Board Meeting - October 20, 2025

001All right, it is 5:45. So, we'll go ahead and get started. We will start with the pledge of allegiance and the board of mission statement. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Honor the Texas flag to the Texas one state one and indivisible. >> Thank you, sir. >> Board mission statement. Through high expectations and equitable opportunity, TMISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. >> Thank you, ma'am. All right. So, 5:45 public hearing, school first presentation, Mr. Carol. >> All right. Uh, every year, uh, we're required to have a public hearing to just go over, uh, the

002financial integrity rating system of Texas. Uh, and just remember this is always kind of confusing daywide. We're in the 25 26 school year. This is officially the 242 first rating, but all the data that is used to calculate the rating is from the 23-24 school year. So, this data is well over a year old that all the numbers are crunched to come up with the score. Um, but that's how it works. It's officially 2425. Data is from 24 and we're in 26. And the purpose is just to just like for uh educational accountability, the first system was created for financial accountability just to have a way to basically do a scorecard for uh each district's financial uh uh status and then it was established by the legislature and like I mentioned it kind of covers

003over three fiscal years. Um but the data is from the all the data that for the fiscal year ended August 31st, 2024. It also throws some student data in there, too. Uh, and calculating the score. Here's the available ratings for 2025. 9200 is considered an A. Uh, then it goes on down. If you get below a 70, then it's substandard achievement and they call that an F. And then just new for this year, indicator 15 uh is now being scored again after uh not being evaluated last year. They do sometimes take some of the scoring off and on. Uh each year there are four critical indicators. If you p if you fail either any of those four, you automatically flow or didn't have. And then there's five indicators that are called ceiling indicators. meaning that

004if you don't meet a minimum because of the how you stack on the criteria, there's a maximum. Like basically, you can't get more than a B now that you've scored so low on this one indicator. And then here are the four critical indicators. They're pretty basic though. Did you turn your did you have an annual audit? Did you turn it in in time? Yes, we did. And then on that audit, did you get an unmodified opinion? would mean you got a a good audit? Yes, we did. So, we passed. And then were were we uh up to date and in compliance on all our debt payments? Yes, we were. And then were we uh were we not did we make all our payments to the external entities, TRS, Workforce Commission, Internal Revenue Service, other government

005agencies? Yes, we were not behind on any payments for all of that. So, we passed all the critical indicators and then solveny indicators. Basically, they're looking at your financial statements. Are are you in the black? Are your assets more than your liabilities? And yes, uh our net position, which means our assets over our liabilities governmentwide, is 42 million. So, we passed that. And then we start getting into some of the solveny indicators. And this is asking for uh your fund balances uh for the last uh three years basically. Do you have a um which one is this? This is uh oh are do are you maintaining your fund balance? And yes we are even though our fund balance has changed. It did change dramatically uh ending in that 24 year but we're still within the

006threshold and we still pass this one. Uh this one is this one. Uh I will say this is on the the low point of the low at the end of the 24 school year. That's when we actually had we had a $2.5 million deficit and we actually had a $2.5 million deficit that year. So they're looking at our cash on hand as of August 31st. They're looking at uh how much cash we had on hand. We had 38.6 days of cash on hand at that moment in time. So we only got two out of 10 points on this. I will tell you I've done preliminary calculations this year. We're going to get all 10 points again next year. Um and then uh was the measure of current they're looking at current assets to current liabilities.

007We got all 10 points on that ratio which is good. And then uh we're looking this one here is another one where we did not we did have a deficit budget. We did have an actual deficit that year. Our expenditures were $2.5 million more than our expenditures. So if you if you have a deficit, an actual deficit, then they look at your cash on hand and if you have less than 60 days, so we did not get any points on this one last year. So we lost all 10 points. I looked at that preliminary. This number is going to change to 8 to 10 points uh for the 25 school year. So I'm looking at about 18 points that we didn't get that year. We're going to get them back in 25. Then they're looking

008at your um the variance with uh what you said you were your budgeted revenue was your actual revenue within uh 10%. And they give you a 10% variance either way. We we were this indicator is not being scored this year but we were within the 10%. And then they also look at your long the next one on number 11. They're looking at your long-term liabilities. They're looking to see if if you're collecting enough money to to take care of your long-term liabilities. We got eight out of the 10 points on that. This one they're looking at our debt per per our property values like are we are we charging enough on our debt service account to make sure that we're being able to pay our debt and we are. So we got all 10 points

009on that one. Uh now they're looking at was our administrative cost ratio uh was a little bit uh we didn't get all 10 points. We got eight out of 10 points on that one. uh based upon our and the administrative cost ratio is function 41 which is uh most of this building and function 21 which is basically uh all the people in this building are either function 21 it's basically all your costs that are not on a campus. If you look at number 14 then this one looks at uh this is looking see based upon your student enrollment your expenditures should follow your student enrollment. So if you got uh increases or decreases in your student enrollment, your expenditures should be should be following that. And we we were following that. Yeah, we had a

010big deficit, but we also made a lot of cuts to uh adjust that deficit. We did have a little bit lower enrollment. We made those adjustments. We got all 10 points on that indicator. Number 15. Now they're looking at uh every two years we kind of kind of tell TEA we have a chance to tell TA what we think our ADA is going to be over the next bienium. It's a pure estimate. We want to know if uh if your estimate was actually close to actual and we were 4/10en of a percentage off of what what we had estimated our ADA to be. And then uh 16 they're asking that uh whenever we do submit our PE's data does our PE's data match uh what our audit said and it did. Uh it's virtually I

011make sure those numbers whatever the audit says I make sure the PE's data is the same. So the variance was there was virtually no variance. So we passed that indicator. And then number 17 these basically go back to the audit. Were there any material weaknesses noted in the audit over internal controls? There were not. So, we passed that. Then they also asked uh there's also another thing called uh did they find any instances of non-compliance for grants or contracts or laws? None. So, we passed that and got all 10 points on that one. 19. Uh are we posting everything on the website that we're supposed to post? Yes, we are. We got all five points on that. And then did we discuss this the district's property values at a board meeting within 120 days before

012the adopted budget? I discussed the property values uh at Nauseium at all budget meetings. So yes, we passed that one. And then uh this one is asking like I think you'd have to be in some uh uh exhibit some other kind of severe financial hardship to ask for I guess maybe basically the TA's overpaid you so much and you don't have the money to pay them back. we have no no repayment agreement or anything. So, we passed this indicator. So, unfortunately, when you add up everything uh with the deductions, we ended up with a score of a 78 out of 100, which doesn't sound good. It's a C. But I, like I said, preliminary looking, this was like the bottom of the we looked at the chart. We were here with the deficit. Now, we've

013made a lot of adjustments, a lot of cutbacks, and we got some more funding, and now we're we're we're going back up. I I'm like 99% sure. I'm pretty sure we're going to get 18 of those points back at a minimum for next year. So, we will be back in the 90s uh uh for the fiscal year 25. And then if you look at your other handouts, there's just some other requirements. Um we we uh we also have to show that um the principal the superintendent's uh contract you either have to present the superintendent's contract or post it online and Mr. Vitri's contract is online and there's another thing where we we just kind of summarize all the expenses of all the board members and remember this is from basically almost two years ago. This

014is for the 23 24 fiscal school year. So there's some previous board members that were still on the board back then. So we just list all the expenditures. We take all the expenditures for all the board members and the superintendent and we uh accumulate those numbers and you also have to indicate if there were any significant um gifts that were given to the board members and we have we have none that fall into that category and then there's just another there's just another analysis of kind of u how some of the other surrounding districts are doing and you can kind of see the number of districts that I think of there's over a thousand school districts and I think about 15 uh for this period got an F for various various reasons. Um the C

015C doesn't look good, but it's only temporary. We're we're going to go back up uh to an A next year uh because everything's turning back around. Does anybody have any other questions about the first and the criteria the scoring criteria? >> I know this is really hard to swallow, right? um because we've never been in this predicament before. >> Um or not since I've been sitting here. >> Yes. >> Um we knew we had a deficit. There was nothing we could do about it. We had a bigger deficit than what we closed out at. So um kudos to everybody that um you know brought that gap closer. Um but we still unfortunately had to close out in a deficit and um we we already know where we're headed because we already started off well. So,

016um, all we can do is is learn from what what happened and, uh, move forward, but we're definitely headed in the right direction and, um, there's still a lot of schools around us that are in in pretty big deficits still. So, we were able to close that out this year. So, >> I know I talked really fast, but I always try to get in another 15 minutes so we can start the regular meeting at this. You need to ask if there's any public comment since it's a public hearing >> for this. >> Yes, for this for the first. >> Okay. Is there any public comment for this here for the uh first meeting? >> I know we have some for the next regular schedule, >> right? >> No. Okay. >> Thank you, Philip. Thank you.

017>> I don't think so. Um, now go ahead and start it. You're good. >> Okay. So, with that, uh, being completed, we're going to go ahead and move into the regular, uh, board meeting. We do have some, uh, public speaker. Uh so I'll read the comments here and then uh Mr. Puzzley you can come on up. Uh here it says public comments open forum. Public comments at a regular at regular board meetings will be conducted in accordance with board policy beed. At meetings other than regular board meetings public comments are limited to items that are posted on the meet meeting notice agenda. At regular meetings, public comments are allowed on any topic regardless of whether the topic is an item on the agenda posted with notice of the meeting. Comments shall be heard at the

018beginning of the board meeting. Comments are limited to three minutes per speaker except the non-English speakers requiring a translator are limited to six minutes. The presiding board board officer may modify or wave these time limits as appropriate. Public comment shall not be used for personal attacks by the speaker against district employees or students. Speakers who engage in personal attacks or use insulting, profane, threatening, or abusive language during any board meeting shall be ruled out of order by the presiding board officer and may be escorted from the board meeting room. Any concerns or complaints regarding individual district employees, students, or parents must be resolved via the appropriate complaint process as stated in board policy beed local pursuant to section 551.042 042 of the Texas Government Code. No board member or administrator may respond to any member

019of the public regarding an item that is not on the agenda unless such responses I I can't is there recitation of district policy or statement of specific factual information. I definitely need to get the glasses now >> or the the font is like a two. >> Yeah, that's that's what I'm going to go with. The font is like a two. It's tiny. >> Okay. So, we have uh one public comment here, Mr. Mike Pusley. >> Mr. President and Superintendent, board members, thank you very much for allowing me to come before you this evening. And uh I'll be very brief. Um I wanted to bring something to the board um that um I would like to see us maybe consider making a change to, and that is adding Bobby Craig's name back to our gymnasium. Um,

020I don't know what all the circumstances were surrounding his name being removed from the gymnasium. Uh, I've asked around. I've gotten a little information. Um, and from what I can determine it wasn't something that we can't forgive. Uh, we all make mistakes. Uh, we all would like to have uh we've all done things we'd like to have back. I've got a typewritten list of my things I'd like to have back. Uh but I think as uh fellow members of this community, people who grew up in this community uh could understand uh times of frustration with anybody. And I want us to think about the fact that coach Craig was an icon in this community for years, for decades. Uh and we want to think about all the students that he impacted during his career here.

021And so I think it's something that we should consider. I hope you would consider. We don't have to have a marching band. We don't have to have a a big celebration about it. I think it's just something that this community could do to restore honor to Bobby Craig and to his family. Unfortunately, Bobby's not here anymore, but his family is. His son is here, and they still reside in this community. So I would hope that you would uh maybe in a at the appropriate time consider that situation and uh I would be very thankful and I know there's a lot of people in this community and kids and and people and adults who have moved away from this community who would join me in thanking uh thanking you for doing that. So thank you very

022much for considering that. And I want to close by saying thank you very much for your service on the Midway School Board. I know what a sacrifice that is and uh I want to congratulate you on the fine job that you're doing running this school district. So, thank you all very much and have a pleasant evening. Thank you, sir. >> Okay. Uh so, we will start with uh our favorite, Mr. Van Mitch's favorite, some recognitions. >> Absolutely. >> Uh are we going in order here? >> We do definitely. >> Okay. If you all will join me. We've got some adults and we've got some children. Let's do this. Mr. if you'll Denise representative, if you'll read this and then I'll have a few things to say and I'll I'll let the the board come. Um

023she was certainly a valuable member of our board of trustees. >> Yes, the most prepared board member. >> Unbelievable. Um, with our deepest appreciation, we hereby honor Denise Vilobos with this award in recognition of your two years of your two years of visionary guidance, exceptional leadership, and unconditional commitment to serving as a member of the TMISD board of trustees. Thank you. So, uh, Denise was one of the first people I met when I became employed, um, at Tlosa Midway. Um, she, um, wanted to have weekly lunches, uh, to educate me on Tlosa Midway. And I, I couldn't do weekly lunches, but we, we did do several. And um what I learned from Denise before she was elected was that she loved TLO Midway ISD. And um Tosso Midway ISD uh really gave her the opportunity

024uh to be where she is today. And sometimes we forget that. Uh she didn't. And then um she ran for the board uh and was elected. And as Paul said, uh, that, you know, I I think I'm fairly well prepared, uh, for board meetings. No, no. I mean, she was educating I' I've been doing this for over 40 years, and she was educating me on innovation that we could take advantage of that we weren't. Um, I will say this, all in all transparency, we buted heads. Oh my gosh, did did we butt heads. But I think it's fair to say and I think you all will agree that um I love Denise. I love her as a schoolboard me member. I love her as a member of the Texas House. Um and I love her

025as a person. uh she is a huge advocate not only for TLO Midway but for all students in Texas and we're so lucky to have you in our community. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can I say something? See, that's exactly you got to you got to can I talk now, Mr. Vampron? Um, so in this room right now, I think I counted seven different teachers that I had while I attended school here on this campus. Mr. Alvarado, Miss Chaffa, Miss Garc Well, what? Well, you were Lamar Garcia. What? Okay. Uh, Miss Aas over here. some stag some librarians back there. Um and yeah, oh my gosh, did they prepare me in my life. Um to be where I am today to to sit on this board in that middle seat. That's still um but

026but then even once I got here, the board and the executive team, y'all, Philip, y'all prepared me a ton on what I needed to expect when I got to the capital. and and that was even more tremendous of a learning curve than I ever could have imagined. Um the last thing I did want to say was on that first rating, yeah, it was a 78, but we are one of the very few school districts in this area that called attention to our deficit very early on and took very early steps of action to correct it. And so we won't have that rating next year. That's right. But but I will tell you a lot of the school districts in our community sadly will have two years of of bad first ratings and Tossa Midway will

027not be one of them. >> Thank you. >> Um but yeah, it it was an honor to serve uh as a school board member on Tulosa Midway. It's an honor to represent y'all in the Texas House. Uh and I look forward to continue to doing that. >> Thank you. here. >> All right, here we go. One, two, and >> perfect. >> Thank you so much. >> The next people, uh, >> thank you. >> What do you have? >> I know. Oh yeah, I got you. >> Uh Denise, um helped pass laws uh that required um all Texas public schools to put the Ten Commandments in every classroom. And this this is an expensive undertaking uh until Mr. Dodie and Mr. McFarland from Anenville Baptist Church stepped up. And ladies and gentlemen, they funded every poster

028that we have in TM schools. Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity and and your the grace you gave us and just getting them distributed. We were so excited to hear about it. We delivered them I think on a Tuesday and I went to a men's breakfast on Saturday and one of the guys comes running up to me and says, "My son is so excited." He said, "We've got ten commandments in the classroom." So you guys really got on it, got them distributed and uh if all of mankind would follow those 10 rules, all of our jobs would be a lot easier. Well, what what this demonstrates is that when there's a partnership between the families in the school, the business community in the school, our churches in the school, it's it's win-winwin for kids

029and you all stepped forward and demonstrated that and we thank you for that. >> And and Jordan really did all the heavy lifting. I just connected him with how to get them. >> That was important. >> Very much so. So this just a small token of our appreciate. Do we have a certificate or we don't have We'll get you a small token. Take a picture. Do you mind if we put it on our social media platforms? >> Not at all. >> All right. Denise, would you mind taking >> Hold on. Why don't we get Denise in? Yeah. >> Is one is one of us, too. >> I voted for. >> All right. Here we go. One, two, and three. >> I think Texas, you're supposed to say >> queso. Queso. >> Thank you, sir. >>

030Thank you. >> Appreciate. If there's anything we can ever help with, we're glad to. >> Yeah. Never hesitate to call us. Pleasure. >> Thanks for calling us. Let us know. You're welcome. >> Thank you for doing it. >> Likewise. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you so much. >> So, this is this is um these are like my students uh and um being out of the classroom for as long as I have, uh you really uh look for opportunities to call a group of students your own, your own class. And so these these kids that you're going to uh be introduced to this evening, these these are my superintendent advisory kids. Uh we meet once a month uh for lunch. We'll meet tomorrow and then we we go places. Um and it's really a year-long leadership

031seminar. Uh there'll they'll have lunch with university presidents, with political leaders. um they um submit applications to be picked um and then we have an outside entity that looks at their credentials um and selects them. Um they challenge me um on many issues. Um they they just don't um accept some of the things without an explanation for why we're doing things a certain way. Um, and I I really really enjoy having a group of kids that um I can have that relationship with that is so important in the classroom that I get to have it as a superintendent. So, um, Miss Castillo is going to announce them and they'll come up here and then we'll take a picture and then we'll talk about a few things that's that's on the agenda for them. >> And

032no certificate. No audience. >> Annabelle Griffin, >> Alexa Garrett Allesandre Au, Gracie Baronza, Isabella Schmidt. >> He is our Silva. Ava Lee Charo, Adeline Alvarado, Ray Ramos, Madison Tierney. >> Congratulations. >> Mia Choa. Congratulations. Congratulations to you. Ernest Ubayong. Congratulations. Congratulations, >> Jada Martinez. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. >> Adeline Ruth She's so grown up. >> Thank you. >> She is right. >> So, um, my seniors, they've been with me for three years. And Rey, he joined the group. Uh, was it you? No, Ernest, you weren't in the eighth grade. You were a freshman when you joined the group, correct? >> But you were an eighth grader. >> Yes. uh uh and uh they've they've had lunch with University President Kingsville, University President A&M Corpus Christi, the mayor of Corpus Christi. Um I'm trying to think

