001It is 6:00 p.m. So, we'll go ahead and get started. Uh, we do have a quorum present. And a quick reminder, if you have your phones, make sure they're on silent. Uh, we will start with the pledge of allegiance led by Mr. McCoy. Yeah, of course. Yeah, it's up there in case you forget it. 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. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, Mboy. [Music] All right. Leo will do the board mission statement. All right. Yes. Through high expectation and equitable opportunity, TMISD will focus on the whole child by providing a safe environment and
002a high quality curriculum with diverse and enriching experiences. Thank you, Leo. Do we have any public? No, sir. All right. So, we will jump into this with the part we all love, the student recognitions. Yeah. If y'all will join me today. Yeah. No, it's not a rumor. All right. Mel. Hello. My name is Mrs. Esel. I coach pro and poetry at the high school and today we are recognizing our state qualifiers. Um so first up we have Adella Escapel who is the first freshman since 2018 from TM to be recognized as a state qualifier for poet. Next up we have Jordan Abanas who placed UIL academic state third place in pros. Congratulations. And finally, I want to talk a little bit about Lisa. She's a senior this year. Um, last year she won state pros
003champion and this year she repeated it and won state pros champion for the second time which has never been done at TM. So, we're extremely proud of her. Congratulations, Alysa. Also, our valadictorian You'll be in the picture. Find a window. Three, two, one. [Music] Got it. All right. Congratulations. Thank you. Good job, y'all. Good evening. Uh I am Wendy Pratt. I am the theater director and also uh theatrical design sponsor. Uh and we're here to recognize two of our students that made state in two categories that we have never made state before. Um and so the first one is Rolando Gabrielle Aras who made sixth place in UIL theatrical design set design. And second we have Elazar Silvas who plays in UIL theatrical design marketing. And we had one more qualify uh Ava Selenus, but
004she's unable to be here with us tonight in costume design. Let's get coach in the pictures. Y'all coming over here. Good to see you coach. I didn't know what coach the one that's not a coaching. I got you. I got you, coach. I was like, what coach? Coach, you could never shed that. All right. Ready? Three, two, one. Congratulations. Good to see you. Hello, I'm Belinda Verubuas. I'm the UIL coordinator at the high school and today we're recognizing Maria Viegas. Congratulations. Thank you. Uh, Maria Vieas is a sophomore at the high school. Uh, and she was a state qualifier in not only one event but two events. She was a state qualifier in readywriting and in literary criticism. We actually um assigned her the title of region MVP because she not only placed in uh
005the top six in all three of her events, including spelling and vocabulary, but she helped her teams to place uh as champions or have a placement at region and was a huge contributor to our district and region um accomplishments. Uh, and just a quick note of those three groups, we all make up UIL academics and um, unfortunately we can't have all of the students here today because of all of their um, dedications to family and school. Uh, but we had a total of 14 students uh, 10 other students also that were state qualifiers or medalists within our UIL academics program. [Applause] Thank you for taking time out of your summer to help us recognize these scholars. Congratulations. Hello, coach. [Music] I'm Coach Woods. We're here to recognize two state champ uh state champion and a
006second place in in state uh two record holders uh for both of their events. I also have with me Coach Rodriguez and coach Castillo. And u we want to recognize Shawn Berlick who came in second place in the shot foot and broke a school record at this next young man, Jayen McCoy, came in first place in the state in the long jump. Broke his own school record of 24 feet 6 in and 3/4. And he also has the record, the school record for the 100. Yeah, he's pretty quick. These guys gave their heart and soul to him and they the state championships have is uh shows that what how hard they they work. We're so proud of them. Going to hate to see them go. Yeah, we are. Let's get a picture. Come over here,
007coaches. See you sir's wife's having a baby. Baby time. I think it's baby time. All right. Wel had theirs this morning. Exodus. Wow. Congratulations. Is that it? Yes, sir. All right, take care. Thanks for joining us. You're welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thanks. All right. The next item is close session. The board will convene and close meeting as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas government code chapter 551 071 through 076 082 0821 083 084 that it is 608 So it is 7:08 close session. Uh we have moved to table both items from the close session. So that'll take us to our next uh item which is the budget presentation. ready. I don't know. You want to wait on Leo just
008for a few minutes? We found out today that um there'll be several of our questions uh answered on Thursday. Uh they're attending, well, I guess I will too. uh a um webinar uh for some well actually no TA is coming out with the data uh TASPO is going to digest that and and blast it out to blast it out to us frequently asked questions about the teacher retention incentive uh and we'll we'll talk about that teacher yeah uh just talking about the revenue assumptions for next year kind of very similar to last year we're going to be take the conservative approach. We're going to take probably this year's data which is higher. Our ADA is higher. Not not a lot. I don't have a good number for you yet, but but we're we're going to
009take that approach again. We stopped the bleeding. Yes. Yes. We we we've done this and and we've curved and we're going we're going back up. Uh tax values are flat. They Flintfields got their big settlement last year. Uh, so I don't see those going up uh anything drastic or hopefully down anything drastic. We'll still stick to the 98% tax collection rate and we're sorting through and quantifying the House Bill 2 increases and we'll talk about a few of those real quickly. Um, uh, talking about finalizing this year's data so we can use that to, uh, for our projection for next year. We still have incomplete unverified 2425 ADA. The first submission is due in a couple of weeks on June the 20th and we're still verifying that our optional flex day ADA for ACC is
010calculating correctly and then we're calculating career and tech dual language and early ed correctly. Uh those numbers uh you know right now we're still looking at them. We're still double-checking them to make sure they look right. Um, we're still having issues with the new with the system of how we submit the data to TE to to tea. It's automatically sent. Every night the data is sent, but every night something could crash, something doesn't work through the day. We ran it and it was it showed that we had no CTE uh ADA. So, it was like, well, CTE crashed for a day and and Adrian had to had to load a bunch of uh um updates to correct it. So once we get a handle on that, we'll we'll use that we'll use that conserved approach
011to use those numbers for for next year. And then you know the tax values I usually try to meet with the appraisal district to go over especially talk about Flint Hills, see if anything's going on with them. CC Polymers, they're our second big second biggest taxpayer. They still appear solvent. I haven't heard anything negative about them. I'll check with the appraisal district about them. hopefully they'll still pay their pay their pay their bills, pay their taxes even though their facility is still sitting there. Uh and nothing's nothing's happening to it. Um and then like I said, state certified values historically about $100 million above the what the appraisal district says. Hopefully those those numbers will stay in line. We were very very fortunate this last year. The controller agreed with what the appraisal district had
012done. We hope that continues and of course we'll know more when we get the when we get the certified values on July 25th and that'll be you know one of the last pieces of the puzzle. Uh and there there will be some tax compression because there is the amendment that's going to go before the voters in November. It's almost assuredly passed that everybody wants their homestead exemption to go up another $40,000. So they're treating everything as if it's going to pass and it it will. Um it could possibly u reduce compress our M rate uh almost two pennies. That's the preliminary assessment. But whatever we reduce in tax revenue, the state will have to make up the difference uh have the hold harmless to uh make us whole and make sure that the the exemption
013the increased homestead exemption doesn't uh adversely affect the district. And then of course uh we get the certified values. TA is going to tell us once we report the values to TA on after right after July 25th, they they will tell us what our compressed tax rate is. And then of course actual collections also will um play a part in what how we end up at the end of the year, what we actually do collect. Let's just talk real quickly. These things are still being worked out. Uh the advantage this year is everything got settled pretty early but now it's up to all the people who rely on Tasbo Omar to update the template uh TEA to clarify what these things mean and that's where we're that's where we're at right now. Uh the basic
