001is now 4:00. We'll call the meeting of the Wachin School District Board of Trustees to order. The record show we have five 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 is our board workshop which will be the preparation for walks agreek high school. Mr. Calden, Dr. Aver. Thank you, sir. Good afternoon, board. Dr. Aver and I are going to walk through a very, very preliminary draft of our plans for Waktachi Creek. At this point, uh the goal of this really is to get your feedback and to get some discussion so that we can modify these plans and really have something ready for the community as we get to the opening of Wetache Creek.
002So, want to talk the biggest hurdle that we have left at this point um from the community is identifying who's going to be going to Wetace Creek High School. And so wanted to uh start off with our priorities as we went into looking at potential resoning maps. Uh the district identified socioeconomic balance a pure junior high campus feeder pattern. Um we would like for the two high school campuses, the two comprehensive high school campuses uh to be in different UIL districts to start with. Uh that's a district preference. It's not a mandatory. And then we would like to efficiently utilize our campuses. We don't want to overload one campus uh for the sake of the other campus because we know that that's going to increase wear and tear on whichever campus was was overloaded. You
003remember may remember back in January that we'd started doing some town hall. We uh did a safety and security town hall and we also started talking about the reasonzoning plan for Creek at the same time to try to get some feedback from our community. at that uh at those town hall events. One of the questions that was posed to our community is what grade levels would you like to see Wsachete Creek High School open with? I wanted to show you the results of that. About 54% of our community uh suggested grades 9 and 10 be how we open Wache Creek. Honestly, that's kind of the way we were leaning already. Uh if you remember back with our 17,000 plus student plan, the original idea was to open a ninth grade center and those students would
004have not stepped foot on Wachete High School. Some of those in their sophomore year would go to WHS and some of them would go to Wache Creek. So that was the overall initial plan. Uh but right behind nine, grades nine and 10 was grade nine only. And then uh we had a contingent about 7% uh that really were undecided and and we're leaving it up to the district. The other big rocks that we were asking our community is you've heard from the district about these are our priorities for opening Wachi Creek. We wanted to uh receive their feedback as well. You'll notice that the first four items on this graph, while some are more significant than others in terms of the volume uh of responses from our community, really fall in line with the priorities
005that the district identified as we go through the resoning process for Creek. The last one on there, travel time, uh or a route to Wache Creek High School, really was not an item that we were considering. We know where the campus is going to be. Um we know that we have plans with uh Texot to have Spur 394 constructed. So a lot of the traveling to the campus are going to going to really be on the individual uh students or parents as they may be uh traveling and getting their kids to that campus. Uh obviously we will have transportation for students who are zoned to that campus outside of that two-m radius. But uh it was good seeing the feedback from our community because it was very much in line with our identified priorities going
006into the opening of creek and we we we were through through this process we had uh 384 different responses. So we had nearly 400 folks uh participate in this survey from the get-go. Um, and that was pretty encouraging because um, you know, this is early in the process in a lot of folks minds um, that that we're talking about these items, but um, based on what we've learned as far as when we when you open up your second comprehensive high school in the district, we're really right on schedule as far as when we're asking this, we really need to have some of these decision this this big decision made by by around August, which is two years prior to the opening of it. So again, we're on schedule, but we were we were happy to
007that, you know, even though our attendance at the at the town halls wasn't very high right off the bat, um we did get good good amount of response from our from from our survey that we put out. Forward to this point, district administration has been working with our demographer to look at potential maps of what uh attendant zones may look like for Walks Creek. Uh we've elicited a little bit of feedback from Mike Morgan as a community member to give us some uh potential antills that we may be stepping in or areas to consider. But really tonight we've got two plans that we would like to show you. Uh and we'd like to really start that process of getting your feedback and then uh going forward with some more town halls with community of getting
008the community's feedback as well. So, the first plan that we're looking at is a plan that really um sticks with the existing elementary boundaries. So, the the dark red lines that you see are elementary boundary lines within our district. And I learned something really cool over here. Where's that mouse? That uh we can use this as a little laser pointer. If I can find the mouse. Ah, there we go. So, um right now this is 1446. And you see that the Dunaway zone goes across 1446 only in one part of it. So one area that we are talking about that's not reflected on this map would be a zoning change that these students on the north side of 1446 would all be zoned into the Wedgeworth zone and not the Dunaway zone which would be
009consistent as you go down 1446. Right now there are five elementary students that live in this area. Two of them attend Wman Steam Academy. No, one attends WMAN Steam Academy, two attend Dunway, and two attend Wedgeworth. Uh so right now, we're not talking a significant uh realignment. We're not talking a significant number of impacted uh families or students. But that is one that's the only real change that's not reflected in these maps that involves elementary zones as we go through this entire process. And the whole purpose of that was just to make it more clean as we go through. um previewing a little bit. This is the Kemp Ranch or Emery Lakes uh development subdivision. So, at the time when we drew this map, that was because this was expected to be more uh age
010restricted. So, we were really trying to capture the houses that were already there uh as compared to potential development into Kimry to Emery Lakes. Regardless, we're talking five students at the elementary level at this point. So, we are looking at a resoning there. Uh, but overall this map, it follows the existing elementary boundaries. Some of those are kind of hard to see in here, but you've got your Marvin and North Side boundary and your Marvin and Cliff boundaries. Uh, but it truly follows those elementary plans. How that would look like from a student enrollment perspective. Again, we are we're talking Wachi Creek to open in 27. So this would be kind of your first year of opening, but these numbers are assuming that everyone who is zoned to walk Creek would go to Wetache Creek
011in year one. And we talked about we're only planning to open it with 9th and 10th. So students who are zoned to 11th and 12th grade or juniors or seniors would stay at Walachi High School. Uh it's not our plan to open that campus with all four grade levels in year one. So really, you need to look out here about 2030 2031 to get a really good idea. This would be students attending their zoned campus at the high school level. So when you're looking at 2030 2031, you're seeing about a 200 student to 280 student delta between the two enrollments. Uh so if we go back to our our priorities, that would have a a preference priority from the district would be those uh campuses would be in different UIL aligned districts. And so that
012that is one of the things that we were talking about. Uh, it would also help with our utilization of the campus. We're not looking at one overloaded campus. We're looking at two campuses, both with a 3,200 student capacity, both with roughly 18-,900 students in them at the time that we have all four grade levels. I would draw your attention down to this uh field over here, this percent ED, that's percent economically disadvantaged students. At Walksahhatchee Creek High School, we'd be about 51.1%. Uh these are today's enrollment numbers. Obviously, I can't predict out into 2030 2031. Uh but with today's numbers, I'm 51% at Creek and 51.8% at Walksetchi High School. Essentially balanced if you if you're looking at the 3900 3,800 students uh that we're talking about uh enrolling in Walks Creek and Wachete High
013School. So the second plan that I would like to show you um does not exactly follow the same mantra. Uh the second plan you will start seeing some different boundaries in here. You'll see this green area right here. Um that's in the middle of an elementary zone. This is north side zone and this is Marvin's zone. And we're following Farley Street out. So Farley Street would become your new divisor line between uh Wsachi High School attendance zone and Wachi Creek High School attendance zone. What that would do is start really creating some issues into secondary campuses. Now we're not talking full feeders from an elementary to a junior high. So it'll be harder on those campuses to identify which students are going to Wsache High School, which students are going to go to Wsachi Creek
014High School. Um, the reason we're showing you this plan is because of its end result. When we look at student enrollment in 203031, you're talking a two student delta between the two campuses. When you get out to 3435, we're talking an 80 student delta. So if our biggest priority is a is utilizing the campuses to almost an exact mirror of itself, this plan uh would do that in terms of student enrollments. But if you look down at percent economically disadvantaged, you would have Wachi Creek at about 53 and a half% and Wete High School at about 49.6%. Not a huge gap between the two, but it is a a larger gap than we saw in uh plan one. So realistically at this point wanted to get from the board if you had a preference between
015plan one or plan two that we could at least start as our foundation as we start going forward looking at the resoning plans uh for both campuses. And I can put it back on I'm going to selfishly uh put it on plan 2's map because I like plan one better. So I'm not really going to push you that way. Uh but I do want you to be able to see this one uh because it is a little bit different. I don't have a more zoomed in version. I do apologize for that. But uh the biggest change is again along Farley Street. Uh right now we're using Getats and Danner as the boundary line between uh Marvin and Clif and North Side and Clif. And this would shift that boundary line to Farley Street instead of
016Gets Dainer for secondary for high school purposes. So, it would not immediately shift the elementary uh line, but it would for high school. I like playing one for several reasons. Um, one, I like the true elementary junior high, high school feeder. Also, UIL purposes. I just don't want a inner city rival going on. So, yeah, with UIL in sports. So, yeah, I like playing one. We know that we'll eventually get there. I mean, eventually. Eventually, just not yet. Yeah, I prefer plan one with one change. Yes, sir. And that would be bringing that area you talked about that's currently in Dunaway on 1446 and just make if you bring that along 1446, it just makes it a cleaner and you're talking a total of five kids, which by the time this happens, I live there.
