the graduate readiness profile. In December, we're going to start capturing that baseline uh data. We're going to meet with the principles and the admin team to collect achievement data, SEAL, and college career and readiness. Right now, um we have a lot of information. Our our um in preK the students take that circle E progress monitoring. They take the text KIA in first grade. In um second and third, they do the map. And then we have the star testing. So there's a lot of good data that we can get to determine if our students are being successful in that
106grade level and if we're passing them on to the next level on grade level. When we get to January, we're going to start having campus and student meetings. We're also going to be meeting with the superintendent um student advisory committee and then we're also going to uh visit with the uh the principal student advisory committee. So, we're also going to be getting some input from our students to see how can we make this even better. >> And then in February, that's where we're going to start looking at the logistics to capture data. So, right now, we're going to have a form. We've been thinking about this a form kind of like we're I'm thinking a purple folder for now and so we'll create a and I we will create the forms and the folders and
107we will be meeting with all the campuses admin counselors anyone that has uh a part in capturing that data we're going to meet with them on how to do this. I I think Friday night I was looking at the map um individual score card to see like what type of information that does that give me. It gives me a lot of good information. It tells me whether that student was on grade level at the end of the year. It tells me exactly what takes that student um either masters or is still developing. So those are the in kind of meetings that I want to have with teachers to show them that hey there's a lot of good information that we can capture already using the data that they're already assessing our student. Yes. >> Will
108this data follow the student from grade? >> Yes. >> And will the teacher have access to this data? >> Yes. Yes. >> Who's going to be in charge of disseminating all this data and keeping up with all this data? Well, right now it's going to be Melanie and I doing this, but we're gonna kind of like we're going to have our meetings with our teachers like like it's not going to be anything extra because the data is already there and so they're just going to be kind of transferring it over counselors. What we're going to be doing for counselors, they already do their guidance counseling with their with our students. So a simple survey like a liyker scale that you can administer to kids a pre and a post you can easily capture data uh
109for college career and readiness at the lower grades uh if the student participates in in at least one activity you know that exposure is there. So the lower grades for college and career readiness may look different compared to when they're like in middle school or high school, but it's about exposing them in the lower grade. So we're really trying to do uh or when we're thinking about the graduate readiness profile, we're really thinking about what do we already have because I'm telling you teachers already have a lot to do. And so at first we had they have to know their site words. They have that's extra that the teacher is having to do. So what do we already have that we can capture this data and bring it to light? >> Let me let me
110follow up. Um what I would like to see my vision is fairly simple. >> We have four transitions in our district right now. 2 5 8 and 12 in in a year or so we'll have five transitions. Uh I want everyone at primary to have an idea uh not at a macro level but each kid but to know uh where do we want a second grader going to intermediate to be at reading where do we want to be at math and the social emotional period and if you're the reading teacher we departmentalize at all of those campuses you're the reading teacher and Paul Aria is not meeting that basic reading criteria, then it's up to that reading teacher to get the interventions. >> And and to me, if that's very well communicated across every grade
111level what those uh prerequisite skills are, then it doesn't have to be as complicated as what it may sound. >> Does that make sense? And then what I would really like to see is with our seniors to have a a graduate guarantee where um if Sitco hires a TLSO Midway graduate and puts them to work coming out of our War Path Academy at the CTE, then we guarantee to Sitco that they're going to have these soft skills, these these entrylevel skills. We guarantee that and if they don't have it, we'll retrain them. That's that's where I want this to go. >> Be very important. You know, it kind of goes along with Mr. Van Matri's read initiative. We really have to make sure that when our kids leave that primary, that second grade, that they
112are reading on grade level because I mean research right now is showing that, you know, it's that's still an area that we need to work on. And so that's going to be our main goal is to make sure that they're reading, but we have to capture that data. We have to know what is the percentage of that we're sending to the next level on grade level. >> So question real quick. >> Yes. >> I'm so sorry. No. >> Um what are we doing to help the kids that are feeling so much pressure by all this? like how do we help them to be able to do what's expected? And and let's be honest, we're putting a lot of pressure on these kiddos that are little, you know, and we're pressuring them >> and by the
113time they get to high school, you know, they have emotional >> Yes. you know, emotional. They're they're, you know, they're >> having a lot of I don't know how to say it without it sounding ugly, but do you understand what I'm saying? The anxiety level like the testing, the pressure of everything. Sometimes a lot of these kiddos, they break, you know, and sometimes they can't handle what all this is. And I understand we need to get the data. I understand we need to make sure our kids are where they where the state is expecting them to be. But with all this that we're doing, what are we doing to help them to be able to come to cope with all the stress and all the pressure that is being put on them? And I know
