001Gentlemen, it's 6 p.m. And at this time, we'll call the meeting to order. Everybody, please join me for the prayer. The pledge of allegiance to the Texas and American flag. Our heavenly father with both of you tonight giving thanks that that we can serve on this board and serve the Wharton area and students of WD. We ask you to bless us and watch over us during this meeting that all our decisions be pleasing in thy sight. We ask these things in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for alliance one indivisible welcome All the people tonight I'd like to call at this time the uh secretary of cla to give the
002social contract. Maintain professionalism. Honor the golden rule and one another. Give adequate time for open discussion by everyone. Remember the vision and motto. Come prepared and focus on the agenda and be respectfully. Thank you. Is there anyone here to make a public comment? If not, we'll move to item number four, the public hearing to discuss budget proposed tax rate. Item 4 A is consideration discussion of budget for through 26 fiscal year for the general fund, debt service fund, and food service funds and proposed tax rate. Miss Hooper, good evening everybody. Um, so, um, I'm going to go over some information first and then, um, after I go over the information, then we will, um, go into voting for the general fund that service includes. Um, so we have some updates on House Bill 2. Um,
003there will be a $4,000 increase for teachers with three to four years of experience, 8,000 for teachers with five or more years of experience. details from TEA have been released um to districts on how to define a teacher. So at this time the information that we have to define a teacher is that cl they have to be in a classroom for more than four periods a day coded at 087 and on the teacher pay matrix. This does not include counselors, librarians, nurses or administrator. basic allotment per student have increased by $55 and the teacher retention allotment is permanent. Uh the teacher uh the other small allotments can be used for non-eing staff and some overhead call and the calculation um for us to be reimbursed would be submitted on our fall paint. So in October
004when we do our fall themes they we all the information that we have in our system will be uploaded and they will reimburse us um for this pay increase um and after that after we submit all of our information um with house bill 2 um we are getting there we're still getting more information and uh we will be at time to bring the budget back to the board in August if we have to do any amendments before September contest. Uh so the budget is based on prior year laws and a rough estimate of new laws that are passed. Property values at this time are estimates given to us by the CAB office. The certified tax role should be given to us in July of 2025. Uh the budget is built from our 25 2425 student
005attendance or ADA and we're going to still get that onetime payment from chapter 313 of $679,000. Mr. Odowi has made salary adjustments and removed uh positions totaling $975,000 and we've made cuts in the M budget of $200,000. That please Mr. Odali has made salary adjustments and removed positions holding $975,000 and then the 200,000 for um that is all the information I have for the public hearing. Um do you have any other questions? I don't believe I do. Do you have an idea? Would it be toward the end of July before you receive certified RO? Yes. All right. So, we will receive certified ROS in July. Um, we will know then what the tax rates are going to be. Uh, and then we will bring that back to the board for approval in August. Yes. Uh,
006just like on the M10 side, uh, what change? Uh I do not know specifically but um I can get that information at that something we're going to kind of wait on so they give more detail before we do this in case we need to move in a different hat or so. Yes. So then also um a part of this is uh to discuss the proposed tax rate. We are not adopting the tax rate at this time. It is proposed. Um we are proposing at this point to keep M and debt service the same as our current year. Um, M is 0.6906 and our debt service is 0.0346 with a total of 1.037. I guess that's where my question goes. That's something we want to look at or something we want to gonna suppress our tax
007rate so we can only go as high as they allow us to. Um, so we are projecting that they're actually going to go down on this once you come back in August. Uh, and and also debt service as well. Um, we're projecting that they're going to make us go down on that rate as well as well. Gerald, there's two two questions that I I have. Yes. I and I can't remember if privately or in meeting I had asked this question but u did we have when the district borrowed the money for bond issue did we have a staggered payment system where in other words the first five years and then it escalated in the fifth year or so. There's a there's a debt service payment plan book that we have to take and we have
008it posted on our website and we have to abide by those payment plan. Right. Could you check sometimes to see because a lot of times there'll be deferred interest. Yes. So one year we pay interest, the next year we pay principal one year then the next year we pay principal in that question. Yes sir. Yes. Thank you. Any other questions about the uh public hearing or anybody have any questions? Thank you. Okay. Then we can go into uh item 4 B consideration adoption of the budget for 2025 to fiscal year for the general fund debt service fund and food service fund. Okay. Uh so you can see here on um exhibit A this is our projected revenues for 2526. Uh we are projecting $21.6 million in revenue on uh exhibit B. We are projecting $23.2
009million of expenses. Uh our estimated deficit is $1.6 6 million. So if you remember at our budget workshop that we had on June 5th, we were projecting our deficit to be 1.75 million and we have brought it down to 1.6. So we have come down $175,000. Do you anticipate that number is going to get even better? Yes, we do. Any other questions for the board? That's general fund. So then we'll move on to food service which is exhibit E. Food service revenue is 1.414 million. The expenses is projected to be $1.514 million with an estimated deficit of $100,000. Food service has a fund balance that exceeds three months of operating expenses and according to TDA we have to spend that down to the three months. So, we are projecting um a deficit of 100,000. That
010will give them a little room um for the program that they're going to be purchasing and things like that. Kind of bring that down. It's already been approved by TDA. And then the board also approved that on June 5th. Okay. So, then we'll move on to debt service. And that's also still on uh exhibit E. The projected revenue is 6.7 million. Our projected expenses are 4.4 4 million with an estimated surplus of 2.3 million. These are based on 2425 law. Uh and we have we may have to come back to the the board in August to amend the debt service rate. Um at this time according to the 2425 law, you cannot have a surplus in your debt service unless you make a plan to use that money to pay down your debt service pay.
