[B. CALL TO ORDER]
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IN THIS MEETING OF THE ROUND ROCK INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
REGULAR BOARD MEETING IS CALLED TO ORDER.
IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT, WE HAVE TRUSTEE ZARATE, TRUSTEE LANDRUM, TRUSTEE WEIR, TRUSTEE MARKHAM, TRUSTEE ROSS, AND TRUSTEE CUERO.
TRUSTEE WAY HAS JUST JOINED US.
BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO RECOGNITION OF STUDENTS AND STAFF, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE VOIGHT GARAGE BAND.
THEY DID AN AMAZING JOB TONIGHT.
FROM WHAT I HEAR THAT WAS A SPECIAL REQUEST FROM OUR ADMINISTRATION TO HAVE THEM HERE TONIGHT.
SUCH A JOY TO WATCH AND THEY WORKED SO SO HARD.
ESPECIALLY THOSE INSTRUMENTALISTS TOO.
THAT WAS SO SO AMAZING TO BE YOU KNOW AT THAT LEVEL ELEMENTARY LEVEL AND BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR SHOWCASING YOUR TALENT TONIGHT
[D. RECOGNITION OF STUDENTS AND STAFF]
AND I WILL TURN IT OVER TO ANNIE.GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT MARKHAM, TRUSTEES AND DR.
IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE HERE THIS EVENING TO COME TOGETHER TO CELEBRATE OUR OUTSTANDING STUDENTS AND STAFF.
WE WILL RECOGNIZE SEVERAL INDIVIDUALS AND LARGE GROUPS TONIGHT SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE AS WE TRANSITION.
FAMILIES AND FRIENDS WHO ARE HERE IF Y'ALL CAN WAIT ONCE YOUR THING IS OVER SO THAT WE CAN GET THE NEXT GROUPS IN AND OUT THAT'LL REALLY HELP WITH THE DOORWAY THERE SO IF EVERYBODY JUST HANG OUT THAT'LL BE GREAT.
NICHOLS IS NOT HERE YET CAN Y'ALL WILL COME UP TO THE FRONT OF THE DIVE.
ALL RIGHT, FIRST UP TONIGHT IS THE SECOND ONE, JENNIFER.
YEP, FIRST UP TONIGHT, WE'RE EXCITED TO CELEBRATE OUR STUDENTS WHO RECENTLY WON THE COVETED GOLD SEAL AWARD FOR THEIR ARTWORK AT THE 2026 VISUAL ARTS SCHOLASTIC EVENT HOSTED BY THE TEXAS ARTS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION.
ONLY 150 STUDENTS STATEWIDE RECEIVED THIS AWARD.
PLEASE HELP US CELEBRATE TWO OF OUR STUDENTS FOR THEIR EXTRAORDINARY WORK.
CEDAR RIDGE'S ANALEE INSANA AND RON ROCK'S ERIN YOON AREA SUPERINTENDENTS ANY BEST STAFF TEACHERS ANYONE WHO'S HERE TO CELEBRATE OUR CHILDREN PRINCIPALS PLEASE JOIN US FOR ALL OF OUR GROUPS, AREA SUPERINTENDENTS, TEACHERS, STAFF, PRINCIPALS, ANYBODY WHO IS HERE TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS, PLEASE JOIN THEM FOR PHOTOS.
OUR NEXT TWO GROUPS, RECOGNIZED SEPARATELY FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS SUCCESSES THIS YEAR, HAVE PLACED IN THE TOP THREE OF THE 2026 TEXAS HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASTICS CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS TEAM PLACED SECOND IN THE STATE.
MARKING THE BEST TEAM RESULT FOR THE PROGRAM SINCE THE 90S. FOUR INDIVIDUAL GYMNASTS ALSO PLACED IN THE TOP TEN FOR THEIR RESPECTIVE CATEGORIES.
PLEASE HELP US CELEBRATE OUR STUDENTS AND CHRISTOPHER COACH MEN'S AND THE ROUND ROCK WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS TEAM.
NEXT UP, THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL MEN'S GYMNASTICS TEAM TOOK HOME THE WINNING TITLE AT STATE WITH THREE STUDENTS PLACING THE TOP TEN AT THEIR RESPECTIVE EVENTS AND TWO STUDENTS PLACING IN SEVERAL TOP THREE FINISHES.
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OF SPECIAL NOTE IS DIEGO CHACHI WHO WON STATE IN POMMELS, RINGS, PARALLEL BARS, HIGH BAR, AND ALL AROUND.PLEASE HELP US CONGRATULATE OUR GYMNASTICS TEAM.
THE NEXT STUDENT GROUPS WE'RE CELEBRATING THIS EVENING COMPETED IN A STATE-LEVEL COLOR GUARD COMPETITION.
THREE HIGH SCHOOLS RECENTLY COMPETED AND PLACED IN THE TOP THREE OF THEIR RESPECTIVE CATEGORIES AT THE 2026 TEXAS COLOR GUARD CIRCUIT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
I'LL, OKAY, FIRST, THERE WE GO.
PLEASE WELCOME DIRECTOR MARK ESTRADE AND CAPTAINS LILA CABALLERO, DRAYDEN JONES, AND ALICIA CHE.
REPRESENTING WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL'S WINTER GUARD, PLACING THIRD IN THE STATE AT THE 2026 TEXAS COLOR GUARD CIRCUIT STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS.
THE NEXT CAMPUS WE'RE WELCOMING TO UP TO THE DIAS THIS EVENING IS DIRECTED BY RYAN BENDER AND I'M NOT SURE IF THE CAPTAINS ARE HERE BUT CAPTAINS MARLO PENDELL AND GINA GALLAGHER REPRESENTING THE MCNEIL WINTER GUARD TEAM FOR PLACING THIRD IN THE SCHOLASTIC NATIONAL AID DIVISION BLUE.
THE FINAL WINTER GUARD GROUP WE'RE RECOGNIZING THIS EVENING IS DIRECTED BY HEATHER STONE AND HAS CAPTAINS JOCELYN MATOS, ADELINE ALMANZA, AND ROBERT MUNOZ, WINNING FIRST PLACE IN THE SCHOLASTIC OPEN DIVISION FOR CEDAR RIDGE WINTER GUARD.
THE NEXT STUDENT GROUP WE'RE RECOGNIZING THIS EVENING RECENTLY WON ITS TEXAS DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP THROUGH THE 2026 FIRST FRC DIVISION.
PLEASE HELP US WELCOME COACHES KERRY COPELAND AND MENTOR HEATH LANDWEHR AND THE ROBOBOTS FROM MCNEIL HIGH
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SCHOOL.ALL RIGHT WE'RE CONTINUING TO CELEBRATE THE MAVTASTIC STUDENTS FROM MCNEIL AS WE HONOR THE NEXT TWO STUDENTS WHOSE PROJECTS WENT UP AGAINST HUNDREDS TO BE NAMED NATIONAL FINALIST GROUPS IN THE 16TH ANNUAL 2026 SAMSUNG SOLVE FOR TOMORROW COMPETITIONS.
THEIR PROJECT, TUDO, IS A FALL RISK DETECTION APP.
PLEASE HELP US RECOGNIZE STUDENTS ASVINI THRAVARGAN AND HANSIKA PARASETI FROM MCNEIL HIGH SCHOOL.
NEXT UP, THE SKILLSUSA STATE CONTEST TESTS STUDENTS' ABILITY TO APPLY WHAT THEY'VE LEARNED IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CTE PROGRAMS. EVERY STUDENT WHO WENT TO THE CONTEST BROUGHT HOME TWO GOLD, SILVER, OR BRONZE MEDALS, AND ALL PROJECTS BROUGHT HOME A FIRST-PLACE RIBBON.
WE WILL NOW RECOGNIZE MCNEIL HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO COMPETED IN THE 2026 SKILLSUSA STATE COMPETITION AND PLACED OR RECEIVED A BLUE RIBBON IN AUTO-MECHANIC-RELATED CATEGORIES.
THEY ARE JOINED BY TEACHER HENRY VALENZUELA.
THE NEXT GROUP OF STUDENTS WE'RE RECOGNIZING THIS EVENING ARE THOSE WHO PLACED WITHIN THE TOP 10 IN THEIR CATEGORIES OF THE 2026 INTERNATIONAL CAREER DEVELOPMENT COMPETITION, DECA COMPETITION.
DECA IS A GLOBAL NONPROFIT STUDENT ORGANIZATION FOCUSED ON PREPARING EMERGING LEADERS AND ENTREPRENEURS FOR CAREERS IN MARKETING, FINANCE, HOSPITALITY, AND MANAGEMENT.
OUR FIRST GROUP OF STUDENTS FROM WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL PLACED THIRD IN HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM TEAM DECISION MAKING AND 10TH IN PERSONAL FINANCE LITERACY.
OKAY, THE NEXT GROUP OF STUDENTS FOR DECA INCLUDES ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO PLACED 8TH IN THE PRINCIPLES OF HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM AND 6TH PLACE IN QUICK SERVICE RESTAURANT MANAGEMENT.
AND FROM CEDAR RIDGE, OUR STUDENTS PLACED 2ND IN THE CHAPTER CLIMB CHALLENGE.
FROM MCNEIL, OUR STUDENTS PLACED 10TH IN THE HOSPITALITY
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AND TOURISM PROFESSIONAL SELLING.OUR FINAL STUDENT RECOGNITION OF THE NIGHT.
THIS IS A SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR A STONY POINT SENIOR, ASIL ELMARDI.
CONGRATULATIONS ASIL ON BEING THE FIRST ROUND ROCK ISD STUDENT TO EARN THE 2026 BOARD OF TRUSTEES SCHOLARSHIP.
THIS SCHOLARSHIP IS MADE POSSIBLE THIS YEAR BY THE TASB GRASSROOTS PROGRAM AND THE TASB RISK MANAGEMENT FUND.
ASIL WAS CHOSEN FROM AMONG A GROUP OF HIGH ACHIEVING STUDENTS FROM ACROSS THE DISTRICT TO RECEIVE THIS SCHOLARSHIP.
SHE PLANS TO ATTEND AMERICAN UNIVERSITY AND STUDY POLITICAL SCIENCE AFTER GRADUATION.
OUR VIDEO TONIGHT FEATURES KINDERGARTENERS, OUR YOUNGEST STUDENTS FROM DEEPWOOD ELEMENTARY AND SENIORS FROM SOME OF OUR COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOLS TALKING ABOUT THE BEST PARTS OF THEIR SENIOR YEAR AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO MISS MOST WHEN THEY GRADUATE.
SCHOOL MEMORY WOULD BE THIS LAST YEAR FOOTBALL.
WONDERFUL PARTS ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE KIDS LIKE ME AT SCHOOL? NO MATTER HOW HARD IT IS, I ADVISE TO...
FOOTBALL GAMES, GO TO SOCCER GAMES, VOLLEYBALL, ANY GAME YOU CAN POSSIBLY GO TO.
PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH AND ALWAYS TRY TO KIND OF BE SUPPORTIVE OF OTHERS AND LIFT UP THE SPIRIT OF.
I WOULD SAY TRY EVERYTHING, TALK TO EVERYONE, THINK ABOUT.
ENJOY EVERY MOMENT BECAUSE PARENTS SAYING YOU DON'T BELIEVE IT DOES GO BY REALLY FAST SO JUST LIKE TRY TO SOAK IN EVERY MOMENT AND ALSO DO YOUR WORK.
WHAT WAS YOUR LEAST FAVORITE THING ABOUT SENIOR YEAR? THIS SEMESTER AND IT'S ONLY JUST BECAUSE ONCE YOU'RE SO CLOSE TO THE END YOU WANT TO LEAVE LIKE YOU WANT TO BE DONE BECAUSE YOU HAVE SO MANY GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS HOWEVER BEING WITH FRIENDS AND REALLY JUST TAKING IN SENIOR YEAR AND THE END OF YOUR MANDATORY LEARNING IS REALLY SOMETHING THAT I DON'T WANT TO TAKE FOR GRANTED.
MY LEAST FAVORITE THING, COMING TO CLASS.
I HAD THE WORST ATTENDANCE THIS YEAR, BUT I DID COME.
I WOULD SAY MY FAVORITE TEACHER IS MY FIFTH GRADE TEACHER, MRS. BARRETT.
SHE GOT ME HOOKED ONTO READING AND SHE WAS ALWAYS SO...
CURRENT GOVERNMENT TEACHER, HIS NAME IS COACH NYBERG, AND...
IT'S INTERESTING BECAUSE THE REASON WHY HE'S MY FAVORITE TEACHER IS BECAUSE HE HAS AN OLD SCHOOL STYLE WAY OF TEACHING.
HE LITERALLY WRITES ON MY WHITEBOARD, DOESN'T LOOK OFF OF ANYTHING, AND IS TEACHING ALL THROUGH MEMORY.
IT FORCES ME TO BE VERY ENGAGED, AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S VERY UNDERESTIMATED IN THE CLASSROOM.
WHAT IS YOUR BEST THING LAST YEAR ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL? I WOULD SAY THE BEST THING ABOUT THE LAST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL IS JUST ALL THE FUN THINGS THAT YOU GET TO DO, ESPECIALLY BEING A SENIOR.
EVERYTHING IS FOR THE LAST TIME SO IT'S REALLY FUN.
PROBABLY GOING TO MISS BEING ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, SIT AT THE BACK OF CLASS.
THERE'S ANOTHER GUY THERE THAT DOESN'T REALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
SUDDENLY, YOU KNOW, CONVENIENCE, IT'S NOT.
YOU HAVE THIS SENSE OF FREEDOM AND THIS IS LIKE WHERE YOU HAVE A LOT OF AUTONOMY ABOUT WHAT YOU DO
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AND EVERY MOMENT JUST SEEMS MORE EMOTIONAL AND MORE.EVEN IF YOU'RE JUST HANGING OUT WITH YOUR FRIENDS, SUDDENLY THAT MOMENT BECOMES A LOT MORE.
WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO CELEBRATING WITH OUR SENIORS AT GRADUATION THIS WEEK.
IT'S ONE OF OUR FAVORITE TIMES OF YEAR.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2026.
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHERE YOU GO.
OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
[E. PUBLIC COMMENTS TO AGENDA ITEMS UNDER SECTIONS F, G, H, I, K AND M ONLY]
AT EACH BOARD MEETING, THE BOARD WILL SET ASIDE TIME TO AFFORD THE GENERAL PUBLIC AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK ON ITEMS ON THE AGENDA.WE ASK THAT CONCERNS OR 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.
I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND THE AUDIENCE AND THE VIEWERS THAT THE COMMENTS OF THE SPEAKERS REFLECT THEIR OWN POSITIONS OR OPINIONS.
AS A REMINDER, THE BOARD ADOPTED AN ANTI-HATE RESOLUTION ON JANUARY 20, 2022, WHERE THE BOARD REAFFIRMED ITS COMMITMENT TO THE WELL-BEING AND SAFETY OF ALL PEOPLE, REGARDLESS OF RACE, COLOR, NATIONAL ORIGIN, RELIGION, SEX, GENDER IDENTITY, GENDER EXPRESSION, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, DISABILITY, AGE, OR POLITICAL BELIEFS, AND STANDS AGAINST SPEECH THAT INCITES HATRED AND VIOLENCE TOWARDS ANY PERSON.
PLEASE NOTE THAT WHILE THE PUBLIC DOES HAVE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK, THAT RIGHT IS NOT UNLIMITED.
PER TEXAS PENAL CODE 38.13, 42.01, 42.02, AND 42.05, AND TEXAS EDUCATION CODE 37.105, NO AUDIENCE MEMBER OR SPEAKER WILL BE PERMITTED TO ENGAGE IN ANY CONDUCT THAT IS DISRUPTIVE OR THREATENING TOWARD ANY SPEAKER OR 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 MORE INDIVIDUAL WARNING FROM THE PRESIDING OFFICER, ANY INDIVIDUAL CONTINUES TO DISRUPT THE MEETING BY HIS OR HER OWN WORDS OR ACTIONS, THE PRESIDING OFFICER OR WILL REQUEST ASSISTANCE FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS TO HAVE 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 A LACK OF A RESPONSE FROM BOARD MEMBERS DOES NOT INDICATE AGREEMENT OR APPROVAL OF THE COMMENTS.
EACH SPEAKER WILL BE GIVEN TWO MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE BOARD.
TRUSTEE ROSS, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD, WILL BE THE DESIGNATED TIMEKEEPER.
WE DO HAVE 15 SPEAKERS TONIGHT.
WE'LL START WITH OUR STUDENTS.
OUR FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT WILL BE FROM ANNA ADAMS. AND YOU'RE A STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT AND YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
THIRD GRADE, IF THIS IS A DISTRICT MADE TO LEARN, YOU TAKE VALUABLE LOANS WHO ARE IN...
I FEEL LIKE TAG IS A PRECIOUS GEM OF MY TIME WHEN I CAN ACTUALLY BE CHALLENGED.
I FEEL LIKE TALENT DEVELOPMENT TIME IS ALREADY TOO SHORT.
WHY SHOULD IT BE SHORTER? IN TALENT DEVELOPMENT, WE DO FUN GAMES THAT MAKE MY MIND REALLY HAVE TO THINK.
I ALWAYS LEAVE TAG FEELING GOOD, AND I THINK THAT WHAT MAKES ME FEEL GOOD IS THE FACT THAT I'VE BEEN CHALLENGED.
I LEAVE EACH DAY FEELING HAPPY, KNOWING THAT I WILL GET TO COME BACK TOMORROW, BUT IF YOU MAKE THESE CUTS, I WILL LEAVE WITH A SAD FEELING THAT I WON'T GET TO COME BACK.
IN OUR TAG BOOK CLUB, I HAVE LEARNED TO THINK ABOUT READING FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND PAY ATTENTION TO ALL THE LITTLE DETAILS IN TAG MATH.
I'VE LEARNED VERY MUCH HOW TO PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS, ESPECIALLY WHEN SOLVING PROBLEMS. THAT IS WHY I THINK TAG IS A VALUABLE PART OF MY TIME AT SCHOOL, SO PLEASE REVERSE THE BUDGET CUTS.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS NATHANIEL YONA, AND YOU ARE A STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT, AND YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
GOOD AFTERNOON, MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
I'M NATHANIEL, A STUDENT AT CHISHOLM MIDDLE SCHOOL AND A FORMER FERN BLUFF BOBCAT.
TODAY I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT YOUR DECISION TO CUT TAC.
EVERY DAY AT FERN BLUFF ELEMENTARY, I WOKE UP HOPING THAT TODAY WAS MONDAY OR WEDNESDAY.
WHY? BECAUSE THOSE WERE THE DAYS I GOT TO GO TO TAC.
I REMEMBER BEING DELIGHTED WHEN THOSE DAYS...
I FEEL LIKE IF YOU CUT TAG, YOU'LL BE DENYING THIS ENJOYMENT AND EXCITEMENT TO GENERATIONS OF FUTURE STUDENTS.
THE TIME FLEW BY BECAUSE I WAS CONSTANTLY CHALLENGED AND INSPIRED.
EVERY DAY WAS AMAZING BECAUSE OF ALL THE FUN PROJECTS WE DID.
FROM MAKING CARS OUT OF EVERYDAY MATERIALS TO HAVING FRIENDLY COMPETITIONS, TAG WAS A PLACE WHERE I COULD ALWAYS EXPRESS MYSELF.
MY TEACHER WAS SO SUPPORTIVE AND KIND AND IS ONE OF THE BEST TEACHERS I'VE EVER HAD.
IN FACT, I THINK SHE WILL STAY IN THAT TOP SPOT FOR MY WHOLE LIFE.
LISTENING AND I REALLY HOPE YOU WILL RETHINK YOUR DECISION TO CUT TAG.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ODELIA YONA AND YOU'RE A STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT AND YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
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HI FOR ME IT'S WE CAN ALL PUSH OURSELVES WHILE ALSO ASKING FOR HELP WHEN NEEDED.MY TAG TEACHER IS KIND, HELPFUL, FUN-GOING, AND REALLY PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT SHE DOES.
FOR EXAMPLE I DID APPS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THIS YEAR.
I RESEARCHED, BUT SOMETIMES I COULDN'T GET ALL THE INFORMATION THAT I NEEDED.
THEN I'D GO TO MY TAG TEACHER AND SHE'D HELP ME SOLVE THE PROBLEM I HAD.
WITH TAG, I CAN DO THINGS AT MY PACE.
THE THINGS WE LEARN IN TAG AREN'T JUST INTERESTING, THEY'RE FUNDAMENTAL TO WHEN WE'RE OLDER.
THIS IS BECAUSE WE LEARN LIFE SKILLS LIKE WORKING WITH PEOPLE WHO AREN'T YOUR FRIENDS AND THAT MISTAKES ARE OKAY AND THAT LEARNING TO PICK WHICH SIDE'S RIGHT, NOT JUST WHAT WE WANT.
WHEN SOMEONE ASKS ME WHAT I DID IN TAG, I ANSWER PROUDLY.
FOR THESE REASONS, I HOPE YOU DON'T CUT TAG.
ARNIM CHAUDHRY AND YOU ARE A, OH I'M SORRY, OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ELEANOR LEE.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ELEANOR LEE AND YOU ARE A STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
AND BE THEMSELVES AND THIS YEAR WAS THE FIRST TIME I DID THE ALPS PROJECT AND IT WAS REALLY FUN WHEN I COULDN'T REACH ANSWERS I COULDN'T WHEN I COULDN'T REACH ANSWERS I ASKED MY TEACHER AND HE HELPED ME SOLVE THOSE PROBLEMS AND DOING THIS TAG IT REALLY MAKES OTHER STUDENTS OUT AND MORE TALENTED AND GIFTED FEEL LIKE THEY'RE ACTUALLY IN A CLASS THAT THEY'RE ACCEPTED IN SO THIS IS WHY AND TAG IS A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN BE YOURSELF AND YOU CAN YOU HAVE GAMES AND BOOKS YOU CAN READ THERE AND THAT WILL HELP YOUR LEARNING.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS ARNAM CHAUDHRY AND YOU'RE A STUDENT IN THE DISTRICT SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
MY NAME IS ARNAM CHAUDHRY AND I AM THE STUDENT.
I'M A STUDENT IN THE TAG PROGRAM AT LINDA HARRINGTON ELEMENTARY.
I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT MY TAG CLASSES BECAUSE THEY ARE SPECIAL TO ME.
IN MY REGULAR CLASSES, I KNOW THE MATERIAL, I TRY TO PAY ATTENTION, BUT IT'S HARD BECAUSE I'M NOT LEARNING ANYTHING.
TAG IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, AND THAT IS BECAUSE OF MY TEACHERS.
THEY MAKE MY LEARNING AND EXPERIENCE IN TAG FUN.
EVERY SESSION FEELS LIKE SOMETHING I HAVE NEVER DONE BEFORE.
YOU CAN TELL BECAUSE THEY PUT IN REAL EXTRA EFFORT TO MAKE THE BEST WAY THEY CAN HELP US.
THEIR TEACHING STYLE IS UNLIKE ANYTHING.
THEY, THEY, IT, IT'S CREATIVE, IT'S CHALLENGING, AND IT'S, YOU JUST WANT TO DO IT.
UM, I DO NOT WANT TO LOSE THOSE TEACHERS.
YOU CANNOT JUST REPLACE SOMEONE LIKE THAT.
IF TAX STAFFING GETS CUT, THEN WE JUST DO NOT LOSE A PROGRAM.
WE LOSE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE IT SPECIAL.
PLEASE DO NOT LET THAT HAPPEN.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER TONIGHT IS ED BATEMAN, AND YOU ARE AN EMPLOYEE IN THE DISTRICT, AND YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM I-2.
HI, MY NAME IS EDWARD BAIKMAN.
MOST OF MY STUDENTS KNOW ME AS MR. ED IN CARRAWAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
I'M A PROUD DISABLED VETERAN, A PROUD MEMBER OF THE ROUND ROCK COMMUNITY, AND A PROUD PREPARED PROFESSIONAL AT CARRAWAY ELEMENTARY, AND A MEMBER OF EDUCATION ROUND ROCK.
WHEN I LEFT THE MILITARY, I STRUGGLED TO FIND MY PURPOSE IN LIFE, BECAUSE I WAS MISSING A FULFILLMENT THAT I HAD WHILE I SERVED THIS COUNTRY.
FIRST, I BECAME A REGISTERED BEHAVIOR THERAPIST WORKING WITH KIDS WITH AUTISM.
AND THEN I FOUND ROUND ROCK HAD AN OPENING FOR PARAPROFESSIONAL IN FCC CLASSROOM, WHICH IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW IS A VERY HIGH FUNCTIONAL BEHAVIOR CLASSROOM WHERE BEHAVIORS ARE EXTREMELY
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HIGH, BUT YOU KNOW, IT MADE MY DAY EVERY DAY.AND EVERY MILESTONE THAT THESE KIDS HAVE IS SAYING A WORD FOR THE FIRST TIME, EVEN JUST GOING TO THE BATHROOM BY THEMSELVES IS A MAJOR ACHIEVEMENT THAT MAKES MY DAY EVERY DAY EASIER.
TODAY I'M ASKING YOU GUYS TO RECONSIDER INCREASING THE PARAPROFESSIONAL PAY TO AT LEAST BY $2 AN HOUR TO A MINIMUM OF $20 AN HOUR.
AUSTIN ISD, FLUBERVILLE ISD, HUDDLE ISD ALL, IT ROUNDS AROUND $20 AN HOUR TO MAKE IT A LIVABLE WAGE FOR ME, MYSELF, AND ALL MY OTHER PARAPROFESSIONAL CO-WORKERS.
AS YOU MANY KNOW THAT ROUND ROCK ISD IS A DESTINATION SCHOOL DISTRICT.
MANY OF MY CO-WORKERS HAVE TO WORK MULTIPLE JOBS JUST TO AFFORD THEIR NORMAL HOUSING, NORMAL DAY LIVING, GAS AS YOU KNOW IS GOING UP DAILY, EVERY DAY.
SOCIAL SECURITY AND VA DISABILITY WENT UP BY 2.5 THIS YEAR, AND WE GOT 1%, WHICH IS 10 CENTS, WHICH IS 10 CENTS CAN'T GET YOU ANYTHING.
I UNDERSTAND THAT PAIN RATES WILL NOT INCREASE OR NOT SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM, BUT MAKE A MEANINGFUL DIFFERENCE FOR THAT.
WE WON'T GET BURNED OUT EASIER.
WE WON'T HAVE TO GO WORK TWO OR THREE JOBS TO COME BACK HOME OR COME BACK TO SCHOOL TO WORK WITH THESE KIDS THAT WE'RE TIRED COMING HOME OR HURT FROM OUR OTHER JOB.
SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, AND PLEASE REACH INTO THE CENTER.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS TAMMY CONRAD, AND YOU'RE AN EMPLOYEE IN THE DISTRICT, SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM I-2.
I AM SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF OUR MEMBERS WHO ANXIOUSLY AWAIT THE DETERMINATION OF NEXT YEAR'S COMPENSATION PLAN.
WE APPRECIATE THE CONSIDERATION OF A VATER TO ENABLE AN INCREASE FOR EMPLOYEES.
IF THIS IS PASSED BY THE BOARD, I'M SURE EMPLOYEES WILL DO EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO HELP GET IT PASSED IN NOVEMBER.
AN ENROLLMENT BONUS, WHICH WAS MENTIONED BY ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS LAST WEEK, WOULD BE ENCOURAGING WHILE WE WAIT TO DETERMINE IF THE VADER PASSES.
THE DISTRICT HAS DONE THIS BEFORE, AND THEY CAN DO IT AGAIN.
WE ARE, HOWEVER, VERY CONCERNED ABOUT OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
A 2% INCREASE WHEN YOU ARE MAKING LESS THAN $20 PER HOUR IS MORE OF AN INSULT THAN ANYTHING THAT WILL MAKE A REAL DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE'S INCOME.
WE HEARD AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP HOW THERE ARE 16 PAY GRADES, MAKING BELOW $20 AND THE LOWEST PAY IS $15.25 AN HOUR.
WE NOW KNOW THAT REPRESENTS ABOUT 1,300 PEOPLE, WITH ABOUT 40 OF THOSE AT THE LOWEST PAY.
HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF YOU FOUND OUT YOU WERE ONLY GETTING A 30-CENT RAISE? AND, OF COURSE, I KNOW THE BOARD IS VOLUNTEER, BUT JUST IMAGINE, AND YOU CAN DO THAT MATH, IN TODAY'S WORLD OF RISING INFLATION THAT DOESN'T BUY MUCH GAS OR HELP FILL THE GROCERY CART.
WE ASK FOR MEANINGFUL RAISES FOR ALL EMPLOYEES.
$2 PER HOUR FOR HOURLY EMPLOYEES MAKES A DIFFERENCE IN THE TAKE-HOME PAY AND SHOWS HOW THEY ARE VALUED BY THE DISTRICT.
IT WOULD MAKE MUCH MORE OF AN IMPACT ON RETENTION THAN 30 CENTS.
KEEPING OUR TRAINED EMPLOYEES IN THE DISTRICT IS GOOD FOR OUR STUDENTS AND FOR OUR BUDGET.
AND I REMEMBER A TRUSTEE SAYING THAT OUR BUDGET IS A MORAL COMPASS.
AND I WILL REMIND PEOPLE I'VE GOT MY VOTING STICKER.
IT IS AN ELECTION RIGHT NOW, AND WE ASK THAT EVERYBODY VOTES FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION EVERY TIME THERE'S AN ELECTION.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS JASON WILEY, AND YOU ARE A COMMUNITY MEMBER.
YOU DON'T LIVE IN ROUND ROCK, BUT YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM I-1.
THANK YOU, SUPERINTENDENT, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
MY NAME IS JASON WILEY, AND I WORK AS AN ORGANIZER FOR THE TEXAS STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
TIMES ARE INDEED HARD FOR TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
FROM THE STATE HAS INCREASED BY JUST A MISERLY $55 SINCE 2019.
WITHOUT A POLITICAL SEA CHANGE IN NOVEMBER, OUR SCHOOLS ARE DESTINED FOR MORE PAIN.
IT IS AN ISSUE OF GREAT MORAL CONCERN THAT A STATE AS WEALTHY AS TEXAS IS CHOOSING TO SHORTCHANGE THE EDUCATION OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE.
I RECOGNIZE THE FUNDING PIE IS LIMITED, AND YOU ALL HAVE A MIGHTY CHALLENGE.
IN DETERMINING HOW TO SLICE THAT PIE.
ONE OF THE MORAL ISSUES YOU FACE IS DECIDING ON COMPENSATION FOR DISTRICT EMPLOYEES.
OVER 1,000 EMPLOYEES IN THIS DISTRICT ARE IN A PAY RANGE THAT FALLS SHORT OF A LIVING WAGE, WHICH, ACCORDING TO THE HIGHLY ESTEEMED MIT LIVING WAGE CALCULATOR, IS $22 PER HOUR FOR THIS AREA.
SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS DESERVE TO LIVE WITH DIGNITY, AND ONE JOB SHOULD BE ENOUGH.
I ASK YOU TONIGHT TO NOT JUST SPEAK WORDS OF APPRECIATION FOR THEM, BUT TO EXECUTE ACTIONS THAT REFLECT YOUR APPRECIATION.
TWO PERCENT IS CENTS ON THE DOLLAR FOR MOST POWER PROFESSIONALS AND AUXILIARY STAFF.
PUT SIMPLY, THEIR HOURLY RAISE SHOULD BE MEASURED IN DOLLARS, NOT CENTS.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.OUR NEXT SPEAKER TONIGHT IS MARK ADAMS. YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT, AND YOU'RE SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO YOU AGAIN TONIGHT.
I'M GOING TO BE PASSING ALONG SOME MORE WORDS FROM OUR STUDENTS WHO WEREN'T ABLE TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
FIRST, A THIRD GRADER AT LIVE OAK SAYS, I LOVE TAG.
I FINALLY FEEL LIKE I BELONG AT SCHOOL.
PARKER FROM DEEPWOOD SAYS, IT WAS EASIER TO MAKE FRIENDS IN TAG BECAUSE EVERYONE IN CLASS WAS NICE AND WE WERE ALL LEARNING NEW MATH.
I LIKED THE FUN ACTIVITIES BECAUSE THEY WERE CHALLENGING.
I WOULD FEEL SAD IF I HAD LESS TAG TIME.
LUCAS, A THIRD GRADER AT HARRINGTON.
SAID, I LOVE TAG BECAUSE I LEARN SO MUCH FROM DOING RESEARCH IN CLASS.
WE GET TO PLAY EDUCATIONAL GAMES AND DO PROJECTS.
MY TAG TEACHER, MR. BRILLHART, ALSO HELPS US A LOT.
HE'S A GREAT, CARING TEACHER WHO HAS TAUGHT US SO MUCH.
A STUDENT FROM TERRA VISTA SAYS, MY ALPS PROJECT WAS SO MUCH FUN AND I LEARNED SO MUCH.
I LOVE LEARNING AND RESEARCHING ABOUT ENDANGERED ANIMALS.
I NORMALLY DON'T LIKE TALKING TO STRANGERS OR BEING IN CROWDS, BUT WHEN I PRESENTED MY PROJECT, I HAD FUN AND ENJOYED TELLING OTHERS ABOUT IT.
MY PROJECT AND TAG TEACHER HELPED ME BE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING THAT IS NORMALLY SCARY FOR ME.
ISABEL, A FOURTH GRADER FROM FOREST CREEK, SAID, HAVING LESS TAG WOULD MAKE ME SAD.
I WOULD NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL ANYMORE.
PLEASE, ANOTHER EMOJI, DON'T TAKE AWAY MY TAG TEACHER.
WE ALL IN CLASS TODAY WERE CHANTING, WE NEED TAG.
MAGGIE FROM TERRA VISTA SAID, GIVE ME MORE TAG TIME.
IN MY TAG CLASS, I DON'T GET BORED.
IF YOU TAKE AWAY MY TAG TIME, I WON'T LIKE COMING TO SCHOOL.
IT'S THE ONE AREA I LOOK FORWARD TO DURING MY DAY BESIDES LUNCH.
ROBERT FROM HARRINGTON SAID, I LIKE THAT TAG ACCELERATES LEARNING AND PROVIDES A QUIETER ENVIRONMENT.
I WOULD NOT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL WITHOUT TAG.
PLEASE DO NOT REDUCE MY TAG TIME.
ALL OF THESE STUDENTS, AND EVEN MORE I COULDN'T GET TO, ALL SAID THE SAME THING AT THE END.
PLEASE DON'T CUT OUR TAG TIME.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER TONIGHT IS KATIE ADAMS, AND YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT, SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
GOOD EVENING, AND THANK YOU ALL FOR LISTENING TO US TONIGHT.
I'M HERE AS THE MOTHER OF A THIRD-GRADE STUDENT AT HARRINGTON ELEMENTARY, WHERE OUR TEAM OF TAG TEACHERS HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE TO OUR SCHOOL COMMUNITY.
I'M OFFERING YOU MY COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED 20% CUTS TO THE ELEMENTARY TAG PROGRAM NEXT YEAR.
I'M GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE TO ATTEND THIS LAST MEETING BEFORE THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR SO THAT I CAN TELL YOU ABOUT AN EXPERIENCE I HAD LAST WEEK ON THURSDAY EVENING, OUR SCHOOL'S TAG ALPS PROJECT SHOWCASE.
THIS WAS MY DAUGHTER'S FIRST YEAR TO PRESENT AT THE SHOWCASE, ALTHOUGH LAST YEAR HER SECOND GRADE TAG COHORT DID A PRACTICE PROJECT AND WAS ENCOURAGED TO ATTEND THE DISTRICT-WIDE ALPS SHOWCASE FEATURING PROJECTS FROM STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
WHILE SHE WASN'T FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO PRESENT AT A DISTRICT-WIDE EVENT HERSELF AS A RESULT OF PREVIOUS CUTS TO THE ELEMENTARY PROGRAM, TO THE TAG DEPARTMENT, SHE WAS VERY EXCITED TO SHOWCASE HER HARD WORK TO THE FAMILIES OF OUR SCHOOL.
LAST THURSDAY MORNING, THE DAY OF THE SHOWCASE, SHE TOLD ME THAT SHE WAS READY FOR SCHOOL TO BE OVER.
BECAUSE IT'S THE END OF THE YEAR, I ASSUMED SHE WAS READY FOR SUMMER, BUT I WAS WRONG.
