[00:00:05] THAT, GUYS. I CALL THIS MEETING OF THE LOCKHART INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO ORDER ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2023, AT [Call to Order] 6:30 P.M.. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT A QUORUM OF BOARD MEMBERS IS PRESENT, THAT THIS MEETING HAS BEEN DULY CALLED AND THAT NOTICE OF THIS MEETING HAS BEEN POSTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETING ACT. TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 551. LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT TRUSTEES PULLIAM, SANCHEZ, BURNETT, WRIGHT, GUYTON, LOCKHART AND RAYOS ARE PRESENT. NOW, EVERYBODY PLEASE RISE FOR THE PRESENTATION OF THE COLORS. COMMANDED THE LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL AIR FORCE JUNIOR ROTC COLOR GUARD IS CADET JEANETTE ARTURO SINGING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM NIGHT IS A LOCKHART VARSITY TREBLE CHOIR. [MUSIC] YOU SEE BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT. WHAT? SO? HOLD. THE TWILIGHT'S LAST. WHO WAS SHORT AND BRIGHT STARS THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT. O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY. AND THE ROCKETS RED GLARE, THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR. SILVER. OH, SAY DOES THAT STAR SPANGLED BANNER. YES. THE LAND OF THE FREE. AND WHOLE. LOVE. OF GOD. GOOD IT IS. IT WAS REALLY NICE. VERY NICE. THANK YOU. NOW WE'RE GOING TO ASK TRUSTEE BURNETT TO LEAD US IN THE INVOCATION. LET'S PRAY. FATHER GOD, THANK YOU FOR BLESSING US AND WATCHING OVER US. CONTINUE TO BE WITH OUR DISTRICT. GUIDE US AND DIRECT US. GIVE US WISDOM IN THIS MEETING TONIGHT. IN JESUS NAME. AMEN. AMEN. NOW WE'LL BE WILLING TO ONE OF OUR FAVORITE ITEMS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT. [Recognition] NUMBER FOUR RECOGNITIONS TO BE MISS STEPHANIE CAMARILLO WILL BE HEADING US UP TONIGHT. ALL RIGHT. THANK. GOOD EVENING, MISTER PRESIDENT. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD AND SUPERINTENDENT ESTRADA, WILL YOU PLEASE COME FORWARD TO HELP RECEIVE THIS EVENING'S HONOREES FOR RECOGNITION AS THEY MOVE FORWARD, I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU THE AWARD THE BOARD WILL PRESENT TO HONOREES THIS EVENING. THIS IS THE LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE COIN GIVEN BY THE BOARD ONLY TO THOSE WHO TRULY EXEMPLIFY EXCELLENCE IN LISD. AND NOW WE WILL BEGIN WITH TONIGHT'S RECOGNITION. THE EAGLE SCOUT IS THE HIGHEST ACHIEVEMENT OR RANK ATTAINABLE IN SCOUTS BSA PROGRAM OF THE BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA. SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN 1911, ONLY 4% OF SCOUTS HAVE EARNED THIS RANK. AFTER A LENGTHY REVIEW PROCESS, WE ARE INCREDIBLY PROUD TO RECOGNIZE FOUR OUTSTANDING LOCKHART ISD STUDENTS WHO HAVE ACHIEVED THIS AWARD. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STEP FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR COIN. THEN YOU WILL WAIT IN FRONT OF THE BANNER UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR A GROUP PHOTO. CALEB RAMIREZ. JOSEPH CAPETILLO. CLAYTON GERLITZ. ANDRES OSUNA. THEY ARE UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF SCOUTMASTER ABEL DE LA CRUZ. [00:05:04] COMMITTEE CHAIR MARISSA MENDEZ AND CHARTER. ORG REPRESENTATIVE CLEMENTE. VERASTEGUI. AWESOME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. CONGRATULATIONS. NEXT, WE HONOR THE OUTSTANDING FINE ARTS STUDENT PERFORMERS WHO SHARED THEIR TALENTS WITH US AT THE 2023 ALL STAFF CONVOCATION. LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL THEATER AND CHOIR STUDENTS GRACED THE STAGE OF THE GOPAK WITH A BEAUTIFUL, HEARTWARMING PERFORMANCE THAT SHOWCASED THEIR COMMITMENT TO BEING LOCKED ON EXCELLENCE. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE COME FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR COIN. THEN YOU WILL WAIT IN FRONT OF THE BANNER UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR A GROUP PHOTO. THERE'S A LONG LIST HERE, SO IF YOU WANT TO HOLD YOUR APPLAUSE, THAT'D BE AWESOME. SO YOU CAN HEAR THE NAMES BEGINNING WITH LEANDRA RODRIGUEZ. MARSHALL MURDOCK. I KNOW IT'S HARD. THOMAS. THOMAS UTZINGER. JADA. ECKFORD. MICHEL JOSEPH. JEREMIAH'S HUGHES. ANGELA KNUDSEN. BRADEN CHEATHAM. DAVID JONES. ISLA MARSLAND. REAGAN. BLISS. LOGAN CARTER. SOFIA GONZALEZ. CHRISTIAN CRUZ. SIERRA COLLINS. ANNABEL PETERSON. EVA VIOLI. DANIELA JACOME. NATHAN JONES. MADELINE GRUBBS. CONGRATULATIONS. THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY KENNEDY WORTHINGTON AND JASON WORTHINGTON. AWESOME. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. NEXT WE WILL RECOGNIZE THE LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR. MAYA ACOSTA. CLARK ADAMS. CHLOE BINGHAM. [00:10:03] EMMA BINGHAM. ABIGAIL BURNETT. HOLD ON. I PROMISE YOU, THEY WERE ALL HERE. MS.. SOTELO, DO YOU HAVE THE CHOIR LINED UP? ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN. CLARK ADAMS. CHLOE BINGHAM. EMMA BINGHAM. ABIGAIL BURNETT. SIERRA COLLINS. MIRA GOITIA. JEREMIAH'S HUGHES. OLIVIA. KLAUS. LUCAS NIX. ARIANNA PEREZ. GIL. DALIA RAMOS. HALO SNYDER. RIHANNA. VAN BUREN. THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY CAITLYN DIRK, LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL CHOIR DIRECTOR, AND GEORGE SANNIE VOLKES LUKE'S DIRECTOR. CONGRATULATIONS. AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS. THIS SUMMER, MANY LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PARTICIPATED IN GEAR, UP SUMMER CAMPS ACROSS THE NATION. TONIGHT, WE RECOGNIZE THEM FOR THEIR DEDICATION, FOR UNLOCKING POTENTIAL AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL AND PREPARING THEMSELVES FOR COLLEGE. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STEP FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR COIN. THEN YOU WILL WAIT IN FRONT OF THE BANNER UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR A GROUP PHOTO. ROBERT MORTON. EMMA RAMIREZ. HANNAH WHEELER. MAYA ACOSTA. JAMES MCGOWAN'S. EDWARD MENDOZA. CONTRERAS. KENNEDY ROWLAND. FLOOR. RIOS. BRIONES. FATIMA FALCON. SERGIO. MICHEL JOSEPH. JAYDN KIMBALL. THOMAS UTZINGER. BRIELLE ZIDEK WILLINGHAM. LUIS MEDINA. LELAND RAMIREZ. DMYTRO SEMAK. WESTON FREY. ADDITIONALLY, THIS WEEK WE CELEBRATE NATIONAL GEAR UP WEEK. WE WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR INCREDIBLE GEAR UP COORDINATORS AND SUPPORT STAFF FOR THE WORK THEY DO IN ENSURING THAT LOCKHART STUDENTS ARE READY FOR COLLEGE. THANK YOU GEAR UP. OUR COORDINATORS IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT ARE JARED MURRAY AND CLINT WILKIE. CONGRATULATIONS. [00:15:01] AND PRINCIPAL CYNTHIA VASQUEZ. FAMILIES YOU CAN GET UP THERE AND TAKE A PICTURE IF YOU WANT. YOU'RE GO. YEAH. TAKE A PICTURE. YEAH, I CAN GET UP THERE. WE DON'T HAVE A BOUNDARY LINE. DID YOU GET IT? AWESOME. CONGRATULATIONS. GEAR UP, STUDENTS. THIS YEAR, 15, HOW MANY DID I SAY? 15. LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE RECOGNIZED AS COLLEGE BOARD NATIONAL RECOGNITION PROGRAM HONOREES. STUDENTS EARN THIS DISTINCTION BY COMPLETING AP AND OR THE PSAT EXAMS AND HAVE A GPA OF 3.5 OR HIGHER. THIS DISTINCTION WILL ALLOW THEM TO STAND OUT ON COLLEGE APPLICATIONS AND SHOWCASE THEIR COMMITMENT TO BEING LOCKED ON EXCELLENCE. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STEP FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR COIN. THEN YOU WILL WAIT IN THE FRONT OF THE BANNER UNTIL THE PHOTO IS TAKEN. ADDISON HAGEN. ALBERT RUIZ. BRANDON DIKES. CODY GARCIA. FATIMA FALCON. HANNAH WHEELER. HAYLEY FREDETTE. JAMES MCGOWAN'S. LILY GOMILLION. LILY ROYAL CORPUS. NOAH RAMIREZ. RAKAIA WALKER. WESTON FREY. I HAVE TO. I DID. I'LL HOLD ON TO HER. I WANT TO GET YOUR NAME. IT'S OKAY. THEY DIDN'T CHECK? NO, I HAVEN'T. BECAUSE. BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED PROGRAM, WE HAVE REAGAN BLISS. AND JIMENA CONTRERAS. THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY LOCKHART HIGH SCHOOL PRINCIPAL CYNTHIA VASQUEZ AND LEAD COUNSELOR MAGGIE MCBRIDE. [00:21:07] ALL RIGHTY. I THINK WE GOT THEM ALL. THANK YOU ALL. CONGRATULATIONS. NOT YET. NOT YET. RAYOS. I'M DOING THEM LAST. THE LOCKHART ISD INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY WAS CREATED TO UNLOCK POTENTIAL IN FUTURE LISD LEADERS BY ACQUIRING THE TOOLS, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS WITHIN THE LOCKHART ISD INSTRUCTIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. IN A YEAR LONG COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, THESE LEADERS GAINED AN UNDERSTANDING OF LEADING A LEARNING COMMUNITY MONITORING CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION AND GATHERING DATA. THE MODULES IN THE ACADEMY COVERED PLC FACILITATION FUNDAMENTAL FIVE TEKS RESOURCE SYSTEM DIFFERENTIATION, DISTRICT ASSESSMENTS, DATA, DISAGGREGATION AND CLASSROOM WALKTHROUGHS. CONGRATULATIONS TO THE LISD TEACHERS AND ADMINISTRATORS WHO COMPLETED THE INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP ACADEMY. AND DEPENDING ON IF Y'ALL ARE GOOD TEACHERS, I DON'T HAVE TO REPEAT MYSELF ABOUT STANDING IN FRONT OF THE BANNER AND TAKING YOUR PHOTO. OKAY. YOU WERE LISTENING TO ALL OF THOSE INSTRUCTIONS. ALL RIGHT. WE'LL BEGIN WITH CAITLIN STEVENS. MICHAEL GARCIA, MICHELLE STEVENSON. KRISTIN FEALY. APRIL ZAPATA. ROXY ACOSTA. DENISE TREVINO. TYREE DUBOSE. THEY ARE. THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY OUR ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT OF CURRICULUM AND INSTRUCTION WHO LEADS THE ACADEMY. TY DAVIDSON. CONGRATULATIONS. PLEASE LEAVE YOUR APPLICATIONS AT THE DOOR FOR LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. PRIDE HIGH SCHOOL GARDEN EARLIER THIS MONTH. LOCKHART PRIDE HIGH SCHOOL'S FOOD FOREST PROGRAM EARNED THE OUTSTANDING CIVICS INITIATIVE AWARD FROM THE MEXICAN AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD ASSOCIATION. THE FOOD FOREST IS A GARDEN MANAGED BY PRIDE STUDENTS THEMSELVES. IT TEACHES STUDENTS ABOUT RESPONSIBILITY, SUSTAINABILITY, ECOSYSTEMS AND HOW SYSTEMS WORK TOGETHER. [00:25:07] STUDENTS PARTICIPATE IN GARDEN LAYOUT PLANNING, LEARN WHAT TO PLANT, LAY MULCH, SOIL WEED, TEND THE GARDEN AND MORE. THEY LEARN ABOUT PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY, THE IMPORTANCE OF WHOLE FOODS FOR A HEALTHY DIET, THE BENEFITS OF COOKING WITH HOME GROWN FOOD AND THE POWER OF COMMUNITY. CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS OUTSTANDING AWARD. THANK YOU FOR THE IMPACTING THE LIVES OF OUR STUDENTS THROUGH THE FOOD FOREST. IN ATTENDANCE TONIGHT ARE PRIDE PRINCIPAL ETHAN PETERS AND STUDENT VOLUNTEERS FROM THE FOOD FOREST PROGRAM, BRANDON MORALES AND ELIJAH GREEN. AND THEY WERE FEATURED ON KENS TV. YEP. OH. TONIGHT, WE'RE PROUD TO HONOR THE LOCKHART EVENING, NOON EVENING LIONS CLUB FOR THEIR GENEROUS SUPPORT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. BECAUSE THE LOCKHART EVENING LIONS CLUB ARE MOST IN NEED. LOCKHART ISD STUDENTS WERE READY TO UNLOCK THEIR POTENTIAL ON THE FIRST DAY WITH FREE SCHOOL SUPPLIES. WHEN I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STEP FORWARD TO RECEIVE YOUR COIN. THEN YOU WILL WAIT IN FRONT OF THE BANNER UNTIL IT'S TIME FOR A GROUP PHOTO. CLEMENT VERASTEGUI. ANDY GOVIA. LINDA GARZA. BILL HERNANDEZ. OLGA HERNANDEZ. MIKE GREENOUGH. KOREAN YANEZ. LINDA BARONE. AND OUR VERY OWN BOARD MEMBER RENE RAYOS. THANK YOU ALL. YES. MAKE SURE. WE ALSO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT THE CLUB GAVE $2,000 IN DONATION TO LOCKHART ISD. [00:30:05] JERKED IT OUT OF YOUR HAND. I'LL TAKE THAT. I HEARD THIS. AND LOCKHART. THAT'S ME WONDERING HOW I CAN TELL. I PRETTY SURE DIDN'T SHOW UP LAST NIGHT. OKAY. