001sto back up way fast. You know about [Music] I said it may be cleared up right now. It's back sitting in a chair right to her. She was about 80 years old grand 40 cops out there. I said, "Come on, look at that little lady. You can expect I'll come get her for you. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, it's 6:00 p.m. June the 26, 2025. And at this time I'll call the meeting to order and I'll ask everybody please stand for the prayer and the sage of me. Father in heaven, we bow before you on this night asking your directive as we as board members and have that responsibility of educating our youth here in Wharton Independent School District. We not only pray for ourselves, we pray for each and every administrator. We pray for each
002and every one that has a part in the teaching. And we call those teachers of the the information presented to them. And we're thankful to live in a community such as this that we are able to assemble without any fear. In many places that's not so, but here in Wharton, we thank you for the blessed privilege to assemble, call on your name, Father, as we deliberate those things tonight. It's in the name of Jesus that we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, justice for all. Honor the flag. I aliance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Are there any citizens here wishing to make a public comments? There are none. So,
003we'll move on to action items. Under item or that's item number four, we have consideration and possible action to approve a budget amendment. Item B, consideration and possible approval of the 2025 2026 employee compensation guide. And item C, consideration and possible approval of uh 2526 employee handbook once. Good evening. Um so the first action item are budget amendment. you have there in your packet. Um, first we will look at exhibit A1. Um, we are asking the board to approve a $1.2 million uh revenue budget amendment. This is for the $1.4 million worth of chapter 313 that we were not anticipating getting um this fiscal year and we did. So, um, we would like to ask the board to approve that amendment for us to increase our revenue by $1.2 million. And then if you look
004at exhibit B1, um, these are our expenses, um, we are asking the board to approve the amendment that you see there in the middle column. We need to increase instruction by $1.1 million. Um, we need to increase instruction for uh, the library. um $6 million and then you seem to decrease some with a total of $1.5 million increase to this. Um but we're asking the board to approve those two amendments. Any questions? Yeah, board have any questions? Both amendments are for the past. Correct. Correct. The 24 to 25 fiscal year. Yes. These are our final amendments for the year. This is for us to clean up the U budget for this fiscal year because you don't want to roll negative accounts, you know, at the end of the year for audit. Um so these are
005amendments for us to increase the budget revenue and expense. We can clean everything up for the 2425 fiscal year. Where does it put our power deficit at? So um we are still anticipating um a $ 1.5 million uh deficit. So that 500,000 we got back which was only going to make it a million dollar deficit, it's going to go back up. We're anticipating 1.5. We're hoping for 1 million. So, we'll know once the auditor come once we clean all of these accounts up, the auditor comes in and does the final numbers. We're we're hopeful for 1 million. Um, but we are still anticipating 1.5. Okay. But now 1.5. So, I'm just that chapter 33 that takes care of that. You know, when we're talking about that 2.5, that's why. Correct. Correct. Yes. So, it was
006originally should have been 2.5. the chapter 313 revenue did come in and so that would drop it back down to the 1.5. Yes. At this time, President and members of TR members of trustes, I recommend that the board approve the amendment budget as present. Is there a motion? Make a motion motion and second Cheryl. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. uh consideration possible approval of the 2025 2026 employee compensation guide. Um so you guys have the employee compensation guide there in front of you. This the compensation guide um at this time is current salary that was approved by the board on the June 17 board meeting. Um this does not include um the raises. We are working on that now. Um we are running numbers. We are getting
007final numbers. We're getting projections together and we will bring this compensation manual back to you in August for a final another approval to increase all of the salaries for the July start date for all of the teacher contracts. Um, so at this time the compensation manual is current what you just approved on July 17th. I mean June 17th, I'm sorry. Superintendent question. Yes. When does the uh like for the allotment for the bill that passed when does that have to be uh we're doing we're working on that now. We have all the spreadsheets from TEA. They've given us the determination of what a teacher is who's getting the raise. Three years, five years. We're doing we're putting all of those figures into the spreadsheets now. So that way it generates all of the numbers for
008us. We can go in and update the matrix. We have a date that has to be set by uh we need to have it approved in August. So that way it will start in September. April and because only teacher September September is a future contract. So all that has to be done and ready to go in the system. At this time president, members of trustees recommended the board approved the compensation manual as presented. Marie, did you make the motion? Your second. No, I I want to um um on C. So when I read this, it says consideration and possible approval and um comment that I'm going to make that you know possibly moving forward and in the future it would it would be helpful to me. I don't know about the rest of the board
009members uh if we you know had a little bit more time then you know I think I back it up on Monday and it's Thursday. Usually, you know, when you have an opportunity maybe over the weekend to look over this, it u I don't know for me it just gives me a better opportunity to to go over this and we'll try to do it in small town. And and and I I didn't I didn't call you on this because the way it's it's written it's kind of different than a where it says consideration impossible action. It says consideration impossible approval. So I didn't know we were actually going to take action. Yeah. The reason it is stated like that is because we know we are coming back in August because of the HB2 that have
