001for Navia Ellis, please come forward. Navia Elves, please come forward. Orlando Cortez, please come forward. Alexandro Carillo, please come forward. Clayton Clayton McGle, please come forward. Sean Mintosh, please come forward. Levy Gutierrez, please come forward. Abel Perez, please come forward. Lesson Thompson, please come forward. Jacob Martinez, please come forward. Jennifer Medina, please come forward. Noella Kas, please come forward. It's your picture. Antonio Rufino, please come forward. Alvaro Gonzalez, please come forward. Dominic, please come forward. Jordan Dilla, please come [Music] forward. Saline Tes, please come forward. She Marcila, please come forward. And Daniela Marquez, please come forward. Have to squeeze in. Now there's Hold on. Thank you. [Music] Silver medics silver medit please come forward. Moving on. State color guard Daniel Marquez, please come forward. Nia Longoria, please come forward. Samir Bonard, please come forward. Jasmine
002Gutierrez, please come forward. Dominic, please come forward. Jacob Martinez, please come forward. And Lassen Thompson, please come forward. Last but not least, our choir state assemble Reagan Georgia. Please come forward. Well, thank you all so much students. I understand you have a big banquet to go to from now. Parents, thank you all so much for coming. Thank you for your support. You all can have a nice evening. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you so much. [Music] We're recording that. That's what I tell you. I didn't y'all didn't tell me you were doing that. Excellent. Okay. [Music] There we go. Yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, it's 6 p.m. Thursday, May the 15, 2025. Uh, at this time I'll call the meeting to order and ask that everybody please stand for the prayer and the pledges. Father, we bow before
003you and thank you for this pleasant evening in Porton County, Texas for Independent School District. We recognize just prior to the beginning of this meeting, a number of our students have been recognized and we're thankful for them, their parents, and their efforts in the Wharton Independent School District. We pray for all of our students at this time as this school year is closing out and we're praying that they'll be safe in their efforts, whatever they do during the summer. and we ask for their protection alone not only for our students but for our dedicated teachers and for our uh administrators. And Father, we thank you for the time that we've had at this particular period of school that we've shown as we've recognized earlier tonight. Our students are excelling in many areas. We're thankful for
004the blessed privilege to approach your throne of grace and we ask you to continue to be with us not only tonight but throughout our summer series in the name of our Lord and our savior Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America. Superintendent at this time on the agenda we have so far contractual contract [Music] maintain adequate [Music] time prepare business and be respected and other commendations and board recognition superintendent. Yes, please. President will have a special commendation this evening and trusty Evans please can be step forward. Um 10 years on the board is not a joke. Oh so on behalf of the board faculty staff and students of B your plaque was delayed. Your 10 year plan is on the way but we made this up for
005you quickly. Thank you so much for your service. We really appreciate it. meeting of May 1st, 2025. Minutes of the special board meeting on May 8th, 2025. All in favor by saying all opposed motion evening as you will take a look your focus from last month members I'm so proud of you are running some very efficient meeting. I mean more and more you're getting more and more efficient with your time. So you will be uh last month you spent about 33% of your time spent on student outcomes. Your meeting time was 45 minutes. You had several meetings that were under an hour. So you're really running efficiently. You had five consent items and none of those were removed. You did not discuss any goals with your GPS last month, but if you remember instruction that
006was provided for that's why you didn't have any last month. You have any questions about that? Okay. And next in your folder, you're going to see your May board meeting presentation and Uh this month we're looking at college and career military readiness and I'll just briefly highlight your data because I am so proud of Morton ISD. Take a look at this data for gold pract your percentage of sophomores earning CCMR credit. We wanted it to increase from 5% to 13% in August 2025. you are at 26% which actually if you look at your 5-year target you have surpassed your 2029 target. So congratulations. And if you look at progress 32, you were looking at your juniors that you were at 49%. You have surpassed your 2029 target. that they're going to be really take a
007look at 3.3 to 56%. You did meet that goal. You're at 57%. We didn't go quite as far as we had hoped to as we did in the other two, but still you met this year's target. Okay. So, that's wonderful. Now, I do want to remind you that to get an A in the accountability system, you need to be at 88% here. So, we still have some work to do, but looking at 3.1 and 3.2, you are so far ahead of the game with your sophomores and juniors. I really believe that next year you'll be able to maybe get very close to that. So, great job. Great job. And you'll also see the high school put their action plan in there. Do you have any questions about CCMR? Great job. Great job. The other report
008that you'll see there is your uh superintendent constraints. Um and I don't know, Mr. Owaldi, did you want to say anything about the superintendent constraints? Um the first one is out of class discipline. Um it's a goal. We are girls trying to traditional students side classes. Yes. And you're you're exceeding that goal. Uh if you look at that, your goal was to reduce that to 80 per month and in May you were at 68 classroom removals. So very good. We exceeded that goal. That's a good thing to be lower in classroom removals. Uh in constraint four, you had hope to uh you wanted that a teacher attendance rate not to drop below 93%. You're right at 93%. You wanted to get to 96%. We didn't quite get there this year, but you did not fall
