All right. Good afternoon. We'll call this regular meeting of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees to order on April 28th, 2025, at 5 p.m.. First agenda item is executive session. Therefore, we will adjourn to executive session in accordance with Texas Government Code 551.071, 551.072, 551.074, 551.076 and 551.0821 at 5 p.m.. All right. Good evening everyone. We will call this meeting back to order at 6 p.m.. Our next agenda item is the opening prayer, pledges of Allegiance.
A 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 thank the Emerald Bells Booster Club for their support, fostering teamwork and pride in our students. 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. In Jesus Christ's name that we pray. Amen. Doctor Holloway. Mr. Holloway. Good evening. Carroll ISD board of Trustees, Superintendent Glenn and other members of the Carroll ISD community.
I am Neil Mehta, and I'm a fourth grader and a member of the Kindness Ambassadors at Jackie Johnson Elementary School. On behalf of our school, thank you for giving us the opportunity to share about our school with you. Jackie Johnson Elementary School is named after Jackie Johnson Carroll, its first superintendent. He was very instrumental in building Carroll ISD's success. He was hired in 1957 as principal of the Carroll Common School District, and appointed a superintendent in 1959, and held the position for 28 years. During his time at Carroll ISD, he wore many hats teacher,
principal coach, part time custodian, lunchroom supervisor, and bus driver. He was truly someone who embodies servant leadership. In 1981, Johnson Elementary School was opened and named in his honor. Thank you. I'm Emma Anderson, and I'm a fourth grade student. And like Neal, I am also a member of the Kindness Ambassadors, along with my other friends here who will be speaking. One of the things that makes Johnson Elementary School special is Kindness Ambassadors.
Kindness ambassadors is a leadership group of fourth grade students who apply in September and if selected, by fourth grade teachers and our school counselor, Miss Bailey, began serving our school throughout the year. Our biggest service day was Grandparents and Special Persons Day. We all dressed in our best and were available to host our student body's family before Thanksgiving. We love to celebrate others, and we have loved creating special moments for our staff, like celebrating our librarian, Miss Pack on Librarian's Day, or participating in a dress up week to celebrate our assistant principal,
Miss Williams. Mostly, our job is to include every student in what we are trying to accomplish, making our school the kindest and most inviting space where everyone knows they matter and belong. Hi, I'm Miles Colvin and I'll be sharing about our Dragon code and why we say it every day. The Dragon code focuses on core values of our student body doing the right thing, respecting others, acting with kindness, giving our best work, offering help, and never giving up. From kindergarten to fourth grade, our students know the Dragon code and are reminded regularly to do these things. We use the Dragon code to earn what we call Dragon Diamonds.
These are words earned by students for the fall for following the Dragon code. Each Friday we have a Dragon Diamond drawing, where one student from each grade gets recognized for their following of the Dragon code. Students then get to choose a prize from our Dragon Diamond Rewards provided by two of our JES parents, Mrs. Sneed and Mrs. Moore. You should hear the cheers from the classrooms when the students name gets called. This is a big deal. It gives us the opportunity to celebrate each other for doing the right thing, or offering help to a classmate or a teacher, and the list goes on.
Before we begin our pledge, please join us as we say, the Dragon Code. I'm a dragon. I do the right thing. Respect others. Act with kindness. Give our best work. Offer help. Never give up. We are strong. We are smart. We are kind. We are JES. Hi, I'm Calum Stacey and please join me in saying the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America,
and to the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Now, please join me in saying the pledge to the Texas flag. Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee. Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Please join me for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. That was a great job by our students. We appreciate you guys. We have a little entertainment for you to finish up the JES night at the school board meeting.
This is Mrs. Campbell, one of our fourth grade teachers. It's her class. They've been in music rotation this 12 weeks, I guess, or about eight weeks into it now. And so they're going to perform a little song for us tonight. [music] Don't worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be all right. Don't worry about a thing.
Cause every little thing is gonna be all right. Rise up this morning. Smile with the rising sun. Three little birds perched by my doorstep. Sing a sweet song a melody pure and true. Singing this is my message to you. Singing. Don't worry bout a thing. Cause every little thing
is gonna be all right. Don't worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be all right. Rise up this morning. Smile with the rising sun. Three little birds by my doorstep. Sing a sweet song a melody pure and true. Singing this is my message to you.
Singing. Don't worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be all right. Don't worry about a thing. Every little thing is gonna be all right. Don't worry about a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be all right.
Don't worry bout a thing. Cause every little thing is gonna be all right. Every little thing is gonna be all right. Everything is gonna be all right. [applause] Always an outstanding job by our students. Thank you, Mr. Holliday, for bringing those students. Always entertained at Johnson Elementary School.
Good job. You bet. So I have to say, I guess, you know, we started this. What, last year or was it two years ago? And it never disappoints. And we always, like, love to learn about our schools and what they were they're named after. And we love seeing our students entertain and say the pledges. And it just means so much to this board and our superintendent. So we appreciate all of our campuses and we can't wait till see what happens next month.
Next up on the agenda is item 4.2. We every regular meeting every month, we recognize our inspire excellent teachers and employee and super substitute of the month. And so to start us off, we'll Doctor Davis. Good evening, board President Bryan, Doctor Glenn. We are so proud to celebrate Jim Kleinman, our fourth grade math and science teacher from Walnut Grove as the Inspire Excellence Award winner. Jennifer exemplifies what it means to be an outstanding educator with a deep passion for teaching,
unwavering dedication, and fantastic sense of humor. She creates an engaging and supportive classroom where every student feels seen, heard, and valued. Jen's impact goes far beyond the curriculum. She is committed to preparing her students not just for fourth grade, but for life. Her thoughtful approach to teaching excellent teaching fosters confidence, resilience, and a love for learning in every child she meets. As a mentor to fellow educators, Jen has shared her knowledge and positivity freely, always uplifting those around her. Her smile is contagious, and her presence brings joy to both students and staff alike.
She has blessed Carol ISD with more than 15 years of her as a beloved educator. One parent even shared, Miss Kleinman is an excellent, exceptional teacher. We were very blessed to have her as our son's fourth grade teacher. She successfully prepared her students for not one, but their biggest transition in their school life. Beyond educational topics, she prepared them to be independent, confident, well-behaved students ready to start their intermediate education at Durham. And then we just want to congratulate Jen with our truly is a truly inspiring excellence teacher.
Congratulations. All right, Miss Lewis, you're up next. Good evening, Doctor Glenn, President Bryan and members of the Board of Trustees, it is my honor to present to you our Inspire Excellence teacher, Miss Holly Roberts. [applause] Mrs.
Roberts joined Carroll Middle School in August of 2022, and from the moment she arrived, our campus was infused with new energy, contagious laughter and unforgettable stories. Her passionate approach to teaching ensures that students not only learn, but have fun every single day. Whether she's stepping up for the dunk tank at Dragon Bash or diving headfirst into staff games at our pep rallies, Holly never misses a chance to bring smiles to her students and to us at Carroll Middle School. In her very first year, Mrs. Roberts taught our career and investigations classes, where she excelled at community outreach.
