001now 4:00 we'll call the meeting of the walk Independent School District Board of Trustees to order. Please let the record show that all seven trustees in attendance and this meeting has been duly called and notice this meeting has been duly posted for time and manner required by law. First item on our agenda will be our workshop for the future use of the Coleman building. Mr. Colin, >> thanks sir. Good afternoon board and Miss McCutchen. We uh Aha. Here we go guys. What do you think? It's not white. It's it's colored. Anyway, um this morning in our in our walkthrough was just plain black and white and they were like, "Really? That's a little boring." So, uh, I shaded it blue. Anyway, anyway, regardless, uh, today we're here to talk about future uses of the Coleman
002building and it is a workshop, so do invite your feedback and we'll kind of go through this. Uh, no magic bullet, magic pill on any of this. So, still uh want to give you our our best guess where we are at this point and get some feedback from you. Regarding the building itself, it was uh constructed in the late 60s, early 70s o early 70s, opened in 1970 as Wedgi High School. Um all areas of the property and company encompass approximately 303,000 square feet. So if you take the main Coleman building, go past the skywalk to where DAP is in TLI. Uh and also we're including uh JW and uh the fine arts center and that 303,000 square ft under uh roof. It does not include the tennis courts and the softball field that are
003over there in that calculation. But uh this is just under square roof. Um it is not just a former junior high and a former high school. It also encompasses school of choice, DAP challenge academy, TLI, uh student resources like mind among batter and the Kuanas closet. uh our 18 plus uh education program uh special education department administrative areas and then uh we are planning to house the centralized registration and elementary PES uh employees over at that location as well so that they have uh a better forward-looking representation to our community than the current uh portable building that they're in. So, as we're kind of looking at what the Coleman building could be, we're also trying to be cognizant of what are some areas that we are seeing some struggle within the district in terms of
004just overall space. How can we best utilize the resources that we have uh to better fulfill our mission to educate all students? Uh so came up with a list of about six items uh that administration is really considering as we look at what to do with uh the Evelyn Coleman building. Uh first off, and these are not in any particular order other than these are the order that I thought of them and wrote them down on slides. Uh first off would be to consolidate several administrative functions into a singular building. Uh we believe this would improve efficiency of operations. Uh we really are kind of out of space at this building. Uh you can see that with the two portables that we have out back. Uh and for the most part, uh we are uh
005we're pretty packed in uh in most any and every space within this building. Uh, is there room to add a few more spaces? Yes, there absolutely are. We could do some some renovation within this building, probably make two or three more uh office spaces within the building, but as a growing district, we know uh that's not going to be our forever home uh in its current state. Uh there are things that we would need to do either build additional square footage next door to us um or something else if we're going to continue um with our administrative space as a growing district. uh without movement, first impression of our parents, registering students and our staff will be that of a welcome to your portable building uh when you go to HR or when you go
006to PEMS. Additionally, uh we know that pre kindergarten is tight. We uh originally had prek over at Turner. We now have prek over at Jimmy Ray, Northside, Turner, and Marvin. Uh and as additional elementary campuses come online, you may see prek campuses or prek classrooms at those campuses as well. Uh right now Jimmy Ray is the only elementary campus uh that has some open classrooms for prek. Um so I was confirming with Miss Mott earlier that uh we have reached our capacity in terms of open classrooms at Turner and so there might be a few spots within those classrooms uh to round out enrollment but overall we don't have any additional classrooms uh sitting idle over at the Turner building. Additionally, yes ma'am. believe at Northside it's two at Marvin it's one and at Jimmy
007Ray I believe it's four Marvin is three and Jimmy Ray is four >> nine yeah eight or nine yes ma'am >> um another space where we are uh really up against it would be with our Little Chiefs Academy. So, this is a program with dual purpose. Obviously, it is to serve uh our students who may have um a child of their own to help them finish uh high school if they have a child while they're with us. But it's also mainly used uh as a an incentive for our staff, as a child care center for our staff. Uh right now um I don't believe I'm speaking in hyperbole when I tell you the waiting list has more names on it than we have licensed seats to operate. I want to tell you we have license
008for about 85 seats and I want to tell you the waiting list is over a hundred in length. Uh it is kind of a running joke, but it's a serious joke that about the moment a staff member finds out that they're pregnant. They they get on the waiting list hoping that a spot will open up by the time their child is two or three uh to get into child care with us. Uh every now and again they get a little bit luckier than that. They might find a spot as a newborn, but uh generally not so much. So uh that is one effort or one uh area that as a staff incentive we would really like to open up some space uh for little chiefs if possible. Also our transportation department is quickly running out
009of spaces for their buses. uh you may not uh directly make that correlation between uh Coleman and its uses of Coleman, but depending on how we uh utilize Coleman and things that we might move over to that space, we might be able to open up some additional parking spots or additional route creativity for transportation uh to have a little bit more room. Our technology department is in roughly the same boat as we've gone with 1:1 student devices. uh there is a need for additional uh space not only to receive but to process, store and repair uh those devices. And as we continue to add campuses, we will continue to add uh technology technicians. And so they will need a place in which they can house uh and work uh and and work together as a
010team over in transportation. And then sport services is also um kind of running out of some space. uh where it is felt most uh if we're being really honest is in the morning and afternoons as their parking spaces generally are running out with uh bus drivers who report to report to work earlier than our sport services staff in the middle of the day. You would see uh some available parking over there. But when you have transportation, uh, maintenance, custodial, and child nutrition all at the same address over on Solon Road, uh, there are plenty of times that they're running up against each other and not having, uh, sufficient parking or spaces within those buildings. Uh, what we're talking about in terms of utilization of space. So just at this campus we have about 16,500 ft
011of office space about uh 13,400 ft² in this building alone and then 1,500 square f feet in each of the two portals behind us. So about 165 uh over at the TLI department, the the uh down the skywalk in the in the former uh CTE area over at the Coleman building right now. Just the heated and cooled spaces uh is a little under 14,000 square feet with our TLI department. So they do have uh various uh storage capacities that are not currently heated and cooled. Uh so that would not fully encompass all of their spaces, but just a general idea of where we uh would need office space. Uh that heated and cooled to about 14,000. And then special education, uh currently they have about 25 2600 uh square feet of office space and then
012they have about four classrooms across the hallway. That would give them a total of about 4,000 square ft uh for all of their areas. So overall, we're looking at about 34,500 ft of space. Um, we are trying to be good stewards and utilize all of our uh facilities that we currently have. So, go through a couple of suggestions for you. Uh, I will point out the one that that's kind of my personal favorite, but that doesn't mean that it's it's the right or the wrong. Uh, but we'll just kind of go through these. One suggestion is to relocate our prek program from Turner into part of the Coleman building. When I say part of, think the northern part. uh the A and B hallways kind of the one of the newer additions down by Racetrack
013um and relocate the administrative functions in the southern part of that building. So if you kind of walk in the main doors to your left would be prek to your right would be uh consolidated administrative spaces. I'll let you see the strengths and the concerns. Uh I'm going to focus a little bit more on the concerns than the strengths. Um the main strength with most of these plans is that we would get administration consolidated and then from there uh we would have some options on on things to do. Um moving prek prek takes up about 18 of the classrooms currently over at Turner. Just taking them off that campus is going to leave that building realistically underutilized for a hot minute. We're gonna have to get um an expanded license from um Oh, >> yeah.