017There's not over 25 houses much. And when Kemp Ranch or whatever it's going to be called is developed, that's changing anyway. Yes, sir. You're That's what I was going to ask. You're going to have to redistrict at that point anyway, probably. Yes, sir. Uh so realistically with every campus opening we'll be reszoning but yes to that end uh have another elementary campus online by that point as well. Yes sir. Uh to your point that's a camp ranch is about a 2200 acre development. So there will be plenty of opportunities for us to continue to reszone as that as that uh building program gets off the ground and gets going. Making that change is that is that a big hindrance moving forward? No sir. I I don't believe it's a huge hindrance at all. I mean,
018right now, uh, real honest, we're we're a little inefficient because we're running buses for Wedgeworth down 1446 to go to the right and we're running buses for Dunaway to also go to the right. It's it uh when we're talking, you know, five kids that that more than likely is fitting on the same bus and we don't need to run them for Dunaway and Wedgeworth in that same area. So, it's not a huge uh hindrance. Again, we're talking five students, but but that would be one consideration. Yes, ma'am. U just wanted to see how large other than Kemp Ranch is it supposed to build out in that area. Kemp Ranch is all it I mean I don't that's what I don't know Clay. I'm sorry. Right now the biggest one that we have on the books
019is is Kimp Ranch and that's this area right here. Okay. Um and as Mr. Schoolfield was talking it's 2,200 acres. Uh the initial estimate was 10,000 home sites. Um they have backed off of that a little bit and we'll we'll talk a little bit more as we get some more information from them, but uh at the time when we when I I shouldn't say we I know I've heard that this has been talked about in district well before I got here. But um as I first started hearing about this a couple of years ago, uh this one development itself if all single family would have doubled the size of our district just in one development. And so, um, there is a significant play here in terms of development within Kemp Ranch. The question has always
020been the timing of that play. When does it start kicking off? And so, the city started having those zoning meetings uh with the developers last year, but it's really gone cold at this point. Uh, so we'll see uh kind of where we go from here uh with that play. But right now, we are not making significant zoning decisions uh because of the potential for Kemp Ranch to come in as a development. uh just because we do know of its size and its scope, it's going to require its own uh set of schools within that development as it goes. Yes, ma'am. Um I like plane one as well, um the one of my questions is is with the map being so small, I know I see that Wedge, um Simpson, what Marvin, what other elementaryaries kind
021of make? Yeah. So for walks high school you're looking at Shackleford, Simpson, North Side, Marvin, and Wedgworth. Okay. And so on the other side of that coin, for Walker Creek, you'd be looking at Felty, Jimmy Ray, Clif, and Dunaway. Okay. Thank you. Um, not to answer questions you didn't ask, Dunaway and Clif are going to be pretty obvious. That's going to be really hard uh for them to go to any campus, but Wachi Creek. But as we are looking at ways that we could possibly again ensure that that economic um not diversity but more balance between the two that's when we're starting to look at pulling in Felty and and Jimmy Ray. Um it might make the uh the trip a little bit longer in the interim uh for some of those students to go
022out that way. Uh but we also know that at some point for 394 is going to be complete all the way through town and that will make that trip significantly easier uh for students or parents trying to traverse from the east side of uh Wachi over to Wakache Creek High School. Ryan, could you repeat those penalty Jimmy Rag and away and that's that's the list. That's Yes, ma'am. So that would be Wachi Creek. Uh so we've left off we left off Wyomman because Wyomman as all lottery and even the the lottery component at Marvin Biomedical Academy lottery students go back to their home zone campus for purposes of secondary metriculation. So you're a fifth grader and you go to Wyomman but you live in the Shackleford zone. You're going to go wherever Shackleford goes for
023junior high or high school. And it once we go to the fourth junior high, we're gonna make this a true junior high feeder pattern. Correct. Yes, sir. Right. So, how will they divide them in the meantime? So, that's a really good question and that's one that we are still working on because we are trying not to create the halves and the have nots. So, we might see um a campus that's currently at Coleman might move over to Finley. Um, realistically, you're talking between Coleman and Finley at this point because if we're talking a true junior high feeder pattern, I know that Walks Creek High School and junior high number four are going to come out of the out of the four that we just mentioned, Dunaway, uh, Clif, Jimmy Ray, and Felty. So, I know
024those four collectively are going to have to go to Howard and are going to have to go to junior high number four. Um, so it I would not expect that you're going to see Felty switch over to Finley. That that wouldn't make sense in the long run based off the numbers that we were just talking. But you might see Simpson go to Coleman and you might see a north side go to Finley uh as an example. But we're still working through those numbers to try to make sure that we have good balance and good diversity between our junior highs. Okay. So, and I tell you that Miss Creel, in all honesty, the first plan that that we worked through doesn't work. Um, the numbers. So, we went through and we took through uh economic disadvantaged,
025we matched up the most disadvantaged with the most advantaged and started matching those campuses that way. It doesn't work because enrollment uh with the most economically disadvantaged and the most advantaged exceeds campus capacity. So, we're still having to work through those to try to get them as balanced as we can. Um, just have not landed on one at this point yet. Okay. Thank you. Do you have a preliminary schedule of when we're going to do the town halls for the uh for the public to get their feedback on this? Yes, sir. You're about six slides ahead. Okay. We will we will give those to you here in just a little bit. Um, so based off of feedback that I'm hearing from the board, and I don't mean to speak for you, but I want to
026keep us on track and kind of progressing. We're generally more in favor of plan one uh and in and the pure elementary into junior high feeders and the poor pure junior high into into high school feeders. Is that a general consensus uh from the board at this point? Yes, I'm seeing some some nods and I appreciate sir the feedback. So we will we will boogie on. So, as we kind of talked about the identified priorities um and this slide was actually done in PowerPoint and so the uh with wingdings and they don't translate as a font into uh Google slides. So here you go. You get dots instead of check marks. Uh both plans really have a a pretty good balance of economic socioeconomic uh between the campuses. Both of them look at a pure
027junior high feeder pattern. um alignment in different UIL districts. Plan two, that that would be one of the drawbacks. Uh with an 8kid delta in 20 3031, they're not going to be in different UIL districts, but for the grace of God. If the line is drawn three students more than the lower enrollment, we might luck into it, but that would not be planning. That would just be dumb luck. Um, in terms of efficient campus utilization, I put a question mark in plan one because depending on how you want to define efficient, maybe, you know, in your opinion, having a 250 student uh, delta is not as efficient, but the purpose of that from a district perspective was not overly taxing anyone campus. So, I would say yes, general community may or may not agree with
028that. So, I put a question mark uh because really I wanted us to have that discussion and not just uh force plan one down anybody's mind. I just have a kind of a quick question. I don't know if you know how do we when we split and we are waiting for the UIL different districts I mean do we like is there an application process and we say these are our numbers here or and then leave it up to UIL. So every year we have to apply with UIL. We have to tell them how many campuses we're going to have competing and then what they're going to compete in. Okay. Now there is a formula that we that UIL employs when they're doing the realignments. Okay. So they will take um all of our identified campuses.
029They will go in at snapshot and take the enrollments. Okay. And when we put Wache Creek on that application, we will tell them they only have grades 9 and 10. and UIL for that realignment will say okay our standard practice is to multiply your reported enrollment times a number believe it's 1.33 um and so they will say we anticipate your enrollment in this benium to be x number of students they will then put Wachete Creek in a zone or in a district based off of that expectation so uh what you will see in all honesty when creek opens the realignment that walks high school will be in will be a little bit inflated because we are not immediately pulling students out of Wsachi High School to put them in Wache Creek. That will build in
030over time. So you will slowly see the enrollment at Wsachi High decrease as the number of grades at Creek increase. Um so Wachi High will be in a little bit larger district at the very onset of the realignment. Okay. That will start coming down a little bit as the enrollment shifts and by the time we get to I believe it's what do we say 28? Yeah. by the time we get to the year 28 2028 um we will be closer to more accurate for that realignment purpose or for that realignment period we will open we will open in the middle of bianium so we don't re we don't do realignment again until February of 28th okay and so we'll we'll if we open grade let's say we open grade 9 10 then that that that
031campus creek will uh perform or play in a basically a JB that year and then the following year would be would be varsity athletics and we would get put into a varsity district in in the spring of 2018. Okay. So the first year we'll play JV with our freshman and sophomores. Okay. Thank you. All right. Now for the fireworks campus transfers. Uh want to remind everybody as we get into Wachi Creek High School of the similarities to Wachi High School. Both are a 3200 student campus. Uh both uh Wachi Creek again is planned to own is planned to open with a zone for sophomore and freshman students only in 2728. Juniors and seniors will be added um one year each later. So the next year in 2829 would be juniors, sophomores, and freshmen. And then
0322930 will be the first year of all four classes. students who are currently zoned for Wache Creek in any year that they don't have that grade level. So in the first year, if you're a junior or a senior, you are zoned to Wachi Creek, you would continue at Wsucheti High School. Okay? And then in 2829, if you're a senior zoned, whether you have lived here your whole life or you moved in over the summer, you're a senior in 28.29 zone to Wachi Creek, you would still go to Wsachi High School because we are not offering those senior level courses at Wachi Creek. At that point, 2930 would be the first school year in which all four grade levels would be at both Wsace High School and Wachi Creek High School. Course offerings will be very
033similar at both campuses. We'll have advanced academic offerings, uh dual credit offerings, AP offerings, uh obviously on level courses. We will have um approximately 80% of current CTE offerings will be duplicated at both campuses. A lot of the programs that are very popular that you're thinking of will be at both. Uh some of them may have a unique flare at one campus or the next. Uh we are not planning to uh to rebuild the culinary kitchen the way it is at Wsachi High School. That is not planned to be rebuilt at Wsachi Creek. We will have a different program within that same uh in same area of uh instruction over in CTE at Wsachi Creek. Uh we do also plan to have a full slate of extracurricular extracurricular activities be they uh academic, fine arts
034or athletics. how both campuses will have a full slate of offerings for students. Any questions about that slide? Campus transfers. Uh board wanted to kind of get your feedback on these. These are just some general thoughts that have been put down at this point. Nothing is set in stone, but wanted to start having those conversations with you. Right now, we're looking at a one-time transfer option. So if you are zoned to Wachi Creek High School and you would like to go to Wsachi High School or vice versa for an academic program, so a program that is not offered at your campus but is offered at the other whatever that program may happen to be. We are looking at a one-time uh transfer option. Let me back up a hot minute and go to the bottom
035bullet. All student transfers must provide their own transportation. Uh so we would not be running buses for the transfer options. uh students who would get a transfer to either campus or grandfathered if we offer one would have to provide their own transportation. So the one-time transfer option uh would again be for a student who elected to transfer between campuses for participation in an academic program. If the student leaves the academic program for which they transferred, the transfer is revoked and they return to their home campus. That would be one time over the course of a four-year education. It's not one per year. It's not one per semester. not one per day and definitely not one per minute. Um, grandfathered students, another option that we were looking at is any student who has started at Wsachete
