May 16, 2022 Agenda Workshop

[A. CALL TO ORDER]

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OKAY, GOOD EVENING.

WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP MEETING OF THE HAYS CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

WE APPRECIATE EVERYONE BEING IN HERE TONIGHT AND THOSE ONLINE WELCOME AS WELL.

TODAY IS MONDAY, MAY 16TH.

THE TIME IS 5:34 P.M..

A QUORUM HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.

ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE PRESENT, INCLUDING OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBER, BYRON SEVERANCE.

WELCOME TO THE DAIS.

YES. [APPLAUSE] ALL RIGHT, AND AT THIS TIME, WE ARE GOING TO ADJOURN TO A CLOSED SESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE

[B. CLOSED SESSION]

THE TIME IS 5:35 P.M..

TEAM NOTHING TO BRING TO CLOSE SESSION.

ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE WORKSHOP MEETING OF THE HAYS CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

[C. RECONVENE IN OPEN SESSION]

TODAY IS MONDAY, MAY 16TH, AND THE TIME IS 6:24 P.M..

A QUORUM HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED.

ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ARE PRESENT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF MRS. RUNKLE. HER SON WAS BEING HONORED TONIGHT AT JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL AND SO WE WANTED HER TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND THAT EVENT AT JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL.

ALL RIGHT, SO WE ARE GOING TO GET STARTED NOW WITH OUR REORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD.

[D. REORGANIZE BOARD]

I HAVE A VERY LENGTHY SCRIPT THAT I AM GOING TO READ THROUGH, SO JUST SETTLE IN, FRIENDS.

ALL RIGHT, SO THE MAY 7TH, 2022, HAYS CISD TRUSTEE ELECTION RESULTED IN A CHANGE OF BOARD MEMBERS.

BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES OF THE HAYS CISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES STATE THAT THE BOARD PRESIDENT SERVES AS THE PRESIDING OFFICER AT BOARD MEETINGS.

AS CURRENT PRESIDENT, I WILL PRESIDE OVER THE REORGANIZATION OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND BOARD POLICY BE, THE BOARD SHALL OBSERVE THE PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURES AS FOUND IN ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER FOR THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING OFFICERS, I WILL ASK THAT VOTING BE MADE BY SHOW OF HANDS. FOR CLARITY, I WILL STATE FOR THE RECORD THE NAMES OF BOARD MEMBERS SHOW OF HANDS FOR EACH YES VOTE AND THE SAME FOR EACH NO VOTE.

NOMINATIONS DO NOT REQUIRE A SECOND.

THE PERSON WITH THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTES FOR EACH POSITION WILL BE DECLARED THE PERSON ELECTED TO THAT POSITION.

IF THERE IS NOT A MAJORITY VOTE FOR ANY CANDIDATE.

THE NOMINATIONS ARE RE-OPENED AND THE PROCESS STARTS OVER.

BY LAW, THERE CANNOT BE A TIE.

IF A PERSON VOTES YES FOR ONE CANDIDATE, THEY MUST VOTE NO FOR ANY OTHER CANDIDATE IN THAT POSITION.

YOU CANNOT VOTE YES FOR MORE THAN ONE CANDIDATE NOMINATED FOR THE SAME OFFICE.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF BOARD REORGANIZATION, WE WILL HAVE A BRIEF RECESS TO ALLOW FOR THE NEWLY ELECTED OFFICERS TO CHANGE THEIR SEATS AND REARRANGE THEIR LITTLE PLACE CARDS HERE THAT WE HAVE.

OK. THE BOARD WILL REORGANIZE AT THIS TIME.

NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD PRESIDENT ARE NOW OPEN.

ARE THERE ANY NOMINATIONS FOR THIS POSITION, MRS. OROSCO. I NOMINATE VANESSA PETREA FOR PRESIDENT.

I HAVE A NOMINATION FOR VANESSA PETREA FOR BOARD PRESIDENT.

VANESSA PETRY. DO YOU ACCEPT THE NOMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD PRESIDENT? YES, I DO. THANK YOU, MRS. OROSCO. IS THERE ANY OTHER NOMINATION FOR BOARD PRESIDENT? ALL RIGHT, HEARING NONE.

I HAVE A NOMINATION FOR VANESSA PETREA.

FOR BOARD PRESIDENT? I ACCEPTED, AND HEARING NO OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD PRESIDENT, I DECLARE THE NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD PRESIDENT ARE CLOSED.

THE SLATE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE OFFICE OF BOARD PRESIDENT ARE VANESSA PETREA, I SHOULD SAY, IS VANESSA PETREA.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, NOW VOTE ON EACH PERSON IN THE ORDER IN WHICH THE NOMINATIONS WERE RECEIVED.

MAY I SHOW? PLEASE SEE A SHOW OF HANDS FOR THOSE WHO VOTE YES FOR VANESSA PETREA AS PRESIDENT.

ALL RIGHT, YES. WELL, MCMANUS RAUL VELA, VANESSA PETREA, BYRON SEVERANCE, ESPERANZA OROSCO, DR.

ESMERALDA PEREZ GONZALES.

OK SIX VOTES ARE YES.

OK. THE VOTE FOR VANESSA PETREA FOR BOARD PRESIDENT IS 6 TO 0.

CONGRATULATIONS TO VANESSA PETREA.

SHE IS NOW THE PRESIDENT FOR 2022..

I TOLD YOU IS GOING TO BE AWKWARD AS THE SCRIPT.

IT'S SUPER WEIRD. YES.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, SO WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO VICE

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ARE THERE ANY NOMINATIONS FOR THIS POSITION? MR. MCMANUS, I NOMINATE RAUL VELA FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT.

ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A NOMINATION FOR RAUL VELA FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT RAUL VELA.

DO YOU ACCEPT THE NOMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD VICE PRESIDENT? YES. ALL RIGHT, ARE THERE ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT? HEARING NO OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT.

I DECLARE THE NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT CLOSED.

I'LL READ THE SLATE OF INDIVIDUALS.

RAUL VELA, SO NOW WE WILL VOTE.

MAY I SEE A SHOW OF HANDS FOR THOSE WHO VOTE YES FOR RAUL VELA FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT? YESES ARE WILL MCMANUS, RAUL VELA, VANESSA PETREA, BYRON SEVERANCE, ESPERANZA OROSCO, DR.

ESMERALDA PEREZ GONZALEZ.

GREAT. THE VOTING YES FOR RAUL VELA FOR BOARD VICE PRESIDENT IS 6 TO 0.

CONGRATULATIONS TO RAUL VELA.

ALL RIGHT, WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO SECRETARY.

NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD SECRETARY ARE NOW OPEN.

ARE THERE ANY NOMINATIONS FOR THIS POSITION? DR. PEREZ GONZALEZ.

THANK YOU. I NOMINATE ESPERANZA OROSCO FOR BOARD SECRETARY.

ALL RIGHT, I HAVE A NOMINATION FOR ESPERANZA OROSCO FOR BOARD SECRETARY.

ESPERANZA OROSCO, DO YOU ACCEPT THE NOMINATION FOR THE POSITION OF BOARD SECRETARY? ALL RIGHT, GREAT.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD SECRETARY? ALL RIGHT, HEARING NO OTHER NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD SECRETARY.

I DECLARE THE NOMINATIONS FOR BOARD SECRETARY CLOSED.

THE SLATE OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE BEEN NOMINATED FOR OFFICE OF BOARD SECRETARY INCLUDE ESPERANZA OROSCO.

WILL NOW VOTE.

MAY I SEE A SHOW OF HANDS WHO VOTE YES FOR ESPERANZA OROSCO FOR BOARD SECRETARY.

YESES INCLUDE WILL MCMANUS, RAUL VELA, VANESSA PETREA, BYRON SEVERANCE, ESPERANZA OROSCO AND DR.

PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ.

OK THE VOTE FOR ESPERANZA OROSCO FOR BOARD SECRETARY IS 6 TO 0.

CONGRATULATIONS ESPERANZA OROSCO.

YOU ARE OUR BOARD SECRETARY FOR 2022 2023.

OKAY, THAT CONCLUDES OUR BOARD REORGANIZATION.

AT THIS TIME, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF TWO MINUTE RECESS TO REORGANIZE OUR SEATING ARRANGEMENT AND MOVE OUR STUFF AROUND.

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WE HAVE REORGANIZED OUR BOARD.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. WHILE WE HAD TO GO THROUGH THAT EXERCISE.

I'M HAPPY TO BE THE PRESIDENT AGAIN FOR THE COMING YEAR.

I'M EXCITED FOR OUR NEW OFFICERS AND OUR TEAM AS A WHOLE.

IF YOU WEREN'T HERE EARLIER, WE WELCOMED BYRON SEVERANCE.

HE'S NEW ON THE DAIS, SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE HIM AS WELL.

YES. [APPLAUSE] GREAT.

WE KNOW THIS TEAM IS AWESOME AND WE'RE GOING TO DO GREAT THINGS FOR KIDS.

[E. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO UNITED STATES AND TEXAS FLAGS United States Flag Pledge]

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[F. MISSION STATEMENT]

THE MISSION OF HAYS CISD IS TO NURTURE STUDENTS TO BECOME EXTRAORDINARY CITIZENS THROUGH UNIQUE PERSONAL EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES, THROUGH AN INNOVATIVE COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS, WHILE CELEBRATING OUR DIVERSITY AND LEGACY.

AWESOME, THANKS SO MUCH. OUR MISSION STATEMENT IS THANK YOU FOR READING THAT, OUR SOCIAL CONTRACT.

[G. SOCIAL CONTRACT]

THE BOARD WILL SERVE AS DISTRICT AMBASSADORS.

BE PROFESSIONAL, COLLABORATE AS A TEAM AND RESPECT THE BODY CORPORATE.

PROMOTE DISCUSSION AND RESPECT EACH OTHER.

ASSUME POSITIVE AND NOBLE INTENTIONS.

I WANTED TO ALSO POINT OUT I DIDN'T DO THIS EARLIER AND I APOLOGIZE.

DR. PEREZ GONZALES IS 11 DAYS OUT FROM SURGERY, AND SO SHE STAYED WITH US AS LONG AS SHE COULD, BUT SHE WENT AHEAD AND WENT HOME.

SO YOU SEE A LITTLE BIT OF TWO EMPTY CHAIRS DOWN HERE.

SO I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WE WERE HAPPY TO HAVE HER COME TONIGHT AND GOT SWORN IN.

IT WAS GREAT, BUT WE WANT HER TO GO HOME AND REST.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT STEP, WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, AND THIS IS THE APPLICATION FOR OPTIONAL FLEXIBLE SCHOOL DAY PROGRAM AT OUR LIVE OAK ACADEMY.

[H. PUBLIC HEARING - APPLICATION FOR OPTIONAL FLEXIBLE SCHOOL DAY PROGRAM AT LIVE OAK ACADEMY - MAY 23, 2022]

SO FOLKS THAT WANT TO COME OUT AND SPEAK ABOUT THAT, WE'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY NEXT MONDAY.

DR. WRIGHT, OUR SUPERINTENDENT REPORT IS NEXT.

[I. SUPERINTENDENT REPORT]

TONIGHT, I WANTED TO START WITH SOME STUDENT ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT RESULTS.

AND SO, BARBARA, IF YOU DON'T MIND, GO AHEAD AND POST.

OH, YOU ALREADY HAVE.

VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. I WANTED TO POST OUR 2022 PRELIMINARY END, OF COURSE, RESULTS THAT WE'VE ALREADY RECEIVED, AND WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT WE WILL RECEIVE THE REST OF OUR STATEWIDE STAAR RESULTS ON OR BEFORE NEXT MONDAY.

SO HOPEFULLY NEXT MONDAY, I'LL GET TO UPDATE YOU FURTHER, BUT WE WERE VERY PLEASED WITH THE EFFORT OF OUR OF OUR STUDENTS AND OUR TEACHERS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

WE DIDN'T KNOW REALLY WHAT WE WERE GOING TO GET COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC AND STILL KIND OF BEING I THINK WE HAVE ONE FOOT IN, ONE FOOT OUT, AND SO WE WEREN'T REAL SURE HOW WE WERE GOING TO FARE, BUT WE ACTUALLY WE DID VERY WELL DISTRICTWIDE, AND SO I DIDN'T BREAK THESE DOWN BY CAMPUSES FOR YOU YET.

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MASTERS THE STATE WAS 28 AND WE WERE 39.

FOR BIOLOGY, THE STATE'S PERCENTAGE WAS 81, THE DISTRICT WAS 87, MEETS WAS 56, AND FOR THE STATE AND DISTRICT WAS 64 AND MASTERS FOR THE STATE WAS 22 AND THE DISTRICTS WAS 26, AND THEN IN US HISTORY THE STATE'S APPROACHES WAS 89, MEETS 70 AND MASTERS 43, AND FOR THE DISTRICT IT WAS 91, 73 AND 50.

SO AT FIRST BLUSH VERY PLEASED WITH THE RESULTS AS COMPARED TO THE STATE.

AND WHEN YOU EXTRAPOLATE AND COMPARE THOSE WITH OUR DISTRICT GOALS, WE MET EVERY ONE OF OUR DISTRICT GOALS.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF US HISTORY, OUR DISTRICT GOAL WAS 92% AND WE WERE AT 91.

SO VERY CLOSE, AND SO KUDOS TO ALL OF OUR KIDS AND OUR TEACHERS THAT MADE THIS HAPPEN, AND SO, LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'LL GET YOU THE RESULTS AS THEY COME IN.

WE'LL BE ADDING TO THESE SHEETS AS WE MOVE FORWARD, BUT AT FIRST, GLIMPSE, VERY, VERY PLEASED, AND I HOPE WE CONTINUE WITH THIS CYCLE.

[APPLAUSE] AND YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY THIS TIME AND TIME AGAIN, STUDENTS ARE MUCH MORE THAN AN END, OF COURSE TEST RESULT OR A STAAR TEST RESULT.

IT'S JUST A MEASUREMENT FOR FOR ONE DAY AT THAT PARTICULAR PERIOD IN TIME, AND BUT IT DOES GIVE US A SNAPSHOT AND IT TELLS US HOW WE COMPARE WITH OTHERS ACROSS THE STATE, AND SO YOU DON'T HEAR US TALK MUCH ABOUT HAVING PEP RALLIES OR OR PUSHING KIDS TO REALLY DO WELL ON THIS TEST, BECAUSE WE JUST WANT THEM TO DO THEIR BEST AND WE WANT TO ALLEVIATE ANXIETY AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN, AND KUDOS TO ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES AND OUR TEACHERS WHO HAVE HAVE CREATED THAT MINDSET AND THAT CULTURE, BECAUSE WE JUST WANT TO SEE THAT EACH KID GROWS.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE AS FAR AS OUR PLAYOFF TEAMS AND SOME OF THE RESULTS LATELY.

OUR JOHNSON BASEBALL TEAM IS HEADED TO THE REGIONAL QUARTERFINALS AND THEY ARE FRESH OFF OF A 2-0 SERIES VICTORY OVER SAN ANTONIO BRECKENRIDGE, AND WE FLIPPED AND ARE GOING TO PLAY CEDAR PARK, AND IT'S GOING TO BE A ONE GAME SERIES AT CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY AT 7:00 ON FRIDAY NIGHT, AND IT'S A WINNER TAKES ALL TO THE REGIONAL SEMIFINALS, AND SO I WANTED YOU TO TAKE NOTE OF THAT IN CASE YOU WERE INTERESTED, AND THEN SOFTBALL HAD A WONDERFUL SEASON.

THEY MADE IT ALL THE WAY TO THE REGIONAL QUARTERFINALS AS WELL FOR HAYS HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEY GOT BEAT IN EXTRA INNINGS BY ROUND ROCK ON FRIDAY NIGHT AND THE SCORE WAS 4 TO 3, AND IT COULD HAVE GONE EITHER WAY, AND JUST AMAZING.

I REALLY ENJOYED WATCHING THEM THIS YEAR.

THEY HAD JUST SOME TIMELY HITS AND SOME OUTSTANDING DEFENSIVE PLAYS AND JUST, JUST GREAT CROWD.

JUST REALLY, REALLY FUN, FUN ATMOSPHERE AND SO KIND OF SAD THAT THEIR SEASONS ARE WE BUT VERY PROUD OF THEM, AND THEN JOHNSON HAD SEVEN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETES THAT COMPETED AT THE STATE TRACK MEET, AND SO WE WERE VERY WELL REPRESENTED THERE.

A LOT OF KIDS HAD THEIR PERSONAL BEST.

NO KNOW WE HAD SOME FIFTH PLACE ALL THE WAY THROUGH EIGHTH PLACE FINISHES IN THE STATE.

SO TO BE TOP FIVE OR EIGHT IN THE STATE IS REMARKABLE.

AND THEN WE HAD A YOUNG MAN FROM HAYES HIGH SCHOOL IN THE WHEELCHAIR DIVISION OF THE 100 THAT FINISHED SECOND AND EARNED A SILVER AND JUST A FRESHMAN.

SO WE'RE EXPECTING HIM TO BRING BACK THE GOLD THE NEXT NEXT TWO OR THREE YEARS.

