O. THE BOARD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ENTER INTO CLOSED SESSION ON ANY AGENDA ITEM AS PERMITTED BY THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, SECTION 551.071 ET SEQ

[O. THE BOARD RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ENTER INTO CLOSED SESSION ON ANY AGENDA ITEM AS PERMITTED BY THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, SECTION 551.071 ET SEQ]

YES, MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, I MOVE THE BOARD TO TAKE ACTION AS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION IN THE MATTER OF ROUND ROCK ISD VERSUS AMY M.

I SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION IN THE SECOND.

ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR. ALL OPPOSED.

NO? OKAY MOTION CARRIES FIVE.

FIVE, RIGHT? FIVE ZERO.

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION AND ISSUE CHAPTER 21 TERM.

RECOMMENDATION AND ISSUE.

CHAPTER 21 TERM EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO THE EMPLOYEES AS LISTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

I SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION IN THE SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR. MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO.

MADAM VICE PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION AND ISSUE CHAPTER 21 PROBATIONARY EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO THE EMPLOYEES AS LISTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.

I SECOND, WE HAVE A MOTION IN THE SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR. ALL RIGHT.

MOTION CARRIES FIVE ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO ADJUST THE SCHEDULE A LITTLE BIT.

[L. PUBLIC COMMENTS TO NON-AGENDA ITEMS ONLY]

WE'RE GOING TO MOVE PUBLIC COMMENTS TO NON AGENDA ITEMS UP.

SO WE HAVE TWO PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR NON AGENDA ITEMS. VALERIE, DO I NEED TO READ THAT SCRIPT AGAIN OR CAN THEY JUST SPEAK? OKAY. WELL, HERE WE GO.

I WILL READ THIS VERY LONG SCRIPT.

IT IS OKAY.

AT EACH REGULAR BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD WILL SET ASIDE TIME TO AFFORD THE GENERAL PUBLIC AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ITEMS LISTED OR NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA.

WE ASK THAT CONCERN TO COMPLAINTS REGARDING SPECIFIC INDIVIDUALS NOT BE RAISED IN THIS PUBLIC FORUM.

SPECIFIC CONCERNS ABOUT EMPLOYEES OR FORMER EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY ACCORDING TO APPLICABLE BOARD POLICIES.

THE BOARD REQUESTS THAT COMMENTS, WHETHER POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE, BE COURTEOUS AND RESPECTFUL.

PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE PUBLIC COMMENT DOES WHILE THE PUBLIC DOES HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK, THAT RIGHT IS NOT UNLIMITED.

COMMENTS AND CRITICISM ABOUT THE PERSONAL AND PRIVATE MATTERS OF EMPLOYEES, STUDENTS, CITIZENS, OR BOARD MEMBERS WILL NOT BE ALLOWED IF A SPEAKER BEGINS TO DISCUSS PERSONAL OR PRIVATE MATTERS OF ANYONE OTHER THAN THEMSELVES OR THEIR OWN CHILDREN.

THEY WILL BE WARNED TO STOP AND MUTED.

IF THEY CONTINUE, NO AUDIENCE MEMBER OR SPEAKER WILL BE PERMITTED TO ENGAGE IN ANY CONDUCT THAT IS DISRUPTIVE OR THREATENING TOWARDS ANY SPEAKER OR ANY OTHER PERSON, OR TO VIOLATE THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF ANOTHER PERSON.

THE BOARD SHALL NOT TOLERATE DISRUPTION OF THE MEETING BY MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE.

IF, AFTER AT LEAST ONE WARNING FROM THE PRESIDING OFFICER, ANY INDIVIDUAL CONTINUES TO DISRUPT THE MEETING BY HIS OR HER WORDS OR ACTIONS.

THE PRESIDING OFFICER MAY REQUEST ASSISTANCE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TO HAVE THE THE INDIVIDUAL REMOVED FROM THE MEETING.

THE BOARD MAY NOT DISCUSS OR ACT UPON ANY MATTER THAT IS NOT LISTED UNDER THE ACTION ITEM PORTION OF THE AGENDA.

THEREFORE, BOARD MEMBERS MAY NOT DISCUSS THE COMMENTS OF SPEAKERS.

PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT LACK OF RESPONSE FROM BOARD MEMBERS DOES NOT INDICATE AGREEMENT OR APPROVAL FOR THE COMMENTS.

EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN 2 MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD.

SECRETARY WEIR WILL BE THE DESIGNATED TIMEKEEPER.

AND OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS [INAUDIBLE] SLATE.

SPEAKING OFF THE AGENDA.

AND DO YOU RESIDE IN ROUND ROCK ISD? THANK YOU. OH, THERE WE GO.

GOOD EVENING. I WOULD LIKE TO SHINE A LIGHT TONIGHT ON A LETTER THAT WAS WRITTEN ON APRIL 11TH BY MIKE [INAUDIBLE], THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.

AND THIS LETTER WAS TO GOVERNOR ABBOTT ABOUT THE OBSCENE CONTENT THAT MAY BE FOUND IN TEXAS PUBLIC LIBRARIES.

SO I'M GOING TO READ A LITTLE BIT OF THIS LETTER, AND THEN I WILL READ A LITTLE BIT OF THE MODEL POLICY THAT WAS SENT, HOPEFULLY TO OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT.

HE SAYS IN THE LETTER THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL INSTANCES RECENTLY OF INAPPROPRIATE MATERIALS BEING FOUND IN OUR SCHOOL LIBRARIES.

THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND THE STUDENTS OF TEXAS SHOULD NOT BE EXPOSED TO THIS HARMFUL CONTENT IN THEIR LOCAL SCHOOLS.

AFTER WORKING CLOSELY WITH THE TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION AND THE CHAIR OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS, THIS MODEL LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD POLICY WILL SERVE AS A HELPFUL GUIDE TO SCHOOL BOARDS AS THEY CREATE THE POLICIES FOR THEIR SCHOOL DISTRICT LIBRARIES.

SCHOOL BOARDS CAN CHOOSE TO ADOPT POLICIES THAT DEFINE PROCEDURES AND PROCESSES USED WITHIN THEIR SCHOOL SYSTEMS AND A HOST OF OPERATIONAL AREAS.

STATUTE PROVIDES FOR SIGNIFICANT LOCAL CONTROL AND HOW THESE POLICIES ADDRESS THE SELECTION OF INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING LIBRARY MATERIALS AND PROCEDURES RELATED TO THE SELECTION, REVIEW AND TRANSPARENCY OF LIBRARY MATERIALS THAT EMPHASIZE THE RIGHTS OF TEXAS PARENTS.

SORRY, I MAY HAVE SKIPPED OVER A LITTLE BIT.

THE TEA MODEL POLICY, WHICH IS PROVIDED, ALSO EXPLICITLY REFERENCES THE STANDARDS REGARDING INAPPROPRIATE AND HARMFUL CONTENT FOR STUDENTS AS DEFINED BY THE TEXAS

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PENAL CODE AND THE FEDERAL CHILDREN'S INTERNET PROTECTION ACT.

SO THIS MODEL POLICY WAS SHARED, AS IT SAYS IN THE LETTER, WITH EVERY SCHOOL SYSTEM IN THE STATE.

SO YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THAT.

AND WITHIN THE MODEL POLICY, IT SAYS THAT IN ADDITION TO THE ABOVE CRITERIA, WHICH IS NORMAL FOR SELECTION, ALL MATERIALS SHOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR STUDENTS.

TEXAS PENAL CODE 43.24A2 DESCRIBES HARMFUL MATERIAL AS MATERIAL WHOSE DOMINANT THEME TAKEN AS A WHOLE ONE APPEALS TO THE.

TIME SORRY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I DID. I'M SORRY.

YOU WERE LOOKING DOWN. I WAS TRYING TO.

THAT'S OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

WE WILL NOW HAVE STEPHANIE [INAUDIBLE].

AND THIS SAYS YOU DON'T LIVE IN THE DISTRICT, BUT I'M GUESSING YOU DO.

MY CHILDREN GO TO THE DISTRICT.

PERFECT. THANK YOU.

HELLO, BOARD. MY NAME IS STEPHANIE [INAUDIBLE], AND I'VE COME TO YOU TODAY TO ADDRESS THE LACK OF LOCKER ROOM FACILITIES AT THE WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL FIELDS.

I'VE PREVIOUSLY VOICED MY MANY CONCERNS VIA EMAIL, BUT I CAME TO DIRECTLY SPEAK TO THE BOARD TODAY.

THERE ARE FOUR MAJOR CONCERNS THAT THE COMMUNITY HAS IDENTIFIED WITH REGARDS TO THIS.

THERE'S NO SHELTER IN PLACE WHEN THERE'S A WEATHER EMERGENCY, WHICH ACTUALLY WE WE INCURRED THAT JUST LAST WEEK.

THERE AREN'T SUFFICIENT FACILITIES TO SHELTER PLAYERS, COACHES AND FANS IN A WEATHER EVENT.

SO THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT SAFETY ISSUE.

THERE'S ALSO A LACK OF EQUITY ACROSS THE DISTRICT.

WESTWOOD IS THE ONLY SCHOOL THAT DOES NOT HAVE THESE TYPES OF ACCOMMODATIONS, NOT ONLY WITHIN THE DISTRICT BUT WITHIN THE GREATER AUSTIN AREA.

THE LACK OF ADEQUATE RESTROOMS IS ALSO AN ISSUE.

WE HAVE PLAYERS FROM BOTH TEAMS TRYING TO CHANGE IN TO SINGLE STALL RESTROOMS, WHICH CLOGS UP THE RESTROOMS FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY NEED TO USE THEM.

THIS IS POTENTIALLY ALSO A TITLE NINE ISSUE.

AS THE MOTHER OF A DAUGHTER.

I FIND IT DISTURBING THAT WHILE MY DAUGHTER WALKS INTO THE BALL FIELD AREA, SHE IS SUBJECTED TO BASEBALL PLAYERS CHANGING IN THE PARKING LOT.

ONE EXAMPLE IS SET FOR OUR CHILDREN AND WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY? IF MY DAUGHTER WANTS TO SEE A BASEBALL PLAYER IN HIS BOXERS, IT SHOULD BE ON HER TERMS AND NOT BECAUSE SHE SHOWED UP TO PRACTICE.

THE PARENTS HAVE BEEN BRINGING THIS MATTER UP FOR OVER SIX YEARS AND THE BOARD CONTINUES TO DETERMINE THAT THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY TO ADDRESS.

AND WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO MAKE THIS A PRIORITY? IF SAFETY, EQUITY AND ADEQUATE RESTROOM FACILITIES AND SEXUAL HARASSMENT AREN'T ENOUGH, THEN WHAT IS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, [INAUDIBLE].

AND THAT CONCLUDES OUR PUBLIC COMMENT FOR THE EVENING.

COLLEAGUES, I WANTED TO MAKE A SUGGESTION ON OUR AGENDA WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT G2 AND G3.

G2 IS A DISCUSSION THAT I FEEL SHOULD INCLUDE ALL SEVEN OF US.

SO I'D REALLY LIKE TO MOVE THAT TO EITHER THE 5TH OF MAY OR THE 9TH OF MAY, WHEN WE HAVE PROBABLY THE 5TH OF MAY WHEN WE HAVE OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP. IS THAT APPROPRIATE? THAT'S FINE WITH ME.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

AND THEN ADDITIONALLY, WE WERE GOING TO HAVE MARSHA MCMANN, DR.

MCMANN, OUR LISD COACH, TALK TO US BRIEFLY ABOUT INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR POTENTIAL ROUND ROCK ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEE CANDIDATES.

SHE'S NOT ABLE TO BE WITH US TONIGHT, SO WE WILL BE MOVING THAT TO THE APRIL 25TH BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES POLICY UPDATE AND SESSIONS.

IS THAT GOOD? ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT BEING SAID, LET'S GO AHEAD AND HAVE OUR MONTHLY MONITOR REPORT FROM [INAUDIBLE].

[G. DISCUSSION ITEMS]

THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, TRUSTEES AND DR.

AZAIEZ. THIS MONTH REPORT WAS SUBMITTED.

THIS IS THE REPORT FOR MARCH.

IT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR BOARD PACKET SENT OVER ON APRIL 13TH.

AND WE'LL GO THROUGH IT REAL QUICKLY.

NOT A LOT HAS CHANGED FROM OUR LAST REPORT, BUT WE'LL WORK THROUGH THIS AS FAR AS ACTION PLAN CHALLENGES.

OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS IN MARCH THAT WERE CANCELED FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, A COUPLE OF THEM DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER.

WE WERE ABLE TO HEAR A LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE, BUT WE HAD A COUPLE THAT WERE CANCELED OR A COUPLE OF MEETINGS WHERE WE HAD LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCES SCHEDULED.

BUT DUE TO STAFF ILLNESSES, WE'RE UNABLE TO HEAR THOSE.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY, YOU VOTED TO REINSTATE THE SUPERINTENDENT AND THAT SHOULD HELP US FINALIZE OUR CORRECTIVE ACTION PLAN.

IF DONE NEXT PAGES UNDER THE OVERALL GOAL REGARDING THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS, UPDATING THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS, WE'VE AGAIN, THE BOARD HAS BEEN ABLE TO HEAR A COUPLE OF LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCES. BACK IN FEBRUARY, I HEARD ANOTHER ONE ON APRIL 5TH.

WE STILL REALLY HAVEN'T DUG IN ON THE POLICIES YET AT THIS TIME, AND I WOULD STILL SUGGEST THAT WE'D DO THAT WITH FMG, GBA AND GF, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ALL AWARE OF THOSE POLICIES AND IF THERE'S ANY UPDATES THAT NEED TO BE MADE.

KIND OF SUB GOALS TO THAT WOULD BE FOR US TO REVIEW THAT GRIEVANCE PROCESS.

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AGAIN, THE BOARD NEEDS TO REVIEW THOSE POLICIES AND DISTRICT AND DISTRICT PROCEDURES JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE UP TO DATE ON THAT.

THIS DEADLINE'S BEEN EXTENDED A COUPLE OF TIMES, AGAIN, WITH MEETINGS BEING CANCELED IN FEBRUARY AND SOME WEATHER EVENTS IN MARCH AS WELL.

AND THEN FROM THERE, ONCE YOU REVIEW THAT, THERE WOULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU ALL TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THERE NEEDED TO BE UPDATES IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOUR ATTORNEYS TO SEE IF THERE ARE SOME THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CHANGE UPDATE MODIFY BASED ON CURRENT LAW OR CURRENT BEST PRACTICES.

AND THEY WOULD NEED TO UPDATE THOSE PROCEDURES, WHICH WOULD TAKE A COUPLE OF MEETINGS BASED ON ADOPTING NEW POLICY IF IT NEEDED TO BE DONE WITH, OBVIOUSLY ON THE LOCAL SIDE, THEN THERE'S LITTLE NARRATIVE SECTION.

THERE STILL NEED TO REVIEW THE GRIEVANCE PROCESS AND THE GRIEVANCE POLICIES.

WE NEED TO DO THAT AT UPCOMING MEETING.

WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MEET TO REVIEW THOSE NEED TO DO THAT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

AND THEN WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEE THESE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES IMPLEMENTED WITH FIDELITY.

AND AGAIN, YOU'VE, YOU'VE HEARD QUITE A FEW GRIEVANCES AND I THINK HAVE DONE PRETTY WELL THERE.

BUT WE JUST NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR THAT OUR POLICIES ARE WHAT THEY NEED TO BE.

THEN UNDER THE NEXT GOAL, UNDER BOARD COMMUNICATION, THIS PROBABLY ENCOMPASSES QUITE A BIT.

I BELIEVE THIS CAN BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE ADDRESSED THROUGH THE APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES, WHICH YOU HAVE ON THE AGENDA FOR MONDAY.

AND WE'VE HAD THAT ON THE AGENDA BEFORE.

WE'VE ASKED FOR A LEGAL REVIEW OF THOSE.

AND OF COURSE THERE MAY BE SOME CHANGES BASED ON POLICY UPDATE 118 THAT'S OUT THERE, BUT YOU'RE WORKING TO SCHEDULE THAT.

WE HAD HOPED TO GET THAT DONE IN EARLY APRIL, BUT AGAIN, I THINK WE HAVE THAT SCHEDULED FOR MONDAY, THE 25TH.

AND THEN UNDER THE CURRENT COMMUNICATION STRUCTURE, I JUST THINK WE STILL NEED TO AGAIN, WORKING WITH MR. MCMANN, THE LSG COACH, TO DETERMINE WHAT OUR WHAT OUR BEST PRACTICE IS AS FAR AS COMMUNICATION FROM ADMINISTRATION TO THE BOARD, BOARD BACK TO ADMINISTRATION AND HOW WE NEED TO MANAGE THAT.

AND AGAIN, SEVERAL IDEAS THERE, BUT I THINK MARSHA CAN HELP US WITH THAT.

SO I KNOW YOU TRIED TO SCHEDULE A MEETING TO DO THAT, BUT NOT ALL BOARD MEMBERS WERE ABLE TO ATTEND.

AND I THINK THIS NEEDS TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE ALL WE ALL ARE PART OF.

AND THEN AGAIN, THAT UPDATING AND APPROVING THE OPERATING PROCEDURES.

I KNOW THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF DISCUSSION ABOUT THAT AND THAT'S ON THE AGENDA.

SO HOPEFULLY NEXT MONTH THAT WILL COME OFF THE READ AND WE'LL HAVE THAT IN A GOOD PLACE.

AND AGAIN, HOPEFULLY WE CAN AGREE TO OPERATING PROCEDURES, HOW WE'RE GOING TO OPERATE AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN WORK TO ABIDE BY THOSE.

I KNOW IT CAN BE DIFFICULT WITH SEVEN OF US, BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN COME TO CONSENSUS ON HOW THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE.

AND THEN THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A NARRATIVE THERE.

WE STILL STRUGGLE WITH EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION.

THERE ARE CONVERSATIONS THAT OCCUR, I THINK, IN THE BOARD MEETING AND OUT OF THE BOARD MEETING EXECUTIVE SESSION.

THAT WILL REALLY GET US TO THE GOAL OF EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND DEALING WITH STUDENT OUTCOMES.

AGAIN, I MENTIONED YOU'RE WORKING TO ADOPT YOUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

WE ALSO HAD A REMINDER, BUT WE ALSO NEED TO CONTINUE TO BE REMINDED OF THE INQUIRIES COMPLAINTS REFERRING COMPLAINTS SECTION OF THE OPERATING PROCEDURES AND POLICY BE LOCAL THAT COMPLAINTS NEED TO BE SENT BACK TO THE ADMINISTRATION.

THAT'S REALLY NOT A BOARD FUNCTION TO MANAGE COMPLAINTS OTHER THAN GETTING THEM TO ADMINISTRATION.

AND THEN JUST THAT STUDENT OUTCOMES.

WE CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH THAT.

AND AGAIN, THIS REPORT IS IN MARCH, BUT IT'S BASED ON A TIME TRACKER THAT WAS SUBMITTED IN FEBRUARY THAT I'VE INCLUDED IT AT THE END AND YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.

WE REALLY NEED TO SPEND MORE TIME ON STUDENT OUTCOMES.

AND THIS, I THINK, REALLY HAS TO IMPROVE FOR THE DISTRICT TO MOVE FORWARD.

THEN THERE'S A DOCUMENTED SECTION ON DATES OF BOARD MEETING.

YOU CAN SEE THE COLD MEETINGS, REGULAR MEETINGS.

WE DID HAVE TO CANCEL A MEETING ON MARCH 21ST FOR OBVIOUSLY OBVIOUS REASONS, AND THEN THE ONE ON MARCH 29TH WHERE WE WERE SCHEDULED TO HEAR A LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE WE NEEDED TO CANCEL. YOU HAD SOME ILLNESS THAT WAS AFFECTING US.

BUT YOU SEE THE MEETINGS THERE ARE IN THE RED THERE.

OUR GOAL WOULD BE TO HAVE TWO HOUR MEETINGS.

THAT'S A PRETTY LOFTY GOAL, I THINK, FOR ANY BOARD, PARTICULARLY WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE KINDS OF THINGS YOU ARE.

BUT WE'RE CURRENTLY AT IN MARCH, WE'RE AT 4.7 HOURS, THAT 530 MINUTE MEETING THERE ON THE 24TH.

WE'VE HAD A COUPLE OF THOSE IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY.

I DON'T KNOW THAT ANYTHING REALLY, REALLY GREAT HAPPENS AFTER, YOU KNOW, 10:30 OR 11:00.

SO THE BEST WE CAN DO TO GET THOSE REALLY IMPORTANT DECISIONS EARLIER AND GET US HOME AT REASONABLE HOURS, I THINK IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT FOR US.

AND THEN AGAIN, THE LAST PAGE IS JUST THAT TIME TRACKER THAT WAS PRESENTED AT THIS TIME LAST MONTH.

THIS MONTH IS A LITTLE BETTER.

I THINK THERE'S 26 MINUTES.

I THINK WE'LL GET THAT REPORT NEXT.

SO WE DO HAVE SOME MINUTES THERE.

AND AGAIN, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DISCREPANCY BETWEEN WHAT I'M REPORTING AND WHAT LSG REPORTS.

RIGHT, BECAUSE THEY DO TAKE OUT THINGS LIKE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND SOME OTHER ITEMS AS FAR AS THIS REPORT I'M SUBMITTING IS REALLY FROM THE TIME WE KICK OFF AT 5:30 TO WE'RE ALL

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ABLE TO SAY GOODNIGHT AND GO HOME.

SO THAT'S THE REPORT THAT WAS FILED THIS THIS MONTH.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, [INAUDIBLE].

WE HAVE SCHEDULED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE REQUESTED ON HERE.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO HEAR ABOUT THAT NOW OR I WILL SHARE THAT DURING ANNOUNCEMENTS.

BUT WE ARE ACTIVELY WORKING.

IT'S TOTALLY UP TO YOU EITHER WAY.

IT'S FINE. JUST BRIEFLY, ON APRIL 25TH, WHICH IS MONDAY, WE WILL BE GOING OVER OUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND THE POLICY UPDATE, AND DR.

MCMANN WILL BE COMING IN NOT TO DO THE SWAP, BUT SHE'LL BE COMING IN BRIEFLY.

AND THEN ON MAY 5TH, WE HAVE A CALLED BOARD MEETING WHERE I BELIEVE WE HAVE ADDED A LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE, AT LEAST ONE.

AND I THINK STANDARD PRACTICE, WE'RE GOING TO BE ADDING LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCES TO EACH OF OUR CALLED AND BUDGET MEETINGS TO GET THROUGH THAT.

MAY 9TH, WE HAVE AN EVENING TEAM OF EIGHT AND BOARD SELF EVALUATION.

WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT. THIS IS OUR FIRST BOARD SELF-EVALUATION AS THIS BOARD.

MAY 11TH THAT'S ANOTHER CALLED MEETING WHERE WE WILL BE WORKING THROUGH LEVEL THREE GRIEVANCE AND BUDGET AS WELL.

IT'S ANOTHER BUDGET WORKSHOP SO WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS.

BOARD OFFICERS HAVE MET TO LOOK AT YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS AND GET THINGS SCHEDULED AND SO WE ARE WORKING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HOPE AND FIDELITY TOWARDS THE GOAL OF STRENGTHENING ROUND ROCK ISD. THANK YOU.

AWESOME. IT'S GOOD TO HEAR. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. NOW I BELIEVE THAT MEANS THAT WE'RE HAVING WE'RE UP TO H1 SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS TO REMEMBER COLLEAGUES WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE G2 AND G3 TO A DIFFERENT TIME A LATER DATE.

SO SECRETARY WEIR.

[H. SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS]

WE HAD 66 MINUTES [INAUDIBLE] ON STUDENT OUTCOMES AND OUT OF WHAT I CALCULATED IS 240 TOTAL.

SO WE WERE ACTUALLY AT 27.5% OF STUDENT OUT OF OUR MINUTES WERE ON STUDENT OUTCOMES.

AND LIKE [INAUDIBLE] SAID, WE I DON'T FOR LSG, I DON'T COUNT SPEAKERS ON AGENDA TOPICS, I DON'T COUNT OUR CLOSED SESSION TIME OR ANYTHING THAT IS REQUIRED BY LAW THAT WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT.

BUT SO WE DID DO THANKFULLY DR.

AZAIEZ HAD A AND RYAN HAD A PRESENTATION FOR US.

SO I DO APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE THAT DID HELP US LOOK A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN MARCH.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SECRETARY WEIR.

AND NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO DR.

AZAIEZ FOR H2 ACCOUNTABILITY UPDATE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

TRUSTEE HARRISON, TRUSTEES.

WE HAVE RYAN AND WE TEAM RIGHT HERE TO PRESENT AND TALK ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY.