014But it's the the TD uh Department of Licensing and Regulations, TDLR. Uh TDLR will have to come out and certify um additional classrooms to add to our license before we can expand uh over at the Little Chiefs. So, it's not like we move prek and then the very next day we expand Little Chiefs. there's a process we would have to go through to expand that license. So, it's not an immediate uh but that would open up a good number of classrooms for little chiefs to expand into uh over at that building. Um my hesitation in all honesty with prek is one of the original qualifiers for prek was low-income students. And not to be overly disparaging, but our low-income students may or may not have the transportation because we do not offer bus services for
015prek. We don't have car seats and we don't have uh the seat belts and the safety apparatus that you would need for a four-year-old uh on our buses. So, there is a uh incomerestricted um housing development right next door to Turner that might make it a little bit harder for some of those residents to attend uh prek if it was not so conveniently located right across the street at Turner. Can't prove that. Just a thought. Uh, do you know how many students we receive from the housing? >> No, ma'am. I really do not at this time. >> It's a small number. >> Yeah, I would imagine it's not going to be a huge earth rocker either way. Um, one thing that that is going to uh create us a little bit of challenge that we
016don't fully understand yet is with the changes in legislation, uh, we know that teachers now will be able to send their kids to prek for free. Um, I don't really have a good way of of pinpointing that number. Um, but that may be something that we also see a little bit of movement within our PK prek programs as a result. Give you a general idea of what it could look like uh just in terms of space utilization. Uh these are just conceptual uh at the uh at the moment, but you'll see prek essentially taking all of the administrative offices going up through AB Hall and then where the old uh family consumer science lab and teachers lounge were uh in the Coleman building and then you start seeing uh sped. That is a pretty good
017outline of what they're currently utilizing and then other spaces uh from consolidated administration as you go down. All right. Another plan or another proposal uh would be to relo relocate Little Chief's Academy uh from Turner into the Coleman building. So instead of re relocating preK, we now relocate Little Chief's Academy. Uh and the rest of that puzzle is essentially uh a replication of the previous proposal. Uh your administrative functions going over there. Again, one of the big concerns with doing this is that that's not an overnight thing for Little Chiefs. We'd have to go through the process of making sure that we had all the spaces and all the square footage requirements for them to be able to expand their license and operate in that Coleman building. Uh so for the immediate that would be
018everybody stay status quo, operate where you are as we work on getting things ready over at the Coleman building for that expansion. When they get their expanded license, then you would be moving. So it would not be an immediate fix uh for either Little Chiefs or for preK. Um yes, ma'am. >> In order for them to get their license, they'd have to have a playground first, right? >> Yes, ma'am. >> And that's a big expense. playground would would generally be about 200,000 uh that yes, we would need to to put a playground in. But to be real honest, it's going to be that way either way, whether it's prek or whether it's Little Chiefs. There's not a playground structure currently over there. So, a playground would have to be constructed either way. But a playground
019wouldn't hold up prek from going over there like it would little chiefs. >> To be compliant with the expectations of them getting their recess time and outdoor time, it might actually hold it up a little bit. I mean, at the very beginning of school, we might be limited by u temperatures. We might be limited by heat index. Uh but that's going to quickly fade as we kind of get into, you know, a more mild fall time uh when students would be allowed to go outside and have that recess time. >> Um couldn't prek take advantage of that um area by the cafeteria that's all fenced in. At least get outdoors there. >> That's that's kind of our thought. That's kind of our thought at the moment is that's kind of we would morph that into
020the playground space for either or whether it's prek or little chiefs because it's already fenced in and it's on the way to the gym. Uh so we would have to add some fencing in the back to go from the building through uh to the gym because right now it's kind of open uh where we used to have the portable buildings back there. Uh so I was talking with Mr. Reeves today. We can either come from the corner of the TLI building and and kind of go at an angle to where the gyms are now and encompass all of that grassy area or we could just kind of follow the sidewalk along the grassy area from the cafeteria to uh the Turner gym. But either way, we would need to put a little bit of fencing
021on that end. >> Now, the um daycare would also need um a kitchen because they supplied lunch and breakfast. Yeah. So, in the uh in the A and B halls, there are about 24 classrooms right now. And so, in just looking at it, uh we were thinking we would need at least three of them to serve as office space for Little Chiefs and kitchen space. And so, taking those classrooms out would leave them about 21 classrooms. And I believe they're currently operating in about eight. Uh so it would be an almost tripling of the space available for little chiefs uh within that area if we were so to move them there. Conversely, it'd be roughly the same with uh prek. Prek currently is I believe in 18 classrooms over at Turner. Um and so if
022there's 24 over there and we're taking two or three of them up for office space, um I would still leave them about 21 22 classrooms. They would have a little bit of of room to grow, but not nearly as much grow as Little Chiefs. Also over at uh the little chiefs um in the rooms where the kids are being u potty trained, they have bathrooms and sinks. Um it's kind of hard to train a kid when you got to drag them down the hallway to to a bathroom. >> So >> plus you got to have the people to do it. >> Absolutely. Uh so when this whole process started, it was back in uh the spring back in February. uh and Miss Mott and myself and um Miss Gillum and Miss Clark uh all sat
023down over at Turner and we started having conversations about bare minimums, what could happen, what must happen, what can't happen. Uh and so as we walked through, while it may not be a best case scenario, uh Miss Clark did tell us that she believed that they would be able to uh accomplish all of their tasks, potty training students, etc., uh with restrooms in close proximity and not necessarily in every single classroom. >> I was just thinking of that special ed for special ed used to have their offices over at Turner. There's restrooms close there. Yes, ma'am. >> That if they expanded because right now in the baby rooms they they can do 10. >> So if they expanded down there and they had two more baby rooms then we'd be up 20. They have 13
024and the little toddler two more rooms would be an extra 26. So >> yes, ma'am. >> Sweet. >> Yeah, their their utilization of all that space may be uh dependent on their waiting list and so it may uh fluctuate a little bit year after year, but yes, we were kind of looking at potential significant expansion of Little Chiefs. Realistically, in either scenario, whether they are expanding within the Turner building or whether they're expanding within the Coleman building, uh there's great room uh of potential growth for that little chief's program in either either building. Um general idea of what spacing might look like. This one is a little bit smaller in terms of its overall footprint of Little Chiefs. um they do not currently encompass as many rooms as prek does and so allowing them the
