001Hello everyone. Thank you'all for joining us. We do have a this is a regular school board meeting so we do have a quorum present. So we'll establish that. And if we can please remind you to silence your phones if possible and uh we'll get started here in just a minute literally. Okay. All right. He made it just in the nick of time by silence. Okay. So, we're going to go ahead and get started. If you don't mind, we'll start with the uh pledge of allegiance. You all right? We'll go with the United States Pledge of Allegiance first. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And we can turn our attention to
002the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you all. You can now be seated, please. I will read the 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 to the diverse with diverse and enriching experiences. So, next we'll have public comment. Do we Okay, we do have some public comments. So, I'm going to try to read this. My glasses aren't very good, but um public comments at regular board meetings will be conducted in accordance with board policy BED. At meetings other than regular board meetings, public comments are limited to items on the posted meeting notice and agenda. At regular meetings, public comments are allowed on any
003topic regardless of whether the topic is in an item on the agenda posted with the notice of the meeting. Comment shall be heard at the beginning of the board meeting. Comments are limited to three minutes per speaker except non-English speakers requiring a translator are limited to six minutes. The presiding board officer may notify may modify and wave these time limits as appropriate. Public comment should 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 president, 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
004process as stated in board policy beed beed local. Pursuant to section 551.042 of the Texas Government Code, no board member or administrator may respond to a member of the public regarding an item that is not on the agenda unless such response is a recitation of district policy or statement of specific factual information. Okay, so I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Paul. the school board president and thank y'all for being here. Our public comment is Mr. Raymond Gonzalez. Hello, Mr. Gonzalez. Yes, sir. How are you, sir? Great. Thank you. Get out of your way here. Hello. Uh, my name is Raymond Gonzalez. Uh, most of you may know me, some of you may not. Uh, I was a educator for 32 years. 15 of those school years I spent here at TM as a
005band director and administrator. I retired uh in 2011 and uh own my own business now work at Saundo in the area and also I'm a partner in education for several schools in the area. Uh my reason for speaking here today is to thank you the school board and Mr. Van Matri for providing me the opportunity to help raise money for the teachers activity fund, provide supplies for the students that need it and allowing us to help in any any way we can. This was also the first year that we did a two-week martial arts character education course and all the proceeds were donated back to the schools. I hope that we can offer this program again next year um and help the schools or the PTA raise money to use at their discretion. Uh this
006also allows me to continue to do what I have a passion for and that is to make a difference in a child's life. I did it for 32 years as an administrator and now I do it through martial arts, teaching life skills such as respect, discipline, honesty, responsibility, uh, confidence and the list goes on. It's not just about the kicking and punching. Um, and sometimes I feel like a principal. I still have parent conferences to address the child's behavior. Either we're addressing the student behavior or for school academic performance. We serve as a support group for parents also and help parents in trying to help those these kids make better choices. Um I hope that we can continue to work together as your partner in education and I will have your support in helping me
007make a difference one child at a time through my martial arts program. I want to continue raising money for your schools and would love to do more next school year. Please know that I really do appreciate your help and your support. Thank you all so much. Thanks for your time. Thank you, Mr. Gonzalez. Okay, so we'll start the board meeting with what is always the most uh the most fun for us is recognitions. Today for recognitions, we have the teacher incentive aotment recognition. And are we doing the student recognition? Okay, we'll start with student recognitions first. Well, good evening and welcome. For those of you who um don't know me, I'm Steve Van Matri, the superintendent of schools. And what a thrill it is tonight to not only get to recognize many of our our
008students, but also our teachers, and we'll have more to say about that in a minute. So, I don't have the list in front of me, Mrs. Castio, but could you bring our coaches or sponsors over and um let them say a few words and then uh give them the recognition um that they deserve. Hello, good evening. Um uh I'm Coach Luna. Uh I'm the head track coach for the girls sher track team. And uh this season um started off uh fairly well and we had a lot of girls come out and um participate very well and throughout the entire season we had uh really good progress and these girls right here that I'm about to introduce uh really showed a lot of determination throughout the entire season. So first up is Alexandria Himenez. So, Alexandra
009uh first showed what she can do uh during the cross country season. Uh first showed what she can do during the cross country season. Uh she was able to uh help out our varsity team early on because we did have quite a few injuries going late into the season. So, um even though she's just a freshman, she stepped up and she did the same during the track season. we really needed um what she could do from the cross country field to the track and her participation in both of those really helped us out throughout the season. And next up is Iris. Uh so uh Iris progressed so much this year, especially not just from her sprints and her relays, but also in high jump. Um she went from I think placing fourth last year at
010district fifth at area to uh punching her tickets to regionals this year uh&m Kingsville and uh she PR this year I believe it was it was 5 feet but not only that also she was very intricate part in all our relays for the 4x1 4x two and 4x4 so I really appreciate all the work she's put in and what she's done for this Okay, next up is Madison Gumble. So, Maddie was um another one of our athletes from cross country to track. She also is a pitcher for our softball team, a big multiport athlete. during the cross country season. She had come back from an injury uh during uh late tracks and softball season from last year and she worked her way back into our um into practicing for cross country. Uh did a few