SO REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE LINE BAGGER TOP TEN AWARD CEREMONY ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, AND SO LOOKING FORWARD TO ACKNOWLEDGING EACH ONE OF THE KIDS FOR THEIR HARD WORK OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST FOUR YEARS, AND THEN ON MAY THE 31ST, WE HAVE OUR FIRST TWO GRADUATION CEREMONIES.

WE HAVE ON THE FIRST NIGHT, HAYES AND JOHNSON AT TWO AND SIX, AND THEN WE HAVE LEHMAN AND LIVE OAK THE NEXT DAY, ON JUNE THE FIRST, ALSO AT TWO AND SIX, AND SO WITH THE HEAT WAVE WE HAVE, I THINK EVERYBODY IS VERY APPRECIATIVE THAT WE ARE GOING BACK TO TEXAS STATE AND WE'LL BE INSIDE THE COLISEUM AND HAVE SOME, SOME AC.

SO LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT, AND THEN FINALLY, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE WE STAND WITH PAID TUITION FOR PRE-K.

WE STARTED ADVERTISING THAT AS OF LATE AND WE ASKED THAT THE SURVEYS AND THE RSVP KIND OF BE TURNED IN BY APRIL THE 28TH, AND

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24 OF THOSE ARE EMPLOYEES AND CHILDREN, AND 31 ARE COMMUNITY, COMMUNITY CHILDREN.

SO A TOTAL OF 55 RIGHT NOW, AND IF WE HAVE MORE SLOTS, I'M SURE WE'LL WORK WITH PARENTS MOVING FORWARD AS WE GO.

SO THAT'S THE SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.

ALL RIGHT, ANYONE HAVE QUESTIONS FOR DR.

WRIGHT? I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION ON THE PRE-K.

IS 55 THE TOTAL AMOUNT WE HAD AVAILABLE OR IS THAT HOW MANY WE GOT? THAT'S HOW MANY WE'VE RECEIVED.

OKAY, BECAUSE I THOUGHT WE MIGHT HAVE MORE THAN THAT AVAILABLE.

SO, AND DO WE KNOW WHAT CAMPUSES WERE LOOKING AT YET? I'D HAVE TO GET A BREAKDOWN AND TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, BUT I'M SURE THAT PEOPLE ARE COMPARING PRIVATE VERSUS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE OFFERING, AND SO WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE SOME MORE THAT SIGN UP LATE.

YOU KNOW, SOME SOME PEOPLE WORK A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHERS, AND SO WE'LL PROBABLY GET THOSE THAT WILL CONTINUE TO FLOW IN AS WE GO.

SO AS PARENTS ARE LISTENING, WHAT'S THE DROP DEADLINE FOR THAT? WELL, I THINK, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE CAN CAN ENROLL THROUGHOUT THE SCHOOL YEAR.

HOPEFULLY THE SOONER THE BETTER.

BECAUSE IF WE HAVE THEM THE FIRST THE FIRST DAY, OBVIOUSLY THE RULES AND ROUTINES, PROCEDURES THAT ARE ESTABLISHED WILL BE BENEFICIAL FOR THEM, BUT IF WE HAVE OPEN SEATS, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO ADD STUDENTS AS WE GO.

OKAY, GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE TEAM? MRS. OROSCO.

I'M SORRY, I MIGHT HAVE MISSED IT.

DR.. WRIGHT. WHAT IS THE COST? I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DEFER TO THE CNI FOLKS, THEY TOLD ME, BUT I DIDN'T WRITE THAT DOWN AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE INCORRECT INFORMATION.

ALL RIGHT, MRS. NOBLE, I DON'T KNOW WHERE OUR MICROPHONE WENT.

IT'S NOT IN ITS NORMAL POSITION.

IT'S ON THE PODIUM. IT'S ON.

YEAH. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO SET IT BACK UP FOR US.

OR JUST.

SORRY ABOUT THAT. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TURN IT ON YOUR PRO.

OKAY, PERFECT. I GOT THIS.

WILL YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO MARY NOBLE, DEPUTY ACADEMIC OFFICER, ALSO HELPING WITH PRE-K AND COMMUNITY BASED PRE-K.

OUR RATE IS 610 FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THERE'S ALSO A $100 FEE TO GO WITH IT.

APPLICATION FEE LIKE AN APPLICATION FEE SUPPLIES, THINGS LIKE THAT.

GOT IT. OKAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MRS. NOBLE? AND WE ARE VERIFYING THERE ARE SOME MORE COMING IN EVERY DAY AS WE SPEAK.

THERE'S JUST A TWO STEP VERIFICATION PROCESS THAT WE'RE GOING THROUGH TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT WE NEED BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO PUT SOMEBODY IN AND THEN REALIZE, OH, YOU'RE ONLY THREE OR YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN KINDER.

SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH A TWO STEP PROCESS.

SO THERE ARE MORE COMING.

OKAY, THANKS SO MUCH. ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT, THANKS, DR. WRIGHT.

GREAT REPORT.

ALL RIGHT, WE'RE MOVING ON NOW TO OUR PUBLIC FORUMS. SNOWBALL, WERE THERE PAPERS ON THAT PODIUM? OKAY, PERFECT. WE HAD A LOT OF ACTIVITY EARLIER, SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CLEAN UP OUR MESS.

MR. SAVOY, IS THERE A CLICKER THAT YOU NEED OR CAN THAT JUST STAY THERE? OK. PERFECT.

ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE A PUBLIC FORUM.

[J. PUBLIC FORUM ]

IF YOU DID NOT SIGN UP, YOU WILL NOT BE PERMITTED TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN BOARD MEETINGS IS LIMITED TO THE PUBLIC FORUM PORTION OF THE MEETING, AS PROVIDED IN BOARD POLICY BED LOCAL.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE AUDIO OF PUBLIC FORUM IS RECORDED AS PART OF THE RECORDING OF THE ENTIRE MEETING AND IS PUBLISHED ON THE DISTRICT'S WEBSITE IN ITS ENTIRETY WITHOUT ALTERATION. A PERSON WHO CHOOSES TO SPEAK IN PUBLIC FORUM IS CONSENTING TO THE ONLINE PUBLICATION OF THEIR COMMENTS.

SO WE HAVE A FEW SPEAKERS.

LET'S SEE HERE WE HAVE FOUR.

SO EACH PERSON WILL HAVE 5 MINUTES IF WE CAN GET A TIMER READY.

MISS GLORIA. PERFECT.

ALL RIGHT, FIRST UP, WE HAVE JONATHAN FALLS.

IF YOU'LL COME TO THE PODIUM, YOU MAY NEED TO ADJUST THE MIC, TAP ON IT, MAKE SURE IT WORKS, AND YOU'LL HAVE 5 MINUTES FROM THE TIME YOU START SPEAKING.

GOOD EVENING, BOARD. GOOD EVENING, DR.

WRIGHT. MY NAME IS JONATHAN FALLS.

I'VE BEEN WITH THE DISTRICT FOR SIX AND A HALF YEARS.

I'M HERE AS A FATHER WITH TWO CHILDREN IN THE DISTRICT, ALSO A TAXPAYER AND A MECHANIC FOR TRANSPORTATION AND CHAIR OF THE TLC.

I WORK 12 HOURS EVERY DAY FIXING BUSSES AND MAKING SURE OUR STUDENTS GET TO AND FROM SCHOOL SAFELY.

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I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MY JOB.

MY BOSSES SUPPORT ME 100%.

EVERY MORNING I GET TO WORK AT 4:30 AND CAN'T WAIT TO TACKLE THE DAY AHEAD.

ME AND MY FELLOW TLC MEMBERS HAVE WORKED SO HARD TO IMPROVE TRANSPORTATION.

WE HAVE IMPLEMENTED SEVERAL GREAT THINGS TO BENEFIT OUR DEPARTMENT AS A WHOLE.

JUST IN SHOP ALONE.

WE NOW RECEIVE A TENANTS INCENTIVE.

AS BEFORE, WE DID NOT.

WE ALSO NOW HAVE AN ON CALL SERVICE THAT HELPS SERVE OUR DISTRICT DRIVERS IN THE EVENT OF A BREAKDOWN.

THIS TLC IS NOT MADE UP OF INDIVIDUALS FOR THEIR OWN GAIN, BUT TO REPRESENT THE MAJORITY OF TRANSPORTATION NEEDS.

I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.

THANK YOU, JONATHAN.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, WE HAVE CARLA PEREZ.

GOOD EVENING EVERYONE.

PRESIDENT PETREA.

MR. MCKAY? NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.

I'M KIDDING. I'M KIDDING.

OH, YOU KNOW, SINCE PUBLIC FORUM IS OPEN MIC NIGHT, I THOUGHT I COULD COME UP HERE WITH SOME JOKES, BUT, YOU KNOW, TRUTHFULLY, YOU KNOW, MY NAME IS CARLA PEREZ.

I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE HAYS EDUCATORS ASSOCIATION.

I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU GUYS VERY MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE.

I WANT TO CONGRATULATE MR. BYRON SEVERANCE AS THE NEW BOARD MEMBER AND ALSO MS. OROSCO, ESPERANZA OROSCO AS A REELECTED BOARD MEMBER.

WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO BE WORKING WITH THEM AND BEING A PART OF THEIR CAMPAIGN WAS AWESOME.

WE HAD A GREAT TIME AS AN ASSOCIATION REALLY TRYING TO SUPPORT THEIR REELECTION, AND WE WANT TO REALLY LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT YOU GUYS DO HERE AS A BOARD AND AS TAKING ON A LEADERSHIP ROLE WITH HAYS CISD IS REALLY, REALLY SOMETIMES CAN BE CHALLENGING, AND SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS DO AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.

ELECTIONS ARE HARD, YOU KNOW, CHANGES ARE HARD.

WE LOOK FORWARD TO HAVING A GREAT RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS BOARD AND A CONTINUED FRIENDSHIP , AND WE APPRECIATE ALL OF THE HARD WORK THAT YOU DO.

WE APPRECIATE THE 7% RAISE, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, YOUR TEACHERS WORK VERY HARD AS YOU THE SUPERINTENDENT REPORT SHOWED THAT KIDS AND TEACHERS ARE DOING THEIR JOBS AND THEY'RE PERFORMING, AND SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

WE LOOK FORWARD THE BOND PASSED AND WE YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT AND MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE READY TO TACKLE THE FUTURE AND HAVE THE SPACE THAT WE NEED FOR KIDS IN OUR COMMUNITY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU GUYS DO, AND AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS.

THANK YOU, CARLA. ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, WE HAVE CAITLIN HOLDER.

GOOD EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS AND DR.

WRIGHT. THE PACKETS THAT I'VE PASSED OUT ARE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DEPTH OF SOME THINGS THAT I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO READ ON YOUR LEISURE. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT.

MY NAME IS CAITLIN HOLDEN AND I HAVE BEEN A BUS DRIVER FOR HAYS CISD FOR TWO YEARS.

I'M A SECOND GENERATION BUS DRIVER AND I HAVE ALSO BEEN A DISTRICT PARENT OF A FIVE YEAR OLD AT KYLE ELEMENTARY.

I AM ALSO THE SECRETARY OF THE TRANSPORTATION LEADERSHIP COUNCIL, OR MORE KNOWN AS THE TLC.

THE PEOPLE IN YELLOW SHIRTS BEHIND ME TONIGHT ARE HERE REPRESENTING THE MAJORITY OF TRANSPORTATION.

THE TLC WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED BY DR.

WRIGHT IN AN EFFORT TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN EMPLOYEES AND THE DISTRICT ON MATTERS DIRECTLY AFFECTING TRANSPORTATION.

EACH TERM IS THREE YEARS, WITH THE OPTION TO RUN A SECOND IF DESIRED.

NOMINATIONS ARE MADE AND VOTED ON BY THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT, AND EACH EMPLOYEE WHO WINS CAN EITHER DECLINE OR ACCEPT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE TLC.

IN THE EVENT THAT MEMBER SPOTS ARE VACANT, THE TLC HAS THE AUTHORITY TO VOTE WHO THEY SEE FIT TO BRING A LEVEL OF EXPERTISE THAT ISN'T FULLY REPRESENTED IN THE COUNCIL.

AT THE LAST BOARD MEETING, YOU HEARD A MINORITY OF TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES GRIEVANCES ON MISINFORMATION THEY WERE GIVEN ON A PROPOSAL TO EQUALIZE THE DEPARTMENT IN MATTERS OF STRIFE.

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WE LOOKED AT SHOP PAYROLL CORE MANAGEMENT H.R.

LEADS AND OUR OPS OPERATIONS SPECIALIST ALONG WITH THE 180 DAY EMPLOYEES THAT THE MAJORITY OF TRANSPORTATION IS MADE OF.

WE COVERED THOSE WHO CAN AND WANT TO WORK 8 HOURS AND THOSE WHO DON'T WANT TO WORK 8 HOURS.

IN OUR PROPOSAL, WE HAVE 200 PLUS EMPLOYEES AND NOT ALL DECISIONS THE DISTRICT MAKES OR THE TLC PROPOSES ARE SET IN STONE.

WE WILL NOT MAKE 100% OF EVERYBODY HAPPY, BUT WITH THIS PROPOSAL WE HAD THE INTENT THAT THE MAJORITY WILL FEED, WILL FEEL HEARD AND RESPECTED. IF YOU WANT TO WORK MORE HOURS, THERE ARE PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES TO DO SO WITHIN TRANSPORTATION.

ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK.

OUR MAIN GOAL AS THE TLC IS TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS TO RETAIN, RECRUIT AND RAISE MORALE FOR THE FUTURE STAFF AND OUR EVER GROWING DISTRICT.

WE ARE EXTREMELY DISHEARTENED AT THE MINORITY WHO EXCLUDED US FROM THE IMPORTANT CONCERNS THEY HAD AND COULD HAVE COME AND ADDRESSED US DIRECTLY TO FIRST HELP COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.

BUT TO TAKE THIS MISINFORMATION TO YOU AND PUT TWO EMPLOYEE ORGANIZATIONS AGAINST EACH OTHER IS NOT WHAT THE TLC IS ABOUT.

WE DO NOT WANT TO FIGHT AGAINST OTHER GROUPS, BUT WORK SIDE BY SIDE TO CREATE AN EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE HERE AT HAYS CISD TRANSPORTATION.

THE TLC IS STILL NEW AND LEARNING EVERY DAY ON HOW THINGS CAN BE DONE BETTER AND WHAT IS ALLOWED TO BE MORE TRANSPARENT TO OUR FELLOW DEPARTMENT.

THIS YEAR WE HAVE MADE STRIDES AND POSITIVES SUCH AS OUR ATTENDANCE INCENTIVE THAT HAS RAISED ATTENDANCE 70% HIGHER THAN IT DID IN THE FALL, CREATED SOLUTIONS TO HELP OPEN THE DOOR BACK TO COMMUNICATION ACROSS THE WHOLE DEPARTMENT, WORKING ON BRINGING SOLUTIONS TO STUDENT MANAGEMENT ON BUSSES, AND PROPOSE PLANS OFFERING EQUITY ADJUSTMENTS ACROSS THE DEPARTMENT AND A TOPIC OF TONIGHT'S BOARD MEETING, WHICH IS THE $20 AN HOUR STARTING PAY FOR DRIVERS.

THE TLC WOULD ALSO LIKE TO TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO THANK MAX CLEAVER AND DR.

MEDINA FOR COMING TO TRANSPORTATION TO CREATE A LEADERSHIP PROFILE FOR OUR NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT'S NOT ALWAYS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, AND WE TRULY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THEY DID TO COME AND LISTEN TO OUR VOICES TO HELP WITH THE NEW TRANSITION INTO THE NEW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, MRS. HOLDEN.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, OUR LAST SPEAKER TONIGHT WILL BE LAURA LYNNE PARKER.

OK. GOOD EVENING, BOARD MEMBERS AND DR.

WRIGHT, I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND INTRODUCE MYSELF AND TELL YOU AND GIVE YOU A SNAPSHOT OF MY VISION.

LOOKING INTO TRANSPORTATION.

I CAN'T EVEN HEAR YOU ON THE FRONT ROW.

I'M SORRY. ME NOT BEING HEARD IS NOT A NORMAL THING.

SO I'D LIKE TO GIVE YOU GUYS A SNAPSHOT OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE FROM MY EYES LOOKING INTO TRANSPORTATION.

LIKE I SAID, MY NAME IS LAURA LYNN PARKER.

I'M A DISTRICT MOM.

I HAVE TWO BONUS BABIES AND A 17 YEAR OLD THAT GRADUATES NEXT YEAR AND ONE THAT I HAVE ENROLLED FOR PRE-K.

SO I, I DRIVE I'M A BUS DRIVER.

I CURRENTLY DRIVE BUS 2008 AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AND AM BLESSED TO DRIVE SOME AMAZING KIDS.

I PARTICIPATE IN THE SCHOOL BUS RODEO WHERE I HAVE PLACED A COUPLE OF TIMES AND ADVANCED ADVANCED TO STATE WHERE I CURRENTLY HOLD SEVEN, 14, 14 IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.

I'VE ALSO BEEN NOMINATED BY BY THE STATE OF TEXAS AS BUS DRIVER OF THE YEAR IN 2019 AND 2020 , AND THE REASON THE REASON I'M TELLING YOU ALL THIS ABOUT MYSELF IS BECAUSE I WANT YOU GUYS TO UNDERSTAND THE PASSION AND THE DRIVE THAT I HAVE FOR MY JOB.

