001is our open forum. This is the portion of the board meeting where the board receives input from our patrons. Each person who addresses the board will have five minutes to speak on his or her issue. Because the poster requirements of the open meetings act, board members will not ask questions of the patron nor answer any questions posed by the patron. No action can be taken on any issue presented during the patron comment section of the board meeting. Patrons addressing the board will be notified when they are approaching the last 60 seconds or their allotted time to speak. When I call your name, please step to the podium and state your name and address for the record. Lori Hannah, you please step forward. State your name and address for the record, please. Mr. Pitts, my left,
002your right, will be the timekeeper. >> Sure. My name is Hatch, Texas. I have a timer. I was going to start to just to keep me on track. Okay. I've been working in the field of vocational rehabilitation and special education for 25 years. I've been with WISD for the past nine and currently serve as a special education teacher at DAP working with students with atrisisk behaviors. I think it should be a priority for WISD to strive for continual improvement to retain quality educators and be competitive in our recruitment and make teacher salaries a budgetary priority. It wasn't until the last board meeting that I learned the statemandated raises would be added to our prior years of service, not our current years of service, therefore dissolving a possible step increase. In preparing for this year's budget,
003I'd like to know if WISD previously allocated funds for those step increases, and if so, where are those funds currently being used? If you did not allocate money for step increases, which I know are not guaranteed, then why not? I didn't just come here tonight to express concerns, but to try to provide some recommendations. Recommendation number one, the board of trustees in upper administration should consider shifting the timeline of accepting teacher compensation plan to the left as much as possible. If administrative pay scales can be discussed in the spring, then so should teacher compensation plans. This helps your current employees make informed choices about whether they want to and can afford to retain their employment with WISD, as well as help recruit more competitively. Personally, I teach my students entering the world of work and
004my own children to make sure they know their pay before they begin their job because it's best practice. We should be leading by example and striving for best practices in all areas. Recommendation number two, the board of trustees and upper administration should consider publicly posting our complete stipend supplemental pay and extra duty stipen lists, including all athletics online alongside compensation plans like many of our neighboring districts. I'm concerned as to why our 6A district fails to post these publicly and maintain transparency. Your current employees should be informed of opportunities that are within their own district to earn additional pay. Stipens help to retain qualified employees with specialized skill sets and are a tool to help recruit competitively. Stipens also help build strong leaders from within your organizations on all levels to create campus resources and
005balance shared responsibilities with appropriate compensation. The board can approve additional stipens necessary to meet the needs of our growing district, which may prove to be more cost-effective than creating full-time positions or having to use outside contractors. Supplemental pay for positions at athletic events at some of our neighboring school districts is impressive. Maybe WISD offers these, too, but I'm unable to find that information online. Our employees deserve to have equitable access to view and participate in all of these opportunities. Recommendation number three, develop an effective and comprehensive improvement plan to help retain and recruit highly qualified special education teachers to reduce district expenses on outside contractors and help build your campus and district resources with specialized skill sets. Consider the following. Assess expectations of special education teachers and whether they have equitable resources, points of contact,
006and support for modified curriculum in relation to gened teachers. In all the new positions created this fiscal year, not one of them is designated to modified curriculum and instruction to my knowledge. Assess the current stipens given to special education teachers. A few years ago, other than specialized settings, sped stipens were reduced from 2,000 to $1,000. SLE PBSE live skills. They have an extremely high turnover rate in teachers and paired professionals despite a higher stipend which indicates that there is a need for teachers who are well-trained in autism, behavior intervention, non-verbal communication and assistive technology to name a few. Consider incentivizing teachers who hold specialized skills with competitive sip and/or use title 9 funds for campus behavior interventionists for additional support. HR and special education should collaborate >> and provide opportunities for educators to participate in
