June 16, 2025 Venus ISD School Board Meeting

001We're going to call to order the public hearing concerning the 2526 budget at 6 pm. We'll go to item number two, public hearing on the 2526 budget. Good evening. So, tonight um later in the uh meeting, we'll have this for approval, but you'll see 199 the general fund is a balanced budget with estimated revenue at 27.1 million and expenses at 27.1 million. child nutrition um again a balanced budget at 1.765 million for expenses and revenue and debt service at 4.557 million on both the revenue and the expenses. So all three funds are balanced. Did anybody have any questions? Yes. Does anybody in the audience have any questions regarding this? Okay. Thank you. We'll go to item number three and adjourn the public hearing at 6:01 p.m. And we're going to call to order the regular

002meeting of the board of trustees of Venus Independent School District on June 16th at 6:01 p.m. And we do have a quorum. If everyone would please stand for the invitation and pledge. And Greg, will you lead us in the invitation, please? We'd like to welcome all of our guests here tonight. And Rosie, did we have anybody? Okay. So, we'll go to item number eight, presentation of campus reports and recognitions. All right. Good evening. Uh we have a short report. Um there is an update for an enrollment. We have 608 about 71 today is an updated number of new kindergarten prek students that we have enrolled so far. Um 16 of those are kindergarten and about uh probably 55 now are prek. So um a significant amount of those numbers are bilingual students which is great.

003Um but we are we are uh the enrollment is a little slow right now. So hopefully we'll have an uptick here at the end of July. Um, and then a staffing update. So, right now, um, we have already filled two pre-K positions and an ECSE teacher position and also a special ed inclusion aid position. We are waiting for a first grade bilingual position just uh with certification and then two special ed aid positions. So, we are on track to being filled um hopefully by the end of the month. And then this summer, summer school for ESL bilingual students, we have about 25 kids that have come and it's been a great time. They um we have to offer 120 hours of ESL bilingual summer school to those students. And so um it's all voluntary and

004they come and and they have a great time, great teachers and go to library every day. So um we try to make it a wonderful time for them to learn and grow throughout the summer. But that's it for the primary. Thank you. Okay, for the elementary [Music] let's see, it was also short. Uh we were currently at 657. We had some students withdraw, but we have had about eight families call about enrollment wanting to know when school starts and how does a 4-day uh school week work and all of that. So, we've given them that information and they have started their applications. We still need to hire a fourth grade bilingual teacher, which Mrs. Roden is working on that and we need a um behavior teacherincclusion for sped and then we have to hire one

005more para for life skills and then our life skills teacher resigned but Kelly uh Peter say and I had already interviewed a teacher for sped she has two and a half years of experience in life skills setting and she accepted the position today because Mr. Martinez was on top of it so it's already filled so that worked out great. Uh our summer school, we invited about 185 students and the first week we had 176 students in attendance. Um we did have some students not come the second week due to all the storms. Parents were worried about the flooding and homesteads and kept calling. They didn't want to put their child on the bus. So we had about um 150ish last week and then today we had like 111 I believe. And then um the instructional

006staff has also started a summer book study. It's an oldie but a goodie, but to try to help with tier one instruction, the fundamental five. And we're still working uh with SAF to get our end of cycle uh grant recommendations back from them. And then Dr. Morgan will have that information after well at the end of July. The end of July from them. And that is it for the elementary All right. At the middle school, we have summer school um going on. We invited 105 kids. We've had right around 70 there almost every day. Um they're excited about building rockets and shooting their rockets at the end. So, thank you for those of you that brought me two liters so they can have their rockets. Um I put some star information on here. um specifically

007looking at meats and masters um and some's green and some is red. So we had some where we um showed increases and a few places that we did not. Um but that's all on here for you guys. We went to the CEN summer conference. Uh Miss Reed and I presented. I think that that went well. Um and then we are leaving this week for TASSP. Miss Nickel and Mr. Weary are both presenting at TASSP. I've got a whole herd of teachers at AVID right now. Um where Miss Nickel leaves the following week with kids and taking them to Orlando for taffy competition and we will leave with 26 students and go to Nashville for TSA. That is all I have. I'm visual, so I'm going to use some pictures up here. Okay. Uh, we ended

008the month celebrating our cafeteria ladies, and I did want to give them some kudos. They're more than food serviceers servers. Um, they really take those kids under their wing. Anything from advice to uh helping them with their homework. Also, we ended up by uh having teacher appreciation. We traveled to Mexico, Switzerland, the Bahamas, and Great Britain. And the um teacher lounge was full of good food. So, everybody kind of chipped in. We even had one teacher um do a conference with his wife in England and we had a conversation there. So, that got real interesting about how authentic our food was. Uh we inducted 22 new members into National Honors Society. We had a shift there in leadership and uh Mr. Thorman has stepped up and he um he kind of stumbled his way but

009we got through it and we helped him. Uh M. Gonzalez was very instrumental as well as getting those kids uh identified and uh inducted. We hosted our top 10% breakfast and they ate. They had a good time. They had time for pictures and uh what they did is they stood up and then they told each and every one of us what university they're going to attend and what field of study they want to pursue. We have a lot of kids going to North Texas and Texas and some of them in tech, but that's a Miss Revas thing. Okay. On the week of May the 19th through the 22nd, we had senior week and they went to Top Golf main event and carding and gaming and then they had a old uh fashion field day out

010on the football field. And what I want to say about that is two of the corporations there sought out the senior sponsors to tell them it's been a long time since they've had a group of students that were uh well behaved and mannerly. So that was that was good to to hear. We had our senior clap out which is always exciting to go back and see uh them relift their their steps and see teachers like Miss Bowlan at the elementary get hugs and uh make a connection there. So and then the next picture you have our Val and our S and you have Jenny and you have Jackie and um they're destined if you know them they're destined for pretty good things. Uh they can pretty well do what they put their their mind to

011do. We had graduation on the 24th. We graduated 185 seniors. Our star EOC retest start tomorrow and uh we'll finish up on the 19th. So, we've uh been doing some intervention and some instruction there. And as Miss Bug said, we have only uh one of ours, Miss Elliot, is going to TA SSP and then we're gearing up for our back to school bash and our fish camp. Thank you. We'll go to item number nine. Consider approval of construction delivery method for 10 12 high school. Presenter Brian Green and page. All right. Good evening everybody. Uh Mr. Gaywood, members of the board, my name is Brian Green. I'm a principal and an architect at Huckabe and Associates. Um you guys are going to be acting on a construction delivery method. Uh selecting a construction delivery method

