Alright. Good afternoon. We'll call this special meeting of the Carroll ISD Board of Trustees to order on 04/14/2025 at 5PM. Our first agenda item is executive session. Therefore, we will adjourn to executive session in accordance with Texas government code five five one dot zero seven one, five five one dot zero seven two, five five one dot zero seven four, five five one dot zero seven six, and 551-0821 at 5PM. Alright. Good evening. We'll call this meeting back to order at 6PM. Our first agenda item is the opening prayer,
pledges of allegiance, and moment of silence. Will you all please rise? Dear Lord, we come before you today with grateful hearts, seeking your guidance and wisdom in our discussions and decisions. Bless this meeting and grant us clarity and compassion as we work for the good of our students, staff, and community. Help us to listen with open minds, speak with kindness, and act with integrity, always striving to serve with your grace. It's in Jesus Christ's name that we pray. Amen. Please join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance. I pledge allegiance.
I Seated. Alright. We have, our next agenda item is recognitions. We have several recognitions, tonight starting with, our national merit finalists. Mister Wilson, are you up? You're up. And a very good Monday evening to you all. Evening. Just a few short months ago, we were excited to announce Carroll ISD's impressively large list of National Merit semifinalists in the College Board scholarship process. Those 35 seniors had several additional steps to achieve if they were to move from semifinalist to finalist.
It gives me great joy to inform you this evening that we have 33 seniors who have earned that finalist distinction. Among these 33 seniors is one student who joined the district in high school, three who have been with CISD since middle school, six who have worn the Dragon Green since intermediate school, and a wonderful 23 who have been in this great district since elementary school. To that point, I know I speak on behalf of these 33 to say thank you to the amazing army of Carroll ISD educators who have supported them across all 11 CISD campuses.
It's the education and nurture shared with these young people by their families and by these educators that allows them to achieve this important distinction. And it's my honor to read those 33 names to you now. Many of them in their incredible busy lives and and short notice to be with us tonight, were not able to be so. But we do have some folks that were able to be here for us tonight. So as I fly through those names, when you hear yours, you can take a few more steps forward beginning with, Vivek, Antipatla, Ion Bakshi, Kaelin Bartlett, Ken Bray, Luke Brown, Matthew Kai, Arya Katna, Jack Couch,
Ashley Cusick, Sydney Denk, Ethan Fu, Shani Gandhi, Keta Gunter, Meili Heisteen, Audrey Hendrickson, Riley Higginbotham, Owen Heinemann Anderson, Patrick Jitsikan, Megha Kadiala, Prabhnia Kaganeli, Risha Panukanalu. I love your last name. Dhruv Kilaru, Ella Lee, Artemis Lay, Shriya Makam, Ansonomar, Sagar Patel, Sanjana Senthil, Tejas Senthil, Anshika Saledi, Arjun Suri, Surayu Veluri, and Alexander Zao. Those are your 33 National Merit finalists for this Congratulations. Alright.
Pretty amazing. Congratulations, students. I I'm I'm pretty sure that 33 matches, the highest per capita in the state of Texas and, out of ISD. So Carroll ISD is always, up top number one in academics, and we appreciate, our students very much. So congratulations again. Next up is item 4.2, board recognition. Our baseball head coach, coach Vucan. Coach Dodge, are you, Coach coach Dodge couldn't be here tonight. He had a game. And so, I am I'm at the bat for him. I guess I'm the sub. And so coach Vu can, do you mind coming up here?
So, I'm excited to have the opportunity to, to recognize coach Vu can. I have not known him long, but what I can tell you, we're all going to join you in a second. Yes, you just stay there by yourself. Just kind of on you staying there in the middle. But I will tell you the you're you're talking about an individual and and obviously, we're here tonight to to celebrate 400 wins, which is an incredible accomplishment by just by any measurement. But, but I'll tell you what, what impresses me most most about Coach Buchanan is what he does, for our kids, for our community, for our program.