014aotment did go up $55 per ADA. So that does mean more money for us and is and if our ADA increases that means even more. Uh they did increase the multiplier for the small midsize aotment. So we're going to get some more money there. Um there is a caveat. They are increasing the special education funding weights, but they don't kick in until 27. There are a lot of things that don't kick in until the second year of the bienium. So but they are giving us an an allotment for evaluation. So, I guess they recognize that we're having to spend a lot of money getting uh as as kids get referred that we've got to we've got to address those kids and and evaluate them and see what services they need. They are giving us some
015money for that. How they're calculating it's not exactly clear and hopefully that'll get cleared up in the in the next uh few weeks. Uh they are adding that if you have an ROC program you can get funding for career and tech. So, we have one. So, hopefully that that will increase the funding. Um the our big big uh increase it's still it's still going to update our our aotment to about I think about 250,000 uh where before it was about 10 and something,000. The school safety aotment increase they're increasing I think it's going to be 40,000 per campus. So we're going to get 40,000 times five and then they're increasing the rate I think from $10 to $20 per ADA. So it it is it is a it is a nice increase. is certainly that
016doesn't even cover half of our security cost, but it is an increase. Uh they are changing the early education, that's the K3 reading and math. They're they're getting some money for training support, but they're also looking as a way to incentivize to actually funding full day prek. Uh I did talk to the lady Tazville today. It's a little it's a little convoluted about how they're doing that calculation. Uh hopefully that will that that will mean more more funds. Uh they are they're giving an aotment $106 per enrollment, not ADA, but enrollment. I'm assuming it's going to be our October snapshot enrollment. $106. And that's just to cover any other expenses that that keep going up. Electricity, any any other fixed cost, that's going to amount, you know, if if our enrollment keeps going up a
017little bit, that's going to be maybe about $350,000. So that's on top of our ADA increase. Yes. It's another it's another allotment just another chunk of money added to the formula because to cover rising costs. Okay. They don't that one they don't define obviously non-payroll rising costs. Uh they are increasing the transportation rate for special ed routes a little bit. So that'll a little bit that's we're not talking about major things but that is an increase. Here's the big one for us. regional insurance aotment. Tentatively, it's a little bit maybe a little bit higher than a million dollars. They're taking the cost that all the districts pay on the the districts that are on the coast and they're coming up with a formula. It's very convoluted. Uh maybe that number will go up, but I
018think hopefully it'll at least be a million dollars. That's a separate aotment, just an extra money that they're going to add to the formula on top of everything else that we get to help offset our uh premiums. And just the part of our premium last year that was just for uh property and windstorm, it was a little bit just a little bit over $2 million. It was 2 million and and change. So this will in theory uh pay for about half of what we last year compensation allowance. This is what Mr. Vicher was saying. They're supposed to come out Thursday with frequently answers to frequently asked questions to give us more guidance on how we're going to handle this. But since we are a district less than 5,000, we're we're going to get $8,000 for
019teachers with 5 years experience and up 4,000 for teachers with 3 to four years in experience. Uh nothing in this aotment for a zero to two-year teacher. Um we're clarifying what the definition of a teacher right now. They're saying it's you have to be instructing students for more than half of the day. So, uh, we're going to have to get the clear definition of who that is, who who meets that criteria. We do have the issue of we've got a lot of people that are on we do have some people that are on the teacher pay scale that are not teachers like counselors, uh, RNs, librarians. We've got some other people, athletic trainers, some other people that are necessarily not are not going to fit the the definition of a teacher. So, we're not going
020to get the funding for them, but we've got them on the scale. So, we got to figure out how to adjust for that. Uh, and it doesn't it does not include some staff who are currently on all those other positions. uh we have to completely look at how we're going to set up the pay scales and what we have to do. We're asking the question, does the 8,000 and the 4,000 do we have to incorporate it in our teacher pay scale or can it be something just on top of it? And how do we do that? One thing to note though, it's it's we're going to have to prove that whatever we do qualify to get obviously we're going to report this data through PE submissions and then we'll hopefully I guess they'll true up
021with us about how many teachers that fit the criteria that are that have those years of experience and and we'll get funding for that. U but it is we're responsible for the payroll expense. So you got to tack about 10% on that that we're going to have to come up with the funds to pay for the the payroll costs that our share of the TRS our side of the our share of the Medicare and the TRS that the district has to incur. So there there is a cost with that uh we we've got to cover the payroll cost. Then there's a separate aotment once again on top of that staff they're calling it the staff and senate aotment. It's $40 per adjusted ADA. They they're taking they're going to take our ADA and there's a
022formula well they showed it to me today where they reduce it slightly kind of to offset the increase something to do with the increase in the in the basic aotment. So they're reducing our our uh ADA for this. It's $40 per adjusted ADA specifically excludes allocation to administer administrators. So these funds cannot go towards uh like basically director directors and not and of course it's not going to it can go towards the teachers that have zero to two because they they're not included in the in the teacher retention aotment so they're eligible to qualify for for some of these funds and then it it includes all auxiliary staff which would be all clerical paras all of Patrick's maintenance transportation all those people basically all the non-exempt people, people that are subject to overtime and then
023all the certified people that do not meet the definition of a teacher. Like I said before, counselors, librarians, RNs, uh diagnosticians, instructional coaches, uh all those other people that are not that don't meet the the definition of a teacher. Philip, we you use the term offset for the 40. You said $40, but it says 45. I'm sorry. You said it's you use the term offset. Well, they're they're going to reduce. We're not just whatever our ADA turns out to be year, they're going to there's some formula where they're going to reduce it and and multiply it by the 45. Like right now, so that's going to be a deduct. The prelim the no the preliminary we're just not going to get full. Like if our ADA is is 3,000, they're going to reduce that to
0242500 or whatever and we're only going to get the 45 times the 25, not the 3,000. Right now preliminary, this this number is only about $141,000. So when you're talking about Patrick's got about I don't know there's about 70 maintenance and about 30 bus drivers. They're about at a little over 100 people in his department and then we've got about a 100red clerical and uh pair professionals. So we're talking about 200 people. Then we got all the people that don't that are not teachers that don't qualify for the teacher retention. Uh so then you add all all our other certified staff that are not teachers. Don't count the administrators. We're talking about we're talking about 200 and could be about 230 people. Well, 141,000 split between 230 people. You know, that's that's not going to
025that's not going to go go a long ways, but we will have to prove that we gave that that money. We did we did give raises at least that that m matches that amount. But the goal is that we have high high level confidence for across the board ranges so that the teachers will get their retention through that aotment. We're getting a little bit of money from this staff aotment and then something to compensate the administrators because it is a fact between teacher uh TIA and this additional money that the teachers are getting. We're we're going to have teachers that are making more than the administrators on the campus. So, it's it's going to cause us to look at everything to see if how how to correct that or how how to keep that how