025ability to grow would not require the same use of all of the space over at Coleman that it would require for prek. Um and so you can see uh just kind of a general idea of what it may look like. This uh this plan would also add a couple more professional development spaces uh for uh our district as well within that facility. Where's the front door of the building on this? >> Um, right between where it says sped and the blob right above it is the main front door that has the long covered walkway. Um, the general idea in my head in kind of drawing out these spaces was what would be the things that a lot of people would likely be going to this building for. So, I tried to keep the superintendent close
026to the front main door and I tried to keep special education close to the front main door. Uh, just assuming that that those would kind of be some of the big uh reasons people would be going to the administration building. Uh, the general idea also is that little chiefs would have their own separate entrance off to the north of this map. Uh, that's the current bus loop. It already serves as student entrance uh on that end. It has badge access. Uh so it would be thought of that that would serve as their entrance on that end uh for Little Chiefs. We'd also uh have a uh badge controlled uh wall uh put up in the hallway to kind of delineate Little Chiefs from the rest of the building, which would also be uh something that
027they would need for for their license. uh but to help kind of delineate some spaces within that building. I think that both of these are good ideas for the use of the Coleman building, but I think that taking prek to the Coleman building would be easier for little chiefs to get the licensing and convert. As far as construction wise, you going to have some work over here. >> Yes, sir. Turner is already kind of set up for little kids. Daycare would easily be able to convert over in that space. >> Yes, sir. >> Have we looked into what the value of this property is? I mean, this is the most expensive piece of property the district owns, and I'm I'm for utilizing everything, but I I think that's a big piece of the equation here
028of how you have to do that in a long-term plan. And it I also I don't know. I just I had that concern. I have a couple more, but I'll >> I'll sit on them for a second. >> You uh you are a little bit ahead of me, sir. Um so, another option uh in all transparency would be to sell the property for fair market value and uh use those proceeds to do whatever it is that the district would need to do. Uh my proposal would be to construct additional administrative spaces or additional spaces in the district as needed. Um, but that would be up for further discussion. So, when we talk about selling the property, it's not the straightest of lines, but you know, that's that's me trying to draw on uh on Google
029map, Google Earth. So, everything outlined in yellow is is what we have had conversations with the realer about if we were to um sell this part of the property. You'll see that we we tried to not include any of the parking along Indian drive because we know that those are utilized spaces as we get to football. Uh and we get to those athletic events. We'd also would not be including uh the tennis courts or the old softball field back there. Uh so those tennis courts would remain, the softball field would remain. Uh and then as you keep going further to the east towards the stadium, uh the multi-purpose, etc. would all be there. So within all of that, that area is approximately 20 acres. Uh and in talking with the realer, the estimate was if
030we were to sell that property raw dirt, we would receive about $9.5 million. Now, to get it to raw dirt, we would need to spend upwards of of $1.75 to $2 million uh to demolish all the structures that are on site. Um that number is courtesy of Pogue and a couple of panicked conversations with them uh to get that that number in order. Uh they will tell you that the estimate was a little bit lower, but we're always concerned about what might be on site um that we're otherwise not disclosing. So I did round it up a little bit to 2 million. Cost to build new administrative spaces approximately 475 to 500 a square foot. Uh that is coming off of Prosper ISD just completed their administration building at 550. I do not believe that
031our building would be anywhere near um the level of dness that Prosper did in their building. Uh so just a general estimate right now 475 to 500 a square foot. If I'm needing to add 20,000 square ft um that would be roughly $10 million. So selling the property after clearing the land I'd be upside down by about $2.5 million. um to build 20,000 square ft. So I would have traded a 300,000t building for a 20,000t addition plus $2.5 million >> and that's not considering the cost of land to build the new site on. >> Yes, sir. So in this scenario, land would be a non a non-factor because we would own the land in either location. Uh but yes, if I had to find an additional site, that 20,000 square feet would go up to
032at least 40,000 square feet. Uh because I'm giving myself consideration for uh this building that I already own, it would be putting roughly a 20,000t addition next door. >> You know, it sounded a little high when I heard it from Pogue, but you know, I got it from Pogue and they >> Yeah. Do you have >> all in with with architects and fees and everything? I said, "Yeah, you know what? I'll run with the number. I don't have time to boil it down today." Yes. >> You have an estimated cost on what it would uh cost to do these uh proposals you have presented? >> So, realistically, um for the most part, Coleman is a bunch of classroom space as is. And so moving little chiefs or moving prek for the most part that is
033almost just move in ready here we go. Uh we'd have to do a lot of communication with with families. Um we'd have to do a lot of communication with our community. Uh there would be some things yes that we would need to update. Um in the bond in Proposition C there is some money uh for the renovation of the Coleman campus. I would tell you I wouldn't feel bad about using that money for the prek side and I wouldn't feel bad about using that money for the little chief side. I would feel that that was not what we advertised to the community to use it for the admin side. Uh so if we moved admin over there, I'm going to tell you right now, I think we would have to use it as is and
034make do for as long as we can. Uh yes, it would be not as efficient. I would love to go in there and start knocking down walls. I just honestly don't have the money to go and do that. But I know that that I have space over there that would encomp or that would allow for all of us uh in this building to be on one campus. We could all be on that Coleman campus uh with TLI and with sped and potentially even technology. >> But you don't know what that would cost? >> No, sir. I have not sunk a bunch of time into uh getting people's plans on where they want wall want walls uh either removed, added or modified in any way. >> Mr. Mr. Colin, how much money do we have in
035the bond for improvements to Coleman like you just mentioned? >> Uh, so there's about 6 million in the bond for Coleman, specifically the campus. Um, and and sir, to that point, I would tell you I'd feel okay with using that money for prek and little chiefs, but not so much for admin or any other parts of that building. >> Thank you. So, you know, one of the knocks of moving Coleman across the street was the building had all kinds of problems, structural, I mean, you name it. So, what happened to those issues? Because it hasn't been corrected to my knowledge. I'm not going to tell you that any of those issues um have been remedied or corrected in any way, shape, or form. What I would tell you is that I do think there is