011meets at the beginning of the season, but um both of us made sure that she was safe and healthy. So during the mid-season, she decided to rest up for track and she really really helped us out. uh we moved her from middle distance to sprints and uh she became part of our 4x2 team that won district and took us all the way to regionals. So, thank you Maddie for all your help. Okay, Madison Tino. So, uh she wasn't on the cross country team, but she was our cross country manager. And during the track season, she really shined. Mosi put in so much work. came in in the early in the mornings uh stay during the period sometimes after school to work not only long jump high jump uh the 100 200 block starts she's very
012intricate part of all our relays and she's now the current record holder or school record holder of the 100 meter and 200 meter dash uh here at Los Midway so we're extremely proud of her and everything that she's done and brought to our team uh thank you all uh we appreci appreciation and especially all the support from the parents. They could not do any of this without you taking them to the meets, taking them up from the meets. Um, and it's it's very very important for all these students to know that their parents support them. So, whenever they see you out there, uh, it really really helps them out. It makes them want to strive to do a little bit better at each meet and that's all because of the parents and the support that
013they have at home that you all bring here to Tulos Midway. So, thank you so much. Uh, good evening. I'm Coach Rios. I'm the boy cross country center coach here at Midway High School. Um here to present uh Aiden Hik. All right. Uh this year the boys cross country team was the district champion and Aiden was our team MVP. Every meet he was the first guy on our team. Uh this is actually two years in a row that he's done that since since his freshman year. Now he's a sophomore. Uh we have him one more year only because he's graduating early going into the military right after his junior year. So we're definitely going to miss him. Um this year he got runner up for the second time in a row also uh in the
014district. Uh but he was able to be a state qualifier uh which was a big part of our you know us winning district this year. It was a big part of it. Um what we don't know what people that don't know Aiden is that he's uh he's been dealing with an injury for these last two years. So for him to be able to manage to be as competitive as he's been is has been obviously a big plus for our program. And also Aiden is very involved in student he's in student council. He's in Rotary Club. He's also an ROTC. Is there anything else that I'm missing? Because I know you're a lot in law enforcement. So, he does it all. He He does it all, but he still finds time to make sure he puts
015in the time. Like I said, barring his injury and all that, he's still able to put in the time he needs to do to be as competitive as he's been. Thank you. Hello everybody. I'm Coach Sonar, the head tennis coach. I did not know I was doing all this. So, uh, just a brief summary of our spring season. Uh, we won the district title, um, for the sixth straight year. Um, all these seniors that we have, uh, these all four years they've been in high school, we've been top 10 in the state. Um, and we still are. So, uh, thank you to the seniors for their efforts, um, these four years. So, going to regionals, uh, we took seven out of the 10 uh, possible entries uh, to the tournament. So, the other schools in
016the district weren't real happy with us. We took seven of the 10 spots. Um, of those seven of the 10 spots, it totaled out to 11 kids that went to regionals. And uh six of those are freshman and sophomores, so they'll be back. Yeah, I want to start off with uh Jillian Garcia. Uh she got second in girls singles at district and was a regional quarterfinalist. Next is Brendan Diaz. She played boys doubles and was the boys double district champion and we know former Next up we have Isabella Barber. Her and her partner play mixed doubles and uh got second at district and fourth at regionals. They miss state by one spot. Next up is her partner uh Dyson Chamberlain. Uh fourth place mixed doubles at regionals once fought out at safe. Next up we
017have one of our freshman that was a district champion with her freshman partner and they ended up making it to the regional quarterfinals. Diana Arzu. So, this is the first time in school history that we sent three separate entries to the state tournament. And one of our girls, she can't be here. She's at the international studies meeting. Uh, but she was the first girl singles player to make the state in 50 years from TM trip. She's not here. Uh, next up we have our boys singles district champion, regional bronze medalist, and state qualifier, Seth Broson. And last but not least, we have our girls doubles team uh that won the district championship and uh got the bronze medal at regionals and state got the bronze medal as well. Uh the first one up is Audrey
018Lango. Next up is her partner, a junior graduating early unfortunately, but uh district champion uh regional bronze medalist and silver bronze medalist Brianna Bon All right, girls. There you go. You're too tall. Thank you. [Music] Hi, for um many of you that don't know me, my name is Crystal Deonro. I am the case manager for community and schools at the middle school. Um I've had privilege to work with these students for the past three years and some of the high school students as well. So it's amazing to see these kids come up here and get these awards. Um the award that I'm presenting is the do the right thing writing challenge. So, what that is, it's a writing piece that's available throughout our nation. Um, and our students have to write an essay answering three
019very important questions. What are the causes of youth violence? How has youth violence affected your life? And what can you do to reduce youth violence? So, for a lot of our students, it's the first time that they are given a chance to express themselves about how violence impacts them. Writing can and is used as an outlet for many of our students to share their feelings and experiences, whether good or bad, in order to help them move forward. This is a healthy way for them to be able to do just that. This writing challenge targets middle school students because this is the age group that is old enough to have had some experience that might be shaping their life, but not too old to be stuck in a detrimental patterns. In working with our students, Miss
020Fernandez and I have learned that many of our students have experienced a lot that no kid at their age should have. And it is unfortunate how they have become desensitized to their experiences. In the end, we were able to work with them and allow them to have their voice be heard and also give them the opportunity to share with us and others how they would impact the world in a positive way to reduce violence. It has been a growing experience with our students and we couldn't be prouder of them. Out of 2,000 essays that were wr written and entered for this competition, 36 were chosen as finalists. Out of the 36, I have the pleasure to announce that we had two finalists at our middle school. So, um, first off with Abigail Lopez. She was