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER FIVE, PUBLIC COMMENTS. THERE ARE NOBODY SIGNED UP, SO IT WILL BE NO PUBLIC COMMENTS TODAY. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM SIX, CLOSED SESSION. [CLOSED SESSION] THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2023, BEGINNING AT 7 P.M., WILL CONVENE IN CLOSED SESSION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING DISCUSSING ITEMS LISTED UNDER TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.072, 551.074, 551.076. NO FINAL ACTIONS, DECISIONS OR VOTES WILL BE TAKEN WHILE THE BOARD IS IN EXECUTIVE SESSION. NO. THE BOARD ENDED ITS CLOSED SESSION AT 7:45 P.M. ON SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2023. WE WILL NOW MOVE TO ITEM SEVEN BUSINESS CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS A THROUGH J. [Business: Consent Agenda ] DOES ANY BOARD MEMBER HAVE ANY QUESTIONS THEY WANT TO ASK ABOUT THIS? ANY OF THESE ITEMS? YOU WANT TO PULL ANYTHING? NOPE. IF NOT, WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. I MAKE A MOTION. WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA AS PRESENTED. WE HAVE A MOTION. WE HAVE A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES 7 TO 0. THANK YOU. WOULD ITEM EIGHT COMMUNICATION [Progress Monitoring Data on District Achievement Targets] A PROGRESS MONITORING DATA ON DISTRICT ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS. MR. DAVISON. SO GOOD EVENING, BOARD PRESIDENT WRIGHT. MEMBERS OF THE BOARD. SUPERINTENDENT ESTRADA. I WILL BE TALKING ABOUT PROGRESS MONITORING AROUND OUR DISTRICT ACHIEVEMENT TARGETS FOR BASELINE DATA. THIS YEAR'S DISTRICT TARGETS FOR SCHOOL YEAR 2023, 2024 IS THAT AS WE REMAIN LOCKED ON EXCELLENCE, WE'RE GOING TO PURSUE THESE TARGETS THAT DEMONSTRATE MORE THAN ONE YEAR OF ACADEMIC GROWTH FOR ALL OF OUR STUDENTS. DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR, 80% OF OUR STUDENTS IN GRADES PRE K THROUGH FIVE AND 70% OF OUR SIXTH THROUGH 10TH GRADERS WILL SHOW 1.5 YEARS. PROGRESS IN READING AND IN MATH. 70% OF OUR STUDENTS IN KINDERGARTEN THROUGH ALGEBRA ONE WILL MAKE 1.5 YEARS PROGRESS. JUST A QUICK REMINDER THAT THE LOCKHART ISD INSTRUCTIONAL TENANTS ARE THE FOLLOWING. IF YOU LOOK CLOSELY, YOU'LL SEE THREE THAT ARE BOLDED FOR A REASON. WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON ALL OF THESE INSTRUCTIONAL TENETS THIS YEAR. BUT BACK IN MAY, WITH CONVERSATIONS WITH CAMPUS LEADERS, WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REFOCUSED ON THE INSTRUCTIONAL TENANTS. WE HAD A PRINCIPAL RETREAT IN JUNE WHERE WE SAT WITH CAMPUS LEADERSHIP, WHERE ALL CAMPUSES SELECTED STUDENT GROWTH GOALS AND PROGRESS AS ONE OF THEIR, YOU KNOW, LASER FOCUSED AREAS, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY WERE GOING TO FRAME THEIR INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES AND THEIR SUPPORTS. SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT STUDENT GOALS AND PROGRESS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. WE WILL CONTINUE TO OBSERVE FUNDAMENTAL FIVE AND WALKTHROUGHS. AND THEN THE SECOND INSTRUCTIONAL TENANT THAT ALL CAMPUSES PICKED WAS CLASSROOM COMMUNITY. SO I JUST WANT TO REITERATE, WE WILL FOCUS ON ALL FIVE, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A LASER FOCUS ON THESE STUDENT GOALS AND PROGRESS AS WELL AS FUNDAMENTAL FIVE. SO STRATEGIC SUPPORT THAT YOU'LL BE SEEING THIS NOT ONLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR BUT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, IS THAT STUDENT GOALS AND PROGRESS. SO I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE, AND THAT IS THAT STUDENTS HAVE BEEN ASKED TO SELF MONITOR THEIR PROGRESS. SO YOU'LL WALK IN THE CLASSROOMS AND YOU'LL SEE STUDENTS TRACKING THEIR OWN PROGRESS ON ASSESSMENTS, TYPICALLY IN A FOLDER, BUT AT LEAST ON A PIECE OF PAPER, A STANDARDIZED PAPER THAT THEY USE. SO THE EXPECTATIONS IS THAT STUDENTS AFTER ASSESSMENTS TRACK WHERE THEY ARE. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS USING THE CORE TWO OF THE LEADER IN ME. SO AS WE IMPLEMENT YEAR TWO OF LEADER IN ME ACROSS OUR CAMPUSES, CORE TWO IS STRATEGICALLY AROUND STUDENTS ALSO TRACKING THEIR PROGRESS, SETTING [00:35:03] GOALS FOR THEMSELVES. SO YOU MIGHT HEAR THE ACRONYM WIG, WHICH IS WILDLY IMPORTANT GOAL. I MENTIONED IT LAST TIME I WAS UP HERE LAST MONTH. THAT IS NOT JUST A LEADER IN MID TERM. IT IS A TERM THAT WE'RE USING ACROSS THE DISTRICT WHEN IT COMES TO STUDENTS MONITORING THEIR OWN GOALS AND PROGRESS. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE WILL CONTINUE WITH OUR PARENT AND FAMILY COMMUNICATIONS. SO. FAMILIES WILL RECEIVE THE PROGRESS REPORTS, REPORT CARDS, THAT TYPICAL COMMUNICATION THAT WE HAVE IN THE DISTRICT. BUT I ALSO WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE'RE CONTINUING TO USE SEESAW AS A WAY FOR PARENTS AND FAMILIES TO GET INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THEIR STUDENTS ARE IN THEIR PROGRESS. YOU'VE HEARD CONTINUOUSLY OVER THE LAST FEW ACTUALLY LONGER THAN THE LAST FEW MONTHS THAT WE ARE IMPLEMENTING A SHARED LEADERSHIP MODEL. SO THROUGH THIS, WHEN WE LOOK AT STRATEGIC SUPPORT THROUGH THE SHARED LEADERSHIP MODEL, IT'S JUST A REMINDER THAT TEACHERS WILL BE RECEIVING SUPPORT FROM LEAVER LEADERS. LEAVER LEADERS WILL BE RECEIVING SUPPORT FROM ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS, APS FROM PRINCIPALS, AND THEN WE CREATE THE, THE CONDITIONS FOR ALL OF THESE SYSTEMS TO TO WORK IN A MANNER WHERE EVERYBODY IS GETTING THE SUPPORT THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO GIVE OUR KIDS EVERYTHING THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL. WE WILL CONTINUE OUR PRINCIPLE ONE ON ONE MONTHLY MEETINGS. SO DR. CAMARILLO AND I HEAD OUT TO THE CAMPUSES EVERY MONTH. THERE'S BEEN A SLIGHT CHANGE. LAST YEAR WE DID THE MEETINGS TOGETHER, SO THIS YEAR WHAT WE DECIDED WAS AND THIS IS IN DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PRINCIPALS, WE START THE MEETING OFF TOGETHER WHERE WE DO CELEBRATIONS AND THEN WE BREAK APART. SO DR. CAMARILLO WORKS WITH THE PRINCIPAL TO GO OVER OPERATIONAL ITEMS WHILE I GO WALK. AND AFTER ROUGHLY 45 MINUTES WE SWITCH OUT. I COME IN AND TALK ABOUT INSTRUCTION, AND THEN DR. CAMARILLO GOES OUT AND SHE DOES WALKS OF THE CAMPUS. AND THEN WE COME TOGETHER NOT ONLY TO TALK ABOUT THE NOTES TAKEN AROUND OPERATIONAL INSTRUCTIONAL ITEMS, BUT ALSO WHAT WE'RE SEEING IN COMMON FROM THOSE WALKS. WE DO SO SO THAT EVERY ALL THE PIECES OF INFORMATION, WHETHER IT'S AT THE FAMILY, WHETHER IT'S THE STUDENTS MAINTAINING THEIR OWN GOALS, OUR ONE ON ONE MONTHLY MEETINGS IS THAT THE INFORMATION WE PROVIDE IS COMING FROM THE GOING TO THE BOARDROOM ALL THE WAY TO THE LIVING ROOM. BASELINE DATA FOR THIS SCHOOL YEAR. SO JUST A REMINDER, WHEN WE START LOOKING AT 1.5 GROWTH, YOU'LL SEE THE THIS IS JUST THE BASELINE DATA. AND THEN IN OCTOBER YOU'LL HAVE WHERE WE START OFF FOR GROWTH. WE'LL START OFF WITH READING DATA, WHICH IS ICE STATION AND ELEMENTARY RENAISSANCE LEARNING AT THE SECONDARY LEVEL. HERE YOU HAVE THE INFORMATION WE HAVE AROUND EACH STATION SINCE ITS INCEPTION IN THE DISTRICT. SO I'LL GIVE YOU A MOMENT TO LOOK AT OUR SCORES FROM 1718 ALL THE WAY TO THE CURRENT YEAR. AS I GO THROUGH NOT ONLY I STATION FOR READING AND THEN WE GO THROUGH AND START AGAIN FOR READING AND WE DO THE SAME FOR MATH, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT THE YEAR 2020, 2021 IS WHERE WE SAW SOME SOME MAJOR GROWTH, THAT THERE'S BEEN SOME DROPS SINCE THEN. AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THIS JUST FOR OUR PRE-K THROUGH FIFTH READING THAT WE'VE HAD SOME STATIONARY DATA SINCE THAT TIME, WE DID SEE A 1% GROWTH THAT WAS CARRIED BY OUR SPANISH. STUDENTS TESTING THIS YEAR FROM 2324. WHEN YOU COMPARE IT TO 22, 23, IT IS IT IS STATIONARY FROM THAT THAT YEAR OF 2020, 2021 THAT I MENTIONED. WHAT I'M GOING TO DO NEXT IS I'M GOING TO GO GRADE LEVEL. WE'RE GOING TO DO COHORT DATA. SO I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU SIDE BY SIDE TWO DIFFERENT GRADE LEVELS, AND THEN I'LL TALK ABOUT COHORT INFORMATION. SO THAT MEANS I WILL DISCUSS DATA FOR A CURRENT GRADE LEVEL AND GO BACK IN TIME TO SHOW WHERE EITHER THEY'VE SHOWN GROWTH AS A GRADE LEVEL WE CALL A COHORT. SO THE SAME GROUP OF STUDENTS COMPARED TO THE SAME GROUP OF STUDENTS. SO IN THIS PIECE OF DATA, YOU'RE LOOKING AT SIX AND SEVENTH READING. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE CURRENT SEVENTH GRADERS USE, WE HAVE A DROP FROM WHEN THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE. SO IF YOU LOOK AT 23, 24, RIGHT HAND SIDE FOR SEVENTH GRADE READING AND THEN GO BACK TO THE SIXTH GRADE WHERE YOU SEE 22, 23. SO THESE SEVENTH GRADERS ARE SIXTH GRADE. THESE SEVENTH GRADERS, AS SIXTH GRADERS SHOWED AN 11% DROP. NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK OVER TIME, THIS IS A TREND. SO YOU HEARD ME REPEAT THIS. I WAS A BROKEN RECORD LAST YEAR WHERE THE TRANSITION YEARS ARE DIFFICULT FOR US. SO THAT SIXTH GRADE TRANSITION AND THAT NINTH GRADE TRANSITION IS DIFFICULT. WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IS A THREE YEAR TREND THAT WHEN STUDENTS GO FROM SIXTH GRADE TO SEVENTH GRADE, THERE IS A DROP IN THE PRELIMINARY BASELINE DATA THAT WE HAVE FOR FOR THE DISTRICT, WHICH TELLS ME THAT AFTER LEAVING SIXTH GRADE, THERE'S STILL A LOT OF GROWTH THAT THEY NEED TO SHOW, EVEN THOUGH IF THEY'RE GOING INTO SEVENTH. IS THAT KIND OF WHAT WE SEE STATEWIDE ALSO? IN GENERAL WAS STAAR REN DATA OR JUST IN GENERAL, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IN GENERAL, WHEN THEY MAKE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT GRADES AND ASSESSMENTS TYPICALLY [00:40:09] IN TRANSITION. GRADE LEVELS, YOU SEE THAT THERE'S A DIP IN SIXTH AND NINTH GRADE. I DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION READILY AVAILABLE FOR STAAR REN, BUT IF WE WANT IT FOR STAAR REN, THEY DO PROVIDE STATE DATA WHERE I CAN SEE IF THERE'S A DROP ACROSS THE STATE AND ACTUALLY NATIONALLY IF THEY SEE THE SAME DROPS IN SIXTH GRADE. BUT I CAN GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. OKAY. THANK YOU. COMING FROM ANOTHER DISTRICT. YOU CAN SEE LIKE FROM AISD TO LOCKHART, WRIGHT. I MEAN. TRUE. I WILL SAY THAT IN THAT I DON'T WANT TO.. RIGHT, I WILL SAY IN A IN ANOTHER DISTRICT THAT I'M FAMILIAR WITH. RIGHT. ISTATION WASN'T USED ACROSS THE DISTRICT. SO YOU COULD COMPARE WE COULD WE COULD DO A LOOK OF COMPARABLE CAMPUSES LIKE WE DO WITH WHAT WE CAN DO WITH STAAR ASSESSMENTS AND EVENTUALLY THAT COMES OUT. BUT I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHAT THE SIXTH GRADE LOOKS LIKE IN THAT OTHER DISTRICT. SO NOW WE'LL LOOK AT SEVENTH AND EIGHTH. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THE CURRENT EIGHTH GRADERS ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. AND IF YOU LOOK BACK TO WHEN THEY WERE SEVENTH GRADERS, THERE WAS A 1% GAIN. AND MY APOLOGIES TEAM, I SHOULD HAVE POINTED OUT THAT THE BLUE IS THE STUDENTS THAT ARE PASSING, SO THEY'RE CONSIDERED PASSING ON THE ISTATION. SO IT'S EITHER APPROACHES MEETS OR MASTERS AND THE RED IS DID NOT MEET. SO I SHOULD HAVE MENTIONED THAT. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, THESE EIGHTH GRADERS, WHEN THEY WERE IN SEVENTH GRADERS, YOU SEE A 1% GAIN. BUT IF YOU GO BACK TO WHEN THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE, THAT IS AN 8% DROP. SO OVER TIME AT THE JUNIOR HIGH LEVEL, EVEN SIX TO EIGHTH, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE SEEING GAINS WITH THE CURRENT GROUP, IT'S A MINIMAL GAIN OF ONE, A MINIMAL GAIN OF 1%. THEY ARE STILL NOT WHERE THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE. WHAT I CAN SAY IS THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT THE CURRENT EIGHTH GRADERS IN THREE YEARS SHOWED BOTH ANY TYPE OF INCREASE IN BOTH READING AND MATH. I'LL GET TO MATH IN A MOMENT, BUT THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW BRIGHT SPOTS WHEN WE LOOK ACROSS THE BOARD THAT EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT WHERE THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE, BOTH GROUPS I'M SORRY, THE SAME GROUP, BOTH IN READING AND MATH, SHOWED INCREASES FOR THIS GRADE LEVEL WHEN COMPARED TO WHERE THEY WERE LAST YEAR AS SEVENTH GRADERS. SO HOW LONG HAS THE STAAR REN BEEN THE THE ASSESSMENT USED TO LOOK AT THE AREA OF STAAR PREDICTABILITY? FOR THE DISTRICT. WE HAVE DATA ALL THE WAY BACK TO 2021. THIS IS AS FAR BACK THAT WE CAN GO. BUT MR. ESTRADA MIGHT BE ABLE TO SAY IF THERE WAS ANOTHER YEAR WHERE. NO, THAT IS THAT IS ACCURATE. I WAS GOING TO ADD THAT RENAISSANCE LEARNING HAS EVER SINCE STAAR CAME OUT, THEY HAVE BEEN COMPARING AND NORMING THEIR DATA WITH IT. AND THERE'S A I FORGET THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT A VERY HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY THAT WHEN THEY SAY A KID IS AT THIS LEVEL IN SEPTEMBER, THEY'RE ABLE TO PREDICT AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THIS IS WHERE WE THINK THEY'RE GOING TO BE AND IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE PASSING OR NOT. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS DATA IS SAYING. YEAH, THIS DATA IS TELLING US THAT IN EIGHTH GRADE RIGHT NOW, KIDS, 49% OF OUR KIDS, BASED ON HOW THEY PERFORMED ON THEIR SEPTEMBER ASSESSMENT, IF THEY CONTINUE TO BE TAUGHT THE ENTIRE YEAR AND AND LEARN WHAT'S EXPECTED IN ONE YEAR, 49% OF THEM ARE GOING TO PASS THE STAAR THAT'S WHAT THIS DATA IS TELLING US. THAT'S THE IMPORTANCE OF OF GROWING KIDS AND ACCELERATING TO TO 1.5. BECAUSE IF WE GROW THEM A YEAR FROM WHERE THEY ARE NOW, ONLY 49% ARE GOING TO GET AT LEAST APPROACHES ON ON THE REAL STAAR. THAT'S WHAT THIS DATA IS TELLING US. AND RENAISSANCE LEARNING. WHEN I WAS A CAMPUS PRINCIPAL WOULD GO THROUGH AND LOOK AT STUDENT BY STUDENT AND MATCH UP. AND IT IS VERY ACCURATE. I HAVE I HAVE DONE THE REAL STUDENT TO REAL STUDENT. THIS IS PROJECTION IN SEPTEMBER. THIS IS WHERE THEY ENDED UP. AND IF THEY SAY THAT A KID IS GOING TO PASS AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THEY'RE GOING TO TO PASS. SO THIS ASSESSMENT HAS A LOT OF RELIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY FOR STUDENTS. SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS. SO INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CATCH THESE SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADERS UP. WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE IN THE SIXTH GRADE TO KEEP THEM FROM FALLING OFF THE CLIFF IN THE FIRST PLACE. SO, I MEAN, THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT WE CAN DO ACROSS THE BOARD AND EVEN BEFORE SIXTH GRADE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT ELEMENTARY. SO WE GO BACK TO THE STRATEGIC. THE INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICES AT OUR CAMPUSES ARE GOING TO USE. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE STUDENT PROGRESS AND GOALS, THAT'S WHAT CAMPUSES AND CAMPUSES LEADERS DECIDED THAT WOULD HELP IN ORDER TO GET KIDS TO MOVE FORWARD, TO GET TO NOT ONLY THAT 1.5 GOAL, BUT BEYOND THAT, WHERE THEY ARE MONITORING THEIR OWN PROGRESS. [00:45:02] BUT THERE'S AND I'LL GET TO THIS IN A LITTLE BIT, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE A HUGE THERE'S A HUGE PUSH THIS YEAR AROUND CRITICAL WRITING AND THEN GPT SO THAT FOCUS SMALL GROUP PURPOSEFUL TALK WITHIN CLASSROOMS. SO THOSE ARE THE FOLKS THAT WERE THE CAMPUSES ARE USING THIS YEAR IN ORDER TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN. BUT IT'S ALSO LOOKING AT THIS DATA, RIGHT? SO WE CAN SIT HERE AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT PREDICTABILITY, BECAUSE I COULD BE WRONG. MR. ESTRADA BUT I THINK STAAR REN SAID IT WAS OVER 90% WHEN THEY SEE THIS, BUT IT CAN PREDICT RIGHT ABOVE 90% IS THAT THE CAMPUSES, WHEN WE HAVE THOSE ONE ON MEETINGS AND THEN IN BETWEEN WITH THAT SHARED LEADERSHIP MODEL THAT THEY ARE HAVING THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS INSIDE INDIVIDUAL CLASSROOMS AND PROVIDING THOSE KIDS WHAT THEY NEED AND THAT WE MONITOR THAT. SO IT'S LOOKING AT NOT ONLY THIS DATA, BUT WHEN CBA COMES, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT A PROFILE OF WHAT AREAS OF WEAKNESS THE STUDENT DEMONSTRATES FROM THIS ASSESSMENT, RIGHT? EVEN IN SIXTH GRADE, RIGHT? THEY GET FOR SIXTH GRADE. SO USING I STATION BEFORE THEN IN DREAMBOX, BEFORE THEN IT'S HAVING THAT THAT PRESCRIPTION RIGHT THAT THE KID NEEDS AND KNOWING THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENT AND THEN PROVIDING THAT THAT THAT SUPPORT THAT THAT STUDENT NEEDS. DO? IS IT IS IT POSSIBLE THAT JUST THE SIZE OF THE JUNIOR HIGH ITSELF CONTRIBUTES TO SOME OF THIS? YEAH, IT COULD BE. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE I'M GOING TO GET TO NINTH GRADE IN MATH IN A LITTLE. I'M GOING TO GET INTO READING IN A LITTLE BIT. BUT THERE'S SOMETHING PECULIAR ABOUT NINTH GRADE. THE MATH BESIDES THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS TESTING. BUT THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AND I JUST HAD A CONVERSATION WITH ICE STATION TODAY IS HOW CAN WE HOW CAN THEY HELP US MONITOR STUDENTS OVER TIME? BECAUSE THE SYSTEM DOESN'T ALLOW FOR THAT RIGHT NOW. SO WE NEED TO DO THAT IN BETWEEN. BUT LOOKING AT STUDENTS THAT STAY WITH THE DISTRICT VERSUS THOSE THAT ARE COMING IN. SO IT'S NOT ONLY THE SIZE OF THE JUNIOR HIGH, BUT IT'S ALSO MOBILITY. SO IT'S UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU HAVE KIDS COMING IN FROM OTHER DISTRICTS. YOU HAVE KIDS WHO ARE MOBILE AND RECOGNIZING THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE ALL THE DATA FOR THAT KID, BUT YOU NEED YOU NEED TO USE THESE ASSESSMENTS, WHETHER IT'S CBA, WHETHER IT'S STAR RENT, USING ALL THE INFORMATION THAT YOU CAN HAVE ABOUT A CHILD SO THAT YOU GIVE THEM THE RIGHT SUPPORTS THAT THEY NEED. SO SHEER SIZE IF YOU THINK ABOUT MOBILITY. IT COULD BE IT COULD BE AN INDICATOR. SO NEXT I'LL GO INTO EIGHTH TO NINTH. ALL OF THESE NO MATTER WHETHER YOU LOOK AT WHETHER AN EIGHTH TO NINTH. THESE CURRENT NINTH GRADERS, WHEN THEY WERE IN SEVENTH AND WHEN THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE. SO WE HAVE FOUR YEARS OF COHORT DATA. THERE HAS BEEN A DROP IN THEIR DATA SINCE SIXTH GRADE. SO THE HIGH SCHOOL UNDERSTANDS THE HYPER FOCUS THAT'S NEEDED IN ELA ONE FOR THESE STUDENTS AT NINTH GRADE AS WELL AS THE JUNIOR HIGH. WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE JUNIOR HIGH, BUT WE HAVE SEEN THAT THERE IS PREDICTABILITY WITH THESE STUDENTS COMING OUT OF 2021. THERE HAS BEEN A DECLINE POST SIXTH GRADE. SO THE JUNIOR HIGH LOOKING NOT ONLY AT THE MOVEMENT AND THE TRANSITION IN THE SIXTH GRADE, BUT ALL THREE GRADE LEVELS AND THEN IN PARTICULAR THE NINTH GRADE AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, BECAUSE WHEN I MOVED TO THE NEXT ONE. NINTH AND 10TH. YOU SAW A HUGE JUMP. 47% TO 54%. SO OUR CURRENT SOPHOMORES, WHEN THEY WERE FRESHMEN AT THIS TIME, IT'S NOT A TRANSITION YEAR, BUT THEY SHOWED SOME OF THE HIGHEST GROWTH THAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE. IT'S THE HIGHEST GROWTH IN THE READING. SO IT'S MATURITY. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE SIZE OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, BUT IT'S DEFINITELY THAT THEY HAVE SHOWN GROWTH FROM WHEN THEY WERE SEVENTH GRADERS. ACTUALLY, THERE WAS A DROP FROM WHEN THEY WERE SIXTH GRADERS, SEVENTH GRADERS, BUT GROWTH FROM NINTH TO 10TH. SO THIS IS THE LARGEST CLOSING OF GAPS THAT WE SEE IN IN READING. THERE ARE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. I'LL GO TO MATH. SO JUST A REMINDER, DREAMBOX DOESN'T START UNTIL NEXT MONTH, SO I'LL HAVE DREAMBOX DATA IN OCTOBER. BUT WE DO HAVE RENN LEARNING FOR GRADES THREE THROUGH NINE. SO THIS IS AN OVERVIEW. THIS INFORMATION GOES ALL THE WAY BACK TO 1516. SO WE HAVE STAYED STATIONARY SINCE 2021. MUCH LIKE READING, I CAN'T STAND UP HERE AND SAY THAT I HAVE A CORRELATION OF POST 2021, THAT THERE'S BEEN STAGNATION FOR CERTAIN REASONS, WHETHER IT'S LEARNING LOSS OR COMING BACK. I DON'T KNOW THAT YET. BUT WHAT I CAN SAY IS THAT THE DATA IN BOTH READING AND MATH FOR STAR REN BOTH SHOWS THAT AFTER 2020, 20, 21 SCHOOL YEAR, THAT WE HAVE REMAINED PRETTY STAGNANT. I DID RUN THE NUMBERS AND I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT I WAS GOING TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT NINTH GRADE. I'LL GET INTO THAT WHEN I GET TO THE NINTH GRADE LEVEL. BUT I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON THE FACT THAT. THE NUMBERS WOULD BE DIFFERENT THIS YEAR IN 23 AND 24 FOR THE NUMBER OF KIDS THAT SHOWED APPROACHES MEETS OR MASTERS. [00:50:01] SO THAT BLUE BAR IF WE HAD. IF WE HAD GOTTEN ALL OF NINTH GRADERS TO TEST THIS YEAR. SO IT LOOKED LIKE THERE WAS AN ANOMALY WHEN I WAS LOOKING AT THIS DATA. AND ONLY HALF OF THE NINTH GRADERS, BOTH THIS YEAR AND LAST YEAR HAD STAR RAN SCORES. I WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE HIGH SCHOOL OR I'LL HAVE TO CALL THE CAMPUS TO FIND OUT IF THERE WERE TECHNICAL ISSUES OR JUST CERTAIN CLASSES THAT DIDN'T TEST OR MAYBE THE SCORES DIDN'T GO THROUGH. BUT IT'S IT'S UNFAIR TO SAY THAT THIS IS ACCURATE DATA FOR 23, 24 WHEN WE'RE MISSING ROUGHLY 45% OF THE NINTH GRADERS WHO SHOULD HAVE TAKEN THE STAR. SO I NEED TO DIG DEEPER ON THAT ONE. WE'LL DO THE SAME COMPARISON. SO THIRD TO FOURTH GRADE. SO IF WE LOOK AT THE FOURTH GRADE ON THE RIGHT SIDE AND THIRD GRADE ON THE LEFT SIDE, I'M SORRY, FOURTH GRADE THIS YEAR, WHEN THEY WERE THIRD GRADERS LAST YEAR IN 20 TO 23, A 7% INCREASE. SO THIS IS THE LARGEST GROWTH OF ANY FOURTH GRADE COHORT WHEN YOU LOOK PAST THE LAST THREE YEARS. SO THIS FOURTH GRADE CLASS OUTPERFORMED THE LAST THREE FOURTH GRADE CLASSES WHEN IT COMES TO GROWTH FROM THEIR PREVIOUS YEAR. SO KUDOS TO FOURTH GRADE TEAMS OUT THERE IN MATH. WE'LL LOOK AT FOUR THROUGH FIFTH AND THE TREND CONTINUES. SO THIS WAS AN 18% GROWTH. FOURTH, THESE FIFTH GRADERS WHEN THEY WERE FOURTH GRADERS, I WILL SAY THAT THIS IS A TREND. SO OUR FOURTH GRADERS GOING INTO FIFTH GRADE, TAKING STAR RENT IN SEPTEMBER BASELINE HAVE REALLY DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS. WE'VE SEEN A 21, 26 AND NOW 18% GROWTH IN ONE YEAR. SO KUDOS TO THE FIFTH GRADE TEAMS AS WELL OUT THERE. FIFTH TO SIXTH. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THESE TRANSITION YEARS. SIXTH GRADE SHOWED A 15% DROP FROM FIFTH TO SIXTH. THIS I REALLY THE ONLY TREND I CAN TELL YOU THAT HAPPENS FROM FIFTH TO SIXTH IN MATH USING STAAR REN IS THAT IT GOES UP, THEN DOWN, THEN UP, THEN DOWN, WHICH MEANS THERE'S NO PREDICTABILITY AROUND A COHORT. SO WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A DOWN YEAR, BUT FROM 2021, 20 TO 21, 22, THIS GROUP SHOWED GROWTH AND THEN THEY DIPPED AGAIN. SO IT'S SOMEWHERE WHERE WE NEED TO DO A LITTLE BIT MORE DIGGING AND SEE WHAT HAPPENED. COULD BE THE TRANSITION YEAR. MR. WRIGHT MENTIONED THE SIZE OF THE JUNIOR HIGH, THAT THERE'S DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND SOME PREDICTABILITY AROUND WHY THERE ISN'T ANY FOR THIS FIFTH OR SIXTH TRANSITION. WE SEE THE SAME FOR SEVENTH GRADE. WE HAVE TWO YEARS OF DROPS. BUT THESE CURRENT SEVENTH GRADERS, WHEN THEY WERE IN SIXTH GRADE, WE SHOW AN 11% DROP. BUT ONCE AGAIN, I COULD NOT FIND ANY PREDICTABILITY IN THE CHANGING PER YEAR. IT JUST DEPENDS ON THE COHORT. AND THEN WE FLIP TO SEVENTH AND EIGHTH WHERE WE THINK THAT WE WOULD HAVE THE SAME TYPE OF OCCURRENCES ACROSS THE MIDDLE SCHOOL. BUT IN THIS CASE, EIGHTH GRADE SHOWED A 15% INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR. SO THESE EIGHTH GRADERS, 23, 24, WHEN THEY WERE IN SEVENTH GRADE, SHOWED A 15% GAIN. WE ARE STILL NOT WHERE WE WERE IN 2021. SO THERE'S STILL GROWTH THAT'S NEEDED FOR THIS GROUP AS THEY STRIVE FOR THAT 1.5 ACROSS THE YEAR. BUT TO SHOW 15% GROWTH TO ALMOST GET TO WHERE THEY WERE IN 21, 22 IS IS A ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR THEM FOR FOR WORKING HARD. THIS IS THE LARGEST CLOSING OF GAPS OF ANY MATH THAT WE SEE ACROSS THE BOARD FROM THIRD TO NINTH GRADE. EIGHTH TO NINTH. I MENTIONED IT EARLIER. IF YOU LOOK AT THE BAR GRAPH, YOU'LL SEE THAT. IT'S THE HIGHEST WE'VE HAD OF DID NOT MEET. I WILL RETURN WITH MORE DATA WHEN I. I CAN PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF STUDENTS WHO TESTED IN NINTH GRADE BECAUSE THIS 2324 THAT THAT RED IS IT'S ACCURATE WITH THE KIDS THAT WERE TESTED AND ASSESSED, WHICH IS ROUGHLY ONLY ABOUT 60% OF THE COHORT. SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A DEEPER DIVE INTO THAT. CAMPUS RESPONSES. RTI SYSTEMS. SO THE CNI TEAM, HEADED BY BELINDA VASQUEZ, IS WORKING WITH CAMPUS LEADERSHIP TO ENSURE THAT RTI SYSTEMS ARE COMBINING BOTH ACADEMIC AND BEHAVIOR. SO IN SOME CASES, YOU SEE WHERE THERE'S A RESPONSE, A SEPARATED RESPONSE. WE ARE WORKING WITH TEAMS TO ENSURE THAT THE PLC PROCESS IS USED APPROPRIATELY, THAT WE'RE HAVING MEETINGS AROUND RTI SYSTEMS SO THAT WE'RE RESPONDING TO BOTH ACADEMIC AND [00:55:03] BEHAVIORAL RTI. I TALKED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ABOUT THE PRINCIPLE 1 TO 1 MEETINGS THAT WERE THAT DR. CAMARILLO AND I ARE HAVING WITH PRINCIPALS. WE'LL BE DOING CBA'S OVER THE NEXT TWO WEEKS. SO JUST A REMINDER THAT WHEN WE DO THE CBA'S, WE TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND THIS IS WHERE WE DO A DEEP DIVE ON NOT ONLY INDIVIDUAL STUDENT DATA, BUT GRADE LEVEL AND TEACHER SPECIFIC. IN THE PRINCIPAL ONE ON ONE MEETING, I WILL ASK PRINCIPALS, WHAT ARE THEY DOING TO RESPOND TO THE COMMON BASE ASSESSMENT? AND THEN IT'LL BE COMPARED TO THE STAAR REN AND I STATION INFORMATION TO SEE IF WE CAN FIND CORRELATIONS BETWEEN CBA AND THE 1.5 MEASURES. YOU JUST ELABORATE ON WHAT THE COMMON BASE ASSESSMENT. IT'S IT'S A TEST THAT IS CREATED MOSTLY MOST GRADE LEVELS HAVE. THE CNI TEAM CREATES A TEST, AN ASSESSMENT. IT'S HANDED OUT TO ALL GRADE LEVELS. SO EACH GRADE LEVEL HAS THE SAME ASSESSMENT. THEN WE GATHER THE DATA AND WE'RE ABLE TO COMPARE TEACHER TO TEACHER, STUDENT TO STUDENT, CAMPUS TO CAMPUS. THE HIGH SCHOOL DOES CREATE SOME OF THE HIGH SCHOOL CONTENT, CREATES THEIR OWN CBA. SO WE DON'T CREATE ALL OF THEM. ALL COMMON BASED ASSESSMENTS ARE VETTED BY OUR LEADERS. SO WE HAVE THE CBA'S WRITTEN, THEY'VE BEEN EDITED FOR YEARS. WE BROUGHT IN OUR LEADERS TO LOOK THEM OVER, ENSURE NOT ONLY ABOUT CONTENT, BUT THAT IT'S ALIGNED TO THE TEACHER'S RESOURCE. SO YOU TARGET CERTAIN AREAS WHERE KIDS ARE NOT DOING WELL IN THE STAR. THE THE CAMPUS BASED ASSESSMENTS ARE BASED ON THE STANDARDS THAT ARE TAUGHT FOR THAT NINE WEEKS. SO IT'LL INCLUDE STANDARDS WHERE WE WE SHOW DEFICIENCIES, BUT IT ALSO HAS STANDARDS WHERE WE DO VERY WELL. BUT IT'S BASED ON THIS IS WHAT WE TAUGHT. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ASSESS. WE FOR THE FIRST TIME, AND I CAN'T SAY HOW MANY YEARS I CAN SAY FOR AT LEAST ONE YEAR WE ARE GOING TO ROLL THE DEFICIENT STANDARDS AND CBA ONE INTO CBA TWO TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY IMPROVEMENT AND THEN DO THAT FOR CBA THREE, WE'LL HAVE SHORT CONSTRUCTED RESPONSES AND CBA ONE, BUT STARTING WITH CBA TWO, WE WILL DO EXTENDED RESPONSES. SO WE'LL ACTUALLY BE GRADING ESSAYS AFTER CBA TWO SO THAT WE CAN GO BACK TO WHAT MR. WRIGHT ASKED ABOUT WHAT CAN WE DO IN THE LOWER GRADES? REALLY, IT'S ALL GRADES CRITICAL WRITING WITH FOCUSED EMPHASIS ON THE STRATEGIES THEY NEED TO BE ABLE TO WRITE BETTER. THANK YOU. AND THEN THIS CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN. SO CIPS, WHICH DR. CAMARILLO WILL BE TALKING ABOUT IN A BIT. WE WORKED DILIGENTLY WITH AND KUDOS TO ALL THE CAMPUSES WORKING ON THEIR CIPS. THEY HAVE SPECIFIC PRIORITIES WITH STRATEGIES THAT ARE CONNECTED TO NOT ONLY THE CBAS AND 1.5 AND RTI SYSTEMS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO USE THAT CIP IN ORDER TO HELP US HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE PRINCIPALS DURING THOSE ONE ON ONE MEETINGS. SO WE'LL OPEN UP THE CIP. WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHERE DO YOU STAND WITH YOUR GOALS? WE WILL PIVOT AS NEEDED AND THEN THERE WILL BE MEASURES USED AND WRITTEN IN THE CIP SO THAT WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE MONITORING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. THAT'S IT FOR ME AT THIS POINT. ANY QUESTIONS, TEAM? ANY MORE QUESTIONS? BOARD? NOPE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL. ITEM EIGHT B 2023 2024 BUDGET UPDATE MISS WISER. [2023-2024 Budget Update] GOOD EVENING, MR. ESTRADA AND SCHOOL BOARD. OKAY, SO WE ARE A FEW MONTHS IN THREE MONTHS IN AFTER WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET AND WE ALL KNOW THAT A LOT COMES TO LIGHT AS THE YEAR PROGRESSES. SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE UPDATE ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED SINCE WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET AT THE END OF JUNE. SO I'LL GO, I'LL REVIEW. I'LL JUST DO A BUDGET REVIEW OF WHAT WAS ADOPTED AT THE END OF JUNE. WE'LL LOOK AT THAT BUDGET SUMMARY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW ENROLLMENT HAS SHAPED UP FOR THIS YEAR SO FAR, WHAT ATTENDANCE HAS LOOKED LIKE THESE FIRST SIX WEEKS. SOME REVENUE ESTIMATES BASED ON THE NEW THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW THAT WE WERE PROJECTING BACK WHEN WE WERE CREATING THE BUDGET. AND THEN WE'LL LOOK AT A REVISED BUDGET SUMMARY FOR WHAT THAT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. SO JUST TO. GO BACK OVER. WHAT? WHEN WE'RE ADOPTING THE BUDGET, WE'RE CREATING THE BUDGET. THERE'S A LOT OF UNKNOWNS. AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE ARE KIND OF THAT WE'RE PROJECTING, OF COURSE. SO WE PROJECTED A 4% GROWTH IN ENROLLMENT WITH A 93% ATTENDANCE RATE. THAT WAS UP FROM A 92% ATTENDANCE RATE OF LAST YEAR. WE HAD A I ALMOST GIGGLED A LITTLE BIT WHEN I SAW THIS BECAUSE THIS JUST SHOWS HOW WE WERE THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION WAS STILL [01:00:03] GOING ON AND THE UNKNOWNS WITH THE TAX RATE, EVEN WHEN WE ADOPTED AT THE END OF JUNE AND SO MUCH HAS CHANGED. BUT THAT RATE AT THE TIME THAT WAS THE MAX, THE FLOOR OF THE COMPRESSION WAS 76 PENNIES. SO THAT IS WHAT OUR COLLECTION WAS BASED ON WAS THE 76 PENNY TAX RATE. IT INCLUDED ALL THE NEW POSITIONS THAT WERE APPROVED THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET PLANNING PROCESS. AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR 23-24 COMPENSATION PLAN THAT DID INCLUDE PART TWO THAT WAS CONTINGENT UPON THE PASSAGE OF THE NOVEMBER 7TH VATRE. SO WHAT DID THAT LOOK LIKE? SO THERE'S THREE BUDGETS THAT ARE REQUIRED TO BE ADOPTED BY THE BOARD, AND THAT'S OUR MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION BUDGET, OUR DEBT SERVICE BUDGET THAT PAYS FOR OUR BOND PAYMENTS AND THEN OUR SCHOOL NUTRITION FUND. AND SO THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT WAS ADOPTED THAT NIGHT. JUST AS A REMINDER ON THE SIDE, WE DID ADOPT A DEFICIT BUDGET OF $710,000. AND SO THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'LL LOOK AT THIS EVENING, IS NOW THAT WE KNOW SOME THINGS, WHERE DOES THAT WHERE DO WE FALL NOW? VISUALLY. WHAT I ALSO LIKE TO SHOW IS HOW THIS LOOKS LIKE. ON THE REVENUE SIDE AND EXPENDITURE SIDE. SO ON THE REVENUE SIDE, THE MAIN THING THAT I LIKE TO LOOK AT HERE IS HOW MUCH IS THE STATE FUNDING US VERSUS HOW MUCH WE'RE BEING FUNDED LOCALLY. WHEN WE ADOPTED THE BUDGET, THE STATE WAS FUNDING US 53% OF OUR BUDGET AND THEN OUR LOCAL SHARE WAS 46%. SO WE'RE ALMOST 50 OVER 50. I THINK WHEN I STARTED IT WAS AROUND 65%. SO WE'VE THE STATE SHARE HAS GONE DOWN AS OUR LOCAL SHARE HAS GONE UP. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, WE LOOK AT ALL THE MAJOR SPENDING CATEGORIES. WE SEE THAT PAYROLL, OF COURSE, IS OUR LARGEST PERCENT. AND THEN I ALSO LIKE TO SHOW IT THAT WE IF WE WERE TO NOT CONTRACT OUT OUR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES AND OUR CUSTODIAL SERVICES, WE WOULD BE RIGHT AT THAT 81%, WHICH IS THAT THAT NORMAL AMOUNT OF WHAT OF WHAT IT COSTS TO RUN THE BUDGET 81% IS VERY NORMAL FOR PAYROLL. AND THEN THE REST OF THOSE OTHER CATEGORIES ARE GOING TO BE EVERYTHING ELSE THAT FUNDS THAT HELPS US RUN THE DISTRICT LIKE OUR UTILITIES AND OUR SUPPLIES AND EVERYTHING ELSE. THAT'S NON PAYROLL. SO THAT'S WHERE WE THAT'S WHERE WE WERE FINANCIALLY. AND THEN HERE WE ARE ON ENROLLMENT BECAUSE THAT, OF COURSE, HAS A BIG PART TO DO WITH WHAT WE ARE PROJECTING ON OUR STUDENT ENROLLMENT ON THE FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL. THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST FRIDAYS OF THE FIRST SIX WEEKS OF SCHOOL. SO ALL THE ENROLLMENT ON ALL THE FRIDAYS OF SCHOOL, WE HAD A 4.8% GROWTH ON THAT FIRST FRIDAY OF 6345 STUDENTS. AND THEN ON THIS PAST FRIDAY, WE HAVE CLIMBED ALL THE WAY TO 6597 STUDENTS. SO WE ARE SURE TO PASS 6600 STUDENTS ANY DAY NOW AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW STUDENTS EACH DAY. SO WE'RE RIGHT AT RIGHT NOW AT ABOUT 1.8% GROWTH OF STUDENT ENROLLMENT. COMPARED TO LAST YEAR. IT'S, OF COURSE, LAST YEAR'S FIRST FRIDAYS AS WELL. AND THEN LET'S LOOK AT ATTENDANCE. SO THERE'S A LOT GOING ON HERE. I PRINTED IT OUT SO YOU CAN SEE IT. BUT THE MAROON LINES ARE THE CUMULATIVE ATTENDANCE RATE PER CAMPUS FROM LAST YEAR, 22, 23 TO THIS YEAR, 23, 24. AND AS YOU CAN SEE, ALL MOST OF THE CAMPUSES HAVE GONE UP, WHICH IS JUST WE'RE REALLY, REALLY PROUD OF THAT. OUR BUDGET THIS YEAR IS BASED ON 94%. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT GREEN LINE IS. WHEN I WHEN I PUT THAT UP THERE AND WE CAN SEE SO MANY OF THE GRAY LINES ARE ABOVE 94% AND THEN 96% WOULD BE THIS A GOLDEN GOAL? I PUT A LITTLE GOLDEN LINE UP THERE AND WE HAVE TWO SCHOOLS THAT ARE ABOVE 96%, WHICH GIVING THEM A SHOUT OUT IS A PLUM CREEK AND ABS AND SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOW THAT THEY'VE ALL MADE A MOST ALL OF THEM HAVE MADE STRIDES FROM LAST YEAR AS FAR AS CUMULATIVE ATTENDANCE. THAT LAST COLUMN IS OUR DISTRICT ATTENDANCE. LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME WE WERE AT 92.60% AND WE ARE AT 93.5. SO WE DO HAVE AN INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR. SO WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST THREE MONTHS SINCE WE ADOPTED OUR BUDGET? A LOT. THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION CAME TO FRUITION AND WE HAVE SENATE BILL TWO, SENATE BILL TWO. [01:05:04] AS YOU KNOW, IS WHAT HAS THE 100 K HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. AND SO WITH THAT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION, THAT CHANGES THAT CHANGES A LOT AS FAR AS OUR TOTAL TAX COLLECTION. SO THAT PLAY, THAT WILL PLAY A HUGE ROLE IN THE AN UPDATE. THIS IS ALL ASSUMING THAT IT PASSES EVERYTHING IS PROJECTED THAT WE ARE PRESUMING THAT IT WOULD THAT IT WILL PASS ON NOVEMBER 7TH. WE ALSO GOT OUR JULY 25TH CERTIFIED VALUES FROM ALL OF THE DISTRICTS, FROM OUR LOCAL APPRAISALS. AND SO WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT GAVE THE NEW THAT GAVE TO THE NEW MAXIMUM COMPRESSION RATE AND NOW WE'RE DOWN TO $0.66. SO ALL THESE THINGS HAVE CHANGED. OUR TAX RATE COMPRESSION CAME IN WAY LOWER THAN WE ORIGINALLY THOUGHT WITH THAT SESSION ENDING AND THEN OUR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WENT UP. WE ALSO GOT THE RESULTS OF OUR 22 TAX YEAR, 2022 PROPERTY VALUE STUDY APPEAL THAT DID OCCUR. SO WHAT THAT DOES IS BECAUSE WE HAVE STATE PROPERTY VALUE ASSIGNMENT WITH THAT APPEAL, THAT BRINGS THOSE STATE PROPERTY VALUES DOWN TO WHAT THAT APPEAL VALUE IS. AND SO WE'RE ABLE TO TO KNOW WHAT THOSE ARE BECAUSE WE'RE PROJECTING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE STATE PROPERTY VALUES AGAIN IN OUR REVENUE THIS YEAR. THAT HELPS THAT REVENUE A LITTLE BIT THERE. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS COME TO FRUITION. AND THEN OF COURSE, WE KNOW OUR ENROLLMENT AND ATTENDANCE, WHICH ALSO PLAYS THESE ARE ALL FACTORS THAT THAT PLAY IN UPDATING OUR REVENUE AS WE LEARN, AS WE LEARN MORE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW WITH THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET, WITH THESE NEW THINGS THAT THESE NEW THINGS THAT HAVE COME TO LIGHT. AND THE BIGGEST THING I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THAT THAT 53% STATE. AMOUNT IS NOW JUMPED TO 61%. SO THE STATE FUNDS US NOW AT 61%, AND THAT'S DUE TO TAX RATE COMPRESSION AND THE 100 K AND THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE 100 K HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION WILL PASS. SIR? CAN YOU TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT WHAT THAT DOES TO THE DISTRICT IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE AND PATHWAY TO RECAPTURE? SO WHAT THIS WILL DO IS WITH THAT, WITH THAT 53% GOING UP TO 61%, THAT'S GOING TO GIVE US MORE YEARS BEFORE WE BECOME RECAPTURE BECAUSE OUR STATE FUNDING IS NOW IS GOING BACK UP. IT'S EQUAL TO ALMOST $6 MILLION DUE TO WHAT? DUE TO THESE COMPRESSION CHANGES AND THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. SO THAT'S GOING TO ALLOW MORE TIME BEFORE WE ARE RECAPTURE. DID YOU SAY HOW MUCH? ARE THERE THE APPEALS FINISHED IN TERMS OF THE PROPERTY, STATE PROPERTY VALUES AND HOW MUCH DID THAT CHANGE? YES. OKAY. SO WHAT THAT DID WAS THAT BROUGHT THE THAT BROUGHT THE. STATE VALUES DOWN. THAT WOULD INCREASE OUR STATE REVENUE BY $700,000, ROUGHLY AROUND 700,000. SO IT WAS A GREAT APPEALS PROCESS AS FAR AS PERCENTAGE WISE, 3.1 MILLION OR SOMETHING. YES, IT WAS 3.1 MILLION AND IT BROUGHT IT DOWN TO ABOUT 2.4 MILLION. SO WE'RE STILL LOSING A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT DUE TO STATE PROPERTY VALUE ASSIGNMENT. HOWEVER, THE APPEALS PROCESS OBVIOUSLY HELPED US RECOVER ABOUT ROUGHLY 20% OF THAT WHICH WE WERE WE WERE PLEASED WITH. THAT'S SO THAT'S FOR 22, 23. BUT WHAT THAT DOES IS BECAUSE WE'RE PROJECTING 23, 24 THAT WE HAVE STATE VALUES, AGAIN, THAT BRINGS THAT GAP DOWN. ALSO, IT BRINGS THEIR PROJECTED VALUES FOR NEXT YEAR DOWN. SO THAT HELPS US A LITTLE BIT. SO HOW DO WE GET THAT MONEY BACK FROM LAST YEAR? DO THEY HOW DOES THAT WORK OUT? WE DON'T. I MEAN, WE DON'T GET THE $700,000 BACK. OH, THE 700,000? YES, SIR. YES. SO WHAT THAT DOES IS TO IN SEPTEMBER WITH PROPERTY VALUES STUDIES AND AND THE YEAR JUST. EVERYTHING BEING TURNED IN THROUGH TEAMS AND ALL OTHER TYPES OF REPORTING. THEY DO WHAT'S CALLED A SETTLE UP. SO RIGHT LITERALLY RIGHT NOW TO IS SETTLING UP ALL OF THE NUMBERS FROM 23 FROM 20 TO 23, WHETHER IT'S TAX COLLECTIONS TEAMS, ALL OF THOSE. AND THEY'LL SETTLE UP OUR FINAL FUNDING BASED ON ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT THAT WILL COME TO FRUITION. [01:10:05] SO WHEN WE DO OUR THEY'LL GIVE US OUR FINAL SETTLE UP AMOUNT FOR THE YEAR OF 22-23. RIGHT NOW THEY'RE DOING THAT RIGHT NOW. OKAY. YEAH. SO THIS IS THE TIME OF YEAR THAT THEY DO THAT. AND FOR US, BECAUSE WE'RE AT JUNE 30TH FISCAL YEAR, WE ALWAYS INCLUDE THAT SETTLE UP IN OUR FINAL. LIKE WE HAVE A FINAL AUDIT ENTRY THAT WE DO THAT ENCOMPASSES THAT SETTLE UP. SO IT WILL BE REFLECTED IN THE 2223 YEAR. SO WE WILL HAVE THAT LOSS FROM STATE PROPERTY VALUE ASSIGNMENT. IT'LL JUST BE CLOSER TO 2.4 MILLION VERSUS 3.1 MILLION. OKAY. SO WITH ALL OF THE NEW. THINGS THAT HAVE COME TO FRUITION AS FAR AS THE REVENUE SIDE THAT BRINGS THE DEFICIT TO $304,000, NEARLY $304,000. SO WHILE WE DO MAKE UP A LITTLE BIT WITH THE PROPERTY VALUE STUDY AND THOSE THOSE GOING DOWN, UM, WE STILL HAVE OTHER AREAS THAT, THAT IT WASN'T ABLE TO BRING US ALL THE WAY. IT WASN'T ABLE TO BRING US ALL THE WAY THERE. I'MA REMIND THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS THAT. I KNOW MS.. WEISER'S THROWN A LOT OF NUMBERS AT US, BUT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S 3 MILLION OR 2.4 MILLION, WE DID A LOT OF CUTS OF STAFFING, NOT FILLING POSITIONS, MAKING HARD DECISIONS ON CLASS SIZES, YOU KNOW, JUST OUR FACILITIES USAGE, ETCETERA. TO GET THAT FROM 3 MILLION OR 2 POINT 4 TO 300,000. AND I THINK THAT CAN GET LOST IN SOME OF THIS AND THAT WE'RE OPERATING IN A MANNER TO WHERE THAT DEFICIT, IF WITHOUT CUTS, WOULD BE MUCH LARGER. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU FOR POINTING THAT OUT, BECAUSE WHILE IT IS HERE AT 304,000 DEFICIT, IT IS WITH A LOT OF. A LOT OF CUTS AND AND WHAT HAD AND WITHOUT A RAISE FOR THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THE POTENTIAL PASSAGE OF THE VAT. SO THIS IS NOT ONLY WITH ALL THE CUTS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD TO TRY TO MAKE UP THAT 2.5 MILLION IT'S WITH. WITHOUT A RAISE AS WELL. SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR BUDGET UPDATE FOR THIS QUARTER? BOARD. NO, THANK YOU, MS.. WEISER. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT C 2023-2024 LSID DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLAN. [2023-2024 LISD District Improvement Plan and Campus Improvement Plans] DR. CAMARILLO. GOOD EVENING. LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT UP THERE. THANK YOU. SO WE WILL GO WITH THE DISTRICT AND CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS AND WHAT'S NEW AND WHAT'S KIND OF STAYED THE SAME FOR THE NEW PART OF THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN. SINCE WE'VE WORKED ON THE NAVIGATE TO 28 AND REALLY HAD A COMMITTEE THAT DEVELOPED OUR PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WE'VE KIND OF MADE THAT THE BASIS OF OUR DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR THIS YEAR. SO IT'S IT'S GOING TO BE A DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR FIVE YEARS. SO WE'LL BE GOING OVER THE PRIORITIES. WE'VE CREATED DESIGN TEAMS ON OUR DISTRICT LEADERSHIP TEAM. SO EVERY TEAM HAS A PRIORITY. SO THEY'RE WORKING ON THE TIMELINE, THE RESOURCES AND EVERYTHING ELSE SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THAT COMPLETED AND THEN WE'LL BE REPORTING ON THAT AS WE GO IN FRONT OF YOU WHEN WE DO OUR FORMATIVE AND SUMMATIVE ASSESSMENTS. SO WE'RE EXCITED THAT EACH TEAM IS KIND OF OWNING EACH PRIORITY AND SO WE'LL BE PROVIDING THOSE UPDATES TO YOU. AS A REMINDER, THESE WERE THE SEVEN PRIORITIES THAT YOU ALL SELECTED WITH THE AND APPROVED FROM THAT 80 MEMBER COMMITTEE THAT CAME UP WITH THESE PRIORITIES AND THE WORK THAT WE DID IN THE BEGINNING WITH THE NEEDS ASSESSMENT. UM, ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT? OUR CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS DID REMAIN THE SAME. WE WILL CONTINUE WITH OUR, AS MR. DAVIDSON SAID, GOAL ONE ARE LOCKED ON EXCELLENCE CONTINUE THAT THAT GROWTH. AS MR. ESTRADA WAS SAYING, WE KEEP PUSHING THE 1.5 GROWTH. WE'RE GOING TO GET TO WHERE WE NEED TO BE OVER TIME. OUR GOAL TWO IS WE KEEP THE LOCKHART FOR PEOPLE AND BUILDING RELATIONAL CAPACITY ALSO UNLOCKING POTENTIAL. ON THE THIRD GOAL IS HOW DO WE DO THAT WITH OURSELVES AND OUR STUDENTS AND OUR STAFF. SO THOSE REMAIN THE THREE FOUNDATIONAL GOALS FOR THE CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS. WHEN WE LOOKED AT ALL THE IMPROVEMENT PLANS AND WHAT THE FOCUS IS FOR THIS YEAR UNDER LOCKDOWN EXCELLENCE, WE REMAIN WITH THE 80% OF OUR STUDENTS IN PRE K THROUGH FIVE AND [01:15:08] 70%, SIXTH THROUGH 10TH GRADE, CONTINUING TO GET THAT 1.5 YEARS GROWTH IN READING AND MATH. WE'RE DOING 70% OF STUDENTS IN KINDER THROUGH ALGEBRA. THERE'S GOING TO BE WRITING GROWTH GOALS. THERE'S ON THE CAMPUSES ALREADY LOOKING AT CROSS-CURRICULAR WRITING. THERE'S COMMITTEES THAT ARE WORKING ON SCORING A THREE OR HIGHER ON THE CONSTRUCTIVE WRITING RESPONSES. THERE'S VERTICAL TEAM PLANNING. THERE'S CRITICAL WRIGHT THROUGH THE RSP ON JUNIOR HIGH FOCUS. SO THEY'RE ALL LOOKING AT THE WRITING COMPONENT, ESPECIALLY AS IT'S DONE ON THE STAAR TEST INCREASE IN CMR. THAT'S OUR COLLEGE CAREER MILITARY READINESS COMPONENT SCORE. WE WANT THAT TO BE AT LEAST AN 80. WE HAVE A FOCUS AREA ON ENGLISH ONE AND TWO AT THE HIGH SCHOOL, AND WE CONTINUE TO FOCUS ON CLOSING THE GAPS BETWEEN OUR STUDENTS AND OUR EMERGENT BILINGUAL STUDENTS. ON OUR NEXT GO LOCKHART FOR PEOPLE, WE CONTINUE AND INVITING THE COLLABORATIVE INPUT. HOW DO WE CONTINUE BRINGING COMMUNITIES TOGETHER? OUR COMMUNITY TOGETHER? OUR OUR TEACHERS STAFF ENGAGEMENT SURVEYS CONTINUE ASKING EVERYONE AROUND THAT HAS A STAKE IN EDUCATION ON WHAT WE'RE DOING WITHIN OUR DISTRICT TO CONTINUE IMPROVING WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE HAVE IN PLACE. UM, AGAIN, CREATING THAT ADDITIONAL EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT HOW DO WE, HOW MANY PARENT ENGAGEMENT EVENTS WE HAVE PER YEAR? ARE WE INCREASING THOSE? WHAT ARE WE, WHAT ELSE ARE WE DOING TO GET PARENTS INVOLVED? WORKING WITH MR. ACUNA, WE STILL DO OUR OPERATIONS PLANS, OUR EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLANS AND CONTINUED TRAINING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. UM, LEADER IN ME, THAT'S OUR YEAR TWO IMPLEMENTATION. THAT BIG ONE IS WHAT MR. DAVIDSON WAS REFERENCING EARLIER, IS THAT THE WHIGS, EVERYBODY'S DEVELOPING THEIR WILDLY IMPORTANT