All right. Good afternoon. We'll call this special meeting of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees to order on 09/15/2025 at 5PM. Our first agenda item is executive session. Therefore, we will adjourn two executive session in accordance with Texas government code five five one 071, five five one dot zero seven two, 551074, 551076, and 551-0821 at 5PM. Alright. Good evening. We'll call this meeting back to order at 6PM. Our first agenda item is the opening prayer, pledges of allegiance and moment of silence.
Will you all please rise? Heavenly Father, we come before you tonight with humble hearts, grateful for the opportunity to serve our schools, our community, and most importantly, our students. We ask for your wisdom and guidance as we make decisions that shape the future of our children. Lord, we also pause to lift up those grieving tonight. We remember the victims and families affected by the recent school shootings across our nation. We ask that you surround them with comfort, healing, and peace during this unimaginable time of pain. We also pray for the family,
friends, and community mourning the death of Charlie Kirk. May your presence bring strength and solace to all who are grieving his passing. Finally, Lord, bless the work before us tonight. Grant us clarity, compassion, and unity so that we may always act in the best interest of our students, teachers, and families. May our actions honor you and serve our community well. It's in Jesus Christ's name we pray. Amen. Please join me for the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the
Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now for the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. South. Okay. Our next agenda item is public comments. There is one speaker tonight, so we will give that speaker three minutes. Ms. Shelton, will you please call the first speaker? Our speaker this evening is Kylie Connor. Hi. My name is Kai Connor, and I serve as vice president one for Carroll Medical Academy. I wanted to thank you all for so much for considering contracting with Methodist Southlake
Medical Center here in Southlake. This opportunity will allow our CMA seniors through taking their biotechnology class to experience a plethora of medical related careers. Thank you so much for your time and consideration. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. All right. Moving on. Is that it, Ms. Shelton? Just one speaker tonight. Okay. Item number five is consideration of possible action on personnel report. We don't have any action, so we'll move on to item number six, which is the president's report. I have a few items to discuss. First, I know many of us in this community are heartbroken and outraged by the horrific
senseless murder of Charlie Kirk, who was killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University. This was a cowardly evil act committed against a man who stood unafraid, always willing to speak openly and engage with others, even those who disagreed with him. This violence is an assault on the very foundations of our nation. Attacking someone for their words is a direct attack on free speech and civil discourse. Charlie had a gift for connecting with young people across our nation through honest conversation, respectful dialogue, and curiosity.
Please join us in praying for his family. Sadly, his murder is not the only tragedy we grieve. In recent weeks, children and educators across the nation have faced unspeakable violence in schools. At Evergreen High School in Colorado, students were injured when a classmate opened fire. In Minneapolis, a gunman attacked Annunciation Catholic school during a school mass, killing two students and injuring many more. These heartbreaking events remind us that our classrooms, churches, and communities should always be safe environments for learning and growth,
but too often they are shattered by senseless acts of violence. As your school board president, I cannot ignore these tragedies. They compel us to reaffirm our shared responsibility that we must stand together to protect our students. Protecting children is not about politics. It is about ensuring that every student who walks into a Carroll ISD classroom feels safe, supported and free to learn without fear. Our board has a responsibility to stand up and speak out against these tragedies. We cannot remain silent simply because some in our community may disagree.
Leadership requires courage and our students deserve nothing less than a board that is willing to defend them boldly, consistently and without hesitation. And show them that these violent acts will not silence us, rather unite us in standing up to defend the truth. We will continue to strengthen our safety measures and partner with our city law enforcement, enforcement and parents to safeguard our campuses. It requires a shared commitment from every one of us in the Dragon community. Let us honor the memory of those we have lost by rededicating ourselves to what
matters most, which is protecting our children and ensuring that violence never has the last word. Thank you for standing with us in this very important mission. Doctor. Glenn, will you talk a little bit about some of the safety measures that we have on our campuses? Absolutely. Let me begin by thanking President Bryan for stepping forward and making a public statement on last week's tragedy. Not only was it timely, but it also reflected the kind of leadership we've seen from organizations and institutions across the country, including the NFL,
Major League Baseball, the Texas Education Agency, colleges, universities, other school districts, and notably, the governor and president, All emphasizing the importance of unity and solidarity during this difficult time. Trustees, I'm happy to outline some of the safety precautions taken in our District. However, out of an abundance of caution, Carroll ISD does not publicly disclose all details of its safety and security measures. Best practice and guidance from law enforcement dictate that some information must remain confidential in
order to protect the safety of our students and staff. However, we can share the following overview of the robust steps we have taken to enhance campus security. Carroll ISD is fully aligned with the state safety requirements and continues to invest in practices and technologies that strengthen our ability to prevent, respond to and recover from emergency situations. In compliance with Texas law, each CISD campus has at least one armed licensed police officer present during the regular
school hours. All officers are provided by the South Lake Police Department and are trained to respond to a wide range of threats. Every classroom in our district is equipped with silent panic alert technology that allows staff to notify law enforcement immediately in the event of a threat. CISD maintains a state required multi hazard emergency operations plan that includes procedures for active shooter scenarios, lockdowns, evacuations and other critical incidents. These procedures are practiced through regular emergency drills each semester.
