001pledge of allegiance. Alison will pull them up when we get going. If you'll bring the kids up in just a second, he'll he'll he'll make an announcement about quorum and then bring them up. Okay, >> Chris, you're going to get up and do the pledge with him and take photos. >> Yeah. >> I just like you like you got to be behind it. I know he's buzzing. They don't have any phone. >> It's It's me. >> We might as well get started. >> Yeah. Yeah. There's Go ahead. Okay. Let's call this meeting order. If everybody we have quorum >> we have a quorum and uh Alison you want to come here >> you'll stand for the pledge who else who else is coming who else is Let's go. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag
002of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> You want to introduce our friends to everybody? >> Okay. So, our prek Oh, I'll wait for >> Okay, this is our prek Austin. This is Gail. And then in kindergarten, we had hud and then fourth grade. Did you do you have a teacher staff member? Okay. >> You want to take photos? You ready? >> You got it. Sounds good. >> John. >> Mama. Where's your Where's your teacher? The six weeks. >> Ask her. Ask Ask ask. Or is this is this the teacher here? >> Ask Chris ask. All right. Allison, did you did you you just said you didn't have a staff member here? Yes, sir. >> All right.
003Crit didn't have a staff member. Okay, would you come up with Winster Winter? Would y'all bring up the band? I like Oh, Max shows up finally. I see. >> These cookies are strong. >> The little pecans. >> I'm trying not to eat. >> There's the best cookie on earth is a chocolate chip. And then you have that sauce. >> Y'all march. Y'all march. Figure it out. Let's go. Let's go. >> Shout out on girls in the front. >> Hey, take over. >> Yeah, go get him. >> Is this picture time? >> Y those girls in the front. >> Mr. W, would you tell everybody what we're doing tonight? >> Okay, so um Vance had a tremendous amount of success this year. Uh back in um October, we uh earned the very first ever superior rating
004at the uh region marching level. Uh and that of course caused me to advance the the area and they did ex exceedingly well at the area. Uh for the concert and site reading, uh Valley View's done well in the past here and there with the concert and site reading. Well, this band continued a little bit of that tradition uh by getting a superior rating in concert and a superior rating and site reading. And between uh having a superior rating for the concert, the site reading, and the marching, the band has gotten the first ever history for Valley UISD sweep stakes award given by UI. All right, picture time. >> Smile. Get close. Oh my goodness. >> Who's got needs for that? >> Yes, they do. They've got that. >> One, two, three. Thank you. >>
005Good job, guys. >> Hey, thank you. to stay. I don't want to stay bother. You don't have to stay unless you just want to. >> You don't have to go home, but you can't. I'm just kidding. >> Happy birthday. >> Love you. >> See y'all tomorrow. >> See you tomorrow. You better come back. smarter people said yes. >> Good job. >> Disengage. Disengage. >> Thank y'all so much. Appreciate y'all. Great job. >> All right. There's no one for public forum. >> Okay. >> So, we'll start with Alison. >> All right. So, we we have no one for for public forum and we'll move into principal report. >> Oh, wait. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. >> Hold on. >> Three is consent agenda. >> Oh, consent agenda. I'm sorry. >> But good jump up. I saw that.