036High School and earned one credit, earned at least one credit at Wsachi High School would be given the opportunity to stay at Wetache High School. The reason, the justification behind this was generally they're involved in the campus in some way, shape or form. If they're wanting to stay at Wakia High, we would like for them to be able to stay involved in whatever it is that they want to be involved in. Student does not have to take us up on this option. They can earn uh 35 credits if they want. They would be uh deemed a sophomore at that point and they are welcome to attend Watachi Creek High School if they are zoned there. Uh but we wanted to I was proposing to give uh students the opportunity if they've earned a credit at
037Wsachi High School, they've gotten involved, they would have that ability to stay at Wsachi High School. Thoughts, comments, questions, concerns? I think that's good. Okay, I think it's good. But I do have a question. What if everybody wanted to stay at Walk High? Then that would not help our our overcrowding at Walks Edge High. You're absolutely right. Um I honestly do not envision that to be the case, but you're absolutely correct, Miss Grigal. Uh the more options we throw out between transfers and grandfathers, uh the more that people take us up on them, the less of an impact we have with that zoning that we talked about a minute ago, uh we very much could have a disparity in enrollment and economically disadvantaged numbers, um student participation numbers, opportunities for students. Uh so it is
038a it is a fine line that we'd be offering. Um I do believe that as a district we are not going to sandbag it when it comes to key personnel. Uh I believe that we'll have just as dynamic of coaches, just as dynamic uh of instructors, just as dynamic um of fine arts instructors that will be at both campuses. So I believe there's an opportunity for our students to get plugged in and involved. Uh I do believe that you will see some students who will earnestly look at this option and say I have a uh a greater opportunity to be involved uh to a greater extent from day one by going ahead and taking uh my uh enrollment over at Wsachi Creek High School because that's where I'm zoned. You might have other students who
039choose that I've really made the connection with this teacher. I want to stay wherever they are. So, it was really just to give that first um group of students the first this is really only going to be about a four-year option because they would have had to already earn a credit. So, it's that those freshman sophomores, those would be the only two groups that would really would have the ability to use that grandfathering option and then it would expire after that. So, all eighth graders would be mandated to go to Creek. Yes, ma'am. So the eighth graders zoned to Wachi Creek High School would go to Wsachi Creek High School. Okay. They would not have earned a credit at Wacei High School enabling them to stay there. Um wanted to be very clear that a
040high school credit at a junior high campus is not earning a credit at Wsace High School. You hitted me off on that one. Well, I just didn't fully read the rest of the bullet, but it's down there. Um and then a credit advancement. So going to summer school and taking a course early is not credit at Wakache High School. Even if that course is offered at Wsachi High School in the summer because at that point you're still an eighth grader. You still have not started that high school enrollment. So students even if they're going to to summer school to get a foreign language out of the way or fine art out of the way um they would still if they're zoned to walk Creek would still go to Wache Creek that freshman year. Okay. Thank
041you. I uh excuse me, I like the campus transfers and I'm going to say this and I don't know the right answer for it, but um on the one-time transfer option, again, I don't know what we could do, but I would hate to see a student leave a campus for academic program purposes, but really it's for UIL purposes, if you kind of know what I'm saying. Yes, sir. Yeah. that that that thought's going perhaps crossed our mind too. Uh you know um people going to be honest I guess what they're what they're going for. When we talk about academic program we're talking about specifically sometimes specific CTE programs. It's why we try so hard to almost to get so so many of the same programs. And if it's not the exact same program, it's one
042that you can still earn all the same credentials or certifications through it at either at either campus. But I I think that that is a is a possibility. No doubt about it. Dr. A, what are the legalities to that? Because I mean I remember was it Round Rock last year? Somebody got in trouble over this same thing with people transferring, you know, for football, I believe it was. Uh, so what are the legalities, you know, how do we address that? Well, I think what you have to what would be a concern is if we thought somebody was actively recruiting, right? Um, now, uh, going to WHS and falling in love with the band program or the theater program or the basketball, that's that's not getting recruited. That's just you're, you know, you're there and you're
043in you're you're invested. So, um, but to M. Mr. Cooper's point, it is something that we have to think about, which is really why we're having this discussion because we really want to hear and that's why we want to hear this feedback. I mean, is it going to happen? Yeah, it's going to happen. But do we punish that the majority that are going to try to do it right? Right. For a small minority that may try not to do it right. I don't think so. I Yeah, I like the options. As far as recruiting, you could probably answer that. The deal for UIL when you're playing outside your attendance zone uh within your own school district, it's called first opportunity. So, at first opportunity, if you chose to uh play at a school outside your
044attendance zone, you get varsity eligibility at that point. Uh what happens, let's say you you take that onetime waiver and you get this academic program, then you decide that's not for you and you have to go back to your campus, the UIL will penalize you one one year of eligibility. So, when you transfer back, that's going to cost you a year of eligibility varsity wise. So, you know, you you really got to do your due diligence, uh, parents and kids, uh, to decide really where they want to go because it can affect them. You know, if if if everything's going smooth up to their junior year and they decide, hey, that program is not for me, and they transfer out their senior year, that's a UIL rule. They will lose their senior year of eligibility
045uh for sports or any fine arts and stuff like that. So, uh, you know, we have to do a great job of educating, uh, the parents as well as the students, uh, when it comes to this because it could affect them, uh, maybe not on the front end, but on the back end of their eligibility. I hope that helps a little bit. Thank you. I I just want to be sure it's in the back of our mind, you know, that we Any other feedback on transfers? Good start. Sir, you had asked for opportunities for uh for town halls. Uh so we were planning on obviously today we're we're talking with you in a workshop forum. Uh it's out there for the general community to to hear and and uh give us their feedback. Uh we're
046also looking at two town hall meetings per month over the summer. Uh one during the day and one at night to try to give people as many options as possible uh in between their own personal schedules. Uh but we're looking at June 3rd, July 8th, and August 7th to have 6:00 or evening uh town halls. These would all be over at the Fine Arts Center. uh June 5th at 1:00 in the afternoon, July 8th, and August 7th at 10:00 a.m. Uh both of those days over in the Fine Arts Center. So, uh we are really trying to keep it uh open for our community to come give us their feedback, hear what's going on, hear what we're talking about, uh look at the maps, and uh and give us their feedback. It's our goal to
047bring back for your consideration uh at the August 11th uh the regular board meeting in August uh so that hopefully we can make a decision on this and have these set uh going into that would give our community the better part of of almost two years before school starts in 27 uh before these would take effect at the high school level. Uh, so we know that that not everybody is going to be looking at them uh in August of 2025, but having those out there and on our website and available and having uh a district and where people know what's coming forward uh really will help our our community know where they're going, what's expected, and we can start that process of of really building into Wache Creek High School uh the correct way. Will
048those be streamed live? Yes, sir. We'll do a Facebook live with each one of them. Um, and and to to Ron's point, you know, this is the the next, you know, the first the biggest hurdle at first was was our community understanding that the need for a second comprehensive high school in our community. Um, and obviously with the bond in 23 that was that was very well supported. Um and so this we've done all the work between that uh as far as planning and now we're we've already started construction except on the building itself and now we're getting to the to the point where you know this is a huge decision. Once this decision is made, we can then come back to the establishment of the real the Walks Hatche Creek High School identity. And
049that is that is getting our student groups that we know will be a part of that campus as far as the incoming freshman um of that of that school and and really narrowing narrowing down on the mascot and colors uh for that for that for that uh that high school. And that's huge when we start to establish the identity of of a new school because then you know all the things that really we kind of take for granted right at Wachi High School. We know what the we know the school song. We know the fight song. Um we know what the colors are. We know what the mascot is. And so those are things that we're going to have to establish uh for Walks at Creek. It's really exciting that, you know, we're going to
050get to know this and we'll we'll when we when we establish who's going to go where, then we can establish the next piece and then we can start to to gain ownership of it over the next two school years. And so when we open it up, we know that they're the creek whatever we land on. Sounds good. With that, are there any other questions or comments about anything that we've talked about? Anything you would like for us to look further into and bring back as far as as far as a future workshop might go or uh any other questions or comments that you may have that that we can answer for you. And that one time transfer, those students, they won't get like first dip, right? They'll be like last in line as far as
051being on involved in the program or not. Yes. So they go to Creek but they want to go to WHS. They want that one time transfer. That's if there's room for them. Like they'll be tailored in last. Right. I would say yes sir. Yeah. Generally as it relates to the transfers, our district generally follows an 80% rule. So if we have more than 80% utilization of a facility, we don't allow those transfers. uh realistically with the opening of both of these campuses uh we're likely going to be under that threshold. So there'd be a good opportunity for them. But yes, uh if we get uh and that grandfathering option again would only be available for that first group. So it's really it has an expiration date of four years after that campus opens. Uh nobody
052who would not already have been in 9th grade because they had to have that one credit at the high school level to qualify for that grandfathering option. So u but with the opening of the campus there would be sufficient space for them to go but yes sir to your point uh they would be uh considered as spaces available. Anyone else? Well, thank you very much for your input um on this. Uh and if you think of anything else that we didn't cover or if you get a question, it just something pops to your head, please let us know. Um I I think from from our conversation, I know that we need to uh obviously put some put some more work in our in our in the transfer piece if if that's going to be included
053that we need to make sure we have some pretty specific guidelines for that. Mr. any anything that comes out of the discussions the town halls would you guys please take notes of that and present that to us as it comes either in June or July so we don't have to look at all in August yes and that I think to your point that'll be a good time almost a midway point to the July board meeting we have we'll have some opportunity to get some feedback by then so we'll have some more for you yes we'll do that as anformational item Anyone else? Thank you guys. So our next item on our agenda is item number three, which is canvasing our election results. So, the board will consider and take action with respect to adopting an
054order canvasing the May 3rd, 2025 election. At this time, we will read the results of the May 3rd, 2025 board of trustee election. For place six, Dusty Autry, 764 votes, total votes cast 1,171. For place seven, Debbie Timberman, 811 votes, and Daniel Hobbs, 539 votes. Total votes cast 1,150. At this time, do I have a motion to accept these results as read? Motion by Mr. Scullfield. Is there a second? Second by Mr. Cooper. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Motion carries. 6 is here. So at this our next item on our agenda would be the oath of office. Was he told to be here by a certain time? a five. Well, I guess what? So, well, we're we're going going to a recess till approximately 5:00 when uh when Judge Wallace shows
055up then. It's 4:43. Okay, we're going to reconvene back into uh back into open session. We had a clerical error on our canvasing election. So, we're going to come back to that in just a moment. But the first item we're going to do is our open forum. This time, I don't believe we have anyone signed up to speak this evening. So now I will go back to our election canvasing. So we're going to have to redo this due to a couple of errors that were made. So the board's going to consider and take action with respect to adopting an order canvasing the May 3rd, 2025 election. For place six, Dusty Autry, 764 votes, total votes cast 1,171. For place seven, Debbie Timberman, 811 votes and Daniel Hobbs, 339 votes with a total cast of 1,150.