She helped coordinate weekly guest speakers from our incredible Southlake parent community. Students were introduced to a wide variety of careers and opportunities that broadened their horizons. Seeing the students enthusiasm during her architecture unit of career and investigations. Holly came to me with a vision. She wanted to create a dedicated architecture class and with her initiative, creativity and drive the course was born and students interest skyrocketed just like the housing market. Students now eagerly anticipate projects such as designing floor plans, building miniature houses,
reimagining Disney layouts, and crafting Halloween sculptures. Holly has even partnered with our nutrition and wellness classes before to bake gingerbread walls for the students. Architecture models. She truly is interdisciplinary experiences. She involves the entire staff in voting and rewarding these young architects, making it a full campus celebration. Two comments I'd like to read to you today. Holly Roberts doesn't just teach a class. She inspires her students to push the boundaries of their creativity, knowledge, and imagination.
She goes beyond simply delivering lessons by taking the time to work individually with each student, offering personalized guidance and encouragement. This one on one attention helps students develop their unique ideas and nurtures their confidence in pursuing truly original architectural designs. Additionally, Holly creates a classroom environment where students feel safe, supported, and valued. The strong relationships she built with students foster a sense of trust and care. Another person wrote during an architecture project, my daughter was unsure of how to approach her design,
and Holly Roberts guided her through the process by spending one on one time with her. My daughter is very interested in pursuing a career in architecture, and having a teacher who took the time to ensure she understood the fundamentals early on while she still was learning, truly encouraged her. For those of you that come to the best place on earth, Carroll Middle School, you can always find Holly being a friendly face at our Dragon that you never step on during passing periods. Holly, thank you for being a top notch Carroll Middle School dragon and inspiring excellence
every day. Congratulations. [applause] Okay, next up is our Inspire Excellence employee of the month, Mr. Bennett. Good evening. My name is Jim Bennett. I am the director of transportation here at Carroll ISD. And I come before you this evening to introduce Mr. Joey Falatea. [applause] Pause for applause. Joey started
in Carroll ISD as a classroom aide in. Well, you know, I found out just a few minutes ago he was more specifically, he was a PE aide where he made quite the impression on his colleagues. He started in 2000, and then he transferred over to the transportation department. He's actually been driving with us since 2006. His colleagues describe him as well-liked, respected and always willing to take on any task
with enthusiasm. He's one of our safety trainers. His training philosophy is very student centered. I would say he puts students first in everything he does. He is a natural leader. Many in the transportation department consider him their mentor. We are very fortunate to have him on our team, and I am honored and grateful for the opportunity to introduce him here tonight. Congratulations. Congrats. Okay, Mr. Holliday, you are up with the
Dragon super substitute of the month. Well, good evening again. I just want to thank all of our JES parents for showing up here tonight. And thank you guys for the opportunity to come and brag about our school a little bit. And our students, we have amazing students and amazing community, and we're just so proud of them. So I'm glad they got to come up here tonight and spend a little time for you. Good evening. Mr. Bryan, Doctor Glenn, board of trustees and district leadership team. First before I get started with our award, I want to thank all the substitute teachers across the district for all they do for our campuses.
Yes. They're valued more than they have any idea. So we're so I'm so thankful for all of them. But tonight I'm honored to recognize an outstanding individual who has truly become an irreplaceable part of our family. Our Dragon super substitute of the month, Mrs. Lori Heil. Lori is the kind of person every school dreams of having on their team. Time and time again. She's shown outstanding reliability, a positive attitude, and an unwavering dedication to supporting both our students and our
staff. Whether stepping in at a moment's notice or filling a long term substitute position. How many have you done? Yeah, five long term substitutes. We would be in trouble. Our teachers wouldn't be able to have children if it wasn't for Lori. So she approaches every assignment with her heart care and professionalism of a full time teacher. So my teachers, I ask them to give me some comments about her, and they describe her simply as a rock star, someone who consistently goes above and beyond. She not only follows lesson plans with excellence, but also connects deeply with our students,
maintaining a classroom environment where every child feels supported, respected, and cared for. In moments when our staff needs her support the most, whether that being during maternity leave, an illness or an unexpected absence, Lori is always there. One teacher put it best. In all my years as a teacher, Lori is the best sub I've ever had. And another one said, it's such a relief knowing my class is in such capable hands. So tonight, I'm proud to recognize Lori Heil as our Dragon Super Substitute of the month. Lori. Your dedication, your heart, and your excellence have not gone unnoticed.
You make us a better place every time you walk through our doors. Thank you for everything you do. And congratulations on this. Congratulations. [applause] Thank you, Nicole. All right. Next on the agenda is item 4.5. Board recognition of the Emerald Bells booster club. We do this once a month. We decided that, you know, it's so important that we have booster clubs and the financial situation that this district is in. And we're so appreciative of every booster club that that helps our extracurricular teams and activities you know,
meet their financial needs and everything else. So we're very happy to have the Emerald Bells booster club tonight. Maggie Fuller, the president. Tell us a little bit about your club and what you're all about. Thank you. Thank you so much, President Brian and Doctor Glenn and the whole board for inviting us to come speak tonight. My name is Maggie Fuller, and my daughter is Lucy. She's this year's current captain and I am the booster club president. Along here with me is VP Lisa Fraga, our incoming president as of next week.
Also Michelle Brickner, who is our current secretary and will be the vice president next year, and Saber Manchek, who is our treasurer this year. And then again next. It's a two year commitment. So we thank you ladies for joining. I appreciate it. The Emerald Belles Booster Club is a 50 1C3 organization dedicated to supporting the renowned Emerald Belles drill team. The Booster Club plays a crucial role in enhancing the experience of the Drill Team members by organizing fundraising events, coordinating volunteer efforts, and fostering community spirit.
I think it just went ahead and advanced without me, but I don't, I don't know. It's okay though. There's just the three slides. I think it's a squirrel. Oh, okay. I haven't touched it, but I guess it just it went ahead. You all. This is it right here. You see it all? I apologize. Through these activities, the club helps provide financial support for the team's costumes, travel expenses, and competition fees. Moreover, the booster club acts as a vital link between the team, parents and the broader community, ensuring that the accomplishments of the Emerald Belles are celebrated and recognized with a focus on the Emerald Belles motto,
which is be kind, be a Belle. The Booster Club seeks to support both the drill team and the community that it serves. This is where slide two comes in. Maybe if I scroll up here. This is just a picture of the girls. Yeah. The Emerald Belles are currently numbered at 81 girls from freshmen to senior. And our directors are Melissa Page and Kathryn Debrow. The Belles dance at all varsity football games in the regular season and in the playoffs. And then after that, the girls switch gears for the spring semester and turned to competitive dance and other dancing opportunities.