009below the 93% threshold. So very good. And then if you flip that page over, you'll see um every year, a couple of times a year, we do that survey for professional faculty that they they agree the focus of the district and on students rather than adults. You wanted that to be at 90%, your baseline was 70. We're at 77% right now. Okay. So, we still need to work on that a little bit. Um, also I believe the district has provided a handout for you on early college high school just for your for your reading if you had any questions about that. Do you have any other questions about that report this evening? Too good to me. That's right. Good news, right? We love good news. Absolutely. So, next month we will be you will be
010getting a lot of data. We do have a heavy data ne uh next month because it's end of year. You'll be looking at your early reading data for uh goals one, early math data for goals two and then junior high and high school data for goals four and five next month. Okay. Um the other thing that Mr. of you all asked me to discuss with you this evening is that you have now been in LSG for three years and you have been in the exemplar cohort program with TEA for two years. You are about to be your second year. So congratulations. Congratulations. That shows a huge commitment. I remember I came and and uh Curtis and Mr. peers I think were the only ones on the original board we trained and then we've picked up
011some more board members and now some more new board members. Uh actually Philip you were on the original board also and now you've come back haven't you? So welcome back. I'm sorry I didn't mean to leave you out. Um but you have the option at this point u we will follow you through July with the end of the cohort. If you would like to transition out of LSG that is certainly your option to do that. Um, we want region 3 wants to best serve you, okay? So, we can try to train your staff and your board members on some of these practices because we're seeing great success. Your board member, your board meetings are running a lot smoother, a lot faster, and you're focusing on student outcomes. That's the big thing. We want to focus
012on student outcomes and you're seeing improvement in student outcomes because you're focusing on that and it's strictly down to your campuses. So if you want to, we have several districts who stay in for four or five years. That's certainly an option and we can still provide support to your staff uh and your new staff coming on board next year and your new board members who have come on. Um, however, if you want to transition out, um, we can provide the tools that I use to help you and coach you, I can provide them to like your board secretary or whoever you choose, um, your curriculum department and they can carry those things forward. We encourage you to carry on so that you can begin with and focus on student outcomes. But I would ask that
013as a board you have that discussion amongst yourselves as a team of eight uh and uh let Mr. Awald know how you want to proceed for next year. As I said I'll follow you through July but the new cohort starts in uh August and certainly if you want to continue then I want to come out and meet with your team this summer. We look at your star scores and we kind of set up for next year. we look at, for example, your CCMR goals. You've already reached the five-year goal, so we got to set some new goals there. So, um, that would be part of the process. So, within the next week or so, if you'd consider that, um, talk as a team of eight what you'd like, how you'd like to proceed and let
014Mr. I know and then he'll let me know and we'll uh proceed from there if we're going to transition out or if we're going to continue supporting you. Whatever you feel like you're ready for. If you do decide to continue, I would encourage your your new board member to come to our two-day training. We're going to have one in June. Uh Tony and I will be doing that. And Philip, you're already trained, so you wouldn't have to to attain that necessarily. You were in our original cohort, which is hard to believe, three years ago. Yes. Lisa, fortunately, you believe Marie and Lisa last Yes. Yes, it was. And since we had that training and I feel like we we learned a lot. Yes. Try to implement it. I feel like at this point uh obviously
015I want new board members to get training because we've gained a lot but I feel like at this point at least as presiding officer I can take the training wheels off and I'm following the things that you taught. So anyway, I wanted to let y'all know my feelings about it. I want to know what your feelings are more especially to let go and proceed from there. Certainly we'll be happy region three is happy to support you in in either capacity. One of the things that I would like to mention and you probably or for me we wanted to have a team building where the entire board was here. If you remember, we had a board member missing the night because that was supposed to be done. Yes. So when your schedule allows and Mr. Odali
016can schedule you. Yes. I think the board would be very appreciative to get those hours out of the way. Absolutely. I I can get with Mr. Owali and I can also give him several different topics or he can let me know what topic you'd like for us to cover and we'd be happy to schedule that with you. sometime this summer or early August, whatever works for y'all. Do y'all have any questions? Okay, thank you so much. And and that will be an action. Thank you so much for coming down as many times as you did. And please give me our we know he's retiring. He's retiring. retiring for real retiring this time that will be official at the end of June the last day of June and he is moving to uh Lake Condro thank
017you and Molly I'll follow up with you next thank you so much under action Adams Adams accept. All right. Is there a motion to accept the report that was submitted? All right. Miss Paris makes a motion and a second by Miss L. I leave. All in favor indicate by saying I. I. All motion passes. Under action items, item 8A is consideration and possible action to approve partnerships agreement with communities and schools of Missouri County for the 2025 2026 school year. Superintendent President and representative of committees and schools please step forward. Thank you so much for coming. [Music] We had a successful year with weed that has the current and the last year's outcome for our services and getting more and to last year we had case managed 301. This year we're already surpassing that. We're