036a difference between having an instructional space and having an administrative space. I think some of those issues just on their nature are mitigated by the fact that you're not having kids and you're not instructing kids in a vast majority of that building. Uh for the most part, our our proposals at this point are leaving students on the northern end, which is one of the more recent additions in that uh building complex. Uh so those classrooms generally are going to be more uh ready for students to be in and more uh set up for instruction. But to your point, it does not address any of those other concerns uh that caused us to leave it once as a high school and now leave it a second time uh as a junior high campus. I would agree
037with your statement about putting adults in it versus children. I just don't want to put money into a building that somebody's going to come back to somebody else because it won't be this guy sitting here three, four, five years down the road going, "We're in a building that needs X, Y, and Z, and we spent all this money." You see where I'm going? >> No, I get exactly where you're going. Um, I know that within the bond there are some funds that are for priority items like fire alarm systems, etc., etc. Uh, I believe those items have been taken care of regardless of the use of the building. As we start getting further along though, um, I believe roof was already addressed, HBAC was already addressed uh, previously. There are going to be some things
038that that if admin moves over there, we're going to have to accept as is. and we can slowly work over time uh to uh modify those as our funds are available. But to be honest, I don't see us going out for a huge, you know, 1520$20 million bond to renovate the administration building. I don't think that that plays uh in Ellis County. I don't think that plays in Wachi ISD. I think we would have to make use of it. Uh to be honest though on the other end I think that there are concerns with this building uh that we just have to we accept and we just keep on rolling on with life. Um you know uh within most any any rooms in this building you can tell what it's doing outside just by putting
039your hand up on the window. So when it's uh when it's cold we've got frost on the inside of our windows. when it's hot, you know, it you feel the you feel the cool air leaving uh around the windows as well. This building is in need of an upgrade. It's in need of of some love, some renovation work as well. Uh that would be the question, the I guess overarching question is this building from early 1900s. Do we want to sink money into it or do we want to move to a building that is, you know, I don't know exactly how much newer, but I know 1970 is a lot newer than I believe this is 1911 in this building. So, we're looking at at a good 59 years uh newer. It will have its
040own problems. Fully understand that. Um >> I'll be willing to bet this building was constructed better than that one was. >> I'm not willing to to argue with you on that. When do you think you could get us a true number of what it would cost to do >> what was presented? >> So, short of getting with an architect to actually uh detail out all of the changes that we would want to make at that building to compare apples to apples. Um, right now I can tell you I'll work on it, but I do not I don't have a good timeline for you. >> It's going to be hard personally for me to say yay or nay without >> Yes, sir. >> a price tag. >> I think all the concepts presented are good. I
041think definitely helping any of our teachers with child care. It's a plus there's so many things we have to do. What bothered me more than anything still else to take care And I have a hard time allocating those dollars until I got everybody in a safe place. And driving my kids down the highway in a bus is not safe. >> Understood. >> I mean, just you know me, I don't beat around bushes very good. So that that's my concern. >> Thanks, sir. >> I appreciate that concern, but I will also say that um I get a lot of the overflow from the students who have kids. um they call my daycare and we take them in. We make room for them when we don't have room because again there's no room at Little Chiefs. There's
042no room. >> Is that building is the building there where little Chief's located now at the old Turner building. Is there any room left in there for them to expand what they have? I understand that they have to have registration or licensing from the state. But what is the square footage like? Yeah, my understanding is there's not an open room in that entire building on the prek side or little chief side. >> Yes, sir. >> And as far as cost, um you can get with any architect that you like, but before you get a true cost of what it's going to take to move the daycare, you're going to have to get with childcare license because they're going to tell you some things that you that you're going to need that you're not going to
043know of. Just why you getting an architect who's familiar with daycare? But yeah, you're going to have to get you're going to have to sit down with them and say, "Hey, this is what we're looking to do." And they're going to have to line it out for you. They're going to pretty much tell you how to how to do it. See, my only two questions before the meeting was how much it would cost to demolish the building. Not saying that's what I want to do. I just was curious. And then two, what the cost would be for inside. Um, I know we got one answer. Uh, something else I was just going to ask, how comfortable I know it's not comfortable to have portables, but how long would you say time frame wise y'all have
044here before you're out of room completely? The realistic answer is as long as as you tell me to stay here, we'll make it we'll make it uh we'll make it happen. We'll do whatever we need to do. Um, functionally, yes. I would imagine we've got a little bit more time left in this building. Whether it's 5 years, whether it's 7 years, I really don't know. Um, all of that is going to kind of be determined by the needs of the community. And when our friends meet in Austin, there may be needs that we're not thinking about. Um, to that end, there might be some things that that we're able to do. We might we have operated as a uh non-ontiguous administrative uh district for quite a while. Uh we've had TLI disassociated from uh the
045other administrative functions. You could even add to that. Uh technology has not been a part. Uh child nutrition uh support services has not done part. Can we continue operating that way? We can. Uh is it inefficient? It is. But we can make do. we can uh we can develop different processes and pro uh procedures to make sure that we bridge those gaps the best that we can. So uh directly to your question, Mr. McCutchen, I would imagine that, you know, if that's uh the way that we want to go as a district, we will make it work and we will continue doing what we need to do. Uh and as we have to, we will take uh components from here and we will find a new home for them so that they're allowed to to
046grow and we will modify our procedures to uh to address that accordingly. Okay. And then time frame wise on anything with with Coleman, I mean, I know this is just open discussion, but is there a a year or anything that y'all have targeted to possibly if we were to go that way to move? >> Realistically, we're just now in the phase of starting to dream and think of what could be and where are we going? Yes, we had a plan with the 17,000 plus student plan. We knew we were going to be expanding Coleman Junior High. We knew we were going to be relocating Coleman Junior High uh to the building on Indian Drive, whether we want to call it the 9th Grade Center or uh Old Global, whatever we want to call that building.