021our finalist for talent and Alejandro. Now, with that being said, out of the 36 finalists that were chosen in our region at the Coastal Fin, they choose one to take to Washington DC for almost all expense paid trip. So, they get to tour Washington, they get to stay at a hotel, they get to see, you know, um very important people at the White House. And not just that, but this person will also get their essay that they wrote published at the Library of Congress. So congratulations our national ambassador representing our closeupan area Abigail Lopez and it truly takes a village because without this teacher who literally supported me and I support her as well in the classroom Miss Fernandez was also named the national teacher for the um writing challenge. So Abigail and Miss will
022be traveling to Washington DC in July. So um best wishes you guys. I wish I could go with you guys. [Music] You're good. Hello, my name is Joanie Moreno and I am the sixth grade theater teacher at the middle school as well as the assistant speech and debate coach. Miss Eavl is our head coach and unfortunately she can't be here tonight but wanted me to let you know she wishes she could but she's at UIL State um for her high school team. So, she's still still working it. Um, this group of students um that we took to state, in order for them to get to the state qualification meet in Dallas for middle school, they had to compete locally at high school tournaments. So, there's no middle school tournaments locally. So, all year long, they
023have been competing against high schools. And in order to qualify for state, they had to be a finalist at a qualifying tournament. So already they had a huge achievement locally by being finalists there and then here we are celebrating their accomplishments at the actual stadium. So beginning with Wen Tierney, third place duet improv semi- finalist declamation. Carson Boon, top speaker, humorous interpretation champion, declamation champion, pros champion, second place deal improvisation. Caitlyn Benvitas. Second place duo interpretation. Fourth place dramatic interpretation. Fourth place program of oral interpretation. Fifth place humorous interpretation. Selena Miller. Third place duo interpretation. Fifth place program of oral interpretation. Semi- finalist poetry. Semi- finalist dramatic interpretation. Juliana Aius semiinal original oratory Maline Bella third place duet improvisation fourth place decamation sixth place original oratory Maline Ellander third place dramatic interpretation semiinal Fin duet
024improvisation semi finalist original spoken word semi finalist poetry fifth place duo interpretation semi finalist humorous interpretation fifth place duo interpretation Scott fifth place duo interpretation Orioa, semi- finalist pose, semi- finalist storytelling. Natalie Mal, semi- finalist, original oratory. Malia Pomo, second top speaker, poetry champion, second place pros, second place program of oral interpretation. Third place dual interpretation whit semi finalist poetry semi finalist original spoken word. That's it. Thank you. probably then I would think you' be Good Good. Thank you. Really? This is Jason. Good afternoon. One of the biggest enjoyments about being a teacher is with this uh students coming to the KN program to the engineering pathway academy with all so much potential excitement and then we fast forward three four years from now that excitement becomes certification and achievement. And today we celebrate two
025young ladies that have put us on the map. That's our mission. That's their vision to put that new building that we're going to construct on the map. academic map. Uh we're very excited. We had 11 first places from engineering, design, robotics. We had uh STEM pathways, mechanical joints, architectural drawing, and technical joints. Today we celebrate three young ladies that are helping us tremendously to put us on the map. Uh Madison Tierney, she was for business procedure. and Iris for architectural draw. My fault. Jesus. Okay, Dr. Sham, can you join me on stage and can we have our principles and principles when one of your teachers are uh called um you can join us. Uh while they're coming up here, uh let's give another round of applause to those amazing kids that uh that we just
026saw. Incredible. So tonight uh is very satisfying personally for me because one of our first initiatives when we came to TM was to start the teacher incentive aotment initiative which pays thousands of dollars to teachers that show uh a significant growth in student performance uh and also show effectiveness through their test evaluation. So, it's a two-tier qualification model that these individuals have to go through and then we send their data off. Last year was a data collection year for Tossa Midway and Texas Tech University in Levik has been um retained by the state of Texas to make sure that there's a correlation between their evaluation and student performance. And if it's inflated, then everybody gets kicked out. um if it's um under uh performance u then those individuals that are impacted don't qualify and so
027it's extremely rare to have the number of teachers that we have 33 qualify in the first year um and they will reap the benefits through the state of Texas for the next five years for their excellence I can't tell you how proud I am of you and I'm anxious to show you off in front of our board and I'm glad that your parents are here, your family members, your kids so that they can really hear from your superintendent just what an honor this is and it will only grow as we move on. The individual that's really showed tremendous leadership in this initiative is Dr. Allison Shaw. So I'm going to turn it over to Good morning. Today is a very special evening. So I do have a little speech for our designates tonight. So again,
028good evening to everyone board members, faculty, staff, teachers, family, friends. It is a true honor bosses to be here tonight as we celebrate a remarkable group of educators who have earned a prestigious designation through the teacher incentive aotment or TIA as we know it. This initiative created by Texas Education Agency is designed to reward teachers for being highly effective in the classroom with additional compensation. But let me be clear, this recognition goes far beyond just a title. It represents the excellence, the dedication, and profound impact they make in the lives of your students every single day. The teacher incentive a lotment offers three levels of designation each representing a major milestone in the prof professional journey. Those levels are recognized, exemplary, and the highest honor master. These designations are not easily earned. Mr. exam major
029stated they result from a rigorous process that focuses on what truly matters student growth and teaching effectiveness. So let's take a deeper look at how these designations are earned. Like Mr. Dan Maji stated there are two key areas student growth. A little bit more about that. At the beginning of the stu at at the beginning of the year students take what we call the beginning of year assessment to establish their starting point. and at the end of the year they take the end of the year assessment to show how much progress they've made. The growth between these assessment is a clear reflection of the academic impact of their teaching. The second one is our t test evaluation. And so that is what we use to evaluate our teachers and we look at two key areas.
