Alright. Good afternoon. We'll call this regular meeting of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees to order on 06/23/2025, at 5PM. Our first agenda item item is executive session. Therefore, we'll adjourn to 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 five M. All right. Good evening. We'll call this meeting back to order at six p. M. 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 with grateful hearts for the opportunity to serve our students, families, staff and this community. Thank you for the many blessings you have given to our community and for the trust placed in each of us to make decisions for the betterment of our district. As we gather to discuss and decide on matters of importance to our district, especially the budget for the coming year, we ask for your guidance. Help us to be good stewards of the resources entrusted to us,
always keeping the best interest of our students at the center of every discussion and decision. Lord, may our actions tonight reflect integrity, compassion, and a commitment to excellence in education. We ask for your blessing over this meeting, over our district, and over the year ahead. It's in Jesus Christ's name that we pray. Amen. Please join us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America, and to the republic for which it stands, Now for the Texas pledge. Under the Texas flag, I pledge allegiance to thee,
Texas, one state under God, one and indivisible. Now for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. Okay. Next agenda item is public comments. There is one solo speaker, signed up, so we'll give Mr. Schutz three minutes. Ms. Yelton, will you please call our first speaker? Our first speaker for the evening is Mr. Tim Schutz. Good evening, trustees, superintendent, all that are attending. I am so excited that the state has decided to pass a law for no phones, bell to bell. Now comes the tough part.
We as a district have less than eight weeks to make it effective. We cannot wait for the law to go effect, which is September 1, since school starts, I believe, August 12. Doing it and waiting till September 1 would be a big challenge to get our students to understand they had three weeks of what they call freedom and then bring it into play. So I strongly suggest that we build the right plans, the right communication to parents, students, faculty, administration, and have the right enforcement. It may be painful. My daughter said,
are you kidding me, dad? No way that's happening. I said, I've always said to the council, I know we have been successful as soon as I hear, dad, you made it happen. I can't use my phone. Thank you. Have a great meeting. Thank you, mister Shutes. I'll save my time for future. Very good. Alright. Thank you very much for that. Alright. We're gonna move on to item number five, consideration of possible action on any matters addressed during executive session 5.1. Consider and take possible action on personnel report. President Bryan, I move that the Board approve the personnel report as submitted in executive session.
Second. We have a motion to second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. Moving on to item 5.2, consider and take possible action on termination and mutual release of contract for the sale of property located at North Carol Avenue and East Highland Street, Southlake, Texas. I move that this Board approve the termination and mutual release of contract of the sale of property located at 1009 And 1101 North Carroll Avenue and 1301133513491375 And 1379
East Highland Street, Southlake, Texas. Second. We have a motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. Item 5.3, consider and take possible action on termination and mutual release of contract of the sale of property located at 2400 North Carol Avenue, Southlake, Texas. I move that this Board approve the termination and mutual release of contract for the sale of property located at 2400 North Carroll, South Lake, Texas. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five to zero.
Thank you, Trustee Yeager. We'll move on now to item number six, which is the president's report. Do we have any committee reports to report on tonight, trustees? Just one quick one and that is that the BRAC Tiger team met earlier this month on June 3. I just wanted to thank people in our community remember we had our original BRAC committee, which was very large. We had stakeholders from principals, PTO presidents, as well as teachers and members of the community, admin and a few from the Board.
And it was great that we had so many people that offered to be on these special Tiger teams to sort of drill down on some of these budget reduction items. And that meeting went really well. And I just wanted to again say thanks to the community that's involved in that. We will have future Tiger teams on other matters. And if you're interested in serving, there's going to be opportunities in the road down the road. Yes. Thank you, Trustee Yeager for that. Any other committee reports? Okay. I have a statement, that's related directly to our Tiger team recommendation as part of the BRAC and I'll
read it to you now. As part of our continued effort to address the projected $5,000,000 budget deficit for the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six school year, the board is considering a recommendation from the Budget Reduction Action Committee, TIGER Team. This team, comprised of parents, teachers, administrators, and trustees, was formed to prioritize which BRAC recommendations to pursue this year to offset this deficit. The team has recommended this board pursue a school funding measure that would require voter
approval and be included on the 11/05/2025 ballot. This measure, officially known as a Voter Approval Tax Rate Election or VADER, is the recommended primary immediate strategy to address our budget deficit. The team found that even with the implementation of cost reductions and efficiencies, additional local revenue will be necessary to balance the budget and preserve the exceptional educational programs, teacher and staff compensation levels, and student services our community expects.
Carroll ISD remains one of the lowest funded districts per student in Texas. In 2025, under the state's Robinhood recapture system, we project to send 28,000,000 in property taxes collected back to Austin for redistribution to other ISDs in the state. That is approximately one third of our property taxes collected in our community that we
cannot keep in our district. Meanwhile, despite 20% plus inflation and an exponential rise in the cost of providing education since 2019, the Texas legislature has only increased the per student allotment by point 008% or $55 This rate of inflation alone would equate to what should have been a $1,000 increase to the per student allotment.
The minuscule $55 increase in per student funding is just not enough to allow our current situation to be sustainable. Thus, we must act now to find additional revenue that we are allowed to keep in our district. Fortunately, this proposed school funding measure provides the means to achieve that objective. If passed, it would generate additional operating revenue approximately 3 and a half to $4,000,000 per year of tax money not,
and I repeat, not subject to recapture and without increasing the tax rate. That increase along with our continuing efforts to identify cost cutting measures and efficiencies will allow us to balance our budgets now and into the future. We believe that giving our community the opportunity to vote on a school funding measure that will not raise the tax rate while providing much needed additional revenue is the most direct, transparent, and fair solution to protect the high standards of education expected in this district.
While progress was made in the eighty ninth legislative session towards providing more funding to public schools in the state, the funding falls way short and does not come close to meeting the needs of our district. We had held out hope this legislative session would have adequately funded public education. It did not and thus triggered the need for immediate action based on the BRAC's five year plan. We hope to receive your support and will continue discussions in the coming months and seek ongoing input from the community as we move forward with this important measure.
Thank you and we'll move on to the superintendent's report. Doctor. Glenn. Thank you, Mr. President. Some good news, state standards, our state standardized testing data for twenty four-twenty five affirms once again that what we already know here in Carroll ISD and that's that our students continue to set the standard for excellence. Carroll ISD remains one of the top performing academic districts not only in Tarrant County, but across the State of Texas. In fact, if you had the opportunity last week, the Fort Worth Star Telegram had a great article highlighting CISD's reading and math scores
compared to other Tarrant County districts. This success is just one of many indicators of the outstanding work that happens across our campuses. Our academic achievement is not confined just to state assessments. CISD continues to lead across multiple domains. Our ACT and SAT performance consistently scores well above not only the state but also national averages. Over 30 National Merit Scholars this year, over 40 students received athletic scholarships to play college athletics in college. Fine arts,
band, choir, theater programs continue to earn regional, state and national recognitions. This year we fell a little bit short second in the Lone Star Cup. Congratulations to Austin Vandergriff for winning the Lone Star Cup this year. But as our athletic director Riley Dodge told me last week, it's pretty incredible to be in a district where each and every year we're finishing in the top three in the state in the Lone Star Cup and really consistently having a chance to win it every single year. Not to mention the thousands of volunteer hours logged by our kids.
