All right. Good afternoon. We'll call this special meeting of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees to order on 06/02/2025 at 5PM. Our first agenda item is executive session. Therefore, we'll adjourn to executive session in accordance with Texas government code five five one zero seven one, five five one zero seven two, five five one zero seven four, five five one zero seven six, and 551-0821 at 5PM. Alright. Good evening. We'll call this meeting back to order at 6PM. Our first agenda item is opening prayer,
pledges of allegiance, and moment of silence. Will you all please rise? Heavenly Father, we come before you today seeking your guidance and wisdom in our discussions and decisions. Bless this meeting and grant us clarity and compassion as we work for the good of our students, staff, and community. Help us to listen with open minds, speak with kindness, and act with integrity, always striving to serve with your grace. Lord, we ask for your protection over our students, teachers, staff, and their families as they begin their summer break. It's in Jesus Christ's name we pray.
Amen. Can you 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, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 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. All right. Our next agenda item is public Alright. The next agenda item is public comments. There are two speakers signed up tonight, so we'll give each speaker two minutes.
Please be reminded today's meeting of the board is a special meeting, and therefore, all speakers are required to submit your comments to those that are germane to the agenda items only. Ms. Yelton, will you please call the first speaker? The first speaker this evening is Barbara Johnson. The first speaker until I walked in the door and someone said, You're the only speaker. My name is Barbara Johnson. My husband and I have lived in Southlake for over forty years. I'm also speaking on behalf of our daughter, Jessica Johnson,
who's out of the country at present. Many parents have asked us to speak for them because they fear retaliation toward their child. That is appalling to me. I am here addressing the school board for the third time regarding Coach Kevin Murphy. Our family still cannot grasp why Coach Murphy was reassigned in the first place. It wasn't due to cause. Doctor. Glenn told our daughter that. It wasn't due to competence with all her coaches honors and accomplishment. It could not have been due to character. His integrity is what kept us out of trouble with the UIL.
When I read the Dallas Morning News article headlined UIL is probing Keller State title teams, I was not surprised. We knew that Coach Murphy refused to allow some elite Carroll Swimmers to practice with their club coaches during school hours. And as a result, some of those swimmers and coaches moved over to Keller. Coach Murphy knew it was a UIL violation and would not permit the Carroll Swim dive team to do the wrong thing. Thank you, Coach Murphy, for your integrity that prevented this headline from reading UIL Probing Carroll ISD.
So what is it? Is it age discrimination? Past and present swimmers and their parents have described Coach Murphy's devotion to swim instruction and his acceptance and valuing of all students from those with special needs to the elite swimmers and everyone in between. Some of you may not know Coach Murphy, so let me describe him. He is not slick or fake. He is a good guy doing a great job. He's a role model for our kids. We hope that servant leadership will arise and for the welfare of the whole community.
Coach Murphy is reinstated as head coach. Thank you. The next speaker is Jamie Handy. I come today asking again for answers and accountability. As public servants, I hope you'll address these questions fully and directly. Number one, all of our lost beloved administrators are moving on to incredible district schools and opportunities. So who is it that is not doing their job? It can't be them because everyone wants them. Is it our superintendent who is lacking the ability to retain our best and brightest, or is there a third more worrisome option that our board is overreaching into the governance of our district against TEA,
and it is they who are pulling the strings on the numerous reassignments? Number two, we have a known conflict of interest in the employment of one of our trustees. Andrew Yeager's employer explicitly celebrates his role on our board to resist federal guidelines in what they tout a landmark legal victory. When trustee Yeager's private employer openly markets his elected position as a tool for their adequacy, is a confirmed ethical breach. Trustee Yeager, will you resign from the board or divest from this employment? Don't our public students deserve unbiased representation? Three, our full board has knowledge of trustee Yeager's role,
an explicitly political advocacy organization who employs him, and yet our president, Brian, has publicly congratulated him on this position. Rather than flagging this as an ethical breach, we've chosen to celebrate it. This abdication of duty to vet and call out conflicts of interest undermines trust. Will you, the board, have the integrity to stand up and right the situation? By allowing a board seat to remain vacant and failing to call a special election to appoint a temporary trustee, you have willfully suppressed democratic representation. Will you step up and remedy this situation? Trustee Stacy has chosen to engage in a small ideologically aligned group instead of speaking
openly and directly with our broader community. It's ridiculous. We all deserve that conversation. And lastly, I spoke with the fire marshal. He confirmed that there was no new inspection to reduce the occupancy of this building. But largely, in my opinion, the request to reduce the occupancy to a twenty twelve chair order rather than have a new inspection to the county, how many people can fit in here. I asked the fire marshal to the emergency room is to send the scanners for this room to all of our new potential Thank you, miss Handy. Thank you, miss Sandy. And a point of clarification, we have discussed with our attorney, and he has confirmed there's absolutely no,
conflict of interest with, trustee Yeager. So thank you for your for your comments. We'll move on to our next agenda item, which is item number five, consideration and possible action on personnel report, 5.1, consider and take possible action on personnel report. Yes, President Bryant, I move that this Board approve the personnel report as presented in executive session. Second. We have a motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, trustee Yeager. We'll move on now to, item number six, which is the president's report.
I wanna start off with, final day of our eighty ninth legislative session has passed and, Trustee Bottom as our point of reference for our legislative session, this go around, have a legislative report. Trustee Bottom, take it away. I'll just take a deep breath because we we made it. That was that was a long, drawn out legislative session. But I'm really happy to report that our efforts absolutely paid off. And it resulted in the largest increase in funding for public education in our state's
history. So, dollars 8,500,000,000.0 was set aside and passed an HB2 for public education. I really want to take a moment to thank our community. There was a lot of people in our community who sent emails in, that went with us on our legislative action day. We had teachers and staff doing pilot programs in the background, you know, working really hard on this legislation as well. And then, of course, my fellow board members who also took countless meetings, and Doctor. Glenn as well, with, with all of our state legislators to really advocate. And then I do actually want to thank our state legislators.