047The Hancock building to me is the easiest reference. Um but just like everything else, as we've gone through this project, we had all these plans. We had a ninth grade center and we got delayed by construction. We got delayed by plans. So realistically, all that to say, there hasn't been a whole lot of time putting into the whatifs until we're now at the point where we go, hey, we are 95 98% done with our renovations to the Hancock building. Now, let's start, we know that we're going to be moving uh Coleman Junior High out. Now, let's start sinking the energy into figuring out what could Coleman be. Uh so, I really don't have a good answer for you on time frame. Um I would assume that this is a minimal. I didn't think there was
048a lot of work that was going to have to be done at the TC Wyman building to get it ready for uh Global High School moving back into it. Um and I've been surprised at how that's taken the better part of six, seven months. Um so I would tell you I think it's going to be every bit of an entire semester in a best case scenario and maybe even a full uh academic year um in a probably more realistic scenario. I don't think this is going to be a a weekend move where we go, hey, we've been doing this for three weeks. Let's move. I don't think that's going to be the case at all. >> Okay. Thanks for the info because some of the questions I had, you answered them. So, okay. >> Appreciate
049it. Thanks. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Calvin. Could you maybe um let the board know um our current situation with our centralized teams and possibly needing to relocate some of our directors to Wasachi High School um just in the meantime? Absolutely. So, right now in in one of our two portable buildings, we have the the uh shell of our PES department. And so, with our budget reduction uh committee that met in the spring, we decided we're going to centralize registration and elementary PES. So, we're we've um removed some elementary PES positions. We've consolidated those amongst campuses and we've moved them to a central location. So that means that I really need spaces for about three more people or four more people actually in the PES world. So I've got a couple of options at this
050point. Option one is I can remove uh the PES department that was already here and I can put them on another campus. Um my preference would be Coleman at this point, but that's uh that's always up for discussion. uh I can put them at at Coleman uh because it would not be a portable building as the welcome face to registering your your student walks at you ISD. My other option uh would be to relocate uh three directors who are currently out in the second portable building and make that the PES centralized PES and uh district uh enrollment center for our uh centralized enrollment. Uh so those would be relocating the CT director, the fine arts director and the director of security. Uh so we would have to do some work on our end to identify
051appropriate locations uh in which to house those individuals, but uh we can definitely start working on those plans as well. >> Have we looked at or thought any more about I won't say locations. You could probably think of a couple and I can too. Is it also worth it to maybe utilize part of that Coleman building if we need to for some type of ele sub elementary type children whether it be one or the other then get rid of part of the other and look at uh some of the existing office buildings and walks at you that have come up recently that that are pretty pretty sizable and pretty large. Yeah, I took >> because I think that that might be another way to spend your dollars without having to I I'm a little concerned
052about what you might find in WHS if you go start tearing it apart. It could get real expensive real fast. >> And that your last point is the reason that I inflated from the original estimate of 1.8 8 million to demolish it to 2 million because I don't really know. Uh with an acid uh cabinet, with grease traps, with the possibility of the A word, there are plenty of of possible hiccups. >> Uh I know I know >> I don't want to speak it into existence, but I think you're absolutely correct. In fact, I'm pretty sure that we know it's there and it's encapsulated, but that means that it's just going to cost a good bit to get it out. Um so to that end that I tried to be conservative but also realistic on
053those demolition costs for that reason. Uh to the other part of your question yes as buildings come available uh that is one thing that we try to do is we try to go and look and try to well we look on paper first. We we reach out uh we talk with our realtor and we say, "Hey, you know, if you know of things that that might be realistic, might be a possibility. Don't give me, you know, the 500 square foot or the 4,000 foot office building. That's not going to suit a need. Uh but if it's of of of size and there's a way that we could make that work, absolutely, we'd love to to look at those and start dreaming of ideas. How can we make this work?" Um, you know, there's there are
054some options that that may be uh things for us to consider in town. Uh, as other spaces come available, maybe we consider those. Uh, unfortunately though, for the most part, those are going to be straight out of fund balance to to make those purchases happen as as we don't have any bonds fund bond funds related to purchasing uh of facilities. Um, so yes, we we try to do our diligence as things come open and and we try to we try to scout some out in the uh in the meantime go, hey, if this building ever came available, man, that might be something to consider. Uh, but usually when we do those, they don't come available. just to just to be real honest about it, >> I'm gonna say that uh I think there's a known
055here and that's that the growth is inevitable and so at some point here real soon you're going to need to expand prek. I know Frank Lu Jett is coming. don't know how many classrooms there is going to be allocated for prek, but you're going to need more prek space and with more teachers, um, Creek Frankie Lette, you're going to need more daycare space as well. So either way it go uh um here soon you're going to be looking to do something as far expanding those whether it's the Coleman building or not. >> Yes, sir. Um, you know, we talk we've talked about fund balance a lot and u, if we start talking about dipping in the fund balance to buy some kind of structure here in town, what are we going to tell our teachers
056when we keep telling them we can't give them raises because we don't want to dip into the fund balance? I I don't think that's a good picture. >> Okay. My my point on that is when I said that I don't want you think I meant to do that. I would think we liquidated. >> Ryan's the one that said it and I thought uh as far as prek and little chiefs, if it just came down to those two, I think it's better to move prek and leave little chiefs where it's at and let them expand into that where those special ed offices used to be. But >> okay. Anyone else? >> Okay. Thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you, sir. >> Okay. At this time, it is 4:44. The board's going to convene into close
057session according section 551.001 at SEC. It is now 444. Now 5:21, the board's going to reconvene back into open session. At this time, I'm going to ask Mr. Cooper to lead us in our invocations, then followed by our pledges of allegiance to the American and Texas flag by Marissa, Adeline, Eleanor, and Everett Lockage. But before we do our prayer, I'm going to ask uh everyone if we could please um have a moment of silence for our uh fellow Texans in the Hill Country for the devastating flood that uh has affected uh our entire state. So >> Okay. And thank you all for that moment of silence. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, most gracious honor of God, Father, we thank you for this opportunity to continue to serve our WISD community. And Father, we just thank
058you, Father, for allowing us to be a part of this day as we look back and we reflect on those who mourn the loss of their loved ones. Father, we ask that you would steer this meeting. Help keep us on path. help keep the main thing the main thing which is the future education of our children and father again in any way that we error we ask that you correct it and we just thank you again for the opportunity to continue to serve in Jesus mighty name we pray. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to thee Texas. One state under God. One
059and indivisible. Okay, next item on our agenda is our open forum. At this time, we do not have anyone signed up to speak tonight. So, we're going to go out of order. If you're following on your agenda, we're going to move to our action items, which is item nine on our agenda. Action item A, consideration with possible approval to hire director of public relations. Okay, >> we're called. >> All right. Good evening, Boyd and Miss McCutchen. Um, it's my recommendation that the board approve the hiring of Rebecca Lockidge as the director of public relations. She brings a strong background in communications, deep ties to our community, and a clear understanding of our district's values. She's forward thinking and wellprepared to lead our public engagement efforts with transparency and purpose. >> Any questions? Okay. I entertain