OUR ACCOUNTABILITY UPDATE THERE'S A LOT THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING, A LOT OF NEW INFORMATION RELEASED BY DA, BUT ALSO OUR STUDENTS, OBVIOUSLY, WHO'VE BEEN OUR TEACHERS AND OUR STAFF HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD WITH THEM.

AND SO WE HAVE SOME SOME ALSO INFORMATION ABOUT HOW THEY'RE DOING.

AND SO WITHOUT ANY DELAY, I WANT I'LL JUST TRY TO TAKE IT OVER.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, DR. AZAIEZ AND BOARD MEMBERS.

AND THANKS FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT.

JUST SPEND A FEW MINUTES TALKING ABOUT THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM, STAR EXAM, EOC, EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.

BEFORE WE MEET AGAIN IN MAY, OUR STUDENTS WILL HAVE TAKEN MOST OF OUR STUDENTS WILL HAVE TAKEN THEIR STAR EOC EXAMS. WE WON'T NECESSARILY HAVE THE RESULTS BY THAT POINT IN MAY, BUT WE DO EXPECT THE RESULTS TO COME IN BEFORE THE END OF MAY.

SO WE THOUGHT IT'D BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TONIGHT TO JUST PROVIDE SOME UPDATES ON THE 2022 ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.

THERE AREN'T A LOT OF CHANGES FOR THIS YEAR, BUT DO YOU WANT TO JUST KIND OF REMIND EVERYBODY OF AN OVERVIEW OF HOW IT WORKS? FOR SOME OF YOU? THIS MIGHT BE A REPEAT.

FOR SOME IT MIGHT BE NEW, BUT IT'S A COMPLICATED SYSTEM, SO IT ALWAYS IS GOOD TO REVIEW BEFORE WE HEAD INTO THE TIME OF YEAR WHEN WE START GETTING.

THOSE RESULTS. SO, JENNIFER, GO AHEAD AND PULL UP THE PRESENTATION.

AND I'M JOINED UP HERE TONIGHT BY ERICA SIMMONS.

SHE'S OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.

I'LL GET STARTED AS THE SLIDE DECK IS COMING UP.

ESSENTIALLY TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THREE MAIN THINGS.

ONE IS THAT UPDATE ON THE 2022 SYSTEM AND THEN GOING TO SPEND JUST A LITTLE BIT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT SOME THINGS THAT ARE UNIQUE FOR ROUND ROCK ISD THIS YEAR.

THINGS WE'VE MENTIONED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT OUR DIFFERENT GPMS AND DIFFERENT DIFFERENT DATA THROUGHOUT THE THROUGHOUT THE FALL SEMESTER AND THE WINTER AND HOW SOME OF THAT'S GOING TO PLAY INTO OUR CAMPUS AND DISTRICT WIDE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS.

AND THEN JUST GOING TO SPEND A COUPLE OF MINUTES AND A COUPLE OF SLIDES TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS TO COME IN 2023.

SO ONCE THOSE SLIDES ARE UP THERE, I WILL JUMP RIGHT IN.

THE PRESENTATION WASN'T ON THE BACK, PATTY SENDING IT NOW, SO IT MIGHT JUST BE ANOTHER MINUTE OR TWO.

ALL RIGHT, WELL, I'LL START. I'LL KEEP TALKING ABOUT ABOUT IT THEN AS WE AS WE GET GOING, DON'T WANT TO TAKE TOO MUCH TIME WITH US TONIGHT.

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OF COURSE, WE DO WANT TO HAVE SOME TIME ON OUR ON OUR TIME TRACKER, THOUGH.

BUT ONE PIECE, JUST TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 2022.

ERICA AND I HAVE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY RECENTLY TO ATTEND SEVERAL SESSIONS WITH SOME OF OUR PARTNERS WITH TEXAS SCHOOL ALLIANCE WITH TAS ALSO BEEN PROVIDING SOME UPDATES.

AND ONE, ONE BIG DIFFERENCE FOR 2022 IS THAT ESSENTIALLY CAMPUSES ARE GOING TO EITHER RECEIVE AN A, B, C OR NOT RATED.

SO SCALE SCORES AND TARGETS AND EVERYTHING HAVE REMAINED THE SAME.

BUT THAT'S REALLY THE MAIN CHANGE THAT'S GOING TO BE FOR THIS THIS COMING YEAR.

IN THE PAST, IF A CAMPUS RECEIVED A SCALE SCORE OF LESS THAN 70, IT MIGHT HAVE RECEIVED A D OR AN F, BUT THERE WON'T BE ANY D'S OR F'S IN 2022.

SCALE SCORES WILL STILL BE REPORTED AND PUBLISHED AND ON TEXAS SCHOOLS.GOV.

PARENTS COMMITTEE MEMBERS OURSELVES WILL ALL BE ABLE TO GO IN AND SEE THOSE THOSE SCALE SCORES.

SO ESSENTIALLY THERE WON'T BE A LETTER TIED TO A CAMPUS, BUT THAT SCALE SCORE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO ESSENTIALLY SEE WHAT THAT WHAT THAT RATING WOULD HAVE BEEN.

SOME OF THE OTHER PIECES ON THAT SLIDE, ONCE WE ONCE WE GET IT IS LET'S SEE.

SO IT'S REALLY ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WITH THE THE NOT RATED SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE FOR THIS YEAR IS, AS YOU REMEMBER, CAMPUSES ALL RECEIVE A GRADE A THROUGH F OR A THROUGH C OR NOT RATED FOR 2022.

AND THEN THE DISTRICT ITSELF ALSO RECEIVES AN A THROUGH F IN OTHER YEARS OR AN A THROUGH C OR NOT RATED THIS YEAR.

ONE ELEMENT THAT WE DO NEED TO KEEP IN MIND THAT IF A DISTRICT HAS EVEN EVEN ONE CAMPUS THAT LANDS IN THAT NOT RATED CATEGORY, THEN THE DISTRICT AS A WHOLE CANNOT RECEIVE ANYTHING HIGHER THAN A B.

CURRENTLY, OUR CAMPUSES ARE FINISHING UP THEIR STAR INTERIM ASSESSMENTS, SO THAT'S AN ASSESSMENT THAT'S PUT TOGETHER BY TEA EACH YEAR.

AND ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES TAKE IT IN MATH AND READING AND SCIENCE.

WE HAVE A WINDOW THAT WE GIVE THEM TO FINISH THAT ASSESSMENT.

AND THEY'RE FINISHING UP, I BELIEVE, THIS WEEK FOR MOST OF THEM.

BUT WE'VE BEEN MONITORING THOSE RESULTS ALONG THE WAY.

AND THE PURPOSE OF THAT ASSESSMENT IS TO PROVIDE SOMEWHAT OF A PREDICTION.

IT'S NOT BY ANY MEANS A PERFECT PREDICTION, BUT WE TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT.

WE ALSO TAKE INTO OUR BEGINNING OF YEAR, MIDDLE OF YEAR ASSESSMENTS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IN THE LAST BOARD MEETINGS WITH OUR [INAUDIBLE] AND M-CLASS SCORES.

AND I WILL SAY THAT THAT OUR CAMPUSES ARE ON TRACK, YOU KNOW, IN RECOVERING, BUT WE'RE DEFINITELY NOT NECESSARILY ALL THE WAY BACK TO WHERE WE WERE PRE-PANDEMIC.

SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING I DO WANT TO DO WANT TO PUT OUT THERE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE'RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF IT AND THAT ASSESSMENT IS NOT FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, WE ARE ANTICIPATING THAT WE WILL LIKELY HAVE SOME CAMPUSES THAT WILL LIKELY FALL IN THAT NOT RATED CATEGORY.

SO JUST WANT TO I DON'T WANT TO BE TOO TOO DOWN AT THIS POINT BECAUSE THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK GOING ON ON CAMPUSES AROUND THERE.

BUT DO YOU WANT TO PUT IT OUT THAT IS A REAL POSSIBILITY? YOU KNOW, ONCE WE GET THE RESULTS BACK, THAT WE'LL HAVE CAMPUSES IN THAT IN THAT RATING FOR THIS YEAR.

AND THEN WHAT THAT MEANS IS THE HIGHEST RATING THAT HAS A DISTRICT WE CAN RECEIVE WOULD BE A B, BUT STILL A LOT OF WORK TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.

AND WE'RE EXCITED TO SEE HOW OUR CAMPUSES ARE SUPPORTING OUR STUDENTS AND WE'LL GET THOSE RESULTS WHEN THEY COME IN.

ALL RIGHT. SO IF YOU CAN GO TO SLIDE THREE.

YEAH. GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT.

ALL RIGHT. KEEP GOING. ONE MORE.

NEXT SLIDE. ALL RIGHT.

SO SOME OTHER UPDATES FOR 2022.

LET'S PULL UP THAT SLIDE THAT SAYS HOUSE BILL 4545.

SO SOME OTHER UPDATES FOR THIS YEAR THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN LAST YEAR.

IN THE PAST, WE HAD STUDENT SUCCESS INITIATIVE, SSI, SO THAT MEANT STUDENTS IN FIFTH AND EIGHTH GRADE WOULD TAKE THE TEST MULTIPLE TIMES.

THAT'S NO LONGER PART OF THE SYSTEM.

WHEN HOUSE BILL 4545 CAME INTO PLAY.

STUDENTS IN ALL GRADE LEVELS ONLY TAKE THE ASSESSMENT AT ONE TIME, AND IF THEY SCORE, IT DID NOT MEET LIKE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST, AND THEY ARE IN THAT ACCELERATED LEARNING PROGRAM THE NEXT YEAR AND HAVE THOSE 30 HOURS OF OF ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTION.

ANOTHER CHANGE FOR THIS YEAR IS THE GRADE FOUR AND SEVEN.

WRITING ASSESSMENT IS NO LONGER A STANDALONE ASSESSMENT.

BUT WHAT TA HAS DONE IS THEY'VE ADDED WRITING ESSENTIALLY TO ALL READING ASSESSMENTS THREE THROUGH EIGHT, ENGLISH ONE AND TWO ALL HAVE CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES, ESSAY PORTIONS.

SO WRITING IS STILL DEFINITELY A KEY ELEMENT THAT THE STATE, YOU KNOW, MEASURES AND MONITORS AND IT'S PART OF THE SYSTEM, BUT IT'S INCORPORATED INTO ALL GRADE LEVELS.

SO THAT'S THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM YEARS PAST.

AND ONE REAL POINT THAT I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT HERE, AND I'M USING SLIDES STRAIGHT FROM TEA TO COMMUNICATE MOST OF THIS, BUT I REALLY WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT SLIDE, THAT BULLET POINT THERE. JUST JUST TO POINT OUT THAT THE SCALING AND THE TARGETS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH IN 2022, NOTHING HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO REALLY TAKE THE PANDEMIC INTO ACCOUNT IN ANY WAY.

SO WE'RE WE'LL TALK ABOUT CHANGES COMING TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IN A LITTLE BIT.

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BUT WHAT TEA IS SAYING THAT IN THE RESET, WHICH WILL HAPPEN NEXT YEAR, THEY WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT 2022 RESULTS.

AND AT THAT POINT, WE'LL LIKELY SEE SOME CHANGES IN TARGETS AND SCALING BECAUSE THEY'LL TAKE THESE RESULTS INTO ACCOUNT.

BUT FOR THIS YEAR, THE SYSTEM REALLY IS NOT REFLECTING ANY KIND OF RESPONSE TO THE PANDEMIC AT ALL.

SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING I WANT US TO KEEP IN MIND THAT THE TARGETS THAT THAT ARE IN PLACE ARE DEFINITELY WERE SET PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC AND HAVE NOT BEEN CHANGED AT ALL QUITE YET.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK UP THERE.

BACK UP TO THAT SLIDE RIGHT THERE.

THANK YOU. JUST THE LAST BULLET POINT THERE WE TOOK, WE WE TALK A LOT ABOUT SCALING.

SO SCALING ESSENTIALLY IS HOW YOU GET TO THAT A THROUGH F, SO IT'S NOT STRAIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD THAT LIKE IF A CAMPUS IN A CERTAIN DOMAIN RECEIVES AN 80 RAW SCORE, THAT SCALES TO A B, THE SCALING IS ESSENTIALLY A WAY TO RANK CAMPUSES DEPENDING ON THOSE RESULTS.

AND THERE'S LOTS OF TOOLS THAT TA PUTS OUT THERE FOR US TO HELP PREDICT WHERE OUR CAMPUSES WILL LAND ON THAT THAT FINAL SCALE SCORE.

ALL RIGHT, JENNIFER, YOU CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE.

A COUPLE OTHER UPDATES FOR 2022 RELATED TO [INAUDIBLE] 15 AND VIRTUAL LEARNING IS WE ARE GOING TO RECEIVE RESULTS WITH OUR STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED THE VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM AT LEAST 50% OF THE TIME OF THE SCHOOL YEAR, WHICH THAT WAS THE MAJORITY OF OUR STUDENTS WHO WERE IN THE VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM IN THE FALL. THERE IS ALSO BE PULLED OUT AND REPORTED SEPARATELY.

THEY WON'T BE THEIR OWN ACCOUNTABILITY GROUP.

BUT WHEN WE DO GET THOSE REPORTS BACK, THAT'S JUST A CHANGE THIS YEAR THAT ALL DISTRICTS THAT HAD VIRTUAL AS AN OPTION THIS YEAR, THOSE RESULTS WILL BE REPORTED SEPARATELY.

THE PURPOSE BEHIND THAT IS I THINK TO IS TRYING TO KIND OF MEASURE WHERE VIRTUAL LEARNING WAS POTENTIALLY SUCCESSFUL OR NOT SUCCESSFUL.

AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WITH OUR VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM, LIKE OUR STUDENTS ARE TYPICALLY OUTPERFORMING STUDENTS THAT WERE ON CAMPUS IN THE FALL.

I DON'T KNOW IF I WOULD NECESSARILY CORRELATE ONE TO THE OTHER BECAUSE THE STUDENTS WHO PERFORMED HIGH WERE PERFORMING HIGH PRIOR TO OUR VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM OR PERFORMING HIGH AFTERWARDS. SO IT WILL BE INTERESTING TO HAVE THAT THAT DATA BACK WHEN WE GET IT FROM THE STATE AND GO AHEAD AND GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE.

SO THIS IS JUST A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF JUST ESSENTIALLY HOW THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM WORKS FOR THE DOMAIN ONE, WHICH IS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT DOMAIN.

AND REALLY WHAT I WANT TO REMIND EVERYBODY AND HIGHLIGHT HERE IS, IS FOR OUR ELEMENTARY CAMPUS, ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES, THAT IT TRULY IS A ONE TEST ON ONE DAY KIND OF MENTALITY. THERE'S REALLY ONLY ONE METRIC THAT OUR ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM USES TO MEASURE OUR ELEMENTARY MIDDLE SCHOOL CAMPUSES.

HIGH SCHOOL, YOU GET A LITTLE TWO ADDITIONAL METRICS THAT FEED INTO THAT FINAL RESULT WITH THE CCMR AND GRADUATION RATE.

BUT WITH ELEMENTARY, IT IS PRETTY MUCH 100% ON THAT THAT STAAR EXAM.

ALL RIGHT. SO THAT'S ESSENTIALLY DOMAIN ONE THEN IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS ALL AROUND JUST STRAIGHT ACHIEVEMENT ON THAT STAAR YOU SEE DOMAIN TWO, OF COURSE, IS ACADEMIC GROWTH THAT WHICH MEASURES STUDENTS PERFORMANCE YEAR TO YEAR.

AND THERE'S TWO PARTS TO DOMAIN TWO, OF COURSE, THERE'S THAT ACADEMIC PROGRESS.

ONE PIECE THAT GOT A SLIDE ON LATER, BUT I CAN MENTION IT HERE AS WELL THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.

BUT JUST WANT TO BRING UP ONE MORE TIME IS THAT IN THIS YEAR, IN 2022, THE ONLY STUDENTS THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE MEASURING OF PART A FOR DOMAIN TWO SCHOOL PROGRESS ARE STUDENTS WHO CHOSE TO COME IN AND TAKE THE STAAR EXAM LAST SPRING.

IF YOU REMEMBER, THAT WAS ESSENTIALLY IT WAS ONLY OFFERED ON CAMPUS AND IT WAS AN OPTION FOR STUDENTS TO COME IN AND TAKE IT OR NOT.

I BELIEVE STATEWIDE IT WAS A LITTLE HIGHER PARTICIPATION RATE THAN WE HAD GENERALLY WAS VARIES A LITTLE BIT TESTED TEST.

BUT FOR ROUND ROCK ISD OVERALL WE HAD ABOUT 70% PARTICIPATION RATE LAST YEAR.

SO THAT MEANS ESSENTIALLY THAT 30% OF OUR STUDENTS ARE GOING TO BE PULLED OUT OF THIS DOMAIN.

SO THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A HAVE AN IMPACT ON OUR CAMPUS RATINGS BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS THERE WON'T BE A POSSIBLE POINT THAT THOSE STUDENTS COULD SCORE, THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO IF THEY TOOK THAT ASSESSMENT LAST YEAR.

AND THEN REALLY NO CHANGES WITH THE PART B, WHICH IS RELATIVE PERFORMANCE, WHICH COMPARES CAMPUSES TO THEIR LIKE GROUPS ACROSS THE STATE.

NEXT SLIDE, JENNIFER, JUST WANTED TO KIND OF SHOW HOW THE POINT SYSTEM WORKS.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE, SO IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO SEE.

BUT REALLY WHAT I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT IN OUR ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM IS HOW TRULY EVERY STUDENT IS.

A LOT OF TIMES ON CAMPUS WE MIGHT HAVE IN THE PAST CALLED STUDENTS LIKE BUBBLE STUDENTS.

SO THEY WERE LIKE CLOSE TO A CERTAIN PERFORMANCE LEVEL, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF MAYBE DID NOT MEET TWO APPROACHES.

IN THIS SYSTEM, IT REALLY PUSHES US AND PUSHES US IN TEACHING AND LEARNING AND ON CAMPUSES TO BE WORKING WITH STUDENTS WHO ARE PERFORMING AT ALL LEVELS. SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE ON HERE, YOU COULD HAVE A STUDENT WHO APPROACHES GRADE LEVEL LAST YEAR FOR THAT STUDENT TO EARN A POINT.

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THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS THEY COULD STAY AT THAT APPROACHES, BUT HAVE SHOWN A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF GROWTH WITHIN THAT CATEGORY OR MOVED ON TO MEETS OR MOVED ALL THE WAY DOWN TO MASTER'S. AND THEY STILL JUST SCORE THAT ONE POINT.

SO IT DEFINITELY MEASURES GROWTH ALONG THE WAY.

YOU COULD ALSO SCORE HALF A POINT IF YOU DID GROW, BUT MAYBE DIDN'T GROW AS AS MUCH AS WAS EXPECTED.

SO YOU GET A HALF A POINT FOR THAT.

AND THEN OBVIOUSLY OUR MASTERS, OUR STUDENTS WHO SCORE MASTERS ON THE ASSESSMENT, IN ORDER FOR US TO CONTINUE TO EARN THAT POINT FOR THEM, THEY NEED TO STAY AT THAT LEVEL.

SO THAT THAT IS A KEY POINT THAT I KNOW OUR CAMPUS IS FOCUSED ON QUITE A BIT TO MAKE SURE ONCE ONCE WE HAVE THOSE KIDS IN THAT AREA THAT THEY STAY IN THAT PERFORMANCE LABEL.

THE NEXT SLIDE IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF HOW TEA KIND OF VISUALIZES RELATIVE PERFORMANCE.

AND WE KIND OF BAND ALL THE CAMPUSES BASED ON ECONOMIC STATUS, AND THEN THAT'S HOW CAMPUSES ARE THEN PUT INTO THE DIFFERENT COHORTS ACROSS THE STATE.

CLOSING THE GAPS THEN IS THE THIRD DOMAIN IN THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.

NOT A LOT OF CHANGES WITH THAT THIS YEAR.

I KNOW IT SAYS THAT LP ENGLISH LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY METHODOLOGY.

OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE THAT NOW.

WHAT WE WERE WAITING ON WAS ESSENTIALLY BECAUSE THERE WAS THAT GAP IN TESTING FOR A LOT OF STUDENTS LAST YEAR, LIKE HOW ARE WE GOING TO MEASURE STUDENTS WHO WERE TAKING THE TELL PASS EXAM? SO OUR ENGLISH IMMERSION BILINGUALS, A LOT OF TIMES WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE TWO ASSESSMENTS.

THEY'LL TAKE THE STAAR OR EOC EXAM.

THEY'LL ALSO TAKE TELL, PASS AND TELL PASS THEN IS FILTERED INTO THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AS WELL.

AND TO MEASURE THAT, THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL DIFFERENT WAYS THAT THEY CAN GROW WITHIN THAT ASSESSMENT.

BUT WE WERE JUST WAITING ON LIKE WHICH YEAR TO GO BACK TO OR HOW FAR TO GO BACK IF THEY DID NOT TAKE AN ASSESSMENT LAST YEAR.

SO LIKE I SAID, NOT A LOT OF DIFFERENT CHANGES IN THE CLOSING THE GAPS DOMAIN FOR THIS YEAR THAT THEY HIGHLIGHT THAT STAAR COMPONENT.

AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE GRADES FOUR AND SEVEN WRITING ARE NO LONGER A STANDALONE ASSESSMENT AND SSI THAT RETESTING IS NO LONGER PART OF THE PROGRAM.

THE NEXT SLIDE JUST WANTED TO GIVE A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF HOW THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES FOR CLOSING THE GAPS ARE WEIGHTED.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT ESSENTIALLY THE CAMPUSES WILL RECEIVE A SCORE IN THIS DOMAIN AND THEY'RE NOT ALL PORTIONS THAT ARE NOT WEIGHTED EQUALLY IS STILL VERY HEAVY ON THE ACTUAL STAAR PERFORMANCE OF HOW STUDENT CAMPUSES GET THAT RATING.

YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

THIS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT TOO, THESE ARE THE TARGETS.

THE WHOLE IDEA BEHIND CLOSING THE GAPS IS THAT STUDENTS ARE WE NEED TO CERTAIN STUDENT GROUPS TO GROW QUICKER THAN OTHERS.

SO WE THE STATE PUTS OUT TARGETS THAT ARE MORE AGGRESSIVE FOR SOME GROUPS THAN OTHERS.

I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT HERE THAT THESE THESE TARGETS, OF COURSE, HAVE NOT CHANGED SINCE 2017.

SO THAT ALL OF THE TARGETS ESSENTIALLY WHEN THE STATE WENT TO THE A THROUGH F RATING SYSTEM, THE TARGETS WERE SET AT THAT POINT.

AND THEN THEY'VE MAINTAINED CONSISTENCY JUST AND THE WAY THIS WORKS, TOO, IS IT'S ANOTHER POINT BASED SYSTEM SO CAMPUSES CAN EARN.

IT'S EITHER YOU EARN THE POINT OR YOU DON'T EARN THE POINT.

IF YOU MET THE TARGET FOR THAT STUDENT GROUP, ONE CHANGE THAT WE DO THINK THAT TEA PROBABLY MAKE IN THE RESET GOING INTO NEXT YEAR IS IT WON'T NECESSARILY BE AND THIS IS ALL HYPOTHETICAL NOT HYPOTHETICAL BUT POTENTIAL WITH THE CHANGES IS THAT THERE WILL LIKELY BE SOME SOME VARIANCE IN THE NUMBER OF POINTS YOU COULD SCORE IN CLOSING THE GAPS, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN SHOW GROWTH AND STILL NOT HIT THAT TARGET.

SO WE'RE THINKING THAT THERE'S PROBABLY BE LIKE A ONE, THROUGH FOUR SCALE WITHIN CLOSING THE GAPS FOR EACH EACH GROUP.

SO IT'S NOT A PASS FAIL, ESSENTIALLY, IF YOU GOT THAT POINT.

AND THEN FINALLY, JUST THE LAST KIND OF UPDATE FOR THIS YEAR.

SO WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF CAMPUSES THAT ARE ON OUR TARGETED IMPROVEMENT.

AND THE WAY THAT IN THE PAST HAS BEEN ESSENTIALLY THE IF YOU LANDED IN THE BOTTOM 5% OF YOUR LIKE SCHOOL GROUPS, THAT'S HOW YOU ENDED IN THAT ENDED UP IN THAT CATEGORY.

AND THERE'S THE STATE IS ACTUALLY LOOKING TO CHANGE THAT METHODOLOGY.

AND SINCE THAT'S A FEDERAL PROGRAM TEA HAS PUT IN SOME REQUESTS FOR WAIVERS THAT WE EXPECT WILL PROBABLY BE APPROVED LATER IN THE YEAR.

BUT THAT COULD CHANGE THAT METHODOLOGY SOMEWHAT.