018at 346 students. Um and all students that have been case managed have spent sort of over $6,000 certifying students. That's a lot of time that is being committed to your to your student and family. Um overall of all things shared last year for 2024 we had 100% stay in school. We had 100% that was eligible to graduate graduate, 94% improved behavior, 93% improved in acts, 100% promoted to the next grade level, and 87% improvement in so um that they got the program were um by partnering with partnering with the faculty and the staff. We love being able to service our children and really kind of focus on the community focus help with I want to remind the board with you last year and we came running. We're very grateful to the fact that you're here
019and I personally would like to make the motion to remove the contract. Motion's been made and second. Are there any questions with my favor at the same time? Thank you very very consideration approval of the 2026 county juvenile department justice education program memorandum of understanding chief. is I'm a student officer and I'm also the [Music] case. Um, is anyone familiar with JJ? I can kind of break it down for you. That'll kind of help you out. So, pretty much our JJ A is a school and we provide education to students who are So, so we classify those into two different categories pretty much. Um, the first category is discretionary usually that's for serious misbehavior and then you have um forget the other category we have but it's usually for oh mandatory expulsion. So those are
020for um crimes, offenses, fire alarms, students who get in serious trouble, arrested, things like that. very long [Music] prognosis 10 seats there have three seats have three seats have two seats and ID have one seat and the three all the superintendent are the members of the board of Gat where we have students that needs to be expelled to that level of incident and by that time they will be passing through chief landing they must have gone through they must have gone through every level yes to the board. I recommend that the board approve the renewal of theou of the county juvenile probation department for 26 move seconded. All in favor indicate by saying I. All opposed motion passes. Thank you so much for your time. the efforts which you [Music] made. Item C is consideration
021possible action to approve uh to renew the Head Start program contract 2025 2026 school year superintendent. Yes. At this time I would like to call on Mr. Milton please come please. [Music] you all. So we have had bar with head shot for head start for about 24 years now. So I'm here to answer any question that you might have. You have a hand out there on your desk that it tells you about the services that we provide for the children from ages 3 to five and uh you have that you previously to read through it. So we would like to continue the partnership for uh 26 [Music] 256 y'all have any questions? Yes. I have a question. Prior to 2021, before the partnership, before the partnership is just about 4 years old, the head start
022program. How have you been operating? Well, before this partnership with Upbringing had started, we had a partnership with you all with WH County where we had a standalone center over here at Civics and we operated there. And what I mean by standalone, we had our owners and stuff like that. for every partnership uh for ISD you all have after so we have always been you know we've always had a partnership with y'all one way or the other day so and it's been an ongoing partnership it's just this time instead of having a standalone partnership we have a partnership where uh you all are your own teachers We we pay uh 50% of the teacher salaries. We pay 100% of the uh TA salaries. And we also provide uh $1,500 per classroom for each for them
023to buy supplies throughout the year. So it has been an ongoing pardon me just in different different ways. Yes. Prior to 2021 as you said there has been some partnership in form of your organization pretty much using our facilities. Correct. And if you go back through the time what happens that time is you only pay what nice day a rental fee or an amount for those space. I remember when you at Sables as at that time your organization you own your staff you doing your stuff all you are getting from what ID did is the space right that you are using what do you consider at this time from 2021 why did we change from that partnership because now the burden of the staff yes you are giving us 50% The burden of the staff,
024the burden of a staff calling in in a day now rest on us which prior to those years rest on you the organization. So if I'm going to form a partnership with you, it is not balanced because now I will be the one to wake up at 6:00 to know if Miss Jane or Mr. John is not going to come to work. that has been taken care of your organizational responsibility because now that is what nice did. Yes, you gave us 1,500 to buy resources for the classes which you normally do before because when you stand alone you still have your resources that you buy. So definitely that is not an advantage to our nice people. Yes, you pay 50% of our staff. We pay 50%. But guess what? When you are stand alone, you
025are paying your 100% staff, right? What you also forget to look into is the administrative cost in terms of operational cost to us, which is taking care of the kids, looking care of three year olds that we are going to be responsible for changing their diapers, which was on you before. See all those together I am not seeing the advantage of this partnership. We are not saying prek3 program should not exist. I am not saying the head start program should not exist. But looking at what is happening operationally the standalone program is a far better option for both of us. You still have your space. you will be paying us a monthly amount that both parties can decide. I believe looking down over the years when you at minimum hopper you used to pay $1,500.