006>> Yeah, she was ready to go. >> All right. So, let's move to consent agenda. >> I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. >> All right. All right. So, we have a motion by Kathy to approve the consent agenda. Do we have a second? >> Second by Christie. Okay. Any any discussion? Any questions on the consent agenda? Okay. So, all in favor of approving the consent agenda, please say I. >> I. >> Those opposed. All right. Six. Seven. >> Okay. Now, we can move into principal report. Sorry, >> no worries. Jump up. >> No. No. I told him that was on me. That was on me. >> We're good. >> Thank you. >> You're welcome. There we go. >> Thank you. >> I have more than one. >> See how this >> You're
007welcome, >> John. You can learn something from this. You can learn. >> He uses the exact >> I know. I'm just teasing. >> I'm not going to turn my back to you. I do that. Um, okay. I put our enrollment up there. You know, we keep bouncing back and forth. We're up to there. And then attendance is sitting right about the same. And, um, passing rate is about the same. It it fluctuated a little bit by grade level, but um, >> some of these first graders, what? That's good. >> We have several that are probably getting ready to be evaluated, so I think it's just end of year. Things are getting harder. Um, >> when you say evaluate, does that mean that that they may not go forward? Is that what that means? >> Potentially
008or it could be special ed evaluations. >> Um, and then I put the events. This is a very abbreviated list of events. >> God, it's already >> my favorite. >> It's already May. >> I know. >> Three more Fridays. >> The kan bug program. So bug stands for bring up grades. Oh, I thought it was like real bad. >> No, no, an abbreviation. James, Jim James is what I call him is on that committee with me. We're on the board together for Kowanas. So, that field trip is for the fourth graders. At the very beginning of the year, Kowanas came in and talked to the fourth graders about setting goals for themselves and um basically holding holding themselves accountable and the teachers have been working with them in class on that too. So, we have
009how many did I say? in the 70s. >> That's how many fourth graders are earning this field trip at the end of the year for meeting goals throughout the year. So that's what that is. I figured people would think what is a boat. >> I I was really excited about it. >> Just teaching them how to set goals. >> Where do they go? Where's Where's the trip? >> Lone Oak Ranch. >> Fun fun fun. >> Yeah, that's where they went last year. Kids loved it. That's like the little walab bees and the little animals. >> I don't know. >> Oh, they even do a campfire. >> Oh, that's awesome. Fun fun. >> Oh, I love that. >> Good. >> Okay. >> Um, coins for candy is our life skills class does this fundraiser every year
010and it's basically a like a lemonade stand type thing, but kids around the campus can bring any coin. It doesn't matter if it's a penny, a quart, whatever. And it's just teaching them. They have to do they create a budget for it and then they have to purchase the supplies off of the money from last year and anyway it's just a way to learn how to sell things. So and that interaction with other kids >> those kinds of things. >> Teaching them to be salesman. >> You need air. He'll help. >> Rough. That's a >> He'll rough them up. >> Tough gig. >> Easy. Easy. >> Yeah. So they do that. It's for an hour each of those three days. But um anyway, Cinco de Mayo. That's fun. >> Tells you what that is. And
011it's down here. >> Are they going to do the dancing again? >> Yes. >> Oh, >> yes. >> Fun. >> And do y'all know what living museum is? Does everybody know what that is? Okay. That'll be in the aux gym this year rather than down here. We just had too many things going on at the end of the year. >> I think everybody probably knows what the rest of that is. >> It's such a busy time of year. >> It is. You still do the career fair? >> We're not doing it this year. No, >> we're taking a year off. >> That's um that that bug thing is a cool deal. >> Yeah, that's a cool deal. >> Enjoy it. >> And then field day is that that that's the >> it's like little evil
012relays. >> Yeah. >> Like it was back in the day, just different. >> One relay. >> It's very about this. >> Yes. No participation trophies. >> No, we don't do participation. >> All right. >> Great job. >> Thank you. >> I remember uh >> Go Bugs. >> Jesse, were you were you um in the grade where y'all shot the Rockets off the football field or was that a grade above you? You remember that? >> We did that when I was in school. >> You did? >> Why aren't we shooting rockets anymore? >> FA regulations. FAA. >> Clark did that back when we were I remember when we were little they did that. >> Yeah, >> we don't have enough eye protection. >> This is so cool. I remember that was a great day. >> So,
013sorry. >> It's all right. >> They didn't drink the water. >> Hi, Mr. Milmo. How are you? >> School numbers are looking good. Fifth grade, we're sitting sitting at 63 students. Sixth grade 59, seventh grade 78, eighth grade 57, lost two, gained one. So net loss of one one student from last time I stood in front of you guys in March. Attendance is still hovering at 95% with a few decimal points between each grade level. Uh grades have slipped a little bit with our uh older older students with grades at 91% passing all their classes. Sixth grade's at 84%, seventh grade's at 82, eighth grade's at 81. Uh, right now it's keeping them motivated. I think that senioritis mentality is kicking in, but we're trying to keep keep them motivated and keep them involved. Um,
014something else have to talk about is our SHA committee met in March on March 24th or 25th, sorry about that. and they were talking about a programs uh that we present that we use to present in front of students such as um one one of the organizations we use is Abigail Arms and they come into the classrooms and they talk to students about anti-bullying, cyber safety and just healthy choices. One of the organizations we use we have to get you guys approval on and that's a organization called Wise Choices that the school district has used for several years and they come in and they present on sexual education. They have an abstinencebased program that they present to our eighth graders. Um, so as far as you guys go, that's the one you guys have to