MY GOAL IS TO BE BETTER THAN I WAS YESTERDAY.

I GRADUATED HAYS AND MY GRANDPA ACTUALLY GRADUATED [INAUDIBLE] HIGH SCHOOL WHEN IT WAS BUTTE, A HIGH SCHOOL.

SO I'M VESTED IN HAYS COUNTY AND IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT.

I'M ALSO AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF TLC, WHICH I AM SO HONORED TO WORK BESIDE.

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THEY SHARE.

THEY SHARE THE SAME PASSION AND DRIVE THAT I DO.

I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MINUTE AND SHARE SOME THINGS THAT WELL, SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE AND WE JUST STARTED TALKING ABOUT AND WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DON'T HAVE ON OUR TLC GROUP IS NEW HIRES, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING INTO.

WE WANT WE CAN'T JUST BRING A NEW HIRE INTO PART OF OUR COMMITTEE, BUT WE WANT TO LOOK THROUGH THEIR EYES AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO MAKE THEIR EXPERIENCE BROADER AND INVITE THEM IN MORE.

SO WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO, LIKE A BUDDY SYSTEM, IS WHAT IS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

LIKE WE HAVEN'T DONE IT YET, BUT WHAT I'M LOOKING AT IS THE NEW HIRE AND THEN THE SEASONED DRIVER, RIGHT, IS.

THEY'LL WORK.

THE NEW HIRE WILL ASK THE SEASONED DRIVER WHAT TO DO, AND THEN IT'LL GIVE THE SEASON DRIVER A TIME TO LOOK THROUGH THE EYES OF A NEW DRIVER, AND THEN MAYBE REALIGN THEM.

REMIND THEM OF WHAT IT WAS WHEN THEY FIRST STARTED, AND THEN THE SEASON DRIVER BUILD THE NEW DRIVER POSITIVELY AND ALLOW TRANSPORTATION TO GRAB A HOLD OF THEIR HEART LIKE IT DID MINE.

NO ONE TOLD ME I WAS GOING TO WORK WITH MY HEART.

NO ONE TOLD ME THAT, AND IT'S AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE.

DRIVING A BUS IS LIKE NO OTHER.

ABSOLUTELY NOT, AND I'D LIKE TO END ON THE ATTENDANCE INCENTIVE.

THAT WAS OUR FIRST ACT.

THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID AS A TEAM.

THIS TLC GROUP IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAN LAST YEAR'S THAN THE YEAR BEFORE THAT.

WE'RE A NEW GROUP AND THAT WAS OUR FIRST THING THAT WE DID, AND IT IS HAS IMPROVED OUR ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST 70%.

SO I THINK THAT WAS.

WE KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK ON THAT ONE, AND I WOULD LIKE TO THANK DR.

WRIGHT FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THE TLC AND GIVING US THE OPTION TO LET EVERYBODY'S VOICE BE HEARD.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISS PARKER.

I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU, EVERYONE, FOR BEING HERE AND SPEAKING TO US TONIGHT.

NEXT UP ON OUR AGENDA, I'M GOING TO FIND IT OVER HERE.

WE'LL HAVE A CAMPUS PRESENTATION, OUR CAMPUS RECOGNITION FOR BARTON MIDDLE SCHOOL NEXT WEEK.

[K. CAMPUS RECOGNITION]

I HOPE YOU ALL COME BACK FOR THAT.

NEXT UP IS OUR STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REPORT.

[L. STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT REPORT]

I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT.

I AM SUPER EXCITED TO USE IT.

GOOD EVENING. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, DR.

WRIGHT AND BOARD PRESIDENT PETRI.

SO TONIGHT WE WOULD LIKE TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION ABOUT A PROGRAM THAT WE ARE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT ADOPTING.

AND THIS PROGRAM IS GOING TO HELP PROMOTE INCLUSION AND ACCEPTANCE OF ALL STUDENTS WITH OR WITHOUT DISABILITIES, AND SO TONIGHT WE HAVE MICHELLE VELASQUEZ, OUR SPECIAL ED EXECUTIVE OFFICER, WHO'S GOING TO INTRODUCE OUR PRESENTERS, AND I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT AS MUCH AS WE DO, AND WE ARE SUPER, SUPER EXCITED ABOUT BRINGING THIS TO HAYS CISD. SO I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO MICHELLE.

THANK YOU, MONICA. GOOD EVENING.

ONE HUMID SATURDAY MORNING IN APRIL WE HAD 130 OF OUR HAYS CISD ATHLETES SHOW UP AT SPECIAL OLYMPICS COMPETITION IN ROUND ROCK, TEXAS.

WE HAD 25% OF THE ATHLETES IN OUR AREA COMPETITION.

THE STANDS WERE DOMINATED BY HAYS FAMILIES, BUT MOST IMPRESSIVELY, WE HAD HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS, SUPPORTIVE PEERS, NON-DISABLED PEERS WHO SHOWED UP TO CHEER THEIR PEERS AS THEY COMPETED THAT DAY.

I'M EXTREMELY EXCITED FOR YOU GUYS TO HEAR ABOUT UNIFIED CHAMPIONS TODAY.

OUR MOTOR TEAM IS HEADING THIS PROJECT.

OUR MOTOR TEAM IS MADE UP OF OCCUPATIONAL THERAPISTS, PHYSICAL THERAPISTS, MUSIC THERAPIST, ORIENTATION AND MOBILITY SPECIALISTS AND ADAPTIVE PE TEACHERS. SO TODAY I WILL LET OUR ADAPTIVE TEACHERS PRESENT THIS INFORMATION TO YOU.

I HAVE JENNIFER, WILMA, ALICIA HARTMAN AND GABRIEL BARRIOS.

OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THIS OFF OR BE BRIEF BECAUSE WE ARE DEFINITELY GOING TO BE SHARING THIS PRESENTATION WITH YOU BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE AN EQUAL PART IN SUPPORTING THIS PROGRAM. WHEN WE FELT LIKE IT WAS ONLY RIGHT FOR US TO DO THIS TOGETHER, JUST LIKE OUR THE PRINCIPAL OF OUR UNIFIED CHAMPION SCHOOLS.

SO WE ARE JUST HONORED FOR US TO BE ABLE TO COME HERE TODAY TO PRESENT THIS.

WE REALLY APPRECIATE MR. WRIGHT AND DR.

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SO THIS IS OUR OUR MOTTO, LIVE, UNIFIED, AND THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT IS WE'RE GOING TO BE UTILIZING THE UNIFIED CHAMPION SCHOOLS, WHICH IS PARTNERED WITH SPECIAL OLYMPICS, AND SO.

SO I KNOW THIS IS BEHIND Y'ALL, BUT THIS IS.

OH, OH. SEE? SO GOOD. OKAY, THIS IS SO THIS VIDEO RIGHT HERE IS FROM SPECIAL OLYMPICS, BUT IT JUST SHOWS THE POWER AND THE PASSION BEHIND UNIFIED CHAMPION SCHOOLS WHEN IT GETS FULLY INGRAINED IN THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE SCHOOL.

SO IT'S JUST A QUICK LIKE A ONE MINUTE VIDEO AND TRY NOT TO CRY.

IMAGINE A GENERATION, A GENERATION THAT SEES US AS EQUAL.

IMAGINE A GENERATION OF RESPECT.

OF ACCEPTANCE.

OF DIVERSITY, OF PRIME.

OF INCLUSION, OF COURAGE, OF STRENGTH ON THE FIELD AND OFF THE FIELD.

A FRIENDSHIP OF UNITY.

A GENERATION THAT LEADS TOGETHER.

A GENERATION THAT LEARNS TOGETHER.

GENERATION THAT PLAYS TOGETHER.

A GENERATION OF.

THIS IS OUR GENERATION.

SO WHAT IS UNIFIED CHAMPION SCHOOLS? SO IT'S PRETTY MUCH A UNIQUE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SPECIAL OLYMPICS AND THE U.S.

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, AND IT INTENTIONALLY PROMOTES THE MEANINGFUL SOCIAL INCLUSION, AS YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE IN THE FOOTAGE OF BE A GAME CHANGER.

AND IT CREATES ESSENTIALLY ACCEPTING SCHOOL ENVIRONMENTS FOR ALL STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES.

SO WE WERE ABLE TO PULL OFF SOME GOALS FROM HAYS CISD AS WELL AS THE UCS GOAL, AND WE WERE ABLE TO HIGHLIGHT CERTAIN WORDS THAT KIND OF WERE SIMILAR, SUCH AS CREATING SPORTS, CLASSROOM AND SCHOOL CLIMATES OF ACCEPTANCE, ENHANCING CURRENT EFFORTS AND PROVIDING RICH OPPORTUNITIES THAT LEAD TO MEANINGFUL CHANGE, RESPECT AND DIGNITY.

CULTIVATING A CULTURE OF POSITIVITY, SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING, STRONG INTERPERSONAL SKILLS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POSITIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY, AND ESSENTIALLY, WE PULLED THESE TWO TOGETHER TO CREATE A UNIFIED DISTRICT, AND IF YOU GO AHEAD AND CLICK 100% HAYS, WE HAVE ALL THE KEY WORDS IN THERE INCLUDED TRUST, DIGNITY, MEANINGFUL CHANGE, STRONG ACCEPTANCE, INTERPERSONAL SKILLS.

SO UCS USES THREE KEY COMPONENTS INCLUSIVE SPORTS, INCLUSIVE YOUTH LEADERSHIP AND WHOLE SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT.

THE FIRST ONE WE WANT TO DISCUSS IS INCLUSIVE OR A UNIFIED SPORTS.

UNIFIED SPORTS IS A WAY FOR STUDENTS WITH OR WITHOUT DISABILITIES TO PLAY TOGETHER AS A TEAM.

SO AT OUR HIGH SCHOOLS, IF YOU LOOK THERE AT THE BOTTOM, UIL ACTUALLY RECOGNIZES UNIFIED TRACK AND FIELD AND BASKETBALL.

SO THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE OUR ATHLETES AT THE HIGH SCHOOLS CAN ACTUALLY PLAY AS A JAG, AS A HAWK, AND AS A LOBO.

THEY DON'T HAVE TO WEAR A SPECIAL OLYMPICS UNIFORM.

THEY ARE STUDENT ATHLETES AT THEIR HIGH SCHOOL, AND THEY'RE RECOGNIZED IN THE SAME WAY AS THEIR PEERS.

OH, AND LIVE OAK ACADEMY, YES, AS WELL, AND SO THERE IS ALSO UNIFIED SPORTS THROUGH SPECIAL OLYMPICS AS WELL THAT FEATURES ALL OF THE OTHER SPORTS THAT ARE AVAILABLE THROUGH SPECIAL OLYMPICS.

SO OUR SECOND COMPONENT IS INCLUSIVE YOUTH LEADERSHIP THAT ESSENTIALLY TIES IN STUDENTS WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES, AND WE GIVE THEM THAT OWNERSHIP.

SO IT'S LESS TEACHERS, IT'S MORE STUDENTS.

WE'RE GIVING THE POWER TO THE STUDENTS TO DECIDE ON WHAT IS BEST FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY , AND THE THIRD COMPONENT IS

[00:45:10]

SO THIS IS WHERE EVERYBODY WITHIN THE SCHOOL IS GOING TO BE INVOLVED WITH AND WITHOUT DISABILITIES, AND THE WAY THAT SOME SCHOOLS ALREADY DO THAT IS THEY HAVE PEP RALLIES AND THE KIDS FROM THE CLASSES AND EVERYBODY IS INVOLVED AND THEY'RE A PART OF IT.

SOME OTHER IDEAS THAT DIFFERENT SCHOOLS HAVE DONE ALSO IS A DISABILITY AWARENESS WHERE THEY HIGHLIGHT DIFFERENT DISABILITIES THAT MAYBE ARE EVIDENT ON THEIR CAMPUS OR MAYBE NOT, BUT JUST SO THAT IT'S IN THEIR MIND AND THEY REALIZE THAT EVERYBODY IS DIFFERENT, BUT WE'RE STILL ALL SPECIAL, AND NEXT ONE.

YEAH. SO ALREADY THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW THINGS GOING ON THIS YEAR AT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT SCHOOLS.

SIMON MIDDLE SCHOOL DID A HUGE SEND OFF.

THE WHOLE SCHOOL WAS IN THE HALLWAY TO SENDING THE KIDS OFF, GETTING READY FOR COMPETITION, AND THEN AT BARTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ON THE SEVENTH GRADE FOOTBALL TEAM, ONE OF MY COOL FRIENDS, HE'S IN THE WHEELCHAIR.

HE WAS A MANAGER, BUT THEY MADE HIM BE PART OF A PLAY AND HE GOT TO CARRY THE FOOTBALL INTO THE END ZONE AND SCORE THE TOUCHDOWN, AND HE LOVED IT, AND THEN JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL HAD A PEP RALLY AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF FOOTBALL SEASON, AND MISS MONTEMAYOR'S FL CLASS GOT TO GO OUT ON THE FIELD, AND THEY HAD BEEN PRACTICING AT DANCE YMCA AND THEY GOT TO GO OUT IN THE MIDDLE AND DO IT, AND THEY JUST HAD SO MUCH FUN, AND THEN THE WHOLE SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY LIKE BEHIND THEM AND DIFFERENT ATHLETES ARE BEHIND THEM.

SO WE ALREADY HAVE KIND OF THAT GOING, SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER AND STRONGER.

OH, SO I'M STILL ON. SORRY.

OKAY, SO BENEFITS OF UCS.

IT DOES HELP PREVENT BULLYING, AND THIS IS EVIDENCE THROUGH DIFFERENT SCHOOLS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING UCS.

THEY'RE REPORTING THESE THAT ARE ALREADY HAPPENING.

IT PROMOTES LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE INCLUSIVE YOUTH LEADERSHIP.

IT PROMOTES CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT YOU ANYMORE.

MORAL INTELLIGENCE, PHYSICAL FITNESS, BECAUSE THEY GET TO BE INVOLVED IN DIFFERENT SPORTS, INCREASE POSITIVE SCHOOL CULTURE, WHICH WOULD BE AWESOME AND A CLIMATE OF ACCEPTANCE. SO ALL OF THOSE ARE JUST AMAZING.

LET'S PUT A STAR BY ALL OF THEM.

SO TO TALK A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY, HOW DO WE GET THIS GOING? SPECIAL OLYMPICS DOES UNDERSTAND THAT IT DOES TAKE A LOT OF EFFORT AND A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY TO MAKE THESE THINGS AND THESE EVENTS AND IDEAS POSSIBLE.

SO THE FIRST YEAR SPECIAL OLYMPICS DOES PROVIDE $500 TO EACH CAMPUS.

SO IT'S NOT JUST FOR THE DISTRICT, BUT IT IS EACH CAMPUS, AND THE CAMPUS GETS TO DETERMINE HOW THEY USE THOSE FUNDS.

IT COULD BE THROUGH T SHIRTS.

IT COULD BE A COMMUNITY PEP RALLY.

IT COULD BE WHATEVER, KICKOFF PARTY, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

YEAR TWO, THEY PROVIDE $250 PER CAMPUS, AND THREE YEARS AND BEYOND, THE CAMPUS HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THE ONGOING EFFORTS OF THEIR SCHOOL.

SO EACH CAMPUS HAS THE POWER TO MAKE IT THEIR OWN.

SO WHAT ONE CAMPUS DOES DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN ANOTHER CAMPUS HAS TO DO IT.

OF COURSE, IF EVERYBODY DOES IT, THEN EVERYBODY WOULD BE INCLUDED, AND BUT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE DIFFERENCES IN EACH CAMPUSES TO INSPIRE DIFFERENT IDEAS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

SO HERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE DIFFERENCE IN HENDRICKSON HIGH SCHOOL IN PFLUGERVILLE ISD, WHICH IS ONLY ABOUT AN HOUR NORTH, AN HOUR NORTH FROM HERE.

PERFECT. YOU DID IT, AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO PUT KK'S FINGERS IN THE BALL LIKE THIS.

I WAS APPROACHED BY SPECIAL OLYMPICS, TEXAS, AND THEY SAID, WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM CALLED UNIFIED CHAMPION SCHOOLS.

IT'S A PROGRAM TO PROMOTE INCLUSION ON A SCHOOL CAMPUS BEYOND THE SCOPE OF JUST SPORTS.

PART OF THAT PROCESS IS HAVING YOUR ADMINISTRATOR COME ON BOARD.

I KNEW THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE SUPPORT OF MR. GARCIA.

THE LETTER OF A COMMITMENT REALLY WAS NOT A BIG DEAL FOR ME TO SIGN IT, BUT I UNDERSTOOD THE AMOUNT OF WORK AND FOCUS THAT IT WAS PLACING ON THEM, AND ONCE THAT HAPPENED, WE HAD TO GET EVERYONE ON CAMPUS INVOLVED.

SOMETHING THAT I WOULD SAY TO SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO START THIS IS THE STUDENTS OWNING THIS IS THE KEY.

IT REALLY IS.