026to keep that uh regular uh progression of salary uh in place. That's what we got to figure out over the next uh couple of months. And then just talking about the 2425 actual deficit, the year that's going to end this this August, it's going to take six weeks of school for the new school year, but remember the original adopted budget was 2.5. We did increase it slightly to pay to pay for Skyward. Our ADA is increased over the previous year. Once those numbers are finalized, I'll communicate that to y'all so we'll know immediately the effect that that's going to help reduce our deficit for this year because it's going to be higher than what we budgeted for. We were fortunate enough to get the $1.4 million tax value audit money. That was that was money
027that had no idea that we were going to we were going to get that. So, that will offset that. And then I'll start identifying the actual salary savings that we did incur this year because we didn't we didn't fill all our positions 100% of the time. Although, and then on the downside, investment income, uh I'm not going to meet that budget. Uh I guess because our fund balance is declining. Interest rates haven't gone down that much, but our fund balance is declining. So we have less we have less general funds to invest. And the charge revenue is continuing to I got to check and find out. I haven't got the big settlement that I'm the big catchup that we're supposed to get. And the charge revenue is continuing to just not is falling short. They're
028not funding it. They're changing the rules and they're not they're not they're not giving us what we normally get from charge revenue. Uh that's it. Uh does anybody have any questions? Definitely. Um I've got webinars next week. Uh we got I got a whole day at the service center uh I'm sorry uh two weeks from now. Got a got a full day at the service center. the lady from Tasmo's going to be there and hopefully this information that comes out Thursday, we'll get we'll get some more answers about exactly what we need to do about the teacher compensation and how we need to set up our teacher pay scale and uh start hopefully getting the template updated so that we can start getting some more accurate information about how much additional revenue we can expect
029to generate from the additional funding that we're getting. But the templates's got to get updated, all the factors that go into that. We we we've got to make sure we're getting the right information and start getting the right data. So, it's great that everything is settled early, but man, everybody's turning like, well, what does this mean and how is this calculated and and everything? So, uh we will definitely have a lot more information the next next time we meet talking about budgets. So, we're still having issues with SHARS. I mean, are is that clearing up at all? Well, I I need to find out. I haven't got the I haven't we we get we get a settlement. It's usually about two years late. They as each year closes as the year's gone on usually there's
030there's there they owe us a big chunk of money that we get that next year. I I haven't received the one uh that I was expecting this year yet. Normally it comes in by April or May it comes in and I don't have it yet. So I got to figure out where it is. You'll see on the financials we're we're significantly short on the federal revenue on the general fund because of that. It's mainly because of the SHAR's money. Any other questions about the uh uh preliminary uh allotments and extra funds that we're supposed to be getting? I think the headline is we're in much much better financial shape today than we were three weeks ago. Um are we completely out of the woods? No. But we're heading in the right direction. All right. Any
031other questions, comments? All right. That was presentation only. No action. needed to move on to the next action item which is discuss consider renew renewal of annual financial audit services contract. Mr. Carol, this is the annual um uh engagement letter from our auditors. I will admit they threw me a little bit of a curve. our auditors Kishnik and Lavar and Kishnik they have decided to take their auditing practice and they've merged with another accounting firm. So you'll see this this uh this uh engagement letter is from the firm that they have merged with. They are still advisors. They are still going to help with the audit but actually the partners that are going to do the audit are from a company called Green Growth CPAs. They're a Californiabased company. The partners are from California. Uh
032like I said, they they caught me off guard um a couple weeks ago. So, uh the the price has gone up a little bit, but that's in line with with our agreement with them uh because everything is more complicated now. But, um definitely it's a little too late to go out to to to get another auditor. I'm I'm happy with Kishnik. I I'm hoping that these these new people will be just as uh easy to work with. Uh but we have to get an audit done. And so um Keith's still involved to a certain They're still involved. They're still involved. They're just keeping their their their firm they're just keeping their firm to do uh tax prep. So Leavic technically that that that company is only going to be doing tax preparation. they've mer they
033merged their capital their audit their audit part of their business with this other uh company green growth CPAs. So I would ask that y'all uh uh approve the uh engagement letter so we can get working on the audit. We'll see how it goes. And uh do I like having an auditor that lives in California? Not really. But we'll see how this goes. And you know, if necessary, I will go out for proposals next uh the following year. So, how much of a difference is it? Uh the fee went up uh 8%. If you see there's a dollar amount. It's about $38,000. Yeah, that's what it says in here. Yeah, but I didn't know what it was prior. Yeah, I have I know it's exactly 8% higher than last year. I'd have to go do the
034reverse math, but um I don't remember what the the pre It was about I think about 35,000. not going to change is what it was before. And he's all the way in California. The the partners of Green Growth CPAs are based in Southern California. Yes. But uh Mr. Kishnik and Mr. Lever will still be uh advisers and they will still they'll still be involved in the the audit. So it's kind of like the truth is we really don't have a choice and it's like we got to do it now whether we like it or we don't basically kind of Yes. So it wasn't like you gave us an option like say hey this is coming up or whatever. It's like this is it deal with it. I always do the engagement letter in June and
035when I reached out to them uh in May that's when they informed me of of their change. But I got to have an audit. I got to get it done. Um, it's also not a good time to switch auditors even though they they kind of did the switch for me because we're switching we're switching software systems and that also uh you know you don't you don't want to you don't want to switch auditors at the same time that you're switching software systems. So, um we'll see how it goes. I got to make it work. Just seems like we keep spinning more All right. Any other questions, comments? Mr. President, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the attached engagement letter and green growth CPAs for audit services for the fiscal year ending August
03631st, 2025 in the amount of $38,340 as presented. There's a motion. I'll make the motion that we approve the engagement letter from Green Growth CPAs for audit services for the fiscal year ending in August 31st, 2025 in the amount of $38,340. Second, second by Leo. Motion by Brian, second by Leo. All those in favor? Motion carry. 60. All right. All right. Next action item here is discuss and consider outofstate field trip request for the TM high school international studies students to attend the international studies field trip to Italy from June 1st through 13 2027. Mr. Alvarado, how's it going everyone? Good. Not Miss Gray because Miss Gray is currently um but this actually this is Miss Kilgore. Miss this is Miss Gay's last or the next one will be her last one. This will be
037the first one for Miss Kilgore. Um, so, um, basically the kids are going to Spain. They're going to get a tour of Italy. That's not the Olive Garden. Um, and, uh, they're going to have a good time and learn a bunch of stuff. Uh, but it's the same the two-year out so that the parents have an opportunity to pay two years worth of payments. Um, I just finished making mine. My kids having a great time. She's in Spain. She did say a kid got attacked by a monkey today, but we're going on. So, um, but it's it's been real fun for them. They're going to get a lot of it. It's a once in a-lifetime opportunity. We very lucky to give our kids here in this district. So with your permission, we'd like for them
038to be able to go to Italy. Question. I want to go. All right. Mr. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the outstate field trip request for the Tlosa Midway High School international studies students to attend the international studies field trip to Italy from June 1st to the 13th, 2027 as presented. All right, have a motion. Make that motion. Second, Mr. Chapa. All right. Motion from Cam, second by Mr. Chapo. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. Have fun. All right. The next one is presentation Tillos Midway Junior High Design Presentation. Mr. President, members of the board, we have our architectural team here for the new junior high. Um, we were privy to this presentation a week or so ago. I hope you enjoy it as much