Our buildings include a number of physical security features including impact resistant film and bullet resistant glass in key areas of our facilities. All campuses are equipped with secure entry points, monitored visitor check-in systems, security cameras and locked classroom doors to control and monitor physical access. Updated campus maps are shared with local law enforcement and officers regularly conduct walk throughs to stay familiar with our school layouts and procedures. Also,
Carroll ISD conducts regular safety audits to assess and improve campus security. Staff are also trained to identify mental health concerns and refer students to the appropriate support services as part of a broader strategy focused on early intervention and prevention. When serious incidents occur and are under investigation, the district follows established communication protocols to keep parents and staff informed as appropriate while maintaining the integrity of the law enforcement's efforts. While no system can eliminate every risk,
Carroll ISD remains committed to doing everything within our power to keep students and staff safe. We continually review and improve our practices to ensure a learning environment where safety is a top priority. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. We have a robust safety and security plan at this district. Obviously, you didn't go over all of the details, but just what you read there is pretty strong, pretty robust robust as far as Carol or as far as an ISD goes. Absolutely. And I'd be remiss if I didn't just take this moment to thank Southlake PD
and everything that our City Council, our Mayor and our Police Chief do to reinforce what we do here at the local level. Absolutely. Ditto. Lastly, I would like to remind everybody that this November, our community will have the opportunity to vote on a voter approval tax rate election known as a VADER that directly impacts the future of Carroll ISD. We know that school finance can be complicated and it is our responsibility as your elected board to ensure that every parent, taxpayer, and community member has the facts they need to make an informed decision at the
ballot box. That is why we are hosting a series of school finance town halls in the coming weeks. I think we have, what, about fifteen, sixteen of those scheduled in the next, like five weeks. So, you have plenty of opportunity to choose and and come to multiple if if you so so like. So these meetings are designed to provide clear information, answer your questions, and engage in open dialogue about what this election means for our district, our students and our community. Transparency and accountability are central to our mission and these forums are an important way
for us to listen and respond to you. I encourage you to attend, bring your questions, take part in this important conversation. Together, we can ensure that Carroll ISD remains strong, competitive, and prepared to provide the very best for our Dragons now and into the future. Thank you for your partnership and your commitment to our students. Alright, let's move on to item number seven which is the information portion of our agenda. Item 7.1 is twenty twenty six Tarrant Appraisal District Board of Directors taxing entity vote allotment and
nomination for appointments. We do this I believe Doctor. Glenn every single year, Carroll ISD has a certain number of allotted points that we can give to, whoever is running for that Board and I assume that we've I haven't seen him but I assume we already have the nominations? Yeah, you're correct. So TAD does by ratio based on the appraised value throughout the county. They do a lot a specific amount to our district and so tonight you have the ability to make that nomination for appointment.
Okay. Is anybody able to take a review of those nominations or do we want to discuss that at our next Monday meeting and take a vote on it then this is information. Was there any questions in regard to any of the nominations? Typically, we invite them to come to speak. And so Doctor. Glenn, would you mind having Barbara send out an invitation for any nominee that would like to come speak at our next Monday Board meeting to tell us what they're all about? Absolutely. We'll get you more information and bring it back next week. Okay. Sounds good.
Any questions? Any discussion on this? Okay. Thank you. Okay. Moving to 7.2, Curriculum and Instruction Department Report. Ms. Petty. Thank you, President Bryan, trustees, doctor Glenn. I am thrilled to be here tonight. I am here to introduce the curriculum and instruction team. We've got, we've got our instructional coaches are here as well. And when all we wanna do is to provide you with a little update of how wonderful things are going and how great and fortunate we are to be in the district that we are in. So before we begin, we felt like this quote really,
really was the emphasis of what we do. Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. And as we work on our curriculum, we really focus on making sure that we meet all the needs of our kids, and we want our kids to be actively involved in their learning. So now is the time for me to introduce our curriculum coordinators. And as you can see, they are looking mighty fine on the, on the, presentation. Alright. First of all, I would like to introduce one of our instructional coaches. This is, Casey Stapp. We are very good.
Go on. Yeah. We're very fortunate to have Casey. We also have Susan. Susan Langford is also a she's Casey takes more takes control of our elementary, and Susan is handling more of our secondary. Then we have doctor John Irish. He is our secondary RLA and social studies coordinator. Then we have Terry Shen. He is our secondary math science coordinator. We have Kim Goodman. She is our CTE facilitator, and we are extremely fortunate to have her here, on b days. So we've actually got her on b days.
So anyway, she does an outstanding job. And then behind them, we've got Julie Stevens. She is our elementary, math science coordinator. And then we've got Angela. I don't know if you can see her. Angela Hammond is our, elementary RLA, social studies and care facilitator. So I want you to take a look at these coordinators. They have done an amazing job. I I just wanted to read a little bit because I I don't think that we always understand exactly what all they do. So this team right here,
this is the heart of our academic vision. They these incredible coordinators and instructional coaches, they are dedicated professionals, and they are the architects behind the learning experiences that shape our students' futures. With passion, precision, and an unwavering commitment to excellence, these individuals ensure that every classroom in Carroll ISD reflects the very highest standards of the education that we expect to have. From designing innovative tech instructional strategies to supporting our teachers with resources and professional development,
our coordinators and instructional coaches are constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible in education. Their work is not just about curriculum. It's about cultivating curiosity, critical thinking, and a lifelong love of learning. We could not do without these curriculum coordinators. They are truly, truly amazing. Now we are very fortunate in that we also have incredibly great students, we have incredibly great teachers, and we have a great community that supports us. So tonight, I just want to go over some of the great things that I know you
already know, but we wanted to hit upon a couple of things. I wanna remind you, we have four coordinators, a CTE facilitator, and two instructional coaches. These individuals serve about this was last year, 7,800 students, 526 teachers. They serve all content areas. There's not a single content area that they do not serve. They, they support our new teachers, and there happen to be 75 new teachers. New teachers require a little bit more time.