010just been passed. But because you have staff who are starting the salary in July, they are not affected by HB2 proclamation by the governor. So that is why we have to bring that. So with this we are set for the July payment of all the uh that on July 8th. Now I've taken your suggestion into consideration. When we have big packets like this, I will make sure that packets are ready probably um earlier than what we have now. So that you haven't you have any question as you normally do reach out to me and then we talk about any um questions you have about it. So as we're going to take action on this tonight and I heard that we're going to come back in August. Yes sir. So what are we coming back in
011August to do? Because of hospital two. Okay. The increase in teacher and salaries by governor. If you are between three and if you all those figures we are punishing now. We want to know how many teachers are between three and five and how many teachers are above five. If you are between three and five, you are getting 4,000. If you are above all five, you are getting 8,000. So all that is not in this matrix as I now because their salary is not going to go into effect until September 15. So by that time that will give us the opportunity to know how many teachers are between three and five years. How many teachers are in bracket B above 5 years? Then we can come back to the board and say we have so number
012of teachers in graphics and this is what the payout is going to be. The other thing too that you may not be aware of this we would get this information probably would have been the last 10 days. Is that correct? The definition of a teacher. Correct. Um we just recently received that from TEA. We just recently received um the spreadsheet for us to be able to start plugging all those numbers in. Um and I do hear Mr. Evans um I I do want the compensation manual to come out faster next time. Um and I did have to get this ready rather quickly for the July contracts this year because those July contract people like Mr. O said are not affected by this House Bill 2. No one in the July contract will be receiving any
013of this compensation. It will only be for the teachers. um that are stated in the Housefield two that are supposed to receive the the raises. Thank you. Yes. Any further questions? If not, we've got a motion only. Was there a second? I'll second it. Mr. Spear second it. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. Item C. Thank you. consideration and possible approval of the 2025 2026 employee handbook this morning. Good evening, President Trustees. In your packets, you have a copy of the employee the employee handbook for the 2526 school year. The information included comes directly from Tazzy and the recommendations made by Tazzy. So we are accepting your approval um with the employee handbook on the things from task number for handbook. Is there anything that we need to change
014policy on um rewrite a policy you know with our legal team? I mean I know you said it came down tab but a lot of times when they send that stuff down sometimes it requires a policy change not just a handbook change. Is there anything in there that we need to wreck policy on that's going to be written wrong in our local policy? Um, no sir. There's the updates are basically generated straight from Tazzy. Our local policies are in line with the updates that have been on. So that that would be student hand. Okay. And we we haven't presented the student handbook. Yeah. Definitely a lot of us even July because everybody is waiting for the TA interpretation before we can go ahead and present it to the board of what each school district board
015will approve. But on this and as of now there's no update from that week but it is currently last update we did. We did about five months ago. That is what we have now. Yeah. So, you know, like you said, you know, I would suggest maybe July. And so, TA is probably not going to release anything or we'll have to get with either TAZ legal or uh our attorneys will delay those maybe in our July meeting something put on the board to overlook our policies and change policies. If we does start school beginning of August, we need to get those policies corrected before school. Oh definitely CA is going to release something to all the school district by latest before mid July because we have been following this and our immediately that is done definitely
016we are coming back to the board especially with the regard house bill 1481 which is the use of communication devices that what's passing around now I grabbed some extra copies that's just the legislative updates uh for some of the policies that we'll need to change uh for the board to look over. Thank you, sir. And that was Rob. He did not present the student handbook because we had some things that are coming down the pipeline that we have to look at our policies and address them. President motions with made by Is there a second? Second and Marie seconds it. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously at this time. Thank you, Miss Sony. Yes, sir. um would adjourn to prom Clint1.074 meeting for the following purpose consultation with legal
017counsel regarding level three hearings and related matters for employee grievances and any other subject matter by law pursuant to Texas government code 551.071551.129 071551.129 at this time 75 call for executive seven. We have to go out. We have to step out here. You got her. I will. Ladies and gentlemen, uh the board has come back from closed meeting and we're reconvening into an opening meeting at 6:26 a.m. At this time, would you consider and take possible action on level three hearings for an employee grievance? Uh, is there a motion to be made at this time? Yes. I'd like to move that the board deny the appeal from the previous meeting grievance and oppose the decision made by the level two. I second that motion. All right. At this time for a vote, all in favor
018indicate by saying I. I. All opposed. Motion passes. There being no further business come before the boards leave another term uh on that last vote it passed unanimously but I want to state only me myself miss Carter Mr. No side and Mr. were the ones voting as we corrected. That's correct. Only before the press at the hearing. Thank you. Yes, I is there a motion for a journ. Thank you. And it's seconded by all in favor indicate by saying I. I. All oppose. Motion passes. And gold.