011There any questions on any of those? So then we can if there are no questions then you guys can move to uh the action on three uh all three. President of the board processes I recommend the board approve the budget as presented on exhibits A B and E. I'll make the motion. Is there a second? Miss Martin seconds the motion. All in favor indicate by saying I. All opposed. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Item number four is accommodations of board recognition. Super tip president and members of the trustes. It's an honor to bring to our members of the community member that have been helping our campuses all year long. Anytime we call them, they always available. And today the first family we want to call on is Mr. and Mrs. Brandon and Liz Haw. Thank
012you all so much for what you do about the district and the high school in particular. Thank you so much. Hey, just do it. What can we do without your story? Mr. and Mrs. Louis and Biana. Yeah. Okay. They one of our supporters and available when we call them. We'll make sure they get this. And moving on. And the last time our board member did it didn't make it in. Now you have 10 years of service. What nice blessing to the whole community of the house. Everybody knows who I'm talking about. probably five years of service to what nice did last year the city of W made a proclamation for Miss Muz Mr. Halis the former superintendent I am grateful and appreciation to how many all your years of dedication to the children of what
013did to the current president of the board Misselle Stevens has dedicated her life to working by providing guidance understanding and education to the members of our community until this present moment at this time we have place that Miss Moselle is the crossing guard every day. had no driver. Those mess with me. [Music] Can I have a picture? I guess the Mike right there. Turn it on. Oh, you want some? I can say to the superintendent to the president of the board Dr. Da and to Mere Secretary and and to the board members I feel very honored to receive this. I felt when I started it. I show love and compassion with everybody and that's the way I have been all these years. That's what have got me where I am today by being loving, friendly,
014kind. But I have to do this to be the best I can be. where I can help you be the best you can be and you help the neighbor be the best they can be, then we will have a better neighborhood. And that's what love is all about. I do appreciate this plan very much and thank y'all for coming. [Music] Ladies and gentlemen, clarification item 4C was removed from the agenda until we get further information from the central appraisal district. Uh it was listed consideration and possible approval of proposed tax rate for the 2025 M6 fiscal year. Once we get that information, then we can move forward. Item number seven, discussion of item and it's a facilities improvement plan. Mind if you would please come to the podium. Good evening all day. Uh just kind
015of give you a little bit of background. Uh what we've done other than just build buildings and things like that is try to uh make improvements to the district operations to make them more efficient. Uh a lot of fact things have gone on continue to go on. Uh there's a lot of very old equipment within this district. And one thing that I brought to the neighboring district was a an energy management system plan uh to help alleviate expenses every month. We have a very large utility bill here. Really no one's fault. You can tell people to turn the lights off when they leave a room. You can tell them to raise the thermostats. You can do all those good things. But if you don't have a control system in place, a lot of waste. I
016walk in, I come on Sundays sometimes because there's nobody around and I consider be working tall and everything else and systems are right open and running. That's no fault. Uh but it's just a result of not having control systems in place. We just recently finished the junior high which I believe everyone is really really happy with. And we do have a an outstanding control system in place in that facility and it was put together by Snyder Electric which is a very large nationwide company. One of the things they do offer are those services to put control systems and management in place uh for the district. It's a cost share type program and I brought three representatives from Snyder tonight to v visit with you, give you some information. This is for discussion only just so
017you kind of know where we're going. Looking to save money for the district in the long term but allow us to improve things also in here. So and uh y'all want to come forward. Mike, thanks for the information. You're very welcome. I'm gonna turn it over to these three. They can introduce themselves to you. Very welcome. I want to talk them through. All right. So, what you guys do is um well, first of all, I want to thank you all for having us here to of the improvement options and document office is also members of the board. My name is Ma. I represent Schneider Electric and I'm here with Maya Martin and Page Blakeley. They've done a lot of work to develop some of the things that we're recommending to all today. So, what we've
018done like Mr. Lier mentioned was we were looking at some of the controls upgrades across the business and really trying to figure out what that means for some of the other buildings. um like you'd mentioned, they're a little bit older and so we're trying to find ways to make them run as efficiently as possible to make sure that they seem safer for the long term. And so, um we'll talk about some of the things that we found when our engineers were out on site and then we'll talk through what the next steps look like. Again, this is just anformational thing, but if a team, we need to call it an investment grade audit, which is basically a design agreement to develop scope of highest priorities you all today. We'll talk about that a little bit
019more further on, but again, this first page just talks about why we were here and why we were brought in. Um, again with not having much visibility on the controls side, there's a lot of controls that are either are outdated on different areas of campus and they just need to be upgraded. A lot of that equipment is nearing end of life and it's getting to the point where it's either a safety concern or the maintenance team is spending a lot of time and extra dollars to to keep some of those systems running. So we're saying let's look at controls and then identify other efficiency opportunities to create and supplement those controls. So that's kind of the reason why we were brought in today. The next page goes through the typical procurement process that I'm sure