They also, they serve the 20 that are brand new to our district, and then they also run our mentor programs. Last year, they served they they provided more than 900 professional development sessions from August to August. That's a lot of staff development. They are constantly providing staff development whether it's in the fall, spring, summer, or during the school year. They also support our instructional resources. They instruct our IXL program, our newly, implemented map program, our Delta map, our seesaw, our canvas, our eduforia.
This year, unfortunately, we lost our instructional coach, coordinate our instructional, technology coordinator. And so these individuals have had to pick up additional duties as well. So now they're the curriculum instruction and partial technology people and they are doing an excellent job. It's a new learning environment for all of us. Anyway, we also lead committees such as DAC, SHAC, and our strategic plan. Now let's focus on where the importance lies, our academic recognition. As you can see, in STAR, we far surpass all the other,
most of the other districts in the state. I I'm not going to read all of them. You can see it, but we rank far above everyone else. We also wanted to highlight our secondary STAR. That's that we are out we are leading the state average and the the state average and the the state average above in a lot of those areas. The, the national merit, we were based upon last year's because at the time this presentation was due, we did not have our national merit numbers. We do have our national merit numbers now. They are 35. We have not received our commended or our other scholars.
But as you can see, these are incredible numbers for the number of students that we have. Outstanding. Every spring, people, from other, from other states are calling and they are asking, what are y'all doing in Carroll? We would like to come because this is where we want our kids to be. So that speaks kudos to the board. That speaks kudos to our community, that speaks kudos to our our staff, and most importantly, to our coordinators. We also wanna emphasize our CTE program. Our CTE program has not been, one of our main focal points in the last
it has in the last three to four years really picked up steam. It was not a focal point up to that point. So Ms. Goodman has done an amazing job of increasing the participation in that in those classes and in the CTSOs. She takes a lot of kids on a lot of trips, but they love it. They start in the middle school, and they can't get enough of it. So we are really, really excited. We are also increasing the number of our industry based certifications that our kids are taking. Again, five years ago, our students wouldn't have had any idea when we talked about an IBC,
what does that even mean? They wouldn't know. But now, a 178 of them are being are being certified in those in those, fields, which means that they could go out and start working in in that area immediately. So we are very proud of our As Betty, can you go back? I I was just gonna ask you, of the seven zero five so many students, is that a, increase of I mean, is that a significant increase over the last year or the last two years? I would say the last I'm assuming it is. I would say the last two years. We have continued to grow our CTE program.
Every year, we've got how many pathways now? We have 19 pathways. So we've got nine yeah. We've got 19 different pathways. Five years ago, I would say five. That's what I thought. We had five. So that is a huge That's good to put it in that perspective. That's good. Thank you, miss Goodman, for what you do. Yeah. And to clarify, on on the trips miss Goodman takes, those are those are competitions, state and national competitions where our kids are competing against, schools from from across The US. Correct? That is that is correct. And they do an outstanding job.
Moving on to our AP scores. We are very proud of our AP scores. Our teachers work very hard. Our students work very hard. We have highlighted just a couple of them. The first, we'll just go over US government. That has a 181 students who are wanting to take the US government AP exam. That is an increase of 22, students. If you look at our overall average, we've got 90% of our students are scoring a four or a five. The US the The US average is 49.
So clearly, we far surpass. And you can look at all of those, the, the geography, The US history, the language and composition, the lit literature and composition, our math scores. If you will take a look, our pre cal, which is a relatively new test that's been offered by AP exams, it just started two years ago. We have two nineteen students taking that exam. We we increased our scores of 19. It's 95%. Ninety five percent of our students are scoring fours and fives on that test, with The US, 49%.
And, miss Padilla, just quick question. Like, for the precalculus, when you say that 219 took the test, how many didn't? Do you know? Or how many total were in precalculus that didn't take the test? To my knowledge, I'm not feel I don't we can I'll go check on that. I would say probably close to ninety percent or more take take the exams. It's pretty pretty high for these numbers. And and probably what's what's even more remarkable, first of all, the the passing rates compared to the national average is is just curriculum department. But what's more remarkable is you see the plus 22,
plus 77, you're seeing more and more kids take these exams as our enrollments declining, but we're still pushing more and more exams as our enrollment's declining, but we're still pushing more and more kids into these upper level classes and seeing them take exams. That's that's pretty remarkable. And scoring a four or a five. Even with fewer kids, more kids are taking it. That's exactly right. That's amazing. It is amazing. And I would say, I think in our pre cal I think everybody took the exam in our pre cal. I mean, I'm not 100% sure, but it was almost in in all of these. I mean, it is very unusual for students not if they sit in the class,
they will sit for the test. And if you have never if you have never observed an AP test being administered, you need to see that that's they are in that testing room for four hours. It is intense. I mean, they are taking for the first hour and a half, they're taking a multiple choice test and then they are writing exams and I mean, essays. And it's just intense and they they do they'll take multiple. They're not just take you'll see if you go to those exams, those you'll see the same kids over and over and over again. So we are extremely proud.
And if you notice, we've tried to break it down, but we've got our social studies and our language arts, we've got our math science, and we've got our electives. So all areas of our curriculum are thriving as when you look at the AP scores. So what are some of our initiatives for this school year? We're really taking a look at the anatomy of a classroom. What does good instruction look like in a classroom? What should the classroom look like? We are trying to make sure that the good that good instruction looks the same in every single classroom regardless of an AP class. It doesn't matter what class it is.