We are so fortunate to have a director like Melissa Page, who's been our director for 28 years and seeks out engaging and interesting opportunities for our girls. And we thank our administrators, specifically, Ryan Wilson, principal of CSHS, and Christina Benhoff, principal at CHS, who was a chaperon for travel this year. Both of their support is crucial. This year alone, the bells could be found dancing alongside the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders at a Cowboys game. They danced at halftime at a Dallas Mavericks game, traveled to San Marcos, Texas, to compete in a dance competition,
and they recently danced aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship, serving as entertainment for the guests aboard. All of these exciting opportunities require the support of a robust booster club, and that's where we come in. We have 100% membership in our booster club. It is voluntary, but we find that everybody chooses to join. Those who love creative outlets and event planning gravitate towards committees like our girls annual holiday tea. The special dad daughter bowling event and our beautiful end of year banquet celebration. The Booster Club raises funds and provides an excellent community event each fall with the annual Junior Bell Clinic.
This event gives young girls in the community an opportunity to train with the Bells and perform at a junior varsity game. It's a much beloved tradition in this town, and many of our current Belles attended these clinics when they were younger. We have a sponsorship drive in the fall which further fosters community relations. We love our sponsors and I think they also enjoy having the sponsorship posters in their places of business. In addition to this, our organization is able to give back. We have a committee called Belle Care that seeks to support any Bell family who is undergoing difficult circumstances.
And as a booster club, we were recently able to donate to The Color Run from one of our sister drill teams, the Colleyville Panteras, which was supporting efforts against human trafficking. The girls ran in this fun event and we as a booster club were able to support them financially in this endeavor. Our girls are heavily involved in service opportunities and together completed over 2115 service hours this year and we as a booster club look for ways to support them. The Booster Club pays for costumes, meals and travel expenses for our girls and for competitions.
Additionally, each spring when our annual team Officer and Social Officer tryouts are offered, we supply adequate funding to secure qualified judges to come and ensure a fair tryout for all. And we are also a social club. We host tailgates before football games, provide space for community bonding amongst team and parents. I've raised two dragons, both of whom were Emerald Belles and as my time in this organization concludes with my daughter's upcoming graduation, I am so grateful for the parents that I met and got to volunteer with. Our shared purpose of supporting these girls and having fun while doing it has created lifelong friendships and a true sense of community.
Thank you again for the invitation to share about the Emerald Belles. Thank you, Miss Fuller, and thank you for your board officers for being here and spending your time this evening away from your families. We surely appreciate everything that you guys are doing for this award winning program. It's just truly amazing. We have an Emerald Belle on our board right here. Trustee Stacy. How long ago was that Trustee Stacy, should I ask? Is it a few a few years ago. Right. Yeah. So you know, we as a board and as a district want to support our booster clubs.
The parental engagement is so very important that that's why it makes our district so great the way that we are. What can we do as a board to assist your booster club specifically, is there anything that you guys need from us? Whether it be support, whether it be, you know, whatever. I think that's an excellent question. Ladies, do you have any ideas? I think, you know, we've we have felt the support of this community and so just continued support. You know Mrs. Page is very well connected due to her professionalism and the reputation that she has.
And sometimes that affords some really great opportunities. So I think probably just continuing to be open to the myriad of things that she brings into the arena, which is because it's a real draw. I think that people in this community, you know, you hear about kids coming to the school for the football program or whatever, but I've heard of people moving here for the bells as well. They're a real asset to this community. So I think just continuing to do as you've done and support the bells and, and all of the things that they do. Excellent.
Yeah. We're so lucky to have Miss Paige. Yeah Have her for so long. And we hope that she's here for many, many more years to come. Any questions for Miss Fuller? No, I mean, just. I think you're right. You know, we talk about our athletics and drill team. I'm sort of surprised. Is there any talk that it ever will be a UIL? I am, I am unaware of talk that there is is going to be. I know that at the collegiate level, sometimes dance programs are starting to be under the athletic departments at schools. And so, you know, perhaps that trend will continue in the high school levels.
I'm not, but I don't know. Well, it should be I if it was I mean, we would never relinquish the Lone Star Cup. What you do, I just want to say thank you for what you do is wonderful. And it is just it's a gem of a program for our town, so thank you. Thank you. We have a lot of parental support. It's a really incredible group of parents and we're very appreciative. So it's a it's a testament really is to your booster club and the parents. You said 100% involvement, which is unheard of even here in this district. So we really appreciate you and thank you for your time tonight. Almost every parent volunteers across several committees as well.
It's just really a very parent heavy program, which we appreciate. So thank you so much for being here. Thank you guys for being here. Thank you. We appreciate you. Well done. Yeah. All right. Next up on our agenda is item number five. Public comments. This evening we have two speakers signed up to speak. We'll give each speaker three minutes. Miss Shelton, will you please call the first speaker? Yes. The first speaker this evening is Tim Schuetz. Good evening. My name is Tim Schultz, father of a junior and resident of Southlake for 40 years.
Trustee superintendent. I am here again for the fourth time to address this topic about the importance of improving our student learning environment and mental health. We have worked hard on our financial position. We had a great committee. We came up with great programs to make sure we aren't in debt. However, since my last presentation four weeks ago, I have heard virtually nothing about school use of phones for ninth through 12th grade. I understand the under eight program very good.
I've been to the programs. I've been to the health committee. We have a program this week, all grades one through eighth. Why? Other schools in North Texas have stepped up to this difficult band and completely band schools. Keller complete band. From the day they walk from the morning they walk in till through lunch to the end of the day. I was able and including Grand Prairie and in fact, Grand Prairie has yonder patches that lock down so the kids can't use them whether they
wanted to or not. And other school districts. Grapevine. Plano. However, I went to find a super a person that has actually done this in North Texas. The results are amazing. Cell phones and Bluetooth devices have completely banned including lunch. Kids and parents of some kicked and screamed for a week or so. Overall discipline improved almost immediately. Now they did have 1200 disciplinary actions. And including five day suspensions from school.
No monetary fine. The teachers saw the difference immediately. The pushback was not as widespread as they anticipated. There were no monetary fines. It was just discipline, but it was serious discipline. They put signs up around the school. They do have to transfer kids. They monitor the kids coming off the bus, made sure they didn't have any headphones in to make sure, and they got disciplinary action if they came off the bus. A recent study. Oh my favorite. The kids went back to passing paper notes to communicate during the day.
Guess that doesn't cause many problems, because a paper note cannot be duplicated very easily. A recent study teenagers admit 48% of them admitted that it's impacting their mental health. We have done nothing for ninth through 12th grades. Now is the time to make the tough decision. There are bills in the state going through right now. Mr. Schutz, your time is up. I didn't get a warning. I'm sorry. Once again, I look forward to my daughter coming home and telling me, what did you do?
I cannot use my phone at school. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Schutz. The second and final speaker is Ray Samadani. Good afternoon, evening. My name is Ray Samadani. I live at one 402 Park Place. I love Southlake. I am very appreciative of what you as a board do. You know the administrators, the teachers? I'm the father of three graduates here from South Lake Carroll, so I'm really proud of that. I was just I have a concern that I hope.