SO IT COULD AFFECT OUR CAMPUSES THAT ARE THAT ARE IN THAT POSITION AT THIS POINT.

BUT THAT'S STILL SOMETHING THAT'S NOT DECIDED UPON YET.

AND NEXT, I WANT TO TRANSITION JUST A LITTLE BIT INTO REALLY JUST SOME REMINDERS ABOUT KIND OF ROUND ROCK ISD IN 2020 AND HOW SOME OF THE ANOMALIES OF 2022 AND THE PANDEMIC ARE GOING TO AFFECT THE ACCURACY OF OUR RATINGS OR OUR CAMPUS RATINGS AND SCORES.

SO AGAIN, LIKE I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, STUDENTS AND GO AHEAD, JENNIFER.

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YOU CAN SLIDE THAT ONE UP.

SO OUR STUDENTS REMIND OUR STUDENTS WHO ATTENDED THE VIRTUAL LEARNING PROGRAM ON PM SNAPSHOT DATE, WHICH IS THE END OF OCTOBER.

SO THOSE STUDENTS WILL NOT THEIR SCORE WILL NOT COUNT FOR ANY CAMPUS.

SO REMEMBER, THAT WAS 4500, CLOSE TO 5000 STUDENTS.

THE STUDENTS THAT WON'T AFFECT THEM AT ALL.

THEY'LL GET THEIR RESULTS.

THEY'LL NEVER KNOW. THEY DON'T NECESSARILY COUNT FOR THEIR CAMPUS, BUT THEY WILL COUNT FOR FOR OVERALL DISTRICT METRICS.

BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO AFFECT OR HURT OR BENEFIT ANY CAMPUS RATING THIS YEAR.

OF COURSE, WHEN WE GET THE RESULTS, WE'LL BE ABLE TO RUN OUR OWN REPORTS WITH THOSE STUDENTS INCLUDED.

SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO SEE A REAL ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF HOW A CAMPUS PERFORMED WITH THOSE STUDENTS INCLUDED.

BUT THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE INCLUDED IN THE IN THE TEA RATINGS.

AND LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, THAT IMPACT ON THE SCHOOL PROGRESS DOMAIN BASED ON OUR 70% PARTICIPATION RATE.

AND THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A THAT'S GOING TO HAVE AN IMPACT THIS YEAR.

AND THEN REALLY THE LAST KIND OF IMPACT I WANTED TO JUST HIGHLIGHT, YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.

JENNIFER WAS REALLY JUST JUST OVERALL ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR.

AS WE ALL KNOW, THERE'S BEEN A PANDEMIC THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR AS WELL.

AND THAT'S HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON STUDENT ATTENDANCE, STAFF ATTENDANCE REALLY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE YEAR.

AND I JUST WANTED TO SHARE A VISUAL.

YOU KNOW, THIS IS A LOT OF NUMBERS, OBVIOUSLY VERY SMALL TYPE AND DON'T EXPECT ANYBODY TO LOOK AT THAT.

BUT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IS ESSENTIALLY DAILY ATTENDANCE FOR EVERY CAMPUS OVER A TWO MONTH PERIOD.

SO THE ROWS ARE CAMPUS AND THE COLUMNS ARE A DAY AND READ IS LESS THAN 90% ATTENDANCE ON THAT DAY.

A YELLOW IS BETWEEN 90, 95 GREEN IS GREATER THAN 95.

AND AS WE WE PRESENTED IN OUR ANNUAL TAPPER REPORT BACK IN JANUARY, WE AVERAGE OVER 98% TYPICALLY ATTENDANCE FOR ALL STUDENT GROUPS.

SO THIS IS, YOU KNOW, JANUARY, FEBRUARY 2020, RIGHT BEFORE EVERYTHING CHANGED.

SO THAT'S LIKE A TYPICAL VIEW.

AND THEN GO UP TO THE NEXT SLIDE JENNIFER IS JANUARY, FEBRUARY OF 2022.

SO GRANTED, THAT WAS RIGHT IN THE HEIGHT OF OMICRON.

SO IT'S PROBABLY THE WORST THAT WE HAD IT THIS YEAR WHEN IT CAME TO DAILY ATTENDANCE.

BUT WE CAN'T DISCOUNT THE EFFECT THAT THAT HAD ON INSTRUCTION AND CAMPUSES AND OPERATIONS INSTRUCTIONS EVERYTHING. SO YOU LOOK AT THAT AND YOU SEE A TON OF RED CLUSTERED OBVIOUSLY IN THE MONTH OF JANUARY, SOMEWHAT A LOT OF YELLOW STILL IN FEBRUARY.

IF YOU WE LOOKED AT OUR OVERALL FALL ATTENDANCE AND IT'S ABOUT 94%.

SO EVEN PRIOR TO REALLY OMICRON HAVING A HUGE IMPACT, WE WERE STILL HAVING A LOT OF STUDENTS WHO WERE WHO WERE OUT SICK AND STAFF MEMBERS.

BUT WE'RE LOOKING HERE HERE AT STUDENTS.

SO LIKE I SAID, DON'T REALLY HAVE A ANY DIRECT METRICS OR DATA OR STUDY ON THAT.

BUT WE ALL KNOW THAT IS GOING TO HAVE A HUGE IMPACT.

AND YOU CAN'T DISCOUNT TO HOW IMPORTANT LIKE JANUARY AND FEBRUARY ARE IN A SCHOOL YEAR.

YOU KNOW, YOU'RE COMING RIGHT BACK FROM FROM WINTER BREAK.

YOU'RE REALLY AS A CAMPUS, YOU'RE GEARING UP FOR SPRING.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T COMPLETELY SHIFT OPERATIONS TO GET READY FOR STAAR AND EOC AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

BUT IT DOES THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TIME TO BE ASSESSING WHERE STUDENTS ARE.

WE TALKED ABOUT THE LAST MONTH IN JANUARY WE HAD TO POSTPONE OUR MIDDLE OF YEAR REPORT BECAUSE WE HAD SO MANY STUDENTS THAT WERE ABSENT.

WE HAD TO EXTEND OUR WINDOWS FOR OUR STUDENTS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE OUR ASSESSMENTS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT AS I THINK WE ALL KNOW, TEA RECOGNIZE THE THE FINANCIAL IMPACT ON ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR AND HAS ALLOWED DISTRICTS TO UTILIZE HISTORICAL DATA FOR THE FIRST FOUR OR SIX WEEKS FOR ADA PURPOSES.

BUT THERE REALLY HASN'T BEEN ANY ACADEMIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT WHEN IT COMES TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM OF THE IMPACT OF ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR.

SO FINANCIAL IMPACT, WE'RE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.

BUT THERE DEFINITELY WAS NOT ANY KIND OF OTHER THAN VERBAL, YOU KNOW, RECOGNITION THAT ATTENDANCE IS GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON STUDENT PERFORMANCE AS WELL. AND JUST WANTED TO JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO ON THE NEXT ONE, JUST TO WE TALK ABOUT IT WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT STUDENT DATA, YOU KNOW, JUST KIND OF HOW CAMPUSES RESPOND, YOU KNOW, THIS TIME OF YEAR AND ALL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

CAMPUSES ARE CONTINUING PULLING FLEXIBLE GROUPS.

THEY USE THEIR TEACHER CREATED ASSESSMENTS.

THEY USE THE ASSESSMENTS WE PUSH OUT CENTRALLY.

THEY USE THE STAAR INTERIM EXAMS. SO IF YOU'RE ON A CAMPUS RIGHT NOW, YOU'D SEE A LOT OF DIFFERENT FLEXIBLE GROUPS, YOU KNOW, FOR STUDENTS WHO ARE PERFORMING AT THAT MEETS THE MASTER'S, AS WELL AS STUDENTS WHO ARE TRYING TO TO TO PUSH UP FROM THAT DID NOT MEET TWO APPROACHES.

SO A LOT OF THOSE THINGS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW.

WE'VE SPENT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME RECENTLY WORKING WITH PRINCIPALS AND OTHERS AROUND RESPONDING TO THAT STAAR INTERIM DATA AND REALLY UNDERSTANDING THAT AND HOW THEY CAN WORK WITH THEIR TEACHERS.

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AND REALLY JUST THE CONTINUAL USE OF OUR SYSTEMS WHEN IT COMES TO HOW WE INTERVENE FOR STUDENTS IS EVEN MORE HEIGHTENED DURING THIS TIME OF YEAR.

BUT LIKE I SAID, IT'S PART OF OUR REGULAR PLAN.

I THINK I MENTIONED LAST MONTH AS WELL THAT THAT AGAIN, THE MAIN THING THAT WE NEED FOR OUR SYSTEMS TO WORK IS STABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY.

AND JUST WE NEED WE NEED TIME.

WE NEED TEACHERS AND CLASSROOMS, KIDS AND CLASSES.

AND WE'VE HAD THAT FOR A COUPLE OF MONTHS NOW, BUT IT'S ONLY BEEN A COUPLE OF MONTHS.

BUT JUST WANTED TO JUST HIGHLIGHT AGAIN, LIKE WHAT THIS ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE ONCE CAMPUSES GET RESULTS.

REALLY, THE MAIN THING THAT THEY DO IS, IS THEY USE THAT DATA TO DIFFERENTIATE THEIR INSTRUCTION AND INTERVENE FOR STUDENTS.

SO THE LAST THING THAT I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT TONIGHT WAS JUST A REAL BRIEF LOOK AHEAD, BECAUSE THERE ARE GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM AND THE STAAR EXAM ITSELF GOING INTO GOING INTO NEXT YEAR.

LIKE I SAID, AND NOT A LOT OF THAT HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED.

SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO DO SOME BRIEF HIGHLIGHTS TODAY OF JUST KIND OF LETTING YOU KNOW WHEN SOME OF THOSE UPDATES ARE GOING TO COME.

THE NEXT SLIDE JUST TALKS ABOUT THE KIND OF THE ROADMAP OF THE.

AGAIN, THIS IS A TEA SLIDE.

I DIDN'T I DIDN'T MAKE THIS, BUT IT'S JUST A ROADMAP.

SINCE WHEN WE DID MOVE TO THE A THROUGH F SYSTEM AND WE'RE ABOUT NUMBER FIVE RIGHT NOW.

AND ERIC AND I WERE IN A MEETING EARLIER TODAY AND HE ACTUALLY UPDATED THE TIMELINE A LITTLE BIT TODAY.

SO THIS ISN'T THE LATEST, BUT IT WASN'T REALLY TOO SIGNIFICANT THE UPDATE.

BUT THE NEXT PIECE THAT WE'RE EXPECTING IS, OF COURSE, IS THAT ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM RESET FRAMEWORK, WHICH IS GOING TO BE RELEASED AT THE END OF MAY.

AND THAT'S GOING TO HAVE SOME SOME PROBABLY SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN HOW SOME OF THE SCHOOL PROGRESS DOMAINS WORK.

THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE SOME SOME MORE GRANULARITY TO IT.

BUT OVERALL, THERE ARE GOING TO BE TOO MANY SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO HOW THE OVERALL SYSTEM IS STILL GOING TO BE A THROUGH F.

IT'S STILL GOING TO RELY HEAVILY, MOST LIKELY RELY HEAVILY ON STAAR EOC.

BUT THERE ARE SOME LEARNING THAT THAT TEA HAS HAD OVER THE LAST SINCE 2017.

SO THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME ADJUSTMENTS AND THAT THE KEY THING THAT THEY MENTIONED TODAY AS WELL IS THAT ESSENTIALLY THEY'LL BE ABLE TO USE THE 2022 DATA TO RESET A LOT OF THE TARGETS AND THE SCALE SCORES.

AND THEY EVEN HAD IN THE SLIDE THAT, YOU KNOW, ESSENTIALLY DUE TO THE PANDEMIC, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO RESET SCALE SCORES AND TARGETS.

THAT'S HAPPENING IN 2023.

THAT'S NOT HAPPENING IN 2022.

SO WE DO ANTICIPATE THAT THERE COULD BE SIGNIFICANT SWINGS, YOU KNOW, IN HOW OUR SCORES ARE SCALED AFTER THIS YEAR.

BUT A LOT OF THAT IS STILL STILL TO COME.

IT'S STILL TO BE FINALIZED.

AND IN THE LAST SLIDE IS A LOT OF THAT SAME PIECES THAT I HAD, YOU KNOW, FEDERAL STUDENT GROUP TARGETS ARE GOING TO BE ADJUSTED BASED ON BASED ON THE OUTCOMES.

AND THEN THAT RESET FRAMEWORK WILL BE RELEASED IN MAY, AND THEN THE ACTUAL TARGETS THEMSELVES WILL GET THOSE AFTER.

SO TEA GET THE RESULTS OF TO 2022 STAAR, THEY'LL SHARE THE FRAMEWORK BEFORE THAT, BUT THEN THEY'LL USE THE RESULTS TO SET THOSE TARGETS GOING INTO NEXT YEAR.

AND I THINK THAT IS THE UPDATE.

AS AGAIN, JUST TO RECAP, SOME OF THE MAIN THINGS THAT I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT WERE A FEW OF THE CHANGES AND TO REALLY WE DON'T HAVE GRAPHS AND CHARTS AND THINGS TO SHARE TONIGHT, BUT A LOT OF IT IS SIMILAR TO WHAT WHAT WE SAW ON OUR BEGINNING OF YEAR IN MIDDLE OF YOUR DATA THAT WE'VE SHARED EARLIER.

BUT LIKE I SAID, OUR CAMPUSES ARE INTERVENING FOR OUR STUDENTS.

BUT WE DO WE DO LIKELY ANTICIPATE THEY WILL HAVE SOME CAMPUSES THAT ARE IN THAT NOT RATED CATEGORY AT THE END OF THE DAY.

SO ANY ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. SMITH. WE HAVE TRUSTEE WEIR AND THEN TRUSTEE VESSA.

I HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS, SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS DID TO SAY WHY THEY CREATED THE NOT RATED.

IS THAT JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE LAW IS WRITTEN WITH THE D'S AND THE F'S AND POSSIBLE TAKEOVER? BECAUSE IF THEY'RE STILL GOING TO KIND OF COUNT AS AN F TO THE DISTRICT.

WELL, I DON'T WANT TO TRY TO GET INSIDE THEIR HEAD, BUT I THINK THAT IT'S A THOUGHT THAT SHOWING SOME GRACE MAYBE WOULD BE THE THOUGHT BEHIND THAT.

BUT OF COURSE, THE SCALE SCORES ARE ALL SHARED, YOU KNOW, AND THE SCALE SCORES ARE THEN USED FOR THE SYSTEM.

YOU KNOW SO IT'S NOT A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

BUT I THINK THAT WOULD I WAS JUST SORT OF IT SEEMS A LITTLE ODD THERE MIGHT BE I MIGHT BE MISSING THE TRUE INTENT, BUT THAT IS MY IMPRESSION.

AND THEN I WAS JUST SORT OF CURIOUS WITH THE NO RETAKES FOR FIFTH AND EIGHTH GRADE, BECAUSE I KNOW IN THE PAST WHEN WE'VE GOTTEN THE REPORTS, WE KIND OF WAIT UNTIL THEY'VE

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HAD THOSE RETAKES TO KIND OF SEE WHERE OUR STUDENTS REALLY WERE.

AND I'M SORT OF CURIOUS HOW MANY STUDENTS THAT WAS THAT THAT WAS A, YOU KNOW, THAT WE WAITED FOR THE RETAKES.

AND HOW IS THAT GOING TO WHAT KIND OF EFFECT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? YEAH, I DON'T ANTICIPATE AND ERICA CAN CHIME IN IF I'M OFF ON THIS, BUT HISTORICALLY, I DON'T THINK THAT HAS MADE A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE.

AND I'D HAVE TO GO BACK INTO MY MIND BANK.

BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THE SECOND ATTEMPT ACTUALLY EVEN FACTORED INTO THE THE CAMPUSES ACCOUNTABILITY RATING.

I THINK IT'S JUST THE FIRST ATTEMPT, THE SECOND ATTEMPT THAT'S RIGHT. THE THIRD ATTEMPT DID NOT COUNT.

YEAH. OKAY.

AND THEN JUST MY LAST QUESTION AND THIS IS SORT OF JUST A REQUEST MAYBE TO DR.

AZAIEZ AND YOU AND I DON'T WANT TO OVERBURDEN, BUT I AM JUST SORT OF CURIOUS IF OVER THE SUMMER, ONCE WE AT THE END OF MAY, WHEN YOU GET THOSE 2023, THE NEW CRITERIA THAT ARE GOING TO BE USED, IF WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK BACK AT, SAY, OUR NOT RATED CAMPUSES AND SAY, WELL HAD THEY DONE THIS NEW CRITERIA IN 2022, WE WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY THEY MIGHT THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN A C OR THEY MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

YEAH, WE'LL NEED WE'LL NEED TO DO THAT INTERNALLY.

WE'LL DEFINITELY RUN THOSE NUMBERS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE WE WE SUPPORT CAMPUSES DIFFERENTLY.

YOU KNOW, WE BASED ON RESULTS BASED ON A NUMBER OF FACTORS.

BUT THAT'S THE FACTOR WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE DECIDE OF HOW WE ALLOCATE PERSONNEL, HOW WE ALLOCATE RESOURCES.

SO WE'LL DEFINITELY WANT TO SEE HOW A CAMPUS IS DOING IN THIS NEW SYSTEM AS WE MOVE FORWARD.

I GUESS I WOULD JUST ASK THAT, I MEAN, IF IF OTHER BOARD MEMBERS ARE CURIOUS IF IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN A PRESENTATION, BUT MAYBE JUST IN A BOARD UPDATE WHERE WE COULD SORT OF SEE WHAT THAT WOULD HAVE LOOKED LIKE ONCE YOU DO THAT.

YEAH, DEFINITELY. I MEAN, I WOULD SUGGEST, YOU KNOW, ONCE THE NEW FRAMEWORK IS OUT THAT WE HAVE A WORKSHOP, YOU KNOW AND TALK IT ALL THROUGH, I AGREE.

I THINK I THINK WE'RE MOVING MORE AND MORE TOWARD LIKE STUDENT OUTCOMES.

RIGHT. AND I THINK WE SHOULD WE WOULD BE DOING AN ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS MORE OFTEN.

RIGHT. BECAUSE THAT'S OUR PRIORITY AS A SCHOOL DISTRICT.

RIGHT? AWESOME.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

WE HAVE TRUSTEE VESSA, THEN TRUSTEE BONE AND PRESIDENT FELLER I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WE CAN SEE YOU.

SO JUST WAVE YOUR HAND IF YOU HAVE A COMMENT.

THANK YOU. OKAY, I'LL PUT YOU NEXT.

YOU'LL BE AFTER TRUSTEE BONE.

TRUSTEE VESSA. SO I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS.

THE FIRST IS JUST I KNOW THAT WITH THE CHANGE WE DON'T HAVE RETESTING, BUT WE DO HAVE OTHER OTHER SUPPORTS FOR STUDENTS WHO DON'T PASS THEIR STAAR, INCLUDING A SUMMER PROGRAM.

CORRECT. HOW IS AND WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED SOME STUDENTS THAT ARE GOING TO BE IN THAT PROGRAM.

CORRECT. WE'VE ANTICIPATED, YOU KNOW, NUMBERS.

AND AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE REACHED OUT AND STARTED TALKING TO STUDENTS YET, BUT BASICALLY OUR SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM IS IN RESPONSE TO OUR ANTICIPATED NEED FOR STUDENTS WHO MIGHT NOT BE SUCCESSFUL IN STAAR EXAM AND EOC.

SO WE COULD GET LIKE AN UPDATE IN THE MAY BOARD MEETING IN TERMS OF HOW MANY STUDENTS ONCE WE GET THE DATA.

YEAH. SO IT'LL IT PROBABLY WON'T BE IN TIME FOR THE MAY REGULAR MEETING TEA GIVES A TIMELINE OF WHEN IT ALL GETS RELEASED.

BUT I WOULD GUESS IT PROBABLY WOULDN'T BE TILL JUNE WHEN WE'D BE ABLE TO WHENEVER WE RESCHEDULE A MEETING, BUT IT WON'T BE READY BY THE TIME WE HAVE THE REGULAR MAY BOARD MEETING. I THINK PROBABLY TRUSTEE VESSA THE ONLY RESULT PROBABLY WILL BE ABLE TO SHARE IN MAY IS WE HAD SOME EOC TESTING.

THAT'S THE ONLY THING WE'LL BE ABLE TO SHARE BECAUSE THE MAJORITY OF OUR STAFF TEST AND THE REST OF THE EOC WILL BE ADMINISTRATED IN THE MONTH OF MAY, AND USUALLY IT TAKES THEM 2 TO 3 WEEKS BEFORE TO GIVE US THE RESULTS BACK.

SO MAYBE IN JUNE FOR THE REST.

SO HOW DO WE SCHEDULE KIDS FOR SUMMER REMEDIATION IF WE DON'T EVEN HAVE THE DATA BACK UNTIL ALMOST SCHOOL'S OVER? THAT'S ACTUALLY A VERY GOOD QUESTION.

AND THAT'S WHY WE TRY TO USE AS A MEASURE LIKE YOU HEARD RYAN TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, THAT WE GIVE WOULD IT GIVE THE TEA YEAH, WE GIVE THE SO THE STAAR INTERIM IS A KIND OF A MAIN DRIVER OF PREDICTION.

YOU KNOW, IT'S A GOOD SCREENER.

SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY OUR MAIN TOOL THAT WE WERE USING CURRENTLY.

I MEAN, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO PLAN AS A PARENT THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TOLD THAT RIGHT BEFORE SCHOOL LETS OUT.

HEY, BY THE WAY, DON'T MAKE ANY SUMMER PLANS OR GOING TO BE HERE.

DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, NANCY? YOU WERE NODDING YOUR HEAD.

DO YOU WANT TO COME UP HERE?

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THANK YOU. SO ALL OF THE INTERIM DATA, ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES HAVE, THEY HAVE IT.

THEY KNOW WHO THE STUDENTS ARE, WHO TO TARGET.

THE SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM TO RESPOND TO HOUSE BILL 4545 IS SCHEDULED TO HAPPEN IN JULY, BUT WE'RE HAVING COMMUNICATION WITH OUR PARENTS, SHOULD WE ANTICIPATE.

SO WE HAVE A PRELIMINARY LIST.

WE REALLY PROSCRIBING THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.

MR. SMITH TALKED ABOUT THE FLEXIBLE GROUPING.

WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT HAS BEEN DESIGNED FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS.

AS HE MENTIONED, REGARDLESS OF THEY MAYBE DIDN'T MEET, THEY'RE JUST APPROACHING OR AT MEETS.

EVERY STUDENT IS GETTING VERY PRESCRIBED INSTRUCTION AND ENGAGING AT THE SAME TIME.

BUT AGAIN, WE HAVE PRELIMINARY LISTS.

WE KNOW HOW TO TARGET, HOW TO PRESCRIBE, AND THEN SUMMER LEARNING FOR OUR STUDENTS IS FOR OUR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS IS IN THE MONTH OF JULY AND WE'RE STARTING TO COMMUNICATE THAT PIECE.

I BELIEVE THAT WAS IN AN UPDATE FOR YOU AS WELL.

JUNE AND JULY ARE FOR OUR HIGH SCHOOLERS BECAUSE AS DR.

AZAIEZ MENTIONED, THE FIRST EOC'S FOR ENGLISH ONE AND ENGLISH TWO TOOK PLACE AT THE BEGINNING OF APRIL.

AND THEN JUST FOR MORE SPECIFICITY, STAAR TESTS FOR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AS WELL AS SOME ADDITIONAL EOCS GO ALL THE WAY THROUGH MAY 20TH.

SO THAT'S WHY THE DELAY FOR THE CONCRETE DATA.

THANK YOU, DOCTOR. I HAD ONE MORE QUESTION.

SO IN A PREVIOUS CONVERSATION WE HAD, WE TALKED ABOUT AND THANK YOU, NANCY, FOR COMING UP CONTACTING OUR LEGISLATORS ABOUT ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING WITH 4545 IMPLEMENTATION.

AND I JUST WANTED TO GET AN UPDATE ON THAT AND WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS OF COMMUNICATING, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO GIVE THEM FEEDBACK, ESPECIALLY AS THEY'RE LOOKING TOWARDS NEXT SESSION.

YEAH. I THINK WE MENTIONED I THINK WE MENTIONED IN THE PAST A LETTER, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY STILL WORK ON A LETTER.

I'D SAY WE'VE BEEN IN SEVERAL MEETINGS WITH DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S SPENT A LOT OF TIME RECENTLY, TEXAS SCHOOL ALLIANCE, I KEEP MENTIONING THEM, BUT I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT WE WORK WITH THAT ARE ALSO, YOU KNOW, HEAVILY ADVOCATING IN THAT.