We're talking about questioning strategies. Okay? We're really talking about intentionally looking at the questions that we're asking. Are we asking a wide level of questions, not just your basic level? How are we making our kids apply that knowledge? We're working with primary and secondary documents. We're writing across all content areas. That was part of the strategic plan. They did ask that we do that and we have now implemented that. We've increased our IBCs across all CTE pathways. We are working on increasing the rigor and we are working on our vertical and
horizontal alignment. So this is a lot to get done, but I think we've made great gains in the last couple of years, and I think we're on the right path. I mean, we really seem to to be in the right direction. Miss Betty, may I just ask a question on that? So when we met, for one of the committees talking about the the vertical alignment Mhmm. Over the summer, I think one of the things that was gonna be implemented was having, for example, like, a fourth grade teacher in a room with a fifth grade teacher and then the fifth grade teacher to say, this is my expectation by the time the kids get to me.
Did that happen? Right. We are still working on that because in the summer, what you have we did work on that. This summer, we don't have all of our staff because that they are off contract at that time. But during our eye align days, that has been a that will be a focus of our eye align days so that we do have all of our fourth grade teachers can listen to our fifth grade teachers. But, yes, we did have we did have the ones that but that was part of our summer conference was to have those conversations. Okay. So and it went very well. So, anyway, we are thrilled to be here.
I think that the presentation that we showed to showed you today show that we have just what we already knew. We've got an incredible we've got an incredible staff, We've got incredible students, and we're just thrilled to be here. Any questions? Thank you, miss Petty. Great presentation. And thank you, community or curriculum staff, for sticking around. We really appreciate you and appreciate you being here. Ms. Petty, what can we what do you need? What can we do to help you? I'll ask to tell you just a little bit about what you want.
Well, you know, additional staff would be nice. However, I also understand our current our current financial situation. So we just appreciate your support. I mean, that goes a long way. And I I we all feel it, but we wanna thank you for supporting us. This year, as I said, with us picking up a little bit of the technology, that's thrown us for a little bit of a loop. But we're the technology. Well, you know because it helps everybody out. Yeah. We we all kinda share this, like, whoo. But, anyway, so we just want I mean, your continued support is important to us,
and we appreciate it. And so Jean, it is remarkable. I mean, what you do with a small staff, I mean, just looking at it, y'all y'all average about a thousand kids per curriculum, staff member. So it's it's pretty remarkable what you're able to accomplish. The stats are unbelievable. I would think per capita, we probably have to have more National Merit Scholars than any school in Texas given our size. Yes. Yes. Given our size, that's absolutely true. One of the things, Ms. Petty, you taught me when I got on this board maybe four years ago was about horizontal alignment. And I want to credit your staff because when I go around and I talk
to different school districts or people who have kids in different school districts, one common refrain is, well, I wanna live in this particular neighborhood because this elementary school is better than the other one. It is very rare, I think, in in Texas to have an ISD our size. Every single elementary school for that matter, intermediate, middle, that horizontal alignment is proven. I mean, we saw the scores. And it's something I talk to about people who are moving here. And they said, well, where should I live? And I said, you can't go wrong.
You can't go wrong with this elementary school or this one. Just pick the house you like. Exactly right. That is such a credit to your team. Thank you so much because I know that's that's tricky, but but at some point, it'd be kinda neat to hear Very unique. How how you got you know, you've been able to increase or saying just better the horizontal alignment for that being the case. Because it's it's true in the scores. I mean, the scores are so incredibly equal. I mean, we also have amazing principles, and how you work with them. So that's just something that you've taught me,
and I thank you. And your staff has done a great job because we see it in the scores. It really is unique, you know? It's amazing. So thank you. Thank you. You had some I do. So knowing how many students you support and knowing that we need to get you help without extra funds, I'm gonna bring it up because I know we've talked about it before, but the the TEA's mentor program allotment, I think in the past, it was, like, for the amount of money that we get, it's not really worth. But is there a way where we could maybe use one of our committees to
kind of help manage that process? Because it does bring so it's a three year. If you get the allotment, it it's good for three years. You get $1,500 per beginning teacher, so less than two years. $2,000 for, like, a mentor training, and then an additional $2,500 for coaching supports and all those things. So it's not a ton of money, but Right. Having additional mentors that can kinda support and reinforce what you're doing, you know, out there in your classroom might might be a little bit of a solution. Is there a way that we can manage that program without taking more time from
all of you? Absolutely. We just received the, lasso grant. Okay. And as part of the lasso grant, we are able to pay some stipends to some coaches and some mentors. So that's one avenue that we are looking at exploring to make sure that we get those. But you're correct. That's going to be in the math field and we need them in all fields. So we can absolutely look at looking at the mentor. Is that the one that's $500 per mentor? Or you get a lump sum and then you can allocate those lump sums how you
wish. And so, we have looked at primarily using it for staffing to help our to help our team. So yeah. Let us know if there's a way where we can use our committees to kinda do some of that To do some of the work. Doing that paperwork and looking at things and then present it to you for your your green light. Maybe that would be a way to take off. Take off. Sure, yes, okay. Done. Thank you, Gina. Thank you. Thank you guys again for being here. Thank you, Gina. All right, moving on to item 7.3, discussion regarding district employee retention stipend and salary schedules.