SHE SAID, I'M SO EXCITED TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT MY PROJECT.
AS A PARENT, I WAS FILLED WITH PRIDE IN HER WORK, YES, BUT ALSO IN THE CONFIDENCE SHE SHOWED.
SHE KNEW SHE HAD DONE WELL AND WANTED TO GET OTHERS EXCITED ABOUT WHAT SHE HAD LEARNED.
AS WE ATTENDED THE SHOWCASE, I HAD STUDENT AFTER STUDENT PROUDLY AND CONFIDENTLY TELL ME ABOUT THEIR RESEARCH, THEIR CREATIVE PROJECTS, AND THEIR INVENTIONS.
THE JOY IN THE ROOM WAS PALPABLE, AND IF YOU HAVEN'T EVER SEEN A ROOM FULL OF THIRD, FOURTH, AND FIFTH GRADERS EAGERLY SHOW OFF THEIR KNOWLEDGE, I URGE YOU TO FIND A WAY TO DO SO.
I LEFT THAT EVENING KNOWING THAT THE TAG PROGRAM AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS CREATES MEANINGFUL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR STUDENTS AND CONVINCED THAT OUR DISTRICT SHOULD DO EVERYTHING IT CAN TO HELP THE PROGRAM FLOURISH.
PLEASE CONSIDER KEEPING OUR TAG STAFFING LEVELS AT THE 2025-2026 LEVEL.
THANK YOU THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER TONIGHT IS LISA DRAGASET AND YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3 GOOD EVENING TRUSTEES AND SUPERINTENDENT THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK MY NAME IS LISA DRAGASET AND I HAVE TWO TAG STUDENTS AT FOREST CREEK ELEMENTARY AT OUR SCHOOL WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO TAG TEACHERS BUT THE ALLOCATIONS FOR NEXT YEAR INCLUDE ONLY ONE WHEN I TOLD MY 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER THAT SHE WAS ONLY GOING TO HAVE ONE TAG TEACHER NEXT YEAR HER EYES GOT WIDE AND SHE SAID IN SHOCK WHAT? BUT ONE TEACHER CAN'T DO IT ALL.
SHE IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZED THAT IF WE MOVE FROM TWO TO ONE TAG TEACHERS AT OUR SCHOOL, THE AMOUNT OF SERVICES AND TAG THAT SHE RECEIVES WILL DRAMATICALLY DECREASE.
I KNOW FROM TALKING WITH OUR TAG TEACHERS THAT THE IMPACT OF MOVING FROM TWO TAG TEACHERS TO ONE IS GOING TO BE NO MORE PULL-OUT ELA SERVICES FOR ANY STUDENT AND ONLY 30 MINUTES OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT PER WEEK FOR EACH STUDENT.
THE FIRST TIME THAT MY DAUGHTER CAME HOME FROM HER BOOK CLUB,
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WHICH IS HER ELA PULL-OUT SERVICE, SHE WAS BEAMING AND SHE SAID, MOM, I LOVE BOOK CLUBS SO MUCH.HER ELA TAG TEACHER, MRS. CORTEZ, HAD THEM READ MULTIPLE BOOKS ABOVE THEIR GRADE LEVEL THIS YEAR.
THEY LEARNED WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE WITH CEREBRAL PALSY.
THEY LEARNED HOW TO BE A BETTER FRIEND TO STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES.
THEY LEARNED WHAT A PODCAST IS.
THEY CREATED ONE OF THEIR OWN ON WHICH THEY DISCUSSED THE BOOKS THEY HAD READ AND WHAT THEY HAD LEARNED.
AND THEY CREATED THEIR OWN GRAPHIC NOVELS.
AND ALL OF THIS HAPPENED IN THE PULL-OUT ELA SERVICES, WHICH MY DAUGHTER LOOKS FORWARD TO PASSIONATELY EACH WEEK AND WHICH WILL BE DROPPED AT OUR SCHOOL IF WE HAVE ONLY ONE TAG TEACHER NEXT YEAR.
MY SON IS ONLY IN SECOND GRADE, SO HE'S NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THE PULL-OUT ELA AND MATH SERVICES YET, BUT HE DOES RECEIVE 30 MINUTES OF TALENT DEVELOPMENT MULTIPLE DAYS A WEEK, AND IT'S LITERALLY THE THING THAT KEEPS HIM THE MOST ENGAGED IN SCHOOL.
WHEN I ASK HIM WHAT HIS FAVORITE PARTS OF THE DAY ARE, HE SAYS, LUNCH, RECESS, AND TAG.
SO THE SERVICES THAT WILL CEASE TO EXIST AT OUR SCHOOL NEXT YEAR, IF WE HAVE ONLY ONE TAG TEACHER, ARE THE THINGS MY KIDS VALUE THE VERY MOST.
MY KIDS COULDN'T BE HERE TONIGHT, BUT I ASKED MY DAUGHTER IF THERE WAS ANYTHING THAT SHE'D LIKE TO SAY TO THE SCHOOL BOARD.
SHE NODDED, AND WITH TEARS IN HER EYES, SHE SAID, PLEASE DON'T TAKE AWAY ONE OF OUR TAG TEACHERS.
OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS MABUNDO ANUSAM.
AND YOU ARE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT AND SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
I'M A PSYCHOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS.
MY FAMILY MOVED HERE FROM MICHIGAN IN 2021, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MADE THIS DISTRICT SO SPECIAL TO US, IT'S A TAG PROGRAM.
MY SON STRUGGLED IN TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM SETTING BECAUSE HE WAS NOT BEING CHALLENGED ACADEMICALLY.
HE WAS OFTEN BORED AND DISENGAGED AND DIDN'T WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL.
WHEN HE TESTED INTO THE TAG PROGRAM, EVERYTHING CHANGED.
FOR THE FIRST TIME, HE WAS MOTIVATED, CHALLENGED, AND EXCITED.
TODAY, HE'S THRIVING VERY WELL AT THE MIDDLE SCHOOL, WALSH MIDDLE SCHOOL, AND HE'S ALSO A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL JUNIOR HONOR SOCIETY.
AND THIS WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE IF NOT FOR HIS TEACHERS.
THE PROGRAM HAS DONE MUCH MORE THAN HELP HIM IN ACADEMICS.
IT'S ALSO DEVELOPED HIS CONFIDENCE, DISCIPLINE, CHARACTER, VALUES, AND WORK ETHIC.
MY OTHER CHILDREN ALSO TESTED INTO TAG.
THEY'RE AT CACTUS RANCH, AND THEY'RE DOING VERY WELL.
SUPERINTENDENT, YOU MET MY DAUGHTER YESTERDAY.
I ALSO WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT GIFTED STUDENTS STILL NEED SUPPORT.
BEING ADVANCED DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY CAN SIMPLY TEACH THEMSELVES.
THESE STUDENTS REQUIRE TEACHERS WHO CAN CHALLENGE THEM, INSPIRE THEM, HELP THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL.
RIGHT NOW, THE TAG TEACHERS ARE OVERWHELMED.
ONE OF THE TEACHERS, CACTUS, IS RETIRING, AND THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. TAG IS NOT JUST AN EXTRA TEACHING.
IT'S A NECESSITY FOR THESE STUDENTS WHO LEARN DIFFERENTLY AND NEED GREATER ACADEMIC CHALLENGE.
THESE STUDENTS WILL BECOME FUTURE DOCTORS LIKE ME, ENGINEERS, SCIENTISTS, AND EDUCATORS.
PLEAD AND ASK THAT YOU PROTECT THESE TEACHERS AND PROTECT THE RESOURCES SO YOU CAN HELP CHILDREN LIKE MINE THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS AMANDA GITTLEMAN AND YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3 HELLO AGAIN I AM STILL AMANDA GITTLEMAN AND THIS TIME I WANT TO BE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT TRULY MEANS TO BE TALENTED AND GIFTED.
TAG STUDENTS ARE NOT JUST SMART.
THEIR BRAINS ARE WIRED DIFFERENTLY, AND YES, A SIDE EFFECT IS THAT THEY HAVE HIGHER INTELLIGENCE, BUT THEIR RAPID MENTAL GROWTH RESULTS IN ASYNCHRONOUS DEVELOPMENT SOCIALLY AND EMOTIONALLY.
MY DAUGHTER, FOR EXAMPLE, IS VERY EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT.
SHE EXPERIENCES HIGHER LEVELS OF EMPATHY THAN OTHERS HER AGE.
THIS MEANS THAT SHE HAS FEELINGS THAT ARE WAY BIGGER THAN SHE IS, AND IT MAKES CHILDREN LIKE HER VERY EASILY OVERSTIMULATED AND OVERWHELMED.
GIFTED STUDENTS OFTEN SUFFER FROM PERFECTIONISM, AND THAT IS A BIG PROBLEM.
BECAUSE THEY LEARN SO QUICKLY AND EASILY, THEY EQUATE THEIR SELF-WORTH WITH IMMEDIATE SUCCESS.
IT MAKES THEM GOOD AT EVERYTHING, AND EVEN THE SMALLEST FAILURES ARE EXTREMELY DAMAGING TO THEIR PSYCHE.
GIFTED CHILDREN OFTEN STRUGGLE TO CONNECT WITH THOSE OF THEIR SAME AGE, BECAUSE PHYSICALLY THEY ARE THE SAME AGE, BUT COGNITIVELY THEY ARE NOT.
AND THAT'S WHY IT'S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT THAT GIFTED KIDS ARE SURROUNDED BY OTHER GIFTED KIDS.
STUDIES SHOW THAT THE COMBINATION OF INTENSE ANALYTICAL THINKING AND EMOTIONAL DEPTH SOCIAL ALIENATION AND CON EXPECTATIONS DRIVES KIDS TO SUFFER FROM ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION WHEN NOT RECOGNIZED AND PLACED IN ENVIRONMENTS WHERE THEIR DIFFERENCES ARE SUPPORTED.
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OF DEEPER RESEARCH TO PRESENT THESE FACTS TO YOU TODAY, BUT THE INFORMATION WAS FIRST GIVEN TO ME BY A TAG TEACHER WHEN WE ENTERED THE TAG PROGRAM.TAG TEACHERS RECEIVE SPECIALIZED TRAINING BECAUSE OUR CHILDREN ARE SPECIAL.
YOUR SPECIAL ED PROGRAM EXISTS BECAUSE THOSE CHILDREN HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS.
AND YOU HAVE A BEHAVIORAL HEALTH TEAM BECAUSE YOU RECOGNIZE THAT THERE ARE SPECIAL NEEDS TAG STUDENTS ARE NOT JUST SMART BECAUSE THEY ARE SMART THEY TOO HAVE SPECIAL NEEDS PLEASE DON'T CUT THE STAFF THAT IS DEDICATED TO HELPING THEM REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL THANK YOU OUR NEXT SPEAKER IS SUNITA SAHU AND YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3 GOOD EVENING, I'M SUNITA AND I AM A PARENT OF TWO TAG STUDENTS AT HARRINGTON ELEMENTARY.
I WANT TO TELL YOU ABOUT SOMETHING MY KIDS LOOK FORWARD TO EVERY SINGLE WEEK IN CLASSES.
IN TAG, THEY DO NOT JUST LEARN THE FACTS, THEY ARE WORKING ON REAL PROJECTS, THEY SOLVE HARD PROBLEMS AND THEY ARE BUILDING THINGS, THEY ARE DEBATING ON IDEAS AND THEY COME UP WITH THE SOLUTIONS NOBODY HANDED TO THEM.
MY BOTH OF THE KIDS ARE EVERY DAY THEY ARE EXCITED ABOUT WHEN THEY ARE GOING TO SCHOOL AND I MEAN IT.
WE CHOSE ROUND ROCK ISD PARTLY BECAUSE OF THE TAG PROGRAM.
IT WAS IMPORTANT TO OUR FAMILY THAT MY KIDS HAVE A PLACE TO GROW AND BE CHALLENGED.
THAT DECISION WAS ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.
IF THE TAG GETS CUT, IF THERE ARE FEWER TEACHERS, FEWER SESSIONS AND LESS THAT MAKE IT SPECIAL, FAMILIES LIKE US WILL START TO WONDER IF RISD IS STILL THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THEM AND FOR US.
OUR KIDS LOVE THEIR SCHOOL, BUT WE NEED TAG AND TAG TEACHERS TO STAY.
IN FACT, INVEST IN IT BECAUSE STUDENTS LIKE OURS ARE COUNTING ON YOU.
AND OUR LAST PUBLIC SPEAKER TONIGHT IS LEIGH ANDERSON, AND YOU'RE A PARENT IN THE DISTRICT, SPEAKING ON AGENDA ITEM F3.
THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY.
MY NAME IS LEIGH ANDERSON, PARENT OF TWO CHILDREN WHO ATTEND HARRINGTON ELEMENTARY.
THE OTHER HOPES TO BE WHEN HE IS ELIGIBLE, PRIMARILY TO WITNESS OTHERS' LOVE OF THE PROGRAM.
I AM HERE TO URGE YOU TO OPPOSE CUTS TO THE TAG PROGRAM.
THE ONLY TIME MY SON FEELS TRULY ACCEPTED AND CHALLENGED IN HIS SCHOOL DAY IS THE TIME HE SPENDS WITH HIS TAG TEACHERS.
TAG IS HIS FAVORITE THING ABOUT SCHOOL ABOVE EVERYTHING ELSE, INCLUDING RECESS.
REDUCING THIS SERVICE WOULD HAVE A DIRECT NEGATIVE IMPACT ON HIS WELL-BEING, HIS EDUCATION, HIS FEELINGS ABOUT ATTENDING SCHOOL PLEASE DO NOT REDUCE THE TIME HE GETS WITH HIS TAG TEACHERS THANK YOU THANK YOU THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE ON TO SUPERINTENDENT REPORTS STARTING WITH AGENDA ITEM F1
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AND WE'RE GOING TO INVITE OUR RUN ROCK ISD COUNCIL OF PTAS PRESIDENT UP HERE THANK YOU FOR JOINING US, MELISSA, AND WHEN YOU ARE READY, WE'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU.IT'S A PLEASURE TO BE BACK AGAIN TO DO MY LAST ONE OF THESE.
I'VE BEEN THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT FOR FOUR YEARS NOW, AND I'M PRETTY SURE I'VE GOTTEN TO PRESENT TWICE, SO THAT'S EIGHT.
I CAN'T MATH, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
I'M JUST HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT THIS BOARD UPDATE TO YOU ALL TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SUPERINTENDENT, AND OUR COMMUNITY.
THIS IS ONE OF OUR REQUIREMENTS FROM TEXAS PTA TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE UPHOLDING OUR MISSION, WHICH IS TO MAKE EVERY CHILD'S POTENTIAL A REALITY BY ENGAGING AND EMPOWERING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES TO ADVOCATE FOR ALL CHILDREN.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR HAVING ME AND FOR DEDICATING YOUR TIME TO THIS MISSION.
TO START, I JUST WANT TO MENTION A COUPLE OF CELEBRATIONS OR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN TO RECOGNIZE THIS YEAR.
WE WERE ONCE AGAIN ABLE TO AWARD A LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP TO ONE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS, AND SHE WILL BE YOUR NEXT COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
SO KENDALL REESE FROM EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT COMMUNITY WILL BE OUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT NEXT YEAR.
NEXT, WE WERE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE SIX
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OF OUR LOCAL LEADERS, VOLUNTEERS FROM THEIR COMMUNITIES WITH OUR FLOWER IN THE GARDEN AND PETAL IN THE POND REWARDS.I WAS ABLE TO DELIVER ONE OF THESE TO THE LOCAL CAMPUS AND IT WAS A SURPRISE AND I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS GOING TO BE A SURPRISE.
SO WHEN I CALLED HER NAME AND SHE REACTED, IT WAS REALLY FUN.
AND THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE NICE THINGS WE LIKE TO DO AS A COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE OUR COMMUNITY LEADERS AND OUR VOLUNTEERS.
WE COULDN'T DO THE WORK WITHOUT THEM.
WE ALSO WOULD LIKE TO CELEBRATE THAT TWO OF OUR REFLECTIONS PARTICIPANTS ACHIEVED THE AWARD OF MERIT AT NATIONAL PTA SO NOT ONLY DID THEY WIN AT THE DISTRICT LEVEL THEY ADVANCED TO STATE AND THEN THEY ALSO WON AT NATIONAL AND I BELIEVE THEY GET A SIZABLE SCHOLARSHIP FOR THAT WE HAVE A STUDENT FROM MCNEIL GAVIN BROWN WITH HIS I AM HOME PIECE AND PHOEBE CHAI I BELIEVE THE FOURTH GRADER BUT I I DIDN'T NOTE WHAT CAMPUS SHE WAS FROM.
FROM, UNFORTUNATELY, BUT HER PIECE, I BELONG TO THE CANVAS, BOTH RECEIVED THAT NATIONAL AWARD.
WE ALSO HAVE A PLATINUM VOICE FOR EVERY CHILD WINNER, CANYON CREEK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, CONGRATULATIONS, AND 14 OF OUR PTAS RECEIVED OTHER SPECIAL MEMBERSHIP CATEGORY AWARDS, AND WE'VE ALSO HAD A MEMBERSHIP INCREASE AT 14 OF OUR LOCAL PTAS.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF GROWTH HERE, WE'RE ALWAYS GLAD TO SEE IT.
AS A COUNCIL, IN TOTAL, WE HAVE 13,850.
160 PTA MEMBERS IN OUR PTAS, WHICH IS 87% OF THE WAY TO AN INCREASE OF LAST YEAR.
SO ONCE AGAIN, TO OUR COMMUNITY AND OTHER FOLKS WHO MAYBE AREN'T MEMBERS YET, IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO JOIN FOR THE 2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
ALSO, FRIENDLY REMINDER, THESE DON'T AUTO-RENEW.
SO COME AUGUST, MAKE SURE YOU RE-UP THOSE MEMBERSHIPS.
NEXT, HERE'S OUR MEMBERSHIP AWARDS.
AGAIN, THERE'S OUR JUST SMALL MEMBERSHIP UPDATE.
AND THEN I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE ALL OF THESE CAMPUSES FOR THESE SPECIAL CATEGORIES.
THE MARS AWARDS RECOGNIZE MALE PARTICIPATION IN THE PTAS.
STUDENT INVOLVEMENT, OBVIOUSLY, IS FOR STUDENT MEMBERSHIP AND STUDENT INVOLVEMENT.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP AWARDS, WHERE THOSE COMMUNITIES HAVE AN INCREASED COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT, WHICH MEANS NOT NECESSARILY A PARENT, NOT NECESSARILY A STUDENT, NOT NECESSARILY A STUDENT.
A STAFF MEMBER BUT SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY HAS JOINED THOSE PTAS AND SHOUT OUT TO HERNANDEZ MIDDLE SCHOOL WHO'S ONE OF THE ONLY PTAS TO HAVE THE PERCENTAGE OF GRANDPARENTS INVOLVED THAT GIVES THEM THAT AWARD SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THOSE CAMPUSES AND NEXT I WANT TO AGAIN ANOTHER SHOUT OUT FOR OUR PLATINUM VOICE FOR EVERY CHILD VOICE FOR EVERY CHILD IS WHEN A CHILD IS REPRESENTED BY A MEMBER THAT COMMUNITY SO A HUNDRED PERCENT OF CANYON CREEK STUDENTS HAVE A MEMBER HAVE A MEMBER THAT REPRESENTS THEM SO CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM THEY'LL ALSO ELIGIBLE TO COME TO A SPECIAL HANGOUT AT LAUNCH AND THEN I ALSO WANTED TO GIVE A SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO LIVE OAK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL THEY WERE RECOGNIZED FOR THE PRESIDENT'S CHALLENGE IN WHICH THE CHALLENGE WAS TO STRENGTHEN YOUR PTA BY HOSTING A FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EVENT THAT BRINGS FAMILIES TOGETHER AND HAVE A MEMBERSHIP INCREASE BY MAY 31ST, AND THEY ACHIEVED THAT.
AND THEIR EVENT THAT THEY THREW TO QUALIFY FOR THIS AWARD WAS CALLED FAMILY BIKE NIGHT.
THEY HELD IT IN SEPTEMBER, AND THEY INVITED FAMILIES TO BRING THEIR BIKES, SCHOOL LEADERS' HELMETS, RODE ALL AROUND TOGETHER IN THE PARKING LOT OF THEIR CAMPUS.
AN ICE CREAM TRUCK CAME AND PROVIDED SWEETS.
AND EVERY ATTENDEE WAS ENTERED INTO A RAFFLE FOR A FREE BIKE THAT WAS DONATED BY A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.
AND OVERALL, IT WAS JUST A GREAT EVENT, AND IT REALLY HELPED BUILD UP THAT COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK THAT'S JUST WONDERFUL.
SO CONGRATULATIONS TO LIVE OAK FOR THAT AWARD.
THEY'RE OUR ONLY CAMPUS TO HAVE WON THAT AWARD, ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO GET YOUR OR WAIT, NEVER MIND.
THOSE APPLICATIONS CLOSE ON MAY 15TH.
IT IS NOW TOO LATE, BUT IT WASN'T TOO LATE WHEN I WROTE THIS PRESENTATION, SORRY.
NEXT, WE HAVE OUR GOLDEN APPLE WINNERS.
THIS IS WHEN 100% OF THE SCHOOL STAFF IS A MEMBER OF THE PTA, SO CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THESE CAMPUSES.
AND THEN AS A COUNCIL, WE AWARD, WE ENTER ALL OF THESE PTAS INTO A DRAWING, AND WE AWARD TWO WITH A BREAKFAST, AND THAT WAS LAUREL MOUNTAIN AND PEARSON RANCH THIS YEAR.
TOLD BY THE PEARSON BRANCH ADMINISTRATION AND IT WAS THEIR FIRST TIME TO RECEIVE THAT HONOR SO THEY WERE VERY HAPPY TO HAVE US AT THAT CAMPUS FOR NEXT, I WANT TO BRAG ON OUR HEALTHY LIFESTYLES CHAIR, AMANDA MOTZ.
THROUGH SOME WORK WE DID AT COUNCIL AND HER CREATIVE
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GENIUS, WE WERE ABLE TO AWARD $500 TO ALL 17 OF OUR TITLE I PTAS, AND I'M REALLY HAPPY TO REPORT THAT ALL 17 OF THOSE PTAS PUT IN THEIR APPLICATION FOR THAT GRANT, RECEIVED THOSE FUNDS, AND WERE ABLE TO FEED THEIR STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY.WE ACCORDING TO MY CALCULATIONS, WE HELPED SUPPORT OVER 6,000 STUDENTS AND FAMILIES WITH THIS GRANT PROGRAM.
WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT THESE FUNDS WERE USED IN A RANGE OF WAYS, WHICH INCLUDED RESTOCKING FOOD PANTRIES AND SNACK CLOSETS.
SOME CONTRIBUTED TO EXISTING PROGRAMS, WHILE OTHERS BEGAN NEW INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT STUDENTS AND FAMILIES EXPERIENCING FOOD INSECURITY.
AND WE HOPE THAT THESE INITIATIVES WILL CONTINUE WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE COMMUNITIES.
WE HOPE WE INSPIRED SOME OTHER SCHOOLS TO HELP SUPPORT THESE CAMPUSES AS WELL.
AND JUST SOME THINGS WE GOT TO DO THIS SPRING.
WE HOSTED A STRAIGHT TALK EVENT THAT INCLUDED SOME LOCAL EXPERT PANELISTS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
THAT WAS A, I, OF COURSE, WAS AT THAT EVENT.
IT WAS REALLY FUN TO TALK ABOUT.
THE TOPIC FOR THIS YEAR WAS ABOUT AI, HOW THE DISTRICT PLANS TO, TO USE IT, HOW THEY ARE CURRENTLY, IF THEY ARE CURRENTLY USING IT, HOW THEY PLAN TO ROLL OUT MORE PROGRAMS, AND ALL OF THE SAFETY INVOLVED IN THAT.
AND THEN WE JUST HAD A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE PERSONALLY USE AI, HOW WE'RE INTRODUCING IT TO OUR KIDS, AND OF COURSE THAT SPIRALED INTO, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU GET A BUNCH OF PTA PARENTS IN A ROOM TOGETHER, CONVERSATIONS TEND TO SPIRAL TO OTHER TOPICS, BUT WE GOT TO HAVE A LOT OF INTERESTING CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO HOST A PTA OFFICER ROUNDTABLE TRAINING, AND THOSE ARE ALWAYS FUN TO DO, ESPECIALLY THIS TIME OF YEAR, TO HELP THAT TRANSITION OF LEADERSHIP, BECAUSE LOTS OF PTAS EXPERIENCE THAT AT THIS TIME OF YEAR.
WE WERE ABLE TO, AS I SAID PREVIOUSLY, CELEBRATE OUR TWO GOLDEN APPLE BREAKFAST WINNERS WITH BREAKFAST WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT.
WE HOSTED AN AFTERNOON TEA WITH THE SUPERINTENDENT, HELPING OUR ADMINISTRATION BE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
AND IN ADDITION TO THE TITLE I FOOD GRANTS, WE WERE ALSO ABLE TO USE SOME OF OUR FUNDS TO HELP SUPPORT THE TITLE I AND ALTERNATIVE CAMPUSES FOR TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK THROUGH OUR ACCESS AND OPPORTUNITY CHAIR.
WE ALSO WERE ABLE TO PROVIDE APPRECIATION EVENTS FOR ALL OF OUR DISTRICT STAFF AND ADMINISTRATORS.
SHOUT OUT TO A-PLUS FOR HELPING US BRING THOSE TREATS TO THOSE DEPARTMENTS.
I HAVE A REMINDER ABOUT SUMMER TRAINING.
ANY ADMINISTRATOR WHO HAS A PTA MEMBER OR PTA OFFICER ATTENDING LAUNCH IS ELIGIBLE TO GO TO LAUNCH FOR, WELL, THEIR ADMISSION IS FREE.
YOU DO HAVE TO PAY FOR YOUR OWN HOTEL STAY.
BUT WE DO ENCOURAGE ALL OF OUR ADMINISTRATORS TO TRY TO GO TO LAUNCH AT LEAST ONCE TO GET SOME OF THAT EXPERIENCE AND SOME OF THAT TRAINING THAT COMES ALONG WITH GETTING TO GO AND THE COMMUNITY BUILDING.
THIS YEAR IT'LL BE JULY 10TH THROUGH 12TH AT THE GAYLORD TEXAS GRAPEVINE.
AND THEN OF COURSE, OH WELL THAT WAS LAST YEAR'S, I FORGOT TO TAKE THAT OFF.
WE WILL BE HAVING ANOTHER TRAINING DAY.
IT WILL BE AT THE END OF AUGUST.
PLEASE KEEP YOUR EYES OUT ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIAS AND ON YOUR EMAILS FOR WHEN WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL DATE FOR THAT.
AND, OH, IF YOU ARE A PTA LEADER, DON'T FORGET TO REGISTER YOUR PTA LEADERSHIP ROLE AT TEXASPTA.ORG.
YOU'RE GOING TO WANT TO FIND THE TAB THAT SAYS PTA LEADERS AND THEN FIND THE BOARD POSITION REGISTRATION AND REGISTER YOUR POSITION.
WE NEED THAT CONTACT INFORMATION TO CONTACT YOU WITH ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE.
AND IN THAT MENU, YOU'LL ALSO FIND ALL OF YOUR TRAINING MATERIALS.
DON'T FORGET YOU HAVE TO RENEW YOUR TRAININGS EVERY YEAR.
AND NOW FINALLY, HERE'S JUST A FUN SLIDE OF SOME OF THE FUN STUFF WE GOT TO DO THIS YEAR.
AS I WRAP UP MY FINAL PRESENTATION AS YOUR COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME PICTURES OF US OUT IN THE COMMUNITY CELEBRATING OUR AMAZING STUDENTS, TEACHERS, STAFF, AND ADMINISTRATORS.
I'D LIKE TO ALSO REMIND EVERYONE THAT PTA AT ITS CORE IS AN ADVOCACY ORGANIZATION.
AND AS WE GET READY FOR ELECTIONS THIS NOVEMBER AND AN UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION, I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE EVERY MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY TO RESEARCH YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS.
AND IF THEY SAY THEY SUPPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS, GO AHEAD AND CHECK THEIR VOTING RECORD AND MAKE SURE IT ACTUALLY MATCHES UP WITH WHAT THEY'RE SAYING.
AND IF THEY DON'T ACTUALLY SUPPORT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS, MAYBE IT'S TIME TO REPLACE THEM WITH INDIVIDUALS THAT WILL.
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I DON'T NEED TO REMIND EVERYBODY HERE THAT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS REALLY NEED OUR HELP AND THEY REALLY NEED THEIR SUPPORT FROM THE STATE TO HELP US CONTINUE TO THRIVE.AND FINALLY, I DO REALLY BELIEVE THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE OUR GREATEST RESOURCE, AND WE SHOULD DO ALL WE CAN TO ENSURE THAT THEY CAN REALIZE THEIR FULL POTENTIALS.
AND THAT IS IT FOR ME, WELKLEY OUT AS PRESIDENT OF THE PTA.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME, COMMENTS? WONDERFUL.
I'M REALLY THRILLED THAT I GOT TO DO IT, AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M GOING TO DO NEXT.
SO IF ANYBODY HEARS ANYTHING, LET ME KNOW.
JUST ECHOING AMBER, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE SO I'LL JUST SAY THE SAME THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BEING PTA PRESIDENT FOR THE DISTRICT IS IS A HUGE HUGE JOB NOT MANY WANT TO TAKE IT ON SO WE APPRECIATE ALL OF YOUR WORK AND ALL OF THE SUPPORT THAT YOU'VE GIVEN THE DISTRICT OVER YOUR YEARS IN THAT LEADERSHIP ROLE SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH THANK YOU ALL RIGHT BACK AT Y'ALL HAVE A GREAT SUMMER EVERYONE OKAY WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM F TO BOARD STUDENT OUTCOME GOAL 4 AND GPMS, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DR. AZIZ.
PRESIDENT MARKHAM, GOOD EVENING.
BOARD MEMBERS, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, STAFF.
SO THIS IS, I THINK, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BOARD GOALS, I GUESS, THE PAST FEW MONTHS, AND I KNOW WHAT THE WISH OF THE BOARD AS FAR AS GOAL SO I THINK THIS WILL BE, FOR NOW, OUR LAST PRESENTATION FOR GOAL 4.
AS YOU KNOW, NEXT YEAR WILL BE MORE LIKE A BASELINE YEAR FOR US.
SO WE HAVE WITH US BYRON, I THINK, WOULD BE PRESENTING ALONG WITH STEVE.
GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT MARKHAM, TRUSTEES, DR.
FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO SAY MELISSA WON'T BE COMPLETELY BORED, AS SHE'S A PROUD MEMBER OF OUR SHAC COMMITTEE, SO WE STILL GOT HER ON THE TEAM FOR THAT.
SO TONIGHT WE'RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE SPRING PROGRESS MEASURES UPDATE FOR BOARD GOAL 4, STUDENT WELL-BEING.
BYRON GERARD AND I'M THE ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT FOR STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES AND I GET THE PRIVILEGE OF SUPPORTING SEVERAL OF OUR DEPARTMENTS THAT HAVE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO THIS GOAL.
AND WITH ME TONIGHT IS, TO HELP PRESENT TO US, IS MR. STEVE CLARK, OUR DIRECTOR OF COUNSELING SERVICES.
MR. CLARK AND HIS COUNSELING SERVICES TEAM NOT ONLY HAVE A DIRECT CONNECTION TO STUDENT WELL-BEING, HE AND OUR COORDINATOR OF COUNSELING SERVICES, DR.
SONYA BAKER, TAKE THE LEAD ON FACILITATING OUR ANNUAL STUDENT WELL-BEING SURVEYS AND ORGANIZING THE DATA FROM THE RESPONSES IN A WAY THAT IS USEFUL IN OUR PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT AND INTERVENTION EFFORTS THROUGHOUT ROUND ROCK.
FIRST, I WANTED TO REMIND OUR COMMUNITY OF WHAT BOARD GOAL FOUR MEASURES.
IN 2023, THE BOARD ESTABLISHED BOARD GOAL FOUR FOR THE DISTRICT THAT IS CENTERED AROUND STUDENT WELL-BEING.
THE GOAL WAS A THREE-YEAR GOAL ENDING IN THE SPRING OF 2026.
THE OVERARCHING BOARD GOAL FOR STUDENT WELL-BEING IS THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO REPORT FAVORABLY AT THEIR SCHOOL THAT THEIR SCHOOL ENVIRONMENT HELPS PROMOTE A POSITIVE SENSE OF WELL-BEING WILL INCREASE OVER TIME.
THE GOAL SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFIES A GROWTH TARGET FROM 54 PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF 2023 TO 65 PERCENT.
THE TOOL THAT WE HAVE USED THESE PAST THREE YEARS TO MEASURE STUDENT WELL-BEING IS PANORAMA.
PANORAMA HAS ALLOWED US TO SURVEY STUDENTS ACROSS THE DISTRICT TWICE A YEAR TO ASSESS THEIR PERCEPTIONS RELATED TO SENSE OF BELONGING, SAFETY AT SCHOOL, AND STUDENT SELF-EFFICACY.
AS WE MENTIONED EARLIER, STUDENT WELL-BEING IS BROKEN INTO THREE SPECIFIC GPM GOALS.
SENSE OF BELONGING HAS A THREE-YEAR GOAL IN THAT STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH 12 WILL GROW IN THEIR FAVORABLE RESPONSES TO FEELING THAT THEY HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THEIR SCHOOL FROM 48 PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF 2023 TO 59 PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF 2026.
SAFETY AT SCHOOL HAS A GROWTH GOAL OF 60 PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF 2023 TO 71
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PERCENT IN THE SPRING OF 2026.AND LASTLY, STUDENTS WHO RESPOND FAVORABLY THAT THEY FEEL A SENSE OF SELF-EFFICACY HAS A GROWTH GOAL OF 53% IN THE SPRING OF 2023 TO 64% IN THE SPRING OF 2026.
ALSO AS A REMINDER, OUR ABILITY TO LEARN FROM ALL OF OUR STUDENTS ABOUT HOW THEY FEEL HAS BEEN IMPACTED BY SENATE BILL 12.
SENATE BILL 12 NOW REQUIRES PARENTS TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW ANY SURVEY TO BE GIVEN TO STUDENTS.
THAT ASK ABOUT STUDENTS WELL-BEING AND TO PROVIDE CONSENT BEFORE THE SURVEY CAN BE GIVEN TO THEIR CHILD.
PREVIOUSLY TO SENATE BILL 12 WE PROVIDED PARENTS WITH THIS OPPORTUNITY AND THEN PARENTS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO OPT OUT THEIR CHILD FROM TAKING THE SURVEY.
THIS YEAR WITH SENATE BILL 12 PARENTS MUST OPT IN THEIR CHILD TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY SURVEYS THAT ASK STUDENTS ABOUT THEIR WELL-BEING.
THIS IS NET THIS NEW OPT-IN REQUIREMENT HAS DRAMATICALLY IMPACTED THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY, AND THUS HAS DRAMATICALLY IMPACTED OUR ABILITY TO FULLY UNDERSTAND HOW STUDENTS ARE FEELING ABOUT THEIR WELL-BEING IN SCHOOLS.
SO IN PREVIOUS YEARS, OUR CAMPUS AND DISTRICT TEAMS WERE WORKING HARD TO CAPTURE AS MANY RESPONSES FROM STUDENTS AS POSSIBLE.
PRIOR TO THE PASSAGE OF SENATE BILL 12, THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO OPTED OUT WAS DECLINING AND THE TOTAL STUDENTS SURVEYED WAS INCREASING.
ONLY 15,201 3RD THROUGH 12TH GRADE STUDENTS OPTED IN AND WERE SURVEYED THIS MARCH OF 2026.
THIS COMPARES TO 31,216 THAT TOOK THE SURVEY IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR WITH THE OPT-OUT SYSTEM.
WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOOK AT OUR PANORAMA DATA JUST A LITTLE MORE DEEPLY.
AND SO OVERALL, WE'RE SEEING AN INCREASE IN OUR FAVORABLE RESPONSES IN BOARD GOAL 4 IN ALL AREAS.