056So, at this time, do I have a motion to accept the results as read? Motion by Mr. Scoffield. Second by Mr. Cooper. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. Post say nay. Motion carries 70. Now, back on task. Our oath of office will be oath of office for board members elected at the May 3rd, 2025 election. We have Judge Wallace here tonight to administer those oath. So the floor is all yours, sir. started. I want to thank you. There's nothing more than I think Thank you. Please raise your right hand. I will faithfully exeute the office of the office. Trust me in the Trustee of the school board of the state of Texas state of Texas and will the best of my ability to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend preserve
057and laws United States of United States of congratulations [Applause] Let's do it. Okay. At this time, the board is going to convene into close session according to section 551.0. 001 ed of the Texas government code. It is now 5:03. Now 5:50, the board's going to reconvene back into open session. First item will be our invocation by Mr. Cooper and our and our pledges of allegiance by Rodriguez, Meline Ortiz, Randy Avalos, and Gail Martinez of Wedgeward Elementary. All righty, let us pray. Heavenly Father, most gracious God, Father, we thank you for this evening that you have blessed us to be a part of. Father, we thank you for the great WISD's community. We thank you for this school board opportunity to serve. Father, we thank you for our teachers, our staff members, Father, our children. And
058Father, we just ask that you would have this night to be nothing more, nothing less than what you have perfectly planned. Father, help us to keep the main thing the main thing, which is the future of our students. Father, again, we thank you for the opportunity to be a part of this day. In Jesus mighty name we pray. Thank God. Amen. I aliance 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. I pledge al honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. Good job. Take a picture. Okay. Next item board will be item 8A which is the organization of the board of trustees. Election of board president, vice
059president and secretary as required by the WSD board policy BDA legal and local. Mr. President. I move that we elect Dusty Autry as president, Debbie Timberman as vice president, and Ryan Pittz as secretary for the 2526 school year. Have a motion by Mrs. Creel. Is there a second? Second. Second by Mr. McCussen. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. Post say nay. Motion carries 70. Thank you guys very much for the faith and means to continue to lead this board. Give us a couple of minutes. We're going to change a couple of seats real quick. Okay, we're going to jump down to action item A, which will be the consideration with possible action to hire director of bands at WHS Calter. All right. Good evening board and Dr. A. That's a loud one. Okay.
060It's my privilege to stand before you this evening to recommend Mr. Justin Bell for the position of director of bands. Over the course of his tenure with our program, Mr. Bell has consistently demonstrated the highest standards of musical excellence, leadership, and integrity. He possesses not only the technical skill and musical knowledge required for this role, but also the ability to inspire students, foster discipline, and build a strong, positive culture within the band program. Under his direction, our students will thrive in both performance quality and professionalism. Beyond the podium, Mr. Bell is an advocate for the arts, an excellent communicator with parents and staff, and a collaborative team player who contributes to the wider goals of our school and district. I'm fully confident in Mr. Bell's ability to lead our band program to new heights and
061represent our district with pride. I wholeheartedly recommend Mr. Bell for the position of director of bands. Okay. At this time, I'll entertain to approve action item A as presented. So moved. Second. Motion by Mrs. Creel. Second. Okay, hold on. I've got something to say. Have a motion by Mrs. Criggle. A second by Mrs. Cooper. Mr. Cooper. Okay. Go ahead. Now, go ahead. Okay. This kind of got messed up, but what I wanted to say was I'm so excited as a band grandma that Mr. Bell is going to be our new director. So, congratulations. All in favor say I. I. Post say nay. Motion carry. 70. Thank you very much. Congratulations. [Applause] Heat. Heat. I was asked to say a few words. Um, I have a lot of scribbles on my iPad here. Nothing that seemed
062right. So, I guess I'm going to speak from the heart. Um, I was also asked to be brief. We'll see. Um, I mean, I've been with Rich for I don't know how many years now, so I think the first thing is just to say thank you for the opportunity, for the faith that you're showing in me. Um, it means a lot. I've been here for a decade and a half. Um, I've seen many great things in the band program, the fine arts, and the district. Um, but I think what speaks most to all of it is that none of it would be possible without the consistent and steady support of this group of people right here. Um, and so thank you for everything you do. And as we move forward, I plan to continue just
063trucking right along with that level of success and pushing. It's part of what we do. We plan to always better ourselves and that's not going to change moving into next year. Um there there is one important thing. Rich, can you come up here please? It would not be appropriate for me to stand up here and say thank you without acknowledging what he has done for me and for the band. I would not be the educator I am today without working with him for a decade and a half. Um, I came in as a green teacher who had aspirations and I was intense and he was also intense. We have, believe it or not, helped mellow each other out over the years. Not not enough. But, um, I think I to end the whole process has
064been very humbling for me. encouragement has poured in from all sides and that's been gratifying to say the least. Um, I look forward to continuing the rich legacy that we've established and that he started 20 years ago as we move forward into the next 10, 15, 20 years. So, thank you. [Applause] I don't [Applause] I'll shift a little bit. One more picture. family. You're not listening. No, just Good. I'd like to recommend that we pull item B. Okay, good. So we did have one other action item was action item B that will uh be removed tonight for no action taken on that on that agenda item. So we will move back to our report section which report A is our superintendent report Dr. Aver. Okay. Uh first night just incredible event $150,000 scholarship grants to
065forget that. Thank you. I'm sorry. U I'll start over. Uh I want to say a public thank you to our Ed Foundation. Uh Friday night's gayla was was a huge success. Um right at the beginning of of the of the event, they awarded scholarships and grants. Scholarships to students and grants awarded to um our staff. Over $150,000 um invested. I can tell you um that makes a difference in people's lives. Definitely makes a difference in the lives of those students and their families who received those grants. Um throughout the evening, raised over $200,000 uh to go back into this community. Um like I said, I said it Friday night, but I'll say it again. Schools, we can't do it alone. And um of our core value of uh community involvement and belonging, um it it
066comes out in these kind of events. And so, thank you again to all the folks from the Ed Foundation and their board and everybody who supported that that event, everybody who sponsored a table, sponsored the meal. Um, we really really appreciate you. Um, this is this is May. We are in the thick of it. Um, the good thing is it'll be over pretty fast as far as all the events we got going on, but it's going to be a a race to the finish line um from this week and next week. Uh so obviously the mo culminating with um our graduation ceremonies for high school of choice which is Wednesday the May 21st 6:30 p.m. at the Schaefer Center at Nelson uh Nelson University. Um global high schools commencement exercises Friday the 23rd 700 p.m.
067at that same location, the Schaefer Center at Nelson. And then uh Saturday night, May 24th, 8:00 p.m. Lumpin Stadium for Walksahhatchee High School. Uh and that will that will put a bow on the 2425 school year. Um but again, lots of stuff going on the next the next nine to 10 days. Uh quick reminder, we did make a shift for our regular board meeting that's going to be on was was scheduled for Monday, June the 9th. It will move to Tuesday, June the 10th. So Tuesday, June the 10th will be our our next regularly scheduled board meeting in June. Okay. And now we'll move to our next item. Okay. Our next report will be ourformational bond 2020 2023 construction update. Sorry, Mr. Mott. Good evening, board. Dr. Aver, I'm here to give you your bond
0682023 construction update. Go over a little bit of what's what we've done so far and kind of give you some dates so you kind of have some dates on your mind. We have finished Jimmy Ray Elementary. We have finished WA Steam Elementary Hancock building will be finished by the end of the month outside of one or two items that we're waiting to come in that will be here early summer. Um and then uh the track and field behind that same building will be finished during the summer of 2025. And um then this summer we will have also Finley Junior High and Howard Junior High both being completed this summer. With the summer of 2027, we'll have Walks at your Creek High School. Now, I'm hoping it's more spring truly so we can start putting furniture
069in there, but I'm putting summer of 2025, meaning furniture installed, everything in that for the I mean, I'm sorry, summer of 2027 for furniture, everything in that building. So, we'll go to the Hancock building, show you a few pictures there. The Hancock building, there you're seeing the band hall. You can see one of the upstairs hallways that um has been added. that is from old building to new building. It's the cross pathways there. They'll have as you see one of the science room, one of the art rooms. Um right now they're doing all the final cleaning, those kind of things um in that building. They're starting to do a lot of that. We have a few little touch-ups here and there, but most of us are starting to do the final cleaning, starting upstairs, working
070our way down in those areas. Finley Junior Eye, you can kind of see there. There's the front area. As you go by there, you're seeing more and more be completed on that. Um, we're waiting on the final metal panels to come in and that'll really complete the rest of the front of that building to be totally fully completed there. Your administration area as you walk in the front door area you see right there to your right, that's now the new reception area. Those kind of things. As you walk into it, you can see the kitchen. We're starting to tile there. Starting to put the tile the the tile up around the that is actually going from that is the back of the serving line area that you're seeing right there. And then you can see
071the back entrance where we've added some areas there, adjusted that back entrance out. It' be a lot cleaner, more uh newer look on that back of that building now than what it used to be there. Howard Junior High. You can see the cafeteria edition there that we've added. We'll have the You can see the drama room. Yes, it looks blue because they've got some blue covering over the glass there. It's not all the time blue, but it's just a blue covering over the glass. Keep the the large glass windows from being scratched. Those kind of things that you see. You can see the band hall there. We have um demoed and you can see everything you see now is all adding back. We're starting to build walls back from walls we demoed where we've adjusted,
072made some moves, things like that. And then you can see there in the small room area over there next to the drama. We're actually starting to brick and uh the masonary's going up on that side. Soon as they finish that side, they'll move over the cafeteria edition and start moving moving that over there. We will actually start the demo of the cafeteria and all that once school kids are out in that time frame there. Then we get to Walachi Creek. Walachi Creek has been uh it's been a tough one so far. It's weather has been one thing. Well, and then the utility company has discovered this white rocks a little harder than they thought. Um we have they have we're on excavator three and four out there of digging through the white rock. As you
073can see now, the picture there on your right is the excavator now. And you can see it's doing a pretty good job there going through there. Picture on the left, that blue one there that has moss written on it. They they tore up one of those pretty good. And that was the second one they had there. So, they're digging it out with the big one and then filling that trench back up so the little ones can go make it quicker for them. One is they don't they the little ones can't dig through the white rock. So, they're just breaking it up, making the trench, and then they'll fill it back in as they're going along. So it makes it a little quicker for that instead of otherwise we would have the trench open too long.