Students log these thousands of hours as they work with local nonprofits, civic leaders and businesses to make a positive impact in our community. So in addition to these great things, I would remind you to be sure to thank our teachers for the amazing work they do with our kids. As we finish up the eighty ninth session, I know we've talked a little bit about it, but we're starting to dig through the significant changes that affect public education. Many of the implications, to the eighty ninth session are still being clarified by TEA and our legal counsel. But let me hit just a few highlights. HB 02/1943,
the teacher retention, teacher retention commission was supposed to be established statewide, to look at, why there has been such a drastic increase in turnover across the state. However, it was put out today that that was vetoed by Abbott. So that, that bill will not move forward. What will move forward is, HB, two, Article seven and Senate Bill two sixty, which are school safety funding. We're going to see a significant increase there as the allotment moves from $10 to $20 per student and from $15,000 a campus to just over $33,000
per campus. There's also some changes, in HB2, Article five as it relates to early childhood education. Specifically, there will be state mandated, reading and math assessments that will be required for early learners and the math academies will be required for K through three educators. So, teachers are used to reading academies. Now you're going to see math academies for K through three. And then you're going to see intervention funding for struggling readers expanded by the state also. HB2, Article four and Senate Bill five eighty six relate to special education.
Districts will be required now at the Board level to hold annual public discussions about special ed students and their academic performance. We're really unclear how much money we're going to see flow into the district from special ed. You're going to hear Mr. Park talk about that later tonight with the budget. We know the state has been asked to put the new tiers of implementation into effect by fiscal year twenty twenty seven, but we're hoping to have positive news on the flow of SPED funding to report in the near future. But tonight, you're not going to see that in our estimates. We had a speaker tonight talk about HB1481,
the student device use. It does prohibit cell phones and smart devices during the school day including lunchtime. TEA is working on a model policy for districts. Currently Brian Nickel is working with our local administrators on what our local policy could look like. We do expect there to be exemptions in place for medical, special needs and then also doctors' directives. And then finally property tax exemptions, that's pending voter approval in November, but we've all heard about the homestead exemption increase. And I do know there is a hold harmless provision for districts.
But it's important to note that just because we're seeing the tax rate go down, it really doesn't affect our recapture. Our recapture may drop, but it doesn't mean the district is going to see more money. So if you see the number go down for recapture in the district, just know that those aren't funds that automatically come into the district for additional revenue. Those funds are just passed on to the taxpayers as part of a tax break. So all in all, when we're talking about HB2 and the new funding that the district is going to see, you're really looking at a probably a net increase of around just over $1,000,000
And I don't want to steal Mr. Parks' thunder, but that's a lot of money pumped into public education but the biggest chunk of that went into the teacher raises and then a small piece for additional raises, which Mrs. Kibodeau will cover in her report. But just in closing, I will tell you that we've had another exceptional school year and I do want to express my deep gratitude not only to this board but also our students, our families and our community. It is the support of everyone that makes our district great and helps us continue to perform at a high level year in and year out.
Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Great report. Just to put it in perspective, out of the $8,500,000,000 additional funding that everyone is bragging about that is going to public schools, that nets Carol ISD. I just want to repeat this again. We're going to repeat it over and over with mister Park's presentation. It nets us about $1,000,000 8 and a half billion dollars extra in public school funding nets Carol ISD approximately $1,000,000 while we have a $5,000,000 deficit and, are falling behind on teacher compensation. Just let that sink in for a second.
We're moving on now to agenda item number eight, which is a public hearing on the Carroll ISD proposed twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six budget. At this time, the public hearing is declared open and I'll ask the administration to take us through a presentation regarding the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six proposed budget. Mr. Park, the floor is yours. Mr. Brian, Doctor. Glenn, trustees, good evening. I'm honored to come here tonight to present this public hearing to discuss and adopt the twenty twenty five-twenty six budget. Right. So as you all know, we've been through these key dates.
Earlier this month, we published our notice of to discuss the budget and the proposed tax rate in the paper as well as our website. Today, we are here, for the board to adopt our proposed budget, for MNO and I and S. And then in July, once we receive our taxable values from the TAD, we will be able to present and then also adopt our, talk tax rate in in August or September if necessary. So this is just a copy of the notice that went out in the in
the, public, publications as well as our website. Moving on to the preliminary tax rate. So as the at at the time, of this calculation, the templates and everything that was that was available, they did not 100% accurately calculate our MCR. And so that's something that that I'm continuing to work on with with, TEA and also, the other agencies, to as more accurate information and templates come available to to, more accurately, forecast that. And then once our tax once our, taxable values come out in July,
we'll be able to 100 with 100% certainties, know what our what our MCR is gonna be. So but at this time, I wanna highlight that our our enrichment tax rate is gonna go up to 8 golden pennies, which will then trigger the VHA election. And that is something that will be in this proposed budget for you to consider and adopt. So with the current changes and in order to stay at a total tax rate of less than what we are currently at, we will, drop the INS rate by by one cent,
per $100 value. So our total tax rate currently as presented is at $95.88 which is $0.029 below what our current tax rate is for FY 2020. I appreciate that, this slide, Mr. Park. I just if I may point out to the community, a line number two, which is the enrichment tax rate. In the president's report, I mentioned that we are going out for a funding measure on the 11/05/2025 ballot, for voters to approve, a tax rate that will,
allow us to keep 3 and a half to $4,000,000 in the district without having to pay that back to the state. And that second line, really does it for us. So right now, in the 2024, 2025 year this year, we are we have a point zero five, so 5 pennies, in our tax rate for MNO. And the state allows us to increase that 5 pennies by three to a total of eight that's not subject to recapture. But those three additional pennies that we charge the public, has to be approved by vote, for the public.
So if you take a look at that in the fact that we have enough room in our I and S tax rate that below line, that we can reduce it by a penny, it gives us a lower effective or total tax rate, than we have today. So that's what I meant, in reading that, president's report that, a vote for this, will not increase. In fact, it will decrease your tax rate. In fact, we even have more once the August, September time frame comes that this board consider if they wanted to, to reduce it even more.
So I just wanna point that out, mister Park and board, that, so the community understands that, you know, we don't control the appraisals. Our appraisals in our district, keep on going up because we have such awesome schools. In fact, we have the number one school district in the state of Texas. That's why our property values keep going up every every single year. Your tax rate staying the same or less doesn't mean that your property taxes, will not increase. That is dependent on your property value or your appraisal. So I just wanna make sure that, the community understands that point that property taxes,
and the property tax rate are two very different things and this community will be voting on the property tax rate. And I'll just inject one thing. This will be the fifth consecutive year that this Board has lowered the tax rate, the overall tax rate for taxpayers in our community. Last year, we were the only district in Tarrant County to adopt a rate below the no new revenue tax tax rate. It may be even the state, Doctor. Glenn. For our side, it's a six eighty district, a very likely yearly district. And so, hey, thank you for pointing that out.
So as we project rates, as Mr. Park said, certainly we are waiting for certified values to come in. That's one puts us a little bit behind when we adopt an early budget. We've got to wait on certified values to come. Obviously, with new legislation, the templates are a little weak. Those will tighten up between now and August whenever we adopt the tax rate. But again, I think this Board has shown that from a fiscal standpoint, you all are good stewards and when given the opportunity, you're going to push that rate well lower than it was in previous years.
And this year should be no different even as we consider a possible election to generate additional surplus revenue. Thank you, Doctor. Quinn. Mr. Park before you move on to the next slide, I appreciate President Brian pointing out the M and O rate might go up, but the I and S rate will go down. And I think that's commonly referred to as a swap and drop. Is that correct? Yes. Well, we are trying to use a more friendly term kind of an exchange or we're just trying to focus on a lower total tax rate than previous year.
Okay. But that's yes, that's language districts don't use anymore. Okay. The second thing I'm just curious about, I know that the appraisal rates will be established in July, but I think there's a period when people can protest their appraised rates, property values. And I wonder does that have very much of an impact? You said in July you could confirm for us exactly where we would be, but I don't know how long people I believe the protest period should be ending soon. And then once the the the TAD will present the certified values based on,
you know, where they close, where they end those the those protest values. So in July, when you have the numbers, the protest period will already be Yeah. That the certified value is is what we kind of consider the official values for this fiscal year. There can be protests that are ongoing beyond that, but we I mean, it's not significant enough that it really affects our overall revenue. Plus being a recapture district, we know we're going to be high enough that we're going to be paying in anyway. So once you meet a certain threshold, you're giving it to the state. So again, just a recap of the parameters that we used during our budget process this year.