And I'll just share just a quick example of the type of individual he is. We had senior was it senior night, parent night, Friday night? One of the two. And, and coach Vu can actually took the day off, because our maintenance department, they are strapped, going around mowing everywhere, and they do an incredible job as well. Nothing to take anything away but he wanted that entire facility to be immaculate. And he took the day off and went out and mowed it himself, cleaned it himself to make sure that when our parents showed up that they had
the best experience possible. And what's probably even more amazing is like the grass is on the visitor side. So our parents probably didn't even see it. He just wanted everyone that walked into that park to have an incredible experience. When whenever I see him interact with kids, you you see a coach that is a tough disciplinarian that demands the most out of his kids, but at the same time, you can tell that, his kids love and respect him. And, and so just so grateful to have a man of integrity like that, in our program. We're so blessed. I'm blessed to have the opportunity to know him even though our time has been
short together. But, it's obvious the love this community has for you, the love that our coaches, our administrators, have for you. Thank you for all you do. And I believe that our board president, has something tonight that he would like to present you on behalf of our trustees, and we'd love to grab a picture with you if that's okay. Exactly. 400 wins. 400 wins. Congrats again to coach Vucon. Great. We expect a state championship this year, my friend. Alright. Next up is another, mile marker from a a wonderful coach, our Lady Dragons head soccer coach, Matt Colvin. Doctor. Glenn, you can give away Come on up.
Stand by yourself in this awkward space. Again, I'll tell you, the quality of coaches we have in Carroll ISD is nothing short of incredible. And so tonight we have the opportunity to recognize Matt Colvin for 500 wins, which is that's an incredible accomplishment as well. I mean, 100 more than you coach Mookan. But what is absolutely amazing, because this is something rare in Texas is all 500 of those wins came right here in Carroll ISD, which is absolutely incredible. So you see you see a lot of coaches that they're able to to get
large number of wins, but rarely do you find a an individual who is committed long term to a district that is willing to stay through the ups, through the downs, the good times and the bad to, to to get to that number. And so an incredible accomplishment. And I'll tell you, we were at a baseball game the other night. And so it is always great when our head coaches support one another and, and they show up and and see kids in different venues. We'll tell you had the opportunity to follow the girls soccer team this year, an absolutely incredible season. Probably the most heartbreaking finish that I've ever seen to a season.
But, truly, another coach that the kids love you, are are the coaches you work with care about you, our community embraces everything you do. And the way everyone kinda rallied around that team and that heartbreaking loss speaks volumes to your character into your leadership and we are so fortunate and blessed to have you as a part of the Carroll Dragon Nation. Congratulations on 500 wins Coach Colvin. Good job. All right. Up next, Good evening, everybody. Sydney Rubin has been named the Texas Girls Coaches Association player of the year.
And it's no surprise when you look at what she's accomplished during her career at Carroll. She's the third time all leading scorer in goals with an incredible a 82, first time in first all time in drawn exclusions with 54, and second all time in steals with a 42. But it doesn't stop there. She's also the 2024 district '3 player of the year, the 2024 region one most valuable player, a first team all state selection, and part of the twenty twenty four UIL all tournament team.
It's been an honor, at one honor after another, and everyone is so well deserved. More than numbers and the title, Sydney's been the heart of the team. She's a leader, a fighter, and someone who shows up every single day to push herself and her teammates to be better. Congratulations. Congratulations. Alright. The president sitting here with the award is mister Sam Chifton, the executive director of the TGCA. Congratulations. Congrats, Sydney. Well done. Alright. Item 4.5. We're going to recognize members of our boys and girls swim dive teams and a
gold medalist, on this team. I think we have, coach Murphy. Is coach Murphy present? Okay, coach Murphy. Good evening Doctor. Glenn and the board. I think first thing we'll start with Marin Klim. If you didn't know, Marin Klim has won three individual titles in a row in the hundred free, sophomore, junior, senior year, and she won the 50 free this year. So she won both the 50 and a hundred free. I believe that she is it may be as many as seven gold medals on relays over the course of her four years.
I think the 400 free relay, she was on on the the anchor on the relay four years in a row. Anyway, welcome, Marin Klin. Congratulations, Marin. Alright. Come on. Okay. I'd like to step forward. I would like to see all of our girls' district team. Come on up here, girls. This is our girls' district team. Y'all can y'all can just kinda make your way to the the front. Okay. Yeah. Out of this group face your parents so they can take pictures. Right. Out of this group, I wanna name our our All State and All American swimmers. Maren Klam was All American as was Emma Bibsa,
Olivia Colombo, Taryn Plowes. Put your hand up when I call your name. Maren Klam, Emma Bibsa, Olivia Colombo, Taryn Plowes, Sydney Klopenstein, Saisha Mahat. K? And and then, Allstate swimmer, those were those were all Allstate swimmers. We had three divers that were All State. That was Melina Michaelides, Bella Sanuvong, and, Gabriela Ybarra Ybarra. K. Now I want to recognize our girl all Americans, Maren Klem, Emma Bibsa, Olivia Colombo, Sydney Klopenstein, and then Maren Grinnell is not here.