GOALS AND IF YOU GO THROUGH THE CAMPUSES, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A HALLWAY. WHILE IMPORTANTLY, IMPORTANT GOAL, YOUR LIBRARIANS HAVE ONE FOR READING AND CHECKING OUT BOOKS. SO IT'S REALLY AT THE CAMPUS AS AN EXCITING FOR THEM TO SEE SCOREBOARDS AROUND THE CAMPUSES SO THAT THEY CAN SEE WHAT THEIR GOALS ARE AND HOW THEY'RE REACHING THEM. WE'RE ALSO, AS A CONTINUED FOCUS ON, YOU KNOW, ATTENDANCE, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT OUR CHRONIC ABSENTEEISM AND WORKING WITH OUR STUDENTS AND OUR PARENTS TO CONTINUE INCREASING THAT AND HAVING CONVERSATIONS AROUND, YOU KNOW, WHY THEY ARE MISSING AND, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE STRUCTURES IN PLACE WHERE WE'RE CATCHING ALL STUDENTS AND CALLING HOME AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT SUPPORT SYSTEMS WE CAN PUT IN PLACE IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONTROL. UNLOCKING POTENTIAL. WE CONTINUE RETAINING RECRUITING, HIRING AND DEVELOPING HIGH QUALITY STAFF. PROVIDING THE HIGH QUALITY PD. WE'RE DOING A LOT OF WORK AROUND NOT ONLY ON THE LEVER LEADERS, BUT DOING TRAINING FOR THE TEACHERS ON THE CAMPUSES THROUGH THROUGH THEIR LEADERSHIP. UM, THESE, WE'RE LOOKING AT CONDUCTING STUDENT LED CONFERENCES WHERE THE STUDENTS ARE HAVING A PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCE. THEY'RE LEADING THAT CONFERENCE WITH THEIR PARENTS BECAUSE THEY'RE ABLE TO ARTICULATE THIS IS MY GOAL, THIS IS WHERE I AM. SO THAT'S A FOCUS FOR THIS YEAR. UM, INVESTING IN IDENTIFYING AND GROWTH AND SUPPORT OF OUR READY AND RISING LEADERS. THESE ARE LEVER LEADERS WHO MIGHT BE READY FOR THE NEXT ROLE. THESE ARE TEACHERS WHO ARE LOOKING TO BE, YOU KNOW, IN SOME KIND OF LEADERSHIP ROLE WITHIN TWO YEARS. SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THREADING THROUGH ALL THOSE LEADERSHIP LEVELS, THE SKILLS THAT THEY NEED IN ORDER TO GO TO THAT LEVEL. UM, THE CREATING AND MAINTAINING A CAMPUS CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP CONTINUALLY PUTTING OUT THERE. WHAT ARE THE LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR TEACHERS WITHIN THE DISTRICT? EVEN CARVER HAS A SPREADSHEET OF ALL THE LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TEACHERS CAN PARTICIPATE IN. SO THAT'S JUST CONTINUING THAT CAMPUS CULTURE OF THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THIS DISTRICT. IF YOU COME AND WORK IN LOCKHART D AND THEN JUST CONTINUING TO CLARIFY ROLES AND EXPECTATIONS SO THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS, YOU KNOW, THE SKILLS THAT THEY NEED, THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE VALUE THAT RECOGNIZING THE VALUE OF THE THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO FOR THAT LEADERSHIP LEVEL. SO AND WE KNOW THAT THAT WILL INCREASE RETENTION BECAUSE IF PEOPLE COME HERE AND THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY THERE'S OTHER OTHER LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITIES OTHER THAN, YOU KNOW, BEING A TEACHER, HERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO 2 TO 3 YEARS AND HERE'S ALL THE SUPPORT STRUCTURES THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IN PLACE FOR YOU. WE'LL BRING BACK THE REVIEW OF WHERE WE ARE WITH THE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENT PLANS AND THE CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT PLANS IN THESE MONTHS FOR YOU. AND THEN WE'LL END IT IN JUNE WITH THE SUMMATIVE. ANY QUESTIONS AROUND THAT? ANY QUESTIONS? BOARD. OKAY. THANK YOU. LET'S MOVE ON TO ITEM EIGHT. [Resolution of the Board to Employ or Accept as Volunteers Chaplains] RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD TO EMPLOY OR ACCEPT AS VOLUNTEER CHAPLAINS. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS JUST A TEXAS EDUCATION CODE PUT IN SECTION 23.001 THAT THE DISTRICTS NOW HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO EMPLOY OR ACCEPT A VOLUNTEER AS A VOLUNTEER CHAPLAIN THAT CAN PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS FOR OUR STUDENTS. [01:20:01] SO THEY GIVE THE DISTRICTS THREE OPTIONS. ONE, YOU CAN FORMALLY PERMIT CHAPLAINS TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS TO OUR STUDENTS. YOU CAN AFFIRM THE PRACTICE IF THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING IN OUR DISTRICT, WHICH IT IS NOT. AND THEN THE THIRD ONE IS WE DENIED PERMISSION FOR THAT TO HAPPEN IN OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. RIGHT NOW, IT'S JUST KIND OF WE HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AS A BOARD TO DO ONE OF THESE THREE. ONE OF THE TWO OPTIONS REALLY BY A DEADLINE DATE. SO I WANTED TO BRING IT AS COMMUNICATION FOR YOU ALL TO DISCUSS. AND THEN NEXT MONTH, WE'LL MAKE A DECISION ON WHICH ROUTE YOU WANT TO GO. IS THERE A DEFINITION FOR CHAPLAIN? I'LL DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT. I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE IS I'M SURE THERE IS IN THE IN THE TEXAS EDUCATION CODE. I CAN SEND THAT TO YOU THROUGH MR. ESTRADA ON THE BOARD BRIEF TO WHAT THAT DESCRIBES AS A CHAPLAIN. I'M SURE MR. GUYTON'S NAME IS ON THERE. I WAS WONDERING WHAT THE SUPPORT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS WOULD BE IN MOST DISTRICTS OR PEOPLE THAT I'VE SPOKEN WITH THAT ARE EVEN GOING THAT ROUTE. COUNSELING SERVICES AND THINGS TO BECOME MENTORS SUPPORTS FOR OUR STUDENTS. WE USED TO HAVE A I'M SORRY. WE HAD A PROGRAM AT ONE TIME. I FORGET WHAT IT WAS CALLED. KIND OF DOING OKAY? IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? YOU SAID THERE WAS ONE THAT WE WERE DOING OR SOMETHING? NO, SIR. OKAY. WHAT IS THE THINKING WITHIN THE STAFF ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THE NEED FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I HONESTLY HAVE NOT RECEIVED THAT FEEDBACK, BUT MAYBE MR. ESTRADA HAS ASKED AROUND. YEAH, I DON'T I CAN'T SPEAK BROADLY ABOUT HOW OUR STAFF FEELS. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HAD OUR LEGAL COUNSEL GIVE US THE TRAINING ON THIS AND SHE DISCUSSED IT TO ME. I THINK IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE CARING ADULTS TO VOLUNTEER AND PROVIDE MENTORSHIP TO KIDS. SO, YOU KNOW, SPEAKING FOR ME PERSONALLY, YOU KNOW, WOULD THAT MEAN THE DISTRICT WOULD HAVE TO KIND OF IDENTIFY WAYS TO. DETERMINE THE SKILL SET OF THE INDIVIDUALS AND SCREENING AND AND ALL THOSE OTHER AREAS. TO ME, I THINK THE CONFUSION, CONFUSION THING AND THIS IS WHAT OUR OUR LAWYER DISCUSSED, IS THAT, UM. IT SEEMS THAT THE THE MEDIA HAS GOTTEN A HOLD OF THIS IN SOME WAY TO WHERE IT WAS LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO DO COUNSELING OR REPLACE COUNSELORS. AND TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THAT'S NOT THE INTENT OF THIS LAW. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT I WOULD EVER RECOMMEND. BUT TO HAVE VOLUNTEERS, WHICH WE ARE ALWAYS AT, WE DO THIS EVERY YEAR, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK TRUSTEE GUYTON JUST MENTIONED WHEN I WAS A CAMPUS PRINCIPAL HERE, WE DID HAVE THE MINISTERIAL MINISTERIAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE WHO. WAS MUCH MORE ACTIVE, YOU KNOW, TEN YEARS AGO AND DOING THINGS WHERE THEY WERE VOLUNTEERING AND MENTORING KIDS AGAIN. I'M NOT SO SURE, YOU KNOW, HOW YOU DISTINGUISH OR NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO COME IN AND MENTOR KIDS. IT SEEMS TO ME LIKE THAT'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MENTORING, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY MUCH A POSITIVE, ACCEPTABLE THING FOR NOT ONLY I WOULD SAY EDUCATORS, TEACHERS, STAFF, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT IN OTHER AREAS, WOULD THERE BE LIKE AN OPT OUT FOR PARENTS? BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE WOULD BE. I WOULD SAY NOT EVERYONE WOULD BE LIKE OPEN TO HAVING, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER YOU HAVE ANY ADULT MENTORING OR WORKING WITH KIDS. THE PARENTS ALWAYS HAVE THE NOT ALWAYS HAVE AN OPTION TO ALLOW THEIR CHILD TO BE MENTORED BY SOMEONE WHO'S NOT THEIR TEACHER. SO IT WOULD BE NO DIFFERENT THAN THAN THAT YOU WOULD HAVE PARENTAL PERMISSION. YEAH. AND I THINK JUST TO ADD TO THAT IS THAT WE WOULD DO AS WE DO ANYTHING, ANYBODY OR ANY ORGANIZATION THAT COMES INTO OUR DISTRICT, WE WOULD SET PARAMETERS AROUND HOW THIS WOULD FUNCTION AND THEN WE WOULD PUT THOSE SYSTEMS IN PLACE TO HERE OUR RESOURCES FOR YOUR STUDENTS. IS THAT SOMETHING YOU OPT IN OR OPT OUT OF? AND SHOULD THAT HAPPEN? BUT THERE WAS THERE'D BE A LOT OF JUST STRUCTURING AROUND HOW DO WE SET THIS UP? IT'S THE WAY YOU WOULD TREAT ANY ORGANIZATION THAT COMES INTO INTO LOCKHART TO TUTOR OR TO MENTOR. AS YOU WERE SAYING ANYTHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE WOULD PUT THOSE PARAMETERS AROUND THAT. SO I GUESS. MARTIN MR. ESTRADA WAS KIND OF GOING IN THAT DIRECTION, WAS, YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF YOU SAY, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS AND OPEN IT UP. DO YOU THEN HAVE THE RIGHT TO DENY SOMEBODY YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, BECAUSE YOU CAN GET ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE IN HERE. YEAH. AGAIN, IT GOES BACK TO. I THINK THIS IS WE ARE READY TO PUT OURSELVES OUT THERE RIGHT NOW WHEN WE'RE ASKING FOR FOR VOLUNTEERS. AND, YOU KNOW, THE WE DON'T GET A LOT OF VOLUNTEERS TO TO COME DO THESE THESE TYPES OF THINGS. SO I THINK WHETHER WE DO THIS, WHETHER THE BOARD DECIDES TO DO THIS OR NOT WITH OUR CURRENT VOLUNTEER AND MENTOR [01:25:10] OPPORTUNITIES, WE STILL HAVE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, IF IF WE GET SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO VOLUNTEER, WHETHER THAT'S TUTORING OR JUST MENTORING A KID, YOU KNOW, THE PARENT HAS TO TO AGREE TO DO SO. AND WE JUST DON'T HAVE WE DON'T HAVE THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE VOLUNTEERING TO DO THAT. BUT WE'VE ASKED EVERY YEAR I'VE BEEN IN THE DISTRICT, WE'VE ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS. UM, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WE DON'T GET A LOT OF THEM. BUT I THINK THAT'LL, YOU KNOW, I'M HAPPY TO GATHER ANY, ANY, WHETHER LEGAL OR PROCEDURAL QUESTIONS THAT THE BOARD MAY HAVE BEFORE NEXT MONTH BEFORE YOU HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION. UM. YOU KNOW, THAT YOU MAY HAVE, YOU KNOW, COMMUNICATE WITH CORINNE OR I AND WE CAN GET YOU ANY ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. AND WE WOULD ALSO DO ONBOARDING LIKE WE DO ANYTHING WITH VOLUNTEERS, WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO. WE WOULD MAKE SURE THAT ALL THAT'S IN PLACE AS WELL. AND I WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE SAME KIND OF BACKGROUND CHECK. ABSOLUTELY. AND TRAINING, ONBOARDING, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU COME IN AS A VOLUNTEER OR NOT OR A MENTOR, THERE'S THINGS THAT PEOPLE KNOW THAT CAN AND CANNOT AND ARE PERMISSIBLE TO SAY. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD SHARE WITH THEM. BUT THESE ARE THE THINGS YOU CAN AND CANNOT DO AND BE VERY, YOU KNOW, CLEAR ON WHAT THEIR ROLE IS IN THIS IN THE SCHOOL. YEAH, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S IDENTIFYING A PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL, A CHAPLAIN, SOMEONE THAT PROPOSES. I SAY I'M A CHAPLAIN. I'M GOING TO COME IN HERE. YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GOING TO YOU KNOW, I'M NOT THE CHAPLAIN. I MEAN, SO TO ME, THIS IS VERY I'D SEE VERY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT WE'RE ASKING PEOPLE TO VOLUNTEER TO COME AS A MENTOR, TO MENTOR KIDS TO, YOU KNOW, READ WITH KIDS. IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS ALREADY VERY MUCH A UTILIZED WAY OF TRYING TO WELCOME PARENTS OR WHOEVER. BUT TO ME, IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THIS IS A VERY SPECIFIC TO AN INDIVIDUAL, SOMEONE THAT'S CALLED BECAUSE IT SAYS YOUR OPTIONS TO PERMIT TO AFFIRM OR TO NOT PERMISSION TO SOMEONE THAT'S A FUNCTIONS AS A CHAPLAIN. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE. IF IF THIS HAS BEEN DEFINED BY LAW, WHAT THE CHAPLAIN IS I MEAN, IF SOMEBODY PART OF A FORMAL RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION OR SOMEBODY WHO GOT A PERMIT OVER THE INTERNET, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. AND THAT'S WHAT I, I HAVE THREE THINGS THAT I'M FOLLOWING UP ON. DEFINITION OF A CHAPLAIN. WHAT THAT WHAT THAT'S DEFINED AS. IS THERE AN OPT IN OPT OUT. YOU KNOW THE LEGAL AND THEN WHAT TYPES OF SERVICES THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE THAT THEY COULD PROVIDE. IS THERE ANY OTHER THING THAT WE NEED TO SEE IF WE'RE TRYING TO WELCOME? AND WE'RE ALWAYS I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT, BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO CREATE MORE ISSUES, PROBLEMS OR SOMETHING THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT, I THINK THE PROBLEM, THE REASON WHY THEY CREATED THIS IS BECAUSE CHAPLAINS WANTED TO COME IN. THERE'S PROBABLY A DISTRICT SOMEWHERE THAT SAID NO. AND THEY'RE LIKE, YES, THEY CAN. THIS IS JUST IF THEY WANT IF I WANT MY CHILD TO BE HAVE A CHAPLAIN COME IN AND WORK WITH MY CHILD, I HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO THAT. IF YOUR CHILD SAYS AND YOU SAY NO, THEN THEY CAN'T WORK WITH THEM. YEAH, THAT'S COMPLICATED, RIGHT? THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING THAT. IT'S JUST SEEMS LIKE THAT'S ALREADY A GIVEN THAT IF YOU WERE GOING TO REQUEST IT OR I WAS GOING TO SAY NO, BUT TO FORMALLY HAVE TO SAY YOU JUST AFFIRMING IT. YEAH. ARE WE LOOKING FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF NUMBER LIKE, OH, THIS, THIS IS, THIS WAS PASSED THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION. THIS IS NOT SOME RECOMMENDATION THAT THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION IS BRINGING. THE ONLY REASON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IT IS BECAUSE WE HAVE TO BECAUSE THE LEGISLATURE JUST PASSED THIS LAW. AND THE STATE REQUIRES US TO EITHER HAVE THE BOARD PERMIT IT, AFFIRM THAT YOU'RE USING IT OR DENY IT. WE'VE GOT TO DO ONE OF THOSE THREE. YES, SIR. WHEN WHEN I SEE THIS AND IT SAYS THEY'RE HERE, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE SUPPORT AND ALL THAT. I SEE THIS AS A TEMPORARY THING OR IN CASE SOMETHING AT A CERTAIN CAMPUS HAPPENS. YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE A LOSS OF THE CAMPUS OR SOMETHING, I COULD COMPLETELY SEE, YOU KNOW, MINISTERS, CHAPLAINS, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL THEM, COMING IN TO ASSIST THE COUNSELORS AND WORK WITH THEM. BUT THEN ON THE OTHER HAND, IT COULD ALSO BE HOW LONG, WHAT KIND OF TIMELINE ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? HOW MUCH TIME ARE WE GOING TO SPEND AT THE CAMPUS AND ALL THAT? AS YOU KNOW, AS LIKE A VOLUNTEER OR AN EMPLOYEE, YOU KNOW? I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME GUIDELINES ABOUT WHAT KIND OF SITUATIONS WOULD CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN, OR IS THIS GOING TO BE AN ONGOING THING WHERE THERE ARE CONSIDERED AN EXTRA COUNSELOR? YOU KNOW, JUST AS OPPOSED TO JUST HANGING OUT. SO THAT WOULD FALL UNDER, I THINK, WHERE I WAS LOOKING AT SERVICES. WHAT ARE THOSE THINGS? WOULD IT BE A ONE TIME WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS CATASTROPHIC THAT WE OR ANY TRAUMA THAT HAPPENS THAT WE BRING IN ADDITIONAL SUPPORT? OR IS THIS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WE'RE SEEING THESE AS EXTRA SUPPORTS, COUNSELING AND THINGS LIKE THAT FOR OUR FOR OUR STUDENTS. [01:30:05] ONE THING I KIND OF SEE IT AS IS LIKE WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES, RIGHT? MICHAEL WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL, WE HAD FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES AND THERE WAS A CHAPLAIN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. THAT KIND OF WAS THE MENTOR OF THAT PROGRAM. AND THIS WOULD ALLOW AN ORGANIZATION LIKE THAT TO COME IN. AND IF SOMEBODY DIDN'T WANT TO BE PART OF FCA, THEN THEY JUST WEREN'T PART OF FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES. I MEAN, THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD EXAMPLE. AND WE HAVE FCA AND IT IS ACTIVE AND WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, STUDENTS LEADING THAT. WE DO HAVE A FCA HAS A STAFF MEMBER. YOU KNOW, IT WOULD JUST ALLOW A CHAPLAIN TO COME IN AND KIND OF SUPPORT THAT PROGRAM. AND I THINK IT ALSO WHAT MR. LOCKHART WAS SAYING IS IF THEY WERE GOING TO BE AN ADDITIONAL SUPPORT, LIKE DURING THE DAY, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THEM HERE ON TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS. SO WE HAVE AN EXTENSION OF SUPPORT FOR OUR OUR COUNSELORS, YOU KNOW, HAVING STUDENTS THERE THAT THEY CAN SPEAK TO PEOPLE THAT WILL DEFINE WHAT THOSE WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT WE CAN CHOOSE FROM AND THEN WHAT WOULD WE IF WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS PATH IS WHAT SERVICES DO WE APPROVE OF THAT WE WANTED THEM TO BE PART OF? AND THEN WHAT OTHER THINGS THAT WE MAYBE WOULD NOT WANT TO DO AT THIS POINT, IF I'M REMEMBERING CORRECTLY, WHEN WE HAD IT BEFORE, IT WAS KIND OF IT WAS LIKE AN INVISIBLE OPERATION, BASICALLY. I THINK IT WAS TEXAS PASTORS FOR STUDENTS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT IN CONJUNCTION WITH A LOCAL MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE, BECAUSE IT KIND OF STARTED UNDER DR. BOWEN WHEN SHE WAS HERE. OKAY, OKAY. BECAUSE I WORKED WITH THE TEXAS PASTORS THINGS WHEN SHE WAS WORKING ON THAT, AND IT WAS BASICALLY JUST IF A STUDENT WANTED A MENTOR AND YOU WANTED IT TO BE SOMEONE OF A RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND, THEN IT WAS LIKE, HERE'S A LIST OF PEOPLE THAT COULD POSSIBLY BE A CONCERN, IS IF WE DENIED IT. LET'S SAY TOM IS CONSIDERED A CHAPLAIN AND HE SAYS, I WANT A VOLUNTEER. THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE CAN'T BECAUSE WE'VE DENIED HIM BECAUSE HE IS A CHAPLAIN. BUT, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I THINK IT WOULD GET IT REAL STICKY ON LIKE WE'VE DENIED A CERTAIN GROUP OF PEOPLE TO JUST TO COME AND VOLUNTEER. I THINK A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT. SPEAKING, SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, ONE, I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT. UM, WE'VE. WE'VE USED THE WORD COUNSELING A LOT AND AND HELPING COUNSELORS. I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT THE DISTRICT HAS NO INTENTION OF CHANGING OUR COUNSELING PROGRAM. WE HAVE PROFESSIONAL COUNSELORS, SCHOOL COUNSELORS. AND BY NO MEANS ARE WE LOOKING AT CUTTING THOSE POSITIONS OR DOING ANYTHING DIFFERENT WITH THOSE POSITIONS. I THINK THE FEAR, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU READ IN THE NEWS, THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT PEOPLE ARE ATTACKING THIS PROGRAM. WILL SCHOOLS ARE REPLACING COUNSELORS. NO, THAT'S NOT I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S HAPPENING IN ANY OTHER PLACES. I HAVE NO IDEA IF THERE'S ANY TRUTH TO THAT. BUT I WANT TO BE SURE THAT OUR COUNSELORS KNOW THAT, AT LEAST FROM THE DISTRICT ADMINISTRATION, WE HAVE NO INTENTION TO TO EVEN EXPLORE THAT OPTION. NOW, ON THE OTHER HAND. OF OF. LIMITING ANY VOLUNTEER WHO PASSES A BACKGROUND CHECK, WHO YOU KNOW, WHO WANTS TO TO SUPPORT KIDS. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE WOULD LIMIT ANY ANYONE FROM DOING THAT. WHO WANTS TO VOLUNTEER TO HELP OUR KIDS? UM, YOU KNOW, BUT AGAIN, THAT'LL BE A CHOICE THAT THE BOARD WOULD HAVE TO DECIDE. AND WHEN I SAY SUPPORTING COUNSELORS, I MEAN THAT WE HAVE 2000 OR 2000 STUDENTS IN OUR HIGH SCHOOL WITH 3 OR 4 COUNSELORS. THIS WOULD WHAT I SAY IS WHEN WE NEED ADDITIONAL PEOPLE HELPING WITH THAT, OR I'M SURE THEY WOULD WELCOME THAT SUPPORT AS WELL. OF I CAN'T DEAL WITH TEN KIDS THAT CAME TO ASK FOR ME TODAY BECAUSE YOU ONLY HAVE SO MUCH TIME IN THE DAY. AND IF THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE ALLOWED AS AN EXTRA SUPPORT, THAT THERE IS ANOTHER PERSON THAT COULD HELP WITH THAT. BUT WE, OUR COUNSELORS, THEY DO A WHOLE DIFFERENT JOB IN ADDITION TO COUNSELING AND A HUGE PART OF THE DISTRICT, I COULDN'T SEE ANYBODY REPLACING THEM OR EVEN GOING TO A MODEL WHERE THEY WEREN'T AROUND. AND I AGREE WITH MR. ESTRADA 100%. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE PROGRAM THAT THEY WOULD HELP MENTOR STUDENT ATHLETES. THEY WOULD WALK AROUND AND HELP A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, I THINK WHAT WAS THAT WAS ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT COACH HERMAN HAD, AND I CAN'T THINK OF THE NAME, BUT THAT WAS ANOTHER A GOOD EXAMPLE TOO, WHERE YOU HAD, UM, PEOPLE COMING IN WHO WANTED TO MENTOR YOUNG MEN AND TRY TO TRY TO HELP. AND AGAIN, I JUST. UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE DONE THESE THINGS IN THE PAST IN THE DISTRICT IN NUMEROUS WAYS. UM, AND I THINK WE NEED TO PROVIDE SOME CLARITY WHICH WILL WORK OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE SOME CLARITY AND DEFINITIONS OF WHAT WE'RE REFERRING TO AND THEN BRING THAT TO THE BOARD AND WHAT'S THE TIMELINE? [01:35:03] THE BOARD HAS TO MAKE A DECISION. I WANT TO SAY IT WAS BY. DECEMBER OR JANUARY. SO THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME. SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO ACT ON THIS NEXT MONTH. NO, SIR. I MEAN, THIS WAS WE COULD BRING BACK AN ACTION NEXT MONTH, BUT IF THERE'S STILL THERE'S STILL QUESTIONS. AND THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT MY BECAUSE I THINK AS AN EDUCATOR, I KNOW THAT THERE'S ALWAYS AN IMPORTANT POINT IN WELCOMING ANYONE THAT WANTS TO VOLUNTEER. THE ONLY THING THAT I SAY THAT KIND OF STRIKES ME IS THIS DEFINITION OF SOMEONE SAYING, I'M A CHAPLAIN. I MEAN. SO HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DISTINGUISH THAT? I'M NOT A CHAPLAIN. I MEAN, I CAN COME IN. CHAPLAINS WHO SERVE NOW THAT CALL THEMSELVES. NO, NO, BUT WE'LL SEE. BUT. WELL, BUT SEE, I'M FOR ME PERSONALLY BECAUSE I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH WHAT A CHAPLAIN DOES OR, YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHY TO ME, IT WOULD HELP ME WITH THE CLARITY AND THE DEFINITION OF WHAT THAT. I'LL GET I'LL GET MS.. MOORE TO KIND OF GIVE US HOW SHE WAS EXPLAINING IT. YOU KNOW, I JUST KEEP GOING BACK TO HER MENTIONING THAT. YOU KNOW THAT AGAIN, IF WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER WHO PASSES A BACKGROUND CHECK, WHO MEETS THE CRITERIA, WHO WANTS TO MENTOR KIDS, WE YOU KNOW, WE WE ALLOW THAT TO HAPPEN. THIS IS NOT THAT DIFFERENT, ESPECIALLY IN WE'RE BEING SO CLEAR THAT THEY AREN'T GOING TO TAKE THE PLACE OF A COUNSELOR. BUT IN SITUATIONS WHERE PARENTS AND KIDS APPROVE, YOU KNOW, THEY THEY CAN WORK WITH WITH THE WITH THE STUDENT. AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT. SOMETIMES WE CAN OVERTHINK THINGS. AND THIS THIS MIGHT BE ONE OF THOSE SITUATIONS TO WHERE, YOU KNOW, LET'S LOOK AT WHAT THE ACTUAL LAW SAYS AND THEN GET SOME CLARITY AROUND THAT AND THEN WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO THE BOARD. AND WE WE HAVE UNTIL MARCH THE 1ST OF 2024, SO WE WOULD HAVE TO VOTE ON IT IN THE FEBRUARY BOARD MEETING. SO WE HAVE SOME NO LATER THEN. SO WE HAVE SOME TIME. OKAY. I WOULD SAY SO BASED ON THE DISCUSSION TONIGHT, WE'LL GET SOME CLARIFICATION AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AND DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY TALK ABOUT THIS SOME MORE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU, MISS DR. CAMARILLO. WE'LL MOVE TO ITEM EIGHT. [Early Bid Package GMP] EARLY BID PACKAGE. GMP MR. JEREMIAH. GOOD EVENING. BOARD AND PRESIDENT WRIGHT AND SUPERINTENDENT ESTRADA. I JUST WANT TO COMMUNICATE TONIGHT, THE EARLY BID PACKAGE FOR THE GUARANTEED MAXIMUM PRICE. SO WHAT THIS BID PACKAGE INCLUDES WOULD BE YOUR ELECTRICAL AND YOUR HVAC PACKAGES, YOUR SWITCH GEARS, YOUR TRANSFORMERS AND YOUR LARGE EQUIPMENT FOR THE HVAC IS JUST DUE TO TIME CONSTRAINTS ON SOME ITEMS SHOWING UP. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE COMMUNICATE THIS IN THE NEXT BOARD MEETING WILL GO AHEAD FOR AN APPROVAL ON THAT AMOUNT WHICH WILL COME OUT OF THE ENDING GMP AT THE FINAL GMP FOR THE WHOLE PROJECT. UM, BUT WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET THESE ITEMS ORDERED SO THERE'S NO DELAY IN THE PROJECT WHEN WE START THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. MISTER CHAIRMAN, CAN YOU GIVE THE BOARD AN UPDATE ON IN TERMS OF ON SCHEDULE AND ON BUDGET OF THESE PROJECTS? AS OF RIGHT NOW, THE HIGH SCHOOL IS ACTUALLY RIGHT ON BUDGET. WE'RE ACTUALLY UNDER BUDGET. WE FOUND SOME MONEY IN THERE, SO WE'RE ACTUALLY UNDER NOW WE GOT SOME ADDED MONEY INTO THE LOCKHART. UH, POT RIGHT THERE FOR US TO HAVE OUR CONTINGENCY MONEY. WE'RE RIGHT ON SCHEDULE, WAITING ON THE CITY FOR OUR PERMITS. ONCE WE GET THE PERMITS, WE'RE GOING TO START MOBILIZING TO THE SITE. UM, WE'RE WAITING ON. IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THE ONLY THING WE'RE WAITING ON IS THE CITY ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. AND THAT IS IT. EVERYTHING ELSE WE'VE GOTTEN BACK FROM EVERYBODY. THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS RIGHT ON SCHEDULE. WE'RE MOVING WITH THE PLAN DESIGN. RIGHT ON SCHEDULE BUDGET WISE. WE'RE RIGHT THERE WITH BUDGET. WE WERE SHOWING TO BE AT A OVER BUDGET, BUT NOW WE'RE ACTUALLY BACK DOWN TO BEING ON BUDGET. SO WE ACTUALLY WORKED THROUGH SOME STUFF, FOUND SOME WAYS TO GET BACK TO WHERE WE NEEDED TO BE TO MAKE SURE WE GOT EVERYTHING WE NEEDED FOR THESE KIDS TO LEARN INSIDE THIS BUILDING. SO RIGHT NOW, EVERYTHING IS RIGHT ON TIME. PERRY HOMES IS ACTUALLY WORKING WITH TECH THAT WE SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING THIS WEEK ON THAT AS TO WHEN WE CAN ACTUALLY GO AND SIGN. AND SO I'M THINKING HOPEFULLY MID-OCTOBER WE SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING FINALIZED ON THAT. SO EVERYTHING EVERYTHING ON THIS EARLY BID PACKAGE THAT THE BOARD WILL SEE NEXT MONTH, THE HEATING, THE AC, THE CIRCUITS, TRANSFORMERS, EVERYTHING INCLUDED IN THIS BID PACKAGE, WE ARE ON BUDGET WITH WHAT WE WERE PLANNING WITH THE BOARD HAS SEEN PREVIOUSLY. YES, SIR, THAT IS CORRECT. ANY QUESTIONS? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM NINE COMMUNICATION ACTION, A CONSIDER AND OR APPROVE REQUEST FOR MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE WAIVER. [Consider and/or Approve Request for Maximum Class Size Waivers] [01:40:02] SUSAN, THE LET ME INTERRUPT. I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR HERE. CLASS WAIVER. DOES ANYBODY NEED ANY MORE INFORMATION? NOPE. THEN DO I HEAR A PROPOSAL? I MOVE THAT THE LOCKHART ISD BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPROVE THE REQUEST FOR THE MAXIMUM CLASS SIZE WAIVER EXCEPTIONS FOR THE 2023 2024 SCHOOL YEAR. SUSAN. SORRY. THANK YOU. SO WE HAVE A SECOND. I'LL SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION. WE HAVE A SECOND. MR. PRESIDENT, I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. SORRY. SORRY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE? ALL THOSE OPPOSED. GOOD JOB, MR.. GREAT JOB. DID SHE JUST BREAK MY RECORD? AND NINE COMMUNICATION AND ACTION. [Consider and/or Approve Board Resolution for World Teachers' Day ] CONSIDER AND ARE APPROVED. BOARD RESOLUTION FOR WORLD TEACHERS DAY. ITEM B, I'LL SAY GOOD EVENING FOR YOU. I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF YOU EVEN SAID THAT. SO GOOD EVENING, BOARD. JUST REAL QUICK, THE WORLD TEACHERS DAY IS IS IS ORGANIZED BY TEACHERS CAN IT'S FRAMED AROUND THEM THANKING TEACHERS AND ELEVATING THIS PROFESSION. IT'S SUPPORTED BY TSA AND 150 PARTNERING BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS. SO WE JUST WANTED TO JOIN THEIR SUPPORT AND RECOGNIZING OUR TEACHERS FOR ALL THE WORK THAT THEY DO. IT'S ON OCTOBER 5TH, AND SO WE WANTED TO THE BOARD TO FORMALLY PUT A RESOLUTION IN PLACE TO HONOR THEM ON THIS DAY. ANY QUESTIONS? BOARD. SO HERE IN MOTION, I MOVE TO APPROVE THAT THE BOARD ADOPT THE LOCKHART ISD SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION FOR WORLD TEACHERS DAY. SECOND. WE HAVE A MOTION. WE HAVE A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE? AYE. ANY OPPOSED? PASSES 7 TO 0. ANOTHER. GREAT. THANK YOU. SHE HAD A QUESTION. OKAY. [BOARD AND STAFF COMMENTS - ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST] ADAM TEN BOARD AND STAFF COMMENTS ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST. MR. RAYOS, CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE THAT WE RECOGNIZE TONIGHT AND ALSO CONGRATULATIONS TO THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION FOR THE SUCCESSFUL GOLF TOURNAMENT THIS PAST WEEKEND. SO THANK YOU. MR. LOCKHART MY FAVORITE PART OF EVERY BOARD MEETING IS WHEN WE BEGAN AND WE GET TO SEE ALL THE STUDENTS PASS BY. AND ACTUALLY TONIGHT I NOTICED THERE WERE QUITE A FEW STUDENTS PASSING BY MORE THAN ONCE. SO THAT WAS EXCITING TO SEE BECAUSE THOSE STUDENTS ARE GO GETTERS. THEY'RE NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE LINE FOCUSED ON JUST ONE THING. THEY'RE INVOLVED IN SEVERAL THINGS AND THEY'RE GOOD AT IT. AND THAT'S THAT'S EXCITING TO SEE. MULTI-TALENTED. THAT'S IT. MR. GUYTON YEAH, I ECHO THAT. ALSO, CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR STUDENTS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OUR ATHLETES. I'VE BEEN ABLE TO GO TO SOME ATHLETIC EVENTS. I THINK THEY'RE DOING OUTSTANDING WORK. I'VE REALLY BEEN ENJOYING THOSE GAMES. SEVENTH GRADE VOLLEYBALL. VOLLEYBALL. SO ALSO, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE OUR BAND THIS PAST SATURDAY FOR THEIR WORK AT THE SEGUIN MARCHING FESTIVAL. THEY SCORED FIRST IN CLASS FIVE A IN THE PRELIMS AND THEN IN THE FINALS. THEY THEY ALSO DID VERY WELL. THEY'RE ACTUALLY BEATING SOME SIX BANDS. SO THAT'S INCREDIBLE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THAT. A COUPLE OF BAND DIRECTOR FRIENDS CAME UP TO ME WHILE I WAS AT THE CONTEST AND I DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEM IN PRELIMS AND SAID, HEY, DID YOU SEE LOCKHART? I SAID, NO, I DIDN'T GET TO SEE HIM. WHAT DID YOU THINK? AND THEY WERE LIKE, MAN, THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON THERE. SO THAT'S REALLY A TESTAMENT TO ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON IN OUR FINE ARTS PROGRAM. AND OUR COLOR GUARD TOOK OVER ALL COLOR GUARD, BEST OVERALL COLOR GUARD FOR THE ENTIRE CONTEST AS A5A GROUP WHICH IS KIND OF UNHEARD OF. SO INCREDIBLE WORK BEING DONE THERE. MISS PULLIAM, I WILL ECHO WHAT TOM SAID ABOUT THE BAND AND COLOR GUARD. CONGRATULATIONS TO THEM. ALSO, THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL GOLF TOURNAMENT. AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO REMIND THE COMMUNITY THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THE VAT, THERE'S SOME PRESENTATIONS THAT ARE COMING UP. I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO GO AND LISTEN AND ASK QUESTIONS. BE WELL INFORMED SO THAT WHEN THAT COMES TO VOTE, EVERYBODY. INFORMED ON WHAT THEY'RE VOTING ON. DR. SANCHEZ. IT'S JUST CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN TO ALL THE STUDENTS. A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HAPPENING WITH ALL THE SPORTS EVENTS AND ALSO CROSS COUNTRY. DIDN'T THEY GET A FIRST TOO? SO YEAH, IT'S EXCITING FOR ALL THE KIDS. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE COACHES, EVERYONE THAT'S ENCOURAGING KIDS TO SUCCEED ACADEMICALLY AS WELL AS IN ATHLETICS EVENTS. WE'RE REALLY THANKFUL. WAY TO GO, LIONS. MR. BURNETT, I'M PRETTY SURE EVERYONE'S SAID EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING. SO PRETTY GOOD. I JUST WANT TO MENTION THERE WILL BE A GOFUNDME SET UP TO HELP PAY FOR SOME BROKEN WINDOWS FROM GOLF SHOP AT THE AT THE GOLF TOURNAMENT LAST WEEKEND. MARK, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE YOU KNOW, IT WAS FUN SEEING ALL THE KIDS RECOGNIZE IT. I WANT TO RECOGNIZE THE LOCKHART CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR THEIR BOARD OF DIRECTORS PASSED A UNANIMOUS RESOLUTION SUPPORTING OUR TREE [01:45:01] TAX RESOLUTION VOTE COMING IN NOVEMBER, AND WE ARE REALLY APPRECIATIVE OF THEM DOING SO. MR. ESTRADA. I WAS THINKING I WAS GOING TO GET THAT LAST ONE IN THERE AND YOU GOT ME ON. BUT I ECHO EVERYONE'S AND I JUST WANT TO JUST MENTION OUR NEXT VATER VATER PRESENTATION IS ACTUALLY TOMORROW NIGHT AT SIX HERE IN THE BOARD ROOM. ON TO WELCOME EVERYONE TO COME OUT. I ALSO WANT TO CHALLENGE THE COMMUNITY. YOU KNOW, WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT THERE. THE LAST COUPLE WELL, I THINK WE'VE HAD FOUR PRESENTATIONS AND SO WE'RE AVERAGING 0.5 PEOPLE AT OUR PRESENTATIONS. AND I DON'T I DON'T SAY THAT NEGATIVELY. I SAY THAT TO CHALLENGE THE COMMUNITY TO TO COME OUT AND AND LEARN AND GET THE INFORMATION. YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. AND, YOU KNOW, FOR HOWEVER LONG IT TAKES, WE'LL DO ONE ON ONE TUTORIALS WITH FOLKS. IF NEEDED. SO IS THAT POSTED IN THE PAPER? YES, IT'S BEEN IN THE PAPER. YES, IT WAS IN THE PAPER. AND THEN, OF COURSE, ON ALL OF OUR INFORMATION CHANNELS. YES. AND WE HAVE IT IN SPANISH AS WELL. OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO ADD 11. ASK TRUSTEE GUYTON THAT CLOSES OUT TONIGHT. I COULDN'T RESIST THAT. OKAY, HERE WE GO. GOD, WE THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY AND WE THANK YOU FOR THIS TIME. WE CAN COME TOGETHER AND CONSIDER THE BUSINESS OF THE DISTRICT. LORD, WE ASK YOUR CONTINUED BLESSINGS UPON US AS A WHOLE, AS WELL AS OUR STATE AND OUR COUNTRY AT LARGE. GOD, WE THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS DAY. AND IT'S IN YOUR SON. JESUS NAME WE PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT. YOU CAN. MARK SAYS TOO SOON. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.