012for the bond project as we move forward. And I want to give you guys a hopefully brief presentation about uh the different some of the different construction delivery methods available uh to public school districts in the state of Texas. So, uh the the types that we're going to talk about tonight are competitive sealed proposal, you'll hear me refer to that as CSP, uh construction manager at risk or CMR, and construction manager as an agent or CMA. and then obviously selecting the one that that's right for Venus ISD and for the new high school project. So competitive sealed proposals we'll talk about first. Uh there is school districts are not required to uh nor would I recommend selecting purely on a low bid process. Uh competitive seal proposal is the closest thing to a low low

013bidder process that uh districts around the state use. It is a combination of best price and best qualifications uh from a general contractor uh publicly bid and submitted by the district. Um for that process, the district would select an architect to design the project. That would be us. After the documents are fully complete, um the pro the project would be publicly advertised. The district would receive bids at a certain time and place. Uh and those bids would be submitted by general contractors having assembled all of the subcontractor bids into one number. Uh and so lump sum prices are accepted. The district and uh a selected committee for that process would evaluate those submitts both on who's got the lowest price and also what we generally call qualifications. what can mean the project team and personnel

014that a contractor would use, how much experience do they have, how long have they been with the company. Uh a proposed schedule uh schedule will be published with the advertisement, but contractors can offer an alternative schedule uh as a part of their bid and also similar project experience. Has this has this contractor uh done this done this type of work before? Have they handled this size of project before? Are they used to much smaller projects? Do they generally do much larger projects? All those things can impact the service and quality that a district gets. And so those can be part of the qualifications. One thing I want to add that's not up there, Venus ISD has the ability to tailor those qualifications and in their advertisement put out what the what the district is going

015to be evaluating and what they would like to see as a as a GC's qualification. So on top of the bid form that has all the pricing, you also will get a binder or a qualifications book on bid day and the district makes their selection based on a weighted average between between those qualifications and price. Next slide, please. Uh this is we're going to have one of these for each delivery method. Uh we will design the project. There will be a bidding stage with public advertisements and the ability for qualified contractors to bid. After bidding, a contractor is hired and a recommendation for a selection would be brought to the board to approve and then we would start construction. So the biggest difference about competitive seal proposal is we do not get any input from

016the contractor during the design process. So, Huckabe will provide our input on what we think a project is going to cost on constructibility and means and methods and uh best practices, but our the later options you're going to see, you'll have the ability to have a construction partner on board during that process as well. So, the big difference for CSP is that a contractor's hired after the project is publicly bid and we go directly into construction. Uh pros and cons for CSP projects. You have uh some selection flexibility. You get to select the GC. They bring their own team of subs usually based on who's offered them the best price because that one of the other pros of this is you've got you've got a very aggressive bidding environment. So a lot of subs are

017offering numbers to a lot of the same contractors and whoever can put together the best team with the best price that's qualified to do the job is probably going to win the project. You've got a single point of responsibility. The general contractor that's selected is responsible for managing contracting all of their subs. And you you have a defined project scope because those pro those documents are complete when they go out to bid and you're bidding off of final final drawings and and specifications. The cons, one of the biggest cons is there's no design phase uh working with a contractor. So, they are hired as I mentioned after bid. Best suited for uh new construction projects that aren't schedule sensitive that are easy to define and unlikely to change uh during design and construction. That's not

018been the construction market very often in recent years. Uh we'll say that it also uh CSP projects on larger projects, large new uh large new construction, you have challenges with uh being able to procure materials in a more timely manner. Uh being able to keep your subs on board when they have issues with deliveries or with lead times. Uh we've had some we've seen CSP delivery around the around the state and around the country have have real challenges with meeting defined schedules just because of the supply chain issues we've had for the last four or five years. Okay. Organizational structure. This is you could dive into a lot of the details of contractual relationships between the three, but essentially you've got a school district or an owner with a contract with architects and engineers. The

019school district would also have a contract with the general contractor and then the GC would would contract all of those subcontractors u under their own umbrella. Your next one is construction manager at risk. This one's a little bit different. It's going to be more similar to CM agent, but u these two are both substantially different from competitive seal proposal. So a construction manager is selected separately from uh any pricing that's received for the construction project. So you would have two public advertisements and you'd receive qualifications for a construction manager early on in the design phase. So, a CM at risk. The reason it's at risk is because they assume all the risk of a construction process by offering a guaranteed maximum price or a GMP. A guaranteed maximum price means that the project will cost

020no more than X and that's established when we bid the project publicly. That can those that GMP can be provided before 100% documents are signed and sealed. So you can accelerate that process if you need to phase or fasttrack a pro a project. And the other thing about a guaranteed maximum price is that any unspent dollars at the end of a project would be if they were able to secure a sub if they were able to secure a subcontractor more more efficiently more cost effectively than they could than they thought they could when they offered the GMP, those dollars would be returned to the owner. to return to the district. Whereas in a CSP project, it is hard bid on bid day. Any savings that contractor can achieve in the in the hiring out or

021selling of those contracts to subs they keep at the end of a project. So there's a financial incentive at the end through a GMP process to the school district. The construction manager is responsible for project cost and schedule. They have a responsibility unless there's a substantial change in the directions or in the drawings to deliver that project as designed on for that cost. That's what guaranteed maximum price means. They're also involved in the design phase. They can evaluate cost, schedule, constructability, um alternate designs and they work very closely with the owner and with the architects during that process. Selection at uh selection at both stages. Let's go to the next page because it'll be easier to talk about this with a visual. So those two red points when the owner would hire a construction manager

022at risk and when the construction manager receives bids and hire subcontractors. At both of those stages, you have the opportunity to evaluate qualifications as well as price. So when you're hiring a CM, you want to evaluate their qualifications and the hiring is also based on the fee that they offer. And then construction managers have the have a better ability in CM at risk project to say we don't we aren't just going to take the lowest subcontract bid. We know we know who we work with. We know who we can get to perform who's going to do the best job for this project and for Venus ISD. And so while it may be a little more costly, we think we think this is going to be the best subcontractor. CSP bids if they want to win

023the job, they typically don't have that option. And so again, construction managers on board during the design and bidding process offering feedback and then they hire subcontractors directly. Our next slide here, uh you have more selection flexibility with CM at risk. You can you select your your construction manager and you have the ability to select some subcontractors. The CM provides those pre-construction services. They're engaged throughout the process. You can have phased bids, early bid packages or fasttrack a job. In other words, because they'll be you would just have multiple stages where you would hire the required subcontractors. And then pricing and costs are open book in a CM risk process. You'll see you'll be able to see bid tabs, you'll be able to see subcontractor contracts. That that's all provided as part of a as