So Senator Creighton, Representative Buckley, and all the public education community members because they took a lot of meetings from us and they were willing to partner. So what did this result in? Let's start with our teachers. Again, I'm happy to say largest teacher pay raise in state history. For teachers who are three to four years experience, they will be receiving $2,500 increase. Five plus years experience will receive $5,000 So that is something that we can be really excited about. Additionally, there Carroll ISD is going to be participating in the teacher incentive allotment. This is an opportunity.
It's a pay for performance. So there is going to be opportunity to even further differentiate and pay for exceptional performance from our teachers and have them earn more funds. Something else that I'm excited about, we did, Little Dragons here for our teachers. But the state is also providing free pre k for teachers. So for those three and four year olds, they will be able to attend our pre k for free. This is something that I know you really welcome. The state has offered liability insurance available for teachers that opt in. So that will now be state provided. Beyond our teachers, let's talk about the,
rest of our support staff. There will be a $45 per student in adjusted average daily attendance to, provide raises for support staff. That includes counselors, librarians, bus drivers, custodial staff, food service, and nurses. And here's my shameless plug. That's based on attendance. So attendance really, really matters. That's how we make sure that we get these people paid and appreciated. For any of our teachers who want to receive a certification in, bilingual and special education, the state is now gonna waive all those certification exams.
So we hope to get more teachers in that area. In terms of special education, though they didn't set aside as much money as we were hoping, they did set aside $850,000,000 But the really important piece is there is a new model for special educated education funding. And that's, miss Parsons, what you, and your staff really helped to contribute to. Additionally, there's $1,000 per evaluation of new state funding for special education. So that is very welcome as well. Let's go to basic allotment. That's something that we talk about a lot. We've always wanted an increase in the basic allotment.
And that has fundamentally changed this session. So, what the state did is they essentially decoupled teacher pay raises from that Basic Allotment. So, they did the teacher pay raise as separate. They the regular Basic Allotment that we know and that we've been living with for years, they increased by $55 Now, I know that doesn't sound like a lot. However, they also added a new allotment for basic costs. And that is an additional $106 per student enrolled. And that will be able to go for things like insurances, utilities,
transportation costs. So that's that's a a good amount. Beyond that, for school safety allotment, that has been increased from $15,000 per campus to $33,540 So, essentially, more than double for safety allotment. After going through what Old Union went through a few weeks ago, I know how important safety and security is to our community. So, we will definitely put those dollars to good use. Lastly, one of the other bills that we had a big push on from our community, so that was HB2. And mister Chase Parks is actually gonna give a,
presentation a little bit later in the evening that's gonna talk about what this bill means for our district. He'll go do a deep dive into the numbers for our district specifically. But I wanna move on to the mandatory open enrollment. So initially, SB six eighty six was proposed. We were able to kill that bill with 20,000 emails. However, at 10PM on Saturday night over Memorial Day weekend, we got a call to action that SB 12, they were trying to not sneak in. That's not the right term. They were working late at night, and they were trying to add an amendment for for that mandatory open enrollment to
come back. So we were asked to jump into action and to start making calls on the floor, and we sure did. We were able to get that amendment. It didn't get added in fully, but the one piece that they did add in is the state is now asking us to report open classrooms, available seats. So I really do think that this is something that's gonna circle back again next legislative session. We need to keep our eye on it because they'll be keeping track. So that is the update. I'm super happy to report that it's done and we've got some money. Great job. Thank you, trustee Heaton, for everything that you've done this legislative session.
Before I turn it over to doctor Glenn and his superintendent's report, I wanna make I wanna take a moment to address the topic that has brought many members of our community together over the past several weeks. As you know, the Board recently took no action on the contracts of two of our principals, Mr. Wilson and Ms. Benhoff. We understand this decision has prompted a strong and genuine response from many in our community. We have received numerous emails, phone calls, and personal messages, and many of you have taken the time to speak directly with trustees or share
your thoughts during public comment at recent meetings. Thank you. We appreciate the engagement, passion, and commitment you have shown for our district. While we may not be able to respond to every message personally, we have certainly tried. Please know we have heard you and your voices matter. As we have mentioned in previous communications, because this involves personnel matters we are legally and ethically restricted from discussing the details of our no action decision. These boundaries are not only in place to protect the process
but also to protect the privacy of all involved. We understand that this can be frustrating and we ask for your understanding and continued trust in the integrity of this board and district leadership. We also want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank Mr. Wilson and Ms. Benhaw for their service to Carroll ISD. Both have made a lasting impact on their campuses and in the lives of students and staff. We wish them all the best in their new roles. As a board and as a district,
we remain committed to excellence and leadership at every level. We have spent the last several years intentionally developing a strong bench of talent within our district leaders who understand our culture, our values, and our expectations. We are proud of the people we have been developing and confident in our ability to move forward with capable, passionate and visionary individuals ready to step into these roles. Thank you again for your ongoing support and for being a part of what makes Carroll ISD so special.
Doctor. Glenn. Thank you, Mr. President, trustees. Changes involving school leadership can feel unsettling, especially when they involve leaders who have become trusted, familiar faces in our community. Please know that your voices have been heard, and your passion for our schools and students is deeply appreciated. We recognize that transitions can create uncertainty and I want to assure you that Carroll ISD has a strong tradition of developing and promoting outstanding leaders from within our own ranks. Tonight, I am pleased to announce the following leadership appointments. Shatina Lewis will become the new principal of Carroll Senior High School.
Miss Lewis has served with distinction at Carroll Middle School and is ready to bring her vision and leadership to our Senior High Campus. She previously served at Carroll Senior High School and we're excited to welcome her back. Patrick Holiday will take on the role of principal at Carroll High School. His leadership experience, he has leadership experience at the secondary level, along with his dedicated and proven leadership at Johnson Elementary. Both of these make him well suited for this important role. To ensure continuity and strong leadership at all campuses,
Stephanie Martin, currently the Assistant Principal at Carroll Middle School and a seasoned principal, will step up to be the principal at CMS. For her first hire, she is recommending Austin Robinson, twenty twenty five Teacher of the Year at Dawson Middle School, to serve in her vacated Assistant Principal position. And finally, Nicole Williams, who has long served as Assistant Principal at Johnson Elementary, will become the school's principal, continuing her commitment for that community. I also want to address some concerns that have been shared about our choir program.