SO BOARD GOAL 4 SAW AN OVERALL INCREASE FROM 54% IN THE SPRING OF 2023 TO 60% IN THE SPRING OF 2026.
SO THOUGH WE DID NOT REACH OUR 2026 GOALS FOR THE GPMS 4.1, 02, AND 3, WE DID SEE GROWTH IN ALL OF THESE GPMS OVERALL.
SO FOR GPM 4.1, SENSE OF BELONGING, WE SAW AN INCREASE FROM 48% IN 2023 TO 57% IN 2026.
FOR 4.2, SAFETY AT SCHOOL, WE SAW AN INCREASE FROM 60% IN 2023 TO 63% IN 2026.
AND THEN FOR SELF-EFFICACY, 4.3, WE SAW AN INCREASE FROM 2023 OF 53% TO TO 60 PERCENT IN 2026.
SO WHEN WE REVIEW OUR STUDENT GROUPS THIS CHART SHOWS OVERALL PROGRESS FOR EACH GROUP TOWARDS OUR END OF YEAR GOAL.
SO WE AGAIN SEE AN OVERALL INCREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE OF OUR STUDENTS WHO ARE RESPONDING FAVORABLY TO THE SURVEY QUESTIONS OVER TIME.
SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER AT EACH OF OUR GPMS SO WITH 4.1 SENSE OF BELONGING SO AS A REMINDER, THE END OF YEAR GOAL FOR 2026 IS 59% STUDENTS RESPONDING FAVORABLY ON THE QUESTIONS MEASURING SENSE OF BELONGING.
SO IN GRADES 3-12 WE INCREASED FAVORABLE RESPONSES FROM SPRING OF 2023 FROM 48% TO 57% IN THE SPRING OF 2026.
AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT ALL OF OUR STUDENT GROUPS, EACH OF OUR GROUPS SAW AN INCREASE WITH SEVERAL OF OUR GROUPS SEEING A 9% GAIN FROM THE SPRING OF 23 TO 26.
NOW WHEN WE MOVE ON TO GPM 4.2 AND OUR END OF YEAR GOAL IS A 71% FAVORABLE RESPONSE.
IN GRADES 3 THROUGH 12, FAVORABLE RESPONSES INCREASED FROM 60% TO 63% WITH A HIGH OF 66 IN THE FALL OF 2025 SURVEY DATA.
SO LOOKING AT EACH OF OUR STUDENT GROUPS, AGAIN, ALL THE GROUPS DID SHOW AN INCREASE FROM OUR INITIAL SURVEY IN 2023.
SO THE FINAL GPM IS STUDENT SELF-EFFICACY.
SO THE END OF YEAR GOAL IS 64% FAVORABLE RESPONSE RATE.
SO LOOKING AT STUDENT SELF-ADVOCACY, STUDENTS IN GRADES THREE THROUGH 12 HAD AN INCREASE FROM SPRING OF 2023, INCREASING FROM 53% TO 60% FAVORABLE RESPONSE RATES.
AND WE ALSO SAW ALL GROUPS INCREASED FROM THE INITIAL ADMINISTRATION IN THE SPRING OF 2023.
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SO IN CONCLUSION FOR TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION, THE PANORAMA SURVEY DATA DEMONSTRATES GROWTH IN VALUABLE TARGETED GOAL AREAS RELATED TO STUDENT WELL-BEING ACROSS OUR DISTRICT.THANK YOU, AND MR. CLARK AND I ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THE BOARD MAY HAVE.
I WAS WAITING TO SEE IF ANYBODY ELSE PUSHED FIRST, SO I WASN'T THE FIRST ONE.
I THINK IT'S A REALLY GREAT MEASUREMENT FOR HOW OUR STUDENTS ARE DOING IN OUR SCHOOLS.
I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE DECLINE IN THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE SURVEY.
PLANS TO ADDRESS THAT MOVING FORWARD? ARE WE GOING TO INCLUDE THAT CONSENT IN THE BACK-TO-SCHOOL FORMS? HOW ARE WE GOING TO TRY TO ASSESS THAT DIFFERENTLY, OR HOPEFULLY ASSESS DIFFERENTLY? YES, EXACTLY THAT.
WE'VE EMBEDDED ALL THE NEW CONSENT LANGUAGE AND CONSENT FORMS AS PART OF OUR REGISTRATION PROCESS.
EMPHASIS DURING OUR BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT OUR BACK SCHOOL EVENTS AND IN THE REGISTRATION PROCESS.
WHILE I LOVE THESE NUMBERS I HAVE A HARD TIME PUTTING A WHOLE LOT OF FAITH IN THEM BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A SMALLER POPULATION OF WHAT OUR INITIAL SAMPLE WAS IT'S NOT REALLY COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES IN THIS BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK IN COMPILING IT AND I DO THINK THAT WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK OF TRACKING THIS WITH OUR STUDENTS BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T FEEL SAFE AND HAPPY IN OUR SCHOOL SCHOOLS, THEN IT'S HARD FOR THEM TO DO THEIR ALGEBRA HOMEWORK AND COME TO SCHOOL ON TIME AND MEET OUR ATTENDANCE GOALS.
I WOULD JUST REMEMBER WHAT WE ALSO USED OUR CLIMATE SURVEY AS WELL.
I REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I THINK THAT WE HAD THIS CONVERSATION, IT WAS TRYING TO JUGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO, AND I WAS JUST WONDERING IF WE HAVE AN UPDATE ABOUT THAT.
SO THE GPMS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS, WE'VE PURELY REPORTED OUT.
THROUGH THE PANORAMA SURVEY OUR LAST PRESENTATION WE DID BRING IN CLIMATE SURVEY DATA JUST TO COINCIDE A THEME WITH THAT WE STILL WILL HAVE OUR CLIMATE SURVEYS AVAILABLE MOVING FORWARD, BUT THIS HAS CONCLUDED OUR BOARD GOAL THROUGH PANORAMA OKAY, I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE I KNOW THAT GOING FORWARD WE'RE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY USING A DIFFERENT TOOL FOR THIS GOAL IF WE CARRY IT FORWARD.
WE STILL HAVE SOME GOAL WORK TO DO IN JUNE AROUND GOAL FOUR.
BUT JUST ONE THING THAT I WANT TO KEEP IN MIND, AND IT COULD BE THE DROP IN THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN THE SURVEY, BUT ONE THING I NOTICED AMONGST ALL THE DATA IS THAT THERE'S BEEN THE LEAST GROWTH AMONG OUR BLACK STUDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN SAFETY.
AND THE ONE THAT CONCERNS ME THE MOST IS SAFETY.
SO I THINK THAT'S MORE JUST, AGAIN, WE HAVE WORK TO DO AROUND THIS GOAL BUT AS WE MOVE FORWARD INTO OUR WORKSHOP IN JUNE I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE AS A CONSIDERATION AND A TALKING POINT WHENEVER WE GET TO THAT WORKSHOP.
OKAY I THINK THAT'S IT I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE THERE'S A DELAY IN THE BUTTON SO I'M JUST CHECKING IN WITH Y'ALL.
OKAY IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU TRUSTEES I'D LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND PUSH THROUGH THE BUDGET AND THEN TAKE A BREAK AFTER THE BUDGET BEFORE WE GET INTO THE THE BOND QUARTERLY UPDATE.
OKAY SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
I'D LIKE TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM F3, 2026-27 BUDGET UPDATE.
AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO YOU FIRST, DR.
I THINK WE JUST, I FEEL LIKE WE JUST HAD, WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT BUDGET, ESPECIALLY RECENTLY.
SO LAST WEEK WE HAD THAT BUDGET WORKSHOP.
SO THIS WILL BE A CONTINUATION OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED, I GUESS, LAST WEEK.
HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET TO HEAR FROM OUR BOARD MEMBERS SOME INPUT AND FEEDBACK SO WE CAN FINALIZE SOMEHOW THE BUDGET.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT HOPEFULLY ADOPTED BY THE BOARD NEXT MONTH.
SO THIS WILL HELP OUR TEAM KIND OF REFINE IT AND THEN ALSO TRY TO ADDRESS ANY CONCERN OR QUESTION OR FEEDBACK FROM OUR BOARD.
SO WITH US TONIGHT IS DENNIS AND RHONDA.
SO THEY WILL TAKE US THROUGH THE PRESENTATION.
WE HAD TO MAKE A SLIGHT CHANGE ON THE PRESENTATION, SO SHE'S GOING TO PUT IT UP IN ONE MOMENT.
SEE WHEN YOU GIVE US GAPS BETWEEN AGENDA ITEMS WE GET IN TROUBLE.
WE GOT IN TROUBLE LAST WEEK TOO.
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ARE WE ON AN AGENDA ITEM ABOUT WEB SHOOTING? IS THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING? IS THAT ON THE AGENDA? LINE UP.TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO PRESENT THE SUPERINTENDENT'S FY26-27 PROPOSED BUDGET.
WE WILL BE REVIEWING THREE BUDGETS, OUR M&O BUDGET, THE INS BUDGET, AND THE FULL SERVICE BUDGET.
AND WE WILL GO THROUGH THEM INDIVIDUALLY, STARTING WITH THE M&O BUDGET.
OUR BUDGETARY GOALS, WE STARTED THIS PROCESS BACK IN FEBRUARY.
AND THESE HAVE AND WILL BE OUR NORTH STARS GOING FORWARD, WITH NUMBER ONE BEING MINIMIZE REDUCTION IN THE CLASSROOM.
FOCUS ON INSTRUCTION, MAINTAIN COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION, MAXIMIZE THE USE OF GRANT FUNDING, REDUCE EXPENDITURES, AND BY ALL MEANS TRY TO BALANCE THE BUDGET.
SO WHAT WERE THE ASSUMPTIONS WE USED TO PUT THE BUDGET TOGETHER? A MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE DECREASE FROM THAT 70.7101 TO .7054.
OUR PROPERTY VALUE INCREASED BY 1.5%.
IT WAS A PROJECTED 2%, BUT WE LOWERED THAT TO 1.5 BASED ON INFORMATION WE GOT FROM OUR CADS.
STUDENT ENROLLMENT IT DECLINED WE HAD ORIGINALLY BACK IN THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY HAD A PROJECTED ENROLLMENT OF 45,000 FLAT WE ARE NOW SELLING ON 45.5 OUR AVERAGE DAILY ATTENDANCE IS FLAT AT 92% INCLUDING PRE-K AND THE BASIC ALARM AS YOU ALL KNOW IS STILL $6,215 PER ADA SO THIS IS THE BUDGET WE ARE GOING TO CONCENTRATE ON THIS SECOND COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT WHICH IS THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND WE'LL GET TO THE LAST COLUMN ON THE RIGHT AFTER WE GO THROUGH THE PROPOSED BUDGET SO AS YOU CAN SEE AT THE TOP THE .7054 IS NOW IS OUR MAXIMUM COMPRESS RATE PLUS OUR EIGHT GOLDEN PENNIES WE ARE USING 45.5 AS OUR ENROLLMENT WITH A ADA OF 94 BLENDED AT 92.
BASIC ALLOTMENT 6215 DOLLARS SO OUR REVENUE PROJECTED FROM TAXES WITH THE MCI IS $332,520,000.
OUR EIGHT GOLDEN PENNIES PROJECTED TO GENERATE $42,218,000.
PENALTIES AND INTEREST AT $810,000.
INVESTMENT INCOME DUE TO INTEREST RATES AND STUFF, WE ARE INCREASING THAT TO THE $6,000,000.
OUR OTHER LOCAL REVENUE INCREASE WAS DUE TO THE ADDITION OF NINE PRE-K CLASSROOMS THAT WE'RE ADDING THIS YEAR.
STATE REVENUE FROM TOTAL IS AT $49,424, WHICH REFLECTS AN INCREASE OF THOSE 500 KIDS AT THE $6,215 RATE.
THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT GOES UP BASED ON THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS WE HAVE PROJECTED TO GET THE $3,000 AND THE $5,000, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT INCREASE FROM YEAR THREE TO YEAR FOUR AND FROM FOUR TO FIVE.
AND THEN WE HAVE ADDITIONAL SPED REVENUE.
THIS IS DUE TO SOME INCREASES IN STAFFING THAT WE HAD TO ADD TO THE SPED PROGRAM.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE STATE HAS INCREASED, OR HAS SET ASIDE MONEY FOR SPED INCREASE, SO WE'RE PRETTY SURE WE WILL GET AN ADDITIONAL $458,000 IN WHICH WE WILL USE TO PAY FOR THE POSITIONS THAT YOU WILL SEE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
STILL, WE HAVE NO PROJECTED REVENUE FROM SHARKS YET WE THINK WE WILL GET SOMETHING EVENTUALLY, BUT WE ARE NOT PROJECTING THAT RIGHT NOW.
OUR FEDERAL REVENUE IS THE $450,000, AND OUR TEACHER RETIREMENT ON BEHALF IS $28,157.
SO $486,268 IS PROJECTED REVENUE FOR 2026-2027, SUPERINTENDENTS PROPOSED.
BUT ON THE EXPENSE SIDE, WE'RE PROJECTING THE TOTAL SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR THE...
25-26 SCHOOL YEAR TO BE $399,502.
WE'RE ADDING THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT.
AS YOU CAN SEE, THAT $13,713,000 MATCHES THE NUMBER THAT WAS ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE FOR THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT FOR REVENUE.
WE'RE ADDING AN ADDITIONAL $36,004 BENEFITS FOR THE INCREASE FROM THE $12,962,000 TO $13,713,000 THAT WE HAVE TO COVER THAT THE STATE DID NOT COVER.
LATER ON THE COMPENSATION, YOU WILL SEE AN OPTION FOR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS.
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FOR THE COST ADJUSTMENTS.THESE ARE DUE TO STUDENT ENROLLMENT SHIFTS, ABOUT $3,652,000 PLUS SOME CENTRAL OFFICE POSITIONS THAT YOU WILL SEE LATER.
WE INCLUDED A LAPSE SALARY PROJECTION.
DOLLARS THAT WE PROJECT DUE TO EITHER VACANCIES OR DELAYED IN HIRING PRACTICES THAT WE WILL INSTITUTE THIS YEAR THAT WE WILL MAKE UP MAKE UP ABOUT 2.3 MILLION DOLLARS OF SALARY SAVINGS.
NEW POSITIONS TRANSPORTATION AS YOU'LL SEE LATER WHERE WE ELIMINATED THE GOLD STAR CONTRACT SO WE HAD TO ADD BUS DRIVERS AND SOME TECHNICIANS TO BRING THAT WHOLE PROCESS BACK IN-HOUSE.
THE VIRTUAL ACADEMY WE HAD TO STAFF UP THE VIRTUAL ACADEMY.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE WILL HAVE A HIGH SCHOOL VIRTUAL ACADEMY STARTING NEXT YEAR AT A COST OF $797,000.
IT'S PROJECTED TO HAVE 300 STUDENTS.
WE NEED 150 STUDENTS TO BREAK EVEN.
THE PRE-K CLASSROOM ADDITION, THE ONE THAT I TALKED TO YOU ABOUT ON THE ADDITIONAL REVENUE, AS YOU CAN SEE, ADDS THE NINE TEACHERS AND NINE ED ASSISTANTS FOR THE NINE CLASSROOMS. AND THE BREAKDOWN FOR THE SPARE ADDITION.
IT'S A MINUS THREE TEACHERS, ONE BEHAVIORAL TECH, ONE BEHAVIOR SPECIALIST, A PHYSICAL THERAPIST, AND 15 ED ASSISTANTS TO MAKE THE $458,000, WHICH ALSO MATCHES THE REVENUE THAT WAS ON THE PREVIOUS PAGE.
WE'RE ADDING BACK A CUSTODIAL ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR $93,000 DUE TO SOME NEEDS OVER THERE IN THAT DEPARTMENT THAT WE FEEL THAT WE NEED TO PUT BACK THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR THAT WE CUT THIS YEAR.
WE WILL RECEIVE ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR CTE.
BUT ALONG WITH THE ADDITIONAL MONEY, THERE'S A REQUIRED SPEND.
AND SO PART OF THE REQUIRED SPEND WOULD BE IN SALARIES OF ABOUT $975,000.
THE TEACHER RETENTION ON BEHALF IS THE SAME NUMBER THAT'S IN REVENUE, THE $28,157.
AND SO OUR TOTAL SALARY AND BENEFITS IS $440,010.
MR. COVINGTON, CAN I JUST INTERJECT REAL QUICK? YES.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT ELEMENTARY ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, THAT SHOULD BE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS, CORRECT? YES, PRINCIPALS.
ON THE ALLOCATION SIDE, THE CAMPUS LIBRARY IS FLAT 5292.
DEPARTMENT IS 45.5, WHICH CARRIES OVER FROM PREVIOUS YEARS.
WE HAVE MADE REDUCTIONS OF $5,045,000 IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS.
I WILL SHOW THAT TO YOU IN A LATER SLIDE.
AND THE REST OF THE NUMBERS STAY THE SAME.
SO OUR TOTAL ALLOCATION EXPENDITURES ARE $45,967,000 ADDED TO OUR SALARIES AND BENEFITS.
TOTAL EXPENSES 485 977 AND I DO WANT TO POINT OUT AT THAT TIME WE WERE NOT IN RECAPTURE SO IN TOTAL TOTAL REVENUES 486 268 TOTAL EXPENSES 485 977 WHICH WAS SHOW A SURPLUS OF 291 GOING INTO THE 20 26 2027 BUDGET YEAR LET'S FINISH THIS.
THESE ARE THE REDUCTIONS THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER.
THE TOTAL SALARY AND BENEFITS REDUCTION OF THE $3,652,000 IS BREAKING OUT AS YOU CAN SEE.
WE HAD ENROLLMENT SHIELDS, WHICH ARE POSITIONS THAT ARE ALLOCATED BASED ON ENROLLMENT.
WE HAD SAVINGS OF $2.2 MILLION THERE.
WE HAD SOME REDUCTIONS IN TEACHING AND LEARNING OF ABOUT $1 MILLION.
THEN YOU SEE THE INDIVIDUAL POSITIONS THAT WE ALSO ELIMINATED, WHICH GETS TO THE $3,652,000.
THE MAJOR REDUCTIONS OUT OF THOSE ALLOTMENTS WAS THE REDUCTION IN RISK MANAGEMENT SERVICES, REDUCED BOARD SERVICES, WHICH WAS OUR LEGAL CONTRACTS, REDUCED MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS SYSTEM.
THESE ARE TECHNOLOGY SAVINGS THAT WE HAD FOR SOME SOFTWARE PACKAGES, AND THE $2.3 MILLION IS A GOLD STAR REDUCTION IN TRANSPORTATION.
AND THEN WE SAVED ABOUT $1.4 MILLION WITH A 10% ACROSS THE BOARD REDUCTION IN ALL OUR DEPARTMENTS.
WHICH BROUGHT US UP TO 05,045,000 REDUCTIONS IN ALLOCATIONS FOR TOTAL REDUCTIONS FROM THE 25-26 BUDGET OF 08,697,000.
ADDITIONS TO THE BUDGET, AS YOU CAN SEE, THE TOTAL IS 563,000.
THE MAIN THREE WERE WE HAD TO ADD 100,000 FOR APPRAISAL DISTRICT FEES, WHICH WE RECEIVED AN INVOICE FROM OUR APPRAISAL DISTRICT THAT THESE FEES ARE GOING UP.
ELECTION FEES, AS THIS IS PROJECTION FOR THE ELECTIONS FOR THIS YEAR IN NOVEMBER, OUR COST SHOULD BE $115,000 INCREASE.
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WATER QUALITY POND MAINTENANCE.WE NEED TO ADD $100,000 TO KEEP THOSE OUT OF KEEPING THEM IN REGULATORY FASHION.
OUR WASTE MANAGEMENT CONTRACT, AS YOU ALL KNOW, IS WE HAVE TWO CONTRACTS, BUT THE ONE WITH REPUBLIC IS GOING UP BY $50,000.
ATHLETIC OFFICIALS AND SYRIANS.
SECURITY CONTRACTS ARE INCREASING BY $30,000 AND $50,000 RESPECTIVELY.
WE'RE ADDING AN HR MODULE SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR $40,000.
GRADUATION COSTS ARE GOING UP.
WE HAVE TO ADD $24,250 FOR THAT.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE ARE CONVERTING TO A ONE-BAD SYSTEM FOR ATTENDANCE, BUS RIDERSHIP, AND FOOD SERVICES.
$29,000 FOR SUPPLIES FOR THOSE BADGES.
WE HAVE A SMALL INCREASE IN OUR VISITING INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS PROGRAM OF $9,000 AND A SMALL COST FOR OUR LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE OF 15683, WHICH BRINGS US TO THE TOTAL OF $563,333.
MADAM PRESIDENT, FOR YOUR GUIDANCE, I WILL TAKE QUESTIONS ON THAT PIECE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT'S BUDGET FIRST.
THEN WE CAN GO INTO EITHER THE INS SIDE.
CAN WE GO AHEAD AND GO THROUGH THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN AND THEN ASK QUESTIONS AFTER YOU GO THROUGH THAT? ON THE RIGHT HAND COLUMN, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE IN THE BIG BLOCK IT SAYS 26-27 PROPOSED BUDGET.
THIS IS WHAT THE BUDGET WOULD LOOK LIKE IF THE BOARD APPROVES A FIVE CENT VADER, FIVE PENNY VADER, AND THEN IT GOES TO THE VOTER AND IT GETS PASSED.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S VERY FEW CHANGES TO ANY OF THE NUMBERS, EXCEPT I WILL HIGHLIGHT THOSE FOR YOU.
OVER THERE ON THE THIRD ROW, YOU SEE $26,787,000.
THAT IS THE TOTAL TAX COLLECTION THAT WE WOULD GET FOR THE FIVE COPPER PENNIES.
THE FIVE COPPER PENNIES ARE SUBJECT TO RECAPTURE, SO WE WOULD GET ABOUT 52% IN IT, AND THE STATE GETS ABOUT 48%.
BUT I DO WANT TO REMIND THE BOARD THAT EVEN THOUGH THE COPPER PENNIES WOULD BE FIVE, THERE IS A DECREASE IN OUR MCI OF ABOUT A HALF A PENNY.
SO THE TOTAL INCREASE ON THE TAXPAYERS WOULD BE ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF CENTS IN TOTAL.
AND SO THE ONLY OTHER CHANGE YOU'LL SEE IS DOWN IN, OKAY, THE PAY INCREASE.
IS IT HERE? THE PAY INCREASE OF THESE WILL BE WHAT MR. KERN WILL COVER DURING THE COMPENSATION.
THERE WILL BE A COST FOR THE 2% IN MARKET ADJUSTMENT.
IT'S $9,815,000 IN THE HEALTH SERVICES FUND CONTRIBUTION.
IT'S $3,847,000 THAT WE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO OUR HEALTH SERVICE FUND.
AS YOU ALL KNOW, THAT FUND IS RUNNING A DEFICIT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEARS.
AND SO IF WE ADD DOLLARS TO THAT, THAT WILL HELP US WHEN WE GO TO REDO THE PLANS FOR OUR HEALTH SERVICES.
AND AGAIN, THAT WILL BE COVERED A LITTLE LATER.
IN JANUARY WHEN WE START LOOKING AT ALL THE NEW PLANS AND THEN AS YOU TAKE THAT NUMBER AND GO ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM YOU'LL SEE THE 13 MILLION 265 THAT IS THE AMOUNT THAT WILL GO BACK TO THE STATE FOR THOSE COPPER PENNIES AND AS YOU CAN SEE WHEN YOU GET OVER TO THE FINAL BOTTOM WE ARE STILL AT THE 291 SO THE TOTAL VADER WILL GO FOR THE TWO PERCENT SALARY INCREASE AND THE UH TRANSFER OVER TO OUR HEALTH SERVICES FUND.
IT WOULD NOT BE USED TO COVER ANY OTHER OPERATIONAL EXPENSES.
OKAY, TRUSTEES, WE'LL STOP HERE.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? TRUSTEE LANDRUM.
SO THANK YOU FOR GETTING THAT COLUMN TO GREEN.
ABOUT HOW MUCH DOES EACH COPPER PENNY BRING IN? I THINK IT'S ABOUT SIX MILLION, RIGHT? WELL, IF I JUST TAKE THAT 26 MILLION THAT'S UP 26,787, IT'S 05,357.
BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF EACH PENNY WAS EXACTLY THE SAME YIELD.
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YES.IS THERE ANY VALUE FOR GOING FOR SIX PENNIES? EVERY YEAR WE SEEM TO, LIKE THIS IS...
RAZOR THIN RIGHT NOW AND WE TEND TO HAVE ADDITIONAL EXPENSES IF OUR ENROLLMENT INCREASES WE NEED TO HIRE ADDITIONAL STAFF IS THERE ANY VALUE IN GOING FOR FIVE PENNIES AS OPPOSED TO SIX IF YOU INCREASE BY ANOTHER PENNY BASED ON THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE PUT FORWARD IT WILL COVER OTHER EXPENDITURES OTHER THAN SALARIES AND BENEFITS TO EMPLOYEES IT WILL GO TOWARDS ANY OF THOSE OTHER EXPENSES THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED TYPICALLY, ALL OF OUR VADERS THAT WE'VE DONE BEFORE WAS FOR SALARIES AND BENEFITS.
AND I'M NOT LOOKING TO GO FOR A COPPER PENNY JUST TO PUT MONEY IN OUR FUND BALANCE, BUT IT LOOKS LIKE OUR ENROLLMENT IS PROJECTED TO INCREASE, AND WITH THE VIRTUAL SCHOOL, ANOTHER INCREASE.
I MEAN, I'M HOPING THAT WE KEEP GETTING MORE STUDENTS, WHICH MEANS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE EMPLOYEES, WHICH MEANS WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE EXPENSES.
I'D HATE TO BE AT A RAZOR THIN WHERE WE END UP BEING IN A DEFICIT BECAUSE OF A ENROLLMENT INCREASE.
WELL, THE SIX PENNIES WOULD DEFINITELY HELP THAT.
CAN I ASK A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION ON THAT, MADAM PRESIDENT? I KNOW I PUSHED MY BUTTON, BUT I ACTUALLY WAS CURIOUS.
I WAS TRYING TO GET BACK INTO LAST WEEK'S PRESENTATION BECAUSE IF, I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT OUR SUPPORT STAFF.
IF WE WENT FOR AN EXTRA PENNY, YOU SAID IT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY BE.
FOR RAISES BUT IF WE UPPED OUR MINIMUM AND I I'M TRYING TO GET BACK INTO THAT OLD BUT AND HERE COMES EDDIE YEAH OUR NEW SYSTEM IS KIND OF HARD FOR ME TO NAVIGATE BUT UM WHAT WAS IT TO BRING OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES EIGHT MILLION OH IT WAS YEAH IT WAS EIGHT MILLION PLUS YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE EVEN MORE UM UNINTENDED COST WHEN YOU HAD TO RIGHT SIZE WITH COMPRESSION SO SO THE THE LATEST VERSION THAT WE HEARD TONIGHT WAS A $2 AN HOUR RAISE FOR EVERY HOURLY EMPLOYEE IN THE DISTRICT.
AND TO TRUSTEE LANDRUM'S POINT, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE A LOT OF ADDITIONAL COMPRESSION ISSUES WHERE YOU THINK ABOUT ALL THOSE EMPLOYEES MOVING UP IN THE PAY STRUCTURE AND THEIR SUPERVISORS ARE THEN BEING COMPRESSED.
SO ANYBODY WHO'S MAKING A LITTLE ABOVE THE $20 PER HOUR OR WHATEVER THAT $2 THRESHOLD IS WOULD THEN HAVE TO BE ADJUSTED IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WORK, RIGHT? SO.
THAT $7 MILLION COULD QUICKLY BECOME $10 MILLION JUST FOR THAT GROUP ALONE.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT GOING TO $20, BUT IF WE DID, SAY, $2 AN HOUR, THAT WAS SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED.
I MEAN, I GUESS I JUST FEEL LIKE TO SAY IT WON'T ALL GO TO SALARIES IF WE WENT FOR SIX.
IT WON'T GO TOWARDS SALARIES WITH THE CURRENT SUPERINTENDENT PROPOSED.
BUT THAT'S WHERE I WAS HEADING.
IF WE GOT THAT EXTRA PENNY, COULD WE ADDRESS OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES? THE YIELD ON THE EXTRA PENNY WOULD BE ABOUT $2.8 MILLION FOR THE DISTRICT.
WHICH WOULDN'T GET US ALL THE WAY TO A $2 AN HOUR OR A $20 MINIMUM BONUS, BUT IT IS NOT A LIVABLE WAGE AT $15 OR $16 AN HOUR.
AND SO IF WE TOOK ONE MORE PENNY AND IF THE I MEAN, THIS IS NOT THE BOARD DECIDING THIS.
IT WOULD BE OUR COMMUNITY SAYING, YES, WE SUPPORT THIS OR WE DON'T.
AND IF OUR COMMUNITY SUPPORTED THAT, I JUST THINK THAT THAT WOULD GO A LONG WAY TO HELPING THAT SIX PENNY BE DEDICATED TO OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
SO THE SIX PENNIES WILL PROVIDE $2.8 MILLION, AND I DON'T HAVE A CALCULATOR IN FRONT OF ME, BUT IT'S ONLY GOING TO PROBABLY THE CLOSEST WILL BE TO $1 MAYBE.
IF YOU WANT TO DO $2, IT'S GOING TO BE AT LEAST $7 PLUS MILLION, SO WE NEED TO GO FOR MORE THAN SIX PENNIES.
THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY.
WE WILL HAVE TO GO FOR MORE THAN SIX.
NO, AND I UNDERSTAND IT WOULDN'T GET IT ALL THE WAY TO A $2-HOUR MINIMUM, BUT WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO ALL OF IT AT ONE TIME.
I MEAN, I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK OUTSIDE OF THE BOX, BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GETTING MORE MONEY IS EITHER A, LET PEOPLE GO, OR B, ASK THE COMMUNITY IF THEY WANT TO PAY MORE IN THEIR TAXES.
ABSOLUTELY, BECAUSE THE STATE IS NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING, AT LEAST NOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, UNLESS WE HAVE SOMETHING MAGICAL HAPPEN NEXT YEAR.
THAT WOULD BE FOR NEXT, NOT THIS COMING YEAR, BUT THE FOLLOWING ONE, I GUESS.
SO, I MEAN, WE'RE KIND OF ON NUMBERS, BUT I THINK, EDDIE, I DON'T KNOW, $2 IS ABOUT $7 TO $8 MILLION.
SO I'M ASSUMING $1 WOULD BE HALF OF THAT.
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YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT QUITE AS LINEAR AS THAT, BUT WE COULD CERTAINLY RUN A COUPLE OF SCENARIOS TO SEE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE COST-WISE.AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THE BOARD HAS INTEREST AND APPETITE FOR ADDING A SIXTH PENNY.
I MEAN, WE'VE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT FIVE PENNIES ALL ALONG, BUT ONE ADDITIONAL PENNY.
COULD DO A LOT FOR A GROUP OF OUR EMPLOYEES THAT ARE STRUGGLING.
AND I'VE GOT TWO OTHER TRUSTEES IN THE QUEUE, SO LET'S SEE WHERE THE CONVERSATION GOES.
SO I HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT GOING FOR COPPER PENNIES, MAINLY BECAUSE THE STATE HOARDS MONEY LIKE DRAGONS.
OH, BUT WE LIKE DRAGONS IN THIS DISTRICT.
THINGS THAT I WILL KEEP TO MYSELF, DRAGONS.
SO I'M CONCERNED, THOUGH, ABOUT US GOING FOR THE BARE MINIMUM.
I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE WE WENT THROUGH THIS THREE YEARS AGO, AND IT'S LIKE WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING.
AND SO IT MAKES ME NERVOUS THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH AN ELECTION, SPEND MONEY TO RUN AN ELECTION, AND THEN IN THEORY EVEN IN A LESS AMOUNT OF TIME.
AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT FOR US TO FOCUS ON A PERCENTAGE INCREASE DOES NOT AFFECT PEOPLE.
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS ROOM WHERE A PERCENTAGE INCREASE AFFECTS OUR MONTHLY RATE AMOUNT A LOT.
AND THAT IS BENEFICIAL AND HELPFUL.
AND IT HELPS, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR BILLS, BUT FOR SOMEBODY THAT'S MAKING $15 AN HOUR, A PERCENTAGE INCREASE IS NOTHING.
AND SO I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE MORE ON THAT IDEA.
I ALSO KIND OF GO BACK INTO IF IS THERE WAYS TO USE THIS MONEY NOT JUST FOR SALARY IF WE NEED TO GO MORE OR WE CHOOSE NOT TO DO 2% BUT WE CAN THEN LOOK AT WAYS THAT MAKES THE JOB EASIER.
YOU KNOW, WE'VE I'VE TALKED AT LENGTH WITH Y'ALL AT LEAST THAT PEOPLE IN EDUCATION THAT THIS IS.
YOU GUYS ARE LIKE THE FROG IN BOILING WATER.
IT IS SUCH A DIFFERENT PROFESSION THAN IT WAS 13 YEARS AGO, AND WHAT WE ASK OUT OF OUR TEACHER AND OUR ADMIN IS INSANE.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ANOTHER OPTION.
I ALSO HAVE SIGNIFICANT CONCERNS ABOUT THE IDEA THAT WE'RE DECREASING A SOCIAL WORKER.
WHEN HOW MANY DO WE HAVE DISTRICT-WIDE? TEN? SO I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY, BUT REMEMBER WE ALSO WITH THIS, FOR THE STAFF, RIGHT? FOR THE STAFF, WE ADDED, WITH THE NEW CLINIC, WE HAVE TWO SOCIAL WORKERS, TWO MENTAL HEALTH SPECIALISTS FOR STAFF, FOR ADULTS.
SO PREVIOUSLY WE HAD ONE, I THINK WE HAD 11 TOTAL FOR THE DISTRICT, WHERE WE HAD ONE FOR STAFF, THAT NOW YOU'RE SAYING IS THROUGH THE CLINIC, AND THEN...
WHAT'S YOUR POINT? I'D LIKE TO SUSPEND TIME LIMITS FOR THIS AGENDA ITEM BECAUSE I THINK THAT THIS IS A REALLY VITAL, IMPORTANT DISCUSSION FOR OUR TOPIC.
SO I MOVE THAT WE SUSPEND TIME LIMITS FOR THIS DISCUSSION ITEM ONLY.
ALL IN FAVOR? ALL OPPOSED? ALL ABSTAINING? MOTION PASSES.
OKAY, SO TRESSIE ROSS, YOU CAN CONTINUE.
I THINK EDDIE WAS GOING TO ANSWER HOW MANY SOCIAL WORKERS WE HAVE.
SO CURRENTLY, I THINK WE HAVE 10.
WE HAVE ONE VACANCY THAT WE'RE TRYING TO HIRE FOR, AND THEN WE DID HAVE A STAFF SOCIAL WORKER.
AZIZ WAS MENTIONING WE'VE ROLLED THOSE SERVICES FROM THE STAFF SOCIAL WORKER.
WE STILL HAVE A DIRECTOR OF BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES WHO'S HELPING SUPPORT THOSE NEEDS, BUT REALLY WE'RE TRYING TO USE THE BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SUPPORT WE HAVE AT THE CLINIC TO HELP SUPPORT STAFF.
WHICH I THINK THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, RIGHT? I'VE JUST IF WE ONLY, I MEAN, WE HAVE, WE'RE ESTIMATING, YOU KNOW, OVER 45,000 STUDENTS AND WE HAVE 10 SOCIAL WORKERS.
AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DROPPING THAT DOWN TO NINE? OR ARE YOU SAYING THE ONE THAT WE'RE GETTING RID OF IS THE ONE THAT WE'RE MOVING ON? NO, MA'AM, THAT WAS ALREADY ELIMINATED THROUGH A PREVIOUS CYCLE.
SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE 10 FTES PLUS THE DIRECTOR AND THEN THE HEALTH CLINIC IS SEPARATE FROM THAT.
SO THEN IN THE BUDGET, IT SAYS THAT...
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING IS REMOVING A SOCIAL WORKER.