And I think you can address it's the use of the P.A. system, the loud the loudspeaker system over at the at the softball field at Carroll High School. It's fairly new over there. You know, they used to play it somewhere else. But I'm just hoping you could just listen to me just for a couple of minutes and just maybe what my concern is, and in speaking with the coaches, the parents, the neighbors, the administrators, Ryan Wilson has been fantastic. He's helped me out quite a bit. And he's been willing to, to help quite a bit. But right now it seems like there are no guidelines in place for when and how loud that that PA and loudspeaker system
can be, can be used. And it's just it's a lot. I'm going to play you here just a quick 12 second peep, this is from my backyard. Oh, you can't hear that. I don't know if you can hear it. I didn't ask you the microphone. See if that helps. This is from my backyard. Oops. I'm sorry. I can bring it up there if you want to. It's very. It's very audible. That I can tell you. I can tell you when I'm sitting in my living room,
I can hear the noise. And listen, the people running that system, their parents, right. They want to do good for the parents and for the grandparents and maybe some of the friends that are sitting there, but it's like listening to the loudspeaker at Globe Life. I mean, it is just they crank it up as hard as, as high as they can. And it's because there are no specific guidelines that, that, that are set. What I'm asking is just that I know softball is now done, but I'm hoping you could look at just what those guidelines should be in terms of when
they can actually use the loudspeaker system and how loud they can play it. It's just, I mean, it's excessive. That's out there. I mean, I can go on and on here, but, that's really all that I'm that I'm looking at. Ryan Wilson's been great. He's come out. We actually tried to set some of the guidelines. That was when a previous person was doing it. They brought it down, but now it's the parents doing it again. And they don't know. It's not intentional, but they just they want to be a DJ, right? So they crank it all the way up and I can hear it again inside of my house.
I'm asking you just to please consider setting some specific guidelines on when and how loud that those speakers can be set. Absolutely. Doctor Glenn, will you jot that down for you? It'd be great if we can get an email from you this first that we've heard of this, so it'd be awesome. [multiple speakers] I can tell you, I speak we're going to take an IOU to the neighbors that are there. I mean, it's everybody hears it, and it's great if you're sitting in the stands, but it's not great if you're coming home from work or your kids trying to go to sleep or,
you know, it's just you're trying to relax in the evening, I'm glad, who would I send an email to send an email to me. Doctor Glenn. Yep. Okay. jeremy.glenn@ southlake.carroll.net Glad to do it. If you could just take a look at that, that would be great. Again, I'm in support of all the. And this is this is like more than just ball games. It's practices and things like that as well. I was sitting outside today at 12 or I was I heard some noise and I opened up my back door and Ozzy Osbourne was playing Crazy Train and I was like, hey, I like a little Ozzy.
But it was again, you just have a kid or you have somebody, they just plug in their iPhone and they crank it up. And it's just it is what it is. It's reasonable. I made a note. It's just reasonable on behalf of the neighbors just to balance that out because it's very loud. Absolutely. Thank you. Thank you for coming. Thank you so much. I will send you the email. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. We'll move on to item number six on our agenda, which is consideration and possible action on any matters addressed in Executive Session. Item 6.1 is consider and take possible action on personnel report.
Yes. I move that this board approve the contract of new personnel as presented in executive session. Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries 4 to 0. Okay, moving on to item 6.2. Consider and take possible action on professional contracts. I move that the board approve the professional contracts as presented in executive session. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries 4 to 0. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. We don't have any further items to take consideration on.
In executive session. So we'll move on to item number seven, which is the president's report. 7.1 is committee reports. Do we have any committee reports? I have two. Trustee Stacy. President Bryan. Okay. So the first one is we had a district advisory meeting, so a DAC meeting on April 1st, and we were going to have Miss Parsons come in for special education update, but she was actually hosting her own special programs action team in another room. And so we were able to go over the district improvement plans from each campus, which matched the campus ones,
matched the district improvement plan, which was great. And then we also were able to have some discussion around our PD days, what was coming up and really what was needed. And it seemed like the theme in that meeting and Trustee Bottom was with me was we have horizontal alignment. It's the vertical alignment coming down from the top all the way down to the bottom. That seems to be the trickiest part. Especially when you're doing a PD day, it's very hard to have everyone in the same core content, like trying to get vertically aligned. So I know that they're brainstorming, they're trying to figure out how they can make that work.
And that's a huge thing for us. And then we had a special programs action team for strategic for our strategic plan at the same time. And so I'm going to go over a couple notes here. And so we ended up getting to meet with Miss Parsons and her team on goal one. Objective three. There are about eight out of 11 members present for the meeting. This is the first meeting for the committee due to the Brac committee meetings in the fall, and the committee is tasked to evaluate the programs that serve identified populations and create opportunities tailored to student needs and special education.
504 ESL and pre-K strategy 1.3.1 is to ensure compliance to support and promote standards and best practices for identified populations. The district continues to maintain 100% compliance on indicator 11, which measures the timely completion of initial evaluations and initial ARD meetings. Which is good. And then strategy 1.3.2, which is evaluate effectiveness and alignment for programs with identified populations and develop plans to include best
practices for SPD 504, dyslexia, pre-K and ESL. The committee discussed the results driven accountability, which is RDA data that measures numerous factors specific to special education, which dyslexia is included, and ESL. RDA gives the RDA data, gives the district performance levels RPL in areas that address academics, graduation, least restrictive environment identification and behavior, and the Pls are from a 0 to 4 with zero being the
best. RSD received 16 performance levels of zero two performance levels of one and no performance levels of 3 or 4. There also was one thing that I did want to share on one of our strategies. There is a strategy which is. Sorry, I really did want to share this with y'all. Let me see where it was. One of our strategies is the creation of framework for Special Programs task force to monitor and maintain ongoing
compliance through a Public Accountability Compliance Scorecard. And Miss Parsons may correct me, but I. I don't think that's actually a measure that we could actually measure, am I correct? Is she in here? Okay. I think that was something that was in the strategic plan that when she was able to get her eyes on it and really start looking, she was like, that is not something that you can actually measure. It was the what? The second one. The second one. Okay. And so anyway, just having that insight to where she could share that with us, that was great because we had not heard that that is something that you cannot measure. So they were two great committee meetings.
Thank you. Trustee Stacy, Trustee Yeager. Anything to report? Trustee Bottom. Actually, I just, I just want to add you did a fantastic job covering both of those committees. Just to the debt committee. Summer conference dates have been picked for May. There were two things that came up as topics. Cell phone did come up. So that is something that was a discussion in that meeting and is something that will continue to be discussed. So I thought you might enjoy hearing that. And then also something that our educators have asked us for our behavior specialists.
So that is there's going to be a region 11 behavior specialist during that summer conference. Okay. All right. Thanks. Trustee. We also had a safety and Security committee meeting last week. I don't think there's much that we can share publicly from that Mr. Nichol. But I do want to share that we've had a couple of SROs that were announced that they are retiring, one at the Clarendon School and one at Johnson Elementary School. So if those of you that are at Durham and have noticed that Officer Wormley is not there, he's at the Clarendon School and we have one of our
rovers or floater SROs now covering Durham. And you know, we just want to say thank you again to our city for hiring extra SROs so that in times like this, we'll have 100% coverage 100% of the time without having to go contract out through the marshal program or through a private security company. So thanks again to the city for providing those much needed SROs to keep our campuses safe and secure. And that's it. We'll move on to item number eight, which is the Superintendent's report. Doctor Glenn, take it away. Thank you, Mr. President.