Initially, due to budget challenges, there were plans to reduce staffing in this area. However, after careful consideration and listening to community input, we are pleased to announce that we will maintain this position. We are proud to promote Stefan Benedetti, Carroll ISD's twenty twenty three Teacher of the Year to the second choir teaching position. Mister Benedetti's passion and leadership have been instrumental in the program's success. And we are excited about the future with him in this role. In athletics, there is currently no update regarding the swim program.
Coach Dodge is continuing to assess the situation and is working to provide a clear path forward, which includes ongoing consideration of Coach Murphy's role. We remain confident in Coach Dodge's leadership and are committed to supporting a resolution that best serves our student athletes and the future of our swim teams. Change is never easy and we want to sincerely thank everyone who has spoken at our meetings and reached out via email. Your voices have been heard and are truly valued. Finally, even with these hurdles, we are pleased to share that our employee retention numbers are looking strong and we're
seeing very high applicant interest. Early indicators suggest that we're outperforming both the area and the state in reporting some of the most encouraging employment trends CISD has seen in recent years. Our HR department will share a more detailed attrition number report later this summer, but the outlook is promising. As we move forward, we know you'll join us in supporting our new leaders as they step into their roles. Together, we begin making plans to welcome back students in August with energy, unity, and purpose. Mr. President, that is your report for this month and,
with your permission, we'd love a photo op with our new leaders who are with us tonight. And we'd love to give them a round of applause. Alrighty. Congratulations again to all of our principals and the new assistant principals. We'll move on to item number eight which is the information portion of our meeting 8.1, our athletics department report. Coach Dodge. I just want to put on here just to reiterate our mission and our vision. Carroll ISD Athletic Department will provide athletic, academic and personal development by creating an intentional culture that fosters positive relationships, which strives for a tradition of excellence.
Our vision, we inspire our student athletes to reach their individual and athletic potential through a supportive, team environment, which cultivates excellence. Going on, just a quick snapshot. It's kind of overwhelming when you see the numbers, but we have 28 unbelievable athletic programs that we oversee with amazing coaches and kids. UIL Lone Star Cup, I know this is something we talk about quite a bit around here. Unfortunately, we're going to probably end up second in the State of Texas. When you look at it across the board over the years,
I believe we're going to finish second or third, if not win it, each and every year. So unbelievable opportunities, but unbelievable accomplishments this year getting second in the state of Texas in 6A. The twenty four-twenty five athletic highlights, we had seven district championships, we had seven regional champions, We had one state finalist, and we had two state titles, boys cross country, and we had a couple individual in wrestling. And I think the big one is, is these numbers continue to, you know, surprise me, but shouldn't be surprised with our amazing kids. 43 student athletes are going on to play,
in their respective, sports at the next level. Unbelievable. 25 just athletic highlights, football, state finalists, cross country and track, distance triple crown. This is unbelievable. Kadin Leonard, triple crown and not just cross country, the 3,216 meters. Unbelievable. Boys' basketball, first playoff win in twenty five years. First time we've gotten past that, that round since the ninety five state championship run. Boys' soccer, made to the regional finals for the first time since 2010. Girls soccer, coach Colvin, he came up here several weeks ago,
won his five hundredth five hundredth game here at Carroll, all at Carroll, which is unbelievable. Boys and girls wrestling, this is an unbelievable year. Got fourth at state, but we had two individuals that won state, and we had a back to back state champion for the first time in school history. Baseball, once again, another milestone with Coach Bootcamp with his four hundredth win. Head coaching awards is across the board. Just a quick snapshot. It could have been district area, regionals, or state, but we had eight head coaches across the board that received awards this calendar year. And just future athletic,
just initiatives across the board. Just we talked about this in the past, but just middle school coaches, player to coach ratio, safety, love to add boys and girls at both at both, middle school's facilities right now. The new is the senior high weight room, indoor weight room, recovery and nutrition that, all of our student athletes are able to use, and it's been an amazing, amazing upgrade for all of us across the board. Future, just locker room space, showers for coaches, professional development, just expanded professional development opportunities that are out there.
And then athletic program, just essential needs funding just for us to get by uniforms, transportation, equipment, officials, and once again, just professional development. So thank you, Board. If there's any questions. Thank you, Coach Dodge. Great report. We appreciate you taking on this role as both our head football coach and the athletic director. I'm assuming you wanna stay on for next year. I'm in. Okay. I'm in. Are you sure? Yes, sir. Okay. One thing I wanna I wanna bring up, and I know it wasn't in your presentation, but we've talked to, your predecessor, Coach Keesler,
and doctor Glenn's predecessor, doctor Ledbetter, and we talked to both of you about this. And that is, all of our revenue producing departments, we wanna do everything that we can to help you become self sufficient in terms of funding, and that includes salaries. And I know that you and doctor Glenn have been, focused on some of that. But I would just like to encourage you you guys to continue that because the more that you can raise in revenue as your sports program, the less it comes out of our,
general fund, out of our general budget. And I know we're gonna talk about, funding and budget tonight, but, you know, just the fact that we were able to get a five year contract for a hundred thousand dollars a year with Methodist, just to put their logo up on our stadium is absolutely incredible. And I know you have some things in the works and some ideas in your head, but I just want to encourage you to reach out to any of us, you know, for help or for advice or whatever because we really want your department to become as self sufficient, self sustaining, as possible. No, I appreciate all the support and we're definitely thinking outside the box.