033uh who else uh but we we will discuss issues that I want their point of view on. for example, um the the cell phone policy, the cell phone policy really worried me over the summer. Um and so um they were very vocal uh about how that would be implemented knowing that um we have very little flexibility. It was a law and we had to implement it and and we did it I think um in a difficult manner because normally when you start something when you start school you want to have the the new initiatives in place but we started school so early that I was very uncomfortable uh starting in mid July the cell phone when actually we didn't have to start it till I believe September 1st. first. So, they were involved with the

034policy that uh is implemented and I think it's a it's a very fair policy and I think they've done a a terrific job. Uh they're involved with the planning of the CTE building that you see going up at the high school, the new junior high. They've been with me struggling with getting the land. um that uh hopefully will come to a head in a month or so. But but there's really no topics unless it's personnel issues that we don't talk about that that affects not only Tlosa Midway High School but Tlosa Midway ISD. And I I want them to sort of get a feeling of leadership is very satisfying. It's extremely satisfying, but it's also very difficult and there's a lot of sleepless nights over tough decisions that you have to make. Um, and they're

035they're there to see that and to offer a very valuable point of view that I don't think we take advantage of fully. And that's the student perspective because they see things that I don't and I value greatly their op opinion and I'm just really proud of them. I mean, don't they dress up well? I mean, my goodness, am I proud of this group? So, so tomorrow, uh, we'll have our monthly lunch and then, um, we're taking them to the valley in early November for a football game. And then in January, they'll be um meeting with University of Texas Rio Grand Valley President. Um he's uh invited them to the campus to have lunch with him and to talk about a university that in 10 years. They're only 10 years old, Denise, and they have 35,000

036students. Something's going on there that that I want them to see. But uh again, this is my student advisory committee. So, can we give it a >> We hear a lot about y'all. >> Where do Where do you want to go? Chissy, >> let's um >> There's a lot of squeeze on there. >> So, y'all know you take your pictures tomorrow, then you go up on the wall. inch. >> And parents, do what you need to do. >> Let me get them in order for you and then I'll step out of the way. Y'all can go first. >> Do I see everyone? >> Um, Addy, I don't see you back there. Mama, can I see come up a little bit? Or >> Jay, have you found a window? Where's Molly at? >> I'm not much

037taller, but I'm a little bit taller. >> I don't need to be in this picture. >> Let's let them in the board. I'll be in their picture tomorrow. >> Okay, everybody see. >> All right. That's a good picture. It's great to see proud proud parents of you know that's a good moment. >> Did you get Did you get one? Okay. >> Yeah. I'm going to let the I'm letting them them get theirs right now. >> Who do we need to see? >> Ray in the back. >> Ray. Where's Ray? >> There we go. >> Come on, Ray. >> Okay. >> All right. Let me get mine real quick. >> Okay. Then don't go anywhere cuz I want to tell another little story. >> One, two, and smile. Got it. Thank you guys. >> So, one

038of the things we're doing aside from the CTE building and a bunch of other stuff is we're completely renovating the natitorium and our poor swimmers, they don't have anywhere to go and it's it just frustrating. Annabelle's a swimmer. So I went and I pulled her out of class and she went with us and the architect and the construction people and I wanted her opinion of number one I wanted her to see yes we we're not lying to people we are we are going to have you're going to be gone but we are going to have a swimming pool and she even said well I'll be alumni we'll have the alumni meet I remember that but I wanted her opinion of the progress and if there's anything she saw that we were moving forward with and

039I value that. So, thank you and I'll see you all tomorrow. You look great. Thank you. >> Thanks for coming. >> Hi, guys. Good job, y'all. >> Nice to see you. That's right. That's what I miss relationship. >> And so this gives me an opportunity to have a little little >> They're best friends. Well, they were in school together, so I didn't see that, you know, together until now. I didn't realize that. >> Two great things together. Mr. Bitri, can we get a picture with you? >> I'd be honored. >> He's been with me for a while. >> Thank you, sir. >> See you tomorrow. See you tomorrow. All right, we'll go ahead and move on to the next. You good? All right, next one. Uh, just that was just no no action needed. Uh

040first action item here we have is discussion and action on Senate Bill 13 library policy compliance and implementation. Mr. President, members of the board, Dr. Sham is going to lead this discussion and presentation. Uh, and one of the things that, uh, I have learned in meeting a couple of times, they've done most of the leg work, is we've got some super super librarians that are way ahead of anybody else. And that's become very obvious as we've met and we've gone through because uh the librarians and books have been in the news and we want to make sure that we are doing the right thing protecting our kids providing them the literature that they need. Um and I'm so proud of this group and I wanted to say that >> they're amazing. Okay. Good evening board

041members, uh, parents and community. Uh, I just want to vouch what uh, Mr. Van Matri said about our librarians. I've met with them a few times to go over this new law, Senate Bill 13. Uh, we've met together as a group for the Rosie as well with technology. And so, um, like I said, a lot of this they did do the leg work. They did their research. Um, so I am like honored to be surrounded by these wonderful ladies who uh who have pride and they have passion in what they do. Um, so we'll go ahead and get started. So Senate Bill 13, kind of like all the other new laws that we've been discussing in our board meeting, Senate Bill 13 focuses on library. basically how we manage our library uh not just at

042the district level or at the campus but as well as our classrooms. And so what this bill is doing is that there's a lot of implications there. There's going to be new procedures in place and we'll talk about that in our presentation. But not only that, it also gives parents greater voice in what uh their students can um can read. there's a lot of um there's just a lot more um rights that they have in Senate Bill 13. It kind of goes with Senate Bill 12 that parental control or parental rights. It's it's kind of like a theme, but you see it very much so in Senate Bill 13. And so, just to kind of preface how this bill came to be is in the state of Texas, we had some parents that were really

043concerned about library books that may be inappropriate. um in in the libraries or um sometimes they didn't go with their their values of the community. And because of this um lawmakers, including Governor Abbott, decided, you know what, we're going to do something about it. So, as you've seen in Senate Bill 12, you're seeing the same thing in Senate Bill 13, where parents are going to have a greater voice. Not only are there implications for how we um manage our books in the library, also school boards now have uh a greater role in terms of like when we uh they can approve books or if we get rid of books that has to now come through the school board. So there's a lot of implications for Senate Bill 13 in terms of library management's implications uh

044that parents now have. But I'm going to pass this over to uh Jessica Manning. Uh but before I do, I'd like to introduce everyone. Um we have Felicia Trevenia. She is at the primary campus. We have Jessica Manning. She's at the intermediate. We have Debbie Vanzette. She is at the high school. And we have Angela Doul. She is at the middle school. And like I said, I love meeting these ladies. We meet like what once a month in the library or we, you know, we pick a campus and we'll go. But we have really rich discussion and I will say you know they are very passionate about what they um what about what they do and and let me tell you by the time we met with B Matri and by the time we met

045with our campus principles they were on it. I mean and they were I mean there's not a lot of schools right now they're having this conversation but they were way ahead of the game. And so I was we're really really impressed at everything that they've been doing to make sure that we are in compliance with Senate Bill 13. >> Okay. So Jessica, hi. Um like she said, I'm Jessica Manning. I'm at the intermediate campus. Um she basically took my uh intro to the first slide. So uh we'll just move on. Um so maybe >> push down the arrow the arrow button. Yeah. >> Okay. So, um like uh she said uh Senate bill does provide a lot more uh parental involvement or parental um opinions and uh it provides a clearer uh guidance towards our

046library management and how we acquire books and the books that we also need to get rid of for various reasons. Um, it also now not only just includes our library books, but it also includes any uh digital platforms that we use um such as Epic or um >> Overdrive, Sora. Um, it also includes classroom libraries and any mobile apps that we push out as a district. Um, we have been working closely with technology and our vendors so that we can be in compliance with this. Um, but it also wants to still allow students to have that freedom to choose with parents knowing what their students are checking out. Um, and we kind of split this up. So, I'm gonna give this over to Felicia when it comes to key definitions. >> Okay. So the key

047definitions were not included on our local policy, but in Senate Bill uh 13, we have some of the definitions uh highlighted or being uh pointed out. For example, what the definition of library materials, instructional inter materials um because some of the instructional materials are already because they were adopted by the state or the school board, they're already uh something that we don't have to list. uh uh definitions of harmful. And I think this is funny because they have to give a definition of indecent content, obscene content, profane content, pervasively vulgar, um educationally unsuitable, and they give us the acronyms for the Texas State Library Archives Commission and the acronyms for the local school advisory council. So, they're going to be using that throughout the whole uh policy uh that we put together for our district.

048>> Okay. We also have um TEA suggests to implement to implement SB13 effectively the superintendent must designate a district level supervisor uh responsible for overseeing all the district libraries. It also requ uh and then beyond that we also we know that we've always been doing this. We always have a campus library uh librarian and we do um all the things we've been doing um uh school library operations ensuring uh smooth functioning and and resource availability uh we must prevent access to inappropriate materials uh regardless of parent opt out and ensuring student safety and the what Senate bill has now made the board um required to do is that they must uh you must approve or deny any acquisitions and removal of library materials. Next. Okay. Um so part of the the procedure and really we've

049had a collection development policy for ever. Um, but the the Senate Bill 13 outlined a few more things that we needed to include. And so in your binder, you should have a copy of the the the proposed schoolboard policy as well as what's current. The current is in black and then the proposed is in blue. So that kind of gives you where we're coming from and what we're going to choose. Um, and so it's just like, you know, everybody has said all along, it's more transparent, it's more parent centric. Um, and not that we didn't have that before, but now it's outlined in the in the policy. So um you know we all have on our websites our uh physical well the the catalog for our physical books as well as all the information about

050all the digital collections that we have and we are working on getting sure that we're in compliance with parent uh information and all that too. Um and then you know of course now part of the policy is that we are going to post the books that we intend to order on our websites for 30 days and for parents to review and then after that 30 days then you guys have 30 days to review the list as well. So, it it just kind of adds some extra steps and extra time and but you know, it's all for the good of the kids and and that's what we're all about. Anyway, um it's also going to make student library records available to parents. We are working on getting our circulation system to send out an email to

051parents every time a child checks out a book. which primary parents make it flooded with emails in intermediate school where, you know, they're checking out five or 10 books a day or um but but that way the parents will know, you know, almost in real time what their students are checking out. Um and then the same with the digital platforms. Um, >> are they going to be able to see fees that are racking up for non-returned books? Because I know at the end of the school year that's an issue for seniors. So, I'm just wondering, >> yes, that'll all be included. >> Um, and and I won't have to collect fines for everybody all the way to primaries. >> That'll be nice. Um, >> but it also um outlines some some reconsideration procedures and we've

052always had a reconsideration policy. Uh, again, like forever. I got a folder when I started as as a librarian in the district in 2007. Um, now it's digital, but um, you know, we have this process and it's it's a little more in-depth. It requires some more review. Um, and it outlines specifically who the who's in charge of appointing. Um, so all of this is going to be, you know, it's a step-by-step process and our everything that we have for reconsideration is already in a folder in our shared Google Drive. So if at any point somebody wants a book reconsidered, we can just give them that whole folder and then they've got everything that they need. >> Arrow down. >> Yes. So there is a provision in the bill that talks about a local school library

053advisory council and um we are recommending at this time that we do not have one of these councils and there are reasons for that. Um this council would be made of people who are not librarians. They would not be anyone who works for a school. They could not be um like if you had a a parent that took at the school, they couldn't be on that board. It would have to be only people from the community and parents of people from the community, but not anybody that is a librarian. And >> that just doesn't seem great in our opinion. you know, uh we've we have over 30 years of experience collectively and we all have master's degree in library science and we're all certified librarians and let me take a minute to say thank you

054for that because there's a lot of school districts that don't do that. They have pair of professionals. Not that pair of professionals, if there's anything wrong with that, but it your kids are getting a richer experience by having certified librarians at every campus. And um anyway, if we were to at some point have enough people, it's um they can be it can be petitioned for us to have one. And if we do, it means you'd have to have 50 parents or 10% of the parents of student population, whichever number is fewer. And it would have seven members appointed by you as trustees. So the trustees would have to find the people to be on this committee. Um, you you can only have like one of the people, let me see, how could I phrase this?

055Like four would have to be parents, three could be community members. Like you have to have one more parent than you have community members. Okay. Um, and that council would meet at least twice a year. It would have very strict posting um, deadlines and things like that. It would be a lot of hassle for you as a board. It would be a lot of hassle for the school district. And so I feel like because we are approachable and we've had a whole lot of these policies like they've all said um in place for so long, I feel like the community trusts us and we don't want to break that trust and that if someone had an issue with something, we would definitely be willing to speak with them and and work with them because that's

056what we've always done. I think a lot of this is reactionary in that there are school districts that didn't have policy. They didn't have a plan. they didn't have a way for people who were upset or or concerned to come to the school and then they would have to fight them. You know, we don't want that. We want we don't want fights. Um anyway, so that's a recommendation that we have. Um all of the recommendations have to comply with uh TSLAC standards and the district level library supervisor would would coordinate this board if we ever did have to have it. Okay. Um, as far as implementation goes of this uh particular policy things that we put together, um, there's How would I click on these things? >> You want to go over there? You're going

057to have to >> just go to a computer or I need to click on those. >> I just want to show you how we have it set up. So you'll you'll know if anyone asks. >> And this is on our website. >> Yeah. Okay. >> So um technology added to the departments tab right here. Um library services. So if anyone because the library pages were kind of hidden. You had to go to the campus. You had to find the library and if if you didn't hover on it correctly, you really couldn't click on it very well. it was it was not really great navigation. So, this we have library services. It's very visible. When you get to that page, you can get to all four of the school libraries. Um, and you're going to see

058different things here. Possible titles available at Scholastic Book Fair. The book fair is a whole part of this as well, right? So, we had to get from Scholastic a list of all 1,400 books that they could possibly sell and it has to be posted and you have to post it for 30 days before you have your book fair so the parents can look at it and see if there's anything that they don't like and then if there is then you they talk to you about taking it out of the book fair or whatever and then you have that whole thing. So, there we have it for each of the schools except the high school because they don't do a book fair. Um, and it's not that she doesn't want to do it, it's just high

059school kids wouldn't really be into any of the things that are in the book there. Um, there's the primary parental consent online form. So, if you want to click on that, thank you for being my Vanna. Um, this is a place if you're if you are as a parent would like to say, I didn't want any of my child to read any of these authors or any of these specific titles. This is where they can make that list and then it would go directly to us. we can keep it on file and we can make notes in their record on Destiny so that you know if it turns out that a kid does try to check those books out because they will at least in middle school they'll always try because I always have people

060say don't ever let my kid check out a book on on World War II. Okay, sure. And then I have to make sure Nope don't nope nope. Nice try. Um so that's what that form is. The next one, the primary or the parental consent form, if you want to click on that. This is >> a PDF. >> Yes, it's the same thing, but they can print it out and um and fill it out that way. And it just looks like that, but it's not a Google form. So, in that consent form, um, once the parent goes in there and says what they can or cannot, >> whenever the the student goes into, you probably said it and I probably missed it because I was reading or looking at something, but so if they go to

061rent a book and or check out a book, not rent, but check out a book, >> it'll flag it and say, "Hey, your parents said no." And you it won't allow them to take it. >> Yes. And I'll take it from them. >> Wow, that's pretty cool. >> Yeah, it flags it on. >> Yeah, that's what it's saying on when you go to check it out. Mhm. >> But we have to put that in manually. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> So, once we receive that form, we'll put that in manually. That way, it'll pop up whenever. >> And what if they do it digitally? Will it automatically do it? >> We still have to put it into our system manually. >> All of these things. >> All of our >> They were like, how can

062we make all of the work in the world for librarians? Let's do this. >> Make it harder for y'all. Sorry. One of the things one of the things is we're supposed to send um some kind of email >> to the parents every time their child checks out a book. >> Oh wow. >> Are you serious? >> Yes. Deb was talking about that. >> Debbie was talking about that earlier. But you have to send the the title, the author, what it's about, like a genre or something at least, how much it is and when it's let me ask you a question. Um, how are we communicating to our parents that this exists? >> Well, after this meeting and we have whatever we do with this, then we're going to >> parent square and Okay. >> the

063Facebook and all that. Yeah. >> Got it. >> I wonder how these parents are going to feel when they get all these emails overwhelming. Say you got three kids, four kids, and you're getting all these emails from each one. Like, >> it's good, but at the same time, >> checking books out. >> Yeah. And then and then my husband who is a malicious compliance person, he's also a teacher. He said, "We should also put all the people who voted for this on the email under the list." >> Anyway, so then the TMISD schoolboard policy for library materials is listed there. So, you know, like whatever we have right now is what's listed there, but whenever it changes, whatever you decide, then we'll update it there. Uh, the TEA parental rights and options information is there.