Okay. And then we had four girls make all American in diving. That was Melina Michaelides, Bella Sansevong, Gabriela Ybarra, and Reese Calvin. Anyway, congratulations, girls. Good job. Congratulations. Okay. Boys, I want our boys district team to step up here. Come on, man. Hop on it. Thanks, girls. They had us wait in the they had us wait in the, gym, and they found all the basketballs. So they they may be a little sweaty. Okay. This is our boys district team. I wanna recognize our diver back here. Put your hand up, Mertens.
Okay. Mertens was a is an all American diver this year. Okay. On the boys side, our all state swimmers, put your hand up, Jack Hernandez, Dylan Heldenbrand, William Zhang, Lucas Maharas, and Kobe Dikheiser. Those same five boys were also high school all Americans this year. K? And then, Jack Ma was second in diving, and he was an all American. K? While I'm while I'm thinking of it, Olivia Colombo was also a medalist, was third place in the hundred backstroke. K? Did I miss anything?
Oh, yes. Klopenstein. Our girls' team was second at state. Klopenstein and Bibsa and Colombo and Marin Klem won the 400 free relay. I think that was the fourth year in a row that our girls have won the 400 free relay. K? Congratulations, men. Our men were twelfth of the state high school meet. I can assure you they will be better next year. We have lots of young guys and lots of good swimmers. Alright. Thanks, man. Keep them locked here. How do we wanna do this? You guys You wanna do boys and girls. Stay back here.
And they might have to slot down. Don't worry. Stand up on our teeth to be honest. Can you see you out here? Don't worry. I'm behind a clams. I'm behind a clams. Alright, guys. Guys in the back row, make yourself about six inches. Just step on your Yeah. Bend just a little, guys. There we go. Keep going. Keep going. Perfect. Congratulations. Congrats, guys. Here you go. Thanks. Good job. Coach coaches, they go out. The board has something for them. Got something for this. Perfect. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Thanks, coach. All right. Next item is item number five, public comments. Ms. Yelton, do we have any speakers tonight?
We do not have any speakers this evening. Thank you, Ms. Yelton. We'll move on to item number six, which is consideration and possible action on any other matters addressed in executive session. Trustee Yeager? President Bryan, I move to accept the personnel report as proposed in executive session. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. Thank you, Trustee Yeager. Item 6.2, we do not have any other matters to address from executive session, so we'll move right to item number seven, which is the president's report.
And I just have a statement that I prepared in, on Texas Senate Bill six eighty six. I just want to really thank the community for the outpouring of support in their emails. Doctor. Glenn, we're over 9,200 emails sent to our legislative staff, opposing this horrible bill. So we appreciate the community and, we are, you know, asking you to continue. If you haven't sent the email yet, we continue to do so and and this is why. On behalf of your board of trustees, I'd like to address a bill that if passed and signed into law will not
only negatively impact our district but will also impact the very core of our community. This is Senate Bill six eighty six which passed the Texas Senate last week and is now under consideration in the Texas House. SB six eighty six mandates open enrollment for all independent school districts in the state requiring districts with available capacity to accept students from outside their boundaries. While the bill may aim to broaden educational access and increase district funding, we strongly disagree with its approach as it erodes the core principle of local control
and threatens the unique identity of Carroll ISD in our beloved city of Southlake, Texas. Our district was founded as an independent school district to serve the specific needs and reflect the values of our South Lake community. Our board, elected by district residents, is entrusted with making decisions that align with the priorities of our families. This includes setting enrollment policies that preserve the high quality education, individualized attention, and community driven culture that define Carroll ISD. SB six eighty six undermines this authority by imposing a blanket mandate that ignores the
unique needs of districts across the state. This bill also poses as a direct threat to our community's property values, which are closely tied to the reputation and individuality of our district. Families move to Southlake and invest in our community because of the exceptional education Carroll ISD provides to its residents. Mandating open enrollment would dilute this distinct advantage ultimately diminishing the desirability to live, work and conduct business in Southlake.
Additionally, open enrollment risks straining our district's resources making it harder to serve the students already within our district boundaries. While we take pride in upholding Carroll ISD's tradition of excellence, our primary responsibility is to the families who have chosen to live here and contribute to our community. SB six eighty six would compromise that responsibility we worked tirelessly to deliver. We urge our community to stand with your Board of Trustees in opposing SB six eighty six as it moves to the Texas House.