We are continuing to assume the 131 student decline, projected by, our demographers. That kinda equates to about a $1,100,000 loss, in, funding. And so this year, we are projecting a 7,973, project enrollment for students. Our May preliminary taxable values came in at 14,800,000,000. That is an increase of six and a half percent over, last May. And, also, one thing to consider that, it's hard to project where our certified values will fall this year because of this increase in in in a homestead exemption.
So, that's that's one thing that that we'll be closely monitoring, as we get into, July and August. Again, the staff compensation considerations from from from house bill two, all the, teacher salary increases for the three and four year teachers at at $2,500 and then five plus year teachers at $5,000. That that will add approximately a $2,800,000, expenditures, into our budget. And then also, we have added about 395,000, but, you know, total with the with the with the additional employer contributions and things,
you know, that will total about $450,000 for our first support staff, from the support staff allotment. That's all that was also in house bill too. So, total, we're looking at about $3,200,000, in in added expenditures for salaries. Two points. Let me just ask a question. And this you may or may not know the answer to this, but when we had a meeting with senator Hancock, he made mention that compression rate helps our school district better with recapture than homestead exemption. Do you have any insights into that? I'm not sure I'm I'm not sure if that was the take I got.
But this is again, I may be wrong. From what I understand and that is that the compression is determined every legislature. But a Homestead is in the Constitution, So, it's again, I may be wrong, but it seemed like that was fixed. So, you know, as it goes up, it stays there where compression can change or there can be no compression from one legislative session to another. So, I thought, at least some people in the in the in the legislative session to another. So, I thought, at least some people in the building when we spoke, said that that was better,
that it was a tax savings that was fixed and not subject to change or go back. Again, I may be wrong, but that was my interpretation. No, I think, I think, Again, I may be wrong, but that was my interpretation. No, I think you're close. What I would say is that like under current law, as Mr. Bryan alluded to in his President's report, under current law, if nothing were to change, we would have been looking at a $28,000,000 recapture payment. Fortunately, in November, it goes before voters. There's the chance that that recapture payment could go down with the homestead exemption and
the freeze if that's ratified by voters. I think the important note here is if recapture drops, let's say recapture is at $28,000,000 and it drops to $25,000,000 or even $21,000,000 It's not like those dollars come back to the ISD. It's just overall there's less dollars we're paying into the state. So they're giving that rebate to taxpayers, which is good. We're giving that in the form of a homestead exemption. We're giving that in the form of a freeze for those that have their values frozen. They get a benefit as well.
So the benefit is going back to our taxpayers, but it's not money that we recoup and get to spend on kids. And I think you're hearing some of our legislators, you know, saying that, wow, we've lowered your recapture. Correct. You know, that's great. That's great for the homeowner that they they paid a little bit less in taxes, but it does absolutely nothing for our we're still paying tax dollars back to the state to be redistributed to other ISDs in the state. Yes, our revenue is capped on that basic allotment and our ADA. And so right now where we grow as we grow when we get more students
and as we know, we're not getting more students right now. Yes. And that's the main message is that without an increase of the basic allotment, tax compression helps the taxpayer, but it won't help us as a district. Yes. The Tiger team kind of vetted this out and I think Mr. Braun spoke to this. I mean, we are trying to pursue the only avenue we have to generate additional revenue locally right now. So let me just put this in perspective for the last six years, in the last three legislative sessions, they only raised the basic allotment by $55.55
total When there's been 20% inflation since 2019, that equates to 1,000 or more just to keep up with inflation, the cost of doing business, and they gave us $55 Okay. I think this year, we'll we're looking to finish around a 95.8%, average daily attendance rate, but I'm I'm hopeful that we can we can stay above that that 96% number. So So that's what we've kind of used for our budget next year. And then we are kind of conservatively looking at anywhere from a 3.25%
to a 3.5% investment earnings rate when calculating our investment earnings for next year. And at Trustee Bottom, I know, Trustee Jaeger, we point this out all the time about ADA and that is for every 1%, that's how much? About $1,000,000 right? For every 1%. So if we were at 97%, we'd have another million dollars in our, MNO to be able to spend. So it's extremely important. And I know our our principals and we applaud them, every single one of them have been really, educating our parents,
during the school year and keeping them up to date on the ADA for their particular campus, and we we suit we appreciate that. And that's why we're at 96%. We wanna do better. We think we could be at 97 or above. So, again, just a h p two legislative, recap. It was the largest Texas school funding bill, in history. $8,500,000,000 is for, public schools as as president Bryant, mentioned earlier. However, we as a district only received a $55 increase to the basic allotment.
The other source of funding came came through this teacher retention allotment, which increased teacher salaries, based on your year. For a three and four year teacher, that $2,500, it, equates to about a three and a half to 4% raise depending on which year. And then for the five plus year teacher, that that $5,000 raise equated to anywhere from a six to 7%, increase, depending on your your years of service, for our district. Mister Hart, can I ask you this or doctor Glenn, maybe you can speak on this, and that is, something that we worried about when they talked about this the last,
the eighty eighth legislative session is that this was not gonna be in perpetuity? They they were just going to give teachers, an extra 5,000 or or mandate an extra 5,000 in their salary and then the school districts would have to pick that up, in future years. But I believe, that they've set up a separate fund, for this, teacher retention allotment. And so that $5,000 or the 7% increase given to five plus year teachers this coming year is going to continue. It's not gonna be just a $5,000 one time bonus goal.
That is my understanding. Yeah. That's correct. And then and I know Mr. Park was about to get into this. I'll steal your thunder, if you don't mind. But yes, and you're going to see when Ms. Kibito speaks later tonight that we've gone ahead and reflected those increases in our current salary schedules. Okay. Thank you. Again, as I mentioned earlier, the support staff allotment of $45 per ADA, that equates to about $300,000 as I'll show in the next slide. There's also an allotment for basic costs at $106 per student. That will that is supposed to take care of any increasing costs for per inflation
and the other kind of increased expenditures, that come as a result of this salary increase. So Yes. So basically whenever we give raises we're on the hook for about 10% on TRS Care and Benefits. And so that's to offset those costs. The $45 allotment and I think Ms. Kibbit, I won't jump too much into this. I know she was trying to write some of the T staffing study that was done a year ago, some of the discrepancies there. But the bulk of that funding is being spent on raising our lowest end employees
up and, and she'll talk more about that when we get to the staffing study. Doctor Glenn mentioned the school safety allotment earlier at at $20 per ADA plus 33,000, per campus. And then, TIA, will increase funding. It's yet to be determined, you know, kinda what that what that entire specific structure is, but and then how we we as a district will will implement that. Additionally, the early education allotment, it does provide additional support for full day pre k. And then, as we talked about earlier as well, the, increase in, special education funding that it will officially begin in fiscal year twenty seven.