Ms. Kibito. Good evening, Doctor. Glenn, President Bryan and Board of Trustees. Obviously, after listening to this presentation, we want to make sure that we're retaining all the staff that we can. So my office was tasked to review area compensation and develop, a plan for CISD salaries and retention. And so the information I'm going to be sharing is contingent on the passage of, the VADER. Looking at what we would do for staff immediately, our recommendation would be to do a one time payment of $2,000
for all staff. This would be paid out in two payments, one in November and one in April. And that, recommendation would require, a budget amendment. Looking ahead, the HR and finance departments will collaborate closely to review to begin reviewing and revising our 26, 27 salary schedules. A key focus will be using funds from the VADER to improve compensation for our lowest paid employees and also staying competitive with salaries, when comparing to our neighboring districts.
So at the next meeting, I'm going to be, requesting approval of the one time payment of the $2,000 for all employees. And we will be presenting the proposed 26, 27 salary schedules to you, by the April. We appreciate, you saying that, Ms. Covedo. I think that, you know, appreciation goes to you and your staff and doctor Glenn for recognizing that, you know, this VADER that's gonna be on the ballot if passed, we've been telling everybody and we will tell everybody and answer questions at our town
halls that, we want it to go towards, our teachers and staff. Question I have is the $2,000 that'll be paid out in two in two payments, is that our entire staff, all 1,100 of them or is it teachers or Our recommendation is for all employees. For all employees. Bus drivers. Currently have ten eighty one. Child Nutrition. Let me provide a little context to that. First of all, I want to thank Ms. Kibbeau. She does an amazing job with a very small staff. I think you'll learn that most of us over here at Central Office have small staffs. But Ms.
Kibito really stays on top of what the trends are with local school districts, what they're paying in the area. And we know that we have gaps. And obviously, we know that those gaps exist because we have financial issues that we're working through. That's one of the reasons you as a Board were proactive in forming a BRAC committee to address some of those issues. And so part of that recommendation in year two was calling the VATRE. And what came out of the VATRE, was how are we gonna spend the money? Like, where will that money go? So it's one thing to call an election to generate funds,
but I think the public really wants to know, how are you gonna spend those funds? And so in conversations that we have had as a board and then also from the administrative side, we know that we need to take care of our staff. So there were some raises that were doled out. We know some teachers got $2,500 some teachers got $5,000 some people did not get anything. And in fact, a lot of people didn't get anything. We also know that we have some very, very low paid paraprofessionals in our district. And so as we looked across at what other districts were able to do with
the funds that they had. And keep in mind, I think every district in Tarrant County but three have passed the BATRE and those three are all calling one right now. Again, to stay competitive with salaries. But our goal was to make sure that we were taking care of everybody. So when we're talking about the 2,000 for all employees, yes, it will disproportionately have a greater impact on those who make less money. And that's by design, knowing that we have people that make $18,000 to $22,000 a year and you wonder like how do they scrape by on that small amount.
This will be a substantial payment for them assuming the VATRE is ratified by voters. But more importantly than that, the remaining funds will be used to protect programs. And we've had a lot of people come to meetings to speak about the need to save programs in our district even though we're facing some deficits. After we take care of our staff, we want to protect those programs. And then the remaining funds will be used to balance our budgets. And so, Ms. Gibbaudo, thank you, for the proposal. And another piece of information you said in there, I want to clarify to anybody listening,
is the bigger piece of this is you and Mr. Park, our Deputy Superintendent of Finance, are going to go back and put together a salary schedule that looks at salary increases for the twenty six-twenty seven school year and that will be presented to trustees at the April. Is that correct? Yes, sir. Thank you. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Thank you, Ms. Kubota. I just want to remind everybody that, the VATRE that's going to be on the ballot in November, this Board already passed the tax rate, for next year and that tax rate is below the no new revenue rate.
It's extremely unique and rare for an ISD to do that. It's 3 pennies less than the tax rate was last year. So that's already done. We already voted on that. And then we appreciate you bringing, it to a vote next week on on Monday. So we'll know that, if we all agree in that in the VATRE passes that we've already voted to approve the $2,000 for every single staff member in the district. So that's not even a question. We're not even promising that it's already gonna be done, if we were to pass the VATRE. So I appreciate you guys doing that, and I think it,
it means a lot to our community that we can go ahead and commit, to this funding prior to the November ballot. Any other questions, discussions from Ms. Kimbrough? Okay. Great job. Thank you. All right. Moving on to 7.4, consider local policy updates and that's going to be Mr. Nickel. Good evening, Preston, Brian, doctor Glenn, and board of trustees. I'm here tonight to present, quite a few different policy updates. I'll be back again next week to present these for your, for your approval. Tonight's just for information. We received additional policy updates even recently after we already put together the board agenda.
And so those, I believe, you have some information that's been printed for you to view, and they'll be included in the agenda for next week for approval. That being said, even, you know, again, with the legislative session, we still have policy updates coming in. I'm sure we'll have a few more after this group even though I think this will be the lion's share. But that being said, we are, you know, accountable to the Texas Education Code, which sets the framework for our legal policy, as our local policy is getting updated to to reflect that. So that being said, I will start going through these and,
we'll answer questions as as you have them. To begin with, we have some policy that has been, of some some of the legislation that's been, addressed through our handbook or code of conduct. One of those being, house bill six, and that's been addressed through, through our code of conduct. It talks about limiting removing the limit of ISS placements. I'll talk about that in a minute whenever where I present that. And then it talks about needing a review after ten days of ISS. The ecigarettes or vapes are no longer a mandatory DAP placement. And if you go down to the next piece,
senate bill 12, parent rights, that's addressed through our student handbook. It's also addressed through several of the policy updates that I'll talk about, this evening. House bill fourteen eighty one, the personal electronic devices, that is in our handbook as well, and it's gonna be an FNCE that I'll be talking about tonight. And then house bill three sixty seven about serious life threatening illnesses, that is also in the handbook and is addressed through, FEA and FEC, that I'll talk about this evening. This is just kind of a quick overview of the policies. I'm gonna go ahead and skip forward to the individual ones where we can talk
about those, and I'll hit a few of the highlights on each of these. EFB local is about instructional resources. This is in line with senate bill 13. It requires us to notify parents of, the books that their children are checking out, prohibit certain materials from libraries. It kind of clarifies some pieces on procurement and our reconsideration or challenge procedures and expands some board and parental oversight. Mister Nickel, does this does this impact, our current policy that we have on instructional materials or it just adds to it?