064So, this is exactly what TEA spelled out and it's all in a document from TEA. >> So, can the parents opt out of getting the emails about what their kids say you have to >> Okay. I was wondering if they could opt out once they knew about it. >> If they can block it, they can unfollow or something. Probably >> not recognize the sender or whatever. >> Yeah. But we're they're required to send out their >> Yeah. Send it to spam. That's exactly what they'll do. >> Yep. And then library materials feedback form is is if a a parent has an issue with something. Let's say they bring a book home and we can't possibly read every book in the library, although the state thinks we have or we can. And so if there happens

065to be a bad word in a book or there happens to be something that slips by somehow just it's possible and a parent gets upset about it, this is their first line of defense, right? This is this is where they come and they say, "Okay, I have a problem with this." And it's it's formal so that you know we have it we have it documented and everything and then we can call in or we can talk with them about it and have the discussion and everything and try to deescalate before it gets you know everybody is up here in the atmosphere right let's see okay then the next steps um oh wait and then we you want to show one of the websites >> um so uh I went ahead and linked uh the intermediate

066website. We have all that information. Again, that way we can't say that we haven't informed anybody. We have it on all four of our uh campus websites. We'll have it on the homepage. So, all the documents that Angela just talked about are again on the homepage. They will be again in the book at the bottom of the books page like where you can search because Destiny Discover is our online catalog and then our other um options online options that we have for ebooks and things. We have it again there and then a third time on our campus websites will be on our contact page. >> So there's nowhere missing a we put it everywhere. So at no point our parents can say, "Hey, we didn't >> find it." >> How long have we had a

067digital catalog in our libraries or >> since? Okay. >> Because we we had to have some way to get for kids to get library access. We're in a consortium with school districts in the area. Not all of them, but some of them so that we can also borrow their books as well, but they may have different standards than we do. Not likely, but you know, maybe. So, we have we have a lot of work we have to do on that as well. >> How do our um ACC kids when do they use the high school library or do they have books on campus? >> We we do, but um since this new law came into effect, we're following suit with with everyone all the other campuses. So, anything that'll be checked out will be digital

068or how through high school. >> Okay. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. Thank you. I had taken some books over there for them to have a library at one point in time, but then because of all of this, it's like we got to do something different because we're also in charge of classroom libraries. >> So, every classroom, whatever you have in the classroom, then >> we have to post that as well. >> Yeah. But if they need anything, they could I mean, >> absolutely. >> And I have a constant line of communication. >> Yeah. I just wondered how it worked because I'm seeing all the campuses up there and I'm thinking, okay, how does ACC get their book? So, yeah, it was just a >> I was curious actually. >> Also, with middle school, I'm I'm in

069a a weird situation because I have kids on that campus that are 11 and I have kids that are turning 14 and then if they have um stayed an extra year or two, they could be 15. You know what I mean? And what a 14 15year-old wants to read or needs to read and what an 11year-old wants to read. night and day different and they grow so much in that span of time, right? So, I'm not trying to make anybody grow up faster than they need to. And so, I've always had this uh YA sticker that I put on the books. So, if it's if it's like a PG-13 type thing, like if your parents don't let you watch PG-13 movies, then don't get those books. And we all have a disclaimer. I always talk

070about it at the beginning of the year. You know what your family is okay with. you know what your parents allow. And so you need to it's your responsibility to choose things that are okay with your family and reflect your family's values. Um so then um the next steps are our superintendent needs to um appoint a district level librarian. Um the board needs to vote on local school library advisory plan if we're going to have one or not and also approve or deny the recommend changes to the library policies. So tonight we have the uh first step step in that process the school library advisory council uh based on is there more to the presentation? No, not >> but based on recommendations from the campus principles, the librarian and Dr. Sham. Um the administration is

071going to recommend um that we do not at this time put together a school library advisory council knowing that if there's a ground swell of community support, there's a there's an avenue for the parents uh to um require that. So, Mr. President, members of the board, um is there any other qu questions? I'm sorry. >> Yes, sir. >> Kudos to y'all. A lot of work, right? Yes. >> Um, I do have a question because I'm just interested in knowing. >> Do we have any material that had to had to be removed from our school libraries? I didn't think so. I just wanted to make sure that the community knew that we didn't have any of those materials on our campuses. >> So, um, awesome, awesome job. That's just because y'all have been doing an awesome

072job before this. >> Exactly. but having to implement you know SB13. Now >> my worry uh we can easily regulate not easily but we have um qualified professionals regulating what is in our libraries. Um but in the classrooms it's a little different. um a a a classroom teacher could go out and have price books and buy a ton of books unaware of something that may or may not be in there. So that's that's our challenge. >> And I think our campus principles have done a really good job of addressing those concerns in in in the in the classroom. We found a online application that allows teachers to quickly scan their books and put them onto uh links so all our parents can see those books that they're getting now. They're not checking them out from

073the teacher so they don't have to get an email every time they read a book, but they're in the classroom. So we've given our teachers a timely a timeline that's feasible to add these books because primary our teachers have literally Mr. Alvarado thousand books. I mean it's bigger probably Miss Alvarado's library is bigger than some small one a libraries inside classroom so it does take time but we found a very our teachers our teacher found one of our teachers found it Miss Treywick it's a very simple fast library that updates instantly so there's kind of the innovative creative things we're doing to help our teachers >> um transition >> sorry I'm using it also to for the vending machines because I have to I have to because it's anything that the students have access to

074And so because they have access to the vending machines as a reward, I have to do that too. >> And we've also in your uh policy packets and somewhere in there, we've also put that um the classroom libraries uh when teachers have their classroom libraries, they can't have anything in their classroom libraries that aren't on our library catalogs, that aren't on our in our libraries. So if they can't find it in our libraries, then they shouldn't have it in >> classrooms. Sorry. So >> I'll just say that we don't recognize the work that that our school librarians do enough. We can't thank you enough. I I think we're topnotch. I'd put us up against anywhere else. Your your libraries. And having had three children raised in this district, I know how important our libraries are

075to our kids. >> Uh and the book fairs, I mean, that's a big day. you know, vending machines and the online access for virtual books and working with the teachers and then the fact that we don't have we haven't had the issues with inappropriate materials in our in our kids' hands and that y'all are so in tune with that. You're very mindful of that. So, thank you. And this was a lot of work. Lot of work. Thank you, >> Mr. Boon. The challenge I have with the book fair is I'll I'll give the kid not my best customer. >> Yes. >> And I'll tell you what my biggest challenge is going to be now that we have a cell phone ban. All these kids were tapped to pay cuz they were they were like you

076can use your your tap to pay. And they thought they were big ballers coming in with these phones going and then they would look I have money on my phone. Bam. >> No, they can't. >> They'll find away. >> Anyway, >> thank y'all. >> Thank you very much. Okay, Mr. President, members of the board, is it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees not approve the voluntary establishment of a school library advisory council under Senate Bill 13 at this time unless compelled by a parent petition as described in statute. I have a motion. I'll make that motion. All right. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second. And I announced this earlier. Y'all may not have been in here, but we've got a change to how we do this now. So, I have to

077go ask every person your vote. I have to say your name and then you say yes or no. So, I got to ask myself what my vote is and I vote for it for the resolution. So, >> what was yours again, sir? >> Paul Aria's vote is >> I'm sorry. One more time. What was that? Neil Gonzalez is absent. Mr. Rick Choa is absent. Brian Boon, your vote. >> Yes. Kimbo Boon, >> Yes. Marty Enez. >> Yes. Okay. And then Christy told me what I was supposed to say here. I couldn't just say it carried. You got to say uh the vote uh what was it again? >> You just made >> the vote uh passes with a four to zero vote. Right. Okay, something >> that was a lot of work. >> Thank you.

078Congratulations. Yes, great job. Great job. >> Thank you for technology and >> thank you to all and to you for all of your help. We really appreciate it. Great team >> team work. >> All right, the next item on here is a report Tim Virtual Academy. Mr. President, members of the board, we have, I believe, Dr. Sham and Mr. Alvarado. Several weeks ago in one of the presentations by legal regarding new laws and statutes, um it was brought up that um TEA was allowing uh significant flexibility for school districts to offer uh a virtual typemies, remote learning that quite frankly had some very significant ificant financial implications very positive to the district. Um Mr. Alvarado uh basically ran with it >> um and um did a tremendous amount of investigation and research um and presented

079it to me. uh I greenlighted it to go to the principles and the admin team and it's been very um rewarding to see one of your administrators um take such an interest in something that could save kids on a much greater scale. We have ACC that saves kids and Compass Academy and of course all of our campuses, but kids that don't really do well in a traditional setting take that and really just expand it. Um, and so I want to make sure that um people know that um this type of innovation was organic uh by Mr. Alvarado. So I I want to congratulate you Gabe. over to Dr. Shaw. >> Okay. And I was talking to Gabe today. I'm like, I think you're getting close to Mr. Van Matri as the launch uh grenade launcher.

080>> I'm like, you're coming in pretty close, Gabe. Uh because he's right. I think we've had we've been having this conversation for about two months maybe, and it's just like coming together quickly. Um, another reason for the virtual academy is because we're going to be doing away with the Texas school virtual um, network and that was initially like the virtual online academy through or online courses through tea and so we're doing away with that and in lie now school districts will be able to offer the virtual academy. Um, like I said, Gabe has, you know, put all this together and, you know, just being that innovator, you know, just thinking outside the box and we're planning on rolling this out like as soon as possible. Right now, there is a lasso for grant that is

081out there that we are going to apply for um for next year, but right now we're going to get the ball rolling because you know what? this is the moment to seize that moment, the opportunity. But when we do apply for the grant, and I think there's only what, four districts in the state that are actually seeking the virtual academy um application. So, there's a very good chance that we will get awarded the funds in the fall of next year. So, that'll bring extra money. I think we're looking at $230,000 per campus. And so those funds will in turn be used to um to help facilitate the virtual academy. But I'm going to hand this over to uh Mr. Alvarado um who has you know inspired us and we're all very passionate and eager to

082see this. Before Gage starts, what what the cadence will be in moving forward is we'll offer the presentation tonight and entertain questions, comments, observations, and then if we feel like we have the support of the board, then we will bring it back to the board for approval before moving forward. >> All right. So, like thank you for your kind words, but uh This was a team effort. So basically what happened is Senate Bill 569 came about. Uh Senate Bill 569 is the one that dissolved the Texas virtual network and allowed school districts to operate its own virtual academy. But it also did it with a little bit of a kick which was that it allowed school districts to claim full ADA funding per kid um where virtual academy in the past did not. So each

083particular um I guess student is worth x amount of dollars. Um and we are now able to bring that into the district as well. At the same time we're TM so we're going to do things right by kids. So we're going to play the uh what we had what we did was that um our team here which is Lamar is here stand up. Uh Marco Dennis who's our sister instruction has worked really hard. Coach Fig over there has worked extremely hard getting things ready on the back end. Um, Miss Chapo, of course, has done amazing work with us doing getting this stuff. Rosie set up this entire website. It's ready to go. And of course, Miss Aas and Dr. Shamas helped as well. So, within two months, you're going to see what we've accomplished. Um,

084but first, we're going to start with the video so you can better explain what TM Virtual Academy is. >> Hello, my name is Gabe Alvarado and I'm the principal of Tossa Midway High School. Today we're going to talk about our newest initiative, the Tlosa Midway Virtual Academy. The Tlosa Midway Virtual Academy is a tuitionfree school of choice open to all students across the state of Texas. The program offers both a 100% online learning platform as well as a hybrid learning option to meet your individual needs. The virtual academy has four individual pathways to help you succeed. The first pathway is our traditional track. This program is 100% online and is designed for working students. As part of the programs, students work a minimum of 240 minutes a day, no matter the time of day. If

085you need to work at your job in the morning, you simply do your coursework at night. Our second pathway is the accelerated track. This program is also 100% online. In this track, when you graduate, is completely in your hands. Students in this track work through their credits as fast as they can. Once you complete a course, you move right on to the next one. Once all credits are completed, the student is officially a graduate. So, if you have 10 credits to graduate and you work hard, you can graduate in a few months instead of an entire year. Our third pathway is the associates track. In this track, students work with our college partners to earn either an associate of arts or an associate of science while working on their high school courses in a 100%

086online environment. Students in this tract are expected to stay in the program for two years and will experience both a college and high school graduation their senior year. What is the cost of our tuition, books, fees, you might ask? Well, it is 100% free to all TMISD students. Our final pathway is our flipped high school track. In this track, students attend career and technology courses such as cosmetology, welding, process technology, and many other programs in the medical field. on either our campus or our college partners. Students will attend college classes when offered and complete their online high school work throughout the day. So, if you want to be a welder, you would simply show up to your college classes at either of our partners' institutions and then do your high school work anytime before 11:59

087that same day. Once again, this program is absolutely free. Students in the virtual academy still get the same benefits as regular high school students. You will still be able to participate in all UIL activities, attend classes on campus, major activities like prom and homecoming, get college admissions guidance, and attend a graduation ceremony. How do you join TMV? First, you must apply and be accepted to be a TMISD transfer student. You must also have passed at least three end of course exams if you are transferring from a public school. You must also have access to the internet and a personal device. You must also agree to come to campus or another designated testing facility to either EOCC or TSI test. If you are interested in learning more about TLOS Midway Virtual Academy, please visit our website

088at tmisd. us and click on the virtual academy tab. Space is limited, so sign up as soon as possible. Choose your path, own your future, and join the TM virtual academy today. Right now I'm going to bring up Gina. She's from Ed Midum. So um part of the program is that they receive a high school credit uh so on and so forth. We are going to use a third party to do that to make sure that our kids are getting qualified uh materials. She'll speak to that. Do you want to go ahead and >> I do have a couple of booklets just in case anybody is probably interested at a later time for more information. But >> hi everyone. Um, my name's Karina. I've had the honor and the privilege of working with this amazing

089administration team that you have um at ECC and uh Gabe as well. So, we have been partnered with y'all since 2008 actually. So, we provide uh courseware well actually apex >> and it's transitioning into courseware um which is our platform. I do have a little more information. And I'm sure you probably have a lot of questions about what I'm saying, but it's just one of our products that provides credit recovery, firsttime credit, CTE, TSI, uh, A2 prep, all those good things on that one platform. So, that is a program that you already use, something that you've had in place that your your your staff is familiar with, your administrators are familiar with, and that would be the program that you would be using to support this virtual academy. So, our um our cat our catalog

090actually well the courses aren't listed in here but has a little information for you but our courses you know just compared to our Texas competitors we do have the highest level of courses that are Texas Teesbased uh also uh rated the highest in the quality matters program as well. So we do have quite a bit of a robust program for y'all to to be able to choose from. And just hearing all this, it's super exciting, I will say, because um Edenum has had other conversations with other districts, but nothing in this area, North South, you know, South Texas. So, it's I just I feel very passionate about it. I've been sitting at this these tables, you know, with them in the last couple of months just hearing their conversations and everything that they're doing and

091it's amazing work. So just thank you for letting letting us be even a small part of it, you know, moving forward. So I can leave these here for y'all if you all want some more information. >> Thank you. >> Okay. So I think the best way to do this is kind of just to go through side by side of what the commercial was and kind of give you a little bit more of an explanation so that you have a better idea of of what it is. So, so let's let's talk about what TMVA is. It's a tuition free school of choice with flexible hybrid learning to get your high school diploma and college credit. Now, this is available for anyone in the state of Texas. So, in the background, we've been working with uh gotten

092our hands on two of them, but two different colleges. uh Southwest College in Yaldi and we've gotten Texas Southmost in Brownsville. We're signing soon. So, a kid in Brownsville, let's say for instance, would be able to attend college classes at Southmost and then get high school credits with us. They would never see the TM campus, but you would claim full ADA for that student. They would uh graduate with us. We have our own little ceremony we'd have in the Jim Cooper. Um the big one in the uh American Bank Center was still reserved for us or whatever it's called. Thomas which which lawyer won. >> Not sure which one won. Um but uh so that's that's kind of what it is is that we're able to take students from wherever they are um and put

093them through college courses or if they just want to graduate because life happened so on and so forth. Uh we're able to do that for them. Gabe, let me um somewhat of a rhetorical question, >> but what um what keeps us from being 6A for UIL with the number of kids and how would this affect class rank? >> Okay, so let's let's take the first one. Um in October, uh we submit our um our snapshot data. That is the data that UIL determines our classification size. So we're a division one school. then we would stay with based on our numbers because we're not starting this thing till December. Uh we'd stay a 4A division one school no matter if we grew to 10,000 uh between now and then between the next snapshot. At that point,

094we would be, but we're not going to. So part of the lasso 4 grant she was talking about is the starting of your own virtual campus. So, we'll finish out this year, then we'll apply to be our own virtual uh school and that school will get its own unique ID number. So, those kids will be their own entity. They will be the size of they could play Duncanville if they wanted to, but they're not going to win. But our kids would not have our class size would stay the same just based on our community here. So, we have to get that accomplished within the two years before the next realignment, which we feel fully confident we can do. In fact, we have to. That's part of the grant that we're gonna apply for. So, that

095piece you don't really have to worry about. Well, we could take on uh well, we couldn't take on that many. The law is very clear that as you're moving on from a campus, you can only have 50% of your campus be online. So, we're at,070. we can only take on a thousand more kids um at a time. Um we'll talk about that in a little bit. Um so during that time frame where we're applying for a campus, we might be a campus of 2007, but it won't matter for UIL purposes because it's from snapshot to snapshot for a two-year interval. Class rank, um >> class rank is is the one I'm most excited about as a parent. Um I know some um let's say for instance we have students who are in rank let's say

096number 30 of their class and the class right now 240 and it dwindles every day as we send kids to ACC that number drops and drops and drops because ACC kids don't count in the class rank of high school they're their own separate campus so if you have a student who is number 30 who's dreaming about to go to UT okay they only take the top 6% of your uh graduating class. Um 6% of let's just say let's round it 200 that's 12 or let's say 250 that's 14. So you have to be ranked in the top 14 in order to get that guaranteed automatic admission into UT. The majority of kids that are going to graduate by December uh from this particular program, they're not going to be your associates kids. They're not going

097to be your kids that are going to try and get a full-fledged uh certificate because they only have a semester, but they might be the kids who are trying to graduate as soon as possible. So, they're going to come in and let's say we get 300 of them. Well, that puts that number 30 now 30 out of as opposed to 30 out of 250. So now that kid gets to go to ET. It's just you're adding more and more to the uh the denominator. >> Um now if you do have a kid who transfers in uh we have some protections we'll bring forth to uh which is would mean we'd like to bring a resolution that the top 10 is fro or you have to be a TMISD student for at least two years. That

098is a standard that we just don't have right now. >> You need it. It's only valance south. That's it. That's the only thing that's protected. So, we'll be bringing that to you as well. >> But we're just talking about the top 10. I mean, some of our kids in the top 10, 10% >> could lose their positions with that many kids coming in. >> I I I would doubt it very seriously. uh we wouldn't have um I'm just saying they they would have to leave their campus that they're already the top 10 in to come join a campus where they might not be. >> Well, it could possibly happen and let's just throw it out there. What if a parent is a um military person and they have to move from this school to this

099school whether they're you know >> ranked fifth >> you know >> then what happens there you know what I mean like what >> excluded if from the top 10 if that's that's the case and that's I assume I I don't know the the thought of the board when that passed because what we have is the atypical version where it's just one and two most districts have the the one through 10 that's protected. Uh but we don't and it might be for that or you know obviously something happened in one of your parents and you had to move districts. There's all kinds of reasons why kids move into districts. Um and you would just be saying that they just couldn't graduate in the top 10. Not >> the other the other thing to think about is