So what does it mean for h, for Carroll ISD? Bottom line, you know, we're looking at just over a million dollars of net increase, in, MNO funding, to the district when you when you net all those together. So, as I mentioned before, the the 3,300,000 in increased expenditures, and then the additional revenues from the from the allotment for basic costs and the and the school safety and things like that will will generate to us a little over a million dollars. Yeah. And then again, the the the teacher incentive allotment,
that'll be down the road. That won't affect our budget this year at all. And then the SPED allotment, that's I talked about that in my report. We're expecting that to really help us out. We just don't have any definitive answers on how much money we can expect from SPED. The teacher incentive allotment that so we've submitted all the paperwork so we can be part of that program and that won't We're in the process. Okay. So, yes, the we it's multistep. In fact, next month, we need to bring back a report. And I know we got sidetracked from that last month, but we need to bring back a report and I'll visit with Gina and then
we'll make sure we can share that. I have a question about that. One of the things that we heard when we were in the capital or we actually told some of our lawmakers is how few people in our district, how few of our teachers are involved in that because it is very onerous. We've talked about that. Was there any change in that? Yes. So before they had to take classes almost similar to, like, a PhD. That's actually being phased out. So now it's more of a pay per for pay per performance. So our principals and kind of the way that they're rating
differentiating, that is going to impact who is gonna be eligible for those different, levels and also add an additional tier as well. Moving on to the actual proposed budget. It might be a little difficult to see, but what I want to highlight here, is that, the state's mandated HB2 increases does affect function 11 with all the teacher salaries. But through the efforts of zero based budgeting, and long, hard discussions with departments and examining campus budgets, we've dropped our proposed budget for every function
from 12 to 9098, you know, '97, you know, by by several 100, you know, thousands of dollars. And so, you know, we've we've made a real concerted effort to to, you know, get down to to really the the bare bones and and, really make a change this year to and see what we can do with where we're at and what we're given and then start from there. So just a couple of minutes. Mister Park that, I appreciate you coming in, and doctor Glenn and, all the administrative staff for embracing the zero based budgeting concept because,
when we first introduced this three and a half years ago, I think they laughed us out of the building. And, you know, it's a serious matter and budgets are extremely serious and we have a fiduciary responsibility to our community and we simply aren't going to pass deficit budgets. We're we we mandate, balanced budgets, and so we appreciate both of you and the admin staff for embracing this. I know it's tough. Zero based budgeting is tough, but it pays dividends. And and and look at where we were three and a half years ago with our budget and where we are today. So, you know, hats off to you guys for for embracing that concept and getting us back into,
a working model. Well, I've said this before. I think this board, this board was certainly ahead of the curve, establishing a BRAC last fall. And the number one thing that came out of the BRAC in year one was rightsizing. And so this is the effects of rightsizing not only for the upcoming year, but the year we were just in. And you'll notice there are only two functions where we increase spending, that's function 11, which is due to teacher raises and then function 99, which is our bill or invoice from TAD. And so they went up on what they charge us and so you see that
reflected there. Just a few functions that I'd like to highlight. Function 36, you see almost a million dollar decrease there in that in that budget. It's mainly due to to, you know, privatizing our aquatics program, as well as, cutting out a lot of, out of state travel budgets that that now require your your approval, before before they're allowed to, authorize to to make that expenditure. So, and then also, function 41 general administration, we've cut almost a half million dollars there. You know, we've we've, reduced our legal fee budget by a 100,000,
and also, you know, we've we've taken out, you know, a lot of, kind of miscellaneous expenditures from from from our budget as well as other, you know, administrative budgets. So, function 51, you know, we're we're looking at kinda dropping, you know, half a million or almost there. You know, we're we're trying to focus on doing the things we can and and also using kind of the the bond dollars and also our TIF money is available, to to to do our capital, projects there instead of trying to, you know, sync that in with our with our, maintenance budget.
Last one, wanted to highlight that that reduced budget and recapture function 91. That is, more or less just just a result of of our lower of our tax compression, and our lowered, you know, local share of of of revenue. So, it's not really something that, you know, we control, but as tax compression and and and also the the, increased homestead exemption, there's just you know, we're still on the hook for for the for the same percentage of of of funds that that go back to the state, but but it's just more of a result of of of what our lower revenues
are. And then last slide here, this is, we are presenting this budget here to you for adoption. This includes our general operating and our debt service. The budget is approved by the board at the function level. So here's our proposed budget for both funds. And so this would be a time to point out on the revenue side. So tonight we're bringing a balanced budget. But on the revenue side, we are projecting the additional pennies on the M and O side.
Correct. And so that revenue that additional revenue if ratified by voters, would get us, would get us to be balanced. So what happens if the voters do not ratify? Then we're We will look to, amend the budget and then present one for for, you know, amendment that does not include that revenue. And we can do that after the November vote? Yes. Correct. And so we would have to come up with approximately $3,500,000 or $4,000,000 in cuts, in order to balance the budget at that time. Yes. And so something we've looked at in the past is balancing the budget on property
sales and we know we have properties that are available for sale. We don't really think that's a good use of selling district property. I think I've spoken to that multiple times. And so what we've allotted for in this budget is if that property is to sell, we would like to invest it, put it in high yield accounts and then generate that revenue back into the budget. And so now if you sell a piece of property for, let's say, dollars 10,000,000, you have the opportunity to recoup $300,000 to $400,000 in interest over the course of a year. If we sell two properties,
we double that. And so those funds become year over year revenue for us. That's really where we want to be, but we also know that we're short through about $3,700,000 and voters have the opportunity to help us with that even as we lower the tax rate. If that doesn't happen, then we go back to having more conversations about cuts. And so we're trying to balance the revenue opportunities with the cuts and expenditures. Makes sense. Thank you. And being on the BRAC Committee as you were President Brian,
we have other reductions that were discussed in that large group. So, there are additional trigger points, if you would, if we didn't have the voter approved, 3 pennies. And that concludes our presentation. I'll open it for any further questions. Yes. I do. I know we're not the largest school district in the metroplex, but I couldn't help but just looking at media recently and seeing massive budgets, massive I would say budgets that have huge deficit budgets,
Dallas ISD, Fort Worth ISD, on and on. So I just think it's important for us to let the community know. Here we've got a plan, right? Money on the table, those 3 pennies that could help us have basically a balanced budget. Now and into the future. Exactly. We keep that money forever. And heaven forbid that doesn't get voter approved. We do have through the BRAC other, as I said, triggers that we can do. But these districts, Mr. Park, you've worked at other districts as you have Doctor. Glenn.
How are they going to possibly get by with these massive adopting massive budgets that are in deficits of tens of millions of dollars? I think the districts right now that are voter approval process to capture the additional pennies. That's number one. I know Mr. Park and I both come from districts that have done that. And so but if not, then you're digging into fund balance or you're making significant cuts to programs. Or closing campuses last of them? Absolutely. Well, and I think that was the narrative the last two years. You saw lots of campuses close and it looks like Fort Worth ISD,
which is the largest district in Tarrant County, is about to start closing campuses. So, I think you're going to see more and more of that over the next two years, elections for pennies and closing campuses. Yes. Comments? Okay. At this time, I'll recognize any public speakers to address the Board regarding the proposed budget. Not seeing any, this concludes the public hearing on the proposed twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six budget for the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six fiscal year. The hearing is now closed. Thank you, Mr. Park. We will now move on to agenda item number nine. Under information,
consider the impact of Texas legislation on CICD student code of conduct and student handbook. Mr. Nichol, you're up. Good evening, doctor Glenn and president Bryan and board of trustees. We're working with T on adopting, I guess, getting our, handbook and our code of conduct back from them. Before we do and before we bring that to you, I wanted to give you a little bit of background information. Obviously, with the legislative session, there were a lot of things that came out that will impact, both handbook and code of conduct. In particular, there are three that I just wanted to provide some information on. On house bill six, there was a piece coming out about ISS.
At the last legislative session, prior to the last legislative session for years and years, in school suspension did not have any sort of parameters on how it was used as far as the length of placements. And so administrators had a little bit of flexibility where, maybe they didn't wanna send a student to DAEP, but they knew that, two or three days was not quite, long enough for a placement in ISS, so they would have flexibility to say, place a student for five days or something like that. Or maybe they were in the process of doing a hearing and might be sending a student to DAEP, but they couldn't get it done in in a three day time period,
and so they might, maybe to allow time for investigation or hearing or something, they would have extra days to work with. At the last legislative session, the state, said, no. We're at CAPFAT at three days. Now they've gone back and they've repealed that, and they've said, you know what? We feel like we created some some difficult situations. It put us in in timeline issues across the state, and so they've repealed that. So no longer is there a three day cap on ISS. There is on OSS. You can't put a student out into out of school suspension for more than three days, but they have removed that cap on ISS.