114teachers are being pressured too because they've got to meet a level. They've got to meet, you know, all this data, but what are we doing for their mental health? You know, for teachers, especially the students, you know, I mean, teachers are very important. Don't get me wrong. Their mental health is extremely important because that sets the tone for the whole classroom for the kids for them to feel safe. But what are we doing for the kids that are having mental >> uh I don't know what would be the correct Yeah. like their mental health, you know, how how do we help them to be able to deal with all this that we are pressuring all this data that we need from the kiddos? What are we doing there? Well, I think for number one, the
115counselors, you know, having those guidance cl classes, you know, how to deal with, you know, uh maybe uncomfortable things or distress. Another thing I want to mention is that next year we're moving away from that one day of testing to the small um increments of three. We've done that here in the in the district in the past with uh TAP. And so I think having those um >> tests more frequently throughout the year and not having to rely on that one day of testing to determine whether you know you you passed third grade or not. I mean not that you passed but that you passed the grade level. I think that's going to also help a lot because it's they're going to be very familiar with MAP math. >> Let me interject. I don't think
116we're doing enough. >> Yeah. And I don't think the state recognizes the acute need for social emotional. What we are doing is the best we can with the resources that we have. We have the the guidance counselors. We have communities and schools. Uh we have a social worker that works primarily at the high school, but she is a district employee. And then we have the care portal >> uh which uh was presented but it's still not enough but we're constantly looking for uh ways to um address that. And the state hasn't made it easier for us with some of the uh parent bill of rights uh legislation that makes some of our um uh relationships with our kids a little uneasy because do do they are we crossing a line? Uh but um we'll do
117whatever we can with the resources that we can to address that because you're exactly right. It's it's it's an issue of >> pressure. It's a lot of pressure for kids, you know. So like >> could we cuz I and I know you're saying get the counselors they can go talk to the counselors, but sometimes the counselors are not available, >> you know, and >> they're overwhelmed. >> Yeah. And and they are and I understand that. But is there a way that we can like have maybe a class period where you it's like you know what kiddos let's break >> like I know we're we're doing all this but >> you know what instead of not just like a PE class but >> maybe 30 minutes let's just let the kids be kids. >> You know
118what I'm what I mean something like that just to give them a mental >> break to just >> not think about everything. I just I really feel bad for all the little ones. And I understand all the data. I understand everything about it, but we also have to remember that our kiddos are the most important thing. And their mental health is extremely important. And I know that a lot of parents feel the same way. like they're thinking this is a lot of pressure for my 10-year-old, >> you know, cuz they cry cuz they don't want to go to school because of a test or it's too much. You know what I mean? So, I'm just saying like I think we need to come up with something to help >> kind of alleviate that pressure of
119feeling of so much data that we need to take. >> I mean, that's just my opinion, you know. >> Good point. Absolutely good opinion. >> Sorry. Continue. Okay. So, this is my portion. So, going back to Mr. Chapa's uh statement about who's going to do this and it's overwhelming because he and I sat in on these meetings and we're like this is a lot for our teachers. So, now stepping into this role and given this task, I was excited because I thought let's and I talked to Dr. Sham, let's find a way to make this easier for our teachers because we didn't want to put another thing on their plate. So, very good point. So, we thought about that. what do we have currently that we could use to help us with this? So my
120portion is on the college and career readiness portion. Um we're already starting this so it kind of goes hand inand uh right now we have met with the C CTE teachers on how to provide our students uh how to give them uh the skills needed uh to be successful in the workforce. And actually let me backtrack because I always think of the end in mind. So it all worked out perfect. Uh last week we had our CTE uh advisory committee. We invited industry partners and so we had roundt discussions and I asked them we asked them Mr. Alvarado and I what is it that you want from a TMISD graduate? What's going to make them successful? How can we help you better prepare our students for the workforce? So we had a lot of good
121conversations. We got a lot of good feedback from uh our industry partners. They did want us to provide a job interview skill opportunities which they said a lot of our kids are lacking in uh job interview skills. Uh actually the other thing we did was we had some students go out. Miss uh Stacy, she took some of our students to a last week which was great. Our eighth graders go to You Choose It Expo. So they've been exposed to uh workforce solutions actually provided for our eighth graders for networking opportunities which is something that our business partners were asking for. We also had the CTE night in which I told the teachers stop you all stop doing the work. Get your kids to present and talk about your program. That gives them uh skills where