020y'all are familiar with. Especially with the new junior high being built, a lot of times what happens with school districts is they are managing multiple vendors. And so you have an architect you work with, you have a contractor and sometimes it can lead to fingerpointing and nobody's really accountable for the end result. And so our business model on this next page works a little bit differently um where we act as a single partner from design implementation and we also guarantee performance on everything that we're installing. So, it makes the process a little bit more efficient for the school district, but also gives you a little bit more peace of mind because we um we work collaboratively with you all on the design concepts to finalize savings, price, and final project. So, so once we get
021aligned with that, that's when we would move um into construction. We also guarantee our price and there'd be no change orders working with us. So, these are some of the things that we'll be talking about today. Again, there is a lot of need, but the main things that we're going to be focusing on today is here in the red. And so, as Maya and Paige are going through this presentation, we're going to be talking through um those controls upgrades and what that's going to look like on each campus. Also, with the junior pie being pretty new, um what we're referring to is the older portions of the building. So on that critical boxes you'll see in red that's that's referring to the older portions like the gym etc. Um and then we're finding ways to
022you know pay for that through lighting and um and building controls. You know making making those um systems a little bit more efficient. And then the other thing that we'll be talking through is electrical safety. A lot of the infrastructure is pretty old. Um some of it's even 40 years old. So yeah, just kind of becoming considered and something for you all to do once and I'll have Paige come up to talk through the controls. Thanks. Good evening everyone. Thanks again for having me here. So my name is Paige Bleley and Maya is one of my teammates. We're project development managers. So we came out a couple of months ago with a team of engineers, energy engineer and ourselves. We did a brief walkthrough of your facilities to evaluate the needs and opportunities in your
023facilities. And these projects are focused on energy savings. So we're looking for upgrades that drive the most reduction in your electric, water, and natural gas bills. And then we're hopefully combining a project that also addresses some deferred maintenance. And one of those that's kind of both categories. It helps save energy and it's also a big deferred maintenance challenge for Mr. Laneir and his team is the control systems that run the HVAC equipment. So here's some pictures just throughout the campuses of some of the older equipment. Uh Schneider Electric did provide the controls in the new junior high project and we would hopefully upgrade everything in every building similar to what has been high and we've done many benefits there or your team has troules trouble scheduling and controlling set points at the facility which drives
024energy spin and there's also a lot of these systems that are out of date supported by the manufacturer and so your team has to bandaid or manipulate systems override things just to keep the air conditioning running. But again, that um it's not a good long-term solution. So our project, we would be proposing as much of a full upgrade of goals across the district as much as possible. So moving to the next slide, um this one talks a little bit about what the new system would look like. So we would be modernizing the interface that the maintenance team uses to access control of the buildings which would mean everything is being scheduled properly. It's all available through a web-based platform where the maintenance team can access it remotely both on campus and from home if they
025needed to do alarms and alerts that will let them know when a building is not operating as it should. We would also consolidate the hardware in the building. So, for example, the thermostats on the walls, those would all be upgraded to a new uh thermostat that would help teachers maintain a comfortable classroom and have control over their space, but also maintain the schedules, cut things off when they're not needed um and even integrate occupancy, humidity sensors to drive better comfort. So that's kind of a summary of the controls uh opportunity and now Maya is going to share some of the other facility improvement needs that we saw in your buildings. Thanks Paige. Yeah, so as going through each of your sites, we really like to look at all of these folks. I know building automation
026is a big concern here, but while we're going through it, we're looking at the remaining electric scopes. So as Ma had mentioned, lighting is one of the biggest ways to gather the savings and use those savings to fund your building automation portion of this. So with the remaining upgrades for LED um throughout each district, I know the admin center is a great opportunity for that. So we go to their do a remaining LED retrofit. So your entire district would have uniform LED lighting throughout and improve all types of you know visuals and the classroom kind of settings as well. And I know in previous meetings we talked about maybe even adding occupancy settings there so nobody's accountable for turning off the lights. I know even janitorial staff coming in it helps manage the buildings a
027little bit better as well. And as far as our priority gates track we really I'm going to address here that we're looking at critical units here. So, anything that's 25, those are the ones that have predominantly the most maintenance controls and costly equipment to go into them. So, we like to upgrade any of those in addition to bring all unit at that point up to your control system. So, it helps manage your preventative maintenance and be a little bit more proactive throughout the school year instead of those last minute emergency things that go on. And as far as the electrical safety in the building envelope, the building envelope really addresses air infiltration. So this can be done at pretty much all the sites. We do this by upgrading your door speeds, any types of seals
028to prevent any of your new cooled air going outside and the Texas heat. And um we also offer offer the electrical safety aspect of that. This is just a general safety for any gear that's going to near end of life to just upgrade those where they're critical at and to make sure that while anybody's in the system, there's just that additional safety precaution as well. And lastly, we do recommend to upgrade any transformers as new equipment offers a lower cost utility and makes everything more efficient in your field as well. And lastly, we did just want to show a gallery of both critical and medium priority. So the red blue, like I mentioned, the end of life HVAC units and even to the right hand side, some of those cosmetic issues like ceiling tile damage