WE SENT AN EMAIL OUT TO ALL THE CLUB SPONSORS AND COACHES AND WE SAID, NOMINATE ONE PERSON FROM YOUR CLUB OR TEAM TO BE AN AMBASSADOR FOR YOU GUYS. I'M MIKAYLA.

I'M FROM EVERYTHING, BUT I REPRESENT SOFTBALL AND STUDENT COUNCIL.

LET'S DECIDE HOW WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS.

EVERYBODY HAS TO MAKE IT THEIR OWN.

EACH AMBASSADOR THEN GOES BACK AND SAYS, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO A UNIFIED EVENT.

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I DON'T KNOW HOW BEST TO INCORPORATE THE KIDS INTO A SOFTBALL GAME, BUT THOSE KIDS DO BECAUSE THEY'RE ON THE SOFTBALL TEAM.

THAT'S WHY IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO PUT IT BACK IN THE HANDS OF THE TEAM AND NOT DICTATE WHAT HAPPENS BECAUSE THEY KNOW MORE OF THE INS AND OUTS.

I THINK IT'S IMPERATIVE THAT STUDENTS DRIVE IT BECAUSE YOU JUST KIND OF CAN GET ON THE SAME PAGE MORE EASILY.

THE TEACHER TELLS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, NINE TIMES OUT OF TEN, THAT STUDENT ISN'T GOING TO WANT TO DO IT, BUT IF YOU HAVE OTHER STUDENTS THAT ARE WORKING ON IT, YOU'LL FEEL MORE INCLINED TO PARTICIPATE AND HELP.

I JUST LOVE HOW IT HAS GROWN.

IT STARTED OFF REALLY SMALL, AND THEN THE WHOLE SCHOOL GOT MORE INVOLVED.

PEOPLE WITH OR WITHOUT DISABILITIES LIKE ALL SORTS.

STUDENTS WOULD COME IN AND SAY, HEY, CAN WE DO THIS? MY RESPONSE WOULD BE, I SAY, YES, IT'S AWESOME BECAUSE EVERYONE GETS TO SEE WHAT THEY CAN DO.

I'M HERE TODAY TO TELL YOU HOW WE STARTED THIS PROGRAM.

WITHOUT UNIFIED, IT WOULD HAVE TAKEN A LOT LONGER TO GET TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.

MAKING NEW FRIENDS THAT I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD MAKE.

THIS AWARD EXEMPLIFIES ALL THAT IS GOOD ABOUT OUR STUDENTS, STAFF, COMMUNITY AND DISTRICT.

LOOK AT WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE CAN DO WHEN YOU GET OUT OF THEIR WAY.

GETTING TO SEE HOW THIS HAS IMPACTED MY STUDENTS.

IT IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST JOYS OF MY LIFE.

IT'S OKAY TO START SMALL, AND TO KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN A SMALL PART OF IT IS AMAZING.

EVERYONE IS WELCOME.

LIKE NO ONE IS GOING TO BE PUSHED AWAY.

IT'S NOT JUST LIKE A CLUB WHERE WE, LIKE, ATTEND EVENTS.

A LOT OF HARD WORK, BUT IT'S WORTH IT.

I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO HAVE UNIFIED IF YOU CAN.

FORGE THE WAY, SAY: I SAY YES.

SO IN THIS EXAMPLE, THIS SCHOOL WAS ACTUALLY RECOGNIZED TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO TO BE A NATIONAL BANNER SCHOOL.

SO WE DON'T WANT TO JUST INCORPORATE ONE SCHOOL TO BE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED.

WE WANT TO BE THE FIRST DISTRICT TO BE NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED, AND WE ACTUALLY TOOK A SURVEY OF ALL THE CAMPUSES, AND WE HAVE ALL OF THEM THAT ARE CURRENTLY ON BOARD, AND SO IT'S JUST A MATTER OF ACTUALLY.

NOW IT'S JUST A MATTER OF ACTUALLY BEING ABLE TO DO A KICK OFF STARTING NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

SO 2022 TO 2023.

SO ALL THAT'S LEFT, THE QUESTION IS, ARE YOU GOING TO BE SOMEBODY WHO MAKES EVERYBODY FEEL LIKE A SOMEBODY? THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR AND TO PROMOTE IT.

WE HAVE SHIRTS WITH THE QUOTE ON THE BACK.

SO I HOPE YOU ENJOY THOSE AND I HOPE IT MAKES YOU EXCITED.

I'M AN EXTRA SMALL. [CHUCKLING] THERE'S PLENTY OF SIZES IN THERE.

THIS WAS AWESOME.

THIS IS SO GREAT. WE KNEW IT WAS TIME FOR UNIFIED CHAMPIONS IN HAYS AND WE'RE READY TO PUT THAT FINAL PERCENTAGE POINT ON 100% HAYS.

YAY! I LOVE THAT.

[APPLAUSE] WELL, I YES, I TEARED UP A LITTLE BIT HAVING A SON WITH AUTISM. THIS IS I LOVE THAT.

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IN THAT VIDEO, WHEN THEY'RE ALL CLAPPING IT, AND IT'S THE BIG CEREMONY, THAT WAS THE DAY AFTER THE SATURDAY WHEN WE HAD TO SHUT DOWN.

THEY FIT IT IN RIGHT AT THE END BECAUSE THAT WAS MARCH 13-14TH OF 2020.

SO THEY MADE SURE THEY GOT IT.

WOW. WELL, THEY'RE A BIG COMPETITOR OF OURS AND OTHER AREAS, SO I AM HAPPY TO BEAT THEM IN THIS AS WELL.

[APPLAUSE] ACTUALLY ONE LAST THING.

I'M SORRY. I DON'T WANT TO GO OVER TIME, BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY ANOTHER UNIFIED EVENT GOING ON AT JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL.

THAT'S ACTUALLY TOMORROW AT 5:30.

6:00. WE'RE MEETING HALFWAY IN THE MIDDLE AT 6:00.

YEAH, LET US KNOW. EMAIL US.

WE PROBABLY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS IF YOU WANT TO STICK AROUND FOR A MINUTE.

ABSOLUTELY, AND ALL THESE FUNDINGS ARE GOING TO GO STRAIGHT INTO OUR SPECIAL OLYMPICS FUND HERE FOR HAYS CISD.

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YEAH, Y'ALL MIGHT WANT TO STAY UP.

SOMEBODY'S GOING TO HAVE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.

DON'T WORRY. I'LL TAKE CARE OF IT, Y'ALL.

I'M JUST KIDDING. MR. VELA, GREAT PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU ALL FOR BRINGING THAT, AND I AGREE.

I MEAN, WE WANT TO BE 100% HAYS, AS WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT, AND IN THE PRESENTATION THAT SAID, LET'S TALK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE MONEY.

SO WHAT WHAT IS NEEDED TO GET THIS GOING OR WHAT IS NEEDED TO GET IT TO THAT NEXT LEVEL? WELL, I'M NOT COMFORTABLE TALKING TOO MUCH ABOUT MONEY, BUT YES, SO IN ORDER FOR THIS TO REALLY TAKE OFF, WE DO REALLY NEED SPONSORS WHO TRULY BELIEVE IN AND ARE INVESTED INTO THE PROGRAM.

AT THE CAMPUS LEVEL, THERE'S ONLY THREE OF US WHO WE SERVE, I DON'T KNOW, 80 SOMETHING STUDENTS FOR ADAPTIVE PE AND COACH SPECIAL OLYMPICS, AND FOR THIS REALLY TO BE TAILORED TO EACH CAMPUS, WE REALLY NEED SPONSORS ON EACH CAMPUS, AND WE WOULD LIKE FOR THOSE SPONSORS TO BE RECOGNIZED LIKE ANY OTHER SPONSOR OR ANY OTHER COACH. SO IF IT'S A UNIFIED COACH, THEY WOULD NEED TO HAVE SOME SORT OF STIPEND TO SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS AND TO, YOU KNOW, IN THEIR TIME.

SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE NEED.

WE'VE ALREADY STARTED. LIKE JOHNSON REACHED OUT TO US.

WE'VE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT HOW TO FUND UNIFORMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING THE UNIFIED SPORTS AT EACH HIGH SCHOOL, WE'LL NEED TO BUY UNIFORMS FOR ALL OF OUR ATHLETES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THERE WILL BE SOME FUNDS THAT WILL NEED TO BE RAISED THROUGH THAT, AND THERE IS ALSO FUNDRAISING THAT WE CAN DO AS WELL TO HELP SUPPLEMENT SOME OF THE EXTRA IDEAS AND THINGS THAT THE CAMPUSES WANT TO DO.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, AND THEN ALSO, FOR THOSE THAT ARE LISTENING OR EVEN THOSE HERE IN THE AUDIENCE, HOW CAN WE GET PLUGGED IN AND HOW CAN WE VOLUNTEER? I KNOW IT'S STUDENT-LED, BUT I MEAN, I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT OF SERVANT HEARTS IN OUR DISTRICT, SO HOW DO WE GET PLUGGED IN? SO AS FAR AS SPECIAL OLYMPICS.

OH FOR TOMORROW, DID YOU SAY? JUST IN GENERAL. OKAY, COME TOMORROW.

OKAY, YEAH, COME TOMORROW.

THAT'S WHY WE WERE THINKING 5:30 AND THE PEP RALLY STARTS AT 6:00 AND OUR JOHNSON ATHLETES ARE GOING TO BE ANNOUNCED AND RECOGNIZED JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER SPORTS TEAM FOR THE SPRING. SO OUR OTHER SPECIAL OLYMPIC ATHLETES WHO ARE ELEMENTARY, THEY'RE ALL THE WAY FROM AGE EIGHT ON UP.

THEY'LL BE IN THE STAND CHEERING AND PROMOTING, PASSING OUT FLYERS, ANY TASK THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THEM ONCE WE ARRIVE AT THE GAME.

IN LONG TERM, SPECIAL OLYMPICS VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS NEEDED.

THERE'S ONLY THREE OF US, LIKE I SAID, WHO ARE ACTUAL COACHES.

SO A LOT OF OUR EFFORTS AND SUPPORT OF OUR ATHLETES COME FROM VOLUNTEERS.

SO WE CAN DEFINITELY PASS ON THAT VOLUNTEER REQUIREMENTS BECAUSE IT TAKES A BACKGROUND CHECK.

EVEN THOUGH WE WORK FOR A SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE STILL DO HAVE TO DO A BACKGROUND CHECK AND THERE'S SOME ONLINE TRAININGS THAT WILL BE REQUIRED AS WELL.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU ALL. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, TOO, ANOTHER WAY IS JUST Y'ALL ARE IN THE COMMUNITY JUST PROMOTING IT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, OPENING THEIR EYES AND JUST LETTING THEM KNOW THAT, HEY, THIS IS HAPPENING IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

WE ALSO WANT TO TRY AND DO LIKE FUN ACTIVITIES AND THINGS WITHIN THE COMMUNITY TO GET THE COMMUNITY INVOLVED.

SO THAT'S KIND OF IN THE FUTURE, BUT YEAH, JUST SPREADING THE WORD WOULD BE AWESOME.

GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OVER HERE? MR. MCMANUS? I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY, I MEAN, THERE ARE LOTS OF REASONS THAT I LOVE BEING PART OF THIS DISTRICT, BUT THIS IS A BIG ONE, AND IT REALLY SPEAKS TO MY HEART THAT WE DON'T JUST CHASE THE MINIMUM OF THINGS THAT WE DO FOR STUDENTS, BUT WE LOOK FOR THE MOST THAT WE CAN DO FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE THE EFFORT THAT YOU'VE PUT INTO THIS.

IT MEANS A LOT TO ME, AND I KNOW OTHERS ON THIS BOARD AS WELL.

SO WE'RE HERE TO HELP.

WE'RE HERE TO PROMOTE. WE'LL DO WHAT WE CAN, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE.

GREAT PRESENTATION TONIGHT.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND WE DO WANT TO ALSO RECOGNIZE OUR ADMINISTRATORS ON ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES, BECAUSE WITHOUT THEM OPENING THE DOOR AND THEIR HEARTS TO OUR PRESENTATION, THIS WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE.

WE WOULDN'T BE IN THE POSITION WE ARE AT NOW WITHOUT OUR LEADERSHIP SUPPORT AND CAMPUS SUPPORT AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING US COME AND PRESENT TO YOU.

GREAT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

YOU ANSWERED MOST OF THEM BECAUSE I WAS THINKING PILOT SCHOOLS SECONDARY ONLY, AND THEN YOU SAID ALL, AND SO I WAS LIKE, CHECK.

I ACTUALLY DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT SORT OF THE OWNERS/CHAMPION ON DISTRICT AND STIPEND.

SO BUDGETS ARE COMING TO US.

IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WILL BE COMING TO US AS PART OF THE BUDGET? GET ON THE MIC, MS. SEDILLO. IT WASN'T ON THE LIST.

HOWEVER, WE WERE GOING TO FUND WHATEVER WE COULD.

AS LONG AS THE CAMPUS REQUESTED ADDITIONAL FUNDS, WE WERE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND FUND THEIR REQUESTS JUST BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS HAPPENS AND THAT WE'RE ABLE TO

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I LOVE IT. I LOVE THAT IT'S STUDENT-LED.

I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE BIG, BUT YOU ARE GOING TO NEED SOME ADULTS TO BE THE CHAMPION AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE DO SOME PLANNING TOGETHER, BEST PRACTICE SHARING, THAT KIND OF THING.

SO AWESOME JOB.

I LOVE THIS. OKAY, ANYTHING ELSE FROM THE TEAM? ALL RIGHT, WELL, THEN, WE THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING OUT.

THANKS FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND THANK YOU FOR THE SHIRTS.

[APPLAUSE] NEXT UP, WE HAVE OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.

[M. CONSENT AGENDA]

WE'LL BE VOTING ON THESE NEXT WEEK.

WE HAVE QUITE A FEW ON THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT, AND SO I AM GOING TO ASK WHAT THINGS WE WANT TO PULL TO TALK ABOUT.

I WANT TO PULL 3(B).

MR. VELA, YOU GOT ANY YOU WANT TO PULL? I'LL COME BACK TO YOU. MR. MCMANUS, DO YOU HAVE ANY YOU WANT TO PULL? NO, BUT I DO WANT TO SAY I SUBMITTED SEVERAL FOR QUESTIONS.

I SAW THAT. SO AS LONG AS THOSE GET ANSWERED, I'M GOOD.

IF THEY WANT TO BE ADDRESSED TONIGHT, THAT'S FINE, BUT BEFORE NEXT WEEK IS ALSO OKAY, OKAY, LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE ONE FOR 3(B) THAT I WANT TO ASK ABOUT.

WE'LL DO THAT TONIGHT.

I HAVE A FEW MORE. ANYTHING FOR YOU, MS. OROSCO, TO PULL. I KNOW I SUBMITTED LOTS OF QUESTIONS AND I JUST RECEIVED SOME OF THE ANSWERS JUST A LITTLE WHILE AGO, AS WE ALL DID.

SO I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO GO THROUGH IT, BUT I WILL HOP IN THERE BECAUSE I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT MOSTLY ALL OF THEM.

OKAY, PERFECT. MOSTLY ALL OF THEM.

WELL, WE'LL LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THOSE AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP ON BOARD BLOG.

MR. SEVERANCE, ARE THERE ANY OF THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT? I DID HAVE A FEW.

APOLOGIZE FOR ME BEING NEW, BUT I DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO EMAIL AHEAD OF TIME.

WE CAN WE DO IT NOW.

I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.

HOW DOES THIS WORK? DO I JUST.

WHICH ITEMS UNDER THREE? NUMBER M3I SO 3, M, N, O.

IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? YEAH, 3 M, I , M3, L GOT IT, AND THEN I APOLOGIZE AND THAT WAS IT.

OKAY, MRS. OROSCO.

WELL, CAN YOU JUST CALL THEM ONE BY ONE AND THEN WE CAN TELL YOU, BECAUSE--3A, M3A SAFETY INSPECTIONS AND REACTIVE REPAIRS FOR FIRE ALARMS. ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? ALL RIGHT, M3B LAWN EQUIPMENT.

YOU WANT TO GO WITH YOURS, MR. MCMANUS? MR. CLEAVER, THIS IS YOUR ITEM, AND THIS IS ON PAGE 32 OF OUR AGENDA PACKET. PERFECT.

MINE WAS MORE OF A QUESTION OF JUST CURIOSITY.

WHAT IS A MOWER OF THIS SIZE USED FOR? YES, SIR, IT IS. IT'S A [INAUDIBLE].

IT'S DOUBLE THE SIZE OF OUR.

IS THAT A TECHNICAL TERM? THAT IS A TECHNICAL TERM.

IT'S A 144 INCH MOWER.

SO THAT IS A 12 FOOT MOWER, AND WE'RE GOING TO USE IT IN OPEN AREAS WITH FEW OBSTRUCTIONS LIKE TOM GREEN, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, DAHLSTROM SIMON MCCORMICK AND HEMPHILL.

JUST TO START AND WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE EFFICIENT WITH OUR LABOR.

THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? MR. SEVERANCE.

AND I DID A LITTLE BIT OF RESEARCH ON THIS.