024part of a GMP. It will come to the board for approval. The cons when you're selecting that semar early in the pro early in the process obviously costs are not fixed so you're selecting a general contractor you're selecting a construction manager without costs in hand which is the benefit you get from from a CSP project best suited for large projects that have tight schedules have some undefined scope or are complex and phased least suited for small projects with a limited budget obviously that's a lot of pre pre-construction design and lift for for a very small project organizational structure again looks is very similar structurally to a competitive seal proposal. The difference of course is timing. Those that construction manager and the subcontractors are hired at two separate stages. Sure. Absolutely. Ask sorry. In size and

025scope. Okay. Um as a as a in the construction industry at large, I would say that this is a fairly large project. Obviously, there are construction managers and construction companies that handle billion-dollar or multi-billion dollar construction projects. Uh I would say this is for most contractors, this is a very large project. You know, the average construction project is significantly smaller. Whether it's residential or even like commercial, you're talking about seven figures instead of uh you know, middle eight figures or $60 million, which is our construction budget. Small project could right. No, I would say the new high school is going to be a fairly large project. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. When I say small, I mean minor renovations, uh, you know, something in the half a million dollar to a million dollar range or residential, you

026would not hire a construction manager. You'd hire Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty It's I would say it's a large project. Yes. Sure. Uh, I think we covered everything here. Similar structure as CSP, but just a different timing of when the two parties are hiring. So, uh, construction manager acting as an agent or CM agent, uh, is similar to construction manager at risk, but there are differences in how the project is structured and there are differences in where risk in a project is assigned. So, some quick facts, an owner who would select a seam agent, I think, would want to be knowledgeable about construction because the biggest difference is that the owner is going to contract directly with subcontractors. Venus ISD would hold all of those subcontract projects for the new high school. And in and in

027doing that, you inherently take on more risk. The construction manager still has uh responsibilities as a general contractor on the site. They direct the work of the subcontractors, but because they don't hold those contracts directly, they are not as directly responsible for project costs, but they are responsible for driving forward the schedule. They they provide the same design phase services as CM at risk. They're hired at the same time and they have similar selection criteria and they do still have authority over subcontractors, but less liability. Next page. So uh again two points of two points of selection and public bidding. Uh the owner hires a construction manager as an agent at the at the same point and then after bidding the owner would would hire and procure all of those subcontractor contracts. The pros of

028this there's a poss there's possible cost savings. I won't go so far as to say CM agent is more cost effective than Semar. It depends on the project and the district. There are possible cost savings because fees are some are sometimes lower and insurance is held by subcontractors directly with the owner. There's not multiple layers of of uh insurance and bonding on a project. The CM can bring some expertise to an owner essentially serving as your owner's representative as an agent which is what an agent is. Uh the cons for CM agent is there's greater risk from the owner and more time required. There's signing all those contracts, procuring all of those contracts are is timeconuming for staff and also excuse me is if a if a subcontractor defaults it would be the owner's responsibility

029and at your cost to go hire anyone. Whereas CM at risk that's the at risk portion of that process. They if a sub defaults they have to provide that work by someone at the guaranteed maximum price. So there is no GMP in a CM agent process. There's the added there's a little bit of added cost and typically fees are lower overall but there's also additional coordination required between all parties because you don't have the same level of the same level of control and authority with a CM agent as you do with a CM at risk. Next page and then this is the big difference in structure. You see those the construction manager has a looser relationship to the subcontractors a direct contract with the owner and then the owner has contracts with all of the

030all of the subs on the project which I believe brings us to any additional questions. Anything else I can answer for you? Yeah, I have a question on the CMR. So, who hires the construction manager? Good question. There's a they would be hired by the district, but how do we find these people, right? You put out what is called an RFQ or an RFP, okay? Uh like you would for any other vendor providing any other service and that's again at the beginning of the design phase. You would detail out in that RFQ uh the criteria that you want to see very similar to the qualifications portion of a of a hard bid or CSP, but you would do it earlier. So, they would submit qualifications very similar to what they might on any project. You

031get a binder of who we are, who's going to be assigned to your project, information about fee, and then you'd assemble a similar committee and you would make a selection of the construction manager. You would just do it earlier. Okay. And then on bid day when you're receiving GMPS, it's the construction manager running that show as opposed to that same committee in the district receiving bids. Okay. Mr. What would you recommend? I would recommend the at risk, ma'am. Uh reason being uh the liability goes with that uh individual. other one you're talking about is own the district to go out and find subcontractors and uh exactly they were here anytime we ask and a good one we'll pick somebody close you know you don't want somebody up in Abalene or San Antonio's got to drive

032five hours they're trying to come down somebody come down I will I will say to to add to what you're you're saying, this is going to be a very attractive project for a lot of people and there are many very highly qualified uh construction managers who operate in a construction manager at risk local in DFW and Fort Worth. I think you'd have a lot of interest and a lot of good choices. I don't even know where the company was from, The people running our show for that company were all lived in this area. Yeah. Well, and that's a concern for me because that middle school project was less than successful to this day. We have leaks and windows. We have ex interior doors that were put on the exterior. It is it was I don't

033want to say travesty because I don't want to insult anything. I'm not a construction guy, but it it has been problem after problem since day one. So, I don't think that has anything to do with necessarily this choice, but whatever choice that is, there needs to be somebody that can be held accountable for that that work. And I don't know if we as a district have the knowledge to hold each subcontractor and do walkthroughs and stuff. I know that's a contract the general manager, but I just want to make sure in this process somebody goes through and I mean at some point you think somebody would have gone through and said, "Hey, we put interior doors on the exterior. We didn't flash the doors. We didn't the floors are unlevel. The it's it's almost comical

034this time because of issues we had last year." And I don't that's why I don't know the process but from the top over not from you know we may use the same system but we're using a whole different group of people because we weren't satisfied last time. Well I said that was a wing. We're going to have a whole lot more doors in this building. So absolutely somebody can save a lot of money by putting interior doors on exterior and then walking away. Right. And and selecting a good CM who's those I mean part of what they do is they you know they trade and and do business on their reputation both with owners and with their subcontractors. So a good one will try to take care of both parties equally to make sure they