122they can present and give them the opportunity to talk about their program on the CTE advisory committee. Um here is the this is what we did. We had roundt discussions uh some of this what I like to do and Mr. Mr. Alvarado knows we put up uh just chart paper and we're like, "Okay, go put a sticky note. What soft tech technical skills do our students need? Tell me what is it that you're looking for? What opportunities can we provide?" There was like 60 questions there. And so some of the feedback that we got, I'm going to read you some of it just real quick. Uh they wanted our students to have emotional intelligence, work ethic, problem solving skills, life skills such as budgeting, balancing a checkbook, how to address an envelope. Some of them,
123some of them stated um social interaction, manners, introductions, greetings, good listeners and learners. Um they wanted them to be exposed to Microsoft suite, how to be professional. Um they listed all kinds of things and we took all of that into consideration. Responsibility, punctuality, um social media, how that affects your job, what you post, presentation, and then one of the things that I thought was interesting is teach them how to fail. You're not always going to be successful. what happens in those situations. Uh the other thing another one put your age doesn't make you an adult your attitude does. So these are the things there's a whole list of them. There was a lot of input. Uh it was a great meeting but we got feedback from the industry and we wanted to know how do
124we prepare our students. So now it's our job to go back and figure out how are we going to rate this? How are we going to code this for our students? So that's our job now. But we went to the industry partners themselves and got feedback from them which is a good exercise for us. The next thing is going back to the data uh on this component miss you did bring up a good point. What are we going to do with our students? Uh we actually have the effective advising framework grant and one of the things we have done is we've gone to&M Corpus and Kingsville to recruit counselor interns because we see the need too. We know that our counselors are overwhelmed. So, we went out, we recruited, we've got um at least two
125that we're working on to come and help specifically at the middle school and at the high school because right now that's a critical area. So, we are doing what we can because we recognize the need as well. Um and so we talk to our counselors as well. We have monthly meetings where we talk about what guidance lessons can they do, what can they provide for our students in the classroom. uh some of the um like at the middle school for example, we used to have the advisory period then we did away with it but you're right we went back to having that advisory period we thought about being creative having those opportunities for students just to talk but just like Mr. Van Matri said with the Senate bill it's become very difficult. Our teachers are
126now like what we can discuss and build relationships with our kids. So it's put us into a situation tiny. >> So um we are reviewing the Texas model for comprehensive school counseling and we're trying to figure out how do we collect this data and so we can make sure that our kids have those skills how to work with um individuals that they may not necessarily get along with. So, those are the skills that we're looking at. And so, we're going through a reset period when it comes when it comes to this portion here. Um, what are our next steps? We're going to look at our uh graduate readiness profile. What is it that we need to change? How can we make this easy on everyone? We're going to work with the teachers, the counselors, and
127admin to capture the data in all areas and make sure that it's not time consuming or something extra that we have that we need to do. Uh, I know Dr. Sham talked about student portfolios. One of the things that we're doing with our GT students, and we started piloting this, I want them to make digital portfolios starting in middle school. Here's why I say that. Because when our kids get to high school, those of you that have high school students, they are applying for scholarships for jobs and they're thinking, well, what did I do in eighth grade that involve community service? And what did I do in ninth grade? But we figured if we start the digital portfolio, they can have that at graduation time and they're not having to come up with everything they
128did, all the community service and all of that. So, that's one of the things that we're going to do. Um, we're going to implement districtwide starting in January 2026, but we're going to gather input for everyone and then we're going to provide you an update at the end of the year. >> Any questions? >> Great stuff. >> Thank you. Presentation. >> Yep. Presentation only. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> Very nice. Um the next one we got is discuss and consider amendments to the Tulos Midway ISD district of innovation plan. >> So before um Dr. Sham Gibson to the meet, let me tell you what what brought this to bear. We we have a vacancy for LVN at the intermediate campus and we've struggled filling it and we've got a um an we
129had an applicant that's highly skilled as a registered nurse who is a TM parent uh but wants to work um at TM and is okay with the salary schedule that we have for LVN. Um, obviously overqualified for an LVN position, but certainly qualified. Um, we find out that that under current guidelines, um, we can't pay her an LVN. We have to pay her an RN, which we don't have budgeted, unless we amend the DOI, which we're bringing to you tonight. So that's simply put that's why we are bringing this to you. There's another uh area with flexibility but the main reason is so that we can hire uh an RN >> work as an LVN and payer is an LVN. >> Is that fair to say? >> That is correct. And so um so in