SO I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT, I DON'T KNOW IF SOMEBODY CAN ANSWER THE QUESTION
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FROM THE TEAM, BUT I CAN TELL YOU WE HAVE TWO SOCIAL WORKER PER VERTICAL LEARNING COMMUNITY, AND THAT NUMBER HAS NOT CHANGED.THE ONLY THING THAT WE CHANGED IS WE USED TO HAVE, TO YOUR POINT, ONE SOCIAL WORKER FOR OUR STAFF, AND NOW WE ROLL THAT INTO THE CLINIC.
AS I SAID, ACTUALLY WE HAVE TWO, NOT ONE.
AND SO WE HAVE THOSE SERVICES AVAILABLE AS PART OF THE CLINIC.
SO THE STAFF CAN JUST GO AND TALK TO ONE OF THESE FOLKS ANYTIME THEY WANT.
SO I GUESS I'M TALKING ABOUT SLIDE 11, AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE DISCUSSING IS ELIMINATING A SOCIAL WORKER.
SO I'M TRYING TO FIND CLARIFICATION.
FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, MA'AM, THAT WAS SO WE ACCOUNT FOR THAT.
AS A NEXT YEAR SAVINGS BECAUSE THE POSITION BECAME VACANT EARLIER ON THIS YEAR.
SO WE ACTUALLY HAD TO ACCOUNT FOR IT IN THE 20 YEARS, 25, 26 BUDGET BECAUSE IT WAS A SALARY THIS YEAR, BUT WE DECIDED NOT TO FILL THAT BECAUSE THE CLINIC WAS COMING ONLINE.
SO WE CAN REALIZE THAT AS A BUDGET SAVINGS FOR 26, 27, BECAUSE WE HAD THE SALARY INCURRED FOR 25.
THIS YEAR, AT THE START OF THE YEAR, WE HAD 11 TOTAL AND NOW WE HAVE 10.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD HAVE FOR NEXT YEAR.
THAT'S EXACTLY, WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING AS THE STAFF SOCIAL WORKER THAT WE'RE ROLLING INTO THE...
I'D LIKE TO GO BACK TO TRUSTEE LANDRUM'S POINT BECAUSE I HAD THAT SAME THOUGHT.
AND I WAS JUST SORT OF LOOKING AT THE COMPENSATION PLAN AND OUR LOWEST PAID, OUR 101, GRADE 101 IS...
MINIMUM IS $15.50 FOR OUR ED ASSISTANT ONES.
AND OUR LOWEST PAID STAFF MEMBERS, AS YOU GO DOWN THIS LIST, ALL DEAL WITH STUDENTS.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'VE HEARD NUMEROUS TIMES, IF YOU ARE WORKING TWO OR THREE JOBS, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE AT YOUR BEST WHEN YOU COME IN AND WORK WITH OUR STUDENTS.
SO, I MEAN, TO ME, TO GO FOR AN EXTRA PENNY OR TWO TO TRY TO BRING THOSE STAFF.
POSITIONS UP, IF WE'RE ASKING OUR COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT OUR TEACHERS, TO ASK THEM TO SUPPORT OUR EDUCATIONAL ASSISTANTS AND OUR CHILD CARE ASSISTANTS AND OUR LIBRARY ASSISTANTS, SOME OF THESE INDIVIDUALS, I MEAN, I WOULD AGREE.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE CONSENSUS, AND THE MOTION RIGHT NOW SAYS FIVE PENNIES, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION BEFORE WE MAKE THAT MOTION.
BUT I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
BUT ASK THAT IT BE SOMEHOW FAIRLY PUT INTO THOSE POSITIONS.
OKAY, I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M LEAVING IT.
YEAH, I THINK I AGREE WITH YOU GUYS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S TIME TO BRING UP.
FORWARD SOME OF THOSE JOBS THAT THEY NEED, THAT INCREASE, RIGHT? SO I'M ON BOARD WITH THE BOARD MOVING FORWARD WITH ANOTHER PENNY OR SO.
MY QUESTION, IF WE GO FOR VADER, DOES THE INCREASE FOR THOSE ELECTION FEES GO UP AS WELL? NO.
DO YOU HAVE A FOLLOW-UP? WAIT, DO YOU HAVE A FOLLOW-UP? YEAH, SHE HAS A FOLLOW-UP.
DO YOU HAVE A FOLLOW-UP? YEAH, IT WAS A FOLLOW-UP TO THAT, BUT I PUSHED MY BUTTON.
SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE RUN AN ELECTION, WE HAVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF FEES, HOWEVER MANY THINGS WE HAVE ON THE BALLOT.
AND WE HAVE TO RUN AN ELECTION BECAUSE WE HAVE BOARD SEATS THAT ARE UP.
SO WHETHER WE RUN FOR A VADER OR NOT, IT'S THE SAME AMOUNT TO RUN THE ELECTION FOR OUR DISTRICT.
IS THAT CORRECT? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
OKAY, I HAVE SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE IN THE QUEUE.
I JUST WANT TO ASK A COUPLE OF CLARIFYING QUESTIONS.
ONE ON TRUSTEE LANDRUM'S PROPOSAL TO GO FOR ANOTHER PENNY AND POTENTIALLY USE THAT MONEY TO HELP OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES.
SO WE KNOW IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO GET US TO THE, WHAT IS IT, THE $8 MILLION THAT WE NEED TO DO THAT FOR ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES AND ADJUST FOR THE COMPRESSION ISSUES THAT WE MAY FACE.
SO I'M JUST CLARIFYING YOU'RE ASKING TO GO AHEAD AND DO THAT NOT NECESSARILY TO GIVE IT FOR NEXT YEAR OR TO RUN A SCENARIO OF WHAT THAT COULD HELP FOR NEXT YEAR BUT ALSO MAYBE TO CONTINUE TO BUILD UP OUR BUDGET SO THAT THE NEXT BUDGET
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CYCLE WE POTENTIALLY COULD GIVE THAT RAISE AND I'M JUST CLARIFYING I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE WHATEVER WE IF IT PASSES WE SHOULD GET WHATEVER WE CAN GIVE THIS YEAR YOU'RE PROPOSING WHATEVER YOU'RE PROPOSING RUNNING A MODEL FOR WHATEVER WE CAN GIVE THIS YEAR AND I I DON'T THINK UNLESS...UNLESS MR. KERN IS LIKE GONNA RUN BACK AND RUN HIS SCENARIOS FOR US I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA GET TO THAT BEFORE WE MAKE IT DOWN OUR...
SO I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
MY OTHER QUESTION IS COULD THAT INCLUDE AND I KNOW A STIPEND IS NOT THE SAME THING AS GIVING AN INCREASE BUT WHEN I'M THINKING ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO NEXT YEAR IS THE STIPEND SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD WANT TO CONSIDER AND THROW OUT THERE AS AN IDEA IN THE HOPES THAT THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION WE ARE GETTING MORE FUNDING SO THAT WE CAN GIVE THAT FULL INCREASE.
SO A COUPLE OF THOUGHTS ON THAT.
06,400 EMPLOYEES, IF WE DID A $500 STIPEND, THAT'S $3.2 MILLION, RIGHT? SO THAT $2.8 MILLION IS WHAT A COPPER PENNY GENERATES, ESSENTIALLY.
SO WE'D BE A LITTLE SHORT TO DO THAT.
THAT'S THE RANGE, RIGHT? AND THE OTHER THING WITH THE STIPEND IS IT'S A ONE-TIME.
BUT AS WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, WE DID THAT.
WE'VE DONE THAT A FEW TIMES WITH LONGEVITY INCENTIVES, AND WE'VE DONE A COUPLE OF OUR COVID STIPENDS BACK WHEN WE DID COVID STIPENDS ALL THOSE YEARS AGO, AND THEN MORE RECENTLY WITH OUR ENROLLMENT STIPEND, THOSE HAVE FALLEN IN LINE WITH THAT MODEL.
BUT THAT WOULD BE THE COST, RIGHT? SO IT WOULD REQUIRE US TO FIND ADDITIONAL REVENUE TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THAT COPPER PENNY, ESSENTIALLY, THAT WE'D BE ADDING BACK IN.
AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY NOT IDEAL AND NOT NECESSARILY THE IDEA THAT WAS THROWN OUT AND I THINK WHAT ANY OF US WANT TO DO.
I'M JUST TRYING TO THROW OUT ALL OF THE OPTIONS AND THINK THROUGH ANYTHING THAT WE COULD POTENTIALLY DO FOR NEXT YEAR WITHIN THE FUNDING LIMITATIONS THAT WE DO HAVE.
SO I AM OPEN TO EXPLORING ANOTHER PENNY, BUT I GUESS MY OTHER QUESTION TOO IS IF WE ARE EXPLORING THAT COMPENSATION MODEL, THEN WE CANNOT APPROVE WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
WELL, WE HAVE TWO RECOMMENDATIONS AS PART OF THAT MODEL.
THE FIRST RECOMMENDATION IS IF NOTHING CHANGES, AND SO BASED ON CURRENT FUNDING, THAT HAS TO GET DONE, REALLY BECAUSE IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT, IT TAKES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF TIME, RIGHT? WE'VE GOT HR, PAYROLL, TECHNOLOGY.
ALL THE DIFFERENT TEAMS HAVE TO WORK TOGETHER TO IMPLEMENT THOSE.
A PAY INCREASE FOR OUR DISTRICT IS USUALLY A THREE-MONTH PROCESS, AND SO THIS IS WHY VADERS, WE LOVE THEM.
BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE HOUSE, RIGHT? BUT THAT BEING SAID, IF THERE WAS SOME REVISIONS, WE COULD APPROVE THE COMP PLAN TONIGHT AND POSSIBLY BRING FORWARD A REVISION OF THAT LATER ON TO EXPLORE, I GUESS, IF THE SUPERINTENDENT, IF I'M NOT GETTING OUT OF MY SKI, SIR.
WELL, AND ALSO, I GUESS THIS MAY BE A QUESTION FOR MICHELLE, TOO, BUT IF THERE IS CONSENSUS ON THE BOARD TONIGHT TO GO FOR THE SIX PENNIES, LIKE IF WE'RE, THE MOTION CALLS FOR EVADER, AND I KNOW THIS IS AN AGENDA ITEM LATER ON, BUT IT PERTAINS TO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
THE MOTION IS TO CALL FOR EVADER.
I DON'T KNOW THAT IT'S SPECIFIC IN THE MOTION OF HOW MANY PENNIES.
DOES IT SAY FIVE PENNIES? SO CAN WE JUST ADJUST THAT FOR TONIGHT IF WE HAVE CONSENSUS? I THINK WE CAN LOOK AT IT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT ITEM SO THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT THE MOTION.
RECOMMENDED MOTION IS THE RECOMMENDED.
YEAH, WE CAN WORK ON THE FIVE OR SIX PENNIES, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT I THINK FOR US IS THE COMPENSATION IS WHAT EDDIE WANTS US TO APPROVE TONIGHT.
AND SO WE MAY HAVE TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS HOW YOU WANT US TO USE THOSE SIX PENNIES OR SEVEN, WHATEVER NUMBER OF PENNIES.
WE KNOW IF WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH FIVE, WE ALREADY PROPOSED, WE HAVE A RECOMMENDATION FOR YOU, BUT IF THE BOARD FEELS LIKE WE NEED TO GO FOR SIX.
AND WE NEED TO KNOW, AND HE NEEDS TO KNOW, WHATEVER WE GENERATE, $1.8 MILLION IS GOING TO GO FOR THIS, AT LEAST SO WE CAN FINALIZE THE COMPENSATION.
DO YOU FOLLOW IT? YEAH, TO FOLLOW UP TO THIS IS, THIS IS REALLY UNTIL MONDAY OF NEXT WEEK, AND JUST CALL A QUICK MEETING THAT'S JUST THIS AGENDA ITEM AND HAVE TIME TO, OKAY.
I MEAN, WE'VE DONE MEETINGS ON SATURDAYS WHEN WE HAD TO REDO THE SUPERINTENDENT'S CONTRACT BACK IN 2021.
IF IT'S ONE ITEM AND WE HAVE TO COME BACK IN AND IT GIVES THE ADMINISTRATION SOME TIME TO FINALIZE, I THINK THIS IS A REALLY IMPORTANT DECISION.
AND I WOULDN'T MIND IF WE TABLE, I MEAN, DON'T HAVE A HEART ATTACK, MR. CURRAN, BUT IF WE NEEDED A COUPLE OF MORE DAYS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION.
I JUST THREW THIS IDEA OUT HERE BECAUSE I WAS SITTING HERE THINKING, HOW CAN WE GET MORE FUNDING? I AGREE WITH THIS.
BECAUSE I DO NOT WANT TO GIVE ANOTHER DIME TO THE STATE, BUT IT'S THE ONLY WAY WE'RE GOING TO GET MORE MONEY.
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SO IS WHAT TRUSTEE ANDREW, AND I'M SORRY, I KNOW I HAVE ALL OF YOU IN THE QUEUE.WHAT TRUSTEE LYNN IS PROPOSING OF CALLING A SPECIAL MEETING AND TABLING COMPENSATION TONIGHT, I WANT TO DEFER TO YOU, AND IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE HESITANT ABOUT THAT.
I THINK IDEALLY, AND I UNDERSTAND, I MEAN, CERTAINLY THERE'S TWO ADMINISTRATIVE RECOMMENDATIONS.
THE SECOND ONE IS THE ONE THAT NEEDS MORE THOUGHT.
THE FIRST ONE IS CURRENT STATUS QUO, RIGHT? WE HAVE TO DO THAT, AND WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD, AND MAYBE WE COULD APPROVE THAT.
AZIZ, AGAIN, STOP ME IF I'M SPEAKING OUT OF TURN HERE, BUT I THINK WE COULD MOVE FORWARD AND APPROVE THAT TONIGHT.
AND THEN BRING THE ADMINISTRATIVE RECOMMENDATION TO BACK AT A LATER DATE, WHICH WILL ALLOW US A LITTLE MORE TIME TO ENGAGE AND WORK UP SOME NUMBERS AND FIGURE OUT SOME SCENARIOS.
AND DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO YOU, MICHELLE, THAT WE COULD COME BACK LATER? YES.
BECAUSE, YEAH, THE OTHER SO YOU WOULD ADOPT THE COMPENSATION PLAN TODAY, AND THEN WE COULD COME BACK AND DO A RESOLUTION FOR IF A VADER IS CALLED AND IF IT IS PET.
YOU MEAN AN AMENDMENT OR RESOLUTION? WE COULD FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT, BUT I THINK THEY COULD PASS WHAT WE KNOW TONIGHT AND THEN STILL DO AN AMENDMENT.
I KNOW THAT ALL THIS HAS A SERIOUS IMPLICATION TO THE BUDGET BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE SOME DUE DATES ALSO AROUND THE BUDGET WHEN WE HAVE TO POST AND STUFF LIKE THAT TOO.
SO THEY HAVE TO GO HAND IN HAND.
AND THE AUDIT, THAT WAS MY OTHER QUESTION.
I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY OTHER THINGS THAT HAVE SO MANY IMPLICATIONS.
THE AUDIT WAS LIKE THE SECOND WEEK OF JUNE, I THOUGHT.
OKAY, SO THAT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU, RHONDA, AS FAR AS TIMELINE FOR THE BUDGET AND IF WE CALL A VADER IN DOING THE AUDIT.
WE'RE DISCUSSING WHAT WE BRING YOU TO ADOPT IN JUNE IS THE BUDGET AS WE KNOW IT.
AND WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE TAX RATE IS GOING TO BE SET AT.
WE CAN'T, WE, I DON'T BELIEVE WE INCLUDED THE VADR NUMBERS IN THE BUDGET WE ADOPTED IN JUNE THE LAST TIME WE DID THAT.
SO WE WOULD BRING YOU THE BUDGET WITH PERHAPS WHAT EDDIE'S SAYING OPTION ONE FOR YOU TO ADOPT.
WE WOULD STILL SHOW YOU WHAT THE NUMBERS WILL LOOK LIKE IF WE ADD THE VADR AND THEN YOU'LL ADOPT YOUR TAX RATE.
IF YOU WANT TO CALL FOR A VADER, THAT WOULD...
HAPPEN IN AUGUST AND THEN ONCE IT PASSES WE'LL AMEND THE BUDGET TO INCLUDE ALL OF THAT EXTRA REVENUE AND EXPENSE.
OKAY AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS WHETHER OR NOT WE NEED...
WHEN DO YOU HAVE TO HIRE THE AUDITOR THOUGH FOR THE VADR? SO THE EFFICIENCY AUDITOR HAS TO BE SELECTED BY JULY 3RD SO WE'LL BRING THAT RECOMMENDATION TO YOU IN AT THE JUNE MEETING.
OKAY, I'M GOING TO CONTINUE ON THE LIST, AND WE CAN ALSO TALK AND THINK ABOUT IF WE NEED TO ADD IN ANOTHER MEETING OR TAG ON TO AN EARLIER ONE IN JUNE TO DISCUSS THIS PROPOSAL FURTHER.
OKAY, I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO TRUSTEE ROSS.
HOW MANY STAFF MEMBERS GIVE US FOR LIKE PER PENNY? HOW MANY EXTRA STAFF MEMBERS COULD WE HIRE? PER PENNY THAT'S UH IT REALLY DEPENDS WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO HIRE SO WE WHAT WE DO IS WE YOU WE LOOK AT THE MIDPOINT RIGHT SO IF YOU HIRE A TEACHER NO YEAH SORRY SORRY IT'S IT'S 65 083 DOLLARS FOR A TEACHER UM I MEAN I CAN DO THE MATH REALLY QUICK IT'S ABOUT 30 YEARS I THINK 30 SOME THOUSAND FOR TEACHER EDUCATOR ASSISTANT THAT WOULD BE 2.8 MILLION DOLLARS IS 43 TEACHERS 43 AND THAT'S PAID AT THE MINIMUM OF THE PAY GRADE, RIGHT? OBVIOUSLY, IT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE HIGHER.
IT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE LESS THAN THAT.
BUT HOW DO YOU ALSO TALK ABOUT OTHER SUPPORT STAFF, RIGHT? OR ARE YOU JUST TALKING ABOUT TEACHERS? I MEAN, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE EASIER JUST TO FOCUS ON ONE RIGHT NOW FOR YOU GUYS.
YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF 40 TEACHERS HELPS SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING, YOU KNOW.
WITH PARENT CONCERNS AND EVERYTHING ELSE, NOT JUST FOR SALARIES, IF THERE WAS A WAY TO ALSO INCREASE STAFFING.
BUT, OF COURSE, YOU WOULD KNOW MORE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES ON THAT.
BUT I THINK THAT THIS KIND OF GOES WITH TRUSTEE LANDRUM'S IDEA OF THIS IS A MUCH BIGGER CONVERSATION.
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IN DOING LIKE A SURVEY OF OUR COMMUNITY.TO SEE IF THEY'RE EVEN OPEN TO IT.
IF THERE'S AN OPTION WHERE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN MAKE PRIORITIZE WHERE THAT MONEY WOULD GO.
IF THEY WOULD RATHER TO HAVE MORE TEACHERS, IF THEY WOULD RATHER HAVE STAFFING, WHATEVER THAT YOU GUYS FEEL IS.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHY WE WOULD NEED TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THE MEETING.
BUT I THINK GOING TO THE COMMUNITY AHEAD OF TIME TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY BUY-IN ON INCREASING THEIR TAXES WITH CURRENT STRESSES MIGHT BE WISE.
I THINK ALL MY QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED, MADAM PRESIDENT.
I HAD TRUSTEE LANDRUM IN THE QUEUE.
OH, I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS STILL IN THE QUEUE.
BUT I WILL SAY THAT WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS 16, SHE WAS MAKING $18.50 AN HOUR AS A LIFEGUARD AND AT A 16-YEAR-OLD. AND WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO WORK WITH OUR CHILDREN FOR $15.50.
TRUSTEE, YOU WERE IN THE QUEUE AS WELL.
I GUESS I DON'T WANT TO DRAW IT OUT ANY FARTHER THAN WE HAVE TO, SO I WOULDN'T NECESSARILY, I DON'T KNOW THAT I COULD GET ON BOARD WITH DOING A SURVEY OF OUR COMMUNITY TO DECIDE AT THIS POINT WHEN I FEEL LIKE OUR TURNAROUND IS GOING TO BE FAIRLY QUICK.
IF WE DO POSTPONE THIS, WE'RE ALREADY GOING TO BE ASKING STAFF TO DO A LOT IN A VERY BUSY WEEK.
AND, BUT I DO FEEL LIKE IT'S INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO ADDRESS OUR HOURLY EMPLOYEES, THESE 100 THROUGH, YOU KNOW, 110 GROUP ON THIS FIRST PAGE OF THE COMPENSATION PACKAGE, BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER PAID THAN OTHERS.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THOSE AT THE VERY BOTTOM REALLY.
AND I FEEL LIKE THAT, AND WHILE TRUSTEE ROSS, I APPRECIATE WANTING TO GO AND ASK OUR COMMUNITY, BUT THAT IS WHAT WE'RE FOR, RIGHT? OUR COMMUNITY HAS ELECTED US TO MAKE THAT DECISION, AND WE'RE GOING TO TURN IT BACK OVER TO THEM IF WE GO FOR A VADER.
BUT I THINK THAT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE THAT DECISION NOW, AND HOPEFULLY IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO.
OKAY, I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE, SO I THINK WE CAN CONTINUE.
OKAY, THE NEXT BUDGET WE HAVE TO BRING FORWARD IS THE INTEREST AND SINKING FUND BUDGET, AND THIS IS WHERE WE HAD TO MAKE AN ADJUSTMENT.
SO THE ONE THAT'S IN YOUR PACKET IS INCORRECT.
IT WAS LAST YEAR, SO I MADE A CHANGE TO IT.
BUT THESE ARE OUR ASSUMPTIONS IN THIS BUDGET FOR INS.
THE ESTIMATED PROPERTY VALUE INCREASED BY 1.5%.
OUR TAX RATE IS FLAT BECAUSE IT COVERS JUST THE DEBT PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST.
AND WE HAVE A CURRENT FUND BALANCE OF $86 MILLION, BUT WE HAVE A $76 MILLION PAYMENT DUE THE 1ST OF AUGUST.
SO THIS LOOKS A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S ON YOUR SHEET.
IF YOU LOOK ON THE FAR RIGHT, IT'S A 26-27 BUDGET OF OUR REVENUES AT $98,022, WITH $3 MILLION COMING FROM OTHER LOCAL REVENUE, AND THE $4,700 FROM OUR STATE GETS TO THE $105,000, AND THEN WE HAVE OUR PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST PAYMENTS, AS YOU SEE, AS THE $52,000, $1,000, AND THE $52,894.
NO DEFEASANCE PAYMENT AND A BOND FEE OF ABOUT $10,000.
SO IT CAME TO THE $105,004 WITH A $758,000 SURPLUS BUDGET FOR THE INS FUND.
AS WE LOOK AT THE INS AND WHAT WE HAD PROPOSED PRIOR TO THE VADER CONVERSATION, THIS IS OUR TAX COMPARISON FOR THE 25 AND 26 SCHOOL YEAR.
AS YOU CAN SEE, WE LOOKED AT AUSTIN, GEORGETOWN, HUTTO, LEANDER, LIBERTY HILL, PFLUGERVILLE, AND ROUND ROCK.
IF YOU LOOK AT THE COLORS, THE LOWEST IS IN BLUE, WHICH AT THE TOP IS YOUR M&O, FOLLOWED BY YOUR INS, AND THEN THE TOTAL.
SO FOR THE 25-YEAR, OUR LOWEST M&O WAS LIBERTY HILL, FOLLOWED BY GEORGETOWN, AND THEN US.
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AUSTIN.AND THEN US AND THEN PFLUGERVILLE BUT THE TOTAL TAX LEVY THE LOWEST IS ROUND ROCK FOLLOWED BY AUSTIN AND THEN THE THIRD LOWEST WAS GEORGETOWN IN 25.
NOW THE CURRENT 26 AS YOU CAN SEE GEORGETOWN IS NOW THE LOWEST AND WE ARE SECOND AND THEN LIBERTY HILL FOR YOUR M&O AND THEN THE INS AUSTIN IS STILL THE LOWEST.
FOLLOWED BY US AND THEN PFLUGERVILLE.
BUT TOTAL TAXES, AGAIN, WE ARE THE LOWEST AT .8931, FOLLOWED BY AUSTIN AT .952, AND THEN GEORGETOWN.
AND IF WE DO ADD EITHER FIVE OR SIX PENNIES, WE WOULD MOVE FROM THE LOWEST TO THE SECOND LOWEST, FOLLOWED BY AUSTIN.
AUSTIN WOULD BE THE LOWEST AND WE WOULD BE THE SECOND LOWEST, EVEN WITH THE ADDING OF THE FIVE OR SIX PENNIES.
ANOTHER REQUIREMENT THAT WE HAVE TO INCLUDE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHAT OUR HOMESTEAD MEDIAN VALUES ARE FOR 25 AND 26.
IF WE DO NOT IMPOSE A VATER, THE MEDIAN HOME IN MAY OF 25 WAS $415,000, AND MAY OF 26 IS $408,000.
PRICES AND THE TAX RATE THAT WE HAVE PROPOSED THE TAX LEVY WOULD GO DOWN BY 62.37 I INCLUDED THE VADER TAX RATE UM IN THAT BOTTOM PROJECTION AND IT WOULD GO UP TO THE LEVY ABOUT 141.64 FOR THE YEAR THAT WAS JUST JUST ADDING THE FIVE PENNIES BUT NOT TAKING INTO CONSIDERATION THAT WE'RE GONNA LOSE FOUR OF A PENNY WITH THE LAW DROP IN THE MCR BUT THIS IS JUST FOR A TAX COMPARISON THAT'S REQUIRED BY THAT EIGHT HOUSE BILL 1522 AND MADAM CHAIR THAT IS THE INS PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 25 26 27.
I THINK WE CAN CONTINUE AND DO QUESTIONS AT THE VERY FOOD SERVICE BUDGET OUR CONTRACT HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AGRICULTURE I'M SORRY THERE IS A PRICE INCREASE OF 20 CENT FOR PAID BREAKFAST AND LUNCH MEALS AND OUR FUND BALANCE IS 4.8 MILLION DOLLARS.
SO OUR REVENUE PROJECTED IS A 9841 FOR UH FOOD SALES AND STATE REVENUE OF 77.
OUR FEDERAL ALLOCATIONS FOR THE USDA IS 9767 SO OUR TOTAL REVENUE WAS $19,685.
OUR FULL SERVICE EXPENDITURES MEANING FOOD SALARIES AND ALL OF THAT IS $16,677.
MAINTENANCE SERVICES IS $1.375 AND SECURITY MONITORING OF $725,000.
IT COMES TO $18,777 WHICH WE HAVE A SURPLUS OF $908,000.
OUR MEAL COMPARISONS, WE PROVIDED THIS TO YOU IN AN UPDATE EARLIER.
AS YOU CAN SEE OUR CURRENT MEAL PRICING IS AT THE TOP.
THE PROPOSED MEAL PRICING IS AT THE BOTTOM.
AND YOU SEE THE ONLY CHANGES ARE IN THE PAID BREAKFASTS FOR LUNCH AND AT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY LEVELS OF THE 20 CENT AND THIS IS JUST A COMPARISON OF OUR SURROUNDING DISTRICTS AND AND WHEN THEY TOOK PRICES UP AS YOU CAN SEE WE HAVEN'T HAD A PRICE INCREASE SINCE 23 24 AND SO THESE ARE THE PROPOSED PRICE INCREASES THAT YOU SEE IN THE YELLOW GOING FOR IT FOR THE 26 27 SCHOOL YEAR AND THAT CONCLUDES THE THREE BUDGETS FOR FY26-27 FOR THE SUPERINTENDENT'S PROPOSED BUDGET.
I JUST HAVE TWO QUICK QUESTIONS.
WHY ARE WE NOT RAISING THE PRICE FOR ADULT LUNCH JUST FOR THE STUDENT PAID LUNCH PRICE? THOSE ARE INCREASED ARE SORT OF DIRECTED BY USD. THERE'S A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE THAT THE PRICE OF PAID LUNCHES AND AND PAID BREAKFASTS MUST BE.
BE AND SO WE HAVEN'T WE HAVE STAYED OFF THOSE INCREASES MOST PEOPLE TRY TO TAKE THEM UP LIKE A PENNY OR FIVE CENT SINCE WE HAVE NOT DONE THEM ALL WE NEED TO TAKE THEM UP BY 20 CENT TO MEET THEIR REGULATION OKAY THANK YOU AND THEN SINCE OUR INS SLIDE IS NOT WHAT WE HAD UM IN THAT SLIDE THE BOND FEES DOUBLED FROM LAST YEAR HOW COME THE BOND FEES UM WENT FROM FIVE TO TEN WE'VE HAD FOUR ADDITIONAL SALES
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SINCE LAST YEAR, AND SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN FIVE THIS YEAR.AND SO SINCE WE HAVE ANOTHER SET OF DEBT TO PAY ON, WE'VE INCREASED THOSE.
AND THEN YOU SAID NO DEFEASEMENT PAYMENT IS PLANNED.
WHAT WOULD NEED TO HAPPEN TO HAVE ANOTHER DEFEASEMENT PAYMENT? THIS IS MY LAST QUESTION, I PROMISE.
IF YOU REMEMBER, THE LEGISLATURE TOOK OUT.
THE ABILITY TO MAKE DEFEASANCE PAYMENTS.
YOU CAN DO REFUNDS, BUT YOU CAN'T MAKE DEFEASANCE PAYMENTS.
THANK YOU FOR THAT REMINDER OF THAT LOVELY LAW.
YOU KNOW, I SEE THAT WE HAVE A SURPLUS IN THE FOOD SERVICE BUDGET, AND I OFTEN HEAR THAT THERE ARE KIDS THAT STILL HAVE LUNCH DEBT.
WHY CAN'T WE ERASE THAT LUNCH DEBT WITH THIS $908,000? I DON'T CARE IF IT'S ILLEGAL.
WHY CAN'T WE DO IT? IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME THAT KIDS OWE US MONEY FOR FOOD.
WE DO GET AUDITED EVERY COUPLE OF YEARS IN OUR FOOD SERVICE ACCOUNTS, AND WE DO HAVE TO PAY OFF.
WE HAVE TO TRANSFER THAT DEBT TO OUR M&O.
DENNIS, DO YOU PAY IT? NO, WE NORMALLY GET DONATIONS FROM OUR CITIZENS TO HELP US COVER THOSE.
THERE'S LIKE THREE OR FOUR ORGANIZATIONS THAT CONTACT US AND ASK US WHAT OUR BAD DEBT IS.
IT'S A SHAME THEY CAN'T USE THAT MONEY FOR SOMETHING ELSE.
WELL, WE COULD JUST HAVE IT BETWEEN YOU AND I.
NO, I DON'T LOOK GOOD IN ORANGE AND NEITHER WILL YOU.
I'VE GOT A GOOD COMPLEXION FOR THAT.
I'M ASSUMING THE ANSWER IS THAT THESE DISTRICTS GET OTHER FUNDS, BUT WHY IS IT THAT SOME DISTRICTS HAVE UNIVERSAL FREE BREAKFAST AND LUNCH? I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHARGING PEOPLE TO EAT.
OR JUST GETTING A SUN BUTTER SANDWICH IS THE ONLY OPTION BECAUSE THEY'RE POOR.
THE UNIVERSAL BREAKFAST AND LUNCH IS SET BY USD BASED ON THE CONCENTRATION OF ECONOMIC DISADVANTAGED KIDS IN THAT AREA.
THERE IS ACTUALLY A WAY TO DO IT, A RULE OR WAY OF DOING IT, BUT TYPICALLY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD TO HAVE, I THINK IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IT'S BEEN A WHILE, OVER 70% OF THE STUDENT POPULATION HAVE TO BE QUALIFIED FOR FREE AND REDUCED LUNCH AND WE'RE NOT NEARLY THERE.
SO WHEN THEY GET REIMBURSED, I GUESS THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT IS, AND SO THAT CAN COVER THAT 30 OR 20 SOME PERCENT OF THE REST.
WE WON'T BE ABLE TO HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO COVER IT ALL.
BUT THERE IS A WAY, BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A HIGHER, REALLY MUCH HIGHER.
AND THE PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS WHO QUALIFY FOR FREE AND USED LUNCH.
WE MAY BE AT THAT SOONER THAN WE THINK, THE WAY THE ECONOMY IS GOING.
WE DO HAVE SUSPENDED TIME LIMITS.
NOW, THE LAST THING I WANT TO SAY IS THANK YOU TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR RELEASING $144 MILLION FOR THE WHOLE NATION IN IDEA SPED FUNDING THAT'S GOING TO BE RELEASED ON JULY 1ST OF THIS YEAR, THAT $144 MILLION FOR THE WHOLE NATION THAT THEY'RE RELEASING.
I DON'T SEE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE.
WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A BRIEF RECESS BEFORE WE GO ON.
BEFORE WE GO ON TO OUR BOND QUARTERLY UPDATE, WE WILL COME BACK AT 7.55 AND A LITTLE BIT LONGER SINCE WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR A WHILE.
IT IS 7.39 AND WE ARE IN RECESS.
WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM F4, BOND QUARTERLY UPDATE, AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO DR.
ALL RIGHT, SO I THINK WHAT, ACTUALLY WE HAVE SOME GREAT NEWS TO REPORT, AND I KNOW LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, I THINK WE HAVE MIKE AND WILL BOTH PRESENT, AND SO THEY'RE BACK WITH US TONIGHT.
AND THEY HAVE SOME IMPORTANT UPDATES.
SUMMER, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT, A LOT OF GREAT WORK HAPPENING STARTING IN THE SUMMER.
AND ALSO LATER ON, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THERE'S A LOT WE'RE GOING TO REPORT ON.
AND SO WE'RE LUCKY TO HAVE MIKE AND WILL TONIGHT SO THEY CAN HELP US GO THROUGH WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR BOND.
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OKAY.GOOD EVENING PRESIDENT MARKHAM, TRUSTEES, DR.
YES, WE ARE HERE TO PROVIDE THE BOND UPDATE OR THE WILL AND MIKE SHOW MAYBE.
WE'RE GONNA WE'RE GONNA FOCUS ON THE TARGETED PROJECTS AGAIN WHICH THESE TARGETED PROJECTS ARE ONES THAT DIRECTLY IMPACT STUDENTS PRETTY IMMEDIATELY.
THEY'RE MUCH LESS IN SCOPE, CAN BE TURNED AROUND MUCH QUICKER, SO WE'RE GOING TO UPDATE YOU ON THE TARGETED PROJECTS.
ALSO LIMITED SCOPE AND COMPREHENSIVE PROJECTS.
WE'RE GOING TO START WITH WILL GIVING A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE DASHBOARD AS WELL AS SOME FINANCIAL INFORMATION.
AND SO THE BOARD AND DR. A HAD ASKED US TO UPDATE THE SCHEDULES FOR ALL THE PROJECTS AND SO IF YOU GO TO THE DASHBOARD AND YOU GO TO THE SECOND TAB WHICH IS THE DETAILS TAB YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'VE UPDATED A LOT OF THESE SCHEDULES AS WE GET CLOSER TO CONSTRUCTION ON A LOT OF THESE THINGS, THINGS MOVE AROUND A LITTLE BIT.
BUT THE DATES WE HAVE IN THERE RIGHT NOW WOULD BE GOOD THROUGH THE SUMMER.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER UPDATE PROBABLY THIS TIME NEXT YEAR FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WILL BE IN THE SUMMER NEXT YEAR.
AND YOU CAN GET SOME OF THE TRICK-WIDE PROJECTS.
AND THEN SO WE HAVE A NICE LITTLE GRAPH HERE SHOWING HOW MUCH MONEY WE'VE ENCUMBERED FOR FOR EACH VLC AND ALSO FOR THE DISTRICT-WIDE PROJECTS.
AND SO YOU CAN SEE KIND OF OUR PROGRESS IN THE DIFFERENT VLCS LIKE CEDAR RIDGE IS AT ALMOST 20 OR 30 PERCENT AND AS FAR AS THE SPENDING THAT WE'VE FOR THE BONDS THAT WE'VE ISSUED SO FAR SO JUST JUST A REMINDER ABOUT WHAT THIS GRAPH ACTUALLY SHOWING.
WE'VE HAD TWO BOND ISSUES AND SO THIS IS JUST THE ENCUMBERED AMOUNTS FOR THE BONDS THAT WE'VE ISSUED SO FAR.