035can get good bids and also make sure they can get selected by clients. It may be an inappropriate time to ask this question, but you mentioned the savings like for the the Seymour on on the if there's any savings the the district or the the CSP get the the contractor gets it on the Seymour the right the uh the district gets it back. Is there when when in that contract do you put in incentives like if you finish early then it's this or if it goes past a certain guaranteed date. Uh what if we put in a guaranteed maximum price but it runs a month longer than it was supposed to. Is that is that all in this choice time or is that that's not that's not something we we would control or decide now

036that liquidated damages which is the contractual term for if you run late you pay a financial penalty are in the uh the agreement between the construction manager and the owner that's in discussion once we pick a once you once you've made a selection. Yes sir. Did anyone else have any questions? No. Does someone want to make a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the CM at risk for the delivery method for 10-12 High School. Okay. So, a motion by Amber, second by Greg. All in favor? Motion carries. Thank you guys. We'll go to item 10. Consider approval to delegate authority to the interim superintendent regarding planning and implementation of the 2025 bond program. Brian can help me if I need some help here. I'll phone a friend. Um this is authorizing um Mr. Gatewood

037as the interim superintendent to have authority to regard planning and implementation of the bond. Knowing that we're going to give the board updates, but he would have day-to-day authority. I'll make a motion to approve. Does anybody have any questions? Okay. Do we have a motion? I do. I'll make a motion to approve Mr. Gatewood as um implementing the 25 bond program. Okay. Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Kirby. All in favor? Next time go faster. The motion carries. We'll go to item number 11, executive session at 6:35 p.m. for 551.071, 551.072, 5551.074, 551.076, 551.082, and 551.0821. We're going to reconvene from executive session at 7:51 p.m. We'll go to item number 13, consent agenda. Did anybody have any questions about anything on the consent agenda? Okay. Motion by Greg. Do

038we have a second? I'll second. Second by Amber. All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 14. Consider approval of BSN Sports LLC contract. Is that working now? So, this is just a New Balance and BSN partnership that we're trying to do with athletics. It's a five-year agreement um where we're both working together. We get our normal discounts through BSN and New Balance. We're just agreeing to only use B BSN versus Game One, any of those others. Kind of consolidates it to one thing for us on the business side, but also allows us to be unified in what we're wearing. So, we would all be New Balance that'll take effect over those five years. will grow into that. They don't expect you to be like go buy a uniform for every team right away.

039Just when that year comes up for them to get uniforms, it'll be New Balance is the plan. U same discounts, same shipping, same all that stuff. The incentive for us is the first year we would get uh 20,000 from BSN and Comp Goods. That's at retail price. So, we don't get a discount on that, but we still get that. We get 30 from New Balance to get us going to use however we wanted. And then years two through five would be 15,000 from New Balance and 20 from BSN. So 35 the next four years just to use those two products. And then we also receive the varsity impact. Um they give you 10 grand to decorate whether you want to do doors, windows, whatever that is that first year. You just have to use that

040within six months. That's pretty much it. is I know it reads Venus High School. Is that not applicable to the junior high programs at all? It's the junior high as well. They'll use BSN the same way. They just put high school. It's just like them like their big thing. We're in Texas. They want the football team in uniforms as fast as possible. That's you know, it kind of works that way, but it would be all Venus athletics. And then it also would set up stores. That's another point uh for each sport where we could like we order those t-shirts on there. I think we'll also uh put like gloves for baseball season. Parents can go buy those at a discounted rate online. So, it gives us opportunities like that as well. You can even use

041it for esports, anything like that. Doesn't have to be exclusive to athletics. And have we worked out an equitable distribution of how $20,000 worth of free product is distributed to most? We have not worked it out, but that's what we're working on to see what's going to work. Talked to all coaches to make sure cuz New Balance does this deal, Under Armour does similar. Nike, we all agreed as coaches that New Balance was the best for all of us. Um, and then how we're going to distribute that in that first year. A big portion that we talked about is going to be shoes because a lot of they want all those kids in New Balance shoes. I don't want to make a kid who just bought a pair of Nike cleats go buy a pair

042of New Balance cleat. So, if we can provide those early on, that'll help us get going on that as well. Any other questions? I'll make a motion to approve the BSN Sports LLC contract as presented. Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Go to item number 15. Consider approval of instructional materials purchases. Dr. Morgan. So, This is the only instructional materials purchase that um they'll need to bring to you. And this is for kindergarten through fifth grade reading and language arts, English and Spanish. And so over the past year um through collaboration with campus leaders and teachers uh we came to the agreement that we wanted to streamline our instructional materials for reading and language arts from kindergarten through fifth grade so

043that we're all in the same system um using the same materials so we get that vertical alignment um and also bilingual the English Spanish alignment and cohesion. And so u what we have here two are two quotes. So kindergarten uh the one that um we're looking at right now is to renew purchases for kindergarten first and second grade. So this will actually be going into year three of using AI in the lower grade levels. And we've seen a lot of good improvement in kindergarten and fifth grade. And so we're really excited to continue that momentum moving up through fifth grade. Um so the max amount for this renewal to be 33,142 that you can see there. Um and then if you'll jump over to the other quote, this is for um this is really including

044the startup cost for third through third, fourth and fifth grade. So this would this is completely new. And so there are a lot of things that we have to uh purchase free one like the teacher bundles um complete student kits and so this and this also includes the cost of shipping which is a lot and professional development. So um also included in both is a new um adaptive um software program called boost which will replace the system that we had been using um was Lexia. So you remember we used to talk about Lexi. So the boost program is very similar and it aligns to the Amplify curriculum and alignment and foundational skills. So we will get some of those licenses for free and then we'll we'll pay for the additional licenses we need. Um and

045that is for English is for kindergartener through fifth grade and Spanish is kinder through second grade and are discussing what we will do for third fourth and fifth grade um Spanish until they like up that. Does that make sense? Yeah. So I have a question. So we have now we have what do we have now? Right now, uh, kindergarten, first second grade are using Amplify. Uh, and then third through fifth grade uses HMH into reading, which is where our secondary campuses use. So, I feel and and I could be wrong, and if I am wrong, please tell me. It feels like a lot of it feels like we're constantly changing the brand or or whatever of of our materials. It seems like we're always always always making these changes. So, what do we how how

046do we stop doing that where we're just okay, maybe we need to buy the update for Lexia or for this one, but it just feels like we're always changing it. And I feel like I don't know if and maybe I'm wrong here too, but as a teacher, I would feel like, okay, I've been teaching, I've just got this one, now I'm teaching it. Now, I've got to learn a whole new one. Now, I've got to learn another new one every year because we're changing. And I could be wrong. It may be easy to go back and forth. I'm not a teacher, but um I think that's a very very fair question. So with reading language arts specifically the the the la the major purchase was the last adoption and that happened in 20 um 1920