029that can be still addressed through the air machine and the overall maintenance of your building. You'll see there even single cleaning windows that adds to building envelope. that's not a critical priority like I do piece but it's something later on that can you gather even though I'm saving your district [Music] okay so this next page here just a little bit more about the finance aspect and what we're looking at as far as savings um we've talked some of the savings opportunities that would be presented to y'all Um but then you know packaging the building automation control savings, the lighting savings and then some lowcost building envelope savings using that as that those priority HBAC upgrades and then the electrical here um across the campus as well that again is 40 plus years old. Um and
030so what we're trying to do is we provide a guaranteed savings number to the school districts and if you don't hit that that savings number we personally direct school district with checks just for you all to be aware of. Um but again we have a team of funding experts too that help find different ways including ways to pay for some of these things especially with budgets being really tight right now. Now, as we're looking at this next slide, we have our energy engineers assess your utility spend across the entire district. Um, and what we found is that y'all spend $526,000 annually on your utilities. Um, it's a little high. And so, what we're estimating, again, these are very high level numbers. When we're in design, we'll be able to refine these savings. Um, but we
031wanted to show you that we provide an estimated savings of $115,000 annually. Um, we use escalation by the Department of Energy to um to basically say that over a period of 20 years, you would be savings would be saving $3.6 million that they'll be able to use completely guaranteed by us um to to help offset the cost of some of this stuff. Um, we also are backed by legislation to be able to do this in Texas and have found that a lot of school districts in Texas have this and um, found it pretty well for them. Now, these are a couple of financing options. We are not financial advisors, but we just want y'all to get some get an idea of some of the options that would be available if you were to um, go
032out financing. our savings would cover that portion of the finances. And so if there was a situation where y'all we're we're looking through the dancing out front and costs and all of that um and y'all want to give some money and then maybe want to go for financing. There's an option to do that. But just two things for y'all to be aware of as well and good conversations to have with people on your finances. Now, this goes over our stats in Texas. Born and raised here, been here for 33 years, and we've guaranteed over a billion dollars in ratings for school districts in Texas. Um, just showing a list of some of the districts we've worked with, and we're ranked number one in our industry at what we do. Just want to emphasize that we're
033here to be a long-term partner for y'all. We do lots of things of work with different school districts. Um, so looking forward to continuing those conversations with you. these uh this is the next steps. So, we've already been out on site. We've talked with different members of the admin team and we're here presenting some of this information to you today. Um what we would do after this is move into what we call the investment grade audit. It's a design agreement where we would again finalize savings and price. We'll have multiple touch points which y'all can see at the 50% update and the 90%. This is when a financial piece would come into play if we did not decide to move forward with the project. If you did, the cost of that development would be rolled
034into the final cost of the project that we keep included in construction. So again, this is kind of what it our process looks like. And um I wanted to open up the floor to any questions that y'all may have about this because a lot of information Just as a comment that I'd like to make just at this point, if you'll notice on vendors and vendors over $50,000 as of today, uh, Direct Energy Business Services has received $544,000 and we're not even at the end of the year. And then you look at city of work and water and s center point natural gas. We're talking about significant uh expenditures that we can improve on greatly. Some of the pictures in your presentation or pieces of equipment that were in the schools at the time I went
035through 60 years ago. So, uh, if one thinks it's not time to look to an upgrade, look at me. You can tell upgrade. So, anyway, I picked up electrical boxes from the house that I was trying to get financed because the insurance. Yeah, this is definitely big for y'all, but y'all have been doing a really good job of, you know, keeping things alive, but they're not going to stay alive for too long for you to help see [Music] of under the consent agenda. We have three items. Approve the monthly financial reports. Minutes of the regular board meeting of May the 15, 2025. Minutes and special board meeting June the 5th, 2025. And something that I wanted to bring to your attention, I'm sorry. I did not pitch this until right before the meeting started. If
036you will take a look at the regular meeting of May the 15th and this is a minor deal, but I I think it would be best that we corrected it. You'll notice on the second page board rescheduled and it says the May meeting to June 17th. I believe that should be June meeting and with that I need adjustment I make the motion that u we go ahead and approve all the items under that consent agenda move. Okay, the motion has been made. Is there a second? Mr. Hson made the motion. Second. Uh Felicia seconds the motion. All in favor indicate by saying I. All opposed. Motion passes. Under action items item number nine a consideration possible approval of upgrades. [Music] I apologize. Sorry. Oh, okay. One thing um you know we we've uh you probably
037are all well aware of in fact I know you are um run into some issues at the baseball field just give you a background uh when we built the softball field uh back when the bond was passed we did some upgrades that came out of fund balance on the baseball field that was a field itself It was in not great condition right behind stop area generator dropped off. It was it was pretty bad. So we went in and we fixed the field itself and put in the sprinkler system new turf down. So it was all in good shape. Uh at the time we went in and we replaced some boards and the bleachers knowing quite well that uh it was going to be in need of something. I did look at and ran some numbers
038on just replacing the entire bleachers with aluminum structure and and everything. Uh that's just completely out of the question to do. But in further analysis of the structure that was built there, it's pretty solid. The uprightes are IBAM. Um, you know, they're in the ground. They're going to be there a long time. The supports that hold the the walkway boards or angle iron, they're in bad shape and they're causing the boards to fall. You can replace over and over. Not going to stop someone from doing press box is in not great shape. Uh, that was built on when all this built years and years ago. Uh we came into some problems with the netting on the back stop. That was another thing and that's already been purchased in here. But uh we talked to Bab