074Rain would make the trench uh fall in and things like that. Also it creates a safety hazard out there. Then we have what's going on on the slab. So this is actually a pipe digger that's actually the plumbers are digging. They're going through and doing the same thing is they're going through and cutting pre-cutting all those trenches and then they're filling those back up. So when they come into the actual plumbers coming in with the little small mini X's and things like that, they come through everything becomes very easy to dig instead of them trying to dig through that that severe white rock and packed ground that they've had out there. Here's some overview sites. Picture on the top is actually looking in the long term that is you're at the spur looking across the
075building. You can see the little L right there in front right behind that nice lake that we have sitting there. As you can see, these pictures were taken last week and so we have some water out there, but that is actually the building site you see right there. That is the building starting to go itself backwards. They're probably overall full building, actual building structure site. They're probably about 70% completed of the pad itself with what is mainly left would be the athletic wing in the back left. Top left of that corner there is the main area that's left to be the compaction and all that for the pad site itself. You get down to that bottom left picture, you can see that picture there. You see the larger um white rock yellow area right there.
076That is actually the softball field. They're starting to work that area as well. The area to the left, a little square there, that is the tennis courts. And they'll start working their way across those um those areas, starting to pack that. They probably won't do much more on the tennis courts because those take a little bit more specialized when you pack that soil. and they'll leave that just for the tennis court company that does that because of what it takes because of your cracking in tennis courts and all that. You want them held responsible for the stabilization and all that because that is their specialty versus just a company that does dirt work in essence. You can see the picture there on your on the bottom right that is from the oldly road basically the
077spur corner looking out across the pad building there. The building you see right there immediately, it's um that white square area. That is actually the compound trailer. A lot of people usually say it's a work trailer. That's four of them put together. They have a conference room. They have offices all around it because of the job site and the long the time they'll be there. It is it is needed for that. We have another trailer that is on site as well. It's a single trailer they use for their safety meetings for all the new people that show up. They handle those safety meeting in that trailer and those kind of things. But where that trailer is sitting is in the middle of the what will be the parent drop off um ring or drive area
078that you can see and you can see some of the dirt where it's actually already it's already been compacted and formed as you can see there going around that trailer right there that is al that is already prepped and finished in that area. So we're getting a lot of the flat work a lot of the work starting to be done those kind of things. Um, we just got last uh Wednesday we got the first rounds Wednesday night, Thursday morning, we got the first rounds back from the city on the building permit and I saw those. Actually, it's not bad at all on the comments. It's mostly clean up versus change this. It's mostly just clean this verbiage up on this page or that page. So, it's really not a main issue that we have anything
079there on the building on the building permit that scares me on anything there. Um, it's not holding us up anything there. on that. We're going to move on to Prop C. So, some of the Prop C, one of the big things that's on Prop C that we're working on is removing geothermal out of the district. This will be the first one that will be fully completed and ready by next school year. It will be 100% completed and ready. So, these are we're putting chiller towers on this pad that got poured uh Saturday morning. They'll lay the they'll set the chiller P chillers. They're scheduled probably for Friday as they'll start setting the chillers on there. Soon as kids are out, we'll get into getting them charged, all that. We can't do anything because we got
080to keep the current geothermal up and running till kids are out of that building. Once they're out of that building, we'll do start disconnecting, running power, those kind of things when there's no kids in the building. But the plan is for this this school to be fully functional on chillers by the time we start school. Now, also on you'll see on Prop C, it's going to be a busy summer. So, when you go by a campus and you think like Marvin, we're doing a lot of work in Marvin. So, there's going to be a lot of people coming and going, it's going to look like we're demoing that building in a way, and we kind of are and everything we're doing there. But, you're going to see that in a lot of buildings this summer.
081Um, I've got one contractor showing up on the 27th with about 125 people throughout the district at seven campuses. So, like I said, we're going to have a lot of people doing a lot of things this summer throughout the district. So, it will be a very busy summer. Any questions on anything? Yes. Are we on budget on on all of our projects? All of our projects for Prop A are on or under budget? Yes, ma'am. And then all of our projects for Prop C, we are under budget on everything by line items. And some of those savings we have started spending on other items such as the uh geothermal replacement because we're getting enough savings on everything we've done. We are starting to spend those on building improvements that long-term building improvements and so forth.
082So yes, we are on or under budget on everything. Very good. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Real quick, what campuses still have geothermal after you switch over? We only had three originally. We had Felty, Howard, and Clif. Felty is the first one. U Howard and Clif have been approved and we'll start work over there. They will not be completed this summer, but we will start the work and start doing a lot of the work there at those campuses to to work to do that through the school year and things like that. We'll get a lot of the infrastructure as much as we can done. But it's the same company that actually got this is doing those others as well. And some of it is we're going to have to cut the roofs and fly some pieces
083of material, some some things out of the building and in. So, we've got to watch the timing and all that. Right weather, right time, those kind of things of what we're doing, but we'll have all three of them by the end by the 26 school year. All three of them will be completed. Yes. So, we will no longer have geothermal in the building. All right. Thank you. In the district, I'm sorry. Anything else? Thanks, sir. No problem. All right. Moving on to report C withformational report on the parent student survey results. Teresa Malton. Hi. Okay. All right. Board. The um survey results should be in your packet um in full text so you can read each question and how each response was um disagregated. Uh the surveys were active for parents and students from February
08414th through March 7th. And we ended up with 1693 elementary student responses, 863 secondary student responses, and 258 parent responses. Um, our surveys were offered in both English and Spanish. And, um, so this evening, I'll go over the highest scoring questions and the lowest scoring questions for each of these three surveys. on our elementary survey. Um the three questions that had the highest scores were questions four, seven, and five. Um those were my teacher wants me to do my best. I learn a lot in class and my teacher helps me to keep trying when the work gets hard. Some opportunities for growth were our lowest scoring questions. We're number 10, which is my homework helps me learn and nobody really enjoys homework. So, um it's not a surprise that that only garnered 70% of the
085survey. Um question 13, I feel like I belong in the school community and I enjoy coming to school. Those were both relatively high scoring questions. Um but lower of the 15 we had. Okay. In the secondary student survey, the three highest scoring questions were number six, three, and 18. So, to receive a good grade, I must work hard in class. I take pride in my academic work and I participate in extracurricular activities. So it does look like our students feel like they're challenged. Um some areas for growth would be questions 14, 10 and 17. So students in this school treat adults with respect, discipline is good in is in the school is fair and I enjoy coming to school. Okay. Our parents tended to have a very positive um picture of our campuses which is
086a great news for for us. Um the highest three questions were 13 five and two. My camp my child's campus is clean and well-maintained. The principal of my child's school is an effective leader and my child's campus provides a safe environment with the three areas for growth being questions nine, three and 10 uh which is related to feedback. regularly receiving feedback from my child's teachers and other school staff, student learning being a priority of the campus, and I feel well informed about the issues impacting my schools. Okay. Do you have any questions? Several weeks ago, you received the comments from all of the surveys, so you you should have seen been able to see any of the questions and the answers. I don't have a question, but I do think it's concerning that our kids
087um don't feel like our teachers get treated with respect. So when kids are saying that, it's concerning. It is. I agree. Anyone else? Okay, we'll move to report D, which is also you, Miss Burke Halter. Report related to the history of recaptured positions. Okay. So board over the last three years we have looked very carefully at positions in the district. Um starting in 2023 24 when we began to use Cardonics which is a master scheduling software that is used in secondary campuses. It was first used then to evaluate staffing and staffing based on district approved ratios. We looked at the 1 to 28 and um 13 positions that year were either moved or eliminated through attrition and three elementary positions that year were recaptured or moved. Um the total positions recaptured, we used a few
088uh where we were needed, but the total positions recaptured were 11 that year with a savings of approximately $360,000. In 2425 um we've had expanded scrutiny of each position. Every position when we have a vacancy is taken to cabinet requires approval of cabinet before posting. Um eight positions this year have been recaptured from central administration special education and TLI with an approximate savings of $675,000. In addition, 26 positions recapture were recaptured at the elementary levels with 12 positions recaptured at secondary. Uh the total positions recaptured as 22.25 because again a few were re repurposed where needed and the approximate savings was $1.6 million. And then looking to 2526 plans for the upcoming school year. We plan to end the campus-based substitute position which was temporary from the beginning. Uh we will centralize our elementary ps
089clerks and um our junior high three junior high library aids will be reassigned to other positions in the district. A receptionist at the junior high level will be reassigned as well. Um we have junior high third assistant principles that will be reassigned through attrition and uh we continue to have the same scrutiny over positions. Um we look at every posting and uh those postings are approved by cabinet before they go on our job boards. Uh we look at cardonics and elementary enrollment data uh to make sure that we're making the right decisions for staffing and recapture where we can. Uh the total positions recaptured thus far for 2526 is 40 positions for an approximate savings of $1.6 million. Do you have any questions? Has there been any of those positions that after not refilling them,
090you've seen that there is a need for them and we do fill them? So they're not so much the same position, but we may need a position elsewhere in the district. And so rather than asking for a new FTE, we would use that through a contingency and and fill the position that way. That's um the reason that some of these numbers like here we saved um 30 38 positions, but our total recaptured positions is 22.25. I haven't heard anything negative in regards to being short-handed or anything like that. So I think it's great. Um, I was just curious if anybody's noticed that there's a need that wasn't being filled. So, thank you. Thank you. I have a comment. It seems like our libraries are getting a double whammy. Um, you know, for years we tried
091to get certified librarians in all of our elementary schools and we finally got it. So, now we're going back to only putting a pair professional in there. And then our junior high campuses, which they do a lot in the library. I just don't see how our librarians are going to be able to do everything with without a pair professional. So, can we look at that again to give the junior high teachers back their pair professionals? We can absolutely take a look at that again. We're also looking at the job description for the the roles of the librarian at the junior high and we've recognized that they have a lot of technology responsibilities and so some of those responsibilities are things that we're considering and wondering where who else or where else we can get support
092for that rather than the pair professional role. So that is being looked at. Yes ma'am. Okay. Yes ma'am. I have a question. So uh I just see 12 positions rec pre recaptured at secondary levels and I guess my question would be um or statement would be we need to for continued growth uh really look at any reduction in secondary levels of teachers because I know that I understand how it works and so a teacher may have 30 to 32 to in our classes. Uh but uh because when we turn in all our reports, they they factor in the special ed teacher who might have three or four in a class. So it it kind of fixes the uh attendant I mean I'm sorry the student number of students in classes that kind of whack makes
093it wacky because you know you had this four averaged in and but you may have 30 30 to 32 sitting in your classes. So, I really think we need to look at um what we can do as far as secondary and putting as, you know, being sure that teachers aren't stuck with 28 30 kids because we all know that that's not as productive as what we need. And so, sure. Absolutely. And through Cardonics, we can set the number at whatever we need it to be. So, um the numbers are not set above 28. Um so we look at numbers between ideally 25 and 28 students per class in secondary and there are a few outliers specifically in junior high um fine art fine arts where those numbers are a little bit higher and so we'll