OKAY, SO WE'RE GOING TO JUMP RIGHT IN WITH THE ATHLETICS PROJECTS AND WE'LL START OFF WITH THE SPORTS LIGHTING PROJECTS.
WE'VE ALREADY COMPLETED FIVE OF THE SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL FIELDS CONVERTING THEM FROM OLD HID LIGHTING TO NEW LED LIGHTING WITH CONTROLS.
SO AGAIN WE'VE COMPLETED FIVE OF THE SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL FIELDS.
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS OF THE OTHER FIVE SOFTBALL AND BASEBALL FIELDS AS WELL AS THE FOUR COMPETITION MIDDLE SCHOOL FOOTBALL AND SOCCER FIELDS.
WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT BACK TO YOU IN JUNE FOR CONSIDERATION FOR APPROVAL AND THE GOAL FOR THOSE IS IS TO BEGIN INSTALLATION LATE SUMMER AND COMPLETE.
THE NEXT PROJECT IS CONVERTING MIDDLE SCHOOL TURFS FROM NATURAL GRASS TO SYNTHETIC TURF.
WE ARE CONVERTING FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS.
I DO NEED TO MENTION SOME OF THESE PROJECTS WE'RE GOING TO BE DESCRIBING WHAT ARE IDENTIFYING THE DELIVERY METHOD, CONSTRUCTION DELIVERY METHOD.
CONSTRUCTION RELATED OR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS WE HAVE TO NOTIFY THE BOARD OF WHICH DELIVERY METHOD WE'RE USING.
SO THIS PARTICULAR ONE WE'RE GOING TO BE USING COMPETITIVE SEAL PROPOSAL FOR THE DELIVERY METHOD.
THOSE ARE THE FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOLS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT CONVERTING.
WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN AS SOON AS FOOTBALL SEASON ENDS THIS FALL AND EXPECT IT TO COMPLETE BY THE WINTER OF 2027.
ATHLETIC WASHERS AND DRYERS, THIS DOESN'T OR MAY NOT SOUND VERY EXCITING.
BUT WE DID REPLACE 20 UNITS THAT WERE OVER 15 YEARS OLD.
CHALLENGE HERE, OR NOT CHALLENGE, BUT THE BIGGEST, I GUESS, RELIEF IS THAT THERE WERE QUITE A FEW COACHES THAT FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS HAVE BEEN TAKING UNIFORMS HOME TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE CLEAN.
SO ALTHOUGH THIS MAY NOT BE EXCITING, IT'S PRETTY EXCITING TO FIVE MIDDLE SCHOOL AND TWO HIGH SCHOOL COACHES, I'M SURE.
QUITE A BIT OF WORK AT DRAGON STADIUM.
WE ARE USING COOPERATIVE PURCHASING FOR ALL OF THESE PROJECTS.
AND I DO WANT TO REMIND YOU THIS IS A THIS IS BEING FUNDED WITH 2018 FUNDS.
SO TO START WITH, WE ARE REPLACING THE 25-YEAR-OLD SCOREBOARD AND SOUND SYSTEM.
IT'S GOING TO BE A MODERN SYSTEM.
THE NEW SYSTEM, IT'LL PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR THE FANS.
IT'LL BE KIND OF IMMERSED FAN ENGAGEMENT WITH INSTANT REPLAY AND ANIMATION AND KIND OF REAL-TIME STATS.
THE SOUND SYSTEM, IT'S GOING TO BE STATE-OF-THE-ART.
IT'S GOING TO BE MODERN, BUT IT WILL BE WHAT I CALL NEIGHBOR-FRIENDLY.
WHEN WE DID A TEST OUT HERE A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, WE STOOD RIGHT BEHIND THE SOUND SYSTEM AND YOU COULD HAVE A CONVERSATION JUST LIKE THIS.
SO EVERYTHING WAS PROJECTED JUST RIGHT TOWARDS THE STADIUM.
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SO I THINK THE FANS WILL LIKE IT AND I THINK THE NEIGHBORS WILL DEFINITELY APPRECIATE IT.WE ARE ALSO REPLACING THE FIELD TURF AND RESURFACING THE TRACK, WHICH BOTH WERE INSTALLED IN 2016.
THEY WILL START MOBILIZING BEGINNING THIS WEEKEND.
AND EXPECTED INSTALLATION BY THE END OF JULY ON ALL THREE OF THOSE.
SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CENTRAL KITCHEN PROJECTS.
WE ARE USING THE JOB ORDER CONTRACTING DELIVERY METHOD FOR THESE.
THE FIRST PROJECT AT EAST OR CK1, WHAT WE CALL CK1, WE ARE IMPROVING, MAKING IMPROVEMENTS TO THE FREEZER ENVELOPE VENTILATION SYSTEM, MAINLY TO KEEP IT FROM SWEATING AND MAKE IT WORK A LITTLE BIT MORE EFFICIENT.
EAST AND WEST OR CK1 AND 2, WE'RE INSTALLING NEW GENERATORS TO POWER JUST THE FREEZERS AND THE COOLERS.
THESE ARE NOT FREEZERS TO POWER THE WHOLE KITCHEN FOR PRODUCTION, JUST TO MAINTAIN AND PREVENT THE LOSS OF FOOD ITEMS IN THOSE FOOD COOLERS AND FREEZERS.
EXPECTED COMPLETION IS IN LATE FALL OF 2026.
MARQUEES, WE'VE COMPLETED ONE.
I DO WANT TO SAY ALSO, AGAIN, JUST TO REMIND YOU, WE'RE STANDING.
WE'RE STANDARDIZING A THREE FOOT BY EIGHT FOOT DIGITAL DISPLAY.
WE ARE ALSO TRYING TO STANDARDIZE THROUGHOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS THAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH.
SO WE'RE TRYING TO KEEP THEM ALL LOOKING THE SAME OR AS CLOSE TO THE SAME AS WE CAN.
WE CURRENTLY HAVE NINE IN FABRICATION THAT WE EXPECT TO START ROLLING OUT EARLY SUMMER AND COMPLETE BY THE END OF SUMMER.
THE REST OF THEM WE ANTICIPATE BEING INSTALLED BY LATE FALL.
THERE'S A TOTAL OF 42 INCLUDING THE NINE THAT ARE IN FABRICATION PLUS THE ONE THAT'S ALREADY BEEN INSTALLED AT BRUSHY CREEK.
PHASE TWO OF WATER BOTTLE FILLING STATIONS, WE ARE USING THE JOB ORDER CONTRACTOR DELIVERY METHOD OR JOC.
WE ARE INSTALLING 92 OVER THE SUMMER AT 34 DIFFERENT CAMPUSES.
SOME OF THEM ARE BEING INSTALLED BY TWO DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS AND ONE OF THEM WE'RE DOING IN-HOUSE OR A GROUP OF THEM WE'RE DOING IN-HOUSE WITH OUR PLUMBERS ON STAFF.
STAGE CURTAINS, WE ARE LOOKING AT, I BELIEVE IT'S FIVE, SIX, I'M SORRY, SIX ELEMENTARIES AND ONE MIDDLE SCHOOL THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT STARTING THE SUMMER, COMPLETING PROBABLY BY THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL OR JUST A LITTLE BIT AFTER.
OUR LED DISTRICT-WIDE LED LIGHTING PROJECT IS ONGOING.
WE HAVE COMPLETED 32 CAMPUSES.
WE ARE WORKING ON THREE DIFFERENT CAMPUSES AT ANY GIVEN TIME AND WE HAVE ABOUT 15 MORE CAMPUSES AFTER THE THREE THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING ON THAT WILL BE COMPLETE MID TO LATE AUGUST.
AGAIN THAT IS ALL INTERIOR LIGHTING, ALL EXTERIOR LIGHTING, PARKING LOT LIGHTING, BUT IT IS EXISTING LIGHTING.
WE'RE NOT ADDING NEW PARKING LOT LIGHTING.
WE'RE NOT ADDING ANY BUILDING LIGHTING.
ALSO, ANY LED LIGHTING THAT HAS BEEN RETROFIT OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS THAT IS STILL CONSIDERED MODERN, WE'RE NOT REPLACING THAT ONLY IF IT IS OBSOLETE.
AND WE'VE HAD, THERE'S A FEW CAMPUSES THAT WERE REPLACED EIGHT OR NINE YEARS AGO THAT WAS LED, BUT IT WAS SORT OF EARLY GENERATION LED AND NO LONGER ABLE TO GET PARTS.
SO WE'RE REPLACING IT IF WE HAVE TO.
AND THE BIGGEST THE BIGGEST THING TO LOOK AT HERE IS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT A 12% ONCE IT'S ALL COMPLETE, A 12% DISTRICT-WIDE REDUCTION IN ENERGY CONSUMPTION.
WE'VE ALSO GOT SOME CAMPUSES THAT WE'RE REPLACING THE LOCKS AND THE KEYS AND THE DOOR HARDWARE.
WE JUST COMPLETED CACTUS RANCH A FEW WEEKS AGO.
HOPEWELL IS CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS, SHOULD BE FINISHED THIS SUMMER.
UNION HILL WILL BE FINISHED LATE FALL.
AFTER THAT, I BELIEVE WE'VE GOT ABOUT 18 MORE CAMPUSES THAT WE WILL BE STARTING TO WORK ON AS SOON AS THESE THREE ARE COMPLETE.
WE ARE ALSO WORKING ON THREE DIFFERENT FIRE ALARM PROJECTS, AND WE ARE USING THE JOB ORDER CONTRACTOR DELIVERY METHOD FOR THIS.
IN PROGRESS RIGHT NOW IS KELLY REEVES USING 2018 FUNDS, ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY CENTER.
ESTIMATED COMPLETION FOR ALL OF THESE IS SUMMER 2026.
I DO WANT TO SAY WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL, AS EVERYBODY KNOWS, IS A VERY COMPLEX CAMPUS.
IT WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE AND FUNCTIONING AT THE END OF THE SUMMER FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, BUT WE WILL BE TYING UP LOOSE ENDS PROBABLY FROM SEPTEMBER TILL DECEMBER BECAUSE A LOT
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OF THAT WORK CAN'T BE DONE WITH STUDENTS IN THE CLASSROOMS. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T DISRUPT THAT.SO WE WILL MAKE SURE THAT IT IS STILL OPERATIONAL BUT FINAL COMPLETION WILL BE IN DECEMBER.
WE HAVE ALREADY PURCHASED 25 BUSES.
WE PURCHASED 514 PASSENGER BUSES, 1554 PASSENGER SPECIAL ED BUSES, AND 577 PASSENGER BUSES.
THOSE HAVE ALREADY BEEN RECEIVED.
THESE NEXT 40 BUSES, THERE'S 3077 PASSENGER BUSES AND 1054 PASSENGER SPECIAL ED BUSES.
THESE SHOULD START ARRIVING IN LATE JUNE.
WE DO NOT HAVE AN EXPECTED DATE OF COMPLETION OF THE LAST BUS.
PROBABLY TAKE ABOUT A YEAR, MAYBE EARLY SPRING NEXT YEAR IF WE'RE LUCKY.
THIS DOES, ONCE THESE ARE IN, ALL OF OUR REGULAR ROUTE BUSES, ALL OF OUR FIELD TRIP BUSES WILL HAVE SEAT BELTS, WILL HAVE CAMERAS, WILL HAVE SMART TAG.
AND I BELIEVE ONLY SEVEN OF OUR BACKUP FLEET WILL BE BUSES THAT WILL NOT HAVE SEATBELTS.
WHICH THOSE SEVEN SHOULD BE ONLY USED IF WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE BREAKDOWNS.
SO I SHOULDN'T SAY THAT, BUT THAT'S THE GOAL.
AS DR. AZIZ HAD MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS, A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON THIS SUMMER AT MULTIPLE CAMPUSES.
BERGMAN IS, THEY'RE ACTUALLY MOBILIZING RIGHT NOW TO START THAT CONSTRUCTION AND ALSO IN CONJUNCTION WITH THAT THE CD FOX AUDITORIUM.
THE CTE SPECTRUM BUILDING WILL START DEMO IN JUNE.
AND FOREST NORTH, WE WILL START THE INTERIOR RENO OF THAT ALSO IN EARLY JUNE.
GREAT OAKS IS ONE OF THE CAMPUSES WHERE WE'RE GOING TO START MOVING PORTABLES TO CREATE THE PORTABLE CAMPUS AT MCNEIL, TEMPORARY PORTABLE CAMPUS.
AND SO WE'RE GOING TO START MOVING THOSE PORTABLES OUT AT THE END OF MAY AND JUNE.
STONY POINT ALSO STARTING THE ADDITION, I'M SORRY, JUMPED OVER MCNEIL.
AND OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GOING TO BE STARTING ON THE INTERIOR RENO AT MCNEIL.
ALSO IN MAY AND SETTING UP THAT PORTABLE CAMPUS.
STONY POINT WILL BE ALSO MOVING ONE PORTABLE AWAY TEMPORARILY AND THEN STARTING THE ADDITIONS THERE.
SUPPORT SERVICES WILL BE STARTING THAT PROJECT PROBABLY MID-SUMMER.
OBVIOUSLY IT'S NOT A CAMPUS SO WE'RE NOT TOO CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
AND THAT WILL BE DONE IN ABOUT SIX MONTHS SO THAT WE CAN MOVE THE MAINTENANCE.
CREW FROM THE MCNEIL BUILDING TO DO THE ROTC.
AND THEN WESTWOOD, AS SOME OF YOU ALL MAY HAVE SEEN, WE'VE ACTUALLY ALREADY STARTED THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE TRACK AND THE TENNIS COURT AT THOSE CAMPUSES.
AND SO LOOKING AHEAD, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS COMING UP.
AZIZ HAS TALKED ABOUT THE PRESENTATION WE'RE GOING TO DO ABOUT ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL THAT PERKINSVILLE WILL DO HERE IN JUST A MINUTE.
THE HARTFIELD PACK, WE'LL START ON SOME WORK THERE.
WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF LAY THAT OVER THE WORK THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING AT MCNEIL.
RIDGEVIEW, THIS IS ONE CORRECTION I DO WANT TO MAKE.
WE FOUND OUT TODAY THAT WE ACTUALLY ARE NOT GOING TO START ON THE LOCKER ROOM AT RIDGEVIEW BECAUSE THERE'S A PROCUREMENT ISSUE WITH THE LOCKERS THERE.
WE MIGHT STILL END UP DOING IT, BUT THAT ONE MAY NOT HAPPEN.
CEDAR VALLEY AND GRISHAM MIDDLE SCHOOLS, WE ARE GOING TO START.
THE TURF REPLACEMENTS AND THE NEW FIELD RESTROOMS AND THE RIDGEVIEW ONE ALSO.
WE'LL DO THOSE IN THE SUMMER OF 2027.
AND AS MIKE HAD MENTIONED, WE HAVE TO MENTION HOW WE'RE GOING TO PROCURE THOSE.
SO THAT WILL BE A COMPETITIVE SEALED PROPOSAL FOR THOSE THREE CAMPUSES AND THOSE FIELD RESTROOMS. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ALSO DO PLAYGROUNDS AT CALLISON CARRAWAY.
CHANDLER OAK, STEEPWOOD, ENGLAND, GATTIS, AND LIVE OAK.
AND WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT AS A PACKAGE OF COMPETITIVE SEALED BID.
AND THEN WE WILL BEGIN WORK AT CEDAR RIDGE AND DEER PARK SOMETIME DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR OF 2026-27.
TRUSTEES, DO I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY, LOOKS LIKE WE DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UPDATE.
I HAVE SOME PRESENTATIVES FROM PERKINSON.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE CONCEPTUAL PLAN FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL, AND PERKINSONVILLE ARCHITECTS HAS BEEN WORKING WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP FOR SEVERAL WEEKS NOW, KIND OF LOOKING OVER.
50 PLUS YEARS OF ADDITIONS AT THIS CAMPUS,
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ENROLLMENT GROWTH AND PROGRAM GROWTH, AND THEY PUT TOGETHER A...I'M GOING TO LEAVE IT UP TO YOU, BUT WE CAN BRING IT UP, OR IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE AFTER CONSENT.
YEAH, MICHELLE, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL CONCEPT PLAN AND UNDER ACTION ITEMS FOR APPROVAL.
I MEAN, IT IS A BOND PROJECT, SO WE COULD...
DISCUSS IT NOW AND THEN JUST DO THE MOTION UNDER ACTION ITEMS I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT'S OKAY SO LET ME JUST LOOK AT IT IS PART OF THE BOND YES QUARTERLY IS IT PART OF IT'S PART OF THE BOND IT WOULD BE PART OF THE BOND QUARTERLY UPDATE YEAH OKAY IF AS LONG AS WE TIE IT TO THAT AND IT'S POSTED AND WE'RE GONNA GET TO IT IN A LITTLE BIT I THINK THAT IS ABSOLUTELY FINE OKAY I DIDN'T QUITE GET THERE, BUT YES, SO THIS IS THE CONCEPTUAL PLAN FOR THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL, WHICH WITH REGARD TO THE BOND, IT IS THE FIRST STEP BEFORE DESIGN CAN TAKE PLACE.
SO WITH THAT I'M GOING TO INTRODUCE TRAVIS EUBANKS AND SHIVANI LANGER TO PRESENT THE CONCEPTUAL PLAN.
BOARD PRESIDENT, TRUSTEES, DR.
AZIZ, WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO BE HERE.
AS TWO PARENTS TO ROUND ROCK ISD STUDENTS, WE'RE HAPPY TO BE CONTINUING TO WORK WITH THE DISTRICT.
OH, THIS IS NOT OUR PRESENTATION.
WE'LL JUST START TALKING ABOUT IT.
I'M SORRY, CAN YOU GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MIC FOR US? YEP, YEP.
JUST TO MAKE SURE THE RECORDING'S PICKING IT UP OR THE STREAM'S PICKING IT UP.
OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS WE'VE WORKED WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP TO START AS MIKE HAS MENTIONED STEP ONE IN THE DESIGN FOR THE BOND RELATED WORK FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL AND THAT FIRST STEP IS THE CAMPUS PLAN.
IT'S BEEN ABOUT 25 YEARS SINCE THERE'S BEEN AN UPDATE TO THE CAMPUS PLAN WITH THE CHANGES WITH EDUCATION SPECIFICATIONS WITH CAPACITY ISSUES WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AND GET A REFRESH ON THE CAMPUS PLAN TO MAKE SURE THE DISTRICT HAS A STRONG UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE LONG-TERM GOALS ARE FOR THAT CAMPUS.
SO WE HAD FIVE WORKSHOP MEETINGS WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP.
STARTED OFF AS WE WERE MENTIONING TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION SPECIFICATION, THE IMPACT ASSOCIATED WITH THAT, WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THROUGH SITE ANALYSIS, REALLY TALKING ABOUT WHAT'S WORKING AND WHAT'S NOT WORKING WELL ON THE CAMPUS.
THROUGH THAT WE CAME TO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT BIG POINTS THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO ADDRESS WITH THE CAMPUS.
ONE OF THEM HAD TO DO WITH THE OVERALL SIZE OF THE CAMPUS.
IT'S YOUR BIGGEST CAMPUS, RIGHT? 03,800 STUDENTS THAT ARE AT THIS CAMPUS.
IT'S BEEN ADDED ON TO OVER MANY YEARS.
FROM ONE END OF THE CAMPUS TO THE OTHER, IF A STUDENT HAS TO TRAVEL THAT DISTANCE, WALK THAT DISTANCE, THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE GETTING TO CLASSES ON TIME.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE REALLY WANTED TO ADDRESS WAS HOW DO WE CONSOLIDATE? HOW DO WE REDUCE TRAVEL TIME FOR STUDENTS? THE SECOND THING THAT CAME UP OVER AND OVER AGAIN HAS TO DO WITH THE SAFETY AS IT RELATES TO THE OVERALL CIRCULATION.
ANYBODY WHO'S BEEN HERE IN THE MORNING OR IN THE AFTERNOON, THE BUS, THE STUDENTS, THE PARENTS, AND THE TEACHER TRAFFIC, ALL IS KIND OF INTERTWINED WITH EACH OTHER.
ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT WE REALLY WANTED TO ADDRESS FROM A SITE STANDPOINT, HOW CAN WE IMPROVE SAFETY AND SECURITY BY STARTING TO SEPARATE THOSE MODES OF TRAVEL FROM EACH OTHER AND GET CLEAR SEPARATION.
THROUGH THE TIME THAT WE SPENT WITH THE STAKEHOLDER COMMITTEE, THESE ARE THE LIST OF OUR PLANS, THE GOALS THAT WE WANTED FOR THIS LONG-TERM.
AGAIN, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY FOR THE BOND WORK THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
THIS IS FOR FIVE, 10, 15, 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD, SETTING THE FRAMEWORK FOR WHAT IS GOING TO MAKE THIS CAMPUS SUCCESSFUL LONG TERM.
FIRST OF ALL, AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, REALLY REDUCING THOSE WALKING DISTANCE, TRYING TO CONSOLIDATE SPACES TOGETHER.
AND IN DOING SO, WHAT THAT STARTS TO DO IS IT REDUCES THE NUMBER OF ENTRY POINTS INTO THE CAMPUS, WHICH INCREASES SAFETY AND SECURITY.
AS WE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, ONE OF THE REALLY BIG POINTS IS THE SEPARATION OF BUS VEHICLE AND PEDESTRIAN MOVEMENT.
NEXT IS THE EXPANDING AND TO IMPROVE THE ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL OUTDOOR SPACE.
ANOTHER COMPONENT OF THE ED SPEC WAS TO REALLY START TO GET STUDENTS OUTDOORS INTO EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS.
ONE OF THE REASONS FOR THAT, THERE'S NO CHEAPER SQUARE FOOTAGE THAT YOU CAN HAVE THAN OUTDOOR SPACE.
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TO GET THE BIGGEST USE OUT OF THOSE BOND DOLLARS BY CREATING OUTDOOR SPACES.STRENGTHENING PROGRAM ADJACENCIES AND ENHANCING WAYFINDING.
IT'S A COMPLICATED CAMPUS TO FIND YOUR WAY AROUND.
HOW CAN WE, AGAIN, BACK TO THE CONSOLIDATION AND TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO GET EVERYTHING MORE COMPACT AND EASIER TO MOVE AROUND THE CAMPUS.
A LOT OF THE STUDENTS WE'RE FINDING ARE HAVING TO PARK OFF-SITE BECAUSE THERE IS JUST NOT SUFFICIENT PARKING ON CAMPUS AND THAT CAUSES OBVIOUSLY TRAFFIC ISSUES TRYING TO GET ACROSS THE ROADS.
SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE THE OVERALL PARKING ON CAMPUS? AND THEN FINALLY, PRESERVING LAND CAPACITY FOR GROWTH FOR SPECIAL PROGRAMS. HOW ARE WE BEING GOOD STEWARDS TO THIS LAND THAT YOU HAVE AND LOOKING LONG DOWN THE ROAD FOR FUTURE PROGRAMS THAT CAN BE ON THIS CAMPUS? AND THROUGH THAT, WHAT WE'RE SEEING ON THE PAGE RIGHT HERE IS THE OVERALL LONG-TERM CAMPUS PLAN THAT WOULD BE FOR A 3,800 STUDENT POPULATION.
THAT WOULD BE ED SPEC COMPLIANT AND STARTS TO ACCOMPLISH ALL OF THOSE GOALS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WITH CONSOLIDATING THOSE PROGRAMS, REDUCING WALKING DISTANCE.
AND YOU CAN START TO SEE IN THE PERIPHERY WITH ALL OF THE PARKING AND SOME REALLY CLEAR DELINEATION BETWEEN HOW STUDENTS ARE BEING DROPPED OFF BY BUS, BY PARENT, AND PEOPLE WHO ARE COMING INTO THE SITE.
SO AS FAR AS THE ORIGINAL BOND SCOPE FOR 2024, THERE'S DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS, THERE'S 140,000 SQUARE FOOT OF SPACE BEING ADDED BACK, SOME REPLACEMENT OF ROOF, SOME RENOVATION WORK, FINE ARTS FACILITY REFRESH, CEILING REPLACEMENT, STUDENT STAFF PARKING, WHICH WE HAD PREVIOUSLY TALKED ABOUT, AND SOME DOMESTIC WATER HEATERS.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHEN WE STARTED TO MEET WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, AS WE WERE MENTIONING PREVIOUSLY, WE REALLY WANTED TO DIG DEEPER INTO WHAT WERE THE PRIORITIES OF THE CAMPUS.
AND AS WE STARTED TO WALK THROUGH THE CAMPUS WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP, AS WELL AS IN THOSE STAKEHOLDER GROUP MEETINGS, IN ADDITION TO SOME SURVEYS THAT WENT OUT TO THE PUBLIC FROM STUDENTS, I BELIEVE WE HAD OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE WHO RESPONDED BACK TO THIS SURVEY THAT WAS PUT OUT TO TALK ABOUT, AGAIN, WHAT WORKS WELL, WHAT DOESN'T WORK WELL.
IT WAS FOR STUDENTS, IT WAS FOR TEACHERS, ALUMNI.
ADMINISTRATION SO WE CAN GET A REALLY BIG CROSS-SECTION OF WHAT IS HAPPENING ON CAMPUS AND THROUGH THAT A FEW THINGS CAME UP ONE THE LACK OF CAPACITY FOR 3,800 STUDENTS AT THE FOR THE MUSIC ROOM I BELIEVE YOU'RE ABOUT ONE-THIRD THE SPACE THAT YOU NEED FOR TO SUPPORT THAT NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM A MUSIC STANDPOINT SO WOEFULLY UNDERSIZED THERE SO THAT'S ONE OF THE AREAS WE REALLY WANTED TO ADDRESS THE SPECIAL EDUCATION IN THE 950 BUILDING IT'S AN OLD METAL BUILDING, AND WE WANT TO PULL THAT BACK INTO THE HEART, THE CORE OF THE BUILDING, TO WHERE SPECIAL EDUCATION IS HOUSED INSIDE THE MAIN BUILDING IN A NEW ADDITION, AS WELL AS IN THE 400 BUILDING, WHICH IS ATHLETICS.
THERE'S A SMALL LITTLE FIELD HOUSE, SORRY, A SMALL LITTLE LOCKER ROOM, WEIGHT ROOM AREA THAT IS REALLY UNDERSIZED, AGAIN, FOR THE CAPACITY THAT THIS SCHOOL IS, THAT WE WANT TO ADDRESS AND START TO INCREASE THE SIZE TO SUPPORT THE STUDENT POPULATION THAT'S CURRENTLY HERE.
SO FOR THE 2024 BOND PLAN THAT WE'RE PROPOSING, SO THIS PHASE FOR THIS BOND, IT'S THAT PROJECTED $137 MILLION.
WE'RE PROPOSING 132,000 SQUARE FEET, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE FOUR LIFE SKILL SUITES FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION, 18 CLASSROOMS, PLUS FOUR SCIENCE LABS AND THE SUPPORT SPACES ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
FOR COURT SPORTS, THERE WOULD BE AN AUXILIARY GYM AND A...
GYMNASTICS GYM AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS IS BEFORE WE CAN DEMO THE 100 BUILDING WHICH HAS THE GYM HERE EXCUSE ME WE HAVE TO BUILD A NEW GYM RIGHT TO HELP SUPPORT THAT TO ALLOW THE DEMOLITION OF THE HUNDRED BUILDING IN THE FUTURE SO A LOT OF THIS IS SETTING IT UP FOR A FUTURE PHASE OF WORK AS WELL FOR THE FIELD SPORTS AS WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IMPROVING THE LOCKERS OFFICES TRAINING WEIGHT ROOM AND SUPPORT SPACES AND THEN FOR THE VISUAL ARTS REALLY FOCUSING ON MUSIC PROVIDING NEW BAND HALL AUXILIARY BAND HALL CHOIR, ENSEMBLE, AND ORCHESTRA.
AND THEN SITE WORK, A LOT OF THE SITE WORK THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS ABOUT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY WITH SEPARATING OUT ALL OF THOSE MODES OF TRAFFIC THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER, AS WELL AS PROVIDING THAT NEW PARKING.
SO THE DEMO THAT IS BEING PROPOSED IN THIS PLAN IS FOR THE 300, 400, AND 900 BUILDINGS, AS WELL AS THE ADMIN BUILDINGS AND THE WEIGHT ROOM BUILDING.
THOSE WOULD BE THE BUILDINGS THAT WE WOULD DEMO TO SET THINGS UP FOR THAT NEW PERFORMING ARTS BUILDING.
FIELDHOUSE TO THE SOUTH ON THE PAGE THERE.
A NEW ACADEMIC WING, SO RIGHT NOW THERE ARE THREE WINGS THAT ARE ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
THAT'S WHERE THE CLASSROOMS AND THE SCIENCE LAB WOULD BE ADDED ON AS WELL AS SPECIAL ED.
AND THEN THE ADDITION TO THE COURT SPORTS AREA WHERE YOUR CURRENT COURT SPORTS ARE AS WELL AS SOME WORK TO PARKING TO THE NORTH.
AND THEN THAT NEW BUS LOOP PORTION TO THE SOUTH AS WELL AS SOFTBALL BASEBALL FIELDS BEING
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RE-TURFED.OR BEING TURFED THEY'RE CURRENTLY CURRENTLY GRASS SO OUTSIDE OF THAT LOOKING AT AGAIN THAT BIG PICTURE THAT WAS PHASE ONE WE SAW KIND OF THE OVERALL ARCHING GOAL FOR UM THE THE CAMPUS PLAN THIS IS STARTING TO TALK ABOUT THE CONSOLIDATION OF ALL OF THE PROGRAMS WE'RE NOW WE'RE GETTING CTE WE'RE GETTING CORE ACADEMICS ALL OF THESE SPACES MUCH MORE CONSOLIDATED TOGETHER FOR THAT FUTURE PHASE OF WORK WHICH THEN WOULD LEAD TO THE DEMOLITION OF 600 100 700 200 AND 500.
TO ALLOW THE FULL BUILD OUT TO HAVE A FULL CAMPUS THAT IS COMPATIBLE WITH 3,800 STUDENTS AND IS ED SPEC COMPLIANT.
THAT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE.
ANY QUESTIONS? AND TRUSTEES, JUST SO YOU KNOW, LATER IN UNDER ACTION ITEMS, WE WILL BE APPROVING OR WE'LL PUT IT UP FOR APPROVAL FOR THIS PLAN.
SO NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK YOUR QUESTIONS.
FULL DISCLOSURE, I WAS THE CBC CO-CHAIR OF 2024.
SO I DO HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
SO SO THIS PROPOSED PLAN, HOW DOES THAT ALIGN WITH THE VOTER APPROVED BOND PACKAGE? SO IT ALIGNS WITH THE VOTER APPROVED BOND PACKAGE IN THAT WE NEED TO BUILD BACK BASICALLY 140,000 SQUARE FEET OF NEW SPACE.
THAT IS WHAT WE ARE BUILDING BACK IS THE 140,000 OF NEW SPACE.
THE DISCREPANCY IS GOING TO BE IN WHAT BUILDINGS ARE BEING DEMOED.
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS 140,000 SQUARE FEET.
IS WHAT WE CAN AFFORD TO BUILD BACK.
WHAT'S CURRENTLY BEING STATED IN THE BOND TO BE DEMOED IS 250,000 SQUARE FEET.
SO WE CAN'T RECOVER THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE.
SO THAT'S WHY THE ONE DISCREPANCY IS THERE'S A LITTLE BIT LIGHTER ON THE DEMO SIDE THAN WHAT WAS IN THE BOND PACKAGE.
THAT ALLOWS THE CAPACITY OF THE SCHOOL TO STILL OPERATE AT THAT 3,800 STUDENT POPULATION.
SO LEGALLY, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, WE WERE TOLD THAT WHATEVER IS WRITTEN INTO THE CONSTITUTION FOR THAT PARTICULAR BOND WILL HAVE TO TAKE PLACE, RIGHT? SO I DID ASK THAT QUESTION WHENEVER I SAW THIS AGENDA ITEM, AND WE DID CHECK WITH BOND COUNSEL, AND THE MASTER PLAN IS WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE BOND.
AND SO LEGALLY WE'RE WITHIN COMPLIANCE THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT TYPICALLY HAPPENS WITH BONDS WHENEVER YOU'RE MASTER PLANNING, AND THAT MASTER PLAN IS WITHIN THE SCOPE.
AND THEN THE TERMS WITHIN THE BOND ARE GENERAL ENOUGH THAT ALLOW FOR THE MASTER PLAN TO BE SHAPED BY THE COMMITTEE WITHIN THAT LEARNING COMMUNITY.
THE OTHER CONCERN I HAVE IS WITH REGARDS TO THE DEMOLITION.
SO WHEN WE TALKED TO ADMINISTRATION IN 2024, WE MADE IT CLEAR AND WE WERE SURE THAT.
IT WILL BE A STUDENT-FOCUSED FIRST AND NOT ADMINISTRATION.
SO IN THIS PROPOSAL TO DEMOLITION ADMIN, INSTEAD OF ADDRESSING STUDENTS FIRST, I THINK IT'S THE WRONG PATH TO TAKE.
AND I GUESS JUST TO ADD MAYBE SOME CLARIFICATION TO THAT, THE DEMOLITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION IS THE DEMOLITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION SPACE THAT WILL BE RELOCATED AS A PART OF, RIGHT? RIGHT, RIGHT.
WE WERE TOLD THAT WE WERE FOCUSED ON THE STUDENTS FIRST, THEN ANY ADMINISTRATION THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN WILL HAPPEN AFTER EVERYTHING WAS BUILT.
MY RECOLLECTION ON THAT IS, I MEAN, WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE MOVED OUT.
I KNOW YOU WORKED ON THE COMMITTEE, I GUESS, THE BOND, CITIZEN BOND COMMITTEE.
SOME OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS WHO WERE HERE AT THAT TIME, WE TALKED TO THEM ABOUT WE HAVE TO, THAT THE BUILDING IS ACTUALLY TAKING SPACE FROM ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THE FACT THAT WE ARE DEMOLISHING THE ADMIN BUILDINGS ACTUALLY WILL HELP PROVIDE MORE SPACE FOR THE STUDENTS AND THE FACULTY OF ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
SO IT'S ACTUALLY HELPING WITH THE PROJECT.
IT'S NOT DOING, DOES THAT MAKE SENSE WHAT I'M SAYING? THEY NEED THAT SPACE.
AND IF YOU GO BACK AND SHOW THE WHERE THE...
IT'S HELPING WITH THE SAFETY AND SECURITY.
BUT ALSO, I'M SORRY, BUT THE PARKING SPOT THAT HAS BEEN USED BY ADMIN RIGHT NOW, IT'S GOING TO BE THE NEW MARTIAN PAD.
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TO PRACTICE FOR THE MARTIAN PAD.LONG TERM, THEY WILL BE THERE.
BUT THE PRIMARY THING THAT IT'S REALLY DOING IS IT'S HELPING ALLEVIATE THE PARKING OFF-SITE ISSUE, WHICH IS GOING TO ALLOW KIDS TO PARK ON-SITE.
AND NOT HAVE TO BE CROSSING THE ROADS ANYMORE TO INCREASE THE SAFETY THERE AS WELL.
Z'S POINT, IT WILL BE A MARCHING PAD AS WELL IN THE FUTURE.
SO THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, BY THE WAY.
WAS THIS PRESENTATION ALSO BROUGHT UP TO THE CPCOC COMMITTEE, AND WHAT WAS THEIR? FINDINGS IF YOU ALL RECALL THAT WE NOW BRING THINGS TO THE BOARD BEFORE WE TAKE IT TO CPCLC.
SO WE BRING THINGS TO YOU ALL FIRST AND AT YOUR ADVISEMENT, WE TAKE IT TO CPCLC.
SO, MADAM PRESIDENT, MY OPINION WOULD BE THAT IF WE ALLOWED THE CPCLC TO LOOK AT THIS INFORMATION FIRST BEFORE WE VOTE ON THIS.
SO WE ARE LUCKY TO NOT ONLY HAVE HE WAS A CO-CHAIR OF THE ENTIRE CBC OR THE CITIZENS LAW COMMITTEE I WAS THE CO-CHAIR FOR CAPITAL RENEWAL WHICH WROTE ALL OF THIS FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL AND I AM CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT WE PUT FORTH TO THE PUBLIC I KNOW LEGALLY WE HAVE HAD BOND COUNCILS SAY THAT IS APPROPRIATE.