015approve um and vote on. And and again, the selling point there is they've been using it. The school district's been using it for several years. I think this is third or fourth year. Um, haven't had any issues that I'm aware of with it. >> And they come in a lot of >> health, focusing on the health and TI that are related to to sexual activity. Anything else? >> Y'all done a star? >> Not yet. We took history today. We take fifth and sixth grade math on Thursday and seventh and eighth grade math on Tuesday. >> Okay. >> We wrapped up with that. >> How's it been going? >> It's It's going well. It's going well. >> Move it away. Move it away. >> We're doing all of our review activities and classes and um waiting
016for those numbers to come out of the >> I know. We're excited. >> We're excited. We're hoping. >> Are you planning anything for the end of the year? >> We have an end of year assembly. Um I'm going to So I did one at the end of the first semester. >> We'll do AB a honor roll perfect attendance. We also got some PSAT certificates that we're going to give out to students. Um so we're going to be planning that for new certificates. >> Kickball tournaments. >> Fifth grade doesn't do a kickball tournament. Um >> middle school, >> but then the fifth grade does. They do one the second or second to last or the last day of school. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Nice. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> D. >> Okay. Um I have
017a sheet for you guys. This is um every year for graduation, I always give this sheet to y'all. And if you have seniors that you would like to present the diploma to, if you'll just go through the list and write it out. And if you're if you plan on being there or don't, will you let Mr. Mr. Wack knowing that way when I when I start splitting this up I kind of know if it's five, six, seven or how many are moving that way and make sure they get as equal as possible. So I'll try to do that. Sorry. And then speaking of seniors, you know, it's um he kind of touched on senior itis. So the goal is to kind of keep everybody motivated for the next four weeks, keep them in, you know,
018seniors a lot of times can derail this time of year. So we're meeting with seniors tomorrow. Um they were told dates in January. I'm not sure if they told any parents about the dates. So, they've also put out a parent square, but everything like the senior trip, um you know, the senior awards assembly, class awards. So, we're going to do all those things that last couple weeks of school and then try to cram all that in for those seniors and then make sure everyone knows what this year for senior trip. They're going to Topgolf at the mall and then we're going to go to a Rangers game. >> Oh, nice. be good. And we got really good prices on the tickets for the Ranger. So, thank you very much. >> We're excited about it for
019for the seniors. >> Do they need like money for food and stuff? >> Yeah. So, they'll need to bring Yeah. We don't I don't have the ability to fund raise for that. So, they we always tell them like at the beginning of school year, I always say a couple things. One is you're going to be talking to me and it's going to be May. Your senior year is going to go this quick. And I we're meeting tomorrow and that's one of the things I'm going to bring up how fast your senior year goes quick. And I always tell the very beginning, set money aside for like uh your cap and gown for your senior trip. So we always tell these kids way in advance so they if they want to put $20 a month or
020whatever they want to do so they can kind of put it towards their little kid. So we've given them the option we're going to go to Topgolf. It's really affordable. We're going to go to the mall. They can eat lunch there, kind of hang out before the game. And then we've told them if you don't want to go to the Rangers game, your parents can come. We got a centrally located place there at the mall. They're they get picked up. So it's kind of whatever they want. They don't want to they don't want to go to the Rangers game. >> What day what day is that again? >> I think that's May 11th. >> Will you um email us like dates of all of the banquetss and all of the um like awards and all
021of that? >> Yes. >> It should it been out on parent square for a long time. >> I don't know that I get >> on the school website. It's on the school calendar. >> Oh, that's a lot. I need it all in one space. >> The I'll send all that to >> vbvd.net. A banquet's the sixth. >> That's a And banquetss the second go. It all starts the second. It all starts the second >> athletic banquetss on Mother's Day on Sunday night. >> Yeah. >> I knew that one, but I I don't I don't know if that just has a senior parents >> which because I don't see anything from you on parents square. >> I thought Bridget threw it on there, but I'll have her like put like a Facebook post list all senior
022activities that way. >> And she'll like banquetss and all that just because I can do that. >> Sure. Easy. >> FFA. And so staff-wise, we we still have three that we need to hire. And once we get those hired, >> we're going to be completely full at the high school. Uh staffing wise, I think we still have one coach. >> Could go either way, high school or middle school. So we it's kind of right now it's in flux till we get some apps, get some people interviewed. We're we're trying to get as many people in and out as quickly as poss. >> Audio visual. And then the third is is biology for what I like. And then we could work an angle here with some coaching when it comes to to because we thought we