So I'm excited. Absolutely. Yes, sir. Yes, thank you very much. Yes, just coach, thank you for your leadership just across the board, but looking out for all programs. And in addition to the Methodist partnership, Coach Dodge was instrumental in re, I guess, getting us to renew our Adidas partnership, which is probably the strongest partnership of any high school in the nation. Is that right? We just talked about that for a second. Yeah. I mean, it's, obviously, we were under armor for a long, long time. Yeah. But, our partnership with the Diaz over the years has been unbelievable. We have the best deal, in the entire country when it comes to not just,
just one sport. When I'm talking about an entire athletic department and athletic programs across the board, we're supported. And, so we have an amazing partnership, and it's continuing to get better and better. Appreciate you negotiating that deal. Trustees, any comments? Yes. Coach, some of us had the opportunity to be with you on that special night when we opened the new weight room. A lot of people don't know the effect that has on the entire athletic department, also the personnel there. Could you just talk a little bit about that? Yes. I think besides just the amazing equipment and obviously our amazing strength and conditioning coordinator,
Doug Casselberry. I think the one thing that I've benefited, the most in my office is right by the weight room. We're finally seeing kids in different sports bumping shoulders, going down the hallway, or even in the weight room lifting together. I think on the same on the flip side of it is also head coaches and just assistant coaches in general. So I think sometimes we get, recruiters will have it, and we have blinders on, so we stick to our our side of the street, and we're all, you know, together. So I think it's only gonna benefit benefit us down the road just, having a a culture of, togetherness.
Right? And so, I'm I've been very pleased with that, and it's kind of been a kind of our athletic athletic community center. Which has been unbelievable. And, but it's been a lot of fun, but we have everything we needed more. And, you know, hopefully, it's gonna win, you know, turn to some more championships across the board. Trustees? All right. Thanks, Coach Josh. Appreciate it. All right. Next up on our agenda is item 8.2, employee childcare after school care update. Ms. Parsons? Well, hello, board, president Brian, doctor Glenn, and trustees. Thank you so much for letting us come and talk about a super exciting opportunity
for us. I but first, before we start, I have the distinct honor of introducing Jen Gurgis. She is our childcare coordinator and she has really saved our lives. This is she knows so much about the childcare world and we did not know as much. So we were really excited when she came. So first, let's talk about little dragons, our sweet little dragons. We are in the process of, doing a little bit of work to a wing at DIS,
Durham Intermediate School, to get it ready. We are in the process of getting, all the furniture in and the cribs, and then we'll be applying for licensing. So right now, we have seven infants. We're gonna have four classrooms. We have seven infants in infant one with one on the waiting, in the wings, not on a waiting list. We're just waiting for them to pay. We have four in infant two, eight in the one's classrooms, and eight in the two classrooms for a total of 27 with five more waiting
to pay their application fee. And since oh, for to the side you see what our monthly tuition is. You can see that this is much lower than what other tuitions are for childcare. Plus another benefit for our families are that they can either spread the tuition over ten months or go ahead and spread it over twelve months with their just a payroll deduction to make that cost come down even further. So I can even say from personal experience,
I was able to make an offer, a job offer to a a person to work in my department. And they were so excited. And I think they even took it because we were offering the childcare. So I think it's going to be a huge benefit for our student our our employees. So then let's move over to Dragon U. Dragon U is gonna be an after school program and it's gonna be housed at each of the elementary school. So right now the number that you see, 18, is how many people have registered and paid and then the number in parentheses is
how many people that have expressed interest but not have not paid their deposit yet. So how we're working for, this, this is gonna be for staff as well as community members. The employees are gonna pay $260 a month and the residents will pay 410. Again, much lower than what the other, facilities are charging. So at Dragon U, it's gonna be from 03:00 when, they dismiss to 05:30. They're gonna have a daily snack,
homework support. They're gonna have hands on STEM activities, arts and crafts, music. They're gonna go outside, play, and and have games. So we have a lot of fun. The ratio is gonna be 22 to one for the after school program. So it's gonna be very, very much centered on having fun, but staying safe. So at that point, that is all I have for you tonight, but I have the expert here with me. So should you have any questions at all,
here she is. And I thought I saw this come through an email today. You I know you have an FAQ out on Little Dragons. Yes. And I just put I I, published the FAQ for that, Dragon You today. On the so people can find that information on our district website currently. Is that correct? I don't know if it's current Looking for Okay. Within the next within the next twenty four hours. Yes. In the next twenty four hours. Perfect. Thank you. Alright. Thank you, miss Parsons. Any questions or comments for miss Parsons? Welcome, Ms. Gurgis. Thank you. We are so happy to have her.
Just one quick question. What's left to get ready, since we're getting the facilities ready? Well, to get the facilities ready, we are putting in some doors right now because you have to have two exits out of, of of a room for where there's children. So we're putting in some doors, the furniture will go in, and then we're ready to go. I'll ask one quick. Miss Parsa, if I saw some communication that we were discontinuing one program in order to get this one up and going. Like, we were discontinuing some type of special education program.
Can you just speak to that a little bit and bring some clarity? Of course. Yes. There was some talk that we were, discontinuing a program, but that is not, that is not exactly true. We are relocating the transition program. And the transition program is for our students that have reached they have met all of their graduation requirements, but the ARD committee has still determined that they have further work that they need to do. Get to, like, job skills, interview skills, those so they're older students.
They're typically over the age of 18. So they are still gonna be housed in this building, but we're just moving them down the hall. So we are not discontinuing that program that is one of our most favorite and beloved programs. And these kids don't stay in the classroom all day. These are kids that they go out and about. Correct? Correct. Yes. Could you just share share briefly about that? Yes. The, these kids, one of their big focuses is job skills. And so they go to different job sites. They're not here in the building that much. So they go we are also we got a grant from Texas A and M
to do to have a self sustaining business for these students, these young adults. So we will have that housed probably at Carroll High School. And so they're gonna be going there. They're gonna be printing things, making t shirts so they can sell, run a business. So they're and then they go to actual job sites as well. So lots of community involvement doing things outside of this building. What an awesome program. Yes. It's great. We're very proud of it. So thank you so much,
and thank you for your support. Thank you, Ms. Parsons. All right, moving on to 8.3 budget workshop, Mr. Park. All right. Professor Brian, Doctor. Glenn, Trustees, good evening. Here to present my budget update for June 2. So starting off with this current year, we have seen a little, I guess, dip or drop in our, ADA numbers throughout this second part of the year. And so, as a result, the main kinda change from from last month is is, having our as a result of a decline in ADA,
kinda means that our that our recapture is gonna go up a little bit. So so I projected our our recapture to increase by about $600,000, or $500,000. And so, that has kind of added to our to our deficit number, to end right around $5,000,000 for this fiscal year, if you have any questions on that. So '88 so meaning a tenant. So we people did not attend, and then as a result, we get less money. Yes. Yes. And I think, at the time of adoption, the projected enrollment was also a little higher than than than what actually came in.