SO THE SIZE OF THIS 144 INCH IS TO LIKE 11 ACRES AT A TIME AND IT CAN REPLACE TWO OTHER MOWERS POSSIBLY.

THAT'S RIGHT. CUTTING IN HALF, MAYBE? YES, WE RUN SIX FOOT MOWERS AND ALSO HAVE SOME 54 INCH MOWERS AND THEN SOME SMALLER WALK BEHINDS, BUT YEAH, THIS IS A 12 FOOT.

ANY OF THIS FOR ATHLETICS? NO, IT'S FOR THE COMMON AREA.

OKAY, SO NO CROSS CONTAMINATION.

NO, SIR. OKAY, THANK YOU.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. THAT WAS ONE OF MINE.

OKAY, MY QUESTIONS WERE ABOUT THE CAMPUSES THAT YOU WERE GOING TO USE IT FOR, WHICH YOU ANSWERED ALREADY.

IS THIS ALSO FOR SOME OF THE LARGER FIELDS LIKE THE UHLAND ELEMENTARY?

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ABSOLUTELY, ANYTHING THAT'S NOT ATHLETIC, LIKE MR. SEVERANCE WAS SAYING, SO WE DON'T CROSS CONTAMINATE THE FIELDS IN SOME AREAS THAT ARE TOO ROCKY.

WE STILL USE OUR TRACTORS, BUT THIS WILL BE FOR THOSE AREAS THAT WE'VE SMOOTHED OUT AND IMPROVED, AND JUST AS WE GO FORWARD, WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE AND FILL HOLES AND MOVE OBSTACLES, AND THIS KIND OF MOWER WILL BE BETTER AND BETTER AS WE KEEP CLEANING UP THE PLACE.

IN MY HEAD, THIS IS ALMOST LIKE A TRACTOR.

WHERE DO YOU STORE THIS [INAUDIBLE]? NO, IT'S CALLED A BAT WING MOWER, AND IT ACTUALLY KIND OF FOLDS UP ON ITSELF AND UNFOLDS AND GOES ON TO A TRAILER, A REGULAR TRAILER.

WE'RE JUST CURIOUS.

RIGHT. YOU WANT TO DRIVE IT, DON'T YOU? YES, MAYBE.

[CHUCKLING] WE'LL GET YOU ON THERE. OKAY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT ITEM? ALL RIGHT, SO 3(C).

PLAYGROUND MULCH.

OH, MR. CLEAVER.

YEAH, NEVER MIND. I'LL EMAIL YOU.

PLAYGROUND MULCH, ANYTHING IN THAT ONE? 3(D) ATHLETIC EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES.

ALL RIGHT, 3(E) HEALTH AND ADOPTION K THROUGH FIVE.

ALL RIGHT, THEN WE HAVE HEALTH AND ADOPTION SIX THROUGH 12.

THAT'S 3(F).

3(G) BILINGUAL K TO TWO OPEN COURT WORKBOOKS.

MRS. OROSCO.

I DID RECEIVE SOME INFORMATION BACK, BUT LIKE I SAID, IT MIGHT BE INCLUDED, BUT I MISSED IT BECAUSE I COULDN'T READ IT ON THE FLY.

IT SAYS THAT THESE THIS WILL BE PURCHASED K THROUGH SECOND.

SO I JUST WANTED TO CHECK ON PRE-K.

THEY WERE STILL USING THE [INAUDIBLE] OR ARE WE ALSO LOOKING TO CHANGE THAT UP? [INAUDIBLE] I'M SORRY.

DERRICK MCDANIEL, DIRECTOR OF CRITICAL INSTRUCTION, PRESIDENT PETREA, DR.

WRIGHT, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY.

IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, YES, [INAUDIBLE] WILL STILL BE USED AT PRE-K FOR THE BILINGUAL CLASSROOMS. OKAY, THANKS. SURE.

ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT ITEM? OK 3(H) TEXTBOOK WAREHOUSE CONSUMABLE TEXTBOOKS.

MRS. OROSCO.

I KNOW I SUBMITTED A QUESTION ABOUT THIS AS WELL.

I KNOW WE HAVE HAD BEEN ON THE TRAIL DURING THE ELECTION TIME.

WE DID HEAR FROM A LOT OF PARENTS ASKING US ABOUT THE USE OF CONSUMABLES OR THE LACK OF USE OF CONSUMABLES AND WHY WE ARE SPENDING MONEY ON CONSUMABLES.

SO I READ A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR ANSWER ABOUT YOU SURVEY PEOPLE, BUT I KNOW THAT AT THE CLOSED CLOSET I RECEIVED TONS OF NEW WORKBOOKS THAT WERE NOT USED OR BARELY TOUCHED, AND SO WHEN I KNOW MY CHILD ALONE HAS NOT USED A WORKBOOK ALL YEAR.

SO WHO DO YOU SURVEY? DO YOU SURVEY THE CLASSROOM TEACHER, THE CAMPUS PRINCIPAL, OR WHAT? BECAUSE I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP COSTS DOWN.

IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO USE THEM, THEN WE REALLY DON'T NEED TO PURCHASE THEM.

SO TALK TO ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHO YOU SURVEYED.

SURE, THAT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.

SO WE SURVEYED CAMPUS LEADERSHIP AND WE ASKED THEM TO GET WITH THEIR TEAMS AND THEIR GRADE LEVEL LEADERS TO FILL OUT THE SURVEY FOR WHAT THEY REQUEST FOR CONSUMABLE WORKBOOKS, OUR MATH WORKBOOKS, OUR SCIENCE WORKBOOKS AND SOME OF OUR SOCIAL STUDIES.

WE DO KNOW THAT WE ALSO INVENTORY TRAVIS SMITH, OUR COORDINATOR OF INSTRUCTION MATERIALS, ALSO GOES TO THE CAMPUSES AND SURVEYS EXCUSE ME, TAKES INVENTORY IN THEIR BOOK ROOMS TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE.

WE DO KNOW THAT WE NEED TO WORK WITH OUR CAMPUSES ON EXPECTATIONS FOR USING OUR CONSUMABLE WORKBOOKS APPROPRIATELY.

NOT BEING USED AND SLIGHTLY USED WORKBOOKS BEING SENT HOME AT THE END OF THE YEAR IS NOT BEST PRACTICES AT ALL, AND SO IT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS AN AREA OF IMPROVEMENT BECAUSE WE DO WANT TO BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE.

WE HAVE BEEN SURVEYING THE CAMPUSES SINCE 2018.

PRIOR TO 2018.

THAT'S WHEN WE WOULD SAY, OKAY, THERE'S 1200 THIRD GRADERS.

WE'RE GOING TO BUY A CONSUMABLE WORKBOOK FOR ALL 1200 STUDENTS.

WE RECOGNIZED THAT WAS NOT BEST PRACTICES, AND SO THAT'S WHEN WE STARTED THE SURVEY, BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE WE STILL HAVE SOME WORK TO DO WITH APPROPRIATE USAGE.

DEFINITELY. I JUST WANT TO DOVE A LITTLE DEEPER INTO THAT.

I KNOW MOST OF OUR ASSIGNMENTS FOR STUDENTS ARE ELECTRONIC, RIGHT? EVEN IN ELEMENTARY, THEY HAVE A LOT OF ASSIGNMENTS ELECTRONICALLY OR THEY USUALLY I MEAN, I GET STACKS AND STACKS OF COPIES OF COPIES OF COPIES, RIGHT.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE UTILIZING THAT AND LOOK AT THAT INVENTORY A LITTLE BIT CLOSER BEFORE WE DO A BLANKET PURCHASE FOR CONSUMABLES BECAUSE THAT IS A

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A COMPARISON FROM PREVIOUS YEARS TO THIS YEAR? YES, SINCE YOU SAID YOU'VE BEEN DOING IT SINCE 2018? YES, MA'AM, 2018-2019 WAS THE FIRST YEAR THAT I BELIEVE WE GAVE THE SURVEY, BECAUSE I WANT TO REALLY KEEP THOSE NUMBERS TIGHT AND JUST ORDER WHAT WE NEED, NOT JUST WHAT WE SAY.

OKAY, WELL, WE CAN TAKE IT.

WE CAN USE IT FOR HOMEWORK OR FOR THIS OR THAT.

I WANT IT TO BE REALLY UTILIZED, YOU KNOW, AND BE EFFECTIVE.

RIGHT. WE'LL GET THAT FOR YOU. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT ITEM? YEAH, I NOTICED THERE WAS 51,000 WE SPENT LAST YEAR AND THEN 69,000 IS PROPOSED THIS YEAR, A LITTLE OVER 69,000, AND IT SEEMS LIKE MRS. OROSCO IS SAYING SO MUCH BECAUSE THIS IS GOING DIGITAL, SO MUCH OF SCHOOLOGY IS BEING USED THAT IT'S SURPRISING TO ME THAT WE'RE THAT'S GOING UP AND THAT MAY JUST BE A COST INCREASE FOR SUPPLY CHAIN OR WHATEVER.

SO IT'D BE INTERESTING TO KNOW IF WE'RE ORDERING MORE AS TO WHY THE PRICES HAVE GONE UP.

I CAN SPEAK TO BECAUSE IT HAS TO DO WITH OUR VENDOR, AND SO IT'S NOT A PURE $18,000 INCREASE IN MORE CONSUMABLES.

SO IT ACTUALLY HAS GONE DOWN BY A FEW THOUSAND.

THE EXPENSE FROM LAST YEAR WAS BECAUSE WE BOUGHT--I'M SORRY, WILL YOU TELL US YOUR NAME AND YOUR POSITION IN THE DISTRICT FOR PEOPLE ALSO LISTENING AT HOME? TRAVIS SMITH, COORDINATOR OF INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS.

SO THE ORDER FROM LAST YEAR WAS FOR MATH AND SCIENCE BOOKS BECAUSE WE COULDN'T SOURCE THE SOCIAL STUDIES BOOKS IN LIKE NEW USED CONDITION LIKE WE'RE DOING FOR THE MATH AND SCIENCE. SO WE HAD TO BUY THE SOCIAL STUDIES LAST YEAR DIRECT FROM PUBLISHER, WHICH IS MUCH MORE EXPENSIVE.

SO LAST YEAR WE BOUGHT FROM MATH AND SCIENCE FROM TEXTBOOK WAREHOUSE AND WE BOUGHT SOCIAL STUDIES DIRECTLY FROM SAVVAS, WHICH USED TO BE PEARSON.

NOW WE'RE BUYING ALL THREE OF THOSE FROM TEXTBOOK WAREHOUSE.

SO THAT'S 69,000 IS FOR ALL THREE OF THOSE CORE SUBJECTS, NOT JUST MATH AND SCIENCE LIKE IT WAS LAST YEAR.

SO WE SPENT AN ADDITIONAL 20 SOMETHING THOUSAND FROM SAVVAS LAST YEAR THAT BRINGS THAT UP TO AROUND SOMEWHERE AROUND 72-$73000 THAT WE SPEND ON THESE LAST YEAR AND NOW WE'RE DOWN TO 69. WE'LL KEEP TRYING TO MOVE THAT DOWN AS WE GO THROUGH, AND AS THESE AS THESE ADOPTIONS AGE OUT, THOSE WORKBOOKS ALSO USE LESS AND LESS.

THEY'LL GET REPLACED, EVENTUALLY.

WE TRY AND WORK OUR NUMBERS DOWN AND DOWN, BUT YEAH, AS YOU MENTIONED, WE SURVEYED THE CAMPUSES AND THEN WE DID COUNTS ON THE CAMPUSES TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE NOT SENDING A CAMPUS A BUNCH OF WORKBOOKS WHEN THEY HAVE A BUNCH OF UNUSED WORKBOOKS SITTING IN THEIR ROOMS. OKAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU SO MUCH, TRAVIS.

ALL RIGHT, SO NEXT, WE HAVE A NUMBER I.

MR. SEVERANCE HAS SOME QUESTIONS ON THAT.

SO WE MIGHT BE BACK TO MR. MCDANIEL AND THIS IS THE NWEA, MAP GROWTH, 4 TO 8 MATH SCREENER.

MR. SEVERANCE.

OKAY, SO COMING AT THIS MY FIRST MEETING, WE'RE CHANGING SCREENERS APPARENTLY IN MATH.

I'M SURE THIS IS GREAT. [INAUDIBLE] YOU DID ALL THE WORK ON THIS IS THE NEW SCREENER WE NEED.

I TRUST THAT. HOWEVER, I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO YOU SURVEYED ABOUT CHANGING SCREENERS.

RIGHT. THAT AFFECTS MAINLY TEACHERS.

RIGHT, BUT ON THE LIST OF WHAT COMMENTS RECEIVED, I DON'T SEE TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES ASKED AS YOU CONSULTED WITH THEM.

MAYBE YOU DID, BUT THEY'RE NOT LISTED.

SO I'M JUST NEW. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE END USER OF THOSE ARE GOING TO BE WHICH THE TEACHERS ARE GOING TO BE, WE TALK TO THEM ABOUT THIS.

SO THERE WERE SEVERAL GROUPS.

THIS SPRING WE HAD A MATHEMATICS COMMITTEE OF TEACHERS, INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES AND ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS THAT WE STARTED.

WE HAD FIVE MEETINGS WE STARTED IN FEBRUARY, AND THAT WAS A GROUP THAT WE SURVEYED TO ASK ABOUT A CONSISTENT MATH SCREENER K TO EIGHT.

THEY WERE IN FAVOR OF THAT AND SUPPORTED THAT.

WE THEN TALKED WITH OUR PRINCIPALS AT THE APRIL PRINCIPALS MEETING.

WE GOT THEIR FEEDBACK AND THEN MOST RECENTLY WE HAD A AN AFTER SCHOOL MEETING WITH PRINCIPALS, INTERVENTION TEACHERS AND SURVEYED THEM TO GET THEIR INPUT AS WELL, WHO WERE ALL IN FAVOR OF A CONSISTENT SCREENER K TO EIGHT.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE KIND OF THREE DIFFERENT SCREENERS RIGHT NOW, K TO THREE BEING AMPLIFY MATH, 4 TO 5 BEING WHAT WE CALL THE COPPELL ISD SCREENER, AND THEN WE HAVE AN INTERNAL SCREENER AT SIX THROUGH NINE.

THIS WILL PUT US ALL ON A CONSISTENT MATHEMATIC SCREENER.

OKAY, AND HOW MANY MEMBERS/TEACHERS ARE ON THAT MATHEMATICS COMMITTEE? 24 TOTAL.

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SO I DIDN'T CATCH THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.

YES, AND THEN THE SECOND PART OF THAT, SO THIS IS A NEW PROGRAM.

PREVIOUS AMPLIFY WAS THROUGH K THROUGH THREE, AND WE SPENT ALMOST 31,000 LAST YEAR AND THEN THIS YEAR REPLACING K THROUGH THREE BUT ADDING FOUR THROUGH EIGHT, AND THEN YOU'RE ASKING IT'S GOING TO 155.

WHAT'S THE DELTA THERE WITH ADDING FOUR MORE LEVELS? NWEA IS ABOUT 875 OR $9 PER STUDENT AND AMPLIFY MATH WAS $5 A STUDENT.

SO THAT K TO THREE WENT FROM $5 A STUDENT TO $9 A STUDENT, $8.75 SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE.

OKAY, THANK YOU. SURE.

ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS MATH SCREENER.

ALL RIGHT, I MAY HAVE SOME QUESTIONS, BUT I'LL GO AHEAD AND EMAIL THEM TO YOU.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP IS 3(J) AMPLIFY READING SCREENER ON PAGE 45.

QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM.

ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE 3(K) AMPLIFY EDUCATION SOFTWARE.

47. I'M SORRY, MS. PETREA, WHAT AGENDA ITEM DID YOU SAY? I DIDN'T HEAR YOU. 3(K) AMPLIFY EDUCATION SOFTWARE.

DID YOU WANT TO GO BACK TO 3(J) THE READING SCREENER? NO, MA'AM, I JUST DIDN'T HEAR YOU.

ALL RIGHT, ANY QUESTIONS ON K? ALL RIGHT, AND THEN WE HAVE L READING PLUS, I KNOW MR. SEVERANCE HAS QUESTIONS ON THAT ITEM.

I'LL LET YOU GO FIRST.

THANK YOU. SO THIS IS FOR ALL MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES, ELM GROVE ELEMENTARY, JOHNSON AND LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL.

SO MY QUESTION IS, THIS PROGRAM, WITH ITS SUCCESS, HAVE OTHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CAMPUSES HAVE BEEN SHOWN THE RESULTS THAT ARE DONE BY ELM GROVE ELEMENTARY AND HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN THIS PROGRAM IF THEY WANTED TO? YES, WE HAVE SHARED THOSE RESULTS WITH THEM.

READING PLUS HAS BEEN USED AT ELM GROVE ELEMENTARY FOR QUITE SOME TIME NOW, AND THEY'VE SHOWN A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH IT AND HAVE DECIDED TO CONTINUE WITH IT.

WE HAVE OFFERED IT FOR THE OTHER CAMPUSES AND THEY'VE CONTINUED TO FOCUS WITH AMPLIFY READING.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

OKAY, MRS. OROSCO.

I KNOW THAT I SUBMITTED THAT QUESTION EARLIER, SO I JUST HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION.