BUT I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY FINALIZE THEM, PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING.

YEAH, WE ACTUALLY WORKING ON THE LIST AND I KNOW JENNY PROBABLY WILL ANSWER MORE, BUT WE ARE WE ARE IDENTIFYING OUR OUR PRIORITIES, OUR RESEARCH PRIORITIES.

AND DEFINITELY WE ALWAYS SEEK INPUT FROM OUR BOARD MEMBERS AND ALSO OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND ALL STAKEHOLDERS REALLY.

AND SO I KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, COMPENSATION IS A HUGE, HUGE ONE OF THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT AND HOW MAYBE ALLOCATION, INCREASE IN ALLOCATION.

SO THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.

WE DON'T HAVE A FINAL, I GUESS, PRIORITY LIST YET, BUT WE'RE DEFINITELY WORKING ON IT AND WE WELCOME ALL YOUR INPUTS.

YEAH. THANK YOU, DR.

BONE. THANK YOU.

I HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.

THE FIRST ONE, I'LL COMBINE A COUPLE OF MINE.

ONE OF THEM IS WHEN WE WERE OUT, WHEN TRUSTEE WESTON AND I WERE DOING SOME OF THE SCHOOLS.

WE JUST HAPPENED TO MENTION THAT THE VIRTUAL STUDENTS WERE NOT GOING TO COUNT INTO THE CAMPUS GRADING, AND IT ACTUALLY CAUGHT ONE THE PRINCIPAL'S KIND OF OFF GUARD, WHICH WASN'T NECESSARILY A SURPRISE BECAUSE THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, ABOUT A MONTH AGO.

BUT I WAS JUST WONDERING IF YOU CAN TELL US HOW THAT'S BEING COMMUNICATED OUT TO THE PRINCIPALS, BECAUSE I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THIS PARTICULAR CAMPUS IS ACTUALLY AN AMAZING CAMPUS USUALLY. AND THE PRINCIPAL WAS LIKE, OH, WOW, I HAD LOTS OF STUDENTS THAT WERE VIRTUAL.

THIS IS, YOU KNOW, AND LIKE YOU WERE SAYING, LOTS OF OUR VIRTUAL STUDENTS WERE ACTUALLY THE STUDENTS THAT USUALLY SCORE HIGHER.

SO THIS COULD REALLY SEE AN IMPACT, WHICH I THINK YOU WERE HINTING TO.

SO THAT WAS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS IS HOW IS IT BEING COMMUNICATED OUT? AND THE OTHER ONE IS, CAN YOU TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ON MAYBE IF THERE'S GOING TO SURPRISES THAT YOU'RE SEEING OR SURPRISES THAT YOU THINK IN TERMS OF CAMPUSES AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO PREPARE OUR COMMUNITY FOR THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT MIGHT BE REALLY SURPRISED WHEN THEIR CAMPUS ISN'T RATED AND HOW WE'RE I DON'T KNOW, I JUST HOW WE'RE GETTING IN FRONT OF THAT TO PREPARE THEM AND WHY AND JUST COMMUNICATING OR IS THERE ANYTHING BEING DONE? YEAH, I'LL ANSWER THE FIRST QUESTION FIRST WITH AS FAR AS COMMUNICATING OUT TO THE PRINCIPALS, WE HAVE MULTIPLE CHANNELS.

I'D HAVE TO CHECK IN ON THAT THAT SPECIFIC CASE AS TO MAYBE WHY THAT PERSON DIDN'T DIDN'T KNOW.

BUT IT'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH AND WE CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER WITH INTERNAL COMMUNICATION.

YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WORK ON CONSISTENTLY.

AS FAR AS THE OTHER QUESTION ABOUT SURPRISES, I THINK AS DR.

GUERRERO MENTIONED, LIKE WE'RE CONSTANTLY WORKING WITH WITH CAMPUSES.

I THINK AS FAR AS A COMMUNICATION PLAN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL WE'LL NEED TO TALK MORE ABOUT.

BUT I THINK THAT DEFINITELY OUR PRINCIPLES, OUR CAMPUSES KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, WHICH STUDENTS TO INTERVENE WITH, AND IT'S NOT FINALIZED YET.

SO THAT'S THE OTHER THAT'S THE OTHER KEY PIECE IS THAT THAT WE HAVE THE DATA WE HAVE, WE CAN KIND OF SEE SOME TRENDS.

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BUT THERE'S TYPICALLY A LOT OF MOVEMENT BETWEEN INTERIM AND THE FINAL STAAR EXAM AS WELL.

I APPRECIATE THAT. I JUST.

I GUESS I PREFER JUST GETTING OUT IN FRONT OF THIS WHERE WE MAY SEE CAMPUSES THAT ARE USUALLY AN A AND MAYBE THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE RATED THIS YEAR BECAUSE OF THE VIRTUAL AND JUST MESSAGING THAT OUT TO PARENTS BECAUSE DURING THE SUMMER, NOBODY'S PAYING ATTENTION UNTIL YOU KIND OF SEE A HEADLINE SOMEWHERE.

AND SO IF THERE'S A WAY TO DO THAT, MAYBE DR.

AZAIEZ JUST STARTED GETTING THAT COMMUNICATION BECAUSE I THINK EVEN US MAY NOT BE AS A BOARD, MAY NOT BE AWARE OF EXACTLY HOW THIS IS ALL GOING TO SHAKE OUT WITH THE NOT RATED BECAUSE OF THE VIRTUAL STUDENTS, BECAUSE, LIKE YOU SAID, WE DID HAVE 5000 STUDENTS, I BELIEVE, AROUND THAT NUMBER THAT WERE VIRTUAL.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

THE NEXT QUESTION I HAVE IS SUMMER LEARNING CAN AND MAYBE YOU'VE GONE OVER THIS AND I APOLOGIZE, BUT THE SUMMER LEARNING AND HOW IT'S TIED TO 4545, IS IT GOING TO COMPENSATE FOR 4545? SO STUDENTS THAT DO SUMMER LEARNING WHEN THEY COME BACK, THEY WON'T HAVE TO DO 4545.

AND THEN I'LL TIE ANOTHER QUESTION WITH THAT.

AND THAT'S HOW ARE WE GOING TO OFFLOAD THE TEACHERS NEXT YEAR WITH 455? BECAUSE I KNOW THIS YEAR THEY'VE JUST BEEN AMAZINGLY GRACIOUS.

YES. BUT CAN YOU KIND OF GO THROUGH THOSE TWO QUESTIONS? I THINK THE TWO ARE CONNECTED, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, AND DEFINITELY, YES.

THE PLAN IS FOR STUDENTS WHO ATTEND, YOU KNOW, ATTENDANCE IS ALWAYS IMPORTANT AS WELL.

BUT THE STUDENTS WHO ATTEND OUR SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE CARE OF THE 30 HOURS OF REQUIREMENT TIED TO 4545.

SO IDEALLY THAT'S GOING TO TIE IN THEN TO A DRASTICALLY LOWER NUMBER OF STUDENTS NEXT YEAR ON CAMPUS NEEDING THAT ADDITIONAL TIME.

SO WE'RE REALLY HOPING THAT THAT ALONG WITH A YEAR OF LEARNING HOW TO FLEX SCHEDULES, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BIT AND KIND OF HOW THIS NEW REALITY OF THIS REQUIREMENT IS IN PLAY.

I THINK THOSE TWO THINGS WILL WILL DEFINITELY ALLEVIATE, BUT IT IS PROBABLY STILL GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO HAVE TO SUPPORT AND WORK THROUGH.

MAY I ADD SOMETHING? I'M SORRY, DR.

BONE. SO SO THE 4545, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT WAS DONE IN THE PAST AND I'M TALKING ABOUT ROUND ROCK ISD, BUT ALSO OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS IS LIKE WE HAVE TO MONITOR OUR STUDENTS WITH PROGRESS MONITOR THEM AND SEE WHERE THEY AT AND WHETHER THE TRAIL STAAR TESTS.

OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE TO INTERVENE.

OUR TEACHERS WORK WITH THEM.

I MEAN, THIS IS SOMETHING YOU CAN START LIKE WITH 4545.

THE ONLY DIFFERENCE THIS YEAR IS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO DOCUMENT A LOT MORE.

AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY I THINK IF YOU ASK A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU WE INTERVENE, WE DID TUTORIALS, WE DID SATURDAY TOURS, IT'S NOT NOTHING NEW THERE.

IT'S JUST THE EXTRA BURDEN OF DOCUMENTING, I THINK SOMETIMES IS WHAT'S CREATING, I GUESS ANOTHER LAYER OF WORK THAT IN THE PAST, YOU KNOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DOCUMENT ALL THAT STUFF BEFORE AND ENTER IN THE SYSTEM.

RIGHT. AND SO BUT AS FAR AS LIKE OUR TEACHERS WORKING REALLY HARD TO ENSURE THAT THAT [INAUDIBLE] IN EVERY STUDENT AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE SUCCESSFUL.

I MEAN, IT'S BEEN HAPPENING NOW WE'RE DOING IT MORE INTENTIONALLY.

BUT ALSO WE ARE DOCUMENTED THAT AGAIN, BECAUSE OF HOUSE BILL 4545.

SO I HAVE AN ONLINE QUESTION THEN.

SO YOU SAY WE'RE TRYING TO BE INTENTIONAL, AND I GUESS THAT'S WHERE ARE WE MESSAGING, MESSAGING TO THE TEACHERS? BECAUSE I KNOW 4545 KIND OF CAME IN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR AND IT WAS JUST KIND OF A SURPRISE.

AND WE DO AS A BOARD, WE'VE SEEN MANY EMAILS COME IN ABOUT 4545 FROM TEACHERS.

AND IT REALLY IS A BURDEN.

AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING READY TO TALK ABOUT COMPENSATION LATER TONIGHT.

AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK ONE OF THE TOP COMPENSATION WAYS THAT YOU CAN COMPENSATE THAT WE'VE ALSO HEARD IS BY TIME.

AND SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT ARE WE, YOU KNOW, IN THE PLANNING OF STAFF, ARE WE DOING STAFFING NEXT YEAR TO HELP ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE BURDEN OF 4545, YOU KNOW, INTENTIONALLY DOING THAT? ABSOLUTELY.

I THINK WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS OUR TEACHERS ARE SUPER DEDICATED.

THEY DIDN'T WAIT. I MEAN, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR 4545 FOR US TO TELL THEM, LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD THE STUDENTS WHO FELL STAR FOR YOU TO COME AND DO THE TOURS WITH THE PARTICULAR STUDENTS OR HELP THIS.

YOU KNOW, WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS OUR TEACHERS ALWAYS WORKED HARD TO ENSURE THAT OUR STUDENTS ARE BEING SUCCESSFUL.

AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY, THAT WHAT 4545 IS REQUIRED A CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS, YOU HAVE TO DOCUMENT MORE.

IT IS IT IS IN THAT THING IS ADD ANOTHER BURDEN OUR TEACHER THAT'S WHAT I MEANT BUT OUR TEACHERS YOU KNOW WE DON'T WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR FOR THEIR PRINCIPAL OR FOR ME FOR TWO YEARS TO TELL THEM YOU HAVE A STUDENTS WHO ARE IN DANGER OF FAILING STAR OR STUDENTS WHO ARE READING BEHIND GRADE LEVEL.

YOU SHOULD NOT YOU KNOW, THEY ARE ALREADY HELPING.

SO AS FAR AS US, OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO PUT MORE FUNDING.

I KNOW WE APPLIED FOR A GRANT, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT ALMOST ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS TO HELP WITH SEVERAL OF OUR CAMPUSES.

AND IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, SO THE T CLASS GRANT AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE ON I THINK I BELIEVE IT'S THREE CAMPUSES NEXT YEAR THAT'S AN AFTERSCHOOL TUTORING PROGRAM.

SO THAT THAT WILL ALLEVIATE SIGNIFICANTLY FOR THOSE CAMPUSES BECAUSE THAT WILL COUNT FOR THE 30 HOURS, YOU KNOW, FOR THOSE STUDENTS.

SO I GUESS I'LL JUST RE-ASK IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY BECAUSE I'M NOT SURE I HEARD THE ANSWER THAT I WAS ASKING.

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SO I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST WITH COMPENSATION.

I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WITH 4545 IS THAT, YOU KNOW, SAY YOU HAVE A STUDENT THAT IT WOULD HAVE ONLY TAKEN THEM 12 HOURS TO KIND OF CATCH THEM UP.

WE WERE REQUIRED TO DO 30.

AND THAT WAS A REAL BURDEN FOR TEACHERS BECAUSE, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, NOW, YOU KNOW, THEY MIGHT HAVE A KID THAT THEY NEED TO DO 45 HOURS WITH.

THEY STILL HAVE TO DO THAT.

BUT NOW THEY STILL HAVE THIS KID THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE USED TO DO 12.

AND NOW THEY'RE HAVING TO THEY HAVE TO, BY LAW, DO 30.

AND I WAS JUST I GUESS I'M JUST ASKING ABOUT THE INTENTIONAL PART.

ARE WE INTENTIONALLY ON CAMPUSES AND MESSAGING TO TEACHERS THAT NEXT YEAR YOU KNOW, DO WE HAVE PEOPLE DOING THE PAPERWORK FOR THEM? DO WE HAVE YOU KNOW, I MEAN, ARE WE DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT THAN WE WERE THIS YEAR? BECAUSE I KNOW THIS YEAR IT WAS IT KIND OF CAME AS A SURPRISE.

AND NEXT YEAR WE YOU KNOW, YEAH, WE DID A LOT OF THE DEVELOPMENT THIS YEAR OF THE KIND OF THAT BECAUSE THAT DOCUMENTATION PIECE IS HUGE IN THE FACILITATION OF IT.

RIGHT. SO I THINK THAT THAT IS A PIECE THAT OUR TEACHERS WILL SEE A DIFFERENCE NEXT YEAR BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY FOR THEM TO BE ABLE TO DOCUMENT IT AND CAMPUSES TO HAVE THEIR ELC MEETINGS SO THAT WITH AND AGAIN, I BELIEVE IT WAS LATE JULY WHEN AND THEN THE GUIDANCE REALLY DIDN'T EVEN COME OUT UNTIL AFTER THAT. SO WE WERE DEFINITELY BUILDING, YOU KNOW, THE PLANE AS WE WERE FLYING IT THIS YEAR WHEN IT COMES TO HOW WE WERE MANAGING IT, ESSENTIALLY TO SUPPORT.

SO ASIDE FROM ANYTHING ELSE, LIKE I'LL GO ON RECORD SAYING I THINK THE I THINK AND I HOPE BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE SOME CHANGES IS THAT THE PAPERWORK PIECE OF IT WILL BE MORE FLUID NEXT YEAR.

THANK YOU. AND MY MY LAST QUESTION IS JUST ABOUT PARENTS AND COMMUNICATION, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THE 4545 KIND OF WHAT PARENTS GOT THIS YEAR.

ARE WE DOING MORE COMMUNICATION WITH PARENTS AND MAKING THEM UNDERSTAND THE 4545 REQUIREMENT AND WHY THEIR KIDS MIGHT BE ASKED TO DO SUMMER SCHOOL OR ARE ASKED TO DO? DO WE HAVE SOMETHING PLANNED TO COMMUNICATE WITH PARENTS? AND BE VERY CLEAR, I SEE JENNY COMING, SO I KNOW THERE MUST BE.

YEAH, WE ACTUALLY WROTE AN ARTICLE THAT SAYS HOUSE BILL 4545, HOW IT MIGHT IMPACT YOUR STUDENT.

AND THAT WAS PUBLISHED APRIL 11TH.

AND IT WAS OUR TOP NEWS STORY IN OUR E-NEWSLETTER, WHICH GOES OUT TO ALL OF OUR PARENTS STAFF.

BUT WE'LL KEEP THAT MESSAGE.

WE UNDERSTAND THAT JUST ONE TIME IS NOT ENOUGH, BUT WE HAVE STARTED THAT KIND OF DRUMBEAT KNOWING THAT WE DON'T KNOW WELL WE MIGHT KNOW EXACTLY WHO THOSE STUDENTS ARE NOW.

BUT WE WANT PARENTS TO BE AWARE THAT THIS IS COMING.

SO SO WE'VE ALREADY STARTED ROLLING OUT THAT THAT PLAN.

AND THEN, OF COURSE, A LOT OF THE COMMUNICATION IS DIRECT FROM CAMPUS TO FAMILIES.

BUT WE WANTED TO GET THAT INFORMATION OUT THERE.

IT'S ON THE WEBSITE. IF SOMEONE'S WONDERING, THEY CAN GOOGLE, THEY CAN FIND IT.

SO IT IS IT IS THERE AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH THAT.

OKAY. I APPRECIATE THAT. I STILL THINK 4545, I KNOW WE ALL TALK ABOUT IT AND IT'S STILL A MYSTERY, I THINK, A LITTLE BIT TO SOME OF US.

AND SO I THINK PARENTS JUST MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOW REQUIRED OF US, LIKE DR.

AZAIEZ SAID, IS THAT IT USED TO BE KIND OF YOU KNOW, WE JUST DID IT.

AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOUR KID GOT 5 HOURS, THEY GOT 40 HOURS, THEY GOT 80 HOURS.

BUT NOW IT'S LIKE REQUIRED.

SO I'M GLAD TO HEAR THAT WE'RE DOING INTENTIONAL MESSAGING.

SO THANK YOU, JENNY. AND ALSO ON THE ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS AS WELL.

WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT GETTING AHEAD OF THAT.

WE ARE LOOKING AT KIND OF TIMELINESS OF THAT RIGHT NOW IN THE SCHOOL YEAR.

THINKING ABOUT RATINGS THAT ARE COMING OUT LATE IN THE SUMMER MIGHT NOT BE QUITE THE RIGHT TIME WITH ALL THAT'S GOING ON, BUT WE ARE WORKING ON THAT TO EXPLAINING THAT SO THAT THEY'RE NOT SURPRISED IF THEY HAVE A CAMPUS THAT DIDN'T RECEIVE A RATING.

YEAH, I GUESS WITH THAT, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO DO TARGETED CAMPUSES WHEN WE DO GET THE RATINGS AND JUST HAVE PREPARED? I GUESS I JUST DON'T WANT TO SEE THE LASH BACK.

WE'RE SITTING HERE. YOU KNOW, THIS IS APRIL.

WE HAVE TIME TO PREPARE FOR THIS.

AND I WOULD REALLY HATE TO SEE LASH BACK FROM FROM PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IN JULY WHERE THEIR SCHOOL'S ALWAYS RATED HIGHLY.

AND IT'S NOT WHAT THEY EXPECTED.

AND WE 100% PREPARE FOR STATE RATINGS.

IT'S IT'S A HUGE DAY WHEN THOSE ARE RELEASED.

AND WE HAVE TO HAVE WE YOU KNOW, WE ARE PREPARED TO HAVE THAT RELEASE GO OUT.

AND SO WE WE PROVIDE AS MUCH AS WE CAN.

OF COURSE, WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL WE SEE I USED TO DO THIS AS A REPORTER, TOO.

THAT WAS ONE OF MY BUSIEST DAYS OF THE YEAR, WAS WHEN RATINGS DROPPED.

BUT YEAH, WE'LL BE PREPARED FOR THAT.

THANK YOU. PRESIDENT FELLER DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION? I THINK TRUSTEE BONE COVERED A COUPLE OF MY QUESTIONS.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO MR. SMITH ABOUT THIS UPDATE.

I LOOK FORWARD TO FUTURE UPDATES ON IT.

AND THEN THE LAST BIT THAT I HAD, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT WAS DOCUMENTED IN THAT VOTE THAT I ABSTAINED SINCE I DIDN'T PARTICIPATE IN CLOSED SESSION.

SO THAT'S ALL I HAD RIGHT NOW.

BUT THANKS SO MUCH. THANK YOU.

I WILL MAKE NOTE OF THAT.

ADD ONE QUICK QUESTION.

MARY, IS THAT YOUR LIGHT AGAIN OR.

YEAH, I HAD ONE LAST QUESTION, BUT GO AHEAD.

OKAY. MY QUESTION IS, I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING ABOUT HB 3 AND READING ACADEMY'S UPDATED IN HERE, AND I'M HEARING THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME ADJUSTMENT TO THAT.

AND IT'S MAYBE NOT A PART OF ACCOUNTABILITY, BUT I THINK IT KIND OF GOES IN LINE WITH PREPARATION.

DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THAT?

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WELL, THERE'S DEFINITELY SOME AWESOME UPDATES THAT TEA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF PUTTING OUT AND HAS PUT OUT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING I COULD BRING BACK AND TALK MORE ABOUT.

I DON'T NECESSARILY WANT TO SAY ANYTHING INCORRECT, YOU KNOW, WITH SOME OF THOSE UPDATES.

BUT I THINK THERE ARE GOING TO BE SOME DIFFERENT WAYS THAT WE CAN BE FLEXIBLE GOING THE NEXT YEAR.

OKAY, THAT WOULD BE REALLY AWESOME.

AND THEN JUST ONE OTHER NOTE THAT I THINK WE COULD THINK ABOUT IS BUDGET AND READING ACADEMIES.

IS THERE A WAY TO GIVE A STIPEND AND START THINKING ABOUT THAT? AND WE CAN ROLL THAT INTO BUDGET DISCUSSION.

BUT I JUST WANT TO FLAG THAT.

YEAH, DEFINITELY. THERE'S SOMETHING WE CAN WE CAN LOOK INTO IT.

I THINK ONE OF THE CHANGES AND I THINK MANY FOLKS WERE ASKING FOR IS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU IF SOMEONE HOW MANY OF YOU ARE FAMILIAR WITH IT, BUT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TAKE LIKE A PRE ASSESSMENT SCORE, SOME SCORE LIKE LIKE TAKE IT AND HAVE A SCORE I GUESS THEN GO AND WATCH A CERTAIN VIDEOS OR READ CERTAIN THINGS AND THEN THEY HAVE TO SUBMIT LIKE ASSIGNMENTS OR ARTIFACTS AND THEN THEY ALSO HAVE TO TAKE A TEST AND HAVE TO ALSO HOPEFULLY PASS THAT TEST.

SO IT'S A LOT OF SET OF THINGS THAT OUR TEACHERS ARE ALL TEACHERS REALLY IN TEXAS RIGHT NOW ARE DOING FOR THE READING ACADEMY. AND SO THEY'RE TRYING TO MODIFY IT TO MAKE IT SIMPLER.

BUT WHAT I'M HEARING IS IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE IT VERY LIKE LIKE MORE SIMPLE, I GUESS, FOR THE TEACHERS TO DO BECAUSE THEY STILL HAVE TO SUBMIT THOSE ARTIFACTS.

AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT TAKES MOST OF THE TIME WHEN YOU ASK TEACHERS, THEY TAKES A LOT OF TIME FOR THEM TO PUT THAT TOGETHER AND SUBMIT IT TO TEA, BUT WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PROVIDE MORE UPDATES.

AND I KNOW IF YOU WANT IT IN THE BOARD MEETING OR OR MAYBE A FUTURE UPDATE BOARD UPDATES OR WHATEVER, IT'S EASIER FOR OUR BOARD MEMBERS OR BETTER CONVENIENT, WHATEVER'S EASIEST.

BUT I WOULD LIKE TO START DISCUSSING POTENTIALLY SUPPORTING FINANCIALLY.

I MEAN, I THINK THAT IT'S SUPPOSED TO TAKE 60 HOURS, BUT I'M HEARING IT'S TAKING UPWARDS OF 120, 130 HOURS AND TEACHERS ALREADY PROVIDE SO MUCH FREE LABOR. I WOULD LOVE TO SEE US MAKE SOME CONSIDERATIONS AND I KNOW THAT I'M GOING TO LET TRUSTEE BONE GO.

I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY INCLUDE THAT IN THE LETTER.

I LIKE TO INCLUDE THAT IN THE LETTER TO OUR LEGISLATORS THAT THIS READING ACADEMY THING ISN'T TAKING 60 HOURS, TAKING 120 HOURS, AND IT'S THEY'RE NOT GETTING IT.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WORKFORCE RELATED ISSUES.

AND THIS IS A BURDEN THAT'S HAVING AN IMPACT ON RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT.

ABSOLUTELY. AND I THINK WE CAN CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION AND COMPENSATION.

IT DOES ROLL INTO ACCOUNTABILITY BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS IS WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO SUPPORT STUDENTS.

BUT JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT ON THE RADAR.

DR. BONE, I JUST HAVE ONE LAST QUESTION.

WITH YOUR PRESENTATION.

YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT NEXT YEAR, THEY'RE GOING TO RESET THE SCORES POSSIBLY.

WE SAID THE TARGETS, THE TARGET SCORES.