And so that that would also result in in a lower ADA to start. But then after the first semester, it has kind of declined. So And again, I was just on the tail end of budget discussions back at the August and September. But I think the budget they were looking at a 130, one hundred and 50 kid enrollment decrease. It ended up being closer to 180, one hundred and 90 for most of the year. So that differential in students only perpetuated it.
There were some things we did because if you remember going back into the fall, we were having discussions about it originally being $8,500,000 deficit this year. So we were able to reduce it. Unfortunately, recapture going up due to ADA is a little frustrating. Another point and I don't know that this is in here, but Mr. Park and I did talk about it because we estimated it being a little closer to $4,000,000 we were trending in supplies right at about $300,000 a month. And so we were projecting that going into May and it just about doubled in
the month of May on us, which was something neither of us had ever seen in another Probably close to $700,000 in, in in in supplies expenditures for for May. So, less than ideal, than, you know, what I had hoped, as we ended the year, but but, you know, we will do our best and and see what we can do, to to to close out this year, you know, in the best shape as possible. Mister Park, do we have the final, percentage on the ADA for our district? Percentage, sir? Where where are we finished? Yeah. So I think, all the projections were kinda made right around,
07/7550 ADA. I think we'll be we'll be closer to around 07/1930, '4 hundred '50 ADA when it's all said and done. So, you know, it's just What is that about? 9094%? It's it's gonna be about 95%. Okay. And so for every percent of ADA, that's about a million? Oh, yes. Absolutely. About a million dollars. Right. Yeah. And so typically, we've been in the past, we've been at 97% ADA. So, I mean, we're missing out on roughly $2,000,000
from what, you know, we've been in the past. If you're if you're if you're if you're regarding, if you're refund, referring to attendance, right now, I think we're around 95.8% Okay. In attendance. So, and again, before COVID, it was close to ninety seven percent. Yep. And then it has gone down. But we're trying to trend upwards, but Yeah. From a tenant standpoint, we've lose just over a million dollars. From an enrollment standpoint, we've lost close to another, I guess, you're talking 200 kids, probably $2,000,000 1 hundred kids, dollars 1,000,000.
So it's substantial. All right. Moving on, on the debt service side, we are still planning to defease $18,000,000 here at the June, and that will leave us with a projected ending balance in our debt service fund of around 15 and a half million dollars. Now for the good stuff here. Next year's planning, go over some key dates with you. By the end of next week, we will have published our notice of public meeting to discuss budget and proposed tax rate. At our next board meeting on June 23,
we will recommend a budget, for MNO and I and S, for, the board to adopt. And then in July, we'll see our certified taxable values from the TAD. And in August or September, the board will will adopt a our official tax rate for next year. Mister Parry, I'm I'm assuming that, since we moved our fiscal year last year to the June, and we get our certified taxable values from Tad on July 25, we may have to make adjustments amend, the budget that we passed?
Correct. It's, our our budget is based on some educated assumptions, of which all of them will most likely be incorrect by the time we adopt it. And so along with the legislative session and whatever happens, we will provide budget amendments, to to make sure that we are on track and and and we do square up those those numbers based on our projections and then versus what what is actual. And we would do that at our August meeting when we adopt the tax rate. Is that when we do all of that since we'd have all the final numbers?
We can do it there or, you know, we can assess and kinda, you know, get a better view on on what on what is happening and then come back in, you in subsequent months to provide those amendments as necessary. But ideally by August we're going to we feel like we're going to be really close. We know we're waiting on a school finance template to come out with all the legislative updates. We hope to be able to bring you a better idea of what like that special ed funding increase is actually going to look like from our standpoint. We know that's a big one. Safety and security,
they've increased the allotment there. So how that will actually be like a net net impact in our budget is something we really don't have for you tonight. But the good news is that there are some additional funds coming in addition to the reductions that we've made. And then I know you'll talk here in a second about other revenue opportunities. And one of the things that I just want to make sure I didn't go into detail in my report, but the, in HB2, they increase the value of the golden penny. So those are gonna be worth more. And the reason why that matters is,
that $55 for the basic allotment, that's how they're kind of building in, like, an inflation adjustment is is through that golden penny. So so how do how do do you know how much that is or Well, that so so the $55 to the basic allotment, that that is that is before any any golden penny yield that that that we see. And so that that, basic that, $55 basic allotment increase is about 400 to $44,050,000 dollar, to us as a district. However,
our golden pennies will will generate additional revenue based on how much our values go up this year, after the basic allotment is going could be fairly significant. Right? Correct. It's So right now, we're giving back about $4,000,000, to the state every year because we're not, applying the additional 3 golden pennies that we could go to the voters and and ask for. So what you're saying is that if we were to go to the voters and ask for those three golden pennies that are not subject to recapture,
instead of paying 4,000,000 back to the state every year, we'd be able to keep 4,000,000 plus because that ratio has gone up. This year, the estimated revenue per penny is about $1,200,000. Right. Next year, you know, with a projected eight at least seven to 8% increase in values, you know, it'd be closer to to $1,300,000. And so, you know, every penny would is is generating a lot more as as values increase. So we're looking four and a half or something like that that, we could keep I mean, that'd be amazing. Sending back to the state.
Right? Correct. Okay. So on on the legislative updates and specifically with the teacher pay raise since it's been removed from the Basic Allotment, is there an effective date that it goes into place? And, what date is that? Is it for next fiscal year or next calendar year? I believe I believe once it's all said and done, it will be it will be effective for this fiscal year. And so, you know, we are currently adopting a budget off of these assumed, you know, law. However, once that is all said and done,
we will amend the budget to to make sure that's all accounted for. Okay. Some some key budget parameters as we discussed last time. Right now, I am going with the the, demographer's projected, enrollment decline of a 31, students and projecting an enrollment next year of 7,973. We will keep at the 96%, tenants rate. Investment earnings right now, trying to project using a 3.25 to to to three and a half percent, investment rate.