We must continue to advocate for local control and protect the independence of our schools, ensuring that decisions remain in the hands of those who understand our community best, which are our locally elected board and our engaged families. I encourage you to immediately use our Take Action Dragons platform to contact our state representatives in Austin to voice your concerns about this bill and its potential harm its potential to harm our district,
our community, and our property values. After all, these are our children, our schools, and our tax dollars And we are perfectly capable of making decisions that are in the best interest of our students while protecting the values of our community. Say no to SB six eighty six. Thank you for your continued support and engagement as we work to safeguard the integrity and independence of Carroll ISD. And now I've asked trustee Bottom to give us just a quick, legislative update and maybe some, pointers on how to take advantage of Take Action Dragons.
Trustee Bottom? Sure thing. Well, we are definitely far into the legis legislative session. And there are three key bills that I do want to put on everyone's radar. I think you did a great job of explaining SB six eighty six. Well said. It absolutely takes away local control. And if you think about it, in our district, we have over 70 empty classrooms. I mean, that would be very detrimental to the makeup of our school district. So, that's something that we're so proud of our community. Keep it coming. We want to keep the pressure on that bill. Another bill that we have our eye on is SB five sixty eight.
This fundamentally changes how special education, you know, how we get paid back for special education. So, if you'll recall, our school district is, has about an $8,000,000 deficit. Special education is underfunded by $4,000,000 What we like about this bill, again, this is one that Carroll ISD participated on a pilot program with TEA. We were able to help shape and change the language of that bill. So, we're excited about that piece. What is a little bit disappointing is we know that SPED is underfunded by $2,000,000,000 every single year. When this bill was first proposed,
it had about a $1,700,000,000 note over the biennium, which gets us almost halfway there. Since it's gone through the various iterations, it's down to about $400,000,000 So, it's passed the Senate. We knew it would. It had a lot of support from the Senate. It's currently been referred to the Public House Education Committee. What we want is not only do we want this bill to pass, but we want some additional dollars reallocated back to us. So, we've got the Take Action Dragon to oppose SB six eighty six now. But stay tuned. We need you to stay engaged because soon we're going to pull that lever for
to support SB five sixty eight. One other bill that I do want to share is an update on House Bill two. This is the fundamental, the largest bill for funding public school education. There are some things in that bill that we do like, but there are some other things that we're a little bit cautious about. So, that is why we're not throwing the whole weight of our community into it. Things that are good within this bill. So, there is an increase in the basic allotment, though it's not the $1,000 that we need to make as whole from twenty nineteen levels. It would add about $220 with 40% of those being allocated towards,
teacher pay raises, staff pay raises, all of those things. So that's something that our district could benefit from. Another thing is it actually has additional funds carved out for special education, even more than SB five sixty eight. So, I think that there may be some appetite for them to kind of merge those two bills and see if we can get some improvements there. Additionally, there is a pay for performance component. So, it would allow us as a school district to really, reward teachers for their excellent, education in the classroom and for the things that they do. Where we're a little bit hesitant,
it looks like there's some additional dollars being funneled towards charter schools. So that's something that, you know, as a public school district, we're not necessarily going to jump behind. There's also an additional expansion to TEA. As of right now, it looks like it's more focused on D and F failing schools, but there is a significant expansion to TEA. So, we're trying to work with our state legislators. When I say this bill is massive, it's about 300 pages. And every day I look, there's new red or green, meaning things have been added or crossed off. So, we're watching it. We're staying in communication with our state legislators.