007exit interviews, including those leaving the district, transitioning from sped to gened positions, and people who leave self-contained classrooms and take other special education positions instead to provide constructive feedback and recommendations for improvement, including but not limited to continual professional development for teachers, pair professionals, and administrators. Change doesn't happen overnight, but it takes continual accountability from your stakeholders to ensure that we're putting the interests of all our students at the front of our decisions. I encourage you to embrace our growing community and tap into the wealth and of knowledge and expertise equitably between employees who are Wakahhatchee alumni and those who are here from outside school districts to help invoke positive changes. Thank you so much for your time. I appreciate your commitment to the community. Thanks for the opportunity to speak. >> Thank you. Next
008item on our agenda is our public hearing. So tonight we will be holding a public hearing regarding the proposed 2025 2026 WSD budget for the general fund, the debt service fund, child nutrition fund, and the 2025 2026 M and INS tax rates. Following the presentation, we will invite the public to approach the podium and provide input on the subject at hand. The public hearing will begin with a presentation by Chief Financial Officer Ryan Calden. Mr. Colin. >> Thank you, sir. Good evening, board and Miss McCutchen. Uh, as stated, we're here for our public hearing for the budget for 2526 and tax rates. Um, couple of slides for you to kind of walk back through our budget development timeline. Uh, we started back in January uh, and February identifying those needs with meeting with our campuses
009and department leaders. Uh and then we started having that conversation with you back at at the end of March on the 23rd. We had budget workshop number one. Uh we received our certified estimate of property values from the appraisal district right at the end of April. Uh right around the 30th, which is that statutory requirement. June 10th, we had our second budget workshop. Uh that was the one that we were kind of hoping we would be through the legislative session and have some good answers for you. We had some answers and a lot of questions and uh things that we were still waiting to be filled in uh from our our time in Austin this past year, but that was budget workshop number two. Then July 25th, we received our certified taxable values from the
010appraisal district. Uh again, that's that key component that drives most of our local revenues as we go through our budget process. On July 28th, we had a special called workshop meeting to stuff uh to discuss staff compensation plans and that served as our budget workshop number three. And then a couple of weeks ago, we had our regular board meeting in August on the 11th where we again looked at uh overall budgets for 2526 in our fourth budget workshop. That kind of gets us to where we are at this point. So August 12th, so right after the 11th meeting, we finalized our truth and taxation worksheets and got those posted on the website. And then on the 13th, we published notice of our public hearing and proposed tax rates uh so that we could have this
011meeting tonight. Uh tonight we are at the public hearing and then September 1st is when uh the budgets go into effect and then the tax rate will be the one imposed uh in October. Uh so you may remember this. We talked about it in March and and we've revisited a couple times our budget priorities for 2526. So within tier one, our top two priorities are to grow fund balance uh through the use of a balanced budget and then also uh a staff salary increase that was uh taken to mean all staff uh within the district to see that staff salary increase for the year. We do have Lumpin's practice field improvement on here as uh a priority for tier one. uh we did not uh incorporate funds into the budget for next year to uh
012identify that uh but it is still something that we would like to address uh long-term to improve that practice facility that's over at Lumpkins uh that WHS football is practicing on at the moment. Talk a little bit about our enrollment updates. Uh you know that um we've talked in the past that enrollment is not our our key end all beall. We get funded on average daily attendance. uh but we have to have some level of enrollment expectations to develop that average daily attendance. This year demographer is estimating that in 2526 we will see uh total enrollment of 11,617. I will tell you right now we are not near that number right now. As of uh where we were earlier today we were just shy of 11,200. Uh so yes that puts a little bit of
013strain on the budget that we are proposing for 2526. the number that we are enrolled at right now with 95% attendance, we will still meet our expected estimated uh in funding from the state for student attendance next year. So, we can still reach the ADA number. Uh that's that uh conservative nature that we take when we look at the expected enrollment number. We don't budget that at 95. We discount that and then we budget that at 95. So, uh but just all transparency, we are not at 11,617 today. Uh as we discuss the budget and student enrollment expectations for next year board, I hope you've had a chance to pick up and review your budget book. Uh so as of the completion of the budget book, which realistically was completed with your adoption of the