And then right now, the the assumption, is for taxable appraised values to go up about 6% to 8%. Just as my milestone, go back to that slide. I just want to point it out because we talked a lot about this. So the district, for the first time in a long time since we were on the way up in enrollment, we were projecting an enrollment below 8,000. That's total student enrollment. That's not our ADA. So this is just a graph of kind of historical preliminary values versus where where we ended up certified values in in July. So if you see, in a typical year,
it's about a a billion to, you know, billion, you know, $1,230,000,000, drop from from your May, estimate to the certified value. So just something to keep in mind. And that's just because of all the protests? Correct. So even if we were to drop, we would go from 12.9 to about 13.8. So we're looking at over $1,000,000,000 in growth year over year. So some key budget assumptions that we've made, going into this next fiscal year. So the 131 students, decline, that's,
roughly a $1,200,000 loss in funding. Through all the work that, Doctor. Glenn and HR and our administration has done, We will see about a net savings of $1,100,000, on our payroll, on our FTEs. I will talk about staff compensation, here in a couple slides. And then on our non payroll side, we've saved almost a million dollars in in, our department budgets, just going through the the zero based budgeting practice. Right now, the cost of recapture is unknown. I've I've seen everything from you know,
I've seen a probably about a $2,000,000 swing in in a recapture for next year. So it's it's, kind of I'm kinda hesitant to report on what what exactly it might be. So, and then we we will have to add, some additional pre k classrooms, so so so that'll be a little additional expenditure as well. So we we're, we were down a 80, students in enrollment this year. That's about right. A hundred and a hundred maybe just over a 80. So we're thinking that we're gonna actually, be less than that for next year? We are hoping So that means I know it's impossible to get.
Yes. So where we're going to get a little help is being able to take on more pre K kids. And so we do expect a bump there. And now that they're being funded, we're hoping that maybe we can start leveling out. We just graduated our largest class in the district, seven twenty two kids. I don't believe that we have another class with 700 kids. I think it drops from the 600s to the 500s. And as you start getting down, you see us really start leveling off in that 500, five 50 range. And so I think that's where the district will settle in eventually.
The four zero nine were in the kindergarten class. Sorry, I just thought about this data. And but typically, we add enrollment year over year through eighth grade. So even though we were at four zero nine in kindergarten this year, we're hoping At 300? No, not 300, but we may add 100 by the time they're in eighth grade. That's that's possible. So that class could get up to about 500, five hundred and 10 by eighth grade, and then it pretty much stays the same through high school. We need more families exercising their their grandparent clause in our district. Trustee Bottom did a great job of summarizing, HB two earlier.
So we did get a little help, in the basic allotment, $55 a student. And and although, you know, this won't help our our overall budget, the, teachers did did get an incredible, you know, increase in their salary for the, you know, upcoming years. And so, HP two mandated, as as trustee Bata mentioned, three and four year teachers at at $2,500 and then five plus year teachers at at $5,000. So, mister Park, let me ask you this. So I'm assuming that this just covers, the two year period until the next legislative session?
Correct. Okay. And so the next legislative session, they would have to pass a similar measure to continue this, or it would be defaulted on the school districts to cover it? Yes. I'm not sure, you know, that what's gonna happen in the future, but but but this is what we have currently. I know we're working on kind of keeping it separate, you know, an an allotment pay code that that that inserts these amounts for for the teachers, and and we're trying not to adopt a teacher compensation scale that that has this
baked into it. And so, that is our strategy going forward. Thank you. I don't have a % certain certainty, but when I did speak to senator Creighton, I was told that this, like, continues on. Like, it's not like every year they get 5,020 foot. Once this is baked in, like, those funds continue going to the schools. Now, again, that was early in session. I don't things change and evolve over time, but I can definitely double check on that. But we haven't budgeted. Thank you. We haven't budgeted for that as part of our general, budget in our PC and B and our salaries. Yes. We haven't incorporated this fully into our teacher pay,
pace our hiring and schedule. I don't know how we reduce the teacher salary once we increase it by $5,000 I mean, how do you so we have to bear the expense of that if future legislative sessions don't come in Unless they increase in ADA or something like that down the road. So I think we're yes, I think where Mr. Park is going to is we're not putting this into our salary schedule because if you think of a teacher that's maybe a year four teacher right now getting $2,500 and then next year they become a year five teacher and they're thinking, well, I get the other half of that now in our salary schedule and we're not
preparing to do it that way. But I would expect that by the time that next year rolls around, we'll have definitive answers. To how permanent the increase is because that's the whole question I've had for the last two months that they've been meeting, is it permanent or is it temporary? And I've heard both. Yes, I think the goal is to fund it in perpetuity, which would be great. But I think it'll we'll have to wait and see how next session plays out to see how they decide to dispense those funds. So right now, they're wanting to ensure that these monies are allocated toward a substantial pay raise for
staff. So I'm reading my notes and it says permanent teacher retention allotment. Like, the word permanent is in there. Provides permanent, in bold, pay raises for teachers with at least three years of experience providing substantial It doesn't say where the money is coming from. Right? Yeah. Perfect. Thank you. So the one thing that that this portion this allotment doesn't cover is the additional, TRS and and insurance and and, pair you know, employer portions of of all these costs that that the employ that the district bears.
And so, that is that is where this the hundred and $6 allotment for basic cost comes in. They they added this late, to to kinda support school districts that that would be worse off for, you know, to to, to implement this salary increase. And so, a part of that, the, allotment for basic cost will will go to that, but but it's also, to help with with, increasing utilities and and other fixed costs, like transportation, things like that. So, mister Parkin, you probably haven't had time to do this yet,
but that hundred and $6 per student, did that that does that even make us whole, in terms of TRS and all the metrics? Slide, I will kinda get to it, but Okay. But that allotment is somewhere around 800 to to $850,000, and and the estimated increase in all of our, employee cost would would be around 400 to $405.50 to $500,000. So so it would, but but it it doesn't leave us much else to for for anything else that we have going on.