060a motion to approve action item A as presented. >> So move. >> Motion by Mrs. Timberman. >> Second by Mrs. Creel. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. >> Post say nay. >> Motion carries. 70. [Applause] >> I mean, let's do them all. All right. >> Okay. Moving to action item B, which will be consideration with possible approval to hire director of curriculum. >> All right. Board. I recommend that the board approve the hiring of Brandy Morris as the director of curriculum. With over 20 years in education, she successfully led district-wide initiatives, developed meaningful curriculum and assessments, and supported staff through high-quality training. Her experience in leadership will greatly enhance our academic pro programs. Any questions or comments? Okay. Entertain a motion to approve action item B as presented. >> So moved. >>
061Motion by Mr. McCutchen. >> Second by Mr. Pittz. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> Post say nay. Motion carries 70. Congratulations. [Applause] And our last action item will be consideration with possible approval to hire principal at Finley Junior High. >> Thank you. It is my recommendation that the board approve Ben Bridges as the principal of Finley Junior High. He has a strong understanding of the campus's needs and culture and brings a sense of consistency and care to his role. He's committed to protecting the unique strengths of Finley while continuing to support its growth. I recommend that we approve Ben as principal at Finley. >> Questions, comments? Okay, I'll entertain an action and a motion to approve action item C as presented. >> So move. >> Motion by Mrs. Creel. >> Second by
062Mr. Cooper. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Say n. Motion carries 70. Congratulations. Good job, man. >> Keep up. You're coming close. like your first Where's the grandma? Okay. Now to the report section of our agenda will be report A which will be our superintendent report. Mr. concussion. >> Okay, thank you. Um, in this report, just have a few things like to let everyone know about. First is our um, Wakatchi ISD leadership retreat that is planned for July 21st and 22nd. And that will include all of our district leaders, principles, um, assistant principles, directors, and of course the cabinet. And we are hosting this out at uh, the Old Bison Ranch. and um just want to thank them. They're providing that space at no charge. We did go out and um kind of
063did a walkthrough of the the property today and it's going to be amazing. So, we're really looking forward to that learning opportunity. Um also want to talk to you a little bit about our our town halls that we have had for zoning for Wachi Creek High School. So, there were six planned for over the summer. Four of them have been held and I'd like to thank Dr. Aver for his help with those. Uh the last two will be held both on August 7th. We will have one at 10 a.m. and one at 6 PM. Those will both be held at the Coleman Fine Arts Center. And um we have had quite a few questions um throughout our process with these town halls. And um we've updated the slides a little bit. So on our website
064under explore WISD and then under resoning, you will um be able to access a frequently asked questions document. We thought that'd be the best place to put all the questions that are coming in, put those together. And um also the current slide deck is available under um that same uh area on the website, explore WISD and resoning. And then last thing, I would just like to once again thank Dr. Averett for all he has done for Wakatche ISD. Um all the students lives you have impacted, all of the staff and parents. And so we greatly appreciate you. Um definitely wish you the best as you move on to your new role at the city of Wakahhatchee and wish you the best in all your future endeavors. And we're a little jealous of that green uh
065rocky chair there by the way. So thank you again Dr. A. >> And does anyone have any questions? Anything that I can answer for you? >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Moving on to report B will be ourformational bond 2023 construction update. Mr. Mott. >> Good evening board. Mccuten. I'm here to give you the bond 2023 construction update. So the Hancock building we're about 98% complete. Mainly what's left there are the punch list. We just got VK's done last week. Uh their punch was done last week and the hardware was done the week before. So they're going through and correcting those issues as we speak. The fieldhouse locker rooms, they're going to be in about October 25th. They'll be installed in that time frame there. And the football and track uh will be finished
066about that same time in the middle in the month of October 25. So, I'm going give you a few pictures here. Here's your uh football field and uh track going in there. You can see there's a power line going right through the middle. And you can see in that bottom of that picture, you can see there's a power pulse right in the middle of about lane six of the track. So that is being moved from by Encore. We're kind of at their leisure on that you'd say. Um they did get have some problems getting out there early on because of storms going on through the area, people out of power and stuff like that. But since they've been on site, they've been there every day since then. As you can see there, you can see
067there in the top right, you can kind of see a picture. And here's another picture of they're starting to dig. So, we are putting that power underground instead of putting it just above ground around it just to help the help it look a little better and everything else. We're putting all that power up under the ground there. So, they're going to wind it around the edge of the track and then we have two retention ponds going in down that side there. They're going to move it in right in between those two detention ponds. So, it's a little bit delayed because of those time things like that. um with Encore getting on there, they put us a little bit behind, but um like I said, you can see they're doing doing all the work they can
068around the areas they can until Encore is out of the way. Binley Junior High is about 75% complete. If you've been by there in the last week or so, you'll start to see the front panels are going up. The old the yellow area that we had up there in the front is starting to be covered up there by some um it's going to be like dark brown almost like a bronze color um aluminum panels there. We'll be painting the areas of the building that are right next to that that right now are a peachy pink is the easiest way for me to color that. Um those will be painted about that same color. And then there's some old faded green uh gutters and downspouts. We'll be painting those as well um to help match and
069clean up the front. Maintenance will do through the years. Next year or so, they'll probably do the rest of the building. They're doing the painting of that the same way. We're starting the flooring in the library was actually completed this morning. Um, we're starting tiling on all the walls, hallways, around in the um, uh, cafeteria, things like that. You're going to see some of those pictures. We're doing the painting. We've just about got everything pretty much got one coat of paint. The last coat of paint will be right before we move in. Just so if anybody nicks walls, we have it all cut. Catch that in the last part. And the concrete flat work, they're scheduled to have started that last week, but rain has kind of halted that. We have that on both projects.
070We got flight work needing to be done, but we can't get into it because of the rain right now. It's kind of weird that we're talking about that in the middle of July of rain stopping us from doing anything here. But looks like the weather's going to give us a couple of weeks that we may be able to get in there and start getting this things done. So, I was telling you about that right there. You see there? That's on the front left. You can see that is the finished panel there. On the front right, it still has some of the wrapping on it. Um, but that there um is what you're seeing there. That'll all be covered through there and all above that there on the glass and everything. And that you can see
071that color right there by the bricks where I was talking about where that stuckco is. We'll be painting that picture in your picture there on the left that is standing at the at the front of the library looking at the stage. You can see that used to be a three tiered um cafeteria with a multi-tiered ceiling. It's not anymore. When you walk into that area and look at it, it is so spacious. You would have never guessed that we had that sitting in that building without doing anything lifting the roof off or anything like that. You'd never guess that it's that much space in there. And then the area picture on the right, that is actually looking from the hallway through the edge of the cafeteria into what will be the library. That'll be a
072glass wall right there looking over into the cafeteria and looking into the library right there. As of today, all that is tiled right there that you see all those pallets of work. That's all got tiled today. everything. You can see the tiling in that picture on the left to the left of the stage. That's all completed. They're just starting on the right side. So, that's all tile that you see there going from the stage up. We're totally redoing the stage, sanding it down, cut, making it all black, black, all new sh um lights, uh curtains, all that will all be new in that stage area and everything there. Here's you a picture of actually the library floored. Um you can see that's looking from one of the doors looking in. You see those windows in