023had a wrestling coach and I think we didn't get them after all. >> They they emailed today. >> Yeah. >> They contacted Alison today. >> We couldn't wrestle them into it. >> So they're out and then um for >> Jeff. It's just been >> fast and furious. A lot of good stuff going high school. Did you guys see? So teacher appreciation come up here pretty quick. Usually first weekend. recognize those guys. >> Awesome. Yeah. Thank you. Any questions? >> Billy, you want to talk to him about your report? >> Yeah, absolutely. >> You have five minutes. >> I know. I I tend to ramble. I'm sorry. >> So, for safety, >> you for safety, we we um undergo two different types of assessments. And our first type of assessment is called the um the intruder
024vulnerability assessment I IA which we undergo once uh everybody gets one a year. So there'll be one at the elementary, one at the middle school, one at the high school. I don't know when it is. They usually give us like a month window and then the guy shows up. It's also called the door audit. We've been doing it for several years. We've never had any findings on that, thank goodness. And that's just where the guy comes and checks in, checks himself in. He goes around and pulls on some doors, make sure all of our processes are correct. Um, then this year, um, the state started a new program called the DBA, the district vulnerability assessment. The district vulnerability assessment is more, if you were looking at the IVA and the DBA. The differences in those
025is one is just a like a like a mustard seed and this one's like more like a jar of from Sam's Club of mustard. it it goes it goes a lot more in depth. I'm sorry with it, but so this goes a lot more in depth. It's an IRS style audit essentially. So what they what the what TEA did for us was they sent us out these rubrics. There's a a district rub rubric and a campus rubric. So what I did and the 56 areas and I have them I have them all here. If anybody's interested in seeing I can send you guys an email. And the 56 areas for the district rubric, they range from anything um where I had to come up with a lot of documents and things that I have to
026upload to a secure website that show that we're doing all of the things that we say that we're doing. Like um a lot of my emergency plans that I've built over the years. Um I have to send in a lot of the schoolboard policies I had to look up for like uh polling places. Um just look I'm just looking through here on a couple of these. Um so some of them were like education for the for students and for parents for like sexing and things like that. And a lot of the things I started digging into um I kind of found out we were non-compliant in a few of the areas. So I got us up to compliance before the assessment. And if you've not looked um we have redone the website on with the
027in the safety if you'll go down through the website and if you'll look at the safety portal now or the safety area the safety page we completely redid it. I I we made a whole new design and all of our compliance pieces are on there. I think you guys will be happy with the way it looks if you'll sometime go look at that and I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out. I kind of told Bridget, I sent Bridget all my um information and I kind of told her my vision of what I wanted it to look like and she did a great job of of making it look the way I wanted it to. So, you guys might take a look at that sometime on the website. We completely redid that. Um the
028second part of the DVA audit was there's a campus rubric they sent me and this had 27 areas. So, I'm up around I'm close to 80 areas with that I had to get us compliant in to make sure we're compliant. So, I did like a I did my own fake assessment. I I tried to get this all done before spring break and it took me several months to get all of everything in place and ready. And then I just I came back after spring break. I went through and I started looking at digging into it really closely, what I had put out there, what I had uploaded. And I found a couple of areas I didn't like. So, I redid those. On April 8th, the TEA agent came to our school and we met in
029my office for just a little bit, Mr. Wack, myself and and the the TA agent, and we had our our lead SRO, Dylan Harris, come over, and he actually went around with us, and he's he stayed in there, asked us a lot of questions and made sure that we were up on everything. And then we went around and we toured the campus. They were looking for things like door numberings inside and outside, making sure of all of our doors function properly, all the locks. Uh the front offices have to have safety maps that are up to date. Um there were several things that I had prepared for and happy to report we got zero findings >> somehow someway. I I didn't know this was the first time we've ever done something like this and I
030didn't know how thorough he would be. Hopefully. I think he was pretty thorough. >> He'll be here. He'll be here tomorrow for me to sign off on it. >> There. There you go. He's coming back for another meeting with us for the signing off period. And >> I'll get Wednesday. Sorry. >> I was pretty happy with the way it went. We do have to So, one of the compliance pieces that I had to update is if you guys remember, some of you have been on the board for a while. Every three years we have to hire an outside entity. And in the past, we've used region 10 to come in and do another safety audit. And so they come he'll come in this summer um in in June July sorry and do our non-instructional facilities
031like the a barn, the gymnasium, the cafeteria and then he'll come back at the first of school when it starts to perform some other audits and they're pretty pretty in-depth audits and write up a report for I will present to you and you'll sign off on that in the um probably the August board meeting is what we're shooting for and we have to do that once every three years. I did find out that region 11, which is who we contract with. Anyway, we have been using region 10, but region 11 has since started offering auditors to come out. So, we just signed the contract today. Mr. WAC did uh to partner with region 11 this year, which is our actually our our partner that we should be using anyway. They just didn't offer the service.