So, the the support staff salary allotment, the the $45 per ADA that that trustee Bottom mentioned, that is to help offset any salary increases that we provide for any other, staff besides teachers. So any anyone from, you know, all of our food service, custodians, administrative assistants, all of our administrative professionals, and and other support staff. Yeah. Right now, we're working on a proposal to to include in the budget you'll be presented with later this month. It'll get our minimum salary up to $15 an hour.
And so that will be included in that $45 My notes on that one says permanent support staff allotment as well. Permanent? It does it. Permanent is for tea. And then there's there's several different, allotments that you know, other allotments that that we will receive, with this with this bill. SPED, they're they are shifting to an intensity based services. The school safety allotment has has increased to, currently at $20 per ADA plus 33,000 per campus. They are introducing, additional, changes and and information for the for the for the teacher incentive allotment.
And then also we will, be receiving additional support for, pre k, through the early education allotment. So what does that mean for Carol? Alright. So as we discussed earlier, the basic allotment increase is about $400,000. The mandated salary increases through HP two, that is about 2 and a half million dollars. The allotment for support staff salaries, $330,000. As I mentioned earlier, the the allotment for basic costs around $800,000. And you add all these up, and excluding the TBD amounts,
right now, we are looking to generate an additional, you know, revenues of around $4,500,000 However, with that comes at least 3 and a quarter million of of increased salary expenditure requirements. So, you know, when we're looking to kinda right size our budget, you know, there's not much other additional help that is provided by this legislative session. Mr. Parks, so that $3,250,000 in expenditures, that includes indirect cost associated with labor?
Yes. Correct. I have, included that cost in there as well. Okay. Thanks. So looking ahead, this is we're going into year two of the BRAC and I know, there's a lot of work left here to do, but we are trying to stay ahead of the curve. Several opportunities that that we have identified, continue to be, you know, it starts with the with the land sales that that were slated to happen this year, but but, you know, we, are moving to more more more promising finish in in fiscal year twenty six. The CIS property has been rebid,
and then, we are looking to, close shortly, with the with the property behind our our admin building. So that will hopefully generate some some revenue that that we can look forward to, you know, going into those, long term ladder kinda investments that that will provide, additional revenue to the district. Yeah. I think I think that's the key. You know, it's not, it's it's bad. It's a bad process to sell property and use it to pay off deficits because you can't balance your budget. But if you can take the sale of property and put them into an investment
account where we know year over year that we can generate an additional $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 of revenue that we can rely on, then we're not wholly relying on the state year over year to take care of our teachers. I know you all are going to come to the Board, the next Board meeting with the balanced budget proposal. Is any of that going to include a portion or proceeds of these land sales, for next year? I think I think there there might have to be a little portion of it, but but, you know, we are trying to minimize that as much as possible and and,
you know, purely use the residual, you know, revenue that that that we generate to kind of offset. But but, you know, at least, you know, currently as as it stands, I I believe there there might be required to be a little portion of it too. Chase is very politically correct. We've had lots of sleepless nights with this legislative session. So, but we're hoping like I mean, where we really set is we need to figure out what happened today now that the dust is settled in this legislative session. And number one for us like it always is,
is recapture. And when you're looking at these different runs and our recapture number is varying $2,000,000 well, dollars 2,000,000 for us is the difference in a balanced budget with a surplus that we can give staff and a deficit budget. And so we really need to understand where that recapture number is going to fall. And we feel like that by the twenty third, we're going to be able to give you guys a really good idea. Moving on, the brand Tiger team meets tomorrow, evening to continue discussions about generating additional M and O revenue opportunities,
and, you know, that that includes the the VATRE. And so, we will be discussing kinda continue to to discuss, you know, how much that that that'll potentially generate and then, you know, what kind of what kind of community, you know, messaging and and things like that is required to and also the timeline for that as well. So Yeah. And I think it's important to note that, this Tiger team is made up of a subset of the original 60 or 70 members, of the BRAC team. And, they have a specific focus on year one of the BRAC recommendations and something that
we've been talking about and we talked about tonight is, trying to figure out a way how, we can get that $4.04 and a half million dollars that we send back to the state every year that's not subject to recapture. How can we keep that, and make that work, in our tax base, and in our m and o budget? So, this Tiger team is really gonna be thinking about those things and talking about that tomorrow night, and then hopefully coming out with some recommendations here shortly. Yeah. There's two ways to balance a budget and that's to cut generate revenue. And fortunately this Tiger team is really focusing on ways to generate revenue.
Again, we've already made about $2,000,000 in cuts, which is pretty substantial. If we keep having to go down that road without at least exploring ways to generate revenue, it could potentially get painful for our teachers and our programs. Another way to generate revenue is through facility rentals. And and this was an update to the slides that that was actually in the agenda, but but, I'm happy to announce as, doctor Flynn and president Bryan did that Methodist Hospital will be, sponsoring, naming rights on the stadium. And so, that that comes out of five year at at a hundred thousand dollars per year,
and so that that's, you know, really substantial news. And then, you then aside from that, the athletics department and the communications department continues to explore other marketing and sponsor opportunities. So we are hopeful that we can partner with a lot of these local businesses and you know, other other organizations to continue to to support one another, in this community. Well, we appreciate you adding that, on our request, because I've been hearing out there all kinds of different numbers and two years, seventy five thousand dollars a year. Here, so I wanna make sure that the community understands this unbelievable,
revenue stream that, was created by just putting the Methodist logo on the outside of our stadium, we're receiving $500,000, for that. And that's that's pretty pretty neat. And I know that we've been really trying to market some other facilities such as the fine arts facility, the naming rights of the fine arts facility. So, I know we're we're really trying to figure out ways, and it's unlike, you know, something that, you know, ISDs have ever done in the past and that is having to come up with innovative ways to be self sufficient and generate new revenue streams because our state,
will not and refuses, to give us adequate funding to fund public education, especially Carol. And I just remind everybody in the community that we're out of 1,200 ISDs in the state. We are dead last in terms of funding per student at 81 to 80 3 hundred dollars per student. Yet we continue to be number one in every category, academics, athletics, the arts. So just a testament to our our engaged community, but it's gonna be hard to sustain, over the next four or five years if we continue to get no action on the parts of our elected officials,
in Austin. So we're gonna have to come up with innovative ways like this, to supplement those shortfalls. Thank you, mister Parks. And and, certainly not not last, but but we are trying to, maximize every TIF opportunity we have with the city of Southlake. We will be leveraging our $1,500,000, from the city, through the the the tax increment fund, this year to to undergo projects with, roof and and and Dragon Stadium lighting and things like that. So, we are excited to to finally be able to to partner with the city to
to pursue these opportunities that we should have been long time ago. And I mean, at a very high level, either Mr. Parks or Doctor. Glenn, can you explain to our community just in essence what the TIF is because a lot of people are unfamiliar with that and that doesn't apply to every ISD. No. It doesn't apply to every ISD. It's, we were fortunate that back in the late '90s, the trustees and the superintendent at the time took advantage of a loophole in the recapture system, which essentially allows us to use the city as a pass through for some of our recapture dollars.