047and that was for kindergarten through fifth grade and so that was the last time the state revised the English the reading language arts teaches um and called for new adoption and so that's when we adopted the HMH system and that was K12 um a couple of years later they I say they came out with it it had been around but there was this big push and a movement for the science of teaching reading to be to so that all foundational reading so be like kindergarten through third um all instructional materials would be grounded in the science of teaching reading. Well, the HMH product that we had purchased was not and so um if you remember HB3 was a big a big one a few years ago and that led to all of our kindergarten through

048third grade teachers having to participate in the readingmies and that was a yearong process for all of those teachers and so through that reading academy they began to realize that the curriculum materials that we were using were not aligned to what they were learning was the best practice for the science of teaching reading and so that's when we made the decision to switch kind through second grade to amplify um it was part of the co emergency release materials and so at the time it had been free um and their their what they they have two elements of program. So there's knowledge which is like reading and comprehension and then skills which is their foundational phonics system. And so their their whole skills program is very strongly tied to the science and teaching reading. And so

049it's it's a different approach to how we teach kids to read. And so through that change in kindergarten and first grade is where we've started to see some improvement in their reading scores at the lower level. So we we haven't yet seen the effect of it in third and fourth grade because this this new year it will be the first time we have third graders who have experienced amplify knowledge and skills for the past two years. So hope that makes sense. And so the way amplify um curriculum is designed is the knowledge part is vertically aligned so that the the kids are constantly revisiting topics like of knowledge. So they're building their knowledge every year. So their their knowledge units are also tied to um or connected to science and social studies. And so it's

050all aligned with the TEICSS. And so one of the big other pieces of research that went into it is that reading is not just knowing the skill of like decoding. You also bring knowledge to it to get understanding and comprehension. So the more kids know, the better readers they are. And so the amplified knowledge is a very cohesive and um like spiraling up building that content. So they're going to get for example American or Texas history embedded in every grade level in their reading alongside their social studies. So that's just one example. And so the the teachers that we we talked with um really like the idea of moving that up to third, fourth, and fifth grade to keep all of that momentum moving forward. So this this change should be the last one for

051K5 that I don't think they're they I say they the researchers the best, you know, the people who informed TEA um are going to do away with the science of teaching reading. Um so until they revise the TEICSS, which is not going to happen now for another probably five or six years, there won't be new materials to select. So the the only only thing that could happen that would prompt us to have to change it if um next year when Amplify goes out for the full-fledged instructional material review and adoption process with the state board of education holding process. If for some reason they were not approved, then we would be allowed to use it. I do not see it happening at all because they're they're the system that Texas went to for the COVID

052release and I mean it's built to answer all of these needs from Texas. Okay. And then I have another question. Um, with this, does it come with like paper materials? Yes. So, that that is part of um what I was going to mention about some of the items in here, we're working with our vendor. Uh, this is our our the sales manager to try to minimize things that we don't really need. And so, for like for one of one of the line items in the third through fifth is um the digital plus the student workbooks. Do we need to print workbooks or or should we just purchase paper and print as we go with what we need? So, that is something um Mrs. Scar and I will be talking with her tomorrow about if we

053can reduce some of those costs. So, for example, if you see under the grade five product, the second one that says Amplify ELR grade five complete student kit, $173 per student. Well, that's because it's including um all of the consumable materials as well. But we we may not need all of those consumables. So, we're asking we're we're getting with her. So, she's working on a different quote to remove some of those to see if we can get that cost down because what we definitely want to do is stop paying and spending a lot of money on consumable textbooks that don't get consumed and just turn into bookshelf. the fact you have a new principal coming on at the elementary is it is it times sensitive now or would that be better something that's reviewed by

054the new principal to so because they're going to be the one going to be enforcing that's a bad term it's going to be making sure that this is all all the whether it be workbooks or whatever are used to fidelity I is that something we have to be done now or is that something the new principal comes in go I'm a lexia person I really prefer to keep Lexio because I'm the one that's going to be overseeing all this and Lexia is makes sense to me rather than learn I'm assuming boost is just the amplified version of Lexia yes and how long has boost been since the actually I don't know I would assume since they created these materials for Texas is currently on the Texas list the the skills portion for K2 the phonics

055is um they did not go out for this this last year's round of Emerald but they will be this coming year so as far as the question about should should we wait for the new principal um or not it yes we could or we can move forward so we we want to make sure kindergarten through fifth grade is aligned and so what we can't do is have a principal on each campus who has differing viewpoints about it and wants to switch or or keep what they like or don't like. What if we get a new principal who says, "No, um, I don't want Amplify. Let's stick with HMH. That's what I'm used to." And then they stay for a year. Great. And then they leave. And then the next person comes in and says, "No,

056oh, I a HM was terrible. Why are we doing that? Let's use Blue Bonnet. It's free." Okay. Like, so if we if we're depending on a a a person to make that decision, it and their preference, we that we could be running into some issues. However, Mr. Buck's point is is very good. The campus principal is the person who is going to hold teachers accountable for it. I go. go on walkthroughs with principles all the time, but I don't tell the teachers why like I don't ask them why are you not doing this, you should be using this that it's up to the campus principal to do that. So we the campus principles do need and support the work that we're doing. So it it comes down to the question of do we want to

057implement this change now when a good majority of the teachers are in favor of it and they do want to see that alignment um or we could just keep things as they are and give a new principal time to come in and adapt and adjust. I don't know what that would do to this the teacher morale when they're looking forward to this um looking forward to this change. When you said there's a majority, you said a large majority. Share with us what some of those who aren't in agreement with, what are their objections, what are their challenges with that. Honestly, the only the only negative received um was from a teacher who has been using the HMH materials um for since she's been with us. So, I think it's been about four years um and

058and just likes her system. So that teacher like like likes that she knows where everything is, has her lesson plans. Um, and that that was her response like that that that's what we've gathered from that feedback. We didn't get any other um feedback or questions from anybody else about wanting to stick with what we have or seems like what we do often is we do change curriculum often, but our scores are getting worse and we're spending a lot of money. And I heard you say Blue Bonnet is free. I mean, to me, I I would be wondering why we're not using Blue Bonnet if it's free. I don't know anything about curriculum but you know what if we what are we planning for that when we c if we come to the end of the