It is, it's hard to believe that graduation is just weeks away. And so shout out to all of our principals and our staff for the tremendous efforts they put forth, because I know it's an extremely busy and stressful time for everybody. One special recognition. Our barbecue team finished second in state over the weekend. So shout out to them. And then also something I want to put on everyone's radar before graduation is the Southlake Day of Champions, and really a testament to our school board and our city council working together.
You mentioned the Marshall program. Another example of that is this Day of Champions, where Southlake based teams who have achieved something outstanding but not might not otherwise have the opportunity to be recognized here at a board meeting or in front of the city council. They'll be able to be recognized on May 15th at 7 p.m.. You can get information on the district website, how to sign up or sign up, individuals or teams or kids so far, I'm told by our director of communications, 24 individuals or teams have already signed up to be recognized that day on the courthouse steps so that or on the steps of City Hall,
rather. So that's super exciting. And I just want to thank our trustees and council for working together. Also wanted to give a quick update on BYOD. I've had several community members reach out parents and just wanted to provide a little information. Also to our speaker I will say this as it relates to cell phones our board has put in place policies and procedures as it relates to cell phone usage at the nine through 12 level. And so the responsibility for implementing those policies and procedures rests on administration.
And so I have fallen short in my responsibilities. And so as we look to implement a program like BYOD, just know that the administration doesn't take lightly the policies that our trustees have put in place. And our community deserves better and we'll do better. So with that, let me talk a little bit about BYOD. The shift to BYOD is a cost cutting measure recommended by the Budget Reduction Advisory Committee, or Brac, to reduce district expenses while the district is beginning to move toward a BYOD approach. Let me be clear that we are not eliminating access to school provided technology.
Next year, we will continue offering devices and rentals for families who need them, just as we have done in the past. This ensures that no student will be without a device, regardless of their ability to provide a personal one. In fact, many of our five through eight students will not notice a change at all next year as the district will continue to provide devices for them. The biggest change will be in grades nine through 12. However, it's important to note that according to our technology department, approximately half of our high school students already use their own device.
For those who do not, the district will continue to offer rentals and provide repairs as needed for students who prefer using their own device. This policy enables them that choice while continuing to support others through existing district resources. The district's current rental fee is $75. A district can purchase the same district specified device with district specifications for $375, roughly the equivalent of five years worth of rental fees, which is also about the average lifespan of one of these devices.
Our staff will be receiving training to prepare for a variety of potential issues, including what to do if a student forgets a charger or encounters a network issue. We are also increasing the number of backup devices and chargers available on campuses to ensure instruction is not interrupted. Additionally, we will be implementing systems to allow teachers to refer students quickly for tech support rather than managing technical issues themselves during instructional time. And finally, state testing must be completed on secure, district owned devices.
This aspect of our operations will not change. While all of us wish that the state would properly fund public schools, so our district did not have to does not get faced with these type of tough decisions. Ultimately, our goal is to implement the recommendation responsibly and thoughtfully in order to minimize the impact on students and staff. If anyone would like more information on the BYOD program, including specifications or specific that you have specific questions, you can go to our FAQ page. All of that information is on the district website.
Mr. president, that is your report for May. Thank you, Doctor Glenn. Appreciate that. Moving on to item number nine, which is information section of our agenda. 9.1 Budget Reduction Advisory Action Committee. Our update, Doctor Glenn, I think you have that for us. Yeah, that's me too. And I think we have a report to pull up. And so this is something that Trustee Bryan asked me to put together last month. As many of you guys know, the budget reduction action Committee met in the fall and put together a pretty comprehensive report that can be found
online. So as we jump into our budget season, knowing that in June we'll be adopting a balanced budget, I want to give everybody kind of an update on where we are at this time. So looking at year one it's heavy emphasis on front loading the entire plan. We're again, I've mentioned this numerous times, but it's worth repeating tonight. We're very fortunate. I think even before I came on in August, trustees were well aware that there was a budget crisis going on here in the district. The trustees have done a good job of not only being responsible stewards of the tax rate,
keeping it down, but also paying down bond debt at a significantly higher rate over the last four years. So it's put us in a position where the BRAC committee did not have to make all of the decisions in year one. And I think that's important to note as you look across the news headlines, that can be very sensational. We're not one of these districts where we've got to lay off 100 teachers, or we've got to cut $32 million in one fiscal year. We're able to spread this out over a five year plan. However, it's worth noting that the five year plan is heavily front loaded.
And so here you see a very ambitious plan laid forth by the BRAC with nine recommendations. Interestingly enough, five of the recommendations are how to generate additional revenue in the district. While four of the recommendations talk about how we can save money. And so we go through everything from property sales, which we'll talk about in a second, to the use of fund balance to marketing opportunities to enrollment. And then from a cost saving standpoint, continuing to be as efficient as possible with our facilities.
Looking at our partnerships, BYOD, which I spoke about in my report earlier, and then really having a serious conversation about the aquatic center, which is one of our more expensive facilities in the district. And so enrollment plays a big role in, in revenue. And one thing that that has been mentioned time and time again is our enrollments declining. And as we look at projections for this coming year, probably on a worst case scenario basis, if we were to look at our current senior class 722 kids.
They graduate out, and we were to take in a kindergarten class of similar size to what we had this year, which was 409. You're looking at a swing of over 300 students. Now, fortunately, this has been the type of district where people find a way to get into our district because they want to take advantage of our great teachers, our great programs, our great academic opportunities. So we're estimating that we're probably going to fall within the demographers range of about 130 kids, down from the current fiscal year, which in in layman's terms would be $1.3 million.
So how do we combat those type of deficits? The first recommendation, and something that the Brac committee talked about over and over again, was rightsizing. You know, if you're enrollment is declining, then your FTEs have to decline. So this year, we're trying to make up a little bit of lost ground. And we've set a goal of $1.5 million. Been working closely with Melanie Kibodeaux and our campus principals to try and reach that goal. The vast majority of those cuts will either come from support areas looking at changes in the aquatic center
or the administration building. And then so we talk a little bit about facility efficiencies. One of the points of the Brac. Again we are looking at a so the 14% reduction in savings in energy management. So if you remember, Mr. Olson came and did an energy management presentation this year. We're on track to save just over $400,000. We're increasing that goal. We have a large footprint. We have a large energy footprint. And so we're increasing that to 20% next year hoping that we'll net out around $580,000.
We're going to continue to explore facility rentals and fields. Probably the biggest change that we're going to make is we're going to ask the NTN North Texas Matadors, which is our swim program to privatize. Currently, they're owned by the district. They're subsidized by the district. That's been a huge district expense. We reached out to their board. They're in the process of putting a contract together. We care deeply about our swim program. We know how important it is to have a feeder program. It's just become a such a significant expense that we know can be pushed into the private ownership
area, and, and there is money to be made there. And so as we, look at other school districts around us, they all have feeder programs. The vast majority, if not all of them, are privately owned. They're able to to make money on these programs without the district having to subsidize the cost of them. And so we're asking the NTN program to do that to help the district absorb some of the financial hits that were taken due to the lack of state funding and then the utilization of empty space. I've said it a lot and you're going to hear me continue to say it.
