Alright. Good evening, everyone. We will call this meeting back to order at 06:02PM. Our next agenda item is the opening prayer, pledges of allegiance, and moment of silence. Will you all please rise? Dear lord, we come before you tonight with grateful hearts, seeking your wisdom and guidance as we gather for this meeting. We thank you for the privilege of serving our students, teachers, staff, and community, and we ask that you bless the work before us. Lord, we especially lift up those we recognize this evening, our teachers, substitutes,
and employees of the month who dedicate themselves to shaping young minds and fostering a love of learning. May they continue to find joy and fulfillment in their work, and may we always support and appreciate their efforts. We also celebrate the achievements of our students whose hard work, discipline, and perseverance inspire us all. May they continue to grow not only in skill, but also in character, using their talents to uplift and encourage others. Father, we ask for your presence to be with us in all that we do.
Grant us wisdom in our discussions, unity in our decisions, and a spirit of service that honors you and benefits every student and staff member in our district. It's in Jesus Christ's name that we pray. Amen. Mister Fite. Good evening, doctor Glenn, president, Bryan, and trustees. My name is Brooke Kinzo. Though you might recognize me as Laura Ingalls, we are all third grade students at Old Union Elementary, and we are excited to share a bit about our wax museum project with you to Steven after we help lead the pledge of allegiance in the moment of silence.
My name is Charlotte McCarrick, but you might recognize me as Eleanor Roosevelt. Please stand and join me to the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for Richard Sands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. My name is Carter Schulke, but you might recognize me as Jackie Robinson. Please remain standing as we honor the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to the Texas, one state, one state, one state, one name of the visible.
My name is Vivian Nolan, but you might recognize me as Jane Goodall. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. My name is Emerson Graham, but you might recognize me as Betsy Ross. Every year, our third graders participate in a wax museum day. We each pick a Who Wives biography and do a book report on our historical figure. We learn facts about our person and practice writing in informational text. My name is Nolan Hong, but you might recognize me as Leonardo Da Vinci.
Throughout this project, we explore the biography, genre, and compare it to others. We also write a first question speech and perform it for parents and students when our museum opens. My name is Avi Buchanan, but you might recognize me as Jackie Kennedy. When we are tired of being famous, we enjoy other lives as a third grader at Regina. To end your wax museum project, each year we dress like our characters and brought props. Some of us even try out new accents. It's a nice day memory that we will look back on for years to come. Now we would like to share a few facts about each of us.
I married John f Kennedy in 1953, and I became first lady of The United States Of America when my husband was elected president in 1961. I enjoyed restoring the White House and even wrote a book about it. My name is Laura Ingalls. I died at, Rocky Ridge in my nineties. I was a famous book writer. Greetings. My name is Eleanor Roosevelt, and two texts about me are, when I was years old, I started a botanica shipwreck. I'm a teacher and newspaper columnist, and I married Frankie d Roosevelt in nineteen o five.
Also, before I leave, I would like to say, the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. I'm Jackie Robinson. I was a first person in college and served in the army in World War two. I was the first black person in the MLB and played infield for the Brooklyn Dodgers. I was a leader in the civil rights movement, and the interview time I number, number 42. I was the first scientist to name monkeys instead of numbering them. I discovered that chimpanzees have different expressions such as sadness and aggression. I have a neurological condition called prosopagnosia,
which means face blindness, and I can't recognize faces. Hi. My name is Betsy Ross. I had 17 sibling siblings, and I sold the first flag of America and the flag of the revolutionary war. I am Leonardo Diferentian. I wrote in reverse. So his my writing will have to be read in a mirror, and I made it a self supporting bridge. Well, there you go. You got to see a little bit of, some famous characters and also now famous students at Old Union. So, exactly.
I appreciate them stepping up. I know that is very difficult to get in front of people, but, this was a project that they did two weeks ago. And we had the pleasure of, seeing them do that. And I know last year you saw the second graders with their business projects. So I'm trying to follow that group. So this is, those students one year later as third graders that came to present the wax museum projects that they do. So I appreciate them doing that. And with that, I'm gonna turn it back over. Thank you, Lisa. Thank you. Oh, yeah. Let's get a picture. Okay. Good. Okay. Thank you. That's an excellent costume.
Alright. Always a great job by our, students. Great job, mister Fike and Old Union, students. We'll jump right into item number 4.2, board recognitions by our excellence teachers of the month. I think our first presenter is, miss Blackwell. Good evening, doctor Glenn and board of trustees. I am so excited. I get to show off my teacher here tonight, and I'm gonna start with willingness is to support students, parents, and staff is consistent theme highlighted in the recognition of Rock and Ball's Inspire Excellence Teacher of the Month,
miss Roshni Kriakos. Miss Kriakos is devoted seven years to serving as a preschool teacher at Rock and Ball Elementary and is a proud dragon a mother of two dragons. Her son is a 2023 Carroll graduate and her daughter is a current dragon sophomore. Roshni brings warmth, creativity, and compassion to everything she does. So with that, I have one parent and four teachers who sent me some really sweet thoughts on her or about her. It, a parent stated, she is excellent with communication, compassionate, and has played a key role improving my child's learning.
Her positivity and creativity truly make a difference. Miss Kriaco's dedication and a student first mindset amplifies what it means to be to be an Inspire Excellence to Carroll ISD. A teammate stated, I first met Roshani when my fourth now fourth grader was in preschool at Carroll Elementary. She would go out of her way to help me with my little one during dismissal. Now that I get to work with her, I see how hard she works and she is always kind to those around her. She will help you when you need it. We appreciate her. Another one stated,
Roshni is a wonderful teammate. She is respectful and collaborative. She is generous with her time and willing to help in any way. I am so thankful we're on the same team. Another one said, Roshni is a great teammate and friend. She is patient and always willing to go out of her way to help with one or more students. I can always count on her and to share expertise with about classroom activities when I need it. And finally, the last one said, Roshni is an outstanding teammate with a willingness to be a lifelong learner as a teacher. She is very dedicated to her job and always willing to help not only her
class but also her team in any possible way. For team planning, she will bring new thought out ideas or perspectives to the table to discuss the teaching objectives. And I want to end with, we are so grateful for her heart, her hard work, and her joy, and the willingness she brings to our campus. So congratulations to Roshni Kriekos. Congratulations. Alright, mister Wilson, you're up next. Okay. Good evening, everybody. You know, I got stories. Here we go. She first rode into Southlake, our CSHS Knight on a white horse in December of twenty twenty three.
Our campus had just received a mid year resignation from an employee and things were looking bleak. Thankfully, this Boleson ISD educator was in position to make a change midway through her own school year and was considering Carol. She thankfully claimed a senior high classroom as of January 2024 and righted the shifts for both AP biology and AP environmental science during that spring semester. Beginning this year, her first full year, she has successfully carried half of our 12 section load for AP environmental science.
She certified to teach all levels of science fourth through the twelfth grades. She served her former district as lead educator in the biology department, and she's closing in on a master's degree in biological sciences with a focus on advanced cell biology, epigenetics, invertebrate biology, human physiology, and bioengineering. She's also giving a portion of whatever spare time she has left to help steer our school's Envirothon team which competes at the state level this month. She's impacted the student body of Carroll High substantially in a very small amount of
time. In one recent example, her impact for a single student was substantial. Quoting the parent of that student. My daughter's AP environmental science teacher played a key role in gaining acceptance to the International Science and Engineering Fair. Throughout the rigorous regional and national application process, her teacher offered unwavering encouragement at every step. This fair is one of the most prestigious STEM competitions in the world and my daughter will be part of it in May. Her teacher's dedication, availability, and mentorship were truly above and beyond,
something I've never experienced from a teacher before. Here with her husband Richard and their adorable CES kindergartner Henry, an educator who inspires excellence at Carroll Senior High School, Mrs. Jessica Merrill. Congratulations. Alright, for our Inspire Excellence, employee of the month, our presenter is, mister Brady. Thank you, Amy. President Bryan, trustees, and, doctor Glenn, I am delighted to be here to introduce to you or explain to you the extraordinary efforts of somebody that you already know. Our Inspire Excellence employee of the month of March is none other than Jacqueline Harwell.
Yeah. She'll be right here. She's already one step ahead. As the communications lead for our budget reduction advisory committee or BRAC, which many of you are familiar with, miss Harwell played a critical role in managing, messaging, documenting committee meetings, and providing timely public updates through district e newsletter, social media, and of course our CISD website. In addition, Jacqueline manages the district's legislative action communications, keeping our community informed and engaged on key education bills with the legislature,
of course, underway right now. Her coordination of our capital advocacy day in Austin was a standout achievement, managing logistics and scheduling for more than two dozen community members and district employees and legislators, I might add, not easy to wrangle, to advocate directly with those legislators on behalf of us and our students at Carroll ISD. Jacqueline's dedication, strategic communications, and commitment to public engagement have made a lasting impact on our school community. Carroll ISD is proud to recognize her as a key contributor to the district's mission
to inspire excellence, and I might add, missus Harwell was nominated by an employee and is in her very first year here, with us at Carroll ISD. So help me in recognizing Jacqueline Harwell. Congratulations. All right. Next up is our super substitute of the month, presenter, Mr. Fike. Well, it is with great pride that I get to recognize Nicole Stolle as OUES substitute of the month. Miss Stolle has been a dedicated presence on our campus stepping in seamlessly to support our students and staff throughout the year.
So far, she has subbed forty plus days. I don't know. It might be forty three, forty four, demonstrating her unwavering commitment to our school community. She's also no stranger to Old Union as she served as the counselor on our campus for my first thirteen years there and two years ago stepped away, but, obviously, we can't keep her away. She keeps coming back and and we'll keep it and we'll take that. Her return as a sub has been met with enthusiasm and appreciation from both the staff and students, Her ability to build meaningful relationships coupled with a deep understanding of the school's culture
makes her an invaluable asset to any classroom she steps into. Beyond her time at OUES, miss Stolly continues to make a difference in the broader community. She volunteers at local children's hospitals and senior housing facilities with her therapy dog, the original dog at Old Union, Sadie. We're especially grateful that she gets to bring Sadie on campus where the duo's presence brings joy, comfort and a sense of calm to our students and staff. Ms. Stolle's dedication, kindness and passion for education makes her truly deserving of this recognition.