What they have said is that, if a student has been placed for, more than ten or more days cumulatively, that they want the district to set up a time to review with parents to to discuss that. That's always been in place for students that are under an IEP, or a five zero four. But I the way I'm reading that, and we'll get more, more guidance, but the way I'm reading it is that that is they're putting that in for other students as well. Another thing that they have repealed that they put in at the last legislative session, they put in that it was mandatory for all VAPA fences to go to DAP,
again, two years ago. They have now taken that off and said that that is no longer a mandatory, placement. They're leaving that, I guess, at the discretion of districts to determine that, but it's no longer a mandatory placement. And then, in House Bill fourteen eighty one, this is the bill related to communication devices. It talks about cell phones, tablets, smartwatches, or any other communication device. It says they will be prohibited, for use in the school day. That means, from beginning to end of the day, anywhere on campus, passing periods, lunch periods, etcetera. And then it says the district needs to outline a policy for,
like enforcement, what our disciplinary measures would be. And I believe it also has a caveat in there about putting in language about, you know, destruction of devices that have been kept for a for a length of period of time, things like that. But, again, that's stuff that we'll continue to, vet out with with others who are trying to read into to what all the language of this means. And Mister Nick, I can see all kinds of different, scenarios. And if ISDs are left up to create their own enforcement, policy. Is TEA working on anything that you know of that,
a boiler plate that they're planning on sending out to the districts to use or to They have said they're working on model policy. I don't know about the disciplinary measures around that. Okay. So it's up to each board to come up with that. Yeah. I would imagine, so, you know, I had the opportunity to visit with Region eleven. We'll hear from the commissioner later this week, but, would under I would imagine they will have local, leeway for disciplinary measures, but they'll try and give, at least a comprehensive understanding to everybody in the state of what,
what the law means and how it should be essentially enacted in schools. I know I've already started having some dialogue with some local districts just looking at how they're interpreting this and, what their stance is. I I visited with, Keller who I know kind of implemented something last year and talked to them about kind of what their practices have been and so that will help guide us a little bit. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. All right. Moving on to 9.2, NWEA measures of academic progress, growth and professional learning for CISD. Ms. Petty. Good evening, President Bryan, Doctor. Glenn, trustees.
I bring to you tonight a pro a resource that the curriculum and instruction team as law as well as our campus principals are asking for you to look at for information purposes only for this week. NWEA is also called MAP. It's very commonly referred to as MAP. It's a nationally recognized research based assessment program designed to measure student achievement. It adapts to each student's learning level. So it is on time accurate data. At this point in time, we do not have a growth measure that we can use for real time measure.
So as we're talking about looking at TIA and as districts are looking at moving into TIA, teacher incentive allotment, there are two components of the teacher incentive allotment, I mean, the two two, components of the teacher incentive allotment that you have to consider. You have to consider the teacher evaluation process and you have to measure student growth. So what we are doing, we are looking at this program to determine is this a program that would help target exactly where our kids are? And it targets every single student's needs.
It helps the teachers differentiate the instruction for each of the students. So it hits all levels. It can serve as an intervention. It can serve for your on level. It can serve for your advanced kids because it is real time and it's advanced. Many of the districts around us currently use this program. Whenever the state legislature was meeting and they were considering doing away with STAR, this was one of the programs that they had considered using that did not pass at the eleventh hour, but that was a program that they considered. So, for this meeting, we are only bringing it to you as an information only,
but we would like to consider using this resource as we move into this next school year. We do have someone, just I always think it's nice whenever you're looking at purchasing something like that, has anyone actually used it? And we happen to have someone in this room who has actually used it. Mr. Nickel has used it. He's used it with his child so he can give a personal testimony to it as well. So I think that speaks volumes to the program as well. But do you have any questions? I've heard good things about, the matter. In fact, we consider it, I think,
two or three years ago as maybe an alternative. There's a star, but so there's there's two components of TIA. One is measurement of student growth, and one is measurement of Teacher evaluation. Teacher evaluation. So we're gonna use MAP for both components? We we would use MAP for the student growth. Okay. And we are working with region eleven. All of our principals and APs will be trained before the beginning of school, and we will be calibrating our assessment our evaluations. So they Got it. Region eleven will work with us. They'll come before school starts, then they'll come once in the fall and once in the spring,
and we will calibrate everyone together so that we have consistency in our evaluation processes. Yeah. Remember, one of the components of TIA is not every teacher is gonna get it. It. And so we wanna be as consistent as possible as as we evaluate staff because only a small percentage will actually be eligible. And so who's responsible for the evaluation of, teachers, that's the principals? Correct. Okay. And in that, is there gonna be any kind of, like so, like, the principals are gonna evaluate the teachers, but then are they going to have to calibrate with other principals to say,
like, my five is equal to your five and share specific examples? Well, that's gonna be later on down the road. So so as we work with with region eleven, what we'll do is we in July, we'll have a full day training session where we will all get on board. Because what you will see is as you go through evaluation through the evaluation process, everyone has their own perception Right. Of things. And so what we're seeing is is we need to all get on the same playing field so that as you as as we evaluate our teachers, we're we're consistent against all of them. Now the state has not said I mean,
there there's still some in there we don't have expectance. They haven't told us exactly what we're doing on their own yet. So our evaluations will actually I mean, though, we will be evaluated as evaluators to make sure that we have a calibrated standard in place for the district, so every principal can't just give every teacher a perfect score. And, and if we're not consistent, you know, we we could be exited out of t I TIA. And so so if we're gonna qualify, we've gotta make sure that that everybody is consistent with the expectations of those funds. So I'll just share,
like, in in our professional setting, you know, similar to what I just shared. You evaluate, and then you have to calibrate across to make sure that everybody's on the same page. I would just recommend putting that in place so it's, you know the the friendly principle doesn't drive it from your No. That's and I I think that's what the state is trying to get away from. Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly right. And then beyond that, on this MAP piece because, you know, we do have people that are concerned with STAR testing and our codes are being tested too much. Now our is MAP and additional metrics and STAR,
like, is that gonna be more evaluation time for the kids or how do you guys walk with that? Curriculum and instruction team will do is we will look at our current assessments and we will reduce the number of assessments that we are currently giving. We don't have a lot of control over STAR in and of itself since it's a state mandated test, but we will evaluate the I mean, we've we've started documents now of where can we cut back on some of our assessments that we're currently giving. Right. So and this actually will take the place of quite a few of them. And and it will give us real time data,
which we're not currently getting. And and map's significantly shorter and less intrusive than STAR. So And costs associated with this map? We are going to see grant money for this. We've got pretty much 100%. Yes. Well, we'll see. We should report back to that next month. But I mean to your point, it's not a cheap program. I think it's right at $134,000 And so yes, we absolutely if we can get the grant money and it's allowed, this is an allowable purchase, that's the direction we want to go with it. Similar to what President Bryan said,
we had heard for years the districts around us talking about that. And I'm just curious into what Trustee Bottom was saying, the anxiety that goes with STAAR testing, the whole teaching to the test that is out there. Can you tell us a little bit about the actual test taking? With STAAR, one of the things that we don't like is that it's mandated by the state. It's gotta be on a device that we own. They don't give us money to buy the devices. So can you tell us just a little bit about the test taking itself? The test taking students will take the test. They it's approximately 45 in length.
It varies depending upon your grade levels, but it will be part of the instructional process. So as teachers are going through the process and they would do a normal assessment anyway, instead of doing their normal assessment, they would take the MAP assessment. Okay. One of the things you hear from folks in Austin talk about the STAR, and they say, well, it's aligned with TEKS. So if if your teachers have curriculum that's in line with the TEKS, then start testing, you know, it should be the material. Is MAT then tied to the material as well? It is. Okay.