130order to amend the DOI, you have to meet with your DEIC committee. So we did that last Wednesday. We met with um our committee members. We brought to them the two amendments that we wanted to make to the DOI plan. Um it was originated in 2022 and so we still we're still within that five years that we can make amendments. So this would be the second amendment that we make to our district of innovation plan. So when we met last Wednesday with our um committee members, we explained uh the two amendments that we wanted to bring uh to the board tonight. The first one like uh Mr. Van Matri explained to you was um the um exemption 21.402 which is the minimum salary schedule for certain professional employees or staff. And for us, it's particularly
131to uh for the RN position. And so by doing that, um that would allow us to hire an RN and not have to pay that state minimum requirement for that one. I mean, you have to pay like teachers, counselors, librarians, and in that um that group, you also would have to pay an RN. But because we're applying for this exemption, she can or the RN that's hired can we can pay her at the LVN salary for >> if she was working as an RN, we'd still pay her as an RN, >> right? So, uh, and actually, so what we've done is we, um, we made the changes and then we actually took this to our legal team. Um, so Mr. Jameson kind of vetted it to make sure that, you know, the language was correct.
132And so, uh, he said it was good to go. So, we shouldn't see any, um, issues with it not being approved through the commissioner. So, when we met with them on Wednesday, we went through each part of the exemption. Uh, we had a majority vote for both exemptions for the u minimum um, salary schedule for certain professional employees. And the other exemption that we wanted to apply for was the concurrent enrollment. This uh concurrent enrollment would allow a student to be enrolled simultaneously in a dual credit course and high school course at the same time. And so um we're looking to um the three um the three uh rules that govern this would be uh 2581 which is the first day of instruction 25.82 82 last day of school and the 25.09 to minimum attendance
133for class credit. All of those three Texas education codes are related to concurrent enrollment. So basically what we're asking tonight is for your approval to submit these two exemptions to um tea. Uh I have to submit this to um Commissioner Morath. he will they will look through it and then they will approve um as soon as possible. What I have to do is once we get approval tonight I have to submit the link and put it on our district website and that's how they verify um the process. And so this would be good for at least another um what do we say um and then after 2027 we would have to reapply for our district of innovation plan. But this would be um at least to hire uh give us that flexibility to hire um
134you know that health related staff and then also that concurrent enrollment which would definitely help with the um virtual academy. >> So you want to hire a registered nurse and pay her an LVN >> uh salary. >> So that's what >> she's okay with that? >> Yes. Would we have her like sign some waiver or something? I guess if she's taking the position description is for an LVN and so she's voluntarily understanding she's knows that it would be for an LVN but we still have to apply for the exemption otherwise we would be in violation of this particular Texas Education Code. Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve to amend the Chloe Midway ISD district of Innovation Plan and adopt two additional flexibilities designed to improve
135district operations and expand student opportunities. >> Have a motion. I I move that we amend the uh TM district of innovation plan with and adopt the two additional flexibilities. >> All right. Second, >> do second. >> Aria votes yes. Leo Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Chapa, >> yes. >> Brian Bo. Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Marty Himenez, >> yes. >> All right. Carries 5. All right. The next item here is discuss and consider a resolution casting votes for the newis county appraisal district board of directors. Yes, ma'am. >> Mr. President, members of the board, you have two options and they did not send any bios on either of these um candidates. Um I'm assuming that's Mr. Bach Ba and Miss Hilpole. Mhm. >> I I don't know either one, so I can't offer. Leo, do you
136do you know either one of these? >> I mean, they're both uh very knowledgeable. >> Um we I guess we can split it either way or we could just go one way or the other. >> That's your prerogative. >> We have 88 votes here. What is it? >> You have 4%. >> 4%. I think in the thing it said 88. 88 votes. >> 88 votes. >> 44 44. >> Yeah. Don't show any bias to anybody. Yeah. We don't know >> like that. >> We don't know both of you equally. >> All right. Everybody good with that? >> Yes. >> You good with that? >> All right. So, the next step would be for me to read the resolution. >> Okay. A resolution casting votes for the Noasis County Appraisal District Board of Directors. Whereas two
137directors of the Noises County Appraisal District board of directors are to be appointed by the taxing units participating in the appraisal district through an election among the taxing units. Whereas each taxing unit is provided by provided a voting entitlement as set out by section 6.03 of the Texas tax code. Whereas these votes may be I can't even read it be aortioned to one or more candidates. Man, I need to get cheaters. Whereas a vote by resolution is required by section uh 6.0301 of the Texas property tax code. hand. Whereas on this 17th day of November 2025, the governing board of Palos Midway ISD met in open session to consider the casting of its votes for the board of director directors candidates for the newasis county appraisal district whose term will begin on January 1st, 2026.