We're incredibly fortunate to have her back at Old Union and we thank her for all she does to support our students, staff and families. Congratulations. Tempters deployed. Miss Bonnet. Super sun. Super sun. Come on up. Oh, I see. Oh, okay. Alright. Next up is our award winning Carroll Barbecue team. We just had the they just fed the board, some of the best gumbo I think that we've ever had in our life. Thank you, guys. It was awesome. Thumbs up. A plus. So, mister Goodman, take it away. Alright. Good evening, president Bryan, superintendent doctor Glenn,
and esteemed board members. On behalf of the Carroll Dragon High School barbecue team, I will send a big thank you for your ongoing support with what we do. This season has been a huge success since our our series came out. We've had a big year, obviously, with, BBQ High coming out. And as you can see, we've grown a little bit. Yeah. And I still have some members that aren't here that we just have working. One came for job interviews. We have representation from freshmen all the way up to senior, standing before you. But it has been a huge success. Our team's consistently smoking the competition and placing in the top 10 at every event
we've been to. If, let me introduce them to you, just the teams, if you would, so you know who they are. First, we have Overtime Barbecue, our Green Dragons. Then we have, OG Barbecue, our Grey Dragons. They're down at the end. Then we have Seven Bones barbecue. That's our Blue Dragons. And finally, until we meet again. It's very it's very funny. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate around and, it is it is quite the show watching them compete. We are fired up to share that all of our teams standing here have qualified for the high school barbecue state championships this season.
This epic cook off will be held on April in Granite Shoals, Texas, and we'll get to cook against 100 of the best high school barbecue teams across the state of Texas. Wow. A special shout out I have to give to the flavor master herself, Kim Goodman. She's over there. Yes. Don't forget, she runs the barbecue team as well. I just load trailers and get these kids where they need to go. She does everything else. Her dedication behind the scenes makes everything run smoother than barbecue sauce on ribs. From handling logistics like hotels, registrations, to coordinating parent and teen communications,
permission slip, TV release forms, high school barbecue release forms, website release forms. She handles all that stuff for us and because I couldn't do it. But remember, we do compete in dessert, beans, chicken, ribs, and brisket. And that's right, our team our teams are a culinary quintet. And we, of course, aim to bring home the gold in each category every time. We truly appreciate the school board's support in making this program possible. We look forward to representing Carroll ISD at the state championships. And just on a personal note, I wanna thank, this community. We've we've exploded. I had to have more, funds,
more resources, more everything for all these kids to be able to cook like they do. I hope you appreciate what these kids go through. They get up at 03:30 in the morning to start cooking by at 04:30. They cook all day long, awards at five or six, and then we still have to come back home and unload trailers at midnight. You have to love that to do that. Cooking over fire all day, hundred degree heat, snow, rain, whatever whatever it's dealing with. And, so I'm proud of them for what they do. A big thank you also to, again, the community and just our parents of the team. They're they're always there cheering on the kids.
They even they even thankfully kind of feed us in the morning when we're trying to set up and focus on other things. We we get the occasional donuts or croissants or something. So our parents are are phenomenal too. And this is just what Carroll ISD produces is kids like this, parents like that, and a community that supports. So thank you to everybody. Yeah. It really is awesome. Congratulations, team. You guys are you guys are incredible, but you would not be incredible without Kim and Ken Goodman and their leadership and what you've built this program into over the last, what, two, three years? This is our fourth year.
This is your fourth year. It's amazing. We appreciate everything that you and your wife has done for, not only this team, but for our district over the years being the voice of the Dragons. We'd love to hear you and we hope you're here for a long, long time. So, can we give a big round of applause for Kim and Ken Goodman? Alright, let's take a take. I have one quick comment. If people don't know in our community and parents, you can buy the great spice spices Dragon. Dragon dust, and the other one is called Cajun. Cajun. Dragon. Dragon breath is our Dragon breath.
Yes. Which which these kids made the gumbo with yesterday. And when you do that, they make great gifts. It supports our program. That is our fundraiser. Yes, sir. It's it's our own blend of spices that we use at tailgating and and making everything we make. Awesome. Thank you. Let's get a picture. Please. Sure. So maybe the You want a mac and a knee? Front row on a knee? Short front knee. Yeah. I'm hambo. Fuck each other. Fuck each other. Thank you, Mr. Goodman. Way to go. Alright. Moving on, item 4.6, Carroll ISD Teachers of the Year. Doctor. Glenn, I think you've got this one.
I do. Thank you, Mr. President. And, as everyone knows, we have the very best teachers here in Carroll ISD. So what an honor it is to be selected as the 24, 20 five teacher of the year for your campus by your peers. I'll call them in order. And, if you don't mind, if you'll just come up to the, to the front and, we'd love to take a picture with you guys. We'll start with Carroll Elementary School, Carrie Fielder, fourth grade math and science. Come on, you won't be lonely for long. Old Union Elementary, Megan Elkins, art teacher. Johnson Elementary, Allison Blair,
third grade, all in all. Rockenbaugh Elementary, Rebecca Brinkman, music teacher. Walnut Grove Elementary, Vanessa Cobb, fourth grade, all around in social studies. Durham Intermediate, Shannon Shabini, sixth grade GT Social Studies Team Lead. Shabani. Shabani. Shabani. Shabani. Shabani, hi. Eubanks Intermediate, Karen Kuzelka, fifth grade Special Ed Team Lead. Carol Middle, Rebecca Beard, Science teacher. Dawson Middle, Austin Robinson, Seventh and Eighth Grade, Advanced social studies. Carol High, Jordan Willis, AP Pre Cal and Basketball coach.
Carroll Senior High, Heather Pedego, AP Physics. Let's give another big round of applause to all of our Teachers of the Year. But yeah. Come back. Those are too tall. Miss. Okay. No. What? They're not staying for the robotics? Stay, people. Stay. Alright. So, So, every month, we take, great pride in honoring one of our many booster clubs. And, this month, we are honoring the robotics booster club. And we've just asked miss Charlton to come up to tell us what this booster club is all about. They make such a big difference, in the success of our programs, here at the district. Our robotics team wins,
I know event after event, state, and we're so proud of them. And, we appreciate you and everything that, the parents, and the members of this booster club does to support our robotics team. So, thank you for being here tonight, and, tell us a little bit about you. Great. Thank you so much for, inviting us here tonight. I'm always excited to speak about the club. I'll start out with a little bit of the background. We have 90 about 90 students enrolled in the robotics one, two, and three classes. They participate in the VEX robotics organization.
There are over 20,000 teams from 50 different countries around the world that participate in these VEX robotics competitions. There is an annual game that they play, or a competition. So there's a series of competitions that lead up and culminate in a world competition in May. And then following that, they'll release the the challenge, the competition, the game for the next season. So it's kind of an annual cycle like that. The program has has some wonderful life skills for students. Originally, my children, I thought that they would just it was great that they were gonna be hands
on and learn how to build a robot and kind of see science, you know, very hands on. But I actually discovered that there's a lot of soft skills that they learn as well. So one of the examples would be, just navigating team dynamics. So, you know, these teams consist of about six students each. And so for a lot of these kids, this is the first time they have to kind of negotiate who does which roles, how the work gets done, how that's all timed. So that's one of the skills they learn. Another thing that they learn are different communication and interviewing skills at the competitions.
They, have an interview with the judges, and then they also create a notebook where they have to present, their processes and how they build these robots. And so those are all very applicable, real world skills that they do. Also project management, you know, how they time things, how they organize things, and then also working under pressure. And there's definitely pressure when they are in their elimination rounds going head to head with other teams. It's typically two teams versus two other teams, so they have to work with some teams and they have to compete against other teams.
And so I think those are great life skills that they develop there. And so our booster organization is here to support the program and the students' time financially, and other ways that we can support them. So some of the highlights from this year. This year, we introduced both a JV and a varsity option for the students. We recognize that not all the students were interested in going to tournaments and really competing. They were more content just to learn more of the academic side of that. So we introduced that option,
so students have more flexibility over how they do that. Another thing that we've done this year is that we've hosted three tournaments, in our great space at the high school. You know, the maker space is a really nice design, how we can open up all of those doors and open that up, and so that makes a really great venue for that. So and the hosting these tournaments is important for us because it helps to raise it's a fundraiser. It helps to raise money for that, but it also provides additional opportunities for our teams to compete, who who might not otherwise be able to attend other tournaments.
So a couple of important things there. This year, we won the UIL state championship. And what was exciting especially about this year doing that, it was also our first year, where those points the that that win was eligible for the Lone Star Cup points. So we were very excited to be able to contribute there. And then we will also be sending two teams to the world competition in May that is in Dallas. So, actually, so we have I don't know if you guys can see pictures. Yeah. We can see them. Oh, you've got a monitor up there. Okay. So, so on the left,
these are the two teams that are going to the world competition, seventy one ten a and seventy one ten h. And then on the right, it's doctor Glenn. Thank you so much for coming to our tournaments. And then this picture is where, the the district graciously provided, equipment, chests for, the teams. So there's there's a lot of tools that the the teams have to carry to these competitions, and they've they've had kind of a, you know, they carried them in backpacks and things like that. They are very heavy,
so they're very grateful for these, these packs and they've got wheels. They're great. They're like giant toolboxes and they thought it was like Christmas morning. I didn't know I didn't know they'd be that excited. My I have a son in college. He was in the program and he came back over spring break and he saw those. He's very envious. He's like, man, I had to carry around those backpacks. They've got these great chests, so they're very much appreciated. And then a shout out to our sponsors. Very appreciative of them. And then finally, just talk about, you know, some of the challenge opportunities that we have.
The world competition this year is in Dallas. Starting next year, it will move to some other city in The U. S. So we recognize that, that will, you know, add travel costs. So we are planning for that, trying to budget fundraise, that we're aware that that's coming up. Another thing I wanted to mention, the first time my oldest son went to the world competition, one of the first things he said when he came home was, mom, there's teams there in their sixth year of competition. And I said, what do you mean by that? And he said, well, in VEX, you can start they have a middle school division.