039Ruth were the last ones to use a field for the summer. means that is over it's money and uh kind of hit in with what we would like to do over the course of improvements and instead of going in and replacing magnetic that back stop needs some upgrading too. Uh the uprightes on the end of support the netting need to be reinforced. Uh it all needs to be sanded and painted and then they're going to put the netting up have to go to the expense of taking it back down. And if you've ever dealt with that stuff, it's not going to fit the way it did in person. You're going to get short somewhere. Uh so talk to them and we've been doing the best we can to to make it through the end. But
040in doing all that, we uh started looking at the entire field and what it would cost to turn key do the whole thing. And that's the presentation that you have there uh in front of you. Uh, and my print out starts with the backs stop and you can see how pricey everything is. But these are good prices compared to a lot. The netting itself is $14,200. But we've already got that ordered. It's on site. It's ready to go up, but we hit the brakes. So, let's see what we're going to do with this whole project before we uh proceed with that. Uh the painting of that is and that's our people doing that is $450 and I think a good quality tank that will last. That also includes um reinforcing the outs. [Music] Uh the
041bleachers you can see is the is a huge expense. um you know, reinforcing the supports that are underneath with angle iron. And again, that's our people doing that. $4,700 uh to paint the bleachers with a good galoon paint. And we talked to a local vendor about doing that. That's 17,45. Replacing the walkways and the hboards with not no longer wood, but with aluminum that will be there forever. The seats are already aluminum. That's the good thing. We don't have to touch those. But the walkways and the kickboards, that's 45,187.85. That's just material cost. That's the purchase. So, we would do the installation. Uh the press box, I had to go to an outside vendor to get that get an estimate on that place. And that is tearing that apart using the structure that's there because
042it's you know pretty good the structure but all the the walls the interior exterior floor the roof uh the air conditioner system it's all about the end of it lifespan and we got a bid on that for 59849. Then we started looking at dugouts. Uh that's to replace the wooden seating but they didn't play baseball that I did. you you never sit on the seat. You sit on the level behind so your spikes tear up the seat. You paint it a week later in Florida. Uh so we're looking at replacing with aluminum baseball benches. That's 7,000. Uh the cubbies that are in there were shop built, I guess, for lack of a better term. And of course in Texas weather is much as our humidity is high 99% of the time that swells and it
043and it gets pretty tough. We did not put cubbies in for helmets and bats in the softball field when it left out. So this price would include cubbies for visitors at home at home and baseball field and the soft that would match on them. Uh we would paint the dugouts and again that was a local vendor. Uh the concession stands, these are really minor things but there's some rotten wood that's on that. Uh, of course, we use concession stand at the softball field most of the time, but you want to keep your buildings up. Don't let them just start to go down because they continue to go down. And what they turn here, the bay roof, four room building, uh, you know, that's got some exterior rotted wood and needs painting. You can see the
044two figures on that. U, I did put a a budget item in there for part-time workers. And this I don't know how much this will work out, but uh, The uh favorite routing is over at the end of June. That basically gives us the month of July. Like to employ some local kids, high school kids. We've used that before. We move furniture with them, done things like that. They are wonderful. They uh man, they hit the ground working and they work the entire time and they're wonderful. So, I've got a line item in there for that. You can see the total gets a little bit pricey, but it's not something that we're going to do entirely right now. It's we have to take this and we'll progress. You know, my my timeline when I started
045looking at this is I want it done by January 1st. Baseball is going to start toward the end of January with practices. So, you want to give yourself some time for We didn't quite get there. So, I said January 1st. And uh you can see the the first three things are the the biggest price tag and they total $147,431.90. [Music] Uh you know, we attach those things immediately. The others, you know, we can work on this as we come to them. But uh you know the plan would be to initially pay for this with u interest generated revenue from from the bond that will cut into us pretty good. Uh but I have not closed on the junior high yet. There's still some things that I'm not happy with and I will not I'm going
046to take care of the dollars of what you think again and we're going to make sure that thing is topnotch everything right before we do close but there's some savings that will come back to you from that any questions a lot I'm almost positive that the initial field and the planking that we are starting to place was there in 1960. So you probably got your life. Yes. But you know what it's when you start with you start building. It's just where we live. You know iron's going to rust and uh it it's it served. It's that old it served its purpose. I don't think we have to do any electrical upgrades. Uh there is one thing I did leave out here and that is the uh the lighting on the field itself. Those poles are
047muskro. That's what everybody uses because you get a lifetime guarantee with that. But the lighting up that's attached the crossarss are not great shape and those little fluorescents that need to be changed to LED. They be a lot more economical to run and um you know I do have a number on that. I'm not even going to bring it to you tonight, but you deal with Muslim lifetime guarantee. Anytime you got those lights were put in in 1994 for the World Series, so they're already years. Yeah. So, but it's a it's a large number that's leaving the poles, but they've got a lifetime. They're good. It's the crossmembers, the lights themselves, and the electrical. It's a different electrical fee that has to go to but anyway that's uh that's the presentation. Uh if it takes