073the back there and that and the picture on your right is actually just looking down the admin hallway. There's one of your offices there on the left. I'm not going to tell you who it is. I don't know who's going in what offices. And if I told you today, Mr. Bridges may change who's going in that office. So, I don't know that answer. I just know it's one of the small offices there in the front area. That's actually right off of reception. Howard Junior High is still running the same way, about 75% complete. Lights and ceiling grid are going in. They actually got finished this weekend in the cafeterias and the band hall. All the ceiling grid got completed. Now they're working on lights right now. Same way painting tiles on the walls and the
074flat work of the concrete there is the same. You can see there there's you a picture of the on the left. That's a picture of the actual cafeteria, current cafeteria that we had before. You can see the grid's all in. They're starting to work on hanging the lights. Picture on the top right that is actually your new addition to the cafeteria. And the picture on the bottom right that is actually your band hall. You can see some of the lights were hung there but u there have not been activated as turned on yet but they're working on all that right now. Go to Prop C. Prop C has been a busy summer for Prop C. We're still very diligently working on a lot of campuses doing a lot of different little things but Cliff flooring
075has been completed already. Wedgeworth flooring is about 85% complete. They're actually the only thing left there is the cafeteria and the hallways. All the classrooms have been completed there. The Marvin hallway renovations about 80% complete. You'll see some pictures there. If you know in there, we came in and took off the bottom half that was some Pam on there, then carpet above it. Took all of it off and now it's all sheetrock all the way down through there and textured and paint. And then the Felty geothermal is about 90% complete. We've u hooked everything in. They're actually flushing the system this week. Next week, the plan is to turn it over to Texas Air. they will actually do the official startups of the chiller towers and then by the end of the week we should
076have air conditioning back in that building. So here's you a picture on the left that is actually the Marvin walls. You can see there that they've actually that was today they were actually going through and priming those walls because they all got brand new texture and everything. So we're priming to help seal it not take up as much paint. They will be painted that gray color but they went and did the primer as a gray as well. picture on the right that'll give you a good explanation of what all the bathrooms and most of the elementaryaries are getting done. That one happens to be in Wedgeworth. So, all the wet walls have that dark dark gray to light black tile with a gray tile everywhere else and an epoxy floor. So, it's going to make
077it a lot easier for cleaning for the custodial staff. We won't have any grout lines on the flooring anymore that you have to worry about incidents happening and getting in that grout and not being able to clean very well and those kind of things. And the walls are going to be a lot bigger tiles. So, it's a lot a lot less crowd on the walls and everything else everywhere. And it's all more colors that'll go on for a long time instead of a specialized color from when it was built. We have blues and greens and purples and those kind of things. We've kind of taken all that out. So, it helps helps it out. The picture on your left, well, all three of these pictures, I'll tell you that. This is Clif. So, that's a
078cliff hallways. And then the picture on the bottom right, that's the actual cafeteria. So you can say if you've been in cliff you can see it changed that look at that building quite a bit. You walk in there and if you walk on those halls it really looks different in that building though. Really nice. Really nice. Then we have the chiller towers and booster pumps and so forth there at Fely. So there will be a fence that goes around this to one is to keep them safe so nobody can get into it and also help hide it a little bit. Um but you can see there I mean there's a lot of extensive things going on on that area right there. Um, and then that room right to your left where all is where the
079risers were for this building. Um, where all the uh all the pipes going up to going to the well fields and all that were. So, we had to connect into that and then we cut the well fields. So, the well fields are now just vacant. >> Any questions? >> Mr. B. >> Yes, ma'am. >> I appreciate this report, but I'm wondering are the campuses going to be ready to start >> August one? Every campus will be ready for everyone to be there. Yes, ma'am. Some will be ready a little before that, but August one is the dates that I've told all my construction workers everything. We have till August one to get everything done. >> Is it our in-house people that are doing a lot of this work? >> No, ma'am. It's >> It's all
080outouse. It's all outside. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> Uh-huh. >> Anything else for Mr. M? >> Thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you. Okay, report C, which will be WD special education department update. Miss Edinson, >> good evening board. All right, I'm going to update you on what we worked on this past year. Starting with dyslexia, we started in 2023 when House Bill 3928 uh was passed. Uh we started working on evaluating all students who were under the dyslexia umbrella. Um looking at if they were going to finish services by 2025 and if they were not, our goal to be compliant was to do a full individual evaluation and see if they qualified for dyslexia under the special ed umbrella. Um, in May we were at 918 students identified with dyslexia and now
081we are at just a little over 1,200. As you can see there, um, of these,66 students, 84 have completed instruction and receive accommodations under the sped or 504 umbrella. Um just some year at a glance uh totals and numbers to show you um growth or decreases. Last school year our student population increased by um 119 students not last school year I'm sorry 23 24 and this past school year it increased in the sped population by 256. Um this is due to the dyslexia identification and Wahhatchee being a fast growth district. We've received many transfers from surrounding districts and from out of state. Um under speech only our students who receive speech therapy started with 249 and ended with 216. We have around 20 speech language pathologists who are working hard to meet student needs but
082also dismiss them when appropriate when they've mastered their goals and no longer need those services. And then I just uh repeated the dyslexia totals there to have it on one page for you. All right, referrals. Our initial referrals grew by 18 this year. So when you consider our growth from last year to this year, um you can see that we are doing a better job, an effective job of of referring students. Uh we are at a 90% qualifying rate. We're still collaborating with TLI and Miss Heimbuk's team and our MTSS team to improve tier one instruction and interventions to continue to reduce referrals. Uh, next I wanted to provide a brief look at how many arts campuses hold in the time spent making effective decisions for students. The 10 elementary schools had over 1,500 AR
083meetings. If you break that down between the 10 elementaryaries, that's about 150 ARS um for the year. And then when you look at them being in school 187 days and you take out special events, field trips, star testing, benchmarks and things like that, that is a lot of commitment from administrators and teachers. Uh in ARD meetings, uh junior high was at 768 yards. So that is 256 yards over the 187 days. and then the high school was at 650. So that's an average of three and a half ARS per day. Um our AR committees of course to be legally constituted ARDs um include staff from all areas of the school and our administration, our sped teachers and case managers and our general education teachers uh devote a significant amount of time to preparing effective education
084plans for our students. Um, and it's a huge time commitment for administration to schedule these as well. Next, I wanted to provide you guys a brief interview of our continuum of stu of services. I'll try to keep this brief. This is my area of passion. I could talk about it all day. Um, so students can fall into any of these categories of services or a mixture of them. In our in-class support and inclusion, the first two listed here are sped staff pushing into the general education classroom to assist teachers and students with differentiation, accommodations, and making progress in the general education curriculum. uh students who are significantly behind in an academic area may receive resource or modified instruction. Uh that third area, this instruction happens in their own classroom outside of the general education classroom.