And so some of these students some of these teams, especially the ones that rise up to in the world competition, are teams that began competing in the middle school league. And so, our students that you said, most of those students are in their second year here. And so I think the fact that our second year students are going head to head with those teams that have been doing this for six years is a testament to just how good the program is here, but obviously. But if if there is an opportunity for those students to begin competing at the
middle school level, that's significant experience that would help them along in the competitions. It would also help, you know, a lot of times the high schoolers enjoy mentoring the middle schoolers in robotics. The middle schoolers actually enjoy, volunteering at the tournaments that we host. And then from a booster organization, if we get parents involved at an earlier age, in an earlier year, that's that much longer that they can be, a part of the organization. It seems like it takes, you know, just a year to kind of figure out what's going on. And then, you know,
the following years, you know, parents get involved. But for the robotics, you know, a parent might be involved in two years, and they finally figure out what's going on, and then their kid graduates. So if the kids start to become involved in middle school, I think that's much more time that the parents can help and contribute as well. And finally, you know, Leah Schwibler does an amazing job with this program. And, you know, if we it's really grown, you know, under her has really blossomed. And she does a ton of work. It's, you know, the students, you know, really like to stay after school to continue to work on their robots,
but there has to be faculty member there to support that. You know, that that's not something the boosters can fill in, so there's got to be a faculty member there. The tournaments eat up weekends. So if there is any possibility to, you know, have some support there, that we would advocate. We would love that. So, that's just what I had prepared. Are there any, comments or questions? That's great. Thank you so much, for the presentation. And I'm glad that you mentioned the communication, the relationship, and the teamwork skills a lot of people forget. They think that they're just there tinkering with,
robots and building robots, and that's, certainly life skills that they're learning. And I appreciate you you mentioning that. You know, we brought you up here, Deb. What what can we do for you? And if you'll turn it back to that to that last slide, what what what do you see, in terms of, say, the younger students, say, middle school, if we can't incorporate that into, like, the curriculum or in the middle school, Has the booster club talked about possibly doing that as a an after hours, type program or if there's or make sure he Yeah. If there's some way to start out incorporating maybe to the younger kids,
the skill sets maybe to a lesser degree, but maybe outside of the curriculum? So I know there's been some you know, some of the the high school robotics students have volunteered, to help with after school clubs, at Carroll Middle School in the past. I think it would be great if these kids could actually be in a a competition. So, like, they've kind of built the robot. They're starting to learn about it, but I think to actually compete would be, particularly helpful for those students. So you're a five zero one c three. So, I mean, if, high school students were to volunteer to coach middle school students,
they could get their, credits for their volunteer credits. Correct? Doctor Glenn, for that. I think that's something maybe that we we look at first because I like your idea of expanding the program. It's so successful in such a short period of time, that maybe your board, can talk about that, maybe come back to us with some suggestions to see what this board could do to help support, that moving forward. The third bullet on the on here is that the support for faculty to supervise. And so I that that's something I don't understand. Why do we have to have faculty?
Alright. It's something Surely there's some solutions, that we can come up in that regard to to hell. I would just hate to, you know, have roadblocks, that, doesn't allow for the program to grow. So if there's something that we can do, doctor Glenn, if you can think about how to do that, then we'd love to We can have a sidebar sidebar conversation to help out now. And we can address that. No problem. Okay. Any other questions or comments? I just love this program. I recall when we opened up our STEM facility and I saw the robots out in that space. I'm just curious if you're in touch. You mentioned your son kept coming back and seeing those Milwaukee tool sets and everything
and being jealous. If you are keeping in touch with our graduates, I'd love to just know how we're preparing them for this field, you know, when they get into college and, you know, just any any success stories. I mean, I can speak about, you know, my son Alexander is a freshman at Purdue studying mechanical engineering, and he is involved in the SAE team, where they build and race race cars. And so I think that this program has been particularly helpful because it's the same sort of, the planning,
the the, the CAD ing, the building of things. You know, it's so building robots, he's building cars, but I think, you know, the experiences that he had at Carroll really prepared for him to do these team projects like that. Oh, that's great to hear. Yeah. They can do help Right. Help out. That's good to hear. Yeah. There's a lot of feedback. Yeah. Thank you for sharing that. Any other comments, questions? Okay. Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Alright. Moving on to, item number five,
public comments. Miss Shelton, do we have any public comments tonight? We do not have any public comments this evening. Okay. Thank you, miss Yelton. Moving on to item number six, consideration and possible action on any matters addressed in executive session. We will pass on 6.1, no action. 6.2, consider and take possible action on administrators' contracts. Trustee Yeager. Yes. I move that the board approve, as presented in executive session, the administrators' contracts. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, trustee Yeager.
We have no further action from executive session, so we'll move to item number seven, our president's report. Seven point one committee reports. Trustees, do we have any committee reports this month? None. Okay. So, my president's report is going to be short and sweet. You know that the legislative session is ongoing and there's really not much to report on, at the moment. I will have Trustee Bottom report on an update of what's going on in both
the Senate and the House. But we do have a pretty interesting bill that's been introduced in the public education committee in the House. It's House Bill 2,764, and it has to do with holding TEA and the comptroller in the State of Texas accountable for public school funding, specifically recapture. So we wrote a resolution in which we will I'll read tonight and this is just for information purposes only and we'll take it up for vote and action at
our first meeting in April. But I wanna go ahead and read to you, all about House Bill 2,764, supporting House Bill 2,764 and requesting a public hearing. Whereas House Bill 2,764, introduced by Representative Gillen, seeks to enhance transparency in school finance by requiring a comprehensive report on school funding for the Texas Education Agency and the Comptroller covering fiscal years from 1994 onward. And whereas this report would provide critical insight into the sources,
distribution and utilization of school finance funds, including funds collected under Chapter 49 recapture and those distributed through the Foundation School Program and whereas the bill mandates that all education finance reports clearly differentiate local recapture funding from state funding, ensuring greater clarity for policymakers, educators, and the public, and whereas accurate and transparent reporting of education finance is essential to the effective allocation
of resources to Texas school districts, including Carroll ISD, and whereas the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees recognizes the importance of HB 2,764 in fostering informed decision making regarding school finance policy and accountability. Now let it be hereby resolved that the Carroll Independent School District Board of Trustees expresses its strong support for HB twenty seven sixty four and urges the Texas House Public Education Committee to schedule a hearing on this bill at the earliest opportunity.
And that the board encourages all community members to support this bill by emailing their legislators through the district's Take Action Dragons portal, and that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the chair of the House Public Education Committee, representative Gillen, and the legislative representatives of Carroll ISD to advocate for this bill's advancement. So we're very excited that, representative, Gillen has introduced this bill and that it actually was introduced to the pub ed committee. Now we need,
all of you, to get excited about this and take advantage of our Take Action Dragons portal and, urging our lawmakers in Austin, to hold a hearing on this bill and hopefully get this bill through the House and over to the Senate. So, at this time, I've asked Trustee Bottom to give us a quick update on legislative actions that are happening in Austin and maybe a reminder of how to take advantage of Take Action Dragons. Ms. Bottom? Sure. Well,
there's several bills that are actually being heard this week. So we don't have a whole lot of action just yet, but after next week I think that we're going to have a lot more to look at. There's some big bills. There's some that we are for, some that we are waiting to see how they come out of committee. But I like I said, I wish I had more information for you tonight. But after next week, sit tight. We'll have we'll be able to take action. Yeah. I mean, we're over halfway through the session Yeah. And we have nothing to talk about. Well, no. That's not right. I mean, it's it's, it's like, you know,
typical, right, of our elected officials down in Austin absolutely doing nothing, especially for public education in Texas, not taking it seriously. And we want to our first take action dragons, we want to get our community fired up and energized behind this bill that is going to make public where the money for our money, their money, taxpayer money for recapture is going. And I guarantee you it's not going to public education, but we'll, you know, maybe I can be proven wrong. That's definitely one that we got we have to take action on. There are some that we do support and that we did support down when we
were in Austin. They did make it out of committee, so now they're in a place where we're gonna have to push a little harder. But, yes, let's take action on that one first and then we'll That's awesome. Thank you, trustee Bowerman. Doctor Glenn, would you please, ask mister Brady and the communications team to put that, Take Action Dragon's email together regarding this house bill twenty seven sixty four, and let's get that fired off, to the community to get this into every, public ed's hands are, to legislative officials, and, of course, the writer of of this bill. Absolutely, mister president. We'll get something out tonight,
for our community to begin reading and then also, included in your president's report. Appreciate it. Moving on to item number eight, superintendent's report, Doctor. Glenn. Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President, trustees. Excited to provide a few district updates as we begin to wrap up what's been an exciting school year. Already talking about kindergarten registration, which is underway for the class of 2038. It is scheduled for April 24, fourth twenty twenty five. Also, let parents know if you have a grad, coming up in May that you can,
go ahead and start purchasing your senior grad ads, for the graduation program. And we're excited. I have a couple surprises, this year at Dragon Stadium for our seniors. Also, I wanna thank, Melanie Kibito, our director of HR. She held an outstanding job fair on Saturday. Appreciate all the principals, also being in attendance but over 60 participants. Individuals coming in wanting to be part of Dragon Nation, right here in this building. It was just packed and it was exciting. A lot of enthusiasm in the room and so I appreciate all the hard work
of our HR department. I also want to congratulate a couple of our teams, Lady Drag. In soccer, season, came to an end, in an incredible game last week. But, also really wanna point out, head coach, Matt Colvin, five hundred career wins, all right here at Carroll ISD. We'll have him at a future meeting to be recognized along with our head baseball coach, Larry Vucan, who, just this weekend was, collected his four hundredth career win. So a lot of winning going on by our Carroll coaches. And if you also wanna see more baseball, Carroll night at the ballpark with the Texas Rangers will be held once again,
Saturday, May 3. You can come out and get your, I guess, blended Texas Ranger or Carroll ISD baseball cap for free. And, one final note, the, UIL academic team district champs. I think we've mentioned that earlier tonight. That's exciting. And then, if you'll indulge me, I do wanna read just kind of a brief statement. Tonight, our new Deputy Superintendent Chase Park will give a budget update and I know our trustees will take action on a BRAC recommendation. But I did wanna take a moment to update everyone on the BRAC resolution, which we will put before the board tonight.
As you may know, districts across the state of Texas are experiencing financial difficulties due to an inadequate and outdated school funding formula. Carylloa ISD has not been immune to this issue. However, I wanna assure everyone that we're committed to handling this situation thoughtfully and responsibly with a focus on maintaining high quality education to serve our students. Our school board has been actively engaged in the budgeting process. They worked hard over the last four years to find solutions that will allow us to continue to provide an exceptional educational experience while being fiscally responsible.