100just kind of going off what you were saying is that our our kids that are graduating have been here for at least two years, right? And so we know what education they received in the classroom. And we have the best teachers in the state of Texas. So therefore, they got the best teaching. We don't know where these other kids came from. And did they get the same biology class? Did they get the same English class? And I think it's real important that we put that in place um to protect our kids that have gone to school here at TM and the education that they've gotten. The other uh I guess kind of pieces that we'd be working with is you know right now currently students taking courseware Apex and that those courses do not count

101towards GPA. They're considered uh courses that are taken um outside the normal school day. We're talking about bringing those back in. So if they are taking it for primary credit that they would count towards GPA and since they're not honors classes they would get no weight. So inadvertently you'd actually kind of lower that amount of impact that they would have. So a kid who's in taking world geography through you know adminum course if they get a a 95 would stick with that 95 whereas some kid who took a honors class in TM high school would get the 95 plus the 15% more. So there would be a wider gap but um so that's sorry get off the track. So that is the the premise of the TMVA that we open it to the entire state

102of Texas. Um specifically though working with South Texas um and especially school districts that uh do not have the same type of access that we do to our dual credit classes. So pathway one is our traditional track. This is for students. Um the student that comes to mind is a student who's now trying to support their family uh because their dad lost uh their job, mom lost their job. Uh so now they're able to work at any particular time of the day so long as they do 240 minutes a day of of work on their courses they would need to graduate. Uh so this is the first option. So if you think about uh students who um you know just we have a couple now I can think of you know where mom you know

103hurt herself in an accident. This kid's now the primary caregiver. He's having attendance issues. He's going to have struggle graduating. This type of program would uh would help them out significantly. >> Pathway two is the one we are the most used to doing. This is Compass Academy already. So this is what we do for our normal kids. They just we give them credits. They hammer them out until they graduate. So if you think of the single mom, the teenage mom who wants to graduate instantaneously, well then they just work at it 12 hours a day until they get it done. uh you've also in this particular you know component you'll have students who want to not only graduate but they want to go join the military things of that nature. Uh so you know their

104their home life might not be the best and they want to get out of that house. This is the best way to get them out. >> Is this pathway too taking the place of our Compass Academy or we still going to have both? >> We still have Compass for our kids that are local. >> Okay. So I think think of this one as like the kid who lives in Cula. >> Okay. >> Um or the kid who lives in Skidmore, Texas. Um they would be able to those two school districts don't have anything like our Compass Academy, but now this gives them an option to to graduate early >> and we're funded for providing that opportunity. >> Okay. Pathway three is the associates track. So this is 100% online. I never come to school. Um,

105I'm at home the entire time. I'm taking my high school credit courses and getting my 60 hours at either Delmare, Coastal Bing College, Southwest, or Southwest. All of this um is 100% free because both Delmare and Coastal Bank College are free. So is Texas Southmost to any kid. The kids in the southwest, they get charged 160 bucks an hour, but they do do fast, which means that if they're um free and reduced lunch, then they don't pay a thing. We're smart enough to know if you don't qualify for fast, you're getting your associates through Delmare. So, we'll just put them over there. Um so, but these kids are you're going to be starting as sophomores. Um and they'll be taking their associates getting all that done. So when they graduate high school, they'll have either

106an associates of arts or an associates of science. It's 100% online. They never have to set foot on campus. Uh so these are kids who have high anxiety, don't want to attend school. Um or, you know, we have students who just the high school that they are located in that they're I don't say trapped, but that's kind of the word. The school zone they're trapped into just isn't conducive for them anymore. So this gives them their opportunity. Smart kids graduate. uh with both of their degrees. And this one's the fun one. This one's the most I I like the most. Um so now you have a kid who's in Yaldi. Um Yaldi doesn't have the opportunity college there. So the kid would actually go on campus, take their high school credits there. They want to

107weld, they can take as many as they need to during the day. See, the thing that limits us here is that we're bound at the high school by travel time. we have to travel there, drop the kid off, they take one or two classes, they travel back, we've lost two periods, and we're stuck. Um, we also have kids who don't have the opportunity, like they started late. Hey, you're you need to catch up. You're going to have to do something else because you didn't pass your TSI the first time, so now you're going to have to do double the work. Well, sorry, the bus leads back. Well, this kind of throws all of that out the window. They can stay eight hours a day at the junior college hammering out their coursework and then they

108take world geography with us at night on Edmonton courses. So they will graduate with their level one certificate, their level two certificate or their associates of applied science and their high school diploma no matter where they're at as long as they can get to their junior college. So if we have a kid in Beville, they could go to Coastal College, take their automotive classes there during the day, and at night work on their one or two high school classes that they would need to graduate. Uh this is the one that I I think it would be the most beneficial to kids. Um if you if you think about it, like we were talking about it today, um we were going to have uh TAMUK and Delmare work at night in our UCT center. So, if

109you have, let's say, a teenage mom who needs to provide child care for her child while their parent is working, well, they would do their work during the day and then they can take night classes at night at their facility, Delmare or wherever and it's 100% free because they're high school students and high school students are free. They don't have to pay any tuition. So, it would be a blessing to their families for they them to get, you know, done with everything without owing a dime. >> Oh, god. So this let's talk about UIL activities. So after talking to coach V uh we kind of shot some ideas around. So if a student is able to come to campus and be enrolled in the athletic period, they would be allowed to participate in UIL athletics.

110So if I or a band or whatever, as long as they can come on campus to do that particular period, they can still participate. Okay. So, this idea is not uh there is a whole virtual school in the TXVN that's based on this concept. It's the Olympic development committee team where these kids are handpicked because they're really really good. Um, and they spend half their day doing online coursework and the rest of their day training to do what >> you see it in swimming, >> right? And you see it in baseball and and all the other in soccer. So, you technically could have those kids who are let me go attend do what I need to do uh classwise and then do the rest of my time online and then do their training. Uh onampus

111classes, they're still able to come on and do classes if they need to. Uh most of them will choose. I assume not, but they will be able to do band. If they are in a speech and debate kid, they still would be able to come on campus and do speech and debate. So on so forth, they're still able to come to everything we offer. um college admitted ad college admission guidance comes from their counselor and the graduation ceremony will be separated apart because we have to get out in two hours and if we go too big then we start have to pay more. >> So So real quick on you I don't >> how do you so if you get a thousand kids to sign up for this and a hundred of them come out

112to play football and now we have 150 kids on the sideline. We're a 4A school and we're playing another school that's got 50 kids on the sideline. >> How how do you sell that? Like surely the UIL is not going to let you do that. >> Yeah, it happened at CCISD not too long ago when they opened vets. So vets opened up as a 4A school and then >> next week they had >> a thousand more kids and they were a 5A school. >> Uh but they were playing 4A numbers >> when they started >> for two years. >> Yeah. >> Right. But I'm looking longterm like >> when that's when we're on campus so all those kids transfer off. >> That's my point though. When you create your own virtual campus, >> how does

113that headcount come to your campus team and make you 5A numbers, but you're still playing with 4A teams? >> So our our gap is about 350 kids, 1350,400 depending on where the next cutoff is. So all we have to say is the kids who want to participate in sports are the only kids that are going to be TM virtual academy students. The rest are going to go to TM virtual high school. So those kids are out. They're their own school, their own entity. They will be if they have 10,000 kids in it, >> they'll be a six day school who doesn't play any sports. But if they're their own entity in sports, >> how are they being put into the ranking of our kids that walk the hallways? >> They're not own high school. They're

114not. >> Okay. So, they're not going toffect. >> It's like we and they're veterans >> sizewise. So, the veterans kid doesn't count towards Miller. The Miller kid doesn't count towards veterans. They're their own two separate high schools. Because I'm gonna tell you, y'all know how fast word travels in Tlosa Midway ISD. >> I received phone calls this weekend about this multiple because word has traveled. I figured the information that we were getting was not fully all of the information and and my big thing is being a voice for our kids that are walking the hallways because if we're walking these kids that are walking the hallways are dealing with a whole lot. I'm not saying that our kids that are virtually are not dealing with hard things, right? But our kids are walking hallways and

115they're dealing with the everyday stressors, the everyday stuff. >> Well, their parents are also taxpayers >> that's supporting the salaries and the light bill and all that. >> Absolutely. I'll take it. >> So, um just want to make sure that we're very clear on what's going on here because we already have very upset uh people and I said, "Hey, we we got to find out what's going on." >> Miss Ben, what what what's the root? What are they saying? They're worried about these virtual kids that are not walking our hallways coming in and taking their kids spot. No matter where they are from 1 to 303 or 1 to 25, whatever it is, they want their kids to stay in the spot of where they are at. Even if they're outside of the 10%, even

116if they're outside the 1 through 10, they want to make sure their kids are where they're they should be and where they've earned to be. And I don't know if that's doable in our current guidelines and I don't know if you could change that to be honest with you. Uh the kids would have to get a class rank. Um >> I guess the big question is is the seniors and the juniors right now that know where their class rankings are. >> If we're doing this right now, where are our sen senior our senior class right now? They know where they're at, >> right? what's going to happen once this program goes in to place. >> It depends on how many kids join. I mean, that's that's the thing. And what grade level they join at?

117So, if you have those seniors or juniors who are trying to get out as as fast as possible, I guarantee you that they're not going to be in the top hundred of their of their current senior class of where they're at. So they can still come and graduate with our >> in school, you know, in brick and mortar students. >> They have to for a year and a half. >> Say that again. >> For the next year and a half. So from December till May. And then all of next year, those kids would graduate in the pool of TM high school graduates. The next year they would be out in their own individual entity outside of the school. Uh the high school like it's its own high school by itself. Ranks would be done over

118there. You'd get a valid Victorian from over there. You wouldn't have a valid Victorian. It' be two different validictorians actually. Um now there's some other provisions you could look at uh in policy to see what it's changing. And like I said, we we probably do need to change that 1 through 10 cuz that's to me that's a standard that we're the exception. We're the one that's weird that only has a vow and a that's the only one that's predicted they have to be here two years. everybody else. It's It's that this senior class here. Like I said, to me, it would be a benefit going from being 34 out of 250 to being number 34 out of 500. >> Oh, I I top 10%. >> I see what you're saying. I just I'm letting you

119know what the concerns are in the community. What what I think I'm hearing is we need to implement some guard rails. >> Yes. >> To protect our kids. >> So, we will begin those conversations with legal and TASBY to see what guard rails we can put in. And we're only talking a year and a half, >> correct? >> For that. >> Okay. >> So, what about state testing and >> so accountability? >> Accountability. >> They have to already pass three, >> right? So they're only going to have one test which traditionally is the the one that everybody scores the highest on. >> So that's all we would be concerned with is the US history test unless they change the >> So there's five. Next year there'll be four. >> I mean there's two. Yes. >>

120Um and in order to get in they have to have passed at least three. >> So uh we're English two in US history. >> Yeah. But English will be going away. >> It's going away. >> Oh that's right. So, it is just US history that's left. It is the only one that's left. >> Now, I imagine because we're kicking it around ourselves that now that English 2 is gone, US history might come down to sophomore year. >> Um, just because it's, let's just get it out of the way. Um, and some other school districts might do that. At that case, every kid star ready by the time that they get to uh to our program. But we feel confident based on our passing rate which is at 96 97%. That we can get those kids

121where they need to be using Edmonton's courses or just the natural cuz this star test US history is civil war till now with some of it being now. >> I think they'd be okay uh to get a passing score before you get a class ring. Okay. Um So once again, they have to be accepted as a transfer student following all our transfer guidelines, which means they have to attend at least 90% of their classes or else we kick them out. 90%. Uh they also have to be no discipline uh troubles or anything like that. um must have passed the EOC exam at least three of them, must have access to the internet and must come on campus to take their EOCC or TOSI scores which is or somewhere uh we could rent out uh some

122other virtualmies rent out like hotel lobbies and star test there. Uh especially for those that are in the valley or something like that where it'd be not feasible to bring them anywhere else. Well, and that's kind of where I was going with what I was saying about our kids that are are walking the hallways. They've got teachers watching them take a test. We've got kids taking tests virtually. Is there going to be anything in place >> um >> with whether or not cheating can happen? Whe I mean, there's >> kids are smart. >> Yes, they are. >> I'm not going to guarantee that kids aren't going to cheat. I think we have kids who cheat right now in high school all the time. >> I agree. I agree with you. I just guarantee they're not

123going to cheat on their start test because that has to be monitored for the same way. >> Um >> they have to come in to get tested, >> right? >> Uh same thing with TSI. >> But the >> I'm just talking about grade wise. Talk about that. >> Sure. >> Um so one of the other components that Edmonton does provide to several districts is the human touch to the courses that we provide. So, um, one of the things we've been talking about with your team right now is about adding that instructional that certified teacher to each course that is being provided. So, that is an additional cost of course to what you already subscribe to as a district. Um, but it would ensure that your students do have a certified teacher in place and the

124monitoring, the grading, the feedback and all of that to that happens within the course. But the acceleration thing and that kind of just goes away. >> Oh, correct. Correct. Yeah. Well, you you have a teacher monitoring them, pacing them, and keeping them on track throughout the course. So, um I've actually been involved in several virtual models within the state of Texas and Maryland as well. And um where I' I've actually even been a virtual teacher before where I am monitoring students in and out. So there's a lot of details that go into it, a lot of contact, a lot of tutoring, you know, even those types of sessions that go in with it. And that's another thing that we would be bringing to this model um for Tuluso. >> So quick question. Yes. >> Who

125would be the teachers? Who would be the online teachers? >> We're going to go over that right now. >> Oh, okay. >> Okay. So this is the skip ahead >> the virtual model. So this is the impact that semester 1 would have. So each student is worth about 10,500 straight. You just think of it that way. That's a kid who's not special ed. Uh not a CTE student, not in any other program. There's 10,500. So in this upcoming semester, it would be 5,250 bucks would be the max that you could get for that kid. We're going to assume that that kid has a 90% attendance rate. Okay? So based on that, that's $4,725 to be per semester, not year. The adminum cost, that's what we're going to pay them, would be $1,520. The cost of

1269 hours, which most of the time it's going to be free, but I'm I always base my budgets on the worst case scenario, is about and then so it's a total expense of $2,20. Our profit per student would be $2,75. a thousand students, we generate an additional $2.75 million in ADA this semester >> starting >> which is going to start when? >> December. >> January >> or January. Yes. >> So from January to May. Yes. So >> next semester. >> Yes. >> So year one you get the full impact because it's the entire year of 10,500. You assume everything the same. The cost is different. You got double the cost. Admitted cost is 3,200, but if a year long, >> yeah, we would bring it down to 2500 for per for for yall discount. >>

127So our profit per student would be 5,280 per year, which generates an additional 5.28 million in additional revenue for the district. >> Where are y'all getting the,000 students enrolled? Do we already know this or are we estimating this? >> We're estimating. So we estimated this and I'll tell you how we kind of that's our max we can go. >> Right. Right. Right. Because you said Yeah. >> Right. So our Compass Academy in this district along with ACC graduates 20% of our student body. >> Okay. >> This 1,000 kids, we did the math. So if we took all of ESC2, there were 16,000 seniors. This is 1% of that. less than 1% that we'd be feel we'd be able to to get in the entire region of South Texas. It's 1,600 just in the ESC2, we

128still have four more ESC's in South Texas that we could generate pool from. >> Okay. So now we talk about if we are a once we transition to the uh virtual high school its own individual entity we're going to project what we be as one of the smallest um virtualmies in Texas. Okay. So this one of the smallest means we're at 4,000 kids and we're generating $21 million a year in full-blown ADA. And this is worst case scenario. So this 90% is probably going to be about 95. These kids at 10,500 if they get their associates, the multiplier is 1.24. So those kids are actually worth $13,000 a year. Then you get uh the admin cost will be significantly lower as she said. Then the cost of 18 hours is 1,000 bucks, but we're going

129to be smart and we're going to put kids in the right college to make sure that it's free. So our total at 4,000 which makes us one of the smaller virtualmies means we're generating $21 million a year in revenue and we don't pay anything. I think that's the thing that you have to understand like we're not paying for brick and mortar. We're not paying electricity. >> That is pure. >> Okay. Where's the T? So >> it's the Edmond. >> This is a lot. >> Yes. So, I'm just going to I'm going to start off with that. Second, kudos. Okay, I think this is awesome. Now, I'm going to take a step back. >> Okay, >> I think this is awesome for year two, right? When we have our virtual high school setup. What I'm concerned

130about is the year and a half before we get to year two and how that could and I understand the benefits, >> but I'm also maybe seeing some negative effects for the year and a half that we're not our own high school. And then secondly, when we become two different entities, >> Mhm. >> two different high schools, how is that money going to be able to fall over to >> It's district money. >> That's what I wanted to know. Okay. So, that becomes district money. >> To have the guard rails >> to take care of the year and a half. >> That's that's my biggest concern. I think this is awesome. Wow. >> So, the the reason why we Go ahead. No, I'm so sorry to interrupt. I was just saying I think really this

131is aimed at those students who are looking for these specific pathways. Our courses are not weighted as honors courses or advanced courses. So naturally those the students taking them if they were coming in with a very high ranking would be taking courses that would probably be weighted differently or regularly as opposed to at a higher weight. and and I totally that is a big >> totally hear what y'all are saying but I'm important about one to 333 >> um I care about the top 10 I care about our validator I care about a saludiatoran but I care about every single kid and that's from one to whatever the max number of the class is that's what I'm concerned about >> I think and I am too as as their principal I am concerned But I

132also can't look a kid in the eye and say, >> "Had we added 300 more kids, you'd be able to go to Texas Tech." Now you can't. >> I can't look a kid in the eye and say, "I hear you. >> You could have gone to&M College Station, but now you can't." >> That's a big pill to swallow. I mean, you you're looking I think >> looking at percentages more than an actual ranking, >> right? So, it's where they qualify in that piece. I understand how important the top 10 is. Believe me, I do every day. Um, we can we can pull that to make sure they still end up on that banner. But for a kid who's number 30 to now have the option to go to UT and to deny them that option,