It's very and it's also aligned with the SAT. It's also aligned with the SAT and the ACT. So it's also doing the college readiness measure as well. Oh, wow. Okay. Which is really beneficial because at our senior high, we do not have anything for that. Right. Just is there a pulse that you've just, you know, anecdotally taken of of teachers and principals on map? I'm sorry? Have you talked to them about it? Is there any feedback that you could share with us just anecdotally? Our principals at the last meeting that we had with them, our principals all sat in, and they were immediately. I mean,
they wanted it immediately. We have talked to some teachers, and, yes, they are excited about it as well. We have not done surveys. We've not talked to them, all out. But the ones that we have talked to, they were excited about the possibility. Okay. Because it does help them differentiate instruction. For example, one of the things that we're starting to see now is if we find that a student is below on a certain TIC, let's just say. Mhmm. Alright? Our teachers have to go hunt and find things in order to address that TIC. Now what what MAP will do is it will align with the resource we already
have, which is IXL. So the teachers basically, by click of a button, will be able to okay. Johnny is low in T3B. It will align activities for Johnny to do with T3B immediately. And so the teacher doesn't have to look around. They've got it right there. Students can do this at home. They can do it in school. It's good for the teachers. I mean, it's it's gonna be a huge time saver for our staff. That that's great. And then when does it start? What grade? Well, they have a k 12 program. Since we're they it's only serving, reading, writing,
math, and science. They do not have a social studies component to it at this point in time. So Okay. We're really looking at our star tested areas. So at this point in time, trying to roll it out in maybe three through eight, maybe three through 10. We haven't we haven't really looked. We're gonna get them all trained. So even if we do a pilot at the high school level, at least we've got an idea of what we're doing, but we wanna get everybody trained so that everyone knows how to use the program. And and your vision, miss Petty, would this be something that we would roll out? Of course, it has to be voted by the board,
for this coming school year? Yes. Yes. We would like to get our principals trained in July and August, and then their staff would be trained during the week of staff development if at all possible. Last question. I'm sorry. We, it's kind of nice in a way a lot of people don't like STAR, but there is one side and that is that people do get to see this great academic achievement of our district because those scores are MAP scores, public information? They could be. Yes. I mean, I don't know that that anyone's actually done an analysis of comparing because it's individualized.
Mhmm. And because of the individualization, I mean, you could get an overall picture of how the district's doing. Mhmm. But I don't know that anyone has done that up to this point. Okay. Thank you. Ms. Petty, just I know last year we had a lot of discussion about technology and STAR and whether or not we had all the technology we needed and the right computers and access and even for special education students that we're talking about, allowing them to take written tests instead of online. Do we have any technology constraints or issues? Is there any reason that all of our students couldn't or wouldn't be able to
take the test and stand by? No, they should be able to. It's compatible with the Chromebooks that we recently purchased as well as the laptops. So we should and the iPads. Thank you. Alright. Anything else for miss Patty? Alright. Thank you, Ms. Petty. Okay. Thank you. All right. Next up, nine point three CIC employee attrition resignation update. Ms. Kibodeau? Okay. Good evening, doctor Glenn, president Brian, board of trustees. I'm going to be discussing tonight the employee attrition and, the resignation update. So, I went back and analyzed new data over the past five years starting with twenty
twenty to twenty twenty one. And I'm excited to share some truly encouraging news about our teacher attrition trends over the past five years. Starting with twenty twenty, twenty twenty one, we saw attrition increase reaching 14% as you can see here in twenty twenty one-twenty twenty two and sixteen percent in twenty twenty two-twenty twenty three. However, over the last two years we've made remarkable progress. As you can see in the data provided in both '23 and this past year,
our teacher attrition rate has dropped significantly to just ten percent. Even more exciting, our current rate is well below the state average of nineteen point one percent, which was reported in the twenty three-twenty four school year. We're still awaiting the official twenty four-twenty five, state data to be released. But based on the current numbers and momentum, I'm confident, we'll continue to perform outside the state above the state average. So that's exciting news.
This is exciting and Ms. Kubota, I mean I just want to point out to the community who's watching this and hopefully we can shoot it to every email in the district that there's not a mass exodus of staff or teachers, especially over the last five years here since I've been on the board and especially last year and this year at 10%, 9% under the average for North Texas or the State Of Texas is truly incredible place. Obviously, it's a great place to work and that's why we're number one. So I'm just wondering with the attrition,
do we do exit interviews? We do. In this, okay. And then, with those exit interviews, I guess they're voluntary that if a teacher wants to, they can or if they is that So we've actually, worked to really, streamline our resignation process so that we are able to gather more data because in the past, it's been the principals just saying, hey, would you please fill this out? Some will, some don't. But through, this online form, there's actually specific questions and feedback, that they're required to provide. Alright. So certainly,
if a teacher that was leaving and begged to have a, exit interview, they would have been given an exit interview. Correct? I know. I know. Alright. So we're not denying any teacher or staff member from No. An exit interview once they wanna leave, whether they're retiring or whether they're leaving for some other reason. Correct? No. There's a place on the form that they, check that they would like to have an exit interview. And from there, we follow-up and set up a meeting and they come and meet with me face to face. I appreciate that. So we essentially use the software. And when they resign, they go online. And they and as they're as they're submitting their online resignation,
the survey is right there for them to take and it it just kinda is like a one stop shop, makes it easy to do both. Right? Mhmm. Whereas before it was you fill out the paper form and then you, fill out a Google Doc if if you choose to do so. And even with the attrition rates you're showing, we know there's been a downturn statewide. You know, turnover rates have been higher and we know people are leaving the profession. Talk briefly because I know you shared with me today. We've had really good applicants, like, really wide pool of applicants for teaching positions this year. Is that correct?
We're averaging, a little over 70 applicants per week to different Wow. That's incredible. Awesome. And why is that do you think, Ms. Kibodeau? You want to be Dragons. Yes. Because this is a great place to work, right? Yes. Yes. Ms. Kibodeau, before you move off this slide, I'm really I think these are excellent numbers and great performance and thanks to the administration and all that you guys do to get these attrition rates down. I know the state numbers you just mentioned are at 19%, we're down to 10%. Do you have any idea how any of the neighboring districts or some of the
schools that we regularly compare ourselves to have those schools also dropped or are they still high? I do not have that information, but I'm working on gathering that for you all so that I can, give you that information. Thank you. They're still working through. Most just do it for the year and so, you know, working We still have another week left. So this is can resign without penalties until Friday. This will include Anything? I mean, you can answer that, but I mean, it includes leaving the profession, moving out of state, retirements,
she has a slide for that. Okay. So I'm gonna yeah, that's the next slide. So, these this this did not, as far as attrition, did not include the retirements because, I mean, we can't really retain our Yeah. Yeah. And then if I had my notes correctly, you said the state average is nineteen point nine? Nineteen point one. 19.1. So almost double. Okay. Can you I I I just wanna point out, take a look at all of our elementary schools. Yeah. I mean, especially at Old Union, 3%, 3%, 6%, 3%, 0%. I mean, that's that's absolutely incredible. Rock and ball, same Carol is the same.
I mean, Johnson maybe a little bit higher, but, I mean, all of our elementary schools are incredibly low, which speaks volumes. Do you agree? That's a that's an absolutely unbelievable step. We've talked about the leadership at the campus level that we've had. The great thing too is that we're able to promote from within recently, and that just tells me we're in keep on. Yeah. We're in great shape to have that, type of leadership continue. I really appreciate this slide. Can we put this on our website, and have a link to it? And also, can we get this sent out to our community,
and maybe with an explanation behind it, because there's such a scare in this community that this school district is is going down at a rapid rate and that teachers are leaving by the by the hundreds and thousands. And, I mean, this absolutely, you know, tells a totally different story. I think on the next slide, you'll kinda see Okay. Appreciate it. What's going on. So, so we'll move on to that slide. So these are the reasons so whenever, a person who's resigning or retiring has to complete the form, there is a place that they have to put in the reason that they're leaving.