014staff compensation plans for next year, uh this is kind of where we sit. General fund is looking at about a $100,000 surplus. um that is uh for all intents and purposes essentially balanced as we go into the budget. Um that's not a huge addition to fund balance. That generally would be living within our means within the general fund um with about $120,000 surplus at this point. Uh we're looking at revenues 128.4 million and expenditures 128.3 million uh within the general fund. and the debt service fund board. With your authorization, we issued 100 million more of bonds this past summer to take advantage of the hold harmless from the state uh as we fully anticipate an increase in the homestead exemption to go from 100,000 to 140,000. Uh that does outlast our debt service model right
015now with our uh current debt service rate of 4129 per $100 in valuation. Uh but we have about $16 million in our fund balance of just the debt service fund. That does not take into account the general fund because debt service can only be used for that outstanding debt. We can only service the debt with that debt service fund balance. Uh so right now our projection is to use about 1.2 million of that 16 million uh to pay the debt for next year. Uh we do not anticipate this to be a long-term uh solution. Uh we do anticipate that we will have continued property value growth that will service the debt just fine. Uh but for next year we are looking at debt service revenues of 40.8 million expenditures of 42 million. So about a
016$1.2 million draw on fund balance that target fund balance within the INS fund is going to be about 7 to9 million. Uh so we do have a surplus right now that uh we're going to utilize a little bit of that to pay uh our debt service for the next year. And then then general fund or uh excuse me child nutrition fund we are looking at a balanced child nutrition fund at 5.9 million in both revenues and expenditures. Uh this number 5.9 million is subject to some fluctuation depending on student participation. Uh so as we have more students participate we could see more revenues. Uh if we have less students participate we could see less revenues. Generally the offset of student participation is going to be food cost. And so as we see more students participate,
017our food cost will be more than we initially budgeted. As we see less students participate, then that food cost uh conversely would go down over expectations. Looking just holistically at general fund revenues, u we've always talked about our local and state revenues kind of being a teeter totter and one side goes up, the other side goes down. This year with the increase in the homestead exemption, we are expecting that local revenues are going to go down uh in the general fund, but we're also seeing a corresponding increase in state revenues. Uh we know that a significant amount of money was uh given by the state to school districts uh to help fund all kinds of different aotments. Uh and so we would expect that state revenue would increase for 2526. The corresponding decrease on that
018is going to be in the local revenues. uh looking at property values uh we have seen steady significant increases. So the percents that you see on the screen are the percent increase from the previous uh freeze adjusted taxable value. So the free uh previous year you'll see double digit increases uh in every year as we go from 2018 to 2023. And then as we know the legislature in 24 increased the homestead exemption from 40,000 to 100,000 and then uh we anticipate that increase to go from 100,000 to 140,000 in 2025. There's uh a referendum election in November. We fully anticipate that to be approved uh as it was in 2024. So that's why you're seeing marginally smaller increases in 24 and 25 that is net of the increased homestead exemption. So these are freeze adjusted
019not uh not total taxable values or net taxable values. Looking at the M. So our total uh tax rate that we will talk about tonight is made up of two pieces. We have the M piece that is for maintenance and operation that handles salaries utilities uh the all the operations of the school and then we have the INS piece that is handling uh the debt service side. So on the M side, uh our budgeted highlights, uh we are proposing a flat tax rate, no increase in that M tax rate of 7552. Uh with that, we have the highlights of a pay increase for all staff. We've increased the starting pay from and that is a typo and I do apologize board, but starting pay right now of 546 uh to go to 57,000 for teachers,
020librarians, counselors, nurses, and athletic trainers. a 5% pay increase for all staff. They're on the auxiliary, clerical, paraprofessional, and professional pay scales and a 3% increase for all staff on the administrative pay scale. On the interest in syncing fund, again, a flat, no increase in the INS fund tax rate, but we do anticipate that we will draw about 1.2 million uh from INS fund balance for the year. Our outstanding debt principle is $779 million uh at this point. And uh with the $575 million bond package that was in 2023 uh we have seen an increase in our outstanding debt as we have issued debt in 23 24 and now a little bit in 25 uh to support those projects. Uh we do anticipate that the INS fund will balance itself uh with more property value