094be talking about ways to uh work around that and make those numbers a little more reasonable and no I don't like the junior high the outliers the art and band and everything being huge core classes is mainly what I'm talking about. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Our next report will be a report Eformational report on teacher incentive aotment consultant services for the 2025 2026 school year. Mrs. M. Good evening trustees and Dr. Abra. In my conversations with several districts um in region 10 in particular about TIA um one name kept coming up again and again as a consultant that was used. And so I reached out to Matt Pope with um EdPac and uh had several meetings with him. He came here in district and met with us as well. And uh we
095have entered into a contract service with Matt Pope uh to help support us in our TIA process. In your board packet, I did include the full contract services that he um his contract with us. And then here you have the consultation services outlined. And so just to highlight a few of these things in here, uh he is going to start working with us now. even though the contract does not officially start uh until next school year, he'll be working with us now as we are collecting the data from uh our teachers for the data submission that's due in October of 25. So, he's going to help us ensure that we have a a smooth data submission. He will work with us to develop a calibration plan and calendar for next year. He will come in
096and do training for our campus and district leaders on calibration and tests which is one of the areas that we need to improve in. Uh he will help track our test evaluations throughout the year. Collect help us with collecting data next year. He uh has a few things to help streamline that process. I visited with him this afternoon about the things that we already have in place and he's definitely going to work with us with the things we have in place this year and then we'll switch over to uh the actual systems of tracking that he has for next year and so it will streamline it even more. Um he will also do the updates to our TIA guide book that can be found on our website and he will maintain those. uh his contract
097services involve four in-person trainings and then four to six virtual check-ins as well. Uh as I mentioned, I did meet with him earlier today to look at uh the types of trainings that we would like to deliver next year. Um and it's really good. We'll be kind of continuing on that next step. Um for our uh campus leaders, um we started the first year with doing calibration trainings every month with principles. This year we did an in-depth look at the test rubric with our principles. So we'll be putting both of those pieces together next year and taking our principles every month on a campus and spreading out around that campus and doing that calibration live and in-person in classrooms and so we can take all that knowledge we've worked on in the last two years
098and continue to improve calibrating our tests to our student growth. Okay. And uh that's just telling you there about the number of engagements. Uh we did um contract with the highest level of support that he has this next year. We are very excited and confident in Mr. Pope's abilities. He is working with 12 different districts across the state of Texas and he has a 100% submission rate. So we are very optimistic and excited to work with him. Can I answer any questions? Okay, Miss Mont. So um we haven't been told uh so you keep saying for next year. So will our teachers be eligible for the uh TIA this coming year? Okay. So right now we are we're collecting all the data for this school year. That data is due no later than October. Okay.
099And so we will then find out in February of 2026 about this year's data. Everything runs a year behind. So it's it's hard to understand. So we have not gotten our data together for this year yet. We're still waiting for MAP testing to come in and of course we're still waiting for our star our teachers who are using STAR data all that to come in. So we'll start working on that now and we'll work on it through the summer and then we'll be ready to submit no later than the end of October. So yes, all teachers in that eligibility band all their data will be submitted this year. Okay. But it was earned this year. Is that correct? this year's data that's happening right now is what we'll collect in the summer. Okay. Okay. I
100think I understand. But it is. It is so confusing. It is. And I did talk with him today about how he's feeling about our data for this year because we did have some struggles with last year's data. And he said that the response that we did and the training that we did this fall, he is optimistic that it will improve our data because we did respond to the skew appropriately and we put the right training in place. that he is optimistic that when our data comes in this year, we will we're going to have a really good data submission and we're hoping to be have a valid a valid system and be approved. That's what we're all going for. Okay. Uh the only other question I guess I have and that'll be for next year,
101but I believe that the house is uh considering like a bill where we uh they're going to do star three times a year. Oh, really? I believe that's correct. Okay. And so that probably would take the place of Yeah. Maps. Well, we'll have to see how that affects Yeah. the TIA. Yeah, that'll be interesting if that comes all the way through. Yeah. It actually won't be the STAR test would go away. It would be the three interim test given given throughout the year. They've talked about that for a few years. So, that's that's the that's the proposal. So, and it is start I just thought it was another version of the STAR. So I think it's a shorter shorter assessment um that would be given three three times. Miss Miss Himbot, do you have some
102additional data for that? Yes sir, it is a shorter assessment not super short but shorter than the current STAR and it is more of a formative assessment where STAR right now is more of a summit assessment. So the purpose would be if the state moves that direction to have three formative measures throughout the year to see our students growth and how progressing throughout the school year. And I think another thing that that's part of that plan, if if it comes to fruition is that teachers would receive um data within a very short turn, it'd be a very short turnaround. Okay. By like 24 to 48 hours, they would have that data and then could then that could then in um inform their instruction. Okay. Okay. I just have heard a little bit about it, but
103I want to know how it impacted this. And it will be great to have our consultants help along with that when changes like that occur. Um we will definitely be relying on him. But we we will know what June second I think. Second or third when the legislature signed that. Absolutely. I say it anyway when we say goodbye to the legislature for the year. Yes ma'am. Any other questions I can answer. Anyone else? Okay. Our next report will be information report regarding the breakdown of campus and grade level of students attending WMAN through the lottery. Okay. So we did open up the lottery this year to accommodate upwards of about 800 students. Uh I thought it would be of interest to see how that has impacted our elementary enrollments across the district. So this chart
104shows you uh this year's students as well as going into next year with that expanded lottery. I think of interest to note is Wedgeworth has the highest total number of students in this year's draw uh as they as well as they did last year. We pulled 109 students in total from the Wedgworth zone to attend Wyomman and Simpson uh is pretty high as well. Um second place there we're pulling about 88 students away from Simpson. that is really really helpful as we are trying to keep Simpson within the four walls of their building and not have to put portables out there again. Uh if you'll see we took 21 kindergarteners out of that zone for next year. That is a full class of kids which is very helpful because we are full out at Simpson
105even um considering taking 21 students. Uh this I have had to adjust my staffing plans uh with this information. For example, at Dunaway, 19 kindergarteners from that zone will be going to Wyomman next year. So, we've had to look at do we collapse down from three sections of kindergarten to two there. And that was the plan for Wyomman is to pull that enrollment off of our elementary campuses. And so, we are making adjustments to staffing right now. I was hoping to get you a breakdown um by e economically disadvantaged um students and other demographic information for next year, but that's just not available quite yet as the student pathways have not all been put into Skyward at this time. But as soon as I have that information in July or August, I will bring that
106back to you um to show you know areas that we need to continue to recruit in to keep Wildman to be a very balanced campus and a good representation of our district. So, as soon as I have that, I'll bring that back to you in a board report. Any questions I can answer. Okay. So, will this next report include like the socioeconomic status of of the students? Yeah, we'll break it down by the demographics of Wyoming and see how close we are to representing the entire district. how impactful the u our bus transport is to help Walmart. I can tell you this year and last year we've had less than 10 students take advantage of our shuttle. Uh we'll see how that's impacted by the new location in the fall. Uh but we have not
107had a lot of students take advantage of that. Right. Okay. And some of it is just the logistics of having to leave so early in order to pick so many students up and and get there. It does make that bus route leave pretty early in the morning. Understood. Thank you. Anyone else? Thank you very much. Next report, Mr. Calden, be a review of the annual investment report and strategies. Thank you sir. Board uh you do have an updated annual investment report that was at your dice seat. Uh there were two typos in the one that was in board book. Uh there are two months within cow projects that had zero as the investment earnings and that's uh inaccurate information. So that was updated. Um overall board uh the report is broken down by fund type.
108So you'll see the general operating funds first and then interest and syncing and then uh QCAB is a specific type of bond within interest and seeking uh that we make uh syncing fund payments on every year. Uh that bond will be paid off actually here in about three more years. Uh and then you'll the building fund is is the bond funds uh from the May bond of 2023. And then you will see the very end of it is scholarship money that we have uh that is invested. Um as a district we did beat the 91day T bill average which within our investment uh report or uh policies that is our our bell weather that we're looking at. Uh so we did better our investment returns uh over the 91day T bill average. Uh we continue
109to monitor uh for compliance with public funds investment act. Um this is a legislative year. So if there are any changes to the public funds investment act, we will bring that back to you uh at the end of the legislative session. But as of right now, there are no proposed changes uh to the investment policy or the strategies. uh but wanted you to have the annual investment report and we will ask for your approval of the report and the policy and strategies at the next board meeting. So any questions as you look through that that I can answer for you tonight uh before we bring it back for your approval next meeting. Questions, comments. Okay, our next report will be our quarterly demographic update. Mr. Calden, oh, I'm going to go back one second. Made
110this really fun chart and I didn't even show you this chart. Uh, Lord, this is this is just a uh line graph that will show you the monthly yield uh for every investment type that we had. Uh they were all essentially uh investment pools, so they're going to be very closely aligned. Uh the green line is a special account that we have our depository depository bank uh that is holding on to some bond funds. But you will see that in every month except for August of 2024 uh the yield return beat the 91day T bill average. Fun info, but this is the kind of cool stuff I'm interested in. So next we'll go on to the demographic report. Uh and I'm going to try to break this because there we go. Oh, and of course
111it says I need access. Oh, because I'm logged in as Steven. Well, um, talk about a major letdown in terms of hyping it up. And there it is. Hey, Stephen, if I share that with you, will it pop up or does it need a refresh? Oh, no wonder. request. Will it take a few minutes for it to reboot? Mr. Colin, I'm sorry. Will it take a few minutes for it to reboot? Yes, sir. We can uh we can either try to do it now or we can delay it till next month if you would like, sir. or I can do the consent agenda and come back if I need to. Uh I mean we talked several minutes. Yes, sir. If you'll give me a few minutes, I'd appreciate it. Okay. We'll go to consent agenda
112and then we'll come back and evaluate. Okay. Thank you, sir. All right. Board. So, we're going to skip to our consent agenda, which is probably the longest one I think I've ever seen. We have items A through Y. Am I Am I correct in reading that up for consideration? No, Mr. McCutenson, I don't need you to miss anything. Um, uh, up for consideration. So, as you know, we can take these all in one motion or if there's some that need to be removed for individual discussion, however, the board may chooses to proceed. I'd like to make a couple of clarifying statements regarding some of the items on the consent agenda. Uh specifically, um first off, consent agenda item L uh which is related to um a trip this summer with our SSP students to Florida
113to participate in the student conference. That's our uh student space exploration program. Um and those are that's for the students that were selected for their project, their microgravity project along with one administrator and one coordinator. That's four students, one admin and one coordinator. And that's that's about that is right around $3,500 uh they'll cost for that trip to Florida. Um also items N through T, you'll see those items are related to uh sound system upgrades. Um uh key key card entry door uh for doors on campuses. Uh so those items N through T all of those are are being funded through our Prop C funds for so bond funds for that. And then the final one is item U which is um consideration to approve the WHS van trip to uh Florida uh basically next
114spring break. This is something they do every other year. And just a reminder that u we do not we do not use district funds for this for this trip. This is a trip that's that's paid for through fundraisers and student student fees. Okay. I entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. Motion by Mr. McCuten. Second. Second by Mrs. Timberman. Any other discussion? All in favor say I. I. Those say nay. Motion carries 70. All right. Back to you, Mr. Colin. You ready? Yes, sir. Quarterly quarterly demographic report. All right. For the demographic report, this is your uh fourth quarter of 2024 demographic report update. And let me get my mouse over there. Uh local economic conditions. You can see that our our local area continues to trend with the greater DFW region.