138Now therefore, be it resolved by the governing board of Telos Midway ISD that our votes are cast as follows. Devin Baka 44, Gabrielle Hilpole 44, that this resolution shall take effect immediately upon its passage. And it is so resolved, duly resolved and adopted by the governing board of Telos Midway ISD this November 17, 2025. Okay. All right. So now we have to do a motion. We have a motion to I'll make a motion. >> Okay. >> To uh split the votes uh equally between the two candidates. >> Okay. >> Mr. Chapa seconds. Paul, will you vote? I vote yes. >> Neil Gonzalez, >> I vote yes. >> Mr. Rick Chappa, >> yes. >> Ryan Boon is absent. >> Kimbo, >> yes. Marty Himenez. >> Yes. >> All right. Carries 5. Thank you everyone. The next
139one is a construction update report. Mr. >> Thank you, >> Mr. President. Board members, good evening. We're going to do a construction day update uh quickly. Uh being cognizant of your time. Um took these pictures today. tried to get as much of the fresh information for you guys as possible. U just want to go through these pictures. We'll start the very first picture. You're looking at the roof of the natitorium. Uh the two uh trusses that are coming in the picture uh from the top of the picture to the bottom are the trusses. The uh the uh pearlings are the ones that are going left to right on the paper. Uh those are the ones that Mr. Van Matri loses sleep about at night. He thinks that they're going to be damaged. They're about to
140peel off the roof. That's how you can see the light they've already got cut. All the decking material. Everything's on site. They're scraping off some tar off the the parapit, which is a little wall at the top. They're getting all that cleaned up. They just need that deck to walk on right now. As soon as they're done with that, I'm hoping by the end of this week, uh, we will have a completely open roof where everything's cleaned and exposed off. either by this Friday. Of course, it's hasn't rained in in weeks and as soon as we're about to rip the roof off, it's going to rain, but they're prepared for it. That's why they've left the interior, they haven't done anything. So, they're going to proceed with tearing off the roof. >> So, what happens
141if it rains? Is it going to do damage? >> You'll see you'll see pictures in everything's concrete in the inside. So, the rain's not going to hurt anything and there's a drain at the bottom of the pool. It'll all drain out. So, they'll funnel the water. That's why they haven't done anything that they they could stop the inside repairs so that nothing would get damaged by the weather or if they accidentally drop a piece a tool or a piece of metal, they don't want to chip any new new tile. So, I'm glad to say that we're moving forward with the roof. We'll be moving pretty quick. You flip to the second picture and that's the exterior of the auditorium. The parapit walls of the the upper black band on the top. U what I'd like
142to show you in this picture is you see the CMU, the cinder block wall in those three areas. um that that is not structural and I'm kind of laying out the the picture for the uh CTE building. So the concrete beams are going up and on the bottom that is a structure that is what's carrying the load of the walls in the natiatorum. In the CTE building you're going to see a steel frame that carries that. So these these cinder block uh cinder blocks are not filled with concrete or anything. They're just they're stacked on each other and they provide a wall. The reason I'm bringing this up is because at the very corner you can see at the far left hand side you see where the louvers used to be. Um there we're we're
143calling for windows to go there now because those cells are not filled with concrete. They're having a difficult time of how to structurally to secure those windows. There is a chance depending on what the cost is. there's a chance that we may lose those two windows and just break it break it all in so that we can do it. Whatever's the most cost effective is what we're going to do because we're at our max budget for the niator. All right, flip over to the next page. Uh last week you probably saw the the the post. That's where they're flying in the uh this is the air handler for the uh natiatorum. It's the big chiller. It's going to keep it cool. They also uh flew in the two uh air handler units at the front.