I THINK SOMETIMES JUST BECAUSE IT'S LEGAL DOESN'T MEAN OUR COMMUNITY WILL FIND IT TRUSTWORTHY.
AND I FEEL LIKE THE DECISIONS, AND WE LOOKED AT ED SPECS, AND WE LOOKED AT THE DEMOGRAPHICS, AND THE, I MEAN, EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING.
AND IT CONCERNS ME THAT IT SEEMS THAT THE PRIORITIES ARE NOT ON ACADEMIC SPACES.
I LOVE THE END GOAL, RIGHT? I REALLY AM HAPPY THAT THE COMMUNITY CAN HANDLE THE TRANSPORTATION.
ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE MUCH NEEDED FOR THE CAMPUS, BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE PUT FORTH FOR THE BOND ELECTION.
AND SO IT MAKES ME A LITTLE BIT NERVOUS.
LIKE WE DIDN'T INCLUDE THE 900 BUILDING BECAUSE IT WAS BUILT IN 98 AND TO KEEP IT FUNCTIONING ISN'T VERY EXPENSIVE IN COMPARISON.
HAD PUT THAT IN, I DON'T KNOW, I'M PROBABLY GETTING TOO CLOSE TO MY TWO MINUTES, BUT AS PART OF THE ACADEMIC SPACES.
THERE ARE SOME OTHER THINGS THAT WE HAD DISCUSSED, AND I WANT THE COMMUNITY TO HAVE SAY INTO THIS.
THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SAYING, BUT I REALLY AM HESITANT ABOUT HOW BIG OF A CHANGE THIS IS.
TO FOCUS ON ATHLETICS INSTEAD OF ACADEMIC SPACES, IT MAKES ME NERVOUS.
CAN I JUST ADD ONE THING? AND OBVIOUSLY, AGAIN, AS I ALWAYS LIKE, WE WILL DO WHATEVER THE BOARD WANTS.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE BRINGING IT FORWARD TO YOU.
THIS IS NOT THE ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION.
THIS IS THE WORK OF STAKEHOLDERS, 40 OR 50 FOLKS WHO MET AT LEAST FIVE TIMES FOR THREE OR FOUR HOURS.
THERE WERE TEACHERS THERE, THERE WERE COACHES THERE, ADMINISTRATORS THERE, THERE WERE PARENTS IN THERE.
THERE WERE A VARIETY OF STAKEHOLDERS WHO WERE INVOLVED.
AND I KNOW WE DIDN'T TALK MUCH TOO MUCH ABOUT THE...
WE ARE BRINGING FORWARD WHAT THE COMMITTEE ACTUALLY PUT FORWARD TO US AFTER WE TALKED ABOUT IT AND DISCUSSED IT.
BUT WE UNDERSTAND THERE IS A CHANGE FROM THE SCOPE.
IT'S NOT THE SAME SCOPE THAT THE CBC CAME UP WITH.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE BRINGING THIS TO YOU.
FOR CONSIDERATION OR FOR FEEDBACK FOR INPUT BUT I WANT I WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW THIS IS NOT THIS IS NOT SOMETHING I CAME UP WITH OR THE ADMINISTRATION CAME OUT THIS IS THE WORK OF STAKEHOLDERS FROM ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL WHO CAME UP WITH THIS OVER THE COURSE OF SIX WEEKS THEY MET SEVERAL TIMES I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CLEAR BUT I MEAN WE WORKED ON IT FOR SIX MONTHS THAT'S CORRECT YOU KNOW, AND WE HAD FACULTY, WE HAD PARENTS, WE HAD...
EVERYBODY THERE, WE FACTORED IN EVERY SINGLE PREVIOUS COMMITTEE, THE MASTER PLAN, THE FACILITIES, ED SPECS.
THAT IS TWO MINUTES ON THIS ITEM.
ONCE IT'S ON ACTION, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE MORE TIME.
NICHOLS WANTS TO SAY SOMETHING.
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CAN I JUST GET CLARIFICATION, THOUGH? THE 900 BUILDING, IS THAT THE BAND HALL? OKAY, THANK YOU.SO ONE OF THE THINGS TO CONSIDER, SO AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK AS FAR AS THE COMMITTEE IN REGARDS TO ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
PRIOR TO THIS ROLE, PRIOR TO MY LAST ROLE, I WAS PRINCIPAL OF ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL, AND I WAS HERE DURING THE PROCESS AS FAR AS GOING THROUGH THE PLAN AS AN AP AND AN ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL WHEN WE DID THE MASTER PLAN TO BUILD THE NEW BUILDINGS AND SO FORTH.
SO I HAVE BEEN PART OF THIS PROCESS FOR A LONG TIME.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID BACK IN DECEMBER AS EVERYONE WAS KIND OF GOING THROUGH THE PLANS AND BASED ON WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION WAS, FOR THE BOND COMMITTEE, WE SAT DOWN BECAUSE PART OF WHAT KIND OF KNOWING HOW THE MASTER SCHEDULE WORKS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WAY TO SAY IT, THE PLAN THAT THE COMMITTEE BROUGHT FORWARD WOULD NOT WORK FOR THE WAY THE SCHOOL RUNS AND THE MASTER SCHEDULE WORKS.
AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THERE WERE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WERE OFF.
WHAT WE DID IS WE CALLED IN THE PRINCIPAL, WE PULLED THE MASTER SCHEDULE, WE LOOKED AT HOW MANY STUDENTS, SPACES WE NEED TO MAKE THE MASTER SCHEDULE WORK AS RELATED TO EVERYTHING FROM ATHLETICS TO FINE ARTS TO ALL THE DIFFERENT CLASSES? HOW MANY SCIENCE CLASSES WOULD WE NEED TO MAKE A SCHEDULE WORK? HOW MANY REGULAR CLASSES? HOW MANY ART ROOMS? ALL OF IT.
WOULD THERE BE A SPACE FOR THE CHEERLEADERS TO WORK OUT? WE WENT THROUGH ALL OF IT.
AND WHAT WE REALIZED IS THE PLAN THAT WAS BROUGHT FORWARD BY THE BOND COMMITTEE WOULD NOT ALLOW FOR A MASTER SCHEDULE TO WORK.
SO THE VERY FIRST THING THAT WE DID IS WE SAT DOWN AND WE SAID GIVE US ALL THE NUMBERS FOR ALL THESE DIFFERENT SPACES THAT WE NEED AND THAT'S WHAT WE USE AS OUR GUIDANCE TO BEGIN THEN BUILDING OUT THE PLAN.
SO THAT INITIAL MEETING WE MET WITH THE CAMPUS PRINCIPAL, THE PERSON THAT HAS BEEN SCHEDULED, MR. JASON JIRTE.
HE WAS MY ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL SO SINCE 2011 HE HAS BEEN DOING THIS SCHEDULE AND KNOWS ALL THE NUMBERS AS FAR AS STUDENTS IN ALL THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS. AND AGAIN, WHAT WAS PUT FORWARD, THE COMMITTEE, YES, IT WAS VERY THOUGHTFUL, BUT WHAT WAS MISSING IS THE MASTER SCHEDULING ASPECT OF IT AND HOW MANY SEATS WE NEED IN THE DIFFERENT AREAS.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE STARTED OUT WITH THE ARCHITECTS BECAUSE THEY WERE FOLLOWING THAT PLAN, AND WHAT WE SAID IS WE WON'T HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF SEATS FOR THE STUDENTS BASED ON WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
AND SO THAT'S WHERE THE DISCUSSION STARTED, AND WE SAT DOWN WITH THEM OVER SEVERAL DIFFERENT MEETINGS FIRST.
WE PULLED ALL THE NUMBERS FOR THE CTE CLASSES, FOR NOT JUST ATHLETICS, FOR THE CHEERLEADERS, WHERE DID THEY PRACTICE, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF CERTAIN THINGS GOT PULLED DOWN OR DEMOLISHED.
WE REALIZED THAT WE DID NOT HAVE ANY SPACE FOR ATHLETICS.
SO THIS SPACE DOWN HERE, OUR DANCE HALL ISN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR ALL OUR DIFFERENT DANCE TEAMS. WE DON'T HAVE A PLACE FOR THE CHEERLEADERS.
THEY DON'T HAVE A SEPARATE SPACE.
SPACE IN THE MAIN BUILDINGS FOR LOCKER ROOMS. SO WHAT WE REALIZED, SOME OF THESE SPACES HERE THAT WASN'T A PLAN TO TEAR DOWN INITIALLY WOULD THEN MEAN THERE WOULD BE A LOT OF PROGRAMS ATHLETICALLY THAT WE COULD NOT RUN BECAUSE WE'RE USING THESE EXTRA GYMS AND THE LOCKER ROOMS DOWN IN THIS SPACE IN ORDER TO TAKE UP FOR THOSE PROGRAMS. AND SO WHAT THEY UNDERSTOOD THEN IS, OKAY, IF WE TEAR THIS DOWN, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WILL NOT WORK FOR THE CAMPUS.
I THINK IF IT'S A MATTER OF YOU NEED FOR US TO COME BACK AND SHOW YOU SPECIFICALLY THE NUMBERS FOR THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS AND WHY THEN THIS ORDER WORKS FOR THE CAMPUS, BECAUSE THIS WAS DONE WITH THE PRINCIPAL, THE ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL, ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS HAD A SAYING IT, STUDENTS, AND THEIR MINDSET WAS WHAT DO WE NEED FOR THE MASTER SCHEDULE TO WORK AND IN WHAT ORDER CAN WE AFFORD TO TAKE BUILDINGS DOWN.
THE STUDENTS WERE ALWAYS AT THE CENTER OF THE PRIORITY.
AND SO IF WE NEED US TO BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK, WE CAN TO KIND OF SHOW YOU THE WHY BEHIND IT.
BUT THIS WAS DONE VERY SPECIFICALLY WITH THE CAMPUS IN MIND AND BASED ON WHAT THE CAMPUS ADMINISTRATION AND THE TEACHERS WANTED.
SO THIS WASN'T WHY I PUSHED MY BUTTON, BUT NOW AFTER HEARING THAT, HOW...
CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE DISCONNECT OF WHY CBC, I WAS NOT AS INTIMATELY INVOLVED AS TRUSTEE ROSS AND TRUSTEE CUERO, BUT CAN YOU HELP ME UNDERSTAND THE DISCONNECT WHY CBC THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD ALL OF THE INFORMATION TO BRING A PLAN AND WHAT ORDER OF BUILDINGS AND WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE, AND NOW THE REPORT BACK IS SOMETHING DIFFERENT FROM THAT? I JUST REALLY DON'T KNOW
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BECAUSE I WASN'T INVOLVED AS INTIMATELY AS THEY WERE.I THINK YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LEFT? YOU HAVE USED 50 SECONDS, SO YOU'VE GOT A MINUTE, 10 SECONDS.
WHEN THE CBC WAS DOING THE WORK, THIS, I THINK, WAS THE PART THAT WAS...
AND SO IT WAS A MATTER OF FEEDBACK WAS GIVEN, AND I THINK BASED ON THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF IT.
BUT IT WAS NEVER, IT WAS ALWAYS A MATTER OF PART OF THE DISCUSSION AND THE TENSION BACK AND FORTH, EVEN AS FAR AS GIVING FEEDBACK, WAS THE FACT THAT THE MASTER SCHEDULE IS WHAT DRIVES WHAT BUILDINGS NEEDED TO COME DOWN.
SO I THINK THAT THE DECISIONS WERE MADE WHEN WE WENT THROUGH THE BOND COMMITTEE BASED ON THE AGE OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS.
BUT IT WAS ALWAYS A MATTER OF THE MATH, THE SCHEDULE, WHAT DRIVES IT, AND HOW MANY CLASSROOMS WE HAVE AVAILABLE.
AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, WE STARTED PRIMARILY, WE LOOKED AT SCIENCE CLASSROOMS. YOU KNOW THEN BASED ON THE STORM THAT HAPPENED, WE HAD A WHOLE 300 BUILDING THAT WE CAN NO LONGER USE.
WE KNOW THAT THE 600 BUILDING IS WHERE WE HAVE OUR SCIENCE CLASSROOMS, THE 700 BUILDING, RIGHT.
SO THE CONSIDERATION WAS MADE, I THINK WHEN THE CBC WAS MAKING THIS DECISION, BASED ON AGE OF BUILDING VERSUS WHAT DO THOSE BUILDINGS SPECIFICALLY HOLD, AND THEN WHAT DOES THE MASTER SCHEDULE NEED IN ORDER FOR THOSE CLASSROOMS TO WORK.
ALSO, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST AS FAR AS SCIENCE, TO UNDERSTAND HOW COMPLEX IT IS, WHAT YOU NEED FOR A BIOLOGY CLASSROOM VERSUS A PHYSICS CLASSROOM VERSUS A CHEMISTRY CLASSROOM IS ALL DIFFERENT.
AND UNLESS YOU HAVE WORKED THE MASTER SCHEDULE HERE AND UNDERSTAND WHAT THOSE DIFFERENT ROOMS DO, ALL OF OUR SCIENCE CLASSROOMS CAN'T HOLD ALL THE SAME KINDS OF CLASSES.
SO YOU HAD TO UNDERSTAND HOW MANY OF CERTAIN CLASSROOMS CAN DO WHAT IN ORDER TO KNOW WHAT CAN WE TRULY AFFORD TO TAKE DOWN.
I THINK NOT THAT THEY DID A BAD JOB, BUT KNOWING INTIMATELY SCHEDULING AT THAT LEVEL BASED ON WHAT CLASSROOMS DO WAS A WHOLE DIFFERENT PROCESS.
BASED ON THE PROCESS THAT THE CBC USED.
LIKE I SAID, I DIDN'T SIT ON THE 24 BOND COMMITTEE LIKE THEY DID, BUT I DID CHAIR A COMMITTEE IN THE 2018, AND I KNOW HOW I WOULD FEEL IF I HAD DONE ALL OF THAT WORK AND THEN IT CAME TO THE BOARD AND IT WAS VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT I HAD INVESTED SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT IN THE COMMUNITY HAD.
I WOULD FEEL VERY, I THINK PROBABLY WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE RIGHT NOW.
BUT I HAVE A COUPLE OF OTHER QUESTIONS.
WHY ARE WE TEARING DOWN A BUILDING THAT'S LESS THAN 30 YEARS OLD, THE 900 BUILDING? LIKE, WE HAVE SO MANY BUILDINGS IN OUR REPERTOIRE THAT ARE SO MUCH OLDER THAN THAT.
WHY ARE WE TEARING DOWN A BUILDING THAT IS LESS THAN 30 YEARS OLD? IT'S MORE SO ABOUT THE CAPACITY AS FAR AS IF IT HAS THE BUILDING TO SUPPORT THE PROGRAMMING.
BASED ON THE SIZE OF ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL AND THE NUMBER IT'S PROJECTED TO GET AT BEFORE WE EVEN START GOING DOWN, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO REMAIN AT ABOUT 3,800 FOR A WHILE YET, AND WHEN WE COME DOWN, IT'S GOING TO TAKE AT LEAST FIVE YEARS, AND THEN WE'LL ONLY SUBSIST AT ABOUT 3,600 OR SO.
OUR ORCHESTRA PROGRAM, OUR BAND PROGRAM IS SO LARGE THAT THE BUILDING ITSELF DOESN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY TO SERVICE THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THAT WE HAVE WITHIN THAT PROGRAM.
AND SO THE PROGRAM IS ACTUALLY SUFFERING.
SO AGAIN, IT IS ALL BASED ON WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE WITHIN THE PROGRAM.
WHAT IT TAKES FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL FOR ITS NUMBERS TO HOUSE THAT PROGRAM AND DO THAT WORK IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM OTHER CAMPUSES BASED ON THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS THEY HAVE.
THAT BUILDING ALSO HOUSES A SECOND DANCE STUDIO.
BUT THE DANCE STUDIO, WHEN ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL WAS VERY SMALL, SUFFICED.
WE HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT DANCE TEAMS. AT ONE POINT, WE HAD A BALLET FOLKLORICAL.
THEY USE IT FOR OTHER THINGS IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SCHEDULE WORK.
AND SO IT'S ALSO A MATTER OF THAT DANCE STUDIO, IT DOES NOT ALLOW THEM TO RUN THEIR PROGRAMMING.
AND SO WHEN THEY MET WITH THE CAMPUS TEAM, THE CAMPUS TEAM TALKED ABOUT, HERE'S WHAT WE SPECIFICALLY USE THESE ROOMS FOR.
BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE SPACE, HERE'S WHERE THEY'VE BEEN PRACTICING IN ORDER TO MAKE THINGS WORK.
SO ALL OF THAT WAS PART OF THE DETERMINATION.
I THINK IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL IF WE COME BACK AND GIVE YOU THAT VERY SPECIFIC NUMBER, INFORMATION ABOUT PROGRAMMING, NUMBER OF STUDENTS, THE CAPACITY OF EACH OF THOSE SPACES.
IT MIGHT BE EASIER TO SEE THE WHY BEHIND THEN WHY CERTAIN THINGS HAD TO COME DOWN AND COME UP FIRST IN ORDER TO HELP OUT THE REST OF THE CAMPUS.
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IN THIS ATTENDANCE AREA, BUT I HAVE A LOT OF FRIENDS THAT DO AND A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT CONTACT ME AND THEY'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT PARKING AND HOW IT IS INEQUITABLE AT THIS CAMPUS COMPARED TO OUR OTHER HIGH SCHOOLS AROUND THE DISTRICT.AND I KNOW THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT PARKING AND THEN POSSIBLY CONVERTING PARKING TO A BAND PRACTICE PAD, BUT THEY NEED THAT SPACE DURING THE DAY TO PRACTICE SO THAT IT WON'T BE ABLE TO BE USED AS PARKING.
SO WHAT IS OUR IMMEDIATE? AVAILABILITY TO RESOLVE PARKING ISSUES AT THIS CAMPUS THAT I HEAR ABOUT ON A REGULAR REGULAR BASIS.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW BUT PEOPLE ARE PAYING OVER $300 A MONTH TO PARK AT THE STORAGE UNIT AND THAT'S IF YOU'VE GOT THEIR MONEY TO DO IT THEN THAT'S GREAT BUT THAT'S NOT EQUITABLE FOR PEOPLE WHO CAN'T AFFORD $300 A MONTH FOR THEIR KID TO PARK AT HIGH SCHOOL.
ABSOLUTELY AND SO THE THE BAND PAD WHICH WE'RE SEEING JUST TO THE TO THE NORTH OF THE MAIN BUILDING HERE FOR THIS PHASE WILL REMAIN WHERE IT CURRENTLY IS.
THE AREA THAT WE'RE IDENTIFYING AS NEW PARKING LOT.
WHERE THE ADMIN BUILDINGS CURRENTLY ARE, ALL OF THAT IS BEING TAKEN OUT AND BEING CONVERTED INTO NEW PARKING.
SO THAT WHOLE SECTION RIGHT THERE WILL INCREASE PROBABLY AROUND 200 TO 300 PARKING SPACES, BUT NOT JUST 200 TO 300 PARKING SPACES BECAUSE WE'RE RECAPTURING SOME OF THOSE ADMIN PARKING SPACES, WHICH WILL PRESERVE THAT THE ADMIN DOESN'T NEED ANYMORE.
BUT MY QUESTION IS WHEN WILL THAT BE AVAILABLE FOR THIS POPULATION? THE PHASE IN THIS BOND, AS SOON AS, YEAH, IT CAN BE ONE OF THE BIG PRIORITIES.
AND I GUESS THE BIG QUESTION IS WHEN THE ADMIN BUILDINGS ARE BEING TAKEN OFFLINE.
THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGER QUESTIONS.
I GUESS I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING.
IS IT GOING TO HAPPEN IN PHASE ONE WHEN WE'RE GOING TO TEAR DOWN THE ADMIN AND THEN THERE'S GOING TO BE, SO THAT'S GOING TO BE ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES? 100%.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION FOR RIGHT NOW IS.
WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE OLD HOPEWELL BUILDING THAT'S ON THAT SAME PROPERTY? AND I SEE THE LITTLE WHITE RECTANGULAR ISSUE.
THINK OF THIS AS VERY MUCH A DIAGRAMMATIC PLAN THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT HERE.
THERE'LL BE SOME LOVE AND ATTENTION THAT GETS PUT TO THE HOPEWELL BUILDING.
WE'LL THINK ABOUT THE ENTRY AND PARKING ASSOCIATED WITH THAT AS WELL.
BUT IT'S BASICALLY GOING TO BE SURROUNDED BY JUST A PARKING LOT, A STUDENT PARKING LOT? TREES.
WE CAN PUT SOME EFFORT INTO THE LANDSCAPING THAT HAPPENS AROUND THERE AS WELL.
IT'S A SPECIAL BUILDING, SO WE'LL GIVE IT SOME ATTENTION.
I JUST WANTED TO ADD THAT THE PARKING IS OUR BIGGEST PRIORITY, AND WE HAVE ALWAYS TRIED IN PHASE 1 TO INCLUDE AS MUCH PARKING AS WELL AS THE BUS LOOP.
WE ARE IN CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK RIGHT NOW.
WE ARE GOING TO DO A TRAFFIC STUDY AS SOON AS...
UNFORTUNATELY, THE TIMELINE WAS THAT THE SCHOOL ENDED AND THE SCHOOL IS GOING, WE CAN'T DO TRAFFIC STUDY WHEN THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH STUDENTS.
SO THE PRIORITY IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE PARKING AND THE BUS LOOP, BUT WE MIGHT BE TALKING TO CITY OF ROUND ROCK TO DETERMINE THE BEST OPTION FOR WHERE THAT GETS LOCATED.
AND THIS IS CERTAINLY NOT AGAINST ANY OF THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE, BUT PRESIDENT MARKHAM, I HAVE SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS ABOUT THIS PLAN AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD JUST FROM THE FEEDBACK THAT WE'RE GETTING FROM PEOPLE ON THE DAIS.
SO I'M NOT SURE HOW WE WANT TO ADDRESS MOVING FORWARD, BUT I DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS.
OKAY, I HAVE A FEW MORE PEOPLE IN THE QUEUE.
SO WOULD YOU MIND GO TO SLIDE NUMBER 14, PLEASE? I THINK IT'S THE LAST SLIDE.
SO HERE'S THE I JUST WANT TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE.
SO THIS IS THE FINAL DESIGN LIKE THE CAMPUS WOULD LOOK LIKE, RIGHT? SO MY QUESTION IS, YOU MENTIONED FOR 2024 BOND WE PUT 137 MILLION FOR DUAL LOSS WORK AND FOR FUTURE BOND WORK DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE LIKE IF WE WANT TO ACHIEVE THIS HOW MUCH MORE MONEY GOING TO BE COST DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE YES WE HAVE WE HAVE SOME SOME ROUGH IDEA ABOUT WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THE CAMPUS UP TO A 3800 STUDENT POPULATION FOR EDSPEC, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE PROBABLY TWO MORE BONDS OF ABOUT THE SAME SIZE.
SO I ACTUALLY FEEL VERY DIFFERENTLY THAN EVERYBODY ELSE, APPARENTLY ON THE DAIS, HAVING BEEN PART OF THE COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS AT MCNEIL.
I HONESTLY WAS A LITTLE CONCERNED WHEN WE DID THE 2024 HOW VERY SPECIFIC IT WAS ABOUT BUILDINGS.
BUT MY FIRST QUESTION IS, WHO WAS ON YOUR SHREDS? HOW MANY STUDENTS DID YOU HAVE?
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HOW MANY PARENTS DID YOU HAVE? HOW MANY TEACHERS? SO FOR THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP, WE HAD TWO PARENTS THAT WERE INVOLVED.WE HAD A LOT OF THE DISTRICT LEADERS AS FAR AS THE PROGRAMS ARE CONCERNED.
THE HIGH SCHOOL AND THEN WE HAD SOME DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION THERE AS WELL.
WE DID NOT HAVE ANY STUDENTS INVOLVED IN THIS PORTION OF IT.
WE DID SEND OUT THE SURVEY THAT WE HAD MENTIONED, AND I BELIEVE THAT 600 OF THE PEOPLE WHO RESPONDED TO THAT WERE STUDENTS FROM MCNEIL.
OKAY, MAYBE I'M NOT AS ON BOARD THEN.
I MEAN, I, WELL, I WILL JUST SAY TO MY COLLEAGUES, WHEN YOU GET INTO THOSE ROOMS AND YOU'RE TRYING TO DECIDE, IT'S VERY DIFFERENT THAN HAVING PEOPLE FROM THE OUTSIDE TELL YOU WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE THE PARENTS.
THE FACT THAT THERE WAS ONLY TWO PARENTS AND NO STUDENTS IS A LITTLE CONCERNING, JUST GIVEN WHAT I KNOW ABOUT THE MAKEUP OF THOSE OF US THAT DID THE MCNEIL ONE.
YOU KNOW, IT DID SAY IN THE 2024 ATHLETIC BUILDING LOCKER, OFFICE RENOVATIONS, TENNIS COURTS.
SO THAT PART DOESN'T REALLY CONCERN ME.
I WAS REALLY KIND OF CONCERNED.
THE CTE SPACES, WHO CHOSE THOSE? YOU KNOW, THE AUDITORIUM SEEMS LIKE A VERY BIG ASK.
IS THAT LIKE THE ONE AT STONY POINT AND CEDAR RIDGE THAT WE'RE PUTTING IN HERE? NOT THAT I'M AGAINST IT.
I'M JUST SORT OF CURIOUS HOW THOSE THINGS CAME UP.
THOSE TO ME WERE THE ONES THAT WERE VERY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT WAS IN THE BOND PACKAGE.
AND I GUESS I WOULD HAVE FELT MUCH BETTER IF THERE HAD BEEN STUDENTS INVOLVED.
AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, THOSE AREN'T A PART OF THIS BOND PACKAGE.
WHAT'S A PART OF THIS BOND PACKAGE IS GOING TO BE THE PERFORMING ARTS, SO SPECIFICALLY THROUGH MUSIC.
IT'S AN ACADEMIC WING, COURT SPORTS, AND FIELD SPORTS.
SO THE BREAKDOWN IS ROUGHLY ABOUT, IF YOU TAKE PERFORMING ARTS AND THE ACADEMIC WING, IT'S ABOUT 65% TO 70% OF THE PROJECT, AND THEN THE REST OF IT IS 30% IS FOR ATHLETICS.
OKAY, SO IT'S REALLY PAGE 8 IS ALL THAT YOU'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, BUT YOU'VE GIVEN US ON PAGE 14 WHAT YOU HOPE TO HAVE OR WHAT? THAT IS 14 IS THE LONG TERM.
THIS IS THE ENTIRE CAMPUS PLAN FOR 15, 20 YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
THAT'S TWO MINUTES, TRUSTEE WEIR.
CAN YOU, SO I'M GOING TO ASK MY QUESTIONS, BUT I HAVE SOME MORE PEOPLE IN THE QUEUE.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHO WAS ON THE COMMITTEE AGAIN? WHAT DID YOU SAY? ONLY TWO PARENTS AND WHO ELSE? TWO PARENTS.
THEN CONSISTENTLY IT WAS THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL.
WE HAD SOME DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION PEOPLE THERE AS WELL.
WE ALSO HAD SOME OF THE DISTRICT HEADS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS AS WELL.
AND TEACHERS, YES, A LOT OF TEACHERS AS WELL.
AND IT MAKES ME FEEL BETTER TO HEAR THE TEACHERS AS WELL BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES ON CAMPUS DOING THIS WORK.
SO AS ONE OF TWO TRUSTEES WHO LIVES IN THIS COMMUNITY, THIS MASTER PLAN SEEMS TO ALIGN WHAT I THINK THE COMMUNITY WOULD PRIORITIZE.
THE CBC DID DO A LOT OF WORK AND I DON'T WANT TO DISCOUNT HOW THEY MAY FEEL WITH A LOT OF THAT.
NOT NECESSARILY GOING OUT THE WINDOW, BUT BEING MODIFIED AND CHANGED AFTER PUTTING IN SIX MONTHS OF WORK.
SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE FEELINGS AROUND THAT ARE VALID.
I FALL INTO THE CATEGORY OF NOT BEING QUITE AS CONCERNED, UNDERSTANDING THAT ONCE YOU GET INTO THE DETAILS AND YOU GET INTO THE MASTER PLANNING, AND I'M GLAD YOU GAVE YOUR PERSPECTIVE ON MCNEIL, TRUSTEE WEIR, BECAUSE I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT THAT.
I'VE NEVER BEEN THROUGH A MASTER PLANNING PROCESS AND I CAN UNDERSTAND HOW CHANGES ARE MADE ONCE YOU GET INTO THE WORK.
SO I'M NOT AS CONCERNED ABOUT THAT PART, BUT FROM WHAT I'M HEARING THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL TRUSTEES WHO ARE CONCERNED.
I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL GIVEN THAT THERE WERE ONLY TWO PARENTS ON THE COMMITTEE BECAUSE YOU HAD A FAIRLY LARGE SURVEY RESPONSE.
BEING ABLE TO SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF THAT SURVEY AS WELL AND WHO RESPONDED.
BECAUSE IF WE HAD MORE PARENT PARTICIPATION AND STUDENT PARTICIPATION THERE, THAT MIGHT MAKE ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT BETTER ABOUT THE PARENTS WITHIN THIS COMMUNITY.
I MEAN, I THINK WE DO HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT THE VOTERS IN THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL
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LEARNING COMMUNITY WERE NOT THE ONLY VOTERS ON THIS BOND.AND SO WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE.
I DO THINK THAT THEIR PRIORITIES ARE ELEVATED BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONES IN THIS COMMUNITY, RIGHT? THEY'RE THE STAKEHOLDERS.
BUT THAT WE'RE BEING TRANSPARENT AND HONEST WITH ALL OF OUR VOTERS.
AND SO I THINK MAYBE HAVING THAT BREAKDOWN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE...
SO MY FEELINGS ARE NOT HURT, OKAY? I JUST WANT TO STICK TO THE FACTS THAT THE CBC WENT THROUGH A PROCESS.
WE WERE GIVEN INFORMATION THAT LED US TO THAT DECISION.
HOW I FEEL THAT THIS IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THE CBC IN 2024 PROVIDED, BUT BASICALLY THAT THE INFORMATION THAT WE PROVIDED WERE PART OF A DECISION THAT WAS BASED ON DATA THAT WAS GIVEN TO US.
OKAY, I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE.
WE CAN CONTINUE DISCUSSION WHEN WE GET TO ACTION ITEMS TO DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND FOR ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS.
OKAY, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO AGENDA ITEM G1, BOARD STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS TIME TRACKER.
[G. DISCUSSION ITEMS]
I'LL TURN IT OVER TO TRUSTEE WEI.SO IN APRIL, WE HAD THREE MEETINGS, AND ONE OF THEM IS THE WORKSHOP.
AND WE HAVE 442 MINUTES IN TOTAL, AND THEN 226 ARE RELATED TO STUDENT OUTCOMES.
SO WE HAVE 51% STUDENT OUTCOME MINUTES.
DO I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? DO YOU REALLY? IT IS ACTUALLY KIND OF A QUESTION.
I WAS WONDERING IF WE COULD KIND OF START GETTING HISTORICAL OF LIKE MONTH BY MONTH WHAT WE'RE DOING SO LIKE A 12 MONTH RUNNING CLOCK OR EVEN A 24 MONTH RUNNING CLOCK OF HOW MANY PERCENTAGE WE'VE SPENT.
JUST CHECK OUT, I MEAN, YEAH, THIS IS GREAT, BUT HONESTLY, I DON'T REMEMBER WHAT MARCH'S WAS ALREADY.
AND JUST THAT COULD BE PART OF THE MONTHLY PRESENTATION WHEN WE DO OUR TIME TRACKER.
I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW KIND OF EVEN JUST A BAR GRAPH.
I WOULD ALSO BE INTERESTED IN MAYBE, I'M NOT SAYING THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA.
I DON'T KNOW YET, BASED OFF OF THE TIME COMMITMENT ON IT.
BUT TO KNOW IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS, LIKE THE HISTORY, THAT EVERY APRIL WE HAVE THIS, WHATEVER, I THINK WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
EVERY APRIL AND OCTOBER WE HAVE ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS, HIGHER MONTHS.
AND SO JUST SEEING THE HISTORY TREND OF I THINK IT WOULD BE INTERESTING.
AND KNOWING, OKAY, THIS ISN'T THAT OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR AN APRIL.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING SOME HISTORICAL DATA ON THAT NUMBERS.
THE WAY YOU LOOKED AT ME WHEN I PUSHED MY, YOU REALLY HAVE A QUESTION ON THIS ITEM? BUT I JUST, I MEAN, THE WHOLE POINT OF TRACKING THIS STUFF IS TO TRY TO KEEP US ACCOUNTABLE, AND WE'RE JUST LOOKING AT ONE MONTH IN ARREARS, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL FOR US TO LOOK AT A LONGER HISTORICAL, I THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY EASY TO COMPILE.
TRUSTEE WAY I'M GLAD YOU ASKED SO I CREATED A SPECIAL ALREADY SO THANK YOU FOR THE QUICK TURNAROUND THAT IS THE KIND OF THE RESPONSE I EXPECT SO FOR JANUARY WE HAVE 60 FEBRUARY FEBRUARY IS ZERO SORRY AND THEN FOR MARCH WE HAVE 15% ONE FIGHT.
SO IF, IF THERE'S CONSENSUS, I MEAN, WE CAN, WE CAN ADD THAT ON LIKE EVERY QUARTER TO SEE, DO YOU WANT TO DO IT EVERY MONTH? OKAY.
WELL THEN WE WILL ADD THAT ON.
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FOR THE SUGGESTION AND FOR ALREADY DOING THE WORK.OKAY, MOVING ON TO ACTION ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION BY CONSENT.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE WE APPROVE ITEMS H1 THROUGH 10
[H. ACTION ITEMS FOR CONSIDERATION BY CONSENT]
BY CONSENT.ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0.
OKAY, MOVING ON TO ACTION ITEMS. ACTION ITEM I1, DO I HAVE A MOTION? WE WILL DO DISCUSSION, BUT DO I HAVE A MOTION?
[I. ACTION ITEMS]
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL CONCEPT PLAN AS PRESENTED.WHAT'S YOUR POINT? I HAVE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION.
I MOVE THAT WE TABLE THIS ITEM TO ALLOW A LITTLE ADDITIONAL FEEDBACK FOR TRUSTEES' QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED, ESPECIALLY WITH WHAT DR. NICHOLS BROUGHT UP OF KIND OF...
GIVEN US MORE IN-DEPTH INFORMATION ON HOW THEY MADE THIS DECISION.
THAT WE TABLED THIS MOTION TO GET ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? TRUSTEE WEIR.
I WOULD RATHER WE GO AHEAD AND TALK ABOUT IT AND DO IT HERE BECAUSE I THINK THE PRESENTATION, WHILE VERY THOROUGH, MAYBE SHOULD HAVE STOPPED AT PAGE 10 BECAUSE PAGE 10 WOULD HAVE BEEN WITHIN THE SCOPE.
AND I THINK WHEN WE WENT PAST PAGE 10 AND GOT INTO THE FUTURE PART IS WHERE WE GOT CONFUSED.
AND I WILL JUST SAY THAT AT MCNEIL, EVEN THOUGH WE HAD DONE THAT WHOLE THING THE FIRST TIME.
WHEN THEY GOT MORE MONEY, THEY WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT IT AGAIN, AND THEY'VE REDONE IT.
SO I THINK IF WE JUST STOPPED AT PAGE 10, THAT IS WITHIN THE SCOPE, AND I THINK THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE BOARD, I WOULD HOPE, WOULD BE COMFORTABLE OF APPROVING.
I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THE DELAY IT WOULD BE, BUT DELAYING THIS PROJECT, THE DESIGN WORK IS GOING TO GET PUSHED BACK BY THREE MONTHS.
BECAUSE WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD WITH ANY OF THIS PROJECT AS FAR AS ALL THIS DESIGN INTO THIS THING IS APPROVED.
AND THEN THAT'S GOING TO ADD ON COST.
AS YOU KNOW, INFLATION IS GOING MORE AND MORE.
RIGHT NOW THE PROJECT IS WITHIN BUDGET.