032So, we'll be having that coming too. So, lot of safety stuff. a lot of safety stuff happening. So, that's what I have for you. If any of you are interested in any of this rubric stuff, what we had to go through, it it's good material to put you to sleep at night. I've got this printed out. And if any of you guys would like to have all the rubrics, every little point that they went through and looked at, I can absolutely um supply you with that in your email. >> If you'll email Eric, that'd be great. >> Yeah, >> I'll read it. >> He is our data guy. >> It would help you sleep at night. all the stuff I had to go through and make sure that we had uploaded. >> Hey, great job.
033Very good. >> Awesome. >> That's all I had. Any questions, by the way, about any of the DVA or IVA or the three-year audit? >> Crit Crit made left a bad impression. You shouldn't ask any questions. Don't do that. Just kidding. >> Good job, Bill. Good job. >> That's a really good. >> All right. Uh Jesse, you don't have anything tonight? Uh just really quick, uh the teacher incentive aotment application was sent in last week. We should find out in about a month or two if that's been approved. If it's approved, we go into the data collection year and then we're going to we've got to make sure all our teacher observations and our growth data match up like positive correlations, positive correlations. So there's no skew. So then then we can be fully approved
034to start generating a lotments for teachers for high performing teachers. It's survey season. Surveys have begun going out. They're going out to parents, students. We're using Google Docs this year for the Qualric. And so next month we will do the instructional materials a lotment teach certification form that'll be approved at the next board meeting. So then we can start ordering instructional materials which will include our new grant adoption. >> So teachers a lotment wouldn't start until not next year. the following. >> Yes. The first everything is approved by basically summer August of 28. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Not asking questions. >> Yeah. He didn't give you all any handouts. So y'all didn't have any questions. Sorry. Everybody over there has been addressed. Okay. Uh superintendent report. We are at 8.85 today. Total enrollment.
035Enrollment uh percentage for the districts over 95%. Those those are those are good numbers for us. Uh we stayed pretty steady uh on at that enrollment number. Um they kind of broke it down by campus for you. If you'll take one of these and pass it down. This is I told you I'd bring you a budget, a quarterly budget where we are here at the end. Just take pass it down. Maybe one more. >> There you go. >> Thank you. I'm gonna run down these columns real fast. Have Have Christie focus. Okay. >> Sorry, >> I'm teasing. All right. So, the top two lines are revenues. One is local revenues. That's tax revenue. Second line, the 5800 line is what the state said they're supposed to pay us, which I believe that when I see
036it. So, uh that first column, the projected those two projected numbers, the 3.9 million and 81 8.1 1.8.1 $ 8.1 million numbers. That's what I presented to y'all last June to set our budget coming out of the 90th legislative session with no no clue. That was that was the best number we could come up with. Right? So, if you look at our actual we uh we always put our collection our local collection number low. We have overcolcted in local taxes by over a million dollars this year. There were a lot of back taxes paid businesses and things like that. But if you look at the 5,800 from the state, you see how it regress from 8.1 million to 7.8 million deviation of $300,000. That's what they do. They see what you collect and they start
037cutting into that. So they're going to >> That's weird. Since it was back taxes, like stuff we were already owed, right? >> That's right. That's right. That's just how they work. So I just want to give you a heads up. So >> uh yeah. So the what y'all approve what y'all will approve again in June for our July one budget are these function lines. These are all I labeled the function line so you know which what each function uh where the money goes in each function line. If you look to the right I broke it down by percentage of actual usage as of today. Well actually Friday. Now, if we were to break that down by weeks per year, we're last week was the 40 401st week of 52 weeks, 79% of the budget. If
038that's a is a residual budget, if you look at the bottom where it says 100% and 100%, those we just pay those out and it just it clears that line. Does that make sense? So, but payroll mainly comes out of those upper functions. So, you can see where we're running over budget. We all know that we're running over budget in line. Um 51 says plant services. We're over $151,000. Most of that is what >> the track and a $25,000 deductible. It's certainly to the penny. Those two overages to that budget. >> Uh and then we're over in >> but but like like salaries are in instruction. >> Well, there's there's salaries in every one of these lines. So teachers salaries come out of function 11 teachers library services our aids will come out of 12.