133that's a harder pill to swallow, I think. >> Or maybe they go to >> They could. they could. But either way, even even 30 is not guaranteed, you know, even in that. But 30 out of 500, >> well, that is an automatic. >> And I I just give this example. Let's say they're 250 in their class. They work hard at the best they can do with their whole family dynamic. They're working hard to get their C's and they're ranked like let's say 250 and you bring in these other kids and now they're ranked 280. the colleges that they were be accepted to probably wouldn't change that much because they're still looking at did you graduate? Do you have the mindset? Yeah, we'll take you. So, they probably at that low of a level, their choices

134of colleges wouldn't change dynamically because of that. >> Well, and that's a great example. I mean, that that opens up the of a way to think of it. Well, I'm going to I'm going to say from a past parent who did have her kids in virtual in a virtual academy. I had my kids in virtual academy for a number of years. Um, and it helped my family because of we had health issues, you know, with one of my children. So, hearing this like right when you got started, I was like, "Oh, man. This is amazing. This is great." because there's a lot of families out there that it's not just about the graduation. It's not just about like jobs. There's literally like a whole other way of looking at it and helping families, you know,

135especially when they have health issues, health concerns, and that the kids can't go to school cuz that's that's what happened to mine. I'm going to be honest. That's what happened to mine, you know. And I'm I'm grateful for that virtual academy that my kid did. my child went to school for. So hearing this, I I see all of that because I do have kids in the district too and I see about ranking and all that and I totally agree with that. But on the flip side, I see also how, you know, us being in a a virtual family for a period of time because of my child and because of health issues and because of, you know, she just couldn't go to school. But I think it's a great idea. Yes. There's a little kinks

136that need to be worked out, but I I think >> I think I think it's amazing >> to to your part. You know, the >> the part we're worried about is the education, but we want to make sure we're doing right by kids, but we also have to make sure we're doing right by kids in the future. >> We don't know what the state's going to do with bond projects. >> The the word on the street is that you'd have to have 50% of your uh populace vote. Um a bond may never happen again. so on and so forth. Well, if you save $21 million over 10 years, you don't have to get a bond. You just pay it cash. >> Exactly. >> That's the that's the aspect that I think that the finance >>

137we're it's going to be hard on us. We're not hiring anybody for the next year and a half. We're going to try and do this with just the staff we got just to get us to a point to where we're moving forward and we can, you know, encapsulate some of that money back. Uh but we have got big plans. You know, we've we've talked about how wouldn't it be great if you walked from a kindergarten classroom through an eighth grade classroom and every teacher was a master teacher because you can pay them whatever you want to pay them with $21 million. You could be the highest paid school district in Texas if you wanted to and guarantee that every single kid is taught by a master teacher. You can't do that now. we're having. So,

138this is although it is great for kids and what we're going to do is great for kids, it is a financial need for us to stay above water uh with what we've got going on. So, it was it's part of that we think we're going to do really good by kids cuz we always do, but it's going to be really hard for us to function in the future without bonds or whatever the legislature might hold for us. ADA is never going to go away. It's the way the school district has decided to pay us no matter what we say. Um, so that's kind of the end of the presentation. I don't if there's any >> Are we the only district that is doing this or are there other in this area? >> So there um

139so I'm going to be very very honest with you. There are competitive companies that do similar to what we do as far as provide credit recovery, but all of them have kind of in a sense bowed out of supporting the virtual model just because of the level of their courses being teach aligned and things of that nature. Um, so we have been in talks with four other districts that are north of y'all, way north of y'all. I did have a meeting, I'm going to be very honest, I probably shouldn't be hearing about this because I've been working with them already. Um, but in the San Antonio area that is just starting the conversations, >> but nobody's here. I'm saying >> nobody here. >> But we'll be pulling from all over the state. Nobody. >> That's

140the idea. >> Not even I'm from Brownsville. I live in Brownsville. So, I'm excited to even hear about the partnership with TSSE. I mean, I could, you know, even spread the word down there as well. It's it's really the way kids are, you know, not not all kids, but you know, it is it is for for a lot of kids out there. And I've I've seen virtualmies that have grown have waiting lines, things of that nature. I mean, your students your kids have done it as well. >> It was a waiting to >> There's always a waiting list. Yes. I've I've actually supported someies that have had thousands of students plus thousands in the waiting line. So, evidently the need is there. you know, as much as I mean, even me, I'm I've been a

141teacher and administrator. I've been in education all my life. So, you know, I I see it. You know, we we do we all have a passion for what we do, but at the same time, this is this is something that's also happening and I think it's a need people are wanting. >> If we don't do it, somebody else will. >> Well, I will say real quick, you want to go first? You can go first if you want. >> I was saying I was going to talk right here real quick. Go ahead. >> Go ahead. No, go ahead. I will say when um when my my kiddo had to go and take their test, um I was really amazed at how many online students there were going to this testing site to, you know, have their

142test administered to them because they did have to go into a room with a desk, a secure place, and there were teachers around. There were certified teachers. So, it was when you were asking about the testing, they do get tested in an area. As a matter of fact, where we were located was downtown at the EC ESC building. >> Mhm. We >> the tested center. >> Yeah. And there was a lot of kids and I was actually really shocked when I saw the amount of them going in to this building and checking in to, >> you know, be tested. It was it was a big number. Mhm. >> So, >> well, to put it in perspective, the largest one we know of in Texas is about 12,000 students. >> So, >> 12 is the second

143largest. >> Oh, okay. So, we did we did 12,000. >> But yeah, 12,000 >> puts our number at 66 million a year. I mean, it's >> to me it's a no-brainer, but I I I think it's just because if we're not going to do it, >> somebody will >> and then we'll start losing kids to that type of program and then our ADA is shot >> and it starts down spiral from there. >> Um, >> we also as a momentum understand that it very much so is starting up. So we even offered to supply all the teachers, do all of that, let you finish your semester and not even start payment until May. And then if anything you don't use it all, we can roll it over to 2026 so you can keep going and

144not We have a very flexible. Y'all have been with us since 2008, so they're not going to say no. >> I'll throw something else in there. Now it sounds like Trump change, but I I don't you haven't heard of any they're they're enrolled in TMISD whether they're virtual or not. So that will greatly reduce our wealth per student which right now we're paying almost $900,000 a year in recapture. That would end recapture. We can keep that 900,000 >> uh that we've been having to send back to the state. That sounds really >> Brian's like check. would it would take us out of Robin Hood >> because all those kids would count towards our wealth per student and it would lower us below the threshold where we'd have to send any tax money back to >>

145I'm waiting for 15 minutes to ask that question. Philip >> been over here sweating. >> So, real quick, I don't I have more comments than questions. I don't I'm usually not a negative guy, but >> there's a lot of things here that we got to think about, right? We're saying if we get the thing to be a separate campus, if we don't what? Right? If we don't get that, then what happens? Do we shut >> We cap it. >> Right. You cap it, but they're still part of the district. It's still going to change. At that point, in a year and a half, you may have a thousand kids. >> So now, >> no, we won't take more than that percentage. >> So, you're going to cap it. So, these are the guardrails you're talking

146about putting in, right? >> So, let's say for instance, >> we get to year two, the next UIL check. >> Okay. We will graduate a good chunk of these kids >> out the door. We just won't take any kids until after Snapchat. >> So that's fine. >> Waiting list, >> right? But we got to remember that, right? These are the guard. But then the next year, >> if we want to get to 60 million, we're going to take kids >> and if we don't get our virtual campus, are we going to do the riskreward on what it's going to cost us to go up in district? Right? >> We just take our 5 million and run. >> Okay. So the other part I have >> Thank you statement. >> 5 million doesn't go very far,

147but it's actually I want to make sure we're not doing like I I love the numbers and the money and all that's out there, but what how does it not just in class ranking, how does it impact our brick-andmortar kids going forward, too? >> So I'm going to give you this example. Let's say you had a kid who wanted to be a nurse, an LVM. That is not possible right now. No matter what we attempt to do, it's it's impossible. If you had a kid in our brick and mortar who wanted to be an LVM by the time they're 18, this can do that, right? That's what I'm saying. So, what if we have out of our 1100 students, what we have 800 that want to be a nurse and they all join this program

148and now are brick and mortar. I'm throwing way hypotheticals out there, >> but it could happen. It could >> every kid, every parent could say, you know what, I'm tired of taking you to school. Go online. and I'm tired of whatever it may be >> and that grows to so much and then your brick and mortar is down to we only have 1100 students right your brick and mortar's down to 600 700 students now how do we how does that negatively impact what we're trying to do just things to think about >> I and I I agree I just I I think the majority of our students in our campus like coming to school >> u I think they get the benefit of coming to school >> the targeted group is not a TM kid

149because we're able to do pretty much anything we need to in our brick and mortar because we've evolved so much through more path >> provide so much >> right I mean I mean we can we got 20 we're going to get like 30 kids and associates just by >> coming up and they said hey you can do it and we we did it you know what I mean so it's I I think we're >> we're going to see because of the the way that our master schedule is structured more kids graduate early Yes, >> whether we have a virtual academy or not, but your point is well taken. Uh there will be kids that would have stayed four years that won't now because of this opportunity >> or like after co we didn't get everybody

150back, right? >> So a lot of people said, "Hey, online learning is pretty cool." And they went to Mott's virtual school. >> You know what I'm saying? You got to think about that. I mean, this is great. I just want to make sure we're thinking it all the way through. >> And to your point, I just It took it took me looking at one slide, working with them, and two months later, we're here, >> right? >> Somebody somewhere smarter than me, >> and they're going to figure this out >> financially, too. And my biggest fear is that our neighbors 8 miles away are going to do the exact same thing and they're going to steal our kids. >> I got I think it's a great initiative. I think it's >> I think it's a great

151idea. What I worry about before we get the 5 million rolling in or the whatever amount we're going to bring in, right, >> is our current staff because y'all are stretched thin anyways already. It's it's it's we see it. We see it. Y'all are working very very hard. Very hard. >> Are we going to be able >> to substantain >> to do It's going to be a challenge because when we started the budget shrinking two years ago, the mantra was we have to do more with less. >> And the staff has done that. >> Absolutely. We don't want to burn them out either. >> Absolutely. >> I mean, they're doing a lot already. We don't want them really, really overdue. >> Here's the thing, and because we we talked about this as well. >> So,

152here's what'll happen. A kid will take a course that Lamar will register them for. Lamar, how long does it take to register a kid? >> 2 minutes of that. >> Two minutes of her day. The kid takes their class entirely with that mentum who does 90% of the work >> because they provide the teach because they provide the teachers. They do all the grading. They do all >> and then they send an email to Lamar and Lamar says looks good because it's Edum coming straight from them. She gives it to our registar >> and they post it on the transcript. That was seven minutes probably of work on our part, but we gained $2,200 to do that. >> And the confidence we have in Edenum because their teachers are Texas certified teachers. So they hold

153a certified certification just like our classroom teachers and >> our registars are ready for this overload. Sorry, I'm just >> And if you think like with our Compass Academy, our those students that we have, like right now, we've got 26 kids in our Compass Academy. We try to keep it there for Sally saying, you know, but that's also so that those kids can get that one-on-one should they need it, right? But those kids are pumping out those credits just as fast. And as fast as they're rolling them out, we are printing them, getting them to Miss Stark, she's posting them. So, >> and to put in perspective, let's talk about Miss Stark. >> At the end of finals week for&m Kingsville, there are 1,024 courses that have to get put in before graduation. She does

154it in two days because she's that good. God, >> should we pay her more? Probably. But but I want once we get >> when we have 21 million I mean >> let's uh let's do this um first meeting went well >> good >> probably going to be a couple more meetings in November that we're going to bring this back and talk about things that you all think about between we'll have one on November 10th then we'll have one on I think the 17th we'll do team building and we'll have a couple of agenda items virtual academy would be one How's that? >> Great job. >> This is a great job. Really good job. >> Yes. >> If I could for one second. Rosie, I want to mention Rosie. Rosie did an outstanding job putting our

155>> So, our actual website will be up until like midnight, 1:00. >> Yeah. I'm You want me to take it down? Right. >> Right. We we open it for the board. If you could do some exploration. So, if you go on the top of our thing, you'll see the virtual academy. >> Yeah. Let's look at Is that Is that what we're looking at right now? >> Yes. So, it is it is the video there. And then we've also >> to get 500 requests to join them. >> It's going We'll have a special board meeting tomorrow. >> We have three meetings. >> And then we have the video, same video in Spanish as provided by Miss Mada >> when our meetings get posted. >> And here's just the entire application process, so on so forth. They

156did a really, really good job uh putting everything together. So, just to interrupt you, this is what I love about y'all and what y'all do and the the staff we have. Like the meetings in there in Spanish, right? >> Like you all think about everything. Every time I try to I might get them on this one. >> Y'all are always a step ahead. And I really truly >> We are working with the with our marketing students on campus. Mr. Galvan is working with his marketing students and our a marketing firm, Miss Gracia, you know, filming all of this. So, our own kids have been involved with this. >> This is great. I appreciate all y'all doing. in case you want to check and then >> I just want to say this. >> Am I still

157being here at that night? >> Periodically I'll come across an employee and I'll go how's it going? I'm here. >> I'm here. >> They say I'm here. And it's like fingernails. And so I gather them and I go, "Why are people saying they're here? Why aren't they saying I'm here and I love it? I love being these people aren't here." Right? They are not I'm here type of staff members. Great job. We're blessed. Great job. Thank you all. Thank you. >> All right. Next item we got here is discuss and consider architect for food renovation uh service renovations and equipment replacement. >> Mr. Hernandez, I think you're on for a couple of Thank you all. Thank you everyone. >> All right. Board members, good evening. >> Audience, good evening. Just a couple of agenda items

158here that we'll hopefully get through a little bit quicker. Um, so you're well aware that transport the I'm sorry, transportation, the uh food service department has an excessive fund balance of just over $2 million. And I'd already mentioned that we're start starting to work to go ahead and spend this money in a timely manner so we don't get uh a write off from TDA on those things. back in 2022, you approved Bill Wilson to be our architect for the uh food service uh equipment replacement, anything improvements that we did in food service. Last year in our TDA audit, uh it wasn't a finding, but it was highly recommended that we approve the architect for this yearly instead of doing a blanket approval. So, for that reason, I'm bringing this to to you tonight because we're

159about to, if you seen agenda item five, we're getting ready to to start spending some of this money and get rid of So, Bill Wilson, he's done a number of jobs for us. Currently, he's doing the high school uh chiller replacement, AC improvements for us. We just completed the uh primary uh HVAC replacement. Uh in the past we've done the uh renovation of the the uh the commons restroom at the high school and done a number of projects for us and has done a great job. Uh in 2022 uh we approved as uh for his approval for the being the architect of record for a 9% cost of the equipment p purchase installation and any MEP cost. While that may seem kind of high uh typically his projects are are below a million. So 9%

160is higher than what we'd pay an architect that's building say the junior the new junior high or something like that. Um his fee includes any additional solicitation of proposals, the review of bids in the equipment and the recommendation of selections of a bidder, assistance for the execution of the purchase order and coordination meetings during delivery, installation and closeout. So he's basically a turnkey architect for all these projects. Um >> and Patrick, you're comfortable with no RFQ. >> That's correct. Okay. For the for just for the the TDA requirements for Texas Department for each campus, >> it's districtwide. So, it's districtwide uh cafeteria equipment replacement. >> And it includes ACC. We're getting them an ice maker and a couple other items. All right. Any questions? >> I know it's cold in the high school. Ashley says

161it's cold in there. >> She always needs her blanket. She says it's cold. It was hot today in summer. I think we got that fixed. No qu Mr. President, members of the board, is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees approve Bill Wilson to be the architect of record for food service renovations as presented. Have >> a motion. That motion that we approve Bill Wilson to be the architect of record for food service renovations. >> All right. Second, Brian. All right. So, we have a motion by Kim, second by Brian. Paul Yaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Greg Chapa absent. Brian Boon, >> Yes. Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Menz, >> yes. >> Okay. The vote carries 420. >> All right. All right. The next item here is discuss and consider 2026 2020 through

1622027 food service contract renewal. >> Mr. uh back in 2021 uh we went out for a bid for a food service company. Uh that bid was awarded uh to Sedexo and the board approved and TDA approved uh their selection and they started in July 1 of 2022. That contract was good for one year with an option to re renew for an additional four years uh each year uh with board approval. Uh we are coming to the fourth term for renewal. We're up for renewal right now. The window opened October the 7th for renewal. Uh so at this time we need to decide whether we want to rebid or renew the contract with Sedexo. Um, we believe that Sedexo has done a good job that we've had a couple of changes in Sedexo and they're trying

163to improve their their work. Uh, we have a new uh, district manager for Sedexo. Her name is Susan Sherwood and we also replaced our uh, local district manager uh, is now uh, it's an interim right now uh, Don Donnie Hit. uh and it's they're interviewing right now and trying to get us a new um in-house manager for the district. Uh we last year we did surveys uh throughout the district. This year we've used Mr. Van Matri student advisory committee. Uh we brought them in early on when Sedexo did some of these changes and we asked for uh improvements for them. Uh they were present for the uh the interviews and stuff like that and the kids spoke highly of the cafeteria. They like the improvements, the changes to the breakfast and all that. So >>

164is that recently? >> That was uh >> a couple months ago in August. >> Okay. So all these changes have been recent. >> Yes. >> Uh the the manager food service ch manager was changed uh in August just before we just before the start of school. We started with the new manager. So we're doing that. We're looking at bringing a coffee bar. Uh they've got plans in for that already. We just need to get with Mr. Alvarado and find a location and make sure that that's something he wants to do. Uh we don't want to pump up all these kids on caffeine without his approval. Uh >> I've kept my mouth shut. >> You should sell coffee in the weight drop off line for the parents. >> Make some money. >> Mhm. >> So if

165if you approve this, it would be for just the following year for the next school year from uh 20 uh July 2026 through June of 2027. And that is the last of the four years. So, we would have to rebid uh the services uh next year. No choice. >> Are the kids eating the food? Like that's what this is for, right? >> And I meant to get those numbers, but it has increased each year. The the participation, meal participation has increased each year. I apologize. I meant to get those numbers. >> On the primary level, I've done this for 20 years. It's my second year in TM. All was in CCISD. They had their own kitchen staff a part of the district. The food waste was outrageous in TM. Those trays are clean. They're eating