YOU SAID ELM GROVE IS PAYING FOR THEIR OWN READING PLUS IS WHAT THE ANSWER WAS TO MY QUESTION.

I BELIEVE SO. YES, MA'AM.

I CAN DOUBLE CHECK, BUT I BELIEVE SO.

SO WHAT IS THE COST PER CAMPUS? ESSER FUNDS IS BEING USED TO--FEDERAL FUNDS IS BEING USED TO PURCHASE READING PLUS FOR ELM GROVE.

SO THEY'RE NOT PAYING OUT OF THEIR CAMPUS BUDGET.

IT'S JUST OVERALL ESSER FUNDS.

THEY'RE PAYING OUT OF THEIR CAMPUS FEDERAL FUNDS.

OKAY, SO CAN YOU FIND OUT WHAT THE COST IS PER CAMPUS? YES. MRS. KINSEY? YEAH, MRS. KINSEY, CAN YOU COME TO THE MICROPHONE? IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SOME CONFLICTING INFORMATION COMING FROM THE BACK.

GOOD EVENING, MY NAME IS SAMI KINSEY.

I'M THE DEPUTY ACADEMIC OFFICER.

SO ELM GROVE HAS BEEN PURCHASING READING PLUS WELL BEFORE ANY OF THE OTHER CAMPUSES THAT WHEN WE BROUGHT IN THE AMPLIFY READING THAT BECAME OUR PRIMARY DISTRICT FUNDED READING SOFTWARE BECAUSE IT CONNECTS WITH THE PROGRESS MEASURE AND THE INSTRUCTION THAT KIDS ARE GETTING IN THE CLASSROOM.

SO THEN WHEN COVID HAPPENED, WE BROUGHT IT IN FOR THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS TRYING TO CLOSE THE GAP, AND JOHNSON HAD BEEN A PILOT SCHOOL BEFORE COVID, AND JOHNSON AND LEHMAN CHOSE TO USE THEIR ESSER FUNDS, SO THEY'RE USING THEIR ESSER FUNDS FOR ONE MORE YEAR.

THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS ARE ALSO USING THEIR FUNDS, BUT ELM GROVE IS USING THEIR LOCAL FUND.

SO THEY DO AMPLIFY, BUT THEN THEY'VE DONE IT FOR SO LONG.

THEY'RE ABLE TO WORK IN THE BLENDED LEARNING WITH BOTH PROGRAMS. SO THEY'RE ABLE TO KEEP BOTH OF THEM GOING.

SO SOME CAMPUSES, IT WOULD BE REALLY HARD FOR THEM TO SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO TWO COMPETING READING SOFTWARE, BUT WITH ELM GROVE, THEY HAVE A MUST DO AND THEN A CAN DO AND THEY'RE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY DO IT.

SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS AND I ASKED THIS ALREADY, THANK YOU.

I'LL LOOK FOR THE COST PER CAMPUS TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THAT WAS, AND IT'S A PER STUDENT COST, SO IT JUST DEPENDS ON THEIR POPULATION.

CAN YOU TELL ME HOW MANY STUDENTS IN ELM GROVE, JOHNSON AND LEHMAN THAT WE'RE PURCHASING IT FOR? I'LL GET THAT FOR YOU. LEHMAN IS NINTH GRADE.

JOHNSON'S NINTH AND TENTH ELM GROVE USES AT THIRD THROUGH FIFTH GRADE, AND YES, I MEAN, YOU DON'T NEED TO ANSWER ME RIGHT NOW.

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HOW MANY STUDENTS WILL USE IT PER CAMPUS? AND THEN SO WE CAN GET A COST ASSOCIATED PER STUDENT OF HOW MUCH THIS IS GOING TO COST, AND I KNOW I SAW ELM GROVE'S PRESENTATION THERE SHOWCASE ON READING PLUS AND IT WAS AMAZING.

I SAW JOHNSON AS WELL WHEN THEY TALKED ABOUT IT, AND ONE OF MY QUESTIONS WAS, I UNDERSTAND ELM GROVE HAS BEEN USING IT FOREVER AND THEY KNOW HOW TO DO AMPLIFY AND READING PLUS, BUT JUST OFFERING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO OTHER CAMPUSES.

SO IF ANY OTHER CAMPUS WANTS IT, THEN THEY CAN ASK CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION AND ONE IS THE AMPLIFY.

THAT'S THE ONE AS A DISTRICT WE ARE BECAUSE TEA IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDING THAT WE USE THAT ONE AND THEN THEY WOULD USE IT WITH THEIR CAMPUS FUNDS TO PURCHASE IT, THEIR CAMPUS FEDERAL FUNDS, LOCAL FUNDS.

OR IF YOU'RE A TITLE CAMPUS, IT COULD BE FEDERAL.

ELM GROVE IS NOT A TITLE CAMPUS, SO IT'S THEIR LOCAL CAMPUS FUND.

I'M SUPER CONFUSED BECAUSE THERE WAS SCREAMING GOING ON ABOUT ESSER FUNDS BEING USED, SO IF YOU CAN PLEASE GIVE ME THAT.

YES, WE WILL. WE WILL PROVIDE FOR YOU.

OKAY, AND SO I'M WRITING DOWN THE QUESTION AND THEN YOU ALL CAN GIVE THAT INFORMATION TO US.

OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY, I KNOW MY DAUGHTER COMPLAINS ABOUT READING PLUS A LOT, SO I THINK THAT MEANS IT'S WORKING. [CHUCKLING] ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THAT ITEM? ALL RIGHT, NEXT IS 3(M) LEARNING A-Z, RAZ-PLUS RAZ KIDS.

THIS IS ANOTHER ONLINE READING PROGRAM, PAGE 51.

MRS. OROSCO.

I DID HAVE A QUESTION THAT I SUBMITTED ON THIS.

I HAVEN'T HAD THE CHANCE TO READ.

I KNOW DR.

PÉREZ-GONZÁLEZ ALSO HAD A QUESTION ABOUT THAT IN REGARDS TO WHO IS USING IT.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING MORE INFORMATION IF IT'S LIMITED LICENSING OR IF IT'S OFFERED TO ALL THE ELEMENTARY OR SO ON AND I SAW SOME PIECES ABOUT INTERVENTION AND SOME NOT AND SO ON.

SO I'LL READ THAT AND FOLLOW UP.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP IS DREAMBOX LEARNING 3(N).

ANY QUESTIONS ON DREAMBOX? OKAY, 3(O) FRONTLINE EDUCATION OR SUCCESS ED, PAGE 55.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, 3(P) SCHOOLOGY, PAGE 57.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR TONIGHT? YOU CAN ALWAYS E-MAIL YOUR QUESTIONS.

ALL RIGHT, 3(Q) IS STEM SCOPES? 3(R) IS SOLUTION TREE, WHICH IS A PLC INITIATIVE ON PAGE 61.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT FOR TONIGHT? MR. SEVERANCE. YEAH, SO I'M JUST LOOKING AT THE TRANSMITTERS FOR THE FIRST TIME.

SO IT SAYS THAT WE LAST UTILIZED IT IN 2015, BUT ON THE BUDGET, ON THE FINANCIAL, FISCAL IMPACT AND COST, THIS IS PRIOR SPENDING 61,000 AND THEN TOTAL AMOUNT FOR GOING FORWARD WILL BE 61,000. SO LET ME CLARIFY FOR THAT.

MR. [INAUDIBLE] HAD THE SAME QUESTION AS WELL.

2015 WAS THE LAST TIME THAT WE USED SOLUTION THREE AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL FOR PLC INITIATIVE.

SINCE THEN WE'VE HAD INDIVIDUAL CAMPUSES THAT HAVE SENT GROUPS OF TEACHERS OR ADMINISTRATORS OR LEADERS TO DIFFERENT SOLUTION TREE PLC WORKSHOPS, BUT IT'S BEEN SEVERAL YEARS SINCE WE'VE DONE IT AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL, SO THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO CLARIFY.

OKAY, GREAT QUESTION.

ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT ITEM? ALL RIGHT, NOW WE'RE ON TO CONTRACTS AND MOUS UNDER 4, AND 4(A) STAR AUTISM SUPPORT.

I SAW THERE WERE SEVERAL QUESTIONS SUBMITTED ON THIS.

MRS. OROSCO. SO I READ THE ANSWER AND THEY DID NOT ANSWER MY QUESTION.

SO MY QUESTION WAS, IS IT $351,888.50 TO BE PAID OUT OF GRANT ONLY.

THAT WAS NOT ANSWERED.

SO YOU CAN GET BACK TO ME IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER RIGHT NOW.

LOTS OF GREAT INFORMATION.

IT JUST DIDN'T ANSWER THAT SPECIFICALLY, AND I KNOW THAT WE HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATION, AND I DON'T THINK YOU WERE HERE WHEN WE HAD A REALLY IN-DEPTH CONVERSATION WITH

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SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE INFORMATION, THAT'S OKAY, BUT DEFINITELY--MAYBE WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTION YOU'RE ASKING IF WE'RE PAYING OUT 351,000, IF THAT'S PURELY WHAT WE'RE USING. WE HAD RECEIVED A TWO YEAR GRANT, RIGHT, IS MY UNDERSTANDING.

SO IS THIS AMOUNT COMING OUT OF GRANT MONEY OR IS IT COMING OUT OF OUR GENERAL--IT'S PART OF OUR GRANT MONEY; THAT IS OUR GRANT MONEY THAT WE WERE RECEIVING. THAT WHOLE AMOUNT IS OUT OF GRANT MONEY? YES, MA'AM. THAT'S WHAT I NEEDED TO KNOW, THANK YOU.

SURE. ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON OUR STAR AUTISM SUPPORT ITEM? NEXT UP, FOOD SERVICE CONTRACT ON PAGE 67.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? OKAY, NEXT UP IS OUR FINANCIAL AUDITOR CONTRACT 4(C).

THAT'S ON PAGE 68.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? NEXT UP, K-12 INSIGHT, 4(D) PAGE 69 OF YOUR AGENDA BOOK.

ANY QUESTIONS. MR. MCMANUS? I SUBMITTED A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ON THESE, AND I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH MR. SAVOY ABOUT THEM, AND I FELT LIKE I GOT SOME SOME VERY GOOD ANSWERS.

I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THIS IS NOT A CHEAP SPEND IN MY MIND, AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WERE SOME CONCRETE THINGS THAT HAD COME OUT OF THAT AS A DISTRICT THAT WERE, YOU KNOW, LIKE A LITTLE ROI, WHAT WERE WE GETTING OUT OF THIS THING? AND I DON'T HAVE THAT LIST RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME AVAILABLE, BUT IT WAS A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF THINGS THAT THE DISTRICT USES THIS INFORMATION FOR THAT HAS LED TO SOME VERY POSITIVE INITIATIVES WITH, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE WHOLE DISTRICT, AND I APPRECIATED THAT AND DEFINITELY THINK IT'S WORTHWHILE TO CONTINUE.

SO GOOD, YES, PEOPLE ASK US ALL THE TIME, DO YOU LOOK AT THAT STUFF? DO YOU ALL EVEN LOOK AT THE SURVEY DATA? YES, WE DO. OKAY, ANYTHING ON THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS THE ALSO K-12 INSIGHT SURVEY PRODUCT? SIMILAR TO K-12 INSIGHT AMENDMENT.

ALL RIGHT, THEN NUMBER FIVE.

THIS IS OUR APPLICATION FOR OPTIONAL FLEXIBLE SCHOOL DAY PROGRAM AT LIVE OAK ON PAGE 76.

OKAY, GREAT.

HOW ARE WE DOING, TEAM, DO WE NEED A BREAK? WE'RE GOOD?

[N.1. Consideration and possible approval of early release of new allocations, reclassifications, bus driver and substitute pay to be included in the 2022-2023 compensation plan]

TEAM AFTER THINKING ABOUT THIS AND LOOKING AT THIS, I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, PROBABLY 2 HOURS WORTH.

I SUSPECT YOU DO AS WELL.

SO WE'RE GOING TO PULL THIS ITEM AND COME BACK NEXT WEEK WITH SOME THOROUGH RATIONALE AND JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND SOME EXPLANATIONS AROUND SOME OF THESE POSITIONS, HOPEFULLY, SO THAT WE CAN VOTE ON THIS NEXT WEEK.

I LOVE A LOT OF THIS, BUT I THINK, FOR THE TEAM'S SAKE, WE NEED A LOT MORE INFORMATION BEFORE WE CAN HAVE EVEN A PRODUCTIVE DISCUSSION, I THINK.

MRS. OROSCO. THANK YOU, MS. PETREA, FOR PULLING THIS ITEM.

IT'S VERY VAGUE AND INCOMPLETE, SO I APPRECIATE YOU PULLING THAT AND MAYBE EVEN SUGGESTING THAT THEY BREAK IT APART AS WELL.

SO THANK YOU.

YOU BET. ALL RIGHT, SO MOVING ON TO N2 THIS IS OUR CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF THE 2021 BOND PROJECT.

[N.2. Consideration and possible approval of 2021 Bond Project - Bid Pckage 10 Live Oak Academy Renovations Schematic Design]

MR. CLEAVER IS HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

I THINK WE'VE HAD PROBABLY SOME SUBMITTED AS WELL.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? AND WE ARE ON PAGE 88.

MR. MCMANUS. MR. CLEAVER CLARIFIED FOR ME TONIGHT SOME QUESTIONS I HAD ABOUT DOLLARS.

IF YOU READ THROUGH THE SUPPLEMENTAL PACKET THAT WAS INCLUDED IN BOARD BLOG, THERE WAS A DOLLAR VALUE IN THERE, CLOSE TO 13 MILLION, AND I HAD A LITTLE HEART ATTACK OF HOW WE DOUBLED OUR, BUT AFTER TALKING THROUGH IT WITH HIM, THE 8.9 IS THE REAL NUMBER THAT WE'RE VOTING ON AND WHERE THE PROJECT IS HEADED. YES, THERE'S SOME CERTAINLY INCREASE.

I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT CONSTRUCTION IS GOING UP EVERY DAY, BUT WE FEEL LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO COVER THIS, AND I APPRECIATE MR. CLEAVER'S ATTENTION TO DETAIL ON THAT, AND HE WAS VERY CLEAR IN HIS ANSWER TO ME.

SO THANK YOU. THANKS SO MUCH.

ANYBODY ELSE? MR. SEVERANCE. HI, MAX.

THIS HAS TO DO WITH KIND OF GENERALLY BETWEEN, WELL, 88 AND THEN THE NEXT ONE, BUT SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO WHEN WE'RE INCLUDED FOR US TO LOOK AT THE TOTAL PROJECT

[01:30:06]

YES, SIR. TOTAL AT THE END.

SO THAT AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THESE ITEMS, WHEN WE'RE HAVING TO USE THOSE FUNDS TO MAKE IT WHOLE WITHIN THE BUDGET, SO WE CAN SEE HOW MUCH WE HAVE LEFT DOWN THE ROAD, HOW MANY PROJECTS WE HAVE LEFT IS STILL DO THIS FOR AND THEN HOW MUCH OF THAT TOTAL IN NUMBER PROJECT CONTINGENCY WOULD BE LEFT.

SO WE CAN KIND OF CALIBRATE LIKE YES, NO, WE'RE DOING GOOD.

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BOND? WE HAVE THAT READY.

THAT WILL BE IN YOUR INBOX FIRST THING IN THE MORNING.

WHEN YOU INCLUDE LIVE OAK AND WALLACE AT THESE CURRENT PROPOSED DEFICITS, WE HAVE AT THE END, THE CONTINGENCY YOU'RE REFERRING TO ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT IS ABOUT $2 MILLION AT THE END AND THAT INCLUDES THE DEFICIT DD FOR CHAPA AND SIMON AS WELL.

SO YOU WERE IN A DIFFERENT ROLE.

YOU'RE ON THE FBOC NOW YOU'RE HERE.

SO WE WERE, YOU KNOW, AS WE WENT THROUGH THE BOND, WE, WE SAID, HEY, WE WANT TO GIVE THE BOARD AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPROVE THESE DEFICIT PROJECTS OUT IN THE FUTURE, KNOWING THAT YOU'LL HAVE A GMP BEFORE YOU HAVE TO MAKE THE CALL, AND TO ALWAYS HAVE SORT OF A RELIEF VALVE AS WE GO, BUT TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION DIRECTLY, WE HAVE $2 MILLION ON THAT BOND LOOK AHEAD.

I'D JUST LIKE TO NOTE FOR THE RECORD AT 7:55 P.M.

MRS. RUNKLE WAS ABLE TO JOIN US.

ALL RIGHT, MRS. RUNKLE, FOR YOUR BENEFIT, WE ARE ON N2 PAGE 88 OF OUR AGENDA UNDER ACTION ITEMS. MRS. OROSCO HAS A QUESTION FOR MR. CLEAVER. I JUST REALLY LIKE THAT IDEA, MR. SEVERANCE; THANKS FOR BRINGING THAT UP.