039So let's talk about that. You see that we're over in counseling because we have a half counselor half teacher and we didn't take her whole salary out of instruction. We uh Misty pulled it out of counseling. I didn't know that when I set the budget. It was a miscommunication in the office. That's why it's going to show her over because that's part of her salary that's over right now. >> It'll it'll it will run over until the end. Just that was just a calculation error on our part in the office. I just chose not to fix it. So, right now, every budget line is healthy except for plant services, uh, debt services. We were over $92,000 there. It's all paid out, but we were over 92 because we had another M final payment come up
040due that was not in my register that I had. It came from an outside entity. It wasn't documented in my folder from Mr. Stokes, but that's paid off. So, we'll have that number right next year. But other than that, we are working back to back to zero and we have uh we our plan is to be putting money back. We won't be a lot but we will not be not to be negative at the end of the school year. That's a zero balance budget anyway. So even though we've absorbed a lot of things, all the Chromebooks that we ordered, like we had to get our district back up, we we made those commitments, >> we're still tracking to a zero. We're still tracking to zero. So I just wanted to give you all a heads
041up. as you need. So we have nine more weeks of this budget. >> Yeah, we have nine more weeks left in this budget. But understand when staff goes, we do a cools and pay them through the summer. Some of us are 12 months. >> Admin are 12 months. >> Coaches. Uh so we'll pay what we call cools out >> and then I'll really have a we'll have a real number as close as I can get before the audit takes place. And then because the state doesn't do final settle up until October. So, I can only give you the best estimate I can give you until they do what they do with their numbers. All right. I just want to give y'all a really thorough breakdown as to each budget line where we are right now.
042It's been a minute since we've done this and I thought it'd be good time tonight. Any question? This is a good time to have any questions. I'd be happy to talk to you about and our procedures and the systems that we're putting in place. every single PO a PO is like when a teach teachers ask for uh band uniforms and they make they make requests for uh money out of their budget and then PAS PA is like our bills like what we like the water bill electric bill every one of those crosses my desk I know where every penny goes in the district along with Lori and and and >> services is co-op right >> yeah that we we pay nearly a million dollars to the co-op every year for services to kids that's proportionate
043Okay. But that number, that 196 number in 81, that's kind of like your premium, your insurance premium to TASBY. That's how much it costs us a year just to ensure the district. 109. And next year it'll be about the same. >> Function 81. Thank you. >> Is that good? >> Yeah. Okay. We move on to act. Oh, sorry. >> We have over $3 million in. I didn't put that on, but we're over 3.1 million in fund balance. We're we're our fund balance is healthy. We can't take any more out, but we are healthy. We are fiscally healthy. Um we'll go move on to I guess now on the agenda is our um action items. First action item, >> Shaq. Oh, Shaq. Yeah. The first action item is what Mr. Milmo alluded to in his presentation.
044The shack committee recommended uh the sex ed curriculum. This is a norm that we do every year and this has to be approved by the board. It's in your packet for your uh to be presented for y'all to look at. >> It was also in the packets that I sent out to >> y'all. Yes, sir. >> I move that school board approve recommended sex education curriculum as presented. Okay, we have a motion by Chris to approve the sex education uh curriculum as presented. >> There was a second. >> Do we have a second? Charlie. >> Charlie. >> Do we have a second by Charlie? Any questions or discussion on on the sex education? >> That's the same thing we've been using. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Anybody? >> Okay. All in favor of approving
045the the sex education curriculum, please say I. I >> anybody opposed? >> Okay. >> All right. >> Next is our AI policy. Brought this to you a couple months ago. I went through a AI training. I want to make sure we didn't have anything that was really missing the mark. We didn't. We're kind of leading that charge with region 11. Like I said, uh this is a basic thing that we can build knowledge into our staff about and start to put in give autonomy to teachers. But if we're probably one of the first districts in the area to do this, but everybody will be out behind us. Every district will be uh approving these said policies. >> You have to. >> So our goal is to build this into a tool for our kids and