026We have it on record but then we are talking about 5 years now electricity bills utility bills have gone up. So we still have to sit down to look at what is happening. Then you have your standing room. That means if your teacher's calling at 5:00 in the morning or 6:00 a.m. in the morning, then it will be you, Mr. Milton, or your organization to find somebody who's going to cover them. It is not going to be on me to look for who is going to cover a three-year hy because what is happening now most of the teachers and this happened before why are they not coming to work? because of them told us we are not ready to be changing diapers for 3 year old because that they're just little children but when you
027are stand alone you are doing this on your own so why can't you continue well you all have an option you don't have to take [Music] three you can take four year old. Um, you can do three classrooms of four year olds, but I still have to take three. We have other partnership that doesn't take three years old. So it's really up to you know the district and partnership and and what we decide because we agree. If you order five to eight, he cannot handle three year olds. Well, then you don't do four year olds and continue. And that way you won't have to change any diaphrag or whatever with a three-year-old. It is hard work. uh you know young people three year old that's all [Music] it [Music] can and that's something that you
028all [Music] currently we have four year because we have what they call for and that is strictly what do It is the three we are talking about which was definitely under your umbrella which the partnership put to our side which is not favorable to us and at this time miss can can you please come for um Mr. Ro can you um for I wanted to also say because I heard what Mr. Milton was saying about our four-year-old program. So, as what he's and I understand this, we had that in that meeting the other day. Um, so our four year olds, our prek4 that we have, if we choose not to have the three-year-old program, we don't have to. They will help fund our prek for students where we can require them to be four years
029old just like we do now. and they will fund three classrooms of four year olds up to 51 students and then the other three four year old classrooms would be Wharton IC because as of now we have six classrooms of four year olds correct that are all Wharton ISC right now the prek3s are the ones that are the upbringing Head Start students those are the ones that um are just the three-year-olds if we choose not to do the three-year-old program anymore and we want to move just to a four-year-old program, then that's what he was explaining that he that they could do anou with a foury olds and they would help us with three classrooms and then we would have the other three. So that is also an option here. So we're talking three and
030four year old and then we're talking about the issue about changing I'm just thinking certain kids are probably so y'all being foury old but so what if a foury old soils yourself who has to the foury old go down to the nursing they're able to go down with one person down to the nursing often and they change their clothes there or they call it parenting. With the preK3 students, we have to have two people with them at all times. So, even to walk them from the classroom to the nurse's office, there has to be two nurses in there with the student. There has to be two people that walk with the the child from the classroom to the nurse's office. And there also has to be two people in the classroom with the student. You
031can't leave them without two people. Did that answer your question? Not really, but okay. Do who makes the requirements? So, say if you if you took three-year-olds, but the requirement was for that three-year-old to be potty trained, but they don't get accepted. That is a part of theou. Yes. And that comes from licin and perform standard that we can not turn away any choice. [Music] Yeah. And with ISB that is a policy that's in our handbook. Four year olds must be trained to start. Does that answer your question, Mr. Evans? No. But I'm I want I want to make a motion to um I don't know the urgency on us um taking an action on this item. I would like to get a better understanding and so I would like to make a motion to
032table this u in an effort to get a better understanding. I'm more of a visual person. I know school is almost out. I would like to go over and and visually kind of understand what's really going on over there uh before trying to make a decision on the information that I have right now that's been presented to us right now. Matter of fact, the information that we got on the Head Start program, this handout was just uh was handed to us, you know, prior to this meeting. And um do you want me to go over any of them? Okay. So this is the financial part of the upbringing um head start program with Wharton ISD. So everything that you this is an invoice that I have to submit to them every month. Um so the
033thing the items that you have here that are marked between the two u black items that's a cost to the district that we cannot avoid. That's going to be a cost regardless if we have this program or not. Um that's janitorial. We still have to pay janitors. Um that's your administrators. We still have to pay administrators, your assistants, um your nurses, all of that. We still have to pay those people regardless if they're here or not with us. Um the salaries at the top are the teacher salaries and the assistant teacher salaries. Um this is our estimated cost each month for those three teachers and three pair of professionals. Um the end time part is our part Wharton ISD's part that we pay and then the amount here is what Headstart reimbures Wharton ISD. So
034they reimburse Nist for 50% of the teacher salary and 100% of the pair professional salary. So if you scroll down just a little bit Mr. Robbies. So here you'll see that whoop too much that W uh W IND's part is this 7383 here and they reimburse us the 9186 here. Um so our funding and I have it written down here at the bottom just a little bit more writing. uh our funding. So we get half a day funding through the state according to ADA how many kids we have in the seat at that time and then the other half of the day is in our system considered other funding which is head start reimbursing us for the teacher salaries and the paraprofessional salary. So when it comes to funding for this program, Wharton INC is
035really not at a huge loss um for this program to have to have this program here with Wharton. Um so on the funding side, we're not really it's kind of a wash where we pay out 7,000, we get nine. So I mean we we it it's not funding the funding part of it is not really the the issue um with the Head Start program in Morton ICD. Yes. M right. So you you say the funding part is not an issue but I heard earlier uh the conversation that when individuals call Yeah. So yes on that indirectly if you got to take someone from our district to go over there then indirectly to me that is like yes sorry I did leave that part out Mr. Evans. So uh we do have to provide the sub