THAT'S A GREAT IDEA AND I LOVE YOUR INSIGHT THAT YOU HAVE, AND IF WE CAN HAVE THAT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

YES, MA'AM, FIRST THING IN THE MORNING AND MR. CLEAVER, I'M ASSUMING THIS IS IN OUR FOLDER TO REMIND US OF THE 2021 BOND, AND THE NUMBER WE PUT UNDER LIVE OAK LOOKS VERY SIMILAR TO THE NUMBER WE HAVE IN OUR TRANSMITTAL SHEET, WHICH I GREATLY APPRECIATE.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I KNOW, MRS. RUNKLE, YOU'RE JUST GETTING CAUGHT UP.

WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE LIVE OAK SCHEMATIC DESIGN.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, PERFECT.

KEEP THIS HANDY.

[N.3. Consideration and possible approval of 2021 Bond Project - Bid Package 11 Wallace Middle School Renovations Schematic Design]

WALLACE HERE FOR 9.799 MILLION IS WHAT WE TOLD OUR TAXPAYERS IN THE BOND WHEN WE PROMOTED OUR BONDS.

SO THE NUMBER WE HAVE HERE TODAY IS 9.7M.

THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE TOTAL THEY FOOT, IF YOU WILL, BUT THE WALLACE PROJECT IS CURRENTLY WE'RE PROPOSING A $3.3 MILLION DEFICIT SD.

NOW THAT CONSTRUCTION NUMBER INCLUDES ABOUT 1.9 MILLION WORTH OF DESIGN CONTINGENCY IN ESCALATION.

THE PREVIOUS PROJECT, LIVE OAK, WE'RE LIABLE TO HAVE THAT ONE NET OUT POTENTIALLY, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WILL CATCH UP TO THAT 3.3 ON THE WALLACE PROJECT.

OKAY, ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, N4, THIS IS THE POSSIBLE CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE APPROVAL OF PURCHASE OF TWO

[N.4. Consideration and possible approval of the purchase of two BGP MicroTik Routers from Integration Partners as part of the 2021 Bond]

THIS IS DIANNE BORRESON AND ALAN [INAUDIBLE].

THIS IS ALSO PART OF THE 2021 BOND.

IT'S ON PAGE 92 OF YOUR AGENDA PACKET.

DO WE HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THIS EVENING THAT WE CAN'T EMAIL LATER? OKAY, PERFECT. NEXT UP, WE HAVE AGILE MINDS INTENSIFIED ALGEBRA ONE COURSE FOR TIER TWO AND TIER THREE INTERVENTION AT LEHMAN HIGH

[N.5. Consideration and possible approval of Agile Minds Intensified Algebra I Course for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Intervention at Lehman High School]

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? MS. SEDILLO, DO WE HAVE ALGEBRA ONE NUMBERS YET FOR OUR EOCS? WERE THEY ON THE THING EARLIER? WILL YOU REMIND ME WHAT THEY WERE?

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WE HAD A TABLE.

I WANT TO SEE THESE AGAIN.

SO, YES, ALGEBRA ONE.

AWESOME.

ABOVE THE STATE.

WE DON'T HAVE OUR REGION NUMBERS YET ON HERE.

I DO WANT TO SEE REGION 13 BECAUSE I WANT TO BEAT REGION 13 AS WELL, BUT THIS IS A REALLY GOOD START.

SO DO YOU WANT TO TALK TO US ABOUT WHY THIS IS NEEDED? I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT.

YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE BY CAMPUS NUMBERS YET, AND THIS IS A SPECIFICALLY FOR LEHMAN HIGH SCHOOL, CORRECT? SO, MR. MCDANIEL, YEAH, DO YOU WANT TO JUST GIVE US A QUICK SUMMARY OF WHY WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROGRAM? AGILE MIND IS A SET CURRICULUM THAT USES THE RESEARCH FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS CHARLES A.

DANA CENTER THAT HAS CREATED A COURSE CALLED INTENSIFIED ALGEBRA.

INTENSIFIED ALGEBRA REALLY GOES BACK AND SPENDS THE FIRST SEMESTER BUILDING UP SIX, SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE SKILLS AND THEN KIND OF STARTS TO EMBED THEM IN AN ALGEBRA ONE CURRICULUM. SO IT HAS A HEAVY COMPONENT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL EARLY ON AND THEN IT GETS INTO MORE HEAVY ALGEBRA CONTENT THROUGHOUT THE SPRING.

THE OTHER THING THAT MAKES AGILE MIND SUCH A UNIQUE CURRICULUM IS THEY UTILIZE THE BRAIN RESEARCH FROM UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AND HAVE EMBED SOCIAL, EMOTIONAL AND GROWTH MINDSET LESSONS SPECIFICALLY IN THE FIRST SEMESTER.

SO THEY HAVE DEDICATED DAYS WHERE THEY THERE'S EMBEDDED LESSONS THAT SHOW YOU CAN LEARN THIS MATERIAL.

HERE'S THE BRAIN RESEARCH BEHIND LEARNING ABSTRACT ALGEBRA TO REALLY BUILD IN THAT GROWTH MINDSET.

WE THINK THAT COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC IN THIS AREA FOR THIS FEEDER PATTERN THAT WE FEEL LIKE THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE STEP TO SUPPORT THESE STUDENTS.

IT REQUIRES A DOUBLE BLOCK SCHEDULE.

RIGHT. SO THESE KIDS HAVE TO HAVE 75 TO 90 MINUTES OF MATHEMATICS EVERY DAY.

SO UNDER A TRADITIONAL SEVEN PERIOD DAY, IT BECOMES VERY HARD TO DO BECAUSE OF CREDITS UNDER OUR EIGHT EIGHT PERIOD CREDIT DAY, WE NOW HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT, AND STUDENTS ARE NOT LOSING AN ELECTIVE FOR THEIR COURSES.

THEY'RE STILL GOING TO BE ABLE TO TAKE THEIR SEVEN PERIODS, BUT THEY'LL TAKE A 90 MINUTE ALGEBRA COURSE EVERY SINGLE DAY.

WE WENT AND VISITED NATALIE PETERSON, OUR COORDINATOR OF MATHEMATICS.

WE WENT AND VISITED SCHOOLS IN PFLUGERVILLE THAT ARE IMPLEMENTING THIS, AND THAT'S OUR RECOMMENDATION AT THIS TIME FOR LEHMAN ALGEBRA ONE, NINTH GRADE.

OKAY, ANY QUESTIONS? MR. SEVERANCE.

I THINK THIS IS GREAT. LASER FOCUS.

SEE AN ISSUE, LET'S ATTACK IT DIRECTLY AND WORK TOWARDS IT.

BUT I DO HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. SO WHAT'S THE TRAINING LOOK LIKE FOR TEACHERS TO GET UP TO SPEED TO IMPLEMENT THIS PROGRAM? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO IT'S A TWO DAY TRAINING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON SCHEDULING RIGHT NOW, AND THEN WE ARE ALSO GOING TO HAVE EMBEDDED COACHING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

I THINK WE'RE LOOKING AT SIX OR SEVEN DAYS WHERE A CONSULTANT WILL COME AND MODEL, TEACH FOR THEM AND WORK WITH THEM BASICALLY ONCE EVERY SIX WEEKS TO IMPLEMENT THE PROGRAM AND THE CURRICULUM CORRECTLY.

THANK YOU, AND THEN SO WE'RE TRYING A NEW PROGRAM.

I THINK IT'S GREAT. WHAT WOULD BE AN ACCEPTABLE RESULT THAT SHOWS THAT THE PROGRAM IS WORKING SO WE'LL BE THE BENCHMARK FOR SUCCESS.

SO, I MEAN, IF YOU SAY I'M JUST MAKING UP NUMBERS, BUT WE HAVE SCORES OF 50 AND WE GET TO 65.

LIKE WHAT ARE YOU USING TO GAUGE WHETHER OR NOT THIS IS THIS PROGRAM IS SUCCESSFUL? AND THEN PART TWO OF THAT WOULD BEEN, WHEN WOULD YOU DECIDE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WHETHER OR NOT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE THAT IT'D BE WORTH IT FOR CONTINUING IT FOR THE YEARS TO COME? THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT SPECIFIC NUMBERS EXACTLY.

I'D HAVE TO LOOK AND SEE WHERE OUR NUMBERS PLAY OUT IN NINTH GRADE ALGEBRA FOR OUR CURRENT SCORES AND THEN FOR OUR CURRENT EIGHTH GRADERS THAT ARE IN THE FEEDER PATTERN COMING UP. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THAT I WOULD EXPECT A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN OUR MEETS IN MASTERS POPULATION FOR THAT FEEDER PATTERN, WE CAN GET YOU WHAT WE THINK WOULD BE ACCURATE GOALS, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO BASE THAT ON THE SCORES THAT ARE COMING IN RIGHT NOW.

SO HOPEFULLY WITHIN A WEEK WE WOULD HAVE THAT AND WE COULD GIVE YOU A BETTER ESTIMATE.

YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT. I'D JUST LOVE TO SEE KIND OF WHAT YOUR DEFINITION OF SUCCESS IS AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, AND SO WE CAN HELP MAKE SURE WE'RE TRACKING TOWARDS THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. I CAN TELL YOU FOR MEETS, RIGHT, BECAUSE THAT'S OUR KIDS THAT ARE ON GRADE LEVEL.

WHEN YOU MEET GRADE LEVEL, WE WOULD EXPECT A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN IN THAT POPULATION OF STUDENTS.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

MR. MCMANUS. SO JUST KIND OF ALONG THOSE LINES OF MEETING GOALS, IS THIS LIKE A LIFETIME COMMITMENT TO THIS, OR DOES THE DISTRICT GET TO A CERTAIN POINT OF SEEING SUCCESS WHERE YOU CAN PULL BACK FROM THIS CURRICULUM? THIS IS THIS WOULD BE AN ANNUAL COST FOR RIGHT NOW FOR THIS CURRICULUM AND FOR THIS PROGRAM.

[01:40:04]

YOU GET THE CONSUMABLE WORKBOOKS TO GO WITH IT, YOU GET THE ONLINE ACCESS, YOU GET THE ASSESSMENTS.

IT IS A CURRICULUM.

WHAT WE'RE MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS WHEN THESE TEACHERS HAVE PROFESSIONAL LEARNING COMMUNITIES, THEY'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO FOR THE UPCOMING UNIT.

THEY'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON HOW ARE WE DELIVERING THIS AND HOW ARE WE GOING TO MEET OUR INDIVIDUAL STUDENT NEED BECAUSE THE CURRICULUM IS THERE FOR YOU.

SO THE WHAT REALLY GETS TAKEN OFF OF THEIR PLATES AND IT'S HOW CAN WE DELIVER THIS CURRICULUM TO MEET THE NEEDS OF OUR STUDENTS? THAT'S WHAT WE THINK IS GOING TO BE THE BIGGEST BENEFIT FOR OUR TEACHERS.

WE'VE ALREADY MET WITH THIS GROUP OF TEACHERS AND GOTTEN THEIR FEEDBACK AND ALLOWED THEM TO DEMO THE SITE AND ACCESS IT AND ASK ALL OF THEIR QUESTIONS.

SO WE'VE BEEN HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THAT GROUP OF TEACHERS AS WELL.

OKAY, AGAIN, I'LL SAY I THINK THIS IS GREAT.

I THINK WE ARE TAKING AN APPROACH OF SEEING A PROBLEM ON A SINGLE CAMPUS AND SOLVING IT RATHER THAN TRYING TO BUY CURRICULUM FOR THE WHOLE DISTRICT, AND SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT. STARS HAVE KIND OF ALIGNED WITH THE EIGHT PERIOD DAY, THE DOUBLE BLOCK AND THEN THE TIME IS NOW WITH WITH COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC AND [INAUDIBLE] IF THEY'RE DOING DOUBLE BLOCK THERE'S SOMETHING THEY'RE GIVING UP.

WHAT'S ON THE SIDE OF WHAT THEY'RE GIVING UP? THESE STUDENTS, IT WOULD MOST LIKELY BE THEIR INTERVENTION, PERIOD, BECAUSE IT'S EMBEDDED IN THE CURRICULUM.

SO YOU WOULDN'T GO TO ALGEBRA ONE AND THEN HAVE AN INTERVENTION PERIOD ON TOP OF THAT, IT'S GOING TO BE EMBEDDED IN THAT CURRICULUM.

THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? MR. VELA? YEAH, TO [INAUDIBLE] MR. SEVERANCE'S QUESTION, HAVE WE SEEN OTHER SCHOOLS THAT HAVE IMPLEMENTED THIS AND THE RESULTS AND WHAT DO THOSE LOOK LIKE? SO THE FLAGSHIP SCHOOL FOR THE DANA CENTER IS DOWN IN RIO GRANDE CITY.

THIS IS A DISTRICT THAT'S BEEN USING AGILE MIND FOR CLOSE TO A DECADE.

WE'VE SEEN THEM PRESENT AT SEVERAL CONFERENCES.

MARIVEL HAS MOST RECENTLY SEEN THAT PRESENTATION AND THEN LOCALLY WE WENT TO PFLUGERVILLE TO SEE THEM IMPLEMENT IT AS WELL, AND PFLUGERVILLE IS IN YEAR THREE AND THEY ARE EXPANDING TO ALMOST ALL OF THEIR HIGH SCHOOLS AS WELL, AND DO WE HAVE THEIR MEETS PERCENTAGES COMPARED TO I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE THAT.

WE'LL LOOK AND SEE WHAT WE CAN GET FOR THE MOST RECENT DATA THAT'S COMING OUT RIGHT NOW WITH DISTRICTS.

GREAT, THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE.

I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS.

SO I LOVE THAT WE CAN USE THE EIGHTH PERIOD.

THAT'S FANTASTIC.

IS IT A SEPARATE CLASS OR IS IT JUST A REALLY LONG ALGEBRA CLASS? IT'S A 90 MINUTE ALGEBRA CLASS.

YES, BUT THE FACT THAT IT TIES BACK IN MIDDLE SCHOOL CONCEPTS THROUGHOUT THAT REALLY FALL SEMESTER IS WHERE YOU NEED THAT ADDITIONAL TIME PLUS THE ADDITIONAL GROWTH MINDSET LESSONS. WELL, AND I'M GLAD YOU MENTIONED THAT AS A PERSON WHO HAD TO TAKE TWO REMEDIAL CLASSES IN COLLEGE TO GET THROUGH COLLEGE ALGEBRA, YOU CAN START TO FEEL LIKE YOU CANNOT LEARN THIS STUFF AND IT GETS REALLY HARD, AND THEN WHEN YOU HAVE AN AWESOME TEACHER AND DIFFERENT STRATEGIES AND THEN YOU LEARN IT AND IT EVEN FEELS EASY.

SO I KNOW I STRUGGLED WITH MATH MY WHOLE CAREER.

I GOT TO ALGEBRA TWO AND GOT THROUGH IT, BUT I TOOK THAT SENIOR YEAR OF MATH OFF, BIG MISTAKE FRIENDS, AND THEN HAD TO TRY TO TAKE COLLEGE ALGEBRA, AND IT WAS IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT.

SO I LOVE THAT THE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING STUFF IS IN HERE.

I WANTED TO ASK IF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS WOULD BE AVAILABLE OR ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS TRAINING OR WHAT WE'RE DOING AT CHAPA AND SIMON TO HELP WITH SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, JUST FROM THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL.

SO WE'VE HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS AND RIGHT NOW THE THOUGHT IS TO JUST HAVE IT AT NINTH GRADE.

LET'S SEE HOW IT GOES. LET'S SEE HOW THE TRAINING IS FOR OUR NINTH GRADE ALGEBRA.

BUT WE HAVE HAD THOSE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT POSSIBLY LOOKING AT MIDDLE SCHOOL.

WE'LL WAIT AND SEE WHAT OUR DATA SAYS RIGHT NOW.

THE OTHER THING I'LL MENTION IS, YOU KNOW, DR.

WRIGHT, ALL THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE WITH E3 ALLIANCE AND THE GROWTH MINDSET, THIS IS THE RESEARCH THAT THEY'VE BEEN PULLING FROM IS FROM THE DANA CENTER.

SO WE FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOT A VERY HIGH QUALITY PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE USING FOR THAT RESEARCH AND THAT DATA.

YEAH, BECAUSE WHAT WOULD BE REALLY GREAT AS A BENCHMARK IS TO HAVE FOLKS MORE MORE STUDENTS TAKING ALGEBRA ONE AS EIGHTH GRADERS.

I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE THE BLOCK SCHEDULE AND WE DON'T HAVE THE EIGHTH PERIOD AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL LEVEL, BUT I MEAN, IF WE CAN KIND OF PUSH THIS DOWN BECAUSE I KNOW THOSE NUMBERS ARE NOT EQUITABLE EITHER.

[01:45:02]

OKAY, AND WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THE FEEDER PATTERN AT CHAPA AND SIMON, WHO STARTED AN ADVANCED MATH INITIATIVE SEVERAL YEARS AGO, AND NOW THAT CLASS IS GOING TO BE IN EIGHTH GRADE ALGEBRA 22-23, SO THIS UPCOMING YEAR.

SO WE'LL WE'LL GET A BETTER SENSE OF HOW OUR EFFORTS HAVE BEEN PLAYING OFF OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, AND SO ONE LAST QUESTION.

HOW ARE WE IDENTIFYING THE STUDENTS THAT WILL TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS? I KNOW YOU SAID TIER TWO AND TIER THREE.