046our staff, not a cheap per se. Let's let's be good stewards of this. And just like when we got the internet, just like when we got like it's just an evolution of education. >> There's there's ways though. I mean there's ways they can prop it prop it prompt it to to fill in their data and it formulate it for them. There's a lot of tools where they can do that. I mean is that something >> teachers are like >> students too I mean there's a lot of ways where you can I mean you basically you can prompt it it and you fill in the blanks for it and it will structure it for you synthesize it or whatever. >> Yes, that's what I use. um you know a lot that and it and then it
047basically says hey it gives you a reference that it's by whatever search or AI engine it is but um it's it's extremely I mean AI is very powerful and there's multiple universities that that are doing you know degree plans in AI now >> yeah well there's two two two schools in Texas >> that are completely AI >> completely AI Yeah. >> Where where uh the curriculum is taught by uh >> ones in Dallas and one's in Houston. >> Houston. >> Yeah. >> Actually, TA had a hand in the one in Houston. Ironically, with all the stuff that was happening down there, they took that that over >> sort of being full earthquake. >> Um >> no, I mean I mean it's it's something >> is it taught quite a bit in in uh for for
048IT classes, computer classes? I mean, is that something that the kids >> AI classes trans? I mean, do do we >> That's why we're bringing That's why we're bringing audio video in. We're bringing that the that that pathway in to educate our kids. >> Not yet. >> No, >> they're working on it right now. >> I know. I I mean I use it for work a lot because for for graphics because I mean it's a lot faster to make something for presentations. Okay. So, uh the logo for learning academy was created >> by AI because I wanted a a non-copyrighted image that we could use >> that was not trademarked. So, that seal that we have for our hybrid learning academy that's coming is AI generated. >> Thanks, James. Well, the only thing I thought
049it was great um you're fine. >> Um the stuff with the teachers, the only thing that I saw that I was a little confused was there's a rubric for the teachers AIU's rubric and it's like green, yellow, red, but this is green, yellow, red, >> and it it made it sound like that was like a marking against a student, green, yellow, red, but then you also have green, yellow, like you like the colors were confusing to do that. I'll double check. Well, most even the universities are using that as a staple just >> Yeah, I like that. But that was like the >> like you were you would mark the students paper. >> Oh, >> instead of giving points or something. >> So, our goal is that the teachers create autonomy. We're going to use
050this as a foundation to give teachers knowledge so they have autonomy how they use it in their classrooms. But we're going to caution kids. This is when you can use it. That's a hard no. That's red. Yellow is, hey, let us know how are you using it. has worked with it and then green is hey this is how we want you to explore and do it. So that's kind of that's the heart of it. >> I I like those colors. I think that that part was the only >> because it says green repeat. >> Do you know what I'm saying? Like I think that might be confusing to you. >> Let me look at Okay. On the >> on the procedure part on the example part. I got you. Yeah. I'll clean that up. >>
051It's really in the like the the mini curriculum. >> The mini curriculum showing right. It was it was and that was just something to give those >> You have some staunch critics, >> right? You have some staunch critics. We were just trying to give them uh something to build off of. Right. >> Yes. And I thought it I read through it was it was good. That was the only thing that I was like >> I'll double check that that the procedure before we hand it out. Staff staff hasn't seen it yet as a different in a different way there as it is here. So that would have I I'll I will get with Bridget and we'll streamline that before because you're just doing the policy, but that's that's extra part of it. That's >> extra
052like not everybody else. >> That's correct. Perfect. >> So are we taking a response on this or we wait? >> No. If anybody has any like to make a motion at this time for the school board approve the AI policy. >> Okay. We have a motion by Christie to approve the AI policy. Do we have a second? I'll second. >> Okay, we have a a second by Jamie. So, any any further questions or discussion? Okay. All in favor approving the AI policy. Please say I. I. >> Okay. Anybody opposed? Okay. Second. There we go. All right. That's it for action items. I do have discussion item I want to visit with everybody about. We have talked about our we call it sick leave policy policy DEEC. We've we've talked about that before about making it
053a sick bank instead of pool. We made a pool instead of a sick bank. Well, this same policy, what we're doing right now as a district, our policy says this, at the end of the year, we pay all of our staff members who don't use their local days $50 per day. So at the end of the year, we're paying out a check out of our checkbook to payroll to staff and I'd like to I'm bringing discussion because I'd like to change that. Our policy is not they do not acrewue personal time in this district. That's they pay it out and they start over every year. But we give six days every year. So most districts give five days and then you get your five state. Is there follow that? Five and five. We're giving six.