I think it just modifies some of the language. I'll get with, with with Gina Petty to further see if there's any any adjustment in, you know Because we were pretty particular when we put that together a few years ago. Yeah. Just wanted to make sure it it stays in place. And so I had a conversation with John Petrie from T and we were there were several districts that were kind of ahead of the curve on this. And certainly we were one of them putting guidelines in place before it was required by law, to do so. And so while this may change some of the language, I think the board's intent behind what you passed previously is still going to stay
intact. I would agree. And can I just speak to it? Like, there was a situation at an elementary school where there was kind of like a community library, that got taken down and some parents were upset about that. But based on this state law, we can't have an unregulated library and parents need to be notified of any folks that the children are reading. Yeah. And and Mr. Nickel kind of stick skipped over it. But, but all of these policies, I mean, they're all tied back to this last legislative session. And so we'll make sure this PowerPoint goes online where if you want to look at local policy EFB,
you'll see where it ties back to what is now law and a requirement for all districts in the the state of Texas. So it's not like we're haphazardly saying let's do all these things. These are now all legal requirements and so we're just making sure our policy is updated according to what is now law. FNCE local, this is about the personal electronic devices. We've we've already talked about that extensively. This is one where we went ahead and and kind of adopted our local practice, and now, T has helped make sure the language of our of our policy reflects what we already have discussed. DGBA, FNG, and GF, these are all the grievance policies.
DGBA being employee complaints, FNG being student parent, and then GF being public. This is updating the language based on senate bill 12 that changes. It goes through and talks about, some of our timelines and clarifying to some of the roles of the people who are involved in the grievance. BBVA, which is relating to board members, prohibits registered sex offenders from serving on the board. BBB local, this has to do with board elections. It adds statement to ballots about not being able to be a sex offender and
being on the board and permits moving trustee elections to November as a uniform date. BBD Local requires all trustees to complete state provided training on parental rights and education. Mr. Nichol, I thought I knew the answer to this. So the moving the elections, all elections to November, that begins when? In twenty seventh? I think that, what I read was was about basically those who've who've called elections already that there's, like, a modifier in the language, and then for others, it's moving forward. And so,
Go back to that real quick, Brian. Yeah. My understanding would it was optional for trustees to move it to May from May to November. It's not mandatory. That's not exactly what you said. Once you move it, you can't move it back. So if you decide to move it to November, you're stuck. But we'll clarify that just to make sure I'm right, but I do believe boards have the option to move from May to November. Is there a date in which we have to I don't I don't think there's a restriction on when you can do it. So but, do you think we'll look at it? It'd be nice to get a deadline for that.
We'll we'll pull additional clarity for that. It's this is not the first time that this window has been open for districts to be able to pull and look at. So I remember gosh, it and it maybe date myself a little bit like twenty years ago or so, we were kind of in the same boat in another district where they had to make a decision whether or not they were gonna move from May to November. So, we'll look at it and get more clarification. Thank you. We already discussed this one. BBFA is about board ethics. It has to do with it says prohibits trustees from influencing or approving contracts where
they have personal or financial interests, close relation with such interest or have received gifts or services for $250 or more from a vendor. BJC Locals has to do with superintendent contracts. It limits severance to a max of twenty days twenty weeks of pay. No severance if terminated for misconduct and require severance agreements to be posted on the district website. CJ local, the first one that I presented, the BBFA had to do with board member ethics. This is on the vendor side. It says prohibits vendors from contracting if trustee has substantial interest,
close relationship, or if they have given a trustee gifts or services over $250 and it says violations could lead to legal consequences including criminal charges. CKD, this has to do with CPR and cardiac emergency plans. It establishes CPR training certification requirements, and, it also defines standards for the district cardiac emergency response plan. It's a new requirement, and it just kinda outlines what we have to do to to meet that. And I believe it's, I think, March 1 is the requirement for for having that put to get put together. So I'm working with,
our lead nurse to start talking about how that will will, play out on our campus. Where we were partnering with American Red Cross. I know that they just donated a bunch of equipment for CPR. I don't think that would have been directly related to this. I've I've assumed the legislation came out after after we had that, but it certainly would work hand in hand. DVD, this is employee practices conflict of interest. It says it restricts administrators from receiving financial benefits from businesses contracting with the district. It allows, paid services for educational entities.
If they have board approval, they disclose it. It's done on personal time, and there's not a conflict of interest. And if somebody violates that, it says it could be up to $10,000 in civil penalty penalties per occurrence. BE local, this has to do with board meetings. It says meetings have to be conducted outside of regular business hours with three day public notice. We have to record and retain our meetings. Open meeting recordings are available for public inspection. And minutes and adopted resolutions are posted online within seven days. BED local, also relating to board procedures.