115Uh our unemployment rates continue to lag. Well, this is a positive indicator. Our unemployment is less than the state average and the US average. Uh Ellis County is right in line with the local DFW market. So, it's a really good sign for us that there's there's uh work out there and there are plenty of people uh who have the ability to work. In terms of housing activity, uh, as a market, D the DFW Dallas area market is still the leader, uh, over the other major metro areas within our country. Um, we had about 47,000 annualized starts in the fourth quarter. Uh, it's not the largest gain. If you look down at Portland, it's 85 or so percent gain. Uh, but we are a much larger market than the Portland market. I don't know um if
116you're if you're really asking. I don't know if that's Oregon or Maine. I would assume it's Oregon. Uh but that's a significant increase at 85%. Uh we have too many housing units within DFW to see an 85% increase in any one quarter. Uh but you can look at the change from 2019, still a very healthy increase of 36% uh in terms of annualized starts from the fourth quarter of 2019. Uh so the market is still very strong in the Dallas area and we are part of that market. We've been looking at new home starts and closings over the last couple of quarters. Um you see the inverted period uh right over here where our closings were outpacing our starts. Um as we kind of went through that the end of that COVID period. We knew
117we were going to hit a little bit of a lull and we did that uh through pretty much all of last year and the first part of this year. you're starting to see a little bit of separation again. Uh so we're seeing our uh starts exceeding our closings. Right now it's almost 1,700 units as of the fourth quarter of 2024. That's more in line with that traditional model of having available homes uh for people to come and purchase. Uh it should slow down on the bid wars as we get into uh the buying of houses. Uh though there is enough pressure from interest rates uh that can also help stop that bid war as the uh interest rates are much higher than they were not too long ago in terms of a full year. If
118you look at our starts and closings, uh 2024 is back in line with 2019. Um so right before we hit all of the real uh bubble uh that came with uh the pandemic. uh you look at our starts are a little bit higher than they were in 2019 for a full year. Closing's right on par uh a little bit more than they were in 2019. So we're getting back into a more familiar model uh a more sustainable model of where we were with uh starts and closings about four or five years ago. So that's a good trend for us going forward. Uh one-year change, this is just looking at the fourth quarter of 23. you will see a positive variance uh through every one of these uh listed categories except for futures. Uh so futures
119again that's that planned development uh going in. So we're eating into some of those future lots as we're uh putting in the infrastructure to put that lot on the ground and make it uh develop developable uh for a resident. Uh but at this point we are not backfilling that future. So, that's a sign uh that there could be additional growth on the horizon. Uh or if we're not going to backfill those futures, then we may start running out of lots again uh going forward within our community. But at 18,200 lots or futures, that's still a pretty healthy amount that's in the pipeline uh for our developers to be working on. Uh kind of looking at the elementary zones, um there's the the key piece. you're looking for yellows and greens uh within the zones. Uh
120the red is kind of the the third highest in any one category, but yellows and greens, if you look out across the board, they're really concentrated in Wedgeworth and Shackleford. And those are the two areas that we keep over and over as a leadership looking at how can we provide future um relief in the Shackleford zone and in the Wedgeworth zone. Uh we do look at Jimmy Ray. They have a significant number of future um home sites within that area, but it doesn't really hold a candle to Wedgeworth. Wedgeworth is almost three times the number of future lots or future sites within that uh zone compared to Jimmy Ray uh as the next highest uh group within that category. So we are really paying attention to the yellows and greens because that that's an indicator
121of activity now and into the future within those zones. And so when we look for a site for a future elementary campus, uh we're looking to try to provide relief uh at the campuses that are experiencing uh the significant growth now and going forward. Lost my mouse. There it is. Okay. Housing overview. I keep losing my mouse. And where is it? There it is. Okay. Um it's a hotspot map. So you've seen this before. There are 44 active building uh subdivisions within our district and you can see they're in every single zone. Uh SAN's a couple. There might not be a whole lot of activity right now in North Side and Marvin. Uh but we do know that those are generally built out areas of our of our community, but you see them in every
122other zone. Um 753 lots were delivered in the fourth quarter of 2024 and ground work is underway on about 520 lots right now within five actively building uh subdivisions. And so those lots, if you're curious, the red outlines are the five uh subdivisions in which the lots are being delivered. And you can see we have some in Dunaway, some in Wedgeworth, uh some in Clif, and some in Jimmy Ray. We'll highlight a few of these. Um, in the Shackleford zone. So, if you are uh on Alton Adams, you will see that Harland Village. Uh, it is right behind the water treatment plant, kind of right in between, um, Butcher Road and, uh, actually, it's right on Butcher Road. Um, right here, this one. And so, that is 230 future lots. uh preliminary plat was approved
123in 2018, but recent work uh work hadn't started until just recently. Uh so we don't really have an estimate right now of what those homes are going to be going for, but we do expect some activity to start in that area. Veagio at Victron Park, this is going to be on the west side of 77. Um that's going to be backing up, I believe, if memory serves. This is Atwoods. Uh so you're going to see that development right over kind of by the Cancun and Atwoods. All that development that Victron has been putting in uh just south of uh Butcher Road. Those average those are town homes. They're looking to go for right around 300 to $330,000 each. Uh and then as we kind of go a little bit further into the Shackleford zone, uh
124we come off of 813 and we have Bent Creek Estates. Uh 49 total lots. ground work is underway on all of the units. Um, you can kind of this the shaded map kind of gives you a general idea of where things are going to go and then if you want to look on the on the GPS rendering, you can kind of see what work is actually in place versus underway. So, you can see that up here in the Harland Village, still not a whole lot of work that's that's happening on the ground, but they are making plans to get that development underway. As we moved a little bit south, we're into the Simpson zone and kind of where the Shackleford and Simpson boundaries are. Uh Dove Hollow, this is the one that backs up to
125Grove Creek. 621 total lots, 309 are vacant uh developed lots. 103 homes under construction, 230 are occupied currently. Uh they're building about 150 to 200 homes a year. So, not a whole lot more uh not a whole lot more for them to go with this development. Um and the prices are somewhere between 350 and 475,000 uh for the home. So uh final lots were delivered in the fourth quarter of last year. So it's a matter of time before uh Dove Hollow is fully built out. Uh within North Grove, there's still about uh 1,400 total lots. About 206 are vacant developed. 41 homes under construction. About,00 homes are occupied at the moment. So that leaves about 184 lots uh that are still in the felty zone. Uh and the builder is Bloomfield. So you'll see again
126North Grove, you'll see that that development kind of get to its completion uh as a wholeon development uh and not too much longer as they continue to grow. All right, now into the Wedgeward zone, Ridge Crossing. Uh so Oilla Road is is on the eastern boundary of this subdivision and if you're really looking at it on the west it's Wetche High School. Uh so that give you an idea of where we are. This is between Oilla and WHS. Uh Ridge Crossing. So there's three different uh developments going on in the same area. Ridge Crossing has 242 total lots. 114 uh future lots. 96 are vacant developed. So they're ready for homes to start being constructed. 15 of which are already underway. Now, you may remember on the last demographic update, we started talking about the
127median price and we started talking about affordability and and when you start uh start seeing that student density and it's not usually at a higher price point, it's usually at a lower. So, one thing that would be a little bit of a concern is when you start seeing ridge crossing with 240 total units and the starting price is half a million dollars for those for those units. We would not expect a significant density increase over areas uh say in North Grove or in Camden Park. Uh we would expect those to yield more students than a half million dollar home is going to. But the average range is half million to about 650,000 in that ridge crossing neighborhood. Shepard's Place continues. Um it has 264 total, about 17 homes under construction. Uh starting price is about
128350,000. So, we would expect a greater density of students to come from Shepherd's Place than we would Rich Crossing. The other development in this area is going to be Dominion Park, 206 total lots. Uh, ground work is underway in the entire development. I don't really have a buildout time at this point, but I would imagine at 260 lots, it's probably going to be relatively quick. we might be looking at at, you know, 8 to 10 years uh total development if they go at the same place or same pace that Shephardd's Place is going at. Uh in Dunaway, we're looking at Wooded Creek. So, 30 total lots, a relatively small development, uh 17 vacant develop, four homes under construction, seven homes already occupied, but again, that price point is 550,000 to about 625,000. Uh so, a
129little bit more uh elevated price point. So, we would not expect as much density from that neighborhood. And then we also have Waterfall Ranch Estates. 160 total units, 147 are vacant developed, 10 uh homes under construction uh at this point. And again, that price point is in the low 500,000s. Uh so those are a couple those are the big uh developments that we're looking at right now that are kind of uh under development and putting more lots on the ground. wanted to show you a trend as it relates to multif family housing. So in December of 2024, we actually saw um occupancy drop uh overall in multif family housings. Not a a great shift about a 1 and a half% reduction in total occupancy. Um but you also see the asking price for rent is
130coming down a little bit, relatively unchanged, but it but it is a red number uh with a negative. Uh and so you're seeing the effective rent per square foot come back down a little bit as well uh to $1.72. This is for the entire DFW area. It's not just uh Wachi. So uh that's that's stabilization of the multif family u market. Overall we have about 5,000 multif family units within the district. Um and then some of those are future and others are just um under construction. you'll see a lot of the the units kind of right there in the middle of the middle band of the district looking at the 10-year grade level forecast. So, the numbers that I'm kind of looking at are over in this last column, the percent growth. As a district,
131we're expecting about a 3.8% growth in total student enrollment for the 2526 school year. I will not budget all of those students. Um I'm total growth on a student count is 420. I'll probably budget about 300 because I would rather more students come than I anticipated than the other way around. Um, so we'll budget about 300 student growth. But what you see is the trend. You it was 4.3 then seven then we started running out of available homes for for people to purchase. So we started slowing down to 2.3 1.3. But now that you're seeing that that uh normal curve where we have vacant houses for people to purchase, uh you should start seeing that growth trend pick up pick back up. Uh over the next 10 years, you're seeing roughly an average of 4