The decisions that we'll be making in the coming months will be difficult. But as we move forward, we remain committed to maintaining open lines of communication with our community, Our trustees and administration value your input and we will continue to keep you informed about the steps that this district will have to take to navigate our budget situation and implement the BRAC's recommendation. Our district is committed to ensuring Carroll ISD remains strong and vibrant for all of our students. Mister president, that is your report for this month. Excellent report. Thank you, doctor Glenn. We'll move on to item number nine,
which is the information portion of our meeting. 9.1 discussion regarding the eighty seventh Texas legislative session, House Bill five forty seven UIL equal access bill, Coach Dodge, is going to present. And while he comes out to the podium, I just want to say that we put this on the agenda not because, for informational purposes only. We've heard there are several bills in the house and in the senate, that will possibly, if passed, make all ISDs, in the state of Texas, take this on. And this is actually the, adopting the Tim Tebow bill,
which is, a bill allowing homeschool, students to take, participation in extracurricular activities such as athletics and the arts. So I thought it would be important to bring Coach Dodge up to give us a little bit of information. We can ask him questions and we can start this discussion. In case these bills get passed, we may want to be proactive and start thinking about this ahead of time. I know there are several school districts across the State of Texas that have already adopted, the Tim Tebow bill. So, Coach Dodge, take it away and we'll just ask questions as we go.
Well, President Bryan, doctor Glenn, trustees, thank you for having me. I'm just gonna state my the facts, and my findings, not my opinion, but, like doctor Bryan, or president Bryan said that that the tentative act allows high school students to participate in public school extracurricular activities such as sports, band, and debate on on same the same basis as students enrolled in public schools. Current allotment for homeschool students participating in extracurricular activities, dollars 1,500 per student. I do wanna remind the board that we voted on this in the past. We called the UIL,
did some research. There's 46, total, ISDs that participate in UIL in some form or fashion. Out of those 46, one is a six a school, seven are charter schools, so out of the 46 total. What is what is the date? And these are just some of the findings and information that we that we came about. What is the date that, that we could that we would need to opt in if we chose to participate in the homeschool program, August 1 for varsity, participation? Homeschool students are not counted in snapshot count for realignment purposes. Are homeschool students eligible to participate in varsity sports?
Yes. They just meet they just need to meet the standard requirements of all student athletes under the UIL. May a homeschool student receive instruction from a private school coach outside of the six minute athletic period? It has the same, guidelines as other students, no exceptions because they are homeschooled, so the answer would be no. So I called the, the one six a, called Webex ISD, talked through to their AD for a while. One one of the findings was they had fit going to this new school year, they had 50 athletes across boys and girls across all sports.
50 athletes chose to participate, but only eight are currently still enrolled in their athletic program on the boys and girls side. So that was that was an interesting, So 50, started? 50 started the school year. Started the school year, eight remain. Eight remain. Eight remain currently. And did did your, counterpart, give any speculation of why that was? Or No. I think I think once he he said once they hopped into it on the boys and girls side, we didn't really talk about what sports, but he's just the the hours that the requirements that are needed,
for those coaches and, the rigor, that now they're down to eight, so coming out of the homeschool setting. There are only three requirements to homeschool in Texas. The instruction must be bona fide, so not a sham. The curriculum must be, be in visual form books, war books, video monitor. The curriculum must include the five basic subjects of reading, spelling, grammar, mathematics, and good citizenship. You cannot withdraw from public school and participate in UIL in the same year. You cannot move to a non enrolled student, UIL participating in district and participating in UIL in the same year.
I just added this, a major point of concern was the the the family and public school student with withdrawal and then reenroll at a different campus or district as a homeschooler. So talking to the, ADA u at Weatherford, we talked about, my concern and and he he had as well was that if a kid was struggling in a in a classroom and, you know, grade report, six weeks is coming up, UIL is coming up, I'm I'm about to fail. I would hop out of my seat in the classroom, go to homeschool. They don't allow that to happen in Weatherford and just like a red.
So once you have to opt in or opt out to start the new school year. Okay. Those are my findings, if y'all have any questions. You mentioned, early, in your presentation about 1,500 per student. What's was is that a regulation or is that what is that? Yeah. Where did that number come from? Yeah. My understanding is that set by, the Texas Education Agency as part of the original So if you are if we adopted this program, each family, would pay $1,500 No. No. No. No. No. No. No. We would be reimbursed $1,500 for every For this from the state? Yes.
Okay. And then can could we charge, families for participation in sports? I know that, you know, every sport has tons of fees. I mean, obviously, yes, They would have to pay those fees, but could we charge them extra for the cost of equipment, you know, whatever? Yeah. That'd be worth looking at. I'm gonna assume just based on typically how how these things are worded that, if the state is giving us a $1,500 allotment, we couldn't put a fee above and beyond what, another student that is already in district gets.
So if we if we currently charge, dollars 600 for students to play football and they they, a homeschool student comes in, they would pay that 600, but we couldn't charge them 600 if we weren't charging kids who were already here not paying. So did Weatherford, they were the only 6 a school that, took it on, and I guess it was, what, the last legislative session when they or when was '87? Yes. That's two years ago. Four years ago. Four years ago. Yeah. So they're the only one so far in four years that's taken, this program on. Six a. Yes, sir. Six a. Yeah.
So I made a phone call before we called the UIL. I knew that they were in it. We talked talked to doctor Glenn. And then and then after that, he he he told me, I believe we are the only six a, and then UIL told us the same thing. So k. And they how big is what Weatherford? So Weatherford is probably they're probably gonna be about 9,000 kids. Yeah. They're about close to us. Yeah. Close to us. Yeah. They're not super large. Bigger than us, and they have eight kids that remain. Okay. So I know the last time that we had talked about this, three years ago, enrollment question came up. Oh,
this is gonna it has absolutely no impact on our enrollment whatsoever, correct, this program. President Bryan, can I just ask a question? Almost everything that you addressed came up when we voted on this a few years ago, but I didn't hear one thing, and it had to do with enrollment, and it had to do with school funding. And it's basically not so much a concern about UI, about homeschool kids coming to, participate in UIL, activities at Carroll, but it's it was about the number of students at the time.
This was right after COVID when we, knew there was a, I guess, a desire on some students' part to unenroll and go to private school. And, online school, just like homeschool, you can sign up online and not have the same academic kind of rigor. And whether or not the same academic rigor was there, we, I was concerned at the time that we would have students who would unenroll, leave our district, we would lose that funding,
and they would become home you know, not homeschoolers, but, online schoolers, and we'd lose funding. And at that time, there was a pretty large population of students that, wanted to go online, and they could leave and be considered, homeschooled, is that still a possibility that we would have maybe dozens or hundreds of kids that would unenroll in our school district? I think that's a obviously crystal ball like what if, I'm sure that could possibly happen, but I think it didn't you're you're absolutely right.
I mean, from the homeschool, like, on that athletic side, the homeschool athletes would only submit a pass, fail. So, you know you you know, who would be submitting that and who's receiving those those grades? And so, I mean, obviously, those are things that we can look into more and, possibly give you a better answer on. Okay. I think you touched on it. I just want to clarify because this is kind of new to me. So under UIL, they are only allowed to participate in X amount of hours of sports, correct, on a weekly basis. So would they, under this program, follow the same guidelines?
How would that be monitored? Yeah. They would they would fall under the UIL. So, like, if a homeschool kid was in the football program, we go from seven to nine. That's our athletic period. So the UIL, I don't know, a couple years ago, we got a we got a extra hour outside the school day. So we can use that either before school or after school. Typically, in most places, that kinda butts up to that athletic period. And that's that's in the off season. But they would have to be in in attendance for that class. So because at the end at the end of the day,
we're still taking attendance. So that would be the only I would I would assume, doctor Glenn, that would be the only class that they would be showing up on campus for. Yeah. That's correct. So any anytime, let's again, we'll stick since coach Dodge is here with varsity football. If anytime that, they they sign up to play football, again, seven seven through twelve, when the other kids are meeting for foot for football either in a class or after school, they'll be required to attend. Now as far as like the eight hour rule, that applies to us as coaches, or us as a school district. I guess theoretically, a kid could go to, Coach Dodge's practice at 05:30 in the morning.
It's pretty early. Yes, sir. And, and finish up at at nine. And then, you know, if they wanted to go work out on their own, they could put in more hours, but that would be separate and apart from what we do in the ISD. Is that is that is that what you're asking? Well, because I just know how competitive Southlake is, so I could see having some advantage of having additional time for additional training and anyways. To your point, Eric. There's nothing preventing them from having a private Coach now. I'm kinda guy. Coach now, right? I mean No. Right. Even during the day,
like a regular school day, could they have private coaches in the middle of the day? I thought the UIL had some rules about after hours and during Yeah. I mean, it just depends on, you know, after school. I mean, all of our kids are so many so many options for all of our kids now. It's it's unbelievable in a in a great way. So, yeah, there's options across the board, and and we don't have, we don't restrict our student athletes. But if you're if you're a homeschooler, you come to play football during the football period and then you have a private coach during the school day,
is that allowed? I was under the understanding in the past, that that wouldn't be allowed Yeah. During the education day. I'm not sure. Again, and so I'm just I'm gonna I'm gonna give you my opinion. I don't know how you restrict that. I don't know you how you tell a home school family like, hey, these are the hours you have to work on your lessons. Some may wanna do it in the morning, some may wanna do it in the evening. So I don't know that there's like really a way to monitor that. I mean, we can certainly look into see if see if it's restriction or not. If I may, I I believe you are correct. I believe it is prohibited,
but I don't know how you monitor it. And so the question I have is, does this $1,500 per however many students, does that cover the cost of administering the program? I don't know the answer to that. I don't know what it costs. I have no idea. It'd be per athlete, but, I mean, you have other concerns, insurance, if one of those kids, homeschooler gets hurt on our property. I mean, there's just some cost there that I think we'd have to think about. I have a question. Trustee Yeager. And that is, to the best of your knowledge, everybody here who who knows this bill, if this is passed,
does this is this something then that the school districts would have to employ? Because I was here two years ago. We voted on this, and it was something that the the, legislature said we had to vote yes or no, but we had an option. So my question is, if this is passed by the senate and the house, do we not have the option? And then because if you look at the name of it, equal access access bill, it sounds like to me this would be that the district would have to, be allowed. That's my understanding, trust the Yeager, is that the bills that have been introduced is, every ISD would have to take this on
in some form or fashion. I don't know, you know, what that what that all entails. And, I understand it's just for nine through 12. When we were considering it two years ago, three years ago, we were thinking about doing a pilot for the middle school just to see interest, how that would go, whatever, knowing that we wouldn't get any money back for it, but just kind of piloting. That's I'm assuming that we would still be able to do that if we were, you know, wanting to consider moving in that direction. So, the the other thing that came, a couple years ago was discipline.