039as I did. Good evening, members of the board, Superintendent Van Matri. Take a second to reintroduce myself, right? Some of you know me, some of you might not know me. My name is See Linus. I'm the principal architect for Linus Architects. With me today is our lead designer, Mr. Mike Alex. How are you? Hello. Um, so we're going to go over the the new junior high design, where we're at, and how we got to where we're at, but give you a little bit of context, a little bit of background. I know that we were hired a year ago, and we initially thought we'd get a site pretty quickly, but obviously we are where we're at. Uh, but we still moved forward. We met with all our stakeholders which include your teachers, principles, and we even
040had a junior architect team uh fifth graders 24 at least 22 at least 22 students helped us. Uh so all of that input is in this design. Uh so again we did start about a year ago having all these meetings. [Music] We can do it. [Music] passed out. There we go. So, uh, some images of our meetings with our students, with our staff and through these meetings, uh, we heard what their requirements were, what their, uh, wish list was, and we even visited three campuses to see the current design trends and see what would fit for, uh, Tulso Midway, uh, Junior High. But because of all these inputs, we put it all together on a beautiful wish list, and we were too big. uh you know we have a budget and we have a certain
041size that we want to meet and these last three months we've been going back and forth and kind of coming back and saying hey where do we need to kind of cut back and make this design more efficient. Uh in front of you on this on the screen you'll see our two site potentials. Um on the left side the the Haven site uh on the right side the Mckenzie site. I did want to show what it would look like with that new access road so you guys could kind of see what it would take for that site um to work to work cuz otherwise we we'd have to figure out how to expand Haven, how to make it safe for all that traffic. So, our goal was without incurring that cost or having the city
042do it, we're just going to put a new road there, uh, and have the main access be that road, uh, not really touching Haven, uh, or or putting in more traffic than required. This is the Haven site. Again, like I mentioned, uh, we do kind of show all the components that would be required in this program. Uh overall right now we're looking at about 175,000 square ft. Uh once we get a construction manager on board, which we have the bid opening tomorrow, we hope to cut back a little bit further. Some of our spaces and our budgets are just kind of still uh very schematic. And so with once we have the construction manager on board, he's able to give us a little bit more accurate readings on those things. Uh if you look at
043it, we are going to show the same design on both sides. The only difference is we flip it and we have the orientation uh so that it becomes uh you know the the main view coming from McKenzie and on the other side the main view coming from Haven. Um but both of them are are exact same amount of parking. Uh the front parking which would be for our PR our our teachers and our principles is about 204 spaces and then the back parking for uh additional uh gym or stadium football games is another 240 parking spaces uh there. So this is the overall floor plan uh kind of going to guide you through it. Starting in the very front, the way this is oriented, this is oriented for the Haven site. Um, and we know
044that that's still possibility to change obviously with some news, but we wanted to show you more or less this orientation because it's easier to follow. Um, so at the very top you see the main entrance, the orange being the administration side. We do have a security vestibule in the front and then a secondary vestibule to be able to hold anybody there prior to them actually accessing the main campus. So if somebody does get through through the first set of doors still they need access through the second set of doors uh which allows administration to be able to have teacher parent conferences without the parent actually getting into the school district. mimicking still the same uh concept that we did for all the other current schools where we uh remodeled the vestibules. On the right side,
045the green side is uh is where all your classrooms are at. The light green are your core classrooms. The bright green are your special ed classrooms. Overall, we have 25 core classrooms. Uh we have three special education classrooms, three I mean sorry, five science labs, one art classroom. Um and then we'll go over kind of a little bit more detail on uh the library multimedia area which is in the center. Um we're what we want to do is focus again kind of those current design trends that we visited. We noticed a lot of collaborative learning spaces and in these collaborative learning spaces things were open so that students can kind of meet with each other as well as possibly even have class or a club there. Uh so you'll see some of the stair design
046to incorporate those processes. Excuse me. That's the other side of the classroom spaces. The teal color is the science labs. Um, and then the wrap we're able the red were able to include a uh lecture hall. We'll go over kind of see it better in the 3D view of this, but our gymnasiums, we were tasked to have two gymnasiums. One main one uh that would seat everybody in there. So, this has uh 680 seats and then on the other side a smaller gym that would sit about 350 uh on on that side. Still sticking on the athletic side, we're able to have a very large athletic uh weight room to uh kind of get get the students prepped for that strength and conditioning training for high school. Uh what we noticed was other middle schools,
047that's kind of what they uh flaunt to the students like, "Hey, you're you're in seventh and eighth grade. You're already lifting. You're already getting ready uh to move on to high school." So, it's a big program now and so we want to make sure that it's not just a uh you know your typical small space for a couple things. We we want to specialize it to make sure that your athletic program that's kind of where it starts, right? So that by the time they get to high school, they they already know what it is that is needed for that strength and conditioning program. And all the other blue are your locker room size, obviously separating the boys and the girls. Uh the gray spaces are your uh typical mechanical rooms. uh plumbing uh all the
048requirements MDF uh that we would require for the building to kind of the infrastructure of it. The green spaces are your fine arts department. Uh the top left is your band hall uh one which seats about 80 kids which is your main symphonic band. uh they wanted a a secondary smaller band hall space which seats about 60 for uh concert mariachi jazz bands and then through there we're able to provide a uh an office space to allow for your band directors to kind of access both areas without uh you know leaving one unattended at any point. uh pretty fairly large um storage area for the large band instruments and then of course two two uh ensemble rooms on the top and one uh small on rehearsal space on the bottom. The other side on the
049green space, excuse me, is the kitchen space and right above it the peach is your cafeteria. So the cafeteria was able to sit 384 people or kids and so we're able to host the whole seventh grade lunch hour at one point, get them out and host the whole eighth grade lunch hour at one point. That that's kind of the way the administration prefers instead of splitting them up in smaller and kind of ruining kind of the the lunch hour. Hey, somebody has to go earlier, somebody has to go a little later. It's all uh in the in the time period of of a normal lunch being able to host that. But it is a full kitchen, so you'll have your uh kitchen staff be able to cook there. Uh we do have a delivery area
050uh for all the all the the food that would be delivered. Excuse me. And then another option, another uh requirement that was given to us was a performing arts center. and we wanted to make sure uh it was within the landscape that it's just not kind of sticking out on its own. It's part of the whole design. So, it is we're really calling more this area the fine arts wing. Uh it's it's the same area where you have your band and your choir. Um you have the performing arts which is the large uh area up top seats 3 16 316. Um and then on the bottom side for the uh one act plays um you have your dressing rooms, you'll have um the makeup area and even a stage design area. Uh we included a
051classroom space that involves a theater classroom as well. Uh that's kind of more of a multi-purpose type of theater where it can be kind of adapted to depending on what it is that they're trying to uh learn and and practice and rehearse. What is what is the Cooper sit right now? Just under a thousand. Jim Cooper sits 980. Keep in mind this is just for seventh and eighth grade. Um and we're hoping that the it just kind of similar to the the cafeteria be split up in those grade levels like for awards only seventh grade awards only eighth grade awards uh type of thing. Uh, and you do have your main high school pack to host, you know, something big and major like, uh, what's it? A little over 400. A little bit over 400.