036for prek. So if a teacher is out or a pair professional is out we do have to pay the cost for that sub to go into that classroom. So yes that does become a cost for the district. Um, Head Start only reimburses us for subs if it pertains to an upbringing Head Start PD. So, if they pull the teachers out because it's an upbringing Head Start PD that they need to attend, then they will reimburse us for the sub for that day. But on any other given day that someone's out, like if we have somebody out with FMLA or anything like that, Wharton ISD has to take the cost of those subs and that could be costly per month when we do not get reimbured. So is there any historical data on what the cost
037is? Um well I did not pull that information. No sir, but I can if you table this information and and want to have more of that sub cost. Yes, I can get all of those numbers for you. Um, just for instance, we have a teacher right now who is out on FMLA for the rest of the year. So, Wharton is covering the cost of that sub every day. So, you can imagine that's $80 every day that we're covering just for that one teacher. So, give us the total cost of what it of what paid for this program the last two years in a row. for this for this program pay 50% of the teacher salary. Everything else is covered by upper but I can pull those numbers. Uh we have a amount of the number
038of kids we service in prek through 51. That's our that's the max that Yeah. 51. [Music] Yes. And are we viable for these children? Yes. Just like Yes. Yes. Have a break break of cough per student on average. And another cause that is silent here. M can you bring that slide down please? Right. Stop. Right there where we have what they call the administrative cost. All that figure that is about 50,000 I believe I'm reading right. All that figure we know we have our administrators right but business-wise when they were separate when head start was separate before the partnership they have cost of administrators because they were stand alone. So where is that cost? That is an advantage to the other party because when they were standing they have to have their chances. They have
039to have their call it the coach or the head head teacher whatever they're going to call it. We are the one they are in that course now with the partnership and that is the balance that is not there. for 50,0009 a month. Yes sir. I guess my question so the difference between standalone and being under I guess word I umbrella does the material that's taught is different I'm sure under the word I it's instruction but if it's not you can teach whatever you want to correct. Yeah. And and I'm just asking I think I was on the board when they came back at 21 and part of adding them to Warden umbrella and getting them out of their own because we could start them on board the instruction earlier then except for them they getting
040learn taught whatever under their standalone but then when they got to say kindergarten it could be something totally different. Yeah. I think we start having problems with that and kind of look at the the data and I think they use map over there. it was showing that. So I think that's why that decision was made to get them the early you can get them under war and get taught war material that we're following you know as far as pa it was better for us so they wouldn't not necessarily behind but it was more aligned like kids start Mr. Milton may have I said earlier about my concern that you know we have kindergarten through 12th grade that's 13 years of school. Now you're talking about 5 year old four year olds. If you're looking at
04114 15 years is there data or surveys out there showing that been started at three what the dropout rate is before they get to 12th grade? I we could look that we don't have any data on that but we can tell you right now that we have 30 program where we have babies coming in at five weeks. They go from five weeks to three years old. But you're not teaching them like a school set. They're not we're not we're not a baby. We have a curriculum. We teach you a cross curriculum and they are taught just like any other children. There are certain there are certain things that you can teach babies that get them ready to move on to the next step. So uh it's we use curriculum with them uh fall curriculum with
042them from three to five. Yes sir. Well, I was going to ask Miss Gryom. She's been at syllables for for years and maybe she can kind of give us an idea of what she's seen in the different programs. M put you on the spot. Okay. M and slide. M please. Hello. Let take over. But if you have any other questions. So, um I I feel like um the agenda, the original intent of having prek three-year-olds in civils was um very heartfelt because they did want to start routine schooling um any kind of um socialization. They wanted to start them earlier and they wanted to be able to help families start all of that earlier so that they would be more school ready. Um, so that those are the the pros that that I've seen as
043far as with the prek3 program. They definitely have um learned socialization. They begin their playbased learning. They also um provide some of the fun funamental fun from Broad Street because that is what our prek four year olds also use that curriculum and so we thought that that would be a good alignment um to continue and um obviously they um bring in a lot of their um own materials as far as u even planners and furniture, etc. And that that type of um funding was there for those features in preK3 as well. So, uh that those are all positive. Those have all gone as expected, I believe. But what was not expected in at least just in this particular year is that we have had a lot of vacantism. We've had a lot of staff that
044have been um medically out and unfortunately for them and unfortunately for us that that does affect the students and that does affect um our staffing and our um ability to try and find substitutes which is very hard and then when I can't find a substitute then I have to pull pair of professionals from other grade levels. So then I'm now interrupting those other grade levels as well to make sure that I'm meeting our grant and our MLU um contract and making sure that there are two two people in every single room. So that is that has been hard this year. Um as far as um the coffee training um yes that has come up several times as far as getting a substitute. they do not want to come substitute free. So you have to have
045just like in mid grades you have to find the right person to teach you know the ones that want to be there. Um so that that has been also difficult and um that that just causes a lot of time out of my day at the beginning of the day to get school start just so that we can make sure that we're meeting all of our requirements. And um some of those students um have they they're this is the first time they've ever been away from mom, dad, grandma. So they have a lot of separation anxiety as well. And so that happens, you know, in prek4 too. But um we do have to provide that and um that can be overwhelming to the to the students as well. And so it's it's a challenge. So back