166their food. We are giving five year olds food options. Never seen that in another district. And these kids have three hot entre to pick from. And in any kind of dietary restrictions, those ladies and gentlemen back there know it. The the buyin from their team. I have served meals with a hairet for years because we were always short. Three to four ladies every day at every school I've ever worked at. I never know when they're short because it's flawless. And I just can't say anything but positive things what they're doing for for our kids. >> And they know our kids' names, which just amazes me. >> Most of the hesitation with the choices at your level is it extends the time. They can't make up their mind. But but our kids seem to know it's

167it's awesome. It's I mean I've done this a long time and to see kids with choice at such a young age. Usually it's one thing slopped on a tray, take it or leave it and they're getting options because we know how picky little ones are >> and we had a writing competition about what food they wanted in our cafeteria and we had winners and they came in and listened to every one of those winners read out what they wanted and I think about 10 of those items have already been added. Fruit cups, Mexican food, Chinese food items, It's breakfast for lunch. That's a big >> Strawberry milk. I sent the picture that day. >> A huge initiative of mine. Forget about academic performance bonds. Strawberry milk. It's a game changer, sir. Well, I'm glad I

168I do want to say I'm glad there's been some changes because I have heard some negatives of how the food was really really good and it's just kind of at least at middle school and high school level that it's just kind of as the year progresses, it's not the same food that was there at the beginning of the school year. So, um if we've if there's been changes made, maybe that's going to correct itself. So, >> just want to make sure we're not wasting a lot of food. You know what I mean? If the kids are wasting, >> we don't want to waste the food. But the TDA, the regulations, I I can tell you today, I was kind of sad. I was throwing some stuff away at the middle school and there's a bag

169of oranges in there. >> Um the the their requirement is they have to dispose of it. They can't repurpose it. >> You we couldn't give it like um just hear me out first. Instead of throwing those oranges away, let a teacher take them to her classroom. So if there is a student in that class that is hungry later on, they can take that as a snack instead of throwing it in the trash. >> That would make sense. >> Can't Can't a teacher take it? >> It makes sense to you. It makes sense to me, but TDA doesn't allow it. It's, you know, I even if they put the bag if I put a table next to the dumpster and that they could put it on the table instead throw it in dumpster, that's still it's

170illegal and gets them in trouble. >> So sad. So, so if a teacher says, "Hey, you know what? I'm going to >> take five oranges and takes five oranges, that's against the law." >> Well, it's so we have a food service contract for we're we're feeding the kids. So, there's a reimbursement for the kids meal. >> The teachers are different. They have got to pay a higher price. You approve the price level for that. So, they would have to pay that price to take that quantity of food. Um, >> I just I just feel bad throwing that away, especially if if a child could eat that, you know what I mean? Cuz not all kids have a a meal. >> I understand it's offered them. And of course, right now, we've got every everyone eats

171for free. Um, so they have that option. Uh, unfortunately, if it doesn't get used at that time, they can't and you can't only keep oranges so many days before they start getting bad. We don't want to serve bad product. So, that's the avenue that it goes out. I just feel bad throwing your food away. >> Okay. >> I agree. >> You agree? >> I agree. >> Sometimes >> I know >> particularly with dealing with the federal government, the common sense approach um doesn't hold a lot of weight, but um the the fact of the matter is the whole program is based on kids eating. And what you're saying is a way to help them eat, >> but they're not giving us that flexibility right now. And um maybe that'll change. I don't know. >> We'll

172see. Let's hope so. Yeah. >> It hurts to know that that all this good food is being thrown away. >> Okay. >> Any other questions or anything? >> Yes, sir. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees approve the renewal of the food service contract with Sedexico for one additional year from July 1, 2026 through June 30th, 2027 as presented. >> All right, I can make a motion, right? >> All right, I made the motion for that one. >> Second, Mr. Boon. All right. Paraga votes yes. Leo Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chapa absent. >> Brian Boon. >> Yes. Kim Boon. >> Yes. >> Marty Gmenz. >> Yes. >> All right. Vote carries 43. Motion carries. All right. The next one here is discuss and consider selection criteria

173for food service renovations and equipment replacement. Mr. Hernandez. >> All right. Once again, this is something we normally don't bring to you, but because of TDA regulations, we're bringing it to you. So, we're getting ready to spend uh some of our excessive food uh ser food service fund balance. Sorry. U we've I've listed the guideline there. I'm sorry, it's out of order, but on October the 13th, we released a bid packet. We've already sent it out to the local vendors, uh companies, and architects so we can start reviewing it. Uh the newspaper articles will go out uh sometime around the 22nd and 29th. Uh on November the 4th, we'll uh do a pre-bid conference and uh here in the administration boardroom and we'll we'll meet with any of the contractors or prospective biders and answer

174any questions they have. And sometime around dece either December the 2nd or December the 4th, we'll accept the competitive seal bids by 2 p.m. here in the boardroom. We are accelerating this to to as quickly as possible because the chatter in the food service community is that there's going to be increase in equipment cost in early uh 26. So we're trying to lock in the bid in 2025 and take advantage of that so we can get the most bang for our buck. Um what you need to what you need to review is the evaluation criteria that's on the bid packet that's out there and you see it before you in your board packet. Uh the main thing you need to look at is that uh the uh the cost of the proposal uh the bid

175the bid price that they're going to do is going to carry 50% of the weight and then the qualifications the other 50% are going to be race based on relevant experience and capacity which is 20% past performance and related work 10%. Quality assurance uh warranty 8% proposed subcontractors 5% reputation for schedule and punch list completion 4% and other considerations for 3%. Uh this is what the board needs to adopt so that we can go ahead and get these this bid complete and accept uh competitive seal bids in early December. Any questions? No, >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees approves the evaluation criteria for the upcoming district-wide kitchen equipment replacement bid that will be accepted in December 2025 as presented. >> Motion. >> I'll make

176the motion that we approve the valuation criteria for the upcoming district-wide kitchen equipment replacement bid that will be accepted in December 2025. All right. Second. >> I'll second that. >> Motion by Brian, second by Ken. Paraga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Chapa absent. Brian Boon. >> Yes. >> Kim Boon. >> Yes. >> Himenez. >> Yes. I like to make you sweat a little. >> Motion carries. 40. All right. Next item here is discuss and consider high school common elevator acceptance events. >> Mr. President, members of the board, this is a bond expenditure for the high school. Mr. Hernandez. >> All right. As you're aware, should be aware of the elevator at the high school, the old elevator in the commons has been out for almost a year now. Uh, as we started looking to try

177and find parts, the excuses from all the elevator companies was that they couldn't find parts. Uh, we verified that. We went out to and tried to get some uh district from the district. I tried to get bids to get it replaced on my own. Uh I did get some bids, but they came in kind of high. So, we actually someh architects to go out with a formal bid in hopes that we get more competitive uh pricing and we did. Uh in the process, we found out that the last time that parts were manufactured for this elevator was in 2018. So, that's why we're having a difficult time getting parts. uh what we bid out and what we're going to what we're going to get is the the guts of the system, the pump, the hydraulic

178system, the electronics that run the elevator are going to be get replaced. Those will all be brand new. Uh when you actually get into elevator, what's called the car, nothing will be done to the car. The car is still in good shape. The doors and everything will actually run. the the rails that the elevator travels on and the actual piston that pushes the elevator up and down will still be remain the same. They're all in good shape. Um so uh we were able to get a good quote on that and we will uh that that's going to be the recommendation for uh for tonight with Barcom. Uh we went through the whole bid process. We advertised and we only had one bidder for this event and it was Barcom but it came in at a

179much lower price than the uh the other >> budgeted about quarter million. Yes. >> For that. >> So, it's 122,000. >> Yes. I just >> glad y'all recognize that those bids were like high. Yes. And that y'all went a different plan to try to >> It cost us a little bit more to use the architect, but it it's saving us money in the long run. >> Yeah. That's awesome. >> But I just want to make sure the board aware is aware that when you get in the elevator, it gets operational again here in December, it's going to look the same, identical, and you're going to say, "What did we spend 122,000 on?" It's the parts below it. just paint the inside and make it look new. >> In addition, we're also working on is uh

180the company's agreed to it's going to be a keyed elevator now and I'll be able to provide Mr. Alvarado however many keys he wants, but that's been a lot of the damage is just vandalism where they're hitting the buttons. So, we've speced out some heavier duty buttons and we're going to do the same for the elevator in the uh the science wing and it'll get the same key will operate both elevators. >> Oh, that's a good idea. That's good. >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the superintendent to negotiate a contract with Barcom Construction, Inc. in the amount of 122,000 for elevator refurbishment as presented. >> I will make the motion to offer that second. >> All right. Coryaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chapa

181absent. Brian Boon >> yes. >> Kim Boon >> yes. >> M >> yes definitely. >> All right. Motion carries 40. Great job. >> Thank you. Thank you Patrick. I think you're you're done now, aren't you, Patrick? >> All right. Next one is discuss and consider ESC2 service program for the 2025 2026 school year. Dr. Shaw. >> Okay. So, in your packet, hopefully you've had an opportunity to review the ESCT programs and service contract. This is a u an annual purchase. We uh review all the different purposes programs and services because it benefits uh it meets the educational and operational goals of our district. Um so, um for example, PD can be offered for our teachers. It also provides board uh schoolboard training for our school board members. Um it also provides bilingual um training for

182our um dual language teachers. So there's a lot of services that it provides us. And so every year we we vet we vet the contract. So it's not just an automatic. We go through the contract in by departments and we look at it to see what exactly do we need to meet the needs of our district. So, it's just like not an automatic purchase, but like I said, we vet it very carefully to make sure that the services and programs that we are um purchasing actually meet the needs of our district. So, it's very tailored. Every year it changes. Uh I know one thing that we did away with this year was the living material expenses, which was 19,000. So, we actually look at the usage like how many teachers are actually using this service.

183And so if we don't see that we're getting a a lot of service or use out of it, then we take that money and maybe we apply to something else. This year we're looking at a program called the Texas Curriculum Management Program that aligns very well to our Blue Bonnet curriculum and it's something that our teachers have been asking for to help support the curriculum in the classroom. So, taking that $19,000, we were able to move that over to this new program, you know, at $10,000, you know, for the cost, saving $9,000. So, every year, it's a it's an annual uh purchase, but like I said, it's not something that's just an automatic. We we really take the time and look through to make sure that what we are getting is actually meeting the needs

184of our district. And so tonight, u I don't know if you've had this before in the past, but we want to be very transparent, you know, with, you know, what we're purchasing and just kind of keep you informed. And so tonight, we're asking for, um, your approval of purchasing or continuing our services with the ESC2 um contract. >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the Education Service Center Region 2 program of services for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. >> All right. Have a motion. >> I'll make that motion that the board of trustees approve the Education Service Center program of services for the 2025 to 2026 school year. >> All right. Second. Fine. All right. Um, Paulyagago votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chappa

185absent. Brian Boon >> yes. >> Kim Boon >> yes. >> Mennez >> yes. >> Motion carries 40. All right. Next one is a report bilingual ESL education annual program report. Miss Aries. >> Okay. Uh good evening. This is just a uh report about it's a yearly compliance piece that we are to present to you about our bilingual ESL programs and you know one of the highlights is dual language which is part of our that's how we service our EB students. So and in case you're wondering EB is our emergent bilingual students and so basically the the mission of the emergent bilingual program is to make sure that language is not a barrier to learning and ensure that students are proficient in a second language. Now the mission of the dual language program is to make

186sure that students are biliterate, bilingual and bicultural so that they can compete in a global society. So kind of just wanted to go go over that with you. And uh this is the latest uh PES report that we pulled for our numbers in the district by campuses and then by grade level. Uh currently we have and it's really small. So 242 students uh identified as EB. These are the program types that we have here at Toslo ISD. And so you'll see that the elementary level we have our dual language immersion uh and at the primary and intermediate. And then we have uh transitional bilingual program in the fourth and fifth grade. And secondary we have an ESL pullout program middle school and high school. Now, of course, one of the highlights, I did uh kind

187of give you a uh synopsis summary of what each program does and who we're targeting. Uh but like I mentioned, the dual language program, we're trying to focus on bilingualism, biiteracy, and bicultural. Okay. For those particular students and in these classes currently, we are serving 170 stu students in the dual language program. >> That's awesome. >> Wow. Okay. And then we have uh next year and I refer to this later in the slideshow, but next year we'll be uh including fourth grade in that as well. >> It's moving fast. >> It is. It really is. Remember when it's >> I know. >> So here is just kind of to give you an example. This is what uh this typical schedule. I asked the facilitators to come up with a schedule of what our deal language

188program does. And it's kind of a breakdown just to kind of give you an idea. And uh at the primary intermediate, the dual language is proh growing and thriving. It's our third year of implementation. Uh it has expanded to the intermediate campus where we're providing a lot more support. Um it includes students in grades preK through third grade and in 26 27 we're going to include the fourth grade. And currently right now I asked them give me a little synopsis of what you're working on. they are working on portfolios. Uh it is amazing to see we did we've done some walkthroughs. We did one another one today and just seeing those students communicate. One of the big pieces is that um students are working collaboratively and it it's awesome just to see them and one

189of the struggles being one of these dual language teachers is that they have to actually communicate in Spanish. And I've told several of my team uh members, um it's like being in Spanish one when I was in high school because I was like, "Wow, I don't speak proper Spanish." And these kids, they're great. So these teachers, they really have a big task ahead of them because not only are they doing the curriculum, the blue bonnet, they're also having to teach these students in Spanish and proper Spanish. That's the key part of this. Um we are providing uh opportunities for PD. Uh we have Gomez and Gomez coming in and we do have ESC coming in to assist as well. And a lot of uh our dual language teachers, they do work really really well together.

190We've also started where we have uh meetings after school where the intermediate is now going to the primary just so they have a team to work together. Um, they also have celebrations, Hispanic Heritage, and then of course the end of the year parade. >> ESC just came to Vegas. >> Yeah. We scheduled it for today. ESC was there to help support our teachers because it is it's a big task that we're asking them asking them to do. And of course, this is the most important piece. Our students are uh required to take the TE pass in addition to the STAR. So, they're required to uh take this exam. is the Texas English language proficiency uh assessment system. It's to see how well students are learning English and progressing in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. I'm

191going to tell you that uh we want in order to reclassify our students, we want them to score at the advanced high level. If you notice um a lot of our students are performing at the intermediate and advanced level. So, what we're finding is that students on these tests are asked to um speak aloud and a lot of them are embarrassed when they're tested. So, um, we ask them, you know, why didn't you say anything when you're taking the test, but they just they they're embarrassed, right? Because it is a struggle for them to str to try and speak correct English. So, um, that is we've noticed that and that's something we're going to be working on um in our ELPAC committees as well. How can we help these students be more confident when it

192comes to their speaking in English? And then here, this is the data for these secondary campuses. you notice the same thing, same trends. Students are scoring at the intermediate and advanced level. So, it's our task um to work together to try and get them to the advanced high so that we can reclassify them. >> How about our kids that that are learning Spanish? Are they as hesitant >> or do they test or not? So when they're little, when they're little, they uh I guess it's it's it's a lot easier when they're little to show them how to speak in Spanish and English. And so that's why we try and do a lot when they're little because they're able to communicate with one another versus when you have like a middle school or a high school

193student that is monolingual. They don't have anybody to communicate with. So it's more of a struggle for them. So, I think that's why when they're little, we encourage them to um turn and talk to their partners, those kinds of things. And when you see that, when you do a walkthrough, you see a lot of that. They're communicating with one another. But it is difficult for our secondary students when they come in not knowing anyone and having to to pick up a a second language. It's very difficult. Um so, currently we did this past year 25 students were reclassified. Um we have 14 bilingual teachers at the elementary level. Uh nine of them are DLI and we have 14 ESL certified teachers at the secondary level. And these are uh the stipens and uh some data

194some information about our EB program. uh we noticed that you know at the secondary level we that we're going to have a targeted focus on uh science English one and English two and these are our next steps. We're going to continue providing uh training PD for a for our teachers. Uh I think a lot of it is our teachers need a lot of support. They need a lot of support especially our uh bilingual ESL teachers and that's our job is to provide them with that. We want to continue to work with uh HR and finance to make sure that we can continue with these statements and also uh to provide more opportunities for our for our teachers. And that's it. That is our any questions? >> Great job. >> Okay. >> All right. That was

195report only. No board action. Um we do have a request for a quick restroom break. So we'll take Can we take a little five minute break? Everybody get some good refreshments and use the restroom if they need to. >> Think we got everybody back? >> Yes, sir. >> All right, we'll go ahead and get restarted here. Uh, next item is number nine. Discuss and consider approval of second reading of TM HSGPA EIC local update. We've had first reading and there was rich conversation. Mr. Alvarado, do you have anything to add? >> No, sir. Just a matter of minutes. It's the 4.0 no scale that is there for colleges. >> Cool. >> Any other questions, comments? >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the updates to EIC

196local class ranking academic achievement policy as presented. >> Have a motion. move that we approve the changes to the local class ranking VIC academic achievement policy as presented. >> I'll second that. >> Okay, we'll second that. Paula votes yes. Leo Gonzalez is absent. Rick Chapa absent. >> So silly. >> It is. >> Uh Brian Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Marty Mennez, >> Yes. Motion carries. 40. All right. Next one here is discuss and consider resolution regarding a public purpose in compensating employees during the TM high school main waterline break. Miss Riggs, you get to join the party now. >> Yay. Good evening board. Um, this is kind of a housekeeping item. Whenever we have a situation where we had our employees who are expected to work but then they don't work,

197we have to bring you a resolution so that we don't violate the Fair Labor Standards Act um and pay especially our non-exempt staff for work that they didn't actually work. Um so just going back on September 10th um the contractors that are working on the CTE building accidentally hit the main water line. As a result, we had to turn off the water. Uh we didn't know at that point how long the water was going to be turned off, but have not having water for our students poses a safety and health concern. And so we acted quickly and we sent our students home. We sent staff home for the remainder of the day. Um and so this is just bringing the resolution that allows you to ratify the payroll um that we can pay them for

198that day. Does anyone have any questions? >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the resolution regarding public purpose in compensating employees during the TLO Midway High School main waterline break as presented. And I believe Mr. Ariyaga has a resolution. >> Yep. I'm going to read the resolution. So, resolution of the Tulos Midway Independent School District Board finding a public purpose in compensating employees during the high school closure due to main waterline break. Whereas Tulisman Independent School District is a public school district located in Corpus Christie, Newasis County, Texas. And whereas on September 10th, 2025, a major break in the high school's main water line necessitated the physical closure of the campus due to a due to safety concerns and lack of access to running water for

199staff and students. And whereas Salosa Midway ISD board policy DEA local allows all regular employees to be paid for their regular duty schedule if the board adopts a resolution or takes other action establishing such a purpose and parameters. And whereas the district's board of trustees is authorized by Texas Education Code section 45105 to expend funds of the district for purposes necessary in the conduct in the conduct of the public schools as determined by the board and will maintain sufficient control over the expenditures to ensure a public purpose is accomplished. And whereas the board finds that paying the salary of personnel during the high school closure is necessary to maintain morale among the district's workforce to reduce employee turnover, encourage the safety of all employees and their children, and fair treatment employees who could not work

200due to the affected school operations associated with the main waterline break. to avoid the unnecessary expenditures associated with the payment of overtime should non-exempt employees be asked to make up the work days missed and to reduce administrative cost and whereas the board finds that the use of public funds to pay the salary of high school personnel during the high school closure on September 10, 2025 serves as a substantial public purpose. Now, therefore, be it resolved that all of the above recital are adopted as findings of fact and are incorporated into and made a part of the resolution for all purposes. Tlo ISD shall pay all high school employees who were unable to work sent home on September 10th, 2025 following the high school closure in response to the water main waterline break. Tossa Midway shall

201pay all non-exempt high school employees for the hours they would have worked due to the decision to close the high school campus due to the water break. The board of trustees hereby determines these payments serve as public purpose, retains sufficient control over the expenditures to ensure a public purpose is served and finds the district will receive a return benefit. Be it further resolved that the superintendent of schools or designate is authorized by the board to take such further actions necessary and appropriate to implement the intent of this resolution without further further board action. Approved, passed, and adopted on this 20th day of October 2025 by the Tlosa Midway Independent School District. >> Do we have a motion? >> I'll make the motion. Okay, >> I'll make >> I'll second it. >> All right. All right.