059year and those third graders are still not performing. So along again very good question. So it's it's not just the instructional materials that we use. It's really only a small percentage of what is going to impact scores. It's the the teacher instruction. The teachers have to understand what they're teaching. the the instructional methods have to be effective. And so if kids are not um actively engaged like and I'm I'm not talking about compliance. If they're not actually actively engaged in the the cognitive load of doing the work, then there there's not going to be the growth that we want to see. So one of the reasons why we brought on um we shifted our instructional coaching approach is so that we can have more time with teachers and one-on-one. So helping them understand how to

060use the materials more effectively, how to plan more effective instructional strategies, working with the kids. The other big big missing piece is what we would call intervention. So how do we fill in those gaps when the kids are missing it? So, one of one of the reasons why we do um like Amplify for this is because the the program, the testing program, it's called MCLASS that we've been using in kindergarten and first grade for the past two years is tied to the resources with the intervention. So, it it it guides the teachers to exactly what resources they should be using when kids are below grade level on certain skills. So, it's it's all cohesive. So, it makes the planning easier for the teachers because they don't have to do um like looking over here, trying

061to find it over here, opening this resource. It's all housed in one program. So, hopefully that that will help with some of those pieces, but it it's going to come back to working with the teachers. Um, and this is campus administrators and instructional coaches working with the teachers to help make sure that they are doing those things and that what they're planning and providing to kids is effective because otherwise, you're absolutely right, we'll we'll be back here next year talking about what do we need to do now because scores still haven't improved. And then how did you um go about getting feedback on changing? So we opened up a couple of meetings to any teachers who wanted to come and we did them on PD days so they would have um we did have opportunities

062on PD days to meet with all the teachers. Uh we invited anyone who was interested to be on the committee who would do some of the research and and looking into the products and then uh we also sent out a Google form to all the teachers asking for their input on what their what their final thoughts were. It's okay. It's okay. Um the the total amounts added up together here, this would be the absolute max amount. So this is everything that we would need for the startup, including all the print materials. Um but like I said, we are working with we're still working with the sales rep to to take out things that we don't really need. Um, and also looking at there's two different buckets of money that we get from the state to

063purchase instructional materials. What can we So I I'm not sure what everyone knows about all of it. There's what they call the there's the allotment, the money we can use to purchase pretty much whatever we want for to instructional materials and then there's the entitlements. And so um that is $40 per student for reading and then $40 per student for math. And so we're we're trying to make sure we're accessing what we can out of that money first before we go to the just the regular general aotment. Um but whatever the totals end up being, it won't be more than these two quotes. And it all it will come from um those two buckets of money. Some of it like there's PD involved in there um that we can use title two for, but as

064far as the actual materials themselves, it'll come from those aotments. When will you have the updated quotes? Hopefully this week. We we met with her. I was hoping to have it today. Um and it just it didn't it didn't get done, but hopefully this week. And then once um if we were to purchase this, how quick do you get everything? Um hopefully before the end of July. That is definitely the the catch to ordering print anything is shipping. real ask questions maybe. Okay. My my question just has this program been used in the past by anybody and are there results that we can look at to see if it's been successful anywhere? Um I can get that information for you. I don't have it off the top of my head, but I do know that

065there are um lots of districts who are not moving to anything else and they're staying with Amplify or moving to Amplify um because of the research base, but I will I can get that information. Yeah. Because it's not, you know, I I I really like to see results. I mean, absolutely. Absolutely. You know, because I don't want to be the guinea pig anymore. I'm not saying y trying to make us guinea pigs, but you know, our our score has been going down pretty consistently. And so everything we've been trying is not working. Um, you know, and I'm just wondering if maybe we need to start looking at those things that are working and working well and working well for our type district and maybe we'd have more success that way. Yes, sir. I mean, that

066that's a very fair question. Um, and and we can definitely like we don't have to order this tomorrow. Um we and we can definitely start the year with the digital material. So if if we were to wait and and make a purchase next month, um it takes a couple of days to turn around the digital. So um the print materials, of course, teachers want to have their hands on them, but we could start the year with digital only. So, while there's an urgency to it, it's not an immediate like we have to have a decision made today. So, I do have a a question. I know you said you do um you you do training, but do we do training on all the new stuff that comes out? Like just specific here it is. This

067is what we're going to do. This is how you're going to do it. Um and this is basically this is what you're supposed to do. Yes. Yes. So, this would come with um a day of training for the teachers. And so, we would have the amplify specialists come and do the implementation training. And so, they would learn how to navigate the system, how to navigate the resources and and how to use those things to plan the effective lesson. And is that person that's going to be training I mean I know the employees can contact you or contact whoever um to get that done but is there going to be extra if someone doesn't get it like if they just like I got thrown a new curriculum last last year and I learned how to use

068it the last month of school. So it didn't do me any good for the first eight months. I'm not saying those things don't happen because they absolutely do. But we we will want to make sure that we offer as much as we can so that people can get what they what they need. Um if we did have like let's just say we had a new teacher come on board in September and we needed to get them trained up on it. Um then probably what would happen is our our LA coordinator would sit and visit with that person and walk them through it and help them understand it. Um and then if we needed to do if we did need to uh contract and and bring a trainer back out, we would definitely do that. So,

069and they'll recommend like a series of trainings. So, they would say, "Here's your implementation training. Now, what do you want to do for your like level two? Do you want to do this one or this one? These are the modules we we recommend." And we can do those in person. Oh, I want to clarify earlier. I know you made the point about the we can't make decisions based on whatever principal wants, but we're also turning over teachers at a high rate, too. So if all the pre-teachers who chose this turn over next year, then you've got the vice versa of that. You've got curriculum they all want. Which is why essentially what I'm asking is I I just want to make sure that we're just not throwing stuff at the wall to make it stick.

070So we have if if we approve this program, we're not only training all the teachers brand new, but we're also training administrators brand new. So now everyone has to train in a new program. And regardless of what I mean, you know as well as I do that we have we don't have enough training. there's not enough training time because you don't want to do it just because work and training in there. So I think you told Miss Grafton that there's gonna be a day of training in there. Well, we know for an entire system that's you're going to have first year, second year teachers, a day of training is just scratching the surface. So what's that? Yes. So I just want to make sure that Yes. Yes. I mean I get it. As a principal,

071I remember that you know the teachers like this. they they like the the colors of the books and the and the and the way that so I know you're the curriculum director. We're we're kind of beating you up on this program and it's not a you've done a great job with the presentation. I just want to make sure that it sometimes it comes down to it's less about curriculum than it is about overall implementation and then we're not just consistently changing to where no one really understands implementation because now you have principles learning a new system and teachers learn a new system. next year. The answer is, well, we didn't really get it because we're we were all learning a new system this year and then so I'll leave it at that. Thank you. Okay.