052In one of our original design, we did have a larger space. Uh, but at the same time, we felt that we would overshadow the high school as a junior high. So, we kind of compressed it. And again, coming back to our budget to making sure that we're within the allotted amount. Uh moving on to the second floor. The second floor is really just more classroom spaces. Uh the idea is that on the bottom you would e either have seventh grade or eighth grade and then on the top the opposite level. Um that's just kind of the way the uh teachers and administration preferred it. That way they're not they're not uh intermingling too much. It does uh have its own stairways separate. Uh we do have the main core area where it could possibly get
053loud when they change uh classrooms, but because we have those other stairs, teachers can kind of say, "Hey, you guys got to get out through this instead of everybody coming out through the middle." Uh something that I didn't mention, and I'm sorry, I got to go back. Uh for the site plan, um we do allow for uh growth. So if you look at this uh drawing, you see the dash lines where it says future classrooms. While we are already in the design allowing for growth, your current uh enrollment is in the 670s, we're allowing to go up to 750 already included in the design. But then for future if it does balloon further than that, we do leave enough space to expand your classrooms uh to jump up to whatever those needs would be. That's
054good. Instead of worrying about like, oh no, we got to figure out where to put it. We're already telling you this is the area where it needs to be. And then it becomes a seamless thing. You don't even notice it whenever you do it. Exactly. It's part of the campus and it's part of the same structure. So it's it it just kind of aligns. We we want to make sure that we're not putting a further burden on you for the future like, "Oh, you didn't leave us leave us enough space for growth." Going back to the gym, like I said, it's two gyms. Our main seating for the main gym is on the second story. Uh something that happens uh during uh basketball games or that they've experienced is maybe some parent involvement that is
055a little negative. So, keeping them separated from the actual court uh was our our design intent here and you'll see it in three in a in a moment which also created an opportunity to do an indoor track. So, what you see up here is an actual track that if you do eight laps, you're doing a mile. Did I see that y'all had a bowling alley in there, too? Yes, we do. It is included, right? It is included. It's three lanes. I didn't mention it and I apologize. It is one of our features. It's the dark green next to the the next to the gyms. And I wanted to say something, but I was like, I'm going to wait till after. I really like that. By all means, please. It It just fit so perfect. I
056think when Mr. Van Matri and Patrick kind of told us about it, we're like, "Okay, let's see where it fits." and it just was the right dimensions that align perfectly with the gyms and and because it's for our special education as well, it it stays on the first floor and it's right at the entrance. They have their own kind of uh designated area. So, if you go to those the the three-dimensional drawing oops go to one more that there. So, what what it works out nice so that you're not wasting space is that we've tucked the bowling alley underneath those bleachers. So, it's saving you floor space to be able to do that. Will it be echoey if I'm just thinking about like for our kids some of our kids are very sensitive highly definely
057does it have that we will definitely have an we have an acoustical team on board which they study all those uh sound decibels and they'll be able to bring it down so that it's nice and quiet in there for sure 100%. Yeah, cuz I would hate for the kids to be in there and them running around and some of our kids can't handle Absolutely. No, I completely understand. Something to keep in mind on mind on these renderings, we are in schematic design, which means we haven't applied materials. We haven't applied colors. The color that you see is just so that you understand, hey, it's a basketball court, right? and more than likely it's going to have your colors, uh, bleachers, uh, seats, but overall the the we're not at that phase yet to tell you
058this is going to be block, this is going to be steel. We're just showing you what the spaces would look like, the the forms of it, right? So that you understand cuz reading a floor plan, I can do it, but maybe maybe it's a little hard to envision it, right? So we wanted to show you guys in 3D that make sure that um the design is coming across for everybody. And I just have one question like uh you had said the special needs classes the classrooms for them. Where exactly is that located? So if you look at and I'm just going to show you the overall on on the screen which is this one right here. Yes. So right there this is the the special classrooms. So it's the entrance and the first one right
059here. Yes ma'am. Okay. Quick question on the gym where you show that wall. That's not a that's you don't typically see that anymore. You see those in like if you go to ODM's 1960 gym, you see the wall right next to the court. There's no safety concern there. The wall where it says Tossa Midway in the next rendering right there next to the court. That's a wall, right? It is. It is a wall. We definitely put some padding. Um but I I think the the latest renderings are not being shown here. That wall was pushed back a little. Yeah, it was pushed back. We we want to make sure there's enough space for bench. There'll be enough space for bench and for water water station. Okay. So that's where the players will be. Cool. The
060cheerleaders. I don't know. I don't know if cheerleaders go to the games. The cheerleaders will line up. Yeah. Set up. They're on the baseline typically. The cheerleaders like behind the the the court. They're right here. Yeah. Um the other question is on the on the gym and the pack both you know I think we have we've talked about standalone gyms and and tying gyms into facilities and the security risk that brings are these these are not going to have those issues. So they are part of the overall design. I am able to access from the school the gym but we do have security access points. So, if the gym is being operated outside of school hours, those doors lock up and you can't access the school. Vice versa, if the gym's not wanting to be
061opened up, those door those doors are locked through the hallways, not being able to open up. However, it does have its own separate entryway. So again, the school's not working. Parents can drop off their kids outside and they go into the gym, not access accessing the school, as well as spectators or anybody coming in to see the the kids play. They would park separately and enter through through the main entrance, its own lobby of sorts. Okay. And then the last thing is I noticed the concession stands are inside the gym. They're on the second. we don't have to worry about losing, you know, cuz we host the tournaments like Pride of Texas and you can't really use the concession because of security reasons or whatever else. That's we can lose a lot of money though.