144So, all those air conditioning units are set in place. Flip the page and you're actually inside the natatorium and you'll see that there's really not much to damage. It's all concrete. Uh what you're looking at right there at the center of the picture is where the bulkhead used to be. Uh there that uh it's this uh they're pouring the steel's already in place. They'll actually pour that uh probably the uh at the week after Thanksgiving. And this is going to be the s it's going to be a new surge tank inside the pump room. There's a surge tank, but all this is going to hold water in the pool, but then they'll be decking over to where you can walk on it. Um, everything just move moving along there. Um, on the on the upper
145right hand side, you can see the picture kind of where the window's going to go that we could possibly lose. That's it. The natatorium's on schedule. Uh, it's on schedule for completion early April of 2026. Um, once we get that deck on, it'll take about a week to get it off. Takes about two weeks to get it on. Once I get the first membrane on, you're going to see a lot of work on the inside. You're going to see tile, also the diving boards, all the equipment, the uh scoreboards, everything will start going up because it'll be protected from the elements at that time. All right, we're going to move on to the CTE building. Uh, you look at the the next page that you're looking at the CTE first floor. uh since we last
146gave a construction update, the mud slab was poured, which is below that is a concrete uh slab on the dirt. And then this is what you're looking at is the first floor of the uh the CTE building. If you look carefully at the the very bottom center of the picture, you see a gentleman on a ladder. Uh they're pulling out all the uh woodwork that's used there to support that concrete during when they were pouring the concrete. It's going to be about two to three weeks for them to pull out all that material. So that's what they're just constantly pulling stuff out of that area. If you look uh kind of at the center of the picture, you see a small indention that that's going to be the the uh exhibition hall uh just to
147give you a frame of reference for the new CTE building. >> It's bigger than that. That's just where the wood floor is. Yes. >> Correct. >> Yes. Uh flip flip to the next picture and you see the steel structure in area A going up already. Uh they're they're moving quickly. Uh they're they're being conscious of the weather and taking advantage of the weather. Anything over 35 miles an hour, they can't fly the steel because of the wind. So when they get good weather, they're working 10-hour days trying to get that uh up in in place. The goal is to have all the steel in place by the end of December. Uh the next major things that you'll see is along the outer walls, you're going to see the CMU go up like the natatorum. You'll
148see the block going up. Then you're going to see on this second floor up here, they'll shore it up and then they'll pour the concrete and there'll be the concrete floor for the second deck uh second floor. And then once they get the concrete deck on, then they'll start putting the roof on and start sealing up the building. >> Uh CTE, uh pretty much it. And it's on schedule for completion August of 28th. I'm sorry, 26. >> Couldn't get that one past you. >> Make sure you're still breathing over there. >> All right. Uh moving along the at the we're going to move to the high school HVAC project. The next picture that is our brand new chiller. uh as of uh at about 2:50 today, they started it up and at about 3:15 uh
149they they the building was being cooled by this unit that you see in the picture there. Uh the temporary chillers have already been turned off, so we're running on this uh progress. Uh it it's beautiful. It's very quiet. I was standing next to two gentlemen and we were having a conversation, but this chiller is so quiet. >> Gabe, have you noticed any >> It's been freezing in our building. >> I was just going to ask We ran the we kept the building cold on purpose because if the uh you really can't control the temporary chillers that much and if we lost the building it could be a day or two before we recover again. So it was better for them to carry jackets with them. Uh and now we can taper the temperatures back. >>
150The second picture you see our old chiller. Um it's not running yet. They they've got a little few connections to make to it. But this will be the one that we in this time of the year will predominantly run on this chiller, the smaller chiller. The chiller uh capacity in the first picture is 650 tons, I believe. And the second picture is our small one. That's 350 tons of chilling capacity. Flip to the third picture in there. You see all the new P pumps, uh the infrastructure that uh chiller plant is packed now. There's not much space to walk around in there. You flip to the next picture. Uh that is our old cooling tower. That is what the new chiller is running on because of its 600 ton plus capacity. It needed the a
151larger uh uh cooling tower. So that's the cooling tower we connected to. And then you flip the page and that's our brand new little cooling tower that's going to power cool the uh older chiller. You flip that to the the next page, you see the air handlers up on top. Those large boxes kind of look like trailer homes. Those are the air handlers. Uh there's 32 of those in in all. Uh 16 of them already in South Texas. The other 16 are in transit from Poland uh and should be here in about 2 weeks. >> Wow. >> U the good thing about these air handlers, why we selected one, they're it they're highly reputable, but the good thing about it is I can go to Gringanger and pick up any part that goes in into