030We look at domain uh two which is instruction and we also look at domain three learning environment. So when teachers meet the criteria in both of these areas student growth and teach evaluation their designation is based on their overall performance. Therefore each teacher receiving this recognition tonight has met the high standard and is standing before us as an exceptional educator leader. So that brings us to why we are here tonight. We are celebrating our first ever cohort of teachers to complete the TIA designation process. And this didn't happen overnight. It's been nearly a 2-year journey. A process that has been both challenging and rewarding. These educators have set the bar for those who will follow, and they've also paved the way for others to achieve the same recognition. We are incredibly proud of what they've
031accomplished. They are not just shaping academic outcomes, they are shaping lives. And tonight we honor them. So at this time, if I could have all of our honores line up. I do want to add to all of our honores, this is your moment. Be proud, stand tall, and know that your dedication, your talent, and your love for teaching are making a profound difference in the lives of your students. This recognition is so incredibly welld deserved, and we are truly honored to celebrate you tonight. Congratulations. Okay. So I'm going to announce each design and we're going to start with the recognized design. Miss Stephanie Ooa from the high school recognized Samantha Guerrero from the primary recognized Miss Pamela Pales, I'm sorry. Exemplary. These are the exemplary design. Miss Pamela Pales High School exemplary design, Miss Julie
032Wallace, exemplary designate from the high school. At the conclusion of honoring our design, each design will come back to midstage to receive a special from our school board and our sponsor. Next, we have Miss Lindsay Ol from the high school exemployary designate. You want Miss Lena Yates from the middle school. Exemplary designate. and Miss Gates's partner in crime, Miss Lenna Modis. She's not here tonight, but she's a middle school exemplary as well. Miss Agatha Diaz, exemplary honory for middle school. Okay. Mr. Vill, exemplary designate from the intermediate. Miss Selena Merrill, an exemplary designate from the intermediate Good job. Miss Erica Hernandez, exemplary design from the intermediate Miss Maria Guzman, exemplary designate from the intermediate Miss Candy Brceno, exemplary designate from the intermediate. Miss Danielle Balden, exemplary designate from the intermediate Miss Jessica Van Beater. [Music]
033Miss Tracy Ramirez, exemplary designate from the front. Miss Casey Mueller. Exemplary designate from the primary. Miss Dora Longoria, exemplary designate from the primary. Miss Jessica Hudler, exemplary designate from the front. Miss Mary Garza, exemplary designate from the primary Miss Diaz, exemplary designate from the primary. Miss Amy Betta, exemplary designate from the primary. Now for our master design, Aurelia Monsice, master design from the intermediate. Next. is Cassie Alvarez, master designate from the intermediate. Follow me. Miss Crystal Tjo, master designate from the primary. [Music] Miss Amber Lada, master designate from the front. Miss Monica Menz, master designate from the primary. Miss Elda Gamboa, master design from the primary. Easy. Miss Adabel Galvan, master designate from the primary. [Applause] So, Miss Samantha de la Cruz, mastery. Miss Lisa Benvitas, master designate from the primary. Mom. Hey. Miss Myrael
034Alvarado, master design for the driver. And last but not least, Miss Laura Gray, master designate from the high school. Good job. [Music] Thank you. How about another round of applause for all of our Okay. Thank you, Dr. Sham. What you may not realize is sitting here is in excess of $400,000 in compensation from the state of Texas. Congratulations. Congratulations again to everyone. Uh because this is a formal board meeting, we're going to the board will recess and reconvene to the remainder of the board meeting at the Tosa Midway Administration building. So we'll do that now. Thank you teachers. This is awesome. I the pleasure to be able to do this and honored to do this. So thank y'all. I hope everybody has a good night and uh come join us at the board meeting if
035you want to do something. So before we let you out, this is what you're going to receive. uh we will give one to you to place in your room, your home, whatever. And then we're going to place them at the campuses so that your parents and the community can see just how effective you are and how proud we are of you. And then we have a nice polo shirt uh to signify your designation. And there's nothing we can do. money, yard signs, shirts to fully com to fully communicate just what a big impact you have every day with our students. Thank you. So, it is 7:20. We'll go ahead and resume the meeting. Great job everybody over there at the pack. So the first item, discussion item we have is uh National Student Council. She's
036on her way here and she'll be here in two or three minutes. Okay. What time is Okay. No worries. I'll wait for you. Let's u let's do you and then we'll come back to her. Yeah. All right. So we'll swap up number two to number one. And this is discuss and consider the out ofstate field trip request for TM middle school to attend the National Treasures 8th grade field trip to Washington DC April 4th through 7th, 2026. Mr. Bell. Well, hello. Um, I just wanted to come and before you guys and ask for permission to be able to take the middle school kids to Washington DC again this year. Um, we started this in 2013. We've had an exceptional group of kids every year. This year was even better. I think it was the best
037one that we had so far. We just had it was during the uh handsoff protest against Donald Trump. And there were a 100,000 extra people when we went to go to the uh Museum of African-American History and Culture. And our kids were perfect. They were perfect. And the guy that we had that was our guide, he was from uh Boston. He was an Italian guy. And he was like, "All right, guys. Before we go out there, if you ever bought a slinky before, you know, it comes in a box and it's all nice and then your brother plays with it and he ruins it and it's like a Dollar Tree slinky. We're going to be that slinky in the box. We're going to be together." That was a good job. He had his he had
038like a little course mapped out and everything and then we were like the Timu Slinky. They were everywhere and he was like, "No, no, no. We're stopping. We're getting everybody back together." But it was it was a great trip. Really great trip. And so we're just asking to be able to go again. Yeah. Absolutely. All right. Any questions? It's awesome. How many kids are going again? I'm sorry. Um it just depends on how many people pay for the trip. Uh it's usually about 30. Oh, okay. Okay. And we usually have uh four adults on the side. Okay. All right. Do we have a motion? I'll make that motion. Have recommendation. Let me make Sorry. It is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the out ofstate field trip request for the Tosa Midway Middle School
039to attend the National Treasures 8th grade field trip to Washington DC April 4th through 7, 2026 as presented. All right, Jim. That motion for the out of state field trip for the TM middle school to attend the National Treasures 8th grade field trip to Washington DC April 4th through the 7th, 2026. Second. Chapa second that. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. Have fun. Thank you. And then come back and do that that accent. That was pretty stories that y'all don't have the time. So, Um, Mr. President, members of the board, we have um, M. Men, I believe you're the national vice president, junior vice president of membership. Yes, I am technically off my term now. I had my last Zoom meeting last Wednesday, I believe. I am all off on my days. But it