And we're just really helping to shape the language and and, you know, get it to a point where we could potentially support it. So what we need from our community, we need you to stay engaged. We need you when you get that call to action, to take action, we need you to click that link. And, gosh, you sure did. So keep it coming. Thank you, trustee Bottom. Thank you, everything you're doing, on behalf of the board on the the for this legislative session. And thank you, doctor Glenn, for your emails that you send out to the community, kinda recapping some of the bills new bills that are coming out. We appreciate that very much. We're gonna move in the agenda to item number eight which is our information portion
of the meeting. 8.1 is facilities department report. Mr. Mooney. Thank you, Board of Trustees, Doctor. Glenn. I'm going to give you a quick synopsis of the Facilities Department. As you may know, we handle the Custodial Department, Maintenance, Grounds, Energy Management, Shipping and Receiving and how is this going to change? And, large rentals for large projects. On the maintenance side, we have 4,084 work orders to date, $3,098 have been completed. The highlights of 103,000
that was spent on roofs. HVAC is 316,000, and the fire alarm's a hundred and 27,000. I put this one other line item on there. I'm expecting about a thousand compliance issues from the fire department. And most of those are, wall things on the walls, lights, things like that. There's nothing really major on it. It's just for your information only. Custodial, 77 housekeepers, day to day cleaning, preventive sanitation, aft events set up, after event cleaning, wood floors, deliveries. Grounds is, ground maintenance, play playground maintenance, fence repair, game day setup,
pest control, parking lot repair, deliveries, energy management. You already had this, proposal, energy savings, schedule events, low voltage management, well management, solar management. And then we also do the rental the, the outside rentals. And to date, we've had 998 events, 998 events year to date. Things like the city of Southlake, Dragon Youth Football, UFL camps, Southlake lacrosse, campus events. And, one thing that we're working on is the joint utilization agreement. Mr. Moody, can we go back to that slide, please? Which one, sir?
They only got C1. I think we're out of trouble in the technology. One back. There we go. So $127,000 for fire alarm panels? A lot of that was from fails from the inspections, but what the most recent thing that we did was we lost three fire alarm panels, within a three week period. Now, that's not a tremendous amount of money, but it was, I've since put surge protectors on all these, and I I think it's a direct result from dirty power. I know that one of them was just raw power coming to us and we blew up a panel.
Yeah. And, Tri County is gonna pay for that. But, that's the majority of it. We filed three claims with Tri County to replace three firearms. Is that correct? I have a claim going to them that they've agreed to pay when I get them the total. But I have not, I've not given them all the cost yet because we're still working through the, see how much damage is on that emergency generator. And I know you and I have had a conversation about some of the, the the roofs that we're having, issues with. What give me give us the the board to kind of the top three,
campuses. Old Union's by Old Union's the worst. It's the three over there on that side, and they're they're the, the some of the newer buildings, but you have Dawson, Eubanks, and and, Old Union. All in the TIF zone? All in the TIF zone. Yes, sir. They, So what's the status of that, doctor Glenn? I mean, I know that, you know, the TIF is supposed to be used for capital improvements for, our buildings that are within the TIF. And, of course, Old Union and, Eubanks and Dawson are within that. So Yes, sir. As far as I know that, the city has been collecting TIF and and,
not disbursing it to the school district because we haven't asked for it. And so I know that you have recently asked for, some of it to pay for some of these roof replacements or Absolutely. Or fixes. So I had contact with the city manager, said that they were in the process of building their budgets, asked that we send our needs, facilities for those that exist within the TIF zone to them by April 1. We did it about a week before that date. Have not heard back today. Okay. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. And they're holding on to about $11,000,000 of district money.
Is that what's I would say, right now there's, my, the last time we met with them was when Mr. Jordan was on the board and also, David Johnson was here. And in the fund the TIF fund balance, I believe it was just over $11,000,000. Okay. Well, that's great. Well, they should be able to provide 4.8, that we're we're asking for. Thank you very much, doctor Glenn, for asking the city, for that. Thank you, mister Mooney. So, explain the 97,000 for keys. Yeah. It's, a lot of that is, the, the, mod audits and things like that. So it's it's not just keys.
It's the it's the doors. It's the door hardware. Everything goes when, you know, hardware wears out. So it seems like a tremendous amount, but if we if we start changing out the whole doors and door frames and things like that, that's that's where that comes into. So you start eating up $5.06, $7,000 changing out whole frames, things like that. That's it'll eat it up pretty fast. But Also keyless entry too? Key that that's technology. I don't we don't do technology. But the but the Right. Just the just the It's all the hardware. All the hardware. The clean doors.