021growth next year. Uh so we do do not anticipate an increase in the tax rate next year and we do not anticipate a significant draw on fund balance in that fund for 2627. Overall if you take the M tax rate and the INS tax rate and combine them our total tax rate proposed is $11681. Uh again that's unchanged from 2425 and that is down almost 40 cents from uh the 2018 2019 school year. So, just a 10-year rate trend uh to show you that tax rate um and the significant decrease primarily funded through the legislaturator's mandate of uh property tax reduction and additional funding added to schools for that purpose. With that board, I know we have a couple of uh agenda items later where we will uh specifically look at the budget and specifically
022look at that tax rate, but it is a public forum, so we do invite public comments at this time. At this time, are there any individuals that would like to speak concerning the proposed budgets and tax rates? Once, twice, three times. Okay. We will now close the public hearing portion of this meeting. Okay. Our next item will be aformational report regarding the nomination process of a person to serve on the board of directors of the Ellis County Appraisal District. Mr. Colum, >> thanks sir. Board want to highlight this for you today because it is a bit of a change and so the timelines are going to be accelerated a little bit uh as we go forward. So, uh, in the past, every odd year, you would make a nominee or nominees to appoint someone to
023serve on the on the appraisal review or the Ellis County Appraisal District Board of Directors. Uh, there was a change in state law to where the number of members went from five to nine. And so, we now have five that are appointed, three that are directly elected by the community, uh, by the taxpayers. And then we have the county county tax assessor collector. that's a standing member of this committee. Uh so members were now going from it used to be a two-year term and so every odd year you would nominate more people and and we would cast those ballots uh to appoint someone. Now it's a four-year staggered term and so we're kind of getting into this new routine. So you may have remembered last year that we just did this. Yes, we just did
024this and we're doing it again this year so that we can get those four-year staggered terms uh in place. Uh and then every taxing entity in the county is allowed to cast votes for uh membership on the appraisal district board of directors. So we're not at casting votes yet. Uh right now we need to nominate someone. And so this is where the big changes come in. So you used to have the ability to nominate and then uh those nominations would be due in October and then we would get a ballot and then we would cast those votes. Well, the nominations are actually due October 14th, which is the date of our board meeting. So, we would not get your nominations in in time if we waited until October to nominate someone for the appraisal board.
025So, we are moving it up. We will ask you, we're talking about it tonight. We will ask you at the September 8th meeting uh to nominate one person for uh potential membership on the board of directors. That is a little bit of a change. It has been in the past kind of an unlimited number of nominations. Uh but right now the information that we got from the appraisal district is each entity can nominate one person for service on the appraisal board. Uh there are two positions open right now for a four-year term. Um and so we will make that nomination. We'll get it turned in plenty before the October 14th deadline. By the uh by Halloween, by somewhere around the 30th or 31st of October, we will get that ballot back from the appraisal district
026of all the nominees. At that point, board, you have two meetings upon which to cast your ballots or cast your votes for one of those nominees to serve on the appraisal board. So, it's not two months. I know the deadline says December 14th. It's two meetings because you have more than 5% of the votes in Ellis County. More more than 5% of the taxable value in Ellis County, which is how the votes are allocated for these for these positions. So there is a provision in state law that within two meetings you have to make that that uh casting of your ballot. So it could still be December if we only have one meeting in November, but if we have a second meeting in November, you will have to do it in November. Uh so just
027wanted to make sure that we were all clear on that timeline that uh we have to nominate someone before October 14th and we have to cast our ballots before December 14th. Uh but it because of the size of our district, it has to be at no later than the second meeting from the day we get the ballots. Generally to talk about the board positions, uh open meetings are required quarterly. They do meet about six to 10 times a year. They meet on the second Tuesday uh second Thursday, I apologize, of the month and they meet at about 8:30 in the morning. So uh it is kind of an earlier meeting. It is an earlier commitment from uh these folks who might want to serve on the appraisal board. Uh they serve members serve without compensation.