062Well, they're on the second floor. Um, and you can see them even on the 3D rendering. Uh, go to the next right there. So, see the window. So, they'll be able to sell see the windows at the back wall. Those are countertops for the concessions right there. Okay. I just want to make sure they're accessible while the tournament's going on so that you don't say, "Oh, well, absolutely. We can't open the concession cuz we don't have there's and it's big enough that it would be able to I mean, we want to make sure it's it's if both gyms are being used, you're going to have a thousand people in there. So, it's big enough to host to be able to travel that track on top. I like that. So, if you have a tournament going
063on during school, you can keep the gym separated and there's parking and an entrance where you can access the gym. So like you said right in Texas or volleyball tournaments security they can be completely isolated from the rest of the school. Okay. Cool. And then uh the last renderings that I'm going to talk about or yeah I'm sure Mike's going to interject here a little bit but we want to make sure we understand what's going on in the middle of the school uh because it creates these intricate spaces like I mentioned before these gathering collaborative spaces for the students. If you look at the top right uh drawing, the large steps are more of a I'm going to hang out, maybe read a book. I'm going to Hey, my club's going to go and and
064we're going to meet out there. At the same time, the multimedia center is on the first floor there. Then you're able to again, if you want to check out a book or uh I think we talked to the librarian possibly having uh a little cafe there. Uh so just different interactions that are happening in this core area. Uh and at the same time we want to show off if you look at the bottom one the library. We want to give uh a an outdoor kind of view to a a balcony wrapping around this multimedia area. You want to read a book, go outside. You want to uh take a breath of fresh air, you can just step out and take a breath of fresh air. Uh we want to give students kind of the freedom
065to be able to feel like this is their space and we're not confining them. Are they secure? Absolutely. We take every security precaution we can take, but they're also have that freedom to It's their school. So, so this like wraparound balcony is like in the inside of the building around it, so nobody It's inside of a courtyard. The courtyard itself will have a fence all around. Maybe go back to the plan and we can kind of show you. Sure. That just so you can understand it right here. So this is the first floor, but if you look at where the top green and the bottom green, those are classroom spaces. And that middle white is a courtyard. Okay. All around there would be a a a security I'm sorry, I guess you could see it
066here, too. Where it says courtyard, right? And then the the dash line, that's security fencing. And so the the wraparound is the little rectangle that pops out into that courtyard. Okay. Yeah. So, so ba basically I'm just going to walk over here so y'all can see it a little bit better. Yes. Easier to see. These are the classroom wings. And so they loop around this courtyard. Okay. These are twotory classroom wings at this this location. This one is the same width as this one. Okay. Okay. And so and in between is sidewalks and courtyards, trees, and heavily landscaped area. And it is it is closed off by another security fence out here so that anybody out here can't just jump get into this space. So this becomes an outside learning space. Yes. Okay. Okay. And
067on top of that, we do have security or perimeter fencing all around the school. Yes. This you can see a dash line. It represents security fence that goes all the way around the entire campus. Is there an elevator in the school? Yes. Yes. There's two. There's going to be one for the school portion and we will need one for the uh gymnasium. Okay. Just wanted to make sure all kids could access everything. Yeah, cuz some of them can't. And I'm I'm a little bit like concerned. This looks so awesome. I love the way that the stairs look and all that and you know the bigger stairs that they can sit on. The only thing I would I would say is maybe build a handrail on the opposite side just to make sure that nobody like
068loses their balance. It might be the view, but we do. It's required by there's one there. Yeah. On this side. Or or are you saying about like the the regular chairs? I'm saying like on this side right here. You see this this area where they're sitting down on this side. I I would think you would still need to have some sort of handrails to make sure that nobody loses around. Absolutely. Absolutely. That's But other than that, I like the way it looks. It looks awesome. Thank you so much. Such a cool space. Just need handrails. And so when we culminated the floor plans, which is kind of where we're at, um we went back and figured out, okay, now we need to start working on the vertical portion of it. What is this going to
069look like on the outside? How are we going to come up with something that's memorable, something that's I think Mr. Vatrius called it a showpiece for you guys? And that's kind of where kind of Mike took the lead and I'll let him present that. So, um, we architects do not like to design in a vacuum. We like to be inspired by perhaps your surroundings and context. And so, uh, I'm from the River Grand Valley. Uh, I believe that the Coastal Bend area is very much like the River Grand Valley in that, uh, it's gone through phases in it, in its recent history. once ranch land and then it became farmland and now now it's becoming much more industrial and there's archetypes in all those different phases of of of development across both the coastal bin
070and and river and valley. And so when we look at when we look at architecture in the area, we're looking at some of the pictures you see here. We're seeing we're seeing uh triangles. We're seeing industry. We're seeing past and present colliding together. And so we see these past and present agrarian and industrial typologies that are happening within within the region. And they're and those forms are playing against one another even to this day. Um and and so those forms convey meaning. uh they're sometimes hard to interpret and perhaps uh they're subconscious but but they do form uh meanings. One of the things that they form of course is familiarity and identity and progress. So we took some of these shapes forms and such and began to think about this is just a simple sketch
071that I started working on very early on in the design. triangular shapes, steel, vertical uh structures like we're seeing at at the lithium ion um um u plant that's just down the way and and and other structures uh other structures that are out here that that are with within the horizon of this campus. Um and and then so once I started working through these shapes, I started to interlace the triangles. And so what you see here is an elevation, the vertical elements of perhaps some sort of architecture, but then in plan there are three triangles that are different colors. This one is one color, this is another one, and then this one's a third and they're all interlaced together. And then also interlaced into that is this structure. So we have these icons of perhaps
072agrarian and icons of of uh of industry combining together as one. And so those concepts start to manifest themselves just u just the shapes and forms in the architecture. So and so what we're going to focus on right now is primary is primarily this primary entrance. And so you can see that in this area is where my three triangles are. And then this is where this vertical shaft of space outside will be. And they all line up. This all this lines up with the main concourse of the campus. This one hallway is is basically your wayfinding. This will be as we get further into the design, it will be obvious where the main concourse or spine circulation spine will be. Everything is connected. Every space is connected whether primarily or secondarily to this main concourse.