Remember that? I mean, we it was, like, concerned over discipline. I can't remember exactly what the, the argument was, but I know that that you guys I mean, you do something, you have to go run stadium steps or something, whatever that is. I'm assuming that that discipline would fall over to these, homeschool kids that are participating in the program. Yeah. And I had good conversations with Adia Weatherford, and, I'm gonna ask him to shoot me over their handbook for homeschoolers that are participating in athletics and then see if he doesn't mind sharing. And then That'd be very helpful. Once I get that, I'll shoot over to you guys. That'd be perfect.
Yeah. And coach, did did I hear you correctly in that as you said there are 46 ISDs that participate? There's just one that's in six a. One in six a currently. So Seven are charter schools. Okay. I mean, that's it's a healthy number. Do you happen? Is there any trend that you can see, like, you know, of the other ones that participate? I'm seeing a lot of small ISDs. Who need who might need athletes on specific teams and Bless you. West Texas, like Abilene ISD, Abilene Wiley Alright. Are are part of that. Any others in, the DFW Metropolitan?
I mean, I have a larger schools, but No, sir. Okay. Weatherford's been as close as this gets to us. Oates, do you mind saying it a little bit slower? What were the, what were the parameters on if you did this, you can't hop somewhere else? What were those parameters really quick? Yes, ma'am. Okay. So you cannot withdraw from public school and participate in UIL in the same year. So you cannot move to a nonenrolled you cannot move a nonenrolled student UIL participating in district and participating in the UIL in the same year.
So, like, if I'm going to participate in UIL athletics based off the verbiage right now, I have to be day one a homeschooler. Yeah. First day of school. And so that was the question I had for the idea of what if so it's the second week of school and things aren't going great. Can I go homeschool now? They do not allow that. So if in the future you wanna go homeschool, you have to wait for that next calendar year to do that as a family. And then, and y'all can also help explain. Explain to me that you said 50. There were 50 athletes, and now they have eight.
Does that mean that 50 decided from from being, in their homeschool setting that they wanted to participate and that 50 dropped down to eight? Is that what you meant? My understanding was 50 day one showed up for athletics on the boys and girls side at Weatherford, and then they currently have eight that are participating in UAL athletics. And that could shoot. That could be in robotics as well. So I'll I'll get that number and see where all those kids are at. Oh, it's robotics, band, and then athletics? What's that? The the, extracurricular UIL extracurriculars were That would that would fall under yes,
sir. Yeah. Yeah. It could be anything. And it could be any extra curricular. Any UIL. Okay. Yes. Okay. So we have Yeah. We have robotics. We have debate. You got electronics. We got theater. So it's broad. It's pretty broad. It is. Okay. We're not just talking about the field house. We're talking about Yeah. Yeah. Alright. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. Well, the reality is if it's a cut sport, I mean, they have to they have to go through tryouts just like Just like everybody else. Yeah. And he said they I'm I'm interested to read that from Weatherford and see what they put in place. Obviously, they've been doing for for a minute,
but this, they said they're very detailed in their verbiage in their handbook to, families on the, UIL side. You know, president Bryant, there was one thing here that I recall is different, and that is a couple years ago, I don't remember that bill, the TBOW bill, having any dollars from the state. It did not. Right? So It didn't Yes. I mean, I'm not saying good or bad. I'm just saying that is a difference is that at least the state is saying that they would have $1,500 per student to, Trustee Sexton's point of paying for the administrator's time.
We get, you know, funding based on the students. So it's not the full 83, 60 1, etcetera. And we'll double check those numbers and also check with the legislation that they're recommending to see where where it stands there. That is also a key difference between that bill. Again, I I I have no concern with non with, homeschoolers, participating in UIL. I think the cost would be nominal. And if we had $1,500, it would cover them. What I'm concerned about is students unenrolling and us losing the basic allotment on those
students. And if if it's in any numbers, like a hundred, that'd be a million dollars that we would lose. We already have a problem with unenrollment and I'd wanna fully understand, like, what's the possibility that we're gonna have students unenrolling? That's my concern. Coach, would you be able to ask him if they had students withdraw from their district? Yes, ma'am. Okay. Absolutely. And if there's any data from UIL It sounds like they didn't if they just had 50. Yeah. But I mean, it is in 08/2006. There's gotta be some good data out there. I'll look her over.
I'll I'll I'll reach out to some more school districts as well. Okay. Yeah. I mean, I I don't know to what extent we could have, like, local parameters, but you could always say if a student is enrolled as an ISD student and chooses to to unenroll and go home school, they have to wait a year before they can take advantage of the program. That keeps her from being a mass bailout and really targets the kids that aren't in the system now. I would be curious if we if the state or anybody keeps those stats. That that would be the a limiting action on our part whether or not you
know, if we're we're losing $8,300 to pick up 1,500, That's a problem. Yeah. Okay. The, at the time, two years ago, there weren't very many school districts in the state of Texas or any that I know of that actually passed it. But there are other states, And if there were data, that it would probably be from other states. There's gotta be, you know, states where it's more popular. I think Tim Tebow Well, I mean, I looked it up today. Or 35 states that have adopted this this, they've had it. I think there are other states that have had it longer,
and maybe we could look at the history there of unenrollment. Okay. Thank you, coach Josh. What else? Anything else? Can I say one thing real fast? Doctor. Glenn still went thunder on the May ones. That was awesome. I'm Matt Colvin, Larry Bucan. And then, boys soccer is competing in the regional championship tomorrow at Prosper against Jesuits, to hopefully make a trip to the state semifinals. So if you all don't have a thing going on tomorrow, we'll be able to trip out to Prosper at 06:00. Absolutely. Appreciate you guys. Thank you, coach. Alright. Moving on to 9.2, consider teacher incentive allotment.
Miss Petty. Good evening, President Bryan, Doctor. Glenn, trustees. If you will recall, in 2019, I came to you as part of House Bill three, a a teacher incentive allotment was created. At that time, when they first brought it out, we had lots of committee meetings on it. We were trying to decide what do we want to do, how do we want to be a part of it. At that point in time, we decided to join the teacher incentive allotment with the understanding that we would, with the understanding that we would do the national board certification. At that point in time,
we had three teachers who decided to move forward with getting that additional training and getting that certification. We now have two teachers that have that certification and that training. At the time, it was we weren't sure how much the or for how long this program was going to be in place. As time has gone on, it did not go away. As a matter of fact, it has it has, the state now is looking to add more financial incentives to this program. Instead of raising the basic allotment numbers,
they want to raise the teacher incentive allotment numbers. So I wanted to provide you with kind of a brief history of what this is because if we need to move forward, I want everyone to have a full understanding of what all this would entail. So the teacher incentive allotment was was started was was intended to well, why can't I get that to go forward? Hold on just a second. The teacher incentive allotment was intended to to be used as a way to to reward high achieving teachers. Our teachers who focused on who focused on it was a way to reward our
teachers, to retain our teachers, and to recruit more teachers. Okay? That has not changed. Alright? There are three levels whenever you look at your, there are three levels of distinction. Right now, we are at the recognized level. So that is the national board certification. There is an exemplary level as well, and then there is a master level. Now one thing that I would like to stress, there's some misunderstandings that are associated with these recognitions. I think some of our staff, have the understanding or some people have the understanding that what's going to happen with
this is everyone can be a part of this program, and that is just not true. Whenever you take a look at this program, when you look at the recognized now these numbers are still fluctuating. The state hasn't come out, but only 30 of the entire state could be on the on the recognized category. If you move to the exemplary category, only 20% of the state could sir could be on the exemplary plan.
And if you move to the master's plan, only 5% of the state would be eligible for that. So so you can see that that's gonna be So what prevents them? Yeah. Yeah. But what what are the I mean, what are the qualifications then that prevent them from We would get to set those, but the two qualifications that you have to have it based upon would be your teacher observation and your student growth measure. So how how are you measuring those two things? You can add a third one. For example, if we wanted to add mentoring to it,
if we wanted to add professional development to it, if we wanted to add additional categories over t test that we're not already using, we could do that. But those are the components that they're that they're looking at. So I wanna make sure that whenever we talk about this, that everybody has a full understanding of what all is included in this. I guess I just don't understand. Every time we talk to one of our legislative, elected officials, they say, well, just take advantage including MARAF at TA. Just take advantage of the TIA. You don't have to worry. We've already, given your teachers, pay raises. You can just,
take advantage of that. There's plenty of money there. So I I don't understand why only two of our teachers qualify. Because right now, we're only using the national board certification plan, which a lot of our neighboring districts are using as well. Highland Park's using that, because we've got we've chosen to go on to go with the national board certification, which would guarantee them a $3,000 incentive bonus. That's the maximum we can receive in this period. That we can risk that we can receive for that. Every year? For five years. It's good for five years.
So I'm hearing you say we can we can lower our standards, a little bit based on observation, t tests, and maybe set additional criteria like, you know, attendance, you know, maybe hours served, mentoring, etcetera. That is correct. We could do that. But but at that point, we're still capped on We are still capped. 30% of our teachers and then the maximum allotment our staff can receive currently unless something changes is $3,000 At ballpark, yes. That is correct. So this this program only allows for a school district district to award 30% of
their teachers and limits the total amount of money to 3,000 per year added on to their salary? Well, your rural and your high needs, your high economic, low socioeconomic districts can make more, but for us, that would be the category for us. We would get 3,000. We're we're penal we're penalized because we we have affluent kids that perform very well academically. Yeah. I I guess, why why can't we get up to the 30% then? Well, that's what I was gonna ask. What's the level of effort to qualify?