072Somewhere along this trip, I I fell off the truck. Uh it got lost. This is curriculum for kindergarten through fifth grade. Right now it's it's just through third grade, correct? Like has been using this or second grade has been using this when we They opted that for the second grade. Was this available for the other grades? Yeah, it was. How come it wasn't used then? Like to to to align everybody in science? Very good question because the focus at the time was on the science of teaching reading and the what we call the foundational grades or the early learning which is K2. And so that's where we really build the foundation of phonics and decoding and morphings and all those you know fancy um reading words. Um whereas third, fourth, and fifth grade the focus

073transitions away from that to reading comprehension. And so we the HMH system is a good reading comprehension system. And we that adoption when we purchased it, it was an eight-year adoption. And so that adoption is actually still valid. It's so we had already purchased all of the materials for eight years. Um and so right now just to be transparent we still have a couple of years left on that adoption for the HMH. So the for the next two or three two years like we have already used our instructional materials money to pay for that. So this like doing this now is is preemptive. So we're getting ahead of that next adoption to do the alignment. Did that actually answer your question? Yeah. I was just curious because I mean it seems like if you're going

074to adopt a curriculum for that for that foundation at K K second and then you just changed the curriculum after that if that curriculum was available. I was just curious if there was a reason why it so it was available only through fifth grade. Um it still is only available through fifth grade. They haven't done um a middle school and high school version yet. And so at the time the focus was on the grades where the phonics was the emphasis and that third through 12th grade we would keep with the the materials that were in place. Okay. Thank you. Last question. When is the training versus the implementation? Like when do the teachers go through training versus when they're expected to implement the actual? So, we will usually try to offer something in the summer

075that is optional for teachers who want to get a head start, but the the formal training would be during that teacher inservice, which is the week before school starts. Okay. Okay. And so, we I know you said that we don't have to implement this tonight. We don't have to approve this tonight because you're still waiting on um final numbers. Is I mean, so As a board, we can make a motion to approve, disapprove, or table for a later date. Well, that's what I'm saying. These those are our options as a board, the three things that we can do. So, if if and we were also, I think, gonna you were going to get some more information for Mr. M. Hoffman had asked about the research base. And so, you showed us two quotes. Yes. Which

076one are you? I mean, you're wanting the 107 or you want the 30? It's combined. It will be combined. The the this one that you're looking at, this is the startup cost for the third through fifth grade. The other one is the renewal cost for kindergarten, first and second grade. Yes. Yes, sir. And the other thing I did ask her um for is to show us what next year's renewal cost would be so that we can look ahead and see um the like this 140 will not be the cost again but the 33 for the renewal for K2 was a little bit more than we were expecting also. We do need to replace a couple of items but it was still a little bit more. So we wanted to make sure that the renewal is

077not going to be over. What was the renewal last year compared to this 33? Uh it was 26 to go for into this year. Yeah, I just had looked at that earlier today. So, so is is Lexia just not as good as as Boost or is Boost just we're just going to boost because it aligns with the We we're not at the um elementary at the primary. They have pretty much I wouldn't say stop using Lexi yet, but it's they're the kids are using the program, but we're not doing anything to use the data to drive instruction. And so, um it's I hate to say it this way, kind of a babysitting tool. And that's not a good use of any program. Um whereas the the boost is going to be aligned to the materials

078whereas Lexia is not. So it's again looking over here looking over here. This will bring it together in one aligning to the next level. What was middle school Lexia or they both? So right now middle school um is is Lexia Power up. It's a different plat. It's a different it's the same company but it is a different system than what they use in K5. Um the other thing there's not a benefit to having Lexia from elementary all the way to middle school. No sir, it does not continue. They start over when they hit six. I just to know about cost savings if if we could keep Lexia and that that would knock it down to but so the the the boost licenses that we will need to pay for is far less than the Lexia

079license for one campus. So it looks like additional information that we're wanting would be the updated quote and then the research that Mr. Hoffman was asking. Okay. Correct. Okay. So, okay. Tasha, another problem though is she stated that she hopes to get it in July and I'm assuming that would be from now. So, does that mean it wouldn't get here? But we could do um the digital until they got here. Yeah. the digital the digital she said she could get in a couple of days from when we we actually already have access to like the digital teaching materials because of our um the way the license works the m we we teachers can access the three through five and I know these sound the questions sound aggressive by nature but they almost have to be

080asked the way they're asked but um how how long have you been researching making this change and I guess being as we're at the edge of July now, why are we now voting on it? So, we've actually been um studying and looking at Amplify for the past couple of years since we've been using it in the lower grades. Um and we we started talking about when we would move to to Amplify in grades three, four, and five last year. And so this whole past school year, it's been a conversation um and we're we're with doing the research. So like Mrs. Scaro, our RLA coordinator, has been um actively looking at the materials of Amplify compared to Blue Bonnet, which is this the state's version of the RLA curriculum. Um and that that's the one that

081I said it it's free. It's it's not entirely free. Shouldn't have said it's free. Um you do have to pay for lots of pieces of it. Um, so it's it's this has not been like something we talked about last week and we're bringing to you. The reason why it wasn't uh on the agenda last month is because we didn't have the quotes together. So the other thing Mrs. Scaro has been doing is been going to each grade level trying to take inventory of what we have so that we didn't just purchase everything again and have stacks and stacks again of things we didn't need. Um there's another long story there, but that that's part of what has been taking so long. However, um I realized if we're going to purchase these before this start of

082the school year, we have to get it to you eventually because it was is going to be obviously more than 25. Can we approve this next month and still be within your timetable? Um we Yes, absolutely. to be able to access the digital licenses so that if we if we place the order like the day after I there it's a highly doubtful we would get them print materials in time but we would be able to access everything digitally. So again not teachers favorite thing to do but it's also not something they're unfamiliar with. That puts that puts a month behind ordering. So if they're if they if they're barely getting it by August they're barely getting it by September or you get put you get put down the list and we don't get till December.