All that. Everything that's involved in it. And that that seems like a pretty big number. And then I'm I'm looking at this huge number of landscaping grounds of $200,000, and I haven't seen grass cut in probably a couple months at most of our campuses, or or shrubs, trim. So what what what exactly does that go for? Is that I mean, do we have irrigation that we're paying for? Or do we There's irrigation involved. It's it's trees. It's in understand when everything gets sent into that. It's playgrounds. It's Okay. It's insects. It's it's, there's there's a long list of things that go into to what they what they
did. You know, the one of the during football season, what what you don't realize is that cruise is the great game day setup. It takes almost half their time per week. So, yes, when there are certain times that they get behind, but, if it's if it's working on, baseball softball complex, if it's working on, whatever it is, it's it's basically anything that's outside the buildings itself. And that's when it says, when it gets that's where it gets sent to the ground. So we have a very small crew of six six people right now, not not counting the leadership, but it's it's,
you know, they they they they get around as we're about a a eight to nine day rotation on the campuses of mowing and things like that. So less than half 50% of their work is actually mowing and what you see is from there. Okay. Thank you. Mister Mooney, what is the printing paper request? Shipping and receiving. Right. We get all the paper delivered here in our warehouse, and we deliver it out through the through the schools when they they send us a request. With it, almost everything is almost everything within the district is delivered to the warehouse here and
then we we ship it out. Do you, do you have control of the slides? I do not. You just move through them real slow. There you go, Scott. Go back to custodial. That 100000 I just want to draw to the Board's attention $160,000 in overtime for our custodians, a lot of that related to to rentals. Yeah. About 80% of it is to rentals. So, it's not just you thinking about cleaning up of what they do. They they do a tremendous amount of setup, all the breakdown, all the cleanup. So when the students come back to school, let's just and I'm not picking on anybody. Let's just say the craft fair.
And it starts on Friday afternoon, and it ends Sunday afternoon. They're there the whole time, but they do all this almost all the setup for it. Then they break it down after it's over. What is it? 06:00 in the afternoon on Sunday. They spend all night long breaking it back down so it's ready for school to start. Oh, man. What? Twelve hours later. So it that's just, you know, that's just one of the one of the, occasions, but it's there's a there's a there's a lot more work than what you think that just happens with custodial, you know, cleaning a restroom or or cleaning up a little bit.
They do all the setup and breakdown of almost all these events. And this is, in house events or these, all events? All events. So all events. And so do we recoup any custodial, from fees that we charge? We are starting to per the Board directive on, we are starting to enforce the custodial fees. Okay. And we haven't enforced those in the past, sir. I'm sorry? And we haven't really enforced those in the past. That's why we're seeing a 160,000 figure. Not so much. So but it's been we've done a pretty good job since we've taken it over of enforcing this.
We've got a little pushback. But once we explain it to them, there's restrooms involved, there's everything involved. Everybody pretty much handles it. What was the next slide? You see the grounds? You see the That's definitely not a picture taken from one of our businesses. You see the, the some of the things they do, the playground maintenance, the fence replacement, the Yeah. Some They said, I'm just the pest control and asbestos and everything else. Looks like Augusta. It's in the next one. Energy management. We had go ahead. Next one. I just wanted to move through these. The rentals is, this is where we talked about the 998 events.
City of Southway, the joint utilization, utilization agreement. I did have a meeting with them today about that, and it's something that it really needs to be revisited. The, the last signed agreement we have is, I think, from 02/2011. And, With the city? Yes. And, does the city pay for anything that they use? Does the city pay for anything that they use, on our campuses? So no. I already know the answer. The answer is no. They do not pay. They don't pay rent. So we've given them all access to our facilities for free, and we've been paying hundreds of thousands of dollars,
for that to to happen. And so we're go we're gonna address that. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. And and there the city in your conversation today, they have funds allocated that's supposed to cover, like, the utility costs at least? Well, the the, utility joint utilization agreement, what we have agreed to pay for or what they've agreed to pay for in this joint utilization is actually the utilities, not the building itself, but the utilities. And so then we go to a calculation. And last year,
it was right around $25,000 is what they paid us. That was from 2022, '20 '20 '3 they paid us in 2024. So it's about $25,000 out of 30 over $3,500 So why were they paying two years behind? Once their calendar year is completed, then they have to do it before their next year. So it takes about six, eight months for them to pay. So when it was 2223, they paid it '24. They've not paid '23, '20 '4 yet because that'll be this year and that'll be in the next that'll
be in the coming months. And so just to clarify there, it's utilities that's in the contract but not like the custodial, the setup, the take down, the cleaning, none of that? Is it Yes, ma'am. The only thing that's in the the agreement, the joint utilization agreement is is the utilities of the let's say they use Durham's Cafeteria. They're only paying for the utilities in that cafeteria. So we have to do a calculation of of everything through it. And, you know, and they have a little bit of money if something gets tore up or and they're they're gonna they're gonna help us with the,
some of the refinishing of the wood floors that they use. But the majority of it is what we would consider a rental piece at 3,000 5 hundred hours. That's not it. That's not included. And it has to do back 1993 agreement that was brought back. We're still abiding by a 1993 agreement. Well, it's actually been agreed on a little bit more since then, but that was the original piece. Until 2011. I'm sorry? 2011. It was basically renewing it. Next slide. Perfect. Questions. I think we covered that. Thank you, Doctor.