IS IT EOCS? IS IT MATH STAAR? WE'RE HAVING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH LEHMAN RIGHT NOW, BUT A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THE NINTH GRADE COHORT WOULD BE IN THIS CLASS.

OKAY, SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE'RE KIND OF PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON EXACTLY WHO THIS WOULD BE MOST APPROPRIATE FOR, BUT IT WOULD BE ALMOST ALL STUDENTS. OKAY, WOW.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, WE LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING THE RESULTS OF THIS.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, TEAM, ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, MR. MCDANIEL. ALL RIGHT, AND THE LAST ONE UNDER ACTION ITEMS TONIGHT IS WE'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE, ALTHOUGH MR.

[N.6. Consideration and possible adoption of FDB(LOCAL) - Intradistrict Transfer Policy]

SO WE HAVE AN INTER-DISTRICT TRANSFER POLICY ON PAGE 98.

THERE'S SOME RED LINE IN HERE.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? OKAY, GREAT.

INFORMATION ITEMS UNDER O, WE HAVE OUR BUDGET TIMELINE.

[O.1. Review Budget Timeline]

I WANT YOU TO CHECK YOUR CALENDARS AND LET MS. KLAERNER KNOW OR MS..

GLORIA KNOW IF YOU CAN MAKE THAT WORK.

I KNOW THAT IS GOING TO BE A ROUGH WEEK WITH FOUR GRADUATIONS, BUT WE REALLY NEED TO GET THROUGH OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP IF WE CAN.

SO PLEASE LET US KNOW IF THAT WORKS.

ANY QUESTIONS ON OUR BUDGET TIMELINE? MRS. OROSCO.

I DON'T KNOW IF OUR BUDGET TIMELINE NEEDS TO BE REVISED BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED.

IT SAID THAT THEY'RE PRESENTING A DRAFT COMPENSATION PLAN TO US TODAY TO BE ADOPTED NEXT WEEK.

SO DOES IT JUST NEED TO BE REVISED SO WE CAN GET AN UPDATED BUDGET TIMELINE? THAT'LL BE AWESOME. ALL RIGHT, MR. RAU SAID THUMBS UP.

BY NEXT WEEK WE'LL HAVE AN UPDATED TIMELINE AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL HAVE THAT JUNE BUDGET WORKSHOP DATE NAILED DOWN AS WELL.

OKAY, FINANCIAL STATEMENTS O2 ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? ALL RIGHT, THREE IS THIRD QUARTER INVESTMENT REPORT.

THIS IS ON PAGE 120.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THIS? I'M LOOKING AT YOU, MR. MCMANUS.

MATH IS NOT MY THING.

I'VE ALREADY ADMITTED THAT. OKAY O4, THIS IS THE 2021 BOND SCHEMATIC DESIGN FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL 16.

[O.4. 2021 Bond: Schematic Design for Elementary School 16 (Negley Relief School)]

VERY EXCITING.

MR. CLEAVER PROVIDED SOME INFORMATION AND HE'S COMING TO THE PODIUM TO GIVE US A SUMMARY.

WE'RE HERE FOR IT.

OKAY, SO GOOD EVENING AGAIN.

WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE OVERVIEW OF THE NEGLEY RELIEF SCHOOL.

IF YOU ALL REMEMBER THAT THE ENGINEERING OR THE DESIGN WAS IN OUR 2021 BOND AND THEN THE TAXPAYERS VOTED TO APPROVE THE SCHOOL, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SCHOOL A COUPLE OF WEEKENDS AGO.

SO I HAVE MY CALL WITH HUCKABEE HERE AND RICHARD UNDERWOOD WITH OUR CIVIL ENGINEER.

IF THERE'S QUESTIONS I CAN'T ANSWER, BUT I HAVE TWO DOCUMENTS HERE.

IT'S A SITE PLAN AND THEN A SCHEDULE AND I JUST HAVE A FEW QUICK NOTES ABOUT BOTH OF THOSE.

SO THIS IS A PROTOTYPICAL SCHOOL, BUT AS YOU ALL KNOW, PROTOTYPES ARE NOT COOKIE CUTTER.

SO EVERY TIME YOU DO A PROTOTYPE, THERE MIGHT BE SOME CHANGES, AND IN PARTICULAR WITH OUR CURRENT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT OR SUPPLY CHAIN ENVIRONMENT, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THAT, WE BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH WE PUT IN APPROXIMATELY 24% ESCALATION OVER SUNFIELD, WE BELIEVE THERE'S WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO HAVE MAYBE A BUDGET SHORTFALL IF WE DON'T KIND OF PLAN AHEAD.

SO NEXT MONTH WE'LL BE COMING TO Y'ALL WITH AN SD APPROVAL WITH AN ESTIMATE, BUT TONIGHT WE JUST WANTED TO GO OVER A FEW THINGS AND KIND OF LET YOU KNOW THAT KIND OF TEE IT UP FOR NEXT TIME.

SO ON THE SITE PLAN, THERE'S 160 PARKING SPACES AND THERE'S 140 IN THE PARENT DROP OFF.

[01:50:05]

THE OTHER THING I WANT TO POINT OUT ON THAT SITE PLAN, WE ARE NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEVELOPER.

PREVIOUS SITE PLAN DOCUMENT SHOWED ONSITE DETENTION FOR STORMWATER.

SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPER TO TRY TO GET THAT STORMWATER DETENTION OFF SITE.

THERE'S STILL A COST WITH IT BECAUSE YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE A PIPE TO GET YOUR WATER TO WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAINTAIN THAT STORMWATER DETENTION FACILITY AND THE FENCE AND MOW IT AND ALL THAT FOR THE NEXT 75 YEARS.

SO THAT'S LOOKING REALLY GOOD.

WE ARE USING THAT ENTIRE SITE, AS YOU CAN SEE, AND THIS IS AN ACTUALLY THIS IS A SURVEYED DOCUMENT.

SO THAT IS REALLY WHAT IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE.

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE SITE PLAN? ALL RIGHT, TEAM, ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. CLEAVER? MR. MCMANUS. JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.

ONE, I MEAN, IT'S VERY EARLY, BUT ARE THERE ANY I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO GO OVER THIS LATER.

I'M NOT GOING TO BE HERE NEXT WEEK.

IS THERE ANY SIGNIFICANT ORIENTATION CHANGES OR CONFIGURATION DIFFERENCES BASED UPON THE SITE ITSELF, OR IS IT VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE'RE GETTING OUT OF SUNFIELD? I WANT TO SAY, AS FAR AS THE LAYOUT GOES, IT IS PRETTY MUCH IDENTICAL.

OBVIOUSLY, THE PARENT LOOP IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT ON HOW IT SNAKES AROUND THE BUILDING, SO THERE'S MAYBE A LITTLE MORE CANOPY INVOLVED IN THIS PARTICULAR ONE JUST BECAUSE OF THE LAYOUT, BUT AS FAR AS THE YOU KNOW, HOW THE WINGS LAY OUT THE TWO STOREY WING VERSUS THE SINGLE STOREY WING, IT'S IDENTICAL, AND MY SECOND QUESTION, IS THERE LIKE A LIST OF LESSONS LEARNED FROM SUNFIELD ALREADY THAT WE'RE GOING TO USE TO HELP GUIDE THIS ONE? SO I'M GOING TO ANSWER THAT TWO WAYS AND BOTH ARE, YES.

VALUE ENGINEERING NORMALLY OCCURS LATER IN THE PROCESS.

LIKE WE GET TO THE GMP AND WE GO, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO SHAVE SOME OF THIS OFF.

WE'RE ACTUALLY KIND OF VALUE ENGINEERING NOW, RIGHT? AND THEN THE OTHER THING SPECIFICALLY IN THE SCHEDULE WE HAVE BUILT IN IN LET ME SEE HERE WE HAVE IT BUILT IN I THINK IT'S IN OCTOBER.

WE HAVE BUILT INTO THE SCHEDULE A SUNFIELD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OPENING REVIEW AND LESSONS LEARNED.

SO, THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION BECAUSE IT IS KIND OF INTERESTING.

WE'RE BUILDING OUR SECOND PROTOTYPE, BUT WE HAVEN'T ACTUALLY OCCUPIED OUR FIRST ONE, AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO CAPTURE THAT INFORMATION EVEN THOUGH IT'S A QUICK TURNAROUND, AND PEOPLE WILL HAVE ONLY BEEN IN THAT SCHOOL AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, WE'RE STILL GOING TO ASK THE QUESTIONS.

VERY GOOD. THAT'S ALL.

THANK YOU. MR. SEVERANCE. HEY, MAX, SERIOUSLY, THANKS FOR LETTING US DO THE TOUR THE OTHER DAY OF SUNFIELD.

THAT WAS GREAT. I THINK I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT FROM AN FBOC STANDPOINT, WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO THAT AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, THAT PROBABLY SCHEDULE A WALK THROUGH WITH THAT COMMITTEE AT SUNFIELD, AND THEN I WOULD PROBABLY LIKE FOR I KNOW WE LOOKED AT A LOT OF STUFF HORIZONTALLY, BUT I'D LIKE TO LOOK MAYBE PRESENT THE FBOC, MAYBE SOME ELEVATION STUFF, SOME ACTUAL LIKE SITE PLANS, LIKE ACTUAL WHAT ROOMS LOOK LIKE HEIGHTS WITHIN THE STRUCTURE AND THEN ALL OF THAT AS WELL.

I KNOW YOU DO A REALLY GOOD JOB WITH ACCESS AND WHATNOT, BUT I FEEL LIKE HAVING SOME MORE DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT LAYOUTS ON THE INSIDE WOULD BE GREAT FOR THAT COMMITTEE.

I CAN DO THAT. THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? CAN WE GET SOME 3D DIAGRAMS UP IN HERE? IS THAT WHAT I HEARD? WE NEED LIKE A 3D PRINTER.

ARCHITECTS PROBABLY HAVE 3D PRINTERS FOR THAT KIND OF STUFF.

I BET WE CAN WORK SOMETHING OUT.

YEAH, NO, GOING TO SUNFIELD WAS AWESOME AND I KNOW THAT WHEN WE VISITED THE SCHOOL IN GENERAL, THOSE TEACHERS HAD LOTS TO TELL US ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO DIFFERENTLY, WHICH WE.

YOU TOOK LOTS OF GREAT NOTES AND WE DEFINITELY MADE SOME CHANGES TO OUR PROTOTYPE, AND I SUSPECT THAT WE'RE GOING TO LEARN SOME THINGS WITH THIS ONE AND FROM OUR COMMUNITY, AND I HEAR YOU WHAT YOU'RE SAYING THE VALUE ENGINEERING IS IS GOING TO HAVE TO BE DOUBLE DOWN AND HAPPEN NOW, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT CAN LOOK DIFFERENT.

IT CAN BE DIFFERENT. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THOSE RAIN SILO THINGS OUTSIDE OF EVERY SCHOOL.

WE CAN USE OTHER MATERIALS ON THE OUTSIDE.

I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, WE'RE OPEN TO ALL OF THIS BECAUSE WE WENT TO OUR TAXPAYERS WITH A DOLLAR FIGURE, AND I REALLY DON'T WANT TO GO BACK TO THEM AND SAY, WHOOPSIE, IT WAS 80% MORE THAN THAT. NO!

[01:55:03]

THAT'S RIGHT. NO, WE HAVE A LIST OF, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL DOZEN THINGS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY LOOKING AT AND GETTING PRICES ON TO SEE WHAT THE IMPACT IS WITHOUT SACRIFICING QUALITY.

OKAY, I MEAN, BUT WE WE ARE ALL PRIVY TO THE FACT THAT CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE WAY, WAY UP.

I DON'T THINK WE COULD BUILD JOHNSON HIGH SCHOOL TODAY FOR 122 MILLION.

NO, MA'AM. OKAY, SO ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON OUR NEGLEY RELIEF SCHOOL? ANYTHING ELSE.

OKAY, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR FINAL ONE IS UPDATE ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

[O.5. Update on construction projects]

MR. CLEAVER.

I KNOW I HAD FAITH IN YOU THAT YOU WERE COMING BACK.

DO YOU WANT TO TELL THE TEAM AND FOLKS LISTENING AT HOME WHAT THE ESTIMATED MOVING DATE FOR THAT PROPERTY IS? NO, ABSOLUTELY, AND NOT JUST SUNFIELD, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF ANGST PROBABLY ABOUT ALL OF THEM, YOU KNOW, DAHLSTROM, MCCORMICK, ELM GROVE, BARTON, NEGLEY AND SUNFIELD, ALL OF THEM. SO ALL OF THEM HAVE, AND, YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION DATE ON THE REPORTS AND THEY'LL GO BACK ON THE REPORTS.

ALL OF THEM ARE MORE OR LESS AROUND THAT FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION AND SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION JUST MEANS YOU CAN USE THE BUILDING FOR ITS INTENDED PURPOSE, AND SO THAT'S WHEN IT'S DONE, IF YOU WILL.

IT'S GOING TO BE READY TO MOVE IN, BUT WE'VE GOT FURNITURE DELIVERY SCHEDULED AS EARLY AS LIKE JUNE 12TH, JUNE 13TH, AND SO ALL THAT FURNITURE AND EVERYTHING IS GOING TO START COMING IN, AND AS SOON AS THE FURNITURE IS IN, THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THE TEACHERS IN.

SO HOPEFULLY AROUND THAT VERY FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST.

OKAY, THAT'S GREAT NEWS.

MRS. OROSCO. WHAT? MAX CLEAVER, YOU ASSURED ME THAT IT WOULD BE JULY.

THEY WOULD HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO--LAST WEEK OF JULY, FIRST WEEK OF AUGUST.

[LAUGHTER] OH, OKAY, SO I'M HOLDING YOU TO JULY IF THEY WANT TO COME IN, RIGHT? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY HAVE AMPLE OPPORTUNITY TO SET UP THEIR ROOMS, AND WE DISCUSSED THAT, AND I KNOW THE CONSTRUCTION FOLKS ASSURED ME AS WELL THAT IT CAN HAPPEN.

WE WANT TO GIVE THEM PLENTY OF TIME.

YES, MA'AM, I WAS JUST BEING FLIPPANT.

WE WANT A SMOOTH TRANSITION.

YES. WE WANT EVERYONE TO BE COMFORTABLE.

WE DON'T WANT ANY ANXIETY, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SHOOT FOR, AND IT WILL HAPPEN.

IT'S ALWAYS EVERYTHING JUST LOOKS TERRIBLE, LIKE TWO WEEKS BEFORE AND THEN IT JUST APPEARS AND FALLS INTO PLACE.

THANK YOU, MR. CLEAVER.

YOU'RE WELCOME. EVERYBODY HEARD JULY.

[CHUCKLING] ALL RIGHT, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS GOING ON AROUND THE DISTRICT? I APPRECIATE THE UPDATES ON ALL THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS.

WE HAVE A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION GOING ON AROUND THE 2021 BOND IS JUST THAT KIND OF DETAILED, NASTY BOND THAT HAD TO HAPPEN.

IT'S JUST A LOT OF A LOT OF RENOVATION AND JUST DIRTY WORK THAT NEEDED TO HAPPEN.

IT'S NOT A NOT A CLEAN NEW SCHOOLS KIND OF BUILD, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THINGS GOING ON IN THERE, A LOT OF RENOVATION.

WELL, WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING HOW YOU'RE GOING TO FLIP THAT ADMIN SPACE INTO--YES, WE'RE GOING TO BE GINNING UP YOU KNOW, WE HAD A MEETING ON THE ADMIN BUILDING THREE FRIDAYS AGO, AND THE NEXT STEP WILL BE TO MEET ONE MORE TIME WITH THE INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS TO KIND OF VET AND VERIFY AND THE PLANNING WE'VE DONE TO DATE IS STILL VALID AND STILL RELEVANT.

OKAY, AWESOME.

MRS. RUNKLE.

CAN YOU LET US KNOW, MR. CLEAVER, WHEN YOU GUYS ARE SETTING UP YOUR MEETINGS FOR MCCORMICK SO THAT WE CAN JOIN IN ON THOSE [INAUDIBLE] AS WELL, AND DAHLSTROM AND WHATNOT.

THOSE TOURS ARE COMING TOGETHER.

THEY'RE GOING TO BE PIGGYBACKED ON WITH THOSE WEEKLY MEETINGS.

OKAY, PERFECT. THANK YOU, AND YOU'LL PUT THOSE ON BOARD BLOG? YES, MA'AM. OKAY, THANK YOU.

ALL RIGHT, NEXT UP, WE HAVE REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION FROM THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY INFORMATION THEY'D LIKE TO REQUEST? I HAD SOME PUBLIC SPEAKERS OUT TODAY ANY INFORMATION ON ANY AGENDA ITEMS THAT WE HAVE PASSED.

OKAY, GREAT.

WELL, THEN OUR NEXT MEETING WILL BE NEXT MONDAY, RIGHT HERE, MAY 23RD IN THE KUNKEL ROOM, STARTING AT 5:30.

[R. UPCOMING BOARD MEETINGS]

CONGRATULATIONS, BYRON SEVERANCE.

YOU SURVIVED YOUR FIRST SCHOOL BOARD MEETING.

GOOD JOB. [CHUCKLING]

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.