054If the staff member doesn't use any all those six, we pay them out at $50 a day. Last year we paid $20,000 in days. And that's an issue with budget. But the other thing that we saw happen is this. In the spring, we have high absenteeism in the spring because our staff are like, "This day is not worth $50 to me. My time is worth more than $50." And so we have teachers taking off left and right which caused us to have to pay subs the highest rate in the area to keep subs here to cover our classes in April and May. >> That That's right. That's right. Now now, now the math is mathing. Thank you. So my suggestion would be for us to take into consideration if you would allow me to send
055you all an updated policy for us to take action on next month would be we give five days local. Of course, it's state is five days, but we put in an acrruel option. So staff, they don't we don't pay those days out, but if they don't use them, they go to the next year. Now, by state law, they can't take local days with them. But it also protects your state days that do go with them, right? >> And it allows you to build a bank if you have a a family emergency or something like that, you have days that you can spend without losing pay. >> And it's health and it and it cuts down and it cuts down on absenteeism at the end. It's it's it's a healthier move for us fiscally but also
056for staff. And there's one other thing I'd like to take bring into conversation. There's no bereavement leave in our policy. >> And I'd like to suggest three days for immediate family, a parent or a child. >> People grieve in different ways and you shouldn't be >> spouse. I mean, hey, unless it's not unless it's an it's an accidental death of Yeah. and spouse. I mean, that's what I'm meant. Sorry. >> Parent for child only. >> Okay. mouth. Best of luck. >> This is being recorded, but let me say for the record, if I go missing, my wife did it. Don't let the smile fool you. I'm not I'm not looking to die anytime soon. So, my point is >> spouse me, you know, just but for for I mean for immediate family that we think
057about bringing on three days and I'll put those I'll have the board tasby policy cor show y'all what that looks like. But I just think those are things those are retention things. >> No, it's a good idea. >> State does. Good idea. >> Right. Our policy is a little wonky. This DEC policy is not the norm. >> And I'm just trying to bring this I'm trying to bring the policy in the norm. >> Thank So we're going from 6 days to 5 days, but we're putting a bank on the back for >> they can well they those days can acrue. So if you only use two days >> then next year those three days. So you'll have >> you'll have eight days. >> Okay. How long do we let them acrue for? Is it I
058mean >> they can acrewue as long as they want. >> Okay. And then you said the state doesn't allow that though. So how are we working around >> state? No the state doesn't if I was to change districts I can't take those local days with me. Only my state days. >> Okay. Okay. That that >> but as long as you stay here it's good. >> That's right. And they can acrue and and here's the issue. We don't pay any days out ever. We don't pay any days out ever. >> So does that cost us more in the end though when they're taking more because I mean $50 a day versus what we pay a sub. So right now uh we are losing money with the policy that we're doing the way it is. >> Uh
059it's a retention thing. I think it pay it will balance itself in other districts has balanced itself because people have left through natural attrition. Right. Okay. And then so you may have a couple of say for for a long time but we have policies in place that you can't take one three days without a doctor's note. You can't just take 30 days at the end of your contract. That's not how that works. Well, that's that's what I'm that's where I was trying as long as you uphold policy. We had last year we had a principal not uphold policy with a staff member. >> Yes. >> And that was a concern that I needed to address. >> As of right now, we are not paying the $50. >> No, we currently do. >> We do now.
060>> We do right now. for next year, >> sir. But if you were to have I'm just gonna say for maternity purposes, this would make it where if a a staff member decided she was going to have a child, you know, planned out every two years or three years, she can count those days and not be like, well, if I don't use these, then I'm >> you can you can for that time off a little bit easier versus where >> in the past they've had to take, you know, >> almost pay back so that they're covering That's exactly correct. Or take or take family medical leave act >> and you'll get paid. >> Okay. >> I just needed some clarification. >> Yeah. >> Or would you just keep it >> would you have a limit
061how many you can create? >> I think is that's what we were just talking about. Sorry. It's weird how we're set up here. What we were just discussing is it takes care of itself and balances itself >> because through natural attrition people come and go but if you have that one person it's 20 years it actually balanced everybody else. It just it balances itself. And with us starting it it won't even be a concern for 10 years. I thought she was more talking about like a situation where we had with a coach at one point where they took a bunch of days. >> That's what I just told them that we have policy that prevents that. If it's if it's enforced last year it wasn't. That was a concern that I shared with you as
062a board. >> That will not happen again. We will enforce that. You don't get to just take 30 days off at the end of your cont. That's not how that works there. You have responsibility to complete your contract to kids. >> Okay. >> Look what happened last year. >> That's correct. >> That will not happen. That will not happen again. That will not happen again. or he mailed it in at the end. >> So, >> okay. >> But I would I would like to bring an updated policy to y'all regarding those concerns that I have with DEC policy, local policy, DEC. >> Sounds good. >> Bring it. >> All right. At this time, we'll we can go into executive session, discuss contracts. >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Let's break. Jesse, time you got >>
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