Glenn. Thank you, Mr. Mooney. Yes, sir. All right. Next on the agenda is 8.2T Policy Audit. Mr. Nichol? President Brian, Doctor. Glenn, Board of Trustees. I have a group of policies to present to you tonight, just for informational purposes. They should be included for you in the board book for you to review. There's also summaries there. We really have three groups that are included. The beginning is T did an audit of our current policy at CISD, and they have the policies listed there that they found gaps in, things they felt like needed to be addressed. And so that is included. The second group of policies comes down to recommendations made around recent administrative rule changes
or commissioner of education decisions, and so they put out a group of about six or seven policies there that they felt like would help us to adapt to those administrative rule changes or commissioner decisions. And then there is a third group of policies that we have asked them to create for us since they have developed that for us. And so those are all there for you to review. Questions, trustees? All right, that was quick. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Thank you, Mr. Nickel. Moving to our discussion action item of the agenda, item number nine,
nine point one, consider for approval resolution supporting Texas House Bill 2,764. Trustee Yeager, you want to read us the resolution? My pleasure, President Bryan. Supporting House Bill 2,764 and requesting a public hearing, whereas House Bill 2,764 introduced by Representative Guillen seeks to enhance transparency in school finance by requiring a comprehensive report on school funding from 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 special excuse me, 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 recognized the importance of HB2764 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 strong support for HB 2,764 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 Dragon portal and that copies of this resolution are forwarded to the Chair of the House Public Education Committee, Representative Guillen and the legislative representatives of Carroll ISD to advocate for the bill's advancement. Thank you, Trustee Jaeger. You know, hats off to Representative Guillen for introducing this bill. This Board, as you all most likely know, have been asking the Comptroller and the Commissioner of the TEA and our governor and
lieutenant governor and our state, representatives, to give us exactly what, this bill is asking for. And it also calls for an audit, on the school foundation program, which is way past due. And we are we are so hoping, that the, public education committee, passes it out of committee into to the house force so it can be voted upon. And so we just really encourage you as the resolution states, to go on Take Action Dragons, and we'll set that up and send send an email out to the community like we've done in the past to get your emails to support,
this Texas House Bill twenty seven sixty four. And as you know, and I I don't have to remind everybody that we're projected to send back $25,000,000 of your taxpayer money, this year to the state of Texas that won't tell us, where that money is going if anywhere. Certainly, probably not going to public education. So, we need to get behind this bill and and get it approved so once and for all, we can see where, your taxpayer dollars are going. So, with that, I'll open up to further discussion. Trustees? Anything else? Okay. I move to approve the resolution supporting Texas House Bill 2,764
as presented. Second. Motion is second. All in favor? Motion carries five to zero. Okay, thank you Trustee Yeager. Next item, last item on the agenda is 9.2, considered for approval. The twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six staffing plan, Ms. Kibbeetto. Oh, there you are. Good evening. Last month I presented the staffing plan for twenty five-twenty six specifically for our campuses. The staffing plan was based on teacher to student ratios. The recommendation was to reduce staff by 10 positions. These reductions would be,
through attrition as recommended by BRAC, which would be a cost savings of $700,000 to the district. And so I'm here seeking, approval for that recommendation. Thank you, miss Caboteau. And doctor Glenn, maybe you can expound on that. We're really trying to in terms of BRAC, we're trying to right size, the school district. And I know you've you've put a lot of effort, to thinking your staff and then thinking about that. And this is just about Yeah. Thank you, Mr. President. Again, it was the recommendation of the BRAC committee to begin rightsizing immediately and actually front load rightsizing to make sure that we were kind of catching up to enrollment losses
in the previous years. And so part of the recommendation tonight from Ms. Kibito is actually based on the fact that, we do anticipate another enrollment decline next year. Currently, Mr. Park is projecting about 131 kids. We know that that range, can vary anywhere from 100 to possibly as many as 200, which is close to what we thought at the beginning of this year. So, anticipating the enrollment decline, we are looking to, through attrition, reduce some of our staff members so that we can begin to right size our
budget and give you a balanced budget to adopt in the coming months. But in addition to those, those reductions, we are looking overall at reducing staff by $1,500,000 so many of those reductions will take place at the central office level, at the administrative level, and in some of our support staff as it relates across the district. So where we really don't want to have an impact is on the classroom with our kids. And so the more of those reductions that can take place at the administrative or