152those air handlers. So there should be no excuses on delays for parts. Uh also in this picture you see all the chiller pipe. You can see some of the new pipe hangers. If you look closely uh they're getting ready to run the new pipes for the uh the CTE building. So the the chiller this this project will be ahead of the CTE building. So it the pipes will go all the way up to the edge of the building. They'll be valed off and then when CTE catches up, they'll just tap into it and open the valves and we'll get chilled water into the CTE building. U that covers the uh high school uh HVAC project. Couple other projects. The primary HVAC project uh we've been substantially complete. We had some problems with it. Uh they
153were brand new units from Linux. It was the first model series. We had problems with the insulation falling off the uh the box. Uh they came back, they glued the insulation and it didn't work. So uh Mr. Bill Wilson was on top of it. We made Lennox ship us all all new panels and during the last inter session they switched out all the panels so the insulation is correct. We've got a couple of just uh fire connections, firewire connections on several units to get those correct and then we'll be complete with that project. Safety and security uh vestables, exterior doors, the cameras, access cards. We're substantially complete in all that. Uh the next agenda item, I'm going to ask you for a little bit more money to finish off with some more cameras, some locations,
154special ed classrooms that we needed, and a couple of other areas that we wanted cameras, and then door access controls for a couple of other doors and stuff that we wanted to get finished off. And then finally, the last project that's active is a high school elevator. Uh the contract should get signed this week. The owner of Barcom was out of country last week, so they couldn't sign the contract, but they've already ordered the parts for the elevator. So, the elevator will be reen renovated during the December January holidays. >> All right, only one question. What are we doing about this gym AC here? It's terrible. We played We hosted Cal Allen the other night and it was People are sweating in there. Like, >> these units are end of life. I just >> there's
155no we have no monies planned or no nothing to fix those. >> This is the problem with the delay in uh junior high construction were conservatively going to be 13 million more than what we anticipated. We've gone from uh 70 million for construction to now 83. that that does two or three things um that are that are negative. Um we're not going to have money uh if it comes in at 83 for HVAC or roofing at intermediate um or HVAC roofing at middle school. So we're going to have to look very serious at a May bond. >> Good. We need to be looking at a Mayborn. >> Yeah, absolutely. I mean, yeah. >> Um, the other thing is, um, with respect to the junior high, uh, the commissioners have been selected, um, and we're looking,
156um, based on the news I heard today at a mid December hearing. And, um, we're hoping to break ground in early February. We should get a GMP on construction of the junior high late December, early January. >> There there is a significant modification to the design that we're going to be bringing to you that's going to save us five or six million and it's dealing with the auditorium. Uh, we went to Carol High School a couple weeks ago and Carol High School has the new Carol High School has a what's it called? >> Gymatorium where they have the stage, they have the lighting, they have the blackbox, they have the workshop, everything. But it's also uh their competitive gym. Um if we change the design and use that concept, we can have our gymnasium uh
157actually two gyms and the auditorium and we save 56 million >> about 6 million. So that's what we're going to be bringing to you once the um design u because we we got the first preliminary figures of Fulton who is our GC of going out um historically what the bids would be and it came back way um outside what we can afford. So now we're into that type of design and and right now we're we're pretty confident we can hit between the 80 and the 83 million for construction. Keep in mind that's only 80% of the total cost. You're going to have another 20% that we've got budgeted for soft costs, furniture, that sort of things. But it's going to be a it's going to be a great junior high school. the um bowling alley
158is in. Um that's about a $600,000 expenditure that we are not taking out. >> Good. Good. Good. Because I've been telling people about >> Yes, we are not taking out. >> I'm so glad you're not. >> Is your 80 to83 million including the the change or it is not the gym gym? >> It would bring it down to 80 83. Okay. Right now it's like 89. >> Okay. That's what I was wondering. Yes. Uh there's some areas that um in the budget that uh I think we've um we have too much money. Uh for example, we've got um $7 million for furniture for both schools, the the CTE and the junior high. Uh we don't think it'll be that. What I'm asking Patrick to do and whoever the vendor is uh to do is something
159that we may be a little uncomfortable with, but I think we can save uh hundreds of thousands of dollars. And that is when we buy furniture for CTE, which we're going to move into in July, we also buy furniture for the junior high. And buying both in bulk is bound to save us some money. will have an issue with storage. >> I was just going to ask, where are you going to store? >> We may we may have to use the intermediate gym because they have the the dome. We may need that gym for however long. But I think um pushing whatever vendor to get that force um has an opportunity for for uh big time savings. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> So, is there anything I'm missing? >> No, I think that's it.