040gave me the opportunity to go to Chicago as well as Washington DC because I had the opportunity with the help of Miss Stagall to be able to make the inaugural National Student Council. I first off was able to have the funds from National Student Council to go to Chicago as long as bringing one of my friends Aly Charo. She is the eighth grade vice president for our student council. I'm president. I took her with so that we would both have the opportunity to experience all of it. But Chicago taught me a lot of things which helped with once I went to Washington DC. I originally was not going to be able to go to Washington DC because they were not funding the middle schoolers. So we were not going to be allowed to go. But
041nobody else wanted to speak up about it. But Chicago gave me more of the confidence to be able to speak up because there were a lot of uh guest speakers and a lot of breakout rooms that I attended as well as helped lead that taught me to be able to find my voice more and speak up about it and not be afraid. So I was able to get me as well as the three other middle school officers to be able to go to Washington DC. We were there for four days, I believe. And the first three days, we were prepping for the fourth day because on that fourth day, we were we were able to go to the capital and speak to different legislators and congressmen and all that. actually sadly weren't able to speak
042to any of them, but we spoke to a lot of their staff members about IDA um I completely forgot IDA title 1 through 4 and just funding for all of those things within schools and be able to get a lot of those funding passed to have the same funding as last year. So that helped us a lot in the long run. So I just wanted to say that was a lot of what I did this year was National Student Council. was a huge learning experience as well as really fun. So, good. I'm very thankful for all that. She's our first one, right, Mr. G? Never had a This is the very first year they ever had National Student Council and this is our first TM kid to be able to do this. Uh we're very
043appreciative of you guys allowing us to take the kids to Chicago because that like who takes middle kid school kids to Chicago and it was really cold. It was January, but um they had phenomenal speakers. I still am thinking about some of those speakers. Uh one of them was Sharon McMahon. She's the the country's government teacher is what she goes by. She's on Instagram. Uh Khalil Green, who was the first African-American student body president at Yale. Um Ja Jen, it was how do you Ja Jen and he worked with the kids all year long. He's he's the person who came up with the 30 days of rejection challenge on Instagram and uh learning how to become rejection proof cuz so many kids like they grow up you know he's he's Asian and so you know
044is a a foregone conclusion I was supposed to go to an Ivy I was supposed to go to some really big school and I didn't get into any of them and I had no idea what to do with my life. I I didn't my parents were absolutely so embarrassed that I wasn't able to get in and he said and I had done everything and so that rejection just rocked me and he said it I don't know it was like a year two that he struggled um mentally with that and then he was reading the art of war by Sun Sue and it was talking about rejection and he came up with this I'm going to I'm going to make myself rejection proof and I I think a lot of kids could use that because they
045everything just everything they touch turns to gold and they they don't know what to do when they face those hard times and we make it pretty easy here because we have such great teachers. We have great situations for them. I mean you just came from this awards ceremony with all these kids winning all these things and then you know they go out in the world and it goes taka and you're like what do we do? Right? And so he was he was great. I mean, they were all great and they had all these different opportunities, but my favorite part of it was watching her up there with all these high school kids from all over the country leading these sessions of 2,000 kids. Smith, you are so impressive, not only with your ability to speak
046in front of adults, with poise and class. I'm just so proud of you. Congratulations. Yeah. I want to say too, you said you pulled in charl so she could see it and like that's that's huge. That's a leadership skill. Don't ever lose that because when you get out in the professional world, a lot of people like to they're afraid of competition or whatever it is, but take that leadership skill right there and that's another you're going to be successful, but we can tell that. But that that was that was impressive. Thank you so much very much. So, congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. D. Thank you very much. Thank you. All right. So the next uh action item agenda item is discuss and consider approval for the removal and disposal of outdated instructional material. Mr.
047President, members of the board, there is a process to remove and dispose of outdated instructional materials. Dr. Sham is going to walk you through that. Okay. So yes, it we have there is a code uh for us to bring that to the board in order to remove any um outdated material and so tonight actually we've been talking to all the campuses and we do have a lot of instructional materials that are just being stored and so it's time to clean house and so we wanted to bring that to the board because you know these resources instructional materials are to state funding uh funds and so we wanted to be number one transparent and and get your approval so that we can start removing outdated um instructional materials for for various reasons. Number one, we have
048some new um curriculum that will be coming in um hopefully very soon. And so we're going to need some space uh to store the instructional materials and also we don't want teachers or you know going and retrieving the outdated material because there's certain you know re the you know the the landscape of education is always constantly um changing and so we're in a different paradigm right now. So we want to make sure that we are 100% aligned to the TEICSS, 100% aligned to the curriculum that we are supposed to be teaching our students. So that's one reason too. Um and then like I said really the main reason is we need some storage and you know it's outdated, it's out of adoption. So as long as it's out of adoption, you know, we we can't
049use it. Um, we do have some ampl amplified materials that are still um they're still in current adoption. We're going to hold on to uh those uh instructional materials. I want to see if we can reach out to other school uh districts or another company that might be able to purchase the Amplify materials because they're still in current adoption. If we decide to um remove or get rid of the Amplify adoption because it is still currently in adoption, we would have to um contact TEA and contact Commissioner Morath and let him know that we are no longer using Amplify because we're transitioning now into Blue Bonnet, but we would have to go that extra step. So, I want to make the effort to reach out to uh I think there's like Texas warehouse. I've contacted
050FLET. They're no longer in the business of they used to come out to the campuses and go to the book room and they would scan to see if you know if they could buy those books uh from us and so they're out of you know they're out of that business. But I'm going to try to see if there's other um companies that will come out and see if they can buy some of those um instructional resources that are still currently in adoption but we're not using. And so then those funds will go back into the 410 account. And so we'll have that money to use and purchase other instructional materials. But um I've I've had campus principles, our instructional facilitators, you know, we need room. We need room. And so um I don't think we've
051had a clean out in a while. So, we want to go ahead and start off that year um space and just, you know, everything in there is uh current and we don't have to worry about, you know, using materials that are out of adoption. So, we're asking for your approval to remove and dispose of instructional materials. And another reason I didn't want you guys to find out that they're in a dumpster, you know, and so um so a lot of the uh instructional materials are consumables. So, we've been passing them out to the students. Uh, and that's our goal, you know, for the summer. They can, you know, um, handwrite, do some reading, you know, comprehension. So, that sort of thing like that. Yeah. I was even thinking, I don't know if it's possible, but