202Um, good job. >> Thank you. And by the way, Paul Riyaga votes yes. >> Neil Gonzalez is absent. Rick Chappa is absent. Brian Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Himenez, >> definitely yes. >> All right. Motion carries 40. Thank you, everyone. Pass that to my so she can sign. >> Okay. >> All right. Next item here is discuss and consider approval of delegation of authority to superintendent under chapter 49. Mr. Carol, >> this is an annual requirement. Uh going back to Robin Hood and recapture TA basically makes us you have to approve every year that we have to send money back to them. And so what this does is you're granting the authority to Mr. them entry to send the money back and it require us to do that otherwise we get

203consolidated we have to detach property or we have to do something else to reduce what we what we owe back and so uh this is an annual requirement we have to do because we are estimated to recapture for next year >> or for this the current year now that we're in there specific language that has to be in the minutes uh that'll be in the the um recommendation. >> Any questions? >> Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that for the 2025 2026 school year, we delegated contractual authority to obligate the school district under Texas Education Code TEC 11.1511C4 to the superintendent solely for the purpose of obligating the district under Texas Education Code 48.257 257 and Texas Education Code Chapter 49, subchapters A and D and the rules adopted by

204the Commissioner of Education as authorized under Texas Education Code 49.006. The authority includes approval of the agreement for the purchase of attendance credit. >> Do we have a motion? >> Make that motion. >> Make the motion. Second. Brian seconds. Ariaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chapa absent. Brian Boon >> yes. >> Kimboon >> yes. >> Marty Mennez >> yes. >> Motion carries for Thank you everyone. All right. The next one is discuss and consider resolution for extracurricular status of 4 organization and adj uh facility agreement. Mr. President, members of the board to further support our FFA program. Uh we are asking a two resolutions. One for extracurricular status for students who miss school to go to the fair that they'll be counted absent and for adjunct faculty agreement resolution to accompany that. >> And

205this is so they are not counted absent, right? >> That's correct. >> Okay. It's a school activity >> for like when they go to um like the livestock show. Is that what you're talking about? So they wouldn't be counted absent. >> Correct. >> But wait, don't aren't we off during that week anyways? >> Uh I don't know. >> During like >> they participate in other stuff too when we're in school though. >> All the live section >> all their all their competitions. It's not just live show. Okay. >> And this is for middle school down. High school up is with us. This is a different >> for 4. >> Okay. Actually, it starts in third grade then. >> Correct. N years old. >> That's cool. >> All right. Any other questions, discussion? All right. I'm

206going to read another resolution. Resolution Extracurricular status of 4 organization. Be it hereby resolved that upon this date, the duly elected board of trustees of the Tulsa Midway Independent School District, meeting in public with a quorum present and certified did adopt this resolution that recognizes the newis county, Texas 4 organization as approved for recognition and eligible for extracurricular status consideration under 19 Texas administration code chapter 76.1. 1 pertaining to extracurricular activities. Participation by 4 members under provisions of this resolution are subject to rules to all rules and regulations set forth under the 19 Texas administrative code as interpreted by this board and designated officials of this school district. A local representative of the Texas&M Agra life extension will request academic eligibility for all 4 competitive activities regardless if a school absent is or is not

207required and for non-competitive purposes when an absence is required. All right. Do we have a motion? >> I'll make that motion. >> Can make the motion. Second, Brian. May second. Pariaga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Chapa absent. Brian Boon >> yes. >> King Boon >> yes. >> Himemenz >> yes. >> Motion carries for us. >> You're going to be saying that in your sleep tonight. >> I'm go to my wife. Bargas says >> she's gonna say no. >> Deputy said no. over. >> Not even second. >> Denied. >> Next item. >> Yeah, >> next one is report announcement of continuing education of TMISD board members. So, this is report only. And I have some more to read. >> I thought Miss Castile was joining the party. No, you're the one that's reading it. >>

208Yeah. >> All right. So under state board of education rule completing required continue education each year of service is basic obligation and expectation of any sitting board member. As board president I am required to announce the name of each member who has completed the required continuing education has exceeded the required continuing education and is deficient in meeting the required continuing education. The requirements for training are measured as of the first anniversary of the date of the trustes election or appointment or two-year anniversary of his or her previous training as applicable. There are eight training areas for board members continuing education. One, local district orientation. Two, orientation to the Texas Education Code. Three, post-leative update to the Texas Education Code. Four, team building. Five, additional continuing education. Six, evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. Seven,

209identifying and reporting abuse, trafficking, or other malreatment of children. Number eight, school safety. To the extent applicable to each board member, I will announce the completion or deficiency as as to required training. For members who still have time remaining to complete the required training, I will announce that those board members who have scheduled timely training and those who have not yet scheduled the training. At the conclusion of this announcement, I will announce any board members training in excess of the continuing education requirements. All right. So the first one, local district orientation. The following first year board members have completed their local district orientation training. Brian Boon, Mi Himenez, Ricardo Chapa. Orientation to the Texas Education Code. The following first year board members have completed the orientation to Texas Education Code training. Mi Himenez, Ricardo Chapa,

210Brian Boon. Post legislative update to the Texas educational code. Education code. The following board members have completed post- legislation legislative update to the Texas education code training. Kimberly Boon, Leo Gonzalez, Paul Ariyaga. Team building. The following board members have scheduled training date have a scheduled training date to complete the annual team building training requirements. Paul Ariyaga, Ricardo Chapa, Leo Gonzalez, Brian Boon, Kim Boon, Mi Himenez. Additional continuing education. The following board members have completed the additional continuing education requirements. Paul Riyaga, Ricardo Chapa, Leo Gonzalez, Kimberly Boon, Marty Himenez. The following board members have scheduled training to timely to timely complete the additional continuing education requirements. Brian Boon, evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. The following board members have completed the Bianual training on evaluating student academic performance and setting goals. Paul Ariaga, Ricardo Chapa,

211Leo Gonzalez, Brian Boon, Kim Boon, Miying and and reporting abuse, trafficking and other maltreatment of children. The following board members have completed their the bianial training on identifying and reporting abuse of trafficking and trafficking. Paul Riyaga, Ricardo Chapa, Leo Gonzalez, Brian Boon, Kim Boon, Mari Himenez. School safety. The following board members have completed the banual training on school safety. Ricardo Chapa, Leo Gonzalez, Kim Boon, Mari Himenez, Brian Boon, Paul Ariyaga. Exceeding required continuing education. Board member Ricardo Chapa exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by eight additional hours. Board member Kimberly Boon exceeded the education the the required amount of continuing education training by two additional hours. Board member Paul Ariyaga exceeded the required amount of continuing education training by two additional hours. Good job everybody. That is the that's it for that one.

212All right. The next one here is discuss and consider approval of the district's improvement plan and campus improvement plans. >> Okay. Um, every year this is an annual requirement that we have to bring to the board and to the public. Um, not only um do we have the district improvement plan um that focuses on our district goals, we also have the SIP which is the campus improvement plan to get here is a process. This actually started last year when we did the campus need assessment and we looked at you know u data to determine what our needs would be for this coming school year. On the campus level they meet with their sitebased um committee members as well and they also conduct their uh their campus needs assessment. So um these two uh dips the

213dip and the sip are considered our planning tools for the year. So this is what we uh monitor throughout the year. We monitor at the beginning of the school year. We monitor at the middle of the year and then we also monitor at the end of the year. So this is a collective effort. It's based on performance. It's based on student data. And so um like I said it's a requirement that we have to uh bring this to um the board. Also if any u committee member any individual wants to um look at the sip and dip or the campus improvement plan they can submit a request. we have it um Google link we have it there if they want a hard copy um this is for the public as well to um they're privy

214to this information so what we're going to do tonight I'm sure you've read all 200 pages it was a good read um but what we've done is every campus has highlighted um specific parts of their campus improvement plan we've also done the same thing for the district level um and these are goals that we want to focus on for this year. This is um it's a living document. It changes. So, what you see this year may be different for next year based on student performance. So, we're going to go ahead and begin. Okay. >> And we're going to start off with the district. >> So, just like Allison said, it is a lengthy process and we take our time doing this. Um so, we just kind of created a summary just to kind of give

215you an idea of which what each of our campuses is working on. Uh but at the district level, you know, we start with the five main focuses. So we start with increasing student achievement, uh investing in a high quality staff, improve uh school climate, campus safety and security, increase college and career readiness, and increase parent and family engagement. So you'll see those throughout everyone's uh executive summary. So we'll start real quickly with the first one, increase student achievement. Uh we have a lot of great things going on in curriculum and instruction. Uh we have Carnegie coming out like I've mentioned before. We've got ESC coming out. Are there some areas that we can work on? Yes. Uh in looking at pulling our accountability reports, one of the things we want to focus in on at

216each of the campuses is domain two, which is student progress. We want to make sure that we are tracking our students and making sure that they are making progress, especially uh that domain two. The other thing we wanted to focus in on is domain three, which is closing the gaps. that refers to each of our subpops, our EB students, our GT students, our uh sped students, how are they progressing on uh on the state assessment. And then we also want to uh of course strengthen reading across the district. That's a district initiative. So, we really want to focus in on that uh for this school year. The next thing is invest in a high quality staff. Uh we do have TIA which is great for our staff and also uh our leadership team came up

217with the uh HR and finance with the compensation plan but not only that we want to make sure that we are providing our teachers with PD with support. So you'll see that and opportunities for growth. Not only are we compensating them but we want them to give uh we want to give them opportunities for growth as well. So that's one of the things that we are going to focus in on. And most importantly, we need to do a little bit better job of our uh first year teachers to make sure that we are supporting them because it is it is difficult for them in that first year. We want to make sure we at the district level are supporting them in their first year so that they can be successful. Uh as far as improving

218school climate, campus safety and security, uh we do a really good job of making sure that we have uh structured processes as far as when it comes to safety, metal detector process, those kinds of things. We do a really good job of that. Uh we want to make sure that students uh feel safe and generally most students feel safe at our district. One of the things we do want to focus in on and we want to uh work on is ex expand mental health supports and early intervention programs to address student behavior and well-being before crisis. Our kids are in need. We recognize that. So that's one of the things that we really really want to focus in on uh for this school year. And also provide our staff with deescalation strategies because we see

219a lot of that. We're seeing postcoid we've seen a lot of our students with mental health issues. We know it's a concern. So, we are um sending a lot of our staff to mental health first aid uh training. So, you'll hear about that as we go on. And then we want to increase college and career readiness uh with our CTE building. We want to make sure that we are growing our program. We're moving into a new building. So, we want to make sure that uh our students know and they're aware of everything that we have to offer. One of the things that we are uh doing is we sent out today uh a student survey. We want to know do our parents know about Warp Path Academy and all the opportunities we offer uh our

220students. So um I encourage you to encourage parents to fill out that survey and it's for grades 6 through 12 and it discusses that do our kids are they aware and if that's a weakness then that's something we need to work on. uh as well as the communication the transition years from 8th grade to 9th grade. Are we educating our parents? I know as a parent it is overwhelming to figure out what pathway, what endorsement, what does this mean? So we need to do a little bit better job of that. So that is one of our areas that we are going to uh work on and in working with our principles uh we have a really good relationship where we can collaborate. We can say you know what let's try this. Uh one of the

221things that we are going to try this week is we're going to have CTE night. So please encourage uh eighth grade students and their parents to attend. Uh but that's one of the things that we are going to uh work on and then also provide opportunities for individual small groupoup academic count advising. So, as part of our EAF grant, which is one of the grants that we have this year, we're going to work on individual advising because like I said, kids are struggling, you know, as far as when we when we ask them, what is your pathway? What is your endorsement? So, we're going to work focus on that this year as well. Increased parent and family engagement. uh we have increased our uh usage as far as parents square but we are noticing that

222uh with our EV parents and our special population some of them are not participating because they're not aware. So if you notice this year we worked with communities and schools to train our parents in Skyward. And so uh that is something we're going to focus in on uh for this school year. And also at our secondary campuses we also discussed they're going to have uh parent teacher conferences as well. more opportunities for that. So, that is our uh executive summary at the district level. I'm going to go ahead and turn it over to Iris, Miss Choa. All right. Good. Good morning. Oops. Good evening. >> Good evening. Good evening. It feels like that. >> So, I really I'm glad uh Mrs. Audius hit on these specific areas that you're going to hear throughout the presentation.

223I wanted to highlight a couple of areas that I am really proud of our campus and a couple areas where I still think we need to grow. Uh one of the areas that I'm extremely proud is that uh we have top-notch staff. Uh our our support of keeping our teachers at ACC and DAP because as you know now we we have DAP with us uh is a strong support group. Uh we've been very lucky to uh acquire uh Dr. I mean coach Dr. Coach Vela who is our uh special ed case manager. We have uh more than half of our our staff is uh 504 sped or EB and so offering that support uh is has been a really big help for our students. Uh an area that we I do still think we need

224to work on of course is attendance and getting down to the bases. Why are they missing school? I uh our attendance uh for when a student comes from uh another campus or high school is particularly uh really positive. So we're getting them there. We still want to get them there on time and not leaving early. Uh this year uh we have six u children uh infants uh for our students. So you know six of six kids I think one of them has two had their second child at 17. And so I understand that there are factors and it's hard for them to leave. But we want to make sure that getting them here and getting them uh in school and doing what they need to do is the best thing for them. And uh also

225is helping them when they get into the workforce. So not only is it are you here every day, but are you fostering an environment where you're coming on time and you're staying the full day because that's important especially for our students who may not go on to college or but they may go to military. Uh, an area that I'm really proud of is our district support at ACC. We have a collaborated very well with each campus. Uh, we don't have a counselor on our campus, but we have a communities and schools case manager. We also I can pick up the phone if we have a student in crisis. We'll have a a middle school counselor on site within 10 to 15 minutes. So, we're we're just we work very well together. uh our students are

226have the opportunity to still continue uh CTE courses with the uh help from Mr. Alvarado. So we have students that were still to do welding. We had a student that did everything that he needed to do. He was behind on credits but at this year he wanted to do cosmetology course. He knew that was six class periods and he did everything he needed to do and he is there and he's thriving. So uh it it wouldn't be possible if we didn't have the district district collaboration and support. Uh finally safety and security. We have our vest where we have our gate. We feel very safe. Our students feel very safe and we know that also has a lot to do with fostering an environment where everyone feels welcome and supported. Uh that has that plays

227a big role on our campus. I think we do a great job. One other area that I would like for us to focus and grow is uh family engagement. We're part of title one. We we have our trunk or treat. We do a lot of things. But I'd like to get more opportunities for parents to come in see what some of their needs are as a parent, you know, we can do to help them and college and career for our kids. That uh finally that's extremely important. While we do have a lot of them complete Texas College Bridge and we have all branches of the military come and speak to our students, we know that uh while many of them may not go directly to college, uh the opportunities offered by the high school and

228in our local area are extremely important and we want to provide all the opportunities for our kids. Do you have any questions about ACC and DAP? >> All right, I'll turn it over to >> Mr. Alvarado. Now they're rocking and rolling. Yeah. They're like, "We want to go." >> How's it going, everybody? >> Did you just get here again? >> I know. I was just >> got the guard rails now. So, uh, we're focusing in on several things as well at high school. Our primary, uh, big change we had was, uh, if you remember a couple years ago, we had all students blocked in English and they would test in December and then we those that failed would go on to, uh, stay in some type of remedial course and then retest in the spring.