046to your conviction, are y'all before it's not option 230, but they pay the 50% 100% of the salaries. instead of trying to send them home at 2:30. We have the other half of the bill where they can go and write for them. We do read it out within but uh it's it's all around uh they go to writing there's language development there is uh all of those aspect that they want that those children going to need in order to be successful once they get to kindergarten. Okay. Whereas if they didn't have this, they're going to be the time. It's just been, you know, but no, all of those skills are are taught within the classroom. Oh yeah, they they teach. Okay. For instance, they teach for they don't really read aloud. But this is my
047work wall. Okay. I'm going to show them his book. I'm going to show them the front of the book and show them the back of the book. I'm going tell them about the author. I'm going tell them about the u the illustrators. Okay. I'm going to have particular vocabulary words. I'm going to have those where I'm going to introduce those vocabulary words to those students that disorder uh and have those children to uh ask question and also you know vocabulary word on the board. Uh they might even match those vocabulary words with the initiative all the other students in the classroom to get them to start that concept of knowing that he is oh he it's energy all the way Yeah, my concern was because both my kids could read before they started school. My
048daughter luckily didn't have a lot of my first grade teachers first school, we have a problem. Your son's going to walk into class and he had until about third and fourth grade. We had lots of problems with he knew those things. They were like sometimes it's not good too early. You need to make Well, you got to challenge them. Yeah. Yes, ma'am. I was just going to add the three year olds. Is that a half a day when it used to be a half a day or it's a full day? I was [Music] somebody that break down that would be a So I have question. So as I look at this handout, I guess this hand out was something you created as risky for nobody in our district. Yeah. So I see six pros and
049four cons. um uh as far as bullet points, but have y'all got together and maybe had a conversation to see if we could eliminate some of these commas or is this just is this program is just set in stone cuz just looking at it, it looks like if we can possibly uh eliminate some funds on here, then uh it it might benefit everyone. as is that is this something that's that's in stone that can't be changed cuz like when you're looking on here so if I'm looking on here and I'm looking at these columns and uh has there been a conversation about maybe finding some common ground so we can eliminate some of these yes Head Start up it does meet u with me on a regular basis and um and they've given me um
050some support and some ideas I I did just find out about the um possibility of it not being three years old three year olds and being four year olds instead because um that tends to be the highest challenge is with the three-year-olds. And so they they have brought ideas like that um to my attention uh when I when I bring up a a challenge. We also have we also have an education coach staff out in the classroom. We have even a family advocate that takes all the application out when there's a go in work with the teachers on different goals and stuff like that. So it's it's it's a moving partnership where we we meet, you know, together and we formulate goals and we talk about how we could improve the program, what we could
051do better, you know, and so forth and so on like you're talking about. So those meetings take place. The one the one thing that I I haven't heard is, you know, you say you have 51 some odd students in this program, but I'm thinking about those parents and what is their alternative if we don't have that program and how to protect them because I know there have been some other things that have been presented to the board and u we're always concerned with um you know what the alternative is if we [Music] for income. Uh we do not enroll anyone there that's over income or something like that. So here and I think about transportation I think some may because they may [Music] have questions. Yes sir. Uh I got kids in the district. uh
052been in the district her whole life even myself. So I include myself and everything because I've been through head start as well and all three of my kids started uh prek three as well and uh fortunately my kids had a mother and father uh but if we look at our statistics you know we're so much economically disadvantaged uh meaning there's a lot of single parents out here uh and I think it's a big disservice to our parents which are stakeholders or taxpayers of of not having this program. Uh you know, you hear people say, you know, one of my kids, you know, they we were able to afford to daycare, but a lot of parents can't afford daycare. They can't afford to miss work. Uh and even when they do miss work, they probably have
053somebody else picking up their kids because they're at work. We have to think about those people. You know, we're not talking about people that are are set up for all success. Uh they might not have internet at home. They might not have books at home for their children to learn in those prior years. And then when that kid in school, you got a kid where an A is. When a kid should know the whole alphabet already, it's tough. It makes it hard on Miss Caris to get them caught back up. Then when they get to West and they're so far behind, it puts us in a bigger bind. You know, we have to think about that aspect as well. We have pros and cons and pros and cons to anything you do. We can talk
054about cough and things like that, but you know, the school board member when it comes to education, you know, should be authority. Me personally, I don't feel comfortable disservicing 51 kids, telling them we're going to get rid of this program because out of 51, you might have 10, 15 that fall on your soap every day. you got that but you got some there that are there to learn and they're picking up knowledge and I think that's a pro and a con and itself and we we have to think about that you know does it make things you know by sub I understand all that you know and that's something that we have to do and continuous do I'm sure we just didn't start doing it this year this year might have been tougher you might
055have had a group of teachers that all got pregnant together uh you know teachers do that that's close but then you might have a year where you got more people people here you don't have that problem you know I don't like to look at it on a year-to-year basis, look at the overall picture. But, uh, you know, me personally, being an economically disadvantaged community and knowing that our parents are single parents, they're struggling to make ends meet. They're trying to do everything and make sure their child is set up for success. I would hate to take that one thing that they're thinking that's going to help them and help their child be successful, maybe not get stuck in the same rut that they did, and we just take that and run away from them. Just
056to pay back and just pay back on what he said, this might be the only meal that some of these children may receive. They get breakfast, lunch, and snack. This might be the only meal that they receive in their entire life, you know, because of, you know, they come and just because of what this young man is talking about. And so uh that's something else that we have to we have to think about we have to think about the education of these children educating these children. No child is too young to learn. Let's see that's about program and it's full day program. They come in at 7:45 at 3:00. Okay. every [Music] day. That's something that's what we have to think about. We have to think about the events. We have to think about how