I'M INTERESTED TO KNOW, ARE WE SEEING THAT AT THE COLLEGE LEVEL WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO RESET SCORES AND HOW IS THAT GOING TO TIE IN WITH OUR COLLEGE READINESS IF THE STATE RESETS THE SCORES AND THE COLLEGES DON'T.

ARE WE GOING TO SEE THE INABILITY OF OUR STUDENTS TO MEET THOSE THOSE COLLEGE SCORES? I MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO YOU MAY NOT HAVE TO ANSWER THIS NOW, BUT THIS IS JUST SOMETHING THAT WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS, IT KIND OF WORRIED ME A LITTLE BIT AND HOW WE ARE WE'RE GOING TO END UP TRACKING TWO DIFFERENT SCORES.

I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.

SO I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT.

THANK YOU. SEEING NO MORE LIGHTS.

I WOULD LIKE TO.

OKAY. I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THIS FORWARD TO I ACTION ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION BY CONSENT AND BEFORE ANY MOTIONS MADE.

[I. ACTION ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION BY CONSENT]

I THINK DR. AZAIEZ WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT ONE THING REALLY QUICKLY.

YEAH, WELL, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH TRUSTEE HARRISON, I JUST ONE OF THE ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA IS ADOPTION OF A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZED THE NATIONAL SCHOOL NURSE DAY.

I JUST WANT TO AGAIN THANK OUR NURSES AND OUR LPN'S AND EVERYONE WHO WORKED REALLY HARD THE PAST TWO YEARS.

AS YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS WORKED HARD, BUT BECAUSE OF THE PANDEMIC, THEIR JOB IS LIKE DOUBLE, TRIPLE A MILLION TIMES RIGHT THEN.

AND THEY DO IT WITH A LOT OF CARE, A LOVE AND TO OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF AND AND THEY ARE THERE REGARDLESS OF WHAT'S WHAT'S HAPPENING.

AND THEY HAVE THEY HAD A LOT OF CHOICES, RIGHT? I MEAN, THEY COULD, LIKE LEAVE AND WORK FOR PRIVATE COMPANIES OR HOSPITALS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT THEY DECIDED TO STICK AROUND WITH OUR STUDENTS AND CARE FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF. SO I JUST I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE THANK THEM.

AND IF YOU SEE THEM, PLEASE THANK THEM, TOO, BECAUSE, AGAIN, THEY'RE OUR HEROES AND, YOU KNOW, AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HIGHLIGHT THEM AGAIN ONE MORE TIME.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DR.

AZAIEZ AND WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL.

TRUSTEE WEIR.

I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE ITEMS I ONE THROUGH SIX BY CONSENT.

I WILL SECOND.

WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND.

ALL IN FAVOR FOR APPROVING ACTION ITEMS ONE THROUGH SIX, I ONE THROUGH SIX.

ALL IN FAVOR. ALL OPPOSED.

ABSTAINING.

MOTION CARRIES SIX ZERO.

[02:00:05]

OKAY. UP NEXT, WE ARE MOVING ON TO J ONE AND TWO.

[J. ACTION ITEMS]

I JUST WANT TO CHECK IN. DOES ANYBODY NEED A QUICK BREAK BEFORE WE DO THAT OR WE WANT TO KEEP PUSHING THROUGH? OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO KEEP PUSHING THROUGH.

WE HAVE A GOAL TO BE OUT OF HERE BY TEN AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT.

ALL RIGHT. SO I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO DR.

AZAIEZ FOR THE APPROVAL OF THE 2022-2023 COMPENSATION PLAN.

THANK YOU AGAIN, TRUSTEE HARRISON TRUSTEES.

WELL, WE WERE VERY EXCITED.

I KNOW. AND WE HEARD SOME OF OUR WE ALWAYS HAVE TO HEAR OUR OUR STAFF, RIGHT.

OUR TEACHERS, OUR COMMUNITY.

RIGHT. WHEN WHEN THEY HAVE SOME INPUT FEEDBACK CONCERNS.

SO I KNOW I KNOW, AGAIN, ALL OF OUR TEACHERS, ALL OUR STAFF, THEY ALWAYS WORKED HARD, BUT EVEN EVEN HARDER NOW WITH THE PANDEMIC AND TRYING TO TAKE CARE OF OUR LEARNING LOSS THAT OUR STUDENTS SUFFERED RIGHT.

THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS.

SO WE HAVE WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION THAT WE BROUGHT FORWARD LAST TIME.

WHEN WE MET, WE TALKED ABOUT A 1% RAISE, 2% RAISE.

BUT THIS TIME WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD TO YOU SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY A MORE ROBUST COMPENSATION.

AND THE REASON WE BRING IT BRING THIS THIS THIS WAY IS OUR HR TEAM HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD AT INVESTING VERY HARD, AS WELL AS DENNIS, OUR CFO AND HIS TEAM, WORKING VERY, VERY HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER COMPENSATION PLAN WE BRING FORWARD TO YOU IS WILL BE AS ROBUST AS POSSIBLE. BUT ALSO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT WE'RE NOT TAKING OUR DISTRICT INTO A DEFICIT MOVING FORWARD FOR NEXT SCHOOL YEAR.

I JUST WANT TO SAY ALSO, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

WE TRULY VALUE AND APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK THAT OUR STAFF AND TEACHERS AND EVERYONE IS PUTTING FORWARD TO TAKE CARE OF OUR STUDENTS.

AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING OF A LOT OF GREAT THINGS COMING OUR WAY.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, DENNIS AND HIS TEAM WILL BE PRESENTING ON MAY 5TH.

I'LL GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THIS YEAR'S BUDGET AS WELL AS ALSO PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR BUDGET.

AND WE MAY BE ABLE IF IF WE CAN CONTINUE FIGURING OUT A WAY TO TRIM OUR BUDGET, TO BE ABLE EVEN TO BRING FORWARD LIKE AN AMENDMENT TO THIS COMPENSATION PLAN, MAYBE IF WE CAN EVEN INCREASE WHATEVER WE PROVIDE FORWARD BRINGING FORWARD TO YOU TONIGHT.

SO IF YOU PAY ATTENTION TO THE COMPENSATION AND I KNOW EDDIE WILL TALK AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT IN A FEW MINUTES, WE SEE THAT WE'RE FOCUSING WE'RE GIVING OUR BIGGEST PERCENTAGE TO OUR TEACHERS AS WELL AS OUR ED ASSISTANTS.

THEY ARE GETTING THE BIGGEST INCREASE.

THANKS TO YOU [INAUDIBLE] ALREADY A MID-YEAR INCREASE [INAUDIBLE], BUT WE'RE ALSO BRINGING FORWARD ANOTHER 2% THIS TIME, BUT ALSO FOR OUR TEACHERS.

WE'RE BRINGING IN A MINIMUM OF 4% FROM THE MIDPOINT.

SOME OF THEM WILL GET AS HIGH AS 4.5, 4.6%.

BUT ALSO, WE'RE TAKING CARE OF OUR OUR STAFF OR SUPPORT STAFF WHO ARE MAKING THE LEAST AMOUNT OF MONEY AMONG US.

AND SO WE'RE ALSO GIVING THEM A BIGGER RAISE.

SO, AGAIN, FOCUS ON OUR TEACHERS AND ETHICISTS AND ALSO OUR OUR STAFF MEMBERS WHO ARE MAKING THE LEAST AMOUNT AMONG US.

BUT WE'RE NOT DONE.

AS I SAID, WE'RE WORKING VERY HARD TO MAYBE EVEN BRING A BETTER ONE NEXT TIME.

IN ADDITION TO WHATEVER YOU'RE GOING TO SEE TO TONIGHT, WE WILL BE GIVEN $500 IN THE FALL OF 2022.

TO ALL OUR STAFF MEMBERS, WE WILL BE GIVING THEM A $500 RETENTION BONUS AND THE TOP OF THIS COMPENSATION PLAN THAT WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD.

SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE THIS INFORMATION, BUT I WANT TO ADD IT TO DIG IN DEEPER AND TALK ABOUT WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER AND RECOMMEND TO YOU TONIGHT.

THANK YOU, DR. AZAIEZ AND GOOD GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY.

I'M HERE THIS EVENING WITH KRISTIN GRAY.

KRISTIN IS OUR DIRECTOR OF COMPENSATION AND TOTAL REWARDS, AND SHE'S THE BRAINS BEHIND THIS OPERATION.

SO WE'RE VERY THANKFUL TO HAVE HER HERE TONIGHT.

AND HER AND HER TEAM HAVE DONE THE MAJORITY OF THE WORK ON THIS.

SO WE WE APPRECIATE HER AND SHE'S GOING TO SPEAK TO YOU IN JUST A MINUTE.

DR. AZAIEZ TOOK A LOT OF MY TALKING POINTS THERE, BUT WE APPRECIATE HIS UNDERSTANDING OF HOW ALL THIS WORKS AS WELL.

IT'S ALWAYS HELPFUL FOR AN HR PERSON TO HAVE A SUPERINTENDENT WHO GETS ALL THAT.

SO AS YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE REVIEWED A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION ON MARCH THE 31ST, AND AMY CAMPBELL FROM TASB CAME AND PRESENTED THE 1% AND 2% MODELS.

SO WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO ACTUALLY HAVE STRETCHED OUT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER THAN A 1% AND 2%.

YOU KNOW, DR.

AZAIEZ HAS MENTIONED THIS AND THAT REAL FOCUS ON THE CLASSROOM THIS YEAR AND TO MAKE SURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE ABLE TO SUPPORT THOSE TEACHERS AND THOSE TEACHER PAY, BUT ALSO BEING RESPONSIVE TO, YOU KNOW, WE'VE ALL HEARD ABOUT THE COST OF LIVING.

AND I THINK A LOT OF US ARE EXPERIENCING THE COST OF LIVING AND INFLATION PRESSURES.

AND SO TRYING TO STRETCH AS MUCH AS WE CAN WITH WITH THE MEANS THAT WE HAVE.

SO THAT'S BEEN PART OF OUR PHILOSOPHY THIS YEAR.

SO TONIGHT WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THE 22-23 COMPENSATION PLAN RECOMMENDATIONS, AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO KRISTIN.

[02:05:01]

THANK YOU, EDDIE. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

SO WE'LL BEGIN TONIGHT WITH OUR FIRST RECOMMENDATION.

AND WE ARE GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR CURRENT PAY STRUCTURE.

THESE ADJUSTMENTS ARE BASED ON MARKET REVIEWS FROM OUR TASB STUDY THAT AMY CAMPBELL PRESENTED LAST MONTH.

AND WE ARE VERY GRATEFUL, AS DR.

AZAIEZ MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE EVENING, ABOUT THE APPROVAL FOR THE ASSISTANCE AND THE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT TEAM RECEIVING THAT APRIL ONE RAISE.

AND SO THEY ARE GOING TO SEE THAT IN THEIR PAYCHECK THIS WEEK.

AND SO WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT MAKING SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO OUR OPERATIONS SUPPORT.

WE'RE TRYING TO INCREASE THOSE SALARIES TO BE STRONGER, TO HAVE A MORE COMPETITIVE EDGE IN THE MARKET.

AND SO WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT OPERATION SUPPORT AS WE GO THROUGH THE EVENING.

AND THEN ALSO, WE'RE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING SOME ADJUSTMENTS THAT WILL ALLOW ALIGN SOME OF OUR MIDPOINTS TO THE MARKET RATE.

AND SO THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO WE'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF MY TEACHERS ALREADY TONIGHT AND JUST JUST KIND OF WANTED TO RAISE ONE ONE AREA AND WHY THIS HAS BEEN SUCH AN AREA OF FOCUS.

AND SO DR. AZAIEZ MENTIONED THIS EARLIER.

THERE'S A MINIMUM OF A 4% RECOMMENDATION FOR FOR ALL TEACHERS.

SO OUR SCHEDULE WOULD MOVE FORWARD BY 4%.

ONE OF THE AREAS THAT WE REALLY PRIORITIZED AND FOCUSED ON THIS YEAR, THOUGH, WAS OUR BEGINNING YEAR TEACHER.

SO OUR 0 TO 5 0 TO 6 YEAR TEACHERS.

AND THAT WAS DEFINITELY SOME STRATEGY TO THAT.

SO FOR A LONG TIME WE'VE WE'VE BEEN VERY COMPETITIVE AND VERY STRONG IN THE MARKET AND THE UPPER EXPERIENCE TIER.

AND SO FROM S6 3 TO 30, WE'VE HAD SOME PRETTY STRONG MARKET COMPARISONS.

WE'VE LOST GROUND A LITTLE BIT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS IN THE 0 TO 6 YEAR EXPERIENCE RANGE.

AND ONE OF OUR SPEAKERS MENTIONED THIS TONIGHT FOR BEGINNING TEACHERS.

SO THERE'S BEEN WE WERE ABLE TO KIND OF MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS AROUND THE STEPS 1*7.

I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT OF OUR NEW HIRES THIS PAST YEAR, OVER 60% FELL IN THIS CATEGORY.

SO IT IS A BIG AREA OF FOCUS FOR US.

WE'VE GOT TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE STRONGLY POSITIONED IN THAT AREA.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE YOURSELF AND KRISTIN WILL GET INTO MORE DETAIL NOW.

BUT ONE OF OUR RECOMMENDATIONS IS TO REALLY MOVE OUR STARTING TEACHER SALARY UP QUITE SIGNIFICANTLY THERE SO.

AND IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO THE 4% SLIDE.

THANK YOU. SO OUR CURRENT STARTING STARTING SALARY FOR TEACHERS IS $50,250.

SO THE RECOMMENDATION THIS EVENING IS TO MOVE THAT TO $52,600.

AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, TEACHERS, ALL TEACHERS WILL RECEIVE AT LEAST A $2,250 GENERAL PAY INCREASE.

AND SO THAT WILL BE OBVIOUSLY THE 4%.

EDDIE TALKED ABOUT STRENGTHENING THOSE ENTRY LEVEL STEPS.

SO ONE THROUGH SEVEN, WE'LL SEE AN ADDITIONAL $250 ON TOP OF THE $2,250.

AND THEN WE'RE TO MAKE A BETTER LOGICAL PROGRESSION IN THESE STEPS.

STEPS 22 TO 23 WILL ALSO BE ADJUSTED SLIGHTLY TO ADDRESS SOME COMPRESSIONS IN THOSE YEARS.

YOU CAN. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

OUR THIRD RECOMMENDATION IS A 3% GENERAL PAY INCREASE FOR ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT AND OPERATION SUPPORT.

EXAMPLES OF POSITIONS IN THESE GROUPS FOR AS IS OUR CLERICAL POSITIONS, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS, REGISTRAR'S AT THE CAMPUS, AND THEN OUR OPERATIONS SUPPORT. THOSE ARE CUSTODIANS, FOOD SERVICE ASSISTANTS AND CROSSING GUARDS.

AND SO THESE EMPLOYEES WILL RECEIVE A 3% INCREASE.

THAT WILL BE 3% OF THE NEW MIDPOINT IN OUR NEW PAY STRUCTURE.

WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING SOME SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT TO STARTING RATES.

SO THESE EMPLOYEES, CUSTODIANS, FOR EXAMPLE, CURRENTLY START OUT AT $12 PER HOUR AND THAT NOW WILL BE INCREASED TO $13.50.

SO $13.50 WOULD BE OUR LOWEST SALARY FOR THE OPERATION SUPPORT GROUP.

AND KRISTEN, I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT.

SO IF YOU GO FROM $12 TO $13.50, THAT'S ACTUALLY MORE THAN 3%.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S CLEAR.

AND BECAUSE IT'S A RANGE OF I DON'T KNOW IF YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT.

YEAH. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY ABOUT A 12 AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE.

SO TODAY, IF A CUSTODIAN IS MAKING $12, THEY WOULD AT LEAST GO TO 1350 AND THEN TO TO TO ENSURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING CREDIT FOR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

WE HAVE WHAT WE CALL PLACEMENT SCALE ADJUSTMENTS, AND THOSE ARE ADJUSTMENTS TO HELP ALIGN FOR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

SO IF YOU'RE A $12 CUSTODIAN TODAY, YOU WOULD GO TO $13.50 PLUS SLIGHTLY A LITTLE BIT MORE TO GIVE YOU THAT YEAR OF SERVICE THAT YOU'VE HAD FOR THIS CURRENT SCHOOL YEAR.

AND THEN ANYBODY WHO'S CURRENTLY IN THESE ASSIGNMENTS, MAYBE FARTHER INTO THE RANGE, MAYBE YOU'RE AN EMPLOYEE WHO'S BEEN AROUND A LITTLE LONGER AND YOU'RE CLOSER TO THAT MIDPOINT. WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN FOR THOSE FOLKS IS THEY WILL SEE AN INCREASE THAT'S EQUAL TO 3% OF THAT NEW MIDPOINT.

AND THEN WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT THOSE PLACEMENT SCALE ADJUSTMENTS TO ENSURE WE'RE KEEPING INTERNAL PAY EQUITY INTACT SO THEY COULD SEE AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT ABOVE THAT AS WELL.

[02:10:06]

SO JUST TO ADD ON TO THAT AS WELL, DR.

AZAIEZ MENTIONED AND KRISTEN HAD MENTIONED AS WELL, SO WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN AVERAGE PAY INCREASE FOR OUR ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT STAFF.

IT'S JUST OVER 4%.

SO WE USE THE GENERAL PAY INCREASE OF 3%.

AND WITH THOSE ADJUSTMENTS, THE AVERAGE PAY INCREASE FOR EMPLOYEES IS 4% FOR THE OPERATIONAL SUPPORT.

SO YOUR CUSTODIAL STAFF AND FOOD SERVICE AND THOSE AND THOSE TYPES OF EMPLOYEES, THEY WOULD SEE AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT AN 8.16% INCREASE.

SO ON AVERAGE NOW, AGAIN, NOT EVERYBODY'S GOING TO MAKE 8%.

IT'S JUST DEPENDING ON WHERE THEY ARE ON THAT SCALE.

AND SOME MAY MAKE MORE THAN THAT, BUT THAT'S THE AVERAGE PAY INCREASE FOR THAT CATEGORY.

OKAY. YOU CAN GO THE NEXT SLIDE.

RECOMMENDATION FOUR IS A 2% GENERAL PAY INCREASE FOR THE FOR THE REMAINING GROUPS OF EMPLOYEES.

THIS IS FOR THE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT GROUP.

AGAIN, THOSE ARE THE FOLKS THAT RECEIVE THE RAISE ON APRIL ONE.

WE ARE COMING FORWARD TO PROVIDE THEM AN ADDITIONAL RAISE THAT WOULD BE 2% OF THEIR NEW ADJUSTED PAY SCALE.

ADDITIONALLY, IN THIS GROUP WILL BE OUR TECHNOLOGY TEAM, INSTRUCTIONAL EXEMPT, BUSINESS EXEMPT AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

ALL OF THESE EMPLOYEES, AS MENTIONED, WOULD SEE AN INCREASE.

THAT'S 2% OF THAT MIDPOINT FOR OUR INSTRUCTIONAL EXEMPT GROUP.

THESE ARE THE FOLKS THAT HAVE THE EDUCATOR CAREER PATHWAY.

SO THESE ARE POSITIONS SUCH AS REGISTERED NURSES, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SPECIALISTS, INSTRUCTIONAL COACHES, AND THEN THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS AND PRINCIPALS WE HAD IMPLEMENTED SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I THINK IT WAS IN THE 1617 YEAR, AN EDUCATOR PATHWAY FOR SALARY PURPOSES THAT TIED THOSE TYPES OF POSITIONS TO TEACHER PAY BECAUSE BEFORE THEY WERE SEPARATE.

AND SO WE WERE RUNNING INTO ISSUES WHERE TEACHERS, AS THEY WOULD MOVE INTO LEADERSHIP ROLES, WOULD NOT SEE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN PAY.

THEY MIGHT JUST SEE AN INCREASE IN DAYS WORKED.

SO THIS EDUCATOR PATHWAY HAS BEEN A WAY FOR US TO ADDRESS THAT.

AND SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING ON THAT SECOND BULLET IS WE WOULD ENSURE ONCE THEY RECEIVE THAT 2% OF MIDPOINT, THEY WOULD ALSO MAKE SURE THAT THEY GOT AN EQUITY ADJUSTMENT FOR RELATED TO TEACHER PAY TO ENSURE THERE ARE AT LEAST 3% ABOVE A TEACHER WITH THE SAME YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.

AND THEN THE IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, THE LAST BULLET IS ABOUT SOME ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR THOSE EMPLOYEES THAT ONCE THESE INCREASES HAVE BEEN APPLIED, IF THEIR POSITION ARE THEIR SALARY IS STILL 90% OF THE MIDPOINT, SO THEY'RE 10% BELOW MIDPOINT.

THE GOAL IN THESE THESE PAY STRUCTURES IS TO MOVE EMPLOYEES CLOSER TO THAT MIDPOINT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE, NOT TO GET TOO TECHNICAL, BUT MIDPOINTS ARE SET BASED ON THE MARKET.

SO YOU'RE ALWAYS TRYING TO ACCELERATE PEOPLE TO THAT MIDPOINT AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

SO IF AFTER ALL THESE ADJUSTMENTS ARE COMPLETED, IF YOU'RE STILL 10% BELOW THE MIDPOINT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU AN ADDITIONAL 1% OF THAT MIDPOINT AGAIN AS A WAY TO ACCELERATE INTO THE RANGE FURTHER.

AND KIRSTEN KINDLY DEFERRED TO ME ON THE COSTS.

THANK YOU. KRISTEN SO ON THE COST YOU CAN.

THIS IS THESE ARE ALL OBVIOUSLY ESTIMATES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES AT THE TIME THE DATA WAS CAPTURED.

BUT IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE TOP LINE FOR THE DATA, THE THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE SALARY INCREASES IS GOING TO TO THAT TEACHER GROUP.

IT'S OVER $8 MILLION.

AND SO JUST THERE'S A LOT OF DATA ON THERE.

YOU CAN SEE THE VARIOUS RECOMMENDATIONS IN TERMS OF THE PERCENTAGE, WHICH WOULD BE THE MINIMUM THAT AN EMPLOYEE IN ONE OF THOSE PAY SORRY, ONE OF THOSE GROUPS WOULD EXPERIENCE.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE YOURSELF AS WELL.

THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES, THE NUMBER OF FTES THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE IMPACTED BY THAT.

JUST INCIDENTALLY, 55%, APPROXIMATELY, GIVE OR TAKE OUR TEACHERS, 55% OF OUR STAFF ARE TEACHERS IN ROUND ROCK ISD.

SO OF OF THESE NUMBERS, 62% OF OUR SALARY INCREASES WOULD BE TOWARDS TEACHERS.

AND SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT TODAY.

AS AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDING A SIGNIFICANT MOVE IN THAT AREA.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE VERY, VERY SATISFIED AND HOPEFUL THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE RECOMMENDATIONS AS PRESENTED.

THANK YOU. IF I MAY ADD, EDDIE.

SO AFTER TEACHERS, IF YOU BET, SORRY.

IF YOU COME BACK TO THAT, AFTER OUR TEACHERS ARE RECEIVING ALMOST OVER $8 MILLION PART OF THIS ESTIMATED COST, THE NEXT GROUP THAT WOULD BE NEXT IS REALLY OUR INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT AND THAT'S INCLUDES [INAUDIBLE].

YOU CAN SEE THE 2% WILL AND THEN SOME ADJUSTMENT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT OVER HALF A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.

BUT REMEMBER, THANKS TO YOU AGAIN, YOU APPROVE A 2.2 ADJUSTMENT ON MARCH 31.

SO THAT WOULD BE ABOUT A LITTLE OVER, I GUESS ALMOST CLOSE TO $3 MILLION.

SO THAT'S THE $3 MILLION ALSO THAT WE ARE PUTTING FORWARD TO OUR STAFF WHO ARE WORKING DIRECTLY WITH OUR STUDENTS, ALONG WITH OUR TEACHERS THERE.

[02:15:08]

SO MAKE SURE AGAIN, BECAUSE AGAIN THAT IS OUR PRIORITY.

SO NOW COMES OUR PRIORITY AND WE BELIEVE THAT OUR TEACHERS AND OUR RESOURCES NEED TO GET THE BIGGEST RAISE WE CAN PROVIDE THEM AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO TAKE QUESTIONS.

I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND THEN TRUSTEE.

WE'RE GOING TO SHIFT IT OVER TO YOU.

AND I SEE PRESIDENT FELLER HAS SOME QUESTIONS, TOO.

SO I'LL ALLOW YOU TO GO AFTER TRUSTEE WEIR.

MR. COVINGTON, I'LL NEED YOU IN A MINUTE, I'M SURE.

SO WHILE I DESIRE TO BE LIKE MY COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND, TRUSTEE VESSA MY UNDERSTANDING OF SCHOOL FINANCE, I'M NOT THERE YET.