028Uh if they do incur an expenditure that is budgeted by the appraisal board, uh they can seek reimbursement for that and then you must attend an 8-hour training prior to serving on the appraisal board. Uh for the nomination specific, any nominee must be a resident of Alice County since January 1st of 2024. The actual statute says they must be a resident for two full years before they take uh their spot on the board. This board position would start one one of 26. So they must have been a resident by 11 one of 24. The kicker is anyone nominated cannot be an employee of any taxing entity in Ellis County. So it's not just our taxing entity. They cannot be employee of any taxing entity in Ellis County. So you cannot be an employee of a
029taxing entity and serve on the board of directors of the appraisal district. And then uh some more language that will exclude somebody um cannot be related to an appraiser of the appraisal district or a tax representative who represents a taxpayer for profit or for compensation before the appraisal district uh appraisal review board within the second degree of consuity or affinity. Um, if you're whoever you would like to nominate, you might want to check and make sure they check all those boxes, but uh, that's not a I don't have a list to help you with any of that. Uh, and then nominees cannot be delinquent in their taxes for more than 60 days. So, just as a as a wrap up, board, you will have the op opportunity to nominate someone at the regular September 8th
030board meeting. So, wanted to make you aware of the process and just tell you that within the next two weeks, you're going to need to come up with a nominee if you would like uh to talk about at the September 8th meeting so that we can get it submitted shortly thereafter. Uh any questions on nominees for the appraisal review or the appraisal district board of directors? >> Any questions? Mr. Coin, >> Mr. we uh on this do we have access to who is interested in being on this board or anything >> missal I wish I could help you with that um the information I got from the appraisal district is right now the positions are Mr. Keeler and Mr. Irwin and Mr. Irwin has expressed interest in running again and that's all the information that
031I have from the appraisal district so I would take that to believe that Mr. Keeler is not interested in running again or serving again uh in this capacity, but I don't have any other nominations or any other suggestions of interested people from the appraisal district at this point. Um when nominations are turned in, uh we will need we if we nominate someone, we'll need a biography of them, a short bio so that the other taxing entities know who that person is or a little bit about them. Um, but that's going to be our first clue is when we get that ballot back from the appraisal district with all the bios of the other people who were nominated. That would be really our only clue as to who is interested in serving in this capacity. >>
032Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Anyone else? >> Thank you very much. Moving on to our next item will be our consent agenda. We have items A through H up for consideration. There are no questions. I'll entertain a motion to approve agenda items 8 through eight. Consent agenda items A through H. >> So moved. >> Motion by Mr. McCutchen. >> Second by Mr. Timberl. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say nay. Motion carries. 50. Okay. Moving on to our action item portion will be action item a consideration with possible approval to adopt the maintenance and operation M and interest and syncing INS tax rate for 2025. seems like so long ago that I had a public hearing. Um, but it really wasn't in reality. Board, as a as a quick
033refresh reminder, uh, we're proposing the same tax rate as what was in 2024. M rate of 7552 per $100 in valuation and an INS rate of 4129 per $100 in valuation. Total rate of $11681 uh, per $100 in valuation. I entertain a motion to approve action item A as presented. >> Motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Pittz. Is there a second? >> Second by Mrs. Timberman. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say nay. Motion carries 50. Moving on. Action item B, consideration with possible action to adopt the 2025 2026 operating budgets for the general fund, debt service fund, and child nutrition fund as presented. >> Thank you, sir. Uh board, another quick reminder, uh we're looking at revenues of 1284 in the general fund, 1283 uh expenditure budget with
034a surplus of right at 120,000 uh in the general fund. Debt service a draw of about 1.2 2 million on the budget with revenues of 40.8 million, expenditures of 42.0 million, and then in the child nutrition fund, a balance presentation of revenues and expenditures of of 5.9 million. Uh those are your uh beginning operating budgets for 2526 that ask for your approval. >> Mr. Cen, do we need to at this time uh approve >> if there's any funds that we can find for the Christmas bonus or whatever you want to call it, the bonus at the semester. >> Yes, ma'am. So, that's that's built into the budget. >> That there is there are funds in the budget for that purpose. Yes, ma'am. Uh and you and I have talked previously. We will work to to