057many grand and grand these times have changed. You know it's not like when you live out you know a lot of great children you [Music] know they don't [Music] have perfectly right and Mr. I feel you are perfectly right but we have to make this very clear here so that we on the same page. We are not saying get rid of the program. Nobody is saying that. We are saying your organization just like what trustee said to come down to the negotiating table. If you can pay 50/50 of the teacher salary, you cannot leave us to be responsible for paying 100% of every day this teacher is out because that is a cost which we are going to present to you. When you all come to the table, this is a business discussion we are
058going to have. If you can pay 5050 50% of my teachers when that teacher is out and I get a S for that teacher are you prepared to pay 50 50% of the cost that is economics because you are not pushing all that cost toward ISD that is what we are talking about we have to renegotiate this you has presented right and I agree I think that's a negotiation but I thought you know we're talking about renew renew But if we're going to negotiate like that, I think like Mr. Evans said, we should, you know, uh, place this action uh for a later board meeting so we can actually really come in and get some more breakdowns because I think more board members ask for different material to look at instead of we get a
059little bit material now to make that decision. You know, maybe we need to sit down and sit down with their people and, you know, negotiate like in a special meeting instead of we're hearing all this now, but we still, you know, put it for a day. We're going to want to hear most of it again to refresh our memory and we want to look at some material and do some research ourselves. When our school district is in the financial situation that it is, we're going to have everything. We're going to have to prioritize it. And if there's a way that the program can exist without any fund drainage from WD, that's better. Yeah. No, and I agree. But I said that's why I was saying that's why when we come back, you know, it could
060be more of a negotiation. I think we all speak. No, I think I agree that, you know, we want to continue this program, but under a different parameter. And that's what I'm saying. When we come back, that's I don't think I think the question is if we want the program or not. I think we want it, but we can discuss the parameters of the program and how it's going to be fun. Yes. In the meantime, um, just like what I'm hearing, we We're going to contact the leadership of the organization contributable. We are going to discuss this is what we are seeing from the currentou that financially we are going to give them the data of how much we have spent in terms of substitutes in terms of just like what miss and just said
061we have a teacher that has been for a long time a lot because to them this current has written it is our responsibility it should not because they are part of the program. So all that we are going to discuss and any trustees who want to visit SE depending on the time you have let me know you go and see it see how that break three program operates and by the time we meet with their leadership we have some discussions and then we can agree to have a new superintendent if you wouldn't mind give your board recommendation as to what you would like do be able to claim this back or in I would like to go back to my original motion and my original motion was to uh table this for a later date.
062Is that all right? Yeah, that's okay. President motion. So there's no action on this as present. Okay. So motion been made and second one more question. Um so as a stand. So why don't we make the motion to not approve that contract and have them come back. Okay. the fact that it is it still has not been approved. Okay. Okay. Right. Okay. But every year, every year we we come back together to get it approved for the following year. So it has not been approved for the following year as yet. So it's my understanding that the superintendent would like to bring u all of us together to see what we could do about when there is a teacher out and you all have a sort of c what can upgrade do to assist y'all with
063that call I think that's his main concern is that correct is very correct okay so what I will do I will go back with our uh superintendent and uh CEO and I will let them know that. Okay. And then uh they can take it from there and then maybe y'all could we could have a special meeting where we could all come together and figure that out in addition to you know like we said the 50% salary that we're paying for the 80 I mean the 100% salary that we're paying for the a salary that we pay for teachers. So, uh, his additional fun. So, okay. I just have one more com just just so y'all are aware. Um, we will have to do this prior to June 30th because we have to make a plan
064for that that level of children, students, and staff. So if for some reason Wharton ISD does come to the conclusion that they want Head Start to take the program on 100% by themselves, we would need to know so we can notify those teachers that Head Start is going to take on the program now and they would have to reapply through them or vice versa or whatever or move them around in the district. Oh, it will be done before that time. He gets in touch with this leadership. They will contact us. We'll fix a date and we'll meet. We'll review theou any of our trustes that want to visit the campus they will see what is going on there and then we'll present a newou in the next few meetings we're going to have definitely before
065the discussion items today is going to be discussion on the board meeting. Yes, we noticed that the June board meeting was on the June 10th day, June 19th, which is a holiday. So, and looking at our calendar, we are suggesting that the June board meeting now should hold on June 12th. have to move it forward to June 12 looking at I don't know understand Thursday uh you know historically you know the celebration Junth is actually done on the weekend. It's usually set that date happens during the weekend. Uh you know there's not a lot of I'm going to say things that are going on actually during the week historically that holiday whatever whoever celebrates usually when they celebrate that that's on usually on weekend it's a holiday for the district. It's a I believe national
066holiday, you know, it's the summer, you know, [Music] even Tuesday will be 17. June 17. Then we have discussion boards. Yes. We made an estimate travel figure for the board members in terms of the summer leadership conference coming out in San Antonio and with the current reality of the district right it is up to the board members to decide what we want to do. I'll be sending one person I send in two people or seven of you want to go. If seven of you decide to go, you are costing the district over 12 $13,000 and we're going to send only two people that come that can come back and bring the information back to the other seven members. Well, I last year all I was people like me walking in there talking to a big