I mean, if you have to spend, you know, five years in school to make $3,000 more, it's not worth it. So what is the level of effort for a teacher to actually qualify? Well, for the national board certification, we partner with Northwest ISD and Burberryville ISD. And so it's it's a lot like our reading academies currently are. What they do is they go through these, they have to produce these artifacts. So they go through and they produce they could be they could be they could take their certification test in about a year is and then they then they would
have that allotment for five years. Is it similar to the level of effort for a master's degree, for example, or for a PhD? It's I would say the national board certification is probably very close to getting a master's degree. Are you able to get to slide four of your presentation? No, I don't. I can't figure out no. I cannot. I'm sorry about that. There we go. There we go. Okay. So I just wanted to hit some items to consider, for us to consider when we're looking at this. There are clearly some positives to it. I mean, we clearly want to pay our teachers the maximum amount that we can pay our teachers.
I mean, that's clear. We want to make sure that we can identify and designate out outstanding teachers based on student growth and classroom observations. We want to recognize those teachers that truly grow our students to the best of their abilities. No doubt about it. We do want to incentivize our effective teachers to stay in the classroom. We don't want them leaving the classroom because they can make more money going someplace else, and you would want to to make sure that you prioritize high need campuses. Now some things for us to consider. Collaboration. Collaboration between,
between teachers in the past, it has shown to cease because what happens is is teachers worry that somebody's going to get on TIA and they are not going to get on TIA. I will tell you from a personal story that in the late 80s, early 90s career ladder started. It was very much like what this is, what TIA is. It was my very first year of teaching, so I wasn't even eligible for the career ladder, but that didn't matter. No one wanted to share anything. So as a brand new teacher,
I go in. I have nothing. I call a tool belt. Older teachers would have tool belts. They have things. They have they have things that they could use. As a new teacher, I had absolutely nothing. I would we would go to meetings and no one would share. So all the things that we have been working up to up to this point to have our PLCs, to have our groups, to have true vertical and horizontal alignment, because our teachers are sharing with each other, that that could be hindered because someone would be be afraid that they would get money that somebody else would not get. I guess and I I appreciate, miss Petty.
I I mean, I'm still totally in the dark about what this program is. I don't even know. I mean, what does recognize exemplary and master even mean? And I still don't understand why 30%, if that's the maximum, why 30% of our teachers, can't participate in one of these Only 30%. Yeah. Only 30%. Yeah. Only percent. Are are eligible. That's right. So why don't we have 30%? What's preventing 30% of our teachers from all five believe it's because the level of effort is not worth the money. That's yes. I mean So what is the level of effort?
I mean okay. Let's just let's just recognize. What is the level of effort to get to the recognized, Yeah. Correct. Correct me if I'm wrong. The The recognized exemplary master our district, because of our status is being, an urban district with low socioeconomic, we don't have the ability to become a master district. Is that correct? At this point in time, that is correct. So it's all about socioeconomic need, this whole program. That is correct. This whole program is about rule and, socioeconomic need. So that's the reason why all of us need to understand when,
our house rep and our senate rep says take advantage of TIA, we say we do not qualify. We do not our teachers don't qualify for this for this money. Right? Okay. We we do. We do. We just we don't qualify for the bigger money that other districts see. But it it it's saying that in our district, and we know from recapture that we are penalized. Right? And but if you are doing that same amount of work, which might be about the same amount of time as getting a master's degree, if you're in Carroll, ISD, all that work in a master's degree, I think, is thirty or thirty five hours.
Right. You're only gonna get maximum three k. But if you're in a rural district or urban area, etcetera, you're gonna get, and this is why I wanted to see the slide, 12,000 or more. Right. That's worth the effort That is of a kind of master's degree time for one of our teachers, but it's not for ours. Right. Right. How how much does it cost one of our teachers to become nationally board certified? The district we they are reimbursed for it. So the state does reimburse them for the for the exams that they take. How about time? So it does not reimburse them for time.
And and how much how long does this take? I would take approximately a year. Not going every single day, but I would say once a week that they'll be putting in I mean, it's it's a lot of time. Masters. Well and how much money is it? How much money do they have to have? If they're getting reimbursed? They have to have the money upfront to begin with. So how much money is that? The I believe I I need to check this. I believe that the state reimburses you either 800 or $900, I believe. So just just as clarification, I I do think so we as a district right now the National Board Certification, it's tough.
It's, I mean, it's a high bar for our teachers to get. I think the conversations and some of the research that Ms. Petty is doing with her team is how can we develop our own standards. The problem that she's trying to quantify tonight is when we do this we're going to be limited to 30% of our staff being eligible and correct me if I'm wrong, but once we get to that 30% if we hire somebody in that is, has their national board certification or they've been a TIE certified district in another
school in Texas, when we hire them in we gotta exit out one of our teachers because we have to stay at that 30% threshold. Is that exactly right? That's the way that I'm understanding it as well. It's a it's yes. It's so it does hurt the culture. In our district, in our area, When we first started this in 2019, we partnered with Northwest, we partnered with HEB, Bergville, Kennedale, Mansfield, Grapevine, Keller. We we hit all the neighboring districts. As a cohort, we decided to stick together and require the national certification so that we would not be competing against each other for teachers,
and we've stayed together. It came up the other day that H E B is considering leaving and looking at doing the teacher incentive allotment that is being proposed, they are the only ones from that entire cohort that will be doing that. There are no other ones at this point in time that will be doing that. What what I can tell you is that, like a lot of the larger education bills, so HB2 is one, there's another one that came from the senate that's specifically aimed at teacher pay raises, they all have this built in it. This is a huge piece of the funding that is very,
very likely to get over this session. So it Trustee Pata, does that when you say that, do do you mean that if you're a TIA certified that you qualify for that new funding? What were you saying? Well, it's just that a lot of the they're like, we're gonna give teachers pay raises, but the dollars are being funneled through this specific program. In order for it to to qualify, you have to be board certified, and you're capped at 30%. So Yes. So it's really it's a two down. What they're telling us. So it's it's just but but if it if that is where there is some
potential funding, it may be something that we just have to kinda wrap our brain around and figure out. Sounds like it's not though. Right. Because we don't have the teachers that have the time to do the board certified to get $3,000 Is and is would you happen to know the reason HEB might be pulling out is because, again, looking at this chart, they their teachers are able to qualify for more money? I think well, yes. They are definitely do they would be able to qualify for more money. Can you blame them? Yeah. I I would I would imagine would do it too. I would imagine they're lowering their standards to recruit more teachers in and to get
their piece of the that that statewide 30%. Yes. They have not shared any of that information with us. They just said that they were looking into it and they were going to fill out the application. And so when the legislation comes out, honestly, and Trustee Boddam is correct, if they fund this with with the amount of money that they're talking about right now in both the House and Senate, we're going to have to look at some opportunities to give our teachers a chance to make these dollars. And perhaps, I mean remember as these things are in committee, right, they're, you know, these bills are, people are having conversations around them. There is opportunity to shape some of the language on the bill to say like
this is fantastic, but we school districts like us can't participate. Maybe there is a way to get something expanded. I just I I think as as president Brian said, we heard this when we went to the Capitol and we've heard it. And it's a talking point for our politicians because they don't even know the details. What it means. Yeah. Right? No. I I don't know. They just blanket say, if it's tied to this TIA, we don't Yeah. It doesn't If they're doubling down on a pool of land 4,000. Exactly. We're all excited about this new fund that they've created, and we don't even qualify for it.
Miss Betty, you said that, teachers could be reimbursed for the expense. Who reimburses them? The state? The state does. The state. So it doesn't actually come out of our budget. That do it? It doesn't actually come out directly out of our budget. They get reimbursed from the state. Once they've worked the year or whatever to get the qualification. But they don't get reimbursed fully. They get reimbursed by us about less than half. So Less work. If it's around 2,000, they get reimbursed. So they pay upfront. They go through all the work, and then they get 50% reimbursed,
and they only get 3,000 a year. I propose a new name for this, the teacher disincentive of African folks. They underfunded teacher disincentive. So Northwest has adamant they they have they have they will not go to TIA. I talked to someone in Eanes. They will not go with TIA. So we've got several districts that are are saying right now, we absolutely will not. For Eanes, it's very similar to to Carroll. They're just the the juice isn't worth the squeeze. I mean, at $3,000, it's they're not putting enough money on the table.
Right. Miss Betty, just as a matter of comparison, I don't recall. What is the stipend we pay to a teacher who has a master's degree? I believe is it 1,500? A master's of a thousand. And what is the stipend for a for a doctorate? 2,000. Okay. So similar, but less than this. Okay. Thank you. Anything else on your slides you want to go over? No, I'm good. We'll continue to I mean, again legislation is on the table. We'd love to and I personally would love to hear more about this and learn more about it. So I'm happy to schedule a meeting with TEA if we wanted.
Kind of seek out our GAN. Let's do that, and then we can kind of figure out what that means for us. Sounds good. Thank you, miss Kennedy. Thank you. Thank you. Moving on to 9.3, consider proposed twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six staffing plan. Miss Kibodeau. Good evening. Good evening, doctor Glenn, president Bryan, board of trustees. I'm here to present the staffing plan for the 2526 school year. Specifically, we're just looking at campuses. To begin the this presentation let me get to the slide. This presentation outlined cost reductions based on proposed teacher to student ratios.
The recommendations I'm presenting this evening are designed to achieve cost savings through attrition only as recommended by the BRAC. Enrollment projections are based on the current numbers and are subject to change. The goal of these staffing recommendations is to reduce the cost while avoiding staff reductions to the point where waivers are required and secondary classrooms become overcrowded. So like I stated earlier, the staffing is calculated based on the teacher to student ratio. When projecting enrollment for kindergarten,
we had to use the average enrollment, from the past five years. And the staffing ratios to be presented to reduce cost would be at the elementary, 22 to one, intermediate, 27 to one, middle school, 27 to one, and high school, 28 to one. So from doing the calculations and, looking at the staffing reductions based on teacher to student ratio, it came out to be 17, which could cause, in some cases, waivers and larger class sizes.
So we recommend reducing the staff by 10 positions through attrition, which would result in the savings of $700,000 to the district, taking those ten ten positions and, multiplying that times 70,000, which would be the average salary, and benefits. So just to clarify, as we look at the potential reduction student decline in enrollment of 100 to 200 to maybe as many as 300 like worst case scenario, the reduction of 10 positions that are absorbed through attrition,
they really are just meeting next year's decline in enrollment expectations. Is that correct? Yes, sir. So I know that 22 to one is by law, we have to keep that for the elementary. What are the existing, ratios for the intermediate, middle, and high schools compared to what you just showed us? 24 to one at intermediate and middle and 25 to one at high schools. So we're projecting going up by three students per classroom, except for in the high school, up two students.