035identify any other uh surplus funds that we can as we go through the fall. We will hit a lot of expenditures right at the beginning of the year just because a lot of things are timed um with um a school year our our fiscal year if you will. Uh so if we identify those funds then we will be able to to try to increase that. Yes ma'am. >> I just want to be sure it was included. >> Yes ma'am. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cen, is there any potential revenue that could come in that could help associate with that? So, um, realistically, sir, we did not budget, uh, pay tuition, pre paid prek tuition into next year's budget, uh, because quite honestly, I just didn't know how many would be participating in that.
036Uh, that could yield, uh, some additional revenue. I don't know realistically right now what that number would be. Okay. >> Um, but yes, that could be some additional revenue. Uh, there are always some charges for services that are within the budget. um think of more athletic events were kind of the the way you would think of that. So there could be some give and take on that. If we're having really good years, we could see an increase uh there. We are anticipating a little bit of a decrease in interest earnings. Uh we've heard the talk, we've heard the chatter that we expect uh prime rate or or uh the Treasury to cut the rates, the the Fed to cut the rates uh on investments and borrowing. If that doesn't happen in the way that we
037think or that doesn't happen as quickly as we think, there could always be some additional uh investment earnings that would would yield a little bit more revenue that we could go uh from there. But the major the major things would be student attendance and student enrollment. Um we do not typically budget increases in um targeted students. So when I say that there are students that in the funding formula derive a lot of extra weight. So we do not budget an increase in say pregnant students and services for pregnant students. Uh because that drives a lot of extra revenue. But if you miss it and you don't have that, you have committed yourself to some expenditures that you're not going to have the revenue for. Uh so we are conservative as we go through and and
038budget those. We do not budget um significant increases in special education again because they drive uh additional funding and really any of those additional funding ones we really hold steady with the known what we had last year and we don't add a lot of uh extra funding for those. So there are sources that that we could see some additional revenues as we go through the year. Yes, sir. >> All right. Perfect. Thank you and thank you for your work on this budget and making sure that we're passing a balanced budget and also thank you for your I had some questions for you earlier on that that service fund for explaining that and making that clear because that was a little alarming but um you know we can't control what happens in Austin. I wish we
039could but we can't. And so um I appreciate you. Thank you. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. And we do think long term we're making a smart play with the debt service fund by taking advantage of the hold harmless. It does create a little bit of a bubble this year uh as we issued some debt in advance of what we originally anticipated, but take advantage of that, hold harmless for the life of these bonds. Really think that's going to be a smart long-term play. Uh and then we should be right back in a good uh balanced position with additional property value growth next year. >> Thank you, sir. >> Mr. told with the back to the prek tuition. Uh >> is the state giving us more money for I believe teachers can their children can
040go. Is that is that funded or is it an unfunded mandate? >> That is not funded. Um so really there was already a list of I want to tell you six it may have been seven criteria that get you into uh prek for free. All the state did was add one more to that and that was uh pre-k eligible students of teachers and so no ma'am there was no funding that came along with it. Uh we as a district have been told that we can use our early aotment uh our early education aotment which generally we use for the full day prek component already uh but also for literacy and math uh up to grades three um to try to really help boost our literacy and math uh through third grade. We were told we
041could use that aotment to to cover the cost of any additional uh teacher-based prek students. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Anything else from Mr. Calden? >> I'll entertain a motion to approve action item B as presented. >> So moved. >> Motion by Mrs. Timberman. I have a second. >> Second. Second by Mr. McCuten. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say nay. Motion carries 5-0. >> Thank you board. >> Moving on to action item C. Consideration with possible action to name a delegate to the Texas Association of School Board Tasby board delegation. >> Um, President Autry, it's my understanding that Trusty Creel is interested in serving in this role. Is that correct? >> Yes. >> Okay. And Trusty Timberman is not. Is that correct? >> That's correct. Okay.