central office level, that's where we want them to take place. So we know I think the responsibility of all administrators, the ones in this room, the ones in this building understand that we're going to run thin. We're going to be a streamlined staff and we're going to be as efficient as possible with taxpayer money. Thank you, Doctor. Glenn. Thank you, Ms. Cubito. Any other questions, comments? Yes. I've got just a couple of questions and comments. These teacher to student ratios haven't been on the board now, I guess, come out close to my fourth year. These look like they are very similar to what we've had in previous years,
but can you confirm that? Yes, they are. Okay. Great. And then how do they look versus other districts? I have not looked at other districts specific to that, but I can look into that and see. I know elementary is 22 to one for sure. Just based and again, I'm not gonna say that I've studied what other districts are doing, in detail. But I can tell you that, every year when we adopt our waivers for class sizes, you're seeing other districts adopt class size waiver. One thing that Ms. Kibodeau didn't mention that, that our goal is to make sure that we do not adopt any class size
waivers this year. So even at Walnut Grove, I know that we're having a conversation right now about the potential of a third grade, the third grade level needing a waiver which means we would go ahead and make that staff out now because we could get a higher quality staff member if we go ahead and make that higher now, and in anticipation of that grade level being needing another teacher so that we do not have to apply for a waiver. So short answer to your question, I think most districts are having to to lean out and have larger class sizes, which is a shame because research tells us that the lower the student teacher ratio,
the better quality instruction in a classroom. I think we're fortunate that our student teacher ratio is lower than most. Okay. And I know having done our lunch and learns on campuses, one of the things especially Trustee Stacy and I have heard is the teachers are like please, one, two students make a big difference. Absolutely. So I like what we heard here and that is that, Doctor. Glenn is saying, we're not going to have waivers because a lot of people hear that word, they may not understand. That's actually getting a waiver approved to take the class size,
for example, in elementary from '22 to one, say to 22 or to 24, which can add stress, right, to our teachers and staff. And so our goal is not to have those waivers. That's right. In class sizes, I mean classrooms are designed for for 22 or less kids. And when you start putting 23, 20 four kids in a classroom, not only does that crowd the classroom, but it's also more work that the teacher has to take home because all of those papers still have to get graded. You know, just in in visiting with, miss Kibito, who's done an outstanding job in our HR department, but also I'll credit mister Nickel and mister Park who done an outstanding job in our HR department, but also I'll credit Mr.
Nichol and Mr. Park who is new to the district. We really are taking the BRAC's recommendations to heart and the belief amongst all the senior level administration is that if we really implement the BRACS plan and we've kind of broken it down into five strategic areas that not only can we continue to reduce student teacher ratios in the classroom, we can also look at doing some of the fun things that maybe we've missed out on the last five or six years as we've had to lean out and that's going back and giving our teachers a raise, looking at teaming periods,
looking at, again, smaller class sizes at the elementary level. That's inherently what we want to do but, but again, we're going to have to be steadfast in our approach, be as lean as as possible and manage our money better than it has been done in the past. The other comment kind of question is one of the things that we heard was there was a chart that was put out recently and we did exceptionally well by far in Tarrant County and that is at 92% and of course 100 is our goal of our students are reading at grade level.
And Doctor. Glenn What percentage was that? 92%. The next closest was 77%. I think that was Alito, I think. Yeah. And, one of the things you told us about that sort of recipe for success are things like our the pull ups that we can do for the youngest students who are learning to read and have issues with math and our ACE. This doesn't touch any of those programs. Again, back to what the BRAC, we don't want to touch teachers in terms of their the classroom,
what's going on, but also the programs that make that successful. The number one thing that the brat came up with was when you make cuts, do not cut programs. And to your point, we are the top academic school in Tarrant County, 1 of the tops in the state, if not number one. And, and so we need to be managing our money as efficiently as possible knowing that funds are limited for all districts in the state of Texas because if we're gonna be the number one academically, we should pay our teachers like they're number one as well. And I think I speak for everybody on this board because I've heard every one of you say that.
I appreciate your efforts, Doctor. Glenn and Ms. Kibodeau. Really do. Any other comments, questions? Okay. Trustee Lee? Yes. I move that the Board approves the staffing recommendations as presented. Second. Motion and second. All in favor? Motion carries five-zero. All right. Thank you, Ms. Kibodeau. If no objection, we will adjourn this meeting at 07:01PM. Thank you, Board.