And so, with the data from this year, we're looking at twenty five percent who are retiring, who have, in most cases thirty or more years of experience in the field of education. So, we've got twenty five percent who were moving. That could be either moving out of state, moving because, their husband got transferred to a different job, those types of things. And, leaving education altogether, thirty percent in that. And that, you know, has been on a little bit of an increase just across the nation,
unfortunately. So that's an area that we could definitely try to retain some. And then promotion, we had 1% one person that got a promotion and then 18% were, not disclosed. So we have under dissatisfied with work, we don't have any percent there. Does that just mean that there that's 0%? Or Most importantly, I'm pleased to share that not one single teacher indicated dissatisfaction with their work, and we had no nonrenewals for this school year.
Just, just wanna say what a, what a credit to again our principals on the good job they do. But if you look at these numbers, 50% we really don't have any control over. So about half the staff that left us, I mean, when you retire like we celebrate that. We celebrate people who've given three decades of their life or more to the profession and they're going to step into a new chapter of their life. People who move and they leave the area, again, that's really out of our control. So really it's that other 50% is where we really want to be attentive when we're looking at retention. So, Ms. Kibbeau, I think you said when we were on the prior slide that the retirements 25%
are not included in those numbers? It's like the retirement. 10 attrition does not include retirement. Does it include all the others or not include the others? It includes everything. Includes every all the others but not retirement. You know, retirement, you're probably looking at 3%. Uh-huh. We had, I think nineteen nineteen teachers resign this year, 18 last year. Due to retirement? Due to retirement. Yes. Of 600 teachers. Those are great numbers. Get that, publish Get that out there. Yep. Thank you. Yep.
Anything else for me to skip it up? Okay. Thank you. All right. Moving on to our discussion action portion of the agenda. Item 10, item 10.1, consider approval of resolution of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees calling a special election to replace three vacancy in adoption of an order to call twenty twenty five special election on Tuesday, 11/04/2025. Mr. Brady? Yes. President Bryan, trustees, Doctor. Glenn, glad to be here tonight. Jeff Brady, your Director of Communications. So we do have a vacancy. And so I am here tonight to present as part of the election process,
the reminder really that the board of trustees must call a special election for Tuesday, November fourth of this year twenty twenty five for the vacancy in place three. And furthermore, the administrative recommendation is that we approve the special that you approve the special election order and accompanying resolution as presented. Alright. I'll open All right. I'll open it up for comments and maybe I'll just mention first and remind the community that this board is never appointed and never will appoint someone after a trustee
resigns from their position early. We will always, if we can, and, with time on our side, call for a special election because we wholeheartedly believe that the community and only the community should decide who represent represents them on the board of trustees. So thank you for Mr. Brady for bringing this up again for our vote. Any other comments from Trustees? Okay, motion. Trustee Ingram, this resolution you need to be right? No, I don't think so. Okay. I move that the Board accept, this, proposed vote for the vacancy to for Place three calling for a special election.
Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. Thank you, Mr. Vice. Thank you, President Bryant. All right, moving on to item 10.2, consider approval of the twenty twenty five-twenty six salary schedule and stipend schedule. Ms. Kibodeau, you're up again. There you are. Okay. Okay. So I am going to review the hiring and stop in schedules, for the twenty five-twenty six school year. And as you know, the board has to approve that next year. So, let's begin by looking at the, and I know y'all heard some of this, the teacher hiring schedule.
Thanks to the passing of House Bill two, we're excited to see historic investment in teacher retention and compensation. The teacher retention allotment provides a $25 $2,500 dollars increase in teachers with three to four years of experience and a $5,000 increase for those with five or more years. And can I just remind everybody that wasn't here or listening in or tuning in for the earlier person, the three to four years experience at 2,500 equates to about three to 4%,
raise? And then the five plus years of experience of $5,000 equates to about 6% to 7% raise. Correct? Yeah. So the looking at the fifteen year midpoint, it was 6.7% increase. Okay. So, with the this being the largest teacher salary increase in the state's history. To ensure we continue attracting top talent, the district is also recommending a $500 increase for teachers with one to two years of experience since those were not, part of House Bill two,
while maintaining our starting, salary at $60,200 And let me speak to this real quick. We have a very competitive starting salary. Where we heard as a district is teachers at year fifteen and twenty, weren't really seeing much of a bump. So you're talking about, a twenty year teacher may have, a twenty year teacher I think was making about $67,000 a year prior to HB2. And so now you have that same teacher making $72,000 So a starting teacher is making $60,000 and a twenty year teacher is making $72,000 approximately. So there's a much wider gap,
than existed on our salary schedule before. The total house bill to allotment for staff raises is approximately $2,400,000 while the district is responsible for covering the increase in employer contributions, An added cost of nearly $240,000 The state has provided the $106 per student basic allotment to help with this offset. Okay. And so here, I've, got the this slide represents, the proposed hiring schedule with the 2,505,000
and then adding the 500 at the one and two and maintaining the 60,200, which we are currently adding 24 to 25. So I know that I should have asked this at a time and maybe not at the top of your head, but, are we still within the 95% for teacher salaries or we do you know if we're below Yes, that's really not going to change with this because keep in mind, yes, everybody saw this raise with the exception of I mean, all of this was mandated with the exception of giving the $500 to the the year one and two,
and we did that simply to make sure that there were steps on our salary schedule. Okay. Looking at this, I did add in the masters and the doctorate columns, which we haven't had included on our hiring schedules in the past. I just thought that was important for teachers to see. So, miss Kibbeau, is that a, state mandated increase or is that a local policy? That is what Carol ISD does. That's the local policy? Okay. My recommendation would be to continue with the thousand dollars for the master stopping and $2,000 for the doctorate. In your experience, is the existing policy in line with other school districts,
the state? Are we ahead of them? Are we behind them? Do we need to revisit? We we we probably need to revisit that. Okay. We are in line with some districts and some Okay. Pay a little bit more for those that don't I know we had talked about that, in the past, but I can't I know I've asked the question for five years in a row and I know we're a little bit short compared to other districts and I really wish we could do more. It's kind of honestly a little embarrassing to me that you know you do all that work for an extra $1,000 a year and we're we want to promote excellence in education.
But I also know that we have budget constraints and it's going to be very few people that ever go for a doctorate though. I'd love for us to at least benchmark against other districts and see what doctorates do because it's one thing to get a master's, it's another thing to go all the way to a doctorate. And maybe we can have some more discussion, but I know there's budget challenges. Can we take an IOU for that? I mean, I would like to see that on our future agenda. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Okay. So now we're going to take a look at the, non teacher. So in the spring of twenty twenty four,
you, remember that T conducted a comprehensive assessment of its pay structures. And the salary market that they compared us to were 17 neighboring districts, and I've included those here on the slide. Federal ISD. In developing the recommended hiring schedules, we reviewed this the data presented in this assessment. And so what we found, is that, Carroll ISD offers lower compensation than peer districts in several of our key support roles including our custodians, our nutrition workers, our bus aids, our bus drivers,
campus secretaries, campus technicians, and instructional support staff such as our PE aids and library aids. Additionally, certain administrative positions were identified as being, below the market rate especially for our principals and assistant principals. I had made a note When looking at those, and based on t study in those areas that I listed, we fell anywhere from 7% up to 40% below in some of those, positions, which is pretty significant especially when you're looking at 4%.