AND I THINK THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE AREN'T THERE YET.

SO I REALLY NEED YOU ALL TO EXPLAIN SOME THINGS TO US, LIKE WE'RE FIVE AND THE PUBLIC AS WELL, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME FRUSTRATION AND I THINK THAT COMMUNICATION CAN END FRUSTRATION. TRADITIONALLY IN OUR DISTRICT, I WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND THIS.

WE'VE GIVEN KIND OF LIKE COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS BY CATEGORY, RIGHT? OR MARKET ADJUSTMENTS BY CATEGORY.

SO IT WAS LIKE ONE YEAR ED ASSISTANCE WOULD GET IT, THE NEXT YEAR TEACHERS WOULD GET IT.

AND WE HAVEN'T DONE IT ACROSS THE BOARD.

AND FROM WHAT I'M UNDERSTANDING, YOU'RE GOING TO DO MARKET RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR EVERY EMPLOYEE ALL AT ONE TIME THIS YEAR, IS THAT CORRECT? YES, MA'AM. AND SO ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF WORKING WITH TASB IS THAT THEY CAN LOOK ACROSS THE WHOLE MARKET FOR ALL POSITIONS.

AND SO WHEN THEY LOOK ACROSS THE MARKET, THEY'RE NOT PICKING ONE PARTICULAR CATEGORY AS AN AREA OF FOCUS.

THEY'RE ACTUALLY ABLE TO LOOK AT THE WHOLE THE WHOLE PIECE.

NOW, THE BALANCING ACT WITH THAT IS, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THE MARKET ADJUSTMENTS COME BACK AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF WORK TO DO OR LESS WORK TO DO.

SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT IDENTIFYING WHERE THOSE BIGGEST GAPS ARE AND FIGURING OUT A WAY TO BE STRATEGIC WITH THE BUDGET AS BEST WE CAN.

IF I MAY ADD. SO WHAT HAPPENS OFTEN AND IT'S NOT UNIQUE TO ROUND ROCK ISD.

WHAT HAPPENS IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE $60 MILLION SOMETIMES SCHOOL DISTRICT, WE SAY WE ONLY CAN AFFORD $10 MILLION OR $11 MILLION IN RAISES.

SO WHAT THEY END UP HAPPENING, THEY HAVE TO BE THEY HAVE A PICK AND CHOOSE.

THEY HAVE TO SELECT WHAT THEY CAN AND CANNOT DO.

I'VE SEEN WHERE SCHOOL DISTRICTS SAY WE'RE GOING TO GIVE 3% ACROSS THE BOARD AND THAT'S IT.

NO MARKET ADJUSTMENT.

OR LIKE YOU SAID, TRUSTEE HIRES AND THEY MAY SELECT, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO TWO OR 3% HERE OR 4%, WHATEVER THAT MIGHT BE.

PLUS, WE'RE GOING TO DO A MARKET ADJUSTMENT FOR ONE CATEGORY OUT OF YOU.

REMEMBER, WE HAVE LIKE FIVE THERE, RIGHT? AND SO NEXT YEAR WHEN WE DO ANOTHER RAISE, WE WILL DO MARKET ADJUSTMENT FOR ANOTHER GROUP BECAUSE THEY CANNOT AFFORD, I GUESS, TO PUT THOSE ALL THE AMOUNT OF MONEY ALL AT ONCE.

SO WHEN THAT HAPPENING, LET'S SAY WE DID EDIT THIS THIS YEAR SO WE WON'T GET BACK TO THEM UNTIL FIVE YEARS FROM NOW.

WHAT? GUESS WHAT HAPPENS IN FIVE YEARS? THEY ARE GETTING PAID LESS AND LESS AND LESS.

THEY'RE NOT KEEPING UP WITH THE MARKET.

OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT ARE PAYING THEM A LOT MORE.

SO WHAT END UP HAPPENING YOU WIDEN THE GAP AND NOW THEY'RE LEAVING THE DISTRICT TO GO AND WORK FOR LEANDER, LEAVING DISTRICT TO GO WORK FOR PFLUGERVILLE.

AND WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS EVERY YEAR YOU NEED TO KEEP UP WITH THE MARKET FOR ALL GROUPS.

THAT WAY YOU CAN KEEP YOUR STAFF AND YOU CAN RECRUIT THE BEST STAFF OUT THERE.

RIGHT. BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ESPECIALLY NOWADAYS, I MEAN, WITH INFLATION, THEY'LL MAKE A DECISION LIKE ON THE SPOT IF THEY MAKE, YOU KNOW, A FEW THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE IN ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT. SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS SO IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO IT THIS WAY.

AND OUR GOAL IS TO CONTINUE.

AS I SAID, THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.

OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE THIS PROCESS OR SYSTEM EVERY YEAR MOVING FORWARD.

THANK YOU. I THINK THAT SOUNDS LIKE GOOD PRACTICE.

SO JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR AND PEOPLE UNDERSTAND ALL SALARIES WILL BE ADJUSTED TO THE MARKET RATE AND THEN WHATEVER THAT PERCENTAGE INCREASE WILL HAPPEN ON TOP OF THAT, IS THAT CORRECT? KIND OF, SORT OF.

SO WE WE HAVE THE GOAL OF GETTING TO MARKET AS BEST WE CAN ONCE DENNIS SAYS THAT THERE'S MONEY THERE TO DO THAT.

RIGHT. SO IT'S REALLY WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE BUDGET.

SO THE FIRST THING WE DO IS WE WE LOOK AT OUR PROJECTED BUDGET AND DENNIS AND I COLLABORATE AND WE GET THOSE NUMBERS.

AND DR. AZAIEZ, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL WE'RE ALL IN A DISCUSSION ABOUT THOSE THINGS.

BUT FROM THERE, I THINK HAVING THAT RELATIONSHIP WITH AN OUTSIDE ENTITY TO LOOK AT THE MARKET, TO BE ABLE TO SEE WHERE THOSE SHIFTS ARE IS REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT.

SO FOR EXAMPLE, THIS YEAR WE KNEW OUR OPERATIONAL SUPPORT GROUP.

THAT WAS A REAL STRUGGLE FOR US FROM A STAFFING STANDPOINT.

YOU KNOW, OUR CUSTODIAL GROUP PARTICULARLY AND A LOT OF THAT IS EXTERNAL PRESSURES, NOT JUST WITH COST OF LIVING, BUT I MEAN, WE'VE ALL SEEN THE SIGNS AS WE DRIVE THROUGH THE COMMUNITY $15 MINIMUM, MINIMUM WAGE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

THOSE MINIMUM WAGES ARE BECOMING MORE OF A OF A SELLING POINT NOW.

SO THAT'S PUT A LOT OF PRESSURE ON OUR SYSTEM IN ORDER TO CATCH UP, WHICH IS WHY WE HAD TO PRIORITIZE THAT GROUP THIS YEAR.

THEN WE ALSO KNOW THAT, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER WITH THE TEACHER GROUP, THERE WAS A REAL AREA OF FOCUS THERE ON THAT BOTTOM, ON THE BOTTOM PART OF THE EXPERIENCE SCALE.

[02:20:02]

AND SO KNOWING THAT WE HAD A HIRING NEED AND WE ANTICIPATED HIRING IN THAT PARTICULAR CATEGORY MOVING FORWARD, WE PRIORITIZE SOME DOLLARS THERE.

SO TO ANSWER YOUR LONG STORY.

SHORT, SHORT STORY ALONG WITH ME.

SORRY, WAIT. WE WE GO BACK TO WE LOOK AT THE MARKET, WE SEE WHERE WE ARE IN COMPARISON TO THE MARKET.

AND WE TRY TO GET AS CLOSE AS WE CAN TO THAT MARKET WHILE ALSO BEING STRATEGIC AND SETTING UP OUR SYSTEMS FOR A LONG TERM APPROACH TO THAT.

YEAH. AND AGAIN, ANYONE WHO WORKED WITH COMPENSATION WILL TELL YOU, ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE COMING LIKE FROM THE BOTTOM, RIGHT? LIKE OR MAYBE NOT IN, YOU KNOW, SOME WE HAVE A LOT OF GAPS.

IN OTHER WORDS. RIGHT. THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT THEY WILL TAKE MORE THAN ONE YEAR TO BE IN THE TOP.

RIGHT. BECAUSE IDEALLY WE WANT TO WE WANT TO BE BECAUSE WE WE WANT TO BE IN THE TOP WHEN IT COMES TO COMPENSATION.

ALL CATEGORIES, RIGHT? WITHOUT TEACHERS, WITHOUT SUPPORT STAFF WITH OUR INSTRUCTIONAL ASSISTANT.

BUT YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IF WE COME IN FROM THE BACK, I MEAN, WE ARE MAKING I FEEL WE'RE MAKING A HUGE STRIDE THIS YEAR.

BUT THE GOAL IS TO CONTINUE AND EVENTUALLY NOT.

WE DON'T HAVE TO CATCH UP ANYMORE.

THEY HAVE TO CATCH UP WITH US AT SOME POINT.

RIGHT. AND SO THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S THE GOAL.

THANK YOU. I HAVE A COUPLE MORE QUESTIONS.

I SEE THAT THE LONG TERM GOAL FOR SURE, BUT I KNOW THAT WE'RE FACING A CRISIS OF EVEN HAVING ENOUGH STAFF TO START THE YEAR NEXT YEAR.

AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS, THAT'S ACROSS THE US, BUT THAT'S A VERY REAL CHALLENGE.

AND I BELIEVE IN YOUR COMMITMENT TO INCREASE THIS YEAR OVER YEAR, BUT I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ADDRESSING NEXT YEAR AS A PRIORITY.

SO, MR. COVINGTON, CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT'S THE IMPACT TO THE OVERALL BUDGET LIKE WILL THIS $16 MILLION AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW, I KNOW YOU'RE STILL WORKING.

WILL THIS CREATE A DEFICIT OR WOULD YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF WHAT THIS WILL LOOK LIKE? WELL, WE'VE DONE SOME WORK IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS.

IF I GIVE YOU MY BEST GUESS, IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE BELOW THE DEFICIT THAT YOU APPROVED FOR THIS YEAR.

AND THE GOAL IS TO COME AS CLOSE TO A BALANCED BUDGET AS POSSIBLE.

SO THE PROJECTIONS NOW SHOW THAT THIS PIECE OF SALARY INCREASE AS PROPOSED, WE WILL COME VERY CLOSE TO A BALANCED BUDGET, MEANING ZERO DEFICIT.

OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT CONTEXT.

I MEAN, I KNOW THAT WE MAY HAVE VARYING LEVELS OF OF COMFORT WITH THE DEFICIT BUDGET.

I'M WATCHING OTHER DISTRICTS MEETINGS.

SOME OF THEM ARE DOING HUGE DEFICITS.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT IS AN OPTION.

I JUST WANTED TO CHECK AND SEE WHERE WE WERE.

OKAY. TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

HOW DO YOU GET TO THE MIDPOINT? WE'VE HAD SO MANY TEACHERS THAT ARE UNCLEAR ON HOW YOU GET TO THE MIDPOINT.

SO SORRY.

SO THE MID-POINT IS AGAIN, IT'S THE MARKET, RIGHT? SO WE WE HAVE TO NOT ONLY MAINTAIN OUR MARKET COMPETITIVENESS FROM A RECRUITING STANDPOINT, BUT WE HAVE TO ALSO MAKE SURE THAT OUR EMPLOYEES WHO ARE INTERNAL KIND OF ALIGN WITH THAT.

AND SO EXPERIENCE IS THE KEY FOR WHERE SOMEBODY IS PLACED WHEN THEY COME IN.

NOW HOW YOU GET TO THE MIDPOINT IS GRADUALLY SPEAKING OR SORRY, OVER OVER A PERIOD OF TIME.

IF YOU'RE IN THE SYSTEM WITH THE DISTRICT, THEN YOUR INCREASES ARE CONTINGENT ON BOARD APPROVAL EVERY YEAR WE BY BEING STRATEGIC, WE SHOULD LOOK AT OUR SCALES EVERY YEAR, AND ONE WAY TO GET CLOSER TO THE MIDPOINT IS YOU ADJUST YOUR HIRING SCALES TO A LESSER EXTENT.

YOU ADJUST THEM UP TO A LESSER EXTENT THAN YOU DO FOR YOUR EXISTING EMPLOYEES.

SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF WE WERE TO ADJUST OUR HIRING SCALES BY 2%, WE MIGHT OFFER OUR INTERNAL EMPLOYEES A 3% INCREASE.

AND SO THEY WOULD MOVE GRADUALLY CLOSER TO THAT OVER TIME.

THE GOAL IS, AND KRISTIN MENTIONED THIS A LITTLE BIT DURING THE PRESENTATION, BUT WE HAD VERY WIDE RANGES IN PAY SYSTEMS AND SO YOU WOULD HAVE POSSIBLY A 40% SPREAD FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP.

THE GOAL IS OVER TIME THAT YOU REDUCE THAT, SO YOU COMPRESS IT SO PEOPLE ACTUALLY MOVE THROUGH THE SYSTEM A LITTLE BIT QUICKER.

I JUST WANT TO ADD AGAIN, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT IT LAST TIME.

I REMEMBER DR. BOWEN ASKING THE QUESTION ABOUT FOR THE MIDYEAR WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE ED ASSISTS.

REMEMBER WE HAVE A 30 YEARS, RIGHT? SO IT'S REALLY MANY OF OUR CATEGORIES IS 15 YEARS TO GET THEM TO MIDPOINT.

BUT I DIDN'T FORGET WHERE WE'RE GOING TO.

WE ARE LOOKING AT THAT.

RIGHT. AND WE MAY HAVE TO EVENTUALLY REVISE IT BECAUSE WE WANT TO SHRINK IT.

RIGHT. LIKE THE GOAL IS TO SHRINK IT.

AND BY YOU SHRINKING IT, YOU ACTUALLY YOU AUTOMATICALLY WILL BE GIVEN A BIGGER RAISES, RIGHT? BECAUSE NOW WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR 15 YEARS.

MAYBE YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR 14 OR 13 YEARS TO GET TO THE MIDPOINT.

SO SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE ARE WE WILL BE WORKING ON.

BUT OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT READY TO BRING ANYTHING LIKE THAT, ANY CHANGES YET TO YOU.

SO I THINK THAT I UNDERSTAND THAT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT NEEDS FOR THE MIDPOINT.

BUT WHEN YOU'RE AN EDUCATOR OR WHEN YOU'RE IN THE SYSTEM, IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND.

IT FEELS LIKE THAT GOAL POST IS ALWAYS MOVING.

SO I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 15 YEARS.

AM I CLOSE TO THE MIDPOINT? BUT WHAT I'M HEARING IS THE MIDPOINT MOVES.

AND SO IS THERE ANYTHING AND THIS MAY NOT BE AN ANSWER FOR RIGHT NOW, BUT JUST LOOKING AT THE EMAILS AND THE FEEDBACK WE'RE RECEIVING, LIKE I THINK IT REALLY NEEDS TO BE CLEAR OR

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PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW ON THEIR PATH, WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR ME TO REACH THE MIDPOINT? BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF FRUSTRATION COMING FROM A LACK OF CLARITY WITH THAT.

AND TRUSTEE HARRISON THAT IS NOT IT'S NOT JUST ROUND ROCK ISD.

I'M WORKING IN OTHER DISTRICTS THAT MIDPOINT CONCEPT IS VERY COMPLICATED.

AND YOU'RE RIGHT, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.

WE HAVE TO DO A BETTER JOB OF COMMUNICATING THOSE COMPENSATION PIECES TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND GIVING EMPLOYEES A BETTER UNDERSTANDING SO THEY FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE WITH IT.

THE CHALLENGE WITH THE MIDPOINT IS IT'S A RECRUITMENT PIECE, RIGHT? SO IN ORDER TO STAY COMPETITIVE FOR RECRUITING, YOU HAVE TO STAY CLOSE TO MARKET.

I'VE SEEN DIFFERENT VARIATIONS OF HOW HOW DO YOU GET EMPLOYEES CLOSER OR MOVE THEM QUICKER THROUGH THE SCALE.

ONE WAY IS TO COMPRESS THE RANGE.

SO INSTEAD OF HAVING THAT 40% RANGE YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE LESS PIECES IN PLACE BEFORE YOU GET TO THE MIDPOINT, MEANING YOU REDUCE IT TO A 20% OR A 25% RANGE THAT THEN TAPS OUT YOUR HIRING, YOUR COMPETITIVENESS AT THE HIRING AREA.

AT THE TOP END, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.

BUT PEOPLE IN THE SYSTEM CONTINUE TO GET RAISES SO THEY ACTUALLY MOVE THROUGH AND CAN ACTUALLY GET TO THE TOP OF THE SCALE.

BUT THAT ALSO CAN POTENTIALLY NEGATIVELY IMPACT YOUR ABILITY TO RECRUIT BECAUSE YOU'RE NO LONGER POSITIONED APPROPRIATELY TO MARKET.

AND I AM NOT DOING A GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING THIS AS I WILL DO WHEN WE DEVELOP OUR EDUCATION PROGRAM AROUND THIS.

PLEASE. AND THANK YOU, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO END FRUSTRATION.

SO ONE MORE THING, 1.5 MORE THINGS AND THEN TRUSTEE WHERE IT'S ON TO YOU.

THIS IS MAYBE MORE COMMENTARY THAN EXPECTING AN ANSWER.

I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO CONSIDER NURSES FOR A HIGHER RAISE, ESPECIALLY IF THERE ARE SO FEW OF THEM.

AND DON'T HATE ME BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THROWS A WRENCH INTO YOUR PLANS, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHY THEY WEREN'T CONSIDERED, ESPECIALLY IN A YEAR THAT REVOLVED SO MUCH A COUPLE OF YEARS AROUND THEIR SUPPORT.

SO I'M SO SORRY.

I NORMALLY DON'T LIKE TO THROW LIKE, YOU KNOW, A GRENADE, BUT I THINK THAT THAT IS ONE THING THAT SHOULD REALLY BE CONSIDERED.

AND THEN MY SECOND THING IS I THINK THAT I THINK THIS GOES BACK TO THE EDUCATION PIECE.

SO I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO HEAR THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE WORKING ON THE EDUCATION PIECE, BECAUSE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN LOYAL TO OUR DISTRICT FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS, I THINK THEY'RE WONDERING KIND OF, WELL, THERE'S A LOT THAT HAPPENS IN YEARS 0 TO 6.

AND I HEARD YOU SAY IT AND LOGICALLY I UNDERSTAND IT.

HOWEVER, I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME TENSION OF, WELL, I'VE BEEN LOYAL TO THIS DISTRICT AND I DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M GETTING THAT MUCH OF A PAY INCREASE.

AND THEN PEOPLE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT IT'S NOT NECESSARILY LIKE 4%, 3%, 2% ACROSS THE BOARD, EVERY COMPENSATIONS COMPLEX, BECAUSE YOU ALL GO IN AND ADJUST EVERY INDIVIDUAL IF WE HAVE 7000 EMPLOYEES, EVERY SINGLE PERSON'S.

AND SO WE'RE GETTING EMAILS WHERE PEOPLE ARE FLAT, JUST DOING 4% AND SAYING THAT'S NOT A LOT, BUT THAT MAY NOT BE WHAT YOUR ACTUAL COMPENSATION LOOKS LIKE.

AND SO I THINK WE COULD USE SOME WORK AROUND THAT MESSAGING AS WELL.

TRUSTEE WEIR.

ACTUALLY YOU KIND OF TOOK MY THUNDER.

I HAD A FEW OF THOSE SAME QUESTIONS AND ACTUALLY AND THIS IS JUST ME THROWING THIS OUT TO FOLLOW UP ON WHAT SHE JUST SAID.

BUT AND I DON'T KNOW IF TRS DOES IT, BUT AN ERS, WHEN YOU'RE IN THE ERS SYSTEM, YOU KNOW, YOU GET YOUR LITTLE NEWSLETTER AND IT KIND OF SAYS, YOU KNOW, WHERE YOU ARE AND HOW FAR YOU'RE INVESTED AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.

AND AND IF AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WORK THAT WOULD BE, BUT IT WOULD ALMOST BE NICE TO HAVE TEACHERS TO SEE THAT LIKE THIS IS WHERE YOU ARE.

ANYWAY, THAT WAS JUST A THOUGHT.

BUT I DID ALSO I WANTED TO I HAD WRITTEN DOWN ABOUT THE NURSES ALSO AFTER OUR SPEAKER AND SHE SAID LVN'S AND THERE WERE 19 AND I COULD ONLY FIND OUR ENDS ON THE SHEET AND THEY WERE 503 IN THE 503 CATEGORY.

BUT IT LOOKED LIKE ACTUALLY THE 503 CATEGORY IS GETTING MORE THAN 2%.

I MEAN, I'M NOT A HUGE MATH PERSON, BUT IT IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS MORE THAN TWO.

BUT OUR LVN'S NOT IN THAT GROUP.

ALVIN ARE ACTUALLY IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL SUPPORT GROUP.

SO THEY WERE PART OF THE APRIL ONE INCREASES AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO BE A PART OF THE SECOND SET OF RAISES WHERE THEY'LL BE IN THE 2%.

SO THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO GET 4 RIGHT? OKAY. WELL, IT DEPENDS.

REMEMBER, THERE'S THERE IS DEPENDS ON THE I MEAN, BECAUSE EACH ONE WILL LOOK AT THE INDIVIDUAL PERSON, YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND WE ADJUST.

BUT A MINIMUM OF 4 CORRECT? RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO THANK YOU.

I WAS STRUGGLING WITH THAT.

SO THANK YOU. AND THEN JUST FOLLOWING UP ON WHAT SOME OF OUR SPEAKERS SAID, SO STIPENDS ARE STIPENDS PART OF THIS COMPENSATION PLAN? OR IS THAT SOMETHING ELSE THAT COMES SEPARATE LATER IN THE BUDGET? WHEN WE TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT CATEGORIES? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION AND OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A LOT OF INTEREST IN THAT THIS EVENING.

SO STIPENDS ARE PART OF THE OVERALL DISTRICT BUDGET AND PART OF OBVIOUSLY OUR COMPENSATION, BUT IT'S SUPPLEMENTAL COMPENSATION OUTSIDE OF THIS.

SO THIS IS THE LION'S SHARE OF OUR BUDGET.

AT THE END OF THE DAY, WHEN WE LOOK AT THIS, IT'S PAYROLL.

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DENNIS, TELL ME THE NUMBERS THAT 80, 85, 86% SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE.

AND IT DEPENDS ON THE DAY OF THE WEEK SOMETIMES.

BUT FROM THERE WE LOOK AT THAT AND WE GET THAT PIECE DONE FIRST AND THEN WE LOOK AT WHERE ELSE CAN WE MOVE IN TERMS OF THE BUDGET RESTRICTIONS THAT WE MAY HAVE.

SO SO WE DO AN ANNUAL STIPEND REVIEW.

AGAIN, WE PARTNER WITH TASB BEYOND THAT.

AND SO WE HAVE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO TAKE, BUT WE HAVE TO GET THIS PIECE DONE FIRST.

OKAY. SO I JUST WANT FOR I APPRECIATE OUR STUDENTS THAT CAME AND SPOKE AND THERE WAS A LOT OF PASSION IN THE ROOM TONIGHT.

SO IT'LL BE COMING UP A LITTLE BIT LATER.

WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT IT TONIGHT.

SO JUST TWO MORE THINGS.

FIRST, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU.

I WAS REALLY EXCITED WHEN I SAW THIS.

I HAVE BEEN IN THIS DISTRICT FOR AS AN ACTIVE PARENT FOR OVER TWO DECADES AND I HAVEN'T EVER SEEN A BUDGET THAT DID EVERYBODY, THAT COVERED EVERYBODY, BUT ALSO STAGGERED IT SO THAT THE PEOPLE AT THE BOTTOM WERE REALLY GETTING THE ATTENTION THAT THEY DESERVED.

AND I, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.

I THINK THAT THAT SHOWS A LOT ABOUT WHERE OUR HEART IS IN ROUND ROCK ISD.

AND, AND I LOVE THAT MESSAGE THAT WE'RE SENDING AND SUPPORTING OUR TEACHERS.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND THEN TO KIND OF THROW MY LITTLE GRENADE AND THIS ISN'T ABOUT TODAY, BUT I KNOW THAT I WAS JUST GOING TO PUT IT OUT THERE.

I KNOW THAT HEALTH CARE COSTS WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT LATER.

AND I DON'T EVEN.

ALL I'M SAYING IS I GOING TO THROW THIS OUT THERE FOR STAFF AND FOR MY FELLOW TRUSTEES, BECAUSE NORMALLY I'M A LITTLE MORE RISK AVERSE.

I'M A LITTLE BIT MORE LIKE TRUSTEE BONE WITH NEEDING THINGS IN SAVINGS.