085Then last we have our specialized classrooms that we refer to as separate settings. These are specially designed programs that require specialized training on communication, uh, behavior, instruction, social, emotional, and functional areas. This is where a lot of our transfer students are coming in, um, surrounding districts. Parents call us weekly and ask what programs we have and can we meet their child's IEP. And then the next thing we know, they have a house in Wahhatchee and they're they're coming into the district. So, I kind of wanted to give you an overview of what that looks like. Um, starting with ECSE, that's our program for our youngest students ages three to five years old. It is, um, it stands for early childhood special education. It was formerly known as PPCD for those of you who were former
086educators or maybe parents who had kids in those programs. Um, it's at Turner and we currently serve 62 students there. Um, PBSE is our positive behavior support environment which serves 65 students. These students most often have an emotional disability where they struggle to regulate their emotions and cannot participate in a general education classroom all day. Next is SLE, our structured learning environment. It is one of our biggest programs with 103 students currently served. It targets students who need a high level of predictability, warning of changes in their daily routine, and assistance communicating their emotions or needs. Then life skills is our biggest, as you can see. Um, it's for our students with significant intellectual disabilities. These students typically qualify to participate in Special Olympics, which many of you see the pictures or participate in those
087events. Um, those are our students who are usually there. You're cheering them on. This past year, we had eight students who received homebound services, uh, which means a doctor indicated that they were um not medically able to attend school or would be successful. It could be a detriment to um their health. The last of our separate settings is our 18 plus program that we are uh just moved from global to uh Coleman building and uh we have renamed it exit which stands for experiences in transition. These students are working on post-secary goals such as job skills, independent living skills or functional skills. You may see them in the community with a job co coach learning how to cross the street, fold pizza boxes at CC's, or working in Taco Casa's kitchen. Um, these programs together
088serve over 400 students out of our 2,000 student population in the special education department. Last, our goals for this year are to continue to refine our referral process. Um, honor teachers time by subscribing to goal book, a program that aligns the IEP writing process in order to honor teachers time and decrease the art prep burden. 40 teachers piloted the program from January to May, and in those five months, they accessed and used it over 5,000 times. Um, and then last, our goal is to continue to support and retain special education staff. Do y'all have any questions? >> Anything for Miss Edmonson? >> Okay, thank you. >> Our last report will be ourformational report on policy update 125. Mr. Kegel, >> thank you. Good evening, board. Miss McCutchen's going to join me here, but just to
089briefly talk to you about policy update 125. As usual, there are some legal updates which do not require board approval. You can see the breakdown there. There are a few local ones that we will give you a brief overview on. And remember this is just anformational meeting at this point but we will be coming to you later this month to hopefully approve these. Much >> okay. Uh there are three policies in um in local policies that pertain to governance. So I just wanted to spend a few minutes going over these with you. So the first one is policy BDAA local has to do with officers and officials and duties and requirements of board officers. There's very minimal um revisions to this policy but it is recommended um based on um a change. So under the
090board officers um title the sentence indicating that the board may assign a district employee to provide clerical assistance is recommended for deletion mainly because myself the superintendent rather than you the board um manage staff assignments. So in and that includes providing support to the board. And then other small another small revision under terms and duties, the vice president um the revised language clarifies that when the vice president automatically becomes president due to vacancy they serve as president until the board reorganizes. So it's it's a very small minimal change there. The next policy BDB local has to do with board internal internal organizations and um has to do with board committees. And so this policy is being revised and it's to clarify the difference between a board committee and an advisory committee. And so accordingly the
091subtopic topic of this code has been changed from internal committees to board committees and new provisions are recommended to establish how board committees are formed and outlines their purpose. The text addressing dissolution of board committees is also recommended for inclusion and the language previously at special committees has been moved to the next policy which is BDF local. Uh BDF local is a new policy and it is recommended for inclusion is it coordinates the changes with policy BDB and the subtopic of this code has been changed from citizen advisory committees to advisory committees. Language has been moved here from BDB local and it's updated to clarify how advisory committees are formed in the parameters for responsibility and a section on dissolution of the committee is also recommended for inclusion in this policy. So it's really um
092BDB and BDF are really just clarifying how those committees will work and then a very small change on the pri the first committee excuse me the first policy on duties of the vice president. >> Okay >> very thank you so much. Um so uh moving on ei has to do with partial credit how it is awarded. It is just clarifying some language changing it from combined grade for to average of. So when a student doesn't uh obtain a passing grade in one semester of a class for example, how that grade is decided to award that credit. And then FDE local just adds bullying to a list of offenses that we are required to keep track of and keep data on for reporting which is not really uh a big change for us here in WISD
093as we track that already. Uh FEC local does have quite a few changes. However, it really has to do with how instead of the board previously being required to set up attendance committees to to look at credit approval for students that fall between the 90% and 75% of attendance that that falls to the administration that they can set those up. And it also clarifies some of the language about how those cases are reviewed. Now, these last two are not technically a part of update 125, but they are some updates that we are going to need very quickly uh because we required to have some policy decisions made by September 1st. And this has to do with allowing or disallowing in this case students who are currently enrolled in private school including homechools whether or not
094they are eligible for participation in extracurricular or curricular activities at WISD. So by approving these two policies it would make those students ineligible. So, homeschool, private school students would not be able to participate in curricular or extracurricular activities for WISD. So, here's an overall breakdown of the legal policies and how they fall into the various sections of the policy code. And I highly recommend the board it all of this information is in your packet. So, feel free to to look at that. And certainly if you have any questions over any of these, please let us know. We will be looking for approval of these at our next board meeting, which if I'm not mistaken, is going to be the end of this month. Any questions? >> Anything for Mr. Kaggel? >> I've got one. >>
095Yes, sir. on the just on the board officers like if if Dusty's gone and Debbie runs a meeting, she's the president until we reorganize. Did I not understand that right? >> No, >> it's just if there's a vacancy for instance, if uh Ford president decides to step away, um vice president steps into the president role. And what that's saying is she would remly Miss Timberman would remain in that president role until the board reorganizes and we reorganize in June following the May election. So whenever that is, but if it's just a tempor, you know, you're just not here one day, I apologize if that wasn't clear. >> Anyone else? >> Okay, thank both of you. >> Thank you all very much. I will be coming. Uh we are expecting update 126 mid October and due
096to our legislative session and the many changes in that there will be quite a few changes to discuss. >> Thank you board. >> Thank you, Mr. Pledge. >> All right. Next item, item seven, which are justformational items A, B, C. I know it's a little bit different format than you used to seeing on your agenda. All of the information has been provided for thoseformational items. So, if there's no questions on those, we'll move to consent agenda, which is rather lengthy. We have items A through BB to consider. I'm going to ask that we remove item M to be considered on its own separate motion in discussion. So at this time I would ask you guys to consider consent agenda items A through L in N through BB. All right, Mr. President, I move to approve
097consent agenda items A through L and N through BB. Have a motion by Mr. McCutchen. >> Second by Mr. Schoolfield. Is there any discussion on consent agenda items? >> All in favor say I. >> I. Both say nay. >> Motion carries 70. No. Item M, consideration with possible action to approve a land easement related to property surrounding Wakahhatche Creek High School. Mr. President, um I'll be um abstaining from discussion and voting on this as um I am a authorized signer of one of the grantors on this easement. >> Okay. Do I have any questions about item M specifically? Okay. I will entertain a motion to approve action item M. >> So moved. >> Have a motion by Mrs. Creel. >> Second by Mr. Schoolfield. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. >> I. >>
098Post say nay. Motion carries. 6 with one abstentia. Did you catch that? What? >> With one one one abstaining. Okay. Okay. So before I ask for a motion to adjurnn, I know this was mentioned earlier, but um I'm not gonna I'm not going to adjourn this meeting until I I recognize Dr. Aver one more time. I just want to tell you I have enjoyed our approximately six years of working in the many many hats you've uh worked here at WSD. Uh 30 plus years of education and I think we talked before the board meeting approximately 250 board meetings and this was the final one. That's why you have the big smile on your face. Correct. Okay. All right. With that said, I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Seven. >> Motion by Miss Creel.
099>> Second by Mr. Cooper. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Motion carries. 70. Very much.