It says that we'll need to this is related to senate bill 12. Meetings are supposed to begin with parent comments submitted through via online portal. It says that we're gonna need to create an online portal where people can submit comment and that we're supposed to present that. DF local, employee standards, DEI and student health care, also related to senate bill 12. It defines diversity, equity, and inclusion, social transitioning, and it outlines the prohibition and disciplinary actions related to those things.
It also clarifies student health care services and parental consent requirements, and then consequences if we do not comply with those parental consent, the parent rights piece. EA local, this is the piece requiring our teachers to have a syllabus and post those online. And then it talks about teacher responsibilities for distributing those materials. EFA local, this is to the new policies, and, adds a section of State Board of Education list of rejected materials with some minor clarifying edits.
EMB local, instructional content and student rights also related to senate bill 12. There's a lot of senate bill 12 if you haven't noticed. Again, defines the DEI social transitioning, prohibited instructional content, prohibits pronouns, use that's inconsistent with biological sex, clarifies that policy is not intended to be discriminatory, establishes procedures for parental consent related to instruction on human sexuality, and outlines holidays and commemorative month recognitions. EMIA local, this has to do with time for religious instruction, I set bill ten forty nine.
This is a new policy. It allows students to be excused for one to five hours per week for privately provided religious instruction. It outlines the responsibilities and guidelines for students and parents in the district that engage in this. FA local, this is about board meeting protocol and parent comments. Requires, again, talks about this online portal. A lot of times these policies are touched in multiple board policies. You'll see it show up. And if you look at the red line copies, a lot of times you're talking about a single sentence that will have a modification. It's not wholesale changes, but requires the online portal for parent comments and meetings beginning with a review of
submissions. Meetings must be scheduled outside of regular business hours and, removes parental rights regarding identification of students due to social transitioning prohibitions. Mister Nicholl, do we have that online portal up? I don't think we have that in in a working, order at this point, but we will work on that. FDD local, student age eligibility for children of foreign military. This is house bill twenty seven fifty seven. This is an optional new policy, one that we'll have to make a decision on. It says it allows students with a parent or guardian on active,
foreign military duty in Texas to meet age eligibility if they're turning, the required age during the school year. And so if they have a child, their their parent is in, active duty, they have a child who will turn the appropriate age during that year, you can allow them to, enroll early, earlier than what the normal requirement would be. FEA local, this is related to student attendance. Excuses absences for appointments with licensed mental health professionals, like we do with other healthcare providers. And it also has language in there to excuse absences for serious life threatening illness,
with documentation. FEC local, this is related to that EFA. It's also related to student absences and documentation. Again, house bill three sixty seven and senate bill two zero seven. Again, it excuses absences for mental health care appointments and excuses absences for serious life threatening illness. It talks about how the form must include physician certification detailing the illness, severity, the expected absence length, and, infeasibility of attendance. FL local student records, it basically It is Senate Bill 12 that talks about how student records will now need to
reflect materials that are checked out from the school library that will need to be added to the student record. FM local, this has to do with student organizations and UIL participation. We've talked about some of this. This is the board policy that would relate back to the homeschool students participating in UIL activities, with the Senate Bill four zero one and it also prohibits student groups based on sexual orientation or gender identity. GBAA local, this is related to public information request, house bill 4,219, where it says that we have to notify the requester,
who puts in a public information request within ten days. If there's no responsive info or if info is withheld, we have to specify the reason. And, if we're withholding info under legal exception, we need to request an AG decision and provide documentation within ten days. GC local, this has to do with public notices. It, permits publishing our public notices in a digital newspaper, if it meets policy requirements for posting. GKD local, this has to do with the use of district facilities by religious organizations, senate bill twenty nine eighty six.
And, this just, establishes some guidelines for religious organizations to use district facilities. It's a small modification to an existing policy. That's it. That's 29 policies in half of many minutes. That's crazy. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Questions, discussion for Mr. Nickel? Ron, I just want to say that was a lot of work. I know you worked hard on it. That presentation, we'll get that up online for people to view and also a red line copy. I know Tee put that out today. So maybe we can put that up for people to kind of go through it in more detail if they want. Yes, sir. Cool. All right.
Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Thank you. All right. Moving to item number eight, which is the discussion and action portion of our agenda, 8.1, consider approval of Methodist Health Systems, Carroll ISD MOU for Carroll Medical Academy students. Ms. Henning? Welcome. Hi. How are y'all doing? It's great. Good. Good evening, doctor Glenn, president Bryan, and board of trustees. Thank you again for the opportunity to share the affiliation agreement between Carroll Medical Academy and South Lake Methodist Hospital. This partnership will provide our 62 senior biotech students with weekly hands on clinical rotations
across multiple hospital departments, ensuring they receive the real world experiences that are central to CMA's mission. This agreement transforms academics into authentic preparation for health care careers, instilling confidence, professionalism, and purpose in our students. This evening, I respectfully request the board's approval of the affiliation agreement with Southlake Methodist Hospital so that we may move forward with implementation as soon as possible. You miss any any questions? I move that the board approve the Methodist Health System Carol ISD memorandum of understanding,
MOU, for Care Medical Academy students to do clinical rotations. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five zero. Thank you so much, miss Henning. Thank you all so much. I appreciate it. Have a good evening. Item 8.2, consider approval of twenty twenty five twenty six employee handbook. Miss Kubota. Okay. So, we did discuss a little bit last meeting about the employee handbook, and just a reminder that, it was based on the model provided by T, and included revisions to reflect key legislative updates from the eighty ninth legislative,
Texas legislature. Just to kind of highlight some of the changes, One of the house bill forty six twenty three, liability for sexual misconduct and failure to report. This holds school employees and districts legally liable for sexual misconduct or failure to report suspected abuse. The law applies to all certified staff, board members and interns and removes official immunity in such cases. Employees must report suspected abuse and maintain professional boundaries with students.