BUT I DO KNOW THIS IS GOING TO BE A HARD YEAR FOR EVERYBODY.

AND SO ONE THING THAT I GUESS I WOULD LIKE TO THROW OUT AS A CONSIDERATION INSTEAD OF RAISING HEALTH CARE COSTS, IF WE LOOK AT OUR FUND BALANCE FOR ONE YEAR AND TO GIVE YOU ALL A LITTLE MORE TIME TO TRY TO GET THAT UNDER CONTROL.

SO THAT WE'RE NOT TAKING THAT MONEY BACK AWAY FROM OUR STAFF.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF MY COLLEAGUES FEEL THAT WAY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO SORT OF PUT IT OUT THERE AS MAYBE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD TALK ABOUT AS WE'RE GOING FORWARD.

BECAUSE I REALLY DON'T WANT TO TAKE THIS RAISE BACK FROM ANYBODY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HEALTH CARE COSTS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

TRUSTEE WEIR DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING? I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.

AND IF IF IF WE HAVE YOUR YOUR BLESSING, I MEAN, WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO THAT.

I'M ONLY ONE, BUT I JUST.

I JUST WANT TO THROW IT OUT THERE.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BOARD. YES, ABSOLUTELY.

BUT THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. BUT IF WE HAVE OUR BOARD BLESSING, WE'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO TAKE CARE OF OUR STAFF AND TAKE CARE OF THAT.

AGAIN, I KNOW WE ARE WORKING ON IT AND AND I'VE BEEN IN SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE YOU'RE RIGHT.

I MEAN, YOU GIVE A RAISE AND THEN HAVE THE PREMIUM GO UP OR DEDUCTIBLE GO UP AND IT FEEL LIKE ALMOST LIKE A LOSS.

THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO DO HERE.

SO, AGAIN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING THAT UP.

THANK YOU, PRESIDENT FELLER.

I WANT TO ECHO WHAT TRUSTEE WEIR JUST SAID ABOUT HOW IMPRESSED I AM WITH THIS COMPENSATION PLAN.

FOURTH YEAR THAT I HAVE DONE THIS.

IT'S FOURTH YEAR THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT RAISES, WHICH IS IMPRESSIVE CONSIDERING WHAT WE HAVE BEEN THROUGH AS A COMMUNITY IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS IN THE DISTRICT.

BUT THIS IS PERHAPS THE MOST INNOVATIVE APPROACH THAT I'VE EVER SEEN, AND IT'S ALSO THE FIRST TIME I'VE HEARD A CFO EVEN MENTION GETTING CLOSE TO A BALANCED BUDGET.

AND SO IF THAT'S POSSIBLE, THAT'S SUPER EXCITING AS WELL.

I DO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

I DO THINK THAT I WANT TO DO MORE IF IT'S POSSIBLE.

I KNOW YOU MENTIONED DR.

AZAIEZ BRINGING BACK A POSSIBLE AMENDMENT EVEN IN A MAY BUDGET MEETING.

THAT WOULD BE AMAZING IF WE COULD DO MORE.

I KNOW IT'S NOT ENOUGH, BUT IT'S ALL WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW.

SO IF WE CAN DO MORE IN A FUTURE UPDATE, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING.

AND FOR THAT REASON, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVED THE 2022 2023 COMPENSATION PLAN AS REFLECTED IN APPENDIX A.

I'LL SECOND. YES.

TRUSTEE BONE WAS GOING TO HAD HER LIGHT ON, SO I'LL ALLOW HER TO.

YEAH. I WOULD LIKE TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS BEFORE YOU MAKE THIS BIG DECISION.

AND ONE OF THEM GOES BACK TO QUESTIONS THAT WE'VE HAD PREVIOUSLY, AND THAT IS TO DO AROUND SPED AND I BELIEVE IT WAS AT OUR VERY LAST MEETING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT HARD TO FILL POSITIONS AND I JUST WONDER IF YOU GUYS DID GO OFF AND LOOK AT THE HARD TO FILL POSITIONS AND IF THEY WERE TREATED DIFFERENTLY IN THIS PAYMENT STRUCTURE SO THAT WE CAN ENSURE THAT WE ABSOLUTELY FILL THESE HARD TO FILL POSITIONS.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HARD TO FILL POSITIONS ARE? CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT? YES, MA'AM. SO WE MENTIONED THE STIPEND RECOMMENDATIONS.

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AND SO PART OF OUR STIPEND RECOMMENDATION IS TO REALLY LOOK AT SPECIAL EDUCATION.

SO SPECIAL EDUCATION TEACHERS ARE PAID ON THE SAME SCHEDULE AS A REGULAR, REGULAR EDUCATION TEACHER.

AND SO WE'RE KIND OF TIED TO THAT STRUCTURE WITH THE TEACHERS.

BUT WHERE WE SOMETIMES DIFFERENTIATE IN THOSE TYPES OF HARD TO FILL POSITIONS IS BY PROVIDING A RECRUITMENT OR RETENTION STIPEND FOR THOSE AREAS.

SO DUAL LANGUAGE IS OBVIOUSLY A BIG ONE.

OUR DISTRICT OFFERS A VERY COMPETITIVE STIPEND FOR THAT.

WE HAVE A SPECIAL EDUCATION STIPEND.

AND THEN SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE REGULARLY IDENTIFY AND SOMETIMES ARE CHALLENGED TO FILL, IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS OR IN THE CAREER TECHNOLOGY STRAND, YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE OFTENTIMES YOUR UNICORN TEACHING CERTIFICATIONS, RIGHT, WHERE YOU'VE GOT TO FIND A REAL SPECIAL NICHE KIND OF PERSON TO FILL THOSE ROLES. AND OFTENTIMES THEY'RE THE ONLY PERSON TEACHING THAT ON THAT CAMPUS.

SO, YOU KNOW, WE TRY REALLY HARD TO BE CREATIVE AND THINK OF WAYS TO RETAIN THOSE STAFF MEMBERS BECAUSE AGAIN, TO YOUR POINT, THEY'RE REALLY HARD TO FILL.

SO WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS RECOMMENDATIONS ON OUR STIPENDS, WHICH WE'LL BE BRINGING FORWARD AT A LATER DATE AND HAVE MORE INFORMATION ON ONCE WE'VE HAD AGAIN, WE'VE GOT TO GET THIS PIECE DONE FIRST, BUT THE STIPENDS WOULD BE AFTER THAT.

SO ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, AFTER THE APRIL 1ST, WHEN WE DID THAT, WE GOT SOME EMAILS THAT THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT KIND OF GOT EXCLUDED FROM THAT.

I WAS TRYING TO GO THROUGH MY EMAIL AND FIND THEM.

I THINK THOSE WERE FORWARDED TO YOU, BY THE WAY.

DO YOU REMEMBER? WE CAN AFFORD THOSE.

BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, THESE PEOPLE THAT WERE EXCLUDED.

I MEAN, WAS THERE I MEAN, MAYBE IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THEM.

I THOUGHT YOU DID, BUT DID YOU? ARE WE GOING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AND SEE IF WE CAN PULL THEM UP? I GUESS THEY'RE LIKE EA'S, BUT THEY'RE NOT EA'S.

I DON'T KNOW IF THE TRUSTEES REMEMBER EXACTLY WHAT THEY WERE, BUT I DO REMEMBER ONE EMAIL WITH WE HAD A BEHAVIOR TECH.

YEAH, I THINK THERE'S.

YEAH. AND SO YES.

AND SO I WORKED WITH THAT EMPLOYEE AND WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE SURE SHE UNDERSTOOD THAT SHE DID RECEIVE AN INCREASE IN APRIL.

IT JUST YOU KNOW, SHE WAS THE STRUCTURE CHANGED.

RIGHT. AND SO THE THERE WERE DIFFERENT ADJUSTMENT AMOUNTS FOR DIFFERENT POSITIONS.

RIGHT. BUT SHE DID RECEIVE SHE WAS ELIGIBLE AND SHE DID RECEIVE THAT APRIL ADJUSTMENT.

SO THAT WAS COMMUNICATED TO HER.

BUT AGAIN, IF THERE ARE ANY EMAILS OR ANY EMPLOYEES THAT, YOU KNOW, DO HAVE QUESTIONS, I PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO CONTACT ME DIRECTLY OR CONTACT KRISTEN AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS THOSE AND LOOK INTO THEM FOR THEM.

SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS YOU'RE SAYING YOU THINK WE HAVE FULL COVERAGE AND THAT THERE WAS JUST MISCOMMUNICATION AND I BELIEVE SO.

IT WAS THE POINT IS WAS RAISED EARLIER.

YOU KNOW, WE ARE WORKING VERY HARD TO TO MAYBE COMMUNICATE BETTER AND PROVIDE BETTER EDUCATION ON HOW THAT PAY WORKS.

BUT WE ALSO, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY PROUD OF MY TEAM.

THEY'RE VERY RESPONSIVE WHEN THEY BECOME AWARE OF SITUATIONS LIKE THAT.

AND JUST WITH THE SYSTEM THAT'S LARGE, I'M NOT MAKING EXCUSES, BUT WITH A SYSTEM THAT'S LARGE, OCCASIONALLY THINGS HAPPEN.

BUT WHAT WE DO PRIDE OURSELVES ON IS THE MINUTE THAT WE LEARN ABOUT THOSE THINGS, WE'RE RESPONSIVE AND WE ADDRESS THEM.

I MEAN, THERE'S NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT TO TO ME THAN TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE GET PAID CORRECTLY FOR THE WORK THAT THEY DO.

SO PLEASE, I ENCOURAGE I THANK YOU FOR SENDING THEM TO ME AND MAKING SURE THAT THEY COME TO THE RIGHT PLACE BECAUSE WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT.

AND THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN THAT PAYCHECK YET.

SO I MEAN, I THINK THAT MAY BE SOME OF THE CONFUSION TOO.

YEAH, I THINK PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW AND I JUST THINK THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE EXCLUDED.

IT SOUNDS LIKE IT'S THE SAME THING WITH THE NURSES THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE THE PAY INCREASE.

AND IT WAS JUST MAYBE A MISUNDERSTANDING.

SO I'M TRANSITIONING NOW OVER TO THE BUDGET BECAUSE THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR DOING THIS AND IT SEEMS SO ODD TO ME TO DO THE COMPENSATION PLAN BEFORE WE ACTUALLY KNOW THE BUDGET BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF LIKE SPENDING YOUR MONEY BEFORE YOU KNOW WHAT YOU HAVE.

BUT FOR ME, I NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHEN YOU SAY THAT YOU'RE GETTING REALLY CLOSE TO, YOU KNOW, ZERO DEFICIT BUDGET, WHAT ASSUMPTIONS ARE YOU MAKING AT THIS TIME? I MEAN, WHAT WHAT PAYOFFS ARE WE MAKING FOR THIS? BECAUSE. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, WHAT ARE WE NOT DOING NEXT YEAR THAT WE'RE DOING THIS YEAR? ARE WE GETTING MORE MONEY? I MEAN, HOW ARE YOU GETTING TO THAT? WHAT ARE ASSUMPTIONS ARE YOU MAKING THAT ARE DIFFERENT THAN THIS YEAR THAT WE CAN PULL THIS? I MEAN, WE'RE SPENDING $15 MILLION MORE.

AND YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE, WHAT, A $20 MILLION DEFICIT OR WHATEVER WE'RE HAVING THIS YEAR? WELL, SOME OF THE FACTORS ARE YOUR PROPERTY TAXES ARE SKYROCKETING FOR THIS COUNTY.

WE'VE DONE SOME BUDGET REDUCTIONS THROUGH ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS TO THE TUNE OF ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.

WE USE A INCREASE IN STUDENTS WITH A 95%, 88.

THOSE ARE THE THREE MAIN FACTORS.

[INAUDIBLE] WE ALSO WE'RE NOT READY TO SHARE WITH EVERYONE YET, BUT WE ALSO WORK ON RECRUITMENT.

REMEMBER, WE LOST QUITE A NUMBER OF STUDENTS, RIGHT? SO SO RECAPTURE WORKS IN A WAY THAT WHEN WE LOSE STUDENTS, OBVIOUSLY WE SEND MORE MONEY TO THE STATE.

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SO WE ARE ACTUALLY ACTIVELY WORKING ON A PLAN WHERE WE WOULD BE RECRUITING OUR STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY THE ONE WE LOST TO CHARTER SCHOOLS, MAYBE SOME PRIVATE SCHOOLS, MAYBE TO HOMESCHOOLING.

SO WE WE'RE WORKING ON A PLAN.

I KNOW JENNY AND HER TEAM IS LEADING, BUT IT'S REALLY IT'S A DISTRICT WIDE EFFORT.

SO ONCE WE HAVE THAT READY, WE WILL SHARE THAT WITH OUR BOARD MEMBERS AND OBVIOUSLY ALL OUR STAKEHOLDERS.

BUT THE KEY IS ALSO TO RECRUIT STUDENTS BACK, TO BRING STUDENTS BACK.

SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING. WE'RE REALLY WORKING HARD ON THAT AND WE'RE GOING TO EXECUTE THAT PLAN AND SHARE WITH YOU FIRST AND THEN EXECUTE IT SOON AS WELL.

THANK YOU. I KNOW THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR, SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT INCREASE IN STUDENTS IS THAT NUMBER APPROXIMATELY? ARE WE TALKING 2000 STUDENTS? 5000 STUDENTS? ARE WE ARE WE STILL TALKING? I STEPPED OUT. YEAH, THE LADIES ROOM.

AND SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE STILL ON COMPENSATION PLAN.

WELL, TO ME, IT IS COMPENSATION PLAN BECAUSE THEY'RE TIED TOGETHER.

I DON'T KNOW HOW I MAKE A CHOICE ON THE COMPENSATION PLAN IF I DON'T KNOW WHAT ASSUMPTIONS THE BUDGET ARE MAKING.

I MEAN, THEY'RE SO COUPLED TOGETHER THAT.

WHEN'S THE NEXT BUDGET DISCUSSION WORKS.

MAY 5TH. MAY 5TH.

YEP. YOU NEED THE BOARD TO VOTE ON THIS TONIGHT, THOUGH.

OKAY. CAN I? I JUST WANT TO FLAG ONE THING.

THE REASON WHY IT'S IMPORTANT FOR TONIGHT.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT POSSIBLE AMENDMENTS IN MAY, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE SATISFIED.

AND I THINK THAT WE STILL WANT TO FIND MONEY AND TRUST YOU BEST.

I KNOW YOU'RE STILL GOING TO SPEAK, BUT I BELIEVE THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THE TIMING OF VOTING ON THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE THE FAIR RIGHT, THE EMPLOYEE RECRUITMENT FAIR ON SATURDAY. AND SO YOU WANT TO AT LEAST BE ABLE TO TELL THOSE STARTING EMPLOYEES LIKE, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE'RE THE HIGHEST IN THIS AREA, BUT I THINK THAT WE'RE NOT PREPARED TO JUST END THE CONVERSATION THERE.

YEAH. SO, SO, SO.

ABSOLUTELY. SO THERE ARE A COUPLE OF FACTORS, RIGHT? SO WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE DOING JOB FAIRS, BY THE WAY.

SO YEAH, JOB FAIRS FOR US OBVIOUSLY TO TO RECRUIT FOR OUR VACANCIES THAT CURRENTLY WE HAVE BUT ALSO LIKE AUSTIN ISD HAVE THERE AND OTHER SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE THEIR JOB FAIRS EITHER NOT NEXT WEEK OR THE WEEK AFTER.

SO SOME OF OUR TEACHER MAY BE THINKING, I CAN MAKE MORE MONEY IF I MOVE TO ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT.

BUT IF WE SHARE THE HOPEFULLY AFTER YOUR APPROVAL THAT WE'LL BE GIVEN THIS THIS MUCH RAISE, MAYBE THAT WILL HELP THEM KIND OF LIKE, OH, OKAY, I DON'T HAVE TO GO ANYWHERE ANYMORE. I MEAN, I LOVE BEING HERE.

THEY'RE TAKING YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SHOWING US THAT THAT WE'RE WE ARE WE'RE APPRECIATED, THAT WE ALL CARE FOR THEM AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.

SO MAYBE THAT WILL HELP THEM MAKE THAT DECISION TO ACTUALLY STAY WITH US, BECAUSE REALLY, WE DON'T WANT THEM TO GO ANYWHERE.

WE WANT THEM TO REMAIN WITH US.

AND ALSO, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IF WE HAVE ANY VACANCIES THAT WE HIRE FIRST AND EARLY AND HIRE THE BEST FOR OUR STUDENTS AND OUR SCHOOL.

SO THAT'S REALLY WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL IF OUR WERE A BOARD OF TRUSTEES, MAKE THE DECISION TO APPROVE THIS.

BUT AS I SAID, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT GOING TO STOP AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE.

HOPEFULLY WE'LL COME BACK TO YOU IN MAY WITH EVEN A BETTER OR BETTER NEWS.

BUT EVEN WITH THIS, AGAIN, WE FEEL LIKE AT LEAST IT'S A GOOD STARTING POINT.

I REMEMBER ALSO THAT WE ARE BE GIVEN A RETENTION BONUS OF $500 TO ALL OUR STAFF MEMBERS IN THE FALL.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT DENNIS WILL BE TALKING MORE ABOUT IT ON THE MAY 5TH MEETING.

BUT NOT THE BOND. THE INCREASE IS 800 STUDENTS.

BUT THE KEY IS TO GET THEM TO COME TO SCHOOL EVERY DAY.

SO OUR A.D.A. GOES UP.

I APPRECIATE THAT. AND I GUESS WHERE I'M COMING FROM IS I WOULD JUST I HESITATE BECAUSE LIKE I'M HEARING WE'VE NEVER DONE ACROSS THE BOARD RAISES AND I WOULD HATE FOR US TO TO APPROVE THIS TONIGHT.

I MEAN, WE ALL WANT TO GIVE I DON'T THINK ANY OF US WILL EVER VOTE NO ON TEACHER INCREASES.

BUT I THINK WHAT YOU WOULD SEE US VOTE NO ON IS A DEFICIT BUDGET.

AND THAT'S WHERE I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SET UP IN OUR BUDGET, WHICH IS WHY I'M ASKING, BECAUSE I NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SET UP IN OUR BUDGET TO ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD ON THESE THESE PAY INCREASES AS WE START GETTING THESE TEACHERS AND HAVING THESE CONTRACTS SO.

AND AND I GUESS WHAT I'M HEARING FROM THE ADMINISTRATION IS YOU GUYS FEEL VERY SURE THAT WE'RE NOT IN TWO MONTHS, WE'RE NOT GOING TO COME BACK AND SEE A HUGE DEFICIT BUDGET WHEN WE PASS THIS.

YES, I'M PRETTY SURE THAT YOU WILL NOT SEE A HUGE DEFICIT BUDGET SO I'LL PUT NUMBERS WITH IT.

IT WOULD DEFINITELY BE ON THE 10 MILLION FOR SURE.

YEAH. OKAY.

WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT TO ZERO.

RIGHT. YES.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE VESSA.

WELL, I WANT TO ECHO JUST TO THANK YOU, AND I'M GOING TO TAKE IT TO ANOTHER THANK YOU.

IF ANYBODY'S WATCHED THESE MEETINGS IN PAST YEARS, I GET SO FRUSTRATED BECAUSE I ASK ALL THESE QUESTIONS AND NOBODY EVER ANSWERS MY QUESTIONS.

LIKE, I WANT TO KNOW MORE DETAILS AND LIKE, WELL, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN WITH WITH THEIR COST, WITH THE MARKET ADJUSTMENTS, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR AN OVERALL PAY INCREASE?

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AND NO ONE EVER ANSWERS THOSE.

AND I GET SO FRUSTRATED.

AND YOU DID.

AND I'M SO I WAS LIKE, IT WARMS MY HEART.

I WAS SO HAPPY.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR FOR ACTUALLY SPENDING THE TIME TO GO INTO DETAIL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL EMPLOYEES, HOW MUCH WHAT THEIR MARKET ADJUSTMENTS MEAN FOR THEIR OVERALL PAY INCREASE.

THAT IS SUPER HELPFUL NOT ONLY TO US AS A BOARD, BUT ALSO AS AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO OUR EMPLOYEES.

AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU GUYS TAKING THE TIME TO DO THAT.

SO THANK YOU.

AND IT REALLY WAS A VERY GOOD PRESENTATION.

I MEAN, HAVING WITH TRUSTEES FELLER AND WEIR I MEAN, WE'VE SAT THROUGH THESE A FEW TIMES AND IT WAS REALLY GOOD.

IT WAS REALLY GOOD. YOU KNOW, I'M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR GIVING OUR OUR, OUR EDUCATORS, OUR ALL OUR EDUCATION STAFF, DISTRICT STAFF THE BIGGEST RAISES WE CAN.

AND SO WE CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER TO FIND WAYS TO BE CREATIVE.

AND BUT ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, I AGREE WITH THE COMMENTS THAT 4% AND AN EIGHT AND A HALF PERCENT ENVIRONMENT OF INFLATION IS JUST.

NOT ENOUGH.

BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT WE WE WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN AN INCREASE TO THE BASIC ALLOTMENT SINCE 2019.

SO WE'RE VERY LIMITED IN HOW WE CAN RESPOND.

AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THINK, OH, WELL, THEY INCREASE IT FOR INFLATION.

RIGHT NOW THEY DON'T. SO, YOU KNOW, VERY INTERESTED IN WORKING TOGETHER THIS NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION TO ADDRESS THESE ISSUES IN TERMS OF RECRUITMENT, RETENTION, LIVING WAGE FOR ALL OUR EMPLOYEES.

WE TALK A LOT ABOUT TEACHERS AND CERTAINLY THEY ARE MASSIVELY IMPORTANT, BUT IT'S IT'S A TEAM.

SO JUST WANT TO JUST WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF QUESTIONS ASKED GOOD QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU FOR MY COLLEAGUES FOR ALL THE QUESTIONS ASKED.

I KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT OF HERE BY 10:00, SO I WILL LIMIT MY COMMENTS THERE.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE VESSA.

I JUST WANT TO BE SURE WE HAD A MOTION IN A SECOND SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND TAKE THE VOTE.

BUT, DR. XIAO, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTARY YOU'D LIKE TO MAKE? I JUST HAVE ONE SHOW QUESTION.

SO WE ALL TALK ABOUT BALANCE, AND IF WE'RE GOING TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE OF HEALTH CARE, WE'RE GOING TO THE DEFICIT.

I JUST HAVE A QUESTION, LIKE 10 MILLION, 20 MILLION.

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES OF TAKING BIG DEFICITS? WHAT A BAD THING THAT WILL HAPPEN.

THIS IS MY OPINION.

DISTRICTS CREATE FUND BALANCES FOR TIMES OF NEED.

WE HAVE OVER $190 MILLION IN FUND BALANCE.

WE NEED TO HAVE ABOUT 93 TO COVER ONGOING THE THREE MONTH RULE.

SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 192 AND 93 IS IN MY OPINION IS WHAT YOU USE TO TAKE CARE OF SHORT TERM SITUATIONS.

SO IT'S A SHORT TERM APPLICATION.

YES. BECAUSE THAT YOU REMEMBER COME NEXT YEAR, WE HAVE IN THE STUDY FOR THE POSITIONS TO MAKE SURE OUR STAFFING LEVELS ARE RIGHT.

AND SO THAT SHOULD HELP TO LOWER THE COST OF SALARIES IN THE BUDGET, WE HOPE.

AND SO ONE YEAR YOU MAY HAVE TO DIP INTO FUND BALANCE TO WHAT LEVEL THE BOARD WILL DECIDE, BUT IT SHOULD.

AND AS A CFO, THAT'S WHAT FUND BALANCE IS FOR.

IT'S A RAINY DAY FUND TO TAKE CARE OF SHORT TERM PROBLEMS GENERATED IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO USE IT.

AND WHAT BETTER USE OF IT THAN TO HELP YOUR STAFF ON A SHORT TERM BASIS? BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S SUSTAINABLE.

LIKE WE CAN'T JUST DO IT.

LIKE IF WE GIVE RAISES, WE CAN'T DO SOMETHING THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE SUSTAINABLE THE NEXT YEAR BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO LAY OFF STAFF AND LOCAL DISTRICTS ARE HAVING TO DO THAT. THEY'RE ELIMINATING 6 700 PEOPLE.

WE'RE NOT HAVING TO DO THAT.

WE'RE WE ARE DOING ATTRITION WHERE THE POSITIONS IT NEVER FILLED WERE LETTING THEM JUST GO UNFILLED AND REEVALUATING FOR NEXT YEAR.

BUT WE'RE NOT HAVING TO MAKE MAJOR CUTS.

SO JUST. THANK YOU.