083Or we could any other questions? Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to table for a later date next month with all of the information that was asked for. We have a motion by Amber to table. Do we have a second? Have a second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Okay, thank you. Um, go to item number 16. if you can get it to us before Saturday because we are planning to meet Saturday. So if you can have it by then, I mean then we can review it again and put it on an agenda. Wednesday. Uh that morning. Yeah. Wednesday morning. So yeah. So no agreed. Yeah. Very very valid. Yeah. But with that also being said, we do see as a board that curriculum is very important. So if we needed

084to call a special called meeting to come in here and improve something, we can do that. So, don't feel like, you know, we've asked you for stuff and you're not going to be able to get what we're asking for by Saturday. Don't feel that way. We will do what we need to do as a board to make sure our students start the school year and our teachers start the school year prepared. Okay. Yeah. So, to the next item 16, consider approval of the 2526 budget. Good evening. Again, this is the same exact document um that we had at the public hearing. So, all three balanced um all three funds balanced. Did anybody have any questions about any of that? No. Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion to approve the 2526 budget. Have

085a motion by Amber. Do we have a second? I'll second. Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Amber, can you take over my father and I just called? I don't I need to make sure it's not an emergency. It's probably not, but Okay, we're going to move to number or item number 17. Consider approval for board resolution extending dispository contract with Cowboy Bank for the school year 2527 July 1st 25 uh to June 30th 2027. Yes. So um we're doing this early. Our current contract doesn't expire till August 31, but this needs to coincide with our fiscal year. So we've had um good relationships with Cowboy Bank. This will be our last extension that we can do without going out for an RFP. Um, but we're recommending to extend that. Can I ask a

086quick question? Sure. What are the benefits of staying with like a really small independent bank like Cowboy Bank versus going with a larger corporation? Well, um, some of the larger corporations will not take us because of all the, um, hoops that they have to jump through because we have so much money sitting in there at any given time. They don't want to collateralize it and and whatnot. Um, so the smaller banks um, tend to work with you better than the bigger banks do. Um, I would rather have a bigger bank, but in my past experience, the big banks won't even bid on us. So, you're welcome. Depository contract. Yes, sir. Have a motion by Greg, second by Amber. All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 18. consider approval to change signature authority to

087Lonear investment account to interim superintendent Howard Gatewood. Yes. So, um these next ones are all similar, but all I'm asking for is to change the dep um signature authority from Dr. Torres to Mr. Howard Gatewood um with his interim title. Do we have a motion? Do we have any questions? I have a motion. I'll make that motion. Okay. A motion by Randall. We have a second. I'll second. Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 18. Consider approval to change. I'm sorry, 19. Consider approval to change signature authority to text investment account to interim superintendent Howard Gatewood. Did we have any questions? Make that motion. Motion by Randall. Do we have second by Amber? All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 20. Consider approval to change signature authority to

088Techstar investment account to interim superintendent Howard Gatewood. Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second. Second by Donald. All in favor. Motion carries. Item number 21. Don't mess me up. Consider approval to change to change signature authority to logic investment account to interim superintendent Howard Gatewood. Do you have a motion? Motion by Amber. Do we have a second by Greg? All in favor? Motion carries. Item number 22, consider approval to change signature authority to Cowboy Bank of April to interim superintendent Howard Gatewood. Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Item 23, consider approval of final budget amendments. That was a lot of them. Um, so this is just cleaning up the um budget for the current year. This is a balanced amendment. So it keeps

089um our deficit at 950 958,790 which we don't think we're going to it won't be that at the end but we just I just proposed a balance amendment. This is just cleaning it up at the end of the year. So, taking a little bit away from um the food service, uh I'm not sure why um Venus had some money um budgeted for the food service out of general fund. So, I'm I'm proposing taking that away to a zero and next year we do not have that in there. taking a little bit out of general ma uh general administration, taking a little bit out of a little bit more out of um 51 plant maintenance, and then adding a little bit to the library, um transportation, security, data processing, and um facility uh facilities acquisition and

090construction. And then also the tax appraisal Anybody have any questions? Do we have anything here, Mark, on transportation or why we would transfer more money into transportation? It it's really close. If I didn't do it, we would probably be okay and not blow that function, but it's just too close for me to to not put some in there to make it my just make me sleep better at night. That's really what all of these are is to make me sleep better at night. So, any other questions? No. Do we have a motion? Motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Go to item number 24. Consider approval of the low attendance waiver for February 3rd, 2025 to be submitted to TEA. Yes. On February 3rd, as a

091district, our attendance was 77.05% 05% that day and the year before was for the district for the year was 94.4. So if you're less than 10% difference then you can file for a low attendance waiver so that day doesn't hurt us on funding. So that's what we're asking for. Yeah. And it was also the flu. So, a motion by Amber. Do we have a second? Second by Kirby. All in favor? Motion carries. Thank you. Thank you. Got to item number 25. Consider approval to give the interim superintendent authority to hire contract personnel from June 26, 2025. Why June 26? Is it what what was posted? Okay. So item 25, consider approval to give the interim superintendent authority to hire contract personnel from June 16, 2025 through August 31st, 2025. A motion by Amber, second by

092Greg. All in favor? Motion carries. Item number 26, consider approval of matters related to personnel resignations, employment position or contract amendments. We don't have anything. Okay, we don't have anything there. Okay. Go to item number 27, reports. Uh yes, ma'am. Uh first of all, I'd like to know that let everybody know that summer school has been going very well. uh numbers have been pretty high with Venus Elementary leading the way over roughly around 111 kids each day. We have ELC retesting uh goes uh starting tomorrow, June 17th through the 19th that is going tomorrow. And it's uh also to see great accomplishments during the summer. We have had Bulldog football participating in 707 in a long time. And uh we actually have a great passing game this year. I was out there seeing the kids

093passing the ball around. Was uh quite pleased with that. Cheer camp was a huge success with numerous awards were given. They were given the most improvement, most improved team, which was uh quite a feat. You know, uh they they've doing quite a good things. They've racked up a lot of hardware. We have a strong summer camp participation for the whole school community. It wraps up this week with uh basketball, soccer, and softball. Uh we have TSA Nationals uh that's being held in Nashville, Tennessee. The middle school is taking about uh 26 students. looking forward to seeing those students get out there and uh compete and represent uh Venus very well. And that's all I have. Ma'am, unless anybody has a question, I'm good. Okay, we'll go to item 28, board request. We'll go to item

09428, board requests for additional items. Anybody have any requests for additional items? No. And then our next meeting is July 21st. Yeah. Saturday, which is June 21st. Okay. June 21st. Um, what time? I'm good with eight. Can you be here at any time? Like, what are you just getting? You're getting off work, right? Oh, okay. Okay. Maybe call ahead. Okay. So, Saturday at 8 a.m. We're all good. Are you good, Mr. Gateway? Okay. 8 to 10. Yeah, I'm doing 8 to 10. Okay. The July meeting is July 21st. The regular regularly regularly scheduled meeting. Okay. Um, we'll go to item number 29 and adjourn at 8:41