048your approval or I'm sorry. No, I just I'm sure since we did the softball field we're upgrading when you did say you're going to add the things to the softball covered on title N. Yeah, you're doing you know the only thing you're you know you're kind of say short anybody but the softball field is the police coverage. This is not including a cover for that. Uh, I always said I'm pretty good with numbers until uh I sat down and looked at this. I said, uh, you know, we probably do that covered for 75 80,000. It came back to almost 200,000. He said some well maybe in fact that it can be done later. You know, it's self-standing structure. It's not hard to do. But when we do that, it needs to look exactly like that
049softball field. That's you look at the fieldhouse of the football field, it matches the concession stand. You want everything to match. It should be look like it wasn't an afterthought. And that's what that's what we're striving for. There a So my question is uh you got you're part-time workers and you say you're using local high school kids. How have y'all determined uh which kids were using or or how do you how do you manage that left? I went in there and I did that at le go to I said go to the the athletic director go to the a teachers and you know if there's anyone else and we got fired some you know let's get out pretty quickly and we ro we had 10 15 at one time 21 during Christmas break and then
050when we brought them back during the first when pool would let let out in May. We have our kids that that came back after I told the parent that system when we choose those kids that it's not a oh I want you is you know okay do you want to work now some don't come back but the vast majority of them it's you know and they'll and they'll tell friends and we have friends will call me and ask if they can come work I'll verify it with Mr. Lir make sure that we have the available funds to be able to have those extra kids and we'll allow them to come and work as well. We're trying not to turn that in. They want to come be a part of this and they can get some
051ownership in it. That's what we want to build. My next uh question is concerning the concession stand. I know and I understand what you're talking about. Say that building need to be up. Uh do you know if we're currently using that concession fan? I don't think we use restaurants. There's a tractor in there. There's stuff in there. And what we're talking about replacing is facial board. Basically, that's the rotting part. And I'm a big proponent of you go back with no push treat because what was treated when you and I were kids don't matter. But that party does. So, but and I've had the thing about someone that gets shoes, but different pump money into it. I'd like to see it being used for if nothing else converted into a restroom facility because, you know,
052the way it is now, I think if you're at baseball, you have the restroom you have to walk away. So that's what need to start looking at those type of things, you know, you know, make sure we're getting uh, you know, the usage that that we needed. Yeah. And we're trying to kind of reinvent how things are done. A lot of times things were outsourced. We've got some val and we're trying to utilize their skill to do the importance. We pay them already and you know a lot of them are very good at which Mr. One thing that I think the superintendent could confirm uh our crews went over and rework those restrooms there at that park. Yes. Actually we did that about four weeks ago before the comment of the boot season is nice
053but just like what you are saying there especially with the space we have to so that instead of the group and the baseball walking down to the other side that's definitely can yeah I'm hoping you y'all live here, you you go to those things, you see things, you know, let me know. There's no bad ideas. So maybe we can't do that. And then the next comment I would make is u I understand this is well needed with our recent uh situation what happened to our service. I certainly was going to go out and purchase some expenditure for a baseball field until we got that situation taken care of. And I know you mentioned that the way that we're going to pay for this would be from the interest revenues from bond. So I guess my
054question I don't know if you can answer this or not but uh relating to our situation with our servers and I did see a comment that it could be a pretty expensive already and I had that conversation a few months ago several months ago and he said no I said well and I know how long it takes to get those things you're not going to get one tomorrow when it goes down. So he said there are five here in house and uh he got the pricing and we ordered and purchased two off of the interest. That's facility improvement. So we had them on site. So he's in the process of getting all that stood back up. Now we're going to look at Okay. We need to look at a couple more. The others are newer
055but that much. Oh, and I appreciate it. I will do my best to never get you. Super. Do you have a recommendation? Yes, please. President and members of trustes, I recommend that the board approve the baseball grade as present. Thank you. I'd like to make the motion. Is there a second? No second. I'll second. Oh, thank you. All in favor indicate by saying I. All oppose. Motion passes. under long star governance of last month's work made and [Music] I think you can but I'll do it for you. Thank you. Uh you will see that uh you did have a Katy presentation last month by Boys and Girls Club that ate up I'm sorry not boys and girls head start that ate up some of the time. Um so you actually only spent seven of the
05683 minutes um talking about which was% you did have seven trustes in president you did discuss one goal which was nonpart three of those women were discussed and two remember that's very low but your will have any questions about that. Okay. And Mr. Ojali, the next document in the uh packet is your monitoring report. And on the last two meetings, Mr. and just report on report. Okay. Yes, sir. So, uh, tonight we're reporting on GPMs for goal one and goal two. And I don't see Miss Jenkins here. Would you like me to Yes. Okay. Uh on goal one, uh GPM 1.1, you'll see your uh end of year target was 49% and all students landed at 58%. So that exceeded that was for first grade uh in-class reading assessment. For GPM 1.2, 2 second grade
057inclass reading assessment. Your baseline was 15%, your target was 20% and your all students landed at 23%. You can also see all the subgroups there which that exceeded your target. And then for 1.3 I'm so sorry. Oh, I did it for you. Thank you. Okay. At 1.3, uh, we're looking at third grade students on the math reading assessment. Your goal was to go from 26% to 28%. You did not meet, uh, the third graders did not meet their target here. They actually decreased uh, throughout the year. So, this this was a you did not meet and I don't know if you have a principal here or if you have any questions. I can't answer the why behind that. The principal. Okay. So, if we go to 2.1, we're looking at first grade students on the