052if there was any leftover stuff for like some of the local daycarees around here, have those some of those prek kids um could use some of that material, right? because we have like prek right at your campus. We have a lot of um of resources. So, we're gonna try to see what we can um either donate or you know buy back so that we can use that money to purchase other absolutely instructional resources. Any other questions, comments? Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the removal and disposal of outdated instructional materials. This process will follow guidelines outlined in board policy CMD legal and district policy local using appropriate methods such as recycling, donation, or other approved disposal practices. All right, we have a motion, Mr. Chap. Yeah,
053I move that we uh approve the for the removal and disposal of outdated instructional materials. Okay, second. Second. All those in favor carry 60. Thank you. All right. The next action item here is discuss and consider approval of Toshiba copier and printer. Mr. Um, we've been doing our copier and printers pretty much on 5year cycles and June is the end of the current 5ear cycle with Toshiba. I can tell you that uh I've been here 15 years and when I got here we started with Deill and people were ready to uh set them on fire and complain probably about the third year. So it was two years of just constant complaints. Then we then we went out for bid and we and we went with Kanuka Manulta and about three years into that five-year agreement,
054it was, "Oh my god, this is the worst deal ever. Who picked this?" And uh so then we went out again. Uh but I can tell you that we've had virtually zero complaints about Toshiba over the last five years. So therefore um I asked them to they they can give us a DI pricing which is just like going to off a buy board. It's a it's a co-op for uh buying uh purchasing these kind of things. So uh they made me an offer that uh I'm bringing to you that I think is a very good offer. Um we're going to get uh we're going to replace all the bigger copers. When I say copier, we're talking about the bigger ones. And some of them are color, some of them are not. But these are the
055big workh horses that are in the workrooms. the larger ones that are in the departments and everything. Uh we're going to replace all those. We're gonna get brand new equipment for those. Another five-year agreement. And then the smaller printers. Uh we have smaller black and white printers. We have every classroom. Pretty much every room in the building has one of these one of these uh printers. Uh there's over 400 of them. Uh they're still workh horses. They're still going strong. We haven't had any problems. I don't think we've I don't think we had to replace any of them and they're still going great. So, all we're going to do on those is uh we own them now, but we're just going to do a three-year maintenance agreement on those. And so, that'll keep that'll pay
056for all the it doesn't pay for the paper, but it'll pay for all the uh toner and everything for it. And so, uh we're getting the new machine. We're going to get all brand new, the bigger machines uh for just a little bit more than what we're we're paying now. And then uh we're going to save since we've already bought all the smaller printers just the maintenance agreement uh for the next three years. Actually, it is a five I take it back. It is a fiveyear agreement, but after three years, we can opt out of it and and we'll see what what the printers are doing. But they're going strong right now. They're workh horses. Uh and that's where we're going to save some money. We're not uh we're going to save about 25,000 a
057year by not uh replacing those printers yet. and we'll look we'll look at we'll see how they stand up. They're going strong now. Um so I think we're uh this is a a pretty good deal. Uh because if we went out for bid, I will tell you if we went out for bid, we'd have to get all new stuff and it we wouldn't have any savings. But I think I think this is the way to have some savings. We'll still have exactly what we had before. We've got such great service from Toshiba. That's why uh I'm bringing this to you all today to say I think this is the best thing to get us through the next five years. After three years, if the little printers start wearing out, then we can address that issue
058then. But uh they're going strong now. So you said the toner is included in the maintenance. We pay the maintenance agreement. So all the and then repairs uh anything goes wrong, we call Toshiba. And uh I just got to say that it's the best copier printer service I've ever seen. Uh we we're fortunate enough that they're really on top of uh uh maintaining it. Like I said, virtually zero complaints. Uh and before, man, I was it was just just terrible. So are the big ones that you're wanting to replace, are they like are they having issues or you're just No, but we did do we did do a lease purchase. So we we own those. So later on we'll we'll declare those surplus and we'll we'll sell those at auction. um we we can get
059something for them. The nice thing about staying with the same um company is that you don't have to relearn how to use one because that can be very frustrating. We have everything already uh everything's already like hooked up. The ones that are connected to the network because we can scan and email through the things. We're we're already good to go. So, you'll see a uh pretty seamless uh replacing all the big ones. Toshiba's already got their uh they're ready to go after we approve to uh do the replacement plan over the break. So, it'll be pretty seamless. Do they offer like secure print like you you print from your desk and doesn't print till you get your badge over there? Um print you got to run over there make sure nobody gets it. Uh no,
060we we we don't do that part but but we've had individual departments like HR has their own has their own printer. Yeah, we have that. Well, I don't want to say where I work because I get beat up for that, but we have that you print and then you can go to any like say for example you printed something and you went to the primary and forgot to pick it up. You you don't have to come all the way back here. You just can primary. Pretty cool. So, I don't know. Something to think about. I'm sure it costs more money. Yeah. H secure. It's good for HR type stuff. You know, it's secure print. They don't have to go right away. So, just something to think about in the future. I know you already got
061this deal. You said most rooms have their own printer already. Every classroom has a has a small black and white uh print kind of So, how many units is it going to be total? Like the big ones. The big ones I think is 6 67. And how much are they each? Um I'd have to get back with you on that. I can tell you these big ones like this big uh black one here. Um they're they're several thousand dollars a piece. Um I can get the breakdown of of for each one. Yeah. But there's also different sizes because there's a smaller one here that's a smaller color printer. Um I think uh she's got one. Um and then we have the big we have the big one on the other side of the building. But
062there's different there's about four different models. Uh the big ones are what we have in the workrooms. Those are the the big ones that the teachers have in the teacher workrooms. Okay. And then the the smaller printers, I think it's 300 a little under 392 are the smaller ones. We're going to keep those. We own those. We're going to keep them and just uh have a maintenance agreement. Yeah. Because if it's not broken and they love it, just keep them going. All right. Any other comments or suggestions, questions? Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board of trustees approve the agreements for the district-wide copier printer program with Toshiba Business Solutions and Toshiba Financial Services, including the state and local government lease purchase agreement and maintenance contracts, and all