Those recapture dollars are then sent back to us to use but also a portion of them stay with the city for them to take care of a, of a very specific area, between the, the ISD and, and the the city of Southlake. So for us, the schools that reside in that TIF zone are Dawson, Eubanks, Old Union, and Dragon Stadium. And so when that agreement was renewed in 2018, it allocated right at about, I'm going to say $500,000 a year, pretty close. I see you chasing on his head toward facility improvements for the district on these
campuses. And so we have not tapped into those funds. And so we reached out to the city as they began budgeting the TIF dollars for fiscal year twenty six. And since we have not tapped into them since we have not tapped into them since 2018 when that contract was put into place. They allotted us more than we would ordinarily receive in a fiscal year. So it's right at $1,500,000 And so we are looking at a variety of improvements to facilities in those zones. But specifically the largest one I can tell you is putting a roof on Old
Union. And I think we reported maybe a couple of months ago, Lanny came in, our Director of Facilities and, right at about 140 roof leaks district wide where a majority of those happen to be at like Old Union, Dawson and Eubanks and, and certainly they don't stand alone, when you're talking about that many roof leaks. But, but I know that those campuses, they need a little upkeep. And so these TIF dollars are going to be able to offset our district funds. So, Doctor. Glenn, just on the TIF and the fact that we haven't taken advantage of the $500,000
a year for five or six years and the total is more than $1,500,000 does that mean in the next few years we can continue to take advantage of more than $500,000 a year? I assume that's subject to further discussion with the city? Yes. I think so. It's a projection too. So they're projecting that it has to hit all of its marks, but we know that we're in a city. We just talked about us growing $1,000,000,000 in value. So a lot of this is what will property generate in that area. And so the city is probably going to I mean,
they're going to have to look at their projections as well. Mr. Park? And one caveat to that agreement, Those funds are not all tab for district properties. It's tab for any any piece of land within that TIF zone. And so it could be ours. It could be the city. So it's not all for us, but but they are allocating a portion of of what's kept for for both entities, to help us as well. Because they know that it's an obligation. Yeah. But but make no mistake. I mean, we're we're gonna continue to work with them. And I think that the city has shown good faith that they,
they wanna make sure that our schools are taken care of as well. And with any further questions, that ends my report. All right. Thanks, Mr. Park. Any questions, comments? Okay. Thank you so much. Moving on to our discussion action portion of the agenda, item number nine, nine point one, consideration and possible action to fill the place three, board vacancy in accordance with board policy and state law. Before we begin our discussion on how to fill the vacancy left by trustee Jordan's resignation, I wanna take a moment to remind the community of mine and other board trustees'
position on this matter. Unlike previous boards that set precedent by always appointing someone to fill an unexpired term, this board made a commitment to do things differently. Four years ago, I campaigned on the principle that the community, not the board, should choose who represents them. We demonstrated that commitment by calling for a special election in November of twenty twenty one to fill a prior vacancy, leading to the election of Trustee Yeager. That decision reflected our belief in transparency,
community engagement and upholding the democratic process in filling school board vacancies. However, while that is my position, there are five other elected officials on this board with their own opinion. We'll discuss those shortly. Texas education code states we must appoint within one hundred and eighty days of the date of the resignation or call for an election on the next election date which for us is November. So I'll open it up now for discussion on how we want to move forward in filling Trustee Jordan's seat.
Trustee Yeager? Yes. I don't say having been the lucky recipient, I don't know if that lucky recipient is the right word, But having gone through a special election, I think it was wonderful. And that is that, there are no primaries in the school board, the life of school board candidates. And anybody and all can come forward. And I think it's very healthy and I am absolutely supportive. Like you said, Trustee Brian, President Brian, is that neither of us believe in appointments. We haven't done it, and, I see no reason to do that.
I think that it's healthy to have elections and I fully support that. And Trustee Yeg, you're going to make a clarification on your, Yeah. So, as with this, as with my election, it was a Trustee whose full three year term was expiring in that following May. With Trustee Jordan's, it is similar. So, for anybody in the public who fancies themselves to be a candidate, certainly, right, go ahead and do so. But understand that you will have to run again in May of the following year.
Right. So it's just a pretty much a five to six month, appointment in your campaign If you wait November, like you did, you'll take you'll have you'll have Christmas week off, right, and then you'll have to file again, and then run-in May. And the filing for November is what August, September? Right. Yeah. It'll be August for a November ballot. If you were to vote to have a special election. And then in February for a May ballot. Yeah. Okay. And a lot of people have sent out emails, whatnot. And just for them to know, that filing period is one month, and it's always one month.
So that will be probably in August and September for November. So similar to President Bryan and Trustee Yeager, I'm opposed to an appointment. I prefer an election. I think it gives the voting community the opportunity to decide on who they want to add to our Board. And I'm fully supportive of waiting until November the special election period and having an election and anybody that wants to run can sign up to run and assuming that they understand that they'll have to run again a few months later.
So Christie, Stacy? Yeah. I will always be in support of our community choosing, a representative to be their voice. So I'm in full support of a special election. Thank you. Any comment, Trustee Brown? I think that's all. Yeah. Okay. Great. I move that the board approve a resolution request of the superintendent calling for a special election to fill the board vacancy for place three. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six-zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. No objection, we will adjourn this meeting at 07:15PM.
Thank you, Board.