058math math assessment increasing from 17% to 33%. They did make growth to 23% which is very good growth. However, uh that was a lofty goal. We did not quite meet that target. You look at 2.2, 2, you're looking at second grade students on the math math assessment baseline 11%. Our target was 23%. Again, they did make significant growth. 8% growth only went to 19% um but we did not meet the target. And then 2.3, the percentage of third grade students scoring on level one math would increase from 17 to 25. and you actually met that target by pass the notes. We're going to skip over to the goal four and the GPMs that go with that. So, we're looking at junior high and high school at this point. 4.1 was your sixth grade students uh
059in their math math assessment increasing from 13 to 16%. You actually exceeded this goal. You went to 22% and you can see the growth very significant growth in the subtops there. 4.2 is seventh grade math math. Our goal was to go from 18% to 21% and you actually exceeded you. You landed at 23% in all student groups or most student groups made significant growth here. And then if you look at 4.3 eighth graders uh going from this was a low group starting 1% they started the year at 1% and the goal target was to be at 5% you actually exceeded that at 16%. And you can see the start growth there also. And then if we look at goal five.1 specifically seventh grade students scoring high average above on the math ELA assessment you wanted
060that to go from 12% to 15%. You achieved that and actually exceeded it by 1%. You're at 16% and you can see the growth there. And then uh 5.2 would be your eighth grade students. you wanted them to they started the year at 21 and your target was 24 they actually decreased there so you did not move that target and again I'm sure Mr. Wali if you have questions usually our uh Miss Jenkins is here to answer those questions but I'm sure if you have questions about those specific areas Mr. can get you bad information. Um, and then 5.3, your ninth graders wanted them to go from 28% to 32%. You actually well exceeded that that uh goal. You actually exceeded the 5year target there. If you look at your page, our target for August
0612029 was 44%. So, you shot that one out of the park. So, that one really was great. And then my understanding is also that Miss Jenkins included in dual water pathics just an overview a broad overview of preliminary star scores and I believe Mr. Is this at the approach level? How long distance? All of this is at the approach level. So my understanding is in July we'll come back and look at all of your LSG goals again because your LSG goals remember are at the meets level because is classified by TEA as truly one level. students who score at meets um are more likely to not need intervention the following year to to maintain that. So this is the approach level and again this is just preliminary data. It may change a little bit because
062TEA has to filter out who moved in, who moved out, mobility, things like that. Okay. So if you look at that uh it looks like Miss Jenkins uh colorcoded this for you and everywhere you see the green there was growth from your start 2024 at the approaches level. Um there were two areas fourth grade reading and fourth grade math that did not make growth but overall growth made quite a few. You look at the next page, you're going to see the junior behind comparison scores again at the approach level. And you'll see again like to see a lot of green. Uh look at eighth grade science 21 points of 21 points from last year. You did have two areas of red sixth grade reading and eighth grade algebra 1. And one area that is yellow,
063seventh grade reading stayed exactly the same. I have Dr. here if she wants to come up. Oh, because I'm so sorry, Dr. No problem. So, for junior high, I'll speak a little bit to what we're anticipating doing for the 2526 school year in order to continue with the growth that we have accomplished for this year as well as address the areas that are at. So a couple of things that we've done but we're going to continue with are definitely trying to block kids with their testing which means that their ELA they'll have two classes of that they'll have one with a teacher of record and then they'll have read 180 which is our platform to give them so they'll have two classes of that that'll be repeated this year with our students but it will
064be more of a student that did not um that were so successful. Then for our other area where we're addressing algebra one that was just one kid that one kid was sick on the day that we took the test. So he is taking it he should have taken it today or tomorrow. So he should be repeating it so that way we can have 100% but everywhere else we'll continue with the same momentum that we had this year making sure that our kids are being addressed in the classroom. The gaps are being closed. Our teachers are being developed. All that will still be done in classrooms this year as well as additional support is being given to us region. It's another grant that we have that will continue with support not only in math and reading
065but it's also going to include science and social studies. So you you should see some more growth in our students over the next couple months. Thank you Dr. That's so exciting to know that really your algebra one will probably turn green hopefully when that one passes. Hopefully that's going to turn green by the next report. And then seventh grade reading stayed the same and then sixth grade reading only went down by one point. That's a very very positive report for junior high. So congratulations. Okay. And then the last uh report that Miss Jenkins prepared for you was star EOC at her high school. And you see um for English one uh was no different. 27% approaches. English 2 did go down by 13 points as well as algebra 1 went down nine points. Biology actually
066went up 12. Um so you're seeing a pattern there. Definitely 8th grade science and biology went up quite a bit and then US history actually went down. Small stand. Good evening. We have several things planned uh next year for Wharton High School to help support our struggling learners. Uh one of the most important things we have are core content teachers have not only a conference period but a shared uh planning intervention period. We are putting in place next year that three days a week those core content teachers are going to be phoning our festival EOC testers for intervention and support. Additionally, we have embedded in our school day a 10minute add-on to our second period is like a home room but during that time teachers are going to be very strategic in teaching test taking