TRUSTEE HARRISON. JUST TO ADD TO WHAT DENNIS WAS TALKING ABOUT IS SO THE GOAL IS EVEN IF WE DEPEND, DOCTOR, IF YOU DIP INTO TO THE FUND BALANCE, IF THAT'S WHAT THE BOARD WANTS, YOU KNOW, OUR GOAL AS THE ADMINISTRATION WORKING WITH DENNIS, WORKING WITH OBVIOUSLY EDDIE'S TEAM AND EVERYBODY IN THE DISTRICT IS BY DOING THAT STUDY, THE STAFF AND STUDY IS TO CREATE SOME MORE EFFICIENCY.

RIGHT. FIGURING OUT HOW WE CONTINUE PROVIDING THE GREAT SERVICES TO OUR STUDENTS, BUT ALSO BEING EVEN I MEAN, GOOD

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WE ARE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY.

EVEN BETTER, RIGHT? SORT OF OUR TAXPAYERS MONEY.

AND SO THE GOAL IS TO REDUCE OUR EXPENDITURES.

RIGHT. ALSO, DENNIS TALKED ABOUT EARLIER ABOUT LOOKING AT PROGRAMS AND ALSO FIGURING OUT IF WE NEED TO TRIM, IF WE NEED TO CHANGE IT, HOW CAN WE DO HOW WE SPEND LESS MONEY, BUT ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TAKING CARE OF OUR STUDENTS, TAKING CARE OF EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE.

AND THE THIRD THING IS LOOKING AT HOW WE INCREASE OUR ENROLLMENT, BECAUSE THAT'S THE KEY.

AND SO US GOING OUT THERE AND BECAUSE WE KNOW WE HAVE MORE AND MORE COMPETITION WITH CHARTER SCHOOLS THAT ARE POPPING UP EVERYWHERE AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALSO WE'RE NOT ALLOWING THAT TO HAPPEN.

RIGHT. WE WANT TO ACTUALLY TAKE STUDENTS AWAY FROM THEM.

RIGHT. AND BRING THEM BACK TO OUR DISTRICT.

AND THAT THE FOURTH THING IS WHAT [INAUDIBLE] WAS TALKING ABOUT IS GOING TO HOPEFULLY WITH THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, IS TRYING TO SEE IF WE CAN INCREASE, IF THEY WILL INCREASE, AND I HOPE THEY WILL. AND I THINK THEY WILL INCREASE THE ALLOCATION.

RIGHT. EVEN IF THE INCREASE IS BUT A FEW HUNDRED DOLLARS PER YEAR PER STUDENTS, THAT WILL REALLY MAKE A HUGE IMPACT IN OUR BUDGET.

AND THEN THE FOURTH THE FIFTH THING ABOUT INCREASE OUR IT'S ALSO LOOKING AT LOOKING AT RECAPTURE BECAUSE THE WAY RECAPTURE IS WORKING RIGHT NOW, THEY ARE NOT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THE COST OF LIVING.

IT COSTS MORE TO LIVE IN ROUND ROCK, LET'S SAY IF YOU ARE LIVING IN LIBERTY HILL.

RIGHT. AND SO THEY HAVE TO SOMEHOW WE'RE HOPING THAT WOULD BE ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES TO TALK TO OUR REPRESENTATIVES TO ENSURE THAT YOU CONTINUE HAVING RECAPTURE BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND ITS TRYING TO BRING EQUITY ACROSS THE STATE OF TEXAS.

BUT YOU'RE NOT REALLY TAKING CARE OF EQUITY WITHIN OUR DISTRICT, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE COST OF LIVING IS BEING INCREASED AND INCREASE AND INCREASE.

AND SO ALL OF THOSE PRIORITIES AND ALL THE THINGS WOULD BE WORKING ON THIS COMING SCHOOL YEAR AND TO MAKE SURE, AGAIN, THAT WE WILL SUSTAIN WHATEVER RAISE WE WANT TO GIVE TO OUR STAFF, BUT ALSO CONTINUE PROVIDING RAISES MOVING FORWARD.

CAN I JUST SAY ONE THING ABOUT A COUPLE THINGS THAT YOU SAID THE PREVIOUS PRIOR TO 2019, THERE WAS A COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT, BUT IT HADN'T BEEN UPDATED SINCE LIKE 1990.

SO THEY JUST ROLLED ALL OF THAT INTO THE BASIC ALLOTMENT.

THEY ALSO TOOK AWAY OTHER ALLOTMENTS.

THEY TOOK AWAY THE GIFTED AND TALENTED ALLOTMENT.

THEY TOOK AWAY THE HIGH SCHOOL ALLOTMENT.

SO YOU LOOK AT THIS INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT AND THEY'RE LIKE, WOW, WE REALLY WE REALLY INCREASED.

BUT THE REALITY IS THEY GOT RID OF A TON OF DIFFERENT ALLOTMENTS AND JUST ROLLED IT INTO THE BASIC ALLOTMENT.

SO IT LOOKED BIG, BUT THE REALITY WAS IT WASN'T AS BIG AS IT THE INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT SHOWED.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN THIS NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN TERMS OF OF INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT.

AND I BELIEVE FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN FROM THE COMPTROLLER THAT WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A SIGNIFICANT SURPLUS IN THE STATE COFFERS.

SO I THINK THAT THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY ARGUE FOR AN INCREASE IN THE BASIC ALLOTMENT AND TO ARGUE ALSO FOR FOR DIFFERENTIATION IN TERMS OF COST OF LIVING, BECAUSE THAT HAS BEEN A HUGE PROBLEM STATEWIDE WITH, YOU KNOW, NOT JUST THIS AREA, BUT IN MANY URBAN AREAS AND SUBURBAN AREAS ACROSS THE STATE.

THANK YOU. I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE FOR THE VOTE.

SO WHEN I SEE THOSE STUDENT PROGRESS, THOSE PLANS FOR STUDENTS, WE ALWAYS HAVE LIKE THREE YEAR PLANS FIVE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.

WHAT? WHAT THE END GOAL IN THREE YEARS.

WHAT END GOAL IN FIVE YEARS.

BUT IN TERMS OF TEACHER COMPENSATION, IT'S ALMOST A YEAR BY YEAR.

SO WE NEVER SEE ANY MID-TERM LONG TERM PLANNING LIKE IN THREE YEARS.

WE WANT TO INCREASE THE SALARY FOR ALL TEACHERS BY 20%, BUT WE CANNOT DO IT IN ONE YEAR WHEN MAYBE EACH YEAR IS 5%.

OR MAYBE WE DO ROTATION OF CATEGORIES.

BUT IF WE COMMITTED IT TO HAVE A MID-TERM AND LONG TERM PLAN, THEN WE HAVE MORE LIKE ARGUMENT, ARGUMENT, LIKE TO GO TO THE LEGISLATION.

SEE, WE HAVE THIS PLAN WE HAVE TO REACH IN THREE YEARS IN 20%, BUT WE CANNOT DO IT TO THIS YEAR.

NEXT YEAR WE HAVE TO HAVE SOME TOOLS TO BE ABLE TO DO THOSE THINGS.

IT WOULD HAVE TO BE LIKE A STATEWIDE PLAN BECAUSE WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING, THEY DON'T REALLY CARE.

I MEAN, THEY COULD SAY LIKE, WE'LL JUST BE LIKE DALLAS ISD AND PUT A TAX INCREASE ON YOUR PEOPLE.

THAT'S HOW YOU CAN GET THERE.

SO WOULD BE LIKE, YEAH, THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU HAVE YOUR PLAN, BUT WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE TO YOUR PLAN.

SO IT HAS TO BE AN OVERALL STATEWIDE LOBBYING CAMPAIGN OF LIKE WE NEED TO INCREASE SALARIES BY THIS MUCH EVERY YEAR OVER TIME

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WE'RE GOING A LITTLE BIT OFF TOPIC.

SO WE HAVE TO KIND OF KEEP IT WITHIN.

THANK YOU. WE HAVE WE DO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.

I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND CALL FOR THE VOTE.

I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE NOTE THAT PERSONALLY I WANTED TO HIRE DR.

AZAIEZ BECAUSE DONNA IS A GOOD CASE STUDY FOR WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN JUST A FEW YEARS.

AND SO I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THAT IN TERMS OF TEACHER COMPENSATION AND STAFF COMPENSATION.

SO WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND.

CAN YOU REPEAT THE LANGUAGE OF YOUR MOTION, PLEASE? IT WAS AMBER, BUT SHE MOVED THAT THE BOARD APPROVED THE 2022 2023 COMPENSATION PLAN AS REFLECTED IN APPENDIX A.

THANK YOU. ALL IN FAVOR.

OPPOSED ABSTAINING.

CARRIES MOTION CARRIES SIX ZERO.

YAY EXCELLENT.

OKAY. NOW, REMEMBER, WE HAVE A GOAL OF 10 P.M.

J TWO WAVE FIRST READING AN ADOPTION OF POLICY DEC LOCAL.

THANK YOU. TRUSTEE HARRISON.

SO I KNOW THAT WE AGAIN, THIS IS US LISTENING TO OUR STAFF, LISTEN TO OUR TEACHERS, LISTEN TO OUR BOARD MEMBERS, AND WE'RE DOING WHAT WHAT WE THINK IS BEST FOR THEM.

RIGHT. SO WHAT WE'RE BRINGING TO YOU TODAY IS, IS A POLICY DEC LOCAL.

AND THIS POLICY, ONCE YOU APPROVE IT, WILL ALLOW US TO TO CREATE A SICK LEAVE BANK FOR OUR STAFF AND TEACHERS.

AND I THINK ONE OF THE SPEAKERS I WANT TO JUST CORRECT ONE THING.

I THINK ONE OF THE SPEAKERS OR MAYBE TWO TALKED ABOUT THAT ONCE THIS IS APPROVED, YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR 30 DAYS OR WHATEVER.

I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT'S NOT THE PLAN.

I THINK I THINK THEY WERE MENTIONING SOMETHING ELSE DIFFERENT THAT WHAT WE'RE EVENTUALLY PUTTING FORWARD.

SO THAT'S INACCURATE.

THEY DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THREE DAYS.

BUT I'M GOING TO ALLOW AGAIN, EDDIE AND KRISTIN EDDIE WAS READY TO GO.

NOW YOU'RE NOT LEAVING YET.

SO WE HAVE ANOTHER IMPORTANT PIECE THAT WE NEED TO DISCUSS WITH THE OTHER BOARD MEMBERS.

[INAUDIBLE] NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.

IT'S ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO BE UP HERE.

SO, YEAH, WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS THAT WE'RE ASKING THE BOARD FOR AUTHORIZATION ESSENTIALLY TO ESTABLISH A SICK LEAVE BANK AND ALL EMPLOYEES WOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR IT.

I MEAN, WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE, YOU KNOW, THE OCCASIONS WHEN OUR EMPLOYEES REALLY NEED THE SUPPORT OF THE DISTRICT.

AND THIS GIVES US A MECHANISM TO REALLY PROVIDE THOSE WHO ARE REALLY IN NEED WITH WITH PAY DURING SOME OF THE MOST DIFFICULT TIMES THAT THEY EXPERIENCE.

SO WITH THE BOARD'S AUTHORIZATION THROUGH ADOPTING A DEC LOCAL, WE'D BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD AND ESTABLISH THAT SICK LEAVE BANK.

EDDIE. EDDIE, I DON'T.

YOU ONLY MENTIONED EMPLOYEES AND SPOUSES.

I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING BOTH, RIGHT? YES, SIR. WE'RE STILL DEVELOPING OUR REGULATIONS, BUT YES, THAT THAT WOULD BE PART OF OUR PLAN, THAT IT WOULD BE IT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO FMLA AND THAT WE WOULD ALLOW FOR IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBERS TO ALSO BE COVERED UNDER THAT THAT PROVISION.

TRUSTEE WEIR. I MOVE THAT THE BOARD WAVE FIRST READING AND ADOPT POLICY DEC LOCAL AS PRESENTED WITH AN ADOPTION DATE OF APRIL 21ST, 2022.

I'LL SECOND. TRUSTEE FELLER SECOND.

OKAY. THANK YOU.

WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND TO WAIVE THE FIRST READING AND ADOPT POLICY DEC LOCAL IS PRESENTED WITH AN ADOPTION DATE OF APRIL 21ST, 2022.

ALL IN FAVOR. OH, WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ITEM.

OH, HOLD ON.

WE HAVE A DISCUSSION ITEM. DR.

BONE. CAN YOU JUST I READ IT, BUT CAN YOU JUST KIND OF GO OVER WHAT THE IDEA IS? BECAUSE I KNOW DR. AZAIEZ, YOU WERE JUST SAYING THERE IS CONFUSION ABOUT WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY JUST ADOPTING LANGUAGE THAT ACTUALLY ALLOWS YOU GUYS TO GO OFF AND DO THIS.

CAN YOU JUST MAYBE SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO THAT? YOU GUYS ALREADY HAVE IT.

WHEN WILL THAT BE DONE? JUST SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON HERE, BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE IS VERY VAGUE.

YES, MA'AM. SO WE'RE VERY CAREFUL NOT TO DO ANYTHING UNTIL WE'RE AUTHORIZED TO DO THAT.

SO WE WE HAVE BEEN EXPLORING WHAT OTHER DISTRICTS HAVE IN PLACE.

AND WE DO HAVE A LOT OF LOCAL DISTRICTS THAT DO HAVE A SICK LEAVE BANK.

SO WE'VE GOT SOME GOOD RESOURCES THERE.

TASB WE'VE BEEN DOING SOME RESEARCH AND LOOKING FOR SOME BEST PRACTICES, SO WE HAVE A BASIC IDEA OF WHAT IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.

BUT WE, WE ASSURE YOU WE'LL BRING THE DETAILS FORWARD FOR THE BOARD'S REVIEW THROUGH A BOARD UPDATE OR AS DR.

AZAIEZ DIRECTS ME.

WELL, IF I READ THIS RIGHT, THIS ACTUALLY ALLOWS YOU TO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BRING THIS BACK TO THE BOARD.

RIGHT. IF I READ IT RIGHT, YOU ACTUALLY.

IT'S DEC REGULATION.

SO THERE IS ALREADY A DEC REGULATION IN THERE, WHICH IS, I THINK WHERE THE 30 DAYS CAME FROM.

BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT, THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE DISABILITY LEAVE IN 30 DAYS.

SO IS THAT WHERE THEY GOT THE 30 DAYS THAT MIGHT BE CHANGED OR THAT'S NOT GOING TO IT DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE SICK LEAVE BALANCE.

I THINK THEY WERE JUST THEY WERE JUST READING THAT DIFFERENT.

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YEAH. OKAY. I THINK IT GOES BACK TO THE EDUCATION AROUND OUR POLICIES AND THE THINGS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE FOR EMPLOYEES.

SO WE ARE THAT'S ANOTHER AREA THAT.

SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS IT'S NOT DEVELOPED TONIGHT.

WE'RE JUST PASSING TO ALLOW YOU GUYS TO DEVELOP IT.

IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME BACK TO THE BOARD AND YOU GUYS WILL COMMUNICATE IT OUT TO THE STAFF WHEN IT'S DONE.

YES, MA'AM. WE WILL MAKE SURE TO COMMUNICATE IT TO YOU FIRST.

BUT YES, WE WILL EVENTUALLY COMMUNICATE TO THE STAFF FOR SURE.

OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE WERE KIND OF CONFUSED ON WHAT WAS LIKE, THANK YOU SO MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING DR.

BONE. SO WE HAD A MOTION AND A SECOND TO WAVE FIRST READING AN ADOPTION OF POLICY DEC LOCAL.

ALL IN FAVOR. ALL OPPOSED ABSTAINING.

MOTION CARRIES SIX ZERO.

AND WE WILL MOVE TO BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS AND REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS OF WHICH WE HAVE A LOT.

[K. BOARD ANNOUNCEMENTS/REQUESTS FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]

OKAY. IS YOUR LIGHT ON BECAUSE YOU WANT TO.

OKAY. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD? WELL, I JUST WANTED TO.

I JUST ACTUALLY WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT AND A THANK YOU TO THE PI FOUNDATION AND THEIR BOARD.

YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD THE TORNADO, THEY REALLY STEPPED UP, TOOK DONATIONS FOR US.

I KNOW THAT MARIANNE AND HER STAFF WERE OUT, ESPECIALLY AT CALLOUS AND ELEMENTARY, ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS, TAKING GAMES.

THE KIDS COULDN'T GO OUT ON THE PLAYGROUND.

THAT THE PI BOARD HAS JUST BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE.

AND I KNOW THEY HAVE THEIR BIGGEST FUNDRAISER COMING UP THIS WEEKEND IN SUPPORT OF OUR TEACHERS AND OUR SCHOOLS.

AND THEY'RE JUST WORKING TIRELESSLY RIGHT NOW.

AND I JUST REALLY WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE THEM, THE WHOLE BOARD AND ESPECIALLY THE STAFF, MARIANNE AND HER STAFF.

ABSOLUTELY. I THINK WE ALL ECHO THAT AND I HAD THAT WRITTEN DOWN, SO WE'LL SHOUT THEM OUT AGAIN.

SO TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK IS MAY 2ND THROUGH 6TH.

THERE'S LOTS OF MOVEMENT IN OUR COMMUNITY TO SHOW OUTWARD APPRECIATION TO TEACHERS.

SO IF YOU'RE A PARENT OR COMMUNITY MEMBER LISTENING, PLEASE REMEMBER OUR TEACHERS AND THE ACTUAL NATIONAL TEACHER APPRECIATION DAY IS MAY 3RD.

WE HAVE THE SLI JUNE CONFERENCE AND IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE SO YET, PLEASE EMAIL PATTY.

IF YOU'RE PLANNING TO ATTEND REGISTRATION, HOUSING OPEN FOR 26 AND TRUSTEES WILL EARN REQUIRED TRAINING HOURS.

AND SO THERE'S TWO OPTIONS.

SAN ANTONIO, JUNE 15TH THROUGH 18TH.

HOWEVER, JUNE 16TH IS A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND BUDGET ADOPTION AND FORT WORTH JUNE 29TH THROUGH JULY 2ND.

SO TWO OPTIONS, REALLY GREAT TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES ANNOUNCING ONCE MORE OUR UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS.

SO MONDAY, APRIL 25TH, WE HAVE OUR BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES POLICY UPDATE AND INFORMATION SESSIONS.

DR. MCMAHON, OUR LSG COACH, WILL BE TALKING ABOUT WHAT THOSE INFORMATION SESSIONS WILL BE ABOUT.

MAY 5TH WE HAVE A CALLED BOARD MEETING AND A BUDGET WORKSHOP.

MAY 9TH WE HAVE TEAM OF EIGHT AND BOARD SELF EVALUATION.

MAY 11TH WE HAVE CALLED BOARD MEETING AND BUDGET WORKSHOP.

MAY 19TH WE HAVE A REGULAR BOARD MEETING AND MAY 24TH, 25TH AND 27TH WE HAVE THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATIONS.

SO VERY EXCITING TIME.

COMING UP IN MAY, WE'RE WORKING ON SCHEDULING OUR ROBERT'S RULES AND SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING.

SO AS YOU'LL REMEMBER, THIS IS SOMETHING WE BROUGHT UP.

I THINK THAT WE COULD ALL USE SOME SUPPORT IN THIS AREA AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT ALL SEVEN TRUSTEES AT RIGHT NOW.

WE HAVE ONE ONE TRUSTEE THAT'S EXPRESSING THAT THEY DON'T HAVE INTEREST IN PARTICIPATING IN THIS.

AND SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN WORK THIS OUT BECAUSE STAFF IS WORKING WITH TOP LEGAL AND GOVERNANCE DEPARTMENTS TO ARRANGE IN-PERSON TRAINING FOR THE BOARD IN BOTH ROBERTS ROLES AND SOCIAL MEDIA.

AND SO THEY'LL BE REACHING OUT TO US AGAIN FOR POSSIBLE DATES IN JUNE OR JULY.

WE KNOW MAY IS REALLY PACKED.

I JUST READ OUR MAY SCHEDULE, SO THIS TRAINING WILL COUNT TOWARDS THE BOARD'S ANNUAL TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.

AND THEN AS TRUSTEE WEIR SAID, THE GALA IS THIS SATURDAY AND PARTNERS IN EDUCATION HAVE BEEN AMAZING.

THEY'VE BEEN SUPPORTIVE THROUGH ALL OF THE TRAUMA OF THE EVENTS OF THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN INCREDIBLY SUPPORTIVE.

SO WE WANT TO JUST THANK THEM FOR ALL OF THEIR SUPPORT.

AND IT'S THE BIGGEST FUNDRAISER OF THE YEAR.

IT RAISES HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

AND SO THANK YOU TO [INAUDIBLE] AND HER STAFF.

WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU.

AND LASTLY, THERE IS THE TEACHER JOB FAIR SATURDAY AT STONY POINT HIGH SCHOOL.

AT WHAT TIME? NINE.

SO PLEASE INVITE PEOPLE TO COME WORK AT OUR WORLD CLASS DISTRICT AND COME TO OUR JOB FAIR.

WE REALLY WANT THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST IN OUR DISTRICT SUPPORTING OUR AMAZING STUDENTS.

SO THAT'S ONLINE. CAN I GIVE ONE MORE SHOUT OUT? I KNOW THAT YESTERDAY WAS [INAUDIBLE] LAST DAY.

I KNOW THAT HE HAS TAKEN AN OPPORTUNITY IN THE CITY OF HUTTO.

[03:05:04]

AND I JUST WANT TO, ON BEHALF OF THE BOARD, WISH HIM WELL AND YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU.

AND BUT, YOU KNOW, IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY, I'M SURE, THAT HE COULD NOT PASS UP.

SO WE APPRECIATE WE APPRECIATE ALL THAT HE DID FOR THE DISTRICT.

ABSOLUTELY. ANY MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS? OH, YES. PRESIDENT FELLER.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU TRUSTEE HARRISON FOR FACILITATING THE MEETING TONIGHT WHILE I AM TRAVELING, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU DID AN AMAZING JOB.

THANK YOU. BIG SHOES TO FILL.

I'LL BE GLAD WHEN YOU'RE HOME.

SO TRAVEL SAFELY.

ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY. SO WE DO HAVE SOME CLOSED SESSION AGENDA ITEMS, BUT I'M GOING TO RECOMMEND IN FOUR AND FIVE AND SIX ALL RELATE TO TRUSTEES THAT ARE NOT HERE TODAY.

AND I DON'T PERSONALLY LIKE, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSING WITHOUT EVERYONE HERE.

SO WOULD YOU ALL BE AMENABLE TO MOVING THIS TO THE MAY AGENDA? ANY ISSUES WITH THAT? THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING.

I'M THINKING THAT WOULD BE BEST.

I MEAN, I'M HAPPY TO MOVE MINE, BUT I MEAN, OR I COULD JUST SEND MY COMMENT TO PATTY TO DISTRIBUTE IN A BOARD UPDATE BECAUSE REALLY IT'S JUST A COMMENT ABOUT JUST OVERALL.

I THINK I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED IN THE NEXT BEFORE THE NEXT MONTH.

I MEAN, WE COULD WE COULD JUST SAY IT WILL LITERALLY TAKE 5 MINUTES, BUT I DON'T HATE TO DO THAT.

OR I COULD JUST SEND IT TO PATTY.

I MEAN, THERE'S NOTHING SUPER CONFIDENTIAL ABOUT IT.

VALERIE, WHAT'S YOUR RECOMMENDATION ON THAT? I MEAN, IF YOU NORMALLY SEND THE BOARD UPDATES REGULARLY BEFORE, I DON'T KNOW HOW OFTEN YOU DO IT, BUT BEFORE THE NEXT REGULAR BOARD MEETING THEN AND YOU WILLING TO DO IT THAT WAY, I GUESS YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.

BUT IF SHE IF SHE PREFERS TO GO IN A CLOSED UPDATE Y'ALL TONIGHT, THEN THAT'S CERTAINLY I MEAN, I'M HAPPY TO SEND IT IN WRITING.

IT'S NOT A CONFIDENTIAL MATTER SO HONESTLY, IT MIGHT BE BETTER FOR IT TO BE DOCUMENTED, TO BE HONEST.

SO TRUSTEE [INAUDIBLE] I'LL LET YOU MAKE THE FINAL.

WOULD YOU RATHER DOCUMENT IT AND SEND IT? YEAH, I CAN DOCUMENT IT AND JUST SEND IT.

OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? AND THEN IF IT REQUIRES ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, WE CAN ADD IT TO A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM.

THAT SOUNDS PERFECT.

WELL, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE.

I THINK THE ONLY THING I HAVE TO SAY IS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.

THANK YOU. OOH.

TALK ABOUT BIG SHOES TO FILL.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

Apr 21, 2022 Regular Board Meetings

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