229Uh, so this year we've changed that model. Uh students who are coming to us from the eighth grade who passed their math and reading will just have one single class. Uh those that failed will now have a block. So they will be doing their English or their math uh for the first period and the second half is pure remediation. Last year we we bought a program or we had a program custom made that goes back down to sixth grade math and helps the students get through nth grade. Uh so those students are part of that curriculum for the second part of their math class. Uh for the English class, uh they're doing stole that from Miss her her campus. Um so they're working through that as well. Where we knew we were deficient was that

230kids who moved on. Let's say they were in algebra and then geometry and they were having to retest. They weren't getting sufficient help to pass the second or third time they've tested. So now those students are also in a block getting that same remediation help. So that's how we're planning on uh improving academic achievement for uh especially those retest kids to make sure they're getting what they need. Um big initiative here. Um so everybody's been playing with TIA for a while. High school did English one and algebra one. So it was like five teachers. And then this year we that year passed we added biology, US history and English 2. So that was like 12 teachers and now we've added everybody. So now we have like 60 teachers eligible. So having to do that TIA

231thing, we've been working really hard. Miss Cardinis was here. Uh we we researched what type of tests we could do for pre-EST and post tests and we found region 10. So, we've had to convert all those to TM, you know, the TM, uh, how should I put it, timeline. >> Um, we start in July, but every nobody else does. So, having to get all that squared away, u, Miss Card has done a really good job of getting us, uh, for our high quality staff. Um, for our improved climate, campus climate survey, we we're still doing we're about to start character strong, full-fledged, uh, increase college and career uh, readiness. There's the Warp Path Academy which you were seeing there. Um and then building those new IH partnerships with we're I said we've gotten two confirmed.

232We're waiting to hear back from Laredo. That would be the the third one in that area. But um so that's a new partnership there. Increased parent and family engagement. Uh we've given out surveys. We kind of know what the thing is at our grade level. It's it's really hard to get campus involvement because everybody wants to be involved with their kids thing. like the band parents are really good band parents and they help with band but not necessarily the campus athlet they they want to help out with football or whatever the sport their kids in but the campus whole uh has been a challenge we're still trying to figure that one out but that's not just us that's >> everyone um so that's something we plan to tackle uh but our biggest initiatives were just

233the uh the blocks having to get everybody to you and then the virtual academy but we think that's enough >> so okay Do y'all sleep? I was just wondering. Do y'all sleep? Send emails at 11:00 at night. 12:00 at night. >> I'm just wondering. >> Hi, good evening. Um, so let me go over some of the goals, um, in relation to middle school and how they relate to the district goals. So, um, when it comes to increasing student achievement, middle school has a lot to brag on, right? We do really well in our six to eight. Um, one of our goals is to increase the number of students who are meeting and masters in STAR by 3%. Um, currently in six to eight grade levels in all content areas, we are higher than the state

234average when it comes to approaches and meets. Um, so definitely want to also save that for masters next year. Right? So that's one of the areas that we really need to improve on. Um, we get everyone to pass and get meets grade level at the state level or higher in all grades and all content. So stretching that to me to to meet the M's level or surpassing that for the state is definitely one of our goals. And this past year for the 2425 school year, we earned five of the seven distinctions with an overall score of an 87. Um that kind of ties into the next goal for investing in high quality staff. So that we know, you know, definitely impacts students directly in the classroom. So, one of the things, one of our big

235initiatives this year that's been very um exciting is having grant-based support for our math curriculum through Blue Bonnet. So, that's through our curriculum um through the curriculum that we're using. And so, we have specialists coming in about three days a month that they come, they stay on our campus, go into the classrooms, dod with teachers, they have modeling, they have mentoring, just working side by side with them. So, she's been working um the support staff we've been working with, her name is Tibia Johnson. She's amazing, has a great personality, very easy to get along with, and so we've been working with her and her team to just to kind of build that relationship with the math teachers and come in and support them. Um, an area that we really want to grow in is providing

236teachers with more updated technology for instruction. So, in the classroom, we're still using a lot of projectors and Elmos, which are, you know, kind of outdated. So, that's going to be something that I'm going to focus on this year is trying to allocate money so we can start updating some of the instructional technology in the classrooms. Um, for improving school climate and campus safety, we of course with everything that happened last year and all those updates, we have um a safe and secure environment. So, one of the ways that we're supporting that with something new this year is looking at the school climate and making sure all my staff members receive their mental health first aid training. and that will happen November 3rd, which is the Monday we return from inter session. Our staff will

237sit through that. Um, increasing college and career readiness. A lot of this is in partnership with the high school. So, we have two big events going on this week. Tomorrow, the high school counselors will come onto our campus and explain to our eighth graders the process and the procedures for registering, what they can expect prior to them registering, just so they're aware of everything, so they know what um is going to come of it, just to kind of get that going in their head. And then on Thursday, of course, we have our CTE night which will be held at the high school campus. So that's all happening this week. And then when they return from inter session in early November, then we'll start having them register for those classes. Um increasing parent and family engagement.

238So this is another big goal, right? We always want to do whatever we can to pull in more families um into the into the school. Also, one thing that we're doing actually as a district is we're opening up another open house in the spring. So, we always have our fall open house. We're going to um have a spring open house. And then, um last week actually, we also the middle school started its own chapter of a PTA. So, um in working with Miss Melinda Gomezyaga, she really took the initiative and the lead on that. And so, we were able to start our own PTA at the middle school, which is very exciting to provide our teachers with that kind of support. >> That's good. It's awesome. Good evening everybody. Um okay so at the intermediate

239we want to focus on uh some areas of a strength especially in student achievement. So um I know at the one of the prior board meetings we we kind of highlighted where we're making some major gains at the intermediate. We we really are we're excited. We want to kind of keep that momentum going. Um, and something that we're we're excited and and uh going to see some hopefully some more gains um with that is having two designated instructional facilitators on our campus that are that are just for us. So, we've got one in reading um and language arts and then the other one in math and science. And with that, they're meeting with our teachers because we're in year three of our HQIM. I know you guys are are familiar with that as well. So,

240now we feel a little bit more comfortable. Uh the teachers kind of know what to expect. Um, and so our facilitators are really trying to target, okay, what what else can we do to help support them even though we're in year three, they feel more comfortable, but man, there's always some more that we can learn with this particular curriculum. Um, so with that, I was excited that we were able to finally get two that are just for our campus. In the past year, we we shared with primary, uh, but now we've got it. We got both of them. They're ready. And something that we're also um trying this year is we opened up our science lab. And that is going to help kind of again with all of our curriculum and helping reach our our

241fifth grade uh science testers for the star test. Our science facilitator is working closely with our uh instructional facilitator to create that science lab for every grade level. So we've got third graders going in there. We've got fourth graders and then of course our fifth graders. And that has been a big um a big improvement. Miss Landry who was prior a um she was our steam parah she has taken over that role as our um really our science lab facilitator in conjunction with Miss Aurora who's our instructional facilitator and they are creating labs and lessons and hands-on activities for even our third graders based on what they're and it just it's it's trickling up to to fifth grade and so um we're excited about that. Miss Landry has done an amazing job. All of our

242kids are going in there. we're on a rotation. Um, but even some of our special needs kids are going in there and they're hands-on and and you know, working with the balance beams and and the beakers and just things that um that they don't get to do in their regular classroom because now it's a science lab and they're the little scientists going in there. So, we're really excited um about that. So, having that designated math and science facil instructional facilitator helps us do that. Uh, another thing I want to focus on is that uh that we're investing in the high quality staff like Mr. Alvarado mentioned too where TIA TIA is real now. This teacher incentive aotment TIA is um they got their first their payout and so the teachers are we're everybody's working hard

243you know they they see that now that it's tangible that it's in our district and we're we're rolling and so that is a a benefit of of being here. I think that helps. Um and we have had multiple teachers earn that with just that first year. Another thing that we um we made some changes to was we allowed for our teachers now to plan with their content level. Prior they were they were planning with their partner. Uh they had the same planning time with their partner, but we made some changes to the scheduling. So now all the math teachers are meeting at one time versus um the math teacher and the reading teacher having their activity time at the same time where they kids go to PE or to music or to um the steam

244lab. But now that they're able to meet with their math teachers, there's a lot more collaboration going on. There's a lot more planning going on. Um, and so there was some some tweaks to the schedule. Some of the the teachers that were used to having their their partner teacher time, it was a little adjustment for them. Um, but now we're seeing the benefits and they're really they're they're looking at that curriculum with our instructional facilitators and they're using that time uh to really focus on on the content and how to get better with that. So that's something that that we definitely um have seen some some strengths with some improvement. Um I also want to touch on uh bringing in the uh parent and family engagement. I know we talked a little bit about the

245DLI now coming to to the intermediate campus. One of the opportunities that we're creating for those DLI parents is to to come onto campus and be in those classrooms and having the kids see that conversational Spanish that they see all the time. um for our English speakers that are not used to seeing that like our like our native Spanish speakers. Um and so we want to try to use that use them as models. Of course, they're they're background checked. We've got all of our our credentials ready, but to have them actually maybe start teaching how to, you know, some of the traditions as well, like how to, you know, how to make tamales or how to do some type of recipe for them to do, but so that we're bringing in the academic vocabulary on

246how to measure and how to use those terms properly. Um and so that was we want to create that opportunity to help uh promote the family and uh and parent engagement. So one of the things that we can work on with that is making sure that all of our parents um have transition into skyward. I mean we had progress reports go out. This was just an example. We had progress reports go out um I think this week they were due. And so I think we were a little spoiled. Even me as a parent, I would get those uh updates from the from the old system, the whole the home access center. You know, my kid was missing this or my kid and it was the emails automatic. Now, we kind of have to go into

247Skyward into the new system and check it. So, I think it's just going to take a little bit of training, which I know we're working on with our parents to get familiar with with those kind of things to actually go in rather than kind of rely on, oh, we got the the alert that, you know, they're missing an assignment or or things like that. But, it's just going to take some training. Um, but I think that is one thing that that we can work on to help facilitate that uh and increase that parent and and family. >> Let me ask a question. I know we've discussed it, but I don't know if if I'm aware of how we've um finalized the plans for Thanksgiving lunchon with our parents. Have we >> Yes. Yes. I think

248we can agree. Yes, sir. And that that's another thing that we're going to >> communication's going to go out and I know food service has been aware so they can order what we Okay, got it. We stagger the dates. >> We're not doing Christmas but we're doing Thanksgiving. >> It they'll be in November. They all have a different date for uh for that holiday lunch. It'll be in November and that's another opportunity where the parents get to come up. >> Yes. And so we brought back that last year. I think every it worked. Uh we got some really good feedback from our parents that they were able to come in and participate that uh in that activity with with the kids. >> Yeah, that's huge. >> It was it was it took some planning and

249some you know coordinating. >> Yes. >> Based on because we've got multiple families with kids at different campuses and so >> well and we have security protocols now that we may not have had that we have to make sure that our kids and staff are sta safe and you all have done an excellent job of balancing that. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Cuz I know a lot of parents have been very very happy. Yes. About that. And they were asking me about that again for this year. They were like, "Hey, is it coming back?" So, >> yes, we just we need to get through Red Ribbon Week this week. Uh interception once we come back in there. >> It's in the works. >> I'm excited about it. >> Yes. Thank you. >> Thank you. >>

250And I want to say thank you for Tia because you're the one that brought that >> and No, I know. I know. But um I'm excited to hear that the teachers are excited and they can see it now. So that's awesome. >> Okay, so primaries last or littles. Um you're going to see a repetitive thing come through there. It's uh literacy and mathematics and seeing increases across the board. But um I will put a heavier emphasis on literacy. Um being at primary, we don't have STAR tests. We have our MAP test. We know where our kids are at. the good indicator of how they will perform in the years to come. My goal, I've been a principal from pre I mean I've worked in schools K12 is I hate saying kids as products but I

251want to give a product to intermediate that they don't have to retach, >> right? >> It's like trying to teach the science test in fifth grade. You can't just start then you it has to come in over the years. So, a huge huge foundational piece of this is making sure every student leaves primary reading at grade level. Is that a 100% possible? I hope so. But there's a lot of if ifs in there like special needs, there's different things going on. But what is their personal best every day to get them to that point that they can read and write on grade level? Because we know writing is a major component of our star test now. So, um, we're trying to see those increases in in all of them, especially second grade. It is our

252last chance with my kids to get them at that level. So, we're really focusing on that. Um, you'll even see special goals in there for special education. We want to make sure that they are seeing growth because to say every special uh student with special needs can read at grade level, it it may not be feasible, but they can have growth. What is their personal best? Can they identify their letters and sounds? Can they blend? Some of them they can read above grade level and it's just making sure they keep thriving. Another thing we added this year that wasn't there in the years past is a GT and DLI goal. We want to make sure that our gifted and talented and our DI students are not just expected to hit that average. No, our DLI

253students are outscoring our GT. So, how can we keep them? The those are our meets and masters kids coming up. So, how can we really focus on them to make sure they maintain those scores so that way they're not fighting for those extra half points later? They're already making sure that they're up to par. So, for our GT and DI uh students, we just want to make sure that we have all those things kind of embedded into their day into their day. And those DLI kids are thriving because of the communication they're doing, the constant writing they're doing, and they're having that communication, those soft skills that they're acquiring over the years of this process. So, invest in high quality staff. We want to make sure that our um that our staff have everything they

254need, including our dyslexia right now. And you're going to hear from me in close session about dyslexia and the needs we have. But super excited to um the I feel expert we have coming in with y'all's approval that we're going to be able to help our kids with dyslexia grow. And that in turn will help all of our teachers when all of our um teachers have the supports they need in terms of um reading intervention, dyslexia resource inclusion with that proper staffing. I will be honest, the biggest need is staffing and special ed. It's hard. It's not saying, "Oh, our special ed teachers, they can teach. I don't have none of them." So, what can we do about that? That's the need. So, um we're we're looking into that heavily. Also, investing our teachers do

255have the TIA scores. We do have the masters and they are making their money and that's all well and great but what else do they need? They have a brand new curriculum. They're in they're in blue blue bonnet reading and they're in their second or third year of Eureka math their third year. They need time. They need time to plan. So working strategically with the district's master calendar to make sure they have the time to plan and collaborate with each other to get it all done and they're doing a great job at that. being very creative with their lasso grant, giving them time during inter session to come in, giving them time to um observe each other during the school day so they can see high quality teaching from a master's teacher right down the

256hall. We don't need to go to another district necessarily. I got master's teachers 20 ft away. They need time to go see that. Okay. Um improve campus climate up. We eat a lot in primary. We're always doing something fun, but it's more than that. It's more than just the fun and feeding and feeling good. It's also that feeling of time where they have that time embedded into their day so they know they can get uh things done. Um even CC CCMR that comes to primary too. So we have their student um students um special student populations with high mobility, our homeless students. What can we do to really help them and um how can we help our migrant students as as a cohort and help them graduate? So reading on grade level at the end,

257focusing on their attendance, doing the things that are necessary to help them improve, increase parent and family engagement. We can engage parents. Their babies sing in a concert. They're all showing up. >> But to really help them engage into the school, that is a struggle. Like all the schools, our parents work. They're at work all day. It's hard to get them to take off work to come in and do those things. But when they do come in for the concerts, when they do come in for Thanksgiving, sliding that extra in there and helping them show up and just really hook them into the TM way and um helping them do that. Um I think we've got we also have the um we also have our comm our communities and schools. We're doing all the things

258the other schools are. Um communication is key at primary. They have to know we have a lot of young young parents. So communication is key. Parent Square is heavily active. Facebook. If they say they don't they didn't know something, they weren't looking. So, just really keeping that communication um up to date with them and making sure they know what's going on with their kid and having a good time at school. We want them kids to be happy coming to school every day so we can hook them in over the next 10 years of their education. Okay. Any questions? >> I I can verify how young your parents are. I went to a birthday party Saturday. obviously the oldest. >> Thank you. >> So, I just want to say in closing, I think we're moving in

259the right direction. We have a lot of great things going on. Of course, there's always areas that we can improve on. Um, I'm just honored to work with such dedicated principles. I think we have an awesome team. um we collaborate all the time and so you know I'm just blessed to work with you guys as well >> and now she's been a great she's like oh yeah >> all right Mr. President, members of the board, it is administration's recommendation that the board approve the district and campus improvement plans as presented. >> That motion secondaga moves yes absent. >> Brian Boon, >> yes. >> Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Humans, >> yes. >> All right. Motion carries 40. Next item here is discuss and consider approval consent agendaformational items. Number one, check payment register. Number two,

260August 2025 financials. I just want to point out on the financials um adopting a $2.6 million deficit and it looks like it's not audited but about $119,000. So that means the rest of that will go back into fund balance. That's >> that's something that we're very proud of. >> Should be. >> Yes. Should be for sure. >> Be very proud. >> Um number three, tax collection report. >> Just want to point out we we were we didn't receive the September tax collection report. So it's not >> I thought you were going to give some bad news on that. >> No. Okay. >> We we didn't receive it. So uh we'll catch up. Hopefully next month was September and October. >> All right. Number four. uh certification of tax levy for 2025. Number five, enrollment report.

261Number six, regular and special call board meeting minutes. All right, Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agenda agenda items as presented. All right, I have a motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> I make the motion. I'll second it. Aria votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Choa absent. Brian Boon, >> Yes. Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Marty Himenez, >> all right. Motion carries 40. Um, do we do the break before we go into close session or do we announce close session and then do the break? I need a break. Just like five minutes. Okay. Can we get five minutes? >> All right. So, everybody's back. >> We'll do close session. The board will convene in close se close meeting as authorized by the Texas

262Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551 or 071 through 076. 082. 0821 083 084. So it is 10:02 reconvening from closed session. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees issue an educator probational contract for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Do >> you have a motion? >> I'll make that motion. >> Thank you. >> votes yes. Leo Gonzalez is absent. Mr. Chapa, Rick Choa absent. Brian Boon. >> Yes. Kimbo >> C. >> Yes. >> Marty. Marty M. >> Meusta. >> Yes. >> All right. >> Sorry. I'm supposed to be like Yes. Yes. >> All right. That's it. So next we have uh future meetings on November 10th, 2025 team building workshop and November 17th, 2025 we got a

263regular board meeting. >> So uh now we move for adjournment. >> I make that motion to adjourn this meeting. >> Mr. Boom, >> I'll second since Rick's not here. >> All right. And then we got to vote on this again, too. So Caraga votes yes. Leo Gonzalez absent. Rick Choa absent. Brian Boon, >> Yes. Kim Boon, >> yes. >> Himenez, >> Yes. Motion carries 40. Thank you everyone. >> Good meeting. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good job, Bob. Good job. >> Thank you guys.