We have about 78, 79 empty classrooms in the district right now, and we continue to have to heat and cool those spaces next year, as we lose 100 plus more students, we're going to have over 80, maybe 90 empty classrooms. And so how are we best utilizing our space moving forward? Property sales. Just one important note here, because I know we'll talk about this property later tonight. And the admin building we know is under contract. And we'll be looking at that next month. But the district is not looking to sell property and then take the earnings from those property to pay off
deficit budgets. What the what our board is and I think it's forward thinking in this is looking to do is take the property sales put them into high yield accounts. Look at like long term ladder investments where year over year, we're going to have an idea of the funding that can be generated through these property sales. So we want our money working for us. And so if we're able to sell ten, 20, $30 million worth of property, and we put it into a high yield account that helps Mr. Park as he's building a budget year over year, know that we can have one and a half to $2 million in additional revenue above and beyond
the state. And so we're trying and I know our board president has said this time and time again, we don't want to be wholly reliant on this, relying on the state year over year to take care of our teachers, to take care of our kids. And so if we're able to make some of this money work for us certainly we want to take advantage of that. And then again, revenue opportunities. I know that our board president has asked for a Tiger team to be developed from the BRAC. We are going to look at ways that we can take our current tax dollars and make sure that we maximize those tax dollars to generate as much revenue as possible.
There are opportunities out there where we can not raise our tax rate at all, but figure out a way where maybe some of those recapture dollars. And we know that we send about 25 million back to the state. We can keep those recapture dollars here locally. Yeah. Let me mention to Doctor Glenn, if I may, that this is the first Tiger team that we have created. It's a subset of the entire BRAC. As you guys remember, the BRAC was, what, 65, 70 individuals made up of teachers and administrators and community members, trustees and so forth and so on.
And so when we are ready to really start brainstorming, thinking about what recommendations should we prioritize in year one, year two, year three, and year four, year five? If we have to, we're going to create these smaller type Tiger teams to come in and really hone in on the granular side of the recommendations. And so that's what we have done. It's a smaller team. Those of you that were on the BRAC that might be tuned in tonight if you were not selected for this first team,
no worries. We're going to have plenty of opportunities in the future. And you know, seeing how this legislative session is going, we're going to have many years of opportunities to form these Tiger teams. And so we're just hoping that you guys, everybody understands that we can't you know, use the entire 70 person Brac team every single time we want to go after a recommendation. So we're excited about the team that we've got. And we're going to move on that in the next week or two. With our first meeting and start communicating to the community in that regard, Doctor Glenn,
sorry about that. No, thank you. I think that's well said. Again, we are watching the 89th legislative session closely. We know that in HB two, which we think will be the funding bill passed for Texas public schools this year, there will be an increase in the basic allotment. We have yet to see or know exactly what that will be. The House and the Senate are going back and forth, but 40% of that allotment will have to go toward raises. If we go with right now the 395 per student increase, we roughly estimate that will be about $2 million that we'll have to put toward raises.
So the remaining $2 million toward teacher raises, which is the 40% teachers, counselors, nurses and librarians, it will leave roughly about 700,000 of the the funds of that 40% that that will have to go toward raises for everybody else, or could go toward raises for everybody else. The probably the biggest piece of HB two is we're looking just to supplant funding for like, security and SPED. Ms. Bottom did a great job, I think, in the fall, talking about how underfunded we are,
over $4 million in special education alone. So any funding that we get in special ed from HB two will help alleviate local funds that are currently being used to, to subsidize those programs as well. And then again year one projected relief efforts. And so just to summarize here what's been a long report and I apologize for that, is we do anticipate that even after we pay out teachers with the projected raises from that 40%, that we should net about $1.5 million after we begin supplanting those funds in special education,
safety, security and other areas. We do believe that we have very valuable pieces of property, and we can begin earning interest on those properties sooner rather than later. As we look to possibly set up those high yield accounts we think we're also going to see an additional revenue stream with the city TIF funds. We're having conversations with the city about a contract signed in In 2018. So we hope that there is a fruit and continued benefit for from having that strong partnership with the city and from a savings standpoint,
we mentioned rightsizing. And then I know Mr. Park has already hit the ground running with a zero based budgeting, and he anticipates roughly about $1 million in savings year over year there. So we're trying to generate revenue. We're trying to save, which I think was the intent of the BRAC committee to make sure that we were doing both of those as we built a budget. And then looking ahead you know, there is the potential for a VATRE, as we've discussed in the past, and then also facility savings as we look to maximize and be more efficient with the facilities that we do have.
Yep. And then, you know, something I wanted to mention here, and I think it's just important anytime we talk about sustainability and I mentioned it at our cabinet meeting this morning, it's going to be a tough 12 to 18 months for the district as we climb out of this hole, as we climb out of this deficit. But the plan that the BRAC put together is a really good plan. It's a strong plan. It's not going to be easy to implement. But like anybody that is maybe had a little bit of a spending problem as you look to rein that in and you look to tighten the belt a little bit when you get through it on the other
side of it, there, there has the opportunity. There is the opportunity for the district to do some really good things, not only for our kids but for our teachers. And I know for a long time we've wanted to climb back on top of being the highest paid district around. We want to give back programs to our teachers. Maybe in the past we've had to take away and so some of the pain that we're going to go through over the next 12 months when we come out of this and we have the state funding and we've looked at our tax rate, I think that there are going to be opportunities for this board to do a lot of good things for teachers and kids.
Mr. president, that's all I have. Thank you. Doctor Glenn, I want to thank you and your administration again for really embracing the zero based budgeting balanced budgets every year, trying to figure out ways where we can bring in revenue to the district. So we're less reliant on the state and more reliant on ourselves to run this district. That's the true definition of independent school district, right? And so we want to keep local control here. And the more that we can identify in terms of being able to feed ourselves. I think this board feels like we're better off in this district.
Is better off. So thank you so much for for doing this. 12 months, 18 months. It may be tough. Time for a while, but at the end of that 18 months, I think that we're going to be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and really be cooking with gas, as they say. So thank you so much for you and your team of really headed, you know, going head first in this at full speed. And we really appreciate you. All right. Next item on the agenda is item 9.2 Budget Planning update, Mr. Park. President Bryan, Doctor Glenn, trustees, good evening.
I'll be providing a quick budget update. Start with current year operations. So I kind of changed the format up from what you've seen in the last few months. Trying to give you a better little visual of kind of our, our overall picture. So we adopted $107 million in, in local revenues. My projections as of the end of March. Right now, have us a little short of that at 106.2.
And then with our total gross revenues of $121 million. Our recapture right now has stayed steady from what was adopted at $25.3 million. On the expenditure side. Our payroll due to, you know, several vacant positions that we didn't fill this year, you know, is going to come in lower than what was adopted. Unfortunately in the areas of contracted services and other operating expenditures, you know,
we're expecting to either hit our adopted number or exceed. So those are areas that, that, that we'll be looking to attack and see where the savings can be found next year. So overall this finally takes out the potential $8.5 million that was budgeted in the in the land sale. And so you know, now we can kind of see a realized deficit of right around $4.1-4.2
million as where I see it currently. And so without that sale coming to fruition this fiscal year, you know, we can start to, you know, get a better grasp on what deficit number. We'll see. And, you know, we'll work in the next couple of months to see if we can get that down somewhere in the three. So Mr. Park, let me ask you. So what I heard from you is that you know, we're projecting a much higher deficit early in the year when we passed our budget last year. And we've taken some measures to right size and do some things to save money over the course of this year.