063other applicable documents for the period beginning June 2025 and ending June 2030. Okay. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the Toshiba copier and printer agreements. All right. Second, Mr. Bulman. All those in favor 60. Mr. Men, I'll get you those itemized costs and put it in connections. Sounds good. Thank you. All right. The next one is report newasis county preliminary tax values 2025. Mr. Carol, um this is a something we do every year, but I I will preface by saying the prel preliminary values. I'm not going to say they're worthless, but they're preliminary. They're not complete. They're uh um and they look a little wonky and it's sometimes difficult to explain, but um the appraisal district is undergoing some changes and um I think they just maybe copied over last
064year's number and gave it to us because I do know there I do know they're missing some of the values. uh they employ a a third party TY Picket and that's the company that uh appraises the big uh Clint Hills the bigger uh oil and gas people there. They don't they don't have any those those numbers are not complete and they're not all in there. So right now the preliminary number is is 4.1 billion. Um I think it's we'll have to wait till July to to see what happens. But um you know last year they they reached their agreement with Flint Hills before uh before October. So that number represents pretty much the big tax break that they gave Flint Hills last year. And so I'm willing to guess that they always and they always
065lowball the preliminary values. the the certified values are are always have always been a little bit higher than what the preliminary values are. So, uh it's it's pretty much on par. We're we've been about 4 billion that as our total um value. And then one thing you'll see different too is the the 313 agreement that we have with uh CC Polymers. We still have a couple more years left of the agreement, but the tax break has ended. There's no they don't get any break on the M side like they did for the first 13 years. So they're paying full value on the INS side and the M side now. Uh so we don't have before we always had two different numbers because they got a break on the M side. Don't we don't have that
066anymore but obviously uh you'll see when we talk about the calendar you'll see uh the start values come out July. All right, that was report only. No action. Correct. All right. Next item is again report uh budget calendar. Mr. Carol. Yes. And this is just a kind of walking us through the the budget process. We've already u had a couple of meetings where we've we've started renewing contracts for administrators and teachers. And so uh today we're just talking about preliminary values. And so I hope to the regular board meeting on June the 9th, we'll have our first uh workshop and we'll start talking about revenue estimates. And hopefully by that, you know, every day we're getting data from the legislature about as things get signed or as things get uh more finalized that we can
067have obviously we can have a better picture. But I'll try to bring at least as much as I can about estimated and how how we're looking uh on the new um the new funding that I'm very very sure we're going to get. We just we just don't know how much yet. And then uh anything in green um you know is tentative. And so like always hopefully the plan is the regular board meeting is on August the 18th but we we also have another week later uh on August 25th would be our last chance to uh get it get the budget approved. Um we don't have to do the tax then we always like to do it do it at the same time. And so that's our that's our schedule. And like I said there it
068could it is subject to change. it's not written in stone and as things develop or as we get information or and also if if we have to have another special meeting for something to do with the bond if I can if I'm ready to you know update y'all on something we we can go have another special meeting in there if if we see fit and we close on the latest bond sale on May 29th. So that'll be um $85 million wired to the district and that will impact the INS. Yes. Okay. Any questions about the budget calendar? No. I'm so glad we have the calendar. All righty. Report only. Yes. No board action. The next one is discuss and consider approval of consent agendaformational items. First one is the check payment register April 2025 financials.
069Philip, I have a question on the statement of revenues expenditures for general fund. Yes. Uh the line item 91 contracted instructional services. Is that an anomaly or are we going to get is it it's a it is an anomaly. Uh I think Mr. Mitri had had said um we did a tax value audit for the tax year 22 which was our fiscal year 2223 and basically to say that we were our values we we were poorer for tax value than what the state initially funded us for 1.4. So the weird thing is the 1.4 before that we got back, we did get it, we did get a little bit of additional state revenue, and you can't really see that. That's going to be up here at the top. But what the biggest refund of the
070money was basically a refund of the recapture that we paid in the previous year. So that's why it looks like we we've got this $1.3 million recapture refund. So it's throwing that line off way off. I know it looks weird. I couldn't figure it out. But at the end of the year, I we are going to have a recapture payment 50% that that'll wipe that some of that out. But it is possible at the end of this year we're going to have a negative recapture expense, which is kind of good because we got more of a refund than what we're we're actually going to have to pay this year. Doesn't it balance out up at the top when it shows we're at 86% revenue for the year? Uh part partly. I think I think the
071part that was initial state revenue was I want to say it was it was only like maybe about a couple hundred thousand because if you look at that compared year to date we're 16% over uh revenues collected year to date from last year and were uh taking out incumbrances were um 4% um spending less. So th those two are both as you know positive numbers for the district. Yes. Right. And I guess also is that going is that something that we could do a budget amendment now do we know if that's going to affect uh ultimately? I mean if that was unexpected and we were anticipating a $2.6 million shortfall, right? I mean can we assume that that's we can make that adjustment now? We could start making Yes. Yes. There's We would love to
072see that adjustment. Uh, you know, who knows what's going to happen in in a couple of months, but Philip's the most conservative budgeter in the world, and he'll even tell you that um the odds that we're going to have a a deficit are low. Yes, we that was with a lot of hard work though with the whole entire team of everybody lot of a lot of position cuts uh you know and unfortunately I can't it's it's it's it's not good news it it saves us money but it's not good news is that we we've been unable to fill some of our vacancies so yes we have subs but um it's well and some of the vacancies we don't want to fill particularly the pair professional because it hurts them in the short term to be
073an full-time employee of the district because you know they don't get paid as much because we pay them for the summer when they're not working. So, right around January, it's in the employees best interest, not a teacher, but a parah that we don't hire paras. Um, and and yeah, I I'm extremely optimistic about two things. Um, actually three. student performance um and the $3.5 million deficit we had last year and the $2.5 million projected virtually gone and with a little cooperation from the Senate and the House being able to give raises across the board. Um God, we have to do that. I'm sorry. I'm I'm strongly encouraged by the the insurance aotment as well. The property insurance aotment. Can you explain to me? I didn't really understand what you meant about the about the pairs,
074the pair of professionals. Like why don't you wanna um if we aren't uh the way we pay, we we we take um like all most teachers and parents, they work 187 days. And the way district school districts pay, it's a little different than the real world is if you start at the beginning of the year, you start getting one, we take your like if you're a PAR, you work 187 days, whatever your hourly rate is, times 8 hours a day. We take that salary and we divide it by 12 and you get 12 equal payments. But if you start later in the year, you're not going to work 187 days. You're only going to work if and especially if you start after January, you might only work 90 days. Mhm. So when you we start