Additionally, the assessment highlighted that some of the administrative roles, like I mentioned, were are below the market. Would you go back to that slide? So on the HB2, dollars 45 increase per student to cover the cost of support staff. So that's something you're talking about is trying to address those lower paraprofessional salaries, especially those people below $15 an hour. And so tonight we're proposing in our budget to bring everybody to a minimum of $15 an hour and then raise, proportionally the people above them, but especially those campus secretaries,
custodians, I think bus drivers got a dollar a dollar an hour. What's important to note here, and and Chase brought it up, but I just wanna highlight it, that $45 per student increase that we got from the state, it it was right at about just under $400,000 Does that $395,000 sound right? I'm just reading off her slide. Yeah. And so we had to supplement to get all of our paras and, you know, and I'm super proud that we were able to help our principals out too because I know they were below when you looked at the T study. But those paras especially that are seeing the vast majority of this,
we had to supplement that $45 per student increase in order to make those raises happen. And, I just don't want that to go on notice. But this last sentence down here, she didn't highlight and I think it's important to note too. Counselors, nurses, instructional coaches, DIAGs, LSLPs, librarians, they were not included in that $2,500 $5,000 stipend. So those positions, they don't see a raise. So not everybody falls into the category of being the lowest level employee and so just wanna make sure that's highlighted.
The state did not include that, those those positions. And I know we mentioned this last time, but I I wanna repeat myself. That 45 is for attendance. So we do not get paid that money all the way fully if people do not attend. So I hope everybody's enjoying their summer vacation and has no vacations planned over fall break for extended periods of time. That's my Every every time yeah. Every time we talk about these pursuit and allotments, all of that is on ADA. That's a good point because we need to be highlighting that because if you do the straight calculation,
we're gonna get way less and less. And I think also this third bullet, I'm glad Doctor. Glenn, you brought attention to it because as President Bryan said, that $55 to cover everything else, yes, we would love HB2 that it had specific, you know, increase in security per campus. It had increase in the teacher, pay. But this is exactly the problem that you had mentioned. It does not cover all these other things. And especially when we're trying to get we've got a remarkable reading level. And it's these coaches and these are the people that make that really
Well, I know something that's been important to everyone on this Board and when we talk about we talk about what we're having to cut a lot and when we talk about those revenue drivers and what we want to do if given the opportunity to generate additional revenue. I know something that's been pressing on this board is how do we make sure we're taking care of our staff. So hopefully as we take an IOU on some of the stipends, we'll take an IOU on how we can address some of these things in future discussions. Yes. Thank you for bringing that up. That's exactly right. Questions specific to this information? Staff in schedule. And so just looking at our stop in,
schedule, it aligns with our, market comparison rates. The only, stop in that we are requesting that we add is for the barbecue team sponsor Our state champion. For me. Yeah. Absolutely. Ken Goodman has, stepped down from that role. And so, we know that we will be available for the program and would like to add that, as well as Stockton, to whichever sponsor. And can a trustee be a barbecue? I nominate trustee Yeager. He doesn't get the stipend to free. We save money for free. We hire you, we save money. Only if he cooks steaks for us,
I believe. We have to provide dinner every Monday. All right, thank you Ms. Kibodeau. Any other further questions for Ms. Kibodeau? Yep. I make a motion and that is to approve the teacher hiring salary schedule and compensation adjusted as presented. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. Thank you, Ms. Cibodeau. Next up, 10.3, consider approval of the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six general fund budget and interest in sinking budget. Mr. Park, you're back up. First, Brian,
Doctor. Ghaly and Trustees. As I presented a few minutes ago, I'm back up here to seek approval for the proposed twenty five-twenty six budget. I move that the Board approve the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six budget including the general fund and debt service fund as presented. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? She carries five to zero. Thank you, Mr. Park. Next up is our consent agenda but I want to move and highlight item 11.5 to off the consent agenda. It is 11.5
is memorandums of understanding between Carol ISD and certain universities. I wanted, Doctor. Glenn this is something we really should be proud of and something that Doctor. Glenn brought, to our school district and it's a brilliant idea and it's I can't wait to take advantage of it. And there's many universities and colleges around the state and maybe even outside of the state, that have signed up for this. So, Doctor. Glenn, I'll turn it over to you to kinda highlight this and explain to the community what this is all about. Yeah. It was exciting. It wasn't, it wasn't super hard to to bring anything. It was nice to be in a place where university presidents are actually reaching out
to our school district saying, hey, what do we have to do to get your students to come here? And so right off the bat, we were able to sign our first division one school in Tarleton and as much as I'd like to take the credit for what happened after that, I really do need to pass some off to Gina Petty and her team because it started really spiraling after we got Doctor. Hurley and Tarleton on board as our first Division one partner. We were able to sign several smaller districts or smaller I say districts, I'm a public school educator.
Smaller universities like Howard Payne and McMurray were able to jump on board, but, but then she was able to secure, what we bring you tonight, which is a Texas Women's University. We got our first big 12 school in Texas Tech, University of Missouri, out from out of state. I know they have a new provost that we're having conversations with, but, we hope to, to bring University of Missouri on soon, ACU, Abilene Christian, another division one school right here in Texas. So a lot of different options for kids and a lot of different levels. So, so what is the distinguished university partnership?
What it is is it is universities that have come to Carol ISD saying we want your kids. And not only do we want them, we are ready to take them. They do not have to take the SAT. They do not have to take the ACT. We will look at their GPA and if they have that three point zero, three five GPA, depending on the school, we're ready ready to take them and enroll them immediately. And in many cases, they're putting money where their mouth is. So, like, I know Tarleton and Howard Payne are offering pretty significant scholarships, for kids to go to those universities and attend. And,
so that is, that's super exciting. Is that for all of our kids? Absolutely not. We know we have our Ivy Leaguers. We know we have our kids that are gonna go to major universities out of state. We know what we have our kids that are gonna go to military academies or go right into the workforce. But we do have a group of kids here that work extremely hard. They're extremely intelligent. And, and for their parents to know, hey, you know what? Before before my kid ever fills out their first college application, I can just look at their transcript and know that there are six universities right now that are ready to take them.
Sight unseen is absolutely remarkable. And, and so from there, the sky's the limit. So we've set the floor for our kids that if they want to go to college, no matter where they're at in their graduating class, that opportunity is afforded to them and in many cases with scholarship money to boot. So credit to our teachers, credit to our principals for the great job that they do and our curriculum department because you all set the bar so high that, colleges are seeking us out to get hold of these kids. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Thank you, Ms. Petty, for the work that you've done. This is this is great. I can't wait to to grow this program,
even more and get people more excited about this. So I I took it off the consent agenda. So, Trustee Yeager, let's move on this separately, item 11.5. Yes. And that is that for 11.5, I move that the Board approve the memorandums of understanding between Carroll ISD and Texas Second. Motion is second. All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. Okay. Now we'll go to the consent agenda. I know we have a couple of donations. Trustee Yeager, do you want to announce those? We do and we talked a lot about budget tonight and it cannot go without
past that. Oftentimes this community comes together campus by campus, program by program and we've heard from so many booster clubs to come up with the shortfalls to provide our teachers and our students with really great facilities, great programs and the whatnot. And the first donation here is the Rockenbach Elementary School PTO, generous donation of $10,000 I usually don't talk about the purpose, but it's great to hear about some of these things. And this is for the procurement of cafeteria tables for Rockenbach Elementary School.
So thank you so much Rockenbach PTO. And the second and last is the Carroll Athletic Booster Club, CABC, with a donation of $12.50 dollars and this is travel expenses for the tennis team. We talked about sometimes regrettably that we have to just tighten our belts, and, it's great to see CABC coming and helping out with that expense. Excellent. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Motion and second. All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. If no objection, we'll adjourn this meeting now at 07:34PM.
Thank you. Thank you, Board.