And we're also not including the sale of the property. So are you saying that we're doing, I mean, it looks like $4.1 million versus 8.5 or $9.2 million deficit, even without the sale of land. Am I reading that right? Yes, sir. Okay, so. And so we've made tremendous progress just in this past like 6 to 8 months in terms of being able to identify efficiencies, in being able to get that deficit down without really making some drastic changes, like some of the other school districts around the state in our area have.
Absolutely. We still have work to do, but, you know, I think you know, Doctor Glenn and the and the administration, you know, have done a great job so far of you know, trying to curb, curb the extraneous spending and, and, you know, really, really tackle you know, trying to right size, you know, from within so. All right, we've got two months left in our fiscal year. So that could even go down even further. Yes, sir. We'll continue to look at you know, ways to ways to stop spending, especially as the school year ends. You know, we should be here you know, stopping requisitions from, being entered pretty soon.
So and let me let me ask you this because I ask this all the time. I never understand why we budget for 100% of our full FTEs every single year. When we at the end of the year, we finish at 80 to 84% of salaries just because of attrition. People leaving, you know, that type of thing. Is this budget still building in the fact that we're counting on 100% payroll of FTE, that we're that we had projected at the start of the year? I believe I believe this at the time it was adopted last year still accounted for the vacant positions that that we
knew were not going to be filled. So with that said, so even that that's a pretty significant savings come the end of the fiscal year when we start balancing up our, our books and see that, okay, we only had 84% of payroll and we planned for 100%. Correct? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Moving on to the debt service side. Here, I know a few months ago, the board approved a range between $13.5 to $18.8 million of
debt defeasance for this fiscal year. And so in working with our financial advisor, we have agreed upon $18 million to, defease in June of 2025 that will realize a net present value savings of $7.1 million to the district over the you know, life of those bonds. And so not to the district, to the taxpayer, to the taxpayer. Yeah, sir. Exactly. And then just to give you a little snapshot of our of our debt service fund balance,
we started the year with a fund balance of $20.4 million including the $18 million defeasance. We will have made $42.9 million in debt service payments this year. And our projected ending fund balance is around $15.5 million. That's great. Thank you. I want to say and we'll get the exact number for you probably when we do budgets or it may, it may have to be late summer when we get it. But I think in like the last four years through the use of the defeasance,
y'all have saved taxpayers, right at about 100. This will probably take it over $175 million, which is pretty substantial. Yeah. What other school district in the state of Texas or in North Texas is saving their taxpayers $150 million over four years? So a quick question. I was looking at this earlier today at home, the projected ending balance $15 million. That's what we. There's got to be more debt balance. That's for that's what he has in the INS account.
Okay. Yes. And that's what we'll pay out and under current law there's we still project to you know to fees more and more debt next year to keep our capacity, and we just have to wait until bonds come to call before we can utilize the money that we have sitting in our bank, earning interest to pay down that debt. Correct? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I mean, but to your point, President Bryant, that number in what we're doing is so different when you're I mean,
you pick up the news every single day and you see hundreds of millions of dollars of debt. Yeah. Trustee Yeager that number should be highlighted in flashing behind our heads right now. I mean, it's incredible. $150 million. It's like showing the United States debt, trillion dollars going up like that. We should have that for reduction in our in our debt here at Carroll ISD. Okay. Can you make that happen, Mister Park? We'll try our best. We're going to have a new debt clock. The debt clock. Reverse debt clock. Right. Yeah. Moving on to next year's budget.
We'd like to highlight revenue assumptions and our expenditure assumptions. So starting off with revenue, as Doctor Glenn alluded to in his presentation, the increase in basic and SPED allotments for House Bill two has the potential to increase you know, our revenue by almost $3 million of that. So that included with some of the some of the recapture savings that I think is calculated in whatever templates that,
that we've received the 40% of that is what the, the $2.7 million is. And then and then of that, 75% has to go to teachers so. Mr. Park. Yeah. You framed it better than I did in my presentation. But yeah, the HB two salaries is $2.7 million. And then so $2 million of that would be required to go to teachers, counselors, nurses. That's our understanding. 700,000 would be left over for paraprofessionals, bus drivers, custodians, etc.. And I think the one thing that's important of the language in that bill is that it is going to be adjusted every two years.
So as our property values increase, that number should always increase. Now that can change, but that's just how it is written at this moment in time. Trustee Bottom. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think you we have to give preferential treatment on the raises to veteran teachers. Yes. So there's more dollars allocated for teachers that are ten years and above versus five years so that we can differentiate for their tenure. And that's something we're looking at. We'll continue to see what that number is. And then and adjust that scale to be equitable to those teachers. So we just received our early preliminary values from TAD.
And they saw a 9% increase from July certified values last year at $14.3 billion. Historically, we've lost anywhere from 5 to $700 million between now and when certified values come out. So, you know, we'll hope to land somewhere between, you know, 13.7 or 13.8 billion. But that's just the historical trend. I don't know about this year because of our reappraisal plan. And, you know, the old home or not, new homes, you know, not being reappraised.
And so and so I don't know how that will affect us, but that has been the historical trend. And that decrease is just because of all the protest. Yes. Correct. On their property. Okay. Projected enrollment decline of 131 students, as projected by our demographer. That will net an approximate $1.15 million decrease in funding. Again, considering the the three golden penny increase on the no side that would increase our funding approximately from 3.5 to $4 million. And then does that fluctuate? What's that dependent on?
I know I always thought that the one golden penny was like $1 million. So what's? That is dependent on Well, basically, we are above what the state sets for our golden penny yield. And so it's really, you know, we if our values go up, we generate more per penny than, than, than what the state would do. And so, you know, that is one benefit about having, you know. The property values go up. Our golden pennies go up.
Correct. But, Mr. Park, doesn't that just increase our recapture? Well, the golden pennies are not subject to recapture. So we would keep. But if the state sets the value, don't they? You said we're past the cap, but this is part of your, this part of your tier one. And so and so we. We get to keep it right. Okay. The, the golden pennies are not subject to recapture. That is you know, that is why we're essentially leaving money on the table by not having these three golden pennies. And that might be, you know, kind of a message that might be put forth to our community.
We're so used to valuations going up and we don't get the additional funds a higher, higher payback to the state. Right. Yeah. You're looking at we pay tax dollars. We're looking at how we invest those tax dollars right now. Right now we keep money on the inside that could be transferred over to the no side. And obviously that would generate more yield for us and no tax rate increase that is the key. And then currently with, with the projections that, that, that we have done we would see a slight increase in recapture just
because our, you know, our total value and our total collections would have gone up further. So other revenue sources that we're considering, interest rates forecasted by our financial advisor next year. We're looking at anywhere from 50 to 75 basis points lower than what we've seen this year. Again, projected reductions in SHAR's and our Build America bonds rebates. And then again, contingent upon our property sales and what we can generate from there, that's to be determined.