BUT IF WE DELAY IT THREE MONTHS, THAT THREE MONTHS CAN MOVE INTO SIX MONTHS WHEN WE GET INTO THE CONSTRUCTION PHASE.
MADAM PRESIDENT, YOU HAD A MOTION AND A SECOND, SO I THINK YOU'VE GOT TO DISCUSS THAT MOTION.
AND IF THAT FAILS, THEN YOU GET YOUR...
ALTERNATIVE MOTION BECAUSE IT'S NOT REALLY AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION.
SO I THINK THERE'S DISCUSSION SO DISCUSSION ON THE ALTERNATIVE ON THE FIRST ON THE ON THE FIRST MOTION SO I PUT A SUBSTITUTE MOTION IN AND THAT TAKES PRECEDENT OVER THE FIRST EMOTION BUT YOU DID IT AFTER THERE WAS A SECOND SO I THINK THAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT HE HAD ALREADY I MEAN HE HAD ALREADY SECONDED THE MOTION SO THAT GIVES IT TO THE BOARD WHATEVER.
I MEAN, UNLESS YOU WANT TO WITHDRAW THE SECOND AND CONSIDER THE ALTERNATIVE MOTION.
BUT I THINK WHAT IS APPROPRIATE AT THIS POINT IS DISCUSSION, AND THEN IF YOU DON'T GET A MAJORITY ON THE MOTION, YOU HAVE THE ALTERNATIVE MOTION.
SO THE FIRST MOTION IS TO APPROVE.
SO DISCUSSION WILL BE ON THE FIRST MOTION TO APPROVE THE PLAN.
I THINK I AGREE WITH TRUSTEE WEIR THAT THE PRESENTATION IS VERY INFORMATIVE.
IT'S A LOT OF INFORMATION AND I DON'T HAVE ISSUE WITH HOW WE DESIGN BECAUSE IT IS COMING FROM THE SCHOOL, THE CAMPUS.
I KNOW IT COULD BE DIFFERENT WITH THE COMMITTEE'S IDEA.
I DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH CONCERN ABOUT THAT PLAN, ESPECIALLY HAD THE SLIDE 10 TO 14.
THERE'S A LONG-TERM PLAN ALREADY INCLUDED.
I DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH THAT.
SO I, AGAIN, THIS ISN'T ABOUT ME OR MY WORK ON A COMMITTEE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
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THE PLAN IS NOT WHAT WAS PASSED.AND I DON'T THINK A COMMITTEE OF TWO PARENTS AND ZERO STUDENTS AND ADMIN SHOULD GO AROUND WHAT THE VOTERS VOTED FOR.
AND IT WASN'T JUST THE CAPITAL RENEWAL COMMITTEE THAT WORKED ON THIS.
IT WAS FINE ARTS, IT WAS ATHLETICS, IT WAS GROWTH.
COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WAS COMPREHENSIVE.
AND SO ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BROUGHT UP, I CAN GIVE YOU ANSWERS ON HOW WE DISCUSSED IT AND WORKED THROUGH THOSE THINGS.
AND THE GOAL WAS TO CREATE A LARGE ENOUGH SPACE, BUT STILL HANDLE ROUND ROCK'S ISSUES IN A PHASE ONE, FOCUSED ON ACADEMICS.
WE WOULD HAVE LOVED TO GIVE THEM A PACKED-SIZE SPACE.
THING YOU KNOW ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND WE WE MADE IT SO IN THE FUTURE THE WITH FUTURE BONDS WE COULD FOCUS ON ATHLETICS WE COULD FOCUS ON FINE ARTS WE COULD FOCUS ON ALL THESE OTHER THINGS BUT WE WANTED TO ADDRESS YOU KNOW THE THE FACILITIES ISSUES AND ACADEMIC SPACES FIRST UM AND SO I I FEEL LIKE EVEN THOUGH THIS MIGHT BE LEGAL I DON'T THINK I WOULD FIND IT TRUSTWORTHY AND I'M NOT SAYING THAT IT'S NOT IN THE VIEW OF THE COMMUNITY, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THAT THIS IS WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE VIEWED, BECAUSE NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT A MULTI-PHASE PROJECT TO GET THEM, YOU KNOW, AND I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE ADMIN PARKING LOT.
THAT'S SOMETHING WE DISCUSSED IN THE COMMITTEE.
LIKE THAT'S NOT, WE WANTED, WE KNEW PARKING WAS A BIG ISSUE.
BUT THERE'S JUST A LOT HERE THAT I PERSONALLY WOULD FIND VOTING YES ON THIS VERY UNCOMFORTABLE.
TWO MINUTES, BECAUSE IT'S ACTION, YOU'RE GOING TO GET ANOTHER.
TWO MINUTES BECAUSE YOU DO SO.
OH, BUT I MEAN THAT'S TWO MINUTES OR IF PEOPLE ASK YOU A QUESTION I CAN TELL YOU ANYTHING.
SO A COUPLE OF THINGS, RIGHT? SO MY ONE POINT IS WE'RE MAKING A DECISION WITHOUT SHOWING THIS TO THE COMMITTEE THAT LOOKS OVER THE BOND, WHICH IS THE CPCOC.
WE'RE MAKING A DECISION BEFORE THEY HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT THAT.
THE SECOND POINT IS, SO LET'S SAY IN FUTURE BONDS, I THINK WE SAID IN THE PRECEDENT, RIGHT? WE'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO GO FOR A BOND.
WE'RE GOING TO PUT THE LANGUAGE IN THERE.
BUT THEN WE COULD CHANGE OUR MIND HOWEVER WE WANT TO.
I THINK THAT'S DANGEROUS, IN MY OPINION.
YEAH, I GUESS I'M CONFUSED ON WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON NOW, BECAUSE IT DOES SAY FUTURE BOND WORK, AND I THOUGHT WE WERE VOTING FOR THE BEGINNING PART OF THIS, THE PHASE ONE.
DO YOU ALL HAVE A PROBLEM WITH PHASE ONE? OKAY, WHY? BECAUSE IT IS NOT, I FEEL, WHAT WAS THE, IF THEY COULD ANSWER, YOU TALKED ABOUT, WAS IT, I'M TRYING TO FIND IT ON MY NOTES.
HOW MUCH WAS FOCUSED ON FINE ARTS AND ATHLETICS? YOU KNOW, BUT IT WAS A PERCENTAGE.
JENNIFER, CAN WE PUT THE PRESENTATION BACK UP, PLEASE? 60-30.
BUT HE SAID FINE ARTS WAS PART OF ACADEMICS.
IT IS AROUND 65%, 35%, ATHLETICS BEING 35%, 65% BEING CORE ACADEMICS WITH SCIENCE AND CLASSROOMS, AS WELL AS MUSIC AND PERFORMING.
AND THEN IF YOU REMOVE THE MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE AND JUST HAD SPECIAL EDUCATION AND ACADEMICS? IT'S PROBABLY AROUND 40%.
IT'S ABOUT A 25,000 SQUARE FOOT FOOTPRINT WITH TWO FLOORS TO IT.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ACTUAL SQUARE FOOTAGES ON THERE.
I MEAN, I WILL SAY THAT WE DID TALK ABOUT MASTER SCHEDULE AND PUT IN EXTRA MONEY TO HANDLE MASTER SCHEDULE CONCERNS.
ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE RAIN? YEAH.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF I'M ALLOWED TO SPEAK AT THIS PARTICULAR MOMENT, BUT THE ONLY DEVIATION THAT WE SEE IN THE BOND LANGUAGE HAS TO DO WITH DEMOLITION OF BUILDINGS.
RIGHT, THAT'S ALL THAT WE'RE TALKING
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ABOUT IS THE DEMOLITION OF THE BUILDINGS.AND IF WE DEMOLISH 250,000 SQUARE FOOT OF SPACE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO BUILD BACK 250,000 SQUARE FOOT OF SPACE.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, BASED ON THE CAMPUS MASTER SCHEDULE, THEY ARE OPERATING AT 75% CAPACITY, WHICH IS WHAT'S EXPECTED FOR ANY HIGH SCHOOL, OF ALL OF THEIR EXISTING SPACES.
YOU WHEN THE BOND HAS 140,000 SQUARE FOOT OF SPACE CALLED FOR TO BE BUILT BACK, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE BUILDING BACK.
WE'RE BUILDING BACK THE SQUARE FOOTAGE FROM THE BOND.
WE'RE JUST NOT DEMOING AS MUCH SPACE.
OKAY, I'M STILL ON TRUSTEE ZARATE.
I'M JUST LISTENING AT THIS POINT.
CAN I ASK ONE QUICK QUESTION ON THE DEMO PART? I THOUGHT THESE BUILDINGS WERE SELECTED TO BE DEMOED BECAUSE OF THE COST TO MAINTAIN THEM WAS GOING TO BE SO EXORBITANT.
AND SO THE BOARD WAS LIKE, YEAH, THIS BUILDING NEEDS A $10 MILLION AIR CONDITIONER UNIT, SO LET'S JUST GO AHEAD AND DEMOLISH IT.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M CONFUSED ABOUT IS THAT I THOUGHT THAT ALL OF THOSE WERE SELECTED BECAUSE IT WAS NOT ECONOMICALLY WISE TO KEEP THEM.
BECAUSE OF THE AGE AND THE REPAIR THAT THEY NEEDED.
BUT THAT WAS REALLY THE INTENTION, RIGHT? BUT REMEMBER WHAT NATALIE, EXACTLY THE POINT WHAT NATALIE WAS SAYING, AT THAT TIME WE DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE MASTER SCHEDULE WHEN WE WORKED WITH THE CBC.
WE DID NOT DO A VERY, LIKE, REALLY DEEP DIVE TO FIGURE OUT IF IT ACTUALLY COULD WORK.
WE ALL WERE WORKING TOGETHER, COMING UP WITH OPTIONS, BUT WE REALLY, AGAIN, WE NEEDED TO DO THAT.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS COMMITTEE DID.
THE PLAN IS CHANGED BECAUSE OF THE NEEDS AND WHAT WE CAN OR CANNOT DO.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT WASN'T BECAUSE YEAH, GO AHEAD.
SO IN 30 DAYS, YOU WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THAT? WHEN WE HAD SIX MONTHS TO WORK ON IT? SIR.
BECAUSE WE HAD THE COUNSELORS INVOLVED, THE PRINCIPALS INVOLVED.
AND PLEASE USE YOUR BUTTONS TO ASK QUESTIONS.
AND SO IF I CAN ANSWER THAT, AND I PROMISE YOU WE MEAN NO DISRESPECT, BUT THE ANSWER REALLY IS YES.
BECAUSE WE WORK THAT MASTER SCHEDULE.
LITERALLY, WHEN YOU WORK A MASTER SCHEDULE, YOU HAVE TO KNOW...
AT ANY ONE TIME BASED ON, SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF I HAVE ATHLETICS AND ATHLETICS IS DURING A CERTAIN PERIOD OF THE DAY AND BASED ON IF IT'S JUNIORS OR SENIORS OR FRESHMEN, I HAVE TO KNOW THAT I HAVE TO HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF SEATS IN OTHER PLACES.
SO WE LITERALLY KNOW, WE DO KNOW, AS FAR AS PROGRAM-WISE, HOW MUCH SPACE IT TAKES IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SCHEDULE WORK AND WHERE WE'VE BEEN DEFICIENT.
SO THE WHOLE PROBLEM WHEN INITIALLY THE...
THE ARCHITECTS CAME TO US AND THEY HAD HERE'S AN INITIAL PLAN BASED ON WHAT THE THE WHAT DO YOU CALL IT THE BOND COMMITTEE WROTE UP.
IMMEDIATELY WE KNEW THAT THERE WAS A CONCERN AND SO WE BROUGHT IN THE CAMPUS TO SAY ALL RIGHT TALK TO US ABOUT BASED ON HERE'S THE INITIAL PLAN POKE HOLES IN WHAT YOU SEE AS CONCERNS AND THEY WERE ABLE TO TELL US.
BASED ON THE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH SEATS FOR CTE.
BASED ON THE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE, WE HAVE A THEATER PROGRAM THAT NEEDS TWO SPACES IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WORK.
WE WON'T HAVE ENOUGH SPACE FOR OUR THEATER KIDS.
WE WON'T HAVE A PLACE FOR THE DANCE TEAM.
WE WON'T HAVE A PLACE FOR OUR CHEERLEADERS BASED ON THE FACT THAT WITHIN THIS BUILDING WHERE THEY HAVE THEIR, THEY DO THEIR PRACTICE AND WHERE THEIR LOCKER ROOMS ARE.
SO THEY WERE ABLE TO SEE, BASED ON THE PLAN, ALL THE PLACES WHERE WE WOULD BE DEFICIENT.
RIGHT, BECAUSE WHEN WE RUN THE MASTER SCHEDULE, WE LITERALLY HAVE ON A LIST HOW MANY SPACES AT ANY ONE TIME IT TAKES BASED ON THE SIZE OF OUR CAMPUS, THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WE HAVE, AND THE GRADE LEVEL THEY'RE IN, AND THE CLASSES THAT THEY WILL NEED IN ORDER TO MAKE THE MASTER SCHEDULE WORK.
SO WE REALLY DID KNOW THAT, AND IT REALLY DID TAKE PLACE.
WE MET IN DECEMBER, AND WE SAT DOWN FOR HALF OF A DAY.
THEY, WE BROUGHT IN ALL THE NUMBERS AND THEN WE MET AGAIN AND WE SAID SHE WORKED UP SOME INITIAL NUMBERS AND WE CAME BACK, HERE'S WHAT'S WRONG HERE, THIS IS WRONG, THIS IS OUR MASTER SCHEDULE.
WE PULLED OUR COURSE REQUEST LIST FOR OVER A COUPLE OF YEARS SO WE CAN SHOW DATA AS FAR AS WHY THE SPACES THEY HAVE WOULD NOT BE ENOUGH IN THE RIGHT CONFIGURATION TO MEET OUR NEEDS.
WE JUST PULLED MASTER SCHEDULE DATA AND COURSE REQUESTS.
AND LOOK AT THE SPACES WE HAVE, AND WE WERE ABLE
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TO SAY WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE PLAN THAT WE WERE GIVEN.AND I THINK, THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION, BUT I THINK, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, TRUSTEE ROSS, BUT WHEN WE HAD EXTENSIVE CONVERSATIONS AT THE CBC WITH ALL THE SUBCOMMITTEES REGARDING RON ROCK.
AND THE REASON WHY WE DID THAT IS BECAUSE WE WANTED TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE POINTS THAT YOU BROUGHT UP.
AND THE INFORMATION THAT WERE GIVEN TO US ABOUT THE MASTER PLAN, THAT WAS THE BEST ROUTE TO TAKE.
SO IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY AS FAR AS WHO WAS ON WHICH COMMITTEES, AND SO SPECIFICALLY I REMEMBER I WAS TASKED WITH BEING ON THE GROWTH COMMITTEE BECAUSE WE THOUGHT IT WOULD COME TO THE GROWTH COMMITTEE, AND THEN THIS GOT KICKED FROM THE GROWTH COMMITTEE.
AND IT WENT, I THINK, TO CAPITAL? WELL, TO CAPITAL RENEWAL.
AND SO I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY IT.
WE DID NOT HAVE A SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT AS FAR ON THERE.
AND SO WE DID GIVE ALL THE DATA THAT WAS WANTED, BUT THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE MASTER SCHEDULE WAS WHAT WAS MISSING.
AND THERE WAS NEVER ANYONE THERE TO BE ABLE TO TELL THE COMMITTEE OR TO EVEN TO, LIKE, PUSH BACK A LITTLE AND SAY, HEY, THE WAY YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS IS NOT EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND AS FAR AS, AND AGAIN, IT IS NOT A HUGE DEVIATION FROM WHAT IT IS THE COMMITTEE VOTED ON.
IT'S JUST SOME SMALL DEVIATIONS IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WORK AS FAR AS WHAT NEEDS TO COME DOWN.
SO WE KEPT THE CORE OF IT AT ITS HEART, BUT IT'S JUST A MATTER OF SOME OF THE NUMBERS BASED ON THE SPACES WOULD NOT WORK.
SO THEY TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE SPACE WE WOULD NEED FOR SPECIAL EDUCATION, WHERE WE'D MOVE TO, THE SCIENCE CLASSES THAT WOULD NEED TO COME DOWN, THE FACT THAT THAT WAS PRIMARILY GOING TO BE IN THAT WING, TO INCLUDE ALSO SOME FAC AND FCC SPACES, BECAUSE FOR ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL, BASED ON WHAT'S FEEDING INTO US FROM OUR MIDDLE SCHOOLS, THE FAC AND FCC WINGS THAT WE HAVE DOES NOT MEET THE SIZE THAT WE NEED.
SO THEY TOOK THAT INTO CONSIDERATION AS THEY WERE BUILDING THE WINGS AND TO ADDED EXTRA SPACE INTO THERE.
SO EVERYTHING THAT WAS FED INTO THERE WAS BASED ON OUR MASTER SCHEDULE NUMBERS.
I JUST WANT TO SAY I THINK WE SHOULD TRUST THE COMMITTEE THAT THE CAMPUS COMMITTEE.
AND I DECISION AND BECAUSE THEY ARE THEY KNOW THE CAMPUS BETTER THAN THE DISTRICT-WIDE COMMITTEE THAT'S ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THE OTHER THING IS AGAIN WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO WAIT ANOTHER THREE SIX MONTHS YOU NEVER KNOW THE MATERIAL EVERYTHING GONNA BE GOING UP I DON'T THINK WE CAN AFFORD THAT UM I UNDERSTAND THERE'S DISAGREEMENT HERE BUT IF WE CANNOT PUSH NOT PUSH AGREED THAT MOVING FORWARD THAT WILL COST MORE MONEY TO A DISTRICT.
NICHOLS WAS IN ON OUR MEETINGS.
SO WE DISCUSSED A LOT ABOUT MASTER SCHEDULE PLAN.
I THINK WHAT MY CONCERN IS, IS THE WHEN AND I DON'T THINK WHAT'S HARD IS BECAUSE ROUND ROCK WAS THIS, THE SCOPE OF IT WITH THE CBC, IT WAS SO OUT OF CHARACTER FOR HOW WE NORMALLY WORK, BECAUSE WE BROUGHT EVERYBODY IN.
AND THERE WASN'T A COMMITTEE THAT WAS ABLE TO BRING THAT ON, RIGHT, AND KIND OF CREATE, BECAUSE WE HAD TO FACTOR IN GROWTH, AND WE HAD TO FACTOR IN FINE ARTS, AND ATHLETICS, AND WE HAD TO FACTOR IN ALL OF THESE THINGS.
TALKING ABOUT HOW CAPITAL RENEWAL DROVE THIS BUS AND THIS WASN'T ABOUT ONCE IT WAS ABOUT NEEDS AND WE LOOKING AT THIS TO ME THEY ARE HANDLING A FEW ONCE NOT SAYING THAT THEY'RE NOT STRONG ONES THAT ARE JUSTIFIED FOR HOW OUR OTHER CAMPUSES ARE RIGHT LIKE I I LOVE THE PLAN THAT'S NOT THE CONCERN IS I FEEL LIKE THE PHASE ONE PRIORITIES ARE A LITTLE BIT OFF.
IT IS TWO MINUTES AND I WILL BE QUIET, I GUESS.
YEAH, I THINK LIKE FOR ME, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU JUST SAID ABOUT THE WANTS VERSUS NEEDS.
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YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THAT.I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT REALITY HAPPENS AND THAT SOMETIMES WE DON'T PLAN AS WELL AS WE THINK.
NOW HERE'S WHAT I'M SAYING, THE WAY I'M THINKING, IS YEAH, MAYBE WE VOTE FOR THIS TONIGHT, MAYBE WE DON'T, WHO KNOWS.
BUT IF WE DO, AND WE FIND OUT THAT FURTHER ALONG THE LINE THAT THESE PLANS ARE BEING DEVIATED FROM MORE, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET THE VOTE AGAIN.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT FROM ME, BECAUSE I DON'T TRUST THEM NOW.
I DON'T DISTRUST THIS PLAN AT ALL.
AND I KNOW I WASN'T ON THE COMMITTEE, I WASN'T THERE FOR EVERY MEETING, BUT I WAS A PART OF THE BOND PROCESS.
FEEL LIKE THIS IS AS FAR OF A DEVIATION ACROSS FROM WHAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE HAPPEN.
OR I DON'T THINK TONIGHT IS AS FAR OF A DEVIATION BECAUSE THOSE ARE FUTURE PLANS.
AND THOSE COULD ALSO CHANGE FOR VERY MANY REASONS.
AND SO FOR ME, IT'S A BUYER BEWARE OR ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY SITUATION WHERE I REALLY HOPE WE'RE NOT GETTING BIT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO SEND SHOCK WAVES THROUGH THIS DISTRICT IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN.
WE HAVE TO BE TRANSPARENT ABOUT THIS STUFF, BECAUSE THAT'S THE ONE THING THAT EVERYBODY WANTS FROM US IS TRANSPARENCY.
AND THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY TRANSPARENT, AND IT ONLY TOOK TWO PEOPLE TO FIGURE IT OUT.
I UNDERSTAND AND I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE TRUSTEE ROSS AND TRUSTEE CUERO'S HARD WORK ON THIS.
I ALSO WANT TO POINT OUT ON PAGE SIX, WE DO SAY ATHLETICS ON THERE, WE DO SAY FINE ARTS, WE TOLD THE VOTERS ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
AND I FEEL LIKE I AM CONCERNED THAT THERE WERE ONLY TWO PARENTS.
I'M CONCERNED THERE WEREN'T ANY STUDENTS ON THAT COMMITTEE.
THE COMMITTEE WAS, THE CHARETTE'S TEAM WAS PICKED VERY DIFFERENTLY AT MCNEIL TO BE MORE INCLUSIVE.
AND SO IT WAS MUCH EASIER TO GO WITH THAT.
WE ALSO HAD MORE PARENTS ADVOCATING FOR WHAT WE WANTED AS A CAMPUS.
AND WE HAD STUDENTS ADVOCATING FOR THAT, AND THEY CAME AND SPOKE TO ADVOCATE WHEN WE HAD THIS FOR MCNEIL AFTER 2014.
BUT IF I LOOK AT PAGE 10, THAT TO ME IS OPPOSITE, NOT THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS, BUT THAT EVERYTHING IN THERE IS LISTED ON OUR 2024 BOND LIST, THE BOND SCOPE THAT WE HAD.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE WATER HEATERS, BUT I'M GOING TO ASSUME, YOU KNOW, THAT'S MAYBE PART IN THERE.
I MEAN, I LOOK AT THE MUSIC PROGRAM IS HUGE AT THIS CAMPUS, HUGE COMPARED TO LIKE MCNEIL, WESTWOOD, ALL OF THE OTHER ONES.
AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE TO HAVE NOT JUST VARSITY, BUT THEY HAVE TO HAVE SUB VARSITY.
THEY HAVE TWO MARCHING GROUPS.
SO I AND THAT'S SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF THE STUDENT.
YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL TWO MINUTES, THOUGH.
OKAY, I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS.
FIRST, I WANT TO APOLOGIZE BECAUSE I DON'T WANT EITHER OF YOU TO FEEL LIKE I WAS TALKING DOWN TO YOU ABOUT YOUR FEELINGS.
I KNOW IT'S NOT ABOUT FEELINGS.
I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE WORK THAT WENT INTO IT AND ALL THE FACT-FINDING YOU DID BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT THE FACTS AND BEING TRANSPARENT TO OUR VOTERS.
SO I'M VERY SORRY IF IT FELT LIKE I WAS TALKING DOWN OR NOT SAYING THE CORRECT THING.
BUT I DO WANT TO SAY THAT IT ALSO FEELS TO ME LIKE IT'S NOT THAT MUCH OF A DEVIATION FROM WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE VOTERS.
I THINK THAT I DO THINK, BASED ON ALL THE INFORMATION WE'VE RECEIVED TONIGHT, THAT IT DOES FEEL LIKE THIS IS WHAT WAS GENERALLY PRESENTED TO THE VOTERS.
AND AGAIN, I'LL GO BACK TO THE NUMBER OF TEACHERS THAT WERE STAKEHOLDERS IN THIS WHO WERE ON THAT CAMPUS.
TO ME, THAT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE.
I WISH THERE WERE MORE PARENTS AND STUDENTS ON THE COMMITTEE AND MAYBE MOVING FORWARD, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AMENDING AS THIS PLAN CONTINUES TO DEVELOP.
BECAUSE AS WE SAID, IT WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE.
I DID HAVE A QUESTION BECAUSE YOU JOGGED MY MEMORY, TRUSTEE LANDRUM, ABOUT US WANTING TO TEAR DOWN THOSE BUILDINGS BECAUSE OF THE MAINTENANCE COSTS.
AND I KNOW WE'RE SAYING DELAYING THE DESIGN TONIGHT POTENTIALLY COULD DRIVE UP COSTS BECAUSE THE FURTHER IT GOES OUT, COSTCO UP.
BUT WEIGHING THAT AGAINST, OKAY, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING TO MAINTAIN SOME OF THESE BUILDINGS THAT WE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO DEMO AND THE COST OF MAINTAINING THOSE, HOW DO
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THOSE TWO THINGS BALANCE OUT? SO THE COST OF PUSHING BACK THE DESIGN PHASE THREE MONTHS, RIGHT, WITH THE POTENTIAL OF COSTS GOING UP, JUST INFLATION, RIGHT? AND THE BUILDINGS THAT WE WERE GOING TO DEMO THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO, BUT WE HAD PLANNED TO DEMO THOSE BECAUSE THE COST OF MAINTAINING THEM WAS ASTRONOMICAL.SO JUST BALANCING THOSE TWO THINGS.
CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT? YES.
YEAH, I THINK I THINK WE CAN TO A CERTAIN DEGREE.
THE ACTUAL COST OF THE MAINTENANCE, THAT'S THAT'S REALLY THAT'S A CHALLENGE TO ACTUALLY QUANTIFY WHAT THAT'S GOING TO BE.
BUT I THINK THE ONE THING TO LOOK AT THROUGH THIS IS SOME OF THOSE BUILDINGS MUST REMAIN.
EVEN THOUGH THEY'RE OLD, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE, WHILE THEY MAY BE EXPENSIVE TO MAINTAIN, YOUR ONLY OTHER OPTION IS PORTABLES.
BECAUSE THE CAMPUS MASTER SCHEDULE HAS CLEARLY IDENTIFIED THAT THE CURRENT SQUARE FOOTAGE ON THIS CAMPUS IS WHAT IT NEEDS TO BE.
EVERY SQUARE FOOTAGE WE REMOVE FROM THIS CAMPUS, WE PUT ONE SQUARE FOOT BACK INTO IT TO KEEP IT MAINTAINING AT THE CAPACITY THAT IT CURRENTLY IS, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT NEEDS TO FUNCTION PROPERLY.
THE BOND CALLS FOR 140,000 OF DEMO.
THAT MEANS WHAT'S UP HERE OF 250,000 SQUARE FOOT OF DEMOLITION, 100,000 HAS TO STAY, AND THAT'S NO QUESTION, RIGHT? IT WOULD HAVE TO STAY TO MAINTAIN CURRENT OPERATION BASED ON THE MASTER SCHEDULE.
SO THERE IS GOING TO BE SOME OF THE OLDER BUILDINGS THAT WILL, EVEN IF WE COME BACK THREE MONTHS FROM NOW, FOUR MONTHS FROM NOW, FIVE MONTHS FROM NOW, SOME OF THESE OLDER BUILDINGS.
ARE GOING TO HAVE TO STAY THERE JUST IS NOT THE BOND DOLLARS TO GET IT DONE AND THAT WOULD BE IF WE DON'T DO ANY OF THE SECURITY STUFF AS WELL THE NEW BUS LOOP A LOT OF THAT STUFF WOULD GO JUST INTO CONSTRUCTION CONSTRUCTING NEW BUILDINGS TO DEMO SOME OF THE OTHER BUILDINGS SO THAT'S THE, TO US, THAT'S KIND OF THE BIGGER CONCERN.
AND I THINK ONE OF THE POINTS THAT I WANT TO MAKE IS THE PRIORITIES THAT YOU ALL ESTABLISHED IN YOUR COMMITTEE, THEY'RE THE SAME GOALS THAT WERE ESTABLISHED.
NUMBER ONE THING WAS ACADEMIC SPACES.
THAT WAS THE NUMBER ONE THING THAT CAME OUT OF OUR STEERING COMMITTEE.
THAT'S WHAT THEY WANTED TO FOCUS ON.
THEY ALSO UNDERSTOOD THAT WAS ONE VARIABLE IN THE BIGGER PICTURE OF YOU WE CAN DO THIS.
HOW MUCH CAN WE GET FROM AN ACADEMIC STANDPOINT? BUT THEN WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO FREE UP SPACE FOR THOSE FUTURE PHASES AS WELL? SO THEY KNEW THAT IT COULDN'T BE JUST ACADEMIC SPACE.
IT HAD TO BE A BALANCE BETWEEN THAT, AND THEY WERE VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE NO MATTER WHAT, SOME OF THOSE BUILDINGS ARE GOING TO HAVE TO STAY.
LIKE THAT PIECE IS NOT GOING TO CHANGE AFTER REVIEWING THE MASTER SCHEDULE, AND THE COSTS ARE GOING TO BE THERE NO MATTER WHAT.
THAT WOULD BE THE OTHER OPTION.
THERE'S A DELTA OF ESSENTIALLY 100,000 SQUARE FEET OF SPACE.
AND THEN, TRUSTEE WEIR, I WANTED TO ASK YOU, AND SOMEONE CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT THE MCNEIL MASTER PLANNING IS, I THINK, OUR MOST RECENT HISTORICAL BOND PLAN TO GO BACK TO, AND YOU WORKED ON THAT.
IS THIS SIMILAR TO THE I THINK YOU'VE TOUCHED ON THIS A LITTLE BIT, BUT SIMILAR TO THE PLANNING THAT YOU GUYS WENT THROUGH WHERE YOU CONTINUED WITH THE PRIORITIES SET BY THE CBC, BUT THE MASTER PLAN LOOKED A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THE BOARD DISCUSSED.
I CAN ANSWER HER QUESTION THOUGH, EVEN THOUGH I'M OUT OF TIME.
UM, WE, I THINK MCNEIL WAS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN THAT WE GOT RANDOM CHUNKS OF MONEY TO TRY TO APPEASE US IS, UM, SO I'LL JUST THROW THAT OUT THERE, BUT, UM, WE, AND I WILL SAY THAT WHAT WE DID IN OUR FIRST GROUP, THE SECOND GROUP DIDN'T FOLLOW IT.
LIKE, THEY CHANGED IT COMPLETELY, AND NOW THE THIRD GROUP IS CHANGING IT AGAIN.
SO I, YOU KNOW, NEEDS CHANGE AND THINGS GET UPDATED.
THAT'S HONESTLY WHY, LIKE, I WOULD HAVE STOPPED AT PAGE 10.
BUT BECAUSE I KNOW FOR MCNEIL, WHAT WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE DOING IS NOT NECESSARILY WHAT'S GOING ON.
GOING TO BE HAPPENING EVEN IN PHASE THREE THAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AND THAT'S THAT'S FINE THINGS HAVE CHANGED BUT YES SO WE WHEN YOU WHEN WE WENT IN THERE AND WE DID OUR CHARRETTES AND WE PROBABLY DID IT IN SIX TO EIGHT WEEKS ALSO THAT FIRST TIME I DON'T KNOW ANGELA WOULD PROBABLY KNOW BUT YOU KNOW WE WE SAT DOWN WE GOT ALL THE INFORMATION AND THEN WE PICKED KIND OF LIKE WE DO IN OUR COMMUNITY FORUMS WHERE YOU GET THE STICKERS AND YOU GO IN AND YOU PUT THEM ON THERE AND YOU DECIDE WHAT IS THE PRIORITY FOR YOUR CAMPUS AND WHAT REALLY NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
AND SO IT WAS SLIGHTLY OFF AND LIKE I SAID, BUT WE DIDN'T HAVE QUITE THE DETAIL.
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AT HOW MUCH DETAIL WAS GIVEN ON BONDSCOPE WHEN WE VOTED ON THIS BECAUSE I WAS ACTUALLY CONCERNED WHEN I SAW THIS LIST, LIKE HOW CAN THEY KNOW BEFORE THE THE CHARETTE'S TEAM GETS IN THERE AND REALLY DECIDES FOR THE CAMPUS.YOU KNOW, AGAIN, MY ONLY CONCERN IS THE LACK OF STUDENTS AND PARENTS.
I JUST WANT TO ADD, LIKE, YES, MCNEIL HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD A MASTER PLAN, AND I THINK WE'RE IN PHASE THREE NOW, OR FOUR, THREE, BUT ALSO WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL ALSO WENT THROUGH A SIMILAR PROCESS, AND WE ARE FINISHING UP IN BOTH SCHOOLS, WE'RE HOPING, TO FINISH THE LAST PHASE IN THIS MONTH, SO I THINK...
NO, YOU'RE NOT DONE WITH MCNEIL.
THAT PHASE, WE'LL HAVE ONE MORE PHASE.
BUT I THINK WE'RE DONE WITH WESTWOOD, I THINK, AS OF NOW.
BUT I THINK THAT'S AND ACTUALLY, ANGELA IS THE ONE, THE SAME ARCHITECT WHO LED THE WORK WITH MCNEIL, IS THE SAME LADY OR ARCHITECT WHO ACTUALLY LED THE WORK WITH THE COMMITTEE HERE, TOO.
FIRST OFF, WHEN I LOOK AT SLIDE 10 AND THE CHANGES IN YOU KNOW THE DEMO OF 100 200 300 600 700 TO NOW BEING 300 400 900 AND THEN I GO BACK AND I LOOK ON SLIDE FOUR FOR THE PLAN GOALS I DON'T FEEL LIKE THIS NEW PLAN REDUCES WALKING DISTANCE I DON'T THINK IT LIMITS AND CLEARLY MONITORS CAMPUS POINTS OF ENTRY LIKE I FEEL LIKE THERE AND I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S AN EXPANDED ACCESS TO FUNCTIONAL OUTDOOR SPACES BECAUSE WE'RE NOT TEARING DOWN THESE BUILDINGS AND WE'RE NOT SO WE'RE NOT OPENING UP ANY MORE OUTDOOR SPACES SO I'M NOT SURE.
WE KIND OF WERE DOING PARKING BY ADDING IT WHERE THE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING, BUT I THOUGHT THAT WHEN 100, 200, 300, 600, 700 WERE GOING DOWN, THAT WAS GOING TO BECOME PARKING, AND THAT WOULD BE EVEN MORE ADDITIONAL PARKING BECAUSE I THINK I WAS THE ONE, WHEN WE WERE DOING THE BOND WORK, THAT WE SAID, ADD $10 MILLION JUST FOR PARKING AT ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL BECAUSE THE ORIGINAL LINE ITEM DIDN'T INCLUDE ANY MONEY FOR PARKING.
AND I INSISTED THAT WE ADD AN ADDITIONAL $10 MILLION IN PARKING.
IN MONEY JUST FOR A PARKING LOT HERE.
MY OTHER CONCERN IS IN THE PRESENTATION WE TALKED ABOUT THAT NOW THE PLAN COULD INCLUDE TWO MORE ADDITIONAL PHASES OF ANOTHER $200 MILLION EACH, MAKING THIS CAMPUS RENOVATION $600 MILLION OVER HOWEVER MANY BONDS THAT TAKES.
AND IT'S GOING TO GET JUST HARDER AND HARDER AND HARDER TO PASS BONDS.
AND IF WE DON'T DO AND BE AS...
STEWARD, YOU KNOW, AS BEST STEWARDS IF WE CAN WITH THE MONEY THAT WE HAVE BEEN GRANTED BY OUR VOTERS RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WILL GET MORE MONEY.
LIKE, I DON'T THINK THAT'S JUST A GIVEN THAT WE SAY, OKAY, WELL, WE'LL SPEND THIS $200 MILLION NOW AND ONLY PUT 40% IN ACADEMIC SPACES.
WE MAY NOT GET ANOTHER $200 MILLION FROM THE NEXT BOND.
OR WE MAY, YOU KNOW, ROBINSON RANCH MAY OPEN UP AND WE NEED THE MONEY TO BUILD A WHOLE BRAND NEW HIGH SCHOOL.
AND THAT BECOMES A PRIORITY RATHER THAN...