075getting uh well, let me go back to that's one thing. Teachers we're we're we owe teachers money because we're we're we're holding back a little bit of money so they'll get a check in June and July. So at the end of every month we we technically owe teachers because we're holding back a little bit of money to stretch it out over the whole year. When you do that, if you wait till January to hire a parah fee es or February and March, when you take the number of pays that are left in the year, we have to divide it by so if we hire someone in February, if they get a February 15 check, now we're down to there's only six payments. Well, when we when we stretch that payment over six, their monthly pay
076is just it's it's almost nothing. Because a lot of times we will hire parents and when we tell them what their monthly pay is going to be, they'll go, I I can't afford that. That's that's too low. It's it's because we have to spread it out over the summer so they can get a check all the way through through July. And then they start getting the new they get to start getting their full new check through one 12th of their estimated salary uh in in August. So that's why and we don't really have that we don't have a lot of teachers that start in the middle of the year. We had some this year. Uh but they're obviously teachers pay is a lot more than what the paras make. The par what the paras make
077and when you spread that out uh it's really really their monthly pay is is really really low. So it's almost it's just not financially uh for some people. Now we tell them you know what it is but it's just it's just better. It's just not very financially uh I don't know what the right word is. See? Well, the reason that I'm asking is because pairs are essential to the special ed kids. You know, they need that extra help. So, why are we paying We give them that option if they want to be hired. Yes. But here's the thing. We we we have some vacancy, but but we're we have openings and we're and we are accepting applications, but you know, we're we're not getting the applications or we're not getting the So, why do we
078pay them so low? we could that's something that we'll probably bring to you to increase to increase their pay because absolutely because the thing you know and I'm speaking as a mother of a of a child with special needs um they need consistency and they need somebody that's going to be um patient good good people with them and when you don't pay them well and then they leave you have to understand that our kids can't handle different people all the time. They have to have consistency. And just like a teacher's there all the time and the kids get used to them, our kids can't change very easily from one teacher to another. So, I mean, I will say that I wish that somebody would bring it up to help raise the pay for Paris to
079make them want to stay because that's what our kids need. I'm sure not only for payers but custodians, the grounds crew, uh Miss Riggs does a study uh to um look at market conditions across the region. Um and we we try our best to be competitive, but you know, we haven't gotten any increase in funding since 2019 from the state and it's it's been very difficult. not only for TM but other public schools as well. Hopefully, we'll get some relief in the next few weeks. I can tell you that our paraprofessional rates are uh on the most part uh higher than CCISD. We do have some of the highest uh paraprofessional rates in the region. But having said that, I agree with you. It's not enough. Yeah. because you know our kids and when I
080say our kids I'm speaking because I am a mom of a child with special needs and you know they just can't handle I know okay I speak for my my own child my child cannot handle somebody different and somebody new every time because she just can't deal with that so I would like to see you know more of a permanent situation than just you know a rotating more these pair of special ed paras their funding does come from federal funds or they come local. Uh no right now all all the special ed paras uh are funded locally. We have some special ed teacher positions and some other uh special ed positions like diags that are paid out of federal but right now we don't have any parents paid out of federal. Can they be paid
081out of federal? They they could be, but we're uh we use we use the federal funds to pay for the teachers, some diags, um the new the new uh well that's out of title. uh the new um art facilitators, those are paid out of federal um and then uh teachers, diagnoses could be coming from federal funds with what Trump is proposing, right? Possibly. Yes. I can't even begin to imagine what's going to happen with that. But uh we also pay for the federal funds, special ed funds also pay for all the stipens that we pay for the teachers that have special ed certifications and the stipens we pay for all the teachers that work in the in the different units. Um that comes out of the federal that comes out of the federal funds. Okay.
082Thank you. All right. The next one is the budget amendment. Following one is tax collection report and then regular and special called board meeting minutes. Mr. President, members of the board, it is it's the administration's recommendation that the board approve the consent agenda items as presented. Have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda items. I'll second that. Second. All those in favor carry 6. All right. The board next we have is a closed 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, and 084. All right, so we're good to go. We're reconvening from closed meet close session 820. Uh, all we have left is future meetings. Uh,
083June. No, no, we have to approve. Oh, I'm sorry. You're right. Mr. President, members of the board, it is recommended that the board of trustees issue educator probationary contracts for the 2025 2022 school year as presented. All right, have a motion. Second rise. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. All right. Now, no, just got one more. Two more. Two more. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve the an educator dual probationary contract for the 2526 year as presented. Motion adopted full contract. I'll second that. Neo second. All those in favor. And one more. Mr. President, members of the board, it is the administration's recommendation that the board approve an educator term contract for the 2526 school year as presented. All right. Have a motion. I'll make
084a second. All those in favor and carry 60. All right. Now we have the future meetings the scheduled for June 16th 2025 regular board meeting and we have left the adjournment. Not not a not a board meeting but we will convene Thursday. Uh what time do you want them there? Thursday. Um, graduation starts at uh 7 6 6 6:00. So, I would need you there no later than 5 5:15. And do you have anything for them? Yes. Uh, if you were going to give a diploma to a different student. Um, I need that name before graduation. That way we don't double dip. Um, some names already been taken. So, if uh you have a special someone, I know Jessica said that you're going to give Maddox's you already you you called y'all made a deal.
085So, if you're going to have that, if you could just email me that put in writing, that way I can mark off who's going where with whom. Okay. And my apologies, the next scheduled board meeting is on June 9th, not June 16th. first the workshop said the second Monday and then okay that's what it said in the workshop part but okay yes it's but on here the next sli there's a reason for the end of the week and I'm I'm going to Alaska yes you'll be okay so June 9th June 9th is the meeting that Monday and then we go out of town on the on Wednesday the Wednesday of that week the Wednesday of that week okay so Monday I'll have all your packets ready for the trip. All team. All right. Anything else?
086All right. Then the adjournment. Do we have a motion to adjourn the meeting? I move that we adjourn this meeting. Second. 4:45 for the shall be heard. All those in favor? Motion carries. 60. Thank you. Thank you.