132and a.5% growth. Uh you see it hit 5% for a couple of years, but overall you're seeing about four and a half% growth, which is much better than a 7% growth. We would prefer not to have the 7% growth years. Um, so this show you by elementary zone. I'm not paying a whole lot of mind to the green and yellow boxes because this was before the Wyoming lottery numbers. So the demographer does not know where those students are coming from. And Miss Mott just told us that a good number of students were going to come from the Wedgeworth zone and the Simpson zone. Uh so you will see uh that that green Simpson box for 2526 is likely not going to be a green Simpson box because of the students uh that were pulled for
133that WMAN lottery. So uh we do have Wyoming on here at a much higher capacity uh or enrollment number than we had previously but we have not decreased any of the other campus enrollments because of it. Uh we did not know them at the time that this report was created. At secondary level, you see relatively flat um not a ton in the way of junior high enrollment. You're seeing it about 3.3% which is right in line with our overall district growth. Um the flat level was more at the high school level, about 1.8% uh high school growth, which would be great for a campus that's already uh asking for some relief at WHS. they should not uh see a significant influx of additional students uh which is the best that we can offer them because
134in 267 they're looking at almost a 3.8% increase. Sorry, Charlie. Uh overall about 3.8% growth for the district and next year about a 4.2 and then not a whole lot on that slide for you. So we'll leave it right here. Any questions on the demographic report? Okay. I had one question. Yes, ma'am. I'm sorry, Mr. So, global I'm seeing that I mean, I believe we were trying to hit over 400. Is that still our goal to hit right around 400? So, realistically, Global and School of Choice, the numbers on here honestly are just plugs. They are not actually based on anything because Global does not have a true attendance zone. uh it is that lottery base and so yes ma'am our goal is to keep it around 400 uh as it transitions back to the
135TC Wildman building it will not have the ability to to grow to 6 or 700 uh just because of the limitations of the building but yes it's our expectation that it will stay around 400 and you're saying it's lottery based it's the applicationbased and so it's not my apologies it's been a long day it's not lottery based it is application based and so uh but it's it's impossible to define a certain attendance zone uh for the students at global right I understand good catch yeah so but they are all what GISD students now unless they are coming with a parent who's working at that campus okay thank you very much yes ma'am and I was just going to say that that round 400 number is about the IDE ideal number for our early college high
136school. It's right about right that's like the sweet spot. So, anything else for Mr. Colin. Okay. Our last report will be report Iformational report on W's balance scorecard priority for financial integrity. I just surprised myself with that ability there. All right, balance scorecard. Oh, just kidding. Oh, we're at the end of balance scorecard. Hold, please. Well, that was a real fun report. Hope you enjoyed it. Balance scorecard priority for financial integrity. Let's do it uh from the front this time. Uh our key strategic actions uh have not changed. that since the last time we reported uh I will not read them for you. Um 4.1 41A um budget quarterly comparisons we are still sending these out. Our next one is due to go out at the end of May and so we will send that
137out uh to our campuses. Uh we sent one out in December and then the next one uh will go out in May and so that is on our calendar to send out. Uh 401b we have earned the traditional finance and the debt obligation transparency star from the comprollers's office. I reported to you about a year ago that those were under review. Uh we were confirmed uh to continue to receive both of those. We got our our traditional confirmation in May and our debt confirmation in October. I got an email last week from the comprollers's office that they are reviewing both of those stars uh for continued compliance and uh reconfirmation right now. So, we anticipate we will get uh some word on that probably by the end of July. Um and we uh we look
138forward to receiving those updates and getting reconfirmed on 401c board. you approved the budget adoption calendar for 2526 at your January meeting and then our 10-year expenditure projection plan um truly is on hold. It really I know it says that we're going to keep doing it and we'll get it posted, but right now it is truly on hold as we go through Proposition C and we do the campus improvements. A lot of those items were on that 10-year uh expenditure projection plan. So, that plan needs a lot of updating right now. Uh and as we get through with those Prop C items at the end of summer, uh we will definitely update that. Uh the other side of that coin is realistically uh there's not a whole lot of additional funds for us to go
139out and and start tackling these items right now. So, um, we are hoping that the House bill, House Bill two that was approved by the House and sent to the Senate with funding will pan out and come through for us because then we will really have to start tackling our expenditure projection plan uh, with some available resources. But right now, uh, that's been one of our biggest struggles is putting in the time to get that plan wholly accurate and live without additional funds to follow through and make that a uh, realistic plan. So uh that is that is the one thing that I'm struggling with the most out of all of this. Uh 42 uh generally relates to our facilities and how we use them. So uh 42 we have a long range facilities plan
140that is we have uh work going on right now reviewing all of the systems within every single campus and every single building that is not an instructional campus. And uh we anticipate that work to be done probably in about the next uh 8 to 10 months would be my guess. Uh again, that will need to be updated with Proposition C items that are being addressed. Uh doing that work in house because we know our our our buildings and we know their challenges uh better than a consultant walking through on any one day. Uh so we do hope to have a really good list when that work is all fully done. Um, as we go into 42B, we have a 10-year plan for facilities. Um, you continue to get the quarterly demographic updates that continue that
141feed into that plan. I believe the next slide is actually the plan. Um, and then our bond oversight committee on 42C, it does continue to meet quarterly. Our next meeting will be June 3rd. Uh our last meeting was at Wyomman and it was ironic enough a day that power kept going out on us and so it made for a real interesting meeting. We kept starting and stopping every time we would get the presentation loaded back up the power would go out again. It finally just gave out on us for this for the rest of the day. So uh we kind of just we myself, Mr. Mott, Mr. Cliff just stood up there and and kind of freew wheeled and told the told the group, "Hey, this is what you would have seen if the presentation
142worked." But uh that was a high wind day. So, we did have some some power issues coming in on that high wind day, but we did have that meeting back in March over at Wyomman, and the next one is in June, and it will be here. Here is the 10-year uh uh facilities plan. So, again, board, you've seen this before. This is the 17,000 plus student plan. And let me go back. Um everything to the left of the purple line is phase one of the plan. Those are things that we have bond monies for and are tackling. uh you will see things such as Jimmy Ray construction, Jimmy Ray open. Uh this is our big hurdle at the moment is Frankie Luette. We don't have land for Frankie Luett. So we have not started construction
143and thus it will not open uh as this uh graph depicts. Uh Wyman Steam Academy has been constructed and is open. The junior high renovations are all underway. Renovations and expansions are all underway. They should all be open for the start of the 2526 school year. Um, comprehensive high school number two design and construction phase. We're right in the middle of it. Still on par for a August 2027 for 2728 school year opening um land. This has been our our hurdle with Frankie Luette. We have not identified sufficient land uh to go out and make that purchase uh or receive a donation on. So, uh, this is, uh, holding up our Frankie Lu Jette construction at this point. And then board, you have seen month after month numerous requests for work in Proposition C items
144to continue going. Uh, the items to the right of the purple line would be items that would be needed for phase two of the 17,000 plus student plan along with some other items that district administration uh, are continuing to look at. one may be the uh athletics facility upgrades at Wsachi High School that were proposition D last time and were unsuccessful. We will continue working on those um to to provide that solution at Wsachi High School going forward. And then also just as a district, we continue to run into some challenges as it relates to our transportation facility. Uh we are running out of space to park buses. So we do need to to look for an alternate uh arrangement going forward. That may not mean a new transportation facility. That may mean a satellite
145facility. We're still exploring those options, but we have a placeholder on our chart just so that we know to revisit that and bring that back to you when we are ready uh to go forward with phase two. And then 4.3, um the business office does do a customer satisfaction survey so that we can get feedback on on how we do what we do. uh we send that out to principles, department heads and secretaries usually around Thanksgiving between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Uh we've received those results and we are reviewing those and making sure that we are addressing the areas of concern. Overall, I would tell you that our our satisfaction uh from users is roughly 90%. Uh so we are we're pretty uh happy with that, but we know that there's room to improve, so we
146we keep doing it. Uh, one of the ways that we try to improve is increase the financial knowledge and skills of our budget managers. Uh, one of their big, uh, one of the big feedback points that we got from them is we don't know what we don't know. We really wish you would help us learn more of the financial stuff. So, uh, Miss Ross and her team have started uh, I believe we're in the second year now of doing monthly financial trainings and the topics rotate. Uh, they're timely and they rotate based on feedback. And so they are trying to give our our campus and department heads that financial uh training at a about a 10,000 foot view so that they can make sound budget decisions and we can have uh good conversations about their
147budget and finance. And then board you continue to see uh support services monthly reports and transportation reports uh as part of their reporting to you uh on a monthly basis in your board packets. So that supports our support services maintaining accurate information uh and reporting it out regarding projects and work orders. So with that that I know that was relatively quick and relatively high level but that is our balance scorecard report for uh this half year. Any questions that I can answer uh regarding the balance scorecard report? Anyone? Okay. Thank you very much sir. Thank you. All right, that concludes our report section. So the last thing we have on our agenda is a motion to adjurnn. So motion by Mrs. Creel. Second, Mr. Scullfield. All in favor say I. I. Motion carries 70. Thank
148you.