PHASE TWO OF ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL.
SO THERE'S JUST A LOT OF CONCERNS ABOUT THIS IN GENERAL.
YEAH, AND SO I THINK THE NUMBERS THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT WERE CLOSER TO 120 MILLION PER PHASE, SO PROBABLY MORE LIKE $240 MILLION ADDITIONAL SCOPE.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT CONSTRUCTION COSTS, THEY'RE JUST GOING CRAZY RIGHT NOW.
IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT A 3,800 TO A 4,000 SQUARE FOOT CAPACITY NEW HIGH SCHOOL IS, I MEAN, THEY'RE BROACHING THAT $500 MILLION RANGE AT THIS POINT, UNFORTUNATELY.
THAT'S JUST WHAT CONSTRUCTION COSTS ARE.
THE SQUARE FOOTAGES THAT ARE NEEDED, I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOUR, FIVE, 600,000 SQUARE FOOT OF SPACE.
RIGHT, BUT THAT WASN'T MY POINT.
MY POINT WAS WE MAY NOT GET ANOTHER BOND TO GET, EVEN IF IT'S $250 MILLION, AND WITH ESCALATION COSTS IN ANOTHER SIX YEARS, THAT MAY BE $300 MILLION.
THAT'S A CONCERN IS THIS WHEN THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PRESENTED IT WAS NOT HERE THIS IS PHASE ONE FOR US TO TAKE CARE OF THIS AND WE'RE GOING TO NEED TO COME BACK AND ASK OUR VOTERS FOR ANOTHER 240 TO 400 MILLION DOLLARS IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS TO KEEP ADDRESSING IT YEAH AND AND I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY AND THAT'S THE REASON THE PHASE ONE THAT YOU SEE CAME ABOUT AS PHASE ONE BECAUSE THOSE WERE THE PRIORITIES THAT THE CAMPUS COMMITTEE SET FOR THEMSELVES LIKE THE BAND, THE PERFORMING ARTS IS OUR BIGGEST PRIORITY RIGHT NOW.
CAN YOU FIT IT WITHIN PHASE ONE? ACADEMIC SPACES, SCIENCE WING, THE ATHLETIC SPACES, BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE CAMPUS, CAN YOU GIVE THAT TO US RIGHT AWAY? BECAUSE THE FUTURE BOND IS GOING TO BE VERY MUCH DOWN THE LINE.
AND THAT'S THE OTHER REASON WE ARE HESITANT TO DEMO SO MANY BUILDINGS AND HAVE PEOPLE IN PORTABLES BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT NEXT BOND IF WE DEMO
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SO MUCH MORE THAN WE CAN BUILD BACK, THAT 100,000 SQUARE FOOT OF DEFICIT IN PORTABLES, HOW LONG ARE THOSE STUDENTS GOING TO BE IN THE PORTABLES TILL THE NEXT BOND GETS PASSED? SO WE ARE DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE TO ONLY DEMO WHAT WE REALLY NEED TO.SO THAT'S WHY IF YOU GO BACK TO PHASE ONE, WE STARTED PLACING THE PROGRAM SUCH THAT THE DEMO IS ACTUALLY MINIMAL.
SO WE PLACED OUR PERFORMING ARTS MUSIC UP THERE BECAUSE THERE IS NO BUILDING THERE.
WE CAN ACTUALLY PLACE IT WHILE THE SCHOOL IS IN OPERATION.
WE CAN DO ACADEMICS, WE CAN DO COURT ATHLETICS, ALL RIGHT THERE WHILE THE SCHOOL IS IN OPERATION.
SO WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT CONSTRUCTION HAPPENING IN A VERY ACTIVE SITE AND STILL MAINTAINING A LOT OF THESE BUILDINGS SO PORTABLES ARE MINIMIZED, OR NONE AT ALL ACTUALLY THE WAY WE HAVE IT.
AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERN THAT THE BOND WAS ALMOST A, THIS IS GOING TO BE DONE, RIGHT? HERE'S YOUR SCHOOL WITH THE PARKING AND ALL THE ACADEMIC SPACES.
BUT THE REALITY, ONCE LOOKING AT THAT MASTER SCHEDULE, IS THERE'S A 100,000 SQUARE FOOT DEFICIT THAT WE'VE GOT TO FIND A WAY TO.
COVER SOMEHOW WHETHER IT'S KEEPING SOME OF THOSE EXISTING BUILDINGS THAT YOU'RE 100% CORRECT THIS DOES NOT RESOLVE ALL OF THOSE BIG GOALS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO HAVE THE FULL BUILD BEFORE WE ACCOMPLISH ALL THOSE GOALS WE'RE TAKING SMALL STEPS TO GET TO THAT BUT THE 100 BUILDING HAVING WHAT IT HAS IN HERE I IT'S THERE'S THERE'S SO MANY CLASSROOM SPACES HERE.
THERE'S THE AUDITORIUM GYMNASIUM THERE'S SO MUCH IN HERE THAT STILL CAN BE USED AND UTILIZED TO FULFILL WHAT'S NEEDED FOR THAT OVERALL CAMPUS MASTER SCHEDULE THAT IT REALLY NEEDS TO STAY IN PLACE.
SO THE TRAVEL DISTANCE, YOU'RE RIGHT, THAT'S NOT SOLVED.
AND THAT'S REALLY, LIKE, THIS IS NO OFFENSE TO YOU.
YOU WEREN'T HERE WHEN THE BOND WAS, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPED.
BUT WHEN WE AS TRUSTEES GO TO OUR COMMUNITY AND ASK THEM TO VOTE FOR IT AND WE SAY THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AND THEN WE CHANGE IT, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE BEING DISINGENUOUS TO THE PEOPLE THAT VOTED FOR THIS BOND AND NOTHING AGAINST YOU.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I TRUSTED THAT THE CBC DID THEIR DUE DILIGENCE AND THEY WERE GIVEN THE RIGHT INFORMATION AND SAID, OKAY, GIVEN ALL OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST SIX MONTHS, THIS IS OUR WHETHER IT'S AN OFFICIAL CONTRACT OR NOT, IT IS AN AGREEMENT THAT WE MAKE WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
HOW MUCH TIME DO I HAVE? THREE MINUTES.
NOW, SO TO TRUSTEE LANDERS' POINT, RIGHT, THERE'S A TRUST THERE, RIGHT? AND WHEN WE GOT THE INFORMATION TO DEMOLISH 100, 200, 300, 600, AND 700, WE WERE GIVEN THAT INFORMATION BECAUSE THEY WERE OLD, THEY NEEDED TO BE REMOVED, AND SO FORTH, RIGHT? NOW WE'RE SAYING A DIFFERENT THING.
SO MY QUESTION IS, FOR THOSE BUILDINGS THAT ARE STAYING UP, HOW MUCH WILL IT COST TO MAINTAIN THOSE BUILDINGS IF THIS PROPOSAL IS VOTED ON? THERE ARE NO MAJOR RENOVATION PROJECTS NEEDED IN ANY OF THOSE BUILDINGS.
I MEAN, AN OLD BUILDING COSTS A LITTLE MORE TO MAINTAIN THAN A NEW BUILDING.
BUT THERE'S NO MAJOR RENOVATIONS NEEDED IN ANY OF THOSE BUILDINGS.
SO THAT'S THE DISCONNECT FOR US, RIGHT? IT'S BECAUSE CARIBBEAN, WELL, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE.
YEAH, SO WHEN WE HAD CAPITOL RENEWAL TAKE THIS ON, WE WERE TOLD THAT THESE BUILDINGS HAD TO GO.
SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE GO FROM THE NEED TO THIS.
DEMOLISH THESE BUILDINGS TO OH WE DON'T NEED TO DEMOLISH IT NOW I THINK MOST OF THAT CONVERSATION WAS DUE TO THE AGE OF THE FACILITY AND THAT WHEN THE A NEW WING WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT THOSE BUILDINGS WERE SUPPOSED TO COME DOWN AND THEY STAYED UP THEN SO THEY LIKE WE NEED TO TAKE THEM DOWN NOW BUT THERE WAS NOT A CONVERSATION ABOUT IS THE BUILDING FUNCTIONAL OR IS THERE SOME MAJOR RENOVATION WORK NEEDS TO BE GOING ON IN THOSE BUILDINGS WE TALKED ABOUT FUNCTIONALITY I REMEMBER LINDSAY JOINING THE...
Y'ALL JUST ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME ON THE DAIS PLEASE.
I REMEMBER LINDSAY, THE CO-CHAIR, BRINGING THAT SPECIFIC QUESTION ABOUT FUNCTIONALITY IN THESE BUILDINGS.
SO I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT DISCONNECT IS.
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AT THE ENTIRE CAMPUS PLAN, WE DEFINITELY HAVE ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS BEING DEMOLISHED.SO I DON'T THINK WE ARE EVER SAYING THAT THOSE BUILDINGS CAN REMAIN FOR FOREVER.
JUST THAT IF WE DO DEMO THEM IN THIS PHASE, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PUT BACK THE SAME AMOUNT OF SQUARE FOOTAGE, WE WILL BE SPENDING THAT MONEY IN PORTABLES.
SO THERE WILL BE THE MAINTENANCE COST OF THOSE BUILDINGS VERSUS THE COST OF PORTABLES AND HOW WHERE THE PORTABLES WILL GO ON SITE.
JUST BALANCING THAT OUT, IF WE CAN PUSH THE DEMO OF THOSE BUILDINGS TO A LITTLE BIT FOR FUTURE PHASE, WE MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, HAVE, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THOSE, WHERE WILL THE KIDS GO IF WE WERE TO DEMO THEM RIGHT NOW? AND THE 600 BUILDING FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME WAS ON THE DEMO SHEET FOR US.
BUT AFTER TALKING WITH THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP, THEY SAID THAT THEY NEEDED LIMITED AMOUNT OF SCIENCE.
BECAUSE THE 600 WAS GOOD ENOUGH SHORT TERM, THAT THERE WAS BIGGER, MORE STRONGER PRIORITIES THAT THEY WANTED TO FOCUS ON.
SO WE DID HAVE THE 600 ORIGINALLY ON THERE AS WELL TO BE DEMOED, BUT THE STAKEHOLDER GROUP PUSHED BACK.
AND I THINK, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS WAS AROUND DEMOLISHING ONE OR TWO BUILDINGS AT A TIME AND MOVING STUDENTS TO SOME OF THE OTHER.
BUILDINGS, WHAT THOSE ARE BEING DEMOLISHED, AND SO FORTH.
SO, AGAIN, IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
RESPONSE THAT WOULD BE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S WE'RE DOING IT AND THERE'S A PAUSE UNTIL NEW FUNDING FOR THE NEXT BOND HAPPENS AND THEN IT HAPPENS.
IT JUST IT'S A MUCH BIGGER UNDERTAKING THAN I THINK MAYBE WAS ORIGINALLY THOUGHT.
OKAY, I DON'T HAVE ANYONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE.
I HAVE A MOTION AND A POINT OF ORDER.
WHAT'S YOUR POINT? AFTER CONFERRING WITH LEGAL, I WAS CORRECT THAT MY MOTION, YOU HAVE TO VOTE ON MY MOTION FIRST.
AND IF MY MOTION PASSES, IT KILLS THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO IF I RECALL THE WAY THAT IT HAPPENED IN THE PAST IS FIRST YOU HAVE TO VOTE IF THEY WANT TO EVEN ENTERTAIN THE NEW MOTION.
AND THEN YOU VOTE ON THE EMOTION THAT I MADE.
AND IF IT FAILS, THEN YOU GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
SO IT'S KIND OF AWKWARD, BUT YOU HAVE TO EVEN VOTE.
YOU HAVE TO HOLD A VOTE TO SEE IF EVEN PEOPLE WANT TO ENTERTAIN A SUBSTITUTE MOTION, AND THEN YOU VOTE ON THE SUBSTITUTE MOTION, AND IF IT FAILS, YOU GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL.
SO THE MOTION TO TABLE IS ITSELF, I THINK, YOU'VE GOT, DO YOU HAVE, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR SECOND YET.
THEN YOU VOTE ON THAT, AND THEN YOU GO BACK TO THE MAIN MOTION.
SO WE ONLY HAVE TO VOTE ON THE ALTERNATE MOTION? WE DON'T HAVE TO VOTE TO ENTERTAIN IT? YOU'RE SAYING WE HAVE TO VOTE TO ENTERTAIN IT.
THAT'S WHAT WE HAD TO DO WHEN I WAS BOARD PRESIDENT.
SO YOU'RE GOING TO GET A SECOND AND THEN DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT YOU WANT TO.
SO I THINK YOU THEN TAKE A VOTE ON WHETHER TO TABLE IT.
BECAUSE IT'S NOT A NEW MOTION.
I MEAN, IT'S NOT A, YOU'VE GOT A MAIN MOTION.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE TO EXTEND TIME LIMITS OR TO CALL THE QUESTION.
YOU'RE SAYING MOTION TO TABLE.
SO WE'RE JUST VOTING ON THE MOTION TO, CAN YOU READ, DO YOU HAVE, I DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN, BUT I JUST MADE A MOTION TO TABLE THIS IN TIME FOR, TO ALLOW TIME FOR TRUSTEES TO HAVE SOME SMALL GROUP MEETINGS WITH ADMINISTRATION OR TO BETTER UNDERSTAND AND ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT THEY HAVE AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EVEN BRING IT BACK IN JUNE.
I'LL LEAVE THAT UP TO THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD PRESIDENT, BUT JUST TO TABLE THE MOTION TO ALLOW FOR SOME ADDITIONAL DIGESTING OF INFORMATION AND ASKING QUESTIONS.
SO THERE SO THERE WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THE THIS IS AN ALTERNATE MOTION FROM IT'S A MOTION TO TABLE AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE THE MOTION TO TABLE RIGHT SO ALL IN FAVOR ALL OPPOSED MOTION FAILS OKAY FOUR THREE UM SO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL MOTION I MOVE THAT THE BOARD IT'S THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THE ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL CONCEPT PLANT AS PRESENTED.
ALL IN FAVOR ALL OPPOSED MOTION PASSES 4-3 OKAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE OKAY MOVING ON TO AGENDA ITEM I2 APPROVAL OF 2026-2027 COMPENSATION PLAN DO I HAVE A MOTION CAN I ASK FOR ARE WE ARE YOU GONNA IT'S THE
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SAME PRESENTATION FROM BEFORE, CORRECT? RIGHT.WELL, WE'LL DO DISCUSSION, BUT WERE YOU GOING TO PRESENT AGAIN? I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY WHAT WE WERE BRINGING FORWARD BECAUSE THERE WERE SEVERAL OPTIONS PRESENTED LAST WEEK.
OKAY, I THOUGHT WE HAD WORKED THAT OUT.
I JUST KIND OF WANTED TO REMIND YOU WHAT WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD AS OUR TWO RECOMMENDATIONS.
LAST WEEK WE PRESENTED SOME OPTIONS AND SOME ADDITIONAL SCENARIOS.
THIS WEEK WE'RE BRINGING FORWARD SOME RECOMMENDATIONS.
SO, AS YOU REMEMBER, PLEASE, THERE WE GO, THANK YOU.
ALL RIGHT, SO THE FINANCIAL CONTEXT REMAINS THE SAME.
TO PROVIDE PAY INCREASES, WE DO NEED TO PROVIDE OR FIND SOME ADDITIONAL WAYS TO FUND THOSE INCREASES.
THERE WILL BE NO SUPPORT FROM THE STATE FOR THOSE PAY INCREASES FOR THIS YEAR.
WHAT WE PRESENTED LAST WEEK IS THE SAME.
WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT OUR RECOMMENDATION ONE.
THIS IS WITH OUR CURRENT STATE, WITH OUR CURRENT FUNDING, WHERE WE WOULD RETAIN OUR TEACHERS' PAY STRUCTURE AS IS.
THERE WOULD BE NO PAY INCREASES FOR EMPLOYEES, SORRY, EXCEPT FOR THE INCREASES THAT ARE REQUIRED BECAUSE OF HOUSE BILL 2 FOR TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT.
THOSE WOULD IMPACT TEACHERS MOVING TO YEAR THREE AND TO YEAR FIVE ONLY.
WE'LL GET INTO THE NUMBERS LATER.
IT'S ABOUT 340 TEACHERS THAT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THAT.
WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING AS PART OF THIS RECOMMENDATION, NO CHANGE TO SALARY STRUCTURES FOR ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES AND NO PAY INCREASES FOR EMPLOYEES.
WE DO HAVE ONE EXCEPTION TO THAT AND THAT'S A PAY COMPRESSION ADJUSTMENT FOR APPLICABLE ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES AS DISCUSSED AT OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP LAST WEEK.
THAT IS AN AREA THAT WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS A PRIORITY.
WE'VE REALLY STRUGGLED TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN PRINCIPALS AND TO STAY COMPETITIVE TO MARKET, SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO THAT.
THE ADJUSTMENT ITSELF IS ABOUT $140,000 AND IT WOULD HAVE SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THE SYSTEM, SO THAT'S WHY THAT RECOMMENDATION REMAINS.
THIS IS JUST A BRIEF EXPLANATION AGAIN OF THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT.
THIS IS FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND.
THE STATE PASSED $2,500 FOR TEACHERS WITH THREE OR FOUR YEARS OF EXPERIENCE ON TOP OF WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE MADE IN 24-25 AND $5,000 FOR TEACHERS WHO HAD FIVE OR MORE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE OVER WHAT THEY WERE MAKING IN 24-25.
AND SO THIS IS WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE IN APPLICATION, MEANING THAT IF YOU LOOK AT THE YEAR ONE TEACHER FROM 24-25, AND LOOK AT WHERE THEY ARE FOR 2627 WHICH WOULD BE AFTER OUR REQUIRED TRA INCREASES THEY WOULD BE 2500 HIGHER THAN THEY WERE IN 2425 AND THE SAME CONCEPT FOR THE YEAR THREE TEACHER IN 2425 AS THEY MOVE TO YEAR FIVE IN 2627 WHICH IS NEXT YEAR YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT'S OUR OUR STATUTORY REQUIREMENT OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE THAN THEY MADE IN 2425.
SO THIS IS THE COST FOR ADMINISTRATION RECOMMENDATION ONE.
IT BREAKS OUT AT $926,000 AND CHANGE.
HOWEVER, IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT PORTION OF THAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING TO BE ABOUT $751,000.
THE REMAINDER OF THAT WILL HAVE TO COME FROM THE LOCAL BUDGET.
SO WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT $180,000 FROM OUR LOCAL BUDGET TO MAKE THE COMPRESSION ADJUSTMENTS FOR OUR ELEMENTARY PRINCIPALS AND ALSO TO COVER THE TRS AND FRINGE COSTS FOR THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT.
THE STATE DID NOT ACCOUNT FOR FRINGE COSTS WHEN IT CAME TO THE TEACHER RETENTION ALLOTMENT AND THAT WAS LEFT TO THE DISTRICT TO TRY TO FUND.
OKAY, SO NOW WE GET INTO ADMINISTRATIVE RECOMMENDATION TWO AND THIS IS IF AND ONLY IF THE BOARD WOULD VOTE TO PLACE A VADER, A VOTER APPROVED TAX RATE ELECTION TO ADD FIVE COPPER PENNIES TO THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE AND ALSO IF THEN IN THAT NOVEMBER ELECTION IF THE ELIGIBLE REGISTERED VOTERS RATIFIED THE VADER ELECTION AND ADDED THE FIVE COPPER PENNIES TO THE MAXIMUM COMPRESSED RATE THEN WE WOULD BE RECOMMENDING THE PROVISION OF A 2% GENERAL PAY INCREASE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AND WE WOULD ALSO BE PROVIDING THOSE PAY ADJUSTMENTS THAT WE DISCUSSED IN MORE DETAIL LAST WEEK FOR ALL EMPLOYEE GROUPS TO HELP ADDRESS THE COMPRESSION ISSUES WITHIN OUR PAY STRUCTURES SO THAT GENERAL PAY INCREASE MODEL WOULD INCREASE THE STARTING TEACHER'S SALARY TO $58,000.
IT WOULD ALSO PROVIDE ALL TEACHERS IN THE SYSTEM A $1,325 GENERAL PAY INCREASE.
THAT WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO ANY TRA COMPENSATION THAT THE TEACHER WOULD HAVE RECEIVED AS REQUIRED.
WHAT WE WOULD ALSO BE RECOMMENDING IS TO LEVEL UP ALL OF THE EMPLOYEES THAT HAD TO MOVE OFF THE TEACHER PAY STRUCTURE DUE TO THE LEGISLATION FROM HOUSE
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BILL 2 THAT CLEARLY DEFINED A TEACHER.AND MEANT THAT WE HAD TO CHANGE OUR PAY STRUCTURES FOR THOSE GROUPS.
SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING BRINGING THOSE BACK UP TO THE EQUIVALENT PAY THAT THEY WOULD HAVE RECEIVED IF THEY'D REMAINED ON THAT TEACHER PAY STRUCTURE.
SO FOR THE PROFESSIONAL CAMPUS SUPPORT GROUP, THAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY LEVEL THEM UP TO THE SAME LEVEL AS TEACHERS, MEANING THEIR STARTING SALARY WOULD BE $58,000.
FOR OUR NEXT GROUP, I'M SORRY ABOUT THE WAY THE SLIDE'S CONVERTED HERE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE LIBRARIANS WOULD MOVE TO A BASE SALARY OF $60,481.
THAT IS HIGHER THAN THE 58,000 NUMBER DUE TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT LIBRARIANS WORK.
THAT'S HIGHER THAN THE TEACHERS' WORK.
IN THE SAME CONCEPT FOR THE ATHLETIC TRAINERS, WE WOULD BE LEVELING THEM UP TO THE EQUIVALENT PAY.
THEIR ANNUAL SALARY IS GREATER DUE TO THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT THOSE POSITIONS WORK.
ALONG WITH THE TEACHER AND THE LEVEL-UP COMPENSATION ADJUSTMENTS, WE WOULD BE...
RECOMMENDING A PAY STRUCTURE ADJUSTMENT AS RECOMMENDED BY TASB IN OUR MARCH MEETING WHEN AMY BROUGHT FORWARD THE 2% MODEL AND THE ADJUSTMENTS.
SO WE'D BE RECOMMENDING THAT WE PROVIDE ALL EMPLOYEES IN THE SYSTEM A 2% GENERAL PAY INCREASE OF MIDPOINT AND THEN IMPLEMENTING THOSE SALARY ADJUSTMENT RECOMMENDATIONS TO HELP IMPROVE BOTH OUR MARKET COMPETITIVENESS AND ADDRESS PAY COMPRESSION, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT AT LENGTH.
SO THIS IS THE COST OF A 2% MODEL INCLUDING THE FRINGE.
YOU CAN SEE THE TOTAL COST INCLUDING THOSE LEVEL UP GROUPS WHICH WOULD BE OUR LIBRARIANS, ATHLETIC TRAINERS, AND PROFESSIONAL CAMPUS SUPPORT.
IT'S RIGHT UNDER 10 MILLION DOLLARS BASED ON OUR CURRENT HEAD COUNT.
THAT NUMBER WILL FLUCTUATE BASED ON THE NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES WE HAVE IN THE SYSTEM OBVIOUSLY FOR NEXT YEAR BUT WE'RE ESTIMATING RIGHT AROUND 10 MILLION DOLLARS.
ANY QUESTIONS? MADAM PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
I WOULD LIKE THAT BEFORE I SPEAK EVERY TIME.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE ADOPTION OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE 26-27 COMPENSATION PLAN AS REFLECTED IN RECOMMENDATION 1 AND APPENDIX SECOND CAN I HAVE A POINT OF CLARIFICATION COME BACK AND MAKE ANOTHER MOTION ABOUT THE VADER WHAT OKAY WELL THAT WAS ACTUALLY MY THAT WAS THE CLARIFICATION THAT I WANTED TO ASK ABOUT I KNOW THE DISTRICT IS RECOMMENDING FIVE COPPER PENNIES AND IT'S WRITTEN IN THERE CAN WE DO THIS MOTION AS RECOMMENDED AND THEN COME BACK AT SOME POINT IF WE GET MORE INFORMATION.
I MEAN, I GUESS I KNOW HE SAYS IT'S GOT TO BE BEFORE THE JUNE 16TH MEETING.
SO MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THERE'S A SPECIAL MEETING ON JUNE 11TH.
AND SO THERE COULD BE A AN ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATION AT THAT POINT, AS LONG AS IT'S DONE BEFORE THE.
EVEN IF WE DID, IF EVEN IF WE DID FIVE TONIGHT, WE COULD COME.
THE KEY THING TONIGHT, TRUSTEE WEIR, IS WE'VE REALLY GOT TO GET RECOMMENDATION ONE ON THE GROUND BECAUSE.
ANY SECOND RECOMMENDATION WOULDN'T TAKE EFFECT UNTIL AFTER THE ELECTION IF THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT THE BOARD WANTS TO TAKE.
SO WE HAVE TIME TO IMPLEMENT THOSE PAY CHANGES.
WHAT WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO IS TO IMPLEMENT THE PAY CHANGES FOR JULY, THOSE PAY STRUCTURE CHANGES.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE NEED TO GET THAT MOVE.
OPTION TWO WILL BE INCLUSIVE OF OPTION ONE THAT SO IF THEY GO FOR OPTION TWO THERE IT'S INCLUSIVE IF YOU'RE IF YOU VOTE TO APPROVE THIS MOTION AS PRESENTED IT'S FOR BOTH OPTION ONE AND TWO AND WE COULD COME BACK THEN AT A LATER DATE WITH AN AMENDED ADMINISTRATIVE RECOMMENDATION TO FOR OPTION TWO RIGHT BECAUSE OPTION TWO IS THERE IS CONDITIONAL IT SAYS IF AND YEAH IF THE BOARD CALLS FOR A VATER AND IF THE FORCE FIVE COPPER PENNY SO THAT CAN BE AMENDED SO WE CAN DO THE FULL ADMINISTRATIVE RECOMMENDATION TONIGHT AND THEN AMEND IT AFTER WE HAVE A POTENTIAL DISCUSSION ON THE 11TH.
I'D LIKE TO WITHDRAW MY MOTION.
BUT I HAVE TO HAVE THE SECOND WITHDRAWN.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION.
I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE ADOPTION OF THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION FOR THE 26-27 COMPENSATION PLAN AS REFLECTED IN RECOMMENDATION 1 AND APPENDIX A.
I ALSO MOVE THAT IF AND ONLY IF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OFFICIALLY PLACES...
A VOTER-APPROVED TAX RATE ELECTION, ALSO KNOWN AS A VATER, ADDING FIVE COPPER PENNIES TO THE MAXIMUM COMPEST RATE, THE MCR, ON THE UPCOMING NOVEMBER 2026 UNIFORM ELECTION BALLOT, AND ELIGIBLE REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE DISTRICT VOTE TO APPROVE THE VATER IN THE NOVEMBER ELECTION, THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVES THE ADOPTION OF THE 26-27 COMPENSATION PLAN AS REFLECTED
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IN RECOMMENDATION 2 AND APPENDIX B.ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0.
OKAY, MOVING ON TO AGENDA ITEM I-4.
TRUSTEES, I WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE, I KNOW WE KEEP KICKING THIS DOWN THE ROAD, BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL CLOSED SESSION ITEMS. IT IS ALREADY 10 O'CLOCK, GIVEN THE WEATHER, AND THAT WE WILL BE CELEBRATING WITH OUR SENIORS FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS.
WOULD YOU ALL BE OKAY WITH US TABLING THIS? AGENDA ITEM AND MOVING IT TO NEXT MONTH OKAY DO I NEED A MOTION FOR THAT OR CAN I JUST DECIDE TO TABLE IT IN OKAY OKAY SO WE'LL MOVE THAT TO NEXT MONTH MOVING ON TO BOARD BUSINESS JUST MOVING FOR I FOR US JUST WE'RE MOVING OH I'M SORRY WE'RE ON I THREE SORRY NO LET'S DO I THREE I FOUR IS WHAT I WANTED TO MOVE DO I HAVE A MOTION ON I-3? AND TRUSTEES, JUST TO REMIND YOU, THERE WAS CONSENSUS FROM THE BOARD TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DISTRICT'S RECOMMENDATIONS FOR BOARD GOALS 1 THROUGH 3.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, JUST GOALS 1 THROUGH 3 TONIGHT.
MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD ADOPT BOARD GOALS 01, 2, AND 3 AS PRESENTED.
ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0.
OKAY, I-4 IS WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE TO JUNE.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TABLE THAT IN, BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE ALL OKAY WITH THAT, AND MOVE THAT TO
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JUNE.OUR UPCOMING MEETINGS, WE HAVE A CALLED BOARD MEETING GOALS DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP ON JUNE 11TH. WE'LL BE CONTINUING OUR WORK ON GOAL FOUR AND CONSTRAINTS.
LLOYD IF YOU'D LIKE TO COMPLETE THE PRE-WORK FOR CONSTRAINTS YOU CAN SEND THAT IN WE ALSO HAVE A MEETING TUESDAY JUNE 16TH OUR REGULAR BOARD MEETING WE WOULD LIKE TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES.
WE CANNOT WAIT TO CELEBRATE WITH YOU THIS WEEK.
HARTFIELD PAC, WE HAVE EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT 3 P.M.
AND SUCCESS HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT 6 P.M.
ON THURSDAY AT THE HEB CENTER, WE HAVE THE STONY POINT HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT 2 P.M., ROUND ROCK HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT 7 P.M.
AND ON FRIDAY AT THE HEB CENTER, WE HAVE THE CEDAR RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION AT 9 A.M.
AND WESTWOOD HIGH SCHOOL AT 7 P.M.
AND JUST A REMINDER TO BRING YOUR REGALIA.
AS YOU KNOW, WE WILL BRING IT HOME AFTER THE FIRST DAY OF GRADUATIONS, BUT BETWEEN THURSDAY AND FRIDAY, YOU CAN LEAVE IT THERE.
AND I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO DR.
I WANT TO DO WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT OUR GRADUATES.
WE ARE ACTUALLY GRADUATING ALMOST 4,000 STUDENTS THIS YEAR, AND SO WE ARE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT CELEBRATING WITH THEM AND THEIR FAMILIES.
A COUPLE OF THINGS ALSO I WANT TO THANK OUR BOARD MEMBERS WHO ATTENDED SOME OF OUR STAFF RECOGNITION EVENTS FOR TWO WEEKS IN A ROW NOW.
EXCELLENCE AWARDS WAS IT TWO WEEKS AGO AND THEN LAST WEEK WE HAD IMPROVED SERVICE AWARDS AND SO IT'S GREAT TO CELEBRATE OUR AMAZING TEACHER STAFF AND THANK HIM FOR ALL THE SERVICE TO OUR STUDENTS AND DISTRICT.
A COUPLE ALSO ANNOUNCEMENT I KNOW WE CELEBRATED SOME OF OUR STATE CHAMPIONS EARLIER TODAY BUT CITY RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL ACTUALLY THEY'RE STILL PLAYING AND THEY ARE IN THE PLAYOFFS AND THEY'RE ELITE EIGHT. SO THEY'RE IN TOP EIGHT IN THE STATE 6A. THEY WILL BE PLAYING ACTUALLY STARTING TOMORROW. THEY WILL BE PLAYING LAKE TRAVIS AND IF THEY WIN THEIR SERIES I GUESS THEY WILL END UP GOING TO STATE FINAL OR SEMI-FINAL HOPEFULLY NEXT WEEK.
SO YEAH THE SCHOOL YEAR IS NOT OVER FOR THEM. I KNOW THEY'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT CONTINUING. YOU KNOW, REPRESENTING OUR DISTRICT AND HOPEFULLY WINNING AND BEATING LAKE TRAVIS. WE ALSO JUST HEARD FROM WESTWOOD. TONIGHT, OUR WESTWOOD COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMING TEAM FINISHED SECOND IN THE STATE, IN THE UIL STATE MEET. AND SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED THAT I JUST WAS INFORMED ABOUT IT TONIGHT. SO WE'RE, OUR STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY REPRESENTING OUR DISTRICT EVERYWHERE AND ACTUALLY REPRESENTING US VERY WELL AND SHINING. EVERYWHERE THEY GO.
SO THIS IS A COMPUTER SCIENCE PROGRAMMING UOFL STATE SECOND SECOND PLACE IN THE STATE.
THANK YOU WONDERFUL CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2026 ALL RIGHT, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO CLOSED SESSION. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE CLOSED SESSION IN THIS ROOM SO IF WE COULD ASK
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EVERYONE THAT I'M PRESIDENT I'M NOT GONNA PUT A TIME LIMIT BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE A LOT BUT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE ON THE DAIS THAT 1159 BY BOARD OPERATING PROCEDURES, WE END. PLEASE DON'T MAKE US BE HERE FOR TWO HOURS, BUT ALSO REMEMBER THAT WE HAVE TO BE DONE BY 1159. THANK YOU, TRUSTEE WARE. OKAY, I'M GOING TO READ US INTO CLOSED.PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.074, THE BOARD WILL MEET TO DISCUSS THE EVALUATION OF THE INTERNAL AUDITOR.
[K. CLOSED SESSION (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.) ]
PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.071 AND 551.076, THE BOARD WILL REVIEW, DELIBERATE, AND DISCUSS THE SAFETY AND SECURITY INTRUDER DETECTION AUDIT FINDINGS.PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 551.071 AND 551.074, THE BOARD WILL DISCUSS AND DELIBERATE ON THE ISSUES OF NON-CHAPTER 21 ONE-YEAR CONTRACTS. PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 551.071 AND 551.074, THE BOARD WILL DISCUSS AND DELIBERATE ON THE RENEWAL OF CHAPTER 21 TERM CONTRACTS. PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.071 AND 551.074, THE BOARD WILL DISCUSS THE STATUS OF INTERNAL PERSONNEL INVESTIGATION AND CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING SAME. PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.071, THE BOARD WILL CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING POTENTIAL LITIGATION MATTERS AND POSSIBLE CONTINGENT FEE ARRANGEMENT AND TO DISCUSS PARTICIPATION IN THE LITIGATION INVOLVING THE RECOVERY OF DAMAGE SUSTAINED BY THE DISTRICT RELATED TO THE HEALTH STORM OF 2023 AND ENTERING INTO A CONTINGENCY FEE CONTRACT WITH A LAW FIRM OF PRESTON DUGAS LAW FIRM. THANK YOU. PLLC DBA DUGAS AND SIR KELLY PLLC TO REPRESENT THE DISTRICT IT IS 10 O'CLOCK AND WE ARE IN CLOSED.
IT IS 11:17 AND WE ARE BACK IN OPEN DO I HAVE ANY MOTIONS COMING OUT OF CLOSED MADAM PRESIDENT I MOVE THAT THE
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BOARD APPROVE THE EVALUATION OF THE INTERNAL AUDITOR AS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION SECOND I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0. MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD APPROVE THE ROUND ROCK ISD SAFETY AND SECURITY INTRUDER DETECTION REPORT AS DISCUSSED IN CLOSED SESSION. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0. MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION TO ISSUE ONE-YEAR NON-CHAPTER 21 EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO THE EMPLOYEES AS LISTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0.MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ACCEPT THE ADMINISTRATION'S RECOMMENDATION TO ISSUE... ISSUE CHAPTER 21 TERM EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS TO THE EMPLOYEES AS LISTED AND SUBMITTED TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? ALL OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES 5-2. MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CONTINGENT FEE LEGAL SERVICES CONTRACT THAT INCLUDES THE FINDINGS REQUIRED BY TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE
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2254, SUBCHAPTER C, AND THAT ARE NEEDED FOR SUBMISSION OF A CONTINGENT FEE LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT AND A REQUEST TO THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR EXPEDITED REVIEW. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0. MADAM PRESIDENT, I MOVE THAT THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ADOPT AND APPROVE ENTERING INTO A CONTINGENT FEE LEGAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH PRESTON DUGAS LAW FIRM, PLLC, DBA, DUGAS & SORELLI, PLLC, TO REPRESENT THE DISTRICT IN ITS PROPERTY DAMAGE-RELATED INSURANCE CLAIM FROM THE HAILSTORM OF 2023 AND RELATED LITIGATION. SECOND. I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ALL IN FAVOR? MOTION PASSES 7-0. AND WITH NO OTHER BUSINESS ON THE AGENDA, IT IS 11:19 AND WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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