073and and beyond the main concourse is our main entrance. Okay. So uh architects graphically show u vertical elements of the architecture in two-dimensional drawings like these which are these we call these elevations and and so I just want you to see in context that this campus is big okay it's a big struct big big set of structures um and what we're focused on primarily is this centerpiece uh oh I was going to zoom in for you thank you Um, it's a two-dimensional drawing right now, but I'll show you some. No, it won't do it. It's a two-dimensional drawing right now. There you go. Yeah, right there. Right there. And so what you're seeing is that that same kind of concept with the triangles and the vertical elements that are shown in my sketch. Um, and
074and they're going to look tall in the renderings that I'm about to show you, but really in context with the entire campus, they're really not much taller than perhaps the twotory element. The two-story classroom wing is right here. And then beyond is the cafeteria volume. And then right off here to the right hand side is is the um performing arts component. And just reminding you, materials, colors, they're not there yet. So, this is more of the schematic version of what it could look like. And then we'll come back and add all the colors and materials and all that. Here we go. So, so here we are. Here we are looking at the main drive. This is the main drive where where parents will drop off and then there'll be stations as there always are in
075these drop offs of different places where where parents will drop off their students. And so the first thing that greets them are these triangles uh where that provides shade and shelter from the elements. And then beyond that through this main entrance is a series of different height canopies and roofs and steel structure along with some of these ballastrates that we show that create texture and rhythm in the architecture u that super inscribe triangles and other shapes that are very similar to these. So that kind of blends it all together into one homog homogeneous um architectural style and context. So um the main entrance is here. So this triangle actually reaches out just slightly slightly beyond the other two that are behind it. Here's another closeup view of it too. And of course you'll notice that
076we have Tossa Midway Junior High being vertical elements in the architecture. This really lets it lets everyone know that this is a civic building. You know, this is something that we're all very proud of and we're proud to showcase to the to to the city and in the school district in general. We've placed cars and figures in here so you can get a context and of size and scale. Uh we're we're suggesting exposed steel structures, exposed and flat steel canopies at varying heights. And we'll certainly have brick at the first level of the main main building and perhaps metal panels and metal panel roofs. These are tubular steel ballastrates that are separated just enough so a kid can't put their head through it, you know. So, um I was just thinking that. Yeah. As well
077as it it can handle like 50 mph winds every day that we get as well as it provides, you know, safety from the kids wanting to climb up there or anything like that. So, we're we're we're cognizant of all those things. Uh that's why we also put the scale figure on there to say, hey, this is this is still tall. This isn't just something four or five feet. I think at its lowest point, it's 8 ft. It looks awesome. My wife is a school teacher at an elementary school and so having stations is really important and you know in helping to corral kids in one particular spot and not running out into traffic and so this is what kind of creates these I want to say almost like vestibules places of of access points along
078the way. I think it really helps. Okay, you go to you go to opening number one, you go to opening number two and you go to opening number three. And just so you can get kind of a context of what the the main entrance looks like, we did kind of ghost out those canopies in this next one so you can understand how how this structure really looks. So you can see as a ghost the canopy that's out in front, but we've ghosted them for the simple purpose of so you can see what this entire structure looks like. Uh and and then this wall right here as I mentioned before in when we were looking at the floor plans is a wall that is continuous throughout the campus and it will be continuous in color and
079texture. So it becomes a wayfinding element. You can see it down other hallways and you know okay if I want to get to point Z which is the main part of the campus all I got to do is look for this wall. Um, and it's it's it is a a little way we designers bring the outside in and bring things that are thematically on the outside to the inside. That's it. I like it. I love the ain't going to lie. I love it. This was uh just presentation only, right? Thank you. Thank you. You're up to speed. All right. The next item here is Thank you. I like it. I want it. I don't want to give it away. I don't want to give it back. The next item here is uh discuss and consider
080approval of TM PM price up. Oh, that right. Yeah. TMP price updates for the 2025 2026 school year. Mr. President, members of the board, um we incurred a a slight deficit this year with uh TMPM. From what I understand, there hasn't been an increase in fees for several years. So, we asked the uh Mr. Carol and the principles to collaborate um what they felt was a fair and modest price increase so we could uh not only continue the service but balance the budget. Um who's going to talk next? The Mr. We can we can speak to that together. our elementary principles. Okay. I kind of remember I remember so we were going from last year in the years past they're about $90. They're about 90 $95 a piece. It's been that way for a substantial
081amount of time. And with the um amount of staff that we need to keep our kids safe in order to keep it going and also employ some of our high school students over there, we had to um increase the price. From last year was at $95, which you can see, and now it's going up to $120. And then each additional kid, there is a discount if you have multiple kids at multiple campuses. We It doesn't matter which campus, it's still a family price. It's $60 per per child. We did some quick figures. If you have one child in at $120 a month, oh yeah, it's $2 an hour to have child care so you can go to work and you can have some peace of mind that your child is safe and at and supervised
082and supervised and fed. We feed them a whole meal every day, a whole dinner meal. So they eat at they eat breakfast for free, they eat lunch for free, and then they have a their meal early dinner also. Yes. So th those are some of the things we're looking at and also just to keep this program alive. It's been going on for 30 years. Is that what I heard? I I think it's it's got to be pushed 30 years. Yeah. And um and I think it's just something that our community really values and our employees really value. That's how our coaches can stay late and keep their student athletes okay because they know their kids are safe somewhere else. want to recommend that the employee still receive free TMP as as a benefit. So, let
083me ask you um on raising it and I'm just looking at from a parents perspective, you know, with prices going up of across the board like do you think that some of these parents will be able to continue to like have their child in, you know, with this increase, do you think that they'll be able to handle that? Like, I mean, think of it that way. I'm just I'm just saying, you know, let's think about across the board. Everything's going up and then having to go up on child care, too, to keep, you know, working. As a dad of four, I'm going to say this. If I go to McDonald's with three of my kids in the car, it's about $50. So, to say I'm going up $25 a month, it is more money, but
084this is my kids safety. This is my kids academics. We're focusing on make sure their homeworks are done. We're working on arts and crafts and their community in there, instructional time. They have rotations and and really to try to increase the pay for our employees, our TMPM employees, because they they they do a lot. They really do. Um they keep them active, they keep them supervised, they're engaged, they have rotations. Here's how they keep and here's another part of it. If we don't increase the price, we can't keep doing it and then they're not going to have anything. Then we'll have to go to a lot latchki program or some other program which then incurs cost facilities and we don't control it. Exactly. We don't control that. And then we're at the mercy of their
085hiring and who they're bringing in and their backgrounds. At least this, we have full autonomy on who we're choosing to hire. We can hire our high school and college students. We can hire our staff that we trust and our admin are there. We're there. Me, me and my assistant principal, her assistant principles are there every night. One of us is there and we can really make sure that our kids are getting what they need. So, how many kids do y'all have in this program? I think at our campus we had about 180. And how many how many staff members were there? Uh I think we had like 12 to 13. They ideally it's two employees. Yes. Two employees. Two coaches per I think it was like what 25 that they try to keep that the
086ratio. Okay. Compass. We have about 150 students and employees are, you know, people watching them 12 to 15 depending on if they're going back to college for the spring semester. We're constantly kind of adjusting that because when you're dealing with young people, you know, their schedules change. Yeah, it kind of varies. And out of those uh 170 kids, 70 of them were staff kids. So 70 students did not pay at all and about 54 of mine. Okay. So what we can we need to look at is how many of our employees are feeling the effect if we didn't have this program. Yeah. They wouldn't be able to stay and volunteer to coach or do the clubs or or take care or doing free tutoring which we know a lot of our teachers do all the
087extras. They said I got to go pick up my kids so I can't do that for they want to but they couldn't. Right. So this is going this is impacting everything we do in TM. This the TMP is a great program. I mean our kids participated in it every day. Um, and I think it's a it's an amazing program and especially since our teachers can keep their kids in there and not have to worry about them even leaving the campus. They're just staying right there on that campus. I think to shuttle them on a van to a private daycare. No, we don't have to worry about an accident somewhere else. We're keeping our kids in house, feeding them emotionally, physically, and they're having fun. Well, it it's only a $25 increase, and there hasn't been
088one in five years. If you take that 25 and divide it by five, you're talking about only increasing it by $5, right? Um, no one wants more money spent out of their pocket, period. But there's some things as a parent, you know, you have to I can't not say yes to that. So, okay. And I can definitely tell you we haven't changed the pay rates in at least four years. Yeah. Um, we're making $10 an hour. Okay. Any other questions, comments? Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the proposed monthly TMP prices for the 2025 2026 year as presented. All right. Have a motion. I'll make the motion that the board approve the proposed monthly TMP prices for 2025-2026 as presented. All right. Motion by Kim. Second.