067room of people about past experiences. It was a learning experience and they they over booked this so much just to make money. I didn't even get into my class because all the classes were full. People were outside the doors sitting all over the floor in the hallway and they were there just waiting for their code so they could get their free class. They didn't learn anything to be going to that just to get a vacation experience on that. Uh I was a new board member. I got mainstream SLI. I don't think it's a joke. Think we take it serious when you go into those classes and you pick the classes that you need for our district and just not randomly pick classes. It's very valuable. It's it's it's valuable to each song. Each person wants
068to learn something different. That's how you learn about school budget. That's how you learn how to handle certain situations. That's how you learn how to do preventive things for future when your board is going through things where you got things coming up. You can plan for it. U you know, I don't think you might have people sitting outside classes. You know, some of these people have been board members for for 20 plus years, you know, so it's a formality for them. But I I just know as a new board member and a learning board member and for a district that's struggling in certain things. You got to take those things out our district that we're struggling in. Those are the classes you go to. You must be talking about different meetings because these weren't classes
069that I went to. People just going up there speech. They had the budget meetings before your first your first year. I think you you might be taking some of your mandatory classes and that could be the reason why. But once you get out of your first year, you can pick and choose what class you go to. And so I gave you a sheet of all of them. You get to pick and choose whatever one that I chose went to. And nobody could get in their class that day. Every one of them had people sit down. I never had nobody to get in. Even you know when I was a board officer you know board officers go to a whole different hotel and have training uh you know they don't go to the same train convention
070that you sound like you're talking about one of the things that we meet is that I know Lisa Marie and I did virtually every bit of required training to point the only have left that threehour key. Yeah. Everything's online. The cost for sending a board member to a requirement education can be done through the help of Victoria region three instead of our spending, you know, $2500 for one person to go, then we're going to have to look at it. I mean I'm not saying we don't have the schedule of those classes are mandatory because it's USA you know that that that's what's important. So I think we have board policy on board travels that's certain amount of money if we need to decrease that we need to look at it but it goes back to
071the question that superintendent asked how many people you planning on on going this year. Uh I know one person is probably won't be the other or possibly two. So with that said that number that you're talking about is astronomical is going to be greatly reduced. You know what? How many to our sister we have it for this year but the other thing that we need to address is next year because that's I mean the thing is we could shift that money or we can spend it all what you talking about what is there's a board policy that says this amount is set off for the board what's It's a number. I don't know what it is and it's a bit reason policy, right? We have to change policy to get rid of it. You know,
072it's not even a vote of who wants to go. But if we can do that, I'm fine. But there's a policy that says the board has allocated this amount of money, $20,000 divided by seven for training. That's the number we're talking about because I know you said I think you said $12,000 for one I'm just saying there's two there's a conference that we all eight of us should go to, you know, as administrators and school members. That's where you you do team building there. No, it's Houston is still exactly know what that main number was uh that the board is allowed for for continuous education. I would get back to you on that figure. But then the question is if only two of them are signified to go to San Antonio which is between June
07311 to June 13ration that piece but I I I really you know we're talking about board travels And you have SLI, one's in San Antonio, one's up for in that usually get two different days. So we have some board members that have expressed that they're interested in getting this train that they get something out of it. We've had other board members that have indicated that they don't get anything out. They don't care to go. So what I'm saying that number has come down just just on those terms itself. So to me we've already reduced that cost that cost is not going to be as high. The individuals that feel like they don't get anything out of it you know fine but but I wouldn't want to try to the individuals that uh have expressed they
074get something out of it. We have a new board member here that she doesn't really know. So what I'm saying is that cost has gone down already. I said I mean you know just because somebody doesn't want to go that doesn't mean you know you know everybody should Miss Walker Mrs. work and Mr. Both of you are interested in loans for approved tonight. This is in regard to taking the training wheels off the bike. has letting the board continue to use the lonear government governance but with their their guidance before we start I believe that's the way I understood yes you have services through July coaching services uh your your grant putting for services through July so I will follow you through July and transition you if if that's what you wish or if you
075wish to take part in it again you can take part in again has contracted. Out of curiosity, Lisa, is the grant still available? Um, that I can find out for you. I know Warden, I believe this was your second year to receive the grant. Is that right? Yes. So, um, before districts could receive one year, last year they changed that, but you could receive it for the second year. it was at a reduced amount, but it still covered just about their full contract of service. Um, I have not heard that they'll reup it for the third year uh for districts. So, as of right now, I don't have that information. Well, that that is an expense. Theoretically, we would be able to eliminate. Yes, you could eliminate that expense. That's correct. So, and that's the
076reason that it's on the agenda for that particular point. So, if you'd be kind enough maybe at that June meeting you can bring back that information. Uh, if you can get the grant again or what information you can let know that probably. Yes, I will double check that. As of right now, I don't know, but if that's already So, with the how much is the um the last last year we received $7,000 um from the grant. U LSD coaching service um our LSD coaching service was 7,000,000. Yeah. Uh this year we will only receive 5,000 and the hotel. So this year you it cost you $2,000. Yes, we covered 5,000. Thank you. I can't remember the amount for Okay. All in favor. All [Music] good. That didn't do it.