Okay. And and on the 22 to one at the elementary level, will this drop us below where we're not really pushing or close at looking at a waiver? Yes. If we did the 10 positions as recommended, that way we wouldn't have to file any waivers at the elementary. How many waivers do we have this year in in the elementary? I believe we had, Nine? Nine. Nine. And those nine were or to 23 to one? Yes. Yes. Yes. There hasn't been any waivers above the 23 to one. Correct? That's correct. Yeah. Got it. Okay. Is that it?
Any other questions for miss Kibo? Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Alright. Moving on to nine point four budget workshop. Mister Park, welcome aboard. Forty eight hours on the job? About, I don't know, about six days, but it's counting. Right? That's right. Welcome. Thank you. Excited to be here. You got it? Okay. President Bryan, doctor Glenn, trustees, good evening. I'll be providing an update on the FY '26, budget update. This, item aligns with goal four of the strategic plan. So tonight, I'll be going over a brief, overview of our current,
status, for the 2425, operational year. And then I will give a, overview of the 2526 budget process and then kinda recap, the staffing considerations that, Melanie and HR and I have been working on, and then continue with next steps, and then answer any questions that you have. So currently, for this year of operations, we are looking at, kind of a a slight surplus if you include the, expected, land sale, from from from what was adopted, the, you know, overall kind of balanced budget that we adopted.
So, our our our local, tax collections are coming in a little lower, but that's offset by a slightly lower recapture and also, some expenditure savings, in our in our general fund so far. So, you know, roughly, if we if we still have that, land sale, you know, this fiscal year, then then we are looking at, around a 2 and a half million dollars surplus. Moving on to the 2526, budget. Give a little budget timeline and then also go go over the preliminary revenue and and expenditure assumptions. So, earlier this year,
the the BRAC committee met. We heard we will hear the, recommendations, for the for the BRAC, recommendations, soon. And then also, from June, January through March, you know, we we, the, BRAC committee met and and and provide the recommendations. We have been, internally, discussing salary and staffing, you know, kind of considerations. And then this this past week, I've been kinda running, my preliminary, revenue estimates for, this year as well as next year. So, and then next, starting April through June, we will have department,
budget meetings, and then the campuses will follow after that. I'll provide the the campus allotments, to the principals. Preliminary property values should come out at the April. And then by June, we will have presented, our recommendation for the budget and and then adopt in in, June at the June meeting. And then July through August, the fiscal year twenty six will start July 1. Certified property values will come out, late July, and then in August, we'll go, to adopt our fiscal year twenty six tax rate. So, mister Park,
so when the certified property values come out in July, we'll most likely have to then amend our, approved budget from June. Is that usually how it works since our fiscal year is before, we get the certified property values? Correct. We yes. I mean, hopefully, you know, the estimates are are are pretty close. But Okay. But, you know, if necessary, we'll have to, not divide them in. And then also, you know, the consideration of the of the VITRE, as proposed by the by the BRAC. K. You know, that will have implications on on also what what we adopt and then and then
how we maneuver from there, contingent upon the election. So Okay. Thank you. And you said you were running some preliminary numbers. Just kinda briefly go over what are what are you seeing on it? And I know you're six days in and I'm putting you on the spot. Yeah. Well, this year, I mean, I think we're pretty close. You know, the the the tax collection, the MNO collections seem to be, you know, kinda on target with with with with what I'm estimating. Recapture will kinda be around around where where I'm seeing as well. And then next year,
you know, right now, I just kinda assumed a 7%, property values growth, and just, you know so so I'm so I'm running the the template based on the 7% values growth. And so, you know, I'm trying to, you know, I've kinda put in well, in this slide, we we have an enrollment assumption of 70, 79, 70 three. But I've kinda put in, you know, numbers below that and then and numbers above that. And so, you know, just trying to see kinda what what parameters I'm working with right now. So So may I just Yes.
Because the the tab board put that they're only, like, evaluating properties every two years now. Correct? So there would potentially not be a 7% growth or maybe So the so right now, yeah, we are, as I spoke to to, Jonon, the other day, you know, we are 17%, off market. And so in that case, you know, how I understand it is that, you know, we will be assigned the state's values and so we will be assessed, recapture based on the the the state's values.
And so and so I'm trying to run that, you know, with the state values and and then, you know, we'll have to, see where our, you know, where our local collections will really be and then kinda do a little dance there. So The the values from speaking to the TAD members have to be within 5%. Yep. So right now, we're out of that Out of range. We're Out of that appraisal range. Exactly. I don't wanna say out of compliance. It's not our fault. Grace. Grace is what they call it.
Yeah. So that's where, normally, there would be two, but it it won't be two with the current status. Understood. Yeah. Thank you. So key revenue assumptions, going into next year, we are estimating a decline of 131 students. That's based on what the demographer, projected. And so I'm just keeping that for now. And so our forecast enrollment will be, seventy nine seventy three for fiscal year twenty six. The tier one tax rate will be set for us through the state formula. And then currently, you know, we are,
we have the five golden pennies. And then, you know, any consideration of a VATRE coming up, you know, we'll we'll, change that. And so if we adopt if the board decides to adopt the rate, you know, above, that that tier one plus plus the 5¢, then then that will trigger, the the VATRE election. So, you know, in addition to doing all this, I have spoken with, Mo Casey and and and our financial advisers just trying to get what the timeline of of the Via Taro would be.
So, you know, there there's all the considerations of of hiring the efficiency auditors and and everything like that. So all that would kinda start in May if that is something that that, May and June, if that's something that that that you would like to consider. So, other revenue sources that that, we are forecasting, there will be a slight reduction in, interest income as as interest rates, you know, continue to to decline, you know, over the over the next coming years. We'll have a reduction in shars as well as the the build Bonds rebates.
And then, you know, obviously, you know, a a a portion of our of our budget is is is contingent upon the property sales. And then along with that, we will meet with these apartments and kinda assess continue to assess what what we need to do with with, student bus bus tickets, you know, food food prices and and tickets. So this slide was from the pre from, January. I just kept it in there, but, 77% of our net operating revenue is calculated from the state formula, in in tax collections and and,
recapture and and the TIF. And then the remaining the remaining portion of our general fund budget, revenue wise, is from the child revenue child nutrition revenue, interest, gate, the TRS on behalf, which is kind of a, you know, it's a in and out thing, and then, federal sources like Build America bond, the rebates, and and chars. And the expenditure assumptions, currently, 77% of our general fund budget is, goes to staffing. And so, as Melanie spoke about in the previous item, we are continuing to to examine,
you know, what that staffing plan for next year is looking like. You know, that will be taken to to the board for for approval. And then starting next starting tomorrow, going on for the next about eight days, I will have, zero based budget meetings with with all our departments. And then, you know, those will be and then I I believe, mister Nickel and doctor Glenn will, you know, will sit in on those as necessary, and and, we will finalize that nonexpansion but non nonperroral expended budget. And then, following that, we will issue the initial allotments to the campuses for for their fiscal year.
So and that's based on their their student projections for next year. This slide you've also seen before in January. I just added a last, another column, that is kinda looking at attendance rates since, 2021. I did not put 2020 on there, but but it was almost 97%. So, you know, kinda showing that since COVID, we haven't recovered to the to the rates that that we, were experiencing before COVID. And so, that is important because that is directly tied to to to how much you actually
get funded. You know, you can you can project and, you know, whatever, you know, all you want, but but, you know, that 95% of of the funding, you know, it's a significant, decrease, if you, you know, and so 22% is over a million dollars in funding that we're losing. Yep. So, you know, continue to, you know, work with the principals and and staff to to, you know, incentivize and and, you know, do do what we can to to get the maximum attendance out of our students as possible. And then lastly, going into staffing considerations.
Again, as we discussed, you know, rightsizing through attrition, and then also trying to, deliberate on finding other synergies and inefficiencies that we can in in other areas. And then the last one, you know, considering what kind of compensation increase we can provide our our teachers and staff, you know, based on legislative changes and then also passing the BACRE. Next steps, as I mentioned before, holding budget meetings with with departments and campuses. And then once once the staffing guidelines and staffing plan is approved and,
going in and and and conducting salary negotiations, continuing to track legislative changes, and then determining the timeline for the TA's efficiency audit for the VATRE. And if you have any questions, happy to take it. Mister Parr. Great, presentation, six days in and, already on it. We appreciate that very much. We look forward to working with you, in this budget process, and, we have a lot of lot of work to do and a lot of decisions to make, over the course of just a few months. So, we appreciate you. Thank you. Trustees, do you have any questions or comments for Mr. Park? I think, Mr.
Park, the only one question I would have is more of a curiosity question of the percentage of attendance, so the 97 down to 95%. Is that pretty is there any data that shows how that looks statewide? Yes. It's it's I believe by and large, it's pretty consistent throughout, you know, a lot of districts in the state. You know, just after COVID, we just haven't seen seen the same same rates. You know, HP, where I was before, is is is trying to recover to, you know, to almost, you you know, what they were at before COVID,
but but they still have a little bit to go. But, again, you know, we've you know, whenever the attendance taking time is, you know, if you can have your have your students in in the classroom at that time, And so, you know, in the past, we've we've we've urged, you know, principals and, you know, to put out to the community to, you know, if you have an appointment, you know, go in the afternoon. You know, and so and so at least at least you can, you know, check check check yourself off on the attendance. So, you know, that's that is statewide,
it's a it's a pretty pretty solid trend, so. Thank you, mister Park. Appreciate it. Alright. Moving on to our discussion action portion of the of the meeting. Item 10.1, discussion possible action including adoption of a resolution approving the sale of real property. Doctor Glenn? Thank you, mister president, trustees. We discussed this at our last meeting. As you know, we had a default on the property, which is, the old CIS, building. Tonight, we bring before you a resolution to declare that property surplus and to get it back out on the market. So as,
as required by state law, we need your approval for that, in the form of resolution. We will also get the, required appraisals of the property, to set the minimum bid. And, and then at such time as it is, available, we will bring any bids back to you for your consideration. Alright. I move that this Board approve the property, which is the Southeast Corner of East Highland and North Carol Avenue and the East Highland Street, both of those properties in Southlake. We declare those to be properties that are surplus and authorize the administration to advertise
the properties for sale. Second. We have a motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn, Trustee Yeager. Item number 10.2, consider approval of requests for qualifications for property broker services. Doctor. Glenn? Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. And, again, just a continuation of the action you just took. We would like to go out for, and request qualifications for brokers to help, assist us with the sale of this district property, and possible surplus property in the future. So ideally, what we'd like is to create a pool of brokers that the district,
will be able to use, that are qualified, in this area. We are required by law to post in the newspaper, but, as you know, if we can use a broker to get out of broader reach, that's, to the advantage of the district as we try and maximize our profits. Yep. Great idea, Doctor. Glenn. I move that for this board to approve a proposed RFQ for property broker services to be published. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Trustee Yeager. Item number 10.3, consider approval of budget reduction,
advisory committee final recommendations. Doctor. Glenn? Thank you, mister president. Before spring break, I went through a detailed account of the BRACS recommendation. I won't, give you that again tonight, but certainly to anyone watching that didn't hear that, you can go back and, watch the video of it or capture it, on the district website, to review the whole plan for yourself. I do want to thank all the members of the BRAC, who may be listening or watching tonight. We appreciate their hard work. We had a large committee made up of community members, administrators, teachers, parents, that really, took the time to to dive deep into the district's financial situation.