089Thank you. Have a second. I'll second it. Oh, Marty. A second. We have a motion by Kim, second by Marty. All those in favor? Thank you. Carry 6. and the schools will start blasting this information out so the parents have plenty of time for time communications. We'll share it early, but we'll really go through it at our uh meet the teacher and things like that in our handbook. Good deal. Thank you. Uh next one is discuss and consider approval of the food service charge policy and adult meal prices. Mr. President, members of the board, um we are required to increase adult. This is not children, this is they will still eat free, but for adults eating in our cafeteria. I'll turn it over to Mr. Hernandez. TDA requires us to keep up with the commodity
090pricing. And with the increase in commodities, we just got the increase. So the the fee re uh reflects the increase that's required. Uh we have we just have to do this. So for the uh the breakfast it'll be going from 325 to 375 and the lunch will go from $5 to uh 550. Uh just to give you a heads up even though that uh the meal prices for the students is is uh free covered under C in August once a number August or September we have to do a price increase for that even though you'll see that at an upcoming board meeting also to reflect the commodity increase. All right. Any questions, comments? Mr. President, members of the board, is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the proposed adult meal prices for the 2526
091school year as presented. All right. Do we have a motion, Mr. Chapo? Yeah. I move that we approve the proposed adult paid uh meal prices for the 22526 as presented. All right. Second second. I have a motion by Mr. Chapa, second by Leo. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. All right. The next item is report TASBY summer leadership initiative conference 2025. Miss Castillo. Okay. So, uh, Mr. Mr. Bry requested that u we discuss summer leadership information at the board meeting since we had three new board members attending this year. So u what I typically do is hand you your packets at the end of the board meeting but tonight I'm just going to go over them with you really briefly and we have a little surprise for you as well. Who's never been to
092a summer institute? You're going to like it. Yes. you're going to like it a lot. Okay. So, when you open your um notebooks, you will see the uh a printed copy of your program. And if you look through your program, it breaks it down for you by the day and the time. Uh I know I had a board member ask me earlier today, can you tell me which courses I still need? I already had your packets printed for you. Those were on your seats. If you have any questions, you can ask me after the meeting or I can um talk to you tomorrow or the next day and we can go over and just make sure that you go and take the courses that you need. Um summer leadership, I did sign up our three
093new board members for the um the evaluating student outcome. That was an additional uh registration fee. So, the three new board members have that on your uh invoice. So, you'll need to take that class. That is something you are required. But for the most part, the other courses are courses that you would just take on your own. Uh, whatever you feel you're interested in. I would recommend that on um Thursday morning or Thursday afternoon at 1:15, you go to the 1:15 conference with Superintendent Vitri. He'll be presenting there at that time and I will make sure that I get there early enough to reserve a table for you guys. But um, also going through your packet after you go through your program and like you have any questions, just give me a call. But going
094through it, there's some important information for you to look at. It's in your first tab and they're giving you like helpful hints. Um, I've attended SLI in the past and I'm going to tell you if you're not there by 3:00 or earlier than that, you're going to be in a very, very long line to check into the hotel. I was able to get everyone into the host hotel courtesy of Mr. Vitri because he is a a um speaker at the conference. We get first access. But with that, if you're able to get there early, I would highly recommend. The other problem with getting there a little later is there will not be any parking for you, which means the hotel parking lot's full and we'd have to park you somewhere across the street. Um, the
095next tab when you go over is for you to check in to your hotel room. The one thing I do ask is that you uh make sure that you turn in your uh hotel tax exempt form. It's in your packet there and I highlighted it for you. It also has confirmation numbers for your hotel room and um the confirmation acknowledgement from convention housings that you are registered there. Okay. The next tab will go over the registration for your TASBY summer leadership and it specifically tells you by your name and what courses you are signed up for. It basically is registering you for the conference and my three new board members you're evaluating student outcomes. Uh but everything else you decide where you'd like to go. Um last but not least, there are some mixers in
096there. Some of um some vendors have invited you to some conferences, I mean to some events after hours or during lunch and I went ahead and RSVPd you for both of them as well. So the two that are in there, you are already RSVPd. Um, and one more thing at the very end, any type of reimbursement that you would like uh to submit your mileage, any parking or any meals that you expended out, just you can bring me the form back and if you're unsure on how to fill it out, I'll be glad to sit down with you and help you fill that form out. I know it went really quickly, but you always know you can call me and I'll walk you through. I want you I will be there Thursday, I mean Wednesday,
097so I can also help you when I get there. Great job. And are the shirts for Thursday? Yes. Okay. So, um you have a board of trustee shirts courtesy of athletic department. Thank you. That was nice. Nice. So, you guys can look very uniformed there at Thursday, right? On Thursday at 1:15. We may be the only ones there, but if that's all I I'll do I'll do I'll do the presentation for you. No, daddy. True true story. True story. My first ever presentation. It was called the old high schools at work and I was presenting. I was a teacher at Moody High School and um I was there and no one came really and two or three people did come and I got excited and they were taking chairs out of my uh uh ballroom
098or whatever you want to call it, conference room for the other uh uh a humbling experience, but it is what it is, right? At least I'll have six, seven there. I'll be there. Front and center. We'll be there. All right. So, so much. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for that. Thank you. Um, all right. That was report only. No board action. The next thing item we have is discuss and consider approval consent agendaformational items. Number one, check payment register. Number two, May 2025 financials. Number three, budget amendments. Number four, enrollment report. And number five, regular and special called board meeting minutes. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agendum item as presented. All right, we have a motion. Leo makes the motion. Second, Mr. Choa.
099All right, we have a motion by Leo, second by Mr. Choa. All those in favor? Motion carries 60. All right. So, now we go back to close session. The board will convene in close meeting as authorized by the Texas Open Meetings Act to discuss items allowed by the Texas Government Code Chapter 551.071 through 076 082 0821 083 084. Anybody need a break? All right. Need a break. Recess. Yeah. Recess uh till 8:30. 5 minutes. 10:40. Back from close session. We have actions resulting from close session deliberation. Mr. President, members of the board, I recommend the administration recommends the issuance of educator probationary contracts for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. I have a motion. I'll make that motion. Kim second. I'll second that. All those in favor carry 60. Mr. President, members of the
100board, it's the administration's recommendation that the board approve educator dual probationary contracts for the 2526 school year as presented. Motion, Ryan. I'll second that. Second. All those in favor? Carry 6. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation to issue an administrative probationary contract for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Motion second Kim in favor. Uh Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation to issue a non-chapter 21 contract for the 2025 2026 school year as presented. Motion [Music] 21. Who made the motion? I'm sorry. Rick and Mr. Ch. All those in favor? Carry 6. Leo second. Mr. President, members of the board, it it is the um superintendent's eval superintendent's recommendation to accept the summit of evaluation as presented. Motion Kim second. All those in favor and
101no action on the superintendent contract. All right. Next meeting, future meetings is July 21st, 2025. We may have one. Oh, that's right. Uh either what works best for you all, the Wednesday of that week or Thursday? What day does that follow? I think the 26th works for me, but I can make the 25th work. Is it 26 to Thursday? Better. So, we're not meeting the 16th of June. No. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. So, the 26th of of June Thursday. Thursday. For me, June 27th, my husband's birthday. Thursday. Okay. So, for that one, we will have um some a few more people to hire and um we'll have more information on the budget. Good. Good. That's a big Okay, that's all we have. All right. For adjournment, we have a motion to adjourn. I make the motion
102to adjourn this meeting. I second that. Mr. Chapa seconds. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. Safe travels everybody. We'll see you there.