So Mr. Park what is our interest rate now? I mean, is it if it goes down 50 to 75 points? What how big of a loss is that? Yes, sir. So right now we are at around 4.3% right now, 4.2, 4.3. It depends on which you know, which depository, you know, where we're at. But you know, so I'm starting my conservative projections at around 3% and then and then expected,
you know, maybe 3.5%. And so I'm just trying to stay within that area, you know, not trying to get too ahead of myself. So and then last consideration on the revenue side is we are looking at, at child nutrition and transportation fees adjustments and increases in some of those areas for next year. On the expenditure side, again, as Doctor Glenn alluded to earlier we are trying to realize a net savings of $1.5 million through FTE reductions other staffing compensation considerations pending the legislative
updates, as I described a little bit ago. You know, we have new positions coming on board with, with our addition of employee child care and our after school programs. And then again with our non non-payroll budgets. You know, through our, through our zero based budgeting this this spring right now we have it currently at almost $1 million in savings. Again, as recapture increases, you know, it's a it's an increase in revenue, but it's also an increase in expenditure,
you know, zeros out on both sides. So and then also utilities just across the board, you know, water and gas and seem to seem to be, seem to be trending upwards. And then lastly, this is a very unknown for a lot of people. But you know, we've, we've had, we've had vendors who put in a disclaimer that, you know, with terrorists that that could basically null, null any quote or any you know, agreement that we have,
and then tack on, tack on whatever fees that they incur. So that's just to be seen. And, you know, something that we have to consider going forward. And I want to I want to say just kind of another piece of information on what's going up. Kind of a good sign. Right before this meeting, Miss Parsons made me aware that we have 34 elementary. I'm sorry, Pre-kindergarteners on our wait list. And so that could be that's potentially two additional staff that that we would be able to add back. And so that's good news too. If we continue to see kids coming into the district.
So and just one thing that I want to make sure that as we're evaluating contracts, I have heard in a lot of different sectors that they're already kind of doing like a preemptive strike, like they're increasing their contract prices because of like potential tariffs, but those tariffs haven't hit yet. So I just want to make sure that we're making sure it's they're not adding it for what could happen. But they're taking the money in between because I know people in many sectors including food where that is 100% happening. Yeah. Thank you. That concludes my presentation.
Do you have any questions? Any questions for Mr. Park? Great job. Thank you so much. Thank you, Mr. Park. Moving on to item number ten, discussion in the action portion of our agenda 10.1 is consider approval of real estate broker. Mr. Park, you're up again? Yes, sir. So I bring this item to you tonight? We put out RFQ to approve several brokers that that we will be able to work with for our upcoming property sales.
We received five responses, and we would like to bring four of them for your approval tonight. CBRE, Champions, DFW, Engel and Volkers and Glacier Community Realty. If you look at the synopsis kind of, you know, identifies what the initial kind of proposal, highlighting each company's proposal. And again, it's all up for negotiations. And so we would like to offer these four for your consideration.
So, trustees, the administrative recommendation tonight would be and of course, you have the ability to approve none or one or all. And so our recommendation tonight would be to go ahead and accept four of the five, one we rejected because they did not fulfill the entire RFQ. But CBRE, Champions, DFW, Engel, Volkers and Glacier all did complete the RFQ and met the qualifications of the district. So the board tonight can decide to accept them all, and then we could use them moving forward.
And, and certainly you would have the right to, to reject them also or to assign a property to one if you want as well. I move to approve the administration's recommendation for the approval of the real estate brokers as presented. Second motion and second. Any further discussion? Okay. All in favor? Motion carries 4 to 0. Thank you, Mr. Park. Thank you. Trustees. All right. Item 10.2. Consider approval of T policy audit. Mr. Nichol. Good evening, president Bryan. Doctor Glenn and board of trustees. I have a group of policies that we discussed a few weeks ago.
And you've had some time to review those. If you remember back, these are policies that T did an audit on our policy and recommended some changes based on things they saw. They also had a group of policies they recommended us to make adjustments to based on commissioner rulings. And then there are a few policies there that are things that we requested and that they wrote for us. And so tonight I'd be asking for you guys to consider those for approval. There's a lot here. And those are all things that again, if approved, we will go over with our campuses to make sure that they are well acquainted
with those moving into the next school year. All right. Thank you, Mr. Nichol. Any questions for Mr. Nickel? No, I appreciate I read everything and it was very thorough. I really don't have any questions at all. I think these are just sort of cleanups, if you would, on some things that we've had for a long time. And I think when, first of all, the community and especially parents, all of these we've talked about this before, Mr. Nickel, you and I, they're all available. Where do they find them, exactly? And Mr. Brady, on our website, because I have had that question,
where is that policy? How do I find it? If they click in through the website where it has leadership, board of trustees, there's a link there that says board policy. Yeah, I actually think now we moved it. Mr. Brady moved it. If you go to the home page there's like six boxes kind of midway down the homepage, and one of them is a board policy and you can click directly to it. And this is this is a heavy lift. We know that we're going to be spending some of our summer making sure that all the campuses understand the expectations. And then I'll just let you all know, with a legislative session in tow, there will be more of these coming down the pike very soon,
I would imagine, without getting into all the details, because there were pages of them. But I just wanted to say, I think this is a great example of how we're benefiting from the changes in the association, you know, teachers Association, TASB that we were with and their system in lettering or numbering was very cumbersome. It didn't make any sense at all. And today when I'm looking at everything and all the changes from T, Texas excellence in educational excellence in education, it was very clear.
So for the parents who do our policy wonks and want to see it, it's all there. It's nice and it's extremely clean. So thank you for that hard work that you've done with them? Yeah, I think that's wonderful. And that being said, I would move that this board approved the T policy audit, including local policy updates and proposed local policy changes as presented. Second. Motion and second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries 4 to 0. Thank you, Mr. Nichol. Thank you. All right. This brings us to item number 11, our consent agenda.
Trustee Yeager, I think we have some donations to we announce. We do. And as we saw tonight, and I thank you again, president Bryan, every time we have a booster group come in here at our meetings, we're just all reminded of what an incredibly generous community we have and how that really does serve our students and teachers so well. So tonight our first donation is from the Old Union Elementary School PTO. Very generous donation of $31,532 from the National Charity League.
A very generous donation of $10,000 from the Carroll Elementary School PTO. A very generous donation of $175,000. I just want to mention the purpose, since that is such a large amount of money. And again, hats off to the CES PTO. That is the installation of turf field located outside the existing track on the CES playground. Talk about tremendous gratitude that we have to them and the Carroll Elementary school PTO also $24,000 donation.
Very generous. All of them. And we thank all of our toes. I just don't think there's anybody in the state of Texas that beats this community and the PTO as we have. You're spot on trustee Yeager. Thank you. I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. Motion and second. All in favor? Motion carries 4 to 0. Okay. If no objection, we will adjourn this meeting at 7:34 p.m.. Thank you, board.