Looking at Senate Bill five seventy one reporting, suspected child abuse, the time frame was reduced from forty eight hours to twenty four hours now. Just just a quick question on 4623 and maybe for you or Brian. Does does putting this into our employee handbook, I know that we have a requirement to establish a a policy, for educator, misconduct, sexual misconduct. Is is this gonna gonna check the box for that or do we still need to put it in local policy? I didn't hear what you said. He said check we'll check check with legal.
Okay. Yeah. Thank you. And then when it came to social media expectation expectations, we kinda tried to tighten that up some. The use of district resources for things not related to employees' job assignments, was specifically laid out in the handbook on page 19. Administrative regulation specific to an employee's electronic communication with students was to an employee's electronic communication with students was spelled out in more detail on pages forty and forty one. And sharing of sensitive information regarding students, programs, and other school materials,
those are depending on the area, was laid out in on four different pages. And I'm sure you all are aware, I know it was mentioned earlier about, the commissioner coming out and putting out that letter about social media post and, they're taking this very seriously and, it's, you know, it's a report to the misconduct portal, to the investigation division for, those types of postings that are not appropriate. And then we, also included the travel policy specific to, all out of state travel being,
having to be, approved by the school board. So, those are just some of the highlights. We had some other things and I know Brian went over a lot of those things in the presentation just now. And so, just, as far as the acknowledgment of the employee handbook, this will be provided to all staff across the district, in a digital platform through Frontline. They will be required to review that and then they have to sign, as part of that final step. They have to, acknowledge that they have, read it and that,
first of all, they received it, they've read it and that they, agreed to adhere to the standards, policies and procedures. And so that would be our documentation to support that, they have received that and understand. Miss Civido, and that will then go into effect immediately, like, this Yeah. As soon as this is approved as well. As soon as this is approved. Okay. So asking for your approval of the 25, 26 employee handbook. Alright. Thank you, miss Kibbe. I'll open it up for questions, comments. No? Okay. Can't get in my I move to approve the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six employee
handbook as presented by Ms. Kibbeaud. Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. Thank you, Ms. Kibbeaud. Appreciate it. All right. Last item on the agenda is 8.3, consider approval of twenty twenty five-twenty six student code of conduct and student handbook. Mr. Nickel? Thank you. As far as the handbook and code of conduct, we presented that here, a few weeks ago. And so tonight, just coming back to talk a little bit about that. For our student handbook, the primary changes, really, a lot of it you you heard in the policy update that I gave,
it's a lot of Senate Bill 12 and I know a few years ago we redid our handbook, we had a committee that, rewrote that from cover to cover and a lot of that was looking at our parental rights which is what, Senate Bill 12 talks about And, Doctor. Glenn earlier was mentioning that, you know, we in a lot of ways were ahead of the curve. And so I think that, right now, again, you see some of our language has just been modified, but nothing in the spirit of what we're doing has been changed as much as just making sure we have the appropriate language, protecting parent rights. And, so you see that a lot in the in the adjustments to the handbook and
then also the updates with House Bill fourteen eighty one regarding personal electronic devices. Those are the two biggest things that you see, come out through the student handbook. On the code of conduct, most relates back to House Bill six, which again I talked about with policy updates, talking about that, the e cigarettes or vapes are no longer considered a mandatory, DAP placement. It can be a discretionary placement. If for some reason the school district, the campus decides to not place it in DAP, there's a mandatory ten days of ISS that they have to assign. So if they don't place it in DAP, they have to do a ten day,
ISS placement, but it can be a discretionary placement. It also, reverses what was done two years ago. Two years ago, they put in the state put in a, a cap of three days of ISS for any any offense that a a student did, and, the state has now come back and removed that, threshold because I know that there are some extenuating circumstances. Those are your biggest changes for handbook and for code of conduct. Thank thank you, mister Nicholl. Trustee Gunn? May I just can you just speak a little bit to in house bill six, there's expanded teacher authority for,
like, removing a student out of the classroom. Can you just kinda speak to that a little bit so everybody knows Sure. You know, where that policy is and and what it what what's gonna be There's always been language in, in policy about the teacher's ability to remove a student from class. But prior to this legislative session, a lot of that had to do with, documenting over time, continued disruptions and, attempts to try to, remedy that, the teacher's attempts to try to do something about it. But if they over time have multiple occurrences, they could eventually say, I I can't teach a student any longer,
and then there was a practice for having a a group, from the campus to review that student, what happened and where they should be best placed, sometimes back into that teacher's class. The modifications in new, from the new legislation, brings that down to it could be a singular occurrence instead of something that is documented over time. And so, you could have a student who has a a singular, incredibly disruptive occurrence where, the teacher says, I I I can't teach them in this class. Then it goes back into a similar procedure where, the campus has a a group, that will, review the student behavior and the,
you know, the best placement for that child and then make a decision about, you know, do do they return back into the same room with some sort of supports? Do they move into another another, you know, classroom and what that looks like. Then, house bill six also said that there is a campus behavior coordinator on every campus. Who is that? That's our building principals and we've had that name that way for a few years. Okay, perfect. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Trustee Boddam. Any other questions for Mr. Nickel? Okay. Can I get a motion? I move that we approve the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six Student Code of Conduct
and Student Handbook as presented by Mr. Nickel. Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Okay. If no objection, we'll adjourn this meeting at 07:07PM. Thank you, Board.