067strategies. That way we're not only getting our uh our non EOCC uh successful students, but all of our students because those are just good solid study habits. Additionally, um English is an area that we struggle with. Um our emerging bilingual students, we are using a number of our uh our read 180 licenses. We are fortunate in that the uh eighth graders did so well on the reading star that we had some extra read 180 licenses to utilize. So, we have strategically placed several of our EB students in the two sections of REI 180 with Miss Gayona who has great great results. And lastly, what we're going to do, we have uh we're going to also provide extra support for our ED students. Miss Jennine Alisa is going to be teaching an EFL intervention. Um she
068is a Spanish teacher who can also teach ESL. So, we're going to support in that as well. So with our our algebra algebra one, we would have Mr. Zerat and Miss Trident. They're going to be pulling those kids three days a week for that extra intervention. Uh we have Miss Garrett who's highly successful. She's moving into English one, English two. And we're going to have another teacher um very young, very eager. Uh they're going to work very very well together. Uh US history, you know, two point and we can work with that. But also just know that our EOC for tomorrow, our US history kids who were unsuccessful in the spring will take their EOCC tomorrow, English one is taking place on Monday, uh biology on Tuesday, English two on Wednesday, and uh algebra on
069Thursday. So the students who were unsuccessful in the spring are coming in June to take their ESP and give it another shot. Hopefully not. This is my comment to the trust station the stakeholders definitely start testing again starting tomorrow. I have no doubt in my mind that we're going to b up some more points at the high school. But the key to turning our district around is actually at the lower levels of the building. Mr. H can you go back to what elementary slide? Looking at what elementary slide you can see all the greens apart from the fourth grade book which we already addressed because we have a teacher problem there that we definitely notice and I will tell you this and between my decision and the campus principal those teachers are already remote they
070will not be teaching fourth grade definitely starting up but looking at this and that's why I call it building block by the time this group of students make it to the junior high, you will see the turning around of our district because now they are on the road to recovery. All these scores you see are completely better than what we had in 2024. Please go to junior high. Junior high is outstanding. With all this green and seventh grade reading being flat, by the time our eighth grade are moving to high school, the increase in scores will definitely continue. And you can see the growth if we keep on to in the next five years in district. All of the newer students, lower students coming in starting from civil elementary once we fix the problem right
071from kinder, first grade, second grade, all this will turn around in a matter of time. While we are focusing on those group of students, the high school we are going to manage them. High school is already there. They are ready to go. Now they are going to be picking points. They are testing now starting tomorrow. they going to test again in December because some of them will say they are out on vacation or you know parents travel but then they forgot when school starts in August Mr. always waiting for them in December they in school. So at that point we still going to make more points to all the high school students moving forward. But are we on the road to recovery? Without any doubt in my mind, I am waiting for the state to
072release the final result. I have no doubt in my mind that our result for this school year is definitely better than last school year. And that is what we need. We're going to keep up to that. Thank you. Mr. And I look forward to also seeing once the sports come in, you know, you move the mark on the approach definitely they have a lot of green areas. And so now I look forward to seeing how you move the mark in the meat and the mast's level also. So uh that that's great and the the more you do that the more points you're going to get for growth. Also remember in that APF system it's all about growth. students may self even if some of those students did not meet but they may grow you're still
073going to get get credit for them in the APF system and I believe that'll be released later in the summer usually in August yeah you'll see some data in July some um any questions board members thank you so much coming superintendent we have recommendation for approval of the the uh BSAR governance reports and trustees please uh recommend that the trustees approve the LSD report as presented. Is there a motion? I'll make the motion to approve the Liz makes the motion. Alicia seconds the motion. All in favor indicate by saying I. All opposed. Motion passes. Uh at this time we're going to adjourn into close meeting pursuant to Texas government section 551.074. Single 74 the openings the following purpose personnel matters you administer 113 deliberations. Thank you so much. hearings and related matters for employee grievances
074and any other subject matter pered by law pursuant to Texas government code 551.071551.129. This time I call for executive session. When I was Okay. You know what? So this time we're going to consider and possible action of a move administrative presidential department. At this time, I'm recommending that the board approve the nomination of Miss Molly Ban as the new executive director of administration. Second. Good. Okay. Motion's been made and seconded. All in favor of saying I. All opposed. Motion passes. Under item 12, consider and take possible action on level three hearings for employee grievances. Any action? If there is no motion, the board president will announce in that there has not been a motion on this grievance, we will move on to the next item agenda. This is just report and talking about our cyber
075security issues as I've been informing you members since the beginning where we are now claiming and transferring of files to our new servants will be completed by Friday 2025. um attack type was an email attack and I've directed the director of technology to block all personal emails from accessing our network immediately and that will go in effect immediately system back up on Friday. No staff will be able to access personal emails on our district network. There being no further business come before the board. Is there a motion for adjournment? [Music] All in favor? Hello. Thank you for the opportunity. No, I just I have a big place heart for Wharton and I'm excited to be back and um afraid to do the work with all these fine people and it's a it's a going to
076be a tough job and a very rewarding job and I'm really looking forward to congratulations it's 9:07 p.m. No further business come before the board. The motion's been made and seconded for adjournment. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. Motion passes unanimously.