160So, to answer your question, Mr. Yes, we have a plan. I'm hoping that we get a good GMP late and I've already asked for about 500,000 to I've identified about eight units that are critical that we replace to the district. So, we get a good GMP and hopefully we can get those units replaced. >> Good. >> Well, we have to >> and we I mean, do we have to need another bond in May that >> and you know um uh we'll be as transparent uh as we need to be with the community. You know, they passed 164 million, but we need more. >> Yep. And we're at a time period where um every dollar we're in debt, industry is paying 90 cents of that. Um and I think it's going to be uh uh much
161harder to pass bonds moving forward. Um they're going to um legislate no May elections. They're going to legislate a super majority. Um the state doesn't want um any debt, but they're not willing to uh subsidize uh us to where we can have at we're not building Taj Mahals. You know, it sounds like it when you say you're putting a bowling alley uh in in the school, but no, the those special needs and and that's part of their curriculum. I don't want to bust them uh to Alice. And let me tell you, let me let me say this out of experience, okay? When you go to a bowling alley and you're taking our special needs kids, our our district is not the only one that's there at that time. And it is so overstimulating for our
162kids that when they come back, >> they're they have a hard time. >> Oh, absolutely. you know, the drive over there, the kids that are not they're familiar with and some, you know, they get o some get over stimulated and some can't handle it. So, having this bowling alley in our district, in our school, and having our kids go over there and them just be by themselves is like the best thing ever because it is total over stimulation. And let me just say, I went to the Special Olympics bowling in Corpus and it was so chaotic. It was very um I was telling them I couldn't believe how disorganized the Special Olympics was this time and our kids and not only our kids like across the the board, all the different districts. It was so
163overstimulating for all the kids. And I was like, what is going on here? like it was just like they weren't prepared for for everybody like they weren't ready for all the kids that were coming. So it was very overstimulating for a lot of the kids and it was hard. So please do not take out that bowling alley from the school because that is something that our kids will totally benefit from and not feel so >> but we'll be prepared um definitely in December to show you what we think will be have you vote on the final design for the junior high which is exciting. >> Very excited. >> Good deal. >> I'm very excited about it. >> All right, that was report only. No board action. Uh number nine >> yes >> on here is
164discuss and consider approval of camera and door access. >> Mr. All right. Again we're looking to finish off the uh the door access controls and the uh camera system. We're looking at uh 48,000 about 48,000 on access controls and 67 on cameras uh throughout the district. A couple the majority of those are for special ed and a couple of areas that we we lack behind. We didn't have enough coverage at the stadium. Um I'm also including we're adding cameras to the transportation and uh maintenance office to protect our investment in the buses and everything like that. Uh so that's uh the reason for this uh final ask or request to finish off the uh door access and camera controls. >> And how much are you asking? >> 116,000. This is part of the card access
165budget. He has about well he not about he has $400,000 in that and he when we received the card access he only spent about a quarter of that. So these funds are coming from that line item >> safety and security or >> Yes. Yes. >> All right. Any questions Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the camera and door access project in the amount of $116,13.98 as presented. A motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> Okay, I'll second it. You'll see no board action. >> I'll second. Okay. Um, Paragos, yes. Theo Gonzalez, >> yes. >> Rick Chapa, >> yes. >> Brian Boon's absent. Kim Boon, >> yes. >> 5. All right. Next one here we have is discuss and consider approval consent agendaformational items. Number one, check
166payment register. Number two, tax collection report. Number three, enrollment report. >> Number four, regular and special called board meeting minutes. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agenda items as presented. All right, we have a motion. I'll make a motion. Second Chaago. Yes. Leo Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Rick Choa. >> Yes. >> All right. Carries 5. Uh we have our future meetings. December 15, 2025. regular board meeting. Uh it's time for adjournment. Do we have a motion to adjourn? >> I'll make a motion that we adjourn this meeting. >> Second. >> I'll second it. >> Chaaga bus. Yes. Theo Gonzalez. >> Yes. >> Raba. >> Yes. >> Ryan Boon absent. Kim Boon. >> No. I'm sorry. I was going to do that. >> I don't
167want to do that. >> I was going to do it, but I was like again. I was able to do that. Sorry. >> Yes. >> All right. Motion carries. 5.