042>> Okay. I'll entertain a motion to appoint Kim Creel as the uh school board designation delegation. >> We appoint Kim Creel as the delegate to um the Tech Association school board delegation. >> Motion by Mr. Pittz. >> Second by Mrs. Timman. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. Post say nay. >> Motion carries 5-0. And our last action item will be consideration with possible action to approve policy EFB local as presented. >> Good evening board, Miss McCutchen. As is our practice, we're coming before you uh with our second look at policy EFB local. So if you remember this policy has to do with recent legislation that is required from us to set up a review process for library materials. There are a couple of options and we are recommending the school library
043advisory council. So if you remember the slack as it is often referred to will meet a minimum of two times a year. it will approve or make re recommendations to the board for any changes to library materials. So that would be uh new ones that we would potentially purchase. It could also involve the removal of some these the Slack will have meetings um just like our shack, our student health advisory committee. And so there will be notices and minutes and recordings of these meetings. As you can see, I did want to point out for everyone watching and for y'all for sure that remember these changes or recommendations that the Slack will make to y'all as a board must be available to the public 30 days prior to your potential approval. So there is a a
044timeline of consideration and this does apply to all uh library materials. Now the creation of the slack is going to be covered in our administrative guidelines and we are working through that process. But as you can see here on the left we have the legal requirements and then what we are recommending for WISD. We're going to recommend 14 members. So that would be two members appointed by each schoolboard uh person. Notice eight members at least eight will have to be parents of WISD students and that person cannot be a WSD employee. So the majority of this committee will need to be made up of parents of current students who are not WSD employees. Now the board also has the option to appoint more than one person that could serve as a non- voting member and
045their criteria for those but it is somewhat wide open but we will certainly be giving direction to the board as we move forward assuming approval. Does anyone have any questions about this at this point? I assume the one uh one or more non voting members are those uh WSD staff. >> They can be. Yes, ma'am. So there there is a draft of this policy in your board book, but we are requesting approval for this uh this evening so that we can go ahead and start with creating this council and moving forward with obtaining library materials. >> Do you know how soon you would need the nominations or the appointees for that? We would certainly hope to get them at a regular scheduled meeting or soon thereafter. So I know that we have one coming up
046in September. That would be ideal so that we can start moving forward. Um but as soon as possible since there are some pretty strict timelines on posting and and training y'all and training uh the members of this council. >> Sorry, Mr. Are we unable to purchase any library books till we get this done? >> We have put it on hold. That is correct. >> So, we need to hurry. >> Ideally, yes, we would appreciate the the expediency. >> Any other questions for Mr. Kaggel voting policy ESB local. >> Okay. I entertain a motion to approve action item D as presented. >> So move. >> Motion by Mr. Timberman. >> Second by Mr. Creel. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say nay. Motion carries. 5-0. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you
047very much. >> And our last item, we need a motion to adjourn. >> So move by Mrs. Creel. >> Second, Mr. McCutchen. All in favor say I. I. >> Motion carries 5-0. Thank you.