Also, I wanna credit, trustees, unlike, districts that are having to to look at mass layoffs right now and, and close, a significant number of campuses, we're we're fortunate that through your leadership and your stewardship, the BRAC was able to adopt a five year plan. Now, the the committee was was pretty heavily in favor of front loading that plan, not kicking things down the road that we can solve today. And so you're gonna see us, pay close attention to what happens in this legislative session. We're gonna pay close attention to enrollment trends in the district, and then certainly, we're gonna be right sizing accordingly and then looking for areas where we can maximize
our savings. And, those exist, not only in the form of cuts, but also in the form of revenues as Mr. Park mentioned in his presentation, ideas like a possible VATRE to maximize state dollars. Thank you. Doctor. Glenn? I move that this board approve the Budget Reduction Advisory Committee, the BRAC's, final present recommendations as presented. Second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Before we go on to the next item, Doctor. Glenn, based on this six-zero vote,
would you please go ahead and start the steps necessary to moving forward with year one of the BRAC recommendations and then report back to this board at one of our, meetings in April to, start creating a plan to to move forward with how we are going to measure up against our deficits that we're projecting knowing that our legislative body down in Austin is gonna do very little for public education, during this legislative session. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Item 10.4,
consider approval of amendment to the academic planning guide and grading system for off campus physical activity program, Miss Petty. Yes. If you will recall, last month, I was here, and I did ask if we could amend our APG. We were looking at our off campus physical activities, and what we would like to do is we would like to to remove them from being pass, fail, add a numerical grade, and that would be for grades nine and ten. If they so chose if students so chose to take a waiver for their eleventh and twelfth grade year,
they could they would not be required to. So we are seeking approval for this amendment. I move that this board approves the amendment as presented to the academic planning guide and the grading system for the off campus physical activity as proposed. Second. Motion and second. Further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries. Six to zero. Thank you, Ms. Petty. Perfect. Thank you. Item 10.5, consider approval of acquisition of K through 12 instructional materials and K 12 library materials. Miss Petty? Yes. I was here on February 24 and I brought forward our,
K 12 acquisition list of both our resources and our library classrooms And I it had we have gone through our thirty day wait period, and I am seeking approval for this, these two lists. Yeah. Thank you, Ms. Penny. I approve, I move that this board approve the acquisition of K-twelve instructional materials and K-twelve library materials as presented. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. Thank you, Ms. Petty. Thank you. Moving on to 10.6, consider approval of the memorandum of understanding between Carroll ISD and McMurray University,
Texas Women's University, and Texas Tech University for the Distinguished High School Partnership Program. Miss Petty? Yes. We are thrilled to be coming to you tonight to to with to share with you what doctor Glenn had brought with him. If you may recall, doctor Glenn brought with him the, or brought the the program, the distinguished program with him. We have Tarleton as part of that program and Howard Payne as part of that program. We now we have now gotten we are working with McMurray for their MOU. We are also working with ACU.
We are working with Texas Tech University, Texas Women's University, and we are in works with with Missouri, with the University of Missouri. We have not. That is still in legal right now, but I wanted you to know that ICU and MISU will be coming on board with us. So what this program does is it gives our students a preferred admission process. So what happens is whenever our students who are high scoring students and they want to enter into these universities, these universities have worked with us and they aren't working with just all school districts.
They are working with us because they recognize our level of rigor that we have for our students and so if if these are approved, we would like to start celebrating as soon as possible and start recognizing these colleges for working with us because I do feel like these these are outstanding universities, and our kids will go to these universities. So we're thrilled to be partnering with them. Yep. Thank you, miss Petty, and, thank you, doctor Glenn, for your leadership in bringing this program, to Carroll ISD. We're all super excited, about this. I had no idea this even existed until you,
you know, brought your relationships, to our district and, is showing in great success. Thank you. Yeah. And I wanna give credit where it's due. You know, we, we were able to get Tarleton on board and, and it was a great partnership for Tarleton as they went out and started recruiting other school districts. But truly, Gina Petty, has taken it to the next level. So now we have three three d one partners when we get Mizzou and Texas Tech. And so I really wanna make sure she gets the credit for Texas Tech and and Mizzou especially because, I kinda gave her that, charge, like, go out and see if we can land a big fish and, and she landed two,
really big ones. And so great job, Gina, helping to take this program to the next level. Outstanding, miss Petty. Thank you. Thank you. Miss Petty, before I make a motion here, just curious, we've got a lot of seniors, I guess about 700 of them. Some of them might be interested. What is the timing for this program? Are seniors this year able to work with these universities? Yes. We are yes. As soon as we get our MOU signed, then we can we will go back with them and then we will start the process. Okay. Wonderful. Well, I'm very, thank you so much for your work and I'm proud to, make a motion that the board approve these,
MOUs, memorandums of understanding between Carol ASD, McMurray University, Texas Woman's University, Texas Tech University. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, miss Patty. Thank you. Great job. Alright. Item 10.7, consider approval of dual credit program instructional agreement between Tarrant County College District Carroll Independent School District. Last one, Ms. Petty. Yes, it is. Yes, we would like we are seeking approval for our MOU with TCC. We have worked with them. They do provide a lot of our in person dual credit courses that we're taking,
so we are seeking approval for that MOU. I move that the dual credit program instructional agreement between Tarrant County College District and Carroll ISD be approved as presented. Second. We have a motion and second. Any further discussion on the call? Okay. Question. Trustee Sexton. Sorry. So so I think this is a great program, and I I'm really happy to see it here. I I do wonder how we manage the staff that is provided by Yes. We've done yes. We have worked we've talked to I've said I've had numerous meetings with TCC and
we have worked on that as well. The programs the universities that I presented just a few minutes ago, we are going to be working with them on dual credit programs as well. Excellent. So they are especially like TW has a program that will work with our teachers. Right now, the problem that we have is our staff don't have the qualifications to be adjunct professors and so what TWU has said is they will offer scholarships. They have a zero, zero debt promise program. I can't remember exactly the title. Anyway,
so they will work with our teachers so that they could become dual credit teachers as well. So that's gonna take that's a year out and then working with them, but, again, we appreciate these these partnerships. We are I am in the process of talking to Texas Tech. Texas Tech is has a has a, a building that's in Las Colinas right off of 161, and we are working with them to see if we can get some dual credit options. That's not far for our kids to go. So we are looking to see if we can work more closely with them. They don't have the dual credit program up and running at this point in time,
but they are talking to us about it. Miss Petty, you've done such a good job. You know, there's some property that I mean, there. That's actually the Southlake branch of Texas Tech. Thank Thank you for bringing that up, Trustee Sexton. Thank you, Ms. Petty, for, answering that. I think that's a great, great idea. So, Trustee Yggs? I think we just approved the dual credit program, right? Is there any other one? I think we just need to vote. Okay. So we just need to vote. Oh, yeah. I just move that this board approve the dual credit program instructional agreement between Tarrant County College District and Carroll ISD as presented. Second. Okay. Motion is second.
All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Sorry about that. Thanks, miss K. I don't believe it's getting lost. Okay. Just because we really like it, we said it twice. That's right. All right. Moving on. 10.8, consider approval of acquisition of technology resources. Mister Stewart. Yes. School of trustees, if you remember, we discussed this at the previous board meeting. If approved, this would, renew our firewall and Internet filters for the district as well as, our cybersecurity firmware and support protections for all of our switches and servers that are spread throughout the whole district, as well as our antivirus and EDR endpoint detection response cybersecurity protection systems,
as well as replace, failing computers, that are hands of our staff, staff laptops, office personnel desktops that are failing, and CTE program desktops, as well as Chromebooks for grades seven and eight. It does not include, devices for nine through through 12 that we're moving towards BYOD with. So, are there any questions? How many Chromebooks are we purchasing with this? I don't have that number off the top of my head. Equal to the student populations of grades four and seven is what we'd based on the the latest enrollment numbers.
635,000 worth. Well, that's for the staff devices. It's really 420 some thousand of Chromebooks. And and and I know you They're much cheaper now. Yeah. As we switch to Chromebooks, they're, we bid this out through RFP. So if you remember the number, when I brought it to you last time was higher, it's just more than a hundred thousand dollars less this time because we finished our our RFPs that went for bid. And we've got a great pricing of $360 per Chromebook. And so much more cost effective solution than we've had. And we've heard,
I think all of us in our school visits, we've heard some really positive things for teachers, parents, staff. They really like them. I mean, essentially, they're just there's less things to get off task with and mess around with. And so you just locked you in. You've got the Chrome browser, and you can do all the all the all the instructional resources you need in that tool, but not other things like games and stuff like that. I move that this board approve the purchase of technology resources, including network infrastructure, cybersecurity protections, and devices at a cost not to exceed $1,100,000 Second. Motion and second.
Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. Thank you, Mr. Stewart. Appreciate it. Alright, last agenda item is consent agenda. I move to approve the consent agenda. Second. Motion and second. All in favor? Motion carries six to zero. If no objection, we will adjourn this meeting at 08:13PM. Thank you, board.